7HE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND GENESEE EVANGELIST. A Religions and Family newspaper,. 'THE INTERNST OF THN Constitutional Presbyterian Chmh. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE, . • • 1331 Chestnut Street. (2d story,) Philadelphia. Rer. John W. Mears, Editor and PabUsher. Bev. B. B. Hotehkin, Editor of News and Family Departments. Rev. .c. Bush, _ Corresponding Editor, ito!eliester, N. Y. ant halt trolrgttriaiL THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1865 CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES. SECOND PAGE - THE FAMILY CIRCLE Divine Faithfulness—A Father's Lessthi—Ballast— Dead Three Months—" I'm Going: I Don't Know Where"—Over the River—Boy Lost—Out of Tune— Beautiful Illustration—The Apprentice—Tb e Un seen Army—Children Attending Church—" After Many Days"—Rum in the Army. THIRD PAGE—EDITOR' S TABLE : Philbrick's " The American Union Speaker"—Head ley's "The Hero Boy; or,. the Life and Deeds of Lieutenant-amoral Grant ;" " The Patriot Boy ; or, the Life of Mmor-General 0. M. Mitchell, the As tronomer and Hero;" " The Miner Boy and hie Monitor; or, the Life of Captain John Ericsson, the Engineer"—" Vivian . and His Friends"—Kelley's " Little Sernism Talks"—Kelley's " Little Con querors; or, Children's Comfort Bags"—" Mother's Picture Alphabet"—Magazines and Pamphlets. .• • Agricultural; Our Farmers—Grape Planting this Spring—Gardeng for the Children—Visiting 'Ear mers—Death to Rats—Marble Cement. SIXTH PAGE—CORRESPONDENCE: The Sabbath a National Bulwark—Jotting. from a Parish SournalAn Illustration of City Missions— Chaplain Stewart's Letter—Benjamin Franklin's Proposal of Prayer in the Convention for Framing the Constitution—With Me in Paradise. Miscellaneous i Sound and Timely Suggestions Our Publications: The Closer Walk. SIVFZITH PAGE-PuELIGIOIIS INTELLIGENCE Presbyteriau—Congregational—Methodist — Baptist --The Church Catholic--Miscellaneous--Items--U. S. Christian Commission. THE ECCLESIASTICAL RECONSTIMC - PION OF TENNESSEE. How the shattered ,affairs of the South ern churches are ever to be repaired it is impossible to tell. Demoralized and shorn of their character as witnesses for the pure truth of the Gospel long before the - war, by_slavery, they entered; heart and soul, into the — Siiinuern — sla. Their clergy, their elders, their Sabbath school teachers, the young men of their churches, as we have reason to believe, have been drawn into the war by volunteering or by conscription, far more generally than. has been the case with us. A Bishop of the Episcopal Church was killed while wearing the insignia and performing the duties of a general in the rebel army. The late Secretary of the American Bible Society, Rev. James H. McNeill, a college class-mate of ours, was wounded near Get tysburg, while acting as a rebel lieutenant. Dr. Atkinson, President of Hampden Sidney College, became a captain irrthe rebel service, and was captured at the battle of Biel Moun thin. Dr. Dabney was one of the staff of Stonewall Jackson., Dr.,,PeAmer have been both a colonel and chaplain in the rebel service; he is known to, have haran gued the , rebel army of Northern Missis sippi with great energy and ability. The churches hastened with a joyful eagerness to reorganize themselves in accordance with the new civil circumstances, never lifting a word in behalf of the divinely ordained " powers that 'be," against Which so MaprO yoked a rebellion was raised, the formu laries of Church Polity, the. Liturgies,- the Directories for worship were altered, and the "United Sates" . erased to give place to the " Confederate States" in the services. Solemn addresses were issued by the Old _School Southern Assembly, the Southern Bishops of the Episcopal Church, the Young Men's Christian Association Of New Orleans, the Smithern Baptist Con vention, and finally, by the entire body of Southern churches, Methodists, • Baptists, Epcscopalians, Presbyterians, Lutherans,l German Reforinici, &c., in April, 1868 all of which documents ,declare - their' un-'j hesitating acquiescence in the rebellion and even strenuously argtie in its defence;*, The religiOus press of the South, weekly, and quarterly, sustained the movement with remarkable ulagdmitY- In fact, it has been asserted, at' le'ast by one Southern man, supposed to be Thomas R. R. Cobb, that the td revolulic•n," as he terms it, "has been accomplished mainly by the' churches." In another 'place, he calls " Her, own [the church'S] grand creation." - t Now these organizations, so deeply pene trafed with the spirit of the rebellion, who.; commended it to the public conscience, gave it moral status, anticipated by their per verted reasoning andtheir suppression and misconstruction of Scripture teaching, the simpler and purer judgment of the people, scattered, broken, prostrate, as they are, pre sent no easy problem to the loyal Christian I people of the -country. Shall they again, by Northern aid, be set upon their feet? Shall all their machinery once more be put in