The New York Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1869, Page 5

———— . NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. on Yor Ghats wo yeu otiinied ioe Religious Services To-Day- At the Everett Rooms Mra, Nellie Bingham will speak vefore the Society of Progressive Spiritualists ‘this morning at half-past ten and again at a quar- ter to eight in the evening. A conference will faieo be heid at nalf-past two P. M. Rev. Charles B, Smyth will deliver one of his char- acteristic sermons this morning at the Eleventh street Presbyterian church, between Second ana Third avenues. Bishop Snow preaches tnis afternoon at three clock in the University, Washington square, on “The Manner and Time of the End of the World.” Kev. H. A. Buttz, of the Drew Theological Insti- tute, preaches this morning in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal ehureh, Forty-first street. Rey. William P, Corbit preaches in the John strect Methodist Episcopal church this morning at haif- past ten o'clock, and again in the evening at a quar- ter to eight. ‘ ‘The regular Sabbath services will be held in Zion church, corner of Madison avenue and Thirty-eighth street, this morning, at half-past ten o'clock, and at eight o’clock in the evening. Christianity as a Science. TO THE KDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In the communication entitled “More About the Lost Tribes of Israel” pubitshea in your paper on Sunday, July 4, the writer appears to me to have fallen into an error when he intimates that the Christian religion 1s not @ science, and I shall feel ebliged if you will please to correct this, by infor m- ing him through the columns of the HERALD that it 4s not only a science, but @ well established one and that tne truth 18 positively known, and may become known to all who desire such knowledge, Truth, as ‘now stands in regard to a knowledge of God, ia buta mere matter of conjecture and supposition. Nothing is known with certainty, and this proves positively that the highest learning and most elo- quent preaching will not reveal God, or communt- cate to mankind a true kuowledge of Him. Learn- ing and preaching are both powericss in this respect, and must therefore be set aside and new thoughts or ideas created. God is not to be found in nature, a8 astronomy andthe other sciences. The natural man, or tue man who seeks God tn nature, cav have no conception of the things or attributes that belong to Him. God is a spirit, and as such can only be discerned by the spiritual eye, and not the bodily one, and to find God it must be clearly known and shown what a spirit is, What, then, is a@ spint’ To set all mere belief and supposition aside, 6nd empioying only reason and sound judg- ment, 16 wili be found that a spirit is but a thought or an idea, and is nothing, or not anything, unless represented by a principle. Scripture affirms that God 18a spirit, aud, according to our knowledge of truth, thai spirit must ve represented by a principle; otwerwise such @ spirit Would not exist. What, then, is this priaciple wich represents God? it 1s the principle of iibercy, called Christ in the letter ot Scripture, The Bidie declares that Christ will make Gs iree, Bd UO Otier power can effect or accom- plish this; the jaw of liberty can only deuver lvom the law of bondage. Moses delivered Jsrael irom the bond of Egypt, but was. not permitted to bring them inw the Promised Land, though he led them in that direction. Israel did not know Moses; neitner do we know the law of hberty. ‘to change from the letter to the spirit of Beripvure, or Lo speak more plainly, to change from person to principle, it will be found that we are still worshipping the goiden calf, and troubling ourselves with Jaws of our own devising, which are frequently as unjust ag the law of bondage and can never be- come elther pure or perfect. The principle of liberty only is @ periect form of government, Christ is the end of all law, and a man that is tree by principie 4s perfectly free—so free, indeed, that he is subject to no law; but those who are uot iree by the principle of liberty pervading @ perfect form of government, Ubat renders them subject’ to a just law only, which 18 the law of Iiverty, do vot know ‘this, neither caa they understand it, They have no knowledge of God's Moses, much leas of His Christ, To detine the principle ot liberty, or to make Christ maunitest, would, I iear, ogeapy. too much space. | may add, though, tat the letter, or 1iteral sense of Scrip- ture, ia but the fhere undeveloped and immature sup- stance of something; it is tue creature or thing that was mnade or created out of nothing; 1t is the chaos out of which we religious world was formed. Christ is no more visible in the purely literal sense of Scripvure than a chicken is visible in a newly laid egg; yet the chicken 1s in the egg, and so 18 Christ in Scripture. As 1 before said, the contents of the Bible is only the substance ol something which has never been defined and vever will be; for the whole Chris- than world has been aiming at it over a thousand years, and without success. Nevertheless that sub- #tance 18 capabie of producing a living principle, as the substance of an egg 1s capaocle Of producing, under favorable circumstances, a ilving chicken, and that living principle is Christ, which will never dic, and whosoever knoweth that principle knoweth the Father ol it or the Spirit from whom 1 me. Now, if the principle of liberty can be called a science then Christ 1s a science also; but the creatton and the Christian religion is surely a science. What eise can it be? Whacis a something and yet a nothing? ‘Vhe contents oi an egg 1s something hefore the for- maton of a chicken, but whatis it when the chicken 1# formed? It 18 nothing. It nas changed and become a chicken, instead of a crude and inert substance. We consider ourselves a8 a nation and a people pos- sessing great wisdom, but could we create out of nothing such an instiiution as the Christian reli- gion? Couid we create out of nothing matters so per- iect as the letter or literal sense of Scripture appears to be? No, we could not; we are too siupid even to wee or comprehend it after itis made. The science i all sciences has blinded our eyes to utter dark- ness and tue diamoud of philosophy has made fools of ag all. Many good and sensib.e men will feel per- plexed at this, and may ask why the Bible was 80 Made that we cannot understand it. yay ‘Was It 80 made? Because the Spirit that made it is full of love for all mankind, and out of His love ne made it to create and infuse sympathy into our nature that we may become tree; for without the aid of sympathy no man can become free by principle. it was made, too, partly ont of God's wrath against sin and to confound and overpower ignorance; for it is onl, agnorance or sin that will subject mankind to bond- age. Tie man who can aitain to a true knowledge ot the Spirit of God and the principle of liverty as embodied in Christ 18 the only wise man, and he who does this may go upon his Way through tne world rejoicing, for none can reach 4 more exalied state of antellectual or human happiness, All His ways are ways of pleaganiness and ail His paths are pathe of Hew Can a Man Be Redeemed from His Heavy Burdens ? To THE Eprron OF THH HEKALD:— In an article that appeared in a late number of the L2RALD the writer used some quite severe strictures on the clergy, bat with much travh; bat he fails to tells us how or when man can be redeemed from the bordens which ite so heavily upon him. As for the oleray belping him it 1s evident they cannot; for they do not preach the Gospel that Christ and the Apostles preached, I will not say bus what they practice what they preach, but they do not preaca ‘the truth, One of them in a published sermon tells young men to seck weaitu; for he says where there is wealth there is moe refinement and re- ligion, Christ, {n teaching his disciples (Maithow Vi, 19, 20), saysi—"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust Goth corrupt and = where thieves break throngh and steal; but lay up for your- aeives tresures in heaven, where neither moti nor rast doth corrupt and where thieves do not break throngh nor steal, ‘21st, For where your treasure is there will your heart be also.” He aiso ways, in verse 24 “Ye cannot serve God and mam- mon.” In verse 31 he says, “Therefore take no thougnt, saying What shall we cat, or what shall we rink, or where withal shall we be clothed? sed, For after all these things do the Gentiles seek. 8d, But seek frst the kingdom of God and His righteons- mens, and ali these things shail be added unto you.’