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114 The Methodist Advocate. ATLANTA, GA., JULY 17, 1872. ~N. E. COBLEIGH, D.D., IX.D., Editor. EDWARD A. COBLEIGH, Assistant. It will be seen, by reference to the Notices in this number of our paper, that Bishop Merrill, at the solicitation of some of our ministers, has changed the time of meeting of the Holston Conference. Ministers please take notice, and tell their friends of this change. Rev. Arthur Edwards, editor of the North western, reports that as yet he has no assistant editor,and his own hands do all the work. If the last three numbers of that paper are fair sam ples of his ability to do alone, we might hope that he would go on without any further as sistance. It is good enough now. “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” There has been this year an unusually large number of sun-strokes in some of our Northern cities, and a much larger per cent, than usual of fatal cases. It is said that the physicians and the press of New York unite in declaring that the use of intoxicating drinks has had much to do in swelling the lists of mortality from this cause. This fact, when poperly un derstood, will be much more effective than a lecture or sermon on total nhetinaiuia \y e wish to call the attention of our readers— and especially those indebted to the Book Con cern, either for books or subscription to the Advocate —to the notice of Hitchcock & Wal den, which can be found in the Publishers’ Column. The General Conference took action on the matter of outstanding accounts, and de cided that they must be paid. There are thou sands of dollars due the Concern, and unless these debts are squared up soon, forbearance will cease to be a virtue, and the Agents will proceed to collect by law. The General Conference of the African Meth odist Episcopal Church, as the superior body, assume to direct their bishops. They have lixed their bishops’ salary at $2,000 each, and require each of them to live in his district. They also established a general Church fund from which bishops and other officers are to be paid. They would raise it on the dollar a mem ber plan. The conviction is becoming general that bishops are to be servants rather than rulers of the Church. The General Conference has made no pro vision as yet in the Constitution of the Church for lay representation, except in the General Conference. The incorporation of the lay ele ment into the annual conference awaits future legislation. That it ought to be there, we have steadfastly believed; that it ultimately will be there, is our strong conviction. The laymen ought now to be invited to come and counsel with the ministers in the annual conferences, so far as they can and will. Though envy is not good, yet we are full of it toward our brethren of the official quill. They have room in their columns to “spread” themselves; we can’t begin to do the like in our little sheet. We see a thousand good things every week that we would like to serve up for our readers, but we can’t do it. We wanted to say sweet things about all the editors and give fine specimens of their cooking, but we had to give it up. Between “crowded out” and “too old” much of our June fruit was lost. Sic transit gloria Mundi. Proper education prevents crime. Few real ize how much more economical it is for a State to educate the children and thus prevent crime, than to wait until after the perpetration and then punish the criminal. According to care ful estimates it costs, on an average, in the United States, to arrest, convict, and punish in the penitentiary, $1,200 for each person so punished, while it would cost the State, on an average, less than SSOO to give c-acli child a fair education. Good schools are therefore the hope of the nation. The true friend of the State and of the individual is an advocate of free sehols for all the people. If we examine carefully the statistics of evan gelical churches, we shall find as a general rule, with possibly a few exceptions, that the ratio of increase in membership is much less in years of great political excitement, especially in such universal excitements as attend a presidential election. This is to be one of those years. It becomes all true Christians, and especially Christian ministers, to be unu sually watchful and active in order to prevent as much as possible any unhealthy reaction against the spiritual interests of the Church. How peculiarly pertinent now these words of the Master, “Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. ” liev. M. M. Parkliurst, of Chicago, pastor of Grace Church, which was destroyed in the late fire, has erected a worthy monument to his re cently deceased and saintly wife. He has in vested in her name two thousand dollars, one thousand in the Garrett Biblical Institute, and one thousand in the Ladies’ College at Evans ton. The proceeds of each sum to be used to as ist needy and worthy students in getting an education, the one a young man, and the other a young woman. As this is a perpetual fund, scores and even hundreds of the talented and deserving poor in the coming years may be thus aided. How much better this than to in vest a less or greater sum in monuments of stone! ________ It seems to be held law in the case of literary institutions that while they most need help, but few are disposed to help them; but if they per severe and heroically work themselves up to a