THE HEIMAN PRESBYTERIAN AND GENESEE EVANGELIST. Religious arid Family Newspaper, IN THE INTEREST OF THE Conatitutioncl Presbyterian Church. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE, 1334 Chestnut Street. (2d story,) Philadelphia. Rev. John W. Mears, Editor and Publisher. Rev. B. B. notchkin, Editor of News and Family DepartMents. • Rev.. C. P. Bush, Corresponding Editor, Rochester, N. Y. gintrirait trottgisrialt. THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1866 CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES, SECOND PAGE-THE FAMILY CIRCLE : Tired of Life. For the Little Folks: Familiar Talks with the Children—Hearing the Sermon—How a Drunkard was Cured—The Hour of Northern Victory—The Soldier's Plea—The Birthday Gift—The Two Homes ..—Freedmen S. S. Scholars—The True Reason— Lifted Higher. THIRDPAGE - EDITOR'S , TABLE: "Sermons Lincoln-Sheein Boston on the Death of Abraham "ldon's "Manual of Ele mentary Instruction, for the Use of Public and Pri vate Schools and Normal Classes"—J. S. Claxton's Books: " Philip in Palestine"—" The Power of Gold; or, Martin Walter"—"The Pastor's Son"— "The Two Friends"—" Clifton Rice"—" Ida Rleinvo ger—Henry Hoyt's Books : "The Spring Ride; or, Partington Hall"—" The Old Barracks; or, Seeing the Sights"--Longfellow's " Companion Poets for the Peoph3"—Pamphlets and Periodicals. Miscellaneous: Eleve Pesidents—Report of the Standing Committee of the General Assembly upon Publication—The Religious Press. SIXTH PAGE-CORRESPONDENCE: From our London Correspondent—An Excursion Under Ground—Kolapoor Mission—Religious In terest in the Army- 7 A Wonderful Discourse. SEVENTH PAGE—RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE : Presbyterian— Congregation al— Episcopal—Al etho dist—Baptist—Missionary—Roinan Catholic Coun tries—Miscellaneous—ltems. Rural Economy: Health in Hot Weather--Gar dens and Orchards Better than Calomel and Jalap. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN THE RETROSPECT. 4. The consciousness of strength and calm self-reliance which we have mentioned as characteristic features of the - Assembly, were manifested in nothing more clearly than in the attitude andtemper of ale body on Re-union: With the kindest feel ings towards our brethren of the other branch, to whose representatives a most hearty welcome was accorded,• there seemed to be a tacit, almost unanimous, under- I standing that the subject of union_ should be passed over in silence, or be dismissed with a courteous postponement. The sub ject excited almost no interest; not a speech was called forth by the report of the Com mittee of Bills and Overtures, this being among the last points brought by the com mittee before the Assembly; and their re port, postponing the subject to the indefinite future, was promptly and unanimously adopted. Many reasons conspired to lead the body to this ottclusion ; such as, the unsettled state of the other branch, the wide division in their own ranks on the subject of union, the intolerance and bid . otry developed in certain influential quar ters by the union movement—showing the prevalence of all the old leaven and bitter ness of supra-lapsarian orthodoxy—and the like ; but above all these reasons was the absorbing consciousness of a great cliargil laid by Providence directly and specifically upon our body, a sort of Lotus in i/Zis feel ing, which, in fact, gave us little time to look around at objects or proposals, which miglit divert us from work so important and for which our organization is so com plete. We were entirely without a feeling of need of union. By the blessing of God, we found ourselves as able as almost any of the denominations to do our .own work, and enjoying some peculiar facilities, and unde served tokens of the divine favor. 5. Home Missions have become, it would seem, the peculiar field of action for our church. In fact, the condition of our country, is such as to call for special efforts in the - work of home evangelization from every branch of the Church of Christ. And the churches . , are giving themselves, as never before, to occupy and cultivate the wide field. Yet we are inclined •to think that our denomination is gaining a kind of honorable pre-eminence in this department of effort—is proving itself, in a very maked manner, an American Hothe Missionary Society. Its contributions to various Home Missionary objects, year before last, consid erably exceeded those reported in the min utes of the other branch, and they bid fair to be far greater, when summed up, for the year just closed than they were in the last. The strongly national feeling of the body, its unanimous and ardent loyalty, its Ame rican Presbyterianism, may be seen to have a very close relation to the Home Mission _ary zeal it is developing. Those who deeply love their whole country and whose very church polity and history as a denomina tion are American, rather than Scotch or British or Genevan, may naturally be ex pected to show a lively interest and a libe ral spirit in the evangelization of America. But even the most comprehensive Mis sionary spirit might well be overwhelmed with the vast proportions of the work, as spread out before us by the Permanent Committee. Besides the terrible destitu- Cons of our great cities, the feeble churches and needy fields of our older States, the new States and Territories of the Wist, of the Rooky Mountain region and the Pacific •coast; besides the German population—in all of which districts of \ labor we were endea , : oring to do our part—zwe found at this eeting of the Assembly that 'a new and ost needy but hopeful field had opened Ande in the loyal regions of East Tennessee, ittgaran 01f,11. 