134 Amtvi(an Nttobetriatt emote 14sangtkoi. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1881. JOH N W. NEARS, EDITOR. ... s 'IIIIIOOIIATZD WITU ALBERT BARNES. GEORON DUPPIELD,JII. THOMAS BRAINERD, I JOHN JENKINs, IitNRT DARLING, THOMAS J. SHEPHERD. WAS, BEGUN. Incredible as it may have appeared but a short time ago, it is only too true that a portion of our fellow citizens have assumed the direful responsi bility of inaugurating civil war in earnest. The patience and forbearance of the government as nifested iu its peace policy,—the ample evidence it has been giving of the utter absence of hostility to the peculiar sooial institutions of the Southern States, and of its readiness to fulfil altits constitu tional obligations—even the most odious—have failed to make any impression , upon the minds of the leaders of this rebellion, although showing to them and to the world that their conduct is cause less and criminal in the highest degree. We are glad. that it is so plain where the responsibility of begin ning this war rests. History cannot be at fault here. The men who accused the North of intending to invade their territory and set free their slaves by violence, and who wrought the people up , to such a panic on the subject that the peaceable bud con stitutional election of Mr. Litwin was made the successful instrument of precipitating secession, have beheld the North patiently and calmly wait ing, and pursuing its wonted occupations, while the South has been converted into a vast encamp ment) and its soldiers armed with weapons stolen from the national armories; it his seen armed mobs seize upon one after another of the military posts of •the general government, without ipterfering; it has seen hundreds of pieces of ordnance put in a position of attack against those of its fortifica tions which it was yet able peaceably to maintain; and at length, when the Government simply in sisted on supplying one of these beleaguered and starving garrisons with provisions, it has been insolently attacked and overpowered by one hun dred times the force within it, its garrison made prisoners, and the national flag replaced by an ensign of rebellion! And as if to take away all doubt as to where the aggressive and warlike temper really belongs, the capital of the Govern ment itself is threatened, and night and day tlid consecrated halls of liberty have to be defended against the minions of the slave-power of our country. Yea! the monster is unveiled in all its horrid deformity. It is the slave-power which is treasonable, anarchical, breathing forth threaten ing and slaughter; it is freedom that is for peace, union, forbearance; but when she speaks they are for war. It is the slave-power which hitherto has wielded the bowie-knife and tossed the challenge of , the duellist; it is the slave power now that is defiant and aggressive, and that meditates tbe subjugation of the continent Wits ends. It is the slave-power that is willing to see the sun of our republic go down in blood, if thereby the chains may be riveted on the slave, and a: wider opportunity for extending the curse of slavery may be gained. There is henceforth room for but one course of action; our Government must be sustained;' ques tions of party nr of private opinion *must be laid aside i all paltylisnaroustlieohl; questions are now reduced to this our 1 Government be sustained?. • Shall the power given under the Constitution and laws , of the land, 'Which, under God, assure . us a peaceable and quiet life at home, and respect and immunity abroad, be upheld in this emergency, or shall civil and social order be broken up, and mob-law or' military diotatorship, ye suffered to take its place? Shall the majesty of law, in a land where the restraints of law are fewest and lightest, and therefore most needful to be maintained, be vin dicated or be sae aced? We thank God for the unanimous and mighty response our fellow citizens of every shade of opinion are giving to these questions. There is scarcely one, amid the hun dreds of thousands around us, who does not feel a load taken off his mind, who does not breathe more freely, who is not more cheerful, to know that we have a government which realizes' its responsibility to itself, and to the highest interests cif society on this continent, and which calls man fully and confidently upon the myriade of its pros perous and peace , loving people to pour out their treasures and their blood in its defence. Now ; treason, hide your diminished head, and the God of our fathers be with the right! THE REVISED PLAN OF EDIMATION The following resolutions were adopted hy the third Presbytery of Philadelphia, at the late session, expressive of their views with re ference to the proposed plan of the Permanent Committee as revised. 1. Resolved, That this Presbytery heartily approves of the purpose of the General A.ssem bly, frequently expressed, to take the whole work of the education of young men for the gospel ministry under its own care and super vision, and the appointment of the Permanent Committee on Education for the ministry. It' nevertheless dissents from the plan now pro posed by the Permanent Committee for adop tion by the General Asserably,,for the follow ing reasons, viz.: (1.) The plan is incomplete in thatit requires a referehce to the- action of previous ,Assem blies In order to ascertain how the Committee is to be eleOted, organized, divided into classes, &C. (2.) The plan,.by repealing only such acts of former Assemblies as are inconsistent with it, necessarily opens the door for a dirersity of opi nion as to the real meaning of the plan of the Assembly. The organic structure of any great charity of the church, or, in other words, its constitution, should be presented in a single d ocument (3.) In Asiele V. the plan speaks of "Pres byterial Treasuries," while in Article IV. it provides for a Central Treasury only, which shall XeCelve all contributions for the cause and disburse the same. , (4.) The plan, in its proposition to work through the Presbyteries, (Article V 11.,) lacks distinctness. '2. Resolved, further: While recognising the above principle with regard to the prerogatives and wisdom of the Assembly, this Presbytery does at the same time express Its high appreci ation of the important service rendered; by the Philadelphia Education Society in raising - up a ministry for our denotnination, and dvs ear nestly tie Commend t'co_thie next Gettexabiesep4.