#<Sitet’s fable. Hart. Thoughts on Sabbath Schools. By John S. Hart, LL D. Philadelphia: — Presbyterian Board of Publication, 821 Chestnut Street. 12 mo. pp- 215- Few men in this country are better qualified to indicate and discuss the im portant points in Sabbath school manage ment, or tsb give advice to those engaged in the work, than the writer of this vol ume. Besides his other qualifications, he has taken pains, in preparing this volume, to embody the results of an ex tensive and careful observation of the more important Sabbath School Con ventions, almost every one of which, held in the last five - or six years, he has at tended. With simplicity, directness, and perspicuity, the various features of the great Sabbath School enterprise are here presented; thirty-six ohapters touch nppn.as many different aspects of the subject, not in the ? way of profound inquiry, of course, but rather to present the results of experience.in a practical form, for the guidance of such as feel their need of it. The relations of the Sabbath School to the family and to the church are treated as fully as the limits of the hook allow, but they are important enough to call for a distinct treatise. The work is handsomely got up by the Board. HakAs. Child Membership, .by Rev. J. Garland Hamner. Presbyterian Publica tion Committee, 1334 Chestnut Street. Tract, Second Series, No. 22. This is a timely, earnest arid devout discussion of a most important topic: The Relation of Baptized Children to the Church. The high position taken, the style and argument, are most credi table to the writer, and give promise of usefulness which we are glad to see appreciated by the Publication Com mittee. The treatise supplies, to, some extent, a want felt in reading Mr. Hart’s book, just noticed, and calls loudly upon the churchy as Buch, to fulfill her respon sibilities to her infant and youthful membership: We ‘hope it may have a wide circulation among Christian fami lies. We quote a single paragraph : ; pp. 13 and 14. “ It is verily, a question for serious and anxious inquiry, whether, amidst idistracting influences and the many. calls for service from every quarter,; the child-members of the church, and; the young, receive that share of minis-, terial attention which the great Shep herd demands when he charges his ser vants, ‘ .Take heed, therefore, unto yourselves, and to all the flock , over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the church, of God.’ Is it not too much the case that the minis try exhaust their powers of labor upon the adult generation, .rather than upon those who are far more hopeful subjects of divine grace ? Have not, we may well ask, the short and .uncertain pas torates of our day, the multiplicity of meetings at home and .abroad, the ex hausting preparatory -study and pains taking to produce a .succession of elaborate and popular and the unfortunate custom of estimating success in the ministry entirely by instant and apparent .results, —have not these things turned away our at tention too much from the.tombs of the, fold, to whom the Master 'bids us, as he did Peter, give the first ea're, charging us, as we love him, ‘ Peed any lambs?’” Barnes.— -Presbyterianism: its affinities. By Rev. Albert Barnes. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1334 Chestnut Street. Tract No. 13. First Series. This is the .address of Mr- Barnes, de livered before the Presbyterian Histori cal Society, published in the American Presbyterian and Theological Review last October, and now stereotyped at the ■expense of friends in' the First Church of Bergen, N. J., with a view to its wider: ’ usefulness. The leading and fruitful idea of this treatise, which has already been noticed at length in our columns, is, that Presbyterianism, as an orderly form of government, has an affinity for Calvinism, which regards the relation of God to man from the point of view pf a great system of di vine government over the universe. Presbyterianism, as thus combined with a system of doctrine, is then shown to have affinity for a certain mode of wor ship, a certain class Pf minds, and for the doctrine of human rights! ; The essay is characterized; by the mature and reflective mind, the even and tran quil flow of thought and style, the ex haustive analysis and the richness and fullness of statement peculiar to Mr. Barnes. It is a most noble and effec tive argument for Presbyterianism in its true type. Report of the United States Commission er of Agriculture for 1862. Washing ton : Government Printing Office. -The appearance of this large and handsome volume of 632 octavo pages, marks a new era in governmental re gard for agriculture. Hitherto, this subject has received some degree of at tention from the Patent Office, and an agricultural report formed part of the duties of that department. Now, the