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    1860.
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UtiItSDAY. OCTOBER. 49 1860.
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OUR OWN MUNCH.
Long Island Presbytery on. Divinte:— , This
presbytery, ixt, its meeting in Southold, August 28,
adopted a paper on divorce, based upon the action of
the General Assembly' on the case of Mr . Shields.
fhlr. Shields has since - been received into the minis...
try of the Cumberland Presbyterian-Church without
any renunchition of his error, so far. as Vre. Call 41e
cover.)
Rev. 41. P:t.turatii, of Gieenville, has received
and accepted a call .to the pastorate of the Presbyte
rian Church at Oxford. Brother Kumler is a child
of that,ohurch, and: his is the second instance within
a year in whiCh . al,i;hurch in Hamilton Presbytery
has called .one of its own young men to be its spiri
tual teacher and guide. We love, 4
to see our western
chungum thus raising up their own ministers.— C.
'
The Presbytery of Lake Superior (N. S.) met
Sept. lip at Marquette, and strangely enough it may
strike some of the sticklers for order, it met in one
of the state rooms of the steamer North Star.
Presbytery appointed, as Ooinmisidoriers to the
neat meeting of the General Asseinbly - , the.Rev..l.
IL Wheeler, and Elder 0. T. Harvey, principals—
and the Rev. 0. B. Stevens, and Elder E. F. •Ely, al
ternates.
Oinoinnati Presbytery.—This body held an An
timony animated and interesting meeting on Tuesday
in the Eighth Presbyterian Church. The subjects that
elicited most discussion were Education, Home Mis•
ohms, and Ministers' Libraries.
As tLitome Missions, the Presbytery felt that
there w a sad want of progress in Southern Ohio,
and that the zeal of our ministers and the liberality
of our churches should be far beyond what it is or has
been for years. The action fi nally taken was con
servative and advisory, leaving the matter, however,
with a pretty large discretion,ln the hands of an
excellent Committee, Bra. Thompson and Allen,
and Rev. G. M. Maxwell.
Rev. Joseph Chester was received from the Pres
bytery of Scioto, and Rev. David Gould, Stated Sup
ply of the First Church in li f ipley, from the Marietta
Congregational Conference. Rev. C. E.,Babb was
dismissed to the Preshytery of Hamilton, in the
bounds of which, at College Hill, he lives and
preaohes.
Thh church at Jamestown, Kentucky, on the river,
opposite the seventeenth ward of the city, was re
ceived under the care of Presbytery. Mr. Stanley,
of the Senior class, Lane Seminary, is supplying it
at present. ,
The West End Mission Church, through its elder,
L. IL Sargent, applied to be taken under •the care of
Presbytery. The Application being granted, Mr. Sar
gent presented the call of the church for the miniete
terial services of Rev. Jos. Chester. The Presbytery
placed the call in the hands of Mr:Chester, and he
having signified his acceptance of the same, Drs. M.
L. P. Thompson, George E. Day, and B. P. Ayledott
and Rev. C. E. Babb were appointed a,committeo to
install him pastor over the. Church.
*10.01140.—A correspondent of the 'Oengrega-j
tionalists says:
The blew School branch of that church is very
strong in this State. It had the Itietropolitan ;influ
ence in the outset, and great advantages every way,
and is doing great good. The Old School has 15
churches, six ministers and 631 members. The Neis -,
School his one hundred and four churches, twenty : .
five ministere, and eight thousatati three hundred and
twenty-nine members, according to their minutes of
1860. The first Oongregistiol4 Church was fortnedin
1827, another in 1829. From 1830 , t0 1840, twenty
four. From 1840 to 1850', forti,four. 'And from
1850 to 1809, 60 eeligroPtiw.riai gb mites were termed.
There are now 130 churches, with-a- membership
of over severi,thousandi, Averaging,fiftylglit.and,
half to each church. - '
Rev Thee. Wirt White; who has been preach
ing for Rev. 1)r. Moore, Richmond,. Virginia, - during
t he summer mouthe, has returned to his country
barge.
Ilia addresa Tusvektah," Lutienburg, Virgi
Returned from Euxope. 7 -7Rev. Dr. PrePtITY of
ew York, and Ben. Dr. Spear,
,of Brooklyn, have
net returned from their Duropmn Por, both very
gmeh improved in health.
Palmyra, N. Y.—Eaxly4Eilytary,.,Bo,—John
Swift, the `man who* built tha first , cabin here, in
1790, came, as many of his tiesiopiiites did; from the
Wyoming Valley, in"Penniyhittriii,Whither their fa
thers had emigrated from' Conrietticut, and where
they in their seclusion had hultithted the genuine
Puritan principles and character, till their peace was
disturbed, and their community broken' up, by that,
horrid massacre, whose sad rehearsal in prose and
poetry has made Wyoming a household word in this
and other lands. A part of the survivors here fixed
their future abode. He, SWift, " gaVO the lands for
the first grave-yard, the first school-hOnie,' and first
church in the village." Another company; equally .
Puritanic in their convictions: and Hies, embarked
with their families in sail-boat on Long Island
Sound, passed,along the. Sound up the Hadsoan, and,
through various Smaller streams, until they . disem
barked from Mill Creek, at the site of their wilder %
nese hoina, having accomplished a journay cif about
five hundred miles in twenty-eight days, making.only
two portages, one less thatia mile, the other sixteen
miles in length.. Theirs was a voyage more worthy.
to be heralded than the expeditionof Jason of old.
