Sorttopondocie.
PROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.
LONDON, April 23, 1863.
SIIAKSPEARE AND GARIBALDI
This is the Anniversary of SBAKSPEARE ' S
birthdry I Three centuries ago on this day,
a little, lively babe was brought into the lot
tery of life, whose golden lips were to utter
words imperishable so long as language
standeth. Now when I have said that and
brought home to my memory the man, his
genius, his works, the thousand thousand
thoughts for which I am indebted to him,
the thousand beauties he has opened up to
me, the rich legacy of pleasure he left which
is ample enough for all posterity—l know I
have done as much as he would have wished
me to do, could he have expressed to me his
desires to-day. As for statues, busts, stage
burlesques of his glorious plays, vast gather-
ings of foolish people to listen to turgid ora
tory, to dance in huge tents, to see the pub
lic fool of the day, signalizing the gr,)at man'S
birth by Drundreary jokes, to listen to
Italian singers, singing never so sweetly,
songs that have no earthly relation to his fine
fancies, who can doubt that, could he now
look out over England and see the character
of the commemoration which his country
men are engaged in while I write, ho would
break forth in melodious but angry satire and
regret ? The excitement—if there is any
is confined to a few ; indeed some say that
the celebration will be a failure, but that re
mains to be seen. Stratford will be gay for
a week : and this afternoon an immense
meeting of workingmen, will be held at
Primrose Hill, where they are 'going to plant
a tree given for the purpose by the Queen,
the most sensible and appropriate thing yet
proposed to be done.
Whatever failure there may be in the
Shakspeare demonstration, the Garibaldi
reception in England has been throughout a
splendid ovation. Every class has agreed to
do honor to the great liberator of Italy.
From the hour when he set foot in England,
the excitement has been unprecedented and
continuous. He has been staying in London
with the Duke of Sutherland : has been feted
by the nobility and overwhelmed with depu
tations from the coistinonalty. On Saturday
I took a Philadelphia friend to see him at
the Crystal Palace and have never seen such
a demonstration. From twenty-five to fifty
thousand of the most respectable people in
London, were there to receive him. So re
spectable and orderly a concourse I never
saw. It was the demonstration of the upper
classes. Another for the working classes
took place on Monday, but they actually did
not turn out in as great numbers. I saw him
again on Wednesday, at the Guildhall, when
the freedom of the city was presented to
him. The crowd along his route to the city
was a prodigy. Charing Cross, the Strand,
Fleet Street, Ludgate Hill, St. Paul's Church-,
yard, Cheapaide, King Street, the Guildhall
yard, were lined throughout with thronging,
shouting thousands. How they shouted—
how they surged I How touching it was to
see the warrior, pale and. thrilled with strong
emotion, as lie saw and recognized the love
of liberty in this great English people ; and
what a voice to tyrants was that loud, swel
ling, sonorous hurrah, just now a paean of
joy but easily convertible into the thunder
of revenge! There are some great men of
whom you may say that you are sorry to have
seen them, since their bodily presence is
weak and the romance of grandeur is lost in
the reality of insignificance. But it is not so
with Garibaldi. I have rarely seen a nobler
face. So broad, so powerful, so expressive,
and yet so benign. I saw him standing out
on a platform, supporting himself on his
stick—for he is yet weak—his gracefnl grey
cloak thrown up over the right shoulder and
displaying its scarlet lining, his noble fore
head and grey locks, distinct and silvered by
the light, waving his soft "wide-awake" and
bowing gently to the vast crowd beneath,
who were singing, and hurraing, and waving
hats and handkerchiefs in uncontrollable ex
citement. I shall never forget it : such a
view of such a man, and the hearty, whole
some recognition of the great principles of
freedom which ho personifies—he would be a
bad man who could see it and get no good.
No small stir has been occasioned by the
announcement that Garibaldi, after a week's
stay, is about to return to Caprera, and
against his will. It came out on Tuesday
that Mr. Gladstone and others had recom
mended the general to go home. Political
reasons were at once and naturally attributed
to this advice, and the Emperor of the French
was said to be the cause of it. The feeling
was very strong, and had it appeared that
the Government had lent itself to any such
arrangement on behalf of the Emperor of the
French; they would have gone out in a storm
of popular reprobation. Both, Lord Claren
don and Lord Palmerston, denied that the
advice•was given for political reasons, and
Mr. Gladstone last night explained that he
had counseled the withdrawal at the instance
of Garibaldi's friends, who feared that his
health would suffer under the numerous calls
that popular enthusiasm made upon him,
and also that his reputation might be injur
ed by his being made too cheap. People are
not satisfied, however, and it really seems as
if there were some political conjuring behind
the scenes. Austria does not like to see her
enemy the favorite of England, and Napoleon
and Garibaldi are antipodes.
