!: ~~"~. For the Preebyterian Banner and Advocate. Lines for Friendship's Album. BY W. WHIIYON room. When friendship's ties are formed in truth, ,Naught e'er their bond should sever; When opening life, glowing, youth, And other charms beside, forsooth We 'll oherish them forever. Soon, Lathe dearest ties that hind Vcind hearts in love toiether, hinst fail—and every hope, we'll find, With objects dearest to the mind; :Before chill deathmust sever. I'Though obaoged by Fortune's scathing blast, Or Time's unsparing motion; !Througkevery ohmage approaching fast, Unohartged thrk poet's song shall last, sign of IriendshiPeit pure dei . otion. Unkintoton, Jfay,lBsB. r ~BOOKS. swat, to us for itoticy lortglb•• duly attended to. 'Masa teem pubilshors liNgililtirricg &Imo may ha loft at our P*Bo4lll4' 011!rog111 South 10th iStmibolow CgOSIFUti hicare Malinla3ll Ens • Oim Bo ism has added to its catalogue' the fol lowing •aolumes: damn :OF Gum. Sulted_to Amick Youthful Wag: 18mo., pp. 260. • . This neatly' illustrated volume contains ferty . five Chapters, each' deVoted to; an important sub jeet; and all suitable for.the young. • ikurtutiutsost #AMILY, or Lessons .on the Be- Astitudes. .18nio.,•pp. 144. this conversational little volume was written expresely,for the Board, and,like the forner, it iwsuitable for youth; although the subjects are weighty, and the,treatment such that age 'and even ;wisdom may profit from it. Tar VALLBY o 8 AOHOR, or Hope in Trouble. By the Rev. S. S". :Sheridan. 181 no., pp. 50. 'Thirty pages of this attractive essay are. N79.4d,t01) AP:egbiel9kof.:? 4lo l l P An Trouble)" and the xemainderls occupied , with an equally valua ble tract on the important , experimental theme, " The Cross rrovidMices: of God," showing that they are ordered in Wisdom and Love. Taal . ADO . 13rJEBITS. Sere Ws , have ,ten .allaPtas an swards of the character of the Saviour, in. whit& his meek -nessitobedumee, love, Self-denial, prayerfulness, forgiving disintsied with great clearness and attraotiveness.•• .ive • are much pleissed at witnessing such , an.increase of these admirably. Prepared small volumes. They are all encellent, and in a short time our Board will be - able to L supply - most valuable libraries for sour Sabbath Schools. THI Amirrioart,'Taag SoonrrrhaeptLblisheda -new edition of the " Life of Mary Lyon." The old work has been abridged in some places, *bile `others have been enlarged, and thus a very at !tractive biography has .:been prepared. It may :lad at the Society's hoUSes, oither in .Ciirn Boston; Nassau Street, ' New York; or Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Thor Tract Societi has also pnblished, in I.Btiro, pp : Thn!Spirit of Christ, or William Thomas 'Biddle, accepted Missionary to Burmah, in his 'Offoits to do' good home, and in,his consecrrk,- tion to, the work of Missions abroad, by Isaac W. :Brinokerhoff4•Our readers will find this an in "stereatin. g biography: It may be had from any 'of the depbsitories of the Tract Society,• as indicated above. TEM Lommeatromaßty RiaviEw. April, 1858 - New -York : Zeonard 4 5coti C0.'.3" We always ; receive =this Review with much:. pleasure. Its high classitial 'and delightful liter,- ebarieter,.are to be seen in every number. 'and although it mayin'some articles defend the side of the Church of England, to which it is; at tached,'it: nein. displaYs a ribald, ,skeptiehl spir-: . Ever on the sidii'fOf bfirristiagity and always , graceful and thoroughly _refined, 'it has for many years been a leading organ. The,humbir before ne contains the following papers, viz..Early.Life of 'dohnion;• Fictions ; Italian Miura ,and Tourists ; The Progress ,Of English 'Aglaia ;tare ; Michael , Arigelo'; Public Spea king; Siege ~ of :Lnoknow ; • and, France and the Late Minis try.' .Our :Waders will see that this is a varied Tint Noripr' AMBiumiN blriDloo-CEITIUMICAL Alsouiwiofor,,Mayotustainh the character - of its ,predecessors.; , The .present number contains six critical reviews, Barclay on Medical Di -agnrisis t IT. Virohow• on sTlirainbairind Embo lia,mu'y interesting amfaaigable; -111, Miller's Obstetrics, Ana- B ache's Dispensatory, new edition; f.V: Wilson's Plates. on .18kin Diseases; Churchill on'Ohildren. The original cOnrinu- Ideatiotril ere tour in 'number, the , first'of which, oisibe perceptive power Of the Spinal Cord, by Paton, of Gilt, Canada . West, 'is exceedingly Iritereiging. `3t has also a report on the progress ofi Surgery for-the year ..1887,,which is. very mg .riable' to the ,praotitioner, whose professional en gagements prort him• from reading the numer 'sus new works and 'communications in the jour nals. : The ,bi.monthly Periscope on Practical Medicine, Therapeutics, Surgery, and Obstetrics, contains the aerial amount of iuteresting-matter. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, are ' the publishers. dr P. G. Taw Amen= MOWIRLY Fox Jrnra.—This,wel come mouthlY: is on our table With t its usual yromptness, with the, promise of many good :things in - the fourteen articles, and the addition of the literary notices. As a; general thing; the articles in, the ittlantii are far in advance of what has been usual in our 'American monthlies. And .the objectionable features noticed in the first numbers, have mostly disappeared. , 001,L1611 JOURNAL or Bisoxoss Sonescifor one, is on our titbits. , It Is published in Cinoin .4ll4thio, at $l.OO per annum in'advanse. t ,,, Traveling Correspondence. NEwtOarzans, May sth, ISM. Dear Banner A—l think I lett your rea . A. ere between Vicksburg and Natchez, and as 'am nowinOillens, allow me to return ,for them and conduct them down to this Arty. Of our ,devotional exercises, of the ad `ministration of the Lord's -Supper, of our meetingihere the Presbyteryot central-M . 