REV. DA - yin M'IKINNEY Editor and Proprietor. TERMS IN ADVANCE. ST NOLN SUBSCRIPTIONS. ;LSO y Clime 1.26 Dam VISHAD IN ETHEL 09 TUN Ulnae 2.00 For Two Dect.kas, we will send by mail seventy number nd for Otto Inman, thirty-three numbers, easters Bending vetwury subscribers and upwards, will thereby entitled to a paper without charge. It.mswaisihonld be prompt, * little before the year expires Bend payments by safe hands, or by i mail. Direct all letters to REV. DAVID M'KINNEY, Pittsburgh, Pa. 0 g na EM Suggested by the Death of Joseph P. ir Ca,y , of the 108 d Rq't Penna. Vols. When our country, loudly calling On her patriot sone to Come And protect and shield the nation, Many leave a peaoeful home; With a manly indignation, They re,pel the' traitorous hand 'that would dare, in foul rebellion, beaeorate our happy land. , -One, , in youthful life and vigor, t Bade a Mother, kind, adieu; Bushed to arms, with youthful tuinirades; To defemd•the right and true. Does he,i,in the hiatleil'ilighig, Dauntless nieetiheifiitiods;fou? ' 'PleisiclAisettie Bats lad him lovr. Xteathtitaa4ahilhis ley:fingers On that faiziand sunny brow ; Far away from.home he limgers, the - Mandate he •Must bow. Not a friendlnsmooth his pillow, bfotherasisters—Lnotte were near; • likinn to isoothe hid dylag > auguigh, 44one tb.shed thwittotittiet'S teat: Was.theit'riend. of sinners near thee, loldier, at thy parting breath t Aid his graolous presence cheer thee, In the gioomy vale of death.? Did as angel band attend thee: .Through-the pearly gates' 4340'intolhe heavenly manikins, Nrohased by a Saviour's'iori These-Atm questions, anxious mother, withituthy bosom/lie p. SuCeememberithet•the;eounsels, Of UGT:hiskerifitill. are Wise. - - WhenAiethild, :thew difistlevotelim , To Gail's °seal:tent-keeping os're , t , 'tiertitstptitt still, for he it faithful;' I , Be has iteard a motherlipririfei: .• !T.hough,,far from his dying pillow, You his Wings could not tell, 1 . Bow botoro.your heavertly,Father, Meekly ,saying, RIM . What you know not noisy hereafter Shall)he Tully known to) thesi ) What you noir behold so darkly; Yon:shall soon.with wonder sea: $ Touthfui sohlier heed.the Warning; Though t the battle you:survive, Death ralf qulakly claim' his victim-- . O for preparstion.atrive, 100#01,0,11.862. Ter fehei Tree*tartan Banner Prekbytety of 411tglially. The Presbytery, of Allegheny met in Sunkury on the 21st of October,. Rev. John ConIVE,, was installed pastor 4A!le °hutch of 'Butti?ury,, , Al whiph :he:3B to give one-fourth of his ministerial‘labors. The following resolution offered, by Rev. W . : F . Kean, Was adopted i' Retatisii; That this Presbytery cordially approvei of the fidelity fo the interests of religion in general-4peCially tO asts of religion in its Presbyteirian'type and to the interests of our coiihtry, inani gaited* by the Board of Diretors of' the Western Theologies'', 'Seinineiy;' in die , pensing with the labors Of "Rev. Dr. W. S Plainer ' in that Inl3titutiOn. The following repdit adopted': gintotv. .Bd , Sabbath in November; Di Hallo lsh 4; ," Deeember,,j4.:B. Boyd. 4th " " Ogden .3d a January, J. V. Miller. 2d Febriary; S. Aahisey. 2d 14 March., J. S. Boyd. Ist g; ApriirDetiroung. 'art rsville ~ 4th Sabbath in NovllperTW, W. M'Kinney.. '''" ' Deoember,,,E., B. Walker. 3d . 64 Jannary,'E: Ogden. 