|jh mBMi nnimiiM * PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. . '' s ® AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE, 1334 Chestnut Street, (2d story,) Philadelphia H*v. John W. Hears, Editor and Publisher. Her. JB. B. Hotchkin, Editor of Hews and Family Departments. Her. C. P. Basis, Corresponding Editor, Rochester, N. T. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1866. CONTENTS OF INSIDE.'PAGES. Second Page—The Family Circle : To One at Rest-Try Again-Boys who Think, and Boys who Don'tThink-The Other World-How to Honor a Mother—The ,Two Handies—The Adopted Rabbits. For the Little Folks: Thy Will be Done in Earth as in Heaven. Third Page—Rural Economy : Improved Economy—Cultivating Chestnuts—When to Pick Apples and Pears—Small and Large Farms. MisotLi'AtfKous: Something New from the Stump —Religion to be Carried into Business—Too Active to Freeze— # Let Him that Heareth say. 4 Come* The American Hayelock — lntemperanoe among Women. . Sixth Page—Correspondence : Th® Periodical Press in Germany—Hints OR the Circulation of Traots and Books. Editor's Table: Angus's "Bible Hand-Book”- Draper's Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America"—Nichols's "Story of the Great " History of the United States Cavalry, from the Formation of the Federal Gov eminent to the . First of June. 1863”-Smith’s 8:mall History^of Rome, from the Earliest Times to . the Establishment of the Empire"—Levington's Scripture Baptism Defended and Anabaptist No tions Pro ved to be AntiSoripturalNovelties”—Ham mond’s Praises of Jesus"—"How to be Saved: or, The Sinner Directed to the Saviour" —Sermons, &o. Seventh Page—Religious Intelligence : Fjresbyterian—Congregational—Episcopal—Metho dist—Baptist—Lutheran—Jewish—Unitarian—Ro- man Catholic—Miscellaneous Items. PERSECUTIONS SUFFERED BY THE PRESBYTERIAN CHRPCH IN THE UNITED STATES. Those acquainted with the life of that Apostle of Presbyterianism in America, Francis Makemie, need not he told that the beginnings of our Church in America were embarrassed witb difficulties which would have appalled any not imbued with the patience, the energy and the martyr spirit characteristic of the Presbyterian Church in all ages and countries. But the persecutions undergone by Makemie in Vir ginia and New York, were only a small part of those encountered in establishing the Church. Several years earlier, in faot, than the transactions between Lord Corn hury and Makemie in New York* a series of oppressive measures against “ Dissenters,” as they were called, had commenced in South Carolina. The history of the settlement of the C&Tolinas is remarkable in its hearing upon religious toleration in the British Empire. Just after the cruel “ Act of Conformity,” which, in 1662, drove two thousand godly men from the pulpits of England for re fusing to become Prelatists, the courtiers of the intolerant king secured a eharter for the territory, which, in his honor, they oalled Carolina, and proceeded with the necessary'measures for its early settlement. Arrangements were made for a popular Government, limited only by the laws of England and the veto of the proprietaries. To all, the most perfect freedom of religion was assured. “A singular spectacle,” says Dr. Gillett, “is this, —a body of men. whose names were indissolubly associated with the legislation that harassed English Dissenters, and sur rendered justice to High Church bigotry, yet adopting—when left to look simply at their own pecuniary interests —a policy as liberal as the most fanatic of Cromwell’s Indepen dents could have desired. The same hands which framed the intolerant. Act of Confor mity in England shaped a satire on their own folly in the constitution which they gave to Carolina. While with relentless severity they silenced such men as John Owen, and filled English prisons with men like Baxter, Bun yan, and Alleine, they allowed the colonists the most perfect and entire freedom of opin ion. The New England settler, the English Dissenter, the, Scotch Presbyterian, were alike welcome, and alike invited. to a refuge from oppression. It may even excite a doubt, whether persecution in England was not made more virulent by a policy which de manded exiles to people the colonies.” The first band of emigrants which left for South Carolina was in 1670. Charles himself provided two small vessels at his own expense to- transport thither a few foreign Protestants. But the most consi derable emigration was from England. The prospect of immunity from the molestation of informers and acts against conventicles and Non-Conformity, tempted Dissenters to a colony where their worship would be tolerated and their rights respected. Joseph Drake, brother of the Admiral, led thither a company of these refugees from Somersetshire; Huguenots expatriated from Prance, flocked to the shelter winch these persecuting High Church Statesmen knew how to offer when worldly policy was concerned. The colony itself was governed by “ Dissenters” —at one time by a Pres byterian, at anotheT by a Quaker. Here, some of. the earliest movements for organ ising Presbyterian Churches in this coun try took place, though the