1860. ASD <®encatf (SNanfldtst. THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 186 0. HEW SUBSCRIBERS. In acknowledging the favors of many brethren, and of the complimentary mention they are pleased to make of onr efforts to please them, we would suggest to all that this is the most fit time in the year to commence to take a reli gious paper, and they will do us, and their friends, an especial kindness, by introducing our paper to the attention of their neighbors. A new name to accompauy the annual remittance is the kind of compliment we can fully appreciate. We rejoice that many are doing this, and while ■ •acknowledging onr obligation, we desire to give a gentle hint to others, that the blessing of doing and receiving good may be made more general. The testimony from abroad has never been so cordial and generally approbatory of the paper, as within the last few weeks. This is true of all sections of our circulation. Even those few who dissent from our views, commend the candid and Christian spirit in which onr frank and con scientious utterances have been made. We thank brethren for their forbearance and charity. We aim to do our duty in the fear of God, and we would please alt if we could, and in view of the manifold difficulties of onr position, the ap proval and commendation of our patrons are peculiarly grateful. One agent who is canvass ing for the paper, says: “I do riot find any enemies to the American Presbyterian—all speak well of it”—but we are sure he has not Visited every locality; at any rate we have no fears on that account, of the predicted wo, when “all men speak well of you.” A WEEK OF PRAYER. The second day of January was observed in this city by our churches, agreeably to the ap pointment of the General Assembly, as a day for especial prayer for the conversion of the world. Interesting union public services were held at Calvary Church at 11 o’clock, A. M., and at the Pine Street Church at 4 o’clock, P. M. It was exceedingly cold weather, and the attendance was, on that account,.thinner than is usual on such Occasions; still, the ex ercises were appropriate and peculiarly impres sive. The present week has been set apart, at the suggestion of missionaries in India, to be ob served by all Christians, in all parts of the globe, as a set time for humiliation and earnest prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the nations of the earth, especially heathen countries. Extra services are held in very many of the churches during the week. The Noon-day Prayer Meeting is conducted with particular reference to this object; the time be ing extended from one hour to one hour and a half. • On Monday and Tuesday, Sansom Street Church was excessively crowded, above and be low, two meetings being held at the same time. There were from twelve to fifteen hundred pre sent, and many were obliged to go away, being unable to secure a place even to stand. The meetings are presided over by clergymen, and Rev. Mr. Pratt, of the Episcopal Church, led the meeting in the main room on Monday, and a Methodist clergyman below. Had not such things in these days ceased to be marvels, it would have been regarded as a spectacle of mo ral sublimity to witness men of all denominations aronnd a common altar unitedly to pray for the extension of the kingdom of Christ. They were literally of “one accord in one place,” beseeching the mercy-seat that the kingdoms of this world might speedily become the kingdom of Christ. The venerable Dr. Notfc, of Union College, addressed the meeting on Monday with great appropriateness and effect, and also a mission ary from the station in India where this request originated »vas present, and fitly set before the brethren the wants and dependence of mission aries upon Divine aid for success. Should this week be observed elsewhere as in Philadelphia, its moral effect will be manifest at home in the increased interest in missions, as well as in its benign influence upon the nations abroad. iPipus gattlliijeaiie. Presbyterian (o. B.)— The Seventh Presbyterian Church of Ginoinnati, vacated by Rev. Wm. M. Scott, D. D., on Wednesday evening, 21st inst, voted a call to Eev. R. G. Brank, of Lexington, Ky. New Year"s Present. —Some of Rev. Dr. Bethune’s old parishioners in Brooklyn, mode a social call on him in this oity, on New Year’s day, and presented him with $1,500. It was the gift of a few friends, and the reply was characteristic of the head, and heart of the Doctor. Methodism in New York.-— Dr. M’Clintook, in a speech in New York city before a meeting called to consider the claims of the Troy University, Btated that according to good statistics nearly one third of the church sittings in the State of New York are in Me thodist churches, and nearly one fourth of the acade mical students in the State are in Methodist schools. Rev- P. B. Gurley, D. D., who hasjust been elected Chaplain to the Senate, is the pastor of the New York Avenue (late P. Street) Presbyterian Church, of which President Buchanan is a regular attendant. The Sandwich Islands. —The recent assessment shows the totjl valuation of all the real estate and personal property in the Hawaiian Kingdom as amounting to over $7,000,000. The total amount of taxes levied for general purposes, is $70,000; for schools, $33,568; for roads, $30,247. . .. . Up to November 9th, 77 whale-ships had arrived from the'Arctic and Kodeax fleets with a catch of 24,745 barrels of oil ; there bad been 56 arrivals from the Ochotsk Sea with 3003 barrels,.; and 4 vessels from the Sperm Whale grounds wit}v!ll4o barrels. Sixty-nine more vessels are expected- before all the •fleet of 1859 are in. The price of oil .at Honolulu was down to 43 cents per gallon. Religions Things in Minnesota.— The ‘Trael Journal’says: „ “This new State, considering its age, s ebility and population, is in advance'of every other in the North - West, in laying the foundation of religious institu tions. There are about fifty Congregational churches, twenty N. S., and fourteen O. S. Presbyterian, be sides, perhaps, n greater number of Baptists and Me thodists. There are probably not Jess than a hum dred and' fifty Evangelical Churches in' Minnesota, at the present time, and yet there are several impor ' tnnfc pests destitute, where ministers ore- much wanted. The soaroity of money and poverty of the people Involve many whp are labouring as pioneers in new settlements, in much trial and suf fering. They heed the sympathies and liberal sup i- post of their Eastern friends. Missionary Intelligence.