1860. Treobgttrian etntoce, Oftangetist. THURSDAY. AtrOtiliT 201850. TEE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND GENESEE. EVANGELIST, A WEEKLY RAWLY NEWSPAPER, Published every. Thursday, at 1334 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Devoted to the promotion of sound Christian itotrine mid pure religion, especially as connected dith the Constitutional Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. 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 one addiesi for a year for TEN DOtetalig. TEN copies will be sent to one address for a year An SEVENTEEN DOLLARS. . 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To interest all the friends of the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN and GENESEE 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 be will name. For four new subscribers, with eight dollars, we will "and a copy of the Presbyterian Quar terly Beufem 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. l'hiladelphia,,Feb. 3d, 1860. TRACT SOCIETY. BENEVOLENT OPERATIONS. During. 'tbe year ending April 1, 1660, the American 'Tract Society, New York, received in donations.and legacies $111,964 . 87 ; during the same period it expended $79,616 20 in sustaining, for the 'whole or part of the year, 649 colporteurs, who made 680,000 family visits, and circulated 620,000 evaigeligal volumes, to a great extent in destitute portions of the country. The Society granted in cash for foreign. lands, $12,000; and made grants of tracto and books, not including any of its periodicals, to the amount, at eatalogue pricey of .848:ARI8 914pineking. a ,total, for these three objects, of $187542511. During ,the first quarter of the current eolpor teur year ending Ju,ne;-,1; the grants were 89,028, and the 'expenditUre for colportage over $lB,OOO. The increasing .need of colporteur labor, and gratuitous tract distribution becomes more palpable by every investigation among the destitute. A re cent report made by a committee of an ecclesiastical body iu Maine, represented that not more than one third Of the population of that state had any place in the sanctuary. A similar report made in Con necticut represented that one fourth of the popu lation of that state absented themselves from the house of god. The people of other states are doubtleas equally .neglectful of the sanctuary, and destitute of the means of grace. Bow are they to be reached with gospel truth, unless those who possess it bear it to them at their homes? During the past year the colporteurs of this Society, in their daily' visits from family to family, on the errandof salvation, in addition to their sales, have gratuitously deposited with these families more than.thirty million pages suited to make men, wise unto eternal life. Who does not _desire to aid in the continuance of this work, which has been so much' blessed in time past, and promises so much good in time to come? • • eJ 440080 211talit ReVivala.—Rev:A. S. Reid, of Vevey, Ind., writes to the Home Missionary of August, an account of the revival enjoyed by his church during the early part of the year. "All was quiet and solemn. Truth, plainly , and !simply preached, was the means used. During the three and a half weeks, twelve persons joined them selve`e to us, and, as we trust, to the Lord." Also liev. J. Martin, of Christiansburg, 0. "Since my last report, we have enjoyed a very interesting revival. During the meeting, and for. several Sab baths afterwards, fifteen persons, mostly in early life, were received into th i e church. "After our members had' bad a rest from their la bors during the meeting referred to, we thought it advisable to kold- Another meeting, to .readh a. few persons who were !serious during the first; Conse quently, we are at'this time holding a meeting every night. Three persons have aireadly professed their fltith in Christ, another has made apiitiotitlii fur aa ziiission to the church, and quite a•number of Other's are under 00111i0tion." Duquoine Seminary, .T./1., was sold at public auo tion, July I.gth, under the provisions of an assignment made eighteen months ago. The whole property, comprising tliventptwo acres of land, two buildings, library and furniture, was struck off to the Rev. Jo siah-Wood, of Duquoine, for about $2,500. The pro perty cost not far from $20,000. His only object in "eking the purchase, was to prevent the property 'Nom being used for other purposes than those de signed by the donors. Not , haying the means him self, he must look to the Christian public for assist ance- in carrying on this enterprise. Six or seven thoitsind dollars would place this inatitution on such a foundation that it would prosper fur a number of years without any further assistance. Rev. John B. Pia has removed from Big Hollow to Hughsonville, Dub:these county, N. Y. His cor respondents will address him accordingly. . • • . . , Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Niles thus confide a few of their trials to the editor of the Corning Touhial, who is a (doubtless sympathizing) Trustee of the Presby terian Church there, of which Mr, Niles is the shep herd: "You must know that through much tribulation vo, have just , begun to 'keep houee,'—and from the beginning we have been interfered with by 'tome who .Elt. S CLUBS. look not simply upon their own•things, but also on the things`of others. Not satisfied with taking pos session of our goods at the depot, and' tumbling them into our house to mil' themselves,--Seiving up our carpets, and constantly hindering inswith emptying baskets of all sorts and shapes into our contracted cellar,.these same, or such like—being person or per sons unknown—capped the climax the other night by intruding upon the sanctity of the stable; for, upon opening our barn door, our astonished eyes were met by those of another, who, having 'horns, hoofs, and tail,' was nevertheless quite as much 'taken aback' as ourselves at finding herself in such quarters. We approached near enough to feast our eyes upon the following card tied to the, horns: 'RET. W. A. Num.