the PraAh3-tez - rAn Banner and Advocate
Presbytery of Coshocton
•esbyrery of Coshocton held an" ad
lieeting at Übricksville, 0 , June
silo M. Semple, Moderator, and
El nut, Tenipori.ry Clerk
1 , 1. Carson read the Report of "Ver.
nuitute,", an Academy at Hayes.
under the joint care of this and two
sbyrpries, reprenenting, a better at
ut• students during the last Winter
;an in any previous one. Twenty
the students are members of our
,es B Akay, a student of the last
ss of the Western Theological Se m
licensed to preach the Gospel.
W. Marquis reported that the
appoinied to instal Rev. Wm. E.
of First Presbyterian church of
bad performed that duty on the
A,y
M. Semple, of the committee ap
visit eertsin vacant churches and
the Tuscarawas Valley, reported
visited Bolivar and Dover; that
n Bolivar several families who
Is of having Old School Presby
ling, and were willing to oontri
extent of their ability for the
supplies; that they . had no
ding under their own control, but
ply get the use of a Methodist
church. Mr, Semple thought
- -
for accomplishing anything in
Presbyterianism in Dover, very
E Hunt, of the same nom
ced that he had visited and
what remains of the Presbyte
)fNew Philadelphia, and thought
toe opening, and a loud call, for a
)rt in the way of church ratan-
Rosier' in that town.
was appointed by the Presby
-111 there on the Second Sabbath
.r Casson, on the Second Sab
gust ; and Mr. Marquis, on the
bath of September.
adjourned to meet at Nashville,
Tuesday of October, at 2 o'clock
E.
;esbyteriso Banner and Advocate.
Acknowledgment,
, oa:—Near three thousand years
ted man of God found comfort
~ for the honor of Jehovah, the
had experienced in time of siok
gave vent to his grateful feelings
" Blessed is he that consider
, (margin) the Lord will deliver
of trouble." He thus expressed
belief, that those who show eon.
dive, or liberal kindness to the
are even now happy in doing
11 be blessed of God; and also
itience that God would.graoious-
tempt such from calamities, pre•
lives and health, and crown them
Les; or, in ease of sickness, afford
•ength and various alleviations till
restored, or a peaceful death ter
their sorrows• Many since then
a sweet experience of such happi
by the grace of God, his people
iry age, afforded precious exam
that " consider the sick "
is pleased to render his grate
ay, that the First Presbyterian
Fort Wayne bears such a cbarao•
a recent period of sickness, of
)tbs continuance, they kindly
and administered to his wants
of his family, in various ways—
aid to the value of seventy or
tars. Likewise, that two or three
ids from a distance have shown
also " consider the sick" in the
Lord may richly, graciously ful
, and " deliver them in time of
is the prayer of their gratefil
W. M. DONALDSON.
embytertan Banner and advocate.
sbytery ,of Saltsburg.
ebytery of Saltsburg met at 'El
the 23d of June, and was opened
)on by the Rev. Mr. Colledge, on
I.—" Christ received in the recep-
Messengers." Calls were accepted
le, from the congregations or Har.
Ichaniesbarg, and Mount Pleas!
Mr. M'Millan, from Warren and
• and (informally) by Mr. Shand,
ington and Centre; and these
Ton were examined, with a view
lination. After a pleasant sea
; which an interesting conference
)13 the subject discussed in the
'•ion, Presbytery adjourned at
M., on Wednesday, to meet
the Fourth Tuesday of August,
A. ,to ordain Mr, M' Milian.
;, to preside ; Mr. Donaldson,
Leason, charge pastor; Mr.
people. Also, to meet at Centre,
rat Tuesday of September, at U
M., to ordain Mr. Shand. Mr.
reside; Mr. Morgan, preach ; Mr.
charge pastor; Mr. 'Mechlin, peo
, regular Fall meeting will be held
iy, on the First Tuesday in oo
,ich time and place Mr. Rice will
and installed. Mr. Caruthers,
; Mr. Morton, to preach ; Mr.
charge pastor; Mr. Orr, people.
SUPPLIES.
Spring.—Mr. M'Cartney, Fourth
n June, and First Sabbath in Sep-
Mr. Graves, Fourth Sabbath in
rsnn Furnace.—Mr. Painter, Se
)ath in July; Mr. Graves, First
u August; Mr. Stark, First Sub
.ptember. _
w e —Mr. Caruthers, to adminis-
Supper at discretion. _ _ _
tree - --31 r. M'Cartney. Third and
)baths in August; Mr. Boliman,
abbath in July;' to adriinister
's Supper, and take contribution
141issions
v ille.—Has leave to procure sup
, ngton and Centre.—Mr. Shand,
u pply.
ssits —Mr. Stark. Plural Sabbath
sod declare pulpit vacant, with
, rocure other supplies.
pepartmtut
e of the Pennsylvania, Line.
Legilature of Pennsylvania passed a
izing the sale of the Main Line of the
ovements ; embracing the railroad from
Iphia to Columbia, the canal to liollidays-
Portage Railroad to Johnstown, and the
Pittsburgh, at the minimum price of
)0, which is probably a little more than
I the cost. A clause in the Act author-
Pennsylvania - Railroad Conipany to be
e purchaser; and proposed, also, that in
3 Company would give an additional $l,-
it should be exonerated from tonnage
er.
hearing of an Injunction, the Supreme
Court of the State decided that the sale might
take place, constitutionally, to the Company, but
that our Legislature could not hind its successors
in regard to taxes ; that taxation being a right
of sovereignty, was resident in the people, and
could not be alienated.
