FERRALL'S RAMBLE IN THE UNITED STATES.

THIS is a pleasant rambling report of the United States ; and contrives, by mixing up gossip and information, to give us a very fair idea of the country. The greatest portion of the book refers to the back settlements— the great Valley of the Mississippi; which Mr. COLTON tells us will -soon "swamp " the whole of the Atlantic States, by its rising population and importance, its enormous vastness, and great capabilities of improvement. Mr. FERRALL'S report is confirmatory of the rapid increase of the set- tlers in this part of the world; but he conveys so very disagreeable an impression of the character of the population, that we should think an emigrant would do well to prefer the British province of' Upper Canada. The account of the fates and fortunes of the B1RKBEC KS and the FLOWERS is in the highest degree melancholy and discouraging.

. Generally speaking, the fault we find with Mr. FERRALL'S book is, that it wants vigour in its descriptions : it is too loose and slight, and bears marks of being written when the impressions were fading. It wants the local tint. There are, however, many anecdotes and remarks both striking and amusing • and some parts are also worthy of the attention of the graver reader. Amongst these, is the account of the associations of operatives, or, as they call themselves, Workies, in New York ; which are said to be all-powerful. They were taught to unite by Miss FANNY WRIGHT,—a person of great notoriety, and of greater influence and laiber powers of mischief than we had been led to believe. In this country, Miss WRIGHT was only laughed at; but in the United States, it seems, she has made herself formidable. We will put together some passages which relate to this extraordinary person- age, and some of her doings.

FRANCES WRIGHT, THE POLITICAL APOSTI.E.

The person of Frances Wright is tall and commanding ; her features are rather masculine, and the melancholy cast which her countenance ordinarily assumes gives it rather a harsh appearance her dark chestnut hair hangs in long graceful curls about her neck; and when delivering her lectures, her appearance is romantic and unique. She is a speaker of great eloquence and ability, both as to the matter of her orations and the manner of their delivery. The first sentence she utters rivets your attention anti, almost uncunseinualy, your sympathies are excited, and you are carried on by the reasonings and the eloquence of this disciple of the Gardens. The impression made on the audience assembled on that occasion was really wonderful. Once or twice, when I could, withdraw my attention from the speaker, I regarded the countenances of those around me, and certainly never witnessed any thing mere striking: The high-wrought interest depleted in their faces, added to the breathless silence that reigned throughout the building, Made the spectacle the most imposing I ever beheld. She was the Cumlean Sybil delivering oracles and labouring under the inspiration of the God of Day. This address was chiefly of a political character ; and she took care to flatter the prejudices of the Americans, by occasionally recurring to the advantages their country possessed over European states—namely, the absence of country gen- tlemen and of a church establishment; for to the absence of these the Ameri- cans attribute a large portion of the very great degree of comfort they enjoy..

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When I was at New York about fifteen months before, I was informed that the working classes were being organized into regular bodies, similar to the "union of trades" in England, for the purpose of retaining all political power in their own bands. This organization has taken place at the suggestion of Frances Wright, of whom I shall again have occasion to speak presently, and has suc- ceeded to an astonishing extent. There are three or four different bodies of the " Workies," as they call themselves familiarly, which vary somewhat from each other in their principles, and go different lengths in their attacks on the present institutions of society. There are those of them called "agrarians," who con- tend that there should be a law passed to.,prohibit individuals holding beyond a certain quantity of ground.; and that at given intervals of time there should be an equal division of property throughout the land. This is the most ultra, and least numerous class ; the absurdity of whose doctrines must ultimately destroy them as a body. Various handbills and placards may be seen posted about the city, calling meetings of these unions. Some of those handbills are of a most extraordinary character indeed. I shall here insert a copy of one, which I took off a wall,ana have now in my possession. It may serve to illustrate the character of those clubs.

THE CAUSE OF THE POOR.

