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T!ie Late Rev- Joseph Hushes, and Rev. John
Fester, of England,
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Stapleton, Sept. 18, 1833.
In conveying a few sentences for the last
lime to my dear old friend, I wish to be al
lowed to say why such a token of affection
and sympathy is so late. Returning from
a long excursion in North Wales, very
near the tune of your removal to London, I
was surpised and grieved at the report of
your severely afflicted situation at Bath.
My impulse to go thither was repressed by
the information that no one was permitted
to see you. After hearing successive ac
counts, 1 wrote a few lines of inquiry to
Mr. Evil, and was answered that you had
just been removed to London, wi ha prom
ise of sending me the information they
should receive, which has been done. Du
ring the subsequent time I have withheld
lrom writing to you, partly by information
that your great weakness rendered every
unusual intervention painful to you ; and
partly by a report confidently affirming that
you had left this world. But at last? and
previously to receiving information yester
day, by a message from you, through the
hands of Mr. R. Cottlo, I had determined
to wiite to write to Mr. George, and put it
at his discretion whether to show you the
letter.
The thought of mv dear and ever faithful
friend, as now standing at the very verge
of life, has repeatedly carried me back iu
memory to the days of our youth, when
more than foity years since we were
brought into habitual society ; and the cor
dial esteem and attachment which have sur
vived undiminished through so long a lapse
of time and so much separation. Then we
sometimes conjectured, hut in vain, what
might be the course appointed us to run,
and how long and which might first come
to the termination. Now the fa- greater
part of that unknownappoinliiient has been
unfolded and accomplished.
I'O me a little stage further remains under
ilie darkness ; you, my dear friend, nave a
clear sight almost to the concluding point,
while I feel the deepest pensiveness in
• holding where you stand, with hut a step
between you and death, I cennot but em
phatically congratulate you. 1 have often
felt groat complacancy in your behalf, in
th t nig of the course through which Pro
vidence has led you,—complacency in re
o'.-id to the great purpose of life, its im
provements, its usefulness, and its disci
!*lim and preparation fora better world.—
V .1 arc, 1 ant sure, grateful to the Sover-
‘*c,poser in the review of it. You
’ the happiness of faithfully and
perfuming a great and good ser
i I can rejoice to think that your
i. occompUshud, will, an Umnhln volt.
<i nee that the Master will say, “ Well
io thou good and faithful servant,” while
yon will gratefully exult in ascribit.g all to
his own sovereign mercy in Jesus Christ.
Hut oh, my dear friend, whither is it that
you are going ? Where is it that you will
be a few short weeks, or days hence? I
have affecting cause to think and to wonder
concerning that unseen world; to desire,
were it permitted to mortals, one glimpse
ol that mysterious economy—to ask innu
merable questions, to which there is no an
swer. What is the manner of existence—
of remembrance—of employment—of so
ciety—of anticipation—of all the surround
ing revelations to our departed ? Ilow
striking to think that she, so long and so re
cently with me, —here sO beloved, but now
so totally withdrawn and absent, —that she
experimentally knows all that 1 am in vain
inquiring I
And a little while lienee you, my friend,
will be an object ol the same solemn med
itation and wondering inquiries. It is most
striking to consider, —to realize the idea,—
that you, to whom I am writing these lines,
who continue yet among mortals, who are
on this side of the awful and mysterious
veil,—that you will be in the inidstof those
grand realities; beholding the marvellous
manifestation, amazed and transported at
your new ’and happy condition of exis
tence—while your friends are feeling the
pensiveness of your absolute and final ab
sence, and thinking how, blit just now as
it were, you were with them. Hut we
must follow you to see what it is that the
emancipated spit its who have obtained their
triumph over death and all evil through the
blood'ol the Lamb, find awaiting them in
that nobler and happier realm of the Great I
Master’s empire ; and I hope that your re- j
moval will he to your other friends, and to
me, a strong additional excitement, to ren
der ourselves with more zeal to the grand
business of our high calling.
It is a delightful thing to be assured, on
the authority of revelation, of the perfect:
consciousness, the intensely awakened fac
ulties, and all the capacities and causes of
felicity of the Inithlul in that mysterious
s.-parale state ; and on the same evidence,
together with every other rational proba
bility, to be confident of the re-union of
those who have loved one another and their
Lord oil eattli.
