1860 ®ento£c ®»aufieliot. TIIU RBD A T i SEARCH IS, 1800. the American Presbyterian and GENESEE EVANGELIST, A WEEKLY FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Published every 'Thursday, at 1334 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Devoted to the promotion of sound Christian doctrine and pure religion, especially as connected with the Constitutional Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. TERMS. To Mail Subscribers, two dollars per year, IN ADVANCE. City Subscribers, receiving their paper through a carrier, will be charged fifty cents additional. Six copies will be sent to ono address for % 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. Clubs inay be formed to commence with' the first of January,, and to secure the deduction, the money must invariably be paid in advance. 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To interest all the friends of the American Presbyterian and GenesebS Evangelist to do something to increase its circulation and conse quent usefulness, We offer to any person sending us three new names, with six dollars, the paper for a year, free of charge, for himself or any one whom he will name. Por four new subscribers, with eight dollars, we will send a copy of the Presbyterian Quar terly Meitiew for one year. Any person sending ten new subscribers and twenty dollars shall receive from the author a complete set.of Barnes' Notes on the New Testa ment, eleven volumes. To encourage the circu lation of the paper, Mr. Barnes has generously made this liberal proffer to any extent that it may be accepted. Philadelphia, Fob. Sd, 1860. Church's Great Fall—Niagara, and Gig noux’sNiagara.-—These are really noble pictures of one of those scenes which make an American justly proud of his country. Both are excellent, though the palm is generally conceded to belong to the former. This is a view of the Great Fall, with landscape and river scenery extending 9 miles up the river. The tumultuous play of the water for some distance above the final leap, and the vast and stupendous appearance of tue fall itself are depicted with startling fidelity. The rainbow thrown across the mist ha§ A-Übsuliatly luminous appearance, the upper portion of it espe cially seeming to glow with unborrowed light. Our friend Mr. J. 8. Earle has done good service in bringing these fine works of art before the pub lie, They may be seen at his room, No. 816 Chestnut Street. §«gwM gRMUfNUt. Death of Rev. Dr. Judd. —We learn that the Rev. Gideon N. Judd. D. D., pastor of the Presbyterian ohuroh at Montgomery, Orange Go., N. X., died at that place on Saturday last, March 3d. He had reached his 71st year. Dr. Judd was formerly set tled at Oatskill, N. X., and subsequently at Bloom field, N. J,, where his labors were eminently blessed in the conversion of souls, and where he exerted a great and happy influence over the minds of a large number of youth who were looking forward to the gospel ministry. Wherever known, he was regarded as eminently a man of God, a meek, faithful and de voted servant of Ohrist. Among his brethren he was esteemed as an excellent preacher, and a wise coun sellor-one to whose careful judgment all deferred with great respect. Rev. Mr. Guinness. —Mr. Guinness is preaching in New York city to crowded assemblies. He is cor dially received into the prominent churches. Of a late effort in Cooper’s Institute to young men on the text, *' Go thy way for this time,” the Times says: “ The danger of delay and the awful consequences of a failure to find a convenient season, were pre sented by the preaoherwith peculiar earnestness-, and his appeals to the young men to leave off the (ways of sin and turn to the Saviour, were forcible, fand at times eloquent. Listening to Mr. Guinness [■for the first time it 1b difficult to understand to what ho owes his great success as a preacher. The ideas and illustrations he presents lack originality. He speaks of sin and sinners, of Christ and the way of salvation, in the stereotyped words of the thousands of not strikingly successful preachers who have spoken before him, and who are speaking still. To au habitual oliurch-goor bisexpressions fall familiarly upon the ear, and his scriptural quotations affect the inds of his listeners as he prepares the way for tem, and before he has given them utterance, other is his gesticulation vigorous or unusual, and hough he is a man of commanding presence, he ib to be unconscious of it while speaking, for he er uses it for effect, as he might safely do. His iculiarity is a remarkable earnestness, an earnest sss which is not shown by tension of the muscles, or by facial contortions. He speaks calin]y,nndwith dignity. His earnestness affects his hearers, and by the mellow tremulousness of his voice and the eager ixpression of his eye rivets the attention, and satis ies that he is thoroughly in earnest, and goes about to do good.” The Missionaries sent out by the Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed ohurches of this country have found no obstacle to establishing themselves in Ja ■>iin, so long closed against Christian teachers. Two temples were cleared of their idols and rented to them. The Mayor of Nagasaki visited the missionaries, and asked them many questions about their religion! and accepted a copy of the New Testament in Chi nese. A large Missionary Meeting was held on Sabbath cuing in the Church of the Incarnation, Madison ’nue, New York city. Bishop Payne, of Africa, Rev. Messrs. Tyng, Montgomery, Denniston and tuncey participated in the services. Bishop Payne zing spent twenty-five years in Africa, spoke of it he knew it from observation. He saw the hand an all-wise Providence in all that had befallen that fortunate country. The deportation of her slaves Hristian countries, the appearance of naval squad- on her coast, the influence of commerce, ihe iblishment of colonies, and the extended knowledge our language, he regarded as the groundwork pf j Almighty for the propagation of his Holy Word Africa among the Africans, CLUBS. Dr. Thompson’s Farewell.