JVraeri(an fttsljgtftiau ©eiuaec ®t>ang*list. THURSDAY, SEARCH 1, 1800. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND GENESEE EVANGELIST, 'A WEEKLY FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Published every Thursday, at 1334 Chestnut St ., Philadelphia , Pa. Devoted to the promotion sound Christian doctrine and pare religion, especially as connected with the Constitutional Presbyterian Churoh in the United States of America. To Mail Subscribers, two dollars per year, IN ADVANCE. City Subscribers, receiving their paper through a oarrier, will be charged fifty cents additional. CLUBS. Six copies will be sent to one address fora year for TEN DOLLARS. Ten copies will be sent to one address for a year for SEVENTEEN DOLLARS. Twenty copies will be sent to one address for THIRTY DOLLARS. 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To interest ail the friends of the American tESBYTBHiAN and Genesee Evangelist to do imethiug to increase its circulation and conse lent usefulness, we offer to any person sending three new names, with six dollars, the-paper .or a year, free of charge, for himself or any one Whom he will name. For four new subscribers, with eight dollars, i will send a copy of the Presbyterian- Quar •ly Review for one year. Any person sending ten new subscribers and i verity dollars shall receive from the author a Mete set of Barnes’ Notes on the New Testa- jnt, eleven volumes. To encourage the circu ation of the paper, Mr. Barnes has generously made this liberal proffer to any extent that it may be accepted. PEAIE’S COURT OF DEATH. behave receives.a fine cplored engraving of this celebrated Painting, by Rembrandt Peale, and can endorse all that has been said in its praise. ' is a beautiful and impressive parlor ornament, a sermon on canvass.” The publisher, Mr. Gr. Q. Colton, of No, 87 Park Row, New York, has undertaken something new, in the issue of this work of art. Instead of issuing an editionof five thousand copies, and selling them at fivedgllars S, he has issued 100,d00, and sells them for / dollar each!" • ' ~ We learn from the advertisement which appears another column, that many church societies re undertaken to distribute these “sermons on tvass,” and by the large commissions allowed the sales, to pay off the church debt. It is a id idea. Hundreds will pay a dollar for a beau- iful picture, (worth $5,) who would not give the me to aid a cause in which they have no per mal interest. The distribution of the pictures not fail to do good. : ' For the American Presbyterian. DR. NOTT. A M»«3B TO YOUNG IADIEB. The following letter from the venerable Doctor *t, who, as many ate aware, has been spending winter in our city, was addressed to a class of] ig ladies, who have been privileged to listen courso of interesting and instructive lectures this gifted and learned divine. It was written icknowledgment of a silver goblet, which was >nted to him by his pupils, as a token of their >rd and appreciation of his instructions. As letter possesses general interest, will you have goodness to publish it for the gratification of numerous readers? P. he member* of my Kaimes Clam of PMladel ('«, 1859 — 60. dear Pupils I hate been deeply affected expression of interest and kindness received from a few select members of the young lood of the “City of Brotherly Love,” to city, in the pursuit of my health, I had re and when I ask myself why, since I have , old, infirm, and decrepit, I have received ixpression, the answer which suggests itself, is instinct in man, especially in woman, to .te ruins, and hence the trembling footsteps, impaired memory, the dimmed imagination, the enfeebled intellect, which 'age occasions, veneration; and since they do so, no fitter ision of its existence, towards one whose life m devoted to the oause of Temperance, could iccu selected, than your beautiful new year’s For though, in these degenerate days, the is regarded as a symbol of inebriety,’it is a gross perversion of its - classic as well as import, that it has come to be so regarded. } recently exhumed Bacchus from the ruins mipeii, with a cluster of ripe grapes in his , from which he is expressing its juice into a to be drank by assembled guests, is in evi that the office of the cup-bearer in ancient tee, as well as ancient Egypt, was to express ture unfermenied, and therefore unintoxicating, of the grape to be drank in the courts of , as afterwards it came to be drank in the :s of religion, drank at the wedding in Cana' ililee, drank at the last paschal supper, drank he first supper of our Lord, ana is to be drank \ his disoiples in'the kingdom of his Father; n all these instances, the wine drsnkj and to 'auk, was new, unfermented, and therefore ixieating wine. dear young friends, you and I may never exchange new year’s salutations, or give or c new year’s fbkensof affection or respect — mr successors will, even after the youngest of ill cease to live or to be remembered. But hen, we shall not cease to exist. It is the mt only that rime crumbles down; the death* mnt survives that wreck, and there is a world no graves exist, no weeds of mourning are TERMS. PREMIUMS. worn, no tears are shed or sighs uttered. Where the trees arei trees of life, and the rivers are rivers of life. To that blest world, you may now, through faith in Jesus Christ, the sole Proprietor, transfer what ever you possess on earth that is worth preserving, and secure an inheritance, laid up in heaven, to' be taken possession of at death. j There, my dear pupils, I appointed to meet you. > There, be our separation on earth short or long, may that God, who holds our future in hid hand, grant, that as one by one we sink into the grave, we may, one by one, reassemble in the everlasting kingdom, to resume our studies, sublimcr studies, I under the tutelage of Him, who seated at the right hand of God, will to all eternity continue to be the Teacher of righteousness to those whom he hath sanctified by his Spirit, as well as redeemed by his blood. Till then, dear pupils, adieu. Yours affectionately, Euph’t Nott. fpdijjiWtiS fitMligtna. Dr. Seudder at the Hoon-day Prayer Meeting. —After some introductory remarks, D'r.