4 ,A4, Vi"44ll+ New Series, Vol. 11, No. 24. furnishing a lookout upon the entire white population of the South ; and again, that our own share of work, among the three million freedmen had been scarcely begun, and that it really waited for us, as best fitted to accomplish, at least, that part. What a bewildering prospect ! We thought that, as a church, we had been contributing something substantial and laboring with some remote approximation to the needs of the case. But now our boldest conceptions were dwarfed by the reality, and our largest zeal and liberality in the past were seen to be totally inadequate for the demands of the present. A new world seemed to rise before us, while we were yet closely en gaged in the conquest of the Old. 0, for the zeal of a Paul ! 0, for the tongues of flame, for weapons mighty through. God to the pulling down of _strongholds ! 0, for an army of men rising at the call of Christ, of Providence, and of the Church, like the armies that •rose for the temporal salvation of the nation, filled with apostolic, zeal, crowned with apostolic gifts and graces. 0 for the-mighty angel 'flying through the midst- of heaven, carrying the everlasting gospel in his hand I Could a quarter of a million of money beraised ; could two hun nred men be sent into the field; could one fifth of our clergy go, as they did at the invitation of the Christie]; Commission for evangelizing the army, and spend each six weeks in some needy locality, it , would be but a poor kpproach to the degree -of rality, enterprise, and self-denial which seems imperatively'demanded in the crisis. Partly to meet it, the committee suggested and the Assembly reCommended the ap pointment by the Presbyteries ; of ; . suitable persons as lay-laelpers. This is ,a highly important step, one throwing.great respon sibility on the Presbyteries, but destined, we think, to lead to valuable results. To meet the present emergency, unusual mea sures will be necessary. Happy is .the church that both perceives what is needed, and that is not afraid to follow the leadings of Providence when once manifested, even if pointing out an unusual course. The word has been spoken : LAY AGENCIES bearing the commissions of the Presbyteries, , are authorized by the- General Assembly. And we have reason to believe -that we shall ere long hear of the entering of godly and zealous laymen thus commissioned upon the work. That such persons are competent largely to make up the deficien cies in the supply of our ordained ministry, the history of colportage and of the work of the Christian Commission in the army, abundantly proves. Let them go to organ ize prayer-meetings and Sabbath-schools, to read sermons, to distribute religious lite rature, to look after the wandering and the neglected, to pioneer for the work of the regular ministry. We know not why some might not give their lives to such work. Devotedness, prayerfulness, and humility, with ordinary intellectual endowments, would, in this sphere, insure a large mea sure of usefulness. The topic is so fruitful and suggestive that *e must leave it, with any thing more we have to say on Home Missions, to another occasion. . • 6. As usual, the Trnstees of the Church Erection Fund, by referring•to the charter of the Fund, by proving that they had 'no intention of oppressing the churches in debted to it, by appealing to the business in stincts of the members against a loose dis pensation of charity, succeeded in keeping down the lid of their chest for another year. As usual, when the body came to the point of voting - on a proposal for a,. change, which was not, we believe, until the very last day of the session, the requi site two-thirds of the members on the roll could not be found in the house. And *e do not know but that the feeling that the Fund had a very specific object, and was well adapted for that, namely, the encour aging of feeble churches to build simple edifices clear of debt, and that it would be impolitic, even if allowable by the charter, radically to alter that feature, grew upon the Assembly. But the idea that a church so active, and occupying such needy fields as ours, should have $60,000 raised for Church Erection lying unemployed at in terest in New York City for years, was one to which no eloquence of-Committee-men, and no array of figures could quite reconcile that General