—Dear Sir: Please accept this cow as a token of friendship from your . "Was not that a piece of Coui-ardice? 'The Dea con ',happening (I) around and Sympathiziag with `a cow without pasturage, gave an order on his green fields for the season, and, now the children at the Par sonage are luxuriating• upon sincere milk."--Evange- California.—Rey. T. E. Taylor, formerly of Hono lulu, S. 1., is now laboring with improved health at Columbia, and Rev. George Pierson, M. D., formerly of Micronesia, is also preaching at Brooklyn in this State. A new church is expected shortly to be or ganized in the latter place. The splendid 'edifice of the Presbyterian Church in . Marysville is probably finished and dedicated by this date. Rev. bile Smith, a notice of whose death on the 17th of June we copied from an exchange, was the oldest member of the Presbytery of Bath, and was familiarly known among his brethren, who esteemed hiArbighlyras 't Bather Brnith.P Installation , - at Geneva, Y.•-Bev., A. A. Wood, D. p., recently pastor of the Ceo,tral Presby terian- ()Minh, Broome • street, New York,-was in stalled' 'by the Ptesbytety of •Geneva, Pastor of the, First Presbyterian Ohuroh in Geneva, N.Y., mi evenings of June 20th,1860. • • ' ' •s. Memorial of Dr. Solum.L—The'corner-stone of a memorial church to commemorate the long and de• voted ministry, of the late Rev. Dr. Johns,, at the time of his lamented decease rector of Emmanuel Church, Baltimore, was laid July 3d, at 'the corner of Bolton and Townsend streets, in that city. Accessions to Episcopacy from other Denomi nations.—The Banner of the Cross'says: • "Men like Tustin,' the Baptist, and' Huntington and Coolidge, Unitarians, Hod ,and. Helm, the Pres brerians, and-. Ralston, the. Methodist, have within the last year renounced their foriner ministries, and have been gontemporaneously- influenced to receive Holy Orders; among enrielires`."` • Mr. Ralston has returned, to the M. E. Chureh. The Bishop of New Jersey.—,The eeelesiastioal position taken , by this newly made bishop , will be in teresting to others than Episcopalians. The Protes tant Churchman says: 'The Evangelical brethren elected Bishop Oden heimer President of their missionary Society, and no tified him. The Bishop met with some thirty of them to talk the matter over. Among the number wore, of 'the clergy; Drs. NeL ,, vine and Jonesi, and Rev. Messrs. Harris, Duane, Clark, Sever, Byllesby, Maxwell, Foggo, etc., of the laity, Messrs. 'Williamson, Stratton, Parker, White head, Trea.dwell, etc. The Bishop gave them, in full his views of the power of a Bishop. He said that they 'were the pas tors of the people; he was more—he was the chief pastor. They might all . be out of the Diocese before next Convention ; he was there for life,- for better or for worse.' - As he - could: not attend personally to the spiritual wants of all the people of his Diocese, they were his subiirdirtates - to dallui work: All flint he wanted, to do the missionary work of the Diocese, was a finance committee. • The ministers were to raise the money and lay it at the apostle's feet, (verbatim,) and he was to dii burse it to such men as he pleased. Finally, if they did not choose to raise the money . in, their parishes to support men of his selection, he would come to their people' and raise it himself. . .• The correspondent, malls this the concentrated es sence of Romiste Episcopacy, and says it has raised the spirit of Lexington and Bunker Hill in the hearts of Evangelical men in New Jersey. The following extracts from his closing address at the Diocesan Convention are given by the Church Journal, of New York, - "He would know no party in the Diocese but the one that sustained the bishop. He loved them all, and loved them the better for what he had seen of them since he came into the Diocese. When the Missions of the Church needed support, be expected' to receive that support from every man, woman, and child in the Diocese, or he would know the reason why I "If differences of opinion arose betwixt him and thorn, be expected them all to give way to his godly judgment in the matter, just as the clergy were bound to do, at any rate, by their ordination vows; and thus in extending the faith of God, in the Church of God, nothing would occur to mar their harmony!' Circulation of the Independent—This paper says that its circulation soon promises to.reach fifty thousand. Churches *Washington City which have lately manifested great zeal in improving - their houses of worship. The E. Street Baptist, (Rev. Mr. Kennard;) the Epiphany, (Rev. Dr. Hall;) the Ascension, (Rev. Dr. Pinckney;) the Ist Presbyterian; (Rev. Dr:Sueder land;) the 4th Presbyterian, (Rev. Dr. Smith;) the Assembly's; (Rev. Mr: Carothers;) the Methodist Protestant,, (Rev. Mr. Wilson;) the New York Ave nue Presbyterian, (Rev. Dr. Gurley,) have all either been greatly improved, or' new houses have been erected. • . ' Archbishop Hughes' Refusel to make Report of Marriages.