FE2T3 111=1 9 I=l aittier aft z,(4)3lo,tate+ prris Bußriti, Oct iron gig.... 14.30, In advance; or In Clubs ; ol e os; soF t dilivprodp,spsideiscsi of litabserl. bite, 8146; See Prospectus, on Third Page. RAN /81Al AL 8 should be prompt; a little while before the year expire that we may n as sikerrasiieriii,jieltilitaitab s, *atiP*lisnilitYk TUB R7CD WRAPPER Indicates that we dodos a renewal. If, however, In the haste sr nudling. this signal should be omitted, we AMY!, billl'Oriitiont!O will still not foiliot'Ss, • IL , Rzarrriurcats. , -9•iia pairismtiar mei bands,. when. convenient. Or, send by =ally onelisliii with ordinary nobody with a knowledge or what yen are doings, a Jorgeuratowtti mond a Drafty or largo,notes. Fos one outer. paperivsend Gold or samoll "Retina Tp mAiries covisois t sand Postage stamps, or -better sljila read for Severe papers; say 851 .gosBoyouttynnallmouor for Tbirty.three nutaberin iituff o tri all Letters and `Comentunleatiosuo to RIM DAVID neKINNIGY. Pittsburgh, Obituaries. We lutist •again request our friends to be brief the preparation of these notices. We JustCCU *easilydcheaplyt • as an Fin them ai any other thing, whioh is Ott in the same sisqd. type.. • ,But,cur readers complain sidly., We-eitreat our friends , it% be very Wel V9liot,:aftic us to abhreviate them. We have not leisure `to do it, and could not do it ffight. Synod of Sonthein lowa. This Synod met, according. to the order of the General Assembly, organized and enjoyed, as welearn from a c correspondent, a very harMiinions and pleasant Meeting. L. G. Beil,was lkioderator, and D. V. Smock, Clerk. With but, one dissenting voice, the Synod recommended that .the North 'extern Theo logical Seminary :be placed:kinder: the entire control 'of the General Assembly., Directors ' were appointetrwithinatruction&to advocate this obangp of the constitution. Dr. !Tarn son, J. T. tfmsted and Col. Patterson are the Direotors:rr .?The nest meeting of the Synod is -,to te - 444:Wskaloosa, 'the second Thursday of October,lBsB. There were upwards of forty„memlOrs present. oilsa , tio4 the suiday school *Te'n, 'otieed' When . the event occurred,. the _ ter, Seeretary of the American Sunday School , Union, Made of t his position .41 that Society. Mr. Porter, it will be remembered, made wite rn ef,the Oficial signatur . e, of the society to the extent of some eighto•eight thousand dollars for his elm indivi'dual benefit,' not entering on the hoOks any . inemoraiidinn - the -' noiesf f given' - and the - money re ceived: "It` was thus ' that 'the Direh'tors were kept in ignorance of the transaction. Some twenty years ago, as we see # stated, Mr,. porter, engaged, in the Mortis Multi , callus speculation. ,He came out a loser to. the extent 'often thousand dollars:- This mailehitu to need more money than he had. the Society's indebtedneSs for piper, &c. TWO gavel-hi name a eurreney in the market, • • . and enabled him ,to , pass obligations, and hence, with mnch,risli of „detection, but with much ingenuity, he managed .to renew the notes andnole changelthem ^that lie avoided detection for twenty years, and to increase the'stiui 10 f: the extent named: Alas for the spirit of ; speculation' Let no, man indulge. Honest,business iriups up stern integrity, but t ell'orts to.get gain without giving; . therefor, undermine good principles. 'The iiieneas'af 'Mr.',Porter in perpetrating ihis,f4d 'another 'ekeni lifi' t'of ‘th p eft ion e danger of allowing one man to be the ...sole moimiagent of an institution, and it, eaches the. OettY neof Ak'dzi" obligations al ,g, all. yo ions couhteriugned;by, : a second officer, who shall keep a separate memorandum for the inspec . Ithin ref the Diiebtois; Winter Evenings. . - , r Tlit'lonkminter.rivenings are eoßtag., Row lolithl they ice employed ? Not in gad dingiebont;) ford farmers, mechanics, and all industlionsaepple, have exercise enough , , through tliefday: Not =in ,listlessness ; this . is "linitoithy* anT intelligent ' How 1 , 31 - r" Whir, partly social inter -14 ' ' ~:m pLe a sft A 5 ) 3 .11213 1:4", , in a, w e ll ordered , fuiaily, but amainly reading. • Wilatiabill be read ? • Not novels; these ' toxe)Weiee' than unless "; they spoil the taste, injure l th4itiniOr; ,the and i dieipialitylnitit for lifes highest dities;' end-lifee most elevated joys. Not in sour rilonsdetails of police - trials, the details of the is.yings and,,doinge, the basest of Mankind :'such:- }reading' ' wis an' unmixed. evil4fst r" breeini not one particle!' of ' benefit. " htira blier;ead the 9 04 - I rtV fP h task, b e. t kept , awake,Z,„Ahat shall they read? ;Theology') will mit • them- to sleep;r • .