Assombly. Hence, two mea sures were adopted : one, that legal advice should be taken on the question whether the interest of tie original fu.nd j. now amounting to $24,000 might not re em ployed, at the discretion of the committee, for exceptional cases ; and secondly, in structing the Permanent Committee on Church Erection to engage at once in the effort to secure a supplementary fund, which should be employed gratuitously . * under the limi- *This word, " gratuitously," was acciden tally omitted in our last week's report of the Assembly's proceedings. PHILADELPHIA; THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1865. tations suggested by the special committee in their printed pamphlet. Those condi tions provide, first, for the raising of the fund without a paid agency; second, that only such churches be aided as cannot de rive aid from the permanent fund; and third, a good and unencumbered.title must be shown and no debt remain up - on the church. . We do most heartily rejoice in this action, as fitted - to remove the only source of serious disquiet in the entire working of our church machinery. We rejoice that the liberal charatr of our church is no longer to be veiled, in such an important particular as church building, behind an inoperative fund of large figures and few results, and that the shadow of an endow ment is not to be suffered to chill the be nevolent impulse of our givers, or to dis hearten our enterprising but feeble organi zations in laying the foundations of the house of the Lord in the- waste places of the . land. The fund can still go on in its own important but peculiar work, and no better, more faithful, or more painstaking men can be found to manage it for. these ends than Mr. Benedict, Dr. Spear and others in the present Board of Trustees. And it was stated on the floor of the As sembly, that the late Hon. Otis Allen, an eminent legal gentleman and late ruling elder, of the church in Albany, after-care fully examining the papers of ,the Board in their rooms in New York returned his home, and, as it has since transpired, did them the honor of making the Fund residuary legatee of his: estate. This is the first bequest ever received by 'the Church Erection Fund. We earnestly hope it is , an omen of greater 'activity and enlarged usefulness to- the Fund. With this, and the -supplementary fund, arrived at in the action of the Assembly, we doubt rota healthy stimulus will be communi cated to our yet houseless churches on Home Missionary fields, who will see in these measures a prospect that they need not long remain without a local' habitation and a name. In the light of this action, we think we can see them looking into one another's face with the joyful cry : Let us arise and build. The church which has encouraged them to organize in the name of Cbmist, and which has supplied- them with preachers, is equally ready to encour age and help them in the indispensable but frequently arduous enterprise of providing even the simplest place of worship. All appearance of eold indifference to true brethren struggling with difficulties on the frontiers, in new settlements, or in tile sub urbs of our cities is removed by this Wise,' though it must be called, tardy action. 7. In the report of the Committee on Pub lication, and in a-series of resolutions pre pared by a committee of the last Assembly— two papers, whose authors had no means of communicating with each other—the subject of the, Weekly Religious Press was consid ered and acted upon by the Assembly, for the first time in its history. Both of these papers will be found in our columns this week. Amid a mriltiplicity, of other and more pressingJopics, there seemed no op, Portunity for discussing the subject, espe cially the interesting question submitted by the committee of the previous Assembly, as to the thirty thousand families of our churches believed to take no paper of the de nomination, viz:—" Do they take no religious papers ?" However, discussion • was not needed, and the opportunity for it if granted, would not have _been employed where all were agreed. The. Assembly; by two solemn' and unanimous declarations, made known its earnest wish that the knows; and recognized 44 denominational organs,' (such are called the PRESBYTERIAN, the Evangelist, and the Herald) should ` circu late in our churches to the exclusion of Ina , friendly sheets which, under various guises, have stolen into our circles. We believe the Assembly reflected a growing and prac tically developing sentiment in the churches in this action, which will be still further strengthened and developed by it. On the strength of this action, let every pastor con stitute himself an agerit for one or more of the papers named, and he will find his re ward speedily in the enlightened and loyal character of his people. We have not by any means satisfied our selves in this review of the annual council of our- church, nor do we think our readers will take it ill if w 4 e return to the subject in at least another