3d 1t February, J. F. Boyd. " Mardis, John Coulter. With leave , to obtain supplies for one-fourth of- the time. Mt. Nebo and Bull Creek have leave to obtain ,supplies till tbeApring , ineeting , r oo esbytery adjourned to meet. in. H a rris. vi ,on the, „Becloud Tuesday 'of April, 1863. J., L, dtwprzn, Stated. Clerk. For the Preebyterlan Banner. From the South-western Army. ' CORINTH, Miss., Oct. 31, 1862.' Mac qirifrolv:- 1 --4. haverbeen able taiealt hut little , as to hosv the war affe'oti `Mir Presbyterian 'brethren. That the Majottf. of our ministers hereabout, are 'secessiiitil fists, we know.' I have seen only futirief them Pi tIPEI I. have been. in Diile. - The Ersn, ,waa -Prv:.ralmeri of New Orleade, When I wee,brought into Corinth a pris oner, I food hint here. ...,This was the day after Boweacd .. had published Butler's order witlr44l drd'to'theiladies Of New' Or -1 leans. :TheSouthern army wits exceeding ly exalted over that - order. 'Every officer who spoke to me had' aroopt of It ; ' and all asked.o3 r ,:bPiPt°'' atk i li t 4 .; 1 414 0 -4 " 00 3 told me .that Dr. , pAittipgr ~ was , making , speeches at Oorrntheethe subjeotinf: this. , order. . I cannot' say 'whethiantheiteffittere reported him correctly; hitt&m4u4 orthinf . ,_ told me that he exhorted.44iCieldiers to take dire vengeance on as foi 'that deep in sult to Southern honai • Fict . his talk was exciting the men Co 'tl4 ti kbikhdst degree of ferocity ; and that we should /fisulotteilFeud ful'consequences of it Whenever he attle of Corinth should tome off.. I had liberty enough While at Corinth, to have gone to, hear & one of hie speeches had I. chose° .to do so; hue./ Yidged it improper. He was lodginfg with the Washington ,Battery at , , the time; had 00 a blue woollen shirt, but,- ao'uniformi and told me that he was , not a chaplain. He said he bad come up the • country toJittend' the ,Southern qener4, s Assembli;,lptit . :oo not seem willing to sax, more atioul'bitisile From all that I heard of him we must conclude that he ought to be held to a stern reckoning when the,d,sy of accounts comes. The second of our ministers whom .X have 1110 ire named, I believe, Aleitthd'isi. Her itarbduded himself to me in the gar when I. was on my unwilling journey to ' Jackson, blikelj and told me that he, was . living) .not fironorth of Jackson. He'', avoided all questibtia touching the war and what 'lied 'to 1 itriiid I . have 'no notion whether lieiWieltittssikithioilitit. 'He prom- 'Bet teteli"htlitdef Ft dfit.itritt 'eTaokson, to ( calbandvade me ;''Whitll2.lll7k he did. Hedithotted , sign's; Of' b , tit 'kinds/poi' more than I observed intSVh ik " P ''' ''''' MEM =ME MARY on' sdpidies 7 4 1trtsbiiqi4 . .. -- n - ::. •7.g,,,.:..a.iitttr, -,, VOL. XI.. NO.. 9. The third was brother Hunter. Many will remember him in the North as an Irishman, a teacher in Ohio, a student at Danville, and finally pastor of one of the churches in that town. ' •He afterwards be came pastor of the church at Jackson, and married a widow lady of that place, who had a great estate and many negroes. He is a singularly good example of the way. in which the peculiar, institution converts a man. It was evident that he considered me, an enemy., He came,to see me in the prison, and feund me with , no clothing but the suit I was, taken in, and with no blan ket. I had a piece of board and two•grain seeks for a 'bed. He spoke about it,,and coldly said he must set the „Presbyterians to supply me with something. A good elder 'brought me a cross.leg'ged cet to sleep on; but I. .have good' ; reason tee think that,he was moved by his owni-hearttao do it, and not by Mr. Hnnter. Mr.:H.made the prisoners a smell • ,present ; of smoking tobacco;of and we are indebted to him no farther ; and farther 'than that, we never heard from.the Presbyterians 'of , jack'son. One day a,Methodist, minister came to;see me, and asked how -I was, supplied ;,,and Said that be heard the Presbyterians had fitted me up nicely, and that he 4oultiltell that they. had ;nott done so. , I never , heard of hintragain. Mr. Huntercame-to see me once: more, and' held quite.,an'etiguinent The 'substancei of itlviits-LbW•hat do you expect , to gaint by thiw war ?1: lout sub jugate ,us.so: far that we , can not-teen an army, :in the field, nue; men will take shooting everp Yankee that- Panel - di - alone; as , well/as: every.Southern;liympathiseevitli the North. Andi if Iron , succeed,iti'mak ing even that species of, resistance impos sible, then 'it will'ivart, anti ' take the first opportunitylto robe& We will go' over to the•first , enemy who makes war with the Ueited.States, and. help him ; -to eaterti the country.• We will seize • every Occasion to. rebel Fer' my part I will act ,so; and, if ive'do net, find any-oecitsion tido it for fif-' teeiriyears, we still *ill. de •it then Noir whatioan ,you do with such a man asjs mar I answered him, that ,would -report this conversation, to the Commander of, the Fed eral. force alien we should enter 'Jackson. The feurth minister where I Lai° inet`ii the , Rev. Mr.' Frierson,. ;who tides rteitti cinto. When we mere , en MID* , tthereti called on him. .11ereceived-me amicably, and told me that he was , on ,parctle, within Certain'limits;' as" a known secessionist., He had threo congregations in':the 'region southiof Caritith;'fbirts , wats•initt'ullowed - td visit them. • Hisltorn-field had beeer , eaten up ny our teams. , His, family was. gone outside of our lines. I wished, to ask him what he now thinks of' , tlie war 'which he assisted, to bring on; but•-•I ' j Another,of' our ministers, the :Rev' `Mr: Gaston, *used to live here. in n porinth, tint thaw; not seen him: Hehad a !e F . • rree t •male School with a very geed - three story brick 'building. The Southern ainii• first took the' building- for a hospital ; add our troops followed the' example ' Mr. Gaston and his family were' allowed' to iive-within-, our tines, in a horese 'whicit.he owned; his parole; 'but some "=time since,'Mys. G.' weal taken in-an attempt `.'tee'birty, inforina; tiontioVer:'our lite& 'td" the' enemy."' wits' deemed a 'constructive brOch.- - ef his parole; add Itesod his' faniily - were sent' south 'of our lines': His 'property 'here badly 'thireaged ; 'filirostred with deep lines of entrenehinent; lences-'kente; - shrubbery trampled doin; *ineYerd dekii ; nefirdeited dining Tool' denfolished toMakel ovens .aiitt tent-chimneys. , ' `• - • I Mitokierity 'for the Sufferingel - 0d lekiies •• of these'neete'; but when retireinber the fetriong 'geneticist:et With ''*hieh - they cony trived and pushed forward division l iti 'State I and Chttrehoveteam,not,but say, that•thirs • it,ought,to be,t , J. W.:;: por P'resb yt 'PrealiSidir of 'MG • . This, . Presbytery met , at ,Gonnea,utvillei Pa.,, on. the 21st ,ult. The meeting, was, small but , pleasant and , larmonious. Mr. Jamesoi. Gray, a licentiate of, the ; .Presbyr. tery of Allegheny. Oity,iwas receivedrunder the, care of Preshytery. Messrs. Newell S.i Lowrie and James H. Gray, were *alined as Evangelists; -the, former to labor in Atinnettutville,and-vieln, ity,Ahe lattcr at Siigar,,Grovttatifi in *arren Co., Ra, ,This,Presbytery noyo numbers eighteen members on, largernumber than it has had since the di vision inz1:8;8. , , Presbytery, adjourned, to mot at Meadr ville on the second TuesdayottApriL next., .T.