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ALLEGHENY CITY PRESBYTERY AND DR.
LIMBER.
The Allegheny City Presbytery met at
Cross-Roads church, on the 2d inst. At
the previous meeting, for considerations
strongly presented, the Presbytery permit
ted Dr. PLmraa to continue in the pastoral
charge of the Central Church, Allegheny,
and assented to an agreement of the
members for their separation. After
wards, before adjournment, the Presbytery
passed a series of loyal resolutions, for
which Dr. PLUMB, formally, declined to
vote. And since that time, the Doctor
published a Card declaring his sentiments
relative to the Government under which
he lives; which Card is regarded as evasive
and entirely unsatisfactory, in the circum
stances which called it forth.
Things being so, and the cause of relig
ion suffering greatly therefrom, Presbytery,
after much deliberation, as we are informed,
adopted unanimously a paper advising Dr.
PLIMIER to resign his charge of the Central
church; advising the Memorialists, who
had taken a dismission, to return to the
congregation and to refund the money they
had received; advising the congregation to
unite in amity, and cooperate as they had
done previously to the late difficulties; and
asking the Directors of the Theological
Seminary to suspend the Doctor from his
Professorship.
Since writing the above, we have re
ceived Presbytery's action, as follows :
Rev. Dr. McABoY, seconded by Rev. J.
LAUNITZ, offered the following resolution
Resolved, Whereas, The Rev. Dr.
PLUMER—after having given various dec
larations by speech and writing of his loy
alty to the Government of the United
States—refused to vote for the resolutions
offered at the close of the last meeting of
Presbytery, affirming the loyalty and duties
of all good citizens and church members ;
therefore,
-Resolved, That the action of Presbytery
whereby it declined to recommend to Rev.
Dr, .P.tummt the resignation of his pastoral
charge, be now re-considered.
Adopted unanimously.
The following paper was then introduced,
and after full consideration, was adopted:
As conservators of the religious interests
of the churches committed to our care,
this Presbytery feel constrained to notice
and to essay the removal of a scandal which
has already injured our religious influence
and interrupted the peace and unity of one
of; our congregations. The reputed dis
loyalty to the civil government under which
welive ' of the Rev. Dr. PLUMBIC, pastor
of' the Central church of Allegheny, has
caused difficulty and division in that lately
prosperous congregation, and has driven
from its communion more than eighty
members. The same cause has brought
reproach on our denomination, and so'im
paired our usefulness in the community.
It has also grieved the hearts of many of
our Christian people, both near at hand
and afar off. It has, likewise, tended to
encourage the public and armed enemies of
our Government and peace, and so to pro
long the horrors of this insurrection and to
delay the return of peace, order and pros
perity in our country. And as the Rev.
Dr: PLumtu has, even in the presence of
this Presbytery, an a former occasion, by
word and writing, given occasion for serious
doubts of his loyalty, by expressions of op
position to the measures of the Govern
ment for the suppression of the rebellion . ,
and by refusing to concur in the expres
sions 'of loyalty made at our last meeting,
and by sundry other sayings and doings;
therefore, this Presbytery, as well for the
public vindication of ourselves and the
Church as for the honor of the Christian
duty of loyalty, and for the restoration of
unity to a divided congregation, do recom
mend to the Rev. Dr. PLUMER to cease from
the exercise of his pastoral office in the
Central church, until his fame is cleared of
the reproach herein above alluded to.
The following resolutions -were then
adopted :
Resolved, In view of this action, the
Minority who have ceased to attend the
Central church, be recommended to return
to that church, and 814 to restore the
funds received from the majority, to them.
. Rksolved, That this Presbytery believes
that the interests of the Western Theolog
ical Seininkry, of the Presbyterian Church, of
our cornnion,Phristianity, and of our country,
retinire the Directors of the Western The
ologidal Seminary to suspend the labors of
the Rev. Dr. Praum.zu in that Institution,
until the next meeting of the General As
sembly.
It 'was Resolved, That the Clerk, and
Mr. J. PARK, Jr., be a committee to pub
lish the proceedings of Presbytery in rela
tion to Dr. PLUMB, and also to send
copies of the minutes on the same subject
to PLlThrEtt, to. the Session of the
Central church, and to Dr. DALE for the
.
minority lately in ,connexion with tine
REV. DR. SLOANE AND ODR GOVERNMENT.
In speaking of the Commencement at
Jefferson College, in the Banner of Au
gust 16th, we noticed, briefly, the Address
of Dr. SLOANE, of New-York, before the
Literary Societies. We had no copy of
the Address, nor have we now. We then
spoke, and must still utter but our impres
sions, after a very attentive leafing. We
had the authority, given verbally by sev
eral of the members, for saying that the
Trustees and Faculty disapproved of Dr.
SLOA.NE'S sentiments ; and since our publi
cation we have their thanks, similarly inti
mated, for what we did.
Dr. SLOANE, however, thinks we did not
accurately present his ideas. We hence
give him the benefit of his own statement.