? Do they come to this standard or are they hired at so Bioch per annum to break What they call ihe Sabbath day io telling the people to keep it holy—ior they do their work on that day and get their pay for it as other professions do through tho week? ‘Think you U they Were sent of God to preach that ie would in them? Did God x send prophets He yave them the Mieans and power to accomplish the work ior which they were sent—without mal bargain with the people to whom they were seat for so much money before they began their work’? They tell us that God hos y blessed them when their members and aly wetting riches aud sre enabled to build ches. Bub Christ says (Matthew v., 1, 12), “Blessed are ye when men shall revile you And persecute you and say alt manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Kejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in Heaven; lor so persecuted they te prophets whiett were before ) Chliris here expressly teacnes that Hus disciples aeed not expect anything 4 vilk aye of the world, bat miust 00x for i in the age to come, when the kingdom of heaven is eatublisned. Bub when and where is the kKiagdom to be esiab+ lished? might be asked, [unswer, after the resur- ectloo. of those in Christ (Matthew xtx., 27, 20)—“Then answered Peter and said unto behold wa have leit all and followed What shail we have therofor? And Jesus ok, him, thee; wavl unto them, Verily L say unto you, that ye which have foliowed “me in the ‘regeneration when the Son of Man shall siton tue throne of His giory ye also shall mt upon twelve vhrones, Ju the tWolve tribes of Israci, and every one that forsaken housea or brethren or sisters or father mother or 4 . a eee ace for my nam bake oll nun fold, and, shall inherit poe Ife,” Here it is shown that they cannot j the story rans, Joachim, arich Jew, married Anua, ike prayer with her husband's, Th ord heard bot entr nd RENE Wo swift AUgels Lo tie furden-—¢ chim, the other to Anna—with minbuauly ec log promise to the married patr | (Wat a daugiver shoud be Lorn to them, and thatshe Kaould grow to be tae most siiusiy.ous of her #ex. to His mother Mary by fulfilled. (Luke 1., 32 and And shall be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give to Him the throne of His father David; and He shall over the house of Jacob forever, and of His om. there shall be no end. Paul also says (Second Tim- othy u., 11 and 12), “It is a faithful saying, For if we be dead with Him we shall also live with Him. If ‘We suffer with Him we shall also reign with Him.” Algo Colossians iii., 4, “When Christ, who 1s our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him tn giory.” Then it is not until He appears in glory that the Christian shall ti his re- ward; in this life he must have trouble and persecu- tion, but when Uhrist sits on His throne they shall reign with Him. Where is this throne? I will let the prophets answer—Jeremiah ili., 17, “At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, all the nations shall be red unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem; neither shall they walk any more after the imaginations of their evil heart.” This, then, was the was promised to Christ before He was this is the ingdom of which He preached turoughout Judea; tnig Is also the kingdom promised to them that be- Meved the good news He preached. ‘But where is this kingdom now?” It is nowhere, im fact; but God bas sworn to David that it shall be (Psalm 1xxxix., 85-36), “Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not he to David. His seed shall endure forever and his the sun before me. and when it ts set u romise made to Abraham will led when he said, ‘In thee and thy seed shall all whe f of earth be blessed.” Paul (Gal il, 16), “That says, Christ is that seed,” and in the twenty-sixth verse, “For ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus Christ;” twenty-seventh verse, “For as man ‘of you as have been baptized into Christ have pul on Christ;”’ twenty-ninth verse, “And if ye be Christ's, then are ye abraham’s seed and heirs, according to the promise.” J said that the om Was not in ex- favence now. What is the condition of Jerusalem now? 4 of the Turk is heavy upon it; the Greek and Latin Charches are goatreliing ores its yet God bas said He would give it to His Son. This is different, I know, from what we hear from the puipita of this day, which vell us that the immortal soul goes to heaven at death and reigns with Christ forever, When as yet he has no kingdom, Of such teachers I will only say, as Christ said of the Pharisees, verily they have their reward. But when Christ sets up His Kingdom from the rivers to the end of the earth, and shall judge righteous judgment, then shall every man sit under his own vine and fig trec, and none shall make him afraid. One shall not say to his neighbor ‘Know the Lord,” but all shall know Him from the least of them unto the greatest of them; for the knowledge of the glory of the Lord shal cover the earth as the waters cover the sea, At that day and time shall man do as he wouid be done by; then shali peace and pienty be upon earth, and not until that time. It never will come through the po- luucal intrigues of men or from any goodness of men, for the heart of man is evil continually and desperately wicked. Pastoral Letter on Presbyterian Union—Pre- paring to Head Off the Ecumenical Coun- cil. The joint committee appointed by the General Assemblies of both branches of the Presbyterian Church have addressed a pastoral letter to the pres- byteries and churches urging the necessity of early action i confirming the work of the assemblies re- lating to reunion. The committee say:— We beg you to notice that, inasmuch as the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the presbyverles cou- nected with cach assembly is requisite, each presby- tery must act or be counted in the negative. And action must be taken definitely on or beiore the 16th day of October, and a statement of the vote of the presbytery must be certified to the stated clerk ot its assembly prior to November 1. And besides, in or- der to secure transmission the commissioners should bring up in hand tothe adjourned meeting of the Assembly in Pittsburg on the 10th of November a duplicate certificate of the action of their respective presbyteries, And now, brethren, do not the times demand of us such organic consolidation, when the forces of Anti-Christ are everywhere organizing union against the Lord and against His Anointed, and when the rallying call for an Ecumenical Council goes forth from Kome, that would fain muster her recruits from the Protestant ranks for the great coming con- flict? Our best answer to the Pope's Encyclical will be our reunion in November, in season to be com- municated to the Papal conclave at the Vatican in December, We are