from its green luxuriance, as the traveller now does from the gloomy desert which it encircles, turn away to the free homes of Oregon and Minesota. The restriction of the old Missouri Compromise finds little respect in the eyes of Southern propagandists and Northern demagogues, and nothing but a revival of Anti-Slavery feeling on the part of the free States, seems likely to prevent the spread of Slavery north of the line of 36 deg. 30 min. It remains to be seen whether the Bad Lands are not significant of the future condition of a whole Territory, blighted and blasted by that "cleaving curse,' which already burns deep into the soil of onehalf the Union, stolen away from its sisterhood of Freedom, and added to the MAUVAISES TERRES OF SLAVERY.-Nat. Era. PARDSHAW CRAGG. A run of fine summer weather some few years ago tempted me to take up my quarters for a couple of weeks at the secluded inn on the margin of Crummock Lake, well known to all Cumberland tourists as the comfortable and homely, but withal romantic and delightfullysituated Scale Hill. It belongs, I was told, to a wealthy manufacturing family in Leeds, who have invested some of the profits of their spindles in several of the finest estates that adorn the lake district. tosh, Carlyle, and some other authors, I must plead great ignorance of his history, and was certainly never before aware that his labors had been so marvellously crowned. "Surely," I added, "if it were so, how does it happen there is so little indication of it in the number of his followers at the present day?" "That," replied my new friend, "is a question I cannot undertake to settle, but probably the Quakers themselves would solve it by the conclusion that the seed fell upon stony ground, so that when the sun of this world arose, the promised "increase was scorched and withered away, because it had no root.' And from what has come to my knowledge on the subject, this argument does not seem untenable, applying it, not to the generation of these first Quakers only, but to the race of inhabitants generally from Fox's time to the present. The doctrines which we may suppose he enunciated from yonder Cragg were based upon the recognition of an inward Divine revelation, which he declared to be the interpreter of scripture, and the true spiritual guide and teacher witnessed in the hearts and consciences of men. The acceptance of these principles involved the downfall of priests (as a profession) and all priestly assumptions and supremacy, and moreover, would have rendered irreconcileable many phases of civil thraldom, hatred of which was deeply intermingled with the religious feelings of that period. The practices and manner of life which Fox and his coadjutors exhibited to the world as resulting from the application of their doctrines, were distinguished by strict probity, purity, and selfdenial. Now repugnant as such an example might be deemed to have been to popular tastes and passions, those who are acquainted with the nature of the great struggle which then divided the nation, will see there was yet much that was in sympathy with the Puritan temper of the times. Taking all things into account, one need hardly wonder that in an age of remarkable religious enthusiasm, the teaching, so harmonious in precept and practice, of these earnest apostles, came home with special conviction to a com munity comparatively shut out from the world and hitherto almost untainted by its corruptions who had not become 'polite' enough to scoff a virtue and make a merit of impiety. But as the dissipated habits and loose morality of succeedin years gradually crept into their seclusion, and th descendants of the Quaker proselytes came t mingle more with the world, and to be entice away to towns and cities, to exchange the substar tial comforts and social purities of their nativ valley for the alluring gains of commerce an the evils attached to its pursuit, it is equall accountable how easily they suffered themselv to be estranged from the strict duties and disc pline of their creed, particularly as the nation priests, whose craft was in danger, were supporte by the law in enforcing conformity and persec One day, nearly the last of my sojourn at Scale Hill, I rambled past the rugged banks of Loweswater, and along the wild road so frightfully steep at the outset which leads over the moor to the valleys beyond. On the way, I overtook a young pedestrian of affable manners, who seemed to possess much information of interest to me respecting local history and associations. We compared notes upon the different places I had visited, and on my asking him at last if he thought I had exhausted the catalogue of "Lions," he answered with a smile, that I "seemed to have sought out the natural wonders of the neighborhood with successful diligence, but that there were some places near us which he believed, in the eyes of one small sect of Christians at least, possessed associations of some charm and interest. The most notable was Pardshaw Cragg, the rocky eminence across the valley before us, where George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, is said to have preached in 'demonstration of the spirit and in power,' to immense open-air meetings, hundreds if not thousands of all grades in life having been converted to his tenets en masse." He further added with courtesy, that, if I inclined to