operation? Can they become instrumen talities in the work of the gospel, after they m so extensively and so energeti in the promotion and support of ion in the interest of American Can their leaders again be ad places of trust and influence? Can :embers be reinstated in pulpits rhich they have preached treason and for the success of a slaveholders' 7 Or if, seeing their schemes Arn and the hand of God so mani igainst them, they sincerely repent, ton's Church and the Rebellion. New Series, V6l. 11, No. 12. will even the penitent authors of such mis chievous•and murderous doctrines, some•of whom have even shed 'blo'od in their de fence, be fit men to be entrusted with the moral training of the new generation of free and loyal' Americans? For our part, we do not see but that the S h outhern churches, and leading ministers, and religious newspapers ,and periodicals, and theological seminaries, must be swept away with the rebel politicians, with whose cause they so unreservedly and promptly identified themselVes. Happily, the ease is far different with the churches of . Tennessee, especially in .the eastern portion. In the mountains of East Tennessee, the spirit of liberty and loyalty has dwelt , in unconquerable - persistency from the beginning of the war. Some of the ministers, it is true, participated in the Secession madness; but their flocks have endured amid 'indescribable martyrdoms, until the long prayed for deliverer, in the person of General . Burnside, arrived, - and their false teachers forsook them and fled. Here the problem_ of e.eclesiastieal recon struction is the simplest possible. The in tractable leaven of seccession is purged away, andindeed the effect of the war has been to. turn the churches more warmly to the North, and to undo the work of mis chief-makers who anticpated political by ecclesiastical secession, a few years before the .outbreaking of the war. Two entire Presbyteries, separated from us by the - .01 ,,, -hrtml----se.cession of 1857, voted to re turn to the General Assembly as soon as General Buraide's presence gave them the opportunity of acting freely. The war, in fact, recovered them to us; it.seened to develope their sympathies with us, artifici ally interrupted and repressed seven years before. Providence has, therefore, opened to us as a denomination, a sphere of labor in the ecclesiastical reconstruction of the South, happily tree from almqst all the embarrass- ments which must beset,a large part of the field. .A. great. central State of the Union, the commanding military importance of whose territory has been strikingly revealed by the war, with magnificent resources* .aria a salubrious climate, is thus planed Vefo T e . our -ehUrch. So much of 'ter duty to the. South is clear. These returning Presby-_ teries must be sustained. The request, of these churches for men and means and suitable literature must be heeded. These scenes of the apostolic labors of Gideon Black burn and Robert Henderson must be revisi ted by men of like zeal and energy. It may be necessary to repeak the precaution, of those first settlers and preachers of East Tennessee,: who came armed to the places of convocation, and sat down musket and cartridge box. in the corner of • the pulpit before commencing the sexinon. But the work must be done. Our church dare not shrink from it, or treat it as a matter •of secondary importance. 'As surely as we appreciate the significance of the questions inVolved in this struggle ; as surely as our branch of the church in its acts, policY and sympathies represents the principles of free dom, justice, and public order, vindicated in this struggle ; as surely' as:we dealre - the SOuth to be Pervaded With' these principleS,4 and 'to`enjoy' the transformin. eleVatine - . power of a fairly preached gospel, so surely'', must we rejoice, at the open .indications of sympathy with us in a central .and exten , sive region of . .the South--must hail the action and : present p,cisition of; the =East Ten 'nessee Preshyterians as i among the most hopeful of the signs of thetime.s, and must solemnly charge ourselves with the duty-of giving to these movements, all the ele ments of stability and of growth, which the means, the executive ability, and the preach ing forces at our disposal -will allow. -No denomination in the country enjoys such a magnificent base of operations for the work in the South, topographical, strategetical, and' moral, as is ours in Ekat Tennessee. - It was long ago declared, in a military point of view that, whoever held possession of East Tennessee, dominated the country. We know that the course of victory has been almost uninterruptedly with the national anus, ever since we gained undisputed pos session of that territory. May we not learn from this the importance of 'making a sure and broad foothold for our church there, as the best preparation for the performance of whatever else may be our part in that work, of restoration or substitution, which the Northern churcheS in some way must Ito complish for the religious and ecclesiastical interests of the South? Remembering the military importance ‘ of Chattanooga, we cannot but hope that our Home Missionary Committee will give it their early attention, as e point of impor- ikThere is an "Oil Creek," mentioned in the early records of Presbyterianism in Ten nesoee. See Gillett's History. