REMARKABLE AWAKENING IN DE TROIT, MICII. For eight years a faithful band of Christians have met to pray daily for a blessing on this wicked city. Some of the leading ministers of the city- have been among those, who day after day hare cried to God for the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit. In several of the churches there has of late been an un usual spirit of prayer, and a few asking the way to the cross. Yet it was felt that the presence of a stranger would call out the people and deepen the work. ' Accordingly, a month or two since, an invitation was extended to Mr. Ham mond, the Evangelist, to spend a few weeks in the city. Says the Detroit Free Press, "He (Mr. H.) comes to Detroit under the most pleasant auspices with all the churches and pastors of the various denominations harmonious and united." Says the Detroit Tribune of February 28. Mr. Hammond held a union children's meeting Sabbate P. M. at the Congregation al Church. The building was densely packed, from 1500 to 2000 people being present. After the service, a very large number, upon invitation, remained for conversation and prayer. THE MORNING PRAYER MEETING. The Morning Prayer Meeting, which has been regularly sustained for several years, has received new life by this movement. Yester day the large lecture room of the Woodward Avenue Methodist Church was crowded. The prayers and remarks were brief, pointed and earnest. Some of the statements indi cated already a great work commenced. One Sunday School teacher had been praying for some time for his class, and had had the satis faction of seeing every member of it remain for prayer. on the previous afternoon. Mr. Brockway said that one woman at the House of Correction, where Mr. Hammond spoke Sabbath morning, had asked his forgiveness for all her former waywardness, acid had ex pressed herself as being happy in having entered upon a new course of life. Several instances were mentioned in the course of the meeting of direct and instant answer to prayer, as an encouragement to Christians to labor fervently at the throne of grace, The sentiment was also expressed by different parties, that they were now pre pared to lay aside their scruples and co-op erate heartily in any thing that would arouse sinners to a sense of their need of .a Saviour. THE AFTERNOON MEETING. The capacity of the building was tested in the afternoon, the great majority of the audience being children. One of the officers of the church estimated that there were 1500 persons in the building. The interest is on the in orease, evidently. The address was of the same general character as the address on Sun day, as were the other and subsequent ser vices. At the inquiry meeting which was held im mediately after the address, everybody seemed to remain, and there were such wonderful and marked manifestations of God's Spirit as must convince the most doubting mind of the genuine character of the work. We can say, without exaggeration, that hundreds of all ages were anxiously inquiring the way to jesus, and many, very many, in tears. The work of pointing sinners to the Saviour was participated ,in by the ministers of the city generally, and also by large numbers of Sabbath-school teachers, both ladies and gen tlemen, and others. Among the clergymen we noticed Rev. Dr. Duffield, Rev. Dr. Ho garth, Rev. Amos Vaman, (of Egypt), Rev. Messrs. Scott, Prime, Balmer, Griffith, Fre land, Bush (of New Jersey), Curtis, Mat thews, Chase, Wortley, and Harris. At the close of the evening service, and after the benediction by Rev. Mr. Matthews, an invitation was extended to all interested to remain for personal conversation. Scarcely a person left the house. After conversation, as in the afternoon, the benediction was again pronounced; but yet the people lingered, and would not go. Quite a number came into the transept of the church for further conver sation. Though the people were repeatedly requested to go, it was 10 o'clock before the church was cleared. At a meeting appointed on Tuesday for children and others who were in dulging the hope that their sins were for Jesus' sake forgiven, between two and three hundred came. It is wonderful how quickly the chil dren seem to come to the Saviour. While these children and parents were singing with joyful hearts : "Now I have found a friend, Jesus is mine," many all over the large church were bathed in tears, asking what they should do to be saved. There seems to •be at some of the children's meetings as many adults anxious as children. The simple representation of the love of Christ, ap