Vreshgterian twuttr,
fITTSBURGE, WEDNESDAY ! HOST 17, 1864;
WORTHY OF IMITATION.
Turning over ‘ the papers upon our table,
in search of something to interest our read
ers, we happened to see a number of no.
Vices, one after another, of donations to
'Various Colleges and Seminaries, more or
less known and useful; and it oecurred to
les that we might not unprofitably collate
tome of these benefaotions, and if space
permitted, append a few yelleotions sug
gested by the same.
The Commencement at Amherst College,
Mass , took place July 14, and was an occa
sion of more than wonted interest. Above
$lOO,OOO have been added to the funds of
tbet,College during the put year. W. R
STEARNS, a merchant in India, has placed
in the hands of his father $30,000, for the=
'erectionof a new chapel for the College, to
be used for religious services exclusively;
and some unknown donor his pliced ,at
the disposal of the trustees $20,000 for the
beginning of a fund for supporting a pastor
over the College chnrch, and who shall
have charge of the religions welfare of the
student&
At the recent commencement of Wil
Rams College, Ans., it was announced.that
the sum of $25,000 was given to the Col
loge by a gentleman of Berkshire County,
J'oax Z. GoormoK, Esq. 4 tt was also re
solved' to raise $llO,OOO for the general
uses of the Institution. The salaries of
the Professors were raised from $1,200 to
,$1,400. each.
At the recent commencement. of Bow
doin College, the munificent gift of $50,000
from Mr. BOODY, formerly a Professor in
the College, was secured.
During the past year, Prof. MALLORY ;
of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., has
raised 'nearly $lOO,OOO, to place the pros•
parity of the C o lle g e on, a firm foundation.
The University of the City of New-York
has been recently the recipient of several
favors. J. C. GREEN, Esq , President of
the Council, has donated $25,000, to en
dow a Professorship of Mathematics; J. T
JOHNSON, EMI', Vice President, $25,000,
`to endow a Professorship of Latin; two
other genttemen $5,000 each; several oth
era $l,OOO each; and the Alumni have
taken means to endow a Professorship.
At the recent commencement of Lafay
ette College, the corner-stone of an observ
atory building was laid with appropriate
ceremonies, the whole building, arranged for
Mural Circle and Transit Instrument, in
either wing, and large equatorial telescope
in. the centre dome, being the munificent
gift of a citizen of Easton. The endowment
fund of the College is , also growing rapidly.
Dr. WILLIAM PRESCOTT, of Concord,
Xew-Hampshire, has recently given to Al
legheny College at Meadville, Pa., one of
the finest geological, mineralogical, and
conehological cabinets in the country.' It
embraces six thousand specimens•from all
parts of the habitable globe, which the donor
has hien over forty years in collecting.
There are represented one hundred and
ninety-sii genera and two thousand six
of mineralogy and geology. To these are
yet to be added upwards of two hundred
varieties of birds. Some idea of the com
pleteness of the cabinet may be obtained
from the face that of the two hundred and
ten genera of ahell-fish known to science,
one, hundred and ninety-six are here repro
tented ; and that many, and in fact most•s€
the species of those LLgenera are complete.
The University of Chicago held its com-
Menden/ant July 7th. There was no grad
uating class, but two Doctorates of Divinity
were conferred. This year will be memo
rable for the rearing of the principal uni
versity building and the observatory, and
the general improvement of the financial
condition of the University. Scarcely any
thing had been added to the present prop
erty of the institution since the donation
Of HOW. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, until this
year, When abotit a hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars are being added to die endow
ment, '
in building, observatory, and profes
sorships. -
A spirited meeting of Lutheran ministers
and laymen was recentty.held at Dayton,
Ohio, and 880,000 were raised on the spot
toward the endowment of their College.
Such an• example richly deserves to be
dommended—but still more, to be imitated.
Of the 850,000 proposed to be raised for
the endowment of lowa College, Dr. Hex.-
BROOK has. secured'nearly 840,000 of the
required sum; provided the whole can be
made up . It is hoped that the bal.
epee will be soon obtained.
The Trustees of Beloit College, Wis.,
have determined to establish a' LOVEVOY
Scholarship, in memory of Hon. Ow=
LOVEJOY, and the financial Agent-of_the
College is setting about the work at once,
with a probability of its immediate aecom
plishMent.
In smother column of this Reek's paper,
under the head of News of the Churches,
will be found a brief account of what - our
Dutch Reformed brethren in the North
west are doing in the way of establishing
and endowing a College, in a spot where,
seventeen years ago, there were no houses
but,lndian wigwams.. Yet a single congre
gad's= of these immigrants will probably
contribute $lO,OOO toward this end.
The effort to endow the ALBERT BARNES
Professorship in Hamilton College' has
proved successful, and that Professorship
now" takes its place beside that recently
creoted-to the memory of ROBTESON.
Since the , anniversary Of the Chicago
Seminary, (Congregational) Prof. HAVEN
has . carried the endowment of his . Chair
from 125,000 to more than $30,000.
" The Trustees of the Episcopal General
Theological Seminary, in New-York, have
Inaugurated measures to raise $150,000 tor
the into/elite of the Seminary, with every
_ •
prospect of oncost's.