number. Especially does it seem incumbent on us, to pay some special attention to the highly encouraging • views presented by the Narratives of the eighty four-reporting Presbyteries. For the pre sent then, we content ourselves with adding that, with the exception of Foreign Mis sions, the-position of the church was ad vanced by the late Assembly in every branch of denominational effort; that high courage, practical zeal, thorough cordiality, and mutual confidence marked all the pro ceedings of the body ;'that the influence of the grand era of struggle, sacrifice, and vic tory through which we have - passed, has been felt in our church like iron in the blood, and that an era of vigor, prosperity, and hope arose on us, in and coincident with, this Assembly, almost beyond the highest expectations of the best friend or the denomination. • 'HIS A CAPITAL CRIME BEEN COM- MITTED? The American people and the - civilized world : are waiting with soine.anxiety for the development of - the .policy of our 'Govern ment towards the conquered leaders of a conquered rebellion. As yet, we have had plenty of strong expressions in a general way, but beyond the close confinement of the arch-rebel and his immediate suite, we have no practical intimation of a, purpose to deal with these guilty conspirators as they deserve. It is just two months since Abraham Lincoln tell a victim to a policy of excessive leniency, and we find prom nent men in the ranks of the reputed loyal, urgently advocating a re-initiation of the awfully mistaken policy which produced such results. The assassination of Mr. 'Lincoln, added frightful crime of deliberately:starving our soldiers and mas sacring our colored troops,-are, it seenis insufficient to satisfy . these ; men of the, in- ,curable Milignity,and vileness of the rebel, • .n,iand they. have ventured :to raise their voices, in ins concert with the London 'Timei and witli:the fe*nrisuppressed or restored rebel sheets, for Mereiful dealings with\ the leaders of the Southern rebellion. Mean while the , GovernMent delays to act, and the minds of the people are unsettled. Just as Mr. Lincoln, in the first month of his first term, seemed to hesitate about fighting the rebeli, so, Mr. Johnson seems to hesi tate about- punishing them. Rebel leaders, whose names were a tower of strength to the cause during the four years of direful struggle, remain unmolested in their chosen places of abode, or even venture into the national capital, pnd are suffered to ap ,proach the _President for conference; or they go Norte and seek out those who made - themselves notorious through the war as sympathizers with their rebellioui plans. The Baptist Association of Virginia, com posed of unrepentant traitors, is allowed to meet in Richmond, with the renegade BU r rows as its leading spirit. In this associa tion, Dr. Burrows is reported as making a speech, in which he boldly repels the charge, that the Southern churches, who went into the rebellion, are to be held as " religiously" guilty, and defends them as conscientious in their acts. The same Dr. Burrows is allowed to preach and publish in Richmond, a sermon on the death of the President, in which he makes profession of loyalty to the new order of things, but at the Battle time indignantly repels the asser ,i- tion that' the South, or that slaveholders, or the "Confederate" Government, or any resident of any " Confederate" State, had anything to do with the assassination, and this as lately as the first of June. 'ln the same sermon, to comfort his deeply dyed rebel hearers, who perhaps have, some con science left, and were beginning to dread divine, as well as human judgment, he is allowed to say and print such things is the following : " What are, called so flippantly rebellion and treason against human governments, may be Stigmatized as the worst of crimes by states men•and politicians,.whose standard of judg ing is simply political ; but Gods decisions of right and wrong are measured by no such standard. . . .-. Among the noblest and purest men morally the world his ever seen, have been many who have been denounced, condemned and executed for treason and re bellionrtyet from the scaffold their pure sTirits, justified through .righteousness of Christ, have ascended to receive the smiling approval and blessing of their infinite Judge and Father." • The sermon we find in the Commercial Bulletin of Richmond, a new daily paper, of singular character, seemingly trying to adapt its 'tone to the new order of things, yet with small enthusiasm and with indif ferent success. An 'editorial in the same number with the sermon, written with ex treme caution, on the exceptions to the an mesty act which it says will affect only the eight hundredth part of the Southern people,—expresses the wish that all may be pardoned. Itipeaks of Jeff. Davis, uni formly as " Mr. Davis," and religiously gathers up every scrap of intelligence about his condition, and especially the foreign comments' in his favor. A long article, flattering in