Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Crime, Steam-power, Technology, Exhibitions, Mechanics, Cultural Geography

    Discusses an extract from an article in the Albany Evening Journal which describes the punishment meted out to a deserter from the Yankee army. Draws attention to the Yankees' preference for the 'rack' and thinks the 'Federal Steam-Rack may be expected to figure in any considerable contribution which Yankeedoodledom may make to any future International Exhibition', the Yankees adapting 'steam, as a motive force, to all varieties of the more complicated machinery of torture'.