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GENESEE EVANGELIST.
PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 10, 1863,
JOHN W. HEARS,
Subscribers who are in arrears and
liable to 50 cents additional charge on their
bills, are notified that this charge will be re
mitted to such as pay an additional year, in ad
vance of the present. '
another bereavement.
To the list of bereavements experienced in
the immediate circle of our ministerial acquain
tance given in our last, we have now to add the
death of a younger brother of Rev. Dr. Darling;
Mr. Thomas S. Darling, who died on or about
the 81st. Mr. Darling was a well known citizen
of Philadelphia, an ; active and loyal supporter
of the administration, an interesting, affable and
attractive companion, whom we have known
from'our early school days; at a comparatively
early age he has been called away, prepared
we trust for a higher sphere of useliilness here
after.
REV. GEO, A. HOWARD
The Publication Committee have done well
in securing the services of Rev. Geo. A. How
ard, of Catskill, td assist in raising the $50,000
fund, Mr. Howard is a true Christian gentle
man, of most winning and affable address,
whose appearance and manners are themselves
a commendation of the cause he undertakes.
To his intelligence and education, he
adds the experience of a dozen or more years
in the pastoral office over the same charge. He
has prepared himself for this special work by
the zeal and success with which he has culti
vated the narrower field of his church and
Presbytery, He which is faithful in little is
faithfhl in much. Mr. Howard is not dismissed
from his charge, but is only temporarily re
leased for the object named. We bespeak for
him a cordial and favorable reception ior the
important cause which he represents, and for
his own sake. ■
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us the largest number of new subscribers over
twenty, we offer not only the cash premium
as above stated; but in addition, a library of well
selected, large-sized, recent Sabbath-School books
of 100 volumes. <*
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second best list, the cash premium and a library
of similar volumes, 50 in number.
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OUR SCHOOL LIST.
Our readers have no doubt observed the list
of school advertisements in another part of the
paper. We shall be .doing a favor to parents
and others seeking good schools for their chil
dren, by calling attention to these notices.
POE GIRLS AND YOUNG LADIES.
Miss Eliza W. Smith’s school at 1210
Spruce St., opens next Monday, Highly re
commended by Dr. Brainerd .(her pastor) and'
others.
Spring Garden Institute, 608 & 611 goring
Garden St. Gilbert Combs, principal Of long
stand ing and established reputation. Can per
sonally recommend it. Opened Monday of this
i week.
Miss Robb, 816 South Eleventh St.
The Misses Tatem, 712 Pine St
ite institution.
.Among Boarding Schools, we may speak of
the Houghton Seminary, Clinton, N. Y., the
scene last winter and spring of a precious revi
val. Recommended highly by President Fish
er of Hamilton College and other prominent
clergymen of Western New York.
Rev; Dr. Smith’s Philada. Collegiate Insti
tute, 1530 Arch St, opens next Monday. A
first elas3 institute; thorough and complete.
Union Female Seminary, Xenia, Ohio, Rev.
J. B. McMillan. Opened last Monday. A tho
rough musical, scientific and classical education
may he obtained here.
Young Ladies’ Institute, Wilmington, Del;
Rev. Thos. M. Cann. Number limited to thirty.
The buildings are new and the grounds ample.
Advantages in instruction, health and moral
influences, great. Opened last Monday.
Editor.
B. Kendall’s, at 13th & Locust; a select
school under careful, discriminating training,
and pure and kindly influences. A good play
yard with parallel bars, &c., is attached.
Da. Wm. M. Cornell’s school-on Penn
Square, now open; with a large share of pa
tronage from ministers’ families. Dr. C. also
has a boarding department for young, ladies.
He is an experienced teacher; highly i^pom?,.
.mended in New England and in this city.
Saunders’ Institute in West Philada. is
rapidly advancing towards a collegiate organi
zation. Its corps of teachers embraces accom
plished instructors. Military instruction is
included; now open.
Pennsylvania Military Academy at West
Chester, Col. Theo. Hyatt is sui
generis; —a “West Point,” in competent hands.
Ex-Gov. Pollock is President of.the Board of
Trustees.
Freemodnt Seminary in the beautiful town of
Norristown, John M. Loch principal, is in its
24th year. Opens next Tuesday. :
West Chester Academy, W. F, Wyers
principal, with a corps of eight competent
instructors; three being in the military depart
ment. A new term will soon open.
Family Boarding School for young men and
boys, at Pottstown, 35 miles from this city..
Rev. M. Meigs .principal.
OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN.
After a dispersion more general than usual,
on account of the severe heat of the summer, ■
pastors and congregations are returning to their
homes and resuming their places in the sanctu
ary. The work of the church is about to
recommence in earnest, and the prayerful
solicitude of the pious as to the means, methods ~
and results of the.work, is awakening. While ..
the true follower of Christ is at his Master’s
business in season and out of season, he is not
indifferent to tbe various phases of the seasons, ’
and rejoices to witness the return of more
favorable circumstances for joint and simulta
neous action on the part of the people of Christ
While an army may not sink into inactivity in
the intervals of its active campaigns, and while
many opportunities for detached exploits are
furnished to companies and regiments and ;
sometimes to individual soldiers'during the
general quietude of the maim body, yet every
true soldier feels a new, transcendent interest
as the time draws near to set the entire force in ;
motion,, and to engage in the grander and more
decisive struggles of the war. So in a measure,
do the soldiers of the cross view the return of
:
the season more adapted to efforts ior the/
extension of Christ’s kingdom.
