Probplctian
PITTBBORGB,BOIRDLY, NOVEMBER 29, 1862,
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those in arrears will please remit.
Vile Instructions tO Mr. CONSTANTINE,
, on our first page, present many excellent
things relating to missionary work in
'Greene.
The Board of Colportage will meet on
Tuesday, second day of December, at two
o'clock, in place or the sixth, as wo pub
lished last week,
Decease of Rev. John Steele.—The destruc
tive war brought upon the land by a wick
ed rebellion, finds its victims among the
rabittters of religion, perhaps quite as ex
tensively in proportion to their numbers,
as among any other class of our people.
:And why should it not? It is not their
province to bear the sword, but their work
is to be done wherever men are to be found;
and in accompanying our, brave soldiers, in
the discharge of duty, they must meet all
the exposures of camp-life, exposures which
rapidly undermine their constitution and
produce death.
STZELE had been pastor of the
church at Newton, lowa, for about four
years; About a year ago he was appointed
Chaplain to the 13th Regiment lowa vol
unteers. He was in the battle at Pitts
burgh Landing. While in camp he be
came affected with chronic diarrhma. He
retired to Delaware, Ohio, the residence f
his relatives, to recruit his strength, but
disease had progressed too far. He arrived
,
Oere on the 30th of August, and died on
the 10th of September.
The Retiredend the lo mtg.—Our read
ers know well the high estimate which we
put upon Rev. Dr. ALDEN, late President
of Jefferson College. We are pleased to re
cord, also, the testimony of the College
Faculty, who adopted the following minute :
" As Dr. ALDEN retires from rthe Presi
dency of our College with the intention of
still devoting himself to the work of in
struction, it gives us much pleasure to en
dorse the high encomiums already received
by him from others.
" During the six years of his office with
us his labors as a teacher have been attend
ed with the most marked success. He loved
the labor of the recitation room ; he threw
his whole soul into the work; he kindled a
like, feeling in the students ; his ready
questions elicited ready replies; mind met
mind, and both were strenthened by the
contact. This was the secret of his emi
nent, success and popularity as a teacher in
our College.
" It is our earnest wish that for many
: years to come he may continue the honored
instrument of training the youthful mind
for time and for eternity."
Rev. Dr. RIDDLE, President elect, has
bean so long and so well known, in this
region, and is so highly and universally es
•tegmed, that we need but say, that he ac
tepts the call, and will enter upon the
discharge of the duties of his office, shortly,
say with the opening of the term in Jan
uary.
THE BOSTON RECORDER.
Rev. PARSONS COOKE, D.D., Senior Ed
itor of this journal, has been obliged, in
consequence of ill health, to vacate a chair
long and ably filled. The necessity of this
will be regretted by all who love the or
thodox Pauline faith, and who have known
the retiring editor as its zealous and un
compromising defender. In the midst of
heresy that has threatened to overwhelm
everything in its course, he has ever stood
forth firm and undaunted, battling nobly
and successfully in the cause of truth.
We trust that he may yet be spared, as he
himself hopes, to contribute to the col
umns of the paper from whose editorship
he.is obliged to retire.
' , Rev. E... 1). IVIA/tvrw, pastor of the First
• Ishureh in Medford, will assume the edito
riallespensibilities of the late Senior Ed
t.•
MEI
A GOOD THOUGHT.
The Boston Recorder, in noticing an ed
iterialchange, giving thanks to' correspon
dents, and asking a continuance of favors,
says :
" A good thought is always worth much
:gold, but to be, useful it must be put, into
-circulation. With clergymen and scholars
there are extensive mines of wisdom and
,knowledge, which need but to be opened
.and their treasures brought to light, to
:bless the world. Let these mines be work
ed in the study and closet, and their pro-
Ants be put into the columns of a paper
like the Recorder, and how much may they
'do tosupply a mental and moral currency
for the living generation."
The Boston Recorder certainly affords, to
the wise, the learned, and the benevolent,
,a most desirable medium of influence.
And do not, the columns of the Banner
afford an equally extensive means of doing
good.? We have often wondered that more
, of our really able men do not write for the
weekly religious journals. To please, in
struct, and educate 20,000, or 50,000
minds is certainly an object worthy the
Ambition of the scholar and the Christian.
'One' difficulty is, as we well know, that
ministers get into the habit of discussing
.aA - subject on so many pages. It is hard for
them to •compress a good thought within
the =row confines of a newspaper article.
To unite perfectness and clearness with
brevity and vivacity, is an art difficult
to acquire. But it is an art most valua
ble - to the man who would be useful.
Bippose our brethren try to make the ac-
Autumn. Work the mines And4efine the
old.* The, product may be small in its
dimensions, but the more rich in substan
tial value. .1;
PREACH THE WORD."
Such is Paul's injunction to Timothy;
and such is the Holy Spirit's command to
every Christian minister. Preach the
Word; be instant, in season, out of season.