point where they can do tolerably well without them, donations flow in from all sides. This may be all right, but to the toiling pro fessors with large debts hanging over them and small pay long deferred, it seems rather hard. Princeton College, of New Jersey, is just now rejoicing in the blessedness of receiv ing, as witness the following: By the will of the late Mrs. Kilpatrick, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, $26,000 was left for raising the salaries of Professors. The A1 uinni Association at Baltimore have promised SIO,OOO more toward the same object; that of New Jersey, from $5,000 to SB,OOO. There will be $60,000 devoted to that purpose. H. J. Mar quand, of New York, has given SIOO,OOO to be used “as the Board of Trustees may direct for the good of the College.” J. C. Green, of New York, has given SIOO,OOO to endow a scientific school. This makes, in all, $550,000 given by Mr. Green to the College. Some of our Southern colleges will rejoice in like manner hereafter, if they ever do. The Methodists of St. Louis, held, June 25th, a preliminary meeting with a view of welcome to Bishop Bowman. The following are among the resolutions unanimously adopted: That we have heard with the greatest satis faction, that Bishop Thomas Bowman, who had the priority of choice as he had of election to the Episcopacy, has selected St. Louis as his place of residence; and we hereby extend to him a hearty, Metliodistic welcome, being fully persuaded that by his culture, consecration and blameless Christian example, he will greatly aid our cause in this section of the work. That the chairman of this meeting be re quested to appoint a committee of three persons whose duty it shall be to make suitable provis ion for the residence of Bishop Bowman, and said committee shall report this action to the several quarterly conferences of this city. That while we understand that it is not the purpose of Bishop Bowman to move his family here before the Autumnal months, we shall be glad of a visit from him, extending over a Sab bath,at his earliest convenience; and we hereby extend to him an earnest invitation to make us such a visit. The Right Use of Praise. In the Northwestern of July 10th is this sensible editorial paragraph, which is wor thy of thoughtful consideration: Criticism often serves as a spur, but, as Thomas Hughes says, a man never does his best until you praise him. If you kick a man he spends the first few subsequent minutes in diligent search for a brick-bat, rather than industrious efforts to amend. When you praise him, he springs to work instanter, and so that plan saves time as well as temper. The Northwestern has not received a single reproof —but showers of kind words. Everybody, from chief to ap prentice-printer, is thereby under grateful bonds to do his level best. Kindly criti cise—encouragingly praise—sensibly sub scribe, and a future is assured to this jour nal . How many persons can thank the Lord for kind, encouraging words? They ac complish much more for good than harsh, cutting, scolding criticism. District Conferences. The General Conference made provision for the holding of District Conferences, and gave ample directions concerning them. It is left discretionary with each District whether it shall hold such conferences or not. If a majority of the quarterly con ferences vote in favor of holding them, they are obligatory; otherwise they are not binding. The whole provision [for these conferences will be found in the new Dis cipline, which may be expected in a short time. There was strong opposition to the action on this subject taken by the General Con ference. The measure was carried after considerable discussion by only a small majority. We voted for the district con ferences, believing they might be very ben eficial in some portions of our work, espe cially in the South. Our brethren of the Church South have something similar, and find it useful. It will be well to give this new feature a fair trial. If found to work well, it may be continued ; if not well, it should be given up. As the action of a district conference would not be of binding force unless the proper pi’eliminary steps had been taken, it would be well for presiding elders not to proceed to hold any such conferences until they can guide their action according to the provisions of the new Discipline. Shall the Methodist Advocate be Enlarged ? The General Conference has put the whole matter of enlarging and improving our weekly papers mainly into the hands of the Book Agents, or the publishers, as may be seen by the following order: That the size, the subscription price and the amounts to be allowed to be expended by the editors in each case, shall be left to the discre tion or concurrence of the Book Committee, or publishing committee; so that each paper shall be made as near as practicable self-supporting, and also so as to afford all needed facilities for improvement to those papers whose incomes will justify larger expenses. Observe; they must be as nearly as possible self-supporting. The Methodist Advocate, like all the other weeklies, comes under the same restrictions. Our brethren will see at a glance, that however much the Advocate needs enlargement, that will depend almost entirely on the in crease of the subscription-list. It is now for the preachers, who are our only agents, to say whether their paper shall be en larged and improved, or