f nm'irau UmlnjtEnatt.
THURSDAY, MARCH'22, 1866.
CONTENTS OF INSTJJE PAGES.
Second Page—Family Circle:
Spring at Petersburg. 1866 —The Child of the Ham
let—The Two Dogs—Starved to death—“ What we
shall be”—A. Gift to Jesus—A Little at a Time—The
End of a Quarrel.
Third Page—Editor's Table:
Guthrie’s " Parables of our Lord read in the Light
of the Present Day”—A. L. 0. E.’g ‘‘Bescued Irom
Egypt” —“ Views of Prophecy concerning the Jews,
the Second Advent, and the Millenium”—Stevens’s
•‘Women of Methodism: its three Foundresses.
Snsana Wesley, the Countess of Huntington,
and Barbara Heck "—Morgan’s “ Converted Col
lier, or the Life of Bichard Weaver” —Shear
down’s ” Half a Century’B Labors in the Gospel
Publication Committee’s Tracts: “Fun,
this Young Man;” ” Doing and Knowing I" B
Triennial Catalogue of Union Theological semi
nary”—Periodicals and Pamphlets.
Sixth Page—Correspondence :
Letter from Rev. H. H. Jessun —Is it Men or Money ?
-These all died in Faith r Mr. Warner s Letters on
Reconstruction, VI —Distinctions in the UospeJs.
Seventh Page—Rural Economy :
American Economy—its Future.
Scientific: Cbolera-The Trichina Disease.
Rev. Justus Doolittle and wife aod
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Williams expect to
sail for China in the Samuel Russell,
about April Ist. Their .destiny is Tient
sin, via Hong Kong Mr. Doolittle’s
address at present is “Rooms of the
American Board, Bible House, Astor
Place, New York.”
Dr. Lee, the well-known Ritualist in
the Kirk of Scotland, has . carried an
overture in the Presbytery of Edinburgh,
in favor of abolishing the action of the
last General Assembly, against forms of
prayer and innovations.
Mb. Stewart, of Nevada, writes a
Washington correspondent, startled the
Senate March 16th, by the introduction
of a resolution demanding universal suf
frage in return for universal amnesty.
Mr. Sumner rose and welcomed the new
convert with open arms. The well
known relations of the Nevada Senator
to the President give especial signifi
cance to his proposition, and it is looked
upon as a good omen among those most
solicitous for the restoration of the
Union.
The American Chapel in Paris.—
The American and Foreign Christian
Union has made a felicitous selection,
io calling Rev. Az&riah Eldridge, D.D.,
to the charge of its chapel in Paris, the
post vacated the return of Dr. Sun
derland to this country. Dr. Eldridge
was,* until recently, the pastor of the
Fort Street Church in Detroit, an im
portant position, which he was forced
to relinquish by the wear upon his sys
tem of arduous labor. Rest has meas
urably restored his health, and he car
ries vigor, as well as general fitness,
into his new field.
Wooden Wedding. —The people of
Calvary Cbnrch, Rochester, N. Y., re
cently celebrated the fifth anniversary of
their pastor by a wooden wedding, bring
ing in any number of presents of corres
ponding material. It strikes ns that it
lacks but about one more of thiß class of
commemorations—say pipe-clay wed
ding after thirty, months of married life
—to run this whole second nuptials into
the ground. In the case of this Roches
ter pastor, however, the folly had the re
deeming inconsistency of a good round
lot of presents which were as unlike
wood as the contents of a weil-Btored
wardrobe end grocery closet generally
are, throwing in also a pleasant congre
gational reunion as part of the invoice.
* A Combination of Celebrities.—
We see it stated that an evengelistic
work is going forward in Newark, N.
J., under the associated labors of Elder
Knapp, the veteran revivalist; Boston
Corbitt, the soldier, who, in Pnritan
sincerity, sent up a prayer for the soul
of the assassin Booth, at tbe moment
he drew the fatal trigger npon him; and
Orville Gardner, the reformed pugilist.
Tbe profession of conversion by the
latter was, at the time, regarded with
some jealousy, but a number of years
have since transpired, and we have not
heard anything to tbe detriment of his
general Christian walk. Their work in
Newark seems to be blessed, the power
of the gospel reaching the hearts of
many who have hitherto been regarded as
beyond the reach of any such influence.