*oks generally have IliePaireet 'hpen"ilie 'Mort' b* *a rer sodull;M„ fio,; abstruse : o so'pro, in their, disitualgous, - „that the mind, by : evening readings, cannot be So , edifiedits to be interested. • There are, however, - some " inNikszwell adeptedlo en& readings ; 'some histories, some travels, some scientific tree.: -eistei 1,15 me p r a ctical '`eilie`rilifental red Someliinn few of the :Magazines afford •,; - , t r ,9l ll 4 l 3feiP v Pl i ,'qg reading. ~ilati-..eppephdly are well conducted-news- Tapers suiteditoilwee times. Their varieti; their city'; their ,presentation of affairs of living interest; comparative brevity. of their articles; . the talent that is , now . manifest in the better ••'clasii 'of them; all • these things are adapted' to 'give interest: They' r instruct ' amuse, enlarge, and liberal ise like Mind. Nempapers : are among the ximet egiotir of modern educators. Let themlboifeund every where: • _; • • %Clef the parent make a tails selleetion: 'prepare, and dliOmilic , - r people sustain, such papers as Citristise . v ,families, - all families—need. • They Rallipo .ions jouniala .should be made id 'embnict(il 15q!kery thing which"' &Hotline; _ need Li to` k now for tlialCielvei =.ku,.• 1 ,-,, i 1•1 4rj : tot their hous4 4440 - • • " • • Discovery is Africa.* „!,.` For noes the 'central regions of Africa have Veen clothed with a peculiar mystery, which seemed to baffle the efforts of civiliiation to penetrate. For upwards of two centuries the Ati'Sky inhabitants of' the Westein' coast have been giving off immense numbers of the different tribes to bondage on the Amer ican Continent and in the isles of the Gulf of hleitCo. The condition of these captives was low and degraded, and it was inferred,- that ilrhatever might be the numbers of the,,, ! Idark ,p6pulation' of the interior, they we're' .01,existing in ..a depressed state, which indi• cated little or no tendency to civilization, while the countrylvas generally believed to consist of vast and inhospitable deserts. • In the days of Mingo Park the great ob ject of explorers was to penetrate the interior from 'the West' coast,,to reach the Niger, to determineits course, its magnitude, its rela tion to the,Senegal and to ascertain the char acter of the tribes who dwelt in the region `through which,its waters rolled.' By means of,the Nile in the East, Bruce and others bad advanced.far toward the South, , and it was hoped that by,means of <the Senegal thiNiger, if they were separate rivers, fur therimportant discoveries might . bamade in t regibni, of the Continent. The .i • •,• • lamented fate - of Park put, an!end. to the glowing,expeetations that had been formed. in connexion with his'expedition. Again 'it was hoped that as there were certain rem nants of civilization connected, with the borders of Tunis and Tripoli, it , might be possible to conduct an expedition which would leave the shores of the Mediterranean. and travel Southward until' the great rivers and mountain chains would be reached, which it was believed lay in the Southern part of the great Sahara, and thence extending to wards the coast of Guinea. In these efforts the names of Oudney, Denham and Clapper ton, stand conspicuous. , Their narratives produced a great effect, on the public mind when they appeared, and they gave a great impulse to the cause of African `discove7. : Several yearis aince, when"it' came to' be believed, that the great river Niger, which Park saw flowing to the Eastwarct miolt be connected with the waters which fell into the • BEE 14, 1867. ocean Eastward of ilia' Bight of Benin, and when it was hoped that this water, course might be made,agreat highway ,or the civil izing efforts of coinmerce, an expedition was fitted out ill London under the auspices of Prince Albert, with a 'view to penetrate the interior and lay the, foundations ,of a perma nent trade, and prepare for 'the introduction of future elements ,of civilization. This effort, in consequence of the great loss of life by, fevers, came to nothing; but still light was ,beginning to grew on the minds of all who took an interest in the condition of. the interior tribes in consequence of the inform ation accumtdated by missionaries and traders. In 1849 the British floverninentprepaied an expedition „in erder to reach the central regions:of the:Continent from the North, and through the Chevalier Bunsen, 'an offer was of the party. Dr. Barth had already trav eled extensively in the territories along the coast of Barbary. He had visited,Cyrermica, Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor and Turkey.' Dur ing these travels be had cast, a longing eye to the.vast tracts which la,y,to the. South, and now: that such 'an opportunity of:'explor ing theta presented itself; he gladly embraced . the offer. The results of his six years ' have now beefigiven to the public in three Inige,oetave volumes; under the auspices of the British Government, and there are now two of these volumeirgiVen to the Ameriean public from the press of 'the Harpers, of These are :by far .the most iiinportant and satiafactory volumes which •have ever appeared on the subject' of - Afridan,..dicovery. The labors -of ~Dr. Barth extended - to a reeidn twenty-four degrees from'North to South'and. 