tireshßttrian .rmntt. PITTS'B'URGH, WEDNESDAY, HOST 19, 1813. Washington Collogo.—Persons interested will please look at our Special Notices. The Annual Catalogue of the College is issued. The attendance marked was, Se niors, 32; Juniors, 26; Sophomores, 24; Freshmen, 22 ; Preparatory, 31. Total, 135. TEE RATIONAL BENEVOLENT ORGANIZA. TIONS. We are requested to say, and we do so with pleasure, that, " In view of the great number of sick and wounded men who are now lying and suffering under a burning Southern sun, afar from home and friends, everything connected with efforts for their relief is of interest to all true friends of humanity and of our country. Two great Commissions are in the field ministering to the spiritual and temporal wants of the soldiers. While active support for each is so urgently solicited, it is truly gratifying to know that such a kind and cordial spirit exists between the two, as is manifested by the folloiiing interesting letter from the head of the one Commission , in the West to the head of the other :" U. S. CHRISTIAN COMMISSION, Branch Office, Nashville, July 23. Dr. J. S. Newberry, Secretary Western Department U. S. Sanitary Commission: MY DEAk SIR :—I desire, on behalf of the Christian Commission, to render grate ful acknowledgment for the uniform, gen erous and cordial aoliperation .of yourself and the agents of your Commission in our work of bringing spiritual comforts and blessings to the soldiers. But for your assistance at the first, and its continuance all along, our work would have been greatly impeded in the Army of the Cum berland. 'Also, in my recent trip to Vickiburg, in the Service of the Christian Commission, I was at'all points kindly received and mate rially aided by the Sanitary Commission. My own feelings that the work of both Commissions, though wrought in different departments, should be entirely - coopera tive, were f ully reciprocated by your agents at Cairo, Memphis, and on the Barge on Yazoo River. My observations of your work on that Barge were very pleasant. I saw stores dispensed to needy applicants most freely and in surprising quantity and variety, and when I got back on the Bluffs, I found at the Division Hospitals, when the sick and wounded were coming in, bedding with your mark, and dried and canned fruit, and lemons and chickens, which could have been furnished from no other source. 1 know, that without the timely help of the Sani tary Commission, there would have been destitution and consequent suffering in many of those hospitals. I want to bear testimony to the noble Christian philanthropy of the men in charge of your Commission in that depart ment. lam persuaded they could not do that work from unworthy motives. Money cannot procure such services as you are re ceiving, for instance, from Dr. Waniner, at Vicksburg. Every •week's experience in my army work, bringing•me among the camps and through the hospitals, and giving an op portunity, which I always improve, to look in at the different quarters of your Com mission, leads me to a continually higher estimate of the work you have on hand. I am satisfied that your system of distribu ting 'hospital stores is the correct one. Such large contributions'as the people are making, cannot be handed over to the army on any volunteer system, unless it be for a few days, amid the , emergencies of a severe battle. A business involving such expen ditures would be entrusted by a business maw only to permanent and responsible , agents. . . `That among all your employees, there should be no unworthy man, is more than a reasonable mind can ask. The Christian CommissiOn and the 'Christian Church wduld go down under that test. Let me close this letter of thanks, my dear brother, with my daily prayer, a prayer which I learned in the " Soldier's Home," in Louisville, and have often re peated since in the " Soldier's Rest," at Memphis, on the "'Barge" in Yazoo river, in the'division hospitals Under the guns of Vicksburg, in the Nashville "Home" and store-room, and in the camps and hospitals' at 'l4lurfreeaboroa prayer fresh on my lips, as have just come from seeing wounded and typhoid patients at Tullahoma and Winchester, lifted from rough blan kets, and undressad from the soiled clothes of march and battle, and laid in your clean sheets and shirts, upon your comfortable quilts and pillows--a prayer in which every Christian heart in the land will yet join— " God bless the Sanitary Commission 1" Most cordially, yenta, EDWARD P. SMITH, Field Agent U. S. Christian, Commission. ECCLESIASTICAL Rev. I,OBN •KELLY, having been released .from the churches of Salt Creek and Duncan's Falls, and installed pastor of the church- of MeConnellsville his Post Office address is changed from dhandlers- Yale, Muskingum County, Ohio, to Mc- Connellsville, Morgan Co. Ohio. Cor reapondents will please address him at the latter. place. Mr...lintri H. SCOFIELD has been ordained and installed, by the Presbytery of North River, at New Hamburg, N. Y. Ref, B. E. LANE has received and accept ed a call to • Carmel, Putnam County, New-York, and has entered on his charge. Rev. E. D. YEOMANS has•accepted a call to St. Peter's Presbyterian church, Roches ter, N. Y. Per the Presbyterian Banner. Thanksgiving at' Towanda. The 6th of August was observed by the people of Towanda, Pa., as a day of thanks giving and, prayer, with commendable loy alty. A union prayer-meeting was held in the tdetbodist church