plied by the Holy Spirit, seems to melt all hearts. The evening meetings for prayer fill to overflowing the large churches of the city. Mr. H. will commence preaching to adults next Sabbath. Many prayers are daily ascending for such an outpouring of the Holy Spirit as shall move the city to its centre. Yours in Christ, Drruorr, March 1, 1865 IllAr Persons seeking to invest in the popular " Seven-Thirty!' Loan, are referred to the advertisement of the Seventh National Bank. BRILLIANT EXPLOIT,—Seven loyal Tenne- Beans recently captured a rebel yawl with fourteen men, near Kingston on the Tennesee. The yawl was armed with torpedoes and in fernal machines for the destruction of Govern mint property. The party was well and reg ularly uniformed and were acting under the orders of the rebel Naval Department. GEN. CANBY, of the department of the Gulf ? is about making a demonstration on Mobile. A combined attack from the fleet and land troops is expected. ADVANCE IN. SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.- We are not only strengthening the things which remain, but we are planting our stand ard in new regions. The flourishing city of Bridgeton, thirty-nine •miles south of. Cam den, now contains a beautiful church edifice, erected during the past year, and the perse vering efforts of its congregation are already rewarded by a rapidly increasing communion, and the respect of an intellectual community. Vineland and Millville are also new dwelling places of the church.—Recorder. letigLattz gutelligittf. PRESBYTERIAN REVIVALS.—The, Rev. J. Y. Cowhick, pastor at S tewartstown, Pa. , has communicated to us the news of a pleasant work of grace in his church. Twenty-nine persons have pro fessed conversion, and been received into the church, eight of whom were baptized. The pastor was assisted by a number of ministers, and the revival, in connection with one in the Methodist Protestant church, has made a verygreat impression on the community. —Eleven persons were added, at a late communion, to the church at Plymouth, Pa., Rev. E. H. Snowden, pastor; and the hope is entertained that a more powerful revival will be experienced by the churcb, so that these shall be as the first drops of an abundant shower.—Presbyterian. —We understand the Church of which the Rev. Alfred Ham ilton at Mattoon, Pastor,-had a de lightful season during the week of prayer, very much seriousness prevailing. —Standard. MITCHELL, IND.—Nineteen persons, the fruits of a revival still in progress, were added to the church in this place on the 19th nit. A marked feature of the work is that the people are turning to Ithe Lord by families. arents with their little children are coming to Christ. Revivals are also reported from the Fifth Presbyterian church in Cincinnati, and from Sardinia, ,Livonia, Valparaiso, Scipio, and Donaldson, Indiana. FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS.—The Foreign Ofiasionary (organ of the 0. S. Presbyterian Board of 1 oreign Missions) for March an nounces that the receipts of the Board for March were $60,000, and that if the churches yet to make collections will increase their gifts as others have, the year of the Board will end prosperously, and with bright hopes for the future. OPENINGS IN THE Soirrn - .—A Beaufort, S. C. correspondent of the Presbyterian Stan dard speaks of four points which are ready for immediate occupancy by Presbyterian ministers. At Jacksonville, - Fla., a Presby terian Church and parsonage are ready. At Savannah a whole city is accessible. Schools are in operation, and a field of missionary effects awaits some energetic laborer. At Hilton Head, S. C. a Soldiers' Home in a central part of the village is being fitted up, and the Chief of Commissary desires that the dining-room be used for religious worship. Near to this place are several plantations, which would afford out-stations for missionary labor. Here also is a minister of our church in government employ, who would afford great assistance to a missionary. At Beaufort, S. C. a congregation is already gathered, which the good brother who has gathered it, will gladly turn over to some Presbyterian minister who would enter 'heartily into 411 e, work, Here are intelliglent Northerners, who would appreciate an intelligent minister of our church." - , . NEW ORGANIZATION. —A church has re cently been organized at South Amboy, N. J. consisting of twenty-one members, with two ruling elders, deacons, and a full board of Trustees. CONGREGATIONAL REvivAis.