Vresi3#ttrian
PITTSEURGE,SAURDPI, SEPTEMBER 27, 1861
Dayville Theological Seminary,—This In
stitution necessarily suspends operations.
The rebel invasion makes a continuance of
its work impracticable. We see it stated
that Professor YERICES is now at Hatboro,
Pa., and would supply a congregation for
some time, if invited.
Synod of Pittsburgh,
HERRIOTTSvILLE, Sept. 23, 1862
REV. DR. M'KINNEY :—Rev. Messrs.
D. M'Cay and A. Torrance, with P. G.
Bailey, elder, were appointed to prepare a
Narrative on the State of Religion, to be
presented at the next meeting of Synod.
Brother M'Cay bas since deceased, and
brother Torrance expects to be absent.
You will therefore, per Banner, request
Presbyterial Narratives to be sent to F. G.
Bailey, Pittsburgh. Wm. JEFFERY,
Stated Clerk Synod of Pittsburgh:
idler Son College.—This institution opened
a new Collegiate year September 17th, un
der more favorable auspices than were ex
pected. Over thirty new students pre
sented themselves for admission during the
first two days of the term. As it is known
that quite a number who intended to enter
are with the militia on the border and will
soon be discharged, and that others are de
laying on account of the expected draft, it
is probable that the College will receive an
accession of over sixty students—a little
more than half its usual annual accession
before the breaking out of the rebellion.
A Mistake Correctcd.—We understand that
Rev. Dr. -PLUMER stated in his Presby
tery, complainingly, that a journal had
published a communication from " New
Jersey," commenting unfavorably on his
course, and had refused, to publish a letter
to him from Dr. HODOE, which was favora
ble. This is a mistake. The " New-
Jersey" article was a communication
intended for the public; that from Dr.
Hones was a private letter• to Dr. PLUMER.
It was a breach of confidence and courtesy
in Dr. - PLIUMER to tender it to the press,
and would have been very wrong in us to
make it public. And further; Dr. HonoE
said, in that letter, (we have the copy Dr.
P. sent us,) not one word in favor of Dr.
PLUMER'S course, position, or sentiments.
Colonization.—Many'of our readers take
a deep interest in the colonizing of the free
and freed people of color. The enterprise
of the President and Senator Pomeroy ,w hich
was about locating a colony in Chiriqui,
waa interrupted by remonstrances of the
Costa Rican Minister at Washington. The
difficulties alleged have been partly re
moved; and the following from the Ara
tional intelligencer, indicates the present
state of the affair :
"The Government has, it is reported,
completed the arrangements fora settlement
of colored people in Central America, giv
ing to Senator Pomeroy, who is to conduct
it, full authority over the whole affair.
The precise point to be colonized is not yet
indicated. The emigrants will be provided
with all the necessary farming implements,
clothing and subsistence, and will be sent
out in a first-class steamer early in October.
It is stated that four thousand applicants
are now anxiously waiting to take passage
to this new El Dorado."
REV. DR. PLUMER.
This distinguished Divine has left us,
officially. He will be missed greatly. No
man has filled a higher place, or been
more efficient in the affairs of the Pres
byterian Church in this region, for
the last nine years, than he. But there
is no man so strong that be can
stand up against, and brave successfully,
the sentiment of the religious public. To
think it, is an indication of mental weak
ness. To attempt it, is a manifestation of
pride and obstinacy. The community is
too strong for the individual.
At the meeting of the Trustees of the
Western Theological Seminary, on Septem
ber 18th, Dr. PLIJMER, quite unexpectedly
to all, tendered his resignation as a Profes
sor in the Institution. He was led to this
by a state of affairs relative to himself,
which is well known to the public. The
Directors, a large number being present,
discussed for a time the affairs of the Sem
inary in their present aspect, and then,
unanimously, accepted the resignation.
There are still four Professors in the
Seminary, and instruction will be continued
in all the branches of study. The Profes
sors who remain will divide among them
the subjects which had been under the
charge of Dr. PLummt. They will call in
aid, if needful.
On the next day, the 19th, the Presby
tery of Allegheny City met, according to
the published call. Dr. PLUM tendered
his resignation of his charge of the Central
church. The congregation presented a
long and ably written remonstrance, in
which, among other things, they express a
strong desire to retain their pastor. The
Presbytery, after a respectful deliberation,
granted Dr. PUVER'S request. The Doctor
then asked for, and obtained, a dismission
from the Presbytery of Allegheny City, to
connect himself with the Presbytery of
Burlington, N. J.
The Directors of the Seminary very gen
erously voted to Dr. PLUMES. his salary to
January Ist, and the use of the Professor's
house till April Ist. The Doctor, how
ever, left for the East immediately after the
rising of Presbytery; and his family are
arranging to follow him in. a few days.
Some remarks in the daily papers about
the - students' demonstrations in favor of
Dr. PLUMES; are exaggerations. They
had a great respect for their able teacher;
and in this they, but shared with all men
who could appreciate talents and energy.
But only a few, if any of them, sympathized
'tb'•hiaseeeseion proclivities.
ANTI-SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.