— I The receipts of the American Board for the month of November, were $23,369, and the total amount from the Ist of August to the Ist of December, $57,407.35. The Missionary Herald for January contains the Annual survey of the Missions under the care of the Board, from which we make a few extracts:— As introductory to the Annual Survey of the Mis sions, on this fiftieth year of the Board’s operations, a few quotations from the last Annual Report pre pared by Dr. Worcester, the first Secretary, (that.for the year, 1820,) and from a letter written by the venerated man, a few months later, while on that journey to the Indian missions, from Which he never returned, may not be uninteresting to the readers of the Herald. They will serve to show with how much satisfaction and gratitude good men then looked upon what seemed to them as great things already attained in the missionary work, and at the same time, to mark the contrast between what had then been and what hos now been accomplished. In ,the letter, which is without date, but which is supposed to have been written in February, 1821, Dr. Worcester refers to the report, which ho had recently, on his voyage to the South, ‘‘found strength leisurely to peruse,” and Says:—“lt, exhibits a system of pro gressive and extensive operations, with early results and opening prospects, not unworthy, l am persuaded, of general attention; and to oue.who has had a per fect acquaintance with these operations from the be ginning, in no ordinary degree interesting, and grate fully impressive.” The report states that the total receipts of the Board, in 10 years of its operations then elosed, had been $226,000; and the expenditures $201,600. The receipts of the previous year had been In all $39,100. The number of laborers then employed was twenty-six ordained missionaries, and twenty-three male and thirty-nine female assistants. Forty-four of these were located among the Indian tribes of the United States. . The number now employed by the Board will be seen by the following summary: HISSIONS. Missions, 26 Stations, 127 Oat-stations, 131 LABORERS EMPLOYED. Ordained missionaries (eight being - physicians,) 170 Physicians .not ordained,s J Other Male A55i5tant5,....;....,..... 14 Female Assistahta,..,. 210 Total laborers sent from this conn-*’ ' • 399 Native Pastors, 21 Native Preachers, ....222 Native He1per5......................... 264 Whole number of Native Helpers, 497 Total laborers connected with the* mis?' sions 806 THETRESS. ~ Printing E5tab1i5hment5................. ■ 5 Pages printed last year...... .i...,...... 41,529,940 THE CHURCHES. Churches,’ (including ail at the Sandwich Islands;.) 153 Church Members, (do. do.) as far as re ported.* 23,515 Added during the year, (do. do.) 1,279 EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. ,7 Other Boarding. 5ch0015,...;, 19 Free Schools, (omitting those at Sandwich Islands,)...f.. 313 Pupils in Free Schools, (omitting those; at Sandwich 151and5,)........ . 7,911 Pupils in Seminaries,.,.... 401 Pupils in Boarding 5ch0015............. 580 Whole number in Seminaries and 5ch0015........ ——-3,892 ♦ The report fh>m the Sandwich. Islands is defective. Religions Movement in Italy. —The Florence correspondent of the London Himes,'writing on the 30th November, says,: ■ “I some time ago alluded to what Is called ‘evan gelical Christianity ’ in Tuscany. I said but little about it, for both the. instinctive prudence and cau tion of the new sectarians themselves, and the ex treme wariness and timidity of the government com bine to hide, as muoh as possible, the candle of these new lights under a bushel. The movement, however, seems daily, to assume more significant dimensions. Two, three, five hundred, and even nearly one thou sand people meet of. a Sunday evening in this town, in and about the small room doing duty for a chapel. The brethren are loudly calling for a larger loca lity! ' They number, I anf told, at least three hundred communicants: and though all those who crowd to the doors of the little congregation are certainly riot converts (for no less 1 than thirty priests in their cos tumes were seen in the throng on Thursday last,) still it is difficult to calculate the results of this affluence of people to such a place, of this free distribution of Bibles and religious tracts among persons of all classes. Nor is the movement by any means limited to this capital. Everywhere throughout Tuscany, and still more in the Romagaas, are the books spread, and people induced to join in the perusal of them. These new congregations have as yet no definite sym bols, no established clergy, no appointed teachers; they profess to ground their faith on the gospel and on freedom of inquiry. They have as yet no men :of transcendent ability, or of striking eloquence, or con spicuous character among them.. Their most gifted preacher is Muzzavella, a Nea politan, once connected with the Waldenses of Pied mont, then a seceder from them, and the founder of an opposite sect, yclept Evangelical Society, in Turin and Genoa. The man of the highest rank in the fiock iff Count Pietro Guicciardini of Florence, the same who years ago suffered imprisonment and.bgnishment as guilty of the crime of reading the Bible privately with two or three friends in his own house. Some of his congregation think the Count rather lukewarm and timid in the cause; they complain that his faith does not sufficiently shine through his works. Alto gether, hitherto the new sect lacks the lead of a real .chief; it lacks a head, a heart, and a tongue.. -It seems also to live merely on sufferance, rather ignored 1 and winked at, than really sanctioned by law or openly acknowledged by the government. Of late, nevertheless, the talk about it has been loud and in cessant; people evidently begin to feel, if not inte- • vested, at least curious about it. Besides the regular religious services: on Sunday evenings, there are’ meetings in the evenings of the week days for the purpose of instruction to individuals and organization to the mass. The great obstacle to it is the state of perfect apathy, of religious death, in which most Ita lians, whether professed believers or arrant infidels, are content to live. Religion, as I had occasion to ; say before, has too long been the priest's business in : Italy. One priest-, I am-told, has already forsaken the Established Church, arid joined the innovators in Florence. The success of the reformatory movement greatly depends on the chances of his example being followed." Theological Students.