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THURSDAY, NOVEMB
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES,.
SECOND PAGE—THE FAMILY CIRCLE:
The Mystic Union—The Fugitive Slave and the
hood-Old Pair of Stocking Puritan Child-
Age—Moral Responsibility.
THIRD PAGE—EDITOR'S TABLE:
Guthrie on the Parables: " The Parables Read in
the Light of the Present Day"—Meredith's " The
Apple of Life"—Children's Department: New
ton's "Bible Blessings"—Sewell's "Lost Child,
a Ballad of English Life: and the Romance of
:Manes Scrub"—Eyster's " Sunny Hours: or, Child
Life of Tom and Mary"—" The M.rtyrs of the Cata
combs; a Tole of Anctentßome"—" Turning over a
New Lear —Variety Library—Earnest Christian
LibrarY; ' Plain Words on Christian Living:" The
Cross of Christ:" " The Soul Gatherer" — Periodi eah
and Pamphlets—Literary Items, American and
Foreign.
SIXTH PAGE--CORRESPONDENCE:
Wm. Foster in America—Why the Minister did so
at the Inquiry-Meeting---Noah's Enduring Faith—
Temptation and SuffennE•
SEVENTH PAGE—RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE :
Presbyterian—CongregationaP—Episcopal—Metho
dist—Baptist.
RURAL ECONOMY: Practical Management of
Muck in Composting—Morgan Horses—North Caro
lina as a Producing State—Care of Sheep in Win
ter.
THE FALL ELECTIONS
Last week closed a series of elections ie.
markable In the political history of the
• • thoic.
• • `•,". • • • . my the
New England States; not only the great
States of New York, Pennsylvania, and
OhtO; not only the radical commonwealths
of the Northwest and the growing empires
of the Pacific coast have manfully main
tained their position of loyalty, now become
second nature, but even New Jersey has
been wrested from the tyranny of her rail
road corporations and brought from her
shameful atitude of antagonism to emanci
pation and of subserviency to the slave
power. The liberation of New Jersey I It
is as cheering as the, news of a great vic
tory on the field, and it took men like the
chivalrous and bold Kilpatrick, who hal
received his training in actual conflict wit
armed rebellion, to , sweep away the last
miserable remnants of its allies at home
into a darkness which we may hope will be
that of endless oblivion. We cannot for
bear quoting the pleasantry of our contem
porary of the Evening Bulletin on this au
spicious result : 7 ,--
READMISSION OF NEW JERSEY INTO THE
UNION.
• New Jersey has been for a long time in
a state of secession from the Union, and
the Government has been sorely troubled
by its failure to restore her practical re
lations." After using various amicable
means without, effect, it became necessary
to send a force into that benighted .region
to-subdue the rebellion. Accordingly a
strong army, under the gallant General
Kilpatrick, has been raiding through the
State for several weeks past, and a decisive
battle was fought yesterday, resulting in a
glorious victory to the Union arms. The
stipulations of the President in reference to
the restoration of conquered States are to
be at once complied with. The Constitu
tional amendment is to be ratified, the rebel
debt of disloyalty, a large portion of which
is held in New Jersey, is to be at once re
pudiated, and ample guarantees are to be
given that the freedmen, who have just
been emancipated from Copperhead .bond
age, shall be protected in their rights of
freedom and independence.
Thus the last stronghold of the rebellion
has fallen. Justice ThOmpson may now
comfort himself with the thought that the
war is about over. New Jersey, the last
of the seceding States, is restored by the
invading armies of patriotism and truth, to
her " practical relations to the Union,"
and we shall now be able to go, without
passports, to Atlantic City and Cape May,
and feel that we have not passed over one
foot of foreign soil. New Jersey, readmit
ted to the Union, has a glorious career be
fore her, and under the fostering care or
Governor Ward she will enter upon it, re
ioicing to feel that she is once more safe
ander the old flag.
What this unanimous decision of the
majority in every State means, is so plain
that he who runs may read. It, means that
the attachment of the mass of our people to
the principles involved in our struggle is
stronger and more wide-spread, now that
the war is over, than it was during the
actual prevalence of the conflict. Though
the pressure pf immediate and awful peril
in past, and though the cause becomes a
moral one and its bearings respect the fu
ture rather than.the present, no disposition
is shown to abandon it or treat it within
difference. The nation re-endorses it, re
cognizes it as•part of its unalterable policy,
crystallizes its new political life around it.