—Concerning the revival at Somerville, Mass., The Congregationalist says :—" The interest continues to widen, and grows very delightful, more than sixty in the Sabbath school professing . to have given their hearts to Christ. There is no undue excite ment ; but all who attend these meetings are impressed with the manifest presence of the Holy . Spirit. Most interesting accounts might be given of special answers to prayer, and of the influence of children who have found the Saviour, and who, by their simple, loving utterances at home, are leading parents to Christ, while the white-haired ,old man and little child , are inquiring and rejoicing. to gether.' ' - The same paper has also accounts of inter esting revivals in Lowell, Fryeburg, Bridge ton Centre, and Worwich, all in the State of Maine. At the latter place, about forty cases of conversion are spoken of. Portland, Salem, Southington, East Hartford, and Put nam, in Connecticut, are also spoken of as enjoying special refreshings. In the latter place the work is said to be very extensive. Thirty-two have been added, by profession, to the church in New Caanaan, Connecticut, and the interest still continues. The Congregationalist has the following among other accounts :—There is an unu sual religious interest in the several. insti tutions of learning at Andover, and several conversions are reported in the Academy. The preaching at the Chapel is unusually searching and solemn, and a good work is in progress.—The pastor in oskaloosa,'. lowa writes us: " The Congregational church in this place is now enjoying an interesting, but quiet season of refreshing from God. It is as dew falling upon Hermon. We cannot yet speak of the results. Our church will be nearly doubled in numbers this year, and quite that in spiritual efficiency and pecuniary ability. My labors are very arduous, as I preach each evening, and visit most of the day."—Revivals are in progyess in many places at the West, especially in Wisconsin. At Menasha, there have recently been be tween twenty and thirty conversions. Seven churches in Wisconsin, lying• in St. Croix and Pierre Counties, organized a new local con vention in December last, to be connected with the General Ass,_ociation of Minnesota. THE BALTIMORE ENTERPRISE.-A. small number of orthodox Congregationalists, in tended as the nucleus of a future church, held the first public service of the denomination in Baltimore on Sabbath, Feb. 5. Their preach er for the day was Rev. John P. Gulliver, of Norwich, Conn. A correspondent of the Boston Recorder characterizes the discourse as an able exposition of the law of God accor din..b to Bellany and Emmons, and adds, for the benefit we suppose of all ministers whD ever before preached there :—" Had the law of God been thus preached in the churches of this city, the guns of Fort Henry might have slept to this day, and slavery would have re quired no legislative enactment for its abolish ment." POPULAR CHRISTIANIZATION.-" We are happy to learn that the movement initiated in the last General Conference of the churches of the State, for a more earnest prosecution of their great work of popular Christianization [making the advancement of Christianity a labor of the people among the people] is meeting with the warmest welcome. The ministers and churches in their local confer 'ences appear to be entering with cordiality, into the plans of the General Committee ; and prominent and influential laymen are daily expressing their heartfelt interest in this en deavor to revive the purpose of the Fathers." —Boston Recorder.. METHODIST. WESLEYANISM. IN CEYLON.—In a letter to the Central, Bishop Thompson says : " The Wesleyan mission to Ceylon has cost ov r $1,000,000. W hat are the fruits? We quote statistics of the south district only for 1862 : missionaries and assistants, 23; catechists, 6; unpaid teachers, 15; chapels, 43; other preaching-places, 29; average congregations —adults, 2,277; children, 1,805; members, 1,936 ; schools, 397 ; scholars, 3,123. There has been . , since this report, a small increase. But the influence of the mission is not to be estimated by these figures. Its influence in social progress, in the awakening of mind, in THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 9 1865 A - um STREET, N. Y., PRAYER MEETING. —We take the following items from the N. Y. Observer's report of a recent session of the daily prayer meeting in Fulton Street. "Another gentleman arose and, spolre with great emotion of a little churek7 . which had been for some time without a pastor, and which he had been invited to address for the past few Sabbaths. . He said he , was a layman and had no authority to preach ; but he felt it was his duty to hold up Christ and. Him erucified z before the congregation. And now the Spirit of the Lord has come and some are converted and some are awakened, and he desired the meeting to pray that the Lord would send them a minister who, should be a man after his own heart. A clergyman from Long Island asked prayer for his church, where now prevails a revival of religion. He had been called from them by the sickness of a brother, miles away. He wished prayer that the revival might go on with increasing power, while he should be absent. Another clergyman said he had good news in regard to a revival, which he had before mentioned in this meeting as prevailing in the interior of this State. Forty children, among others, have been the hopeful subjects_ of renewing grace. The work is now taking hold of the scoffers and blasphemers, and some of this class have been converted. Prayers are re quested for this village, upon which the Spirit comes with great power." ENGLISH CHURCHISM AND DISSENT.— "Stress of weather," says Itev. J. Weir, D, D., writing for the Family Treasure, "is overruled for good. The Bishop of Salis bury, for example, contemplating the possi bility of Erastianism in connexion with Privy Council decisions favorable to rising Rational ism gaining dominance, lately mentioned, in his charge to the clergy, that he had received assurance of aid from a Dissenter of Man chester in any pecuniary sacrifice needed to maintain doctrinal purity. The Bishop al luded to the fundamental agreement of Dis senters and Churchmen, and to the need of so-operation against common foes. The Bishop of Oxford, also, has lately taken oc casion to explain away some remarks inwhich he seemed to have put down "Dissent" as nearly, if not quite, as great an evil as " pub lic houses" in hindering the work of the clergy, and has written with respect of "good men" and their " conscientious convictions." THE FREE-WILL BA_PTISTS of New Bruns wick have just sent out a missionary, the Rev. J. L. Phillips, to India. He embarked on the 17th ult., in the Elcaus from Boston for Calcutta. He writes to.the Intelligencer that two Presbyterian missionaries—Rev. Messrs. Kellogg and Myers—with their wives, were in the same ship with him, returning to their missions in Northern India. REVIVALS. —We hear of revivals in Mill Creek, Pa. ; Providence, Western Pa., where twenty have recently ben baptized ; Sum mit, Northumberland Co., Pa. ; Phenixville, Pa. (24 accessions) ; Bridgeport, Pa.: Hud son, Cottage Grove, and Faribault, Minn. ; Cambridge city, Ind.: Fairbank, Ind. ; Fox boro, Mass.; and Conway, Mass. At Chico pee-Falls a work of grace is also in progress, concerning which the Watchman and Reflec tor says that it commenced with the week of prayer. In this case, however, a special list of subjects of prayer other than that proposed by the Evangelical Alliance, and less general and more local and personal, was previously arranged by the pastor and approved by the church. The change in this respect from the set routine is believed to have greatly deep ened the interest of the season by concentra ting it, and thus making it more directly pro motive of revival influences. _ the translation of Scripture, the infusion of a healthy element into the native literature, has been great. It is probably safe to say that 30,000 pupils have been educated at their schools. REFORMED DETER. WATERING AND WATERED.-7YOUr Chron icle of the handsome donation of the Reform ed Dutch Church of Bushnell, 111., to the pastor, Rev. E. P. Livingston, will be well statement by the stateL that the Holy Spirit has visited that chit& since that time in refreshing showers ; that Christians are revived, backsliders reclaimed, and the unconverted brought to Christ in numbers, The Reformed Dutch Church at Raritan, 111., which is enjoying a continuance of the fruits of the revival last spiing, has recently paid off the entire church debt, which had weighed very heavily upon its energies for some years. The Reformed Dutch Church at Constantine, Mich., in which the savor of last year's revival is still lingering, and which is expecting to enlarge its church-edifice soon, had a Christmas-tree which bore, away abundance of choice fruit—a handsome purse of two hundred dollars—for the pastor, Rev. J. W. Beardslee.