It is a proper knowledge of the Word, a
knowledge intellectual and experimental,
which people need for their guidance in
things temporal, and for their preparation
for joys eternal.
Some there are who would make the
teachings of the pulpit imperfect. They
would confine the minister to things spir
itual ; to the attributes of God, Christian
doctrine, religious experience, saving faith,
confession of sin, prayer for grace, &c., &c.
They would exclude all things secular, all
things that belong to this world. The
-minister who will be thus restricted in his
preaching, will not preach the Word ; that
is, not 'the whole Word of God.
When we " search the Scriptures," we
find'a large portion of them occupied with
things secular—history, biography, wars,
political affairs. And even their moral and
religious instructions are very much occu
pied with things belonging to the present
life. They speak of the relations, and of
the resulting duties, of husband and wife,
parent and child, ruler and people, master'
and servant, as well as of Creator and crea
ture ; and he who will neglect to teach and
to preach on any of these subjects, fails to
" preach the Word " in its fulness. God,
when he gave the Scriptures, knew all hu
man needs, and provided for, all ; and we
must not pretend to be wiser than he is,
and so neglect a portion of his• instructions
and precepts. The minister who is wise,
will, like- the good steward, select from
itmong his treasures, and bring forth either
the new or the old, or both. He will
preach the Word in season. He will strive
rightly to divide the Word, according to
Fimes,feircumstances, and the conditions of
:nen; but he will not ignore, much less
condemn the use of, anything which God
has revealed for man's faith and practice.
Ministers bear an immense responsibil
ity. Men's immortal prospects depend
-upon their preaching. The temporal
interests of society are determined by
their preaching. The ministers of re
ligion, in the pulpit, in personal inter
course, and by the press, mould, modify,
and give character to the condition and
conduct of man, in his social state. Men
are honest, orderly, obedient to the laws,
respectful of each other's rights, kind and
benevolent, according as the ministry per
forms its duties. This is saying much ;
but not too much. This makes the ministry
a power in the world; but not more of a
power than God's intention and adaptation
-therein. There was far more of truth in
the utterance of the Jews of Thessalonica.
than they were aware of; when they said of.
Paul and his companions : " These that
have turned the world upside dawn are come
hither also." The ministers of Christ turn
and renovate the world. And the world
hence is as they make it.
In these remarks we keep before us, the
truth that there are a thousand other influ
ences besides the preaching of the Word,
which affect men's mind and character, and
which are formative
,powers in society:
But the ministry , counteracts, controls, or
modifies them all. - Ministers reach not
only the intellect and heart, but the con
science. They speak for God, and God
gives the Word a power. They have, or
should have, and may have, mainly, the
education of the young; the moral educa
tion, the education of the conscience. They
have, in this aspect, to some extent, the
school, especially in its higher departments.
And emphatically they have the Sabbath
School and the family. They have these
by having the moulding and moving power,
the Church, where, by the preaching of
God's Word, they reach man's inner pow
ers; theTundamentals of his life and char
acter, of his sentiment and action. What
a responsibility 1 And what ought they to
be, and to do
A contemplation of these truths, shows
us that the ministry are responsible for the
present immense evil which afflicts the
country. They are not the only ones who
are to bear blame ; but they are participa
tors. They are to blame, partly for erroneous
teaching ;'-but far more for defective teach
ing. If the people had been rightly and
fully instructed, in the whole of God's
Word : if their mind had been enlightened
in social duty, as God teaches it, and their
heart trained to Gospel love, and their
conscience quickened by truth's power, this
War could net have occurred. Provocation
would not have gone forth from the North;
oppression would not have prevailed at the
South; and in no section would a rebel's
wicked hands have • been raised against a
righteous and good government; a govern
ment ordained of God, and administered to
the happiness of the people.
We see the evil. We feel it. Let us
take to ourselves a due portion of the blame.
By so doing we may be induced to repent,
and may obtain personal forgiveness. And
the best evidence of a genuine repentance
is a thorough reformation. Then, hence
forth, Preach the Word. Preach it in all
its fulness, taking Moses, and David, and
John, and Paul, and especially Jesus, as
patterns.
PEACE PROSPECTS
Peace' is desirable. Peace and good will.
A righteous peace. A cessation from war
fare is not all that we want in peace. We
want law to be so fully vindicated, and so
fully established, that it will henceforth be
a terror to the wicked, adequate to restrain
them from evi] deeds. For such a peace
we hope, but it is to be attained through
many hard struggles. We pray for it. We
ask God to give it; but we expect it at his
hands just a' he gives.us the bountiful har
vest; that is, as the result of a proper use
of the appropriate means. And this means
we regret to know, is, in present circutt
stances, the sword. God evidently seems,
—so to have ordained.
