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VOLUME LXXXIV.
FIRST I.IIITIOI.
tONCLOCit. M.
1 THE PRESBYTERIANS.
The Old 'School General Asaembly.
1 [ay Tstegrudi to th e rituniarst easetts.l
Aim Yong, May 27.—1 n the Old
1 Erchoolrresbyterian Assembly today the
Connioittee of Church: Union• made a re.
The
i t-
. .. .
The reunion is to be under the style of
I, the" Prealaterian Church' of the United
States; on a dectrinal and ecclesiastical
iI
basis, the Old and New Testaments to be
i acknowledged as the inspired Word of
I Ood and the only infallible rule of faith
. and practice. The Confession of Faith is
Ito be adopted as the system of
... doctrine and discipline of the
church . and shall be approved as
comtaining the principles and rules of
I policy. The basis of reunion is to be
I submitted to the several Presbyteries
I and their votes thereupon shall be sent
i to the next meeting of the two General
i Assemblies to be held in Pittsburgh the
' second Wednesday of next November.
If two.ihirds then be found favorable,
then the two Assemblies shall act accor
dingly, consolidate committees and take
I other necessary action for the interest of
the Church.
The second 'Sunday in September Is
recommended as a day of prayer for the
_wholb denomination.
• A concurrent declaration was also re ! .
• ported, which gives all the ministers and
churches the same standing in the
United body as now, and says' all imper.
fecal organized churches must become
thoroughly Presbyterian' within five
years. The boundaries of Presbyteries
are -to be adjusted by the United.
• General Aneembly. ' The official records
of the two,.tranches are , to be preserved
but no rultior precedent - shall be of au
thority unless approved by both bodies,
or established by the united body, unless
it affects the rights of roperty. The
corporate ;rights of the two Assembliesi
are to be'cousolidated as feraepracticable
and the several Committees and Boards
oonsolidated impartially. The Board of
Publication of the 'United ''..Churchen,
to revise: , editions so as Se exclude
invidious' reflection. The Theologigal
Seminaries Aiow ,ntider Assembly AM
: trolnpay ibe transferred to the care of
one or more adjacent synods, and it shall
be the duty of all judicatories, ministers
1. and,people of the united church to pre
serve peace, and, as „far dale_ ooneistent
with the convictions ofiditY, conform
practice to the general, custom of the
;
church prior to the controtrsiee _Which
resulted inseparation. '`
•
The was an a widreeae d
made by Rev. Dr. Musgrave, REM. Wm: .
EA mer pley, of itev..
Dr. Spnag and Rev Dr.
Wayne, faTorol , , tts•
adoption. - •
At the afternOon session, Rev. Dr.
Samuel Miller, while., in • favor of re.
objdcted•to slme' fentulen of the
basis, such as admission of Congrega
tional chnrcheS to representation, and a
". portion of the declaration in regard to
the Board of Publication, who would
" publish nothing contrary to the standard
of the Presbyterian Church.
, Judge Kennedy. sr.oke in favor of re
union, and was followed by Henry Day,
Secretary of the Committee of Confer
ence, in advocacy of 'the- report, which
he Said was the last document upon the
subject that would be presented.
Few.Setiool Geneial Assembly.
In the New School Assembly, the
Committee on the Report of Delegates to
the Scotch and Irish Churches made a
report, endorsing the miggestions 'con
tained therein, erpecially in relation to
the maintenance of closer oarrespond
once and more friendly relations with
sister churches in the British Isles.
A resolution probing some Liturgi
cal changes, wbiieh formed part of the
report, was put aside for future consider-
The Mileage Committee recommended
such delegates as were entitled to receive
travelling expenses. be paid in full at
once. Adopted.
The repos* on reunion was then sub
mitted. Its discussion was at once en
-
tared upon, Judge Strong, Rev. Dr.
Mahal' and others speaking in favor of
its ad:, tion. the 'feeling of the Assem
bly being evidently in favor of the re
port. : •
As the afternoon session, Rev. Dr.
Heacock, Rev. Dr. Sauderland a'ndothers
spoke on the same side.
McConnell homicide Trial at Jackson
vii le, 111. '
`The trial of William Robinson, at Jack
sonville, Illinois, for the murder of Gen.