The Almshouse Mission.— The an
niversary meeting of the “ Female Do
mestic Missionary Society for the Sop
port of the Gospel in the Philadelphia
Almshouse” was held on Tuespay even
ing, the 13th inst., at the West Spruce
Street Presbyterian Church. Rev. Dr.
Breed presided and conducted the devo
tional services., Mr. Benson read the
Forty-eighth Annual Report, which
showed that the labors of the Society
had been highly successful during the
past year. The reading of the report
was followed with statements by the
Rev. Charles Brown, who, as a frequent
visitor at the Almshouse, bore testimony
to the faithful labors of the missionary,
the Rev. F. C. Pearson, and to the
affectionate regard had for him by the
inmates of the institution, which now
contains about 3600 bouls. Appropriate
addresses were also made by the Rev.
Messrs. Caldwell, Beadle and Patterson,
in which the missionary was compli
mented for the patient fidelity that mark
ed the performance of his self-denying
and onerous duties, and the Society was
urged to mike a more liberal provision
for his support. The officers are:
Directress—Mrs. Wm. Purves, 267 S. 9th St.
Secretary —Miss S. M. Lisle, 1618 Spruce St,
Treasurer— Miss Sarah Boytan, 908 Spruce
St. Assisted by seventeen other managers.
A TRIALOGUE,
Mr. Eulogy. —Dr. L., this is Rev.
Mr. Pocus.
Dr. Longkey. —“ Mr. Poke us”.
do yon do ? lam very glad to see you;
take that seat. We have felt a great
interest in the building of new churches
for our denomination, and we wish to
do all we can to make this successful.
We have also a deep interest in the
Fund for Church Erection—“ a sacred
fund”—“not a cent of which can be
given away, either interest or princi
pal.” We thought we would like to
ask yon what you think of it, and how
it works where you have been.
Rev. P. —l am but a humble mission
ary of Christ. Perhaps my opinion on
snch a high and pecuniary matter will
be of little acconnt. There are wise
men from the East (magoi) to manage
these matters, aDd it would seem alto
gether presumptuous in me to put in an
opinion. Christ sent me to preach the
Gospel, and not to baptize myself in
pecuniary matters
. Dr. L.—We are glad to see your
modesty, my young friend; it angurs
well for you.
Rev. P. —Yes, sir. I have always
augered my way through the world.
Dr. L. —What is your observation as
to the working of the plan for disbursing
the money of the Fund of $lOO,OOO and
interest, money that was secured from the
churches for church building purposes ?
Do you not know it to be a great labor
saving arrangement?
Rev. P —My great-grandmother iD
the line of paternal ancestry being the
grandmother of my father, Rev. H.
Pocus—
Dr. L. —Never mind about that; I
see you are bashful; we want you to
speak your mind. We “ are all honor
able men” and Christian men, and if
there is anything wrong about this mat
ter, we wish to have it righted. We
have no personal interests or ends. All
we want is justice done. We must
have patience with each other. What,
then, can you say, from your experience
and observation, about the working of
this plan ? Has it not been a great
blessing to the Churches ?
Rev. P. —l think it has been of some
benefit to the Churches, in the same way
that a wooden leg is a benefit to a man
that prefers it to a natural one. Bht
my opinion will not be worth much.
Dr. L.— Think not so. Every one
who, being on the missionary field, ap
proves the plan, helps amazingly, be
cause no missionary would be influenced
by personal motives in this direction.
Rev. P. —Bat when a missionary
writes favorably about the Fnnd—its
working—we must take into acconnt
that very likely he has never been
acquainted with any other plan, has not
made it a matter of much consideration,
and when he receives the money to
finish his church, be feels well and
writes well about it. And besides that,
a po.or hungry man-will sometimes gladly
eat so much of sour bread as to do him
harm. And so with these missionaries;
they find when required to look to their
bond, and when the payday comes, that
circumstances have made it impossible
to pay—a debt with interest is begun—
and the last end is worse than the first.
.And sometimes a man does not like to
s&y “ no,” when he has once Baid
“yes.” *
You appreciate that, Dr. L., I am
sure.
