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GREAT BRITAIN.
PRESBYTERIAN CIIITRCHES.—The prosecu
tor in the celebrated Cardross case, McMillan
by name, on the Bth of January withdrew
the, case from Court. It had already been
decided that the General 'Assembly of the
Free Church could not sue or be sued, and
that the spiritual sentence of a church cannot
as such be reviewed or repealed by a civil
court. The agitation for union among the
various bodies of Presbyterians in Scotland
and England was very earnest in the early
part of the year. The Weekly Review gave
the cause its powerful support. Some em
barrassment, which arose from the omission
to formally invite the English Presbyterian
Synod to participate. in the deliberations of
the joint committees of the Free and United
Churches on union, was removed by the ac
tion of the Church courts of the latter bodies,
and the English Church is now represented
in the committee. Mr. W. E. Baxter (M. P.)
of the Free Church, strongly urged union in
an address delivered by him in February, in
Dundee. The office-bearers of the various
Presbyterian Churches in Manchester, for a
time, held regular meetings for the promotion
of union. A great meeting for union was
held in London; , March 12th, the Earl of
Dalhousie presiding. 'The joint committees
on union, after protracted deliberation in.
March, announced that they had come to a
decision on the question of the relations of the
Church to the State; the substance of which
was, that the Free Church holds it tO be the
duty of . the magistrate, when necessary or
expedient, to aid in sustaining. the Church,
provided her spiritual independence be main
tained; the United Church teaching that it
is not in the province of the magistrate to
endow the Church, but allowing the right of
privatejudgment on the subject to - her mem
bers. Some friends of union were discoUraged
at this declared and positive diversity of sen
timent, but for the most part it was received
with satisfaction, as an honest statement of a
minor difference by men who in the main
agreed. The union movement was still vigor
ously kept up. It.was felt that the very dubi
ous condition of things in the Established
Church made it more important that an
orthodox Evangelical community, like the
Presbyterian, should cultivate unity, and be
all the better prepared for efficient action in
extending the kingdom of Christ in Great.
Britain.
In the English Synod, which met inapril,
a large committee was appointed to confer
with the committees on union of the Free,
United, and other unendowed Presbyterian
bodies, to report to the next Synod. The
joint committees on union of the other bodies,
having been continued by' their respective
Church courts, held two meetings about the
middle of July, when doctrinal points were
discussed. A-bighly favorable and harmoni
ous conclusion was reached.
PRESBYTERIAN ITEMS.—By the death of
William Brownley, February 14th, the English
Presbyterian Church became heir to a legacy
of £25,000, for the benefit of the college.
The missionary activity of the Free Church
of Scotland has been at a low ebb. Only
about $60,000 were raised for this purpose
last year. The presence of a zealous and
powerful friend of the cause, like Dr. Duff,
in Scotland is much needed. The United
resbyterian Church, a Scottish organization,
l as enjoyed an increase in London alone since
I 859 of eight congregations, making eleven
all..
THE ESTAIMISHED CHURCH. —This has been
year. of great agitation in the Established
Jhuroh of England, There have been clam
ours for and against changes in her articles,
er creed, her liturgy, her burial service, and
ler terms of subscription among her own
members. January Bth, Canon Stanley, a
decided liberal, tolerant of the errors of such
men as Colenso and the Essay and Review
writers,
and himself deeply infected, was made
Dean of Westminster, in spite of the oppo
sition of Canon Wordsworth, who previously
protested against the appointment. Dean
Trench was appointed Archbishop of Dublin,
in place of Dr.. Whately, deceased. Canon
Stanley had been named fbr this office pre
viously, but the opposition from orthodox men
was so strong that the Premier was compelled
to withdraw his name. A gleam of the genuine
orthodox spirit broke out at the close of 1863
in the Cape Colony. where Bishop Colenso's
diocese is situated. !lie Episcopal bishops
of that colony brouglo. op his case for trial,
and conducted it in the most elaborate and
careful manner. A very voluminous letter
from the accused bishop was read in his own
defence' but judgment was pronounced de
priving him of his diocese unless he should
retract his errors, at the latest by April 16th
of the present year.
A commission, at the head of which is the
Archbishop of Canterbury, was appointed by
the Queen, early in the year, to revise the
terms of subscription required of the clergy.
On the 28th of April, Lord Ebury, of this
commission, announced as one of the results
of its labors that the days and even the hours
of " unfeigned assent and consent" were
numbered.
Beyond all question the most serious event
of the year in England was the decision ren
dered by the Judicial committee the Privy
Council, the highest Ecclesiastical Court of
the Established - Church, restoring Dr. Wilson
and Mr. Williams, writers of leading articles
in the Essays and Reviews, to their, honors,
unctions, and em.olurnents as clergymen of the
established Chnrch, from "which they had
•een suspended for one year by the Court of
Arches, on the ground of the clear heretical
tendency of their teaching's in these voltimes.