These terms are not synonymous, 11A some
suppose. To some extent they correspond,
and yet there is between them a vast dif
ference. Anti-Slavery is a sentiment. Ab
olition is an act.. The one manifests itself
by language—by stating principles, giving
instruction, reasoning, remonstrating, &c.
The other implies a deed done.
Anti-Slavery will always produce Aboli
tion where there, is a rightful authority to
act. The master will release his slave.
The State will annul its laws. In each in
stance, however, there will he a regard to
the rights and interests of the parties.
Circumstances will be considered, for these
are God's dispensations. The rights of
parties, social interests, time, mode, com
pensation, provision, will, or should be, all
estimated.
A nti-Slavery may spring from various
sources, but it will always be a fruit of the
Gospel, where the whole of .the
and
is
received into an honest heart; and being of
the Gospel it will never interfere beyond
the limits of social right. The spirit that
would interfere beyond the boundaries of
social right, is modern Abolitionism. This
is Abolition's distinctive feature; as we
understand it.
Some make the sentiment that slavery is
a sin, the distinctive feature of Abolition.
They are wrong. Tens of thousands regard
slavery as a sin, who would not go a step
beyond their own country, or their own
State, to interfere with it; that is, they
would not transcend their rightful author
ity.
But the statement, "Slavery is a sin,"
depends for its correctness upon the defini
tion given to Slavery. If by Slavery we
mean the servitude implied in the tenth
commandment : " Thou shalt not covet
thy neighbor's man servant nor his maid
servant"; if we mean by it the rela
tion of master and servant as recog
nized by our Saviour in his instructions;
and if we mean the service implied and
regulated by the apostolic teachings, then
slavery is no sin; that is, if men will re
duce Slavery to Gospel principles, it is no
siu. But if by Slavery we mean the sys
tem of servitude ordained and enforced by
Southern laws and Southern customs, then
Slavery is a sin. It is a sin to be con
fessed; repented of, and abandoned imme
diately. The first thing the Southerners
do, individually and as States, should be
the taking away of all those things in Slav
ery which make it a system of oppression,
and contrary to the 'Word of God. This,
however, is their work, and not the work
of the General Government. Civil govern
ment was not instituted to suppress sin, as
such. Heresy is a sin, and so is Roman
ism, and so is ingratitude; but the magis
trate may not touch these things. And
our Government is limited even in matters
of civil. and social life. It is bounded and
hemmed in by a Constitution which gives
it no power over Slavery, awful as is that
Southern evil.
Hence it is that the men of the North,
though generally they are intensely anti
slavery, are not generally Abolitionists.
They abolished Slavery in their own States;
but they would not go into other States to
abolish it; just as they do not go to Ire
land, and to the English mines, and to
India, and to China, to relieve the millions,
and hundreds of millions, who in those
countries are oppressed by British power
and injustice.
The sentiment of Anti-Slavery we be
lieve to be of the Gospel, and we would
cherish it. And to promote it we would
send the Gospel by the hands of men who
are living exemplifications of its spirit and
beneficence, to every peopleunder heaven.
The act of Abolition we would not attempt
to perform, beyond the boundaries of our
own rightful authority.
THE PRESIDENT HAS A POLICY.
In another column we give the Presi
dent's recent Proclamation. We are glad
to see a policy announced. We are, not
prepared to say that we heartily approve of
it, in every particular and every shade.
But it was high time that something defi
nite should be settled and made known.
We select the particulars :
1. The Constitutional relation of the
United States to each of the States and the
people thereof, is to be restored. Let this
purpose be held to inflexibly, and executed
with vigor.
2. The compensated emancipation and
colonization of the people of color, is to be
pressed upon Congress and the States.
The principle is good; and we hope that
means, righteous and practicable,' may be
discovered. •
3. The law against the return of fugitive
slaves, by military and naval officers; and
the law freeing, in certain defined eircum
stances,slaves captured or otherwise coming
into our hands, their owners being rebels, is
to be enforced. Good. Let the enforce
ment be prompt and undeviating. We
have no doubt about the constitutionality
and the uprightness of these laws.
4. "On the first day of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-three, all persons held as
slaves within any State or designated part
of a State, the people whereof shall then be
in rebellion against the United States,
shall be then, thenceforth and forever free,
and the Executive Government of the Uni
ted States, including the military and Ills
val authority thereof, will recognize and
maintain, the freedom of such persons, and
will do no act or acts to repress such per
sons, or any of them, for any efforts they
may make for their actual freedom."
This is the grand feature of the Procla
mation. This will bring party politics to
a 'crisis. Is this measure constitutional ?
-Are our circumstances such that to save
the nation's life, or to secure its peaceful
existence, this measure its necessary ? Will
the nation sustain the President, in this
measure ? Is it justifiable before God and
man 7
The Pre°lin:nation reached us eis,shortly.
PRESBYTEBIAN BANNER - -SATUDik '•)7 1862.
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before our going to press, that we have
neither the time uor space to discuss it.
in its moral and social aspects it concerns
the whole nation. Christians especially
will take in it a very deep interest.