—Mr. C. A. Bristed, in _'a New York paper, accounts for the position taken by the Arch] bishop in the following manner. "The monopoly by-one person of another's crime or vices' gives the former a tremendous power over the latter. • Herein lies the secret of this tender soli citude, this volunteer defiance of prison and scaffold. The Church of Rome wishes to protect its fair peni tents and their accomplices from the reproaches of the world, in order that it may get them well under its own thrimb, a pretty broad and heavy one. How it has used, and still uses that power we all know. It is the old story of the priest and the family over aR4P' The Registration of Marriages , and Births. —The N. Y. City• Inspector has determined upon proceeding against the following clergymen for a vio lation of / the set . rerfuiring them to make return of all marriages solemnized by diem—. Rev. Wm. Adams, 'D. D.; Presbyterian, absent in Eurpp,e , ; Rev.,E.-R. Cook-, Episcopalian ;• Ray. Geo, T. Hare, Methodist; ,Rev. J . SV, Cummings, D. D., Roman Catholic; Rev. Moses Ballou,Dniversalist. Profane Swearing.--It is not generally known that . the revised penal code passed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania last winter, makes all persons who speak loosely or profanely of God, the Christ, the Holy Spirit, or the Bible, liable to an indictment for blasphemy, the penalty for which is a fine not *ex ceedin* one hundred dollars, or imprisonment, not • exceeding three months, or both, at the discretion of the court. Persons in the habit of swearing had, better be careful, as no officer Who regards his oath of office can avoid returning 'to ,court all persons who are guilty of the offenceseabore specified, MANY .kRIENDS:" The number of Norwegians and. Swedes in Canada is already considerable, so that ere long there may be ministers in connexion' with it who will reside in that province also. "As a Christian body in general; and at Evangeli . cal Latheran particularly, this Synod acknowledges that. the Holy Scriptures, the revealed word of God, are the only sufficient and infallible rule and stand ard of faith and practice, and also retains and eon• fesses not only' the ancient symbols, (the Apostolic, the Niciine, and the Athanasian,) but also the unal tered Augsburg Confession; as a short and correct summary of the principal Christian doctrines under stood a&developed and explained in the other Sym helical beaks." 'All doubts in regard,.to the doctrinal character of the Synod is thus happily removed, and it stands on the same ground withthe Lutheran Church in all The Synod has resolved to establish a Theological Seminary, and for this purpose has elected a Board of Trustees. For the present, it is located at Chi cago, where the Rev. Professor Bsbjorn,. the Swedish Professor, resides. The new Synod already numbers twenty-seven mi nisters, and upwards of fifty congregations, so that with two periodicals—the Hemlandet, (Swedish,) and the Kirketedende, (Norwegian,) a respectable Pub lication Society, and a Theological Seminary, this newly fOrmed body wiltere long become one of tin; largest and most efficient of our American Synods. New Cumberland Presbyterian Paper.--The paper is to be issued under the title of the "Southern Presbyterian," Rev. N. P. Modrall, editor. It will be published at Corricana, Texas, by R. A. Vanhorn, at two dollars and a half per annum, in advance, and is to be commenced as soon as one thousand sub scribal's are obtained. The St. Louis Observer, of the same Church, pro miseEi to enlarge its sheet or reduce the size of its type at the commencement of its next year. ' Every member belonging to the Presbytery at the time of Dr. Spring's ordination has been gathered . to his fathers. He stands alone amidst an entirely new • generation. About one hundred delegates were present, repre senting thirty-six of the forty-four Societies in South Carolina, and including members of every Protestant denomination in the State. The report of the Agent for the State showed that the work of distributing the Scriptures had been prosecuted with gratifying zeal and success in aiarge portion of the. State, and that the Bible cause to sus. tamed with increasing ardor and liberality. The pledge given by the previous Convention to raise five thousand dollars during the year, for the work in fo reign lands, over and above the sum needed for their local operations, was fully redeemed, and the pledge was renewed for the coming year. College Reqopi.—Knox College, 111.—The Annual commencement of Knox College, at. Galesburg, 111, occurred on. Thursday, the sth inst. The Baccalau reate Sermon by President Curtis, from Prov. i. 10, delivered on the preceding Sabbath, set forth ' 4 Trial in order to the Development of Character," as the great law of human life. The graduating dais numbered five. The Trea surer reported over $200,000 of produdtive funds, with 50me'5175,4:00 in lands and buildings. The - - Board authorized the Faculty, at their 'discretion, to give free tuition to such indigent and worthy young men in the college proper, as they may judge fit ob , j eats of such special favor. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon, Abram Lincoln, of Antiricat '...V - ttslitttii,4.t.;_-Itni.,: Sttuitt era tt4tl,,tot Japan to be Christianized.—A correspondent of the "Christian Freeman" (Universalist) thus writes to that paper:— " If my orthodox brethren will send me ten thou sand dollars to pay the expenses of a trip to Japan, I will engage to introduce Christianity into that em pire, or return the money at the end of three years, with compound interest." Rev. Abel Stevens, LL. D., has been elected to the Professorship of History and Belles Lettres in the Troy University. We have not learned whether he will accept. The New Scandinavian Lutheran Synod.