in the- morning at half-past eight, and a sermon was preached at half-past ten in the Presbyterian, and else in the Episcopal church. Stores were 014;0in ,the meantime, and ordinary bus- Lusa_ generally suspended. pollqation was taken up in behalf of our,suffering soldiers, which is expected to rem* them tbrongh the,;(lbristian Com -9 Fit • gile us a - . heart: as a natiottirtio7to" hir his chastisement that it mayiplease. P.r 5a - la speedily tput an end to this att`eTut.,Ut.' EASTERN SUMMARY. NE W..ENGLAND. A CORRESPONDENT of the Christian, ..ifirror, in an account of the closing exer cises of the late term at Bangor Theological Seminary, remarks : " The examination of the three classes gave ample testimony to the faithfulness and success of their instructors ; particu larly was it manifest that the study of the Hebrew had been a critical one during the year. Nowhere else in the land can a knowledge of the mother tongue of the Bible be more completely secured than at the feet of our Gamaliel. And it was a source of special gratifiCation to perceive that the great doctrines of the Bible had been received with a support as unshaken as the bill where they are taught ; certain ly in these days, when some even in our churches arc loosing their grasp upon the inspired idea of God's penalty against sin. The class in Theology testified without a dissenting voice to their belief in those doc trines, and to the propriety of preaching them." THE BOSTON Traveller says, in regard to the Faculty of Andover Theological Sem inary " Prof. Edwards A. Park is absent on the way to Europe; Prof. Calvin E. Stowe will leave in the Spring, and the Trustees will probably soon nominate some onelo supply the vacancy occasioned by his retirement. Prof. Smyth, from Bowdoin College, will, in the Fall term, enter upon his duties as Brown Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral Theology, formerly held by Ralph Emerson, D. D., deceased. Prof. Austin Phelps, who has been called away because of ill health, will resume his labors in the Fall." THE INTERESTS of institutions of learn ing seem to receive the consideration of the wealthy and of the friends of educatfon generally to a far greater extent in the Eastern than in the Middle and Western States. We have several times of late had occasion to notice the liberal donations made in behalf of New-England Colleges. We take from an exchange an additional in stance of this praise-worthy liberality : " Wesleyan'University, at Middletown, Conn., has just received an addition to its endowment of nearly $BO,OOO. Oliver Cutts, Esq., of New-Rochelle, gave $25,000 for the support of a Professorship of Greek and Modern Languages; Isaac Rich, Esq. of Boston, also gave $25,000 for the sup port of a Professorship of .Rhetoric and English Literature. This last is to be called the Olin Professorship. Upon this the Alumni became incited to start a fund for the support of the library. It is in tended to raise $25,000; over $6,000 has already been. subscribed- Two or three thousand dollars have also been pledged to ward a gymnasium." Contributions to our Western Institu tions may be reasonably expected to be on a smaller scale than those noted in the East, but they doubtless might and should be far more numerous and bountiful than they are. AT AN INEIDEL meeeting lately held in Boston, one of the speakers, in advocating the resolution that "Infidelity is not always Atheism," asserted that Infidels, as an asso ciation, numbered "as many shades of opin ion as any other church." - He said : "We are Unitarians, Trinita rians, Deists, Pantheists, Atheists, Spirit ualists, and divers other ists and urns—in truth, we are all things but Plenary Inspi rationists." According to the "Report of the Treasurer of the Infidel Association of America," we should judge the financial affairs of the body to be in anything but a flourishing condition. This Report ac knowledges " contributions received during the year, seven dollars and fifty cents," and " cash received for sales of pamphlets, six, dollars and ninety-five cents!" ; REV. R. ! T. BRECIKINRIDGE, D. D., hay in'g received an invitation through Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, to attend the late. commencement at Harvard University, pays, in his response, quite - a tribute of eti logy to New-England. He says : _ "It may be the will of God that the most dreadful changes await our country. It the-very -worst comes, I :look-that . true and regulated .> liberty will perish last in New-England. In past years I have spo ken freely in of 'much that has been.felt as an evil influence from New England, as it appeared to me. But I never doubted—and now less than ever— that the roots of whatever produces free dom, equality, and high civilization, are more deeply set in New-England, than in any equal population on the face "of the earth.' / WE TAKE from an exchange the follow ing interesting intelligence respecting the encouragement of wool-growing in the State of Vermont : "In 1787 the General Assembly of Ver mont, encouraged by suitable enactments, the growth of weal, and the returns of each successive census show a gradual increase, until in 1860 the annual product was 2,- 975,544 pounds. 