eartoptamts. FROM OUR SPECIAL EUROPEAN CORRES PONDENT. THE VOYAGE HOME. It was with a strange mingling of emotions that we walked down the low) , slanting passage way that led from the stupendous stone walls of the Liverpool quay to the tender that was to con vey us to the good steamer City of Baltimore. The vessel lay out in the Mersey with steam up and our own beloved_American flag flying at the main top. We had been shopping all day, buying this and that—articles we had intended taking home with us ; but had failed to find to suit us elsewhere. Liverpool is a good place to shop in. Articles of dress we found much more reasonable in price than in London or Paris. Fancy articles too, and in fact almost everything thltan American wants to take home with him, can be bought here to very good advantage. In Florence we had found statuary and paintings at comparatively low pri ces. In Venice photographic views, and in Mi lan silks and gloves are much lower than in Paris. In .Geneva watches, jewelry, embroidered, work handkerchiefs and the.like were quite reasonable. In Paris nothing cheap. The west end of Lon don as dear as Paris, but about St. Pam's church prices more reasonable. Liverpool however, 'showed most splendid stocks of the finest goodii with prices.not marked as though .the wealthier of Apper,tendom, who had money to throw away rather than to spend judiciously, were the only expected customers. But this is not getting aboard the ship. In the crowd and confusion of the tender we met Christian friends whom we had travelled with on the continent, and at once feltthe pleasure of compa,nionehip., As we steamed down the Mersey we had a fine view of two or three'miles of the immense stone wall which separates the docks from the river and retains the water when the tide is low. It was now low water, the wall stood twenty-five or thirty feet high, with a forest of masts in the docks behind it, hiding the city very much from view. Here and there were the gates in which the vessels enter—like the lock gates on our canals but much larger. On the opposite side of the river the beautiful town of Birkenhead followed the stream a mile or two. Handsome villas with pretty lawns stretching`down to the water's edge, made a deci dedly pretty picture. We soon pass Birkenhead light-house, and the steeples, towels, and chim neys of Liverpool have faded from view. Soon the last windmill on the headland is lost, and not long after we pass a buoy upon the top of which is fastened in a frame a bell about.two feet high. The motion of the waves keeps this bell con stantly tolling, affording a signal during fog or darkness, for a bar in the channel. The . shores of Albion are fast &dine. o from view and were .view, .and not that we are soon to see dear America, and our own home and loved ones, we should certain ly be very sad that our delightful tour was really at an end, and we were now to brave storms and sea-sickness again. AT SEA Next day in the afternoon we steamed out of the beautiful harbor of Queenstown, into what promised to be an angry night upon the deep sea. This wai Thursday evening—all Friday we were sick enough, though not so horribly ill as we had been when we crossed before. Saturday we tried to walk about the deck, and make ourselves be lieve we were getting along. The Sabbath found us quite improved, and we asked the captain whether one of the passengers, Rev. Dr. Willis, President of Knox College, Toronto, (whom we had met at Aix La Chapelle on his way to the Evangelical Alliance at Amsterdam) could not preach us a sermon. The reply was quite tart— " I always read the service myself." "Certainly sir" we replied ; " but after the service, there would be ample time for the sermon." ""Not time enough, sir ; perhaps in the afternoon or next Sabbath, if we are out so long, the Doctor may preach." I gave it up, but was quite sur prised to hear the captain call upon the Doctor at the close of his "service" and ask for an "ad dress." It seems that other passengers had been after the captain with the same request, and he found the pressure too strong to resist. The cabin was crowded full, and the Doctor, a man of silver hairs, gave us an interesting and instructive little sermon, delivered with as much fire and energy as though he were a man of thirty-five instead .of seventy. Some of the passengers said they heard the captain swear se verely at some of the hands within ten minutes after he came out from the service in the cabin. Certainly an odd kind of a man to be persistent about "always reading the service himself." In the afternoon we were in a thick fog, so thick that it resembled a constant fall of finely divided rain; bat it did not deter a number of us from going upon the deck and holding a ser vice among the steerage passengers. Rev. Wm. Bower, an Episcopalian clergyman, of Newark, Ohio, led in an opening hymn and made an ad dress ; prayers, hymns and short addresses fol lowed, delivered by Doctor Willis and ourselves, in all of which the passengers were much inter ested. It was a solemn hour on that wild heav ing sea,—shut in by the mist from the surround ing ocean. We felt that God was very near and could hear our