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The Presbyter, published at Cin cinnati, has raised its terms to $2 50 in ad vance, $3 00 after six months, and $3.50 at the expiration of the year. The Boston. Recorder, and Watchman and Reflector, have both been raised to $3 00 per annum. The question is frequently put to us, "Will you not be oompelled to raise your terms ?" Our reply is, We do not wish to advance unless the times become much worse than they even now are." We are now expending a vast amount of labor and money on the Banner, and we are gratified to learn from so many sources, that our ef forts are so highly appreciated. But to continue at our present rates, we need the assistance of every one of our subscribers. Let each of our subscribers send on the rioney for the following year, just as soon as his time expires, or if he would send a little in advance, it would be an accommo dation to us. ~Also, let every subscriber make the attempt to send us a new name along with his own. In this way you will do us a kindness and also benefit your neighbor. And we appeal especially to our ministerial brethren. By them we have been most cordially welcomed to our pres ent position. They will readily admit that no other paper is doing more to strengthen their hands, and that the circulation of the Banner in every-family of their congrega tions would be a great benefit. Therefore, we ask your influence in speaking a word in our behalf—in renewing the lists of sub scribers in your churches and in increasing them. The Elders, also, may in this way dons and the people over whom they rule, a valuable service. We respectfully ask you to engage in this work. In this way one thousand new subscribers may be easi ly secured before the first of October, and all apprehensions of a necessity for an ad vance removed. THE PRINCETON REVIEW AND TIIE PRES BYTERIAN ON TaB•IIIOPIIEETERS USE. Por many years Dr. HODGE has given a ` - resume of the proceedings of the General Assembly, and also an expression of his own views as to its acts, in the number of the Princeton, Review immediately succeed ing the rising of the Assembly. This year the article devoted to this purpose is largely occupied with the action of the Assembly on Slavery, and with the com plaint of Dr. MCPHEETERS. As usual, this Review is not in advance of the Church, but is lagging in the rear. With all its ability and learning, , it has never stood in the forefront of the battle when great questions Of vital importance were to be met and decided. This was the case in 1837, in 1861, and we regret to say that this is also true in 1864. With respect to the paper on Slavery, it is difficult to tell what side the author would have taken had he been a member of the Assembly. But y. , to make every thing clear, he undertakes to define what the Assembly must have meant by that deliverance, and also what it-must not have meant, according to his apprehensions of the whole subject. This was altogether "unnecessary : because the Assembly un derstood its own action in all its bearings, and expressed its meaning clearly, without leaving the interpretation to any theolog ical professor, or to any other person. But it is the MONEETERS ease which especially brings down the condemnation of the Review upon the late General As sembly. Yet we do not see that the Mem bers who voted against sustaining that memorable complaint, which has been mag nified into proportions and an importance to which it was' never entitled, have any cause for alarm on account of this attack upon them. Dr. HODGE wholly misappre hends the state of things in our churches in St. Louis, the position of Dr. MCPHEE: TEES, and also the nature of the proceed-- lugs of the Presbytery of St. Louis. Every one who listened attentively and , with, unbiased mind . to the Records of. the Presbytery and to the whole discussion, and who has read the article in question, has been fully convinced that Dr. HODGE had a very partial and ex parte view of the whole case, and that consequently his rea soniogs are so unsatisfactory and so incon clusive. , However, this is not all. The ease was decided against Dr. 51cPuzaTaas, by a vote of 117 to 46. Now such a vote as this, in our General Assembly, is entitled to the highest respect of every minister and member in our • Church. But how does Dr. HODGE treat it ? He says one place, "In our judgment, the whole course of the Assembly was singularly unfair!' I A another place he says, "We think grave injustice was done, not Only to Dr. MOPREETERS, but to the whole Presbyte rian Church : and that the sanction of the Assembly has been given to acts and prin ciples deserving universal reprobation." Now, in plain language, do not these charges amount nearly to a " railing accu sation " 7 against the Assembly, and that too by one of iesi most distinguished and honored theological professore. Again, Dr. Homq is unfair in the impression he metres with regard to : the supporters and opponents of. the _complaint _of Dr. Mo. PHEETERS. He says : '<His (Dr. MC PREMIM') cause" was udimeated by many of 'the wisiest, ablest, and best men of 'the . . Arfpnwitts of great clearness and power in support of the complaint were made by Hon.. Judge WOOD, Rev. Drs. Rion, MACLEAN, W. L. BRECKINRIDGE, and CRAVEN, by Judge RYERSON, H. MURRAY GRADON, Esq., Rev. Messrs. SAMUEL MILLER, THOMAS CLELAND, and others." After having made such a state ment as this, common fairness would have required a grave reviewer to have noticed the names of some, at least, who opposed sustaining the complaint of Dr. Nu PHEETERS: But Dr. HODGE does not clo this. And yet it was a fact obvious to all, that the great weight of the age, the expe rience, and the ability' of the Assembly was unquestionably against Dr. MePau.