1863. aminizzu trtoblicritts AND-- GENESEE EVANGELIST. JOHN W. MEARS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1868. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN A WEEKLY RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, IN THE INTERBST OF THE Constitutional Presbyterian Church, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, AT No. 1334 Chestnut St., Philadelphb. • TERMS—(in advance). By mail, • • • - $2 00 per annum. By carriers, in the city, 2so 44 Fifty Cents additional, if payment is delayed three months. PREMIUMS, Any clergyman procuring us four new subscribers, with the pay in advance, is entitled to a fifth copy eighteen months, free. Any person procuring four new subscribers, with the pay in advance, can have a fifth copy free, for one year, Fot Six Dollars we will send two copies of the paper and a copy of the American Review, for one year, to new subscribers. Any one procuring new subscribers is entitled to Fifty cents for each one secured and prepaid. irtigiono utelligruce. Philadelphia Religious Items—The Seventh Presbyterian Church, situated upon. Penn Square, and under the pastoral care of the Rev. J. M. Crowell, has lately been newly fitted up, and now presents one of the most beautiful interiors in the city. At the late communion sixteen persons were added to the church, five by profession of faith, and eleven by certificate. The Sabbath Schools attach ed to the church are also large and flourishing. ---Pralessor Cameron, of Princeton College, NeW Jersey, was ordained as an evangelist on. Sabbath evening, Ist inst., by the Presbytery of Philadel phia, Presbyterian. Dr. Hamilton's Church Regent's Square, Lon don, celebrated its seventeenth anniversary, Jan uary Bth. The revenue of the Church for the year was £lOB5. The sittings let are 754. Member ship 640. Debt, £2150, with outstanding subscrip tions and money in hand amounting to not quite £lOOO. The Church sustains the Somer's Town Ter ritorial Mission at an annual expense of £5OO, £350 of which are met by the congregation of Re gent's Square. A missionary, a schoolmaster and a schoolmistress are employed. 270 children are in the day-schools, and 500 in the Sabbath-schools. Dr. Hamilton closed the 21st year of his ministry in this church, July 25th of last year. During that time the benevolent contributions of the congregation including £12,000 to the building fund, reached £39,000. Regret was expressed at the meeting by; Mr. John Grant that the Session had not proposed as part of their annual report to raise Dr, Hamilton's salary to £BOO or £lOOO. Dr. Hamilton who occu pied the chair said he would not have been so wil ling to give Mr. Grant an opportunity of speaking if he had known what be was going to say, and urged the claims of the Home Mission, which sup plements the incomes of ministers in country districts receiving very small stipends. • . The Fourth -Professorship in Allegheny:Be minary has, after a delay of nearly six years been endowed : three gentlemen having proffered $5OOO each, and the remainder being raised chiefly at a meeting in the lecture room of the First Church, Pittsburg, January 27th. Rev, Mr. Doty, of the Reformed Dutch Mis sion in Chiang-Ching, writes as follows : Sixteen adults, eleven males and five females,and seven or eight children, have beenbaptized. here is manifest life among the disciples in efforts to make known the gospel to the pagans around. Also ten or eleven persons who show much interest as inquirers. Among them is a whole family, the head of which has given up the Preparing and sell ing of opium; by which he was gaining several hun dred cash a day. They, are no very poor, but struggling along. Rev, Zas. Harper, D.D., of the U. • P. Church of North Leith, was released at a lat4zi meet ing of Edinburg Presbytery, from the active, duties of the pastorate which he had discharged 44 years, the Congregation retaining him in an honorary connection at a stipend of £3OO a year.—Bev. Mr. Niven of Forfar was deposed and excommunicated by the Presbytery of Arbroath at a recent session. As Mr, N. has disappeared from the neighborhood, it may be well for American Churches to be on their guard.—A new U. P. Church hasbee.n opened at Perth which cost $7OOO and seats 660.—Hyde Park Church, recently completed at Belfast, acco modates 500 on the ground-floor and cost but $6.600, It is lit with coal-oil.--Of another Pres byterian Church, recently erected in Ireland, it is said that " the pulpit is of the American Plat form style," with recess behind it —A new and splendid church edifice has been opened' recently at Ballymena, the scene of the great and blessed revival movements in .1.859.—A Committee was appointed by the Presbytery of Otago, New Zealand, Septem ber 17th, to arrange the details of a plan for a Col lege in the Colony. In the discussion on the sub ject in Presbytery, it was said "they would never succeed until they did this ; and they had, as a warranty for the course, the case of the New Eng land Churches, which found it impossible to obtain a sufficiency of ministers until they commenced a native college." 1 4,. The Southern General Assembly appointed New Orleans as the seat of its domestic missionary operations, and thither Dr. Leyburn,. immediately after his election, repaired. In May last there was a comfbrtable balance in the treasury, and 'wkm the Secretary left the city to attend the meeting of the Assembly in Montgomery, Alabama, everything was working well. In his absence, however, G-en eral Butler and Commodore Farragut appeared in New Orleans, and the Secretary suddenly found his communications cut off—himself on one side of the line, and the treasury on the other. Being thus deprived of his "supplies," he was directed by the Assembly to plant himself in Athens, Georgia, and call for new funds. For some reason, which does not appear, he has thought proper to effect another change of base," and issued, his appeal of No vember from Montgomery Alabama. --Presbyterian. The Presbyterian Church in East Boston, Massachusetts, since its settlement of a pastor, has been favored with a constant and encouraging growth. The First Church, in Boston, still lives though reports have been circulated concerning the sale of its buildi*-:--/frid Episcopal.