In short, the questions of a firm and solid
nationality, a constitutional, utter, and im
mediate abolition or slavery without com
pensation, an adequate provision for the in
dustrial and educational wants and for the
rights of the freedmen, and a genuine,
hearty submission to the national authority
and a dismission of sectional pretensions
and usurpations from every quarter of the
land now and forever, are removed from the
sphere of partisan politics, just as much as
are the simplest questions lying at the
foundation of republican government. The
lections during "the war intimated it, the
first election in time of peace 'definitely
settles it.
The 'elections mean plainly that the peo
ple are in-no haste to be put into relations
of political equality with the lately rebel
lious South. Such haste was almost the
only distinctive feature in the Democratic
Policy.* They insisted, in accordance with
*-The Copperhead N. Y. World said that in
the defeat of the Democratic party, President
Johnson's . plan for the immediate restoration of
the Union is defeated also.
TA - F, AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN-, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1865
the demands of their former political mas
ters in the South, upon the immediate and
unquestioned admission of the Southern
delegations into Congress, even though com
posed of men notorious for the virulence of
their conduct during the rebellion. With
this issue prominently before them, the peo
ple indignantly rebuked, spurned, and we
may say CRUSHED, the party that . offered
it. Their NO, echoed from Massachusetts
to Minnesota, is one of astonishment that
men laying claim to common shrewdness
should expect them to submit to the an
nulling of the advantages gained by four
sears of terrible war, of incalculable expense
of treasure and blood, and should quietly
allow the surviving authors and abettors of
this enormous and inexcusable mischief,
defiant, impenitent, with the very crack of
the plantation whip in their tones, to seat
themselves again in the places of power
and trust in the land, as if nothing had
happened ! The Democratic party came
before the people with this issue, and the
Democratic party is as effectually over
whelmed as were the scoffing antediluvians
after the forty days and forty nights of rain.
New Jersey was their last refuge, but the
.---,,..vi r 00-oe'ecittstfttetat —s-- as orad, by
the union of the restored rebel leaders at
the South with the conservatives, the Irish
Catholics, the lottery-dealers, the rum
interest and the fawning place-hunters of
the North is at an end. Certain organs of
opinion which have been trimming their
sails for a " Conservative" reaction among
the people, as the National Intelligencer, of
Washington; the Public Ledger, of this city
(almost outand out Democratic) ; the Louis
ville Journal, the New York Times, and
the New York Observer; certain religious
bodies, as that represented in the late Tri
ennal Convention held in this city, and that
misrepresented in recent Synodical assem
blies in Kentucky, Missouri, Pennsylvania,
and New Jersey, will doubtless take notice
and gather wisdom from these facts. And
we think Congress and the Administration
will understand them as a popular demon
stration too vast and too solemn to be trifled
with by weak; slip-shod, compromisinc ,
methods of dealing with a conquered but
impenitent rebellion.
RECONSTRUCTION AT A STAND-STILL,
Those who have felt that the process of re
organization has been pushed too rapidly,
and that the national safety demanded great
er caution in dealing with the unrepentant
rebels of the South, - will rejoice to observe
that the Executive has brought the move
ment to a full pauie. The Provisional Gov
ernors appointed by the President in North
and South Carolina, are ordered to continue
in the exercise of their official functions, thus
virtually annulling for the time being the
elections for Governor, just held in those
States; and very specific explanations of
what will be expected of those and other States
lately in rebellion before they can regain their
status in the Union, have been issued from
the State Department at Washington. Mr.
Seward writes Provisional Governor Perry,
of South Carolina, that the President
" Observes with regret that neither the Con
vention nor the State Legislature has pro
nounced debts and obligations contracted in
the name of the State for unconstitutional,
and even rebellious purposes, to be void. Tie
equally regrets that the State seems to de
cline the Congressional amendment of the
Constitution of the United States abolishing
slavery.
" I telegraphed to you yesterday as follows :
The President directs me to write to you that
an early adoption of the Constitutional
Amendment of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States abolishing slavery, by the South
Carolina Legislature, is deemed peculiarly
.important and especially desirable with refer
ence to the general situation of the Union.
I have now only to say, that the President's
opinions, heretofore expressed, remain un
changed."