This decision virtually rationalizes the Church
of England. It throws open the door to
such as deny any proper, and even liberal,
doctrine of the inspiration of the Scriptures,
who reject a vicarious atonement, and the
doctrine of ,eternal punishment.
The decision 'was followed by a protest and
declaration, drawn up by a committee of
whom Dr. Pusey was one, appointed at a
meeting held in OxfOrd, February 25th. The
declaration is very brief, and expresses the
firm belief of thesigners that "the Church
of England and Ireland maintains, without
reserve or qualification," the orthodox views
of inspiration and eternal punishment—(no
allusion being made to the vicarious atone
ment.) This document was speedily signed
by a decided majority of the clergy, and
almost as speedily met by a declaration from
legal quarters, that the signers are in a posi
tion of disloyalty to the government, whoSe
solemn decision they thus flatly contradict.
Counter opinions, were also obtained from the
attorney-general, and no one has been mo
lested for giving his signature. An agitation
for the restoration of Synodical government
in the Church has also sprung up. The
above declaration was presented to the Arch
bishop of Canterbury with much eclat, May
12th. The convocation of the Diocese of Can
terbury subsequently condemned the Essays
and Reviews, upon the elaborate report of
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1865
the committee appointed to examine them.
The Bishop of London, and Dean Stanley
were most conspicuous in their opposition to
the vote of condemnation, which was de
cisive. This decision was afterwards, inAu-1
gust, made a topic of earnest debate in the
House of Lords, in which the lord-chancellor
spoke of it as an attempt to impugn the head
ship of the Queen in matters ; spiritual. Such
threats, and a sense of the open iccenaiSte*,:y
of the position of truly orthodox and evan
gelical men in the Church of England, as at
present governed, has ltd many such persons
to contemplate the possibility of an abandon-
meat of the establishment, and the formation
of a Free Episcopal Church after the man
ner of the Tree Church of Scotland. The
Archbishop of Canterbury has avowed his
dissatisfaction with the Privy Council,' and
Dr. Pusey has sought to start a popular move
ment for Reform,
with the alternative plainly
intimated of a Free Church. Fuel has been
thrown upon the flames of this excitement by
a sermon, from Mr. Spurgeon, on Baptismal
Regeneration .? in which he vehemently assails
the Evangeheal portion of the Church of
England, on the ground that they cannot re
main in that connection without "grievous
dissimulation." .An immense number of re
plies were called out in answer to the sermon,
and the author renewed the attack in another
on the " Errors of the. Established Church."
D'lsraeli, the celebrated tory leader, in a
recent address at Oxford, pledged, so far as
he could, the tory party to the movement in
the Church of England, represented by. Dr.
Pusey and*Dr. Keble.
Evidence that the leaven of Romanism is
working-in the Church of England side by
side with tendencies just the reverse is not
wanting. There, is a fraternity at Norwich
of Anglican monks who recently made a pro
cession to a " holy" well, in medieval style,
and. Rev. W. Lyne, or 'Father Ignatius, the
founder, we believe, of the order,. appears in
public in the peculiar garb of the brother
hood, harangues the people, and, strange to
say, wins their applause. Close beside all
this varied and wearisome 'conflict which
looms up in the eye of the superficial and
doubting observer, a silent, steady work is
going on all, over the kingdom for the evange
lization of the masses. The means employed
are various; such as preaching in theatres,
in the open air, at fairs and executions, Bible
women, workmen's tea-meetings, lay preach
ing &c., all of which are vigorously and hope
fully prosecuted. A hopeful fact in the re
ligious history of the kin dom has been the
undoubted conversion of Joseph Barker, for
merly a notorious infidel and secularist, and a
public debater of much ability in the interest
of popular infidelity.
ITEMS.-A deputation of the Irish Pres
byterian Church, Jfflhuary 21st, waited on
the Lord Lieutenant to bespeak his interest
in procuring an increase from £75 to £lOO
(Irish) on . the Reffium Donum, a royal grant
to Irish Presbyterian Ministers. The attempt,
as thus far made, has failed, and the Irish
Church has suffered somewhat in reputation
as a consequence. The committee was, how
ever, re-appointed by the Assembly of the
Irish Church in July.
The Bishop of London's Fund, which was
to be half a million dollars a year for ten
years, and to brdevoted to the evangeliza
tion of the city in various ways, has scarcely
risen to the point anticipated. In March,
less than one hundred thousand pounds had
been obtained. In April considerable addi
tions were received. July 31, £7-5,000 had
been paid. Nearly one million people who
can go to church need to be provided Tor in
London. More than fifty clermen, invited
by letters from the Bishop of London, offer
ed their services for open-air preaching in
the metropolis. The Wesleyan Jubilee Fund
was $BOO,OOO on May last. Four thousand
clergymen in England and eight hundred in
France signed a memorial designed to en
courage the friends of the government in our
national struggle. The contributions of vari
ous Foreign Missionary Societies reporting
at the London anniversaries of May last,
'amounted to $2,600,000. 674 clergymen are
needed per annum for the Episcopal Churches
of England and Ireland ; Oxford, Cambridge
and Dublin together, furnish but 500, and
the supply is diminishing.