He writes to us thus :
NEW-YORK, Aug. 22, 1862.
MR. EDITOR :—Dear Sir :—A friend
has sent me a copy of the Presbyterian
Banner, containing an account of the Com
mencement at Canonsburg, and your stric
tures on the address which I delivered be
fore the Literary Societies on that occasion.
You have done me, although I have no
doubt altogether unintentionally, great in
justice in your representation of my re
marks. You are right in saying that I
expressed my deliberate opinions. I ad
here to them. I deprecate no criticism,
and ask no quarter. Ido ask fair play. •
As to my remarks on the unchristian
character of the Constitution,
I made use
of no stronger language than has been em
ployed by the Princeton Review. The
very words with which you find fault, were
employed by the General Assembly at its
last sitting, and to them I referred. The
same sentiments have been bodly proclaim
ed iu this city, by Dr. TYNO, of St. C-eorge,
by Dr. VINTorq, of Trinity, by Dr. THOMP
SON, of the Tabernacle, and last Fall by a
gentleman whose name I forget, who
preached in the Brick church (Doctor
SPRING'S) on the occasion of the annual
fast.
As to the views which I presented on
the subject of law, I am prepared to back
them by the names of the greatest jurists
of all ages. I did not' speak of mere "so
cial regulations," but of laws involving
great principles of right and wrong. Such
laws I hold must derive their authority
from God, and apart from such warrant,
are null and void.
My views of' Liberty are those of the
"Declaration of Independence," neither
more nor less. I apply them to white and
black alike.
The statesman of•whom I spoke, you
will remember, was JAMES 131JOHANAN.
I said he had brought himself into the
position described by Mrs. BROWNING:
"Not dead, only damned."
I did not say that it was better that the
five millions of men women and children
of the South, should be slaughtered than
that slavery should not be extinguished.
When speaking of the silly objection so
often made, that to arm the slaves would
lead to insurrection, I, made use of the
following language : " But suppose eman
cipation would lead to insurrection. Let
this, which we by no means admit, be for
the time granted ; then I affirm that it is
better, far better, .hat every man, woman,
and child, in every rebel State, should per
ish in one wide spread, bloody and indis
criminate slaughter—better that the land
should be a Sahara—be as when God de
stroyed the Canaanites, or overthrew Sod
om and Gomorrah, than that this rebellion
should be successful." To those words I
adhere, and allow all who do not approve
of them to make the best of it.
Yours, respectfully,
J. R. W. SLOANE.
The writer should have given us the
volume and page of the Princeton Review,
to which he alludes, and also the page of
the Assembly's Minutes. We do not say
that the words be used in affirming that
the. Constitution of our country is unchris
tian, are not found in those productions,
but we would have been pleased to exam
ine in what connexions they are found.
We have read the Princeton pretty regu
larly, since its first number; we have also
attended many meetings of our General
Assembly, the last included; and we have
noticed the sentiments of our Church as
developed, for between thirty and forty
years, and we believe that the opinion
amongst us is nearly, if not entirely, uni
versal, that the Government of this coun
try is Christian, in opposition to infidel,
heathen, Mohammedan, or Jewish. It was
organized by and for a Christian people,
and is administered by and for a Christian
people. The Constitution does not direct
ly recognize God, the Mediator, and the
Bible, as it should, but it does not reject
them, nor embrace anything opposed to
them.' And every religious allusion it has
is Christian. It recognizes a' SundaY's
rest; it adopts the oath or affirmation,
which is common among Christians, and
provides for 'no other; and it uses the
Christian era as the epoch for the measure
ment of time. Under the Constitution,
our civil courts have decided that the
Christian religion is part of the common
law of the land. Congress takes its Sab
bath rest, and has worship conducted by
Christian ministers. The army and navy
have Christian ministers for chaplains.
Christian morality is the foundation of our
laws and social order. All these things
being so, no man, and certainly no Chris
tian, should allow himself to revile the
Constitution, which is our fundamental
national law, and-the charter of our rights.
Drs. Time, VINTON and THOMPSON
may, in the ardor of argument, or of denun
ciation, have made a hasty expression In
regard to the Constitution; but the senti
ments of these gentlemen, on either religion
or government, would be' poor authority
with Dr. SLOANE, unless on one or two
points, where they are tinged with some
thing of his own fanaticism.
Dr. SLOANE objects to, our intimation
that he preferred the slaughter of all the
five millions of men, women and children
of the South, rather than that Slavery
should not be extinguished. He claims to
have said, " rather than that this rebellion
should be successful." But has he alleviated
the statement. Just loOk at the concluding,
sentences of his letter : " I affirm that it is
better, far better, that every man, woman
and child, in every rebel. State, should
perish in one wide-spread, bloody and in
disbriminatis olvighter—bi3tti3r thatthe I.od.
