tortuipouituct. FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPON- DENT. A DAY AT Tilf. ROY. We do not propase a history of this town, or of the 'large Presbyteria - n church in the pleasant village. But it is ono of the older places of Western New York, having been settled in the latter part of the *last -century, and wAls then, called 43a - oar's Settlent 4 after lite name: ofd--the family first lbtaiedifiere. Rev. David Perry, of Richmond, is supposed to have .preachedLlise first sermon ever deli-trered-in theflaee; Thls was in 1800. Hop was sent. one as 'a Rome Missionary; by the Berkshire and. Columbia MiiisienarySOCieity. The Re'v. Allenrafteiward pastor of the 'church in Pittdeld, and • subsequent President of lioWdbin . College, Mairic, , Preached hero alsoi 'while on a similar. missionary tour; in:lao4. He still lives, man -of tnostositneraKe appearance, now past eighty,yearalk age, his home being in Northamptoni , Mass. • ' , /;The , Presbyteria,nichurch of .Le Roy, '"Was fOrmed - .111 , 1815. • It has always been self-imp Porting; and has.. long Been large and 'strong, having a mem bership of near three hundred. • The ,Rev: Elislia WidWaSeY,'whe line been ~ for some , years . ,the pastor, has resigned; his charge ancl i retuyned, to New Eng • land, towing 'accepted, a call to settle, as we understand, ; in Waterbury, pt. . 1 1b.e. best wishes of numerous friends will follow him. Although.. without !a pastor, the church has, been greatly , quickened, and .refreshed by a blessed outpouring of:the Spirit. Of this revi val we have beforespoken and we are happy to. say ;that: it still, continuos. Rev. Dr.Daggett,,of Canandaigua, paSs • ed two days with the church last week, andpreaohed with great solemnity and acceptance.:, He is . expected again for', a 'couple of days this, week. It was our privilege to look in upon the large:and solemn congregation last Sabbath. Four or five rose for prayers at the close 'of the evening service. And in this connection, it is a plea sure to make record of the gratitude which we know to be felt by the mem bers of the Presbyterian church, to the Rev. Mr. Sehelling, a young man of de cided ability, of great, urbanity and catholicity of, spirit, now pastor of the Methodist church, in Le Roy. He has conducted the Union meetings. He has - acted as undershepherd to both fleets. He has done much. of the preaching, and has nobly seconded and aided others ,who have been laboring there to *- mote this good work. He has won for • himself a large place in the confidenpe, respect and affection.of the memberslof l the Presbyterian churoh. He is an ole qaent preacher, a judicious managerj genial 00-worker and a noble man. The Ingham University is in a highly fitruiishing condition, having about One hnndred scholars, sixty or seventyinf them boarding in the Institution, and has shared largely in the blessing, oily some 3 •or 4 of the scholars, it is - sh posed, as yet unconverted. Who can tell how much this early conversion-will add to the 'usefulness, as well as happi ness, of these young ladies ! And how much more desirable it makes the In stitution, as a place for the education of such, to have so many of its inmates happy followers of the Lamb ! How pleasant, pervasive and mighty the good influences that thus surround and aid those who are here trying to lay up knowledge CENTRAL CHURCH, ROCHESTER We have already mentioned the fact that workmen aro engaged in putting up a new organ in this church. The work is progressing finely, but it will pro bably take two weeks longer, before the house will be ready again to receive the Sabbath assembly. In .the meantime the leading men of the Society have been moving in another laudable mat ter; they are " clearing up financially And generally," as it was strikingly ex pressed by one of the Trustees. Al though it is a church of each ample means, with corresponding enterprise and liberality, yet by some slight ar rearages, and, some deficiency of sub toription for the organ, there was a virtual debt of five or six thousand dol lars hanging over them. The present was regarded as the proper time to wipe that all out; and although they had just completed a collection of about one thousand dollars for home missions, nothing daunted, after a few days effort they easily raised the required sum above mentioned, to pay up all deficien cies, and expect that when in a week or two, their beautiful sanctuary is again opened for public worship, they will owe no man anything, but love and all faithfulness in labors and efforts for the world's salvation, This, truly, is a noble and prosperous religious Society, a model of Christian enterprise and lib erality. " STONE ontraott." It may not . be known all over the land, that we have near here a parish and a post-office, with the above desig nation. It is in the south part of the town of Bergen; and the best known object, perhaps, in