loudly summoned to reunite now, when such g! tic enterprises are on foot to subvert our holy religion, when ail forms of misbe- lief and disbeliel are ding their forces to destroy the Christian faith, to break down the Christian Sabbath, to demoralize society and to root out our biessed Christianity irom tne world; when Roman- ism, Rationalism and Ritualism make up the triune falsenood which denies all that is vital in our doc- trine and worship, and when the great deceiver foes forth tn all the earth, with sleepless energy, to justigate kings and peoples to ali the horrid orgies of Atheisin. The basis of reunion has been unanimously ap- proved by the Presbyteries of Geneva, Cortland, Ontario, Troy, Buflalo, Champlain, Cincinnati, Utica, Cedar Rapids, Oswego and St. Louls. ‘The basis has giso been approved by the (0. S.) Presbyteries of New York, Londonderry, Albany, Allegheny City, Ohio, St. Louis, Beaver, Clarion, Saltsburg, Buffalo city, Troy and Philadelphia; una- nimously by all, except New York, which had one nay, and the old Presbytery of Philadelphia, which had the Rey. Dr. Blackwood and three elders in the negative. The affirmative vote was about twenty- five. ‘The Summer and the Churches. The Hvarwelist thinks it is high time that the Sunday papers had written up their customary dis- quisitions on closed churches, Not that the churches are actually closed, or are likely to be, but the sea- son Of a scarcity of topics adaptea to spicy objurga- tuon, such as their readers greatly relish, bas come, and so the churches, with their easy-going shepherds and rich membersbip, and all tbat, must needs, we suppose, be “served up” tothe easing of the con- sciences of those who look ingide of church doors bat once or twice a year, and the gencral approval of that large class of readers who have prejudices to conserve. ‘he truth 1s, however, that very few of our churches will be closed tbis summer, fave for a week or two, in order to effect necessary repairs and ¢ ise ‘The full services are kept up im _ all cases, Several churches Dave only @ preaching servive on Sabbath morning and the usual weekly mecting. in Philadelphia also ample accommodations will be provided for all comers. Several of our churches there have 80 arranged their times of closing as to interchange conveniences for their people. Dr. Breea’s and Dr. Humphrey's, both in the saine neigh borhood, keep open, the frst in July and the o1 in August. Dr. March’s and Dr. Johuson’s people are accummodated by @ similar arrangement. ‘The Assumption of the Virgin. {Prom the Independent (Congregationatist;, July 15.) Itia reported from Rome that the forthcoming Ecumenicai Council is to decree as one of its dog- mas the corporeal assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Some English journals cast discredit on the report, though we see mo reason for disputing its authenticity, The worship of Mary yearly increases throughout that great Charen which does homage to her as the Mother of God and Queen of Heaven. We are quite prepared to find devout Romanists seeking | Dow to lavish upon her some new idolatry. ‘The biography of Mary 1s one of the most charm- ing fictions among the legends of the saints. Ay & beautiful Jewess, ‘The married pair dwelt near Mount Carmel. Their lives were orna- enied with every beaaty of wedded love, ex- bone, There was no offspring. Among the wo be without children was to be without On one occasion Joachim in carrying hic ngs to the temple was repulsed by tie priest, who declined to accept suen tribute from one whom God had = disfavored by denying him is- ste of his bone and flesh. The childiess husbandt turned away in sorrow, souglit his garden and with prayers and tears called upon the Lord to purge uway bis servant's shame in Israel, At the sauie hour the pious Anna, siting under a laurel tree, ob verved @ goldiinch feeding her young, ‘The mo- therly bird awakened im the childless wife a pitiful sense of her barrenness and inspired her vo utter a Each of the tature ts then rose (o seek tie other wid communicate tie wondrous intel. | nee, when, behold, at the garden gate, they unex edly wet; the husband ferventiv «issed lity wifes according to one oF Lhe legends, at. that mo- abe Mary was suddenly laid in her moth- arms-—born a8 tie superaataral fruition of Joa- i's Kiss; a genticr fable than ats stern prow. type—Minerva’s armed emergence from Jupiter's | brat » much for the fable of M birth. AL on anys Uke an anreoie round, her. death. Good Catholics believe that, afer surviving her hus- band Joseph for Many years, sho was db last (some aay at Bixty, others at seventy-five, forewarned of the hour of her translation; that, in view ot the solemn event, sie prayed to her long asceuded Son stive her # convoy of angels; thatapaim pranch was broaght vy one of them aud jodged in her hinds; that as she desired to bequoach her blessing on Vie apostles who were then scattered over the face of the earth, suddenly Join, who was at Ephesus, and Peter, who was at Antioch, and all the rest of Lhe giortous, from whatsoever city they tarred i) were transported through the air at midnight an set down in bodily presence round her that, to crown the scene, the Lord himself then ap- among them in splendor, received expiring soul and bore it to heaven, shoe is the first or spiritual assumption of the he Her lifeless body, which remained behind, was tenderly caressed by pious women, who, ag they were about to disrobe it and wash the flesh, suddenly beheld it caught away in # cloud out of their sight— in order (as some say) that her comely and immor- tal limbs might never be seen of sinful and mortal omee: Or, according to another version, her body (like her Son’s) was laid three days in a sepulchre, and at the end of that time, at her So! was uplifted from earth to heaven, cated sepuichre was found strewn with lilies and roses by unseen and angelic hands, wine 4s the second or corporeal assumption of the in. ¥or twelve centuries 1t has been a Romish custom to celebrate the spiritual assumption by a solemao feast, held annually on the 15th of August—the tra- ditional day of her death. The c 1 assump- tion has never yet been made an articie of fafth; but the Ecumenical Council, if re) be true, propose now to make her corporeal like her spiritual as- sumption a dogina of the Romish creed. * * * Of course, to our Protestant cast of mind the as- sumption of the Virgin is a cunningly devised fable, and any dogma based Spon it 18 an idle breath; but while we reject both the fact and the doctrine, we cannot refrain from paying to the winsome fiction a tender reverence for the triple reason, first, because of ita intrinsic poetic beauty; second, because of its porcigue artistic associations, and third, because of its triune deification of womanhood, motherhood and human nature, ‘The Jewish Fast of Ab. The Jewish Messenger states that on to-day the fast instituted im consequence of the destruction of the first and second temples will be celebrated throughout the world. The fast will commence with the close of the Sabbath aud conclude on Sun- day mght, It is @ remarkable coincidence, not only that the two temples should have been destroyed on the same day in the year, but that vari- ous other misfortunes befell us on the 9th day of Ab. The Messenger adds:—We are aware that many Israelites consider fasting unsuited for our age and clime, and they hold an opinion that it can accom- High no good; hence they act in accordance with heir convictions and ignore the duties appertaining to the period. At the sameitime there are thousands in Israel who, deploring our loss of country, govern- ment and temple, fast and pray that future happi- neas May compensate for past