FRANCE.
Renan's Life of Jesus has brought out
many able replies from Protestants and Pa
pists, among the former, that of De Pres
sense, among the latter, that of the Bishop
of Arras, deserves special mention. Atten
tion has been so generally turned to the study
of the Life of Christ, that the evil done by,
such works as those of Renan, Strauss, and
Schf.nkel, may be viewed as more than bal
anced by the deeper acquaintance which the
Christian community has generally • attained
of the character of the Redeemer. The
battle between faith and philosophy-seems
transferred from the domain of natural
science to the life of the author of Christi
anity itself. The Rationalist leaven in the
Reformed Church of France has been de
veloping an unexpected degree of activity
and power this year. The orthodox portion
of the church is aiming at the restoration of
the synods, and more complete church auto
nomy. The rationalists succeeded• early in the
year, in putting the Geneva (rationalist) ver
sion on a par with the old one, in the Bible
Society, a step which led to the withdrawal
from the organization of many of its friends
(though M. Guizot still remained - at its head),
and the formation of a new society to distri
bute the orthodox version only. On the 28th
of February, A. Coquerel, Jr. the tempo
rary associate of Rev. Martin 14.sch - oud, pas
tor of the Paris Church, closed his year's
engagement, and the council or session of the
church, wearied and pained with his open
rationalism, refused to renew it. This was a
decided rebuke and disappointment to the
rationalist party, who are seeking to control
the church, and they instantly began a violerit
agitation.against what they called the bigotry
of, the council, in which they were aided by
the secular press of Paris. At the Annual
Conference of the church, meeting in Paris,
in April, attended by 200 delegates, the vote.
to sustain the principles involved in the action
of the council was overwhelming, 160 to 6.
Guizot took a leading part in bringing about
a similar result in the " Special Reformed
Conference," held at the same time.
A new Conference of Orthodox clergy and+
laity has arisen in the South of France, where'
the rationalists are in the majority in the Na
tional Church. Its first meeting was October
19th.
Strasbourg has elected Pastor Colani, a
noted rationalist, to the chair of Christian
Philosophy, vacated by the - (lath of the
former incumbent.
Protestant ,places of worship are being
opened almost constantly in various parts of
the country. The Evangelical. Society, with
which. Messrs. Fisch and Pilatte are con-.
nected, make an encouraging report of their
labors.
GENEVA.
DR. MALAN died in Geneva May Bth, aged
67 years. Many Romish priests in the south
of Switzerland have abandoned Rome, and
are preaching a pure gospel to their people.
A. Sabbath reform movement of great power
and remarkably well systematized, has com
menced in Geneva. In August, the radical
party in the city, which has been hostile to
all reasonable restraints such as Christian and
civilized communities consider necessary to
put upon vice and immorality, after having
governed the city by the aid of Roman Catho
lic influence for several years, were defeated
at a municipal election. Whereupon, under
the lead of their bold but able chief, James,
Fazy, they broke out into open and murder
ous riot. Order was restored by the troops
of the Swiss confederation, and Fazy fled.
The newly appointed Romish Bishop has:
counseled his flock to abandon their connec
tion with the radicals.
This deeply interesting and awakening
country, so long the centre and stronghold of
Popish superstition and ecclesiastical and
civil despotism, is presenting a most promis
ing fteldror evangelical labor. Laborers from
America and Scotland are prominent in the
work, but the Waldensian body, with native
independent workers like Gavazzi, seem to
be providentially in the best position to evan
gelize the people, though they need our
material support and guidance. The Island
of Elba has proved a very fruitful field of
missionary effort. But the most cheering and
hopeful scene in the work of evangelization,
has been Lombardy. An unparalleled fer
ment of opinion on religious subjects has
moved the community. Early in the year,
1000 church members were counted in Milan
alone, and multitudes more were hearing the
word and studying it in private. Five places
were open for worship, and more needed ;
the fullest liberty of opinion was enjoyed.