PRESBYTERIAN BANNER-SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, i 8
Since the late elections, it is said that
some eminent citizens of New-York are
making propositions, privately, to the lead
ers of the Confederacy at Richmond, for a
peace to be founded on compromise. We
doubt the truthfulness of the statement.
A. compromise with an armed rebellion
could not be tolerated, at present, by the
Northern public. We must become ex
hausted, or be hopelessly beaten in battle,
before we could listen a moment to any
such proposition.
And the feeling against a union on com
promise, is just as strong at the South, and
more nearly unanimous; that is, among
those who control and express public sen
timent. North Carolina was very reluctant
to enter into the Confederacy. A large
majority of the people were long opposed
to it; and at the late election in that State,
Mr. VANCE, .a Conservative, was chosen
Governor. Encouraged. by Gov. VANCE'S
antecedents, and by his election over a
" fire-eater," Gov. STANLEY proposed to
him a friendly conference, on national af-
Lirs, by Commissioners. Gov. VANCE
promptly and firmly refused. He would
join in no procedure of the kind. North
Carolina would fight ' to her last drop of
'blood. Such is . the determination of the
leading men in" every. State of the Confed
eracy ; and it has been such ever since the
attack on Sumpter. Not a prominent man,
and not "a public journal, - recognized as
such by the people, haS ever admitted
the possibility of a re-eonstruction of the
Union, on any terms. .They ask, for no
concession. They will accept of nothing
short of their'absolute independence.
The Southerners have expressed some
little, joy at the result of the late elections.
in the North; not because they hoped now
for a compromise, but because they thought
they saw a divided North, and hence fee
bleness, and hence our defeat and their
recognition. But they are greatly mis
taken in this thought. The people of the
loyal States entered the war with a stern
purpose to fight it out
,It is the unyield
ing purpose of self-preservation. Would
sailors yield to the man who,.in his malig
nity, was endeavoring to scuttle their ship
in mid-ocean ? Would the father of a fam
ily. yield to the incendiary who was endeav
oring, torch in hand, to fire his dwelling ?
No more can the virtuous and loyal people
of the North yield to the assassins who
would dissever and destroy the country.
The South will not listen to a suggestion
of compromise till they are hopeleisly beat
en. Northern compron.isers will soon be
convinced of this, and will help to beat
them. Then may we have peace without a
compromise. Peace' by the righteous en
forcement of the laws, and on the princi
ples of the original National compact. We
have no hope of peace until we earn it in
the way of God's appointment. Our Gov
ernment must not think 'of bearing the
sword in vain. It must he'a terror to the
wicked It must have no compact of amity
with murderers, robbers, rebels, and per
jured persons. Then urge the Govern
ment and help the Government, to prose
cute the war to a full victory. The more
energy we put forth, guided by such right
eous principles as God will own, the sooner
will we attain to a happy peace.
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
We feel disposed to give to, the October
number of this able quarterly, a position
a little more prominent than usual. Its
table of contents is as follows .1-1. Essays
and Re views : Dr. Lushington's Judgment.
2. The British Sea Fisheries. 3. Rail
ways their Cost and Profits. 4. Gibral
tar. 5. The Encyclopedia Britannioa. 6.
Idees Napoleoniennes : 'the' Second Em
pire. 7. The Religious Difficulties of In
dia. 8. The Slave Power. 9. Contempo
rary Literature. • -
In the first and seventh articles, 'and
also in the first division of the ninth, the
virus of a refined scepticism will be readily
detected by the attentive reader. The
anti-evangelical spirit so praminently
characteristic of the Westminster, is its
most lamentable feature:"' All should be on
their guard in the pernsal of every article
in this review that bears in any wise on
the subject of religion or morals. It is
especially hostile to every thing evan
gelical.
We are pleased to notice under the head
•
of Politics, Sociology, and Traveli, in the
concluding artiele, a disposition in the re
viewers to show to the North some meas
ure of justice on .the subject, of, her rela
tions to the rebel States. 'The following
paragraph 'is
. significant : ' The symptoms'
of reaction
,in English opinion are now, as
might be expected, becoming every day
more decided, the time which has elapsed.
has allowed of study, the requisite infor
mation has been acquired, and, before long,
in spite of exasperated feeling, a more full
measure of justice will be meted to the
North than •it has jet received at English
hands." We wish for the sake' of , our
British cousins as well as for our owe, that
the Westminxter's prophetic declaration
may be realized, and that speedily.
The American reprint of the Review is
for sale by 'HENRY MINER, Fifth Street,
Pittsbargh. , .
THE NEW TRIALATION.
Some zealous Baptists, a few years ago,
finding it exceedingly difficult to maintain,
while using the common version. of the
Scriptures, the peculiarities of, their ,sect,
resolved upon having a new. translation.
In our good old English version, the words
"baptise,"`"baptism," &c., are the very
words used by our Saviour and by his in
spired apostles. They are transferred and
adopted in our language, just as are the
words Jesus, Messiah, and hundreds of
others. Our ardent Baptist polemics took
up the fancy, that to make 'a new trans's
,
hen, and to, render the word htiptiso by the.