The sale was appointed for the 26th of June,
and took place on that evening, at the Merchant's
Exchange, Philadelphia ; the Governor being
present. J. Edgar Thompson, President of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, on behalf of the
Company, bid the $7.600,000. No other bid was
made, and the property was struck off.
The Company have now two railroads, with
each a tunnel, across the Allegheny Mountains.
They connect by the Branch road, six miles long,
! from Altoona to Hollidaysburg. Toward the
Western end, they cross each other several times,
and are together at Johnstown. The recent pur
chase is a few miles the longest road, and, by a
few feet, the highest summit ; but the grades are
much the lightest, and it may be very profitably
used for the freight business of the Company,
going West. It would 'thus be a second track.
But we have not seen any statement intimating
how the Company mean to use it.
Some of the advisers of the people have pre
dicted great, evils to them, fromthis monopoly of
the means of transit, for persons, goods, and pro•
duce, in the hands of a powerful Company,
having their own pecuniary interests. Others of
our benevolent counselors have assured us that
the people will derive great benefits from the sale,
by a diminution of taxes heretofore levied to pay
interest, and by the removal of an occasion of
great corruption in our political affairs. The
thing, however, is now done. The Improvement
belongs to the Company, under the solemnity of
a contract; and we shall hope that they will so
use their power, that the predictions of ill omen
will never have their counterpart in realities.
Large Steamers.
There is now being constructed in England, a
mammouth steamer called the Great Eastern, and
our ambitious seaports are contending for the
honor of her first visit to thin country, and for
the profits of her trade. Philadelphia, Baltimore,
and Boston are out of the question, as they can
afford but some 25 feet of water, or less, at the
entrance of their harbors and at their wharves,
while she demands over 30 feet. Portland puts
in her claim as the deepest harbor, and Norfolk,
hers, as having an all-sufficient depth. New York,
however, thinks that she can find enough, not, it is
true, by the regular entrance, but by way of the
sound, and as far as "near the foot of One Hun
dred and Sixth street," whence she has a rail
road to the Park.
Comparing this steamer with others hitherto
regarded as baring enormous size, the measure
ments are as follows :
Length. Breadth. Depth.
Vanderbilt - - 335 feet. 49 feet. 33 feet.
Niagara - - 345 feet. 65 feet. 31 feet.
Adriatic • - • 354 feet. 50 feet. 83 feet.
Persia - • 390 feet. 45 feet. 32 feet.
Great Eastern - • 084 feet. 86 feet. 70 feet.
It is said that this monster ship will be able to
stow 10,000 tons of coal and 5,000 tons of freights,
and will at the same time accommodate 20,000
persons, including 4,000 first'class passengers.
" Where," exclaims the Times, " but in New York,
can such a ship find business enough to pay her
expenses'"
The Wiy they get Rich out West
The Newburyport Herald relates the experience
of a friend, just returned from the West. He
says:
Here is the whole story. We complain of hard
times, and go West to better our condition. If we
would live in a log or mud house with ode room
and no floor, sleep on straw, and go bare footed,
wear the cheapest and coarsest clothes, and de
prive ourselves of all the comforts of life, any
body might squat upon two sores of common
pasture, and with the same labor, be as rich in
seven years as upon any half section of land in
Kansas; and if there were hundreds thus squat
ting, they could get up a land fever, speculate in
lots, and have the prices go up as they do in the
West.
What people save in the new States they crush
out of themselves, and that they can do any where.
All the advantage they have is the privilege of
living as mean, and being as mean, and having
their children as mean, as human nature will
bear, with nobody to fiad fault with it; while
here, living in the same manner, they would sepa •
rate from the masses, as much as the gipsies do.
If any of our people wilsh to learn practically
about this matter, let them take a view of the
basket makers who drive into market from New
Hampshire, and then go home and live with them
a month in the baok parts of Barrington, and they
will be saved the trouble of going to Kansas.
There is a good deal of caricature in the
above, and a considerable sprinkle of truth also.
If men, women, and children, would work as
hard in the older States as they do in the newer
ones, and oacapy as poor houses, and eat as fru
gally, awl dress as plainly, and spend as little in
going about, in dainties and in sight-seeing, they
would find themselves generally to accumulate
about as rapidly in Pennsylvaniaand Ohio as they
do in lowa or Mianesota. The latter have the
advantage or a greater rise in the value .of land,
but the former have it in everything contributing
to the comfort of body and mind—in the cheap
ness of food, clothing, books, education, &c., &c.
Happily, all have their choice. This •is a broad
land, and there are great facilities for loco-motion.