PRESBYTERIAN BANNER.---SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1862.
should be a Sahara—be as when God de-
stroyed the Canaanites, or overthreW Sodom
and Gomorrah, than that this rebellion
should be successful. To these words I
adhere, and allow all who do not approve
of them, to make the best of it." Was a
more unchristian spirit ever manifested ?
And Dr. SLOA.NE'S opposition to the re
bellion springs from his abolitionism, and
not from his love of the Government. Ile
had already spoken of the Constitution as
Jewish, Mohammedan, infidel. He, as we
judge from his known religious sentiments,
(Old-side Covenanter,) never did a thing
voluntarily, pot even vote at an election,
to sustain the Goveinment. He would
overturn it, if he could, as quickly as
would the rebel; and would remodel it in
a way far more fearful to the masses than
has been done in the Confederacy. It is
to be regretted that such a spirit exists, but
happily it is possessed by only a few.
Most of the people thank God for a Gov
ernment so good as is ours, and pray that
it may speedily be restored to its rightful
supremacy, and be enjoyed by all the peo
ple, in peace, unity and love.
lUT. PLEASANT CHURCH.
Mt. Pleasant is a favorite name for a
church. A church, of -Jesus Christ de
serves an agreeable name. • God's people
go thither with joy. We love to designate
a church by its locality, ,rather than in
honor of a saint, living or dead; and,
when practicable, we would choose the . site
with reference to an appropriate name.
The Mt. Pleasant church of which we
now speak, is in Beaver County, Pa. A
neighboring village is called. Darlington.
The , church is one of the oldest, if not the
very oldest, in that part of the State. A
notice of it belongs to the history of the
early settlement of the country; and will
serve to bring before us something of the
spirit of our ancestors. Recently, the peo
ple dedicated to the service of God a new
and commodious temple: The sermon on
the occasion was preached by Rev. ROBERT
DILWORTH, D.D., whose father was one of
the first settlers there, who grew up from
early boyhood to full manhood, in the con
gregation, and who still lives close by, and
ministers to an interesting pastoral charge,
that of Little Beaver. With the aid of
Dr. DILWORTH'S sermon, We make a few
historical notes.
Mt. Pleasant was settled from Fayette,
Westmoreland, and Washington counties.
A few families removed thither in 1795.
In the following year, many others joined
them, occupying the choice lands for some
distance around. These settlers expe
rienced the hardships customary to the
times and circumstances, but they were
God-fearing men, and their fear was that
which belonged to reverence and love.
They hence instituted. eetings for prayer,
on the Sabbath, and soon managed to have
an occasional sermon, and ere long had the
stated ordinances. Toward the close of
1798 they were visited by THOMAS. EDGAR
HualrEs, ,a licentiate of the Presbytery of
Ohio,. an energetic and earnest preacher,
who soon became their pastor. Mr.
ENGHus was ordained in August 1799,
and installed over the churches of Mt.
Pleasant. and New Salem (another appro
priate name for a church of the Redeemer).
The first elders of the church of Mt.
Pleasant were ROBERT CLARK, DANIEL
KIRKPATRICK, ROBERT BOVARD, and
WILLIAM PLOVER, all having the reputa
tion of humble, faithful, and godly men.
Mr. PLUMER was the father of Rev. Dr.
PLUMER, now of the Allegheny Theolog
ical Seminary. To these were soon united
in office, JOSHUA BEER, CALDWELL SEM
PLE, and GEORGE DILWORTH. Mr. BEER
became a minister, and Mr. DmwouTH
was the father of Rev. Dr. Dmwourn, be
fore, mentioned. '
• Mr, HuGUES continued to be pastor of
Mt. Pleasant and New Salem churches for
ten years, and then of Mt. Pleasant alone
for twenty years. He was a devoted and
faithful pastor, and a fluent, practical, and
impressive preacher. The church flour
ished. greatly under his care, enjoying sev
eral remarkable revivals.
The charger of Mr. EIUGITES shared
largely in that wonderful manifestation of
Divine grace which was enjoyed from 18Q2
to 1805, in nearly all the churches West of
the Allegheny mountains. The bodily ex
ercises which accompanied that work have
been often described. The gracious fruits
were copious and enduring. The converts
were many, and while the bodily affections
soon passed away, not to return, the renewed
soul lived and flourished. In 1823, another
notable revival occurred in Mt: Pleasant,
when about. one hundred persons were
brought under the power of grate and
added to the list of communicants. A
number of ministerial brethren aided - the
pastor, at times, during this revival year,
all of whom, except. Rev. Dr. §WIVT, are
now gone from earth to heaven,
Since Mr. HUGHES' release from the
pastoral charge of Mt Pleasant, in 1830,
it has , several times changed its pastor.
The present occupant of the pulpit is Rev.
A. W. Bon), who was; ordained in April
1861. >We wish for = him a long and suc
cessful pastoral relation, with a happy and
increasing people.
WATERING PLACES AND PREACHING.
Watering places are mostly lively places.