4s. and of the, excellent sermons we heard preached in the Preabik:rian church at Providence, Lay the editor ,han, ,t ready e Fritter'.,; About midnight, steam was ,up and Cur boat .legatt , to move. Onward we went, down, down, the " MieSiSSip, " coming Vicksburg early in the morning. It- was raining torrents when we rounded to. Some went ashore, and transmitted. messages to their friends =by- telegraph. This town is built on one of the finebltiffs of the river. It is ;a place of, 'Much bust. near, and has a population of about seven go mand. 4situata four hundred4iles bow Memphis and one =hundredcand ten above Natchez. Having left this port, the same dreary, dismal waste of woods and water appeared until, far in the distance before us, the great cotton mart of the State of Mississippi came in view. Then what a stir on board I The day was fine. Almost every passenger went on deck to get a sight of the notorious " Natchez under the Hill." How astonished we were to find only a few houses here, where once there Stood a large town. The mighty river in spite of human power and ingenuity, has washed it almost all away.. Natchez proper is beautifully situated on the top of a high, hill. A fine, wide road leads up to it from the town below, where all boats land. .Our captain...told us hewould remain here fifteen minutes.. Many determined to climb the bluff and see the town. We ninong the rest. Bat on land ing and going ashore the task , seemed too great for either the time or the reward. We ran"Vigoronaly for a few rods up the road and then stopped and turned again toward the boat. We Met both ladies and old' Dien' on their way up who rallied us on 'one want of 'perseverance. This was more than we could bear. We jumped on a two `muled cart driven by one of the stalwart, sable sons of Ham • and standing up, put 'our leftarruaround hiss shoulders and told "him if ever he drove fast up that hill to drive so' now. He grinned a laugh fromnear to ear, showing a set of ivory, clean and trim enough to ohmic a dentist, and said, " Yes sah, Pll do dat." : He jerked the:lines and cracked his whip, and on we went, passing all, excepting a few who had .gained the_ shore. first. We strolled about gathering some flowers in a wild pack on the brow of the hill, from which a fine view of the river for miles, both " above and below, can be had. So all came up • and whilst - wet were. busy seeing'wbat could be seen, the whistle of the boat is heard, to loose cable and - be off. Then what a scene ! Ladies half out Of breath in clinibing the'hill, had to return` without'much rest. Each one took to his heeli down the road as fast agile could run.' Butthe greatest race , was between a rotund, adipose' D D.', of Penzisylvanity and a- snug, , slim, deer•shanked Divine of Missouri. The; former came off victor, as he had the ,force: of gravity, on his side, which always enables a fat man to run well down hill. The good people of .Natchez .enjoyed the sport finely; and taken all in, all, this was an exceedingly agreeable_ episode ,in our long monotonous journey from St. Louis. Allow me to say here, that, the three great tributaries of the Mississippi are the. Mis souri, %in, and Red river.. The corn region is below the first, the:' cotton region below the second, and the sugar cane region below the third. On the . mor - row, - after we left Natalie; we came into one of the finest countriewthe eye ever'rated'upon. ' From Baton - Rouge down -to this city the whole land on both aides of the river is a glorious Eden. To. give the reader a proper description of 'it, or one even approximating the reality, is an imimpossibility, espeeitilly3Oss prosy 'pen as ' , Mine. • It is so surpassingly lovely,that one can scarcely realize OW. the curse of God ever rested on it. Ihad thought I had seen•much beauti-' fal country before in the welb i trimmed farms of the East, and in the' grand prairies' of the West, but the cane fields of the South fax;far surpass all. Here the -beauty, gran deur, and magnificence of Nature appear not only in a few-places and in narrow limits, hatforohundreds , of miles , she -enrolls her glory, without a ; -single blemish, to every be holder 1 a' 'Now, - reader, imagine yourself on the (deck of one of the finest steamboats that ever entered a Western port.;. on one of the clearest and sweetest May evenings the world .ever saw, and on the bosom of , one of the mightiest rivers that ever rolled. Fancy yourself forty .feet above losi water mark, ;with `the smoke pipes of your vessel towering far labove the surrounding tree tops; the river winding its majestic way in multitudi nous zigzag& through the land.; boats before Yon, boats 'coming after you, and as .they pass • aronnd the. windings, appear like so many living monsters dancing_on the surface of the 'deep I These cane fields, how lovely theynrel See, too, ,how white, and, clean, and 'beautiful those , servants' homes' are, all &Trani:Ain order, and all together .like. { a sweet trim village in•• New England.. That royal palace yonder amid that , plump of orange trees, is the residence of the proprie tor. Look 1 • the water of this • great river seems higher than the eaves of 'his dwell ing! Were that levee to break, he•and his plantations would be swept, away! Poor fellow, he must' live in constant dread; for the water does•not want afoot of being over now Oind you know it was rising rapidly at Memphis and Lake Providence ;•but a foot there :'would not cause a rise of two inches here. Here we are coming to a place where the water has broken over ! This is called. a crevasse. Alas, what destruction ! How it roars. It cannot be stopped. The whole land for .a distance of -ten miles from , the river,' and onward to the Gulf, `a distance of one hundred and: twenty piles, l ol en tirely:inundated Houses, farms,villades, towns, gone ! - What a contrast to the beauty aboVe the break ! How terrifi cally grand ! But here is the Crescent'City Lettere from theliorth. THE-EARTH-MOUNDS OF WISCONSIN MR: EDlTOlLl—Hitherto my letters have related. More to - the living interests' of our State; should they now be somewhat more miscellaneous, and even mystical and specu lative; I hope they pay not be found unin leresting, or altogether unworthy of your ecrlunins: The eitbjeet of our Indian HounAs (as they are : usually called,) is now 'exciting-a more thorough investigation; and as I live in the,, midst of them—having found.no less than Azar inany own garden— rhave been led to pay, considerable atten tion to whatever has yet been printed, moan now, be observed, on, this "deeply;. obscure subject. ',Reliable information, historical OT tradi tienak on this 'subject, seems, indeed, to be out of the, question. The present race of natives uniformly say that theyknow ' noth ing about them, except that•their fathers always told`them they were, built by a very ancient pepple. The only thing in the form 'of 'a definiteiraditiOn I have met with, was this by an aged Indian, now living : That lie had been told they were built for a penance. When an Indian had sinned, he was required by some , superior (whether priest or chief, he did not tell us,) to bring so.. many aacks of earth, and pile it up in a given, The t only, thing , layering this tradition is that these minds are evi dently of earth brought from a distance. They are generally a lean white soil, and en tlirciPlitTerent from . that around timm. the whole idea savors too much of the early missioiaries; and i s . altogether „too Modern for the origin , of , these -works. Again, some have,. supposed a natural origin for' these mounds. Springs - break out, in ;this region With remarkable, 'depth and mistiness, and it has, bean, suggerited that t,tWiOtindipt oozing up of theiewiters mayolavi.deposited the , . tarthtilivissaisal THE PRESBYTERIAN BANNER AND ADVOCATE. formations. But, besides the other consid erations arising from the unmistakable marks of human design in these forms, it is quite a sufficient objection to this theory that the springs in question are in our hollows, or low grounds, while the mounds are on ridges, high grounds, and the banks of our larger streams. One of the most marked geoogical features in our State is the alter nate ridges and swales, uniformly running in a North-East and South-West direction, clearly showing a drift flood of former ages; now our earth-mounds are, never in these swales, but on the intervening ridges. My own settled impressions concerning these works, therefore, is, that they are of human .origin, in very remote ages. . They are of considerable variety of forms, and were seemingly intended for different uses. I have been able to divide them, to my own satisfaction, into et least three classes. I. Tai MONUMENTAL, or Burying Mounds. These are generally conical, and .of_ greater or less height and dimeneions, ac cording„,,apperently, .te, the , greeter, OF less degrees of honor , intended for. the. buried, persons. We: know it is aceording to the. custom 'of all ages to rear such monuments to the henored dead, and these are generally found, on being opened,- to contain skele tons,: pottery,. and other similar, relies. One opened in myosin; premises contained only pottery and pieces of - charred wood; bnt there might have been a skeleton,, now ut terly decayed. That these conical-mounds were not merely found, and then used for burying, as ka&,been sometimes suggested, is sufficiently evident .froin this : that the remains are notin the sides, but : at they bot tom, and precisely in the centre. II OASTRAMBNT.AL, or for Military pur poses. Some mark a complete encampinent; quadrangular. and, with regular gateways. While I hive seen many others that were mere breastworks, or a strait line of defeese, from a few rode to . one-fourth of a. Mile .in length. These. ; are always, I believe, on overlooking beighte, or on =the banks of large streams. To'see a succession of these works on the 'opposing banks of 'a stream, one, cannot but imagine the swarthy com batants ,concealed behind and hurling their missiles across at each other, or watching the approach of the, more distant enemy. - and . principally;theiti is's:large class of these works,which i cannot but consider SYMBOLICAL Orfhieroglypkfx. These are of different shapes and degrees of elevation, and represent a great variety of animals. The Lizzard is frequently found; the Tor toise, the See Pent, the Buffalo, the Bear, with some others—so plainly marked as hardly to render it possible to mistake the intention: Now my own view of these, I have not met with