14k ditoirlo MITCHELL. Seven Stories, with Basement and_ Attic. By the author of "My Farm of Bdgewood." - New York: Charles Scribner. 12mo, pp. 314, laid, tinted paper; bevelled boards. Philadelphia: For sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. Mr. Mitchell; who has become one of the established favorites of the reading public, has gathered into this volume a number of his magazine articles, and hung them together upon a thread of foreign travel. The introduction is gantly written and the tales are marked by a gentle pathos, a delicate humor and a smooth and pleasing diction, which are very entertaining. But be yond entertainment of a pure and unob jectionable sort, we cannot perceive that the author has any object. The pub lisher has issued the volume in very elegant style. RATMOND. History of the Administration of President Lincoln. Including his Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclama tions and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of his Life. New York : J. C. - . - Derby & N. C. Miller. 12mo, pp. 496, with Portrait and Index. For sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. Although Mr. Raymond professes chiefly to give documents and public utterances of Mr. Lincoln, the narrative by which he links them together, is one of deep interest, and some startling re velations of the moving forces at work in various periods of the war are given. The topics treated aro : Mr. Lincoln's previous history; From the Election to the Inauguration ; Military Events of 1861 ; The President and Gen. McClel lan ; Arbitrary Arrests; Suspension of habeas corpus; Military Events of 1863; Movements towards Reconstruction ; The Rebellion and Labor; AdvaUeing Action Concerning the Negro Race, &c.- Mr. Lincoln's character suffers no in jury, but the contrary, as we aloe thus admitted to nearer views of its work ings-under the great pressure of events. Shrewdness, good sense, straightfor ward honesty, patience, real sincere de votion to the interests of the country, and no mean share of administrative ability, appear in these documents and transactions. While we are not of those who see only what is right and wise in Mr. Lincoln's administration, we are firmly persuaded that the elevation of a man of his character to the chief seat of power in our Nation at thiS time, is a clear proof of divine mercy to the Na tion, and that impression is strengthen ed in glancing over Mr. Raymond's book. Mr. Barr - loud, as editor of the Yew York Times, has had ample oppor tunity to familiarize himself with the topics of the volume, and his talents as a writer as well as his political career, qualify him to present a work that may be both read with pleasure and depend ed on for its facts and reasonings. REVIEWS, 3IAGAZINES, Messrs. L. Scott & Co.'s indispensable raprint of the leading British Reviews, continues to be issued and no increase has yet been made to the exceedingly low prices, at which they aro published. From W. B. Lieber, agent in Philadel- phia, we have received THE EDINBURGH. 'LPN - .taw for April. Contents: Diary of a Lady of Quality ; History of Highways ; Basque' Country; Human Sacrifices and Infanticide in In dia; Charles Victor de Bonstetten ; British North America; Rifled Ordi nance in England and France; Kirk's Charles the Bold; Ronan's Life of Jesus. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW for April. Contents. Basin of the Upper Nile and its Inhabitants; Strikes and Industrial Co-operation; Abolition of Religious Tests; Prerogative of Pardon and the Punishment of Death ; Nov Zealand ; Tai no's History of English Literature; Philosophy of Roger Bacon. Contem porary Literature. THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for June. Cort ,, nts : A Talk about Guides; The Kalit of Baldacca ; Life on the Sea Is lands, II; Fast Day at Foxden ; Pros pice ; Washington Irving; The Rim II; The Nova; Robson; The Parallel Roads of Glenroy, in Scotland; Under the Cliff; Seven weeks in the Great Yo Semite; House and Home Papers; Shakespeare; How to use Victory; Re views and Literary Notices. A lauda tory notice of the unsound speculations of Herbert Spender mars these notices. THE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE for June, is embellished with a splended full length portrait of George Peabody, the Liberal American in England. Its contents in clude Tiva Dynamical Theory of Heat; Revolutions in English History; Pro blems in Human Nature • Danish Dutehies ; Races of the Old World; Last Days of Dr. Johnson; Nineteenth Century; Mother of the Wesleys, &e. W. H. Bidwell, No. 5 Beekman, St., New York. LITERARY ITEMS THE ALLEN SALE.