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art faolma (Kjjristiaii kcatt RALEIGH, N. C. -tl THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1857. Editor's Office: at his residence, one square north east from the Capitol. JBay Subscribers whose papers have a cross mark on them, are thereby in formed that their subscription year is about to expire; and are respectfully reqvested to renew by forwarding $1.50 to this office immediately. TheX. C. Christian Advocate will hereafter he sent to none, except to those who have PAID IN ADVANCE. Session of N. C Conference, Dec- 2, Ministers and District Stewards will be received at the railroad landing, opposite Griswold's Hotel, and appointed to their several places of entertainment. Members ef Conference who expect to be accompan ied by their wives, will please communi catewith ;lN S.LONG. Go!dsboro Oct. 23, 1857. Committee of Examination Course of Study. For the convenience of the committees, aed of the preachers to be examined by them at the approaching session of the N. C. Conference, we again publish the list of the committee, and also of the Course of study. The members of the classes are expected to meet the Committees of Exam ination in Goldsboro' on Tuesday, Dec. 1st, atf) o'clock, A. M. Course of Study. First Year : The Bible, as to doctrine, with reference to Wesley's Notes, the Bi ble Dictionaries, Commentaries of our own publication, Gaston's Collection of Sacred Scriptures; Wesley's Sermons; Fletcher's Appeal; English Grammar, and ComposU tion. Committe: L L. Hendren, J. Tillett, J. W. Tucker. Second Year : The Bible, as to ordi nances and sacraments. Reference books as above. Watson's Apology; Fletcher's Christian Perfection; Methodist Discipline; Geography and Composition. Committee j J. Jamieson, J. II. Wheel er, T. P. Ricaud. Third Year : The Bible, as to History and Chronology. Reference books the same. The first and second parts of Wat son's Institutes; Gregory's (or Ruter's) Church History ; Written Essay or Ser mon. Committee: R. T. Heflin, N. F. Reid, Wm. Carter. Fourth Year : The Bible Generally. Geography, and a review of the three pre. ceding years; third and fourth parts of Watson's Institutes : Powel on Apostolical Succession; Logic; General History (Tyt kr'e) Written Essay or Sermon. Committee.; C. F. Deems, T. S. Camp bell, W. E. Pell. Hormal College The People JffoTing. Last week we published the proposition of a layman to be one of one hundred, to give Jive hundred dollars to Normal Col lege. Another friend of Education in North Carolina, in a private letter just received, writes, "You are hereby authorize 1 to say that a friend will be two of one hundred, to give five hundred dollars, each, to en dow Normal College, provided the Confer ence will endorse and sustain themeasure." The Conference has adopted the College, and by contract with the Trustees, holds an absolute control over it. It now be comes necessary for the Conference offiicial- ly to declare whether it will give "aid and omfort" to this spontaneous movement of the people to endow the first Methodist College in North Carolina. It is not for us to anticipate, or dictate the action of the Conference ; albeit, as n member of that body, we say to the friends of Methodist Education who pro pose to raise fifty thousand dollars for Normal, "Go ahead ! We are with you." Who will next respond to the liberal prop osition? We pause te hear the people speak out in behalf of this enterprise. Pay the Preacher. Saith the Apostle, "They that preach the gospel should live of the gospel The laborer is worthy of his hire." If any circuit or station have not yet made up and paid the amount due the preacher, according to the Discipline, it is not yet too late for the discharge of this duty. All that we would say in the prem ises, is presented in an article on the fourth page, over the signature of ' Pilgrim," to which the reader is referred. Southern Commercial Convention. We have received and examined a copy of the official report of the proceedings of the Southern Commercial Convention, which assembled at Knoxville, Tenn. on the 10th of last Avgnst. There seems to have been in that body, an abundance of patriotism and zeal for the South ; and in future Conventions of the kind, a large infusion of the practical bnsiness talent of the country, might warrant the hope of valuable results. School Girls. Onee upon a time there were bevies of school girls. There are none now ; they are all