— Dr. Thompson, of Buffalo, took farewell leave of his people on Sabbath, the 4th inst. The daily Courier notices the discourse as follows: Dr. Thompson chose his text from 2d Corinthians, xiii. chap., 11th verse—‘Finally, brethren, farewell.’ The discourse was almost entirely of a personal cha racter. He reviewed the connexion which had ex isted for eleven years between himself and the church, and spoke of the intimate relations which necessarily obtain between pastor and people. He explained the reason of his departure. It is not that there has been any division or difficulty in the church in regard to him, nor because he himself has not had his tempo ral wants well cared for in it, nor because he is dis posed to seek wider fields for his ambition; but is simply in answer to what seems a providential call, viz.: the physical requirements of his family neces sitate a change of climate. He did not hope, as some, might imagine,'to have his labours lightened by go ing and preaching bis Buffalo sermons in Cincinnati. He said he bad about five hundred manuscript ser : mons when he came to this city, and only about one hundred had ever been delivered; fifty of these having been previously re-written. He expressed his grati tude to his church and congregation, in view of the long, close, and blessed intercourse which he had with them. His parting words, in this connexion, were very affecting, and they were so felt, both by speaker and bearers. The Express says— . ‘ ' “We understand that Dr. Thompson will not im mediately- takstbis...departure from the city, but .will prOeeed to his new charge in A few weeks. ; “ Few ministers that have left onr city have been parted from with such sincere and general regret as will be felt, when Dr. Thompson hastaken his final leave; and few, we are ready to believe, have borne with them sp true and affectionate a regard for .the people to whom they bade adieu, as will linger in his heart.” In anticipation of Dr. Thompson’s settlement, in that city, the Cincinnati Gazette makes the following complimentary and merited notice of his previons la bors and success as a minister: .. . . “Drl Thompson is a graduate of Union College, and formerly ministered to a congregation in Canan daigua, New York, from whence he went to Phila delphia, and was settled over the Arch Street Church and congregation, until his removal to this city, in November, 1848. In 1850 he published a book enti tled “The Church; its Ministry and Worship,” in review of a book of the same name, issued by Rev. Montgomery Schuyler, an Episcopalian minister, now of St. Louis. “Dr. Thompson possesses in an eminent de'gree, the requisites of a successful minister. He has a mind of singular clearness, originality and force, thoroughly analyzing every subject, 'and stating bis vievrs with perspicuity and with earnest delivery. In the pulpit he is a forcible and animated speaker, going directly to the merits of a question, and exhausting the argu ments in its. favour, illuminating all his essays with great biblical learning; in the family a sociable, plea sant and approachable Companion; universally loved by young and old, such a pastor as any church might wish, and really a great acquisition to the society of any city. “For eleven years, Dr. Thompson has ministerered satisfactorily to the spiritual wants of his present congregation; and in the various.relations of pastor and friend, attachments have been formed that will cling to him through life. No circumstance has ever arisen to disturb in any degree the happy relations of a Christian brotherhood. His church universally regret his separation from them, and many are the expressions of heartfelt sorrow at his contemplated removal. The congregation of the First Church, as an earnest of their interest in him, offered, unani mously, to allow him a year’s absence abroad, with a continuation of his salary. There is every proba bility that the call to Cincinnati would have been de clined, but for ! tlib frail health of Mrs. Thompson. .Her health, for some time bogj, has lately become worse, and on consultation with eminent and medi cal authority, a residence in a. warmer climate was suggested as likely to relieve in some measure a dif ficulty—that of the throat—she had been troubled with for some; years.. Their, removal will probably take place some time during the ensuing month,— hardly as early as announced a few days since. Williams’ College.— A correspondent of the Con gregationalist writes: “ The regular noon prayer-meeting is not only more fully attended, hut a spirit of prayer and exhortation seems to pervade every heart. There are several hopeful cases of conversion in 'the Freshman Class, and some are inquiring; In brief, we can but mark those manifestations which precede, when God is about to work. Parental Piety.— The editor of the “Mother’s Magazine,” in collecting statistics respecting the in fluence of parental piety, learns some surprising facts bearing on this subject. Here is , a single, exam ple:— In a large country, church of 462 members, in the State of New York, there are found only fifteen who had not pious mothers;' and of 255 persons received into the church by the present pastor, all except 13 came from families having pious' parents. Three fourths of the children of pious parents haveJjeoome pious, while among all the families of non-professing parents, scattered through a wide parish, only three are found from which, any children have been ga thered into the church. Missionary Meetings.; —The Twenty-seventh St. Methodist* Church devoted the entire day, last Sab bath, to missionary meetings. The remarks of Dr. Wise were - peculiarly interesting. He took the ground -that the missionary work is mainly done by the minority of the church, that Christians can have, for abstaining from missionary work, neither the ex cuse of ignorance, of indifference, of not having been commanded to. the work by God, nor of lack of re sults. He claimed that, during the last fifty years, there have been converted two hundred millions of heathen: as many as there were converts existing 2 centuries after the Christian era began. Early Methodism in the Genesee Conference. —The Rev. Dr. Peck is now in the city of .New York superintending the publication of bis new work, em bracing historical sketches of early Methodism with in the bounds of the Genesee Conference. The book covers a period of forty years, and contains sketches of interesting localities and prominent actors during that period. Early Missions to India.