'twenty degrees from Bait' to West, in the brOadest part of the Continent. FrOM Tunis and,Tripoli hejourneyed to ake Tchad and traversed nearly -threetfourthssof tbe shore of this great inland water. Farther 'South' he ; penetrated to Yola on, the Banueve, the Easieiti`arm of 'the and Westiardly he j jOurneyed through Sokoie, ,Davdo other kingdoms of fierce Moslems,, until he reached the celebrated city of Timbuktu. By titi Eastward and Northerly" course he, again reached the Mediterrane4: instead of finding the districts through which 'he passed all barren and desolate, he "Met with fertile latids irrigated' 'with' large navigable rivers and extensive; central lakds, Ornamented with the finest timher and producing varieties of ;,grain, rice,, sesamum, ground-nuts in un limited 'abundance, the sugar-cane, &e.,'to gether with Cotton' and indigo;' the t nable Ciliinedities of tr'ad'e. * * The - natives of these regions, not ; only weave their' own cotton, :but dye their-homemade shirts, with their own. indigo,: The river,' the faTN. famed Niger, whir& -.giires access 'to' these regions by means of its Eastern branch, the-' Benudve, (which Dr., Barth : discovered) af fords an uninterrupted navigable sheet of water for :,,m'ore thaxii six.% hundred miles into the very heart of the: country. The Western branchia ebstrricted hy rapids at distance of about three hundred airld fifty miles from the coast; but even at that point it is probably Oot, impassable in , tha present 'state s. of ,navigation t while farther lon' - the river opens• 'up -an immense high road' for nearly one thousand miles into the'veii heart' ' of Weide i rn Africa, so rich ie every kind of, produce." s =1 - The scientific chanleter of these' volumes is everything that the'achiilli e:oithrrire, 'while the journal is written with great clear ness and precision. Snoh.a workin the days, of Park, or Denham and Clapperton would have pradueed atwondOrfril`sensation. It is plentifully 'illustrated by wood oats and anti= * TRATZLII AND DISOOTNRIZII IN NORTH AND Ounruar, AFRICA; being a Journal of an Eipedi don undertaken under the atisplool of licrliritannie Atiajosleu Government„ in the b years ,1846-1866. • By A ., , Wury, Airily Ph:D. D C Fellow of the / 8674 j Geographieel and Ashitfo Boolettee, dco., volumes;"_Bro. Volnniee l bne, and two* pig . 667 3 and 709. ^Weir, York:' Mifin,„Fratiklia t Du.:5.: 111 it A. N " A '1 ANNE R AND ADVOUAIL quarian objects, and localities of interest are figured in abundance. We recognize the work as one of the greatest contributions to our literature in modern times, and therefore we give it such prominence as it deserves in our columns. Newspapers. The Newspaper is an institution of the times. Every body must have a nevispaper. It is the source of knowledge ; it forms the sentiment ;.„.it .l. lffects, the, heart ; it guides the life. z , 4ltetti the &Ali chelished companion of our wives, .our sons, our daughtets. As it is, so, to a great extent, will they be. It can aid us greatly in train• ing our offspring to virtue, honor, and 'a blissful immortality; or it may poison their souls, and render ineffectual all our labors for their moral and spiritual benefit. This is well illustrated in an exchange, by what is narrated as a fact. It is this': " There lives in a certain city a man who is a prominent church member—his sons drunkards, and visitors of dens whose names we will not mention. How came this state of affairs ? Years ago we happened to be at that gentleman's house, and while there the father and older sons had an altercation . about,,theatres end, theatre-going. " You never taught us'any thing by your example," said „ one, ". against the sins of, which yoti complain. You take no religious peri odicals or newspapers and you never ha've. You have always had newspapUrs about the house full of puffs of theatres, grog shops, saloons,'ead all other placee of amusement.; and i - uoiier heard you say one word against those puffs, and you need n't blame us now if we want to ,enjoy ourselves a little." There was pungency in the young man's remarks, and the pungency startled us more than thedisrespectful tone indulged by him. . . We ask you, professing Christian, to take some religious paper or periodical. Your boy then will have something to read ;` that girl, too, will have something to interest and instruct her; and if you fail to meet the wants of either, then look• out for reprisals in , coming years, that will make your ears tingleland your heart throb in agony. In a measure, you can guide the mind • of your child aright. You can provide him with untainted intellectual food. You can shut the door against intruders that will work ' , ruin if ouccadmitted, and Heaven will'hold you accountable for the way in - which you do your work. Startling developments will '"be witnessed in the day. of judgment ; and 1 one of the most startling will be the sight of the father•who has murdered his child • —murdered him'by re.fusing td furnish him with such appliances' as, under God, would have led' to glory and immortality in heaven, rather than down' to remorse and anguish in endless perdition." The 'commendation of theatres, and the detail of shameful and _disgusting police af- fairs; and flings at.strie,t, Sabbath observers, &a &0., are lamentable teatimes of the sec ular press—even of some of the most ably. conducted . of our country's daily end weekly journals. A large portion of their oontents, however, are things which. all need to have, and which, by reason of the limited sphere embraced by our religious'papers, cannot be otherwise obtained. .1 This shows to us the necessity of making 4..0n.v.0.1.011 If the secular papers will persist in ming ling with their news' and literature, things poisonous to the youthful mind, and, which judicious Christian parents ,scan never re ceive under