,3MEritn Itio4ttriait THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1866 CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES. SECOND PAGE—FAMILY CIRCLE: The Song of Light—The Snow Storm—Three Blasts of the Eorti—" Very Well Off"—The Skeleton—The Only P?escription —Familiar Talks. Third Series, lI.—A. Fact: A Warning—Rank no Obstacle. TRIAD PAGE—EDITOR'S TABLE: MoCosh's "Examination af Mr. J. S. Mill's Philoso phr : .being a Defence of Fundamental Truth"—Cur tis ' Mystery of Iniquity Unveiled; or, Popery Unfolded and Refuted, and its Destination shown in the Light of Prophetic Scriptures, in Seven Dis coursrs"—" A Work of Faith"—Periodicals and Pamphlets—Literary Intelligence, American and Foreign. S [NTH PAGE — CORRESPONDENCE: Baptist Bible—Letter • rum East TESTI n ePs ec—A I one; or, The Special Providence of Impressions. SEVENTH PAGE—RoRAL ECONOMY: t Fartles", PiOnsr-A. Few Words about Ploughing-- Rural Ornaments—To Retain the Color of Flowers -Thinning Corn in the Hills—Hose to make an Old-fashioned 6hort-cake. SCIENTIFIC; New Use 0 1 COI- dented Air—Climbing Plants. L LANEOUS : Our Dealings with France. OUR PA PER AT THE GENERAL A BSEM BLY.—Rev. B. B. flutchkin will transact all business which brethren may have with the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN at the General Assembly. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. FOR COMMITTEE OF HOME MISSIONS. From AsseMbly's Church, Washing ton, - $125 00 FOR A. B. C. F. M. From Assembly's Church, Washing ton, -t $125 00 APPEAL FOX SEIDLER CLOTHING. Rev. B. Judkins, Jr., Clinton, Massa chusetts, - - - $5 00 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLIES. It will greatly , facilitate the delivery of letters to members of these bodies, if correspondents will direct them as fol lows, viz :—for the New School Assem bly, First Presbyterian Church, Lucas Place, St. Louis ; and for the Old School Assembly, Second Presbyterian Church, corner Fifth and Walnut Streets, St. LoUia. Such direction will secure the safe and spec o dy delivery of letters at the place designated. Will not families and friends obseiVe thIS Y EL A. N. AMERICAN CHRISTIAN COMMISSION. The friends 'of this organization will be pleased to know that, after much un avoidable delay, its, arrangements have been perfected and secretaries appointed who will enter at once upon its work. The attention of the Commission is to be given, first of all, to the collection of accurate information regarding the moral condition of cities and ;large towns, and, the various efforts made for their im provement. Misapprehensions as to the purposes and plans of this organiza tion, have led to objections in the minds of some, brit' it is confidently; believed that when these are understood they will secure the favor of all who love Christ. The American Christian Commission was organized in pursuance of the fol lowing?resolution, y which was unani mously adopted by a Convention held at Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 27th and 28th, 1865. This Convention was composed of 287 gentlemen from 19 States, the District of Columbia, and the °anodes, representing 22 Evangelical denomina tions. Resolved, That this Convention appoint a Commission consisting of seventy, with power to add to their number, to be called, "The American Christian Commission," which shall be charged with the work of awakening the attention of the Christian public to.the urgent need of evangelizing the multitudes of this generation, not yet reached by direct Christian labor, using for this purpose the press, public meetings, local organizations, and other suitable means. s, Its expenses are met by a private sub scription; it interferes with .no existing organization; it enters no field of Chris tian labor already occupied., Thsident. —George- H. Stuart, Philadel phia. Treasuren—John A. Stewart, 48 Wall Street, New York. Secretaries. —Joh n A. Cole, 26 Bible House, New York; F. G. Ensign, No. 9 South Fifth Street, St. Louis, Mo. Rev. Bishop E. S.' Janes, D.D., is Chairman of the Executive Committee. THE LAWLESS ELEMENTS OF THE NORTH.—The following sentence, cut from a New York letter in one of our daily papers last week, refers to a source of danger to our Christian institutions and to the morals of our people, which demands the constant vigilance of the friends of both. We cannot press our efforts for the evangelization of the Ger man element in society too vigorously. The sentence refers to the new Excise law of New York city :--" No trouble about enforcing the law, except among the Germans, on Sunday, is apprehend ed.?? COMPLEXION OF THE COMING 0. S. As- SEMnLY.