Ilow gloomy beyond all expression were
a contrary anticipation. My friend feels in
this concluding day of his sojourn on earth,
the infinite value of that blessed faith which
confides alone in the great sacrifice for sin ;
the sole medium of pardon and reconcile
ment, and the ground of immortal hope:
this has always been to you the very vitali
ty of the Christian religion ; and it is so—it
is emphatically so to tne. I trust you will
be mercifully supported—the heart serene ;
and if it may he, the bodily pain mitigated,
during ‘to remaining bouts, and the still
• k ■ akness of this mortal frame; and
! w v. ish for you also, ami in cotnpas
•■f;’ i 1 the feelings of your attendant rela
■ ■■•>. it you may be favored so far as to
•tv title dismission ; but its to this you
mhlv say, “Thy will be done.” I
know that 1 shall partake of your kindest
wishss, and remembrance iu your prayers,
—the few more prayers you have yet to of
fer before you go.
When I mBV follow you, and I earnestly
hope rejoin you iu a far better world, must
he left to a decision that cannot at the most
be very remote, for yesterday completed
my 03rd year. I deplore J’before God my
not having lived more devoutly to his ser
vice i and do fervently pray for the aid es
the Spirit, to make whatever of my lile
may remain, much more effectually true to
that purpose than all the preceding.
But you, my friend, have accomplished
your business—your Lord’s business on
earth. Go then, willing and delighted at
his call.
Here I conclude with an affecting and so
lemn consciousness lam now speaking to
you for the last time in this world. Adieu!
then, my ever dear and faithful friend.—
Adieu for awhile! May 1 meet yon ere
long where we shall never more say fare
well t J. Foster.
From the Neu> Fork ‘Fribune.
The Case of Bishop Ondcrdonk, of New York
—His Conviction.
Bishop Ondcrdonk was pronounced guil
ty on Thursday on the charges of immoral
conduct which had been preferred against
him—charges, which it is well understood,
relate to alleged improprieties in his inter
course with females. The vote in the
House of Bishops stood as follows:
For conviction— Bishops, Easthurn of
Massachusetts, 1 fopkins of Vermont, Hen.
sliaw of Rhode Island, Brownell of Con
necticut, Lee of Delaware, Mcllvane of
Ohio; Chase of Illinois, Johns of Virginia;
Smith ol Kentucky, Freeman of Arkan
sas, Polk of Louisiana—ll.
Opposed to conviction —Biskpp Delascy
of Western New York, Doane of New
Jersey, Willingham of Maryland* Ives of
North Carolina, Cadsden of South Caroli
na, Kemper, Missionary Bishop—o.
II lo the eleven votes in the negative be
added those of the three presenting Bish
op, viz; Bishop Meade of Va., Bishop
Oley of Tennessee, and Bishop Elliot of
Georgia—who, from the fact of consenting
lo present Bishop Ondcrdonk, must be as
sumed to have believed him guilty, but
who, as presenters, had no vote oil the
question of guilt or innocence—it makes
an array of 14 to 6, of the House of Bish
ops, against their delinquent brother.
Yesterday the Court assembled to pass
sentence. The Court refused to dispose
the Bishop, lint determined lo suspend him
by a vole of 9 to 8; the five Bishops in the
minoiity voting for suspension, and the 8
who voted against it, doing so probably be
cause they were in favor of the higher pen
alty.
Whether any steps have been taken by
the Hislinp or his friends to set aside this
verdict, or whethci such a thing is possible
on any constitutional grounds, we are not
informed. His friends, we understand,
view the result with great dissatisfaction,
and it is expected that all the proceedings
of the eottrl and the evidence in the case
will be made public.
The same paper of the Gilt says:—
The painful result of the recent trial of
Hislinp Ondeidotik on charges affecting his
moral character lias already been announc
ed. The following is a copy of the offi
cial record of the sentence :
Official Sentence in the Case of II is hop
Onderdonlc —The Court of Hishops of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, convened
under the authority of Canon 111. of 1844,
ol the General Convention of said Church,
lor the trial of the presentment of the Right
Reverend Benjamin Tredwcll Oiiderdonk,
Hislinp of the Diocese of New York, by the
Right Reverend William Meade, Hisltopof
the Diocese of Virginia, the Right Rever
end James I lervey Oley, Bishop of the
Diocese ol Tennessee, and the Right Rev-
erend Stephen Elliott. Junior, Hisltopof
the Diocese ol Georgia, upon certain char
ges ami specifications in said piesemment
set lortli—having folly heard the allegations
and testimonies of the parties, anil deliber
ately considered the same, and a majority
ol the said Court having declared that in
their opinion the accused is guilty of cer
tain ol tlie charges and specifications con
tained in the presentment, which declara
tion ol a majority of the Coutt has been re
duced to writing, and signed by those who
assented thereto, and has been pronounced
in the presence of the parties ; and the
Court having proceeded, after hearing the
accused, to pass sentence upon the accused
in accordance with the provisions of said
Canon, and having determined that the
penalty to the ntlixed and pronounced in
| said case shall be that of suspension.