elsewhere; but it is clearly this,- that these various shapes are intended for tokens, or symbols of different tribes or . nations. There are certain localities which would be much visited by different tribes, on account of their desirableness for fishing, game, and other agreeable& Noti what more natural than that these visitors should leave their sign-- manuals there, to the intent that other vie• itors from their tribe might recognize them ? Why not as natural for them as that a By ron. should scratch his name on ItL rock of Mont Blanc, or an American traveler on the Pyramids? These supposition exhaust all the differ ent classes of Indian mounds. which have come tinder my observation; ,but there may be others, and-there is no doubt that the more the subject is investigated, the greater will be the light thrown upon it What we want, is a scientific and, more perfect col lection of all the facts, and then a full and careful deduction of the most probable re sult& Such a survey has indeed been com menced, and a further proseoution of the subject belongs to and is, now I believe promised, by the Smithsonian. Institute at Washington. In the maritime we cannot but feel a sentiment of'mingled awe and , sympathy, as we think Of this whole subject. Standing on one of these elevations, hoary with un recorded ages, and looking over a country so rich, so populous and progressive as ours, I cannot but ask what hae become of the original builders of these monuments and what had they, been had letters and the hopes of the 'Gospel come in time to their aid ? WISCONSIN. Berner. Dam, May, 1858. Per the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate. Adoption. Letter 11.—A Sum*ary: lam the way, the truth, and the life-Imm xry 6. Mr DEAR FRIEND :—A series ofjetters was devoted to justification. This is a very important subject, and we Should endeavor to understand it. Let us look at it briefly again and take a summary review of it. Sev eral things are to be remembered; among them, these : First. God is holy and just, and we have offended him. Because he is holy, he hates sin; because he is just, he will punish it. His!-justice is as dear to!him as his mercy— as dear to him as any of his attributes, and he will never sacrifice it. He will by no means clear the guilty without a satisfaction to his justice. I We are guiltz; we have Sinned against God, and are condemned by his law; we have offended God, that holy being who hates sin, that just being who will punish sin, that being of holiness, jus• tire, and truth who has pronounced sentence of eternal death on transgressors and whose word can never fail. W.M.F. Hence, in the second place, we need jus tification, becianie we are sinners and. Con demned; The sentence of condemnation Must he removed, or we must perish for ever; a sentence of acquittal, of complete justification, must be pronounced, or we can never, enter heaven. But how can sinful man be justified ? How can the guilty find acceptance with that holy being whose jus tice requires their punishment, and whose truth is pledged to visit their transgressions with eternal vengeance ? Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God ? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, er with ten thousands of rivers of oil ?. Shall . I give my firsthorn for my Arangression, the fruit ofMy body, for the sia of my soul 2—Mic. vi : 6, 7. We need justification, but how can man be just :with God xxv : 4. Not by works. We cannot be justified by our works for three reasons :* One is because we are sinners, transgressors of God's law; the , law is broken ; it condemns us it , r can never justify, because no present or future obedience can, atone for the past. Another reason is, because ,as sinners our hearts are wicked, our natures depraved, and, hence, all we do is sinful; and how can sinful works justify us before God ? It can never be; because the Bible so teaches: By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified.—llom. iu: 20. There is no justification by works; the hope of salvation by our 'deeds is a false and ruin one hope I No: the Bible method is far different.from this, it is freely by grace, altogether of grace. - 1 -Itom. 20-26. God's holiness must be 'Maintained and illustrated; his ids: tice must be satisfied and honored; his truth must be vindicated and established; all his perfeetions harmonized and glorified; and this is done iethe scheme of redemption by Jesus Christ. He is the legal Head of his people, constituted so from eternity in the covenant of grace; he in their nature stands in their stead; (for "Christ to become our federal head, had to take our nature;" Dr. Breckinridge's Theology;) he meets the demands of the law for them, both in its precept and its penalty; he obeys and dies, satisfies law and justice; and thus every legal obstruction is removed, the holiness of God is preserved untarnished and gloriously illus trated, and his hatred of sin stands forth to the view of the universe in the work of Christ, his obedience and death ; thus, too, the justice of' God is satisfied; the aw is honored in the life of Christ; and its penalty endured in his death when he was made a curse for us; and as Jesus Christ has thus made a full satisfaction to Divine justice, and removed every legal hinderance ,to our sal ration, God can now, be just, and yet justify them that believe; and his truth, too, is vin dicated, for the threatened_ penalty has been