They found and left for the inheritance;of their chil
dren a richer than 'golden fleece.' The school and
church received their early attention ; they trained
up their children in the way they,r&hpuld.
they have not departed from it. 'Grain flourished in
their fields, and virtues.in their hearts; neither har
vest has, failed., For eight years there, was not a law
suit in the, town. The tall, deep, gloriPas woods
have shrunk away as if itiftighted, and, like trem
bling antelopes, seem huddled together on Metope
of, tha hills... The clear, polished shaft ,that , now
passes Through these mellow . 'fields, would. blush to
min* relation to the old log, 'hewn out in the shape,
of a plough, by whiOhthe pioneers stirred thesaval
,
leys:
Once the hoe went before the hoe-cake, but now,
corn min gra* if 'a horse but dra* a five-leggednut
chine between its rows. Once, a,farmer and his boys .
must bow to the grain with the sickle And. scythe—
now the lord Cf the manor rides forth in a triumphal
chariot, and the standing fields bow to hiM. It was
a hard day's work with the flail and fan to separate
eight bushels of wheat from the straw and chaff; but
like the "new threshing instrument" seen by. Isaiah
they now in a single day can "thresh a mountain"
of straw, and fill a granary With wheat.
The churches here are generally prosperous, espe
cially the Presbyterian. Its pastor, Rev. Horace
Eaton, from - whose thanksgiving sermon the above
interestint , facts are taken, has been theilongest set
tled, its membership is the largest of any one in this
immediate vicinity: an unusual amount of wealth
and talent are represented in it. The`early baptism
of children has been very faithfully'observed. They
are taught in the catechism ; they have, colleetively,
twice, at considerable intervals, reeited:the Assem
bly's Shortei Catechisni to their 'pester. Parents
know how to consecrate their children to the mini*
Three of the dau,ghters of the 'church have been
Sent out as missionaries to the Foreign field. It has
been instrumental by sending out its members, and
,
colporteurs, in starting' Sabbath schools and,R,burehes
in the remoter West.' The church has :experienced
many rich scenes of religious ittereat. During the
past twelve years few communion seasons
have , oc
curred in which some have not made a profession' of
their faithin,Christ, and there have been threaspecial
revivals of interest. .. The last, in the winter of 1858,
was the most irapertant.—Congregitional Journal.
,
Rev. Albert G. Beebe ; forMerly of the Mission
to the Armenians, has been Installed Pastor of the
churches in'Monnt Pleturant end Uniondale, 'Penna.,
by:the Presbytery of Montrose. , At Mount Pleasant:
the installation` took place on the
.30th ultimo.
Uniondale the installation took place on the 18thIA
_
time. .
Clerthinelit: (West Tiresb.) Church,
This church, we are glid . to lei:lm i •has reached a
good degrekef_proipeiliy, essisi-meditette-an-u
dertakinf
. tif some novplty, and of vary impor
tance, kelikin less, than the 'estnblislitrient; of knew
enterprise r tp - town„"' while ;the present 6stablish
ment is to be retained and 'perpetuated in its ecclesi
astic's', ocnbexionsi. To, this; end, ;the church , has
rented the new and beautifatchnpel of the Rutgers
Institute, 'on the sth Avenue,' opposite the lower
Reservoir, and serviced will bn•herd there on and after
the•first Sabbath in October. The Rev. Eldridgellit
has 'been' invited to ""become' the assistant of Mr.
Hastings, and it is understood that he will accept-the
invitation. • -
regitrd this as the best pieee'of news froth our
church in New York for u verylon period.
Our' Commeniators.—The 0., C. Herald, speak
ing of Mr. Same's, and Dr. (ien, says:
"It is a source of congratulation to our branch
of the, Church that , we, have furnished the iwo,best
commentators on the Gospeltrthat have yet appeared'
in this country." ' .
Alvarado, Califorlda.—A Presbyterian °burble
was organized Sunday, the 19th of August, in. Alva
rado.
The peoplinf this thriving village have recently
erected, a commodious and beautiful church edifice,
and at its dedication a few months, ago, paid off, a
debt of six hundred dollars. - •
CONGREGATIONAL.
Missionaries to Afrioa.—On Saturday. morning,
August Ist, Rev. Henry Martyrs Bridgman, of North
ampton, with his wife, embarked from Boston in the
bark Gemsbok, for South Africa. He is to join'the
mission of the A. B. C. F. M. among. the Zulus.
Rev. Dr. Joel Hawes' Forty-third Anniver
sary.—Dr. Hawes preached a-'sermon recent'
Sabbath, upon the occasion of the forty-thira . anni:
versary of his settlement as pastor °Vey. the First
Church and Society in Hartford. It was an interest
ing resume of the history of the church from its or
ganization two hundred and twenty, r four years ago,
shoWing its condition from time to time during that
period.
Rev. Abel NoEwen; D. D., died at his residence
in New London, Conneetiout, on Friday morning, at
the advanced age of eighty years. He had been the
pastor of 'the First Congregational Church of that
city for more than half a century; but during the last
few years has been assisted by a,colleague. The
New London Star says that he was a clasimate at
Yale College of John C. Calhoun, and his successful
competitor fur the valedictory.