The following is the substance of a re
cent regulation relative to packages sent to
and from the army, by express:
Government has recently placed Inspec
tors in the express offices at Washington,
Alexandria, Georgetown, Baltimore, New
berg, Port Royal, and other offices near
the Army, for the examination of soldiers'
parcels and other freight goinc , within
military lines. They open and ° inspect
each package,
and when found to contain
liquor of any kind—even one bottle—they
seize and confiscate the whole contents.
These Inspectors likewise open and examine
all return freight sent from within military
lines, in search of contraband articles
stolen or improperly obtained by the ship
per, and seize all such articles.
It is a pity that there should have arisen
a need for such strictness; but there being
really a necessity for it, we trust the offi
cers of Government will be most vigilant.
Liquor is ruinous. It exposes our men to
surprises, and leads to defeats and surren
ders. We have also heard of the stealing,
or robbing, and sending home, of pictures,
plate, and other valuable articles, in quar
ters where we should not have had the
least suspicion. It will be a monstrous
disgrace, and an evil,' if our soldiers learn
to be thieves and robbers. The great body
of theta are above such wickedness and
meanness; and the few who may become
culprits, should be detected and punished.
EXHAUSTION IN EASTERN VIRGINIA.
The vigorous efforts of the rebels to
transfer the seat of war Northward, is a
matter of necessity. They want food and
forige. Vengeful feelings, doubtless, en
ter into their calculations, and hopes also
of political benefit, and of influence at
European Courts. But the want of sup
plies had a main influence. We trust that
the invasion will be but brief; and that
the spirit aroused at the North will not
subside till the foe shall be driven far, far,
South.
The Richmond Examiner says:
" Reason indicates that the aim and ob.
ject of the Confederacy at this stage of the
war is, or should be, a transfer of hostili
ties to the enemy's soil. It is, in fact, a
matter of necessity that we should do so.
It is difficult to see how an enormous army
can be subsisted in Northern Virginia dur
ing the coming Winter. Every thing that
it consumes will have to be transported
there from great distances, for it is now
literally an army in the desert. Few who
have not visited it, know the extent to
which this unfortunate portion of the
State has been desolated. At the end of
eighteen months it has been reduced to a
condition nearly resembling that of Middle
Germany after the thirty years' war. The
drums and tramplings of three conquests
have not produced elsewhere the ravages
and waste which the struggles of the South
ern and the Northern hosts have caused in
Piedmont, Virginia, during the past and
present Summers. It will take one hun
dred full years to restore that country to
the condition in which the war found it."
THE WAR AND FREEDOM.
We find the Cambridge
published in 'a part of Maryland where
slavery greatly abounds, quoted as follows:
" We have never doubted that the war
which the rebels have inaugurated would
prove to be the destruction of slavery.
We warned the people at the time that it
begun, and events have already proved the
truth of our predictions. It is truly on
the part of rebels, a war of freedom to the
black men of the South. But this is not
all. There is another sense in which this
is a war of freedom. There are other men
in the South to be freed as well as black
men. The white men of the South need
the strong arm of the Government to lift
the yoke from their necks. These have
endured a slavery far transcending that of
the blacks. The social system of the
South has never been anything short of a
despotism—a tyranny equal to any of the
age. The mind has forever been bound
here. Freedom of opinion has never been
tolerated below Mason and Dixon's line.
Men have not been permitted to hold, much
less express, their own opinions. A man
might conscientiously have believed sla
very to have been a burden upon -the
State, but he dare not let the public know
that such were his convictions. He would
at once be proscribed in business, and hap
py indeed might he be, if he escaped with
out a coat of tar and feathers. Freedom
of speech and the press was a thing un
known in the South. We shall never ac
complish our magnificent destiny until
these are free. The war is unbinding
them. The true glory of the war is not
that it liberates the black, but the white
men of the South. They are already be
ginning to shout for joy. And when the
war closes, they will join their voices in
one loud hallelujah to the God of liberty
for their deliverance. We "look with pride
and joy to the good time coming when
American freemen shall be free in deed, as
well as in name?'
EASTERN SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND NEW-ENGLAND
THE Christian inquirer thus notices the
death of Col. Fletcher Webster, of the Mas
sachusetts 12th Regiment:
The death of this gallant officer on the
battlefield of Centerville has awakened
much feeling among his own friends ' and
those of his illustrious father. Col. Web
ster, son of Daniel Webster and Grace
(Fletcher) Webster, was born in Ports
mouth, N. H., July 28th, 1813, but lived
most of his life in Boston. He graduated
at Harvard College in 1833, and his popu
larity in the class is proved by the fact
that he was chosen Class Orator. He nev
er aspired.after political honors. He mar
ried Miss White, of Salem, who, with three
children, survives him. He was appointed
Secretary of Legation to Hon. Caleb, Cush
ing in the Chinese embassy of 1842, and
held a position in the Boston Custom
House under the Administrations of Pierce
and Buchanan. He was among the earliest
to rally a regiment at his country's call:
He led the 12th Massachusetts through
this city more than a year ago, and re
ceived a public ovation, which Gov. 'An
drews, of-that State, attended.. Since that
time hag iffien - ,esoidathisily devoved ,t 6
0011,
the practical duties of the war, sealing and
crowning his career by his death on the
field of; onflict.