Persons of wealth and refinement usually
resort thither. They go to recreate. They
try to leave dull care behind. They wish
to be pleased, and they-,generally have sense
enough to know •that they , must not be en
tirely borrowers of joy, but roust each con
tribute to the great fund from which all
expect to draw. Our ministerial brethren,
poor though' they be, yet find, sometimes;
their way thither. Once in
;his
a good
parishioner, compassionates bis pastor, and
lends him a fifty dollar purse, not hoping,
nor even.wishing, to be revaid in future—
taking his pay, rather, in the donSeiouS
ness of diffusing joy, and in seeing the evi
dences of recuperated energy in a wearied
laborer in Zion. Even an editor has gotton
to a watering place—how, we cannot tell;
we have not yet found the leisure and the
means. But an editor has been at the At
lantic—Atlantic City, on the New Jersey
coast, we' presume. It was the editor of
the Lutheran Observer, Baltimore—or per
haps only the friend of an editor.
Well, our brother lets us know that
they have a Sabbath at the Atlantic, and
preachers too—scores of them—and a pul
pit. He thus speaks of the place :
"One of the greatest enjoyments of our
short stay at the Atlantic, was that of hear
ing sermons. This may seem rather para.
doxical to those who think of sermons
generally as among the things to be en
dured rather than, enjoyed. But to minis
ters accustomed to preach every Sabbath,
an occasional opportunity, of listenincr to
the Word is a golden opportunity and a
precious privilege. As we had scores of
ministers at the Atlantic, we persistently
declined all invitations to preach, and de
termined for once that we would enjoy the
hearing of the Word."
Our readers will see from this that min
isters carry their religion with them, and
endeavor to do good, and to enjoy worship,
even at a Watering Place:
The writer then proceeds to describe
three sermons which he heard. With the
first he .was greatly
,delighted. And why
should he not, when he was led by a brother
(Rev. AN C. WED KIND,) " *hose heart
is in - his sermons," to contemplate the
glowing promise : ".The righteous shall
flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow
like a cedar in Lebanon!'
The next sermon was on miracles—a
fruitful theme, one would think—and the
preacher being- one of our most eminent
Divines, (Rev. ALBERT BARNES, we hear,)
expectation might •well be all a tip-toe.
But alas, for the disappointment The
discourse was " elaborate, philosophical,"
and really, says, the editor, " the dryest,
most uninteresting, most unedifying ser
mon we ever heard." Ministers will, from
this, take the hint, that when they go to
places where vivacity and the recruiting of
wasted energies are the prevailing order,
they may well . take their piety along, and
about as well' leave their Philosophy, Her
meneutics, and Apologetics at home.
The third sermon was by a Theological
Professor, (Rev. Dr. JAconus,j and was
quite satisfactory. The editor says : : "We
listened to the Doctor with profound ad
miration, and we trust with lasting profit.
We felt-the Word as the power of God to
strengthen, comfort and saie': , h
Te Dr.- is
a Man of unquestionable abilitY."'
-We will not trespass on our brother's
, .
modesty by quoting all that is said of him.
There is = a criticism, however, which we
may re-produee, for the benefit of young
preachers : •
" The Dr. reads rather closely; but' you
are so absorbed in his thoughts, so quick
ened by the life-impulses of his throbbing
heart,,that you never. think about the man
ner of the man. The preacher on mira
cles' in the morning ,
had no notes, closed
the Bible, and preached, as the aivocates
for extemporaneous preaching would say,
and the sermon was dull, lifeless, and won
derfully soporific. In the evening Dr.
JACOBIN read closely, and there was life
and enthusiasm in the preacher which
touched and moved the people, and carried,
them along with the speaker, in
_responsive
sympathy, to his very last utterance, which
was a quotation of that beautiful verse of
poetry ending:—
" One moment here, the next beyond the stars."
"We were more than ever impressed
with the uselessness of the controversy, as
to the particular method of preaching the
Gospel. It is not preaching with notes or
without notes, but putting one's soul into
the sermon, and ; preaching Christ from a
living, loving, earnest heart, that will make
our message, under God, one of power and
of the Holy Ghost."
These remarks have value, and especially
the one which concludes the quotation.
Let the preacher be in earnest alwayS; and
let him adapt his sermon, both as to matter
and manner, to 'the .times, the circum
stances, and the audience. ,
I:OOOD WORK,
Our Synodical Board of Colportage has
been actively engaged in supplying our
soldiera. Funds can be used to great ad
vantage, - and- we tiinst that the churches
within the Synods will make their own
Board the almoners of their bounty. The
Board makes the following report for
August:
Plain Grove cong., Allegheny P'by, $11.07
Phim Creek " Saltsburg " 9:48
Franklin " Erie " 5.00
Rev. Wm. Jeffrey, D.D., - 1.00
Sabbath School Scholars of Presb'n
ch., Lawrenceville, for soldiers, 587
Sunbury cong., Alleglr'yp'by, fordo., , 4.62
Mrs. Julia Campbell, same eh., for do., 50
N Atte Coulter, do. do., for d0.,50
Mrs. Isabella Coulter, do. do., for 0., 50
.Mrs. Eup hernia Conway, do. do., fordo., 50
Mrs. Nancy D. Allison, do. do., for do., - 25
Mrs. Mary Allen, d0..,d0., for do., 25
Miss Ann E. Russell, do. do:, for do.; 25
Miss. Margaret. Porter,-Pleasant Val
ley °orig., for do., - 4.00
Lebanon= cong., Ohio Presbytery, - 38.00
SBL7O
F. G.,I3AILEY, Treasurer.
Of-the above we have applied, by re
quest- - of the donors, $11.37 to books and
tracts for Butler, County soldiers. The
balance, and some unapplied last month,
has enabled the Board, to distribute ; by the:
hands of:F. G. 'Bailey and Capt. Robert -
Beer, to fourteen. companies of `soldiers in
Camp Howe, 1,300 books and tracts- of the
Board, and Testaments from the Young.
Men's Bible Society, Pittsburgh. The.fol
lowing are the cOmpariiei :
Dudley Infantry, Oapt. Parr ; Hilands
Guirds, Capt. Pearson ; Semple Infantry;
Co.'s 0, and D, Major'Moody ) • -Pitts
burgh= Rifles, Capt. Kier ; Graham Rifles,
Capt. Sample; Kier Rifles, Co.'s A--'and: 8,.
Captains-Coleman, and Van Gorder ; Arm—
strong, Guards, Capt. IVl'Kean ; • Clarion
Rifles, Co.'s A and B, Captains Ewing
and Clots ; Canonsburg. Company, Capt.
Frazer.
Capt. Parr replies as follows
F.G. BAILEY, ESQ.:—Dear Sift :—The
members of the . Dusiley,lnfantry desire to
tender their sincere thanks thrbugh. you
to the Board of Colportage, for the very
liberal donation of books and tracts yoq,had
the kindness to make them. •
(Signed) jOUN G. PARR, Captain.
Capt. John Ewing and others acknowl
edge with gratitude, and state that the men
were very thankful for the favor, and ex
ceedingly anxious to receive books and
tracts.
Value of the Testaments, $12.32; of the
books and tracts, s79.BB—including one
Soldier's Camp Library of 25 vols. the
Soldier's Pocket Book, Hymn Book, Advice
to Soldiers, Cromwell's Bible, &c.
JHN CULBERTSON, Librarian.
PRESBYTERY OF 01110,-DR. REM
The Presbytery of Olio had a very
pleasant meeting, at Munntown, on the 19th
inst. But a small amount of business was
transacted, a thing usual at this season of
the year.
As was naturally to be expected, the
deep interest of the brethren in our Theo
logical Seminary, found expression. A
resolution was adopted, nem. con, affirm
ing the opinion that Dr. PLUMER had dis
qualified himself for the proper perform
ance of the duties of a Professor, and that
the welfare of the institution
.imperiously
demanded his _removal. The resolution is
Resolved, That from all we have heard
and read in • reference to Dr. PLUMER'S
loyalty, we believe the highest interests of
the Western Theological Seminary demand
the suspension of Dr. PLIIMER from his
professorship; and also, that Patriotism,
Presbyteriahism and Christianity, likewise
demand it.
This expresses the general, if not uni
versal sentiment of Presbyterians in this
region. Personally, every member of the
Presbytery of Ohio is friendly to Dr.
Praimun., but they have no sympathy with
him in the position he has taken toward
his country, and they cannot agree that
their Seminary shall be injured, and their
young men be exposed to wrong influences,
by his continuance in his present honored
and responsible position.
DOME AND FOREIGN RECORD.
The September number of the Record
acknowledges the following receipts during
the month of July:
For •Domestic Missions, $2,190; Educa
tion, $1,305; Foreign Missions, $3,760;
Publication, $3,755; Church Extension,
$l,lBB.
The state - of the country, as engaged in
war, is now so much the absorbing thought,
that its religious condition is greatly in
danger of being neglected. But what is a
country without religion ' And is not the
suffering upon us for the want of the true
spirit and pure principles of the Gospel ?
And if we are to have a return of peace
and prosperity, will it not be of God's
blessing ? " God and our Country" is the
true Christian patriot's motto, and God is
always first♦
-EASTERN SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND NEW-ENGLAND
HARVARD COLLEGE is the oldest and
best endowed literary institution in the
United States. The great object of its
pions founders was the rearing up of a
godly and learned ministry. Of late years
Unitarianism hes had almost entire control.
The consequence has been the expulsion of
evangelical sentiment, and along with this,
much of the morality of life that should
distinguish a great seat of learniug which
owes its existence to the piety of past gen
erations.
The Boston Transcript quotes from the
Harvard _Magazine a statement in regard
to the last class graduated. at Harvard Col
lege, to the effect that of the number com
posing the class, "fifty-one smoke; sixty
five drink, fifty-seven do both, and twenty
neither." We must confess our surprise
that such a statement could be made con
cerning a class of but ninety members,
more than two-thirds of the whole number
are• known to use intoxicating drinks
This is stated on the authority of a maga
zine which could command the knowledge
of the fact.