young ladies. But the school girls of former days were so true to their moth ers, so inartificial and docile, that, boy as we were, we could not but love them. And we confess that the partiality of early years, chastened by lapse of time, is invol untarily transferred to their modern suc cessors, the young ladies who throng our seminaries of learning. In some respects the opportunities of the boarding school miss of to day are better, and in other respects, worse, than were those enjoyed by their mothers. They have pianos and guitars, with Ger mans and Frenchmen to teach them how to evoke the "concord of sweet sounds." They have teachers of drawing and teach, ers of painting; teachers of chemistry and botany; teachers of logic and rhetoric; teachers of mathematics, and, some of them, teachers of dancing. They have academies, and seminaries, an'V colleges, all for their special behoof and iadjujg, ..uu iu audi iccoinpiisnments nj tJaTthe daughters of the greatest peoplon earth, in the brightest period of recorded time. These are inestimable advantages, (ex cept the dancing master,) if the girls we beg pardon the young ladies, will improve them. The multiplication of labor-saving machinery has superseded the old tedious methods of household ir.iustrj ; and added greatly to the comparaiive leisure which ladies may devote to literature. But, per contra, the young ladies of the present day are, in some other respects, less favored than their mothers were. The parents of these mothers taught them the essential lesson of parental obe dience; but now there is an alarming re laxation of parental discipline, which sub stitutes persuasion for authority, and indul gence for submission. The mothers of these girls young ladies, we should have said were early taught the indispensable duty of industry, of regular, useful occupa tion ; but their daughters are permitted to be idle, or industrious only in novel read ing. "The old folks at home" were taught to make their money before they spent it, and to keep within their means, having re gard to their true position in soeiety, in all their expenditures. The young ladies of ten years old and upward, are left to infer that the chief use of parents is to pay bills, and the end for which they were created is to follow the fashions, without regard to sense, to taste, or to cost. These are evils to society, and to poster ity. And they are serious evils to the school girls of the present day. The great est excellencies of female character may be traced to the influence of a few general principles of early culture obedience to parents industry devotion to duty piety. Piety is the crowning excellency of wo man and of human nature; and it brings in its train all the beauties and graces, so appropriate to her nature and her sphere. Home is her empire; religion, the religion of the cross of the Bible, is the secret of her happiness and of her usefulness. A life of fashion is, to woman, an eternal woe and failure. A life of self-denying piety is, to her, as to all, an experience of blessed ness. In view of the peculiar perils which be set and allure the young ladies at school, we beg leave to offer them some counsel, which, if not welcome, is nevertheless wholesome. 1. Be studious; redeem the time; im prove the advantages for mental culture to the utmost. Be content to be school girls; do not dream of entering upon the carpet until school days are over. 2. Put down that novel ; you have no business with it ; it will soften your head, and corrupt your heart ; if there is ever a time for such reading, that time is not yet ; if the school to which you go, has no better sense, and no more sense of religious obligation, than to store its library with such books as can only tend to subvert all the ends of education, do you show that ysu are worthy of such a mother as you have at home, or in heaven, by resisting the allurement, and giving all the energies of your young heart and soul to the great work of intellectual and moral culture. 