rrilig PRESS. DAILY (SUNDAYS .EXUEPTED) JOON IN. FORNEY. 00). Jo, 111 SOUTH FOURTH STRUT. 3 .0 s DAILY Plagli ls Tee Dose's Pea d..ezum, he Csers Pea Wasu, payable to ,r petted to ElUbearlbers out of the 440, ;$,, rue, Allege; FOUR DOLLARS AND Fire! 1 0 " — gi s jlorrael Two DOLLAZEI AND TWIINDO. P it :ut INIONTHS. INVINfiAbIN BAYAINDI I, l : °' olden & ;10 o nt. Inserted al the usual ratan. jo i rs o iIiti•WEEKLY PUBS.% eetewlbers, nes DOLLARS Pea Asittri, tO W rotaisur: „- -'oif PUBLICATIONS. ~,,,,,, ~,,,,,,,, woo, THE LAWYER'S SON, 000%11E BECAME A MAJOR GENERAL. By DIAJOB PSNNIMIIN. e ra TIC LIFE OF MAJOR GENERAL WlM ii,,--11FISLD SOOT!' HANCOOK, line white paper. handsomely Illustrated roe portraiitordrom photograph furnished by rid toll' w designa Whits mad by Hag: cadet at eat Point. leierestlng books published this you. ASS [MEAD & EVANS, PUBLIOHM, No, 7g4 OFIRSTRUT Street, --- ;ilorr'fit it 0 W-W A. TRH D I!E` . ; stow!Gauss , otr';'& sii3w 8 Mercurial atom tad UM Gann& p o wer 11 IA? Mercurial ite l o on to. A ubrb: iiierriela Arrant 14 North 'SIXTH Str e et. ti , voIVERI A BLANK BOOM!. ...: - • miNING, COAL, LND °THAR' p il cosr.unla est Pr A goo torn:lda Low Oonsoratlons 111tH an no f il l Nellie, at abort none* and low NUN. ; 4totl , sit styles ot,Blzullog, , f itsu rLATI OBE 1710 AM 07 STOOL OF3 BOOK. ~ o —_ j oIS 01 TUNIIPIL leo; 1,11)0111, . rog L vov. 11..i.t.A.10:45. . 0131 OF 04.21TAL swat- la. sOl rwrn LEDGE& ...., • or OF BULB. t opflt 11007. , . moss a 004 1 10011= 1 1AOTUBIEWD itrAnoligiza, 11811 O.IIIBTM Stmt. MILLINEItIG )lES' SILK HATS, MINCE SNAP= VS, FEATHERS, FLOWERS,, 9ISUVELTIBS IA TRH MILLINERY LIBEL THOS. KENNEDY & BRO., No. 729 OHERTNIIT Street. INSURAuIiCE. RELIANCE INSURANCE COM ?L'il 01 PHILADELPHIA. n 1511. Charter PerpetnaL OFFICE No. 300 WALED'S STREET. irainst 1038 or damage by_PIRR /1041196. tudether Buildings, limited or perpetual; and 11)Te, Goods, Waree, and Nerohartuiee. ILL, $300,000. ABORTS, $387,21.1.86. loaned In the following Becnritles, TIE briaie on City Property, Well seoursd $106,900 CO link* Government 119.000 00 rlple& City 6_per cent. Loans.... 60,000. 00 azstelih of Pennsylvania 6 per cent. TM Loan 19 -•.,000 CO Mule Railroad Sonde, first and BF • Inflage Loans 35.000 00 . and Amboy Railroad Company's 6 lon Loon 4,000 00 leptis end Reading Railroad Com- I per cent. Loan . 6,000 00 and Broad Top Railroad 7 pia oos 4 L ,660 00 inn' Bent of Penneylvania 10,0)0 00 Beak Stock ........... :••::••••••••••• 1,920 00 ._.-. --...- ?ire lammass Company's 5t00k.... ' 1,050 OS Knasl Insonsnos Company's Moak of _. dolphis . .4..444. 2,131X1 till Da uonatmals. well sesured.-t”.."*..... %WO OD 1 15tereet...............—........... 4.., 4.. .114E2,00 iiiit and on hand,......v........7........«.........; litWili $887,211 dd kat mutat market Ta1tat................... smeei z DIBEGTOBS. , Tingley, Hobert Mao& It Thompson. William Stevenson, at 131,phem, Hampton L. Carson. a Elden, Marshall Hill. to Hunt, • T.' Johnson Brown. a Leland. 1 Thomas H. Moore, .ii.linalen CLIIN MGM'. President. sii C. HILL, Secretary. toms, January 4. /BM . 3a541' BIIA.CITE INSURANCE 0011- Y .—emthorized Osplial -.IA COO — CHARTEE AL. 00, 311 IS ALOCIT Simi, between Third and :stunts, Philadelplti. Oorpani will imitiro *naiad Ls or Damage by i l , Mud! no, Forclitire, and Merchandise genie- Insurances on Vowels, Caratme, and Inland insurance to all parts of the Union. DIRECTORS. Demis Pearson, Peter Seiner, T. Baum, JoWh n illiam F. Dean, Ketcham. JAM EIEDIR. President. DUN, Ties President. apS•ll LdeDrl.ed. . . 1, rk istn, LAteld, WIL WM. ==ftD:ll RICAN FIRE INSURA NOB HkNY, incomerstedlBlo. ONABTALPIS • all) WALNUT Btreet, Cleve Third, 2 , 3ld.tip Capital Stook and Surplus in. ~ : c3 ti4ri available Set:rarities, oonUnnes to n [F. Stores, Furniture, "Merebandise. their Cargoes, and other Personal A .A.Aa liberally and PrOMPSV adirested.. DlnittrrOßs. . Junes B. Campbell. Edmund G. Battik;'. Chalice lir. Poultnelrs. Israel Morris. AB H. MARIS, President. geftretari: fel/41 THOM L.CxAw 11:1:B.A.14011 EXCLUSIVELY. LVANIA TIES avx• , oraied 18421. 011AATER PKIIRRTUAL. vAL:vI7T Street, opposite hadependenee favorably knoWri to the oontmenit7 spare, coati - nut:so to Insure nude et Lou Ly Fire, on Public or Private kgrtUdlrligar '; , E , 117 roto"r a limited time. Also, on. Far :ol Goode. or Merchandise IterterailY. On •,', ~r elher with a large Surplus land, la Wog careful manner, whleh enables , !,e Insured an undoubted erantrity DIRROTORS. ° tt.4r... - qL. • Daniel Smith, Jr.. John Devereni, Thomas Smith, Henry Lewis, 0111thitham Be d , NICTERN PATTRBBOIL President 'l Secretary. 'ANCE COMPANY OF THE ,'? PEN NSYLVANIA.-01710E Nos. 9k and lir I LDIIIO4,_ north side of WALNUT PACE sad THIRD Streets, Pnuadol- '.'.PD IN 1724-011611,7113 PERPETUAL. cAPITAL 7 ,3 1 , 1 - THE COMPANY, FEBRUARY I. 184, 14215. 817 62. AND INLAND TRARHFORTATIOB INSURANCE. •, , zrerf D I IEBOTOES. Tobias Wagner, t -ter, Thomas B_Wateon, Henry G. Freeman. Whq Charles S. Lewis, 3,1.1 o.orge 0. °non, Edward G. Knight, SHERREILD, President. tart.. n 01.813 Jr., John 8. 1 . AWRY D. Se,,retr 105 CHEF)] PHILAD! AND MLA DIB,BO E COMPANY, TNTIT WEBB% ELPHT.t. ND INSDNANON. TOR& Jobe W. Nrerient, B Robert B. Potter. John Kessler. Jr.. H. WoodAff. Charles Stokes, • Joneph D. MIL BUCK. President. EDSDN, Ties Preel den 3al4- t. 11 '"L hSOISi RIC: , ^Rn, Secret WM. H. °BATIK. NSHEA.D & GRAVES, rg AOBNCY, No. 312 WALNUT Ht.. `l.l.ladel_plaa. agents for the f CITY PLEB INSURANCE CO.. Or ALBANY. If. N. YIIZAM 'WILLIAM N. GRAM. ti SHEAD & GRAVES. 'NstfRANCE AGENCY, STRNBT, PHILAIMILPHIA. MOMS FOR TAB w. 7.88 mfittßANal aompANT. F NORWICH, 'CON!. ITARTBESD VW. - • pIiTLADRLPRIA (by antboray)j Messrs. Tredielt,Stokes &Co •, op. IMessrs. Chas: Lenalg & go. 4 Sit MILL Messrs. W.M. Lamed, & 00. WY. I. Gains. AHEAD & GRAVES' IN ,, URARcE AGENCY, A LIN UT STREET PHILADELPHIL huTOIS VMS Won/Amos colt - Lula% .147-6 m - - ( MWHEA.T FLOUR. TB aLOVRE HoNET. W PARED rakinfin. :'; Van CRAABARBIBB. &a. .BERT O. ROBERTS, [;,alar la Pine Groceries > • ELEVENTH and VINE Urania METALLT.O WEATIfilr , WINDOW BANDS Cold, Wind, Ra1.14-Bnow, and Dna • 10,0 08 AND WINDOWS. halt the fuel. CHARLES B. BASES, No. 38 South FIFTH Street, Sole State Agent. 4r, rated thmusbont the St "541/1 "' RUDDY, e and Wholesale Dsate its : BYE. MID iv ruuder _ `,ECOND STREET. bet elt Ham. Phila. fLENAT MIDDY. if4A.AU J. SIJANs. 41ID FLAX SAIL DUOS or aN. lITIMIMS ttl/d bra ?, Trpns, and Wagon Corer nds. "(Set wide; Twine pelts. JONI W! 31/.lll4oA9°'' No. 103'10 AlloY. 0 .. : _ , _.,_ . _ •,.`. Alip SKATE STRAPS:7 ~ - , iateded to tall and exantineirtar , '. Ladie s " and Gents' Skates ,_,.. ri t i c ri,lritipd at thirlowast otanelpri.A.ll,!,, "'" HAM. Mannfactur '-. rra Straat, nonan DOZEN BERKETI. huhu of the need oroallti. prepared to, Brldieton, J Baleeroora. • RHODZIEV & WILLIAM% 107 Borah Wrt,TXO. Street. its W TOMATO ' hart tn d Alnt bottles of toe ter sale byRRODIS a wILLI jai book war* .. 4 !.• . •-•• 0 ' . , , ...., ' .6 4, `*-,, • ,-, • fi. ..._ 4 ... ,0,,w 0,7 ~..._ .....„6.,,,... 4 ,,,..„..„....,...,;...,..,....„. ... ,_... „i ......z..,,,,.. ~..„...„.......,,,, ~. ~.,..,.. ../...;..........._,. ......„.„.„...,...„:„.............. • •_ 4 ,-,...---- - -tli loo-- .::: .. _ ..,•x:- - I ..t,&. * • ri e ,tri tril _ A . ' • , , V } T :ITIA) • - Willi ' "- -, -.11111 ......____ ...r.,..!..7_.-- -- ~.., *4: ,'''','"•-• - ' .1. - . Rat ili -Ni ' ..1.---....0" VII I - : . - ..-5 : - - .4--- - '-', ,'," ' ' . • 1 7- - - - -. ( ' ',• -- ir I - " if. - N • ' lk , ~. .s. - - '4 , !! ._ ' . 17-ti • ,:;/....... 1 . .',=•• .--,,,,,• - MIMI • --• _ . -_-__' --'—'--------._ -II - • - - ,. , •;:mi• 6 2;, 6 :,- --,, I , ~ :. -k.., ... • .. ...!,/,_ _ _ ~.• ~-,:•---- -Ill: i , ...- .••••• • (• --V ' t ~_,.......„,........_..........._ ...„.........,. ,:ltiatittrs, ........'. * . t : ....r .,. '4; : ' L T '''''''' st., '.". 'l. .. it lir., '_.. -- •ffi....,0 . 1 .....,. ._......._d0....:„...,,,,,,,„....... -,----- . ....im........• ............... __Ate . VOL. 8.-NO. 101. RETAIL DRY GOODS. t j . 00WPERTSWAIT do CO., N. Z. cor. NINTH and ARCH StreClS. THE GREAT BLANKET STORE. BLANKETS AT RETAIL.. BLANKETS AT WHOLESALE. BLANKETS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS. BLANKETS FOR HOTELS. BLANKETS FOE THE ARMY. BLANKETS FOR THE NAVY. BLANKETS OF ALL SIZES. BLANKETS OF ALL QUALITIES. TILANIKETS THE ONELPEST IN TOWN. BLANKETS TO SUIT EVERYBODY, AT THE ILLANIEET STORE* S. E. ear. NINTH and ARON STREETS. ao4-tmwtden it Ito /..QH—lltTlUL___ PRICES nizir -4acoopt& JAMES B. CAMPBELL & CO., Off OMMTNIIT STREBT, Allis TR= AVERS STOOK OF DDY GOODS, 001111518 TING IN PART or CLIHNOES, poem:ors AND BEM xentetzems, OLAN'FIAIIDS, ALTAOAS AND BIOS AIRS, stays . AND FANCY Sniff% suawrz, aLovzs t zalturs, WRITE GOODS, FLANNELS, BLANKETS, LINEN AND COTTON SHEETING% KEPELLANTS AND - CLOAKING CLOTHS, AT /MTH/SMELT LOW RATIOS. We beg leave to assure the public that we have earked'doira avers artiste to on: stock : and now have it In our power to Ma BARE BARGAINS.of2B4I4 101* ONISTEUT. STREET. . . I IL NEEDLES 81 shuzat Rzonrnie • NOVELTIES g LACES, WHITE GOODS, EMBROIDERIES HANDKERCHIEFS, dbo. ; wa r iz s mi d A t ur a c e rga ls. 1004 mum= STREET. ptRIGHT PLAID POPLINS., Aar JUST OPENED, Immoral large late, bought in New fork at redwood prises rforis earth. One ldt single-width k Plaids, Mo. One lot double. width heavy gay Plaid Poplins, SI:M. Two lots all-wool bright Plaids, cheap. . Three lots risk wool Plaid Poplins, WM, Si, and. &EL One lot fine wide Preach Matinees, $1.50. One lot Striped Brocade Reps, $1.26. One lot figured. striped, hews Mohair!, One lot figured Merinoes, m. 2% a bargain. One lot black wool Delaines„ Ms; cheap. EP pieces American Prints and Delaines. COOPER k 00EARD, 0529-11 S. E. roomer NINTH and MARKET Streeta. 11BTEWL & BON HAVE NOW -• Opan a lame and choice assortment of PAIL AND WINTA,N-. DERAONOODS. Fiala yeriapee, sl..asso_. .1170 rlain Poplins. Plaid Meri.ess and Pop • rota and Plaid Silk Poplins, 'Plain and Flared Mohair Popline, and a great eariety of new and choice Dress Goods, all tt "ogees fax below THE PRESENT OOST OF IMPORTATION. old lIS—Of all kinds, a great variety , from 76 cents ;or yard below 41111 morn to PRICES. SHAWLS—A large assortment. at a small. advance , TOl laet aeasoa'a pelage. se44, .3 and TlSZorth TENTH Street. 