191 lltrestrgitriatt PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, MIL 19,•1862, TEN CENT STAMPS. Our 'friends will please 'not Send us these, nor any of the large stamps. We cannot use them, and our Postmaster will not exchange for them. Semi only Tantx cent and ONE cent stamps. The Thanksgiving.—We see by our secu lar exchanges, that the President's Procla mation, inviting ehristianti to thanksgiving, has been repßonded,to with much earnest ness. Dispatehes from Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other places, note its observance on last Sabbath. gothg to the Assembly.—Arrangements are in progress for the passage of Commis 'donors to and from the General Assembly at hall-falre. We have already promises of the Pittsburgh, Fort . Wayne and Chicago, the Cleveland and Pittsburgh, the Steubenville and Indiana, and the Central Ohio roads. We hope 'to be able to state matters more definitely and fully next week. Donation.—The Rev. C. C. BEAT- Ink, D. D., Principal of the Female Semi nary at Steubenville, Ohio, and well known' •Sitheliberal patron of _Allegheny Theolo gical Seminary, has donated to the Library of this Institution about jive Aundred,valu able volumes, which will be of great use to the large clasSes of Theological students who ire annually resorting to this School of the Prophets. Concert of ..Prayer.—The call, in another column, fora' Continued Concert of Prayer, is commended to the attention of Chris thus. There are precious promises con nected with our agreement in asking, and our perseverance in seeking. The card can be cut out, and pasted within the cover of the e ,family Bible, or in some other conv nient place for reference. It is sent to us by Rev. J. H. MORRISON, returnet miss'. ary from India. Commissioners to the. General Assembly are ‘requested to forward their names to the Rey. 3. D. SMITE, Columbus, Ohio. On doing so, they will be informed, by mail, of the name, and residence of the family who will entertain, them during the sessions of the Assembly. Members who have relations or friends in the city, with whom .they expect to lodge, will; please inform the Committee of Arrangements of this fact, by letter. it Arrangements with Railroad , parties for half--fare tickets, will be pirh shed as soon as made. The Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Theological Seminary at Princeton, will be observed(D.V.,)on, lit.dnesday, April 30th. The order of exercises will be as follows : A meeting of the Alumni will be held at 11 o'clock A. M., in the Oratory. Dinner will be provided at 1/ o'clock P. M. A discourse will be delivered in the First Presbyterian church, by Rev. Dr. SPRAGUE, of Albany; at 3 o'clock P. M. Trains arrive at Princeton Station, from New-York, at 9 A.. M., and 12 M.; from Philadelphia, at 8 and 11.15 A. M. and 12 M., and leave both ways, at 6 and 8 o'clock P. M. Those who may prefer to remain over night are requested to apply immediately on arrival, to the Committee of Arrange ments, (Prof. MOFFAT and C. W. HODGE,) when accommodations will be provided. A FIFTY-THREE MN PASTORAL LIBOR. It was our privilege, on Sabbath the.6th inst., to be present' on a Communion occa sion, in Bellefonte, Pa. The congregation of Bellefonte dates from about the com mencement of the present century. Rev. HENRY fit.uWILSON, P. D., was pastor for a few years. We are not certain that he was the first pastor. He removed thence to Car lisle, Pa., in 1808. The following Summer Mr. JAMES LrNN, then a young licentiate, now Rev. JAMES'INN, P. D., visited the place. In November, (1809,) Mr. LINN hav ing accepted calls ,to the congregations of Bellefonte and Lick Run, WAS ordained by the Presbytery of Huntingdon, and in stalled in charge of tbe two congregation& This extended charge he retained for near ly thirty. years. The congregations having flouriehed, and , each having become able to sustain' a minister, it was thought best that they should be made two charge& Dr. LINN then okevoted all his attention to Bellefonte,-where be still continues in the honored mid' endearing relation, which was constituted near/y.44-am years ago. About a'year since, Rev. J. R BARNARD was installed associate pastor with Dr. LINN : One gentleman, a member of the church in 1809, still survives, but is very feeble: 'One lady, who professed religion, WAS baptized, and united in the first Com munion under the young pastor, still is a joyous helper in the Saviour's cause. The feelings. With which a minister will contem plate a Charge, all of whose communicants except one ortwo, have been added during his period of service, nearly all of whom have been converted by the Lord's bles sing upon his labors, most of whose mem bers has baptized, and many of whom, and evet 'of their parenik, he has united in marriagl3,„mteit be truly parental. The ties which ttAittkijr. LINN to the people of Bellefonte,,are stir. be severed only by that power whieh'4ievers from all things here below. Of some =Asters it is said that thy outlive their usefulness. It is, not so wilt our levered father. And it is seldom, if ever, se -with one who abides by his first charge; :or who 'eoutinttes harmoniously, lovingli'ana in faithftd labors with an early tam. It is the changing ones who, in mliranbtid k life, find themselves' in a con nexion, whioh,the people , wish to eater, and in a fielamhich: their labors eannot : ,retdo to yield an increase. octing ME +~ ~ r •~' ~.'