Commissioner of agriculture is indepen : dentin his sphere, receives a separate appropriation, and makes, his.own esti juafeb. The. attention of this Depart ment was mainly directed; during: the year to the production of syrup from sorghum, of which over forty million gallons were made in the West in 1862, the culture of cotton in the North, the ailanthus silk-worm, and the flax and hemp substitute for cotton; neither of which novelties seem to be making much progress, or to avail much in the cheapening of products. We trust the department may be bo managed as to advance. the great interest ostensibly in its charge. The Agricultural Statis tics at the end are probably the most valuable part of the book. We are in debted to Hon. William D. Kelley, of the House of Representatives, for a copy. Prom T. O. H. P.Burnham, Boston,we have received a work of fiction, called “Woman’s Ransom,” by T. Wi Robin son. It is ingenious arid original, and aims at illustrating important moral principles. For sale by J. B. Lippin eott & Co. 1 Mr. Burnham will shortly publish William Howard Russell’s “ Canada, its Defences, Condition and Resources,” & work which promises to (ill quite a void in our information of this impor tant and neighboring country. . PAMPHLETS AND MAGAZINES. The National Preacher for March, contains a sermon by Dr.- Pond, of Ban gor Theological Seminary, on Darius and Daniel, or the Necessity of an Atonement, (Dan. vi. 14.), and one by Prof. Hoppin, of Yale College, on the “ Childlike Spirit,” with nine choice articles for the prayer-meeting. New York: W.H. Bid well. ' Third Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Womens’ Hospital, of Philadelphia, North College Avenue and Twenty-second Street, January, 1864. Thfe is an institution under the man-' agement of females. The resident and assistant physicians are ladies; three gentlemen and one lady are entered as 'consulting physicians. Eighty-tbroo patients haVe been received into the house during the year; fifty-three have been discharged in a satisfactory condi tion, thirteen improved, six not bene fitted, four have died, 1504 patients have ■been treated in the Dispensary, 413 have been visited at their homes. A move ment for the training in this institution of a -superior class of nurses has been ■initiated, and in connection with it a ■short course of lectures upon the nurs ing of the sick was given in the early part of last Summer. One novitiate iB mow in the Hospital preparing herself for nursing as a vocation. The institu tion is sustained mainly by donations. A number of our first citizens, including Rev. Dr. Brainerd, Wm. S. Peirce and ■others are upon the Board of Advisers. Books Received. For sale by J.-B. Lippincott & Co. Church Pastorals. Hymns and Tunes for Public and Social Worship Collected and Arranged by Nehemial Adams, D. D. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, Bvo. pp. 472. Counsel and Comfort, spoken from a City Pulpit. By the author of the Recreations-of a Country Parson: Bos ton: Ticknor & Fields. 16 mo. pp. 311. Gilt lop : 01,50 Industrial Biography : Iron-Work ers and Tool-makers. By Samuel Smiles, author of Seif Help, &c. Bos ton: Ticknor & Fields. 16 mo. pp. 410. With Index. Price 81,25. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. An American Book in Dutch. Mr. Childs’ Publisher s’ Circular says that the “ System of Surgery” by Dr. Gross, of this city, a costly work, in two large octavos copiously illustrated, published in 1059, by Lea & Blanchard, is now un dergoing translation into the Dutch lan guage, at Nieuwedies>, Holland, and will soon be brought out in elegant style in that country. The engravings are. from electrotypes furnished by the : Philadel phia publishers. This is recognized as a leading work in its department, and is employed by authority in the United States Army. Charles Scribner,; New York, will soon publish a critical epitome of “ Tra vels in the United States” from the time of the French missionaries to that of Anthony Troloppe. It is by H: T. Tuckerman, and will be called “Amer ica and her Commentators.?’ Scribner alsq.announces,. .