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102 The Methodist Advocate. ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 26, 1872. N. E. COBLEIGH, D.D., LL.D., Editor. EDWARD A. COBLEIGH, Assistant. INTRODUCTORY. Before taking his seat, the new editor offers salutation to the readers of the Ad vocate, and makes his most respectful bow. The bow is twofold: first, respectfully to the people whom it will be his duty to serve, and second, submissively to the order of the General Conference and to the provi dence of God, which, without his seeking or expectation, have assigned him to this chair. There is usually grief at the part ing of friends. An unexpected change of editors, as in this case, brings its disap pointments and regrets. We sympathize with those who have sorrow on account of changes which our coming has produced. The kindness, the earnestness, the fidelity, and the large-hearted sympathy manifested by the retiring editor, through his whole connection with the Advocate, have natu rally and justly drawn to him hearts that feel a sad loss in his removal. Such will not be forward to give their sympathy to a stranger. We come, therefore, with some embarrassments to an office which has been so long filled with service by one so able, so true, so courageous, and so amiable as our noble predecessor has proved himself to be. All important work has its difficulties as— well as its opportunities—a shady as well as a sunny side. We have come to work— to do our best to make the Advocate in teresting and useful, worthy to enter as a friendly guest into every Christian house hold, especially every family connected with our Church in the South. This is not only our wish but our purpose. Custom seems to require that on an in troduction to his readers an editor should indicate the general outlines of the policy in accordance with which the paper shall be conducted. We distinctly understand that our mission as editor of a religious newspaper should be peace and good-will to all. We feel disposed to adopt, in its fullest and broadest sense, this injunction of the apostle : “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.” To our mind the functions of the religious press are as sacred as those of the pulpit. The range of legitimate topics may be a little broader, and the manner of handling them a little more varied and free in the former than in the latter, but both should be permeated and controlled by the same spirit. The same end should be sought by both, namely, the spreading of Scriptural holiness and Christian civili zation throughout the land. Whatever promotes this object is a legitimate theme for a religious newspaper. Whatever hin ders this, and can be taken out of the way, the press in all suitable ways should en deavor to remove. Ours is emphatically a Christian work, and can be successfully accomplished only when directed and inspired by a Christian spirit. The means for accomplishing this work are manifold. In their selection and use is a constant liability to err in judg ment. Only the Infinite Mind has perfect wisdom. All editors are human, and some are very human. Hence we are liable to err in judgment. Error in judgment, how ever, need not and should not draw after it a disagreeable temper or an unchristian spirit. The former can be easily forgiven— the latter can not be quite so readily par doned. In promoting Christian work, between us and other denominations, there can be no real antagonism ; there should be none manifested either in our efforts or in our spirit. In non-essentials we may disagree ; our methods may be diverse ; in the selec tion and application of means to ends we may seem the antipodes of each other, while all may keep the “unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.” In this may be discovered our policy toward other Chris tian denominations. In this great and glorious field—the South—our settled pur pose is, so far as they will allow it, to labor in peace and harmony with all other relig ious bodies, so far as promoting the cause of Christ is concerned. They will fight the common enemy in their way ; we, in ours ; but all in a Christian spirit—each ready to rejoice in any success legitimately gained by another. The true Christian editor works for hu manity ; for those most who most need help. He ignores all unchristian distinc tions. In his all-grasping charity he em braces the poor as well as the rich, and the rich as well as the poor. As he has op portunity he seeks to do good unto all men, especially to those who are of the household of faith. The whole household is meant, without distinction of race, color or previous condition ; the little as well as the great, the humble as well as the proud, the weak as well as