McConnell, proceeded yesteiday. A do
motto testified to having beard's heavy
fall, then light foot steps; 'and going into
the General's ,office fotuid him on his
face and hands an the finer, with a pool
of blood about his head. Aron of de
' Ceased Wale& that dttring -Mail 1887,
he gale for :. his Allier • 1t../let :of, hie
nbtes,, me date , wben due, and upon.
t./mm.' '
• Among those - !Knee was
.*elt. on. .Robinson, ' the prisoner, .. for'
VW due on demand, which note bad
been ittitleeemetlic poeseaoch , tultil just
13014,110 golden and, oannot now be
foundreltheigh all theothernotes on the
• 11 00 1 010 , 41bd Atillistalwid in * (Rawer
tradutellieui,e - There was lima upon; de
'F
a liiblealiteklut pen t ei s lgidlulietts
11011041:0001! at ' llt, aril
he former contain g a •eidculas•
ti * ' Of Uteintlfrefir en WON and the nth*.
,
of .114,kbaterint "en , 1500, and a .pencil ,
metkatton the Irnler page op to the
, ehlif lifl4oo. '4 , itsatuninatioc , prtbe
bank —, . . Woes not show a itayment
of, 119': .. 1 .. on DeCember 10th; 'when
Ro , • ,": obtlins,to , have paid . off hie ' :
note, to t a payment of $BOO by one Elli
=lSaritctid.aa having bet:l.'o4db on the
; 10th of December, Which.was never made,
to m y McConnell In person; but to . .
:end by him to his father, ,at a
date prlorto that of the entry . .
„ „ •
—A are of body snatching has just oc
curred at WilliamsOn,' Wayne county,
New - Itoik. Stephen Burton. a respects
' big citPreni.died on Wednesday of last
; week; from an overdose of ,chloroform.
and was bur .l on Friday following. It
;,„ Was wolocted' that his grave had,been
and the tomb was exanined.
!
The bod y had been dragged out of the
coilltf:, l mutilated and concealed in the
woods. , Dr. Bront, of Ontario, has been
•• arr4stutl, with two students, and held to
v-analriell'lnr the crime.
Mil
BRIEF TELEVRAXS.
.I.At St. Louia yesterday, the mowers.
r 1:: to 96 in tho shade, notwithatautling
a in in the morning.
..-Daring the week 350000 bushels or
odsli were shipped from tlnvinnati to
cthloago.
4 t.
Late Arizona adviete say the gm*.
ho pent are making their appeanmee in
Bret
at:unbent near ilardyaville.
—The Cincluned Gas Company boat
546,000 feet of gas by the explosion . on
Monday.
--Mies& R. Beskett committed suicide
at Cincinnati, on Wednesday night, by
drowning in at cistern. She was young
and was suffering from consumption.
—Monday morning four men . were
killed at the Atlantic Rolling Mill, in
Atlanta, Ga., by the explosion of an
old shell which they were engaged in
opening. .
—The colored Free Masons of Bs.
Louis were out in strong ibrce yesterday
and went to Carondalet, where theylald
the corner stone of a:ohapel.
—The 29th annual Convention of
the Episcopal Church for the Diocese of
Missouri commenced at St. Louis yester
day. Quite'a large number of delegates
were present. .
--Gov. Warmouth. of Louisiana has
proclaimed quarantine of not less than
ten days for all vessels from the West
Indian, Mexican, Central and South
American ports.
—The incomes of newspaper proprie
tors of St. Loris, asreturned to the United
States Amessor, are: Republican, George
Brapp $28.165; John Krapp 25,244; Wm.
Kyle $7,000; of the Democrat, Win. Mc-
Kee $31,039; G. W. Fishbaok $24,127; I)
M. Rouser $lO,OOO. •
—Samuel Wright, died near Spring
field. Ohio, on Wednesday, from a wound
recelved'on Tuesday front the discharge
of a loaded and uncapped shot gun. In
the lauds of a boy who was
.playing
with it. . _ • .
—The remains of ex-Governor Moor
head, Of Kentucky, who died some time
ago at GreenvillTenn., arrived at
Louisville; yeste rday, and will lay in
state until Sunday morning, when they
will be re-i oterred.
• .
fig , .
--A. prize - ht between !Hecker and
Wm. Carroll took piece_ y esterday monk-,
tag, in this "State, near Maryland. They
fought four rounds favorable to Carrel,
when a crowd ofileokerls frienda rushed
in the ring and broke pp the fight. "
--In the Republican CoAgresaional CoU
vention of the Third Compressional Died
mot; H. C.. Iturchaid. Al Freeport, *air
notninated•• on the thiee - hiMdred and
fifty-third ballot for election to Congress,
in place of Bon. E. B. Washburne,
.
