Vaitlnt',s AEir Publishers will confer it favor by mentioning the prices of all books sent to this Department. Many classes of New Testament students will find themselves benefitted by becoming possessed of Dr. Smith's STUDENTS' NEW TESTAMENT liimaY. It is a compact Tolume of 7,00 and eighty pages, freely illustrated with wood-cuts of scenery, coins and antiquities, as well as with nu ruerous maps. It is condensed by one who had before him the very latest results of Biblical study and investigation. It is direct and unpre tentious yet graphic in style. It connects the literature and the teachings'of the New Testa ment with the history, in a way'that renders it a "suggestive commentary." embodies in notes and illustrations appended to each chapter the latest and weightiest opinions of Biblical schol ars on all disputed queistions. It begins the narrative where the Old Testament closes, car rying us over what are to most of us " the Dark Ages" between Zerrubbable and Herod. It closes with (I.) a discussion of the New Testa ment Canon (35 pp.); (II.) Parallel Chronologi cal Tables from Zerubbabel to Titus (32 pp.)'; and (III.) a full Index. Those who have read the New Testament only in a desultory fashion, or in the disorderly meth od in which it is arranged in our version, will find a new light cast upon it by the study of the book in its chronological order, and with such helps as Dr. Smith has here presented. Harper & Bros., of New York, are the publishers, and J. It Lippincott & Co., of this city, are their Philadelphia agents. Mr. Nordhoff's CAPE COD. AND ALL ALONG SHORE is a collection of well told stories which were originally written for Harper's ifontl4 and the Atlantic. While we differ from Mr. Nord hoff (and Mr. Beecher) as to the Satanic origin of all theology, we are rejoiced to find such a fine, healthy, moral tone pervading all these sto ries. The tone of the book is told in a single sentence from one of the stories—" There is a little word in the English language called 'duty.'" We are &Ways glad to see - SO much'literary power associated with• such avowed loftiness of ideal. The publishers have done well for the book, but they have done too much. The old,English style of ornamentation eschews too great variety in the, quaint head-pieces, and too great an abundance of ornament of any kind. Published and for sale as above. Mr. Headley's LIFE OF GENERAL GRANT Will have the advantage -over most of ita nunierous competitors, of being written by one who has al ready made his name with a large class of read ers. Mr. H., indeed, does not rank in the fore-. most class of American literature, nor indeed very high in the second, but still he is widely known as the author of several very poptilar works. He has an effective command of " News paper English." He can paint very effectively where fineness of touch is not essential. His. Life of General Grant is likely to have a wide circulation, and will probably be an effective campaign document on the right side. It will not give its readers any profound insight into the history of our country or the character of our next president, but it will never compel them to yawn over its prolixity .or re-read an obscure sentence. It is illustrated with maps and en gravings, and is clearly printed on 458 p•iges of thick paper. E. B. Treat & Co. of New York, and A. ti. Hubbard of this city are the pub 7 lishers. Ticknor & Field send us (through the Lip, pincott's) another volume of their " Charles Dieken's Edition" of that greatest of noveliws. It contains A TALE OF Two CITIES and GREAT EXPECTATIONS, which are well printed and SC compa-nied by eight of the most effective of the grotesque illustrations of the first editions. The first of these stories we have regarded as one of Dickens's great successes; the second as being largely a failure. MARK STEADMAN ; OR, SHOW YOUR COLORS (Hen. P. Hoyt, of Boston, publisher) is one' of the best books for the young that we have seen. It is free from those disgusting impossibilities of incident and character which offend thoughtful children in most such books, and free from that pharasaic folly that encourages good boys to look upon themselves as God's especial favorites, and boys less good as His and their enemies. PAMPHLETS AND PERIODICALS. We have received from the Presbyterian . Pub lication Committee the Overture on Re-union: Reports of the Joint Committee of the two Gen eral Assemblies of 1866-7, and of the Special Committee of the (N. S.) Assembly of 1868. This pamphlet comes from Dr. Hatfield, of New York, and now is the time to secure a copy, be fore the Pittsburgh " friends of Re-union" have finally superseded the General Assemblies, and laid this (their) Basis on the shelf. We have also received from the Presbyterian Board of Publication Report of the Committee on Re-union td the General Assembly, the , meeting at Alba ny, N. Y. Thursday, Aray 21st, 1868. Also the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Church Erection Fund, to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States. The