TIE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN
AND
GENESEE EVANGELIST.
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THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1866
ENJOYING OUR CHILDREN
There are homes of poverty and hard
work where enjoyment every'kind 'Seems
barred oat by a, imd necessity. But they
are few in this ,00nntry, and even to them
comes the day of rest interposed by Divine
authority, amid , the grinding exactions and
cares of an Unfriendly .viorld. Even in
such homes, one day in the week there is
leisure for domeetic enjoyment. Even there,'
children may; be, what they should — be'
everwhere, a joy to the household;
But how many deny themselves, wilfully,
the sweet, pure pleasures ,designed to flow
in every house,from the fresh life of Child
hood ! How many consent to be so eaten up,
with worldly ,cares as to allow no leisure for'
any but the most hurried intercourse with
the younger members of the household
We miss, by the merest' oversight, some of
the choicest' entertainments along the pith'
of life. Many it parent considers his whOle
business with his children , done, if he pro:'
vides for their bodily wants, watches for
and reproves, with More or less stern
ness, their flail* lip down laws for their
government, sends them t,o_ school and per
haps goes sot .fare to hear theiriessons.
But while 'all ',this , is duty, we plead for
much more.: We Mk you to bring out the
power of your children , to Make your-home
bright and gladsome and yourself "happy.
Open your own 'natures 1C) the influence of
their characters. Do not getout.of symt
pathy with their joys, and sorrows, their,
childish thoughts and ways. , The time yOu
spend in listening- to their prattle, in enter
ing upon'the concerns which interest them,
and in hechtning and remdiiiing 'a Mem
ber of their freeniasonry, must Mt be count'
ed lost. • '
The danger with faithful Christian par
ents is, that they will, in a manner, harden
themselves, agaimit the faults : of their ohil-,
dren, and exhaust their spare time andeu
ergies in repressive efforts tnerely.
may make iv correct, but not a cheerful,
happy, household , , worthy of the name of
Christian, Even while 'maintaining- the
most strenuous: discipline, it is possible , to
avoid estranging' our' 'Children from us.
Even in their faults, we may detect ere :
manta of character, which needbut proper
training to be made subservient to high :
usefulness. Discipline must not .kill out
family affection, •or he, withotit faith in God'
and, hope of ituprevement.
If you have not Fl uoh hive as flews out to
you childrew at every opportunity r its makes
your presence 41tiong theme a signal for
childish gleeoul.fillsthe home where they
dwell with a lightilkethat of-poetry—that
never was oti Sea or land-,thezpray for it
every day. If yon once, had it, but have
lost it under, the grinding force, of covet
ousness and the .willing admission of the
world's cares; pray that yon may return to
your first loves Pray that your deadened
senses may be again... opened" to hear the
music in childhood's pure tones, to see the
grace in childhood's unaffected gestures, to
appreciate the freshness of childhood's
hopes, and to discern the dews of immor
tality that glisten on every leaf and flower
of life's young morning.
The hearts of the fathers must be, turned
to:the children as one' of the preliminaries
to the final restitution of things. We must
all have more . child-nature in us if we
would be fit for the kingdom of heaven.
We must` not live, or 'write, or preach, ever
above the heads of the young and out of
range i)f their sympathies. ...14ike the di-.
vine Master's, that life is• nearest to per
fection, which but rarely gets beyond the
range of childhood in; the circle of its ants
and teachings... And that domestic • liter
especially, which expects its chief entertain
ment apart from the young members of the
family, is too perverted to yield pare and
solid joys. Well has the greatest Ameri
can poet expressed the sentiment we would
inculcate :
Come to me, 0 ye children I
For I hear you at yoffr play,
And the questions that perplexed me
Have vanished quite away.
Ye open the eastern windows
That look toward the sun,
Where thoughts are singing swallows t
And the brooks of morning run.
In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine
In your thung,hts the brnoklets sow,
But iu mine is the - wind of autumn,
And the first fall of the snow.
All what would the world be tci,ps a
If tbe.children were no more? - -
We should dread the desert behind us
Woiee thatobe - dark before.
What the leavn are to the foreat o
With light and ait. for food,
Ere their sweet and. tender juices.
Have been hardened into wood—
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That to the world are children.;
Thronghthem it feels the glow
Of a,brigbter and sunnier 'climate
= Than:reaches the trunks below.
