them religious instruction, by reading and other, means, such as he apprehended were suited to their state, and which included a pause for "feeling after God." Under a deep sense of the evils resulting from the drinking of intoxicating liquors, he also laboured, both by example and precept, to promote abstinence from them, sometimes holding meetings in the school-room for this purpose. He had the comfort of believing that these simple labours in the fear of the Lord, were made a blessing to many; their good effect upon several who had been his pupils continued to be obvious after they left the school. us." In referring to their labours from time to time, he made acknowledgments such as, "We desire to feel thankful to our Heavenly Father, who has condescended hitherto to help us, and to be with "We cannot but express our thankfulness to that Almighty Being, who has condescended to be our help and our stay." "In endeavouring to arrest the progress of vice among the children, we have felt ourselves placed in a most responsible situation; and nothing could have sustained us, but having our sole reliance and confidence in the Lord." And in describing his interest on behalf of his charge in 1846, he wrote, "We still claim the sympathy and prayers of our dear friends, not only on our own account, but also for the future welfare of the dear children placed under our care." them; but said he had no concern upon his FRIENDS' SCHOOL, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA. Established 22nd of Seventh month, 1840. In reporting at the present time the state upon of the Friends' School at Cape Town, the loss this institution has sustained by the decease of Richard Jennings, comes prominently into view. The period of his decease was the close of the midsummer vacation: and the school was re-opened by his widow and daughter, on the 24th of First Since his decease some of the children say they month, sixty children attending. The assistance sometimes peeped in at the library window, after of a young man who had been a pupil in the school, and saw him at prayer. And at a pre-school was obtained for a time, and sometimes vious period, after Dr. Philip had visited the school, he wrote, saying, "From the character and labour of Richard Jennings and his wife, I think they must prove a blessing to the district in which they are situated. I was pleased with the intellectual attainments of the children; but there was something that might be termed the spirit of the school, that pleased me most of all; their whole appearance, their manner, their subdued looks, showed that the instruction they had received had benefitted their hearts, even more than their heads." The health of Richard Jennings not being good at the time of the vacation in Twelfth month, 1847, he went, in the hope of improvement, with his family to Rondebosch, a village a few miles from Cape Town, and rather less exposed to great heat in the summer months than the latter place. He was more unwell on the 16th of the First month, 1848, and signified to his wife some doubt as to how his sickness would end. On her replying, "We must leave it to our Heavenly Father," he said, "I can, I can." Feeling better on the following morning, he went to Cape Town, and in the evening on returning, said he felt well, and spoke with interest of two girls whom he expected to become pupils in the school. Before night he was taken more seriously ill, and on the following morning, he informed his wife that he believed he was going to leave the attendance within the year has reached sixtyfive. From the circumstances of the parents, some of the children rarely attend more than once a day. The elder boys have generally gone to other schools; and the average attendance is now fifteen boys of the younger class, and thirty girls, although 128 names are on the list: thirtyfive are the offspring of coloured parents, some of whom are of the lowest class, and the education of their children, previous to their coming to the school, had been entirely neglected. Eleven of the pupils have received Bibles, and two, Testaments, within the past year. Each child that can read is expected to repeat a portion of Scripture once a week, and they appear to take an interest in this part of their instruction. Sixty volumes have been lent the children out of the library. Seventeen write in copy-books. Most of the others write on slates. Sixteen are in arithmetic, from the simplest rules to practice. Grammar and geography are attended to by reading and questioning. The girls are instructed in sewing, eight hours in the week. From twelve to twenty attend the First-day morning readingmeeting, and from thirty to fifty that in the afternoon. About twenty attend places of public worship; the parents of some of the remainder are Mahomedans, and others make little or no profession of religion. There is a marked improvement in the order, obedience and truthful ness of the children, when they have been a short, one of the highest, most rugged, and impracticatime in the school. In the absence of application from any Friend who might have the needful qualification for such a work, and feel so bound to it as to give promise of diligent application to it, in the fear of the Lord, it has hitherto been thought best to continue the school, under the care of Mary Jennings and her daughter; but should no suitable person be found for this office, the question of permanently continuing the school will require serious consideration. In the circumstances of Mary Jennings and her family, it has been found needful, for the past year, to continue the salary which she and her husband had jointly. It will be seen by the foregoing statement, that the contributions of Friends are still required; they were due on the 1st of Second month, 1849, and may be sent to ELIZABETH BACKHOUSE, Micklegate, York.