-—ln the fire Theological Seminaries of the Presbyterian Churches (Old School,) viz.: Princeton, Allegheny, Union, Columbia, and Chicago, there is an aggregate of-457 students to 416 last year. The largest number, 1?0, w at Princeton the smallest, 13, at Chicago. , American Chapel at Paris.—llev. R. H. Seeley,' of the American Chapel at Paris, states the following 1 , facts: “The original cost of the chapel was between! sixty and seventy thousand Of this amount all except sixteen thousand dollars was paid before; the edifice was opened for divine service. Of this' sixteen thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars, was a permanent loan secured by mortgage, and four, thousand dollars remained as a floating debt. I have-, not examined the treasurer’s books, but I believe the| income of the chapel has been'sufficient to defray all', its expenses (including the interest on the mortgage,)! and to reduce the floating debt more than one half. \ llromatt §twlrgt?m« and dvaugiUxt, Dr. Baird and the Old School.— The Presbyter of Cincinnati is quite severe on Dr. Baird’s acceptance of the post of Secretary to the Southern Aid Society. It says: .“We have heard nothing lately which so surprises us. That an Old School Presbyterian mi nister should accept the secretaryship of a New School pro-slavery voluntary association, which can only succeed by weakening our own Domestic Board of Missions, is of difficult solution. We hope that Dr. Baird will take a dismission and connect with some Presbytery of the United Synod, where he properly belongs, if it Is in his heart to labor for the Southern Aid Society. What has Dr. Baird against our Board of Domestic Missions? it not preach the gospel in the South? Do the men of our Church in the East encourage Dr. Baird to undertake this work ? If so, can they not accomplish all they desire through our own Board? Has <nir Board at Philadelphia ever discri minated against the South in missionary appropria tions? What would be said of Presbyterians who should found a Northern Aid Society with an office in Charleston. S. C., and a Southern secretary with Northern .‘principles expending. money only in the •North? 'Would Southern churches’give money for our exclusive help? Dr. Stiles, the present incum bent, is to be Professor of. Theology for the United Sypod, and Dr. Baird should also take off the vail and declare himself as consecrated to the upbuilding of that faction.” Plymouth Church. —The annual renting of pews in Mr. Beecher’s Church in Brooklyn, took place on Tuesday evening, the 3d inst. -The competition was stronger than usual, and the premiums'were greatly in advance of former years. The church will Beat about eighteen hundred persons, and is f alwaya crowd ed with the regular congregation, while every Sab bath brings a multitude of strangers seeking admit tance. “The last Independent makes the following statement as to the result of the late renting: ; Every pew in the church is with a fixed value, which it retains from year to year. The pri vilege of the choice of .pews is sold at auction to the highest’bidder. Thus pew No. 89 (the first choice) Wasmarked $l2O, and the premium paid for the choice was $l6O, making the entire proceeds of the pew $2BO. The following are the figures of the past and the cominjifyear: In 1859, Fixed valuation of pews $12,050 00 Total Premiums for choice, 12,500 00 Total,.. $24,550 00 In 1860, Fixed valuation of pews,...". $12,050.00 “ Premiums for choice of pews, 16,690 00 . ’ « Valuation of aisle-chairs,;... 825 00 . Premiums on aisle-chairs,,.. 2100; TpW rental for 1860,b............ $29,586.80 Increase of 1860 ov@r 1859 j $5,036.50; a gain of 20 per cent. .. The sale was attended by about sixteen hundred rpersons, including, ladies and. gentlemen. A great deal of good humor pervaded the audience. The loss of a seat did not, in any instance that we observed, occasion the loss of temper. Every pew.was rented, and if two hundred and fifty more had been offered, it is likely that not one would have remained unsold. The demand for sittings was never before so great, and the necessity for a new church of twice the pre sent, size is now more than ever apparent. When a . church-building is so small that mere than a hundred families of its own members cannot get within its , walls, and when on every clear day or night a thou sand persons go away unable to get standing-room within hearing distance, is it not time to build anew? Religions Movements in Italy— The Rev. Ed ward Everett Hale writes from Florence, that in every bookshop and bookstall in the city, he found some edition of the Bible for sale; and that there meets in public every evening in Florence, a Society of Italians fort the study of tbe Scriptures. On Sunday these week-days as many as two hundred meet; they are .conducted by the voluntary or spontaneous action of the members, with extempore prayers in Italian, and careful and reverential study of scripture. Ho adds: I am told, on authority which I have no right to dispute, that there are whole villages—two were named to me—which are recognised as Protestant villages. In these particular cases some scandal connected with the priests had led to dissatisfaction —but the people, instead of sinking into Nothinga rianism, ha.d at once put themselves into communica tion with the Protestants of Florence; and by the study of scripture were making their-Way to a Pro testant faith. So soon as the Grand Duke was exiled, the difficulties were abated which had prevented the introduction of Italian Bibles, and I am told that within a few days the English Bible Society has been able in a measure to meet the demands made by the growing interest in independent personal religious study.. " ; . ’ Liberia. —The Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Pres byterian, and Episcopal Churches of America