substance of these thirty nine pages was given in our report of the Hair, risburgAssembry. We observe that the 0. S. Board publish their Annual Report in the form of a supplement to the newspapers of the de nomination, and issue it with these soon after the Assembly adjourns. Would not that be a more excellent way. Fas est duceri ab the friends of Re- union. From the Presbyterian Board of Publication we have received the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Publication of the [O. S.] Presby terian Church in the United States , of North _America. Presented to the General Assembly at its meeting at Albany, N. Y., May, 1868. From this we learn that the books of the: Board have been increased from 835 to 886 during the year, besides the publication of tracts and pamphlets. We learn also that 26,850 copies of the." Ilyna- THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAx AUGUST 6, 1868. nal" and 33,250 copies of " Children's Praise" were issued during the year. Of " Hodge on the Atonement" the catalogue says : " Every Pres byterian minister should possess a copy." Two thousand copies were issued. The receipts for ' the year are $29,005 95 of which $32,293 81 was from the ehurclie3. 146 colporteurs are em ployed, and these visited 77,947 &rallies, sold 66,177 volumes, and gave away 36,721 volumes, besides nearly a million pages of tracts. From the Trustees of Marysville (Tenn.) Col lege we have received the Catalogue of Officers and. Students of that institution for the Academ ic year 1867-8. It shows two students in the Junior and seven in the Freshman classes of the Academic Department; twenty in the Prepara tory, and thirty-four in the English Departments. From the Trustees of Lane Seminary we have received the inaugural Discourses of Profes-. sors Morris and Nelson delivered on the thirty second Anniversary, May 13-14, 1868; together with 'a brief sketch of the institution and the. Annual Report of the Treasurer. Of these dis courses. (Frof. Morris's on The 'Supernatural Quality of the Church of God, and, Dr. Nel son's on the Relation of Christktn Truth, to Christian Life,) we have already expressed a high opinion in laying an abstract of thorn .be- v fore our readers soon after their first' delivery., We need scarcely say that a closer and .lAl:ire ex- I tended view of them confirms us in that The one.hundred and eighty ministers , of the S. Presbyterian Church, who look back to. Lane as their theological Alma Muter, should not fail to possess themselves of these,weightynddresses. the income of the Seminary for the past Aca demic year was $27,041 79, while the expenses were $26,250 59. We trust that the effort for, its increased endowment will meet with all suc cess. We have received. the Thirty-third Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Ing ham University, at Le Roy, Genesee C 0.,, N. Y. 1867-8. This institution is in connection with wits the, Synod of Genesee, and ranks high ,among our edneational institutions. A Discourse on the Life ...and Character of Rev. Geo. _Duffield, D.D., late. ,Pastor ,of the 'First ,Presbyterian church of _Detroit, and for mer Pastor of the First Presbyterian .church of Carlisle, Pa. By Rev. Conway P. Wing, D.D., of Carlisle. An appropriate and eloquent trib ute to the memory of the good man, whom "time and the. march of events",have removed from this world to a better because freer one. grindiar. ST. PAUL-MASTER, AT SEA. From an unpublished article, on a new in +ention, we make the following extract: "Let one minute case of disaster illus trate ' danger on the deep. .Of nine or ten refugees from the. Evznxivo STAR, borne away in a small life boat, several were - upset and drowned,; others, by hunger .and thirst became insane and two ladies enduring with heroic fortitude unwonted privations, at last exhausted, perished in the surf—one,foot on land—one in sea; the officer in charge alone escaped ! The vessel in which,, Paul was wrecked could boast of no superior appli ance for safety, even its Life-Boat had to be cut adrift to prevent desertion. Yet out of one hundred and seventy-six souls 'not one was lost,' all got to., land, !..some on boards and some on broken pieces of the ship.' Why such fatality on the Star The Life- Boat was in full commission. No life-pre server appears to have been at hand, nor could_ the modern article have availed Much beyond a very temporary purpose. The ;strain on life's chain, where mortality reaches nine• in ten, must have been severe, or ,a link weak. Of the three forms of death ex perienced—two, insanity and exhaustion, were due to want of sustenance; the third, cases of drowning, to a lack of life preservers. The total casualties must therefore be charg ed to weak links—LACK OF SUSTENANCE AND FLOATS. Through the entire range of mari time catastrophies may be traced similar de ficiencies. Paul's deliverance exhibits a sub lime contrast—the light-house in surround ing darkness. Days and weeks of fear and fasting began to be felt. Destruction im pended. Paul commanded