- Soudder said— ■ -■ "Probably I can give you an idea of the brighter side of Death, when I teliyou of the departure of a good Hindoo brother, once aheathen,’ whom I bap tised long ago in India. When I went to perforin the ceremony, his wife became so infuriated that 'she -threw Band and dirt upon both myself and him, and went -screaming and raving around us in the most boisterous and horrid manner—so incensed was she at the thought of his losing caste by becoming a Christian. Finding her threats and outrageous con duct did not prevent his baptism, she went at once to their house, picked up all she could get away with, and taking the children with her, left him and his house, intending never to return. For eight long years that good man lived a faithful Christian life. I can say of him what I wish I could say of myself: I never saw a fault in him. He became what we call a Catechist, a native helper or lay-preacher, and many, many times have ho and I together gone about among the Hindoo villagers, preaching the gospel of Christ.. Finally his time came to die/ He had but recently gone a long distance to see his wife and chil dren, and urge them to return to his house—for he loved them just asjpuch as we love our own fami lies. When I think of his death, of the calm, quiet, faith then exhibited, of the perfect peace and still ness, and then of the glory of that: hour, I can’tbut associate it in my mindwith a glorious and golden summer sunset, when the heavens are a blaze of glory from the horizon to the zenith, and when each cloud that floats in the air adds, its reflection to the scene. The valley of the shadow of death was ho dark valley to him/ No, the light from the other end of the distant pathway came streaming along it, so that he could see the glory from beyond the valley. I brought nay wife into the room to enjoy with me the blessed privilege of beholding such a death. He recognised her with the Hindoo ‘salam.’- I then brought my children in, anxious that they too should behold the glorious sight. His own wife came in just before,he died, her tiger-spirit relenting when she heard of his extreme illness. She threw her arms around his neck, and wept bitterly.' As' long as we could hold converse with him as he passed down the valley, all was bright, all was serene, all was perfect peace. Thus he died,—robbing death of its terrors and taking away from my mind all'that is dark, from the valley of the shadow of death. Who would nob die thus ? Surely, the man is a /riwt who is apt: .g ’OtatMwri — —-'■ ‘ Oahu College.—Rev. Mr. Alexander who has spent; several months in the principal cities of the North, endeavoring to secure an endowment to Oahu College, will return to the Sandwich Islands about the 20th of next month. We learn from him that about $24,000 have'been secured toward the endow ment, including $lO,OOO pledged by the government of the Island, Rev. Cyrus T. Mills, of Ware, Mass., hat accepted the Presidency of the Institution, and will soon go out to take charge of the college. One gentleman has given encouragement that be will en dow a professorship, and we wonder that wealthy men who would do a good work to •live after them-in increasing usefulness, do not come forward and meet the moderate 'demand which this infant institution needs to meet its present necessities. The Oldest Greek Manuscript of the Bible Ex tant. —About a year ago, the Government of Russia sent the Celebrated-Professor Tischendorf to the-East for the purpose of instituting a thorough search in the various Greek, Syrian, Persian, and Abyssinian , monasteries for ancient manuscript records supposed to exist there, and to secure' them, if possible, by purchase. Prof. Tischendorf has returned to Russia, and-brings with him, amoDg other rare remains, the very oldest .Greek manuscript of the Bible extant. Besides the important and Valuable contents of the Old Testament, of the same text as that used by the Apostles in their quotations, the manuscript contains the whole of the New Testament. The various Eu ropean libraries all possess many MS. copies of the Bible, hut not a single one of the few written before the tenth century that contains all the New Testa ment. The two hitherto regarded as the oldest and most complete, and held in the highest estimation; are those in the libraries of Borne and London. But the former wants four entire epistles of St. Paul, and nearly the half of another, as also the Book of Reve lation; while in the latter the whole of the Gospel of St. Matthew is missing, as well as some parts of St. John and the Pauline Epistles. The manuscript discovered at Mount Sinai, and now -brought to St. , Petersburg};, is not defective, even in the smallest degree; on the contrary, it contains two works even in addition, one complete, the other but partially so. Of one of them, the Epistle of Barnabas, nearly the whole of the first half has been wanting until now, in the original Greek text; while of the other, only one very imperfect copy was known to exist up to three years ago. The date of the manuscript' has been fixed by Prof. Tischendorf at the beginning of the fourth century. No other copy of the Bible is of higher antiquity than this; indeed, the far-famed -Codex Tdticanus is the-only one that can at all put in