are doing a noble work in Liberia. They are furnishing the m'oriil strength on which the Government must rely in exigencies of the future, and by which she is to be established, if established, she may be. The Methodist Conference of Liberia, at Monrovia, is a body of intelligent and devoted men, numbering near one hundred, and having in communion with the church over thirteen hundred members, many of whom are natives. Their schools are numerous and flourishing. It is a Mission Conference, supported by the Methodist Episcopal Church of the Northern States. The Baptist Church is represented here by over seventy missionaries-and teachers, and, according to the report of the association Which met in Monrovia, December, 1857, near one thousand members. The Episcopal Church has a Bishop, four white missionaries, and eight colored, three of whom are natives. Teachers, thirty; twelve of whom are na tives. Day school scholars,'five hundred and fifty; three hundred and fifty natives. Communicants, two hundred and fifty, more than half of whom are natives. Their most important station is at Cavalla, near Cape Palmas. The Presbyterian Chureh has, white; missionaries, two; colored, four. Teach ere, ttvelve; one high school, five day schools, one hundred and fifty scho lars ; communicants, one hundred and eighty. Most of the missionaries of the Episcopal. Church are from the South; one of the two white Presbyte rian missionaries is from Georgia, and the Southern Baptist Board supports a high school in Monrovia. The Church Militant.— Dr. Cross, in a letter to the Charleston Advocate, says that most of the mem bers of the Texas Conference, Methodist, himself among the number, carry six shooting pistols. The reason assigned is border skirmishes with the Ca manche Indians. Bishop Pierce was present at the recent session of the conference, having arrived from California in most wretched health.. . Anniversary of the Missionary Society.— The anniversary exercises of the Missionary Society of the M. E. Church were held at the Halsey street Chureh, Newark, N. J., Dec. 20th. The Hon. James Bishop presided. Addresses were made by the Rev. W. Newell, E. D. Fanolier, Esq., and Bishop Simpson. At the conclusion of Mr. Fancheris speech Colonel Chambers moved, by the request of a lady in the con gregation, that the Missionary Society is able to raise three hundred thousand dollars for the coming year. “Then,” said Dr. Durbin, “if the Church will do that I will live a hundred years.” The resolution was put and unanimously adopted. A voice in the house was heard to say, “Put on another hundred thousand.” Thomas Pooll, Esq., of Somerset, .England, re cently died, and liis executor has, according to the will, paid.over to the English Wesleyan Missionary; Society the sum of s4s.ooo— being a legacy of $50,000, less $5,000 duty, to be applied in aid of the Wesleyan Missiomin India and China. Ordination and Installation.— Mr. Chas. E. Steb bins, a licentiate of the Presbytery of Geneva, was ordained to the gospel ministry, and installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Galesburg, 111,, on the evening of Wednesday, December 14th, by tbe Presbytery of Knox. Sermon byvßev, Harvey Cur tis, D. D., President of Knox Collage, from 1 Cor. iv. 1; 2 Cor. v. 20; 2 Tim. iv. 5. Charge to the. pastor by Rev. Calvin WaterbUry, of Knoxville. Rev. J. IV. Gale, D. D., presided, made theofdismmg prayer, and gave the charge to the people. Rev. Dr. Candee, of the 3d Presbyterian (O. S.); Church, made the con cluding prayer. Benediction by the pastor. Ordination and Installation!— Mr. Dwight K. Bartlett was; ordained and installed pastor over the iSmithfield Presbyterian Church, <;%, Amonia, by the Presbytery of North River, (N. si) December 28th. Services as follows: Rev. Wm. Nj fayre presided and put the constitutional questions, i Rev. Lawrence P. Hickok, D. D., Vice President df Union College, preached the sermon. Rev. H. made the or daining prayer. Rev. A. C. charged the Bi shop, and Rev. Mr. Wheeler the people. Rev. Mr. Bartlett is a young man* of. great promise, and enters upon an in teresting fieM of labor. The exercises were of a high oKter, and listened to with deep interest by a- large an| intelligent audi ence. /•,. ■ Bov. J. Blanchard, late President of Knox Col lege, has been appointed to the, Prlsideney pf Whar ton College, 111;, and will enter np|b his duties at the opening pf the term, January 9th,,|U560.. , , ~ This college is located withinwii&ur’sride of Chi cago, upon a double Sack, step'Six ’or seven railroads pass into the city.- ‘-Some forty trains pass over it each twenty-four hours. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and the Gjalena & Chicago Union are the principal. : . Thepollege is hereafter to be un and control of Orthodox Congregat co-operation of its founders and fr; ans. SereralCongregational geatlei in the State, have accepted Trastef still are to be appointed.— Cor. Got Charity,—The Central Presbyt rian says justly that, “At anniversary meetings, i nd sometimes at prayer meetings,: where several re igious denomina tions are represented, some of the 1 peakers occupy a good deal of time in descanting pi the beauties of brotherly love, and affect to be qul e oblivions to the points of difference between yaripi s,branches of the Christian Church. When such .renarks come from those who are well known to be hectically exclusive,, and who, at. other times and'placjjs, assume a vali dity for tbe miniatry and ordinances of- the denomi nation to which they belong, tflpcli they deny : to others—thus virtuMy refusing ‘ts|ecogmse them as true churches of Christ—then, we iay, such: panegy rics on charity are exceedingly oul -of place, as well as offensive.” 5 . ' ' ; American Chapel at Paris.— We understand Rev. Dr. M‘Clintock, of New York city. has been invited to take charge of the American Chipel in Paris, and that he has indicated his acceptanci; of the invitation. As our readers,are aware, Bev. Mv. Seeley, recently the officiating clergyman there,irett rned.to this.eoun try several weeks since. The; Chi ,pel is under the supervision of the Christian Union, and it is intended for the service and accommodation :of American re sidents of all denominations... Dr! M'Clintock is a distinguished Methodist clergymati' the President of the Troy University, an able preacher and a sound scholar. If Dr. M'Clintoek accepts, it must be with a view of improving his health by a foreign residence. urtat the Sjmday Schools dp.