remain in size much as it has been. Knowing this fact, we have taken the liberty of exhorting our brethren to attend at once to the work of getting new subscribers. We have but little more than half space enough at pres ent for the important and interesting mat ter we wish to put every week into the columns of the Advocate. In attending to this work, brethren, you are not simply gratifying the editor, but accommodating yourselves, and promoting one of the vital interests of our Church. The Gods of India* Those who desire to know what the Hin doos worship may learn from the following extract taken fmm Duff’s India: Their sacred books teach that the worlds above this earth are peopled with gods and goddesses, demi-gods and genii, the sons and grandsons, daughters and granddaughters of Brahma and other superior deities. All the superior gods have separate heavens for them selves. The inferior deities dwell chiefly in the heaven of Indra, the god of the firmament. There they congregate to the number of three THE METHODIST ADVOCATE. JULY 17. 1872. hundred and thirty millions. The gods are di vided and subdivided into classes or hierarchies, which vary through every conceivable grada tion of rank and power. They are of all col ors; some black, some white, some red, some blue, and so through all the blending shades of the rainbow. They exhibit all sorts of shape, size and figure : in forms wholly human or half human, wholly brutal or variously compounded like many-headed and many-bodied centaus, with four, or ten, or a hundred, or a thousand eyes, heads and arms. They ride through the regions of space on all sorts of etherialized animals: elephants, buffa loes, lions, deer, sheep, goats, peacocks, vul tures, geese, serpents, and rats. They hold forth in their multitudinous arms all manner of offensive and defensive weapons: thunderbolts, scimetars,javelins, spears, clubs, bows, arrows, shields, and shells! They discharge all possi ble functions. There are gods of the heavens above, and of the earth beneath, and of the re gions under the earth; gods of wisdom and of folly; gods of war and of peace; gods of good and of evil; gods of pleasure, who delight to shed around their votaries the fragrance of har mony and joy; gods of cruelty and wrath, whose thirst must be satiated with torrents of blood, and whose ears must be regaled with the shrieks and agonies of the expiring victims. All the virtues and the vices of man, all the allotments of life—beauty, jollity and sport, the hopes and fears of youth, the felicities and iufelicities of manhood, thwjoys and sorrows of old age—all, all are placed under the pre siding influence of superior powers. Methodism and Common Schools. Our bishops, in their quadrennial address, called the attention of the General Confer ence to the importance of sustaining that feature of education known as “ Common Schools.” That item of the address was referred to the Committee on Education. The following brief report of the commit tee was adopted by the General Conference, we believe, unanimously: The Committee on Education, having care fully considered that portion of the bishops’ ad dress that relates to the common schools, would report as follows: Whereas, we have always, as a Church, ac cepted the work of education as a duty enjoined by our commission “to teach all nations;” Whereas, the system of common schools is an indispensable safeguard to republican insti tutions; and, Whereas, the combined and persistent as saults of the Romanists and others endanger the very existence of our common schools; therefore, Resolved, 1. That we will co-operate in every effort which is fitted to make our common schools more efficient and permanent. 2. That it is our firm conviction that, to divide the common school funds among religious de nominations for educational purposes is wrong in principle, and hostile to our free institutions and the cause of education. 3. That we will resist all means that may be employed to exclude from the common schools the Bible, which is the chart of our liberties, and inspiration of our civilization. It is worth something to every Methodist preacher and Church member to know pre cisely what the opinion of his Church is on any important practical question. The above discloses that opinion on common schools—that is, a free school system to which the children of the poor as well as of the rich shall be admitted on the same con ditions. The States that have been favored with such a system until its full benefits have been realized, will never consent to give it up. It is only in States where its advantages have nevfer been properly de veloped that it encounters opposition. Methodism stands pledged by the action of its highest council, in all suitable ways, to favor, encourage, defend and maintain the common school system. Why a Bishop in the South. There is one reason why we should have a bishop resident in the South which has not yet been mentioned. Unfortunately for the Church and for the country, the South has not understood the North, and consequently has not duly appreciated it. No amount of descriptive writing or talk ing can make them understand it. It re quires not mere visiting, but residence by the Southerner in the North, before he can come to a realization of the true state of the head and heart of the Northern peo ple. At this distance, through the medium of a partizan press, they see only the