any claims of competition. BeUgio'n in Berlin, Pnusia-—ln a recent let ter from Germany to the oehistir Amsrican, an able writer says:— It is astonishing to : a foreigner to see bow little church going there is in Berlin, and how few churches there are for so great a city—l do not remember the figures, bat I think there is only one church to abont 15,000 inhabitants, and the churches, with the exception of the Cathedral and a few others where a great preacher and fine music draw a crowd, are never more than a quarter full/ Only a couple of Sabbaths before I left Berlin, I attended one of those great churches built by Frederick the Great, in the Oend’armsPlatz. A celebrated preacher was to de liver the sermon the day I went, and I .expected to see the house crowded. The, sermon was an excel lent one, full of argument and rich in earnest, reli gions spirit, but besides three of ns Americans, only two other men were present in the great, cold church; the twenty or thirty others who were there were all women, and the most of them old women. “ Tholuck says that there are no young men to fill the places of the orthodox theologians who are just gone. There are great forebodings for the fqture iff the minds of the best theologians in Berlin." Uranian fta&jrtaiw The Missionaries in Constantinople.— Rev. W. H. Van Doren writes to the ‘Central Christian He- rald ’ from the city of the Sultan, in regard to the character and work of the American Missionaries there. After exhibiting the progress which the gos pel is making through their labours, he speaks of in jurious representations which he had heard concern ing them, in the following vehement terms: “And yet, my readers will scarcely be able to cre dit the truth that, we-met those who belong to evan gelical .churches in the United States slandering those men of God! Can it be possible that the enemy of heaven and .earth can instil such a bitter poison into the soul of man, as to persuade them to lift a finger against these martyrs to their God? We saw them amid their desolate homes, toiling day. by day, en- during sacrifices, taking up crosses, which these silken Christians from my native land would not touch with one o£ their fingers. I could hardly credit my senses to bear men of good standing in our heaven-exalted cities, insinu ating that secular designs and sinister motives were actuating these men of Christ. We would add, — ‘they know not what they say.’ It never has been and never will- be put in print, what these brethren endure, for-the sake of their Master. . Their self-denials, their sacrifices, their heavy crosses, their afflictions, are all known and will be remembered by their. Master hereafter. Their re cord is on high; Never did I realize their sacrifices, nor ' can the truth be/half told, until one sees and hears for himself, in this land of darkness./ Here the curse rests in vengeance, and the midnight of sin crushes the'hearts and hopes of millions of out ru-, ined race.” Another American clergyman, who is spending the winter at Constantinople, for the restoration of impaired health, communicates to the ‘lndependent’ the impressions which he has derived from living in the families of the missionaries, attending their so cial religious meetings, seeing them in their daily work, and witnessing its, fruits, urging the import ance of relieving the American Board from its finan cial embarrassments, he says “My heart aches when I see the. efforts of these missionaries so crippled, and for such a cause. How much more, then, must the hearts of these dear bre thren ache, who have labored here for years, who have borne the heat and burden of the day, to be thus crippled in their efforts, when they are just be ginning to reap the rich harvest of that seed which they have sown in tears ? The missionaries not only do the work, but they give of their money, and much more liberally, according to their means, than do the churches at home. They not only give directly to the funds of the Board, as do Christians at home— but they pay from, their own pockets many a little -sideway expense which is never known, outside of their .own circle, except to God..; And they do this often at what would be called in America a sacrifice of the necessaries of life.. Still, they do not complain: they labor on like men devoted to their work, and as though there was no time to be idle till that work was done. They have forsaken all for Christ, and they do - not murmur at being obliged to deny themselves for him now.” When. I look at the American churches from, the stand-point I here'occupy: when I look at the rich spiritual blessings God has sent down upon them the last two or three years; when I consider the hun dreds of thousands of dollars annually expended by them for mere luxuries, or for that which is positively injurious to soul and body both, —and then turn my eyes, and,look at this field; at these dear brethren toiling on, patiently and faithfully; at these inquiring Armenians, at these thousands;, of : Mohammedans reading the Bible, add some of. them-coming to the missionaries and asking the privilege of. being bap tized in the name of Jesus; when I look at this field so white for the harvest, I ask, earnestly ask—When, oh, when ! will Christians take their true position as it respects the world’s conversion?- When will they come up from the dust, put on -Christ entirely, and beedme his true epistle' to be*known and read-JOf-ATT „• - * - L.flt J W ■S* feutd ~ are the Lord’s, ,and the eattle upon a thousand hills; and that to withhold from God what is his due, dis honors him, and brings-leanness into the -soul ? Un til Christians learn this lesson,; and act accordingly, they can never sing the jubilee of the world’s conver sion to Christ” J. L, D. The Revivals in. Scotland. —The..