The oriOnal greaSseal of the State
`Mgt
:Missouri has • been setrt
llclClnrg by Thos. V. Reynolds. who was
Lieutenant Governor of that State under
Claiborne Jackson-at= the cornixtemoe
mant of the war, ant by . whom it was*
carried away. The *eel Is electrotyped
with gold and encased in an ebony box.
—Scott it. Munson, the absconding
Wall street grain merchants, have swind
led to a larger extent than was at that re•
ported, their fraudulent transactions
amounting to 191,000. Thomas Seamen,
Van Nostrand, W. Mott, and the Guar
anty Indemnity Company are represent
ed to be the heaviest sufferers. '
—ln the Philadelphia Court of Com
mon Pleas, yesterday, Judge Pierce read
an opinion by' Judge Allison, sustaining
the twenty-seventh section •of the new
- registry law, which applies to hotels,
taverns and sailor boarding houses. The
assessors are prohibited from registering
any inmates of these establishments.
—At a meeting yesterday of citizens
and members of the Buffalo Board of
Trade resolutions wore adopted favoring
the construction of a direct line of rail
way between Portland and Buffalo, as
part of the Trans-Continental Railway
from San Francisco, to Halifax and New
foundland.
—The fifty-fifth anniversary of the
American Tract Society of Boston assem
bled yesterday, at Boston, Senator Wil
son presidinz. Julius A. Palmer, the
Treasurer, read his report, from which
It appears that the debt of the Society at
the beginning of the year was $17.495, the
payments and expenditure; $18,906.
—A. raft containing seven hundred
thousand feet of lumber and carrying
several thousand bundles of shingles and
lath was completely broken up on . Tues
day last, by coming in contact with Pen
ew-ek boom at the. Rock Island bridge.
The boom was torn away and carried
down stream and the raft scattered. The.
raft belonged to Neeves dt Sullivan, of
Quincy, Illinois.
—Thursday morning the mdi train
east, on the Little Miama, Railroad, run
on a misplaced switch at Pendleton, Ohio,
and the engine• ran off the track. Mr.
Stone, a Master Mechanic of the Com
pany, while assisting in the attempt to
replace, the engine on the track, was
structon the temple by a bow-line ring at
tached to the ropey and suffered a fracture
'of the skull. The injury was regarded
as fatal.
—Parties at St. Loma, representing the
Fleming tiros., of Philadelphia, .old, on
Thttred ay, fi ve-sixths oe the Min eLamotte
ProPertYU , Mr. :liackWood. of New YOrk;_
for five hundred and forty thousand
dollars. Colonel L. y. Bogy, of St.
yours, bid Jhe , sante. ,aMount, but Mr.
Lockwiod was 'declared the piirchaser.
The Mine Lamotte property comprises
twentv•four acres of, rich mineral lands
rim Fredericktown, Mo., on the eaten.
Mon of the Iron Mountain •Railroad.
—lt is stated that Minister Thornton
Informed Secretary Fish ybsterday that
the steamer Quaker City was the 'prop
erty of British subjects; Wordestined ler
Jamaica and not Cubs, and there was no
'reason why her clearance ' should not be
granted'' The Secretary conferred with
Secretary Boutwell, and the two agreed
Ithatit would be'the best to let her sail,
but in' the riseanthlle information was re.
celved that she had becrulibelll:: by' he'
Spanish consul and seised. I was then
decided tot let the:matter , be &totally
settled by the courts.
—Atthe New Enkland Wirma_ . „ .. ..o4;llllP
(rage Convention, BMlollf W,Wilir9
evening, a resolution 'wee an
structing the .Executive Com=
take pleasures for the organizit
National-Woman's Suffrage - A '
Addresses were made by Julia ~t
Howe, William Lloyd Gairlson.4
Stone, Mrs. Livermore, Mrs. W
and Mr._Grlswold; chairman of the.
islative Committee( who reported In
of female suffrage. The Convention
l
adjourned.
PnVSilttitGll, VitIDAY. NAY-- 28, 1869,
KOH 01110
ViOUtt o`eiAt)Ctr. A. At.
Tit COITAL
tty tc-Ivitteists w the PltteibitrAit (4erettpo
WisnirinTott, C, ?Ally 21, IF(11),
rt i Ar ft t`4ll4.llNts.
'Tito P stdorit has oppoitAnd isstnlll,
etymon as Omani it fiturloh.
Tito Iniloaltur Postmasters bayd 14en
appointed: S. P. Drake, Portsmouth, ,c).;
Wm. H. toudewell, Cumberland, Did.;
A. It. Reed, Marshall, Mteb•l Jahn Chin•
dler, Coldwatar, Mieb; Jas. M. tie +d,
Stenbenuille, 0.; L. M. Cox, 'Thorton,
Indiana.
