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OBSERYEU
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VOLUME 49
LOUISVILLE, KY.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 19, 1870.
NUMBER 3
Ofi'^^iriAN OBSERVER
AND
PRKB CHKISTIAN COMMONWEALTH,
OFKICES :
No. 74 FOURTH STREKT, Louisville, Ky
Mo. ISU MAIN ^ruKKT, nest
Editobs.
A. (JONVii,.-;:, 1. D., I
KEV. F. B. CON' V ERSE, 5
Wire toe t'o-opcratlon of miny Pastors and
otber»l i5 Writers in tlie I'resbytcrian C'liurch.
KOR TERMS.- Sse xooT or Tbibd Paoe.
• It' (rue, jour Saviour was aD impns-
That tlien, 30U are the deluded
F. . Observer aoi CominonwealttL
K THE JEWS RIGHT?
.iy the Jews were " the procuring
j' of the death of Jeans of Naza-
reth : fur whilst the great Sanbedrim
jade out the indictment for Lis trial be-
• ire the Roman authorities, the common
pie, with one voice cried out, Cru-
ify him, his blood be upon us and on
our children !" They had charged him
falsely with blasphemy— that '"He being
man made himself God, and calling God
his fatbsr, IT himself equal with God."
Was thi -irge a falbc one? No, if
Jesus but a man, a model man, or
»; on '. ilivinely incpired prophet, as some
w 'ess and call themselves Chris-
-fv he was! llive you ever
fJllouglit, bi.''evers in Christ as the adora-
ble (jod-njan, tliat if the doctrine of
Liiitarikuism tuui IiiDg the divinity of Je-
sus '
lor!
victims of a blasphemous deceiver ! Th it
the Jews were right in procuriug Lis
death ! That the darkness of the tun
was his frowning upon thi) victim, and
smiling upon the executioners ! And,
that tho uoise ')f tha eartliqu ike was but
the grand amen-chorus to the glorious
deed of the day ! If so, ought not every
OU9, d iiiyia^ Christ's eq I ility with the
Fatht^r, be ashamed to bec:illed a Chris
lian Au'f, iusteid of condemning the
Jews fur killing Jesus, bail them as
brethren in the faith, and as executors
of law! Away with this most
Christ-insulting heresy, whose very ab-
surdities send a chill to the heart ihat
beats iu sympathy with the suffering Sa
viour, and whose legitimate conclusions
m the verdict of condemnation against
ord of glory ! hand him ove. to the
oldiery for execution, and forge
r and spike that pierce his sa-
believing Jesus to be man
Iso charged him with bias-
secured Lis coudemna-
to death under the
■nalty f.)r that
nji departed
■e Ro-
leccnie the di-
he death ot Christ,
and Gentiles were all
the representatives of a
d u lited ag.^inst the Lord and
His Anointed; and, therefore,
they were tmnedinltli/ concerned
e death of Jesus, rri/iB/e/i/ ipe all
part in that most wicked execution
Calvary ! Yes, reader, you and I,
though here honoring the Sa\ iuur in "the
new man,'' were present there in "the
old man" of guilt ! Our »ih», as well
as tuoso of Jews and Romans, nailed the
blessed Jesus to the accnrsed tree. As
it is written ; " Ho was wounded for our
transgressioas, he was bruited for our in-
iquities."
- - It id important to reulizi^ this fac', in
order to appreciate the s'ory of the
Cross; especially, i i the-e perilous times
when tragedies *are so fr^ qusnt ; they
shock the finer sensibilities of our nature
as they are reported day by day, but how
^v ' iocs the iffect thereof pass away
and the feelings subside until aroused by
another only to bee imo calm again ! Let
a man be indicted for tho murder of his
fellow mortal and then, by tLe ingenuity
of his counsel, or by the sacrifice of jus-
tice bo declared " Nut guilty ;" yet
let hira have been connected with the
tragedy, and all his life lung the. blood
of bis victim will haunt the guilty con-
science I He will uot easily forget the
spot where his victim lay weltering in
bis gore, nor the sound of the djing
groan, nor the prison cell, nor tbe clank-
ing chains, nor the judge upon bis bhrone,
nor the gaping, su-spectiog crowd within
the hall of jastice ! So let us but realize
'.lad » band in the i^reat cruci-
f;s:on — that we mingled with the multi-
tude, tha base cruel mullitiide iu Jeru
salem, and took part in their mockings
and insultings. That your voice and
mine assisted in raising tbe shout, "Away
with him, away with him ! Crucify him.
Crucify him !" That our bunds plared
the crown of thorns upon his sacred brow
and the cross upon the Saviour's back !
That your arm and mine swunt; the cruel
hammer which drove tbe ppike through
his hands and feet! That i*. was our
spear that was thrust into the side of the
friend of sinners ! That we joined the
malignant populace in the lust and most
cruel calumny: " [le saved (or profesiied
to save) others, himself he cannot ave !
I say let us but realize the fact, that by
our "old man" of guilt, we were there
in the place of a skull, we took part in
its untold cruelties: and we will not but
be suitably impressed, with tho reading
or the preaching of the Cross. Then wc
^ can properly sing :
■• A.lai, aiitldid mj gaviour bleed."
^ing with astoni^ticient,
" Was It for l iiiicsthat I have dono
lie f.'rottDed ipon tn • tree !"'
Sing with 8ip."sre emotion,
" Amazii - pity ftmce unknown
And love beyond deg.-. ''
Sing with a holy coDsecr:i ion,
"Here Lord, I Rive myself away
'Tisall tbat I cao do
' latians ii. 20:) "I am crucified with have settled peace ? Only by having it
■ Chri.t, nevertheless I live; yet not I but ! i" God's own way. Ry not resting on
,,, . . . , ,, .•• 1 • I, T anything, even the Spirit's work within :
t.hrist with.n m^; and .ue a.c which I ^ut on what Christ has done ■
I now live ID ike flesh, I Lve by the faith entirely without you. Then you will 1
"of th-e Stin of God, who loved me and know peace; conscious unworthiness, but j
yet peace. In Christ alone, God finds j
that in which He can rest, and so is it |
with His saints. The more you tee the
nature and extent of the evil that is with-
in, as well as that without and around,
the more you will find that what Jefus is
and what Jesus did, is tbe only ground
denei
there
out-h(
gave himself for me.
J. II. K., OF Md.
For the Ohservor and CommonwealtlL
INCIDENT OF AN EXILED REFUGEE.
" Cast thy bread upon tbe waters, for thou
phalt tind it after many days.-'
-Notice God's providences, and you »" ""J^'J'^^carMrest^
will have many providences to notice," is
a well-known old Scotch proverb. I
have noticed it often during my whole
life, but never felt its truth so intensely
as during this tedious e.xile in a strange
land and among strangers. Let me
give jou one instance among many others.
By the invasion of Eist Tennessee by
General tiurnside, many families loyal
to the Confederate cause were driven
from their homes of peace and plenty,
and took refuse in the Atlantic States.
During their exile, most of them had
lost all their property — fome by robbery
— others by incendiarism — all of them
by violence and lawlessness. In Geor-
gia, Virginia and the Carolinas, they
lour.d themselves suddenly deprived of
all pecuniary rescurces by the surrender
of General Lt^e, and the consequent de-
preciation of tbe only currency they had,
viz: the i.'-sues of the Confederate
Treasury. Fau)ilies that had, in their
Tennes-ee homes, been not wealthy only,
but ufflueuf, found themselves not only
without a houfC, but without the means
of sub.-istence — paupers — among Strang
ers as much impoverished as themselves.
It was exactly so with my own family,
80 that we had to begin life anew at our
advanced age. All my property— real
and personal — stolen — burned — in the
pos ession of others — or destroyed by
vandals. From affluence, we found our-
selves reduced to destitution. We found
vacant house in tbe country — we had
For tlie Observor and Commonwealtn.
GREAT SIN OF THE CHURCH.
The great sin of the church and tbe
world is idolatry. Every nation, every
individual, every church, has some pet
sio, something which comes between God
and itself. We all, more or less, worship
golden calves, and have some substitute
— some object or person — through or by
which we worship Ilim who alone should
be the subject of all adoration.
God gave two commands to Moses,
though we speak of them as ten. The
first and chief is to worship God supreme-
ly, and have no idols; the second, to do
your duty to a U your fellow-men.
Our Lord both divides and sums them
up in his two precepts.
We might of course speak of the idola-
tries of other churches; of the saint and
image and Pope wt rshipof Rome; of the
worship of form and ceremony which
characterizes our Episcopal brethren; or
of the worship of a form of baptism, as
illogical as it is unscriptural, which gives
name and strength to that large and ex
elusive sect who dip under the water.
Of these we will uot speak. We Fres-
bvterians have sins enough of our own to
reciuiie our full attention. What is our
form ol idolatry? what is cur pet sin?
It is nobler than any of tbe.-e, and there-
fore more dangerous. We set too high a
value on mere intellect, and really wor-
ship it iu the form of pulpit eloquence.
We worship power ; we bow down before
j God's noblest gift to mau, intellect as
I shown in elo(iuence. As tbe ancieiits
! worshipped the sun, because it gave forth
I light and heat, and was therefore an ein-
, bleui of power, so do we bow dowu be-
fore the sun of iuiellect, and delight in
' the majesty of its glory,
i The fact is so well known that we
I boast, and with reason, of the superior
culture ami higlier degree of eloquence
I po8!-essed by our ministry, that I will do
' no more than assert it. It is so. We
i would never have bowed down to tbe
golden calf, whatever the multitude might
have done around u-; but I very much
fear that we would have worshipped
vihit the sick brother? Not one. Did
any member of the society call? The
house was crowded with them ; and oflTers
of service and of lielp wer» con^tsntly | romp (
made. Who in this case enacted the part
of the good Samaritan ? If the Church
did its duty, I mean tbe plain simple
duty marked out by Paul in his epistles,
as the duty of one church member to an
other, there would be no necessity for
these outside organizations. At least
there would be no necessity for a church
member being connected witli them.
Shall we never carry out tbe
declaration of our Lord? I v.ill have
mercy and not sicrifice. Shall we con-
tinue to forget the statement of St
James: "What dotb it profif, my brethren,
though a man say be hath faith, bnd have
not works; can faith (without works)
save him ? Faith, without works, is dead"
L E.
THE ROD AND STAFF.
Rev. Nehemiah Adams makes this
suggestive comment on the often quoted
exprefsiuu in Psalms xxiii, 4 : " Thy ro
and thy staff they comfort me."
The shepherd carried with him two in-
struments — the staff for his own support,
and to attack a beast or robber; and the
crook or rod By this crook, the shep
herd guided a sheep in a dangerous p^i-s
placing the crook under tbe sheep's nenk
to hold him up and u.'-si-t bis step-'. BotL
of the shepherd's instruments were a
great comfoit to the sheep, while passing
through a frightful and dangerous valley.
The interpretation usually given to the
words " thy lod and thy staff," as though
they meant " thy gentle reproofs and
thy severe rebukes," is erroneous. A
sheep would hardly feel that his chasten-
ing rod and the heavy blows of his staff
comforted him. The meaning is, '• It is
a comfort to me to feel tha crook of thy
rod helping me in trouble, and to kno*
tbat thy stuff is my defence against wild
beasts."
nothing to put in it, and only forty-two
dollars of available money with which to
set up house-keeping again.
In our ncighborhoo'l were two other
refugees— a brother and sister, driven
out frofu New Orleans, and now more
destitute, if possible, than ourselves. I
had known the former iu better days.
He had been foreman in a newspaper
establishment iu the descent City, but
was now unable to find employment in
the country, to procure the means of re-
turning to a desolated home. My wife
offered him a plate at our table, and my
sou a share of his bed He accepted
their invitation, and he thus became tem-
porarily a member of niy family.
Time passed on till one day a stra'iger
alighted at our gate, inquiring for our
refugee guest, Mr. K., who was not then
in eur house. During tbe stay of the • , , • . .
stranger, I learned that he was General ' Mo«e^- "* po« *essing the highest gifts
Hill, editc r and publisher of the Lmd «hat God could bestow on m.ui.
We Loot. He immediately, after seeing
K.
a his offic ' Hh-
bis jorirnii. . 1' ■
paid m;.- very liberally from time .
as my articles were published. The
money thus acquired by my writi igs
added much to our support and comfort
But besides this, I b« casual acquaintance
thus formed with General Hill was the
means of my becoming acquainted with
other gentlemen like him, of culture,
attainments and character — congenial
spirits, whose iijtercourse with me after-
wards contributed much to relieve the
loneline.-s y.nd solitude of my exile.
Thus have I found the little bread
cast upon the waters — the little kindnesa
and civility extended to Mr. K., returned
before many days to me. Notice provi-
dences and you will have providences to
notice.
An Exile from Tennessee.
J .1 uury 1st, 18' U.
Kor tbe Oluerver and CommoawealtlL
A THOUGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR.
[The following article was received too
The evil of this dispo.-itiun of ours acts
upon both preachers and people. Does
• iin;, V a ) oung rr. ' ' ■ [ : , ■ '
l..(" ,j'' ' ;.'iil;
. .. /I 1 eAO'jOerW,T , ^* I^j.i^.-
- aud lite? To gain fame iu the
L and influence in tbe General As-
sembiv, • -"jfl'ip". thought to be more
desirable Uj ; . ; pc; iu t persuasive
power which will draw souls to Christ.
.\nd the people are misled and trans-
formed into partisans. Hence, there are
divisions among us. How many differ-
ent forms and names and organizations
are there of Presbyterians? Has any
' one ever counted them up, or ascertained
1 the cause of their existecce ? Surely
there is nothing in Presbjterianism to
, cause differences and dissensions among
I men. We do not differ much, or go far
] apart. It is never like the separation
that occurred at tbe Tower of Babel, for
j we Presbyterians, however separated,
never cease to speak one language, and
I have oiie common mother tongue. No
two PrcsSyterians ever did get so f ;;'
apart as to be out of sight of the c infcs-
i-ion of faith, and the shorter catechism.
We can never pass these boundaric'', and
late for our columns last week, but the pet within them we live apart
thought presented is appropriate for all sea-
sons. — Eds.J
"Tliis year thou ►baltj-lie."- Jer. xxvi.2t).
Of the many readers of the Ohierver
who began the year 18(59, there are some
who will read it do more. They have
been called by death from the world to
enter upon another state of existence,
either of happiness or misery. And that
which occurred during the j'ear, recently
ended, will moit certainly occur this year
also. Some perhaps, who read this com-
munication will be among the number
who shall, this j'ear, close their proba-
tion here on earth. To one and another,
and perhaps to many, God is repeating
these solemn words; "This year thou
shalt die."
Every division tha' has afflicted the
church, and then cursed the world, has
arisen, not from any necessity in the case,
but from the desire to rule — tbe wish to
have pre-eminence — the unholy lust of
power, in some two or more great, or
would be great men in the church, blind-
ly followed by a sightless multitude into
division and separation and mutual
hatred.
I know that much of this arises from that
spirit of independence so dear to the
heart ol every true Presbyterian. Yet its
effect is most disastrous. We are divided
into divisions. It is as though each wave
of the sea 8h(iuld refuse to obey together
the sweet influence of the moon, and
thus form one united tidal stream that
will swell and sweep over all the ocean,
and cover the entire world of waters ;
but instead of this unity, each wave should
n J , ^ J I select i s own star, and each be separately
Dear readers, stop a moment and con- ., , j j • i
- - u .1 , r. 1 ■ 1 ■ ' euided and governed in its motions by
may be that God IS speaking • ^ ... . ■
sider ! It
these words to you. If so, how solemn
the thought ! I:i less than one year you
will be in heaven or hell ! Do not thrust
this thought away. If you are a true
child of God then you are very near
your heavenly home and final rest in
glory, with Jesu*, your blessed Savior,
stifely lajided in heaven! Just think of
this ! For you then "/o die it train."
But, if you are not a child of God, then
you are jast as near to bell, unless you
flee to Jesus for salvation. How dread-
ful the consequences! Reader, consider
that before this year is ended you may
lie down in that miserable world and be-
gin to suffer its torments due to your
sins, which shall continue to all eternity.
See what you are ri.'-kiog. The loss of
your soul for the trifles and vanities of
this world. 0, what madness !
Render, I entreat you ni.t to dismiss
this thought from your mind on the sup-
position that you are not one of those
readers of this article who shall this year
die. Some who read this paper one year
since rested on this suppositio i ; but
death came, suddenly and unexpectedly,
and their spirits have gone to their final
home. So it may be with you. .Voic is
the time to make sure your salvation.
To-day 'he Savior calls to you, and is
ready to save; to-morrow may be too
late. Tu-day give your whole heart to
I tbe Savior and consecrate your all to him
forever^ Rest not until you are assured
you have made your peace with God and
are prepared to die. In kiuduc-s — in
love for your soul, I entreat you, Pre-
pare to meet thy God." M. J. W.
its influence. What confusion would re
suit and has resulted ?
No people have a stronger bond of un-
ion than we have in our confession of
faith, and especially in our catechism.
And while I attribute many of our dis-
sensions and fallings off to our worship of
intellect, on the side of positive offense,
i I attribute another part to the neglect of
this valuable compendium of Bible truth.
It is our sin of omission.
Let us examine ourselves on Ibis mh-
ject. Every Presbyterian is required by
la;v to be perfect in this catechism him-
self, and to train bis children in it.
How many of us do this? How many,
if called on suddenly, could answer the
first ten questions? In many of the
moral societie.» of the day, Masons, Odd-
fellows, Redmen, a catechism is dili-
gently taught, each new corner, and he is
not allowed place or title until he has
mastered his catechism. How this puts
us to shame ; the children of this world
is wiser than we are, or at leist are more
consistent. The devotion which the
members of these societies show to the
prosperity of their order, contrasts strong-
ly with the indifference with which we
examine every new comer into our church.
Let any one consider this question, and
find the reason why Presbyterians are so
indifferent to each other, and careless of
one another's welfare, while Masons and
Oddfellows take such an active interest
in every member of their several frater-
nities. I knew such a thing as this to
have happened. A member of one of your
' churches, who was also a member of O'le
I of these organizations, met with a severe
accident, which confined him to his couch
I for some week--.
How did the two societies - the churoh
residence. And from this point,
. satisfactory view of all the tasteful
■■■3. Now passing on in a direct
1 Sixth to Third street, the garden
is so«.i • ntercd which abounds in good
things too numerous to mention. Moving
onward .still, for several hundred yards, our
promenade is terminated by a natural bluff
that overlooks Third street. Turn half
around to tbe lefl, and walk with face toward
the city, and for many rods are vacant lots
so bcMtilully located, that bye and bye, when
t!ie rich men of the town buy and build, this
particular locality will be unsurpa-'sed for
attractiveness. Turning back on Third street
we can pass through a long lane of fruit
trees, whose interlacing branches form a
shady vista, that cools the winds of the hot-
test summer's day. Pa.ssing once again
through the children's dell, and then up the ^
gently win iing path, and here we are at one
of th4eiiain entrances of the pastor's resi-
dcnce.( And now what a change has come
over the brusque, careless, cold-hearteil man,
^jJpsTijrcd to us at first view ! What a
talker,!' His guest listens with amazement
at the volubility of this many sided preacher.
Go with him over the elegant dwelling re-
cently' erected, and planned throughout after
his own not'on. He discourses its fluently
ab 'Ut architecture as though building were
his trade. Is it agriculture, commerce, edu-
cation, civil government, philosophy or di-
vinity ■? upon all these themes he talks with
rca4iat. s and intelligence. Just sit quiet
and attend. You shall be guided through
many 11 Labyrinth of personal history, subtle
argument, historical illustration, while all
will sparkle with racy wit and rollicking fun.
Kor he is a man of boundless good humor,
and gets off bis sharpest paragraphs when in
th v.])leasantest mood. He cudgels and an-
nihilates a foe w hen his sides shake with
laughter. Mind food from every direction
has been carefully gathered, and this purified
and assimilated is poured forth in exuberant
currents from the alembic of his own intellect.
Facts, argument, anecdote, humor, denunci-
ation, all intermingle. He has wonderful
endurance; both physical and mental. There
is llo^llaIl in Kentucky, who can accomplish
so much work in a single day, both for va-
riety and quality. The writer has listened
till the small hours of the night, and long
before the breakfast hour there stood the
Doctor guiding the hand of some busy labo-
rer. He reminds one of the noble-souled
Chalmers, who.sc great eye not only superin-
tended every thing in his own parish, but
was large enough to overlook all Scotland
besides ; and who appeared to develop
strength and capacity for labor, in propor-
tion as burdens were laid upon his shoulders.
Dr. Robinson as a Preacher.
What shall we say of Dr. Robinson as a
preacher? He certainly preaches like no
one else, and yet as we listen, the wonder is,
that every man who enters the sacred desk
do»s liot preach in exactly the same way.
H ^ ir.ethod is expositorj' and intensely sug-
No minister ever heard him who
for 1 ?cr!iion. The
: hearer is
' ontact with
I . .1 - I It are past. We stand ''near to the
I ^ji,uu of Jesus as the Scribe and Pharisee
approach with questions to 'oeguile and en-
trap, We follow the company of suborned
witnesses into the judgment hall of Pilate.
We look with pitiless scorn upon the coun-
tenance of that cowardly time serving satrap.
The character and events of the olden time
stand out before the eye on a canvas .so liv-
ing that the whole is substantiated and real-
ized. There is no display, no effort at effect,
or at what the multitude called oratory.
The speaker is far too elevated and sensible
for this ; but impressions in the end are none
the less, but far the more powerful upon all
intelligent and well regulated minds. There
is eloquence in every discourse from begin-
ning to end, but it is the eloquence of truth
and powerful thought. Nor is he by any
means devoid of fancy, but bis delineations
remind one of those masters of painting,
whose pencils depicted with wonderful bold-
ness and precision the .salient outlines, but
left the minutiae to the play of imagination.
Dr. Robinson obeys Lord Bacon's injunction,
and never offers to enlighten a congregation
unless there is a "full man." Though perfect-
ly self-po.ssessed he never makes himself lit-
tle by flaunting his greatness iu the faces of
the people. He is the freest man from offens-
ive presumption, and apparent affectation,
that the writer ever saw enter a pulpit. In-
different as to dres", with the outward man
little cared for, he goes to work on his text
in the most old-fashioned way possible. A
s tran ger here again would feel disappointed
at fir.4. But let him be patient till the
preacher gets under way. And now if the
hearer is sensible, be will listen with in-
creased delight to the very close of the ser-
mon. The secret of Dr. Robinson's power
is his directness, simplicity, scripturalness,
and intense convictions of truth. Of ccmrse
these traits arc mingled with genius, learn-
ing and great industry. Dr. Palmer, of New
bereavement. Now and then, burning mem- j the universe. Let every power of your correspondence of the ObBenrer and Commonwealth.
ories within forced out a tear for relief, and immortal spirits echo back the sound of
once or twice, with quivering lip, the name ! D"*"'"*''' praise, and your hearts every
of the loved one was called, but ina mom«nt thrilling chord catch up,Jand prolong the
the countenance resumed its wonted calm, to Jehovah's name. 0 Lord, how
and the laborer returned cheerfullv to his ""P"^"^"' "^ ^''-^ ^"'^^^ g'""""*
allotttd work in the vineyard of his Master.
None but a great head, combined with a
large heart, can hide the presence of a
mighty sorrow from the world, while the soul
that is burdened within sheds joy and glad-
ness upon all that are without.
N. L. Y.
' ^alU IU:'
r-CXt IS SO
:t once
For the Observer and Cummonwealth.
KENTUCKY PREACHERS.
REV. STfART KOBIXSON', V. D.
As the individual whose name stands at
the head of this article acted a distinguished
part on the defensive side in the bitter war-
fare waged by the " Assembly" against the
friends aud signers of the Declaration and
Testimony," it may not be amiss to send
out, all imperfect as it is, a daguerreotype of
the man to the many admirers who have
never seen the original.
Dr. Robinson at the present moment is in
the prime aud vigor of matured manhood.