Dr. L. —But is it not true, that very
many of these missionaries, who have
seen the working of this plan, do highly
approve of it ?
Rev. P. —So far as my acquaintance
goes, I have never yet seen tbe man in
the missionary field, who has known the
facts connected with its workings, and
approved it. But I have beard them
all affirm tbat'it is a killing policy as
now instituted and conducted.
Dr. L. —And what in the world have
they against it ? If you will show
that this is anything more than ignor
ance, prejudice, and inexperience, we
will advocate a change—will we not,
Mr. E.?
Mr. E. —“ Let, them look to tbeir
bonds.” “It is (he plan, and as to its
fundamental principle cannot be changed
—no portion of this fund can be given
away as an absolute gift, either princi
pal or interest.”
Rev. P. —As to its practical working,
I should think that yonr and Mr. E.’s.
conversation about it, published in the
American Presbyterian, of February
22d,—shows that something is wrong, 3
for it there appears that though during
the year 1864-5, the feeble Churches,
by being pressed to their obligations,
paid into the fund nearly $lO,OOO, they
received from it a little inore than $3OOO
about one-third as much as they gave,
and then were $lOOO more in debt than
at the beginning of the year,—and
that now they are more than $23,000
in debt, past dne and paying interest,
besides all the rest of the indebted
ness to the Fund, —and that there
waß disbursed only about one-tenth as
much to the feeble Churches during the
year as was given away by the O. S.
Board to theirs. And, Mr. E., may I
here be allowed to inquire how much
was tbe salary of the treasurer, and the
expenses of the office for managing this
fund for the year 1864-5 ?
Mr. E. —“ Only $1,701 76.” (Minu-
tes, page 102 )
Rev. P. —So it seems, according to
report of Standing Committee of last
Assembly,. “ duriDg the past year, loans
and donations amounted to only $2426,
(page 50, Minutes), and yonr salary,
postage and office-rent amonnted to $ 1 707
76, and therefore only $7lB 24 more
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY. MARCH 22, 1866.
’—how
The revival in Buffalo has reached
the Bethel interest, and ha 9 resulted in
the formation of a Bethel church. Some
twenty-five or thirty persons, it is sup
posed, have been converted in this con
nection, and have thus associated them
selves together for mutual help and for
Christian work. The articles of faith
are few and simple, embracing only
those things . upon which evangelical
Christians can unite. A feeling of real
unity and love seems to pervade the or
ganization, while the revival interest is
also represented as spreading and'deep
ening among that class aiffimtecLmonk
particularly by the movementf' ‘
The strong, patriotic lecture, of Dr.
Heacock, of Buffalo, before the Young
Men’s Christian Union, is published en
tire this week in the Buffalo Advocate.
It is a live lecture, and as good-natured
as any thing needs to be. It goes with
great force for punishing Borne of the
leading traitors, for protecting the freed
men, for admitting Sonthern members
to Congress who are truly loyal. Who
can wish to admit any others? The
doctor has some good-natured, but keen
critcismß on,the position of Mr. .Reeqher.
He certainly seems to have the, a&rah
tage of the Brooklyn, lecturer on some
points. He also takes—or did take on
the first of March—quite a hopeful view
of the President’s course. He thinks
he will yet be found true to those who
elected him to office. We shall see.
He also is quite spicy on the local
press. He knows better than we how
much some editors in that city deserve
it, for he has seen their daily issues.
He has a right to feel deeply after hav
ing given a brother for the* defence of
our country. The lecture is overflo'wing
with good sense, true patriotism, ,and
real eloquence. ‘
THE FENIAN SCARE. j. ~v
We should have very mnch m<sre
pity for our Canadian neighbors in
their present perturbation, if it did
not so forcibly remind us of what we
saw on our own side of the border, only
a little more than' a year ago. Then we
were arming for defense in this city, in
Buffalo, in Oswego, in Ogdensburg, and
all along the frontier. And we had
reason for it, after what had been seen
at St. Albans, Yt., and after the infamous
decisions of Justice Coursol; but neither
they nor we could have supposed that
the tables could so soon be turned, or
that they would so soon reap precisely
that which they had sown.