sorrows, The fast of Ab teaches in sorrow what the feast of Pentecost instracts in joy. If our ancestors had observed the covenant made with them on Mount Sinai, and had remained faithful to the trust dele- gated to them, tney would not have followed other gods—the gods of the heathen world—but year by year they would, in joy in their own land, have cele- brated the feasts with their imposing ceremonies, But they were unminaful of the covenant, and im'- tated the worship of their neighbors, and in sorrow they ruminated on their errors when they found their temples razed to the ground, A Justification of Established Charches. The Pall Mail (London) Gazette thinks there is one and only one suMicient justification for the erection of an Establishea Church. When the great bulk of the people really believe in the trath of the religion which it teaches as simply and naturally as they be- lleve in the duty of enforcing contracts and punish- ing crimes, it is natural that they should invest the clergy with such power, rank and wealth as every one would naturally wish to confer upon an order of men who were really believea to be the ambassadors of God to mankind. So long as itrepresents the genuine religious convictions of the great mass of a nation an Established’Charch ig a noble and magnificent thing, perhaps one of the noblest institutions ever seen among men. Sucha Church may be @ very useful institution for many important purposes after it has ceased to be the or- gan by which the nation thinks and receives instruc- tion upon the highest subjects. As we see in the Church of England, the priest shades off by degrees into a sort of moral magistrate, who does by advice, by education and by persuasion what the police do by rougher means. An Established Church 60 situ- ated may be a very valuable body, and may retain its hold on the affections of large numbers of per- sons who do not care much for its doctrines, and stand outelde of such rags of alscipline as it still affects to exercise over layinen. This, nowever, 1s state of things which you can no more produce by legislation than you could call into being by an act of Parliament the ancient elms whico ornament Hyde Park and Ke ardens. If the State endows voluntary religious associations one of two things must and will happen. Either tt will give large subscriptions to funds over which it has no control, and to people who will give no sort of con- sideration for it, or it will find itself in the false posi- tion of having converied the clergy mto its pen- sioners, and having connected itself with all manner of religious quesiions which it might have alto- her avoided. Generally speaking the result would a bo combmation of the two results. The clergy will become, to @ certain extent, State off- cials, and they will be continually proving their in- dependence by throwing their weight into the scales of whatever party in the State may be most inclined to 1avor them. Can one who looks at the state of France fail see the enormous political power which the French priesthood get from the fact that they are official per- soni recognized by the State? Can any one doubt that if Archbishop Manning, for instance, had a government salary and a publicly recognized Position a8 a Roman Catholic archbi of West- minster, he would be abie to bring to on the government much greater influence than at present in some directions, though he might lose in other directions part of the infuence which he at present possesses? Surely, too, there is something which almost be called dishonest and immoral in sub- sidizing a variety of sects to preach all manner of discordant doctrines, upon the principle that almost any sort of religion is useful, whether true or false. It is surely far better to leave religious questions to find their level, and to carry on the ordinary govern- ment of the country oa the simple, intelligible prin- ciples which we are all applying every day and all day long to common affairs. The plan, no doubt, is simpie, and may to some people appear vulgar, but it aot at all events, the merits of sincerity and solidity. Presbyterian Union in Scotland. The spiit of Presbyterian union is awakened in the land of John Knox, where, more than in any other country in the world, doctrines are proven or- thodox by apostolic blows and knocks. The Scot- tish American Journal of this city contained, on the the 17th instant, an article on this subject, from which we extract the following:— We are giad to notice that the union spirit is growing among the Scottish le. The negotia- tions which have been going on for some years with a view to the ultimate union of the non-established and non-endowed Presbyterian churches of the king- dom promise at no distant day to be crowned with success. The May meetings in Edinburg and Gias gow this year e given abundant evidence that there are no insurmountable barriers lying between the Free and the United Presbyterian Churches or between either or both of these and the Ke- formed Presbyterian Church. The union of those Churches which but a few years ago were so hopeleasiy divided 18 now inevitable. There is no power in or out of Scotland strong enough to,pre- vent it. The clergy and the laity im each of the three Churches se+ and admit that they occupy plat- forms which are identical, that they are each seeking the same end by the same means, and that united they would be much stronger and greatly more useful than they are in ther present divided state. * * * The trath is Church Establishments in the old sense are doomed all the world over, The growth of intelii- gevee in all the ol! countries, the success of the voluntary principle wherever it has been fairly tried, the wonderful saccess of the churches in the United States, ali of which are Voluntary associations, have created @ feeling which is setting powerfully in against the old compulsory system. ‘The Church and the State, even Mr, Gladstone now admits, are two ee lei _ eee fate of the D while it 18. impar’ eu to dissenters 1m Scotland and mien atafla, s aes causing some perturbation of feeling among those Who in tve snovher countries are stil called church peopl we eno doubt that in a few years the nd Will share the fate of the Church have as litte doubt thai, though aren ia England i follow. And we igied that the disappearance of the Estab- jurches Wii be @ biessting to each of the listed turee Alaguoms, nlinrities of the People, Rev. Dr. Jrown, & missionary to Japan, revently delivered a discourse in Chicago, before a Preabyte- ran congregation, in which ie gave some inierc jag information in regard to the Japanese, ‘The following is an abstract of his address We find in Japan a people who date pack seven entries before Chrish—2,500 yours (vom the present ‘There has been hut one reigning (amily on the tarone im all tuat time, While in other kingdoms the pire passes into other bands, bere is a king who is a descendant of the king of seven centuries before wie Curisuan era. The island of Japan loons smal ipon the map, but tis great in reality. Wo call ourselves great, becanse, if we took a census, we should have 40,000,000 people in our land. ‘The Japanese have as great a population to-day as wo have, aud they bave the those perfect sysiem by Which to take & census at any time. Tins most an- cient people are but twenty days from ua, They bave bad written laws for 1,600 years, They have a literature and pooks on all manner of subjects. ‘They bave bad time to do the best thing; and have outer heathen nation has ever ac- i hey are very polite, and from the no- wan to (he poasaut show much cnuitare and breed- she writings of Contucins Lave been translated jHinesé aad thoroughly siuaied, Tney hing. frota the