the strong, the children as well as the youth, the adults, and the aged. Food for the soul as well as for the intellect should be duly furnished in suffi cient quantity, quality, style and variety. That is the kind of editor we most desire to be. To prove such shall be our con stant aim, though we may come far short of our standard. A newspaper should of course contain at least in some measure the important news of the day. There is much transpiring around us. Thought is active. Through innumerable facts principles are being de veloped and established. A proper knowl edge of these facts is necessary to keep up the intellectual activity of the age. It is not wise to confine the mind’s observation to a narrow circle. It should observe, and think, and feel broadly. The world is an editor’s parish, and what of most import ance is transpiring in the world, he should present to his readers. A fair proportion of the Advocate should be devoted to news. Every denomination should look outside and beyond itself. There is danger of a Church being too much filled with its own ways—too much interested in Self-work. One’s looking should not be confined to his own things, but extended often to the things of others. What other Churches are doing, what they are thinking, and how they are working and prospering, every in telligent Christian so far as practicable should understand. A well conducted Christian newspaper should reflect this kind of intelligence. There should be room enough in it, and editorial force enough on it to secure this. We should neither neglect our own interests in observ ing the interests of others, nor others’ in too exclusive attention to our own. The heart demands attention as well as the brain. Neither should be neglected. There is in the soul a spiritual as well as an intellectual and a moral nature. Relig ious newspapers so-called are often any thing but religious. They too often have not a single sweet morsel of food for the religious nature. There is something for the intellect, food for the prejudices and passions, controversy, self-praise and de traction of others, but not one word to encourage that charity which seeketh not her own, suffereth long and is kind, and thinketh no evil. We hope to furnish in every number of the Advocate some healthful nourishment for the spiritually hungry soul—something for heart-piety to feed or feast upon. Until the Advocate is enlarged we can not, of course, furnish much of a variety in any department of the paper. The children must not be overlooked or neglected. They are the hope of the Church. Some suitable reading must be furnished in every number for them. The coming men and women of the next age are among the children of to-day. The religious press must have an eye upon them. All our promises must be of a general character. The foregoing is only a very indefinite outline of what we hope to ex hibit in the columns of our weekly paper. Time only can settle the questions of detail. On one point wo are fully settled. Of fensive personalities must be excluded. We can not consent to use them ourself, nor suffer them to appear in our columns in the communications of others. Not only a decent morality but even a refined Christian taste demands their exclusion. Whatever other editors may see fit to al low in their papers, to the best of our ability we shall keep our paper free from such indecencies. It is useless to say to us there is in this a lack of spirit. It is the lack of that spirit that tends to dis grace and demoralization. If it be said that the people desire such things, our re ply is that the time has come when they should be ashamed of that desire. We should endeavor to call up in them the op posite virtue to take the place of this vice. We hope that our correspondents will not compel us to reject otherwise valuable ar ticles on account of such improprieties of language. We shall reserve many things to say hereafter, as we have neither time nor space to say them now. N. E. Cobleigh. Bishop Merrill, in his “Retiring Words,” says: “The prospect is good for the future enlargement and improvement of the West ern Christian Advocate. Let all its friends take the hint, and let it have such a push for the front rank, that another year will find it equal in size and quality to the very largest and best in the land. The new ed itor comes with a cheerful countenance, and a heart beating with noble purposes. I take pleasure in commending him to the confidence and esteem of every friend of the Western. God bless every family into which the paper comes ! In a little while the time for labor will end. May we all be ready 1” Laying up Treasures.