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1865. tance for their more peaceful, but, we hope, equally aggressive operations. 'Finally, we may take it as a crowning indication of the readiness and the promise of this field, that the brief labors of our missionaries, under many and great-disad vantages, have already been, attended with the Divine blessing. The Holy Spirit has. been poured out upon oneof the congrega tions, and a plentiful ing,athering of the fruits has, taken place. In - 'that abused country, -among those hunted, Troscribed people, from' whose ears the din of war has scarcely yet died away ; how solemn, how delightful, how tender, how near to heaven, and yet holy rich in promise for the earthly: future of the church and the citizen, must have been the admission of those converted East Tennesseans to the New' School Pres byterian Church ! . THE FALL IN GOLD. The Wall street wing of the rebel,ausil iary forces met with a series of crushing disasters last week. The doeline in gold was nearly thirty per' cent.; an d e very at tempt of speculators to arrest it pioved futile, resulting in still worse - disaster to the operators. <No rebel ,army, in actual field service, has been more pertinaciouS, more skilfully handled, more plentifully supplied with material for a campaign, more firmly entrenched, and, we may add, more favorably disposed to the rebel oause, than the' unprincipled , gold gamblers of Wall stre ' vice .to tl tl-zffut to - inflict more than temporary disaster upon our cause; but those who 'hove, by persistent efforts, at the great financial:con _ tre of . the country, depreciated the credit of the government, and created the impres sion- that its paper was no better than that of a desperate bankrupt, worth but forty to fifty cents on the dollar, have loaded uS and all posterity: for. generations to 'come, with the grieVous burden of a rieedleSsly enhanced indebiedness, and have prepare& the' way for a Conimereial panic,"Ahe extent and results of which no, one can foresee, gmlibleri gold,, whose very occupation made them wish, dipaster instead ,of success to our arms,' as well as political defeat and popular disturb= anoes at hOme, could not have carried out their 7pu'fposes alone. The help . 4:0f: the loyal and the . tindifferent portion' of the' community - was necessary to their success, and they got it.. They found the commu nity accessible to panics, and even loyal mer . have been covetous -enough of gain to willing to .see., the plan§ of the gamblers, successful, and to, beeotne, in a sense, coad.: jutors.tvi.th them - in running up prices, and securing -unprecedented gains. There has' been an -immense amount of commercial'; immorality in- this waY;'-there has been a vast deal Of criminal disloyalty to the honor.' and credit of the country, among men who, by their votes and actions in other direc tions, have exhibited, every Mark of, true patriotism. They have not been able to, resist the appeal to their covetousness, pre,, , 'septet].;in , the chance.of decrying govern-'' ment credit; or, swhieh is . the same thing, 'rinning 'and 'keeping up prices. Caught in-'these eirciinastances, they have `fought` , agonise &decline; and •hive put themselves, by their' actions;in in attitude entirely hos .• tile to a speedy restoration of the gov:era . ment Credit. In all their calculations and business arrangeraents, they have trealvd it as a needy, bankrupt,. whose - Paper can' only. be' taken at an enormous and. ruinous shave ; and now , when its real solvetwy is. becomingmanifest; they are 'using t.)• 'ry means to delay the disclosure; and, by'.. - ro longing; the period of discredit, to save the' - gains they have Made at the expense of government and posterity. ' We hear of 'combinations at work to keep up prices; we hear arguments,to the effect that there, is no reason for any thing more than an easy and very...gradual of. gold, and we even hear that, the chief officer of the Treasury Department is infected with the prevailing immorality, and will use his in fluence and :his immense means to let gol. go down as easily as possible, thus lending himself to the protection of the men who have enriched themselves by the Aegrada-, tion of.the credit of which he is the sworn custodian. These and like , devices, which have an exceedingly dubious character in the light of morality and of patriotism, we have heard of; but who ever heard of com binations among great merchants and man ufacturers to keep down prices, to forestal panics, and to keep up government credit'? Who does not believe, that, if a sincere and earnest patriotism had prevailed in .leading business centres,_ sufficient to balance the covetousness of men, the