~t Then we are not told how the " distinc tion " promised is to be "exemplified; whether by placing the spiritual and'the secular in parallel columns, that the dif ference may be observed by contrast;, or, by treating them in different articles; or by discussing abstractly, the duty of "sep arating" these things; or by its .speaking wholly of the one, and utterly ignoring the other. We suppose this last to, be the meaning of the utterance. Sundry re marks in the journal, indicate this, and the word " practice," in connexion with exem plification, indicates that this may have •been the - writer's mind. But to which of these, the secular or the spiritual, is the•journal pledged? We .. suppose the latter, for it speaks of, itself as being " devots oily to religion." • And. now, w . is the religion of the True. Presbyterian.; or rather, what are we to understand by the " spiritual ?" We ought to be at no loss here, for we have the paper before us, professing itself to be "the exemplification in practice," of this its "distinctive feature." In looking, then, over its ample pages, we find some excel- lent religious articles; but we also find much that we, in our common sense judg ment, cannot say is wholly religious. For instance, we see business' notices, and ad vertisements—" marble works," " Black wood's Magazine," "British Reviews." Are, these religious—and especially are they spiritual 7 We find articles headed, "To our Friends ;" "A word` to Subscrib ers ;" "The Times, and their ! Difficulties for Pastors';" "Politics and the Clergy ;" "Position of the Church in Kentucky;" which exhibit theosecular as prominently ai do articles similarly headed; in other re ligious journals. Even the New-York Independent hardly goes beyond it in. secularity. We believe it utterly 'im possible to separate the spiritual and secular while man is in the body. God has not made " Spiritual matter," but he has joined spirit and matter in man, and the wants of both claim man's attention— claim it religiously during his entire secu lar duration. But does the new paper, by the word " spiritual," mean the meekness, kindness, forbearance, forgiveness, heavenly-minded ness of the Gospel ? Let us then try it on this score. The Presbyterian Standard and Expositor, of Philadelphia, in notic ing the Prospectus of our friend, took some liberties in the way of conjecture. The response from 'Louisville reads, in part, as follows: " Now we are disposed to make all allow ance for the' Standard, upon whose eccle siastical brain there seems never yet to have impinged an. idea of more density and definiteness of outline than a roll of Mississippi fog. If such an idea as that of the True Presbyterian—the idea of a journal devoted exclusively to, religion, as distinct from any questions of North or Smith, abolition •or, slavery—should. acci dentally get access to the thinking appara tus of the Standard,lt would not be easy to forecast the consequences. " When the Standard first came out,' a year or more since, a kind 'lady friend ordered us a copy. In spite of the ''ner-' vous shrinking of our natural 'mart from its formidable double sheet of platitudes, without sign of oasis or single shrubfof liv ing idea to relieve the vast waste, we un dertook to read several numbers." Is this " the exemplification in practice" of what we are to understand by" the spir itual"? Is this a specimen efthe temper and spirit of the new journal ? Again The Presbyter noticed the Pros pectus} but did so rather in a strain of pleasantry than of courtesy. The answer is long, and sharp. One :paragraph reads thus : . "We fear that Dr. MOIsTEORN—iII the prominent position to which.caccident has raised him—is destined to the fate of many a harmless and amiable man who, elevated above the sphere in which .nature placed' him, and in which he might have been es teemed, is elevated only to be laughed at. We can remember when he was known in the Church solely as the gentle creature, on which the brilliant and gifted, Balaam of the New Albany Seminary rode when, in the interest of the abolition Moab, he sought to curse the Southern Israel. If ever known to break his natural silence, it was only when goaded by his passionate rider, to remonstrate' mildly, gAm I not thine