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LETTER FROM HENRY H. GARNET.

STIRLING, GRANGE HILL, Jamaica,
December 20th, 1855.

"I know you will be grieved and surprised to
be informed of the death of poor dear Stella
[Weims.] She left us for a better world on the
12th day of December, at four o'clock in the
afternoon. Her complaint was bilious fever,
which she endured with great patience for
seventeen days, when congestion of the brain
took place, and she fell asleep, aged twenty-four
years and six days. From the beginning of her
illness she believed she would not recover, and
began to make ready for the returnless journey,
and committed herself to the blessed Redeemer.
When I told her that her race was nearly run,
she paused for a moment and then said, "There
is only one thing I wish for in this world—I
want to see my mother." She paused again, and
then continued, "I do not wish to live, I want
to go home. In my Father's house there are
many, many mansions. This world is shallow—
there's nothing in it." She was visited by four
of our ministers, and conversed with them calmly
and with great faithfulness. Her remains were
followed to the grave by a large number of
weeping friends, and they planted flowers around
her lowly bed. She was a child of sorrow, but
she will suffer no more. The cruelty and inhu-
manity of slavery exiled her from her native land
and doomed her to die far away in a land of
strangers, but she is free now; and God has
wiped all tears from her eyes. She is the
happiest and the freest of all the Weims family,
and in the heavenly world there are no slave-
hunters—no mourning captives—no dear, dis-
severed ties of nature, and no necessity for
making appeals for the purchase of God's chil-
dren. Although John Weims and his wife
must be deeply affected to hear of the death of
their beloved daughter, still they must rejoice
when they reflect that she is beyond the reach
of tyrants. May God bless those kind friends
in Britain who so nobly contributed towards
emancipating that poor slave "mother," for