L 'i,avntr at* *bait. DAVID MoKINNEY,, JAMS ALLISOtt.4IVPIEWEP4m. , STEPHEE LITTLE, PITTSBURGH; .TANUARY 21,1860. 911 1 BRKM.m SIAS, In advalasea er In Clubs. 11.111 er. delivered at resideseee or subpart' boro..So4P!. s...pro•psetlia, Ward Page. it 111 II Ail" A L II should be & , ltttic whine 'before rite year expires, that we may melte fan arrangements for a steady empply. WIWI R 1D WELAPPIRJA inetenteo that era desire a renowal. If, kowiner, ha tko baste this signal ehmeld be omitted, we kepis our friends will still not forget um. RAIDIWWADOSII.—bend payment by mare kande, when sonvenient. Or, mad by =an§ anolosing with ordinary oars, and troubling nobody with a knowledge of what you are doing. For a large 1111111Munts Mid a Draft, or Large memo For two poperroiend Geld or small notes. WO WAND ONIANOII, Bond postagoatatar4 er better still, send for more rooperai We Sr Eloventymmabors, or $1 for Witir l 7^ ll iroi . numbers. 0111110 W au Lottery and Oonnerunikatleit, to DAVID BIaICINVIIIf £ Pit Olitradtr EXTENSION.--See, in another column, the interesting statement and earn est plea of the Executive Committee, hiving charge of this cause. ABSTRACTS ;OP REPORTS Of the Pitts burgh Library Association, and of the Allegheny Young Men's Bible Society, , we. shall endeavor to have for next week's piper: NEW ORIMANS —The Tbird Presbyte rian congregation dedicated to God, on Sab bath, let inst., a new and beautiful church edifice. it is on Royal Street, fronting Washington Square. VERY SINGI7LAR.—TbO True Witness, N. 0., says : We were at the daily prayermeeting last Thursday. We had a small but very inter .esting meeting. There was one pastor, but not a single lady. The thought was painful to us. P..ENNI3TLYANIA COLONIZATION SOCIETY. —Pr. Reed, of Washington, Pa., agent for this Society, is now in city, soliciting aid for the removal to Liberia of free per sons of color. The number who desire to emigrate, is much beyond the means of the Society. Help is asked for a noble, benevo lent, and really a missionary enterprise. TEE SYNOD OF GIONGIA, at their late meeting, were not prepared to fill the chair of the Perkin's Professoribip of Natural Science in the Theological Seminary at Co lumbia. It must hence remain vacant for a year. "The Synod appointed Rev. Joseph C. Stiles, D D., and Rev. W. M. Cunning ham, Evangelists, to labor in their bounds till the next meeting. Death of T. Babington Keenlay. The Eurapa brings the sad intelligence of the death of Macaulay, the scholar, poet, etaayist, statesman, and historian. He died on the 28th of December. Oar London Correspondent, wili,wo doubt, favor us with a full account of the life character and la. hors of this great man. The Foreign Board. The intelligence retipecting the reception of the Choctaw Mission, will be received with pleasure. The article arrived last week, just as we were going to press, and hence a little too late, We earnestly request our Secretaries to give us such communications, and, if prac ticable, in season, i tcy appear, the same week with other journals. No other newspaper gives such prominence to gm cipprxMonsand claims of the Boards , of our Church, as we do. Every month we present a carefully prepared synopsis of the proceedings of the four Boards, and the Committee on Church Extension, and plead the cause of each. North American B,wriew. We have received .the January number of this noble review, which has done so much to elevate the character'of American litera ture, and which has no rival in this country, in its own department It spreads before its readers, ,every three months, a rich feast. The- present number has twelve articles of various merit, but all giving evidence of care, thought, and high, scholarship. The con tents ere : Tennysorr; Tbe Assyrian Empire; The Commerce and Currency of the United States; The Condition and Needs of the Indian Tribes ; George Canning; The China Question ; Wesleyan Methodism; Washing: ton's Farewell Address, and the Old ,Phila delphia Bar; Literature of the Italian War; George, Wither; The White Hills:; and, Critical Notices. Published in Boston, by Crosby, Nichols & 00.;411a for sale in Pitts burgh, by Kay & Co. Reldvals. PRINCETON, 111.--This 'church under the pastoral ware of-Rev. Jclisiah Milligan , ie greatly farored. 'One of the Elden writes to ue " We.have been holding meetings for ten days, and there is a very cheering state of things. The church is wonderfully revived, ; and sinners are inquiring the way of life and salvation. The meetings are still con tinued. Part of , the time we have had BrOther Marsha and Brother Barr. We have strong hopes of a greater blessing. May it be the beginning only of good times. This week our prayers are more particularly for the heathen." Lzzonnuitei.Pe.—The following itttelli- Renee is gratifying. Would that such com munications were common : Mears. Editors:—By the invitation of the Pastor, Rev. J. E. Caruthers, I spent the, week of prayer with the people of Leechburg. It wee truly a week of prayer with them, and it was also a week of God's power amongst them„ There had been a some what unusual interest felt in the result of that week, and they had rriade it a mat ter ,especial prayer that God would re fresh them then. From the very first there was i deep solemnity in their assemblies, and i very good attendance. Services were held morning and evening, from 'Wednes day. In the evening the house was crowd ed. All felt that it was good to be there. At the communion, which was on , the foli lowing Sabbath, twenty-four sat down for the first time at the table of the Lord. One was a boy of not more than fourteen, who gave as good evidence of a change of heart, as any. Many others have expressed their anxiety to find the way of life, and a few express a trembling hope. Let. Christians tau courage, and the Lord be greatly praised. G.P.H. HOLLIDAYSBURG, Et—We have just heard that twelve persons were added to thf eoninrattion of this ohurob, on s late sear& mental occasion. '` The Bible and Palities. 