English word "immerse," thex would
make a grnat gain. They :'accordingly set.
to work. They produced much discord in
their own Society; they expended much
labor and treasure ; and now their new
book, a strictly Baptist Bible, a denomina
tional Bible, a sectarian Bible, the first of
the kind, is about to appear.
We regret exceedingly this divisive
scheme. It is a bad example. If every
denomination should set to the making of
its own Bible, what would the Bible be
worth in the world's estimation ?
In this first instance of departure from
the common faith, on a point so vital, we
have this, among other things, to alleviate
our grief—the translators have deprived
themselves of their name. Their book
reads : ".In those days came JOHN the
IMMERSER!' . Baptist is no longer, with
them, a Scriptural term. They have com
mitted a fele de se They had claimed to
be Bible Christians. They, had their dis
tinetive appellative from the New Testa
ment: Now it is taken away.
It is to be noted that the Baptist Church,
as a body, is na.responsible for this un
worthy act. And the translation is not
likely to be adopted; or if adopted, it will
be'by- a division--but a small section, we
trust—of that highly respected branch of
'the Lord's Zion.
MrESTERN'TUEOIOGICAL SEMINARY-FOURTH
PROFESSORSHIP ENDOWMENT.
There is yet :required to complete the
endoWmetit of the Fourth Professorship,
the sum of $18,579.37. "'lt is suggested to
us byfriends of, the , Seminary who are in
the outskirts of the field, that the churches
are , manY of them; 'not informed of the
fig,m'es, and would make earnest effort
.to
complete the work if it, could be kept be
fore them. The Board of Trustees, at
their late meeting, resolved to send out a.
special agent to flish'up the work =luring
the current ecclesiastical year, so as to re ,
port finally to the Beard at the Spring
meeting. But why should any of the
churches wait for 'such a visit? Prompt
contributions now to thiS great and good
object. will -be doubly, reliable—will save
what would be lost by delay, in the press
ing wants of the Seminary.
The Minutes of the last General Assem
bly report fifteen scholarships connected
with the. Seminary, Some of these are not
yielding their interest this year, because of
the disturbed state of the times. This,
however, is in cases where they have been
donated to the Seminary in the shape of
certain stocks, which are just now unpro , .
ductive. And yet the demand upon, this
fund 'has been large, for the very reason
that young men, and churches which had
aided them, haVe felt the pressure et the
times. In some instances where the young
men have hitherto been' aided by their own
churches or district, they have been com
pelled to fall back upon the SeMinary fund,
for the year. What could our members
who have been blessed with means, dobetter
than to found= such a'-permanent scholar
ship by a donation of $2,000 to $2,500,
which shall perpetually put a young man
into the ministry. , This is a small capital,
always working, to send out another and
another minister of Christ, to honor and
bless the gift 'of the donor, long after he
and his house are in the grave.
RIGHT TO CHURCH PROPERTY.
A few weeks ago we alluded to the de
cision, by the Supreme Court of Pennsyl
vania, of a case in Philadelphia, involving
a title to a lot and edifice of the. Reformed
Dutch Church. The majority, with the
Trustees, had seceded from the Synod of
the Church, called a pastor not in com
munion with the Synod, and thought to
hold the property. The minority, with the
Consistory, continued in the doctrines and
order of the-Church, and to them the prop
perty was assigned; the Court adjudging
the latter to be the legal owners.
Our notice of the decision has awakened
some attention; and the matter coming to
the ears of Chief Juitice LOWRIE, he has
kindly sent us the Legal Journal of June
23d ult., in which the decision of a simi
lar case is recorded; the principle of law
being more fully cited, and being sustained
by quotations and argument.
The ease originated in Western Penn
eylvanis, and is thus stated :
" Lowitiu, C. J.—About 1803, the Uni
ty congregation, belonging to the Associ
ate or Seceder Church of North America,
purchased . a . lot of ground in Venango
township, Butler County, and erected a
meeting house upon it, and there continued
to worship ,Gpd in unity until: 1858. Then
the. Secedex,„„Synod of North America, by
a very, large, majority, and after many years
c..onsideration, formed .a union with the As
sociate Reformed Synod; and a majority
of the . Unity Congregation, and the She
nango Presbytery, to which it belongs,
have approved of the unity thus formed.-
A minority of the congregation, and
,sev
.
eral, ministers of the Associate . Church
disapprovednf, it, and, the minority of the
ongregaticm claim the let and meeting
house. Which party is entitled to it?
The Commoil Pleas
,decided in , favor of the
ininority„ Ib this right ?"