4_ 4 SUPERIOR QUALITY MANTIL LA VELVETS, of Lyons manufacture. Very heavy Corded Silks for Cloaks. Fplondld quality Frosted Beaver Cloths. Black and Colored Velvet Beaver Cloths. Ribbed and Plain Beaver Cloths. Real W ater-Proof Cloths, Esc. Cloaks ready-made., and made to order out of the above clothe. Splendid quality long Broglie Shawls. ' Shawls and Scarfs in great variety, ED WIN BALL Et. 00.. no2l 26 South SECOND Street. BARGAMB FROM AUOTION. One lot Swan's Skin Flannel, all wool, at 56%; aligner than Canton Flannel. One lot Swan's Skin Flannel, all-wool, at 62%; a de rided bargain, Four lots of Marseilles Counterpanes, large size: pretty pattern andgood. Lead Colored Canton Flannel, 66 and 75 cents; scarce and desirable. Ladiee' Long Shawls, largest size and best styles; only 1110. At JOHN H: STOKES', JIM . 7021 AROM Street. y I ~' .11' `~I I i 82 6 LRCM STREET. Qqr, '4" 4 "'", WIMMIR )1017.4 1 1.L. • G. A. BOMBS. um mann mum AND wurna aultrysorosi. AND OTATLEKIIWII FURNISHING EMPORIUM. TOIMOTBD YEQI SO ABOII MOON TO TIM 11171ST WORT. 82 ARCH EiTREET. ii.n.funiptho 44 M,„,c, 4 4.1, HAZARD & HUTORIEBON, r Jo. ELS CHESTNUT STREET. COMMISSION MERCHANTS: sox TEN SALE ON • CiEl-SSO PMEADELPHLA , NADE 000 D& MERCHANT TAILORS. EDWL P. WELLY, JOHN KELLY. TAILORS, MS CHESTNUT STRUT, WM from Mb data (Ootobor SI) Sell st REDUCED PRICES. CASH. CARPETS AND OIL-CLOTHS. 1864. FAIL t 1864. ar-aarficcuo it. w, GEBMANTOW BEcOALLUM dt 4:3 . 0.. CARPET WALREHOXIBX. fie CHESTNUT STEM. THILADHSPILL.- 1864. 1864. siec.Al4l:o3l. attr, CO., IFIETAIL DEPARTMENT. 619 013311319110 T STMT. 0114 m OPIVOITI INDEPINDILINCIE SILL. 4dAligTON" MATTINGS. j tr , B'T :r(g El V D, A LABOI MOWS OP PIMA COCOA m.Alelow3.s. MoC4I,I.4UNL & CO. NM& C A IZ D. WIN THAN 008 T 01 UffilpTATlOA's 1026 011EBTNIIT STREET; 1026 . CIUILTAIN STORM. Gonda4tly on bua a .falliine of WINDOW OURTAINB _ _ , • , CURTAIN MATHRIALS • FURNITURE covzirtioas s WINDOW SHADES, ___ CORNICES, BANDII3,_ TASSELS, GTATPS, - , CORDS, &0., &Li ♦T THE LOWEST MOE& For Fret-elm geode. The tioikmanehie of. MIL eatab ligament le second to no other is the United States. - O. X. STOUT fr. 1075 OHISTIFUT Street. THE "FLOEENCE "-- AMERICAN INVENTORS' GREAT TRIUMPH—THE SEWING MACHINE PERFECTED.—AiI the objections_ to other Machines are oveicome in , the FLORENCE. It makes FOUR DIFFERENT. STITCHES, with the same ones, and with as little machinery as others make one. Be sides, it haithe REVERSIBLE FEED MOTlON—rcini form, self-regulating tension of thread and no springs, cousvheele, or came to get out of order, 'lt does ALL . RINDS OF FAMILY SEWING, from the heaviest woolen! to the most delicate fabrics, using all kinds of silk, cotton, and linen thread,• from No. 20 - to 200..: NO NO OTHER MACHINE dose so large a range of work se the FLORENCE. NO OTHER MACHINE pleases the ladles so well ae the FLORENCE. More than ONE THOUSAND of the FLORENCE "have been sold in Philadelphia within the last few months. The FLORENCE is the only PERFECT FAMILY SEW ING MACHINE, warranted to give entire satisfaction, or money returned. There Is no one who own. a FLORENCE that would sell it at cost. 041 and see its operations, whether - you wish to pur chaia or not. Samples of sewing, with.. price list, sent free by mail. _ _ T EE PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL BANE, A.Grimwr AND DEPOSITORY OF THE UNITED STATES, RECEIVES SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR 7 80-100 TREASURE NOTES, 10-40 BONDS. 3101-wfmlia B. B. COMECCTS. Cashier. TEE N TION PINAISIGIAL AGENT AND DEPOSITARY OF VIE Eeceivee Subscriptions for the NEW TRESS-TSARS '3 30-100 TREASITRY NOTES; which are convertible at maturity into six per cent. 54) Bonds s also for the 10-40 Bonds, interest on both payable in Gold. oe2B4wwlm W. RUSHTON. Ja., Oadderb P B • CONSOLIDATION NATIONAL_ BANK OF PnizAA.3)DrabirrA., FINANCIAL .AGENT AND DEPOSITORY Receives Subscriptions' for the NSW THRBB-YRAR 7.30-100 TREASURY NOTES, which are convertible at natality into BM PER OENT. 5-20 BONDS; also, for 10-40 BONDS, interest on both payable in gold.. JOS. N. PIERsor, nol4l-svfmlm COUPONS• OF 1881 BONDS" DUE. JANUARY 1, - BOUGHT AT MARKET RATE OF GOLD, BY Ml9-10t IVlEWfirrir4 •Sr. CO. OILULLES MORI; EALEZ. 1411130 N. 7R CHARLES. EMPRY & CO., STOCK AND NyECHINGE BROKERS, dll kinds of nneurrent fond' and Gold and gayer bought and eold, and Collections made. - Pertieraar.attention elT43e to the uareham and WA of Government, State, and other Stooks and Loans on eommieslon. - • nolg-Em RAMER, DURNEY, & CO., Particular attention paid to purchase and sale of Oil Stocks, Pannazione.—Brexid &Co., 3. B. Atui. tin, 'President Southwark Bank. nosl6-3nt Tr g NEW 7-80 LOAN. lJ . • Subseriptiiito resolved, and the motes tuo ultthed fr" o f lll4ll gbtralt J. a ceno sankar. suusm IS South TAILD Stook 1721T1' 1 D SOLD OS SOILIDIBIOII. - SIOSOB SoyD, tiouth TEM) utmost. anSWI L. TINCLEY, num AID (AGAR WAJUEROV i, NO.O NORTIELTAIRD Wr BEET. Agent tor the ale of AN the estlebre' boa thsitd. of SLEAZY, OUBIN. & 00., Oinebutati % " 01 MB WM," ". 4 onsrorerskros," •• 31=111." Lei '• lIICB =maw AND Ormßß smoßiso - TOBACCO. • - A brie let of Drhite CIGARS so d T OBACCO. l ow h i Store. and for eels sheep. 0.05.13 =EI guar SIMINTIMAPIiti.,::, CURTAIN GOODS. I Ina °mBB t MY ENTIRE STOOE LACE CURTAINS N'ORITTC 19M13 MINT. I. IC. WAS/CA. I 7MM . stroussoz To W. H. WWI. NEASON/0 HALLS kf:%; r D4:I FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, 830 CHESTNUT' Stieet. FINANCIAL. YARXIIRW' A D MECRAI4IOB' OF PM:WIMIL1P'HI:111.; UNITED 'STATES, Or TNB UNITED STATES, No. I.4lkSouth Third Street, F ADBLPHLL 13A.NWERS, STOOK AND.EXCIIIKKGE BROKERS. 55 SOUTH THIRD EMMET, PEILADISZPIII4 111 WILUILIV 4 a.p. In le /GUM EXT/1 mum, iffsaufsetaxa of VENXIITIAN BLINDS ' AND virirAiDow siztAiDics. VP'S LIM* lad Zug .11iro dant ti thog *By at X.OWNST air itapatabia Wands& to vromptia.. Misr Store Madan lisle out lottataa. LOOKING GLASSES.. ' JAMES S. 'FABLE `65 SON, 816 0/118TNUT MUT, 141116., him now In doze R. very flue anwrimont-of LOOSING of every aluwacter, of the vlNif BIST.INANIMACTURN AND LATEST tams. PAINTLEMS, ENGRAIrIDIGE4 60i =Tins A riginwakit wan _ 4 e 4, ' DAY NOVEMBER 25, 1864. Et't Vrtss. 'FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1864. THANKSGIVING DAY, 1864. A Gala-Day in Philadelphia. A SABBATH AND A FESTIVAL COMBINED. The Churches Filled with Wershipperi. The Streets Thronged with Pleasure-Seekers Wednoodsly night the temperature oithe weather became very_oold ; the people felt Its severity mire keenly from the fact that the change oapie upOri them suddenly. Ice was m ade ~ tO the thickness of an inch during the night. Yesterday, morning the day dawned with - unusual brightness; the inn looked gladness from the eastern ski ; the temputu,' tare was mild ; and the public having become 1 4 5. cumated, it may be said that the day was to the • people at large a brilliant and pleasant oil. Scarcely a cloud shrouded the great blue dou.W.f the universe. There was just 'enough eollaass - 41 the atmosphere to Impart a healthful glow to 0b.5434s of beauty : __ The _people were astir at an early hour. gentle 'breeze from tlu — Tinre west wailifit - itiZik enough to enliven the folds of the great American na g - thing from tall poles and many of hp residences of `our citizens., It' was a day of hag& nen, - and daring ztheinierning:::iiit effiureffifs were thronged. The stores generally were eloso and the great, National Sabbath was all that (Maid be required. The hotels and taverns were. partly open, OA 861310 ~ a s on Sundays ; and ,these was little or no drtmketiness visible on the stases But the sublime scene of the day was reserved to the afternoon. Under the bracing air, genfallaed by the beams of a Cloudless sun, our principal thoroughfares, Chestnut Street particularly; zprei Muted a vest moving throng of people, made *4 more sappy from the fact, no donht, of having-in dulged in dinners worthy of the occasion and the • day. At noon the Cadets of Temperance made a parade, and attracted considerable attention, with their, banners; In the breeze and their I[lllBlo awakening many a harmonious echo. In the, afternoon the places of amusement were densely fined, but all these the National Olroire exceeded in point of numbers: A more-joyous eon, gregation of. ladles and children we never ositti4 Theireyes glistened with joy, and their hearts pul sated with rapture, at -the grand mental feast pre- . pared for them by Mrs. Charles Warner. Thanks. ; giving Day of ¢864 will be•.an epoch in the history of the lives of four thousand ladies , and children, Who will long for the time when President Lincoln appoints a similar...day. Taking ~everything into consideration, the day was one that will be long menibered, bythe one million -of; inhabitants of the great moral; intellectual, and business metropolis of the United States, popularly known as Philadel phia. 'We present to-day extraetS frem a few Serino:lS delivered yesterday : In the New-street Lutheran Church a, nuMerinte and appreciative audience bad asseMbled to listen to a discourse by the pastor, Rev. E. W. Hatter. After appropriate introductory exercises a liberal collection was taken up in behalf of the Christian Clommission; The pastor's theme was, "A Vindi cation of Cod's Providence." He spoke as follows : Text—" There be many that say, Who will show us any good 7" Psalm iv., 6. It would seem that during the "good old times " o 1 King David, not less than in our own degenerate days, there existed, among the diversities of human kind, a class of men whir, happen what would, were , never satisfied. Whatever the kind or do: their virtues, 'Us plain contentment was not a .. the number. With the arrangements, both offset . • and heaven, they wore perpetually in contitot„ If it rained, their meadows were always under water. If the sun was• shining in his strength, he was al:. ways scorching- their plants and vegetables. DtV rill' the summer months they were ever on the verge of suffocation ; daring the season of whitest: they were ever In danger of freezing to death. No harvest could , God send-them in which the; tares did not. preponderate. , Their' benflue was never without a death's head. Their gate; was never without a Mordecai. Their path' never without a lion—their ohamber never without frog. Their ointment was always being corrupted b files. They never wane ,- but always to be, bleat : They were ever, like plogenes, lantern hihat/ traversing the thoroughfares. at high noon, in tpap . °f it somebody or a some th ing • If the natio • was at peace, they wore dying of ennui; if a war' of over-excitement. In their noon-tide of- - thy there was ever, a ienatlithinw- , < not all the weeith-or by the treasures • _ei-eieruntra, could oonvinoe them that i tilWare not in a condition bordering on destitu on. ' Far want of a better name we will call them kers, for their speech • resembled. none so much as that of the raven, confessed by all tobe a bird of evil omen. Of course, theirs persons never joined in any thanks giving—public .or private, speedal or general. Why