l'aeshgteriart Nana. PITTSBURGH, NEDNESDLY, JIMMY GS, Int "J. F. f." gives is quite an instructive letter about Soldier Life. Another may be expected neat week. The Sultau or Turkey has avenged the death of Mr. MERRIAM, the American' missionary. His three assassins have been executed Tcry Bad.—The Presbyterian has had a subscriber, in . a Western State, who de manded his paper stopped because it advo cated " this 'unholy, unnatural, infernal, and unconstitutional war." LLD, The Trustees of. Rutgers College, N: at their special meeting on Wednes day of last week, conferred the title of LL.D. on Reir. Dr. DAIno RIDDLE, Presi dent or Jefferson , College.' Rev.l). Mill, once of Philadelphia, then of I#oBtoTl now of Ireland made some re marks about a year ago, unfavorable to America, which we copied from an ex change. We now reprint on our fourth page, a letter of his to the Banner of V!- seer in which he sets matters. in a fairer light. ,110 T. Charles aiIMIREIS, D. 8., died at Mus catine, lowa, Jan. 9th, in his 87th year. Dr CUMMINS was born in Strasburg, Pa., and graduated at Dickinson College, under Dr. NapsxT. He was, first settled at Chest nut Level, Pa, then at. Florida, N. Y. In 1852 herrembved to. Muscatine. He is de scribed as . having been a good man r and a laborious And successful pastor. Oar Loudon Carrespoidont furnishes, for this week, - a pretty extensive collation of EuroPean sayings and: sentiments, in re gard to our country, and to some promi nent men, North and South. Our readers will be interested, and will know, how to discriminate. The portraitures of Gene. JAdxson, and LONGSTREET, are Mad , draWn. Sorry are we that such men are rebels, The School adiertised in another column, as z iO i eated at. Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson 3. River, Pi - ea.-York; is -established, as we are informed, after the very best models in this country, and by a gentleman of large and valiabie experience 'in education: It ein bracee-Military discipline, and high moral. Ru e d religious training, while the admirable arrangements of the rooms--one for each pupil-==together 'with watchfulness over the health or welfare of all, gives it strong claims to public patronage. A•Ytry'lmportant Want,—We want.a few semis of dollars for the .ur wit of sendirjs, Weirllia#e, • gratuitously, squared accounts with• IMMO who bad paid its nothing for sti,iferek:Yeani; and not only so, but we have OiliNd . )bem as paid for: a year in advance. WA t rejoioe to do so: In „no other way ' woultwe prefer to make a donation, But tifectledia greater than we can well afford tolitiiplY.. :Barite of our brethren are aged andinfiriti • some serve very feeble church es.. nom; hive large and helpless families; t.r•- and they. All need tbe , information and men tal? awning which are afforded by a weekly journal: • •• • • ' "We`ask the libo=al minded,'• whom the basblesseif Means 'beyond their wants,, to help us in this bene :faction, • ' . • tiled The 44.0103 keeping up of a attbawiption list is one of the things which need's constant attention. Members of a calieegation all need facilities, for getting their subscriptions reneWed, many of them nee to be reminded, and some require to be importuned. , • :-We earnestly solicit ministers; elders, and other kind friends to attend to this. We kuow that it pays well, though our terpps are so low that we, eannot give pre- Bat it . pays just, in that way in which the good minister wishes to receive His' people are edified. *Dove their' They are mprAiberal, and.better .perform ChOstian dutits: The young grow up greatly more inhillipnt, better citizens, and more active ,Bcotbren have your listsrenewed a filled ;,extended. • .. THE LAW OF NECESSITY. Our readers will of course notice that the Christian intelligencer has been obliged reluctantly, at last, to do as nearly all •its religious,-and many of its secular contem poraries have done—viz., compress itself into a: reduced form.: The The gricee, of ,printing paper, through the rapacious and mistaken action of a few wealthy monopolists, having -been increased from 100 to 150 per cent., the publisher of this journal has been -compelled, by the .force of oirsnmstanoes, either to add to its price of subscription, or to diminish its size.. He-has preferred to do the latter, in the belief that it will be approved.