The Free Church of Scotland has from
the first attached the greatest importance
to au adequate training for the 4linistry.
Her three Colleges at Edinburgh, glasgow,
and Aberdeen, are among ; the best equipped
in the kingdom. .There*are partial endow
manta, butithe Chief support of these Col-
ME
leges is an annual collection made in every
congregation, which amounts to about $22,-
600. But not satisfied with this, the PAR :
cipal,pf New College, Edinburgh, Dr CAN
DLlglikprOpOPed to raise ,$400,000 for the
purpose of more fully endowing the three
Colleges connected with his Church. Du
ring the past year some progress has been
made, the Earl of Dalhousie alone subscrib
ing $lO,OOO.
The above facts we have gleaned from
a half dozen of our exchanges, and . with a
little more time and care, on our part, the
list of benfactions might have been largely
extended. Our readers will readily recall
the $130,000 recently secured for Prince
ton ; and as to the recent gifts to Yale, we
would almost as soon undertalFe to count
the elms of New-Haven. Other instances
of munificence toward various Colleges and
Seminaries have appeared from time to
time in our columns. _
We trust we rejoice, on general 'princi•
pies, whenever we meet with examples of
generosity so wisely manifested, of money
appropriated with such Christian fore
thought, such just appreciation of the re
quirements of the present, such far-seeing
regard for prospective usefulness. The
love of money is so common, and there are
eomparaiively. so few who are unselfish
enough to relax their grasp upon,their
treasures; before death's icy fingers compel
them to release their hold, that . the mani
festation of a different spirit commands the
tribute of even involuntary admiration.
And yet there is withal a twinge of re-
gret that mingles with and mars our joy.
Not that 'these various Seminaries have
been so highly, and no doubt so deservedly,
favored, That man is to be pitied, who
cannot rise superior to envy, when the gifts.
of, fortune deseend.upon other institutions
than those with which his feelings or in
terests are allied. Yet is there room for
honest regret, not that some are remem
beredrbut that others are forgotten.
In the history - of educational:enterprise
in this country, there is no nobler record
than that which was made by the• Presby
terian pioneers of Weitern Pennsylvania,
who, out of their poverty,. contributed so
liberally, toward the founding of those ear
litit schools in the great valley of the
West, and toward the sustaining of teach
ers and pupils, the main object being the
supply of an educated and evangelical min
istry. The subsequent career of these in
stitutions has fully justified the wise fore
thought of their founders. From no other
sources have the various branches of the
Presbyterian dhurch drawn so large a pro
portion of ministers from the list of
alumni. Preeminently have 'they proved
to be schools of the I)rophets, and the
.prayers and faith and efforts by which they
were establialied, have been abundantly re:
warded. •
But why is it that the mantle of those
fathers of our Western, churches, has not
fallen upon their sons 7- Why is it that,
ahhough the wealth of our people has in
creased so prodigiouslY, these schools, the
earliest offspring of western- learning and
piety, have' been allowed for half a century
to langdsh in a constant struggle for ex
istence ? -
Even the stranger who may climb the
ills_that_antronact smtkv_citv—xid
its iron heart, and watch the breathing of
its lungs of fire, cannot fail to admire the
business energy, the skill, 'the thrift, the
ceaselev toil, whose vast results are out
spread before him, whilst many a barge
and many, a train of cars convey to distant
fields the products of our industry, or bring
back in return a rich reward. And if a
stranger must admire, with what pride
must those who first drew the breath of
life in this smoke-diinmed atmosphere, re 7
gard the evidences of our city's growth in
wealth, and population, and in all the ele
ments of commercial - prosperity.
Nor alone has the city prospered. The
entire region of which it is the business
centre, has participated in that prosperity.
Over an area of - .many thoigand square
miles, the once unbroken forest, in which
our fathers reared their humble log
academies, has given place to smiling
farms, to thriving towns ; to many ''a home
of well-rewarded labor, to many an abode of
competence or wealth.
Through all these successive changes
that have marked the rapid progress of a
new country, since the time when 'the war
whoop of the savage resounded .amongst
these hills, until now that the shrill whis
tle of the locomotive disturbs their quiet,
throughout the foreseer° years during
which an untamed wilderness has gradual
ly become the seat of a great empire, these
institutions of our fathers' planting have
been., a rich.legacy to their sons. They
have been a priceless blessing to the coun
try and the 9huroh. Yet has their whole
history been a record of 'ingratitude, and
poverty, and neglect.
As an instance. It is within our knowl
edge that at one thine, in one of the insti
tutions of which we speak, there were
thirty students receiving gratititon.s in
etruction, about one-seventh of the whole
number in attendance; and the majority
of them preparing for the ministry. At
the same time the institution was about a
year in arrears, even . to its slenderly-com
pensated teachers. It was the same as
though these unrequited meti were giving
out of their poverty one -seventh of their
gross receipts to the cause of education and
the Church. Where is the - congregation
of which as much can be said t, And in
• this way have these institutions educated
many men for the ministry, who, though
laborious and useful in their calling, hay.e
seldom been able to make any pecuniary
reoompense;subsequently. Nor was it ex.
'pected that they should. But it might well
have been expected that the churches, as
their means increased, would nobly sustain
the schools that had so nobly deserved.