cheerfulness and inspired courage. He supplied all with "MEAT." When the ship foundered where two seas met the whole company wero masters of the situation. "Defects have been seen. Whither look for a remedy? A- Life-Boat was rendered abortive by absence of sustenance. Men sunk because no float kept their heads, above wa ter. Evidently the requiredinstrument must combine the elements; the absence of which proved calamitous. In short, a PERFECT LIFE PRESERVER must be adaptable to the varia tions of the human figure; be furnished with adequate floating forces; apartments for food to keep hunger, at bay, water to reduce 'thirst, and a generous beverage to raise the sinking mercury of life—A CASKET in which to lock the jewel precious as LIFE ITSELF." A tract published by the Seamen's Friend Society, lying before us, bears this heading, "There are Five Hundred Thousand Sea men now employed in American Vessela." Who can.estimate the number of those who do business on the great waters? But it is Surely time that "some, superior appliance for safety" were constructed for the hour of " danger on the deep." THE GOLD FIELDS OF COLORADO. The localities in which gold is moat plen tifully found are in the counties of Boulder, Gilpin, Clear Creek, Jefferson, and the ex treme south-eastern part of Summit. Al though it is evident that many other sections contain gold-bearing veins no great amount of attention has been bestowed upon them, and the principal amount of mining has been done in the counties of Gilpin and Clear Creek. The gold veins proper, found wholly in granite formation, vary.in .width from a scarcely perceptible streak. to forty and even fifty feet, but seldom 'averaging over four or five feet. When dscovered from the surface the vein is indicated by a light porous quartz discolored by the oxida tion of base metals, in which particles of gold are disseminated sometimes in the form of small scales, fine dust, or stringy pieces, but seldom in masses of any size. The value of veins is usually determined by the miners by crushing to a fine powder in a hard-mortar, a few pieces of surface ore, the powder being carefully washed with wa ter in a hand-pan. This consists in giving the pan a peculiar motion which settles the gold at the bottom, the fine particles of earth and quartz being carefully floated. off It is seldom that surface ore is found So poor as not to exhibit from a few pieces so treated a streak of fine gold at the bottom of the pan. From some veins pieces can be readily found, by a little search, showing speaks of gold up to the size of pin heads. Sometimes streaks of white and yellow earths are found in surface ores, which yield from $5 to $6O to the panful of 12 or 15 pounds. When such streaks are found large amounts are often obtained from them. The surface ore, generally quite soft and porous at the top, gradually grows harder and more compact as it receds fro m the oxidizing effects of the atmosphere, and is finally lost ilf the glittering sulphurets of iron and copper which takes its, place, being equally rich in gold, and oftentimes a vast deal richer, having in addition a large percentage of silver, and oftentimes an amount of copper equivalent to 25 per cent. of bulk. The surface ore, when found in veins of ordinary width and richness, is stripped from the reins until the sulphurets are met with and is sub mitted to the ordinary process of amalgama tion on large copper plates coated with quick silver, or in large iron, or wooden pans, the ore being, second by revolving spars of iron or masses of stone. In this manner surface ores are made to pay good profits, and in some instances very large amounts. —Report of U. S Commissioner Taylor. THE BEETLES IN UTAH. The Austin. (Nev.) Reveille of June, 13 gives the . ' following description Of this for midable and dreadful plague Utah is pot only plagued with loensts,,but with* insect called the " elephant beetle." A reliable person who returned from the, neighborhood of Salt Lake last wepk saw myriads of them covering the earth with .their shining, brownish black bodies, and destroying everything which they met, in their path. Even small animals, he was in formed by the ill-fated residents,, did not es cape the voracity of these hordes; their bodies were crowded Upon, and worried, and. wounded cruellywith the powerfal , antexipi t i until they fell down, exhausted, by tiieir, struggles and loss of, blood, when they were fastened. upon by, thousands and devoured. The entire carcass of a 1 sheep was eaten and the ;bones picked clean in two minutes and a quarter;. and it is said that a dead ox would be gobbled up by them igea quarter of Au hour. So ferocious MKS thßeo-giant beetles that mothers are afraid to let their little Children go out ofthe hoaseunattended by a grown person. In their frequent bloody contests the, wounded are, devoured on the insta,nt. .Our informant, says they are about' four inches long, with legs three inches long; their antenpie are stiff, sharp, and full four inches long ; they have a short tail armed