truth, of the per fect solvency of our government would have -~_, _'~ " been kept boldly before all classes of the people, and no such excessive depreciation of•its credit and disturbance of commercial values would have been possible? THE MARCH OF RETRIBUTION. The transfer of the guilty.city of Charles ton4to loyal hands . has brought some mar vellous,and significant changes in its train. The beneficent ideas.of modern civililation forced themselves into that stronghold of stubborn prejudice at the point of, the bayo net, wltile the antiquated and..barbarous notions in the defence of which its people have become notorious before the' whole world,fied with the retreating armies of Beau J gar',,,,4arid . Hardee. They have _taken an everlasting farewell of the city, as they have of. BaltiMore, Nashville, Memphis, Vicksburg, New Orleans, Little Rock, Sa- vannah, Norfolk, and Wilmington. telt mond-and Mobile are the only places of im-, portance where they stilly Maintain their hold; and even in Richniond the recent action:of the Legislature of Virginia and the rebel Congress for the enlistinent of ne groes as soldiers,.sliowi,an- utter breaking clown of prejudices, if not a-return to jus tice, under the terrible pressure: of wideh spread military disaster. , - • • One'of the first things done in,Ghi!.rleston, after, our troops came into possessitaywas, the reopening of the public schoolss but a prominent' condition ilposedwas, that they sittnild'be accessible to whites and to blacks alike ' The. education wilich had been ad.vc, tutu w tuneki Mini all bit The highest classes of free blacks, who enjoyed it only under the most onerous restrictions, was thus thrown open absolutely to all. Pight colored teachers have been appointed to these schools, and two white the' remainder of the white teachers haVinc , refused the conditions. The white children of Charleston may, yet be, compelled to, choose between gob* to school: with ,the ne - groes; and staying at home arid , nursing their prejudices,.in,the . c latter case destined to fall into the very iiugOranOhinto 'whibh they had 'previpu r sly Cendeanzie&the ' f the' secureof the rebel School-bOoks. Just is in „former dips, -publications breathing of ihe spirit et= . freedom were. judged incen diary. and.daugerops, and .were seized and destroyed -by the authorities in this fierce nest..of., tyranny, so new, the 'Southern, Ischtel-hooks, crammed full as they are Of r • eb6l,sentitnents, are seized and confiscated b e y the authorities of the Uniont The' tfdrin of a receipt given to the owners, redda lice a fine piece of irony upon Southern Practices towards Northern books. It ie for so many '.,copies of. incendtargpublications confiscated." Another, event , of the same character is. tli.i„,retu.rofifßobert Small the brave cap ,tor of • the Plante?) as Captain, upon the identical - vesSel, which three years ago he brought out of Charleston, under the guns of Fort Sumter, and 'delivered up, to the Union fleet now. plies' his staunch vessel, completely repaired in the Philadel ' phis Nay.Y:Yairt, , hack: and forth uponthe same wateraand upon . similar- errands, but with tar differont f onds, in view. :.We, should', like to lave been. :with% him she steeied-:the. Plcottir past the-disman tled Wails ,of Sumter, perhaps to the very doek froth which he turned hie . hack when he started upon' his perilonS voyage'" to % Nerare glad , -that ai man of nerve is in command at Charleston, and that he knows ho*, with lightning stiffness of repartee, to exVose he emptiness of the popular pre p ices, and to defend' the policy of the government against the attacks of semi , loyal as well as.rebellious men. "D. Williams, one of the committee of citizens Charged with the distribution of the rice; called _and asked that ansorder should be issued requiring the colored people to meet at specified places on one day, and the whites on the day,,suce,eeding. Colonel Woolford declined to issue it on therground that he did not'intend to rise the words white, black, "or colored in any. official , order. His reply was quite epigraramatid. " SIR : When a nun approaches me with, the shield.'of loyalty before him : he seems so_ bright that 'I cannot see that he is black ; and when , he comes with the shield of :disloyalty, he, ooks so black that I cannot see that he is white I' " • HER. NAME DISCLOSED.