- bly to adopt some plan by which that Society can work in harmony with the Assembly's Com mittee as an orismicilart of the same. COME BACK PROM ROME. • Rome—not the "Italian Rome," but the "Ame rican Rome,"—is a borough in the State of New York, containing now about six thousand inhabi tants. The. otonsltfp,pf the same name, within which the borough is situated, contains apopulation of about nine thousand; but, like many other townships in the State of New York, the populi tine is rather diminishing than• increasing. , , Rome, to which the name Fort Stanwix .was formerly given, derived its' early importance *ism Ina% the carrying-place between the waters of the Mohawk river on, the 'one hand, and the' waters which flow• into Lake Ontario on, the.pther. . the ally history of our country—in the.traffie in furs and other articles with the Indians=-this-be. came an important, point, and a fort, Called- Port Stanwix, was here erected—the seene'.4 many interesting and important events in the ,history sof the , State of New. York. The incident which-;one who was born there, find who was made in his boyhood with the' eirents 'which occurred there, will bemos t likelyX Collo'. o recall t e tion. when he returns, to, his early”houie, is the familiar and touching story of 4 "The Faithful Dog," or " Faithful Trai," the'snine of-which oc curredthere., Ancgicer of the fart, having ven tured beyond the "picket," was ,attaeked-litroo vages,, tomahawked, and scalped, -and left', for dead. His faithfdl dog=-Tracy stood'calmly-by him, licked his wounds, and patiently waited him, to recover and rise. Seeine at Lk th'at , there was no, hope of this, he ran, off to the rive; where some men were fishing, an& bylis move, meats, seemed to express a wish that they should accompany him'. They suspected it was some da vice of savages to lend them into anambush and continued to pursue their employment.. The dog went away, and again returned, und by his-man ner—his distresa—his piteous cries -= at last' diced them to go with . .. Mini The officer was found aliie,Wai carried' into the fort, and survived Around this fort, which was greeted. in; the time of the American revolution, the town.ofiltotne has grown up, and handsOMe dwellings now "occupy the place which, half a century ago, attracted 'the attention of the boys of the village, as a piece un rious in itself—the deep trenches, the OA block house, and the still standing remains of the pali sades. Rctme, as has-been sug g ested above; has +ether diminished than increased in population,since the last census. This has been owing partly to, causes which have produced the same result in so , many places in New England, and in the older parted the State of New. York—migration to the Great West; and partly to the embarrassments resulting from a subscription math to construct a railroad which was nefer completed. But a stranger visit lug' Rome would learn the fact of this diminu 7 tion of the number of the inhabitants, and of the temporary decline otthe prosperity 3f the town, ra ther by the census-takers, and by conversation with the people, than from any thing which would strike his eye. If infermed of this, he would rather in fer that the inhabitants of the place, in, the' leek Of what is ordinarily termed "business, " had given themselves to the employment of embellishing their town, and %preparing it to meet a. returning tide of prosperity. There - are no marks of decay'. There are no signs Of dilapidatiMi - or neglect. There are no gates elf tkehingm _fin the contrary, ne - innarntants of place would seem, to have busied theniselvelin laying out wide and spacious streets; in planting traes-- r the sugar...maple ,par ticulaily—that most ; beautiful of forest trees—in lavish abundance; in filling. their gardens and grounds with beautiful shrubbery, and in re-paint, ing their dwellings. Even in New York State; there are few places that possess as much pietn.: resque beauty, and - that evince as much good taste as Rome will do when the, trees and shrubbery shall be fully grown r and when: the, designs of, the present inhabitants shall be carried fully out: Not a. few'of the private dwellings are in`a style thatwouid do honor to Walnut street or to the Fifth Menne, and indicate that if the town itself is less Pros _ perms than it once was, there are private indivi duals there who possess ample wealthy and whose taste corresponds With their wealth'. . , . There is one P - resbyterian 'Church in Rorie; there are two :Methodist Churchesi two ~Baptist Churches; there is an, Episcopal Church, ,and- . a Welsh Church,—and. there are tWo . small Roman Catholic Churches. • ' ' The first pastor of the: Presbyterian 'Church— the man wbo would be most distinctly .ealled • to remembrance by one mho was born there; and who, at the age of sixtY-two, revisits thelevin, was the Rev. Moses `Gillett—a man who did more than any other man to mould the manners and the ha bits of the people of the town, and, whose influence was always such as the 'influence of a Christian pastor should be. He was installed pastor of the church in'lBo7—an event not likely ever to fade away from the memory of those ,who werebOya as time, who then ? for the first time, saw an. "io dination," and he held :the office for,thirty years a man remarkably blessed in . his labors; -man whose memory is ‘iherished airevery Christian pas-_ tor would desire his own memory should be when he himself is dead. In the cemetery recently opened, and which in itself, is One proof of the: taste of;the people of the.town, the inhabitants of the town have ereeted, on a granite °base, a neat marble'column to'hismeniory., On tb,e side of the:eolumn fronting the entrance to the cemetery, they have inscribed, "Hemember those who have spoken to