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For the Index.
News from China-
Statistical. —A list of foreign residents in Chi
na has been carefully prepared from such sources
as were accessible, intended to include all foreign
ers in China, excepting the inhabitants of Macoa,
and a few outside anchorages, amounting in the
whole to 894 of whom 83 are missionaries.’ But
it should be noted that this number only includes
the males cf foreigners not the females and chil
dren, of whom there are . now a goodly number,
compared with eighteen years ago! The total in
inhabitants of Hong Kong amount at present to
to 72,607 of whom 57.1 are Europeans and Amer
icans—males 879, females 95, children 97. In
1850 the inhabitants theVe amounted to 83,292,
6ince then the increase has been 39,315 —more
than double in six years.
Public School. —The anniversary of a public
school got up at Hong Kory t welve months ago
has just transp'red. It ha> *ien supported by the
contributions of the foreign community of that
place and taught by lit 7 -A. Taylor. More than
40 students have attended representing the vari
ous cations and races located in that place. The
foreign community in China are generously liber
al according to their number and mos? —“we
speak that we do know” by experience—and this
school is one of the exhibitions of that generosity.
This is doubtless a commendable effort at the pro
motion of a useful institution.
Death. —With regret I iearn the death on the
2?d all, at Shan glut e, of Mr. Henry Shearman,
editor and proprietor of the “North China Herald.”
lie conducted that paper with much propriety, ero
terfefeed just and proper views, in my judgement
generally, respecting the present great revolution
ary movement in China, and its prospective good
resets upon the nation and upon foreign inter
cept?, And “tho’ dead yet speaketb.”
native ICeics. —The Judge in Canton on the
23d ult., requested the Imperial warrant for the
execution of 58 rebels, I was standing by and
saw these poor miserable men executed. Execu
tions are accomplished here in two ways: Ist,
where the judgement is rendered up to the con
d m nation cf the criminal, and yet there is room
or ground for doubt or tho exercise of clemency,
the case with the evidence and circumstances, is
sent up to the Emperor for decision. 2d, where
die case is cloar and uocious demanding prompt
HcrVn. ?*!.• frcv< rr'or and Lieut, Governor are each
entrusted with an Imperial warrant, which may
1-e given to tho Judge on application, and the ex
ecution may proceed immediately, and then re
port is trade t- the Court how many have been
executed. That settles the matter for time but
ait eternitv ! Tito officer banding out the war
of course must !>o satisfied of the upright
ness of the judgement. The. most of the crimi
nals, tliej.e times, are executed under this
prompt warrant rule: perhaps not ten in a tkou
-ar.J, to >be Emperor before excautioa
:or tns iilWWifiiaiO oecision :
Lirth-Day. —The birth-day of Governor Hip’s
great gn at Lot: w—.-imply Iris wife—occurred or
the 27ti>. ult.. a Chinese gentlemen sitting, hv
wlier: this news arrived raid, that such an occasion
it t< family. Both civil and
milkary oilier: • pr. ent rnonev—larg. presents.
rae give hundreds. Lie supposed it probable
‘hat as much a* in all will bo presented
on tfe’s'Oiioof.’! Thfe might with pro
priety suggest the id.- * to our deal home, friends
t making . rc ents and donations to the mission
■mue oc missionary Hrfh-daya, especially, if not
too ferinuumg, oh rite 17ih. of February I When
wil’ ive become ?.s liberal as Pagan Chinese, in
nropoi yon to :h? superiority f our expectations
in lime an<b etoruity ? —-
Help. —A letter ju*t received at she Governor’s
< file* loudly calls for help in th Northern districts
of lids province —Kwang-timg; whither 3000
troops are immediately to be sent I Hoo-pik Proa
incx. The Governor of this province acknowledg
:■> Han-yang a large city,in possession of the reb
els with whom his troops have had much skir
mishing aci bad like to have been overcome, so
that lie recommends that the commanding officer
be deg reded from rank. Hole. This is the way
bard fighting, if unsuccessful’ is rewarded in Chi
na. He professes to have gained some victories
over, the rebels,jpetaken the city of Han-rsing;
1 :r, the rebels sent Bor 9000 troops from Woo
cTucg to contend with them, which indicates tfiehr
strength in that place. Kwa-cbow,
the rebels, has been besieged by- the Imperially,
but 19,000 troopr were sent from 4 Nanking to aid
i> defending the place; which shows that the pa- ‘
trioticarmy in Nanking is yet strong and abler to
send out I urge reinforcements to maintain the
grsWtid-ajpeady gained as well as to make ad
vancements 1 ... ‘ : •
Tire Editor of the “North China Herald,” re
marks—“ All that comes ioajptiee is suggestive cf
coming change in the Empire, and there is but
i itie'to augur, t!?at any .suppression of,the rebel
ion win take place for a long time to come.”