Many questions, 1 many mingled hopes and
fears, rise in our breasts as we stand on the
verge of this renewal of active effort. Convic
tions of personal unfitness in the, lack qf zeal
and devotedness and spirituality, and remem
brances of past failures, join with humble hope
of dtvine forgiveness and aid in the future.
Our own thoughts have reverted for a moment .
to the
PECULIAR DIFFICULTIES AND EVILS TO BE OVER-
These are to be found(l) in the great worldly
excitements of the times. Not simply the war
for our national existence, with its exciting
fluctuations and possibility of foreign complica
tions, but the still more exciting opportunities
of suddenly attaining wealth, the throng of
business engagements, and the prevailing and
increasing interest connected with secular
pursuits and objects through the intervention
of science and successful exploration—these
things call off and divide the attention of the
people and make the work of the faithful pastor,
more difficult. -
2. Unbelief, particularly in the form of objec
tions to the truth and inspiration of the
Scriptures, drawn from recent assertions (for
they are little else) of professed men of science,
is to a considerable degree prevalent and must
be met. One alarming feature of the case is
the perversion of a large body of the ministry
of the hitherto orthodox Church of England to
these views, and the inability or reluctance of
the authorities of that Church to clear'her of.
the offenders and maintain her needfjnilifcity.
Another,is the ready subserviency of the. secular
and ever religious press to the purposes of infidel
ity. Three of the leading quarterlies of Great Bri
tain have more or less openly, endorsed views
at war with the infallibility of the scriptures.
“Good Words,” a very-popular organ of-the
established Church of Scotland, occupies at best,
an equivocal position on these subjects. While
at home, such a respectable paper as the New
York limes has given a critical endorsement to
the speculations of Colenso, and the New
York Indepedent admits regularly to its
columns the lucubrations in prose and verse of
known infidels, who are permitted to express
even their objectionable sentiments in its
columns.
3. The vices of profanity, intemperance and
excessive indulgence in tobacco are largely on
the increase.
These are some of the foes that must be met
in the campaign on which the church is about
to enter. Let us gird on our weapons, let us
not be discouraged at delay, but patiently
enduring let us confidently expect the downfall,
of all tbe Vicksburgs and Charlestons, that a
spirit of rebellion against the divine govern
ment has erected in our way.
THE PAPISTS UT ENGLAND
A case of flagrant interference, by Jesuits,
between parent and child, has recently been
described in the columns of the Times by the
justly offended parent. .Mr. Harrison, the
writer’s sob, a youth of eighteen, having hono
rably completed his preparation at Westminster
A favor-
FOR BOYS AND YOUTH.
§wnia« and <S tnmt ivangdijst.
School, was about to enter Oxford University,
with excellent prospects, when he was induced
to visit a Jesuit establishment, called an Ora
tory, at Brompton. During the visit, which
lasted but a few hours, he was persuaded to re
ceive the rite of Baptism. The presumption
is—though the father knows nothing of it—that
these Jesuits had already interfered with Har
rison at Westminster School. Of course, his
fine prospects for Oxford were destroyed, to the
great disappointment of his father. It was
next proposed to the youth to seek his fortune
in India, but the Oratorians again interfered,
offering him a salary of. £lOO per anumn if he
would east in his lotwith them; and when his fa
ther sent him to the coast, to recruit his health
and to be out of their way, the Father Supe
rior of the Oratorians, Mr Faber, supplied him
with, money. The result was that, at eighteen
and a-half years of age, this boy became a Pos
tulant in the Oratory at Brompton, and; has
continued an inmate of the chapel since 1861.
It has only to be added that Mr. Harrisdn wrote
to Father Faber, earnestly protesting against
the entrance of his son into the Oratory, and
expressing surprise that MrJ Faber should
'countenance so flagrant a breach of the fifth
commandment. Such representations Father
Faber treated with disdain. ;
Mr. Harrison does not seem to have thought
pf< applying to the law for redress. Perhaps
the son was too hopelessly enamoured of his
new associates. . .T V . '
.Recently, a Hindoo father, a heathen, has
succeeded in an application, to the Calcutta
High Court for a writ of habeas corpus, to re- ;
cover the person of his sdn, aged 15, from the
hands qf Lis Christian teachers, Rev. Dr. Duff
and;Rev. L. B. Dey. It was : in evidence that
the boy was not detained against his will, but'
had come freely and was free to go ; and that
his parents and friends had.'hadfree access tb
him, being permitted, to see .him alone.. Never
theless the judge, Sir Mordaunt Wells, gave
the unwilling boy up to his heathen paredts,
saying that "the rights of the missionaries are
as nothing compared with the rights of • a pa
rent.” Dr. Duff and his associates were actu
ally reprimanded for not sending home the
boy! ■ ■ ■ - ■ 1
We put these two cases side by side; our
readers can easily draw such parallels and con
trasts as they are suited to suggest. What
with Romanism and Golensoism and Essayism
flourishing at home, and Protestant missions
frowned upon abroad; the Christian name of
Great Britian is falling under grevious. reproach.