4 Are we a Christian people ; ox are we a nation of Infidels ? Is Government with us a mere abstraction, without moral charac ter; or is it a thing of life, co nducted by rational and accountable men r Can a people be Christians in their close* fainilias, and churches; and yet be in their:government, and in all their severnmental affairs, Athe istic? Are men responsible, and bound by consoienoe, for what they say and . do in reiy gions and common life; brit irresponsible, and without conscience, in what they say and do when they are members of an organ ized body, that is, of a Bank, a School Board, a liegislattire, &o, These and ' 'sim ilar questions are now agitating the commu nity. They are practical. They concern men spiritually, as well as temporally. They are hence, not to be ignored by reli gious journalists. Some weeks ago, we noticed a work of Rev. Dr. Anderson and Mr. Haight, of San . Francisco, which is a response to a Tractate of Rev. Dr. Scott, of the same city. We stated that we had not seen Dr. Scott's work. It has arrived since ; and we have read it through, with care. We have &INN a' pri vate letter from the author; and have read his letter in the Presbyterian, correoting . ,, some mistakes on the part of that, journal. The Tractate and the letters correspond, only that the , Book carries matters farther than `the letters. Dr. Scott prizes Bible as , ' `high as any man ; he regards the common Enelfah version as the very best translation in existence; he advocates Public Schools, Sabbath Schools, Ecclesiastical Colleges, Mis sionary efforts ; he favors full religions fraei dom, and is, hence, opposed to all force upon the conscience, and.to all compulsion in wor ship t In short, so far as dootrinal faith, pions emotion, and Church action ire con cerned, he is a full blooded; Evangelical, true blue Presbyterian. But Dr. Scott seems, unhappily, and Very singularly, for a Presbyterian '.to have taken up the idea that man is a kiriel or double' being. ,'ln one class of circumstances, he.is bound by the laws of God ; but in another class, God and religion' have no claims.. In some relations, conscience must bear sway ; but in others, he has no conscience. In his family, hie church, and in general society, he is, and ought to be, religions ;, butin his association for civil government, and :in all boards and corporations organized by civil government, he is, and must be, Atheistic.' He is , in these circumstances to know` Bible, no religion, no _conscience, no God. So ,we would undenitand,tbe book. But as it is possible that our, omprehension may be , defective, we shall let the author speak in his own words. ; We thus read " Men, as individuals, are to give an, account,. each one, for himself, to God ; but as banks, oor partitions, Legislatures, and Sista, they are, in fact, without a cOnscience." p. 40. " The Government has no right to appoint chaplains to the-army, nor `to the navy, nor tontir State prisons. If Congreas,, or the Legislature wish a chaplain, one may, be elected ; (provided no body object,)' but' 'he should be paid out' Of ; their own salaries." p.,41. "It is there (in the Constitution) implied that men may worship as many gods as they plow, and worship anything as God they may choose, or worship no god at all." ibid. " Religion being an individual and spiritual affair, and the State being wholly a civil institu tion, we hold that Government has, nothing to do , with'it." p. " Our Government has no Bible. cannot makir one.- It' does not prawn to be able to choose one. It does not profess to believe in any. As a Government we have neither. - Bible nor-reli gion." p, 79. " They are Our National 'Schools ' and should be conducted on the - principles of the' Federal Government. as to-religion." p. 89. • "It (the Government) knows no Bible." p. 90.. " The Government, per se, 4est no religion." p. These quotations, - we think, justify our statement; especially so, as they are not isolated' sentencesl selected from W context which greatly .modifies their character. They accord. with the general tone of the book. There • is a constant,' undeviating effort, to separate the Government, end every oat going of Governmental from religion; aid from everything expres sive of religion. The argument throughout is able, as everything must - be which ema nates from the author's pen. It is, however, somewhat specieus, and a gtiod deal ad captandam. Many of the statements-are strong—even extravagant—and they are so made as to imply that the friends of The Bible in :the School, hold sentiments and advocate measures which are a nignatromily erroneous, and which they repudiate. The author can see no midway, between Atheism in the Government, on the ones hand, and its having a full control over religion on the other. And" as he strongly adopts_ the one; the other he assigns to his opponents, The question arose among politiCians. The new State of' California rdust have a school law. Shall the Bible be used We have not seen the Act and hence cannot say whether the proposition was to put it,in by force, or to keep ,it out by , force. In either of those forme, we ourselves would be ; but poor advocateis of the law. We would, have no compulaiirft in the patter. We would leave it to the districts. ` _Ando where it was admitted, as we believe it should be universally, we would havelt 'but read: We would have no 'lnman exposition of its doctrinal teachings : We would, in the Public Schools, I.t, the Bible do its own religious teaching. We''would allow no man, by virtue 'of his position in a Pablio School, to act the part of a Preacher, or of . a Professor of Theology. Presbyterians, Baptists, Romanists, Unitarians, and all . otheit might give their own Reenlisr views to their children, at home,or in the church; or the Sabbath, School, ',or the Parmitial School. In the Public School let the Scrip tures be read—read much—but only read, and not expounded. . We do not believe that the common school, is the place for children to be instructed -in either dogmatic theology or the nature-of Christian experience; nor are teachers com petent usually to give the instruction ; nor are the parents sutoiently of one Mind to permit, it. And yet we believe that great benefit would result,> in the very aspects named, from the simple reading of the Word. We have great faith in the Bible. Its' history; f its morality; its precepts; its *Tux Blum /am Pommes ; or, An Humble Plea for Equal, Perfect, Absolute Religkins Freedom and against all Sectarianism in our Public iohools. Pp. 146. Svo. By Rev. W. A. Scott, .D. 11., San Francisco. j-Ia his tether to 114, Dr. Boott alluding .to his reviewers, says: 4 The , only point of rind diffor enoe among 'us, that I oan see, bias' to' compulsory lug by /OD. ; Auto the Bible anCts meaning, and as to the Lord's tiny. is itself, we are alLagreed: I maintain only that: the light a our, Constitu tion and organic laws, and in the. light of the New Testament and of Church Hietory'for three hundred years; there' should be no "gio nt pelia3r6Y itaisite; ktorki either le read* the 'Bible' or to :go" `church; WALL „:Equal liuteetion:to ells my dbotrine ; favor to none." 99 k 0R AND • Itt • , . promises; its Address to the lleart4',con science, fears Lid lopes of mei; its com mendations of mutual love 'end nodal kindness, attract, enlighten, /elevate and grdcle tire ‘the, reading of it, without a word, of remark : or comment; cannot but have An infineribe. It is the Word of the Creator - to his - own creatures, adapted, to theunderstrinding, the heart and conscience which he has given them; adapied to their wants, individually and'&4 ll Vi mpittlfr. anTsfreitta 74' is a Father's kindly instructive voice to his own children. It is the Holy Spirit's 'own agent, in the human spirits which he would illumine, renew, and transform. We highly appreciate the preaching of the Gospel— the exposition, exhortation, warnings, calls by ,the living meseinger—tut we value the reading aim. We would say, each in its appropriate place; and would trust to the Spirit's own application of his own Word, to the mind and 'conscience. And we are authorized so to trust. Memory goes back with delight to the Common School where the Bible was a clan book; where we never heard a word of explication, nor prayer, but where, before we entered our teens, we had Acquired a large portion of our know, edge of the Soriptures—a knowledge which abides to this day, and an influence which will bmenduring as the soul. , We have, , however never advocated law enjeining that the Bible must he 'read in the 'Sehool. Liberty to use it' if the people of the District—the majority of course—so desire E is all that we have plead e,d for. And yet Much might` be :said in favor of its being made, by public authority; a reading book in all puhlic schools. Bible morality is the _only system known; which ' teaches an 'equality of lights,' and is , fully pinto:Alva of, person, proPerty, and family intermits. Bible instruction is the only influence which can enlighten and cultivate the conscience, so as to produce fidelity in the administrators of law, and honesty in the oocupants of positions 'of , trust. A l3ible.taught community are • the only.people who have ever enjoyed, on an extensive scale, political and religions free dom. Oar country, morally, socially, and politically, as well as religiously, is what it is, by the influence of the Bible. , All history fails to, produce a knowledge of any thing but the Bible, whieheould have made us the prosperous and happy people that, we, are. ,The Bible,As the experience of man kind fully evinces, is essential' to the in-' tegritY and happy working of our civil institutions. Society has thin a Very deep interest in the Bible. And may she not hence 100 arrange general education, that all the youth shall be likely to have some knowledge of it, and 'partake something of its blissful public, social, honest, and free spirit ? , We are told that the Bible is a sectarian book? How sectarian ? Why apply to this loved and honored book, a name peliti• °ally odious'? But how is it sectarian ? Do not the people receive it? All Prot• entente do. Romanisto do. Even Mormons give it much credit, and Jews receive the larger portion of it. But the English translation is notarise,' Ah : Row is- that? Do not nine tenths of the people receive 'this version ? ' And do not the remaining tenth, the Romanids, almost receive it 'What they regard as its defects, they can easily supply at hope. The book is not sectarian; in any oonstitu. tionally forbidden sense. Do not then affix a stigma upon it, which may tend to render it unacceptable. ,God r has, given the Bible to men, and all should' be taught to know it, and induced to love it We are told,,that it would be wrong to force me or my child, to read, or to hear read,;a book to whieh I am opposed ‘in.con science; The Trictate states this 'strongly, and reiterates it often. We say yes; heart ily, yes. It' would ,be wrong_-intolerable. But who does this ? Who would do it,? Are not the Public Schools free, free to enter, or free to leave ? No one is forced to go there, or Wand , -child there. The wholewis a matter of chola& ' Thoreis perfect freidom. Go, or stay away, 'gee,. or not use. firm- , tically, some choose to send; others Ohoose not to send 4 and the State interferes not with their liberty: ' But then the School is sustained " ' by the Public_ Funds; and I pay taxes 1. Very well: One may be a monarchist in a Re publican community ; but he must pay taxes. Another is anti administiation; but he must pay taxes. Another is Peace-Man, 'or a,Quaker, but he must pay taxes. The. Administration, and the army and. navy are public institutions. The community wish to have them, and the community must sustain them. The individual is not obliged to vote nor to bear arms. There is no force put upon him, obliging him to do, or say, or, hear anything' contrary to conscience; but he must pay his taxes, as do other citizen: But by a law introducing the Bible, ti teacher Is prevented 'front. engaging , in a Public School; he cannot,' in conscience, read the Bible, nor hear it read:; it is, to him, 'l‘ religious test, and the constitution forbids religiotti test Nlw, is this so The law bnt says, the Bible shalt be .read' in the school. If any one then is excluded by his private conscience, he is only in the same predicament with the thonsands of Quakers who are, by their private sentitnents, excluded from the thirty millions, of public money expended upon the army and navy ; and of the tens of thousands of Presbyte rians who - are excluded from post offices and mail contralto by the law which enjoins Sunday =mails; and the few Covenanters whose conscientious:scruples about the de• fective 'religion of the Government, exclude them'froniell puhlic'postiof honor or profit. Hence the poor teacher whose. conscience will not+iet him read the Bible, is not the only man excluded from official stations, and a share in the public funds, by the laws of this free country. Is, then, s the military law, which excludes the peaceful Quaker, a religious test ? And the Post Mee law, which excludes the conscientious Preebyte lian,*a religious test? And the defective Christianity of the Government, which ex- Andes the rigid Covenanter, a religions test? No I Such a construction._ of the language of the Constitution would make all govern- Ment impracticable. Then; iiiither is the School laws felled= lent.' P7,B' might: say much more, for the theme is fruitfuli_ hut our. article is sufficiently long,, and we have fairly menthe case. We will but add;fliiitaila*'lOudfigthe Bible and 60,63, Atheistie, would exclude us utterly, and ex elude myriads of others, whoa `are consoien tious people. There are but few Christians who could send their children to a school avhieh—was , professidly. , godless. Godi the Bible and religion, are forcibly expelled, Christians are expelled Ciao. And must the Conscience of a Christian people be violated tylegislatOrs, to please tits ciiiisifience of a few infidels, who ;nay be their fellow citi zens, and of a very few Turks, Hindoos, and Ain.