—The Montreal' Wititss says the author of the Schoenberg- Cotta Family is Mrs. Charles (formerly Miss Rundell), the daughter of a banker at' Tavistock, I)evonshire, England. As a young•girl she was Tery fond of study, es pecially of the Greek and Latin Classios, and of poety. She has made many transla tions from the German, and written origi nal poetry.' • THE whole world is, one grand *perti nence to him who laws Jekla-Christ by the eye.of Genesee Evangelist, No. 983. We mentioned, a few weeks since, the fact • that the congregation of the Central Presbyterian Church, N. L., now worship ping in Coates street, near Third, designed removing their enterprise to another loca tion. We now learn, that they have, for a season, the refusal of a lot rtorthwest of their present location, the centre of a growing neighborhood, and one which stands in need of just such an enterprise, The past history of the .Central Church encourages:us to believe that friends will not be wanting now to sympathize and co-ope rate with, as well. as to substantially assist it, in this new effort to maintain its exist ence as a.church in the northern part' of this city. We are pleased to record in our `columns a paper on this subject: as adopted at a recent meeting of the Pastors' Associa tion :-- " The congregation of the Central Pres- byterian Church, N. L., at a recent meet ing having decided to remove their enter prise to a more, northern and western loca tion; and this decision,having been forced upon them by the constant retrieval of their members from the neighborhood of their present church building, and believing, as we do, that, as at pr l esent located, there is no prospect of the congregation growing, 'but rather of its, diminishing; and the con gregation; having • taken ingipient steps to pro - cure 4, lot, and erect thereon a suitable building for chiroh purposes: Therefore, we, members of the Pastor's' Association, Contemplated' movement, and to the end that no delay may be had - in its execution; cordially commend the pastor of the said church,• Rev. J. Y. Mitchell, to the liber ality of our people, with the hope that we may speedily hear of his having ,secured an amount sufficient to complete the enterprise proposed, without having it burdened with date "The above paper luts been adopted with the understanding that no, subscription given' for the above-nained object is bind ing, unless the enterprise be conducted With9utno4rhig any debt" "We will only :add : that We'iviih the move- went a speedy-and complete success.. TEE PIJBLIt LEDGER AND MR. CHILDS' POLICY._ - - The Public Ledger, lately transferred to the hand's of George W. Childs the enter prising and successful publiSher of this city, has gained — Wonderfully in all the elements of true respectability by the change. From a miserably printed, almost illegible 'sheet, the texture of which re minded one of a pine shaving, it has be come clear and legible to the smallest busi ness notice, and pleasant to handle. More important still, adurking trace of a spirit not cordially in sympathy with the govern ment, ha's quite-disappeared-from its special telegrams and New York letters, and if pos sible, still bettei, -the whole abominable troop of. obscene advertisements, which were invariably found occupying a large, ,space - in the columns,-has been shut out, 'in accordance with.the new and - wholesome policy-.the present, pnblisher. .The thanks' of the community: are• due to 'Mr. Childs, especially those of the - poor man,. who, Whire'desircius of the advantageS of h. cheap 'newspaper far his family, would spare lais wife and childrerr the daily con tact With Vice, which formerly could 'not be escaped - u'herever the Lddger, appeared. Indeed, the purity, of ,Mr. Childs' sheet in this respect, deserves-notice r and might profilably'be imitated; by some of our -most pretentious "religious" weeklies. We wish the attention of their managers might be called to- these 'metitorions attempts of a layman to reform the press in this depart ment, and that some means might be used to awaken their 'consciences to the guilt, of so-called religious editors, standing in the way of this reform. TREASURY OF THE AMERICAN BOARD. A GOOD MOVE. MISSIONARY HOUSE, BOSTON, MARCH .9 ; 1865: To THE EDITORS OF THE AMERICAN PRES- BXTEItIAN DEAR SIRS :-Will you have the kind ness to inform the readers of your paper that the treasury of the A. B. C. F. M. is becoming seriously embarrassed ? One half of our current financial year is gone; but instead of receiving one-half of the $600,000 voted at Worcester, we have received less than one-third of that sum, ($186,654). Indeed, the donations and legacies have advanced only $9436 be yond those of last year. On the other hand, our expenditures are uniform and imperative. Remittances must be sent to the missions, if possible, even though our irccome is Wholly iribufficiont. Will you not ask the friends of the Board to keep these facts in mind, to the end that their contributions may be ri- E. n, m s . Per annum, in advance ~. . . . By Hail, $3. lily Carrier, $3 50. FIN cents additional, after three months. Clubs.—Ten or more papers, sent to one address, payable strictly in advance and in one remittance: By Mail, $250 per annum. By Carriers, $3 per annum. Ministers and Ministers , Widows, 82 in ad. vanes. Home Missionaries, $l5O inadvance. Fifty cents additional after three months. Remittances by mail are at our risk. Postage.—Five cents quarterly, in advance. paid by subscribers at the office of delivery. Advertisements.-123 cents per line for the first, and 10 cents for the second insertion. One square (one month) 33 00 two months 5 50 three " 750 " 12 00 six one year 18 00 The following discount on long advertisements, in serted for three months and upwards. is allowed:— Over 20 lines, 10 per cent. off; over 50 lines. 