J merits# ftesbgirria# —AND— GENESEE EVANGELIST. THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1863. JOHN W. MEARS, MAINTAINING ONE’S GROUND. A GOOD <;ause sometimes is really advancing when it seems not to take a step forward, Sub stantial and glorious victory may rest with the party who is too weak effectively to pursue the routed foe. The principles of righteousness in the individual character may really have grown stronger, and the Christian himself may have made progress, when he appears to be exactly where he was. If a hold and desperate attack has been repulsed, that is a real gain. If the advances of an old and half conquered habit are resisted, that is a gain. If the toils and strategy of Satan to win back your soul to his sway are disappointed, that is victory. If amid the vari ous a ud.desperate assaults of unbelief you still faintly cleave to the word of God, and continue to trust His #on for salvation, though you can not rout your fears or secure your mind entirely from wavering or disquietude, you are conqueror. lio who simply maintains his ground after a desperate encounter is master of the event.— What is the inspired description of the Christi an soldier ? Is it of one who gloriously pursues his routed foe and puts the finishing stroke to his hostile operations? By no means. After a ruber delineation of the powerful and dangerous character of the adversary it is said: “ Where fore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to loithstand in the evil day, and huvimj done all to stand” i. e. as victor. A grout business of the Christian soldier therefore is to beat off the assaults of the arch-enemy, and to maintain his position. He must often simply stand. He must stand heroically, watchfully, zealously, not falling into discouragement and listlessness, because his work is not more active or more palpably successful. . Is the foe dis comfited and driven back ? Is he disappointed in his deep-laid scheme to compass our soul’s destruction ? Hid he muster all his strength and subtlety to darken the mind, to represent God and truth to be on his side, to paint in most glowing colors the false and empty attractions of some worldly object, or to show up duty in the moat forbidding andhateful light. ? Hid heputhis agents, the seorners and persecutors of this world, in your way to intimidate you ? , In proportion to the greatness of bis preparations to overwhelm you is the completeness of his defeat, if you sim ply withstand him and remain standing as victors in the field. So our Saviour won a great triumph over Sa tan by simply repulsing his three temptations offered in the opening of his ministry. Vainly aid the tempter essay to move him from his con fidence in God, his humility, his spiritual aim. Ho calmly received the shock, withstood the assailant and remained upon the field while his foiled adversary withdrew. It was a great, a decisive victory. Ho follower of Christ need feel ashamed of gaining precisely such victories as this. They do not leave, us or the enemy just where we were. We are invigorated by the effort We are inspirited by the success. We are newly conscious of an inward strength, suffi cient, by the grace of God for the direst emer gencies. Such are thq victories which martyrs carried to the stake have won. To the outward eye they may seem to be overcome, crushed by their enemies. But even they, while they de al roy them, gnash their teeth with rage and dis appointment at the calm demeanor of these I 'hrlsdan soldiers, who are the true victors in the strife. We are apt to grow impatient with feeble churches which seem to do nothing more than maintain their ground; with missionary enter prises which achieve no bold movements upon the surrounding heathenism. We clamor for Iriiliunt and immediate successes, for continual advances, for results which eannot be mistaken. Within certain limits this is a correct feeling.— But we must beware of applying if indiscrimi nately as a standard of judgment. There are individual churches and church-organizations which in simply maintainingtheir ground, must lie regarded as victorious. Their very existence is the result of many a hard struggle. They remain in spite of many well laid plans for their destruction. They stand because the enemy has been foiled. Brave and and strong hearts are in them. Patient and per severing and hopeful men and women—hoping against hope—have refused to let them'die. They do not seem to grow but they endure, and bear witness to the truth most emphatically by tlieir simple existence amid such contrary in fluences. Happy are they that thus endure. Their hour comes at last'. Under the guidance of Providence and of the Head of the Church, after years or even centuries of waiting, circumstances shape themselves and the world opens before them— the advance is sounded and they move forward euihusiastioally to the final attack.' Behold the despised and persecuted Waldenses! Their vic tory for centuries has been that of simple self preservation. Their strengh has been to sit still. It has been enough for them to baffle and re pulse those who sought their destruction. They have maintained their ground, but only by be coiulng victors over their foes. But now the divi.ie purpose in their preservation is unfolding, liidy is opening to the Gospel and an Italian Church is at hand, which has proved its claims to victory in its past history, by boldly pushing forward to reap the advantages of the new order of tilings. Let qs not despise those faithful men uud organizations which under great pressure of adverse circumstances so far couquer as to main tain their ground. True, that is by no means the grand aim of Christianity; which has wea pons mighty through God to the pulling down ol’ strongholds. But we are wilfully blind not to sec that