you the Word of God, whose faith fol low." On another side they have made a record which could be made on but few 'of the, anon& meats erected to perpetuate the memory of minis ters of the gospel: "Seven hundred and four per=, sons were admitted, while he was pastor, to the cone- ' ' munion of the church, on profession Of faith;": and they have placed beneath this the words—so descriptive of his life, and so full of instruction as : to the secret of his success,--,-" For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost; and of faith; and much people was added unto the,,Lord." During the ministry of Mr. Gillett, 'more than one hundred and eighty persons were added,to the church on one occasion, the fruit of a great revival of religion. Among these were nearly all the merchanta of the phce, and' all the,lawers. Since the fall of man, was such a thing ever known be fore, that all the lawyers in, any, place were, con, verted to the faith of the Saviour? Among those lawyers• there =was one, still living, who deserves a more than passing notice. HeYas entering on' his career with every prospect of the roost, brilliant success, and with a moral certainty of reaching the highest eminence in his profession. Had he continued to devote himself to the law, long ere thia time he would have been in the first rank, in that proieisidn, and would, have lieenAtaw at ,the; bar, what Judge Denio, eltoman hylirth,•a_ mark 4( anterican littobgt,,Oair tittott COranpiiot4 •,. of hOmble but icspectable origin, who now site in the Court of *eels; the highest trihunal in the 'State, is, on the bench. But the heart of the yoUng -lawyer was,changed by the grace of God, :and he resolved at once to abandon his chosen profession. ATSleeinflyo.ol.4o9-YeljentregY.L he A then conducted a religious pa er as editor in, Cin cinnati; was associat&llwith' 11,13cechrsah 14+4 sistant minister of the Second Piesbyeeriab 'Church' in. Cincinnati; :and,,for,,twontyzfixe Jeark-beJlne .4 been the Pastor of, the "Old Pine Street Church" in this city.'" D4rink all that - thaw; thOugh Often struggling with feeble health, .by,his unequalled mastery of language; by his strength of logic; by his striking and commanding :power of thought; by his comprehensive iews; . bYhii tact ' arid, talent iti . giaS r plitg his subjeet, and i 9 infusing the Warmth .. of his ul and, his own enthusiaenthusiasmiito - the ~ hearts of his hearers; .by-his, unflinching !- - fidelity to truth and to his own! denoMinatidir, and his rebukes of bifott3r, injuitice;fin& wi-oti;: by his influence over men of thonght anti'of wealth; by his fir* opposition .to , all that was intended , to alienate , er divide the ehurches;,by his' warm ad vocacy of :the great- cantesof truth*ancr charity, and bylis faithfulness as a preacher' and pastor, lie' has, by thegiace of God, made` himself in s. • LI , ,:1 ... • . the mintspy,what he would have , been at the bar-- a • man felt ; to; be, needful in lour:city, a I man• - :. that 1 "Old Pine Street!? could' not spare, a Man-tiritthis brethren could not spare 'frouilhe 'rniiiiitifliCre. !le is not aldne.Thechivehekliairh i othir 6iimei for gratitude t'for What Home—''the;• village ; Rome of, "New York "—has ~produced ...: -, The:venerable San Barnard, IL:D., of. Lima ? - N::: 7 Y4—a . man Most eiemplary, pile; upright; taeful==n6Wotak idiancett iii y*s-:Lwas a "Ronlin: "Illitihre"6 niller :-- a man who, can never read Wbat is here written-r-ihois,destined, as far as _man can anti cipate•what is to occur in the heavenly world, to occupy a: - place 'far more -- elevated , than , any' one Whe has kbniblit'friiii that town ,c7totel'his part on' the great theatre of human life. He ' little known to fame. He has done little to attract the attention'of ;the not a man who has . Songbah& high 'pinedof the earth , ;or a niad who has `e disapPointed,,ehaled, 'or envious that wealth and,honors-, have not been lavished upon kle,is-totally blind, and for. years.has been unable•'to -make his way through the streets and lanes of a city, except as a blind man can ;And yet,'day and night, summer and Winter, he. 4:46 threaded the streets, andiknes of cineinnatii in all weathers—storm, sunshine, sleet, tempest, visiting the poor, the sick; the dying; preaching in alms houses, asylums, tttttt t ttttttt ; proclaiming the gos : .- pel every day, and ;performing an, amount , of labor 4:tat-would .seem to be absolutely impossible, even for a man' of most vigorous;powers of body; :a min always poor, and yet always 'Cheerful; a man blind, and yet full of light; a man of no property, and iki h." nothing, yet m ng many ric , a man avingpo mg, and, yet poss,essing all things.." Nen peas off 'the 'stage. God' "changes their countenance ' and sends theth aWay." • The sold generation that ,lived and, moved in ROme sixty years ago, as every, where , else on the face of the earth, is gone. , But nature is the same, and what was there then of earth and waters, of hills, and stones, and'running streams,, is , there still. The river—bright, clear, pure—on the banks of Which the writer of"li Aiticle first breathed the. air, and leoked,upOn the light of the sen,,is there still, and fiews,ee as it did then.'; The ~ola log heuse-,-then ready to fall—wherefife began, , Itas lorti since been removed; btit theleldettrethPie; and evert a few of the old trees Which: stodit 'fibytinocciiirCitieie — ettr."Yrte. one , story,' long, low, red.house; which was substituted in theplace the more humble log tenement, is there still.' .All-sthe have arrived' at a period of life. When they can undeistand what it is back after half acerittirY to the. scenes of child; hood, can appreciate the emotions ; sith which a man of gray liaira nnd of advancing years wanders along on 'the banks of such a 'Hier; stands on the 'spot Where hp was Vern'. walks over such grounds; 'looks on such ancient , trees-- ; solitary, livingmenioriala of thepast ;•or contemPlatesthe old dWelling=--the first of all houses in his recol lections :—Lthe"emotions' which, one feels es' he panses in 'these solitary rambles; and s reflects on what he did