Is it strange, then, that we read such no
tices as we have grouped together in this
article; with a shade of sadness, as we think
of what has been left undone t. When we
compare the claims of some of the colleges'
so highly endowed, with those of the; bug:
tutions to which we refer, yhen we remem
b3r also r the abundadi mcans—we might say,
tile overflowing wealth—of many who might
justly be expected to foster these neglected
schools---is it strange that a feeling of-dis
appointment, or of hope defeid, should
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PRESBYTERIAN BANNER-WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1864,
sometimes follow not far behind the glow
of our first rejoicing ?
We find, upon looking back over what
we have written, that we have not in
dicated the institutions we deem to have
been neglected. It was not a studied omis
sion, but rather the result of a feeling which
our readers will appreciate, and which ren
ders us unwilling, after a list of so many
colleges thus richly.remembesed, to record
the names of others less favored, though
not less deserving, and to some of us so
dear.
BB SUBS YOUR BIN WILL FIND YOU OUT.
In our London correspondence this week
will be found an allusion to a murder, the
commission of: which has excited a sensa
tion throughout England. In the railway
traveling of that country, instead of cars
accommodating fifty passengers together,
compartments are provided for small par
ties separately, whilst in passing between
stations the doors are locked. Facility is
thus afforded for the perpetration of crimes
that would never be attempted, or even
thought of, under the superior American
system of railway travel.
Aided by these circumstanses, the mur
derer, confined with an unsuspecting eom
panion, accomplishes- speedily his crime,
hurls the dying body of his victim upon
.the track, that it may be crushed beneath
the - following' train, and immediately
escapes unobserved. No eye but the:All
seeing one has witnessed the deed : no be
ing in the wide, universe. save the All
knowing one possesses the fatal knowledge
of his guilt. In a few hours the whole
island-kingdom is thrilled with the story of
the murder.; every journal heralds it;
every tongue speaks of it ibut no one sus
pacts the miserable .man, as he moves
amongst the horror-stricken crowds.
Yet, prompted by that vague dread of
'danger and detection, which is the concom
itant of guilt, the wretched criminal re
solves to fly. Under a feigned purpose, he
embarks; the vessel sails, the shore re
cedes and sinks beneath the rounding
waves, and hundreds of miles soon separate
him from , the scene of his dreadful crime.
With what, a sense of freedom he now
walks the deck, and how securely he plans
his future in the new home to which he is
hastening.
Meantime the busy police, aided by the
sleepless vigilance of an excited popula
tion, have gathered up a few threads of
evidence and woven them into meshes
strong enough to hold the guilty man 'who
is almost beyond their reach. A watch
chain which had belonged to the murdered
man is discovered in the possession of a
jeweler, who had exchanged it with a
stranger for another; and here the trail
seemed to terminate. But the trivial dr.: .
cumstanee is divulged ; a cabman remem
bers that an acquaintance of his, who had
recently left. England, had displayed in his
family a chain said to have been newly pur
(lased, and had giten his child the .box
containing it. The box is brought to
. the
jeweler, .who recognizes the one-he gave
A photograph of the absconding party is
then brought; it is recognized as the
likeness of the man who exchanged the
chain. Finally a hat left behind in the
fe44... ay; la.ciaortilkrerathlviii betav
been lame, no doubt from jumping from
the oar. The circumstantial evidence
seems complete, and the officers of justice,
embarking in a ateamship, arrive at New-
York before the sailing vesSel, and quietly
await the approach of the unsuspecting mia
creant. In the very hour of his fancied
security, as he would congratulate himself
that all danger was forever past, he will find
himself - pinioned in the unrelenting grasp
Of far-reaching justice:
What an epitome is this of human ex
perience. How often the secret sin, so
carefully concealed from human ken, is
brought to light, and the abashed culprit
is covered with confusion. How often
does crime fail to secure for its perpetra
tors the end in view. And even if success
ful in attaining its object, and if the guilty
secret is still kept, how joyless is success,
how ceaselessly the vnituri, conscience,
preys upon its victim, and in that day when
the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed,
how ineffectual will be each effort toward
concealment or disguise. Then certainly,
if not long before, the secret sin will find
its author out.
ALLEGHENY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
This Institution will commence its next
session on Alonday, Sept. 12th. The stu
dents will assemble in the Chapel,- at 4 o'-
clock P. M., and -rooms will be distributed
free of rent. The opening address will be
delivered by one of the Professors, on -
Tuesday morning, at 10 o'clock. Prompt
attendance is requested.
The Rev. A. ALEXANDER 110DGE,
having accepted the Chair of Didactic and
Pastoral Theology, Will'enter upon his duties,
and is already on the ground.. Professors
ELLIOTT, JAconos, PAXTO*, and' WILSON,
will also fill their 'respective departments.
Besides Which ethe Rev. Dr. BEATTY will
continue his Lectures in Practical Theolo
gy;
,and . a course of superior instruction
will be furnished in Elocution.
The expenses continue comparatively
moderate. Board in, private families may
be had at $2.25 and "upwards. ,
The. Board .of Education has increased
its . seholarships to $150; and this amount
will fully. _cover the neoessary expenses.