—' When the appeal from our churches in Missouri was laid before the Sunday School Missionary of the Western Presbyterian Church, (Dr, of this city, they promptly responded- by voting -a s2s to the Church Extension Committee, to be applied to wards the support of those churches and their Sun day Schools. This same 'Missionary Society has col lected, in a little over two years past, upwards of $5OO, of which they have donated to our Church Ex tension Committee, $75; tothe American Board, $200; to Father Gleason's Indian Orphan Asylum; $lOO, and the remainder they have divided amongst the American Sunday School Union, American Tract So ciety, and American Home Missionary Society. The funds have bean raised by small donations weekly from each scholar and teacher, and the interest has been kept up in a great degree by corresponding with missionaries abroad, and reading their letters, fresh from the West and from foreign lands, to the school. Several of the teachers, too, hale been made life members in the various societies, by the donations above mentioned. Why cannot more of onr schools organize similar societies, and thus keep up a lively interest in the doings of our church, and render simi lar material aid to our various benevolent operations ? .. ; G.W. M. . A Kind Act.—The ladies of the First parah.of Portland, Maine, hare resolved to.ereet a'monument to the memory; of the late Dr. Nichols, for about fifty years pastor of that society, and the money is raised for the purpose. It is to be, we understand, astatue of St. John the Evangelist, life size, in marble, and* is to be executed by Akers, who-is 'now. in Italy en gaged upon the work. The genius of the artist gives ample assurance that the monument;will be a worthy memorial of the eminent divine in whose honor it is to be erected, and also of the affectionate regard of those who cause it to be done. : If#!. The very oldest person in Boston, a negro woman named Catherine Boston, familiarly known for many years as “Old Mother Boston,” died at the age of one hundred and eleven years! Fpr several years she has been feeble, though some of her faculties have been keen-and responsive as in her younger .days. She was esteemed by the sevgral generations who knew her. s- : J' '■.. Oliver Howe, of Lyme, N. H., is supposed to have left for California in theJast steamer from New York, leaving behind him forged "paper to the amount of eight or ten thousand .dollars, on which he realized the cash. Several of the business men of Groton, Mass., and the Lancaster, 1 Townsend and one of the Fitchburg banks, also the Bradford (Vt.) Bank, are among the sufferers. .Two hundred and seventeen deaths occurred in this city last week, an increase of twenty-nine over the week previous. The reception of Bishop* Odenheimer, of New- Jersey, on taking possession ofthe Episcopal fesi dence at. Riverside, (late Bishop Doane’s,) was very gratifying. The Burlington Dollar Newspaper says: “When his family took possession of they found the pantries crowded with everything* that eithbr housewife tor cook could desire—a barrel of sugar in -one, of fiour in another—with other imme diate necessaries in provision, the surprise offerings of Episcopalians here. Then came a purse of $2OO from Episcopalians in Mount Holly, to bear the ex pense of removal from Philadelphia. These dona tions offered some manifestation of the affection al ready entertained for Bishop’Qdenheimer.” The Representatives in Congress are not entitled to receive pay, till a Speaker is chosen, but Mr. Glossbrenner, the Sergeant-at-Arms, has advanced over sixty-six thousand dollars, to accommodate mem bers, in consideration of which, his re-election is con sidered sure. The Virginia House of Delegates has adopted reso lutions instructing the Committee * on Schools and Colleges, toihquire into the expediency of reporting a bill prohibiting school commissioners throughout the Commonwealth from subscribing to any teacher, male or female, who bails from the north of Mason and Dixon’s line, unless they shall have resided in the State of Virginia for at least ten successive years previous. The entire census of Great Britain was taken in 1851 in a single day, and the reports were collected, compared, and published by the Government within three months. This was accomplished by the divi sion of the whole country into districts so small that a man could collect the statistics in less than a’ day. The number of these districts was over thirty-nine thousand, and the blanks previously prepared by the Government weighed fifty-two tons. The eclipse of the sun on the 18th of July next will he an important event in the scientific world. At the moment of obscuration the planets Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn; will appear in the vi .cinity of the eclipsed sun as a kind of rhomboidal figure, a phenomenon which will not appear again for many centuries. Darkness will commence in California and terminate on the shores of the Red Sea. The obscuration will not be total in this re gion, but it will be complete i'n-tbe Southern part of the Union, in a considerable portion of Spain and in Northern Africa. ; ■ • Cow Bay, the vilest portion of that vile district known as Five Points, has been demolished, and its site is to be converted into a play-ground for the children .of the House of Industry. One gentleman -gave $5OOO to the Object. The fame of John S. Rarey has travelled to Egypt and. fired’ the zeal and ambition of the equestrian lords of the desert; The Viceroy has sent -Mr. Rarey all .offer: of 25 blooded horses, as- good as can be bought in Egypt and Arabia, ifjie will come to Cairo and give instructions in. his art to him, his ministers and army officers. \ A monument to Luther is about to be. erected in the square at Worms. He is represented standing amid a group of symbolical and historical figures within a circular enclosure. The statue is eleven feet high, and stands on a pedestal measuring seven teen feet. It represents the great Reformer at that moment when he uttered these -memorable words: “ Here I take.mystand; I can do no