New School Views at East Windsor Seminary.
—Á correspondent of the 'Boston Oongregationaist'
asserted in the columns of that paper, June 22, that
at the examination of the last, graduating class in
that Institution, New School vies of Theology were
pretty generally expressed by the candidates. This
assertion having been denied, another correspondent
who was present at the examination, comes forward,
in it repent number of the 'Congregationalist, and
corroborates the first statement.
Ile adds:
In more than one parish, where the students then
licensed have preached during the present vacation,
different hearers have stated voluntarily that they
preached New School Theology. It is understood,
at East Windsor Ail), by those who hear the discus
sions of the students among themselves from day
to day, that the members of the Seteinaryiat the pre
sent time, are mostly New School men.
Statistics of Convegationalismia Nassaclia.,-
setts:--Acaording to, the last minUtes of the deneral
Assbeiation of Massachusetts, there were in' the State
on the Ist of August 587 ministers, of whom 333 were
pastors, 78 stated supplies, and 176 without charge.
488' churches, of Which 325 had pastors, 81 statad
suppliCe, ante 82 were vacant The whole nuinber of
church members was, the first of January, 76,371,
exclusive of 10,114 absentees. There were added in
1850 1,741'by profession, 1734 by letter. T0ta1,3,475
—and removals -.woe 1,154
.by death, 1768 .by. 6,4-
mission, and 188 by excommunication. Total 3,110.
the - baptisms were '7BO adults and 1,293 infants—
a* . itiir4it?:''.f.''t - i.t0'b. , itt . ..ti . i1a*i444..'...:' :.0 - tin,,,:t:',oce gvattgttiot
Sabbath school scholars, 80,120. Compared with
the, preceding year, there are three more churches.
413' less'church members, and 7,865 less additions.
Perk street Church, Boston, is the largest church in
the State, containing 914 members. The next largest
is Mount Vernon Church, Boston, which has 697
members. The smallest church has four members,
and the next smallest eleven. There are less than
one hundred members each in 174 churches, and 50
members in 59 churches. The average number in
all the churches is 156.
Congregational:Statistics in. Okla.—The Mi
nutes of the Pongregational,Conference of Ohio re
port 06 ministers, 159 churches, containing 10,118
members, additional 008, removals 373,6,509 in Sab
bath Schools, $7,129 contributed to benevolent bb-
The Statistieal Secretary says there are not les , s
than two hindred and fifty Congregational chniches
in the . State, which he thinks contain a memberihip
of 22,000..:. Of the two hundred and fifty churches,
one hundred are associated with Confetence, 75 (mu
neeted ,with Presbytery, arid 75 are Independent.,
'The average of meinbership in the churches re . -
ported is, one hundred. Only 99 churches reported
statistics, of which 59 made full returns. The largest
church .in ,thit State, and probably in the United
States, is the church at 'Oberlin,—which has 1,545 .
znembprs.
Statistics of Congregationalism in Maine.—
The last Minutes of the GetierarCOnfeiefed*
show that there are in the State fourteen County! ,
Conferences, 248 churches, 167 rninisters;added by
profession and letter 715, -removed by death, dismis
lion and exclusion 658, total .membership, 19,351
increase 130 members, non-resident tnemberi2;94l9„ .
baptisms, 437 In Sabbath :Schools 20,i76. Total;
ornOibUtioni: te "berieVolerit objeeti, 4 58,638.'
High Street Church in Portland has four hundred
an& fifteen members, and is the largest in the State,
The average, number in the churches is. seventy
-644: •
EPISCOPAL.
SmaltDioceses.- - --High chaichmen in this coun
try as wells r an xne q .ng, are. warmly .urging the
sub-division of the existing.dioceses into smaller ones.
The - Genera Convention, in this coantry, has so far
acceded to-their wishes as to put the minimum com
pass for new, dioceses ,created by sub-ilivision at 8000
square miles, including not less than 15' PreSbyters
or 15 self-suPpoiting @lurches. Some are'uneasy at
this advanae toviard - Presbyterianisrn and the-primi
tive church polity, in which, the individual Aura,
with its out stations Wes the *nese, and the pastor
was the Whop, as with us he is now. •
Dr. Pusey'sVomn4entau.—The Church louniad
says:
Long ago we were given to understand that a num
ber of the (Oxford) leaders had Undertakiit'
12110118 Commentarj op. the'whole Bible; of which Dr.
Posey became •responsible for the Book of. Isaiah and
the Tweive,Minof ProPhets, the other parts of 'the'
sacred Volume being 'divided among others of hig
friends. After twenty or thirty years of labor and •
waiting, the first instalment has at length - reached us:
It is the first part (consisting of 100 pages royal quarto,
in. Paper) of The Minor Prophets, with a Commentary
explanatory:. an&Practical, and Introductions' to the
several Books, by DR. •
The 'Oxford "Tracts" and "Ese4s."---A - vo-
Inme'of essays hadiecently been published, the work.
of Oxford High Ohurchmen, in which views of inspi-:
ration scarcely distinguishable from downright infl-.
delity, are 'boldly, adyocated. One of our Epiieopal
exchanges, in this country, commenting upon the dis
position shOwn in the-Anierican branch of the church
to felloW:the.leadiiii of Oxford theologian, says
"Ati I c ad'finlnerous imitations of the Tracts, so
we may, expect many of;the Essays.