Physically, he reminds one of the first Na-
poleon at the period when the Emperor be-
gan to exchange the leanness of youth for
the rotundity and fullness of figure, which
enhanced the vigor and endurance of both
body and mind. There are the same broad
set shoulders, there is the same massive head
in the region where Phrenologist-s locate
combativeness and will — the .same lofty fore-
head a:id piercing eye, while the " tout en-
scMib'e" of the one face i- :'rf]' ■ . _''v ]■':
'. There is :;
i -f ■.\'^:\:n in Cue qiiv»,.
unce'emonious movements ol
whether sitting or walking. Indeed, one can
almost imagine himself in the presence ot
the "Petite Corporal," with the arena of
conflict changed, as he listens to the Doctor
in his rapid sketches of a summer's mis-
sionary campaign. The evangelist is to
make observations here, such and such pas-
tors are to co-operate yonder, while at cer-
tain strongholds of the enemy every force is
to be united. No jwint is forgotten, no
brother passed over — all difficulties are fore-
seen, obstacles, as far as po.ssible removed,
failures provided against ; and to give confi-
dence and courage to other soldiers in this
war, the leader is willing to make the place
of hardship the post of honor — and this he
choo.ses for himself. A stranger who meets
Dr. Robinson for the first time, and that in
the midst of pressing duties, is almost sure to
feel disappointed, and sometimes slightly
hurt. At such moments, there is a brusque-
ness and ajtparent coldness that repels. The
person introduced appears scarcely to be ob-
served, and as he p.xsses on hurriedly the
stranger looks after him in bewilderment.
Never mind. The Doctor is now crowded
with the cares of many things. The morn-
ing's mail has brought letters from congre-
gations whose houses of worship are endan-
gered — from ministers who are out of em-
ployment and seek for a field — from widows
and orphans who are ahuiigered anil almost
naked. His great heart is busied about
these pressing necessities and bitter cries,
and other things must wait. For when a
man's reputation for kindness and munifi-
cence goes out on the winds, the stricken
will fly iu.stinctively to such a . source for
sympathy and aid. Money is forthwith sent
to one, food and raiment to another, while a
field of labor is secured for a third.
Cedar HilL
A morning's pressing work is over at last.
The disburdened philanthropist now comes
into No. 72 Fourth street, with a smiling face.
He inquires for the stranger, takcsTrriinuirf| 1 ^, easels him in word-painting; Dr.
Settled Peace.
The moment we begin to rest our peace
And those of us whose ruilt died with Z '° ourselves, we lose it ; and and the merely moral order-act towar ls
. , this IS why so many saints have not lel- him? The pastor of
Jesus through faith id his .atoning blood, pe.&ce. Nothing can he lasting that
will be able to exclaim with Paul, (Ga- is not built on God alone. How can you
him? The pastor of tha church was
away and could not call on him. Did
the elders call? did the churoH members
his well-known vehicle, and iu a few minutes
"Old Whitey " land-i all i arties safely at Cedar
Hill. Reader, were you ever at Cedar Hill ?
if not, manage by some means to get there,
if your way should lie at any time through
Louisville. There is a plot of ground, twen-
ty acres iu extent, lyinj between Third and
Sixth strcet-t, and about a mile from Main.
There are no grounds half so beautiful in or
about the city. After entering the outer
gate, there is a gradual a.scent until the lawn
is reached, which spreads out beautifully all
around the sp.icious mansion. Blue grass
of the deepest hue vegetates in every direc-
tion, whilst the pilgrim can now rest for a
while, if he chooses, beneath the .shade of
noble forest trees, through whose branches
the winds have whistled for a century. Then
facing to the city, dowu to the right .ibout a
hundred yards distant, reached by a winding
path, overshadowed by evergreens, is a natu-
ral dale, carpeted with green, and fenced
about on every side with shrubs, and trees
and flowers; where once a year, in summer
time, the kindhearted Doctor rejoices in be-
holding the ruddy faces, and hearing the
j gleeful voices of a thousand happy children.
I Looking to the left, s.'venty-five paces
! stands a model chapel, in which a regular
afternoon service is held for young folks
afid old, who cannot be reached by regular
I sanctuary privileges in the bosom of the great
1 city. Now lurning your b.ack upon Louis-
' ville and walking straight onward, the path
leads through a favorite orchard of pear
trees. For these he has a special fancy, and
discourses with eloquence upon the different
varieties. Still bearing to the left, a few
seconds' walk brings you to th.e.rear of the
main building, and just in front of the gar-
Hoge, of Richmond, Va., in poetic tempera
ment and power of pathos ; Dr. S. R. Wilson,
of Louisville, as a compact and wary debater
in ecclesiastical courts ; Dr. Dabney, of Un-
i(.n Theological Seminary, in exactness of
information upon a limited number of sub-
jects ; Henry Ward Beecher, of Brooklyn,
in melody and compass of voice, but in
breadth and versatility of character and
genius, the .-Vmerican pulpit h.^s no.superior.
Were he settled in London or Edinburg, his
congregations would be equal to those of the
most celebrated men.
The writer was in company with Dr. Rob-
inson recently when a shadow of great sorrow
lay fresh on his hearth.stone. Lawrence
Robinson had just gone down to the grave
in the golden light of life's early morning.
He was the last surviving son of a doting
mother and a confiding, affectionate father.
God only knows how many hojies were crush-
el when the form of his dear boy descended
to the grave. Far away from his beautiful,
cherished home he died, and at the very mo-
ment of all others when the future of this
present world was fullest of promise. Well
might parental tears be i)Oured over one of
whom it could be truly said, "if any are
noble, so was he, if any brave- hearted and
generous, he was their brother." A week or
two only had pas,sed since this afflictive dis-
pkisation, when the writer spent several days
in the society of Dr. Robinson, occupying
the same room with him. It is good for the
soul to come in contact with such courage and
laith. There was no repining, no sickly
frord of complaint, .t the ambassador of
|jod entered upon w --k with hisaccustomed
einergy, and str n . hide from every one
jiround him a ■ ■) .aisness of his own great
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THOUGHTS on the WORKS OF GOD.
Often there are found in the domain of
real things phenomena which far exceed
in wonderful characteristics, and the de-
velopment of uncommon power, the
grandest creations with which the fancy
of the poet or the pen of romance
had ever peopled the realms of the un-
real. Tbe trite adage that "truth is
stranger than fiction" is constantly reas-
serting itself, both in nature and in the
progress of human events.
Thus in spring, the resurrection morn
of tbe year, we see all nature shedding
the dreary vestments of apparent death,
and, without any visible cause, clothing
herself in living forms of strange and
varied magnificence and beauty. There
is a power in the air and in the earth,
mighty, though invisible, working this
wonderful change. We look up to the
firmament, flashing with its setting of
myriad stars, and watching the march of
tbe heavenly host- as they move in un-
broken harmony along their glorious
pathway ; we see wonderful energy and
wisdom displayed ; but the hand that
guides, and the mighty springs which bold
this va t machinery together are hid from
our eyes. We see tbe storm go by, and
with reckless fury scatter in wild confus-
ion all that falls in its path. We see its
effects in the uprooted fores*, the disman-
tled village, the wrecked ve-sel, the r»g-
. ing fea; but the secret power which
drives this furious chariot, and, guidii.g
its wrathful steeds, checks at pleasure
their raging fary, is more wonderful than
the storm.
Likewise there have, in different ages,
arisen upon the surface of the world's
history, men of wonderful power, who,
ia the brilliancy of their genius in their
mjsteriou", yet all omnipotent sway
over the minds of men, in the grandeur
of their achievements and in their own
stern individuality, have stood far above
their ege and kind. We have the rec-
ords ot their deeds ; and the glory of their
lives breaking through the shadows of
ages, falls upon our path to day. They
have left their seal upon the race. The
men and their deeds are studies for all
time, and we bow iu admiration akin to
worship before such wonderful exhibi-
tions of power. Yet, whence their great-
ness, whence t^ose outward influences,
and tbat inner life, fitting each for hi
particular work, ai d -.ulliig bim forth in
the jbo'!f' "f f'.je w"'""- ' ' '"ber';
^rCikon.e (..0 teii ...cum-
stances by which they were surrounded
have alone called forth aud formed, for
their day, the great men of the world
But I apprehend there is behind all these
a mightier power, a mysterious and om-
ni/ic will creating both circumstances,
and the men, and adjusting the one to the
other for the accomplishment of great
purpises.
There is, doubtless, a spirit brooding
in sleepless vigilance over tbe affairs of
nations and of men, and controlling them
with a divine authority that recks uot of
circumstances. Thus in nature in all
her varied p ^enomena, and in history,
whether it regards the lives and labors
of individuals, or tbe progress of oatious,
we find the world filled with wonders
To the child of nature the universe is a
vast panorama of miracles continually
passing iu review before Lis astonished
and delighted gate. Tbe studeut of his
tory discovers in the grand march ot
events an all-pervading and cmuipoteut
presence, and both, awed into reverence,
bow in fear and worship before these
manifestations of Ood. Ho'.v instinct
with significance are all these wonderful
phenomena! How bright with divine
glory ! Through these God speaks to bis
intelligent creatures the glory of his power
and wisdom. Ontbem is written the sign
manual of the eternal, and amid them
He makes bis stately steppings kno«n.
These are some of tbe characters by
which his divine personalty is declared,
and in which is revealed, in matchless
grandeur, the uispeakable majesty of hia
character.
This all-pervading presence of Gol
when properly realized, ennobles every
object in naturi , dignifies every event in
history, and invests with fearful interest
every thought and act of man. The
winds and flames are seen as the minis
ters of Jehovah. All things are the crea-
tures and the instruments of his poAcr,
and the witnesses of his presence. Man
feels that lie is continually walking in the
very foot prints, and is surrounded and
overwhelmed by the pre.-ence of an all-
knowing and all-powerful God. And
yet though mau lives and dies amid these
stupend«us exhibitions; notwithstanding
that from the vast world without and the
still more wonderful world within him,
the voices of God's witnesses are contin
ually speaking, though he sees the band-
writing of Jehovah inscribed upon all
nature, and traced iu living characters
upon every page of his own history, and
stamped upon every lineament of his own
being, often alas, Le passes along unfeel-
ing, unheeding all, and falls into bis
grave without ever having properly reod
these wo iderful signs, or realiz;d the
presence of God iu the world. Living
in darkness iu the midst of light, a child
and unsearchable thy ways, how wide
thy vast dominions, how fearful the thun-
der of thy power! " Whither shall we
go from thy Spirit, or whither shall we
flee from thy presence. If we ascend
into Heaven, thou art there, if we make
our bed in hell, behold thou art there.
If we take tbe wings of tbe morning aud
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there shall thy hand lead us and thy
right hand shall hold us — even the night
shall be light about us." The heavens
declare thy glory ; day unto day with its
ten thousand voices uttereth its testi-
mooy to thy presence and power, while
night from her myriad stars and solemn
silences, answers back to night tbe glory
of thy handiwork. And yet exalted God,
these are but part of thy ways.
B. M. F.
Cor nth. Miss.
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EXCUSES.
1 can't repent.
What an awfully tcicked heart you
have. You love sin so well you can't be
sorry for it — can't hate it. AwtuI ! sin
against God, Chri t and the Holy Spirit,
and not be sorry f Ah ! it is a self-
righteous and self-justifying excuse.
You say you are willing to repent, but
can't. Nay, you are really not willing,
nor will be so till "in the day of my
power," saith God. God is willing for
you — He says repent. Others repent,
a^ you can as well as they. Not of
yourself, but as they by the Holy Spirit.
" In me is thy help; let bim lay hold on
my strength that he may make peace with
me." Let tbe sinner look away from
himself to Christ, who is exalted to give
repentance aud remission of sin. Is. Iv.
6,7.
1 can't PRiY.
Salvation is to be sought, the gospel
calls you. You think you sh uld not
seek, pray, etc; God thinks differently and
says, "seek," etc. God is right and you
are wrong. You shall fiod him when
you seek him with all your heart. You
should submit to God iu prayer. If you
do not repent yet you are commanded
to pray, and it is binding. One sin can't
excuse another. Y 'U should pray,
though you can't pray aright; fir it ia
.vorse not to pray at all than to try.
" There li no man aska so much ainiaa
As he that asks tor naught.''
We must get power from Ood by
prayer to pray aright. Can'/ pray!
Then not sived without prayer. God
says, "Ask that ye may receive;" but
you reverse it. Forsake your thoughts.
God thinks you can pray; Ho says,
"seek ye tbe Lord, call upon Him."
Tbeucall upon him to g.'ace to lepent —
to forsake your way. If you do not pray
you will not repent. If you u-ish Qod
to give you a new heart ; why ot
tell him? Then ask — pray for it If
you are sincere in your expressiobs to
-..r ftil-. ;),-• h- ■ c-e
vu ' • '. AuJ aiiioerc, .v...
turn (rjai your evil way, and thus 0
forth fruits meet fir repentance? 'rjd'
promises the U ly Spirit to those tbat
ask Him
But you say, "The prayers of the
wii-ked are an abomination." No! the
Bible says "the sacrifice of the wicked is
an abomination;" that is, when the,^
wicked otliT sacrifice, and at t'le same
time do not intend to abandon their
wickeduess, it is an abomination. The
Lord will hear the prayer of the drsti-
tule. The complaint of ihe Bible against
sinners is not that they pray with bad
motives, but tbat they do not pray at all.
They cast off f.-ar and restrain prayer.
Such are self-rig'iteous. They wait for
a good heart tlieo and therewith to pray,
and expect to be heard broiusjof the
good heart; like the Pharisee, to cry,
"God I thank thee." Rather should
they go and cry, "God be merciful to
me, a sinner" Suoli justi'y theius dvis,
even their prayerlessoess, bee .use they
have not a right heart
We t-h 'u!d 'Tay and pray always.
First, because God c immands it, and it
is our duty to obey ; second. He connects
promises wi'h c miiuauds; third, to refuse
to pray is disobedience, rebellion and sin,
that provokes and culls down the pen-
^entire of .Mmighty G 'd ; fourth, we
should never despuir, for ibat makes
men and devils worse. Hope iu Ood by
bel ieviiig what be say s. Fifth, we should
pray because we have wiokel hearts;
s xth, others have so done, and this error
(can't pray) was o -rracted. Try, s' retch
firth a third arm — God help. Seventh,
the impression tbat you can't pray is a
temptation of lha devi', whom you must
resist by prayer; eighth, the idea of not
praying with such a heart is of self-
righteousness. Such want a good heart
that God will bear on that account. .See
"Spencer's Pastor's Sketches."'
1 ca.n't feel
First, the bible never tells you you
mus' feel, but command'! you to repent
and believe. Second, can't feel is an
excuse to justify you for not ooiuing to
Christ noio. Third, it is a self-righteous
spirit; you desire feeling to commend
you to Ood. Fourth, it reveals profound
ignorance of yourself, for feeling of it-
self will do you no good. See devils
and lost spirits. Fifth, your position
simmers of false religion — the true calls
for duly. You ought to feel and love
G od. and grieve that you are such a sense-
less sinner. Rather do like the prodigal,
go home, and with the Father's arms
around you, learn to feel.
the faults of christians.
To many seeking Christ, Satan throws
in the way as a stumbling-block, the
A NEW CITY IN THE WEST.
Messrs. Eoitors: — It may le that
some of your readers would be pleased to
read a brief description of a new city on
the western border of Missouri. My
knowledge of Kansas City, before seeing
it as it is, I have found to be imperfect.
It may be styled the infant giant among
the cities. From being a small village
but recently, it gained its vast propor-
tions during the last two years. Situated
on the south bank of the Missouri river,
just at that point where the river, in its
downward course, ceases to divide the
State from Kmsas, it extends down the
river to quite a distant point, and from
the river to the Kansas State line. It
stands like ancient Rome, not cu seven
but on eleven hills, and at the same rate
of progress, in a few years, it will cover
twice eleven bills. Perhaps there is no
other large town in America built on as
rough and uneven surface. Cuts from
thirty to fifty feet in depth, with corre-
sponding fills, are to be seen in tbe grad-
ing of the streets.
Human art and energy are rapidly
adorning the city. Magnificent build-
ings for business indicate the strong con-
fidence of capitalists in the futnre great*
ness of the place. Indeed the only ques-
tion in the mind of t e intelligent be-
holder is the question of time. How
long it may be iu filling up the measure
of its capacity none can tell. Tbe seven
railroads already branching out through
the most rich and fertile section of the
west, insure great continued growth to a
population of thirty-three thousand. No
new place, perhaps, can boast of a more
active and substantial population. Among
the highly respectable men of business
many succeed well, others, as might be
expected, do less. _^
To religious minds its importance
greatly swells. In that it may be said
literally to stand as a city on a hill, des-
tined, under God, to oast floods of relig-
ious light far off toward the newly peo-
pled regions beyond and backward, until
its influence shall meet and ble.id in har-
mony with that of St. L )ui3 and other
points of like importance. Some breth-
ren seem to be alive to its itnportancc.
The Presbyterian Church, under the in-
dependent Synod, have, in the person of
Rev. .\. D. .Madeira, the right man in
the right place. I found him to be a
bold, eloqusnt preacher, truly scriptural
in expounding and defending the great
truths which we, as a church, love. If
the L)rd be pleased to continue him at
that po^t, his influ ioce mu t tell in build-
ing up a strong church.
All the isms have their represeut.itives
in the city, but I have observed less fan-,
aticism than we see in Chicago and soijj
places contaiuiug a material adapted
the fostering of new and una arJi ^
ideas. The surrounding towns
overshadowed by the superk
of this point over theini
now so q iiet and dgiiii
destine'i tn bf
or r . _
but little
-•on of l "s CT!
i to ""IB' ■ count
uepec ' at Synou with th^
son lU, doubtless tbe act is expecT
done in due time.
THE EFFICACY OF FAITH.
Tbe waves were dasbing loud and hijfh.
My child looked on with me:
" Father," she cried, " why may not I
Trust Uod, and walk tbe lea ^"
" Waa it not] lack of faith alone
That made tbe apostle aink I
By filth, therefore, it may be done ;
Father, what abouid 1 think f
The Lord bade Teter go, my child ;
And aboiild He thee command,
Thy feet would on these waters wild
Be Una as on the aaad.
But life baa atorma mare awlul yet.
Waves rougher than yon aoa ;
Then do not thou in tbeae forget
That Jeauj is with thee.
Care not what othcra have to do,
What may be or baa been ;
But in tbe path God calls tbee, go,
And use thy faith therein.
Hindi.
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THE UHITY OF QOD,
Dent. 6: 4. "Hear, 0 Israel, tbe Lord our
Uod la one Uod."
I. Senses in which Ood is one.
I. He is xoilhoul composition. Wa-
ter has its elementSg'and by electricity
may be resolved into them. God is not
divisible. He is a pure, simple Being.
2. He is one without another of thi
same class. Mankind and angels are
cla'^ses of being — one man and one angel
are one of their respective classes. God
belongs to no class — He is one. 3. He
is one without the poesibility of their
being another like him. Our earth (the
run also) is one only, lot if dud Ut s.
willed it, there would have bean another
j 1st like it. But it is impossible that
there should be another like Ood.
II. Evidences of this unity.
1. Scripture. Moses declares this
unity of the Godhead in the passage
quoted above. Paul announces to the
Corinthians, " There is none other Ood
but one"{l Cor. 8: 4 )— and writes
to tbe Galatians, •' O jd is one." (0*1.3:
2.0) Isaiah prays, " Now therefore, O
Lord, save us from bis baud, (Ssnna-
charib) that all the kingdoms of the earth
may know that thou art the Lord, even
thou only. ' (ls» .37:20.) Jehovah an-
nounces, " I am the first and I am the
last; and besides me there is no Ood."
(Isa. 4-t ; 0.) 2. .Va/urr teiches his
" eternal power " — omnipoteoc'j. If
faults of christians. But counterfeit
of his bounty, a creature of his baud, | nioney and hypocrisy don't prevent men
and yet without room in all bis thoughts j from seeking and apprcjiatins; the genu-
for the God who gives him being ! In I ine, tbe true. We believe in the r ulity ' Ood be omnipotent, there is only one
all the universe there is m place where I of religion, and if there was a Judas who | God. Two •riiuipotent beings cannot
Ood is not, except in the thoughts of ! was a thief, there was a Matthew and ' exist at one time. Etch would have the
buch a man. others, genuine christians. And sinners piwer of the other, and yet each Aa»« a//
Alas, alas ! can it be that such a mu- [ ought (as well as christians) to set one ' potvei — which is an absurdity,
nition of darkness surrounds the souls of] another better examples. Both ore nn- | III Practical use of thi» doctrine,
intelligent men, that all this light, inten- 1 der law. If the sinner would set the, 1. It destroys Polytheism and idola-
sified through ages, and filling the world | christian a good example he would do i try. 2. It prevents confusion concern-
with glory, cannot penetrate it ? Can it j better. But he sets bim no holy exam- I ing the standard of right, c-jnfession of
be that among those on i»hose nature 1 pie; yea, his course bolsters and encour- sin, prayer, and all other duties. We
God's imago is s amped, there are hearts ages other sinners to hold on and go ou
so dead, and ears so dull that they have in sin and keep them from Christ. The ,
never yet been waked by that music faults of Christians oan't save any one. ■ the same Ood with ui, as one soldier
which has for ages thrilled with its di- ■ We may see Christian's faults, but not loves hii comrade. Association in a
vice harmonies the hearts of men and j their tears and prayers in private. We ^ common cause begets brotherly feelings,
aogels, and the swell of whose grand | need to be charitable lest we judge 4. It unifies the church, and increases
chorus, struck forth from every chord of | amiss; and the faults of individuals its power. All move to one point — the
this mighty harp, rolls in majestic gran- should not be charged upon the whole glory of the one Ood. Rays of sunshine
deur through all the templed arches of i profession We should not say that filling at the north, the south, the east
tbe universe 1 j ■' blacksmiths, lawyers, etc , are villians, and the west— all in their courses up- -
Awake, all ye sons of men, and if be- ! and dishonest men; 'tis unfair, false and ^ ward fin^ cue oornjaun S'spf re — Jt^^g^-/
owe all to God. .3. U promotes h-oth-
erly love. We love those wt; ?orship
fore yc never saw the glorious manifesta
tioos of Jehovah, behold them now.
Throw open every avenue of your inmost
souls, and be filled with the harmonies of to think of our own."
islander. ; So all Christian lives, t -vaver widely
" To dwell upon other's faults injures separated on the earth, still in their
us and them ; the Holy Spirit leads us courses upward find one common centre
B. I —God. W. H. D.
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Inciilent iif an Exiled Heruttec.
Kxtlefroin Tennessee
A 'I'limmiit for the New year.
Settleil I'eaee
I'lie (ireat Sin if ihe C'liurch.
The Kixl anil Statr 1
Kev. Stuart Riiljinson, 1). U. N. T. Y. 1
ThouKhts on the Works of Gotl H. M. K. 1
KxcuMta U. 1
A New Ciiv In the W est KaiLsaa
City I. 1
Kilkaev of Faith Pnetrv. 1
Theriiltvot iJod W. II. a 1
A valual)ie HoDk for Students... . Kdltorlal. 2
I'atcchcticnl Instruction N. A. P. 2
). tter (roni china Ben Helm. 2
The Human Trouble O, V. C 2
The Hor)]i of Order C. i
Small I--o.\es O. f. C. -l
i.rowthof l'ivsliTterlat l8in In (ia. Dr. Wilson. 2
An Hour with tliV Metuph.vsielans K.vperlor. 2
A Sensational Story .1
K iiieation of .Ministers* Daughters ^
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short Items -i
A li her .\poloir,v -1
(ieneral Intelliifence 'i
.Marriajres— Deaths
I'rlce Current
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TBI nOME riKCLK.
How Paper is Made Papa.
The Sweel Story of Old Poetry.
Well Done, Hoys Delaware.
I Want to l c a Minister
I he Ijiw of Love
The Open Door
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The Crops or Last Tear
(;heerlnp Prospects ut the South. ..
I 'ulture of Wheat
Beet Suuar
Hamie Seed Called For
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A VAMIA1II.E BOOK FOH STUDENTS.
It is the liife of Jo'eph Addison
Alexander, D. D , Profe.esor in the The-
ological Seminary at Princeton, N. J., by
his nephew, Dr. Ilenrj' Carrington Alex-
ander, recently published by Chailep
Scribner it Co., New York. It is the
most valuable literary biography of our
age and country. It contains the history
of a mature and ripe scholar, a learned
and able professor and teacher, an ac-
complished writer, a preacher of great
power in the pulpit and a servant ol
Christ, who consecrated his life and his
vast erudition to his service. The ex-
ample of such a life — though mostly
spent in seclusion from exciting scenes
in the church and the world — is a power
for good eminently worthy of a lasting
record. Though the subject of it is dead,
he yet speaks, and will long continue to
fpeak to admiring thou.sands.