— Rev. J. Aaron Moore sends us the following names of children in his Sunday-school, in Clinton, Miss., who are deserving of mention for committing to memory verses from the Bi ble : Maria Johnson recited fifty verses on two successive Sabbaths; Malla Sanders did equally well; while Margaret Hudson, Lizzie and Lemuel Adams each recited twenty-five at one time. He reports the Sunday-school as flourishing. A man has a poor opinion of himself who is not willing to seem what he is. * No face has true beauty in it that does not mirror the deeds of a noble soul. What is not needed is dear at any price. THE METHODIST ADVOCATE. JUNE 26, 1872. COMMENCEMENT WEEK AT East Tennessee Wesleyan University, ATHENS, TENN. The past week has been greatly enjoyed at Athens, Tenn., in attendance on the ex aminations and Commencement exercises of East Tennessee Wesleyan University. From first to last, the exercises have been highly creditable. If any of our freinds, North or South, wish to know the charac ter of our work in the South among the whites, they should visit the school at Athens, and inquire into the class of grad uates—young men and women—who are going out every year from this institution, to take their places as leaders and workers in this Southern field. The whole Church is interested in the work done by this insti tution. We hope soon to see the school sufficiently endowed to place it above finan cial embarrassments. It should at once be made the central university for the South, and nourished by every Conference. We may need another such school very soon in the Empire of Texas, and would rejoice to see one there; at present we should rally to East Tennessee Wesleyan University, and make it our intellectual center. The examination began on Friday last, in the Preparatory Department, Miss Mary Mason, Principal. Miss Mason is a grad uate the of class of 1871. The examinations of the classes were fair, critical, and thorough. The report of the committee is highly creditable to teacher and pupils, but not more than they fully deserved. The literary exercises of this depart ment, on Friday night, more than satisfied the expectations of patrons and friends. To Miss Helen Bosworth, teacher of music, too much praise can not be given for her thoroughness of drill. The little folk and larger ones acquitted themselves as profi cients. To Master Myron Manker, who gave us “Three Little Bugs in a Basket,” to Master Hugh Taylor, whose declama tion was por excellence , and to the “Doc tor” Johnny Luter, especial mention is due. On Monday and Tuesday the College classes were examined. The Secretary of the Committee of Examination will furnish you copy of report. The average of classes, on a grade of which ten is perfect, will reach nearly nine. This also speaks well for the professors and the students. Three of these professors were graduates of the class of 1871, and have won addi tional laurels in the work of this year. The exercises on Monday and Tuesday nights consisted of music, orations, decla mations, and essays ; each department do ing itself credit, and we confidently look to the future to develop in the college so cieties—the Athenian, Philomathean, and Adelphian—all the strength of the older universities. The exercises of the graduating class are given in the following PROGRAMME: MUSIC. PRAYER. MUSIC. Oratio SalutatOkia-D. A. Boltou, Millwood. MUSIC. Oration— Liberty—3. M. Patterson, Athens. music. Oration— Leaders— M. M. Callen,Thorn Grove. MUSIC. Oration— Our Nation's Bondage—J). A. Bolton, Millwood. JMCOSIO Oration— Workers— Alex. Presnell, Browns boro. MUSIC. CONFERRING DEGREES. MUSIC. Valedictory Oration—A Glance Before us— S. S. Curry, Chatata. MUSIC. benediction. This class of graduates give five addi tional alumni to East Tennessee Wesleyan University, who will bring honor upon their Alma Mater , and make their mark in the world. The first meeting of the alumni took place last night. Prof. Edward Atlee de livered the address. Subject: “Policy.” He dealt earnest blows at corruption, and gave a fair and careful resume of the wants of the hour, being, in all fields of toil, “true men.” The pleasant episode of a wedding closed the exercises. The groom a mem ber of the class of 1872. Mr. D. A. Bolton and Miss Lizzie Hornsby, by Dr. N. E. Cobleigh, assisted by Rev. J. W. Maun, presiding elder of Athens District. The occasion was a very pleasant one. The trustees announced the degree of D.D. conferred on Rev. N. G. Taylor, and of LL.D. on Rev. Dr. N. E. Cobleigh. Also the election as President of Rev. James A. Dean, A.M., of Wesleyan Uni versity, Mass. The whole course of exercises was ex ceedingly successful. ** Athens. Tenn., June 20,1872. Report of Committee of Examination. The committee appointed to examine the classes in the East Tennessee Wesleyan University at the close of the college year 1871-72 respectfully report: 1. The order observed by the students in all their examinations, the respect shown their teachers and the committee and the effort made by them, under much embar rassment, to do the best they could have been highly gratifying to the examiners. 