ENGLAND AND THE DANES
Duppel has last succumbed and the rem
nant of the Danish Army is now defending
the last stronghold of Alsen, against the vin
dicitive butchers of Prussia. I blush with
shame, while I write it, that England can
look upon this struggle—the only struggle of
many for long years, for which she had the
warrant of principle and right to draw her
sword,—with such apathy, and I fear that
we and our posterity shall bitterly regret the
Clay when the fair honor of England was sac
rificed to the mercenary intereste of the com
mercial classes.
MATTERS IN THE CHURCH OP ENGLAND
Another stage has been reached in the
great " Essay and Review" question. The
convocation of the Province of Canterbury,
met on Wednesday, and a deputation from
the Lower House waited on the House of
Bishops with a gravamen, signed by forty
members of the ;Lower House, condemning
the book known as " Essays and Reviews."
It is rather a curious thing that DR. STANLEY
was one of those who took the gravamen up
to the Higher house. The Bishop of Oxford
made a long speech, in which he urged that
the book ought to be condemned: though
the Privy Council had given a legal decision
in regard to the persons who had written
these obnoxious essays, it was still open to
Convocation, and was indeed its duty to
condemn the publication : and he moved the
appointment of a Committee to consider and
report on the subject.
He said that the course of the recent suit
had settled that the powers of the Court which
disposed of it, of inquiring into charges of un
sound teaching, were lithited to certain
specific propositions expressly contradicting
other specfic propositions contained in the
Articles and formularies of the Church. They
had no means of travelling. beyond that
Court, no means of interpreting passages by
contexts; -although they had the power of
referring to the context to explain away the
charges preferred. They had no 'power to
refer to God's Word, to the doctrines of the
Holy Catholic Church, or to the six general
councils, or to what had been considered the
rule of heresy in this realm of England; but
were limited strictly by the letter of the
formularies. Therefore they were reduced
to this point of consideration—that the
Chuch of England had no means ascertain:.
ing whether the teaching of a clergyman was
sound or unsound, except by propositions or
extracts, which the Courts could only. judge
of by the letter of the Articles and formula
ries ; that any false teaching developed in the
Church must remain unrebuked except
through the Article, which were drawn up
from time to time to meet other errors. The
particular error under consideration they
were totally unable to reach. If they rested
Content with the power of criminally convict
ing for error of doctrine in the courts of law,
the power of the Church, as a Church, for pro
testing against forms of, false doctrine, was
gone. But that he believed that great pro
vincial synod of the country afforded an
escape from this, he shoUldregard such a dis
cision _as had recently been given of the
gravest importance to their common Church.
If the Bishop does not see now that this de
cision is of the gravest importance, it is only
because he is on the wrong side of the scene
to have a proper view. At any time, the
Government can disperse Convocation and
put an end to the discussion, and it is not like
ly that any great practical benefit would arise
from the mere private expression of the views
of leaders in the church. If those views can
not be enforced upon all her ministers the
variances in opinion and teaching will be
come more and more scandalous and wide,
until the house divided against itself, must
fall. After some discussion on Thursday, a
vote was taken on the Bishop of Oxford's
motion. Five were for it and five against,
amongst the latter the Bishop of London.
The prospect of evangelical unity in the Es
tablishment are discouraging.
" A circular letter from the association of
churchwardens, past and present, to the
churchwardens of parishes in the Diocese of
London," has been sent about, containing
an article from the Daily Telegraph. in which
that radical and free-thinking organ—lou
have a nice specimen of the writers in George
Augustus Sala, now or recently with you—
.
softrided the trumpet for Colenso's attack on
the Pentateuch. The Bishop of London is
set up as its hero.
seems that his lordship " wisely thinks
it a great deal more important, to carry the
Gospel," to this " civilized heathendom"
than " to play in Convocation at ecumeni
cal councils." With obvious reference to
the Bishop's conduct in regard to the judg
ment on the Essays and Reviews, we are told
that "he has given the cold shoulder to
bigotry and persecution." Finally, we are
told that the work in which Dr. Tait is en
gaged " is a crusade which has been left alone
for the sake of squabbling over Mosaic rags of
ritual and legend." But, it is added, " a he
roic spirit has sounded the attack, and hea
ven itself promises success in such a war."