The Currency Question. — This question has
.o-.gio.,;,ir,gcv:i.'i<k-rab!e attention at Shang
’ an. •‘liio-chaug© from-Carolus -to Mexican dol
lars is causing a struggle, but I hope iLe latter
will trio to,. :a, IkVnd while this question is under
e m Tier Uion and the change gradually progress
ing, T thick thq Americans, especially, should ex
ert their best iufluencaTo introduce gold, and the
United States silver half dollars at a just and
equitable rate of exchange. As California, our*
gold country, is likely to have a most extensive!
trade with China (unless they so exceedingly dis
gust rite Chinese by abuse as to cut off inter
course, y there is the more necessity for gold being
legalized"in China and made a lawfni currency at
a just valuation. ‘
Fire Oud.— -His Excellency Governor Hip on
the 24;h nit., went out at tue East gate *f the ‘
city auu worshipped the God of Fire.
‘‘The heathen in thefr blindness
’ Bow down to wood and stone.”
And Fir© too as you see from this!
Pity hut Tal-ping Wang should suoos*d, usd
turn all their idols topsy-turvy. It must come to it
and the sooner the better] But I am told from,
Shanghae that he is luxuriously felicitating him
self among 50 concubines, at Hanking—not near
so many however as Solomon his wiser brother
had, the wisdom of, whose practice he may be
aiming to imitate. The evidence however is want
ing. Most likely I shall he able to ifewn more
about this when I get there, and “expound to him
the way of God more perfectly.”
Latest Native News. —On the 23d ult., a dis
patch was received &t the Governor’s office, Ct
ton, saying, that Maj. Gen. Ho, ot Kit-se’t. in Ho
cy-fung district (a little North-east of Hong Kong)
together with (Jol. Gun and I!ifaj. Cbang. Seven
hundred regulars and 3000 militia, bad .1 battle
m that district with the insurgents at a place cal
led San-be, on the 20th of March 1860, at which
the whole Imperial force—37oo—were lost, each
and officers! Note. This is a . marvelous ac
knowledgement to come out from under official
authority 1 The ease must be rather desperate t
In response to this dispatch the Govqpiofcv Gener
al Hip on the stb inst., —April—dispatched Noii
Mj. General of Cheu-Chow, and Kil Se'k, with
wiLh the Chief Magistrates of Qui-Siu and Hoy
Fung districts, commanding them to take 30<)0
troops from Chew Chew (a department in Eastern
Kwa ne-tung,) and 7000 from Canton, unite pi
Sau-be and fight those scamps 1 *•;
News Monger. —As be is paid for his News,
said I to my teacher, ‘might he not in defauJt of
a sufficient amount make this news for the ro
ward V ‘No,’ said he, ‘were he to make news
about such important matters as this be would be
liable to be seized by the Mandarins. And more
over, said he, I heard this report from other sour
ces. If true which is more than probable, there is
serious work going on in this very province at this
moment! I. J. R.
Canton, April 1856.
For the Index.
Monroe Female University at Forsyth, Ga.
Does the term University appear high-toned
when applied to an institution for Female educa
tion ? Let it be remembered that it is adopted
with a view to the future; to the great things ex
pecteuand now being attempted by the friends of
this Institution. It is now affording a wide range
of instruction in the sciences and other branches of
learning, and conferring diplomas upon its gradu
ate-* —and the motto of its friends is “exceiscior,”
even “excr-lscior.” It is intended to make it a
universal school in which is taught all tbe brandi
es of learning which the women of our laud may
wish to acquire; to make* it a model institution;
a Female University !
So much for the name—what of its k^earion?—
It is located in the village of Forsyth on *he Ma
con Western Railroad, 2<Vmiles St W. of Macon,
It is in a village remarkable for its health . Lt j*.
known that Middle Georgia is more salubrious
than any other part of the State, and. no pan of
middle Georgia more so than the high ridge e,y, r
which the nbt.v* named Rail Road pms*e.. Toe
Society of Forsyth has song been and is. slid! dis
tinguished among the villagesrt the Siam for it*
refinement, morality, ami intelligence. The ad
vantage* of health and good society wiH be readi
ly appreciated by parent* and guardian*.”
