and all went on well. Just before arriving at the end of the journey, the conductor called on William for his ticket. "I have none,” was the reply. 'Well, then, you can pay your fare to me,” said the officer. "How much is it?” asked the black man. "Two dollars.” "What do you charge those in the passenger-carriage?" “Two dollars.” "And do you charge me the same as you do those who ride in the best carriages?" asked the negro. "Yes,” was the answer. "I shan't pay it,” returned the man. "You black scamp, do you think you can ride on this road without paying your fare?” "No, I don’t want to ride for nothing; I only want to pay what’s right." Well, launch out two dollars, and that’s right.” “No, I shan’t; I will pay what I ought, and won’t pay any more.” “Come, come, nigger, your fare and be done with it,” said the conductor, in a manner that is never used except by Americans to blacks. “I won't pay you two dollars, and that enough,” said William. Well, as you have come all the way in the luggage-van, pay me a dollar and a half and you may go.” “I shan’t do any such thing.” "Don’t you mean to pay for riding?" “Yes, but I won’t pay a dollar and a half for riding up here in the freight~van. If you had let me come in the carriage where others ride, I would have paid you two dollars.” "Where were you raised? seem to think yourself as good as white want nothing more than my rights." Wel, give me a dollar, and I will let you off." “No, sir, I shan’t do it.” 66 What do you mean to do then—don’t you wish to pay anything?” "Yes, sir, I want to pay you the full price.” “What do you mean by full price?" "What do you charge per hundred-weight for goods?” inquired the negro with a degree of gravity that would have astonished Diogenes himself. "A quarter of a dollar per hundred,” answered the 66 folks." 66 You 'I conductor. "I weigh just one hundred and fifty pounds,” returned William, "and will pay you three— eighths of a dollar.” "Do you expect that you will pay only thirty-seven cents for your ride?" "This, sir, is your own price. I came in a luggage-van, and I’ll pay for luggage.” After a vain effort to get the negro to pay more, the conductor took the thirtyseven cents, and noted in his cash~book, "Received for one hundred and fifty pounds of luggage, thirtyseven cents.” This, reader, is no fiction; it actually occurred in the railway above described. As Thomas Corwin, a member of the American Congress, is one of the blackest white men in the United States. He was once on his way to Congress, and took passage in one of the Ohio river steamers. he came just at the dinner hour, he immediately went into the dining saloon, and took his seat at the table. A gentleman with his whole party of five ladies at once left the table. "Where is the captain,” cried the man in an angry tone. The captain soon appeared, and it was sometime before he could satisfy the old gent. that Governor Corwin was not a nigger. The newspapers often have notices of mistakes made by innkeepers and others Who undertake to accommodate the public, one of which we give below. On the 6th inst., the Hon. Daniel Webster and family entered Edgartown, on a visit for health and recreation. Arriving at the hotel, without alighting from the coach, the landlord was sent for to see if suitable accommodation could be had. That dignitary appearing, and surveying Mr. Webster, while the hon. senator addressed him, seemed woefully to mistake the dark features of the traveller as he sat back in the corner of the carriage, and to suppose him a coloured man, particularly as there were two coloured servants of Mr. W. outside. So he promptly declared that there was no room for him and his family, and he could not be accommodated there at the same time suggesting that he might perhaps find accommodation at some of the huts “up back,” to which he pointed. So deeply did the prejudice of looks possess him, that he appeared not to notice that the stranger introduced himself to him as Daniel Webster, or to be so ignorant as not to have heard of such a personage; and turning away, he expressed to the driver his astonishment that he should bring black people there for him to take in. It was not till he had been repeatedly assured and made to understand that the said Daniel Webster was a real live senator of the United States, that he perceived his awkward mistake and the distinguished honour which he and his house were so near missing. In most of the Free States, the coloured people are disfranchised on account of their colour. The following scene, which we take from a newspaper in the state of Ohio, will give some idea of the extent to which this prejudice is carried. "The whole of Thursday last was occupied by the Court of Common Pleas for this county in trying to find out whether one Thomas West was of the VOTING COLOUR, as some had very constitutional doubts as to whether his colour was orthodox, and whether his hair was of the official crisp! Was it not a dignified business? Four profound judges, four acute lawyers, twelve grave jurors, and I don't know how many venerable witnesses, making in all about thirty men, perhaps, all engaged in the profound, laborious, and illustrious business, of finding out whether a man who pays tax, works on the road, and is an industrious farmer, has been born according to the republican, Christian constitution of Ohio—so that he can vote! And they wisely, gravely, and ‘JUDGMATICALLY' decided that he should not vote! What wisdom-what research it must have required to evolve this truth! It was left for the Court of Common Pleas for Columbian county, Ohio, in the United States of North America, to find out what Solomon never dreamed of-the courts of all civilised, heathen, or Jewish countries, never contemplated. Lest the wisdom of our courts should be circumvented by some such men as might be named, who are so near being born constitutionally that they might be taken for white by sight, I would suggest that our court be invested with SMELLING powers, and that if a man don't exhale the constitutional smell, he shall not vote! would be an additional security to our liberties." This William found, after all, that liberty in the socalled Free States was more a name than a reality; that prejudice followed the coloured man into every place that he might enter. The temples erected for the worship of the living God are no exception. The finest Baptist church in the city of Boston has the following paragraph in the deed that conveys its seats to pewholders: “And it is a further condition of these presents, that if the owner or owners of said pew shall determine hereafter to sell the same, it shall first be offered, in writing, to the standing committee of said society for the time being. at such price as might otherwise be obtained for it; and the said committee shall have the right, for ten days after such offer, to purchase said pew for said society, at that price, first deducting therefrom all taxes and assessments on said pew then remaining unpaid. And if the said committee shall not so complete such purchase within said ten days, then the pew may be sold by the owner or owners thereof (after payment of all such arrears) to any one respectable white person, but upon the same conditions as are contained in this instrument; and immediate notice of such sale shall be given in writing, by the vendor, to the treasurer of said society." The Such are the conditions upon which the Rowe Street Baptist Church, Boston, disposes of its seats. writer of this is able to put that whole congregation, minister and all, to flight, by merely putting his coloured face in that church. We once visited a church in New York that had a place set apart for |