—The Norwegian Kirketodende brings an abstract of the proceedings of the Convention-held in Clinton, Rock County, Wisconsin, and of the organization of the new Synod.' The attendance was quite large. Every Scandina vian minister connected with the Synod of Northern Illinois, with a single exception, being present, toge ther with a respectable lay delegation. The result of a full andsfree interchange of opi nions led to the formation of a Synod. Its title is, " The Scandinavian Ev. Luth. Augustantt Synod in North America." The' doctrinal basis, which was adopted with 'en tire unanimity, is stated as follows in the Constitu , tion: Rev. Dr. Spring's Fiftieth Anniversary.—We understand that the fiftieth anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Spring's settlement over the Brick Church will occur on the first Sabbath in August, on which occa sion he is expected to preach his anniversary sermon in the morning. This is his first and only pastoral charge. We are also informed that his people intend on the succeed ing Monday afternoon, the 6th of Atigust, at 6 o'clock precisely, to present to their venerable pastor a me morial, With some addieiies, suited to the' occa-• sion. This, doubtless,,will be gratifying intelligence to the numerous friends of . the patriarch of the Presby tery of New York; who will be glad to avail them selves of the opportunity of being present at these joyful solemnities. Bible Convention.—The fourth annual meeting OrthVdelegales — fioin the severiirßibli"SOcieties in South Carolina, auxiliary to the American Bible So ciety, was held in the town of Sumter, on the 10th ultimo. Resolutions were adopted, granting every opportu nity to the Illinois association to examine the papers in possession of the college bearing upon the question of its denominational relations ; but all authority of that or any other ecclesiastical body over the institu tion was most emphatically repudiated. Dickinson College,. Carliele.—A motion to remove this institution from Carlisle was laid on the table for one year by a vote of 11 to 9. The college owes the town $l2OO, on a judgment for paving the side walk; and there is said to be some feeling against the college in the community. Yale College Commenceinent—New Haven, July 26. The Yale College Commencement closed this evening. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on one hundred and eight members of the graduating class, and that of Master of Arts on sixty; that of Civil Engineering on one; Bachelor of Laws on eight. The degree of Doctor of Laws 'was conferred on President Felton, of Harvard College, the degree of Bachelor of Arts on N. Henry Powers, of the class of 1857; Master of Arts on Judge Parks, of the Superior Court of Connecticut; Dr. Stephen G. Hubbard, of New Haven ; H. W. Lesley, Professor of the Medical School of Pittsfield ; W. H. M•Allister of California; Isaiah Curtis, of Boston, and John C. Mitchell. The corporation have elected Prof. Elias Loomis of the New York University, to the Chair of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, made vacant by the death of Prof. Olmstead. The examinations for ad mission thus far indicate a Freshman class of nearly two hundred. The oldest living graduate of Yale College, Mr. Joshua Dewey, of Watertown, N. Y., was in New Haven, attending the commencement exercises. lie entered his ninety-fourth year in April last, and en joys his bodily and mental faculties to a remarkable degree. FOREIGN.' Germany.—The arrangementsset on foot by the ,royal order of the mart of Berlin, on the 27th of February last, designed to carry put the Presbyterial constitution in the Evangelical Church are advancing with an encouraging degree of niiiidity. In the pro vince of Prussia, 559 out of 653,4=6%3 have made the needful changes. By the en , of summer it is ex pected the new arrangements 'l 'VS-pretty generally carried into effect. , A Society for the premed°, of love and union among Christians is in existe; e in Wurtemburg, which held a meeting on the is , of May, which was largely attended. The Preside , announced that a Baptist preacher was present ho had been fined twice, six florins and thirty kr tzers each time, for admitting persons to his meetiSgs not yet connected with that denomination. Wh , eupon a fund was established by contributions ma, on the spot, for the relief 'of all such cases of op ession, the subjects being generally too poor to p their fines. Other measures were resolved upon, a i h as tan examination of the laws under which these: wea4a, tin flicted, and petitions, where nee, isary, for the exercise of clemency. The Consistory f the province in re ply to inquiries as to the propel mode of proceeding towards the Methodists, ackno ledges the services done by this body,in and to t established Church fr of England, admits the substantial agreement of their views with those of the Wur, mburg Church, and forbids any severe treatment of em; but at the same m time they require the Meth - ts•to abstain from t class-meetings as involving thillbrbidden practice of confession, and from love-feasts' in danger of abuses, and hold them to their prom °o organize no new church, but to restrict themseltes to promoting a re vival in the old one Ends h; hinderanees, how ever, the Methodis; contented. Contributions t —The new Evang. knowledges a total trs received at the office of that paper to above object. . _ The Liverpool : nzferenee in Ger . many.--The Berli therqeftung devotes two articles to this 1 4ting it in a highly appreciative spirit. as follows: 1 "The weightiest practical r lt of this Conference is not the establishment of alit jmual course of lec tures on missionary subjects, _ the east of £3OO per annum, but the interchange f experiences, views and ideas, and the .approxini don' to each other in spirit, of the friends of naissio s and missionaries of it the various societies eagagedl, the - work. -1 t has opened the way for a more corn' rehensive Missionary congress, in which all, or near! All, of the evangelical missionary societies may unii4u similar consultation and in prayer." l ' E..