The Mechanics and other working men of the city of New York, and of these such and such only as live by their own useful industry, who wish to retain all political power in their own hands ;

AND WHO ARE OPPOSED TO WHO ARE IN FAVOUR OF

Banks and Bankers, A jest compensation for labour,

Abolishing Imprisonment for debt, Auctions and Auctioneers. An efficient lien law. Monopolies and

A general system of education; including Monopolists of all descriptions, food, clothing, and instruction, equal for Brokers,

all, at the public expense. without separa-

tion of children from prents.

Exemption from sale by execution of me- Rich men for office. awl to all those, either ebonies' tools and implements sufficiently rich or poor, who Miaow them, extensive to enable them to carry on Exemption of Property from Taxation:

business •

Are invited to assemble at the Wooster Street Military Hall, on Thursday evening next, 16th Sept., at eight o'clock, to select by Ballot, from among the persons proposed on the 6th instant, Candidates for Governor. Lieutenant-Governor. Senator, and n New Committee of Fifty ; and to propose Candidates for Register, for Members of Congress. and for Assembly.

By order of the Committee of Fifty.

• JOHN .R. SOPER, Chairman,

• JOHN TUTHILL, Secretary.

So far for the "Workies ;" and now for Miss-Wright.- If I understand this raid. kind have nothing whatever to do with any butthis tangible world; that the sole and only legitimate pursuit of man, is terrestrial happiness ; that looking - forward to an ideal state of existence, diverts his attention from the pleasures of this life, destroys all real sympathy towards his fellow-creatures, and renders Isim callous to their sufferings. However different the theories of other systems may be, she conteas that the practice of the world, in all ages and generations, shows that this is the effect of their inculcation. These are alarming doctrines ; and when this lady made her debut in public, the journals contended that their absurdity was too gross to be of any injury to society, and that in a few months, if she continued lecturing, it would be to empty benches. The editor of The New York Courier and .Enquirer and she have been in constant enmity, and have never failed New each other when opportu- - nity offered. 1iss Wright

right sailed from York for France, where she. still

..11 • remains in the month of July 1830; and previous to her departure delivered an address, on which the New York Enquirer makes the Mowing observations :— "The parting address of Miss NV' ight at the Bowery Theatre, on Wednesday evening, was a singular meltinge of politics and impiety, eloquence and irreligion, bold invective and electioneering slang. The theatre was very much crowded, probably three thousand persons being present ; and what was the most sur- prising 'circumstance of the whole, is the fact, that about one half of the au- dience were females—respectable females.

"When Fanny first made her appearance in this city as a lecturer on the new Order of things,' she was very little visited by respectable females. At her first lecture in the Park Theatre, about half a dozen appeared ; but these soon left the house. From that period till the present, we had not heard her speak in public ; but her doctrines and opinions and philosophy appear to have made

- much greater progress in the city than we ever dreamt of. Her fervid eloquence —her fine action—her soprano-toned voice—her bold and daring attacks upon

' all the present systems of society—and particularly upon priests, politicians, • bankers, and aristocrats as she calls them, have raised a party around her of con- siderable magnitude, and of much fervour and enthusiasm."

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"The present state of things in this city is, to say the least of it, very singular. A bold aud eloquent woman lays siege to the very foundations of society, inflames ' and excites the public mind, declaims with vehemence against every thing re- ' ligious and orderly, and directs the whole of her movements to accomplish the election of a ticket next fall,'under the title of the 'working-man's ticket.' She avows that her object is a thorough and radical reform and cliange in every re- lation of life—even the dearest and most sacred. Father, mother, hushand, • wife, son, and daughter, in all their delicate and endearing relationships, are to be swept away equally with clergymen, churches, banks, parties, and benevolent societies. Hundreds and hundreds of respectable families, by frequenting her .

lectures, give countenance and currency to these startling principles and doe- trines. Nearly the whole newspaper press of the city maintain a deathlike silence, while the great Red Harlot of Infidelity is madly and triumphantly stalking over the city, under the mantle of 'working-men,' and making rapid progress in her work of ruin. If a solitary newspaper raise a word in favour of public virtue and private morals, in defence of the rights, liberties, and property of the community, it is denounced with open bitterness by some, and secretly stabbed at by them who wish to pass for good citizens. Miss Wright says she leaves the city soon. This is a mere ruse to call her followers around her. The effect of her lectures is already boasted of by her followers. Two years ago,' say they, 'twenty persons could scarcely he found in New York ikho would openly avow infidelity now—we have twenty thousand. Is not that something?' "We say it is something—something that will make the whole city think."

