Tol. YI, No. 9.--Whole No. 278. fsritg. PEACE IJT TEHSTING. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whoße mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth, in Thee.”— Isaiah xxvi. 8. Oh, this is blessing, this is rest! Into Thine arms, 0 Lord, I flee: I hide me in Thy faithful breast, And pouf out all my soul to Thee. There is a host dissuading me; But, all their voices far above, I hear Thy words—” 0 taste and see The comfort of a Saviour’s love.” And, hushing every adverse sound, Songs of defence my soul surround, As if all saints encamped about One trusting heart pursued by doubt. Aud oh, how solemn, yet how sweet Their one assured, persuasive strain! “ The Lord of Hosts is thy retreat, The man who bore thy sin, thy pain. Still in His hand thy times remain,— Still of His body thou art part; And He will prove His right to reign O’er all things that concern thy heart.” 0 tenderness —0 truth divine! Lord, I am altogether Thine. I have bowed down—l need not flee, — Peace, peace is mine in trusting Thee. And now I count supremely kind The rule that once I thought severe 5 And precious to my altered mind, At length, Thy least reproofs appear. Now to the love that casts out fear, Mercy and truth indeed are one; Why should I hold my ease so dear? The work of training must be done. I must be taught what I would know: I must be led where I would go; And all the rest ordained for me, Till that which is not seen I see, Is to be found in trusting Thee. Jteip JPhmmarj. ENGLAND, The work of reading the Bible aloud in the open air, is earned on with great vigor in London and the adjoining villages. The English correspondent of the Wesleyan Jour says that Bible carriages, light and ea sily drawn, and laden with Bibles and Testa ments, are taken into populous streets and districts, and precious passages are read aloud. Some are astonished, others mock and scoff; some hear and hearken to the sal vation of their souls. During the past sum mer the Bible carriages have visited Leyton and Woodford, in Essex, not only to bring the truth before the villagers around, but for the special benefit of the thousands of plea sure-seekers who repair from London to Bp ping Forest and its precincts. In wet weather the poor are thus visited in their dwellings, ana‘cottage meatfngsarc held in the evenings, to which those who have heard the Word read during the day are invited. The Committee purpose* as soon as possible, not only to add carriage to carriage, but also to send out brethren with packs full of Bibles and Testaments,*, for the same object of rea ding the word, of God only, and selling the Scriptures at half price, that they tnay go in me narrow courts and alleys, which abound in the city and east end of London. Ecclesiastical tyranny is strikingly il lustrated in the following story of Rev. Wil liam McCann, perpetual curate of East Ken sett, Salisbury, which is told by a correspon dent of the London Times ;—“ Mr. McCann i- seventy-one years of age ; has lost the tight of one eye, and partially that of the ' ther; he has a wife and two children sur ■iving out of nine, and has fagged hard as a ' irate for forty-five years, at tne munificent -ipend of £5B a year! He has just now 'ten compelled to come to a London hospi tal to undergo a painful surgical operation, and as it was not tb be supposed that he could pay the expenses of nis journey, find bread and water for his family, and pay a substitute to dp duty for him in his absence, he asked his spiritual superiors to do him so much kindness as to provide a supply during his absence. He came to town, and his cha pel was shut up; hut while he lies on his truckle bed in the hospital ward, with a wound 'till raw and suppurating, he receives a pe remptory summons from the authorities, who had turned a deaf ear to his petition, to re turn instantly to his neglected duties.”—Me ■hodwt. SCOTLAND. The subject of unlicensed preaching is, still 'wising some discussion in Scotland. The licentiates of the Established Church, Glas gow, have recently held a meeting at which they resolved to publish in the newspapers fee names of all persons guilty of preaching without authority, and also to furnish their tames to the clerk of Presbytery or Synod m whose bounds the preaching takes place, feat “ they may be dealt with according to 4olaws of the Church.” It seems that the practice complained of is followed to a great •i' or less degree by all the dissenting deno minations of Scotland, and is npt disagraea ie to many, even in the Established Church, feel that the students will not suffer from ®ring the opportunity of practical training f’evious to their formal entrance' into the ministry. As effort is now being made to supply, manses of Scotland with a set of the " Puritan Divines,” aS a nucleus of a minis terial library. , A sew Mission Free Church hasreoentlv “fen founded in Glasgow, to supply with V'ffilic preaching the poor Highlanders resi in the Northwestern section of that city, there are at least 20,000 that use this ‘ with