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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
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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. " - • -
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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
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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