ass." Are the things here named and alluded to, , things spiritual, in the estimation: of the True Presbyterian? Are Dr. MON 'FORT) Dr. MAGMAsTzu,"the abolitionists, the Southern slaveholderS, 13A.LAANI and BALAAm's animal, things spiritual ? And is the spirit here exemplified to he trans fused into the readers of that :journal ? Alas, we fear that the new comer does not Imo* whaespiiit he it; of. That a journal treating only ,of matters, :strictly, religious—say of Christian doc trine; duty, and' experience, and -, narrating ,Doily eitblesiastical' might` THE TRUE PRESBYTERIAN. The first number of a journal claiming the above appellation, is before us. We noted, two weeks ago, the Prospectus, and gave the names of the editors, Rev. STUART ROBINSON and Rev. ROBERT MORRIBON. When a stranger comes to be a resident, and to take a part in affairs of interest in any community, there is a gen eral desire among the people to know some thing of him, and a perhaps equally strong desire on his part, to become known. Toward the gratifying of this mutual wish, We propose to present some of the peculi arities, or rather the one, claimed peculiar ity of the new journal. It is thus stated; " The, distinctive, feature of the paper shall be the exemplification in practice, and the advocacy of the theory of the sep aration of spiritual from secular matters." We regret the indistinctness in the state ment of this " distinctive " feature. PAUL speaks of a spiritual body, but that is to exist after the resurrection. Secular mat ter we see continually, but of spiritual "matter " we have no knowledge either as existing in this world, or to be expected in the world to come. Perhaps it means things—spiritual things, or•subjects. g 1 A'BANNER.---SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1862. useful and acceptable, we can conceive; but it will require talent, learning, and piety far beyond the ordinary' lot of mor tals, to sustain it as a weekly. Our brethren ROBINSON & MonnasoN, have made an elevated profession. We trust it will yet be manifest that they aim as high as they profess. And we will re joice with them when they shall exhibit the noblest attainments. We have received the second number of the True Prestrjterian, and sorry are, we to find no improvement in its. .spirit. It has also a very, very great admixture of the` secular, and even something of an Ish. maeligish, tinge. It may yet- improve. NATIONAL,RECOGNITION. OF TILE BEING- AND PROVIDENCE OF GOD. The Constitution of the United States is sadly defective. We are a Christian peo ple: The Christian> Religion is recognized by our Courts of Justice as part of the law of the land. But still, our Constitution makes not the slightest allusion to Jesus Christ, the author of our religion. His name is not in it, neither directly nor by im plication. Nor is the name of God in.that important instrument: His`name, law, and worship are implied, in an honor _done to the day of sacred rest, and in the pro vision made for the oath. Otherwise the Constitution, as to the letter of it, is God less. 'This sad deficiency of a;religious ~ • ele ment, was owing to evils replanting from the manner in which Church and State were united in lands whence our fathers had re cently escaped,. ;to:, the , prevalence of the French philosophy; during and. for some time after the close of the Revolutionary struggle, and to the influence of a few infi dels who had attained to leading political positions: This almost total ignoring of God, in. our fundamental law, is trsin. It is also, 'doubt less, one cause of' the corruption which has been prevailing and growing in high places;. and of the extensive praetical4nfidelity conducting public affairs.' And thus 'it is a cause of the Divine dis Pleasure, and of 'the chastisement which has been ,inflicted upon the nation. .God be feared and had in reverence. This cause of the war we are pleased to see departing. There is no' Movement toward remedying the radical defect but under the smartings of the chas tening rod, we are returning to our Heav enly Father. Since the breaking out of the, war there have been several recognitions of God, of a very, important character, by those high in authority. And now,, in another place, we print the order of the Secretary of War to the Army • Chaplains. And 'here - we give the President's acknowledgment that our recent victories are the vonchsafereents of Almighty. God, and, that thanks are due to our Heavenly Father, and should be ren dered to him by all the people, in their as sernblages for public worship: PROCLAMATION BY, THE , PRESIDENT. WASHINGTON, April 10.