In reply to a delegation of North Caro
linians, members of the late Convention, and
others, who visited the President, November'
10, to solicit his aid in securing the admis
sion of the Congressional delegates from that
State who cannot take the oath, the Presi
dent replied, acknoWledging that much' had
been done to restore the State " to her proper
natural relations, but," he added, some
thing yet remains to be done to render that
restoration immediately practicable. An
acceptance of the Congressional Amendment
abolishing slavery throughout the United
States by the Legislature of the State of
North Carolina, is in my judgment practically
important to the successful restoration which
is so much desired by all."
In regard to the admission of the Con
gressional delegation, he gave them no light
or comfort whatever, simply saying : " with
out answering specifically the questions you
have proposed to me, it will be sufficient to
'say that my action must depend upon events,
and that Mr. Holden will again be instructed
to continue the exercise of his functions as
Provisional Governor until he shall have been
expressly relieved by orders to that effect."'
These are important steps in the right
direction and are fitted to inspire hope that
the large and permanent interests of the
country are not to be sacrificed in a hasty zeal
to restore the external relations of the States.
Now, let the Government go earnestly to
work with investigations into the real re
sponsibility for the starving of our prisoners,
hold every rebel military and civil official of
any standing liable for a share of the guilt
until the truth is disclosed, and set the solemn
seal of judicial condemnation, broad and
deep upon rebellion itself, and the country
will be prepared to yield large and generous
confidence to its chosen rulers and their asso
ciates in office.
MASON & HAMLIN'S CABINET ORGAN.
—Sixteen new premiums have been
awarded to this instrument in, the last
six weeks. (See advertisements.)
Rv.v. MR. BARNES resumed service in
the First Presbyterian Church laSt Sab
bath after a considerable interruption from
sickness. A large congregation was in
attendance. Mr. Barnes' theme was the
adding of fifteen years to the life of
Hezekiah. :May the prophetic intimations
of the passage be more than realized in
the life of the honored pastor of the First
Church.
THE SABBATH SCHOOLS of Oki. Pine
St. Church had one of their grand anni
versary occasions last Sabbath. The
building was crowded in every part.
The three schools : Pine St., Brainerd
Mission, and Robert Raikes, are in a
highly prosperous condition. Addresses
were delivered by the pastor, Dr. BraiA
erd and by Rev. J. H. Suydam. A neiiv
schoo.l-house is being erected for the
Brainerd school, which will be ready in
three weeks, and will accommodate 500
scholarg.
TABOR. CHutCH. - Sixteen pelsons
were received into this church si the
communion service last Sabbath ; th keen
on profession, three by letter. 0i the
former, the ages ranged frOm niarly
!ugg.#4,1„..4. down to a Igen
A VETERAN.—There is probably no
person who has any familiarity with
Sabbath School affairs in this city, who
does not know, or know of, A. Martin,
Esq., generally called Father Martini
At a late Sabbath School anniversary in
the Fifth Baptist 'clibrch in'this city, he
was present by invitation, and stated
that the 15th of last month was his fif
tieth anniversary in this good cause,
being one of the nine individuals who
organized. the first Sunday School in this
city, in September, 1815. He seated
that he had visited and addressed from
four to six schools and congregations
every Sunday, walking from six to eight l
miles, and aided in the organization of
over a hundred mission schoola,twenty
five of which have become place? ,of
worship.
LATE ITEMS.—The Roman Catholics,
having recently purchased a building at
38th and Sycamore Sts., Mantua, or
merly used by the Episcopalians, it was
dedicated as St. Agatha's Church last
Sabbath. Bishop Wood, in his discourse,
said there were 125,000 Catholics in this
city.
Rev. E. B. Beadle was installed Pas
tor of the 2nd. (0. S.) Presbyterian
Church in this city last Sabbath evening.
Rev. B. T. Lowrie was ordained and
installed pastor of the Bethany Alia on,
formerly of the Broad St. Indepenl
ent
Church, by the (0. S.) Presbytery ). of
Philadelphia on Sabbath evening. .‘
Colonization.—On Saturday, the 1114,1,
the usual fall expedition of the American
Colinization Society was despatched from
Baltimore, comprising one hundred and
seventy-four persons, men, women, and
children. These were all of the class
known as " Freedmen," and were from
Lynchburg, Virginia, and its vicinity.