The principles decided are as follows :
" Under the Constitution' "of Pennsylva
nia, Art. 0, See. 3, every religious Society,
as to ifs' own internal order and the mode
in which it fulfills its functions, is to be a
law unto itself, provided it keep within
the bounds of social order and morality:
" Independent churches have:, their law
in their own separate institutions; Asso
ciated churches have theirS in their own
rules' and 'in those of the associated ofgan-
" The act; of a Synod is' binding on its
members, the congregations composing it, so
far as the act is-in accordance with its own
laws, they not conflicting of course with
the policy of the State."
" The title to the church property of a
divided congregation is in that part of it
which is acting in harmony with its own
law—and the usage or customs of the eon
gregation is the law of the case. '
"When property is purchased by a con
'gregation for its own use, as between the
trustees'holding the legal title , and the con
gregation bolding the equitable title, it is a
trixstbutas between the congregation'and
I , any other petioni it is simply a title.
I , ` " it - is , a codtrolling law: in every thou taU
institution that, through the growth and de- I
velopment or its principles, changes will be
wrought in the institution itself, its princi
ples and practices. The institution does'
not, by the operation of this legitimate pro
cess, lose its identity or incur a forfeiture
of its property. Illustrations given of this
from general history.
" In adjudicating upon a dispute among
a religious body, the ecclesiastical laws,
usages, customs and principles which were
accepted among themselves before the dis
pute began, is the standard for determining
which party is right.
" One of the most obvious principles of
the Seceder-Church is its authority to leg
islate upon its doctrines, forms and practice.
Reference made to its origin and history in
illustration of this, and of its frequent and
material changes.
" The Act of Union, in 1858, of the Se
ceder Synod of North America and the As
sociate Reformed Synod, was not such a
departure, by the Seceder Synod, from an
cient usages as would condemn its action.
It did not transcend its usual authority.
" The special objections to the Act con
sidered and answered.
"Identity in social institutions defined
and illustrated. They do not \ lose their
identity by growing with society, and in
adaptation to its intelligence, and wants,
and times, and circumstances.
"In general organizations of united
churches the law of the general organism
is binding on all the individual churches,
and even a majority seceding lose all their
rights in the church property."
Hence, the union of the Associate and
Associate Reformed Churches, by which
the United Presbyterian Church was con
stituted, being legitimate, and the majority
of the congregation holding to the faith,
order, and communion of the new and du
ly constituted, body, retain the property.
The decision of the Court below was re
versed.
The argument of the Chief Justice is
able and instructive. It is quite too ex
tended for our columns. t Our readers are
referred to the Legal Journal, of the date
before , named, July 23d, 1862.
To MilliSten.—We have made our minis
terial brethren exceptions to the rule of
pre-payment, and hence have continued
the Banner to them from year to year, un
les they asked a discontinuance. A few
have let the account ran rather too long.
. f
The labels indicate the time to which we
have received payment. We would kindly
request a remittance of the amount due us,
with a year in advance.. To a few who were
getting behind, and expressed inability to
pay, w.e frankly forgave all, and still con
tinue the paper ; and we are yet willing to
do so to others. We both ask and receive
much aid from our brethren, in circulating
the Banner, and we cheerfully bear our
part when any one suffers under an extra
burden.
ECCLESIASTICAL.
Rev. W. P. HARVISON I S Post Office ad
dress is changed from Shirland, Pa.,
to Portersville, Pa.
Rev. 3. SLOAN'S Post Office address is
changed from Dunningsville to Wash
ington, Pa.
Rev. LEVI RISHER'S Post Office address
is changed from McKeesport to Palm
ersville, Pa.
EASTERN SUMMARY,
NEW-ENGLAND.
WE are glad to learn that the prospects
of the Presbyterian church in East Boston
are quite encouraging. At its last c,ommu
nion service, sixteen members were admit
ted—fourteen by letter and two by profes
sion. Rev. T. N. Haskell, who bas been
supplying the church for the last three
months, is soon to be installed as its pastor.
Tia,CONORF.GATIONAL CBUROR in Sa
lem, N. H., has, we understand, for some
time been blessed with an interesting state
of religions feeling. Some thirty persons
have, it is believed, experienced the work
of saving grace, most of whom have united
with the church.
REV. JONATHAN EDWARDS, the first.
'pastor of Plymouth Church, Rochester,
N. Y., has resigned his charge to, accept a
call froxri Denham, Mass.
AT, the Annual. Meeting of the New-Ha
ven West Association, lately held in: hit
neyville, the organization of a General
Conference of the Congregational churches
in Connecticut was dicussed with a good
degree Of enthusiasm, and plane were adopt-
ed with reference to the consummation of
the desired object.
THE Pilot, the Roman Catholic organ of
Boston, has the following outspoken article
on the subject of the settlement of our na
tional difficulties. Asking the question,
" How soon will the war be ended'?" it
says
".There is no greater, facility in answer-.
,ing this• question to-day than there was
when Fort Sumter was taken; nay, it is
more difficult of solution now than it was•
at that period. The rebellion has increased.