some of the most important advantages to the good cause, und some of the bitterest dis appointments to its loes are, not triumphant and Inlliaut advances, but the simple holding of its ov.ii steadily against its assailants. < H ev ' Dr. M’Leod, on furlough, preached in his own church on Sabbath last. He de nounced the riot in New York, as a part of the general rebellion, and eowmended the poor suffe r.og colored people to the Christian sympathies of the people. An impromptu collection was taken up for their benefit. The Doctor has re turned to camp. THE NEW ERA OF VICTORY. “When a great good is to be bestowed on the human race,” says the noble-minded historian of the Reformation, “ the deliverance is only ac complished by successive efforts.” We who live at a time when republican nationality is conquer ing its right to be, and when the system of Ame rican slavery is receiving its death-blow, are proving the truth of this axiom. At first we were like the enthusiastic reformers of whom the historian speaks in the same connection; “ who thought they had attained their end at a single bound.” In ninety days we thought the histo ric questions which were pressing for solution would be settled. If God had intended in this conflict to settle only some minor point, such as is often decided by a posse of policemen; he would doubtless have restrained the disturbance within narrower bounds. But great and precious principles are at stake; valuable results are to be won for posterity—for two races—for mankind —for the kingdom of his dear Soa. By all the vicissitudes of,a great conflict, surging backward and forward, with its alternations of high hope and abject fear, of exultant joy and of deep de spondency, of universal enthusiasm and of wide spread disaffection, of victory and of defeat, God is' convincing us of the gravity of these in terests and is inweaving these new principles into our national existence. By the fearful cost of the struggle in lives and in affections, by the great draft it has made upon the feelings of this generation, he will give to the American people a quick and undying sense of the preciousness of the principles for which we strive. Nationality and order, inseparable from Republicanism; Sla very incompatible with it: these are the grand ideas for the establishment of which God has suffered us to fall into a strife so stupendous. Editor. We have indeed had our vicissitudes. The conflict has brought us shame, as well as glory. On the Potomac, the Rapidan, the Rappahan uock and the Ohickahominy, the, national and rebel hosts have swayed to and fro like a pendu lum. Each army .has carried terror and desola tion into the country of the enemy, each in its most venturesome schemes has been disastrously, repulsed, each has made narrow escapes from - utter extinction. The very latest surge of the rebellion in tbe East carried gloom and panie to ■ the hearts of the good. While. Yicksburg and Port Hudson - stoutly held out, and the fierce Texans under Magruder were recapturing west ern Louisiana, and threatening New Orleans, Lee was .marching unopposed up the west branch of the Susquehanna-, threatening Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington at once. On the 29th of June, the destiny of our country and of the good cause seemed hung upon a sipgle thread ; indescribable anxieties thrilled every loyal bosom. We are soberer men dow than we were; We are content to remember that all through the world’s history, the righteous cause has been “ scarcely saved.” We are learning to receive defeat with less dejection, and victory with less exhilaration. Experience teaches us that the most valuable results flow from a mingling of both; that we need to be schooled by failure as well as by success; that we should not rightly esteem the national good we are securing if it cost us too little. Since McClellan’s repulse or withdrawal from Bichmond, we have been defeated before Wash ington, at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville; on the other hand we were victors at South Mountain, Antietam and Gettysburg. In the west, we were compelled to see Buell hasten back from his advanced position in Tennessee, . while Nashville, Memphis, Louisville and Cin cinnati were in extreme peril, and Cumberland Gap had to be abandoned. Gen. Mitchell’s splendid advance on Huntsville, Alabama, and the dear-bought victory at Shiloh, were rendered nugatory. Nearly the whole of Kentucky fell into the hands of Bragg, until the scarcely-won victory of Perryville compelled him to retreat, as Lee did from Antietam, with a large and still powerful army. On the water, onr commerce lay, and still lies, almost at the mercy of swift Anglo-rebel privateers, who bum and destroy close to shore with impunity, and who never yet have been seriously interrupted in their pirati cal career. In Texas we were overpowered at Galveston and lost the Harriet Lane. In the Gulf we were actually worsted in a naval en counter, in which the pirate Alabama sank the national gunboat Hatteras. At Vicksburg, Gen. Sherman was repulsed in his attempt to carry the works by storm, and the whole ofiast winter and spring wore away in extensive bat futile attempts to reduce that stronghpld. At Charleston the whole fleet of ironclads was repulsed in their long contemplated attack on the rebel works. But while for six or eight months we seemed to make no progress,' it was also true that we were not ousted from a single position of com manding importance which we had gained on re bel soil; and the attempts of therebels at inva sion aod transferring the war to loyal soil were utter failures. They were rapidly exhausting themselves in those desperate efforts, while the resources of the north were scarcely touched. Their currency depreciated, while ours under wise legislation