2. The teacher feels, naturally, a pro found interest in the success of an examin ation. Not his class alone, but himself is to be, more or less, judged by the knowl edge exhibited by his pupils. Considering the natural feeling, the committee must accord to these teachers the merit of un usual fairness and justice. Notonly thecom mittee alone, but the public, also were per mitted to question the students on the sub jects under consideration. A criticism made by the committee last term is thought worthy to be repeated : The text books are too large—too much is proposed to be studied. Important gen eral principles are too often lost in the host of minute and minor fapls thrust on the over burdened memory. It is, however, due to this institution to state that the criticism above bears upon the ordinary course of instruction in all our colleges, and compar atively speaking, the examinations for this term have shown less of this objection than those of last term and we may say that the examinations in this college have at no time shown this feature above other similar institutions. The grade below has been carefully made by all the examiners and will show with fairness their judgment of the degree of proficiency which each class has exhibited. The examiners’ grade will usually fall below the teachers’ grade if both are fairly drawn. Because the pupil has usually ap peared with little embarrassment before his teacher and been accustomed to his manner of asking questions. The pupil, however, must remember that the world, which he is preparing to be examined by, will not ask its questions very obligingly and will make little account of embarrass ment. Thorough preparation is the only guarantee against failure before examining committees in or out of college. Gradation. Miss Mason’s Classes: Ist Geography 7.30; 2d Geography 9.; 3d Geography 10.; Ist Arithmetic 8.40; 2d Arithmetics.; 4th Reader 7.60; sth Reader 7.90; English Grammar 8.95. Miss Hauschild’s classes: English Grammar 8.75; English Composition 8.50; Rhetoric 9.15; Botany 9.50; Geography 9.25. Professor Atlee’s classes: Cicero’s Orations 8.75; Latin Reader 8.75; Tacitus 7.75; Horace 9.; Ist Latin 9.25 ; Analysis Civil Government 9.25; Virgil 9.20. Professor Milburn’s Classes: Geometry 9.; 2d Arithmetic 9.50; Ist Arithmetic 8.75; 2d Al gebra 9.; Higher Arithmetic 9.10; Ist Algebra 8.35; General Geometry 9-50; Physiology 8.75; Astronomy 8.G5. Professor Manker’s Classes: Greek Reader 8.; Anabasis 9.25; Ist Greek 9.10; Plato 8.50. Dr. Cobleigh’s Classes: Evangelical Chris tianity 9.60; Psychology 9.20; Logic 8.90; Ge ology 9. J. W. Mann, Chairman. P. C. Wilson, Secretary. Credit. —The article in our paper of last week, “The New Editor,” should have been credited to the Daily Advocate. No Name.— A letter received from Whitesburg, Tenn., closes thus : “Send the class-leader a number of your Church pa per, that he may get up some subscribers in the Church.” This request we would be very glad to comply with, but it is quite impossible, as the writer neither gave us his name nor that of the class-leader. We regret to learn that the family of our brother C. O. Edwards, of the Cincinnati Book Concern, has again been visited by bereavement. Their youngest child, Cal vin Kingsley, aged a little over one year, died on Saturday, June Bth, at the family residence, Hartwell, near Cincinnati. Camp-Meeting. A camp-meeting for Sandy Spring cir cuit, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will be held on Thursday, August 15, 1872, on the road between Ashton and Brighton, Montgomery county, Maryland, under the supervision of Rev. James Peck, presiding elder, and Rev. R. P. Bell, preacher in charge. The first performance of the Jubilee festival was a great success. The performance com menced with the choral of Old Hundred, by over sixteen thousand voices. Then followed selections of beautiful operatic music, vocal and instrumental. A great feature was the performance of Verdi’s Anvil Chorus, sung by various societies, accompanied by one hundred anvils, organs, military bands, bells of the city and cannou. The Star Spangled Banner was sung with great effect. One day is allotted to each nation represented. Plan of Episcopal Visitation—lß72. Conference. Place. Time. Bishop. East Maine Orono June 12, 1872... Andrews. Ger.