1i6161015 WWI 411041 ENGLAND. Bitigaism has become a topic of very interest ; the nation is alive to the e!e:h fa ra a ' t me n who hold the posts of honor bast in the National Church despise all distinctive in the national faith. Dia c,,,,1011 has passed from the Record and the to the Times, the News and Punch, i, thought that legal measures will be , -o restrain the vagaries of the English 1+ v ho, in the absence of any popular or court of appeal, are each " pope .11 g arish, •' lii-hop of Salisbury has been engaged ;i-cussion with Lord Sidney G. Osborne, hi -clergy, who, undertheinitials S. G. • rcib iy, ,contrasts the :actual character of squarsons" with the pretensions • v some of them to miraculous powers • ~ilution. The Bish2p appeals to the and pleads:—" You cut away in .tter no small portion of the ground ~I,c h the Church of England, rests her • against the exclusive claims, of the of Rome • and so a possible effect of ittr may be to disaffect many thought , attached members of our Church, • lye rightly believed that, as the Church ~_land requires her bishops, when they ; deacons to the order of priesthood, to • , ose momentous words, she justifies .• who have been so ordained in honey . • zt :hey have had committed to them „flue powers which.the priests of the the Catholics Church, both in the and West,* have ever claimed as their mance, and to which the literal and ,in rucan,ng of the words points.” Ellicott has preacher against ritu , . ut , but asserts that it arises not more from .thetic tastes of the clergy than from ne-t desire to counteract rationalism by the " miracle of the altar." The Church and the World."—A voi Ale of essays with this title has been pub .l.a i as a manifesto by the High Church ,r.; to vindicate their past and suggest 11.,.r future. The authors advocate the revi ,,, „t life-long vows, monastic orders, and virginity ;" scout the liturgy as hotch 11. the articles as the Protestant "forty save one, laid on the backs of an An :;,‘ ail' priesthood," the rubrics as lax, and literature of the Church as dry, nioral i ,l a gntionalities . ; and recommend the use of llomanist books in their stead. Per Contra.—As " Churchmen" give up he liturgy, some dissenters incline to take it The Rev. Newman Hall made the fol owing statement at the meeting of the Con gregational Union :—" Would it be well to I ,, ociate the people more in the outward ut terances of worship, and thus render it more thoroughly congregational? Might we with adraatage have some services entirely for praise, thus cultivating the musical' talent of the congregation, and consecrating it•to tie highest purpose?' Might not the people be encouraged to take a greater audible share in prayer also? With this view, might some ! , rals of prayer be expedient? Is it not pos ,•l,lc to be as spiritual in the use of a form of cr as in that of a form of praise? As the Liturgical service of the Church of Eng land is, on the whole, very scriptural and beautiful, and as a large portion of our eoun :g men cling to it with all the tenacity of tarly and hallowed associations, might we not, -ome cases, use our liberty by introduc ing. at least some portions of it into_ our ser vws ? Are there not many who admire our principles, and enjoy our ministry, but who cannot altogether give up the Liturgical ser- Ica. they have long loved? Would it be.' I,ctc.ar to prepare a new Liturgy ourselves, or adopt, in whole or in 'part that grand old teal, which is rather the inheritance of the .nii ersal Church than of any one Wean of and which many reverence as gn g lishmen litter than as Churchmen?" The Jacobite Church of Syria has requited iliotestant efforts in that land by sending a an—i , mary to England with the priceless [. ion of—" unquestionable orders." Biishop i thus, the new Apostle of unity, was origi nally a Romanist, but being converted to Protestantism, acted for a while as mission ary for the Irish Presbyterian Church ; but inning the Jacobite Church, avers that he was consecrated Bishop of lona b . the Patri arch of Antioch, and sent tot Bngland to promote the unity of Christendom. He met number of clergymen and laymen interested in that object in London, and laid before them his letters of orders, but declined pos sitively to say whether he had been