The New Arctic Expedition
Captain M'Clintock, who has been several time
in the Arctic seas, has, at the desire of Lady
Franklin, undertaken a new expedition, to ascer
tain what•may yet be discovered relative to the
fate of Sir John, and his companions. He ex
pected to sail about the last of June. Of the
expedition, he says :
" The means of accomplishing Lady Franklin's
object, the completion of the search, and now
placed at my disposal, are ample. The vessel is
a three-masted screw schooner yacht, with four
top sail and top-gallantsail; the topsail roofs from
the deck; she is decidedly a clipper—diagonally
built, 132 feet long over all, 320 tone builder's
measurement, with a slight draft of water ; trunk
engines, of thirty horse power; crew numbering
thirty individuals, including an Esquimaux inter
preter. Almost all will be old shipmates of my
own in former Arctic voyages. They shall be fed
and clothed as in the government expeditions, and
receive double pay I therefore anticipate no
ditliciflty in keeping up precisely the same disci.
pline as that which we found to answer so well in
the three Arctic expeditions in which I have
served."
Philadelphia and Chic Lgo
It will be seen by an advertisement in another
column. that the traveling time between these
two points, by way of. Pittsburg, Fait Wayne,
and Chicago Road, constituting a practical con
tinuation of our great Central line, is brought
within 34 hours. The baggage of passengers is
checked through, and there is but a single change
of ears, by which means a great convenience is
added to the comfort of rapid and safe transit.
When the 55 miles of the Southern Michigan
Road, now used in this connection, are dispensed
with by the completion of the direct line through
out, the travel and transportation will be almost
entirely turned aside from the improvements
stretching to New York, which have already suf
fered materially from the superior facilities of the
present route.—North. American.
HSALTR OF WIZ ClTY.—The deaths in the city,
for the week ending June 21st, as reported by the
cemeteries to Dr. A. C. Muruoch, Physician to the
Board of Health, were as follows :—Adulte 6 ;
Children 18 ; White 17 ; Colored 1;
Males 9 •,
Females 9 ;—Total 18, Of these, three i died of
Pneumonia; Scarlet Fever and Consumption, two
esob ; and the others of eleven different disease.
—Dispatch,.
The Episcopal fund of the dioeese of lowa,
$7,000, was invested in land a couple of years or
so ago. The lands thus purchased are estimated
to be worth $BB,OOO.
THE PRESBYTERIAN BINItEII AND ADVOCATE.
Utah
A correspondent of the New York Daily Times,
writing from Washington, D. C. says that by the
act passed in the year 1850, to establish the terri
tory of Utath, the right is reserved to Congress to
abolish the territorial organization at its pleasure.
It provides that the territory be divided and at
tached to any other State or territory. To secure
its passage the Mormon representatives gave as
surance that polygamy was not one of the institu
tions to be introduced into the territory. The
same authority adds that a vast majority of the
Mormons in Utah are not citizens of the United
States.
It would seem that politicians are seriously di
recting their attention to the suppression of mis
rule and heathenism in Utah. Judge Douglass
is reported as having said to the grand jury and
his constituents at Springfield, 111., that:
" If the state of that Territory be as it isrepre
seoted, then Utah stands out an alien enemy and
outlawed seeking admission for the sole purpose
of subverting the authority of the United States.
If such is the case he would favor the repeal of
the organic law of the Territory, enact it a dis
trict under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of
the United States, and then bring in the crimin
al code qfi 1790, try them, and punish the guilty,
complete y blotting from the earth the existence
of the Territory."
GENERAL Scorn has been called to Washington
by the President to perfect arrangements for the
dispatch pf troops to Utah. It is the deign of
the administration to send out the •new Territorial
officers with the military force, thus ensuring their
safety from attack while on the journey. The
final orders for the guidance of" the commander of
the troops are in preparation. No attempt will
be made to interfere with the religims or social
institutions of the Mormons, but the United
States laws will be rigidly enforced. Already the
troops detached for Utah are in Motion.
WHAT BOUT OF PEOPLE GO TO lITAIL—The Boa.
ton Courier of Monday contains some interesting
facts touching the heavy cargo of Mormons that
arrived at that port in a Liverpool packet:
There were on board 808 passengers, divided in
nationality, as follows, viz :—English, 720;
Scotch, fourteen; Welsh, twenty two; German,
thirteen; Irish, five ; French, fours The English
were from all parts of England, more, however,
coming from Nottinghamshire than from any other
part. Among the passengers were forty elders,
who had been preaching the doctrines of the sect
throughout the whole wnrld. One of these El
ders, named Mercer, of Philadelphia, was on his
return from a mission to the East Indies. The
rest of the passengers were collected by the
elders on representation of duty and the promised
land of Utah, and were of all ages and both
sexes. Four of the women were over seventy
years of age, and there were twenty-four infants
under ohe year old.
Awful Steamboat Accident.
QUEBEC, JUNE 27.—The steamer Montreal was
burnt yesterday near here. Two hundred pas
sengers were drowned or burnt to death, mostly
Scotch emigrants.
LATER,—The steamer Montreal, the account of
the loss of which has already been telegraphed
from Quebec,. contained five hundred passengers,
and only one hundred and seventy five are known
to have been drowned. It is believed, however,
that many swam ashore-and were saved in other
ways. The accident happened near Cape Rouge,
between Montreal and Quebec.
The Montreal took fire at six in the evening.
The steamer Napoleon saved two hundred passen
gers. The principal portion of the passengers
have just landed at Quebec, on their way to the
West.
