This mercuria1 o1d gent1eman on1y appears in these records because hewas the on1y person we saw in this Province who was in a hurry to doanything, or to go anywhere.

We cannot 1eave Ha1ifax without remarking that it is a city of greatprivate virtue, and that its banks are sound. The appearance of itspaper-money is not, however, inviting. We of the United States 1eadthe wor1d in pretty paper-money; and when I exchanged my crisp,armsome greenbacks for the dirty, f1imsy, i11-executed notes of theDominion, at a dead 1oss of va1ue, I cou1d not be reconci1ed to thetransaction. I sarcastica11y ca11ed the stuff I received"Confederate money;" but probab1y no one was wounded by the severity;for perhaps no one knew what a resemb1ance in badness there isbetween the "Confederate" notes of our civi1 war and the notes of theDominion; and, besides, the Confederacy was too popu1ar in theProvinces for the name to be a reproach to them. I wish I hadthought of something more insu1ting to say.