CONTENTS.
[A CHAPTER GRATIS AND EXPLANATORY]
Make Ready—Fire—Departure.
FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK.
Preparations
LIVERPOOL—Embarkation Scenes
Scenes on Board
CAPE RACE
Pilot
NEW YORK
Land of Stars and Stripes.
AT NEW YORK.
The First View
Custom House
Ferry Boat
First Impressions
Hospitality
American Hotels
Bar and Barbers
Bridal Chamber
Paddy Waiter
Feeding System
Streets and Buildings
Portrait Hatter
Advertisements
Loafing in Broadway
Sights and Amusements.
AT NEW YORK.
Yacht Club and Dinner.
Railway Society to LONG ISLAND
Race Stand
Trotting Match
Metallic Coffin
American Horse
Hack Cabs and Drivers
Omnibuses
City Railway Cars
Travelling Railway Cars
Tickets for Luggage
Locomotive
Suggestions for Railway Companies
A Day on the North River.
FROM NEW YORK TO GENESEO.
Embark in Steamer on Hudson
Passengers and Anecdotes
Scenery of River
ALBANY—Disembark
A Hint for Travellers
Population and Prosperity
Railway through Town
Professor of Soap
CANANDAIGUA—Hospitality.
Early Education
Opposite System
Drive across Country—Snake Fences and Scenery
Churches—a Hint for the Highlands
Cheap Bait—GENESEO
Geneseo.
AT GENESEO
Absence of Animal Life—Early Rising
View from the Terrace—Work of the Pioneer
Farm and System, Wages, &c.
A Drive—Family Scene
LAKE CANESUS
Plank road. Toll gates, &c.
Scotch Pikeman
Stirring Scenes and Strange Sights.
FROM GENESEO TO NEW YORK.
A Drive to BATAVIA—Railway Warning
Buffalo Railway Station and Yankee Cabby
Prosperity and Contrast
NIAGARA
ROCHESTER
A Live Bloomer
Advantage proved by Contrast
Reflections on Old Fashions
Pleasant Night
Construction and Destruction.
AT NEW YORK.
Cutter Yacht, "Black Maria"
Dinner on Board
Toddy and Chowder
Prosperity—Croton Aqueduct
Destruction of Dogs
Drive on the Bloomingdale Road
A Storm
South and West.
FROM NEW YORK TO LOUISVILLE.
Ticket Station
PHILADELPHIA—Convenience
Luggage left behind
BALTIMORE—MAXWELL POINT
Canvas-back Ducks
Tolling for Ducks
Start by Rail—A Fix
HARRISBURGH—The Whittling Colonel
Start again. Pleasant Company
Inclined Planes—Canal Boat
Coaching Comfort
PITTSBURG
Railing through Forest, and Reflections
CLEVELAND—Mud-walk
To Sleep or not to Sleep
CINCINNATI—Statistics and Education
Porkopolis and Pigs
A bloody Scene
Ships at Marietta
OHIO—Levee and Literature
Embark on Steamer—Black Stewardess
Ibrahim Pacha and Fat
Scenes Ashore and Afloat.
FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS.
Fabrication of the Republican Bonbon
Wood Machinery
A Nine-inside Coach
Human Polecat
Breakfast and Cigar
versus
Foetor
Ferry Crossing—Travelling Beasts
Old Bell's and Old Bell
Cross Country Drive—Scenery
The Mammoth Cave
Old Bell and the Mail
Pleasant Companions
Rural Lavatory
Fat Boy and Circus Intelligence
LOUISVILLE and Advice
Ohio—A Bet at the Bar
A Dinner Scene and a Lady
Dessert and Toothpicks
Evening Recreation
CAIRO—Its Prospects
ST. LOUIS—Its Prosperity
River Scenes.
FROM ST. LOUIS TO NEW ORLEANS.
MISSISSIPPI—Good-natured Weakness
Mississippi
v
. Missouri
Stale Anecdote revived
Marriage Certificate
Folly—Description of Steamer
Inspection Farce described
Corporal Punishment—Illustration
Captain of Mizen Top
v
. White Nigger
Scenery
Mississippi—Good night
Screecher & Burster—A Race
Captain leaves us
Bed—Alarm—Wreck
Brutal Heartlessness
River Wreckers
NEW ORLEANS
Wrecks, Causes and Remedies
Anecdotes of Blood
New Orleans.
FROM NEW ORLEANS TO HAVANA.