- TEAS. In opposition to him were such men as the venerable Rev. Dr. Ets mum who had been a member of the Assembly as far back as 1814; the venera ble Rev. Dr. PAXTON, who had been a member of the. Assemblies of 1815 and 1818. With these were united the Rev. Drs. Musottevn, BEATTY, KREBS, Du- BOIS, TUSTIN, BURTIS, BUSH, SCHENCK, and a large part of the bone and sinew Of the working ministers of the Assembly, together with such laymen as War. RAN KIN, Jr., ROBERT CARTER, Judge LINN, and others of like standing, and spirit. Surely the character of this Aseembly en titles it to a degree of respect not rendered by the Princeton Reviewer. We have a few words to say concerning the Presbyterian. One of its recognized editors, took an active part in the Assembly in favor of Dr. MCPHEETERS. But the Presbyterian did not commit itself on either side until after the appearanCe of the Princeton article, when it puts itself in even a more objectionable attitude toward the Assembly than does the. Review. We greatly regret this, but as public journal ists, we must Call attention to the fact. We' understand the Presbyterian to affirm that a man may " faithfully keep a stringent oath of allegiance to the State," during a time of civil strife, when a powerful party is endeavoring to over throw that State,and yet refuse even to let it be known on' which side his sympathies are arrayed. He may lift his hand to heaven and swear that- he will sustain the Government, and yet, with perfect consis tency, may refuse to pray that God would be pleased to grant it the victory, and may persistently refuse to contribute by It's means, his influence, or his personal efforts, to support that Government. His fellow citizens may he dying by thousands in de fence of that authority so wantonly assailed ; and this man, with the oath of allegiance on his lips, may utterly refuse to say that he thinks the men who murdered them are doing wrong; and this too, even though his personal influence might have deterred. many from espousing the cause of rebellion. If be himself has not pulled the trigger, or committed any other overt act, it is all right. We understand the Presbyterian to say,that such a man has faithfully kept his oath of allegiance. - Secondly, we understand the .Presbyte rian to affirm that, even though wai be flagrant:, even though treason has been hatched in ecclesiastical assemblies, as it certainly was in one of our own Church judicatories in South Carolina before the secession of that State, and no matter hew conclusive the evidence may be, that treason is intended, the civil authority has, no right, in its own defence, to prescrib* any conditions under which such assemblies may be held; and this too, whilst it i. admitted that the conditions are unobjec tionable in themselves. The sacred, even though abused, name of religion, ought to shield the concoction of' treason; and the, State is powerless to prevent, it can only punish. The abettors of secession have on ly to proclaim a camp meeting in one of the border States, and it would be an outrage for the civil or military authority to mar their plot by requiring all who attended the gathering to take an oath of allegiance. Thirdly, we understand the Presbyte rian, to affirm that, - if an oath of alleaiance is required, the members of Presbytery ought to absent themselves from' its meet ings : and by .a parity of reasoning, should absent themselves from the pulpit too, if an oath of allegiance were the condition of exercising the ministry. PETER and Joins, when human came in Conflict, with Divine requirements, chose to obey God rather than man, and were willing to take the consequences. We mnderstand our cotem porary to 'counsel a different course. Fourthly, we understand the Presbyte rian to adopt the, position of the Princeton Review, that the General Assembly has no right to sustain the action of, the numeri cal minority of the members of a Presby . tory, even though, in the opinion of the Review, the absentees be inexcusably ab sent. We presume it will not be disputed that, if everinaember of a Presbytery or Synod were in -his seat, and, any action which might be the foundation of an ap peal or complaint should pus by a major ity of nineteen-twentieths, it would never theless be undoubtedly within the power of the Assembly to reverse the decision of the court below. If this be not the ease, the exalted function of this highest tribunal .of our Church, upon all questions that come up to it from an inferior judicatory, would be resolved into a simple " counting of noses." Yet, strange) to say, though the Assembly may unquestionably,- as it has of,en done, nverse the decisions of a ma. prity, it has not the power to, sustain the measures of a numerieal,minority, acting in the admitted sphere of its legitimate du ties. , Lastly, when the Princeton Review pre sumes to condemn the General Assembly, as sanctioning " p.iaciples and acts deserv ing universal reprobation,','- and which, for injustice and wrong, have " few, if any parallels in the history of our Church," with more to the same effect, the Presbyte rian pronounces this language "the, quiet flow of words which have no harsh or bitter sound." If the Princeton RenNw has re ally leen " drawing it mild" in its se ee tion of words and phrases as quoted above, we would be interested to see, simply as a rhetorical curiosity, one of its ." harsh" criticisms. We disclaim any right to catechize our respected, edtemporary. Our reflections arise naturally out of,iti 'article. They are not by any means confined to ourselves; and in reference to its sentiments respect PRESBYTERIAN. BANNER.