&Switzerl’d..Zurlch “ 27, “ ... Delaware Dover July 26,* “ ...Scott. Colorado Georgetown “ 25,* “ ...Foßter. Rocky Mountain. Salt Lake Ang. B,* “ ... “ Nevada Sierraville, Cal... “ 15,* “ ... “ North Ohio Mansfield “ 28, “ ...Simpson. Cincinnati Eaton “ 28, “ ...Wiley. Oregon Salem “ 29, “ ...Foster. N. W. Indiana Thorntown Sopt. 4, “ ...Janes. Detroit * East Saginaw “ 4, “ ...Ames. Central Illinois....Geneseo *• 4, “ ...Bowman. Indiana Mount Vernon.... “ 4, “ ...Andrews. S. W. Gorman Quincy, 111 :. “ 4, “ ...Haven. Cen. German Dayton, 0 “ 11, “ ...Simpson. S. E. Indiana Edinburgh “ 11, “ ...Wiley. Erie Akron, 0 “ 11, “ ...Peck. Chicago German.. Chicago “ 18, “ ...Janes. Michigan ..Jackson “ 18, “ ...Ames. Illinois Decatur “ 18, “ ...Bowman. California Santa Clara “ 18, “ ...Foster. North-west lowa.Fort Dodge “ 18, “ ...Andrews. West Wisconsin...W. Eu Claire “ 18, “ ...Haven. Ohio Zanesville “ 26, “ ...Scott. Central Ohio “ 26, “ ...Harris. Upper lowa Vinton “ 25, “ ...Wiley. Dos Moines Charlton “ 25, “ ...Andrews. Minnesota Winona “ 25, “ ...Haven. N. W. German Galena, 111 “ 25, “ ...Peck. Tennessee Huntingdon “ 26,* “ ...Merrill. Southern Illinois.Mouut Vernon.... Oct. 2, “ ...Bowman. Western N. York.Olenn “ 9, “ ...Harris. Central N. York..Wcedsport “ 9, “ ...Wiley. Holston Cleveland, Tenn.. “ 9, “ ...Merrill. lowa Oskaloosa “ 9, “ ...Andrews. Wisconsin Fon du Lac " 9, “ ...Haven. Rock River Rockford “ 9, “ ...Peck. Georgia .. Atlanta “ 16, “ ...Merrill. Alabama Rocky Hill 0. G... “ 30, “ ... •• Note.—The supervision of the Missions of the Church has been assigned to tile Bishops severally as follows, namely: To Bishop Simpson—Missions in Mexico, New Mexico, and Arizona. To Bishop llAßßlß—Missions in India and Turkey. To Bishop Foster—Missions In Western Europe. To Bishop Wiley—Missions in China. To Bishop Haven —Missions in Italy. To Bishop Peck—Missions in South America. To the Bishop who may reside in San Francisco—Missions in Japan. * Thursday. The most necessary part of learning is to be taught to divest our minds of preju dice. The antagonism between the flesh and the Spirit is essential, irreconcilable, eter nal. Smiles are cheap as sunshine, and they do their silent, healing work beautifully as the sun does. One standeth not as on a hill, beckoning en to another to follow; but ye toil band in hand, and carry each other’s burdens. Rhetoric goes for little in the heavenly court, but sincere groans have a kind of omnipotence. The lowest education that reaches self control is better than the highest that neg lects it. Report of Committee on the State of the Church. No. — Having reached the close of another quadrennium in the history of the Church, it is proper that we should review the past, and note her conflicts, labors,and triumphs. Taking a general view of her progress and present condition, your Committee find abundant reason for rejoicing and devout thanksgiving to God for what he has done for us, for our families, and for the world, through the instrumentality of our beloved Zion. Yet it is with no feeling of ostenta tion that we record the great blessings which he has so wondrously bestowed. During the past four years great ad vancement has been made in all the ma terial elements of prosperity. The total membership of the Church is at the pres ent one million four hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred and ninety-seven, an increase in the last four years of four hundred and four thousand two hundred and thirteen. Total value of churches and parsonages, $64,698,704, an increase of nearly one hundred per cent. Great suc cess, also, has attended the Church in her Missionary, Sunday-School, Educational, and Publishing enterprises. No language is adequate to express the gratitude due to God for his wondrous grace. Methodism, with her conferences and mission stations, now encircles the globe. We have but to look over this General Conference, containing representatives from every section of the earth, in order to comprehend how vast the area over which she has raised the standard of the Cross. And still new doors are opening, and new fields white for the harvest are inviting the laborers. Truly her field is the world, and our Church is now realizing, in a measure at least, the great commission, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.” The thousands of our Zion rejoiced and gave thanks to God when the sainted Bishop Kingsley started on a missionary tour around the world, and deeply mourned when, after having nearly completed his mission of love, he fell by the hand of death on the borders of the Holy Land. Since the last General Conference great changes have taken place, furnishing in creased facilities for extending the con quests of the Redeemer’s Kingdom.' The great Pacific Railroad has been com pleted, uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, affording a