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then could refreshed by the Consolation of the "holy mother--the church" as ministered at the hands of the Priest in an outlandish & to many of them an incomprehensible jargon, but such it is, & such it will be. I fear, for we see that his Holiness - the Pope has taken fresh courage at the opposition with which he met in England to the appointment of a Church Dignitary there, and now contemplates the appointment of a Cardinal here--in a land of freedom, but enough of this now.

                                            I suppose you would like to know something of the news current here, well, if you expect to hear any you will be sadly disappointed for there is nothing, either good, bad or indifferent --no one either dead, married, or I was about to say born, but I will withdraw that observation. We have had some desperately cold weather lately for the season of year, several ? since there was a prodigious hoar frost, which demolished everything in the way of vegetation, all kinds of fruit are Killed, so we will have to prepare ourselves to regale our quatatory? ? upon something short of strawberries ,peaches etc. the loss of the fruit is a serious ? indeed.
                                       ? we are teachers expected by cho? & folks now every day, a gentleman ?ady by the name of Walker, have made arrangements to commence the school