„M,..BAToty, Stated Clerk. Mr MOE her' Letter: NDlTbit . :- , After years a'a,baezi` c e . , a stray 130i:eV fotiiist tits ioArty, and'it lddks like infold friehtt. 'lt necuried, to'me` that perhatefin"(tooOtanal `article Might' netibe ; 'end: so I WANTtaken my Oh; 'lf *hit I write is. Wortlryetraintioe, you have'only te.seilit xnellitleper . irhiCh• may eontain.'tny,Ciih: • 'Not being able to preaeli,"44 - 'pOik / eel' only hops 14 be per. 'Afd•yet'l'am half ti tilArliteh it sub ijeetirmio- ' *yeti •SYriod I was intro .ddeeit to ssneint as "the writer of irthilid.!'• And' oh in ' way this year, a good brothlie; shout. to introduce lite • to one, of yelii"old 'Mends; said, " Diffign'etet,4i v of -7" ",Oh, es,"y w as the " of the old ßohner."' , alts this is very is 'very mortifying;. and if My Irethiiii don't stop stay at homey'or put up my •Ren,. I don't write to"be knewii, but to try to be . And I 'dOn't'irent'l.lfe matter 'men: . ' tiolied in my heittLing.,',.... 'Others wilt infeilinlntree'the'doiqs 'of ion`r" . Bynott. Not was not li*lient 'during much Ite - preisedingi. ,134' fir - as I observe, 'ii: very good feeling ,:w..." l :aiiinifested. A rod share'Of the 'ti me miiipent iedeidtional - exeroisic 'This is 'Nett should W.' . self %Meg ',Ohl 's* :tome years in 'the ein ' tifOriight 'of thipt rileasou ,or 10,i; ttdr a „eta . v isit . thit• ehirqard' Jefilettrity 'at . ini and '4l; Lasts. khaetridiet kiivealOd to' me soma . of the *diders•theis le be - seen. Several '.4oiiiiets' of the /11CisWeiii4le are in process 'of construction ;-inif i tifeee, with the posir -eifal madhinery at ivork;:are well wOrthy , .eberal hundred Men are dili,,denity; 'at - wore am' haji . py, to 'say . tti t ‘t do visitors'arti - e illowed on the Bahbath. 1-liivehjesi /I Thitieerollo,nth4-, tar &b Niabiieirlan Banner PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1862. mend it to all your readers. It is of thril ling interest. Another work is about to be published, which all should read. his the Narrative of the Rev. John 11. Aughey, recently escaped from Mississippi, and is entitled "The Iron Furnace, or Slavery and Secession." It promises to be of great interest and importance. , But enough for, the, present, from your old friend, W. J. M. CIifiRESPONDEPICB. The Congregational Union—Presbytery and Lae pendency--Chapel Building—Tlie Union and the American War--Dismittion , end • Resolve=:Evan gelical Alliance Conforence--Resolution as to the North-England Warned—A Summons to Prayer --The Spanish Bible Readers and their Doom— Isabella of Spain, ,and : Eugenia of France- 1 , , Tks Bible " not bound "—British Association at . Cambridge The Sun and 'his ..SpOis—'-.4fan Che,Gorilla—;Letter from Dr. Lityingstone-,-Mad agascar, and Air. Ellis at the Capilah--Episcopal Missionary ilisX4 for M a dagascar. LOYDOIV . , Oct. fii,1862.' THE . 