So says the Record. What are we all com
ing to ?
Dr. Duff arrived safely on Capetown on the
2d of February, where he remains two
months.
The Synod of the English Presbyterian
church met on Monday at Newcastle, upon
Tyne. The Rev. John Frazer was chosen
moderator. All the schemes of the church
are wonderfully prosperous, and arc reported
as considerably in advance of last year. The
endowment for church erection and exten
sion has been completed ; nearly £25,000,
having been raised, and the Synod ismot
posed to stop here. There was a long debate
on Union, the particulars of which I suppose
you will see in The Weekly Review. My infor
mation is through a letter from Professor
Levi and from a friend who was there. The
Rev. John Jenkins, D. D., late of Philadel
phia, was received into the English Presby
terian Church on a petition from the London
Presbytery, sustainedby the Rev. Dr. Hamil
ton and Rev. Wm. Ballantyne. The recep
tion was most cordial, and the credentiais
presented from the third Presbytery of
Philadelphia, were accepted without chalL
lenge or remark. In your own American
phraseology, he Was received on the sole
condition of answering " the constitutional
questions." ADELPROS.
NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
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west of the Rocky mountains and across
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Ireland, in various States of the West;
in the cities of Philadelphia and Wil
mington, and in the surrounding country.
We reprint our prospectus containing
list of premiums, to which we would call
the attention of our friends and of those
into Whose hands the paper may fall.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, ]SAY 19, 1864.
FROM OUR ROOKEBTER OORRESPON-
DEAR EDITOR :—While we write, our
city is wild with excitement over the
good news of successes to our arms. It
is hard work to think or write of any
thing else just now ; and if these suc
cesses continue at the present rate for a
week longer, very few will want to
read of anything else. We aro glad;
we are thankful; and we rejoice with
trembling. Oh, for a continuance of
this great favor !
But success brings sorrow also. Yes
terday and to-day intelligence has.been
coming to stricken households; and
father and brother have started in
sorrow to bring home the wounded, or
get the remains of the dead, Whom they
.
love now more than ever. lanie of our
young men .are also starting while we
write to offer their services to t't e Sani
tary'Cormnission, to care for the wound
ed wherever their .help may be i ceded.
Rev. .Dr. Giidley,' who has b
twenty-seven or twenty-eight y ars,.we
believe, the able and• honored p tor of
the Presbyterian Church at terloo,
t
has recently received a very ha'. dsome
"testimonial" of the affectionate - garde
of his people, and. a token o their
appreciation of his services," n the
shape of a purse with $520 in it. t was
well and handsomely done. Thl
tor is well known to be one i
ablest and best men. Highly
lectual, thoughtful, studious, juc
and faithful, hy his long service I
won a large 'Place in the hearts
people, and in the respect and
dence of his brother ministers. He
done much , for his Society ; fed t'l
with sound doctrine, guided theta
discretion in their spiritual aft
helped them with good counsel, a 1
few years since, with much per
effort in building their church e •
and more recently in cancelling
debt upon it. His appreciative pe
are not unmindful of the service,
hence this pleasant demonstration
ITRAcA.-:-On the first Sabbath'
May, as part of the fruit of the roc
revival in this place, thirty-six pers,
were received into the Presbyter
Church, and twenty-four into the Du
Reformed. We learn also that R
Dr. Torrey, of the Presbyterian Char,' ,
is about starting for Tennessee, to ta .
his vacation in the service of the Clap
tian Commission. Wo doubt not )ke
will be very useful, and trust he m4y.
also find genuine recreation and increag ,
of vigor and health in his benevolo
employment.
MT. Itioanis.—Thirty-nine have r 6
cently been gathered into the _Presbytt.
rian Church in this place, under care o
Rev. Levi Parsons, Jr. Ten or a dozes
more, it is thought, will unite at 6.,
next communion:
, LE Igor..—Thirty were received las
Sunday to the Presbyterian Church i.
this beautiful village, and others, it 1•
hoped, will come at another tim:
These are true tokens of divine favo
toward our churches. There are ()the
signs of progress. In JORDAN they ar.,
remodeling and improving their churc
edifice, at a cost of some $3OOO. I
LIMA they are getting a new organ i
In Lafayette • Street Church, Buffalo
there is unusual religious interest. .Th
pastor, Dr. Heaeock, has been preachin
every evening. We shall hope to mak . .
a minute of results in due time.