It is hereby ordered and declared that
the sentence ol this Court upon the respon
dent, is suspension from the office of a
Bishop in the Church of God, and from all
the functions of the sacred ministry; and
tins Court do hereby solemnly pronounce
| and declare that the Right Reverend Benja
min I redwell Onderdnnk is suspended
iron) all exercise ol his Episcopal and min
isterial functions ; and do order that the
notice of this sentence, required by said
Canon, be communicated by the Presiding
Bishop, under his hand and seal, to the ec
clesiastical authority of every Diocese ol
this Church.
f Given under my hand and seal
O al -] q this the 3d day of January, A. D.
{_ 1845.
. . Philander Chase, Senior Bishop,
and President of the Court.
1 lie presentment contained eight speci
fications, on six of which the accused was
tound guilty. One of the remaining two
was not tried, the witness, a lady, refusing
to testily ; and on the other tlieie was a
verdict of acquittal. Before the sentence
was passed, the Bishop appeared and ad
dressed the t’ourt. We understand he did
not deny the substantial facts alleged against
him, but pleaded innocence of any immo
ral or impute iulentions.
In evil things, Satan sopaiatcs the end
from the means: in good things, the
means from the end.— P. Henry.
From the Watchman of the South. I
Great Men of Geneva.
Rosseau. —Jean Jacques Rosseau is in
teresting only in a literary view. He it
not an ohject of complacency. His memo
ry is not without scattered spices of taste,
but it wants the full embalming process
which Piety alone can perform. He im
planted in the Freuch language a power up
known to it before, and made it the vehicle
of eloquent sentiment, and this was unques
tionably a high mental achievement. His
conception of natural scenery was refined
and mercurial, and he drew from the lace
of many landscapes the veil by which tbpir
objects are concealed from ordinary mtn.
Geneva, without doubt, owes him something
(or the glowing descriptions which may be
found in his works of its environs—its lake
—its castles—its glaciers—ilscottages pish
ed among the clouds—its noisy catarqcis,
and the thunder of each Alpine avalanche.
No writer was ever more at home antong
the wildest scenes or the softest tints ofSa
lure. But from this praise n large detec
tion must be made arising from his lowand
vicious propensiiies, his incongruities which
were numerous, and his attempts to'con
vulse society without having pondered the
substitute by which old forms were to be
supplanted.—The question has often been
asked, whut was (he leligion of this singu
lar man? It’s difficult to say. He was,
at limes, a Catholic, and then a Protestant,
but neither long. He was an exemplifica
tion, perhaps, of what we mean by the reli
gion of sentiment, without a heart to feel
the importance of Revelation, or u neck for
its yoke. That he derived exquisite plea
sure from the natural world is certain, be
cause emotions of this kind are conveyed in
his works. He loved to muse on browsing
herds, or to witness the gladness 01’the bou-
. quetin, or look on vines which human dili
gence had curled about the neck and head
of the Alpine rock. But in his system of
religion atonement was annihilated, and sin
was to be allowed an unrestrained indul
gence, and from sin resulted most of the
misfortunes to which he was exposed. He
was not cold and calculating like Hume,
but ardent, impetuous and brilliant, and had
his mind only revolved in a mornl instead
of a lawless orbit, he would have thrown
over Geneva a warmer coloring, so far as
the imagination is concerned, than it has
received from nnv other source.