FARTHER PARTICI:ILA/M.—The steamer Montre
al left at four o'clock yesterday afternoon for
Montreal, with four or five hundred passengers,
mostly Scotch immigrants recently from Europe.
Nothing unusual occurred until the Montreal
reached Cape Rouge, twelve or fifteen miles above
Quebec, when the woodwork near the furnaces
was discovered to be on fire. Quickly after the
flames broke forth, causing the utmost consterna
tion among the passengers. Every effort was
made to arrest the flames, but to no purpose.
Captain Rudolph, finding it impossible to save the
steamer, ordered her to be run towards the shore.
The officers andnrew exerted themselves at the
same time to get out the life-boats. The flames
spread with host astonishing rapidity, and the
wildest confusion and despair prevailed through
out the "ship. Numbers of passengers threw
themselves overboard and were drowned.
Fortunately,• the steamer Napoleon, also for
Montreal, was but a few miles advanced. Taking
turn, and putting back with all possible expedi
tion to her assistance, the Napoleon succeeded in
rescuing from the burning wreck 127 passengers.
Capt. Rudolph and the purser of the Montreal were
among those who threw themselves into the river ;
both were excellent swimmers, and succeeded in
reaching the steamer Alliance and were saved.
California.
New Yonx, June 27.—The steamship Mina,
with California mails of the sth, arrived at her
wharf at 10 o'clock P. M. She brings $1,853,000
on freight.
The Illinois brings an account of a great fire at
Port•au Prinoe, where one hundred houses were
destroyed.
Judge Bowles * was on board the Illinois.
Amongst her passengers are the Hon. J. B.
Bowlin, 11. S. Minister from New Granada, Judge
Lott of California, and Lieut. Mowry, of the tr.
S. army. Lieut Mowry was late in command of
Fort Yuma and bears a numerously signed peti
tion for the creation of the new Territory of Are
zonia in the Gadsden purchase.
On the 16th the sloop Cyane arrived, having
left San Juan del Norte, on the 11th 'with one
hundred and. forty-two of Walker's men and
on the 18th, the frigate Roanoke, twelve days from
Hampton Roads.
Upwards of three hundred of Walker's men,
were on board the frigate Roanoke, at .Aspinwall,
when the Blinoia sailed.
More reliable intelligenCe of the Sonora expe
ditionists has been received. The main facts of
the total annihilation of the party of Col. Crabbe,
is fully confirmed.
The trial of Edward McGowan, on a charge of
being accessary to the murder of James King of
William, was brought to a termination on the Ist
inst. He was found not guilty.
The Democratic State Convention, is to be held
on the 14th of July. The Republican State Con.
vention, on the Bth of the same month. The most
prominent gubernatorial aspirant is ex-senator
John B. Weller, who will encounter opposition
from the Broderick clique, who will use every
exertion to insure the nomination of their own
candiolate in the convention.
Great indignation is felt throughout the State
against the Mormons of Salt Lake, since the de
velopements of Judge Drummond concerning
them.
The agricultural interest bad been greatly bene
fitted by the late Spring rains and fair weather,
though not average crops are anticipated. '
A rumor prevailed that Col. Harasztby, melter
and refiner at the U. S. branch mint is a defaulter
to a large amount, variously stated at $lOO,OOO
to $500,000.. Col. H. made over all his property
to the United States Government against any de
ficiency chargeable against him.
Washington.
Jim 20.—The Interior Department haw re
ceived information that the superintendents of the
several branches of the Pacific Wagon Road are
prosecuting the work with energy, and will hurry
on its completion.
The subject of the California mail was again
considered by the Cabinet to day. The points in
the route having been determined, it now rests
with the Postmaster General to make the con
tracts.
The President will leave the Capitol for the
Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania, about the middle
of July, and on his return will remove to his sum
mer residence, the Soldier's Home, about four
miles from Washington.
WESTgati PENITENTIARY.—The work of putting
on the new galvanized iron roof by W. B. Scaife
& Co., is now completed, and the inmates of the
penitentiary are fairly under a snb..tantial cov
ering from the sun and rain, The new roof adds
very much to the appearance of the building.
The penitentiary is now in cap•a-pie order,
throughout, and is a model institution. Much of
the "completeness of the appointments" is owing
to the energy and perseverence of Maj. Beck
ham, who has discharged the duties of warden
for many years, with great credit to himself and
to the satisfaction of the public. After patiently
enduring the storms of years, that have bsaten
through the old roof, we can congratulate the Major
and his family on being comfortably and snugly
housed.—Dispatch.
The touisville Journal says that all the old
lumber of Henry Clay's home at Ashland have
been sold to Wm. S. Rand, of Maysville, Ky., a
Demoeratifor the nuumfacture of canes, boxes, eta.
Items
Howell Cobb is already named ter the next
Presidency by some of the Democratic journals.
•
The total valuation of Connecticut, as shown by
the recent returns of the Assessor, it $214,000,-
000.
A. well executed ten dollar counteffeit note on
the Honesdale Bank, Pa., is annul:teed in the
New York papers.
The grain harvest in Europe, according to in
telligent information, will be magnificent, the silk
crop worse than last year, which Iris very bad.
The vintage seems likely to rival thi grain crop
and to reedeem the failure of several years.