“. Chaplains of the Rev olution," by J. T. Headley. Successful Books. .Scribner announ ces the eleventh edition of Ik. Mar vel's “ My Farm of Edge wood,” and the twelfth edition of Timothy Titcomb’s “Letters to the Joneses”, : The North American Review hasenjoyed such an in crease of patronage, that the publishers have brought out a new edition of the January number; from new stereotype' plates —an event unparalleled in the history of Review literature in this country,—Alger’s History of the Doc trine of a Future Life, published by Childs, in this city, has reached a third edition. The Young Parson, published by Smith & English, has reached a third edition. Baxter’s “Louis Napoleon, the Destined Monarch of the World,” ,by Martiens, of this city, is in the sixth edition. The Life and Times of John Huss, by Gillett, and we believe, Shedd’s History of Christian Doctrine, are in the second edition. The Old Helmet, by the author of the "Wide, Wide World, has reached a fifth edi tion. FOREIGN ITEMS. ! The foreign correspondent of Childs’ Circular gives the following' account of a singular charity of the literati Of Paris: “'{Mi Alex; Hamas, Sr., h'dß recently been PTTTT.A'mnT.PTTTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1864. exerting himself to found a library in the insolvent debtor’s goal, in which he has been so often a prisoner. He gave a complete collection of his works. He invited other authors (there are few of them in Paris that have not shared that mansion’s hospitality) to contribute their volumes. The appeal was gener ously answered.” -An edition of the works of Bishop Berkeley, in four oc tavo volumes, is announced in England. Carlyle’s fourth volume of Frederick the Great, has; just been published in Lon don __A. posthumous work of Hugh Miller’s, “ Edinburgh and its neighbor hood, Geological and Historical, with the Geology of the Bass Rock,” hks just appeared;-^-—-The tercentenary bf Shakspeare’s Birth-day, April 23d, will be celebrated at Stratford, by thelayirig of the foundation-stone of a monument to his memory. Musical and dramatic exercises are; arranged for the: ensuing: ; week. It is proposed to spend tho birth-day. in London as holiday, to Jay the first stone of a monument at nooq, &e. —A very fine statue of Herd Ma caulay, ordered by. Trinity. College, Cambridge, to which he belonged, is nearly complete. It represents him seated, in his college gown, with his fin gers between the leaves of a book— - An eminent London publication house hasjbrought out the first part-of an e'x act copy of the first folio edition of Shakspeare, A. D., 1623.: It is edited by Mr. Howard Staunton, and printed in photolithography. The accuracy of the text is certain.——Adelaide Anna Proctor, poetess and daughter of “ Bar ry Cornwall” the poet, is dead, of con sumption. She was a Roman Catholic: —M. : Renan is still forbidden to de liver fiis lectures in the College of Prance. Twelve or fifteen students at tend his private course of Hebrew and Sanscrit at his lodgings’——There are 463. newspapers in the Austrian Empire! There were about four thousand pub? lished in the United States, according to the census’ of 1866. -Bishop Co: lenso’s school.books on arithmetic and mathematics are among the most popu lar of their kind. The profits of their sale' would alone afford a handsome support.! -—-—Several noble authors are recently; announced, among them the wife of Maximilian,ithe Anstro-Freneh, bogus) ]|mperor of Mexico. RELIGIOUS WORLD ABROAD. GREAT BRITAIN. The Decision of the Privy Council, re versing the sentence of suspension against Dr. Williams and Mr. Wilson of the “ Essays and Reviews,” is variously received by the British Press. The Guardian does not see how the council could have reached any other decision. The clergyman is indeed bound in honor to believe as the church Relieves, but the doubtful point is, how obligations of this sort can be enforced on the unwill ing by law. The Record regards it as a Scotch verdict of “not proven.” The judgment is regarded on the whole as involving grave it is better in such matters to avoid exaggeration, and view the subject with judicial calm ness. The Times says that the formu laries of the church are shown to be' obsolete. The Spectator says it sets tree the consciences of English clergymen on the question of inspiration, justifica tion by faith and divine .retribution for sin. Rev. F. D. Maurice sees hope dawning through the decision that theo logians may be led to a braver investi gation of their own language. The Inquirer (Unitarian) glories in the deci sion as relieving independent investiga tors of the dread of prosecution. The convocation of Canterbury have a committee on subscription which has brought forward a new form of assent to all contained in the Church Service. In doing so they made the following statement:—“ It appeals to this com mittee to be essential to the welfare of the church that there should be required from her clergy, not only a promise that they will conform to the liturgy, but also a declaration of their ex animo ■ ac ceptance of the Prayer-book and of the Thirty-nine Articles.. It is obviously most important that the members of the church should have this solemn assu rance, that her ministers honestly and conscientiously assent to the formularies which they recite.” ; Decrease of Churches and Chapels in London. The Survey Congregational Union has issued a report showing that in the metropolitan district of Surrey,for example, the population in 1851 was 482,435, but in 1861 it was be