Mr. FERRAI,I, visited New Harmony after the breaking up of the society by Mr. OWEN, and had the satisfaction of hearing that benevolent gentleman abused by every one. Other anecdotes, which have amused or struck us as interesting, we will arrange as they occur in the book, merely designating • them by descriptive titles.

• YANK ZE COMMENTS ON A CHARITY SERMON.

• "The old man is wide awake, I guess." "I reckon he knows a thing or two." "I calculate he's been on board a flat afore now." " Yes, I guess a Yankee 'd find it damned hard to sell him hickory nutmegs." "It 'd take a

• pretty smart man to poke it on to a parson any how." "I guess'd it 'd come to dollars and cents in the end."

CAMP PREACHING IN THE OHIO STATE.

After sunset the place was lighted up by beacon-fires and candles, and the scene seemed to be changing to one of more deep and awful interest. About nine o'clock the preachers began to rally their forces—the candles were snuffed—fuel was ad- ded to the fires—clean straw was shook in the "penitents' pen"—and every move- . ment "gave dreadful note of preparation." At length the hour was sounded, and the faithful forthwith assembled. A chosen leader commenced to harangue—he bellowed—he roared—he whined—he shouted until he became actually hoarse, and the perspiration rolled down his face. Now, the faithful seemed to take the infection, and as if overcome by their excited feelings, flung themselves headlong on the straw into the penitents' pen—the old dames leading the way. The preachers, to the number of a dozen, gave a loud shout and rushed into the thick of the penitents. Ascetic now ensued that beggars all description. About twenty women, young and old, were lying in every direction and position with caps and without caps, screeching, bawling, and kicking in hysterics, and profaning the name of Jesus. The preachers, on their knees amongst them were with Stentorian voices exhorting them to call louder and louder on the Lord, until he came upon them ; whilst their attachees with turned up eyes and smiling countenances, Were chanting hymns and shaking hands with the multitude. Some would now and then give a hearty laugh, which is an indication of superior grace, and is called "the holy laugh." The scene altogether was highly entertaining—penitents, parsons, caps, combs, and straw, jumbled in one heterogeneous mass, lay heaving on the ground, and formed at this juncture a grouping that might be done jus- tice to by the pencil of Hogarth, or the pen of the author of Hudibras ; but of which I fear an inferior pen or pencil must fail in conveying an adequate idea. The women were at length carried off, fainting, by their friends, and the preachers Legan to prepare for another scene. From the time of those faintings, the "new birth" is dated, which means a spiritual resurrection or revival.

ANECDOTES OF SLAVERY IN NEW ORLEANS.

During my stay, a Doctor came down the river with thirty slaves, among Which were an old negro and negress, each between sixty and seventy years of age; this unfortunate old woman had borne twenty-one children, all of whom had been at different times sold in the Orleans market, and carried into other States, and into distant parts of Louisiana. The Doctor said, in order to in- duce her to leave home quietly, that he was bringing her into Louisiana for the purpose of placing her with some of her children—" and now," says the old ne- gress, " aldo I suckle my massa at die breast, yet now he sell me to sugar planter, after he sell all my children away from me." This gentleman was a strict Methodist, or "saint ;" and is, I was informed, much esteemed by the preachers of that persuasion, because of his liberal contributions to their sup- Negresses, when young and likely, are often employed as wet nurses by white people, as also by either the planter or his friends, to administer to their sensual desires—this frequently as a matter of speculation ; for if the offs.pring, a mulatto, be a handsome female, from 800 to 1,000 dollars may be obtained for her in the Orleans market.* -It is.an occurrence of no uncommon nature to see the Chris- tian father sell his own daughter,. and the brother his own sister by the same father. Slaves do not marry, but pair at discretion; and the more children they produce, the better for thew masters. On the Levee at New Orleans, are constantly exhibited specimens of the white man's humanity, in thepersons of runaway slaves. When such an unfortunate negro is retaken, a log is chained to one of his legs ; and round his neck is placed an iron collar, from which project three sharp prongs more than a foot in length each.

