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The date will always be attounced on 'the receipt of subscription money, 474 coact accordance with the amowat so received, and thus Me tattoo...ready and valid receipt; securing to every one, *West 4121904e5, averted knowledge of his newspaper ac- Coing, so that if any error is made he can immediately de tect it and have it core ected—a boon alike valuable to the publisher and subscriber, as it wart terminate all painful misuniterstalutingi between them respecting accossnts, and hew lend loperpatuate their important relationship. 1 %.* Those in arrears wit Please reh is. Boma of Colportage,—The annual meet ing of the Board will take place on. Tues day, the first of December. Thanksgiving Collections.—Ministeve and churches will please to remember the sol diers on Thanksgiving day. Rev. W. L. Brecklitridge, DJ)_, accepts the appointment to the Presidency of Centre College, Ky. There are ninety students in the regular classes and seventySve in the Preparatory Department. - Rrv. Jephiha Harrison, &D., died at Ful ton, Mo., October 30th, in his sixty-seventh year. He was one of the amiable and ex cellent among men, and long a faithful laborer in the Lord's vineyard. He was a graduate of Princeton Seminary, and lat terly a member of the Presbytery of Mis souri. Identified.—The soldier who fell at Get tysburg, in whose hand was found an am brotype of his three little children, was A. HusimEnToN,Portville, Cataraugus Coun ty, N. Y. The photograph is for sale by 1.1. S. Davis, 93 Wood Street, at 25 cents per copy. The proceeds will be forwarded to Rev. J. F. BOURNE, Philadelphia, to be applied to the education of the children of the de ceased soldier. Disunion.—The Synods of the Old School and New School Presbyterians, in Califor nia, united, a year ago, with the Congrega tionalists, in the support of The Pacific, a religious paper published in San Francisco. We see -the statement now, that the Old School Synod, the Pacific, which met in San Francisco on the 6th, has withdrawn from the connexion. It is - to be presumed that the New School has also withdrawn, for we see it stated that " the paper is now exclusively the organ of the Congregation alists." to unite those who are not agreed, are usually abortions; or they mph in unhappiness. College at Monrovia, Africa.—The College at Monrovia, has a President and two Pro fessors. A class of eight youth has been inaugurated, and eight others are preparing soon to enter. Professor CRummELL fills the Chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy and English Literature; and Prof. GLY DER, that of Greek and Latin Languages. The Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy is still vacant; but there is a prospect of itti being . filled by Professor MARTIN ii. FREPIAN, a graduate of Mid dlebury College, Vt., formerly Principal of the Institution for colored youth, in Alle gheny city. Funds given, or pledged, ad equate to furnish eight hundred dollars a year for five years, are needed to secure the services of Mr. FREEMAN. Mr. F. is now in Pittsburgh, and we trust the call will not be in vain. • REV. HENRY WARD BEECBER. This distinguished American returned to his home, in Brooklyn, N. Y., last week, and had a very flattering reception. His journey beyond the sea was more, so far as the public can perceive, in the character of a politician than of a Divine. We, how ever, .allow a minister, on proper occasions, to both speak and write on political sub jects ; and the more especially when his country really needs his services, and when he can do the part of a Christian states man. No American, perhaps, as a plat form speaker, has ever produced so great a sensation in England as did kr. BEECHER, in his late visit. And but few orators have acquitted \themselves so well, in the midst of opposition, or have had more manifest evidences of success in converting their audiences. Mr. BEECHER, as his speeches are reported, did not introduce home squab bles between parties. He was national to a d:ouifs not anticipated; and hence re oeive.M.e plaudits of the American people. Mr. BEECHES, we are disposed to think, did his country a good service. But we must not think, that be, or any other mere speaker, is .to secure for us England's friendship. The London correspondent of the N. Y. Times, says : "Hu opinion or feeling in - Europe changed ? Not in the least. The sympa thy of England was never stronger for the South—her hatred never so bitter' or the North. If Mr. BEEOHER thinks other wise, he has been deceived by the crowd of Abolition partizans •gathered about him. I believe that no Northern man could have succeeded better. He could not have hoped fora greater personal triumph; but even be - must have seen that in all the meetings he attended there was scarcely one person of influence. I cannot now re member the name of one distinguished and really influential person who gave him countenance and support. He was sur rounded by Dissenting ministers, and mem bers of the Emancipation Society. The nobility, the clergy of the Established Church, members of Parliament, &c., were wanting. BROUGHAM, WmazareueE, BUXTON, the great . names identified with the Anti-Slavery cause in England, were opposed to him, as they are opposed to the cause he advocated." It is the magnitude of our army and na vy, the efficiency of our iron-clads and ar tillery, and our successes on battle-fields, which have produced changes in our favor, iri England, and in France also. And if we would keep up that favor, we must go from victory to victory; and must soon gain that victory which will bring peace. .10/1N HUSS.