— The Rev. Dr. Way land, in his Life of Judson, says that before any mis sionaries were sent out from this country, “the inte rest of our churches in missions to the East was from time to time quickened by the arrival of Mis sionaries from England, on their way to India, or on their return home, as, at that time, they could not obtain passage in any of the ships of the East India Company.” He says, "I well remember, in my boy hood the temporary residence -of such missionaries in New- York, and the deep interest which their pre sence occasioned in all the churches in that great city.” Death of Rev. Joseph Myers.— The Rev. Joseph Myers, a* member of the Presbytery of Onondaga, died in Liverpool, Onondaga county, N. Y., Feb. 9th, aged 65 years. He was born in Herkimer, N. Y., and professed faith in the Lord Jesus when eighteen years old. He was graduated at Onion College in 1821; and having reputably passed through a regu lar course at Princeton Theological Seminary, was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of Troy in 1824. He was pastor, successively of the churches in Lockport, Watervilie, Salina, and Liver pool; and also for short periods preached in Brock port, Le Roy, and Adams. Rev. T- S. Reeve, formerly of St. Charles,-Mo., has accepted a call to the church in Ironton, Ohio. Jtnutiatt d>*n*siM ffivxttgflijft. The Presbyterian Church in Delhi, made va cant by the dismissal of Rev. D. Torrey, have ex tended a call to Rev. W. T. Doubleday, who has ac cepted the same, and expects to enter upon his labors here April Ist. The Evangelical Churches of Switzerland.— The attempt recently made to bring the ,Evangeli cal churches of the different cantons into an organ ized uniori, has been successful to an encouraging de gree. A great point has been gained through the instrumentality of Dr. Tobler, (the well known tra veller in the Holy Land,} in changing the free assem blies previously held, into official conferences, the second of which was held on the 15th and 16th of June, last year. The Conference, however, exercises only an advisory power as yet., Among the points proposed by the Conference for the consideration of the cantons was the celebration of a common festival of the church upon Good Friday of every year. A Liturgy for the Army Service was also agreed upon. Measures were taken to relieve a great and crying evil in the variety of versions of Scriptures in use, in the German portions of the Reformed population. These versions not only differ from canton to canton, from church to church, and even from family to fami ly ; as many as four are mentioned as in use. A new revised edition of the old Zurich version is now in preparation at Zurich. The Evangelical-Lutheran Missionary Society of Saxony.— lt is how more than 20 years since the first missionary Cordes was sent forth. Now there are besideshim 13 missionaries, and over 100 native helpers, with; 4661 converted Tamuls. The contribu tions have increased to 52,005, thalers, that is ten-fold in2o years. ..... : ... Bohemia.— There is a sad destitution of ministers and means of ministerial support among the evange lical churehes.of this country. Most of the preachers are at a salary of but 200 florins, only three or four reach 400 florins, and very often but the half of the amount is really received. Such facts are the more painful when we compare with them the activity of the Church of Rome in the same province. Besides several societies for the diffusion of Catholic Litera ture previously existing, we note within the last year the revival of another, which was suppressed in the year 1786, by the Emperor Joseph, on account of the highly objectionable character of its issue. It was originally , founded in 1669 by the legacy of a widow, and its numerous issues were distinguished by the violence of their attacks; upon Protestantism. The first and only Catholic Testament ever printed in Bo hemia Was issued by this establishment in 1677. It was largely provided with Ante-Protestant Annota tions. Close Communion in Germany. —The Lutherans are the close eommunionists of Germany. The Uni ted Lutheran Conference of Hesse taking the ground that what might be required by love cannot be al lowed to override the requirements ,of faith, laid it down at’their last year’s session as a law that “Lu theran clergy could not admit members of the Re formed, and the United Churches to communion with Lutherans in the Lord’s Supper, nor permit Luthe rans to join in communion with them so long as they desire and expect to remain in their old connexions.” The dying communicant alone is exempted from the operation of this and similar, rigorous enactments, for says the Conference, “It does not need to be ex plained that the views bf the dying man are to be led away from the strife of churches, and direeted only to the heavenly manna of the Sacrament itself and to the conditions of entering the heavenly Canaan be yond.” Then may our communion, adds the Kirchen- Zeitung, ever be that of the dying, whose views are directed to the question how they may take part in the Great Supper, rather than how they may be little still more the lesser .supper here below. As Israel-ate its'Passover with loins girt about, feet shod and staff in hand like pilgrims,, so, will.we celebrate the Supper, joyful to find many to walk with us and ‘‘flx their gaze firmly upon JerusalemaFove.” Religious Statistics of Silesia for 1858,— There are in this province 1,591,000 Evangelical Christians, Resides 8,891 separated Lutherans. The number of communicants is two-thirds of the number of the in habitants, but nearly 32,000 less' than in the prece ding year. Eighteen Jews were baptized, 905 per sons have come over from the Romish, churqh, from the old Lutherans 55; from the Free, Churches 72; from Catholic Dissenters 127. On the other hand there have gone over to the Romish Church 50; to the old Lutherans 87; to the Baptists and to the Dis senters 116, and to the Jews 2. : . Refuge for Converted Priests.