Ten-fold the existing evangelical instrumen
tality could have been employed. Every
lyhere around the city light was spreading,
and cities and towns asking'and receiving the
word. Thousands assembled in the open air,
and field preaching, that almost universal
accompaniment of an evangelical awakening,
had commenced. Naples is the seat of most
extensive educational. movements in the
interest of Protestantism, and enlightened
legislation goes hand a in hand with other
parts of the work which is revolutionizing
the ancient stronghold of the Papacy. Ga
vazzi counts fifty congregations in Italy, and
three to four thousand coinmunicants, with
30,000 regular hearers. There are congrega
tions in almost every large town in Italy, ex
cept -in the far South ; in some cities there
are three, in Florence five, and in Naples six
congregations. This is a good four years'
work. One embarrassing lundrance to this
blessed work, is the opposition entertained
by many of the " Free Church" division of
the Protestants to the Waldenses, hindering
co-operation, and bringing reproach on the
cause. De Sanctis, .who belongs to the
Free Church, is, however, a man of true
Christian spirit, and an object of dislike to
many of his associates. In Florence, two of
the Free' Churches have broke loose from
their Darbyite or PlYmouthite connections,
and with Be Santis fellowship the •Walden
ses. The ne* convention between France
and Victor Emminuel, entered into in the
fall, almost revolutionizes the entire prospect
for Italy and Protestantism. Franc,e agrees
to withdraw her troops from Rome in 1866
a sienificant year with all Protestant interpre
ters of prophecy—and the Italian pa is
changed to Florence, the seat of the Walden
sian institutions. Thus the only serious ob
stacle to the general welfare of Italy and its
progress, as a free and enlightened nation,
enjoying the unrestricted light of the word of
God, bids fair to be early removed.
GERMANY.
In Hesse, the Archduke being a rationalist,
the strife of this party for ascendency in the
National Church has been very warm. At
the Evangelical Alliance, which met in Berlin
March 10th, a Romish ex-Bishop, a recent
convert from Popery, Count Sedlitztag, for
merly Prince Bishop of Silesia, was present.
He is very zealous, active, and benevolent.
In Austria, important progress in realizing
the new liberties granted by the Emperor
Francis Joseph has been made. The First
General Synod of the Protestants of Bohe
mia, Moravia, part of. Silesia, and the German
countries of Austria proper, met in Vienna
in May. They organized a church, allied to
the Presbyterian in form, with Sessions,
Synods, and a General Synod, and with no
order of clergy superior to the pastor, save in
outward forms and permanence in certain
offices. But the dependence of the whole
upon the State is the one feature which mili
tates against the development of a true Pres=
byterian order, and whfch gives a bureaucratic
complexity to its arrangements. Dr. Schen
kel, Professor in the: Theological School of
Baden, has written a life of Christ, as able,
perhaps, and as bad, as any that has issued
from rationalist pen. The evangelical clergy
of the Duchy insisted that he should be re
moved from the Professorship, but the Eccle
siastical Council refused to accede to the de
mand. The Bible colportenrs are at work in
some parts of Hungary. One hundred and
twenty persons went over from the Papal to
the Evangelical Church in Silesia early in
the year.
The German Ecclesiastical Diet, which met
Sept 17, refused to give a clear testimony
against popular errors on the person of
Christ.
RUSSIA.
The mass and sacraments of the Greek
Church are allowed to be celebrated in Ger
man in the Baltic provinces. A Russian
translation of the New Testament, under im
perial sanction, is for sale at a low price.
The Emperor is exerting himself to improve
the condition of the clergy, and to educate
the emancipated serfs.
TVItHEY.
July 17th, the Turkish authorities sud
denly seized and threw into prison all the
converted Turks that could be found, and on
the next day held all the Missionary and
Bible establishments with an armed force.
The next day theywere opened, but the guards
were not withdrawn. The Government seems
determined to put a stop to the evangelical
movement among the Turks, which had begun
to assume very hopeful proportions. Besides
a number of other instances, a converted
Turk is named as having taken orders in the
Church of England, and as actively engaged
in preaching .to the. Mahomedans. The Bri
tish Ambassador, Sir Henry Bulwer, is' be
lieved to have been in some degree involved
in the transaction, he having previously shown
a manifest hostility to the evangelization of
the Mahomedans, and in the transactions
connected with the persecution, having yielded
without a struggle- the intolerant principles
on which , the Sultan and his advisers acted,
so that England cannot be expected to shield,
by diplomatic influence or interference, any
Mahomedan converted to Protestantism.