Came to me, o,ye, ' children !
And whisper in my ear
What the ,birds and.the wind are singing
, In your sunny atmosphere.
For what are all our contrivings,
And the wisdom of our books,
When compared with your caresses,
And the gladness of your looks? •
Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were swig or said;
For ye - are poems,
And all the rest are deade
FORMATION OF DR. LEE'S PARTY
IN THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
Although the Established •Chureh , of
Scotland, at. the recent meeting of the,
General Assembly, virtually endorsed' Dr.
Robert Lee, - the well-known of
Greyfriars' Church, he and' his friends
have organized a party for further agita
tion. The action of the Assembly in their
case, is thus reported in- the Weekly
121=1
In response to numerous .overtures, call
ing upon the Assembly for more 'stringent
action, Dr. Pirie, autlioi of an act passed
last year, with a view' tOrestrain Dr. Lee,
now
"Moved a resolution containing a more'
distinct declaration on the subject, enjoining
Upon Presbytei ies:the duty of maintaining
and enforcing.the* observance of the existing
laws and usages of the Church in the par
'cular congregations or kirks within their
I ounds in matters connected with their pub
ic worship—a right and duty which belong
to these courts, subject to the review of the
to
courts."
Dr. Lee made a long apeech,.and moved
tbe total repeal of the act. Others jolned
in the debate; .which, according to the
Review,
" Was of the most dreary character, refer
ring to old acts and the commentaries made
upon them by old, writers. The members
of the Assembly seemed to have become
thoroughly bewildered; for after"the debate
had lasted a . number :of hours, and. had ,ex
tended. into the :evening, Dr. Muir, amid
roars of laughter, said he, desired, to know at
What precise point of the diseussion'i,heY now
Were ; for he owned- to 'them' that. his mind
was perfectly obfuscated. At last, on: the,
suggestion .of ,several ;; members„Df. Pine,
who said he .presumed they must be, well
nigh si'dk of the' act of 1865 which dealt with
Dr., ;laid; befdre the House an amended
motioni , declaring_ in its preamble, that-the
Assembly, while adhering-, to .its , principle,,
recall t4e act; and Proceeding, like the
motion, to mark out the functiOna of
Presbyteineskin respect to innoVations.P
This am,ended resolution was adopted by
- Not,satisfied with the irnrounity, he
would, gain by such &proceeding, Dr'. Lee:
took step, l outside the Assepably,,which,
is thus. described
"Di.' Robert Lee; Prineipal Tullonty and.
Dr. :Norman Macle ‘ odi have ot last, taken. the,
!bola st,sp„of, meeting as kparty, .and of de-.
claiing to the world that they mean, t6acCoin:
modkte the - worship of the Establishe4
Church of Scotland to the 'altered circum
'stancesilot a,the times. This :announcement:
they did not make in the Qeneral. Assembly,
'but at a breakftist which was held in one of
the hotels- in Edinburgh the ' day after the
Assembly had risen for another twelve
month. The Scotsman, is the only paper
which gave a report of the proceedings next
day, it being the organ of the party. The
compady, we are told, numbered seventy ;
and among those present were the Rev. Dr.
Lee, who of course presided ; Principal Tut
loch, who occupied the next post,of honor,
the vice-chair • Rev. Drs. Norman Macleod
and A. K. H.'Boyd, of St. Andrews ; Rev.
Professor Milligan, of Aberdeen ; Rev.
Messrs. W, Smith,' North Leith; R. Wal
lace, Edinburgh ; and a number of other
clergymen and lawyerS.
r. 'Robert Lee, in opening the proceed
ings, after stating that the meeting had 'been
got up upon the spur of the moment, said :
We have had presented to the General As
sembly a demonstration from the laity of a
rather singular character—a doonment signed
by five hundred honorable and right honors,'
ble personages, which I rather think has not
produced much effect upon our opinions.
(Hear, hear.) This document has the sin
gular peculiarity of -being headed by a'noble
lady—the DuchessOf Sutherland. tamcon
fident it would not have been so if the true
state of matters had been explained to that
lady. D'r. Lee then broadly 4tated that the'
Church of Scotland must be adapted to
changing times, and , that unless this was done,
it would., go into, nonentity; and he further
said that this was the motive which led him
to adopt the changes he had introduced in
publio worship.