* mr:fio tolratno With them ? Let a Christian people maintain a free religion, keep Church and State sep arate, and have no religious tests for official stations; but let them, in all•things, act on Christian principleiyand preserve, maintain, and perpetuate Bible' morality as the palla dintr. of the nation's hopes for everything which belongs to national and individual well being. Progress of Liberal Sentiments Men do not all think 'alike nor feel alike. They have different capabilities, different educations, different habits, different tastes. Heim, wherever there is liberty, there will be different combinations and associations. They will congregate L and form clubs, lair• cies, unions, societies, less or greater, no• cording to homogeneity. It will be so in religion' as really as in the other aspects of , social life. The, main matter is, that those vi , ho have 'their variations shall yet recognize each other en the great principles of hu• inanity as- men ,• and::; of •Evangelism as 'Christians. ' ' • There are, of late years, some indications that the rigidity of sectarianism is relaxing. There is not the Pharisaism, not the ex elusiveness, - , nor 7 -lhe' bitterness of former days; that is, not 'to '.the same extent. There is more Christian recognition, more of kindness and resrot, more comminglin; of the members of different °Mimi:cis. A recent instance Of .the tendency of Christian heaits toward each other we have in the remarks of,ltev. X. Hobart Seymour, at a public, meeting in Bath , England. A ,number • of Epirmopal,minoters", had been in conference the day previous, ind Mr. Sep . moor stated that le was authorized, on be half.of his brethren, to say: " They , arrived at this *elision, that they will convene And holdla large public meeting in the largest place they can,obtain, for prayer that God would send dawn his Holy Spirit on the city of Bath ; and to this meeting I am , authorized to say, they invite the whole body of Dissenting as well as Church [of England] congregationa—not to erely,the Nonconformist laity. bitt their minis, ters ; that they may sit : twith us, beside us, and amongst us, that we, may 'all as brethren, as Christians, join together in prayer to God for his blessing'on this City. I sin authorized, then, to make the proposition openly and frankly to you: we, the clergy of ther Church of England, now invite all the ministers? off the Nonconformist bodies of this city, ana,tbeir congregations, to meet us on this ocoasion„ lffe do not simply ask you to come ands isten to us; we wish you to take precisely the same position as ourselves-- that the clergy of the Church and the Noncon— formist ministers shall unite together, pray to g Other, and alike be cialled to lead the prayers. I believe this proposition on the part of the clergy, of the Church of England, made in this p üblic way and 111 this Christian spirit, will be responded to in the same spirit ;- and that all de nominations in the city, of Bath will lay aside t heir denominational feelings for the moment, and u nite asChristian ministers and Christian breth ren, , on'the,occasion I have referred to." HoOita for ,the MIMIC The contributors co the Western Penn sylvania Hospital for the Insane, held their Annual Meeting on Saturday last, Thomas Bakewell, Esq., in the chair. John Harper, Esq ,Treasurer, presented the Financial Re port, Mr. J. W. Kerr, Architect, stated the condition and progress of the new building;: Dr. J. A—Beed, Physician, .re ported the number of patients and the Ran itory condition of the Hospital. The total of pecuniary means in the treasury, during the year, including $30,- 000 received from the State, and $9,212 76 oontributed'by individuals, was $64,545.79. The expenditures;'including 85,103.88 on the old building, and U 9,423.26 on the new building, were $51,108.76. The , bal ance on band is $13,527 03. The newbnilding is progressing, and will be under roof, which is the extent of the pres ent contiact, the Ist of Noveinber. This contract embrace! , an expenditure of $50,000. The whole building, when com pleted will have cost, as estimated, about $lOO,OOO. The number of patients and eanitory condition, are thus represented : .Tan. 1,1860. .Mates. Ansi. Ibt. Patients in - Hospital, Jan. 1, , 1869, 62 88 90 Receiied since to Jut. 1, 1860, 71 87 108 Trades' treatinent daring the year, 128 75 198 Discharged, recovered, daring the - - 'year, • 28 16'' 44 Discharged, improved, during• the :.• year, 2B 18 36 Discharged, nriimproved, during the year, 4 4 ;8 Died, - 7 8 10 Total discharged, 62 86 98 Remaining Jan. 1, 1860, 61 89 100 Whole number received since April 1, 1856, ' 209 123 832 Committed by order'of Courts, 00' 00 62 Committed by Directors of Poor, 00, 00, 92 COmmitted by friends,' 2 00 00 178 Discharged, recovered, 78 41 119 Discharged, iiiiproved,! 31 26 57 Discharged, unimproved,' „. 18 -10 28 Died, . 26 , 07, -83 Tetal discharged 148 84 232 Remaining' an. 1, 1860,i 61. 89 100 Total:diaoharged and remaining' 209 123 332 Light - How cheering, low important is light-- light 'to the eye,' and light to the understaud iog. Revelation and grace supply the lat ter ; nature and skill furnish the former. For one half of, man's time, nature sup , plies light to hiin richly, without any agency of his; and for what can be spared of the other'half, from sleep and rest, she furn ishes the material in, great abundance, which human skill can turn into light. • Carbon Oil is now being extensively used, in families-and factories. It furnishes one of the most pleasant artificial lights known. It is obtained from the bowels of the earth , in connexion with water. ,Some springs yield it, but mostly it is obtained from wells sunk for the purpose. A part of Crawford and Veitango Counties, Pa, affords a large supply. A clerical brother gives us the following recent and reliable information: it You know sowething of our oil excite ment up here. Drake's well, that has a worldwide notoriety, is in this County, some twenty: miles froin here. But a new shaft has been sunk near , this place, that throws Drake's completely in the shade. It is on the farm of Mr. MoOlintookr two miles from 'the <mouth of Oil Creek, and some nine from this place. It has been in opera. tion less thin a week, and