Those who require aid, in whole or in part,
can receive it, on application to one of the
i'rofessors. And such ; as would like to
teach, or otherwise aid themselves, by an
engagement of an hour or SO, a day, can
find . frequent opportunity, as well as for
employinent in the. vacations. The stu
dents are introdaced_to their great work by
contact with numerous churches in the cit=
ies and neighbor hood, and thus, also, they
receive a training in free 'and ready die
course.
PRINCETON-THEOLOGICAL-SEMINARY:
The next term of this Institution will
begin on Thursday, the Ist of September.
It is advantageous, in every way, for the
students to assemble promptly. The annu
al course of lectures and exercises in Elocu:
tion, to'he now enlarged and perfected, can
be had only 41. the first part of the session.
The Extraordituds Lectures, however, ou,
the connection of science and religion,
by Drs. GUYOT and ATWATER, will be
continued as heretofore, throughout the
term, in addition to the labors of the five
regular Professors, who are wholly engaged
with the duties of the Seminary.
Other facilities will be continued as usu
al ; the boarding only being subject to such
regulation of' price as the exigencies of the
market may demand. A large and commo
dious refectory building for the use of the
students, altogether free from rent, will en,
able them to live on the simple cost of pro-
visions and service, now so much equalized
in every part of the country. Boarding in
private fatniles, also, can lie had cheaply,
for these times.
A Vetern Missionary.—Ttle Rev. JONAS
KING, D.D., of Athens , Greece,,the vener
able missionary of the American Board,
who has labored and suffered so much for
the moral regeneration of that classic land,
arrived, as we , learn from the NT-York
Times, in that city, on Wednesday, Aug.
10th, in the steamer Washington, .twelve
days -from Havre. It is thirty-six years
since Dr. KING left the United States.
A Suggestion.—A correspondent of the
Lonis Central Advocate, recommends
that religious papers, instead of publishing
a large double sheet weekly, should issue a
single sheet semi-weekly. The amount of
reading matter would be the same, but the
more- frequent issue would bring up the
secular news so rapidly as, with many fern
to do away with secular papers alto
gether. Thus the subscription list would
be largely extended, and the only addition
al cost would be that of two mailings ir.
stead of one.
NEWS OF THE CHURCHES
AND MINISTERS:
PRESBYTERIAN.
Old Sehool.—Rev. A. J. Compton, M.D.,
has resigned his charge at Bentonsport,
lowa, and for tte last two months has been
laboring as a Delegate of the U. S. Chris
tian Commission at Vicksburg, Miss. His
present address is thinnell, lowa. He is
to spend some time presenting the claims
of the Christian Commission to the people
of Southern lowa.
Westminster College, Mo., Jane 22,
graduated its first class, and conferred the
degree of Doctor of Divinity on the Rev.
James Brooks, of St. Louis, Mo., and the
Rev. Robert. Watts, of Dublin, Ireland.
The Rev. John Montgomery, D.D., was
unanimously elected President.
The Presbytery of New Lisbon. has or-,
ganized a church in Salineville, consisting
of twenty-seven members. This village,
situated in Columbiana County Ohio, on
the Pittsburgh' and Cleveland Railroad,
twelve milts from Wellsville, is a tlynrist
ing and enterprising town; and it is hoped
that the church organized in it, with the
Divine blessing, will •be, in a short time,
an efficient congregation.
The corner-stone .of the new Second
Presbyterian church of . Troy, N. Y., was
laid on the 14th of July, with appropriate
ceremonies, and in the presenee of a large
concourse of people. After the usual de
votional exercises, Rev. D.• S. Gregory, pas-
an , appropriate address.
The friends of the Rev. E. P. Lewis,
graduate — of the last class of the Western
Theological Seminary, and licentiate of
the Blairsville Presbytery, will be pleased
to learn'that he has arrived safely akAtchi
son City, Kansas, and entered_upon his la
:bors in the Presbyterian church in that
place. The field is vast. - Mr. Lewis is an
active, energetic man, and with . the' bless
ing of God, we expect a great work to be
accomplished through his instrumentality.
New School Prof Henry H. Hadley,
for the, last six years. Assistant Professor of
Hebrew in the Union Theological Semina
ry, New-York City, departed this life on
the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 3d, on board'
the boat from City Point to Washington—
a victim to his zeal in behalf of the sick
and 'wonaded soldiers. His disease was
typhoid fever. He went to the front two
months ago, accompanied by about a dozen
of the students of the Seminary, under the
auspices of the Sanitary Commission. ,
The deceased graduated in the class of
1847, at Yale College, where an elder
brother, Prof. Jas. Hadley, fills the Greek
Professorship with such ability and dia.
tinction. He was but young, and has left
behind no permanent memorial of himself,
except in the lessons impressed upon the
minds of his pupils in the 'Union Theoleg
lea! Seminary, and the affection and admi
ration ()f his friends. His great learning
and long-polished and sharpened intellect,
have been laid down in the service. of his
country, and shall appear no more among
men. He had long desired most ardently
to take . part in this war for human rights,
and had even attempted to enlist, but was
prevented by various obstaolls. He died
—as he would hive prayedno die—at the
post of duty. His death is a sore loss to
American scholars.
