The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1869, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. gts Bae reapers —+— -* nee his | BAF claims there, and who are proceeding to de- | None of these mines have gone to any great depta, ROUTINE AAT QUTATEDATTD | sean g4:250,000, white thetr communicants number | wives to the number now laboring abroad... Thelr ACHO33 TiE CONTINENT. velop them as fant as’ thar preseut, lim | ‘The deepose shaft yet is one et the Eberhardt, whi TH PRE sBi Thi Rn {\ (i Ret over 254.000 persons, - Aemnig, spate, Cae eee 2 Ce er 4‘ cnasaee ited” means and. macuine.s will perinit. | is down 190 feet, Nowe of those in the Culoride Fiat db - ‘The if r a e G ri d \y. J <7 " 3 oat al Asa dda tad ‘ } dlgderator of the General Wtoon the first | churees contributed to sis funds over $19,000. I | Treasure City=Its Appearance and Iuhable | on byory 6 sorecnuded. Gy Statin ond bees | ae over snirty foot Presiding oaicer is c: on every side, and nothing could be more dangerous OTHER MINES, e s omice only for one | aided, either in an academic, collegiate or taeolo- day of the sessions, | {a an a tants—How the People Live=The Silver | than waiking in this vicinity at night without a good | — Jt would be folly for me to go over a list of all the year, He 1s expecied to preach the opening sermon | gical course, 205 stulents, i " ‘at § . lantern, for a false step might seud you a hundred | jocations that have been made, oreven of those see eerie ee nis auceossor In the |. The Presbyterian Publication Committee had un- | Miues-Wild Cut SpeculationsRieh Minow | reortits the shaft of some Bara rect uns not yet | thatare known to coptain Mare OF leas ore, and that i “Y +) i i | hat o se ‘ave thus served the church there | der its hands two departinents of work—namely, Its History and Constitution in by Stari most useful divines of | the publication of new and valuable books and also * well as some distinguished men | the distribution of its books and tracts tirough gone to the expense of erecting a shauty over the | will, doubtless, pay their owners a good percentage. hole they have mide, You imagine yourself safe in | The latter! believe to be numerous, but don’t think AsURE Ciry, Wars Pine Drarricr, Nero} America. Past generations, of th h inal 1 a'Sund: Nools. “1 April 26, 1809. daytime, You may be walking along very quiet that as yet they are in the hundreds. The brain has Still living. The Rev. Dr. Joa Rodgers, once of this | pastors, home missionaries and Sunday schools. thinking of the wonderful locaiity you are in, and if | been racked to discover some name that has not city. heads their ro! Lat during the year publications to the amount of TREASURE CITY. it 1 best to try your luck in a mi y' when you hear | been before used, and no astonishinent need be ex- aged are the names of Dr. Miller, | over $46,000. It owns a valuable building on Chest- The headquarters of the mining interests of this Among those di , , : i ir “Avehinaid A ander, re ‘Huphalet Not Dee Houses siaaeiliapbadaictoisienadh ai eeuinenl district is situated near the summit of the hill of chibaid Ale: The “Old School” and the | par ne wuray and otters, whose labors in | _ The trustees of the Church Erection Pund received | tne same name, and w at an altitude of 10,000 feet the ery of “Fire! At first you thing, very naturally, | pressed at the singular titles of mines that may be that the devouring element has seized some frail | put forward for sale. If all belonging to the ma- tenement and that destruction of the city 13 sure to | jority of them are no worse than the names it will be follow: but the cry don’t mean anythfug of the kind: | fortunate. It will be interesting to watch the de- behalf’ of religion yet exert — an — tn. | Collections from 290 churches of nearly $41,000, and | ayove the Level of the sea. The approach to it i# by | it indicates only that a train has been fired leading | velopments that will be made this summer; all are “New School.” Macnee among us, Atnong “the ving Dr. | aftorded iiberal grants to tairty-four churches’ that | SPOV! tis tite & Mia AM a ana ale | toa blast, and that it 13 Dest to-met toe safe piace a | waiung apparently for the snow to tin out or dis- N. s. Beman stands highest as to the | needed aid to complete their houses of worship. ase Dp mil quickiy &3 possible. In a minute or so more & | appoar before other locations are made and betore os EI ee Nmoteness of his time of oMicial service, though | The Presbyterian Committee of fome Missions | though distant from Hamilton only about two miles | heavy report is heard; up goes a column of smoke, | work is commenced in good earnest. When the thers who have been Moderators sinve may be older | sustains preachers in ail portions of the frontier ‘I or five mile ride hing General Assemblies of | uit stints tgereaemeyetane | ent Beant, Grate A | oath tance, Waterers CY my n Sse | Assombly whieh conven elphia in 1831, | among +. ved fo1 2 The Approaching enerai Assemunes 0 fhe Kev, Dr. Spring, 1n whose Royo Generai | Vious to its last annual report nearly $135,000. Tne | pe in the future time alone oan decide. I can Both in This City. and huge pieces of rock are sent flying in ever; ground becomes drier, and transporiation easter direction, which frequently go through the tops and | and cheaper, every foot of A nk ae will be alive with sides of houses, much to the annoyance of the owner | men, and as for Treasure Hill, tt will be bored in 80 or owners thereof, who do not like the peace of their | many places that soon it will resemble @ honeycomb habitation being disturbed in @ manner 80 waren more Lban a mass of solid rock. ceremonious. Very many narrow escapes ha' Ifa tithe of the mines turn out profitable it will occurred from these flying rocks, but I have not | put Hamilton, Treasure City and Shermantown on a heard of any fatal accidents as yet. 1 was forcibly | permanent basis, and render them in d short time reminded of scenes during the war by these forms | places of great importance. Already real estate in of blasts; the discharges were incessant; it was like | the two former has gone up toa terrific price, and an artillery duel when the pieces were masked; you | he who desires a town lot will have to pay a round hear the report and see the smoke, but the gun is rice or go Without. How singular this seems, that invisible. When the rocks are seen flying you can | land that only three years ago wasa wildernes3, easily imagine a shell has burst, sometimes there | and that could be had for the mere asking, is now will be two or three in Fapid succession, and the | discovered to be teeming with wealth beneath its face of the hill will frequently be covered by a series | surface, and on its surface to be worth hunareds of of small clouds, occasioned by these rapid explo- | dollurs per foot. Verily strange things will bappen, sions of gunpowder. I stood to-day for some time | that we little dream of. looking at the svene, and when watohing the MILLING. men in the distance, running from tne coming | The want of milling facilities has been much felt, shower of stone, it was no dificult matter | for two reasons. (ne was the inability of those con- to imagine that a skirmish was going on not far off, | structed to do anything like the work required, and of which I was only a quiet looker-on. the other was the price chai for milling, Al from these mining scenes the view from | viz.:—Fifty dollars per ton, which the owner where | stood was magnificent—range after range of | of mines refused to pay. because they considered snowcapped mountains, as far as the eye could | it exorottant. Now, however. this troubvle will reach; valley after valley between them, in every | soon be over. A very superior mill, erected by direction. True, there was little vegetation to be | Boston capitalists, twenty-eight miles from Hamil- seen apart from the stunted pine, and no sign of | ton, has been leased by