In St. Lawrence County last year, we
found even clergymen armed with their
revolvers, and prepared day and night
to defend their own dwellings and fami
lies from anticipated assault. In Og
denßbnrg, for weeks, the place was kept'
in a state of fearful ferment, its peace
ful citizens enrolled for military service,
and acting as nightly patrol. Their
neighbors across the river seemed to en
joy their fright and trouble—wonder how
they feel now! Sooner than any anti
cipated, they are getting their reward for
their mock neutrality.
Inadvertently we did injustice week
before last to Rev. ‘A. R. Hewitt, senior
in Auburn Seminary, It is he, and not
Mr. Gibson, who is supplying the pulpit
at Weedeport. Mr. Hewitt was two
years in the Seminary before the war
broke out. When the Rebels fired on
Fort Sumter, the first shot fell in his
quiet room. He left Turretin, and took
to “ Hardee’s tactics.” After serving
three years as a soldier, and risking
health and life for his country, he was’
honorable discharged, and returned*.tbi
his preparation for the ministry..
He is preaching with great accept
ance to the church at Weedsport, end
with a great blessing on his labors. The.
revival is steadily progressing, and the
church are earnest andr united in *be
desire to retain Mr. Hewitt as their
pastor. ! * . ■
were given to aid feeble Churches than
was paid to take care of the Fund dur
ing (hat year. Or, in other words, con
siderable more than two-thirds as much
was paid out of the fund to take care of
it, as was disbursed to aid the feeble
Churches.
Dr. L. —But all this may be 'no fault
of the fund; the Churches might have
bad the money; the fault was in their
not applying for it. The Churches are
responsible.
Rev. P. —l would be far fro.pi ppppps
iDg there was any injustice practised by
those who manage the Fund, inor would
I complain of the salary of the Trea
surer—he should be paid for his labor.
But you remember the Latin verse:
“The mountain labors and brings forth
a mouse”—which reminds us of the fol
lowing words—“ Nothing has occurred
to shake in the least our confidence in the
wisdom of the plan.”
Dr. L.—O temporal—’Ocns Pokus!
you are beating about the bush—can
you give any good reason against the
plan ? Wherein does it fail ? What is
the cause of its failure ?
Rev. P. —These are pertinent ques
tions, and demand an honest answer. I
think something can be.said on this sub
ject. I have some communications which,
with your permission, I would read to
you, but I have not them with me at
present.' * '
Mr. E —Let us then meet %gain.
[Exeunt Mr. E. and Rev. P.]
March 8, 1866.
ODR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
BETHEL CHURCH OP BUFFALO.
DR. HEAOOCK’S LECTURE.
A CORRECTION.
PERSONAL.
Rp—ijkenry M. Morey, a licentiate,
/ *
has received and accepted a call to the
church in Pittsford. He is now preach
ing as associate to Dr. Lowrie, at Fort
Wayne, Ind., but is expected to enter
upon his pastoral duties in May next.
We hear Mr. Morey spoken of as a
young man of fine promise, and he is
called with great unanimity. The church
in Pittsford has but recently bnilt a fine
house of worship, has a large and inter
esting congregation, and all will hope
for them, both pastor and people, all pos
sible prosperity in their new relations.
, The pulpit in Pittsford was supplied
with great acceptance for seven weeks
by Rev. W. N. Page, of Auburn Semi
nary. On closing his services there the
people not only paid him the sum stipu
lated for his service, but made him a
present of bne hundred dollars; a fact
creditable alike to him and to them.
We learn also that the good people of
Phelps, wh'ere Mr." Page has preached
for a time, kindly remembered him by
the present of a fine watch, valued at
about one hundred dollars. This was
done principally, we believe, by the young
men of the congregation. Mr. Page’s
labors have been peculiarly blest among
them. Some sixty or eighty, we under
stand, are indulging hope.
Rev. Joel S. Jewell, a senior in Auburn
Seminary, and son of Rev. Joel Jewell,
of Wells, Pa., has received and accepted
a call from the Presbyterian church of
Preble.
Rev. Selah Merrill, of Massachusetts,
is to bje installed pastor of the Congre
gational church, of Le Roy, on the 21st
instant.
MURDER IN ROCHESTER.
Our city was startled one morning
about a week since by the astounding
fact, that* a horrible murder was com
mitted in one of our streets about seven
and a half o’clock the evening before.