inflicted on Jesus Christ,and exhausted by him .who is the sinner's Surety and substi tute. Asa lawYer acts for his clients, so Jesus Christ, our legal Head, took our place and died ter us, and in our stead , and room; thus he made an atonement for our sins, and this atonement is the only ground of justification. God aCcepts sinners only on the ground of a perfect_ righteousness; and that righteous- ness has been wrought out by'Jesus Christ. In this' righteousnest we become interested by, faith. Faith "is the instrument, the hand by which we lay hold upon Christ and be come united lo him, and so have fellowship with him in his righteousness. He is offered to us as our Saviour ; when we receive him by faith, when we accept and embrace him, we are justified; his righteousness is imputed to us, we are regarded and treated as just and innocent, all our sins are blotted out, and we have a Aide to everlasting life ; 'we are accepted in the Beloved, we stand complete in him, we are accounted righteous, regarded and treated, as righteous, and Jesus Christ is the Lord oar righteousness; he of God is made unto us righteousness.—L Cor. i : 30, 31; Jer. xxiii : 6. This is "justification," an act of God's free grace, wherein he par doneth all our sins, and acoepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteous ness of Christ, imputed to us, and received by faith alone."—Short. Cat., Que,s. 33. " Nor is the righteousness of Christ ever imputed. for justification, except to the elect; nor ever received except by faith, which is a grace of the Spirit peculiar to the renewed soul."—See Dr. R. 3. Breckinridge's The ology—The Knowledge of. God Objectively. Considered. lam the way,• the truth, and the life, 'says Jesus Christ. "Ifhe is the way, then every other way is wandering; if he is the truth, then every thing else is error"; if he is the life, then all else is death." —See Jacobus' Notes on the Gospels,. John xiv : 6 • and John i : 11-13. Now they who are born of God do receive Jesus Christ as their Saviour and rest upon him alone for salvation; and this is to be lieve, this is faith, " a grace of the Spirit peculiar to the renewed;'and ! here then is salyation by faith and not by works—justifi- Oatiee„ by faith—salvation by grace. And regeneration is the beginning of the Chris tian life . -the life of God in the soul of man, and all the blessings and benefits of salvation are connected with it. One of these is justification. That we have consid ered. Another is adoption. This is the subject introduced by the words quoted from John is 11-13; and this comes next in order; for they who, are born of God and receive Jesus Christ by faith, have power, right, or privilege to become sons of God; this is adoption ,• and let us now give our attention to this matter. But of this in my next; for the'present, adieu. The Lord bless thee, and keep thee ; the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gradious unto thee; the'Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and • give thee peace.—Num. vi : Read SALVATION published by the Presby terian Board. YOURS, TRULY. for ttt Nabizo. A True Woman. " Buy an orange, ma'am," said a soft Ital. Zan voice.. The two ladies made a demi pause. " Please, ma'am, buy an orange," repeated the timid voice, pleadingly. Miss Dainty Slipper raised her rich .'silk in disgust, and moved on disdainfully. Her companion, gazing a'moment at the sorrow ful face of the fruit-seller, drew closer to the half-clad, barefoot orange.girl, and, in a tone of inexpressible sweetness and compas sion, said :- "Yes, yes, my little one, that I will. Give me• one!: The poor girl endeavored to lift the basket from her head, but the tiny arms trembled, and seemed unequal to the effort. You are tired, child; let me set it down," and the beautiful gloved hand of the noble woman raised the burden from the bonnet less head and placed it on the side..walk. "Now rest your wee feet awhile; and here " —she almost covered the palm of the ex tended hand with a shining half-dollar. The sad heart of the beggar-girl melted, and the tears stole down her suuburned cbeeks. "Oh, you are so good, ma'am, so good," sobbed the child. " Why do you cry, child? Why do you cry? and - the angelic woman stooped down and patted the uncombed head with her aris tocratic hand. " Oh, ma'am, my mother is dead, and my father is sick and , can't work, and—antt— no one cares for me." The tender bosom of loveliness rose . and fell, and rose again, and a pearl from the heart's fountain drepped from the tips of her long eyelaihes., " I care for you, indeed I do. I have a. sweet baby myself, younger than you. Give me another orange for her," and another glittering half-dollar found its way amongst the oranges. The outcast plaything of fortune hid her young face in her fruit, while the peerless daughter of beauty turned away, to conceal the glorious soul that would speak through her face, and rejoined her loitering and impatient friend: God bless the noble-souled woman I Thou didst thrill the chords of a heart, other than that of the beggar-girl—a heart long un tonehed by sympathy for its fellows. Thou didst wake in one, who saw-thy deed of love and heard thy words of pity, feelings to which his , heart had been long a stranger. "I know thy works and charity;" and thou, oh, Dainty Slipper—thou supercilious, un pitying Dainty Slipper—thou self righteous Pharisee l—do not "I know thy works and charity" also? Verily I say unto you, even you, Dainty Slipper, who didst scorn the miseries of a wretched child of thine own sea—you, you, immaculate Dainty Slipper, "have your reward." The large eyes of the sorrowing Italian girl followed, with mute blessings and thanksgivings, her gentle and queenly bene factress until her form was lost in the dis tance. 