CONTENTS. 



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of Pine Trees. Abolitionist &quot;Wrecker&quot; in Railway Car. Runaway 

 Slave. Sale of Novels by News-boys. Character of Newspaper 

 r Press. Geology and Cretaceous Strata, Montgomery. Curfew. Sun- 

 xlay School for Negroes. Protracted Meeting 34 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Voyage from Montgomery to Mobile. Description of a large River 

 Steamer. Shipping of Cotton at Bluffs. Fossils collected at Land 

 ings. Collision of Steamer with the Boughs of Trees. Story of a Ger 

 man Stewardess. Emigration of Stephanists from Saxony. Perpetu 

 ation of Stephanist and Mormon Doctrines. Distinct Table for Colored 

 and White Passengers. Landing at Claiborne by Torchlight. Fossil 

 Shells. . 44 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Claiborne, Alabama. Movers to Texas. State Debts and Liabilities. 

 Lending .Money to half-settled States.---Rumors of War with England. 

 Macon, Alabama. Sale of Slaves] Drunkenness in Alabama. 

 Laws against Dueling. Jealousy of Wealth. Emigration to the West. 

 Democratic Equality of Whites. Skeleton of Fossil Whale or Zeu- 

 glodon. Voyage to Mobile 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Voyage from Mobile to Tuscaloosa. Visit to the Coal-field of Alabama. 

 Its Agreement in Age with the ancient Coal of Europe. Absen 

 teeism in Southern States. Progress of Negroes. Unthriftiness of 

 Slave-Labor. University of Tuscaloosa. Churches. Bankruptcies. 

 Judges and Law Courts. Geology on the Tombeckbee River. 

 Artesian Wells. Limestone Bluff of St. Stephens. Negro shot by 

 Overseer. Involuntary Efforts of the Whites to civilize the Negroes. 

 New Statute in Georgia against Black Mechanics. The Effects of 

 speedy Emancipation and the free Competition of White and Black 

 Laborers considered .......... 67 