"Principal Tulloch was the next speaker:
Toleration was the subject which his- friend
Mr. Wallace, who appears to have had
the carrying out of the arrangements cod
nected with the breakfast, had asked him
to speak upon, and this was. a doctrine•
which he was afraid would not be found
in the Confession of Faith. People talked
about toleration, but there was no room
for it within the Church. This, how
ever: he gave the Issem bled party to un
derstand most be changed. There is a
strong feeling—l know it prevails in Eng
land ; I hive the, means of knowing it—there
is 'a strong feeling amongst many eminent
men, that if there. is notfree play for-the i tli .:
Dillies of Christian thought within our
National. Churches, ';these,, Churches must
bah, 'go. (Hear, hear, 'and ',applkuse.) It
is a great mistake to sutivige 'that. id some
respects the Church of Bugland -.any bet- ,
ter-than we are in this rebpect,olthengh
tua seem.that it is better. The private pow
ers ofrestram the ofl'►eial powers of r , Fb
in the Vaiglaud, are treinemiduk
fil thou gh:thiiire fib"ap parently 'cigar scope
'not, and there , *
there w We° ha" .
strong feeling that if this power of free
PHILADELPHIA ' ItaJr„ 14, 4 1 .4 11 66, 61
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.Christien thought—rooted, rem:ember,p, the
trdth - this' hmi anon I--111ke
urged—rooted:to the litinglitith f tlie luvetfi
GI-od in Christ—that if there 'is not sofro::
scope allowed for, these, otmSiate Churches
Must go. And-I' am one. of iliOs"e ; =4eantess
it without any shame—lthat wouldathe See
them go, than I' should, see the'impOlses , o'T
Christian 'thought xestrained. "• • • '
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No formal action was taken!The. fol
lowing is part of Dr. Lee's concluding
speed].
I " Let us not speak of leaving the Chnieh.
(Applause.) I will not allow to , gei - into
mind what Principal Tulloch •spokefolus a
possibility.. (LOndlapplaiise. ) We- ave had ,
the experiment tried often, enough
often—of curing the Chureh;hysepeding , -h•om
it. (Ilear," hear.) We renWt, view the Churhliiis
a greatinithintal which 'is riblf to
delivered up. into - the hands of any.. sect or
party. ~(Laughter and applausg,), , beg
also to say, that I do net: like • the idea of a
party. Ido not like'the•Yord in conneetiqn
with this movement - . W:e are not a' Party,
and won't be a.party.":
A DISAPPOTNTEUVEOPLE.
,We pass our Fourth of July, 1866,
amid many , and blessed 'proofs -of Divine
fairer, fificih - al3 we have *thy timeidevolit2'
ly and joyfully acknOwledged,'and are :Piet'
pared to'" do so again. The National life
•
and the policy or freedom are fixed and
glarious : facts in our history„. They hiy,e
been borg une , s,r,.and in. higher, stronger,
manlier, -form than : before, •amid- the great
Struggles of .our recent ; conflict. : , We be
lieve that if they were safe beforethe. - re
hellionthey are far safer now. God •his
.
shown His purpose to maintain thein.
cl&rly as the pouise of Providence can:
But the People - of this' countrybit
tirly disappointed at the shameful naisuSe
by-those in , authority, of the._ great adVau,
tages put _into their hands ! by . the jutter,
overthrow ;of the armies of
TheTperceiva a disposition to 'jeopardize
these results ; which:utterly arnazes,andtcon
fonnds theni;',l4-its . folly, , pervereity,Wriiiti
chery and Wickedness ' ' Ti C3.‘ had a right' to
•
expect that, lotig'agn; the crime *of treat
would have 'beep eXP 4 , l iated. capg.j . i „
4.7/
pUniShrne/A of 453 74 sc i
1 4 14 a , 41 0t,tp,,, 9 2 5: Pect
'ato the energies of the,Qcverrupput
have been eorfspicuoustfs glieplayed': : yin
bringing to. light the,.-real authors of the,
'erioriinous - - crimes'•which made even a pro:
slave y rebellion doubly " , infamous.
