the re-election of Elon Galusha.  This was denied, but certain resolutions which had appeared in the public papers were appealed to in proof of the fact.  The inquiry becoming more searching, an expedient was resorted to, which, though quite novel to me, was, I am told, not unfrequently adopted when discussions assume a shape not quite satisfactory to the controlling powers of a synod.  It was proposed that they should pray, and then proceed at once to the ballot.  The ministers called upon were R. Fuller and Elon Galusha, who were considered to represent the opposite sides of the discussion.  The former individual is a large slave-holder, an influential leader in his denomination, and had canvassed and condemned Elon Galusha’s views and conduct in the public newspapers.  I must avow, this whole proceeding was little calculated to remove my objection to the practice of calling upon any individual to offer supplication in a public assembly.  After prayer had been offered, they proceeded to the ballot, and we left the meeting, deeply impressed with the profanation of employing the most solemn act of devotion to serve the exigencies of controversy.

In the evening I met a number of the anti-slavery members of the Convention, from whom I learned that the vote had excluded Elon Galusha and all other known abolitionists from official connection with the board, by an hundred and twenty-four to an hundred and seventeen, which being a much smaller majority than was expected, they considered the result a triumph rather than a defeat.

On the 1st of the 5th Month, (May) we returned to Wilmington, in Delaware, where we remained at the hospitable residence of our friend Samuel Hilles, till the 3d instant, and met a number of “Friends,” and others, who treated us with great kindness and hospitality, inspected one of the flour mills on the Brandywine river, and the process of drying Indian corn before it is ground; these are some of the oldest flour mills in the State.  A. large peach orchard of one of my friends in the neighborhood, was beautifully in bloom.  Great quantities of this delicious fruit are raised in Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland.  Here, as in other parts of the States, much money, has been lost by a silk, or rather mulberry tree, mania.  Young mulberry trees rose to a dollar and a quarter each, though they can be multiplied almost without limit in a single year.  As might have been expected, a re-action took place, many parties were ruined, and berry trees may now be had for the trouble of digging them up.

The number of slaves in this small State is now reduced to four or five thousand, and from all the information I could collect, I feel convinced that if those who are friendly to emancipation were to exert themselves, they would succeed, without much difficulty, in procuring the abolition of slavery within its limits.