resulting bodies remained isolated from the Church at large for a full century. This exceptional phenomenon of large lib erality under a bitter and intolerant govern ment, appears to have continued through the remainder of Charles’ reign, through Ee whole of the still more bigoted James’, d of course was not disturbed by William d Mary, the champions of Protestant »erty and the inaugurators of the modern kof toleration under the British dominion.. * fact, it was a larger liberty than that ]STew Series, Vol. 11, No. 37. enjoyed in the mother country, under Wil liam and Mary, 'or even at this day, invol ving the practical equality of the Churches, and the absence of a privileged establish ment. This was the basis on which the colony was founded, and the practice of three suc cessive reigns had given them strong pre cedents in its favor. But in the reign of Queen Anne, an entire revolution in the management of the ecclesiastical affairs of the colony took place. It was about the same time that Cornbury, of New York, with the Governors of Virginia and Maryland, took 5 the ground that the Episcopal was the Estab lished Church of the colonies, as well' as of the mother country, and that all classes must contribute to its support whether they ap proved it or not. Just as the early Chris tians under the Roman Empire, found their condition worse when the reigning monarch was a more devout heathen, than when he despised religion in any shape, so the Ame rican Colonies found their privileges, which had been gained under monarchs indifferent to the Established Church, torn from them under more pious and more Protestant rulers.. In South Carolina the change was effect ed with a show of respect for the popular voice. We will let the historian narrate the facts:— In 1703 the Governor, Sir Nathaniel Johnson, as if in concert with Lord Corn bury at New York, determined to introduce into the colony the system which Dissenters had learned to regard with well-grounded jealousy. By skilful . arrangements, and through elections at which it is said that the most despicable classes of the population were allowed to vote, a legislature were secured favorable to the Governor’s design. By a ciose vote it was enacted that the Episcopal should be the Established Church, and that it should be supported by a tax on all classes of citizens alike, including Dissenters, who were deprived of all civil rights. The colony was* divided into ten parishes, and arrange ments were made to secure the necessary number of missionaries from England. “ Quakers and Presbyterians united in the most vigorous opposition to this movement. The citizens of CoHeton sent a petition to the proprietaries in London by the hands of Joseph Boone. “On reaching London, he found the prospect before him far from en couraging. The proprietaries were not'dis posed to annul the obnoxious measure; but the .London merchants united with Boone in urging the petition, and it was carried before the. House of Lords. Their action was favor able, and there iras a prospect that the prayer of the petitioners for relief would be' granted. The queen issued, an order declar ing the obnoxious.laws to be null and void: hut her promise to issue a process againt the provisional- charter was never fulfilled. The Episcopal Church was established in the colony. Dissenters were" taxed for its sup port. The effect was disastrous to the Pres byterian Church. 1 ‘ The English Society for. the Propagation of the Gospel sent twelve Episcopal mission aries to the colony, and their support was largely secured from the. public treasury. Spacious churches were built and paid for by taxes, which fell heavily on Dissenters. The State patronage extended to the Episcopal Church soon secured it ascendency also in numbers and strength. The friends of re ligious liberty in the Assembly were reduced in numbers, and the energy, and art of the Gov ernor bore down all opposition. Large num bers of the children of Dissenters were led to abandon the worship of their fathers and connect themselves with the State Church, against which the prejudices of the commu nity were so long directed.” With their wonted persistance the Pres byterians maintained their ground, and are described as still forming a considerable party in the province; able men ministered ■to their few congregations, whose losses by desertion began to be made up by emigra tion, and in 1710, a letter from. South Carolina, published London, stated that there were in the colony five Churches of British Presbyterians. A Presbytery or Association was formed at some date prior to 1734, which, in 1811, united with the General Assembly. NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EVANGELI ZATION. A NEW ENTERPRISE. The call for a convention at Cleveland, Contained in this paper, will secure from our readers more than usual attention. The Christian Commission, while in full opera tion, was one of the finest conceptions, one of the most efficient schemes of Christian effort ever produced in our world. When its war-work was drawing to a close, the question was anxiously deliberated, whether it should regard its mission as