Joseph Addison Alexander, the son of
our venerated teacher in Theology, the
late Dr. Archibald Alexander, gave evi-
dences of mental endowments of the
highest order in his early childhood.
Id the development of his mind, there
was nothing abnormal. His intellectual
powers were balanced with remarkable
Hyiiiiuetry. He did not possess a faculty
for one study, with no talent or taste for
other studies. As the Princeton Re-
view remarks, (fiora which we copy the
iiiott of this article) " he had great power
for every thing which he chose to at-
reiiipt. His acquisitions were determined
by his tastes. He studied what was
agreeable to him, and left unnoticed what
did liot suit his fancy. Afier leaving
(!ollege, he had a strong inclination to
udy law. Had he done so there can be
tional doubt that he would have
one of the greatest jurists and
country has produced,
less indebted to in-
ylucational influ-
niaincs, in French, ami the 12th chapter of
Don Quixole, in Spanish ; then read about a
hundrid lines in the Clouds of Arisloplianes
then read about the same number in Chan
cer'* Canterbury Tales; then went to tlie
Philolojrieal HiiU. to attend a ineetinji of
the IJoanl of Criticism of the Pliilolii ;ieal
Sdcietv, and ret^eiveii from tlie jnesident an
anonymous translation of Horace's Book 1
ode 22, to erilieise. Eead in the Uall the
14th eanto of l)antc"s Inferno, and finif^lied
the article on Arabian Literature in the For
eign (Quarterly Ileview ; returned home and
examined the aniinyinous translation afore
said, noting (h)wn some observation.s on tlie
same; then read a review of llase's Dog
matie and Gnosis in the Tlicologische 8tu
ilieii ; then reu lthe remainder of Isaiali 2iUl
in Hebrew ;■ then read De t aey's Arabic
Grammar; then read Genesis 22, 21!, in Jle
brew; then wrote a sheet of French e.\er
eises — and then to bed."
Such was his work for two year.', spent
in dive siBed study, after graduating at
Princeton College. He found no royal
road to learning- but study was his
pleasure. His vast atfainmc«ts were the
rich fruits of industry. The above speci-
men of a day's work should not be lec m-
mended as an examjde for others
Very few students, if any, can be profit
ed by endeavoring to study a d' zeu works
on as many subjects in one day. This
method, or rather want of method, would
be injurious to most readers.
I.riter From CliiiiH-
Id another column, will be found some
very interesting extracts from a letter
from the Kev. Ben Helm, one of our mis
sionaries to China. It was Dot designed
for publication ; but it contains state-
ments that will be read with profit by
thousands of the members of our church-
es — and that will, we think, awaken a
deeper interest in the labors of those
brethren in Christ, who are earnestly
toiling to plant the seeds of Gospel truth
in a far-off land of pagan darkness.
A New Work vs. Popery.
''The Pope and the Council,'' is the
title of a powerful work, written by a
Roman Catholic, under the 8igu||ure of
"Janus," in direct opposition to the ar-
rogant and ultra-moutane claims of the
Jesuits and the dupes, including con-
verts from the Anglican Church. This
work appeared almost simultaneously
in England and (iermany ; and in the
latter country, the author has bad seven
thousand copies printed for his first edi-
tion.
For the Observer and Commonwealth.
THE KOMAN TKOIIBLE.
Macauley, in his very brilliant review
of " Hanke's History of the Popes" re-
marks : " Nor do we see any sign which
indicates that the term of her (the Uo-
ujaD Church) long domioion is approach-
ing. She saw the commencement of all
the governmjnts, and of all the ecclesias-
tical establishments, that now exist in the
world; and we feel no a.ssurance that she
is not destined to see the end of them
all.'-
.^I inifestly, the signs of the limes have
changed since l»-iO. We have all of a
sudden leaped into a cycle of wondrous
change. Institutions and customs which
men believed to be pinned indissolubly
to society have boen overturned by a
restless radicalism. The Rom in Church
ijtalks like n ph niat of tho ajiidl?— SgS-
..•;e ihiit he was taught fo
ceded and !^&ceiv*d'as little
ce in the one case as in the other,
ather, seeing hie; disposition to study,
flft him very much to himself. He went
to ths grammar school, and afterwards
t'. rough College ; but a very small part of
his time OP attention was given to the
prescribed curriculum in those inslitu-
tion-t. He walked the course, absorbed
with other things.
His taste led him to devote his princi-
pal attention to language, history, sac-
red and secalar, ^including interpreta-
tion) and general literature. It is in the
study of languages that his earliest and
perhaps his most extraordinary attain-
ments were made. Finding an Arabic
grammar in his father's study, be took it
down and began to study it ; and before
he was fourteen years old, we are told,
he had read the whole Koran through in
the original. .Shortly after he took up
up the Persian, and soon attained a fa-
miliarity with the language, which be
continued to cultivate as long as he lived.
Hebrew, Chaldeo, Syriac were soon ad-
ded to his acquisitions. And subse-
quently, Coptic, Rabbinical Hebrew,
Sanscrit, and even, in a measure, Chinese.
The languages of modern Europe were
early ma.'^tered ; French, German, Italian,
Spanish. Dutch, Danish, itc, the major-
ity of which, he wrote as well as read.
His biographer gives a list of twenty lan-
guages with which he was more or less
familiar. In (ireck, Latin, Hebrew and
Arabic he was a thorough and accom-
plished master. To no language, how-
ever, did he devote so much attention as
his own. Its history, its authors, its re-
sources were all ^at his command. One
of his great excellsncDS was his Knglish
style. He was almost unequalled for
clearness, conciseness, felicity and force.
The reviewer remarks that "it would
be a great mistake to regard him as a mere
prodigy in the acquisition of languages."
His great attainments were not made
without labor; but in the labors of a stu-
dent he found pleasure. The habits of
industry, attention, study, formed in ac-
quiring languages, marked his progress
in reading history, sacred and profane,
theology, criticism, in every thing which
he chose to study. Like Cicero's orator,
he was a universal scholar, familiar with
almost every department of learning,
excepting the works of metaph ysicians,
for which he had no taste.
It would be pleasant to follow the wri-
ter of the article just cited, and speak of
his labors as a professor and teacher, as a
preacher, a commentator and writer, and
of his character as a man and a minister
of Christ, consecrating every talent to
the church and kingdom of his Lord and
Master. Before closing this notice of a
work which will no doubt be read by
many students and ministers of the gos-
pel, we cite a specimen of his daily la-
bors, bearing date of January l5th,1828,
when he was in the nineteenth year of
his age.
" Head a part of the 29th chapter of Isa-
""iaETm iiebrcw ; the 4th chapter of Louis
XV. the 4th chapter of the 2d section of
CondiUac'8 E»9ai sur les Connai^ances Hu-
what he learned I through the glaring nom tid« sun of the
present. U Itra-niontaue principles are
dreams of a hoary past. The '' un-
changeable" Church is at war with the
age and au ugly fissure tells the story of
division. She may see the end of all
politics; but she will h*v^ no more a
Hildebraud, or Innocent, to cjrry out
her master policy.
.She has just rcceivad an ugly stib
from some of her own chillren. The
Liberals have given her a death-thrjst
ia that irrefrigable accretion of evidence
found in the recent book, "The Pope
and the C ninci!." The book is simply
uuanswerHule. The foundation upon
which I'apal Home rests her assumptions
is laid bare, and is seen to be a uiafs of
monstrous forgeries and lies. The chap-
ter on the forgeries ought to be read by
every living S)ul wh) cxn read. Catho-
lics cannot say of the book " a Proles-
taut lie," because it is written by staunch
Catholics, who know what they are wri-
ting about. The very clear exposures in
this book prepare the miud, in a measure,
for the pronouncements of the Jvjumeni-
cal Couucil at Rome. The uUra-montane
pressure will undoulAedly lead the Coun-
cil to the adoption of the syllabus of
Pius IX. This syllabus is an enumera-
tion of eighty " errors," the adoption
of any of which by any hapless mortal,
will subject him to the anathemas of
Rome.
Let us see what the .Jesuits would es-
tablish as the principles of their holy re-
ligion. The following are a few of the
" errors," the opposites of which are the
dogmas of the '• unchangeable Church."
" That every man is free to embrace
and profess whatever religion he, in the
light of reason, regards as true ; that
there is good hope for the salvation of
those not found in the true Church; that
in a conflict between the civil and eccle-
siastical power, the former must prevail;
that Church and State ought to be sepa-
rate; that civil marriages are lawful;
that secular education ought to be sup-
ported by the State; that modern civili-
zation und civil liberty are consistent
with religion ; that freedom of conscience,
freedom of the press, and freedom of
elections, are just and proper."
The Devil does not show his accustom-
ed sharpness, by bringing tuch utter bal-
derdash to be adopted by an ecclesiasti-
cal council ia the cinetcentb century.
For while many, even American Hbihops,
are ultra-montane enough to subscribe to
this ghostly nonsense of the dark ages;
yet it is too palpably a death-blow at
human liberty to escape denunciation by
the growing and reasoning brains of the
age. The division is irremediable. A
few weeks more will work a vast change
in the "unchangeable Church." Since
writing the above, a late to'egram i.-; be-
fore me announcing :
"The Memorial Diplomatique isaerta
that a compromise has been arranged on
the quession of the infallibility of the
Pope. Infallibility will be affirmed,
but diasint from the article will be in
dul^edf
This is evidently for the benefit and
soothing of Gallicanism, which is ram-
pant in the Council. We had rather be-
lieve that the distent is a foregone con-
clusion and will exist in spite of Pius IX.
What course events will take none dare
with eertainty, prediet. That the Ro-
mish I'hurch may rise as the IJeast rose
again fr.ira the abys*', and be once more
the bloody monster she was in the
middle age, is a possibility. 'I'hat she is
at strife with herself is a moral certain-
ty. Iti.ad the article : " The Future of
Protestant is:u and Catholicity,'' i.T the
Catholic fl'erliUoT .lanuary ; also" rhe
True Origin of Gallicanism," in the
same .Maeazine, and above all. read at-
tentively, " The Pope and the Couiioii."
We are coming to greater wonders than
the world has .-'ver pas-ed tlir 'ni/h.
(I C. C.
For the Ol server aud Commonwealth.
CATRCIIICnCAL IXSTRUCTION.
The iinp )rlan;e of religious catecheti-
cal instruction, is admitted by all Chris-
tian?, though iu these degenerate duys, by
far too much neglected. Ttie holy men
who prepared the catec!ii.sm of our church
felt that no sacrifices were too groat to
make for the truth, and to hand it doivu
in its beauty and purity to their childreu.
For the truth's sake so-no of thorn were
driven f:om their homes and pulpits
Some suffered in pri.sons. And many of
them bore marks on their own bodies for
their sincere and faithful attachment to
the truth. And if need be it is our duty
to make sacrifices, and exercise self-de
nial to secure the attachment of ourchil
dren to the blessed truth, aud hand it
down through them to our children's chil-
dren, unadulterated as we have rccfeivcd
it from the hands of our fathers.
The la r^e V and shovfev ('(ilcciiistns
of our Church contain, as we believe,
the doctrines of the Bible; and the
Shorter Catechism, which we especially
teach to our childreu, contains the con-
cisest and most admirable summary of
the doctrines of Christianity, extant in
any language. It has stood the test of
long, long years. It is now 227 yeais
sit;ce the Assembly which prepared it
convened at Westminster, aud fiom that
time to this multitudes have made very
extersive ust of it, relying, themselves,
on the system of doctrines it coatains,
and teaching them to the rising genera-
tion. The nu-st eminent Christians that
have lived during this whole period, have
held the catechism to be the most pre-
cious compendium of biblical truth in
the world. They have carefully examin-
ed and compared it with the word of God,
believe in it, instructed their children
from it, and left it as a rich legacy to
their posterity. We shall never know,
until by the light of eternity we learn,
how much we owe to our ancestors for
their fidelity iu indoctrinating the rising
generation of their times by means of
this excellent summary of Bible truth.
The men who prepared the catechism
were men of tried lailltfulnesa. They had
passed thro' the fire of persecution. They
had exhibited their love to Christ by suf
fering for his cause. .Mr. Richard Baxter,
author of the ".Saints' Rest,'' and "Call to
the Unconverted," says of them : "There
has not been such another Assembly of
divines since the Apostles' days. Thoy
were men of eminent learning, godliness,
ministerial abilities and fidelityv*' Aud
Neal, ill hi . History of the Puritstos, s^ys:
"If the rtad.T read th/^list-trf
the men composing the Weituiiaster As-
sembly, he will find in it some of the
most considerable lawyers and ablest di-
vines of the last age. With all their
faults, impartial posterity must acknowl-
edge the far greater part were meu of
exempi.ry piety and devotion, who had a
real zeal for the glory of God, and the
purity of the Christian faith and prac-
tice."
The citechi.-ms were prepared with the
utmost pa'ieuce and care. The Assembly
met in 164:J. It had in it 121 divines,
continued five years, and held l,Ii).3 ses-
sions. Pjvery question was discussed and
considered with the most anxious solici-
tude to develop the truth. Tbey sought
to know the mind of the spirit. It is
said the Assembly spent four days in the
most profound deliberation on the one
question, "What is God ?" At the open-
ing of thii Assembly on the morning of
the o'.h, a young Scotch divine, who had
not been previously a very prominent
member, rose and read iu a most sol-
emn manner, "God is a Spirit, Infinite,
Eternal and Unchangeable in His Being,
Wisdom, Power, Holiness, Justice, Good-
ness and Truth," which was immediately
adopted without a dissenting voice. And
now, during the lapse of 22-5 year--, there
has been no occasion to alter or amend it
in any particular ; and iu the samo cau-
tious aud prayerful manner was every
answer prepared, and never adopted until
it was seen that every position was sustain-
ed by the word of God.
There is not another catechism in ex-
istence that has been so extendvely used
by Christians iu their families for so
many generations, or is worthy to hold
any comparison with it. Others there
are, so'ind aud judicious, that have been
and are still, u.seful in indoctrinating the
youthful mind ; but none -o comprehen-
sive, containing so complete a compend
of doctrinal theology, adapted not only
to the instrucrion of youth, but
to comfort and edify the people of God,
of every age. It has been associated
with the sanies of the most Christians,
that have lived during the last two cen-
turies. The Puritans of England and of
America, the whole Church of Scotland,
and the Presbyterians of the United
States have, and do still to some extent,
make it a text book for indoctrinating
their children in the principles of our
holy religion.
And we venture to affirm that had the
descendeuts of the pilgrims been as faith-
ful and continuous in their use of it as
their fathers were, the New England
Churches had been spared many cf the
evils which have befallen them ; and al-
though, as we believe, the larger part of
that church still "contends earnestly for
the faith once delivered to the saints,"
yet t' /ii^aria/iiim has found a pcrmwDnt
footing there. U niversalism presents a
bolder front than in any part of the world,
and wild fanaticism has kindled the fir, s
of a war among brethren, whose disas-
trous results a century will not be able
to repair.
la the Presbyterian Church, too, there
is reasoD to fear that catechetical instruc-
tion is greatly neglected. Robert Raikes
will be held in long reinenrbrance as the
originator nf the Sabbath School system,
an institution which has blessed tens of
thousands of families, both of the rich
and poor, in every part of Christendom.
Yet it is feared that one evil has grown
out of it, or that domestic religious in-
struction has been to somOxtent super-
ceded by the teaching of the Sabbath
School, and wc know that in many schools
the union and other questions haVe taken
the (ilace of the catechisms of the chureh.
Til s is certain'y an unfortxinate result,
for while the under.-tandiug, enlightened
by the use of the questions alluded to,
and a general knowledgi! of the scrip-
tures acquired, they leave the pupils al-
most us ignorant of the peculiar doc-
trines of the IJibie, as those who do not
study them at all. The peculiar excel-
lence of the catechism consists in its be-
ing a concise summary of the essential
doctrines of grace, and although it has
some things "hard to be understood," es-
pecially by the yourg, jet who that has
impressed them upon his memory
has not found them after his conversion
a rich mine of useful, scriptural knowl-
edge 1 We do not, then, hesitate in say-
ing, that while we would not exclude
questions of a historic aud general char-
acter, the shorter catechism -"liould ever
have a prominet place in ovpry Presby-
terian Sabbath School. Uljel^1 ^ ftn^ b e-
lieve the doctrines taught t'^ )rein. We
believe them to be the dc 'rines accord-
ing to godliuesj;doc',rines whi-^h, believed
and practiced, mak-2 wise unto salvation ;
doctrines which have shed joy in the man-
.sions of the rich and the cottages of the
poor, and comforted the perspcated saints
of Jesus when driven from their homes
and firesides, as well as thowTFh ) wor-
ship in peace in the sanctuary of the
Uord. N. A. 1*.
aries, three missionary physicians, twenty
female missionaries, beside the wives of mis-
sionaries. It has twenty-two ordained na-
tive ministers and licentiates ; about fifty
churehes, with a membership of two thous-
and; some seven thousand youths, more or
less, under Christian training, with a number
looking forward to the gospel ministay.
It has in three difl'ereiit countries printing
presses at work, which issued the p.ist year
more than thirty-two million p.tges, nearly
half of which were the Scriptures.
The Board has sent out to dillerent fields
since May htst, seven new missionaries, five
female missionaries, and seven missionaries
that were at home — making, with the wives
of such, a total of thirty-tw o, w lio went forth
to their respective stations by the authority
of the last General Assembly. This, with
other neccs.sary enlargements of the work,
will involvean increased exjienditure of over
$:5(J,0(»U. As no such legacy in amount can
be expected this year a-s that received the
last year, the sum needed from the eiiiirch
must be proportionately greater.
Correapondence of the Otwcrver aud rominonvrealth.
THK SMALL V'OX E8.
Ouly a blade of grass ! There it
stood, a sharp, bright, green, defiant, up-
right thing, unlike the sjft, wavy weeds
arouud it. It looked, somehow or other,
as though it did not belong there ; it bad
a foreign air about it ; yet farmer B .
after looking at it attentively a few mo-
ments, left it and went on his usual round
of observation.
The next year that solitary blade had
struck resistless roots far down in the
earth; bad spread a million ramifications
therefrom, and field after field was utfcr-
ly ruined ; every crop was pierced and
cut by the remorsciess cocoa ! There
was no gettiug it out of the soil. We
ought to draw great teachings from the
natural world. God means us to do so
All of Nature's mighty processes have
beginnings. The giant oak suggests the
acorn which you may crush between your
finger and thumb. The broad and ever
deepening river began at a little rill's
mouth which a baby could step across.
So one grown gray with crinae, whise
toQgue is foul with blasphemies against
Jasus ; whjse hiadj have wrougbt evil
through life, cm remejiber theUi| /«, the
reri(/i///e sin whiijh staud-
thro^gii t}^ years, 'at the lo
ous catalogue of crimes md debaucher-
ies. Oh! Christian, struggling yrith me
for the mastery ; agonizing to enter inti
the city ; cast dt wQ but not utterly swept
lut of God's way ; we need each other's
experiences; we need to know the Lord's
dealings iu peculiar cases ; we want to
feel as brothers going home to their dear
elder brother, Christ. We need to clasp
hands and help one another, as the Alpine
travelers do, over difficult places. Help
one another, verily, but help one another
to Christ.
Our difficulties, doubtings, back-slid-
ings aud apostacies, all begin at the ad-
mission of evil thoughts. Tnjrecanbe,
therefore, no safety to the inactive Chris-
tian. If we are not reaching forward to
the things that are before, we are remem-
berin^ the things fiat are behind. It
must be so. " Cleanse thou mt from
secret sin," was the prayer of one who
knew what it was to fall into great sin,
through looking and lustincr. And
here is our great strength : The though's
of tho heart, which is the fountain, being
kept pure, the streams of actions which
fiow therefrom will partake of the purity.
If we, in our private devotions, reit-
erated this one prayer, " Cleanse thou
the thoughts of our hearts by the Holy
Spirit," we would be getting at the rem-
edy. We do not become saints all at
once. The Bible saints were very much
like ourselves. If Isaiah bad reison to
say, " Oar righteousnesses are as filthy
rags," and Paul had reason to cry, " Oh,
wretched man that I am, who shtll de-
liver me from the body of this death ?" we
certainly can ta^te courage and believe that
He who hath begun a good work in us will
continue it until th« day oi -»Ie i|p(|A4tr»«t.
Let us watch our hearts — they are very
treacherous. Tfaey jump at evil natu-
rally. The golden chiius wliicb bind
them to Jesus can alone keep them from
sinking us to perdition. Dear (Chris-
tians, let us keep the noxious weeds out
of our hearts with the fervent utterance,
" Cleanse thou, us from secret sins."
G. C. C.
prii:sbti5:kian mimsions.
Though wc have seen many things in the
proceedings of the Assemblies of the late
t)ld School Church, worthy of censure, we
rejoice in the progress they are making in
the work of Foreign Missions. Their mis-
sionaries arc now preaching the gospel in the
four quarters of the earth. A writer in the
Pliiladeliihia J'rabylerlan »intes that the As-
sembly's Board has established missioas in
ten distinct countries in North and South
America, Asia, and Africa ; it is furnishing
means to carry on evangelistic work in
France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Italy,
and it has one laborer among the Jews in
our own land.
t^The Board is laboring among six tribes of
Indians in the United States; it has been
at work for many years among the Chinese
in California with some success ; it has a
mission in Bogota, and another in Brazil,
among tlic Romanists, where seven churches
have fjeen gathered ; \U missionary staff in
Japan aud Cliina is larger than that oflany
other society ; it is almost the only organi-
zation that is sending the gospel to the f ia-
mese and Laos; in Northern India it is ef-
fectively at work, while in Liberia and Cor-
sica it is preaching Christ to heathen |ind
Christians. i
The Board has in commis«ion at these Iva-
rious points, eighty-seven American mission-
\
CorresjKindence of the Observer and ConiniomveaUh
LETTER FROM CHINA.
Letters to China— Storms on tlie Great Deep —
An Epidemic in Uanchoii— .siitterinKS of tUc
Jlissionaries- Admonition to the diurches—
Oriental .Measures jI Distance— The New
Mission Station at Oii I'siu— Its advanlajres—
'I'lie Chinese I'riestliood — A Priestly Mode ot
Jlakins Money— H arniins Ten Months of the
Vear— The Work for Missionaries to Do.
•Mv Dear Brother: — Your unexpected
letter was welcomed the 17th of September,
instead of the middle of August, asyoti sup-
posed. Letters leave San Francisco the 3d
of each month, I believe. Hcn:c, yours left
the western shores of our country the'Sd of
August, and it requires full thirty or thirty-
two days to arrive in Shanghai. But this is,
in time, a very distant port from our city.
As it regards the Typhoons, wc were so
blessed iu our voyage, that I have i)robiibIy
lost the proper appreciation of the dangers
of "the mighty deep," and can rather sym-
pathize with the author of —
" A lite on tho ocean wave,"
than with the sea sick, storm-tossed voyager,
who had but two wishes, viz : first to get on
dry land once more, and second, to whip the
author of the above noticed ballad. Indeed,
I look back with jileasure to the romantic
life of two months on the fine steamer
ploughing the deep blue Atlantic, or coast-
ing along the cloud- robed mountains of Cen-
tral .\meriea, or yet threading the Inland
Seas of Japan's picturesque islands. It is
not hard for me to realize the feeling which
prompts the returned sailor boy amiii even
the pleasures of hcmie, soon to long to be
again " rocked on the cradle of the deep."
Nevertheless, these storms on the Chinese
seas are fierce and justly to be dreaded. I
heard a missionary relate bis experience, in
one where, for a day or two, all save one or
two expected so 111 to go down.
Ever since we arrived, urgent letters have
been written to the Church at home, telling
them the pressing need of a suitable house
for the mission and schools. But it was only
until recently, that the people of God so re-
sponded as to enable the Executive Com-
mittee to furnish the requisite means. The
result has been what some of us, in letters,
expressed a fear would be the case, viz : that
the schools would .sufler from an epidemic
in ca.se uie prevailed. During the latter
part of August, following the excessive heat
of parts of July and August, the weather was
cool, raw, cloudy and rainy. The mission
premises were flooded by water from the
city, and the filth of the neighborhood w.is
such that some cholera made its appearance.