„i The Evangelical;Union :J r . oiety of Saxony held its 7th meeting in Halle, on the Bth of May. Dr. Tholuck read a paper upon the Practical Significance and Value of Studies in Theological Literature for the Pastor. It was heard with great interest by the as sociation, many of whose members had beeu pointed out the way to Christ by the V / enerable lecturer. A discussion on the rite of confession followed, which appears to have exhibited a decided leaning to the old Romish practices. An Evangelical (Unionyhnrch in London.— There are several Protestant, German - churohes in' London, but only one ofthem ?.s based upon the plan of union, embracing Lutheran: and Reformed in one. Its pastor is`Dr. Christlieb,,anit its work is described as one of great usefulness. List year a distinguished Israelite was, baptized through its instrumentality, and many Romanists are draWn into its meetings. The congregation is now engaged in building a church to cost £2OOO, but areatn gteat need of assist ance, which comes but sio - ,from the fatherland. Systematic' beneficence is se less undersibod and practised in oerniany ttiaii , 'kY l#t .. Proseyltism in the Sandwich Islands.—The Ifirchenzeitung speaks in the niost decided and severe language of attempts which ate said to he making by the British Consul at Hawaii in connection with the high-Church Society for tberopagation of the gos tztti, pel, to bring the King and On over to the Angli can Chinch, offering them •ii:n English bishop and clergy, as a kind of an offset to, the French Catholic influence on the Islands. The Kirchenzeitung says: "The island was converted to. Christianity after protracted efforts by the Amercan Congregationalists, (sic) and it would be a scandal to the i evangelical name; if a narrow churchly pioselytism should invade their 'work and trespass on 'another man's line,' and use besides, with a gross P'erversion, the name of 4 missions' for such a perfArlance. We trust - that . . . the report of the assent of the venerale Archbishop of Canterbury to the schema is incorrect. At least in Germany, the English Church would, by each a course, gain neither in friendp nor in the estimate of her real, evangelical chara4." . . .1 Field Marshal von Benedek appointed to medi ate between the Austrian 0346m:dent and the Protes tants of Hungary belongs to ihe Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession.* ' - The Ecclesiastical QueeVA= in Ettngary.—The opposition, to the imperial patent of the let of Sep, tember, 1859, which came chiefly, from the intract able and liberty-loving Magyars, has triumphed. Most of the German churoltis acceded to the condi tions 'which yielded to the crown the right to the initiative in:the ecelesiastictd affairs of the Protest ants. But a very large and' perseveringopposition insisted on the freer conititaion of 1791, which al lowed the Protestant community to chocise their own methods of church action. 'it seems that the im peror has yielded to their 4mands. The threat to —. withdraw government sanpOon from "such churches and ecclesiastical bodies as Lad not Conformed to the patent by March and April, and to declare their acts void, .has been withdrawn.) These who, have not come into the governinent 'arrangement, as well as those who have, are allowek to - join in making the needful preparations for-ft ' 'erat conference to'con sidar the'question'of ane ' etitution for'the entire Protestant body. itoi . -' ' - ' The Kirchenzeitang tail& that the imperfal plan, if acquiesced in, would havetled to satisfactorx results for the Chtirch, much sooner than the present one. France.—The Aeformed Churches of Paris.— In two of these ehurshes rationalistic doctiines still alternate with orthodox ones; this body of dial& will still be chained to the living man so long as he has not the revived energy of thg,Apirit of the Lord boldly to arise and shake him off. Spnrgeon'a Sermons•=Spurgeon's sermons are being read, and good translations are widely circu lated. We know of a pasitor in a provincial town who has read them from time to - time from the pulpit to the real benefit of hie cohgregation. Reformed Church in Lyons.-Durin g the past year our admissions to church-membership amounted to sixty-three persons'(the majority of whom have left Rome,) giving an increase of thirteen persons on the previous year. - Meantime it has pleased the Lord to withdraw from thih , world twenty-five mem bers. An instance of suclOtortality hes not occurred within the last ten years t . i Pei of the six hundred members who compose the.church, eleven have with drawn,--some through declension in their faith, others have been subjected to church discipline. He has also inclined the hearts of Christina) friends to send us liberal contritutiens, and we have seen our dt of more than 21,000 francs reduced to less than 5000. Never was there a time more favorable for the evangelization of France than the present nio ment. lEIIIIIEIEIIIIIIM POSTAL BUSINESS or * PHILADELPHIA for a year: Letters mailed, 5,824,958. Stamps and stamped envelopes, $229,17192 Sent to dead letter office, 45,851 Letters, papers and circulars delivered, 2,687,373 Earnings, $45,087.95 Number of carriers employed, Average pay, of carriers, Minimum pay, The inquirer says If we add to the yearly number of letters received by mail the aggregate of our local correspondence, as delivered by Blood's Despatch and the Post Office, which sums up about two millions two hundred and fifty thousand letters, &c., annually, we have true annual average of letters delivered per capita in Phi ladelphia, viz.:—Fourteen and .a half for each person within the +delivery of the City Office. This is small compared with the average for the city , of London, where it is about forty letters for each person, though it is nearly three times the average of the whole United States, which is &Witt five and a-third. The annual, proportion of letters to population throughout England is about twenty to each person- 7 4n Scotland about sixteen—in Ireland about seven—and in the British North American Provinces about three and a had: A LOWELL correspondent states that a careful coma puiation shows the steam power of the Great Eastern steamship is equal to the water power that drives the mills at Lowell. This gives an idea of the immense power of the steamer, equal to that required for the great manufacturing city of America. SUdE FACTORIES.