—Corresponde n t of Chris tian Inteliigencer. REV. T. R. G. PECK, formerly a pastor of a Reformed Dutch Church on Staten Island, removed to Charleston, S. C., in 1859, to take charge of the Huguenot. Church in that city. During the past five years he has con tinued his ministerial labors there, declining, however, from the beginning of the war, to avow any personal or official approbation of the rebellion. During the last two years he has desired and sought some way of egress from the Confederacy, but did not find one until about five weeks since. Then he left Charleston for Nassau, whence he, came to New York. His many friends • greet his re turn with gladness, and will welcothe him again to the ranks of our zealous and faithful clergymen.—lntelligencer. THE cituncir CATHOLIC A REVIVAL.—The President of the S. S. Teachers' Association, Saginaw Valley, Mich., writes on the 7th ult. :—" Last / evening we had the largest young people's prayer-meet ing 'ever held in this valley. Every heart felt the influence of the Divine Spirit. God was truly with us: All present who had not found the Saviour were anxious to do so. God is accomplishing a great work in our midst. A large portion of the older scholars are feel ing deeply. Some of the teachers have found the Saviour, and others are under deep con viction. There have been conversions in two thirds of our mission schools, and God's Spirit seems to be moving through all the valley." BAPTIST. EPISCOPAL HIGH AND Low CEnTacn.—Tus PUBLICI ESTIMATE. —A writer in the Episcopal Re corder gives the following account of the comparative standing of the churches of its denomination in Newark, N. 1. "Old Trin ity, now 'in its 140th year, having been founded in 1725, verifies the Psalmist's pre diction in regard to the righteous : They shall still bring forth fruit in old age.' In deed, in good works it was never so abundant as now, nor its influence in the community ever as great. But it is owing to the fact that never did it shed the light of evangelical truth, more clearly. The attention of many has by this means been drawn to the Episco pal Church, who personally knew but little of it except in connection with the Tractari anisrn which has been so rampant in this vi cinity. It is a striking illustration of the working of the-two systems, that while the other,churches in Newark, which are all con ducted upon the ultra principle, with scarce an exception, are far from full, Trinity is so crowded that it is impossible at present - to obtain a pew or even a sitting. This fact, added to the rapid increase of population, now about 80,000, has induced the rector of the parish to project a new church, to be for a time a chapel of Trinity." ITEMS. Since the commencement of the war, the American Tract Society has furnished $200,- 000 worth of publications for the army, navy and freedmen.—On a late Sabbath the Charles Street Methodist Church, Baltimore, contributed $2,000 to the cause of missions. —The Unitarians, as well as the evangeli cal Congregationalists, are moving for a na tional denominational organization. A con vention for that purpose is appointed to be held in New York, the first week in April. —Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon has undertaken the authorship of a biography of the late Rear-Admiral Foote. The Admiral, in whose character religion was so prominent a characteristic, was a member of Dr. Bacon's church.—The Theological Seminary of the Northwest, (0. S. Presbyterian,.) located at Chicago, has 23 students. It is free from debt, and its property, endowments included, amounts to s2Bo;ooo.—Rev. S. Q. Hobbs, who was driven out some time since by rebel violence from all conection with the mission in which he had been laboring among the Choctaws, has taken the pastoral charge of the 2d Congregational Church in Southboro, Mass.—Miss H. Bolton, lately deceased, be queathed five thousand dollars to the Presi dent of the Maryland Colonization Society, in trust, for the endowment of a school for fe male children in Liberia, to be . called the "Bolton School." Rev. Thomas S. Mal com (Baptist), of Philadelphia, has been elected Corresponding Secretary of the Penn- Jlvania Colonization Society.—Rev. Dr. Jmes 0. Murray was installed on the 19th ult. associate pastor with Dr. Gardiner 4ring, of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York.—Of the six colored churches in Savannah, three have large organs and fine choirs.—Rev. Isaac Gerhart, a vene rable minister of the German Reformed Church, died in Lancaster, Pa.; on the 11th ult.,aged 77 years.—They have in New Yor a "Christian Union Association," com posed- of ministers and member's of the dif ferent evangelical denominations. The sub ject, "How to organize churches," is under discussion.