had a right to expect a continuartce,'
Itbronghout the'Son'th;"Of lipity, Of - tea
: f - anti4itY,
T 1' I ~. • . •
marked the first few weeks after the over
throw of its armies, and which -fq%).taßlt
:prompt .aclministration of. upkod ,would
have. penpetiated -uritilbthiabliourpoPteY
had a right to expect that the opPitssed
l loyal millions of the South, the 'hunted
,and proscribed Union men, kid Northern
settleri would be : Protected' from iniult;
from murderous violence, and from expul
,siOn, Whole power
• . • _
ment which once defied a European empire
_ .
in defence of a half-naturalized,- - ohscure
refugee. They had a rightto, expect that
that heroic martyr spirit_of Aoyalty l _ Which
lkindled the masses of. our countrymen', and
transformed four years of their lives•from a
scene of mere money-getting and petty am
bitions into an era of sublime self-sacrifice,
would have been religiously cherished
,by
the Government, and wroiinht= as the fine
gold of public sentiment, into the heartand
the history - of the nation- They bad
,a
right to- expapt, whatever Might be:the par
ticulars of a plan of resconstruction, that
the distinction between loyalty and rebel:
lion would be drawn so deep, and reeogpized
so broirillY, that no Man, the country over,
need be in doubt for a moment how they
were regarded; -that differences 'of color
,or social standing 'should not interfere for
a moment in deciding , between the: loyal
and the disloyal; that • a great
.National,
debt as sacred as that written ~in ten
places of figures; owed to a race which
fought our battles; piloted our refugees,
guided'our scouts, and fed, and nursed and
secreted our escaped; Starving prisoners,
should not be basely repudiated and: the
Nation plunged in irretrievable moral
bankruptcy. They had a right to expect ,
that the zeal and energy of the Execttkive
would be lavished not upon the most rapid
,arid effective means of bringing utterly,
unrepentant bloody rebels back to favor
and to power; but far rather upon the
soundest, truest; jnstest methods in the.
eyes of a loyal people, and in the judgment
of a just God, of securing the Nation for
coming time, from a recurrence of the. loss,
the bloodshed, the sickening anxieties: and
,the judgments of the pteptdip&frint,years.
Raving fought l audconiitiged treason on
.ever y side, itohad a right to ,exPeot.; on re,
turning.froth; its ,terrible, ?unprecedented
task, that 4 thoiali:JVlV' power sltoiild not
straightway undo half of their , jpit
pl ete d " E ck .
Amin liieri'feeling Of such iiisappeiov
sJ:siti:~,
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feat - OA, lilappoionsft isA-,legitiimte,,
unmistakable and!effe'ettial anabner.. :
THE ivatt'ititptitilot - (JO IGittit
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If we, needpd, proof of Ithe. fidelity. andi
N4gilanife of the - pnblie';''seiffranti . 'who
'regularly and - so'iselYie-electilio - hia
tion as' Chief i Efigineel?!Of tVe"Writer -) 'Dei
partineirof Ptandill:ol44'We Might Ala
`in,the warnings which, year ?iter year; he
has 'addressed to the , eity-liiithoiit'iesaniti
_
on
the.increasing
. impur4y of
,oar,chief
waterfiupply r and the rapidity .-with which
.our rapidly , groWing..pdpnlatiori has , t ,been ,
approailing ,:extrerne'liiniti•of the 'baps
city ofkithe.'existing' - arrarigerneatarvfor a
supply His His laitiat reporl:4iains us 'that.
theie limits : theoretically are passed, and ,
that, practically, we are:in a
,precarious'
situation, depending uPciiithe4OWer of the ;
pumping machinery to withstand, the s t rain., ]
of the;pcessive duty required of
upon exemption from such accidents as a
serious break in the dem o te. Our storage
capacity,is sufficient for but a, two , days'
supply. The volume of water,
gehaylkill is, not so itunrose as i to.permit of
an extiinsion t .,ot.', the' wasteful onethods of
driving the pumping machinbiy, noseprac
tiite&atEitirrnouni.:llenoita radicalrohange
bfotheEmode, as 'WellSX'a; great,and,Offna
nt- increase in thi' supply, must be p ro=
wiled for. . _
I -f O - a - no Th
4 would
th 4 n r k
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lovingly begirt by two , i gFcat , riv er of;
of
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owtrati!ely,pure„and§utt,'„cyatey,Aolling
or *left 11 A4e; #bot afilli 3 r7: , W.karAresi,RP.O.
never be agitated-byithe-questiotuot •*water
ri
supplY; Here.it , is,;iit.abiindan.tvi;me, ink 4.
eghe we hearthoughtlesslversonSrexuttchnl
iwltlit'haveiiiiiAt?