Messrs. Avery & Thompson. cultivation whatever; it was only a magnificent pano- | Tnis is now to work on private terms for the rama, agreat picture of solitude, almost, with nothing | Chloride Fiat Company, which company, as I stated of life in it beyond that portion directly around you. | before, will have besides two mills of their own, and I was much interested, for the sight was truly of @ | thus will be able to work off the large quantity of novel character. ores now waiting. Other mills will be erected sumi- MINING MATTERS. cient for the present demands; consequently this This 18 ground upon which I must tread carefally, | summer will show what White Pine can produce. because I do not wish to say too much, and should | A water company has been organized and is now regret to say too little about this wealthy locality. erecting works, ‘whereby water in abundant supply Very much has been said and written about the di wiil be brought to the mulls, and as all the wooed re- trict of White Pine its richness, and doubtless | quired is found sufficiently near, why the cost of much of truth, but I am satisfed that at the | milling must come down toa price that wilt render same time very much hag been written that | the working of medium grade ores even remuaera- is sheer fabrication, and intended oniy to | tive. deceive and gull the unwary into speculation MISCELLANEOUS. and investments of money that must sooner or later Facing Treasure Hill, and separated by a deep and prove disastrous and productive of great loss and | narrow gorge or valley, 18 White Pine Mountain, or, consequent misery. Kor instance, I know that bul- | as it is better known by the inhabitants of this seo- bly meets the present year, was the Moderator | umber of missionaries it employed the whole or 4 say that i He has been lected member of the coming part of the yearis 452. The aggregate period of pe ig: Bee PAR gn Hae most un- and will probably be its oldest member. their service Was 325 years, They preached the Gos- | without exception it 18 All the benevolent work of this Church is super- | Pel in 712. places and organwed fity-four new | attractive place I ever had the misfortune vised OY DeCaReDE thwart or, a3 5 shay are aaa ‘There were 2,347 hopeful conversions re- to visit, True it 1s that it cannot be otherwise; it is styled, “Boards, ese are five in number, le . v What Business Will Come Before | two permanent committees, namely:—The Board of | _ Tue trastees of the Presbyterian House received | but short time since the first log cabin was con Domestic neiene Board of Education, the gure. be oer pipe ts gt Sigrid Lechgrg structed, wherein dwelt the hardy men who discov- Board of Foreign Missions, the Board of Publica- ssembly nearly $7, wi was yu wo mine, Them. Hoard of | Foreign Missions. ine Board of Publica | duterent objects of ‘benevolence or held in trust to | ered and located the celebrated seepage “ mittee on the Disabled Ministers’ Pund and the Com- | meet the demands of the succeeding year. and since then men have not had time to do mitte on Freedmen. For al! of these annual collec- on Trap tleapet Se er bar fog ett bad | than erect sufficient covering from the severe storms tions are taken in the churc! received o aged 2 UNION, | ‘“the Toara of Domestic hes. ions has a general | or disabled ministers and for needy widows and or- | ofthe long, long winter. When excitement in ss Tee A+ | oversight over such churches as are yet too feeble to | phans of ministers. {t provided for twenty-nine | sure subsides; when men’s heads are less turn: Sapper their minimars, and A the mambors who ers pepe at ay Arron gota than at present: when uo room is left for even a rab- are laboring in frontier regions of the or those Nici On the 29th of this month there wiil be convened | portions of the East whore it seems Dest to'estabhss | 181 persons were directly aided by this fund, bit to burrow upon dies ene pea nie) _ a {nour city two yery large, influential and mteresting | 2¢W churches in communities rapidly fil up with ‘Tne Permanent Committee on Sabbath schools has | with some man's claim, populatio * * pulation. Of these missionaries the had | been in operation three’ years, and seems vo have | pegin to think of other matters than mining ecclesiastical bodies. These are the Old and the New | fURwaun, Of cieee, eevad and receiving from | been vigilant in consi-icring ail. questions that relate | °°" 'rurn their attention to creature comforts. At Schoo! General Assemblies of the Presbyterian Church | its funds a portion of thelr support. This Board hag | +0 the wellare and efficiency of the Sabbath school snitaheds hight in the United States of America. They are annually [ 8 oMfice in Philadelphia, at the Mission House, No, | Work. It reported 143,369 children under instruc- | present @ canvas covering 8! upon i & S07 Areh street, and {ts acting corresponding secre- | tion in the Sapbath schools throughout the de- | frame work, alarge sized pine box, with doors and opened “ith a sermon from the retiring Moderator | tary is the Rev. Dr. Musgrave. nomination. ‘ndows, calleda house, or a/rudo stone bat with upon the third Thursday in May. The Old School ‘The Board of Education also has its office in the Besides the consideration of the interests entrusted | W!0' 7 bs Sains A! biy meets this year in the Brick Prespsterian | S#m™e building, Its corresponding secretary is the to these permanent committees the principal busi- | cover of any kind that can be obtained, are ener ‘ ‘ - Rev. Dr, Speer. ‘The object of this Board is to pro- | Ress of the last New School General Assembly, taat | yutidings that compose Treasure City—a city that church, corner of Fifth avenue an Thirty-seventh | yide for the education of needy young men who are | Met at Harrisburg, was the discussion of the ques |... 115 mayor, police, &c., and that contains among street, Drs. Spring and Murray pastors. It is the | preparing for the ministry. It aids them with a por- | ton of reunion wita the Old School Assembly. ‘This | has 118 mayor, pol $48 nia rT ein the history of che holy that it has met | #00 of thelr maintenance ‘and secures from the | matter is referred to on no less than twenty-three | its inhabitants some of the wealthiest men of tl pss stmme, tne ere ae ae charches the necessary funds. Since 1819 it has | Pages out of the fifty pages of their proceedings, | section of the country. with this church, The New School General Assembly | thus helped 3,522 theological students, and it had | Many of them being entirely filled up by it, ‘The hillside whereon the city is erected 1s very 13 adjourned to meet in the Church of the Covenant, | under its care last year 294. Among other interesting questions that come be- ne aie Park avenue, corner of East Thirty-fiith street, Dr. ‘The Board of Foreign Misstons has its headquar- | fore the Assembiy that meets in our city on May | steep. 