Yard, Marine Hospital, Widows’ Asylum, and many more places, but had not time.  We then visited the Pennsylvania Hospital, established by William Penn.  His statue is erected in the front, where he is represented as treating with the Indians, after his mission from Charles II.  After seeing the patients, which are taken free to the number of 200, (others are paid for by different institutions,) we saw the splendid painting by West, “Christ healing the Sick.”  We then visited the Musical Fund Hall, and heard the far-famed Ethiopian serenaders, Messrs. German, Hanwood, Harrington, Warren, and Pelham, upon the accordion, banjo, congo-tambo, and bone-castanets, in all of which they stand unrivalled in the world.  They were representing Niggers’ lives, with songs, &c.  Home and to bed, tired out.

Tuesday.—­Started for Baltimore at eight, per rail:  crowded as usual.  Horses drag you out of the different towns:  thence steam.  The first station was Chester:  thence across the Schuylkill and Potomac to Wilmington; and crossed the Delaware and Susquehanna into Maryland—­the first slave state I had been in.  A shudder involuntarily came over me.  Having worked up my imagination, I fancied every black I saw was a slave.  We crossed Havre de Gras, and two or three other beautiful lakes, with bridges of wood over, to save us some miles round, exclusively for the rail, and arrived at Baltimore Exchange Hotel to dinner.  Afterwards strolled about the town; and passed the house of Jerome Bonaparte, who lives in the park quite retired.  All the houses here appear as if built within the last few years:  the bricks are quite red, and apparently new.  The women, as in Philadelphia, are very handsome, except their bosoms, which are quite flat.  I climbed to the top of Washington’s Monument.  It is 180 feet high.  The enclosure is flagged with white marble.  It was erected by the slave state of Maryland.  The inscriptions are:  “Born 22nd Feb., 1732.  Died 14th Dec., 1799, aged 67.  Commander-in-chief of the American army 15th June, 1775.  Commission resigned at Annapolis 23rd Dec., 1783.  Victorious at Trenton 25th Dec., 1776; and conquered Lord Cornwallis at York Town Oct., 1781.  President of the United States 4th March, 1789.  Retired to Mount Vernon 4th March, 1797, and died as above.”  It cost half a million dollars.  Home and to-bed, tired as usual.—­Population, 125,000.

Wednesday morning, the 18th Sept.—­Satisfied myself about business, which appears to be in a thriving state.  I then visited the Catholic Cathedral, which cost 300,000 dollars; St. Paul’s Church; and several other public buildings; the City Fountain, which supplies the town plentifully with spring water; the Battle Monument, erected to the memory of those who fell in the defence of Baltimore in 1814—­James Madison president at the time.  Gen. Jackson conquered Sir Henry Pakenham at New Orleans in the same year.  Jackson was president in 1832, and re-elected.