in liiihoyhood,,And 'strives. to recall the ,friewe and 'anticipations of ,his'own,,,,early years. Alas, he is alone. ,From: that oldthabitation all who used to 'dwell there are gone . forevier'S • - 1 Every living thing "that' he ever saw thpip has gone. Father, mother, brothers; sisters, are all in thegrave„ and the wanderer is alone.. No one can understand, exeept,he who hasp experienced it,' what ittis for a mart 'to 'feel that, all his otin familydead the nttO 'deSedation L :of soul that homes, 'over:: a' Man When he fedi . that-he the-last ofltigt family 7 --that none now stand between him and: the great :ocean of eternity: on which he hiMself iss soon to embark;' and that of his " own 'household' he now has no one to be 'his companion an he moves on towards that boundleas: ocean.,, To the recollection , of the writer of this Article; no qtuch ,feeling of utter desolation his ever'conteover the soul as was experienced vrlie4 be 'learned in a foreion land;* that the last of the family' a beloved iirothei was also dead: Then.how:littlewas there in ; a splendid whit' to' soothe the leart;l how 'lonely and how desolate was the -though Surrounded by-the gayety and 'splendor of the' most splendid city ;61' the' world It is a privilege to , Stand' in •advancing' years near such graves. ~They, are in a • lonely and re tired spot how quiet and how calm! Standing there Alone, it is pleasant to, think that with those who; sleep _there the conflicts• ofilife are over; that they'ard to experience nO"niore pain; that they are to be hippy 'foreArei=v-for - of each and all of them the hoPe'is cherished that theY were; prepared te die A yrhole family, with,One only eAcePfion, in. the grave; a whole:family, with. nneenly. exception,- in heaven, aridlie cherishing' whose,'-through ,the same Savionr, of 'Meeting them 'there. ' In' such, scenes, standing near - sitch'graves, with what: con:. • , .7.1? relation there comes over the soul the mernory,, of the words, , No mortal. 'woes Can reach the'peacefasleepera • • , While angels watch the soft repose: 44 SO Sesus'ilapt; Cod's dying Son } PasiNi tfirongh tbe gave . , andbl4ilthe bed`,'; Reit be're, Wised saints; till from hii ..The morning break, arid Inuit skaidet"?''' Coming baek frontlet* eeenee, one rizight . to a hetter - man s': :better by theigratefutrecolleetion ot many years of mercy; -by the'ethinitehi which gitided the early steps 4;104; brought to the memory, bi-the;lmiiressiVe. iieyi,of the shortness, :life, and.. the certainty death; by, the cheering lightvihich religion- throws - around , the grave. From' such scenes he, of whom the AstanxdArIFRESBYTEnIAN, in so kind and' enial: a manner , inforfiied : its readers Atab he had .Iflg - 914 TO RosZT , r :Itapy..oo3lE 'BMX. -FROW Ro fE, per-: chance tolitborra little longer; .perchance 13°0114'180 t o ....net4 oi n :t xta EDITOILIAL JOTTINGS. i ThIn,WEEK. AND NEXT. We tink our read ers will" be, rewarded in the, sal ' per l a tif every part of our paper this week: Tun Saitarox, on our first page, is one which was preached in Spring ankh.P&PaAliainsionere,flall, a.Lfewmaabbeth,eye; nings.iipcl, and. has ,heert : qquested for.p i ublicil tion. 'Neft 411 r rrangement44k presenting a handsome wood-cut of the North -..l3.read..Street.Glitirchs , -es.designed - foreahe , tuannt this congregstidn, will, he completed. It will be . = accompanied' by, the architect's description. Obit ATTENTION has been called to an article in a recent number of the Christian .Observer containing the folloWing sentence, Whose meaning 'is tionihiiliat obseire civil war at the 'pre /lent *te of parties might he more pardons tithe government than s9.any section of the coantry.? If we; understand the sentence, it intimates that the North'is full treason, and thafr 4 - Would be unsafeltd'atterribt to execute far 'is ;,:- a ',sentiment se false gains credence, it has a direct tendency to, palsy the hand of government,:and to..encourage Southern - traitors. ,'Waslineh its de sign? We ;hope not. -t` ," " C ''quOtes our ar ticle entire : about, the refusal of Pedo-paptgits, geaale Ir. iGnianose , to their pulpits, thernean be Undouhtttbst it itefereto ourselves when Speak ing Of oifr NeW-Seli4l'P', l •dab'ytekrat 'neighbor," •ited ' Nek'ScheOl watte ):l ', A A. , gaTtli it' I 48A, more, sl9Pll.l,lll4Pßliteret*d to call a F paper, at <l4t , once in tan ..artiele,,,,brits own chosen designation. • Thetehmnicleis still utterly unable to , sewirlircitlier `denothinatiensietes they do ihiviirdslthngentlemin qieition, and Valls 44 , § their conduct unfeeling. It leaven out of view entirely, , the question' Of church order which, in our AMallis;ivrts —Fs f • Ite ...1 8 9's • "Mr. Guinness held the same general doctrinal views a year. ago, that he does:now.", Of course then; his, change of : view's , on the subject of it mersioivirtust be a t trikTild matter:: Such a Change, ahermding: to th'euChgAiiite `does' affect ' "the i6iiwrar aWkifi t a i6;;64`i ik Man i This Cer „ 2 _ , Id L z _qin)Yqgk,4? , ,aPlePsa9P ,l 9l 4 : l leiaa libel:fai9;:in a Bartiatt:jarirnal We:were of the 'opinion that fa cdrisiderable change took place in reeeiving; for the first Aline, hibject i are ente4eined by, avowed by Mr. gr„ in, his late tract upon-the suit ject.. we, repeat What we• have already asserted, thattthertier&fact of Mr; Ws immersion is not the cause'o hny Coldnes'eteward 'hie 'felt in thin . qUarter.itlnd he been:immersed' by. Mr." Spurgeon, for.,iiifitance, we should not have had one word.to saY,nrid. we doubt riot the pulpits and friendly offices of nther than Bapiists, would bairn been freely extended`th him.``'-We insist, thatly himself with the Plymouth hrethreu, Mr. Guinness endorsed views.of church Order, and par ticularly)ofthnehristien minintry,,which our Bap tistfriendis, as.w'ell 'ourselves; are ,competent to recogniiie r c ie , nroWiriptriral; schismatic and perniL 'pious in no common degree and which. they, in a* t Ad e isc arge,o e simp es uties f o e ity to the great . evangelical principle of church oreter,--- whieh they hold as well aslwe-are. , bound , to 're pudiate: -t, L ” Weirrblif; at any rate," sap' the . Chronic/a, that Guinness! tenets are not• fel lowship,ed .by ,taptist,,churches Anywhere." Nory well, so far as le:goes.t But it.lails to meet the exigencies of thee The T errell' of these."Pe culiattenets' are .4orgriive'to be met in. any other iay l thin by entire separation from them ! They Eendergd-Saw a*. such a ifisavowili4iw -- • • •TICE;NEW-MIGEST.