fulfilled, and give up its existence, or, with such modifi cations as would adapt it to times of peace, become a permanent institution. The first alternative was, we are bound to suppose, wisely adopted, but the Christian public feel the void of a charity so catholic, so evangelical, so unsparing of effort, and so quick of access to points which the slower process of denominational effort might fail to reach. If theproposed.Society for Evan gelization is intended to work on a system as nearly similar as the altered state of things will allow, at the same time adopt ing the suggestions of the past as a basis of improvement, and if the managementshould be of the character which the names ap- PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER H. 1865. pended to the call seem to guarantee, we see no reason why it should not become the legatee of that affection and support from the Christian public, which the Commission .so worthily enjoyed. We say this, taking for granted that there is no intention that it shall overleap the regular ecclesiastical enterprises of the church, but shall become a supplemental agency, filling the many chinks which, for some reason, regular ec clesiastical evangelization has failed to reach. We are not sure hut, in the present state of things, it would not best avoid col lision with church mission enterprises, by making the South its distinctive field, de voting itself to the temporal and eternal welfare of the freedmen, and of that large class of whites whom the religious as well as political aristocracy has kept, even deeper than the blacks, in the social shade. Not forgetting that there is work enough for a National Evangelization Society in .any quarter-of our Republic, we see in the South the most imminent need of the tim'es. NOTES FROM UPPER DELAWARE. Under the Maples, Sept. 6,1865. When las If we meditated in editorial mood beneath the maple shade, which now dances, with alternate patches of sunshine on our page, it was amid the fierce alarms of war. Lee was holding with an obstinate but slowly yielding grasp, the defences of Richmond and Petersburgh; Sherman had just marched into the last stronghold in the bowels of the cotton States; Mobile was tottering to its fall, and three thousand brave defenders of the Union had just per ished of starvation, crowding, exposure, in describable filth, sun stroke, poisonous vaccine matter, undisguised murder by shooting, stamping, hanging in the stocks and innumerable other barbarities, while in the hands of the subordinates of Davis and Lee at Andersonville. Democratic editors and partisans at the North meanwhile were expatiating upon the peaceable dispositions of these traitors and murderers and tortur ers of loyal men ; stock-gamblers were de crying the worth of Government promises to pay; “ drafts”and “quotas” under new “ calls” were deeply disturbing the minds of the community, and a dark/heavy, war atmosphere enveloped the land,, prohibiting’ all confident calculations as to its depth and duration. Then we waited “ beneath the furnace blast,” With, undying hope of lib erty and of the republic in our bosoms, hut with -irrepressible sighing of: How long, 0 Loftl! Then the gallant “ Seventh Dela ware” had just come back from their brief but timely service, in repelling the bold, bad raiders, many of them mere renegades, who came, with fire and sword, into their .own State of Maryland. Since that day, what brilliant achieve ments crowned the ever rising prowess of the Union, and cast deeper and deeper the fortunes of rebellion! Sheridan since then, rode his famous ride, and fought his' fiery battles, and led his squadrons up the valley to the very gates of the rebel capital. Since that day, Sherman astonished friend and foe, and. gave history a novelty to re cord in her stories of great marches through an enemy’s country; grasping Savannah and handing it over to the nation as a Christmas gift; uncovering Charleston and gaining Sumter without a blow. Since then, Hood was annihilated by the over whelming, shrewdly-dealt blows of Thomas; the pro-slavery Malakoff of Fort Fisher went down before the desperate assault of Terry; and then, with one grand, compre hensive, crushing blow of the thoroughly prepared Grant, Richmond and Petersburg -tumbled in a day, from their four years of impregnability,tumbled from their infamous eminence as centres of a powerful and un subdued rebellion; the vaunted Confede racy on which the hopes of Pope and des pot and aristocrat, every where, were set, vanished into relics for sight-seers; Lee had surrendered and Davis was a fugitive with, a price on his head! So we Bit in the maple shade, and hardly realize the wonderful, the solemn, the awe inspiring gladness of the change-— Victory and Peace. Or did we not find it more difficult to believe, especially in the earlier years of the struggle* that we were at war ? Which is the dream, the present or the past? The night of anguish, or the joyous morn ? The long, long years With horror overcast, Or the sweet promise of the day, newborn ? BATTUES YET TO BE FOUGHT —VICTORIES Right here under the maple shade, in one ot the most loyal