Since he has lived in Kentucky, over two hundred, which you know is over fifty per year.  From Maysville I crossed the river through the Sciota region, by the way of Portsmouth, then to Chillicothe; from there on to Zanesville, from there to Wheeling, and then to Washington, Pennsylvania; returned to Wheeling, then to Parkersburgh.  I did not call at Marietta; there has some difficulty taken place in that region.  From Parkersburgh to Charleston, Kanhaway, with but little delay.  Our saline friends are great dealers in “coney.”  I met twenty-six in one day at the old “Col.”  He is doing his work clean, without any risk.  There are, he tells me, upon an average, five horses sold per week from Sandy among the friends of the trade.  I left Charleston; had a tedious journey to this city.  Lexington is a humane place, but dangerous to move, unless you do it through some of the old wealthy friends of the trade.  I must now say to you that I have done well in my small way.  I have cleared over two hundred per month.  I found our friend, of the Blue Lick region, who tells me the house trade is good along the road; that the coloured boys do it all, and are not suspected. (In speaking of the house trade, he had reference to the entering of houses by the slaves, pillaging, &c., which would be laid to white men.) Well, now, I am through with my travels for the present.  Let me give you some little of the history of our Dearborn brother, which I assure you is novel.  I told you he would never do, and I suppose, ere this, you have found I was right.  I cannot be fooled easy.  You thought that from the simple fact that he traded in horses well, (meaning that he stole horses well,) that he would not fail to be useful anywhere I wished to place him; but he returned home, I suppose you discover, without a dollar, and made sixty the first night we arrived in Cincinnati, off of a cheese trader that slept in the adjoining room.  He wanted to return the next day to the burgh, but I prevailed upon him to stop, as suspicion rested not upon us.  He remained according to my request, and I never have come across such an industrious man; but he had not much courage, less than any man of his age I ever met, and not one particle of judgment in human nature.  When we arrived, I cautioned him about trading with any of the brethren of the city without my consent, knowing, as I did, the city brethren were “celish;” however, he assured me his trade was “bogus;” that you had supplied him with cut quarters, which no other person dare offer, and that he had done well even with them. (Cut money was, at an early date, used as change; one dollar cut in four pieces answered as twenty-five cents each.) I found he was bent on the “bogus” trade, and I told him to hold on a few days, and that I would assist him to some; that I had not the first dollar, but would find out through the brethren when I returned from our friend’s in the country—­nine miles.  I then left him at the boarding-house, and promised to return