The South has won a number, of victories
which prove its generals and soldiers to be
men of the highest military capacity and
courage ; and the result is a proud determi
nation never to desist until a complete tri
umph is gained. As far as the rebels are
concerned, the contest will have no end
but the acknowledgment of the, empire they
have so successfully attempted to erect.
"On the other hand, the resolve of the
North never to withdraw from fighting
until it shall have put this treason down,
cannot be changed. It has gone to such
enormous expenses in money, so much of
its blood has been spilled, so many ; of its
families have been desolated forever, its
industry has been so dreadfully impaired,
it has suffered such &Abate, it has won such
battles, it is so inexhaustible, and it is so
profoundly animated with the principle
that the Republic must be saved, that it is
impossible for any interference or, for any
reverses to compel it to give up the war on
any terms but a complete relinquishment
of all the claims of secession."
R E v. Da. BLAGDEN, of the Old South
church, Boston, has given three eons to
the war, and Rev. Mr. Manning, his col
league, goes as Chaplain of the 43d-Regi
ment. Rev. Dr. Stone, of the Park Street
church, has a son in the 46th Regiment,
arid' is Chaplain of the ' Over'loo
persons from his society' httve enlisted in
the Massachusetts regiinents. ' _
2
TEE Springfield Re:pa/Awn states that
Thomas Stewart, aged 92 years, who was
born in Litchfield in 1770, was a private in
the 101st Ohio Regiment, and took part in
the battle of Perryville, where he was com
plimented for his bravery and soldierlike
bearing. He has four sons, two grandsons
and three sons-in-law at present in the
army. The father of Mr. Stewart is said
to be living at Litchfield at the advanced
age of 125 years. He must be the oldest
man in the country.
MANUFACTURING iS so brisk in Connec
ticut that four large new factories are in
course of erection to meet the requirements
of business.
THE FLOUR TRADE is one of the most
extensive branches of business in Boston,
and is constantly increasing. The receipts
this year will average nearly five thousand
barrels of flour for every business day. Per
steamers and railroads principally, the vast
quantity of a million and a half of barrels
will be poured, into this city in 1862.
From this great central point it is shipped
to all parts of New-England.
NE W-YORK.
A WitITER in the Examiner, under the
head of "Things about Town," handles in
a somewhat caustic manner the ridiculous
efforts of certain sensation preachers to
draw crowded houses on the Sabbath by
means of singular and striking notices in
the public prints.
He says : " The Sunday notices of last
Sunday will give:. a fair specimen. One
preacher, distrusting his own powers to
draw, announces that the Old Folks' will
vary the dulness of the sermon by doing
the singing.
" A celebrated gentleman, having lately
come back from Europe, and having learned
what are she 'purposes of God' respecting
our nation, proposes to reveal the same at
his church.
Another preacher proposes to preach OIL
the singularly religious theme, Is the
Emancipation Proclamation of the Presi
dent constitutional 7'
" Oue minister is to preach on the War
and Christianity.' It will be interesting
to seekers after truth to know that we have
'.a Catholic Apostolic Church among us.'
A pastor is to preach on the 'Battle of
Life.' One man has got the key to prophe
cy, and all in doubt about the horns in Dan
iel, and the beast in Revelation, can have'
them solved on application. And the'
Hutchinson Family are to conduct divine
worship in connection with one of the pas
tors. From all this, it must seem evident
that the tact and talent of New-York are
equal to any demand for variety, and for
that which is queer on the Lord's day."
We rejoice to know that comparatively
few of the established ministers of New-
York will condescend to the employment of
such unbecoming means of exciting public
attention.
THE NEW-YOR.K. Methodist, in an article
on "Methodist Reform," thus speaks' of tbe'
Presiding Eldership :
" It is certainly seldom a desirable office
in our oldest Conferences. The people.pay
its salary, with reluctance; in not a few ap
pointments the Elder' is less acceptable,
in the pulpit than the regular pastor ; in
not a few he has little important ecclesias-,
tical business, scarcely any that the church:
es do not, think could be done as well With
out as with him; and many' appointments
begrudge him their quarterly assessment to. ,
ward his salary as a useless burden, some
as an onerous inconvenience to their own
scarcely manageable finances. Whether,
just or not, these are prevalent objeCtions,
and it cannot be denied that a quite gener
al relief would be felt if the office could be
so far modified as to deliver the churches
from these alleged burdens."
THE CHURCH. JOURNAL, of the 21st inst.,
in noticing the induction of the Rev. Mor
gan Dix into flu , office of Rector of Trinity
Church, says :
" Yesterday, at two o'clock in the after
noon the keys of the church were delivered
to the Rev. Mr. Dix at the church door by
Mr. Dunseomb, the senior warden, all the
vestrymen who took part in the election be
ing present, together with the Rev. Drs.,
Vinton and Ogilby, and others. This:de
livery constitutes the Induction of.the new
Rector, in accordance with the Law of
1784. In colonial times the induction was
by the Governor of the colony."