* The pen of Rev. E. H. GILLETT, of Har lem, New-York, and the enterprise of. Messrs. GOULD it LINCOLN, of Boston, have laid the Christian public under great obligations, by presenting in English "The Life and Times of JOHN Huss." Hitherto our language had given but a very meagre ac count of this eminent Reformer. The ma* terials for a Life were abundant, but they were in foreign tongues; and were, for the most part, the productions, not only of his enemies, but also of men who were foes to evangelical religion. It hence required much research and great labor to get all the facts, and to verify them, which the subject demanded. It is a matter of con gratulation, that an American undertook the task, and has performed it ably. 'JOHN DE WICKLIF.FE, born in York shire, England, in 1324, led the way in opposing the errors of Rome, in translating the Bible and giving it to the people in the vernacular tongue, and in establishing evangelical worship. He is hence called "The Morning Star of the Reformation." Bat if WICKLIFFE was the Morning Star, Huss was the Orient; and LUTHER. be came the risen Sun. Thenceforward the light shone with ever-increasing splendor. WICKLIFFE died in 1334. He made his translation of the Bible about A. D. 1360. It was circulated in 'manuscript. He pub lished several religious treatises, which were read in Great Britain and on the Con tinent, producing a great influence for good. By these, Huss, as well as many others, were converted. Three men, precursors of Huss, in Bo hemia, and connecting him with WICK LIFFE, were CONRAD, who' died in 1369; Kura, who died in 1374; and JANOW, who died in 1394. A biographer says of these men: "CONRAD grasped the light and held it up; Milacz placed this heav enly light in a golden candlestick; JANOW showed it to all in God's house." - Two of the distinguished contemporaries and fellow-laborers of Huss, were JACO BEL, (Little JAnlus,) and JEROME of Prague. JEROME was a pupil of Huss, and died at the stake at Constance, May 30, 1416. Join . Huss was born in Hussinitz, an obscure village in Southern Bohemia, in 1373. His parents were poor, but they bestowed special attention to his education. He was first placed at school in a monas tery. Showing good parts and great in dustry, he obtained friends, and was sent to the University of Prague. There be was taken into the house of a Professor, and did servant's work for his food and raiment. From this low beginning, he became a minister Of JESUS CHRIST, the Court Chaplain to the Queen, the admired preacher in trague, then one of the richest and most lerary cities of the time. He was -also irreading scholar and his nation's defender. And finally he became a martyr for the truth as it is in Jesus. This pre-reformer was one of the most amiable of men; firm, kind, lovely; ever delighting to do good; a man of faith and prayer. In doctrine and Church order he was a Roman Catholic, even to the embrac ing of the doctrine of Transubstantiation. Why then was he so persecuted, and for what was he condemned ? It wail for his evan gelical faith, his love of purity, and his boldness in reproving sin, whether found in priests or people. The two main causes why he was put to death were, his declaim ing against the worldliness of the ecclesias tics, and his denial, of infallibility in eith er Pope or Council. He appealed to the Scriptures, the Word of God, as the only infallible rule of faith and practice. Huss was condemned by the Council of Constance, degraded from the priest's of fice, delivered to the secular power, and executed by being burnt at the stake, July 6th, 1415. His raiment, and every thing he had at Constance, even to his knife, was consumed with him. So that not a par ticle, even of his bones, nor of any thing that was his, could be had as a relic. Not even his ashes were spared; for these were carefully gathered and cast into the Rhone. These books cannot but awaken a new ar dor in the search for historical knowledge. The writer may not rival MERLE D'Au- BIGNE j but he has charms to be appreciat ed. The literary, social, civil and military history, the delineation of the condition of the Itomish Church, the narrative of the dissensions of the Popes, and the doings of the Councils of Pisa, Constance, and Basle, add greatly to the value of these volumes. Mr. GILLETT is a Presbyterian clergy man, hitherto unknown to fafne, in the world of authorship. But his work needs, no adventitious aid. Its intrinsic merits will plead its cause. *TUE LIFE elm Timm OF JOHN HESS ; or, The Bohemian Reformation of the X.lVth century. -By E. H. Gillett. 2 vols. Bvo., pp. 681, 652. Boston : Gould 4. Lincoln. For sale by IV. A. Gilden fenney, Pittsburgh. A CEMETERY FOR THE URGES THAT FELL AT THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. Gov. CURTIN, of Pennsylvania, accom plished a good deed in the part he acted toward the furnishing of a cemetery for the noble Americans who fell, in defence of their country, at Gettysburg, on the Ist, 2d, and 3d days of July, 1863. A portion of the battle ground was obtained for the purpose. Upwards of four thousand of the dead are there interred. This number is greater than that given of killed in the official report of Gen. MEADE; but the discrepancy is accounted for when we note that about one thousand five hundred of the wounded who died in the hospitals, were there in terred. The ground is laid out in a semi circle. Radiant lines are drawn from the centre to mark the divisions. These are allotted to the various States whose dead are there buried ; and the portions vary in size according to the numbers of the fallen. The Cemetery was consecrated on Thurs day, the 19th inst. .An immense number of people, say fifteen thousaed, was present, PRESBYTERIAN BANNER.---WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1863. from far and near. Among the distin guished persons on the platform were the following: Gov. BRADFORD, of Maryland; Gov. CURTIN, of Pennsylvania'; Gov. MORTON, of Indiana ;.Gov. SEYMOUR, of New-York; Gov. PARKER, of New-Jersey; Gov. TODD, of Ohio; ex-Gov. DENNISON, of Ohio; JOHN Buouovr, Governor-elect of Ohio; Major-Generals SCHENCK, STAHL, DOUBLEDAY, COUCH j Brigadier-General GIBBON, and Provost-Marshal-General FRY. Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. STOCK TON. • The Oration was delivered by Hon. ED WARD EVERETT. It occupied nearly two hours, and, as is said, commanded profound attention. It is worthy of the fame Of the speaker. President LINCOLN made the Dedicatory speech, as follows : • "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and ded icated to the proposition that all men are created equal. (Applause.) Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so con ceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war; we are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, but in ..a, larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot conse crate, we cannot hallow this ground. " The brave men, living and dead, who strpggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or, to detract. (Ap plause.) The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here; but; it can never forget what they did here. (Ap plause.) It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the. unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. (Applause.) It is rather for us here to be dedicated to the great task remaining be fore us ; that from these honored dead, we may take increased ardor in that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we .here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; (applauSe,) that the nation shall, under, God, have- a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." During the afternoon, Gov. SEYMOUR presented a handsome standard to a regi ment of New-York artillery, accompanying the gift with the following speech: " Soldiers of New-York :—We love our whole ,country without reservation; - but while we do so itis not inconsistent with that perfect and generous loyalty, to love and to be proud of our own State. This day, when I took part in the celebration that was to consecrate yonder, battle-field, While I felt, as an American citizen, proud of my own country and proud of the gal lant services of her citizens in every State, nevertheless, my eye did involuntarily Wander to that part where lie the glorious dead of our own good and great State; and when I returned to see marching before me your manly and sturdy , column, know ing you belonged to New-York, my heart did quicken and my pulses tingle to know that you were acting under commissions is sued by myself; and I am mcst proud and most happy that I have this opportu nity, in behalf of the merchants of the great commercial city of . New-York, to present to you this glorious banner; which has been sent- as a token of their confidence in your loyalty, in your courage and your • fidelity in the hour _of danger. Sergeant, I place these colors in your hand, in the firm confidence that they will be borne through every field of triumph, of toil and of danger, in a way -that will do honor to 'yourselves, •to the great State which you represent, and to the still greater country to which we all belong. May God bless you, as you serve your country in the distant field of danger. We find in those glorious fields you left behind, you are not indifferent to this conflict- re notindiffer ent to the welfare of the whole Union. I do not doubt, therefore, that when you shall return from your dangerous fields of duty, you will bring back this standard to be placed among the archives of the State, with honorable mention of the services her sons have performed. Ido not doubt that, though it may perhaps be returned torn and stained, yet it will be still more' glorious, and with glorious recollections clustering around it. • tc In concluding these remarks, I ask in return of the men of New-York to give three cheers' for the Union of our country, and three cheers for the flag of our land," On the evening previous, the President and Secretary SEWARD each received the compliment of a serenade, and was asked for a speech. The President offered but a few words. Mr. SEWARD spoke as fol lows cl Fellow- Citizens :—I am now sixty years old and upward ; I hive been in pub lic life practically forty years of that time, and yet this is the first time than ever any people or communityso near to the border of Maryland was found willing to listen to my voice; and the reason was that I said forty years ago that slavery was opening before this people a graveyard that was to be filled with brothers falling in mutual political combat. I knew :that the cause that was hurrying the. Union into this dreadful strife was slavery, and when I did elevate my voice it was to