--The English Correspondent of the Presbyterian in this city writs ; —lt is a great scandal to the Church of England, tat Dr. Coleus° seems beyond the reach of ecclesiastical law. The Sigh church Guardian says that' ` those who knew him longest would, we suspect, be puzzled to name the time when he was sound and consistent. .His theo logical notions have ever been misty, and heterogeneous; and threaten only now, at last to settle on their lees into something.more pernicious and corrupt than their foretokens. Such a man should not have taken orders atoll ; and having taken orders, he ought least of *all to have been made a Bishop."—The Archbishop of Canterbury has called a general meeting of the bishops of the English Church for Wednesday, Feb. 4, for the pur pose of considering what steps ought to be taken in reference to Bishop Colenso's recent work on the Pentateuch, and the writer's relation to the Society for the Propagation of. the Gospel. Editor Baptist.—The city of San Francisco has a popu lation of 90,000. The Baptists began work there the earliest, we believe, of any religious body, and yet in the spaca.offourteen years but one Church has been organized. The pastor of that Church complains that the ministers of the Baptist Churches in the Atlantic States are in the habit of refusing letters to members going to California, and that multitudes are lost to ‘ the denomination in cense quence.---Work on the new version of the Bible has been stopped, for the present if not permanent ly, by Dr. Conant and his colaborers. In the vol umes of books already issued the reading is para graphed instead of being versed off as in the present version.—Recently Rev. Dr. Hiscox, of one of the New York Baptist Churches, had a call from his friends, male and female, and after a fine supper and sundry donations, he was burdened with two bundles, one containing $2OO in Treasury notes, and the other s3oo.—The number of Baptist Churches in New York city, with its immediate environs, is said to be 56, comprising a membership of 15,202 communicants.—ln Ashford, Conn.. a powerful work of grace is going forward. Elder Swan, State Missionary, is laboring in the Baptist Society with marked success. Crowds attend his preaching. About fifty have become the disciples of. Christ, and many are still inquiring what they must do to be saved.---The Emir:liner has received a letter from Bassein, Btulnah, Nov. 10th, 1862, stating that nearly one hundred baptisms were reported for the last nine months on that station.—A revival is reported as in progress in Hamilton, N.Y., the site of the Baptist Madison University. It commenced with house to house visiting, by pastor and lay breth ren. A day of fasting and prayer was observed, and the very next evening inquirers appeared and have been increasing ever since. 25 or 30 hopeful conver sions are reported. The brothers Colgate, James, Robert and Samuel, offer $30,000 to Madison Uni versity, provided an equal amount is raised from other quarters. It is expected to be accomplished. Congregational—The London 'lines 'reports the case of Rev. G. Crowther Smith, Congregation al.vinister of Folkestone, who, on Sabbath, Jan. 11, announced his retirement from the Congregational body, and his union with the Established Church. He is reported to have said that "in the Congre gational system the government of the Church, and especially the'principle of equality that prevailed in it, prevented him from properly fulfilling his duty as a preacher; and, having now satisfied himself that there was nothing in the ritual of the Church of England to which he could not subscribe, he could not but regret that he ever left the church of his fathers." It is understood that Mr. Smith has received a promise of Episcopal ordination.—A new Congregational Church was dedicated at Skow hegan, Me.; on the 25th of December ; a sermon by Rev. Mr. Hathaway.—OnThursday29th Jan., the new edifice erected on the corner of. York and Henderson streets, Jersey City, for the First Con gregational Church, of which Rev. Mr. Homes is the Pastor, was opened.—The church edifice at Huntington, on the. Western Railroad, was burned early Monday morning, January 12. It caught from a school-house that was burned, and which stood only a few feet distant. It cost $3.600, and was insured for 2.ooo.—Rev. A. T. Pierson has re cently resigned the charge of the Congregational Church, Binghamton, N: •Y. -- ; the church property has been sold to pay the society's debts, but a hun dred and fifty members desired Mr. Pierson to re main and commence a new enterprise. The council which had been convened, agreed with the people and so recommended.—Seven Congregational ministers met, Dec. 31st, at Benzonia, Mich., and formed the Grand Traverse Association. It embra ces three churches, with a prospeet of adding three more soon. Mr. John Vetter was ordained, and four infants were baptized.—A suit for £2OO damages has recently been brought against a Con gregational Church in England,for. expelling two members by regular course of discipline. It termi nated favorably to the church. The Congre gationalist speaks of " a work of grace progressing in the society under the pastoral care of Rev. T. N. Haskell in East Boston. On Sabbath, let inst., seventeen new members were added to the church, mostly heads of families, and there are several other similar cases of hopeful conversion in the parish. At the last two communion seasons thirty four per sons have been received to the membership of the church on profession and by letter. 18, 1863, Rev. E. Anderson, of Michigan City, superintended the formation of a Congregational Church, at Cool Spring Township, Ind. Twenty six persons entered into covenant, and more are coming. This church is six miles from Michigan City, and is• the fruit of the faithful labors of the M. C. Sabbath School superintendent, brother Baldwin, who goes out every Sabbath as a "lay preacher" to them.—The result of the revival at Muskegon is about thirty hopeful conversions. It was the first revival ever known in the place, and has wrought a great change in the moral aspe3ts of the community. Army.