Brother Houston h.id an attack of dysentery,
and Brother Inslee waited personally on him
till he was obliged to return to his family
and school. His liitle babe wss at'ackcd
one morniniT, and that day was token from
- --iekJJui Diiis.li'
1 .• 111, w acn one by
iiiiprudenee brought on a relap-e, and after
lingering a few days closed her young life.
In the meantime, Brother Inslee had remov-
ed his family and school out of the city, to a
place on the shore of a small lake, w liich
skirts the western wall of the city. During
this time, he was himself suff'ering from an
attack of dysenterj', but the cares and re-
sponsibilities were too many for him to goto
bed, so by fortitude and prudence he was
enabled not only tt administer to the wants
of the mission, but .also to attend on some of
the natives who were attacked, one of whom
fell with the disease at his door. At our last
accounts all were improving, save the two
little blossoms of life whioh have been so
early plucked.
I suppose by this time, the iirocccJs of
^.301X1, in greenbacks, have been received to
"jing" a house. " Behold, the goodness and
severity of the Lord." So soon has he seen
it best that our mission should seal its devo-
tion to his cause by the lives of two from its
midst. While a cloud is thus cost acro-ss the
early dawn of our mis-ion, we hope we si'c
in it, the bow of promise. " For whom the
Lord loveth he eluisteiieth." May it be
blessed to us all. But there is a lesson to
others in it, to which I may allude. And
let me here remark, I do not love to find
fault with the jieople of God, and it is only
love to our portion of Zion which induces
me to speak to you of it, hoping through you
it may benefit .some. I lad the churehes and
individual Christians in our connection, who
have from some cause made no response to
the calls of the Executive Commiltee, only
done something for the cause of missions, a
house mijjlit have been secured in time (hu-
manly sptakiiig,) to have averted this sad
stroke from our brother's family, yea, upon
our entire mission. Is there not a heavy re-
siionsibility for those to bear, who may not
have given unto the Lord according as He
has bestowed upon them. ?
In rejdy to your questions, I may not
biicfiy notice some wliich have intideutally
or necessarily been answered by our letters
home since you wrote, and by the heading of
this. Brother Smart wrote from Ilancliou
an account of our trip up here, wliicli ren-
dered needless a letter which I had prepared
during his absence for the Free Christian
Commonwealth. Your question abotit the
time and distance of Ilancliou from Shang-
hai are from an .\merican point of view.
The distance being about one one hundred
aud seventy-five miles, it might be thought
proper iu a country where you cross a conti-
nent in seven days, or go from Louisvilcto N.
Orleans in forty-four hours, to ask how many
hours it is to go from Hanehou to Shanghai.
But in the Orient, save where Western en-
terprise has penetrated — travel is reckoned
by days and months. Three days, then, is
considered "quick time" from Hanehou by
boat to Shanghai. By laud, according to na-
tive rate of travel, I suppose it would be five
or six days. As your questions were based
upon the supposition, that I would be at
Hanehou, it may be well here to give the
time to and from tiiis point. Wc are about
one hundred and seventy-five miles from
Hanehou. But being on the river, instead
of a canal, the time varies much according
as you go up or down stream, and according
as you have wind and tide in your favor or
•against you. The trip up may be made in
six to ten days, down in three to six days.
This is not the time the Hanehou boats take, .
but your own travel — neither is it the mail
schedule. That is a'jout six days either
way, being by land, and from Hanehou to
Shanghai from three to six days. So to
make sure of connecting with the steamer,
we have to allow some twelve or fifteen days
from this point to Shanghai. Now, think of
a trip from Canton by tiiis place — the in-
land route — to Pekin occupying two or three
months, and compare it with the three or
or four days trip Iroin New York to New
Orleans, and you will see the life and pro-
gress of the Western Cirea.ssian race, as con-
trasted with the emb.almed conservatism of
the Mongolian, or more jiarti' iilar yet of the
Chinaman.
You have long since learned of the settle-
ment, and of this station and its location on
the Tsien Dang River, one hundred and
seventy-five miles south-west of Hanehou.
It is better located than that city. Han-
ehou, it is true, is at the foot of the hills, bi.t
still it is on the great plain reaching to the
ocean. .\nd the tide, coming up Hanehou
Bay, passes far above the city In fact,
there is a massive tide wall stretching across
the plain a mile east of the city, wlrich was
erected many centuries since. I am not in-
formed its to whether the tide ever reaches it
at present. But this city is several hundred
feet about the site of Hanehou, as wejudged
by the fall in the river. It is on an eleva-
ted plain and enclosed by picturesque moun-
tains stretching from the north around west
and south to the east. Tliis is .about the
head of large boat navigation ; and being
on the inland line of travel from Canton, in
Kwangtung Province, Iliaug-Si and Tub
Kian Provinces, is of importance, though a
small city.
The people are a finer, healthier looking
body than tho ^e of Hanehou. So far a? I
am able to judge, there is a wider door open-
ed to us here than .at the former city. Tticre
is a feature here a little surprising to me, but
it may arise from my limited experience. It
is the few^ness of priests and the apparent
neglect of the temples. At Hanehou, the
temjiles are being rebuilt and repaired.
Crowds are in frequent attendance, and the
numerous idle, opium-smoking priests may
be seen collecting alms or going out for
some noctural scene of idolatrous worship.
They also have several nunneries for Budd-
hist nuns. How many of these, and of the
priests there are, I cannot say. Nor do I
know whether Buddhist or Taoista are the
prevailing sect in the provincial capital.
But jirobably, the former. Here, the tem-
ples at present are undergoing some repairs,
but it is generally those which depend on
some of tho ofiicial Yamens, (officers.) A
Buddhist priest told me, there were but forty-
four priests of his sect, large and small, in
city. The Taoists may be the prevailing
sect here, but it is lianl to .say, as I seldom
see a priest. The people have not given
over idolatry, although they do nat appear
to be priest-ridden as at Hanehou. Y'ou
may see the families conducting their own
idolatrous worship, whereas at Hanehou
you almost alw.ays behold shaved hf ads and
yellow robed Buddhist priests.
You may think I do not speak well of the
" priesthood," but they .arc the most idle,
sycophantic, unprinei])led looking men I
have ever met with. Their religion and life
is a falsehood, and many of them show that
they kniw it. But a short time since, two
of them with gilt-edged, neatly bound book,
called on us to get money. They professed
to believe tho truth with all humility as we
declared the True God to them, and then
turned and begged a few "cash." When
told they must give up being priests, aud go
to some trade if tbey believe the truth, one
a little excited turned to his com|iaiiion and
exclaimed: "Liar, puh tab," a superlative
expression in this connection about equiva-
lent to our exclamation, " Dreadful, unen-
diualile." Many of thes: temples, have bu-
state of things then existing — few elders
ever appearing on thefloorof the Pres-
bytery. At best, our Israel was exceed-
ingly small. The laborers were few and
far between. From about this period
may be dated tho rise and spread of
Presbyterianism in Georgia."
After noticing the history of /icvcral
churches, emigrants from which bad founded
and built up new and now flourishing church-
es — that more than compensate for the pres-
ent feebleness of the jiarent church. Dr.
Wilson continues:
" Presby'erianism is not declining in
Georgia. In 1820, we had not more than
twenty churches in ths State; we had
one PreSbHsrv and no Synod ; now we
have within tiTe^~ ka. e proper about Wi'i
churches, and inolu'Hng- EJorTtfa;'
145 to 150. We have a Synod and six
Is Presbyterianism
iuj^de.
oi.c) in riip tV|)nt part, jrltiJe wfe W(?r-.j4£j:y»'
Presbyteries, and not much short of
8 OOO members,
dying out?
Lot me state how this thing works, and
might cause a superficial observer to
jonclude that we were in a sad decline.
The church at Decatur, DeKalb county,
was organized in October, 1 825, with only
nine members. They were mostly immi
grants from Good Hope Church, S. 0.
That is forty-four years ago. The church
has had its bright and dark days, but has
still held on the even tenor of its way.
Its present pastor, the Rev. M. D. Wood,
has recently looked into its roll, to as-
certain how many names of members
had been inscribed upon it. He found
that more than 700 had belonged to its
communion since its organization. At
present, it has about 180 members. Is
the diurch of Decatur declining ? We
think not. It is a grand old heaven-
favored church. It has sentont colonics.
The original members of the First church
of .\tlauta, and also Marietta, were prin-
cipally from that church Presbyterian-
ism is not dying iu Georgia. It may
be sleeping That, I fear, is too truly
tlie case. But it will awike some of
these days.
Correspondence of the Observer and Commonwealth.
AN HOUR with Ihe METAPHYSICIANS
mccosh's dkfen'se of fcvdamkntal
TRUTH.
We have been greatly refreshed in s mie
of our college studies by the reading of Dr.
McCosh's "Defense of Fundamental Truth."
(iueslioiis of church iwlity, and the terrible
violations of all law and logic which have
been sprung on us these past years, liave so
engrossed many of your contributors tind
readers, that there was neither time nor
taste for the quiet groves of the Academy.
When Laiifranc, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, Anselm, his successor, Odo, Bishop of
Cambray, and others, revived the science of
logic in the eleventh century, their investi-
gations re.ached a point on which there arose
a violent dispute among the patrons of that
useful science. They all acknowledged, says
a historian, that logic or dialectics, had for
its e.sscntial object the consideration of uni-
vfr.sa!s in their various relations and points
of comparison, since particular and individ-
ual things, being liable to change, could not
be the objects of a sure and immutable sci-
ence. But the great question was whether
these universals, which came within the
sphere of logical inquiries, belonged to the
class of real things or thaV of mere drtiomin-
alions.
In this historic jiicturewc have a full view
of the nominalists and reali.sts, — philosophic
parties, which have been adorned by great
names. The dispute has lasted seven cen-
turies, and remains uudecidcd— the greatest
minds which give their attention to this
truse subj.'ft, being un:
shqi may bt^ carried on a
them.
As rcgardssoil, &c., the plain is a dark,
and I judge, a fertile soil over a bed of
bowlders, such is revealed along the bank of
the river. ■ It has been a vast plain of rice,
with here and there plots of sugar cano and
other productions which are peculiar to
China. The lotus and n.ative jiotato, much
resembling it in leaf, also add a little variety
to the scene making tr an .ngritulturist a
beautiful landscape. You here miss the
fences, which cut up a rural scene in Amer-
ica. Footpaths are sufficient to divide the
small rice and t.tber fields of dillerent jiro-
prietors. No sooner is the rice crop gather-
ed, than the land has to brar a burden of
vegetables fir fall. But daily fertilizing
enables it to pr;iducc heavily about ten
months out of the year. The country .about
here is beautiful, the clima'c better in win-
ter than in Virginia or Kentucky, and hotter
for a month during the summer. Leave out,
or endure that month, and the remainder of
the time it is as good a climate us I have
been accustomed to. There arc vast fie lds
of the Master's harvest here without a labo-
rer, and with all the indilference to eternal
things which oppose the missionary, the heart
is not harder than those who have resisted
the teachings of a Christian mother, and the
persuasions of faithful pastors. Then, are
we not to Expect -some young brethren yearly
to come where they can build, and not on
another's foundation — where they can bear
glad tidings to souls wlio "have never heard
so much as that there be a'' Saviour?
CROWTII 01 ' PRESilVTEKI AM»M IN
GEORtilA.
At a missi(mary meeting of the Synod of
Georgia, last fall, a young mini.ster cxiiressed
the opjnion that the Presbyterian Church
was on the decline in Gcorg;a. The venera-
ble Dr. J. S. Wilson — one of the oldest min-
isters in the Synod, thus notices the remark
in a late number of the Southn n Prexbijle-
rian :
"It was mauifesst that he (the young
brother) knew littls of the history of
Presbyterianism in this Stite. H id he
known what t:Ouie of us knew, he would
not have pn cla m:'d ourlChuich in i dy-
ing condition with fo n uch btddncss
Had be traveled over the road some of
us have traveled, and witnessed what we
have witnei^sed, he would rather have ex-
claimed, on a review of tho past half cen-
tury, ' Whit hath God wrought ! '
I came to Georgia a licentiate in 1820,
having been licaused the previous year
by the Pre.sbytery of South Carolina.
At that time, Hopewell Presbytery em-
braced the whole State, from the sea-
board to the mountains, or at least that
portion of it settled by the white people ;
oue-tliird, perhaps nearly one-lialf, of the
present territory of the Siate was in pos-
.se;-siou of the Indians. The following
year, (I.S2I,) I returned aud received
ordination from the same Presbytery, and
was dismissed to Hopewell Presbytery.
Previous to thut time, as much, 1 think,
as eighteen ironths had elaplsed when no
meeting of the Presbytery had b .en held
lor want of a qujrum. There was a
((uorum in the Stite, but some of the
ministers were aged and infirm, and
lived so far from each other that they
were unable to meet forih* transaction
of business. I joined the Presbytery
t'01d Bethany,' iu the spring of 1822
The churches under its care were few and
veeble. If I am not mistaken, the first
statistical report made to the General As-
sembly after my connexion with it did
not exceed 350 communicants. It is
probable that the report was defective,
as it would be very difficult to obtain
the correct statistics of the churehes in the
IS 11(11' .Ul i;
the altar behind discussed !n the "Defense of Fundamental
Truth," it is frequently in sight, and the
book, in many places, and particularly at
page 330, discovers to us Mill, a Nominalist
aiul McCo.sh, a Realist. There is no great
advance made toward settling the question^
and the mode of statement and defense are
not greatly dift'erent from those used in the
days of Beratigcr and Lanfranc.
It becomes us to be modrst, when we re-
flect that the science of this advanced age
has not been able satisfactorily to- define
the operations of the human miud, but we
are not to conclude on this account that
there has been no advance m.tde by modern
philosophci-s in the'knowledge of these oper-
ations, or that theirin vcstigations have been
fruitless. This examin.ation of Mill and his
school (^f iihilo.sojihy, wc regard its a valu
able contribution to the scienceof mind, and
eminently calcul:;ted to check the specula-
tions of a sect, which at present is supported
by great names, and finds no small favor
with the jiublic. If we follow the school of
Mill, we rarely or never reach an external
world, and we arc just where we were with
Berkley, with whom there was no external
world, or, at least, no proof that there wiw ;
all that man knows or can know, being re.
solvable into sensations and ideas. It is true
that theories of this kind, considered in
them elves, are perfectly harmless, as they
never will have any influence on the mass of
mankind. But the reasoning which is
thought to establish these theories, when
applied to man's present condition, finds him
to have a nature in which there is inherently
no moral or religious attribute, a fortuit .us
dweller in a world in whioh there is no fixed
moral law. and iu which no God reigns.
Man, in this state of things, having reached
what are suppo.sed to be the last results of
philosophy, is left to grieve over an unsatisfac-
tory piift, an incomprehensible present, and
no future.
Dr. McCosh does not partake in this dismal
view of things, and with good reason repudi-
ates the philosophy that leads to it, as bein^
not only unfriendly to human happines*, but
radically unsound in itself. He arrives at an
external world by intuition, which is certain-
ly the way our .Maker formed us to arrive at
it, and following which the child does not
err, while the philosopher is lost in a laby-
rinth of sonsations and idea-*. In like man-
ner he aci'ounts for our moral sentiments, or
those decisions of the mind, which we ex-
press by the words "giod" and "bad," as .ap-
plied to actions and by "ought", and "duty,"
while on the other side what is meant by these
important words is attempted to be generated
out of the association of ideas. While there
is so much to approve and admire in this
volume, we regret that the author has, in
several places, left himself exposed, as ap-
pears to us, to a very d imaging criticism, if
his o iponents desire to take advantage of it^
of which we can only note a f"w exanijiles
in this paper.
In the chapter on "Judgment or Compar-
ison," piige220, he says, "I have shown that
the miud starts with an original stock of
knowledge and belief" And again on page
237, ' The mind, as I apprehend, begins its
intelligent acts with knowledge, and we may
add, with beliefs." With all respect for the
standing and experience of the author, we are
compelled to say that we cannot accept this
as philosophy. The word start, as used in
the first quotation, must denote the beginning
of the mind's existence, or the beginning o'
its acts. Locke was of ojiinion that a child
may have ideas before it is born, but we sec
in the book no hint of such an opinion being
held by our author, unless it be in the above
statement. In the second quotation the
word "start" \a identified with the beginning
of its intelligent .acts. This fixc^S
wherever that point may be, before i
understand this philosophy to sav,
has a stock of knowledge and belief*
it makes use of at this starting poinlf
as soon as its intelligent acts begin!
there is, moreover, attributed to the i
eertein advantage in having this tXo\
knowledge and beliefs, on which to begij
series of intelligent acts which is to
tute itshistory in this world. This, nod|
is a very great advantage as against
who contend that the mind commences^
career merely with sensations. The advaj
tage would ap] ear to be as decidedly
favor of the mind, if it did possess such
stock, as capital is to a man commencing
bu.siness, as against him who has none. Bur
"i^yHHt "iitii'"c is tliin "T'du
knowledge .nnd beliefs, aiul whence did lO
come? ■ It did not come from an extern J
world, for the mind has not yet started in if
commerce with that world. The word oriiii-
«a/ would seem to indicate that the mind has"
them independently of an external world ;
if so, it must be endowed with-ihcm previous
to experience — a doctrine whicR. is utterly
untenable. It may also bj safeljiasntmwj^
that a stock of knowledge and belief?
the exercise of intelligence, but thi
conceivable before the mind beginsT
ligent acts. The true philosophy,
prebend the matter, is that the niiil
ally pos.se-ses certain capacities whl
also called powers or faculties, and tliaS
the exercise of these capacities on their i
er objects, ari.se knowledge and beliersj
these are ever enkrging with theexcreiSi
the capacities, but there w.-ls no original
stock, nothing original, but the capacities.
Again, on page 2(33, when speaking of the
truth, reached by intuition, he says, "it is
narrowed * » ■ » by the.4rfgy«aljii-
lets, which are theoutward m^ffu^'rd fenses "
We are aw.are that Lockemade reflexion one
source of our ideas, and s.aya it might proji
erly enough be called "an ' internal sense.'
Wc have nothing in the contest, nor in the^
book elsewhere which serves to guide us to |
Locke's meaning in the plirasc "inwaril
senses," as used by Dr. McCosh, and we ai
driven to ask what 'does it mean ? It issomi
thing different from the oiihvard senses, fd
it is an additional inb t to that constitute
by the outward .senses, and it denotes some
thing difl'erent from the mind to which thei
inward senses are an inlet. Are these iij
ward senses a medium between the mindal
the outward senses, and without which, the.'
considered as separate parties, could have i|
communication? This is just the plaS
where ] hilosophers are liable to err whe
they enter the mind's innermost chambeiJ
and it does little for philosophy to introduJ
s) vagiio a i)hias3 as inwari senses, witht/
telling us what llu-y are, and how many the]
are of them.
We will ouly remark on one other
in which the distinguished author faj
give us any light on the point he Ujj
to elucida'X!. It appears to be
who have treated of the mii
which ha -e a resemblance sug^
Tliis is a rocognizjd Inwof ass
unsettled question, says our ;j
the relation (of res»mblaij^
mind before the law o\ji
trait, and it at once^
have never seen
portrait for ilic.
present.
It
There
of thought li
gcst" and "call ujT
law operates a.ssociatii?
the arguinent is that this
iginal is, according to our^
mind before the resemblance^
"For until the idea of the oripf
up, 1 cannot di -cover the resiS
Now what causes the original to sj
Not the resemblance, for tbe reseS
cannot be discoverad until the orig
springs up. There the original springs
witho' t any cause a.ssigned by our author ;
he does not permit the resemblance to call it'
up ; that will scarcely be alleged, he tells us.
According to him it s|)rings up by chance
out of the graat slorchouse of the mind, and
then by an act of judgment we pronounce
the re-emblance. If the law does not act
t'.W after the original sjirings up, we ask^rilalT
use, room or iieed u there for the law at all?
We have the portriiil, ibc original, and the
perceived resemblance — ^all that we want,
without .suggestion, in any form, or perform-
ing any office. This particular original
springs up, we say rather than any other,
and to tlie exclusion of all oihers,
becauso there is a relation (called re-
semblance) between the i ortrait and it,
and along this relation, bo t speak,
the mind travels with electric speed till it
comes to the original. We do not mean by
these criticisms to disparage this work, which
wc have already s.iid is very valuable. But
we must remark in general that while Dr_
McCosh charges his oppinents with being
vague, incomprehensible, and sometimes in-
consistcat, he has not been as successful in
avoiding these thi;igs hims.lf, as we would
expect a philcs jpher to bs who so clearly
perceived them in others. E. wI erior.
For the Observer and Commonwealth.
THE ISOOU OF ORDER.
A PSOPOSAI. KI-:SPECTING SYNODS.
Ill a former article, we called attentiiin
Chtipter v.. Section 5, on.Syuods, and to some
facts showing the importance attached ^l
them as evinced by the attendance on this
court of the Church. We presented the fact,
that but a umall fraction of the members of
Georgia, were present at its last meeting. A
minority of the Synod of Kentucky had to
trai)s;ict its important business. This was
true, also, of every Synod that lias met the
past few months, so far as wc have seen any
statement of the number present. Memphis
Synod bad a fuller meeting than any prece-
ding one for te;i years, and only sixty-six
were present and one hundred and eight
were absent. South Carolina, not one-hall'
of the ministers, and not one-third of tb.
elders were jircsent. These four Synods, wc
think, may be taken as a fair sample of all
the eleven Synods of our Church. The con-
clusion, to whioh, we think, every reflecting
reader must come, is that the Synod as now
constituted, is not as well attended .as either
the Session, Presbytery or the General As-
sembly. \'et, it is an important court of tbe
Church, and we would not have it .abolish-
ed, but only remodeled.
The (.'^Hurch Session or Parochial Presby-
tery is composed of pastor and elders chosen
by the congr.^gation, and to rcjiresenr saidj
coiigrcg.ation and act. iu its name and behalf.'
The I'resbytery is compo-cd of ministei-s
and elders chosen by these Sessions to rep-
resent them. The Sj nod, iis at present, i- ^
nothing more or less than a Presbytery, a
.somewhat larger one than some, aud not any
larger than some othe- presbyterits. Thus,
it was not, if ot.r memory serves us, for we
have not now the book by us, in the Forn
of Government adopted by the Westminstc
Assembly. Was the Primitive and A]
in .to_
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lie Synod constitutej as ours now is '.' Some
'.li e ma ^ as!?, what then do we want? AVe
iinswer, let the Synod be constituted as the
Sf^sion and Presbytery are — hy ministers
and eldi rs elected by three or more presby-
teries to rcjiresent these presbyteries ; just
US our Geni'ral Assemblies are. Then, all
tlius chosen would feel a greater obligation
to attend. Then, we would not liavc as
MOW, minorities tratisacling the most imi)or-
tant business. .Jhen, we need not have so
TTtTffl^SjfJIoIIsT'and the expen.ses of both
preaching and ruling elders being paid, we
w ill have a full repro.sontaliou of each, and
our synods be what they ought t.i bi' in the
t'hurch of our Lord Jesus. (".
l nily Prayer Meeting in Louisville*
.\ Union prayer meeting cofiducted by the
Young Men's Christian Association, is now
held daily at 12 o'clock, in -tciid of nine
o'clock, as hitherto.
Third Cliureli, Kii-hniond.
On Sabbath afternoon, Jan. 0, Win. H.
Craig was ordained a ruling older of the
Third Presbyterian Church, Hichmoud, and
Messi-s. W. U. n. Frayser, E. I'leasants,
George W. Taylor aniLG. W. Alien deacons.
The Rev. Wm. E. Hill, the pastor, was as-
iiij- the Rev^Thos. I,. Preston, of the
'I'irst Church.
Alabama Sfrcct Church, Meniithls.
In a business note to the editors, on the
UUh instant, the Rev. Dr. Stcdman say.s —
riio Alabama Street Presbyterian Church
ha.s just closed itsTOgulai .'A^oramental soa-
sin. It was a time of great refreshing and
comfort to God's people, and some jirccious
souls, we trust, were converted to God. One
was added by ie'.ter, and five by the profes-
ilfon of their faith— all of these adults: one
, of whom was baptized. Two additional el-
ders and two deacons, who had been previ-
ously elected, wtre in.-talled, all of them
worthy and true men. Our little church lias
been graJtKilly and steadily increasing, is
very much united iu mind and heart, and is
striving, I think, to do good as it may have
opportunity. 'God has done great things
lor us, whtreof we are glad.' May we al-
ways walk softly before Him, and show our-
selves always ready to every good worfl and
work !"