---IiVE_D:\IESDA v, AUGUST 24, 1864. ing the points it has touched upon, wheth. er or not we have misapprehended its mean ing, there are not a few who would like to know. PULPIT. MINISTRATIONS; OR, SARUM Such is the title of a new work, in two volumes, by the Rev. GARDINER SPRINO, D. D., which has been for BOMt, time on our t.ble. The venerable character of the au thor, his long-continued services in the. Church,. and the valuable contents, merit more than a passing notice for these vol umes containing thirty-nine sermons. Naturally, Dr. SPRING was endowed with no extraordinary gifts of reason or imag ination. His learning was not g nat. his theological reading has been by no means extensive. There are noqv many min isters in our Church, whose fame does not, extend beyond their own Presby teries, who in early life were vastly hie superilrs in argument, in illustration, in classical learning, and in theological attain ments: These men are not without their reward. The Master will not permit the labors of any of his faithful servants to be forgotten. But from the beginning of his ministry, the lines fell 0 Dr. SPRING-in pleasant plaoes. The congregation of the Old Brick church was, and is,- a model. The people clustered around their pastor, inter ested themselves in his welfare, devoted themselves to all the labors . necessary to building up a growing and useful - church, and relieved him of every possible barden that he might give himself continually to prayer and the ministry of, the Word.. His salary was always liberal, and always promptly paid. And tokens of esteem and affection, along with the voluntary gifts of large soma of money, from time to time, cheered the spirits and encouraged the li,art of the faithful pastor. His. Session was able, faithful, and abundant in labors. They were ever read) to uphold the pastor's hands, and no disparagement of him could be permitted in their hearing. Among them were no croakers. None of them was willing to hear, much less to retail, the idle gossip that so often crushes worthy minis ters 'to the earth. In that Session were n) " itching ears." And when the hand of sickness was at any time laid on the pastor, none of that Session . ever thought of going to his sick chamber and assuring him that his salary was altogether too low, bat that nothing mole could be done to in crease the salary for him, and that there fore he had better seek some new field of labor. No such violence as this was ever perpetrated on Dr. SPRING. His. Session and people rejoiced , with him, and also wept with him, and anticipated all his wan ts. And what happy results have fillowed Dr. SPRING'S has been one of the longest pastorates of modern times. Amid all the fluctuations of a great city like New-York, his congregation has always been increas ing. 'His spiritual children are now dis persed all over the land. And in the meantime his qualities of head and heart, h snatural abilities and his gifts of grace, have been so trained and developed that he became one of the most polished, and alio one or the richest and most experimental, preachers with whom the two generations in which he lived have been blessed. And now, even in extreme old age, his pulpit services are as attractive and powerful as ever. Nor has his own pulpit been the only place where his power in the manifes tation of the Gospel has been felt. From time to time he has sent out through the press some of his best Matured and most important thoughts on the great matter of man's salvation and Christian duty. These have been widely read and highly prized. The last contribution he has made to the Church and the world,in this way, is now btfure us in two noble volumes from the press of the 'HARPERS. The subjects em braced in these thirty-nine discourses are very variona; and are treated in the Dr.'s very best Biblical style. Here, if we mis take not, are some of the best specimens of able Gospel sermons ever delivered by the fenerable pastor of the Brick Church. We commend them, as models for examina tion and study, to our ministers, and to all Christian families, for reading and medita tion. *PULPIT MINISTRATIONS ; or. Sabbath Read ings. A Series of Discourses on Christian Doo trine - and Duty. By. Gar diner Spring. 2 vols., pp. 480, 452. 