--Rev. A. Axline, Lutheran, has resign ed the Chaplaincy of one of the early lowa regi ments, and returned to his charge in Fairfield, in that State! He has been with the regiment in the severe campaigns of the West.---Rev. Dr. Strickland writes from Fort Pulaski, Ga. : " Here I am, shut up in a fort, but, thank God, not shut out from duty and happiness. I have staid at my post, notwitstanding the reduction of my salary, believing that I was in the order of Providence, dis charging a duty I owe to my God and country. I have faithfully attended to my duty as chaplain. Every night my casemate is filled with soldiers who engage in prayer, Several conversions have taken place. I have organized four classes and two Sun day schools, one for the soldiers, among whom are several who know not the alphabet, and the other for the contrabands. • I preach every Sabbath to the men, and hold meetings with the contrabands ; have also a temperance organization which meets every Saturday night in my casemate. This work makes my heart rejoice, and I am willing to devote au my strength for God and my country." Niscellanports.—The average salary of dissent ing pastors in England, is stated by a writer in the Weekly Review, to be £5O, $250 a year.—The new Archbishop of Paris, M. Darboy, Bishop of Nancy, is of the moderate party among the clergy, and will make himself agreeable to the government.—On a recent Sabbath evening, Gov. Andrew, of Massa chusetts, visited the colored Baptist Church of Bos ton (Rev. Mr. Grimes' ), and taking a text, preach ed an earnest Gospel sermon. There is a work of grace in progress in this church, and some hopeful conversions are reported. toiiic attitiC Congress.—Tuesday February 3rd.—ln the Sen ate, a resolution was introduced, stopping the pay of unemployed military officers. A resolution in reg aid to, the French operations in Mexico was ta ken up and discussed by Mr. McDougall...kr. Sumner thought the introduotion of the subject Amttiran Nttollterian and qtntott 6tianntliot. unwise and moved that the resolution lie on the table. In the House, the proposal for a General Bankrupt Bill was rejected by a majority of seven. The bill to establish a national currency secured by United States Stocks, was postponed for one week by a vote of 60 to 53. A bill for thdloenlargement of the New York and Western canal system was thrown back into the hands of the Committee. The bill providing for a coastwise ocean telegraph was taken up. Wednesday February 4th.—ln Senate, the resolu tions relating to the French in Mexico were laid on the table. The resolution to reconsider the vote on the passage of the resolution directing the Secretary of the Navy not to accept the title to League Island until further order of Congress, was taken up and agreed to—yeas 25, nays 17—and the reso lution was referred to the Committee on Naval Af fairs. The bill for encouraging re-enlistments and for drafting and enrolling the militia was taken up ; a proposition to strike out the second section, giv ing the President power to make all rules and for enrolling or drafting the militia was debated and lost: In the House the Committee on Elections reported against admitting the members-elect from Norfolk district; on the ground that less than two thousand out of ten thousand votes were cast. A bill author rising a submarine telegraph from Fortress Monroe to G-alveston was passed. A bill to protect over land emigrants to the Pacific Coast; a bill to or ganize a hospital and ambulance corps of twenty thousand men were passed. Also the Senate bill for the more effective administration of the subsis tence department. Also the, bill as, amended in Senate authorizing 20.000 men to be raised in Ken tucky for 12 months. The Senate amendment makes the men available for service out of the State. This is a creditable day's work. Thursday Pebruary sth.—ln Senate the bill to encourage enlistments was again debated, and another attempt of the negro-haters to cripple its force was defeated. The bill was re-committed. The House was engaged on Senate amendments to to the Legislative etc., appropriation bill, and con curred in one striking out the usual subscription to the National intelligence. .Flriday Feby, s.—ln Senate, a resolution was adoPtd to institute an inquiry into the expediency of abolishing the duty on printing paper. Prof. Agassiz was elected Regent of the Smithsonian In stitute in place of a rebel, George E. Badger. Both Houses spent considerable time on private bills. The New York and Illinois ship canal bill was dis cussed in the house with some animosity. Saturday. February 7th..—ln Senate the House bill to promote the efficiency of the Commissary de. Partment was passed. The Missouri Emancipation- Aid Bill was discussed. Amendments raising the ap propriation from twenty to twenty-five millions, giv ing three years instead of twelve months• were de feated. The new Senator from the free (?) State of Ihdiana, bitterly opposed the scheme of making Missouri or any other State free. The new Sena tors from the equally free States of New Jersey and Illinois, Mr. Wall, and Mr. Richardson, together with their like-minded and low-minded associates, Davis and Powell of Kentucky,, and Salisbu t. of Delaware, bitterly opposed the scheme and abused the President ad libitum. Little was done by the true men of the body but to vote down all amend ments, by immense majorities. In the House, the ship-canal bill was discussed through the entire session. Monday Februar; Oth.