'For many years it might' well have been said of Vermont, AB the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands,' and during the non-in tercourse with Great Britain the General Assembly passed a joint resolution, saying that it would be considered ungentlemanly for a member of the House or of the Coun cil to appear in-his seat other than clad in the growth, production and manufacture of the State." EX-PRESIDENT DAY, of Yale College has pule .completed his ninetieth year. CYRUS NOIXTHICUP, of the New-Haven Palladium, 1 been elected to the chair of English Literature in Yale College. MORE THAN H„..N..T.F the young men who have been exarainett as candidates for the Newport Naval AcadCmy have been reject ed, most of them on' account of physical disabilities rather than ‘3 want of a suffi cient ameunt of knowledge. Miss MARY P.mßai reoently 'died at New Haven, Conn., leaviag abllut $120,- 000 as the result of industriois ,echool teaching and judicious inveatme,nt. ,90n neetieut people of , a former generatiow .re member her as proprietress of a YOU4+7 Ladies' Seminary at Litchfield. OF SEVERAL HUNDRED men who were drafted recently in Providence, R. 1., but one, it is,aaid, has thus far, been <mustered in. 411 the rest -paid the exemption fee of $BOO anil,got,off. e,", e t • : Orattermx'm leVerrriont' wholiattrieeerl ;‘,:s ons.that. llama nni ./.'6..."1"!* PRESBYTERIAN BANNER.---WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1863. complaint of the grand juror; and to a fine not exceedinn. SIOO ; and to make sure that the grand juror shall not neglect to indict them, he is made liable to a fine for every omission to do his duty in that re gard. Tun New-York Herald says a large sum is being raised in New Hampshire for the purpose of settling a handsome annuity on Dr. Lord, the late president of Dartmouth college. ' AT A RECENT meeting of the Board of Education of the City of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., adplication was made for a share of the public school funds to pay the teachers of the Roman Catholic Schools. The question having been laid before the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, it was declared in reply that the Board had no power to dispose of the school moneys except that derived from the statute. The Deputy Superintendent adds in his reply " This [the statute] restricts the peyinent of the public money to teachers 'of com mon schools qualified according to law. The Catholic schools are not common schools,' for the reason that they are not under the control and direction of the com mon school authoritieS, and because they are essentially restricted in their sphere and character. "Their teachers may. or may not be qualified for holding certificates:Tiom the proper officers. If they do not,lhit `atone would exclude them,'and if they do t , still they are not employed by nor in any way amenable to the Board of Education; and hence to vote the public money into: their hands would be without law without pre cedent, and in the face of the decisions - Of the SupreMe Court on a similar'question.. " It seems to me that .no detailed argu ment can be required to show that .the Board of Education have no power, to ap ply the public money of the State in the manner solicited. - They have as much power to apply: it to any private •school in the city as to those established under Cath olic auspices." .. AN ARMY TEMPERANCE MEETING}' Was held at Saratoga on . .the 4th inst. a was stated at• the meeting that a *million of Temperance tracts had been circulated In the army and navy, chiefly through the contributions of• 800 Sabbath Schools. THE CHURCH JOERNAL, an organ of the Episcopal Church, days of Rev. Dr. C. C. Moore, who died recently in his .84th year, that to his munificence the General Theo logical Seminary is indebted for the,whole of its landed estate in New-York city.: And it further adds " Perhaps, next after a singular liberal ity, large even in proportion to his large wealth, no part of his character was more lovely than its gentle, sweet, childlike hu mility and simplicity, which could not fail to win every one who has ever seen 'or known him." IF Tun Springfield Republican is accu rate in its statements, some of the distin guished clergymen 'of New-York are cer tainly in easy circumstances so far as this world's goods are concerned. It says " Bishop Hughes. is worth his million : Rev. J. W. Geissenbeiner, of the Lutheran Church, is worth a quarter, of a million; Rev. A. R. Van Nest is reckoned at $200,- 000, and , half a , million more in prospect; Rev. Dr. Spring has $lOO,OOO, and his young bride three times as much more; Rev. Dr. Adams is worth $100,000; Rev. Dr. Potts sso,ooo;Bishop Janes about $100,000; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher-and . Dr. R. S. Storrs, of Brooklyn, are set down at about $30 , 000 each." • IN THE LAST IndepenUent, we find the following sprightly_ editorial "Oar editor-in-chief, who is now in Switzerland, writes us a private letter, 'in which he says : 'I have sat in Calvin's chair and in his pulpit; now look out for sound dectrine! We pluck this remark out of its privacy for .the comfort of those friends of ours who think that the iermons printed in this paper might perhaps be..a little better if they were not quite snood." As it is notorious that Calvin's ortho doxy has not saved the church in 4hich preached from the heresy'of the -Soninian and the Rationalist,_We may . rfairly prestime that no proximity to places hallowed by the memory of the Genevan-Reformer will have much to do with the theological views of the famous Brooklyn preacher. AMERICAN GOLD COIN was quoted on, Saturday at 125®1251. /Superfine State,. and Western Fleur sold .tit $3.90@)4.50, and Extra State at - $4.65,W.35 per bbl. PHILADELPHIA. THE NEw-YonK correspondent of the' Boston Journal; in alluding' to the late Archbishop Keuriek, Makes the 'following statement in regard to the praiseworthy kindness shown to this Rothish prelate by Rev. Dr..Tyng. 