—The Pittsburg Banner says: --" The names of the greater part of the delegates to' the General Assembly have been published, and give unmistakable evidence of a very large majority in favor of sustaining the action of the last four Assemblies respecting the Church, the Country, and the subject of Slavery, and also the proceedings of the last General s Assembly in relation to South ern ministers and churches. All idea of the . repeal or modification of any of these may as well be laid aside. The Chdelk has f again spoken through its Presbyteries, and that voice will be heeded. Outside of •the Border States, the Church is more fully agreed to-day in reference to this matter, than it ever was before with respect to any contro verted subject of ecclesiastical polity." This is good. We simply add to it, that a whisper is passing round that an effort may be made to refuse, for cause, to enroll Stuart Robinson as a member. That Assembly would not do an act more just or more decisive of its fidelity to its record. A Iloist.E IthssiorirArtv, sending his year's subscription, writes:—" I like your stand in favor of public morals, in favor of the Sabbath, and suppressing vile advertisements. When will what are called respectable . papers be fit to be , re calved into our dwellings ? I take pleasure in recommending the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN as I pass over our State in my missionary work. Yours frater nally." COMMISSIONERS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. The following very incomplete list comprises the primaries elected, so far as heard from to the present time :-- MINISTERS Presbytery of Champlain. Moses Thaeher. Wm. Wheeler. Presbytery of St. Lawrence. S. W. Pratt. W. A. Eldridge. Presbytery of Watertown. James A. Bell. J. J. Porter Presbyter* of lilies. James B. Fisher, W. S. Taylor, W. E. Knox D. J D. G. M. Giffert. p.reibytery- of Outmode**. J. F. Kendall. T. R. `Porter. Presbytery of Cayuga. S. M. Hopkins, D.D., W. J. Cornwell, Henry Fowler. A. W. Allen. Presbytery of Cortland. G. M. Smith. R.J. Dixon. Presbyter* of Steuben. W. A. Niles. C. C. Baldwin. Presbytery of Chentung. Isaac Clark. J. M. Reeder. Presbytery of Janes. A. M. Mann, D.D. Nelson Noble. Presbytery of Lyons. C. Cronl. Win. L. Page Presbytery of Ontario. Levi G. Marsh. Presbytery of Rochester. .1. B. Shaw, D.D., Ralph Thacher, C. P. Bush. Frederick Starr Presbytery of Genesee. Phineas Stanton Danial Russell Presbytery of Niagara'. L. I. Root. Matthew Gregory Presbytery of Genesee Valley. Isaac G. Ogden. A. Lockhart. Presbytery of Hnd , •on. R. R. Kellogg. W. S. Webb. Presbytery of Delaware. L. E. Richards. Elilah Churchill Presbytery of Brooklyn. E. A. Lambert. W. S. Karr, Third Presbytery of New York. A. E. Campbell, D.D., William. A. Booth, Edwin F. Hatfield, D.D., William H. Christie S. D. Burchard, D.D. Alexander Milne. Fostrth Presbytery of New York. Henry B. Smith, D.D., Geo. W. Lane, Geo. W. Wood, D.D. Marcus C. Riggs. Presbytery of Newark. _. Joel Parker, D.D., Asa H. Hoiden, Nelson Millard, James R. Sayre, Charles E. Knox. John C. Hines. Presbytery of Montrose. H. Pattengill, S. N. Thacher, 0. Crane. D. Ridgeway. Presbytery of Wilmington. Geo. F. Wisiiell. Samuel Barr. Third Presbytery of Philadelphia. Wm. E. Moore, WilinerWorthington B. B. Hotehkin. Joseph Allison. Fourth Presbytery of Philadelphia. T. J. Shepherd, D.D., J. Marshall Paul, James Boggs. Samuel. Thomas. Presbytery of Harrisburg. Thos. H. Robinson. Peter Wilson. Presbytery of the District of Columbia. J. N. Coombs. 