have the ,testimorty , of the Western , . Churchman; it
would appear as if , the heaven had begun to Work':
E i t ga. 4 . I, v • t•P I/WM, k•Illf .1 OA •• • it: : 011 r cvn-
temporary•saysf:
Laymen: n various parts of the land Are, eoutz
plaining that many of the clergy do not preach' the
simple Gospel of Jesus Clirist, and those who have
formerly been acquainted with the *eiching of Unl
tarianiin the east, say -often that there' is a wonder
fel resemblance between the spirit of the preaching
of many of the clergy of our church and that to which
they were formerly accustomed, While yet there is a
difference; and they declare that .both the resem-'
blance and the difference are to be expressed in this
manner, viz.: One of the classes of preachers refir
ed to present a morality without a Christ, and the
ether a church without a Christ. Thus', too, both
classes make religion mainly a matter of taste, and
not a matter of serious earnestness between the soul
and God: In this matter, no person accustomed to
the preaching of Unitarians can fail to see a singular
resemblance—a resemblance which goes to show a
lack of evidence of true conversion 'of the soul to
Christ, and a lank of true apostolical earnestness and
zeal.
"Those laymen of our church who have been ac
customed to preaching, mainly addressed to the taste
of the hearers; when thrown into congregations where
the• Gospel 'is preached' with more simplicity and
earnestness, and directness to the conscience, are apt
to complain that the ministers, preaching in this man
ner, preach like Presbyteriani, and not like Church
,
men. "
Char& for Deaf Mutes.—The Churchman says:
We have received another appeal from St. Ann's
Church for Deaf Mutes. No words of ours are ne
cessary to show the importance of the work whichis
being performed by this Church, which presents the
means of grace to an unfortun ate class of persons,
who cannot be.reaohed through any of the ordinary
ehanneli. The Church is still in debt, in the sum of
$43,500.
The. Eastern Diocese .of New York has been in
session in the metropolis. Mr. John Jay brought
forward a series of reisolutiona, in favor of asking the
Provisional I3ishop to address a Pastoral Letter to
the people of the Diocese in reference to the African
slave trade, as now carried on at this port, in viola
tion of the statutes of the Republic,.Of the teachings
of the Morel, of the rights of man;•and of the laws
of tlod. Also, that the clergy be respectfully recom
mended, from time to time, to preach in their respec-
tive parishes against the wickedness of the slave
trade, as now prosecuted from within this Diocese;
and that the laity be urged to exert their influence
to stay the further prosecution of the traffic. .The
Resolutions were laid on the table by' a nearly una
nimous vote.
LUTHERAN
The Melanethon• Synod.—This Synod, which
was formed by the withdrawal of a number of con
gregatiope from the Maryland Synod,in order to or
ganize a new Synod in Western Maryland, is fore
most among the Synods of the Lutheran Church for
its decidedly "evangelical" attitude. There waa
some difficulty at the late General Synod concerning
its admission into full connection with the latter
body, as it has no fixed geographical bounds.
A Right Spirit.—The most 'remarkable instance
of mitsionary activity in Germany is in the parish of
Hermannsburg, in the Kingdom of Hanover, of which
the zealous Harms is pastor. They have a number
of missionaries in the foreign field, have a ship of
their own to take others there and keep up a corre
spondence with thetn. During. the last year they
raised 34,000 thalers, nearly $24,000. It is said that
Harms does not ask for gifts, but only gives thanks.
A Lutheran paper adds to this:—" The Missionary
Society atHermannsburg, is butane of the six or eight
foreign missionary societies, through which our breth
ren in Germany work for the ,heathen world. And
yet, though it is mainly the undertaking of an hum
ble village pastor, the annual revenue of this Society,
is threw times. the amount raised for the propagation
of the, gospel among the heathen, by all the churches
connected with our General Synod in this Country!"
The Nineteenth Annual convention, of the
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania,
commenced its sessions in Sunbury, Sept. 22d. The
attendance, both of clerical and lay members, was
unusually, large. This ; Synod is largely increasing
in numerical strength, and promises soon to rank
among the largest Lutheran Synbds in this country.
Twelve ministers from «ther : Synods were received
into the body atthis Bess on. Almost every minister
was accompanied with a ay delegate.
Commencement at
nation of Theologicalstt
Rev: L. A. Albert .delivel
Alumni on Ignatius Loyo
D., delivered an address b
flair, on'education and ede
was characterized by strut
'cal views - of life, and a rit
style. It were well if at c ~ mencemente; generally,
such wholesome counsel w re asimprecsively given.
{ h
On Wednesday evening • ev. 33
4. . Dittinger, of
Cleveland, Ohio, delivered', e annual address before
the Alumni Association d , the , College. Subject—,
the Laborer, the Artisan, tkd the Artist. This, was
chaste, beautiful and brill; nt. yhe'commenceinent .
took place on the 20th. • 'O6OOl :graduated. The
degree of D. D. was confer id oil, iteV. W: A; Passe-
ig7
vailt, of Pittsburgiv
,
The - Rntire number of the gradintes of the' College
is over three hundred. Abauto#ie hundred and sit
tp five ' areyinistera of the 6spel, filling many of the
•
most important pulpits and/profoseorshipti , in the Lu
theran:church in this counjr, ' '
Dr
Old Pastors .-- Rev ell:it'still pastor of the.
