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