districts of Delaware, we are reminded of the conflicts of opinion which the war has left us still to fight, and ot the utter insufficiency of mere material victories to give a nation solid peace. Here we plainly perceive the need of lofty moral elements and of the diffusion of sound Christian principles to a happy solution of the social question left unsettled by the de TO BE WON. cree of emancipation. Shall we free the slave because he is a brother man, and then, after freeing him, persist in treating him as less than man ? That is the ques tion ; that is what is really involved in the question of the colored man (the colored soldier too) riding in the street ears, in the question of. the right of suffrage for-the freedmen, and the entire treatment of this race of-loyal, Protestant, Americans, North and South. And Low Lave the Maples got anything to do with it ? Why, through all this Stretch- of country overlooked from this maple-emhowered window, • are scattered individuals and families of the unfortunate race, eager here as everywhere to- receive instruction; and beneath the maple-shade, and close around it, are noble-hearted Chris tian men and womenSburning to impart it'; and in the midst of this fertile landscape, rises the spire of a New School Presbyte rian church,.with its commodious lecture room, and nine-tenths of its congregation are of the loyal and true of the land, who would risk death sooner than see the flag dishonored; some of them have done it. And yet the most earnest efforts have ut terly failed to procure a place inside that church or out of it, for the accommodation of these, candidates for religious and intel lectual instruction. Shut out of the house of 'Gfod,'and out of the public-school-houses, even the erection of a building for the spe cific purpose of accommodating these peo ple is at least deferred; from threats of mob violence ; and here, but a few hours’jour ney from Philadelphia, there is more diffi culty, discomfort, and even risk, in efforts for their' amelioration, than are encountered in Louisiana. It is a burning shame, and we are astonished and pained to see-it and to record it. The truly loyal people, who are largely in the majority, ought not to suffer it a week longer. And what is the ground for all this per sistant opposition to opening a New School Presbyterian church, or a public school house, or to putting up a building for such a truly humane object? One thing and 'bne-9ttlyf.it- is -unreasoning, unchristian, hard headed, hard-hearted PREJUDICE. It is the sin of the North against' those ill used people; the sin which debars them from the street cars and from a reasonable participation in the rights *of citizenship; the sin which our government is verily guilty of strengthening by so sadly failing to use decided influence,* not to say au thority, in behalf of the freedmen in its plans of State reconstruction. It is a sinful despite of their manhood. Itis a wrong vainly excused by the result of other wrongs; ex cused by a charge of inferiority, which, if true, is the result of ages of contempt and wrong, and which it is the prompting of Christian charity to remedy, but of sheer inhumanity to. deepen and to perpetuate. By. the way, some of these victims of prejudice', these “ inferior beings” whose color deprives them of a fitness to vote sup posed to be possessed in full by a raw Irish Catholic, are living not more than an hour’s easy ride from this Maple-shade, whose con dition .is worth noticing. Close by the road’s side, in a -somewhat out-of-the-way neighborhood, the traveller observes a suc cession of very neat frame dwellings, a story and a half high, painted white, supplied with lightning rods, surrounded with truck patches, and with small farms, cultivated with a fair measure of care and skill; each family seems to have a horse, one or two have neat painted carriage-houses attached to the -i welling, and all show signs of com fort and thrift which would be looked for in vajn about the dwellings of thousands of our rural white population, I might say in Delaware especially. Some of these colored farmers have earned characters for integrity among the whole community; some have earned what perhaps their maligners would regard as a more convincing proof of ca pacity—money. We heard of one, who, when, called on for payment of a bill, which required more cash than he had in the house, requested his creditor to wait until he drew him a. check on the. bank. The creditor, a little surprised, courteously con sented, received the check, and turned it into cash without any. difficulty. This drawing of a check by a colored man, in his house, on a bye-road in Delaware is not without interest or significance at this time. Some of. those prominent in opposing the opening, of > a school-house for the instruc tion of this man’s children, are doubtless accustomed to “ make their mark.” . Be hold the prejudiced and behold their vic tims ! In spite of prejudice, they 1 have made such progress in thrift and in educa tion as utterly to distance probably all of Such as Mr. Lincoln used in that memo rable little note. of his addressed to Governor H a hn, of