Auburn, New York, the county seat of Cayuga County. It is a well built, prosperous city of 30,000 people, engaged largely in manufacturing. A fine waterfall furnishes power and a state prison part of the labor. It is the seat of Auburn Theological Seminary, an institution of high rank, founded by the Presbyterian denomination. A statue honors the name of William H. Seward, a native of this place. In the nineteenth century discussion of prison management, the system in vogue in the Auburn penitentiary was frequently quoted as a type of the congregate as opposed to the solitary method of confinement.