'When the friendless, motherless battling had - ealledlack her thoughtuwith her gaze, she replaced the basket upon her bare head; and her delicate feet, brown' and scratched, and bare, commenced again their wearisome round. I withdrew from my window with a strange sensation in my throat, and an unwonted moisture in my eye.—Mobile Advertiser. tie gang, Praying Better than Stealing Some poor families lived near a large wood wharf. In one of the cabins was a man who, when he was sober, took pretty good care of his family; but the grog.shoy would get his earnings, and then they suffered. In consequence of a drunken frolic, he fell sick. The cold crept into his cabin, and but one stick was left in his cellar. One night he called his eldest boy, z ohn, to the bedside, and whispered something in his ear. " Can't do it, sir," said John, aloud. " Can't ; why not Y" . asked his father angrily. " Because I learned at the Sabbath School, ' Thou shalt not steal,' " answered John. "And did you not learn, " Mind your parents' too?" " Yes, sir," answered the boy. " Well, then, mind and do what I tell you." The boy did, not know how to argue with his father, for his father wanted him to go in the night and steal some sticks from the wood-wharf; so John said to his father, " I can pray to night for some wood; it's better.than steal ing, I know." And when he crept up into the loft where his straw bed was, he did go to God with his pravers. He prayed the Lord's prayer, which his Sabbath School teacher taught him, only he put something in about the wood, for he knew God could give wood as well as " daily bread!' The next noon when he came'home from school, what do you think he caught sight of, the first thing after turning the corner? Half a cord of wood before the door—his door. Yes, there• it was. His mother told him the overseers of the poor sent it ; but he did not know who they were. He be lieved it was God; and so it.was.—Child's Paper. Only One Brick Upon Another. Edwin was one day looking >at a large building which they were putting up just opposite his father's house. He watched the workmen from day to day, as, they car ried up the brick and mortar, and then placed them in their proper order. His father said to him " Edwin, you seem to be very much taken up with the bricklayers; pray what might you be thinking about? Have= you any no tion of learning the trade ?" " No," said Edward, smiling, "but I was just thinking , what a little thing a brick is, and yet that great house is built by laying one brick upon another." " Very true, my boy, never fo l rget it. Just so it is with all great works. All your learning is only one, little lesson added to another. If a man could walk all around the world; it would be by putting ode foot before the other. Your whole• life will be made up of one little moment after another. Drop added to drop makes the 'ocean." Learn from this not to despise little things. Learn, also, not , to be discouraged by great labor. The greatest labor becomes easy if divided into , parts. You could not jujnp over a mountain, but step by step takes you to the other side, ,Do not fear, therefore, to attempt great things. Always. remember that the whole of the great build ing is only one brick upon another. Read an Haar a Day. There was once a lad who at fourteen was apprenticed •to a soap-boiler. One of his resolutions was to read one hour a day, or at, least at that rate, and he had an old silver watch, left him by his uncle, which he timed his reading by. He stayed seven years with his master, and his master said when he was twenty-one that he knew as much as the . young squire did. Now let us see how much time he had to read in seven years, at the rate of an• hour a day. It would be twenty-five hundred and fifty five hours, which at the rate of eight lead ing hours a day, would be three hundred and nineteen days : equal to forty-five weeks, equal to eleven months ; nearly a year's reading. That time spent in treasuring up useful knowledge would pile up a very large store. I am sure it is worth trying. for. Try what you can do. Begin now.— Child's Paper. gricultural. For the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate. • Barley Growing. Mn. EDITOR:—Some time since there appeared in the Banner and Advocate, an article on the subject of barley, growing. it). that communication it was our purpose to call attention to the subject and to enlist in its behalf some abler pen and older head than we pretend to claim. In this connex ion we may say that we feel truly grateful to the Editor, for his approving reference to our article in a short, conclusive and :Liman swerable editorial. We were also, gratified that our humble efforts have in some meas ure arrested attention and produced a spirit of inquiry among the farming community as to the propriety and rooral:bearing of the practice. That farmers in this community have hitherto devoted a large portion of their farms to the production of barley, is apparent to all. That it is cultivated not as an article of domestic food either for man or beast, but expressly for the use of