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
CHAPTER XV.
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
CHAPTER XVI.
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
CHAPTER XVII.
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.
CHAPTER XVIII.
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
CHAPTER XIX.
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
CHAPTER XX.
Colonial Education and Prosperity.
AT TORONTO.
TORONTO. Population, Prosperity and Buildings
The Normal School
Education generally Canadian Prospects and Prosperity
CHAPTER XXI.
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
CHAPTER XXII.
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.
CHAPTER XXIII.
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
CHAPTER XXIV.
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
CHAPTER XXV.
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
CHAPTER XXVI.
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
CHAPTER XXVII.
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
CHAPTER XXVIII.
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
CHAPTER XXIX.
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
CHAPTER XXX.
Adverse Influences.
The 4th July
Mr. Douglas and Congress
Miss Willard and John Mitchell
Who are the Antipathists?
CHAPTER XXXI.
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
NOTES.
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)
EXPLANATORY LIST OF PLATES.
VIGNETTE OF THE ENTRANCE TO A COFFEE PLANTER'S RESIDENCE
RAILWAY CARRIAGE
LOCOMOTIVE
CUTTER YACHT "MARIA"
The following are the dimensions
referred to in the text as being on
the original
engraving:—
Tonnage by displacement 137 tons
Length on deck 110 feet
Breadth of beam 26-1/2 "
Depth of hold 8-1/4 "
Length of mast 91 "
Length of boom 95 "
Length of gaff 50 feet
Length of jibboom 70 "
Length of bowsprit on board 27 "
Diameter of bowsprit 24 in.
Diameter of boom 26 in.
MAP OF CROTON AQUEDUCT
This map is accurately copied from
Mr. Schramke's scientific work, but
the reader is requested to
understand that the lines drawn at right
angles over the whole of Manhattan
Island represent what the city of
New York is intended to be. At
present its limits scarcely pass No.
1. Distributing
Reservoir.
STEWARDESS OF THE "LADY FRANKLIN"
This print may possibly be a little
exaggerated.
A MISSISSIPPI STEAMER
This print is raised out of all
proportion, for the purpose of giving
a better idea of the scenes on
board, than the limits of the sheet
would otherwise have permitted. If
the cabin on the deck of the Hudson
River steamer were raised upon
pillars about 15 or 20 feet high, it
would convey a tolerably accurate
impression of the proper
proportions.
THE NEW ST. CHARLES HOTEL, NEW ORLEANS
EL CASERO, OR THE PARISH HAWKER IN CUBA
THE GERARD COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA
NORMAL SCHOOL, TORONTO
A great portion of the ground
adjoining is now given up to
agricultural experimental
purposes.
HUDSON RIVER STEAMER, 1200 TONS
The dimensions
are:—
Length 325 feet
Breadth 38 "
Depth of hold 11 "
Width of cylinder. 5 ft. 10 in.
Length of stroke. 14 feet
Diameter of wheel. 40 "
MAP OF THE UNITED STATES
A CHAPTER,
Gratis and Explanatory.