hymns of praise, as those poor people joined in them so heartily, standing crowd ed together between us and the high bulwarks of the ship. The passengers thanked us very cor dially for giving them a "service:" The following Tuesd iy night a storm came up, waking us all from our sleep by the severe rolling and plunging of our 'ship. The rapid revolutions of the.propeller as the vessel mounted upon the crest of a wave leaving the stern entirely out of water, made the whole ship tremble. Then the quivering plunge of the vessel as we shot from the top of a billow down, down, to the trough of the sea was terrible, making us often wonder whether we would ever come up again. For'two hours the storm was severe, and all next day, although the sun shone brightly, the sea ran "mountains high," and nine out of ten of the passengers were too sick to get on deck and see the glorious storm-lashed old ocean. Thursday morning at 3 o'clock, we passed the light of Cape Race. Priday Sable Island could be discerned with a strong glass. Saturday brought THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1867. us off the New England coast, though not near enough to see anything but water on every aide. In the evening rockets were sent up, and at dark a light was seen ahead on the left. " Pilot coin ing" was passed around and everybody was on deck watching thahttle speck of light far ahead. It came nearer and grew brighter. Soon another light left it, coming across to us, and lanterns were let down the ship's side. Direc ly a tall wiry man clambered over She bulwarks and as tended to 'the " bridge" where the captain re ceived him. The little row boat that brought him, now pushed off, one of the sailors calling back " what's your name"—" City of Baltimore" shouted the mate. With - my opera glass I peered through the darkness making out clearly the pi lot schooner with a large figure. One on the sail. The brilliant light on the deck had been the first sight we had seen that thrilled us sirith_the idea of "home." " Papers ! Papers was now called by a dozen of voices, and,the pilot handed down three New York papers. Quicker than I could tell it, all were in the cabin 'round the candles One was' called 'upon to read the headings Mond, and although the pilot boat had left New York five days before, and the papers .were.very stale, yet they .were Peen days later than those we had bought at Queenstown, and were eagerly, perused. In ten minutes, the illegality'of Andrew John son's -new proclamation Of Amnesty, was' thor onghly canvassed and_settled, for it was the prin cipal item of news beside the price of ,gold and the state of trade. . That evening, when ,the pilot excitement was dint, we had 1 a concert in the cabin. Two= rusty old fiddles belonging to some of the sailors were brought into requisition, beside some good songs by some jolly Englishmen, and some speeches. Votes of thanks to captain, stesvard, &c , wound . up the evening—our last night at sea • The other evenings`in the cabin had been occupied in read= ing and conversation by some, imlooking at stare os:opic views by others; but, by the majority, in card-playing an.i drinking ale and brandy. We were indeed happy to, be able to say, as We lay down, I was' going to say . up on our shelves to rest, " this is our last night at sea—to morrow home—children, parents, . brothers, sis ters," could it indeed be? Sunday morning, we go upon the deck, and the beautiful green hills and sandy shore of Long Island lies a few miles to' the north of us. Oh what a thrilling Sig,ht. How our hearts leap with gladness to behold our own shores once more. Was ever a green hill-side so beautiful as this Z As we steam along to the westward a light ; house and villages meet our eye. There will be no " service" read by the captain to-day, as he is too busy getting things ready for landing in the afternoon. So, by his permission, we arrange for a farewell service in the cabin. Notice is given at the breakfast table.; and at, the appointed time thirty of us assemble for a very brief wor ship. Our 4pisCopal brother, from Ohio, opens the service with a few remarks and gives out a hymn. He calls upon another to read the 107th psalm; then upon Doctor Willis to lead in prayer, which he does with great unction and pathos. A brother proposed that as we are about to termi nate our voyage it would be well to sing that fa vorite hymn written to commemorate th close of the voyage of life. " When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies." We all join to, the good old tune of Auld Lang Syne, and hearts melt and tears flow as the sweet tones of the beloved hymn float over that calm Sabbath sea. Doctor Willis pronounces the benediction and the company separates. Our good Doctor says '"That's a beautiful hymn. Why didn't you tine it out so that we cou dall, sing ?" 