3. Be punctual in every duty, and strive to be first in every class. Remember, you are sent to school at great expense, by pa rents who loving you better than life, would have you acquire the advantages of education, without forfeiting the domestic virtues and affections, appropriate to home. 4. Act each day as if your parents saw you; and remember that God does see you You will meet some very silly creatures at school, who will be very affectionate, and will strive to wis you to their own ways of idleness and folly. Be quiet, but firm in resisting their allurements, and in adhering to the dictates of common sense, of duty and of religion. Be content to incur their scorn, that you may meet the approbation cf your parents and your God. 5. Be a christian. Obey the gospel ; search the scriptures; pray in secret; at tend with gratef al punctuality upon all the means of grace. If you will act upon this counsel, your kindred at home will bless you when you return to them. Your life will be useful, and therefore truly happy ; and you will remember the days spent at school as ammg the most'precious blessings of your heavenly Father. Ministerial Fellowship. The bonds of union which bind a Con ference of Methodist itinerant ministers together, are closer and stronger than those which unite any other body of men on earth. They preach the same doctrines ; they eadure the same hardships and toils ; they share the same joys, strive together for the same end, and expect to locate in graves among strangers, and rest in the same hea ven. As the bonds of this union are sacred, so the motives to preserve it are as solemn as any which can influence the minds of good men. The peace of the church, the safety of their flocks, the conversion of sinners, the dearest, deepest interests of the church of God, demand union among his ministers A "diversity of gifts" will occasion differ ences of opinion as to questions of policy and expediency; but "the same spirit of love," will tolerate these differences, and make tr? ministers of hrisi. "of one heart and mitV' in the great -nxnK of spreading scriptural holiness over these lands. When preachers from neighboring cir cuits meet and labor together in revivals, how sweet the fellowship they enjoy How strong and pure the flame of love that burns upon their own hearts, while they mingle in the services of the pulpit and the altar ! We have often wondered why it is that all the Conferences, during their annual sessions, do not set apart a time for a Con ference Love Feast. We have been surprised also that the sacrament of the Lord's Supper is never administered to the Conference, at its an nual meeting. Preachers are but men, with the infirmities and necessities which pertain to man. The important business of Conference, necessary to be transacted in a short time, engrosses the minds and hearts of the members. Differences of opinion as to measures will unavoidably arise ; and the enemy of souls may have the best occasion to weaken the bonds of union among the ministers, and thus relax the moral energies of the whole church. A Conference Love Feast, after the manner of Methodism in olden times ; a solemn communion of all its members in the sac rament of the Lord's Supper ; in drawing them nearer to God, would lift them above the cares of the hour, and the differences of the session, and make them one in heart and purpose, to labor as "true yoke-fellows in the gospel." The old practice of the communion at Conference is recognized, if not enjoined, in the office for the ordination of .Deacons : "Ihen shall the Bishop proceed in the com munion, and all that are ordained shall re ceive the holy communion." Nevertheless our good Bishops have failed to administer the communion, even to those who are or dained deacons. Now, we believe the blessing of God would be upon these obser vances, were they attended to at our Con ferences. We reproduce the following, from the pen of Rev. Samuel Bradburn, which was so highly prized by the English Method ists, that they inserted it on the minutes of Conference for 1787. It is applicable to the Conferences of the present day : "1. Be tender of the character of every brother, but keep at the utmost distance from cou'jienancu sin. 2. Say nothing in the conference but what is strictly necessary, and to the point. 3. If accused by any one, remember re crimination is no acquittance ; therefore avoid it. 4. Beware of impatience of contradic tion ; be firm, but be open to conviction. The cause is God's, and He needs not the hands of an Uzzah to support His ark. The being too tenacious of a point because you brought it forward is only feedingself. Be quite easy if a majority decide agp.inst you. 5. Use no craft or guile to gain any point. Genuine simplicity will always support itself. But there is no need to say always all you know or think. 6. Beware of too much confidence in your own abilities, and never despise an opponent. 