warn the people to remove that cause when they could by constitu tional means, and so avert the catastrophe of civil war that now unhappily has fallen upon the' nation, deluging it--in,blood. That crisis came, and we see the result. I am thankful that you are willing to hear me at last. I thank my God that I believe this strife is going to end in the removal of that evil which ought to have been removed by peaceful means and deliberate councils. (Good.) I thank my God for thelope that this is the last fratricidal war which will fall neon the country--La country vouch safed by Heaven—the richest, the broadest, most beautiful, most magnificent and cepa ohms ever yet bestowed upon a people— that has' ever been given to any part of the human race. (Applause.) And I thank God for the hope -that when that cause is removed, simply the operation of abolish ing it, as the origin of the great treason that is without justification and without parallel, we shall thenceforth be united, be only one country, having only one hope, one ambition, and one destiny. (Applause.) Then we shall know that we are not ene raies, but that we are friends and brothers; that this Union is a , reality; and we shall mourn together for the evil wrought by this rebellion. We are now near the graves of the misguided, whom we have consigned to theiriast resting-place with pity for their errors, and with the same heart full of grief with which we mourn over the brother by whose head, raised in defence of his ernmcnt, that misguided brother perished. When we part tomorrow night, let us re member that we owe it to our country and to mankind that this war shall have for• its conclusion the establishing of the principle of democratic government—the simple prin ciple that, whatever party, whatever portion of the Union prevails by constitutional suffrage in an election, that party is to be respected and maintained in power until it shall give place, on another trial and an other verdict, to a different portion of the people. (Good.) If you do not do that, you are drifting at once and irresistibly to the very verge of the destruction of your Government. But with that principle thii Government of ours—the freest, the best, the wisest, and the happiest in the world— must be, and, so far as we are concerned, practically will be, immortal. (Applause.)" The Oration of Mr: EVERETT is pub lished in the Eastern dailies, and is worthy of being read extensively: The short ad dresses of Mr. SEWARD and Mr. Sr:mot:at, manifest a determined purpose to prosecute the war with vigor. The whole affair not only houors the memory of the dead; it also increases the patriotic ardor of the living.. A GLIMPSE OF IVESTERN LIFE. A brother clergyman, of Ohio, who has recently returned fiorn a visit to lowa, writes "to us "thus : gr After leaving lowa City, the ,next place, more of curiosity than interest, is Home stead. This is one of several villages built and inhabited by Germans originally from Germany, who have all their goods in common stock, and live together much as one family:. Men and wonien labor togeth er in the field. They are largely an agri• cultural- and manufacturing people; and besides raising and manufacturing an abun dance for home consumption, furnish large supplies for the foreign market ; and are becoming immensely Wealthy. They sub scribed seventy-five thousand dollars to se cure the railroad • through their premises. They have purchased many thousands of acres of land north and south of the lowa river, and have a kind of German Sanhe drim of old men, elected by the mall mem bers, which meets weekly for the purpose of controling all the business of the Sod etY. They call their organization the Amana Society. They are all members of the same Church, supposed to be Letheran in doctrine. They have two services on the Sabbath, and a weekly prayer-meeting. All the inhabitants of the same village eat in the same hall; and' when they come to the table, all stand until a blessing is asked, and at the close of the meal all stand while thanks are given. They area very honest and moral people, and very hospital to strangers. '`heir post master found a pock et book in my presence, containing one hundred dollars, and he immediately searched for the owner until he got track of him. For three meals, and a night's lodging, an old gentle/imp .was charged thirty-five cents;, for supper I was charged ten cents; but every man has to pour out his own tea or coffee, and fix it as best suits his own take. " After spending a'few hours on Satur day in this not very comfortable town, my excellent friend Dr. 11. Searched it for a conveyance for me to 'Williamsburg, near to which there was to be.service in the Old School Presbyterian church the next day. But failing in his search, he put his own_ two fleet ponies into his buggy and carried me along over twelve miles of as rich prai rie as lies beneath the sun, with almost railroad speed, to the place of 'my Sabbath destination. 