—A recent Boston paper gives an account of a factory for making oboes by steam, and by a singular coincidence we find in a late southern paper a description of a similar factory in New Or leans. qu3r Germany. of May 12th, ac- ILL-FATED HUNGARIAN.—We understancf that nagotiations.are going on between the company now engaged in raising goods from the lost steamer Hun garian and. Capt: PRATT and Mr. JACOB BARTLETT for the purchase of the steamer Dirigo. The Dirigo is now lying near the wreck of the Hungarian. The Com_ party are taking out from five to six hundred dollars per day in goods and machinery. The• wreck is full of bodies; some of which can be seen at low water, and the sight is represented as extremely distressing. —Bangor Whig. THE WESTERN MARKET.—Aceounts from nearly all parts of the great West agree in saying that the her vests in that section are very abundant this season, even beyond what was anticipated . a month since. The wheat is good almost everywhere, and the oats, barley and hay will correspond with it. This news is as important to the East as to the West, for it has been settled for two years that nothing was wanting to restore prosperity to the West but one good bar , CENSUS RETURNS.—We have DOW most of the lead ing Pennsylvania cities and towns, as below: Philadelphia, 650,000 Pittsburg,. .. . . 130,000 Reading 24,000 Lancaster, 18,000 Harrrisburg,.... 14,862 Norristown, 13,500 Scranton, 12,000 Pottsville, 13,000 York, 10,000 Easton, 10,000 Allentown,.... We cannot well estimate the increase of New Jer sey ; but that of Pennsylvania will be somewhere near to thirty-five per cent-against less than twenty-five per cent, for the "Empire State." MORALITY AND TUE ZooAvEs.—We do not mean the Zonares of Algeria, but those of Chicago, and we desire to commend earnestly one feature of their or ganization. it is understood that among the ru/es volitntarily imposed Upon themselveslis one prohibit infOgambling, drinkingond, billiard-playing, on pain of expulsion from the corps—and it is understood that at home, as elsewhere, they maintain jealously a reputation for irreproachable morality. This is, indeed, "a good report" for a military company numbering about sixty young men. The example cannot fail to have a salutary. influence, 'and it is eminently worthy of imitation. • TILE DELAWARE RAILROAD.—SIRCe the 9th of July a steamer has been running regularly between Sea ford, Del., and Norfolk, Va., connecting at the former place with the trains on the Delaware Railroad. THE STEAMSHIP PENNSYLVANIA, tbe phia Norfolk route, was burned to the water's edge, July 19th, on James river, near Jamestown,— three children were drowned by the capsizing . of a raft. They were the children of Mrs. Deitz of, this city. CELESTIAL PHENOMENON.-At about half-past nine o'clock on Friday evening, a meteor of the most sin gular character passed through the heaveui from the west towards the east. It was preceded by radiance' siMilar to that of an aurora, and progressed slowly, lingering for some time-within the range of vision. It consisted, apparently,,of several bodies of a green ish hue, connected with a belt of flame. A long streamer of fire was in its wake. No SUNDAY Tmems.---We are pleased to observe that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company have sus pended the running of freight trains on'the Sabbath, This arrangement will, no doubt, be welcomed by those who were employed upon the trains which rim on the Sabbath, as they will now hove that day for rest—Pittsburg Paper. VITT POSTAL ARRANGEVENTS.—An order bas just been published by our City Postmaster, 'under in - - structions from Washington, to the effect that here after one cent shall be charged upon every letter de posited in the lamp-post letter-boxes for conveyance to the Post Office, and that this one cent must be pre-paid by stamp. This is an undeniable step_ back ward. TORNADO IN CAMDEN, N. J.—One of the most ter rible• tornadoes that have visite& this part of the country for years, occurred on Thursday afternoon, about quarter-past three o'clock, near Oantden, New Jersey, completely detitroying the large chemical works of Metiers., Potts and Klett; killing three men and injuring several others. The tornado lastelt but a few minutes, and uprooted several large trees and a number of small buildings in that neighborhood. The noise produced mai . beard a great distance from the, scene of the disaster. Faosr.—The Erie Gazette of the 26th Jtily Says: We'hear of frost in various iiarts rof thevotinty on Tuesday morning—though not severe enough'to do any harm to vegetation. • - • ITNPUNISHED CRIME AT NEW YORIC.-A morning paper enumerates fifty different murders that have been committed in this city during the last three years, the perpetrators of which have never been discovered nor the slightest trade obtained. Cati anything more strikingly illustrate the impenetrable mystery with which crime can be surrounded in a great city? HEAT IN ST. Lours.