otherwise; -God help me !" His eyeß lifted to "heaven, the open Bible on bis outstretched left arm, bis clenched right hand is pressed firmly upon the sacred book. On the four corners of the pedestal are represented the forerun ners of the Reformation in a sitting posture— Hubs, Savonarola, Waldus' and Wickliflj'eiich in his appro priate national costume. ler the patronage onalists, with the mils, the Wesley len, widely known Ships, and others g. Herald. An appropriate monument to Stephenson, the dis tinguished civil engineer, has been erected at Dar lington,’England; The to'comotive engine built by him; the first.ever constructed, has been placed ion -a pedestal in front of the railroad station, where crowds flock to see it. It was considered a miracle in its day. Its speed was four miles an hour. Mr. Everett has contributed nearly $70,000 toward the purchase of Mount Vernon;,.Over; $50,000 was from his Washington lecture, and $lO,OOO from his contract with the Ledger. A monument to Cooper is to be erected in Coopers town, N, Y., at a cost of $3,200. It will be located in the beautiful Lake Wood Cemetery, betweenLiike Otsego and Mount Vision and ProSpect Rock) and near the spot of the “Panther scene.” Henry Ward Beecher is delivering his lecture on “How to save the Union;” After a careful medical examination, he finds that all the organs of the Union are sound,'and attributes its slight indisposition to the fact that it “has eaten too many politicians, and they set hard on its stomach.” ; Bishop Newmatl, the fourth Bishop of the Roman Catholic dioeese, fell dead instantly at four o’clock, on Thursday, the. sth inst., in Vine, near Twelfth Street. : A number of Cashmere goats have recently been imported into this -country by. the Hon. Wm. It. Stiles of Georgia, who received them direct from the Himalayan Mountains. They are accompanied by a Greek, who remains with-them as an attendant. The first importation was made by Mr. Davis, and the experiment proved quite successful. Rev; Thomas O'Brien, formerly pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Rochester, and more recently stationed in Lima, died in that village oh Saturday, Dec. the 31st. W e condense from the Evening Journal, some facts connected with the History of Philadelphia, and its present state, that will interest our readers. The city itself was founded in 1682, by William Penn, with a company of English Friends or Quakers. The land comprised within the province of Pennsylvania had been ceded to him by Charles IL, iti payment of a debt due his father from the Government. The first printing press in this city, and the second in the hew world, was setup in 1687. In 1689, Penn ob tained a charter for a High School. The University of Pennsylvania sprang from a free school projected by Dr. Franklin, in 1742. In 1765, the merchants adopted a resolution not to buy or sell goods from England; -unless the “Stamp Act” was repealed. The first Congress in America assembled in 1774,. in Carpenter’s Hall; on Chestnut Street; between-Third and Fourth Streets. Oh the 4th of July, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read from a stand in the State House yard. The present Constitution of the United States was framed by a Convention in this city, in May, 1787. The house occupied by Ge neral Washington, when President, stood on a lot* how occupied by Bennett’s clothing store, on Market Street. The first Bank in this country was the Bank of Pennsylvania, which was opened in.this city on the 17th of July, 1780, with a capital of $1,500,000; its special object was the supply of the American army with provisions. In 1782, the Bank of North America went into operation, and the United States Bank in 1791. And in 1792, the national mint was established in this city. In 1793, the yellow fever nearly depopulated the city, and it again became epidemic in 1798. The Vigilant Fife Engine Com pany, still in existence, and still efficient, was estab lished on the 2d of January, 1760.* . Forty free negroes, who have been expelled from Arkansas under the terms of the recent legislative enactment, which prescribed' -that in the event of their non-departure they should be sold into Slavery, arrived at Cincinnati on Tuesday, in a destitute con dition. They were met by a Committee appointed for the purpose by the colored population of Cincin nati. It is reported that the upward-bound boats on the Mississippi River are with; these fugi tives, flying from their homes. A meeting has been held in Cincinnati, to devise means of aiding the twelve families expelled from Kentucky in conse .quence of Anti-Slavery views. The proposed subjection of free negroes to slavery in the Southern States is arousing increased and gratifying opposition, and in quarters even supposed* to be deaf to any appeals of justice or conscience in behalf of this poor and despised race. Judge Krum, of St. Louis, a prominent lawyer and a leading Ad ministration Democrat, following the lead of Judge Catron, of Tennessee, has published an able and earnest remonstrance against the bill to enslave the free colored people of Missouri, now before the Legis lature of that State. The Missouri bill is more bar barous and summary in its provisions than that pro posed for the same purpose in any other State. A young lady returned recently from California to her'home in Maine. She has been residing at San Francisco, and when the great defaulting banker, Meigs, ran ftway from that city, he had in bis posses sion about $1,200 of her money. Meigs went to South America, Where he has since resided. When the lady was ready to proceed home, she proceeded first to the South American port where Meigs landed, but found he was residing about three hundred miles up the country. Nothing daunted she immediately started after him, recovered four hundred dollars of her money, and returned in safety. ' Such ton exhibi tion of “pluck” would be unexampled in 1 any but a “Yankee girl.” ■ ' y® Hoarseness. —Take the whites of two eggs, and beat them with two spoonsful of white sugar; graie m a little nutmeg; then add a piutof luke-warm water, otir well, and drink often. Repeat the prescription if necessary, and it wii! cure the most obstinate cases of hoarseness in a short time. Abundance of Weeds. —An English botanist dis covered, by careful examination, 7600 weed seeds in ucfy i C ov ? r 12,600 in a pint of congress seed, .19.410 m a pint .of broad clover, and 25,000 of Dutch clover seed. In a single plant of black mustard he counted over 8,000 seeds, and jn a specimen of char lock 4,000; the seed of a single plant of common dock produced. 