arose in value. The great idea of emancipation, and the recognition of the ne gro as fit to serve in the national army, became settled points of our policy, while rebel despite and rage burst out with greater fury against the colored man. On the Ist of January, Bosecrans won the victory of Murfreesboro; on the 16th Sherman captured Arkansas Post with 6000 pri- . soners. Vain attempts were made by the rebels in February to retake Fort Donelson, and break the blockade of Charleston. March, w.ith its wet weather and impassable roads, was a month of comparative inaction. In April, Gen. Banks began his spirited march through western Loui siana, in which the enemy was uniformly driven before him, until we find him at Alexandria on the Bed Biver. Gen. Thotbaß commenced the extensive enrolment of negro soldiers in Arkan sas. Women’s riots broke out all over the south. On the Ist of May, five millions of Secretary, Chase’s “Five-Twenty” loan were disposed of, and the financial question of the rebellion was considered as triumphantly solved. This was the month of Hooket’s failure at Chancellorsville and of the great cavalry raids through eastern Virginia, Mississippi, and Georgia by our forces. Ihe hollowness of the rebellion was brought to light as never before by these audacious .expedi tions. These are checkered scenes. But with this month began that series of nearly uninterrupted successes, reaching down to the present time, which we may term the New Era of V/ictory. We can bast present it in a tabular form. ffueA>nidtt atifi dmntpiigt. = “—2 « n i i n a K W D » 02 ts E g ’ • (S -4 rH DATE. PLACE. ;* a a May 1, Bruinsburg, ? 760 Grand- Gulf, ? “ 14, Jackson, 700 ? “ 16, Ed.. Station, 1,000 2,000 16 “ 17, Big Black Cr. ? 2,000 “ 20, 'Haines’ Bluff, 8 “ 29, Yazoo City, July 1,2, 3, Gettysburg, 18,000 12,000 6 Tullahoma, 600 4,000 10 “4, Helena, Ark. 1,200 1,300 “ 4, Vicksburg, 5,000 27,000 200 Jackson, 6,000 “9, Port Hudson, 1,000 7,000 60 Total, 27,400 62,050 300 These are important, and we believe, decisive results. They involve a loss to the rebels of perhaps one-tbird of their effective force, while our own losses in the same engagements .are not more than one-tenth of our numbers. We are bringing up a fresh army of three hundred thousand strong; they have 'already drained their population; of its able-bodied men. Their territory is cut in two. Foreign nations, |in spite of the ill-concealed sympathy of important gov ernments with the rebellion,*have failed to recog nize them. But whether we are on the verge of formal victory or whether years of conflict still await us, we h|ye abundant cause for thankful ness in recent‘deliverances, and cau accede most heartily to the appropriate and timely sugges-. tions in the Proclamation of our Chief Magis trate; THE OBJECT OF THE WAR ATTAINABLE. The object of the war is not to subjugate the South and hold the States as conquered pro vinces, but to destroy the military power of the rebellion, to render its great exciting cause— Slavery—inoperative in the future, and then simply to let the people work their political ma chinery in harmony with the Constitution as be fore the war. * Tbe disputes and doubts upon this point es pecially among sympathisers with the South and English “ neutrals” have been endless. It has been asserted over and over again in the British Parliament, by Cabinet ministers, at out of door gatherings of the people, in the London Times and in the whole crowd of newspapers which al low that Journal to think and to believe for them, that tbe North can never “ conquer” the South, and that, even granting this to be possible, the Union can never be restored. It is remarkable how these English opinions accord with those of the worst men, the vilest class of politicians and the most bigoted haters of England in the United States. “We cannot sueeeed in what we have undertaken” says Fernando Wood, who would never utter such a sentiment if the conquest of Canada was the objeet in view. “ Every day’s continuance of the war,” he says, “ places an ad ditional, barrier between us and reunion.” The, Weekly Review, tbe respectable London organ of the English Presbyterians,echoes these sentiments of the New York politicians. “We long since avowed our conviction that the Union cannot be restored by the subjugation- of the South and every week has added to our confidence in this conclusion. . . . But if the Confederates were subdued would they be vitally restored to tbe Union ? Would their animosity to the North be less virulent than that of the Poles to Russians ?” Doubtless the question will be much simplified in the eyes of these sage politicians and editors when it becomes manifest that the national strength is competent to crash the rebellion. The military power of the'South is broken, two thousand of their commissioned officers are pri soners in our hands. Their “ Sebastopol” in the West has fallen, and the great river which divides their territory, is ours to its mouth. We already largely outnumber them in the field and are summoning 300,000 fresh men to the conflict. "•But three States in the east, S. Carolina* Geor gia and Alabama, and Texas in the West, can be said to be in their possession, and even upon those the national encroachments are serious. That trouble will be encountered in re-estab lishing the national authority, and wiping out the remnants of rebel usurpation even after the war is ended, we think is quite likely. But these will be few outside of the cotton States. No one seriously believes that it will be difficult to re store order in states where a powerful Union sen timent prevails, as in N. Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, or even in Louisiana after noting the experiments introduced by: Gen. Banks, and so successfully operated by the planters of the latter State. And if we would learn the probable state of feeling in the Gulf States after the vic tory is finally with the North, we may receive not a little'instruction from the conduct of the captured garrison of Vicksburg. Instead of. manifesting any vindictiveness after the surren der, they fraternized with, their captors in the most cordial manner, (toly the officers were down east. The privates were as happy as school boys just let out of school. Great numbers of thfern seized the opportunity, while being paroled, of escaping to the qther side of the river and abandoning the rebel service, in-so much that Gen. Pembeiton remonstrated and requested Gen. Grant to use force in restraining their movements. Gen. Grant replied that he did not consider it part of his business to compel any one to remain in the Confederate service. ; Break utterly by military operations the armed strength of the rebellion; yon not only overawe the rebels by the'process bat win their respect— an element of harmony which has long been wanting in the southern estimate of northern character. Then remove the grand secret of the outbreak, by carrying out the Emancipation Pro clamation to the letter, and we shall have a Union with fewer elements of discord than ever, and actuated by a policy much less likely to ka'd to collisions with foreign powers: In victory is Union and Peace. In dismemberment is end less disquiet and carnage. THE NEW YOBK MOB. In spite of all the horrors of the three days of last week in the Empire City, there is a certain feeling of relief in the complete unmasking of the rebellious leaven which has been so long secretly working in that city. The tendencies of the “ Peace” doctrines lately avowed there and elsewhere, are. too plainly revealed to be mista ken. They are remarkably accordant with the, hopes and expectations of rebel leaders, and it is not altogether' an idle supposition that paid agents of the rebellion are among the prominent abettors of the Peace Movement and the late mob. The Bichmond Inquirer in an article, a month or more since, while rejecting with utter scorn the ■overtures of the peace, democracy, for reunion, continues as follows: “ It is of the utmost consequence to us to aid in stimulating disaffection among Yankees against their own Government, and in demoraliz ing and disintegrating society in that God-aban doned country. In this sense and to this extent, those Democrats are truly our allies, and we shall endeavour to do our duty by them. . . Our views go a little further than theirs—we hope to so disorganize and disintegrate Society in their, country, that they will faih into armed revolu tion and anarchy. We spit upon* their ballot box.” * It is right to take a true word out'of an ene my’s mouth; and their never was a truer word spoken- than that the advocates of peace with unconquered rebels are the “ allies” of the re bels; and we may add the enemies of order and of law every where. Thank God! there is no longer any legitimate ground for doubting the real tendency of such doctrines. The blood stained pavements and smoking ruins of New need no interpreter. SPREAD OF MORMpNISM IN EUROPE. The gross materialisra which is one of the characteristics of European society in our -day finds expression and gratification in Mormonism. While we have no evidence that this'miserable imposture is gaining any I new adherents in this country, its agents are represented as numerous, active, and succr;ssful'in..npt a few of the coun tries of Europe. Especially are the poorer classes attracted by.their promises of independence as landed proprietors in U ( tah, made to laborers who all their lives have been toiling in hopeless poverty. The dense .ignorance which prevails among the masses of Eurbpean society is favora ble to these impostors, w lose stories of the reve lation on gold plates, an J whose claims to mi raculous power are greedily swallowed by the crowd. The sensual are .taught to expect a Mo hammedan Paradise prepared for them in Utah, where their favorite vices will be encouraged as a religious obligation. . h t , - Recent articles in foreign periodicals show that the delusion is rapidly spreading in Wales,.- Denmark and Norway. The London Spectator contains an account of the operations of the Mor mon agents in the Principality, from which we learn that they are laboring with great secrecy and success, especially; among the poorer popula tion, The book of'Mormon has-been translated into the Welsh finds ready accept ance among the poor and-ignorant people of the hills. The women young and old adopt Moxmo nism greedily. The Mormon teachers work in the dark. Nearly all their-great gatherings are held at night, audit rarely happens that even the local police, hear of them till they are oyer,— Their baptisms are always eonduetedjby the light of the moon or by torchlight when the night is dark. Up in the hills where the success of these preachers is greater, the meetings are held so secretly that it is almost impossible for a stranger to gain admittance. The writer insists that the growth of the superstition'in ,’Wales is rapid; that as fast as converts are made they are shipped to Utah; that thf ministry of all denominations in Wales underrate the strength of the .move ment; that a . Wesleyani living at Cardiff told him that there were very few Mormons living in the Principality, biit that a few days afterwards alfout eighty men and women—the latter nearly all young, good lookihg, robust girls—left Car diff Station en route for Utah. The correspondent of the “ Christian Work ” for July, writing from Denmark speaks of “ the rapid spread of Mormonism as a symptom of the universal low condition of education in Denmark. In no part of the world does this preposterous system make more progress than here.” About 1000 emigrants for Utah have left Denmark du ring the present year. Whole families go toge ther. In 1862 there were , 3347 .Mormons in Denmark, 600 of whom were priests. On the average, every fifth Mofmen in Denmark is a priest, a circumstance whiek influences the am bition of these uneducated people. 