—These are sweltering times for. St, Louis. The thermometer is as high as 107 degrees in the shade, and already there.-have been forty;deaths from . the heat. The oldest inhabitant does not remember- to have seen the present state of the weather ever, eqtralled. A Great WOrk..-The distance to be cut through the mountain for the .11oosac tunnel, lvlass., is four miles and a ball, and the material to be cut through is hard mica slate, intermingled with quartz. The height of ,the tunnel is to be eighteen feet, and its width fourteen. The work gets on slowly; the rate of advance is only two feet and a half'a day. On the 31st , of May, the workmen had reached just 1,638 feet into the mountain from the east end. The dis tance made on the;west side is about 800 feet. Three mules arid a half of solid rock yet lie'between the workmen on the east slde and those on the west side. Ft lito of tilt - 1 ttIL Carrier's TV-ark 8,047 Wilkesbarre, RECEPTION OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. St. John's, N. F., July 24.—At noon to-day the Prince of Wales and suite, landed from the Hero, under Royal salutes from the Citadel, the Ariadne and Flying Fish, and the French war steamer Jesatris. EtraLAND.--The Parliament were debating about Garibaldi in the House of Lords. Lord Brougham took occasion to speak a kind word for Garibaldi, and expressed the opinion that the Constitution granted to Naples would be a great failure, and he hoped it would fail to save the detestable tyrant of Naples. In regard to the question of annexing Sicily to Piedmont, Lord John Russell . has declared in Par liament that England could not depart from the great principle of the right of the people to choose their own government without interference. $9 9. 7 $72000 In London they have a Ladies' Garibaldi Benevo lent Association for the sick and wounded, widows and orphans, of Garibaldi's followers. The list is headed by Florence Nightingale. , ITALY, ROME, AND . NAPLES.-A letter from Rome, which has been published in an ultramontane jour nal, states that the King of Naples, at the moment of ceding to the menaces of the revolution and to the foreign exigencies, addressed a letter to the Pope, declaring that he felt great agony of mind, and im ploring advice; but he wrote from his bed, and in a manner which showed that he had already ceded al most everything. Pins IX.' in reply, made use of many affectionate and paternal expressions, but did not fail to point out the dangers to which concessions would subject his Majesty; those which they would inevitably bring on his people, and the irreparable injury they would do to religion, to tl►e honor of his house, to justice, to law; and to' all the sentiments which sovereigns are bound to respect The Pontifical Government has released the politi cal prisoners belonging to the Romagna, who were confined in the forts of Ancona and in other strong places. The 11Tete Constitution.—No confidence whatever is felt in the Court's sincerity'. The one fact of Cas tle St. Elmo being garrisoned by Swiss and Bavari ans exclusively, with a store of bombshells equal to the capabilities of the opposite volcano, is held suffi cient evidence of treachery. AUSTRIA.- The Austrian government is under taking gigantic works, in order to render the famous quadrilateral perfectly impregnable. At Verona the works are directed by fourteen en gineer officers, who have under their orders an entire regiment of engineers. Six gunboats, excellently made, are on the lake of Garda, while at Venice measures are being taken for the defence of Venitia Tuaxty.—We learn by a telegram from Paris tbat M. Thouvenel has instructed the Marquis de Lava lette to inform the Sultan that France, from huma nity, as well as owing to former Conventions with Turkey, is bound to put a stop to, the horrible plasm cres of Christians. As the Turkish authorities are not capable of pro tecting the Sultan's own subjects, France will concert with the Other Powers the most efficacious means for preventing the bloody scenes of which Syria has be come the theatre. It seems impossible to doubt that the Turkish mi litary authorities, to whose guardianship the keeping of, the peace in those regions is intrusted, have per mitted, and perhaps encouraged, the slaughter of the Christians. A fearful massacre of Christians has taken place at Damascus. Five hundred were killed, including the Dutch consul.. The Alum.lean consul escaped with his life, but was wounded. Slcmy.--Garibaldi'esecond. ministry is said to have resigned. Naples has notified England and France of her in tention,tonffer tie constitution of 1.81 1 2, and France had agreed to it. but England hesitates. A sanguinary combat is reported to'have occurred between the Neapolitans and an advance guard of the Sicilian army. Garibaldi has received further aid to the amount of a million livres and 57 pieces of artillery. Sryarr.—The Gibraltar Chronicle announces the return to this place, after an imprisonment of up wards of thirteen months in Cadiz, of Mr. Martin Esealante, a British subject and ,a native of Gibral tar, ly(r, Escalante was arrested in Vejer in May 1859, for having given to various persons copies of the New Testament in the Spanish language, and was brought to trial on the charge of attempting to change the religion of Spain. The district judge decided that the charge was proved, and,senteneed him to nine years' "presidia" or imprisonment in a penal settlement. The friends of religious toleration and liberty of conscience will be glad to learn that Escalante's im prisonment is not sanctioned by the / Spanish laws, but must be attribute,d to the ignorance of theta 'on the part of a local judge. _ . On an appeal being made to a superior court—the Audiencia of Seville, that tribunal has annulled tire sentence pronounced by the district judge, and de clared Mr. Escalante innocent of the offence with which he was charged. MEXICO, Thursdny, June 2.Bth.