thtshgttrin PITTSBURGH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1863. The Christian Intelligente!, we are pleased to gee, has resumed its former size. The Presbytery of West Virginia was di rected by the Assembly to meet at Parkers burg, on the First Tuesday of October, at 10 o'clock. The churches of Glade Run and Concord, of the Presbytery of Saltsburg, have gen erously granted their pastor, Rev. G. W. 14E01mill, a liberal vacation from pastoral labor, for the recuperation .of impaired health. "Theological Seminary of the North West.— The Fifth Annual Session of this Institu tion will be opened on Thursday, 10th of September, in the Lecture-Room of the North Presbyterian church, Chicago, at which time Dr. CHARLES ELLroTT will be inaugurated as Professor of Biblical Liter ature and Exegesis, and an address will be delivered by him in the presence of the Board of Directors. Until the new building is completed, rooms in the basement of the North church will be used fqr recitations and lectures. Board and lodging will be furn ished to the students at two dollars and a half per week, and on arriving in the city they will obtain definite information us to boarding places, at Mr. lioradzs:,_Book State, No. 170 South Clark Street. Samuel Break, Esq.—We have before us a memoir of this benevolent and enterpris ing Philadelphian, who died about a year ago, aged ninetyone. The memoir was prepared by J. FRAt%CIS FISHER,' Presi dent of the Board of managers of the Penn sylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, of which institution Mr. BRECK bad been 'President for many yeii's, and also one of its most active benefactors. Mr. BRECK was born in Boston in 1771. His paternal ancestor came from England in 1730. He was nursed at Lexington, Miss., and, in his nurse's arms, witnessed the Battle of Bunker's Hill, though then too young to remember the event. He spent four years of his youth at the fa mous school at Sorize, France. He did business for -a while in Boston, but, in 1792 he removed to Philadelphia, and be came a Pennsylvanian, identified with the interests of the State and of its chief city, and active for-sixty years. Novels.--Oar kind friends, the Publish ers, still occasionally send us a novel, for review. We do not read novels, and can not approve of the young so appropriating precious time and injuring their taste, if not their morals. A book may be more or lees fictitious, and yet worthy of recom mendation for its- moral or religious aim; but the sensational novel, -the object of which is chiefly to please - the fancy or un duly excite the emotions, should never, ye think, be sanctioned by the religious press. In adhering to our rule to allow novels to lie unnoticed on our table, we intend nothing discourteous to those who send them; but we merely act in accordance with our convictions of duty as regards the - encouragement of novel-reading—a practice at the present day so lamentably common-and injurious. OBADUNTES 'OF ALLEGHENY SEMINARY. One thing most estimable in the char eater of young theologians, is a disposition to labor. They are called by the Spirit, and are bidden': Go work in the vineyard. To this command the Alumni of the West er!' Theological Seminary are ohedient. Of the last,class of graduates, a Professor, calling upon 'his memory, enables. us to say that the following are in receipt of invita tion as pastors, or as supplies, and are already engaged in their work : H. MARTIFN .11ERVEY, Newark, Ohio; A. A. DINSMORE, 'Bellair, Ohio; SAMUEL M. HENDERSON, Pigeon Creek, Pa.; WM. 11. BOYD, North 'Sewickley, Pa.; D. P. LOWARY, Beaver and Freedom, Pa.; J. J._ BEAclom, Mingo, Pa.; C. C. GOULD, Golden Corner, Ohio ; J. W. WIGUTMAN, Greencastle, Pa.; THOMAS X. ORR, Cen tral church, Allegheny City, Pa.; J. MCC. BLAYREY, Ontario, Ohio; FARIS BROWN, N. E. Kentucky; N. H. G. FIFE, Connells vine, 'Pa.; W. S. EAGLESON, Frederick town, Ohio; MARTIN L. TODD, S. S. Union, Pa - ; TaomAs M. WILSON, Edward's Ferry and Edginton,• Illinois. WESTERN' THEOIRSICIL SEMINARY. The next session of the Theological