visit the spot, he was at my service as guide. To this offer I readily consented, and in walking on proceeded to observe that whilst the name of George Fox was familiar to my mind as identified with the peculiar sect which he originated, and I had also seen him mentioned with respect, or something more than that, by Coleridge, Mackin ting dissent much in the style and spirit of the Inquisition." "But," I said, "admitting the soundness of these reasons, are you quite sure that Fox's converts here were so numerous as you describe, or is it not possible that the reality has been greatly exaggerated in the transmission of the vague traditions which are, I assume, your chief authority in the matter?" Ackworth, and other similar institutions belonging to the Society. There is also a large stable for the use of those members who live too remote to come to a meeting on foot. Nor must I forget to mention the library, which, with a praiseworthy concern for supplying sound reading for the poorer members of the meeting, and at the same time diffusing general information upon the history and principles of Friends, has been well "Tradition does confirm the statements I have stored with books of a moral and religious characmade," my friend replied, "but the facts are as ter open to the gratuitous perusal of the inhabitindisputable as historical narrative can be. Fox ants at large. Such an example cannot be too himself, in his quaint autobiography, describes highly commended to the adoption of other comhis successful ministry hereabouts with genuine munities. A neat grave-yard is situated on one simplicity: how he disputed with priest Wilkin-side of the meeting-house, planted round with fir son, exposing the rottenness' of his creed, till the poor parson's flock all forsook him, and how at last even Wilkinson also was reached,' and became a fellow-laborer with the new evangelist; and the private journals of several of the same flock, which are still extant, and some of them in print, bear similar testimony. Even within the last century, it is known that the Sabbath assemblies at the meeting-house before us often consistted of 400 people, (whilst now I question if a tithe of that number belong to it,) and it is said that in some of the mountain districts nearly the whole population at once flocked to the new standard." By this time we stood in front of the Cragg, which consists of low irregular terraces of limestone rock retreating one above another to the number of four or five. Near to the eastern extremity of the lowest ridge one rock or cliff rises prominently from the rest, in shape so like a pulpit that you might suppose it had been artificially hollowed out behind to make standing room for a preacher. From this eminence my guide informed me George Fox had delivered some of his stirring sermons, and it appears that to this day it goes by the name of "Preacher's Clint." A large amphitheatre immediately below affords standing room for an immense concourse of people, and is remarkably adapted, as we proved by experiment, for the conveyance of sound. Far more appropriately than the armed and sentried gatherings of the Covenanters do these meetings of Fox's recall the early days of Christianity, when the persecuted church sought the sanctuary of desert places or remote "upper rooms," and when, in spite of all, in one "day there were added unto them about three thousand souls!" Further over the Cragg, are the ruins of what is supposed to have been a meeting-house hastily reared for divine worship, by this at first houseless congregation. Afterwards a more commodious building was erected on the western side of the Cragg, where the remnant of Fox's host of followers at present assemble. Attached to it is a school-house, originally intended for the education of children belonging to the meeting, but long since superseded by the boarding-school at trees, and I.observed that some of the graves, though without any "monumental stone," on which the mourners are too apt to engrave above the dead,— "Not what they were, but what they should have been,” bore traces of sorrowing affection not less pure and simple in the shape of flowers planted on the turf. Such a scene was new to me, yet even with a churchman's predilections, I could not but feel that here as surely as amid the precincts of a time-honored cathedral, one stood on "holy ground." No "spiritual lord" in lawn and mitre might have burlesqued the prerogative of God's anointed by the ceremony of consecration; but the place had been trodden by the footsteps of genius and associated with the triumphs of humble piety. "Ah!" exclaimed my companion with fervor, "if hero-worship is ever legitimate, the Quakers may well accord it to George Fox. His character and labors, as your ignorance of them illustrates, have not been properly appreciated beyond the confines of his own sect. A few great minds, it is true, have discerned beneath the quaint Gothic costume, as well of his ideas as of his person, a combination of powers and faculties which, in the system of the modern transcendentalist, might almost entitle him to the rank of a "representative man." (To be continued.) SPEAK NO ILL. "Nay, speak no ill! a kindly word By choosing thus the kinder plan; Still, let us speak the best we can. Then speak no ill-but lenient be Be not the first to make it known: No lip may tell how brief the spanThen, oh! the little time we stay, Let's speak of all the best we can." SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-By the arrival of the Steamship Asia at New York, on the evening of the 8th inst., Liverpool dates to the 27th ult., have been received. ENGLAND.