Ur. Stiles in Alabama.
We learn by an exchange paper that the
Kev. Dr. Stiles, who has entered upon hi^-
labors as the Evangeliist ot the Soutii Ala-
bama Presbytery, was preaching in Selnia,
we doubt not to congregations deeply inter-
ested.
A I iiliou8 to the Church.
We understand that a few per.wns were
added to the Portland Church, of which the
Rev. Mr. Thompson is pastor, ou last Sab-
bath. There was also an accession to the
Church in Elizabethtown, Ky., under the
ministrv of Rev. Mr.'Flournov. the same
Festival oT the Reiormation.
On the 7th of November last the Festival
of the Rejii«nation wits celebrated in all the
t^rotwtfiiit Churches in Paris. This is a new
institutit n, which attracts a great number of
hearers to the religions services. The preach-
ers remind their audiences of the pious ex-
amples of the reformers, andtheohl Huguc-
nols. They show how Evangelical faith is
fruitful in deeds of fidelity, of zeal, and of
self-sacrifice, and awaken the historic con-
sciousness of the Christian congregation.
^st j tcriaii Churc^i, Stjnnton
rtWS PFCLABLD FHEE.
[lew of the growth of this eongrega-
|.cc the war aud underi's piescnt
a growth indicated by the
re than thirty families seek-
' ithin its walls cannot be
-th ! ooiigrogalioii,
have declared
pj^i of th }
Wi
fi.orrtf
-iliyfli
'Dr. Stnyth
t'lat church
did not intend "to impose celibacy on the
missionaries, but simplv require that candi-
dates should remain unmarried during a
probation of tw o years, and while engaged in
a particular kind of itinerant work."
Acknowledgment.
We :ii knowlc(l:;e tlie receipt of §!0 IVir the
caufc ol'eclucation ol yonn;; men for tiie minis-
try in tbe !outh, received Iroin B. H. !];irliiean.
Esq., Cliauipai^-ne, Illinois.
EDUCATION 1) F M I N I S T R R !$'
DAUGIITEKsi.
Tlic f.iUowing comnuiiiication is coin-
meiide*! to those whom God has bles.sed with
means to aid thcbcncricciit work undertaken
by the Rev. Mr. Caldweli., the Principal
of the Edgeworth Female Seminary. Eds.
Messrs. Editors : — No one who has read
the communication of the Executive Com-
mittee of Sustcntation, dated December J9th,
can doubt that many Presbyterian minis-
ters in the !-'oiitli have urgently iicidcd more
as»i.-,tuiicc than lliat Committee proposed to
give or was able to give them. It was there-
lore w ise and important to make an effort to
assist and relieve them by the present sup-
port and instruction of tiicir daughters who
are of a suitable age to be at school. The
plan adopted for the accom])lisliment of this
object, and carried into operation at Edge-
worth Female Seminary, tireensboro, X. C,
has been repeatedly ami extensively pub-
lished. By circulars addressed to the stated
clerks of our Presbyteries, and through all
our religious iicw.spapors, information has
been sought in regard to the circumstances
of brethren who need the a.ssistance proposed.
After much thought, consultation and cor-
respondence, it was obvious that nothing
could be done in the South to give success
to this plan of aid and relief Citizens of
the Rorder States had so frei|uently and so
largely contributed to our churches and our
people, that it was thought to be unwise t i
appeal to them for their co-operation.
I'lie only pros])ect of realizing any desira-
ble measure of success was to make known
the wants of our brethren to persons of
wealth and benevolence in the Northern
States. This has been done to a limited ex-
tent. No suitable agent could be ])rocured
to take charge of this benevolent enter])rise,
aM l hence nothing was done to raise funds
until the summer d' 1808. Then and since
that time, as circumstances would |)crmit, we
have made several brief, earnest and labo-
rious visits to the North, in the interest of
this cause. We sought to induce individu-
als, either singly or in union, to contribute
$10U per session, or $200 a year for the sup-
j)ort of the daughter of an indigent minis-
ter whom he or th.ey might select, and with
whom a correspondence was to be imme-
diately opened. We make no charge for the
tuition of such pupils in the literary dei)art-
ment. Two hundre l dollars was consitlered
a very small consideration, as it was intend-
ed to cover all exiienses of board and text
books, and as there was considerable ex-
pen.se and unreipiitcd labor in raising the
i'unds. It is also worthy of remark that by
reason of the ])eculiar conditions of tli#lcasi'
of this property, we become liable to my
year for each of our bo irders whether
"I'ne daughter of a minister or not. This Ls a
work of benevolence, and as sucii it has re-
ceived the endorsement of a number of the
wisest and most influential ministers in dif-
ferent Sciiitheru States. We believe God has
rti^y sanction, inasmuch as J^ie has
Mrs. Stowe was weak enougii to retail the
dirty, scandalous story, which is refuted in
Mr. Mackay's pamphlet. Mrs. Stowe has
published a book in defence of her last hum-
bug.
Ool-nEN SONOS ANn UAI.I.4DS FOR TDK CHILDREN.
Selected by llie aiillior of " Annie"» Gold
Cross," Ac. pp. :i.")0. I'liiladelplii i: I'resliy-
lerian I'ulplieution Cominittep. l'"or s.ile hy
,1. K. Sleight, No. 1011 ilain street, liieii-
lllODd.
An excellent collection of beautiful songs
and ballads is here presented to the reader.
We know few books more suitable for the
nursery table, or for a Christmas gift for lit-
tle boys and girls.
Seeiko Jebus. By the Kev. Henry A. Nelson,
1). I)., ol tliK Ijane Tlieoioyical Seminary, pp.
172. riiiladelpliia. I'resljyterian I'ublicatiou
Committee. For sale as above.
Various .scenes in the life of our Saviour
are presented in a form well adapted to in-
terest and instruct the young, ami lead them
to see Jems " the Only Begotten of the Fa-
ther, full of {,race and truth."
JosEPB ; The Hebrew Prince of Egypt. In
llible l-ancuajre. Nine Illustrations, pp.81.
I'liiladclphia : I'reBbvterian rublication Com-
niiUce. l?"or sale as above.
Tee Amshicah JiiAtiTERi.v CBiRcn BsviEir
AND hccusiASTiOAL KttiisTER lor .January,
IsTU. Kev. rrofcssor.Tohn M. l eavitt. A. M..
Editor and I'roprietor. New York : No. 37
Bible House, Astor PKice.
Contents— Advanced Ritualism ; A Leaf
from Mediaeval History; Walter Savage
Landor; Prison Reform; Darwinianism ;
Clerical Celibacy ; Mystical and Represen-
tative Numbers ; Ignatius ; Romish Saint
Worship ; The Liturgy and the Articles ;
Notices of Books; Ecclesiiustical Register.
Kitty, liv l. Bktiiam Edwards, author of "Dr.
.Tacolis." '-A Winter with tlie Swallows:"
N -wYor:»: Harper & Urc.thrrs publishers.
1S70. Kor s lie as above. Trice 50 cents. 12
luo. pp. U3.
This numbers 332 of the library of select
novels published by Messrs. Harper & Bros.
(3f the mi rits of the .story we cannot speak.
Tbe scene of it is a studio of painters in Bo-
hemia.
I.ateMt V'roni Dr. Livingstone.
Letters dated Zanzibar Dec. 23d, from
Consul Webb, received at the State Depart-
ment, in Wasliington, state that a letter had
been received at the British Consulate from
Dr. Livingstone, dated May 30th. Living-
stone W!is at I'jiji, on Yanyanvki lake where
he had found his upplies. He was in good
health and spirits, and jiroposed traveling to
windward of Yanyaiiyki unless some boat-
men and further supplies, for which he had
sent, reached I'jiji.
Colored BiiptiNtM in Va.
The statistics of the colored Baptist
churches in Virginia show a membership of
43,318, exclusive of thoseyetin communion
with the white churches. They have 132
churches.
Prize PcwM in Mr. Heeelier's Clinrcli.
It is slated that the llev. Henry Ward
Beecnerjiicrsonally superintended the auction
sales of seats anil pews in Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, ou Tuesday evening, and encour-
aged the biddinj;. Mr. Gage, a wealthy
speculator, carried off the best, or prize seat,
for which he pays ?!(U5 as the annual rent.
Mr. Bowen, jjublisher of the Independent,
bid S490 for the second clioice, and Mr.
Claflin, the dry goods prince, offered S4S.5
for the third Vx'st seat, and both these bids
were accepted. The total sum realized by
the sale w.as ?;07,.'' 4:;.;j0 against $.'i4,494 last
year.
Fourteen Congregational churches Lave
been organized among the colored people in
and about New Orleans during tiie fast year.
The Rev. Edward. F. Strickland, late of
Michigan, has been laboring among them.
I'erKOiiHl.
W\. Loughridge hits removed from
f;e to Lavaca, Texas, having accept-
lanimous call from the churches of
I and Victoria, to become their stated
Correspondents will note his change
Lddress to Lavaca, Texas.
Uev. W. H. McAuley has removid from
Selma, Alabama, to Wi'souville, Alabaiiui,
where he is oecujiying an important mis-
sionary field. Corrcs; ondeiits w ill note the
change.
ItoiK^uraN, Ark
There was a new church organizid by tl e
Rev. M. A. Pattereon, at Honduras. Colum-
bia county, Arkansas, on Saturday, bcfoie
■ tirst Sabbath in Dtcdnbtr, containing
aeen members, including three ruling el-
( Cis "aiid two deacons.
Unexpected S^eqnriice oT Itc-ni ion
The secretary of the Presbytvjriau
Hjard of Domestic Missi ns issues his re
grets. thut amid the j y of re uui m tiie
Board's receipts have lal'.eu of more than
twenty thousaiid dollars.
Degrees at Princeton.
At the late semi-annual meeting of the
Trustees of the College of New Jersey,
Princeton, the degree ot Doctor of Diviiii y
was conferred upon Rev. I harles A. Aiken,
President of Union College, New York, and
the degree of LL. I), on the venerable Jos.
W. Scott, of New liruiisw ick, of the class of
1795. The rejiort of President McCosh )ire-
sented a highly gratiljing view of the con-
dition and prospects of the institution. The
mimber ot studints in attendauce is 32.' .
A Singular Notice.
A congregation in Chicago advertises for
a jircacher, and specifics that, besides being
a good preacher, he must be -a man of good
moral character. Au exchange expre-ses
gratification that a moral charactor among
preachers is not at a discount with that
church, though it would seem to be a scarce
c"' ill that region. Another cnitor
J; ■ I I'y this circumstance of a Quar-
terly L . ..iieiice in Tennessee, that jietitioiicd
the bisliOp to send them, by all means, a
preacher piously inr/incd.
A Woman Preacher.
' Rev. Jlrs. Haiiaford hashad a call to New
Haven, with a .salaiy of $2,-000. She will
draw the college young men to her hearing.
She is of a very mini.sterial aspect and bear-
ing, a graceful and devout manner."
So says an exchange. The salary is suflic-
icnt tosujiport herself, husband and children;
but we arc anxious to know who will dis-
charge the duties of pastor's wife, if she ac-
cepts the call.
Roman Catholic Purity.
To ki ow what Romanism is, one n.u^t see
it in Italy. It wears its n.ost attractive garb
ill America. 1 have seen in the I'ajial
Stiites only three ecclesia^tical persons, in
whose facts I could discern sincerity and
pU'ily. The sins of the priests arc a matter
of ' '[III on knowledge,and, with the youths,
' I i l l! I was inloiined that the obscene
Looks . publicly told in Rome and in all
.i^outhern Italy, are almost wholly made up
■of the frightful licentiousness of the priests.
A Roman lawyer, of very great prominence,
told me that a common saying is this, "He
is as low as a priest," usually put in this
way, "Treacherous as a priest. ' — R. L. Col-
lier in the C/tistian Heijislrr.
Benevolent Societies in London.
The Bi.-hop of London states that there
now exist in that city more than a thousand
as-sociatioiis for cliaiitable purposes, adminis-
tering annually about £4,000,000, in addi-
tion to the rc;;ular assessments of the poor
rates. Yet there is such a spread of want,
misery, pauperism and crime in that metrop-
olis, that the authoritiej are at their w its' end
to meet itij'
^ Celibate Missionaries.
The excit »ment among the Baptist- of Eng-
land Oil the (jtie-itioii of sending out celibate
missionaries to liiilia, called forth a vote at
the meeting of their missionary society held
laiit moiiUi, to the effect that the Coniniittce
granteil iis jlic yisit ; tiiin^ of JiisJiyiaJ__jjii^_^;
brinight s()JW?ol I he daughters of his jiroph-H k
ets, with many others to yield thcinselvesi
unto (Jod, as those who are alive, from the
dead.
Arrangements have been made according
to this ])lan for the .support of sixteen young
lailies — daughters of ministers — for oiieyear,
and in a few cases for two years. To this
number we hope additions will be made by
the agency of the Rev. S. A. Stanfield.
Two young ladies, selected by persons wil-
ling to support them, have been hindered
by i rovidential circumstances from the en-
joyment of the privilcgiw proposed. few
individuals have received partial aid. Thir-
teen daughters of niiuisters have been board-
ed and in.structed either a jiart or the whole
of the past year on this fund. One of them is
from Virginia. Four are from South Caro-
lina, and seven are from North Carolina.
So far as we know at present, eleven will
partake of its benefits in 1.S70. One from
Virginia, one from tieorgia, three from
South Carolina, and six from North Caroli-
na. We hope that additions w ill be made
to the number before the close of January.
These young ladies are chiefly from fifteen
to eighteen years of age, and it is understood
they are all preparing to te.ach.
A few who have gone out from us, and
who were with us prior to this year, are
now teaching. Positions of usefulness will
be open for them all ; and they may not only
be self-supporting, but render etiicient aid to
their parents. As an illustration of the ne-
cessity of this method of aid, it may be re-
marked that several of the brethren, w hose
daughters have been w ith ns, were not able
to replenish their wardrobes, nor to jiay their
travelling expenses to Edgeworth. This ap-
peals to the best iini)nlses of the Christian
heart. In view of its results, so far as they
have been developed, we thank (lod and feel
ho|)eful as to the future.
No personal application for assistance has
now hope for contributions from many who
have ample means and large hearts?
Every dolhir thus far received, has been
contributed by men and women of noble im-
pulses, in the Northern States. Tlieirnames
are on record in this Institution, and may
they have large reward from Him who loves
the cheerful giver. J. M. M. Cai.dm'ELL.
ComninniKm in Iowa
Communism has found a home in Iowa.
Neor Marengo, there is a co' oy ofonetliou-
sf: ' • 'iiingover
2 . all things
CI sect, and
. ?rTT- -r^ - --h. l il l
1808.
olic dogma of the Real Presence, auricular
confession and penance; also, that marriage
is a sacrament, and images of .saints and
martyrs fit objects of Christian adoration.
Clo.se Communion.
A jiastor of prominence in the Baptist
Church, writing to the W itiliinan tiiid He-
tleetni; urges his brethren not to ignore the
fact that the number is constantly increas-
ing of the clergy and laity in that church
who long tf» see a closer union of all Christ-
ians, and who, because they can find no in-
junction to the contrary, either in the law or
spirit of Christ, believe that there is no more
fitting place to show forth their union than
at the sacred table where they together may
commemorate the great love of their com-
mon Savior.
Union Seminary, New York.
It appears by the late catalogue that there
are one hundred and seventeen students at
the New York Union Seminary, from thirty-
six American and European colleges and
universities. The junior and middle clas.ses
have thirty-seven members each, and the
senior class thirty-nine. There arc also four
resident licentiates. The New England
States have fourteen students, New York
State forty-nine, and the States south and
west of it 6ftv-thrce.
Tbe Threat Unheeded.
Several weeks ago, CardinaH'uUen threat-
ened to withhold the sacrament from parent*
who send their children to model schools in
Dublin. It is stated, that in the face of this
threat, there arc at |iresent, .at least one thou-
sand children of Roman Catholic parentage
in attendance at the Model Schools in Marl-
bo;ougb Hieet, Dublin.
Lives of the Popes.
There are many facts rei'orJed in hi-tory
of the Popes, which should be held up as
lieacons to warn the world of the corrupting
influences of their religion. .\ contemporary
joiirnalsays :
" Ninety Popes died from violence of arm-
ed men, from over indulgence in drink, or
from venereal diseases. Two Popes were
nominated by Einpres.ses who were their
mistresses. Sixty-four Fopes perished in an
extraordinary manner — some of them of un-
namcalile tortures, or diseases, or dissijia-
tions. And most of the Ecumenical (^mll-
cils have been characterized by as much dis-
order and discreditable riot as any political
convention of modern times."
Metropolitan Methodist Church.
Bisho]) Morris describes the ^Methodist
Mctro]iolit.in Church at Washington City as
not gaudy, but substantial, neat and boatui-
ful. Prisideiit Grant and Chief Jiislico
Chase are Trustees, and, w ith their families,
are regular attendants. The singing is con-
gregational, and the worship jtlain and spir-
itual.
A Useless Speculation.
A correspondent of the Church l.'iii in is
looking carefully into Bible clijouology, to
nsLcrtain whether Mtlhusalah was drowned
by the Hood or died in h's bed. The ques-
tion is s iniewliat mixed in his mind, but he
expresses a hope that he died a natural
death, "for it would have been awful to live
s ( l.inc and be drowne^l after all."
Tli£ \Ve»/ern Cn/ha/ie J-nnml states that
Bisho]) Duggaii is po i'ivcly insane, and con-
fined in the Insane Asvlum in St. Louis.
The Pope's Conncil.
The London Tablet, of Jan. 15, states that
the majority in the Ecumenical Council
favoring thetinfallibility of the Pope, is 783.
In the Council January l' , the oldest
legate present complained that many of the
speeches were too long,and that some of the
fathers did not strictly observe the obligation
of secresyin regard to the proceetl'ngs of the
Council.
A Pension lor I)r I.ivinKsloue.
Sir Roderick Murchison intimated in his
recent opcuing address at the Royal Geo-
graphical Society that it is proposed to con-
fer a pension, and po.ssibly a title, upon Dr.
Livingstone on his r.,'turn from Africa.
A Sensational morj.
There is a paragraph going the rounds of
the press, which we clip from the New York
World, as follows :
" A hundred and forty Southern editors
are Presbyterian clergymen ; which accounts
for the aggressive and bellicose tone of the
Southern press."
This ]iar.agraph is .about as true as it
would be to say, that llif re are fifty thou-
sand newspapers printed and published in
the Southern States. If the former state-
ment is true,-thc latter is also.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
I he !Dfs ASP Ep )D s of Horace. A Metrical
Tbassi.ation into Ei.'oi,isa. with iutrodiiction
and coiiimpiitarics, by Lcrd l,i ttoii,witli Latin
text from ilic f ditionsot Orclli, Maclcane and
Yoncc; New York, Harper and lirotUcrs,
publishi rs, l.STU. 12 ino pp. 521.
The appearance of this book, containing
the latin text and an elaborate translation of
the Odes of Horace, will be welcomed by
many an adrtilter of his genins. It is
bound in cloth, in good substantial style.
For sale as above.
A Gkbman t'ornsE. Adapted to I s" in Col-
If^-'CS, High Sciiools and Academics. By
Ueorftc F. Comfort, A. Jl., I'rofe.'-si.i of Mod-
ern 1 argiiiigcp and Aesthetics in the Alle-
Kl'eny I rillctip, Jlrndvillc. I'cnnsj Iv.-mi.i.
New Yolk : Harper & Brutbers. ISTu! I'inio.,
pp. 4!)o.
This work is intended for professors and
teachers, and also as a class-book for stu-
deiitj to facilitate their progress in acqui-
ring a thorough knowledge of the German
language. The author states that it has been
his aim to incorporate in his work the most
advanced views of linguistic instruction as
held by the best writers upon philology and
the best practical educators in Europe and
America. He endeavors to meet the wants
of one on entering a foreign country, by giv-
ing him, first, a vocabulary of words, second,
grammatical forms; third, laws of syntax ;
fourth, idiomatic construction, and fifth,
rules of pronunciation.- The work is neatly
printed and issued in good substantial style.
For sale in Louisville by John P. Morton &
Co., Main street, below Fourth.
JIfDOBA LkIOB. a Hi.sTORT and an .iCTOBI-
oonAPHV. Edited liy Charles Mack-iy. With
an Inlrodiiclion and a t)i.inmentary on tbe
Chargps Broimht Ausinsl I, old Byron by
Mrs. Harriet Beccher Stowe, New" York :
Harper & Brothers.
Medora Leigh is a daughter of Lord By-
ron's sister, of whom Lady Byron became
jealous on account his afi'ection for her.
I Hence the chargeof incest, ov..r which Lady
I B. brooded so long that 8h« believed it.
••What Women are Doing."
Under this head a "Woman's Rights"
paper, cilited by several strong-minded wo-
men and weak-minded men, sniong whom
are Lucy Stone and Wm. Loyd (iarrison,
says :
The Rev. Miss .Vngnsta J. t'haiiin preach-
ed in Iowa City, on a recent Sunday, from 1
Cor., xiv. chap., 37 v.: "Por it is asliame for
women to speak in church." She has ac-
cepted a call to that parish at a salary of
$l,.'j00, and has been a settled pastor over
Western parishes nearly eleven years.
It also says in the same connection :
Some citizens of Massachusetts are mov-
ing for separate prisons for women.
The Blessing or the Suez Caual.
Le /"(V/fo-o says concerning the Suez Canal
ceremonies: "The Viceroy had a superb
idea ; he wished that the canal should be
blessed by the representatives of all religions.
They were to be arranged in rows ; on one
side the Ulemas. with the diverse sects of
Mahometans, and on the other side the Rab-
bis, priests and pastors, finishing with the
Patriarch of Alexandria. At a signal —
'Dzingg' — all the benedictions were to com-
mence in Arabic, in Turkish, in Coptic, in
English, in Latin, in Hebrew! But the
Latin Patriarch sto])pcd this fantasy of the
Khedive's. He refused to bless at the given
signal. The Empress then asked her con-
fessor, M. Bauer, to replace the .Vrchbishop,
and so the benediction was given, to the
great joy of M. de Lesseps and of the guests
Notwithstanding the imposing manner in
which it was ble-sed, the first mercantile
vessel which pa.ssed through the Suez Canal
with a cargo was wrecked in the Red Sea 8C
miles from Suez."
A Baptist Criticism or Baptists.
The Louisiana B'ljdlsl thinks Baptist close
communion is not close enough, as at the
meeting of the Sandy Creek Association it
was stated that one member could not at
tend, as he was making a run of whisky from
his still, and another, a preacher, must have
his three drinks a dav.
Revival Inllueuec.s iu Cinciuuali
The meetings in Cincinnati, under the
direction of Rev. Mr. Hammond, are going
forward day and night, without any abate-
ment of interest. It is eslimated that six or
seven hundred have been awakened and con-
verted, atid many of the churches have been
greatly revived and strengtheneil.
The Gospel in lleatlieu Lands.
Bishop Clark, in a late missionary address,
saiil the most cariful statistics show that in
ISOS there were in strictly heathen lands 2,-
.')00 missionary chuichc, 2,000 nii.ssio:iari;'S,
2 -KtO native jireachers, 2.j0,tt00 iiienibers, and
l,HiMi O'JO nominal Christ,iat;s.
A BEKCHER APOLOUT
Some time ago a man in New York named
Richardson, who moves in high social circles
— a brother tj the editor of the Boston Con-
greijalioni'is! — persuaded a Mrs. McFarian'
to desert her husband to live with him. To
aged husband shot him for his ofll'
11^1 his d.
coin, greenbacks, and other available secur-
ities, which have been recovered by a brother
and sister of the deceased.
oi)/( raged husband shot hm
ai M mortally wounil^ him.
b^R, Henry U'ard B^cc'icr msC^ed Mrs.' .A
Farland to Mr. Richardson. The »i
created a good deal of sensation and aroo-
strong sense of indignation againttt
clerical nor; )riety-s-?e!-:er, who thus mule
him-iclf a jiarty ti Richardion's crimes. Mr
Beccher bus been constrained to mak;^ several
humble apologies : the last which he pub-
lishes, is such an one as ncirly every gam-
bler .ind drunkard would not hesitate to
make. He says :
I suppose I do .»/'(/' O' "'' sometimes. Well,
I never saw a pan ju t full of milk that did
not slop over. If you do i;ot want any sloj)-
ping over, taken pint of milk and put it in
a big bucket. There will be no shipping
over then, .^nd a man who has only a pint
of feeling, in an enornn'us bucket, never
.slops over. But if a man is full of feeling,
up to the very brim, how is he going to car-
ry liim.self without spiling over ? He can-
not help i'. There will be dripjnng over the
edges all the time. And as every flower or
blade of grass rejoices as the rain falls upon
at, so every recipient along the way in which
a man with overflowing generous '-'cliiig
walks is thankful for his bounty.