Seminary at Allegheny will open on ,Mon. day, September 14th. The students will assemble at 4P. M., in the chapel. The opening addresswill be delivered by Pro fessor IVitsoN, on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. The - course of instruction will be com plete. The Professor-elect, Rev. Dr. AT WATER, having declined, the Department of Didactic Theology will be filled by Revs. Drs. JAOOBIT6 and WILSON. The former will lecture to the Senior Class, and the latter to the Middle Class, throughout the term. Rev. Dr. ELLIOTT will deliver a course pt lectures on ,Past4,:mal Theology and Moral Science, in addition to his own branch. . • Rev. Case. C. BRATTY, D.D., LL.D.; accepts "the appointment of the last . General Assembly, as " Lecturer Extraor dinary on Practical Theology." Arrangements are made for a course of instruction in Elocution, by an experienced Professor in the Department. It is: greatly to'be desired that students iresent. at the opening exercises. The . ?lamasery expenses at the Seminary may be biought.within $lOO, and should not ex seedlil2o." Worthy students who are in h . 'heed eaueceiie the iiiiaiSi s te aid au early p to tflrn iii;iiltiVpicf4sors - ; 7 ' ap UNITY AND UNIFORMITY. These words, though seemingly alike, are far from being synonymous. Things may have a great resemblance where there is no unity; and things may be joined as parts of a whole, where there is not uniformity. The Church of Jesus Christ is one—one body ; joined to the one Head, Christ Jesus; animated by the same Divide, Spirit; being conformed to the same blessed image. But yet, this one body has " many mem bers," and among the members there are great "diversities." The unity among Christ's people for which he prays, and which he enjoins, is not an ecclesiastical oneness. It is rather, peace, love, friend ship, 'cooperation for their mutual bene fit and the extending of his kingdom. Their oneness in their Head, and their unity in the faith, and that they " all speak the same things," are perfectly consistent with vast variations in association, feelings and attainments. In some respects uniformity is exceed ingly desirable. When it proceeds from a similarity of belief, of tastes, of habits, and of preferences, it is joyous. And the right kind of efforts, efforts directed by God's Word and Spirit, to produce such a uniformity, are blisstul—not perfectly suc cessful, as in men's hands, but still they are happy. A great portion of men's efforts, how ever, to produce uniformity, are productive of immense evil. They are so fruitful of evil, that we might almost say that the de sire of this good thing is one of the chief causes of human misery. This desire, un der the guidance of a perverted judgment and a wicked heart, has been the cause, or a prominent cause, of all the religions, per secutions which have ever existed; and has mingled among the causes of' many of the most desolating wars with which the earth has been cursed. The heathen warred against the Jews, to make the Jews conform to their ways. And the Jews, to make the Christians adhere to the law of MOSES, as they themselves did, persecuted the Chris tians, even unto death. The Roman Em perors subjected' Christians to .all tortures, to make them adopt the Pagan customs of worship ; and when the Christians of Rome attained to power, -and became the Romish Church, they were equally intolerant of all • who differed from them. The Mohamme dan wars were efforts at the producing of uniformity; the crusades also; and the cruelties of the Inquisition. The persecu dens in England also, long and severe, were efforts at uniformity. In matters strictly religious, we have been in the habit of thinking that there should be great freedom. In private faith every one should he at liberty to choose, in the light of God's revealed truth and under the impulse of his own conscience. In social religion, it is the privilege of the adult to attach himself to any.people whose ways please him. And this being a right which each one claims to himself, he should freely accord it to