1864. New-York: Harper 4. Bros. Pittsburgh: Davis, Clarke t Co. An incident has been related tons which illustrates forcibly both-the influence which a word spoken in season may exert, and the vital energy inherent in Divine truth, which, though long buried in the sinner's heart, and forgotten even by the hand that sowed the seed, may yet spring- up, and bear an unexpected and abundant harvest. Many years ago a student in one of our Western colleges, assiduously pursuing his studies with a view to preparing, himself for the Christian ministry, was visited in his room one evening, whilst busily en gaged over his books, by a fellow-student, a young man of unusual talent and high promise, who had devoted himself to the legal profession. The conversation, as it sometimes will with college youth, em braced in its scope the path which each had selected to piarsue through life, and the visitor urged upon Lis fiend the inexpe dieney of throwing array his time and tal ents in the thankle.is and uncompensated labors of , the ministry, sketching at the same time in glowing colors the career that would open before hiin should he engage in the practice of the law, and the usefulness, the affluence, the fame, that would follow such a choice. The aspirant after higher than earthly honors quietly heard him through, felt that it would be useless Co enter into a bored argument with one who, with per verted logic, had fortified himself to.resist the loftier considerations which had deter mined his own choice of the pulpit, and answered his friend in the words of that simple but sublime recognition of aDivine injunction- 1( 1'N, is me, if I preach not . . the Gospel." , "The discussion closed with the deter mination on Ihe part of each to pursue his , chosen walk. Months glide away in the routine of 'college dean ) and ere long•each -RUBINS.* A WORD - TIM SPUN. has graduated with distinction. In due course of time the one becomes engaged in those pastoral labors, in which he sought humbly and faithfully to build up the king dom of his Saviour. The other, in a far Southern State, in the profession.of his choice, sees before him the prospect of at taining all that his youthful ambition had pictured so brightly. Yet never, since the conversation which has been mentioned, had he been able to withdraw the arrow which had,ken lodged in his own conscience; and stil ,amidst all his schemes for future success, would come a still small voice—" Woe is me, if I preach not the Gospel." God's blessing followed the word which his own Spirit had directed ; and after years of resistance on the part of one fur whom the world , was opening in brilliant and alluring perspec tive, the grace of God triumphed over human infirmity, the ambitions student consecrated . himself -unreservedly to the . Mister's service, and ere long was bimSelf a.ireacher of the Gospel of that Saviour whose supreme right over him he had E 0 long contested. Many years of dfstin guished usefulness in the pulpit and in the Professor's chair, have resulted from those fiw words spoken by a college friend, and f:vm the spirit of self-negation with which ney were uttered. . NEED OF PRAYER. Prayer is always necessary. Neither the Church nor the Chriatian can sustain for an y length of time even the semblance of piety without prayer. But there are.times when the call to prayer seems louder - and more earnest than at other times. Is not tho present such a time? Are not the mo tives to urge us to the Mercy Saat as strong as can ever be presented ? All our inter ests for time and eternity conspire to stir up the pious heart to prayer. Our country calls upon us to pray. Our rulers and commanders ask our prayers. Our brave soldiers in the field claim a place in our petitions. The biek and wounded in the hospitals ask us to' pray for them. The bereaved all - over the land who mourn the fallen, appeal toms to Make mention of them and to plead for grace for them, in the name of Jesus CHRIST. And does not the Church need our prayers—our unceasing, fervent prayers She ,acknowledges that weakness has come upon her, that the gold has become I.im, and the most fino gold been changed. The earth is watered and refreshed, but no showers fall 'upon Zion. Only here and there some precious mercy drops descend. In the meantime iniquity abounds, unbe lief leads many astray, worldliness 'is all absorbing, and the love of many waxes cold. Family religion is neglected, and the young are growing up careless of God and regardless of the claims of the Gospel upon them now, and of their eternal state in the future, . Surely, then, it is high time for every Christian to awake out of sleep, and to call upon-the Lord that he would have mercy upon us, that he would bring us to repent ance for our'sins, that he would turn away his wrath from us, that he would give us victory, and subdue speedily this great and wicked rebellion, that-.he would cause his. Word to have free course and to be glori fied throughout the land =rind the world, 'that he would cause to be won everywhere trophies of his redeeming love and saving puwer, that there might be joy in heaven over vast multitudes of sinners flocking to the cross, that Zion might arise and shine, hsr light hiving come. ' Ye twat are the Lord's rimnnbraneers, keep not silent. Let us pour out our hearts in prayer unto God,. and he will be very gracious unto us at the voice of our Another Minister . Deceased.-- The Rev. WILLIAM SICKELS, Sen., died on the 9th inst., in the city of Indianapolis, in the 69th year of his age. The Presbyter says of him: " He ,was a minister of superior ability and good attainments, arid liras uni versally esteemed among' his brethren. He spent most of his ministerial life in the territory of Indianapolis Presbytery. - A more extended notice of the deceased is due to the history of our Church in the North-west. We have known him inti °lately for nearly thirty years." New Version of the fsalms.