On the twelfth, our whole party left for Buffalo, by railway, getting a transient view of Lake Ontario before entering the city.  Here we parted company, they proceeding to Toronto, by steam packet, and I to Syracuse by coach.  The American vehicle of this name, carries nine inside passengers on three cross seats.  It is hung on leather springs, so as to be fitted to maintain the shocks of a corduroy road.  Wishing to see the country, I mounted the box, by the side of the coachman, but at times had some difficulty in retaining my seat.  The value of land in this part of the country, when cleared and in cultivation, I understood to be from thirty to fifty dollars per acre.  A large breadth of wheat is grown, of which the yield is generally good; but this year there will be, in many cases, a short crop, from the extreme drought in the two preceding months.  I went forward from Syracuse to Rochester by railway, and thence, with the exception of twelve miles by coach, by the same conveyance to Auburn, where we arrived at two o’clock in the morning.  One of my fellow-passengers had been a soldier in the so-called “patriot” army, which enlisted against Santa Anna, in the revolt of Texas.  He stated, that some planters were emigrating from Mississippi, with as many as two hundred “hands,” (slaves,) and plainly said, it was intended to plant the Anglo-Saxon flag on the walls of Mexico.  If half what he asserted was true, the worst apprehensions of the abolitionists are too likely to be realized by the Texian revolution, and the establishment of a new slave-holding power on the vast territory claimed by that piratical band of robbers, and forming the South-western frontier of the United States.

At Auburn I paid a visit to the celebrated State Prison, and though, from want of time to call upon a gentleman in the city for whom I had a letter, I was unprovided with an introduction, I was politely admitted by the superintendent, who refused to receive the fee customarily paid by visitors, when he found, from the entry of my name and address, I was an Englishman.  I passed through the different workshops, in which nearly all handicraft trades are carried on, and very superior work is frequently executed by the prisoners.  Besides other less complicated machines, one complete locomotive engine has been constructed within these walls.  As the system of discipline adopted here is the same as at Sing Sing, also in this State, I defer for the present, any remarks upon its character and success.

I left Auburn, in a hired carriage, for Skaneateles, to pay a visit to my friend, James Cannings Fuller.  He has a rich farm of 156 acres, with a good house upon it, about a quarter of a mile west of the large and flourishing village of Skaneateles, which overlooks a beautiful lake of the same name, sixteen miles in length, and in some places two miles wide.  James C. Fuller left England about seven years ago, and has carried his abolition principles with him to his adopted