others. How far differences in faith and varia tions in modes of worship, and exclusive ness in Church associations, may be con sistent with a real unity among Christians, is a thing not easily determined. Nor is there any need that it should be defined with strictness. We know assuredly that a great divergency, in the direction just alluded to, is consistent with unity in Christ. We know also that peace, and even harmony, is promoted by allowing our brethren great freedom of choice. A com munity is' far more happy by being divided into families, having their minor interests separate, than the same people would be, condensed into one vast whole. So also the Church of Christ is greatly more joy ous, under the freedom of denominational preferences, than if forced into one entire visible unity, by an Act,of Uniformity. In civil affairs, also, it is possible to have essential unity without uniformity. The unity is on great prinpiples. The defec tive uniformity, that is, the liberty to vary from the standard; or rather, the having of no standard, relates to minor matters, and matters of merely sectional or, individual interest. This is the case in every country united under:one government; and espe cially the case where the government is very much extended, embracing different climates, and peoples of diverse origin and habits. The British empire is a unity of great strength, and yet there is in its parts a want of uniformity which is wonderfUl. took at England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland", and see the differences and even contrasts. Then extend your view to her North Amer ican members, and to her West Indians, and her Africans, and her East Indians, and be astonished at the want of uniformi ity. And note also that if, she should at tempt rigorously to produce a strict uni formity, she would soon go to pieces. Her. English Episcopalians, and her Welsh In dependents, and`her - Scotch Presbyterians, and her Irish Romanists, and her Canadian Republicans, and her liotentots in Africa, and her Hindus and Mohammedans in India, could never be' brought to one rule of faith, and one mode of worship, and one' system of Provincial . law, and one order of social life. The of would destroy her unity. She would speedily burst into fragments. So also the Government of the United States is, or was, a compact unity. .The country varies greatly as to climate and productions, directing to different modes of life; and the people, as to their origin, were exceedingly diverse; but still, until very recently, there had been scarcely a country on the earth where the unity,was more nearly perfect. And our fathers thought they had provided for a perpetual unity, by embracing in the bond only the general essentials of good government, leav ing all ,t,he differences of religion, peovin , niallaw, and social habits,- five to indiVid- uala,or; to be _regulated ,by State. lotion; 'Their liltitic*ai - eviiiettrt wise# ItXtvali PRESBVTERIAN BANNER.---WEDINESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1863. philosophic; founded on the teachings of history, and the study of man's •nature. But no human wisdom is perfect; and ; no generation of man has yet lived, that did not think itself wiser than the preced- I ing. So it has occurred among us. Some began to think that our condition would be better and our governmental unity more perfect, if we had more uniformity. All slave, or all free, said they. They then divided into parties, one of which set to work to make the States all free; by the total abolition of slavery; and the other, with equal zeal, determined that slavery must be made national. These efforts at uniformity produced disunion. War rages. Our sons and brothers perish. The land:' mourns _ Whether we are wiser in this thing, than were our fathers; and whether thehenefits to flow from a greater uniformity will com pensate the cost of the - attainment, are questions which men will answer variously:' We pray that the nation may terminate the intestine conflict, still a united. people. And inasmuch as' the