—The COM- . aiittee appointed by the Genera.' Assembl3r of the United Presbyte;ian Church, to prepare a new Version of the Book of Psalms, has _offered a premium of from five to twenty thousand dollars for the best new version, of the Book of P.salnis. And contributions are solicited from the Church' generally, in. aid of this fund. The premium is not to be paid until the new version has' been adopted by the Church. • The Evangelical Repository 'and United Piesbyteriaa Review.—This magazine for Seinember has an excellent steel engraving of the late Rev. THOMAS HANNA, D.D., so long and so favorably known in Western Pennsylvania. NEWS OF THE CHURCHES - AND MINISTERS. PRESBYTERIAN. Old Stbool.—The Post .Office :address of Rev. S. V. McKee is change& frotn Cler mond., Ind., to Peru, lad. The Post Oleo 'address of Rev. B. S. Sloan is changed .from Allegheny City, Pa., to Camden Mills, Rock Island County, Illinois. • ' The New-York Observer says the Pres bytery of Connecticut met on the 20th of July, at North Stamford, Conn., to ordain Mr. Roswell D. Smith, a licentiate under its care, to the Gospel ministry, as an even gehst. The Rev. A. L. Lindsley, of South Salem, N. Y., presided, proposed the con stitutional questions, and preached the ser mon from Luke is 60, GO. The charge to the newly ordained minister was given by the Rev. Charles -W. Baird, of Rye; and the Rev. Win. Patterson, of Poundridge, addressed the congregation, inforinally, re lative to the nature ,of the service. Mr. Smith is at present supplying,, with mueli acceptance, the pulpit of the Congregation al church at North-Stamford, and it was Upon the courteous invitAtion•of the people that the Presbytery met and held this ser vice in their place of worship. Rev. Isaac Van Doren, the oldest mem ber of the Presbytery of New-Brunswick, died at Perth Amboy, on Friday, Aug. 12, alter a short illness, aged ninety-one years. Dr. Cogswell, ihe next oldest member of the same Presbytery, died a feiv days be fore. The Rev. J. D. Mason, for several year's pastor of the Presbyterian church at Dav enport, has accepted the Presidency of the Synodical School of lowa, at Hopkintown. The Rev. S. J. P. Anderson, D.D., of St. Louis, has been tried before a military - Commission, on eleven-different specifica tions, all involving a high degree of disloy alty, and found guilty of them all: He was sentenced to be sent South of the Federal lines as soon as practicable. But the pro ceedings have been disapproved, by the Commanding-General, on account of a de fect in the orders convening the Commis sion. " The number of members in this case was reduced below the minimum prescribed in paragraph 2, in General Orders No. 1, series of 1862, from these headquarters. The proceedings are therefore inoperative and void." Mr. David J. Beale was ordained to the work of the Gospel ministry, and installed pastor of the Middle Tuscarora church, on ti e 11 tb inst., by the Presbytery ofHuntingdor In this service the Rev. Mr. Wallace, of Altoona, preached the sermon, from Rom. viii : 32 ;-Rev. M. Allison, D.D., of Mifflin-- . town, presided, proposed the eonsiitutional questiuds, made the ordaining prayer, and gave the charge to the pastor; and Rev. O. O. McClean, of Lewistown, to the peo ple. The;young brother is a native of the Valley, and was raised within the bounds or' the 'congregation over which he was in stared. The Boston Recorder says that the " re ligious interest in'the Presbyterian parish, (Rev. Mr. Ilaskell's,) East Boston, seems unabated. Last Sabbath nine members' were, received into the aura, and several othfrs gave evidence of real piety, and hope soon to be admitted to a public profession of faith in their Saviour. 4e.v. E. C. Trimble, who has been sup plying the Goshen ohurch; Presbytery of Lonisville, fbr some time past has accepted an invitation to supply the First Presbyte rian and Edgefteld churches, Nashville, Tennessee. On the fourth Sabbath of July, the Rev. J. F. Fenton, and the Rev. J. M. Maxwell, two members of a committee appointed for the purpose by the Presbytery of St. Louis, organized a church at Franklin, Missouri, under t.he name of the First Presbyterian church of Franklin. Now School,—The Rev. 11. H. Jessup, missionary to Syria, with two of his chil dren, arrived by the City of London, on the 9th inst., from Syria ; Mr.• Jessup left Syria for the sake of his wife's health, but she died July 2d, at Alexandria, Egypt, and he has come to America with his chil dren, intending. to . return soon to Syria. liev. Dr. Sunderland sailed on the 20th inst., to take charge of the American chap el at Paris. United.