-London Friend. York, Second month 12th, 1849. COLONEL FREMONT AND HIS EXPEDITION. The National Intelligencer publishes a letter from Colonel Fremont to his wife, giving an account of his sufferings. It will be seen that they exceed the accounts previously given in their terrible details. The Intelligencer adds that bad as it is, what is to follow in the next letter, is worse. This first letter is dated Taos, New Mexico, January 27th. "Former letters will have made you acquainted with our progress as far as Bent's Fort, and, from report, you will have heard the circumstances of our departure from the Upper Pueblo, near the head of the Arkansas. We left that place on the 25th of November with upwards of one hundred good mules and one hundred and thirty bushels of shelled corn, intended to support our animals in the deep snows of the high mountains and down to the lower parts of the Grand river* tributaries, where usually the snow forms no obstacle to winter travelling. At Pueblo I had engaged as a guide an old trapper, well known as "Bill Williams," and who had spent some twenty-five years of his life in trapping in various parts of the Rocky Mountains." "The error of our expedition was committed in engaging this man. He proved never to have known, or entirely to have forgotten, the whole country through which we were to pass. We occupied (after passing the mountain) more than half a month in making the progress of a few days, blundering along a tortuous course, through deep snow, which already began to choke up the passes, and wasting our time in searching the way. The 11th of December we found ourselves at the mouth of the Rio del Norte canon, where that river issues from the Sierra San Juan A fork of the Colorado of the Gulf of California. ble of all the Rocky Mountain ranges, inaccessible to trappers and hunters, even in summer. Across the point of this elevated range our guide conducted us, and having still great confidence in this man's knowledge, we pressed onwards with fatal resolution. Even along the river bottoms the snow was already breast deep for the mules, and falling frequently in the valley and almost constantly on the mountains. The cold was extraordinary. At the warmest hours of the day (between one and two) the thermometer (Fahrenheit) stood, in the shade of a tree trunk, at zero; and that was a favourable day, the sun shining and a moderate breeze. Judge of the nights and the storms! "We pressed up towards the summit, the snow deepening as we rose, and in four or five days of this struggling and climbing, all on foot, we reached the naked ridges which lie above the line of the timbered region, and which form the dividing heights between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. On our first attempt to cross we encountered a pouderie-(dry snow driven thick through the air by violent wind, and in which objects are visible only at a short distance)-and were driven back, having some ten or twelve men variously frozen-face, hands or feet. Meantime it snowed steadily. The next day we renewed the attempt to scale the summit, and were more fortunate, as it then seemed. Making mauls, and beating down a road, or trench through the deep snow, we forced the ascent in defiance of the driving pouderie, crossed the crest, descended a little, and encamped immediately below in the edge of the timbered region. The trail showed as if a defeated party had passed by-packs, pack saddles, scattered articles of clothing, and dead mules strewed along. We were encamped about twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea. Westward the country was buried in snow. The storm continued. movement was paralyzed. To advance with the expedition was impossible; to get back, impossible. Our fate stood revealed. We were overtaken by sudden and inevitable ruin. The poor animals were to go first. The only places where grass could be had were the extreme summits of the Sierra, where the sweeping winds kept the rocky ground bare, and where the men could not live." Below, in the timbered region, the poor animals could not get about, the snow being deep enough to bury them alive. It was instantly apparent that we should lose every one. All "I took my resolution immediately, and determined to recross the mountain back to the valley of the Rio del Norte, dragging or packing the baggage by men. With great labour the baggage was transported across the crest to the head springs of a little stream leading to the main river. A few days were sufficient to destroy that fine band of mules which you saw me purchase last fall on the frontier of Missouri. They generally kept huddled together; and, as they froze, one would be seen to tumble down, and disappear under the driving snow. recognise Creutzfeldt's features, when Brackenridge brought him and told me his name. They had been starving! King had starved