— C h ristian Intelligencer. The': Intelligeitier is the organ of the .10i*Ormed Data Church, and is published . It,is now a third • less than the Penner, (and its price still $2.00 in ad vaNee; 61.42:50 at'the end of three months. May' hence* see that if paper of :Kt C 9 t • • cpmtumes so dear, we cannot long survive ilt•P . .1 1 ** 34 4toi-aeand rates. ,Oor hope has been, ands still lei that the price'. of piper: will deidife:m Monopolists e and • combinations .. • teteYll • meantime we trust tha t •. • i deride wiltiogert themselves unuanagso . increase ,i;tur subscription list. DOUBTS RESPECTING REVELATION. We presume that among those who from infancy have enjoyed the advantage of religious training, there are but few who are much troubled with misgivings in re gard to the authenticity of the Sacred Scrip tures. And probably the greater part of those who are brought into the Church without having enjoyed such training, are also comparatively free from skepticism on this subject. There are unquestionably, however, some in the first class, many in the second, and multitudes also, who be long to neither, who are in no small degree thus troubled. These doubts are attributa ble to a naturally " evil heart of unbelief," to the devices of that arch-enemy who dared to assail 'with sceptical suggestions the Re deemer himself in his days of humiliation ; and to the influence also of misguided or malevolent men. At the present time especially, are per sons in anywise, inclined to scepticism pecu liarly exposed. The, seeds sown by PAINE and Hums and GIBBON, and by Ar_OIITAIRE, ROUSSEAU, DIDEROT and the other infidel writers of the French Revolution, are still bringing forth harvests of soul-destroying error. . The transcendentalism:and ration- alism of Germany have passed over into. England, ettd across the ocean also into the land of the Puritan pilgrims, and 'have in- feeted in their pestilent course the minds, of both Philosophers and divines. We need but refer to the rationalistic "Essays and' Reviews 7 of the Oxford Professors, and to Bishop Comtso's attack on the Pen tateuch and the Book of Joshua, to show the lamentable tendency of the age -to scepticism in regard to the Bible as a Di vibe revelation. The question may now be asked, Should persons skeptically disposed tamper with the evil influences which, are at work, and• give encouragement to doubts that , may arise ? Many of our readers may think it strangeAhaf t such a question should be even proposed, _as if there were but one opinion to be entertained on the subject. And yet many are unwilling to receive religious knowledge with the becoining docility of little children. They would think and ex amine and laarn independently of aid from above, and they would justif4 themselves and others in encouraging the speculations of a skeptical mind. Some time ago the Bishop of Oxford preached a sermon beforathe University, in which he insiste that doubts respecting the truth of Revelation should be struggled against and summarily banished' from the mind. This doctrine'ofthe Bishop, as we learn from the London Quarterly, has been denonnced by even ministers in the English'Ohurch as not only unsound but peculiarly wicked. Rev. F. D. MAVILICB, opposes it because he.thinks the doubts alluded to "may have been cast into the: soul by a gracious Spirit;" whilst one of his comrades defines douhts as "a sacred agony of man's, nature in its nobleat and most typical embodiments," and reviles the Bishop for attempting to '"deprive men of . , Against which doctrine the charge of " wickedness" holds good, , whetber that of. the Bishop or that of his critics, we need not labor.to show. To every properly dis posed mind, whfch is at