I hope I may never for my sins be again condemned to travel for thirty hours in an American stage on a used-up plank road. We changed carri...

Started again by stage for Munroe at 4.30 A.M. My companions were, the Mississippi planter, a mad dentist from New Orleans (called, by cour...

We reached Marshall at 3 A.M., and got four hours' sleep there. We then got into a railroad for sixteen miles, after which we were cram...

General Scurry's servant “John” had been most attentive since he had been told off to me. I made him a present of my evening clothes, w...

Mr. Schenck, at the Farms has a dog which goes out near the railroad track every night, a few minutes before it is time for the cars, and w...