should they? They knew of none to whom any thanks were dae; and of nothing to be thankful for. Their's was ever an unhinged and dissatisfied spirit. Evidently their besetting sin was discontent. We almost wish, for' the sake of the peace of the world, that, with the reign of King David, MU rase of orpakers had ceased • to exist. Unhappily, it has been perpetuated. Despite all advance in know ledge, religion, and virtue, there be still not a few, but, as then, " many," whose daily and hourly re iterated interrogatory it is: Who will show us any good?" Or, paraphrased, "what have we re ceived, to summon us to rendition of thanks." Whatever the extent of our Self•OODOelt, it pro ceeds to no such excelling height as to lead as for a moment to imagine that by any fire of our kindling. we shall be able to convert 'this "winter of their discontent into glorious summer." Not We wave no magician's wand. We have not delegated to us any powers of enchantment. But we do lay claim, under God, to the ability to demonstrate to the satisfaction of all reasonable and reflecting minds, that, notwithstanding the thousand: MS •to which flesh is heir, there atilt exist sources and occasions innumerable, to Summon us to utterances or fervent thankfulness to Him, in whom we all live and move and have our being, who is the Father of lights, and from whom comoth down every good and perfect gift. But, here supervenes a dilliculty., Who shall recount all our blessings? Can we - measure the waters of the great deep, or count- the sands that serve to confine it in its bed? Shall we register the stars, or take a ()ensue of the so Lammed leaves I Oh, are not our blessings, like' the years of God, innumerable 7 But, our inability to know them all, or even a remote moiety of them. does not absolve us from the duty of an konestefe,irt to approximate to them. Such exercises, too, et' eanee our appreola tion of these benefits, and sine :only performed,are well pleasing to their great Ar'ahor and Dispenset. First, then, let us be thee okful - to Gird for the preservation of our Lives. 'l'te it we were ever born at all, ever had a being wha r t ever, we ewe to God's sovereign,gocidnees. To !His essential happiness and glory not one of rut ' was necessary. He could have dispensed,with all U no angels and archangels . , and felt It no loss to I:11 m. Oh, what a lesson it is not for us, then, to learn our dependence ! Sin has so benumbed• our Seal Abilities, so darkened our perceptions, so ellen ated • our minds, that we often fancy ourselves gods, living, and moving, and having. our be' mg in ourselves. Where as, there never Wrse a man, nor an angel, that could , lift a th read or a pinion without the power and mini. etration of the unseen and nut - venal providence of God. Relying on Him for every breath we /draw, for every pulsation of our hearts, Our done/. silence is absolute. Has .He not kept us alive durf mg another year I Has lie not pre. served us from,' "moving accidents by field and flood 1" Has not averted from us the pestilence that walks ,' darkness, and the deatmotion that wastes at 1100 I' day I Have not His holy angels en -compassed ow : every pathway 1 Oh I is it not, than, the very essay ice and climax of sin and folly, over looking our own being, to be asking : Who will show us as!. good?" Next; let us thank God for our knowledge that there is a God. - This comoth not by intuition. God is our teacher W . a well as our creator, Not all the nations of the se' rth are thus favored; millions this day are bowing •" at the shrines of superstition and idolatry. Their ode have eyes but see not, ears but hear not, hands ' out handle not, feet bat run not ; and, as the stream , can never rise above the fountain; they that _matte unto themselves such gods are Like unto them . How different our situation. The true and only God has been revealed to us from.heaven. kith' w His character, His perfections, and many Far 3IIUI and instructive parts of His providence. .W hat monstrous ingratitude, then, for men, having Its ', L in their power, if they wilt but open their goggle. yes, to be basking In the sunlight of stieles revels,- ' Jon, to be asking, " Who will show us any good!" Next, let us give God thanks, for our redemptien through Jesus arise Thanks be unto God for Ills unspeakable gift' Now, unto the King eternal, Immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor, and glory, forever and ever! Oh, for that bl oom prehensible and ineffable love which enthrones at his own right hand, even with Christ on the - Throne, a poor, unworthy, blood-stained, blood-bought sin ner; how shall we ever render :suitable and sant dent thanks 1 Pride, that itharaoteristio sin of the apostasy, alas, has infused into our minds a poison more virulent than the virus of the serpent's tooth. If that were eradicated, then might we realize, as we ought, the urgency of that implicit and eternal obligation that binds us, for the sake of. Jesus, to, the Throne of the • Invisible. Then would we never so dishonor ourselves, nor prove ourselves so unworthy the best gifts of God, as-to be asking, with the time light of redemption blazing all around us : " Who unit show us any geed ?" Next, let us thatileGod, that we possess, as well, alt the appointed means to render this redemption c,ffl • eacurus. The Holy Ghost is given to all that seek him, to profit withal. We possess the Scriptures, that are able to make us wise onto salvation, We possess them in our mother tongue, with no'closps on them except such as the binder affixes. Their sublime statements we interpret for ourselves. We etillbehold our Sabbaths and hear the joyful sound.. The feet of them that publish glad things are still beautiful upon the mountains. Public instruc tion still enlightens our minds, and awakens the ardor of our affections. The towers and battlements of Zion are still decked, and made glo rious with the spoils of her adversariea. There still bang the shields of Pharaoh, the spoils of Sem naoherib, the Crown and power of Nebuohadnezzar. Salem; as of yore, is still glorious in the arrow of the bow, the shield, th e spear, the sword; and the spoils of the oppressor. Amidst all our Internal ennvuhions Zion stilt stand', "beautiful for' situa tion," for no weapon formed against her has pros pered. Oh what dire and dark ingratitude to Zion's King, then, does it not betray, to be stand ing In the midst of such stupendous displays of love, and to be limiting Weil:leaven Witlfthe quest Mu, " Who will show us any good 7" • Next, let us thank God for oar innumerable cre °lure comforts, foremost among them our bountiful hareems. During the. months of summer, possibly. to remind us of our. dependenoe, it pleased Gsid, for a brief season, to suspend the rain ; and oh, what jeremiade were uttered alt over the land! Hun dreds of croaking ravens were uttering the cry of the text. One would bave t honght that:the heavens had suddenly become brass,. and the earth iron. But bow premature these lamentations ! God had not forgotten the bow of promise his hand bad stretched across 'the . firmament. Behold, the earth taw again rewarded' the in vestments of the husbandmah with usurious in: terest. Our garners are filled-with the finest of wheat—plenty for ourselves, and to spare to the eta;rVing masses of Europe. Oar oxen have been strong to labor,. and our sheep have vastly multi plied, We complain 'orthe high prices of proid- WWI agd gerhapo net ream, Bu God CASHIER Liirrg-EnadF" BEV. It. W. MITTI3I3. gives theM to uftcheaply. He Is no extortioner. And they are worth all we pay for them, a thousand times over. Standing amidst waving wheat fields, find widely extended acres of fall-eared corn, and in gardens, teeming with a vast profuelon of vege tables, and fruits—our tables loaded down, often, with Stl_rflulties—a strange question it IS, truly, to ask : " Who will show us any good?" Next, let us remember; with gratitude, our educa- Hever! facitilies. Ours is emphatically a land of schools, and booke, and newspapers. Schools! Stands there not either an academy, a seminary, a n oO e ll r e i ge ß , 0 0 0 r k a s f unize in ran th y, e at d a s l y m e o o s f t c s v o e i r o y m s o t a r:se o t i e t o h r e . making of these there is upend. Bring bat one of each kind to one place and they will constitute a pile as large as the pyramids of Egypt. Newspa. pers They are thick as the leaves of Valambresa, and, at one cent per diem, we have them brought to our deers, before we are out of bed. They embrace, too, every shade and variety of opinion. Not the children of the humblest son of toll has here, therefore, any excuse for being reared in Ignorance. Where power springs from the Masses, their virtuours education is of the ut most Importance. It was remarked by our own illustrious Luther, ," teaching school is next in im portance to preaching the Gospel." Luther spoke, as he always did, the truth. For, we know, that when we work upon mind we work upon materials Immortal and Imperishable, and that the impress we place there is Insane:feeble. If we work upon -marble, it will perish. - If we work upon braes, time will efface it. If we rear templeS, they will Crumble to duet. Bat if we - Work on thnlmmortal minds:, of our children, and imbue them with hlghprlnclifies, with the just fear of God and their fellow-men,:we 'engrave on those tablets Something which no, time can efface, but which will .brighten and brighten to all eternity. And this is a distinguishing element of the Anse. rlcan institutions, that they place the highest pos sible estimate on popular unisMrsal education, and place the means ofmdightenment within the roach of all. Rd* unmindful of these blessings, then, are thoFo who, with hundreds of- boys. and girls sweeping by them daily to and from school, are asking, " Who Will show us any good'' , Next, let us return thanks unto. God,fervent and _sincere or our matchless /erre ofpfuit Government. oftW re- , , we tat under our own vine and our own fig-Urea, en *Met by the influences of those benign institutions Whack have been, under God,,tlie kind nnrsing-mo- Stber aim 'W all. e all love our country, and have reason to love it. It is the seat of pure and undo. lied religion. It is the abode of liberty and law. 