yields a full gallon of pure , oil per minute. I speak -from personal observation, havin g tested by the watch, on last . Friday. " One rethark. able feature of this , well, is the small gnan. tity of water mixed with the oii—there being n only about 'one part of water to . seven or eight of oil. Truly Nature's Laboratory is, carried on, on a grand scale. I Fesilme there, ire' about twenty wells being stink in this county at the present' time.' EASTERN SUMMARY. Boston and New England. . Because of the age, fame, and means of use fulness possessed, Harvard College is an object of •-more or less Ariteresti--to'' all 'portions 'Of the.. country.. , The „memory of ~the holy men by whom it was founded; is Still precious ; and manyin different parts -of thee land are looking anxiously for, some encouraging indications of a return' to the line faith it was intended to propa gate and .defenth It is :mow said, by - those who. profess to know,. that President Walker's resigns. Eon' of the Presidency will , certainly take place at the close of the present term. Prof. Felton . , of the Greek Department, . generally looked upon - as his most probable successor, though re gret is expressed . everywhere, that any occasion should arise for removing him from his present post. Dr. Putnam, of Roxbury, a Unitarian clergyman of considerable' distinction, has his supporters for this Office about to be vacated. Dr. Bellows may be considered as being com pletely distanced ; his prospects, at present, have not a show of success: ln faot, hardly any one Of the authorities even thinks of him for the, , . place. The University is strongly Unitarian, but the overseers appointed by the Legislature, have such decided leanings toward Orthodoxy, that no' Broad Ohnrchman, of the Dr. Bellows stamp, has, much chance for any warm , support. And though there are many Unitarians that would be glad to, see Dr. Huntingdon ousted from his place as .preacher to the University, on ac count of his recent avowalti of Trinitarian and Evangelical sentiments; yet such an attempt would just nownotmeet with much favor, even among those who disclaim all sympathy with his views. Because, if any thing should be done to bring about his resignation,: there is an appre hension that this overseers might insist on the appointment of & still more rigidly Orthodox and uncoMproiniaing man.. .. • The Boston Trumpet, the New England organ of Universelimn, expected to find Dr. Edward Beecher's new work, entitled; 'The Concord of Ages," a reconciliation of the ways of God to man after its own fashion, but confesses that it cannot underatand the book, though it supposes Mr. Beecher himself had "some , faint idea of what it means." ' The First Presbyterian Church of Boston, took posseesion of their house of worship last Sabbath week. This is the edifice formerly,Occopied by . the Unitarian congregation, of which the -Rev. .11r. Coolidge was pastor, previous to his leaving the Unitarian ranks, and his adoption of the Evangelical system. The building la one of the moat elegant in New England, and was erected some ten years ago, at an expense, including the ground, of $BO,OOO. But since' the secession of Mr Cdolidge, the congregation has been scat tered, and now the house has been sold to the Presbyterians, for $35,000. Messrs. R. L. &A. Stewart, the well known sugar refiners and'candy manufacturers of. New York, contributed the generous sum of $lO,OOO, to aid in making this purchase. Dr. Spring was not present, as was expected, but the pastor. Rev. Mr. Magill, preached morning, and evening; while the Rev. . Dr. Blagderi, of the' noble Old South church, preached in the afternoon. The house was crowded at each of the services. One of the most Frightfud Calamities that has deemed for some time, was the fall of the Pem berton- Mills, at Lawrence, Mass., on Tuesday, the 10th inst., about 6 o'clock P. M., while be.. linen six hundred and seven hundred of the operatiieit were in the buildings: Some two hundred or three hundred were burled tinder the ruins for a time. But Many of these were extri cated ; and many others, who bad not been killed by the falling mass, would have been taken out alive, had , not terrible fire the out, owing, as alleged by some, to the upsetting of a cam phone lamp, which put a stop to any farther sue- Bess in this way. The number killed by the fall, and consumed by the fire, is estimated by those disposed to give the most favorable account, ,at from one hundred to one hundred and 'thirty. The scenes of that night were terrible, and lam entation abounded throughout the entire city. These mills , were erected some , seven years ago, but were never considered substantial. No less than twenty tons of iron were used in bracing and bolting the walls, before the machinery was put in. The entire cost of the buildings and machinery was about $1,000,000. Large con tributions have been made in money and clothing, for the sufferers and their families. Lawrence is one of the capitals' of Essex County, twenty-six miles North of Boston, and lie's on both sides of the Merrimac River. -; It was incorporated as a town in 1845 ; eight years afterwards, when the population had reached twelve thousand, (the number required by the laws of Massachusetts. for a city organization,) city charter was granted and accepted. The city was named in honor of the Lawrence family, of Boston. The populition is at present fifteen thousand. The immense water power for which this place has become famous, is obtained from a dam thrown across the Merrimac, by the Essex Company, in. 1845, at an expenee of $250,000, by which a fall of, twenty-eight feet in the entire 'volume of the river is secured. A canal more than a mile in length, one hundred feet wide at the bead, sixty feet at the foot, and fourteen deep in the centre, oondnots the water to the, different mills. The Mayor of Lawrence, B. Sanders, Ir., has issued the following proclamation, in view of the, great calamity that has befallen that place , I recommend and earn e stly ' .beseech that on Tuesday next, all the residents of Lawrence ab stain from their avocatione and labor; that they set apart that . day as one of prayer; that they get in their respective places of worship to join in those religious ceremonies which the oc casion demands, and there publicly ask,God that he would temper• our affliction with meroy; <that he would restore to health those now languishing in pain and suffering; that 'he would,- iirovide with a father's care for the orphan and widow ; that he would comfort and support fiiose bereft of husbands and wives, parents and