'Why Doc tor I thought everybody who ever went to church kne* that hymn by heart." I forgot how our psalm singing Scotch Preshytegian brethren are debarred 'the enjoyment of so many of our glo rious songs of Zion. We are soon at anchor in the beautiful bay of New York, and a few hours later, the custom house officers overhaul our baggage far more thoroughly than they had done anywhere in .Eu rope, and our company scatters, soon to be dis tributed over every part of our land, from Maine to California; from Florida to the great-gorth west. G. W. M. FROM OUE, TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT IN THE WEST. Sr. Louis, Nov. 13, 1867 DEAR Enrrort While we lie moored to the levee, on the bosom of the Father of the Waters, I take the opportunity given by the usual dis crepancy between River packet promises and. performances, to let you know that I have made the Exodus and am come fo-th out of Egypt,— but not by underground R. R. as Moses (the First, not the Second, which is called Andy) did but by the broad gauge route of the Ohio and Mississippi R. R. I had expected Western rail roads to be in the style of Western homes, rough but serviceable, but I never spent a pleasanter night in travelling than in coming over this road after leaving Cincinnati. The night cars on this line are a decided imptovelient on sleeping cars. The traveller is stowed away, not in a narrow berth but on a spacious reclining chair, cushioned to perfection and covered with velvet and clean linen, while a by cleverly arranged' footstool, his whole body is rested in a position the most comfortable conceivable. The cars are .ventilated by air driven through water, and distributed, free from .dust and cinders, over the whole car. The lights are shaded when the hour for sleep comes and the temperature is carefully adjusted to the degree of comfort. Our Eastern roads have something to learn from , such a road, and yet it is no glaring exception to the rule. The Illinois Central run ning from Cairo to Chicago and Galena, far sur passes the Pennsylvania Central in point of coin forrableh provision for passengers. As to St. Louis, in many respects, it deserves the .name—" the Philadelphia of the West." There are whole blocks in it that look as if im. ported ready-made from the banks of the Schuylkill, and then smoked a little. Bitumin ous coal makes itwrnark here, and the brick red and marble white are at best a trifle dingy. The churches are not very numerous, but very flue. One Episcopal . church, to which the workmen are putting the finishing touches, is especially grand. The Union M. E. church has a square brick campanile of great height, in the style of St. Mark's in Venice, but not high enough to im press one. The Romish cathedral is a dingy *bite building in heathen (i. e. classic) style. I had not time to see the whole city, or to call on Dr. Nelson. St. Louis Weeds more public squares. A city must have lungs and even Philadelphia has not half enough, not half as many certainly as Wil liam Penn would have given it had he known when he laid it out " after the model of ancient Babylon," that his plan of a garden around every houSe was an impossibility. The less rea son theh'for handing over Penn square to this new plan of letting the societies erect their build ings there. The church of Philadelphia should take their stand as champions of the poor man, and let the rich dilettantes of our would-be sci entific societies kno w that they must buy,new sites if they want theiii. Iri St. Louis I folind in my travels one little enclosure with somegreen things in it and suppose it was meant ass square And;yet St. Louis is not cramped, for want of room. Like. Philadelphia, and Chicago, unlike New York, Boston, Cincikaati, and PittSburglV, , 'it can *gitow out° equallfin all diredtlons. It could 'inirely spare a little more of the'prairia, , to bring it-little bloom into the cheeks,,,,of„ .. the children. The lower town, like what of our city lies below Sec ondßa.; closelind;dirty, but ati.you get up on the hill the pkitee' opens.npooad . tbrightens ; ;The fine•. streets lie parallel te,,tha-rivser„and are numbered as with us, not named. The cross streets are gen erally named after trees,again showing. the in fluence of Philadelphia fashions in cities laid out while ours, was the .chief city on the, continent,, i. e. until the cityFaithers let the yellow jackde cimate us in 'I7Q9, and gave,New York the Start. St Louis' has More stone and More Aiticcolored brick facades than we, but fewer than .oiiicinna ti. It falls far below the-latter in architectural .pretensions and in business energy. The capi „, twists are as mestly , slow'as witn,us, and Copper beadsand 'Rorbanists Vesi r dei. They hive let Chicago cut them out, for which purpose it ha's great advantag,es from its Lake Connections with New York, The river ; trade, is ; now stand-by here, and the low• mate,r • paused by the protracted drought will turn much of that into other channels, especially 'the' Milwaukee grid Prairie due Chiertß.-R*haVe 'ate idst cotapleted their connection with St. Paul, and the LaCrosse line have nearly done so.