'lt is the asylum of the down-trodden and oppressed of earth. Here dignity,in the magistrate unites with - freedom to the citizen, and security and protec tion to all. Here the 'humblest son of toil, If he but act his part with fidelity, has the opportunity oOu l g s e. perfection. That !on' earth is a Chimera, of Ing. to the highest plax, of ,distinction. I 0 not claim for our form - 'government, of That belongs to Heaven alone. . But this I do claim for it, that, mere than any other form of govern ment ever devised by man, it approximates to perfection. For even now, , c orn and tempest !tossed, it is the model and centre attraction for '.. all the nations of the earth. Like 'B.l some ancient oak, that has survioedamairy at howling wind and storm, proudly overtop@ every other tree - Of the forest, so our American system of govern ment even In the midst of the horrible tempest, rises In majestic splendor, a mffndarte column, ste perlor to and above any other ! " Tell it not in (lath ; publish• it not In the streets of Askelon," against such a Government, and against such ittetatollons. Misguided and ambitious leaders anafecalled Southern epinion, moved and Instigated thereto 'by their own unitnvernable pas alone, and the superadded . "wiekpris devices of ' the devil," have taken, up aitas. to effect its ruin and overthrow! ' And this after .they had, •ever since lie 'organization, enjoyed almost a monopoly of its emoluments and honors ! And this, UP, against the well-known wishes of large majori ties of the people of their own setitlon. Gigantic • crime! Horrible *lniquity I This is my deliberate judgment, that for unmitigated depravity this re bellion has had no parallel slnoe the nailing of oar .Lord Jesus Christ to the cross. Epr me it is ever difficult to speak of it and not be betrayed into vto •lent and disorderly exclamations. Very properly did the General• Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran , Church of the United States, at Its last - two bien Mal conventions, unanimously prononnee it "wicked In Its incention, unjustifiable in its cause, unnatural 'in its character,' Inhuman in its proseoutlonasop pressive in itatimit, and destructive In its results to the highest interests of morality and religion." . Shall It succeed?. Yes i when the aky s getis ! Yes t 'when sun, 'moon, and stars cease an Mho ! Yes ! whenjudgmetit has fled to brutishTeaets, and men have lost their reason I Yes! when vegettalon stops, when the rivers cease to empty themeelves into the ocean I Year When jridgment and juattee are nb longs ,er.the habltntion,of God's Throne. Than. Not before. There Is no Sampson In the ,South stung enough to walk swayinithahe gate pastier on Gaza: There is no army of Philistines therb numerous enough,. valiant enough, to capture theaark of our naticasal covenant. Mark our- prediction. The re bellion will fait—fainutterly, fait ignmeiniottily, fail forever t God has no attribute that Is on its side. It Ise failure now. tqchabod" is already written against Mid, tuiless.its I leaders, repent of . their wicked- , l a , return to their homes, and demean themselves ea ' amble and quiet citizens, they will. le swept, • by God's avenging angel, as chaff is swept by the : rude blasts.of the tempest and the whirlwind. • The Republic will live! , The Union established by the valor and cemented by the blood of our patriotic ancestry will be perpetuated. Bat one flag will float over this land, fromAne waters of the Arostook to the Rooky • Mountains. To acootligtodete two due sky is too narrow. There Is room r hut one, ' ofd that one the Stars and Stripes, the :holy flag of ' freedom, under whose ample folds Washington con quered, and Montgomery and Warren offered up • their lives ; the flag, Strad on by traitor hands at Fort Sumpter, but planted by s our braveloldiers. on "Lookout Mountain,Above the Wends. laisursion_ Is Simply, now and -forever, Impossible. *ffisissAlra ham and Lot to divide and maintain rival establish. 'manta, there le here .not, • land enough. But .ipnanatten can exist hero, ana Qat one aim United , - - 37 ales.- 'II., as.-...-_,4'.....-,w,mktutaracy established a ty. It must be elitablished elsewhere. lamely do we deplore the loss of Boman* fel each valuable. lives. -Widowed.and,ohildiem hmats are bleeding with fresh sorrows ; agonized bosoms are throbbing at the remembrance of joys, lied, never to return. The falled /martyrs will even be em balmed In the nation's warmest and most %biding gratitude. Over their sacred ashes she dre,*itter and scalding teat , . The affllotionsof the anicUpd she makes her own. These widowed - mothers and father -al leas children God has given a sacredheriliage to the Church and the country. Let them ever be assured of our sympathy, our substantial' saocorytand our holy enthusiasm of feeling. Meanwhile, as we' calf to remembrance Umtata*, the heroism, the patieece, and , endurance, even unto death, 'displays' by our . bravo Bohai:in and sailors ; as we call to 'mind ' ' tile Indomatable faith, the tinflinohhig fortitude, evinced : by the Ameri can people, In this:gigantic struggle for the life of the nation; as we survey the bright auguries of hope, Ursa begin to, shoot up in almost every quarter of our national horizon ,• shall we not, with even a stronger than. the old Covenanter's faith, trust 'in God, that, out of this , terrible ordeal, the nation will emerge, as gold, after a seven-fold, Tsar gation, I rom the lurnace—nos destroyed, but brighten ea, purified, refined. And, in the exercise-et such au unshaken coninience In the ultimate triumph. of God's own eternal and immutable right, shalt one friend and one neighbor .be guilty of addressing to the other, the skeptical inquiry la Who wilt Moto us any goad?" But time would utterly fail me to enumerate, even remotely, all the occasions that summon us to the altars of thanksgiving. In thts respect we seem to beaate 'very centre of a vast universe) encircled. by ' thepaat, present, and future s Egerything ebovetts, and witlOn and around us, stasnonisheo us of a debt of gratitude which we all recognize, bat which we all feelthet not one of us can ever cancel. As VI our national condition, Ged be thanked, scarcely one of the prognosefeatione of our enemies has been verified. The wish was father to the thong ' Our quadrennial national election has come 0. 1 1. passed,..without bloodshed or revolution,. That c dlnal feature Of our American , system— i the rigt of the majority to rule—the vital ea"' Bence aC a republic, and the terror of despot ism, m is with universal acquiescence. Not much mitts hail been nourished by the grass grown oa Chestnut street. No very abundant crops °they have been gathered from Broadway; the clattered' our factories and workshops has not diniinlint o ur looms and spindles are not idlest no shlea. ye rotted on our wharves t but our ergo-' saes ofpo erce, barring occasional sQ•ht inter ruptio from piratioal rebel craft, plougff every sea and till ' cry port ; our climate is 'among the most Balubri s and diversified in the world ; our forestB yield ber for the erection of houses and ships, such as lmost challenges comparison ; our railroad:l and tel raphs multiply with each advancing year, ' and es blish between the remotest, sections rela tions of Mendable and neighborhood. Our, moats- - tains et afford an Inexhaustible Ripply of teal, and i iron, an r ecently - anew source of wealth has been added he general stook. I refer to. the oil wells that ha been opened in Western Pennsylvania, and els here. King David representsthe Lord as odroppi fatness On our paths: , If ho wernalite now, Be Mild, most 'likely, change the figure, for we, of o day, pump " fatness" from the bowels of the ear and transport it to distant lands, In barrels. Strange if some day we should gather wine, aslue. and honey in the same way I These, it is true re temporal beeeflts only; not to be ,Oom naa pared spiritual and eternal. They' - are, never. - thelass, immense value In themselves and in their relations ministering, in-our reception and en joyment f them ao.our own good, and to the pro motion o God's declarative glory. Taken in the aggregat It Is not exaggerated praise - to affitin they con ante ours the nation of nations--constt. tilt° it w t the tribe of Levi was among Use Jews, God's choen priesthood to the world. Mingled with these numberless blessings, It is true, a grat 'calamity is npoh us., The milmoleas of this nlor•carpsor-win-sterraa—rms-sum ue. tray an nvlable callousness . In viewef it, 'we cannot, as nation, bow ourselves too deeply, or too , humbly, o oo !penitently, lathe dust-Aka equally .at fault w Id be the opposite extreme, if, beoauhe of our ohalf ailments, we oeerlooked our mercies. As 'we have gift, to - show , we have atilt unnumbered biushigs l -which summon us-to the most fervent 1 "weestptions. praise. Oh, ere we not all conscious that there 0118 enthroned in the skies, who, hang. lug oreatio n his arm, feeds it at his eative board —ln Whoa* Mile it 7001006, and under wilose rebuke it'll! sure to gatehi Are we not all conscious that : we depend n him, daily and hourly, for every W: lh we d w, and for every pulsation of our Sr.? All benefits accepted bind the reoeiver. Jointly do reeelvethinn. It becomes us jointly toankowled them. What can edo less I Very true , to God hlm iii seat, our t leutteranoes are no compensation. ..The breath o our lungs does, not enrich 111131. He le Imppystel xlstent, supreme, eternal. His -mo notonies are li t e fliilte 1 • His. energies are 'unspent. Oct of His xlmusUble fulness to' cominunloate for our endotorent is the vocation of His pan liter; nal life-time.l - • Neverthelea, if we offer unto God the homage of our heartsanehher our littleness nor His greatness Units acceptsbee'Wili prove any barrier. He has pieced us hereto be the priesthood of His sublunary creation. The constitutes it our peculiar province to the gratita of all Ills oreatures to Impart firm andlntel)** expression. And the nature of this hil i ? service not tialifies so well, nor en influences piety an its ormitnoe,• as a sense of our own unworthiness. I II -we cannot this day, -therefore, buy costly ointment, and pour It on the head of Jesus, we ha,vedt in our power to render a far more valuable service, viz : Lay at His feet the richer Offering of broken and contrite hearts. Have We answered the question: " Who will show 'nanny good?" If so, then let us not say again, if we have said so before, that we have nobody to thank,, and -nothing for which to 'render thanks. What is thanksgiving 7 It is the breath of faith. It is the pulse of the regenerated heart. It is the direct and inevitable outgoing and emanation of the I quickened apkik Nobody to thank! Nothing to be thankful for! What would not yon blind man i ite for the faculty ca eight—the ability to see the blue sky and the starry heavensi What would not yon mute give for the faculty of enjoying the deli i ()Wife melody of music . ] Alas! there is no benefit • so large, that malignity will not lessen—none so • narrow, that a good Interpretation will not en , large t • Wbat field so deviate and barren as an unthank folteart I • The most distinguished favonato each are asthe motion of an arrow through the air, Mid of a ship ploughing the waves. They leave no trace behind. Flint may be melted; adamant may be broken. We see it daily. But who shall either melt or break an unthankful heart 1 To this the hot flame and the powerful hammer of God's spirit are alone adequate. Finally, Men and Brethren, with our thanks -givings to God let us strive to cultivate, habitually, an petive charity towards our brethren of all man ' kind. The sum of the general guilt let ne diminish by the diminution of our own. The aggregate vir• tue, and piety lot us seek to Increase by an Increase -of our own. There are foes more menacing to our ratter* baggy elmi 1 W the artillery 9f time to re. hellion—they are the triple foes of luxury, venality, and corruption. God is holy. God is just. God Is the avenger of guilt. Righteousness exalts a na. but sin is a reproach to any people. Let Here. turn, then, unto the Lord, and H.e will have meroy upon us, nd to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. Out of the depths let us cry unto Him. Then will we no longer have reason to ask, one of another, " who will scow us any good Pi CONGRIP:GIATIONAL REV. D. L. GRAY.. The First Congregational Church, Frankford road and Montgomery &germ°, was Oiled with a large and attentive audience yesterday morning, to listen to an eloquent and impressive discourse by the pastor, Rey, Mr. Gear, who took for the basis of his remarks the following text ; 1, Offer utile God thanksgiving."