TH AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND GENESEE EVANGELIST. A Religious and Family Newspaper, IN TEE INTEREST OF THE Constitutional Presbyterian Chunk. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY,. AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE, 1334 Chestnut Street, (2d story.) Philadelphia. Ney. John ilea**. *liar anil Publisher. s,mtritan Irs,s4ttrian. THURSDAY, JULY b, 1866 ARE WE READY? The thronging portents of the year 1866, the gathering of great armaments to the battle, the utter failure of protracted efforts to stay the effusion of blood, and the proba bilities that a vast war-tempest, carrying in its bosom the seeds of wide political change, has already broken forth in the old world, remind us of the momentous and reasonable prophetic anticipations con.' netted with the present year, an4Are well suited to bring home to our hearts the question : How should we meet the Lord if his coming in the glory of his Father were indeed at hand ? Such a question is suitable at all times; but there are none who will refuse to admit its peculiar appro priateness now, when we are standing upon the threshold of great events, when the roll of history is about being unfolded, probably to a new and unprecedented chapter, and when the nations are standing breathless before the vast and slowly unfolding gates of the Divine decrees; when once more; as by an electric bolt, the word of prophecy and the word of history are to be riveted together, and the Scriptures of truth re ceive a world-wide and overwhelming cor- roboration. Should the Lord Jesus Christ now be about to introduce his own final triumphant dispensation in the world ; should the man of sin be overthrown and the unbelieving governments of the old world be crushed in the shook of war, while out of the ruins should rise in beauty and majesty and power, the long promised kingdom of God, swallowing up all other interests and over whelming all its foes, how would we redeive it ? What impression would that great final act of this dispensation make upon our minds ? Would it be, one of fear, amazement, consternation ? If you are yet, in your. sins; if pit are persisting in a long course of rejection of the authority and grace of the now pleading and waiting Saviour, well may you dread the near ap proach of his majestic second coming. Well may you seek to discredit the signs of this nearness. Well may you shrink in stinctively from the alarming thought. There are those, who, on that day, ivill be so abashed, overwhelmed, self-convicted, that it would be a relief to them if the rooks would fall upon them; and the hills Would hide them from the insufferable terrors of his reproving look. 0, see now that this be not Your hapless state! But do you merely feel safe,and recon ciled to his coming? Has this, world such a hold upon you, that the prospect of a final interruption, or sweeping revolution in everything relating to your business enter prises, your schemes for present enjoyment, your far-reaching scientific and literary projects, your political combinations, or even your' plans for the extension of Christ's kindom, and of having Christ himself in their stead, and in the midst, is an irksome and distasteful one, and ie entertained loy ally indeed, but only as bare duty? Then do we greatly need frequent reminders of the nearness of • this event which will so tho roughly and so conclusively test our spir itual characters. Learn, Christian, as you contemplate this grand possibility of the immediate present, to understand the true state of your own deceiving heart to ward the world. Learn the true strength of your attachment to the empty, transitory concerns of time: Learn how exaggerated are your estimates of those enterprises, which, however grand in the sight of men, are but the toys of children, when uncon nected with the 'kingdom of Christ, and when 'not carried on in complete subser viency to the Master's will. The true reception which Christ's follow ers should give the coming Redeemer, is a welcome of exalted and glorious joy. They should echo the song of the angels at the first Advent, as now, indeed, about to receive its full meaning : Glory. to God in the highest, on earth peace and good will toward men. They should' lift up their heads at the rumor of his coming, for their redemption draweth nigh. They should feel that thrill of high expectancy, which will vibrate through the whole creation, when the manifestation of the sons of God, the hour of the answer to its unutterable yearnings, is about to strike. When the mystic word is uttered throughout the gal leries of space, Behold he cometh ! their eager, joyful response should be, Amen Even so, come Lord Jesus ! " Blessed consummation of this weary and sorrowful, world," says Edward Irving, "I give it welcome; I hail its approach; I wait its coming more than they that watch for the morning. 