A UBALTERN'S FURLOUGH: DESCRIPTIVE OF SCENES IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES, 'PPER AND LOWER CANADA, NEW-BRUNSWICK, PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAP. I. PAGE Auburn Prison-Cayuga Lake-Ithaca-Falls-Violent CHAP. II. Seneca Lake-Fulton-Jemirna Wilkinson-Revolution- CHAP. III. Cross the Niagara--Chippewa Battle Ground--Old Squaw's CHAP. IV. Arrive at York-Emigrants, miserable Condition of- CHAP. V. Island of Montreal-St. Helen's-Cathedral-Convent- CHAP. VI. Descend the St. Lawrence-Pleasures and Miseries of a 1-12 13-27 28-46 47-60 61--73 74-94 Proceed down the St. John's-Improvements-Exported Timber-Falls of St. John-Bay of Fundy-Digby Strait--Annapolis-Second-hand Coach-Garrulous Old Woman-Cape Blow-me-down-Windsor College Races-Mason's Hall - Harbour-Citadel-College- Churches-Theatre-Prince's Lodge-Shubenacadie Fog rising-Eastport-Cool Shop-boy-St. Andrew's Light-house-Rough Sailor--Interesting discussion- Gale of Wind-Boston--Wallack--Discontented Yan- kee--Falls on the Spicket Creek-Six-in-hand-Con- Bartlett-Cold Weather-Notch of the White Moun- tains-Destruction of the Willey Family--Avalanches Wet Morning-Weather-bound Travellers-Old Man of the Mountain-Colonel and Road Surveyor-Montpe- lier - Green Mountains -- Burlington - Politicians- Murder of Miss M'Crae-Drunken Coachman--pas- sage of the Hudson-West Point--Military Academy The most pernicious infection, next the plague, is the smell of the jail, where prisoners have been long and close kept. BACON. HEARING that the board of health had issued an order that no visitors should be admitted into the prison until the cholera had subsided, a precaution taken in consequence of its having broken out in the Sing-Sing prison on the Hudson, we much feared that we should be dis. appointed in not attaining the object for which we had visited Auburn; fortunately, however, Mr. B. had introductory letters to Dr. Richards, president of the Theological Seminary, through whose interest we obtained an order for admittance at mid-day on the 7th of August. The prison is situated on the outskirts of the village, surrounded by a wall 2000 feet in extent, varying in height from 20 to 35 feet, according to the situation of the shops in which the convicts are employed. The cells where they are confined during the night have a singu. lar appearance (something like a large pigeon box, or |