all• familiar` with the teachings of Scripture, ihe''position of the Bishop must alone appear consonant with truth. So far as doubts are the eon sequencevof a depraved nature, they should like' all other evil thoughts,: bc striven against and refused lodgment in the•inind. So far as they are attributable to Satanic inffuence, they must be' resisted like-all other temptations cf the Evil one:Allit. so far as they are to be ascribed to the / Ae: . devices of deluded or wicked men, they:are to be treated as other snares for our 'spirit ual destruction. " Every consideration of religions Wig* tion and of man's haPpiness, also, for and eternity, cries opt 'against the 44 gence of skepticism on a point essential:to the very existence: of IlniCliristian ion. Sad, sad indeed . ; Wilrhethe statenf that man who allows himself to be beguiled by a fanciful notion of a," sacred agony," or by . a..spirit of independence, or by any other . inannement whatever, into ilea en couragement of doubts respecting the gen-' fineness of the Holy Bible. . We quote an extract from , tho•serpon to; which we have alluded, asking the'teuipted, to heed the solemn warning it proclainis t . After depicting in a graphic manner the struggles and agonies too probably attend ing the closing scene of the" doubter's earthly career, the preacher. pro ceeds with ;thn following impressive illustration • • , glit is not from. the imaenatioa•that I :have drawn this warnitigv •eatr.iell you 'of an overshadowing' rave whieh•'dosed in. 'on such a struggle andssuch'-airend as that at which I have glanced. In•it was laid a form which had hardly reached the fulness of earliest manhood.' That young-manlhad gone, young, ardent;' and simply faithful, to' . the tutelage of onephimsell I doubt not a sincere' believer, but 'who sought to re concile .the teaching of our - Ohureli, in which ha ministered;•with the dteama'-of rationalism.- His favorite 'pupil learned• his lore, and it sufficed Ikr , his 'need whilsi: healtly , beitt high ih • his: youthful veins. But ortitiin sickness and decay closed early in'; anit'as the glow of health• faded, the' intellectual. lights for which he.; had , ; changed the ' simplicity of• - faith,began' to pale ; whilst the viper brood ef?doUbts which almost unawares he had letislip into his soul, crept forth from their hiding places, and raised against him fearfully their envenomed heads. And they were too strong for him. The teacher who had suggested 'could not remove thenv;• andiki darkness and despair his victim died before his eyes, the doubter's' death?' . • TRH SANDWICH ISLANDS. .These far , off little . Islands witneseed the most •wonderful triumph of tho Gospel, as ministered by American ,missionaries; The King, Prin'ce's' ind• (p eople' became . Christians,,and'loieignieration, d*e4:i# unity and love. Bni bad Men . envied their PRESBYTERIAN BANNER.--WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1863. blessedness, and interfered with their peace. A few years ago, France sent thither Ro man priests and brandy, and at the cannon's mouth forced the landing and domiciliation of both. And now England must interfere, not with the 'same display of physical power, but with a power adequate to evil. The Christian, intelligencer says : "The new prelate recently sent from En gland to the Sandwich Islands is announced as the Lord Bishop of Honolulu,' and among his first acts attended a heathen feast and dance (the hula), which all the missionaries consider one of the most de moralizing of the native customs. One of his curates refused to attend a union monthly concert of prayer, because held in a place of worship belonging to non-Episcopal Christians. The King's young son, wheal the Bishop was, to baptize, died before his' arrival, but had been previously, baptized by. an American missionary, whereupon one of the teaehers of the English mis sion expressed regret that the poor young prince had died a heathen!'