-----Dr. Livingstone is now plan ning an exploring expedition from the east coast of Africa, to the district lying between his most northern point on Lake Nyassa and Burton and Speke's southernmost on Lake Tanganyka. —A numerously attended meet ing of clergy and citizens of Indianapolis, Ind., was held on the 15th ult., to forward the movement for obtaining a recognition of God and his Son Jesus Christ our Lord in the Na-. tional Constitution. The proceedings were spirited, and the movement will be pushed forward. Stius rif ffk+ tat CONGRESS---2d SESSION. SENATE February 28.—A resolution for contracting with W. H. Powell to furnish a $25,000 pic ture for the National Capitol, was adopted . against a strenuous opposition, wldch con sumed a large part of the morning session. The tax bill was ( *taken up and some amend ments adopted—one taxing savings banks the same as banks of issue. - March I.—The New Loan Bill, which passed the House yesterday, was introduced and immediately passed. It creates a new loan of $600,000,000, payable from five to forty years, at the option of the Government; interest 7 3-10 per cent. in legal currency, or six per cent. in 'coin, payable semi-annually; some variations in the details of the condi tions optional with the Secretary of the Trea sury, and to be expressed on the face of the bond or treasury note. The Indian Appro priation Bill has passed. One section au thorizes the recognition of Indians who, for five years, have adopted habits of civilization, and can speak and read English, as citizens, and gives them the benefit of the homestead law. The Tax Bill was up, and amendments adopted. March 2.—The question of the reception of the Senator elect Itom Louisiana was laid on the table. This settles the point that the Louisiana State Government, as now organ ized, will not be recognized by Congress. The Tax Bill, after receiving a number of amend ments, was passed. Several bills relating to appropriations and fiscal matters were passed. March 3. —The Amendatory Tariff Bill from the House was taken up and passed after amendments one changing the proposed duty on railroad iron from fifteen to ten per cent. This being the last day of the session, the customary courtesies between the Senate and the Vice-President were passed. Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, offered the vote of thanks. A bill was passed, repealing the sec tion in the act of last year, which regulated transactions in cotton with the insurgent States. In the bill as now passed, is a clause punishing by fine not exceeding $5OOO, and imprisonment not exceeding ten years, the passing of any confederate bond' j _ note, or scrip. An agreement with the .11ouse re specting amendments to the Freedmen's Bureau Bill was obtained. The same with reference to the Revenue Bill, and the Amen datory Enrollment Bill. After an all-night session, crowded with miscellaneous hilliness, the Senate at about 7 o'clock, A. M., went into Executive Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVhS February 28.—The New Loan Bill came to to a vote and was passed. The Amendatory Tariff Bill came up. Amendments levying a duty of twenty cents a gallon on crude petro leum, fifteen cents a gallon on crude coal oil,' and fifteen per cent ad valorem on quicksilver, were adopted. Matters connected with the Navy occupied attention. • . March I.—The Amendatory Tariff Bill was passed. Among other changes, it makes the duty on imported spirituous liquors fifty cents per gallon on first,proof, and greater in pro portion as the strength of the article increases; on railroad iron fifteen cents per one hun dred pounds; illuminating oils, forty cents per gallon ; crude oils as voted yesterday, and tobacco stems, fifteen cents per, pound. Cer tain Appropriation Bills were passed. March 2.—The morning was spent on a proposed amendment to the Civil Appropria tion Bill, to the purport that no person, ex cept he be actually in the miliiary or naval service, or a rebel charged with being a spy, shall be tried by Court-martial or Military Commission, in any State or Territory where the U. S. Courts are open, and all previous acts contrary to this provision shall be vacated. The amendment was adopted with the excep tion of the last clause, " and all previous acts," &c., which was stricken out. In the evening, after further amendments, the Bill was passed. The House non-concurred in the Senate's amendments to the Tax Bill, and a Conference Committee was ordered. A large amount of miscellaneous business was transacted. March 3.