— There is an in stitution in Switzerland where converted Roiriish priests may find an asylum during the interval be tween their escape from Rome and their engagement in the service of Protestantism. The ease of one is mentioned in the Kirchen Zeilung who was formerly teacher in a college in France. After the death of his wife he had betaken himself with his twoboysto a cloisterwith a view to the missionary work. In these circumstances he attained a knowledge of Evangeli cal truth, and after encountering many perils he at last escaped with his children to Switzerland, where he publicly renounced Popery. , The Presbyterian Church in Jamestown, Cha tauque County, have secured the pastoral services of the Rev. Sanford W. Rowe, of Cairo, N. Y., from the first of April next. Mr. Rowe is, a graduate of the New York University, and studied Theology at ,the Union Theological Seminary. Calvary Church, (O. S.) was organized last week in Buffalo, by a committee of Buffalo Presbytery, Rev. Dr. Reid, pastor. Dr. Lord preached the sermon, Dr. Rogers and Wm. R. Allen were chosen elders, and Wm. E. Lyman and Lorenzo Sweet, Deacons. A new edifice is now in course of erection, which it is said Mr. George Palmer will make over to the Soci ety, on condition that its members maintain religious service, and keep out of debt. Flourtown and Jeffersonville.— The Pastor of the Presbyterian Church writes us:; Feeling it to be our duty to bring the gospel more directly into-contact with the minds of our fellow-men and to save sinners, we commenced a series of meet ings, hoping it,would prove the most successful means of accomplishing the wise counsels and purposes of God. We were not disappointed. The gospel was presented in its plainness and simplicity— earnest ap peals were made to sinners—and fervent prayer was offered. ' Christians were revived, and sinners were converted to God. We realized seven hopeful conversions at Flourtown, and five a€ Jeffersonville. Some very good impressions were made besides. The good Spirit of the Lord was with us. Oar meetings were very in teresting. Seven persons were added to the Church at Flour town at our last communion season. Five have given their names as candidates for Chnrch-membership at Jeffersonville. These little branches of Christ’s Church are exerting a good influence. The blessing of the Lord is with us. The public worship of God is well sus tained. We have great reason to be very thankful to the Lord for what he has done for us. Four promising young men were among the converts at Flourtown. A very hopeful future in our enterprise indeed. The Converts at Jeffersonville were chiefly young ladies. O,how good it is to labor for souls! Pray for us, that we may enjoy continually “refreshings from the presence of the Lord.” A Controversy is being raised in England now in the columns of some of the Methodist papers, on the propriety of lining the hymns at public worship. Old Methodism clings to the system of giving out the hymn by lines. Young Methodism prefers to have the whole verse given out at once, and there does not seem much probability of the two being likely soon to come to any thing like a definite settlement of the question. A New Church Organized.— The efforts of the Rev. E. E. Adams, in this city, have proved highly successful, and have resulted in the organization of a new church, under circumstances quite favorable to its future prosperity. ■ The organization transpjred on last Friday eve ning, in Broadway Hall. ..[About forty persons pre sented certificates ,of mEtaberahip from various churches in this city, andMter being addressed on the several topics respecting the new relations and re sponsibilities they wore about to assume, they were constituted into a church,,with the title of “North Broad Street Presbyterian phureh.” - Messrs. Whil din and Thomas Potter were unanimously elected Elders, which was with their installation, they having been for many years ordained and act ing elders in other churches previous to their con nexion with this new enterprise. The services were conducted by the Rev. Messrs. John Patton, Henry Darling, John McLeod, and Charles Brown. The Rev. Mr. Darling gave the charge to the elders; the charge to the people was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Brown, and the services were concluded by the Rev. Mr. McLeod. The prospects of this enterprise are very encou raging, and those who are especially engaged in it have elicited the deep interest felt for them among the members of sister churches. The, World’s Concert for Prayer. —We learn from the London correspondent of the Presbyterian Banner, that the world's concert for prayer, as pro posed by the Lodiana missijtoaries, vras held at Free-. mason’6 s Hall, every mortiing}Shd evening, and daily prayer in many other places: • At Islington there was a glorious meeting.,, The vicar, the son of the late Bishop Wilson, of Calcutta,presided. About twenty ministers.were.oh the platform- ; The place of as sembly was crowded to excess; many were obliged to go away. Solemn and {suitable discourses were preached very generally on the previous day, and on the evening bf the Sabbath, jjrayer united and earnest was very common. Never, surely, was there aeon cert of prayer like this since the Saviour’s ascension. The number engaging in it; the extent of the con cert, beginning far away Eastward, while those in England had night’s darkness and: sleep upon them; and then its utterances bursting forth here all day long; and as the sunset in the West, he dawned on the United States to wake up fresh suppliants. Like a glorious zone this concert has encircled the globe. A clergyman of the Chureh:of England, at the Isling ton meeting, among other supplications, asked a spe cial blessing on those brethren in India with whom the proposal for this concert originated. Monument to Rev. Geo. Chandler.