—Psates 50-14. Thanksgiving is an act of grateful love. It is paying homage to the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as the source of all good. David Was " of fering unto God thanksgiving" when he said, " Bless the Lord, oh my soui r and forget not all His benefits who forgiveth all thine iniquities;.who re. deemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender meroles ; who satb3fteth thy mouth with good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eaglets." Any attempt to number the niultitude of our mer cies would be like an effort to number the stars in the sky, or gather up the pebbles on the seashore. They is more in number than we can count; and this is the very reason why we should offer unto - God thanksgiving for them. We may do this both in a mental and._ in a public and social way. The latter is the duty to which the Chief Magistrate of tbe na,- Lion calls us to-day. But what have we especially to thank God for to-day? . • First. The age we live in. An ancient philosopher used to bless the gods that he lived not In the more uncultivated ages, - , but 1n the time, and under the tuition, of Socrates. How much bettor reason have we to bless God` 'that, in' His providence we are born in, this interesting age of the world? I know, indeed, that there are men who see nothing • hopeful in this age. They are men of the ancient times. -To them the former days were better than these. For ages Soy now oo . "1.7.1! '":l' 2 VP ' of hopeend promise, it would have been the same. This temper of mind Is the sign of weakness, of de cay, and of premature old age. No sensible man thinks of claiming perfection for this age. It has great and grievous faults. It is an age of sharp and striking contrasts—of itrange and wonderful mix tures. Tears and smiles, tombs and temples, gaols and hospitals, palaces and arsenals, are strangely jumbled together. There is something of pride, am bition, and boasting, and yet there is much of meek ness, humility, and sincerity. There are manifesta tions of discontent, treason, and rebellion, and yet there is a good deal of submission, loyalty, and pa triotism. *There is a show. of skepticism, and yet there Is a growing number areal Christiana. • It is also an age of startling changes. Everything seems disjointed and falling apart. " Wars, and rumors of wars," gleam up like lightning at every point- of the compass. There were never so many beadle Influences at work, and never such gigantic ' lssues at stake as now.. Every •newspaper - tells us that oar own land is' passing through a baptism of fire. And it is • much the same on the continent of Europe. The raters of the world tread nightly, for fear of an explosion. The hearts of the wisest and beet of men, of all pi:dittos' creeds, feel solicitude tor what is coming on the earth. But under all this the eye of the Christian sees the augury of good. The day of the Lord is not wholly light ; neither is it wholly dark. AfPresent ft Is a, mixture of both; but at. even-Ude it shall be light. There is a bow in the cloud, and "unto the upright there ariseth a light in the darkness.) , Some really good things may be marred and injured in the liffy ordeal that. is upon - us, but only that which Is tem• porary and worthless shall be wholly destroyed. When the work of .ehastisement and purifleation is completed, out of the evil (lad will educe good, and from the storms Of war shall issue the calm and the sunshine of a Sweet and lasting peace. The dust and turmoil of battle is just the tuning of the instrumentspreparatory to a grand jubilee that is to be. Itis just because the Christian's serene eye of faith sees all this that he is calm, quiet, and self. possessed, _" o ff ering unto ' God th a nksgiving" for the age he-lives in. - WSecond. We should thank God for the homes that e inhabit. David said, "God setteth the solitary n families." Persecution- had driven him from home to the friendly shelter of 'rocks and caves. Restoration he calls "God setting the solitary in families and so great a blessing did lieleet it to be that he puts It down among the special blessings of the God of salvation. Some idea of home exists among all nations, but its perfection is only realized In those countries where the Bible bee unfettered circulation. The homes of heathen tribes are equally the homes of their beasts. The gamed ties and moral duties of home are overborne by impish ness and'nassion. The national-religion of' France denies the Bible to the people, and la its lan guage there is no'Word for - honier. And the sequel Is that Paresis the most profligate, suioidal city in the world. The German word•for Dome signitieS only country. Their language has noreferenoe to thbse hallowed associations represented by the English word home. The translaUori of the Bible into Eng lish gave theScriptnres a controlling influence over the people that speak that language and made , the Englishman's-home what it is ca s tle , the drawn of his 'glory, and the shrine of hie heart. The Chris tian family has- no treasure like the "old family Bible lying open onithe stand." The Reformation of the sixteentheentury gave us this-snored treasure in cur mother tongueithat we migha read in our Own language the wonderful works of God. It is our light, our joy, our bulwark of defence. In- its centre, between' the two covenants, tho- fa s ily record is, kept, the union of parents, the birth' and death of children. " Its pre tence consecrates-your weddings; its pages furnish names' for your ohildren ' - its teachings hallow - the green sod where your dead repose." The Bible lees• genitally a Home Book, The homes of Our people are the support and or nament of the' Station. It is the nursery where the ybuth of . the land 'are trained and fitted toast their porton the exchange, In the army, and in the high places of Imilver. The political struggles of the world and the cane and energy of business life are but so Many efforts to secure to home permanent plenty, safety, peace,and joy. For-however un toward the outward a ffairs of-the worid , may - go-for a time, if the licares-or the people are still kept sa cred in their design and influence, thanation.wlihbe• safe and prosperous- In the end. On. the other hand, the decay of home will be the grave of the nation. The strong pillars of Govern ment will break. and the -whole saperetrue tnre fall to piece:4 ) ,as did the republics of South America. During the best dayt of ancient Rome the sacredness of home was watched over by two-of theirgnardian deitgee. No-battle-cry ever saroused the Roman heart aS that which. appealed to their "altars and their , keartha.” There 10. a tradition that for one hundred and Seventy years no sopa. ration took place bylaw between thoseonce united In wedlock. With.the loosening of social ties began the decline and fall of_tho Roman Empire. Their mightiest battleery lost its power, and the once in vincible Roman became weak as Sampson shorn of his lecke. And so •it will be with ourselves when hometies and syMpathies decay and die out among us. If, therefore, your homes aro to-day in safety, peace, and plenty, "offer unto God thanksgiving" for it. As your children gather about the well spread table, under the old roof-tree, let your grate ful song be '• Whetoall thy meretes, O my God, My tieing on! surveys: Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, 'are, and praise. " Third. We should thank God, to-day, for the civil .end religious riberry we enjoy. There is, In deed, much of laiviessnees, treason, and rebellion in the land. But in spite 9f it all the Constitution and forhs of government for which our fathers fought, and bled, and conquered, is not yet wholly sub verted and overthrown. A part of the nation, at least, though ungrateful and shining, has enjoyed; through another year, the blessings of our civil in • stitutions and free Thorn has been, indeod, breaking in to war, and going out to captivity from. among ns. The hand of them that hate us has been stretched out to oast 118 down and write our annihi lation in the sorrowful chronicles of fallen repub lics. But God in mercy has thus far counteracted their evil designs ; and we stand before the world this day a people not forsaken of the Lord of hosts, though our land is filled with sin against toe Holy One of Israel. It was the Bible, the Sabbath; and the Providence of God that ma +e this nation at the first, and it Is just these that keep us back from anarchy now. _ Piety and patriotism are allied. The humblest Christian -is always the truest patriot, and the bravest defender of the freedom of the State. It was the revival of piety that gave each liberty, civilize thin, and commerce to the Protestant nations in the sixteenth century. It secured the Protestant sea cession in England, and many of its liberties. It gave a martyr roll to the Scottish Covenanters, and led to the revolution settlement of 3,088. It 18 that which,' more than anything else, has maintained the political happiness and national independence of this country for so long a term of years. A. fullsop ply of the means of grace, and this ordhianoes of re ligion, is the beauty, the safety, and the happiness of the land. It is the glory of America that free dom of .conscience, in all matters of religion, is se cured to the citizen. He has an open