—The usual parting compliments between the Rouse and. the Speaker took place, the vote- of thanks being offered by Mr. C'ix. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill was perfected. The Navy Pay Department Bill was tabled—of course lost. The Senate bill incorporating the Freedmen's SavVig and Trust Company, was passed. A bill, giving a section of land each to persdns establishing artesian wells along the New Yexioan route, was passed. The disagreement between the two Houses respecting amendments to the Indian Appropriation Bill, was arranged. The amendment to the Internal Revenue Bill, as arranged by the Committe of Confer ence, was agreed to. The same in relation to the Amendatory Tariff Bill and Amendatory Enrollment Bill. The Senate's joint resolu tion, that the Government will never recognize the rebel debt, was concurred in. A joint resolution, requesting the President to abro gate the order of Gen. Augur, which restricts colored persons from passing northward from Washington without a pass, was adopted. A vast number of private and public bills were crowded into a session carried through the night and into the morning. Most of them failed for want of time. At 12 o'clock noon of the 4th, the Speaker, amid profound quiet, rose, and after a patriotic and eloquent ad dress, adjourned the Rouse sine die. THE WAR. SHERIDAN AGAIN VICTORIOUS. Gen. errant telegraphed to the War De- Paroment from City Point, March 5, that news was brought in by deserters from every part of the rebel lines, and also by refugees, that heridan had taken Charlotteville, cap turing Gen. Early, and nearly his entireforce. Lee, it is said, has despatched four brigades to Lynchburg, to get there, if possible, before Sheridan. RICHMOND AND THEREABOIITS. Richmond editors are alarmed about the state of things in the rebel capital, and pro testing againt its evacuation. The Enquirer of the 27th ult. has the following :—" During the last four weeks wild apprehensions of dan- Ter have disturbed the minds of the timid he enemy has lately thrown his forces for across the line of easy congressional retreat to ward the West and South, and since that time Senators and Representatives have one by one fled the capital, leaving a skeleton legislature, rapidly diminishing , to a number below a quo rum. It is true the President must stand firm, and grow firmer as the danger thickens ; and it is true that the sacred army must base their hearts to the storm with more heroic courage as the columns of the enemy cirverge and threaten the liberty and existence of the country. Should the President waver and imitate Congressional examples, there will be no difficulty in finding instances in history to illustrate his disgrace." • Gen. J. E. Johnston is re-instated and has assumed command of the army which is to confront Sherman. His first General order was issued at Charlotte, N. C. Feb. 25. All that is mid respecting the movements of Sherman and Schofield is too • vague to be worth chronicling. There is nothing but what looks well, even through the me dium of rebel reports. Concerning matters around Petersburgh the Express of that city, of the 27th ult. said :—" An engagement is imminent, being deferred only in consequence of the terrible condition of the roads and the the immediate inability to use artillery. Re liable intelligence, however, leads to the be lief that on Friday and Saturday nights the enemy moved a nuinber of pieces of artillery to his left. The enemy's cavalry and the main body of his infantry have been moved towards Hatcher's Run, and at present but a feeble force confronts our lines east of the city." Some light concerning Sherman's move- , ments, comes to us by way of Wilmington. It is believed that a portion of his army have formed a junction with Gen. Terry. Pris oners and deserters reported that Sherman was advancing on Florence, S. C. There are also accounts of his movement on Fayetteville, N. C. and that gunboats have been dispatched to meet him at that place. AU these accounts are as yet too indefinite for positive news. FROM OTHER QUARTERS. CAPTURES OF ORDINA_NcIE.--Later-crfncia reports from Gen. Gilmore show that the amount of ordinance and other war property which fell ink, our hands at Charleston, far exceeds what was first reported. Of the first there were 450 pieces, including 8 and 10 inch Columbiads besides many smaller pieces, not a few of them of foreign manufacture. FoßßEsT.—Richmond papers say that this rebel General has been placed in command of all the Cavalry in the districts of Mississippi, East Louisiana and West Tennesee, and that his first general order threatens death to stragglers, robbers, and deserters. Forrest threatening robbers with death TExAs.