..A tract on. Confirmation had been issued, 'Containing the very highest saciamentarian doctrine as, to the real presence the opis•operatuia and priestly absolution. It is no wonder that the Bishop of London opposed, as long as he ,could, the consecration of this ,new prelate, and that the friends ,of this inter , esting people cherish serious apprehensions . as to the results of such a course pursued by officials nominally Protestant. REPORT OF THE PITTSBURGH SHBSISTENCE ' COMMITTEE. The following report is exceedingly grati fying. It manifests patriotiim, liumanity' and. Christian benevolence. We trust.that our people, who are protected in rthc-elkigt. merit of peace at home, and in the undistnrh. ed possession: of their-patrimony and fruits of their induitry by, the beneficence of tiie Government ,and sacrifices of the soldiers, will never beceme wearied in, well doing. If the war shall continue one year or ten. years, alet us share in the Iprivations and mitigate the sufferings of those who fight our battles. We want an-undivided try, a government of lat and a stable. peace. The Subsistence Odmmitteo - deierve the thanks of the community, and the` people's continued liberal cooperation. The report says "Since its . organization, August , 1861, the, Committee have 'furnished ideals for over 89,000 'troops passing through our citY, East and West. - Of this - number over' 5,000 were sick and wounded. These were provide& With medical attendance` and care and Many of them With doffing. 'Of these 56' have been left in - charge of the Cominittee, being unable 'to proceed fur= ther ; 45 of this nuinber 'have been'return-' ed to their Regiments; 4 have been dis charged - -; 8 have .died and 3 are yet in charge of the Committee. "'During the year ending *January 15th; 1863, the Committee have received . ' from. the citizens OfLawrerido; Mer , cer, Butler, Fayette, Greene,- Washington and Armstrong counties, contributions 'of Cash and Hospital Storesto the amount -of $50,000, which have been forWardedla the Hospitals in Western . Virginia, Ken.tticky; Pennsylvania, and also to Aleicandria, Frdd crick, Hagerstown, Sharpshurg, York, For tress Monroe St. Louis Louisville • and Ecrtire - unistrat;66 — ife - distriL py mem bers of the CoMmittee or their Agente the different 'II - SuPPllis Will be forwardqd do new HosPifalB'AM : bitty be esz tablished ' as soon - as arrangein l enfs' eau . be' made to have Agents to •distriliiiie 'theM; On the Bth-of January a dfilegaiion:'frOM our Committee left foe.Niehitille,.Witliiiiip! plies for the 'sick and,iietnided iliiiTate battles in Tennesiee: lug to . upwards Of -$1;000-in brolglitis to the 'Co'niinrttee : Bourse in bug dityloi this eipedition. ;As '3lrEkilepiinii for liMpitarilliipPli,ei, 4 3ire' eiiinestiyAveal to oar . wends ofl - INstern Pennsylvania for aid '6:1 . '61141e "us to carry . on "thiviiierli of fQrweading Hospital Suppliiiiiii.a• in be fair of upwards of 100;000" - siek aid *found.: ea' SOldiers, we ask you oned'itoti. to alga 14 by our ' Y contributions.' ' • ' The 'Thilaiiing axe lunch needeiii i Vaili,* lifeitier Marie and Driitifers; Beal find' arid'l4lllei in' Vika, - ; ' -! -•• • Weir P. Nit) •". • - .Joe.ATABRRE, ••• " • f' •" •! RIO AiwooD,Z - • .'" ' M'otaive Active Members of Subsistence, Onin tee AngestuA H. Lane,,Ben.t. V.4o24e tVort, ,Robett... -44i1Niec O lives : 'Hertylinbineoe,'Wth; ;MiKt. WOodki; Eminent W;,' Young,. Chas. -t."cidavik . (Sire, Thos. Carnegie; 170,Men;.G.,, little Edwin FL Nevin , I,l:ee, Misses Aunt'. Thaw, 1. A. '.lTain:ep,.llfe r: ry Park, H. K. Wiyinan . , semi, Maria E. Lane, Lime Thaw, .EMPa K•scol}eqt. 'Alice Kennedy, M. ; Brnohlooker, L' Atwood, Sidney Lemon,' Mary. 11,049_ bocce Howard, Mollie Hoits4, Wile. Areed, Mary. Maitland, Mari Robinini;*.., E. Moorhead, Haile Moorhead. • , .- Contributions foT Subsistence Committee can, be left Ait Messrs. Geo. G A.l,llree, Bon, .&; Pr e°"•WeYjn l 4! 4 ff" , ,ORAtlifiihi street, &hi fop c iiin g is a List of , 'Arlie/es foi— waided the . Hospi4l,, 18.621 lig ..Comforte, 2,8/0 • Pillows, . 882'Pillow Caties„.l,9so.Sheits, 5484 Tne,!..