-The Queen and royal party started, on the 27th ult., on their visit to Ireland. J. R. Ingersoll had delivered to the Queen his letters of recall, and James Buchanan had been presented by the Earl of Clarendon. Three hundred and seventy railway laborers had embarked at Southampton for Sydney, under contract to work for two years on the Sydney railroad, at five shillings sterling per day. They were accompanied by their families. SPAIN.-Accounts from Madrid of the 20th ult. states that the Minister of Public Works was actively occupied with the railroad question. The Espana publishes letters from Manilla, dated June 12th, containing accounts of the operations of Col. Mariana Oscariz, in the sea of Jolo, against the pirates who infested its coasts. With the boats from his steamships, he killed 80 of the pirates, took 200 prisoners, and liberated 33 Christians from slavery. over the rebels, and others stating that he was defeated and obliged to retire. MEXICO.-Late advices from Mexico represent that great dissatisfaction exists towards Santa Anna. Several States are reported to have pronounced against his recent exactions. CALIFORNIA. -The steamship Star of the West, from San Juan, arrived at New York on the 9th, and the Illinois, from Aspinwall, on the 11th inst. The former brings San Francisco dates to the 10th, and the latter, to the 16th ult. The 1st inst. was celebrated by the citizens of New Grenada, in honor of the adoption of a new Constitution, which was to go into operation on that day, and by which, many important changes are made in the administration of public affairs. The health of the Isthmus is good. Much less rain fell during last month than is usual at that season. The State printing of California, for the past year, has amounted to upwards of $218,000. A spring of water, capable of furnishing fifty thousand gallons daily, has been discovered in the tunnel on Mountain Lake. A valuable copper mine has been discovered between Los Angelos and Santa Barbara. Gold dust, in large quantities, has been discovered within the city limits of Sacramento. The clipper ships Hornet and Flying Cloud, which left New York together on the 26th of the 4th month, arrived at San Francisco on the same day, the Hornet beating the Flying Cloud only 45 minutes. The first ox-teams arrived at Portland from across the Plains on the 1st ult. The party left St. Josephs, Mo., on the 20th of the 4th month. They report the grass good on the whole route, and the immigrants in good health and spirits. Advices from Salt Lake had been received at San Francisco. The crops were good. The Mormon Temple at Deseret was progressing slowly. OREGON.-The Pacific Railroad Exploring party, ROMAN STATES.-It has been already announced under the command of Capt. McClellan, U. S. A., by telegraph from Rome, that some agents of Maz-were at the base of Mt. St. Helen's when last zini were arrested there during the night of 8th heard from. mo. 14th. Letters state that these prisoners were the Advocate Petroni, of Bologna, an energetic leader of the liberal movement, Sig. Ruiz, accountant of Rome; Signorina Ruiz, his sister; Castellani, son of the well known jeweler on the Corso, Rome; Casciani, son of Major C., of the Palatine Guard; together with others of less note, 29 in all, including some emissaries from Genoa. The charge against the unfortunates is that they intended to take advantage of the 15th, when the French troops were celebrating the féte of St. Napoleon, to attempt a coup like that which recently failed at Milan. TURKEY.-Intelligence from Constantinople of the 19th ult. had been received at Vienna. The Porte had accepted the Collective note, with a very trifling verbal qualification. RUSSIA. The Russian Government has ordered surveys to be made for telegraphic communication between Petersburg and the ports of the Black Sea. MOROCCO.-A letter from Ceuja of the 3d ult., states that two Moorish tribes had risen in arms against the Emperor, in consequence of their dissatisfaction with the taxes imposed on them, and particularly with the obligation to deliver to the Sovereign all the skins of cattle killed within their districts. The Emperor had marched against them, but accounts differ as to the result, some accounts representing the Emperor to have gained a victory SANDWICH ISLANDS.-A card has been posted around the streets of Honolulu, got up by the resi dent foreigners, requesting the King and Ministers to resign. An earthquake was felt at Honolulu, on the 17th of the 7th month. It is reported that eleven French men of war are on the coast, probably destined for these islands, and that, should any warlike demonstrations be made by them, the stars and stripes would be immediately run up on the islands. DOMESTIC.