Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-06-01
MISCELLANEOUS READING.

! 0. S. PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL Assembly.
1t appears from the annual report on theo-
logical seminaries, that there have been ad-
ded to the library of Princeton College 265
volumes; whole number Of volumes in libra:
ry 10, 10. With regard to the erection Of
a new building, the committee was author
lied to proceed with its erection whenever
the bequest of the late George Brown. esq,
OF Baltimore, is made available; provided
the cost does not exceed 100000. Number
of new students during the year Ga; whole
number lS0. The committee suggest that
! the assembly reappoint one 70 relieve
DR.. McGill from the duties of the rhetorical
department, the duties of the two depart
ments having fallen upon him in conse-
quence Of the death of DR.. Alexander: and
the committee further suggest the name of
Rev. c. Wistar Hodge for the chair Of New
Testament literature and Biblical Greek
They further suggest that license be with
held from students until the close Of the va.
cation, in order to secure two years study
before being licensed. In the Union Theo-
logical Seminary, in Virginia. the whole
number of students is SO new students "a
completed full course 6. Rev. Thos. E. Peek
has accepted the professorship of church his
tory and government.
The report of the committee on church ex-
tension, names Gil contributing churches.
against 5G5 specified last year, and records
an increase in receipts of $685. The
number of appropriations reported is IS,
against SO last year, and the amount appro-
priated is Sl0,GS3 72 greater than during
the previous twelve months. The amount
paid 90 churches this year is Sll log AZ
greater than the amount paid 76 churches
last year. The year closed with ole hun
dred applications on file and undisposed of,
calling for over $4,000. None of these
were in condition to be acted upon by the
committee Immediately, but large number
of them will, probably, soon furnish the ne
cessary information. During the year five
applications, calling for $4,000, were declin-
ed, chiefly for want Of means to respond to
them. The available means of the pas. year
amounted to S5O,335. On the I'd of April
there was balance on hand of Sl5,5S5,
but there were liabilities to be met amount
ing to Sl7.S25. The assembly resolved to
change the title of the committee to that OF
the "board of church building"
The brutality of American masters at sea
has furnished English journalists with
prolific theme for at least dozen years
That occasional instances of maltreatment
may be met with on American vessels, we
admit, but that such an unmtigated piece of
brutality us the Aylesbury News chronicles
as having just been displayed in England,
would have been tolerated anywhere upon
American soil, we doubt. An offending
member Of an Artillery company which was
ordered from Northampton to Aldershot, by
way of punishment, was tied to a gun.car-
riage and as he was either unable or too OBJ
stinate to walk, he was dragged out Of town
as far as Tingewickroad Bridge. and only
released from the wheels of the gun-carriage
when it was found that he was on the verge
of stranguation, black in the face. and blood
gushing in torrents from his nose and mouth.
Without claiming for our people any super
fuous tenderness of feeling, we will yet ven
ture to assert that no Artillery company
would dare, if disposed, to drag a man at
the tail of a gun through the streets of
town in the heart of thickly settled coun-
trv