— An ad journed meeting of the citizens of ths-iate District of Kensington, favorable'to tijfeerection of a monument to the memory of the Rev. Chandler, was held on Saturday afternoon, and; after the adoption of a series of resolutions, a committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions for the erection of the monu ment. • ;; National Convention of Delegates from the Union The Convention was called together after the noon prayer-meeting in San som street church, on Tuesday of last week. The Delegates were welcomed in an address by Rev. Dr. Brainerd. : ' .' After assuring them that, they •were welcomed with warm hearts to the City, of Brotherly Love, he said that it seemed to be ,appropriate that the Convention should be hq®,where the prayer-meet ings were begun, and where they had, been continued month after month, and; year after year, without abatement of interest, and where they had been at tended with such grand results in the conversion of the ungodly. It was 'appisjiif?ate that at so interest ing a field those from a distance should be welcomed to fellowship and prayer. Hospitality is the duty of the Christian; to throw <jqieri?wide 'their ‘doors, and to invite to » seat at.theHrtables'- - Ifthe-spenker un derstood the objects of the Convention, it was the combination of those who represented the charity and activity of Christianity. They,had not assembled to settle creeds. The great diastribes of , Christianity were settled in ages gone by.. What is now wanted is Christian energy. * The ! speaker referred to the first Union prayer-meetings which were held in this city, and to the Taet that they had shown the strength of the lay element in carrying on the war against the common enemy. ' . W. E, Dodge, Esq., of New York City, was elected President of the. Convention. In the afternoon, a hearing was,given to the delegates from Washington city, who described the character of the Union meet ings in that place as peculiarly harmonious and de: lightful. Not a jar had occurred in the whole two years of Iheir existence, 1 Dr. Sunderland, of the 4J St. Church, was referred to as a man of eminent ca tholicity, and as the pillar of the union movement in that city. In the evening, an address was delivered by Ex-Gov. Pollock. ,On Wednesday morning the report of a Committee in relation to the in every proper way and to every possible extent the principles of Christian union, was read, and with seme amendments adopted. This report recommends; among other things, that the pulpit and the press tfe urged to advocate the subject-of Christian Union, and ;that a standing com mittee be appointed, composed of the oldest and most experienced in the body, to carry out the recommen dations embodied in the report.. Eev. Dr. Nevin offered a resolution recommending that the first Monday of October be designated as a day of special prayer to promote unity among Chris tians. This was adopted after a discussion in which many of the delegates participated. The interesting and highly edifying exercises of the convention were prolonged until Thursday, when an extended series of resolutions aiming at the per petuation of the Union Prayer-meetings and the in crease. of the prevailing spirit of union among Chris tians was adopted. The existing Committee of nineteen rts authorized to increase its number to'thirty- Parting addresses "were made" by the presiding officer, Mr. Dodge, by Rev. Dr. Newton, and others, when the Convention adjourned, —to meet in Washington, in December next. Liberal and >Timely.->4 friend of Missions in New York who does not pej&it bis name to be men tioned, ,has given five thousand dollars to the Ame rican Board of Foreign Missions. Several donations, equally timely, if not so large, have been recently made, and the funds are coming in encouragingly to ward the payment of the debt. It was stated by Secretary Wood, in the missionary meeting at the Bible House on Monday, that this donor is a member of the New School Presbyterian Church, and was one who had felt strongly in disapproval of the action of the Board.in,giving up its Choctaw mission. The contribution was an unsolicited thank offering in view of the wants of the missions, and of the proved safety of investments which had been supposed to be lost. The donor hopes to do the same next year. - , Consistency. —At the Fulton Street Prayer-meet ing, the other day, the presiding officer alluded to the importance of having the precepts and examples of Christians consistent, if they would exert influence and secure the respect of the world. The next day, a gentleman present sent him the following incident, suggested by the remark of the previous day. It is a plain enforcement of a great-practical truth. D. said to W„ one day,—“Come, sign the tempe rance pledge." “Yes, if you will join thtftinti-smokine sooietr.” - “Agreed!" ; . , - Twelve years have passed since then. What pro fit W. has made out of this partnership is not known, but D, sums up his gain as follows: $73,12 years $876 00 Do. in interest on do, . , 337 26 $1,213.26: Saved in reputation by not smoking in the street. Do. in pure air in the house. " Do, in self-respect aM tree manliness. No monied computation." Ifrws at ike Week. Mr. Brownson is warning his Catholic brethren in his Review, that “ the Church" must decline in this country, and dwindle into insignificance, unless it can attain a greater intellectual power. He.says that the Church is not growing by conversions half.as rapidly as it is. diminishing by perverts; that it T cannot hope to maintain its ground by immigration from abroad; and that very soon some of its great cathedrals will be without congregations. ; He says the Catholics most humble the Protestant pride of intellect in this coun try, by proving themselves superior..' And of this he sees but little present hope,as the intellectuality of the Catholics of America is now so near zero, that, among all their hundreds of thousands, no work of any merit from the best Papal pens can command more, than 2000 or 2500 sales of copies. • Judge Taney, who has been so long ill, is gaining strength every day, and will, it is hoped; be able to re sume his seat on the Bench of-the United States Su preme Court some time during the present week. He is now eighty-four years old. i , The Sun states that the Church of the Puritans has invited