to death a few days before. By aid of the Indian horses we carried these three with us, down to the valley, to the Pueblo on the Little Colorado, which we reached the fourth day afterwards, the tenth after leaving the camp on the mountains-having travelled through snow, and on foot, one hundred and sixty miles. "In this situatinn I determined to send in a party to the Spanish settlements of New Mexico for provisions, and for mules to transport our baggage. With economy, and after we should leave the mules, we had not two weeks' provisions in the camp; and these consisted of a reserve of maccaroni, bacon, sugar, &c., intended for the last extremity. It was indispensable to send for "I look upon the feeling which induced me to relief. I asked for volunteers for the service. set out from the camp as an inspiration. Had I From the many that offered I chose King, Brack-remained there, waiting the return of poor King's enridge, Creutzfeldt, and the guide, Williams, and party, every man of us must have perished. placed the party under the command of King, with directions to send me an express in case of the least delay at the settlements. It was the day after Christmas that this little party set out for relief. "The party for relief being gone, we of the camp occupied ourselves in removing the baggage and equipage down the side of the mountain to the river in the valley, which we accomplished in a few days. "Sixteen days passed away, and no tidings from the party sent for relief. I became oppressed with anxiety, weary of delay, and determined to go myself, both in search of the absent party, and in search of relief in the Mexican settlements. Leaving the camp employed with the baggage, under the command of Vincenthaler, with injunctions to follow me in three days, I set off down the river with a small party, consisting of Godey, his young nephew, Preuss, and Saunders, coloured servant. We carried our arms and provisions for two or three days. In the camp, left under the command of Vincenthaler, the messes only had provisions for a few meals, and a supply of five pounds of sugar to each man. "The morning after reaching the Little Colorado Pueblo, (horses and supplies not being there,) Godey and I rode on to the Rio Hondo, and thence to Taos, about twenty-five miles, where we found what we needed; and the next morning Godey, with four Mexicans, thirty horses or mules, and provisions, set out on his return to the relief of Vincenthaler's party. I heard from him at the Little Colorado Pueblo, which he reached the same day he left me, and pressed on the next morning. On the way he received an accession of eight or ten horses turned over to him by the orders of Major Beall, of the army, commanding officer of this northern district of New Mexico. From him I received the offer of every aid in his power, and such actual assistance as he was able to render. Some horses, which he had just recovered from the Utahs, were loaned to me, and he supplied me from the commissary's department with provisions, which I could have had nowhere else. Monday, January 29.-No news from Godey. A great deal of falling weather-rain and sleet here-snow in the mountains. "I am anxiously waiting to hear from my party, and in much uneasiness as to their fate. My presence kept them together and quiet: my absence may have had a bad effect. When we overtook King's famishing party, Brackenridge said to me he felt himself safe." A FEMALE COMMITTED FOR REFUSING TO TAKE On the fifth day, after leaving the camp, we surprised an Indian on the ice of the river. He proved to be a Utah, son of a Grand River chief whom we had formerly known, and he behaved towards us in a friendly manner. We encamped near them at night. By a present of a rifle, my two blankets and other promised rewards when we should get in, I prevailed on this Indian to go with us as a guide to the Little Rio Colorado settlement, and to take with him four of his horses At Exeter Assizes, on Tuesday, before Justice to carry our little baggage. The horses were Williams, a woman who was called as witness in miserably poor, and could only get along at a slow a case, refused to be sworn to give evidence before walk. On the next day, the sixth of our pro- the grand jury. The Judge: What is your gress, we left the Indian lodges late, and travelled reason? Witness: I think it wrong. The Judge: some six or seven miles. About sunset we dis- Do you belong to any particular sect? Witness: covered a little smoke, in a grove of timber, off No; I belong to the Church of England. The from the river, and, thinking perhaps it might be Judge: Do you believe in the articles of our reour express party, King and his men, on their ligion? Witness: Yes. The Judge: Then you return, we went to see. This was the twenty-read your Prayer Book? The Witness: I read second day since that party had left us, and the the Bible, Matt. v. The Judge: You must be sixth since we had left the camp under Vincen- sworn. Witness: What is the penalty for rethaler. We found them-three of them; Creutz-fusing? The Judge: Imprisonment. Witness: feldt, Brackenridge, and Williams-the most Then I must submit to the penalty. It was very miserable objects I had ever beheld. I did not foolish; but having thought of it, I can't help it. with the frailties of humanity, and experience diversities of growth, some varieties of