How to carry a nature full of feeling, and
administer it witiioiit making mis'akes, I do
not know, you do not, nobody does, nobody
ever did, and nobody ever will; so we must
tiike it anil gel along as best we can. Life
is a kind of zig-zag anyhow ; and we are
obliged to resort to expedients, and learn
from our blunders, which are inevitalile. We
find out a great deal more from men's mis-
takes than from their successes.
But, after all, I am not sorry tUat I have
been imposed ujion, and that I have tru-ted
men that were not worthy to be t us ed. I
am sorry that I have been diijied It falls
out from an abundance of geiier ns feeling
It is the mistakeof a disposition tli t I think
it is a great deal better to have, witii all tlu-^L+mji ,„
impositions which it suffers, than thai kiml ( hcnrticlore this court
of cold c.uition which iireventi you ventur-
ing anything on the side of kindiiiess because
you always want to be safe.
kn eminent divine once made the remark,
"There are three classes or .sorts of men in
the world, the good, the bad and the Beecli-
ci-s.
SUPREME COURT OF THE U. S.
Hon. Willt.am Strong, of Philadelphia,
formerly of Reading, and for many years the
representative in Oingress from Bucks coun-
ty, has been a) pointed by President Grant,
the Attorney General of the United State-s,
to succeed .fudge Hoar, transferred to the
Supreme Bench!
LEGISLATURE Of TENNESSEE.
On the 12tli inst., the House passed, ou
the first reading, the bill to amend the char-
ter of Nashville. It provides for the regis-
tration of voters, and forbids the City Coun-
cil JErom issuing bonds for any jmrposc un-
less authorized by a vote of the people.
The bill to relieve the State Treasury was
taken up on the third reading. It provides
that the State tax sh.all bereal'ter be eighty
cents on every one huodred (100) dollars'
worth of taxable prop- rty ; that taxes so ils-
s^Seo, if paiil in United States legal-tender
notes or National Bank notes, may be dis-
charged by paying one-half, or forty cents
on every hundred dollars" worth of taxable
property. The bill was amended by redu-
ciii^the tax to sixty cents; and, before any
further action was had, the House .adjourned.
— ^ — KAN.i.lS.
The Legislature met on the 11th inst. in
the new Capitol at Topeka. The Governor,
in his message, denounces the policy ofmor-
alurisioii adopted by the Government to-
ward Indians, a. id com]dains of the public
sentiment in the East on this question.
H*c wants the Indians confined on re ci va-
tiojis. ;iiid the Government to detail a siilii-
ri*».'^^)rcc-^^j;_troops to keep ihcni thwve.
'u th(» neutral laii-I qllcstioii, he s.ays there
IS slill a necessity for troops, and their
puyewce is conducive to peace and order.
IMMIGKANTS TO VIRGINI.C
Mr. Addison Moc, of New Jersey, recently
purchased the "Green Hill" tract, on Staun-
ton -River, Va., containing 7,ltOO acres, for
i|80,0()0, and proposes to settle upon it forty
families from the vicinity of Patterson and
Rahway, N. J.
nniiiivr; BACK THE COTTON CROP.
A correspondent says: "There is less cot-
ton along the Tennessee River ready for
shipment than he ever saw. At least three-
fourths of tlic entire cotton crop remains in
the hands of the planters, who arc hohling
back for better pi ices."
SWEDISH IMMIGRANTS IN MISSISSIPPI.
Gen. \. M. West writes from Walter Val-
ley, Miss , about .Swedish immigrants to that
.S'aTe: "We have quite a nnniber of that
elas» of jiersoris here, in the capacity of me-
chanii's, house sv^-vants and common labor-
ers. They, thus far, give entire satisfaction,
and are superior to the negro or any other
class of laborers or servants that we have
tried. We have an agent now on his way to
Sweden with orders for several hundred, and
will start an .igenf to Germany, via Sweden,
with numerous additional orders on or be-
fore the 15th in-t. The first shipment is ex-
jiected to arrive by the 1st of Jaiiuory, and
the others by the 1st of February and
March." Mr. C. was speedily detected, and
will probably find a home in an insane asy-
luiii.
— ■ MfRDER BY l-'EDEP.AL TROOPS.
Ca|)tain Tully Gibson, well-known about
Richmond iluring the war as a gallant Con-
federate soldier, was nuirdered by Federal
trQojis w hile sitting in his own house, in Sun-
flower county. Miss., a few days since.
HOMICIDE IS NEW ORLE.^NS.
Aflldavits have been made, charging C.W.
Oamraack, paying teller of the New Orleans
C.tize i's Bank, with killing John Nixon at
the Boston Club, on Saturday night, Janu-
ary Stli.
A sc-asdalIto the .ministry.
Rev. Mr. Cook, the erring divine, in New
■d' ped with a young lady member
ii, has heretofore possessed the
• ence of his flock, but it is feared
"onrse^ are not of recent origin.
PIEDMONT & ARLINGTON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
nOMK OFFICE, CORNER TENTH AND MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, VA
() F F I (• s :
W. C. CARRTNGTON, President.
R. H. MAURY, Vice President.
J. J. HOPKINS, Secretary.
B. C. IIARTSOOK, Assi.-itant Secretary.
0. H. PERROW, Medical Adviser.
(JEOKGK ROSS, M. D., Assistant .Medical Advi.scr
JAMES K. WOLFF, Sup't of A-gencies.
U 1 K E C T U K .S :
M. MAURY,
S. LEE,
F. WEISICER,
TIDE.MAN,
W. A
J. J.
CARKINGTON.
A. F. HARVEY,
RICHARD IRBY,
ARMISTEaB,
HOPKINS,
Dividend paid policy holders !si April, l.sun, Fortt per Cent.
Tliis Company ii:i» nitt with asm-cess lieyoiid all purullcl in Life Insuruuce, and offers to th-3
.Soutiiern pulilic a Home enterprise equal to any and Bnri)-assed by none iu existence.
COiOineuced active operations alinut Mov. l.st, 1867.
A.ssets 1st of April, lSt)9, $407.(100, now much increased.
Policies issued iu ei;.'hteen months a.OOO, covering risks of $11,000,000.
It has paid tor losses of *ai,iWO, and in every iustaiiue waived the ninety day ' time and naid
at once. '
It advises the payment of all cash premidms, because their dividends will cuntlnually de-
crea.sc e.-ich next payment until nothing will be required, and the policy may be a source of in-
come, hut it will ullow one-half loan ou life and joint life policies. One-third loan on other par
ticipatioK policies. '
It requires no notes lor loans of the part ol premiums, but endorses the loan on its policies
until absort ed by dividends, or tbe policy is payable.
It has no restrictions on residence or travel. All its policies are iion-forleitabie ; and the ri"ht
ol parties !»uaruiitced on tbb face of the policy, as a part ol tlic contract. °
ft h:i6 the lollowiu« vnlualile feature which no other Company gives : The late war tan"ht
many tlie penalty of licing separated from the IJome OUice by havini? their payment forfeited.
■' Ike Piedmont" xuaids against this in qkk policiks, aad in event of separation from its of-
ace by any intervention guarantees to such all the rii;hl8 of non-forleitnre, paid up policy sur-
render value and reinstatement, as though there had been no such intcrveuiui; cause.
Its investments are made tor boncthol .'Southern .advancement.
It brimfs money to our pyople— keeps money with our people. Then why should they con-
tinue to impoverish themselves by sendiui; money oil' whicli can us wisely— us «asily— aa iiroti
tably be sjient at home 't j - j l
Tlie Piedmont asks all who wish to insure to compare its rates— terms— progress, with any
corjpany, and feels confident its merits will equal any other company.
Agents wanted everywhere. je 23 tf 2
him, and lili.d all the relations of life with a
becoiiiing and manly propriety.
Hedied in the failli. trustini; in the blood of
Christ for pardon and sa'vation. His mind had
been iiiriicd to the gre.it subject of reli};ion for
some time past, and be confessed Christ and
was baptized into the I'resliyterian Church.
He was calm, colieclod and decided. His end
was p ace. He leav sa yoiin;; and atl'ectionato
widow, to whom he liad lieen married nolqnite
two years, with a lar ;e circle ol relatives and
friends to m uru his early departure.
•■ Weep not, be is not dead, but slcepcth."
H.
Jllt.S. ELIZAHKTH ANN LYLE, widow of
the l!cv. John Lyie, died at her residence near
the Walnut Hill Church, Fayette county, Ken-
tucky, on the 14th of October, ISfJ!). She was
born October 21st. 1S1.1.
Her ancestry h.ivc been connected with the
Walnut Hill ciiurcb, probaiily from iisorgini-
zation, r.carly a hundrcil years :igo. Here she
w as bom and reared. Here she was tw ii-o
marriid, tirst to ifr. Uobert Irwin, ofierwards
to ihe Itev. .I..I111 l..yie, the third pastor of the
Walnut Hill church. Here slw trained iier
lour children who siirvivj her. in the knowl-
cd;.-o and fear of ti id Here siic U d '• a ipiiet
and peaceful li:c " perhaps never hivini^ made
an enen;y. Hero she died, universally beloved
and rej ected. Loving the Lord's day, and de-
voting its hours to religion, ciiliivalinj; her own
piety and i;:cnlca'iiig by precept and exaaiplj
upon her cuildicn the p'iiiciples of Christi-
aiiuy, she p-ssed thron:{ii lile in Hia-,'ular peace
and iiiictncss. slie died, as she lived, a sin-
cere Christian, Her memory is frai;rant.
FACT.SFOUTHE LADIES.
ChttS. A. tUir^in dcp iscd : I have been fa-
niiiiur with Sfwing-machincs lor many J cars
riie Wheeler ai.d VVilion -Machines ari' vastly
ecptrior in tbeir aduptation uiid Uic upon ail
clusses ol work lor domestic purposes. One
great cousideiaiioii in the ube of Rcwin;;-!iia-
cniiies IS the e.ipei s; nf repairs. From the
case of all its mcvhanicui innvcmei ts, the
Wheel. r 4 Witsi.n ilacbine issubjictto luit
slight wear, and the expeiit-c oi reji^iir is very
slight in cumi arisen w ith other luachiucs. 1
am fully convinced that they do nut cost one
tilth of that of Huy other two-lh ead m-achlnes.
PHOTOGRAPHS.
EVERY STYLE OF PICTUUE from the
Card to Life Size, taken in the most approved
styles of the art and on the most reasonable
terms at the
" LEE "
GALLERY,
9-20 Main Stkkkt.
JOHN W. DAV 11!*.
C?" Strict attenlioQ paid to Copying old
Pictures. 2 tf
•■ importunities, he resolved at
the person of the poor tru-ting
- forever. He departed, leaving
. . , :i.s wife and the fiither of Miss
Johnson confessing his crime. Detectives
are on the track in sc eral directions. The
girl is undoubtedly ruined. Her brothers
ari? on the track, and a bloody tragedy will
probably end the painful drama.
VALUABLE FAKMING LANDS.
^Payette Couiitv, Ky., returned for 18C0,
170,W1 acres of land, valued at §.31 93 jier
.acre. Total valuation, $7,870, 22-"). liourboii
county returned 17;-(,52Sacrt S of land, valued
at.$4l5 .'5S per a'.rc. Total valuation. §8,-
(XV.KUO.
FOREIGN.
FRANCE- i Tr..tGEDY l.V PAEl .
-O ■ the inth inst. Victor Noire was shot dead
by I'rlnce I'lerre Uonaparte. The city was
greatly 1 x; ited over the tragedy, Princn Bo-
naparte's vur i n of the alLiir "as furnished to
the jmrnals l.y M. Paul Cassasnac. He
says i!\c Prince made the followin^ sia!emenl
firli in on his honor :
•' M. Fonvillc and Jl. \ I. tur Noire came to
my rc'ld ncc with a menacing ir. wHh their
hands in their pockets, and presented a letter
from Jl . J'asclial OronsBil. 1 s:iid : 'It is
Riichcfort, and not bis n eat ores, t at 1 seek.'
'Read the letter,' replied Nolr ". I had my
hand on my pistol in my pocket. ' Are yon
responsitile lor it :-" I aski d. At tins I received
a slap in the face from Noire, whf I drew ray
revolver and tiled at biin. Fonvillc crouched
bf h ind a chair, and, frnm the protection that
TTfflirded. aimed bis r' volvcr at iiie, bo', hp
oonid not get it to go elT. I tir.-d at him \(*iilc
he was in that p.isitio , w bci he ran out of the
room. He stopped in the next room, and ai-aln
turned his pistol toward me. 1 tired at him
again, a-.ul he fl"d."
The Prince surrendi^red, and the J iirnal
Official of the 1 Ith iiitl . contains a decree con-
viikini_' the Chamlx^s fur the purpose ofbi in;;-
ing action lielore the High Court of .lusticc to
ecide upon the chirte of homicide against
Prince Bonaparte. I'lie Pmcj, belonging to
i mpTor's family, the cxamination.must be
In
in
An uual ColIectioDH
Our (icneral .\ssoinbly has appoinled the_fj;
lowi g as (he times for the annual cfHl-ictions
its benevolent 8chem''s:
F. r Suslentatiou— On the tirst tal.bath
Januiry.
For Putili 'ation- On ihe lirst Sabbath
March.
For Foreign Missions— Ou the tirst Sabbath in
May.
For Education— On the lirst .-fabbat h in No-
vcmlier.
For tlie KelicI of Disabird Mr istcrs and the
Widow s :ind Orphans of Deceased Minisicrs— .
On the lirst Sabbath in July.
In cases where it is highly inconvenient to
take up collpcti'-i!S nn tliii-cdays, tjie As cinliiy
enjoins that thcv shad betaken upas s ion as
pos-lblc Ihereafitr.
\)a Tu'. j
PritgresH of KitnaliMm.
There is one Pro'estaiit Episcopal Church
in the Dioce-se of New York, where the of-
ficiating clergyman teaches the Komaii Cath-
FE.MAI.E .SUFFRAGE.
The act of the Legislature of the Territory
of Wyoming, iu reference to female suflVagc,
which has been signed by the Governor,
reads as follows: "Every woman of the age
of 21 yeai-s, residing in "this Territory, may,
at every election to beholden undcrthelaws
thereof, cast her vote. And her right to the
elective franchise and to hold ollice, shall be
the same under the election laws of the Ter-
ritory as those of male electors."
CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.
From official statistics, it appears, that
138,000 Chinese have come to California.
Of these .'57,.3'23 have returned to China ; 10,-
420 have died, and !»0,2.51 remain at var ous
points on the Pacific co.ast.
interesting gift.
Mrs. Mary Ellet, of Philadelphia, last
week presented the Pennsylvania Historical
.Society with a c'.ock manufactured in Lon-
don one hundred and thirty-fire years ago —
said to keej) time now .as well as when it was
first made — perhaos better.
DEATH OP A MISER.
A man named Lyman Allen, formerly 01
Connecticut, aged over 70 years, was foum
dead in his room at Taylor's Hotel, in Jersey
City, op|)Osite New York city, last week. He
h.ad been living here for several years ])ast,
very peniiriously, occupying the cheapest
room in the attic, and was supposed to be in
very indigeutcircumstances. After his death
over 160(1,000 was found in his old trunk in
MTX PHOM ENGLAND— SKIZCRK OF HS. PSABIDY 8
LAND.
Late adv ces tiate that the Crown liasteized
some land near .'-tockwi II, whi^ h bclorgi d 'o
(Jeorge Pcabndy. The seizure Is made on the
ground that Mr. Peabody was an alien, and had
ne'er been naturalized as a subject of (ireat
Uritain. Therefore be w i^ unable lo hold land
in the kingdom. The Court of I'robale takes
similar ground.
ITTirTrONAL W^FKMEN's (XBIBITION.
lay night, the lltb inst., a jilan for
in International Workmen's Exliibition, to be
held in London the c iiuiug summer, was m»-
tiireil en, it a m'.eting over which Mr. Olad-
bloue pii sideil. Agricultuial Hall h us been en-
gsged for Ihe exhibition.
KOr.TH BRITISH REVIEW.
^_Thc Xorth llrilifh Review was established
" aljout twenty-fi ve years ago, as the expound-
er of the Free Church q^' it'cotland's views,
"ffgrailually glided into the hands of the
Broad Church of Scotland, (whatever that is)
and it is now edited by a liberal Roman
Catholic, of whom there arc a few in the
world.
MARRIED.
In Shelby ville, K c r.tiK ky. on .laniiury 1 1th
1870. bv the Kev. .Ti.hn S.' (iraslv. Limtcuant
CHAULES P. HAllPKit lo Miss .JO.S1E AL-
LbJN , youngest dauglilcr of Dr. .loscph Allen,
deceased.
In Athens, Tennessee, ou Thursday. .I inua
ry 13th, bv the licv..). H. Jlirlin. .J' illN IL
CAMP to Miss MAUV D. BUIDCES, i Idcst
daughter ol the Hon. George W. Bridges.
lu Portersville, Tennessee, bv the Rev C. M.
Watson. December, 30th. IS09, K C, THOMP-
,S0N. of Winnsboro, S. C, to Miss MOLLIE
UlCKSON.
On Deccmbjr 1st, IS'ltl, near Henderson, Ken-
tucky, by th" Kev. W. A. Harrison, .JAMES
OlJODLEY to Miss AMANDA M. CLAliK.
Uv the same, in Henderson, Januarv 'ith, P
C. APPLECrATE to Mies LOU M . .SOKCUTIO.
On Sund-ay. March U h, 18G9 at the resi-
dence of Mrs. .). B. Tucker. Hudson City, New-
Jersey, bv the Itev. .Mr. Wardlaw of St. Paul's
church. Hiids .n Cilv. WlLUUIt IICN I ISG-
TON I'UoC I'O.t, son of Willi im li.andS. A.
Pioclnr to FANNIE .1. .\l.(iEO. (1 iii-jbter of
the late R M. \. Al;;eo, Esq., all ol New York.
Cards.
OBITUARY.
Died near Paducah, Kentucky, on the tlth ot
•ccember, IStiiL in the twenty-sixth year of his
ge, W. . LANDER, sin ol W. .1. Lander, of
hristian county.
Mr Lander w as a young man of promise and
character— much esteemed by all who knew
A NEGLECTED COl GH. COLD. OU SORE
THRO\ T,
which ini^ht be checked tiyn simp'e reni'idy.
like •' liRow.N S Bhokcuial Tiiocnr.s." if al-
lowed to progress in; y tei minute scrinualy For
Hronchit s. Asthma, Ca'arrh, and t'onsnmptive
are juj jl_;-Jlh ad
ininicdialc relief"
will tiiidthim also
and render art ctila
lion wonderfully easy
of black- I Con.'ills, ■• Tbv TiiO f pes •• 711
jiicncc ofT vantat-e, (.-ivini; ofle^ilimf s
~, uoM, iT"f7ntiei^'"«';r» "'"^ public^pcakets 1
■ Jtln.. 1,.! - .. I,- ,1 .1 'excellent locl ar the \oicc an
price: current.
The foUowini; is a statement of the wholesale prices
of the appeuded articles at the close of the last week.
It f^tves the quotations in Louisville anil Itichnionil :
The liirures i)Uotcd lielow are wholesale prices— re-
tall are higher:
LOUISVILLB.
AKTICLKg. I
KICUHOND.
122
Gold-Selling p^-e.
122
S 50 (..." OU
Apples V libl
2 50 @6 00
16 M I6 il
Bacon— .sides, lb
IS (a. 19
•' —.shoulilers
15l,(oi 15' .
i» (4.
" —Hams suKar-cur'il
22 (« ii\
2 T5 (His 00
Beans— Navy prime
4 75 wl.l no
I &U (SS no
" — ('oiniuou
1 .■'lO ( xi lui
•27 (« 32
Butter -Prime c'ntrv %i 11..
.30 In. .1.1
•-•2 rt 26
" — ('oiiinion to fair. .
'20 (a 28
S5 (a, 9)
t'oriiineal— C'imiitry V ^ -
MO 10; !I5
IS «r ^24
Coilee— Hlo, Ih
23
31 W 34
" —.lava
34 (« 35
!i3'.tl«
Cotton— MiOilbui; f/ ll
•lij^ii 28
" — Low iniuilllng. . .
....(4....
21,S,l.! 22
•' — Orilinar)-
Drieil Krnils— Apples
ti (4 3
6'»1* SJi
24 ttt 'i6
" •• —Peaches
C (4 14
KKRS.
Hour— Family ¥ bhi
" —Extra
30 (4 33
5 25 (n 7 '28
7 00
4 75 io5 •2S
5 75 (A
4 5i (.i4 T.I
" — .Siiperliiie
5 25 (n^ 50
1 11" (n.! 15
Grain— Wheiit, ¥ bu
I 20 (n.1 35
77 (a' so
" — (.'orii, slielleil
S; (ni 15
.VI «i! 57
•' —Oats
.Itf (4
75 (4 SO
" -Kye
— (»"
1!" I0.20
Hay— Timothy.priinec'ton
19 1422
IS (n:19
" — Ml.\e(l
16 (»:I7
17 (* ISV
Lard, tl n.
20 (d
i^H i 5
t.lve Stock — Beef, V 1'^ Str's
4)v(4 8*4
....(4....
" " -Pork, ^1 th net
14 A 15
....(^....
'■ '• — Sheep, Vl'igr's
4I414 7
46 (41 2
.Mola.sses
40 hi, SO
29 (4 32
Oil- Coal, V gal
4(1 (4 45
....(4....
Holaioes, V liu
5i (4 75
8 s;i«- » Hi
Itice, i* tl)
9',il4 9 .
2 Ul in,3 01)
Salt, large libls
i 9J (43 IHI
1 S5 «i4 (Ml
Secils— liluegrass
. . (a
9 10 ( 49 25
" —Clover
9 00 (nM
4 TS «46 O-l
" — Timothy
6 00 (1^ lo
1 20 (41 80
" -Orchard grass
2 5) C4
ll.-iw;
Sugar— Xcw Orleans lb.
'■ — Cnbx
....14....
(A
18 (« 14
151^(4 15
" — Keliuuil \
14',(4....
14 ',14 15 H
" — c
14 (4....
13 (4 14S
" — Yellow
t2 i 4....
5 on (n;9 OU
Tobacco- Lugs, V cwi
5 50 (48 00
10 (n il 76
" — SInpiitng leaf. . .
S 5) 1411
....ti,....
" -Bright wrap'rs.
Wool— U n w a s h e d and
20 (40 1
32 (« 50
washed, 'i$Xi
25 w 43
CAI.DWKLL FKMALE IN.STlTl'rK
D.tNViLLE, KENVUCKV,
THE Tweutieth Session of this School will bej tn ou
MONDAY, .lANl AUY 31ST, 1S70.
Kur Calalogaes and Circulars, ivldress
itEV. L. G. BARBOUK, Principal.
jan19-4t
'« T H K VICTORY"
Clontaius rhc latest composltious Rn l a Steel Vi.ktk
Ji'OKTKAlTOK W.M. H. BKADIU UV. It Is the favorite
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HHl8TiA.\ OB8ERVEK AM COMMONWEALTa JANUARY 19, 1«T0
For the Observer ami Commonwealth.
HOW PAPER IS MADE.
Saturday night — and Eddie drew him-
self to his father's chair and reminded
him of his promise to tell him something
about paper and the printing ( ffice —
"O yes," said his father, " and I will
commence with how they make white
paper. Do you know what paper is made
of?"
" Yef, it's made of rags. '
"You are right. It is generally made
of rags— of cotton or linen, sometimes of
straw, sometimes of corn shucks, some-
times of wood."
" What a funny thing paper made of
wood must be, I'd like to see some such
paper.''
" 1 dare say, you've often seen it, and
did not know it from paper made of
rags."
" Why how funny, and how does that
look which is made of straw and of corn
shucks."
" It looks so much like paper made of
rags, that no person can tell the differ-
ence until he has examined it carefully
and the difference has been pointed out
to him."