4,700 little docks. ■ The white daisy has over 400 seeds in each flower, and sometimes fifty flowers from one root. , Big and Small Salaries . —ln a speech before the Northern Baptist Education Society, Dr. Ide “referred to the remark often made, that we have too many mi nisters, and said the trouble is, that we have too many nl ',’| ters are waiting for and seeking tlie $2,000 and $1,500 salaries. We haven’t enough little mi nisters—those who are satisfied with small parishes and small salaries, and witting to labor self-denyingly for the glory of God.” The Doctor’s remark is true enough; but would he be one to go to a small parish 1 Savings Banks .—The New York Observer gives the.following interesting fact: On'a recent occasion, James W. Gerard, Esq., in addressing the four hundred operatives of Messrs. Haughwout & Co., of Broadway, alluded to the im pprtance of saving their Bpare earnings, and, as an aid thereto,; recommended the use of Savings Banks. A few days afterwards, he received a letter from Mr. Haughwout, stating that upwards of one hundred of ttieir operatives had opened accounts in Savings Banks; depositing, in the aggregate, several thousand dollars. The advice given to Messrs. Haughwont’s workmen is equally applicable to thousands of others in this city and elsewhere,” Heavy Debt*;— The debt of Piedmont, which was about £4,000,000 in 1858, has Increased, up to the present time, to £31,000,000, and the stipulations of V illafranca have caused a further increase of abont The total debt is now upwards of £48,000,000; but, of. this Bum about £4,000,000 has b ?| n contracted for the construction of State railways and other improvements. . Statistics of 1859. —The number of railroad ac cidents in the United States in 1859, by which life was lost, was seventy-nine; killed, one hundred and twenty-nine;, wounded, four hundred: and eleven. This does not include accidents caused by the care lessness of travellers theihselves. In 1858, there were eighty-two such accidents, one hundred and nineteen lives lost, and four hundred and seventeen injured. ; The number of steamboat accidents during the year 1859. was twenty-one: persons killed, two hun dred and forty-two; wounded, one hundred and forty. This is a decrease from those of the previous year. : During the past year 20 persons died in the United States over 100 years of a^e. A-Melancholy Event— Tho Ballston (N. Y.) ‘Journal’gives the following painful incident, which should serve • as a sad warning to many a young manr ; Mr;'Alfred Hamilton, of this town, was brought before, the Court of Sessions, held in this village last week, for forgery, and pleaded guilty. He was sen tenced to Clinton prison for tw.o years. This is in deed a, sad ease. Some few years ago, Mr. Hamil ton was the owner of a good farm in Ballston, and the possessor of forty or fifty thousand dollars, be sides ; hut, like hundreds of other young men placed in similar circumstances, he became the viotim of strong; drink, and squandered all, and has finally closed his brief career in State Prison. jlkrriagfs. SAYRE.—HUDSON. On Tuesday, 27th alt., by the Rey. W. W. Taylor, at the house of the bride’s father, Deacon W. S. Hudson, near Penn Yan, N. Y., Mr. Wm. Henby Saybe of Dundee, to Miss Maby Sociiia Hudson. • PARMELEE.—MARTIN. In Rochester, on the 3d inst., by Rev. Dr. Shaw, at the Brick Church, Rev. A. H. Parmelee, Pastor of Presbyterian Church, Livonia, Livingston Co., N. Y., to Miss Lycintha Mabtzn of Rochester, N. Y. . TAFT. -KIRTON. In West Bloomfield, Ontario Co., N- Y., on the 20th of Dec., by Rev. P. F. Sanbourne, Sir. Robert K. Taet, and Miss Elizabeth Kibtow, all of West Bloomfield. NOTICES. PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE, 1334 Chestnut-Street. Names of Ministers and Residences and Churches. Locations. Adams, E. E., Church, ’ . Adair, Robert . . , Sec. Phila. Home Mis. Soc. Barnes, Albert Ist Church . . Bingham, Amos City Missionary . . Brainf.ro, T., D.D. 3d Church . Brown, Charles . . Sec. Philada. Education Soc. Bruen, Edward B. . ' . Burdett, M. . . 2d Church, Darby . Butler, James G„ . . Walnut St. Church, W. Phil. Chandler, George . , Ist Church, Kensington . Converse, ik’., D.D. Editor Christian Observer Culver, Andrew . Manayunk Church . . Darling, Henry . ... Clinton Street Church Davis, James M. .. A'-U Ist Church, Darby . . . Duefielo, Gkouge,Jk. . . Central Church, N. L. . •■ Dulles, Jno. W. . - . . Sec. Pres. Publication Com. Helffenstein, Jacob, D. D., . $ Market H. Square Chuich Houghton, D. C., D.D. . Editor Amer. Jenkins, John, D. D., . Calvary Church Johnston, Thos. S. . Mantua Church, West Phil. Malin, David, D.D. McLeod, John . ; . Sec. A. B. C. F. M. V . Miller, Jeremiah . Phil. Sab. Association Newberry, E. W. . Olivet Church . . . Patton, John . . . . Logan Square Church Shefhbrd, Thos, J. Ist Church, N. L. . Smith, Charles A., D. D 1 Western Church . . Smith, H. Augustus Twelfth Church Van Deuks, George Tabor Mission. . .... Wallace, Ben. J., D. D., . Editor Pies. Quarterly Rev. ) and Sec. Ch. Bxten. Com. y Ward, John • . ’ . . Ist Chlircll, Southwark Walker, Richard . . Kenilertori Church . . - The Annual Meeting of the Presby tery of Columbus will be held iti the First Presbyterian Church of Baraboo, on the third, Tuesday, the. 17th of January next, at 0} o’clock, P. M. As matters, of im portance are to come before the Presbytery, a full at tendance is earnestly desired. It is to be hoped that no church will fail to he represented. Hiram Grprc $ Stated Clerk „ , „ HIRAM Gregg, J ofPresbyteiy Baraboo, Dec. 22, 1859. . .The admirers of High Art should visit the Dusseldorf Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, where the great painting Parisina, illustrative of Lord Byron’s Rome, with the Government Prize Picture —The Pilgrim Fathers, by Lucy, and the Martyrdom of John Huss, ate on view daily, for a short time, from 9, A. M., to 5, P. M. The next meeting of the Presbytery of lowa City, is at Clinton, oh the 3d Thursday of April, 1860, at o’clock, P. M. Sessional Records, aud.coK lections for the use of the body, will then be called for. S. Storks Howe, St. Clerk. Dec. 16th, 1859. Corporation meeting.