20 per Cent.; over 100 lines, VA per cent. off. prompt, as well as generous? And will you not suggest to those who have been blessed with unusual prosperity, that they have an opportunity to perform a much needed and most useful service. Very truly yours, S. B. TREAT, Home Secretary THE EDUCATION CAUSE. We call attention to Secretary Mills' statement, which will be found in another column, showing that scarcely one in ten of the churches have, thus far, during the year, contributed to this cause. We need not inquire in what quarter the delinquency ex.ists, when nine-tenths of the churches are involved, including, doubtless, some of the largest and ablest. A general waking up is required. And how much it is to be wished that the feebler churches would feel -it their privilege to contribute, according to ability, be it ever so• small, to this and all other causes of our church ! Flow much more he.althful the state of things when every member shows that it feels the pulse of the common life, intead of allowing all the vital force to settle about the great centres, while the extremities are chilled with cold indifference ! We trust the various committees of Pres , - bytely' and Synod will hear Dr. ap peal, and each one ask for himself, and the body he represents : f' Is it I?" The two months yet remaining before the meeting of the Assembly may be made very fruitful, by, !energetic efforts on the part of these committees aided b. the castors. - FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE BOROUGH OF DARBY.—This Church, of which Rev. S. W. Crittenden is pastor; received to its membership, on the first Sabbath of this month, eighteen persons, fourteen on profession of their faith and four by letter. There are several others also who have declared their intention of professing Christ at the next opportunity, which will occur on the first Sabbath in May. This ingathering is the result id a very delightful work of grace enjoyed during the winter. The religious interest com menced. in the Sabbath school, of which the pastor is superintendent, and the ma r jority of those who have found the Saviour, are Sabbath school scholars. Two are teachers, the only teachers who were not already professing Christianity. Besides those from the school, however, two gentleriten - and their wives, and the wife of another, who is were in the service of our country, were baptized and sat down with us for the first time at the table of our blessed Lord. It Was an occasion of great interest tor this little church ; and the more espe cially as it followed -a successful effort made during the last year to relieve the church from all pecuniary embarrass ment, and to secure a permanent home for its pastor. Aided by several gene rous friends, and by an appropriation of $875 from a fund raised to assist feeble churches, the congregation have, within one year, discharged about $3,300 of church debts, leaving the church edifice and ground free of all ineumbrance ; and have also plid about . s3,7oo on a par sonage purchased and refitted, and now Occupied by - the pastor. This Property has cost over $5,000, and all that will remain- on Mortgage is $i , 500. ,To those - Who are informed off the past struggles of this church with' financial difficulties the intelligence here given will be gratifying. To us, who have, hoped and labored with and for it, the results achieved are causes of profound gratitude to Almighty God; and the' spiritual blessings following so soon after the monetary ones cause us to feel that we have had a practical and satisfactory proof of the verity of that promise con ' tained in Mal. iii, 10. Com.. CITY OF WILLIAMBPORT.—We notice, in the proceedings of our State ,Legisla ture, the final passage of a bill giving to the borough of Williamsport a city char-,' ter.. The growth of this place has been of the model type—sufficiently rapid to indicate energy of the first order, and yet sufficiently gradual to show that the ad vance has been a wholesome one on a: sound basis. It is the great lumber em porium of the upper Susque,hanna, (West Branch,) and the opening of railroad communication_ on the Erie route will in crease its business facilities in that line to an extent almost incalculable. It is withal a lovely town to the eye, occu pying a romantic spa, well-built, con taining many exquisitely tasteful resi dences, and in all respects a delightful place of abode. The best of all is a high moral tone of public sentiment. The Christian element is large, earnest and liberal. We know few towns of its size which make themselves better felt in the great enterprises which are working to , raise our fallen world np to God. We. make our best bow congratulatory- to the city of Williamsport. We trust she bear, her new honors meekly, do justly - , love mercy,. and walk litWoly with heri God.
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