conse crated by three bishops, as the Greek Church requires. Nevertheless, one clergyman de clared the Eastern prelate's orders were more satisfactory than those of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Bishop said that it was bb intention to found a church, in the hope that it might be the means, sooner orlater, of opening a channel for the healing . of ancient wounds or the closing of long existing divi sions. He did not suppose that this church would ever be a lar_ge one • ' but it would be a sate thing for the Church of England to have by its side a little community friendly to it, and able to give it at need orders of undoubt ed apostolioal succession. He would be pre pared tca confirm the orders of any priest who applied to him, without requiring him to leave the Anglican community. - The Roman Catholic Church i n England :Pi not proved quite the haven of rest that • one expected. Indications arise that An - can and Ultramontane parties are forming Alin it; the former headed by Rev. J. H. wman, of Traet Society celebrity. While , rehbishop Manning vehemently maintains eat the possessions of the Holy See are ab • .lutcly essential to the dignity of the head the Roman Catholic faith, and to the un tcren exercise of his spiritual functions, Newman, though strongly condemning overthrow of the Roman Government, rely a c knowledges that the temporality is no means a necessary and inalienable por ' m of the Papacy. Rev. F. D. Maurice, of Working Men's. 'ollege, London, has been elected by the t'rofessors at Cambridge to succeed the late 'rofessor Grote (brother of the historian) as Professor of Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology. Mr. Mau r ice is the foremost man .r the Platonist section of the English Church 'ad is objected to by both Low and High l!hurch on the ground,OT hie "in - comprehen sible" theology. The London University has become in volved in a controversy hi electing a gunge& 'or to Dr. Howia l in the chair of Metaphy 'les. The faculty numbers a Jew, a Moham wedan and a Deist; but the Senate refused to elect Rev. James Martineau, because he ;vas an "eminent Unitarian preacher." It has since been announced that the " liberal" men:kers of the Senate joined votes with the ?abodes to prevent his election, because he is of the school of Plato, Cudworth and Berkeley, and not a follower of Comte and Mill. The Church Home Mission, (Evan& ) which works by arranging for preaching tours by faithful clergymen, now comprises twenty five circuits, extending through twenty-one counties. These are found to do much to bring those to the house of prayer who 'would not come else, and to revive co ld churches. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1866. The iidait. /.0.41.ft*QX141104... , had in =Li , since 1860, 105 meetings; which were attended by 13,421 "unfortu nate" females ; of these 338haire been re claimed throiigh this agency. Meetings have been held in other large towns, houses of refuge opened, preventive literature dis tributed,. lectures delivered to fast young men, and service provided for the reclaimed. Confesaion.—Dr. Pusayquis been defend ing. the practice of private confession in a series of letters to the Times, in answer to the strictures of that journal. 'He says : "So long as . these , words of our Lord, `.Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven,' are repeated to 118 when we are ordained, so long will there be confession in the 'Church of England. Their removal would break the Church of England in pieces, but it would not diminish confession—the same persons would cOnfess, only they would confess else where." "We deeply regret," says the Weekly Review, "to say th at we believe this statement to be true, and that only in a dis ruption of the Church of England can there be safety in the future for Evangelical truth in England." The English Romanists and the Pope.— ! h%London. Roman Catholics intend:to have a grand demonstration on the 6th of. Decem ber, in favor of the temporal power of the Pope. There is to be a meeting in St. James's Hall for the promotion of the Co-fra ternity of St. Peter, at which Archbishop Man ning will preside. Eight thousand pounds have been subscribed and sent to the Pope bs , the English Roman Catholics Within a short time. The Oldest Free Church in England is in Horningsharm, Wiltshire. It was built by masons brought from , Scotland in 1560, (the year of the Snoxian Reformation); who could not conscientiously contorm to the English worship and articles. Sabbath-breakers Ont-voted.