ing a total increase of nearly 106,000 souls. In 1851 there were, for all this district, 92 churches, 03 independent chapels, 35 Baptist ditto, 42 Wesleyan and other Methodists, and 27 miscel laneous,—in all, 229; but in 1861. there were only 212 churches and chapels, being a decrease of 17, while the increase had. been equal to the adding of towns larger than Brighton to the: south side of the metropolis, for-whose population: no special ; provisiqn has been made! History of the Irish Regium Donum. The early Scottish settlers, invited to Ulster by James 1., were accompanied by their ministers, who enjoyed the' tithes of the parishes where - they were located. In the confusion that sue-' ceeded, the tithes were lost, and by the operation of the Act of Uniformity, the Presbyterian ministers were ejected from the Church. Charles 11. ’ after wards granted 6001 a year to the body, in consideration of their loyalty, and compensation for their sufferings. The grant was doubled by "William. 111., and gradually augmented until, in 1838, at the union of the Secession Synod with the Synod of Ulster, and the formation of the General Assembly, the endow ment was fixed at 751 a year Irish cur rency (691. 4s. M. English,) to each minister. At present there are 586 ministers, of whom 547, having stated charges, receive the Regium Donum. ,: The Reformed, Church is greatly dis quieted by the rationalists who are nu merous in its membership: and 1 ministrV. The two questions -at present agitated FRANCE.—BELGIUM by the opposing parties relate to the restoration of the synodical constitution to the church by the civil government, and the introduction of the Geneva (ra tionalist) version of the Bible into the list of the Protestant Bible Society’s issues. The former question is a contemplated step forward of the orthodox, the latter, an onward move of the rationalists. ;If the synods were restored, a confession of faith must be drawn up, iaind the rationalists must either leave the church or sign, like your Puseyites, in a non natural sense; consequently they are doing all that in them lies to prevent the restoration of the synods, arid to prolong the interregnum and present dis order of the church.. The Bible questidn is a thrust at the very heart of French Protestantism, increasing the discord, lessening' the' confidence of the simple in the Worship of' God; arid makirig'fits holy pages a very tilting-field. On the admission of the obnoxious version, four vice-presidents resigned. ; M. Guizot rh; mains President, arid other orthodox meftibers temporise, so that the Society still exists. It'has, hoviever, lost its -ladies’- auxiliary. ; ; A new' Bible : Society is formed, headed M. Francois Delessert, which offers to supply the churches with the New Testaments for their'first communicants, and With the Bibles for new married couples on the usual plan, and expects to receive the subscriptions and act put the intentions of the foun ders of the original society. The Re formed’ Church of Paris has broken off Connection with the heterodox and tem porising remnant. The Lutheran Church has taken analogous steps., ‘ 1 Dr. DePressense's Conferences on the Life of JesuSf B&yß'the Christian Work, are attended by overwhelming .audi ences. The right public are attracted, and spell-bound, professors,- students; thinkers. He is about to undertake a journey to Palestine, before putting the last touches to a - book upon which he has long been .engaged, a “ Life of Jesus.” Relief of the ' Wounded in Battle . Whether the exrimple of our Christian arid Sanitary Coimriissibns has had the effect of stfrring up European Christians on this subject, or whether one pulse of sympathy for the suffering is beating through th e' Christian world, it is 1 cer tain that the public mind of Europe is being aroused to the necessity of organ izing to succour the victims of war, as never before. An appealhas been made: by a Christian man, who acted as mis sionary to the French SoldieTS during the Italian campaign, for voluntary missionaries to the wounded, in foresight of approaching war. An interesting, but heart-rending book,, written by a Swiss tourist—H. Dnnant—and called “Souvenir do Solferino,” now in its third edition, awoke through out Europe a chord of sympathy with the wounded ; and, in response to Mb proposition, men and women of all ranks have formed.in various countries associations for the relief and personal succour of the vic tims both of defeat and victory. But more is wanted, and the appeal has now gone ' forth throughout the French | churches,Tor Christians to be ready to follow the footsteps of their Lord upon ithe most awful of all mission-fields—the deserted battle-field. The Retirement of the Liberal Ministry of Belgium after holding office between six and seven years is to be regretted. The ultra-montanes