THE following item respecting Old Trin
ity, is reported in the Examiner, and wil
be read' with interest:
" The founders of Trinity church, on ,
their arrival on the Island of Manhattan,
found the Reformed Dutch in possession.
The Dutch, with that liberality that has:
always marked their actions toward other
denominations, at once placed their house
of worship at the disposal of their destitute
Episcopal brethren, and both congregations
worshipped in the same house, at different
parts of the day, till the Church had erect
ed a shelter for its flock. And when the
first Rector of Trinity Was installed, it was
done in a" Dutch church, and the parish
being short-handed, the Dutch lent a hand
in the service, and did it well."
Tat Jewish. Record, of New-York, says:
" We understand from reliable authority
that a niece of Gen. Dix was recently con-,
vetted to the. Jewish religion by Rev. Mr.
Phillips, of this city, and that she married,
on Wednesday, Mr. P Lawrence, of this
city, one of our co-religionists. The lady'
took the name of Ruth, her former name
being Kate."
LIE following bequests were made' by
the 'late William Van VOorhis, of Long
Island : American Bible Society, $1,000;
Board of Foreign. Missions, R. D. Church,
$1,000; Home Missionary Society, 81,000;
American Tract Seeiety, 81,000.
TELE NEw S. S. Room in H. W. Beech
er's church would doubtless cause many of
the Sabbath School children in our plain.
country churches to open their eyes with
astonishment at its singular decoration&
In the centre of the room is a beautiful
fountain ; and the tank into which it, falls
is tiled with gold-fish. The walls. arealso
adorned with attractive oil painting& We
doubt the propriety of such arrangements
fOr the entertainment of the youth of our.
Sabbath School&
REV. EnwARD Roßrzcsori df the
New-York Union Seminary, has returned
from Eur Ope, whither he went to consult
eminent physicians respecting an. Affection
of his eyes. We regret to learnl that he',
obtained no relief from his difficulty:
REP. Du. JOEL PARICER 4f New-York;
cityyhas-,b4en called- to the Parkl"resbyte
Tian church of' Newark, New-Jerday;cance
probably U'Cobitibe invitation; -
REV. R. R. KIRK, pastor of the Presby
terian Church in Adams, New-York, died
suddenly in New-York, on the 16th inst.
Lie dropped dead in Broadway, near the
New-York Hotel, in the afternoon, while
walking with his wife. The cause was the
heart disease.
REV. JOHN B. PINNEY, LL.D., has been
recognized as Consul General of the Repub
lie of Liberia for the United States. We
rejoice, for the sake of the interests of Li
beria, in this appointment. A better selec
ton could not have been made. Dr. Pinney
was formerly Governor of Liberia, and for
many years past has held the position of
Secretary of the New York State Coloniza
tion Society.
A sOlq OF VIZ Rev. Jonas King, P.D.,
his only son, has come to this country from
Athens,, Greece, to complete his education.
The venerable 'father, who, went there to
carry food to the starving; people after the
revolution of 1827, has never since return
ed, but is still on the ground in the midst
of another revolution, feeding the Greeks
with the bread of life.
TO-DAY, says the Evenitag Pose, (the 19th
of November,) is the anniversary of Santa
Isabel—the Saint whose name was given
the Queennf Spain. .Theuecaaion is duly
commemorated . by the Spanish frigate Prin
cess de Asturias, now stationed in this har
bor. Two royal salutes of twenty-one guns
have been fired -7-one at sunrise and the
other 'at noon. A third will be fired at
sunset. Thp frigate has her flags flying.
We learn that she is aeon to take her de
parture from this' port for . the regular sta
tion at Havana;' and her place here will be
taken by another vessel:' The frigate car
ries fifty-one guns--Consisting of thirty
two and sixty-four pounders, with one or
two rifled guns of 'larger calibre.
THE NEOOCIATION OF THE 90VERN
MENT LOAN has paused an increased de
mand for money, and the rates for cal-loans
are steady at 6" to' 7 per eent. - to . general
borrowers, while the established stock-com
mission firms are Supplied at 5 to 6 per
ce- told , was stild'on tuesdaygli,ll3l4to 132,
and the onstom-houSe`deinand-notes at 1251
to 1251. The board of brokers again, deals
in gold :and demand noics. Foreign ex
change is ateadythi:the'bisia of 146 to 1461
forAankers' 60- day sterling bills. " The. ex
ports Of specie for thn week ending 'Nov.
15th,- were 81,894,768. The ,exports I(ex
elusive nf specie)for the -week_ending Nov.