May t speak of facilities tor education \ The
University has a most comuxv.siuus and imposing
edifice furnishing a large Chapel* a boarding-house,
rooms for the teachers, and one hundred pupils;
and erected at a cost of some tw'-niv-'tn e'thousand
dollars. Soniv of the best families In the village’
open their residences to pupils. Nothing is want
ing in the way of accommodations. Pupil? in
the College .edifice are under the constant care of
the President and his family. As to instruction
I need not speak at length. When I say that
four gentlemen and as many iiooempli#h~d ladies,
all experienced and qualified, arc engaged !** im
parting useful and ornamental education, h would
seem that I have said enough. I may add, how
ever, that the President, W. C. Wilkes and Prof.
R. T. Anbury are both graduates of Mercer Uni
versity and were there distinguished for scholar
ship, and have since been equally distinguished as
educators One of the teachers longest’ connected .
with the Institution is Mrs. Chandler —a woman
of remarkably mental powers unsurpassed in de
votion to her profession and in her “aptness to
teach.” She would make a#o>d president ..of a
Female College herself. The Board of Visitor*
at the recent examination say, “we would do vio
lence to our feelings wore we not to congratulate
the Board of Trustees for the able corps of instruc
tors which they have placed wt the bead ot the
Universitry.” *•’
The recent Commencement embraced the usual !
literary festivities; was. largely attended, and great- ‘
iy gratified and encouraged the friends of the Um- i
varsity.. % - -v? ‘’
The Trusiees adopted a plan for relieving the 1
Coliege ofa small debt which remains unpaid,
and for securing au ample endowment. The Pres
ident, Win. 0. ’Wilke*, was appointed genera!
agent and will enter at once upotf the labor of the
agency. His relations to the University ’are* not
changed* by lH|y appointment Let liberal re
sponses to his calls l>e made and future generations ;
will bless the donors.
The University is now and wili be hereafter
under the control of Baptists. The entire interest !
!j£M he Methodist* has !>©en purchased ou terms 1
mutually satisfactory.
The Monroe Female University now stands |
erect, (I will not say first For ‘‘comparisons are j
odious”) among her denominational sisters of the
Slate. She is prepared to run the race of friend- \
ly competition, and intends to deserve a large share j
of the patronage of at least Middle and Southern ;
Georgia. S. LANDRUM. !
Macon, 7th of Aug.
THE CHRIST IA hi I E X
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qfe . ... For the Index. f
“Bapfcui Female College of South Waters :
{ W Georgia.” -j
Ou Monday and Tuesday, the 14th and 15th ‘
inst., we attended a meet thorough ami seniitni
tiny examination of the papib iu “the Baptist iV t
‘male Cofrage of South Western’ Georgia.”
The Committee pointed out the portions yf the
TexteßtsksrtipoD which the pupils worn examined. .
sometimes at random, sometimes selecting the ’
most difficult problems: and thus wq were folk sat- ;
isfiedy not only that the young ladies studied
diligent)}', but. had beer, welt taught
” It is needless io specify particular ~'dt*3*** or |
persons did so wqll;- suffice it to say|tb*t |
in every department bf a polite and liberal edu- i
eation, the scholars passed through the .-tevete or
datil of a public exHiiiinakioti £oumMo them I
selves, their able tembers’ flic Igeiitutitff; its i
noble fbilftdenff
The ExetlgSe* on W*ksesdav,
the 10th, were truly interesting Six \eung la
dies graduated, whose CRsays Were uuustfoliy iood,
and -road in a style at. distinct and elegant, is to
secure the attention and carry with them diqfo.?*-
ings of a large and delighted audience.
The parting advice of President Mallao. to
the graduating class was we!! adapted to the im
portant occasion, and made impression* . tb*t -c
trust fnxy be jisctul to them io-Aw—■ We, and not
only to them, but to all whq heard theriT.
John T. Clarke, Esq., of Lumpkiu, delivered
the annual address, replete with “ Music ,” sweet
Music, whose tuolody is still murmuring ic’ our
ears, arid whispering to us of golden harps in a
tar off land, of which be discoursed so beautiful
ly. -The Music of Nature was his theme, and the
music of cultivated voices and sweet strung in
struments, all in time and tune, came between
each course.^ ivored every dish and added much
to iho entertainment of tire examination and com
mencement.