"(Irish Bruner bits boon appointed Ito
colvor or . Public Moneys at West Point,
Nebraslo; Jno. Meansbmv, Supervising
Inspector of Steamboats, for Third ',Dis
trict; George Moore, Collector of Internal
Revenue for Tenth District, Ind; Newton
Cooper, Collector of Internal Revenue,
West Virginia,
The Indian Commission, now, here,
accompanied by the Stcretary of the In •
tenor and Commissioner Parker, had
an interview with the President to-day.
The Commission has passed resolutions
declaring it expedient for its members
to recommend persona l for appointment
in the Indian Department. Messrs.
Stuart, Farwell, DOdge and Campbell
were appointed a committee to co
operate , with Government officers
in the purchase of goods and
supplies for the Department. The Beard
resolved to divide into three commis
sions for the purpose of visiting the In
dians, viz: Northwestern division—
Illessra.Welch, Farwell and Toby; West
tern division—Messrs. Campbell, Stuart
and Hall; Southern division—Measrs.
Brunot, Bishop and Dodge.
TIM CENSUS COMMITTEE
General Garfield, of the Census Bab-
Committee, arrived to-day. The Com
mittee will be In session several weeks,
preparing forms for the next census,
which will include mining and the con
dition of freedmen in connection with
industries. acreage and crops. The bill
and tables will- be ready tor Congress
soon after the commencement of the next
session.
REVEIqIIE RECEIPTS.
The Internal Revenue receipts for the
month, to date. were 818,762,886: Cus
tom receipts from the . 18th to VA:I, inch"-
alve, were 14673,451. _••
OM. CUBA.
- - , Dispstchss frown ,i,elsetial
19th inst. contain no intelligence concern.'
ing the progress of the Cuban insur
rection.
Election In Tenneneet.
(By Tylekraph to the Pittsbnotb CittettCl
Msurßnt. Iflay 27. L—An election for
Judges of Sdpreme and other Courts
took place to-day. The Republican nom
inees for the Supreme Court had no
egular opeo +Mon, and ire undoubtedly
elected. The election for Chancellor, in
this, district, results in the choice of
East, moderate Republican, over Rexford
and - Brien, Radicals. The re:urns are
not all in, but Rexford's friends concede'
East's election by several hundred ma
jority. The vote in the city was very
close between East' and Rexford. Brien
was scarcely known in the race.,
A number of the most intelligent and
influential Radicals of Northern birth
supported East.
. The Supreme Court at Brownsville, to
day, decided an important case, having
a. bearing on the franchise law. The
Circuit Court of Weakly had decided
that neither the Legisliture nor the
Governor had power to set aside the
registrations made under the franchise
law of 1E46, and that all holding certiti
catea under them are entitled to vote.
The Oommissioner of. Registration ap
pealed and the Supremo Court af
firmed the decision of the Circuit Court.
This wilLlargely increase the number of
vo:ors.
—ln the House of Assembly of Hall f.x,
N. S., a preamble was introduced by Mr.
Murray, of Pectou, which speaks of the
forcible change of the Constitution of
Nova Scotia without the consent of the
people and In opposition to their wishes.
It says own inquiry into their griev
ances has been refused, and they now oc
cupy the position of degraded people, and
that the union has resulted in financial
disaster and oppression, and that tbeir
principal commercial trade has been and
always will be naturally with the
United States. Therefore, believing the
Imperial Parliament has , been imposed
on by false representations, , and that the
free people of the British Isles will not
persist in keeping this heretofore loyal
colony In a hated Ifnlon, resolved, that
an humble address be presented to the
Qat en, asking the restoration of our be
loved institutions, •or to be absolved
from allegiance to the British Throng,
and enabled as free people to adopt
political Institutions we deem most con
ducive to our happiness and properity.
Mr. Vail said he considered it an annexe
titan resolution, whiCh Mr. Murray
denied. Monday next is assigned lor,its
consideration.
' —The St. Louis Democrat has a letter
from Sheridan, Kansas, giviter an ~aO
coking of: the nairder of \ three men by .
Cheyenne Indians, about a month ago.
It appears that four young Mini named R. L. Smith, of Cincinnatt,_,T._W. EMIT.'
odic, of Pennitylviulia, W. Hisad,`of Wil
lianispiirt, and J. G. Doran, of Steuben
ville, Ohio, went to 'Sheridan 1 ear
ly -in the spring, 'and * started: on
al trio to New Me too .