The following young men were li
tensed last week, at Auburn, by the
Presbytery of Cayuga : Henry Ward,
Albert True, John V. C. Nails, MIA
Biggan, Henry C. Hazen, Thomas F
Chafer, Clarence H. Beebe, Abel S
Wood, Thomas E. Davis.
We last week met Chaplain Read, 1,
the 76th U. S. Intantry (colored), 1 -
cently from his regiment in the Son
west. In one year one hundred d
sixty of 'his regiment had learned to
read, while in the service of the U ' el
States. This is but a specimen of ti a
which is going on among these lo g
neglected blacks. No sooner does the
opportunity offer than they show won
derful eagerness to learn to read, as
well as to handle the gun and the sword;
and truly they arc using their privi
leges well.
The good people of New York Mills,
the Walcotts, the Campbells, and others,
have recently contributed $450 toward
the relief of loyal sufferers in East Ten
nessee—generous for the place.
Rev. Orlo Bartholomew, who was for
a long time pastor of the church in
Augusta, Oneida county, and an es
teemed and excellent member of the
Presbytery of Utica, after a lingering
sickness, died in Augusta, on the 7th
inst., aged 62 years. GENESEE.
RocaEsTER, May 13, 1864.
On account of delay in receiving
building material, the laying of the
corner-stone of Olivet Church,•will pro
bably be deferred till Monday the 30th.
Due notice will be givenin the churches 7
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LETTER TO A NORTHERN SECESSIONIST,
WHO COMPLAINED OF THE ALIENATION
OF HIS FORMER FRIENDS.
You allude with great bitterness to
the altered manner of your old acquaint
ances since the breaking out of the
rebellion. Considering the stand you
have taken, in uniformly censuring the
policy and measures of the Government;
in apologising for the rebellion and
justifying its enormities; in charging
the origin of the war to the North, and
expressing unequivocal satisfaction in
every reverse of the Union armies and
every advantage gained for the rebel
lion; you ought not to be surprised
that true, patriotic men regard these
developments with stern disapproba
tion. Yon. seem to forget that opposi
tion to the, best interests of your 'coun
try, marks a greater change in yourself
than any you , complain)of in others.
In many cases during the war, the
friendships of a quarter century have
been sacrificed to party prejudices. We
might expect the men who could sacri
fice their country, to sacrifice every
minor interest.
In the spring of 1861, a gentleman of
Maryland invited an old friend in Vir
ginia to attend the marriage of his son ;
unwilling to believe that the recent
secession developments could influence
their life-long attachment. The letter
was immedia,tely returned with these
words : "Keep your free-nigger invitations
to yourself, and don't be sending them to
Southern gentlemen!" This man should
not complain of the altered manner of
his old friends.
Treason is, a higher crime than mur
der; inasmuch as murder takes the life
of one person, while treason aims at the
life of a nation. No man can do a
worse thing for himself, his children,
and his children's children, than to be
on the wrong aide of this great conflict
that is now agitating the whole country.
His course will mark him in the present,
and the memory of it follow him, like
the reputation of Benedict Arnold,
through all future time. You recollect
when Arnold was in Paris, a stranger
about to sail for America requested a
letter of introduction to some of his
friends. Arnold replied, he was perr aps
the only man of whom it might be said
that he had not a single friend in
America.
There is an involuntary shrinking
from and aversion to such as are op
posed to the great foundation principles
which underlie the deep interests of
humanity ; the sympathies which ab
sorb our whole nature. This is sensibly
felt when a Christian comes in contact
with an avowed infidel; when a man of
\pure integrity is thrown into the society
of a swindler; and still more, when a
true patriot finds that his neighbor
would readily betray his country. It
is the principle recognized by the
Saviour, when h e says : " The prince of
this world cometh, and hath nothing in me I"
—no sympathy, no confidence, no love,
no faith, no hope !" "Hz RATH NOTHING
IN ME !" Every man should love his
country next to Heaven. He should be
willing to do more and sacrifice more
for it, than for any earthly interest,
personal or social. Do you know what
YOUR COUNTRY means? It cannot be
better defined than in the words of the
veteran soldier in urging his young
relative to take up arms in its defence.
After telling him that his country is
in danger, he adds: " Perhaps you have
never thought what your country means.
!It is all that surrounds you, all that has
brought you up and fed you, all that
you have loved. This country that you
see, these houses, these trees, those
girls that go along there laughing—this
is your country ! The laws which
protect you, the bread which pays for
your work, the words you interchange
with others, • the joy and grief which
come to you from the men and things
among which you live—this is your
country ! The little room where you
used to see your mother, the remem
brances she has left you, the earth
where she rests—this is your country !