• els; 2 ; 4411, Padeauct ItiOgs, 17,579 b a lls: . 0f ; Lint, 9,48 g rolls ;i),rl3endagee,'2,44o of Muslin; 174 Thankiite," : t,pB.9 Pairs Draiv-. op, 6,290. Muslin. ;g 11 4111, 1 ; 8 '59. Shirts, 222 :T01941442 Yecli'llismlgi, 279 Dresiing,,Gowns, 2,001 pairs ,of 228 pairs, of Mittens, .5p7. pritri i pf, OP , 43,.85'ittihaiirovief5,4;6o0,008,, - or Fruit,-2,419 ihd.,Of Crimiters,l,l* wine, 1,148: lbs. of Butter , 2;118 Acts.i.ef Bin 1 8 , 8 07 . 4 6 9k 0 11 12 ,3.bi• $ 6 ,5f,;( 1 2 ' 4 , 135. lbs : Prietii; l 2; B 7 . o' In?* 11 89 1 11`4 Corn; Starch, Tipieco: A SODITERN EXPRESSION OF SBNTIMENT. . The following, just received from an in telligent gentleman in a Southeastern State, is instructive. We, doubt not:but that it, speaks the heart's"sentiments of myritids of Southerners; ,efip,teially, of tie classes. Wby should they fight fOr pry ? If the elavc _Wei§ e, the r e tiek priidAg poor might readily h ire lahOr and*- ry;ork , business; lutthpylav, not the money *Y . enable them to own the 'label.. They int4itlenstaiskontinnYlar,v 'and' m`uailinirei pecuniary • - «vP.:4-,A, • a aid eoCial thefts; gin to see this and to talk about it, quietly. Soon, when they find their numbers and unity of sentiment, and get to feel a con fidence in the abiding presence and power of the Union armies, they will make them selves known. The war will then termi nate very briefly. • 4 ' It is now a year and a half since I saw your paper, or have heard from my friends in the North. Still this Government, whose foundation is slavery, continues. The U. S. troops occupy the coast twenty miles from this, and I begin to feel as though I were. getting nearer my old friends. I would be very glad to see your paper again, D. V., I shall try and get to the North in the Spring.. My right hand is lame, so I can with great difficulty write. " Two-thirds of the people of this county would.be glad to get back into the Union. Several who , own 'slaves Aiave said to me, they would gladly give them all up to have their sons back at hOme, and peace in the country. Indeed -the poorer class are be ginning to see that , they are compelled to exposethemselvekin the war for the rich— the slaveholder. I think the 'emancipa tion prbclamatioh; a master-piece of policy. It will throw the war wheruit ought to be. I trust slavery is doomed. " The Lord reigns, let the earthrejoice! '" Yours in the better Govenant."- • A Good bldter.--This is the title of iiluite a small but most excellent book; published by, our Board, in`PhiladaPhia.As froM the pen, of ,Ref. A. _E Taviort. The soldier who has , enlisted in the .service of his country is first .commended.- He, is then exhorted to enlist in the service of Jesus Chriat. The writer shows that there is a reNtlion in this world against the rightful authority -of .our sovereign Lord. It is a wicked rebellion; in> our own heart and 'in the- heart , of 'others. It must be sulianed. We must volunteer, be enrolled, take the.oith, pit on the uniferTik,,assuine the armor, _obey orders, fightbattles, endure hardnessi .We shall conquer r obtaina re ward,' win a - crown. • • " There is simplicity in the work inge nuity, a lovely spirit. It is Scriptural and, instructive. . -Call at the Presbyterian. :Publication Robniai: Wand Street ; Pittebnrgh; and get , a copy for yoUraelf, and a doten eoples — for your ,friends and the sofdiere. NEW=ENGLAND. tnekooN - of New-Haven . course, on the. .death of Aev„ , Lyman Beecher, D.D.,.makee::special :mention ..of the sermon on duelling preached by -the. deceased at East Hampton , afterl the fatal quarrel of Hamilton and BUrr. He 'char acterizes it as a power, which exerted at the time, and still , continues. to .exert a mighty- influence,en, the 'floral- sentiments , of - the'emintif Iri regard. to . its pkintroll7: ing influence in . matters of tare; I.)r.Pacon,expFessively remarks : It thelway of. brave old-:Jackson as the which'greatestobstacle - 4th . ae hadlo con tend - ant hiinglikn entillston'erou nd the neck, of, Henry CORECESPONDE . NT of the - .Bo ston, ,Re piemiler Soolptor, of Friends im :New Bedford. He ~" lie exteiriv.ely known• by the venerable title • 'pre 0 -Futlier:qillingliast.q His week-days art'i delOotticPindiply to' his worldly busirtess; bet On'the * S e afibitkb ie labors 'nnweariedly among .gabhatli Bc4ooli. Daring the past it '-*tribe:lasivvisited one hundred and fifty ifeietit:Sobbols; and bas distributedl,2oo Tt4itimitits, 6,Boo'Bikile * GeMs, and 1457,800 hymns, tracts, and' little ` bool~a~ `' '4:* o also Ta 10 . 