7. Avoid all lightness of spirit, even what would be innocent anywhere else. 4 Thou God seest me.' " N. C University Magazine. The number for November is received. Table of contents : 1. Who commanded at Moore's Creek Bridge 1 2. The Minstrel's Curse, 3. Zibes at the Ball, 4. Reverie of a Senior, 5. The Turk's Bride, A Tale, 6. Frederick the Great, 7. Lines on the Death of a Favorite Mocking Bird, 8. Legend of the Musical Waters, P. Extracts from a Journal, 10. Editorial Table. Price $2 a year in advance. Address Editors, Chapel Hill. Lenoir Institute. We arc pleased to learn by a private letter from a gentleman residing in the vi cinity, that Lenoir Institute is doing well. New students continue to arrive ; and there has not been a single case of serious illness, among more than fifty hoarding pupils, from various sections of the State. Death of Rev. A- F. Harris. With peculiar sadness we record the death of Rev. A. F. Harris, a member of the N. C. Conference. Bro. Harris wa a-tfssof deep piety, and most entire devotion to his Master's cause. He had also for the past two years, exhibited a capacity for increasing useful ness in the church of God. The following letter will be read with mournful interest by his brethren of the Conference, and a wide circle of friends. Thomasville, Nov. 16th, 1857. Bro. Heflin : Anotler workman has fallen. The Rev. A. F. larris, of the N. C. Conference, has gone. He died quiet ly, peacefully, and triumphantly, at his father's residence in Ttamasville, David, son county, on Thursday evening the 12th inst., after an illness of iboul ten days. He had just closed another year of toil and privation, on Cape Hattiras, and had gone to his father's home to sjdd a short time with his acred nareiits fc&gConference. - On Tu'esdav the Slzhi had an attack of Pneumonia, which as probably caused by cold taken on his war from the Cape to this place. From the irst of his attack, he appeared to be presetted with the thought, that his sickness ws unto death ; and so expressed himself to bis wife . And when the hour of hi3 depature arrived, he was ready with " lamp timmed and burning, and oil in the vessel ith the lamp." Im mediately before his diparture, he saw that he was going, and saidto his weeping wife who stood at his bedtijie, " Let me go, let me go ; give me up, gfe me up." II then requested his mother jb change his position in bed, and with hin to repeat the Lord's Prayer, which he coracenced in an audible voice, but never completed. Before it was dote, his voice was htshed in death, and his spirit was teir? u' u heaven." Thus died an humbb and devoted man of God, who had fully temonstrated in his life, the truth and the pwer of the gospel. He was born in Moatgoniery county, April 15th, 1818; was converted in his twelfth year, and joined the N. C. Confer-!that ence in Decemier, 1841. His first ap-il,sm ana ne naa tne auaacny, mieiy in pointment was Mtcksville Circuit. After j Chatham to declare that Wesley and Ben traveling two years his health failed, and ! son both affirmed exclusive immersion ! he located. He m9 re-admitted at the ! Party zeal has occasioned Mr. Purify to Louisbarg Conference in November, 1852, 1 fal1 into thc most 8larinS sJstem of garbling and continued to labor until death. ttut he j and suppression of the testimony of Pedo hasgone, and surely au angel's invuible ! baPtist writers' with ,hc F'urPose of per arm was underneath his head; for that TCrtini? thcm into the support of his own beautiful smile which shone upon his face, I wea cause. had more of heaven's sweetness and purity j Mr- Yfj will excuseus for saying that, than aiKrl.t on earth Wo Wv.lr fm- hJa'lhis absurdities are not worth the ink and , . . , j afflicted wi ife and chWrrp, the prayers and s of the Church. sympathie S. D. Adams. FORMALISM. Men are prone to trust bi the forms of; "" " religion ; to attach a superstitious rever- j Tor the X. C. Christian Advocate, ence and efficacy to the mire ceremonials TiiS Baptist Church of New-Berne, of the church; and to fe their hope of j R T jj . Jn just;ce tQ heaven, and their profession of acceptance mygelf? through your coumng I re withGod, upon the obstrvance of what ; qUested the enlightened Baptist Church they regard as the ordinances of the gospel, j of New-Berne to publish the entire pro- To all errors of this kird, the doctrine ceedings the charges, specification, of justification hy faith ii Christ is fatal ; ; the number of members comprising the it explodes them : it sweens them awav. 