pro-slavery party abandoned the, forum, the press, and the ballot box, and took up-the sword, we think it not unchristian to: both pray: and strive that they shall be ov'erconie 'l4 th'e sword'.. In Church matters we so love individial freedom, and have such a predilection for untrammelled social preferences, that we' would advocate peacefully tolerated denem national diversity, while the great truths Of faith and holiness are maintained, rather than to seek for a vast ecclesiastical unity, binding together in one organization persons who could hot cordially harmonize in words and worshiP.. Let the unity be in Chrisi Jesus, and, the similarity be a true broth erly love; while in modes, and forms, and. associations, there is perfect freedom. LICENSING TOO, ;SOON:, The practice has grown exceedingly, of late years, and, -as we think, in'ost injuri ously, of licensing young men to preach the Gospel before they have completed their. prescribed course of, study. ,Attainments,. as all are aware, is what. we want. But time, and diligent application, are. india pensable to the making of attainments;' and two years of close attention to theology; . alter having completed a collegiate course, is what our Standards require, preparatory to licensure. The curriculum of our Sem-: inaries is three years— or rather, three, terms; we say,",rather," fiecause the Voca tions have becothe so protracted, and the hollidays so numerous, that .about seven months of actual study is the extent of the Seminary term- in each year. Now, if 'a young man will, as is becoming common, obtain license at the end of his second term, it is but twenty months from his. entering upon his theological course,tand only about fourteen months of actual attendance upon leetitreS and recitations in, the Seminar*. The Professors of our Seminaries. have long mournPd .over this i evil.;,but, like their brethren of the Presbyteries, 'they have' still-voted to sustain the trials and proceed. , This matter was bronghk before Ole last General Assembly by the Directors of the Western Theological Seminary; and -a= re quest made that the Assembly'would take measures to remedy the evil. memo, rial was referred to the yommittee of Bills and Overtures, whose report was ,adopted, as follows : - is The Committee recommend; in view of the great importance of .a thorough , course of theological study, that the- Presbyteries exercise great•care and prudence in regard to, the licensing of candidates, and that, in, ordinary cases, this be postponed-lentil- the completion of the theological course, 4.. their faith,' these' sonides, pt'lt - opulit• Eq.: • f. f pr.e)Rdied i pence_ their frequent remara, NCT,flaMPibire is hard' soil for,'our 'Chnreh.'" LGAIL HAMILT?Ni in an:. artiale entitled "*SidetGlanoes - at-Haivard's Olass-Day,srl,e= Indiinees,id'nd•idinced terms, the faiilliont abl r wlu She says - w x l ia, li a, il pTqfane ; and vicious ;dance : Always., S heri it is ;prosecuted, ;in,the einire ofn eireat;•erOwd .in a dusty ;hill, on,a, gusting wapnpidsu[l3lper i ;J:MY ) ik i FAA°, ,otthe,dappe is, profanity , ; *ire , thn in4inetiye expression, of. intimate' eniptionii; gl9iving rosy-sed in the aurora tune of ~tenderness, andjustifiedr.m una :btsillptif4,,nedOm„only, llyiailgng , and ; faithful habiOder` of:,litieelfigh devotion • are - here oßenly, : dehherately, ,and paplesSly„.assunied. by people c*lici4i.4a7e but a cftBu4 pap tial society nequidnianee. This I reckon PiPtr,ani4r3,ThiB" levity most en gable ; guilty and w , antan yvaiie, of 4911, eany„ That praptlned ,poo,!