-The yellow fever appears to be on the decrease at New Orleans. There were 110 deaths by the fever during the twenty-four hours ending at 6 A. M., on the 2d inst. The fever is raging at Mobile. The number of deaths from this cause for the forty-eight hours ending at 6 P. M. on the 3d inst., was 62. The population of the city is said not to exceed twelve thousand. At the last session of the North Ohio Methodist Episcopal Conference, resolutions were passed strongly condemnatory of slavery, and asserting it to be the duty of the church to exclude from her communion "all slaveholders who hold their fellow-men in bondage for the sake of gain." FRIENDS' REVIEW. VOL. VII. A RELIGIOUS, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS JOURNAL. PHILADELPHIA, NINTH MONTH 24, 1853. EDITED BY ENOCH LEWIS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY SAMUEL RHOADS, Price two dollars per annum, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, or six copies for ten dollars. Postage on this paper, when paid quarterly or yearly in advance, 13 cents per annum in Pennsylvania and 26 cents per annum in other States. A Testimony of Bristol Monthly Meeting, concerning SAMUEL CAPPER, who died on the 29th of Eighth month, 1852, in the 71st year of his age; a Minister about 39 years: and whose remains were interred at the Friars', Bristol, on the 5th of Ninth month. No. 2. was acknowledged in that character by Wiltshire Monthly Meeting, in the second month, 1817. In the year 1824, he accompanied our late beloved friend, Robert Fowler, in a journey to Paris and the South of France; and during the remainder of his life he continued to be engaged in the service of the Gospel, both at home, and occasionally amongst his friends in various parts of this country, and in Ireland. His communications in the ministry, in our own meetings, were not, for the most part, either frequent or long; but they were delivered under a feeling sense of the solemn character of the engagement. Whilst embracing within its range many of the various aspects of religious truth, the most prominent feature in his ministry may in grace. Though earnest to prove himself a faithful steward, he maintained, at the same time, a watchful care 66 not to utter words hastily before the Lord." His public approaches to the throne of Grace were peculiarly solemn. be said to have been the concern which he felt to inculcate the inward and spiritual nature of Our beloved friend, Samuel Capper, son of religion, and the importance of those secret exJasper and Anne Capper, was born in Grace-ercises of the soul, which are essential to a growth church Street, London, on the 2d of third month, 1782. We are acquainted with few particulars of his youthful days; but he is spoken of as having manifested an unpromising disposition in early childhood; yet it would appear that about the twelfth year of his age, his parents had the comfort of observing that his mind had yielded to the tendering visitations of Divine love. They were induced, at his request, to seek a situation for him in the country; and, in his fourteenth year, he was apprenticed to Joseph Naish, of Congresbury, Somersetshire, under whose roof he enjoyed the benefit of a careful and Christian guardianship. It is believed that the period of his apprenticeship was often remembered by him with feelings of thankfulness, as one in which his religious character was advanced and deep-rally obtained, he was induced to propose to his ened. But by far the larger portion of his Gospel labors was bestowed on those beyond the pale of our Society. His mind had long been impressed with deep religious concern for the lowest and most neglected classes of the community, especially such as were not in the habit of attending any place of worship. Endeavors were at first made to give effect to his wishes, by inviting these classes to meetings held in meeting-houses and other buildings; but as it was found that their attendance could not in this way be gene The friends the holding of meetings in a tent. At the age of twenty-one he married Elizabeth, proposition met their approval, and a commodious daughter of Joseph-Naish, and settled in Bristol, tent was accordingly provided: by this means he where he commenced business as a linen-draper. obtained access, both among our town and counHis prospects were encouraging, but the occupa- try population, to large numbers of those classes tion was not adapted to his habit of mind; and which had been the especial objects of his solicibecoming uneasy with the showy and fashionable tude. During each summer, for the last sevencharacter of his business, in about seven years teen or eighteen years of his life, he was diligent he relinquished the concern. The next eleven in prosecuting this work of faith and labor of years were spent in farming, at Pottern, in Wilt-love; and it is believed that ithin this period shire. On leaving this place, he again settled he held upwards of four hur 1 meetings, in in Bristol, and continued to reside there till the many of the larger towns as were rural disclose of his life. tricts of our country; most of them bemg numerously attended. He first appeared as a minister in 1813, and 1 We believe that our dear friend was endued | directly in the Divine ordering. But in whatwith a special qualification for this line of service: ever light these vicissitudes may be viewed, his and though often moving forwards in it under a patient and humble submission, under difficulties deep sense of poverty and unworthiness, and a which appeared to himself intended for his furstrong feeling of his own insufficiency, yet, being ther purification, and for the benefit of his