'unanimous vote, &c, in my "Church It sets aside the priest, an! makes the earth ciaiiy ot tnem wnicn Deieve. He who tiusts in forns, walks by sight; he who believes in Christ, 4 walks by faith." The formalist denies " the fellow - ship of the saints" to all who do not trim their professions by his pattern ; the vota ry of Christ by faith, is filled with love to all, and like his LorJ, embraces all as brethren, who believe and love the Saviour. Formalism brings the spirits of men un der the yoke of bondage to the ceremonial law. Faith brings ia the Spirit; and " where the Spirit of he Lord is, there is liberty." Attachment to forms weakens, if it does not prevent the grasp of faith upon Christ, and often poisons the soul with the bitterness of bigotry ; hut simple faith fills the heart with peace, and charity, and joy. A religion of forrrsajjpeals to the out ward senses andj" y?ilue3 of men, and when allieFT4rpver and fashion and prejudice, may be propagated over nations for centuries; but the religion of life and Holy Ghost power, appeals to the heart and conscience, and .without adequate worldly applianees, it sweeps on in its victorious course, saving men, and bringing in the kingdom of God upon the ruins of effete ecclesiasticism. The peace, the influence, the salvation of men from sin, are not measured by their attachment to forms and ceremonials of pie- ty. The measure of pure,simple, naked faith in Christ is the index to the moral power, the peace and joy of Christians. To a strong faith, three things are necessary ; a knowl edge of the word of God, prayer for the gift of his Spirit, and prompt unreserved obedience tojys teachings. Therefore, if you would be more than a senseless auto maton of dead ceremonials; if you would be a living, joyful, victorious heir of hea ven, 44 search the scriptures pray without ceasing obey the gospel." Fatal Accident. A young man by the name of Richard Bowling, whilst out squir rel hunting, on Thursday last, not far from town, was killed by the accidental dis charge of his gun, the whole contents en tering his head. Fay. Argvs. a temple of worship ; it kings the soul to .pruoaoy never u tu uo. xn your iabb r, , A, , v . , issue, they published a tew scraps, (jrod, through one Meduror, omnipresent, ' , r 1 , , , r. . lt ! which, when analyzed, amounts to ever-living, tfceSnviovr of all men, espe- j preiudice" "Preiudicial" !! That Case of Baptism. A correspondent of the Recorder has repeatedly charged that we have com mitted a rebaptisru. When he makes this charge, he is aware of its falsehood; ho well knows that the subject of that bap tism had never been validly baptized be fore, either according to Baptist or Metho distic principles of Biblical interpretation. He is aware that by the Baptism of that subject, we neither questioned the authori ty of any other minister, nor the validity of affusion. He also knows that the only point involved in that case, was that a per son who is neither a believer, a penitent, nor an infant, is not fit for baptism. He is likewise aware that any further explanation of this case would involve the unauthorized publication of the private affairs of the person referred to. And yet he affects ignor ance of facts with which he is familiar, and distorts them to the support of issues which he knows to be irrelevant. Our readers will pardon and sanction the unwonted tone of severity, so richly merited by the man referred to, when we inform them that he persists in an effort to drag the private affairs of a lady before the public, without any cause or provocation, whatever. He who will thus offend the delicacy and intrude upon the rights of a defenceless widow, with no son nor brothe.1 to punish the impertinence, finds his appro priate reward in the contempt and scorn of good men. ., Bev. G. W. Purify. This gentleman labors under a strange hallucination. lie believes that the Baptist Church is the only Church of Christ on earth, and that he is its champion. This latter delusion leads him to devote his leis ure to a course of systematic misrepresenta tion of the Methodist Church. In the last Recorder, he reveals the discovery that John Wesley and the Meth dist Discipline are in favor of Baptismal Regeneration I Furthennore,heis going about,preacbing same olJ foded sermon on Bap- Wer il would. cost' to writ? t But when he is disposed t en them down. ter into an i oral discussion, wo ni, ins service ii j woUM tie an agreeable relaxation, to repeat. i