The perfect order, quiet and harmony which
prevailed during the whole exercises, gave convinc
ing evidence that the discipline of the School
must be of the very best kind. The purest mo
rality and most refined taste appeared prominent
ly iu the selection and arrangement of everv de
partment.
To the friends of education abroad, we feel
bound to say that this Institution, with its present
teachers, is every way worthy the support and
confidence of an euiightened community. If von
would have the young ladies of our country train
ed to think and think correctly , their taste* re
fined and man nobs polished, their morals kept
pure and their hearts made better—-in a word, if
j you would have them well educated, let them be
j placed uuder the care and receive the instructions
| of Mr. Mailary, the able, laborious and efficient
j President and h>9 accomplished’ Lady, aided by
j other vigilant and enlightened members of the
! Faculty. If you desire them to be healthy, .fed
j them breath 6-i he atmosphere of Vida Nova, walk
j amid iU shady groves, and drink at its pur-5 foun
! tains.
Examining Committee.
G. t. RomNSvx, Cuthbert. .Us. J. Kiddoo, Cutlibert.
; t-HAS. Robinson, Lumpkin. <4. il. Cuthbert.
M. D*m;olabs, Cuthbert. V. T. Sanfobd, Cutlibert.
A. K. Allison. Quincy, Fla. N. U. Wood, Early <•<>.
Wji. P Cahtbk. Sfowarfceo. Wu. D. Cow Dur, Earl* 00.
j -Abthuk Hoon, Cuthbert. B. J. vSmstu. Cuthbert.*
| G. P Allison. ’Cuthbert-. S. P. CiAXtwr.* Cuthbert.
i T>Avr6 Kmnoo, Cuthbert. J. W .Tanks. .Cuthbert.
; - ■ • For the -In ji;:,.
F!re. Editor; —I think I mar‘say, in regard to
the rdiyious'privilcgat of t.lus ctnfhtfy, that they
. are i respect t<* number and accessibility .of
. church itj, as good as can !:■. found in a'most anv
i territory of the same extent is the South. There
i at* nine Missionary Baptist churches in Thom-
Ia. Se.yerai primitive, or rather ami-rnis
| s nary Baptist and Methodist churches also; but
; of tucse taat-I eaiiiMii n:.no the number. It is
reasonable, however, to expect that each should
; uumtHT as many as the missionary Baptists, hav
; tug had the ground much longer. lam apprised
! of the existence of only two Presbyteriran church
! in the country, one of which is in r rhoma3ville.*-f
: Without taking time to count,Twill say that the
i -part of Florida adjacent the same
, privileges and .facililfei as Thomas county.
The Baptist church in this place was organized
i in 1848 with seven numbers. It now number*
: oi*e hundred and ten members. And. during
i my acquaintance with this little band of d'e
| cipies, I have seldom know* one that has lived in
i as much harmony. ’
Tbgjr.* are thirty-seven churches connected with
: the Florida Assoeiatidn, numbering, in the aggre
f gate, according .to the Minutes of 1855, two thou
| sand three hundred and fifty-seven members.—
This body ha* been austaining, for some years past,
, a Missionary and Colportage operation, at a cost
; of from ,|SOO to 8700 annually; employing also
a Book fund of from 8500 to S6OO. -|The aggre
gate amoum in books bought and sold since the
commencement of this work iu Feb, 1854 u over
In N0y,.1864 the Florida Baptist Convention
whs formed, and its Executive Committee instruct
ed jtp procure from the Legislature of Florida, then
iin §£Bsion, an Aet of incorporation. But it aye in
ed the session had too far advanced to admit
the consumation of the matter; before its adjourn
i meet. At a cajicd sossion last fail the applica
tion was rec.owed; when it w/is found’that an ar
ticle in the Constitution o/ that. State forbid the
! incorporating of any religious organization. But
it was understood that a general law existed un
der which the Convention oou id act. What is the }
precise nature of the obstruction presented by the
Constitution, and what, die law under
which we may act, lam not informed. But the
effect is thgt, up to the present time/our Conven-.