'He says • - i• " At time of Tatholie riots at • pliia, BishOp Kenriek. lived there - . life was in danger. No place was :safe' He was hunted from place to place. - Rev Dr. Tyng then lived in Philadelphia. Offered the fugitive bishop a refuge. In disguise he entered, tbe" open doors of the catholiC Episcopalian, and lived there, in safetY till the storm was over." ' ' ' " Tun Philadelphia -Inquirer, , in an article: outhe. increased mortality of. the city: for some weeks past, says`: - The total deaths,diiring the past thirty days were two thousand one hundred and sixty-six. * We doubt :whether the records of the Health,Office can shol such u*tOr rible list of mortality in the same space' of time in any year, the absence of. an ix= knowledied'epiderhic."-' The alarming increase „of deaths tributed by the inquirer to, the uncleanly condition of the streetti. _ Eldersciige...-Seldiers' Aid- Society. WISHES. EDITORS : —Enclosed • plelse find the Quarterly Report of the Mere.: ridge Soldiers' Aid Society, which for publication. During our teat quarter we. have contributed in money fiftY-one dollars and Seventy-six cents; of whieirthir. ty dollars were a donatiOn to the Society. I In • hospital stores , welave: contributed AR allows r 29i lbs. dried, fruit; 147.periodi;4 \l as and tracts; .s,packages lint; 2 pack ogee). sage ;'1 package worn muslins.; 3. p a ltkeges corn starch ;.16 pillows; "16 lowlips; 2 -'l,-aeker'obiefsl; 8 , toiveli;. leaf fail.; , ) ;?btrxr S`v-• NEW-YORK. For the Presbyterian Banner. Kentucky Religions Literature, A CIIOICE SPECIMEN. MESSRS. EDITORS : —Besides all the oth er woes which loyal Kentuckians suffer from the rebellion, by the raids of Morgan, Pegram and otheys, .we have a peculiar and blasting affliction in one department of our "religious literature "; peculiar, for I think the world may be challenged for a parallel; blasting, because it produces shame and mortification in the hearts of good men for some who call themselves Christians, and must surely result in ,a harvest of sneers and contempt among infidels, for our com mon .Christianity. I allude to the paper published at Louis ville, called The True. PreskOterfam, with the names of " Rev. Stuart Robinson and Rev. Robert Morrison, Editors," at its head. - Your readers have heard of this paper before. It. was first issued in the month of April, 1862, and continued to: appear weekly until September lash • Since then, three or four numbers have appeared, at long intervals. < The last- basjust come to hand, issued iTaly.3o, 1863. The public know the radical principle on - which this eiw candidate' for public favor started' out: It regarded all other papers ifi =our Chureh essentially' apos tate, 'asireligious journals;beeause they up held- the `Goveimmetit Ili its and to crush an ungodly, rebellion,''and because they, gave news items-on' the progress . of the war. The True Presbyterian declared this i; political," ' - and Wrong. Its platform was'one Purely re,ligions, eminently spirit ual, wholly Christian in its' matter and temper. 4.- . The public also know something of, the manner in which these fair promises of a higher spirituality in its new-born life have been fulfilled in months past. The True Presbyterian has abused, in the most vitu perative language, every religious journal of our Church, and many of other Churches .and has - been the preftinent vilifier of men 'whose praise is in all the( - iliturches. The 'Presbyterian, Areilf-York - , ObServer, Banner, -Standard, 'Presbyter, and other papers, with their respective 'editors, have beefir held up by-name. to public scorn,: along with-the Repertory, Danville Review, and other Quarterlies; and Drs. Spring, Hodge, Breckinridge, Boardman, and many' other. eminent men, have been singled out- as arch-apostates, leading tbe Church away from its allegiance to Christ; while this True 'Presbyterian claimi for .itself 'the honor of standing, single-banded, against this wholesale defection. As above stated, the offence of the men r jonrnals, and Church Courty„so roundly abused, is their adhering to the. Government of their country against rebellion, and speaking and acting accord ingly. . , s , I wish to, give the religious public, through your paper, a, sample ,of this re ligi9us literature, from- the last issue of The Prue Presbyterian. An apology might seem to be due for - asking your columns for; the introduction of such matter. I have three reasons for it: first, that the people of God, as,widely as possible, may see to what a humiliating depth sympathy with thesebellion may plunge an eminent min ister of our Church, having his domicil in a loyal State—one claiming, too, for his paper, special, spirituality----for it will ap pear, in the sequel, that this sympathy is the real animus =of the whole matter • sec ond, that the people of, God,;. elsewhere, may know something of the weight of the curse of this rebellion which loyal Kentuck ians have to bear, when, in,addition to in vasion by rebel_ armies, they must endure such a, periodical infliction as. The True. Presbyterian ; and thusi,ertable. the Lord's people_ to fulfill the Apostolic, injunction, "Bear ye'-one another's burdens; and so: , , fulfill the law: of, Christ"; and thirdly, to' show to loyal Kentuckians, ,if: this part• of the curse must be endured, as seems to he the Divine will, that they should soon seek , to establish, if they value their true inter este justly,,a .loyal , , and religious paper in their midst. For -these- reasons I seek a space.in your columns- T .