*? Revival Re cord," a paper published at Glasgow, is filled with accounts of the revival at Glasgow, and the extra services in Edinburgh, Pollookslaws," Perth, Ayr, Dumbarton, Hamilton, Helensburg, &c., &c. It says— , “ The course adopted is to invite anxious inquirers forward to the communion rail, and to the vestry, as an opportunity is thereby given for their immediate direction to the Saviour, while the prayers of the people of God ascend to the throne of grace oh their behalf, The number of persons who have thus sought the Lord in these services was stated ,to have been upwards offiveßnhdFSd, at the close of the services of last Sabbath night; of these, more than four hun dred had given satisfactory evidence of having found peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Pressing invitations from other places are likely soon to deprive Glasgow of the services of Dr, and Mrs. Palmer. The encouraging Btate of things, how ever, induces them to prolong their stay longer than they first intended. The above extract is from the Record of Jan. 21st. A paper of the 25 th says that up to that date the names of eight hundred persons have been re corded. Extra -Services, in London- —A number of the theatres have been opened in London for divine ser vice on Shnday afternoons and evenings; among the number are the following: The Garrick Theatre,'Leman street, Whitecha pel. _ Effingham" Theatre, Whitechapel Head. New Concert Hall, Limehouse. Winchester Hall, Minor Theatre, attached to a ta vern, Southwark Bridge. Road. Astley’s Horsemanship Circus and Theatre, West minster Road. . ' Royal Albion Theatre, (late Rotunda,) Blackfriars Road. Saddler’s Wells Theatre, Clerkenwell. The united committee, for providing, special reli gious services for the working class have published a notice Bigned by Lord Shaftesbury, in which they say— “ The mode .of conducting the services it is proposed to leave open to the judgment of the officiating cler gyman or minister. “The committee, on their part, promise to use their utmost endeavors to fill the various buildings with the class of persons sought to be benefited; and be lieving themselves that nothing is so likely to strike the senses of the unthinking multitude as a combined movement of this character, they sincerely trust that all denominational distinctions will be held as su bordinate to the paramount duty of saving the souls of the perishing. “The committee think it only due to themselves, and to the public to state the principal considerations which have influenced them to engage, in some in stances, the use of the theatres for carrying out the object of the conference on special religious services held Nov. 22d. \ “1. The deplorable spiritual condition of the working classes in London, as shown by the esti mate that about two in every hundred of the work ing men are found to attend any place of public wor ship. “2. The impossibility of obtaining neutral secular buildings in the localities. “3. The unfortunate prejudice existing, as a rule, among the working classes against churches and cha pels as such. "4, The smallness of the sum (generally required *by the-lessees for the use of their theatres." * Interesting; from India. —By the Arabia ure have the following: f ‘ ' The Overland Friend of India states that the Ra jah of Kuppoorthulia, who recently married a Chris tian girl, has established a mission, to be supported entirely by hiinßelf. Mr. Woodsido/of Dehra Doon, and Dr. Newton, meditelffliiasionary, have charge of the new mission. Therajan has thrown off all caste prejudices, and is diligently studying the Scriptures, with a view to baptism. This is the first instance in which a native chief has established and supported an entire mission on-TOI own estates. Dhuleep Singh gave liberal to "the" American and other missions. '1 . ' Hamilton College.!— B. S. Walcott, Esq., of New York Mills, has subscribed fifteen tbousanddollsrs— aud his son, Wm. D.i Walcott, Esq., five thousand dollars, to Hamilton College, Tor the endowment of the Walcott Professorship of-the Evidences of Chris tianity, of which the President of the College is the incumbent. Sixty thousand dollars have been,, se cured to the College by Rev. Dr. Goertner, most of if in Oneida county, during the twelve or thirteen months he has acted as Commissioner. Dr. Goertner expects to raise $150,000. The Ninth Church in Portland, Maine:— Rev. Dr. Chiokering, of Portland, has lately received a be quest of eight thousand dollars, from a lady of his congregation, recently deceased -iu Florida, towards the erection and maintenance of a Free Congrega tional Chapel in the western section of that pity. This wise gift grew out of lady's deep interest in a Sabbath School which she formerly attended as a teacher,? ifi that. neighborhood; Thus <rae..good, way for ano ther! A gentleman of Dr., Chickering’s congregation, bn his departure for Europe, left with his pastor a,deed of a valuable lot of land for the same purpose. This will be the ninth place pf worship! under the control of orthodox Congregationalists, in that city, of thirty thousand inhabitants. ' " The New Haven Register declares that the Rev. Dr._Littlejohn, of that cjty, has decided to accept the call to the Church ofthelHolyrErinity, Brooklyn, New York. J- •• Mr, Spurgeon, in ou|e of his letters says, that in his church, “for more i»an five years, we have had all the fruits of a revivaljwithout its excessive excite ment. The number of [converts seems to be as con stant as if some Divine iaw regulated and controlled their influx. Each week- brings its quota, until we have no room to . accommodate them at the com munion-table—and areiobliged* to meet in two bo dies, that all may find £ Rev. Dr. McMaster uhaa Jbeen mentioned in con nexion with the Professiwiap! atPriucetou.rendered vacant by the death ofp|df. Alexander. Rev. Mr. has declined the appoint ment as one of the Evangelists of the G.eorgia Sy nod. Dr.