family, favored to know his sufficiency to be of God, he and his constant desire not to permit them to was enabled to preach the Gospel "in demonstra-interfere with those services which he believed tion of the Spirit and of power;" often dwelling, to be required by his Lord,-were, to us, highly in a remarkable manner, on the infinite love of instructive. Close as were these trials, there is God, and the fulness and freeness of that salva- reason to believe he was enabled to avoid further tion which comes by Jesus Christ. At these difficulties by availing himself of the advice of gatherings, a solemn and reverential feeling fre- his friends, and by an endeavor to attend to the quently overspread the assembly; many who dictates of an enlightened conscience; and we came in with a thoughtless air, as if amused with may truly say that integrity and uprightness the novelty of the scene, being gradually brought marked his course, and that he was enabled to to great seriousness. comply with the apostolic injunction, "Owe no man anything but to love one another." In connection with this subject, we find the following entries in his journal : On these occasions, as well as at other times, our dear friend often felt it his duty to speak of the evils which have resulted from the setting up of human authority in matters of religion; and from the attempts which have at different periods been made to usurp the offices and prerogatives of the Saviour, and to substitute a system of lifeless ceremonies and priestly interference for the simple religion of the Gospel. Deeply impressed with the importance of this subject, it was his frequent engagement to direct his hearers to Christ, as being alike the High Priest and Sin-pensation should pass away, and I still remain offering, the Teacher and Guide of his people, the ever-present Head of his own Church. 10 mo. 25, 1830.-"Though sensible of great solicitude about my own outward concerns, and desirous of being found discharging my duty in this respect; yet my mind has been in a very solemn frame, and a disposition to continual prayer, even vocally, has been felt, for which I thank my God, even Christ Jesus my Lord, 'who is God over all, blessed for ever.' If this dis here, Lord! enable me to do and suffer thy blessed will, that I may be made a partaker of thy holiness, which is what I long for, My heart praises thee, Oh my God! and my eyes run It was not alone in the capacity of a minister of the Gospel, that Samuel Capper manifested his allegiance to his Lord and Saviour, and his wil-down with tears of tenderness." lingness to confess Him before men. Often did 10th mo. 16, 1838.-"It seems desirable to he appear as the fearless opposer of evil practices record that we have had a time of close conflict, among his fellow-citizens; and the earnest sup- not seeing in what way, under our present temporter of measures which he considered calculated poral difficulties, we ought to act. It drives us to promote their highest interests. On several home, I hope, to the footstool of Divine Grace. occasions he was zealously engaged in suppressing God graciously grant us to see his will, and give demoralizing public amusements in this city; as us strength to do it. I can say, with thankfulwell such as were characterized by coarse bruta-ness, that I delight in dwelling near unto God in lity, as those which allured into sin by means less revolting, though equally vicious. Under a deep conviction of the sin and misery resulting from the excessive use of intoxicating drinks in this country, he was for many years earnest in promoting the spread of temperance; and with equal decision did he give his valuable aid to measures for the dissemination of pacific principles among the nations of men. He felt a lively interest in the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, and in the labors of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The cultivation of his intellectual powers afforded him a large amount of pleasure; yet he was ever ready to resign such pursuits at the call of apprehended duty. On more than one occasions, in passing through life, our dear friend experienced the trials and uncertainties attending commercial pursuits. It is not for us to decide in what degree these may have arisen from causes under his own control, or how far they may be regarded as having been spirit; and that although He is pleased to keep us (as we feel it) long in suspense, yet I am able to confide in Him. I desire heartily that I may advance in holiness, and attain to greater sin plicity, and more entire devotion to his guidance.' And we believe this our dear friend's desir and exercise was granted. There was in him a growing conformity to the mind of Christ; and while he was abundant in labors, to the close o his earthly pilgrimage, there was also in his daily walk an evidence that the light grew brighter an brighter, as it advanced towards the perfect day Our dear friend was repeatedly brought int deep affliction by the illness and death of severa of his beloved children. In reference to one these events, he writes: 7th mo. 12, 1837.-"Such a day of joy an sorrow I never passed. May I be prepared join my dear daughter! I felt unable to do an thing but indulge the tenderest feelings of b reavement, and rejoice with the purified spirit. The last domestic sorrow through which he w 1 |