The American Board, which met in Worces
ter in October, passed resolutions calling upon
the British Government to interpose its in
fluence and authority, as in former times, in
behalf of the persecuted subjects of the
Tarkish Government. A deputation, princi
pally from the Evangelical Alliance, also
waited on Lord Russell, to urge the case upon
his attention,. and were very favorably re
ceived. In estimating the expediency of those
open measures towards enlightening the
minds of the Turks, which are put forward as
a pretext for the persecution, it must be re
membered that the Koran itself uses the most
emphatic terms in commendation of the New
Testament, and acknowledgement of its divine
authority. The leaderof the present religious
movement iS described as a man whose mind
was first aroused by . what the Koran itself
said of the Scripture& Many hopeful cases
of, inquiry have come before the Missionaries
as the results of his teaching
INDIA.,
The number of foreign Missionaries is
diminished, but both the number and effi
ciency of native laborers is everywhere in
creased. Native Home. Missionary Societies
are , vigorously sustained by funds obtained
on the - field. Complaint is made of the evil
influence of GovernMent schools, from which
the Bible is excluded, and over which English
unbelievers and heathen under-officers and
teachers are placed. Dr. Duff, after a tour
to Singapore, China, Ceylon Bombay and
Madras, left Calcutta about Christmas, 1863,
for*Scotland, his health no longer being . equal
to the duties of his:position in the missionary
work at Calcutta. The 'Madras Mission 'of
the Church of Scotland has been very much
prospered, especially the field in charge of
the Rev. Joseph David, a native licentiate.
Ceylon is distinguished as a stronghold of
Hindu rationaliam. 'As might' have been ex
pected, the organs of the new Hinduism,
enlightened but not converted -by modern
civilization, quoted the address of the " Con
federate clergy," 'defending, slavery on Bible
grounds, as' proof that the Scripture morality
is not more Stripgent, than that of other reli
gions. Per contra a number of enlightened,
but still heathen, Hindus of wealth have con
tributed liberally to various objects connected
with missions during the year. Dr. Duff, in
an address which he gave before the Mission
ary Conference of Calcutta, compared the
state of' the public feeling among the Hindus
to " the mighty St. Lawrence, when the thaws
of later spring were acting with visible effect,
and there were unmistakeable signs that the
vast icy pavement which concealed the dark
depth beneath was about, to break up." The
whole number of converts in India, Ceylon,
and Burmah, in 1862, was a trifle less than
50,000. The number of nominal Christians
in India alone was over 150,000. On the 24th
of' March Rev. Levi Janvier was murdered
at Anundpore. April 27th, Mr. Loewenthal
was murdered. May 9th, a decision was
given in a Bombay court adverse to the claim
of a Hindoo heathen parent, who desired to
compel the return home of his son, a youth
of 14, who preferred to remain with the Mis
sionaries.
CHINA
A whole village, near Amoy, was reported.
Christianized in the fall of 1863, by the laboi
of converted natives. Nearly one-third of
the whole number of converts in China, now
estimated at 2,500; are at and around 'Amoy.
One of the churches of native converts in
Amoy lately suspended a member for worldli
ness. The exertions of the Roman Catholics
to extend their influence in this country are
very great. January 17th, a violent attack
was made upon the mission premises of the.
American M. E. Church and the English
Qhurch Missions in Fuh Chau, by a mob of
the natives. Much mischief was d.one to the
premises, but no lives were lost. Pekin has
been made fully accessible, this year, to Pro
testant missionaries, ten of whom were on the
ground early in the year. April 6th, Mr.
Bloflget announced the opening of his rooms
for preaching in the cajital. Coverts are
reported. At Ningpo, forty members were
received in 1863 ; the church has 200 mem
bers and two native pastors. Hundreds, says
Mr. Blodget, are uniting with the churches
in China every year.
SOUTH ARIERICA.
The destruction of the Roman Catholic
Church in Santiago, when 2,000 females
perished, took place December Sth, 1863, but
the whole civilized world was shocked and
aroused by the announcement of the event
about the first of the year. The perils reck
lessly undergone by the fanatical priesthood
and their deluded followers in their theatrical
shows, were severely condemned, and the
duty of the American Evangelical Churches
to carry 'the gospel to these near neighbors,
thus made a prey to foreign superstitions,
was earnestly urged and admitted on all hands.
A concordat of the strictest sort, worthy of
medieval times, bas been agreed upon be
tween the Pope and 'Ecuador.
MISSIONARY.
AMERICAN BOARD. —At the commence
ment of the year, the Herald reported 345
American laborers in the field, fifty-five less
than ten years ago ; and 737 native laborers,
or nearly double the number ten years previ
ously. Liberality is becoming characteristic
of churches •formed of converted heathen.
Even Fiji is giving money to send the gospel
to more benighted countries. The Amoy
communicants of the Reformed Dutch Mis
sion Church gave at an averag_e of $2 25 a
year during the previous year. In Micronesia
great ,progress is noted in the absence of Mis
sionary labor.
SANDWICR ISLANDS. —At the instigation
doubtless of the "Reformed Catholic" or
Puseyite clique, who have impertinently and
to the scandal of our common Christianity
thrust themselves upon the field of our Ame
rican Missionaries in these islands, the king
called a convention to change the constitution
and make the Episcopal Church the religion
of the State. The convention showing reluc
tance and becoming restive, the.kingedissolved
it, and ordered the changes to be made by
the exercise of mere arbitrary power.
The Christians in Madagascar increase in
astonishing numbers, and all the prospects
are' encouraging:.