—The Senate took up the national currency bill and made some progress upon it. In the'House, Committee reports adverse to claims of a member elect, each, from Tennessee and Virginia were presented. The canal enlargement bill was defeated. The - War. Renewed boldness characterizes the rebel move ments in West Tennessee and Kentucky. The Gun Boat New Era, was attacked February Ist, by rebels off Island No 10, estimated at 3 to 4000 strong with three pieces of artillery ; she drove them off however. On the 3rd, a party es timated to be equally strong—perhaps the same band—attacked Fort Donnelson, expecting to cap ture it, and so command the Cumberland River and cut off Rosecrans supplies. They actually took four pieces of our artillery, but were compelled to relin quish them, and were driven off with a loss stated at two hundred killed and five hundred wounded. Our loss, two killed and forty-one wounded and missing. Our forces are not idle. On the 2nd, a rebel camp was surprised at Middletown 15 miles west of Murfreesboro',. and one hundred men and the en tire camp-equipage, horses etc., were captured. Our troops landed at Young's point above Vicks burg on the Louisiana side of the river January 22nd. Work was immediately commenced on the cut off : the railroad running to Shreveport was seized and a, number of persons going to and from Vicksburg, with a rebel mail, were captured.. On the sth of this month, six feet of water was run ning in . the canal, though the depth and width of the original excavation had altered• but little. Great disaffection brevails towards the rebel cause in North Carolina, Northern Georgia and Alabama. Gov. Vance of the former State has is sued a proclamation calling upon the large number of rebel soldiers who have left "their colors in this the hour of our greatest need," to return to the ranks on or before February 10th. A rebel Gen. Lee, whose , head-quarters are at Dahlonega, Ga., issues his first general order to " deserters, tories and conscripts resisting the laws, in Northern and N. E. Georgia, and in S. W. North Carolina," whom he'will reduce to• order, hunt from their fast nes,seS, -and restore tranquility to the country, peace ably if he can, forcibly if he must. The Governor of Alabama has issued a highly-wrought appeal to the people of that State complaining of a reluctance, to volunteer, urgink deserters to return to the army, and bidding the people not to despond in view of this last stupendous effort of the North to' subjugate and enslave them. - Undoubtedly the Southern people are growing lustive. Even victo ries, true and false together, do not suffice to keep up their spirits. Bands of loyalists have been at tacked and dispersed in North Carolina and E. Ten nessee. The Southern papers are " disturbed about the action of the North Carolina Legislative " and hope that " that powerful and patriotic State will be kept in line with her sisters." Gold• is $2.25 premium in Richmond; Northern Exchange, $1.40. Negroes bring from $2.500 to $3.150. The N. 0. Delta says that accounts from the rebel army at Port Hudson and elsewhere show a most wretched state of affairs existing among them, the men only being kept from mutiny by promises of peace-being secured within ninety days. Rebel braggadocia never took such alight, and never suffered such a collapse in all the course of the war, as in regard to recent attemPts to break the blockade of Charleston harbor. Accoiding to a flaming dispatch from Charleston, in the Rich mond papers of Monday, Feb. 2d, the two rebel iron-dads in that harbor, with some smaller vessels, came out at one o'clock, on Saturday morning, at tacked our blockading Squadron, sunk two vessels, burned four, and sent the entire remainder of the fleet, of thirteen vessels, upon a most inglorious re treat. Whereupon, a flaming proclamation was issued by Beauregard and others, declaring the blockade raised, and the port open to commerce ; the sympathising foreign consuls held a meeting, and voted the blockade legally raised, and several of them went out in a vessel, furnished by the rebel authorities, beyond the usual blockading ground, and found the coast clear. 4. vessel was also des patched to Nassau with the joyful tidings to Anglo rebeldom, and sympathisers at the North shook their heads, predicted a speedy organization of a powerful rebel navy, and trouble ahead with Eng land and France if we should attempt to maintain , the blockade without another notification of sixty days. It was noticed, indeed, that the Charleston dispatch closed with the significant announcement that twenty blockadingliessels were in sight off the harbor, Feb. let, also that the Richmond papers were remarkably quiet ()lithe subject, after the first announcement. But it was hardly expected at the North that the story would turn out such a con temptible fabrication as it now appears to have been. Surely, the rebeleause must be in desperate straits to be reduced to i/uch shifts , for keeping up the courage of the people. By the arrival at this port, Feb. Bth, of the prize steamship "Princess . Royal," captured off Charleston, by the Unadiaa, we get at the truth of the story. It appears that no vessels were sunk, none burn ed, no blockade raised; but on the contrary, the rebel rams were driven back to Charleston. About three o'clock oa the morning of the 31st of Jan., the •watch on bcard the afercedita, saw the black smoke from one of File rams from Charleston, and she was hailed. The reply from the ram was, "All right," and a boat 6s promised to be sent to the Mercedita, but aim+ at the same instant the ram sent a broadside in o the Mercedita, and one ball passed through th boiler, killing four men. The ram then swung rood under the stern of the ilfercedita, and thus pricted herself from the guns of that vessel. A de and for a surrender was made, and acceded to the commander of the Ilfercedita, who believed his vessel to be sinking. A boat from the .11feradita conveyed a message to I t , this effect on board th ram, with a request that the officers and crew be ken off. The commander of the ram declined, all ing that he had no`room, 1:1 and proposed to parole t e men. While the nego tiations were pending, t e flag ship of the block tiding squadron had si' nailed the fleet, and the vessels of the northern st station began to arrive. The Keystone, in the eantime, discovering the plight'of her consort, sttr t ted under a full head of steam " towards the ram, i i tending to ran her down. the ram got loose from the Ilfercedita, in order to i i meet her coming assail nt, and when the Keystone State was within ten y ds of the ram, a broadside from the latter disable her, a ball entering the boiler of the Keystone l t State, killing twenty-three i c, and