EDUCATION NOTICE.
Ail new applications for assistance from ■ the •
Education Fund of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church, must he made through
the Presbytery, (or its standing Committee oh
Education,) in whose bounds the applicant
holds, his church connection. Applications,
properly certified according to the form' -given
in- the Education Manual, will be placed on
the Register of the Permanent Committee,
and paid according to the rules laid down by
the General Assembly. Tbe Manual will be
furnished to any one desiring it;
Applicants already enrolled must make a re
port in writing to the body recommendingtheih,
as to “their progress, wants and prospects,”
and must forward a renewed recommendation
for the present year, according to the rule
adopted by the last General Assembly. See
Minutes, p. 248.
It is expected that appropriations will be
commenced this year at the rate of one hundred
dollars per annum to theological 1 students, and
eighty dollars to collegiate students, payable
quarterly, about the first of November, January,
March and May, upon the return of favorable
reports from their instructors, according to the
aforementioned rule. / ■ : V
Ministers and churches are reminded of the
necessity of funds to carry on this cause, and
of the recommendation .of ' the General Assem
bly that a contribution for it shall be made an
nually, in every congregation, and forwarded
to J.W. Benedict, Treasurer,l2B Broadway,
N. Y. Where it is more convenient, such con
tributions maybe forwarded to him through
Prof. E. A. Huntington, Auburn, N. Y.,' or
Prof. G. E. Day, Walnut Hills, O.
T. A. Mills,
Gera. Sec. of Ed.
Presb. Booms, N. 7., Sept. 1, 1863.
; PROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRES
PONDENT. ;
A DAY AT LOCKPORT.
Bear Editor ;
A.glance at this place does not indicate war.
As in our other thriving towns,,of which your
correspondent has had occasion to .speak .from
time to time, here are no indications: of wasting
or rapine. No hostile foot has been here—no
Quantrell, to pillage, burn and destroy—but all
is' peace, enterprise, activity and thrift., “The
town was never more prosperous, business never
better,"—the. same story .which we .have heard,
in Albion, in Auburn, and constantly hear and
see in Rochester. And it is not mere inflation;
it is not 'speculation or business swagger.' If
ever thrift seemed to be real, this does. Substan
tial improvements are going forward; blocks of
buildings and manufactories being erected. And'
the amount of daily trade from a small city often
thousand inhabitants, is very large. The appear
ance of business, in tbe streets, in the stores, and
shops, and mills, would do credit to a ‘city twice,
a 3 large.
An immense water power is here created by
the surplus water of the Erie Canal, and this
mal-M it emphatically a manufacturing place.
Here are four or five flouring mills, a cotton ma
nufactory, two woolen mills, a large number of
saw mills, plough factories, machine shops, and
other such establishments. A large building
has recently been erected for the.manufacture of
flaxen goods. Here, also, are large boat yards;
and Lockport has long been famous for its fine
stone quarries; and more recently some persons
have turned their attention to nnraeries and hor
ticulture, even making a business of raising
strawberries. We saw one farm, twenty-five
acres of which were set to strawberry vines, and
the owner, as we were informed, took ss;oop as
the proceeds of this year’s crop. And,, strange
as the idea would have been thirty, years ago,
this perishable fruit, after being picked ripe, lus
cious and ready for the table, finds a' market ita
New York, four hundred and twenty-seven miles
from the place of tlxeir cultivation.
But enough of these delicacies, especially as
strawberries are out of season, and it is yet too
early in the experiment to speak more particu
larly of the flax manufactory. Something fine,
however, is expected, we believe, from this
something to demonstrate the practicability of
using linen fabrics, to a large extent, in place of
the universal cotton. Success attend it.
You will expect me toppeak of the churches.
It is pretty well known, We belieye, that the
First Presbyterian. Church; with its strong, ge-.
nial, loving,* though somewhat eceentric pastor,
is a "power” in this region.' Dr. Wiener has a
large and wealthy congregation, to whom he mi
nisters -with great acceptance. Churches in
dther places have tried to get Him away, but he
still dwells among his own,people; and there, we
trust, he will dwell to a ripe old age. His posi
tion} is One of rmcreahirig power' and usefulness
from year to year. - . / ’ : : ‘
The ; Congregational and other churches seem
alsq tq be .enjoying, a good degree of prosperity.
One peculiarity, however, i.n the church edifices
of this place strikes 'a stranger rather oddly. No
less than five such buildings have been for some
years in an unfinished condition—five churches
without steeples, exee.pt 23 the imagination.sup
plies; them. .It,lookb as though “the funds”
generally gave out 1 at some former time;- Four,
at| least, of these five' chnrehes ' are within it few
rodsof each other, all visible at a glance, and
-each finished up, to the stub, of] a steeple, to be
carried out at some future time, It is not ex
actly a pleasant sight. It even gives the town an
unfinished, not te say an unthrifty, look. It re
minded your correspondent of a facetious remark
of a New England clergyman when looking at a
Universalist meeting-house, whose steeple was in
a like unfinished condition. He said to a friend,
“ They onda intended to have a spire there;
[pointing to heaven] hut found on more mature
. reflection, that they did not own far up that
way.” We trust that these .prosperous times
will enable the, good people of Lockport ere long
to carry out the original design for these five
church edifices. - They will then, at,least, He
more pleasing to look upon.
