. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . The Sicilian fiTiit-sellcr. NIGHT ON THE LEVEES. 57. .^fc^ ^^ At high water, the juvenile population perches on the beams of the wharves,and enjoys a little quiet fishing. [Page 56.] Texas railways, and teams drive recklessly on the same tracks on which incomingtrains are drawn by rapidly moving locomotives. The freight depots, the recep-tion
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . The Sicilian fiTiit-sellcr. NIGHT ON THE LEVEES. 57. .^fc^ ^^ At high water, the juvenile population perches on the beams of the wharves,and enjoys a little quiet fishing. [Page 56.] Texas railways, and teams drive recklessly on the same tracks on which incomingtrains are drawn by rapidly moving locomotives. The freight depots, the recep-tion sheds and the warehouses are crammed with jostling, sweating, shouting,black and white humanity; and, in the huge granite Custom-House, even politicshas to give way,from time to time,before the tor-rents of night a greatsilence falls onthe levee. Onlythe footsteps ofthe watchmen,or of the polite,but consequen-tial negro police-man, are heardon the well-wornplanks. Now andthen an eye offire, the lampof an incoming steamer, peers out of the obscurity shrouding the river, or glides athwart themoonlight, and three hoarse screams announce an arrival. Along the shore,a hundred lights twinkle in the water, and turn the commonest surroundings intoenchantment. There is little sign of life from a
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