—A public meeting was convened at Southwark, London; an the evening of November 23d, to secure a vote of approval for the [Anti-] Sunday League. A vote of approval was moved, but a majority of two-thirds voted for an amend- ment " protesting against the opening of any public exhibitions which would necessitate labor on seven days instead of Six, especially as experience . . . proves' that the opening of natural collections on week evenings, as recommended by a Parliamentary Committee, would amply meet the wants of all classes of the community." This amendment was offered, seconded, advocated and carried by workingmen. t Father Ignatius.—The Rev. J. L. Lyne, who now officiates at St. Bartholomew's Church, Cripplegate, London, does not ap pear in - menkish habit but in the surplice, with an extra length of cassock.' The tonsure on the head is concealed. He has not.yet received a license from the Bishop of London,, nor is it known if he will be ordained priest SCOTLAND. Union.—The unhappy misunderstanding between the Union Committee and Rev. Drs. Begg and Gibson, of the Free Church, still continues, and has led to an acrimonious newspaper discussion. .Many prominent Free Churchmen have come forward to express their confidence in the union movement, and it is expected that large majorities,ot the Su preme Courts will declare in favor of any practicable scheme. The Revival has extended to nearlrevery village and burgh on the whole northeast and, is only the culmination of,a work which has been carried on since 1858, mainly by sixteen agents ,of 'the Northeast Coast, 'Mis sion. Evangelists Northrop, Radcliffejfttd son and others have aided in - reaping the' harvest. For some time a l; work of. revi val has, been going on at Kils,yth , (the ,scene of Whitefield's labors) and Ctinibernanld, and has extended to the' country round. Many miners and others are reading the Bible and attending public worship, who. were never in the habit of doing so, before... The work has been carried on chiefly through , the agency of laymen. Glasgow.—ln 1841 the number of Protes tant churches in Glasgow, was 85; (Presby rian, 69), the population of the city being then 280,000. In 1866 the number of Pro testant churches is 171 ; viz : Established churches, 43; Free churches, 50; United Presbyterian churches, 44 ; other Presbyte rian churches, 7 ; Episcopal ,churches, 6 ; Congregational, 6 ; Wesleyan and Baptist, 12 1 and others 5, the population of the city being nearly 500,000. These facts are stated by the Rev. Dr. Buchanan, who estimates the cost of the new buildings at from L300,- 000 to L 400,000, and the additional accom modation at 50,000 seats. Land's Bole.-The Archbishop of Canter bury took a prominent part recently in laying the foundation-stone of a new cathedral, in connection with the, Scottish Episcopal Church at Inverness,. and made a very fool Rh speech, in which he insultedthe Established Church and displayed his ign orance , of Scot tish Church matters. The Times reininds him that he has deliberately " unfrocked" himself by this mingling with " dissenters," and asks : " Can the archbishop be infected with the delusion of the Stuarts, and imagine that it is the mission of the Church of Eng land to reduce all parts of the United King dom to a religious uniformity ?" The Edinburgh Medical MissionarY So ciety, sustained mainly by the efforts of sun dry devout women, has now a training-insti tution on the Cowgate—attended by • nine missionary students, representing seven de nominations—in connection with a dispensary and hospital for Home Missionary work ; the Society has a similar institution- , in Madras, with fourteen native studentsFent from the various mission stations of India. They are about to establish another near BombaY and a fourth rat Nazareth. A missionary in Southern Africa writes for a " New London Pharmacopcea" and a set of instruments, as he can't counteract the Obeah-men without them. The Death of Rev. Mr. Anderson, of Crathie, is announced. The Queen attended his ministry when at. Balmoral and .visited him in his last illness: Friendly Relations.