Voltaire. —Voltaire lived in tbo imme
diate vicinity of Geneva, and we regret thut
he should ever have been so contiguous to
that sacred town, lie occupied his house
at the villa ofFernoy, on the French terri
tory, after his return from Potsdam, where
he fell out with Frederic the Great, King of
Prussia. He is not a favotile of mine, for
he had some of the qualities which distin
guish the Swiss Fox. He was artful, con
ceited and excessively litigious. He was
not more than a second rale Poet, and n
third rale Historian. He was popular as a
Dramatist, but every half scholar knows
that the Dramatic taste of the French is ex
ceedingly corrupt. He was a man of some
wit, and be used to call Geneva a tumbler
of strife, and threaten that he would shake
his powdered wig over the little Republic,
which was rather tin impudent speech. He
was a profane, wicked, profligate being,
who spent bis life in devouring the incense
o! flattery. He had not even the religion
of sentiment, which every Poet, bv bis vo
cation, is supposed to possess. Rousseau
•spoke more highly of the Saviour than Dr.
Priestly of Northumberland, or Channiog
of Boston; but Voltaire reviled that adora
ble Personage. Rousseau read the New
Testament, but io the other the Bible would
have been an unintelligible labyrinth like
that of Crete or Lemnos. Rousseau, when
dying, ordered himself to be carried where
he could see the setting sun ; but Voltaire
kept dark, mewing for a priest, that he
might be touched for his moral king’s evil,
and sprinkled with holy water. He was
foremost in the retinue of Satan whilst liv
ing, but manufactured into a saint, when
dying, bv the craft of Popish priests.
Bonnet. —Bonnet was a citizen of Gene
vn, but we do not recollect ever reading but
one work from his pen, nr.d that was his
Inquiry into the Evidences of Revealed Re.
ligion. This, in some respects, is a good
book ; but we fear that its author had em
braced the Unitarian creed, which is a creed
remarkable for its shallowness. There is
a class of men who take mitigated views of
Christianity, and to this class Bonnet be
longed. To the same belong a large num
ber of English Bishops, whose names it is
not necessary to specify. The error of
these men lies in their not taking sufficient
ly profound views of sin, and consequently
their views of the atonement are superficial.
We should have been glad, however, if a
medal ol Sismondi had been among the
number that you sent. He was a resident
of the Genevese territory till the last years
of his life, when he removed to his Tuscan
villa. Sismondi was a polite scholar, and
an elegant historian, and his taste was close
ly allied in my view to that ot Roscoe of
Liverpool. His work on the Literature of
the South of Europe has furnished to many
an intellectual repast. He has portrayed,
in sombre colors, the begging to which Ca
moens was reduced—the exile of Dante—
the misfortunes ofTasso, and that Platonic
passion by which the half cracked Petrach
was consumed.
One way to become Happy. —An oflicer
in the East India Company’s military ser
vice, has presented to the Scotch India
Mission, in connexion with the Free Church,
upwards of $13,000, and, in making this
munificent gift, he remarked :—“ I thank
the Lord, that, from the hour he pvt it into
my heart to place this money at your dispo
sal for a mission in these parts, I have had
much peace of mind. I was assured that
the desire came from God ; and. his grace
has supported me throughout, and enables
me to say, “ All things come of thee, O !
Lord, and of thine own have I given
thee.”
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the Mercer University, a part of the lands,
belonging to said Institution, consisting of
town lots for building, wood lots for timber,
and fields for cultivation, with a portion ol
timber annexed to each, will be offered for
sale on the 30th of this month. The fields
vary in size from 15 to 40 acres.
Several other fields, on a different part of
the premises, will be rented, if the Steward
of the Institution shall not have disposed of
them previously.
Terms of sale will be 12 months credit,
with notes and approved security, and in
terest from the day of sale.
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LAW BLANKS,
Printed at short notice, at this Office.
LAGRANGE FEMALE SEMINARY.
This Institution will be opened the ensu
ing year under the tuition of four Instruc
tors. The Principal has associated wal
him none but those possessing ample quith
ideations in their respective departments.—
He is gratified also to state that no change
is contemplated in their situation ; for the
want of uniformity in modes of discipline
and instruction, arising from a change of
teachers, is of incalculable advantage.
ORGANIZATION*
The Institution wiil be divided into Four
Classes, besides the Preparatory Depart
ment, Foi admission into the Fourth
Class, a general knowledge ol Geography,
and of the fundamental rules of Arithmetic,
will be required ; and to enter any of the
higher Classes, a proportional advancement!