„girls aiid„tq ? fie, dated by good , niol Ilnp t hels s,„sot ptnye 11.0°0: Aq.pAgesif I 'lvy_ t 9 4e 4 :1 1 :4LF41 Pk, c litifflrer wa tz as many as you may, spode mai ens. you will only smut yourselves and not cleanse the waltz. It is of itself unclean." WE NOTICED recently the trial of Rev. Charles Beecher, pastor of the Congrega. tional church at Georgetown, Mass., and the report of the Council charging the same with heresy on several important points in theology. It is stated that Mr. B. is sustained by his church against the decision of the Council, the majority of his people having formally refused to ac cept the adjudicating report. SOME PEOPLE disregard the Sabbath, on the ground, ostensibly,. that " all days are alike holy." But a travelling cor respondent of the Christian Inquirer, writing from a. town in New Hampshire where he finds the Lord's day very gener ally desecrated, well 'remarks that " Re garding all days unto the Lord," when it begins with disregarding the Lord's day, generally results in disregarding the Lord on all days. THE DEBT of the Presbyterian chtireh in Bridgeport,•'Connecticut. amounting to $10 4 200, has, just been paid by the con gregation:. • THE EIGHT - Sot's" of Dr. Lord, late President, of Dartmouth College, are grad uates of that Institution. The. New-York World, in - noticing this-Sect, says: -" We doubt if there is another in'atanee on rdcord •in this"country where eight brothers graduated froin one college. There are eight Fessenden' !brothers, of whom Senator Fessenden of Maine is the oldest.— .. aßgradttates..but not from the same insti tution'. • And `these are the only cases wi th our.-knowledge, 'where eight brothers have graduated at all," THE MiSt3p.B. UPION, of Boston, have sen t a memorial to Mr. Seward, protesting against the destruction,.by the Alabansa,, of '-the ship Nora, of which they were the owners. • TITF. TOTAL WEALTH Of Boston as val ued by the city, ,assessors, is three hundred. and two million five hundred . and twenty-, seven thousand dollars, an increase, from last year of, twenty-six millions five hun., dred,and sixty-nine dollars, in part caused by the advance in prices consequent upon the present,condition of Affairs. The rate of taxAtioti.under the increased - - expenses consequent upon the war and tha augmented State, tax is small, being hut eleven dollars and fifty cents per thousand, Which is a cheaper rate , than in many of tbe suburban towns. - JOSEPH S. HUBI3ARD, Professor 'of Math ematics in the 'United States Navy, died at New Haven on Sunday - He was•tt gradu , ate of Yale College in the class of 1848, and en.ered his professorship two years later. His contrihntiont4c,yarious literary works t here .been, numerous. He was an elder i the 'Presbyterian Church Ma. B. LAZA.RUS of Hartford. Conn., bas in hiS possession a copy of the Breech es ,Bible," printed in 1611 by " Robert. Barker, Printer to the King'a most excel lent Majesty." , • -TIM NUMBER' of persons ascending: Mount Washington, over the carriage road, this , sea'son, greaier than , ever before. • Two hundret.persons not niafrequently dine at Mr.. Hitchcock's " Tip-Top ".and " Sum-- mit" Honsesyand both hotels•are- well pat ronized'bY tourists who wish to pasea night: on the mountain. • THE HARTFORD' Couraw has a subseri . bet. Who has taken e that paper for sixty-four, years . . He is ninety4wo•years old. The fact is as creditable to' the paper as to the _ subscriber. .. 4 ‘ A.AHLifitF.XN GUN, weighing seventeen tons, has been east at the. Portland Iron Coippanfs work - a.- It is the largest piece of otdnanee ever cast at that establisbn3ent. IiEWT.YORIC. • • 'THE NATIONAL CONTE f . '11024i of'the; friends of the, Christian Sabbath, which inset recently.,at Saratoga, is spoken of as large and enthusiastic. It oecupied three, days in its deli beraticitie..- - Delegates from . Most :of the 'Northern States and 'froni Canada, were present. Several able and .; interesting essays.were reati, , among which ' those, of Prof. Philip Schaff, D. D., and President Mark -Hopkins, , D.D., elicited speCial commendation and, intereit; 'That of. the ,former was entitled, ." The Charac teristies and History of the' American Sab r bath,;: and 'the subject= 'discussed'.; by . Dr. I Hopkins was, "The Relation of the Sab-1 bath to Free . institutions - - During the generaldiseussion on the last'. day,:of of: : the ,whole Atsbiect of Sabbath ;ob , servance,' some; forcible - remarks were:made lay "'E. Dodge; - Esq , of- NeiarLYdik," two the folly and loss of running railroad i , •ains on the Sabbath. Mr has been connected with railroads for ~twenty-five years;•and is:said !to be'rat- present a 'stock _ holder in 'fige - different railroad' eorpora.