00.4431EGATioNAL of •Eng laniL an& Wales attendedby Scottiah and Irish delegates—held last week its half' ; ' m yearlymeeting -Lon'don. The RSV: Sanitiel•Martin, Qf 'Wesiminstee,'Preaident for the year,delivered an 'opening address, marked- by. much 'Tamer: A sermon was iireiionsly preached in Weighhanie chapel, by"thn Rev. W. Guest, ,of Taunton, Who vindicated' the' position taken Up centenary' year by the Nonconformists, .and` teferring 'to the- cenduet of the EVan gelical clergy,in:Tefereaee thereto, predicted their decline powerful parity' in the Chi/eche England. Nearly £130;000 Wei been raised for the- centenary ptirpoias; which would .kave Veen? much larger but for the distress in Laneashire, and is likely rico be increased hereafter. The Rev. Dr x ffeFerline was present reinasentatlie 6f - United Preshiteriatiiitartidd expressed s :kips • that CongregatiOnali s m and , Preibr' iteritTiem • were now' cotameneingn•Chris-. 'tiara courtship, which, mighti.at •,sinne not. distatit . day, end in union. He thong*. Union • 'riot only peiiible,' its De.' McFarlane ia'a• stranger iifEngland, and is too :Sanguine. • Indiadialism` been pushed almost to the extreme,in, English ? . Disientin'g Churches, and that .they,would, as a body, submit even - to the rule of a Congregational Presbytery 'such` as trohit Owen approved •Of, 'much less' to Presby" • teries and ISynodsit is, for the 7,preaent; lan& for . a long: time to come • a .poetic dream. Mtny ministers yearn .for something like_ 1466344 Y.. • The Congregational Union in Lite `nteetinge''(of I "Asitetribliei,""•as it id beginning ito :he the: ifashion trd 'style Aide 'gatherings,) maker some approach , to Tres-7 bytery, , hut; after all, it is very is a, simple truth, that Presbytery is looked. on as Scottish and eiaic—increasingly' roap' ectiblefind relpeited, true; and likely •to bnstiUMore . so. r - But the time ittfl ?not yet come, when the: f' union,"•f• that isi; 46 ;eeelesitistical, ineorporation,',',is ,possible. , Neither, partyi Wding thfir . prinz - fples, could or would -agree, _Meaawhile fraternal•saltitations,an&kindly intercourse. are very. desirable. Chapel Ruilding has assumed } . t large ropertions,,in,connexion o with ,Congrega tionaliatn. During the , Present year,' there . 131s' SOO' new`` places of WorehiP . erect ed 4: , eapable , oft'ucoiemodatingt -165,000, and costing. 1A95 3 0001 This ‘. refers td! places out of .London, ; rand .. to,, what is called ":The English Chapel...Auildieg Sp_oi n tY2! • P,.uP IScffatfltryl of. a,separater " London ", bociety, sta,tedi.,that the matropOs alone, in,the fikar years - 1856-59i. 176 chapeliyterehuilt, being neaely rr oneA week. , . In .twelve , years in, Loudon ;sevens, teen Christian, ,eharohes had; • rebuilt their chapels .at a cost. of 1,90 . 006-. and .rin obAdiPg :those built and projected this Ye.art • thirteen years had produced 75 chapels, at a,,eostrof 458,009. • •Th•P.,•wa•r:r/ki-i Amertcai .occupied the, at 'tendon of .the,,pongregational motion was;proposed,• expressing sympathy *4ll,•?•l4NrinF,•ikt;OhrPP, and, oping!ca44 l .° the, can'pe pf • the Toot r and pppressed . the Reler.pf ,nations, : entreating him to bring, to an end ,:the, unnatural . hostilities iby which the principles ef popular govern ment is covered with reproach,.the work, of righteousness_ and..peace., ~resisted, and our common' Christianity diShohoted and int. : pedbd. There -.minority 'who cdire plained, that- all = toast attempte - to 'correct- slavery,, in ..America had.,..been :coldly r‘e. milted, that the •pulpim, r of . America had. excited animosity, and :that, the churches had not taken .`.active 'Measures to induce the GOVerninent to abolish slavery ; that they werei,nownsanctioning An abolition proclamationeimply for, oempire,--not- for. the freedom, of r the slave . ;",,and that .Mr. Lincoln had done nothing but set the black. Man against him: The' Rev: Newman. said that whatever doubts there might be' as ite the intentions of , the.Northi there could •-be , :none as , to the designs:! of, the South; and ultimately proposed•nresolution deeply deploriag,the war,,now, raging, ex 7. ,pressing deep 'sympathy' With Christian brethren, and profoundly praying for the Speedy , termination hoth'fol , Jthe-.