speedy passage across our continent, and thence, by the aid of steam, around the world. By war and revolution the barriers hitherto existing to the spread of pure Christianity in Europe have been thrown down, and re ligious toleration is now proclaimed. Millions there are now waiting for the bread of life. Great success has attended our mission ary enterprises at home and in foreign fields. In the latter God has bountifully smiled, giving victory to the Cross through the faithful labors of our noble men and women in the distant regions of idolatry and moral night. The day now seems dawning on the darkness which has so long rested, like the shadow of death, on eastern and southern Asia and Africa. May God hasten the time when his truth, like a sea of glory, shall spread from pole to pole,. Tha Woman’s Foreign Missionary So ciety was organized in March, 1869, by the ladies of our Church in Boston. This society originated in the fact that in some of the mission fields women only can ob tain access to the women of those countries, and that the condition of the latter is such as to appeal in the strongest possible form for the benign and elevating influence of Christianity. To the special and infinitely wise provi dence of God we believe the Church is in debted for the origin of this institution, which we regard as destined to be an agency of great power in spreading the Gospel throughout India and China. Al though its origin is so recent, it already has five hundred auxiliaries, and nine mis sionaries in the field. Its funds and re sources are rapidly increasing. It emi nently deserves the fostering care of the whole Church. We have as a Church abundant reason to rejoice in the prosperity which God has vouchsafed to our Southern work. It has succeeded in the last four years beyond the expectations of the most sanguine. There are now ten conferences, and more than 300,000 members in those States of this Union, from which, until the close of the war, our Church was excluded. And still the shout of victory comes welling up from every section of that extensive and fruitful field as the hosts of God’s Israel push for ward the battle; for the “watchword” is still Onward! In the Sunday-school work there has been, also, great advancement. Its or ganization has been greatly improved, and its methods of instruction have been sys tematized and rendered more effective. The future of this important department of our work is full of the most cheering hope. Our educational institutions, both theo logical and literary, are prosperous, and are gathering around them more liberal finan cial support, and eliciting the deeper sym pathies, and more earnest prayers of our people. All the other benevolent institutions of our Church are well organized and well managed, and are accomplishing the noble purposes for which they were designed. We would congratulate the Church upon the successful introduction of laymen as members of the General Conference, thus giving them a voice in the supreme and only legislative council of the Church. The hearty sympathy with which they co operate with the. clerical members portends more intimate union between ministers and laity, a greater development of her re sources and a vast increase of strength, and consequently of her success in spread ing Scriptural holiness through the land. Another significant fact should not pass without notice, that in addition to the us ual fraternal greetings and salutations presented to this body from the different members of the Methodist family in Eu rope and America three large and influen tial religious denominations —the Presby terian, Congregationalist, and Baptist Churches in the United States have sent delegations for the first time in the history of our Church to the General Conference, bearing fraternal greetings and expressions of cordial sympathy in the great work of evangelizing the world. We hail these tokens of friendship and brotherly love as proofs of the real unity of God’s general Church, and an indication of the near ap proach of the latter-day glory and of the universal reign of the Son of God ! But our rejoicing in the general prosper ity of the Church is mingled with grief, for she has been stricken and sadly be reaved. Four of our beloved and honored chief pastors have been called from labor to reward. Other distinguished ministers and laymen, great and good men whose praise is in all the Churches, have been taken from us, and their loss we deeply de plore. Here we have tears mingled with our smiles, sunshine with cloud. Great calamities also, by fire and flood, have vis ited some sections of our land, causing im mense suffering and great loss of property public and private. In view of these mournful providences, should