with a powerful horn, and their shells are so hard that;the weight of a man will scarcely crush them. They are very frisky at times, and jump with, the agility of fleas. No other, species of the beetle possesses their faculty of . uttering ,a loud sound, which, made by thousands of them at once, resembles the braying of, a band of jackasses. Their noise terrified the horses of our informant and his companion, who could not be , kept upon the plain, so great was their , fright. On one occasion while they were riding in a valley that was black with beetles, and crushing them under their horses' hoofia, when their hard cases would crack with a report like a, rifle, the fierce insects showed a disposition to attack the horses, and fairly drove them out of the field. We were inforthed that a scientific man in Salt Lake City was ; colleCting speci mens of this formidable elephant beetle for transmission to various learned institutions of the country. HYDRoPttargAiSeasonaqe Remedies.--The follow ing remedies for hydrophobia may be worth hear ing in mind at the present tithe.i Pne remedy IS as folldWS—Horse radish grated and mixed with a little vinegar and sweet oil to form a paste. Eat of this all that can be swalloWed' and kept onothe stomach. Apply a poultice of the some' to the wound. Repeat the eating and renew the,poultiee as often as necessary to keep up the stimulating effect of . the horse radish until the spasms are relie;ved,and the patient cured. Another is—Take immediately warm vinegar or tepid water, wash the wounded therewith, the:a dry it ; then - pour upon the wound a fewdrops of hydro chloric acid, because mineral acids destroy the poi son of the saliva, by which means the latter is neu tralized. Another recipe is—Mix one pound , of common salt in a quart of water, then bathe With'and Sqtteeze the wound with the same one hour, then bind a lit tle more'salt on the wound for twelVe hours. The author of this recipe "was bitten six times :by mad dogs, and always cured himself by the above miX ture' and offers to suffer himself to be bitten by any mai:l4log in order to convince Mankind' that What he offered was a real truth, Which' numbers could testify." AN electrical organ was recently inaugurated in the church of St. Augustin, Paris, a.short descrip tion of which may be interesting. A. single wire passing from the key to an electro-magnet commu nicates to it a galvanic 'current, thus obviating the old system of the long chain of wooden slips, called trackers, that required 81/Clr-hard thumping to cause them to move promptly. This electromag net, by, means ofa small valve, works the pneuma tic lever, which consists of a sort of bellows placed just under the wind valve of thraiiiise. These wires Ibirna; small bundle, easily grasped by one hand. They supercede the whole system of trackers, give greater durability to the instrument - and-a lightness and equality of touch, which all organists can ap- Augustin °r g' che, is distinguiik Tpotn t his novelty of detail, the St rity of tone, partiee 4e-t: elder br other . at St. Eusta. .: V st beauty and pu ,te as the hautboy, clar,au exq u isite que) which imitate InTb4,lloBt3 ta ncy stops (such with a fidelity hitherto lute harnioni vox humana stop is so perfect . orchestra duration many of the personVity, Likewise the thought that a human being "tEttiti3r or inatt sing. "Ffiyed,, d %gun "to 4 EARTHQUAKE WAVES ON THE PACIFIC.— . Francisco Bulletin says: An earthquake wav , ,-A, followed the recent eruption in the Sum I , Islands, was transmitted to this coast, and recorttilm_ r w e e id i . • ,tm derszt on the Government self-registering tide gauges avntest„...._ If ~", ... - .8 wit. j g . 1 . ~, San, Francisco and Astoria in about five hours., On A isi m,em, Fell, Cord, Bind, Tuck , n • el ' the 23d of December, 1854 a similar wave was No . other Afaegi:eu,i t, Gather, transmitted from the coast of Japan to the Golden Tha,..4. ~ a n d sews as perfectly , zubroi- Gate in twelve hours and thirty-eight minutes. It lloscurlolo' at , - 14-1..y1-t4tIS, TO ALL wil Ibe recollected that this earthquake wave caused Baker . . 5 2 . : nitainzia ' -. ~ WHO APPLY. the wreck of the Russian frigate Diana in the port P _.t r _ l _ s, o l-36 !' -;:i„ mining Samples Post Pros , puma - oewing Twtyzji , ,T of Simoda, and great lose of life. , ~ .RE CROSS OF THE L . • OFFICMhe rix rigent a ti ve "lx or These facts, which are derived from the best au- 0.4, e ,_ of the Grover & thority, convey a .yery impressive idea of the tre- --L ' IS VoBltloil Utiv ei . c grlat i jp , . . erselle mentions power" required . to' diaturh die Whole body DAV 1..... ~,P.opority over all of an' oCeat',fOr a' distance of from' three to hve B--- thousand miles, by . 4 movement distinct from its or, RE X si ) .'rtElr • dinary tidat hute swing. .1t will be seen:that the revul- . adeiphis. sion of the great.tidal wave at Hawaii reached -this; T 0906 'Race Strew! y - coast, distant , oVer two thousand miles, in "five; • ' . 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