`You see it, you breathe it everywhere!
Think to yourself of your rights and
our duties, your affections and your
ants, your past and your present bless
]. gs; write them all under a single
me, and that name will be—your
ountry 1"
"I understand," said the young man,
' 't is our home in large; it is that part
o the world where God has placed our
b dy and our soul."
"You'are right; do you comprehend
also what we owe'to it ?"
"Truly, we owe to it all that we are ;
it is a question of love."
" And of honesty, my son ; the mem
ber of a family who does not contribute
his share of work and of happiness, fails
in his duty, and is a bad kinsman; the
member of a partnership who does not
enrich it with all his might, with all his
courage, and with all his heart, defrauds
it of what belongs to it, and is a dis
honest man ;• it is the same with him
who enjoys the advantages of having a
country, and does not accept the bur
dens of it ; he forfeits his honor and is a
bad citizen."
" And what must one do to be a good
citizen ?"
"Do FOR YOUR COUNTRY WHAT YOU
WOULD DO FOR YOUR FATHER AND MO
THER!"
The man who would divide this
glorious country and break it up into
worthless fragments, does not know
what love of country means; he, does
not understand the first principles: of
patriotism. He who would unbind the
golden chain which holds these States
in united strength; who would exert his
influence to destroy the most beneficent
Government upon which the sun ever
shone since the morning stars sang
together for joy at the creation ; and
do this in support of the darkest system
of despotism ever existing in any land,
has not one spark of sympathy with his
race, nor interest in the progress of light,
human freedom and happiness.
To degrade the reputation, lessen the
power and dignity of the country by
destroying the Union, would be like
renting out the grand old family man
sion where your ancestors have lived
for an hundred years, where your own
childhood was passed and your own
children were born; renting every room
to a thriftless family, where squalor
and degradation would look out of every
window and mark every doorway. The
man who could aid in such a work,
loves his country just as the child loves
his home who is endeavoring by false
hood and calumny to separate his father
and mother; he loves his country as the
woman of Israel loved her child, when
she consented that Solomon should
divide its quivering body, rather than
yield the rights of maternal affection to
her rival.
Secession sympathizers are fond of
saying, in apology for the course they
pursue, that the North and South are
essentially two people—two distinct
nations—and, as such, ought to be sepa
rated. They know the untruthfulness
of this assertion in their hearts, while
they make it with their lips. They
know there is not a leading family
North or South that is not connected
by marriage relations or business com
pacts. The citizens of this Republic
are just as much one people as CAIN
and ABEL were members of one family !
—belonging to the same nation, as the
early secessionists,
Those trackless fugitives, the lost Ten Tribes,"
belonged to the house of Israel !
They who urge this difference loudest
are recreant Northerners, who, false to
the land which nurtured them, are
equally false to every other claim.
Were we, as they pretend to believe,
essentially two distinct nations, then
their guilt is increased tenfold, in sym
pathizing wholly and openly with a
foreign foe while they have no heart for
the interests of their own country. But,
we are one people as we are one land—
forced by jealousy and temporary
alienation into deadly conflict; and
every true heart and hand should unite
in removing the causes and suppressing
the outbreak ; until, like the great rivers
which carry their thousand bounty_
laden tributaries from the North to the
Savannahs of the South, their accumu
lating current may again,
"Like kindred drops be mingled into one."
Though perhaps riot the primary
occasion of the war, SLAVERY, by the
terrible passions it has nurtured—the
unspeakable wrongs it has sheltered—
has been the original source of the
alienation, the bitterness and the violence
of the South. There was never any dan
ger to the country in Freedom, while there
was always danger in Slavery ! There
can be no danger in removing a barrel
of gunpowder from the basement of a
dwelling-house, but immense danger in
allowing it to remain there.
Union people, far more than secession
sympathizers, pray earnestly for these
misguided, deluded amen, who have
desolated their own hearths, wasted
their own heritage and despoiled their
own glory;—that they may be saved
from• their own madness and folly.
They ha;7e already laid inthe dust the
pride of their families : " There is not a
house in which there is not one dead 1"
When the burdened heart inquires :
" How long, 0 Lord ?" the answer seems
to come back, as of 'old : “Until the
cities be wasted without an inhabitant !"
Many, who abhor :their
from arelLeart-:
" Show pity, Lord, 9 Lord forgive !
Let these repenting rebels live !"
Until the war is over, and peace and
union restored, we know no friends but
the friends of our country. F.
