vi CONTENTS, 



CHAP. XXII. 



Page 



Macon to Columbus by Stage. Rough Travelling. Pas 

 sage of Flint River. Columbus. Recent Departure of 

 Creek Indians. Falls of the Chatahoochie. Competi 

 tion of Negro and White Mechanics. Age of Pine 

 Trees. Abolitionist &quot; Wrecker&quot; in Railway Car. 

 Runaway Slave. Sale of Novels by News-boys. 

 Character of Newspaper Press. Geology and Creta 

 ceous Strata, Montgomery. Curfew. Sunday School 

 for Negroes. Protracted Meeting 31 



CHAP. XXIII. 



Voyage from Montgomery to Mobile. Description of r* 

 large River Steamer. Shipping of Cotton at Bluffs. 

 Fossils collected at Landings. Collision of Steamer with 

 the Boughs of Trees. Story of a German Stewardess. 

 Emigration of Stephanists from Saxony. Perpetuation 

 of Stephanist and Mormon Doctrines. Distinct Table 

 for Coloured and White Passengers. Landing at Clai- 

 borne by Torchlight. Fossil Shells - 45 



CHAP. XXIV. 



Claiborne, Alabama. Movers to Texas. State Debts 

 and Liabilities. Lending Money to half-settled States. 

 Rumours of War with England. Macon, Alabama. 

 Sale of Slaves. Drunkenness in Alabama. Laws 

 against Duelling. Jealousy of Wealth. Emigration to 

 the West. Democratic Equality of Whites. Skeleton 

 of Fossil Whale or Zeuglodon. Voyage to Mobile 60 