their root,.the religious papers shotild strive to embrace every thing which the growing family need's to know. And the family'shead should always strive to furnish bis.householel with, a sheet, which, together with some sound doctrinal and practical reading,'and the affairs of his gown peculiar brandh of thi Lord'a 'Zion, 'and of the Church large, will present lively, truthful, and, comprehensive , statements of Nall import• ant occurring events, domestic and foreign, social, literary, scientific and governmental. Let all needful inforniation reach the young mind,, through a Christian channel, and-,in . the company, of precious religious truth; and the happy influence will be seen in _a :rising family,• well informed, intelligent, virtuous, an honor and a joy to their parents, ornaments to society, and useful to their race, while they will be travelers heaven ward. Civilization Without the qospel We hear ti•hgreat .deal of the benefits which may be expected to result from the CIVItIZATION of mankind, through Educe. tion. The enemies of religion talk glowing. ly bn the subject. It is extremely doubtful, however, whether mere civilization, if pran tioable without religion, would be even a temporal benefit.' We do not think it Prac ticable, upon the masses, except-by the aid of religion; and a religion higher than is ordinafily found in heathen laads i but if practicatne, it wouldreal be no benefit to society It would leaie men ,still deceitful at 4Part; luit.fA. passionate) 9.r.ue1., The influences of the Gospel are .needed to even rightly hntmanize the heart—to make man - love his fellow, to prodnee kindness and i merny, 0 - infuse hutnati"?'''foriiiciples; to instill truth and honesty, to quicken and ed: =ate conscience. • An 'experiment 'has' been made in India,, airi , the result is saddening to:the heart. , Almost the whole effort - of the English East India Company has been to civilize by EAU CATION. Missions were long • discouraged by the Authorities. Efforts to introduce Christianity into the general educational sjs-‘ tem, were frowned upon and, prevented. The governmental policy was always to not introduce the Gospel in anything •that be longed to its operations with the natives. A result "we see in the most horrible outrages Upon humanity, committed by the revolted armies; armies composed of heathens of the highest caste, the best educated and the most civilized. • - The 'aril/iris Examiner progents this subject so , well, that we use its language 44 Now, we have before us an individual who lootes out singly above all the frightful melee of ravening and furious lust that rolls over India, as thelperfeet type and embodi ment of the whole.:-.No other itisurgert, no -otherten—nothing short of the -whole 101- ,ieetive•abotnination itself, of which he aline. -bathe adequate representative--eould be set side by side :with BAHIW; the"fiencl , Who enticed the garrison of Omni:oW into! his power by pr ices of protection, and then, having selected thirty English ladies for himself, sold the rest in the bazaars, for his soldiers to riot op and carve piece.n.eal in their wanton delightin torture ; butchered the men and obildrsn like a herd of cattle ; and afterwards, - Wiien confronted with the forces of General Havelock, brought out the thirty ladies, his own wretched victims, and slaughtered them in one heap, that none of their lips might diselotte the secret ; horrors of his private camp. "Why is this loathsome monster intruded .here ! Is this a specimen of the -effect of teditcation, iefinement, and all the grafts and amenities of English society? It is even so. `Neria'Sahib hid grown up under the auspices of British patronage, of the best English society, of the best English education. He was an accomplished, Anglicized, Indian 1 1 gentleman. He spoke English fluently and well; and habitually frequented the colonial society of Cawnpore The officers, with their wivesand daughters, whom he inveigled into his foul clutches by the capitulation, were his old'- friends and companions, in whose hospitalities and gayeties, balls' and field sports and festivals, he had been a hundred. times a welcome participant. Of ‘those thirty fair and hapless English.wo• men, how many, doubtless, had unsuspect ingly smiled upon him—the tamed Asiatic tiger—in the dance ! " What more-could 'science and civiliza tion have done for this man—still a heathen to the core, obscene as Belie' and cruel as Moloch l,• Health and Sleeping Apartraents. The preservation of health is a Christian duty. It is a source of joy and a means of usefulness. Health depends greatly on the air we breathe; and its fitness for the pur poses of respiration is determined very much by our sleeping apartments. At night the human system is most disposed to disease, and while sleeping still more than while 'awake. Hence while •we steep we should inhale none but - the purest atmosphere; and in order to this we should occupy a large and well ventilated room—not in a -cellar, nor near the:ground, nor hemmed in by trees or buildings, nor having a low ceilirg, nor in company with a large number of per , sons. The sleeping apartments should be the largest, dryest and most , airy rooms• in the house, and never crowded. It is said that New York is the most urt:. healthy large city in the world; that is, more persons die there annually, in proportion to the number of inhabitants, than in any other. Why is this ? It has abundantly the means of health. There are near it L o marshes nor stagnant pools. A pure, flowing river is on either side, tor its whole length. There is a healthful country around. It enjoys the sea breeze. Its drainage is excellent. Its markets are richly supplied with whole some food. 