—By the Pres ident of the United States of America—A Proclamation:—lt has' so pleased the Al mighty God to - vouchsafe signal victories to the land and naval forces engaged in sup pressing an internal rebellion; and, at the same time, to avert from - our country the dangers of foreign intervention and inva sion. It is therefore recominended to' the people of the United States; that at their next weekly assemblages in their accustomed places of public worship, which shall occur' after notice' of this proclaination shall have' been read, they especially acknoWledge and' render thanks to our Heavenly Father for these inestimable blessiLgs; that they then and there implore spiritual coneolations in' behalf of all who have been brought into aflliction by the casualties.and calaraitiee of sedition and civil war, and that they rever-, ently invoke the Divine Guidance for spir-, itual councils to the end that they may speedily result in the restoration of peace, harmony and unity throughout' our borders, and hasten the establishmenk Of 'fraternal relations among all the countries of the earth. In witness whereof I have hereunto, set my hand and caused the seal of the Uni ted States to be affixed: Done at the city of Washington this 10th day of April, in the year of 'our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Inde pendence of the United States the eighty sixth. By order of Oe President, ABAARAar LINCOLN - . ' Wm. H. SENVATtIi, Seely of State. The reading of this proclamation will 'cause rejoicing 'in myriads upon myriads of Christian hearts. When we thus , speak; , we would not be boastful of our religion, nor pride ourselves on the discharge of our Christian duty. We would . rather be hum, bled by the thought that National Chris tianity is so rare as to justify a special notice of the event befere -us. Revealed religion should guide us, nationally and : in dividually, in every thing'we do. THE PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL ALMANAC. The fourth .volume of this importiet and reliable. ~' A.nnual Remembrancer," the Church, has just come to hand. We have frequently spoken of the ^ high' estimate placed upon' the previous volumes, but we are free to say that the present one excels, them all in every, particular. And, we regret that our limits will not allow us to give a faller:and more complete notice of the work this week: , - The editor and publisher, Mr. , JoSEPII M. WiLsoN, of Philadelphia, is admirably qualified for such a laborious :and pains taking service-as is here rendered to the Church. The three veAsicaes previously received the unqualified approbation of the different branches, of the Presby terian Church in this.:country and in. Europe. And the leading`Methodist and Congregational journals have awarded them the highest praise. The present volume makes its appearance, under most favorable auspices, because of its predecessors. But it is &great improvement upon them, 'containing more matter, a better arrange ment, and an increased number of topics. It has fine steel engraved portraits:of•the Moderators of the highdst courts of the i digeientr`Preibiterian bodiesinithia,ncitui= try, the British Provinces, and Great Britain for the year 1862, together with those . of the late Rev. 'FRANCIS ' HERRON, D. D., the late Rev. NICUOLAS MURRAY, D. D., ex-Moderators of the General Assembly of our own Church, and the late Rev. AL - Ex- AgDER. MoLEon, D. D., ex-Moderator of the Synod of the Refoimed Presbyterian dhiirch of North America. Then we have brief, accurate and well written biographies of the ministers and, more distinguished Elders in all these dif ferent branches of the Church, who have (lied during the year; historical sketches of several of their leading churches, resolutions adopted by each body on the state of the country, returnsof Presbyteries on manses, together with some valuable suggestions on manses, along with complete lists of the names and Post Office address of all the ministers in Air great Presbyterian faMily in the Vnited States,-the British Provinces, and:Great Britain. Nor Must we, forget 'to mention that there have been introduced, 'histories of all the various plans of benevo lence, such as the Boards 'of Foreign Nis sioris, of Publication, of !Education!, ' and Church, Extension, with' the, income uf each. The utility of such a work'must be evident to all. No similar publication, in Europe or America, contains such a' "vast ,amount of ecclesiastical information,. of the very.kind needed "by every minister, elder, and in telligent Christian. We trust that , the la bors of Mr 'WILSON Will be fully appreCia , tect by the Chuxch, and that he will receive the Pecuniarycompensatiouso fully earned. The volume contains nearly four 'hundred pages, andia field for $1.50. , For' sale in Pittsburgh at the Presbyte nan :Rooms; Hand Street. OUR ARIII-AN OPINION OF FOREIGN OFFICERS.