THE ELDER WISNER.
Here we had the pleasurhiof meeting the ve
nerable Dr. William Wisner, of Ithaca, father of
Dr. Wisner. of . this, place, twice pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, where,; among
his old friends and, admirer's';I’he 1 ’he is spending the
evening of his days; pastor of the
Brick Church of Rochester, where, for-several
years,; in the very prime ofi ,his. strength and
power, he preached the gospel with such a plain
ness, and fervorj and efficiency, as few men; the
most gifted, have been able to achieve. If ever
a minister preached human depravity, man’s to
tal alienation from God by sin, utter helplessness
without grace, and salvation r by the Cross alone;
certainly Dr. Wisner, the elder, used to do it,
when pastor of the Brick Church. That he has
always done it, no one who knows him at all can
doubt.
: And yet he was one of the excinded, minis
ters—^-cnit off in 1837 without trial, for heresy
and irregularity—a man of 'system, of order, of
sobriety, of fervent piety, of great' humility—a
man of wisdom, of strength, faithfalnes, and use
fulness rarely equalled in the chuVeh. But that
great wrong, by which, with-Others, he suffered,
is one of the things of the past; and, it is in no
spirit of .bitterness we refer te it, Better days,
we trust, are coming, and a Better understanding
among those who are essentially one. That there
were some slight irregularities’ in some churches
of this region, it is not necessary to deny. Or,
rather, some individuals, from some churches,
went off into new views of sanctification; but the
churches as such, and the great body of the mi
nistery still remained as firm and sound in the
faith as the churches of any, portion of our land.
Time has'demonstrated the truth of. this asser
tion. They were anchored in the truth, or, they
would not be where they are to-day, strong- stable,
flourishing, and evidently blessed of God, we had
almost said, as few others are.
But, speaking of the elder, Wisner, we are re
minded of one peculiarity of his preaching, which;
is worthy, of a passing notice; it was; indeed,
one grpat secret of his jfower. To him the
claims and offers of the Gospel were-all in the
present tense. They were always matters of .im
mediate importance. Every sermon was a mes
sage from God to his hearers-that demanded im
mediate attention. If it embodied the claims of.
the law, they were of present force.—God re-;
quires immediate submission to his authority .
“My Sou, give me-thine heart”—give it now.
You have ho right to refuse another moment.
If you leave this house withbut.eomplying with
this reasonable requirement; you do it\as a rebel,
defying: infinite authority and provoking infinite:
wrath —you do it at your peril. f
And so, if it were the offers of the gospel that
were the! burden of the discourse, those would
seem to be pressed Home with as much, freshness
of thought, strength of argument, aptness of ill
ustration, and earnestness of: appeal, as though
they had never been presented before, and never
could be again, to. the same hearers.—-“AW is
the accepted, time ; now is the day of salvation.”
So this good man urged the immediate accept
ance, of the Gospel ; so would he plead with fel;
low men, and every time almost as though it was
to be the last ; and so his ministry has been re
markably successful -in winning-souls to Christ.-,
A whole cohort of his own spiritual children;
have already gone before, having died in the
triumphs of that .faith which they learned From,
his glowing lips, and are waiting to welcome their
veneiated.teacher and. leader to the mansions of
the blest, whenever it shall i■■ please the 1 blessed
Saviour, whom he has served and loved so faith
fully, to call him to the mansions above. • .
. ftalk.— Rev. J. H. Morrow, a licentiate who
has been for a time supplying the. pulpit of the
church in Onondaga County, has received and
accepted a unanimous call to settle over the Pres
byterian, Church in Rock port. He is to enter
upon his pastorate about the first of November.
We also learn that the Rev. Job Pierson, of
Victor; has received a call to the Presbyterian
Church of Kalamazoo, Mich. Genesee,
CHAPLAIN STEWART’S LETTER.
( White Sulphur Springs, Fauquier Co., Va.,
I ' f ’. ' September, 1863.
Pear Editor: —“The land through whichwe
have gone to search, is a land that eateth up the
inhabitants thereof.” So reported the spies in
the camp of Israel after their forty days’ journey
through the promised land. Precisely what they
meant by this language may appear a httie in
definite. Something disparaging beyond ques
tion. It may not be uninteresting for your read-,
erstohase a brief report of this Di*ie land—this
Sacred Soil—this Old Dominion—this, to us,
W,eary Land, so many parts of which our army
of the Potomac has been so long and painfully
searching out.