A respectable hack driver was beaten to
death by a heavy “ cart stake” in his
own bam. Being absent longer than
usual in caring for his horses, his wife
went out to see what had become of him,
and found him prostrate, bleeding, speech
less, and dying. -His skull was broken,
his face horribly mangled, and the work
of death surely done. No clue has
yet been obtained of the murderer.
One man was arrested in Lockport,
brought here, and examined, bat estab
lished an alibi, and was discharged.
Officers are at work however, and “ mur
der will out.”
AN INCIDENT.
These revivals are bringing many facts
of peculiar interest "to . light—some, cer
tainly, which are top good to be lost.
We have in mind a gentleman who
was an officer of some distinction in oar
army. He and his young wife, both
apparently gay and thoughtless, went
into one of oar small villages, where the
Lord is gloriously pouring out his Spirit,
for a brief visit among family friends.
They, as little knew what was in store
for them on the journey, as Saul did
when he started for Tarsns. Both hus
band and wife were soon converted.
The G 1, in relating his experience,
gave this, incident. While he was a
prisoner at Richmond, sick and almost
starved, he made a solemn vow, that if
the Lord would deliver him from that
horrible captivity, and bring him once
more to his' beloved home and friends, he
would live a Christian life, and try to
serce the Lord as faithfully as he had
tried to serve his country.
At the time of his capture, a color
sergeant was also taken by the Rebels.
Hastily folding his flag, he wound it
fafound his body, under his clothes, and
so went into the hands of the enemy.
Through all his long confinement, while
sick, and nearly starved, covered with filth
and vermin, his clothes rotting from his
body, that brave, heroic color-sergeant
still kept the dear old flag upon his per
son, undiscovered by the cruel foe.
But, at last, the day of deliverance
came. With other poor, emaciated vic
tims of that horrible barbarity, he was
exchanged. The moment he stepped
upon the deck of our own steamer, he
pulled out the starry banner, and, with
tears of joy, waved it over his head, as
the emblem of all that is dear and true.
So, in substance, said the G——l, I
have had a hope in Christ ever since that
awful day in Libby prison; but to my
shame be it said, I have kept it closely
concealed under the follies and fashions
of a worldly life; fearing to let men
know that T had thus given myself to
the Saviour; but now, like that brave
soldier, I want to bring out my colors
and fling them to the breeze, that all
the world may see that henceforth I
fight for Ring Emmanuel, and may God
help me to fight right manfully. So he
and his young wife have commenced the
Christian life together.
another revival.
One of much power is in progress at
Spencerport, under the labors of Rev- D.
H. Blake, pastor of the Congregational
Church. Some thirty or forty are in
dulging hope. Genesee.
Rochester, March 17* 1866.
The New York Tribune, with its
frequent, extensive supplements, con
taining • elaborate and able (though not,
always sound) reviews of all the cur
jre.ntjjterature, agricultural and scienti
fic intelligence on a liberal scale, corres
pondence from every quarter of the
world, important speeches and public
documents, besides the regular daily
news, and editorials written from the
stand-point of equal rights to all, is the
most valuable secular paper that comes
into our office. We are this week largely
indebted to its columns for articles
under our “ Rnral Economy” and “ Sci
entific” departments.
our Washington letter.
; Washington, D. C., March 17, 1866.
There are those who think they can
see, in some of the events of the past
, week, a disposition, upon the part of the
President, to abandon the extraordinary
position he had assumed on the great
questions now before the country. Know
ing the character of the man as well as
I do, I am not of those who believe
that any such desirable result will be
reached while he holds in his hands the
reins of power and patronage. If An
drew Johnson’s public career has been
notable for any thing, it is a dogmatic
stubbornness, which is neither Bwayed
by reason nor judgment. He is an as
tute politician, however, and it may be
that, in the unfavorable response of the
people to his appeal for support, he reads
the certain failure of his present course,
if pursued to its legitimate conclusion.
But if he is forced to surrender “my
policy,” as he pettishly terms it, and
defer to the judgment and opinions of
the Union majority in Congress on the
great question of restoration, it will only
be because he finds that the overwhelm
ing masses of the American people are
against him. No public man knows
better than the President the value of
the immense power and influence lodged
in the hands of the Executive. He has
not yet taken the fatal step in commenc
ing to raise it against the party that
elected him, but he has, on several occa
sions, given out that he will do so at the
proper time. What he considers the
“proper time,” it is impossible to state.