that part of the town was the 4 Stone Church." But the par ish was small, and the church has few members. The Rev. H. - Elmer, formerly of East Avon, has now been .laboring for, about two years, as pastor of this church; and under his faithful, judi .Cicius and acceptable efforts, the Society has been 86' far quickened and encour aged. as "to! undertake to build - a new churchedifice, to be ten 'feet longer than the old one, and to cost t,5000.. An effort was first, started to procure a small °lien, at a cost of about $3OO. One man said",the old churCh waa'not a fit place in which to put new organ. . lie Proposed they should first build:a new chureh, , and then get the. organ. This suggestion met with So much fa vor, that the necessary, amount for the new edifice was very soon raised, and the work at once commenced. The old structure is being pulled. down, and the new is te take Its filaCe at - the earliest pOtisible moment The inateriarof, the new must be stone, of course, or else the name of the. place and Post-office must be 'changed. In the meantime, the' dommittenaPpointed for the purpose are deleeting the organ, to be ready when , the house is prepared to receive it. It is pleasant ,to rec3rd such a quickening of real enterprise in a:: country parish, which was but recently regarded as in rather a low condition. Such a pastor is doing areal bottle missionary work, and is doing it well. OUR _GROWING PITY Rochester is crowded with people. Heuses were never in greater demand, a good. ,dwelling never harder to get. The population of the city must be rapidly increasing. Every kind of busi ness seems also to be flourishing. Every body. is employed. Wages are high. New enterprises arc constantly start ing. And it is so in all our cities and, larger towns. The rebel leaders would not find so much grass in our streets as they might expect. But where, we have often heard it asked, do the people come from ? Doubtless many, are moving from the smaller towns and country places,in to the the cities, attracted be marvellous open ings for business. And many are now coming to us from Canada. Our lake steamers are daily crowded with a good class of 'emigrants, coming from the Queen's dominions, to find employment in the - United States. Canada is full of rebel refugees.and Northern cowards. and deserters, who have so cheapened labor, in that land, that many of the Canadians are actually driven oat for want of employment. It is a good ex change for us; as one good, honest me chanic, is worth a dozen rebels and deserters. Many, even of those who come to us only for temporary employ ment, as some doubtless do, will find it to their advantage to make this their permanent home; while we trust that our cowards and rebels, will just stay as long on the other side of our North ern lines. TILE REMAINS OF DR. PEASE, Which were, upon his death last Fall, interred for a time at Burlington, Vt., have just been brought to our city for burial, in our beautiful Mt. Hope Ceme tery. This will be highly gatifying to his family, who still reside here, and to the First Church and Society, by whom he was so much beloved and lamented. ROCHESTER, April 23, 1864 JOURNAL OF THE MARCH TO ALEX- ANDRIA, LL From a private letter written by an officer in the Delaware Battery, now with Banks' army, we are permitted to make the following extra,cts, which ex hibit the movements of one of the divi sions, and the nature of the country through which the route lay, as well as furnish interesting glimpses of soldier life generally. They are in the form of a diary, commencing as follows Tuesday, March 15th, 1864.—Started with Emory's Division,lst of 19th Corps, about 71. A. X., towards New Iberia. We marched 15 or 16 miles, through a country of fine plantations, many of them'deserted; and encamped early near the Teche and very close to an old sugar mill, so we all enjoyed plenty of molasses, and in the evening made mo• lasses candy. On the march I bought some real corn cake from the negroes, and it tasted very well to a hungry soldier. March 16th.—Marched at 7.30 A. M., and encamped in the afternoon near Tasso or Spanish Lake. The character of the Country we passed through under went a gradual change, and- as we left the Bayou 'became more rolling and prairie-like, and shallow ponds of water were numerous, out of which we watered PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1884. the horses. We passed the village of New Iberia about neon. The road dusty and wind cool. Thursday, March ltth.—The scene_ wag very fine as the Division brok6 camp this morning, the columns stretch ing far over the prairie, with arms gleaming in the sun and bands playing. After we encamped, our long expected mail arrived, and caused a great deal of joy in the company. March 186.