11th, 83,215;610. Freviousli 'reported,
'8128,332,795. Since Xan:lst, $131,548,-
The following is the comparative state
ment of the. imports of foreign dry, goods
and general Merchandise for the week end
ing Nov., Ilth Dry Gotuls, $761,715; Gen
eral merchandiser -,51,503,846: ; ,-Total for
week,, $2,265;564., , Previously:_ :reported,
$153,997 I st,, $1,526: Since Jen. 1 55, 963 , -
090.
. The stesmer,,which sailed : - o-4v, for Liv
erpool took 64,500,000 in. specie. .
PHILMTELPIIIA.
REV. I,.TEE4.I)W.ELL Of Nor
wich, doun., formerly assistant rector of
Trinity elireh l ,in- Newark, X. .7„'has been
elected' .reetor of Iltila
delphie. He is expected to occupy the
pulpit soon.
AT PiE REQUEST of-the surgeons-in 4t
,teridanceat our army hospitals,says the PreSS,
a number 'of our hotel. keepers refuse to sell
liquor 'to our sick ,and,.wounded= soldiers
who may be permitted out enjoying " holi
day s.furlough.".. , Many need no remon
strance, but refrain from :a conscientious
sense of right, fully aware.:-of the trouble
entailed by a thu.administering- of stimu
lants, 'if not the endangering- of, life to
those whose - constitatienti,:are broken and
paralyzed frommounds`and disease: There
are some exceptions-to this.nlass. But we
aruhappy -to state it is mostly- - composed of
those• who sell 'liquor without =license, and
in violation-of i the,law. ,
TaE
l. ) nimuniNer tip `SiYitiITIVTEB for
diafted merilais beboine4iite. business,
says; he Pre..vs ? and - the.brekers engaged in
it are reaping rich harVeitS riklany per-
Sons - engaged'in' it, haWever;arg Atibenest,
and use erery endeiVer to persuade the
substitutes 'to desert, in order that they
may again sell themselves, andlittis reap a
rich- harvest. Finally' he substitute de
serts for,good, aid that is, the list 'seen of
hini: This has been - done. in ,'a 'hundred
instanees. Colonel gegebsirth bastz in
'this way, within the lasttwii Weeks, nearly
one hundred men, all- of whom . ivere sub
stitutes for drafted men tlieflatter, in
these - eases, will -have- to lake - their old
places. Persons buying yup 'Substitutes
should airoid'ilie brokers, aid; go to the in
`4lividual himself. In this ease they will
not he so apt tohe ewindled.
_ A NU1V.,13y,11 meetings :were held on
the eVening of the 20th inst., ny.the,ditfer
..ent trades for thepUrpose of forming asso
cations for the,_proteetion and advancement
of their interests.
tiOVERNMENT: has adolited means to
prevent the 'Aliment- of . - goods from the
North to border counties, Whence- they can
be conveniently run over 'into. the domin
ions of jeff. Davis to - relieve-the necessi
ties of that rebellion's potentat.' quetem
house officers are now stationed at the
various railroad:depOts in Philadelphia, to
prevent the shipment pr:srich geods, unless
they have first beeitiegularly permitted- by ,
;the' Custom-It:Mae.
Gen. ,hosecrans has ordered, the ,release of
three thousand bales'of.ootten
,Were seized
for the P . urpose of usixig i 4tern for, breastworks in
this iictiiity 'recentlY."' They wilP be shipped
North,aa soon as the railway is,opezr.
The whole.of .W.esti Tennessee is now under the
occupation or federal -troops,
.., Military necessi
:ties have forced the;:ribil General. Pemberton to
'call is the ignerrillai; have' been a source of
'se much aitneyandei- and the Work of pacification
among'the ,! irthabitants -is 'going en - rapidly and
ties,.
weal.
a CotOW coming forward* large quanti-
rebels'
hand qyem.thilig, nadicates.talat a (conviction(convictionicti°'
s settled in the minds of the;people that the
will not' possession `of that section-
Paraen Brovirdow andldr. Maynard addressed
tylarge crewd - assembled at `the St— Cloud Hotel,
Thursday night, , to welcome a party•of returned
,Tennesseeams. ;..The latter , declared the people
would 'stand by the G`evernmerit; ; and that the
rebels mustisubmit un conditionally.. The Cum
berlaid riveriii
Tits" Official c'Resalt hi New-yoric.
ALEAiii,-Noi. 19 ;--The Silas and „Angus gill s
the followinglnll oflioial vote onGoy
ernor:
liill'i - '
Sep-io eVD e,... .......................... . ..... ,
~,
Wakon ~.. -.-..... ... . „ ...... .. .:. .. ... ..... 307,0b0
hlswerth;-. . , .
Midority tirt , Seynicinr, .. .. .. . ... .•....:t........ 2 10,6 9 1
72
Solis on' the-Ertiv-Canal.
TitrArno,.Nov.,l9.--- The, amount of tolls re
oity train tit f t e - 14 . 1i C from the
opening of.nalrige,tion'ip,tiii I .fith P iriet., exceeds
three