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Rh place. They have a very respectable school and parsonage houses; and a tract of waste land close to the place, on which they settle their native converts, for when a native renounces his faith, he is shut out from all intercourse with his family and connexions. They can have but few converts as yet, since only a very small portion of this land is cultivated, and the remainder contains a few trees and brushwood, here and there cleared away. One of these parsons appears to be a gentleman and a man of education, but I am told he is a poor preacher: the other looks like a mechanic. As there are a number of clerks in the civil offices, these with some of our officers, make up a tolerable congregation at their church."

"The cholera has made great ravages in several parts of the United States. But this temporal calamity is to many the occasion of a great blessing. Good works are promoted, sinners return to their duty, end many Protestants are converted to the Catholic Religion. The clergy of every denomination, save our own, have been horror struck, and keep aloof from the infected and dying of this horrible pestilence. The Catholic bishops and clergy, and hospital nuns, called Daughters of Charity, have alone been firm and constant; with heroic charity exposing their own lives to alleviate the sufferings, and promote the spiritual welfare of the sick and dying. Among the victims of this generous and heroic charity is the Right Reverend Edward Fenwick, the pious bishop of Cincinnati, in Ohio, who died of cholera; after the illness of a few hours, on the 26th of September, at Wooster, in the Wayne County. Dr. Fenwick was a native of Maryland. He was brought up among the English Dominicans at Bornheim, and embraced the Order of Friars Preachers. He was for some time in the Dominican seminary at Carshalton, but in 1806 he went as missioner to Kentucky, and penetrated into Ohio, where no missioner had ever appeared. He was made Bishop of Cincinnati by Pope Pius VII. in 1821. Since this period his life has been one continued series of apostolic labour. The fruits of his sacred ministry are visible in the numbers of Catholics now spread over his extensive diocese, the missions, the schools, and convents which he has established to perpetuate the good work. The Rev. Mr. Richards, the able missionary and Vicar General of Detroit, is another victim of the cholera: and two of the Sisters of Charity. The example of Protestant America is a lesson to degraded and degenerate France, whose tyrannical and pettyfogging magistrates seek every opportunity of insulting religion. At Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, the magistrates, implored of