Louisiana, almost equally creditable with the Emancipation Proclamation. Genesee Evangelist, No. 1008. the bitterest of their opponents! What might .they not be expected to do with half the privileges of the whites ? ■ We say that a system which, all over the country, excludes such worthy citizens from all participation in the duties, respon sibilities and privileges of citizenship, while it allows a worthless, brawling igno ramus of a Fenian to put in a ballot which he cannot read, all on account of a differ ence of color, is so radically wrong and un just that it cannot stand. The seeds of dissolution are in it. Every principle of sound political economy, every sentiment of true Republicanism is against it; and what is more, GOD is against it, and unless the abuse is remedied, no amount of victory can save the guilty nation. Do our busy, re constructing, pardoning rulers understand ? We have no wish to thrust a modest man into needless notoriety, but we think the example of this brave citizen-soldier be longs to the country. And especially, as we have dealt plainly with some'of the shortcomings of Delawarians, we take the greater pleasure in commending where we may. Here is a young man, of fine pro perty,'with troops .of friends, his parents worthy “ Friends” in the teohical sense; has but lately married a lovely woman.; his farm beautifully located, large, fertile ; his new, ample, and costly residence the orna ment of the whole country-side, approached by a broad, green avenue, flanked with trees and hedges;—that young man broke through the restraints of the old family re ligion, parted from his young wife, forsook his beautiful house and-his rolling acres, and flew to the rescue of the country which alone, by its freedom and its laws, gives value to friends and home. . He rallies a company of cavalry, one of the three or four furnished by the State to that arm of the National service, and is made captain. Once, just before the final news of Gettys burg, rumor, borne on the tongues of flying comrades, brought word that the gallant captain had fallen in a cavalry skirmish at ■Westminister, Md., desperately wounded and covered, with blood, and that the rebel lines under Fitz Hugh Lee, closing around him and many of his company, had swept them from sight. That was a gloomy day at that beautiful country home; a dreary pall fell on its many charms, and a large community bowed in silent sympathy with one so early made a widow by rebel wea pons. But lying rumor did not long enjoy the dismay she had spread so wide. Truth soon appeared, in no other guise than that of the captain himself, without scar or scratch, with no disadvantage other than his parole as a prisoner of war. He and his command of seventy were stationed at Westminster, Md., as an advance scout, to watch the motions of the enemy’s cavalry, which, the reader will remember, made such a bold approach to Washington just before Gettysburg and cut off a train of one hun dred wagons near Poolesville. This raid ing column was the object which the little company of Delaware cavalry was to watoh, but unfortunately it got in between all the appointed guards and the city itself, and on its return, took Captain Corbit and his company in a very unexpected quarter and while ten of his men were having their homes shod. The alarm was given, that one hundred and fifty rebel horsemen were in sight. The heroic captain and his sixty men, nothing daunted, sprang to their sad dles, and met the onset of the rebels with such determined bravery, that though, as it afterwards appeared, there were three hundred of them, and though their captain rode right into the ranks of the Delawarians and was shot dead for his temerity, the whole band was driven back in confusion with the loss of some half a dozen killed, including the captain, and a number wounded, while the Delawarians lost but two, and the captain had his horse shot under him. The flight of the rebel three hundred was only stopped by a much larger force of their own cavalry stretched across the road, who were compelled to fire into them before their panic .was quelled. This was Fitz Hugh Lee’s entire body of cavalry, several thousand strong, which soon out flanked our handful of Delawarians, a num ber -of whom fled, but the captain, dis mounted, and twenty of his men were made prisoners. And handsomely were they treated by the rebel commander and his. officers, who praised their gallant bearing, earnestly asked if they were not regulars; if not, then they were certainly the Eighth Illinois Cavalry; their fighting was equal to that of the most famous corps. Neither the captain’s money nor his watch was in terfered with, and soon all were paroled on account of the urgent necessities of the rebel situation, A few hours later, the hold Kilpatrick came upon them and gave them a thrashing at Hanover. Pa. These two CAPTAIN CHARLES OORBIT, terms. Per annum, in advance: By Mail, $3. By Carrier, 33 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,s2soperannum. By Carriers, $3 per annum. Ministers and Ministers* Widows, $2 in ad vance. Home Missionaries, $l5O inadvance. Fifty cents additional after three months. Remittances hy mail are at oar risk. Postage.