tioa is ti<>t in a condition to proceed legally in the
transaction of such busiuess as usually claims the
attention of such an organization. Meantime,
there is a legacy of a SI,OOO, the interest of whudi
is to be employ ed.in the education of young Min
isters and for Missionary purposes, which the Ex
ecutors to the estate of the donor wid wish, si no
distant dav io pay into the bands of any. party j
legally authorised to receive. Doubtlesn the Con- I
vention vyili take some steps, this Fall for the. j
effective |>rosecatiou of its work i future. At i
its last session a sdteqte was reported and ad'pt- |
v'-t which-, if *i)e As&ociationfe sustain it, will re
sult iu the fetgahizfuion of a system of Mbsdonsry ■*
and Col{x>rtag operations for the entire State, in |
the.course of the next year, Whether the A.-:*o- j
ditfhos wifi'aid m carrying out this measure. r.> j
mains tol>e seen, ‘ .
And now, I>r*. Sditor, 1 have, I think, t-aid j
what I proposed to say about the vlitaate, •:. j
healthful ness, society, educational and religion’- j
privileges of this cbimtrv. If gr.y on© has lioen J
aided by it I have not written entirely •>* vain; i
i+itc m, for the p*esi:*„ I bid your rentiers ad ice.
Yum-, A*-., y.G. D.
For the Index.
Interesting j&storal Remiueseeneo Religious
Insanity
In 184 in Alabama, 1 becama acquainUsi
with a family thw litxni of which #mun irreligfoti
man but an enquirer, and his lady a pious mem
ber af th* l M.- E. communion. He becHuie
a constant, attendant, on my ministry ; I atvepted
his hospitalities freqvsemiy ; and uliiiuHtoiv, had
the pleasure, of baptizing tum—tben, of assiarihg
i'u his ordination as a deacon—-ami, at last, as a
minister. Mdanw-hile, l became acquamtod fana*t
iarly wtttr Ms wife, of whom I learned these facts:
She was an exemplary professor, remarkable for
her upright walk, yet habitually depressed some
times to the verge of insanity. Her health was
not good, and travel and change of scenery as
well as medical aid had been tried in vain, for
ber relief. Upon careful inquiry into her case
from herself and others, particularly her husband,
I ascertained to my own satisfaction that despair
ing views of her religious condition was the grand
secret of her malady more explicitly. She be
lieve*! in falling from grace, and in the possibility
and duty of attaining sinless* perfection ; while
experience laught. her more and more of the evil
of her own heart. Meanwhile she had been read
ing the biography of several perfect ones, conse
quently, she concluded, ar their hearts looked bet
ter and better to their eyes, even unto siulessnee*;
and hers, worse and worse, she must be fallen
from grace, or, at least, on the wrong road in
some way.
I h**gan by proving (ho doctrine of the perse
veresnee of the aunt turned it over and over
in the light of Scripture, until she became fully
satisfied on that subject. Then we made the point
that the effect of a growth in grace is always to
make one think worse and worse of his own heart
going again alone to the law and the testimony,
and that Christ crucified, and not his own experi
ence. is the only ebjeet of faith for the poor guilty
sinner. Then, that though there is a growth in
grace in everv Christian experience—often mark
ed and decisive—he often himself doubts of it
that it may even for long periods he impercepti
ble toothers—or, however all this, may be, per
fection is attainable only it.- heaven.
These points understood—a Saviour whose
blood cloanaeth from al! sin— great Saviour for
great % inner*, more fully apprehended, she was
• speedily cured-of her dangerous depression. And.
wheu it had taught her the way of the Lord more
perfectly in that respect, and baptized he** into
the likeness of his death and resurrection, she W
came.uie ot the most cheerful and hnppv Chris
tians I ever knew.
I hav*- known several cases of partial or entire
religious insanity, growing out of doctrinal misr
apprehension. Profedent Edwards mentions, in
connection with the “great awakening” as (level
oped at Northampton, two or three cases of sui
cide. A young man at K—. Alabama, after a
lecture on passing the line of hope , at an inquiry
meeting, went into the woods and destroyed biro
seif. I once visited and conversed with a young
man, who. thoroughly imbued in childhood with
the byper-calvinistic scheme of the aoti-mifsiou
Baptists, conceived that he was reprobated, or as
he said, (for he was familiar with that book,)
“locked up iu Or* iron chet>,” described in the
Pilgrim’s Progress—he wa? completely mad. I
have s>inoe heard that a spell of mrkpe** had been
the means of restoring Ids reason. I imp 6 i !e
may have been led to fije
**-—■— Satisfying One,
With blood for sins, and holy perfectfoge
For ah requirements.”