0, my Lord, come away Has . . m .. t n itaso . 1 . 4' • - - ; • • New 'aeries, Vol. 111, No. 27. ten with' all' ',thy congregated ones:! MY soul desireth to seeithe , lling beauty, andill i e beautiful ones whom he shall bring along `with "'Come forth out of thy royal'; chambers, Prince of all the Kings of the earth," exclaims 'Milton; "Put on the robes of thy imperial majeity. - Take up, that unlimited sceptre which thy, Al mighty. Father hath bequeate tbee I For I now the voice of thy bride Walls thee, and all nature sighs to be renewed." -" Hasten, 0 my Saviour, the' time of thy return," says Baxter; " Send forth thine angels, and let that dreadful, jOyful trumpet sound. Delay not, lest the living give up their hopes. Delay not, lest earth should grow like hell and thy Church be crumbled to dust. Thy desolate bride saith, Come! The whole creation saith, Come I Even so, come, Lord Jesus !" Might our hearts but be charged with such high and blessed expectations, such spiritual, fervid, rapturous longings ! Might we but consider thus the coming of Christ the orown and consummation of all hope for ourselves, for the Church, and for a redeemed world ! Reader, let us whisper you a secret! Christ's second coming to the whole of mankind may not happen now; the year 1866 may, after all, 'have no historic, world-wide significance, but that second coming may be for you; and this year 1866 may *be the most. momentous of your lives, because the last. It is the last to that dear servant of God to whom his' Master came suddenly on Sabbath before last in this city. We may be sure that soul recognized the summons and hastened joyfully to meet his Lord. We are sure we do not misrepresent the sainted Ken nard by charging you in his name : Be ye also ready! THE 'GENUINE REBEL SPIRIT. Our recent notice of the secession move ment among the Old School Churches in Baltimore,, n which we plainly but firmly, bit with no intemperance of language, ex pressed our conviction that_ rebel' church organizations should not be 'tolerated any more than rebel State governments, has called out a most bitter response from a rebel church organ ,in Richmond. Satis faction with our article in that quarter, we did not expect; but we must confess, our surprise at the 'tone of injured inn'octrice. with which it is received and answered by those who, for four years, prayed and toiled' with all their might for the 'overthrow of the lawful Government of our Country, and who now have no stronger motive in keeping up, a separate church but to -conserve rebel sentiment and =to cherish the hope of future rebel soccess, To prevent them from carrying, out this 'plan of sanctifying treason by ,allyingl it with the Church, is denouncednirpersecu tion. Excuse us, gentlemen, but we think we have heard or read of this cry of perse cution from guilty men threatened with punishment, before. It has cone to our ears more than once from the false prophet of Utah, when, in the name of law and of decency, the suppression of his infamous establishment has been demanded by an indignant people. To deny to impenitent rebels, who fought until they could fight no longer, a single right enjoyed by loyal men; to preclude them from a single op portunity of inoculating coming generations with their traitorous pro-slavery sentiments, because, forsooth, they do it under the guise of religion, is=persecution I To hinder them from establishing and extend ing an institution which aims to sear the Southern conscience to all the horrors, of Andersonville, and Salisbury, and Fort Pillow, and Memphis, and the whole in famy of the pro-slavery rebellion,—this is persecution ! To allow defeated rebels to live nndistur'bed, to go to church and hear such ministers as