The conversation was chiefly on subjects connected with our mission.

All spoke with great gratitude of the downfall of slavery.

It was not the slaves alone that were interested in that event.
Political oppression, prejudice, and licentiousness had combined greatly to degrade the colored community, but these evils were now gradually lessening, and would soon wholly disappear after the final extinction of slavery--the parent of them all.
Several facts were stated to show the great rise in the value of real estate since 1834.

In one instance a gentleman bought a sugar estate for nineteen thousand pounds sterling, and the very next year, after taking off a crop from which he realized a profit of three thousand pounds sterling, he sold the estate for thirty thousand pounds sterling.

It has frequently happened within two years that persons wishing to purchase estates would inquire the price of particular properties, and would hesitate to give what was demanded.