TIIE AIHERIICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND , GENESEE EVANGELIST. &Religious and Family Newspaper, IN *IR INTEREST OF THE. Constitutional Presbyterian Church. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE, 1334 Chestnut Street, (2d story.) Philadelphia. Rev. John W. Nears, Editor and Publisher. Rev. B. B. Hotebbin, Editor of News and Family Departments. Rev. C. P. Bush, Corresponding Editor, Rochester, N. Y. giztritart tobyttrian. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1865 CONTENTS OE INSIDE PAGES. SECOND PAGE—THE FAMILY CIRCLE : Will ho Come?—May Miller's Note—The Cunning Angler—The World on Fire—Winthrop Earl—Pro vidence. For the Little Folks: Familiar Talks with the Children—Fashions—Wanting Friends—Power of a Child's Appeal. THIRD PAGE—EDITOR'S TABLE: Harper & Bro.'s Books: Napoleon's "History of Julius Cesar"—Vambery's Travels in Central Asia"—Loomis' "Treatise on 'Astronomy"—Beech er's "Autobiography, Correspondence, etc., of Ly man. Beecher, D.C.—Thackeray's " Vanity Farr' —Hooker's "Science for the School and Family"— Charles Scribner tc Co.'s Works: Froude's "History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth"—Forsyth's Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero"—Derby's ' Iliad of Homer"—Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lin scoln—Pamphlets and Periodicals. - General Assembly. SIXTH PAGE—CouggsPONDENCE: • Thoughts by the Way—Scraps from India—A Phila delphia Sabbath-school Boy—A Jubilee Anniver sary—The New School Presbyterian General Assem bly—Historical Error Promptly Refuted—Gallus Cantat. SEVENTH PAGE—RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE : Episcopal-- ethodist--Baptist-- Missionary-- Items. Rural Economy: Clothing, and Health as Affected by it—How to Kill the Worms—Rapid Growth of Vegetables. THE GENERAL - ASSEMBLY IN THE RETROSPECT. Looking at the Assembly from the calmer elevation of the editorial sanctum, it pre sents itself in some aspects which are new, or which did not appear so clearly when actually mingling with its business, or which may be gathered into a more satisfactory form, now that it is among the things that are past. We note, 1. It was the conscious embodiment of a powerful ecclesiastical community. The constituent elements of the Assembly were not individually powerful, at least not to a very great degree of visible power. Few powerful speeches were made. No pro longed discussions between contending parties were possible in an Assembly so harmonious; and these are the occasions "liich bring out wit, logic and intellectual strength. One or two points in thesi, of a udicial and constitutional character, were ited, and brought out decided evidences bility both in laymen and clergymen; but . ..ssembly, as a body, regarded the discus is as scarcely relevant, and turned eag-1 v from them to dispatch the proper iness of the church. But there was a ,ciousness of strength in each member's ma, as he looked upon the two hundred thirty-six representatives of a Church expected to dissolve in the presence, he two attractive forces of" Old School" isbyterianism l and 'Congregationalism,— be ground to powdei: between the upper nether millstone,—which was pointed and given a bad name as a dog about to hanged—called a tertium quid—its right live challenged—summoned, almost .i 4 -ess terms, to commit felo de se, to iiiii world -of its superfluous presence. :e it still was, in the providence of God, ving, active, growing, liberal church, h armor on, full of energy, and moving zeal and hope, and with a conscious iss to the times and the emergency, to its full share in the work of conquering ) world for Christ. 'the members of body felt that they represented a power and noble constituency, felt that they resented the people, the middle and the lerately wealthy classes of the country, educated, practical, stirring, large ided, evangelical, and actively pious id of a large part of the country, and this constituency had learned to love branch of the church, and had made up it mind effectually to sustain it. They as never before, their denominational irprises sustained, their college?; and caries endowed, and the religious press ;nized. A feeling that to be connected our branch of the. Church was to have best possible position from which to for the evangelization of the wort(' the good of our race, sprung up in minds or gained a decided increase ingth in that Assembly. The body was manifestly 't harmony the most advanced spirit ofthe times. fiilt to occupy a position most favor co general acceptance and wide use in the age of reconstruction and .tion of human rights on which we just entered. A long struggle is just in which with all the emphasis of a and decisive war, a judgment has :endered to the world upon the side 1 our church, as a martyr church, has i ,since 1818. Our loss by the seces isioW the southern element at Cleveland, .1; fOtir4 ears before the war began, was a ..,, ve gain. It put our