they choose, and to wor ship as the bit of conscience they have left may dictate—but simply to forbid their banding together for the , purpose of per petuating and strengthening their rebel sentiments,--this is' persecution ! And the bare mention of it stirs all the virtu- Olit'S indignation of the Richmond organ, and brings out a whole tirade of choice• plantation phrases, It calls our proposal "impudence," "the most atrocious avowal of the right and duty of persecution ever met with in this country,l l -" barefacedi insulting audacity," "outbreak of intolerant bigotry," it s root is in a fanaticism, earthly, sensual, devil ish,' " "fiercer this i year than' last," eto. And no doubt this editor inwardly groans for that past age of subserviency t o t h e pro-slavery interest, which used to prevail in the .North, and which he desOribes, with slight , exaggeration to hs . . sure, in the fol lowing word*: "A few yearn ago, any minister of the PHILAIMPHIA, Tae DAY, JI - LY 5, 1866. Gospel in any, Church in %ILO*, daring I to utte r Buck a sentiinent arerperglisting it, would have been hurled ofit of his plafe with indignation." Here, reader, is a fair specimen of the friends of "my policy" in the' South. This Richmond editor is one of a. class, equally prepared with himself; to share the govertr ment of this country with loyal men.. Are you not grieved that he, and such as he, are debarred from representation <in the national councils, and are not privileged to assist in making laws bearing upon Civil Rights and liberty of speech? THE EXSCINDING ACTS.. , The Presbyterian of this city expresses surprise at the , exception taken by this paper and The Evangelist to the frequent and favorable mention of the Exscinding Acts, as precedents, in the debate in the other Assembly at St. Louis. We quote 'a portion of the remarks of The Presbyterian, italicising a few words : "The General Assembly of our Church has never asked for the approval of the Ex winding Acts by thoseseeking an entrance into the Church; but it has fixed' them on her records, and has made no sign that she re pents havingi passed them, and having stood by them. And we think it a matter which may justly excite surprise, that in a year when reunion is so much the subject of dis cussion, and when . large committees are to meet to consider'its practicability, one of the acts of our fathers, in a generation now almost departed, should be so rudelystigma tized as an "„unmitigated flagrancy; , and in "outlawed offence." We do not think it needful' that the question should be raised now whether this act was necessary, or wise, or just. We are willing that it should, go into history just as it stands, and be left 'for the Chili& in coming time to pass judgment on its character. But if our 'friends of the other branch really wish the-union now so much talked of, we must advise them that such severe denunciations of the 'act which separated us do not further that end." To these remarks of The Preskytericin, we MAY :- 1. It will .astonish many in .our body 'to see an intimation that the present union movement is• the aot of parties seekiiig an entrance into the [Old School]'Ohurclv i ." What right, derived, froni - ..the.protieedints in St. Louis,-has The Piesbyprian to, make such an insinuation 2. We,_did• not use the hyperbolical language attributed tua, by TA.e-, Freely terian. The paragrkph it, professes to quote from our' oolumns-never appeared there. Will our contemporary: Make this correction.:and'bn' more 'careful in the future ? $. We `want frankness' on this matter of union. If the other branch ItOld tile scit. ding Acts 'in honor and arete ‘ rmined to.stand. by them, we,feel„obliged. to them for saying.sa at this time. • ' 4.' The admonitory and paternal itOnetof the , last sentence; cannot but arousegfate ful emotions in the breists of those of. 