- !: . I could not go threugh St, Louis, without.pnr chasing what is in my_esos its most remarkable production": -" The Journal of-Metaphysical Philosophy.” The Corritists of our age' are loud, in =their declarations that all pure 'Metaphysics are a thing of the:past, an, obsolete study which can only attract the addle-pated D,ra Dryasdnst of some Old World UniversitY. The cut bon° So phists of the utilitarian school think that - in any century since Jeremy Bentham, all human pursiiits must have mere pork and apples for . - their end. The natural science monomaniacs also demand that the human intellect must be fed with facts not speculation, forgetting that. to know which are the facts, men'must ask more questions than science has dared to And yet, as if in an swer to all ttieie, creitriTleaded-mc-nL.. thz.,a in the Insane Asylum.as yet, in this busy practi cal, money-making, mammon-worshipping city; where the whistle of a hundred steamboats drowns the whistle of twenty locomotives, in this St. Louis, we say, fifty'years ago a trapping sta tion among the wilds, and to-day the Eastern terminus of a Pacific R R.,—find time to read and think on these subjects and patronage enough to enable them to print their own thoughts and the thoughts of other men about these things. I was not even able "to• secure copies of the first and second number's of their Magazine, as the public demand for them has run them out of print, but the bookseller promised to send them in a day or two. The third is before me and thaws very clearly that the Editors mean no child'S play in the matter. Among the articles translated from the German are Liebnitz's " Monadology," Fichte's " Criticism, of Philosophical Systems" (cont.) Schelling's " Introduction to Idealism" (cont.) Hegel's " PhilosoPhy of Art," together with a letter from Prof. Franz Hoffman recommending the study of 'the writings of Franz Baader. Such a selection bodes well, for the enterprise, and shows that its conductors have taken a right track. Metaphysics indeed,. like religion, must be a personal matter and degenerate into mere chatter when the belief is not purchased by an actual personal experience, but as ihreligien the first impulse comes from without, and every great thinker is no less fruitful in his actual achievements, than in sowing seeds in younger minds. Locke taught Berkeley, Berkeley fired Hume, Hume • 'puzzled Kant, Kant dazzled Fichte, Fichte conveyed the sacred fire to Schel ling, Schelling passed it on to Hegel. If we are to have any American Metaphysics we must have a thorough study cif' the masters of the science. But besides, these valuable translated papers, we have original articles which seem of consid erable power and value from various pens Among these I am sorry to see one from the pen of A. Bronson Alcott, Of Mass., one of the Etnersonian (mis-called "Transcendental")school. That flock never did anyservice to the cause of Met aphysics bzutheir rhetorical fire-mists : they are en tirely too lasyfor anything but a vapid philosophiz ing about philosophy. They brought very much discredit on the science itself by tossing about the Camas of- true scholars—Kant, Fichte, Sahel ling, Hegel, &c., of whom they knew little save what Murdoch's 25 cent History taught them, and from whom they would not take the trouble to learn anything. If they have any European counterpart, it is the arch-thief Cousin. Their uniting,s, bolstered 'up with this, that and the other name, are worth reading, and amusing enough,—a sort of sixth century Hudibras in fact—but pray, " don't call them Philosophy. They are not scholars, have not the patience to learn,- substitute a womanish intuition for masterly appliCation. A woman, 'Margaret Fuller Ossoli, a very vain feeble-minded woman at that, was the true head of. the school;. As, of them, so too of their successors in grandiloquence, the Broad Church of Frothinoliam Bellows, and Mayo, gentlemen of St. Louis, beware. There is another aspect in which this Journal of , Speculative Philosophy' seems an omen of good to me. It seems as if we were at last to derive some intellectual benefit from our German fellow-citizens. They, have only made their mark hitherto by intiodhaing lager bier (a Slow 'poi= son in dry climates like ours,) sauer kraut (cab bage in the form of manure) switzer kase (odor ous a mile off,) the Hessian fly, guttural speech, and dirt. They have done their duty in many places during the war, but patriotism is not exotic to the land. They have gone 'very far out of their duty in trying to overturn the foundations of our social order. Whether the Gerniat is to bring us what is really best in Germany,—Ger man assiduity, German patience, German modes-* ty, or only the weedy crop of German vapidity, German vanity, and German lawlessness: wheth er we are to have the Germany of Kant, of Fichte, of Hegel, of Sehelling, of Dorner, or Only that of :Bruno-Bauer, and Feuerbach, and the others who think themselves admirable rep resentatives of the Fatherland, because-they can, retail at _thirty-second-hand the platitudes of Rousseau and Voltaire, and sneer at the Evangel ical Protestantism and respect for God's law which have made our nation all that it is, are in teresting questions which still !wait an answer. In view then of the nationality of the main supporters of thaJ urnal } of. Speculative Philos it ophy; we wel come as an omen of a new and a better Ger many in America. ',We have duties lowaids onr,German'brethren, and .one slntyis to bring out, whatis best, in them by, our cer,dial sympathy. If we turn to them the cold elioulder of inter national scorn, and treat them as if dogs, iet us look out for teeth. =Youits, -ON THE WINO. THE LAYMAN'S CALL AGAIN. How shall the Christian Church more effectix ally accomplish her mission? has often crossed our mind`; plans have been suggested, tried, and one after the other laid' aside.