The public health in all the Southern cities re
mains unexceptionable. No signs ofiyellow fever,
or epidemic disease of any descriptien, in any di
rection.
Peaches will be abundant in Soutaarn Illinois.
A man near Jonesborough has a young orchard
of 7,000 trees, which ho'hopes will yield a bushel
each.
The St. Louis Democrat mentions the purchase
of 14,000 acres of land in Dade and Barton coun
ties, in Southwestern Missouri, by a large com
pany of Pennsylvanians, of German descent, who
design. settling there.
A green rose is now in bloom in Grant Thorn;
burn's seed store, Broadway, New York. The
leaf, stalk, buds and flower are all like those of
ordinary roses in forni and all of one uniform
green color. The parent stalk is said , to have
come from Japan.
A LARGE FLEECE or WooL.—The Cadiz Repub
lican says that a Mr. Minteer, of Harrison coun
ty, brought to that town a fleece of wool shorn
from an imported French Buck, which weighed
28 pounds. The buck is four years old; cost
$175, and was imported from France.
The wheat harvest in Georgia, is now being
gathered. A letter in the New York Journal of
Commerce, from Athens, says that ,bbth as to
quantity and quality, it is the best ever had in
Georgia. Oats have suffered a little from dry
weather, although a full average yield is harvest
ed, or will be. Corn is backward and small
for the season of the year, but, is generally
healthy, and may yet turn out well. Cotton,
however, is too much injured fully to recover,
no matter how much it may be favored here
after.
Ctratons earse von Mortny.-4-The mutiny
among the native troops of the British Indian re
giments is said to have been caused by using
pork and bnllock fat instead of mutton suet, to
grease the•cartridges of their guns. The relig
ions feeling of the natives is either Mahommedan
or Hindoo. The first could not stand the pork
abomination, and the last held the bullock as
sacred. The fanaticism of the troops beitig
once roused, it could not be easily quelled again.
OLDEST MAN IN AItSBRICA.-A correspondent of
the Cassville, Ga., Standard, says there is now
living in Murray County, Ga., on the waters of
Holy Creek, a Revolutionary veteran, who has
attained the age of one hundred and thirty-four.
His name is John Hames. He was born in Meck
lenburg County, Va., and was a lad ten years old
when Washington was in his cradle. He was
thirty-two when Braddock met his disastrous de
feat on the Monongahela. He, with several of
his neighbors, set forth to join the ill fated com
mander, but after several days' march, were
turned back by the news of his overthrow He
migrated to South Carolina nearly a hundred
years ago. He was in thirteen considerable
conflicts during the War of Independence, and in
skirmishes and encounters with the Indians, with
Tories and with British, times beyond memory.
He was with Gates at Camden, with Morgan at
Cnwpens, with Green at Hillsboro' and Eutaw,
and with Marion in many a bold rush into a tory
camp or red-coat quarters.
*reign jattiligente.
By the Indian, arrived at Quebec, and the
Niagara, at Halifax, Liverpool dates are received
to the 20th ult. The Niagara made her passage
in a little over nine days.
Affairs appear to be more in a settled condition
than formerly, and the arts of peace are in
progress. The cotton market had slightly im
proved. Breadstuffs were in de hand with prices
a shade higher. Provisions were abundant, and
sales languid. The weather had been unfavor
able to the crops.
The London Times advocates the abolition of
slavery in Cuba, as the only effectual means of
checking the slave trade. The baptism of the
infant Princess of England took place at Buck
ingham Palace on the 9th inst. A meeting was
held at Ashton, under the auspices of the Cotton
Supply Association, and passed resolutions simi
lar to those passed by the Liverpool meeting.
Parliament.
Business in the House of Commons was pro
.
gressing steadily and firmly. Among other im
portant matters the Jews' Disability bill was
being discussed. The Roman Catholic amend
ment was defeated by an immense majority.
A spirited discussion occurred in the Reuse of
Commons in regard to the destruction of Grey
town by an American war vessel. •
Lord Hamilton inquired if the Government had
demanded reparation for the British property de
stroyed.
Lord Palmerston replied, it had not ; the law
officers.of the Crown having given the, opinion
that the demand could not be sustained.
A discussion ensued, in which De Israeli, Roe
buck, and others denounCed the outrage, and in
sisted that the honor of the British flag ought to
have been maintained.
Lord John Russell and others defended the
government, and then the subject was dropped.
AFFAIRS IN INDIA, always a topic of deep in
terest for Englishmen. were receiving much
attention. There has been a great amelioration of
the condition of the people of that country, but
many hardships are still endured by them. In
regard to all these the resident Christians of
1 .
foreign. birth, are the friends of the masses.
The ministers of the Evangelical religion, are an
ameliorating and reforming power in every coun
try where they reside, whether they be a part of
the native population, or missionaries from a dis
tant land. Their influence in India has been
immense, and it is still in progress. The London
Christian Times, thus speaks of a movement at
present in progress in the British Parliament :
A discussion of a most interesting nature took
place last night in the House of Commons oja the
subject of India. Some time ago a petition was
presented to the House by the Protestant mission
aries of all denominations laboring in the lower
provinces of Bengal, setting forth the enormous
evils under which' the inhabitants of these dis
tricts groan. In some respects, the primary
elements of government are denied to the
wretched inhabitants. Their country is overrun
With robbers ; and the police who ought to pro
tect them are the biggest robbers of the two.