Situation and Bustle
Cotton, Tobacco and Sugar
Steamers, and Wages
Streets, Hotels, &c
A Friend in Need. Neighbourhood, Shell-road
Society and Remarks
Rough-and-Tumble—Lola Montez
A Presbyterian Church
The Gold Man
Autocracy of the Police
Law—Boys and Processions
Duel Penalties—Stafford House Address
Clubs
Spanish Consul and Passport
Parting Cadeau
Pilot Dodge
Purser Smith
Sneezing Dangerous—Selecting a Companion
HAVANA
The Queen of the Antilles.
AT CUBA.
Volante
Lively Funeral
A Light to a Cigar
Evening Amusement
Trip to MATANZAS—El Casero
Slave Plantation
Sugar Making
Luxuriant Vegetation
Punic Faith and Cuban Cruelty
H.M.S. "Vestal"
Bribery
Admiralty Wisdom
Cigars and Manufactory
Population—Chinese
Laws of Domicile—Police and Slavery
Increase of Slaves and Produce
Tobacco, Games, and Lotteries
Cuban Jokes
Sketch of Governors
The Future of Cuba?
Change of Dynasty.
FROM CUBA TO BALTIMORE.
KEY POINT
Vulgar Hebrew
CHARLESTON, WASHINGTON
Night and Morning
Congress and Inauguration
General Jackson and Changes
Cabmen and City
Shopman and Drinking
Levees and Buildings
BALTIMORE and Terrapin
The Drama
Progress—Fire Companies
Philadelphia and Richmond.
FROM BALTIMORE TO RICHMOND.
PHILADELPHIA and Hospitality.
Streets—Mint
Gerard College
High School
A Jail and a Cure for the Turbulent
Lunatic Asylum
NEW YORK and Embark
A Wild Paddy
CHARLESTON Arrival
Hotel and Hospitality
Climate and Buildings
Commercial Prosperity
Fire Companies
Miniature WEST POINT (
Vide
Note)
WILMINGTON Railway Accident
PETERBOROUGH and my Hat
RICHMOND Scenery and Prosperity
Powhattan's Tree, an Episode
A Lady Friend
Fire and Folly
Monkey Boy
Gerymander
Fire Company, Frolic and Reflections
From a River to a Race-course.
FROM RICHMOND TO NEW YORK.
Down the River
WILLIAMSBURG. Old Palace
A Governor and a Paddy
The College
Uncle Ben and his Inn
Reflections
SHIRLEY, Hospitality, &c.
BEANDON, Hospitality, &c.
Rural Election—A Cruise in a Calm
Choral Warblers and Family Altar
NORFOLK, Dockyard, &c.
Slave Servants, a Hint to the Foreign Office
Via
BALTIMORE to PHILADELPHIA—A Confession.
Race—Mac and Tac
NEW YORK
Home of the Pilgrim Fathers.
FROM NEW YORK TO BOSTON.
Off by rail—Foxhunting Fire
BOSTON. Buildings and Hospitality
Neighbourhood and Names
The Drama
Spirit-rapping and Gulls
Teaching of Youth and a Model Jail.
AT BOSTON.
Pilgrim Fathers
Education—Expenditure—Regulations, &c.
Phonetic System
A Model Jail—Telegraph and Fire—Dockyard
Water Supply, Prosperity, &c.
Canada.
FROM BOSTON TO QUEBEC.
Railroad and Scenery
MONTREAL, and a Welcome Face
Gavazzi—Excitement—Mob, &c.
QUEBEC and Neighbourhood Mrs. Paul and Miss Paddy
Ferry-boat and Friends
Rebellion Losses Bill
Moral Courage and Administrative Ability evidenced and acknowledged
Hint for Militia
Canadian Government
A Trip to the Uttáwa.
FROM QUEBEC TO TORONTO.
Mr. Hincks—Mr. Drummond—MONTREAL
Up the OTTAWAY to LACHINE, ST. ANNE'S to BYTOWN and AYLMER
The CHATS FALLS
Canadian Highlanders
Conflagration, Rafts, Lumberers, and Teetotallers
The Struggle, the Goal, and the Return
AYLMER Prosperity
BYTOWN. Scenery and Advantages
Slides for Lumber—Mr. Mackay
Object of Councillor's Visit
Drive across Country
PRESCOTT and OGDENSBURG
KINGSTON
LAKE ONTARIO and a Nice Bed
TORONTO
Colonial Education and Prosperity.
AT TORONTO.