ship in trim for aa t •"•r< ," term ; we rode safely with it and on `.:, he triumph of the nation and of the les of freedom is our triumph. The position God has enabled the nation th and to secure by a bloody and ms struggle, is our position. The of two colored delegates on the :king/titan 7*tresbnitk 9 an, New Series, Vol. 11, No. 23. floor, and the courtesy freely awarded them by the Assembly—to say nothing of the impression made by their own judicious deportment and able addresses, the emphatic and unanimous declaration of the Assembly for the extension of the right of suffrage to the freedmen, showed that the future course of the national movement in the line of justice and hu manity was clearly apprehended by the body ; and it was made certain where, in any future controversy on human rights, the friends of man would find our church. The press of Brooklyn and New York recognized the fact of this advanced atti tude of our body. The Brooklyn Union, a paper which gave the fullest reports of the proceedings, and to which the Assembly accorded an express vote of thanks, said, in a leader, introductory to the report, after mentioning the difficulty of distinguishing between the two branches : Observation teaches us that the New School Presbyterians are rather more in harmony with that indefinable and irresis tible thing which we call the spirit of the age. They have been a - little more ", ad -vanced" in their views on the questions which have agitated and divided thinking minds in these latter days. They have in sisted on the sinfulness of slavery, and they have been determined and unyielding in treating it as all chur4es do other sins. They have borne unfailing and unflinching testimony to the duty of unqualified and unquestionable patriotism, and have felt a livelier interest in the salvation of their country and of their individual souls than in that of any institution, prejudice, con nection, or influence, however precious. . . . We would say, generally—with all desire to avoid invidious distinctions, and recognizing the great value and the purity of many of the differing branch—that the New - School men were more hearty, nheer ful, sympathetic, and healthy; and that a child, a sinner, and a good story would be most likely to come to a good end in their hands. . . . It is this body which has been called upon to speak the voice of the Church in reference to the.national curse and sin of slavery, and to rebuke the crime of disloyalty, which has not failed to invade even the sacred confines of reli gious organizations. Said . the New York Tribune of May 20th : Among the Commissioners elected to the New School Presbyterian. General Assem bly, which met in Brooklyn the day before yesterday, are two colored ministers, one from Philadelphia and the other from New ark. The Philadelphia delegate, the Rev. John B. Reeve, was elected an alternate for the Rev. Dr. Brainerd, the moderator of the General Assembly of last year. Dr. Brainerd is of opinion that Mr. Reeve is the first colored man ever elected to any General Assembly, and he deems it eminently proper that the New School branch of the Pres byterian Church, having been the first to enunciate the principles of human free dom, should be the first to rise above the prejudices of caste. The New School Presbyterians, in welcoming the represen tatives of the colored race as members of the highest board of the Church, have set a noble example to the other religious de-, nominations of the land, the general imita tion of which would powerfully aid in the' elevation of the negroes and the reconstruc tion of the Southern churches, Southern society and the Federal Union. In another part of the paper, we copy the cordial, nay, enthusiastic outburst of admiration which the Assembly extorted from the hitherto depreciatory, unkind, al most sneering editorial columns of the In deliendent. We doubt whether any result or impression produced in any other quar ter, is so significant a measure of the dem onstration for " New School" Presbyteri anism made by the Assembly, as this editorial. If this were not enough, we might refer to the respects paid to us and our proceedings by the disloyal press of Brooklyn, which more than once read us lectures on our course when we grew de cisive and denunciatory of treason as a crime ; and which headed its reports of our proceedings with sarcastic descriptive titles, in large type. . 