- -,, A.: , A *fekdeiiii&iiiiiirit in our` 'hranoli of the .•-. - 3. le church, and long'delayed the Neii Digest. We are sure it . will4ezwelcoined; now that it has ,at last'made its appeirange. ". its: exterior is_ all that couldtbeiwishediJand its contents are as'aimple as posaible,:krefigetidii of the mind of the church as ei,iiihited'in the VeriOu4 : 4CeisToti; and testimonies of its highest eOurt f --4.4 cncral,Asisembly.' accomplish cihis.,work.,has,tdoubtless3ibeen:a self denying an& laboi4us-tiisk, not so likely to 'Con fer notoriety'litidn . those'engiged in' it, 'as many far lesi meritorious :nrideqekings; lint, its very, valtie_lies the self-ahnegation of the compiler. Says Rev. W. E. Moore, of West" Ohesteir, , ,Pa., upon: Whom ,the . dhief "respOnsibility thiiiioift deVolved The: effort bas been - ' Mide 'CO dfgeit, . r ; . under thirteen ; general heads or chapters, every thing bf i l 92°oBuS9ri°44%.4ts ,, cfl.the , Aesembly. The•task assigned , the committee ; was .not to pre pare , a• f DIGEST of such Acts of the ae - interinlA the ConstitntiL of the Church,express' her sieves upon. Inestions of morafs ,and. doctrines, .pr e eim to.inerease and di rect .her -power- for good; o the 'world?'• , The thitteen•leads are :—The ehilrehi officers of the ciedidateil; the sacraments;' courts; ; moral questions, deliverance on doctrines; modes of evengelization;,..the,per manent committed.; correspondence ' , with other bOdieir; :plan of uniehinnd the diiikion; hindcnie. The apgidis.`containg; Opinion of edge Gibson in Bane- York church case- Ltine nary, case. We•think it will be found-admirably adapted fortbe.purpiise.of furnishing oiir church officers with itineans promptly diseoVering the authoritative views ,of the church on all topics of general conceriiinentand #l l _ thoroughness ,and accuracy t ,retlecti %mat ; credit lon ; the committee, and respeciallylod tlicindistiiona, careful :and sebOlailtennipifer7 . " = Moore. aand contains 60 ',Pages" Royal<octavo. : : ..Wi37renew - our offerito:supplrthe volUnie gratis, - andlfreif of iipense, to any 'cin who will send us thren;neW tio - xeve sub' scriliere r - withtli t i' : payinent in advan0.11::;:..;;';',?; THIRD PRESBITERY iOP r PICIEIikDRIi• -, ;' .:, ~ .f ',.•., 7:-: , 4 , ,,--,,, pii4v, •,.,:,7'. _,,;i71 , ;. , ,:' ,, ,,1 ,-_, ;, Ojil'lrPl4l46 - 1104'ite st44s3eetim at the ManEna Presbyterian Arirch; An Timaday Welles4aY ,of,tli r Trepty- seen of its..thtity Ministers were in attendance, and . thir rein of ith were re - pr4ented il The Rev . Choligltroffn Was chain tor, and the and. kW % temporary derby: Di ; • There was littielrislaiiis a . general ingelit4 before the body.- The my itein'quit 4040 a.. was ills ifevia th e m i nistry, submittei gOuaideration.Of Presbytery by ,the.Peiiillaqmit•OOtariattee of tie .gasafnbly. The . O t iktdbad was: iiilitaii?iaiii ! '„'!%`l•o4llialseivheQ the par • .. ' The reports : on ; ,the Atate • of = religion • in the ohurchea .were generally - cheering and lopefnl. - ' •As Commiirsioiaetit thiiireitlAniebd Aq.s#3o: b 4, were Jobn y;:Ro'*4o l ') Biii)jan*! 04 1 i4i00): mid 1 46,, v.: Nut.: Zoltoordjaili labstes.-: httr e;sktuoirl. ,:iyiKti3 :10 Of Ruling Elders, Mr. A. o.,Enkfeldt andlfon. Jos. Allison, principals; and .Mr. Alex. Wltilldin and Me Anson Jewell as alteiiiatcs. PHILADELPHIA FOURTH PRESBYTERY. --1,-Philadelphia-FoartlrPresbyterrnitt;paren aitt to-llostrrenf,linflptutington, Ist Church, Tpe(day evening, 9th inst., the Rev. C. B. Conkling, Moderator, preaching the open- The, Rev. Brainerd• was ,:elected , Ifodera tor and the .Rev....ldessrs. Howell and„Bliss temporary clerks. , • . . The principal items. of business were the fol lowing:. • • - • • . 149)jselisetki of Rev., Goedloe 13413e1l :to the VTeshytery of Rcrkaway, andol, Atr,Getorge J. Mitigins,:licentiate,-, to the illitellytexp ofi Phila. delphitt Secon(Ln 2. Reeeptior =of -Messrit William.lifeGlathery and Albert .Erdman as. Candidates for the gos ,pel -Ministry; , ..; L 's- - 3 , Examinations and_ licensure:of Messrs. Eril ,man' and Aloniolß 'Johnson, Candidates. 4. -Eleetion of Commissioners to Assembly • PRINOEPALS.—Minaters:',T: J .- :Shepherd-and .1;t: 11!irner: Eiders: Sabi 11 , Perkins and J., C.- .Viirr2: El 0 7 4 AiirraPt4TF.3lfiniStei!.B :,Dr.•;Converse and R. Walker. Elders Xolire-Vleuds anolS.• P. ,-` ' ..E=: 5. 4Next tltatedaneetingin Nedtimipy:Ohureb, last l'itkeiday;or, fttelistiet }rat 3•03e10ck0R. , -.IIE • ; i:6. A..towel:meta; to aneetifillioinbaid•Street Mondayl, pink - ,F, J. :SHEPHER.V. 'Stated , ti , ;.. t 637 BOMPAtrP9t. , g#PAPrill, 18 6 1 ; A. , 1, 'e,ti ;.:':" j - 1 "I' :-':' 1;",'""•'•' '4: . - - '-' '' • ''' ''' "'• ' • • • - THE- BITTAILWANS. e'e ip from the aQtern pdire4Otaent'oithe , the :following Recount of 'the position of this r internstihg peoiie; in reference t 0 the omtsh has been reiirite'd; they a'otend -302 r`, 3 • . 