SOMETHING OF BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, THE CHESAPEAKE, AND POTOMAC

PREPARATORY to starting, at a coach stand in Ninth-street, very near the Philadelphia College, I had hard work to strike a bargain with an Irish cabman to take me to the steam-boat, as a favour, for half a dollar, though his legal fare was only a quarter-dollar to or from any part of the centre of the city; but then I had a portmanteau, and, like our own clever cab regulations, luggage, and distance, and fare is left to the discretionary disputation of both parties. All over America hackneycoaches and cabs are as great a nuisance as in England--impose on one quite as much; but at any rate they are better-looking things than ours, and their horses are better used, and better fed; but here in the States, where there is a real difficulty in bringing the sovereign public to any sort of regulation, there is some excuse, if the wise municipality had not added the extra charge of twenty-five cents for every individual carried.