'otti body *l4 really with tke 'Union." VA slight - anatter Of liberty of speech, more or less, on the subject of the Exscinding Acts; will of course, not be . viewed as bearing seriously, on the subject. The Presiwerian , no doubt is prepared to, estimate ; the num ber of our people who would desire union on such conditions. It would not, be; a long or a complicated problem to solve: 5. Plainly, The Presbyterian doeti not desire union. It is much too astute not to appreeiate the bearing of 'snoh . declarations and made in such *a tone. WHAT -IS THOUGHT IN MISSOURI. The foll Owing litter is from a Home Mis sionary in Missouri, enclosing his own and other subscriptions : , I will, send for three more papers as soon as I can get the Money. I intend to gite my marriage- fees- after this for papers, tracts, Barter's Call, &o. I wish your • good paper could. be, ineyery.family.. I cannot tell, you how much comfort, it gives me and many others alio, for we keep them going till they are worn out. You have 'our prayers in the good work to which our Master' has called you. Your brother in Christ. REV. LEONARD BAeoN, D.D., has been appointed 'Professor. of Theology in the Seminary at New Haven. This is, in our opinion, a judicious appointment.' Dr. Ba con is one of the ablest men, and soundest and clearest thinkers, in' Connecticut. His theology is far more closely, allied to the, old and accepted standards of England than that of some highly • popular` teachers, living and dead, in that section. We much mistake if New Haven theology, under his teachings, does not very closely approtimate what - is known "New School" doctrine our own bra'nch of the Church. We are tolerably. .certain , it `will not be another edition of Sartor Resartu s , i. e., Taylorism revamped. LAIGN ADDITION.-fifty persons Were added to the membership ofti'ke Presbyterian : Chnrch Recipe, wi s. , at the, comffiiinicn4..APason on the iaat Sikbbath.Pi 140- 431 , WATERTHE SUPPLY OF :Obß GREAT CITIES. ; Even in ancient times theattpilly of great cities with Water was' regarded as 'a matter of the greatest imilortance. The highest marks of 'engineering skill, and proofs of enterprise and liberality, appear in the, ar rangements made :for this important end. In some, instances,these water-works have quite outlasted - any historical memorials which may have I•edprd,p.d ,their origin and described- their oharacter. There' they stand, silent but overwhelming witnesses of a concern for the public welfare, and , of skill and rannificenie t which we, in a more enlightened age, ntay lsopy with profit. Jerusalere as the commercial, political and religions capital , of a nation which, at one time, obtained extraordinary,poWer and prosperity, must at times have held an im mense population. During the victorious reign of - David and the golden age of Solo omon, it is not unlikely that a' million of inhabitants thronged the walls. If we may trust Josephtts,more than this number perished in the siege under Titus. The daily ablutions prescribed by their'religion; and . required in the services of the temple, must, in part at least, have . made up fbr the absence of manufactures in the average daily demand for the water supply of each inhabitant. 'lf that demand had •equalled the present average supply for: the inhabi tants of London, (26 gallons,) the total av erage dernanct would have been, of course, twenty-six million gallons allay. This is just 'about the capacity of the Fairmount Water Works in our city;` and it is al, somewhat remarkable coincidence, that the celebrated pools of Bethlehem, otherwise . called Solo -Mon's Pools, have a capacity just about equal to that of the reservoirs on the: top of Fairmount. 'We copy the condensed account of these 'pools, 'constructed,- in part at least, for the supply of Jerusalem, • from "The Bible in the Workshop." These remarkable reservoirs, of which there are three axe partly hewn out of , the rock, Itd,:luirtlyjeenetwneted—of 'Masonry.' They are situated upon sloPing ground, one above the other, each ,on `it own level. They are of irregular shape and of , different,size, but each of 'Very considerable 'dimensions. The Measurements 'given' by •Dr. Robinson, who visited: them ;are as folloWs : „Lower pool : length, 582. feet ;. breadth; 148 to, 207 feet; depth, 50 feet, and 6 feet of water. Middle pool : length, 423, by 160 Co 256leet ; depth, 39 feet, with 14,feet of..water. Upper pool': length, 380 feet, by 229 to 236 feet ; depth, 25 feet, with: 15 feet of Water. Their united capacity is therefore about equal to that of ,the seven reservoirs attiChed to the Fair ' mount Water-Workijin Philadelphia. They are:six ,connected• that only.the surface water is allowed to flow.off from the upper to the ildwer hasin; thus