worst side of Northern character. Distance lends —if not enchantment—exaggeration to the view. We know of no more prac tical way of removing unfounded prejudices and putting things in their true light than by closer contact, nearer observation, and better acquaintance with parties concerned. The North feel that they are not, and can not be rightly understood until they can be seen and communed with at home and on their own soil. Now what is true of the North in rela tion to the South, is equally true of the South in relation to the North. The real character of the Southern people is as much misunderstood and unappreciated at the North, as is that of the Northern people at the South. This may not be deemed complimentary to the boasted intelligence of the North, but it is nevertheless true. The Yankees are noted theorizers. When they get anew fact they can not rest until it is harmonized into some favorite theory of their own. The trouble is, they do not get all the facts before they frame their hy potheses. Half truths are often worse than lies. The fact is the whole truth, real truth, just as it is in the head, heart, and life of the South, can not be properly and fully obtained except by living among them. The North sees the wrong side of the South, often the worst side, through the descriptive media of visitors and hastily traveled correspondents. They need to see and know both sides, all sides, and under stand fully the surrounding atmosphere. These things the untraveled Northern man can not appreciate, they are so differ ent from the things with which he is famil iar. If the exact facts are fully stated to him, he will not believe them, will not give them proper credence, because he does not properly understand and comprehend them. Not understanding the character of the Southern people, they can not, of course, understand the peculiar difficulties of the work of our Church among them. Its im portance will be as much underrated as its difficulties. We want a bishop to live in the South in order to thoroughly under stand and fully appreciate the Southern people—to know their good qualities as well as their bad ones, and to know, as a bishop needs to know, the merits, the im portance and the real difficulties, as well as advantages, attending our work in this field. We want him to get that most im portant knowledge which only residence with the people and contact with the work can give. Residence in the Northwest, on the Pacific coast, on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains is not so important for under standing the people there as it is in the South. Nearly all the inhabitants of the regions named are originally from the North—are homogeneous with the North and with the men who compose the boards which manage the great Charities of the Church. It is, therefore, not dimcut to make the wants of those localities under stood at New York or Philadelphia. But who shall make the wants of the South ern work fully understood and appreciated at the same great centers of influence? If our representatives go there and state the case as they know it to be, their report will be accepted with many grains of allow ance. Not that they are formally disbe lieved, but allowances will be made for ex cited imagination, for undue local preju dices, and possibly for personal self-inter est. We do not say that any blame can attach to good men who honestly make these abatements. Now what we need is the knowledge and the influence that one of our grave and thoroughly impartial bishops would carry into the councils of our great benevolent societies in the North. A bishop’s report would be deemed impar tial, and would be accepted in full. There is no point in the whole field of Methodism where it is more important to have the right man in the right place than in the South. How can the bishops select the right man unless they understand both the man and the peculiarities of the work ? The importance of this must be evident to every intelligent and reflective mind. The General Conference felt to some extent the necessity. Hence they said one bishop must reside in Atlanta. We want here the aid and sympathy of some great throb bing episcopal heart which can be easily touched with the feelings of our infirmities, and which from personal experience and observation perceives well how to apply the needed counsel and consolation. A bishop thus informed and well qualified would not unwittingly at any time, or in any place, writing or speaking,misrepresent the South ern people or our Southern work in any important particular. Spirit of the Press. Dr. B. K. Pierce, on assuming the chair editorial of Zion’s Herald , July 4th, among other appropriate and excellent things says : The wide circulation, and great ability and power of the daily newspaper, render the task of the conductor of the religious press more difficult. The leading secular papers of the country, and the few undenominational relig ious sheets, have not only an able managing editor each, but a large corps of well-trained assistants connected with them whose pens enjoy no rest, besides an almost unlimited num ber of general writers and correspondents. To assume a seat as a peer beside these powerful tribunes, with such provisions as the limited means of an ordinary circulation will afford, is a work of some temerity. With how much composure and acknowledged success our late predecessor