A MEETING was lately held by several
hundred women of various deaominations,
in Park Street church, when a circular
was presented and adopted, which is ad
dressed to all Christian women throughout
the United States. The object aimed at
may be learned from the following extract:
Allow us affectionately to suggest that
you form circles of prayer throughout the
land, and to propose as subjects of our
prayers, the following:
First of all, the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit on the entire nation; that we may
repent of our personal and national sins;
humble ourselves; and so be prepared to
receive the blessings of a righteous peace—
which shall redound to the glory of God's
holy name.
For our beloved President and his Coun
sellors:
For the Officers of our. Army and Navy :
For our Soldiers and Seamen, that their
beads may be covered in the day of battle,
and that they may be kept from the vices
incident to war; and especially for those
who are in prisons and hospitals, that
they, may be sustained amid their priva
tions and sufferings, or prepared for death:
For .our Chaplains and Surgeons, that
they may be faithful to the sacred trusts
committed to them:
For our afflicted and- bereaved families:
For the Ministers of the Gospel, that
they may be taught of God to show the
the people his whole will :
For the oppressed of our land, that their
deliverance may be hastened.
We have agreed to observe Monday of
every week as a day of special prayer for
these objects; assembling at 10 A. M., and
3 P. M.; each service to occupy two hours.
And now, dear sisters, we commend you
to the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
trusting that we shall none of us be. found
wanting when our country and our Saviour
call us to labor and to pray.
AT a late meeting of the State Confer
ence of the Congregational churches of Mas
sachusetts, an Essay was read by the Rev.
William Barrows, of Reading, on the ques
tion, " In what way shall the tendency of
Sabbath Desecration be resisted ?"
Some preliminary remarks were made
before the question was directly answered.
1. Sabbath breaking is not a solitary sin.
2. Sabbath breaking never obtains a
prominent place among the sins of any
people.
3. Sabbath breaking must be met and
overcome in the same way that other sins
are.
Ways in which, Desecration, is• to be over-
come
1. It may be overcome by distinctly un
derstanding our obligations to keep it.
2. By services that are strictly religious.
3. By using a large portion of the day
in public services.
4. By keeping our churches open in the
hot season.
5. By paying better attention to the lat
ter part of the fourth commandment.
6. By abstaining from personal gratifi
cations.
7. By purifying our homes from secular
publications.
8. It requires a deeper tone of piety to
keep the Sabbath holy. -
Tin Hartford Courant says :
" Connecticut may well feel proud of her
position, being ahead of all other States in
filling her quota under the call for 600,000
men. She has not only more than filled
her quota, but has sent off eight full regi
ments for three years, all completely armed
and equipped and well officered. She has
also furnished quite a number of troops for
the old regiments and raised a new battery,
making more than two thousand over the
three years quota, which reduces the num
ber of men required for nine months to
some five thousand. Of the nine months
volunteers, we believe nearly if not quite
five thousand were in camp and- barracks
on Saturday, and a large number of volun
teers went into camp on Monday. If we are
not mistaken, Connecticut has raised her
full quota, and over, without adding one
of the drafted men. We hope that it will
be found to be true, and that every drafted
man will be discharged. We want to have
it said that Connecticut has furnished her
full quota, and every man a volunteer."
HEW-PORE
THE market for money is again easier,
and, rates rule from 4 to 5 per cent. to the
leading brokers. Gold also has fallen in
value, receding from 119 f, to which it
had advanced, down to 1174.@,117 on Mon
day of the current week. Business notes
are few, on, the , market, and are readily
taken at 5 to 6 per cent., if not over four
months, and if first class ; Inferior names
and long dates are neglected. Business is
now conducted mainly for cash. The
amount of specie shipped last, week was
61,042,835—yet the banks have added
nearly a million to their stock, which now
amounts to 371 millions.
The banks of the country are putting
out a great amount of currency—many
have issued to the full extent of their lim
its by charter; and the tendency, conse
quently, is to lower interest rates
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The commerce of the country is, very
brisk. Large amounts of produee are
coming forward, which keep our canals and
railroads in full freight, and supply the
active foreign demand. The'. imports last
week amounted to 0,30,142, and exports
to $2,820,873, and the exports of this week
will amount to much more.
TRADE is more active, both at auction
and at private sale: ,Tobbers are multiply.
ing sales, their Fall business'having active
ly commenced. The cost of cotton and
wool is still increasing, and that of goods,
therefore, must follow. The stocks of
goods are light, and not at all in proportion
to the demand, present and coming; there
fore holders are more firm, and ask prices
more conformable to the cost of goods.
Cmh terms prevail, and never before was
there so general a rule as now for cash
prices, as the difference between cash and
credit prices is very gre.at. There being ,
no surplus stock, there is no competition
among sellers. The competition is among
buyers, and such as pay cash have always
the preference.
HE German recruiting movement which
is now in progress in this city brings prom
inently before the -public not only the fact
of the large losses that have been sustained
by the regiments whose ranks it is proposed
to fill up, but the truth—not hitherto fully
appreciated—that, of the regiments organ
ize& in this city, not less than seventeen
wore :amOng tbe ..4ermand.
