over tne people given to vice in America, 

 than either courts of justice, or places of 

 worship, and acts as a more powerful incen- 

 tive to moral rectitude. 



Amidst a variety of reports, equally ridi- 

 culous, respecting Betty Fisher, of Balti- 

 more (already mentioned); a belief prevails 

 that she possesses the extraordinary power 

 of torturing the offender neglecting to 

 restore stolen goods to the lawful owner; 

 so that the thief cannot sleep by night, and 

 that something comes into his room and 

 draws off the bed-clothes, with many 

 tales of a similar kind. I have to thank 

 her, however, for her name and cunning. 

 I had an Englishman who worked with 

 me, formerly a convict : he frequently stole 

 small things from me ; but I dared not to 

 mention it r because he would be offended, 

 and, of consequence, leave me. Therefore 

 I put up with it : at that time I did not 

 know of Betty Fisher, or I readily could 

 have stopped this man from these thefts. 

 As a proof; having hired several English- 