,iii ilp ; lit ib pup i'itifsliSnd!
!41:iiUk it? '''The' idea -OP 6hikeniiiesiii:Ay
frai two iiiith E ZO'gin i fi l as l 6.6 DdiaVaieiiiirt
1 I 1 ', 4 - • ...'"
Spbp.ylkilt i tore Wker suriplifotThilSdel
'4'.- seems tgiO ti mere gea44: *-
t 3 . 3 1 NV.... qtrAlLi
Iliesiing folly, ApA. , ambition, Ret a to*,say a
iseoriiingpfthe bounties of Proykdorpe.
I '.. teVloid:agopit'ordtifikbalidOned). 4 the Tit=
her, arid- hig*Aidfrie- IrliifiVAikitiYe tribu
Itiiry; thelnio r ) thndeni'lValiiiut givp? IT' up;
ithetiVaMeii Mi l d c doicir tYi r ite 4Wit'Ots l . or
• , ',., -,, - ,- , , 1 fitY...t ,1 1 VT , `, •
:Northern, - Wates , J ;Vbistßir tF 4es sbandoiTl,
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;the riverCVde has ta6eilthelitfle
v_. v.:. .t.: ; ..,.. . , -
491A.415t.rine , 4 ; j i cris,,p,q,s is , 1 esy,ii g tbe
ISeinek,,,Dubliti,,,jsleAylugi,t4t;Difffsy ll uud
',the Dodder, anibitanchester thecjiteriey...7,
Abd the),Chiellngineebiflourtwatersiorks
proposes to leave both the Schuylkill ands an
the Delaware': - Vehizidrafid 6 V; . giblibe the
supplik WltiOli*O `to l aid:jib& INViienv, 'PHs
: delpikla ieci air el; fix dog's 'her present de
) (T. , ).(.-- octi ,i.,1, re i' '' , r :"-,' . ' rr 0
n#3,4To fro'', p ,'itnitztritiXeli .'11,11L',41 071
a fK I F 4II4I ! "I, I4IP r . t !Y ni@e ' Rdtwka.7li)r;.-
1 .. At leas kp . ,,i!k i ticOnggclAtia;tgijp:Apya4onF,
! osrtrillimg I With ) • 4Ettelplialke4 .49,t5, Tin , thiS)
seriousimatiiir-ofia ivater stipplyfor , a great.
American city, in generations to come: He
is, in fact, corifoirinlit th — a - widely.gathered
experience; reaelliiiieig far back as 273
B. C., two thousand- one , ,, hundreA and
thirty-nine years ago, who the Romans for
sook the Tiber, flowing past thbir doors, and
betook themselves for a supply to its tribu
tary, the ik.nioa stream which
the same relation to the Tiber is,the Per
kroinen doe; to our % 'ivin . " - .'Schtiylkill: 'He
is but applying, with wise' fore Sight to Our
own proapeetive neoessitins, those valuable
lessons. which a din e, ofporiepoe,Aas just
now forced upon, the . engineers of •; ths.Old
World•
-..Take the case, of Glasgow; for:instance:
Here is ecity with -- a .broad, deeP,E.naviga.
ble stream freah'ivatei, fiowiiitlike. the
Thames ' and- the Schuylkill; 'Wien
ceatre: Tumping water'. works 'delivered
the waters, of
, the Clyde, for: mans yeiTs; .1 9
the inhabitaate. But tbe.supillsooll be
came inadequate ;,impurities accumulated;
freshets filled the water with clay and moss;'
-itt Was hard and unfit for washing; a mul
titude of plans was suggested .for relieving
the .difficulty, one of which wea carried into
effect, and the sOutheinlalf of cityigras
well, supplied from the head watere of e
small - stream five miles- dititatit. ` At' length
the pure; soft, and unfailingyaters ofioch
Katrine, thirty-five miles to the north,of
the city„were fixed upon by competent en
gineers as the proper, permanent source
.of
bupply. The works were commenced: in
the spring of 1856. To. give an ideacof
the extraordinary diffictilties surmounted
iri accomplishing the *ark, we quote'froin.