'Why then the great proportion of deaths? The fatal reason is, the want of pure air to breathe while the people sleep; and this caused;y - illy-arranged dormitories, and specially by too many perions being crowded into a dwelling. Hall, in his Jour nal of }lentil, t ompares three. large cities, thus ' • &cc To Each • •z i - o_otto. °' ri ew York, 710 400 14 CCO 13 1 In 34 Ybiladelphin, COOACO 70,0(0 6 .1 in 60 Thus in New York three ! persons out of every hundred die annually, whilo in LOll don, theugh so much more populous, only two, and a half to each hundred die, and in ,Pnilaclelplaia only two; New York having natural advantages for healthfulness fully equal -to either of the other cities. But New York puts . thirteen persons in'each house, on an average, while London puts but seven, and Philadelphia but six. Let not our country friends now think that because their houses stand alone, en tirely surrounded by pure air, and inhabited by only six or eight persons,that they are hence safe. it is the air inside the house which is Whaled Outsideit may, be; the purest, and inside it may be •poisonous--tendered so by several persons inhaling and re inhaling the small' quantity which is confined in a close room with a low ceiling, near the ground, and hemmed in by trees. Then, away with crowds, and curtains, and close windows, and tight doors, and low ceilings,iand basements, when sleeping is to be done. Non-Contributing Church's. There are a large number of our churches which contribute nothing, through the Boards, to our , Domestio efforts to help the feeble, and to extend our boundaries. Why ie this ? There are several reasons. 1 Some devote their means in the, way of operating through their own Presbyteries. The charity of these islquite local. But it may, possibly, be great. Some of our Pres byteries have extensive destitutions—much room to Work ; and if they cultivate their °To field' well, we , cannot much complain ; ,espeoiallytif there are no other parts of the land 'poorer and -more needy than they. The chircheS"which thus act are, however, a very small Portion of our, whole number. 2. .Seme are, so exceedingly feeble, that they have not even a church edifice in whielto worship. Of these, the Minch Extension Committee have the names of • four hundred and fifty and there are preb ably. two hundred more similarly destitute., ONE ( FIFTII of our organized churches with out a house of worship I Alas, what a'call to, liberality on the part of our whole Zion I. What a work the Church Extension Com mittee has to perform ! From these churches men would hardly expect contributions. 8. Some are partly negligent, partly pent'. riouir,partly uninformed, , and not at all soli cited. The. fault with such is deeply chargeable on the officers. It is our belief that every church should - give ; and every individual whom God en trusts with the control of any thing, should give. Every one, as the Lord prospers Aim, should .give to the support ef. the Gospel, and to Missions. We do-not say - that every one is bound to contribute to each and all the schemes of benevolence which may be presented, but he should help to sustain God's ordinances of worship where be is, and to send diem where they are needed. Our Boards we regard as the most equita bk and effective' means, through which to make our eontiribabkmeavail to the affording of help to the needy. We therefore both use and commend them. They are the Church's own agents. Why should they not be enabled to do her work ? If they are not perfect in their adaptations, or if they are not the best instrumentalities which could be conceived of still they are the media which God has providentially ordain ed, for the time being, by which, his people may do a great work for him ; and to search out and carp at their imperfections will be admitted in no -man's ease as an, adequate reason for non contributing; nor will the minister and elders hence stand _guiltless; who decline to bring up their people to the work. A painful Necessity. By the communication of Dr. Musgrave, in another column, it will be seen that the Board of Missions have been compelled to reduce their appropriations to the mission aries. The funds in the treasury'were re duced to a sum but little over the ordinary demands of a week. This is a strange exigency. And we cannot see that it is chargeable to the officers. The Church de manded an increase in appropriations to her laborious servants The Board complied. She urged the dismissal of, all collecting agents. Her will was executed. She prom ised the - effective _ agency of pastors and Sessions, to enfs,rce the doctrine that giving is a grace, and, under the operation of Sys tematic Benevolence, that all her treasuries should be kept well supplied; but her prorn ise was more liberal than