the, brewer, is equally apparent. And, moreover, in fre quent instances farmers have contracted with the, brewer to furnish a certain amount of this grain for a stipulated number of years. In other words they contract that a large portion of their farms should be devoted to the production of this peculiar kind of grain, knowing that:it •would, through the vender, be applied to the doubtful uses' for which it is intended. Now this practice is either right or it is wrong. It cannot be neutral or indifferent. If it is right, far be it from us to put any obstruction in the way of honest industry; or check the honest enterprise of the farmer. If wrong, we feel it our duty to point out wherein the error lies; and •if it can be shown that we err and not they, we trust that our remarks, if they have no other good tendency, will,,at least, aid toward making the path of duty more clear, so that ahe who runs may read." A suggestion often opens up a vast field for thought. As observed in our former article barley growing is not sinful per se; but if raised as an article of domestic food is highly com mendable. It is the motive . which actuates the farmer in its production, with which we have to do. Herein lies the doubtful fea ture, and which indirectly }Merl illumined' the brilliant halls of revelry throughout our populous cities, to allure and entice the in experienced feet of the untary with the deceptive inducements of harmless drink No one has any controversy with the farmer who employs his fields in the produc tion of wheat, corn, or any of the esculent productions of the soil, inasmuch as they enter into and form a part of the necessities of our daily consumption. No person objects to these common blessings; for without them the sources of human enjoyment would be dried up. The farmer thus employed, stand ing in the furrow, tilling the broad acres of his own fields, with a view to ministering to the natural and legitimate wants of our common humanity, is doing a great and be neficent work; and deserves, and will receive, the approbation of Him whose steward he is; and he will have the benedictions of his fellow creatures, whose circumstances in life are such as to render them subjects of Chris tian care and charity. 'Such an one is, whether regarded so or not, a noble specimen of humanity ; and though shrouded in a tattered garb and presenting an uncouth exterior, nevertheless, the elements of a genuine and dignified manhood 'are within him, and he bears upon his honest brow the impress of a nobility more desirable than the glittering brilliancy of an ephemeral royalty or the prestige of power. But the producer objects' that he has no right to inquire beyond the mere production; that it is no concern of his whether it shall be converted into an article of food; or whether it shall undergo fermentation and at length foam in the spacious saloon, and there slake the morbid thirst of some devotee of Bacchus, who afterwards, in the darkness of midnight, celebrates his orgies in some un frequented alley. Can you take refuge be hind such logic as this ? Can you dodge responsibility in this way ? If so, then may you furnish an invading army quartered in your midst, with munitions of war for the destruction of our common country; and yet you make a pretence of acting in good faith on the defensive. A pecuniary benefit would indeed be received, but• it would be at the expense of the general. good. Would not such an one- be held culpable in the eyes of the Christian community; and would not the historian hand down his name to posterity as a traitor to all that is honorable, upright, patriotic, and religious. What would be thought of the temperance lecturer who urges reform, and, as opportunity offers, would indulge in those excesses against which he is inveighing? or, forsooth, furnish the materials which keep the traffic on a living basis ? Those who act thus we hold to be repre hensible ; and in somewhat the same light must we view the farmer who lends his in fluence to advance the cause of temperance, while furnishing the material which induces intemperance and opens up the ;flood gates of iniquity to deluge the land , with crime and its accursed concomitants. Religion and morality are the corner stone and bul- Wark of good society; and whatever. ener vates these directly or indirectly, must be regarded' as a public calamity. Now the farmer, without intending it, contributes to this end. True, he is not 'feeding an in vading army, but an eternal foe which works more destruction than arms—for it under mines--the virtue of the people and conse quently wrecks' every element of pure and genuine prosperity. Arms may indeed par alize the resources of a nation for a dime ; but intemperance strikes - deeper, and vitiates the moral regimen of society. . But we must draw to a close. What moral purpose is subserved by the production of barley ? Who frequent the drinking halls and spend their savings which necessity requires-for the support of their families or other benevolent objects? -It -is surely not the virtuous and the wise.. The atmosphere of such places has no attraction for them. If the vending of malt liquors were dis pensed with, the community would suffer no loss; nor would it in any wise interfere with the legitimate functions of good society. Parents are ever solicitous for the welfare of their children; A nor does this cease when they leave the pd.iental roof. This solicitude - follows