'The gartan conve t tot e Cathoho, hurch, floWtoroved:to Dena*l4o in titiniber; are slnii ing themselves very:restive` undekthe Papal yoke. The .Brief from hie .4fallibility,,Pio, Nino, ?and the Tater from NIB ;Eminence, ,Mansignor Has_ soon, an American Cat o by no means save Wei( °the 'pleasure or satisfaCtion thaWas expected by~the -- Romanistss:Orr this Being read them, theyarnngly nbjected, to Abeione because it-was written in Latin, ,and..to n the other; ecause it was in Artnenian;tn e ith'er of Whichtlanguages. could they understand a single Word: They ,further more' protested' against addreased'hy . the -Pope " Catlmilies;'! - -steutly declaring- them:, selves g.f.prthodox," and in. their rage. they tore up thecards which certified that .they were true members of the Ranieri Church : During the 4) bizh4hioh theiablei which the Cabo: lie( refect and , Arthirdandrite , Iwere' 'Seated, -Were overthrown, and these dignitaries with 'them.: :It is•needless to add,that the meeting was:broken .up in confusion., virulent' old Artheiiian paper, the New York Herezid- of the East, Says ;that "the iieeessiiiti -of 'the Bulgarians from the Greek' to-the Papal Church; is only the,"dillerence:of being poured from one tenjere or, sanee-pan proverb that answers to 'Mir 'djiirepini ft fidoa the frying pan inin the fire." - The game .paper speOci of the PrtiteStait and 'Cabello sects "two 'leligions thieves who, are=evermore on the alert to to entice away believers; ; Rm the,.trl?eiomr9 l 4! and warns the Armenians to: ; beware, ef Especially must"they beware of i!iin6,'DialOt, Who has been verylaCtiirw for:years Protestant-cause, and who clad t. started; on a !toir- - throrigh'lArine nie tt uht-for emits." ;i-, poi the Americanresbytertan. THE 6TATE 04 THE 4. NOB.AL ATA9-, 3 SPHEBE •• „:• , . • 711f..N ' -SOCOITIC ro, 1 0 11,0MOTIEJG ..NATI(MAL • , 17i . i d_...-ItP4;lls l: MtutiO -)s.l *Ft lipmAo l lidt attelApted to nnend i toethe top of endepx. t;4ey, wended, the air at length Became• •"'" no t t to 19;faPI: pressure 4e1 44!•091 / :jp il m si M e ß3 . l , :, 4 keg a P to oo z e oat from the } r lips, eyes , and gnws ,Inspiration Wai'dilfoeult p3 , , Oome fainted, ati4 , all felt weak and debilitted";:and oonld.plecrednoturtber. Some thing like AO loAstp,,at pi : ewl' i in / the f smdition of the moratfifififetiTheielf iitigecktflry. "Thtre is just now an extreme _rarity init. -...zits:preasitre is very slight. Causes, which have, for a whole generation, been - it Work; haveriit tennated stop in the public/teltit?nptofAlie ern i•4l 4"4.10'04g9.14,!Pa, in many curses,- .at year, not to littOrpre.ssure otent4o ;preventycbti, racterifroth loosening it wvirjhjoint, amilallin'g to pioces..l)Within'theliatt fhw otitha walui've.Seen tlia" -- at'ho' of God;iifoo ss iXlieil .4 °,_ (3 44;f ll ,4;:tiefigiag;t l 4 ol l;4o:Ai . a rope of sand. 'Kakint_istn, once poll:am:amend, big virtue, in this:land,. is-today At, a-terrible 7. dis %Mut int.many An*Ciin - hbsoine. `• Posiiintie.j4cen by our fatheri,:iiirbeliiried by, tli«Ktl faifa upon eternal truth and 'righteousness, are . s4asias as false; and sentiments, which they. 'interlYsig floral as repugnant to the law of berievolence; and at warltrith all the 'Moral element's' them ; are not iuii'ditmeritar, and as sanctioned by aprod.. Gd • . There is nothing new indeed in ;all this, how ever painful nr unlooked for. it•mayibe. In every stormin the. political ox moraLworld t the co mln o tionis sure tobring to thtreurfatsesoniething which inottpersfinentlealst Oar ,ineserit'Vational tlioughti,ieelit4s and purposes, which very ;year ago, could have, believed tole**. American • mind:oalvery day, 4 lioir: eirer,lt•to View, and *tiefni:OiieEritiiii *NA aisnyin tgis land have feared lsline, camel:4i tigeti, is a * fetqfpi degeneracy in the public mor ality , of.the country ~ —a ' luoseness in sen Limon tan d feeling, which should alarm alike the patriot.and the ehrisi tient There' is 'at least such a lessening of the moral p'reSiiure; that *iii.ii:his:s4lotikilkeii:l4" . i,:doipa fly it, is no, lonse* 444.re : 0 12 40j aPd.1k1 1 4 ,0 1 141 .04ig positions and advocating sentiments,f which: they once would not :have dared. to dO. • .14widoliss.bets 2 said in explanation of Chi national - *Ales; and great retorts - have been put 041111 ofrall tke:AlflPYlltilPrt!kiP;ll.9P4P)l4o .held, inani_oo.lB4 , ..ktpersons.lit •the Wart4-O;:,Th P4 e current otremarklias all beenin thisfditrention.. The at tempt has been - to ,sliT3vi that thli' e'ehsion reoieinentia owing tationki the Free States. , ilence:ge 4 yan o,ila 'ef forts to compromise matters—to put down-tbisagil tattikon—to prove •thnt !the Islorth baslntl:hin• the eiViLeompa et—and that the framera tutin dikuot i regard,slitvery as, a CiAliaWkimiild iFong,eTeVei. eipeotedthat it wo uld cease in this land, .ands that' all. that the: South 'Wanted was. the Constitation as it is, and' the governuidni ' , conducted ofinr the principles upon` whichit' was conducted by Washington; AdtiOs' Yefferson and Madisid: Among the most.receoxpov,ements of .thi hind,a lathe formation, in the city of.:Nersi Yorksof (g.an American, sobietyltriprotnbthiPtlititad At goodly name I a noble °bleu6' sorely I But how, d'O the founders of this society pOpose secure, thitrObject? Is it by uttering woran of healing" mercy, by gathering up and tying togethir the sundered thread of national feeling, or by hushing 4o silence, the minds,of.rnen-on-alltbewdistur bin g , tOpies of the day? No, not at all. - .4S.ccorling,t o „, their published Progrardine," their "main tiipio at present will be slavery" This strikes us "straogelY. - Eitherto the class of men, represented ' AP this pew soorotb.baNT been utterly opposed to all aiscnssion of this disturbing element, They have tried to keep it out ' Of national an : clpcOlosinstical councils, out, of Methodist Conferences, and, Pres .byterian Assemblies, and 'Episcopal Conventions, have tried to exclude it alike from the Press and the Pulpit. , S'ed temporq tatitan,iitret Ras ?Tact- Plum in illi4and this hithertpignored theme is to be "the main topie," the greatpeacernalier," of the new society, and the'Cointry be,inade one again by The fimple truth of the matter is-that this new engine of power is nothing more, nbr:less thin. a " National Tract Society for the publication, of pro- IlaVerY tracts." The programme'gives us, the ani mus of ' the concern. In thiallinYleli us that the assertion; in our DeclaratiOu of Independence, that "all men' are created equal," was "intended` to embody' the sentiment Of, our ancestors reapeeting the doctrine of the Ditine right of kings and'Ro bles," Which is far:from . the tohote "truck. on this.. Poitt, and that the assertion "May be ienaerstood indicate both a'sublime" truth and PeinielOPS, error." Their own faith is set forth in these wok& "Men are created equally tree to do' the will of God, and equally rewarded by ldim .44coia ingto their deeds. But ihey are rot created equal irt„ personal en dOwnients . tier .. in their relation to ,:: g ym",., :Not in intimation 'fi l th - ere in all that the system of American slavery; 'which has its .