the lesson we gave him at ,'Emmaus, by which he profited, for a season. trial " This they h:1 ve not doncJ and j N ow si fact3 are stubborn things," and srenerally tell their own story. If j one of the members of the enlightened 1 New-Berne Baptist Church is allowed ! to fr a large amount, when times were very different from the present, and continue to enjoy all the luxuries of life, and to engage in two or more fisticuffs ; if a second has been publicly denounced as dishonest; if a third has been publicly styled a story-teller ; if a fourth has been publicly known to fish all day Sunday, and also to whip his wife, she being a member of the Baptist Church; if all these are allowed to remain in the enlightened N. B. Church unmolested, because they be lieve "Baby sprinkling to be a sin," pray tell us for what was I expelled, against whom the learned "TRIO" could write nothing but PREJUDI CIAL, exeept that I did not "believe Baby sprinkling to be a sin." Why not be candid, and state to the public what the chairman of the learn ed trio stated to me, "It is heresy you are charqed with ! You don't believe BABY SPRINKLING is a 8 in" ! ! ! And if this bo what is meant by the "Preaching, doctrine and ordinance" of the enlightened N. B. Church, then like the unintelligent Methodists, I was ignorant of their " Faith and order," which should have excited their pity, instead of their 44 prejudicial" "prejudice" ! I am not lamenting my expulsion from the "enlightened N. B. Church," very far from it; and all that I desire is that "judgement" may be placed "to the line, and righteousness to the plummet" in my case, then I will be done ; but until then, by your permisi sion, Mr. Editor, I may appear again, being a little more explicit. EXPELLED MEMBER. A Friend of the Poor. At the particular request of some of the friends of suffering humanity, the Rev. John Ilersey of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has consented to spend the approaching winter in Balti more, in the good work of visiting and ad ministering to the spiritual and temporal wants of the poor in the western and south western societies of that city, 7' 7 7.. ...... ... "77 .7 . 1 1 i. REVIVALS. Forsythe Circuit; Nov. 12. Bro Heflin : You may tell the readers of the Advocate, that we have lately bad an excellent meeting at Antioch, which re sulted in 13 conversions aud 16 accessions to the church. We have had upwards of 130 converts on this circuit. To God be all the praise. S. II. Helsaijeck. Fayetteville Circuit, Nov. 9. Bro. Heflin : We commenced a meet ing at St. Andrews, on Saturday the 31st of October, which was protracted from day to day, until Sunday night the 8th of Nov. During which time, the meeting was kept up day and night. I have been in many revivals, but never did my eyes behold, or heart witness such a time as this. Metho dists, Baptists and Presbyterians, all seem ed to forget names, and went manfully io work for the good of the cause, the pros perity of the church, and the glory of God. Such universal hospitality manifested by the community, I scarcely ever found. Every man's door was thrown open, while their hearts, apparently, were as large as the world. The following brethren were present, and worked like true ministers of God. James Cane, Thomas McRae and Richard R. Dunkley, all local ministers of our church, and faithful men of God. Bro. Nicholson was also with us two days and preached in his usual manner, plain, pointed and conclusive. Indeed, this makes the sixth time he baa visited this circuit. It is confidently believed that there were no less than 100 conversions. About 70, colored and white, joined thc church, borne 2.00 in all, have joined dur ing the present year. To God be all the praise. M. N. Taylor. , MISCELLANY. Melancholy and Fatal Acciiext. We ! learn by the messenger of Adams & CVs Kx- ni'ns tli.'it on Thiirmlnv afternoon l:st I'jiiiI ' Sparrow, of r'ranklmton, (tonneily ot .i-w- bern,) aged about li 3-ears, came to his death under very distressing circumstances, lie was out n-unnins in the vicinity of his home, and feeling tired stopped to rest. In laying down Ins loaded gun, he acclentally struck the hammer against a log, which caused the Piece to explode and lodge the entire contents in his forehead, shattering his skull dreadful ly and causing instantaneous death. The de ceased was a. stepson of the liev. T. Ii. James Standard. Dancing. The Watchman and Evan-! gelist says : 4 We never saw a sensible man