hour, he knelt over human frames, extracting broken glass and splinters, bathing the bleeding features, and closing the gaping wounds of those living in torture or expiring in agony, while his attention was alternately called off to find out the name and address of some departed victim, and to see his body decently inclosed in one of the metallic coffins that had arrived for the occasion, and have them, one after the other, sent away, as if it were a bale of merchandize, by the next train !* It is useless to say more upon the subject. Since the beginning of the year, up to the period we are referring to a space of four monthsabout forty accidents have occurred, whereby more than one hundred and twenty individuals have been almost suddenly "sent to their account with all their imperfections on their head," and more than two hundred have been mutilated and maimed for life; and yet no director has been hung, no

*The Yankee, though "in the midst of life he is in death," as long as he is not actually dead, will have his joke. A fellow who had gone down in one of the cars, luckily rose to the surface, and alighting upon a rafter, he was seen feeling in his pockets, and at length pulling out three gold dollar-pieces, he was heard to exclaim, while spitting out mouthfuls of mud and water; "Here they are-hold on-I don't mean to spend my money in this d-d hole-when does the next train come on?"

official been hurled into the waves where his negligence has immersed so many of his fellowcreatures, and no vagabond stoker has been thrown into the boiler he is appointed to feed. To be sure, it is no business of ours, and if people choose "to be in love and pleased with ruin," let them be so by all means-we only lift up a warning voice to our own kith and kind, to induce them, at all events, to be as cautious as possible in all their transatlantic travelling arrangements.

The whole system is wrong from first to last -the construction of the cars, the construction of the trams the total absence of even ordinary precaution, and want of the protective hand of government. Their railroads traverse the centre of cities, fly across all public roads, and cleave the most crowded thoroughfares, and the only notice given to the passer-by, is a large board, with the words: "Look out for the engine* when the bell rings!" Good fun, that! They are not required to "look out" that they don't run over you, but you are required to "look out" that you are not run over ! In the comparatively few instances where our railroads traverse either a high or a by-way, large gates, as we all know, are erected on either * Invariably pronounced en-gine.

side, and a policeman is stationed at them to prevent man or horse crossing until the expected train has gone by; and by this arrangement a very proper "look out" is kept for you, instead of your being obliged to keep it for yourself; and until this and other precautionary measures (amongst others, double lines of rail) are adopted, and above all until two or three directors have (in the delicate language of Newgate) undergone the extreme penalty of the law, the lives of the travelling community in America will be at a very serious discount.

Most parties connected with the actual hourly operation of these railroads are trumpery men of business, and it is grievous to find that while they are capable of introducing such excellent arrangements as some we have expatiated upon, they do not carry out a similar principle in all connected with such undertakings. One thing is tolerably certain, that if they pursue the reckless course now in existence, their census, when the time shall arrive for taking it again, will have undergone some considerable diminution. There are many things to be done, and many to be left undone ; and while they are making amendments, let one consist of enforcing greater punctuality than they

are at present guilty of-exactness in business is its very vitality-and if not generally practised, the people there know what it is; for they tell you a story of a man who was so scrupulously exact in all his dealings, that whenever he paid a visit, he would insist upon taking a receipt for it.

CHAPTER XIII.

LAKE ERIE-THE BRITISH FLEET SWALLOWED AT ONE MOUTHFUL-ENGLAND'S ONLY CHANCE OF SALVATION-STATISTICS

OF THE LAKE COUNTRY

LAKE POETRY

THE FALLS OF

NIAGARA-WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU GET TO THEM-EVERY

JOKE,

SHERIDAN'S-DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN SAYING AND

DOING-BRITISH AND AMERICAN GROUND NOT HALF-A-MILE

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APART-TAKING A WET," INSIDE AND OUT-A THUNDERING * * *

-THE WINDSOR SENTINEL-SAPPHO AND THE LOVER'S LEAP ANY QUANTITY OF WATER YOU PLEASEBUFFALO CITY, ITS ADVANTAGES, AND ITS PRETENSIONS-NO END TO A STREET IN IT-THE ODDS AGAINST ARRIVING AT

THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.

WE parted company some time since, good reader, at the town of Cleveland, or rather (not to pay it any disrespect) the Forest City; but we did not stay there longer than it took us to go from the railway station to the wharf, alongside