—The sale of the libra ry of the late well-known antiquarian, Mr. John Allen, which commenced is New York, May 2, is reportedsas having been remarkably sacoessfal. Some of the pri ces obtained were indeed extraordinary. The total amount reached by the sale was $15,000. The excitement and corn. petition were manifest in the high rates reached by many articles. The works were profusely illustrated, and in some oases every page was inlaid. An illus trated edition of Burns ' five volumes, sold for $2OO. Byron's "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," 145 portraits, views, etc., and 44 autographs, $130; another edition, with 110 portraits, etc., $2O; Dibdin's " Bibliomania," 2 vols., illustrated,, s72o;lrving's " Knick Y er bocker's History of New York," extend ed to folio, and illustrated with 275 plates, $1250: another copy, with 107 plajcs, $400; a third copy, $55; "Mary, Queen of Scots," illustrated with 236 portraits, views, etc., $375. A respect able number of missals realized on the average about $75 each; one, however, described in the catalogue as " Missal° Splendidissima," brought $4OO. Even the large paper copies of the catalogue are now reported as being worth $B, and the small ones $2, the - latter being pub lished, we believe, at 50 cents. One of the rarest and noteworthy articles in the sale was the Eliot Indian Bible. It was purchased by Mr. J. W. Bouton, .book seller, of New York, for $825, as above stated. It is one of those bibliographi cal gems which has great value on both sides of the Atlantic, and it is not likely that an opportunity for collectors to supply themselves will soon occur again. It is understood that Mr. Bouton will entertain a 9 offer of purchase at a reasonable advance upon the price paid by him. A NF.IV MAGAZINE FOR BOYS.--310613Fi. J. E. Tilton & Co., Boston, will soon publish a new juvenile magazine for boys, which they intend shall be supe rior to any similar periodical here or in Europe. We understand, says Childs' Circular, that the best writers of England and America will contribute, and the first artists will engage in the illustra tions. NEWWORKB.—Messrs. Mason Brothers, of New York, announce a Life of Ben jamin Franktin, 2 vols., Svo, by Mr. Par ton. Chas. Scribner is about issuing Maine's Ancient Law; _Religion and Chem istry, by Prof. S. P. Cook, Jr, and the second series of Modern Philology by Benj. W. Dwight; each in 1 vol., Svo. -Messrs. R Carter and Bro., announce a large list, including The whole works of Jonathan Edwards; _ The Child'S Bunyan, a new story by the author of the " Wide . Wide World," Doctrinal Discourse by Eminent Clergymen, in New York, &c. FOREIGN The continental correspondent of Childs' Literary Gazette writes of Book peddling in France, that within the last eight years 20,000 different works had been presented to the Cordmis. sion of Book-peddling for their stamp, which allows the work to be hawked everywhere in France. This mark was refused to 4000 different works (among them was M. Renan's f' Life of Jesus"). Book-pedaling in France is a great or ganization, divided into brigades; there are 300 master-peddlers and 3,500 ap prentice peddlers. Their annual sales average 20,090,000 volumes (all of which arestamped); 9,000,000 volumes of these are cheap publications issued at Paris, Rouen, Tours Limoges, and Epinal; 8,000,000 of the volumes nn nual ly sold by them are tainted by immor ality. It is said that book-peddlers were diminishing in number, since they were prohibited from selling pernicious books. MANY EMINENT French writers - keep their most vainable papers in England. MM. Guizot, Thiers, Berryer, Count de hiontalembert, the Duke de Broglie, etc., keep their important papers in the hands o. English friends. KING VITTORE Eme.t.A.NuELE has given to the public library of Naples - the fa mous Firmiana collection of engravings in 221 folio volumes, which contains en graved copies of the most celebrated works of all the masters of every school of painting. This collection was formed by Count Firmian, a Governor of Lom bardy in the latter part of last century : he sold it to Marie Caroline of Austria (who made great additions-to it), and it went from ner into the hands of the ex royal family of Naples, who _placed it in one of their palaces. Tan 'ELI; MI NAT_EI) MAN USCRI PaIS of the Duchess de Berri have been sold. The Livres d'Heures" of King Henry 11. and Queen Catherine de Medicis fetched $12,000; it was purchasedby the French government for the Musee des Souve rains in the Louvre. The " Livre de Chasse de Gaston Phoebus" fetched $1000; it belonged to Francis I. and was given by him to A.dmiral Bonnivet. Ludolphe le Chartrenx's " Liber de Vita Chritti," in three double-column folio volumes, bound in violet velvet, and adorned with a great many minia tures, fetched $760. The amount real ized by the sale of thirty-two MSS. was $19,615. DARWIN'S ORIGIN Or SPECIES.