have aennired such a degree of sil tn many things as to be unequalled by any people in the world. ‘The Japanese have keen ihieliects, and can argue ‘as clearly and drive as sharp a bargaim as any peo- ple in tho world. And here is @ mistake wade by churches, m supposing because @ man is not smart spon tosuil a home congregation he will do for a missionary to the heathen, ey need as smart o man as we do. ‘rhe speaker waa located at Yokohama and-there learned the Japanese » The people were reticent ives and their country, very + about but ask all wanner of sorters, concerning other people and lands; loquisitive and employ every means to learn. Their kuow World 1s also astoniebing, The outer hing: ton is well known and bis memory 1s revered by them. Whenever the governor of @ province goes out he is attended by a body fon of armed men, who are in turn well watched by others. He visited the mis- slonaries on their arrival and desired to know what they wanted. He could not see what men wished there if it was not money, and his curiosity was great to see whatever the ministers had brought with them from America, The plano excited great admiration, Chinese books were particularly in- quired after, and a Bible printed in the Chinese lan- guage being shown the Governor. be declared them to be Roman Catholics, who were driven out of that country long A continual visiting was kept up for the purpose of spying out what the mission- aries were doing. Finally the Governor desired that young men connected with the Custom House should be taught the English language; but a soldier was constantly present to see that they did not teach Christianity. The guard could not, of course, speak a word of Englisn, and yee was taught. A few young men came to get Bivie primers; when next scen they had cai ly obliterated the word ““Ohristianity.? Their heads would have paid the forfeit had it been seen. They are afraid of 1—the very name of Christianity is a terror to them. No one can buy, sell or even live, if he is known to have anything to do with it. At last the missionaries were permitted to teach what they preached. Some hundred of them have heen taught, and @ few of them are of noble fami- ments; go Christianity is getting a strong foothold in the high places, country 1s divided into sections, each one being ove erned by a prince who has a standing army of his own. Could these princes be converted, how much Road would there be accomplished, as they have con- L of 80 many le ! There are now twenty Japanese in this country, sent here for an education by princes, who pay all expenses. No other count done what has within ten years alter its ing, opened to civillza- tion. The Emperor of Japan has ordered that six young men be educated at his expense in English— one in each of the principal professions. These men do not want tu gointo the military or other pro- fessions, but to preach. ‘ In the year 1820 much happiness was occasioned by the news that in the Sandwich Islands the people had agreed to abolish their idols. Now 40,000.000 of heathen people were ready to receive the Gospel. The Chinese Emperor has ordered that no new Buddhist temple shall be erected, and no decayed Buadhist ido! repaired in China, The Chinese have decided that Buddhism should no longer be the State religion. ISRAELITE SYNOD AT LEIPSIC, Apparent Majority of the Reform Party— President, Professor Lazarus, of Berlin— His Merite—Meeting of Jewish Laymen— Anniversary of Reuchlin—Liberal Manifesto of the Synod—Its Unanimous Adoption—A New Epoch tn Theological History. LEIPSIO, June 29, 1869. Those of your readers interested in religious mat- ters will recollect the International Israelite Con- gress held last year at Cassel and its proceedings, which were fully published mn the columns of the HERALD. In consequence of the resolutions of that body the FIRST JSRAELITE SYNOD was convened and met to-day in this city. The largest hall at the Hotel de Balogne had been chosen to meet in, It was well filled by representatives from all sections of Germany; also from Austria, Hungary, Danubian Principalities, from Belgium, England, St. Thomas, West Indies, and the United States of America, the latter having sent Mr. S. Herrmann, vice president of the Ansbi Chesed synagogue, in Norfolk street, of your city. The galleries of the fine hall were crowded by ladies, some of whom belonged to an amateur choir by the name of “Psalterion.” These opened the Synod by singing a swect hymn, after which Dr. A. M. Goldschmidt, Rabbi of Leipsic, greeted with warm welcome the assembled colleagues, closing with a prayer, the Amen.to which was again sung by the choir. Rabbi Dr. Adler, of Cassel reviewed the proceedings of last year’ Congress, and explained the purposes of the pre- sent, His allusions to the necessity of reforms within Judaism met with applause, warranting belief that a majority of the assembly favor a mo- derate progress. Indeed, your correspondent, while Many familiar features of those present last year at Cassel, does not see any of the ultra orthodox members wi oniy demonstration seems to consist in thelr absence. Rules for the discussions of the assembly, pre- pared yesterday ve the ‘manent board, were ac- cepted en bloc, and the election of omicers proceeded wito, resulting in the appointment of Professor Dr. Lazaras, of berlin, as President; Rev. Dr. Geiger, of Frankfort on the Main, and Baron Von Wertheimer, of Vienna, as Vice Presidents, and Dr. Engel, of Vienna; Dr. Lebman. of Dresden; Wertheim, of Berlin, and Dr. Honigman of Breslau, as secreturies. As to the President, we would mention that though comparatively yor an assembly of mostly gray-! fe judge him thirty-five years at most—he is the distin, hed author the “Life of the Soul,” and editor of a scientific journal, entiuled Voelker Psychologie (National Psychology), an almost new science, which, as well as its author, Pro! is reviewed at length in @ late editorial article of the London Tunes, auribut- ing to the latter the title of a savant of the higbest order, ‘The Professor, though a Jew, is instructor at the Royal Military Academy, and his lectures there on history and philosophy are attended not only by the cadets and students, but also by the highest om cers, the Minister of War, Von Ruon, and members of the court, many of whom had previously done all in their power to oppose such unheard of appoint- ment ofa Jew to thisacademy. but to return to the Synod, whom Professor Lazarus thanked, in elo- quent words, for tle honor conferred upon him, at tue same time dweliing upon the difticuity of presid- ing over religious discussions, which generaily ter- winate without any result. If you expect to arrive at something tangible and practical, he said, you must rigidly observe the rules and assist me {n'my duty. A large number of motions ana reports were then read and arranged in their different order of prominence. The aasembly was now adjourned to meet on the following di ‘The call for the Synod lay. included also a proposition for periodical meetings of trustees’ and laymen representatives, who are to hoid a separate Gemeinde Tag (conclave), and such meeting was held in the evening in the same locality, Nearly three hours were occupied by the discussion whether or not the Gemeinde Tag should be @ branch of the Synod, which was finally decided in the negative, and regulted in the appoiniment of a president, Dr, Koner, trustee of the Leipsic Israelites, and vice presidents Ph. Stmon, of Hamburg, and Dr. Honig- mana, 0! lan. SEOUND DAY OF THE SYNOD. The president remarked at tue opening that this day was the anniversary of the death of a renuwned man i religious matters—of Reuchlin, whose writings had done so much to enlighten the