Bible, and a , free Church. He can associate with those .whom he prefers, and can worship God without -molestation or fear.. There 111 no religious or politi cal decree makini; him a stranger and an alien. If hp will, he may be a citizen of the State, and a fel low-citizen of the saints, and of the household of God. He may buy and build trade and-worship, enjoy liberty and pursue happiness, glorify God and do good to -man, live usefully and die happily la hope of a joyful resurrection ,to a state of glory, honor, immortality, and eternal life in the age to come ; therefore "offer .unto God thanksgiving" this day; "take the.cnopf salvAtiffli v a44-caStir e - pr. tli girMatraittliteence o ail the people." BEFORNIEED DUTCH. BU. T. DII WITT TALMA.DOII. The Second Reformed Dutch Church, on Seventh street, above Brown, was well filled yesterday morning, on the oeisasion of a sermon from the re verend gentleman named. The musical exercises were admirable. The subject of the discohrse was, Philadelphia. The text was selected from Aotts,2lst chapter, 19th verse : A Citizen of no mean The reverend speaker raid : This pride of oily; expressed in Paul's exultation, Is natural to men ' all times, if they live or have lived In a metropolis noted for dignity or prowess. You would - suspeot a man of baseheartedness who carried shout with him no shah feeling of oomplacenoy. When I see , Argos, Rhodes, Smyrna, Chios, and Colophon claiming Romerta birth-place, I see that , in other ages older have been jealous o their rights and re• : potation: Our eitlsens will never be condemned for lack of interest in the place of their residence. ; We are often told in other cities that Philadelphians are prq_Yarbially proud. They Say wo never get tired 03 talking about the saint, Independence Hall, and Girard College. They think we are the most intensely satisfied people in all the world. And many a brilliant period about Fennell Hall and Boston Com Mon's, or (Sentra' Park and DlPtilson Square, Is rounded off with - a touching la mentation about the fact _that Philadelphians are so 'awfully proud of their city. They think we we t .. Incorrigible, and will never be cured of our haa,rbte, steps anti I. white shutters. We display mere' boasting. We would not kindle a spark'- of wicked pride in ma ny an heart, hut when I remember that of the world's great cities are today crouching , under calamities, Charleston quaking under the shriek of , the bombi ; shell, and their streets abandoned to the •ontlawant` the - beggar; New Orleans under the grasp of mlll- 1 ptary authority ; Rlokunond, once beautiful with arka and statues, and embowerett, in luxuriant shrubbery and foliage, now a barrack fora reck less soldiery, her (short:hes groaning with the' agonies of wounded men, her statues defaced, her hedges and. trees knawed off by the bridle, war horse, our ,army ready to pounce upon it drum. the SOuth, apd Sheridan on horsebaok ready to ride In from the North just when,he. is not wanted. Thriving Atlanta depopulated, and prepared Tor the torch. The towns and cities on the border swept by fire, sr d battle, and massacre. Canton and Pekin With streets through whiell creep want, and disease, and pour down great tides of polutlon, and death. Coisstantthople afloat withlmpnrities, and Its mina rets nailing - the deluded to their senseless prayer. Paris without Sabbaths, without Christian homes, without God, gay, and brilliant, and thoughtless in thei dance of death . ; and others by the. Riaokesea, and the ()asp's._ ,n and along the Rhine, and sitting at the foot of rdexiCan Sierras, with vast popula tions, but no Intelligence. with glitter, and pomp, and magnificence, unable to ,hide their gigantic de formities. Then: I am humbled and rejoloed that velars) the citizens of no 'aeon city, and I proceed to. ehoW the reasons , why Philadelphians. should, on this autumnal day, be filled with thanksgiving.. , et.—Rejoice in the history of your city. • • 4 stout Roglishman, swept out to sea by a storm ofßpinersecAumtionn, came ash" wam l o a n v g g thhea gI n§dtieatna"e a Tavern, s at FOUR CENTS. many who thought his undertaking a fool-hard, adventure. William Penn lays down the beginning of a eity by the banks of the Delaware a city as feeble in Its infancy as Moses sleeping in the bul rushes. And there, like Miriam, he stood and watched it. The royalty of American commerce came down to the waters to bathe, and there she found it. She took it in her arms, and the child grew, and .waxed strong, and the ships of foreign lands brought their gold and their spices to Its feet, and stretching Itself up into the proportions of a metropolis it has looked up to the mountains and off upon the sea, one of the mightiest of the forces of American civilization. The character of the founder of a city will' be wen or many years In its inhabitants. Romulus lm , pressed his Me upon Rome, the ancient Hollanders still live in Albany. The Pilgrims relax not then* bold of the cities of New England. William Penn has left this place an inheritance of integrity, and every day you see inananners and customs his prin clples his tastes, his hat, his coat, his wife's bonnet, and h is plain "meeting house." What city has on its historic scroll more Mae trious names than Rittenhouse among astronomers, ' than Fitch and Fulton among inventors, than Decatur among heroes, than Robert Morris among financiers, than Bishop White among ecclesiasti cal worthies, than Lindley Murray among gram marians, than West among painters, than Rush among-physicians, than Girard among phillathro putts, than Kane among explorers 7 Oh if Lyeur- gus could boast of his native Sparta, and Demos. ' Memel of Athens, and Costar of some, and Virgil of Mateo, and Archimedes of Syracuse, and Paul of . Tarsus s then may you inahankniving and exalta tion style yourself "a citizen of no mean city." Again; I congratulate you on the safe and de liberate conduct of business. During a year. when' the Florida and the Alabama have been' traversing • thewatere, our commerce has not paused. Abbas forty thousand ships, barks, eektooners, brigs, barges, and steamers, have in the past year come to our • docks. Floating side by side arethe ensigns of all nations, but not one rebel flag with its bars, appro priate emblem of dungeons, and its lights - suggestive of those wandering , stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darknees forever. Our streets are crowded with bargain-makers. Our drays jostle each other on their way to deliver Vfiluid r * inh"aliikYounteMiefiViselq-Ati.et of rivers of petroleum.' In the pressure to hasten to 'our city all styles of commodities, the teamsters of the long line of Pennsylvania wagons lose their patience, and the canal locks are choked with boats, and the great railroad thoroughfares have heard the crash of terrific collisions. Within our city limits are about six thousand two hundred menu. factories kept drumming, buzzing, clattering, booming, by about seventy-five million dollars of capital. Someof the 011-wells may ran dry. The widow of Sarepta might have a oruLse of oil that never failed, but it would spoil most people. But when these things fail, God will start out some other wonder from the soil, or cleave it from the rock, or drop it from the air, or evoke It from the wave. He is say ing "Take this California gold, and Nevada silver, and buy implements ofavar ; this petroleum, and oil the wheels of your armories; this Pennsylvania • coal, and fill up the furnaces of your blockading rquadrons, and carry on the war until the Govern ment that I founded for eternal purposes shall be reestablished, and every bondman shall hear his chains fall off as though an angel struck them. No wonder that traders of all °lama have assem bled today for thanksgiving to Him who grows the harvests, and lifts the olipperontof the troughof the sea, and draws into the la p of, American thrift the spices of the tropics, the furs of the Arctic, the dia monds Of Brazil, the teas of China, the cloths of France, the , carpets of Axminster, and the affluence Of a world. . The preacher spoke of our market-houses, distin guishedlorarchitecturel beauty and abundantanp ply, holding fruits from the richest orchards, herbs i rout the best gard emsbirds of every wing, sheep from every pasture, venison from every forest, and cattle ' from a thousand hills. Of institutions of mercy : The Insane Asylum, where they whti once ant them selves among tne tombs, now sit and clothed In their right mind : the Blind Asylum, where the eyes of those who never saw are touched, and into their vision pours the sunlight of science and religion ; of . of the Magdalen societies, whore the lost one Comes to bathe the Saviour's-feet with her and wipe them with the hair of her head ; of the medical institutions which hive taken hold of the pulse of the world's sickness, assuaged pain, prolonged the life of the race, and into the hovels of wretchedness and lazarettos of pestilence followed the steps of the •Great Physician: of the mighty machinery that sends streaming down into our city the clear, bright, sparklin; God.given water, that rushes through i oar aque ducts, and dashes out of our hydrants, and tosses up in our fountains, and roars in our steamengines, and showers upon the conflagration, and sprinkles from the bastismal fount in our churches ; and with a silvery oadenoe, and golden sparkle, and crystalline ohime, says to the hundreds of thousands of our population, in the authentic words of Him who made it: I will, be thonelean !" The preacher went on to emphasize the fact, that this is a loyal and patriotic city. • How many of the wounded have been laid at the' Beautiful Gate of the Temple? What band here has not scraped lint ; or carried a jar of delicacies to the suffering ; or brushed away the-summer insects from the pillow of the dying sot ditirt What knee bath not knelt beside the orphan and ,the widow, as they heard the tidings of father Or husband picked off by the sharpshooter 1 Go to day, and - look at the crowded pantries; and smoking tables of our great- hospitals, and, as you, sea the carving knives glitter, and the regiments drawn up to do Thanksgiving day duty without one deserter from the ranks, tell me If Philadelphia is not a loyal city ! How many of our citizens have shouldered arms and gone to the front! They helped Grant take Vicksburg, and Sherman capture Atlanta, and Farragut humble Mobile s and rode with Sheridan in the hurricane that swept the Shenandoah sand helped Hookers who above the clouds at Lookout Mountain joined -the regiment of . the stars that in their amazes_ fought, against - despotism and they . ars marching now, wffli sixty days' rations, to swing the great scythe of battle scram-the Ootton