are gaining in power in this country hitherto so hap pily free. : The liberalists are however to a great extent, rationalist. GERMANY. ■ Hesse. The strife of the rationalists for supremacy in the church is very warm in this principality. They have the archduke on their side. The Lu theraif clergy have rallied for the de fence of the faith and formed a confer ence which is held .annually. At the last meeting the agitation for reform by the rationalists, was, met by a plan of reform of the orthodox, framed in ac cordance with the historical ground and present constitution of the church. The proposal will be immediately printed and laid before thd government. This is re garded as a. powerful movement for up holding the church. \ The Jews in Austria are enjoying the great blessings of liberty in the remarka ble degree in which they are now spread ing under, the sanction of the government. At a review of the Austrian army, near ’ Olmutz, by the Emperor Francis Joseph, he noticed a sergeant whose breast was decorated with several -medals, which ’ the bravery of this soldier in several bat tles, arid notably in Italy, had obtained him. The Emperor called the colonel of the regiment, and asked him why 1 this sergeant, who appeared to be an ex cellent soldier, was still a. sous-officier. The colonel replied: ‘Sire, in our regiment there is not a single Jewish officer. This soldier is a Jew arid wishes to pass as such; and this "reason why he ,cannot advrineb.’- 1 The Einpriror replied: ‘ln my army I know;neither Jew nor Christian—l. know only soldiers;’ and he appointed on the spot the Jewish sergeant ari An officer to his guard. Again, in the University of Vienna there ;are .four Jewish professors. A eburt recently punished some individu als for assaulting a gentleman for no other reason than his religion. The judge on the occasion, said: “The 'prisoners d'o not understand, or do not wish to understand, that society has at last arrived at the recognition that it is itself responsible for the faults imputed to the Israelites, by having banished them from its midstfor so many cen turies." MISSIONARY. ; Asia. Number of converts in India. — The total number of converts connected with all Protestant missionary societies in India, Ceylon and Burmab, amounted in 1862, to 49,688. Of these, 13,490 or: more than a fourth, belonged to the Church of England. Tbe baptists num ber 20,950 and the Wcsloyans 2517. Progress in CTiina.—The church mem bers connected with Protestant missions in China now, number about 2500; . Of. 'these’SbO, or nearly one-third, are. to be, found in Amoy and the rural villages around it—where, for the last ten years, remarkable success has attended the la bors of the London Missionary Society, of our Dutch Reformed brethren from America, and the English Presbyterians. One of the most cheering features in this success is the circumstance that it has been to a considerable extent owing to the spontaneous efforts of the native Christians among their heathen neigh bors. ° : The Bishop of Victoria communicates to the Christian Work an account of a recent visit at Canton, tvith the changes he noticed favorable'to the missionary work in that vicinity. We extract at considerable length. Among the proofs of the altered spirit of the native authorities, it is interesting to specify their marked advances toward foreign ( officialsi I was surprised sbMe, weeks ago .to receive, at Hong-Kong, from a native interpreter, a letter osten sibly written to me at the request, arid on behalf of the hew Governor of Can* ton Province, informing nie of his re cent elevation, and arrival at the scene of Mb and, amid the usudl adulatory phraseology of Chinese offi cials, inviting the interchange of neigh borly offices. I wrote to the British Consul to authenticate the document:; who wrote to me that the latter ema nated from His Excellency Kwo Sung Taou, the Footae, or Governor of Can ton Province. During my visit here, I have paid this high functionary a visit, at his own official residence within the city, at which interview I received the usual firing of salutes,, and other attend tions accorded to his equals in rank. Three days after, he returned my visit] by mutual appointment, at the British Consulate. What passed at our inters views it may be, expedient not to detail] hbr to incur even the remotest.risk of bringing inconvenience and loss upon a liberal statesman* in a country and um der a government where every public man is watched, and espionage is ‘ever on the alert. Suffice it to say, that he now has in .his possession, as my present,- a complete copy of the Holy Scriptures in Chinese, twb copies of our Liturgy,! two copies of Dr. Martin's work on the “Evidences of Christianity,” and .Mr.; Nevius’s excellent “ Summary of Chris-; tian Doctrine.” ! . ! At Honam we are