-Stiles commenced his labors on the 10th instant, at Augusta. f - The Murray writes to the Observer that the Teij-Centenary is riot given up —the plan of holding a /great Presbyterian meeting in London, with delegates from '.all Presbyterian bo dies in the world, was found, impracticable; and is given up. But the Synod of England, the Estab lished, the Free, the United Presbyterian Churches of Scotland, the Scottish Reformation, Society, and, probably, the General Assembly of Ireland, will all celebrate the Tercentenary of the Reformation. So that instead of one great central celebration, there will be four, five, or six|lesser ones, at different times and places. The of the, Synod of England > about the middle of April,;may be too oPuur anlTthat of ffio^Soottish ./ ... •: o— may be too late. But efforts are being made to havfe each of these changed to a day more conve nient. But whether changed or not, delegates- fjpm our Presbyterian churches Will be welcomed to them all; the only difference beiag that they will have five or more celebrations to attehd, instead of one. , - Marquette (Lake Sui society of this place snug frame .church, 28s about the first of Novenj cupied on the second -p Presbytery of Lake Sup C. B. elder J ers to the, next General Wheeler and elder Ely, i . Kev. M- Hopkins, of Cayuaga, has removed to Geneva, N. Y. AH whom this may concern n will pleasa-take notice. >g\ v . * ;/ •: ' . VC The Rev. H. N. Millard,having removed fronrSAu bum, requests correspondents to address him at Truxtoh, Portland Co., N Y. At a Meeting of the P oiety of East Pembroke, nuary, 1860, the follbwin] mously adopted: Whereas, the Rev. Wal|er Y. Couch has tendered his resignation as Pastor of this church'and Society, and has requested a dissolution of the relation exist ing between us as pastor apd people, therefore, Resolved, That while,onj account of the embarrass ments under which the 'Satiety at present labor, we deem it advisable to accedl to his request, we, at the same time, deeply deplore the necessity of a separa-. tion from one who has endeared himself to us through labors and sympathies of inearly three years by so many qualities of the mind and heart- Resolved, That we have listened with pleasure and; profit during his connexion with ns, to his faithful, forcible, and cleat expositions of .the Word of God, which we feel assure4hawS® en ‘l >^@Be d good of the Society and our i . . *Jtesc%Ded, That our bestvnshes and most fervent prayers follow him; ,aiid we cotamend him most cheerfully to the Warm sympathies and Christian love of that people for whom; in the providence ; of God, he may be called to labour, and the guidance and blessings of our conhndn Father in heaven. Resolved, That these Reaelutionsbe entered on the minutes of the Society, and that a copy of the Bame be handed to Mr. Couch, and that they also' be pub lished in the “American Presbyterian." Lectures Befori jdelphia Sabbath School Teachers’ . <*cion.-r-At the close of the seventh and last lecture of the course delivered before the Sabbath-school teachers of Philadelphia, at the First Baptist churetj, on motion ofJlr. Wm. S. Pierce, Matthew Newkirk, Esq., was called to the chair, and Mr. J. S. Camnunge was appointed Secretary. |- The following Resolutions were presented by Mr, Pierce, and unanimously adopted,- viz.: Resolved, That the thanks of the superintendents and teachers of the Sabbath-sobools of this city he, and they are hereby, tendered to jjohn S. Hart, Esq., the Rev. W. J. R. Taylor, the Rev. Chambers, the Rev. Richard Brantley, D, D., the Rev. J, Wheaton Smith, and the Rev. W. M. Cornell, for their eloquent and instruo tive lectures delivered before us. , Resolved, That the thanks, of this meeting be pre sented to the Rev. James H. Cuthbert, pastor, as well as the Board of Trustees, for the use of their church, in which has been delivered a course of lec tures, before the Sabbath-schboi teachers, and that a copy of the same be presented to them. • .... t . Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting are here by given to Matthew Newkirk, Esq., Rev. Edward Lounebery, and Wm. Bucknell, Esq., committee of perior.)—The .Presbyterian re biiilt, and now occupy, a 50. The work- was begun (her, and the house was oc lunday in January. The crior have appointed Rev. 1 W. Edwards commissiou !| Assembly, and Rev. Mr. Aternates. ; esbyterian Church and So eid on the 24th day of Ja ; Resolutions were unani- arrangements, for their, disinterested and valuable services in procuring the delivery of this course of lectures, and that the Sunday-school cause is greatly indebted to them, as weU**s to the gentlemen who have delivered the lectures, for their services in this behalf. Resolved, That the above proceedings be published in the religious newspapers of'this city. M. Newkirk, Chairman. J. S. CcitarmGs, Secretary.. At t&e Meeting of the Ithaca Presbytery, in Ja ; nuary, Rev. Dr. Wisher was appointed our delegate commissioner to the General Asssembly. Bev. L. Kellogg was appointed alternate. _ -fke ® e v. Henry Travier was appointed commis sioner to Auburn Seminary, in place of Rev. T. Dwight Hunt—who has been dismissed from Presby tery. . ft* ws The Messrs. Blackwood have in press the .late Sir William Hamilton’s Lectures on Logic. It is in two volumes, and edited, like Sir William’s Lectures on Metaphysics, by Rev. Mr. Mansel, (of fiamplon Lec tures celebrity) and Mr. Johii