Mr. Theodore Tilton to become the colleague of Dr. Cheever, with a view to his especially supplying the pulpit during a contemplated absence by Dr. Cheever for the benefit of his health. , . ......... The Rev. Thomas H. Stockton, of was on Tuesday, chosen Chaplain of the house. This is a good appointment. ; Several copies of Spurgeon’s. sermons were recently burned in the public square at Montgomery, Ala., by the Vigilance Committee, on the ground that they con tained Abolition doctrines, and were incendiary. One of the results of explorations in Central Africa is the discovery that the Mountains of the Moon, from which the Nile was thought to flow, and which were notSfl for many years on the school maps, are found hot to exist; four'large lakes occupy their place. It is stated .that when .the twelve hundred clerks .em ployed in the Bank of England leave the building in the evening, a detachment of troops march in to guard ft during the night, although burglars could not pene trate the solid vaults in six weeks. This wonld seem to be, at least, a due regard to safety. The Edinburgh Ladies’ Negro Emancipation Society have sent off $3OO to Dr. Cheever, accompanied by a letter of sympathy with him in his present sufferings on account of his faithful denunciations of the sin of slavery. Prof. W. H. Brewer stated in a lecture recently de livered at New Haven, that one crop of tobacco ex hausts the soil as much as eleven successive crops of wheaf averaging the thirty bushels to the acre. If so, the culture of the weed by Yankees will be a short ex periment;" It is a curious coincidence that the day selected by the National Republican Committee for the meeting of the Chicago Convention-—the 16th of May—is the birthday of Senator Seward. A public meeting of the New York Geographical Society will b ( e held in a few days, to take definite ac tion in regard to Dr. Hayes’ projected Arctic Expedi tion. Nearly ope half of the funds required have al ready been subscribed. The Doctor has received about fifty applications from persons ambitious .of visiting the Arctic regions with him; but he will have to disap point most of them, as his one-bundred-ton schooner can only accommodate one astronomer, one surgeon, two mates, one steward, one cook, and six sailors..: Our Musical Friend continues to furnish the public with the best of music at very cheap' rates. No. 66, is now ready. Price, 15 cents. C. B. Seymour & Co., 107 Nassau Street. , Three dwarfs are on exhibition in Paris now, which are represented as more wonderful even than Tom Thumb. They are respectively of Italian, Austrian, and Hungarian origin. One is nineteen years old, and ' measures thirty Inches in hbight; the'seeond is twenty five, and thirty-one inches high; and the third is twenty five, and thirty-five inches high. A conversation, alleged to have taken place between the emperor of France and Mr. Seward, appeared re cently in the London Times. It was to the effect that Mr. Seward, being an old acquaintance of the , emperor, went to tbe.palace, was,courteously received, had ques tions asked him about Mr. Webb and other parties known to Louis .Napoleon when a, sojourner in the United States;: and then, when Mr. S, referred to a visit paid by him at Rome to the pope, the emperor said: “-Ah! and what did you think of the pope ?” “I thought him," was the reply, “much more the priest than the sovereign.” The emperor exclaimed, “ Ex actly so; you have hit the ‘ right nail on the head. That’s it; he is more thepriest than the sovereign. T hat is what X always thought.” Messrs. Brown & Tiropsou of Boston, have in press a new and complete edition of Carlyle’s Essays, revised, enlarged and anuotated.by the author. The work will be in four volumes, printed at the-Riverside press, -H. 0. Houghton & Co., on fine tinted paper in the style of the Boston edition of the “ Curiosities of Literature.’ l It will have a copious. index and new portrait, and will be altogether the finest edition of Carlyle ever issued on either side of the Atlantic, Reports from England indicate that Lord Macaulay b s left his manuscripts in a very unfinished state, and i, is doubtful whether even a single new volume can be published without devolving on the editor the labor of composition as well as compilation. The great work must'remain unfinished, for no one will-dare to complete what Macaulay had begun. 1 The Independent has, gone so deeply into the busi ness of “sensation advertising” of late, that even- Mr. Bonner is confounded. He is out with a card, which he gives it up. He will not contend with the “fast and faming religious papers, the Spirit of the Times and Clipper? in the line of flash advertising, bnt will quietly hold to the opinion that the Ledger is “a very fair paper.” It is rather cruel of Mr. Bonner to put the Independent in such company as the Spirit of ike Times and Clipper. By the arrival of the America at Halifax we have three days later news from Europe. The intelligence is unusually interesting. A resolution in opposition to the ministerial budget, presented by Mr. Glad stone, had been rejected in the House of Commons, by one hundred and sixteen majority. Arrangements for, Lord's Elgin's deputation to China on an extra ordinary mission had been concluded. It is rumored that the British Channel fleet had gone to the Medi terranean, on account of a demand by Spain of a large cession of territory from Morocco as one of the conditions of peace. Austria rejects the proposals of England for ~a\ settlement of the Italian question, stating that she abides by the Villa Franca arrange ment. She will not employ force at present to carry it into effect; bnt reserves liberty to do so. in the fu ture. Spain demands from Morocco a large indem nity andthepossession of all the conquered territory as a-condition of peace. The Atlantic: Telegraph Companypropose making an--attempt to restore the old cable. The London Morning Chronicle says that a treaty of alliance has been signed between Russia and Austria. • ■ At a meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, President C. C. Felton, who met the Board for the first time in that official