Intolerant articles have been introduced into
tlie new constitution of Greece. Proselytism
and all interference with the established reli
gion—Greek Church—is forbidden.
RO3UI.3ISN.
Ev.zuor Povinx now visibly growing is either
anti-Papal, or based upon principles which
are fatal to ultramontane authority. The
great Catholic nations, so far from advancing,
have declined, until, with the exception of
France, they are scarcely" living influences.
The single State. in Europe which is at once
new, and great, and Catholic, - is at, irrecen
enable enmity with Rome. In America,
every State south of the Rio Grande has
quarrelled more or less, .a outrance, with the
Papacy or its agents.
iN the summer a Jew boy, living.pt Rome,
named Cohen, was inveigled by a priest into
a Papal training establishment, whence his
distracted parents in vain endeavored to ex
tricate him.
IN SPAIN a severe law, restricting the
liberty of the press in regard to religious sub
jects, has been enacted. The diocesan's ap
proval is necessary to their appearance.
IN ENGLAND the Romanists claim to be
making progress, not, only in the diffusion of
F'useyite leaven in the Establishment, but by
open converts to Ronaanism occurring every
day under the labors of the priests.
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Fullness or weight in the Stomach,Sour Eruc
tations. Sinking or Fluttering at the pit of the
Stomach, Swimming of the Head, Hurried and Dif
ficult Breathing, Fluttering of the Heart, Choking or
Suffocating Sensations when in a lyingposture,Dim
ness of Vision, Dots or Webs before the Sight,
Fever and Dull Pain in the Head, Deficiency of
Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and
Eyes, Pain in the Side, Back, Chest,
Limbs, Am, Sudden Flushes - of
Heat,Burning in the Flesh,
Constant Imaginings
of Evil, and great
Depression of
Spirits.
REMEMBER THAT THIS BITTERS
IS NO'E ALCOHOLI C,
CONTAINS NO RUM OR WHISKEY,
And Can't Make Drunkards,
IS THE BEST TONIC IN THE WORLD.
READ WHO SAYS SO
From Bev. Levi G. Beck, Fodor of the Baptist Church
at Chester, Pa., formerly of Baptist Church, Pember
ton, N. .1.
* * * * * * *
I have known Hoofland's German Bitters favorablY
for a number of years. I have used them in my own
family, and have been so pleased with their effects
that I was induced to recommend them to many others,
and know that they have operated in a strikingly
beneficial manner. I take great pleasure in thus pub
licly proclaiming this fact, and calling the attention
of those afflicted with the diseases for which they are
recommended to these Bitters, knowing from experi
ence that my recommendation will be sustained. Ido
this more cheerfully as Hoofland's Bitters is intended
to benefit the afflicted, and is "not a rum drink."
Yours truly, LEVI G. BECK.
From Rev. J. Newton Brown, D. D., Editor of the En
cyclopredia of Religious Knowledge.
Although not disposed to favor orrecommend Patent
Medicines in general, through distrust of their ingre
dients and effects, I yet know of no sufficient reasons
why /man may not testify to the benefits he believes
himself to have received from any simple preparations
in the hope that he may thus contribute to the benefit
of others.
I do this mote readily in regard to Hooflomd's Ger
man Bitten, prepared by Dr. C. M. Jackson, of this
city, because I was prejudiced against them for many
years, under the impression that they were chiefly an
alcoholic mixture. lam indebted to my friend, Robt.
Shoemaker, Esq., for the removal of this prejudice by
proper tests, and for encouragement to try them, when
suffering from great and long continued debility. The
use of three bottles of these Bitters; at the beginning
of the present year, was followed by evident relief,
and restoration-to a degree of bodily and mental vigor
which I had not felt for six months before, and had
almost despaired of regaining. I therefore thank
God and my friend for directing me to the use of them.
Philada., June 23,1861. J. NE W TON BROWN,
From Rev. J. M. Lyons. formerly Pastor of the Columbus
(IV: J.) and Milestown (Pa.) Baptist Churches.
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.
Dr. C. M. Jackson:—Dear Sir-I feel it a pleasure
thus of my own accord to bear testimony to the excel
lence.of the German Bitters. Some years since, being
much afflicted with Dyspepsia, I used them with very
beneficial results. I have often recommended them
to persons enfeebled by that tormenting disease, and
have heard from them the most flattering testimonials
as to their great value. In cases of general debility I
believe it to be a tonic that cannot be surpassed.
J. M. LYONS.
From Bev. J. S. Herman, of the German Reformed
Church. Kutztown Berke County. Pa.
Dr. C. M. Jackson:—Respected Sir—l have been
troubled with Dyspepsia nearly twenty years, and
have never used any medicine that did me as much
good as iloofland's German'Bitters. lam very much
improved after having, taken five bottles.
Yours, with respect, J. S. HERMAN.
PRICES.