Almost witliont exception they entered the
field with full ranks of a thousand men
each. These seventeen thousand volun
teers, foiming one cavalry, two artillery,
and fourteen infantry regiments, by no
means comprise all the Germans who have
entered the ranks. While it is true that a
few of the men who enlisted in the German
organizations belonged to other European
nations, it is equally certain that scarcely a
regiment has been formed in this city
without embodying sonic of the German
element; and it is fair to assume that it
has contributed twenty to twenty-eve thou
sand men to the ranks.
THE NATIONAL WAR COMMITTEE pro
prosed to raise 50,000 men in this State,
and put Fremont and Mitchell at their
head, to engage in the war a ea, mock se
cession. Prominent gentlemen on the
Committee withdrew their names and their
funds—the Government at Washington
disapproved of the measure, and the matter
_is held in abeyance at least for the present.
Trte; R.F.v. DR. E. C. WINES, at one time
' pastor of a Presbyterian church on Long
Island, author of a large work on "The
Hebrew Commonwealth," for several years
a Professor in Washington College, Pa.,
and latterly President of the City Univer
sity of St. Louis, has become correspond
ing Secretary to the New-York Prison As
sociation, to whose . philanthropic enter
prises he will for the time devote his en
tire time and energy. The Independent
says : n The friends of this institution
look upon his acceptance with great pleas
ure, and welcome him cordially to the hon
orable labors of his office. He has already
issued a comprehensive circular, embody
ing a great amount of information con
cerning prisons and prisoners, with statis
ties whose magnitude shoivs how extensive
is the work which such an Association
may find to do."
PHIL AD ELPHIA
GEN. HENRY BOHLEN Of this city, was
killed on the 22d of Augustin the battle on
the Rappahannock, in Virginia: The fam
ily in Philadelphia, have since learned that
John Borie Bohlen, the son of the Gener
al, died at Baden Baden; in Germany, on
the very day that his father fell mortally
wounded in the action named.
PERRAPS no city in the Union has done
more than Philadelphia to aid the Gov
ernment in crushing out this wicked re
bellion. Her citizens have contributed
freely both men and treasure. Over $l,-
000,000 has been raised in aid of the boun
ty fund for volunteers; subscription of
the city corporation, $500,000; private
subscriptions to the general fund, $450,-
000; private subscriptions to the Corn
Exchange regiment, 825,000; subscription
of Pennsylvania Railroad Company, $50,-
000; subscription of Reading Railroad
gonipany, $25,000; private subscription
to Gray Reserve Regiment, $20,000. Be
sides these subscriptions, there have been
numerous others to regiments and compa
nies, which must sum up some thousands
of dollars. Notwithstanding these exceed
ingly large and liberal subscriptions, and
also the large losses incurred through the
swindling default of Southern debtors,
business continues good. Labor is in good
demand, and the business of merchants
larger•by far than would naturally be ex
pected in the present peculiar condition of
the country. Storekeepers generally are
laying in good stocks, and otherwise mak
ing preparations for an active season.
TIM SPRING GARDEN WATER WORKS
were greatly damaged by the late freshet ;
but, as we learn from the Press, the work
of repairing it is rapidly going on. A
force of three hundred men is employed all
the time, including Sundays. A portion
of the wall of the forebay is carried away,
and nearly all the coping. The iron rail
ing has been entirely destroyed. Part of
the stone work, some stones weighing GOO
pounds, was carried a distance of 150 feet.
The culvert running through the grounds,
and under the boilers, was carried away and
filled with dirt. This will require a re
newal of the work on the culvert for a dis
tance of 500 feet. The water was about
eighteen inches higher than was ever
known; in fact, so high as to entirely ex- 1
tiuguish the fires in the furnaces. Over.
sixty feet of one of the three ascending
mains at 31st and Thompson• streets was
carried away. The other two were thrown
so much out of place as to require over
hauling about the same length. These
mains are now being relaid on heavy trestle
work, and the repairs will be completed on
Monday. Consider i able damage was also
done to the grounds at these works.
Wao CAN READ the following without
tears ! We copy from the Press :
Several charitable ladies lately visited
one of our , military hospitals. Every re
freshment that could be furnished, they
supplied. Ice-cream was banded round,
and the poor invalids eagerly partook of it.
In one corner of the room ' however, the
spoon and saucer had not been touched.
On the bed, by the little table containing
them, lay a young boy, his features pale,
his eyelids droopinc , . A lady gently fan
ning his fair forehead, softly whispered,
" the poor little fellow is asleep, we must
not disturb him."
"No, ma'am, I'm not asleep," he an
swered. It was a silvery voice, full of the
sweetness of innocence and boyhood.
"Well; my little fellow," continued the
lady, as she nearer drew, " are you not fond
of ice-cream ?"
" Very much so," he replied.
" Did n't you see me place this on your
little table?"reaching for the plate of
cream.
" Oh, yes," he answered, tremulously,
"but I shut my eyes and cried to myself."
Oried, - my child ! why, what made you
cry, my dear ?"