the highest degree to rebel military pride, is copied from the ./17/o York. Daily, News. The same, paper in forms us that the pertinacious Christian Observer resumed publication on the Ist of June, having suspended on the 30th of March last. We may gain a clue to the G-enesee Evangelist, No. 995. character of the Commercial Bulletin, as well as a measure of the degree of toleration enjoyed by subdued rebels in Richmond, by consulting the Bulletin's notice of the resumption. In that he sayw— "lts editor, the Rev. Dr. Converse, oc cupies a high position both socially and in the church, and is eminently qualified to fill the position which he has so long .adorned. Our thanks are due to the Observer fbr the very favorable notice of our sheet in its new issue. We shall ever strive to merit the good word of such an evangelical and devoted paper as Dr. Converse gives weekly to the public." These various phenomena, are unsettling the p - üblic. mind. The question is rising in ,their minds . , whether after all it was so enormous a crime to be an active rebel; and whether any great difference is going to be made between the men who did all they could with every imaginable concomitant of barbarity to overthrow the Government, and the men who periled life and limb in honorable warfare to maintain it. The public are asking, to what extent is this. .oleration of revived treason to go? How long are these Catilines to abuse our pati ence? How many religious organizations, unpurged of their treasons and rather proud of them, are to be allowed to resume their operations ? How many defunct rebel organs are to be allowed resurrection? How many public fountains of poisonous sentiment shall be permitted again to flow through_the cornmunity, besides / the count less private and ones, which must perforce be borne with ? How many farces of .elections are to. be suffered, in which -rebels dislodged from' pow* - . the bayonet, may regain it with the-Must we wait until a new Sumter ii' fired upon, or until a new bOrror of assassination, or city poisoning; or fever importation, 'or some unknown monster crime has fallen Upon us like a thunderbolt, before are nerved to a proper degree of firmness ? We trust not. We believe our Government really designs to mete out justice, in this high, solemn, historic settlement of the demerit of rebel lion. We .do not believe that the mann derings of Gerritt Smith or Horace Greeley, or any anti-capital-punishment, or univer salist sentimentalist, or any whine for the life of the chief conspirator from foreign sympathizers, will move Mr. Johnson from his purpose. - There 'is no such thing as crime if the leading conspirators in this rebellion are not guilty. Processes of law and court..? of justice are mere farces, if they are not called for in these.cases. Let us say we have been grievously mistaken in calling any man to account for the single crimes of murder, robbery, perjury, cruelty, lawless violence, if we have no account to set tle with the authors of a rebellion which has combined and intensified them all through four dreadful years of war. Let us open all our prison doors, cut down every gallows and proclaim a jubilee to the vile and the criminal of every grade. No I never I The nation, after such unparalleled sacri fices of blood and treasure, and such over whelming successes on land and water, is in no mood -to tolerate the impudent as sumptions of men who would ignore these facts. Their attempts to maintain their old corrupted and, treasonous organizations, and to revive their pestilential organs of opinion, and thus to continue to be teachers of the people, and guides of the sentiment they have so criminally misled, without acknowledgment and retraction of the wrong they have done, cannot be suffered by a Government which designs to secure permanently the dearly-hought results of victory. The capital punishment of some of the rebel leaders is needed just now, to convince these obstinate men that we are in earnest, and that they themselves are living with a -halter about their necks. Of one thing we are certain, the Con gress to assemble next December, if not earlier, will make up for any deficiencies which may meanwhile appear in the ad ministration of any othetvdepartment of the Government. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN FOR EAST TENNESSEE. We have received the following re sponses to our appeal for aid in sending the paper for six months to the returning churches of East Tennessee. M. W. Baldwin, $lOO 00 A. Whit . . . . . 100 00 Thomas Potter, 100 00 John A, Brown, . . . . , 25 00 W. E. Tenbrook, 20 00 Samuel Work, 20 00 John W. Dulles, ..... 5 00 A. Manderson, 5 00 John B. Stevenson, . . . . 5 00 We hope our friends will complete the $6OO required in the coming Week. We have already commenced sending the papers.l 'l' R . Per annum, in advance: By Mail, $3. By Carrier, 83 50. Fifty teats additional, after three months. Cisika.