ihelangtiage of 111.r."-BateMan;-` the 1 0fit'et
Engitteer:* - "'
alt - ialaposaible to convey to hose, who
have✓not pprsmally inspaered it, `riti• ir
nfesei6i4lfr - thj wail arid beautiftiF - gribiii4
: • 7 ", •"` -
r. " Pipers meadtbeforitAheflnititation:of
Egeacer B4l2 ., , §9q49doling.49 Taag9 l s 4 fake,i
Works. ` P. 86'
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w ien:PAYE 3 P-vA ,ZimpAg 4 . 3 . - Ap. t, .ft,-
t .,.:, :,,. ''''').ic..,i"..l::;:;:.
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through which the aqueduct passes 6r-the
first .ten. or twel v e miles, a ft er, leaving Loo
fitrine: :coutitiy i eopeiets of suedes:
eiVe
,ridges. of the * Mst obdurate rock,
separated brddep wild `valleys, in which it
- w,as very: di fficult, in tfie first instaneeYtkr
"find- a Way. i There 'Were , no roads, no
houses, tdateriah;,-4-nothing
Which , Would'oidinarilybe consideraessen
*lto the= anooessful•toomigetion ut.a great
e#gibieering work for 4,1i0 ,conveyance of
Water. 'The rook, when quarried, , was unfit
for build inL purposes; . ` there,was n Atfme
Hof a suitable description to , lie= had 'at any
t reasonable cost:dr. i : distance; no far
'Wirt:h.; `no cla i i'foi pinfidleami rin'TiOadEC - 0
convey material." •
S,unli r an accumulation of
j'" girl 7
'ties tatAt have, le4,,tuthe utter abandon•
meatiPf.oo l36 belta„, interests I,Bll.l)Tess
ing tbab, the;-supply hundreda of thou
'sands of human beings•Writhavater badteen_.
cnnclned; or if ifirraind of-less capacityor
genius for engineering thanlllir. Bateman's
had Veen Charged-With the prottleml- - The
rea r n i lt Was,`thattheaqUediiii fietanneil
:for of an erinciat continuous The
m* proved extremely bard ai4'difficult to
work 'At several point!) :the progress :did
not exceed three lineal - yard 4 Li); ft mon h,
muach face otthe-npening, although. the
Work was carried on day and night.' The
average progrestiatiirtougb , thlsl-; midi slate
Was ibniit'fiVe yards a `>nonlli In drilling
the holes for blasting, a fresh drill .wtuire:'
, r 1
quirea tor every inch in depth -
if 'lt:Way; •• ‘)
In, M irah 3 lB~6o, the .water. was. gtl,4erallY
-4isCributed threfigh,thenity., MIAs, inAhe
face ofAloubts and distrust freely expressed}
and: of . Unparalleled difficulties, the .*.hole I
Wbrica; involving an tiny of upwaTde of
X9'00,000 ? and, extending over thirty-four
inrles 'coin:dry, Wernno i nipiefea in lei
than foar r , years It isa worn
4 1)I :k
bear comparison with the _moat exten
sive
.. t ‘ tque4icts in -the, world, lapt exeluding
those of :,aucient„l3,o,me:- Auefi j difficultiee
were, judged ' , necessary to ,be iikercome r .in
order to supply.keitly. lyingebn unavigable,
fresh-water stream =with water.
,the 'llialies
1 '14^1i.144.
*lid the .14 o
ea, wi De ake s4. n fo nn l- aeeale
works many ti ai e i l egeia3teat aTi101?
ea
ppense of these of qmwv,, ,W f t
a 414. 4 0: what ;Wu; haw lir** WritleA/Pn
‘thiht part of tthcbgaibjecit. , : Thet linto e uf ,
aqueduct frorrothec irepotcd'b r asitieor
slakes in Walivia lileulatetlits l One
,SeVenty-oneinilek hint and
"tlik ( Wdit 'whed 1;6 worksea`ie g cioiriPieteC
t,l d
a e ween en an unu lops
!
,0 F e
Fc leve n ` ; '
3101f,11
pounds sterling.
z.