children ; that he would , so order this signal destruction as that good may come out .of great evil, and that our experience may teach wisdom Ahroughout the land. The Congregational Quarterly gives the follow ing summary of Congregationalism in the United States, Canada!, and they Provinces—•Churehes, 2,676; Church members, —75,158 Males; 144,- 690 Females; not specified, 37,786; total, 257,- 684, including 27,705 absentees. Additions for the year, 25,580 by profession, 9,623' by letter.; total, 85,218. Removals for the year, 8,589 by death, 8,206 by dismissal, 717 by excommunica tion ; not specified 82 ; total, 12,598. - Baptisms, 10,618 adult, 6,156 infants. In Sabbath School!, 206,441. New York. The effects of the Panic and Disown of 1867, are still visible. The 4g heavy suspended indebt edness of the West" is still a great detriment in business circles. Merchants are still pushing old claims, and assignments follow as a necessary consequence, the assets being principally in real estate. The result is, that immense quantities of Western lands are coming into the hands of New York merchants. But still, Temente to some extent, are made, and the prospects on the future are brightening. The Rates of Interest are still high, while the stook market is very dull. The importations con= time, and large order: arrive constantly from a die tames. The - Export of Spode from this port alone, dur ing last year, amounted to $70,000,000; while it is probable that $10,000,000 more were•exported from other places. - Heretofore the -year of Presidential Electioneer ing hasinot been the most favorable to business, and it is not probable that this year will be an ex ception. The New York Observer goes in for the party that will nominate for the presidency the Hon. Edward Everett, General Scott, or Born' other man not involved in the 'contestithat now agitate the two great parties of this country. The mite paper informs no that requests for prayer may be sent by mail,- directed to " Fulton Street Prayer, . Meeting,New York"! • The project of a Religious Daily Newspaper 111•61 has been discussed in different' circles; for some two years:past; aid in two instances, the matter seemed on the veey point of consummation, but both failed. Now, however, the enterprise is likely to be undertaken by those who will .carry it out:"Ib is reperiaihatldi:=3lllMing, one of the Editors of The Courier and Encrairer,and Mr. Cummings, of the Evening Bulletin, of Phila delphia, are to be the principal Editors, and that in this arrangement, both the High chttrOh'Epir: copalians and Roman Catholics are left out. Mr. Spaulding has. a .widely extended reputation for editorial experience, general intelligence, high culture, and Christian principle, while be is one of the ablest newspaper writers in this or any other land: Mr. Cummings has been foryears the con ductor of a leading paper in Philadelphia, is a forcible writer, and a warm-hearted and satire Christian. By a religious daily newspaper is not to be understood, a paper confined merely to re ligions, and the discussion of religious topics, as they are considered, but a religions daily paper— characterized by great talent and efficient man agenient, which will view events from a religious standpoint and conduct its diecnasions upon reli gions principles. Such a journal as this is great ly needed, net only in New York, but in all our large cities, and if properly conducted, success is certain. The city of Pittsburgh, among other places, offers a fine field to such an undertaking, both for usefulness and profit. Moreover, it is said, that the Churchman is to be changed from a weekly to a daily, so that the High Church Episcopalians, which it represente, may have a fitting organ. The Churchman is owned by Mr. Hecker, a man of princely wealth, proprietor of extensive flour mills, and the main supporter of the Madison Street Chapel, where so many ridiculous imitations of Popery are so often,"perpetrated. The present Editor is Mr. , Seaver, formerly the Bufalo Courier.. But the circulation - 1a limited to a very few hundreds, and it is not at all probable that Mr. Hecker will risk the loss that will almost certainly follow the es tablishment of a daily conducted upon the princi ples, and breathing the spirit that has charac terized. the Churchman from its inception to the present. Kil History of the Ancient Church," and Prof. Smith's History of the Chitrch of Christ," - published by Mr. Scribner, continue to receive the increased commendation of all com petanp Sudges, the farther they are known and the more carefully they are studied. Sheldon d' Co., have been doing a good work foi the Sabbath School cause. In less than a year they have published one hundred Sabbath School books, varying In size from seventy two to two hundred and seventy six pages, while - every precaution has been taken to please and instruct the young, and prepare them for happiness in this world, and eternal glory in the world to come. Mews. D. Appleton f f Co., will soon issue an American edition of the great work of the Rev. George Rawlinger', which has just appeared in England, on The Historical; Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture Records, with Special Reference to the Doubts and Discoveries of Modern. Times." This will -be uniform with their magnificent edition of , Rawlinson's Herodotus." The substance of the- work was delivered in the form of Bampton Lectures. The author was aided in his work by his relative Rawlinson, the celebrated Orientalist, and Wit kluge'', the best of our Egyptologists. Here will be given to us the fullest light yet obtained on the bearing of Assyrian 'discoveries on Biblical history. T 1143813 discoveries are so important as to suggest - the propriety- and necessity for, re writing most of our standard commentaries on the historical parts "of the Bible, not to meet new difficulties, but to enlarge and confirm the illus trations of the Scriptures.: The Rev, Dr. McClintock, pastor of St. Paul's , Methodiet episcopal church, of this city, a soholar of repute, and one of the ablest Divines of the Methodist Church, has been appointed to the American chapel in Paris, and will take •••• charge after'the meeting of the General COnfer ence at Buffalo, in May next' • The Meeting/ ktor Prayer for the conversion of . the world, last week, were largely attended in many of the churches. Philadelphia.. The Market for Domestic Goode has not yet opened, but the prospects-fora large and advan tageous Spring business are good. The'income of the Mercantile Library Aseocia» tion, init.. year, was $8,906. The