What would the founders 'of Harvard
College, could they again appear on the
scene, say to, such a' statement ? When,
from their limited resources, they gener
ously, and at the cost of no little self-,
denial, contributed
.the means to establish,
the institution, and, with prayers to heaven
for its benediction on the enterprise, con
secrated it " to Christ and the Church," it
was assuredly in the fond hope that through
a long succession of generations, it should
be a " school of .the prophets," and that
,
they who gathered there to enjoy its priv
ilecres should be not only early trained in
sound learning, but educated'to pure morals,
and imbued with a true devotion to the
work of Christ.
•
Tw RECEIPTS of 'the American .Board
for July were 624,349.78, and from the Ist
of September, 1861, to the first of August,
1862, 6256,788.02. •
In 1806, the Rev. Dr. Morse, one of the
founders of Andover Theological Seminary,
wrote to the Rev. Dr. Rodgers, of New 7
York, to inquire if his colleague, Rev. Dr.
`Miller, afterwards of Princeton r would ac
cept a professership at Andover: Dr. Mil
ler declined being a candidate. After
wards the' Rev. Dr. Griffin pastor of a
Presbyterian church in Newark, N. J., was
elected; And in, later years the Rev. Dr..
Shedd was taken thither from the New ,
,School Theological Seminary at Auburn,
N. Y. Now, however, it is claimed that
this Seminarl should be entirely under
Cengregational influence.
The Consregationalist maintains that
since • Andover is assumed to be a Congre
gational Seminary, the vacancy ,left by the
resignation. ef Prof. Shedd should, be filled
by a- member of that body. It says : "If
they (the trustees) wish the Andover stu
dents to be taught the simple and Scriptu
ral polity of the Acts of the Apostles, and
to
• be trained in the wisdom of John sob
insort and: the Scrooby ways, they must
take care not, to fill this chair with a man
who will pervert•his position to enforce
another and a Presbyterian Gospel, or .who
is so near a nothingarian as not to know
whether he, is a democrat or an aristocrat
in hag ideas of Church form and life. Per
haps we.
,have , had„ already_ a sufficiently
,vigtrona riOn-OomMittalism in that plabe.
It would please a great many of the friends
of Andover, and of Congregationalism, and
of Christ, if some clear-headed and warm
hearted disciple of the Plymouth doctrines
were set there for the explanation and de
fense of the faith once delivered to the
saints.
THE Portsmouth N. EL Journal says
There are only $3 revolutionary patriots
alive, viz : In MassachuSetts 3; Maine 9 ;
Vermont 3 ; Connecticut 2 • New-York 13 ;
Pennsylvania 1; Ohio 4; Michigan 3 ; Il
linois 1; Indiana 2; Wisconsin 2; Ken
tucky 1; Tennessee 6 ; North Carolina 2;
Georgia 5 ; Missouri 1; Virginia 3 ; Dis
trict of Columbia 1; Arkansas 1. There
are none in the States of Rhode Island,
New-Jersey, New-Hampshire, lowa, Louis
iana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Cali
fornia, or South Carolina.
Our patriot fathers have now gone from
us, and their praises will be held in in
creasingly dear remembrance as years flow
on.
" How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest;
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallowed mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than fancy's feet have ever trod.
There honor comes,
a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there."
In a most emphatic manner does this ep
itaph apply to the many thousands who, in
the present unnatural war, have gallantly
poured out their blood for the flag of their
country, following the call of duty in the
spirit of their revolutionary fathers. Noble
med, your blood flows in a righteous cause,
and sacred 'be your memory in the Ameri
can heart.
NEW-YORE
MONEY is very abundant, and first-class
borrowers are enabled in consequence to fix
their own rates of interest. On call, money
could easily be obtained at 3 to 4 per cent.;
and for the best short mercantile or bankers'
paper, 4to 5 peetent. Certificates of in
debtedness having one year to run, are
quoted at 99i to 99i. How many of these
the Government has issued, no person
knows ; but before Congress meets again,
a large quantity will be in circulation. Mr.
Chase received one million dollars on de
posit at 4 per cent.
Mr. Cisco sold last week, by private sale,
$3,000,000 of 7-30 notes at 104. It is un
derstood that the Secretary of the Treasury
still holds about $20,000,000.
AN IMMENSE PATRIOTIC MEETING was
held in the Park, on the afternoon of
Wednesday of last week. Able and stir
ring speeches were made by Gen. Corcoran
and others. But the great speech of the
occasion was that by the astronomer General
Mitchell, one of our ablest and most suc
cessful Generals—the man whO never waited
for the enemy to attack him. In the course
of his remarks, which were repeatedly ap
plauded, Gen. Mitchell said :
The Presidenthas called f0r300,000 men;
he has added to that number 300,000 more.