By transposing the language of these cowardly
delegates of Moses, a brief, intelligent, and truth
ful account of this region now occupied by our
army may be given—“ The land through which
we pass is a laud that the inhabitants thereof
have eaten up” Originally this has been a good
fy land. The .lofty peaks and jrangfesfof the Blue
Ridge- are full in view—bekutdfuTvalleys with
alternate hill and dale—grand forests of useful
and ornamental trees—living springs of water
everywhere abound, more by far than was pro
mised to Israel in the goodly lan d—a soil,which ,
geologists might term igneous, very productive;
with quartz, mica schist, gneiss, granite; and iron
stone somewhat profusely scattered over the sur-
added, to all these a genial climate.
Whpn taken possession of by the Anglo-Saxon,;
Its cultivation was undertaken by compulsory ;
and unpaid labor; and ,nowj for ; several genera
tions have these old, worn fields been watered by.
the .tears of.the slave, and these woods and vales,.
filled with his sighing. The results of all this.,
are at present eyident, even to ob - ;i
server. For many years a blight,.physical and
moral, has been spreading; now the, full;ruin is]
-come. , ..Disobedience ;; prompted by avarice,,
throughout the reign of many kings, cheated
Emmanuel’s land of its appointed,Sabbatical rest,
learnings, admonitions, and threateningS '■ being
;qf no.avail; the Lord at length, packed, off the
miserable remnant to far off Ba%lon—“ after
which, says the prqpkct, the land had her rest
seventy years." : This land is now- getting; her '
rest ;so -long denied. The country does not
really 1: ear a, desolate and barren appearance.; -
Old land marks by fields, fences, farms and ,
houses in jniany places have certainly pretty much
disappeared. Wooden fences within;-army
bounds are not. Instead of following the old
Virginia roads, army trains often choose; more
direct courses, making broad, beaten ways
through fields, meadows, gardens and orchards.
Some .sections through which we have- passed, as
already written, are overgrown with blackberry
bushes: in other places with weeds : but the
section we now occupy is .covered with a fine
growth of Timothy, Clover, and Blue grass, pre, R
seating altogether a, rather pleasing appearance;;
and affording abundant pasturage for the many :
thousand horses and mules connected with the '
army, and also for the droves of beef cattle sent ~
on to feed it.. ~ • - ! ;
WARRENTON:
This place, with its'present condition and eon- !
nectivesj is no doubt a fair sample of all the large
towns in Eastern Virginia. It is the seat of
Justice for Parquier County, and located beauti
fully on the summit of an elevated ridge of land-
Before the war it must have been'a place of
very considerable attractions. The principal
street consists of fine old Virginia - mansions,
detached from each other, with pleasant grass
plots in front, and, - .what is not common in this
region, both-sides of the streets lined with fine ,
old shade frees. In Dixie estimation,*a wealthy, ‘
refined, exceedingly aristocratic^—thorough I F, F'
V. place—secesfi to the core. , ; ■
Riding through this place;-a short time Since,
I chanced to meet an intelligent looking old
gentleman, a- rebel resident, and felt constrained
to accost him and if possible have a free and
: friendly conversation. The military salute was
accordingly given and by him in a seeming >
manner returned. My connection with the army
was stated, accompanied by a request that
leaving out for the present Union and Confeder
ate wars and revolutions, we would have a social’
chat about Warrenton and its conditions past
and present. “No objections at all,” was his
reply, “dismount!” Seated on the edge of the 1
side walk' under the shade of a‘ large elm wo had
together a long and free communion. From’
this, more real insight was'obtained with’ respect
to the actual condition of things—the thorough
and entire revolution which has already taken
place—the breaking up and scattering of all the
old elements of Southern society, than could
otherwise have been gained by long personal
observation.
My first question was about the Churches.
“ We had; he said, pointing to the building of
each as named: Presbyterian, Baptist, Metho
dist, 'Episcopal and Catholic, all respectable
congregations; All preaching stopped many '
months ago—the ministers are starred out
gone; the congregations wholly shattered, and '
the houses of worship" taken for hospitals, guard
houses or barracks.” ; -
: “ How do the remaining inhabitants continue
to live —how do they Obtain food or anything
with which to buy?” “Look,” be' Continued,
“at the different classes of houses. As you
observe nearly every good house is inhabited
the wife, children; family are here; but the men
are gone into the Confederate army, in some
way connected with the government, or fled
away at your late approach—very many never
to return, for many are already dead 5 .
“ The inferior houses and negro quartersjare
nearly all empty. There is not a store, grocery,'
mechanic-shop, or any place of business open in
and around Warren ton. The store-keepers, gro
cers, 5 mechSnici, and'laborers had their business
all broken up by the war; and are 1 driven away,'
the men into the Southern army, and their
families, the Lord knows Where, I do hot. ' As
to the negroes, you know perhaps better where
they are gbue than I could tell ' you. This bet
ter class of families, the remnants of which are'
still here,‘nearly every one owns or did own a
farm in the adjacent country. Prom these they
have contrived to live till the coming of your
army a few. weeks since'; now, however, every
resource : seems taken; away. P have 'a farm' he •
said, pointing to a place about a mile' distant,
till lately I managed to keep a few slaves and do
a little farming. When your army camped
here the last of July, I had four wbrk oxen,
three colts-—horses all pressed into the Southern
army—so many cows, sheep', ! pigs, and poultry,
with forty acres of corn coming into ear; now
there ! ib not iislave, a domestic animal, 1 a fowl,
or an ear of corn left—all taken by your sol
diers-—and this is the condition of all the
other families here: So long as the Union army •
remain's here we may contrive to live; tut when
it is away T have no conception how the people,
who will be left, can obtain food -to sustain life
during the coming winter.” With thanks to my
old Secesh friend for oiir freedom in converse
and hopes expressed for the dawning of better
times upon him and his, we parted.