May,
the,
16th of April. On the ist of Wy, 4 whed
near Antelope Hills, on the border of
the Indian Territory, they were attacked
by twenty Cheyennes and the three first
named young •men killed.. Doran thou
surrendered, and while in the camp of
the. Indians that night drugged Alpine
brandy he 'had with him with - opium,
which the Indians drank, and when they
su , sre stapefiCd he escaped and reached
• ridan on the 18th inst., whence he
, - left , for the Hest. a
p o
4-
—At a meeting or the 'New England
t fe ti• Slavery Society. at„Boston. Wendell
• Blips offered resoinnona and rrade a
ci ti
eh °DUO a ve of his peculiar views,
j„was followed by several others in
•.rt of the resolutions. The attend
was small -
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AN 11QTERVINNY
NEWS BY CABLE.
[Bylearatth to the Plttoburah Gazette.)
GitilAT BRITAIN:
-Lori non, May 27.—The Alabama claims
still form the great theme of oo' nversa
non and newspaper comments. The
/Voice to•day has an article on the, com
thUnioations of Sir Francis Head, which
have recently been published here,
respecting the ease of the ship
Caroline 'and the course of the
United States towards Canada dur
ing the patriot war. The Times says
Senator Sumner's assertion of English
hostility to America is met by .the tes
timony of American officials. Abuses
much more flagrant occurred within the
frontier of the United 'States, for the
popular feeling of the State of
New York was'admitted to have more
than countenanced the Fenian expedi
tion to Canada. The American press ex
pose Mr. Sumner's inconsistency by his
torical tests, and point out his perver
sten of facts.
The Messrs. Laird, of Birkenhead, who
bulls , the Alabau2a, have recently pub
lished a letter ;riving legal opinions , of
extracts from documents and speeches to
prove tb,st the building of the Alabama
was not illegal. This letter has been ex
tentively copied, and thus commented on
by the papers to-day. , 1
LoNnex, May 27.—George Peabody
sails for New York Saturday.
ITALY.
FLong:coE, May 27.—Purther changes
have been made in the Cabinet. Filippo
has resigned as Minister of Justice and
is succeeded by Pieronto.
1=::=1
FRANCE.
Pants, May 27.—The returns show
twenty-eight opposition candidates elect
ed to the Corps LegislatLf.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Losnoit, May 27-41"ven.ing.--Consols
93%. Five• Twenties 79M. Stocks easier:
Erie 18%;111inois 9514; Atlanthi arid Great
Western 24%. Bullion in the Banleof
England has increased .£572,000. Tallow
42s M. Sugar 89s 9d. Fine Rosin 15s.
Linseed Cakes £lO. Linseed Oil £3l 355.
ANTWERP, May V.—Petroleum 48%
franca.
Havns,May 29.—Cotton dull and un
changed. - -
FitAaeuvoirri May 27.---U. S. Bonds
114 i.
Live:Erma, May 27.—Cotton mid
dling uplands 11.y441; Orleans 113 id;
sales 15.000 bales. Breadstuff's quiet.
Califbrnia white Wheat Da 7d; red weetorn
Ss 7d. Corn; mixed 27s Bd. Oats 84
Barley 511. Peas 38a 6d. Pork 100 s.
Beef 90s. Lend 67e. Cheese S. Ba.
con 50s. Spirits Petroleum > fla 4d; re.
A !Most Startling Tragedy-Husband
Kiliett by a Wile.
At Rockford, Illinois. on Wedneti
day, a woman named Dixon shot and
Wiled her husband, Banks J. Dixon,
under the following circumstances:
Dixon and his wife had lived unhappily
together for mine time, when finally,
from real or imaginary causes,
abe left him, going to her fath
er's house in the country. She re
turned a short time since, stopping
at the house of a friend, and was confined
with child.. The husband made frequent
attempts to see her after this event, for
the purpose, it Is supposed, to gain
possession of the child. It was
finally arranged that he should vial
her on a certain day, which
was Wednesday. While in the chamber
with his wife, and standing! by the bed
side with the babe in his arms, his back
toward the bed, his wife, who had ap
peared perfectly cairn, without emotion
or, excitement, suddenly rose, and draw
ing forth a concealed revolver fired two
shots, one of which passed entirely
through his- body, passing near the
region of the heart, causing death in
about half an hour. -
—The Lawrence (Kansas] Tribune
says on Friday night, of last week, two
settlers on Coxie's Creek, Neutral Lands,
were hanged by leaguers, another shot
and several others warned to leave. Con
siderable numbers of the settlers not hi
sympathy with the leaguer were going
to Fort Scott for protection, and others
are leaving the State. It is said there
are nearly three thousand well armed
and organized men in hostility to Mr.