—At the .meeting of the Free - Church Commiskon, the Modera tor (Rev. W. Wilson) read a correspond ence from .Dr.. M'Cosh; of Belfast, 'iv refer ence to his visit to America. Dr. M' Cosh stated that there was a prospect . a,union being accomplished' between,the two great branches of the Presbyteria Church there. He had laid before the Assemblies of those churohes the desire of the churches, at home to cultivate a closer relationship,than they Shad ever done before with the churches in .America ; and as their sentiments had been most cordially reciprocated by the American brethren he suggested that steps should be taken for ' having an organized official inter course with the churches on the opposite side of the At/antic. Dr. Candlish, in referring to the corres pondence, spoke of the importance of holding communication with these cognate churches in America. Every reflecting man must con cur in the opinion that, as regarded the future history , of this world—if it was to be spared for a time--almost everything might be said to depend, tinder God, on the Saxon nations:— - on oar own country and America. .Dr. Can dlish',priiposed that the Commission remit • the letter of Dr. M'Cosh and accompanying jeuttentsto.-the , Assembly,..Anangements. ommittee, requesting the'committee to re port to.the Commission in. March , next, what arrangements they had made or ;svould sug .gegt to send' a deputatkin to the' Assemblies of the American churches. The motion was unanimously agree to. The W. C. Smith Case still continues to occupy the Free Presbytery of Glasgow. Mr. Smith used language in the pulpit mconsist 'ent with a belief in the comprehensive na ture and lasting obligation of the Decalogue. For this he has been thrice brought to book by the Presbytery, and attempted to ex plain. He finally made what some regarded as a retraction, but Dr. Gibson asks a formal and verbal one, and this demand is sustained by a vote of thirty-six to twenty-eight. Mr. Smith appeals to Synod. IRELAND. The. Temper of the Irish Establishment is thoroughly Protestant, and tendencies, which, in England would be regarded harm less, are in Ireland suspected and frowned upon. Archbishop Trench, having, vindicat ed the high Episcopal claims in a charge, has fallen into disfavor, and about three hundred Young men withdrew from a Dublin church after prayers, rather: than hear him preach. At the Diocesan Conferences the subjects dismissed are the Vest modes of home mission work, lay agency, &c. ' - Colleges Opened. —The Belfast and Magee Colleges have opened their sessionsthe first with an address by Dr. Watts, vindi cating a learned ministry and a systematic theology ; the second, with an address by Prof. Witherow on. St. Patrick and his mis sion to Ireland. He denied that modern Church systems could shelter themselves under that name, and urged the need of na tional feelings upon'his pupils. He said : " The want of sympathy with our fellow countrymen is one of the great .difficulties that we encounter in our effort to do them good. We find it almost impossible to.place ourselves in their position, and to look at matters from the same stand-point as that from which they look at them. Their history is not our history ; their feelings are not our feelings ; their wants are not our wants. Two liiindred and fifty years should have natural ized us on Irish soil; and yet to this hour most of us feel as if we were only Scots in Ire- land.. The memories which we,. cherish .are those of the land we have left,'uot of that in which we were born. This has gone on too long. We ought to remember. that Ireland, not Scotland, is our birthplace and our home. We are upt Scots, but Irishmen., Rest as sured that, in the old Qeltic traditions, while there is much to be condemned, 'there• is much that i&worthy of being admired;' 'did we understand a little better the various clomps through which the country has. Passed during the last fifteen centuries, we would be better able to comprehend the posi tion of 'Tini countiymenirand to enter into their. thoughts.'' Ministerial Support—A very general rl movement , -in 'progress to rectify the sl wretched'state of ministerial support in the sl Irish 'Presbyterian Church. _Layinen. were ',i the first to speak out on the subject,'and now ° a committee appointed by the Assemblpre commends Presbyterial conferences of minis- V tem, elders and laymen throughout the .