0. Knight. Presbytery of Erie. Thos. T. Bradford. Jona. A. Marsh. Presbytery of Monroe. C. N. Mattoon, D.D. B. Shaw. Presbytery of Coldwater. Lorenzo Russell. J. A. Ranney, Presbytery of Saginaw. D. B. Campbell. Levi Walker, Presbytery of Cleveland. John Monteith, John. A. Foot, Wm. C. Turner. John A. Foot. Presbytery of Franklin. A. D. Lord H. Calhoun Preab. of Dayton. J. B. Little Presbytery of Cincinnati. Joseph Chester, F. V. Chamberlain, J. L. French. Andrew Flesher. Presbytery of Hamilton. J. P. E. Kumler. B. A. Hunt. Presbytery of Trumbull. Levi B. Wilson. Martin Allen Presbytery of Maumee. G. A. Adams. M. Bingham Presbytery of Pataskala. B. Buckingham. H. C. Ward. Presbytery of Sattem. T. A. Steele. Presbytery of Indianapolis. P. S. Cleland. Thomas Hamilton / Presbytery of Greeniastle. T. S Milligan. Ott. PresbytOry of Crawfordsville. E. C. Johnson. ' A. G. Wilion. Presbytery of Fort Wayne. George 0. Little. Rhodes. Presbytery of Wabash. D. C. Anderson, J. B. Gibson Presbytery of Madison. A. W. Freeman. E. G. Whitney' Presb. of Alton. C. H. Taylor, D.D. William Storer Samuel Wade. John Gibson. Presto. or Columbus. Ephraim G. Still, Presb. of lOW, City. G. D. A. Hebard. B. S. Holmes. B. B. Miner Presb. of Hansas. William H. Smith. C. E. Gaylord. Holston Preob. Waterbury. Ynion Presb.., J9B. EckoL Kingston Presto: • J. Griffes. Thoa. Brown. Preab. of Chemango. W. Newton J. L. Jones. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1866. RULING ELDERS Solon Massey. Among the officers of .i.e society elected for the ensuing ye,lr we need only name Prof. Hopkins, L.:. President ; Rev. H. N. Millard, Secretary ; Prof. J. H. Seelye, of Amherst College, as preach er at the next anniversary, and Rev. Abner De Witt, of Troy, as his alter nate. Silas Moore The graduating class numbered twelve, whose names and former residences are as follows :--Gnstavus R. Alden, Staten Island ; G. H. Chatterton, Washington, D. C.; T. Madison Dawson, Alloway& town, N. J.; Merritt Gaily, Rochester ; Willard P Gibson, Wellsboro', Pa. ; Al mon R. Hewitt, Junius; Joel S. Jewell, West Newark; Solomon H. Moon, Rock ford, Ill.; William N. Page, West Bloom field ; F. H. Seeley, Middlebury, 'Vt.; Edward Sonthwortb, Waterford, Pa.;l Charles H. Wheeler, Dement, 111. Already Mr. Alden has accepted an invitation to settle at Almond, N. Y.; Mr. Dawson, at Lewisburgh, Pa.; Mr. Gaily, at Marion, N. Y.; Mr. Hewitt, at Weedsport ; Mr. Jewell, at Preble ; Mr. Page, at Trumansbnrgh ; and all the rest but one, we believe, go West. It was a good class, and every way appeared well, and promises great usefulness. Gen. S. Milligan Seven of the number delivered their gra,- dusting orations on Thursday evening, in MEANS OF REVlVAL—Respecting the remarkable work of grace which, during the present year, has been going for ward in the Sixteenth Baptist Church in New York, the correspondent of the Examiner and Chronicle writes:— ,, You may ask how it is that our church is being blessed with such a remarkable outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In reply, I would say that the earnest workers of our church endeavor to answer their own prayers, by putting forth well-di rected efforts at the appropriate time for the accomplishment of those objects which they earnestly implore God to assist them in performing. For the past four months we have held prayer -meet ings from 6 to 7 A. M., and from 72 to 9 P. M. on each week day, and on Sab bath from 84 to 9 A. M., from 34 to 5 and from 62 to 74 P. M., except on com munion Sabbaths, when we have no afternoon prayer-meeting. Thus you see bow diligently the means of graee are improved. To our prayers and remarks in the meeting we add personal effort. If we notice any one looking serious, we try to find out the state of his heart. If we observe strangers in our meetings, we don't wait for a formal introduction, but we, grasp them cordially by the hand,. and: 'endeavor to make them feel that they are among their friends. We inquire if they love Jesus, and if we re ceive a negative reply, we then ask if we shall pray for the salvation of their souls, which latter question invariably elicits an affirmative response." WHERE IS HE ?—The report of the proceedings of the „Madisob;lnd., Pres bytery, in the Christian Herald, says : " After quite an animated diictissien, we resolved to employ a Presbyterial mis sionary (conditioned on the finding of him) among our vacant churches. Bro. H. Little, Committee on Home Missions, stated that everything was ready for putting the right man to work within a week. if he could only be found. It is evident that the right man is wanted in a great many places. Where is he ?" OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT. ANNIVERSARY AT AUBURN , The anniversary exercises of Auburn Theological Seminary occurred this week. The. examination of the several classes was commenced on Monday afternoon, and continued until Wednes day evening. larger number