opinion, even on points of acknowledged importance, may be reasonably expected; yet the true church, however constituted, and wherever located, is essentially one and undivided. Justice Williams having consulted Lord Denman, of unity, he must sincerely regret the appearance again addressed the witness. The Judge: I will of discord in any part of our beloved and highlygive you an hour to consider of it, and during favoured society; and gladly would he exercise his that time I recommend you to read the articles influence, however small it must necessarily be, to of the Church to which you belong. If, having restore and establish the harmony of the body, on a done that, you persist in your determination, I have no alternative but to commit you to prison. permanent basis. While we continue surrounded Witness: The hour will be of no use. I am very sorry for it.-Judge: So am I. The matter then stood over, and it was understood that a clergyman was sent for to see the woman, and talk to her. At a subsequent part of the day the witness was again called forward. The Judge: I understand you have seen a clergyman? Witness: I have. The Judge: You are a member of the Church of England? Witness: I am. The Judge: Are you aware that the bishops and clergy of your Church feel no scruple in taking the oath? Witness: I am. The Judge: Why have you scruples? Witness: Because I have seen it in the Bible. The Judge: Then you must take her into custody, and take her to the county gaol. I have no alternative. The witness, Mrs. Watson, a respectable married woman, was then taken into custody.-Leeds Mercury. FRIENDS' REVIEW. PHILADELPHIA, FOURTH MONTH 28, 1849. In the condition of our religious Society at the present time, there can be no doubt that our distant subscribers will be anxious to learn what proceedings took place at the Yearly Meeting which has recently closed. Knowing, as we all do, the diversity of opinion in relation to some of the important measures of that body, which exists among those who are no doubt desirous of maintaining the doctrines and testimonies of the society unimpaired, the Editor would gladly have been excused from exposing to public view the evidence of divided opinion, if nothing more, which the proceedings of our late Yearly Meeting afford. But our distant readers will no doubt expect, and it is believed they have a right to expect, a candid account of transactions in which they feel deeply interested, and of which they could not be witnesses. It appears much more eligible that Friends should receive a concise and correct account of the leading facts of these proceedings, through the medium of the Review, than that they should be left to glean their information from common fame, which is proverbially uncertain. The circumstance of a woman, belonging to the Episcopalian profession, having been committed to prison for refusing to take an oath, affords a striking illustration of the facility with which a plain, unsophisticated understanding, looking to the unequivo cal testimony of Scripture, without regard to the glosses which learned ignorance or sophistry imposes upon the text, arrives at a correct con clusion. Were we to admit, which we do not, the doctrine which many professors of the Christian name espouse and defend, that the Scriptures are the only rule of faith and practice, it is not easy to perceive how any other conclusion can be obtained than the one to which this unassuming female arrived. If the words, swear not at all, do not mean that an oath must not be taken, we may well enquire of the most astute commentators, what do they mean? The article respecting the bleaching of straw, which was offered by a correspondent, is inserted without changing the phraseology in any part. The construction of hats and bonnets from straw has been found in some instances an occupation by which children and invalids are enabled to add considerably to their means of support; and we willingly give currency to information which is capable of facilitating the acquisition of an honest and comfortable livelihood. BROWN, son of the late John Brown of Dover, New He was warmly beloved in the kindred circle, and much respected in the active business of life. His painful illness he was enabled, through Divine Grace, to bear with exemplary patience, regarding with resignation its uncertain result. At a time of severe bodily affliction he remarked,-"How suffering weans us from the world! Pain, in sickness, is The day before his peaceful close, he expressed a blessing; it makes the path easy to give up all." himself willing to die, because, through atoning Love, he trusted he was prepared. In the account of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in this and the preceding number, the Editor has laboured to exhibit a candid and unvarnished statement of facts, leaving to his readers the task of Upon the brightness of youth, and the promises supplying the comment and the colouring. Fully ing, that the frost of death has untimely fallen; of maturer manhood, it may seem, to human feelbelieving that Christ is not divided, and that the yet there is left, in his removal, the impressive Christian spirit is always experienced to be a spirit | lesson of an early release, and the precious evidence that the conflicts of time have been exchanged for, there, to become reconciled to each other, and to the