sharehOlders number eighteen hundred ; subscribers, hne hun dred and ninety; making in all; one thousand nine hundred and ninety members. It is .proposed to decorate one of the rooms of the new, . Coryinental Hotel, on Chestnut Street, with ,pictures of men and scenes in the Conti nental Congress, by Philadelphia artists. Those enterprising publishers, News. Smith, .Englieh ft Co have just issued a translation of that gresi work, " Gerlaoh on the Pentateuch," that is a valuable accession to our Biblical litera ture. They have also nearly ready a translation of that incomparable work, " Delitzsoh on Genesis," by the Rev. C. P. Knuth, D.D., the accomplished translator of Tholnok on the Gospel of John published by . the same house and which has rbeeivid such universal commendation. Tra PansnerrznrAN SENTINEL qopies the remarks of the Presbyterian, and of the . Banner and Advocate, on the sibjeet of obituaries, and adopts the SIMIC rule. Per the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate. Presbytery of Blairoviile. • The Presbytery of Blairsville, at their sessions in Blairsville, January lid, dissolved the pastoral relation existing between the Rev. A. Virtue and the congregation of Crime Roads, and dismissed Mr. Virtue to the Presbytery of Coshocton. The following supplies were appointed Cross Roads—Mr. Davis. First. Sabbath of February. Mr. Carson, Third Sabbath of Feb ruary. Mr. Edgar ' First Sabbath of March. And they have leaveto procure their own supplies for the remainder of the time until the next stated meeting of Presbytery: Jezuts Davis, Stated Clerk. .for the Priebyterhut Banner and Advoiste. Choctaw Minion. A letter has recently been received from . Revs. Messrs. King sbury,Byington,Hotchin, Copeland, Starke, and Edwards; formerly missionaries of the A.nierican Board; apply ing to be appointed missionaries of this Board. With this application, the Commit tee have received from these brethren a number of documents relating to questions at issue between them and the American Board, which, however, the Coinmittee do not think important to,publish, inasmuch as the general merits of the question are al ready understood. The Committee, at their meeting this morning, agreed to receive these missionaries under their care,, with the, exception of Mr. .Edwarde, whose applica tion was conditioned on the improved health of his family ; and the Committee are ready, so far as the circumstances of the ease will allow, to place this Mission on the same gen eral footing with their other missions in the Indian country. From the letter received from the missionaries ' it is understood that it mill require from $7,000 to $B,OOO per annum, independently of wkat has been, ap propriated by the Choctaw Council for:their Boarding Schools, to sustain this minion as now constituted. These facts are laid be fore the Christian public, that those who feel so disposed, may have opportunity to make special contributions for the support of this particular mission. The pressure felt by the treasury department at the present moment" for funds for ordiilary missionary purpOses, makes' it necessary to publiell these statements; and the Committee hope that no further appeal will - be dedined necessary. On behalf of the Executive Comuiittee of the Presbyterian :Board'of Foreign Mis sions. if: LEIGHTON WILSON, &se. ' Mission House ) 23 Centre , 1 - New York, Jan. 9th, 1860. Ecobsiastical, Rev 1. N. MIKPINEY b Eta been rereasea from bin pietoral charge at Montours, Pa; He occupies the chair of Latin at Jeffer- The eongregatiow.,havet leave to Enppfy themeehres till April. ReV. laninEw Yntlit'fr- Poet Office ad. dreee is changed from.Monroeville Alle gheny ,County, to , :Apple break,. . ) " '- iirslyne ' emin ' t3i, 0. - Prof: GEORGE Lime has accepted the Professorship of Natural Science in Oak land College, Miss., to which he wu eently elected, and has already entered upon - ilia - duties: Rev. D. A. Pnereu, jr.'s, Poet Ofßee ad'- dress is changed from Oak Lawn, N. Cy to Concord; N. C•; PERSONAL AND.III.IIOELLAREOUS., AMONG the distinguished persons who have died during the year 1869, are Henry Hallam, the historian, in England; Win. H. Prescott, the dis tinguished American historian; Prof. W. C.• Bend, of Cambridge ; A. V.. Brown, Poet Master General; De 'Tocqueville, author of the great work " Democracy in America ;" Baron Tom Humboldt ; Jeseplt Sturge, an eminent English popular reformer ; Prince Meteruich, the great Austrian diplomatist; 'Rufus Choate, 'One of the most talented men America ever produced . ; ; Jas. Henry Leigh Hunt.. a very popular English au thor ; Hon. John Y. Mason, United States Minis ter to France; Washington Irving, the father Of American literature ; Thos. De Quincey, an emi nent English author; Theodore Sedgwick, United . States District Attorney for New York ; Rev..7`. W. Alexander, D.D. Two of Mr. De Quincy's Daughters, bin young est and eldest, were with him at the time of his death. The second, the wife of CoL Baird Smith; is in India with' her husband; one of his eons is also in India, a captain in the army ; the other, a. physician, is in Brazil. The eldest daughter is the wife of Mr. Robert Craig, formerly of Edin- . burgh, now a farmer in Ireland, whence she was called to her father's deathbed. The youngest. is unmarried. WELL PAID Pours —The English papers report that Alfred Tennyson has been paid ten pounds a' line for a poem, which is announced for the Jan nary number of lfaerni/tates Magazine. It is en.. titled "Sea Dreams: an Idyll." The largest sum received for a poemby an Amer ican writer, of which we have any record, was to Robert Treat Paine, for his famous song, " Adams and Liberty." That spirited composi tion brought its author eleven dollars a which was about a dollar and a half a ward.— Bost. Trans., Jan. 8. PRIZE ESBAT ow TUN HINDOO BBL/Ir.—A Mad-: ras civilian has offered a prize of two hundred rupees for the best essay, in English or Canarese,. .‘ On the Religious Belief of the Hindoos," show ing the Vedic form, the changes it has undergone,. and the state of mind of the natives, especially ' in South India, on the subject. A rther prize, of one hundred rupees is to be given if the essay ist shows the failure of Hindooism, and the suffi ciency of Christianity to satisfy the spiritual wants of man. The Bangalore missionaries are the adjudicators.