of ex aminers than usual were in attendance, and manifested a deep interest in the several recitations. Their report to the Board of Commissioners showed that they had faithfully attended to their duties ; and it was highly complimentary, both to the faculty, for the - manifest thoroughness of the instruction given, and to the students, for the unmistakable evidence they gave of having attended diligently and understandingly to the prescribed course of study., There can be no dotibt, but that the - iluiet atmos phere of the beautiful city of Auburn is favorable to such sacred pursuits. RHETORICAL SOCIETY ,Rev . James Douglass, of Pulaski, graduate of 1848, was expected to de liver the address before the Rhetorica Society; but was prevented from doing so by sickness. In his absence, Rev.) Dr. Van Vechten, of Schenectady, a man now seventy-seven years of age/ father-in-law of Prof. Huntington, was I:t j a invited to address the society, which did with great ability, to, the manife gratification of his hearers. His the was Christ as a Preacher. It w beautifully adapted to the occasion, ri ii in suggestion, and truly eloquent in, many of its finest passages. SERMON BEFORE THE ALUMNI. This was preached, according to ap pointment, by Rev. George P. Folsom, of Geneeeo, a good sermon, well deliver ed, and therefore both interesting and profitable to the hearers. After the sermon, a business meeting of the Society of the Alumni was held, at which proper notice was taken of the death of Homer B. Morgan, S. S. Goes, and D. A. Abbey, graduates of this institution, who have died within the past year. Mr. Morgan will be remembered as one of the ablest and best of tbf. younger missionaries of the Americo!. Board. THE CLASS THZ SPIAZING the Second Presbyterian Church, before a large and deeply interested audience. The speakers are selected by the votes of the class, Kid all acquitted themselves well. There was not one failure, and some of the addresses were particularly good. We give the themes and names of the speakers :—Practical Christianity, G. R. Alden; .Protestantism and Civil Lib erty, G. H. Chatterton ; Gregory VII. and Pious IX., A. R. Hewitt ; The Ideal of the Pastor, J. S. Jewell ; The Human Mind Needs a Master, S. H. Moon ; The Moral Power of Young Men, Wm. N. Page; Truth in Order to Goodness, F. H. Seeley. The farewell address to the class, with the giving of diplomas, was made byiProf. Hopkins, in which he paid a hsome tribute to the late Arthur Tappan, Esq., who once gave $15,000 to the Seminary, to found the Richards Professorship of Theology. This he dia at an early day, when the institn. viol) was in a low condition, and in gteat danger of failing altogether. His bfnefaction, so princely for the time, saved the seminary from extinction; and ncw= that it is strong and prosperous, it isi,glad to remember and acknowledge hip great liberality. The last year has been one of decided asperity to this institution. It has ded one professorship to its corps of I ztructors; has secured its, entire en -1 moment; appointed its professor, and I has already entered upon his work, d is doing it well. It has also expended $4OOO in repairs d improvements, which have added eatly both to, the comeliness and cow- It of the establishment. Of its own lids it gave over $2OOO to its bone& les. It turns none empty away. It 1-as five able instructors, and offers r• inducements to young , .men seeking mitt education for the ministry. We :.n that already there is promise of a : e class to enter its halls this autumn. seminary was founded in 1820. only survivor of its officers, as then n .tituted, is Rev. Dr. Wisner, of Ithaca, 0 was long 'tine of its trustees. MORE INGATHERINGS ast Sabbath was a day of great re ,g in several of our churches. At via forty-three were added to the m ii bership ; thirty-eight by profession, ad i five by letter. Such a scene had n been witnessed in the same place for mny years. Twenty-six of this number w re baptized, several of them heads of fii ilies. Many were in tears during the administration of this solemn ordi n ce. Others have indulged hope, and expected to come forward at a later similar scene was witnessed at —twenty-four received on profes of faith, and one by letter. An Imushal number, of these were promi ,.