dan ce in our life; and never expect to if! we live a thousand year.' 4A Traveler,' in the Southern Literary Messenger, states j that no personage of the higher classes in j Siam is ever guilty of dancing for himself; but all have it done for them by their slaves, j I Warning to Snvff Dippers. A beautiful and otherwise highly accomplished young lady, of New York, died recently from the effects of the pernicious and disgusting practice of snuff dipping. She had become so addicted to the habit that her lungs were literally stopped up with the vile compound, and respiration being stopped, death en sued. JiCt snuli dippers make a note. n.ia mui a uom.. Mohammed's Coat. Rev. Dr Schaufller, for the last twenty-five years missionary at Constantinople,in several of his public ad- dresses since his late arrival in this coun- try, has spoken of the general belief which prevails among the Turks, that their reli- sion has closed its mission, and stated the fact that the creen coat of Mohammed, which is the sacred banner of Mohamme danism, had disappeared from Constanti nople. This article is believed by every true Mohammedan to have been woven iu heaven, and brought to Mohammed by the angel Gabriel; and it is also an article of belief, that when the course of Islaniism is to terminate, the angel will again descend, and re-tnke it to heaven. For centuries it has been guarded with the greatest care,io a particular mosque iu Constantinople. Last spring it mysteriously disappeared. Price of Pork. The Salem (Va) Regis-1 session of the city. Great numbers of tb tcr savs that no offers are made in Roanoke mutineers escaped, and among theiu were county for hogs over i?G a 87. The Wyth- the King of Delhi aud h.s two sous. Filty ville Telegraph says : I British offers wcic killed. Geo. ilave- We have heard of engagements being ' lock had started to raise the scigj of Luck made in thi place at 87,50, and sjiuc as now. Fours weio eutertamed of a new high as S7, for delivery in December; but . outbreak at Assard. ... we think the price will fall below the first Tho news from the Bombay Presidency mentioned figure. About 85,50, we are of ! was favorable, although a few cases of dis opinion will be tho average. There U said ! satisfaction had occurred, to be a great deal of corn in tho country ! A serious plot had been discovered to that is fit for nothing else but to fatten hogs, j murder the Europeans at Barrach.ee, but In this county, at least one-third of thc it wa3 thwarted. corn crop is said to be one of this kind. J"rd Ouselcy goes as Special MiuUcr This, we think, will have a tendency to reduce the price of pork much below what holders are at present asking. Ecclesiastical Definitions. A Dutch re formed clergyman and a High Church Epis copalian minister were conversing together one day in the street, when a Baptist preacher,famous for jests approached them. He laid his hand familiarly on thc shoulder of the Dutch Reformer, remarking 4 Here is the Gospel !' and then placing the other hand on the shoulder of the Episcopalian, he observed 'and here the Law !' The Episcopalian pointed at the Baptist, and responded 4And there is the Apocrypha between the two !' The Baptist, coolly walking on observed 4Domine, I owe you one !' All of the Same Lira. A Goolc JoJcc. A Prussian Journal of the Lower Rhine tells a very good story of a religious com munity thereon, who, appreciating the long and able services of their faithful minister, unanimously resolved r.s a testimonial of the same, to present him this year of a bounti ful vintage, each with a bottle of white wine. The minister was of course, duly sensitive to this delicate tribute of love and affection, as well as pretty proud of it, as evidence that his ministry had not been al together in vain, and at considerable ex pense, prepared in his cellar a huge orna mented cask, into wtmb, on the appointed day, appeared every member of his flock, and emptied his bottle. But what was the surprise of the minister, as well as tbegen erous donors, on tasting from the now overflowing cask, to find that it was not wine but water! A strange thins, certainly, and of which we have no other explanation than this, that every member of the society was of the same idea, that one bottle of water would not be noticed in a wholo cask of wine, Debt of Virginia. It appears from n statement of thc Auditor of Virginia that the actual public debt of the State on the first of October was 827,482,915 C3. Massacred. Among