4 Prom Den mark, Mormonism has extended itself to Norway. “In 1862 there were altogether 724 Mormons in Norway, of whom thirty-six emigrated; most of these are residing in the cities of Stananger and Christiansand. There *are also; Mormons in Sweden; last year th«r« were 1202, of whom 276 emigrated. This:absurd doctrine has even penetrated as far as Finmark. At present, how ever, it appears that many of them aire returning from the Salt Lake, and are giving descriptions of the life there which are far from being attrac tive; this must by degress exercise an obstruc tive influence upon the progress of-Mormonism.” In view of these facts, it is clear that our own country has a special,duty before.it as it is in our territory that this pestilential imposture has made its nest; hither it if inviting the degraded poor, the semi-heathen and the besotted sensu alists of Europe. While the evil : is one which may be compassed, itjbehoves us to'subject it to. the social restraints which! are recognized as in separable from the peace and good order of every 1 civilized community, but wliidh are ignored and outraged by these infamous hypocrites. We trust that an early conclusion of our conflict with the’rebels at the south, will place us in a posi tian to command the obedience of this crew to the plainest requirements of decency and.to the, spirit of our Constitution w.hieh Is utterly averse to the establishment of any form of religion by the .State.; ; ■ >i - * ■ SIMPLE TRUST, Dear Editor A pappy illustrationof simple trust in God came under my notice a since and I think it will interest your readers. On that memorable day, July 2nd and before the issue of the great battle of Gettysburg had given us security th’dfc our own homes were not to be come a prey to the spoiler, I was standing at my front door and observed an aged colored woman coming up the street. Knowing that the inva ders had carried off many of that unfortunate class, both from our state and also, from Mary land, I had felt much solicitude for the safety of our colored people, in case the rebels should succeed in reaching Philadelphia. So, as this poor woman approached me I inquired, “ How do your people feel under this great excitement?" “Oh," she replied, in a'fongff the firmest con fidence, “We do .not'feel much disturbed and lifting her eyes and hands- upward,- “ We have a,'Captain up there that never lost a battle J” Annual Announcement and Catalogue of Union Female Seminary, Xenia, Ohio. Rev. J. Ikin, D. D., Rev. G. R. McMillan, Princi pals. 1 Whole number of pupils 103. PBOOLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT. A BAY OF THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER. *^3^-? HIKGTOIr! 'Ddy —By the President of the Uni tea (states of America: It has pleased Almighty God to hearken to the Sup plications and prayers of an afflicted people, and to vouchsafe to the Army and Navy of the. United States victories on land and on the sea so signal and so effec tlve-®.s to furnish reasonable grounds for augmented confidence that the union of these States will be sus tained, their Constitution preserved, and peace and prosperity’permanently restored. But these victories have been achieved riot without sacrifices of life, limb, health and liberty incurred by brayej loyal and patriotic citizens. Domestic afflic tions m every part of the country follow in the ttain of these fearlul bereavements. It is meet and right to recognize and eonfess thepresence of the Almighty bather, and the power of pis hand equally in these triumphs and these sorrows. therefore, be it known, that I do set apart Thursday, the Sixth day of August next, to be ob served as a day for National Thanksgiving, Praise and Prayer, and I invite the people of the United States to assemble on that occasion in their customary places of worship, and in the forms approved by their own conscience, and render the homage due to the Divine Majesty for the wonderful things he has done m the nation’s behalf, and invoke the influence of His Holy Spirit to subdue the anger which has produced and so long maintained a needless and cruel rebellion; to change the hearts of the insurgents; to guide the .counsels of the Government with wisdom adequate to so great a national emergency, and to visit with ten der eaxe and consolation throughout the length and breadth of our land, all those who through the vicis situdes of marches, voyages, battles and sieges, have been brought to suffer in mind, body, or estate; and finally to lead the whole nation, through the paths of repentance and submission to the Divine will, back to the perfect enjoyment of union and fraternal peace. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this the 15th day of July, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, of the Independence, of the 'United States of America the eighty-seventh. [l.s.] Abraham Lincoln*. Wm. H. Sewarb, Secretary of State. lEOH OUB EOCHESTEE COBEESPONDENT, Rochester, July 17,1863, COMMENCEMENT AT HAMILTON COLLEGE. Dear Editor —-Yesterday was a high day in Clinton, the beautiful seat of Hamilton. College. We do not mean in the sense in; which they are ; -having high days in poor, distracted New York; but a day of reason, of peace, of social sympa thies and intellectual enjoyment. The nearest approach to anything like a mob which wc saw was the crowd of young ladies pressing into the church,- each apparently eager to appreciate and , enjoy as much as possible the feast of -reason prepared for the day. The only procession was that of the; Doctors of Divinity and other worth ies as they moved with peaceful tread from the renowned “ Clinton Hotel,” around the little patch of green called “the square,” to the “ stone church.” All this passed off without any disturbance or harm. But we must not confine our observations to one day’s exercises. It has been a week of fes tivities. First; eame the Baccalaureate of the President, on tW Sabbath; his “fifth annual sermon before tbe graduating class.” This was good, of course. That is the -kind of sermons ’ the President ikaecustomed to preach. Preaching is his forte. In the pulpit he shines. And we learned incidentally that the church in Clinton are in no special haste to secure a pastor, as they are now enjoying the most acceptable ministra tions of President Fisher from Sabbath to Sab bath as their stated supply. > After the Baccalaureate, next came an address on Sunday: evening before tbe Society of Chris tian Research, by Rev, C. H. A. Bulkley, of Brooklyn. And on Monday prize declamations * by members of the three lower classes. On Tuesday the .annual convention of - the Sigma Phi Fraternity; Hon. Charles-B. Sedgwick, of . Syracuse, being the orator; and Rev. Edward Hopper, of New York,-the poet of the occasion.. On Wednesday, the annual meeting of the Soci ety of the Alumni, Rev. James Eells, D.D., of Brooklyn, orator; and John C. Dong, of West field, poet. The oration, of I)r. Eells is spoken of m the highest terms of praise by chose who heard it. But one of 1 the most interesting portions of this part of the exercises of commencement week, is the reading of the We subjoin the following■ abstract: Friur honorary alumni have died daring the -past year; viz: Rev. Benjamin J. Wallace, D. D. a graduate of West Point; Rey. Richard R. Kirk, of Adams; Gen. OrmsbyM. Mitchell, LL. D. also a, graduate of West Point; and Hon. William S. Bii&opi'bf Rochester.' . Hon. S. Newton Dexter, a member of the board of trustees, also ,died during the year. _ , • Class 0f'1862. —Augustus U. Bradbury, lieutenant in the 128th regiment N. T. V-; died at St- James Hospital, New Orleans, Feb. 25, 1863 of typhoid lever. „ - Class of 1857. —Rev. Henry M. Hurd; died March 2, 1863, at Mendon. Class of 1852. Henry B. Barton, lawyer of Alabama; died in a hospital in Richmond March 5, 1863, whither he was sent from Fredericksburg, where he was serving in the rebel army. ! Class of 1845.—Lewis H. D. Crane, lawyer in Wisconsin, lieutenant colonel of the Third .Wiscon sin Volunteers ;'killed August 8,1862, at the battle of Cedar Mountain. ' • Class of 1840. Gold T. Curtis,: lawyer in Minne sota, captain in the Fifth Minnesota "Volunteers; died at St Louis, July 24, 1862. Class qf 1826.—Henry G- : Cotton, lawyer and county judge of La Salle county, HI.; died at Otta wa, Dec. 7, 1862;. Class of 1824.-—-Rev, Leyerett Hull, .agent for American Board for Foreign Missions; died San dusky, 0., Sep. 3, 1862. ; ’ Classjjf 1816.—Rev. Edward Robinson, D. D. LL. I)., the distinguished oriental scholar and author; died Dec. 17i 1862. . y The following were the officers of the Society qf the Alumni, elected for the ensuing year : Presideht—Franklin H. Head, Esq., Kenosha, Wisconsin. ■" 1 - ' : Vice Presidents—Hon. O. S.; Williams,: Clinton; Prof. T. W. Dwight. LL. D.,. New York: Rev. W. E. Knox, Rome. ' Executive Committee—Prof. Anson J. Upson, Rev. David A. Holbrook, Rev. Charles Jerome, Rev. Charles E. Knox. Prof. Henry P. Bristol, Hon. Henry M. Burchard, Dr. John C. Gallup, , William L. Carthers EsqK, Ed ward Curran, Esq. Corresponding Secretary—Rev. 1 A. D. Gridley Recording Secretary and Necrologist—Profi Ed ward North. , „ , Treasurer—Joseph s.,Avery. Esq. Orator —Hon. Charles P. Kirland of New York city, class of 1816. Poet—Prof. Edward North, class of 1841. " Wednesday evening was devoted to the “Re union of the Alumni and Friends of the College.” A large assemblage was gathered in .the Congre gational C hureh. Prof. T. W. Dwight, LL. D. the able and accomplished Professor of the Law School in New York gracefully presided on the occasion. The meeting was opene'd with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Gridley, of Waterloo; after which the chairman read in substance the follow ing resolution : “ Resolved, That we are not ashamed of the fact that one tenth of all the Alumni of Hamil ton College, have enlisted in the armies of their country to put down'the slave-holders rebel lion,” E. B. H. This gave to almost the entire- meeting a pa triotic turn, and excited the liveliest interest in all the exercises. 1 A PROCLAMATION. NECROLOGY FOR THE YEAR. After reading the resolution, the chairman, in a few graceful words, introduced the great mat ters of our country to the attention of the audi ence, and then said he should call for “ Minute men,” and five minute speeches. Rev. Dr. Wfe ner, of Lockport, was the first called out. When he arose, all expected, of course, that something would he said; hut what was coming, it would have been peculiarly difficult to guess. He knew bA why lie was called upon. He had been trying to imagine. But some philosopher had said,: that a man must have one at least of two things to get on in this world, brains, or beauty. . And in-as-mueh as he knew it was not for his brains he was called out to speak, he concluded it must be for the other thing. Those who ' have ever looked on the peculiar physiognomy of this truly able and witty divine, will not wonder that the audience were at once convulsed with laughter. Indeed, although be soon gave a more serious turn to his remarks, and made an able and excellent address upon the momentous interest of the hour, it was exceed ingly difficult for many of his hearers to forget the inimitable drollery of his opening words. The inward laugh often