-- tient, leading men, ten heads of families, , iea d some well advanced in years. At Medina fifty-nine have recently en received to the church. ' At the , estminster Church in Buffalo ,twenty lone were added last Sabbath,• fifteen by profession, and six by letter. MORE REVIVALS And the revivals have not all ceased. One is now in progress in Westfield, where Rev. Dr. Chester, of Buffalo, is supplying the desk. Dr. Heacock was out last Sabbath to help him, and preach ed also on Monday evening. The work has but recently commenced, but is already' manifesting characteristics of great power and peculiar blessedness. ' We, learn also that in West Bloom field, under the faithful labor of Rev. P. Sanborne, Were is a manifest quick ening. Some are asking what they must do to be saved, and some are in • Iging hope. GENESEE. ROCHESTER, May 12. 1866. OM OUR ITALIAN CORRESPONDENT THE BARLETTA MASSACRE. G 7. 2 ,1 cu, April 20, 1866. ißarletta is a small town on the Adri ic side of the Pennisnla, not far from t ) e Gulf of Manfredonia. It has a pulation of nearly twenty thousand, itade up for the most part of agricul ral laborers, who are sunk in the rossest ignorance, and influenced by he most abject superstition. In such a lace and among such a people, the riests found it an easy task to stir np he fire of persecution. In any of the arge towns, especially in the north of talr, it would have been more difficult. t is not quite two years since the Gos el was first preached in Barletta. After visit made by the Rev. Mr. Meyer, of - ncona, an evangelist was sent, by ~ ame, Gaetano Giannini, who, though ' u neducated, was a most sincere Christian and full of missionary zeal, accom panied by a cclportenr, who set his Bible stand in the public square. He spoke to all, who passing by, stopped to examine or buy books hitherto unknown in that place. At their first meeting, there were only six persons. Soon after, as many as fifty made their appearance. The little room could hardly hold all who came. What brought this new movement into public notice more than anything else, was the remarkable conversion of a man, notorious for all kinds of vice. Happening one evening to pass by the place of Meeting, he went in to laugh land mock, but God touched his heart [land the lion became a lamb. In propor to the increasing attendance and the good that was most manifestly being done, the wrath of the priests Was raised. They did not even care to conceal their determined hatred against the Roan. On the 9th of March, Giannini writes : " The war now made by the priests is terrible, but glory to God, the reunion still increases. On Wednesday evening I received a letter, warning me that I stood in danger of assault if not death." The Russian Vice Concul, also writes to the same effect : " The reaction of March 19th, was entirely the work of the clerical party, for a considerable time premeditated and most carefully pre pared." The sub-prefect had also re ceived warning of what was intended, which he thought proper to disregard. The day chosen was the festa of Saint Joseph, when imposing ceremonies draw multitudes to the churches. Though the preaching against the " heretical Protestants" had been very violent for some time, it reached its climax on the 19th of March. The people were fairly carried away by it, and ofter so long training, were ready for anything. About three o'clock in the afternoon, all the immense crowd led on by some friars, with uplifted crosses in their hands, and cries and cursing in their mouths, hurried through the streets to the house where the Evan gelici met for worship and where the Evangelist himself logded. Before they, came up to - the door, Giannini was warned by two little boys, of his danger. The landlord, Catholic as he was, to his honor, be it said, did all in his power to protect him. As escape by the street was impossible, he conducted him to the terrace which. forms the roof of the house, and directing him how to go, then descended to protect his property and calm the people. Giannini with the the two boys, who were the sons of Pro testants, passed on from roof to roof, until he spied a half open door, where he boldly entered, and as the room to which it led was unoccupied, he con cealed himself and his companions under a bed; the noise below becoming greater and greater, attracted the inmates to the window, who passed, through the room where the fugitives were lying, but no discovery was made. Great was their fear, however, when they , saw a " Ca ; , nonico" among the restoebut he, too, passed by on the other side. After waiting until the evening, when the noise had ceased and the room was empty, they attempted to return, but the padrone saw them before they had got far away, recognized them, and, like the good Samaritan, dealt most kindly with them. " Don't be afraid," he said, " you are quite safe with me. I will protect , you." True to his promise, he sent word to the sub-prefect, who supplied them with an armed escort, to conduct them to a place or still greater safety. When the landlord of the house where Giannini lived, after seeing him to the terrace, returned to defend himself, he found his wife already wounded in the forehead, with a little baby, five months old, clinging to her neck. By a sort of miracle, he rescued her from the excited crowd, but the sight of blood made them more like wild beasts than men. Seizing on a well-known liberal, who was suspect ed of strong leanings to the new re ligion, they barbarously murdered him, throwing out his body from the window to be burned in the fire they had made of the broken furniture in the street. The house itself was complely sacked, and the poor Catholic who had so kindly aided Giannini to escape, lost his all. Not more than forty paces from this scene of violence was the station of the National Guard, who not only did nothing •to prevent such atrocities, but actuaily thrust back, at the point of the bayonet, a poor creature who, already wounded, was fleeing to them for pro tection from those who sought his life. When their captain ordered them to go forward and quell the riot, they coolly said, " If we go, we will do much worse than they have done." One can scarely believe in such barbarity ; yet, these are well authenticated facts. Disappointed at not finding Giannini, the crowd broke np into several parts, scattering themselves over the town. Very many of them went to the office of the sub-prefect, and demanded that' he should be given up. When this was refused, they wreaked their vengeance as best they could wounding even the sub prefect himself. For several hours vio lence, robbery, and murder were the order of the day. Whorever a Protes tant lived there the rabble rallied, burned the dwelling, and killed the inmate. The best of all the brethren, a man most remarkable for his piety, loved and looked up to by all the evagelici,-fell a victim to the rage of his enemies. Alter witnessing the destruction of his pro perty, they dragged him to the street, and, while some were pleading for his life and himself on his knees commend lug his soul to Jesus the only Saviour, he was stabbed in the breast When such deeds were done in open day what wonder that a universal panic should fall on the Protestants! As soon as darkness had come on, they all fled into the country, yet even there the priests found them out, and had it not been for a protecting Providence many of them would have been killed The deaths in all, at the time of the ' massacre, amounted to seven, but several of the wounded have since died. It is difficult, if not impossible, to get accu rate information on this point. Not until 8 o'clock in the evening was quiet ness and anything like order restored A company of soldiers had to be sent from a neighboring garrison. Seventy five persons were arrested daring the . night, among them were three priests and a friar, and the National Guards were disarmed. The Pi.ev. Mr. Meyer, who hastened to Barletta as soon as be heard of what had happened, gives the following inter esting account of what he found there : " I arrived on Friday the 23d; the town was full of military. Giannini had already left. His departure was re_ garded as a complete victory by the priests, and the general impression was that - the work of evangelization was abandoned forever. The day following I tried to rally a few of the brethren, but found it most difficult to do so; they were afraid to venture, out of their houses. Many of those who had fled had not yet returned. House to house visitation was all that could be done. Though frightened and discouraged they were still firm in the faith, rejoicing that they had bees counted worthy to suffer for the name of Jesus, their great gref being that without an evangelist they could not have a preached gospel. My arrival was soon made known in the town, and caused many an evil eye