Veitch. They will be reproduced here from advanced sheets, by Messrs. Gould & Lincoln. •The eighth volume of Mr. Bancroft’s History is now in press, and will probably be issued shortly. It is the second volume of that portion of the work relating to the history of the Revolutionary War. Messrs. Little, .Brown & Co., of “Boston, are pre paring for publication, a Volume which will be of great interest to natggelists and geologists. It will contain photo-lithographic prints of the most remarkable of the fossil foot-prints of the Connecticut Valley, collect ed by the late Dr. Deane, of Greenfield. This col lection was, by far, the most complete ever made,- surpassing even the fine one in the Museum of Amherst College.. The vplume will be uniform in style with Agassiz’s contribution, and will be superintended by Dr. Gould, Bowditeh, and other scientific men, for the benefit of family. The new American Cyclopedia, now issuing from Appleton’s press, has been denounced as te incendiary,” by some of “ our Southern brethren.” . According to a rumor afloat in London, Thackeray contemplates a" continuation of Macaulay’s History of England. ' * In a recent lecture, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher gave an account of his first year in the ministry, the first flock which he gathered, consisting only of nine teen poor women. He was then not only pastor, but the sexton of the church, filling and lighting the lamps, which he was compelled to buy himself, kindling the fires and sweeping out the chnrch. He did not ring the hell, because he had none to ring. Nearly all the Southern pupils of the Bethlehem, Pa., Female Institute, have withdrawn from that insti tution within the, past, few days, for the same reason that the Southern medical students left.the colleges in Philadelphia. Five young ladies,- from Mississippi, left a few days since. - President Buchanan is one of the hardest working men in Washington. He enters his office at BA. M° every morning, having taken a light breakfast at 7 1-2, and there works steadily at his desk, receiving visitors, reading letters, and writing messages and orders, until 4 o’clock each afternoon, except on days when the Cabinet is called together for the transaction of special ■business. These -Cabinet meetings generally cont inence at I F. M., and sometimes last four, five, and oftentimes six hours. : Messrs. Sheldon & Co. announce as forthcoming, a, life of Dayid, King of Israel, with geographical,: his* torical,an3topogTatthicflltn*hU"»’ ' '■ It is now understood by those acquainted with affairs at Harvard College, that Prof. Huntington will retain his connexion with the. University for the present year at least. Ex-Governor Ford, of Ohio, was elected printer to the-House of Representatives yesterday. Ail the Re publicans present voted for him, and Mr, Anderson, South American, of Kentucky. The French government, in order' to stop the im mense exportation of silver money from France, is about to call in and change this currency, in order to diminish the' amount of-silver in each piece, and thus render their mean value less than their recognised value. Mr. Keitt, a member of Congress from South Caro lina, received a despatch on Friday, announcing that his elder brother, a physician residing at Pilatka, Florida, had been murdered in his bed by some of his slaves. His head had been almost severed from his body. When the murder was committed, Dr. Keittwas confined to his bed by'sickness. At the call of the Society for promoting the better observance of the Sabbath, in New York City, an audience that nearly filled Cooper Institute assem bled on evening. Mr, Norman White pre sided, and the rostrum was filled with a number of prominent clergymen and laymen. Rev. Mr. Cooke, Secretary of the Association, made a detailed state ment of its 'operations with reference to stopping the Sunday liquor traffic, showing that since the. enforce ment of Mr, Pilsbury’s order, crime has decreased with wonderful rapidity.*. Addresses were also made by Bishop Janes, Rev. Mr. Hoge, and Mr. George Douglass—the latter gentleman contributing f2OOO for the purposes of the. Society. A young man named Baker, from Rome, N. Y., lately went to Augusta, Georgia, to take the position of organist in the Episcopal Church. After one Sab bath’s labor, the whole town was aroused by the fact that he was a Northerner, and, as was supposed, an anti-slavery man, and forthwith he was notified to quit the State at once, and he did so—only too glad to! -have escaped tar-and-featherh,'as a' penalty for having been born on Northern soil. The number "of" interments in the city, last week, were 247—an excess of 43 over the previous week. Of these, there were, males, 122; females, 125; boys, 74; girls, 75. From the Almshouse, 18; colored, 12; country, 1. The steamship Baltic , arrived at New York, and brings California dates to the-Gth instant, two days later than by the overland mail. Ex-Governor La tham was a passenger, on his way to Washington, to fill the Senatorial seat lately occupied by Senator Frederick. The Baltie -brings $1,400,000. Her ge neral news, as well from the Isthmus and South Ame rica as from California, is of no especial interest. The gold news from Pike's Peak is encouraging. A new and rich gulch has been discovered about ten miles from Gregory’s diggings. Two cords of quartz obtained between Denver City and Gregory’s mines had yielded $l7OO in gold. The particulars of the late terrible wreck on Sable Island come in slowly.. It is now thought that nearly fiVe hundred souls must have perished by the Hun-, gairian, though there w, as yet, no certainty that she hadonboardiialfthat number: ’• The Chinese seem destined to get the principal be