Duith Reformed.— The Holland Churches
in the Wept.---The Classes of Wisconsin and
Holland are almost exclusively composed of
ministers and churches who have immigra
ted from Holland. There• are probably
11,000 in South-western Michigan, 8;000
in Wisconsin, 8,000 in Northern Illinois,
4,000 in lowa, mostly in and near Pella,
Marion County. These churches are fond
ly attached to the doctrine and government
of the Church. They have shown tb&
deepest interest in the work of education:
Holland Academy is to receive an-endow
ment as a College. -The effort to procure
fonds has, thtis far, met with astonjahipg
success. Dr. Van Raalte's congregation
has subscribed six thousand dollars, and
will probably make the, amount ten thou
sand dollars. Beside this, sixty acres of
land adjoining the village ave been given
by one whose efforts for the development of
liberality in others are always attended by
his own liberal gifts: The other churches
in the t‘colonyn 401.11 probably'double this"
amount. Let us think of this. Seventeen
years ago there was no house in the vicin
ity,
_except a few Indian wigwams, near
the 'present village of Holland. The im-
mense growth of timber must have appalled
the floilanders. But they soon made their -
selves famous by lifting up the axes upon
the thick trees. The wilderneis As been
conquered. Situated on Black Lake, six.
miles from Lake Michigan, there is a thriv
ing hulloes& in lumber andy staves, whilst
the farms wrested from the forest form a
mare: permanent source of wealth, and are
truly Christian homes.— Christian Intel..
LUTHERAN.
From the report of 'the committee on
the German population of North America,
presented to the last General Synod, it ap
pears that there are at least 4,000,000 Ger
mans in the United States, one-third of
whom—that is, 1,333,000—are Lutherans.
This estimate includes the entire popula
tion. Estimating two-fifths as confirmed
adults, it gives us between 400,000 and
500,000 who were members of the Church
in Europe. The editor of the Kirehenbote
estimates the number of these who are
in actual connection, either with some
Lutheran or United Church, at 150,-
000, leaving at least 250,000, to be ac
counted for outside of the Lutheran Church.
Many have united with the American
Church who have entered the German har
vest-field • multitudes have glided into a
state of Church indifferende, and it is to be
feared that the largest number of them
have become infected with infidelity and
rationalism. The duty ofthe General Syn
od to adopt measures to supply the destitu
tion and build up churches, is one of the
most pressing character.—Lutheran Ob
server.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The Congregationalists of the United
States intend to organize before the close
of the year, a National Congregational Con
vention. Ten of the State Associations
have already declared in-favor of the plan,
.-and the papers both. East and West are•
earnestly advocating it..
The First Congregational church of Chi
: sago has raised the salary of its pastor,
Rev. Dr. Patton, from $2,500 to $3,000.
• BAPTIST.
On the 31st ult., Rev. W. H. King of
Owego, N. Y., baptized Rev. W. E. 130-
gart, of the Methodist church, in Wey
bridge, Vt. Mr. Bogart is a young man of
piety and. promise, and leaves the .Metho
diets because he is a Baptist by conviction.
Few churches have been more highly fa-
Vored during the distracted condition of
our country than, the Calvary Baptist
church of Washington. Her walls have
been builtin troublous times. This church
was constituted with an original member.
ship of thirty-five, on the 2d of June,
1862. At present it numbers nearly one
hundred and thirty, many of whom have
been added upon profession of a rep'entance
toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus
Christ. It has already become a power for
good in the capital of the nation, where
Christian influences- are so much needed.
It has been blest of God, not only in spir
itual, but also in its temporal affairs. Soon
after its organization it received from the
Hon. Amos Kendall the munificent dona
tion of the use of ten. thousand. dollars, to
be vested in a lot and church edifice, rent
free for a term of eight years; and also for
the payment of the pastor's salary for a
a like term of eight years, the dividends
occurring on twenty-five thousand 'dollars
of stook in, the. American Telegraph Com
pany. .
METHODIST.
Rev. Labatt Clarke, orie of the founders
of the Wesleyan UniVersity, Middleton,
Conn., and of thee M. E. Missionary So
ciety, has lately entered upon his 87th
year. He entered the , ministry in 1801
The following are the statistics of the
G-erman Methodist work in this country :
Number of traveling preachers; 233 ; of
local preachers, 224; of members, 22,088 ;
of churches 344; of parsonages, 180; of
Sunday Sphools, 410; of scholars, 19,229.
The German Methodists last year raised
ooiety, 70 . 1.72; at the fifth collections,
$1,505.74; for the Bible Society, $1,006-
39 ; for the Sunday Schopl Union, $529.94;
and they take 12,770 copies of the Chris
tian Apologist. The work was begun in
. 1836, with three members; the next year
there were seven; in 1840 there were 824 ;
in 1845, 3,349 ; in 1850, 7,970; in 1855,
13,736; in 1860, 21,677.
The total npmber of members of the
Wesleyan 'Connection, of Canada, as re
ported at the late Conference, is 55,562.
This is a decrease from last year of 776.
The Methodists are about to erect _a new
church on Arch and Broad streets, Phila
delphia, which they int.ncled shall surpass
in beauty and taste, any church in the city.
The. lot
,cost $80,000; the style adopted
for the edifice is pure Gothic. The mate
rial to be used is white marble, and the
steeple will'be 220 feet 'high. The church
will be 70 feet front by 100; deep, and the
sittings will accommodate 11,000 people.
