A spirit of competition is awakened, banks have been established, steam navigation introduced, railroads projected, old highways repaired, and new ones opened.

The descendants of the slaves are rapidly supplying the places which were formerly filled by whites from abroad.
We had the pleasure of being present one day at the sitting of the police court of Kingston.

Mr.Jordon, the editor of the Watchman, in his turn as a member of the common council, was presiding justice, with an alderman of the city, a black man, as his associate.

At a table below them sat the superintendent of police, a white man, and two white attorneys, with their huge law books and green bags before them.

The bar was surrounded by a motley assemblage of black, colored, and white faces, intermingled without any regard to hue in the order of superiority and precedence.