—the bivision moved at 6 - A. H., and after' crossiarTermillion' .BayoA r we passed tiareigh;Y;9l*4loll - a pretty little Franck-village r ,The march was very pleasant, anclym ca,mped in 'the "forest primeval," near, a small stream; Grand Coteau Boron. Mai:ch 19th.,Marched at 5.30. A. lit Passed through Opelousas., about, It is the largest - place wehaYe ,0,9 61 1 since. leaving New Ctrlearks;:buP eIT'APPM be no,fine housesthere:, -After crossing the Bayou z'Cortableanropposite , ington, we encamped in, the,ord,of sugar house. - Washington is. : _a small and dirty village,,,,Tirect to-night;, brit, .made a very good,,Empper on 'yecrig, pigeons and.hard taelk,,coplxed-in,m4i March:2oo.— T TheAd anA:44, Div ions-of the 1.3t1a _C.048,3)501864 1ip,41.8 afternoon, and Lient. l ---, was herofdr, supper. You %net not- think NVe, always have, poultry ) as ,onr standard ; fare is ham and salt •beef; .but eur cook. Rame on, a pigeon ; house - and 'got s,ome• squabs, and we bought a:canteen of milk for 25 cents. If we could forage, we could live well, but all.feraging sand straggling aro forbidden; and: oft,' cars are ordered.to shoot men ,who re fuse to keep-in their places,; -When.we come into camp, the first thing is to: stick up tents ; the captain has one, and we Lieutenants sleep in another; the men have shelter tents. - then take a wash and get supper near sunset, and then " turn in" soon after dark. We get up about 4 in the morning, ,and by the time the horses and we are fed and watered, and everything packed up it is 6 and time to start. We have heard that Sherman, or some other general, has taken Alexandria, and so did our work; and it is reported that has got us 12 days behind time. March 21st, 1864.—Breakfasted and packed up for the march in,a shower of rain. The roads were heavy and , weath-1 er cold and raw, so that marching was not very pleasant business. The road followed the Bayou all day, and we went into camp about 3 e'clock. 400rk after, the, rain again commenced, a but notwithstanding, we were quite jolly= is tent, sitting around a fire of wood coals, which we i threw out when it was time to spread our beds. 43this as the 21st ef.nareh, wo suppose "we are tiv ing the equinoctial storm. March, 22d.—Marched as usual, at 6 A. M. The road was very muddy in, deed, and the march tedious . and ttn pleasant, as we wound along the Bayon Bceuf. The country looked well, and the sugar plantations were numerous.; Encamped near Holmesville, a very small village. Seventy-five barrels of `:sugar were found concealed-in the woods near us, and the boys supplied themselves with the article. March 23d.—The road still lies on the banks of the Bayou, bat to•day's march was much better than yesterday's, as the, mad had dried and, yet, there was no dust. We saw, many buildings filled with cotton, and as usual crowds.of no groes, some of whom say "we'ae: iwine , long." Camped in -a beautiful meadow i at Cheneyville, a pretty little place. March 24th.—Marched again on the bank of the Bayou, the Reserve Artillery, composed of a Battalion of the Ist Indi ana Heavy Artillery and our Battery on the right, the other troops on the left side ; but the columns again united. About 11 o'clock rain commenced to fall, and we had a violent storm,,drench ing some of us, and making the roads in some places almost impassable, and we were glad to bivouac even in the mud. March 25th.—To day's march was a pleasant one, though the roads were. heavy in several places from yester day's rain. We passed many fine resi dences, surrounded by beautiful grounds, and the box hedges and fantilytrimmed evergreens, were as handsome as. I ever saw. Entered ALEXANDRIA. about L P. M., and encamped in the outskirts. The, streets were fall of Sherman's troops,- several Divisions of the 16th Attii 17th Corps, under Gen. A. J. Smithy,having occupied the town a week ago: Gene ral Banks and staff, haVing arrived by way of the river, -Watched us passing through. the town. Today, Saturday, we are glad of another rest, and, perhaps, we , may not move again until Monday. Alexandria seems to be quite an enterprising toWn, for the South, and contained before the war, 3500 inhabitants. The Red River is a large and rapid stream, with high banks, and the water is of a dull, red color. A flotilla of gunboats, generally iron -clads, Lies off the town. There are about a dozen of them under command GENESEE of Admiral Porter, and they look , ju.st like the picture@ of them we used to see when Comniedore FoOte came down the Atiasissippi: It is repartedthat another division of ours, the 19th Corps, is com ing up to join us, so that I should judge Banks will have altogether, about forty thousand men for this expedition, and if General Steele comes from Arkansas, there will be a still larger force. Cl : f is hard to tell: Whit we are going to do, but from present appearances we ffirst - move-- against - Shreveport, which is 180 miles above here on the Red River, and we will have the co-op eration of the gunboats. We have