mastered the more serious thoughts. After Dr. Wlsner, Rev. C. P. Bush, Rev. Dr. Eells, Rev. Dr. Boardman, and others, were, successively called upon, and made short speech?, es; and so the evening passed pleasantly away. One speaker however, deserves more particular, mention. He was not a man of words alone, but deeds. There he stood,; and uttered his earnest sensible thoughts in a cam and unim passioned manner; but a loose coat sleeve minus an arm, dangling from his left shoulder,’ spoke more eloquently than his lips. He was one of Hamilton ? s sons, (Oapt. Durkee, of the sth Oneida,) who had met the enemy face to face, and returned with honorable scars upon him. And in this connection we learned that np less than forty of the students in actual attendance at this institution, have enlisted in, the Union armies; and it is known that as many morehave been prevented from entering her classic halls; because they regarded the suppression of this gigantic- rebellion as a first duty. Out of the Senior class, which has just graduated, four have fallen. One was shot at Fredericksburg; one killed more recently at Gettysburg ;one at Golds boro, N.C.; and one died at Norfolk, Ya. A pleasant episode to this meeting of the Alumni was the announcement: that Franklin S. Head, '-Esq., of Kenosha, Wis., has given five hundred dollars as a prize fund, tie interest to be given every year to the member of the Gra duating class who shall produce the. best oration upon the life and character of Alexander Hamil ton, the soldier and statesmen of the'Revolution, Mr. Head is a graduate of the class of 1856; a. prosperous man, who thus testifies his love and respect for Alma Mater. Thursday was devoted to the exercises of the Commencement proper. Twenty young men of the Graduating class pronounced orations. The speaking was good; some of it very fine. Two candidates for the Masters degree. also'gave ad dresses; both very good. Of course, among so many speakers, there were great diversities of gifts, hut there were some genuine orators there in embryo. ' • The following axe the names of the Gradua ting class: - : Samuel H. Adams, Lowell; Edward W. Avery, Clinton; Linus P. Bissell, Clinton; Horace P. Y. Bogue. Syracuse ; Harvey H.Butterwortb, Pulaski; Rees Davis, South Warren, Pa.‘; Charles E-i Daven-: port, Clinton; Henry M. Dodd,. Alexander ; Peter Q. Eckerson, Seneca Falls p Charles Everett, Clinton; Charles*M.'Foster, StOekbridge ; Austin K. Hoyt, LaFayette; Dwight M. Lee, Binghamton; George M. Loomis, Oneida; Charleso. Ransom, Wilson; George W.Rossman, Ancram; Jonathan- S. Slie, Rochester; Augustus B- Southwiok, Wa terville; Willi am H. Teel; Hoboken, N.J.:’ John J. Tunnidiff, Penn Yan: Charles Van Norden> N. Y. Tiieron L. Waldon, Prattsburg. Members of the Glass of 1863 who are now in the Army of the Union, or who have died for their Country: ~ Myron Adams, Jr., 126th Reg’t. N. Y. S, V ♦William K. Bacon, Adjfc. 26th Beg’fc N. Y. S. V;: Charles A. Butts, Capt. 121st Reg’t. N. Y. S. V.f fE. P-Cook, Sergt,Maj. 126th Reg’t} N. Y. S.' V.; C- K. Button, Ist Lieut. 146th Reg’t, If. Y. S. Yri. Ab’m. H. Hamblin, 2d Lieut. 3rd N. Y. Artillery. IN. B. Hinckley, Sergt. 117th Reg’t. Ni Y. S., Vi; Charles. Mi Holton, Lieut. 7th Michigan Cavalry.: S. G. Hopkins, Sergt. 160th Beg’t. N. Y. S. V.; Hiram H. Kellogg, 86th Reg’t. Illinois Y.: W. N. Page, Ist Lieut. 11th N. Y, S. Cavalry.: G. W. Sheldon. Sergt. 126th N. Y. S. Y. llßbt. Turner, Rocket Batt’n N. Y. S.Volunteers; Ed. H. 'Wardwell; 2nd Lieut. 24th N. Y. Artillery. Six of those who are- absent serving their country, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, ex-gratia, viz: Adams, Butts, Hamblin, Hop kins, Page, Sheldon and Wardwejl. The following Honorary degrees were also conferred: . . LL.B.—Professor James Hall, Albany; Hon. Charles B. Sedgwick, Syracuse. D.D.—Rev. Azariah Eldridge, Detroit; Rev. EdWard D. Morris, Columbus, Ohio; Rev. John J. Brandagea, Utica; Rev, D&vidTorrey, Ithaca. AM.—Thomas L. James, New York ; Horace M. Paine, Clinton; Andrew Sherinan, Chicago ; Prof. Edward W. Blydeh, Monrovia, Liberia. A.B.—Prank B. Arnold, Unadilla. ' ; ! An honorable list, indeed ; especially those D.D.’s; an. honorable institution; a pleasant commencement. May'her annual gatherings be only increasingly pleasant and propitious,;so long as streams do run or grass shall grow. Great improvements have been made in- this institu tion in the last five years; the list of her stu dents has greatly increased; her prospects were never brighter; her power of usefulness never greater. Genesee. ‘ ♦ Killed at Fredericksburg, Va.,. Dee. 13, 1862. f Killed at Gettysburg,; Penna., July 3, 1863. j Killed at Goldsboro, N.C., Dee. 16, 1862. S Died at Norfolk, Va., July 10,1863. (For thet American Presbyterian.) : THE TREE OP GRATITUDE, BT MRS. EMILY B. HOWARD, W e have two dear friends; aye friends most true, And a neat little garden have we;. Arid one wintry day,- these angel friends came; ,r ,< And in it they planted a tree. : That it groweth so green, and blossometh fair, 'j ; That its fruits ail golden he, ‘ f !' J ! We ot?e feo the teaser aad vigilant care * - That watcheth our evergreen tree. - For every day of every year, , ' r Wiiate’er the weather may be; r These very dear friends to our garden come, And water the evergreen tree.; Heice, we'fear not the tempest nor Hghtning shock- For no blast, however rude; • ’ ’ May blight the blossom, nor blast the fruit, ■ ’ Of our tree of gratitude. Nothing but spiritual life and power Trill evet adorn Presbyterian worship* ? n Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-9. By Frances Anne Kemble, This is a hook of facts on slavery, emanating from a source which puts their truthfulness be yond doubt. They.are the unpretending narra tives of an eye-witness, written in