-war :and ,slavery. resolution-was . passed' with loud acolaMition; The Evangelical -Alliance,- meetingtin -Freemasone -.11a11,; also took up the 1-clues.. and'agreed to Emresolution. The lowing is the account- as ;lintas• present at this part•Ofi tho' n-tioeedingslv • The " committee appointed r ing (consisting of.Bir OAEardleiyand the Rem , Dr.- Umiak, .W.. Arthur, W. .Harria; T. M.A., Towers, Mcpwen, and Fowler,) brought up, report, which AiiCuliing AaTstley said ; Ulm, Mid i s/treed to unanimously ,' soch t wair the har monizing influence of Christian The. Rev; Ti ift. , Dirkti +them-read the followitig ,resolutions,:.. -Rowland, ~That,the fnterpal communication , r e ceived frocallie Paris branch be a ff ectionately . ' -ackhoviledged'; 'that the best thanks of the con :ferince be 'convey Ed 'to 'onr Freticli' brethren for ; their expressions of warm, interest , inithe Opera- i ,tions•and-sucoess of our branch of the -Alliance,..: with the assurance that„ we , participate in their 'deep ,sympathy with, our common brethren, is America in the leEdfurattlaOlities "Whieli haie. - *prang from -.the .4iiiii-lwar i4tivr' raging. That' phi conference desire to•expressltheir deep ••sor, .roilai:fari t the oontinuance ~of;'-tne. civil war , : in, 'America, and the fearful amount of ,bloodshed. land suffering to which it has led.. Believing that win . IC the 'cause of GOd's- torn , judgrainle; , and+ i,that the, evils•connectedrwith f the ;maintentume,ce, islavesY in the South, and complicity with those ' evils' in tlie-IN'orth, are 'die iireat'• cities. of ihiir 'ioleinn visitation, theyirensiwythe espreseisn . of. ''their earnestprayer that peace may be . restored ; . . : that thew evils, and-all'others Whibli "have 'led. to these calataitiesi marbwremoved, awl theimw; menee resources and energies of the American churches be set free to promote the cause of ther Gospel; 'of 'peace, and, ove. They desire JO) Eecord their conviction, as i ßritish ehro j ti ft u dr . , , that the duty of our country is to 'read in this war, not a warrant for self-righteous pridtglAit iii. 16 u,d-, callus .hwittiEnAti t o t nnii lltosym M4 o4 :ppigil„. laiii, let "nfir own many natioial side should draw down upon -us, in turn, the judgments..of God. That considering further the distress thus occasioned to large classes in our country, they recommend that Sunday, November '9, be made an occasion for_publio.and private confes sion of sin, and .sppcialprayer..on; these grave subjects, so flit- a's prhoticathe, to all`the'churches of Christ. and Christian , families throughout the land. Oar. own national sins were strongly dwelt on by General Alexander, and .un doubtedly a spirit of deep` onilliatine, and a sense of deserved wrath on ourselves, pervaded the meeting. -The., Spanish 'Bible readers„. and their condemnation, came no beforethe , Sir' bulling E. Eardley, referring `to the reeent . senteriee 'of the SnOreine'Coirt "of Law. in Spain,-.'condemnin'g tatra'and lib : era-- Ong-the, rest, indicated , that the„Queen, of Spain ,had,,. in . a 4 reeent Royal ,proy,resa, passed, through thltow,a where f thesp r ,poor. priseneralaiiebondre, but 'had not , ( ds, was toped;) truth itiV that lhotiV: Isabella