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATIONS.—It
is well that official proclamations should
be short and terse. That of President
Johnson, published in our last week's
paper, recommending the observance of
the first Thursday in December as a day
of public National' Thanksgiving, cer
tainly possesses these qualities. We
presume, however, that the people of the
land, without meaning to be fastidiously'
critical, will very generally regret the,
absence of any word characterizing that',
" fearful scourge of civil war" mentioned,
or any more distinct allusion to the over
throw
of American slavery, than is con
tained in the vague phrase, " a great,
enlargement of civil liberty." We pub
lish
to-day the Thanksgiving proclama
tion of our Pennsylvania Executive,
Gov. Curtin. It is, in these particulars,
refreshingly unambiguous. We are, how
ever, sorry to add that, like the Presi
dent's, it fails to make any mention of
the blessings of redemption, or to contain
any distinctly Christian sentiment.
Bishop Stevens, of the Pennsylvania
Diocese, has issued his Episcopal recom
mendation for the observance of the day.
In naming the causes for Thanksgiving,
he simply repeats, in' quotation marks,
those named by the President, and goes
no farther. He also appoints a prayer,
to be used immediately after the prayer,
in the Thanksgiving Service." The form
thus appointed has, in its Thanksgiving
sentences, only the. following :
"We bless and praise, we laud and mag
nify Thy glorious name, for all Thy goodness
to the people of this land, and especially for
that it hath pleased Thee to relieve our be
loved country from the fearful scourge of civil
war, and to permit us to secure the blessings
of peace, unity, and liberty. And further,
we bless and thank Thee that Thou has kgpt
us from the calamities of foreign war, pesti
lence, and famine, and given to us the fruits
of an abundant harvest."
A fine opportunity was here presented
to the Bishop, in part at least, to remove
from that portion of the Church which
is under his administration the odium
brought upon it by the absolute refusal
of the Triennial Convention to think
God for the destruction of slavery in the
land. EN has deliberately allowed it to
pass.
THE Mining Press Bays, that, during the
present Beason there will be 500 stamps add
ed to the present mill capacities in Nevada,
and mostly in the Reese River and Humbolt
regions. This shows a decided increase in
the mining businessof the State, and affords
most indubitable evidence that mining, as a
pursuit, is generally found profitable to those
engaged in it throughout the State of Nevada.
CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
FROM OUR
In 1830, there was a farmer, whom,
for convenience, we will call Mr. W.,
living about sixty miles from this city.
He was then forty-five•years of age, and
was " without God, and without hope in
the world." It was the time of the
great revivals in this region, while Mr.
Finney was preaching with such extra
ordinary power in this place. Two
elders of the church in the town where
Mr. W. resided, came down to Rochester
to see for themselves what great things
the Lord was doing.
They passed a few days, and caught
something of the fire of the occasion, and
went home to work for Christ. They
began visiting from house to house, for
conversation and prayer among their
neighbors. They wanted also to hold a
prayer -meeting in a certain locality, but
there was no convenient place, except at
the house of Mr. W., and as he was not
a Christian, they felt considerable hesi
tation about asking such a favor of him.
Finally, however, they ventured * pro
pose having the meeting at his house.
He assented very readily, " on account,"
he said, " of his invalid wife—she would
lenjciy it, as she could not get out to
' - ' 4, - ,,,,, e-Sabbath." In this state-
_spoke one word for his wife, and two for
himself."
With an interest even deeper than he
at first thought possible, this man pre
pared his large kitchen with temporary
seats for the contemplated meeting.
The hour arrived, the room was throng
ed. The meeting was opened with a
hymn, and already the place seemed,
even to this unconverted man, to be
" full of the Holy Ghost." After the
singing, all were requested to kneel while
prayer should be offered. All prostra
ted themselves befgre God ; many, be
side Mr. W., for the first time in all their
lives, bowing the knee to the Lord their
Maker.
After the lapse of thirty-five years,
Mr. W. still speaks of that moment as
one of awful solemnity. A sense of the
Divine presence and love was overpow
ering. As the meeting proceeded, Mr.
W. hoped there would be some oppor
tunity for him, at least, to ask the pray
ers of God's children. An opportunity
was offered, and he expressed his earn
est desire in this respect. He was de
termined to be a Cl}ristian ; and imme
diately his soul was filled with unex
pected peace, and love, and joy.