them through the, labyrinths of so ciety, even- to the': grave; and could they accompany them through their youthful wanderings, ever assisting with their experi-, enee and advice, would they not warn them, with all the fervor of parental affection, to avoid the fumes of drink and to enter not there. To, the Christian .'fanner. we would say, Are you quite certain that rib responsibility attaches to you in regard to this? And will your practice square with the precepts of the Golden Rule ? Do you, in, view of your moral obligations, feel at liberty to use =the good thinge of this life without reference to future considerations ? Do yon realize the important truth that " the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof ?" And that yon are but stewards, holding in trust that which He has committed to your care. Like the rich young man, you may have great pos sessions ; but these ' you are under moral obligations to devote to the glory of God and the comfort of his creatures. The pro duets of your farm should have direct refer ence to this end. Every man has a mission to perform, and his destiny to fulfill. This is especially the case with the farmer; be cause he stands at the helm and holds within his grasp the reins of society. He can wield this for good or evil. Through him flow all those common blessings that irrigate, so to speak, the different ramifications of social life. To him the poor look as the guardian of earth's bounties. These our Saviour says, you have with you always; and so it is. Every community has its poor, struggling, not for a competence, but for a meagre subsistence. They require cheap food, cheap clothing, &e., and if two stalks of barley are made to grow instead of one of wheat or corn, let the advantage accrue to the poor man. How sublime and soul.cheering to con template the cultivated fields, waving their golden, luxuriant treasures planted by the Christian husbandmanovith the sole aim of ministering to the welfare of the destitute and to alleviate the wants - of God's hungry poor. Such a consummation would be a foreshadowing of the better time to come. To inaugurate this era is the object of these suggestions. BETHANY. Setting Fence Posts. We hear frequent complaints, of the per ishableness of fence pests set in the ordina ry way. And to the suggestion that the lower end of the posts should be charred, it is replied that, while charring benefits the outside of the timber, it cracks it open, so that water penetrates the wood still further, and causes a rapid decay in the interior. Let us then make another suggetitio'n. Char the lewer end of the post for eighteen inches or two feet, so that about six inches of the charred part will be above the surface of the ground. Have in readiness a kettle of hot coal tar, (a cheap:artiele,) and plunge into it the lower end of each post ; or apply the tar with a brush, taking pains to get it into the crevices. A, sfeonci application ia desirable, as soon as the first becomes dry, and will make the tiinber water-proof for many years. ADVERTIBEYEN-TS. 1 . 11.10.0 i CITY COEIRIERC/ AL COLLEGE. , PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA. CHARTERED 1855. Board of 12 Trustees—Faculty of 14 Trachera 300 STUDENTS ATTENDING, JANUARY, .1858, Young Men prepared for setae', duties of the Co u otin z.Re e , m Instruction given in Single and Double Entry Pp „ 1; keep ing, " nacii over 7 department of Business, Con.te erc i a i Acithmetie,Rspid Business Writing, Mercantile Corr,,-,rmd ence,Commercial Law,Detecting Counterfeit Money,l4,ljri, t Economy, Elocution, Phonography, and all other std,jecta necessary for the thorough edncation of a practical buriarta man. J. C. SMITH, A.M., Professor of Book-keeping and Eden% of Accounts. J. A. 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The subscribers have constantly for sate as as BELLS. sortmerit of Church, Factory, Steamboat, Leconte BELLS. tire, Plantation, School house, and other Bells, BELLS. mounted in the most approved and durablamanser . BELLS. For full particulars as to many recent improve, BELLS. manta, warrantee, diameter of Bells, space occupied BELLS. in Tower, rates of transportation, &c.i send for a BELLS. Circular. Bells for the South delivered in New BELLS. York. Address A. isfIINNEUTPS SONS vv , Agents, —t N I===2 TU•IC CHAMPION LOCKS OF TUB WORLD, are only striplings in cost, ($6 to $9, er made gunpowder proof, $lO, and less at wholesale.) !ate test which they have endured is unparalleled. The great est lock-pickers in the world, stimulated by the offeror a large premium for several years, have sought in rain for a clue to pick them. They not only bid defiance to all lock. pickers, but the offer of Two THOUSAND DominS for pia; log is continued to June,lBs7, with ample guaranty. Th world is challenged for a competitor to produce a leek of equal value, for five times its cost,wbether it is used for the sPeCiovaUlt night latch, or desk. B. )3. WOODBRIDGE , Perth AmboY, DT READ THIS. thejury M. iL :R. WOODBRDGE, Sa:—You hare been awarded WI 1 10)1021tb10 inanition, with special approbation, for burglar to merit all that proof Leeks and Night Latehes. They Wen, considered by you claim for them, lie being the cheapest, and at the same, titne,the safest and mostdurabie iLoCke on exhibition, and a valuable acquisition to ths coin. mutiny. Yourat.trnly, ENAzzi.Barvoosr , Oomininsionor of Turbo, Crypts! Palace: 22 /7 - Rowle: • Nov. 18bt