has borne himself in this position, has been readily acknowledged by all his edito rial confreres. Would that his editorial mantle, now that he has assumed Episcopal robes,might fall upon his successor! A Methodist by inheritance, by deliberate choice, by a Church membership of forty years, and by a service in her pulpits of more than thirty, the editor will doubtless instinctively espouse and warmly advocate all her denom inational interests, and stand at proper times in defense of her doctrinal beliefs; but it is not the habit of his mind or life to open unneces sary controversies with his neighbors, holding with equal sincerity different ecclesiastical and doctrinal views. He prefers to urge a positive faith, and that, as far as possible, in harmony with those holding the great cardinal truths of the Bible. It has long been his opinion that the Gospel of Christ is its own best and most effectual apology; and that the truth alone, as it is in Jesus, will save the world. The unan imity of the great body of believers in essential points of faith, and the growing harmony in the evangelical literature of the hour in prac tical measures for the world’s redemption, are among the most significant and encouraging signs of the times. We proffer the right hand of Christian fellowship to “all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.” Wc listened the other day to the opening dis course of a young clergyman before his new audience. There were differences of opinion as to its intellectual merit, but all united in declar ing its one striking virtue; it was short. We abruptly close our formal salutation, to secure at least this commendation upon our introduc tion. The taste of the hour is quite decided in this direction. Elaborate papers are now rele gated to Monthlies, Quarterlies, and to volumes. The secular and religious press are straining to condense, and to express in the fewest and most pregnant sentences, the ideas of the hour. For the golden mean, as far as possible in this respect, we shall strive. With a few extended essays, when the subject requires them, we shall hope to present a body of short, clear, and interesting summaries of the thoughts and facts of the hour, and the usual very rich and instructive contributions of a list of writers at tached to our paper, of which any periodical and its readers may justly be proud. The St. Louis Christian Advocate mani fests a good spirit and, we think, right views in the following paragraph: It is, therefore, in our view, unfortunate that the part of the report relating to church property claims should not have acMHi the proffer of fraternal propositions appropriately go togSI suggest, however, that this provided for in the action to be takenwJß| General Conference. It is a just view, like=" wise, that it may be assumed that the offer of fraternity carries with it, in effect, a moral pledge of settlement of such conflicting claims as incident in the nature of brotherly sentiments to such offer. In the interval of two years before their fraternal messengers shall come before our General Conference, there will be opportunity to add to the force of such moral pledge by exemplification of the principles of equity and Christian charity in the official ad ministration of their Church, and t)y the actual settlement of disputes under the influence and guidance of those principles. It will be remem bered that in the episcopal correspondence in 1869 our bishops proposed to theirs to unite in abatement of these conflicts over church prop erty and other collisions. This may now be done, and we shall look for deeds in confirma tion of earnest protestation of brotherly kind ness. Without entering into specifications, we may noyv assume in general that new aggres sions upon us will not be made, and that exist ing injuries will be redressed, and negotiations conducted in accordance with sentiments of charity and rules of equity as becomes the pro fession and proffer of fraternal intercourse and Christian fellowship. We shall see what we shall see. A correspondent of the Pittsburg Advo cate, Rev. R. A. Caruthers, in the extract below, talks very plainly on the Bishop question, yet he only fairly expresses what is known to be a very deep and general feeling. We do not think it will bo wise for any bishop to trifle with that question : That the General Conference has not con trolled the bishops, in respect to the details of their work, as well as the place of their resi dence, is not to be attributed to the want of power but of will. Legislation does not usually nor properly outrun necessity. The bishops have been slow to take advice, indeed, if we read the past aright. The expressed wish of the General Conference in regard to their resi dences and consequent local influence, has been ignored, and that disregard of advice has prompted the enactmant of a law. The Gen eral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church has assumed to lay its hand authorita tively upon the bishops. “Thus far shalt thou go —and here,” etc, The ark is being touched; where will the end be? The Methodist Episco pal Church of to-day is not the Church of ten weeks ago, nor will it ever be again the Church of our fathers. “Revolutions never go back ward.” The Episcopacy, in a sense it never was before, is put upon its good behavior. That distributing resolution has robbed the po sition of half its glory. That it was