He did not then know that he had
passed from death unto life ; bat he
afterward learned and believed that then
and there the, Lord met him, and sealed
him for his own. He soon after made
public profession of his faith in Christ;
was, in a few years, made an elder in
the church ; and was a member of thp
General Assembly of 1838, at - Phila
delpftia, when Dr. Samuel Fisher was
Moderator; also, a delegate to the As
sembly in Cleveland, in 1851, when Dr.
Samuel W. Fisher was Moderator; and has
been an honored' and consistent member
of the church to this time ; an intelli
gent, earnest, able man.
Several others were supposed to be
converted on thit same evening, in his
kitchen, where he found the Lord; and
they, too, have run well ; and that *as
the way the revivals of those days
spread from place to place.; and this was
a. part of that " fanaticism," which,
spread, at that ;time, over Western New
York. But it would be wrong to sup
pose that Mr. W. had not before thought
of the subject of religion. He had
thouht much. The Spirit had been
strivifig with many in all the region.
They were ready to hear the church
say " Come," just as much as the three
thousand were in the day of Pentecost.
And may we not hope for such times
again? And is it fanaticism to have sin
ners converted, and hold on their way,
in honor and usefulness to a good old
age ?
OUR TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.
The friends - of Temperance in Roches,
ter, have been holding occasional meet
ings for a few weeks past, trying to
awaken a new interest in this great and
blessed reform. Gen. Riley, the long
tried and able friend of the cause, is,
perhaps, the principal instigator of the
movement. The meetings have not
been very largely attended as yet, and
have not excited the interest which the
cause should command ; but a • new
Society has been formed, with D. D. T.
Moore, Esq., our esteemed Mayor, for
President, and it is intended by this that
something shall be done to stay the
ravages of intemperance around us.
And if they would thus organize anew
in every city, and all go to work, it
would seem as though something might
be done.
SUCCESSFUL AT VAST
Rev. Dr. Heacock, of Buffalo, has
been down for the. third time to try to
recover the remains of his lamented
brother, Capt. R. B. Ifeacock, who fell
in battle near Spottsylvania, in May,
1864, ,and his, numerous and sympathiz-
Mg friends will greatly rejoice to learn
that his search this time has been re
warded with success.
In June last, he went to the spot, and
had, perhaps, a dozen bodies exhumed,
but could not Ind the right one. This
time he was accompanied by an officer
of the same regiment with his brother,
who was near him when he fell, and
also by the widow of the deceased, and
.the identification. seems complete.
It will be remembered that Captain
Heacock was killed with a shell. His
skull was crushed, and ribs were broken,
but he was recognized by his clothing.
The remains were to be brought to Buffa
lo for burial.
A CHURCH ON OICAND ISLAND
This island, it is known, is in Niagara
river, between Buffalo and the Falls,
about nine miles long, and in some places
six miles wide. It was this island
which Mordecai M. Noah, in 1826, pro
posed to purchase for the interests of
Israel. Here the Jews were do be
gathered from all parts of the earth, to
build a great city of their own, and here
to maintain their ancient rites . . Mr.
Noah went so far as to erect a monu
ment in advance, to commemorate the
gathering of the tribes, which is still
standing, is fifteen feet high and covered
with sutable inscriptions.
But the tribes were never gathered
here, and instead of it, there now stands
upon the island, for the accommodation
of the surrounding population, a small
Christian church of the New England
kith and order. Rev. J. L. Burnett, of
ockport, was Moderator of the Coun
cil, by which the church was duly con
stituted and the house of worship dedi
cated, on the Ist instant. Rev. J. S
Barris, recently of North Evans, is pas
tor of the new flock thus gathered.
PERSONAL
ld Mas..
6.-4XPvtP-4-.Z.birida
course before the Young Men's Chris
tian Union, of Buffalo, in the Lafayette
Street Church. His subject was " The
Visions of Youth and of Age Contrasted,"
and the lecture is spoken of as one of
great interest and real value.
The Doctor also lectured in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, and passed through
our city on Tuesday last, returning to
his home, looking well and apparently
much pleased with his trip.
Prof Hopkins, of Atiburn, is to lec
ture in Buffalo, in the same course, on
the 13th, on "Dante."
C. P. B
ROCHESTER, November 11, 1865.
FROM OUR EAST TENNESSEE COR
RESPONDENT.
Farmers emigrating
.to E. Tennessee.—A Vir
ginia Bankrupt—A Surgeon under a Cloud.