~,Afichl i cri a tit works „ lliEgd
,ußer,,tAer t - thy
140% ' opt ~Ithighi rtf iOtv great -,,strounia!• of
iliatarally goad; Ntter, asistbuteli.teewatigly
idarroivi Einem ofoseupply ,tats , a distance
ibeing zetithinged- foe ireatetr ink% near alt
'hand, may well"*6Ve: ef salt itipearariehil
o,f ) !jiiolarity . 016'201135` al tif :Or chief eu- f
,glnear; abinAgldt, 11:Atinobuylknr and r
lbela4ire recourse to the
;trifling rivulet Perkiomen.
Three conditions ,ente;,?ip,owsarily into
' the ; question 9f. water supply for a, great
cityt—tibuntiance,
,purity, and.,cheapness..
Abandaaoe certainly we , haye l at our doors.
The_rivers. Relaware and S . ahuylkill= could
not only supply, but drench: and drown a
city equallibein population the combined
tirtals'Of all the great:cities of the world',
'44 .
for indefinite ages to come . So.too won ld
the, Clyde have sufficed, for cllasgow, orthe
Tiber for, "Aoine, or 'We Beipe fo; Paris, so
far as, the mere question,of quantity
earned. If, however, the, abundantaupply.
has become unfit ,for use, it-must be allowed,
to roll en past - our very doors nntonehed,.
while we 16A to remoter `resources for' the.
needed element. This is the face-in 'tlie
Oases named, and ie l ,tending to become so
;more and more , it,,,iveri 'are the natural
Setiere:of,4ll'Arcili`r seiAled' and sgrioul
tnral regions: * lnto their channels,as to
the lowesk-levela of the . ,regions, iyains.7nl
- Most everything that loan-take* fluid formj
The better the_ habits, of the -people, the,
'stricter the sanitary regulations of the river
towns;:ihe more foul= becomes'the condition,
of the Civilization and culture are'
linconipatible with 'the drinkable character
of river Water.
The process of corrupting the waters' or
the „river Schuylkill is ,steadily going for
ward with the increase of population and
manufactures on its banks, and of tillage or
the territory which it.dritins. It would he
interesting `to identify and coMbine;-in. one
view, the various sources 'of impurity,
Which disoharge their corrupting contents
into its channels, and make a sewer- of
that which is the veryfonntain of our life.
We sliould have to commence with the.sal
phereousAigchargea wldchi flow . from.., the
coa l, ek,,around headlwaters, t . n a
vas t a ndipoisonous 'Volume, destroying all
the aniinaldifor "within reach : This
statics a however; itasite claimed;
is liinVision' of
"L.: ii Ptl
' Per annum. in ssitanite:
B sail . y Per Carrier, *A 41 4.
POP cents additional, after three months.
Clube.—Ten or more papers, sent to one addrese.
payable strictly in advance and in one remittance
.111hiail.$12 so per annum. By Carriers. $3 per apriallt, •
Istems asad Mist stems' Widely/. $2 /um
advance.
Home ltlissienaries,lmoo in advance. ,
Fifti cents additional after three months. . -
itemitegingeteby mail are at our nth.
restage.—.Eve cents gierterlY, in sdraisoe. tend
by subscribers at the olictioideliverg.
Advertiseentesete mints per line ter that
Sat. and 10 cents fer thEndiusertlon.
OrkEsquare (oneltion ' • $3 Mt
two mon 55!
three " 790
six "- i .. w .:.................. 1,2 09
Olio yearE: r . • " 1 60
The following discount .on loneadvArtOam_„°lll4il
sorted for three Menthe and uPwaVa _,A
Over 20' lines. 10 per cent olf;.ovi* - per
cent.: over 100 lines, 33% per cent.
nature. '''Xust •'about seven miles above
Reading the bed of the river is crossed by an
"
stratuni of limestone, which sup
plies basefor .the action of the free sul
phuric acid in the river, the resulting
combination being the innocuous and easily
deposited ~ s ulphate of lime. Below the
stratum of litnestone, all traces of the acid
have disappeared. We presume bounteous
'nature can be relied on for as mush of
this chemical elaboration as may ever be
,required.