—Five cents quarterly, in advance, paid by subscribers at the office of delivery. Advertisements.—l2J4 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 I, six M .12 011 .one year .18 The following discount on long advertisements, in sorted for three months and upwards, is allowed: — Over 20 lines, 10 per cent off; over 50 lines, 20 per cent.; over 100 lines, per cent. off. actions may have had more significance than we have hitherto suspected. Captain Corbit’s gallant onslaught delayed the rebel movements some twenty hours. This gave Kilpatrick the opportunity to come up with Fitz Hugh Lee, and detain him some honrs further. Hemmed in thus between Meade and Kilpatrick, Lee was compelled to make a long detour towards Carlisle, is order to join the main rebel army, which he did not reach until the battle of Gettysburg was lost Who knows but that the timely pre sence of five thousand cavalry on that field, which had so many awfully critical mo ments, might have turned the evenly poised scale in the direction? Who knows, hut that this brave Delawarian, now peacefully gathering his crops and distin guished from his countrymen only by his tall and robust frame and his manly bearing, with his gallant comrades, formed one of the es sential links in that wonderful chain of Providences that goes to make up Gettys burg ? Who knows hut that Westminster (noble name) with its sixty against three hundred, with its ringing shont and cheer, its'valiant sabre stroke, and its routed and flying rebels was not a Thermopylae of American liberty ? Welcome back, heroic captain and cavalrymen of little Delaware ! “ Welcome ye living ! From the foemen’s gripe lour country s banner it was yours to wrest.” A MIRACLE OR AN IMPOSTURE! Firmly as we have believed in the re cuperative powersof our shattered Union, we must confess ourselves quite taken by surprise at the rapidity with which the process has been characterized, in at least a single The State in which it took place, has never enjoyed any particular' distinction for loyalty, was never supposed to contain any con siderable amount of latent Unionism during the war; it in fact furnished the rebellion with its civil head, a man who for years had exerted a most baneful in fluence upon his fellow-citizens in the direction of State’s rights and pro-sla very,—a State, therefore, which might well be regarded as needing some special probation, before its fitness for re-admis sion could be recognized. On the con trary, we find it advanced’the furthest of any in the rebellious territory, and already enjoying some of the most sig nificant privileges of restoration. In short, we find Mississippi, without any change in her local and county officers so that the active agents of the rebellion continue in the exercise of judicial and executive functions throughout the State —without relinquishing its regard for the rebel chieftain, whose pardon it asks in. the same breath with its vote for restoration ; without adopting the con stitutional amendment; without provid ing for the safety of the freedmen, is nevertheless recognized as substantially in the Union again. As such, she is allowed to arm her lately rebellious and lately disarmed militia, and the Union troops are withdrawing from her terri tory 1 In five months, loyalty has grown to such strength on such un friendly soil! The arms we wrenched from her, the military organizations we broke up at such terrible cost, may all be restored, she has. become suddenly so worthy of our entire confidence and esteem ! What are we to think of this five months’ revolution, in which a pub lie sentiment of thirty years’ growth, culminating in the bloodiest and greatest rebellion of all history is supposed to be reversed ? A miracle ? Credat Judaeus. For our part we regard it as a shameful, terrible farce. We call attention to the notice of the exercises to be held in the Wagner In stitute, on the 30th of this month. They are designed to celebrate the First An niversary of the Sabbath-school organ ized there by zealous laymen of our Church, and to prepare the way for a transfer of the enterprise to its new home in the Chapel, now going up at the cor ner of Broad and Oxford streets. This is a highly important step in the pro gress of onr Church, in that rapidly and solidly growing region of our city, the northwest. The liberality of Professor Wagner in offering the commodious Hall of his Institute for the earlier stages of the enterprise, is deserving of all com mendation and grateful remembrance. Rev. Dr. Wylie, of the First Re formed Presbyterian Church of this city, is expected home from Scotland the last of this week. It appears that his tour had a close and interesting connection with the excellent Doctor’s domestic affairs. He went away a widower of a couple of years standing; he returns with a helpmeet, a lady well-known and “{fry , Tes P eeted 111 the congregation of which he is pastor, Miss- Jessie Grant daughter of Mr. Jas. Grant, of Stirling, Scotland, and sister to Mr. James Grant of this city. *
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