ber performance was prompt. The Board reminded her of her delinquency. But the response was feeble. They reiterated the admonition, and called her attention to certain evil results which must flow from either penuriousness or delay. But she did not duly awake and put forth her energies; and now the evil day has come. It his" come at a pecuniary crisis, it is true, but the crisis is not the. cause of .an empty treasury. The treasury had been in a course of depletion, for months, while business was protperous—of depletion, not by increased payments therefrom, but by diminished income from the fountains of supply. The Executive officers _cannot but mourn, though it is the Church herselt which suffers the loss We cannot think, however that, she bas finally parted with love and energy We,will therefore hope that the suspension of her liberality will be of but short duration. She is urged to speedy effort, on a principle whiot. shall prove un failing Response to Dr. Rice. The Presbyterian of the West is out with a long editorial in reply to Dr. Rice's letter of declinature. It, is directed mainly against the portions of that letter which we did not publish. s We, have endeavored to avoid everything injuriously personal, on either side of an unhappy controversy waged by brethren, all of whose time, talents and en ,ergtes oug ~intutpfiWe of the Church. The = Seminary of the North West needs the cordial co operation of all the ministers and churches in the region. We will hail with joy every indication of such hearty union, and will contribute what in; us lies toward the desired retult. An" Aged Minister Deceased. Rev. J. Moody, D. D of the Presbytery of Carlisle, died on the 7th bast, at his residence in Shippensburg, Pa. Dr. Moody bad been long the pastor of the church in that place, but had resigned, a few years ago, on account of infirmities induced by age He was a plain, practical man, highly respected and greatly useful. His memory will be cherished. [After the above was in type, we re‘eived an extended notice, which will appear next week EcelesiasticaL Rev. W. 'MORRIS GRIMES, has received a unanimous call to the Presbyterian church of Bristol, Zanesville Presbytery, and has commenced his labors. His address re• mains as heretofore, MeConnelhaville, O. Rev. A. G. MORRISON'S pastoral relation to the church of Doe Run was dissolved by the Presbytery of Newcastle, at iti late meeting, and Mr. Morrison now serves Coataville congregation the whole of his time. Mr. ALEXANDER REED, a licentiate of Washiogton Presbytery, was received by the 'Presbytery of Newcastle, at its late meeting, and otdaitted and installed pas tor of the church of Upper Octorark. Rev. J. R. WARNER, of the Associate Re formed Presbytery of Big Spring, has "re ceived a call from' the congregations of Great Conewaga and Lower Marsh Creek, in the Presbytery of Carlisle. I Mr.' JOHN H. CLARK, a licentiate of the Presbytery of Ohio, has received a call from the united congregations of Landis burg, Centre and Upper, in the Presby tery of Carlisle. Rev. JOSEPH CLARK'S pastoral.relation to the church of Chatnbersburg, was dis solved at the united request of himself and his congregation, by the 'Presbytery of Carlisle, on the 6th inst. • Rev. JONATHAN EDWARDS, D.D., late President of South Hanover College, Ind , • was installed pastor of the. West Arch Street Presbyterian church, Philadelphia,' on Tuesday evening, the 13th i nst . Rev. B. L. Aanzw's Post Office aidress is s changed from Somerset, Pa., to Johns- town, Pa. Rev. S. P. DuNnAat was recently installed pastor of the Presbyterian, church of Bainbridge, Ohio, by a Committee of the Presbytery of , Chillteothe. I Rev. W. J. MCKNIGHT has' declined the Chair of Ancient Languages in Austin College, Texas, and taken a classical school in Danville, Ky. ' Mr. WM Houss,- late of Princeton Semi nary, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian church in London derry, New Hampshire, by the Presby tery of Londonderry, on the, 7th inst. Rev. Jowl WiezmAN was installed instor of the Presbyterian church of Greenfield, Ohio, on the 7th of September, by a COCIP.' mittee of the Pretabytorg:Of MUM:I6Oc I Mr. S. J. J. SCHERESCHEWSKY, was li censed, on the 14th instant, by the Pres bytery of Allegheny City. This gentle man is a converted Israelite, and a na tive of Russia. Mr. ROBERT CAROTHERS, being about to go as a missionary to Green Bay, Wis., was ordained as an Evangelist, by the Presbytery of Blairsville, at its late meet ing. Mr. WM. P. Mooar, was licensed to preach the Gospel, by the Presbytery of. Blairs ville, on the 6th inst. Messrs. JAMES MCQUEEN and JAMES SIN. CDAIR, the latter a graduate of the West ern Theological Seminary, were Ordained by the Presbytery of Fayetteville, on the Bth inst. t. Bev. JAMES WATSON', having accepted . a call from the Valley Creek church, re quests , correspOndents- to address him at Selma, Alabama. Rev. EVANDER MCNAIR has taken charge of the Presbyterian church at Eufaula, Alabama. Rev. JOHN MONTGOMERY'S Post Office ad dress is changed from Harrodsburg, Sy., to Longwood, Pettis County, Missouri. A Rev. ”. A NDERSON'S Post,Office address is otikinged from Huntingdon, Tennessee to Belfast, Tennessee. Rev. HOMER HENDEE'S Post Office address is