called to lament the advantage taken by the French au-| thorities of the present weakness of the j Chinese Executive, in their violent re-! sumption of old Roman sites, or of what are alleged to be such; and the Cnclo-i sure of a largo spfe.ce as the area of ’a new Cathedral and monastic establish ment, on what was a little time , since one of the most extensive government establishments Within the city. The public laying of the foundation stone'is appointed to take place in a ■ few days, and no pains have been spared by the French Consul and the Roman Catholic clergy to render it an attractive occa sion to every class of foreign residents and visitors invited from Hong-Kbng: f I have great satisfaction; and feel much thankfulness in stating that in this, the twentieth year of my connec tion with missionary labor in this land, I have been privileged to see'more abun dant fruits of missionary success than in any former year. During the present •year I have:beeu called to confirm sixty Chinese converts, and to Ordain two na tive deacons of our Church. On Easter Sunday last I admitted the first native Minister of our Church to holy orders at' Shadghae. During the present week t have also admitted to the ministry a se cond native Christian, amid a largo con course of Chinese worshippers in the ca thedral. Africa. —Captain Speke’s Advice on Planting Missions. —The following is the main part of Captain Speke’s late letter to an English journal on establish ing missions in the tract of country he visited. It is backed, by an offer of £lOO towards starting a missionary' in that direction. , i “ For my part, I should wish for no better plan than that of a ‘ United Church Mission,’ for opening those ex tremely fertile and beautiful territories at the head of the Nile to Christianity, and sb to commerce and civilization. The three kingdoms, Fanague, Uganda, hnd Unyoro, are, in my opinion, the key to Africa, and the centre'from which the light ought to radiate. A mission thither, if properly managed, in combi nation with Government officers having authority to maintain the rights of the kings of those countries against the vio lence and fiendish oppression of the White Nile traders, would prove of the greatest benefit both to ourselves and the Africans. The great fault which has hitherto existed and dispirited mis sionary enterprise, is that of selecting places where no strong native govern ment exists, and where the land is poor in; consequence of its being subject to. periodical droughts hnd famines. In the [three countries I-have Mentioned, neither* of these two evils; at present ex ists; but if they are. not attended to at once, there is no knowing what wili happen as the White Nile traders push further south. In short I am inclined to believe that the" traders themselves will, bring down those’ 'semi-Christian governments and ride over those splendid lands, as the Moors of old made their way into Spain: ’ hitherto the traders have confined to the poor lands without the fertile zone, but now they, are entering into this, and the result will be conquest —accompanied of course by the firm establishment of that, more stubborn foe to Christianity than Judaism itself—Mohammedanism. " I would strongly advise the Zambezi Mis sion, and also the Zanzibar, to be moved up to the Equator. “ You are aware that I maintain that the slave-trade will never be put down by vessel-hunting at sea alone. We are fruitlessly spending millions in that way at presept, without any good .effect, and we shall continue to do so.un til the Gov ernment is enabled to see, through pub lic opinion; that the cheaper and surer way! of ;gaining:-- their point is to assist in the development of the Interior Afri can. “J. H. Speke.” All missionaries should be acquainted with medical practice. ’ J&ev. P. Goold Bird, Missionary to the Samoans, writes as follows to the Christian Work: The other day I was much struck with an article in the -Friend, a monthly paper published in Honolulu, Sandwich Is lands. It is headed “Every Missionary to the Heathen should be a Physician,” and says:—“ This should be the stand ing rule, and the only exception allowed should be in those instances when the missionary goes to parts of the world where there are educated physicians. We-have not formed this opinion hasti ly.” How, sir, in this opinion I . fully concur. Two first bereavements have forced the subject home upon my atten tion. As I stood gazing over my dying son, unable to understand his disease, able to do almost nothing for him my seffi and having no skilled help at hand, what would I not have given to have been within reach of medical aid, or ra ther to have- had sufficient medical knowledge myself? I, could but look on and weep-T-rstand by and see him (lie. Never did I feel the vital impprtan.ee of medical knowledge as I