—Ten or more papers, sent to one address, wig-elite strictly in advance and in one remittance: By Mail, $250 per annum. By Carriers. $3 per annum. Ministers and Ministers' Widows, $2 in ad vance. Home Missionaries, $l5O inadvance. Fifty cents additional after three months. Remittances by mail are at our risk. Postage.—Five cents quarterly, in advance, paid 41/ subscribers at the office of delivery. Advertisements. , -12% 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 12. 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 1 /s" per cent. off. The churches of this city have also engaged to furnish the amount required for supplementing the salary of seven Home Missionaries on that field, at $250 each, as follows : Pine Street Church, one ; Calvary Church, four ; and Green Hill Church, two. With a moderate degree of effort, the remaining three, proposed to be sent out by our Permanent committee, can be .provided for among us.. Where are the First Church, North Broad Street, Buttonwood Street, and a half-a-dozen others, which might, each take one ? THE MINISTERIAL DELEGATION TO EAST TENNESSEE. The readers of THE AMERICAN PRES BYTERIAN must have been gratified at the proceedings of the Assembly, touching every question which pertained to the South. But few of them can imagine the scene when, appearing on the floor of the Assembly, two clergymen and two elders, from East Tennessee, one of them, John Caldwell, Esq., seventy. ht years old, six years older than ..the State itself, asked in behalf of three Presbyteries that once were with us, comprising more than eighty churches, that they Might become con nected with our church again. They were received with joy and thanksgivings to God, and the Synod of East Tennesse con stituted and again enrolled in our min.. But the best of all was when Dr. Adams, of New Yorkispang to his feet and moved that the Committee of Horde Missioni be instructed to appoint ten of the best minis ters in our church to go to East Tennessee and spend three months preaching the gos pel and administering the ordinances,of re ligion among the people. This was .one of the happiest thoughts of the Assembly. The importance of such an undertaking grows as we think of it. This great number of destitute churches, nearly all of whose pastors sympathized with the rebellion, who are still prowling round trying to steal into the fold again ;rthe value of giving these loyal people a pig cal illustraction of Northern sympathy ; the bearing of such an effort on religious and social _reconstruction at the South the worth of such an example ; the effect, on the churches at the South and the reflex influence at the North, make the enter prisb, if successfully carried out, one of the grandest that can be conceived. In accordance with the order of the As sembly, the Committee of Home Missions, at an unusually full meeting last week, selected ten men aiming to represent fairly all parts of the church. They appointed Rev. Thomas Brainerd, D.D., of our city; Rev. William Adams, D.D., of New York; Rev. Howard Crosby, D.D., of New York; Rev. S. T. Spear, D.D., of Brooklyn, New York; Rev. James B. Shaw, D.D., of Rochester, New York, late Moderator of the Assembly; Rev. G. W. Heacock, D.D., of Buffalo, New York; Rev. Herrick John son, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; 'Rev. W. H. Goodrich, D.D., of Cleveland, Ohio; Rev. W. Hogarth, of Detroit, Michigan; and Rev. R. W. Patterson, D.D., of Chica go, Illinois. The people of East Tennesse are a-re ligious people; the, delegates represent them as very anxious for the services of the house of God again. It is the inten ton to arrange twenty or thirty Sacramen tal-meetings continuing three or four days, to which the people are accustomed and which they all love, and where the gospel may be preached and the truth enforced day after day. With the blessing of God, there can be no doubt of the result. It is such an opportunity as may occur only once in a life-time. We hope every man ap pointed will see his way clear to go. It is indeed " a glorious beginning." Let it go on. Let the people pray that it may be a great success. A GOOD DAY AT OLIVET CHURCH. We had a happy day at Olivet Church yesterday. We received twelve persons, mostly heads of families, by letter, and ten by profession of faith. Of these last, eight were young persons from the the Sunday-school—three lads and five girls. Besides these, five were taken under the care of the Session. The church was full, and we felt that the Great Shepherd was with us. PHILADELPHIA, June 12, 1865. DEATH IN THE MINISTRY.—The School Church has sustained another loss in the death of Rev. Wm. Chester, D.D., of this city, the veteran Corres ponding Secretary of its Board of Edu cation. He died at Washington, on the 23d ult. He was a laborious and -effi cient laborer in his field, and highly es teemed also for his general Christian. worth. $3BO 00 DraD—ln Hartford, Conn., June 11, Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney, the poetess, aged seventy-six years. W. W. T
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