" I« paper ever made of anything
else?"
'* Yea, it is sometimes made of silk
rags. The paper that ' greenbacks' and
bank notes arc printed on is made of silk
rags; and sometimes it is made of old
ropes and old printing paper, and some-
times of parchment shavings."
"Well, that is funny. I thouglil pa
per was never made of anything but cot-
ton rags — and now, whenever I put on a
paper collar, I shall be sure to think I've
got a rope around my neck. So it i^n't
very comfortable always to know a great
deal, is it?"
Mr. Hardy Fmiled, but he went on.
•'You may rest assured on that score,
for in the collars you wear, they don't
put anything but old linen rags. The
paper that is made from linen rags is a
a good deal firmer than the paper made
from cotton. See the paper of this Fam-
ily Kiblc; see how strong it looks. That
is made of linen rags, and moat of the
old books that have your grand-father's
name in, though they do look brown and
old, have good strong linen paper in them.
Now-a days, they don't print ordinary
books on as good paper as they used to."
" Why don't they?"
"Because linen rags are becoming
scarcer, and people read more books than
they used to, and people don't have linen
rags enough so that the paper-makers
can use them. So they only print the
most expensive books on linen paper."
" How many pounds of rags do they
use to make paper of?
"I don't know. But I do know this,
that the people of the United States do
not make rags enough for the paper-ma-
kers of this country — so they have to
bring rags from foreign countries to make
paper of. It may be that that paper
which you were just now reading was once
the old coat of an Italian beggar boy,
or it may have oace been the Pope's
pocket handkerchief."
" Well, that queer."
" Yes, and I'll tell you something else
that is curious, too. Of the rags which
are bought by the paptr-makers in some
of the large cities, they prefer and pay a
lier price for cotton rags from one
of the city, than for cotton rags from
pr part of the same city."
is that ?"
Lof the city is chiefly inhab-
anrthor r..i-'. '
fags from the German quar-
ts a general rule they are
eaacst and need less bleaching to
le good paper. German rags are even
'cleaner, so my paper-maker once told me,
than American rags ?"
" But how do they make paper out of
rags ?"
"Having gathered the rags together in
grea bales, they take them to the
paper mill, and there they are hoisted up
to a room where they are sorted. This
is done by boys and girls. The linen rags
are put in one heap, the white cotton rags
in anfitber, the colored rags in another,
and the old rope in another. The rags of
one kind are then put into a hopper, and
a wheel goes round and round very swift
ly, and this wheel has a great many teeth
on it, and revolves so fast you can't see
the teeth; and these teeth tear the rags
up into very little bits. Then these torn
bits of rags are taken, a good many hun
dred pounds of them at once, and put into
a very lar^je iroui pot, which has a tight
cover to it, and which seems to be lying
on its side. This iron pot is as big as the
room we are sitting in; and then they
close up the door of the pot — the door is
on the side and closes very tight. They
call this pot a boiler; and they let steam
go into the boiler, and then the boiler
turns around on its axis just like a big
water-wheel, and the steam and some
bleaching powders they have in the boiler
bl«ach the rags and get the coloring mat
ter all loosened. Then after they have
done that for awhile they stop the big
boiler and take the rags out and put them
in a great tub which they call a rag
engine. This tub has a board fixed up in
the middle of it, and the rags are kept
sailing around the board; at one place in
the tub they have the frame-work of a
wheel or drum, which has wooden ends
and sides of wire work, so fine that water
can pass through but rags can't. The
water with some of the dirt is drawn off.
In every paper mill you will see several
of these rag engines. The first one haa
pulp of a dirty yellowish brown color; in
the next one the pulp is not so dark; in
the next one it looks whitish; in the next
one nearly white, and in the last one it
ia as whits as snow."
"I know why that is, papa. It's be-
ocu • the rags pass from one tub to the
uexi: tub, and they gradually get all the
dirt taken from them. When I've been
playing in the garden, and come in to
wash my hands, I wash them first in one
basin of water, and when that looks dark
I don't try to make my hands clean in
it. I empty it out and get some fresh
water, and in that way, by washing in the
clear water afterwards, I can make my
hands very clean.''
"Thats very well said, and now comes
the prettiest part of all in paper making.
The pulp flows through a pipe into a long
one-story bouse where there is a machine
called a Foudrinier (pronounced Foo-
drinia) machine, and there the milk
white pulp tails on the machine at one
end of the room, in a beautiful little
waterfall ; then it goes on like a brook of
milk six or eight feet further, and it falls
again, and as it flows along it becomes
gradually whiter and soon it looks like
wet white newspaper laid on a table; then
it passes between some rollers that are
kept hot by steam ; then it passes along
and up and down over some more rollers,
and then it comes out beautiful white,
dry paper, all rolled up in a big roll.
They can make these rolls of paper just
as big as they can handle. They oould
print on one of these rolls, a newspaper a
mile long if they wanted to."
"I'd get tired before I read a newspa-
per that big, papa."
"Well, instead of tiiking the trouble
kup theie big rolls, they generally
have a machine attached to the b'g ma
chine that hns some knives fattened to a
wheel, and these knives are so fixed that
as the wheels revolve, they cut out the
sheets of paper just the size they want
them. Then the sheets are folded into
bundles and tied up and sent to the print-
ers."
'•That's first-rate, papa. How I would
like to see the big machine that fills the
house, the foo — foo —
'■The Foudrinier machine. Well, I'll
take you to see it some day."
"And now, I know all ahont how psper
is made, I'm so gla.l." Papa.
THE SWEET STORY OF OLD.
" I THINK, When I rea l tliat sweet .stury of old.
When Jesus was here among men,
How he called little children as lambs to his fold !
I ibould like to have been with him then.
I wish that his hands had been placed on my
head.
That his arms had been thr \\a arouiid me,
And that I might have seen his kind look w hen
he said,
• Let the little ones come unto me."
Tet atill to his rootstool in prayer I may co,
And ask Tor a share in his love ;
And if I thus earnestly seek biin below,
I shall see him and hear hini above,
In that beautiful place he has gane to prepare,
For all who are washed and forgiven ;
And many dear children are gatheiing there,
For oftueh is the kingdom of heaven."
For the Observer and Commonwealth.
"WELL DONE, BOYS."
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those days very little was expected of the
militia. It was in part taken for granted
that the yearly reviews were no more
than regular holidays, when and where
the male citizens between eighteen and
forty-five, we can not say citizen soldiers,
formally acknowledged their fealty to
the state, and had a good time generally.
But it was always remarked on these
occasions that Col. U.'s regiment was
much superior, in both drill and appear-
ance, to any of the others. Besides
this, they always showed greaj, enthusi-
asm for their Colonel, and wh^Aever he
rode up in front, whether a-I^K or in
company with other officers, he was sure
to be saluted with loud cheers. Indeed,
there is little doubt but that they would
have followed their leader even into bat-
tle, so much had he their s/mpathy and
confidence.
All this was very plain to any observer;
but the reason of it was understood but
by few. It was attributable to the Col-
onel's general good nature and pleasing
manners, but more to the special pains
he took to ohterve and commend earnest
effort! and partial success. He let no
occasion pass unimproved, and always
had a pleasant word or smile for the de-
serving. Even mistakes and failures,
where better was intended, were oftener
met with an apology than a reproof.
" Well done, boys," was the usual greet-
ing to the well-meant efforts of his men ;
while their failures were only noticed in
this way : " Not so bad, not 60 bad.
Let us try and do better next time."
And in this way encouragement was al-
ways mingled with instruction, and cheer-
fulness and hope were ever prodomiuact
in the mind.s of the men.
We often think if parents would pur-
sue this course with their children, suc-
cess would oftener attend their efforts to
instruct them in their duties, and the
welfare and happiuess of h'Ah be pro-
moted.
Parents, and especially fathers, sup-
pose you try the Colonel's method, and
" \ ' -TP'''" Tf ^;ii K„
than to punish, whioli is painlful to both
parent and child, or to scold, which is
pernicious to both. Try it.
Delaware.
said, ' but it i- not right to day; I want
you forrayc'iief of staff, in this class, so
put thosa away, and G:id niy place for me,
«hi!e I am writii g down jour names."
Feeling a new sense of responsibility,
the little "chief rif staff ' found the place
in his teacher's Bible. The lesson for
tne day was on the '-new commandment,"
and the little fellows listened with close
attention as Mis.s C called it the
eleventh, and bade them think often of
the. Saviour's law of love.
'•Frank Turner has turned ov'jr a new
leaf bince he left my class,'' observed Mr.
Kemp to the superintendent a few weaks
after. "I wish I knew .Nli.si r!.'s secret
tor managing unruly boys."
"I think it is a very simple one," said
the superintetideiit. ".Miss C has
learned that love is the fulfilling of the
law. Her loving persuasion has done
more for Frank tban our stern authority .
Let us hope that she will be able to lead
him to Je.sus, the cverloving." — Sunday
School Timti
"I WANT TO BE A MINISTER"
More than a century ago there lived
in England an orphan boy with promising
talents, who often said, "I witit to be a
miaL-iter;" but having no mor ey to carry
out the great desire of his heart, his
youthful spirit was often bowed to the
earth by disappointed hope.
Oace a wealthy lady offered to pay the
expenses at school if he would study and
become a minister in her Church ; but the
boy loved the Church of his fathers, and
could not be induced to leave his spirit-
ual mother; so he respectfully declined
the lady's kind offer.
So, afterward he visited a learned min-
ister of his own church, aud asked the
good pastor's advice in regard to study-
ing for the ministry ; but here he obtained
no encouragement at all. Now the
friendless boy went to God, and while he
was entCBged in lervent prayer the mail-
carrier knocked at the door of his closet
and handed him a letter from a friend of
his father, with an offer to assist him in
his studies for the ministry.
Thus his desire was gratified, and he
became one of the most useful ministers
of England. Hi.snamewas Pl,i;iip Dod-
dridge. We commend this example to
all our readers. The Lord wftts many
ministers. Great numbers who are now
boys must soon preach the gospel. Let
every hoy ask this question, whether he
should not engage in this work. We
should be concerned boih about the duly
of serving the Lord and how we should
serve him. If it is a boy's duty to enter
the ministry, he should strive hard to
enter it as well as he should strive hard to
enter heaven, and he should pray for the
Lord's guidance in the one case as well
as he should pray for it in the other.
THE LAWILOt'E.
HOW TO CONTROL AN UNRULY BOY.
"That boy disturbs the peace of the
whole class," exclaimed Mr. Kemp, as he
pointed to a restless little fellow at one
end of the seat. "Sit still, sir,'' he add-
ed sternly as the boy, who really seemed
to be all hands and feet, began to drum
with the one, and beat a tattoo on the
bottom of the seat with the other,
"lam about forming anew class for
Miss C ,'' replied the superintendent,
looking somewhat sadly at the perplexed
teacher. "Shall I take Frank Turner
and give him to her ?"
"I don't think a lady can manage him,"
said Mr. Kemp, "but I confess I should
like to have him away from these good
boys."
So Frank was duly^placed in Miss
C 's class. The superintendent de-
tained Mr. Kemp a moment after school
to make a suggestion.
"Say nothing to Miss C about her
scholar. I want him to have a fair
chance with her, and begin with a white
record."
iMiss C — — , a fair, sweet young lady,
calm and gentle in her mein, took her
seat on the next Sunday, in the middle
of her class, six restless little people,
with eager eyes looking at her, ready to
drink in her teachings; six immortal
souls that should live forever. Putting
up a silent prayer for help to Him who
is able to give it, she began her work.
Frvnk, his black eyes dancing with fun
and mischief, attracted her attention first.
He had a pocket full of little paper balls,
which he was slyly throwing here and
there. He was just aiming one at Mr.
Kemp's head, when Miss C — ■ — 's little
gloved hand was laid gently on his own.
"That is very good fun, Frank," she
THE OPEN DOOR.
" Behold. I hive set bsf)ro thee an open
door." Kcv, 3:} .
A poor widow lived in a Highland
glen. Her only child had w..ndcred from
her into one of the cities of Sc Ulanll,
and was there leading a life of sin. The
mother went after her lost one; the
daughter relented, and was returning to
her home. But temptation assailed her
by the WMy, and she went back to her old
haunts. The desolate mother returned
to her cottage alone; and yet she was not
alone, for she called on the widow's God.
He was entreated of her. As she sat
one sleepless night, watchinp the decay-
ing embers of her scanty fire, she heard
a footfall on the floor. She turned at the
sound. It was her repentant child !
The first glad surprise and full confes-
sion over — " How came it, mother," said
the daughter, '"that at this late and
lonely hour I found the latch of the cot-
tage unfastened ?"
"That latch has never been fastened,
day or night, since you left me," was the
mother's reply. " I feared that if you
came, and found it fast, you might have
turned away for ever." A mother's for-
giveness, a mother's welcome, were ex-
pressed in that open door.
This touching incident illustrates the
gospel of the grace of God.
The lesson ol the entire law of Moses,
a lesson taught by God himself for fif-
teen hundred years, was, that no unelean
creature might by any means come near
to him. Sin is our uncleanness. And
sin, if not put away, would have proved
a closed door — a door which we never
could have opened, thongh we had spent
our strength on it forever. '• But now
once, in the end of the world," we read,
" hath he [Christ] appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself." (Ileb.
9:26.) Aud his mission accomplished
its object; a sacrifice so costly was not
offered in vain ; sin, that barrier between
sinful man aud his God, is there no
longer. We are all invited to draw near;
the fact of our being sinners ia no hin-
derance in our path ; in the precious blood
of an atoning Sacrifice, there is forgive-
ness for all sin. The word of the blessed
gospel is thus a word of universal ii vi-
talion. It proclaim.s an open door ; and
that whosoever will may enter.
The widow's child did not stand with-
out, crying, " Mother, unlatch the door."
A mother's love had done that, while
she was far away. She found the door
unfastened, and went freely forward.
Even 60, before our repentance, before
our prayers, before we had a being, the
mighty work of redemption was done.
" When Jesus had received the vinegar,
I be said, It i= finishi^l : and },a Viownd his
id, and up f. : ti ly:
^ 3u.) Let us pass in, tneu, . h th"?
unfastened door. '-Hiving boldness to
enter into the holiest by the blood of
Jesus, let us draw near." (Heb. Ill: 19.)
Let us seek the Lord "while he may be
found ;" let us "call upon him while he
is near." (Isa. 55: (5) It is our wis-
dom, yea, our eternal life.
We have another reason for this '• bold-
ness." When the repentant wanderer
passed through the unfastened door, she
found a mother behind it. Aud we fiud
a Father behind the cross of Christ. The
cross is the way to the Father. How
beautif ul is this expressed in the words,
" to enter into the holiest by the blood
of Jesus!"' The holiest in the Jewish
temple was the nearest possible approach
to God. The "outer court" was near ;
the " holy place" was nearer; but the
"holiest" was hi» very presence. The
ark uf his covenant, the mercy-seat, his
glory, were all there. To enter into the
hjliest DOW, is not therefore to come to
God as a master ; neither is it to come to
him as a friend. Both are near, but
there is a nearer. It is to come as Je
sus himself came, crying, " Abba, Fath-
er." (Gal. 4:li.) To make us partakers
of this, his own blessedness, t e Sou of
God laid down his precious life. He
would have us draw near, as he drt'w
near, and call upon God as he calfed
upou him; " My Father," he says, ' and
your Father; ray God aud your God."
(John 20: 17 )
The unlatched door revealed the moth-
er's heart. It was the expressi.in of its
unfailing compassion — uf its warm and
abundant welcome. And the cross of
Christ, in like manner, has laid tare be-
fore ui the heart of tlie blessed uod We
have spoken of the door which Jesus
opened. It cost him bis life to open it.
He " put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself. " And he who thus loved us,
iind gave himself up for us, is " the im-
age of the invisible God." (Col. 1:15)
The giving of the Son of his k ve to die in
our stead reveals the Father's heart. We
may well have boldness to return to him,
saying, " Father, we have sinned." And
if we distrust these slippery hearts,
knowing too well that they "go aside
like a deceitful bow," let us not therefore
despair. There is yet hope for the lu-
ture, fur he will be our help. Ouly let
us seek that help, saying each one for
himself, " My Father, be thou my guide."
But some perhaps will say, ' ' Tell us of
our duties; it is enough if we discharge
them; we need not to be told of a Savi-
our's cj;pss." True, the discharge of duty
is enofll^ ; but let us understand what
duty is. " This is the work of God, that
ye believe on him whom he hath sent."
(John (i: 29) The widow's child did
not say, while in the great city, " I will
abide here, aud do my duty." Con-
science told her, " Your first duty is to
go home." And she obeyed its voice.
Once there, all was right. A mother's
loving smile encouraged her: she re-
turned that love by her daily affectionate
ministry ; she smoothed that injured par-
ent's way to a better and happier world
Our first duty, in like manner, is to go
home. And this we can do only by be-
lieving and following the Lord Jesus
Christ. Let us then wander no longer
from the blessed God ; let us know him as
a Father ; let us believe in his forgiving
love, as shown in the gift of his Son to
die for us. All else will then be right
with us, 88 respects both God and man.
We shall do God's will as his dear chil-
dren ; we shall seek man's welfare with
the affectionate solicitude of brethren.
To be led to God as a Father through
the opened door of Calvary , is to find " the
blessing, even life forevermore." (Ps.
133 : 3.)
Be it your prayer and mine then, be-
loved friend, that he may thus speak to
us, thus deal with our heaj^i^ thus seal w
as his own. " 'f ye, beitip- evil, know
how to give good gifts unto your chil-
dren, how mucfi more shall your Heav-
enly Father give the Holy Spirit to them
tha'. ask him ! "
farm aatj ^nm.
THE CROPS OF LAST YEAR.
Tug following facts an 1 estimates re-
specting the jie'd of corn, cotton and
t()'.ac30 in the Southern States are taken
from the Monthly Report of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in Washington, and
are based upon reports received as late
as December lOth ;
THE CORN cnoR^.
Virginia suffered severely by the
drought, which dwarfed the stalk and
blade, aud interfered with its perfect ear-
ing, yet the ears were generally well
filled in proportion to the jiruwth of the
stalk, except in worn-out lauTf?. Drought
was severe in North Carolina, reducing
the crop materially as a whole. In lieau-
fort county, and io Hyde, adjoining,
counties with deep, moist spjl, rich as the
prairies with organic matte., 1 good crop
was gathered, while in Gas* ■ and upon
the central ridge, thence to" ' :e county,
a region of moderately prod' ■ ' ve, easily
improved, aud serviceable S ' for vari-
ou.-i purposes, the yield wa ._ich redu-
ced. The corn region in tl "tute is the
coast sectiou, parts of whic: . o even Il-
linois can excel in depth of —'^ m;*
ter or abundance of j^rowji.
erly cultivated ; tu7 next b'.
long-leafed pine, is bett--. 'jr cotton;
the next x)ue is espec .suited to
wheat, and the mountain -i t - ion to corn
Bgain, grasses aud truits; and the yield
of the present season is in accordance
with this peculiar adaptatiocr. In South
Carolina aud Georgia the long season of
hot and dry weather reduced materially
the yield io the aggregate, with the same
variation, in different cirovsmk^nces of
soil and culture, as in States further
north.
A fair summary of reports from the
entire district affected by drought would
be: Fields badly tilled, overrun with
weeds, or with a thin sandy soil, or a
heavy clay not ameliorated by culture,
were scorched and partially, or wholly,
laid waste; while deep soils river bot-
toms, rich slopes of virgin soil, and fields
kept clean of weeds and frequently cul-
tivated, gave satisfactory and even large
returns.
The crop of Alabama, and that of Mis-
sissippi, suffered still less, yet is not an
average one. Texas shows an increase —
in some counties the largert crop ever
grown is re^ported — iu one (Coryell) the
average yield is placed at for'y bushels.
The October freeze injured corn in
Kentucky, both in shock aud in field,
and wet weather was the caus^of loss in
low lands. In Missouri, the crop was
generally fine in rolling prairie and in
timber lands, but poor in lev*l prairie,
from excess of rain.
The aggregate of the crop exceeds that
of last year, and the quality is good. A
reduction of seventeen per ceut. is indi-
cated in Illinois. From several coun-
ties come very gloomy reports.
In .Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
and Iowa, the reduction in |uality was
still greater, and also the ([uantity per
acre; in the latter two, the indease of
acreage, the result of immigration, and
the making of new farms, will nearly
neutraliz'; the diminution of yi.^ld, and
make the aggregate produo'f about
equal to that of last year, a'
ot .Mi.'iub«i.t_a .
- Tb.n only Stat-- repo i . -ise
of quantity are- Minn-'s ji i, . , .5 .:ari,
Florida, Nebra.ska, Kansas, Tf^as and
California. Louisiana and lowa give
nearly an average. The principal corn
growing section of the West will average
a reduction of fully twenty per \jent. in
yield per acre. With all the" increase
of farraem to produce, and population to
cons'Mue, and with an actual enlargement
of area under culture, it is certain that
there is actually less corn produced this
year tlian in 1868. ^
The drought of the Atlantic Cbaft was
far less injurious to cotton than to corn
Superior cotton soilp, well cultivated,
rarely suffer for want of rain ; jnferior,
shallow and neglected soils, which pro
duce small crops under the most favora-
ble circumstances, are often injured, and
in the present season have in many cases
yielded meagre returns for theTrittle la-
bor expeuded. Everywhere the acreage
planted is greater than last year; the
product per acre in the sea-coast States
is materially less, with very few excep-
tions. The relative proportion Jif lint to
seed is from some cause less tb^n usual.
The use of fertilizers has lafgely in-
creased the vield of these Sfcrtes, has
given a better stand in fields where the
plant had a feeble start, and stimulated
to rapid growth and early maturity. In
one experiment reporte I, the first pick-
ing of plants fed with guano i^ielJei,
September 11th, a ten-fo'd inorelise over
a similar area of undressed soil, and at
the end of the season the enriched soil
had produced just double the^if»«4Kit of
that unenriched A judicious system of
fertilization is practiced by th'e ' few,
while the many obtain increased crops
through a mure rapid exhaustioo of the
soil, by the aid of guanc ani-various
compounds rich in ammonia.
The grasshopper, in some parts of
Texas, iujuted cotton that was planted
'ate. Drought affected it unfavotahly in
the lied River region. W
rains and overflows wefe foc'i
But for these drawbacks the j. ,,^ .. ..uiu
have been very large. Still the aggre-
gate is much larger than tha' ■;.
Reports of five hiindred pot. .lUt
to the acre, where good culti-.i .ollowed
a careful selection of seed, are aot un-
frcqueut. Some counties return an aver-
age of three hundred pounds p.^'^--H ."-e
The culture in Texas is extcnuing far
b,?youd i's limits in 186(1, 01. • ■ i-unty
which made no return at that date return-
ing four thousand three hundred bales,
and others, producing it for the first time,
average three hundred pounds j i r acre.
Arkansas has made an average crop,
upon a s mewhat increased area; but
Tennessee, a small portion of which is
ever cultivated in cotto , has a smaller
yield than last year.
The picking commenced earlier than
usual, and the later bolls ripened more
thoroughly; the season for gathering the
lint has been quite uniformly fav. r«.VIe,
a circumstance always greatly c i...acive
to increase of the crop aggregate, and
favoring a freedom from "trash"- and
dirt.
The aggregate product, in acc irdanoe
with returns received to this date lit-
tle more than ten pei- cent, ab r the
yield of 1 808, or about 2,700,00 com-
mercial hales, or fully three milliovs of
bales of four hundred pounds eac
TOBACCO.
The latest returns indicate a red • ion
of one-third in Virginia and MaT; -nd,
one-sixth in Kentucky, sixteen tnt.
in Michigan, with a slight decret in
Indiana and Illinois. Massachi t-',
West Virginis, Michigan, Wisconsin -ud
the States west of th-^ 'lississippi, ,
somewhat enlarged their produotioD'
0
fair summary of these returns would e m
to indicate an aggregate 1 eduction of
about twenty per cent.
The drought iu Maryland and Virgiuip,
and October frosts in Kentucky ai d
other western State.", are promineiit
causes of depreciation. The damipe in
Trimble County, Kentucky, amounts to
hundreds of thousands of dollars, and
affects tobacco in the houses and on "he
scaffolds as well as in the fields.
The quality is variable. In some lo-
cations, where the quantity has heen re-
duced by drought, the quality is superior.
In other.', both quantity and quality are
greatly reduced.