3. ThePAssembly will be ever memora ble as the first national church council which actually commenced the work of eccle siastical reconstruction. In the midst of the slowly dispersing cloud-wreath of civil war, and almost upon +he smoking embers of its devastating course, it reared at once a large, vigorous, and orderly structure, rapidly assuming all the functiOns and re lations of a time of profound peace, and undisturbed harmony. At one stroke, al most Sherman-like in its boldness, it reached out its arms from the banks of the Ohio, to the very borders of Northern Georgia. The war which seemed destined but to intensify sectionalism, and which at its beginning found ours a sectional church geographically, has made our Assembly na tional, continental, if not ecumenical. By this act we recognize a portion of the church where we once over had eighty Ichurches, half of whom may be safely i num bered as with us to-day. We set up our ; standard in a district reaching from New PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1865. River, Virginia, eighty miles southwest of Lynchburg, through the whole of - East Tennessee, to Spring Place in Whitefield County, Georgia, in every part of which we have good prospect of reinstating it at an early day. We have, in fact, taken a position from which to reach the entire body of Southern Presbyteries - and Synods, which clung to us so long that some spirit of liberty must have been infused into them from the contact—a spirit which it may not, under the changed circumstances, be very difficult to rekindle in the minds of the laity, however hopeless a task it may be with the most of the clergy. In this work, the Assembly leads the churches of the land. Thus' far, it has de volved upon the other branch rather to guard against the re-entrance of traitorous. parties into the councils and the organiza tions which they once controlled so abso lutely. We have heard of no Presbyteries, or representatives of bodies.organizing on a basis of loyalty and anti-slavery, reporting themselves to the Pittsburgh Assembly from the lately rebellious territory.* The field lies open to our brethren as to us, and they will enter it, but as yet the materials of reconstruction lie about them disjecta membra They are ruins which must be built from the foundation. Congregation alism is too loose a thing to do much service in eceelFiastiei reconstruction. The na tional councils of other leading denomina tions meet but once in three or four years. The first real, practical,exten sive work in this grand and,.honorable field was- left to our body to perform. Like the Waldenses in the woods and valleys of Northern Italy, preserved for efficient service. in the evangelization of their country when the hour of its deliver ance arrived, so these loyal mountaineers of East Tennessee kept - their faith, "resisted unto blood striving against sin," waited while seven times the wave of war swept over their homes, until Gbd sent Burnside, their deliverer, to plant the flag they loved immovably above their Hills, their forts, their homes, and their churches; and not less heartily have they hailed the return of the representatives of the church which preaches that Gospel of truth, purity, pa triotism, and freedom for which they have suffered so bitterly. The enthusiastic wel come given to their representatives whom the Assembly never wearied of hearing, will touch the hearts of those brethren, and the solemn act which the great Assem bly rising as one man, ratified with prayer and thanksgiving, by which their organiza tion was effected and their Presbyteries and Synod incorporated into the Assembly, has made the session among the most me morable and striking ever held. • We intended to speak of the action on Church -Erection, Home Missions, the Religious Press, &c., but are compelled to defer our-remarks to another occasion. * The Presbytery of Nashville sent a deli cal and a lay delegate to Pittsburgh. REY. S. SAWYER. This zealous and energetic missionary among our churches in East Tennessee, whose .statements thrilled the General Assembly at Brooklyn, and of whom the brethren there never seemed to hear or see enough, has been preaching orlectur big in our city since that meeting, with great acceptance, and with important practical results. Pine Street Church, and an individual in Calvary Church, have each pledged to supplement the salary of a missionary in that interesting region for a year ;- respectable contributions were also made on the spot, in both churches. DR. BRAINERD'S SERMON. Among the few typographical errors in our issue of Dr. Brainerd's Sermon before the General Assembly, we must notice one, as it respects a sentence which must become famous. Instead of saying that Southern slavery had "fos tered a race half Christian and half sav age," he said " half Chesterfield and hal savage." MINISTERIAL. Among the recent changes made, or arranged for, in our church, we notice the following :—Rev. T. Dwight Hunt, for many years past the highly esteemed pastor of Water ville, New York, has accepted an invi tation to the pastorate at Riles, Michi gan. Rev. J. T. Hanning, lately of Gorham, New York, has accepted a call from the church at Springville in Western New York. The labors of Rev. H. Lawrence are transferred from Grafton, Ohio, to the churches in Peru and Olena in the same State. Rev. John. ~ Sailor, recently of Niles, Michigan, has removed to Allegan in the same State. We also learn that Rev. G. A. Howard, of Cats kill, recently called to Ithaca, New York, elects to