had no news on the march, but yeSerdayl got a; New. York Times of the 12th, fora quarter. Your,affectionate son, A :WORD: ABOUT BOOKS. TOY. A MY"DEAR FRIEND:—I.have just lehedl reading • the memoir of •Sastin Aiiihone, a book 4 made up • almost entirely of extracts .from her diary and lletters--+conapiled by.BiShopiLee, of the 'Pretestant . Episcopal church in Dela are: Though rather voluminous, it 'Will'Achly repay a hasty perusal. ; Slie 'belonged to a Quaker' family,' early. in life:becariae a member of the '.Episcopal was devoted to it, as - the ehtrch 'a her choice, but not at all a sectarian. I'rremember while on a visit to the - White Mountains, some seven or eight gears' ago; to have heard Dr. T. P. Thotatscin say of her, that she belonged - to that . class'of persons, who regard the name' of Christian as far , above that of any particular denomination, and whose Memoir might be read with profit by . Christians of all denominations. She was a woman'of much more than ordinary talents, and of rare Christian attainments. and possessing .a warm heart, and of great refinement and beauty of mind, her entire being. 'became subdued and purified by an ordeal of twenty years'• affliction, through which she passed almost with out a murmur, and which yielded in her what the apostle calls " the peaceable fruit of righteousness." Her insight into the spiritual mean ing of the ,Scriptures was remarkable. The Bible was to her no dark and dead .book, but one of light and life. Many of its passages are set in her beautiful let ters " like apples of gold in , pictures of silver." - Have you, ever read " Trench on the Study of Words ?". It is a hook, not large,= nor dry, nor hard, but small .and interesting and very, instructive...He invites us to summon before us the words.wellsi,) bids us : ask them " to give an account of themselves, to say whence they are, and whither, theffond." He represents the prime characteristic of 'a good style to be ".that the words, fit close to the thoughts," as-an elegant dreis fits well. upon a graceful form. And then what a flood of light and beauty does he pour upon certain words ! Take for example the word, "'conscience," which is upon every hodY's lips. Coming as it does from the two Latin words " Con" and "Sciro," he tells us that •it means " Not merely 'that which I know, but that which I know with some one else." And " that other knower whomthe word implies is God," his law making itself known and felt in the heart; and the work of " Con science" is the bringing of each of our• acts and thoughts as a lesser, to be tried and measured by - this as a greater; the word growing out of and declaring that awful duplicity of our moral being which arises from the presence of God in the soul." Or take the word "tribulation," which occurs so often in the New Testament, "meaning "affliction, sorrow, anguish." It is derived, he tells us, from the old Latin word " tribnlum," " which was the thrashing instrument or roller 'hereby the Roman husbandman, sep- arated the corn from the husks ;" and " tribulation" in its primary significance was the act of this separation. Now think of the outward thrashings of persecution, as well as of the inward blows of repentance which the early ,Christians endured, and what a full meaning we have in the passage, " we ninst through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." No one can study this little volume without feeling the truth of Job's ex pression, "How forcible are right words !" - and without being reminded that they, are to be used, not awkwardly and. at 'random, lest we injure ourselves and :others, but with care and caution, just as.a good workman uses his sharp tools. SOmewhere, in his " Synonyms of the New Testament," I think it is, that he speaks of certain words as having been .." glorified" by their introduction into the sacred writings, a far deeper, wider and more spiritual meaning having thereby been given to them. And just here while speaking of books on words, let me recommend to you ," Lectures on the English Language, by George P. Marsh," and " Roget's Thee auras of **Bali Worde,".two valuable 'mks . , which cannot be studied too closely. But first. of .all and kat of all and above all, read and study the Bible., It is "the entrance" of its blessed words that " giveth light." This volume is " the }kingly Sheaf," that stands erect, and before which all other books, both in lit erature and science, must bow, and con fesit_that it is their Lord, " to the glory of God the Father." Sir Mathew . Hale used to say to, his children, ",If I omit reading a portion of the Scripture in the morning , it never goes well , with me through . the day." . Let me beg . of you, my dear fiiend, to read your Bible carefully and prayer fully every , dt!y_i and may He who watches the flight and the .fall - of the sparrow, watch over yon,,and keep . you as " the apple of the