Orthodox. Cengreptionatc rcltin West Brookfield,
where be was settled June th , -'l7OB. Rev. Brown
Emerson is pastor of tbe z ie tit Church , Salem, over
which he was settled April - siiilki.B9s. in additicn
to these,- Rev. Alfred Ely, to 45.,b0f Monson, -- Was set
tied. December 17th, 1806 ;' Samnel Osgood, D. D.', of
Springfield, Jane 25th, 1809. 's.twd Rev. Luther Shel
don, of Easton, October ?., , ,14 14.
The= Fulton. StreetTinyer-Meeting.—The third
anniversary of `this meetihiwoitteld on Monday of
last week, when the Dutch charin' Fulton' street
was crowded by an assembly 4 'eh filled every sit
ting and standing place in the b' lding. A. number
of addresses were Made by mini - ere of different
de
nominations,aoby which, With tb s ravers and hymns,
the -whole service was or prolonge two hours and a
~, .
half, yet the interest, *stead. o , ,i agng, rather in-.
creased to the Close.
' Taxing Ninisterk'.Saiarie,. —The assesors of
.
the city of . Lynn, have _cowmen ed a new practice
there, that of taxing Ininisters'-alaries. The law
subjects inlaries that exceed sii ,hundred dollari to
taxation, but exempts _ those tha ilo'not. '
Delaware_ State Bible,Soc.
ciety of the . State of Delawarel
eighth Anniversary, at ililforit,
Hon. Willard Hall, long. Preside
the chair. It appeared that th:
of unusual labor and interest.
Through faithful men employ' d for, the purpose,
dis6ibutions have heen procee ng ' simultaneously'
in all the counties. This has bOri With results that
demonstrated the urgent, dernril for these benevo!
lent 'Visitations. In an oitensiva,section, one fifth of
the families of the white populati4inhnre found with
a copy of the word of. •Godin their dwellings.
The colored people were also lotd after and sup
,
plied, In another part of the • ' - te; the eolporteur
reports that he finds very niany'(ivho," never hear a
sermon, or even the naive of God except in blasphe
my." Trace's of lorrner exploratipris were frequently
discovered. ' A Bible. given to, alfamily forty years
ego, was - found in use. Many perrns were met who
were evidently Under the inflizede of God's Spirit.
t i .
They were conversed and' prayo with. It is an in
teresting fdafaie of these label* , 'ut the difitributor
does the work of an evangelist in the several houses
and neighborhoods; he visits The entire State is to
have the'benefit of these explorations.
The venerable President retielfihaihnal address,
and said to the meeting that be meet
them again. The Society would meet; and he lil ight
possibly be spared to meet with t a few tunes; but
before it shonld again meet in thr4 place be would be
done with earth. In a few aftpeting words be en
treated those present to make a faithful use of. God's
word, to seek its comfort and livi by its light. Ad
dresses' were also made by Rev.l. B. Bradford, Rev.
T. P. IVl'Colley, Rev. Geo. Shelddti and Rev. J. Flan
nery., The next meeting is to
.1) ( e held at Newark.
R N. Y. Observer.
alto:: of thi
TEE CITY.
were muc h
A Capital Inventionlnvention.—Wegrat i fied,
says the ' United States Gazettef by an examination
of a newly invented hoisting nachine," recently pa
tented by our respected fellow litizen, Mr. Joseph L.
Dutton, who resides at No. 122 Union Street. It is
remarkable for simplicity and tt e perfection and pre
l
cision of its working, while for ouses and stores, all
are of opinion that the dimwit is invaluable. .It is
constructed on the principle of ;:iielf-acting balance,
and any weight placed in it 13filances itself; and if
one or more persons sit therein).they can hoist them
selves to any height, and leaf° their seats at any
point; and no further motion of the machine will
take place. So with landingla weight of boxes or
other goods the machine remins suspended at the
place of landing, Whereas,*by t enld system, an ad
justment of the ropes, often ailiificult task, was re
quire& - •
Perfect. safety is, obtained • by this invention, and
the ropes, instead of rolling frotn one and almost to
the other end of a cylinder, winds round exactly in
the centre—a very desirable improvement for raising
or lowering in a hatchway. An }ngemous contrivance
attached to the machine, enablas parties interested to
weigh boxes and bales with exactness. This inven
tion is peculiarly adapted for grain elevators, or for
.warphousing in upper steirisiskai,•eOffee, or cotton,
while as ii, dumb waiter, on a-smaller scale, its pe
culiarities are invaluable. We predict complete suc-
cess for this 'excellent contrivance of Mr. Dutton, and
we are pleased to learn that already several of the
patent hoisting machines have', been ordered for dif
ferent cities of the United Stnies. 'lts usewill pro
bably become general. ':. -
The. Late Murder in the 'me elm% Ward.—
A STRONG-CASE OF-,CIRCUMST * ANTIAL EVIDENC . A.—The
investigation before the coroner's jury, in the case Of
Robert Crairford, who wienittdirid on'Frlday eve
ning, 21st inst., in the: Niligattitli Ward, has deve
loped some strong eireurristantial evidence to convict
the young man—Armatropg—TnOW in custody,on sus-:
picion of being _concerned int the:homicide; but, at
the same time, there are other circumstances which
are calculated to create a strong doubt as to his being
a participant in it. '
The accused _ hired a Germantown waganat Yan7
sciver's livery stable on the night of the murder and,
as he alleges, drove dovin. to the lower part of the
city, where he met a man andAvarnitn, whom be did
not know, who requested him to let them ride in Ids
wagon. They had with them, he says, a number of
chickens, some of them dead, which - nceounts for the
blood found in the wagon afnktrAwaareturned to the
livet:y stable.