felt to be so is very evident from the effort made to dilute it by adding to the Episcopal residences the cities of Syracuse or Buffalo, Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the little country village of Odessa; and the promptness with which it was met and the ring that at tended the tabling of the resolution to amend showed the General Conference to be terribly in earnest. “A word to the wise is sufficient a ready and complete compliance with the wishes of the General Conference in the trifling matter of residence may stave off more decided action by that body having the same right to dismiss as to accept. The New York Methodist responds to the above as follows : No doubt any unreasonable delay of a bishop to remove to his home would be condemned by the Church. Mr. Caruthers seems to assume that the bishops are not doing the very best they can in the circumstances of their position. We presume that they are; still, the sooner they are settled, the better the Church will be satisfied. The intention is that they shall iden tify themselves, as far as possible, with the in terests of the regions where their homes are located. Wito’is @»Mr. Books. Music Books. —Messrs. Hitchcock & Walden advertise some very good |Sabbath-school Hymn and Tune Books in this number of our paper. Schools in want of these things should not fail to address them, 64 Powell Block, At lanta, Ga. Wilderness and Mount, is a neat little volume of religious poetry, by Mrs. Ellen T. H. Harvey. It is well gotten up, printed on good paper, large type, bound in cloth, and il lustrated. Publisher, John Brent, No. 3 Corn hill, Boston. Studies in Poetry and Philosphy is the title of another of Hurd & Houghton’s beauti ful duodecimo publications recently issued at New York. J. C. Sliairp, author of Culture and Religion, must be thanked for this volume, also. He discourses of Wadsworth, the man and the poet; Samuel Taylor Coledridge; Rev. John Keble; and The Moral Motive Power. Those who delight in the study of poetry, phi losophy, and a fine critical sense, will find much interest and profit in studying this volume. Spurgeon has published over a thousand sermons. The ninth volume has recently been issued by Sheldon & Cos., New York. This contains twenty-eight sermons. These ser mons have the same characteristics as his oth ers. They are pointed, pungent, sensational, full of Spurgeonisms—now intensely Calvin istic in doctrine, now thoroughly Armenian in spirit, according as his intellect or his heart is most prominent. They seem designed for im mediate effect, and to bring sinners at once to Christ. Some may call this a fault. It is a pity that all sermons are not more faulty at this point. Periodical*. Peterson’s Ladies’ Magazine for August comes to us, full of beautiful engravings and reading matter for the home circle. This is an excellent standard magazine. Published by C. J. Peterson, 306 Chestnut-st., Philadelphia. “ The Atlanta Medical and Surgical Jour nal,” is a periodical of great value to the phy sician or student, has a corps of able contri butors, contains about sixty-live pages of read ing, and is published by the Plantation Publish ing Company, at $3.00 per annum, and well worth the money. The Ohio Farmer, one of the best agricul tural papers in the country, is full of matter not only interesting, but useful to the farmer— things which it is absolutely necessary for him to know. One of its greatest advantages, how ever, is that it comes out weekly, instead of monthly, so that, in the busy season, the farmer can inform himself what to do, before the in formation he seeks is out of date. George E. Blakely, Publisher, Cleveland. Bfnslc. “Our Next President, Horace Greeley’s March.” as played by Grafulla’s Seventh Regi ment Band, comes to us from Horace Waters, 481 Broadway, New York. This is a pretty ffece of piano music for the campaign, and >ears on its face the picture of “Honest Horace.” From the Colleges. has conferred the degree y Bowman. has conferred D. I). on RevnpeterJMßßßtt, President of Marysvile College, Tennessee. Rev. E. Rowley, D.D., has been reelected Piesident of De Pauw College, New Albany, Indiana. Westfield College, 111., has conferred D. D. on Rev. David Edwards, Lexington, 111., and Rev. T. De WittTalmadge, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. J. A. M’Cauley, D.D., of Washington City, D. C., has been elected President of Dick inson College. President Merrick, of Ohio Wesleyan Uni versity, has presented his resignation, to take effect June, 1873. He has already held that office twelve years. The Garrett Biblical Institute lost, by the Chi cago fire, SIOO,OOO. Its catalogue contains the names of one hundred and eighty-three stu dents. Graduates this year, thirteen. The Northwestern University, at Evanston, 111., has a property valued at $1,268,860, of which $483,220 is productive capital. Receipts last year, $29,000; expenses, $31,300. The Smithsonian Institute, at Washington, has been presented with the choice collection of geological specimens heretofore kept by the government in the land office. The gift is worth over SIO,OOO. The Baltimore Female College, at its last commencement, conferred the degree of A.M. on Miss M. E. Taneyhill, late teacher of Mental Philosophy at Dickinson Seminary. The lady is a daughter of one of our superannuated preachers of Central Pennsylvania Conference. Tho Indiana State