Information respecting Pennsylvania
soldiers in the hospitals of Philadelphia
may be obtained by application to
Joseph. Parker, Chief of Hospital Com
mission, at the rooms of the Young
Men's Christian Association, No. 1011
Chestnut Street.
PROGRESS AMIDST DIFFIOULTIES.
REV. EDITOa may be some grati
fication to know, that notwithstanding
all the difficulties under which we Libor
in lowa, and often from quarters least
expected, that substantial progress is
made at some points.
SACRAMENTAL MEETING AT MARENGO
The sacramental services at Marengo,
about thirty miles west of this place, on
last Lord's day and Friday previous,
were attended with much interest to
our church there. Rev. L. B. Rogers,
their minister had labored thus far with_
out any ordinances except a s adminis
tered during the Spring session of lowa
City Presbytery, and without any elders;
the only one being absent in the war.
In this extremity, the good providence
that rules over all, sent a young deacon
from the Dutch Reformed Church of
Raritan, N. Y., with his letter to our
church; and disposed an honored mem
ber of the church who has long labored
and resided at Marengo, to accept office.
So these two were chosen, and set apart
as ruling elders of the church, prepara
tory to the Lord's Supper, on which oc
casion six in all, one by profession and
five by letter, were welcomed into
church fellowship. Two came from the
Welsh Congregational Church and two
from the Protestant Episcopal Church,
and one, as before stated, from the Dutch
Reformed Church, showing with what
favor our church and their acceptable
minister are meeting.
On Sabbath evening the church edi
fice was filled with chiltiren, youth and
adults, though a rainy night, to attend
a Sunday-school concert and hear ad
dresses, the Methodist Episcopal Sun
day-school and minister meeting in the
assembly.
The only difficulty now, seems to be
a house for the pastor to in. When
will our Assembly move on the subject
of parsonage funds for our feeble
churches ? It is quite needful that some
thing be done. With two or three hun
dred dollars bonus, our feeble churches
would be stirred up to get homes fer
their ministers, next in importance to
houses of worship.
.Indeed, some other
denominations, for example the Metho
dist Episcopal churches " seek first," in
every station or circuit, a home for the
preacher, often preaching for years any
where, rather than not having a house
of their own for their own minister;
and the conferences give a bounty on
families. Let us learn wisdom from a
great denomination that does the big
gest business of any on the least capital.
The Roman Catholics also have a man
sion for their wifeless priests; and they,
too, are making progress and securing
permanence in the country.
SCOTT CHURCH
The church of Scott, and congregation
of Downey, east, of lowa City, are again
destitute, from Rev. Wm. M. Fain leav
ing them to go to Missouri. The people
have done better than they ever did be
fore, in subscriptions and donations.
OLIVET'OHIIHOH SABBATH SOHOOL
ANNIVEB,BARY.
The Ninth Anniversary of the Olivet
Sabbath School, was celebrated last
Thursday night, the 12th inst.
It was an - animated and pleasing
affair. Tho singing of numerous hymns
by the children, the Superintendent's
Report and four addresses, were all put
within two hours. The singing under
the training and leading of Mr. Gaut,
was admirably conducted.
The school and audience were ad
dressed by Mr. James Grant, Mr.
Charles Godfrey, Rev. D. C. Eddy,
D. D. and the pastor, Rev. W. W. Tay
lor. The speaking was strictly to the
point and full of interest, Dr. Eddy ad
dressing himself to teachers and friends
in a most animating and impressive
manner.
The Union Hymn with the waving
of the little flags, was received with ap
plause.
" Division ? No never !
" The "Union forever,
"And cursed be the hand,
"That our country would sever !"
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
lOWA. CITT, May 7, 1864.
This is to acknowledid ti.... x . ego i pt of
$lO in Sunday school library books from
the Assembly's Committee of Publica - /
tion eaticurrame.a. th ,
concurrence with the agency of 1916
City Pressytery devolving on Rev. gam
nibal L. Stanley, of Lyeae, has been
sent to Rev. Goo. E. W. Leonaxa, near
Cedar Rapids, who has been laboring of
late with two churches as pastor, on a
$3OO salary, he raising $5 for our Pres
byterial Book concern. This donation
of $lO came from Otis Allen, Esq., of
Albany, N. Y., in quick response to an
appeal for books for our feeble churches
and their ministers. All similar dona
tions will be duly acknowledged.
SAMITRL STORRS HOWE.
Stated Clerk of the Sy-hod of lowa.
lOWAN