The blood has been tested `by a skilful physician;
-who declares that it is not that of a' chicken, but of
a man, or a dog, horse, 4to.
No feathers were found in the wagon. The man
and woman, according to Armstwng's story, got out
on North Broad Street. Who they are not yet been
discovered. Armstrong was, the yol#g man who
Called up6n the deepaied the'3veelc previous
.to his
death, and 'made the appointmentwith- him-to sell
some'yarn, and it was tbie appointment' the"dededied
went, to fulfil when he.was murdered.
;ttysburgh.:--The exarni
i ants took place, Sept. 18th.
)(1 the4address before the
'Hem Wm. Jessup; LL.
fore the Lineman Assoeia
ated pieu. This discourse
'g , common, setae, practi
asan t,' clear - tiOd. forcible
—The Bible So-
elebrated its forty
on' the I.3th inst.
t otthe Society, in
year had been one
Another fact transpired on Friday, which also bears
against the prisoner :—lt was noticed that he bad on
a pair of new boots. He was asked where he bought
them, and what kind of money he paid for them. He
told the officers where he purchased the boots, and
said he gave the storekeeper a five•dollar Kensington
bank note in payment. The officers waited upon the
storekeeper, who stated that Armstrong had bought
the boots from him on Saturday last, the day after
the murder. , But he was positive that Armstrong
gave him a five dollar gold piece in payment, and not
a laank note. When told that he should be very cer
tain as to this fact; he declared that he was positive
the money paid him was a $5 gold piece.
The money in pbssession of the deceased oulhe
night be was muidered was all in gold.
In his defence its may be.stated that the ostler at
the livery stable is positive *lathe wagon he hired
was returned to the stable a quarter before 10 o ; elock
on the evening in question, as he made remark to
Armstrong, when he brought the wagon in, that. he
was back earlier than , he expected-him, Armstrong,
having promised to return' it 'at ten o'clock. The
murder was committed just about this time, or, at
least; the body of Crawford wks found still warm on
the pavement, near Norris Squire, at a quarter 010
o'clock, or precisely the same time when Armstrong:
returned the wagon to the livery stable, a considera
ble distance from the scene of.the mUrder. This . fact
would seem to establish an alibi in the case of the
prisoner. What, variation - .there, may have been in
the watches or clocks at,the different places, or whe
ther the witnesses may not have.made -some mistake,
as to the exact time, kis difficult, to,conjecture.
dress, too, when be returned , to tholivery stable, was:
'not lumpled nor ;nor` lid he show any excite-,
mint, such as might be eipected of a perion who
bad, a few minutes hefore„ been concerned , in a deed'
of this atroeity.
GENERAL
The Neapolitan Minister has taken leave of the
government at Waohington, his functione having been
terminated by the revolution.
The Central , American States are now all repre
sented at Washington by the same Minister.:
Lady Elgin Disaster.—The coroner's jury imthe
Lady Elgin disaster have rendered' their .verdict 4
They draw, from the evidence before them, the pre
cise conclusion expressed in these columns a few days
ago, together with new conclusions from later evi
deuce. They find, in the negligence of the schooner's.
men, and the defective system of lights, the main
causes of the, disaster. They condemn also the lack
of water-tight compartments in the Lady Elgin, and
the overloading which crowded her decks and saloons.
Two of the jury censure more severely the marine in
spectors for tolerating, and the steamer's 'oivners for
supplying so few and such poor boats and life-pre
servers.
A" Slate Brig has arrived, at Norfolk from ,
Mon
rovia, in charge of a U. S. prize crew from San Ja
cinto. She was captured off the Congo river,, on the
31st of August., with 619 negroes on board.
The Slave Ship Erie had arrived at Monrovia,
with 800 negroes on board,-in charge of aU. S. prize
Sehator . Seward said in his recent speech at St
Paul:
"The power of this government hereafter is net to
beotablished on either the Atlantic or, the. Pacific ,
coast. •The seaports will be the mouths by which
weehall communicate and:correspond with Europe;
but the power that shall speak and shall communi
cate and express the will of men on this Continent, is
to be located in the Mississippi valleV,..and at the'
sources of the Mississipp,i and the St. Lawrence..
(Loud applause.) In other days, studying what might,'
perhaps, have seemed to. others trifling or visionary,'
I , hive cast about for the future, the ultiMate, central,
seat of 'power of the North American people. I had
looked at Quebec and at. New Orleans, at Washington,
and.atßan-Prancisco, at Cincinnati and at St. Louis,
and it, had been the result of my best conjecture, that
the seat of power for North America would yet` be
found in the valley of Mexico, that the glories of the.