- Yet itis-manifest that before the end comet the Church will be far in advance of her present position. The writer -in issuing , --his- '1 -Layman's Call," published in the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN of the 17th of`Oetober, had in' vie* the awakening of an interest in this subject,,and, if .the reader will turn to that paper he*ill find the assertion • , made that `one of the great poWers in our midst hiurlain almost' inactive, namely ; the:Laity. That -the laity are a numerous people and have more power than: is, being used, is not disputed. Nay, our clergy have, for some time back, been loOking for some plan by . Whieh to bring out our strength and Make if available in pushing on the great catfse: It is a principle of , our nature that where we associate and. labor most we feel great est interest, and will glv.e ino,t, freely of_ our. strength and substance,; but how shall we be used? It seems to be conceded that the Home Mis sionary Society; have left the field in this .city much, if not altogether, toy the-care of the Chur ches. Most of these, it is true., have enough to do in caring for their own immediate neighbor beods, and yet all have some missionary "ability or material unemployed. I' think new of one'of our churches, which, without a pastor and scarce knowing if they will be, able to cling together longer than this ,year, who yet have enough benches stored away to fit out a new enterprise —here is more inateriaL The_reader eau perhaps ca iefid another from which afew more dollars or clothing could be obtained if they knew it would be judiciously used in bringing in the thoughtless to repentance;—and another from which a layman or two might well be spared for pastoral work. If it be suggested to either of these churches that yonder district contains a host of children who do not attend any Sunday-school, and that they should go there and build up a mission, what answer would we get? We would very probably be told that they alone are not able to do it. Here seems to be an opening for a combina tion of laymen. Let us organize. Let us. bring those benches, dollars, clothing, and laymen to gether, and we shall be able to start a school around which other resources will accumulate and anew field be opened. Let us stand by that mission, nurture it, and with God's blessing we will build , up a Christian church. Let us not end here but go on, and mission after mission shall be started, and church after church arise add be added-to the hosts of the Almighty. ILLINOIS CHRISTIAN CONVENTION. The-State Christian Convention instituted by the American Christian Commission, and called by the pastors of Springfield and Peoria, met in Peoria, Illinois, October 29th and 30th, 1867. About 300 delentes were present, many of whom gave yery interesting reports of Female Mission ary work, lay efforts, open-air preaching, &c., in their own parishes or neighborhoods together with the methods of wo.king which: they or others had proved to be the most successful in advancing the interests of the Saviour's king dom. AN INSTRUCTIVE VERDICT.-A man by the name of Wm. H. Green was, on the 9th November after a three day's trial before the Superior Court in Litchfield, Conn.; convicted of the murder of his wife, or rather—he being a bigamist—the woman who supposed herself his wife. His pre vious history, as elicited during the trial, revealed a character of assumed respectability through long years of atrocious life. As young as 19, be se cured entrance into the ministry in the Methodist Church, but soon lost his standing. He contin ued, however, in localities stretching along from Texas to New York, to preach on the credit .of false certificates, changing names and marrying wives as opportunity offered. He was thus mar ried only a few days after the death of the one of whose murder he now stands convicted. The instructive part of the verdict is that he seems chiefly indebted to his bad name for his convic tion. It was this which first led,to the suspicion, awakened only after she had been two weeks buried, that the woman died of poison: A local paper speaks of the. testiniony against him on trial, as wholly.circuinstantiaVand, though pretty strong, yet, in its opinion such as would have been insufficient for the conviction of a man who had the support of even a tolerable reputation. "A man of good reputation and honest general behaviour," says the notice, "could not have been hung on such testimony." • It still remains quite possible that no r murdei was committed, or, if committed, that he is not the real murderer. Bat he is to 4ie a felon's death; and any public apprehension that he is not a murderer, is quieted by the feeling that the world is better without than with him. Priceless to him now would b e , a good name. AN OLD TIME COLORED BIBLE SOCIETY. 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