eye" is the' prayer of Your own.truo friend, KARNAIM. WOLSHIP OF THEORY. " Whatever you put into a man,"" says Jeremy Taylor, quaintly, "it -will smell of the vesseliitis 'a man's niind ; that gives the emphasis; and makes ,your, argument , to prevail." It is certainly humiliating to human nature to consider how broadly this.truth finds its applica tion. The stained glass- wilt lend its hue to the .colorless: water which is ponied into it, and ao• the: /mind,dia colored, asit were, by' passion, pride, prejudice -or false sympathy, will stain , the simplest truths of - morals or religion with its own errors. In spite of the admonition of centuries of experience, men are too apt to conform fact to fancy, and turning their wishes into prophets; they find them more pliable than the Hebrew monarch did Mictiitth. Berkeley's theory has= gone the way of thousands of other - theories, but the grain of truth in the bottoin of it abides yet. We make the world we., live in. We people it with our own imagination& We converse, perhaps, oftener with its shadows than. with the practical duties of real life. Man's heart is the victim of its own a priori logic. The scientific enthusiast—for there are enthusiasts in science as well as religion—dreams out some favorite hypothesis. He falls in love with it. He makes it the standard of fact. If fact will not conform to it, so much the worse for fact. There is no Brocrautes' bed so rigid and unyield ing as that favorite theory. Take, the development hypothesis, or that which, in spite of all disclaimers, lies at, the foundation of the so-called Positive Phi losophy, and it would-be simply amusing,- but for the serious IniAitothat" may facar..,..te-setrfiiiwAratti , raust be racked ( and every joint dislocated, that it may be made to fit a bed that becomes a martyr's bier. It would be almost incredible, were it not for the lessons of actual experience, how far men can be carried by their allegiance to a favorite theory. It, be comes the- god of thir idolatry. it seems a privilege to sacrifice and barn incense to it. It is the scholar's fetal?... Grim as a Philistine Dagon, it is adored with the blindness of a devotee. We wonder sometimes at the chivalrous ser vility with which the non-juror of English history sacrificed his manhood to an unreasoning loyalty, and lavished affection on the despicable object which he called the Lord's Anointed. Bat he was the victim of a theory that trans formed his nature, and the value of_ all else was tested by the measure in Wich it could be made subservient to that theory. Not unlike him is the man who puts his ideal or philosophy, crude or elaborate, in place of an idol of flesh and blood, and then, with the old jure divino spirit, swears to it unfaltering allegiance. It is said that when La Place carried his Mechanique Celeste to Napoleon for presentation, the - Emperor was busy arranging some concordat with the Pope. So, with his mind tending toward what he called religious affairs—meaning, however, theologicopolitical—he read La Place's preface= and said, " I am sur prised you do not mention the name of , God." "Sire," replied the mathemati. Oen, " I have not felt the need of that hypothesis."* The existence of God was mot neceSsary to, his theory, and it was oonseqttently omitted altogether. One can but be reminded, in this, con nection, of that more recent countryman of La Place who has attempted to write - the life of Christ, but has left Christ out. A supernatural, a Divine Redeemer, to whose mandate nature bowed in homage, and whom wind and seas obeyed, was not necessary to his theory.; nay, was rather an encumbrance to it, and was of course left out. Writing as an artist, he felt the force of the suggestion in Blair's " Grave": " What would offend the eye in a good picture, The painter casts discreetly in the shade." We need such facts as these to explain the strange tenacity with which men *Jo zed tgoave beeoin de cette hypothese often cling to irreligion and sceptical errors. There is a fascination in the object which they have intellectually adered-thitt - blinds them to their own unreasonableness, and they are in fact most unphilosc•phidal with the word philosophy oftenoist on their lips. It is as vaityperhaps, to attempt to reason with them as, two centuries ago, it would have. been with- the old. Cavaliers, . who became frantic in their, devotion to their exiled monarch, and whCse religion was summed up in drin, ng to his health, aid c ursing 'fold Noll." We , , find human- nature—strangely -allying strength with weakness—the Same how that it was - when astrology was accointed a science, and . : 'shall be apt to be unduly influenced by great names and high authority, unless we stidfiviet we inlay call- the' cedytiaity of theory„'-and .learn how truly, in morals as Well as in politics; Oxenstiern's famous applies. La Place, dispensing with a God, Baxter and