DELINQUENT.-'Cause I can't write! After one hearty laugh, our friend said: "of course you know that Baltimore is famous for cocktails,* so let us go and have a couple." We did so, and then indulged in another fit of merriment as loud as the former. We began this chapter with some account of the growth of cities, and the increase of inhabitants and habitations all over this leviathan land; and we will close it with an account of one brief mode, at all events, by which this enlargement and "location" of dwellings is brought about. They do nothing on a small scale in America; their territory is large and their ideas are as large as their territory; their hotels are built as if they were meant to hold one half of the people, and their steam-boats as if designed to carry over their rivers and lakes the other half. A man of dollars they think little about, and only begin to talk about * The most absurd request for this beverage we ever heard of, occurred at New Orleans, at that fearful period, when the visitation of the cholera was decimating its population daily, ay, hourly, A waiter ran up to the bar of the St. Charles Hotel, and gave this order, in the usual rapid, curtailed mode of delivery these per sonages indulge in. "Two brandy cocktails for No. 24, a gin-flip for No. 26, and a coffin for No. 29; the two first are in a hurry— t'other can wait!" him when he is master of millions. They build up fabrics on a most gigantic scale one year, and seeing a mode of turning them to better account, they pull them down the next year, and re-erect them on a still more extensive plan.* In our quiet country * At the village of Westerley, in Washington County, Rhode Island, they have a very singular mode of doing things twice over. One half of the inhabitants are Seventh-day Baptists, who, believing Saturday to be the real Sabbath, keep it with becoming solemnity, and abstain from all kind of work. The other half entertain a different belief, and keep holy Sunday as the actual Lord's day, when they rest from their labour. Consequently there are two Sabbaths in one sense of the word, and not one in the other, for on each day the disciples of the opposite creed open their stores, hammer away in their manufactories, and to the quietude of conscientious religion, exhibit all the noise and bustle of business, a circumstance which gave rise to the following epigram: THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. The Sabbath thou must holy keep This precept ever bear in mind- Not knowing which day they should preach, The Westerley "devout" keep two! And labour not to lose, on each They "do all that they have to do!" we think it a great effort, and at all times an unpleasant one, to move one's furniture; in America they think nothing of moving their houses! Throughout the republic, and especially in New England, even the principal erections are of wood; the houses, the pavement of the streets, the fuel, &c., all, in fact, but the people, are wooden. Forests are there what clay-pits and coal-mines are here ; and the chief commodity of each country is necessarily called always into requisition. We have seen a ten-roomed house moving off, not exactly at full gallop, but at as stately a pace as if going to attend a funeral. At Milwaukie, one of the cities just referred to, a gentleman told us, that, seeing an auction going on in an empty hotel, he inquired of a looker-on how it happened that so large a concern was selling off its stock? The answer was that "he didn't know; that for the last five or six years it had been changing its street once a year! but no change of situation seemed to do it any good." "Changing its street?" exclaimed our informant. "Yes," said the other, "and next week it is going to try South Street!" which turned out to be the fact. The same party told us that the upper end of Centre Street, in New York, required widening some years since; but as a fine block of buildings obstructed the proposed alterations, they cut it in two, and moving one half to the other side, newly faced each division, and they formed two very respectable sides of the street! "Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud Certainly not; but wondering does not alter the business. Only imagine the bare possibility of going to rest some evening quietly in the Strand, and finding yourself the following morning up at the other end of Oxford Street! They are not satisfied with taking your bed from under you, but they take your house, your bed, and all! We do not use these words in their literal sense, because we never yet heard of an American who would not much rather give you a bed than take one away from you. We speak perhaps somewhat tropically, but at the same time we speak of things that have been and that are in operation. Sceptics there will be unto the end of time, and in all such cases the only sure way of solving a doubt is to do exactly what we did, stranger-open your purse-strings, cross the Atlantic, and you will very speedily have occasion to open your eyes. CHAPTER X. MRS. STOWE - UNCLE TOM'S CABIN-MORE THAN ONE 66 KEY TO IT"- ENGLISH GULLIBILITY OUT-HERODING HEROD-THE SUTHERLAND" MANIFESTO, AND 66 EX-PRESIDENTIAL" RE 66 JOINDER-PROS. AND CONS. OF SLAVERY-THE WHITE SLAVE, AS WELL AS THE BLACK ONE-DR. PARKER-TWO SIDES TO EVERY QUESTION" THERE'S NO HARM IN A GUINEA❞—THE BEST MODE TO STOW ANY QUANTITY OF THEM AWAY. ANY one writing at the present moment upon America, or on things at all connected with that country, and not mentioning Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, would lay himself open to a charge of high crimes and misdemeanours. If there be certain objections against the name and the subject-matter connected with it, in very numerous classes, it carries with it a talismanic effect in others, and of |