remain in his present pastorate. OUR PAPER FOR EAST TENNESSEE. A great help in the ecclesiastical recon struction of the interesting region of East Tennessee will be the wide distribution of religious papers of the right.tone and spirit. The people are already sending their names and subscriptions for such papers to a lim ited, yet encouraging, degree. But for the present and only for the present, they need help to fully supply the community with this and other means of instruction. We therefore propose to send five hundred copies of the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN for six months to the churches of this region, at the average rate .of twelve or thirteen to each church of the forty which, have,been restored to their relations with our Assem bly. We ask for contributions towards meet ing the expenses of this undertaking. In the absence of a settled ministry, the religious press with its weekly visits is the more imperatively needed by the people. The churches of Philadelphia, and of the region which helped to sustain the Christian Observer, owe it to the loyal peo ple of that region thus to neutralize, and to make amends for, the pestiferous ingbenee of that sheet, so lamentably felt in East Ten nessee. Let us show them what the spirit of our church in Philadelphia and the East really is, an 6 let us freely scatter among them words of encouragement and sym pathy as well as means 4: instruction and information such as *meekly religious press affords. ' If any of the churches in East Tennes see desire themselves to contribute towards supplying their families with the paper, they will send what money they are able to raise for the purpose, and mention the number of copies they can advantageously dispose of, and the papers will be sent, so far as the funds contributed at this office for the object will allow. • • About $6OO will, be needed in carrying out the enterprise. AMERICAN SIINDAA-SCHOOL On e Tuesday evening of last week, was celebrated the forty-seventh anniversary of the American Sunday—why not Sab bath?—School Union. The exercises were held in the Musical Fund Hall, and were participated in by Rev. Messrs. Robert J. Parvin, Thomas Street, and Phillips Brooks, as speakers. Ambrose White, Esq., Vice President, was the presiding officer. The report of the year's work in the Missionary Depart ment of the Union, was read by M. A. Warts, Esq., Secretary of the Depart ment. The following is a condensed statement of the statistics Number of schools organized 1124, con taining 7394 teachers, and 43,667 scholars. Schools visited and addressed 4112, with 30,341 teachers and 212,184 schOlars. Mak ing the whole number of schools organized and aided . 523'6, with 37,732 teachers and 253,851 scholars. Number of families visited 25,389, and Bibles and Testaments distributed 5661. Miles traveled, 180,676. Donations made, 2312, amounting to $9,680 06. The receipts were, contributions and legacies, $62,661 31. The excess of expenditures, in missionary work beyond receipts of previous year, $2606 18. Amount of salaries paid mis sionaries, and expense of the department $47,736 85. Amount expended by auxiliary Societies, $2,941 87. Books and other Sun day-school requisites given to needy Sunday schools, $9,680 06. Total, $62,964 96, being au access of expenditures over receipts of $303 45. In the Publication Department, during the year some very valuable additions have been made to the• list of publications, and a grati fying measure of success has attended this branch of the business. The books, periodi cals, etc., circulated during the past year amount to $203,149 14. The report concludes with an earnest appeal for help to aid the Society in sending forth missionaries into the des titute places, of our land to gather in the neglected ones of both races, and teach them what the " Lord their God would have them to do." DEATH OF A MINISTER.—We are pained to notice the account of the death of . Rev. John B. Shaw, late pastor of the Reformed Duch church at Buskirk's Bridge, N. Y., but for the greater part of his ministerial life a member of our ecclesiastical connection.- Many years ago a familiar personal acquaintance with Mr. Shaw impressed us deeply with his unusual devotedness, his unaspiring, but highly evangelical mode of presenting truth, his good pastoral qualifications, and his Christian gentleness of spirit. His later life was one of severe trial, growing out of heavy domestic bereave ments, including those upon whom he leaned for temporal support in his de clining years. Under the weight of sor row his health gave way, forcing a re tirement from pastoral labor, and finally, in the mysterious providence of - God, so far unsettling his reason that his com fort demanded his removal to the asy lum which, as above recorded, became the place of his death. He died at the age of sixty-seven years. Genesee Evangelist, No. 994. FROM OUR CORRESPONDING EDITOR, On Thursday - of this week the rem nant of the