'Sabbath morning came; the congregation came; but the news came that in consequence of sickness their mission ary could not come. After the close of the service, it was pleasant to receive the greet ings of a considerable portion of the con gregation with Whom I spent a Sabbath in the grove, six years-ago, and many of them could tell' what they heard on that day. All appeared anxious that I should go home with them; but I spent the night, with two brothera-in-law, and their fattier in -law, all of whom had families, living in but two small rooms. I spent it pleasantly, for nearly all were pious, and the Presby terian, Banner makes them a very welcome visit once every week in the year. "The next Tuesday I called and spent sev eral hours with their missionary, brother H. W. Fours , in' Millersburg, and he was very thankful for my Sabbath-day labors. This'brother is much beloved by his people, and he is sacrificing many of the comforts of life to advance the cause of Christ in this destitute region. It is to be hoped that our benevolent ladies will occasionally forward him a box of clothing for his af flicted family. It could be sent to Home- Sted, from which placele could receive it almost any day. • " Land speculators have proven a great curse to this new State.* By purchasing hundreds- and thousands ofacres in a body, and bolding it for a high price, they have thrown familirs and schools and churches so far apart, that all are, crippled. But many of the farmers there are now mete ing out to them at least a fraction . of - what is due for their avarice. They tax their lands for. State, county, road and school purposes as high as the best farms ; and as longls they can pasture these lands, and mow -the sloughs, they will not purchase them. There are large tracts of land pur chased ten or. more years ago at Govern ment price and.after the owners have paid taxes on them, and-laid out of the interest of their money during this period, many of them now could not get three dollars an acre. The ',late TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D.D., LL.D., once Said to a New-England farmer ploughing among stones :- perceive your land here is not very productive." " No, sir,"' said' the .honest -farmer, " our land here is just like - self-righteousness." "Ah and, said the- Doctor, " How is that ?" : , ".Why," said he,;," the more a man has of it, the-- poorer he is." And rich as the land is -in, this State, the ava riciousness of the speculator has made it to him like the New-England farmer's. "The raising of sheepis becoming a prof ifable business "to many in this State. Some. of the •men engaged in it told .me they found it.very, difficult to procure boards -to build - their sheep-houseti for the Winter, in consequence , lof the high price of lum ,ber. I suggested to them the.plan of build ing the walls of .prairie-sod and let the prai rie roof extend over the walls for a protec tion. With this material, a man with a plough and spade, instead of a hammer and trowel could build several, perches in a day. West of Des,Moinse there is, a tavern with all its partitions„ built of prairie sod, and is called .the_' Sod Tavern. , And if men can build a, tavern - out of sods, for the ac commodation of ladies and gentlemen, sure ly they can build out of the same material, a house for the accommodation of sheep. My plan was considered feasible. "In a little more than twenty-seven• hours from the time I entered the cars at Home stead, lowa, . I was, in' Mansfield, Ohio; a Aistance, of five hundred and sixty-two miles. Thanks to Gen. CASS, President of the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wxyne, and Chicago Railroad, for good roads, good cars, good conductors, and a half-fare ticket. A." General Synod of the German Reformed Church in 'the United States.—This eccle siastical body held its first meeting last week, Pittsburgh having been selected as the place. Heretofore the German Re formed Church, in the United States, ex isted in two Synods, the Eastern and West ern. Preliminary arrangements for a union, in one General Synod, to meet once in three years, having, been perfected at last year's Synodical meetings, delegates from all the classes convened in Grace church, on Grant Street, on Wednesday evening, the 18th` inst. The opening sermon was preached by Rev. jowl W. NEVIN, D.D., formerly. a Professor in the Allegheny. Theological Seminary. On Thursday morning the Delegates again assembled, and the General Synod was duly. organized, Dr. NEVIN being elected President, and Rev, IsA.Ac H. REITER, of Ohlo, Secretary. The busium of the Synod progresses, with due order and dignity. EASTERN SUMMARY. NEW-ENGLAND. FOR - SOME TIME past, Boston, once sofa -. mous as the Puritan city of the New World, has been the scene of Sabbath desecrations which cannot but sadden the hearts of all who revere God and love his ordinances: Musical entertainments, under the decep tive title of Sacred Concerts, have been given on successive Sabbath evenings, in the Boston Theatre, and we believe also in Tremont Temple. It is true that some sa cred pieces have been sung on these occa sions, but, for the most part, the music has been just such as is common at week day concerts. Some of the secular papers have corn - e- y ont strongly in defence of these en tertainments, maintaining that they are calculated to " elevate, improve, and refine' the public taste," &c. The Herald, in a condemnatory notice of a worthy Metho dist minister who denounced from the pul pit these violations of the Sabbath, sa3rs : " The clerical critic has evidently spoken upon a subject of which he knew little;" and adds: "-The reverend gentleman could not have felt entirely alone in one of those vast audiences, for he would have found with him, numbers of his own cloth as well as other good men, none of whom seemed to think it sinful to be there." That some good people may have been unthinkingly caught by the specious•title of " Sacred