-f Haying - thus had ample means of'. judging, be could say with confidence, that .For, the Predbyterian Baaner. Tribute ollteilieet. " Sabbath` work by any tof the railroad cam ' ' ~ panics losinglausiness; and every Chris- At a meeting corolby FI: 54th Reg. . Millie, held Aug. 17th, 1863, for the thin man who allows his property,S, l4 . st ock, purpose of expreiiiing th' feelings of the in Sabbath bisalrinc , 'railroad . eonipanies is Company relative to the d •th fel" h not . only losing,roperty, but wronging * the Ree.Eltter, - an esteemed ; fellow soldier who, employees on'the road,- and' tkeedlessly,dislt Aug. 7th at Camp Ilqwe,HosPitallttie, honoring:the God hei - rofesses to love." following;,resol ntions were „presentad and nittionsly . ado fed - ThCfkillov t ritig ,among other resolutions, u*na ' • - • - I 'RE:i.EASt It " ag pleased Almighty glad ( wbre;,,adop i ted, by tbe;Oonyention tv r etno4ifE ol 4 l t oy. ranks,. ; 01C.ee %Resolved, That this - Ciiivention•earnest- came forth, With a ,vectran. jolnwitlliPhe band j ly,appeal, :to every:American Christian youth , but.the!sprit of . to - i his greatest personal influence Cri be., the States dere ndersiii her hour of danger half :.of. the -.'ilnettinti 'hearty observance of Resolved: , %list we veeegeizein , this dis the Christian. Sabbath pensatign of Proyidence,,..by which ,one is., Resolved, ,That: in view of the , history. eat down iest .While AS pt u g his armor fbr ,the, conflict, an -admonition - of the Sabbaths , Committee of New,York, the Committee recommend the. formation each one4Na. Yoice• 'of, local orgialzatioes,aelthe'rnost practica-, • ".P. P ..”.i ,al PirtiY•;',;..: 71 • • ‘ .` bletand popularomeans; not only, of remov--I #esq•Pqn,That a§,a P.PmPluY,.lwq:l4s/arn., •• evile,,but - of educating that:just, 4he;loss or.o.ont4 o .wottld not shrin IL> :from . poptilar.sentiment,, without , readily, won our, esteem .by eral reform ,can sustained'; and that the nig : maS.Y.:.-Plinlirahlft traits Pf character. {New-York.Committee.be hereby requested, -Rat ahile ,wc lament thisAreak in„Our, thencourage the formation..of 'such organi- , :r. 11 4 8 1 we ,rejoice in the Shope that . ?‘.our tationethy.the -continued dlffueion of its, doss is ) 1 4 3 e,terVAttigaill." most valuable documents, or by -such.otherl, : , Resstseff: That Wc-Jender .to. the aged. means as may be within its, power!' .Pq9l o w l 4 l 4.Fe 1 9stin, THE Ur rTan • fisLcudaff,eetipal.ten,a:n remairlingsen, STA:r e m: l s . Ettyls:f,t,`A. 'Ali s our warmest sympathies and commend : 148810 i -has, like other ~A ssociations, ta- • the to the num thv of .1' r • = • • • •%•'•••• m ..a osus,,,who by ken,-.ad,vantage ,the laigs,,,eoppourse Of; i hofig:ifirt37l3l;olia;sepable thena:to.S4 . , even,pnt ! . of their affiictilnS, Visitors' at Saratoga,And held a meeting at, , Lord, gage and , the, Lord , bath taken away,; 'beat' place with. a View , to the greater '; ‘ ,l blessed be the.nartic . „9f the 1.0 rd." or„ciaisizationl ,;,Rss . o/ved, That a eicney' and ) eltenAiOn.. - , a the copy - -of theselc throughout f/ie:q9uP. stated that, *lns ~be for'svarded.le, the . friends - o e r t i, h(; on ,the..day previons. the meeting, and , deceasnd,. and, ,afse the Pr:e4terina.' while , theguests were at ' , dinner, an urgent Banner, for pub,hcatztin -, call ,reached. ther-Ohkiniian Eteorae-H. . ,H..DONALDBOI4I Stns ti et" sic ' E. INPEII§O,4„„_ ; Gls'lleStar§e"tt . R os es, W and: r. uart mum y ok a •-• Committee. MIME ' 1 round of the principal hotels, making a brief' appeal fur aid at the several tables. As the result o 1 this expeditious effort, over $3,200 was subscribed within twenty. four hours, and a cargo of ice was at once cleared for Charleston from Boston. Rfw. DR SHEDD, the Associate pastor of the Brick Presbyterian church, has been invited to the Professorship in the New- York Union Theological Seminary, former ly held by Dr. Robinson. The