° church,lto devisWilieral things. FBANiCE The Rvhibition.—Ohristianity," in both kinds'?—bond and free—is to..be represented, at the: great Iriternational Pa the ,C hamp , de Airs rises the left-a small Kau of a Catholic Chnzch.;.. beyond. are grassy_ slopes covered with the manifold, TICAU:!I3 . of ',relief for wounded soldiers, NA* . just opposite the church will rise, on there ght, the Bible 'stands, the Mission Hall, the 'Con ference Hall, and various` other PrOtestant agencies for spreading the light of life , among men. „ Septa Colony .—A Protestant colporteur has settled at St Martin, near Bourges, in an old' Scotch colony whose ancestors came to France under Sir John Stewart, of Darn ley, a century before the reformation. He is the only Protestant in the village; the peo ple being now .all French i speaking Catholics, but retuning the powerful, erect frame, in dustrious habits and Bober thrift of their an cestors. The Synod of the' Union of 'Evangelical churches (Free Church) held its biennial meeting ,this year atNismes, once a centre of Romish persecution and now off Protestant disbelief, Pastor Edmond : de Presence— the great antagonist of Renan—was chosen Moderator: Delegates were present from Scottish-and Iriskohurches, and the sessions were occupied in financial business an& de• votional exercises., The Synod now repre senta flirty churches, an increase of eleven. GERILLNY. Bohemia.—The defeat of Austria proves a victory for her dependencies. The notional spirit of Bohemia is aroused, and-is trying to throw off the yoke of the Jesuits, if not of Rome itself. • The people were brought, during the Prussian occupation, face to face with Protestantism, in one of its noblest aspects, as the chanipion of "nationality. Finding it had neither hoofs nor horns, they began to Temember Huss and. Ziska, and to demand the civil rights granted to Hungary. Dramas ' founded on the stories of the old' Utraquist war are. represented to crowded houses, though prohibited since 1848. The British Bible Society have circulated 60.000 copies in Hungary in sixteen months.. When the remark was made to a Cardinal that, 7 unless be gave way in regard to the Jesuits, numbers would turn Protestants, he replied —" Those who like to do so'are at full liber-- ty to do so ; no one will hinder them, and the Church will shed no tears for personi who treat the idea of apostasy so light ly." • The idea of going over ' to Protes tantism or, as it is termed, of a return to the .old faith.,tif Bohemia, seems, to .be making progress in Bohemia, especially in 'thihortheastern districts about lioniggra4, .Gitsohin,•Turnau, wh - ere the sign of the cup may , still be seen on thousands of :village. huts. Ecclesiastical Reconstruction is , still the topic of .diseussion among the clergy of the provinces recently annexed to Prussia. High Lutherans and Rationalists unite in oppositig annexation to the Unibn Church of Prussia. Hanover is the stronghold of the - first, and Nassau, where the deposed Duke acted as Protestant pope, of the second. The Ration alists of Nassau, (headed by Schenkel, of " Caricatur-bild" notoriety) before the an neiation, iere loud in demand for Synodic government, but now deprecate a change,' lest really good elements" might be lost by it. In other words, lest they should come' under the power of the United Evangelical Church of Prussia. The Societies are still holding the meet ing which the war postponed. 2he Prussian Head Bible Society reports a circulation of about 17,300 Scriptures during the year, and of upward of 600,000 since 1814.. All the Prussian societies have circulated, during the year, 108,200'copies, and daring the fifty two years, 3,029,877. The Saxon Read Bible ...So c iety has circulated, during, : the same period, 400,000 Scriptures. The Saxon Foreign Missionary Society reports a falling off in receipts ; eleven students in their Leipsig Seminary and 8000 Tamil Christians in connection with their India mission—an increase of 837. The Barmen Missionary Institution has set apart four students for the mission work. Rev. L. , C. Neumann, well known in reli gious circles in Philadelphia, has been visit ing Cracow, the scene of his conversion, and the residence of his family. He says that in Baden andiAustria, the national laws place Jews• ona level with Christians, but that local regu4tions nullify these. In Holstein and Saxony, Prussia and Holland, the equali ty is perfect as in France and England,_ but in Russia they are even prohibited from en tering a coffee house. ITALY. Ecclesiastical Exodus from Italy.