—Mr. David Gordon, licentiate• of the Xenia Presbytery} has received a call to take-the pastoral charge of the Fourth United Presbyterian church, (Rev. G. C. .Arnold, late pastor,) of Philadelphia. Rev. T. H.' Dysart, pastor of the U. P. church in Urbana,' Ohio, died a few days ago from ,an attack of camp dysentery, brought on while laboring in the army as a delegate of the Christian Commission. At '.a communion season on the 14th inst., in the Sixth church, Philadelphia, (Rev. J C geloy, pastor,) thirteen persons.were received, three on certificate and ten on a profession of their faith in' Christ. This - church was the first and endeared charge of the late Rev. Thos. 11, Beverage, and has encouraging prospects. Reformed Doteh,-- I —The ekristian Intelli gence?, saysrit has been known for some time to his friends, that the Rev. Joseph A. Collier, pastor of the Second Reforthed Dutch church' of Kingston, N. Y., was suf fering under a wasting and well nigh ineu . rable - malady. For months his energies wpm' gradually drained and his strength ex hausted. Still with the patience and per severance of hope, he pursued his miniate rial labors, trusting that his strength would hold• out and perhaps be restored. At or near the beginning of the` present month, he sought a respite from toil and went to Chatham, Columbia County ) . to find repose, and if possible returning health. But the Lord has been pleased to call his servant into the everlasting rest. During the last week his physical strength rapidly failed, and .on Saturday last the Rev. Jos A. Col lier ,ceased to dwell on earth. He was in the thirty, sixth year of his age. METHODIST. The Rev. 3 D. Turnf!r, folmerly a mem -IF, of the Pittsburgh Conference, died in Vireshington on June 26th. He was twelve yeer3 an effective member of the Confer ence, and a -superannuate two years. At the last Conference he was located, no rep resentation having been received from him. For, about, two years lie bad been connected w.tki the army, but from failing health had resigned his situatibn, and was engaged for some time in selling books to the soldiers. While employed in this business he was at tacked with diarrhoea of the typhoid type, and after two weeks of severe suffering, ended : his life and labors. The Anniversary of the Sunday School Union ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church, will beheld in, the. City of. Pittebur.l 'on the 3d Sabbath of October CONGREGATIONAL, The 14. Hubbard Winsiow,i) D., au thor of Itirellectual and Moral Philosophy, died at Williston, Vermont, his native place, on August 18th. Efa was a grad a ace of Yale, of the class of 1825. In 1829: he was settled as pastor of a Church in Dover, New Hampshire, and -in 1832 ai pastor of the Bowdoin Street church; BoS ton. From 1814 to 1853 he had charge of a young ladies' seminary in Boston, and after traveling in Europe he finally settled in New-York in 1859. Rev. Myron Winslow, D.D., the erni fent and. learned missionary, in India, is his brother; and we have recently record ed the death of another brother, Rev. Dr_ Chapla n in the United States Army. The Rev. George W. Wood, D.D., the New York Secretary of the American Board, has returned to this country after an absence or twenty months in Constanti nople. He came through Austria and Germany. During his absence he visited the missions of the Board in Central Turkey, and has also visited other parts of the East ern world in promoting the interest of the Board and its missions. The Congregational Churches of New- Hampshire have passed a resolution recom mending- the union or different, denomina tions in support of a minister where neitht r is able to do it alone, and commended the plan to 'the attention of other denomi - nations. LUTHERAN. The Lutheran, and .Atissiiinary says that " Rev. James . A. Brown, D.D., of York, Pa., .was unanimously elected to the chair made vacant in the Theological Seminary at Get tysburg by the resignation of Rev. S. S. SchtnuckEr, D.D. Dr. Brown; is known as a man of fine abilities, of inflexible consci entiousness, and of untiring industry, His scholarship is of a high order, his mind clear and logical, and, if he takes the im portant post assigned him, he will leave nothing undone that seems to him adapted to promote the thorough theological train ing of his pupils. As one of his earliest and warmest friends in the ministry, and as an admirer of his fine intellectual, per sonal and religious qualities, we wish him, from the depth of our heart, happiness and blessing in his important sphere. We felt it a privilege to bear an . humble part as a friend in exposing the malevolence which attempted his injury at the time of his re turn from the South, where his course had been so manly and noble; and now that one of the very highest honors and tokens of confidence which our Church can confer has been given him, we congratulate him with a pleasure as fervent as it is pure." EPISCOPAL. "Rev. Wm. 11. Snively, formerly pastor of the Penn Street Methodist , church, in Pittsburgh, has become a successor of the Apostles, by uniting with the Episcopal Church. ' The Right Rev. Dr. Anderson, Bishop of Rupert's Land—a diocese which extends over 300,000 square miles—is on his way to England to resign his Episcopal office. For the Pre&byterian Banner Church Dedication. Oa Sabbath, August 14th, the new Pres byterian church of Elderton, Pa., was ded icated to the worship. and service of Al mighty God. Rev. A. Donaldson, D.D.,of El dersridge, Pa. f offered the dedicatory prayer, and preached the sermon, founded on. Isaiah 60 chapter, last clause of 7th verse—" And I will glorify the house of my glory." The Dr.'s theme was, " The house of God glorified." A large and interested audi ence was present. Rev. John Stark, of Whitesbay,. and Rev. M. M. Shirley, of Shelocta, were present, and took part in the interesting exercises of the