But there hi no provision to neutralize
the fast increasing sewage from large
towns lik.e. Reading, Norristown, Pottsville,
Pottstown, Phamixville, Hamburg, and
'others; ' - or from manufactories of every
kind, including not only. every sort of iron
works; btit'dye-worki,''chemical works, gas
'works, print works, paper mills, cotton and
woolen factories, etc., etc , some of them
discharging the moss noxious ind'uffensive
fliattersinto the
.waters. And not only the
Jnaiu,stream, but every available tributary,
us Wissahickon and Mill Creek, are thronged
with these sources of impuritjr.* Not
only the waste liquids, bat all refuse mat-
Iter from these establishments are either
Ilirown . directly luta the river, or so placed
1-
`as to be'earried "off at the first rise of the
water, Many , factories are locited on the
river-bank expressly for the opportunity it
affords of, getting rid of their refuse mat
ter.
aye diffieul
And one of the guiltiest parties to the
work of wilfully :corrupting the stream, is
the city itself which, drinke it. Several
common sewers in.Manayunk. open directly
into the river, and the- gas 'works in that
district, belonging to the city, is also per
mitted to give the
s same direction to its
refuse. Even .coal-od refineries are toler
ated as close to. Fairmount as the foot of
Girard and Coluffp.' bin,avenues.
Abandoning the Schuylkill as hopeless,
and turning,'to ,tbe
,Delaware, we find a
stream much more difficult to corrupt from
its gr, eatsize. Itswatersdo, indeed, already
supply a , portir of the •pity, and are at
preient drinkable, and wholesome. If we
ailancliiti fi theSehuylitill; Whir not turn to
the tiord Delaware? So`fai isthe existing
'O. vli ) ,
qnanti , ,ty and qu a lity ~
, A ii i rbt. ( And ,perhat,:e such a possibility as
tliemormptioa of this .waters of that great
StretlFD, at any futurntime,is not to be re
garded as of the slightestpraotical moment.
Bdtlisereentere the. question 'of 'expense.
The'-wateis i are tern :in' abutidanotr . , indeed,
lilitAteyrCusl- be distributed; i n.tl in order
tote 'distatibrited they Mint' be elevated,
c 4
~,t ,
an to'be 'ele6ed thhy mind be , pumped.
Thnespense of pnnifting,eo . " many million.
gallons of water n, day t o o such, a, height, in...
ofivijnglintereaton the, cost of ,thnkrorka,
is , ..lnisimple) problempand ;has often been
calculated. The Chief Engineer in his..
PrelintifiarpStn4eyt , telletts that to supply
'ne c irenqckve'lilillion`gallons per day, (more
thiin:aaik le' the , present amount') by pump
iiig, wola 'ctoE i i,:`over a 'million Of 'dollars a
il
Yefii- eqher considerations being the same,
this, question Of,expense would decide for
or ,iigalpBt pumping. -It might appear ad
vantageous, in a pecuniary point of view,
to leave the - pure' and great stream at oar
doors, and to go many miles away, as did
Rome-and Glasgow, to the smaller source.
GRAVITATION is the cheap substitute for
pumping.. Give us an elevated and abut,-
dant 'source of water, at a reasonable dia.
tance, that will distribute itself, without
.. ~
expense t when once brought into connee
tion withiour dwellings and places of bind
nesti,and-it actually becomes a matter of
economy to go abroad for what seems so
abundant right at our doors. The longest
way round is, in this ease, the nearest way
home. In quirt, the Delaware River.
viewed as nwitter'supply, is an elephantine
gift, which ,we cannot' control or utilise.
The - Chief' Engineer shoal us how, by
leavingzit . ' and' the 'Schuylkill thirty-five
miles - *the ' rear, he can supply us with
seveniy.five inillion gallons of pure water
per day, ata saving of $218,000 per annum,
as compared with pumping.. This' plan we
shall explain,in onr next. ..
Preliihinari Survey, p. 11.
t .c "p. 26.
CORRECTION CORRECTED.
We hastily charged our cotemporary,
The, Presbyterian, with, the grave error of
crediting• to us a , paragraph for whioit we
were not responsible,in regard to the Ex
,scinding Acts. The P, eAyterian is right:
The paragraph appear•in our columns.
ma being editorial matter, however, and ob.
curring in aycond'ensed trczoyit.of the pro
ceediogiof theAttsemhlyof tile other branch,
which was furnished' c‘r
item, °t our ßerl memory
with its trtatemqa u s. We id i cifteTelyTegret the
inadvertence w o bieh led e5, , ,4/to this mi k e,
statetnenb,l Wait' atik. the, - fo!bearitege of, our
aotolirioz'aiy: ' .i't'