—The following intelligence frorp-the Tyrol is pub lished.' in the _Augsburg Gazette The number of monks and nuns, who, quitting anti-mpastic Italy, are arriving here to take shelter finder the shadow of the Concordat, is so enormous, that the convents are literally overflo g ' and,i to make matters worse, we unders nd that these debris .of the religious societie of Italy, blown hither by the storm of revol tion, think of settling. in our country. At Tre t `and its' neighborhood six large houses • e marked out as destined to receive . . the me i , bers of the various Italian Orders. At B • en the Jesuits from Padua have bought ' n extensive property, where they iinnd , found a college and an institution fo e.• pupils. Lastly a Frenchman, Count del Bred , Grand Inspector of the Jesuits, halre , ased, for a sum of 140,050 francs, it D' "n b i, in Visrarlberg, a property.which hdlhati p aced at the dispoial' of the Italian sot df Loyola." • , • Church Reconstruction is likely to cause but, little. trouble. The banished bishops have.., bhen, allowed to return to their• sees. The bighops of Venetia showed such enthu siast.c patriotism on the occasion of the Ple bes 4.,e" that the Holy Father has admonished two' o'them, but one answered that he would iece eno admonition for,doing his duty as a citiz . . R 6 is held by about 15,000 Papal 13,k soldi s, but the National Committee could outn ber and overpower" them 'if Victor ,Em nuel gave the word: , ' The king:seems ,to d ' e,a peaceable adjustment, and Ricasoli , sugg jts 'special guarantees for the spiritual indep3ndence of the See of SL Peter. . Filrence.—The Kaiserwertli Deaconesses hav:`a school here mainly for the benefit of chil , en of foreign residents, with 79 pupils `rep csenting the nationalities. Roman,Catho ilics atronize the schoorand the priests give Pit n trouble. They are trying: to enlarge it. ermo.--The-Uriited Presb. Church of Sc, and has a mission in Palermo, working wi t fair measure 'Of success: They have e , ntly been joined by a Romish theological t l ent, whom his professors and fellow t ents (at Girgenti) had abused for oppos- Ln historical fact to papal, infallibility. He n f ght a letter of introduction and• com a dation from a monk. He has since n. °ceded to the Theological Seminary at .ence. OTHER COUNTRIES. nssia.—The Lutheran Church in Russia hers 9 consistoiies, 566 , clergymen; And 431. eh orehes4-ehiefly an the; old Swedigh p winces of l.tivonia,•Courland and•Eathonia Baltic, and in the two capitals. The • 'ad Consiitory is at St. Pete.rsburg. - ' Russian Intolerance.--The Breslau Ga- W,S , e says:—" Prince Tcherkasoi has im- , eight ecclesiastics of the - United. G 'eli - rife in 'the 'diocese cif 'Chidm, who will' b brought before a council' of war. 'Their clime , consists in.having protested against the vittlence which has been exercised toward the 1 ,111 led Greek Church, An equal number of it eats of the same diocese have been con ve ed . , by order of. the director of police, into th interior of Russia, because they passively rested ,the order to replace ~the United G ek litUrgy Iv thatof theßussian schism." ersia.—The cholera, which has spread ughthe northernprovinces,has somewhat interrupted the regular labors of the Nesto iiaw mission. The missionaries exerted piemselves to stay its ravages by medicines and Medical circulars. Some, of the native helpers have been carried off, dying with a Wm and unshaken trust in Christ. . India. Bishop Cotton, of Calcutta, has died suddenly, He, 'the midst of:a career of usefulness.He worked hard to promote = ' don, secure an increase of the clergy, to ting all classes of Christians together, and . miispose thwleaders of native thought to receive Christian/V. , Orissa.