Large size, (bolding nearly double quantity,)
$1 per bottle—half doz $5 00
Small size-75 cents per bottle—half doz 4 00
BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS !
See that the signature of "C. M. JACKSON" is on
the WRAPPER.crf each bottle.
Should your nearest druggist not have the article,
do not be put off by any of the intoxicating prepara
tions that may be offered in its place, but send to us,
and we will forward, securely packed, by express. '
PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND MANUFACTORY,
No. 631 Arch Street, Philada.
JONES & EVANS,
(Successors to C. M. JACKSON & C 0.,)
PROPRIETORS.
For sale by Druggists and dealers in every town
in the 'United States.
Richardson Air-tight casket.
The undersigned would respectfully inform the be
reaved who may require his services, that he is pre
pared to furnish the "Richardson Premium Circular
Ends Air-tight Casket." by means of which, in our
hands, he guarantees the removal of the remains of
the soldiers from their graves on the battle-field (no
matter how long interred) to the family burial
grounds, free from disagreeable odor, or no charge for
the casket, at one-third less than the metallic cases.
N. B —Undertakers will be . furnished at very low
rates with Coffins, Cases and Caskets of every style
and size, as well as private families.
Embalming attended to by Messrs. Brown & Co., in
the most perfect manner. and to the entire satisfaction
of the parties applying or no charge will be mule.
JOHN GOOD, Undertaker,
969-1 m 921 SPRUCE STREET.
J. & F..cAraus,
ICo. 736 Market St., S. E. corner of Eighth,
PHILADP.LPFA.
Manufacturers and Dealers in
BOOTS. SHOES," TRUNKS, CARPET BAGS AND
VALISES of every variety and style.
S D , A. AI
Dyeing and Scouring Establishment.
Mrs. E. W. SMITH,
No. 2S N. Fifth St., below Arch, Philada.
Ladies' Dresses, Cloaks, Shawls, Ribbons, Sre.., dyed
in any color, and finished equal to new.
'Gentlemen's Coats, Pants and Vests cleaned, dyed
and repaired. -904 y
BEVitinal,
WISTAR'S
BALSAM OF 'WILD CHM,
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND MOST RELIABLE
RERItDIES IN TEE WORLD FOR
Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough, Bron
chitis, Difficulty of Breathing, Asthma,
Hoarseness; Sore Throat, Croup, and
•
every Affection of
THE THROAT, LUNGS AND CHEST,
INCLUDING EVEN
CO7NSUIVIP•TIOY.
WISTAR'S BALSAM OF WILD CMIEBRY.
So general has the use of this remedy become, and so
popular is it everywhere, that it is unnecessary to recount
rte virtues. Its works speak for it, and find utterance in
the abundant and voluntary testimony of the many who
front long suffering and settled disease, have by its use
been restored to pristine vigor and health. We can pre
sent a mass of evidence in proof of our assertions that
CANNOT BE DISCREDITED.
Bev. Jacob Seebler,
Well known and much respected among the German
population in this try, makes the following
statement for th benefito.f the afflicted.
HANOVER, PA.. Feb: 16,1859.
Dear Sirs:—Having realized in my family important
benefits from the use of your valuable preparation—
MISTAB'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY—it affords me
pleasure to recommend it to the public. Some eight
years ago one of my daughters seemed to be in a de
cline, and little hopes of her recovery were enter
tained. I then procured a bottle of your excellent
Balsam, and before she had taken the whole of the
con - tents of.the bottle there was a great improvement
in her health. I have, in my individual case, made
frequent use of your valuable medicine, and have
always been benefitted by it. JACOB SECIILER.
From M. D. Martin, M. D
Of Mansfield, Tioga Co.. Pa
Having used in my practice the last four years. WiS
tar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, with great success, I
most cheerfully recommend it to those afflicted with
obstinate Coughs, Colds, Asthma, &c.
From Jesse Smith, Esq., President of the
Morris County Bank, NCOrristown, New
Jersey.
"Having used DR. WISTAR'S BALSAM OF WILD
Cirguar for about fifteen years. and having_realized
its beneficial results in my family, it affords me great
pleasure in recommending it to the public as a valu
able remedy in cases of weak lungs, colds, coughs, &c..
and a remedy which I consider to be entirely inno
cent, and maybe taken with perfect safety by the most
delicate in health."
From Ron. John E. Smith.
A Distinguished Lawyer in Westminster, Md.
I have on several occasions Used DR. WISTAR'S Bar,
sea[ OF WILD CHERRY for severe colds, and always with
decided benefit. I know of no preparation that is
more efficacious or more deserving of general use,
The Balsam has also been used with excellent effect
by ,T. B. ELLIOTT, Merchant, Hall's Cross Roads, Md.
WISTAR'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY.
None genuine unless signed "I. BUTTS" on the
wrapper.