YANKEE NOTIONS OF ENGLAND.

Near Mountpleasant, I stopped to time at the house of a Dutchman by

descent. After dinner the party adjourned, as is customary, to tlie liar room, when divers political and polemical topics were canvassed with the usual national warmth. An account of his late Majesty's death was in- serted in a Philadelphia paper' and .happened to be noticed by one of the politicians present, when the landlord asked me how we elected our king in England. I replied that he was not elected, but that he became king by birth- right, &c. A Kentuckian observed, placing his leg on the back of the next chair, " That's a kind of unnatural." An Indianian said; " I don't be- lieve in that system myself." A third—" Do you mean to tell me, that because the last king was a smart man and knew his duty, that his son or his brother should be a smart man, and tit for the situation? " I explained that we had a premier, ministers, &c. ; when the last gentleman replied, " Then you pay half- a-dozen men to do one man's business. Yes—yes—that may do for Englishmen very well ; but I guess it would not go clown here—no, no, Americans are a little more enlightened than to stand that kind of wiggery." During. this con- versation, a person had stepped into the room, and had taken his seat in silence. I was about to reply to the last observations of my antagonist, when this gentle- man opened out, with, " Yes, that may do for Englishmen very well :".he was mum Englishman, I knew at once by his accent, and I verily believe the identical Radical who set the village of Bracebridge by the ears, and pitched the villagers to the devil, on seeing them grin through a horse-collar, when they should Cave been calculating time interest nterest of the national debt, or conning over the list of sinecure placernen. He held in his hand, instead of .Colibett's Register, the Greenville Republican. He had substituted for his short-sleeved coat. "a roundabout." He seemed to have put on flesh, and looked somewhat more con- tented. " Yes, yes," he says„ "that may do for Englishmen very well, but it won't do here. Here we make our own laws, and we keep them Ida. it may do for Englishmen very well, to have the liberty of paying taxes for the support of the nobility ; to have the liberty of being incarcerated in a gaol, for shoot- ing the wild animals of the country; to have the liberty of being seized by. a press-gang, torn away from their wives and families, and flogged at the discre- tion of my Lord Tom, Dick, or Harry's bastard." At this, the Kentuckian gnashed his teeth, and instinctively grasped his hunting-knife ; an old Indian doc- tor, who was squatting in one corner of the room, said, slowly and emphatically, as his eyes glared, his nostrils dilated, and his lip curled with contempt—" The Englishman is a dog ;" while a Georgian slave, who stood behind Ins master's chair, grinned and chuckled with delight, as he said, "Poor Englishman, him meaner man den black nigger." "To have," continued the Englishman, "the liberty of being transported for seven years for being caught learning the lase of the sword or the musket ; to have the tenth lamb and the tenth sheaf seized, or the blanket torn from off his lied to pay a bloated, a plethoric bishop or par- son —to be kicked and cuffed about lw a parcel of 'Bourbon gendarmerie,'.-- Liberty !—why he'll sweat".—here I slfppecl out the side door into the water- melon patch. As I receded, I beard the whole party burst out into an obstrepe- rous fit of laughter. A few broken sentences from the Kentuckian and the Radical reached my ear, such as "backed out"—" damned aristocratic." I re- turned in about half an hour to pay my bill, when I could observe one or two of those doughty politicians who remained, leering at me most significantly. How- ever, I "smiled and said nothing."

The impression made on the mind of Mr. FERRALL is, that there exists in the States a general hostility to England, and a strong feeling of friendship to such powers as they consider actuated by rival interests. We trust this is erroneous : indeed, we have grounds of our own—the viva voce report of a most competent and veracious witness—for believing that such a feeling is any thing but general- • I have been informed by a gentleman who has resided in the English West India Islands, that he has known instances there of highly-educated white women, young and unmarried, Making black mothers suckle puppy lap-dogs for them.