Let the 600,000 be forthcoming at once.
Let them be freely offered. The result
cannot then be doubtful. Let us be united.
The South is now perfectly cemented, while
we are to a certain extent divided. But we
are coming together every day. The battle
mist be fought, and let me tell you how.
It must be fought' with armies—with
brigades and divisions—on the battle-field,
and then we will hunt the enemy wherever
we can find him, and destroy him Wherever
he is found. There is to be no more dally
ing, no more hesitation in this matter. I
know Jefferson Davis, and can appreciate
the tyranny which he has established over
the South. I know that when the S , uth
is disenthralled, there will be found many
who will rejoice at the return of the old
flag—the sovereignty of the Constitution
and the - glorious Union. [Applause.]
Make up your minds to enlist, every one of
you. Do n't do it as a mere matter of
pleasure. War is a mighty serious busi
ness. Solemnly serious. Do it thought
fully, determinedly, and, when you make
up your minds, and say "I am going to be
a soldier," be willing to perform a soldier's
duty. You will have to give up wife, and
children. I have had to ,do it. Let not
your children grow up old upbraid you by
saying, " Father, if we had only been men
during the time of the rebellion, we would
have fought and died; would have given
everything, rather than have endured the
ignominy, contempt and degradation of de
feat!' That's what you - have got to meet=
right square. What do you decide--glory,
or possibly death, in the armies of your
country, or despisal, ignominy and con
tumely ? There is no use waiting loriger.
There is liberty, glory, and yew country's
emancipation on the one side, and con
tempt, shame, scorn and degradation on the
other.
THE PAPERS intimate that in this city
many dodges are about- to be tried, espe
cially by "fast men," :drinking men, gam
blers, &c., to avoid , the daft
HARPER'S WEEKLY' has fairly outdone
Well' in the caricature department of its
last issue. It capitally. shows up the
" strange effect of the 'draft," by a cut rep
resenting the interior of a Sixth Ward
groggery, - filled with broad-brimmed and
drab-coated , Hibernians, in the bottle
breaking and head-breaking, stage of a hard
"spree."; This remarkable increase of
Quakerism in the " bloody Sixth" is set
down as one of the most sincmlar pheeem.
ena of the day
,
AItOHI3ISHOF HUGHES, who has just re
turned froin his semi=official `mission to Eu
rope, made a:speech in ‘Dublin, on the 23d
of. July, in which he is reported to have
said: "If the 'party that is nominally
called rebels---a term which I do not use
in regard to them all---if that party shall
triumph, then I shall transfer my allegiance
to that party as the legitimate Government
of- the United States." This was extraor
dinary language for a man to, use who went
abroad at the request of our Government, to
do it service, at a most critical period. ; :The
commissioner accepted his trust, it seems,
without feelin.f; quite sure that it was not
something less than a -rebellion which his
country was trying to suppress. At any
rate, he had no doubt that its success
would entitle it to ruin the whole country,
and he could not hesitate to give a success
ful slaveholding oligarchy his allegiance,
as the legitimate. Government of the - United
States 1
The sermon' preached by the Archbishop,
upon his return, has been published and
widely distributed. We must say that in
point of ability it is not much.
He depicted well in a few strongly word
ed, pithy paragraphs, the false views
.of our
contest prevailing in Earepe, and:how un
availing were facts to open the eyes of thor n
who were predetermined not to see. H e
spoke clearly of the citizens' duty to com e
forward and press their services on the
Government, instead of waiting for the
Government to force them to it. It was
not cruelty, it was humanity to furnish th e
means for ending speedily this unnatural
and desolating war, which else would
drench the whole of this vast country with
fraternal blood, and could end only in it s
dismemberment into petty sovereignties,
and its beef:lining an•easy prey to the self ' .
ish intermeddling of foreign Powers.
So far, so good; and yet there was sonic
thing wanting, which made the discourse
fall with repellant coldness on my ear. No
earnest love of country glowed in his ap
peals; nor did his sermon contain a single
allusion to the great moral issues involved
in the contest. The words Slavery and Ile
hellion did not ()eel/rip the whole course of it.
Citizens were bound to uphold and defend
the Government under which they lived ;
that was all. The character of that Govern
ment; the sacred obligations ofthe Irish to
the land which has given them political and
religious freedom, and has thrown wide open
to them all her paths to wealth and honor,
on a full equality with her native sons;
the land that saved Ireland from starvation,
and has sympathized so warmly with all
her aspirations for national liberty—not
one word of all this. Nor was there any
attempt to soften that malignant hatred of
race, as exhibited - by the Irish toward the
negroes, which threatens to prove one of
the most perilous of our political elements.
The patriotism of our neighbor of the
Pittsburgh Catholic has been much more
f
earnest and glowingrom the start than
any thing we have yet seen from Archbish
op Hughes.
BISHOP MOILVAINE has accepted the
Presidency of the American Tract Society,
to which he was elected in May last, while
absent in Europe.