4 light covering of earth is found, and then BEE SYSHNEs oe * | ters in our city at the Mission House, a building pur- | 20 will be the report of a committee to ascertain | nothing but rock, rock, rock. A street—may I be George L. Prentis pastor. cased and fitted up for its work at No, 23 Centre | What the churches are Soing for foreiga missions, ‘doned for using the term—about thirty feet wide ‘These boilies consist of representatives from all | street. It has two oorresponding secretaries, the | and to make suggestions and recommendations for | P&" . -teries in the United States, at the rate of | Re¥. Dr. Lowrie and the Rev. Dr. Irving. It has their greater eiticiency in this regard. has been cut from the slope of the hill, and on eltner ths pReeb years a pa been in existence nearly thirty-two years and hasa | ‘The Stated Clerk, Rev. Dr. Hatfield, and Rev. Drs. | sige are erected the principal structures of which ‘one ministerial delegate and «ne lay delegate from | noble history, having established flourishing mission | Kendall, Atterbury and Ellinwood were appointed ‘tha cles tecom 4. ‘The upper side of this avenue each pres}ytery of twenty-four members, and two of | stations amd’ matmtamed schools in nearly every | to report the present year upon @ revision of the sub- | the city poser ‘ heathen land. Its missions are now found among | Jects for which collections are taken in the churches. | is so much higher than the other that, standing in THE PROSPECT OF ! each from presbyteries that contain more than | 6 Jews and the Indian tribes of this country, the | This report will excite much interest, . , 21 the door of one of the houses thereon, you are | jion has been bou at high rates, has’ had the | tion, the base metal range. Here silver ts found, bd arp tag Chinese i California, the Romanists of Brazil and | _ Another subject was also relerred to am able com- | 1. in 9 majority of cases to look over the tops of | assayer’s marks obliterated and others substituted; | put so mixed with base metals that working the ores ld’ Sel bly, ‘Alba- | the United States of Colombia, im Japan, Chin: mittee, which deserves to be well consideret, It Schoo aanre ay ma ens apie Sinn, among the Laos and in, India, in Liberia and | appeared from certain papers submitted to the last | the houses on the other. At present 1t is @ sea of cousisted of 165 members and 124 ruling | C5risco im Africa. In these countries the Board has | Assembly that out of thirty-six chaplains in the | myq, and it is only a fool who would pretend to 289 commissioners. seventy-nive foreign missionaries, four missionary | army of the United States twenty-one are Episco- | — 4) + ough it with anything less than heavy top General Assembly of tne New school | physicians, twenty-one ordaimed native and licen- palians; that in our navy sixteen chaplains of the | wade ugh Harrisburg, Pi q | Hate preachers, seventeen ‘assistant missionaries | twenty-seven are also Episcopalians; that the chap- | boots, and yet it is crowded. Groups of men are ch met at Harrisburg, Pa., contained | sror this country, besides the wives of missionaries, | latn at West Point has always been Episcopal, with | sanding here and there; others are moving about s and 112 ruling elders—a total of 253 | native helpers 184, or, in all, a torce of 370. There | for a few years a single exce) tion; that the chap- ick and shovel; some have hands full or bags L are forty-iour organized churches, with a member. | laincy of the Naval Academy has also been filled by | with pick and shovel; ae 1 , ship of over 1,600. To these, as'far as reported, | Episcopalians for seventeen out of the twenty-two | full of ore, rushing off to the assayer, and parties ny other persons besites commissioners are were added during the year before the last report years: of ita existence. It was claimed that the Epis- may be seen making ready to move on explorations ty present to attend to business which | nearly 306 communicants, In their schools there copal Church doe$ not minister to the fittieth part of ppbvan us set acnmess. 4h oo comes before these bodies, it is not likely that the | Were at the same time 6,750 children. te population of the country, and that such favor | to other districté not y . KA ie The Board of Publication was incorporated Febru- | toa single denomination is at war withthe impar- | and animation, and & livelier place than number to be expected the present year, and for | gry 1s, 1847, It possesses one ef the finest structures | tiality which our generai government, including the | rreasure City, considering its population, would be whom hoenttality will be provided, can be less than | on Chestnut street, Philadeiphia, No. 821, and is em- | departments of war and of the navy, are bound to . Mi 1 dopatisatinn (0. some estimate it at 1,000. pogineS large capital, donated to it for the purpose, | Show in whatever pertains toreligion. A cemmittee | very hard to find. Men here pay nee in our elty for several days of bodies | (2 seading forth the best Christian literature: Dur. ¢ aye Pia Cyrene > keke tke considers: tollet;the warmest covering 13 that most sought for; ee-tn our olty for.eevers) ¢ bacies J 1, 1863, it issued 690,350 | tion whole subject, port wil u may have seen a few ous dnd possessed of stich Influence as | pubdestioue, besides 1,290,000 coples of monthiy | doubtless be an able ohe and the discussion of | 904 you mecta friend sa ay Oe aeeeitaas these 1s an interesting eveat and their | Papers and magazines. The Rev. Dr. W. E. Schenck it attract a large audience to listen to it. | weeks before doing the west side gomery pa is corresponding secretary aad editor, This committee 1s thus compoged:—Rey, Drs. albert | street in the most fashionable attire. now clad in the sessions will attract to them very many 2 individuals, who will find not only the ASSEMBLIES. E. Dodge and Mr. Edward Miller. This Assembly THE BUSINESS BEFORE THE PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL | Barmes, S. W. Fisher, E. F. Haltleld. Mr. William | » oaviest possible garments, spattered with mud, with debates and discussions wort of attention, but The Old School General Assembly entrusts much meets in the Shore of the Covenant, on the corner | a cap fitted well for the arctic regions, and with face + 7 f Fast Thirty-fitth street and Park avenue, the Rev, t known a razor since he left San Pran- no will enjoy 0 ty of seeing 1 .. | of the execution of its pians for the missionary | % that has not who will enjoy the opportunity of secing and bear | and other benevolent work of the Church to its | George L. Prentiss, D.D., pastor, and will be opened ing some of the most distinguished and representa- | | | hange salutations and the chances by asermon from the retiring Moderator, the Rev, | cisco. You excl boards and permanent committees. Besides the os ys iT 1d, tive men of these churches, It is well known that | Boards of Domestic Mission, Education, Foreign | Jonathan F. Stearas, D. D., pastor of the. First Pres- | are nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand, the title Presbyterian is from a Greek word which | Missions and Publication there are the Board of byterian church, Newark, N. J. After this sermon | that, although you may have just left his home, he ariel tet on - the roll is called and the Assembly proceeds to its lends means anelder: and that the) Presbyterian Church is) Grate meee eos chines on oe will dodge the question of how friends and relatives % both this Assembly and Died Ministers and the Committee on Freedmen, | Pusiness. | All the sessions o are, and come straight to business, and ask only g0 called trom the fact that the oversight ofeach | The Board of Church Extension has its head: OES ee catalina Amembly are open teat Jou are interested in any mines or if you intend in- congregation is committed to teaching and to ruling | qnatters at St. Louis, Mo., and tts eiticient secretary | Pinhenives of the opportunity thus afforded to hear | Vesting. These matters first vettied, the next will be 0 s u . . Coe, Dd elders, white the presbytery, or church court, in | ie ay Jor this Bosrdvin. & ae a debates upon Most. interesting religious questions. | “Take a drink!” and over it he may condescend to inquire about those who have more thought of home which all the oburches of a certain district are re- | feeble churches upon the frontier or elsewhere to | We have made special arrangements to inform Our | gvf'evitinate money making than White Pine and orta a ory. &nish the erection of houses of worship suitab!e to the chances of a rapid fortune by a rich strike. presented, isthe most important judicatory, All the | (i winta ‘The sums furnished to such churehes, | important gatherines, in which so inany of our citi- Teer Ti ‘cing will be # place of great tmport- teaching elders or ministers are theoretically upon | jr derstood ti h leave them fi zens take an interest. vind re Ol bt: fi is understood in each case, leave them free from | iit PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLIES AND THER Rg | S0ce in ashort time Ihave no doubé; it must be so an equality. The raliog elders, as representing the | a cone ane boy § Mao 2 2 ay 18) to ee UNION, necessarily—for that the mining Pee een oe people, haye a seat in all the church courta, while | Assembly Slows Raat oe ie of which, aut ing the | yp 1837, for reasons which need not now be de- | douota. Others who look upon it in the same light the decisions of the presbsteries are reviewed by | Rsnquy was hom the ghavches and. the balance | tAlled, the great body of Presbyterians in the United | ate taking ine, by tie foreroos at Feeble rations accordingly, and before the next winter sets the Synods, and all the Synods by an annual General | from individual donors. It had then alded $30 disfer- | Staves became se a penance fatiolless that dresded enemy, fire, should sweep Assembly. bret ana ea sShurch properties free | hag been a desire quite generally expressed in both | the place awa Cee ee oc spends While the Church of Rome and the Cbureh of Eng. | {om ebt. worth nearly $2,500,000 and that com | thee hodies by ministers and edople thatthey should | Siford comfortable quarters ta all Wie Attend Ape iy acc 4 ‘orstippers. They | 1 reunited. Measures looking to this resuit were | Ing their time among the almost constant snows of land are satisfied to go back for their antiquity to secre! ie pues aoe jester i er ing & single | taken in 1562, but nothing definite was done. In 1863 this locality. Fire ts much to be a ae ie all 7 , | paid collector and rifling annual expense. " 1t almost constantly, and, wi e the Apostles, the Presbyterian Church, if we may | P ‘The fund for disabled aainieters ‘and 1a faaitios of | Tesolutions were passed in the Old School body | mate requires ly, " lessness of a number of reckless men, it mi allow the claims of its divines, dates beyond | qeceased ministers is under the charge of a commit- | Which recognized as an initiative toward 9 better un- Come at any moment, and if it does it will be simon, . fraternal cor! them, ff not’ to Paradise, since all admit | tee, Who report annually to the trustees of the Gen- | derstanding impossible to save the mere shells of which the ci er an Soe: ars cauenl Grai Wssemthy, tne fatter nolding all the money con. | eM maintained by each Assenibiy sending delegates | {PPO *A/nooy and ladder oompuhy haa been that Adam was both a teaching and 2) tinutea im trust for its purposes. These are to to correspond with the other. In the records of the organized and the machine ordered, and this ruling elder, certainly tothe time when Moses ap- | arford vo latileeneh aioe Dy age or laid aside by | Ol4 School ee Erueetings, in mera = ae the fire department the city can havo; pointed for his assistance in church government | d'sease asiicient sum annually to save them from | 10 1s, found @ tommunnaun | dom | ihe | an engine would be of mo use whatever, ‘able men out of Isracl.” The Presbyterian Charen | “estitution, A similar provision is also made for the | Sister beuy 7 a Ne 'gunstar. | for. there is not s drop of water to ‘able .” The Presbyterian Chureh | Witows oi deceased ministers and their children, in | Which very distinctly = afirms | the = substan. | tag. "Au that is used, for every pul 1s obtained in this country was formed by emterants from Scot- | cases where there are no other means to provide for | t#! oneness of the two branches of the same Church | +9’ eiting the surrounding snow. Witt! nooks and land and Ireland atan early period of American | them.” Tue business of this committee ts eficiently Saar ditt mimittec which. prepared a | ladders it would be an easy matter for a hundred history. Several Presbyterian churches were eatab- | Ai! mesDensive'y Conduct, Ine Cre NTianine | lengthy paper, tn the conrae of’ which te Assembly | Pals of wut Sans, @ Crevent the spread of te de- lished in Lastern Virginia before the close of the | beneficiary 1 ted in the ¢: f 1s said to have witnessed with satisfaction the happy 4 meficlary 18 connec! in the case of aged minis- fiuence of their correspondence “in preparing for | Vouring element, and these means the citizens are seventeenth century. In Maryland and Virginia | ters, and’ with which the husband or 1ather was | Avene ws peeps. determined to depend upon entirely, and I think they ; formerly connected 1p the case of widows and | till closer union at some future day.” | In 1805 ise... AN I said, the suow furnishes all the there are churches that were formed in 16:0; the | Qronsng ‘This body, after examing into the matter, | Otver resolutions were passed which were fraternal bode vend i many add’ that some enterprising men churches in Freehold, N. J., and Woodbridge, N. J., | calls for such an appropriation as 1s absolutely ne: | 804 expressive of mutnal contdenoe. | Doth Asser. | Ore making huge banks of It, packing it close, 60 were constituted In 1602, and the first churcn in Phila- | cessary, and its drait is honored by the committee, | DHes met in Ot. bolls ih Ane. whkh OhpotuMOnsider. | that they can furnish a large supply during the few deipt 1608. Th apes : oy | Whose 'oftice is m Philadelphia. At the last re- | Joint meeting: ; summer months, I have no doubt they will do bet- elphia in 1998. There are very good grounds for | ro i had aided during the year that then | !e Sxfoemal couternare: 8 ootmniioe ae ae ter than a very large number of those who have lo- believing, however, that a Presbyterian church was | closed fifty-one disabled ministers, sixty-three | *eT* and six elders was appoin y each Assembly, | ter Wand commenced working what t formed in 1872 at Jamaica, Long Island, in this | widows and twelve famthes of orphans, atanex. | thirty in all, and measures were commenced in ey sippose : e ff both bodies at ag | to be rich minin, clal and which will turn out to ates wie aikaea penditure of nearly $28,000. ‘The inoney thus dis. | earnest, looking to @ reunion o! State, which is, probably, the oldest Presbyterian | Tirsod is not considered as so much doled out in | Carly a day as would seem practicable. The and then it has been sent East and represented as | by vhe usual process will not pay. Here lead is tound the production of some mine here that has not de- | in large quantities, and Colonel Bulkley, late of the veloped ore enough to pay for the work done. This | Russian telegraph line, has shown me rock that, has been done in several cases by unscrupulous men, | upon being placed in an ordinary stove, will produce and it would be well for those who look upon such | haif its welght in lead, mixed with a small poruon silver bricks, and listen with open ears to the stories | of hard metal which we suppose to be silver. Ex- of men who profess to be the owners of or agents for | periments with this rock I have seen with above re- the mines producing them, to ponder well and take | suits; hence I speak from my own experience and the trouble to correspond with those who are fami- | not from heal , Of course this metal must re- liar with all the mining claims that are known to be | main where it is, for at present rates of freight, or productive, and who will give them honest repites, | even were a railroad constructed to this point, it before investing their money in a mine that has no | could not be sent to market and sold for a price that existence save on paper, or that has a shaft | would pay for mining and smelting. not ove enough to seriously injure a horse that ‘fhe base metal range is being explored in the might be unfortunate enough to fall into it. It 18 | nope that better ore will be found; but as yet no dis- well known here that gigantic See will be | covertes have been made that we know o!. It is made to defraud the people of the East by false rep- | singular that, separated only by so short @ distance, resentations respecting the value of mines in this | the cnaracver of ore should be sa totally dilferent. district. The means that have