Observer says of Dr. S.: "His great success in the pulpit, and the increased demand for his valuable services on account of the advanc ing- years of' his venerable colleague,, will probably forbid his retirement from a post which he has so recently assumed, and filled with so much usefulness to the people and to the community." THE Christian Intelligencer, in noticing the death of Thomas Addis Emmet, neph ew of the distinguished Irish patriot and martyr, Robert Emmet, remarks : " For many years he filled the position of Master in Chancery—an office which re quired the most profound knowledge of the intricacies of law—and to say that hOre fleeted credit upon his position is only giv ing a feeble testimony to his ability and integrity. Had he been a man of ambition he Might have held many higher offices in this' State; but, being of a domestic turn of Mind, he appeared to shun political dis tinction, and passed through life in a qttiet, unobtrusive manner, leaving behind him a record of which his family and connexions have reason to feel proud." REV. E. D. YEOMANS has accepted a call ; to Sr. Peter's Presbyterian church, Roehester, New-York. He, entered upon his. 'dutiesthere 'on the' first Sabbath in June. • , THE CLAIM of the. Managers of the Colored Orphan Asylum, for .damage to property ;daring : the; riot,. is nearly. $74,000. • THE NUMBER of emigrants arrived, and who after arrival have left New-York for, the West, during the period between Mareh Ist and August Ist, is 85,04,6; against 43,- 410' for thO same period in The year 1862. the emigration this year, then, for the pe riod named, is just double what it was hst yoar. THE NEw Y,.11.1( Board of Aldermen have adopted the ordinance appropriating $3.000.000 for the purpose of paying $3OO each to all firemen and indigent persoos who may he drafted, the e*nmption money to be in lien of any pecuniary aid to their farta GOLD, Sold in New;York.pn the 24th inst., at .124. . Extra State and. Round Hoop Ohio Flour at $4'60®490®5.40: ,PHILADELI'II AT A REGENT meetingof the Philadel phia County Sunday School - Convention, therci woe reported to that body a compre hensive aid complete table of statistics of the Febools connected with the Methodist Episcopal churches of the city. The follow ing" items` are worthy - of notice: " In th . etwenty-four wards the number of semi* ; officers aiid.leachera; 2 224;, number of these' educated in the sebool, 1.999 ; total scholars, 18,379 ; av erage attendance, 12,761; net increase the past year, - 2,163„; admitted to the Chuich, 495; deaths, 123 ; 42 schools hold two sessiotiiOn the Sabbath, 26 hold but one; volumes in the- libraries, 46,846 ;, amount raised for benevolent purposes, ;,6:548;, ex penies of these schools for the year, $7,795; 5 support mission schools, 63 do `not,l 27 held a teachers' meeting for the "Study of the /MOD, 41 do not; 63 hold a conceit for= prayer and' praise with and for the chil dren, and 5 do not." M R PHILADELPHIA Press has the fol i lowing in regard to .Qualtera and, the war " There•were only two conscri ptaLat • the barracks, : Twenty-second and Wood Streetsi •on Saturday :afternoon; the •remainder, nearly two hundred, were subsiitutes, These two exceptions were a couple of rath er-sickly young men coming from a wealthy family of Quakers, named Smedly, who re side at West k heater. These Men contend I that they hat , e'donscien flouts soruples as to going' to 'the war-; they. willinot Tire,ATm us ket or .draw human .blood, nor pay-the-com mutation money,: nor furnish a substitutw, They stilF. adhere to this . singular faith., During•the two or three days• they were in the , bartaekii,-theyat. first refused to answer to the roll.call or form into line, but finally 1 beam)* more practical: They were visited Iby :.seVeral . members of the Society , of Friends.of Philadelphia, but would not eon ' sent to,.the reising.of,, - moneyi by them to pay,the , commutation fee, because.,:in their opinion,,itcwould bei:nitkingan•acknowledg went net. consistent with t he-views of, the Sept.!. In: a coevetsation with