—The fearful. devastation of 7 the • famine has fallen upon the native Christians, as well as the heathen. Crowds of men,- Women and children, living skeletons, prowl about in search of anything in the' shape of food. Hundreds surround the bunga lows every morning, entreating and cry ` ng out , for , food in the most touching manner. And yet the English officials were warned that this state of things must come. Samoa.—The native Christians connected with the mission of the London Missionary Society, while holding their May meeting in the open air, were attacked by an armed party of Roman Catholic natives from Falefa. These were beaten back with the aid of the Protestant chief of Falefa, and, on renewing the attack, one of them was killed. Viattpu.—A. mission has been established here by a native missionary, .and "Bishop" Colenso's difficulty in regard to polygamy has been met and settled by the people them selves. The missionary writes :--` We were joyfully received by the whole land. You know that the whole land had abandoned heathenism, arid were desiring Christianity. We found only one thing that they were practising when we arrived—a great many, bbth old and young, had two wives. When 'we arrived, they asked whether it was true (as they had been 'told by a foreigner) that it was-.bad in the sight of God to have two wives. I . told them it was. 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Brainerd, (postage 60 cents extra,) or Gillett's History of Presbyte rianism, two vole:, and Social Hymn and Trine Book, morocco. Postage 60 cents extra. FOR FOUR NEW SIIRSCRIRERS. Gillett's History, Life of Brainerd, Hymn and Tnne Book, morocco. Postage $1 extra. Or the Digest and Gillett's History. Postage $1 extra. FOB FIFE FEW simscspnrits. Zulu Land, History of Presbyterianism, Life of Brainerd, Hymn and Tune Book, morocco. Postage $1 12 extra,. Any book of equal value on the Committee' list may be substituted in the above offers. A list will be sent iflesired. Dar All orders must be accompanied with the cash. If possible buy a draft, or a postage order, as in case of loss of money we cannot send the premiums, though we shall adhere to our rule of sending the papers. PREMIUMS TO OLD SUBSCRIBERS. * A postage stamp must invariably ac company these orders. Old subscribers paying strictly in, advance, and adding Two Dollars to their remittance, can have Hours at Hdme, or grithrie's Maga zine, for one year, pyovided they are not al ready taking them, or Life of John Brainerd. postage free., - By adding the followingstims, they can hairs the books named; postage free':— $1 80, Zulu Land; or Coleman's Text Book and Atlas of the Bible. • $1 65, Two Hymn and Tune Books. $1,91•, Bowen's Meditations,. tinted` paper, full gilt ; worth $2.50. $3 , 13, New Digest, worth $4. $3 90, Gillet's History of Presbyterianism, worth $5. EVAN D. ASHTON, DEALER IN _ PURE LEHIGH LOCUST MOUNTAIN COAL. , . . COMMUNITY'S COAL DEPOT , CORNER • suoAD. AND WOOD ST 105243 . • . MARRIAGES. TURNER—HUTCHISON.—On the 13th instant, at the residence of the bride's father, Williatown, Ches ter county, by Rev. A. M. Stewart, assisted by Rey. Robert Patterson, EDWARD H. TURNER, of Phila delphia, to Miss SALLIE, daughter of Robert Hutchi son, Esq. FRANKLIN—SMALL.—On the 13th instant, at the Presbyterian Church, York, Pa., by Rev. li. E. Niles, Brevet Colonel WALTER S. FRANKLIN, 11. 8. Army, to MARY CAMPBELL, younkest daughter of Philip A. Small, Esq., of York., HERR—UPP.—AIso, on the 20th va.t . at the Elmo place, by the same, Mr. liltJ Y ERR, of uhenoa, Illinois. to MAGGLh J., usual., t late George Upp, of York. FARNHAM—SHEPARD.— On Wednesday. the 19th of December, by Rev. R. M. Morey at he resi dence of the bride's lather, GEORGE W. tARNRA.K. Jr., to Miss LUCY R. SRSPARD, all of Pittsford. New York, grpttiat atatues. Sir' The Presbytery of Hoebester will hold its annual meeting in the Brick Churco, ltoches.ter. on Tuesday. the Bth day of January next, at 2 o'clock P. M. C. E. F llitalAbl. Stated Clerk. ROM - ESTER, Dee. 13,1866. BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE. This splendid HAIR DYE is the best in the world. The only true and perfect Dye—Harmless, Reliable, Instantaneous. No disappointment. No ridiculous tints. Natural Black or Brown. 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