scalding seventeen" Among the killed was Dr. Goodall and his stewal• al though thus disabled, , m . The Keystone State, tnenced firing broadside after broadside at the; am, and finally the rebel craft got away towards! Charleston, and the Mace dita and Keystone Slate were taken in tow by vessels from the fleet. ~ ' , The,' ram` next turned her attention towards the prize steamship Princeis Royal, as" though the re capture of that vessel4as the sole object of the ex pedition. Sufficient t 3 tfrm had not been raised on board the prize vessel to assist in getting her off, and when the ram cam towards her, the engineers got their vessel under way by working the rods themselves until a -nu it lxr of the blockading fleet came to her assistan : and again drove the rebel ram off and she disapp ared. The only raising of i sioned by the concentral point, in obedience to t and by sunset at the had resumed their star two hours. The iferee taken to Port Royal, for the repairs to the Later news from ,eksburg represents work as being pushed on the panel which must be dug out the entire necessary depth and width; the soil being of such a charatter as to forbid expectation of enlargement by-tlieaw of the-river itself. Some weeks will elapse befer the completion of the work. The U. S. rain Queer& of the West ran the block ade February 2nd, atiaaylight. Otte hundred heavy siege guns were opeued on her and as she steamed past a a rebel steamer also opened fire on the Queen of the West. T.he latter replied and crippled the rebel steamer. The t r Queen, was under fire three quarters of an hour. gebel papers say she passed down to and below Natchez, doing considerable damage on the way. A letter from Port' Royal, dated the 3d inst., says the iron-clad stqmer Montauk has been en gaged for several day 4 in attacking the rebel iron clad battery in the qgeechee river. The rebels possess much heavier/ guns than they have ever Used before. They al o use steel-pointed solid shot; but although the t et had been struck sixteen times, all the shots g awed off without doing any damage, CaptainlN/rden. had nearly demolished most of the rebel parapet, and expects soon to cap ture the, battery, behind which lies the steamer Nashville. , . Aletter from Fort Clinch, Florida, dated the 31st ult., states that a fight took place on the St. Mary's river, at Scrubby Bluff, between a body of the rebel cavalry and three companies of colored South Caro lina volunteers. The rebels attempted to take the steamer John .A.dants by`, boarding her, but the negro soldiers beat' hem off bravely. The Captain of the John. Adams was shot, but his murderer was immediately slain by a negro sergeant Our loss was two men and six Women. We' took seven prisoners. The steamer was not injured. 40. Death of Rev. Dr. Boyd.—A late number of the Richmond Dispatch, contains' the following, which in all probability refers to Rev. Dr. Boyd of Winchester, formerly of our church, but a leader of the Schism at Cleveland 1857. " In the short notice of the death of this eminent minister, published in our last, we, were unable to give any of the particulars connected with the affair. We have since been informed that he was shot whilst approaching the Yankee picket. The report states that he was hailed by the sentinel, and not hearing the order, ok , disregarding it, he was fired upon and almost instantly killed." Ez 7 Cfovernor Morgan of the Republic= party was elected U. S. Senator from , New York for the ensuing 6 years as the first ballot, at Albany, Feby. 3rd. Ex-Governor Morgans course as Chief-Execu tive of the Empire State was always aimed at fully sustaining the Government in its present struggle. His future career in the Senate will doubtless be of the same satisfactory character. A D. Boileau, has' resigned his place as Editor of the Evening Journal. The paper show's no dis position to sustain the Government. Foreign.—The DistressinEnglandand France. Since the third week of November, when the addi tion to the number receiving Poor-law relief was 12,000, there was a gradual lessening ofthe number added till the second Week of December, when there was a decrease of 4,320 in the number of paupers, a decrease which has continued, cumulatively, every week, the last decrease mentioned being 7,310, in the first week of January. Concurrently with this there are reports from every district of mills re opening, wholly or partially; and of shoit time being converted into, full time, attended by diminution of the pauperism. The suffering in Normandy seems to be terrible. "Day after day, night after night, the country is scoured by bands of unfortunate .people, who creep along from door to door, asking for bread and shel ter. Railway stations are besieged by poor, half naked children, with emaciated faces, imploring the, assistance of the traveller." The numbers of the distressed do not, indeed, equal those of En gland ; but still they are very great, and the distress deeper. The subscriptions had not, oil the 3rd, ex .ceeded g 4,0401,., but-more was flowing in. Le blockade was that ma ion of the whole fleet at one e signalsfrom the flag ship, rne evening all the vessels ions. The fightiasted about vita and Keystone State were where a few days will suffice oilers. TJ't arriageeo, ON February 4th, by the Rev. , Thomas Brainerd, D.D., Mr. GEORGE W. SEELER to Miss ANNIE M. 7o3ozas. oWptrial foticto, HOME MISSIONS. PRESBYTERIAN Rooms, 150 Nassau Street, New York. The Presbyterian Committee of Home Missions acknowledge the receipt of the following ,contribu tions during the month of January 1863. North Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, N.Y., $5B 28 Rev. M. Gelstoni Grass Lake, Mich., 2 00 Presbyterian Church, Gibson, Pa., 2 25 Red Creek N.Y. 7 00 " " Mt. Vernon, " 32 00 61 44 Norwalk, Ohio 600 44 44 Lysander, N.Y., 17.05 " " Lima, " - 74 05 H. Leete, Money Creek, Minn., 2 50 Mercer St. Presb. ch., New York, in part, 498 36 Church of the Covenant, " balance, 20 00 Miss Mary Duncan, Springhill Furnace, Pa.,10 00 Ist Presb'rian chareh, Kensington, Pa., add'l, 15 Ist " " Brooklyn, N.Y., m.con, 46 35 44 44 Whitesboro, " 29 50 " " . Canton, " 25 00 Serail