capacity, presented a vote of the Fellows of the College, nominating the Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, D.D., of Portsmouth, N, H.j as Plummer Professor, in place of Prof. Hunting ton, resigned. The Overseers postponed action in the matter till another meeting, and the nomination was referred to a committee consisting of Rev. L. R. Thayer, Rev, Dr. Neale, and Hon. S. M. Weld. We have later: California news by the arrival of the steamship Atlantic, at New York, with $1,198,700 in gold. The Jews of California have sent $2300 in aid of their brethren, fugitives from Morocco. At the Geyser quicksilver minds eight hundred men have secured claims. In Carson Valley, the weather be ing milder, operations have been resumed at the Oliver mines. At Honey Lake-there was great ex citement about the silver mines. The will of Mr. John Bose, a retired merchant makes a conditional bequest of $300,000 to the city of New York for the education of agriculture of indigent white children, on condition that a corresponding sum be appropriated by the city, or raised by charitable contributions, for the purchase and support of a farm in the neighborhood of New York, to be devotedto the training to agricultural, pursuits of pauper children. If this purpose be not carried out, the s3oo,ooogoes to the American Colonization Society, for the exportation and support of free blacks in Liberia. The remainder of his estate, about $550,000, he places in, charge of his executor for benevolent and charitable distribution. The grand dome of the Capitol at Washington is pro gressing very slow; constructed entirely of iron, it is a piece of work involving great time and labor. The first tier of pillars is now erected, which hardly em braces one-fourth of the height. The great quantity of iron used in its construction will render the struc ture of immense weight, and it is a matter of serions speculation whether it can ever be completed. _ Buffalo iB said to be one of the best if not the best lighted, paved, watered and sewered cities in the coun try. It has over four hundred hydrants, forty-seven miles of payed streeU, and forty-eight miles of street sewerage. All the streets laid ont and worked measure two hundred and sixty miles. Greenwood Cemetery, near New York city, was founded June, .1840, and from that month up to the 23d ultimo, 60,000 bodies have taken up their residence in the silent city. Greenwood will, iu the end, outstrip New York, and ere many years will count its dead by millions. ‘ : Speaker Pennington has appointed the Non. Messrs. English, of Indiana, Stanton, of Ohio, and Gartrell of Georgia, Regents of the Smithsonian Institution on the part of the House of Representatives. Prof. Lovering, of Harvard, predicts the return of the great comet of 1556 during the present year, and says the astronomers of France are looking with great eagerness for the advent of this distinguished stranger. . Mrs. Rush of Champaign County, Ohio, has re covered $5,000 of Peter Dawson, for the loss of her foot. The ease, in brief, is this: Dawson sold liquor to the husband of the plaintiff, and the husband, under its influence, made an assault upon his wife, and so in jured ber foot that amputation was necessary. 1 The Savannah Republican of Feb. 27th, says that strawberries and asparagus have made their appear ance in that market. A quantity of the same articles have been brought by the steamers to New York. The resignation of the Rev. Prof. Huntingdon is ac cepted. by Harvard College and his connection with the College will cease. Messrs. Little, Brown & Go., of Boston, are preparing for publication a volume which will be of great interest to naturalists and geologists. It will contain photo lithographic prints of the most remarkable of the fossil footprints of the Connecticut Valley, collected by the late Dr. Deane, of Greenfield. This collection was by far the most complete ever made, surpassing even the fine one in the museum of Amherst College. Tb e volume, will be uniform in style with Agassiz’s contri bution, and will be superintended by Drs. Gould, Bow ditch, and other scientific men, for the benefit of Dr. Dean’s family. the artist’s pet. Among the productions of ,our artists, no recent work has elicited so much spoken admiration as the one of Barry’s—“Tbe Reotor’s Ward." . Not only is it pleasing to the masses, but persons of the highest cultivated taste in art express themselves delighted with it. Among the many letters of-congratulation received by the artist, is one from the Rev. Dr. F. D. Hunt ington. Mr. Barry allows us to make a brief extract. The Professor says: “Let me add to all of tbe encomiums you re ceived, more worthy than mine, in that they have the authority of a wiser judgment, a simple Hearty as surance of my delight and admiration at this most beautiful creation of your art, the head of the ‘Rec tor’s Ward.’ It arrests my steps and binds my feet ajfc whatever window I see it, in whatever state of the sidewalks or of the thermometer. I think it always leaves me in a mood less removed from the serenity and purity which it so successfully represents.”— 2 Vamcripjt. HSurriogf. : GR AY—BOON—Mamed in Manyunk, on Tuesda y evening, the 6th ihst., by Rev. A. Culver, Mr. Enoc h Coates Gray, of Boonevilte, Chester Co., Pa., to ■■ Mi ss Mary Ella Boon, of Manyuak. Dfiitlj. Died suddenly, on Friday evening,- March 9th, Eliza Tod, relict of the late Dr. John C. Otto. NOTICE. KTotice. —The next Union Prayer Meeting... of our Church will oe held on Tuesday evening, in the Coates street Church, Rev. Mr. Dufßeld’s. : • i - l The Presbytery of Lyons will meet at Clyde, on the 10th of April next, at 2P. M. Statistical Reports should be presented at that meeting. W. N.