hest of the Frazer River mines. A Wesleyan mis sionary says they are arriving in large numbers, and while, others are grumbling or hesitating, or in too many instances drinking and gambling, the Chinese go to the mines, work hard and spend little. They neither drink nor gamble, and are anxious to learn our language. - Robert J. Breckenridge, the uncle of the Vice Presi dent, who recently warned his nephew against falling iftto the hands of the Nuilifiers, is severely denounced by the fire-eaters as an Abolitionist,- and disciple of John Brown. • " ’ v. ; : ' .The conduct of James P. HamMeton.edito* of the Southern Confederacy, published at Atlanta, Georgia, is the subject of much comment and severe animad version in all circles. This is the man who has been the principal actor in the system of espionage insti tuted with respect to the.political complexion of the leading merchants in New York city and Philadel phia. Some lime ago he was in New York on this errand, and received, it is said, some $9,000 for adver tising different houses as friendly to the interests of the South, Accordingly he has published a “ black?* and,“white" list, the former comprising those Mr. Hainbleton represents to be hostile to the South, and the latter those he-eonsiders faithful to Sou them'in terests. The former includes almost every large house of- note in New York, while the latter is com posed, for the most part, of firms scarcely known to the commercial world. The discovery of the real character of the objects of this man, arouses the con tempt and scorn of all right thinking men of all sec tions, and all parties. And those who have allowed themselves to.be “black mailed” by such an indivi dual, will not find themselves gainers in the end. The Journal of Commerce calls attention to the matter qf the slave trade, and says that parties in New York eity are actively engaged in this nefarious business, so entirely condemned by the law of God and the law of the land. This paper is not gene rally considered too sensitive with regard to slavery, so that its utterance now is not likely to have been made without most abundant evidence. How to Prevent Vice and Grime.— The police authorities of _New York, seem alarmed at the rapid decrease in crime, the-last Quarterly Report showing a railing' off of seven thousand in the ramiber of arrests I The philosophy of this novel fact is ably reviewed by the limes—the “Winter” theory exploded—and the real cause traced to- the suppression of the Sunday dram-shops, as follows: ' .The remarkable feet, then, that forty-three per cent, of crime inisbeen prevented in a single quarter, re mains to be accounted for by other methods than those of the Department established “to prevent crime.” Gan it be accounted for? We think it can. One fact of the General Superintendent seems to sug gest the philosophy the Department are slow to recog nise—the uniformly greater number of arrests on the week days “than, on Sunday, when a considerable number of liquor shops were closed,” They"used to be twenty fve per cent, more on Sunday than on any other days. Daring the last quarter they have been sons e sixty per cent, less; and it would not have re quired a large streteh of the reasoning powers to have connected Sabbath sobriety with week-day'order, so as to have furnished at least a probable or proximate cause for obvions effects, alike creditable to the De partment and grateful to good citizens. Certain it is that no single measure to which the Police Department has applied its powers was ever more welcomed and sustained by the comnMinityrtbrin; the attempt to sup press tHe'Sutiday liquor traffic. Our ground of amaze ment is, that having in a, good degree accomplished their object, with results that gladden every heart, they shonid fail to comprehend the moral bearing of their own doings—ignore the clue to their true policy for the future—and place on the brow of “Winter”' the civic crown won by their own industry and fidelity, and which a gratelul and. hopeful community are eager to place on. the head of the man or the Depart ment by whose agency crime is prevented and our Sabbath quiet restored. Hoops. —lt was reported some time ago that the* Empress of the French had decided to leave off hoops, and of course the fashionable world was to follow her example- But it seems when the experiment was made, the court looked so lank and lean that the ladies were seized with horror and dismay. So they went-back to skirts again, and noware in as.fullsaii as ever. 'That the fashion has not died out here, ap pears from the fact that Dougias and Sherwood are receiving constant arid large orders from all parts of the country. One order last week was for 1,500 dozen 1 They have just issued an improved pattern, called the “Belle of the South,” which surpasses all hoops before. . Incendiary Documents.— The doctrine adopted by the Postmaster General, as to incendiary docu ments and pubjications in the mail, is -beginning+« pains ,isu aajrpiijuquuts. ■ A Afmjti.ridM.Lir uigi covered in the Religious —that is, in a newspaper _Bo_ called, published in Ohio—something which in his judgment was unsafe for circulation in Virginia. His objections appear to have been di rected more to the general opinion of the paper than to any particular expression, and so he wrote to the editor'that it would be unlawful to deliver the paper to subscribers any longer, and that, if it came to his office, it would be' committed to the flames. The editor complained to the Department through Mr. YaUandigham, and the Postmaster General was forced to send to the vigilant postmaster, expounding to him the law of Virginia, and warning him that under the Virginia) statute, where a single copy of any