- A few, months ago, it was fashionable for Europeans to speak very contemptuously of our extemporized soldiers. Recently, their language is greatly changed. We . see the British Albiori quoted as saying: " Where the strength, lies, and to whom will be the victory it is _none of ours to. predict;. : but this may not be an unfitting. Opportuoity'for. putting ,on record the opin =ions of" several competent and inipartial, 'judges alto' the material of which Oeneral McCaxia l AN'S army is . composed. -Not a few British officers from regiments eta 'in Canada, Or employed there on special service, have recently been permit ted to examine with professional eye their bane and sinew, their equipment, their dis cipline, their inanceuvres. It comes within our personal knowledge that several of these our soldier countrymen, whose opin ions are of the greatest value, report their unbounded surprise and admiration at the effective and promising condition of, the thousands of troops whom .theY have seen. Of the fighting qualities they inay have something to say hereafter, for thanksto' the unexpected and exceeding court' of, General of these gentle.: men have been allowed to accompany 'the : headquarters of the , United States army in AS expected onward march. This oblige tien,, we need scarcely say, is far more ap preciated by military men than any reviews or entertainments got up for their benefit, while those who could not remain to avail themselves of this privilege, are neverthe less most grateful for the hospitality with which, they have been reeived." WIRTH-DAY 'BATTLES. Firmly as we believe in the " decrees of 'God,'' we have an equal faith in human responsibility, Divine judgments, and an executive - Providence. God ordained ,the Sabbath , as a day of sacred-Test and wor ship, and he promised to, his ,people Israel that if 'they would observe it according to his directions, he would " cause :them to ride upon_the high places of the earth!' The spirit of that promise holds good at all times and toward` any people: Its veri fication seems to be signally manifest toward the parties now waging a war fare for supremacy on the soil of the United States. The " Confederacy'" is: a rebellion most wicked; but still, while our armies violated God's Sabbath, he would not be with them. Their-hearts grew weak And they fled before their foes. Since they have observed' 'the Lord'a 'day, they 'are courageous and successful: So, signally marked in, this respect, is God's ,providence, that,it is noted,exten siVely bythe secular press. We'are pleased to j be able to quote as folloWS, from the New-Yo'rk ' SUNDAY BATTLES.—The late terrible. Struggle at,Pittsburgh adds another to,the long list of ,Sunday,battles. ,The facts , are, so, clear in this and numerous, other con- Aids, and the results have been so uniform and deiisive, that 'comment- is not only warranted but dethanded, alike'by phirbso-, phy, patriotism, and piety.. the general statement cannot be iminsayed, that the more important, movements of the National forces, in the"early 'Stages of the present War, were made on Sunday, and that they were undeniably failures. PkrrniisoN's column was' constantly notorious for its Mancenvering 'on Sundays—and fat ,little else. Big Bethel, Buil Ann, and Ball's Bluff, were the great blunders and defeats of attacking armies on Sunday. All these engageinents, excepting - Balfs` Bluff, Under the now" imprisoned Gea. Srowz, preceded Gen., M'CLELLAN's noble 'Sabbath` order. Thenceforward the rebels have made the, Sunday assanfts, with invariable loss of the battles' thus' waged. Mill Spring opened their career. of Sunday fighting, which closes with Pittsburgh. The battle of Winch'ester was begun on Siinday morning. The first 'of these battles cost the rebels kentlicky • the second, the valley of Vir -giniii; and the third, The Mississippi Val ley. The Merridnac too, after its destrac aye Saturday's raid, ran a Mita against the lifoatirr oirSunday, and has spent a. Month in repairing 'diniages. " Add' to the facts, that, most of' the Generals Commanding whose" names figure , i `as assailants in these battles,'were slain n tliem, or are in disgrace, on account'' of them,' and there is food for reflection in these bits ,of history. What has become of our Gen.. PIERCE, of Big' Bethel mem biy 7 What of Gen. STONE ?' Where=,are. ZOLtICCoRFER and SIDNEY JOHNSTON? ,',ln short, sinee We have ceased the business of Sunday fighting and the rebels tookit up, 'we have' hid 'only victories to record, and 8,4 'only defeats and' surrenderii." • Fort Donelson and Island No. 10 were our Sunday morning benison on week-day prowess. " Nor are these isolated historical facts. History is full of them. The British forces assailed us on Lake Champlain and at New- Orleans on Sunday, and were defeated. We assailed them at Quebec;'our army was re pulsed and its leader slain. We began the battle of Monmouth and had the worst of it. NAPOLEON began the battle of Water loo, and lost his army and his