remorse, I have killed so many poor, victims. ’ He came again. I spoke to him of Christ, of his Cross, of the pardon offered by Him to the greatest malefactors. This chief, although so barbarous, gave to Him, step by step, his heart, after two years of persevering efforts, and of mueh prayers. He and his first wife, whom alone he kept, made ft public profession of faith. The three villages under his power are all governed in an entirely new spirit. He has taken the name David, and his wife that of Rahab. Oh, what an interesting country! How in-, foresting is the work of missions everywhere! Christ has done his work; He has done it for us; let us do ours in proclaiming his word without ceasing in the generous spirit of sa crifice, and with earnest faith.” The Power of the Gospel is beautifully exhibited in the following incident taken from the Missionary Advocate: —' “As we were concluding breakfast this morning, a very respectably dressed elderly Chinaman entered, and addressed a few words to Dr. Legge on business. As he de parted the doctor remarked, “There is a spe cimen of what the Gospel can do for a -Chi naman. Twelve years ago tliat man was a miserable, tattered, filthy opium-smoker, a cook on small wages, to a colonial policeman. In some way his attention was called to Chris tianity, and he gradually broke off opium smoking, became an attendant at the London Missionary Chapel, and finally applied for baptism. The probation was passed, and the time set for the administration of the sacred ordinance arrived; the church was crowded, but the candidate did not make his appear ance, and the services proceeded without him. Near the end of the meeting he came in and explained the cause of his delay. His brutal master had compelled him to cook a late din ner, and thus ensued his detention. His ex cuse was accepted, and he was baptized. Temperance and moderation, with the coun tenance of Christian frieiids, at once put him into prosperous circumstances, and he now owns a flock of fifty or sixty goats, whose milk is used by foreigners, in the colony for want of cows milk, and whose flesh is sold to the shipping in the harbor,; and” concluded Dr, Legge, “ every now and then he brings me ten dollars aa an offering to the Lord” Infant Murder is Still Practised in China. —The Children's Missionary Record of the Free Church of Scotland thus speaks in regard to it :■ — “ Sometimes the infant is buried alive. The death of three infants was really wit nessed by an English captain, on the sea shore near the city of Phng-shau. He suc ceeded once in preventing the horrid deed, but shortly afterwards, by m'eans of a teles cope, observed its uninterrupted accomplish ment at a distance from hiin. “ Surely we, who know that in keeping God’s commandments ‘ there is great re ward,’ should do something to proclaim amongst these benighted heathen, ‘Thou shalt do no murder.’ Are we doing any thing ? If we are, can we say that we are doing all that it is in our power to do? “There is much to encourage us to labour on behalf of China. A little Chinese -girl was asked, ‘Were you sure of dying to-mor row, what would you do to-day ? She was one of a class; the first who replied said, she wotdd.be getting her grave ready, which is a very important business: among the Chinese: but this dear child answered, with a resolute countenance, ‘I would believe strongly in Jesus!’ .. v ,. •, “In the same school another girl asked for some books to take home, naming one of the short lives of the Saviour, and saying, ‘I want to tell my mother about Jesus, for I want her to believe in Jesus, 1 that she may go to heaven with me.’ “ Shall not we be like minded with her, and wish to be the means of taking numbers of the Chinese ‘to heaven with’ us ? Forbhjh Missions Promote the Piety of - da&jSTiANS.— —The striking, manner in which the missionary enterprise enlivened the piety" and increased the happiness of PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 31, 1861. those who first espoused it, may he illustrated by the following quotation :- “ There was a period in my ministry,” said the devoted Andrew Fuller to a friend, “marked by the most pointed systematic effort to comfort my serious people; but the more I tried to comfort them, the more they complained of doubts and; darkness. I knew not what to do nor what to think, for I had done my best to comfort the mourners in Zion. At the same time it pleased Q-od to direct my attention to claims of the perishing heathen in India. I felt that we had been Uving for ourselves, not caring for their souls. I spoke as I felt. My serious people won dered and wept Ove# their past inattention to the subject.. They -began to talk about a Baptist mission. The females especially be gan to collect money for the spread of the gospel. We met and prayed for the heathen; met and considered what could be done among ourselves for them; and met and did what we could. And whilst all this was B joing on, the lamentation ceased, the sad became cheerful, and the desponding calm. No one complained of a want of comfort. And I, instead of having to study how- to comfort my flock, was myself comforted by them. They were drawn out of themselves. Sir, that was. the real secret. God blessed them, whilfe they tried to be a blessing.”