did that day] And if so important in my case in Samoa, where. X had kind-hearted; fel low-laborers to sympathize... with me, how much more so must it be In, the case of those who in their lonely island homes are without fellow-laborers? DEFECTIVE REFORMATIONS. Under the heading, “ Historic Warn ings,” the Independent thus admonishes against An undue Assurance of the re sults of our struggle and of the Advan tages to be gained by. the victory of our armies, for human rights.. Only by vigilance and Uncompromising firmness can the friends of freedom make sure of a real advance in the cause. The history of the world's strivings after reformation hardly justifies the confident assurance of some enthusiastic spirits that nothing, can go wrong with us, and that; the deliverance of: the slaves and ourselves, at once, ffpm the slaveholding tfiraldphi,‘is certain beyond the possibility of defeat or even of delay. The revolution which we call, the Refor mation, growing out of toe. changes in men's minds, for long years, seemed at ■first as if it were to sweeh Popery from Europe. The chance of France yield ing to it seemed at ono time more than that England would, and Spain was hoped for, and the whole of Germany surely reckoned on. Yet the boundaries of the two faiths have remained sub stantially as they Were at the- time of Luther’s death, and the numerical ma jority of Christendom;is on the side: of the Pope at this day. And this is due to craft rather than tb force. .The English revolution of 1642, which pro bably would have ( Changed the whole face of European affairs, could Crom well have lived twenty, years longer, was toppled over by trickery and .treachery from its heights of glory into the foul abyss of the Restoration, and only dragged up, after two centuries of struggle, tp the present oligarchic polity of England; a boon for which Hampden Would hardly have thrown away his life at Chalgrave Field, and which Yane iand Sydney have laid their heads upon the block to purchase. . Our own Revo lution succeeded in. conquering opr in jdepbhdence of England, but .only for a [handful of man-stealers to cheat us of it, whose cunning has made it necessa ry, while their folly has made it possible, to make the stand we are now doing to vindicate it to ourselves.. The French Revolution of 1789, which looked as if it would shake all thrones anddomina tions, and establish the rights of man on the ruins, has culminated- in the spurious Bonaparte now bestriding the neck of the French nation and dictating law to Europe. He, too, is One of the plagues whieh issued forth from the abyss of Reaction, whieh swallowed up l toe eager hosts which blessed the adyent of the Revolutions of 1848.. He...in France, Von Bismark in Prussia, and Antonelli in - ROine, are the present fruits of that great uprising, which pro mised toe deliverance of the nations, i But we thank God l for all these struggles; .though checked, they have not. .been in vain. They will break forth Again and conquer a better state of things. B appily our own conflict is less complicated than these were, from the differing conditions of the nationali ties on this 6ide the ocean and on that. There is a prestige attending the mon archies and aristocracies of the old world, from wMch the dirty aristocracy which- has enrsed our land is destitute. No brilliant history, no charms of fic tion, no magic of association hallows our lords of the: whip, the chain, and the branding-iron. No splendid hierarchy sanctifies to the popular eye the filthy ahd bloody fetish to which we have. so dong bowed , down. A brutal prejudice ■and. a false, political economy are what we have most to fear. These will thrust themselves into' the Settlement of .that peace which the war must soon conquer, ifithey can. ,It is. the business, of every -; loyer pf his country to see to itr that, they, cannot and'shall not, ..Congress, sustained by the people, have the power to make this impossible by the effectual and utter abolition of slavery before the sword be sheathed, and as an essential preliminary .of negotiation.- Letns .pot. simply hope and believe that this will , be done, but let us be up and doing it. No oligarchy ever died'a natural death. We must kill this one utterly, or it will be at our throats again, requiring another struggle before it dies the death. Surely, one such should suffice us. Physicians are recommending for army use the per chloride of iron, as a potent check for hemorrhages from dan gerous wounds. Four or five drops are. said to be sufficient to arrest ordinary bleeding and a hilftfeaspoonful for even large arteries. If officers andsojdiers 'would carry with them, a small tin'bottle containing. a couple ,6f ' pUncM bSclosed in cotton on which to many valua ble lives might be saved.
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