What a picture of complete and desolate ruin,
and all sadly, sternly true. Yet Northern Cop.
perheads ignorantly or perhaps maliciousiy con-.
tinue to prate about things being, allowed to,go'
on as they were before the war; so soon as It
can be stopped. Things are ■ not here to start
off with as they were, though the Northern
traitors, had the war stop to-morrow. . All
changed or fast changing —turned upside down
—a mighty revolution going on—old things
passing-away, new and better destinies be
ing iu reserve for this goodly land. In the
Lord's good Providence our Northern armies
will be kept in the South long enough Co finish
the great work so auspiciously begun—to break
every yoke; break up and scatter all the old ele
ments of Southern society; remodel their State
governments ; • compel them to keep the peace ;
and thus re-establish Our glbfious UniOn on a
new, firm, add lasting basis. It may require
several-years longer• to aecomplish this. ! ‘ Don’t
be impitient, p dear friends at home.* Matters
are moving onfast enough—quite as fast as the
public 1 knowledge, ' sentiment, ••and sympathies,
both • North and South, ean be moulded into
shape'and conformity with the new arid-better
order "of things. ■ ;i A. M. Stewart. 1
Down in A-Mine: or, Burtei) Alive. By the
Author oT“ The Story of a Pocket-Jfible. ’ ’ Pub
lished by the American Tract Society, Boston,
]Bmo., pp. 188. Illustrated. For salebyJohri
Gv Broughton,’ 13 Bible House, N. Y. ■ ;
This little volume, reprinted from the Reli
gious-Tract Society of London; is understood
to contain true histories of actual events: 1 It
will convey some knowledge of the occupations
and dangers of the -mining classes of- England ;
while it presents, in a simple -and -affecting
manner, 1 the valne 1 of religion in times' of tirou
ble, arid the importance of a due preparation for
eternity; < ‘ i < ; i
PdßTr-NitiTH Annual 'Bepob¥ bf the 1 American"
•‘Tract, Society; - :; Presented" at Boston,; MayU7th i
1863. Published by the American Tract Society,
28 Corn Hill, Boston. ‘ ‘
This is a valuable summary of a year of ear
nest and efficient labor inan important depart
ment of Christian effprt.; Alts' greati|feature is
the work of evangelization done in our camps
and hospitals by the renowned Mr,. Alyord.
His ! jouimal is asJlirOlirig' a nairative‘ itirii
be. There is rich reading between the pages
of this diy-lobkirig report. Do Chnstiriris re
alize what a vast and promising field for the.
distribution of religious literature the army j
sente ? Assuredly not, when the whole amount
specifically donated for the arrriy through this
noble charity is reported at but $8,231.08 in ■&
year. Over $24,000 were actually appropri
ated.., . ..... , .r. • V
A Letter to an English Friend, on the
Americanar. -An anonymous, ably-written-;
pamphlet;, Published by A.D.F. -Randolph,!
683 Broadway,,N. Y.,' > -
The London Quarterly, (L. Scott A Co;;
N. Y., ‘W. B. Zieber, 106 & Third'Si, Pbilai;) 5
for July, 1863; contains : The Resources arid
Future of Austria; Natural Hlstory-of the Bi
ble— ; Glacial Theories; Our' Colo-'
nial System—againstcasting loose the colonies
from Great Britain; Washington''lrving
genial arid kindly; Moderri Spiritualism; Sri
ered:Trees and ‘Flowers; -'Boba.di ! Rbma-Aite- ;
view of a Book by a SoUj bf Judge Stdry;Tlje
Nile, Speke and Grant. . / 'i h *
It is a source of great pain to observe "the
defection of the leading British periodicals from'
sound views of inspir'aifciori.' Here is the Aon-'
dori Quarterly coolly surrendering the cl aims'of
Scripture writers to accuracy in’ matters of na
tural science. “It is beyond question,'”says
the'writer of the article on “ The Nataralilis
tory of the Bible,” “that the Biblical notices of
animals are not always in strict harmony with
zoological facts.” In the absence of the neces
sary facts to guide to a* strictly scientific deci
sion, such assertions savor of a degree of dog
matism which is presumptuous. We regret
this the more as the same article contains skil
ful and inaiily vindications of the accnracy of
the'Bible descriptions in several .contested
cases. •• ;;
ftaw irf w ftewte.
Presbyterian.