One-hundred-and-eighth Regi ment New York State Volunteers, was 'welcomed back to our city with - great rejoicing. This regiment was enlisted here, and went into the service in the summer of 1862, and has a record, per haps, second to none other in all the gallant Union armies. They went out nearly one thousand strong, a good class of men, well officered ; in less than four weeks fromdleaving home they plunged into the fight at Antietam, and they have been fighting ever since. They were in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, Mine Run, Morton's Ford, Wil derness, Po River, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomy, Coal Harbor, Peters burg, Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, Ream's Station, and Boydtown Road. It will be seen that it was a fighting regiment. It has. done good service. It has materially helped in putting down the rebellion - and saving the nation. It does honor to the city and region from which it went ; and we do not wonder that its return caused great excitement. The city turned out to greet the brave boyS with a welcome of real respect and genuine cordiality. But some " are not." Only one hun- Vred and seventy are in the company that return. True, the rest are not all dead.. Some -had Previously obtained their discharge, and were here to wel come their former comrades in arm's. But, many sleep the sleep of the brave ; and such has been the reputation of the regiment for fighting qualities, and for being always in the post of danger, that it has been impossible to recruit for it— it has received no additions ; it has fought on, and wasted away ; but it has done its work, and is now honorably dis charged at the end of the strife. West ern New York will always be proud of the One-hundred-and-eighth regiment. This was observed in our city with considerable interest and general atten tion. Services were held in most of the churches, on one or both parts of the day, and in the afternoon a union meet ing, of much interest and unquestionable profit, was held in the First. Presbyteri an Church. St. Peters, the Brick, the Central, and the Plymouth participated. It was interesting to see how well united the pastors and representatives of these several churches were in these ex ercises. They were as one church ; they mourned with one sorrow ; made confession of sin with one speech ; vied with each other in honoring our mar tyred President ; and all spoke with great cheer and hope for the future of our disenthralled and free nation. Rev. Mr. Beadle, who led the meeting, hap -pily expressed, we doubt not, in the closing address, the ardent desire and confident expectation of every one in the meeting, that the time is now at hand when " none but the free shall be in all this land." Addresses were also made by Rev. Dr. Shaw, Rev. Messrs. Ellinwood and Bartlett. Though it was intended for a day of humiliation and prayer, it was, in fact, also a day of rejoicing. .No one could speak without adverting to the bright side also of national matters—the war over, the country saved„the union stronger than ever, God honored and acknowledged more than ever before in our national history, the future bright with promises—how could we help keep ing the fast with thanksgiving? We doubt if ever a day of humiliation and fasting was so happily observed as this. Such an one Rey. Mr. Ellinwood preached last Sunday morning to his own people. It was founded upon a very_ suggestive passage, the first vise of the second chapter of Judges, which we wish some of our readers might thoughtfully study. The Jews were commanded to exterminate the Canaan ites. Either through an easy indolence or false piety they failed to do the work which God had laid to their hands. They suffered many of those' to live whom God had appointed to death for their crimes. An angel of the Lord was therefore sent to Bochim, a place of tears, to pass sen tence upon Israel for their disobedience. As they had chosen to spare those sin ners, they should have them "as thorns in their sides." And so they found them. The inference and the warning, plainly deducible from this train of thought, were weighty and striking. Our government has a work to do in settling this land, in which it will not answer to be guided by our own ease alone, or by mere ten derness and pity. The element of justice must enter into our plans and calcula tions, .or we shall fail of securing the blessing intended for us, as the Israelites did. There are some criminals thpt must be exterminated, or they will be a "thorn" in our sides. The will of God RETURN OF OUR SOLDIERS THE FAST DAY A SERMON FOR THE TIMES TERMS. Per annum, in advance: By Nail, 83. By Carrier, 83 50. Fifty cents additional, after three months. Clubs.—Ten or more papers. sent to one address. payable strictly in advance and in one remittance: By Mail,s2 50 per annum. By Carriers. $3 per annum. Ministers and Ministers' Widows, $2 in ad vance. Home Missionaries, $l5O inadvanee. Fifty cents additional after three months. Remittances by mail are at our risk. Postage.