- "foot on Ged's law, and'does not allow the Milliona ar'e' in its bonda t ge, read'` o s wor vrong `in any partieular. Tell' it not in death, publish it not in the 'streets of 4Slikelon; kit the daughters . of ills Philistines rejoice, lesi'ilie''dati,, , h i terti,. of the t -ii „ circumcised triumph? Had the framers of this society ffna, others„,who have ,undertaken to : fix all the, blame of our na tional troubles upon the action of wait edtheNorth a little 'longer, they, wonla have had, all 'OO win &taken out of their sails The,lion. AleAan der Steibeni, thetee President of the, Confederate States, has let the cat out of 'the bag and ,spoilea all the #ne argnments, that have been pnt forth on this stibjeet Jae has swept awaytlr, tions from under Palmer; and Thoririell;andiVati Dyke, and Stiles and left them with nothing on Which to stand. He has • utteredwhat we have long believed and hive often asserted, that die real cause of the secession": movement was, in the dug/tut/ea. The result of the Presidentiarelee . tioa„ the agitation on the subject of ala y ery _at the North; Was' merely the occasion of tile Abolitionism had about as much to do with it as its caitse,"'air.the snorting of a horse' has to do With the beginning of a tornado. 'The cause` is tlonstitution. Mr. S. admits what every student history knows, that the prevailing ' opinion of the framers of the Constitution' was thaf "the `en ' slave~ Mont of the African was in violation' of the - kiwi Of.nature; thatitias"Wrong in principle, social Morally, and pOlitiCally, and that somehoi or otlia, in the order of Providence, the. institution Would be- iiiiiieseeit and .pasi ftway!t 'This Was the Miatake - ilint_ fathers ;Made': The" idea; tliergfike 2 ; upon •ifildh..t he' Constitution 'was liashd 'fat= &Mentally 'Wkiing.' Hence he clainiS"that; flew-goveinnientis Toriiided-nion 'exictlY - the .144 foundations - ire laid its ` coins= stone - rests upon the great 'truth:- that-''`thi; is not equal the *bite ;Min, that;daibrY, Sub ordination' to' the' , suberior race, Ilia natbral'ind MortiLebndition2" The -old rAnfnititutieit - was and,henceiit beenllhrewn aWak...:l "'National unity' can lie-Secured•only; by ilio'citiiig'thelDi!. of th e slavehelder;lincr if the "neir .- ofety - 'cannot corne up'ttr posithiri,lhet oeetipi' gone:" PilrE,a 4 r - tra. ri . , CHICAtti CORRISit'ORDESCE.'"` ' DEAR - Pitt SairrißL:-4t is usual to begin a conversation - sheet the weather, but of that nothing - to say,' and the weather - 'con= ducts us to the season as a whole. The winter a'nd so r tiilg_TiMiaigiiiiO pear ;Indeed; at Philadelphia; Tiliiiiiela'ilatibt; 'appealed. a good ` -while age: The iinter here has 'been;' i On 'the whole ' s , cold one, and we shonld - commonlY; - ezupett to hear' of a - geod Of - differing'. and Yet'l can retnember no seaion - of - the kind, airing; alt_tte eighieeit, years I have' been , In ejtY,' Wheti thei4 been` A so little' so few Pali& appeals to charity: 'Solar as the' n ' or'th' west is - 'eencerned, 'the , fancy of'' sec'easien, that it he "Bloed• Or BreadYi hag riot been re= allied. • • Provisione : have' been` extra plenty and. Very`cheap,:and great turnbere orthe 'laboring . People haie-had employ, in ene way'or- another; either in Cr-eat of the'eity. There is still much derangement ` of our oar repcy,and exchange on the tieaboard has been maintained at about"five per pent., at :the,'WinL ter,,and is still,'atp.lo per cent.; :butive:have 4:Adt :tiding 10 . .Eioott go into opefaiion, and a'hetter' state of things,iiholi‘d for There is =a very pleasing 7 state thiniei in many parts of thCcity in this regard: Tito:af our churches witness some conversions, and-ail are more or lesscheered:by the gentle -presence of, thwSpirit ~ There is alsola work somewhat remarkable' in. at ; eakt, 84 half dozen; or our mis ilion.:,schoOlsil where Ambers, of the •the> older chit; dren, including great ninny rough boys, are indulging.tho hope , of-having found the Saviour. Nor there any . iniinution of interest - Large numbers :of :the. Children'. in ;these schools: are from, Soman,,Catholic , families:, and • the same children -go to t mass tattle morning and , to Sabi bath; School in the afternoon, nor:daltlireans oriCajoling servc to keep ithem away., " There is surely ; agreat deal, of hope imthis•work. CATHOLIC The Catholieshayaheen enjoying a great vival here. ; Some #fqempt9rfst or Pasio . 7/..; is/priest:shave: held protracted meetings throgg'' h all the ali . iii4es and chapels of the de min e ,_ don, arid Certainly made ne,iii'donSßeLliiel iMpreeefon among theii - ieoPU.' ave n r o donbt that their preaching h4dOli'S some goad , for it has of y to keep up, in a manner with ,the general .n effort f th ' tei4pttliaiehe * aH at feast to keep ivithhi : : Ou r certain dietaries people demand Preach= ,• they'ing if re to titire - ns" y`~7terte cone Ilion as regards it. td , : -I ril I_ . _ 4 , -p .7 ',5,..(t I ,- • 4 Of course,mork- or Jeur:trtith is intermingled „ii salutary to i tliose who . hea yy it;-al s t : h th o e ug p h r o o f t a very poor quality when 3tid rm vstandird. And yet thew preaches are not with out eloquence in some, cases.,-'Now it must be ,rocsatud,,„„thar , ,tP,,,,..PM0.4,1144at in accord, ante With the genius of the Catholic Church. , spariliti - hind ,itillan!prie:Sts d o not preach—at least very often. Xam very glad to see preach i,Dgliecoming.more common in that church here ' abouts, and it will stip be necessary to improve ii penile will surely rise in its quality, for tli their demands. Some of our Protestant peßlehave dropped in to hear, ihrilWitit r uilf6thhicies, what kind , • of instruction iheir mod' help were receiving. The audiericetwete d vided, at one time con sisting of married "Viimeni - atr another of the maidens, and.so ..