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 Burning alive of a negro in Eastern Tennessee, ii., 349, 351;  frequency of such cases, 354. Calcasieu River (Texas), ii., 30. Canada, running of slaves into, ii., 362;  loss to the South by, 362. Cape Fear River, a type of the navigable streams of the cotton States, i., 191;  passage from Fayetteville to Wilmington, 191;   panic of a steamer's crew, 192;   taking in wood, 193;   description of the passengers, 194;   features of the river-banks, 196. Capital transferred, ii., 299;  with Northern men, 301. Carolina, North, fisheries, i., 149;  desolate aspect of the country, 171;   want of means of communication, 181;   degraded condition of white labourers, 188;   general ignorance and torpidity of the people, 190;   their causes, 190;   aspect of slavery more favourable than in Virginia, 191;   cultivation of forage crops neglected, 200;   wages of labourers, ii., 132. Carolina, South, appearance of the country, i., 204, 215;  thinly peopled, 206;   log cabins, 206;   negro-quarters, 207;   repulsive appearance of field-hands, 208;   conversation with an elderly country-*man in, 217;   his ignorance and good-nature, 218, 221;   conduct of two negro-girls, 222;   plantations, 233;   negro settlements, 233, 237. Cartwright, Dr., on the peculiar diseases of negroes, i., 122. Carts, primitive style of, in Georgia, i., 231. Cavaliers, English, Virginia partly colonized by, ii., 335. Cemeteries, negro, i., 224. 'Chambers' Journal,' on the Virginia slave-trade, ii., 372. Character, difference of, in North and South, how accounted for, ii., 332, et seq.

'Charleston Mercury,' quoted, ii., 362.

Charleston Standard,' the, on dishonest trading with slaves, i., 253.

Charleston (S. C.), average mortality of whites and negroes at, ii., 259.

Chastity of so-called pious slaves, ii., 226.

Children, bad effects on, from intercourse with slaves, i., 222.

Christmas holidays of the negroes, i., 97; serenade in San Augustin, 375; presents to slaves, ii., 180.

Church edifices, value of, in Georgia, ii., 388.

Churches of coloured people in Washington, i., 36; description of a religious service in New Orleans, 308.

Claiborne (Alabama), curious mode of loading cotton at, i., 275.

Clay, Mr. Cassius, ii., 281.

Climate of cotton lands, reckoned unsuitable for white labourers, ii., 256.

Clothing of slaves, i., 46, 105; ii., 200; fondness for finery, 201.

Coal, beds of, in Virginia, i., 55; extensive fields of, ii., 365.

Coloured Church members, statistics of, ii., 222; hollowness of their professions, 225.

Columbus (Georgia), i., 273; extensive manufactures, 274; frequent distress of white labourers, 274; wretched hotel accommodation, 274.

Conspiracy to overawe the North, i., 6.

Comparison of the moral and social condition of the negro, in Slave and Free States, ii., 238.

Corporeal punishment, severe instance of, witnessed, ii., 205.

Cottage in Louisiana, a night spent in, ii., 38; superior manners of the inmates, 39.

Cotton, fallacies with respect to its influence, i., 5; the monopoly not beneficial to the Slave States, 8; neglected resources of the so-called cotton States, 12; profitable cultivation, 15; number of slaves engaged in cotton culture, 17; profits of large and small planters, 18; limited area devoted to its growth, 24; effect of low prices on abolition, 201; reckless loading on steamboats, 275; chiefly produced in the valley of the Mississippi, 342; expense of raising, ii., 182; planting and tillage the chief items,