For tlw Index.
Oa the Death of a Child.
There is eoroething in the sufferings of child
hood which appeals irreristibly to our sympathies.
Who can look upon *& interesting and beautiful
child, as she mingles with joyous heart and mer
ry step in the sports of her associates, suddenly
arrested by death by an unseen baud which with
ers her joys, drives the iustre from the eye, and
distorts the oountepanoe with th.c strongest ex
pressions of pain, without experiencing deep emo
tion. Even a stranger cannot be unaffected in
witnessing the struggles of such a youthful suffer
er, contending through weary weeks and month*
with an iusiduous but powerful enemy, determin
ed riot to intermit his assaults until the prostration
of his captive is
touches the heart of a stranger, how intense, how
unutterable must be the agony of parents who
are called upon to watch the form of a cherished
daughter dwindling into emaciation and racked j
by the torture of a malady which no prescription I
can mitigate. We experience a feeling akin to
melancholy when we see the rose which has re
galed us with its perfume and delighted us with
the delicate adornment of its opened petals, dy
ing when we see the fairaud premising bud cheek
ed in its opening and wasted by a destroyer which
lies coded in its tender and yet unfolded leaves.
Those reflection*foccurred to tis oy the death
o£ Sarah Eliza, daughter of Williams and Laura
Ruthwford, who jfe*l on the 19th inst., iu Ath
,on, in the eleventh year of her age. More than
tour months ago, whilst playing with some of her ‘
young companions she wm accidently thrown up- |
# —* „ *
: On the gr.rujrt*. Infernal injuries were received •
i which resulted in the disease which lifter seveto i
, and feug protracted suffering terminated her hie. j
Wliea she learned what in a;i probability would j
1 bn the result of her sicktAse sire evinced no aiarm’.
She told the weeping o*e inonff fes that sue
loved .leans ami was going io Heaveu to lie hap
py with him t/R-re. We condole with afflicted
parents who fcnv# bean !>renv<:4 of h dutiful arid
affecfionaie child. But a merciful Father had a
1 right to resume the child which he only lent to
earth. ’ She U “taken from iheev-i to ooiue.” a
bud cot pettoittod lo bloom timid th unpropitfous <
eleiucms of this world, it Lias Wn iranspiacto*! to
, a tour*- congenial -.-lime and now display* its gfo
i riea in ro*- presence of God and f’ :h L-anh.™ ‘
“Except ye be converted and become s !i,lile cKil
r dren, enter into the Kfegd of God.”
Athens, 2th IriSd. B.
i* - -
, .-orths liuit-x
Airis* and China Crying for Help
Brethren in Georgia : The session-, oi
Aasix-iations k coming rei during the Fail.—
Wlii’e you are apjadoting >-*ar -Uelegste* nod
collecting your eontributvwss for other ohjecw, wrii
voa n<*t reme.sfo*r th- bitbei in Africa kgd
Chii H ? wii You not n riiemfer your missiorti*-
ri.s, winiit you iiavc T>r'v-r..r,.-.-J s.- ki.iii iuto
tliosedark lands, arnl win* ;n-*>>•> tbera, w**r**.g
■ *.wrt -ttwir lives for the st vat ion of Hare who are
ready to perish i it •wrm t- me. if you have
the spirit of Christ, that you hum. meet riio obli
gation wbii ii is upon you b* i. ..*meth*ug for this
cause. How can you longer Haim to fe “MLh
siorrary Baptists,” wl)ife y.;U withhold from your
own Board the ui<i that is miede*! o sustain the
missions they have fegun under your authority ?
As the Agent for Gergia, I can. aocompiisb tut
little, the ministers arid churches co-oper
ate with rue. i beg that 1 tuay hare such*’ co
operation. J. H. CAMPBELL.
TKISiiiT
THURSDAY MORNING-, AUGUST 21.
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! 23T We are indebted b* M<w*rs. Ivwaon, Oobb,
; Foster, and Stephens, for several Public fe-.y-u
----’ meats, Speeches, Ac.
Monroe Female University.
It is gratifying to the friends of Female Educa
tion, to know that Bro. Wilkes, with his efficient
corps of Instructors, i& still at Forsyth, pre Si ding
over his flourishing lostitutioo. From the Cta
! logus sent us. wo learn that there are 91 in the i
! College classes, and 31 engaged in Primary stud- !
ie, making with those wh> are exclusively in the
OrnameutHi or department 14*. Succes.-*
to thw.enterprise.