" Oh, madam ! if you will pull the quilt
down a little, you will see."
The lady did so, and found that he had
no arms ! Both of them he had lost in
battle.
Poor little fellow! the sympathy of si
lence and tears was all that could be be
stowed upon his wounded spirit. The re
membrance of sister and brother, of father
and mother, of childish frolics and play
mates—loved of yore, was =awakened to,
tiobthe thn fancy of the little suffereif
to wreathe his young brow with the still
tenderer beauty of resignation to the will
of God.
ECCLESIASTICAL
Rev. W. C. NEELY has been called to th
churches or Uhricksville and New Phil
e
adelphia, Ohio.
PRESBYTERIAL NOTICES.
The PRESBYTERY OF ALLEGHENY will
meet, at Sunbury, on the Third Tuesday (21st) of
October, at 11 o'clock A. 11.
J. R. COULTER, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OP CLARION stands ad
journed to meet at Licking, the last Tuesday of
September, at 11
P o'clo ck A. M.
S. . KINRAID, Temp. Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OF ERIE will meet at
Conneautville, Pa., on the Third Tuesday (21st)
of October, at 6 o'clock P. M.
S. J. M. EATON, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OF HILLSBORO' is to
meet in Hillsboro', on the Friday before the
second Wednesday in October, being the 3d day
of the month, at 7 o'clock P. M. Sessional
Records, and written reports of Settlements with
Pastors and Stated Supplies, are required at this
meeting.
The following resolution was adopted at a late
meeting, viz.: "That Presbytery send to delin
quent churches an imperative injunction to
send up to Presbytery, at the annual Fall.meet
ings, an accurate and full report of, Settlements
with Pastors and Supplies, and the. precise
amount of their. indebtedness to the same, that
they may be recorded on the Minutes of Presby
tery." THOS. W. HYNES, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OF ALLEGHENY CITY
stands adjourned to meet in the First church,
Allegheny City, on the First Tuesday of October,
at 10 o'clock A. M.
WILLIAM ANNAN, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OF DONEGAL will meet,
agreeably to adjournment, in the church of Slate
Ridge, on Tuesday, October 7th, 1862, at 11
o'clock A. M. The Rev. J. C. Thom will preach
at the opening of the sessions.
JOHN FARQUHAR, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OF BLAIRSVILLE ad
journed to meet at Poke Run, on the First rues
day of October, at 2 o'clock P. M.
JAMES .DAVIS, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OF HUNTINGDON, will
bold its next stated meeting in the East Kisha
enquillas Presbyterian church, on the First
Tuesday (the .7th) of October, at 11 o'clock A.
M. Sessional Records will be reviewed at this
meeting.
Members or Commissioners coming by railroad
will be met in Lewistown on Tuesday, the 7th,
at; 9.1 o'clock A. M., by conVeyances to bear them
to the church. ROBERT HAMILL,
Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OF ROCK RIVER will
meet at Dixon, on Monday evening, October
13th, at 71 o'clock. Assessments for the Con
tingent Fund will be called for.
S. T. WILSON, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OF ST. CLAIRSVILLE
will meet in St. Clairsville, on the First Tuesday
of October, at 11 o'clock A. M.
JOHN MOFFAT, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OF SALTSBURG stands
adjourned to meet at Centre church, on the First
Tuesday of October, at 2 o'clock P. M.
IV. ST. WOODEND, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OF NEWTON will hold its
next sessions at Hackettstown, N. J., on the First
Tuesday of October, commencing at o'clock
A. M. Sessional Narratives must be forwarded
at least ten days previous, to Rev. Gilbert Lane.
F. KNIGHTON, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OE STEUBENVILLE will
hold its stated Fall meeting in Annapolis, on the
First Tuesday (7111 day) of October next, at 10
o'clock A. M. ROBERT HERRON,
The PRESBYTERY OF WASHINGTON will
hold its next stated meeting in Clayeville, on the
First Tuesday (7th day.) of October next, at 11
o'clock A. M. ALEX. McCARRELL,
The PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE will meet
'et West Newton, on the First Tuesday of Oeto
her, at 3i o'clock P. M.
J. M'CLINTOCK, Stated. Clerk.
SYNODICAL.
The SYNOD OF WHEELING stands adjourned
to meet at Wasbington, - Pa.; on the Third Fri
day of October, (17th.) at - 7 P. M.
• R. V. DODGE, Stated Clerk.
The SYNOD OF OHIO will meet in Bucyrus,
0., on the Second Thursday (9th) of October,
1862, at 7 o'clock P. M.
M. A. HOGE, Stated Clerk.
The SYNOD OF CHICAGO will meet at 'Men
dota, 111., on Thursday, the 16th day of October
next, at 2 o'clock P. NI.
I. N. CANDEE, Stated Clerk.
The SYNOD OF PITTSBURGH will meet in
the First church, Pittsburgh, on the Third Tues
day (21st) of October, at 3 o'clock P. M.
Presby terial Narratives are to be sent in due
time to Rev. A. Torrance, New Alexandria, Pa.
WM. JEFFERY, Stated Clerk.