University has conferred the degree of D.D. on Rev. W. R. Goodwin, LL.D. on Professor G. W. Hoss, of Kansas, on Robert Dale Owen, of New Yfork city, on Hon. J. S. Rollins, of Missouri, and on R. Young, of Scotland. Brown University has conferred D. D. on Rev. Lyman Jewett, Missionary to India, LL.D. on Rev. Ezekiel Robinson, President elect of Brown University, Rt. Rev. Benj. Bosworth Smith, Bishop of Kentucky, and Hon. Henry Bowen Anthony, of Providence. The Northwestern of last week says: During the Commencement exercises at Northwestern University, it was announced that President Haven had just received a liberal offer of five thousand dollars per annum from the University at Syracuse, N. Y., if he would at once assume the presidency of that institution. Dr. Haven immediately telegraphed that no educational institution in America could induce him to leave the Northwestern University. Personal. Edwin Booth, the great tragedian, is a regu lar and punctual church-goer. Gustave Dore, the famous artist of modern days, visits this country next year for the_first time. Judge M’Cunu, lately impeached by the New York Legislature, died of a broken heart the other day. Rev. li. T. Winkler, pastor of a Charles ton Baptist Church, resigns his charge to go to another field. Miss Clara Louise Kellog, the American prima dona, sang in Buckingham Palace re cently. T. W. Parsons, well known as an author, and the husband of “ Fanny Fern,” is residing in London. Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, one of the most popular Baptist preachers of England, visits this country about the 20th of August. Sophia, of Bavaria, mother of the Emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph, and of the late Maximilian, of Mexican notoriety, is dead. General Sherman has been reelected Presi dent of the Army of the Tennessee, which meets next year in Toledo. Bishop Pierce, of Georgia, is in his sixty second year, yet his father is able to preach two Sermons every Sabbath. Dr. Calvin Cutler, author of Cutler’s Physi ology, died recently at his home in Warren, Mass., after an illness of only two hours. George Francis Train recently said that he believed himself “to be the most gigantic and remarkable fraud the world had ever seen.” Rev. W. H. Milburn, “the blind preacher,” is in New Orleans. His sight is entirely lost, but health excellent, and he preaches regularly. Miss Sarah Colt, who died in Patterson, N. J., last month, at the ago of ninety years, is said to have organized the first Sunday-school in the United States. Christine Nilsson is to marry M. August Rowzau in July, 'fhey have been “loving” for seventeen years, but have been engaged only about twelve months. Christine Nilsson, the sweet Swedish singer, carries back to Europe, as the product of her singing in America, the snug little sum of $255,000. “Music hath more than charms.” Gen. Easley, of South Carolina, once famous as a Confederate officer, died in this city very suddenly on the 11th inst. His remains were escorted to the depot by the Freemasons. Bishop Wiley left Cincinnati for Boston, Monday, July 15th, with a view to arranging for removal to that city as his future place of residence. Dr. Dashiell, having completed his!work as President of Dickinson College, returned to New York on Saturday morning, July 6th, and immediately entered upon the duties of his secretaryship at our Mission Rooms. H. P. Watson, brother-in-law of the former Secretary of War, and himself the Assistant Secretary of War during the “ late unpleasant ness,” was elected to the presidency of the Erie. Bishop Peck’s father and mother were tho parents of five, and the grand-parents of ten ministers. Fourteen of these belong to our denomination, one to the Baptist Church, and all are living. Rev. Dr. Wild, formerly of the Canada Meth odist Episcopal Church, and delegate from there to our General Conference, takes the Seventh Avenue Church, Brooklyn, recently vacated by Bishop Andrews. One of our correspondents, brother Cree, in company with his fellow-commissioner, Brunot, left Washington lately on an extended peace expedition among the Indians along the North ern Pacific Railroad. Bond, the fellow who, unprovoked, assaulted Rev. J. J. Thompson, in Cincinnati, recentlv, has been locked up, in default of $3,000 bail. The injured man has sufficiently recovered from the effects of the blow received to appear against him. Mr. Bergli, the great “prevention-of-cruelty to-animals-man,” of New York, is reported by the Board of Health for keeping filthy tene ment houses. In one of them a sewer has leaked into the cellar for years. He had bet ter practice prevention of cruelty to men here after. Mrs. M. L. Abbe, of Albany, New York, has given two thousand dollars as a centennial do nation toward the erection of the “ Livingston Memorial Church,” in Maquon, Illinois, a vil lage of considerable age and size, but without any church edifice. So says the Christian In telligencer. Dr, T. L. Cuyler, now in Europe, writes to the New York Evangelist , and says that “in all addresses made in each of the religious bodies, no name has called forth such universal ap plause as the honored and beloved name of Dr. Charles Hodge. His new volumes of system atic theology are circulated widely, and a deep desire is expressed on all sides that he should soon visit Scotland. He is universally pro nounced here the first of living theologians.’