Tappan ' Esq.," Lyndonville z " 30 00 Presbyterian church, Ruggles, Ohio, balance, 400 Ist " " Champlain, 61 66 A Friend of Home Missions,Manlius, N.Y., 600 Presbyterian Church, Hillsdale, 'Mich., 129 68 David Hoadley, Esq., New York, 50 00 2d Presb'rian church, Madison, Ind., in. Con., 42 60 Toronto, “, 420 44 44 Clinton 44 ' 325 " Sherburne, N.Y., 56 00 " , " College Hill, Ohio, 73 00. Rev. D. M. Wilson, Paddy's Run, " 500 Mrs. J. Affieek, Pinckney, bah., 10.0 Presbyterian church, Honesdale, Pa., 153 00 " " Greenvilte; N.Y., m. e. 5 00- Youth's Miss'y Ass. Spring St. Presb eh, N.Y., 68 00 Presbyterian church, South Amenia, N.Y., 49 75 South street Presb. eh, Morristown, N.J., 15 00 Presbyterian church, Harford, Pf 7,.,, 28 75 Rev. J. N. Williams, Lake City, Minn, 1 00 Mrs. C. B. Hartwell, Richfield Springs, N.Y., 50 Presbyterian church, Nineveh, N.Y., 33 00 64 " Cassapolis z Mich., 600 " chs, Reeseville Unionville, Pa., 100 00 44 church, Scott, lowa 4 00 " " New Haven, N.Y., 950 " " Saginaw, Mich., 15 00 4 " " Jacksonville, 122 85 i°Penfield N.Y 40 00 " " Elizabeth, Ills., 500 " Burr Oak. Mich., 12 00 Rev. Walter H. Clark, Cornwall, N.Y., 10 00 N. C. Ryder, Es., Dubuque ; -lowa,, 170 00 Jonathan Peck, Esq,, Sylvania, Pa., 500 Ist Presbyterian church, Durham, N.Y.. 120 00 " " Norwalk, Ohio, add'l, 500 2d " ' " Oxford, " 69 63 Teachers and. Pupils Western Fern. Sem'y, 0., 90 77 Presbyterian Church, Cairo, N.Y., 20 00 Miss lvia Collins, Quincy,lll.,, 100 00 Presbyterian church, Montrose, Pa.. in part, 56 00 " " New Berlin,N.Y. , .Y 655 Rev. Timothy Williston, Reedsburg, Wis., 200 Presbyterian church, Booneville, N.Y., 12 00 U. P. & Cong. churches, Milford, Mich., 22 00 Presbyterian church, .Bloomfield, N.J., 152 27 " " Owego, N.Y., add'l, 33 7.5 " " Flint, Mich., . 138 00 Rev. Alvin Cooper. Durham, N.Y., 5 00 Ist Presbyterian church, Ashtabula, Ohio, 13 67 lst " Troy, N.Y., 554 72 14th St. Presb. church, New York, in part, 392 66 Presb. & Cong. eh, Sab; Sch, Monroeville, O. 15 00 Presbyterian church, Eekford, Mich., 12 50 Ist " Philadelphia, Pa., 100 00 lst " " " Harrisburg, ' 6 m. c. 712 2d " " Chicago, Ills., 180 00 W. H. Brown, Esq., " " 150 00 lst Presb'ian church, Portsmouth, Ohio, 273 60 Ist " " Saline, Mich., 19 20 Missionary Society, Wilson, N.Y., 3 40 Rev. R. C. Clapp, Chestertown N.Y., .3.00 Presbyterian church, Newton Falls, Ohio,, 13 40 " Plattsburgh, N.Y., 40 77 " " Hastings, Mich., 8 0(1 " " St. Cloud, Minn., 10 00 " " Newark, Mo., 6 00. " " New Providence, Mo., 5 00, " " Jefferson, Wis., ° 4 40 ., A Thank Offering, New York, 5 00 Bible Class, Presb. church, Leroy, N.Y., 8 00 Presbyterian church, Cedar Rapids, lowa, 60 00 " " York, N.Y., 17 00 Madison Square Presb. church, N.Y. :in part, 1104 98 2d Presh'iar church, Williamsport, Penna., 100 00 " " Rushville. Ills., 10 00 tj Traverse de Sioux, Minn., aoo " New Windsor, N.Y., 500 " Omro, Wis., 20 00 " " Wolf Creek, Pa., 588 " " LiviLgstonville, N.Y., 800 " " Mt. Gideon, lowa, 17 75 Canisteo, N.Y., 17 5 0 " " Cerro Gordo Ills 450 to " Meridian N.Y '2B 24 Niagara Falls Sab. School Miss. Soc., N.Y., 40 00 Presbyterian church, McGrawville, " 50 00 Frederick Starr, Esq., Rochester, " 25 00 Rev. E. M. Rollo, Oneida, .. " 500 Greenbush, Presb.ch, NY, V. P. Doane, $5O; Miss D. M. Doane,, $7; J. N. Ring, $5; Mrs. Houghtailing, $l, 63 00 4th Presb'rian church, Albany, N.Y., 550 00 " " S. Sch, Waverly, N.Y., 16 00 " " Ithaca, " 38 83 " " Guilford Centre, 25 35 " " Summer Hill, 18 66 Rev. 0. 11. Seymour, Cortland, N.Y.,' 3 00 Rochester Central Presb'rian church, Young People's . It M. Association, l2 76 Syracuse Ist Presb'rian church, in part 206 50 Lockport Presb. church, Ladies H. M. Soc. 50 00 Presbyterian church, Ithaca, N.Y., 37.85 " Onondaga Valley, N.Y., 16 65 " " North Bergen, N.Y., bal. 533 Chili church, New York, 26 00 Rochester Brick church, N.Y., balance, Ogden Presb. ch. S. , Sch, " Rochester. Central Presb. eh, Young People's Missionary Society, Albion Presb. church, Miss. Society, Augusta Presbyterian church, Penn Yan " " from B. B. Jones, Esq., 121 43 Weedsport Presbyterian church, balance, 6 00 " " " Sab. Sch, 7 50 Seneca Falls Presbyterian church, in part, 27 00 Geneva 41 balance, 678 Niagara Falls Presb. ch. Sab. Sch. Miss. Soc., 30 00 Watertown, Mrs. •James B. Bates, 10 00 Rev. Moses Thaeher, Peru, N.Y., 5 00 Presbyterian church, Gouveneur, N.Y., 125 79 " Hopkinton, " 18 25 " " Westernville, f' 38 75 CounEonow.---Contribution reported last month, as from Durhamville, Church, Michigan, should have been DRARBORNVILLE. EDWARD A. LAMBERT, • m REASIMER. The Courtland Saunders Cadets will drill in Celebration of Washington's Birthday,on the 21st. of February . , at . t 1 o'clock P. M., in the Academy of Music. Complimentary tickets will be sent to Cler omen. The price of Tickets for RESERVED SEATS will be Fifty cents. The funds will all be applied to support Children of Soldiers in the Children's - Home of West Philadelphia—an' institution which is near to the Courtland Saunders Institute and in which the Cadets have taken a deep interest. A Cough, Cold; or an Irritated Throat, if allowed to progress, result&in serious Pulmonary! and Bronchial affections, oftentimes incurable. . BROWN'S BRONOM AI TROCHES reach DIRECTLY the affected parts and give almost in stant relief. In RRONCRITIS, ASTHMA, and CATARRH they are beneficial. The good effects resulting from the use of the Troches, and their extended use, has caused them to be counterfeited. Be sure to guard against worthless imitations... OBTAIN only the GENU INE BROWNS BRONCHIAL TROCHES Which have raoyso their efficacy by a test of many year& PUBLIC SPEAK ERS and SINGERS should use the Troche& Military Officers and Soldiers who over-tax the voice and are exposed to sudden changes, should have theni. Sold everywhere at 25 cents per box. atetrtiotmtuto. ONE PRICE CLOTHING, No. 604 MARKET STREET. PHILADELPHIA. Made in• the latest styles and best manner ) ex pressly for retail sales. The lowest selling price is marked in plain figures on each article, and never va ried from. All goods made to order warranted satis factory , and at the same rate as ready-made. Our axe PRICE system is strictly adhered to, as we believe this to be the only fair way of dealing, as all are there bY treated alike:. JONES 4t CO., sepl3 ly . 