been taken to accom- | On one side it is so pure with silver that it is hard (o plish these ends are well understood, and it is the | work in tne ordinary wav, and on the other so base wish of those who are interested here in legitimate | py reason of the presence of inferior metal that 1b 13 mining business that such attempts should be frus- | impossible to work by the same process. trated; for they are weil aware that those who will ‘The White Pine excitement is not so great as It has suiler by such rascality will naturally suppose that | peen; people are wailing to see other bullion pro- all engaged in the business at White Pine are sharp- | quced than that from the Eberhardt Mine before ers—men on the lookout to trap the unwary and | rushing off. as they did a few months since, thinking make themselves rich at the expense of others by | thavevery rock produced half its weight in stiver. false representations. The moneyed men of the East | J; will be renewed ugain, however, before long, and have always the ability to correspond with | agteady stream of emigration will take place that those of San Francisco and other points on | will give carpenters and masons all they can do to the Pacific coast, who are thoroughiy posted | cover them. . on all the mining interests of this seciton | | neglected to say that Treasure City has its datly and who will give honest and reliable information; | paper—the White Pine News, a very creditable sheet hence it wil be better for those whe desire to try | and one deserving of patronage. It was the tirst their luck to wait a few days to put their questions | paper started in the district, and its proprietors and await the answer than to rush in and buy what | evinced great energy in getting iheir material, thea ‘Tom, Dick or Harry may represent to be the richest | ynder such enormous freight and great disadvan- thing out, producing ore of fabulous value, without | tages, However. tt¢ould not be an American city the slightest prospect of the vein being ran out for | without its dally paper. many years to come. I have not the alightest doubt | | believe 1 have covered the ground in what I have that the Eastern cities have already been flooded | ggid above; statement is correct and unvar- with lots of shures in mines, said to be second edi- | pished. What I have not seen I have derived irom tions of the Eberhardt, Doubtless rock from the last | unquestionable sources, and I believe that the nained mine has been shown as being produced by | Hrran readers can take every word and place en- the claim offered for sale, and every possible trick | tire reliance thereupon. { have had no axe to grin resorted to in order to effect a sale, and it 1s to check | no interest to serve beyond that of the HERALD, ans this humbug and fraud that Icome out thus flat- | } am under the impression that while I may greiv- footed and say without any reservation that a large | ously offend a few I will give entire satisfaction to a majority ef the White Pine mining stocx that is or | very large majority who are interested in the mining has been offered in the Eastern market is not worth | girairs of our country. meee ra been over eix: thousand mmingclaims| = ere have been over jousand m: claims located. in this district. Let the speoulator or pur- THE POLICE BOARD. Co Lge A srt mee cme 4 joe sand only should turn out well (and this Is five times as many as ever will Pay, why, there are tive | 4 Great Deal of Balloting and No Organiza- pies that eres Py Sea of the rend order, tion—A Nice Little Plan which Didn’t Suc- t are periectly and absolutely worthless, that | ceed—The Fight Well On. robably never will be opened. and, if opened, would Seolere nothing bg Ire “dividends. ¢, aseeag- | Judging from present indications the Police Board ments. With this S.rormation will any man or | will organize some time next Jamuary, if not later. aoe rpg he yrs During the past week the new Commissioner, Mr. e buying into one or more ‘ot the five thousand I Henry Smith, hag been present at the various busl- Hons mentioned above? at is a well eatablisiied fact | nds Sessions of the Board, yet no Srganization was at of the mines thus Known to be ‘ing the l. terday no attempt was stock is all held in or near San Francisco, an it is heoipay pees kan chop pct? nm was in that city that a person destring to invest should | Made to organize, and at the session whic! apply 8 he i a ae put his money into | held in the forenoon no attempt whatever would @ mine that will make him some return by reason of | nave been made to elect oficers for the containing paying ore and by being managed by men . who make mining a business. hy cars wane | | ensuing ° year but for the pressure that thd 1 ed m9 pes ye omnres oe idea Coed White | was brought to bear upon their opponents e 18 not rich, but only to put those on their guard tic Commissionres. It has all alon who may feel disposed to rush in blindly and invest et anon that “Hank! Smith, although < in anything that may offer. Treasure Hill is rich in | sound republican of the not over radical stripe, silver, but it is not entirely composed of that pre- | would side with the democrats in the matter of the clous metal, as. some have already discovered to | organization of the Bourd, and tius pay of some | their cost, There is very much limestone and quartz | old scores with which, it was popularly believed, he in it, and rock wherein the amount of sliver is 0 | wasjveryjdesirous of complimenting his confrere, Mr. | smali that it will not pay to work; and many, very | Manierre. It would now, however, appear, that the 7 many gins, are located in the kind of ground [have | Manierre stock is not quite so low in the market as branch, w 131 mints! members in be not ‘hora fee’ ver,” or Ronen but only lime- } . poseapeiie . Imet an ex- ‘operator, wh church tn the United States, In 1705 or 1706 the first | charity, but 1s rather deemed to be the payment in | ,,7Hi8 Joint commlites, after numerous conferences, eee eriican with Kis Ray aad tolny and ¢i0d presbytery was organized, called the presbytery of part ofa just debt to those who deserve to be cared | Prepared @ fun ppm pte peeny aaeeene tt mouth, was supplying the city with water. His Philadelpiig, which increased the number of its | {0f, after faithfully spending their strength in min- | gaopted, to bring Doth bovlies harmoniously together | $NOW cost him nothing, and he tarnished water at 1 28 8 7 sby' sp nme 2 “¢ -five cent joney. churches so rapidly that in 1716 four presbyteries | “The Committee on Freedmen is a recent organiza. | !to ee tones eee elie ‘Wine internal arrangements of all the houses are of stituted from the churches in its bounds. a Ly a oy ———, of ee Konstnbiies which eavaan in 1863, ine aw Beno! the most primitive deseription; many have bedateads, were e bytert Philadel! jurch seeks todo good to the colored race in our ? 