-perhaps _rather .a large one—and Ifor , these reasons, I propose to send this article to some other religious journals.' The number of the - paper referred to, cept , a condensed 'report' Of the' proceedings of the General , Assembly, and seine minor articles, is7well fillecl• with abuse, of - the character spokety of, -All its editorials, covering nearly the`iyhole of - the two inside pages, are a tissue of-Misrepresentation and vituperation. We will confine ourselves, in: this article, chiefly-to a notice'Of 'its ed itorial - More-`than four column's; upon the late .General AsseMbly: There seems to have been nothing done, or left uadone, by that- venerable 'court, which pleased thi:s spiritualsluMinary. -Its criti cisms-upon its proceedings; and even upon. its members , by name, could De passed - by unnotice.ksif.regard.were had to common deeency; but there is a total disregard of this quality, both in the matter and style. I seriously doubt whether the-Hew-York Herald, or the Police. Gazette,. has at any. time surpassed The True Presbyterian, if they have, indeed. ever equalled it, .in the rancor, vilification, misrepresentation,' and imputation,of base:: motives, which they have' poured-forth:in the heat of political partisanship, or in,panderinglo vice; when we compare tliom with what this.paper says of work Of Sur: last General-Assembly, its,leading men,,and the majority of that Look" at''. a:sample its 'epithetd and, aide, .In its introduction it says,: " We . are free - to= say' that our chief comfort' in reading them, (the proceedings - 0 has arisen from the reflection "that ; in this Assembly; the Presbyterian aurch must have, reached her lowest point of himiliation,,and there= fore Amity beexpected-that froiii this time' she . Must begirt 'to ascend , to higher ' arid more Scriptural ,vieiel--that is, if the Lod, in his anger; has not given her over to irre-: deemable apostacy." It speaks of two pre: viOuti Assemblies, (1861-2;)' as " dragoon ing timid men:of tender consciences "; and of " the free use of the thumb-screw' and the iron boot!: upon* the 'refractory, who dared to.have an opinion and a conscience; by-the ecolesitistical ' , demagogues who , had the lead" Then;, of the last 'Asseriably "The deliverances 'oeimpoitant subjects, by:the' AsitemblY of 1863 make the impres sion- on' in honest Mind,' of having been Conceived in that spirit of low cunning; and: eipressed' in 'that style of double tongued, " since it , 11* be. come the fashion to shape all utterances with , ' reference, not- to what is true,- but what it may be politiolto 'say,- The resem blance in style. to the ambiguous utterances of tthe ancient-'heathen Oracles," &e epeiiks ,4,..:tne' of the Assembly's' deliver ances, as'" the miserable hybrid, begotten of al Compromise: bettreeb' thelesire to Say much 'more and the'desire to say pcithing ; . 1 ` of fatecither; • its- k-c cionferininK-fte action' thist'eatlentoitli . other ffiti fig . ..faced • Otsi;;"";,:lf .. 1 *cited with the-ino t'Frtru YEP - 114 - "- Meet toward iefinion" with the - ' ew, iiehool body, and of the inoiives proMpting See• ► 1 For the Prtstlteriau Banner it, as " the substitution of the abolition theory for Christ's truth as the doctrinal b Isis of Church communion, and mere sec ular patriotism for practical piety, as the evidence of fellowship;" of another case, as " the ' dodge' so skilfully practised ;" and much more to the same effect. It is more scurrilous in its abuse of cer tain men of the Assembly, than of its meas ures. It speaks contemptuously of " such leaders as Nevin, Delaney, F. T. Brown, Hays, and Wines! Among the Ruling Eiders," it continues, "we presume there may have been a fair average of good sense and real Christian worth. Whether the name of Judge Leavitt adds any thing to their reputation since his Janus-faced re port on> the Breckinridge and Robinson memorials last year, and his recent re markable opinion in the Vallandigham . ha beas corpus case; is a question about which men probably would differ." A thought occurs here. I. Any one who refers to Judge Leavitt's " report," will find it anything but Janus-faced." It is a straight-forward document, fully sustaining the course of Dr. Breekinridge, which Dr. Robinson had condemned; even comumnding his course in this explicit lan guage : " And that, in their (the Assem bly's) judgment, his late and patriotic stand, in reference to the great conflict new in progress, entitles hint to the gratitude of the •Church and the country." .How con trarythis to the impression 'sought to be 'madel' }line ills; lachrynuel 2. The - abuse'OfJudge Leavitt by, The True _Pres byterian redounds to the praise of that em inent jurist and Christian gentleman. 