world with regard to Mosaic creed, The assembly rises ia honor of Reuchiin, He then again implores mem- bers to be brief in their remarks, in view of the vast material before them and the avalanche of motions yet instore. He culminates this strong appeal by saying to them:—You all sivuld recollect wnat seed cora planted too close cannot thrive. If [lay hold of this littie beil you shonla take as a warning sig- nai that the discussion 13 drifting trom its proper ain; should f be compelled Wo riug it there Wul be danger of its being wrecked. At the request of the Grand Rabbi Rev. Aristide Astruc, of Brussels, supported by Kev. Gottheil, of Mauchester; Mr. $. Herrinann, of New Yo id Rev. M. N. Nathan, of St. Thomas, it is resolved that every member may address the assembly in the language of hig native country. ‘The first motion in order is that of Dr. Louis Phil- ippsou, of Bonn, publisher of the Journal af Juda- ism. it amounts to a wanifesto of the seutiments of the Synod, and causes an animated debate, It is i i wa itive, which, aiter @ short oar di tha ii de a few alterations in we wording, reports 1t in the follwing 9 ‘be “The Synod acevo adage FyIRSin i conformity with the principles of in Society and legitimate State rule, a3 enunciated by the principies of Mo- saisin and in the tenets of the prophets—namely, in accordance with the principle of the uaiow of ail liuman beings, of equality before the inw, equal du- ties and privileges respecting goverument aud state, and also entire individual freedom concerning reil- gious conviction and confession, “The Synod acknowledges in the development and realization of these principles the sutest guarantee for Judaism and its adherents in the present aud foture, the vital conditions for untimived existence and niguest prosperity of Judais: “The synod, therefore, considers aims of inaakind the peace oi a sone of the great religions confes- si among thernseives, thou mutual respect and (ity MM ENe strife for trnth Co be carried on With spiritual Weapons only aad with tie strictest morality. The Synod vegards i as the essential onjoct Of Judaism to acknowledge, assert and ad- vance as Well a8 WO labor wad excri loselt for these principles.” This loeral manifesto put to vote and unanimonsiy carried. a be no donde that some of the conservative nici bers of the Synod consider 16 {Ar too itveral wad lave voted tor it with a certain mental reservation. but tiese are few in number, and they may console themselves with te though’ that tae very fact of their aiveuding the Syaod will be looked. upon ar all avenis by their ulut orthodox friends as a step of aposiacy. Sucit adeclarafion of the equaiiiy of ail creatures before a universal God is a fair beginning tor bue reform of Jewisit faith, and if the Synod, watch tomorrow Wil hold itt third sitting, process as 1¢ has begun IC UIAY MAUKUPALG & He Epoel in LieoLoMte al History, Dowiestic Religious Notes. Kev. RB. J. W. Buckiand, pastor of Ge Calvary church, of Uhis city, bas accepted aa invitation to fil the chaly of Reclesiastical History in ockester Sem Kev, Augustus H, Strong, of Cleveland, Obte, has received @ call from the Madison avenue Baptist church, of Units ery, Rey. & A, Seaman, of the New York Bast Confer. ence, 18 preparing a history of the New York Metho- dist churches. Professor Roswell 1. Hitehcock, of the Union Thi olopom Bemimary, has been elected a trostee oF Amherst College, 1n place of the late Rev. Dr. Vail, LITERATURE. of Palmer, Mass. . hai po ado} ced a pee incorporating ri Saman’s Reviews of aw Boeke a Onrletian Association, of Hartford, “for the purpose | Live OP JRFFERSOY Davis, rain a Beemst Biatory o& of advancing the temporal, moral and fare of women, young women yw! pendens apon vsehown exerdions for Pad . Rev. 8. R. Weldon, a prespyter be a i Le id were ofl ‘the Melivens, with: No matter what estimate posterity may place upon raw! mt He has been rector of a church at Put-in-Bay, where | this work, it 1s certain that Mr. Pollard attaches to it Mr. Jay Cooke has asummer residence—the church | gn importance at once so decided and everlasting a8 having been built. by Mr. Cooke. He found that tB¢ | sinogt to preclude adverse criticlam. If the work- iment to the by the late General Convention. excluding ali peaet by not Episcopally | man was alone competent to judge of the merits of his work, what @ wealth of genius would not the ordained from the pulpits of that church, was em- ‘oe 1 When an author “proudly ventures . Mr. of has declined | World possess! tne Sail OF be Onopen leomnete ree cbureh to produce a work that will not only interest these A Roman Catholic church has just been completed | present times, but that will live permanently and Peder trey p Rene Satie VLR ee assuredly,” our critical spirit reads in awe-stricken laid teen years ago. It has cost over $200,000, ‘The trial of the Rev. C. C. ‘Tate, of Ohlo, for | wonder the egotistic utterances and bombastic erac the Southern Confeder eee nia, Ol aC, tional Publishing Company, rienalistio prac has Lap Le fo on account | isnguage which characterize tnis imperishable mon- Son roca ereae eontenninneetp ument of “historical literature,” profoundly con- scious of the fact that if all our historians were the ff equals of Mr. Pollard in literary style, our histories Clog niete beaeoinrg ated be christened: and | vould be the most remarkable, if uot the most ad- and asked, ‘What name?’ the answer was, | mired, of records, “Shake.” Somewhat puzzied at the oddity of the | wnether judged from @ Northern or from a South- ir Among the parishioners of Dr. Bellows, at one time, was a family with the name of Spear. pa name, he afterward asked the parents for an ex- lanation. - They replied, “Why, don’t you see, with | Fm standpoint, this biography must be regarded as pear and Shake, it makes the Chrisiian name of the printed expressions of the author's personal opin- Shakgpeare y” ‘The Tudlet states that the Archbishop administered the sacrament of contirmation, on the 27th ult., In St. Peter’s church, baie peeved to 457 persons. o tons of Jefferson Davis, rather than the caim judgment of the historian. In three short chapters, covering ‘but forty-three pages, he narrates the career of Mr. ‘The corner stone of the new church attacheg tothe | pavis prior vw the election of Lincoln, and them Passionist Monastery of St, Michael, West Hoboken, Will be laid to-day at four P. M. The ceremony will | Plunges into the events of the secession war. If we be performed by the Right Rev. Bishop Bayley and } are to believe all that he telis us, Mr. Davis was ab the sermon will be delivered by the Very Rev. Dr. a , 1861, to A Anderdon..‘ihis church, when completed, will be | Slate master of the South trom Slay, lite set) one of the finest specimens of ecclesiastical architec- | 1865, and yet he was such an utterly incompel wure i fan Dice buds Blvd pth A ruler that it seems wonderful to us how Sa voral ant our city churches, C bie that Mr. 988) A P 5 favorites were: gation at ihe laying of the corner stone, as the facil. | Of genins in the confederacy, ie I Ome tes for reaching the monastery are o ample a3%0 | gqulation of him. Mr, Davis was a pilant tool cy Tender it within easy reach of all. the hands of his wife, g coarse, “brawny, able-bodl woman.’