joys of eternity. unite in support of the testimonies of truth. DIED,-In Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan, on the 1st inst., of consumption, ELISHA J. SHERMAN, a member of Adrian Monthly Meeting, (formerly from North Marshfield, Mass.,) aged 35 years and 11 months. He bore a protracted illness with patience and resignation, and through faith in the merits of the Redeemer, death to him had no ter rors. On the 7th inst., THOMAS V. STANTON, in the 33d year of his age, a member of Springborough Monthly Meeting, Warren Co., Ohio. On the 6th inst., at Macedon, N. Y., of scarlet fever, HENRY, eldest son of John I. and Mary H. Thomas, aged nearly six years. HAVERFORD SCHOOL. The Summer Term will commence on Fourth day, the 9th of Fifth mo. next. It is particularly requested that the names, ages and residence of students, who propose to enter at that time, be forwarded immediately to the Secretary of the Board of Managers, No. 39 Market St., where circulars containing the information required by parents may be had. Philadelphia, 4th mo. 27.-2t. PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING. In our Review of last week, the proceedings of this body, from the beginning, to the evening of the 17th instant, were briefly stated. The meeting convened on Fourth-day morning, the 18th, at 10 o'clock; and near the beginning of the sitting, the reading of the report from the Meeting for Sufferings, relative to the difficulties in New England Yearly Meeting, was commenced. The purport of this report may be briefly stated as follows:-First, a narrative of facts; beginning with the publication in England of certain letters written by a minister then on a visit to that country; and detailing the proceedings which issued in the disownment of that minister, and the confirmation of the judgment, by the Yearly Meeting in 1844. A review is also given, of the proceedings which led to a separation in Swansey Monthly Meeting, in Rhode Island Quarter, and eventually in 1845, in the Yearly Meeting. Several of the measures adopted by Friends there, are pronounced inconsistent with their own discipline; and though the report admits that the proceed ings of the "smaller body" are not to be considered as a safe precedent for the setting up of a Yearly Meeting, it advances the opinion that inasmuch as these Friends appear to have been sincerely desirous of maintaining our doctrines and testimonies, and had suffered oppression, they are entitled to be considered as members of the religious Society of Friends, and to be recognized as such by their brethren, as far as may be necessary to secure their rights. And in relation to the "larger body," it is declared, that until they retract or annul their proceedings, it is not perceived how unity can be restored. The report concludes with an earnest exhortation to Friends The reading of this paper occupied nearly two hours; and soon after it was finished, a proposal was made to defer the consideration of it until another year. In support of this proposal, the meeting was reminded that the document was very long, and involved numerous important considerations, on which we could not prudently decide without time for deliberate reflection; and that the adoption of it, if once effected, was a measure from which it would afterwards be difficult to recede. A very extensive expression of concurrence with this proposal ensued. It however became evident that this cautious proceeding was not likely to obtain the general approval. The evidence of an inclination to bring the case to a conclusion without further delay, necessarily brought the merits of the report itself under consideration. It then evidently appeared that the members of the Meeting for Sufferings, though the report was presented on the minutes of that body, were by no means united upon the subject. Several of them, including some of the most experienced among them, expressed themselves in decided opposition to it. In this judgment they were supported by a large number of Friends, who are not members of that body, and who of course had not previously heard the document. It was urged, that this measure was inconsistent with the order prescribed by our Lord, inasmuch as our brethren in New England, supposing them in error, had not been expostulated with previously to our condemning their proceedings. Among the objections to the adoption of this report, it was urged that one Yearly Meeting had no authority to rejudge and reverse the disciplinary proceedings of another; the exclusive power to frame and superintend the administration of its own discipline, being held by each Yearly Meeting. To this it was answered that this doctrine was undeniably true, as a general rule, but that Friends in New England, by publishing and sending us an account of their proceedings, had invited and imposed upon us the duty of such an examination. The publication, however, of an account of these proceedings, was regarded by others, as designed for the information and satisfaction of Friends, and not as a submission of their acts, in the administration of their discipline, to the supervision of any co-ordinate branch of the Society. Hence no examination of the correctness of these proceedings was attempted in the Yearly Meeting. In the course of this discussion, reference was made to the testimony at Camden, in 1830, in |