It is enough to know that he even enter
tains the idea, and it is immaterial when
he sees proper to carry it into practice.
The Executive patronage of the Govern
ment is now estimated at one hundred
j millions of dollars. You can imagine
the fearfully demoralizing effect this
would have, scattered broadcast among
a party of hungry and unscrupulous
politicians, by a defeated and disappoint
ed partisan President. As soon as he
commences to use this patronage against
the people, for the self-evident purpose
of promoting his own ambitious ends, he
will not only solidify, but crystallize
public sentiment against himself, and
lay the groundwork for his own political
ruin and eternal infamy. ■
One of the grounds for the idea that
the President, to use a favorite phrase
with Western members, intends “ back
ing down,” is the series of resolutions
offered in the Senate on Friday by Sen
ator Stewart of Nevada. This gentle
man, although elected by a Radical Re
publican Legislature, has heretofore
acted with Doolittle, Dixon, Cowan, and
the other Senators, whose special claim
to public favor is that they are the Pre
sidents friends and authorized expo
nents. Senator Stewart is quite a young
man, of very ordinary abilities, vain,
foppish, and ambitious. He has been
working zealously to attain prominence
before the public, but' has, up to this
time, been a miserable failure. He es
poused the President’s “ policy” because
he thought it would be popular to do so,
and now, having discovered his mistake,
and still anxious to be a Sumner, or
even a Garrett Davis, he wheels into
line on the other side of the HousS. He
is the son-in-law of that eccentric rebel,
Henry S. Foote,, better known as “Hang
man Foote of Mississippi,” who obtained
his soubriquet by his famous declaration,
While a member of the United States
Senate, that “if he had John P. Hale
in Mississippi be would hang him ” The
ex-Unifed States Senator and recent
rebel is now in this city, and it is
shrewdly suspected that he had some
hand- in drawing the preamble and reso
lutions presented by the Senator from
Nevada. There is some color lent to
this idea from the fact that Mr. Stewart
seemed somewhat surprised at the effect
of his resolutions upon the Senators,
especially the more radical of them. He
was openly welcomed into the Radical
ranks by such leaders as Sumner, Wil
son, and Yates, while the President’s
“friends” and the Copperheads seemed
awe-struck at the new defection from
their numbers. Whatever may have
been the intention of Mr. Stewart,! his
resolutions will have a salutary effect
upon the Senate, and will give increased
strength to the friends of equality and
freedom. They simply ask for universal
suffrage in exchange for universal am
nesty. The President’s pardoning “po
licy” is fast giving us the latter, and, if
some such measure as that suggested
by Senator Stewart’s resolutions is not
adopted very speedily, we will have
given all we have to give, without get- '
ting anything in exchange. I do not
think, however, that the President had 1
anything to do with Mr. Stewarts 1
“flank movement," as it is termed. He -
has already declared himself against
what he calls “forcing negro suffrage on
the South.”
• The final passage of the Civil Rights
bill by both Houses, is another import
tant step in the progress of just and salu
tary legislation. This bill was originally
introduced in the Senate by Senator
Trumbull of Illinois, the author and able
defender of the Freed men’s Bureau Bill.
It was intended as an accompaniment
to that measure, or more properly as a
finpporter of it and helpmate for it. The
veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill,
while the Civil Rights Bill waß pending
in the House, uecessiated some amend-
ments which were made by the House
Judiciary Committee, and finally con
curred In by the Senate., As it now
stands, it practically secures for tjje
blacks throughout the United States,
equality before the law, and provides
amply for their protection in life and
property. There are some'doubts of its
receiving the approval of the Executive,
and not a few anticipate another veto.