The British bark line:line, after a tedious
passage of ninety days from Leghorn,
reached this port last week, having on
board the body of the late Rev. Dr. Beth
une, in a state of perfect preservation.
PHILADELPHIA
THE REFRESHMENT SALOONS in the
lower part of this city are again in full and
constant operation. Every regiment pass
ing through on its way to the seirti of war
is handsomely provided for. The men have
a wash and a good substantial meal. All
this is the work of private munificence. And
it is also to be borne in mind that scarcely
any of these regiments are from Pennsyl
vania ; they belong, to other States. Almost
all the Pennsylvania regiments depart from
Harrisburg.
ROBERT M. BGATORFORD, ESQ., of this
city, has.been , appointed Minister Resident
at Rome, in place of Gov. Randall, of Wis
consin, who has asked to come home and
take a part in the war.
ADMIRAL GEORGE C. REED died at the
Naval Asylum of Philadelphia, of which
institution he was Governor, on Friday,
August 22d. Admiral Read was a native
of Ireland, and entered the service of the
United States in 1804. For more than
half a century he has everywhere and upon
all occasions, when duty called him, upheld
the flag and maintained the rights and honor
of the country. -He breathed his last in
her service, unwavering in his patriotism
and in his attachment to the Union.
„
I , HE CORN, EXCHANGE of this city has
given nearly $25,000 for the regiments to
be sent out under its auspices.
THERE are now no less than 5,000 sick
and won tided Union soldiers in the different
hospitals in this city.
ECCLESIASTICAL.
Rev. A. SWANEY, New Hagerstown, Ohio,
has accepted a chaplaincy in the 98th
Reg% O. V. I. Rev. R. BROWN, D.D.,
is to supply the congregation during the
pastor's absence.
Rev. EDWARD H. LEAVITT, called to be
pastor of the Second Presbyterian church
of Zanesville ? Ohio, has signified his ac
ceptance of the call.
The Presbytery of Winnebago has ordained
to tke work of the Gospel ministry,
H. CARPER, licentiate of the Presbytery
of Winnebago, and JOSEPH VANCE, for
rnerly a licentiate of the Presbytery of
Wasbinoton.
Sword Presentation at Camp Howe.
At 2 o'oclock,.P..M., on Tuesday; Aug. 26th,
Rev. Dr. WAboy presented a sword and other mit
itary accoutrements to Lieut. Matt. Harbison, on
behalf of the ladies of Bakerstown and vicinity,
as follows:;
The times in which we live are of thrilling in
terest, and the future before.us of vast moment,
because of the great events which are quickly to
foll Ow. To-day the eyes, of the whole world are
turned to the Western Continent to see what shall
be this grand finale of the impending crisis.
You are, in the, providence of God, to take part
in the great struggle. Let the religious element
enter,into your minds and fire your zeal. Re
member the cause. FreedoM is sacred, and that
you are called upon to contend for the perpetu
ation of those rights and privileges of freemen,
which were bought by the blood of our forefath
ers of the American Revolution. Their deeds of
valor and suffering are the household words of
this nation. So shall it be with the heroes and
martyrs of this ;war; they may die, but their
names and deeds of valor shall never die.. You
are called to put down a rebellion, which, for
cruelty and atrocity, has no parallel in sacred
or profane history since the days of Absalom.
Go then, in God's name`go, defend the right, and
maintain it, and the God of Battles go with you,
and crown you with - victory. And what. shall I
say to you of this company, who are the sons of
my _most devoted friends in the church, over
which God-has setme as a watchman, with 'whom
I•have'been intimately associated from your in
fancy :until now, upon whom these hands
poured baptismal water, thus sealing you in the
Church of our Glorified Redeemer ? My dear
eons in this Gospel, act well your parts, and re
member the admonitions and consolations you
have so often heard from these lips, when you
are far away. Be men of . God, as well as sol
diers of this derions Union. Fight the good
fight of Faith,:.'s well as the battles of your
country, and you shall conquer,•though you die.
Look to God for protection, and be assured, in
common with your fellows in the battle-field,
you shall never be forgotten when, in. private or
public, we ask for His Divine blessing.
Lieut. Harbison, this sword - and these useful
equipments,•are from the fair hands of the ladies
of your home circle.. They bid me present them
with their best wishes for yonr success and re
turn. •
Take this sward; and remember when you nn
sheath it that you strike for liberty and its glo
rious perpetuation. Itemember the solemn duty
of your charge as yon are set in authority Do
:what is right for the men under you and for your
country. •
God grant you success and victory, and when
you,return, keeping time to the." Star-Spangled
Banner," (long may it wave !) we will meet you,
and give you three cheers for the " Red, White
and Blue."
But if, in the ordinations of His counsel whose
ways are past, finding out, you are never to re
turn., may the blessing of Heaven be upon you in
the camp, upon the field, in life and death ; and
may we meet at last in that land where parting
is tmknowit,' where the Weary rest, where the
wicked cease from troubling.