Coneerts," and been found among the devotees of pleaaure, is possible ; and that some were present whose names usually read with the clerical prefix Rev., is also likely; but we doubt exceedingly whether anyr truly Evangelical ministers, or many devotedly pious among the laity, absented themselves from the ,.. sanctuary, to take their seats either in Boston Theatre or Tremont Temple. THE COLLEGIATE EDUCATION SOCIETY was established twenty years since in NeW .England, with a view to aiding, on certain conditions, such institutions of learning throughout the country as needed pecunia ry support. This Society held its aniver sary meeting lately in the city of Hartford. Addresses were delivered by Professor Stowe, of Andover, Rev. Dr. Brainard, of Philadelphia, and others. Acoording to the report of the Secretary, the receipts of the year have been $18,600, and the num ber of institutions aided have been four teen in all, of which five have been so re lieved as to need no further aid from the Society. DR. POND, of Bangor Theological Sem inary, in his recently priblislied'address on preaching, says: "I have heard preaching compared to lightning—of which it is said there are three kinds; the flash, the zigzag, and the slant. 'The flash looks brilliantly; lights up the sky, andlpeople gaze at it with won der and delight. The zigzag is here and there, and everywhere ; darting from cloud to cloud without any apparent object or ef fect, But the slant sends its bolt right down to the earth, and rives the gnarled oak, and is mighty, . through. God, to the tearing down of strongholds. Be sure, my brethren, if you deal in any lightning, to, prefer the slant." . A WRITER in the Boston Recorder makes some interesting statements in regard to the Massachusetts General Hospital, a vast • building of hewn granite, situated in Bos ton. He says "It Is mainly for the benefit of men and women in the humbler walks of life, who needing medical and surgical treatment; and having no home; are'taken there, grant ed a bed in the wards and so get well, if that be their happy - decree, paying either nothing, or four dollars and a half a week, if they have laid something by. This is a magnificent charity, of which it is enough to say that it is worthy of Boston. "In this spacions and finely-aypointed hospital (the most convenient, though by no means the largetit, in the world,) there are eight private rooms, devoted to the use of private patients. These rooms are fitted up for the express accommodation of the rich. Occupy one, either for surgical or medical treatment, you are provided with a nurse, watchers if needbe, food, medicines; cordials, fire, lights, bath, everything, and everything of the best. You-are minis tered to dsily'by the very ablest physicians i . n.Beston. • '• "And 'all these - comforts you command for the moderate sum of eleven - dollars a week. The physicians make two daily vis its, and . every want of the most'exaCting is met, if it be right that it should be. Not Another dime beyond the eleven dollars is charged for anything. The rich go there even from sumptuous Boston homes, pm ferring that place to be sick in." THE INMATES of Mount llolyoke Semi nary constitute a family of 360 persons, of whom twenty are teachers. Two barrels of flour per day, with rye and Indian meal, and 400 pounds, of butter per. week are re quired to supply the establishment. IT IS GRATIFYING to know that some, if not all, of our soldiers who have been ta ken prisoners by the Confederates are treated with Christian kindness. The , Re corder, in a report of a recent prayer-meet-- ing at Old South Chapel, says : " Capt. Bartlett gave the substance of a. letter from his son, who is still a prisoner' at Columbia. He writes that they arc treated wellAhey haye the liberty of the yard all day, and a fire all night ; they have hoe-cake; meat, and rice soup at ten and four, and •enjoy themselves in many. ways. Testaments are given them, and they have preaching every Sabbath by chaplain IL C. Trumbull, and he hopes we wilt pray for these our enemies. In response to this re quest, special prayer was offered for them." NEWYORK. TEEt Observer, in an article on "Good Investments," observes "In such a city as this, and in many other cities and towns, there are churches in the suburbs and in destitute parts of the town, in circumstances of embar rassment and trial. They arc of essential importance to the cause in their neighbor hood. Their extinction would be a great moral calamity. There are enemies of the Gospel ready to take possession of the property if it comes to be sold. And Ro manism, with its coffers always full, stands by to gobble up' every thing in the shape of a church that has to be sold cheap. * * " Inlooking for safe investments, we tee ommena to our rich and Rival- Christian friends, the expediency and duty_ of putting money into these growing churches. It is not merely casting ,bread on the waters . to be found after, many days; it is planting seed where it is sure to take root and bear much fruit. Before all other charities, this ought to take the first place. It is spreading the Gospel,,,beginning at Jerusa lem, at home. It is the best possible in vestment of that money which we are wil ling to give to the Lord. We know that it will go on increasing in power for good from year to year. While we save a chureh from extinction, we also send down to future generations the influence of the regular preaching of the Word, forming the