to rest upon me. I waited on the sub-pre fect in the afternoon, expressing my wish to> hold a meeting on Sunday, and ask ingi for protection, which was readily granted. But the real difficulty lay in finding a locale, the old one being burned to the ground. At last 'one of the brethren offered his cafe as the only suit able place, though by so doing, he expos ed himself and his house,to danger. It was the moat extraordinary meeting I ever attended—the cafe Wks crowded to the door, eighty persons inside, hundreds without;' the banco, or counter, was my pulpit ; for a back-ground, rows of bottles. Several carabinieri at the door ; the whole:) . of the police force that could be spared, within call, but concealed from view ; (their services were not re quired, for there was not the - slightest disturbance) the effect was marvellous. There was, not one dry eye in the whole assembly—they wept like children. God grant that much good may have been done." Sig. Ribetti, of Leghorn, a man of tried courage, has been sent to Barletta for some time, to keep up the hearts of our brethren, for this blow has fallen very heavily upon them Recent ac counts state that the town is in a •very depressed condition, as if some terrible plague has lust visited, it. Additional information will, no doubt, be elicited at the trial, which will soon come on. The public and the press are load in their condemnations, although some journals—as the Unita Cattolica— throws the blame partly on- the Italian government for permitting such heretics as Protestants to live in Italy, and chiefly on the Protestants themselves, for daring to disturb tLe peace, of the Catholic church, by their evangelical labors. It appears that a general conspiracy against Protestants in Italy, has really been formed—of which the Barletta massacre was the beginning; but the authorities in every town have taken proper pre cautions, so that little danger is now apprehended. I have filled up this letter with these details--to the exclusion of every other topic—leaving your readers to draw their own conclusions—which are, I think, sufficiently plain. As the weeks roll on, the year becomes more and more pregnant with apparently great events. How will it end 1 405,5 at mu Outtrjuo, CITY CJINUALCHES. THE FORTY-FOURTH ANNIYEREIA_RY of the Sabbath-school or German Street Charch, (Rev. G. Van Alien, pastor,) was held last Sabbath afternoon, and was a season long to be remembered by the friends of the school. The report of the school was highly encouraging, showing rapid growth and great activity; during tbe year, there having been sufficient raised to pay the expenses of the school, make considera ble additions to their library, take three shares in the Soldier& Orphans' Home stead, etc. But the most cheering state ment of all, was regarding the religious interest manifested--quite a number of the scholars having united with the church, others intending to do so, while throughout there is a great deal of feel ing displayed. The floral offerings of the classes were indeed beautiful, and filled the church with their fragrance, while their offerings in money were un usually large, some of them amounting to over fifty dollars. After the report and presentation of offerings, the Rev. J. H. Suydam, of the Reformed Dutch Church, and the Rev. Lewis Hornberger, of the Baptist Church, made addresses, which delighted the children, and gave an equal amount of pleasure to the adults. The exercises were of course made up partly of singing by the children, and at the close of the service every one ap peared to feel that God had been present to bless our anniversary day, as well as during the year which had passed. BEIVIVA7.B. SPRINGFIELD, ILLS.— Since Mr. Ham mond's departure from Springfield, the work is still progressing. The hall is densely filled every night. The morn ing prayer -meeting is also filled. Open air meetings have been instituted. The Rev. Mr. Wines, of the First Presby terian Church, held an open-air meeting on Sabbath, which was attended by fully 3500 persons. On the coming Tuesday another was to be called, to be addressed by three converts from Peoria, all of them prominent men—one an ex- Senator of the State, another a State Representative, and the third a medical doctor. Many - are gathered into the open-air meetings who before could not
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