allowing two opportunities, fertheimptutities to settle before being drawn, off for -`There are, indeed, con- . qluits leading from, each y basin .ta the, main aqueduct, so that,, in ;time' of scarcity, water ' from, either basin could - be procured. "Th,e: mlia4,,nientAff ciateriiis'finished with a slid* Permitting- the water to be drawn off occasionally. They. are all lined' with al ; thick layer of hard, whitish cement, and a flight of steps leads to di . bittern =of each. Not only dolliege cisterns remain,. as a monument of the enterprise and- skill' ex- - liibited by Jewish:builders at an- early age ; but the , aqueduct leading from them, into their city of Jerusalem, is still easilY traced in the greater part of its course, winding through a. very uneven country,. sometimes above and sometimes below ground, until it crosses the depression on the western side of the, city on -a series of arches, and is finally lost in the , ruins. Its length is estimated , at from thir teen to fifteen miles. These remains-are said to exhibit vin acquaintance with hydraulics, which we could not have expected among Hebrew engineers. The stones of which. the pipe is composed, are mortised together, with a fillet interposed, to prevent leakage, and united with a cement so.firm, that they will sooner break than separate. The whole is -covered with an arch or layer of flags, strength ened by the application of a peculiarly strong mortar, "being' endued with such absolute firmness .as if it had been designed for eter- Diti.' , The age of these works is unkown. No Aistinet nientionis made of themin the Scrip tures.' Tradition akribes theta, emphatical ly, to the time of Solomon , . and numbers them among the great works of that most powerful and enterprising sovereign. No other period has`been assigned to them. All agree that they are of great antiquity, and nothing conclusive is advanced to hinder our assent to , the tradition. In 1888, says Dr. Robinson, water. was flowing in the aqueduct as far as to some 'distaii3e north of Bethlehem, but did net reach Jerusalem. ' ° The upper and loWer pools of Gihon were constructed by Hezekiah; scarcely to make ,up for a deficient supply, for the population of Jerusalem w i n, at that time, doubtless, much smaller than in Solomon's time. Nor could the reservoirs at Beth lehem have given out, for a very recent travellert speaks of having seen 'them all fall: Most probably, Hezekieh's objeatr was to secure a water supply during invasions' and 'sieges. F'Or Milman must surely be Mistaken in tracing, , as he seems to doa to the poOls of Bethlehem, thir: teen .miles,diStant,the,supplies of. water report, j 3. " - • - * ary Su rveys in h i : ip." t 13iittsmari, Sinai anti;ki0n0:61216,.(1.857.):- ~History ewjeLl MO. • / Evangelist, 11,050= „ R.,.. „ . enabled'-Jeriklalem to maintain it, ittiottsailids of **orahippers, at' different endure lb poem' s, ao ng andobstinate siegeri2 l iniading army Could; without diffiCtilty, have cut off that, remote supply. The conduit from the npper pool of hon into the city, , cannot now be ,traced in all its course; but Dr. 'Robinson lighted upon- a reservoir in the. west of the city still going' by the name of " Itezekiab's Pool." Thus,,the Holy'City was not unprovi,ded for in this matter ot the first importance'to the general comfort, health and prosperity of a vast population: Aita part of the great and divinelyeupplied: wisdoni df Solomon was not inappropriately directed to this end. , Our wonder and interest are in- creased, when we remember that these greet ;works' antedate the earliest aquedimts of Rome, of which we have any Mention nearly seven hundred years, and are still older than the oldest Roman works of which any Xe- Mains can be , traced. The oldest remains of these works belong to the aqueduct called A 76 2 .0 Vetus, which brought water from the . Anio River, thirty miles southwest of the city. It was erected B. C. 273, seven hundred and forty years after SolomOn's day. The Tiber, indeed, a much larger stream than its tributary, the Anio, fiewed directly through the city of Rome; but, as the people of that city were without ma chinery to, give the water from that source the needed elevation, the river was of little or:no use to . the mass of the population. We say nothing here of its probable im