States, throwing Into one swath ofruln Macon, Au gusta, Savannah, and Chealeaton, unless they stir render... I verily believe we ace near the death-throe of this organized and bannered abomination, that has be. come the laughing stock of the world., an insult to God, and ' a stench in the nostrils of the universe. Neither the blasphemous appeals of their fast-day proclamations. nor the prayers of-the English, aris tocracy, nor the hopes otsthe French Emperor, nor the sympathies of all the tyrannies of the earth, will save them. They sea the handwriting on the wall, and they stand in the Congressional halls at Rich mond as .men on the deck of a foundering steamer, without a life-boat large enough to save them ; and there is no help on earth s and the heavens are deaf to their cry. God will laugh at their calamity, and mock when their fear oonseth. They sought, on the ruins of free Institutions to establish a slaveooracy. They put their heel'on t ire neck of men for whom Chiba died, and said that slavery should spread. Have their prophecies been fulfilled 7 Jefferson Davis tells us that of t h e four million slaves the South has lately lost the services of two millions. God has already sounded the trumpet of deliverance above Maryland, and one hundred thousand black people crossed the Red Sea dry shod, while the min ions of darkness where whelmed in the rushing waters. And now the Confederate Congress medi tates the arming of three hundred thousand black men for the denim,* of the system that makes them bondmen, and then proposes to give them, at the end of the war, as a reward, their freedom, which they have told us the slaves would not have 2f they could get it. The South left us in order to get'rld of the negro question. Ales ! the negro to-day stares upon them front every 'solemn of their President's Message, from every speech of their Congress men, from every oolnmn of their newspapers, and the whole South is turned into an Abolition convention, so that we might have a little excuse if we seceded from such radicals. All hail to the rising sun that begins to shine upon the shadow's, forehead of the black man t Let them arm their 300,0e0 , slaves. We will send our cohorts of black men to meet them, and when the hosts of bondmen confront the hosts of freemen, and our President's proclamation of emancipation Is sent into the op posing lines, and they see the flag that has no slave's tear to dim its stars, and no slave's blood to drip from its stripes, and the trumpets of our musi cians shall sound the national air, down will go the muskets of the opposing hosts, and the sons who were fugitives years ago will embrace the fathers just come up from the plantations, and brother will fall upon the neck of brother, and from rank to rank will leap a shout such as the world heard never—" Free at last! Huzza! Mara! Glory to God In the highest, and on earth peace and good Will to men I" All hail to the rising day 1 Mothers, your brave , boys will soon be home. Got ready to greet them. Churches of God, your holy men will return. Pro• pare to ring your bells at their coining. Patriots, the long agony will soon be over, and the old ship Will ride into smooth waters, the ensigns of all na tions dipping as she passes, and the guns of freedotn 'booming from their batteries. Through the speak ing trumpet sing oat, "All's well! We have weathered the storm Down with the anchor !'7 BAPTIST. 850. JOHN SHOOS 011-ESSEHLS Rev. J. E. Chesshire, the pastor of the Falls of (Tcrenty.flret,_ ward) Baptist Ctutroh, preached's. sermon from the folloaing teat, found in Genesis, 60th chapter, 20th verse: "But as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good.' Mr. Ohesehire said We come here to-day to thank God for our homes i-for the mercies enjoyed by tie ae a people during the past year ; for bouriti-. ful harvests; for repeated successes vouchsafed to us durln t. • tigiaigiALAtos—vgar•-•.-aurtite tills • • • - -...-- • -. .- i gilts own mons They furnish themes for a grateful recognition of the superintending oare.of Divine Providence. We invite your attention to the import of some general lessons concerning divine and humansurposes. The prominence given to Joseph's life INithe Bible is remarkable. Va rious reasons can be assigned for this twit, but the essential one is, the It Is to bp found a beautiful development of some. he passelphreof God's Moral f t government opera tiri among men.: Hate Is an In termingling of Divine and human purposes pro ducing a given result. Such is the work of The A.l - In our nation dnrlng the progress of this na tional affliction, which already bas cost us invalu able treasures. I. God has His purp3tes.l.ll His actions are but the workings , ant of His purposes. This can be clearly proven_from the Bible and God in history. " God never mde a. plan which in the end will prove an abortion." ;This is not only a valuable truth, ' but equally one of comfort and interest. He has His plans. He controls agencies, great and small. Only by His Pertnisslon can any plan prosper. His pur poses are to bless us. IL Men , hisrototheir purposes.—The life of Joseph illustrates, this truth• in,a remarkable manner. 'So 1n rference t ourcountry a t the present crisis. Thee lenders of o the So c uth had their purposes when they commenced the work of the rebellion.. The Government and the people of the North had their purposes , when they were compelled to make war on traftors. Both parties have found that the. war has deteloped principles which neither anticipated whenit commenced. We stand to-day. before the world with the proof of our, nationality, not only on parchment, but, in law executed and sustained. 111. God accomplishes purposes for good, through the successful and rensuccese - efforts of men's purposes for, evil.—Universal history abounds with apt and for able illustrat t ions. This was illustrated in tho Ma to df roodatm 'mission s, - Roger Williams, emancipa tion In Maryland; and the developments of the war as made Worn in the South. It was shorn that the evil ptlfpOns 1 or the 'secret and open foes of the Go ' vernment have been overruled in the manifestation of the. Purposes of God, for the establishment and extension orthe vital interests of present and future millions. Two thoughts closed the Sermon; one was drawn from the - subject, namely 1.. There is no such thing as correct moral principles without oor reot religious principles. The occasion furnished the!, other : 2. Grateful anticipations for the future. God bws directed us in the past; .11e.will not forsake us In the future. These faots forbid rui to despair of 'out country. • • / ' . REV. JARS SB. STYR/lONS. The Baptist Church at' Eighteenth and Spring - Garden streets was well filled on the occasion of a sermon from the Rev. Jamee B. Simmons, Who se. looted as his text the 75th Psalm, 1011 .verso : 41 Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee; the remainder of wrath shalt Thou retain." The Reve rend gentleman commenced his discourse by saying, that It, lefliniversally conceded by scholars that the EZil from which the text wen Behead was pre. . as a thanksgiving ode. It was designed to Gale . ate somesign al deliverance frog' a groat public ca.- - la4ity wrought by the hand Of. Ood, 'rho mlrsaulour dructlon of the Assyrian army by the angel in, the; days of Bezeklab, 'is generally selected as The ev TI T t te Trbieb this sacred and jubilant bong refers. t fartion of the teat which says the remainder of e writtlinhaltThenretain, means that whatever Utt 0 iOinligilt Or ilTittli there gay ln lon WM ad THE WAR - E 0 111.1r.4343 1 ; CPUBLIBI7ED WEAKLY. / Tax Wk. Pen= will be sent to subscribers as mall (per alum is advance) ONO three ••••••••••• • • •••••••••• s IMP Yivb c0p5"..........« • •••• • •••••••••• MOM. II 1144.• 800 Tea ......... • • • * Me NI OW 11141.11,.....15 GO Luker Club' this Tea will be charged at tin Mall rite, eL 80 per egos. TV money must always accompany the order. andr to no inertands can there term be deviated from. th ey a f or d very( Mlle more than the coat or DaDer. air Fixtrasaten are requested to Let as were. NE Tem WAR Pane. air To the getter-azof the Mob of tea or twenty., IM extra copy of tbe Paper will be even. controversy or war Is over the Almighty will curb, restrain, subdue, extinguish. This seems to be one of the fixed lawe in the administration of God as governing human affairs. On these point!' the ROM. vend speaker dwelt at considerable length, and frilly e. xhausted the subject, now before the world. relit rix up to the crisis id' the day, - as between the North the South, contending that as history proves it reir 90 will that fraternal feeling be again manifest ed b e tween the people, and a bond of Union muck strong sr than ever wUI be made. In or oceeding with the discourse, the Reverend 'plat t en , ma divided his subject as follows, as the ad vantages achieved by the hand of God in the pre sent war : First of a I.l—The pulpit has been disenthralled. Second. "bat new and unusual activity and sharecterised the movements of all the pros verity have t L oya l c h urc h, *of oar land. Third. The t Tar under the sovereign gaidanoe of God has m a re ~4 1 in wonderful advantages to the laboring classes. Fourth. That o sir Government hat been greatly strengthened by t he War- Fla Th e b eneb \dal result of this war has been great Increase in U. 'a hearts of the people of a high and generous patr lolisrot or a sincere love of country. : result of all achieved by the Sixth. The grandest war is to be seen in eh e widely increasing domain, and in the ultimate a `Omieion of liberty - which It promises. AU these points were t. ii,oroughly discussed by the Reverend'speaker4who o. lowed his discourse In the followlax words: c' Truly this Is wonderful. Pro perly we may exclaim In 0. ILr astonishment, ' What 'bath 'Goe wroughtV Sure, 'p help comes to liberty from the most unlikely some ea t it is like oil from May rook, or honey from ta, 'et lion's carouse. The great opposer of interferenc, now Interferes; he who has hated "emancipation , rt long now would emancipate. Be who has fon 'ht the Abolitionists all his life now stands rea dyto abolish! Jef ferson Davis is an Aboliti, mist! Re has been made so by the lrres. istible logic' of events, and the overruling provid, seee o f God ! As• Pharaoh, alter the plagues, be. some the neat eager man in all Egypt that the em 'laved Israelitele should depart with speed the utmost out of his ki-- dom, so with the modern Pharao.k, _Jilltf Davit,. I have an idea that ho wishes from. .rne . heart thee. TIM part - tit: aaur a l . 1 7 1 . 51 rm!!!!