3 t many have not, for furniture is a very costl, ject ob meee eries of Philadelphia, | jana, its centre Is at Pittsburg, Pa. It obtained | meeting at Harrisburg, Pa., and the Old School meet- but hi It ry y Downie ad - N.Y. 3 luxury. Blankets are more sought after than linen | just described, that will not yield a penny to those ¥ 1 to be some weeks ewgnd.'these were formed lato “a synod | 9m the eburches during the Year previous to its No ee rane minutes of Von | ‘sheets: tin utensils are moreabundantthan crockery | ‘Who may feel disposed to work them. i Waa Verret Sorin tea weett ce tale r'the name of the Synod of Philac ngs rep which it expended in sus- | them, occupying more time and attention than any | Nd better able to stand rough usage; and yet you THR EBERHARDT MINE fact was given at the session of the taining t Ts, moyen scaools and gathering | other, can see in some of the saloons as handsome a dis- | jg beyond all doubt the ricuest silver mine at present | joard yesterday, which, by the way, lasted about bee pomp roy t ~ reedmen. The varions articles, after a fall comparison of | Play or rey rend in any place of @ similar charac- | known in the world; its wealth 1s beyond estimate. | two hours, much to the disgust of a large number of 4 Ti these ar lous boards and committees to which views, were adopted by both Assemblies, and were | tt in San Francisco. And, strange as it may seem, | ‘This was the first mine located on Treasure Hill, and | snail {ry poilticlans, who, during the entire fore- passe a reunion was | We have aliuded present reports to tue coming Gen- | Sone own. to be voted upon by the presbyteries in | tere are some paintings of ude women of | ag yet it is the only one that has been extensively | noon, were impatiently awaiting the upshot of the by the adoption, on | @fal Assembly, and specified times are set apart to | Grier that it might be known whether a majority of | coUurse—that would not disgrace well-selected | wo. ked and from which a large amount of bullion | meeting in the corridors ot the Ventral Omice. How of articles of union, ana'the | hear these reports and to suggestsuch modifications | the enure Church was in favor of them. picture gallery. ‘The inner man can be well pro- | has veen sent to the market. It is divided into six } on earth everything Was so fixed as to induce the synod nh the tite, ine | TN Ta doe crganizations fer chagitan work | . The, answers of these presbyteries are to be re- | Vided for in 7 eee iths coaseeea wae tio shares only, and there ate seven owners, two being | republican Commissioners to make an attempt at or- Syno: a"? magpie ems ag -- foot the hea’ rese! joint owners of e-sixth. 1,000,000 e 7 : " $ Tit the clone of t there ate amenasie to this General Assembly Tour | ceived by the respective Assemblies that o soon con- | foo ihe Nebvy inet Soke Toy an Pad champagne as | s About $1,000,000 have | ganization Is a secret of the Board's own keeping; vene in New York. It ts understood in advance been taken out to this time, and now, with one | hut it was ascertained from very good authority small mill only, about $6,000 per day is being | afver the adjournment that Messrs. Bosworth and turned out, ready for shipment. Yesterday this | Brennan were at the bottom of the move, which terian boay theological seminaries for the training of ministers, " the principal beverage. The first class restaurants There are Princeton Seminary, at Princeton, N, J.; | th aaa eananitlah te: tnaes tht prosion! pied | are and they serve Up @ meal, considering Pennsylvania, a yland, Virginia and tie Carolinas. In | Western, at Allegheny, Pa; Danville, at Danville, | inwhich they stand. Those best competent, how- | the lmited space, in a style similar to Delmonico, of | mine was visited by five gentlemen, all of whom are sed their two opponents to come to the scratch. 1788 the origmal synod hac Ky.: and Northwest, at Chicago, Ill, Princeton has | Gyer. to uecide assure us that the desire for union | New York, or Martin, of San Francisco. They appear | experts; they went through all’ its length and forced taltots wore taken for president; but every was subdivided aud beoa: five professors, viz.:—Drs. C. Hodge, A. T. MGih, W. | {.so' strong throughout the Presbyterian Church im | tbe patronized extensively, for there are many | breadth; they were freely shown every shaft, tun- | one resulted as follows:— the synods of New York aud New H. Green. ( Hodge and J.C. Moffat, Western | hoin its branches that a simpler basis—probably their | Men here who can aiford to live well apart from any | nel and drift; nothing was withheld from them, and | Bosworta. delpiia, of Virginia, and ot t ‘ard has also five professors, viz.:—Drs. Eiliott, Jacobus, | common confession of faith—wiil be substituted, and | Possessions they may have in the hills that surround | they confessed themselves as being astonished at | Brennan. these Was constituted, as in the Church o} Wiison, A, A. Hodge and Beatty. Danville has four: | that in another year these twin streams wil flow to- | them. There are many of @ lower grade, where | what they saw; that it was far beyond what they | smith San ome Drs, Breckinridge, West, Yerkes and Landis. The | fetner, making one powerful and homogeneous | HVing ts cheap and, einphaucall’ speaking, nasty; | had expected, even with ali they had heard | Manierre... nm slight alterations, | Northwest Theological Seminary has four profes | Church, Their united numbers would be as fol. | When I say cheap | mean that the prices are low in of faith was adepted with sins of the sane | S0f8:—Drs. Lord, Blackburn, Halsey and C. Elliott. | jows:—Synods, 49; presbyteries, 263; licen. | Comparison with those of a higher grade; but | would respecting it. I asked them and the Larger and Shorter gi J all to state what | — {¢ will thus be seen, al e was their opinion of the wealth of the mine; | can Commissioner voted he he political cons origin, with bat A form of gov- A committee on theological seminaries 1s ap- tiates, 344;' candidates for ‘the minis not advise a poor man to come here and expect to | what they thought the value of the peda lowed the udeut erumeut ‘and iseipine. and a directors tor puoue | Bomaled by the Moderator of the Assembly soon | Sin: ininsters, “aisa; churches, 4,021 Ter: | get anything cheap in the common acceptation of | of ore now in sight; and they all agreed that I might | alley’ “After a dozen Lee tele had boee Worship, drawn clueily from the standards of the | Miter its organization, which carefully inspects all | hors, 421.487; annual contributions,’ $7,372,459, | the term, for 1t cannot be done. say with entire safety, and be under the mark, taat | faxen, invariably with the above mentioned result, Church of Scotland, with such modiications a4 oUF Heer aues: When, Yacaticles trize aod ney | The presence of the reprosentatives of interests ag | When the altitude pata). ad Coppin con- | $10,000,000 would not cover the value of what this | an attempt was made to throw Mr. Brennan off thé epublican institutions and tate of the Church Z at as these and to which such numbers o/ our raion _ mine in view, ready to be taken out for working. here required, compucted the aystem. ‘The first Gen- | Professors must be chosen these are elected during | follow citizens throughout the country at large are | Hot cause astonishment. In winter the thermome- | rive you what they stated, and as they are ak. |. eeetezce, tas peamceney Ly Coe, itm Teateoten, eral Assembly under this new arrangement con- | te sessions Of tie ee a mexcreises 2% related, cannot fall to awaken general attention, | tet ranges many degrees below zero; this morning, | men without a dollar of interest init, and allare | gg treasurer. Now, it requires three vened in the Second Presbyterian church m Phila- Among the mee ting Sen ‘es expected in con- | Once before—namely, in 1857—these bodies convened | almost the last of April, before being able to wash I | well posted in mining, you may rely upon it that | the four votes cast by the Commissioners deipnta the following year (1759), and was opened with | ection with its coming meetings ts a semi-centen- was compelied to break the ice tn the dip; they are as near the trath as they can be, andthat | to’ elect one. ef thelr number. to” either sam a iw trat, aeermon by the Kev. Di, Joha Withersppon, Presi. | Wal celebration of the founding of the Board of | Were received with, cordial hosp sion they | Wt frenvin ine barrel afterwards, before being able ie lity, and muel dent of Prince’ Coll o1 Education, ,, roe amount of water necessary for a froth ew Jersey and ee Oe te Seat Cnngres# | “rhe year 1869 completes the term of half a century | 7a done te render thelr stay agreeable. An excur- | 1 BOrany the amoun! e oF: 4 r bf dinary ablations. A bath 18 an expensive luxury, laration of Independence. Tis text was:—'8o, then, | sce ts Ctabllshment. Gone, of the mowt dita. Se ane aatcrimal and torparecy ceeeere | and Ido not belleve that very many induige in tt neitwer