Thomas Jefferson.—Rebel feeling in S. W.
Virginia.—Cotton planting under Afficul
ties.--Freedmen in. Annapolis.— Supereroga
tion, etc.
KNOXVILLE, E. TENN., Nov. 6, 1865
MR. EDITOR : —Let your farmers emigra
ting to this region come prepared to lead the
way in all the improvements in agriculture.
The blight of slavery has affected our harvests
for half a 'century. Land that will produce
sixty bushels of corn to the acre for a series
-of years, has not averaged over from seven to
ten bushels of wheat per acre. Improper
tillage, doubtless, has had much to do with
this scanty result. Shallow plowing has been
the almost universal custom ; so that after a
hard rain the soil is like a mortar bed, and in
time of drouth, it becomes hard almost as a
brick. As an instance of unsuccessful farm
ing in a slave State, I may mention the case
of a man in Smith County, Virginia, who
owned ninety thousand acres of land—most
of it good land—and a large interest in the
Washington County salt works, and yet his
expenses ran so ahead of his income that in
one year he felt constrained to sell one hun
dred and five negroes—forty of them good
field hands—to keep his head above water.
At length matters came to a crisis. He found
himself involved to the extent of $387,000,
and he was sold out of house and home, and
changed his residence to a different part of
the State. His home at Abingdon, valued
at, $30,000, was purchased by the friends of
Martha Washington College, and is now use d
as a seminary of learning.
A.few days since I was summoned as a wit
ness in a Court Martial case, examined at
Annapolis, Maryland. A hospital chaplain
by ex parte pressure was dismissed from the
service. He called for investigation, and
during the trial, a surgeon from Pennington,
New Jersey, who had been very officious in
working against the chaplain, was shown up
in a very unenviable light. One witness tes
tified that he was a Copperhead or Northern
traitor, and others, that his general reputa
tion ras that of a want of sympathy with the
Government. It appeared in evidence that
the chaplain was untiring in the performance
of his duties, and his commission may be
restored to him.
' As I was passing by Monticello, Virginia,
a planter pointed out the place to me, and
remarked that his father owned one of the
mulatto children of Thomas Jefferson, from
which it appeared that the great statesman
had some Sectional views of negro equality.
In this connection I am reminded of a con
versation which Captain Haven, of Ohio, had
with a Kentucky lady a few months since, in
a• stage--
"0, Captain," said the lady, "I was at
Cynthiana the other day, and I saw a negro
man who had married a white woman, and.
had a lot of children. What do you think of
that?"
"While you were in Ohio," replied the
captain, I was down among your folks in
Kentucky, making observations, and let me
tell you what I saw. • I saw a rich Kentucky
planter who had a lot of children by a negro
woman, and they were never married. What
do you think of that case ?"
" Well," said she, "if it has to be done,
it ought to be done legally."
The rebel feeling in Southwestern Virginia
is of the Christian Observer type. Traitor
ministers are atria premium. At Wytheville
and Marion they are making some arrange
ments to employ Dr. Mitchell; of Lynchburg.
The Doctor has intimated if they will give
him a thousand dollars a year, that he will
give up his present charge and preach to
them. Rev. Mr. Hickman, Old School min
ister at Wytheville, shouldered his musket to
oppose the advance of General Averill, and
was killed, six miles from Dublin—" fighting
gallantly," in rebel phrase, to uphold the
cause of treason. •
I traveled with a Maryland planter who
had been in Georgia raising cotton, awl:vane
away in utter disgust. A negro man didnot
work exactly to please him, and he thrashes
him. The Provost Marshal arrested him and
fined him fifteen dollars. A negro woman after
wards did not do exactly to suit him and he gave
her a beating. He was again arrested and
fined ten dollars. Like Dr. Jacks in the hos
pital at Helena, Ark., he could not get along
with " niggers" without beating them, and so,
instead of adapting himself to the situation,
he came back to Maryland. He had been in
the rebel army four years, and surrendered
with General Johnson. He believed that if
General Lee's plan of arming the negroes had
been adopted two years ago, the independence
of the "Southern Confederacy would have been
established.