Aztec 'capital would be renewed, and.that -city would
become ultimately the chpital.of the United States'of
America. -But I have corrected that view, and I now
believe that the ultimate,' last seat, of power'on this
great:continent will be feund somewhere within a ra
dius not very far from the very spot where I stand,
at the head of navigation on the Mississippi river
Revelations of the 00nauS.—The returns of the
census marshals in some of the inland districts of
South Carolina,. ,reveal a curious state -of affairs,
touching the disproportion of the white to the slave
population. For instance, in the Georgetown dis
trict the number of free white persons is stated at
842, while the number of slaves and free'negr' oes is
988. The free white peisons of another, and con
tiguous district, is set down at 1,950; the colored po
pulation, in the same district is 12,694—the whites
forming only about one-sixth of the number.colored;
upward of 12,000 of whom are•slaves.
FOREIGN
Italy. FLIGHT OF Tll KING.—The King of Na
ples has embarked at Gaeta. for Seville. It is said
that be left an order on quitting Naples, for the bom
bardment of the town and destruction of the Royal
Castle.
The revolutionary movement is everywhere trium
phant.
Austria has decided not to receive the Neapolitan
fleet'into any Austrian port.
25,000 Sardinian troops entered Umbria on tbe 11th,
and on the 12th 25;00 more Sardinian troops at
tacked and took Pesaro, taking prisoners 1200 Ger
mans who were in the fortress. General Bella, who
commanded the Pope's troops, had ordered a sack of
the town and was taken prisoner to Turin. The
German garrison of Orvieto had capitulated to the in
surgents. Cialdini's order of the day to the soldiers
tells them :—" Attack and disperse the foreign ad
venturers without mercy. Perugia calls aloud for
vengeance, and,' though it be late, she will have it."
General Lamorieiere had:concentrated his army at
Several_, powers bad pro i tisted against the entry of
the'Sardinians into` the States of the Church, as an
attack upon international rights. Russia and Prus
sia protested in the strongest terms, but would take
no other step. • ,
A. Paris telegraph to the London Post, ' dated
Wednesday;night, says; the Piedmontese &rues are
marching rapidly on Lamoricime's army, and an en
gagement is expected to take place to-morrow. The
Eniperor and the French government have used every
exertion to prevent an invasion of the Roman States.
The . relations of France and Piedmont are critical.
Therrench AMbaseader, at Turin, has been 'recalled,
butlbe Censtitutionnel says the recall of the French
Ambassador is to expreie the dfsapproval of the go
vernment of the course pursued by Sardinia, but it
is far from an intention to, lead to a rupture.
Naples, is, tranquil. All the forts have surren
dered.
Garibaldi has exchanged interviews with the Eng , :
fish Admiral andiAmbassador.'
The Sardinian troops had disembarked-at Naples,
by the rNaest of Garibaldi, who had trhaisferred the
Neapolitan fleet to Sardinia.
,
Garibaldi has declared that he will' soon proclaim
the annexation of. Naples to Piedmont, froth the sum
mit of the Quirinal, where all Italians•will be united
in one national banquet • ' '
Gen. Fanti, Commander-in-Chief of the Sardinian
army, entered Perugia Sept 14th, after a hot fight;
which was continued through , all the - streets. The
enemy withdreW into their-hrtress, which they pub
sequently surrendered, One thousand prisoners,
were taken, inclUding Gen.-Schmidt. The Sardinian
loss is insignificant.
The ministry which Garibaldi has constituted, is a
liberal but moderate. one, and contains none.of the
elements of Mazziniam, andr:ono of his first acts was
to' break up a committee Whichiwas acting, as was
supposed, under the instructions of the impracticable
agitator.
LATEST.
The steamship Glasgow passed Cape Race on Sun
day morning, with European advices to the 20th ult.
The Papal troops under General Lamoriciere have
been badly defeated by the . Sardinians. The capture
of Pervgia is confirmed, and the seizure of Spoleta is
announced. The Britishers have finally succeeded
in placing the Great Eastern upon the gridiron at
Milford Haven. .A. rumor has been circulated quite
freely to the effect that the Emperor Napoleon bad
been fired at by a lunatic, in the streets of Toulon.
Mtirrith.
BATLEY—DAVIS.—On Tuesday evening, Feptember
20th, at the residence of Mr. John Isaacs, of Baltimore.
county, by Rev. Williarn . E. Evans,GEORGE WASH
iNctort BAILEY Of said county, to ITANDA. DAVIS of
EnieoWs Mills, Howard Co., 11d.
NOTICES.
Acknovvledgmtnt.—Received for Philadel
phia Educational Society. •
•
Churches in Ohio; per Col Mills, - - - $32 70
First Presbyterian Church, N. L., Phila., - 238 62
Jamei S. Earle, - - - - 20 00
Bethlehem Church, N. J., per Rev. J. G. Wit- •
Damson, - - - - 60 64 1
third Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia,
collection, $6.07; a “Friend, 100. ; Ladies'
,Education Society, 120; John C. Farr, 10;
Charleil Robb, 10; 'Samuel Work, Edwin
King, Ottpl. S. TobY,-Robert, O'Neill, Wm.
Taylor, Miss R. Cummins, Capt. W. Whill-
James W. Queen, each 5, L. M. W.,
3; W. F. Geddes, 3; Joseph M. Siinons,
2; John Aikman 2; C. Gulager, 2.50;
George Young, 2; A. ' , Owen, 1.50 ; Mrs.
Richardson, 1; Miss M. Hasson, 2; Miss
IVPFarlane, 2; 0. 11. Willard, bars. E.
Lasalle S. Morris, E. Colhoun, each 1 •
Total, - - - 311 07
West Chester Presbyterian Church; per Rev.