—The rebels are said to be carrying on an immense cotton trade with Mexico, through Texas, receiving large supplies of goods in return. It is also understood at New Orleans that the French have forbidden ex ports to American ports from Matamoras, a channel through which American mills have been la.igely supplied with cotton for more than a year past. KENTUCKY.—A band of guerillas made a dash into Hickman, Ky., on the 27th ult. burned three stores, robbed others, and com mitted other depredations. Troops were sent for the protection of the town. Mormx...—Mobile advices of the 6th ult. indicate that there is no intention to evacuate the city. The garrison is being strengthened, and the force there is said to be much larger than generally supposed. Beauregard was in. Mobile on the 4th, and inspected the defen ce% WHoEvEn„ has discovered an actual remedy for one disease, has done something for hi s race. Doctor Ayer has done more, for his medicines afford us the means to control and cure several dangerous disorders. Such effect s as are seen in our midst, on affections of the lags by flyer's Cherry Pectoral, on scrof ulous complaints by his Sari aparilla, and on the several complaints that they cu e by Ayer's Pills, should not be ignored.—r Ke okuk, (Iowa) Journal. MARRIAGES. LEVIS—WORRELL.—March Ist, by the Rev. Thos. Brainerd. D. D., Mr. Seth Levis, Jr., to Miss Hannah C. Worrell. FRANCIS—STILLS.—March 2d, by the Rev. Thos. Brainerd, D. D., Mr. Samuel Francis to Miss Mary Ann Stille. DEATHS. POLLOCK.—At her residence, in Milton. Northum berland county, Pa., on the evening of. Sabbath, 19th of February, Mrs, Sarah Pollock, aged 93 years and 3 months. The subject of this notice closed, by a peaceful death, the steadfast testimony of a long life in favor of the Power and beauty of religion. A fuller notice of her life and death may be expected hereafter. gprtiat 41difo. ACP - Daily Palen Prayer Meeting, from 12 to 1 o'clock, in the Hall, 'No. 1011 Chestnut street. Walk in and give a few moments to God and your soul- , , "Prayer was appointed to convey The blessings God designs to give, Long as they live should Christians pray, For only while they pray they live." Atir Perry Davis's Vegetable Pale Hiller. We ask the attention of the public to this long tested and unrivalled family medicine. The PAIN KILLER is, by universal consent„ al lowed to have won for itself a reputation unsurpassed in the history of medicinal preparations. Its instan taneous effect in the entire eradication and extinction of pain, in all its various forms incidental to the human family, and the unsolicited written and verbal testimony of the masses in its favor, have been, and are, its own best advertisement. Prices, 25 cents. 50 cents. and $1 per bottle. *dal, Ittlitts. oar Philadelphia Tract and glisaion So. elety.—The eighty-fourth meeting in behalf of this Society. will be held at the Baptist Mission, corner Thirteenth and Oxford streets, on Sabbath morning. 12th inst.. at 10Y2 o'clock. The eighty-fifth meeting will be held in the Ebene zer Church, Marlborough street. above Belgrade, on Sabbath evening, 12th inst., at 7% o'clock. Several addresses will be made. Public invited. JOSEPH H. SCHREINER, estn S Agen ut t, 929 Cht. Sas-French Evans , *lical Cluireh.—Theptd, pit of this Church is now supplied by the Rev. ii. Cir, a fifteen pupil of Dr. Merle d'Aubigne, for years a miss ionary in Canada. They have services twice on the Sabbath in Dr. Barnes's Sunday-school building, corner of Seventh and Spruce streets. Those of our readers who understand French might find it pleasant to stop in occasionally ! and they may contribute to the prosperity of this mission work by advising their French acquaintances to attend services. Morning, 10%, and 7% P. M. The Pictorial Phrenological Journal for JANUARY, FEBRUARY, and MARCH, have 32 quarto pages each, and beautiful illustrated covers. They contain Port-tilts of Tennyson, Silliman, Sheri dan. Cobb, Phillips, Susanna Wesley—mother of John—an Indian Chief, Frans Muller, Miss Muggins, Miss Fury, the Princess of Wales, Florence Nightin gale, A Group of Warriors—Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Pizarro, Cromwell, Charles XII, Frederick the Great, Scott. Wellington, and Napoleon. The Great Sur geons of the World—Harvey, Abernethy. Jenner, Hunter, Cooper, Mott, and Carnochan. Also, W. S. 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