— Foreign Missionary. The First Foreign Missionary from America.—-So far as we are at present in formed, the individual who has the honor of precedence in'point of time, in the long train of American Missionaries to the heathen in foreign lands, was a female. Miss Sarah Farquhar, horn on Long Island, N. Y,, Sept. 23,1774, and for some time an assistant in the school of Mrs. Isabella Graham, of New York, went to India for her health in 1805, and was married to the Rev. Mr. Loveless, missionary of the London Missionary Socie ty in Madras. For eighteen years she adorned the high and important station to which she. had been providentially called, after which ill health constrained her to go England with her husband, and’ there she died in the sixty-third year of her age. Her biographer says, “ Adorning the doctrine of God her Saviour, this amiable, devoted, and useful missionary closed her truly honorable course.” Mr. Loveless was the first English mission ary to Madras, and his wife was the first American missionary to any foreign land! LITTER FROM CHINA. THE REBEL MOVEMENT IN CHINA —ITS RE- LIGIOUS ASPECT. The rebel movement in its various phases occupies a very large share of the attention of all classes of foreigners resident in this empire. Editors, travellers, representatives of..wfistqyn missionaries, and merchants seem about equallyinterested in: ascertaining the real condition of things re lating to the insurgents, whose head-quarters are at Nanking. The favorable expectations, which were excited last year at different times and by different parties in regard to them, do not seem to be just and correct. The more they are known, the more-do they appear at a . disadvantage. Those who, last year, thought favorably, or, at least, gener ously and charitably, about them, now do not appear to have anything to say in their favor. ‘“I do not happen to have any informa tion to communicate derived from personal observation and Acquaintance -with. them. Fuhehau is at present quite remote from the scene of their depredations. Long may it remain ;unyisited by them. I, however, do not propose to call upon my fancy for any facts about them,, nor to dwell at too great length on any phase of their condition. What;l have.to say will be given on the very best authority, viz.: of those who have been eye-witnesses of what they say, or have made personal observations, which have led them to form their opinions, or it will be de rived from articles which have recently ap peared in the public prints of China, written apparently by men who had paid considera ble attention to the subject. D. B. McCarter, of the 0. S. Presbyterian I Mission of Ningpo, who, not long since, ac companied, in the capacity of interpreter, the American expedition, consisting of seve ral vessels up the Yang Tsze Kiang under the American commodore, in a private letter to the writer, says: “Both imperialists and in surgents seem pretty well to have exhausted their resources, and the condition of the poor people, in the neighborhoods where the fight ing has been going on, is most pitiable. Where the imperialists have recovered pos session for any length of time, things begin to look encouragingly; hut as to the insur gents, even Nanking* which has been their stronghold fofc- so mapy jfears, looks: like" A? desolation of many generations.’ Their king is (I believe) a lunatic; their counsellors, ignorant rustics; their pomp of show an ab surb imitation of the stage; their religion a monstrosity; and their morality, ‘ echo an swers .where !’ You see I am no rebel; al beit I was well entertained by them, and they gave us a document in which missiona ries, their property of whatever kind, and all in their employment or under their protec tion, are guarantied protection in any place of which the Taipings obtain possession.” The following; is the testimony of Rev. I. J. Roberts, American missionary at present at Nanking, in regard to the morality which prevails there among the rebels, just publish ed in the China Mail: —“As to prostitution or concubinage, I presume that such is not allowed in this city; I have never heard of anything of the kind here, and suppose that such a practice, openly known, would he the most direct road to decapitation. In this respects : and jts cognates, L e.. gambling, opium-sm.oking, fortune-telling, and priest craft, including idolatry, this city may justly be .esteemed the wonder of the world, having excluded and purged out the whole. There may be secret exceptions, but the public and general course of things runs in this uncom monly pure and extraordinary channel, for which Tien Wang (the Heavenly Kang) should have due credit, whatever else may be his faults and failings. And, however ob jectionable polygamy may be,” (Mr. R. is re ferring. to the