3. But is not that sheet out of its chosen ele ment—in danger,of becoming " political ?" It calls Judge LIS decision, in the Vallan digham case a "remarkable opinion " that is, an erroneous - opinion ; else why, in this connexion, "remarkable ?" This shows the ~true. sympathies of that sheet with the, rebellion and its apologists. But more on this point hereafter. • We present further choice epithets, and pointed' vilification of good men. The re tiring Moderator, Dr: Beatty, does not es cape. It says-: " The opening sermon was such as might have been anticipated from the character and position of its author. Its chief excellence is negative in that it ignored the current civil and political - ex citements, and eschewed all the common pulpit hobbies of, the day—whether the Negro, the Star-Spangled -Banner, or the Union." This "negative" merit failed to please. May we infer, then, that if it had possessed the positive " excellence" of treating any of the subjects "ignored," the sermon would have been commended? We have thp best reasons for knowing, that if it had toueled,any of these topics—if it had said anything about upholding the Government in, this time of rebellion; and being subject to "the powers that be"—Dr. Beatty would have been torn asunder by this self-ap pointed censor of the whole Church, and defamer of good men .But the language we have - quoted is courteous and polished, compared with what is to come. This, paper calls certain leading men of this : and the previous Assemblies, embracing the majority of the last,. Assembly, " the Mediocrats in the Church,;" also, " the Mediocratic mob;" and " the evangelical bloodhounds " of the Church! It characterizes the venerable editor of The presbyterian thus : " Poor Dr: En gles .!----the.dignided, scholarly conservative of The Presbyterian, that was r—who, ex bibits 4 4 the folly of,• sacrificing self-respect and conseience in attempting to court a miserablefaction ofehurch Jacobi ns, whom a little manly, outspoken boldness, (like that of the True Presbyterian for.example,) at the proper time, would.have kept. whin ing in their kennels;" And, he further speaks of Dr.,E. as 4 f letting Th,e" Presbyte rian stoop:front its lofty and,Churchly dig nity to become the vehicle of the ecelesias ticorpolitical type of piety, in the: vainhope of leading and controlling the evangelical bloodhounds!" The purport and bearing of all this will be, plainly seen in the light of a short extract from another article in this, same number, thus ' :;.." Will not• for eign Christians be . likely to conclude that. 4 ,o,tithern rebellion ' IIIIIEIbt have carried off with it, sppiehow, the greater part of the' Christiart i manliness dignity, • courtesy, and genius, that,once adorned. the Presbyterian Church ? 'What an unintended compli-. 1 Input . ,to John Leyburn 1, How different, the„ present...as compared with, the former Presbyter,iani",, All• this is from a paper claiming special consideration' and patronage for eminent spirituality,• in eschewing 'all - that is secular and political and exhibiting. what is wor 7 thy of all'imitation We should not cite these extracts: abusing eminent men, were it not for- the reasons given for penning:. this article at all, and for thelurther reason that :abuse from such a quarter- is their higheat The vilifiCation of Dr. Engles is caliptied by that of Dr. Tustin. His speech as our representative to the New School 'body in Philadelphia, (as the Assembly at Peoria, and the previous one at Columbits, had “alloived'itte handcuffs to be put on," in entering into that- correspondence,) is spo ken of as " the highly'rbetorical and mock sentimental` fionrisli"niade, in 'the name of the Old 'School, befbie the AsseniblY Philadelphia:" Passing by some which for. reasons of personal' sliante this vilifier should , have withheld , ---if that sus , ceptibility has pot utterly died out in his soul- 22 -he speaks of Dr. Tustin as " a man who - for forty years`has la t een a hanger-on about 'the 'thinistry. of the Church ' —" a elerieil'eourtier 'end- toady "--‘‘ a man ut terly incapable 'by nature -Of appreciating the "spirit' of the men of '37, and . equally incapable by' - education' and habits of thought; - of'eonaprehending the principles for which they struggleclHan Old School man, therefore, simply for the respectabil ity of the thing,' and as ready to: be a Ncir School min Tashidu should elia.nge iri that direction ,; such a- man, of all the thoustindeof Israel; was the ft represen tative of - the spirit of the Assembly at - Pe-' origy to: the Assembly at Philadelphia Elsewhere he says: seems - lo us pre cisely in accordance With the eternal fit 'ness of things,' that Iniehin 'Assembly' as we - have described that of 1863 to be, have selected Re*--Septiintts Tus tin; D..D.," as representative; •' = NO*, this ia well' understood, He is utterly:opposed' to everi''a correspondeice with e',New , School bo'dy; and: heriaele 'seeks to cast‘centerapt'-upiiii•the AiOriabry of 1862 for "'initiating," and that of'lB63' for consummating, the correspondence and. hence" he slanders the Assetibly, in Dr. Tustin,' its representative. -But why is he " opposed toiliiefraternal correspondence; which' Christian . ' men rejoice ? This, iti' - understoe'd. - - Dr. R. S. , Bfeekin ridge, in the Assembly of 1882,1frOientett the minuteoperiing the way: for this 'eer:J. respondence. - 1 : 154_1, hie t hrethreT l OA l 44int a deep,oisa, 7 ' Teveaii the 'persona/ gro!nd of ottoititinn; His paper from which these quotations are made, exhibits ' further reasons. Hear him : " Manifestly, the solitary reason that exists now for a re-union that has not existed since 1837, is the sympathy between the reactionary party in the Old School, with the New School, in their common fanaticism on the slavery question, and the corresponding tendency to prostitute the Church to the unholy purposes of political partisanship. The proposed re-union is simply a project for the reconstruction of the Church, pal pably on the basis of ignoring the previous doctrinal testimonies of the Old School against the heresies of semi-Pelagianism and no-Churchism." The drift of all this is now manifest to the most stolid. This " solitary reason," when analyzed, points rebellion-ward with unmistakable plainness. 