■Jn the Preparatory Department, pupils can
be qualified for any of the Classes. A term
ol one scholastic year is necessary to com
plete the studies of each Class ; at the ex
amination of which time, all who pass art
approved examination, will be admitted t
the next higher.
Studies of the 4th Class —Spellings
Reading, Writing, Geography, Mental A’
ritlimenc, English Giammai, Exercises it)
Composition, Historical Reading.
Os the 3rd Class —Spelling, Readings
Writing, Grammar, Arithmetic
Algebra commenced. Ancient and Modern
Geography, use of the Globe, History,
Composition.
Junior Class —Reading, Spelling, Wri
ting, Algebra concluded, Geometry, (.'hem”
istry, Botany, History, Rhetoric, Natural
Philosophy, Parsing in the Poets, Compo
sition.
Senior Class —Evidences of Christian
ity, moral and mental Philosophy, Astron
omy, Mineralogy, Geology, Logic, Com
position.
Ancient and Modern Languages will be
taught to any who desire to pursue them,
and will rank as studies of the Junior and
Senior Class.
A certificate of graduation will be given
at the expiration of the Senior year.
TERNS.
The Scholastic year consists of a term of
ten months. No deduction is made for ab
sence, unless from Providential causes.
Literary Depaitment, Junior and
Senior Classes, SSO 00
Thud and Fourth Classes, 35 00
Preparatory Deportment, 20 00
Instrumental Music, 50 00
Vocal Music, 5 00
Drawing, Embroidery, Fancy
Work, &c. ‘ 20 00
Contingent expenses,sl—Library
fee, sl, 2 00
Board and Washing, (lights excepted,)
$lO per month.
The importance of a systematic course
of study, must be 100 obvious to any one
acquainted with the work us education, to
require argument. Such a system is essen
tial to progressive strength and maturity of
i mind.
We cannot 100 strongly urge the impor
tance of punctuality and regularity In the
attendance of pupils. Many have but little
idea of the evils consequent upon occasion
al absence from sc bool. We hope that Pa
rents and Guardians will give due weight
to this matter.
The exercises of this Institution will
hereafter be resumed oil the First Monday
in February. This arrangement is made
for the accommodation of persons from a
distance, as the month of January is a bu
siness season, and generally the most un
pleasant.
It is desirable that all should be present
at the beginning of the term. Taidmcss in
this is productive of much injury to the pu
pil. It also disorganizes and r tards the
classes, and greatly increases the labors of
the Instructors.
We leel assured that agcncral attendance
upon parties, and other places of amuse
ment, is inconsistent with a successful pros
ecution of our proposed system of study.
We do not hold ourselves responsible for
the education of those who indulge in these
pleasures. Patrons from a distance may
feel satisfied that such gratifications will be
brought under judicious restrictions.
The expenses of Pupils from abroad, will
be regulated to any degree which the par
ent may desire. We recommend that par
ents and guardians will forbid the contract
ing of debts by their children or warns, as
it leads to much unnecessary expenditure,
and the formation of extravagant habits.
An extensive and well-selected Library
has recently been procured, containing
works adapted to every capacity. The
importance of cultivating a taste for Read
ing, need not be urged. Yet none but the
Teacher is acquainted with the radical de
ficiency in this respect, which generally
prevails in the education of our youth.—
The large mass, unsupplied with the facil
ities, either acquire an aversion to reading,
ot (left to their own choice) form a vitiated
taste. By providing them with appropri
ate wotks, we hope to give direction to
their reading, and thut, in some measure,
remedy this evil. No efforts will be want
ing on|the part of the Instructors (p render
the Jjibrary interesting and instructive to
every pupil. The Readingroom will be
supplied with select Periodicals of the day.
The annual fee will be appropriated to th
increase of the Library.
An excellent Apparatus has also beer#
purchased, iilustiativc of all the branches
of science, The public may feel assured?
that neither pains nor expense will be spar
ed in furthering the education, moral ants
intellectual, ofall connected with the School.
The annual examination of the pupils of
this Institution will take place on the last
three days of the Scholastic year. It is an
established regulation that no pupil is per
mitted to leave until the exercises of the
last evening of the examination are concla
ded.”
INSTRUCTORS :
Milton E. Bacon, A. AJ-. Principal
Mrs. M. L. Bacon, ? ,
Mrs. A. T. Deering, $ Assoc,ates ’
Mr. Charles D. Weeden, Instructor of
Vocal and Instrumental Music.