we not as a Church and as individ uals, humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, praying for divine grace to enable us to be more diligent and earnest workers in God’s vineyard, and that still greater success may crown our efforts? We record with pleasure the fact that the same self-sacrificing spirit, earnest la bor, and loving zeal which has character ized the Methodist Church from its origin still pervades her ministers, and the same baptism of the Holy Spirit attends their ministrations. We rejoice in view of past triumphs, but we are beset with dangers of various kinds. The great foe of God and man is on the alert, and we should take heed, lest while we think we stand we should fall. Let us remember that the crowning ex cellence of all is, that “God is with us.” D. Curry, Chairman. C. Nutt, Secretary. The following appeared in the Cincin nati Times of June 13 : Cincinnati Industrial Exposition of 1873. A handsomely printed pamphlet of fifty six pages, comprising the rules and pre mium list for the Third Cincinnati Indus trial Exposition, has just been issued. This great enterprise has so rapidly de veloped within the short space of three years as to achieve a national importance, and attract the attention of exhibitors and visitors from every State of the Union. Last year the Exposition had exhibitors from twenty-nine States, and, during the month it was open for inspection, 500,000 visitors were in attendance. The premium list for the coming exhibition has been largely ex tended, including 666 medals to be awarded for the first degree of merit. The five buildings give seven acres of exhibiting space,distributed into sixteen departments. The Machinery Department will be run by four first-class driving engines of 500 horse power with nearly 700 feet of main shaft ing. Many new features will be presented in the Fine Art, Natural History, and Horticultural Departments. The contribu tions for.the former already promised, in sure an unequaled collection ; the wall space in the fire-proof building devoted to this department is 1,140 running feet. The conservatory of the Horticultural Depart ment will be 140 by 150 feet, with roof and sides of glass. The most liberal premiums will be offered in this department, the list showing that $4,000 will be devoted to this purpose ; and the competition on the pre miums for displays by States promises to be very exciting. This great enterprise is under the man agement of fifteen commissioners,appointed by the Board of Trade, Chamber of Com merce, and Mechanics’ Institute. Copies of the preminm list will be fur nished on application to Secretary Cincin nati Industrial Exposition. New Postal Code. Congress passed a bill reducing into one act all the laws relative to the postal sys tem. We note some of the more impor tant changes in the postal arrangements of the country made by the bill: The most important is the authorization of one-cent postal cards for correspondence or for printed circulars similar to those which were introduced into Great Britain nearly two years ago, and are now in use in nearly all European countries. The style of the card was left to the discretion of the Postmaster-General, who prefers the open card, and will order that kind only to be manufactured. The face of the card will bear a one-cent stamp, and will be provided with lines for the address, and the back will be ruled for the letter. The price of the card and stamp will be only one cent. It will probably be three or four weeks be fore they will be ready for sale, as the plates for printing have yet to be prepared. The law by which married women have heretofore been inhibited from being post masters is repealed. Private individuals are allowed to place boxes for their mail matter in any post office, but the boxes so placed become the property of the United States. A change in the fees for money orders is made. Formerly the fee was ten cents for all sums of S2O or under. Now it is fixed at five cents for $lO or under, and at ten cents for sums from $lO to S2O. _ Packages of clothing for non-commis sioned officers or privates in the army or navy may be sent at one cent an ounce. The rate is now eight cents for four ounces. The rate on packages of newspapers, &c., (now two cents on four ounces,) is fixed at one cent on two ounces. Books, samples of ores and merchandise to be charged double rates. The Northioestern Advocate says: Syracuse gave Bishop Peck a rousing wel come wheu he went back to that city. Boston Methodists had a meeting to welcome Bishop Haven, and passed a resolution to the effect that the removing of Bishop Haven from New England would be a public calamity, and de siring him to remain if he could possibly make arrangements to do so.