moral character of the people, and doubtless rescuing souls frorn ruin.' Itnv. ASA D. &run, D.D.,' preached his farewell discourse as pastor of the Fourteenth Street Presbyterian church, on Sabbath the 15th inst. Dr. S. was in stalled in 1834, and his pastoral labors have been greatly blessed. According to the report of the sermon furnished by the Avangelist, Dr. Smith has preached 2,915 times to his own people. The whole num ber of persons received into the church is 1,393, 327 of them—or an average of over twenty-one a year—on profession. Of these about forty have entered the Gospel ministry, some of whom ara - Hom.e, and others Foreign, missionaries. The aggre gate of contributions in Rivington Street, including the cost of the church, were, about - $103,000; the _annual average of contributions in Fourteenth Street church something over $11,500. And last, but not, least, from 10,000 to 15,000 different children have been connected with the several Sabbath Schools of the church." THE DEATH of .n.ev. vr. .n..ennaday, of the Methodist Church has carried sadneas to many a heart outside of the' communion to which he belonged. The Advocate and Journal, in a notice of the deceased, says: " Rev. John Kennaday, D.D., Presiding Elder of the Long Island District, New- York East Conference, died at his_ resi deuce in Brooklyn on Saturday,_ the 14th inst., at half-past twelve o'clock. On Tues day, the 10th inst., he was attacked with apoplexy, while delivering an animated ex hortation at a prayer-meeting in the Wash ington Street M. E. Church, Brooklyn. He fell instantly, and was carried to his home in an unconscious condition, in which he remained until he expired. He was in the sixty-fourth year of his age, but having long enjoyed excellent health,he retained the vigor and vivacity of manhood until the moment when he was smitten. He, was educated a printer, put his fine powers as a speaker- early attracted attention, and his conversion saved him from the stage, on whose boards he had entered as an amateur actor. He entered the New-York Confer ence in 1823, and was transferred four times between the New. York, New 7 York East, and Philadelphia Conferences. His pastorate is One of the most remarkable in many respects known among us. It was uninterrupted during the forty years until he received his last appointnient to the pre siding eldership, and was , spent mostly in New-York, Philadelphia, Patterson, Hart ford, New-Haven, Brooklyn, and, other cities on our Atlantic border. Of the Washington. Street M. E. church, in which he was stricken down, he- was pastor for three different terms of two years each.. In one instance he was returned to serve the same church seven times. He was per haps better known outside our , own Church than any other pastor in it, and highly re spected as far as he was known." GoLD opened on the 23d inst. at 1.53 f, and closed at 152 i. Flour, extra State, $6.45®46.55; extra R. 111.- 0.; $1.55® PRILADELPIIIA. A WAITER in. the last Presbyterian fur nishes an interesting article on the tCom paraive Growth of Religious Sects in Phil adelphia.p By comparing the present relig ious statistics with those contained in a Directory for 1811, reliable information has been obtained as to the .ositire and rel ative growth of religious denominations in' the city during the last half century. The following table shows the number of PLACES OP WORSHIP in 1811, and-18637:- 1811 - 1863 Methodist, - - - - = 5 . 72* Episeopal,- - 5 66 Presbyterian, - - - 5 62 Do; Reformed and United, 3 17' Genian and Dutch Rerouted, 2 11 Lutheran, - 4 15 Baptist,_ - - - - 6 39 RoinanCatholie, - 4 30 Friends, - - - - 4 12 Jews, - - - - - 2 7 Independents,- - I. 8 Evangelical Association, - 0 4 Moravian, - - 1 .l Unitarian,.; - - - 1 2 Universalist, - X 3 Swedenborgian, ' 0 5 Total, -44 849 In connexion with these statistics, the writer suggests, 1, that no one denomina tion is in process of absorbing the - others; 2, that a gradual increase of church-going is indicated; 3, that nearly or quite three fourths of those who are able, attend. wer-. ship of some soft; and 4, that the aurae:- where the real Gospel' of Jena C ., riat preached increase - at tt• much greater rate than those of a different description: smEsrs that the City , Councils of "rt treat, Canada, paid a visit lately to 'Alla. delphria, with a special view of examiaik, the Quaker Citysystem of cleaning street,. The papers seem. to differ as to-the value of the compliment implied in the visit of th, Canadians. One journal speaks exultin g l y of the fact that Philadelphia can give her sister cities lessons in the department of cleanliness; while another, the .D,„• / ,, 'News, goes even so far on the other side of the question as to say: "The Montrea: Conn:ratio might almost as well have p a id . a visit to the famous stable of mythology, before it had the water turned into it by Hercules, as to visit Philadelphia at this time in pursuit of hints upon cleanline ss : , As Pennsylvanians,- we have always re joiced in the hitherto world-wide reputa. Lion of Philadelphia for order, cleanliness, and unpretending beauty. We trust this reputation may never be forfeited. Letter from the Army of the Potomac, JOSEPH A_LBREE, Treasurer Ch , ristt'4 4 Commission, Pittsburgh : • Here we all are —we I mean of tile I:. S. Christian Commission—at Brandy Station, Culpepper county, Va. We came dna a few days since from Warrenton J - ancti un , and are now pretty well