The Boy. George A Howard/ Pastor <T r the
Presbyterian Church/ at Gattskill/N.’Y., bOO.re
ceived leave of abkence from his congregation to
enter upon alspecial temporary agency, to secure for
the Presbyterian;Publication Committee, the sum of
$50,000, which it was resolved by the.last General •
Assembly, should be raised, tp place the committee,
in a position to do its proper work in'producing and
distributing a religious and denominational liters
ture. He enters upon'his work. On the 15th ofthe,
present month. •
% Halsey of Nefr York City, rnling elder in one
of the churches, and a well known citizen, died at his
residence in Orange, N. J, Augt, ! 27. The Evange
list says: He retired at his usual honr in the even
ing, apparently in ’ no worse health than common,
and was;shortly after taken with hemorrhage; of athe
lungs, and expired almost immediately. Mr. Halsey
has been connected .with the .Bank of New York for
forty-seven years, and has filled the positions of clerk,
teller, cashier, and president of the institution, per
forming his duties in each tq the ,utmost satisfaction
arid commanding the respect' and esteem of all wild
knew him for his ability as a bank officer, and the
virtues which? adorned his life.' His kindly disposition
has won the attachment, while his consistent Chris
tian; character cemmanded the respect .of all- who
knew him. He served the church with a clear head
and ready, heart, notwithstanding his hands were full
of large business concerns.,. pte was a Riding Elder,
first in tie Pearl Street Presbyterian cinreh, and
afterwards in the Central Church. He was also trea
surer of the Union Theoibgickl Seminary, and of the
Church Erection Committee. • <
w. Howard, a licentiate of the Second
Presbytery Of New "York, wks, after custeimary ex
amination, ordained and installed pastor# the Pirst
Presbyterian Church in Aurora, on Tuesday last, the
25th ult; Dr. Boardman. of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Auburn; preached from 1 Tim. iii. 1, “The
Privileges of the Christian Minister.” Dr. J. B. Con
difo of Auburn Seminary, delivered .the charge to the
pastor; the Rev. W, S. Franklin the Charge to the.
people. The Ordination .Prayer was offered by Rev.,
John Tompkins, of Mardellus. " "
Hyde Park, Pa.-—The. new Presbyterian. church
of Hyde Park, Pa., was dedicated op thel3th ult
The edifice is built of brick, 60 by 40 feet, with a
square tower 14 feet wide, projecting® feet from the
front wall. Surmounting this tower is a belfry, and
a plain octagon spire, making the Wal 105 feet’from
the ground. At the rear of the lectnre-room are two
smaller rooms for the Infantnnd Bible Classes of the
Sabbath school. It is an exceedingly: neat and beau
tiful structure built : after much patient waiting and
effort, and supplies a .great want in the church
aud eommumty. . A preqions day was last Sabbath,
when, with renewpd Consecration of all her interests
and hopes to the Lord, sliteen uhited with the cburch
by profession— Evangelist. :i u
Rev-; D. O. Allen, for many years a missionary of
the American Board at; Bombay, died suddenly, of
congestion of the lungs, at Lowell, Mass., July 19.
Mr. Allen, went to India in 1827, where, for a full
quarter of a century, Ms services were of eminent
valne to the missionary cause, speciallyin connection
with the press and the translation of the Scriptures.
His heaMrhaving'b'ecome seriously impaired, he re
turned to his native land in,1853, and finding that he
was not likely to be able to resume his work at Bom
bay, he soon,: asked, and received a release from Ms
connection with the Board. In 1856, he published
a valuable octavo j|plmiie,>of: about 600 pages, on
‘‘lndia, Ancient arid Modern.”—Mssy., Herald.
Rev- E. J. Newlin-has resigned the pastorate of
the Church of Blooffifleld N. J.
; The Trustees of N.Y., Union Theological Semi
nary have invited-Rev. Dr, Shedd of the Brick Church,
to the chair vacated by the death of : Dr. Bobinson.
! Reformed Presbyterian.
;■ Minutes' of ■ Synod—The minutes'bf General
Synod are now distributed, and we presume in the
hands of the Church.' The reason of their unusual
detention is'fduhd in the state ’of the country. The
first proof was''.corrected early- in June. -Then came
the rebel invasion of Pennsylvania and Maryland,
whichthe' New York troops were sent to iepel.
This emptied'the printing office of almost every
man, the hands being connected with the regiments
'departing. With one of these the. Stated Clerk was
momentarily called to go as Chaplain, and having
been mustered into the service of the United States,
was detained in Maryland until August was ad
vanced. In the meantime that part of the great re
bellion, commonly, called- the Ngw York riots, oc
curred ; and by _all- this,l business matters were so
deranged that the issue of the Minutes-could not be
made until now. The Clerk, however, trusts that
no detriment will come to the good cause from the
detention. And .he only adds, that typographical
and other eirbrs 'which may be noticed by the criti
cal eye might have been fewer, if-his personal super
vision could always have'been given.
New York, A’ugust 'IS, 1863.