801 Market st., Philadelphi a. including $5O $7899`88 WINNER'S PERFECT GUIDE Violin, Flute and Guitar, liceordeon Piano, Melodeon, FIFE, FLAGEOLET, and CLARIONET, Containing. Instructions designed to enable the pu pil to obtain a knowledge of playing without a teacher; with a choice collection of every variety of Popular Music. Price of each, 50 cents. Teachers pupils, and dealers desirous of obtaining a low-pricedlnstruc lion Book, and at the same time one that is useful and attractive will 'End these books fully suited to their wants. The instructions are given in a manner adapted to the comprehension of all grades of schol ars. The exercises illustrating and enforcing the les soni are not dry and tedious, but sprightly , and en livening, and the selection of music, varying from the simple to the difficult, comprises the, most popular melodies, of the day. Mailed - , post-paid, by DITSON & CO, Publishers, 277 Washington Street, Boston. - W. HENRY PATTEN'S NEW WEST END - Window Shade, Curtain and. Upholstery Store, - • - . No. 1408 CHESTNUT STREET, Next door to HubbelPs (Apothecary.) Window Shades, Gilt Cornices, Bedding. Furni ture Re-Upholstered, Varnished and Repaired. Car pets or. Matting, cut or made, or altered and put down, by the beat men to be got in the city. Furni ture Slips, or Covers, handsomely made and fitted. Verandah Awnings, etc. W. HENRY PATTEN, febl2 lyr 1408 Chestnut street. SPECIAL NOTICE. NEW COPARTNERSHIP. THOMAS POTTER' and GEORGE C. BO Wtilt having associated themselves with WM. E. CAMP, in the business of manufactuiing the Unfermented Bread, at the corner of BROAD and BUTTONWOOD Sta., the business will hereafter be conducted under the name of POTTER, CAMP & BOWER. TheUnfermented Bread has been successfully intro duced in this city and vicinity, and has met with pub lic favor, and is approved by the highest medical au thority, as being more pure, nutritious and wholesome than the fermented bread, and no care or expense will be spared in the manufactuie of it henceforth. Families and 'Stores will be daily supplied in any part of the city'on application at the office. We have; in. connection with our business, intro duced the most approved machinery for the manufac ture of Crackers, and having secured the services of a Boston baker of' large experience are prepared to fill orders for any variety of Crackers, consisting in part of the following, viz Pilot Bread, ,I , Army Bread, Soda Biscuit, Milk Biscuit, Oyster Crackers, Butter Crackers Wine Snaps, Farina Crackers, JJJ Boston Crackers POTTER, CAMP & BOWER. „ P.S.—A few men are wanted who have had expe rience in the distribution of Crackers among the gro cers and dealers. febl2 fit .NEW BOOKS. The Blue Socks ; or Count the Cost. By the Author of " Irish Amy." 18mo. Cloth. Fifty Cents The Haunted House. 18mo. Cloth. Twenty-five Cents. Nat's Shoes. By the Author of "Kate Morgan and Her Soldiers." 18mo. Cloth. Thirty-five Cents. Our Father's Care, and mother's Last Words. Two Ballads of rare merit, and Illustrated with a beautiful Frontispiece. Five, Twelve, and Fifteen Cents each. Published and for sale by.the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, febs 3t No. 1122 Chestnut street, Phila. POST-GRADUATE CLASS FOR LADIES. TIR. W. M. CORNELL is now giving instruction 1..! to a Class of Ladies who have finished their School Education. No Text-books are used. One hour a day, four days a week, will secure all the ad vantages, of the course. Special attention is given to Conversation' and Writing. A Course of Reading, connected With the Subjects, will be advised, for those who have leisure. The following Subjects will be embraced : Physio- logy and Hygiene, Intellectual Philosophy, Rhetoric, Criticism and English Literature, Government, Le•is lation and. Constitution of the United . States, Political Economy, Natural Theology and Evidences of Chris tianity. Apply •at .No. 1432 SOUTH PENN SQUARE,-PHIL'A. Dr. CORNELL'S Classical School is open every day for pupils. The following Clergymen, who now have children in it, maybe.inquired of:—Rev. James M. Crowell, B. E. Adams John W. Mears, Philadelphia ; Rev. Georgedlood, Chester, Penna. 5 Rev. James Boggs, Fairton, New Jersey. The SPRING Session will commence on FEBRUARY ist. ' febs tf LIFE INSURANCE. The GIRARD Life Insurance, Annuity and- Trust Company of Philadelphia., • OFFICE, No. 4QB CIIESTEUT Sr. Capital (paid up), $300,000.--Charter Perpetual CONTINUE to make INSURANCE ON LIVES on the most reasonable terms. They act as Executors, Trustees and Guardians un der last Wills, and as Receivers and Assignees. The capital being paid up and invested, together with a large and constantly increasing , reserved fund, offers a perfect security to the insured. The premiums may be paid yearly, half yearly, or quarterly. The Company add a BONUS'periodically to the In surances for life. The following are a few examples from the Register: Policy. Sum. Bonus or Ins'cl. addition. $887.501 $3,887.50 1 1,050.00 . 4,050.00 400.00 1 1,400.00 1,875.00 - 6,875.00 'O. 89 ' , 2500 " 132 8000 " 199 1000 " 833 5000 Pamphlets, containing tables of rates and explana tion, forms of application and further information, can be`had at the office. THOMAS RIDGWAY, FRESIDEXT. 'Two. ,TAmes, Actuary. febs 8m DOCTOR A. H. STEVENS, ELECTRICAL PHYSICIAN IS' curing all Chronic diseases both of Ladies and Gentlemen,• by a pew method in the use of Electricity .alone, without any medicine, or even any, pain. Board may be had, with treatment, by patients from abroad, at reasonable rates in the Doctor's family. LErrsas applying for circulars or further informa tion will be promptly answered. Office and residence at 141.8 SOUTH PENN SQUARE PELTLA. being in a central as well as delightful part of the city. Feb 5 THOMPSON BLACK & SON'S Tea. Warehouse and, Family Grocery Store, NORTH-WEST CORNER OF IiROAD AND CHESTNUT STREETS, PHILA. (Established 1836.) 