- M'HARG, Stated Clerk. Lyons, March 9, iB6O. Tbe Presbytery of Harrisburg will meet in the First Presbyterian Church, of Harrisbhrg, on the evening of the second Tuesday in April next, at half past seven o’clock AMERICAS BOARD. Receipts at Philadelphia for January and February, Philadelphia, Clinton St. : Ch. coll, in part •. -' 170 00 « Clinton St. Ch. S. S. for Mission Schools 68 57 “ Clinton St. Ch., A family for Debt 6 00 “ Clinton St. Ch. Miss Lin nard 30 00 « Clinton St. Ch., “K,” 20 00 233 57 “ Kensington Church • 17 25 « Vine St. Ch. col. in part 234 00 « « Mon. Con. 890 “ “ Sab. S. for i Mission School 27 90 « ■ Olivet Ch. Henry Martyn < Chance, offering one year’s sayi’gs for poor heathen-children, '2 50 “ - Arch St. Church, Mrs. Weigand 5 00 “ Coates St. Pres. Ch. in part; of col. $2OO to cous. H. R. Lincoln and John B. Steven son, Hon. Mem. 250 00 « Walnut St. Ch., W. P., Infant School for Mis sion Schools 5 oo « A Little Girl, for Mission Schools ■ i jo West Chester, Pres. Ch. 19 50 “ Jas. Atwood 25 00 . “ Mrs. McDonald 20 00 “ Juvenile Mis. Soe. for Mission Schools 38 65 Dunmore, Rev. T. R. Townsend to Cons. J. H. Townsend, Esq., Hon. Mem. 100 00 Wilmington, Del.,, Hanover St. Ch. Mon. Con. 63 44 ~ “ Central Ch. Sab. Sch., for Mission Schools. 50 00 $ll6l 81 SAMUEL WORK, Treasurer. The Publication Cause.— The Treasurer of the Presbyterian Publication Committee would ac knowledge the receipt of the following: donations, from February Ist, to March Ist, 1860, viz.:— Olivet Presbyterian by , Rev.iE. B. Newberry, 10 31 Presbyterian Church. Gilbertsville, N. Y., by Rev. Wm. T. Doubleday, 10- 00 Mrs. Kepele, Philadelphia, 10 00 Presbyterian Chnrch, Beekmantown, N. Y., by Rev. S. R. Woodruff, 8 00 A Presbyterian, Newark, N. J., 6 00 Fort Street Presbyterian Church, Detroit, Mieh., by Samuel Zug, 22 27 Calvary Pres. Ch., Philadelphia, (col. in part,) 100 87 “ ‘ “ Jno. A. Brown, 500 00 « « Henry J. Williams, ' 100 00 “ “ Miss Ellen ’M. Smith, 100 00 : $866 45 , • . W. PCRVES, Tbeasubea Philadelphia, March Ist, 1860. ©tfMoiteys received ciety during «h,, tho Philadelphia Home Missionary So- KSi °f January and February "■ “• <=“*•■ Miss Carter, Treas., B°, total ' by m 55 NewarkSd Pres. Ch.coll. 143 65, Young People's Miss’y Asso. 50 by C. S. Ward, Trefs P * ls Pres. Ch., E. A. Graves, Treas. ‘ 2d « « m. 0. Halsted £^." n *? P Ch ‘> Rev - E - Cheever Newfoundland Pres. Ch., N. Leighton Pemmsylvahla. 6 Dauphin Pres. Ch., by Rev. Jno. W. Davis 6 00 Frinunfp Of Ag’ts, by Geo. Kellogg, Trees. 50 00 Franklin Pres. Ch., by J. Leighton 19 30 ®?™ bn s «*• JB5 75, M. C. coll. 26 17, 211 92 W ‘ Cteavelaml, 25 00 J Boswefl 72 ’ liicholson 12 s °> by Jos. O. La Raysville, by Rev. J. G. Sabin I 5 00 Marple Pres. Ch., A. C. Eckfelt J? 82 Mantim “ in part, Robt. Glendenning 36 72 Norristown Central Pres. Ch. S 500 PhiT f ras ’ Ch ‘ b y Rev - J- A- Abbey, 25 00 P u a i e phla ’ bequest of Abraham Miller, dec’d by Executor $2,000, less collateral tax and in terest added Int. on R. R. bonds and stock 6 mos. Mrs. Jno. Weigand ®h., N. L., coll, by Wm. Sanderson «r li 10j H D Stewards, Mrs. Naglee 5, Western Pres. Ch., W. E. Tenbrook 15, E. J. 10, 5 > J S- Hallo way 5, C. Adair 2, Jno. F. Cline 2, Wm. Oglesby 2, Miss Ramsey 1.50, ftu 0 ?™ 1> Chas. Osborn 50 cts., Mrs. Smith 50 Cts., S. 8. by J. F. Cline 30, Box Market Square, Germantown, coll. 28 85, S. S. eoatribuuon 40, by Rev. J. Helffenstein, D. D. 68 85 Pottevdie, Ist Pres. Ch. by Rev. Jos McCool 20 00 TH"*t;n?%> Pte!>^ h t by Rev ’ Sam ’ 1 Whaley 15 00 Pre «tP h U by ®P V - Geo - H. Hammer 800 Welsh Cong. Ch., Brady’s Bend, 5 00 Westchester, > West Chester Pres. Ch., by W. E. Moore, fa 50 Williamsport “ “W. Sterling 100 00 y “ 3 L a r n . d , Sp " n f n v ’i? e b y J- W. Raynor 12 75 Waterford, by T. T. Bradford 3 75 Delaware. St. George’s Pres. Ch., by Rev. D. H. Emerson 35 00 WRm * n E ton ) Hanover street Pres. Ch., 70 57 by S. Floyd, Ladies’Missionary Society, Miss Campbell Treas. 31, 5,.8. eontrib. by Jno. P. McLear 20, total Central Pres. Chi, Mrs. David Bush Published This Day. LIFE’S EVENING; OR, THOUGHTS FOR THE AGED, By the Author of “Life’s Morning,” & c . “The busy day of Life is over. Its pleasures, its duties, and its anxieties have passed away. Tbe sun shine and the si ade, which alternately marked its path, have alike disappeared; and soft tints of evening: are gathered over the sky. , ® ven ' n ? of life! yes; life has its sunset hour, its twilight season. The dim eye, the silvered lock, and the feeble step, indicate that the closing period of earthly existence has arrived. How rapid has been the flight ot time! how near must be the approach of eternity! ” ” e ? utiful ln thought and expression, altogether a de lightful and comforting book for the aged Christian. PRICE 65 CENTS. White paper, clear open type. J. E. TILTON & CO., Publishers* 161 Washington Street* Boston. 722-2 t Have just issued, in three beautiful volumes, 12m0., uniform style, new editions of the foUowmg works The Way or Salvation. Illustrated in a Series of Discourses. By the Rev. Albertßarnes. Onevol. 12mo Price *1 00. The Atonement. In its relations to Law and Moral Government. One Volume. Price $1 00. . nr. Practical Sermons. Designed for Vacant Congrega tions and Families. One Volume. 12mo. Price *lOO. As specimens of theological reasoning, of homiletic ability and completeness, and of practical religious feel ing, we know of no writings of Mr. Barnes’ superior. 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There were, 94 students in attendance during the Winter Term, under the charge of 9 Teachers, in cluding the Principal, thus securing to each pupil that jiersonal attention and direction which his necessities require. In regaid to efficiency in preparing its pupils for the heghest colleges in the land, the Principal has flattering encouragement from Professors Thacker and Hadley of Yale College, and from Dr. Wheelwright, of Taunton, Chairman of the Committee of Examiners in Latin, in Harvard College. For terms, &c., refer to the Principal, - W. F. WYERS, A. M., > West Chester, Penna. N. Bl—The Freneh, German and Spanish Languages . are taught by native resident teachers. 722-6 t. • ' Total, *4251 64 ~ .. „ , ROBERT ADAIR, Sect’y. Philadelphia, February 2, 1860. ADVERTISEMENTS. BBV. ALBERT BARNES’ WORKS. New Editions. LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, Publishers and Booksellers, No. 25 South Sixth Street above Chestnut, WM. M. CHRISTY, 127 South Third Street, Stationer and Blank Book Manu&cturer. 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