fixed, having at , abundance of work, as the great army around ns in corps, divisions, brigades and regiments, stretching out to a great distance in all directions. , The site of the camp is apparently a limited - plitin, and the different parts of the army are so situated as to afford easy fa cilities for our operations. Our tent is in the midst of the third corps, but all the others are in sight, and can be reached in a walk not exceeding three miles. We die. tribute daily vast stores of reading matter in the form of books, tracts, papers, pant 'phlets, &c.,.a1l of which the soldiers receive and read with the greatest avidity and thankfulness. We visit hospitals, give out such sanitary stores as we have in char ge , talk to the sick, and always pray with them if they desire it, preach daily anti nightly, hold prayer-meetings, and do all we can to benefit the bodies, minds and souls of the men. We are generally treated with gm-. courtesy. When a regiment has a chaplain, we operate through him; if none, we do as well as we can in our own way and on our own responsibility. It is really a delightful work. All the chaplains we have met, we found to be excellent, conscientious men-- men of principle, able and willing to d, their'duty. Sorry we cannot say so much of certain hospital stewards and surgeons, whom more than one chaplain have told us, do often make a mal-appropriation of the delicacies and stimulants given for the ben efit of the sick. This is a most provoking outrage on a charitable community—one calling loudly for redress. The field of labor here is most extensive —far-greater-than we can possibly cultivate with .cares To : tell you of incidents and sights would be to speak of the leaves of the for est or of the drops of the ocean. To me it is a kind of anew world—a world of won ders, some of them amusing, some sublimely beautiful, some terribly solemn—all instruc tive. Come, then, let, me introdice you to some of them. Stand here in our tent, your back to the fire, your face to the door. It is night.= Six commissioners eat, sleep, and rest in the place. It is crowded, though comfortable. Our chimney might be mis taken for the one-half of a. huge goose. nest topped out with a barrel. See us go to bed. After prayers,-we surround our canvas walls with the bags, boxes, and pack ages containing our commodities—spread the ground floor over with a few blankets, and lie down with our feet to the fire.- That man on your left, next to the wall, is Rev. M--, from Paria,Me. who is a kind of head man among . us. • He that lies next to him, with his beard just approaching the dignity of whiskers, and who is greatly dis turbed with the snoring .of some of the others, is from Ohio; and that fine-looking man nexthim is a Yankee' from Vermont, full of the zeal of his mission. Next is a lay commissioner .from Pennsylvania, and a great favorite.- The others are ministers from New-England, and are faithful in the discharge, of their duty. We cook and keep house by turns.. Rave plenty to eat, and are happy. Sweet music fro* many bands constantly reach our ears. Evening tatoo and morning reveille are delightful. The wagon trains are indeed a sight. They look and move like immense belts of eleva tors. It is said this Army of the Potomac ,has over 10,000 six-horse 'covered wagons, and more than 60,000 mules and horses en gaged'in transportation. These, with the thousands pf cavalry and officers' horses, make a cavalcade of immense magnitude. It must be seen to be appreciated. The sound of axes ' morning and evening, is another feature of interest to the carious. Thousands upon thousands of acres of wood land have been cut off for fuel, tents, bridges, &c., so that the, whole region round about is a scene of desolation and entire destitu tion. Horse shoes, broken camp implements; pieces of gins, sabres, swords, &0., stress the ground from• here to Washington, a distance of moie than forty miles. Graves are numerous. - It is no exagger ation to call it literally a grave-yard, as aceldama. Every little hillock covers dead men. Some places you can yet see the feet thehoots, or shoes on protruding, tine flesh having, fallen off, and the long, white dry bone still in the, shoe I If. you go ,among the, tents, you will have men praying, or singing,nr see them read• ing, or seated - aronnd their huge, ba i t , smoky fires, engaged in conversations on subjects.. Listen! H ow I wou ld love ti see my dear - ;" ," . when wilt thi: war ;end? That Christian Commission a good thing=one of the ministers talhei to me to-day----I'm;going to hear hire preach to-night," &a. Now if you step uP and commence conversation with them you will find:thern most attentive hearer , If you talk with animation, or in a loud voice, so on , you will be surrounded by scores, and may rise in your remarks to the dignity of a little sermon, thus getting the soldiers acquainted with you, 50 that when you next preach in. that region, you will have a large attendance. The way t he writer has so far. secured an audience for preaching, is to get the Colonel of a rent' ment to, order, " a Tall in" to be beat, and this always, brings the boys. They start. up from their tents and fires, riT about like Imes swarming, and finally set near some stump or log, on which ve mount and preach. The members of the Mission are gene lll " ly well, and delighted with their welt But enough for the present. More anon . • ZED.
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