The New England magazine . e whole of my person andpersonal effects was underway, watched the maniform embarrassments andtroubles which beset the uninitiated voyager on the Hudson. Fifteen minutes after the starting of the boat, there is not a passengeron board; time is moving, and the American counting it as part of theexpense, determines to pay only on demand. He arrives on the narrowpier at the same instant with seven hundred men, ladies, and children, be-sides lapdogs, crammed baskets, uncut novels, and baggage for the commissioner in the world would guarantee to get his freight o
The New England magazine . e whole of my person andpersonal effects was underway, watched the maniform embarrassments andtroubles which beset the uninitiated voyager on the Hudson. Fifteen minutes after the starting of the boat, there is not a passengeron board; time is moving, and the American counting it as part of theexpense, determines to pay only on demand. He arrives on the narrowpier at the same instant with seven hundred men, ladies, and children, be-sides lapdogs, crammed baskets, uncut novels, and baggage for the commissioner in the world would guarantee to get his freight on boardin the given time, and yet it is done, to the daily astonishment of newspaperhawkers, orange-women, and penny-a-liners watching for dreadful acci-dents. The plank is drawn in, the wheels begin to paw like foaming steedsimpatient to be off, and the bell rings as if it was letting down the steps ofthe last hackney-coach, and away darts the boat, like half a town suddenlyslipping off and taking a walk on the water. 462. SING-SING PRISON AND TAPPAN SEA A N American prison is not often a picturesque object, and, till late<l\ years, it suggested to the mind of the philanthropist only painful re-flections upon the abuses and thwarted ends of penitentiary the persevering humanity of Louis Dwight, and to the liberal associa-tion that sustained him, we owe the change in these institutions which en-ables us to look upon them without pain and disgust as places of repentanceand reformation, rather than as schools for vice and abodes of neglect andidleness. It is a creditable thing to our country to have led the way in thesesalutary changes; and there are many who have felt their patriotism moreflattered by the visits of persons from Europe sent out by their governmentsto study our systems of prison discipline, than by many an event soundedthrough the trumpet of national glory. The Tappan Sea spreads its broad waters at this part of the Hudson,looking, like all scenes
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