? He | - a Ton rt sg oe in Foreign Religious Notes. ble subterfuge” he descen 01 of shaking off the responsibilies of failure. The Czar of Russia has conferred hereditary no- | Word the churacter of the ex-President of the cons bility on the Biblical scholar, Tischendorf. federacy was a Caer ae Re Cm ae “wi “ rejuuices, personal A » tho Grand Viner engaged in reparing a compre: | used, tin ovsrmeeniag nbn, and daly ro: jeemed vy Nis jiterary s heneive and liberal scheme of popular education for | have omtenced, morte Leta tT for — the whole empire. The Turkigh government nas | him with Rienzi, but even " 4 ranted a sum of 25,000f, towards the restoration of | Homan tribune becomes Tespectuble beside The son duct of Mr. Davis alter Richmond was uncovered by the churches in Crete which were injured during the | Lee's army. He escaped Irom that city “with the rebellion.”? ignominy of an obscure, mean fugitive, if not erg We learn from an Austrian journal that the Pro- tively in the character of a deserter.” ‘(Mal . weeks” before he had made preparations to ays testants in Innspruck have at last united themseives | although on the third page following we are 0! into a congregation. On Corpus Christi day, while | that alter leaving St. Paul's church he “safely be- the usual procession, accompanied by music and banners, was parading the streets, the Protestants slowed his lmportant papers” and “nervously pre- pared at his house his private baggage’’—an incon- assembled for divine service in a large room belong- ing to the Hotel Zum Osterreichisenen Hose. The sistency with his previous preparauons to fy which Protestant clergyman of Salzburg is to officiate once requires some explanation. ‘bne leading men of the confederacy come in for @ share of Mr, Pollard’s hy merged A a oe ‘@ month in the iemporary church till the injant con- | Coagress was “a peculiar stock of shame,” it was vitl Weak and inane; it Was "@ mere servile appendage SR ee ae ct va ease rag to an aristocracy the most supreme of modern Christopher Hoffman’s German colony at Jaffais | times.” ‘ue idividual meimbers were arrant thus lar more successful than tue American colony | cowards. General D. H. Hull, eo fy Richeed which went out three years ayo. A part of the | Promineut Heutenant generais in tue buildings occupied are those built by the Maine col- | Service, 1s described a3 “a man of coarse and brutal ony. ‘The object of the German settlement 1s more | eccentricities; Senator Lao ‘aol Seas ee eate justrial than religious, although the latter element | Of the General Sreg a awreliage viens tion ignotlacking. The head of the colony is brother of | Brown, of G sce aay pr gh denen ET the court preacher in Berlin, At Jaffa the settlers | Southern demagogues.”” In fact, there were not are principally artisans, but an agricultural com- | ® dozen men of respectable abilities in the South, munity wiil also be founded at Haiia. The Evangelist thinks we shall have to take a les- son in Christian enterprise from an unexpected and the handful there was of them were all Vir- ginians | We do not suppose it is necessary to say more for ¥ rf the purpose of showing what style of book Mr. Pol- Heer, cation to be een ey pare lard has indicted upon the present ggnerauon, with of Mad: this year, several of which are to be = poeeod ene erga Sep gg ge io Are eri y sant the punishment of ret g it. 01 ee SO aoceunn aI eho itpbihied it with the name of biography; much less can we In England the bishops, encouraged by the result | Pronounce it history. Instead of its living as a monu- ment of historical literature, We rather incline to the opinion that it will live as a monument of Mr. Pol- ipna’s powers of vituperation, The author has cer- nly exhausted the vocabulary of our language in hus denunciations of nearly all the personages whose names he introduces in the work, The muidest teroz plied 13 ‘weak; while “brutal,” “servile” and usillanimous’’are made commonplace expressions. Mr. Pollard may consider this atyle of writing forci- bie; we regard it decidediy bombastic. It 18 very terrifying, no doubt, to weak nerves, but we cannot linagine what other effect 1t can possibly have. And now the most ridiculous feature of this mea- Jey of abuse 1s the preventiousness with which his- torical value 18 ciaimed for it. If we read it solely as biograpuical, ignoring the inflaced style in which itis written, 1t possesses but little or no value. We have read the book through and have fatied to ind the “curious and extraordinary informaton,” the of the Mackonochie case, are prosecuting heretical and innovating clergymen. The Archiishop of York at work upon Mr. Voysey for yee | the re- surrection, and the Bishop of Bath and Weils by Mr. Bennett, who hes transubstaniiation. The Bishop of London has instituted proceedings against the well-known ©. F. Lowder; the Bishop of Chi- chester against the notorious Mr. Purchas, of Bright- on; and the Bishop of Winchester against the Kev. R. Hooker Wix, vicar of St. Michaei’s, Ryue, for breaches of the Church’s rule in ritual. Dr. Pusey has made an elaborate h before the Church Union in defence of the doctrine of the real pre- sence; and the Church Union has passed resolutions ne the right of clergymen to teach that doc- ne. The Established Church of Scotland has, through its moderator and other leading men, been asking Mr. Gladstone to introduce @ measure for abolisaing ureh « hitherto unknown facts connected with the life of Sites into rately we ne Pape ged Jenerson Davis which we were promised in tne title people.’? page and preface. There are some few assertions made by Mr. Poliard, for the truth of which he offers no proofs, and as he also makes assertions in other paris of une work which we know to be incorrect he must excuse us if we decline accepting an ex parte statement. Ou the whole Mr. Poliard 1s not capable of writing an impartial biography of Jef Davis—at any rate be has !alied to write one here. That the ex- President of the confederacy is a man of strong pre- Judices and of great obstinacy of character we think pretty clearly proven; and that these charactertatics, to some extent, injured the cause of the South, is by no means Improvabie. But Mr. Poliard must excuse the “bratal” North, as he terms her, if she declines to regard as an imbecile the man who, with limited re~ sources, kept at bay for four long years the greatest armies ever marshalled in modera days. We will not lessen the importance of tue great triumph the North achieved in suppressing the rebellion by be- THE PRINCE STREET MALPRACTICE CASE, Investigation Commenced—Testimony—Post- Mortem Exeminetion. Coroner Flynn yesterday commenced an inquisi- ton in the case of Mrs. Honora Ryan, late of No, 113 Prince street, whose death it is alleged was the result of malpractice at the hands of some one at present unknown. The Coroner, with the view of gaining information going to show who performed the operation which resuited in Mrs. Ryan’s death, called upon Captain Milis, of the Fighth precinct, and invoked his aid, which was | lieving its leader to be, and to have beea, but littie readily granted, and the Captain is now actively en- | better tnan a fool. P “ gaged in working up the case. Althougn Mrs, Ryan | A Dictionary oF COMMERCE AND COMMEROIAL lived in the Bighih precinct at the time of her death | Siition,. ikevisod and correeied throughout. New Captain Mills knew nothing concerning her, but be York: Scribner, Welford & Co. issu. entertains strong hopes of tracing out the guilty This valuable commercial dictionary is too well party and procuring evidence which will bring him | known to the mercantile community of this country to justice, and that right speedily. The post-mortem |. as weil as that of Great Britain to require special indicates that the deceased must have been in the praise from us. The present edition has been re- hands of an ignorant butcher instead of aman scientific surgical attainments. Below wiil be rites vised and corrected and additions made to It giving the most important facts elicitea {rom the testimony | the latest commercial intelligence. We notice alew errors which should not