Cheering Prospects at the South.
The IVoodjord iVeekly Icarus that
the planters throughout the Southern
States are in fine spirits, and making
heavy preparations for planting a large
crop of cotton ne.'it year. There is a suf-
ficiency of money there to meet all pres-
sing demands, and as soon as the niaj-)r
part of the crop of this year is disposed
of, money will be quite abundant, and
every article of trade from the West,
that is needed in the South, will bring
high prices.
Culture of Wheat.
Oliver Dalryinple, the great wheat
grower of Minnesota, says he is by no
means discoura.^ed at the low price of
wheat, and will sow 2200 acres next
spring, the ground for which is already-
plowed. He sold nearly the entire crop
of the present year at au average price
of $1 per bu.-thel.
■ nother account says that farmers in
■! i.nesota are paying twenty four per
cent, interest for money to hold their
wheat, not wishing to take eighty or
eighty-five cents a bushel for it.
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formation as to .'sleeping Cars, Through Connections
with l allroa 1 and Stage Lines, Jkc, appiv at 'I'lcliet OBl-
o «, corner Third and Main streetH, corner of Fourth
and Main streets, Louisville Hotel, Wiilard Hotel, tialt
House, and at Depot, corner Ninth and Broadway.
deoStf ALBBKT KINK, Uen'l Supt.
A NEW BOOK!
Messrs. A. Davidson A Co. have just received a large
supply of "Falth'8 Battles and Victories" — a new book,
by Kev. J. S. Grasiy, of Shelbyville, Ky., which they
are reatly to furulah to the trade on the most liberal
terras, or will send by mail to any a Mress for $1.
SUNDRIES.
25 cases Concentrated Lye.
I barrel White Olue.
2U dozen Hair Krushes.
6 gro8. Tooth Brushes.
3 " Toilet Soaps.
5 " Cookiii|ij Lxtracts.
Iteceived and tor sate by
OEU. U. CAKY,
CLARK BRADLEY,
COACH AND CARRIAGE
MANUFACTURER,
No. 20 Main Street,
Between 1st and 2nd, Locisvillb, Kt.,
OLD STAND — 27 YEARS STANDING,
S3* Manufactures and keeps constantly on
hand, a general assortment of Carriages, Ac.
Ac, of the latest fashion. nov tf 1
A LOAN OF
$1,500,000
PAYABLE IN GOLD.
With Interest at the Rate of
EIGHT PER CENT.
PER ANNUM,
THOMAS 8. BALDWLN J
(Late KKtM, Baldwin Cc./^
0 L O T H I N G.
Corner Main and Teotb i^treet*, KiobmonjI
dec 19— If Above Post Offlee.
DR. ROBERT G. CABELL,
OFKER.S his PaorKsaiOMAL Skbvicim to
citizens of Kichmond and Its vicinity.
Office, between 7th and »th streets.
mh8-tf oriV;.....!
DR. JOHN vNOX.
RniDENCK corner oi Marshall and 12th street.
KICHMOND, VA.
MuSAQES len on the slate at the drug storeB
of A.SCOTT, corner of Bread and fwenty-J
YAIiLE S EMI - :iMyU^ L . — tiiii. "•reel, will receive prompt attention.
p. H. KEAN. D- A. KEAN.
F. H. KEAN & BROTHER
WHOLESALE
GROCERS,
COMMISSION .MERCHANTS,
AND Dealers in Provisions, Flour, and
General Produce.
ALSO AOENTS FOR TDI
THE FRANKFORT COTTON MILLS,
Mo. 49 West Main street, bet. Second A Third,
L0UI8VI1.LE, Kt.
PROMPT, personal attention GIVEN TO
FILLING ORDERS.
E3- Consignments 8olicited, and satisfaction
guaranteed. ept. 8.
LAMAR FEMALE SEMINARY.
a boarding school for youuo ladirs.
Rev. O. p. stark, Pbincipau
This In.stltutlon Is pleasaullr located In the city of
Paris, Lamar county, Te.xaa. The luilldlng Is the lar-
gest au l most cominodlou.s In the State.
Thedesif^n of this Institution Is toaltord young ladles
every facility for aoquinng a lliilslied education. The
course of study enibntces all that is usually pursued In
flrst-cla.ss Seminaries.
CompeU'iit and experienced teachers are employed,
who will aim to be thorough In their various depart-
meuUi.
Expenses, (Inclnding board, tuition, room. rent, fuel,
washmg, Ac.,) for the scholastic year of ten months,
(United states currency,) f 24u 00
The next session will commence on Wednesday, Sep-
tember 1st, 1S« ).
Circulars sent on application. aeptlMm
WHARTON & ELLIOTT,
Whole!-aIe and Itetail Dealers In
FIXE AND FASHIONABLE FURNITURE
104 Main St., between Third & Fourth,
ap20— 3m Louisville. Kt.
j BUCKEYE
I Bell Foundry.
6EU$
ESTABLIi-HEU IN 1837.
Church, Academy, Factory, Farm, Fire-
Alnrm Bells, Ac, made of Pure Bell Metal,
((-'oppcr A Till,) warranted in quality, tone, du-
rability, Ac, and mounted with our Patent
ImproN'ed Kotatlni; Hangings. Illustrated Cat-
alogue sent free. VANDUZEN & TIFT.
102 & 104 K. Second St., Cincinnati, Ohio,
feb i:-ly 1
FRANK C. WILSON,
PHYSICIAN ASD SUIIGKON.
No. 2iS East Walnut Srurr,
LouUvllle, Ky
Onio« hours from -I to 6, P. M.
0«t 13 i mos
G.R BARNES'.
IN GOLD,
In N. Y. or Europe, as may be Desired,
FREE OF U. S. TAXES.
Principal Maturing in
THIRTY YEARS
from August, 1869,
AND PAYAB' E IN GOLD
IN THE CITY
NEW YORK.
u F-E.
apl 13—
Wholesale and lie tail Druguist,
81 Fourtb.st., bet. Main and Market.
1
SHELBYS ILLE
FEMALE COLLEGE,
SHELBYVn.LE, KENTUCKY
APOPl'LAR INSTITUTION for the education of
youuj? ladies, in the Kngllsh Branrties, .Music,
French, lierman, Latin, Painting, Einbrolderj-, etc
Terms moderate. Send for Circular. Address
Janstf M1I8. C. W. STUART.
REVISED
PRICE LIST
Pen Only.
I'en with Sliver and Eb-
ony Holder and Box.
Pen with Gilt and Ebony
Holder and Box.
Pen with Kubbor Kevcrse
Holder and Pencil.
K-5
I3
0
r.l
1?
" S
a. .1
Pen with Sterling Silver
S;rewUx n Oaae A Pen'l
No.
1
75
1 •iS
1 50
1 75
3 00
2 1 00
1 50
1 75
2 25
3
1 2d
1 73
2 00
'i'so
2 50
4*26
•(
4
1 60
2 -2.5
2 50
3 00
3 00
4 60
f (
6
2 00
2 75
3 00
3 50
3 50
5 50
«(
6
2 -M
S 00
3 -25
3 75
3 73
it
7
2 .511
3 25
3 75
4
4 26
tt
8 3 00
4 00
4 50
4 75
5 00
tt
9 8 00
4 30
3 00
7 00
" 10 5 00
e 00
7 00
is
6 00
6 60
7 60
8 00
10 00
Sent by mall, or express, on receijit of price
II by mail, inclose stamp for return postai^e.
Gold pens repaired, if sent by mail with 60
cents and stamp each, aud new Pens exchang-
ed for old ones on liberal terms.
Plain gold rings of any weight and quality
made to order.
Complete stocks ol line watches, jewelry, sil
ver, and plated ware, and emblematic pins and
charms always on hand.
Watches audjewelry repaired an l warranted
Clergymen supplied with pens at half the
above prices, and special reductions on all oth'
er goods.
CP. BAKNES A BItOTHKK,
221 .Main street. (Louisville Hotel BlockO
feb 28-tf i Louisville, Ky.
B, A. ROBINSON. CHA3. H. PITTRT. WM. A. R0BIN80K.
R. A. ROBINSON & CO.
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
184 Main Street,
louisville, ky.
JAVES I. LKHON. J/lHVS K. LEMON.
JAMES I. LEMON & CO ,
DKALKKS IN
WATCHES AND JEWELRY,
CLOCKS,
SILVER AND PL.A.TED WARE,
73 Fourth street,
Undkb National Uotbl. LOUISVILLE, KY.
WWatches carefuUyrepaired. ldec22-ly
JOHN WATSON,
LEATHER AND SADDLERY WAREHOUSE,
No. 286 Main Street,
Between 7th and 8th, Louisvilli, Kt.,
Would invite the trade to examine his stock,
which be will sell at the lowest prices, consist-
ng iu part of—
Sols Leather, Pad Skins,
Upper Leather, Enameled Leather,
Bridle Leather, stirrups, Bitts, Buckles,
Harness Leather, Saddles, Bridles,
.skirting Leather, Harness, Trunks,
feb 8 Carriage Makers' Matanalg, Ac. 1
A. Davidson. J. W. Nockbe
A. DAVIDSON & CO.
BUOK-iELLERS AN D STATIONERS.
72 Fourth Street,
Louisville, Kt.
We desire to call the attention of those wishing to
fill up or procure libraries, to our large and coniprehen-
slTe stock of Religious and Miscellaneous Ooolia— afew
of the newest of which are enumerated below.
Commentary on Confession of Faith, by Rev. A. A
Ilodge, D. D 11 75
The Atonement, by Kev. A. A. Hwlge, D. I . .. 1 60
Palth s Battles and Victories, by Kev. J.S.Onu)ty 1 00
Uiary aud Kemiuiscences of Henry Crabb Kobin-
son, ■! vols 4 00
Frederick \V. Robertson's Sermon's new e(L 2 voL 3 00
Country I'arsou Sericn, cheap cd. s vols 10 00
Pri«8t and Nun, by author of Almost a Nun 2 50
Almost a Nun, by .Mrs. J. .McNalr Wright 1 50
Lldilon's University Sermons 1 50
Hible Wouders, by Rev. Ur. Newton 1 ia
Life of Samuel .Miller, 1). i)., V! vols 4 ou
Days of Knox, by author of Dark Year of Dundee 2 50
Christian Leaders, by Rev. J. c. Kyle 2 50
Deus Semper, by author of Semper Deus 1 75
Kemimsceiices of Indians, by Kev. CP. Washburn 1 26
Yeatenlay, To-Day aud Forever, by Kev. £. H.
Bickersteth 2 00
Lauge ou Romans -. 500
Jenney Geddcs 1 26
Kcce Ccelum 1 26
tWA liberal discount to Miulsters, from above prices.
Besides our stock of Ttieologlcat ancl Mlscellaneoiu
Books,we have a most complete line of SABBATn-scHOOL
and ScuoOL Books, Blank Books, Papers of all kinds.
Plain and Fiincv Statiouery, and every description of
IIOLIDAY WOODS, which are usually kept In Book-
stores.
The attention of Merchants Is especially Invited to
oor Stock.
Address all orders to A. DAVIDSON 4 CO,
12 Fourth Straet, Locisvu^.c. Kt.
Ootii, to
The undersigned, aa represeutatlvea of the ST. JO-
SEPH and DKNVKKCITY RAILROAD COMPANY,
have the honor to offer for sale the
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS,
OF THE
ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY
RAILROAD COMPANY,
On their Une of Railway which connects SL Joseph
with Fort Kearney by rail, amounting to |l,5O0,uaa.
All that can be Issued.
These bonds are secured by a Urst and only mort-
gage to the Farmer*' Loan and Trust Company of New
Y'ork, aa Trustees for the holders of these bonds, on
the proparty of the Company, from St. Joseph, Mo., to
MarysvlUe, Kansas, Inclnding Its railroad, rights of
way, franchises, equipments, rolling-stock, (engines,
cars, coaches. Ac,) machine-shops, depots, lands, and
all kinds of property belonging to the Company hi Do-
niphan, Brown, Nemaha, and Marshall counties, in the
Stat« of Kansas, a distance of 111 miles, which la
mortgaged to secure the bondholders at the rate of
|1S,508 par mile, on a COMPLETED RAILROAD.
They have the further security by the terms of the
Trust Deed, whereby the Farmers' Loan and Trust
Company, as Trustees, are made the sole and absolute
custodians of the bonds before they are loaned, and
are not permitted to deliver them or their proceeds un-
til they have proper evidence that the road Is graded,
tied. Ironed, and ready for the rolling-stock, and then
only at the rate of $1 2,000 per mile for so many miles
as shall be thus completed. This la arranged In sec-
tions of live milea
Bonds, to be valid, must be countersigned by the
Farmers' Loan and Trust Ck uipauy.
Parties purchasing any of these bonds have a safe
and sure guarantee that the money tkey have mvest-
ed finds an equivalent In value In a completed rail-
road, costing to build and equip more 'hiui double Uie
amount they have Invested, all of whica -.'red tu
pay the principal and hiteregt of the iwnds tke
purchaaeiL
The security la undoubted.
The St. Joseph and Denver , •■ ^^fi
111.' ci^ n nf » h« n»niii i»«W!rT^^rj»w ^ao-
■■ja'l,' wi.r. all Its (.xte , 1 ounectlotui. North aud
Kast, and the St. Lonls au.: St. Joseph ItaUroad, with
Its powerful connections South and East. via. St. Louis,
both lines converging at SL Joseph and connecting
bume llately with the St. Joseph and Denver Ctty Rail-
road, traversing through Eastern Kansas to the heart
of Nebraska and Intersecting the Cnlon Pacific Rail-
road mam line at the City of Fort Kearney, THUS MA-
KING THE SHORTEST ROtTTE KNOWN, TO CALI-
FORNIA AND THE " PACIFIC STATE.S."
The Une 41 miles west from St. Joseph Is in complete
and successful operation, and the line to MarysvlUe Is
being rapidly completed.
The line from MarysvlUe to Fort Kearney U being
rapidly pushed forward.
A Branch road Is being built from the St. Joseph
aud Denver City Rallroa l at Severance to the Kansas
PacUSc Railroad, glvmg at once a direct route to Den-
ver City.
The bonds are In denomlnatlona of fl.ooo and tsoo.
They are Coupon bonds, but may lie registered In the
owner's name at the Farmer's Loan and Trust Compa-
ny, ami by the surrender of the Coupons can be con-
verted Into a Registered Iwnd, with Interest payable to
the registered owner.
The coupons, or the Interest Is made payable on the
16th days of August and February In each year, hi
New York, London, or Frankfort-on-the-.Maln. at the
option of the holder, and at the following equivalents :
For six months hiterest on tl.ooo bonds:
At New Y'ork »40, gold.
At London X8 4s. 4d.
At Frankfort-on-the-Maln loo aor.
On the 1900 bonds one-half of these amounu respect-
ively. The Uiterest la payable free ot United States
taxes.
The principal Is payable In New York, lu gold, Aug.
15, IMS.
The Company have an authorised capital of
110,000,800— to which nearly |-i,iioo,ooo has already
been sul scrll ed, and Is being expended on the road,
and in audition to this the Company have a grant
from the United States Uovemment at Wsahmgton of
l,«ou,i oo acres of laml, ten miles in width— on either
side of the line— lt la conceded that these lands are of
a superior ^rder and among the t e8t In the country)—
which, at t2,6ci per acre, forms an asset of the Company
of the value of |4,ooo,oiio.
The Company, with Its entire property, valoaii at
16,000,000, free from debt, asks this loan of tl.soo.ooo.
We offer these bonds at the low price of V7X and ac-
crnol mtereat In currency, wtch the reserved right to
advance the price without notice.
Qovernments and other securities received In pay-
ment, without commission, at their market value.
Bonds sent by express, or packages received In pay-
ment, wiU be free of charge.
Pamphlets, maps, and Information furnished on ap-
plication.
Parties desiring safe and lucrative investments
sliould lose no time iu investigating these securities, as
the loan Is t eing rapidly taken up
W. p. CONVERSE & CO..
Commercial Agenta,
54 Pine street. New York.
p'OUNDKD 1H.M. ^
SNYDER A IREY.
SCCCKSSOR3 TO
S N V D E k , BOWERS & C
RICHMOND.
STOVE AND ARCHITECTURAL
IKON WORKS,
No. 1,000 Cary Street, Comer lOth Street,
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
Dealers In
SCOTCH AND AMERICAN PIG IR(i
FOUNDRY SUri'LES.
rt*ct 17— yrg :
aoBT. H. HADBT. IAS. T. MAOBT. BOBT.
R. H. MAURY A CO.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,'
NO. 1014 .MAIN &TREET, BiQH'^
' ., ■ jld, silvi-:iT^
-.a. IB, CITY, and RAIL-
ROAD BONDS and STOCKS, Ac., bought and
•old on commission.
Deposits received and Collections made on
all accessible points In the Ilnitc'l States,
aug^tf. 2
TANNER & CO ,
Fiscal Agents,
49 WaU street. New Y'ork.
WM. B. ISAACS,
WM. O. TAYLOR, J. C. WILLlAMu
WM. B. ISAACS & r. ,
BANKERS.
Richmond, Viroinia.
Dealen. in CtJlN, BANK NOTES, STOCKS,
BONDS, and other SECURITIES, and KOR.(
KION and DOMESTIC Exchange.
OEPOSITES received. 2 sep 18— tl
^ ^ NEW MUSIC ! ^ ^
RIBI
iiif al
, Kin!
SUB
ceivinif all the lawst and best Music,
Thomas, KInkel, Frey, Keller, Bishop, etc. atlesstbsi
It is is.si
y iiifi
tiBSCRlBERS to Peters' Musical Monthly arr fe-|
shop, etc, al
onecentper page. It Is ls.sued n 'it*- .'it-
month, is printed on line white ^aper, 1....-
music plates, and contains over $5 worth of our lati
and lieHt music In every numljcr.
Single numbers, 3" cents : $3 per year. Back numl
bers supplied. Volume IV., from July to Decemberr
sent by mall on receipt of $1.50 (
•1. L. PETERS, Music Publisher, 598 Broadway,
Y'ork, Opposite the Mftropolltau Hotel.
Oi'^CIergymen and Teachers supplied at 12.
deo22-tf
BOOKS
rOH SABBATH SCHOOLS AND FAMU:f8.^
THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY puh
lisb over Four Hundred Boolts tor children
ptire and evangelical in character, and not to j
excelled iu cheapness or beauty.
Also, the C'HoiciST Booia tram other . ilj
era, furnished at catalogue prices.
Sabbath .School LicHABtBi) furnished iijjf
ranted to please.
Ticltets, Reward C.irds, Class Boij
Books, and other Sabbath scliool
ways on band.
DISCOUN T allowed to the Tj
granted to DESTITUTE SCHC
THE CHILD'S ?I
A Monthly Paper, always recei
by the children. Eight copij-"
Address T. L.
inay7-tc fll4 Main sj
TO Tl
THE u. s . ru
two psHe 11^
-blent
all*
fui' iiower
' .av t b«^
tlr^ to PBKfKCT''
an : greatest friend^
s'!u ptiou, 1 think I c!W
J' A»VV merits which shol
( V fanner in the land.
^As the fuliowing season"
, we are i repared to lurir?
._ei»— both right and left. W.^ -
attention to our stock of WIIE/"!
made by the Hagerotown Agriciij]
ment Co , which is "The Best,"
plies. They are fully warranted" .1
liberal terms. ^
Send for circulars and price lists. lif
our '• retail trade" vvi I be strictlt case
no orders for small lots ol castings, ic, wil
filled unless accompanied bv the cash.
WA IT .fe KNIUHF,
Ij&'i Franklin st., Richmond.
ISAAC D. JONES,
ATTORNET OENBBAL OF MARTLAMD,
In addliioo to his official d;;tieH, practices io tlie
Ck ut ts of BalUfliore, In the .Maryland Court of Appeals,
and lAi lUe Sup&MU? Court of the U. H.
Office : 2d Jloor, « uer Chesapeake Bank,
Corner North and VajatS^ street,
land.
Ifjr-
1.
NOTICE.
The session of the UNION THBOLOOIOAL SEMI-
NARY of the General Assembly, under the care of the
Synods of Virginia and North Carolina, wlU begin Mon-
day, September IStli, at 12 M. Students are urged to
be punctually present at the beginning. The Faculty
Rev. R. L. Dabnkt, D. D., Professor of systematic and
Polemic Theology and Sacred Rhetoric
Rev. B. M. Shi'TH, Professor Oriental and Biblical
Literature.
Rev. TH08. E. Pbcx, p. D., Professor Eccieslaatleal
llUtory and PoUty.
Rev. S. B. Wilson, D. D., Professor Pastoral Theology
and Biblical Introduction, has deceased since the last
term; and his place will be flUeil bj the Trustees.
' The Seminary furnishes tuition, I'ooms, and furniture
asATis to all students ; and, moreover, by scholarships,
Ac, extends aokqcatb aio to all studenta whose peco-
mary circumslauces require it. The price of boarding
Is from tl5 to tl6 per month. Washing, ti,5 ). Wood,
l^,'*! per cord.
Catalogues giving all details wlUbe sent by mall on
K L DABNEY,
appUcation to
an li^t
f 'lerk of Faculty.
SELECT
BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL,
HILLSBORO, N. C,
Hisses. Nash and Mm.*) I^cixock, PaD 'clPAi&
, iU'il-
itf
m»ji; Spring Tonn of l8;i' ■' O
1 ry, and continue twomy
e l oii'i«43'.lcatlo«L '"
NEW FEMALii ACADEMY,
Cuj,,"EPr.R C. H , VA.
Having leased b r a t«rm of years tLe large
and commodious residence of Mrs. C. W. Ash-
by, 1 will open a select Female Acatemy, at
Culpeper Court House, on the Uth of Se, )teni ber
next. '*~*
Careful attention will be given to physical
and mental culture— to morals and religion
With an exiierience ol nearly thirty years, I
pletise myselt to s faithful discharge o.'^ my du-
ties.'
TKRM-S PBB SESSION OF TEN MO.^THS :
English, Irora f30 to SO
French, Latin and Greek 20
Drawing 20
Music 60
Boarding 200
Payable one-half in advance, and one-ball
Februiry 1st, 1870.
Circulars to be bad by applying.
»ug 4-lf CHARLES H. N0UB8B.
B ELLS.
MBNEELY'S FOUNDRY, at Wwt Tbot,
N. Y., [opposite "Troy,] established In '. ;• , "inu
which made the reputation ol I M Uii.ls,
manufactures
C'BCRCB, AcADKHT, Factobt and Chime Bills,
made of pure copper and tin, fully guarantied,
Haviog had all the papers aod docu-
me^ts relatiDg to this loan ezamioed by
competent coiiosel and pronounced com-
plete and sufficient, and having pers(»u.l-
ly examined the i-ame, which we i»d
regular and perfect, and havine had out', and buno with "tdb best Patent Rotabt
° ' " It AIotrKTiNos IN CSE. Wo are uow iiiau iifactu ting
own engineers examine the road and prop-
erty, whose reports are satisfactory, ■we
do, with the utmost ooufidenoe and satis-
faction, recommend the Ei^ht per Cent.
First Mortgage Gold Bonds of the .St.
Joseph & Denver City Railroad Compa*
ny as a safe, sure and profitable invest-
ment, worthy the attention of capitalists,
investors and others.
W P CONVERSE & CO ,
TANNER & CO
tVMap of the rood and pamphlet coi ttalning par-
ticulars, may be seen at the office of the "CHaisTtAM
OBsiavBB AND OowOM WEALTii, " Na 74 FOsuth Street,
LoolSTllle. Ky. OeCL L
KioTe bells than any thri-e founderies in the
coiuitry, have received more competitive First
Hcemluins than any other foundeiy, and our
unsolicited testimonials average ore hundred
and fiftv annually. Catalogues sent free. Ad-
dress at West Tuor, N. Y., _
mch 24-ly E. A. & O. K. MENEELY.
TROY, V v. -{Established 18S2,)a large as-
sortment of Church, Academy, Fire Alarm,
and other Bells constantly on hand and made
to order. Large Illustrated Catalogue sent tree
upon application to
.JONES * CO., Tbot, N. T.
marchlT-l s
J. W. RANDOLPH &■ ENGLISH,
1320 MAIN STREET, PICHMOND, VA,-j
Booksellen, Sf ationeii, Book-fiinderfu
A. fi BLANK BOt S MANU*"ACTORY.
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