'An extensive assortment of Choice Black and Green Teee, and every variety of Fine Groceries, suitable for Family use. Goods delivered in any part of the city, or, packed securely for the country. janl ay List of Colors &Am. SALmow, DARK BROWN, SCARLET, . SWUM BROWN, DARK DRAB, LIGHT BROWN, LIGHT DRAB, DARK'BLUE, YELLOW, LIGHT BLUE, LIGET YELLOW, DARK GREEN, ORANGE, LIGHT, GREEN, MAGENTA, PINE, SOLFERINO, PURPLE, FRENCH BLUE, SLATE, ROYAL PtrarLE, Caimsox. VIOLET. ' FAXILY DYE MOL,ROS, 'For dyeing Silk, Woolen and Mixed Goods, Shawls, Scarfs, Dresses, Ribbons, Gloves, Bonnets, Hats, Feathers, Kid Gloves, Children's: Clothing, and all kindk of Wearing Apparel, with perfect fast colors. A Saving of Eighty per Cent . These Dyes are mixed in the form of powders con centrated, are thoroughly tested, and put up in neat packages. For twenty-five cents you can color as many goods as would otherwise cost five times that sum. , The process is simple and any one can nse the Dye,s with perfect success. 'Directions inside. 31fanufactured by. HOWE & STEVENS, No. 258 Broadway, Boston. For sale by Druggists and Dealers in every City and Town. jan29,3m Am't of Policy and bo nus to be increased by future additions. HOVER'S , ,MANITFACTORY: No. 416 RACE STREET, PHILADELPHIA. THE reputation of Homes Ink and Fluid are too well and: widely known, to need a recital ? and the public can rest satisfied that no effort of science and skill shall be lacking, to render this HOME article equal to the wants of the AMERICAN public. Orders addressed to JOSEPH E. HOVER Manufactu rer, nl3 ly ABDREW BLAIR. HENRY C. BLAIR' S, PRESCRIPTION d: FAMILY MEDICINE STORE, Eighth and Walnut streets, Philadelphia. (Established 1829.) NONE but the best Medicines dispensed. Prices uniform and reasonable. Persons residing in the country can have their orders faithfully and promptly executed, no matter how small. Physi cians supplied with pure medicines and medical pre parations. jul2 tf FAMILY GROCERIES. • WILLIAM CLARKE, N. W. CORNER 12TH AND RACE STREETS., PERLA.. OFFERS for sale an assortment of best FAMILY Li GROCERIES, including a supply of NEW FRUITS, FRESH G-soutm SinoEs,ete, suitable for the sea son. Special attention paid to TEAS,which will be sold of better quality for the price than can be usually found. decll. Iy 0. H. - WILLARD'S CARTES DE VISITE and Photograph - Galleries 7 Nos. 1626, 1628 and 1630 MARKET STREET. ALL work from this establishment .is warranted to be of the very, finest quality, and to give perfect sa tisfaction. ' n 27 ly P. & E. H. WILLIAMSON, SCRIVENERS AND COD TEYANCERS, nov6 ly] S. W. Con. ARCH AND SEvt,NTH STS. THOMAS CARRICK & CO., CRACKER. AND BISCUIT BATTERS, 1905 ALAREET STREET, PELLA, Superior Crackers, Pilot and Ship Bread, Soda, Sugar and Wine Biscuits, Pic-frics, jum bles, and Ginger Nuts, A.PEE'S, SCOTCH AND OTHER CAKES. Ground Cracker in any Quantity. Orders promptly filled. deela ly "NEW MOURNING STORE," VAMILTES about putting on MOURNING, I! will find it to their advantage to examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere. Mourning Millinery always Ready. Mourning Suits made Complete in 8 Hours. M. & A. MYERS & CO., deell 3m No. - 926 Chestnut Street. -- • - A. X. HEILIG, eon' Watchmaker and Jeweler, tt, „). No. 836 VINE STREET, (Near Ninth) PHILADELPHIA. All kinds of Timepieces repaired, and warranted. An assortment of bpectacles on hand. n2O ly . FAMILY COAL. FAMLLY COAL. , FAMILIES supplied with the best LEHIGH and SCHUYLKILL COAL, at 115 North BROAD street. Orders left at S. Tiller's, 1507 Poplar, or at J. Collins, 1313 Mt. Vernon street, will be promptly attended to. [n2o 6ni.J MILLER Jr; COLLINS. S,TVSTON ELDRIDGE . 7 [LATE DAVENPORT ELDRLDGE,] 1 4 :E AND .DEALER. IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC HARDWARE, 'Cutlery, Tools, Looking' Glasses, etc., • No: 426 SOUTH SECOND Sr., above Losnl*?, [Opposite the Market, West Side,] The Western Stove and . Tinware Depot. PRESTON & MAHOOD, 1718 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of Stoves, Tinware, Hollow-ware and House- Keeping Articles in General. E keep on hand an assortment of the most V proved Patterns, such as Silver's Gas Burn ers for Parlor, Store, and. Office use, and a variety of patterns for Halls 'and Bar-rooms. We also have a large stock of Gas-burning Cooking Stoves, with all the latest improvements. Heater and Range work attended to. All kinds of repairing promptly atten ded to. PRESTON & kHOOD, n 27 6m 1718 Market street, Philadelphia. NOS. :I , and, 3 :NORTH SIXTH :STREET. (First above Market street.) JOHN C: ARRISON, SUCCESSOR TO J. BURR MOORE, IMPORTER. AND MANUFACTURER OF GENLTEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, CONSISTING. OF WRAPPERS, SILK UNDERSHIRTS, MERINO lINDERSIELETS, MERENTO PANTS, LINEN AND SILK HDKFS., NECK-TIES, STOCKS, HOSIERY GLOVES, SUSPENDERS, ETC., ETC. Shaker Flahnet Skirts and Drawers.. Buckskin Shirts and Drawers. Improved PATTEEN SHIRTS, warranted to fit and give satisfaction. Cassimere and Flannel Over-Shirts in great yariety. N.B.—The character of this Old Established House is fully sustained. deal ly • - LEE & WA.LEF,E, MUSIC PUBtISIIERS, No. •722 CHESTNUT STREET; PHILADELPHLt., Respectfully call the attention of the Trade, Bernina ries?Professors of Music, and the Music Public, in general, to their extensive and well-selected stork of SHEET MUSIC AND MUSIC BOOKS CONSTANTLY OX HAND. Their Catalogue being one of the largest in the country, they have every facilitjr, to fill all orders en trusted to thein, correctly and with despatch. . Always on 'haud,rl splendid stook of .. Pianos; Melodeons ! Guitars, Violin and Gni ,- • " tar Strings, Etc., Etc. PIANOS TO RENT. Music sent by. Mail upon'receipt of the marked price. " THE MUSICAL ALMANAC!! FOR 1863, - Containing a list of all the most I opular. Music of the day. Copies furnished. upon . I,pplication. LEE & Music- Publishers, And dealers in PIANOS, MELODEONS, 'ETC., jan29 3m 722 Chestnut Street Phila. N. P. CLAPIr. QHOES :AND UNSBELLA.S 1626 ArAitEET ST. 0 All kinds of'l3oofs and Shoes of my own manu 'facture, or ' made 'to order. A good assovtment of Ginn Umbrellas repaired. PinleMg in a va riety of stiles, at low prices. ri27 ena
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