-M. Flourens has published " An Examina tion of Darwin's Origin of Species," in which he not only attempts to demon strate the error of Darwin's theory of the continual transformation of species, but to overthrow Lamarck's theory of our origin from polypes. EMU BURRITT.—The learned black smith has published his " Walk from London to John O'Groat's, with Notes by the Way," and the English reviewers speak well of it. The journey, on foot, from the extreme south of Great Britain to the extreme north, will probably be supplemented by the author's walk trom the Land's End to London. ACTION OF THE CONGREGATION OF ALLENTOWN CHURCH. Whereas in the Providene of God this congregation has of late been enabled to pay off its entire church debt. Therefore, Resolved, That we have renewed cause for deep felt gratitude to almighty God, who put it . into the hearts of the people to contribute so liberally, and that the thanks of this congregation be hereby tendered to all who have contributed, and especially to Mrs. Henry King for her very liberal contribution, and to Win. S. Mat.x.Esq., through whose inde fatigable exertions the subscriptions, to this, object were so speedily secured , and the whole matter brought to so desira ble and successful a termination. ADELPHIA, THURSDAY,-JUNE 2, 1864. torvtopouittrutr. PROM A CHAPLAIN IN BURNSIDE'S DIVISION. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., May 18th BRO. MEARS :—The strange vicissi tudes of army life bring me to date my letter from this rebel town again. I have written to you from North Caro lina, Virginia, Kentucky and Missis sippi, and now once more from Virginia, on my third visit to Fredericksburg first, before we joined Pope in his retreat, when the town was in our pos session ; then, about the time of the first battle of Fredericksburg, under Burn side, When the rebels were in possession ; ; now, when the town is filled with wound ed from the battles of the - Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House. The town is one vast hospital; public and private houses, crowded from roof to basement with the victims ot this horrid strife. The agents of the Sani tary and Christian Commissions, are seen everywhere with the green ribbon of the former or the, metal badge of the, latter, ministering to the bodies and souls of. wounded dud dyiog.men. Here is our Brother Aikm ot Wilmington, busiest among the busy, in the basement of a church filled with sadly mangled human forms. I meet also Mr. Simmons, of Green Hill Church, and Rev. Mr. Johnston of Kensington, with many others with whom lam less acquainted. These brethren are doing a work which, without them, would remain undone, and are the means, I doubt not, of sav ing many lives which would otherwise be necessarily lost, where the labor to be done is so immense and the regular laborers so few. Even of these volun teer nurses, one may well say, what are these among so many? Chaplains cannot.do the work. They are generally to, be found at the brigade and division hospitals on the field, where the wounded are first brought and from which they ars. forwarded its speedily as possible to this place or to Washing ton. If a chaplain comes here, he must look up the wounded of his own com mand who are sc.attered through, per haps, twenty hospital., in various parts of the city, so that his time and strength are frittered away in the mere motion from place to place. But a delegate of the Commission has his own ward to attend to, where he nurses the men, and dresses their wounds, and supplies their wants, and furnishes religious reading, and holdS his religious meet ings wit lout reference to the regiments from which they come. Besides this, they e.eale fresh from home; while the army nurses and chaplains are fagged out with excessive marching, and weak ened by scant rations or poor fare. They can keep up their. strength by the ex citement of novel scenes and employ ment, and then go home in two or three weeks to recover from the fatigues and privations of their present life amid the delights and good fare of home; but we must go OD, with no such hope to cheer us and no such novelty