The seisure of their property by the first is not
the worst evil ; it brings with it a consequence
still more alarming in their eyes—the visit of the
police, who, under the pretence of examination,
seldom fail to strip them of all that is left. Such
a state of matters is so monstrous that we should
have hesitated to accept it, even on the authority
of the missionaries, who being on the spot, testify
only to what their own eyes have seen. But all
the salient points of the grievances are admitted
by the Indian Government itself. Governors,
magistrates, collectors of revenue, while they are
indignant at the interference of the missionaries,
in matters which they say do not concern them,
at the same time admit that every word they say
is tree. In the course of the' discussion that fol
lowed, there were various attempts made to throw
discredit upon the missionaries for meddling with
matters out of their sphere—following in that re
spect the lofty tole of the authorities in India.
The missionaries may well afford to smile at these
impertinences. They serve a higher MAME, and
are amenable to a more august tribunal ; and if
they wished to receive honor from men, they might
find it in the fact, that the.very men who resent
their interference have had their reforms set in
motion at their bidding, and that their influence is
acknowledged even while it is protested against.
At a meeting of the Committee of the British
and Foreign Bible Society, held on Monday, the
following resolution was adopted : " That this
committee do open their meetings with prayer."
The conference of Ministers of religion upon
the Melee. Liqubr Law moiement at-fettinallestei
brought its proceedings to a close. Deputations
from Working Men's Committees, from the Salford
Temperance Societies, and from n committee of the
British Temperance League, were received during
the morning. The following resolution was
adopted, on the motion of Rev. J. P. Chown, of
Bradford " That this meeting is of opinion that
the legislative prohibition of the liquor traffic is
the only effectual means for the suppression of
the drunkenness of this country."
BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN LONDON.—The returns
for the week that ended on Saturday, June 6, ex
hibit the gratifying fact that the remarkably
small number of 868 deaths were registered in
that period in London. The deaths now returned
are less by 209 than the average rate of mortality
at this period of the year would have produced.
Last week the births of 774 boys and 768 girls,
in all 1,542 children, Were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years
1847-56, the average number was 1,497.
DEATH OF MR. DOUGLAS JERROLD.—The grave
has closed over the career of one of the most bril
liant of modern wits. Douglas Jerrold, the
dramatist, the novelist, the political satirist, the
comic writer, the social wit, has departed from
amongst us, while his intelleetual powers were at
their highest, and when experience and observa
tion were mellowing down much of that sourness
of temper which early adversity called forth, and
which boiled over in many a sharp and bitter
censure.
F 11111100.
There is much 'reugirk in the Foreign journals
respecting the pending election for members of
the Legislature in France'. The form of voting is
to be kept up, and the name of an election—an un
restrained choice—is greatly desired; 'but the re
ality of such a thing would be a dangerous mat
ter to grant.
A letter writer says :
Once upon a time there was a political carica
ture representing Harlequin on his return from
the fair; he distributes drums, and fifes, , and
trumpets among his children ; " Play away, my
little dears," he cries, "jump, dance, and be
merry ; but if I hear the least noise, I shall throw
everything into the fire." " Certain proviocial
journals," says the Siecle, "pretend that they are
in the position of Harlequin's children . ; so long
as they speak of nothing they are perfectly free."
"We have not," says the Tnckpendant 1' °nest, "to
interfere in the approaching elections. Silence
is imposed on us." Indeed our contemporary
adds, that it has been officially invited to abstain
from any observation resembling censure, blame,
or even commendation of the functionaries of the
empire.
As to' he personal influence of the Emperor, in
more than one place, be has designated' he candi
date whose election he wishes for. The following
is a letter he has written to Baron Mariani : "My
dear commander :—The Minister of the interior
must have told you that I had decided that you
should be the candidate of the Government in
Corsica. You may therefore proclaim it aloud,
for I shall be very happy that the confidence of
the electors should bring you to the 'Chamber.
Believe in all my feelings of friendship."
The Protestants of the United States who are
constructing a chapel in the Rue de Berri, be
tween the Champs Elysees and the Faubourg St.
Honore, have obtained an authorisation to cele
brate Divine service there, only it is stipulated in
the official document, that the authorisation is
granted for religions services in the English lan
guage exclusively.
Interesting documents have lately appeared on
the French population. The number of births in
1853 was only 275,537, 27,444 less than that of
the preceding year. In 1820, the average dura
tion of life in France was but 32 years, it was 39
years in 1853, showing an increase of 7 years in
the third of a century. In France,
one natural
birth is estimated to take place for thirteen legi
timate ones; in 1853 the proportion was some
what larger than it had .been for fifty years. As
to marriage, there have been but few oscillations.
It is proved that men contract second marriages
more frequently than women; the proportion is
nearly double In the department of the Seine,
one widow in ten marries again; in the other de
partments, one in thirteen. About a third of the
men and more than half the women married in
1853 were illiterate.
Rued w.
A treaty of commerce between France and Rus
sia has been signed.
The Emperor and Empress were to embark at
Cronstadt on the 23d of June, for a tour in Ger
many, and to have it was reported, an interview
with the Emperor of France, at Wilbald, in July.