—Five cents quarterly, in advance, paid qy subscribers at the office of delivery. Advertisements.--42% cents per line for the first, and 10 cents for the second insertion. One square (one month) $3 00 two months 5 50 three " 750 six " 12 00 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, 33% per cent. off. must also be regarded, or we shall find him against us, even after he has given us the victory, and then what will our triumphs avail its ? It was easy, natu ral in this connection, to make an earnest appeal for - negro suffrage. As a mere matter of justice, how can we withhold the ballot from those who have done so much towards saving the land from de struction ? Who are loyal, if not they ? How Can the Government get along at the South, without their aid at thepolls? How else reconstruct loyal States ? INGHAM UNIVERSITY The Catalogue of this excellent insti tution has come to hand, and indicates a good degree of prosperity. The names of more than one hundred and fifty young ladieS are enrolled as students. Mrs. Staunton, the accomplished Principal, is at her post. Rev. W. L. Parsons, a good man for those studies, is Professor of Mental and Moral Science ; Mrs. Par sons is the Associate Principal ; and other teaches fill other departments. . We like this school much, except its name—it is in no sense a" University"-- it is only a first-class Female Seminary, and as such, well worthy - of the constant and liberal patronage which it receives. The examination commences on Thhrs day, 15th June; meeting of the Board of Councillors (Trustees) on the Tues day following, 20th, and Commencement on Wednesday, 21st. Address befoie the Literary Society on Wednesday af ternoon, at 2 o'clock, by Rev. A. 0. Pier son, of Waterford, N. Y. FUNERAL OF REV. S. S. GOSS This was attended last Sabbath, from the Second . Church, in Auburn, by an immense concourse of people, a signifi cant testimony to the esteem in which this dear brother was generally held. An excellent address, which did justice to the character of the deceased, was made by the pastor, Rev. S. W. Board man ; and Rev. Dr. Hawley, of the First Church, and Rev. H. Fowler, of the Central Church, took part in the solemn service. A goodly number of the for mer parishioners of Mr. Goss, from Me ridian, were also in attendance, and join ed in the general sorrow. The Church in Meridian, had previously held a meet ing, and written a letter of sympathy and condolence to the sorrowing family of the deceased, and appointed a committee to present it, and to attend the funeral. Mr. Gom was a man of pure and noble spirit, much beloved by all who knew him. He leaves a widow and three chil dren to mourn for him. PERSONAL We are"sorry to learn that Rev. Ho ratio W. Brown, pastor of the Presby terian Church of Lyons, is compelled by ill health to resign his charge. Never very strong, be is feeling worn down by constant work, and needs real,. We the more regret this, as we know him to be much beloved by his people, and his in fluence is beginning to be more and more widely felt. C. P. B. ROCHESTER, June 3, 1865 INTERESTING ARRIVAL—Rev. Lowell Smith, D.D., with his wife, son and daughter, arrived at New York, from. the Sandwich Islands, on the 250 ult. They were accompanied by several chil dren of missionaries in those islands. Dr. Smith went there in 1832 to engage in the service of the American Board. For several years he, with his family, lived in a grass hut, without door, window, or floor. He gathered the second church in Honolulu, and enjoyed with it a large refreshing from the most wonderful re vival which soon after swept over the mission fields there. He now returns, after an absence of thirty-three years, to witness changes and progress in his native land, which can only be appre ciated by those upon whose sight they burst in one bewildering view. While we have lived amid the unparalleled crea tions of human energy, he, in his far-off seclusion, has been- lifting the souls of the dying up the ladder which reaches from earth to heaven. A REBEL CLERGYMAN KILLED IN BAT TLE.—If before published, we have failed to observe, until within the past week, a notice that Rev. James McNeill, edi tor of the North Carolina Presbyterian, was killed at the battle of Petersburg, while at the head of his regiment as Colonel of the Fifth North Carolina Cavalry. Mr. McNeill was formerly one of the secretaries of the American Bible Society. He was of Southern birth, and on the outbreak of the rebel lion, abandoned the North to share the fortunes of that stupendous misadven ture. CORRECTIONS.—In the notice of the death of Mr. Thomas C. Alrieh, publish ed last week, it was erroneously stated. that he died at the residence of hi brother-in law. It should have been h son-in-/aw, Charles A. Besson. The Signature "Schex," on the corre spondence page, should be SENEX.
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