day. . The building is a substantial frame, and in these " troublous times," the people have given of their means and labored to gether with great unanimity until they have seen a neat and beautiful house of worship erected to the honor and glory of God's holy name. The pecuniary affairs of the congregation are in a healthy condi tion. When " the Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people," may it be found to have been the spiritual birth-place of many a precious soul. , W.F.M. Varieties. Our tax-bill levies imposts on 3,450 arti cles, whild England taxes only twenty-four articles, and gets a revenue from them of $210,000,000. From wines, liquors, tobac co, and the license to sell them, she gets $135,000,000.: The St. Paul Press says the hot weather has pushed the corn ahead in that vicinity in a remarkable manner, and in another week it will be beyond the reach of frost. It will be such a crop as has per haps never before gladdened the farmers of Minnesota, and will soon be ready to be harvested. , The Valley of the Nile, with more than three hundred villages in its course, and as far up as the First Cataract, over eight hundred miles from the sea, is open tbr Bible distribution, and is visited by our missionaries and native helpers to the very utmost their strength and time will allow. English Jews and Catholics.—There are about 50,000 Jews in Ehgland, and there are five or six Jews in parliament w - ho rep resent Englieh constituencies. There are about 2,000,000 Catholics in England, and only one in Parliament who represents an English constituency. This curious fact is generally attributed to the wealth of the Jews, and to the circumstance that they do not acknowledge a foreign potentate. By Official Order, all officers in the mili tary service of the United States are direct ed to render every facility to such express companies as may be charged by the Gov ernor of New York with the delivery of the necessary forms and blanks required to se cure the votes of soldiers of the State in the field, with a view to the blanks being delivered with the least possible delay. The Boston Journal speaks as follows of the recruits obtained abroad for that city ; "They are not only physically a fine set of men, but they appear to be deeply interest ed in our struggle with aristoeraoy and slavery. They are infinitely superior as a class to the majority of those who are hawked about by substitute brokers, and will remain faithful to their engagements and true to the flag under which they have enlisted. Most of them have had military experience." Vital statistics of "Paris,—The returns re cently pubhshed give the population of the city of Paris at 1.696,151; number of deaths last year, 42,186. The - ratio of mor tality, it will be - seen, is about the saps as that of New-York, where the population slightly exceeds one million, and , the num ber of deSths in 1863 was reported at 25,- 196. The French capital is divided into twenty-one arrondissements, each of which has a mayor: Number of irths last year, 52,382-26,505 boys, 25,507 girls. Of this number 14,501 were illegitimate. The ntunbor of marriages was 15,911.." Population Population of the Earth.—A. Profess -r of the University of Berlin has recently pub lished the result of hiiresearehes as to the population of the earth; according to which Europe . contains 272,000,000; Asia, 720,- 000,000; Africa, 89,000,000; America, 200,000,000; rind Polynesia, 2,ooo;ooD— making a grand total of 1,288,000,000 of inhabitants. As -in places where deaths are aocurately registered, the annual mor tality is ato least one in forty, the number of death& must be about 82,000,000 every year, which gives 87,761 per day, 3,653 per hour, and 61. per minute, so that evr ,econd a itnesses the extin3tion of onc t man lite. Another cal Ailator states tit... 7. the number of persons who have' lived 0 „ the earth since the creation, is 36,6 9 7,.m_ 275,075,855 :--aalignani. American Board of missions.—By the sionary ileralti for August we learn that in some places most gratifying efforts to, making to relieve the Board irom it, ent• barrassment. The Home Secretary stat e , that the receipt of $115,00 1 1 will be nreited within the present month if the year is t o close without serious deficiency. Withi n a few days the Treasurer has received ss.ttue from Providence, and $5,000 from Hartford. In a small church of about eighty members, in the vicinity of Boston, an extra euntii bution was taken in July, amounting to near $1,300. The same people had already given to the Board within the year more than $1,400. Anything , like a general movement of this kind would give the Board all the funds it needs. Personal. Qum Dowager Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, morner. Krug .Kainchatuetia V., intends visiting Europe. Dr. Livingstone has returned to London, and expects to give to the world another volume of his African experienc s. At the meeting of the British Association, to be held at Bith.on the 14th of September, the great traveller will give some account of hii last adventures. Log George, of Greece, during his 'at,: tour through his kingdom, requested, vu his arrival at Missolonghi, to be shown By r.m's tomb, and on observing its dilapidated condition, gave orders for the immediate repair of the poet's monument. The Prince and Princess of Wales