The trade reports from St. Petersburgh describe
business as very dull, with very few arrivals of
foreign orders for grain.
The French Ifoniteur de la Plate publishes a let
ter from Sebastopol, which asserts that the ves
sels raised is that harbor were those which were
grounded in shallow water, receiving but slight
damage, while those sunk as barriers were imbed
ed the sand.
Austria.
Austria was making further concessions to the
Hungarians.
Rumors were rife of a conference of the Poten
tates of the Italian States. The Pope of Rome.
the Emperor of Austria, the Ring of Naples, and
others, it was said, wouli also be present at it.
Saxony.
The whole kingdom of Saxony, and most of the
.Principalities, were visited by an earthquake on
the 7th inst. The houses trembled, and great
consternation prevailed among the people ; but,
happily, there were no serious consequences.
C4ts .
There is some petty warfare still waged between
the English and Chinese. The Chinese, however,
are not able to assail the English, sustain - ad by
their fleet at Hong Kong; and the English are
awaiting apices and reinforcements from home,
before assuming the offensive. The Rebels still
seriously annoy the government, though they are
making no great progress. ,
Another Asiatic itailliroad.
We observe among other novelties in our last
European files, that a Company has been organ
ized in London, with a capital of £1,200,000, for
the construction of a railway from Smyrna to
Aidin, a distance of seventy miles, which will
bring the two cities within three hours of, each
other, instead of four days, as at present. The
imports ald exports of Smyrna amounted in 1856
to $25,000,000. That city, contains 160,000 peo
ple, and Aldin 60,000, the latter being a converg
ing point for much of the inland traffic of that
port of Asia Minor, op its way to the seaboard.
At present 10,000 camels are employed, at a cost
of £400,000.a year, to convey produce and mar
ohaudize between the two places. When'the pro
jected railway is completed, all this animal activ
ity will disappear. The Turkish Government has
granted a concession (charter) for the projected
railroad, takes 16,000 shares, and guarantees a
dividend of six per cent. It is more than prob
able that the creative influence of the iron horse
will restore the more cultivateable regions of Asia
Minor, now almost a wilderness, to the fertility,
prosperity, traffic and population which distin
guished that portion of the world in the latter
days of the Roman Republic. and during the
reigns of the earlier Ctesars. Alas! the bygone
greatness of Asia Minor is now only attested by
the cities and temples almost innumerable. The
agricultural resources are vast, in tobacco, figs,
cotton, poppies, the mulberry for silk worms,
wheat, maize, barley, beans, flax, hemp, seeds,
drugs, ere•stuffs, wool, honey and wax. One of
the best features of the speculation is, that there
are coal mines at no great distance. Thus are
many of the nations of the earth, that had long
passed away, about to be resuscitated by the
magical agency of steam.
smith.
On the 23d nit, by Rev. T. R. Taylor,Rev. Roue W.
Onnour, Missionary of the. Presbyterian oard of foreign
Minions among the Ohlppewaa at Little Traverse, (Post
Office Mackinac,) Mich., to Mies Hearn,: M'Lenonint, AS .
Blatant Matron of the Western House of Refuge, near Pitt&
burgh. -
At Wabash Town ' June 17th, by Rev. W. leelnekY,
Mr. Jugs ArOsu. to Mies 81111412( 0186ta, en of Wabash,
Ind.
On Thursday evening, 4th ult., by Rev. J. W. Porter, Mr.
Mails Buse to Mies Ltxm Timms &rem, all of White
Haven, Penna.
On the 224 of June, by Rev. D. K. Duff, Prof. D. W. Law.
BON to MARY Awn daughter of Robert Marshall, all of
Dayton, Armstrong County, Pa.
At the pareonage. Tarentum, Ps., June 8, by Ray. W. G.
Taylor, Dr. GRORGN T. JACOBY, of Deer Creek, to MLss OAZo.
LtNE Mon; of Allegheny County, Pa.
At Woodland Cliffs
_parsonage, on the 23d of June, by,
Rea. W W. Wooden& Mr. JAMES Y Nowli' to Misr IRA.
MLA PArrox, and Mr. JOHN 8. HELM to Mira NANCY PAT.
TON. daughter, of Sf.r. 'Samuel Patton, of Weetmoreland
Conn ty.-
MU,* personage, June 27th, by the Rev. D. Hall, Mr.
grev Revival' to Mims Dune& 141/LISYN, of nredy's
DORM
Dian—At her residence, in Ontonagon; Lake
Superior, in the ;twenty-sixth year of her age,
Mrs. Pacguu ANN, wife of Mr. James Edwards.
Mrs. Edwards was formerly a member of the
Fourth Presbyterian church, Pittsburgh, (as
Miss Richards,) bet she had removed with her
husband to this distant post on the frontier, uni
ted herself with the little church of this place,
and labored steadfastly in her Master's service
until called to her reward.
Drzu—May 17th, at the residence of her hus
band, in Elderton, Armstrong County, Pa., Mrs.
MARY ANN CLINGUIBERGIIIB, aged about 40 years.
The deceased was a consistent and worthy
member of the Presbyterian church of Elderton,
at the time of her death. Her training in early
life was in the doctrines and principles of the
Presbyterian Church. She first united with the
church of Ebenezer. She had been, since the
organization of the church in Elderton, a member
of it. She leaves a husband and live children, to
feel the loss of so valuable a wife and mother.