purity. Hence, the Romans must seek a source naturally so elevated, as by the mere force of gravity, to diStribute the water supply to every point of the seven-hilled city. The Aqua lfiricia, a still greater work, nearly fifty miles in extent, drawing its supply from the same stream, but nearer its source, was built a century later. A considerable number of its arches are, still standing. Noless than ten other aqueducts, thirteen 'in all, are mentioned in the his tory Of the water sUppl,yefitome. Two of them, built under Claudius, A. D. 41-54, doubled the previous .water supply. One of these, called Anis Noma, was a marvel of architectural grandeur. For six miles' before reaching the city, it presented a continuous range , of lofty'arches, ,in some placei. 109 feet- in height. Three- other aqueducts, from' different points, were united in the vicinity Of 'the , cityilormiog three separate water-couises, one above the other, - anA - pouring their vast volume of Iva:, ter into a; single reservoir in the city: - The. Rumps ,not only.marlted ,the Anes of their. conquests. by splendid. Fowls, ,but they' bestowed.even upon remote cities in thefr Conquered rovinces, the advantages of a siniilart.abtindant and-stitady supplyiof water.. Nicoined,ii; Ephesus, Smyrna; Sy ra Lyons, and ether' - cities dare tioned in the list of places - thus favored: In some cases, remains. of these *inks are still standing. In Merida Spain , there re -main:lowly:piers belonging to two different aqueducts, .some ~ o f: them with. three, tiers, of arehes. The, aqueduct at .SegoVia, in, Spain,. is 'one of . the most perfect and mag nificent works; of art anywhere remaining. It is entirely of atone, and of great solidity, in places it is upwards of a hundred feet high, with two tiers of arches. Returning now to London and modern times, we see: this great city, with nearly three and a half million of inhabitants, em barrassed not onlyin the quantity, but in the quality, of her water supply. With five tim e s the - poptgation of Philadelflia, She has, in the river Thames, "the' great river" of England, a supply flowing over Teddington Weir, of, just about 'half the volume discharged over Fairmount dam from the'smallest of, our two great rivers —the Schuylkill. She would literally threaten to drink up that great river," were she not, in 'connection with fifty-six other towns upon its banks, fast rendering it utterly unfit to be diunk. The degree of impurity, in 1854, was represented in figures as 15.52 degrees. It ranged, in 1863—'65, from - twenty-two to sixteen de grees, there being an , improvement latter ly; arising, we suppoie, from a change in the sources of supply of some of the com panies. The impurity of the Schuylkill at Faiimonnt is put -at six degrees; and our OfirefUl Chief Engineer is every year re minding the authorities in his reports, of the rapid increase of the sources of impuri= ty tuthis river from the sewage of towns; and the filth of numerous factories of every kind, constantly multiplying on its bank's. .! 9.s`" the great river" of England is be. coining . ,hopelessly- foul, and as .artesian wells are totally inadequate to the wants of the city; it is idle to Aoki tusurface drainage, ortustreanis in: any of the dense ly-Porinlated regions around the city; as E ><iC BIC . Per aznium.in adrianee: 11%'" 4 " Pj " ' illtemirrier, $3 611. sena additional, after three months. .as—Ten or more papers , sent to one address. payable strictly in advance and in one remittance is=loo Per annu ByCaryiers,l3per annum - Pri advance. and Z sera' - Widiane. $2 501 s Home Xisielonaries, $2OO in advance. Pifty cents additional after three months. RenalAtniSen,by mail are at our risk. Port emits quarterly. in advance. Paid by =bean at the office of delivery. Au'ir 11, - --12 % °Ws per line for the fink andll) AB'S for the secennnsertion. One square (one month).s3 0 0 ;tiro 5 50 three " 3B 12 00 oito pear • 18 00 The followinx discount on long advertisements. in sertsd for three months and uPlYardk. alo weth — Chrer 20 lines, 10 per 'enlit` Off roves lines, 20 rer cent.; over 100 lines, 33% Per cent . . i .