is he that planteth anything, neither * af Sesiste as a datly habit. he that watereth, but God tuat giveth the | When it was formed—Dr. John H. Rice, the Mode- Ta ec these bodies we grail Rave aa opprsunity to | Very Tany persons here form themscives. into inereaeb Among the delegates | to this as pie oF a ae fehaste neo see and hear men of note from various parts of the | clubs, or messes, ey ramen and ea warns in biy appears ne name of Dr. J u al a * cl rron ol jousekeeping. sempiy, appears the name of Dr. John Rodgers, | Ang Ohers, ‘They have passed aways’ but the | COUNITY. The oldest pastor present will probably be | the various Gavin ping. I received to- the venerable Dr. Spring, in whose church the Old ressing invitation to dinner from @ gentle- churches, in this city. By an interest! comet. | Work of their construction abides and still fourishes, 4 New York asa stock Gence nid grandson, Whe Rev, WK hong ae cwolmel. | Several of the ablest men of the Chureh, whose lives | Schoo! Assembly convenes, and of which chureh, | man Wee Seatuat ieee, untae. maveee aitee eerk ri the Brick Presbyterian church, Dr. Spring has been Jersey, is a metaber of the coming bly. ~ | have been spent in the work of educatfon, will take ‘ + te Franc the Presbyterian Church was a ain divided. into appronrats” parte oon een fasta Enown as: the ewhtysnrse. Thitty. three nahi iprede: tying tomaxe' tap losses in its chal in White Pine, “Old School’? and “New School branches, th he Rev. Dr, Charles Hodge. President of the Board, . . ® said, “4! 7 favoring ® more rigid, the othe 4 lees etrict com will review the early history of education, the Sina a ie a den i age 4 hp = rou. meri give you 8 good dinner, for I am struction of the same standards of doctrine and gov- | principles upon which the Board was founded. wid its arlisle, Pa, four in Pittebarg, Ha. three in Cin. | Cook tis week, and not a bad cook, T assure you.” ernment. In 1789 there were four synods, seventeen | benefits to the Church; the Rev. Dr. Lord, of Chicago, | CiHnatl, Ohio, and two in St. Louis, Mo. The other | Soon hin Dats dectine by reason of a previous en- presbyteries, nearly 200 churches and” about 20) | Will consider the home aspects of education and the | Places of meeting being Winchester; Va., Louisville, | Feet ent wich I regretted, for I was anxious to Ininisters. Now, however, in less than fifty years, the | ¢laims of our country upon its educated young men; Henmond, Y%> Baltimore, Ma., Charlesion, | toe what kind of aband at the frying pan the for- Chureh had grown’ to contain thirty-three aynoda, | the Rev. Dr. Beadle will discuss the duties of en: | 0» Buttalo, N. Y., Nashville, Tenn, Lexington | te Watson of Madison avenue and hadicué of Wail 136 presbyteries, 3,140 ministers, 2,860 churcnes and | Sitanel Toniatle Ai re eh wll thane kate | tee Ne TY Columbus Unie Toone Ti, Newark 'w, | atreet would make. He Is only one of many similar 20,557 communicants. Its growth and progress orld, an he Rev. Dr. MeO will make an J. and Al ” y aon tie. that you meet, and his style of living must a . * | dress upon “The Function: ., and Albany, N. Y. It will be a pleasant circum. | cases y' since that ume, have been even greater and Inore | eee a eeeary Education ne Th adaltion tor diane | stance if the final ineeting of these two great bodies | continue for some tiie, for cooks cost money here, they endeavored to keep within the mark. To-day I of president or treasurer, and, of cou have been all over the mine company with one of Soe iets pian a success, they both Tatended. to the owners and several other gentiemen interested | vote for Mr, Brennan, confident that Judge Bos- in mining operations. I haye been shown all that 1s |-worth would very gladly vote for his confrere, The to be seen; have had the different grades of rock ex- | Judge, however, wito is too old a political fox to be plained to me: have heen allowed to cut almost pure | canght napping, gave the schemers to understand silver from some points where it was in plain sigh that Mr. Brennan would not get his vote for treae- and of great extent, so pure that it would | urer, Besides, the fact that @ treasarer of we cut like lead, and you could roll it between | Board is seldom or ever re-elected unless he has as your fingers without breaking. I was told | gome time or another given good proof of his Incom- that such ore would yield over $20.000 wency to fill the office, Was suificient to make Mr, to the ton, indeed, no point of interes? was left un- yn A himseif protest against his re-election; and . touched. Texplained to Mr, Drake, the owner who | to show that ne has been, 80 far, @ succes# as treas- politely accompanied me, that if 1 made assertions | rer, and therefore not re-eligible, he —— the ' concerning the immense weaith of liis possessions I | following table, his term mentioned therein being . might be charged with ‘x Op false statements, | that period occurring between the 20th of March, ' puflting, &c., and toavold this | would like to take | 196%, and the 20th of March, 1509. ' A sample with me of some of the richest portions. To ‘Account of cleanmg, furnishing and supplying this he agreed, and, on reaching the ore house, he | gtation houses:— gave me a piece ha gd at least fourteen pounds, | March 1, 1467, to March 1, 1863. much of which would assa: least $20,000 to the | March 1, 1868, to March 1, 1809. ton, and, ag a whole, at least $10,000. This piece of y rock I have forwarded to New York, so that DOCTODSO. ... 60 ceeeee cere seteeeeeeeenees a r in @ separate capac ‘and chambermaids can be dispensed with forthe | any one ot the doubting Thomases see + mae ee resen pamp 7 Iti) , ciated wit y ‘ crude. Men me accustom aud eat | that no known mine rw Benny ot ay ot aoe Erolrveriah Onaren. present, In pamphlet form, asemtcentenaty review | “tive Mouetatoe the her Dr George W. Musgrave, | With more relish & steak, chop or pancake cooket | duced ore so rich in-suoh Tmmense quantities, | Margh i, 1887, fo March 1 1808 $31,998 General Assembly of the Presbyterian ChUrch 1M tne | ee ie Te iene ion ot maeccation. his is | of Philadeipuia, acting secretary of the Assembly's | DY thelr own hands than the most delicate tender- | Some persons have endeavored to run down this | March 1, Soey SOCEEEE 8, SED, nen United States of America.’ Both use the same con- gratification. ‘@ iustruction and | Board of Domestic Missions, will open the Old School | loin with mushrooms, coming from the kitchen of | mine and say that itis “played out,’ but they never rT) fessions of faith, and their usages of worship | Shit reat ieature of the coming General Assemblies | Geeral Assembly in Dr. Spring's church, on ‘Thurs. | the most celebrated cook. could have seen It as I Have, or their opinion would | Decrease... - $12, searoely dite at ‘ail me are gradually drawing will be coeir expected dheonuaiies pte ane = -¥ day, ye inst., at eleven o'clock A. M., by a ser- my My eek “peer Ma pgeeng 4 change in spite of themselves, The reason Bia haw Coed ares, tom #0, org * - r ‘ mon. recisely ‘ are few an il they only the wives or ine has not beer ‘ken t . those who predice tate ‘union becween them wil | At matter of a reunion of the two bodies. any | Othe ew Brac gtmey mae nour ihe exerciser | Singivers of a class that nd allmiembers ofa Tamly | mory bution, produced. is heeuase there. are ‘uot | MAFCD 1, 1868, to March 1, 1500 4, very soon be consummnuted. ee ee tres ‘ae tee sanamuaes adjourn, aoe 4. rues in Dr. Prentis’ church by a sermon from its Mode. | useful when work 18 to be done and money made | milling facilities enough, One small mill, eight $4,171 ie Old School body will contain the present year | MOOT? Oi th a consummation longer than tweive | Tater, the Rev. br. Jonathan ¥. Stearns, pastor of | thereby. Of the other class of females there is no | stamps only, I believe, has done all the work this | D@CTEAS®.........