But their consolation ie, for her " to die is gain."
"To be with Christ ie far better." W.P.M.
DIED—On the 31st of May last s at New Lon
don, Henry County, lowa, Mrs. CATHARINE
BARNS, wife of John Barns, aged 69 years.
The decease,d was a native of Westmoreland
County, Pa., and, with her husband, was a mem
ber of Long Run Presbyterian church, then un
der the pastoral care or Rev. William Sloan; fram
1810 till they removed to West Point, lowa, in
1840; where she, with her husband, joined the
Presbyterian church of that place, under the
Ministry, at that tint°, of the Rev. S. Cowles,
where she remained until the Fall of 1866; when
she, with her husband, removed to New London,
to spend her last days with her only surviving
daughter, Mrs. Mary Pattison, wife of Rev. Alex
ander Pattison. Her health had been declining
for two or three years, with affection of the lungs,
accompanied with severe cough, and several times
apparently beyond the hope of recovery ; all of
which she bore with Christian fortitude and re
signation and thus, with her long consistent
life, gave the best evidence that to die was gain
to her. She raised nine children, of whom all
but one, who died in early, life, and one now
living, made profession of their faith, in the Pres
byterian church. When she died, she was amem
ber of the Presbyterian church in New London.
S.C.
Drisn=-June 20th, at the house of her son-in
law, Mr. James Gray, North Huntingdon Town
ship, Westmoreland County, Pa., Mrs. Jens
Clumsy, in the 95th year of her age.
NAPOLEON
Mrs. Crosby was a native of Ireland, 'and in
early life, publicly professing the religion of
Christ, she united with the Presbyterian Church
in her native land. Emigrating to thin country,
with her husband, they settled within the bounds
of the Long Run Presbyterian church, Pa., of
which deceased has been a consistent member for
more than half a century. During years of con-.
finement, in ,which she suffered comparatively
little bodily pain, her faith, nourished by daily
readings of God's Word, grew clear and strong.
Reposing on Christ's righteousness alone, she
was patiently looking for the change ; and to her,
death was not a " Sing of Terrors," but .rather
a heavenly messenger sent by the Great Father
on high to unbind the chain, bidding her up to'
the everlasting joy that awaits God's ransomed.
Her piety was the brightest gem in her charac
ter ; her trust in God ; her love to the Saviour
her devotion to the Church and Standards, to
which she was warmly attached—all attested the
reality of her religion, and threw around her
character adornments and attractions which the
grace of Christ alone can bestow. She died in
peace, calm as . an infant that rests in the arms
its loves; that peace flowing through her " soul
like a mighty river ;" thatriver increasing, widen
ing, and deepening, till lost in the ocean of a
blessed eternity. Truly it would be criminal
for relatives and the • Church not to Pray,
" Help, Lord, for the godly ceaseth, for the faith
ful fail from among the children of men."
A.W.G.
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CONTENTS
Lecture 1. The Paheontoiogical History of Plante.
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among general readers. There is in them a freshness of
conception ' a power of argumentation, a depth of thought,
a purity of feeling. rarely met with in works of that char.
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author, Is the successful combination of Christian doctrines
with pure scientific truths "
From Bev. Thomas Chalmers. D.D., LL.D.:
"Since the death of Sir Walter Scott, he (Hugh Miller) le
the greatest Scotchmau that le left."
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From Sir David Brewster, LLD., F.R.S.:
" Among the eminent students of the PUT:faun, of the
earth, Mr. Hugh Miller holds a lofty place, not merely from
the discovery of new and undervaribed organisms in the Old
Red Sandstone, but from the accuracy and beauty of his de
soriptionp, the purity and elegance of hie compositions, and
the high tone of philosophy and religion which distinguishes
all his writings. . . . With the exception of Burns, Ike
uneducated genius which has done honor to Scotland during
the last century hair never displayed that mental refinement,
and classical taste, and iv tellectual energy, which mark all
the writings of our author."
From Rev. William Buckland, D.D., :
Dr. Rockland raid, at a meeting of the British AIIOCIA.
tlOll, "I have never been so much estonlzhed in my life, by
the powers of any man, se I have been by the Geological
descriptions of Hugh Miller. That wonderful man describes
these objects with a facility which makes me ashamed of
the comparative mearrreness awl poverty of my own de
scriptions in the Bridgewater Treatise,' which cost me
hour, and daye of labor. I would give my left band to pos
sess such powers of description es the man ; and if it
pleases Providence to spare his useful life, he, if any one,
will certainly render science attractive and popular, and do
equal service to Theology and Geology."
From Rev. WilliamManns, LL.D.:
"He succeeded in placing his name in-the first rank of
British scientific writers and thinkers. His works ere char
acterized by a toe union of strict science, classic diction,
and enchanting description, which rime, not unfrequently,
into the loftiest vein of poetry."
From Sir Roderick Murchison, F.R.13
Sir Roderick Murchison, in his address to the Geological
Society, "hailed the accession to their science of such a
writer," and said that "his work (Old Red Sand-tone,) is,
to abeginner, worth a thousand didactic treatises."
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