polygamy of the chief and .other high rebel officers), “it is certainly less objectionable than the other course of un tir'U : ■ ■ uncleanness, prostitution. snd concubinage, practised by some oflmore enlightened stations',"^flc- would fain take many exceptions at ipf'] olygapiy of Teen Wang and his people. , Mr. Roberts is the onl j Protestant mis sionary in Nanking, nofwit istandihg the fact that for nearly or quite a mar “free permis sion has been accorded to missionaries to preach the gospel in the insurgent’s camp.” He calls himself the “Religions! teacher” of Teen Wang, referring to hjs having been the acknowledged teacher of I the Chief of the Rebels a long while tmo at Canton, before he aspired to anything nkfe his present . ppsi r tion, and while he was' a kind of candidate for baptism and employment. ' Sir. Roberts is not a man of unexebpti|uable antecedents as a missionary. At different times i he has been a member of thtf Mwiotis of tHte Bap tist Churches in Ameraea, jNorth and South] established in this empire.],For quite a num ber of years tq.pet year, when ihe went to Nanking, he, sjaB„ jmcpnnected ydth any missionary hqmself principally, when in.!Gwn&”;by contributions solicited and obtained 'frim fbe mercantile foreign-community. He Mtes in the letter, from which I hare alfeadyquoted, that when he arrived at Nanking "last October Teen Wang immediately feent I him word by the prime minister, Kan Waijg, that he.was not . only at liberty to preachjand. invite his own brethren—the Baptists—jjto come-.ahd help him, but that he himNfo. l to take the superintendence .and rianagement of the “propagation of the gosiel by foreign mis sionaries;” “to which,” m adds, “I readily consented.” , “Afterwai Is,” he proceeds to say, “at my solicitation {with others), a writ ten document was issued! from the throne by the young prince, lis father’s seal, giv ing free religious toleration to all, both Pro testants and Catholics/’ . A ; ,translation of this document has been .published in China as well as in westem.lfnds. ; . Refering to. this'free permission to preach the gospel in the. insurgent camps, the editor of one of the most. abl i.iChina journals per tinently askS:—"Xs ids .permission, after all, anything more tha i a name ? Is it not a mere specious allusion ? We question whether any missionary dare preach the gos pel as it was preached by its first Apostles, and must ever be to tie end of the world. The first duty of any: preacher, who ad dresses an audience iii the rebel camp, will be to declare against] the arrogant preten sions of those leaders who. affirm that they have special interpouipe with Heaven. This was the rock on'which Mahomet built, when he overran the-world with his conquering enthuisasts. There'(are good things in Ma homet’s religion, • land there mar be good ' ■'’trs in Teen Wai , 3k • Ah< o religion, may . g< things in Teen Wsng= s; but neither of mem is Christianity, f, 2jo teaeh the latter .without exploding the .“Heavenly King’s” preten sions is simply* impossible ; to inculcate many of its gbundantly easy.” An AmerrM, Ohma,.pre -: the religious creed of the''®drgehmjas letter from Kan Wang, the prime minister of the chief rebel, ,«ho (Kan Wang) was form erly catechist hr the employment of the Lon don Missionary Society at Hong Kong! “The Old jfafbNew Testaments are in the main corr/ct, bat there ape inaccuracies in them; ard thed|elestial king considers his own vi/aons and new revelations of higher authority and importance than those. His mission is to commence a new dispensation, superceding the gospel, as the gospel su percedes the law. This new revelation is attested by miracles and a third sacred vo lume is to be given to the world, to come after the, Old Testament and the Hew, and to be called the True Testament. God and Christ have both come down in the likeness of men. Christ is not equal to the Father, or properly divine. Other Saviours are coupled with hijo, and he has a wife and fa mily in Heavenj. The Celestial King and his son, along witl ’ God and Christ, forms a quarternity in itimy'i 6o that God is worship ped through tbLlEmpefor-. 'The presence of God is, in a ipfccial manner, the Celestial Bang’s present :;j and the kingdom of Heaven is just what m peing set up at Nanking.” What blaspher jg! What nonsense ! This Kan W uig, at the command of his chief, the rebt king became a polygamist, having at the resent time, according to the admission of i tr.' Roberts, five wives. He seems to have ,dopted many of the peculiar notions prevah it at Nanking. According to a recent valual [L article in the China Mail, from which may of these facts have been culled, he staM that they cannot permit any one to preajh against the dogma (above mentioned) as itjwould undermine the autho rity of the chief, tnd damp the military ardor of “his followe It is declared in as plain language $ possible, that “the chief Hung Sin-tsiuei -is the brother of the, Sa viour and the St ■ of God, in that same sense as Christ is, and only inferior to him as