‘. tion which has fallen upon Dlr. Davis - will be of great service to liberty. He is now ouslionthena coadjutor, and who doubts that he will boa power ful one 1" He is-Kr. Lincoln's colleague in the work of emancipation, and just as Saul of Tarsus was a great help to the cause of Christianity after his conversion ' so will this man Davis be to ourcause. I weloomoSetTerson Davie to the ranks of the oham pions of freedom; and I predict for him a career of distinguished naefulness." PI4N9BYTERIAN. 'REV. 'WOLCOTT CAMIELMS. This - distingelshed divine was ordained on Inet Sunday, evening as the pester of the Calzitry Church, on Locust' above FHiteentk street, of tke Presbyterian denomination. The occasion of Thanksgiving, yesterday, and. an anxious desire to bear the new minister, caused the church bultdiag to be filled at an early hour. After the usual dove. - tional exercises, the reverend:gentleman said : The proclamation of oinr Preskient, which sum mons us to givethanks to Almighty God to-day, re-- commends that devout supplicetione be also offered for the return of peace. The same-pious wish is ex. pressed by the Governor of our Stele and even our enemies, on an occasion similar to the present, are exhorted by their leaders to pray , for peace. The - abatis are looking down upon Mesonng spectacle to-day of a people engaged in , deadly war among themselves, yet all praying to the same God for peace! And we live in a city that was founded on the principles of peace. Standing on• ground conse crated to brotherly love, end fenced-in on every side by the petitions of all wbo love our - Lord Jesus Christ,ln sincerity for the return of they dove that brings the olive-branch, what mere. acceptable offering of thanksgiving can we bring to this altar to-day, than a calm, hopeful, and prayerful cons* deration of the conditions on which an honora ble peace may be restored to our beloved land t The lessees in our service this morning declare that God alone can give us pause. - Neither tke Union nor the Democratic party; neither the loyal ists nor the insurgents have power to stay the rava ges of the sword. The conflict has long since passed out of the control - of any of the parties engaged in it. "I, I alone will_give peace to the land, " sank the Lord God of Hosts. And the condi tions on which He will perform this promise are- equally surprising. It is not that vre recognize- the inde pendence of the rebel Government ; not that tee recognise the sovereignty of each separate State; not that we conquer the military power In arms against us. We have no assurance on any of these eonditions alone of a lasting peace. Nay, we bare fearful reasons, from recent plots and disturbances in our Northern States, to tear that we - are not secure from fresh civil ware starting up from, new centres. "If ye will walk in my statutes and-keep my commandments, and do them, theca 'mill" , give peace In the land, neither shall the sword-go throtigk your land." Complete subordination to Goe,es the personal ruler of the nation, and humble obedience to IBM, is here the plain, comprehensive condition of a peace which shalt he honorable, trne,and,laet ing, because it-is the gift of God. We have just been voting on the plan of ati"-im mediate cessation of hostilities " and of "oxhatust log the resources of statesmanship in the effort to re store peace," and we have voted about right,:thsek God. 'We have been pouring out blood and treasure • untold to fight for peace. We have carried the por traits of Grant, and Sherman, and Sheridan in proud processions as our commlisioners of peace. All this' was well. But now shall we not recognise God as the anther of peace, and a penitent and loyal weiklog in his ordinances as the sole conditions of peace t And when we seek for a commissioner of peace-, and. redigiously_feal that he Is to proceed from us, not to the stronghold of rebel armies, but to the throne or an offended God, who shaUJae be--ulc,- who shall he be but the Prince of Peace, who ever Uveth to-make intercessions for nal Nowhere on earth, it seems to - me, and' at no time In history, was there niche need of arning from bewildered man, and looking to God, and yon and I surely would be devoid of platy and conscience and even sensibility, if we did not brin e: to this discussion a sense of responsibility witta. would silence all bitterness or prejudice in our hearts, and make us tremble before God here, as we shall soon tremble before his judgment-seat ; for these walls are hardly silent yet with the- echo of the most solemn vows in which human hearts were ever sealed, when I am summoned to speak and you to bear my first official words as your pee. tor. upon the duties of a ransomed' and vested church to the country and guardian of us all. I purpose, therefore, to pass by all considerations of a political and military nature, and try to seise upon the moral and religious causes, and these are . the real causes of our civil war and the- delay of peace. The central cause of the rebellion, and of all that has been unblessed, in our efforts-for peace from the rebellion, has been the gradual dislodg ment from the publio ;conscience of the great doc trine that God in Christ is the personal ruler of our nation. The speculations of modern rationalists, admitted in some unguarded expressions, even in our Declare tion of Independence, together with the spirit, of li berty run mad, have combined to exalt the people as king, in a sense which altogether obscures the sovereignty of God over us as a nation. The beet service.we can perform this hour, then, in the cause of peace, is to endeavor to restore to the public conscience the ancient doctrine of the saints, and of the Church In all ages, that every nation is a theo cracy in reality, though not in form ; that national government is an ordinance of God for the redemptiqo of man from sin, and' it is directly administered 'By God himself in the person of Christ Ills Son. The Rev. speaker, after afew further preliminary remarks, prOceeded to subdivide his discourse as follows : First. To defend and enforce the Christian dos trine of the State as-a Gospel Institution. Second. To define the conditions of peace in the present contest on the exalted principles thus esta-- bilabed. On these two points the Reverend speaker ad dressed the congregation at considerable length, concluding Ids-remarks ea follows : lint there was one sin among the Jews whiCh al ways caused public) uproar, and aimed at the utter overthrow of the ordinances of God. This was the sin-of idolatry. Therefore, God commenced that • this sin be utterly purged from the nation, even at the appalling coat of civil war and slaughter. Idolatry resisted the ordinance of God, and received to Itself dastatlon. Idolatry took the sword, and it perished by the sword. This is precisely what American slavery has now • attempted. It has risen np in violence and blood against the ordinance of God; it will not do that which is good ; it will not be subject to the Power ; it has taken precisely the stand which idolatry as sumed toward the Jewish theocracy. It will not' do the only thing which sin is suffered to do under the ordinance of God, be afraid of the Power and keep within its dark prison land of uncleanness. Them fore It must feel the sword of the avenger. It has taken the sword and must perish by the sword. There can be no peace which takes Maryland out of the list of free States, and blackens her shield again with the sinister bar of oppression. There can be no peace which sends back to bondage again the million of happy beings who have - welcomed our armies as deliverers, and swelled its ranks in gratitude with their brave husbands and fathers in crowds of hundred.thousands. There can beram manent peace till one Constitution has me what the Providence of God has recognizel=a enema .17;71gari;Voiiiixf, - and - :fi mast tee s cove to Itself damnation t Amen. Let all the peo ple say Amen! TIER UHL NEW RAILROAD.—The nett' railroad of the Le high Coal and Navigation Company, on the oppo site aide of the Lehigh, is being energetically pnali ed. A large gang of workmen are engaged on the section opposite our town. This road, as most of oar readers are aware, is to run from Manch Chunk to Easton, on the east bank of the Lehigh. At Easton It will connect with a new road that is being built bythe Morris Canal Company. At Bethlehem the Melt will run between Fetter's hotel and the eta- Mee.' Itie laid the company intend to bridge the Lehigh above the Allentown Furnace with a view to run a branch track on this side of the river down 'to the East Pennsylvania junction, where It is pro = 1 . 0 bridge the river for both roads.—itkotown at. A Beavis Swr.—East week a gontlaniall who has. occasion to travel through the county periodically, gathered the particulars of the following - story; which Is located somewhere in the vicinity of Wo meledorf. Some person in the*foreeaid neighbor hoed (we mention no names), lking ont in the dusk of the evening, happening to. cast his eyed on a tree, beheld ag, hasp want ,ObJett and went back to his house fora rifle. In ab sence, however, the object had increased in size, so much that he was afraid to fire. So he went • off in search of a neighbor, who, taking down his rifle, went with him to the tree, and founiUthe object still there. A consultation was. held, and it waBdeciighbors,ded thatw ith they ri would- Call MON, Two more ne fles, were. brought Md. as rein forcements ; after which another detachment of two, with rifles was called in. Thesateld a long consul tation as tie what wail best to. be done, when one, bolder than the rest, concluded to shoot, jaat ma. king a verbal will, commending his family to the. care of his neighbors, ho. Be then fired into the. tree, when down dropped an old she opossum and three of her young, which. had concluded to lodge. In the tree. The courageous man, who finally fathered courage enough to tire into the tree. still lives." PATENTS TO PariusyLvernmes.--The following patents were Mimed to Pennsylvanians Tor; the Week ending Nov. 16 : A r tincim Arm—Dieterick W. Kolbe, Phlladel- phla. Stair-rod—S. C. Lane, Philadelphia. Fastening Buttons to Fabries—W. H. Reed, Phi iadelphts. Wool -burring Machines—Daniel and George T. Sonia Philadelphia. Retiing and. Mowing Maotino—John S. Trivial, Mt. P leasant.. Furnace and -Ottpola—Zabizta Ellis, of Philadel phia. Boiler for Heating—Zabina Ellis, of Philadelphia. Plough—Lours Greer), of Great Bead. . Churn Dashes—A.-W. Cramer of Bethany. Apparatus for Purifying Mine ral Ciller.Wm. Ad .ameon, of Philadelphia.' Forming Sookets on Terra Cotta ?lila — . ./ 411111 . Seharff,Vonshohooken. - • • .• • • . • , lidounne Gorrr, aged seveatosp,,died. at. Pittsborg„-ori • Friday, from the effects of °blear • ether, which eke had lithitted. PreParatOrT tO 1241 AL pporatlvii.
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