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what they might do under a better system.&quot; &quot; We 

 cannot,&quot; said another, &quot; raise capital enough for new 

 cotton factories, because all our savings go to buy 

 negroes, or, as has lately happened, to feed them, 

 when the crop is deficient.&quot; A white bricklayer had 

 lately gone from Tuscaloosa to serve an apprentice 

 ship in his trade at Boston. He had been earning 

 there 2J dollars a day, by laying 3000 bricks daily. 

 A Southern planter, Avho had previously been ex 

 ceedingly boastful and proud of the strength of one of 

 his negroes (who could, in fact, carry a much greater 

 weight than this same white bricklayer), was at first 

 incredulous when he heard of this feat, for his pattern 

 slave could not lay more than 1000 bricks a day. 



During my absence on the geological excursion 

 above mentioned, through forests recently abandoned 

 by the Indians, and where their paths may still be 

 traced, I found that my wife had made many agree 

 able acquaintances at Tuscaloosa. Two of the ladies 

 she had seen (New Englanders, who had married 

 Southerners), were reading the works of Schiller and 

 Goethe in the original for their amusement. My 

 companion, the Professor of Chemistry, was not the 

 only one from whom I obtained much scientific in 

 formation, and we enjoyed the pleasure, one clear 

 night, of looking through a telescope recently sent 

 from London, and were shown by Mr. Barnard, the 

 teacher of astronomy, some double stars and southern 

 constellations not visible in England. 



The annual expense of a student in the University 

 is 300 dollars, or sixty guineas a year, including 

 board. A gentleman, whose family consisted of eight 