The SYNOD OF ILLINOIS stands adjourned
to meet at Jacksonville, on the Senond Wednes
day of October, at 7 o'clock P. AL
ROBERT JOHNSTON, Stated Cleik.
Emancipation of Slaves in the= Rebel States,
A PROCLAkATION
By the Preeident of the United Staten of America
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States of America and Commander-in -Chi e f of
the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim
and declare that hereafter as heretofore, the war
will be prosecuted • for the object of practically
restoring the Constitutional relations, between
the United States and each of the States and
the people thereof', in which States that. relation
is or may be suspended or disturbed. That it is
my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress,
to again recommend the adoption of a practical
measure, tendering pecuniary aid to the free ac
ceptance or rejection of all slave States so called,
the people whereof may not then be in , rebellion
against the United States, and which States may
then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may
voluntarily adopt, the immediate or gradual
abolishment of slavery within their respective
limits. And that the effort to colonize persons
of African descent, with their consent, upon this
Continent, or elsewhere, With the prevfously ob
tained consent of the Governments existing
That
will tm continued.
That on the first day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any
State or designated part of a State, the people
whereof shall then be in rebellion against the
United States, shall be then, thenceforward and
forever free, and the Executive Government of
the United States, including the military and
naval authority thereof, will recognize and main
tain the freedom of such persons, and will do no
actor-acts to repress such persons, or any. of
them, in any efforts they may make for their
actual freedom.
That the Executive will, on the 'lst day of
January aforesaid, by proclarnatiOn, designate
the States and parts of States, if any, in which:
the people thereof respectively shall then be in
rebellion against the United States, and the•
tact
ofany Slate or the people thereef shall on that
day be in good faith represented in the Congress.
of the United States, by members chosen thereto'
at elections, wherein a
voters of such majority of the qualified.
State -shall have participated,
shall, in the absence of strong. countervailing
testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that
such State and the people thereof are not then
in rebellion against the United States.
That attention is hereby Called
to.
Congress, 't onal
Article Congress, entitled An Act to ean Additional-
Article of War, approved March 13th, 186 9 , and
which act is in the words and figures folloWing
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of ,Amerioa
Con gress assem bled That hereafter Chi folio 'his .1
Obeli be Prbleulgameil edbitibnal artiolhdf vivo'
for the governoieut of the army or li , I' L i ß „i
States. and shall he observed as such, vi z .:
All officers or persons iu the military or nava l
service of the United States are prohibited from
employing any of the forces under their respect
ive commands for the purpose of returning fugi
tives from service or labor, who may h ave ,
escaped from any person ho whom such service
or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who
shall be found guilty, by a court martial, of vio
lating this article, shall be dismissed from the
service.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this
act shall take effect from and after its pass age .
Also, to the ninth and tenth sections of an fn,
entitled an act to suppress insurrection, to punish
treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the
property of rebels, and for other purposes, ap
proved July 11th, 1862, and which sections are
in the-words and figui es following:
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all
slaves of perions who shall hereafter be engaged
in rebellion against the Government of the Uni
ted States, or who shall in any way give aid or
comfort thereto, and escaping from such persons,
and taking refuge within the lines of the army;
and all slaves captured from such persons, or de
serted by them, and coming under the control of
the Government of the United States; and all
slaves of such persons found on or being within
any place occupied by rebel forces, and after
wards occupied by the forces of the United
States, shall be deemed captives of war, and
shall be forever free of their servitude, and not
Again held as slaves.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That no
slave escaping into any State or Territory, or th e
District of Columbia, from any other State, shall
be delivered up, or in any way impeded or hin
dered in his liberty, except for the crime of
some offence against the laws, unless the person
claiming such fugitive, shall first make oath that
the person to whom- the labor or service of such
fugitive is alleged to be due, is his lawful owner,
and has not borne arms against the United State s
in the present rebellion, nor in any way given
aid or comfort thereto. No person engaged in
the military Or naval service of the United States
shall, under any pretence whatever, assume to
decide on the validity of the claim of any person
to the service or labor of any other person, or
surrender up any such person to the claimant on
pain of being dismisied from the service.
And I do hereby enjoin upon, and order all per
sons engaged in the military and naval service of
the United. States, to observe, obey and enforce,
within their respective sphere of service, the act
and sections above recited, and the executive
will, in due time,.recoininend that all citizens of
the - United States, who shall have remained loyal
thereto, throughout the rebellion, shall upon the
restoration, of the Constitutional relat ion between
the. United States and their respective States,
and the:people if, that relation shall have been
suspended or disturbed, be compensated for all
losses by acts of the United States, including the
loss of slaves.
In witness w.bereof, I have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the City of Wnshingion, this twenty
second day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-tyro,
and of the independence of the. United States the
eighty-seventh.
By the President:
ABB.AHAZI LINCOLN
WIT:LTAI.I H. SEWARD, SCC'y of State.
Washington, Sept. 22, 1862.