For Sale by
J. P. DINSMORE, No. 491 Broadway, New York
S. FOIE & CO. No. 13 Tremont street, Boston.
And by all Druggists
AYE R'S CHERRY PECTORAL,
FOR THE RAPID CURE OF
Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Hoarseness, Group,
Bronchitis, incipient Consumption, and for
the relief of Consumptive Patients in the
advanced stages of the disease.
So wide is the field of its
ifulneEs and so numerous
the cases of its cures.
tt almost every section of
entry abounds in persons
dies known, who have
m restored from alarm
; and even desperate dis
;es of the lungs by its use.
:en once tried, its supe
lrity over every other ex
itorant is too apparent to
ape observation, and
sere its virtues are known
public no longer hesi
ce what antidote to em
ty for the distressing and
igerous affections of the
tmonary organ 4 that are
tident to • our climate.
file many inferior reme
dies thrust upon the community have failed and been
disregarded, this has gained friends by every trial,
conferred benefits on the afflicted they can never for
get, and produced cures too numerous and too re
markable to be forgotten.
We can only assure the public that its quality is
carefully kept up to the best it ever has been, and alit
it may be relied on to do for their relief all that it has
ever done.
Great numbers of clergymen, physicians, statesmen
and eminent personages, have lent their names to
certify the unparalleled usefulness of our remedies,
but space here will not permit the insertion of them.
The Agents below named furnish gratis our Alf ERICAN
ALMANAC, in which they are given, with also full de
scriptions of the complaints they cure.
Those who require an alterative medicine to purify
the blood will find AYER'S COMPOUND EX
TRACT SARSAPARILLA the remedy to use. Try
it Once and you will know its value.
Prepared by J. C. AYER & CO.,
Lowell, Mass.
967 eow-2m
And sold by all Druggists
;uat
COAL AT FIRST COST.
OOST PRICE Tb STOCKHOLDERS.
57.50 i"b={. TON.
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
OF COAL OF THE BEST QUALITY.
SHARES, each entitling to one and a half tons, at
cost, every year, for TWENTY years, and to cash Divi
dends of Profits from the sale of all surplus coal., may
now be obtained at $lO, payable half on subscribing
and half on January sth next, of the mutual
BEAR MOUNTAIN FRANKLIN COAL COMPANY,
Office 121 South Third Street,
Opposite Girard Bank.
STOCK. CAPITAL, $500,000,
In 62.500 Shares.
Reserved Working Capital, 12,600 Shares.
Subscriptions of 4 shares, $39; of 10 shares, $9O; of
20 shares, $175; of 50 shares, $425; of 100 sh ares , $825,
of 250 shares, $2OOO.
Each Share entitles the holder to receive, every
year, one and a half tons of Coal. at cost, for 20 years,
and Cash Dividends every six months, of the Profits
from the sale of all surplus co-el.
Stockholders who do not want any coal may have
their proportion of coal sold.by the company for their
especial benefit, the profits being paid over to them
independent of the regular cash dividends to which
they are also entitled.
The company possesses large and well bust Coal
Works atDonaldson, (near Tremont,) Schuylkill coun
ty, witlaextensive mining and timber rights, an ex
cellent double Breaker, Slope Works large Steam
Engines, Railroads, arid all other Machinery and Ap
paratus in full operation, capable of mining 95,000
tons, to be extended to 150,000 tons per year. The
coal is of the best quality, chiefly of the Black Heath
and Primrose Veins. which, with several other valu
able coal veins, extend within the lines of this com
pany for two miles in length. A branch of the Read
ing Railroad extends to the mines of this company.
over which the coal is daily sent to market,
Stockholders may order their coal in any of the
usual sizes. viz., lump coal, broken, egEr, stove and
nut coal, all at the present cost price of $7 50 per ton,
delivered at the house, within the usual distances of
the company's yards, in the northern,. middle and
southern portions of the city.
Subscribers of stock are immediately supplied with.
coal.
For circulars and subscriptions, apply at the
OFFICE, No. 121 South THIRD Street, second Poor.
opposite Girard Bank.
The Company and all its Mining Works are clear
of debt, and all operations are carried on on the cash
principle.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Wm. Sehmoele, President, E. P. King.
William Ford, Schmoele.
D. 11. Wolfe, A. B. Jarden, Secretary
OLD EYES MADE NEW.
A pamphlet directing how to speedily restore sight
and give up spectacles, without aid of doctor or medi
cine. Sent by mail free on receipt of ten cents. Ad
dress E. B. FOOTE, M. D.,
1130 Broadway, New York.
WESTON'S METALLIC ARTIFICIAL LEG
The lightest, cheapest, most durable and most natu
ral ever invented. Price $75 to $lOO. Send for a
pamphlet. J. W. WESTON,
956-1 y 491 Broadway, New York.