If the President should veto this bill, so
eminently wise and just, the country will
then understand more fally his purpose
to defeat every measure looking towards
the protection of the Freedmen, and the
practical enforcement of the Emancipa
tion Proclamation. Thq condition of af
fairs at the South, the disgraceful and
heartless treatment of the negroes in
places where the power of the Freed
men’s Bureau is not felt, imperatively
demand the immediate passage of such
measure as this Civil Rights Bill. As
was to have been expected, the Copper
heads in both branches of Congress
voted solidly against it. That party
is still unwilling to abandon its prover
bial hostility to the negro, and its mem
bers lose no opportunity of showing that
they have lost none of their traditional
hatred of liberty. Should the bill be
vetoed by the President, I fear it could
not secure the necessary two-thirds vote
in the Senate to make it a law, notwith
standing the veto. Yon will see, there
fore, that the whole responsibility of its
failure, should it be defeated, will rest
upon the Executive.
The news of the Union victory in New
Hampshire has had an inspiriting effect
upon the majority in Congress, and a
correspondingly depressing effect upon
the President’s “ policy” and the Presi
dent’s friends. New Hampshire is what
is called a “ close Statethat is, the
parties there are more evenly balanced
than in some of the other States, and it
was thought that the Copperheads
through the assistance of the weak-kneed
Federal office holders would have been
able to make the Union candidate for
Governor, kick the beam. Senator Nye
of Nevada, who has just arrived, from
Connecticut, informs me that the chances
for carrying that State for the gallant
Hawley, and of course against “my
policy,” are very promising. Connecti
cut like New Hampshire is generally very
close. No wonder. The former gave
us an Isaac Toucey and the latter a
Franklin Pierce. J. M.
Jjtta af mtt
CITY ISTEIIISEKCE.
“ Old Pine Stbeet:” Fecit in Odd
Age. —This century old church, under
the faithful pastorate of Dr. Brainerd,
at least its wonted measure of
the Divine favor and steadily gathers in
the material of present, and the promise
of future prosperity. From the bosom
of its own families, who have inherited
memories of ancestral piety for genera
tions past, as well .as from the world,
comes its increase. Young men espe
cially find it a genial spiritual home,
and its communion seasons are delight*
foi reunions, which the ready eloquence,
the admirable tact, and the cordial man
ner of the pastor turn to the greatest
advantage in concentrating the affections
Of all around the dear old spiritual home
stead. The thronged congregations with
in are surrounded with the mute memo
rials of generations gone, who once
sat at the same table, but are now
gathered at the Marriage Supper of the
Lamb himself.
On last Sabbath, twenty-six united
with “ Old Pine Street Church,” twenty
two by profession and four by letter.
Half of these were men, several bring
ing their wives with them. Their ages
were from twelve or fourteen to sixty or
more. They are the results of a quiet
work under the ordinary means of grace.
May they prove the first fruits of a far
greater blessing.
Old Pine Street does not forget the
brave youth of her congregation who
caught the patriotic zeal of their pastor,
and who did their part to sustain our
Government in the field. A handsome
frame encloses the of each of
these heroes, and is suspended in the
vestibule. A marble tablet to be in
scribed with the names of the fallen is
in preparation, and will be inserted in a
conspicuous place in the wall. The
whole number enlisted under various
calls, is 116, of which only 19 died or
were slain in battle, not many more
probably than would have died in the
ordinary course of thiDgs. We cannot
but feel in this as in other similar
stances which have come under our
notice, that the prayers of God’s people
have been a real defence, a covering to
the head in the day of battle.
The Audience-boom of Kenderton
(Rising Sun) Church is almost complete.
The exterior of the building has also
been neatly coatedl Good congrega
tions are worshipping in the Lecture
room, under the acceptable preaching of
Rev. F. A. Hendricks.
Olivet. —On Sabbath, 11th inst, were
received thirteen members into Olivet
Presbyterian Church, eight of whom
were by profession of faith.
BEVIVALS.
Springfield, N. Y., March 6, 1866.
In onr meetings, during the week of
prayer, the Holy Spirit was with us, and
at the end of the week, several persons
arose for prayer. During the next week,
the Spirit was working with great 1 power
upon the hearts of the people. The con
versions have been mostly among the
children and youth of Christian families,
and of the Sabbath-school. Thirteen
Were added to the Church by profession
last Sabbath, and several are waiting to
Unite at the next communion. The
praise all belongs to God.
Niles, Michigan. — A revival in the
Church in this place, under the care of
Rev. T. Dwight Hunt, commenced with