The cost of the church and chapel in the
rear, will n t be less than $125,000, while
it may be much more.
UNITARIANS AND UNIVERSALIST&
The Ambassinlor is credited by an ex
change paper with the following :
"Our Unitarian neighbors are rapidly
coming to . be, Universalist& A quarter of
a century ago it was very rare for an Amer
ican' Unitarian to utter a word that could
be construed in favor of the final salvation
of all mankind. Some were understood to
maintain the popular doctrine of endlass
punishment; -some, perhaps, entertained
the notion that the incorrigible' were
finallyto be annihilated, and others were
eminently reticent with respect to the ulti
mate fate of the wicked. Dr. Charming,
we think, never expressed himself clearly
upon
,the subject, while Dr. Dewey was
even more orthodox than the orthodox
themselves. At the present time, the great
body of Unitarians, we suppose, are avowed
Universalistsl"
ROMAN CATHOLIC,
For some time after the commencement
of the war, Catholie priests and chaplains
belonging to the *United States, had no ec
,elesiastical right to exercise the functions
of their (doe in rebel States, because that
territory is under Confederate Bislinps.
The Pope, however, by a special letter
from Rome, has now authorized (Catholic)
chaplains to perform the duties of their of
fice anywhere at the South, "without the
knowledge of Southern Bishops!" This
story reminds us of the statement of the.man
who, seeing a person in danger of drown
ing, waited for an introduction before try
ing to pull him out.
An Appropriate Sermon.
Rev. J. J. Beaeom, pastor of Mingo
,tongregation; preached on the day appoint
ed IT_ the President, for humiliation and
prayer, one of;the moat appropriate ser
-mons I ever heard. Feeling -that an-out
'line of this sermon would be of interest to
some - of the- many readers of the Banner,
1 will attempt to give it. His text was
Jonah iii : So the people of Nineveh
believed God, and proclaimed a fast." In
the introduction he gave a beautiful de
scription of the city of, Nineveh.
' His first head was: ‘, Nineveh's cool.
deuce ita God." "So the -people of Nine--
veh believed God." Re assigned four rea
sons why it was strange that the people -of
Nineveh did believe God, auk/our retsons
why it was far 512 - anger that we titcl not, as
a nation, baklava God. Ha slued ths
For the Presbyterian Banner
marks on these points, with the words of
our Lord : " The men of Nineveh eh ill
rise in judgment with this generation, aid
shall condemn it : because they repented
at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a
greater than Jonas is here."—Alatt. xii: 41.
On party prejudices and animosith s, he
remarked as follows (as near as I could note
his words,)—" Had men, on the one hand,
spent the same time that they have spent
in flattering the Government and in trying
to cover up its mistakes ; and had those on
the other hand spent .the same time that
they have spent in complaining and in de
nouncing the Government; I say, had
these two classes of men spent this same
time and, the same amount of breath at a
Throne of Grace, pleading with God for
victories and an honorable peace, and then
acted accordingly, the war ivould have been
ended long - ere this. But this is'just what
they will not do. On the one hand they
will flatter and praise and boast; on the
other, they will complain, and whine, and
denounce—neither party will fight, _nor
work, nor pray as it ought. •
His second head was—'F The evidence of
Nineveh's confidence in God." She " pro
claimed a fast!' Under this head he made
some excellent remarks on humiliation,
prayer, and reformation, w73ich I am sorry
I failed to note. I should like to Fee the
sermon in print. A HEARER.
Per the Presbyterian Banner
Building the irk.
MESSRS. EDITORS you, or some
of your readers, tell us how long a time
was occupied by Noah in building the ark ?
Some difference of opinion seems to exist,
and the question, though not a momentous
one, is not devoid of interest.
Personal.
Col. James A. Mulligan, the son of Irish
parents, was born at Utica, N. Y., June
25th, 1830, and therefore at the time of
his death was only 34. years of age. In
1836 his parents removed to Chicago,
where in due course of time he completed
his education in the University of St.
Mary, graduating in 1850; being the first
graduate of the institution. In 1851 be
accompanied the celebrated traveler, John
L. Stephens, to Central_ America, and re
mained at Panama, where Mr. Stephens
was superintending the construction of the
railroad, for about a year. Returning
home, he edited for a time a weekly Roman
Catholic newspaper, whilst pursuing his
legal studies. In 1855-he was adnaitted to
theibar; with flattering prospects, and in
1857 was appointed to a clerkship in the
office of the Interior at Washington. Upon
the breaking out the rebellion, young
Mulligan obeyed the call to arms, and in
June, 1861, was chosen Colonel of the 23d
Illinois Infantry. The country has not yet
forgotten his gallant defence of Lexington,
Mo., against the largely superior forces of
Gen. Price, when for nine days he with
stood the foe, and yielded at last only when
resistance was no longer possible.. When ex
changed, he was received at Chicago with a
brilliant ovation. . Col. Mulligan subse
quently participated in some of the hardest
fought and bloodiest battles of the war, ac
quiring new laurels on every field. In
March, 1864, his regiment re.enlisted, and
after a brief furlough he returned to the
front. His death in the late battle near
Winchester has le.it a vacancy that will be
hard to fill. Col. Mulligan was a gifted
writer, an eloquent orator, a devoted Cath'
olio, and so remarkably temperate that it is,
said he had never even tasted intoxicating'
liquors. •
That - reniarkable South American states
man and philanthropist, Seiler Joaquin
Moos
era of P ava z u_bal.attived in.New
o grope. About tiatrty
five' years ago he came from his .native
country as an exile, after the overthrow of
the Liberal Government of Columbia, of
which he was President. He was so much
impressed with our institutions of educa
tion, which he carefully examined, that he
renounced the political career which he
had commenced with the highest prospects,
and resolved to devote himself to the edu
cation or his people. To this he gave his
efforts while abroad and after his return,
and liberally contributed from his large in
come. School societies of ladies and -gen
tlenaen, which he formed in several of the
chief cities of New Granada, were probably
the first ,of the. kind ever formed among
the Spanish-Americans. Mr. Joaquin
Mosquera was the eldest son of the family,
the . others being the late Archbishop of
Bogota, Manuel Maria, several times min
ister to England and France, and General
Tomas o, l e,Nosquera, whose exploits in.