Mission to the Freedmen.— The Board'pf Do
mestic Missions of the Reformed PresbyterianChhrch
.having had this subject referred to them at the late
Greeting of Synod, would take this method of inform
ing the church, that one of the delegates appointed
(Rev. Dr. Douglas,) to explore the field in the East,
has reported, and recommended, that' a mission be
established ini the vicinity of Washington City. In
his reportthdre was a letter from the Secretary of
War, giving assurance that the encouragement and
protection of the government to our missionaries in
prosecuting this work would be‘granted. Reference
was also made to the character, wants and necessities
of those colored men; they being .in a destitute
condition. The missionary proposing to labor
among them, will require books, clothing-arid other
things, all would require .friends; -The
Board before; appointing missionaries to labor has
'authorized thg Secretary to issue a call on the church
as a whole, ana upon each -congregation under, her
care to take np a specialcottection for this object,
in order that the missionaries going to labor, may
-not only be. sustained, but : also that: they may be
furnished with all the appliances necessary to the
successful prosecutibn of the'work. 1 It is expected
.that the parties will present this subject before their
■respective congregations as early as posable, and
that every congregation under the care of the chrirch
raise funds, arid iorward 1 them to the Treasurer of
Domestic Missions,, within this month if possible.
Ethiopian hands are now stretched forth unto God,
asking for the Bread of Life. Are there not many
able and willing 4 to convey it nntp them J And that
will here am I, send me ?
Xenia, Ohio,-Sep: Id. 1863.
J. C.'MoMiLiAN, Secfkwr'g and Tredmrer.
PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS;.
' . [Under this heading, we design to give informa
tion from time to time of the work of the various
branches of,the Presbyterian Church in the Foreign
Mi3sinnary field. The operations of the .American
Board will he included in the summary.] "
, American Board-— The NestOrifm Mission of
the American Board is at present-; much impeded.
1 The people are suffering extremly from a visitation
of locus is... At /the instigation,..as .is. supposed, of
Jesuit, Wked by tee French Mnbassy at'Tehtan,
orders have been shut forbidding the Protestants to
proselyte, preach/ or exhort; the evangelists are for
bidden to go forth, the press forbidden to print/ ex
cept ,by. special license from, the; Persian agent; *
tool of the Jesuits, and /the schools ordered to re
duce their pupils to 150 instead of 1200 or 1500 as in
fprmer. years. At the sametime, the Roman Catho-
Ucs are specified as .an in the
country. Dr. Perkins, 'the veteran’ missionary
writes that While there is just cause for apprehen
sion and- fervent prayer, he' anticipates no serions
.results'from the movement. ’ ; .: ■ ; ;
Ordinatiane m pricey arid native
pastors were ordained, in the Central Turkey ritis
mon field, in the month of MayT MrJ Schneider now
reports a fifth, at Ellis, on.the 28th of June.?-Mr.
Taylor of the'Mandapasalie station; Madura mission,
repqits the, ordination in April last of the fourth
native pastor in his field. The .newly ordained pas
tor’s closing prayer offered with tears, was as fol
lows : •“ I, 01 Saviour, am weak and ignorant but
thou hast calidd me td this work: and I ask only
that thou wilt dwell in my heart.”
‘; Contributions and Impr&qemmt, Mr.
Grimt oflte Znlu mismdn reports contributions for
building a' hew chapel and other purposes during
the year as amounting to $2,125; : ’He adds: “ Im
provements in many important respects are going
forward!...Six new houses are now building. One is
being erected of >nrned. bricks,.; with a roof of
good sawn timber, . and. with panel, doors and glass
wiMows, hung with weights. Two of the rooms
have hoard floors.” • « ‘ .
' ,? y ' ‘ r? H r ! ' * '*JI ! ; J;. • .. :
Benevolence of-the Converts of Madiu-g,. Mr.
Washbnrp .states,; that notwithstanding,the femme,
and “the extraordinary ontepret; bepjeyolenee at
the meeting a year and a half agb,” the‘ contribu
tions of his people during the past year had exceeded
those df 1861. They had tried a hew system of col
lecting. A small earthen jai teas gilen to each
person in the congregation, and he was invited to
deposit in this weekly, or at the end of the harvest,
as; God had prospered him. The. breaking of these
jars, he says, afforde.d ; an interesting occasion at the. :
new year;? festival, and the people were glad to find
that they could, almost unconsciously, accumulate) .
something even in the day of ‘ hard times.’
vtiom to tU Board duHng July
amounte,tos27,7os;B4 From Septemher. Ist, 1862
to lst, 1863, 75. ■ The total to Sep.
Ist, 1863, is about $3 5 83,50 d.
; Sandwich Jsktnffe^The-Hawmiafi Evangelical
S . oc , iet y "Well has charge of the mission to the
Marquesas. and Micronesian Islands, the, ship Mom
**9. bteß re-organized and placed
undercdnUl ofimßoardof2l members., Rev.Dr
Gulickis Foreign Secretary. Bey., H . H?. Parker, a
native, was. ordained and installed pastor of the Ist
Native(Ohnrch, Honolulu, June 27th.
v”* .Missions' of the Presbyterian Church
(O- S-j • C7tma.~This Board has devoted much ate
tention to the y*st field of China; and it is reaping
a fair reward. , Rev. J. L,Nevius Writes from Tung
Chow, May 11th, that five persons had jnst been re
ceived into the church there. At Shanghae, Rev.
F A arti “ " pites of a “ inquirer who, for eight
yria|s had contended against an awakened conscience,
butiat last came and unburdened himself to the mis!
SEPT. 10
John N. McLeod.