changed from Quincy Florida to Greensboro', Georgia. EASTERN SUMMARY. BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND. The Excitement in business circles has continued without abatement. The Banks and leading merchants accommodated one another to the utmost of their ability. But at length the Banks were compelled to give way before the pressure, and suspend specie payment& As a matter of course business is greatly depressed, and scarcely any "large transactions are taking place. And great tears are entertained that the Benevolent Schemes of the day , wilf find great difficulty in maintaining operations for the year, on the'same scale as for somotirne back. Bat it is pleasing to record instances such as the following. The late - Alm .Tha,yer has left $50,000 to Harvard College, the income of which is to be applied in aid, of thelen beat under- graduates in need of pe cuniary assistance. To the venerable Dr. t James Jackson, the physician of the family for two generations, now in his eighty-first year, he gave $l,OOO per annum during his life-time, to be continued to his wife, if she survives her husband. The Rev. George Putnam, D D., of Roxbury, one of his most intimate and esteemed friends, is to receive 810,000. And $5,000 have been bequeathed to the Rev. Rufus Ellis, pastor of the First Church, Boston, under whose ministry he sat; and also 85,000 to the church at Lall. caster, Mass, of which his father was pastor. The sum of $2,000 is donated to i the M.er .rantile Library Association, if his brother shall deem it expedient and proper. An income is left in crust of his son, amounting to $6 000 a year, to be devoted to the char -itshle-ohjects he may consider most deser ving and proper. Who among our readers will manifest the same commendable liberal ity toward Jefferson or Washington Colleges, or the Western Theological Seminary, or the Seminary of, the North-West, when the difficulties now in its way shall have been removed ? It is' prOposed by the Committee to secure stock and obtain subscribers for the proposed new Quarterly—the Puritan Review—that it shall contain two hundred pages, and be published at four dollars per annum, or three dollars per annum if paid strictly in ad vance. • Prof. ,Agassiz, lately so highly honored in the appointment tendered him by the Emperor of France, is the descendant of exiles from that country by the revocation of the edict of Nantes. His ancestors for seven generations have been Swiss okrgy men, and though an exile for ten years he says that his heart still clings to his native land—notwithstanding the distinction he, has obtained here, and all the honors that: have been heaped upon him. Great improvements have been made in Elementary School Books within a few years. We had supposed that Webster's spelling book had bad its day and been made to 'give place to some new adventurer; but its publishers are required to issue six copies a minute, for tea hours every day, to sup ply the demand. Lately they received an order for one thousand copies, all the way from C nstantinople. The American Seamen's Friend Society has before it six urgent calls for chaplains, and' it appeals to the friends of the cause for the means of sending out Wien to these im portant post& One of them is the old city of Smyrna, to, which we send from this country, every year, about $250;000 . worth of rum, and another is San Francisco, to which port twenty thpusand sailors resort annually. The Latin Professorship in Amherst Col lege declined by the 'Rev. Dr. Poor, of New-' ark, N. J, has ,been offered to the Rev. G. W. Little, of Bangor, Maine. - The Rev. Horace Lyman, of Easthatop: ton,,Mass., has been appointed to a Proles sorship in Pacific University, Oregon. According to the minutes of the General Association of New Hampshire, Ministerial support is sufficiently low in that State. The whole amount paid in t 4. btate for - the sup port of one hundred and fifty-one ministers is $84,763, which is an average salary of $561 to each. The highest salary is $1,500, the lowest $3OO. Owing to the stoppage of the mills in Lowell, Seven Hundred Irish Operatives have taken passage for Liverpool, being en couraged to return by the improving state of agriculture in the Emerald Isle. Large numbers of foreigners are now returning from the ports of Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. It is quite probable that the foreign'emigration to this country will be greatly . lessened until, the injuries caused by the present commercial, disasters have been repaired. . • • , Thi Lurking' i's6t liatalt the Maine State Fair, lately held at Mugu', was c% .