Joy. Protection will soon be given to
the railroad engineers. :and the lawless
men In that region will have to leave the
country or suffer the penalty of their
ants.
Three' Japanese families have ar
rived at 'San Francisco under the an
apicea of a Prussian named Schnell, an
old resident of Japan, and driven there
from in consequence of the defeat of the
Northern Princes. Thirty-seven more
families are also on the way, end eighty
additional intend coming, making a total
of one hundred and twenty families,
who propose. settling vermanantly in
California to cultivate silk, tea, 4.11:0.
They bring many mulberry trees, tea
and bamboo plants, and intend purchas
ing Government land for immediate cul
tivation'. It is not improbable several
Northern 'Princes will also come and
bring many more industrious families.
—The Grand Jury of the Bibb County
(Alabama) Superior Court has found a
true bill against J. Clark Swayze, editor
of a newspaper at. Macon, fbr high mls
detheanor. The bill is predicated upon
IT
an incendiary article ap lag In his
paper some weeks ago. and s band upon
that section of the code th forbids any
person to circulate any , writing that iti
anlcates resistance to lawful authority,
Insurrection or cOnapiracy against -chi
r.ens. - After the death of Dr. Ayres and
a negro, near SaVannan,Swityzepublish
&Lan inflammatory ari4ple calling pn
trhiCiti Men to organize for self-proteo
tidri.A Thei penalty is linprlionent In
the punit,ntiary from tn
fide twenty years.
—A. att ic. train; arrived : at Worcester,
masa... On Tuesday hont. Albany,.: en.
route to,Provldow,; loaded with Texas
cattle, which were lbund to be in a hoz.:
rible ~,condition., Twenty-nine iaige
bovines were floind jammed mono ear, ;
two of which had apparently beeif dead
for some time.' Two others were dying.
Otbers were down and unable to rise,
while all' were evidently starving,' and
bad apparently been without Ifood or
water for several ,clays. The cattle were
unloaded,led and exercised, and. then
put into fresh cars,An4 sent off, on their
was.
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CITY AND SUBIIIIDAII.
American Protestant Episcopal Minion.
• ail , Meeting. • .
Last night, at the Methodist Female
College Chapel, Hancock street, now oc
cupied as !a place of worship by the St.
AndreWs'i Episcopal Congregation, there
was held j a meeting of the American
Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society.
The attendance was small, not more .than
one hundied ladles and gentleman -being
present, but those who were there en
joyed a rare intellectual treat in the
eloquent and forcible addresses delivered
by distinguished strangers. The exer
cises were opened by an offering of the
choir, after which the 104th hymn was
rendered all present joining in the
vocal praise. An appeal to the Throne
of Grace was made by Rey: Dr. John
Preston, which was followed by another
hvmn.-.± Rev. R. H. Newton, of Philadel
phia, Secretary of the Protestant Episco
pal Missionary Society, was then intro
duced to those present and delivered an
able and argumentative address explan
atory-of the objects of the Society. His
remarks were controversial in their , °tw
eeter, yeti neat, dignified and forcible.
He awelled at considerable (length in
making clear the right of members of the
Episcopal church to enter Into and aid
this inde jiendent missionary auxiliary to
the church, so needful especially at this
time and this land for 'spreading the
Gospel of Fhest, while Romanlem was en
croachiugono the domain of the commun
ion, and Popular sentiment was drifting
in the direction of that faith. By ingenious
arguments he strove to prove the expedi
ency of the organization, and disclaimed
any idea Of departing from the church in
acting independent of the organizations
of liae character within her pale. The
good the tociety will accomplish, the
high object in view, and the capacity of
all to help in the noble work, were pro
lific themes warmed into life by the earn
est orator.
Rev. Dr. J. Cotten Smith, Of New York,
a member of the American liiiiiionary
Board, was next introduced and made
a powerful address in favor of the Society
and oppoied to Romanism and the ten
dency to drift into its ranks observable
in the 1211411 Churchmen and ritualists
of the Episcopal Church. He was listened
to with much attention,
and his eloquent,
remarks made deep impression on his
hearers.
,Aiter prayer and ringing the meeting
adjourned:
Iron Clad Buildings.