empire. The battle of Blenheim, which has been re peatedly cited by the Herald, with its usual accuracy, as a successful Sunday bat tle, was not; fought on Sunday, but began on'Wednesday. " We content ourselves with the simple collation of these suggestive' facts. Let' them go to swell that mighty volume of testimony to the supremacy and stability of a law as old as creation; which claims quite other use of one-seventh part of time than the work of willing human butchery!' We are not to, regard the Sabbath under the impression of a, bargain. with God, the, compensatiem for which. is to be uniform victory. There are many obstacles to' suc cess, beside that of profaning the Lord's day. God may righteously chastise for other sins; but Jet us avoid the additional provocation of .violating the fourth corn mandment. And if we would be uniformly blessed, let us 'keep all God's precepts, serving him in fear and love. TRB CANADA OBSERVER. This is a newPresbYterian weekly, pub= lisheif at Toronto, by WM. OLIVER, B. A., editor and .proprietor.., It k is a small double sheet, well executed, at two dollars a year. In - speaking of the pUrpose and plan of the paper, the editor says : "It must be remembered that in a large number of the homes, where we trust it yet destined to :visit, it will be the only newspaper taken. Hence the necessity of makiq it '4 medium of general intelligence; of giving'in its columns all that is reallyof importance in what is transpiring on the world around us ; in short, of 'making, it a 'complete, family newspaper.. - - "It is 'not' our intention to makeour sheet What may be called a'purely religious newspaper. We do not presume tb•occupy the place of the pulpit, the. Sabbath School, or the religious magazine; butrrather to aid, and cooperate with all In the great ob jests aimed. at. • - • - " Our .aim will be not so much to give a fixed amount of what might be styled gions matter, as to leaven -every subject on which we may tquch, with that -highest of all inflnences i and 'to,treat all - matters from the• lofty stand-point 'of. eternal. truth." This is after the'.liattern religious joUrnalisin in Great Britain, and the char. : acter to which the religions weeltly , press. in the United Stites is tending. The , editor's field is different from that of the pastror, and of the Tract Society, and of a Book Publishing Board. He should take up all important public,cvents, record them, and send them families through a religious channel, andAn connexion with Gospel truth; a Gospel Spirit, and' events directly ecclealastical. Christians are in` the world, and are affected 'by all public of 7 fairs. Their, children grow up in the.world, and are to live and act, to suffer and rejoice in the world, And to be: judged at last and have their'eternal award, accordino• to the , 6 things done in the world. They should hence ;be early, truthfully, and extensively 'Wormed in= worldly affairs, and• 'have their knowledge through the'purest' ehannels, and in company; with the higher truths' and the heaven-born spirit Sinful as earth is, still, God has. not. divorced earth and heaven. The secular and the 'spiritual are conjoined. Attempt not fo - separate them till you are ready, to meet the "dis solution of the earthly house of this taber uacle, but strive to have them so. related that the `spiritual shall rile, " whether ye eat, or diink, Or 'Whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God." EASTERN SIININARY. B' A''',2J 0 N AND IVEWERGIAND A .N „ .A.mmom TELESCOPE, probably the largest in existence, has been lately' fin ished by Mr. Alvin Clark,. of Cambridge, Mass. The acromatic object-glass is eighteen and a half inches. in dianieter.. Those of %Harvard. University and the, Pulkava: Ob-1 Servittory; St. Petersburg, hitherto consid.o Bred as . the finest inexistence, li . .4ve'ObjeCt., glasses fifteen- itiChes in diameter. Trhat . of the 'Greenwich Observatory is tvieive inches' hi diameter,and -one has been made in ; Munich of Seventeen inches. On i . ,being placed in a temporary tube latelY, and turned , upon" the. Star Mr..,Clarles great; ; telescope .'revealed an extremely ; ini nute' Companion star distant, about ;10', fol louing, which was probably never . before seen;--by - mortal eye. The telescope was made' for a Mississippi' College, at a cost:of 811,0..00;, but the war has, ,annulled the -contract, and it . , is now for Sale.. Rifoits are making in Boston !emirs it - fer 'that eity,.but it will probably be sold to some foreign purchaser. DURING the' last week there has heelkan unusual stir, in , the: Boston, Custom , House, owing - to the recent large increase of busi ness: MESSRS. GOULP 86 LINCOLN will *lie in a few days, Introduction to the Study , of the - Gospels," by Brook Foss Westeott. It will have an IntroductiOn by Prof H. B. Hackett, " The Annual Seien tific Discovery" for 1862, will be , -imme diately issued from the same press. GENERAL LANDER, a , short time before he died;'' wrote' a poem, which; dulling his last illness,: he desired his wife, in the event of his death to send to the Atlantic lifonthl,y. It will appear in the May num ber of that periodical, with the title "Under the Snow;" it is quite striking both in thought, and diction. Gen., Lander's siker, the sculptor, has taken a studio in, this city, for a short time. AT THE LATE MEETING of the lsreir- England Historic Genealogieal Society a paper was read entitled ."