—An adjourned meeting Of the Presbyterian Literary and Religious Association will be 1 held on Tuesday evening, 17th inst., at 8 o’clock. Full attendance of the Stockholders is respectfully requested- By order, Benj. J. Wallace, Secretary, pro tern. The Presbytery of Chemung, will hold its annual meet ing at Southport, at two o’clock, P. M. C. 0. Carr. Burdett, Jan. 2nd, 1860. Stated Clerk Burnett’s Cocoaine.—Premature Loss of the Hair, which is so common now.a-days, may be entirely pre vented by the use of Burnett's Cocoaine. It has been used ih thousands of cases where the hair was coming out in handfuls, and has never "failed to arrest its decay,, and to promote a healthy and vigorous growth. It is, *t the same time, unrivalled as.a dressing for the hair. A single application will, render it soft and glossy for 'several days.' See advertisement. . . . American Board.—Receipts at Philadelphia for Novem ber and December, 1859. Phila., First Presbyterian Church. A. B. $lOO.OO, A. W. 100.00, J. B. 75.00, W. L. H. 50.00, W. L. H. for debt 50.00, T. R. 25.00, G. F. D. 50.00 G W. T. 25.00, J. C. .7. 10.00, LR G A ‘ ,0 - 00 ’ S - C - P - 10.00, J. M. 10.00, J. W. 5.00, W. P. L. 5.00, Cash 5.00, D H. W. 5.00. C 45.00 ladies, of whieh $lOO.OO to consti tute Mrs. Margaret Hunter Don. Mem., amt from Mrs. E. P. Wilson $lOO.OO to constitute W. G. Crowell Hon. Mem. 897.00 Mon. Concert Collections. 300.99 1742.99 Clinton St. Church Miss Wetherill 30.00 Pine St. Church, bal. of col. Mon. Concert. Calvary Church Mon. Concert. Southwark Ist Pres. Church. An old Lady. West Chester Pres. .Church. Harrisbuig Ist Pres. Church, Mon. Con. Abington Ist Pres. Church. Fairton, N. J., Pres. Church. Bowling Green, Ky., Thus. Calvert,-Esq. Baltimore, Md., Ist Con. Pres. Church. • Coccus, Colds, Hoarseness, and Influ enza, Irritation, Soreness, or any affec tion of the Throat CURED, the Hackiho 3ough in Consumption, Bronchi ns, Whooping Co won, Asthma, Catarrh, RE LIEVED by BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, or Couch Lozenges. “A simple and elegant combination for Coughs, Sec.” Dr. 6. F. Bigelow, Boston. “ Have proved extremely serviceable for Hoarseness.” Ret. Heniw Ward Beecher. “ I recommend their use to Public Speakers.” , Rev. E. H. Chapin, New York. “Mira? salutary relief wi Bronchitis.” Rev. S. Seiguued, Morristown, Ohio. tc Beneficial when compelled to speak , suffering f ro m Cold.*' Rev. S. Jf. R. Anderson, St. Louis. “ Effectual in removing Hoarseness and Irritation of the Throaty so common with Speakers and Singers. ss Prof. M. STACY JOHNSON, La Grange, Ga. _ Teacher of Music, Southern Female College. “ Great benefit when taken before and after preaching, as they prevent Hoarseness. From their past effect, I think they will be of permanent advantage to me,” Rev. B. Rowley, A. M. President Athens College, Tenn. Sold by all Druggists, at 25 cents per box. Also, Bbowr’s Laxative Tboches, or Cathartic Loz enges for Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Headache, Bilious Affections, &e. 705—6m0s u A SUPERB DRESSING GOWN, MUFFLER, SCARF, TIE or SHAWL. One of these Articles will be very acceptable to your Gentlemen friends. JgDITH’S MINISTRY. MISS McKEEVER'S NEW VOLUME. LINDSAY & BLAKTSTON. Publishers and Bookseller*. „ „ No- 2-s South SIXTH Street, above Cheßtaut, Have Just Published— EDITH’S MINISTRY. ByHarrietß. McKeever,au thoress of “Sunshine,” “Flounced Robe,” etc. One volume, 12m0., cloth. $l. , CONTENTS. The Clifford Family, The Governess, The Strong-Minded Woman, Ralph Cameron, Rosy Dreams, City Cousins, The Two Pastors, Aunt Priscilla, Picture on the Balcony, The Family Chain Broken, Beyond the Sea, Principles Tried, Among the Mountains, Scenes never to be forgotten, Angels’Visits, : Ike Baptism of Grief, Banished, - Disappointed Hope, Misguided Madge, Coming Out, Woodbine Cottage, Is it Madge ? A Wreck upon a Summer Stream, Green Pastures and Still Waters, Autumn Leaves and the Old Eim Tree, The Sister’s Recompense, ' ’ Winter Blasts Around Oak Hall, Evening. Miss M’Keever’s popularity as an authoress has already been well established through her two former volumes, “ Sunshine” and “The Flounced Robe,” which received from the entire Press, to whom they were sent, the most flattering approval, and their sale has attested that they have been likewise appreciated by the public. Also New Editions of SUNSHINE; OR RATE VINTON, By the sake Ao thobess. Price 75 cts. _ THE FLOUNCED ROBE, AND WHAT IT COST. Price 50 cts. 1223 Thompson Street. Broad & Spring Garden. 1703 Filbertst. ab. 17th. Presbyterian House. 255 South Eighth st. Wash. Square, cor. 7th. 223 N. W. Perry st. 634 Pine st. Cor. 4th arid Pine Sts. 2008 Vine st. Presbyterian House. 1531 Chestnut st. Darby. Darby. Chestnutab. Till, W.P. Bet. William and TiU. 492 Richmond st. Gir’d Av. near Han.st. Green near 19th. 48 S. 4th, beL Chestnut. Green larie,Manayunk. Manayunk. 1338 Pine street. 10th below Spruce. SIS Arch street. Darby. 707 N. Bth street. Coates above 3d. Chestnut ab. Till,W. F. 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ALWAYS ON HAND, A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT BIBLES, • TOGETHER WITH TBE DJ3 V 0 TIONAL BOOKS Used in the ' DIFFERENT EVANGELICAL DENOMINATIONS. AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, PHILADELPHIA—II 22 Chestnut Street. NEW YORK-375 Broadway. BOSTON—I4I Washington Street, Offokte Old South Church. For sale by Booksellers generally. Catalogues sent by mail free of charge. 710—714. DELITZSCH ON (pifESIS. The Subscribers announce s Tmoslation of the above valuable Commentary, fiom the Third German Edition, recently issued, by the Her'. C. P. Krauth, Jr., D. D., Translator of « Tholock on the Gospel of John,” to be Issued at an early day. Also, now re^dy GERLACH ON THE PENTATEUCH. A Commentary on the Pentateuch, by Otto Von Ger lach. Translated by the Rev. Henry Downing, Incum bent of St. Mary’s, KirigSwirifdrd. 1 vol. Bvo.‘elofh, 02.50. Stier’s Words of. the Risen Saviour, AND COMMENTARY ON JAMES. Bvo- cloth, 02.00. ( SMITH, ENGLISH & Ccti . 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