Sept. 19.—Gen. McClellan's dispatches to-day,
announcing the final triumph of the Army of i he
Potomac, were the occasion for the most popular
demonstrations of that confidence which has pre
vailed here since he took the field. In official
circles it was especially notable, the news being
received in all quarters with unbounded joy. No
less extravagant were the encomiums passed up
on its commander than the army itself—an army
that, under another leader,. only a month since,
came reeling back from defeated fields. The pub
lic at large had its interest wrought to the high
est point to-day, and the anxiety to hear the
news was almost unequalled. When it reached
the bulletin, at Willard's, an immense crowd
gathered, and George Francis Train was called
upon to read the dispatch, Afterwards, he
mounted a chair, aad made a -speech to the
crowd, which was frequently interrupted with
cheers for McClellan. At'other places, equally
impromptu demonstrations were made over' the
great success.
Stated Clerk
Adjutant General .Tiromas left for Annapolis
to-day, to organize the:paroled prisoners into
brigades, preparatory.to their being sent to the
North-west to operate against the Indians. It is
now probable that not more than half of their
number will tie sent. Infantry are not needed in
that campaign so much as mounted riflemen.
Stated Clerk
Hon. Cassius M. Clay publishes a card to-day,
denying that he has ever said a word to the
President about Gov. Morton., or in favor of mak
ing him the commander of the North-western
grand division of troops. He has never proposed
any other way of carrying on the war than by
the constituted authorities, nor desired the ovet
throw of the President, dr the establishment of
the dictatorship of Fremont, or any other man.
He calls upon the country to trust the President,
as he himself does, and pronounces the assertions
concerning him calumnious;
The President has promoted Brigadier General
Robert Smteock - to be major -general.
Sept. 20. - --The President atitiCabinent are ju
bilant over the events -- ;of, the week. There is
no longer a oubt, of McClollan!s admirable
eralship, is now ad : Mitt - 0d that the Presioent,
Maj. Heil:ft:meek, (who was appointed I.r his
present position through McClellan's influence.)
and. even secretary .Stanton. himself, earnestly
sought McClellan's services, turning to him as
their chief reliance ancl . hope in the terrible strait.
to which Gen. Pope's blunders had brought !huts.
Hours were spent, in earnest Oonversation 6n the
subject. in pressing the matter on the young Gen
eral, null the. result. was a better understanding
all routtd and satisfaction to all. The result has
shown the wisdom_of the Government's selection,
by demonstrating the ability of the brave and
army-worshipped chieftain •to organize victory.
Great eirpeettitiOna have liee'n indulged in that
Gen. McClellan was going to bag Lee, ..):e ekso 2 -
Howell Coble,..one apd alL.but .was it ever known
that en 'arnif - of 100;000 or 450,000 men was
bagged by another army tit:only equal numbers,
especially wit it the topographical advantages Po's
tweed by the insurgents . ? That until the sur
render of Harper's Ferry to the rebels General
51eClellan anticipated the capture of a large por
tion of their forces and .munitions, and the con
sequent greatest demoralization and weakening
of their army, is highly probable; but the un
timely surrender of that point (Harper's Ferry)
by the Union forces, made such a desirable result
impossible, and Gen. Alceclellan had to content
himself with driving them across the Potomac
and pursuing , them vigorously in their flight.
Thisis all any. General, could do with t h e bark
door`thus thrown open, enabling them to escape
as our, victorious- army approached from the
front.
An important Movement has been going on for
some days. On Wednesday morning,.the War
Department issued orders for 'certain corps 1 0
hold themselve s in reediness for service. This
was succeeded by the, t ransportation of heavY
munitions over to Virginia. and by a steady c'i
vance of our forces; Since. then' Leesburg 11118
been cleared of the 7ebels, and: Thoroughfare
Gap has been,found to be in fine condition for au
advancing army. Our ,lines have been widely
extended, and you'mist not be surprised to bear
of another Department of the glorious Army of
the Potomac doing something short, sharp and
decisive.
There are , now,,it is said, 'BO,OOO troops, old
and new, ready for service, wherever the Repub
lic.needs soldiers. They, in_ , fact, are marchingon, but in "what direction it is not stated.
You . may tierhaps 'hear before Sunday night
of their movements, their destinations. and
their deeds, lt is enough:to know that let the
rebels
n do
red tb i e o. P)r- ' asa
a a n s ti t 4Y - InttY, there is just cause for ex
ments refer g,e of victory in the move-
. . ,
• , Seftator.Bro*ning.
. ..,
Republicans in Illinois, who know how "rad
ical ' Senator Browning was when he left home
to,attend-the laat session of Congress, will retu,.e
to.helieve, that his
„.extraordinary course in the
Senate had not some referenoe, perhaps ucn
sciously to the ',Senator ;itittlielf, to the vancaont-
Judgeship of the SUPrime Court: Certainly a
few of them will not ttowbe glad to bear that he
is not to.obtain the prize for which be WaS SUP
pOSed to have labored.— Judge David Davis, or
Bloomington is,to'be the recipient of the Presi
dent's nontiatttiort—ti fact. Which is a sufficient
Senitcoixtme
tent on Mr. Browning's Claim, that, in the
lie anted in obediente-to Presidential in
-B..Pialktion._ Judge. Davis tisiunderstood to be with
txte I.lreeddept —for,s,contsetoion--0 Ir
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