§OP9,-TPIT curious teach ings are:reported - tome as, litiving been gi ven to the married women When the audience was assembled, the priest locked the door and put the key in his pocket,,traiellfd about a lit tle, loothpe'andierieeicritie4Mhtheir faces, to see, apparently, if there wereJinterlopers. He then harangued i tbern„ among Ober things, as to their duties in.Tegard -to obtaining posses sion of this 'eiintritibf - the Chtliiilic : Church. He inforineUthem that the reliance was not alone on immigration;Nlitit 4tpon•mereese, and declared that - i(the 440 4rhn fiueto, its duty, they would .be = in f.possession , inr , some' twenty years.lm,y r ejo„erigcia:m r ,to , ..offer; , ,lrmerely report the Jain._ . I think, :however, , that the Roniale-Chitiolies hereabouts arebecoining more'aiid`mOre intel ligent, and are adopting; , without knowing it, Protestant modes of thought lino. 1 , 1 1 4. 'of pro cedure in a inriltitude of things, and I:suspect that the peculiarities, of, their church will, in spite 0f,t416444ti0ns from Ireland; be gra dually undermined.-much' , sooner , tthan-is ex pected. During the past week our sable POpulition has been thrown into an immense consternation. The new Republican marshal, by way of sig nalizing his administratinniAgitAfahoTing to our Border neighbors.:tbat the. partris true to the Constitution, pounce& trrien'ari - African fa mily, fagi,tives_frop Virginia, and resident here some years, and look them awayttuslavery. I believe thislii niiffabiplutelY:tbeffeet i . ,,iOokos of this kind attained 'in this city, but it is nearly so, though,,the attempts bavo 4 een,, egzon for twenty' years. allevents, our city thasleen considered the•most AD pi(iiiislikg ground for sa ble fishing in, the whole ;13rdon: ; :But thu terri ble success's& this attempt falainle+F-the whole exposed PoPulatiOn, and lyeitelidaY '(Sabbath) ninety-ong Colored persons r some of them resi dents forlanilif five years„tdhy . p'e*:Airfii the cars for the *Aeon . oao4n, l in,,,the X..ikuoe of Wales' dominions.. Ther are :doubbleks safe now. But the distance,was4reat,„„an_d i any body who thinks. sliv,very.tubc,a, good ithinglor the black marifilnlacti just what he :tioarniade for, had better try life power's of Persuasion on Sambo himself. I willpromise#to hold‘ myself ready for conversion, wheullfo4oo,;with a free chance to. decide, havdeelarud.for,the "in stifittibn." If God did make him for slavery, he ought, It would shar, - to" hive - planted the sentikkent,e 3 , 44ln,his,sonl, : And the more light he e yeas sty d the,higher 4,radt e he lonld he'faiSnl*Loye,ultnre,,nilklikto r ltringAnt ana af firm the abliethit'et and'ltifeas,ol — hitn, for the WI far as I can see, the nore Y fight Sambo gets the more he nins'incizy, and The rit t olelivotedly he refutiteaUrriliii4k. isTotiliatlie - cednplains of hirSoutherit master us=it geneiiVilittie; for pro hably'AtiVek ne4er. got' liettheintilit&s than the SeintriffordsAild neverwill `'but deelara - li • onitctliat . :frted4m l is better 'thin slavery," even fora nian 'irdne Up - in skin. An& irtY' on" the°`*hole=idt that the world come '"gradually td' that conclusion. AturdirifiLatir amilible'friendrivh6 haii taken the" rattreaftnke as their'a nblem, will 'get` round to the same result - braid by. EMI • ,C HUR CHES, ETU. 3114 M. Sa The Nirestiiiiiiiter, Murcia is y still without a • pastor, -th otigh„.l do not kneyr r hp!, that some one :: flteit:'e.ye.2 Hmphrey, of J. • “J 44, • the First Pre sb y t e r ian, has been spending some weeks at Pittsfield , Mass, } in attendance upon lie dying bed of his fathqr, Rey. ,Ffeman Rum y.pst,. He was 82 to 84: - i , ears of age, and 'had preseired his inenlnl !acuities r9ninrkitlpy... ; The newspapers have bat recently published ,his articles, as fall Of iced sense and spirit a s gang .. Sttch a death is pleasant to - 4 think the.shoek of corn fiiil~p ripe , gatheyed to the garner Rev Vr Rici leaves thikeity for New York abopt tiie first of • lfay; Leticia informed if a successor is at present sectired; prpitched upon. s Yourii, WE Y. LARN4S, OP THE ; POOR: A...P.. 1 T011.:71--These int * r.ts have iloW r bpou published occasionally, dniog,isseven teen Tenths, and ,have answered the do:Ole:purpose for which, they ? ,wpre 4ntended, namely; first b , to bring the Arne condition.of the poor. heforeitheminds of Ohristian, peopleiund secondly, to curli forth their sYntPAtkiek? 4 1 1 , 1 4,1004a1iPPJ in , ceArYiaglifrg thO,Oliv.e Mission.. It is yet our desire, to drawttbe attention of Christian people, to the actual; condition of the poor, to ~point out the bonds wbiohAnd l them to their afflictions, and, so. far.;as.„lGudy gives us ability to, show how their,misfor tnnes may be alle yiated, or perhaps, eVeutpOly„iMuoyed, and the gospel be effectually Rie 6 l9 l 4q.to them thus, our Ant ohject, is to , he carried on, ith the, assistance of the religionspress. 'Our senor:l . aim, of Arniving,lielp for the Olive Nission. - from. tho•pablie,_may,.,nay, must be aban doned, for -in 49°9X4lnplvith our desire, puhlished iu, i 2g j oylmber, l we s haVe thehal itl4 l , l ;44l,l / 4 13 * 11 aXYAsso ~ !;14;,,' passed our effort into ciationof Calvary Onurel, who Will carry on_ our Mission, as their ifisly3lant.3. experience may best direct. - Way we then through,' you offerour heart-felt tlfanks, to thoie : livbe bti.4 iOriiiidiy befriended tke 4 '24.n i nfi,' - iirkd risk_ frPM"fluini a continuance of attention to 6,4 Qocasional `revelation of faces - iiqedtitany, 13. t °ABSEIL'S TOPPLAR ' , NATIONAL HISTORY has reached.. ,its. twenty-fourth,,part; completing the second volume of, the first, half of the work. It Conkaiiis - sitniffeti;ltangaroos,Vihales; &e., with a SdieritificiTithie,4ndex; 'tend Title-Pagii. The text volumenwilltrelate , Tlft.E 1 14 u.423liisp FAMILY BIBLE has reached the 14th cimpter,.of, Proverbs. Both of these works are well. piiiitea, and the engravings eqe• Otgreat value and beauty. At Ines* (Tuts number.thieir cheapness is es tyttAtilinaus‘ii..gort44le, lat f ßassell, Petter, Galpia .13t . "C0.; 87 Nil Row, New York. AN.. AFRICAN, TERROR
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