New Granada—now the United . States
of Columbia—have been so often men
tioned with honor, and whose disinterest
ed retirement to private life, after re
ducing the enemies of liberty to subinission
and the country to peace, have secured for
his name a high place among the benefac
tors of mankind. No man ever exceeded
Seiler Joaquin Mosquera in purity of char
acter or warmth of heart, and few in- win-
ning manners or power of eloquence. He
was elected a Vice President of the Amer
ican Bible Society thirty-five years ago.
He has suffered from a disease of the eyes
for some years, for which he is gOing to
consult European oculists.
It Pier Angelo Fiorentino is announced
among the dead. He was by birth and
education a Neapolitan, but France was the
theatre of -his literary career. He came to
Paris poor, and maintained for some time
a precarious living in Paris. Of his first
article, which constituted hiS introduction
to the columns of La Prase, he said, "
wrote it in half an hour; I was twenty
nights and twenty days in translating it;
for I had-no dictionary, and I was obliged
to hunt in old volumes, which I knew air
most by heart, for equivalent words and
phrases, that I might endeavor to succeed
in making myself understood in a foreign
language. He afterwards became the lit
erary co partner of M. Alexander Dumas.
About the year 1860 he was expelled from
the Literary Men's Society, for practices
dishonorable to his profession, but there
being, as the Paris correspondent of the
Literary Gazette says, " no such thing as
publie opinion in' France," he does not
seem to have lost caste. He lived expen
sively, but left a large estate athis-ileath.
Capt. Hubbard, ofthe 89th United States
colored troops, wffh 'has been . nine months a
prisoner in the hands of the rebels, has just
returned to Buffalo. Re gives a horrifying
description of the manner in which our
soldiers who are prisoners are treated by
the rebels. Penned like cattle,"2B,ooo to
gether) within an enclosure partly swamp,
in the sickliest , region of the Gulf, without
the shelter even of a tree—nor tent nor
shed to screen them from sun or rain—the
horrors of- their situation might compare
with even those of the "Middle Pasa-Ige."
Daring the wet aeason, an average cf sev
enty dead bodies per day- were dragged
from this human , pen by brutal hands, and
carted to the burial of beaks in one great
pit. AnderSon, Georgia, is ale site of this
horrible prison.
hot. IL S. Mellott, formerly Professor of
Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Jef
ferson College, Canonsburg, is sLi,l to be
associated' with Maj. Gen. Maury in the
cmimand of the defences of Mobile. As
an attack upon this• long neglected city is
now being made by Admiral Farragut, we
may possibly Loon hear something further
from tkele literary gerttleizieu.
The English journals report the 4 g, 4
of John Clare, once known as the Pe. 14 ,
Poet of Northamptonshire. Re died in a
Lunatic Asy'rial, in which he had been an
inmate for nearly forty sears. He was
born in 1793 ; a❑d his collected poems first
appeared in 1820, followed by " The
lage Minstrel" in 1821. His published
works make five volumes.
Dr, LiVingStaile, the African explorer, ;,
on his way home. He reached Bombay o n
the 13th of June, after a voya ;Es of forty.
two days from Zanzibar in his owa steamer,
the Lady Nyassa, and is expected to reach
England in time for the meeting of the
British Association in September.
Commodore Charles Stewart was eighty
six years old on the 28th. Commodore
Stewart has been in the service sixty-seven
years, has been in over forty eng L.!etuents
with the enemies of our flag, am ,ng the
number being the famous bombardment of
Tripoli, August 3, 1804.
Captain Semmes, late of the Alabama, i s
a Roman Catholic, and previous to going
out to fight on the Sabbath mcrning. he had
mass said for him in Cherbturg. During
the actual battle the priest was offering de
" sacrifice."
Matt Hollingsworth died Ile other day
in Philadelphia, aged 110 years. She r;-
tained her mental faculties to the, last,
though she had been for some years physi
cally helpless.
Scientific.
The Wax Paha of the Andes has an erect
and lofty stem of singular whitenesi, being
encrusted with wax. It is seen from afar
like a column of fair marble.
Application of Thermo-Electricity,--N r .