—The ollicial notice is published here of the retreat of Miramon. His prestige is by this affair completely nullified, and his utter overthrow is now inevitable. In hid retreat to. Guadalajara he was closely pur sued by a part of the Federal forces, and lost a large number of , men, with several pieces of cannon and trains. The position of the Liberal Party is now said to be much better than ever -before, and, without some unforeseen and fatal accident of war, its speedy tri umph is sure. NEW Poi:mina:rm.—The 'Flyiug 'Fish,' the advance vessel of the squadron accompanying the Prince of Wales, arrived at St. John's, on. the :VERY LATEST. FROM Synt?..—Smyrna, July 2.—The steamer from Beirut reports that the whole of the Frank population, and as many of the native Christians as could, had taken refuge on board the English, Freniii, and Russian men-of-war, in the harbor. Pati;• ties of .marines from each of these nations had landed to assist in maintaining order in the town. Coratanfinople, July 8.--Fuad Pasha had left for Syria, with 16,000 men under his orders. The Turkish government are shipping corn to Beirut. Liverpool, July 18.—A. fearful massacre of Christians has taken place at Damascus. Five hundred were killed; including the batch Consul. The American Consul escaped with his life, but was wounded.- Advices from Naples state that a conflict has oc curred there betwiien the troops and the people, in consequence of .the popular manifestations in favor of the refugees who had disembarked at Naples. Seviral persons were killed during the melee. The King of Naples has dismissed his Ministry and formed a new Cabinet. The inspector of the former police was stabbed on the 12th inst. A prodlamation issued by Garibaldi against the Bourbons, and in favor of Victor Emmannel, has, been distributed in Naples—increasing the excitement there. The proclamation states that "Victor Emmanuel will lead us against the Austrians." Two merchant steamers have passed over to Gari baldi:and the report that the NeaPolitan corvette below had gone over to, him, is confirmed. SYRIA.—One hundred and fifty villages have been destroyed by the Druzes, and froin seven to eight thousand Chtistianl3 of all ages and sexes, butchered with the greatest atrocity. FOREIGN TUE . LATEST. PARTIALITY TO FEMALE CRIMINALS.—The records of the English Courts show that more women are ac quitted than men. During the year 1859, of the men who were proceeded against summarily, 68.7 per cent. were convicted by the magistrates i of the wo men, only 53.9 per cent.—n, difference of nearly 15 per cent. The fact is stated to be so throughout cri minal statistics. The cause is assigned, by a dis tinguished writer on the subject, to leniency towards the sex. The working of the same influence has been observable also in instances in our own country. fPtlty. HURLBUT.—On the 281 h instant. at Landscape View, Montgomery County. Mrs. Elizabeth Hurlbut, relict of the late Hezekiah Hurlbut, in the 73d year of her age. NOTICES. Auburn Theological Setninary.—The Fall Term will open on Wednesday, the sth September. The regular exercises will begin at once and students are requested to report thernSelyes promptly. The general Introductory Lecture by one of the 'Professors, will be delivered soon after the opening of the term. Liberal aid will be extended to= all students whose circumstan ces require it. Those desiring aid from the Education Society, are reminded to bringbe required testimonials in regard to scholarship, moral and religious character, pecuniary necessity, &c. ' 6w SAMUEL M. Borates, CTerk. lienderton. Presbyterian Church.— The new edifice of this congregation has progressed so far towards completion, th►t the services can now be held in the lecture room. The building, our friends are aware, is located on the north side of Tioga Street, west of Broad, in the 2lstWard, and in an improving neigh borhood. Services will be held twice each Sabbath. Order of Exercises for the Fail Meeting of the Presbytery of Wilmington : Tuesday esening.—Sermon by Rev. FI.J. Gaylord, on ' The Relation of the Intervals between Revivals of Re ligion, to the Growth of the Church.' • Wednesday morning, 11 o'clock.—Addresses by Messrs. Foot, Emerson and Rood, on the ' The State of the World in relation to the Kingdom of God.' Wednesday afternoon, 3i o'clock.—Addresses by Messrs. Patterson. Wisivell, and Cann, on ' The Remedies of In fidelity for the Moral Evils of the World.' Wednesday evening.—Sermon on 'Christian Experience in the Song of Solomon,' by Rev. J. Garland Ramer. Thursday morning, 11 o'clock.—Addresses by Messrs. Mears, Foot, and Banmer, on 'Every church a mission, every Christian a missionary.' Thursday afternoon ' 3i o'clock.—A General Meeting of the:Sabbath Schools, with addresses from Messrs. Em erson, Gaylord and Mears. By the committee of arrange meats. Joan . W. Menus, Stated Clerk. The Wrench Union Mission.—To the Ro man Catholics of this city. Preaching in French every Sabbath .morning, at 10 o'clock, and lectures every. Sa bbath afternoon, at 3 o'clock, on the subject of Roman ism, in the F.nglish language, Assembly Rooms, S. W. corner of 10th and Chestnut Streets, by the mission ary colporteur, Rev. G. Alord, a converted Romanist. The public are respectfully invited to attend. Tv MEDiCINE IS NECESSARY, USE BRANDRETE'S Pmts. They are as pleasant as a truly effective medicine can be. 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