the -i younger daiinferi e ta the,-elder. They repu diate the idea tli; anything in their-revela tions that may Icontrary to the Old and may be correeted by them; recent, is to be considered ative.” New Testaments theirs as the mo: the more author 60, when Mr. Boberts ar , the chief addressed him a cling him to the capital. In various- points of doctrine, ; his own ascent to heaven, uent descents of the Father ; the miraculous In October, ] rived at Nankii long letter, weh it, he reiterate! among which ai ip 1887, the fre of Christ to ear fee Father and Christ in his Itself is, “ the way, the truth tej the Father and Christ is fete. “He tells Mr. Roberts Iteve in these things without as did the Israelites, who . rejected Moses.” And he i (tells Mr. fioberts that faith is very important, and that 5a useful here, nor. happy ■ these facts go far to set- interposition oi behalf, i He h and the life,” each the way] that he must a reserve, or pei disbelieved aa again and ag* in these thinl without it he cm hereafter; Dq that Missionaries would not V tolerated at Nanking, if Mly preach against these '.nlions ? e (dees of the rebels are tie one day out of every nd this day is our Sa of Saturday, for Sab been done by mistake ose. According to the ‘There is no worship" on lish ; it -from any other :—“ They buy and sell, days." “On the night tie the question for a moment ; they should fai blasphemous pin The religious very few. They si seven worship day, turday. The fixinj bath, seems to hai rather than on pm late Dr, Medhurst. that day to distin day.” Mr. John sa and build as on ott preceding; at 10 o’clock, two other guns are fired, to signify that the hour of prayer has come, and that the worshipping is soon to commence. For an hour each household is engaged in prayer sand praise,. The testi mony of all those whohave been at Nanking, is to the same effect, that there, where they have been settled for more than seven years, there is no public or private observance of their worship-day, as a holy day, except by Kan-Wang: that there are no churches, no celebration of the Sacraments of the New Testament, no preaching, ho explanation of the Sacred Scriptures, and no exhortations to holy, living. Their, worship at other times consists in the repetition of the Doxology and some, prayers, and the presentation of vari ous offerings, as rice, and the bodies of slain animals.” Rev. S. W. Bonney, missionary of the American Board, at Canton, called at Fuh Ghau, a few days ago, and .related to the wri ter the incidents of his visit to Nanking, and his calling Cn Mr/ Roberts' a short time pre vious. Mr.' RbbertS told ; Mhi that his plain was, bo- pibachipdbMtfly‘iflithWstreets every day, but I do not recollect: that Ire told Mr. B. the subject-matter of his discourses. It appears Mr. Roberts is the Foreign; Minister of the insurgents in a political sense. He is supported by the rebel Government, receiv ing rations of food regularly, a,nd occasion ally presents of money. Mr. Bonney corro borated the statements of other travellers in regard to the desolated appearaece of Nan king and vicinity. The people are repre sented as rarely ever smiling, but appear sad and burdened witb present affliction and gloomy anticipations. The Chinese people do not take to their rebel conquerors, and this seems to be a . great argument against their ultimate success. What to do with the long-haired, rebels is the absorbing question among politicians. They seem to stand in the way of commerce and Christianity. Some seem to favor their extirpation or destruction by the foreign powers interested in Chinese' commerce. Others say “ let them alone.” My only apo logy for-sending this long letter, is the im portance of the subjects. Let not Western Christians omit to mention China, populous and heathen, in their prayers to the Divine author of temporal and spiritual blessings. Fuh Chau, Aug. 6,1861. , Sinim. AN IRISH CLERGYMAN’S VIEW OF THE WAR. The following article is the production of an Irish-d Presbyterian clergyman, who mani fests the deepest interest in our American troubles. 'lt'originally appeared as a com munication to the editor of the Belfast News Letter, an influential paper in Ireland’s Northern capital. We learn from the brother, who sends it for insertion,' that the writer, with, his congregation, strictly observed bur day of National fasting and prayer* It is a matter of rejoicing that there are at least ' -ho clearly.perceive and freely to the Gentiles. r His triumphant words are, ‘There is no difference; the same. Lord over all, is rich in mercy to all.’ Hp manner was to be full of zeal, faith, love, add' hope. His zeal’for truth; faith in God, love ' to saints, and hope of success and reward, are all worthy pf admiration and imitation.' His character and history show us two things: What great things Godcan do- for a; vile sinner. He was ‘the chief of sinners,’ the moat undeserving, of all; yet he was •£# qf jpeaee apd joy, and led into the .richest experience of communion with God. What wonderful things God can accomplish by an unlikely and apparently feeble instru ment. His influence has been most exten sive and blessed, and' the result of his labors of incalculable value. Well might he ex claim at the review, ‘Not I, but the grace of God which was in me.’