1. Incidentally, it should be noticed, that "re-union" was. not. the "project" the Assembly adopted, but only a correspondence. 2. The attempt to get up an alarm, evidently for home con sumption in Kentucky, out of the " slavery question," and about " ignoring the previ ous doctrinal testimonies," &c., charging the terrible consequences which are to oc cur upon " the reactionary party in the Old School," will be duly appreciated, and indeed is decidedly rich, and abundantly amusing to us here in Kentucky, when it is remembered that Dr. Breckinridge " pro posed " this correspondence, and also that he presented the paper in 1862, stigmatized as ",prostituting the Church to the unholy purposes of' political partisanship," and may therefore be deemed the head of this 'reactionary party ;" and when it is .re membered, moreover, that this same Dr, Breckinridge, was one of the leaders in 1837, and was the. author of the famous "Act and Testimony I" Will not every body be alarmed• now at " the proposed re union !" Perhaps even this alarmist would admit that at least Dr. Breckinridge knows something about " the spirit of the men of '37," and about " the principles for which they struggled," even if Dr. Tustin does not. Nay—verily ! It is a heart, all of whose pulsations beat in deep sympathy with the-rebellion, that is at the bottom of all this abuse of eminent men, and this trumpeted fear of a "proposed re-union." That we are right in, detecting the ard nsus of all this vituperation, appears fur ther in the fact that he charges Dr. Tustin with deliberate falsehood for saying that he had heard Mr. Calhoun, in his place in the Senate, express his "gratification at see ing the churches dividing; which report," continues The True Presbyterian, " is in itself so preposterous, and so manifestly, a fiction of Dr. Tustin's creative imagina tion, that no intelligent man, of any party, whoever read a speech of Mr. Calhoun, will credit it until Dr. Tustin shall favor the world with the extracts," &c. Dr. Tustin is eminently able to settle this ques tion of veracity, and we leave it entirely with him. We have now given citations sufficient for our purpose, though we have scarcely, touched a tithe of the scandalous :matter, and style of this article: Elsew,here, this paper, as from its first number onward, abuses by name each and every, one, of the several religious newspapers mentioned above; and also the Repertory.; and, after reading the extracts given, it would be ex ceedingly amusing, did it not involve mat ters so serious, to find The True Presbyte,.. rian, even, this very number, censuring the aforesaid journals, and venting its objurga, Lions in this characteristic ami comely man ner : That such spirits as find utterance in the Presbyter, the Standard, the Ob server, or even the Banner, should echo the cry for blood, under the pressure of the low popular passions to which they pander, is, not surprising; but when we find the Repertory and the. Presbyterian stooping to the level of popular demagogues,. and. indulging in the fierce billingsgate of pas , sion, we are profoundly impressed with the extent to which the apostacy of the. Church. has gone." , - To change a single word of Holy . Writ— " Surely, secession maketh ; a wise man mad r—when The True Presbyterian can ; charge the Repertory and the Presbyterian with uttering." fierce billingsgate 1" This is enough to excite the derision, of the veriest fishwoman of the London market I A Man must surely be demented who ean. seriously make such a charge, and in the,. same paper pour forth such a mass of the foulest vituperation upon the supreme ju dicatory of the church which he is a minister, and upon so many;of, the, promi- • pent men of this s church r as the foregoing extracts show. . Tiro points , more will embrace all we hav .et ,present to say. What- is, the ; aitiptus .of these utterances; and whais s thew riter I have already said their animus: is sym pathy with the rebellion. The proof of this is found in each and every ntimher of this paper. The last issue shows it, in al most every article. It is found , pervading that, on the General Assembly„, as I have incidentally shown. It is seen rather in inuendo, ,sneer, and insinuation, ~than in outspoken and ,manly utterance of what is Manifestly felt and desired. <., This is all the more dishonorable , when we know the writer. " .'", Yet. example, he speaks of the. Assem blY'S proceedings on " the , state`. of the- Church and the country ,- as action, Sup, pert of , very, questionable . doctrines and measures; as "'flag idolatry,'" just as the rebels in the South talk; as the " tendency to prostitute the Church to the unholy 'purposes of political partisanship ;" as a'" SUbtititAtiOn of mere , secular patriot-, is ii practical piety ;" as " the . Gaspe! aceording,to Spring, Beecher, and, Breckinridge ;" and, using again - the, ,pre else style of the rebel Press in the South ; he speaks' of !! therdevasta.tion, : pillage, and plunder, eanetione.o„and : even encouraged, by their . Christian brethren at the North ;" with any reasonablequantity of the • same flows' quality. All this Man heartfelt sym pathy with thee rebellion again the very life of that Government'whieh proteetithe' pemthe Writer . wields. ' But'thiels neittill. He berates 'the AS sembly for what . it di no t do, not that he would have' approved the doing of that'for the , omissiOn of which ' he complains; liut the non-performance- takes from, him, the opporinnity he sought - for special! Wand higher abuse Hence his nioanini 'And i yet-lie makes this omission the:,cees s l' o i of as much abuse as possible ;'alr*hich'points to his-SympathY With' the - nbellion. Hear him—the italics' are his "Now frOm the general tone of Presbyterian organs, 'Pres- 1 byteries' wna Siiods;for a, year vest, no in"- ellikent man can doubt that-a majority or 'the' Assembly= and perhaps' of the Chinch approves of the Emancipation Prodlaina titin, and holds' theililly dogina—alikgrefee' in its premise a'nd' logically absurd conclusion ; that ‘ statiery is the cause rif war, Onii'therejOra'filust be U6oUshedt, dr there' ea* be no veace Why n o t then` m soikOldly ni pn the New School Aeaemb, I 41 b./4%1 4 4 --Epserahle-sneakni. 6s ing and dodging ?" We think it is mirw an evident, "that he may run that readeth it," that what prompts this vilifier of our highest Church court, and eminent and good men, is that his heart is with the rebels—just where, if he bad ordinary manliness, his body would be. All this will be fully confirmed when it is stated that the writer is STUART ROB INSON, the senior editor of The True Pres byterian. We well know in Kentucky that be is a "secessionist," as Dr. Breckinridge long ago publicly branded him, and that he has said and done too much to escape being truly characterized as at heart, and by word and deed, with the rebels; all which will be confirmed and illustrated by a simple nar rative of facts. He is now an exile from Kentucky, living at Toronto, Canada. And why is he there, while still editinga paper, appearing " semi•occasionally," in Louis ville ? He was. pastor, (and is still, in form,) of the Second , Bresbyterian church, in Louisville. His exile began voluntarily, but it is well knownto be continued invol untarily. That is to say—about a year ago he was absent from Louisville on a visit. This was just after the first Morgan raid into Kentucky. The excitement consequent on Morgan's pillaging and murderous tour beino. ° great, and Dr. Robinson's sympathies with the rebellion being well known, his friends, the elders of his church, advised him not to return. He has not since been in Kentucky—at ]east, not openly. We presume be betook himself to Canada for safer keeping, or because he could find congenial spirits, sympathetic with the re bellion, under the protection of the British lion. How long he will remain there, may depend on one or more of several things: whether the Nation, or the Rebellion, shall ' triumph whether. Kentucky will remain true to the Union, of which we do not doubt, so long as the Union shall be pre served, and of which we have recent and conclusive evidence in the State election just held, being the third or fourth time . since the - war began in which Kentucky has cast her vote overwhelmingly for the Union and against secession, this being the direct issue in each case we believe but the last, and in the last both parties claiming to be for the Union ; whether Dr. Robinson is willing, or will be hereafter at any time and in any issue of events, to take the oath of allegiance to. the United States, concerning which we have heard one of his best friends in Kentucky say that he is not willing, and that he did not believe he ever would take the oath;. and, finally, whether a man of his antecedents will be allowed to return to Kentucky, or to any part of the United States, without taking such oath. Touching the last point, while General Boyle, a Kentuckian, a Presbyterian, and a Christian gentleman of the highest order— and also one of Dr. Robinson's former friends and admirers—remains in command at Louisville, we have not the least idea that he will be permitted to =return to Kentucky without taking the oath. This is the very least that should be accepted froln one whose efforts to distract the Church and to paralyze the arm of the Government in its contest with an unholy _rebellion are so. well understood in Ken tucky. - , I leave the case now with the reader, and submit whether my reasons for pre senting •it are not sustained—that these things should be kcown to all the Lord's people, painful and humiliating as the dis closure, may be, concerning one' who has been honored with pastorates in Baltimore, in Frankfort, and in Louisville, and with a professorship in Danville .Theological Sem inary, in order that the weight of the curse of such a publication may be appre ciated; and whether the loyal. Presbyte rians of Kentucky should not, if they would be true to the interests of their Church, establish at once an organ to coun teract, openly and boldly, the influence of this palpable and dembralizing misnomer, ".The True _Presbyterian." PRESBYTERIAL NOTICES. 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