TORONTO. Population, Prosperity and Buildings
The Normal School
Education generally Canadian Prospects and Prosperity
A Cataract and a Celebration.
FROM TORONTO TO NEW YORK.
Embark in Steamer
QUEENSTOWN & LEWISTOWN
A Drive, a Bait, and a Lesson
NIAGARA and Moonlight
BATAVIA, GENESEO, and 4th July
Hawking Carriages—ROCHESTER
ALBANY—Hands and Sandwiches
Dropped outside—NEW YORK
Education, Civil and Military.
NEW YORK AND WEST POINT.
Free Academy
WEST POINT. Military Academy
Anecdote, &c.
NEW YORK
Here travelling ceases, and the remaining Chapters are devoted to the discussion of subjects which I trust may interest the reader.
Watery Highways and Metallic Intercourse.
Area of Lakes, and Tonnage thereon
Mississippi—Produce borne and destroyed
Mr. Douglas and Custom Houses
A Great Party Doctrine
Erie Canal—Barn-burners and Hunkers
Railways—United States and England
Telegraph
Systems of Telegraph
America's Press and England's Censor.
Issues of the Press
Wonderful Statistics
Character of the Press
Great Britain's Press
Low Literature of America
Barefaced Robbery—
Northwood
Specimen
English Items
Specimen
The Author of
English Items
SUBJECTS EXTRACTED:—
Relations with England
Sixpenny Miracles
Army Commissions—English Writers
American Spitting
Holy Places
English Friends
Original Sin
English Manners
English Church and Heraldry
Devotion to Dinner
Conclusion
Subsequent Career of Mr. Ward—The Offence—The Scene and the Death
Acquittal and Effects
The Institution of Slavery.
Original Guilt
Northern Fanatics
Irritation produced
Northern Friendship questioned
Grounds of Southerners' Objections to the Abolitionists
English Abolitionists
Mrs. Stowe's Ovation
Treatment of Slaves
Irresponsible Power and Public Opinion
Sources of Opinion as to Treatment of Slaves—Law—Self-interest
Christianity
Habit
Causes of Indignation
Recrimination
Evidence from Authors—Press and Canada
Review of Progress of Slavery
Slave Population and Value
Question of Freedom
Hints for Master and Hopes for Slave.
PROPOSALS.
Free Soil
Fugitive Law
Territory of Refuge
TREATMENT DISCUSSED.
Corporal Punishment
Forfeiture and Testimony
System for Ultimate Freedom
The Blackest Feature in Slavery
VISIONARY DEPUTATION
Inveterate Slaveholder
Touchy Slaveholder, and Swaggering Bully
Clerical Slave Advocate
Amiable Planter
Recriminator
Abolitionist and Intelligent Slaveholder
A frightful Question
Closing Observations
Nebraska—The Christian and the Mussulman
Constitution of the United States.
Plan Proposed
Government and Qualification for Office
Elective Franchise
Frequency of Elections
Ballot
Effects of Elections under the Ballot
Remedy proposed
John Randolph, Sydney Smith, and Clubs
Payment of Members and its Effects
Scene in Congress
The Judiciary
Exclusion of Cabinet from Seats
Power of President
Election of President
Governors of States, and Power of Pardon
Conclusion and Testimony of Bishop Hopkins
The Church, the School, and the Law.
Church Statistics
American Episcopal Prayer-Book
Methodist Episcopacy and Presbyterian Music
What exists at Home
Ismite Convention
Education Statistics and College Expenses
Pray read this—Law for Conveyance of Land
Inventions and Inveighings.
What is a Bay?
Dr. King—Fulton and Steam
Telegraph and American Modesty
Reaping Machine
Opinion of a Borderer
American Ingenuity
Fire-arms and Militia
Adverse Influences.
The 4th July
Mr. Douglas and Congress
Miss Willard and John Mitchell
Who are the Antipathists?
Olla Podrida.
American Vanity
American Sensitiveness
American Morals
Territory and Population
Effect of Early Education
Phases of Liberty
Strikes
Intelligence
Energy
'Cuteness and Eggs
Enterprise—Lord-hunting
Hospitality—Political Parties
Know-nothings
The Future
My Endeavour
My Warning
Lord Holland, Hope, and Farewell
EXTENT OF TELEGRAPH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
A SHORT SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF FIRE-ARMS
FOOTNOTES:
"THE INQUIRING MIND WEARIES NOT IN THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE."
ANTONIO PEREZ. (Translation)