—Christian Treasury. It is needless to say, that John AngeL James was a great worker. He enjoyed in cessant activity. Says his son“He dili gently redeemed his time. Meals were dis patched in his house in less time than I ever saw them got through elsewhere. Though a stout man, all his movements were quick ; he walked and wrote fast, and he dressed with unusual rapidity. My stepmother was as ac tive as he was, and never kept him waiting for her at a meal, or when going out with hjp, and she remarked with great pleasure, thAt Bonaparte gave the same praise to Jo sephine. He was generally in his study soon after 1 seven, and, I .believe, spent in devotion the hour before breakfast (which in winter and summer he took at Sight). He never sat more thati half an hour after dinner (at two or half-past), and not a minute after break fast or tea, After supper (at nine) he usually read an amusing bqqk,; and I think he did so also at the end of the morning. He wrote his letters generally in an afternoon, and grumbled if he had to take up his pen after supper. Though he disliked the occupation, his letters were generally very full, and al most every one who wrote to him oh a matter of personal religion Was sure oft being an swered at considerable length. His chief relaxation was to spend half a day in the country* and he could generally make time for that, if allowed to fix the day; ir NothiSg seemed ever to incapacitate him from working on up to supper-time, or to dis sipate his mind.. He could breakfast out, and when he returned fall to work as usual. When he reached; home in ah afternoon, after travelling all day, he had* tea as quickly as it could, be got; and then Went to his study, and generally on such occasions was later than, usual at supper. .He never gave up working nrdess physteafljr unable to sit np, and mad.e nothing; of a.headache or other ail ment which would have laid aside most men. Till the last years of His life he wrote stand ing, and to this" he’ attributed his health/’ Of Ins personal habits and benevplence we have these notices:—“ He was very neat in his person and dress, and was Very particular not to appear in the phlpit with M s haif ih disorder, which cost him- some care, as he. al always wore it combed straight up from 5 Ms forehead. He lik.ed everything about him kept an.gpoi ordqr, qxceptTthht the books and papers he had in, hand always lay about m confusion. He did not seem to have order and system, but he must have had it, for he kept going thegreat maeKineryofhis church and congregation; with ease and comfort to everybody, and withoiit the' need of any pain ful or convulsive-efforts, ' “His almpgiying was very great, when viewed m reference! either to Mis income or expenditure. No relation or old friend, and scarcely aay minister,.applied to him in vain, and he gave even. to. his enemies. To do this he was very economical, especially in his per sonal expenses. But he showed it only by not spending money, and hot when he spent it; tor he was very easy in every transac tion, whether: lie-paid or received. He lived as plainly as he could with propriety, and he gavp away the remainder of His income. He held it a sfin for a minister to hoard, and at least an equal sin for him to indulge in dis play. I never knew hun so short with me as when I suggested it would be merer, to put two horses to his carriage, which he kept as a matter of necessity.”— Methodist. Six months ago, the gj-eat donspiraey of the southern slave-aristocracy bloomed put intp open rebellion. iLet us review the months which have passed since the day of Sumter, .and see. what we have done. Six months ago, we had not spven hundred soldiers with in reach of a defenceless capital. To-day, have proihably'two hundred thousand arm ed men'on the line of the Potomac, and an other hundred thousand in the West. Six months ago, we had hot arms to put into the hands of seventy-five thousand volunteers; to-day, we have muskets, cannon, every sup ply in abundance for four times the number. Six months ago, we could neither feed nor move an army of five thousand men; to-day, every department of ojir military organiza tion; is completed, and we can make war across the- continent. Six months ago, we had not a dozen ships of war at hand; to ;day, we number our navy by the hundred, l ahd are guarding a coast line of more than two thousand miles. Six months ago, the government could scarcely borrow a few hundred thousand at twelve per cent.; to-day, twelve millions of people lend it fifty millions of dollars at par. Six morithsago, the question was whether the people would'support the government; to-day, the’ only question-is, whether the go vernment will support the people.—j Evening Post JOHN ANGELL JAMES. PERSONAL HABITS, AC. SIX MONTHS;