particular newspaper contains matter decided by the State authorities to be incendiary in its cha racter, it does not, therefore, follow that any subse quent numbers of the same paper are to be condemned for that cause, but every number of the paper must be acted upon and disposed of separately. Baffling in a Church. —They seem to make the world work for the Church somewhat strangely in California. For the aid of Grace Church, m San Francisco, the parishioners got up a raffle, which yielded $5,000, and mean to follow it up with a ball, and other similar attractive methods of money-raising, until $45,000 necessary funds are raised. We learn from the most reliable authority, that the Church, in Sacramento, in order to raise the needful, first had ,a lottery, then a ball in the theatre, and being still minus about $5,000, they wound up by “bucking the tiger/' It can hardly be said that “the children of this world" are ahead of the episcopal. Longevity of our Forefathers— No less than thirteen of the fifty-Bix signers of American Independ ence reached the age of eighty years and upward; namely, Charles Carroll, of Maryland...... 95 William Ellery, of Rhode Island, 93 John Adams, of Massachusetts 91 Samuel Adams, of Massachusetts, 91 Robert Treat Paine, of Massachusetts, 93 Benjamin Franklin, of Massachusetts, 84 William Williams, of Connecticut,. 91 William Floyd, of Long Island 87 Thomas M'Kean, of Pennsylvania, 83 Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, 83 George Wythe, of Virginia, 89 Francis Lewis, of South Wales 90 Matthew Thornton, of Ireland,. 89 Being an average of eighty-six years and two months each"; and the aggregate excess of the “time honored thirteen " over fourscore is just eighty years. No deliberative assembly .of equal magnitude was ever more remarkable for'the virtue, temperance; and longevity of its members than the one which declared the American colonies free and independent. A Safe Railroad. —The entire number of pas sengers carried during the past year on the Penn, sylyania Central .Railroad, running between Phila delphia and Pittsburgh, was one million four hun dred and fifty-nine thousand one hundred'and ten. Of this immense number not a single life was lost. ’ Blurring?. HODGMAN—BALCOM—Married, at Fainted Post, February Ist, at the residence of Judge Balcom, by Rev. T. M. Hodgman, of York, Warren Stone Hodgman, Esq., and Miss Jennie Cornelia, youngest daughter of Hon. Lyman Balcom, of Painted Post. SURD AM—HALL—AIso, by the same, at York,Feb ruary 23d, Mr. Young-love Surdam, of Wyoming, and Miss Jane D. Hall, daughter of Mr. William Hall, of New York. LATHROP—NOYES—At Buffalo, on Wednesday, February 15th, by Rev. G.- D. Gillespie, of Palmyra, John P. P. Lathrop, of Le Roy, to Miss Anna B. Noyes, of the former place. Mni\jr Died, at Elmira, N. Y., Mrs. Sarah W., wifeofSimeon Benjamin, aged 64 years. Died, at her residence near Chadd’s Ford, Chester Co., on the 20th February, Mas. Harriet 0. Biunton, wife of Caleb Brmtbn, Jr., and daughter of John A Granger, of Canandaigua, N. Y., aged 29 years. NOTICE. Cluircli rrayer Rleetiug. —The Union Prayer Meeting of our denomination, four next week, will be held on Toesdav Evening, at 7) o’clock, in the Ist Church, Kensington, (late Rev. Mr. Chandler’s,) on Girard .Avenue, below Second street. To be reached by the Second street (Richmond) cars'. .ADVEMSEKim REV. STEPHEN II TTNG, D. D., IS MOW COITRIBITTIffG A Series of Articles THE INDEPENDENT, JERTITLED "Familiar letters on Sunday Schools.” These interesting, popular and practical letters con taining the results of the experience of the most success to h? S f nday Schools in the country ought to be m the hands of every Sunday School Superinten ftoteSfent Churth. SOllolar,!md eV “ y minister in the “ YCar; byCarrieri JOSEPH H. RICHARDS, PUB-LISHERj Ko. S Beekman street, New York. Clrareli Debts, and Peale’s Court of Death. REMEMimAKT Peai.e painted Washington from life which painting now adorns the Capitol, having been purchased by the United States Government, for 42,000. Bpt his^ most elaborate work—the work on which his feme mainly rests—is his great painting or “The Court of Death. This.pictnre, covering 312 square feet of can vass, is valued at $25,000. Since tire Bf.autifbl Engravings of the Court of Death were issued, over 12,000 copies have been sold, and the demand is daily increasing. The size is 23 by 31 inches, printed in oil colors, and it is universally admitted to he the finest specimen of Chromo-Eithographic Artever issued iq this city. " As a warning against vice, and an encouragement to yirture—as illustrating the good of a Christian life-it is like “apples of gold in pictures of stiver,” and more valuable than volumes of written or spoken discourses. No family where virtue, good morals and religion are cultivated, ean afford to be without it. 6 „ Several Church Societies instead of holding A Fair to raise funds to pay debts, are now selling from 1,000 to 3,000 of these “sermons on canvass,” and are meeting with the most encouraging success. Thou sands will purchase a beautiful picture (worth $5) for one dollar , who would not give fhe same sum to a worthy cause. Where the Engravings are ordered in large quantities, and for this purpose, they are furnished at but a trine above cost. Reference* Hon. Millard Fillmore, Rev. Dr. Bright, Rev. Dr. Abel Stevens, Kev. Dk. Porter, Rev. D*. Asa D. Smith, Rev. Gorham D. Abbott, New-Yorks Rev. Henht M. Dexter, Boston. For One Copy, $l, and 4 letter stamps to pay postages Six Copies for so, without stamps; One Copy with Let ter of Agency, stating special terms, and 40 Pamphlets, $1 and 6 letter stamps. _ ’ . 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