258 John Bach man. 



with Victor. I somewhat regret it, as I want them 

 to see a little more of this great and wicked city. 



New York appears to me like another London in 

 miniature. Broadway contains at all hours of the 

 day a moving mass of human beings. If you are 

 on the sidewalks, you are elbowed and jostled ; if you 

 cross the street you are in danger that the wheels of 

 an omnibus may crush your foot, if not your neck. 

 If you stand still you may have }^our pockets picked, 

 and if you run the cry of " stop thief" will follow 

 you. 



Yet, after all, New York is not a bad place. 

 Though it is busy and bustling, people are polite 

 and well-dressed, and the fashions are not very 

 unlike those in Charleston. I think that more 

 wealthy young men attend to business here than 

 with us. Of abolition I hear not a word. New 

 York seems prospering in a very high degree, and is 

 destined to become one of the largest cities in the 

 world. As I looked at the many pretty women in 

 Broadway, I thought that no love-sick swain had 

 any reason to hang himself if jilted, inasmuch as the 

 vacuum in his heart might so easily be filled up 

 with one of the crowd that always seem ready to fill 

 up every vacant gap. 



I am constantly interrupted while writing, and 



feel that my mind is like our old friend S 's, " all 



scattered about." 



I think the Synod will not adjourn until the end 

 of this week. It is a 'large body, and every one 

 wishes to make a speech. I am chairman in an 

 ugly business, intrusted to me by a Western Synod 

 a poor fellow is in trouble, and I fear that things 

 are against him. 



I shall probably, return home in a steamer, and 

 shall certainly be with you before Sunday, 28th of 

 May. God bless you all. 