It appeirs this sort of structure is pro
'
blblted by our city ordinances, 'and that
the law islo be enforced against build
ings Already Ore*itli- It maY boxigtitto
enforce the law generally and wrong to
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it may be altogether proper to make ex-
captions in particular eases, and we in
cline to, the opinion that in the case of
the shop erected by Hassey, Wells dc Co.,
appurtenant to their steel works, there
is a strong claim upon the favorable con
sideration of Councils. In reducing in
gots of steel to the particular sizes de
sired, trip hammers must be employed,
the concussion of which is so great
as to shake the ground to a considerable
distance around; from this cause and not
to save eXpense, it has been found neces
sary to r construct factories where
each forces are employed, of heavy
framework, covered on the aides
and root with iron, thus Making
them, as nearly as possible, proof against
internal or external fires. Wooden
roofs are not forbidden by law, and Yet
a brick house with a wooden roof is more•
liable to catch or transmit fire than would
be a house with wooden walls and Iran;
elate or gravel roof. The iron-clad build
ings, which have been doomed to be re
moved by law, are more nearly fire
proof than thousands of shingle roofed
buildings, in the city. Wo see no objec
tion to ironclads but their unsightly Ap
pearance, an objection that- does not ap
ply to manufacturing districts, where all
the buildings are more or less unsightly.
And, in the case of factories using trip
hammers, iwe suggest that the policy -of
the oily should be to make concessions,
on account of the mechanical neces
sities of the business. Hussey, Wells . Co.
have been' pioneers in the manufacture
of copper amid steel at Pittsburgh. They
have contributed largely to the repre
sentation iabroad Of this manufacturing
centre. They have 'built up vast tidal).
lishments; employ large numbers of
skilled and common laborers. It is in
such men and such enterprises that any
city should take pride, and to such every
needful facility should be gladly accorded
b,7, the municipal authorities. And while
it was dmhtleas wrong to erect the build
'rigs without authority of Councils,would
hi not be vi,rong also—if the necessity for
them is made clear—to withhold the con
sent of COunclis now, when they are
built?
Pickpocket Arrested.
Last evaning about half past seven
o'clock, a man giving his name as John
Whipple, was detected in the act of pick
,
ing. the pocket of an elderly gentle.
man who had just seated himself in a car
of the Fast Line Pentmlvania Railroad,
bound for Philadelphia. The light
lingered chap had secured the pocket
book of his victim when officer Wool
ridge wholuid been on the watch, ar
rested and cconveyed him to the lockup.
A check Was found upon him which
called fbr a light valise at the St. Clair
Betel. ' The 'valise" was prOcured but
revealed nothing newel, to the character
of its owner. He had about twenty dol
lars in his, possession 'when arrested in
addition to that in. the stolen pocket'.
book. ,There were two others,evidently
accomplices, in. company with him a
short- time before the arrest, but they
escaped. time before
intended victim. stopped
in the city all night, and will appear
against h im of the hearing before the
Mayor thlb morning.
• A Itentittanee.
George' Stevens,' the party arrested on
utisPlatO Was' llnpHeated in the rob
' Hoblitho 'last
berY of'. -- 8 grocery store
week, ; is still In the 'Allegheny look-up
awaiting hearing. He prefers , remain-.
lug there lA:going to jail. The hearlug
°Owes, off' . Monday morning next at
OW o'clock, tb which time It was poet- .
pored at his own reqUest. Yesterday he
received from a friend in Chicago "a"re
mittance of three hundred debark, and
he now expresses himself ready for so-
Hon. There Is no clue to the others IMP.
posed to be implicated in the affair.
NUMBER 'll9
SYNODICAL PROCEEDLNOS.
General Synod of the Reformed Pres
byterlan Church at Cedartille,Ohlo.
SIXTY{ DAY-AFTERNOON SESSION.
Synod met at three o'clock and was
opened with prayer by the Moderator,
Rev. Mr. Harshaw.
Mr. J. M. Imbrie was added to the
Committee on Union . with the United
Presbyterian Church.;
The Treasurer of the Board of Domes
tic Missions read, his report. Referred to
the Auditing Committee.
~
- The Secretary's report of the Board of
Domestic Missions was read by James C.
MoMillar, It complained of a lack
of probatioera to meet the demands for
preaching. Adopted,
The Tre rarer of Domestic Missions
was instru ed not to include the names
of the ' , sus ensionists" among those of
the. Pittsb gh Presbytery, in the ac
knowledgment of moneys contributed
to the work of Domestic Missions, and
the Freedmen's Mission. They are to be
credited,as ministers, but not as members
of the. Presbytery.
A communication has been received
from the teachers of the Freedmen's
Mission, and a comnlimentary vote
given to those engaged in the work.
Proceeded to the order of the day, the
consideration 'of the report of the Special
Committee on the matters pertaining to
the Second Church, Philadelphia, and
First Church, Allegheny. The report
was adopted unanimously. (For the re
port in full see morning's proceedings.)