++ssseeeees representatives, both ministerial and lay, from about Tab presbyterien, ‘These. presbyceries are. grouped months from the present time. The fact that this the First Presbyterian church, Newark, N-J. After | Scarcity, and doubtless they have many friends; of ~ these sermons tie roll valled i mblers there are many, and (he scamps that follow togettier into large bodies called aynods, which have | Subject, will engross the attention and call out the | yusiness of their sessions begins, “Rioy aelaand the | fitheir wake are to be found, but they keep “shady,” an annual meeting in the autumn to deliberate upon Cries who Nave been chosen, to be renee, | compelled to remain together longer than ten days, | for 1am under the impression that a fellow ca hit matters of advantage to the enurches under their tatives here, will doubtless call together ares 48 all matters o1 business are transacted with grei tp a rascally act in thi¢ community would find him- care, but the synods, as such, have no representatives aauie sos ab teen mneete ‘arge | despatch. We shail print a roll of the members in | self Kicked ont of the vicinity very quick, if he met in tho assembly, these coming, in all cases, from the | audiences yA town at an early day after their meeting, that those | with no Worse fate—trees are scarce here, but one presbyteries. New Engiand is represented in seve- THE NEW SCHOOL GENERAL ASSEMBLY. who have friends among them may have notice of | could be found that would answer the purpose in ral presbyteries; all the Northern and Middle States The two great Assemblies of the now divided but | their arrival and presence in the Assembly to which | case of necessity. send delegates; the Western and Northwestern | we may expect soon to be united Presbyterian | they beloug. ‘The suburbs of Treasure City, or rather the con- Suates will also furnish numerous commissioners. | Charch are much alike in their ization, busi- : — tinuation of Treasure Hill, are very interesting to California has four presbyteries, several of the | ness and general character. Both print in their MISTAKES BY DrvuGoists’ CLERKS.—A bill is be- | look at, You walk out clear of the buildings, and as Southern States Will al80 appear by their representa- | minutes the same list of Moderators down to 1837, the | fore the Connecticut peraievare which provides that | you pass along the streets you jill observe very tives, and such distant presbyteries as those of Rio | year of their separation, and both use and lay elgim ho druggist’s clerk shall prepare a medical preserip- | many holes blasted out of the rock, where parties Janeiro, of Canton, Ningpo, and Shantung in China; | to the same identical name, The New School Assem- | tion ‘‘uniess he has served two years’ apprentice. | have possessed claims, and where they have done and Lodiana, Furrakhabad and Allahabad, in India, | bly has eight permanent committees, to which it en- | ship in a drug store, or is a graduate of a medical | some work in order to discover if ore existed. Some will have their members upon the floor. Africa also | trusts the missionary and other benevolent work of | college, or @ college of pharmacy, except under the | of these are abandoned; others are still at work, and has its presbyteries represented in this body, as, for | the Church, These are:—First, the Foreign Mission | supervision of some person possessing some of the | some are producing ood ore. On reaching the example, the presbyteries of Corisco aud Western | Committee; second, the Education Committee; | before mentioned qualifications.” It also provides | bluff you will be ‘astoniated atthe sight to be seen Alrica. third, the Pablication Committee; fourth, the Tru: that the proprietor shall personally seo to it and pre- | on all sides. Looking down to your right towards it wilt beseen at a glance that a gathering of | tees of the Church Erection Fund; fifth, the Presby- | vent any such action on the iy of his employes fhe deep, valley Mat separates Treasure Hill from ministers and I jeyates from churches 80 widely | terian Committee of Home Missions; sixth, the | who are not qualified. The bill fortifies ita object by | White Pine Mountain you will the numerous far. When others can be put in operation the reve- It is neediess to state that Mr, Brennan’s re-cloc- nue will be immense. | was much delighted with | tion was not insisted upon, and the Board svon after. my Visit, ag it proved highty interesting and instruc- | wards adjourned, the republican Commissioners no tive. doubt feeling in their inmost souls that ‘the best CHLORIDE FLAT, laid plans o’ mice” and ice Commissioners another important mine, ranking second, I suppose, | *% aft agiee”’ in a manner that is juite astonish. to the Everhard, is com of several claims | ing to everybody but the “initiated.” The great and % ‘which have been purchased and consolidated. This | only question in police circles just now is when and ) company have on the ground from their «different how the «dead lock” isto be broken. It certainly shafts some twenty-fve hundred to three thousand | must be by the Ping | of either one of the demo- tons of ore that will yield at least $100 per ton, if | cratic or one of the ae Commissioners. Bat not more. No bullion has been produced, | wil either side yield’ The republicans have because of want of milling ogra of which | always the presidency of the Board, want I will apeak under another sub-head. ‘This | with ite great power an feiontes, and company are now erecting two mills, one of which | claim it a8 a birthright that should be ‘will be in operation by June 1, when the owners will | handed down from year to year to the republicans soon be able to judge of the value. I may be in error | but the democratic meinbers don’t see the matter regarding this mine being second; the Hidden Trea- | that light. | They believe their time nas come for @ sure may go ahead of tbat this can only be deter- | share of the presidential power, and declare that mined when the results of milling are ascertained. | they will ‘stick” to their view of the question I went through a large portion of it and found that, though the heavens fall and crush all the station notwithstanding the large amount of rock on the | houses and their inmates into infinitesimal atoms scattered over the earth cannot fail to be a most in- | Trustees of the Presbyterian House; seventh, the | fixing the penalty for viotation of the proposed | of ore that have been tal from the different und, thes for | of brick, mortar and police buttons. On Mond: teresting and important one. Its debates are remem. | Executive Committee of the Ministerial Iteltef | at $100 fine, or six months’ imprisonment in jail hatte of the Consulldated Chiorlae, Fiat Company | hot Fe ere ate, ange more ID Li eared the Hoard will again nate a secret session, when the bered and read far and wide, and its decisions aftect | F and eighth, the Permanent Committee on | and in case of death resuiting from the blunder of | before you. ¢ down the hill you see | away. It isa very rich mine, and the owners know | fight will be renewed, with all the strength which @ the Wellare of not less than 2,400 ministers, and nearly | Sabhath Schools. such clerk, the penalty is not less than $1,000 nor | the bulidings of the Koerhart Company, while the | it, and thore isnot the slightest doubt that more Well-spent Sabbath and a quantum supicit of prayer 2,760 churches. Tue sums raised by these churches for ‘The Foreign Mission Committee reported Lhd more than $5,000, or imprisonment in the State | hillside on your left and above you ia covered with | than one will realize a fortune out of the silver de | meetings usuaily infuse into the pious souls ot Qi objects during the past year amount t not icss | an alditton of eight young missionaries and their | Prison for two to four years, or bowl. hundrvyis of tents and cabins of those who have | posits that are known to be within easy reach. | live Commissioners. “Let us have peace.”