• nessed by some twelve or fifteen thetit-a.,_ to see the pre vak.ll,2F, people. We are sorry of this custom at so many of the agr;eultu t ,: exhibitions during the present AututLo The value of this kind of exercise is great , and we are pleased when a lady appears oe horseback, to see her sit gracefull y manage her horse skillfully. But to exhiLit herself on the race course—for it is nt , 11,4 ) . less—as a contestant for its honors and t , be made knowingly the subject of crittei,ll in that line, and to expose herself to t i c coarse remarks and low witticisms of tte depraved and vulgar, is not according tO ideas of true feminine delicacy. The larj who performed in this manner at the Iv, Fair of the County of Allegheny, would r , have felt themselves much flattered, if rep ot , be correct, by many of the rude remarks nr: jests perpetrated in the crowd of spectatur.. And we suspect that a notice in one of secular papers, evidently written to diseo tu age such exhibitions in the future, by% uo it the blush to the cheeks of more than one of the fair riders, if it came under their obser, vation. NEW YORK To give any opinion with respect to Fi• vancia/ Affairs in this metropolis is imp: Bible; every thing is unsettled. The Ilanip, held out until their strength was exhaust,/ and then announced their suTension many firms engaged in every kind of bu , i. ness have assigned, failed or suspetded ; th .t the eye is wearied with reading the li-ts, The paper of the New Yuck and Erie road went to protest; and the Illinois Cebtr,l made an assignment. Business is depre.sEd beyond any former precedents. Dry CIS dealers are preparing to sell their large sto, ? ' 63 below c, st, if it can be done, fi,r e,4 1 Booksellers, music publishers, and dealer, in fancy articles are doing almost nothing. YE t it is worthy of remark that no notes bye been so generally met as those of the book sellers who purchased at the Trade Sales in the Spring, which fall due the present mobil-. Thousands of men are thrown out of enipi, meta., many of whom are but poorly sup. plied with the means of securing the neeE , . saries of life, in an honest way, for the col ing Winter. The Enlistments at the recruiting uffins of the United States Army, have been larp.e ly increased, owing to the difficulty of oh taining employment In the meantime the general health of the city and vicinity is remarkably good. General good feelia seems to prevail among all classes, white mirth and even jollity are not unfrequem'y exhibited, even among those who have bier suddenly reduced from apparenta fuence ti real penury. So intense has been the excitement, s) sudden and unexpected have been the re• vulsions, and so great has been the tension of brain and heart, that the Sabbath is hailed with more than usual delight; for this is one day at-.least when no notes can be protested, wLen the weakest firm cannot suspend, when every bank is safe from "a run." As a matter of course, such a crisis is worthy the Attention of Ministers of Me Gospel, and it is their duty to teach wen how to meet temporal calamities; in what spirit they are to discharge their obligatiors to their fellow men, and from what is occur ring around, to deduce the superiority of heavenly, aver earthly. things. But, as is not uncommon in such circumstances, the secular 'has been made, in some instasets, the great theme, whilst the spiritual has been almost , lost sight of. To those who have trespassed in this way, the secular press has been administering a deserved re• bake. The truth is, intelligent, active, aid thinking business men, after having been burdened with cares, anxii ties, and toils of a worldly kind through six days, wish to have their hearts relieved and their spirits elevated by something higher and better, when they enter the sanctuary on the L )rd's day. The New York Tames thus discourses on this subject: " As the people generally are not SO stu pid As to read Sunday papers, they enj their rest undisturbed—their thuuglits 'e verting to the legitimate topics of the day, gaining elasticity and fresh streno.h to stint!. atand the probable troubles that the cowing week' is big with. "Not all even of eburch-goiog people w ere so happy, however, since, in som , the Irs• eons of the Revulsion were reiterated in the Pulpit, and the sa'ue harrowing trains of thought that , for eia dabs had fomented them, were bid to cruise again through their brains, only in a Sunday suit." Our readers will remember the language employed by the late Daniel Webster, with respect to ministers who obtained the Ina .. trials of which their sermons were e , .01• posed, from the newspapers, rather than from the Bible The Journal of Commerce calls public attentiOn to the intemperance prevaihrig among seamen and efficers in the American biavy. ` The Episcopalians are making efforts for the extension of their Church in Ramos• The Treasurer of the 'Western AlissionarY Society acknowledges the receipt of ore thousand five hundred dollars from th e Church of the Ascension, of which the Bev. Dr. Bedell is pastor, to aid in building dwdl ioge-toi the missionaries of the Episcopal Chitreh in that Territory. The Rev. Dr. Baird, and his son, the Rev. C. W. Baird, have returned from the meeting of the Evangelical •Alliance at Bor. lin, Prussia. The Doctor speaks of his ciL•tt to Europe, as being very pleasant, and hopes that he has been instrumental in aiding the cause of Bible distribution in Russia. The two Roman Cath o li c parrs of New York, the Freeman's Journal and the Ti let, are not pleased with the Alliance. Th e former heads an article on this matter with the title, an •r utterly depraved" assemb l y , and both are very severe on the America" Minister, at the Court of Berlin, for the part be took in the convocation. But if as ltittatiiiiinlifirtiatan is to be tieprimi of the
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