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Theological Education.
An esteemed eorresp*d> r;t in a letter lately re
ceived from him sp.vs, that he lias for length of
time been engaged in maturing a plan for a Tho
oioifical School, V* e have no doubt that his sug
gestions would bo valuable just now, when the
subject has awnkaoed a degree of istnreet felt at
no other previous- period. We assure Bro. D.,
that anything.he writes upon ibis subject will not
only be read, but if bis theory is not too Utopian
it wili perhaps have a trial among the efforts that
the Baptist* are now making to give al! their
young men a thorough education for the Ministry.
For our own par t we have ever regarded the bene
fit imparted by a thorough intellectual training
as superior to every thing else in the way ofiro
man effort for the risin . 1 Ministry, After conver
sion and a call to preach that mart whose mind
ha* not been traiood to habit* of study, cannot too
I soon either by himself, or under the dirfxttion of a
| judicious teacher enter upon a course of study that
i will thoroughly train him to habiu of though; io*
j the preparation of his pulpit labors.
| Numerous Brethren in the .South are now
[ 8,,-riousiy deliberating tbs question of an educated
| Ministry. At, a late meeting jn South Carolina,
it was proposed ;o ificreftse the endowment of Fur
•iiHii University lr thie purp>se ; while b, our own
State the Trustees of Mercer bare made incipient
arrangement* for one or more Professorship* iu
it. There exists at this time a desire on their part
t< place, as far ss possible, the means of education
within the reach of those young meu, whom God
is calling into his vineyard. Whoever can now
suggest tiie beat system of instruction for Unvse,
and als-r mark out the best course to take to cause
all to adopt it who are called to preach, wili indeed
perform a most acceptable service.
To the Inquisitiye.
A brother who lately with brother
related !<■ us a remark made by him of a certain
tree in Africa, which is mostly employed by the
natives in poisoning each other. The wood of
this tree is. however, sometimes employed for floor
ing their mud cottages, from the fact that it is the
only tree which they can employ that the arils
and other vermin, will uot destroy. There is
however but little use made of it for any purpose
than poisoning, on account of a singular property
which ii possesses. Bro. Bowen reports that, a ta
ble made of this wood will at times give forth
raps with as much distinctness as if made by the*
knuckles or a hammer upon it. When asked for
the reason of this singular phenomenon, be repli
ed that none appeared bo satisfactory to him as
this, that it was owitig to some singular property
of the wood, which at certain times caused it
suddenly to expand or contract—rand thus emit
sounds similar to a stove pipfi when heated.r—
We understand that tallies made of this wood have
been sewn to rqove about oyer tha room, like those
of the spirit rappers iu this couqtjry. We are glftd
to know thot’ihasgcx'sl ser-e cfour Missionary did.
oni toad him iiks soiaeo- h<-rato attribute tbtse tapa
and table tamings to the influence A spirits. Had
some raodeffc spirituaiiste been there tjiey would
have found ample moans in the urudulity of the
beathe.'i, and Uie hirango moveiuettU of. ibeir la
bbs, to fo-.ter 4 fadnii supeistirkm lo the miuda
of a deluded people. The above will excite lb*
curioua, and perhaps be doubted by ‘.-thers, but
who kcuw Bro. Bjwcti would r-ever quo
tjon the .any statement made by - him.
Rev. T. J. Bowezi.
About one month iigo this esttHstaed Broth*
aod hia wife arrived V>. New York. His
uro from Africa, we regret to fearn, •* hastened
by his iii health. He i> riow in Greoiiesboro’ with
‘his wife's parents endeavoring-to repair a coapU
tution Already gn.vuiy enfcebltsi t#j the rovere liv
bora endured in opening a way for the introriu;'-
tion of.hi- Gospei *umng the benighted tribes ot
Afnoa. \\ trust that all who love the Redeem
er will unite m praying for tha recovery oi tuia
devoted Missiorrary sod bis wife, who base hc*-
arded thnir dvr.-s for the Lord Jesus. While ia
this country, he wiii, It is presumed, if able, devete
his time to the preparation of seme books, the oiii
terials for which he has been ooilect’ng for several
J ■ijj.ik llll niimfc ““ v,T,g Tirovsa tip
tlift mission, must 1 executed either ir. England
or the United RtntcK.