to excite. But I see that already the work is wearing on them. The care-worn face, the drooping form, and weary, step, show that in these abundant labors they are wearing, ; down, and I rejoice that they may soon exchange this work for the quiet and rest and regular meals of home. The intolerable stench of-gun shot wounds, and the stooping posture in dressing the wounds, or in any way helping or talking to men lying < on the floor, rapidly wear out and sicken those engaged in this benevolent work. There is work here for many more self-denying men, and new recruits for this army of toil ought daily to supply the vacancies which may occur in the ranks. On'the Sunday between the fight at the Wilderness and the fight at Spott sylvania, exhausted with the heat and dust and confusion of a march, reader ed doubly wearisome by the contrast with the holy calm of a Sabbath at home, I stopped at a well around which was gathered a crowd of thirsty soldiers, and found a delegate of the Christian Commission, drawing up the bucket, time after time, to fill the canteens and cups, of eager men with clear refreshing water; emblem of that living water, which whosoever drinks, shall thirst no more. A very appropriate work I thought it for a disciple of Him who said that be who should give a cup of cold water in His name, should not lose his reward. Great good are both these Commis sions. doing, and I hope that a. benevo lent public will not let either lack a dol lar necessary for their work; but I wish that Christian men would remember that one is Christian and the other merely Sandary ; that one is for the body and the other for both body and soul • that one seeks worldly means of increasing its funds, and the other Christian means; that the inlluence,of the one is for Christ and the other against him. You may think me un necessarily captious, but I am sorry when I see Christian men choosing to be identified with that which is not Chris tian, when they have an opportunity of choice where their influence shall be felt. I have for years opposed this unequal yoking of believers and unbelievers in benevolent associations, for it throws the influence of Christians in the wrong scale. When any matter comes to a vote, the world always has a majority, and Christians unexpectedly find them selves compelled to sustain some modi fied form of gambling, or aiding and abetting some.: sinful amusement, by which money is wheedled out of unwil ling givers. Keep, I say, the world and the church distant in this matter of benevolence, as in all Christian du - ties, and give all honor to worldly men who seek to bene fit the soldier in their own way, even if it be not our way; but why should we give our sanction to the worldly means by which they seek to accomplish a good end ? Let us go to' the Sick and wounded soldier in our distinctive char acter as . Christians, not with food and clothing and labor only, but with the `Gospel as well; not saying, " Here's a poor devil that wants a shirt, and we must give him one;" not warning off the Christian from a dying man, lest talk about religion should - frighten him and hasten his death; but with all words of gentle Christian courtesy to the hungry and naked, and offers of a dying Saviour to all dying men. I had intended to write more about the campaign thus far, and our march hither ; but must delay it till my next, which shall be written in a few days. WHAT IT OOST TO •BE .A.CHRISTIAN IN THE EARLY OHIIROH. In ancient times, most of the com merce of this world was carried on in the Mediterranean Sea alone. Small trading vessels exchanged the products of Asia Minor or Egypt with those of Italy, France and Spain. Re ligion followed in the tract of commer cial enterprise in those days, much as it does now; so that from Snayrna and other Eastern ports, the early Chris tians carried the Gospel to Lyons and other ports in the West. Persecution was an additional stimulus to the spread of the Gospel, although in the newer 'Western regions, less known than the Eastern, it did not immediately com mence. As early as the second century, however, a fearful persecution began at Lyons under the reign of Marcus Auto ninus. The fury of the .persecuting multitude, the governor and the soldiers, was expended upon pious men and wo men ,alike. Among the holy women was one BLANDINA, of humble station in life, who made no boasting or preten sion of her willingness to suffer; so that her friends feared that on account of the weakness of her body, she - would not be able to witness a good confession. She was endued however