Took up the case of the Saharanpur
Presbytery, and entered upon the con
sideratie of Dr. McLeod's paper, item
by item.
The firs resolution was adopted. The
second w voted down.
'Rev. MM. Woodside, brother of one of
the Missy, narlea in India, offered an
amendme t to the third resolution,
which de area that the Saharanpur Pres
bytery, b suspending relations, had se
ceded fro the Synod and placed them
selves be and the Jurisdiction of this
court. N ties, however sacred, would
allow him to i3acrifice a principle. He
was not 'lamed of his vote given for
the - sus sten of tieorge H. Stuart,
I
Req. 63 was for punishing those who .
.han_lairmitted themselves to be misled.
by Mr. Stuart. , ,
, Dr. McLeod assented to all Mr; Wood- -
aide had said, but owing to the peculiari
ties of the case, he was - for postponing
the matter for a year.
• Dr:..MeMaster thought delay would do
;nos good. The Presbytery of Saharan
pur had suspended relations in August
last, antlaftmed their action in March.
.They have refused to represent Synod
among the heathen. Can Synod do other
,. • - than ,deolara that they , ba*a plated
tbernastfresbeyondlierrestrictidnl' Delay
will not alter the facts. Then nothing
can be gained. .
Dr. Steele would like to make a differ
ence between the missionaries who went
out from them, and the converted
heathen, in India.
Dr. 6. B. W. McLeod thought Synod
should except the names of the native
missionaries.
Dr. Wilson's desire was there should
be one year's delay. The difference be
tween the Presbytery in India and those
in this country was as great as between
the pole&
Rev. A. G. Wylie believed the Svii-ff\
should apply the same measure to the
Presbytery of Sabaranpur that has beim
applied to the Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh Presbyteries. As late as the
month of March in this year they had
reiterated the language used in.Augin .
Synod would lose in every way by dela:.
They might begin to think Synod wa
afraid to touch them, if the matter b:
delayed. There was no way by which
line'of distinction could be drawn. Al
must be treated alike.
Mr. Woodside added a clause excepting
native missionaries. -
Mr: Wylie moved the middle part
the amendment be stricken out. Decided
out of order.
The question on the amendment was
decided. It was adopted as amended.
Rev. J. Alford and Mr. R. C. Miller 01.
stained leave of absence.
An amendment was offered by Dr. Mc.i
Leod excepting the native missionaries,'
Withdrawn, as it was acted on already.l
The whole paper, as amended, \was
adopted.
Closed with prayer by Rev. S. Yo ng,.
AmusemenUt.
OPERA HOUSE.—A large and care
ly fashionable audience assembled at he
Opera House, last evening, to teethei
Chapman Sisters, Blanch and in
the amusing burlesque of "Alladin,t, or
the Wonderful Scamp." The entertOn
ment commenced with "Paul. the Pet,"
with Ella in the title role, and concluded
with "Alladin." To-night Blanch s end
Ella take a benefit, when "aim; or lthe
Man at the Wheel," will be preitente4.•
PITTSBURGH THEATRE. —"alon e O r.
the Man at the Wheel," has been the lat\•
traction at the Pittsburgh Theatre Or:
tug the past week. To-night Rook and*
Havia, the gentlemanly officer and dopr
keeper, will take a benefit, on whichc
caaion, in addition to the regular Com
pany, Dick Quilker, the champion clog
daneer, and Master Willie, will apPestr-
Rook and Havis are both deserving gen
i -
.tlemen and we hope the benefit may be
a substantial one.
Break Downy.
111 our perambulations yesterday we
discovered a number of vehicles broken
down. A coal. cart on Second avenue,
near Ferry street; a coke wagon on Penn
street, pear the , Fort Wayne railroad
crossing...and another...on Grant street,
near Seventh avenue, each having an
axle broken. This is the result of over
loading the vehicles, and is not the only
bad result, as there 'are hundreds of
horses broken down and rendered unlit
for service every year in consequence of
being compelled to draw unreasonable
loads. •
, Killed by Indians.—A telegraph dui
patch elsewhere gives an account or the
murder of three young men by, r the
ens, in the Indian Territory, on the first
inst., who were on a trip to New Mexico.
Their names are, J. W. Shryock and W.
Heed, of Pennsylvania, and R. L. Smith;
of Cincinnati. J. G. Doran of Steuben
ville, Ohio, waa with the ',sky, but stir:
rendered to the Indians and subsequently
made his escape.
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