At Annapolis, the colored people have many
grievances. Last week the proprietor of the
City Hotel had a mother arrested and thrown
in jail, because she wished her children, he
still kept under his control, to follow her di
rection. On Frid a y last a colored woman,
whose head was badly cut by a brick thrown
by a white man, vent to a magistrate's office
for justice. Go out or my office," said the
justice of the peace ; " I have nothing to do
with you. You know
1 13. t anigger can't
give testimony against a 'w it , man ." Her
husband has been a soldier in the United
States army for two years, and for eleven
months of that time held as prisone r of war.
taii.-soute-or mese •fants beture the Freed
men's Bureau at Washington.
In traveling, I fell in with a Virginian
Union man, who had been driven from his
house and plundered of about $25,000 worth
of property by the rebels. He had gone
armed to Abingdon for the purpose of killing
Mr. Trigg, who had forced his crazy brother
into the rebel army, and grossly insulted him
on several occasions. Mr. Trigg owes his life
to his being absent from home. The positive
Union men of Virginia are beginning to or
ganize, and to act with greater boldness, de
termined that the old pro-slavery aristocracy
—the cause of all their woes—shall rule them
no more. The colonel of a Georgia regiment
remarked to me at Lynchburg, that he was
an original secessionist; that he wept like a
child when General Lee surrendered; that
they had been whipped—terribly whipped—
and as God had decided the matter against
the South, he was willing to accept the result
in good faith and to lay hold and help repair
the wastes of war. To get rid of the Freed
men's Bureau, he was willing to legalize ne
gro testimony. Such men, however, natur
ally rally around their old standard-bearers
and will try to lifthem to power. Those
who regarded their stituggle as a rich man's
war and a poor man's fight., are more or less
suspicious of the old aristocratic leaders, and
in the reconstruction of both Church and
State, many of them are beginning to watch
matters much more carefully than in former
years. There must be several canvasses,
however, before the people will understand
their strength and succeed in putting right
men in the right places.
Henry Ward Beecher's humiliating eulogy
of General Lee is set down as a proof that
some Protestants believe in doing works of
supererogation. The Lord had no prominent
positions for Lucifer or any of his rebel clan,
after the great war in heaven between Mi
chael and his angels and the Dragon and his
angels, when Michael prevailed, but their
place was found no more in heaven. Nor
have we any account of any loyal angel taking
the rostrum in behalf of any of the wicked
leaders in the grand rebellion against the
starry banner of Jehovah.
Yours very truly,
SAMUEL SAWYER.
A REVIVAL IN THE RIGHT PLACE.-
A correspondent writes to the Evange
list that the Ripley Female College is
being blessed with a rich outpouring of
the Holy Spirit. Large numbers are
being brought to the foot of cross.
Christians, too, are being awakened;
they are being armed with fresh zeal to
work in " the field which is ready to the
harvest." In
.this College, numbering
over one hundred students, a goodly
number have yielded their all, and con
secrated themselves to the Lord to work
for him. All the school prayer-meetings
are full to overflowing. On a late Sab
bath evening about thirty of the young
ladies rose and told of their desires, their
hopes, and their love ; after which a
goodly number, too timid to speak, rose,
and in this way expressed their desire
to become children of God, and asking
prayers in their behalf. Surely and
steadily this happy work is progressing.
A PATTERN MOVEMENT.—We find in
a report of the proceedings of the Synod
of Wabash, the. following :—" Rev. J.
W. Dulles delivered a straight-forward
and business-like address on the relation
of the Press to the work of the Church.
The Synod heartily endorsed the publi
cation, enterprise ; and, in addition, it
resolved to employ a colporteur who shall
distribute among our congregations. the'
works issued by our Publication Commit
tee. It is hoped, that within a few weeks
this colporteur will be engaged in his
work." We have often thought of col
portage as a very desirable agency for
the wide diffusion of the issues of our
Publication Committee, and we see not
why a measure like the above, should
not be co-extensive with our Church.
WHO ARE INVITED f—We clip the fol
lowing from the Presbyterian of last
week, for the purpose of inquiring, in
view of the lines which we have itali
cized, how far ib is really meant that
the invitation shall extend. In the fair
sense, it would be a new and promising
feature in the piritual interest of our
city :
" MINISTERIAL Mv.rrrNo.—A meeting of
the ministers of the Presbyterian Church in
the oi,ty of Philadelphia will be held in the
rooms of the Board of Education on Monday
next, 11th inst., at four o'clock. P. M. The
meeting is entirely for devotional purposes,
and it is intended to continue it from week to
week. All the ministers of "our churches are
affectionately invited to attend.'