-The 'History, of Roanoke Island,"L beginning in 1584 and ending with the battle fought there 'the present Year: It giVe the details 'of the experiences ,qf the threei colonies seni,there by 'Sir Walter Raleigh, and tracing it down to its explorations from Virginia!inass3,. and its grant to a Boston merchant in 1676, where its title was , retained till subsequent to the Revolution. From this spot the English obtained tobacco, the potato, and some other plants. MR. GEORCfE PEABODY, the celebrated London Bank.er, is a native of Danvers, Massachusetts, and has given at different times unmistakeable and munificent evi dence of his regard for that town. This gentleman has consummated Another of his benevolent schemes, in a correspondence now publishedi , in which he places $750,- 000 at the disposal of Mr. Adams, the American Minister Lord Stanley Sir Emerson Tennent, and. Messrs Lampson and Morgan, as trustees, for the purpose of ameliorating the condition of the poor of London. PIOSIDENT WooLsET has presented to the , College Library of Yale nine •hundred volumes from his Greek collection. • This is a most important acquisition, comprising, as it does, many very rare and, c valuable volumes collected by the care of .:a .real scholar through a lifetime. , .NEW YORK. THE' SPRING TRADE has opened 'with the dry-croods jobbers, moderately but the purchases are, made for cash and short credit, and ,by parties who are considered Safe. The, ratio of bad debts is =much less than usual, and all 'parties are shaping their business with a prudent regard to the unsettled state of the future &Cal laws, the tariff, taxes,•and currency9nestions. This conservative policy of limiting transactions to casWand short credit, and only for the actual wants of trade', will tend to, protect ,the business community against the evils which may flow from speculations, indueed by the excessive` issues of paper money. The New:York banks are managing their affairs in the same prudent 'manner, by weekly increasing their specie, reserve, and obtaining control of their capital by sales of the Government loans they took. Rates of interest still continue mederate, the supply of money being greater than the demand. THE Preeman'i Journal has been again admitted to the Use 'of the mails. It is quite probable that hereafter Mr. McMaster may be more discreet in his deliverances to the public through that channel. . , The first volume of the LIFE AND LET' TEES of WAsanveToN IRVING, by his nephew Pierre M 'lrving, has• been rib lished by Mr. Georgp P. Putnam. There is every probability , that this work;;:will have a large sale and be eagerly sought af ter by the admirers 'of the most 'distin guished piirely literary man , : this country has produeed. SOON AFTER THE RISE of the Southern 'rebellion, Bev. It McNeill, a native of North CarOlina, and who had served for a .few years with great acceptability as Coor dinate Secretary of the American. Bible Society,' resigned, and hastened to' Share his labors and sympathies'with the insiir gents, to the. great grief of many personal friends. ; The vacancy thus created has now been .filled .by the election of Bev. Dr. Taylor; pastor of one of the Beformed,Pro- Aestant Dutch Churches of -Philadelphia. Beside his many genial qualities as,a:Chris.: tiara gentleman, Dr. Taylor, g.t ou td ac-, ep t the appointment which: has • been9ten dered him, will. bring it al his'office a repu tation for catholicity of . feeling, and fer great singlenesS of pnrpose in prosecuting whatever : worthy work, may. have, beenien trusted to his hands♦ Rev. DrAlidoltatn, the Senior SeCketary, has deveted nearly'fortY ,years'of Untiring efforts to promote the prosperity of the .§o cicty, and with a measure of success rarely attained by a single individual in any one' department '-of Christian 'Tabor. Having' begun his iinblic life ;infitS' service,' he Vas': continued steagfast in the,pame even until now, witnessing in each 'successive year its augmented usefulness and-beneficence. " THE OAsE or Dn'.ll.a.wits, one of the most, popular preach'ers'ire - 4he Epii6Opal Church, has: been at length :disposea of. The Everiifig Post contains .the folloiving account . 