~'~.t£;„xT~j even this Severn River, in its lower course, is almost u bad as the Thames, the qttes thin "forces itself upon the authorities and property-owners .of the great metropolis how this 'vital necessity is to be met ? Is the growth of London to be arrested, and its population. , finally scattered ; and shall those melancholy anticipations of the essay ist, with his famous billy Zealander, musing: on the broken arehe§ of, London Bridge, already begin to cast the shadows of a cold reality upon the hearts of her surging and swelling millions ? We seem to have found the liinit of England's coal supply. About the time she has burned up all the coal she can come at, will her city populations have swallowed, or hopelessly corrupted, all the drinkable water within their reach? English engineers are answering the question very hopefully for London and other great cities on the island. Far away among the remote and desolate bills of Northern Wales, where the damp winds from the Atlantic impinge Upon the rocky walls, and first deliver their heaven-dis tilled treasures for the use of the inhabi tants of earth, 171 miles from the half famishing, half-poisoned millions of Lon don; wise and skilful men have fixed the probablesruture location of the pure sup plies which are to send health, comfort, and cleanliness through the streets of the metropolis. Here, the limpid streams which form part of the head waters of the Severn, are depended on to furnish two hundred million gallons per day, or fifty gallons to each of the present inhabitants, with the chance of increasing the supply as it may be needed. The total cost of these great works, with the long range of aqueducts, is put at XB,6oo,ooo—not an enormous sum when the vast nature and utility of the enterprise are considered. A gala day, indeed, would it prove for Lon don when such.a gift was put in her keep ing; an omen of better days and of true advance to the corrupt, festering masses of her poorer population. Two millions of dollars worth of soap alone would be saved, each year, by substituting the soft water of the hills for the hard water of the Thames Jliver, i in , washing the clothes of the Lon ioners. A. truly grand and comprehensive scheme is at the same time broached by these Eng lish engineers, which proposes to supply Liverpool, Leeds, 'and a score of Northern towns, from One and the same undertaking. Copying, doubtless, the very successful ex periment by which the pure waters of Loch ,Katrina are brought in profusion into Glas gow, these engineers propose to apply the liure,and tabundant .waters.of two lakes in Cumberland and Westmoreland to a similar knifes.' The mountainous ranges of these counties face seaward, and the regions showed in the years 1845—'53, the extraor•_ dieary'e'Verage of 140 inches, four times, the average in this Vicinity. Over the area drained by these lakes, there should, therefore, be an average daily drain age,Adlowing for , evaporation, of 550 mil lions of gallons. From this immense store, in positions elevated from 400 to 700 feet above tide, it would be a simple problem to furnish these low-lying towns with a daily supply of 131 million gallons in the aggregate. The cost of the combined works would be £12,000,000 sterling, the annual revenue being estimated to exceed interest and expenses of every kind. Thus, the English are not likely soon to drink up their water supply, whatever may be the fate of the coal. HOLIPOOR MISSION, INDIA. It will be gratifying to the many friends of Rev. Mr. Wilder, of the Kola poor Mission, to know tat he continues to be remembered with evidences of substantial sympathy in the prosecution of his self-denying labors for Christ in that distant land of moral darkness. There has been received, quite re cently, from The Tabor Sabbath-school, Buttonwood St. Church, (Rev. Dr. Shepherd's,) Sabbath-sch, 150 00 Clinton St. S. S., 50 00 • Mission School, 30 00 Western, Church S. S., 50 00 Mra. A. M. Fahnestock, 25 00 G. W- Fahnestock, Esq., 50 00 Rev. Mrs. Dr. Malin, 10 00 A Friend of the Kolapoor Mis- , Contributions may be sent, and will e dulY acknowledged, to No. 330 South Delaware avenue, No. 20 Bank street, or to the office of the AMERICAN Pals- BYT.ERLN, 1334 Chestnut street EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR GEORGE E. I-'ugli and lady, of Ohio, were confirm ed. at St, Xavier's Church, Catholic, hm bitLchtn'iiti recently. $75 00 100 00 $540 00 .T. S.O
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