- The essays are to be- sent to , Mr. Rice there, beforejuly 1, 1880. Tau proposed subjection of free unreels to: slavery in the Southern States, is arousing in creased and gratifying opposition. Judge - Crum, of St. Louis, a prominent lawyer and a leading- Administration Demoorat, following the, lead of Judge'Citrins, of Tennessee, has published an able and earnest remonstrance against the bill to enslave the free colored people of Missouri, now before the Legislature of that State. The Mis-, salmi bill isMore barbarous and stuineary in Re; provisions; than that proposed for the seine pui4 pose in any,other State. - The law as . it passed the Senate', prohibits any slaveholder from rewarding his faithful slave for long years of 'devoted service, by giving him his freedom, unless he enters into bonds' of two thou sand dollars to remove the emancipated slave from the State forever. It provides that every free negre or mulatto over the age of, eighteen. years, now living in the State, shall leaverit be fore the first Monday in September, 1860, ON pitin of being sold at public auction into slavery for life. All free negroes and Mulattoes:ander eigh teen years of age, shall be bound:as apprentices,. till they are twenty one years of age, twelve Months after this expiration s of which, they Shall lone the State, or be sold into slavery. .Any free .negro or mulatto who shall come into the State, after the , first. Monday in 'September, 1861, and remain twenty-four hours, shall be , .-sold into slavery. - Sournsnar Arnsolm—Benolutions were adopted', in the House of Representatives of 'Georgia on. the 26th nit., requesting the Governer to, confer with the Exeoutives of the several - Sotithirti-' States on the plan of establishing a Solitheim more, and in the event of their not agreemg, Hutt. he shall appoint some suitable person or persons to make inquiries and estimates for such,an eit 7 tabliiihment in Cieorgia—all the information to be laid before the next General Assembly,: maintain our equal and undeniable rights in'the• Union, if we can, and out of it if: we must," Oorensr. 1 7 .natatoNT has come into.possession of all the mineral lands withheld from him. 'Tun entire census of . Great Britain was taken in 1851, in a single , day, and the reports wereTtol 7 lected, compared, and published by the aciiiin rnent within three months. This waseeeetnPlish ed by the division of the whole. oonntry into dis tricts BO smallahat a man eould-oolleotAhe static tics in less _than a day, The, number of , theseb districts was over thirty:sine thousand, and the; blenis previously prepared by the Goverrunent weighed fifty-two-tone. Tun- eclipse of the min on the nth of Ytily next, wilt be an important event in the eatentific• world. At the moment of obscuration,-the plan ets Venus,..'lifercury, Jupiter, and „Saturn, will appear in the Vicinity of the. eclipsed ,sun. as kind of rhomboidal figure, a Phenomenon which, will not appear again for many centuries. 'Dark ness will.commence in California and terminate on the shores , of the Red Sea. The obscuration wink not be total in this region, but it will be complete. in the Sonthern part of . ..the Union, in a consider able portion of Spain, and in Northern Africa. ' A . LADY having asked a poOr woman in the Westport, Edinburgh, if she ever went to the - church in that neighborhood.:•:.-Dr. Chalmerthe woman replied, 44 0 h, 'ay, there's a mow ca'i Chalmers preaches there, and whiles ,I. gang in and hear him, just to encourage , him, pair body." Fun Te a TRADE OF Sr.- Loma.—The fur trade of:SCLOnis last year exceeded.over half a million of dollars. More then three 'fifths of the sum in the product of buffalo robes, which are sold at'au average of about $4 each, - at first cost; 120,000 , noon skins, 68 cents each ; 37,000 mink,skins, $1.60 each ; 120 000 pounds dear skins, 22 cents per pound;'10,800 wolf skins, 90 cents each; 34,500 oppose= skins, 18 cents each ; 1100 otter skins, $2.86 etteh ; 4,000 fox skins, 30 cents each . ; 5,500 muskrat skins, 28. cente , each ;' 2 4 00 0 ' l O l 4 cat skins, 25 cents each—the whole making a to tal of $529,422 50. The St. Louis Democrat says, in regard to the Buffalo robes, that it is an interesting fact, and new to many; that all these buffalo robes are dressed by Indian , squaws, scattered over the great West. The.number of robes is, ,decreasiog annually, net so much by the lessening of the im mense buffalo herds, as by the extinction of the radian race, or the occupancy .or their grounds by the whites. Some years as high'-as 120,000 robes are , brought to St. Louie—usually about 110.000--but_ this year only. 85,000, besides the buffalo calf skins, which are also quite numer ous. - limmerous:Biotrnmxer SweDEN --r1 resolution his been submitted to the Swedish Diet by a cler gyman named Jansen. enacting that the entire Swedish clergy shall henceforth have complete control over all.printed papers or pamphlets cir culated by hawkers, and - that, moreover, severe: punishment shall be inflicted on all laymen who shall discuss religions subjects without Init. hay ing been examined and authorized by st , Pretest. ant clergyman. The proposition was unanimously, adopted, and some members proposed: even _ , more stringent measures. Taa COAL TRADE IN Cuttanitart..,Theie are at present thirty seven coal yards in Cincinnati, containing about 8,000,000 MASI'S' of coal, an amount believed to be sufficiently large to supply the wants of that city the remainder of the Win ter. It is-estimated that 20 000,000 bushels are annually consumed in the ati, - and by steamers at the 'wharf. • GITTING VP AN Armimica.—The modern cus tom of high sounding announcement of distin gnished 'moisten,- is , bell taken off by a letter puporting to have been ; discovered by a, Syrian scholar, and bearing date, A. D , 59. It is trans lated as follows " The news of the arrival of Paul, as you may suppose, spread'rapidly among the brethren. In deed, .&:tablet was hastily prepared, arid privately circulated, for fear of our enemies:containing the following brief announcement : Patti, the great preacher, has landed at Milan:is. He will preach by the sea' side on the first day of the week. His sabjeot is not announced ; but from his well known, talents, a rare intellectual repast may be expected„ Let the brethren rally, that he may have an audience worthy of hiLdistingnished rep utation " Tentutylvania Legislature of 178 t pained a resollition forbidding members to come into the Hall barefobted, eat bread and obeese'on their way, going thither; = Oar Legislators haVe ad 'sawed in the 'bent : line, but the prevalence of nuts, tobacco And sometimes (if rumor be,true) intoxicating;, liquors, wed , nigh counterbalance thOir `apparent superiority over the Sorous of the Ina century.
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