1. We have'Already stated that the vestry • men of . .Calyary,charch have,requested Dr. fllawki to Withdraw his ,letter of resigna tion. 'the vestry-npeting last, night a, communication was recrived,from the Dec- : tor, in ,volich lie says that his linty, and.hii conscience require ,that: . lip,shoilld adhere to his:letter, of resignation, It is tij,,he hoped that the' vestry will, no longereppoie the Doctor's conscience and conyintionanf duty, and that his' resignation', will nevi :be accepted., • • The' eXaMple of Bishop Polk has.,led se many:6ler s imen to the rariks,6fthe rebel army;that there roust be many ope.nin,gs at, the South for good preaChers of a seces sionist', turn of mind. 4 iesidenCe of a few Months among the4l;4ls: with whom Dr. Hawks' is suppccK:to. • sYnTatkize roiglit;afford. him, if not a - pariah, at least a cure. bin Nnw-SonooL RuaArrnsmars have organized a new church let 'the' corner of Fifth Avenue: and Tiventi-ftrit" Street, which promises to be one of, the most pro minent churches in flae city. The ,Rev. Dr. Prentiss, formerly of the Mercer Street church; and brdther Of the late Sargent S. Prentiss the' eloquent Mississippi lawyer and politician, will be the pastor. THE ! , !LATIE HonAoz HoLDEN, his'' Will, his wife and children to continue the benevolent contributionsgiVen by ,l 4mF for ThlnY years, and, totingea:Se if t6irs means shonhl justify, it.- " I?I::tg,A_PELPILIA THE BITSINESS OF THIS CITY ly improved Enyersare,ahundait, and large sales . are , made : for , cash or on short time. And Governnient, :Vrork.is:; em ploying a large number 'Of. persons, 'in: all its various departments. THE Buz grKting a charter to an Epis copal Theological Senfinary in this' city, has been' . *Sell by the Legislature :Penisylva4ia. This Seminary is expected to be uidr the 'control, of Low , Chirch EPiseoPaliaae, - and' to take the place;of the late Thecilirgiml Seminary:at Alexandria, in. Virginia. The contest between the Hi g h Church and Low-Church Episcopalians has in no degree been lessened. This Church, which claims to be the only Church, is re ally more divided in itself, more widely sep. arated in its own communion than any other two Protestant denominations. THE PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA, of the 'United Presbyterian Church, lately Met, ana:vias opened with a sermon, accord ing to appointment, by Dr.` Cooper, on the '" Millennium," from Rev. xx :4 : " They Ried and'reigned with Christ a thousand years." The Doctor advocated the doh'- trine of a personal reign of Christ. A call from the Sixth church, addressed to Mr. Thomas Lawrence,< a licentiate of the Presbytery of Allegheny, was received', sustained as regular, and presented. IT Is, sArn that Mr. George W. Childs,. (of the Isle firm' of Childs & Peterson,) hao offered $lO,OOO for Parson Brownlo4 forthcoming . Autobiography. Mr. Childs met with quite a success in the works of Dr. Kane. THE ,ARCH STREE'r PRESBYTER:IAS PHIJRCIE, firmly but kindly resisted the ap, plication of the Rev. Dr. Wadsworth for dissolution._ of the pastoral relation. S o 'argent were the people that the Presbytery sent back the application to the congrega: tion. But 'When it, was foand that the Dr. had made up his mind that it was his duty; to go to California, the congregation yield ed, and he was dismissed. Ile has accept ed the pasterate . bf Calvary church, San Francisco, of 'Which the Rev. William 4._ Scott, D.D., was formerly pastor. Trim CITY has been for many years drs , tin guisbed for its philanthropic and humane institutions. Among, these• is a private in stitution for theinsane, called Clifton Hall, of which the Philadelphia North American speaks as follows : Dr. Robert A: Given, the medical super=` intendent and.,proprietor .of this excellent institution for the abode and, appropriate treatment, of the insane; has, just sent in hi; second. annual'report to the "Board of Su pervision!' We have more than once bary testimony to the .favorable situation of Cl tonop the score of the beauty and healthfulness of thesurrodn'ding country, and. the variety of 'prospect enjoyed by in, inmates. Nothing deterred by the hard ness. the times, Dr,; Given has made " many tmptovements, - useful, and mamma= ttd. ; Thu and cUrriaga =houses have been ereeted, roadi . laid put, fences set up, a deer:park , enclosed 7 and a great variety ShrUbS t and trees evergreen and deciduous. planted: A large fish-pond has' been con structed, from which he anticipates much ,plea Sire and , benefit to ; the.patients in boat. ing j • fishing and Skating—amusements it. ; which they may indulae without ; fear of ac cident, as the depth of water. has been. kep., within safe bounds. In the coming Sum. mer he purposes, to erect a ter-pin alley and it number „ofhandiome &Ulmer-houses, the designs for ,are :in the hands the builder:', We are quite safe in . asserting that. whether.* leok 'at