Bryson has recently exhibited at tha Scot
tish Society of Arts a very beautiful appli
cation of thermo-electricity, which will en
able a ship, even in the darkness of fog or
midnight, to determine the proximity of
icebergs. Dr. Strethill Wright conducted
the experiments,and astonished the Society
by firing a miniature cannon by a lump of
ice. We believe the Cunard Company
have offered Mr. Bryson every facility for
testing his invention on a large scale.
Fat-Similes of l'aintings,—The lovers of
pictures in Paris have recently found a
new source of enjoyment. Everybody c
not possess the works of Meissooier, Cha
vat, Fiehel, Le Poithevin, De Gophne,
Willems, Gerome, or Paul Delaroche, but
it has been demonstrated, that, fir a com
paratively small sum, excellent facsimiles
of their most elabgiate productions may be
procured.. Mr. Kncedler of the house of
Goupil, of New-York, who recently made
a flying visit- to Paris, has brought back
with him some exquisite specimens of
these colored - photographs. They are, in
fact, little less than perfect reproductions
of pictures by the most distinguished
modern artists, painted with a strict fidelity
to
_the originals, and with a freedom of
touch and tenderness of expression that
have rarely been equalled.
Saltness of the ha as Affecting Navigation.
—Surprise has been expressed that vessels
going to Sebastopol take a smaller cargo
than if` they were only going to Constanti
nople, or that they diminhh their cargo in
the latter port before entering the Black
Sea. The reason is this—the density of
water Of different seas is more or less con
siderable, and the vessels sailing in them
sink more or less, according to their densi
ty. The density arises from the - quantity
of salt contained in the water; and conse
quently, the salter the sea is, the less a ves
sel sinks in it. As, too, the more sail a
BIBLE CLASS.
vessel carries, the deeper she penetrates the
water, it follows that the more salt the wa
ter the greater the quantity of sail that can
be carried. Now, as the. Black Sea is six
-a-en times - less - salfthan the Mediterranean,
a vessel which leaves Toulon or Marseilles
for Sebastopol must take a smaller cargo
than one that only goes to Constantinople,
and a still smaller one if it is to enter the
Sea of Azoff, which is eighteen times less
salt than the Mediterranean. The Medi
terranean is twice as salt as the Atlantic;
once more than the Adriatic, five times
more than the Caspian Sea, twelve times
more than' the lonian Sea, and seventeen
times more than the Sea of Marmora.
The Dead Sea contains more salt than any
other sea; it is asserted.on good'authority
that two tuns of its water yields 589 lbs. of
salt and magnesia.—Scientffic American.
Hot springs of the. Paso de goblese--,i
correspondent of the San Francisco Bulldin
gives the subjoined description of the Paso
de Robles (Pass of the Oaks) Hot Springs,
which are situated near the coast, in San
Luis Obispo, California
These springs were discovered about
eighty-five years ago, and timbered up and
improved by the Fathers of the Catholic
Missions, where annually they used to con
gregate with their flocks for the improve
ment of their health, living in camps
made of brush tents, and driving with.
them cattle and horses for food and con
venience. The timbers placed in the
springs by the Fathers at that time, are
no as sound from decay as when first
.placed there, though over eighty years
have elapsed since that time. Standing
upon the edge of the spring is a large cot
ton-Wood tree about twenty inches in diam
eter, with its roots running into and about
the hot water. This tree is the _product of
a riding whip stuck in the soft bank thirty
years ago, by an old California lady who
now resides at Monterey. The dry weather
has no effect upon the quantity of water,
which runs a stream of about three cubic
inches. The great earthquake of 1851
collapsed some subterranean passage,and
&uree thar time there has been about double
the amount flowing from the spring. The
temperature of the water.is about 110 deg.
• Fah:, which would seem too hot for bath
ing. On the contrary, however, it is the
most delightful bath I ever enjoyed.
The climate there mast be one of the
most healthy of 'the State. The locality is
a dry valley from one to three miles wide
by about ten miles long, elevated about
1,000 feet above the sea. The valley is
boundcd.on the east by the Coast range,
and oh the west by a spur of high hills
which terminate at ronterey Bay.
There are now about ninety patients
here. Many of them for want of room are
living in tents and brush houses. The en
tire expense of stopping here, providing
you are fortunate enough to get a good
room, including board and bathe, is only
nine dollars per week, and those who are
able can indulge in the•luxury of the finest
hunting in the world. Within three miles
of the house there may be found game,
from, ground squirrel all the way up to
deer, grizzly bear, and 'California lion.'
Discovery of a Cave is a Silver Mine in
firizona.—A , few- weeks ago a miner in
the Patagonia and Mowry Silver Mine, Ari
zona, while engaged in running a drift
on a vein, opened into a large and
beautiful cave. It has since been visited
by tourists, one of whom thus describes it
in the San Francisco Bulletin:
Oar party entered it with candles and a
guide. The sides, which are over fifty
feet apart, and fully forty feet high, join
nearly over the -centre, forming an' arch,
the whole not much unlike the general in
terior of an elongated and sharp arched oven.
These sides,' however,- are covered with
beautiful stalketites, of all sizes and shapes,
interspersed with a formation resembling,
in purity and delioaoy, the crisp snow upon
a frosty morning. Some of the formations
are nearly transparent, and bear a striking
resemblance to icicles hanging from the