J. M'Leod, - - - - ' - 800
First Church, Fairfield, N. J., per Rev. James
Boggs, - ' - - - - - 500
Maiket Square Church, Germantown, per
Rev. Dr. Helffesntein, - - 34 00
First Church, Reading, Pa., per Wm. M.
Baird, Esq.,- - - 43 58
Erie Presbyterian Church, Pa., per George
Kellogg, Esq., - - 25 00
Rev. J. P. Lestrade, N. Y., - - 500
Interest on Philadelphia City Loan, - - 115 00
. Western Presbyterian Church, - 400 00
$l2BB 59
PURTES, Treasurer.
Philadelphia, Sep. 22, 1860.
American Board.
Receipts at Philadelphia for August and September.
Philadelphia, Clinton Street Church, ' - $35.00
cc Pine Street Church, W. F. G., - 10.00
cc Coates Street Church, Rev. G.
Duffield, - - - - 10.00
cc Coates Street Church, B.D. Stew
art, for debt,'- - - 150.00
cc E. R. K.W., by Rev, G. Duffield, 20.00
.cc Mantua Church, - - - 71,46
to Buttonwood Street Church, bal
ance of collection, - - - 11.00
Sunville Presbyterian Church, - - 4.00
Harrisburg Presbyterian Church, mon. con., - 10.00
West Chester Presbyterian Church, - - 4.00
New Milford Presbyterian Church, - - - 12.00
'York Presbyterian Church, - - - 242.03
Beverly, N..J.,Presbyterlan Church, - - 10.95
Belvidere,' N. J., Second Pres. Church, 150.00
SabbathSehool, 35 00
SAMUEL WORK,•Treasurer
S4bballk-schooll .Association.—An ad
journed meeting of the Philadelphia Sabbath-School
Association will be held on Monday evening, October
Bth, in the Church of the Epiphany, (Rev. Mr. Cra
craft's,) corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets, at 71.
Mr. George H. Stuart, President of the Asioeiation,
will give an account,of the workings of the Sabbath
school cause in Scotland, Ireland, and England, and in
teresting statements may be expected from other bre
thren.
Sabbath-school Superintendents, Teachers and Friends
of this important enterprise, arc
,00rdially invited to be
present A. Di Ain% Secretary.
..•
The Committee of Correspondence
appointed by the Second National Convention of Union
Prayer-meetings, have embodied the Address and 'other'
transactions of that ',Assemhly, in a .small pamphlet,
which they desike to send to every Union Prayei-meet
ing, whethei in our own or in other' countries. -
All persons, either engaged or interested in Union
Prayer-meetings, are hereby requested immediately to
make themselves known to the darresponding Secre
tary of 'the Convention, - Rev. A. If. Morrison, No 124
Fulton Street, New York, with the number of copies of
the pamphlet _which they desire to distribute. The dis
tribution is intended to be gratuitous, but if any should
prefer to remit the extra cost of their orders, it will be
at the rate of 414 per hundred. . • •
Correspondence and information from all Union
Prayer-meetings are also most earnestly desired by the
Committee ' and will be returned with interest out of
the general fund of information they hope in this way
regularly to receive.
All communications may be addressed to the Corres
ponding Secretary as above.
The Presbytery of the District of
Columbia will hold its regular Fall meeting in the First.
Church, Washington D. C., the second Tuesday of Oc
tober, at 74 o'clock, P. M. W. IVPLAwr, .
Synod of Western Reserve, o.—The
meeting of the Synod of Western Reserve, will be at
Youngstown, Mahoning county, 0., on Friday after the
second Tuesday, (12th) t . )f- October, at 2 o'clock, P. M.
By order of Synod, , X. BErrs,
• ' • • Stated Clerk.'"
Vienna, Trumbull, Co. 0., Sept. 10th, IMO.
Synod- of Pennsylvania.—The Synod of
Pennsylvania will meet in the First Presbyterian Church,
Harrisburg., on Friday, October 19th, at half past seven
o'cloCk,. P 111., to be opened with a sermon, by the
Noderator, Rev. Robt..&dalr. ' Wat. E. Moome,
SynOd . of Michigan. The Synod of 'Michi
gan will holdita annual meeting in Ann Arbor on the
2d .Thursday (the Ilth) of October, at half past seven
o'clock, P. M. - Was. S. HUGGINS,
Kalamazoo, Sept. 14th, 1860. Stated Clerk.
The next stated meeting of the Pres
bytery of Harrisburg was appointed to be held at Car
lisle, on Tuesday, the 16th of October next, at half past
seven o'clock .in the evening, to ,e opened with a ser
mon by-Rev. T. Street, of York, Pa.
• C. P. Wmc, Stated Clerk.
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They are as pleasant as a truly effective medicine can
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Brandreth's Pills only take hold of those matters which
the body, when sick, wants to evacuate. They are
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less. They do not force; they merely assist; and herein
is their great value. The man is thrice ble3sed who is
so fortunate as to be acquainted with this good and al
, most perfect gift to man, because 'be has to a great
tent his body insured in health by their occasional use.
Principal Office, 294 Canal Street, New York.. Sold by
T. W. Drorr & SONS, Philadelphia, and bT all respecta
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Bower's Medicated rigs are an efficient
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They art reliable and safe, and do not debilitate, and can
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