thc unfortunate victims who perished in the massacre at Cawnpore, were four Roman Catholic cler gyman. They were put to death with great barbarities. Their chapel also was disman tled and partially demolished. Prohibit ion. Gen. S. F. Cary, writing from College Hill, Ohio, under date of thc 7th inst, to a gentleman of Charleston, says : "1 have just returned from a tour through New England. I have passed through Vermont and New Hampshire, and, upon diligent inquiry, I could not ascertain that a single open grogshop existed in either of these States. Drinking liquor is unpopu lar, and selling it is regarded as a crime. Prohibition works like a harm even in the North." LATE NEWS. From Europe. Delhi Captured ! COTTON AND BREADSTUITS I'ECLINED ! New York, Nov. 13. Tho Arabia has arrived with Liverpool dates to October 31st. Delhi bad been stormed and captured. The King of Delhi escaped. The British loss is only G00. No quarter was givcu to the men, but the women and children were spared. Gen. Ilavelock was at Cawnpore, and had been conv.dcraUy reinforced The gar rison at Luckuow btill gallantly held out. Considerable rutnfurccmcuU had arrived at Calcutta. Heavy failures at Liverpool are report ed. The Borough Bank had suspoudeJ. iren. vavignac, oi 1 ranee, is uo tnorr, I "aviiig u.eu very nuuueniy j The Spanish Miuistry had been organ- j ized. i The Prince of Pru-i:i had undertaken : tJ conduct pul)jic affair5 Th(J ezhh of ; tUe bowt.vcr was improviu?. , T . . .' . ,r . , , j . i Le dec Uous had resulted largely in iavor 01 t'.e iiDcrais. More failures ha I occurred it Vienna ; but the worst of tho crisis, it m believed, is over. Money U reported as uctivo and unchanged. ,-w-rt. 1 hc Al?b,a rm-'hl out 1,OUO,000 m sFcie. Sir (,ore Oucley is among her pacnRer. , At London, ou Saturday, the lst, fund clos,eJ at an advauco of three quarter. unJf tjc influence of the American new 1 lc lo"- cruw, it u b,hevod, has been passed. 1 here is unusual demand for money at easier rates, Large transactions ia ll'.inoii Central Railroad stock took place Friday atiinprov- ed prices. COMMERCIAL, Liverpool, Oct. 31. Sales of cotton du ring the week amounted to 44,000 bales. Quotations irregular and nominal. Tho has Acy,aeA frtm. ,.f ,I,r.. ! quarters. Ihe estniiHtt-u nak of Friday ! were 1,000 bales. Holders demanding an j advance. Advices from Manchcstit ttI)fa. j vorablc. ! Flour declined, and very dull. Caikj j '2-1 a 2$ ; Baltimore and Philadelphia '10 K O"; "mo hj a 01. v ucai uuu uuu uo clincd from 4d. to Cd. Corn declined Gd. Provisions very dull. Sugar heavy and dec'ined from one to a halt shilling. Spir its turpentine dull at 372 a 38. IWin dull at 4s. a is. Cd. Monetary difficulties on decline. Amer ican hccunties unsettled, but tlowu with ! an improved tendency. Consolg h9J. FUKTUKll BY Till: AllABIA I The )iiti.-h troops assaulted Delhi on the 11th of September, and effected a lodgemennt after six days obstinate rrsia tauce. Ou the 20th they had entire non- Central America. I A 11 .rpain, uen. .rn riucs has becu appoint- I cd Mioisicr of War and lVciJint of tho j Council, 31 Mon, Minister of l'inanco ; M. Do La Rosj, Minister ofroreign Af fai rs. The sloop of War Portsmouth had nailed for Japan. The Levant and Sau Jaciato were at Shangbae. The bliK-kade of Canton river was strict ly maintained. Teas bad considerably advanced at Hong Kong. The bullion in the Bank of England had decreased duriug tho week 104,01)0. The ship William Chase, from Liver pool, bound to Charleston, was beached in Voughal Bay ou thc 3Uth. From the London Times. J The Fall of Delhi Aspect of Affairs in India. The great news from India hardly seems to admit of analysis or discus sion. Delhi, the famous city and ar senal on which all thoughts Have been fixed for months, has fallen, and tho rebellion of thc Sepoys has received its deathblow. In presence of this great event everything else appears small and trifling. Although the in telligence by the present mail is fuller tharf usual, it seems dwarfed by tho interest which attaches to this military exploit. Delhi was assaulted on tho morning of the 14 th of September. The attack was made in four columns of which one, composed of thc Cash' mere Contingent, sent to our assia tance by the late Gholab Singh, waft repulsed. The others, however, ivcrQ successful. An entrance was effected at the Cashmere gate, to the north of thc city. An advance was made along o
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