with so much strength and fortitude, that those who successively tortured her, from morning to night, were quite worn out with fa tigue, and owned themselves conquered and exhausted. After some days were allowed • her for partial recovery, she Was taken to the amphitheatre along with - many other Christians, to be torn by wild beasts for the entertainment of the assembled thousands. For some reason, the beasts left her untouched, while her constancy and firm faith greatly strengthened the - other martyrs who were dying around her. On the last day of the spectacles, Blan dina was again brought to the Arena with Ponticus, a youth of fifteen. They had been daily brought in to see the punishment of the rest. The mob were greatly incensed by their continued firmness and contempt for suffering ; so that no pity was shown, either the sex of one or the tender age of the other. Their tortures were aggravated by all sorts of methods.—Ponticus soon died, when poor Blandina was enclosed in a net and thrown to a wild bull—under whose tossing she at last breathed out her soul. In the next century a remarkable in stance occurs at Smyrna, daring the persecution of Decius. A Presbyter named PioNius, was much beloved and respected, both by the church and the surrounding heathen. The officers of the Government,had high respect for him, using their best endeavors to induce him to sacrifice to the idols and so to save his life. On his way to prison be addressed the multitude, much as Stephen the first martyr had done. He endeavored, with burning words to convict men of sin and bring them to feel the need of a divine Saviour. The magistrates and people plead With him to renounce his faith. He was taken ,from prison, and, forced with a rope around his neck, to the Idol Temple, where every persuasion and ar tifice were used to induce or compel him to sacrifice and thus save his life. He was finally sentenced to be burnt alive. The martyr went to the stake cheerfully, thanking God that he had been preserved from idolatry. After he Was stretched and nailed to the wood the executioner said to him- " Change your mina and the nails shall be taken out." "I have felt, them," replied Pio- Mina. " I hasten, 0 Lord, that I may sooner be partaker of the resurrection." While the fire was burning around him, he. said "Amen : Lord, receive my soul ;" and so fell asleep. How joyous must have been his re ception in the arms of that Saviour upon whom he had been relying through such fearful trials We,Cbristians of the Nineteenth Cen tury cannot but feel humbled when we think of what it cost to be a Christian in the early church. 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THE AMERICAN IS A HONE COMPANY Its Trustees are well known citizens in our midst entitling it to more consideration than those whose managers reside - in distant cities. Alexander WhilldM, J. Edgar Thomson, George Nugent, lion. James Pollock, Albert C. Roberts P. B. Mingle, ALEXANDER WitILLDIN, President SAMUEL WORK, Vice President. JOHN C. SIMS, Actuary. JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treasurer. CHARLES G. ROBESON, Asst. Secretary 0$ I-I IN' BY E. H. GILLETT. Two Vols. Royal Bvo. Price, $6,00 NOTICES OF THE PRESS. Mr. Gillett has done a good work in devoting so mile. talent and labor to one interesting 'field of historical re search, with the view of diftusinga knowledge of one of the most remarkable men, and one of the most inopot taut movements in ecclesiastical history. There hat; been, to our view, few more valuable contributions to our religious literature than these two volumes durink the present century. The author of this work take. rank with Sparks,. Bancroft, Irving. Prescott, Hopkins and others, who have done so much to , exalt the reputa tion of our country in the world of letters by their his torical productions.—Prince/on Review. A richer contribution to Historical Theology has not been made, either in this country or Surope, for many years,than lavthese noble v olumes.-Thergegigefigg/weeg. Fertile as the present age has been in historical works of the highest merits, few of them, will rank above these volumes in those qualities which give penman , -n• in er etA, mid'valueto a history. It ifit a 'work which reflects honor on American literaturei,and adds' another name to the noble list of Arntricsn historians.—dfta , and Theological Review. tion to their $62,000. $BOO,OOO FIFTY PER CENT Board of Trustees. William J . Ho ard, Samuel T . Bodine, John Aikman, Charles F. Herolitt Hon. Joseph Allison, Isaac ji"fehurst, Work. LIFE AND TIMES