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STEPHEE LITTLE,
PITTSBURGH; .TANUARY 21,1860.
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melte fan arrangements for a steady empply.
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this signal ehmeld be omitted, we
kepis our friends will still not forget um.
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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.
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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.