have laid the corner stone of a monument to be erected at the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, near Southampton, to the memory of the medical officers who died in the Crimean war. Mr. John Mullaly, editor and proprietor of the Metropolitan Record, New-York, w as arrested last*Friday morning, and brough t before United Scates,Commissioner on a charge of opposing and counselin z re sistance to the conscription. Mr. .MuHaly is an Irishman by birth, from the town et Bray, near Dublin. He came to this CUUD try sixteen or seventeen years ago, and af ter obtairfing a fair education, was employ. ed in subordinate positions on one or two city papers. He then studied phottograpli, and became a short-baud repofter, spiel, profession he followed until •four or iive years ago, when he-stavted the Metropoli'e Record, as an Irish Catholic paper. Meade and Burnside.—ln alluding to the difficulty between Generals Meade and Burnside, the Providence Journal says the latter, being the subordinate, preferred ; us he always does, to sacrifice himself rather than to embarrass the army in the field by any controversy. He tendered his resig nation, which General. Grant refused, and also refused to relieve him. Gen. Grant then offered him twenty days' leave of 'Ab sence, by virtue of which he is at home. In announcing the death of the late John Grigg, of Philadelphia, the Publishers' Circular says that he did more for the book trade of the Uuited States than any other man ever engaged in it. Mr. Grigg was a native of England, but came to this city when very young. He retired from the publishing business in 185 D. He was sev enty-two years old on the day of his death —the 2d inst. The Philadelphia publish ers adopted a 'series of resolutions which speak in high terms of his personal and business character. • Mr. G. P. Putnam says, through the Pub lishers' Cis cular, that he is still the pub lisher of all of Irving's writings; that his contract for them, to pay a full copyright on all of them, has just been renewed for five years; that his interest in the works remains substantially, the same as ever, Messrs. Hurd & Houghton having merely undertaken, for two years, to print and pro m)te the sale; and that all these early works were revised,and large additions made to some of them, by the author in 1848-9, when the copyright was renewed. Literary. The first authentic work in English, on a subject of some Scriptural interest, often referred to, has just appeared in London— " History of Jewish. Coinage, and of Money, in the Old and New Testament,"—by Fred erick Madden, of the British Museum. It is in one volume, copiously illustrated from actual existing specimens in the cabi nets of numismatics' collectors. The " History of Publishers," on which William Chambers, the author-publisher, has been engaged more than two years, will soon appear in two octavo volumes, pro fusely illustrated. he American Publishers' Circular states that Mr. William A. Wheeler has for same years been engaged upon " An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the biame3 o ' Noted Fictitious Persons and Places; including also celebrated Pseudonyms, Sur names'.bestowed upon Eminent Men, and such analogous Popular Appellations as arc often winded to in Literature and Conver sation." mt. Stritner has in press, from advance sheets of the English edition, a reprint of the second series of Professor Max Muller's Lectures on the Science of Language, de livered at the Royal Institution, London. The Levane Herald states that Sheikh Faris Effendi Shediak, the editor of El Jaouib, is engaged in translating into Ara bic, Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," which is subsequently to be rendered into Turkish, and published at the expense of his Excellency Sabhi Bey. The Athenmum, says that Miss Whately is preparing herself to write. a life of Arch bishop Whately; a work which will be founded on his own letters and papers, all of which the prelate bequeathed to her. This lady is the writer of "English Syn onyins," a work commonly ascribed to the archbishop himself, as well as of other works. The proposed' life will be the only one sanctioned by the family. Nearly three years ago, an unusually bad juke being attributed to his grace in one of the Irish papers, he remarked, "I think I ough t t 3 walk about with my back chalked, 'Rub bish shot ilea!" TWO has recently been discovered in Spain a document of some interest to the liteyary history of that country. It is the receipt fur 112,500 niaravedis, paid by the Fathers of the Trinity for the ransom of tbe author of " Don Quixote," Michael Cel vantes, then a prisoner in the hands of the Moors. The receipt states that the prisoner was then thirtythree years of age, and had lost his left arm. ' An autograph of Tasso, written when the poet of the Gerusatenme Libtrata was in his twenty-sixth year, was sold in Paris very recently. it is worded as follows: "I, the undersigned, hereby acknowledize to have received from Abraham Levi :25 Imre, for' which he holds in pledge a sword of my father's; 6 shirts, 4 sheets, and 2 table covers. March 2, 1570. Torquato Tasso." The Harvard College Library in Gore Hall possesses now 100,000 volumes ' be sides 75,000 to 80,000 pamphlets. The libraries of the Divinity and Law Schools would increase the number of volumes to 160 000.