The following letter whs received from Brother
Bowen:—
Your favor of ih# 27th ot February, has . just
lieon received. How sorry you will be lo bear
that wxare now leaving Africa! After ail. you.
can not foe: as wc have feit But there was no
alternative-. I could not remain here, even a lit
tie while, without great risk of losing my wife—
a little longer and she could not have come to the
coast. My own health is worse from week to
week, hut unlike my wife, my flesh though very
thin, continues firm. This evening in wa'king out
a native man saluted me, “How do Captain.—
You got tieUer.” Supposing l was wins sen cup
tain just recovering from fever.
A doctor and some others have intimated a
doubt whether I can get well, even at homo.—
But I feel that I can. My liver is not so bad aa
my spleen, and perhaps the greatest
all is the ague which has hung to me smcA last
July, Several times 1 have ban much better for
a few days at a time, and theu I have tried my
best, mentally and bodily, to get well, but I always
have fallen back, sinking lower and lower with
each relapse. My constitution is not gone at all,
but it waDts stamina. I have never recovered from
the dreadful attack of November 1368. At first
my spells came every mouth or two, now I am
sick by the month and v. c-11 by tho week.
I was exceedingly anxious! to stay till fall bo
cause the brethren had so lately arrived. But
they have passed through their first fever and arc
well I fear that brother Beaumont is .too net.
Voim. It gives me great uneasiness—still he
sound in body and exceedingly quiet arid prudent.
He preaches wJ!—nothing so much surprised me
—and he ioves solitude.
Some months ago I got a .-arpeoter from Li
beria He is a mulatto from North Carolina, aud
a good quiet man. We have engaged him to re
main with brother Beaumont. There are also
two civilized natives, one from S. Lecae, ayd a
civilized Vy man—a good fellow, I hope that
all four of these znen are Christian,- — Corwni>
sion.
Prevalence of Crime.
For weeks past the paper* have contained start
ling accounts <>f the state of affairs iu San Fran
cisco. The people, from cither a supposed or real
grievance, have taken tbc government in their own
hands—nd through • their Vigilance Committee
have executed several notorious men, who either
as government officials or the emissaries of these
had murdered ar, editor of one of the prin*
cipai papers ia this city, the columns of which
had again and again contained severe charges
against the great oorruptiou which prevailed in
high pfeeea. The vigilance Committee of San
Frarcisco can hardly be called a mob, being com
posed it is said, of the best and most intelligent
men of the city, who after having in vain endeav
oured to correct tho prevailing abuses, Lave deem
ed it essentia! for the security of their lives and
property to denoucc? the present government, al
leging that those who now fill many of these offi
ces obtained tberr. by fraud. It is truly humiliating
to know that such disorder prevails in any part of
our Republic—that the interference of private cit
izens is uecesary for the proper maintenance of good
order, and that the people of San Francisco havs
already practically overthrown their own govern
ment, while the iuhabiiaute of a city nearer honte
Have made heavy threats against their own mag
iiir&tes for refusing to execute those—who are a
terror to all among whom they are suffered to live.
We are glad to know that Jaw and order are gv
orally respected throughout the country —but if
some Governors and Legislatures continue to Mt
at defiance, and refuse the execution of just laws,
the people, taught by their example to
pise authority, may refuse submission to aay lew
they do wot aee proper to obey.
Oorrespondents-
W. H. W, of Rome owes from April 1864.
J. fijlPn'a papier b p*id to March HKb, 1857.
has paid to Feb. Bth, 185?.
Bro. <?. W; Stevens is informed, thatß2 waste*
ceiv9< | wm him on (he 27th of March, which paid
to Got, 4th, 1855,
Bro. P. M., of Marietta is informed that his
preoe was sent to th office for publication, and we
presume appeared.
Dr. E. li. C. Your request wifi be complied
with. No good, we think, will be done by its
puHhoauon. The book does not deserve notice.
Publication Society.
A neaUy printed Catalogue of th Society’s
Publications, has just been issued by Messrs. Smith
A Wiiildeo. We learn that the Psalmody has
reached its 84 thousandetli. Dyriog the pr}jsept
year alone 12,000 copies of this excellent Boo);
will be issued by the Society.
Snperinteodanis of Sabbath Schools can have
their orders for an excellent Library filled by ad
dressing ibo Agents. Any person wishing a Cat
alogue can obtain one free of charge, by addrej r
iqg Smith A Whiidop, S. C,
August