34 sl,poo Iriopey, expended for librariee- an4,:for. clothing for destitute children..lnge ex ample' btifoTe eftot;*ale*li: iii4'iiii.4 4 ifijkli#lo 3 d; ib • " • . - .4. etiatea .! „. .1 4., CS • v :4 1 / 1 .113 Alti t T)lo.l in-r an Masten'. paper, ,thati eathe , ilorty-fottrtit 14sisaohtteetts,.41teigi:i the power of Jesus'. oome,tl.. .warmmg, , witiv electric effect,' The. me were moving along wearied amildispkiitedi bit' Eta Ilia, soul-inspiring ' word ; 'of`''the hviv,p)iligorm AripilFt ifsirpk . froni of the..oltritifiim soldiera,!;new vigor .IraB in ftistO into the'deslionding troope;iind..withi roused ati4;4lllo4if spirits ' they' aptly* loywacd .. = . - s - 41.:)1c) tk • LI! ; TEX ,iiCCOXlATs,,futuished. us. by ; ; the Eeeterny piperir are'correcti •New-England '..innet'eeitainly - bit .aw' ariledthe'palm for in fl. stances o ongevi 't y. writer in e See9cCeitt. mention 14erease'r•ef 'children...of a Nehemiah ..and -Anna 'wlione ages were 'respectivu!y, 398, 96, 77j• 84;'96; 96,' 80, 900)2," . sind'82:,yeaii. . And we." 00:th,i4dig,ii* YeaTtil, tket 7single 44 10. 4 et .Island, the deaths , ofterions. aged seirenly . yisibs; beginning `,1661-9C91,'78;'104,;•86; !:• ;:n 44ngrfaiO4Priniii49P paper made 0 A? 'Kee.g.APre .new-Weeesa.- 2he ,per,presezipt colear surface,, is of soft and . firA toirige y And Adnaiinbly . .Adapted for, newApitpetplri?ses Tile. .entrikft4, states that Pers i. B lßet . fair tetit,9f, what the *w.kePateeki.ge4 IrePeae..te.:::o o l but it ner4inhlrTeeithst there aret4et r . itbin Thin rags whi ch can be. used 011cessil- Atkin in.4lie,inanufiettire of white : p aper. . 11„.5..' 'A! RiCENT ' meeting of. the Trustees of Aifiheist-Odllegii, Veld id 13ostiiii;l'atepir Winir. ikon- toward' the - erection-of 'a 'neni . . be 40yoted to . matlieniatioat and soientific pup*, lirbich -cost not les& thaii180;000:i ' ; 2 , • • .Goirmi*Oß apw states,,t4t.4arviird• Collagohati sent .:into tilitAsK four. bialtdred and thirty:Rf her Sous, Mop: than sevc‘tapen per cent . -of, the ,431ri11:?4, of iher living aryund i , 0 . 4 Amherst, putiorgraduaies„.l4l:4l,srfq;: uates of the 'list five years, has 'milt One hundred and ftfty-nino, and that• Williams Oollege;- as nearly as can be learned; has given: one hundred and elevett of .her , gred-. =tear a4d: undergraduates to ~ the.-tiainx-of the•Unitad-Statesti‘ . . n ytkietlifi drathiafrit luri/ EASTERN SUMMARY. large family depending upon him for sup port. In five days he was to report for service. When his name was called it was answered to by Benjamin It. Dimon, son of Jas. Dimon, a man of wealth and influence in that town, and doing business in New- York. Young Dimon had previously re fused an officer's commission. He went out in the 231 regiment, and has already been promoted to a sergeantoy. • A American M .7E Bible TxNG s o of o t i h e t e y was Managersh held d of A th S e P on the 15th inst., to consider certain ap plications for. Scriptures to be distributed among the soldiers. in the field and among the sick and wounded in hospitals. Thir ty-one thousand' Testaments were granted in answer to the applications. We learn that since` the war began, over one million of volumes have been-furnished by the. S ociety for the, use of soldiers - RBY. DR. &map ed prpaih on ,Sabbath . , week the,second of the • series of doctrinal sermons now being 4eiivered'at the South Baptist church. His •teat Vras, " No - man` can come, to me, eicept the Ili:01er, Whiebi hath sent, we draw him; and will: raise him up at, the last day."