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wild turkey roasted, venison steaks, and a partridge- 

 pie, all the product of the neighbouring forest, 

 besides a large jug of delicious milk, a luxury not 

 commonly met with so far south. 



The railway cars between Chehaw and Mont 

 gomery consisted, like those in the North, of a long 

 apartment, with cross benches and a middle passage. 

 There were many travellers, and among them one 

 rustic, evidently in liquor, who put both his feet on 

 one of the cushioned benches, and began to sing. 

 The conductor told him to put his feet down, and 

 afterwards, on his repeating the offence, lifted them 

 off. On his doing it a third time, the train was 

 ordered to stop, and the man was told, in a pe 

 remptory tone, to get out immediately. He was a 

 strong-built labourer, and would have been much 

 more than a match for the conductor, had he re 

 sisted ; but he instantly complied, knowing, doubt 

 less, that the officer s authority would be backed by 

 the other passengers, if they were appealed to. We 

 left him seated on the ground, many miles from any 

 habitation, and with no prospect of another train 

 passing for many a long hour. As we go south 

 wards, we see more cases of intoxication, and hear 

 more swearing. 



At one of the stations we saw a runaway slave, 

 who had been caught and handcuffed ; the first I had 

 fallen in with in irons in the course of the present 

 journey. On seeing him, a New Englander, who 

 had been with us in the stage before we reached 

 Chehaw, began to hold forth on the miserable con 

 dition of the negroes in Alabama, Louisiana, Mis- 