have been allowed in the thus far taken:— Dr. Stephen J. Cook, of 144 Spring street, deposed | work, in the sketch of San Francisco, for instance, we are gravely assured that lynching has been re- that on Pad aay eo = pai J Ba om to see de- Hons jan, at No. 115 Prince street; Was | quoed to aacience in that city, although there has ae iowa: Raettiee vert temolt irovew te pt not been @ man lynched there for tweive years. im Poteet the rer} joer ‘or | kevising the edition this statement ought to have Dain in the Rove Mey pee Mert anil nade | Deen stricken out. However true it might have beem 4n examination, and my suapicions were confirmed; | Welve oF fiiteen years ago, there 1s nothing to ware ieee tf axe Wak ed: She replied in the afirma: { TauCit at the present day. We notice a few other re arnt sara hn cine a te the army and had | mistakes In reference to the United States, but they not him for three years; she sonutted, that she | *Ppear to have been caused more from carelessness ih Pry than from anything else, and do not detract from the Merit of the dicuonary. We have not space to re- had acted ey) and sald it was possible she Was suffering from @ miscarriage; asked her | yew at length the conients of this ponderous book, who had produced the miscairiage, and she |... ‘ denied that tnstraments hat been ‘used upon | COveriue. us Its contents do, over 1,500 pages. It is her; saw her again at eight o'clock | YErY : 4 in the evening; she was then in a ‘ying condition | CipHer. A Romance. By Jane G, Austin, New and delirious; I heard that she dicd some hours | York: Sheldon & Company. 1s6v. afterwards; her friends calied on a Dr. Horne, who said It Was @ case of cholera. POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION. William Shine, M. D., deposed to uuking a post- eas See hen hg _ the body of deceased at tue Morgue, y Drs. Janeway and Cush- awe 7 | g man; eer hing the agdomen s lars quancty of | 1¢18, However, very well written, and 1s quite intex fluid’ blood was found in the pelvic cavity, witch | esting. We do not know of any American noveb proceeded from an extensive rupture of the uterus, | written by a woman that we would prefer reading. evidently the result of instrumental violence; un- | put there is one little subject which We must refer t@ mistakable evidences of recent delivery were appa- | partularly. ‘The authoress is a kind of amaigamar rent; in the doctor’s opinion deati was caused by | {iouist, miscegenationist, or Whatever elsa tne terms rupture of the uterus trom the use of instruments | js, Sie mildly declares uerself in favor of an in which were used to procure an abortion. ‘The tur- | termixture of the races by making one of her chars amination of the case will take place on | acters marry a Woman 1n whose Veins flow the blood . ones of the African, Hear this character copfass the fact her husband:— This story was published originally iu serial form in the Galezy magazine, and atiracted some atten- tion at the time, although it certainly is not the “priliant’’ work which the publishers claim it to be. EXTRAORDINARY EXODUS OF HONEY BEES. (from the Louisville Democrat, July 12.) One of the most remarkable occurrences thas ever come to our knowledge was related 19 8 ie terday. Mr. James Broil, a farmer, Wh a about seven miles from the city, on tho river road, @ Franc! perately, “have itand be Rhee, my fatl housekeeper, was an octow roon slave, whom he bought at public auction ‘in Savanna, My mother was her daughter by the master who sold ber. My father mnarcied this free daughter of his eiave, and I aus bepchild. Now are you content {° RD Bare We cannot 1%, oH ‘eFqud could help being cony time past been engal tent. butts Jane G. Astin aware that in the person eatensively a raising Pioney is Dees, aged of Francia she made i oat Peo. ne oF reced Q any other person, evertknow che grindchild of an Tately rploioed tne ie rorgrive nites of ies ocvoroon ? We very much fear the learned authoress many as forty-five hives of the lately rgjoiced in usses,”” and, to use & homely industrfous ttle never studied the physiology of the human races, irase, they have been pi; themselves like | If she had she would have learned that such a being Turks and Tuaxin “giathers” of honey for the win- | a8 the grapdchild of an octoroon by a white man ter. A few morn however, Mr. Broil woke | Was never known since the two races were throw: together, nor is it at ail probabie that one ever wi be known. Of course, authors are quite at liberty to invent what characters they please, but then d@ jet us ave them within the range 0: propabiiity, Count BisMakcK, A Political Biography. By Ludwig Bamberger, ‘translated from the German, by Charies Lee Lewes, London, Lrabner & Co} New York, B. Westermann & Co, This 1s a very interesting biography of Count Bis» marek’s political career, and should be widely read by all who desire to become famiitar with the hig» tory of (he wreat Prossian Premier, Hamberger, the author, i¢ a wember of the Zoll Paruament, and had opportonities of obtaining facts which made hint fi ar with every event in the life of Count Bismarck of interest (6 the geueral puvitc, up to find his bees non est. They had ‘it out’ be- tween two days, leaving no trace whatever of the poet or region of country to which they had so un- ceremoniously migrated, There was not a bee left Ww keep its lonely Watch over the forty-ilve hives, As wight be expected, farmer Broil was left in con. siderable of a dilemma, and goer 7 ail the authorities at his command in rela- tion to the peculiar habits and freaks of the bee tribe, After reading through many volumes it occurred to him that some of his neighbors might ve avie to explain the whys and wherefores of this “bounty-jumping move on the pare of his army of honey-makers,” He accordingly made a “bee-line’’ for the residence of his nearest neighbor to consult him on the singuiar problem. To his utter surprise be ascertained that his friend, who oo “beeist,” had met with the same jose in tl ae sudden manner and was in the same perplexity as to ™ ellancons, the cause, They at once resoived on examining ie hives, and it revealed to them the fact that each Prom Messrs. Pielda, Osgood & Co. we bave re stand mete i Le hg pounds of | ceived copies of their “household etion” of honey. ‘This development led the two bee raisers 10 | 4 os a. ote he hi “ 4 souk for further Information, aud in their rounds, | Mckeray's works, emoructag “Henry Fsmond” and Jor @ cirouit of twenty-five miles, they found that id “The Ad- every hive had been degerted about the same time, | youu ronrh tae World,” aud all of taem were lett fultofhoney. The farmers | jy pie ou nee ae r tt tw that region are unable ty account for this myste: | 18 ot We have ares ly sp 1 of the ad. rious disappearance of their becs, and many fheo- wand the vad ner Which th is gotcen up ries have beer advanced, but up to this cine the ote ad i? fo WHICH I 1S BOL. ert probiem reroains unsolved, The opinion of taost of | | Meeers. & Co, York, ha ont t them t+ that the mildness of the we. copy of tv r her up to so | ate a season caused Liis singular toigravou, | 1 . peulations of the v dus 18 & very usetul and jt 18 sktitmiiy compr tance relating (0 t PROEUTS OF SOUTHERN CovTON MANUFACTURERS, ‘The «anual report of the Augusta (ia.) Colton Face iPentatie tory shows the following figures as ihe yeaa.t of the | in the oblWwe of the Banker's Magn: ine and Sta your's operations:—Total earnings, $149.70: To; total | fistiou! Regisier We have received “the Merchanta? penser, $49,046 87; net profits on Honk, $120,717 68, on w Work ue 0a he year's capital of and Bankers’ Almanac for 1969,” containing ver, ao Ne tone” iets ‘weatly prigved aud bound,