familiar inter course with an intimate friend. Without adorn ment, without,attempt at pathos, without plot, they are yet amongftbe most thrilling and exci ting productions upon the subject of American slavery extant. They are well adapted to kindle the honest indignation’of every Christian and humane reader, and. must do great good in Eng land, where they are published simultaneously, with the American issue. They are well adapted to be read in connection with “ Yiee-President Stephens' celebrated declaration, ■ which Mrs. Kemble has sagaciously placed on thetftlc-page of the work: “ This stone, (slavery) which was re jected by the first builders, is become the chief stone of the corner in our new edifice.” Miserable as isthe condition of the slaves, the* writer regards their owners as far worse off.. She says: I used to pity the slaves and I do pity them with all my -soul; but oh dear l ohi dear! their case is a bed of roses to that of their owners, and I would go cheerfully to the- block, in Charleston, to-morrow to-be purchased, if my only option was to go thither, as- a purchaser. N. Y., Harper & Bros. For Pale by J. B~ Lippincott & Co. 12mo>pp-337. Memoir of the Ltfranb Character of The odore Frelinghuysen, by Talbot W. Cham bers, a minister of the Collegiate Church (Reformed Dutch), New York. This is a satisfactory account of the- leading events and characteristics of the-life-of per haps the best and purest public man America has, seen, since the days' of Washington- Such a life should not be lest-. Its influence indeed is still felt working iu manifold channels, but tle portraiture of the man himself should’ he made -familiar to the entire American people. The chapter on his personal efforts to save souls, re veals Mr. Frelinghuysen in a hew attitude to most of those acquainted with him only asa pub lic man, and shows how real and intense was his. interest in the spiritual welfare of bis fellow-men . and the progress of the gospel. New York, Harper & Brest PMlada.; J. B- Lippincott & Co. 12mo. pp. 289, with index. ‘ Robert the Cabin-Boy, by H. W. P., author of “ Mary AWen,” “ Diek Cutler,”’ etc. This is a story of sailor life,, exhibiting no Kttle skill in authorship, with many strokes of tender and graceful pathos, illustrating the op portunities afforded in- a- sailor’s life for doing: ■good, and inculcating home virtues and home attachments. 16uro. pp. 227. New York, M- W. Dodd. Philada. W. B. Evans, 1334 Chest nut Street.' “Who- Breaks Pays.” YoL i ofF. A. Ley-, poldt’s Foreign Library, 1323 Chestnut St. MAGAZINES, PAMPHLETS, ETC- The' Boston Review for July contains t The Church of God, its origin and constitution-; Me dieval -, Worship; Stanley’s-Eastern and Jewish Churches; Game Fish of the North; JohaCal vin ; The Church of England ; Short Sermons-; Literary Notices; the Round Tablet Boston* John M. Whittemore & Co. ■ The American Publisher’s Cirenlaa-, July J, 1868, Geo. W. Childs, Publisher, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Harper’s New M&nthly fox July, contains t Scenes in the war of 1812, (Illustrated;), at* American Family in Germany,. (Illustrated ;)i Margaret Freyer’s Heart; Easter Flowers. ; Rosemary (concluded ;) Forward and Back ;■ Mr. Blazay’s Experience; Remokt, by the author of Adafe Bede, (Illustrated ;) the Small House atr AHiagton, (Illustrated;) England in the Good Old times ;, the Eosetta Stone; Goal and Pe troleum : why Aunt ? Dolly never married; Sigjs. Language ; Monthly Record; Easy Chair ; Drawer; Age of Ison, Illustratiens; The Fash ions. New i¥ork, Harper & Bro&, Phila.*L JA JLippiaeott & €s. . . ®f. -fit tflmte* Presftjteria*. Ordmatvon.— Mr. SenecaJM. Keeler, late of Auburn Seminary, was ordained to the work of the Gogpel ministry, and installed over the Church at Guilford Centre by the Presbytery of Chenango, July Bth, 1868, Sermon by Rev. J. S. PattingeH, of Walton, N. ¥. : ; Gift to Rev. Dr. Seacock. —Several of the friends of Dr. Heaeock, now absent on 1 dnty as chaplain of the 74th, have purchased and for warded to him a fine horse—a gift expressive of tho. high, esteem in which the Doctor is held in this.city. —Buffalo Advoeatij[July 9. Tlie'Congregation of diO WeMmmk&r Church. .South Brooklyn, have furnished "renewed testi mony of their love for their pastor, Eev. H. S. Carpenter, by tendering him a free .trip to Eu rope, including all incidental expenses, and voted unanimously to grant a furlough for threemonths. ' Brooklyn, i¥; Y, —The Congregational Church in Brooklyn, ‘lately under the charge of Eev. Rufus W. Clark, and the Presbyterian Church pf the same city, under the charge of Rev. H. S. Carpenter, are to be united, under the name of the Cartoll Hill Congregatiomd Church, taking the partner, but becoming a'.Congregational organi- - * ■, : , Rev. A. S. Pdst, tifa closing his labors with the Church of fiake’ Forest, 111., was presented by his friends with $125, to assist him ini pur chasing a library. \ ‘ • • ; . Presby^rtett. Tie j Rasterfy Reformed Presbytery of Ireland ntel at Belfast on the 16th inst, for the installa tion of the Rev. John Bole, from the General Synod of the reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, to the pastorale of thif Reformed Presbyterian congregation of Linen :! Hall-street. n a large 1 number of the members of ffie congregatiou, along with their pastor, and the pf Presbytery, dined together. Dr. Beck occupied the chair. The foliowing senti ments were proposed—yiz : “ The Eastern Re formed Presbyterian Synod in Ireland,” re sponded to in an appropriate and happy manner by the Rev. William Close; “The Reformed Presbyterian Church, the Church of our Fathers,” ■responded to by the Rev; John McDermid; “The , Reformed Presbyterian Church of North Ameri- JULY 23.
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