Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-19
THE MISSOURI PRESBYTERJANS SYNOD.

TIE MISSOURI PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD
Inc Missouri Presbyterian Synod have had warn
time. The session on Friday commenced in discussion
over the question about the correctness of the minute
OF the last session. The Rev. s. j. P Anderson who's
sulien patriotism throughout the rebellion was stimu
lated oy a military commission moved the appoint
meht OF committee to ascertain whether the record
were full and fair. He indulged in lengthy speech
In which the pent up ire of four years of repression
was ventilated.
1e SAID during his remarks, am not afraid!
hau 10 stand pefore military men for trial when bay
onetS were all around me! / was not afraid then
Am to talk of fear when the dangeri is all gone
have had to tell men high in power over and oye
again. WIN not and you cannot make me do wha
you require M me to do. Not because I was afraid
70 make considerable part of ream of paper, but
because would not take any oath qualifying me to
SIT IN any church court denied the right and the
men VINO MADE these requirements acknowledge the
points made.
Further on the reverend gentlemen made the fol-
lowing statement about little troublesome require
The idea Is that this fight against the authorities
against the military. No such thing. The military
never lnaugurated that celebrated Rosecrans oath
Ii was related to me by staff officer of that General
ana nave 1t also from another prominent officer in
the tary service and know the fact that that order
was issued under misapprehension; and know the
act that when was ascertained in the Church that
that ORDER could be used for purpose to accomplish
~ ut SnurcA, that II was seized by certain in
aivlduas that they then went to the military author
ites and induced them to send their officers To the
meetings of the Churches.
lie SaId that be was prepared to prove oath also
that Colonel Sanderson wrote the Rosecrnns order
and that the General never saw it until it was pub
WSn be Rey %T in the ted
moor lie wanted to lift up his voice and exhort the
2retnrgn 70 1 St9B Th resolution was but the enter
derS9n rose TO make statement when the speaker
said he did not want to be interrupted After much
sparrmg the resolution was adopted-yeas 81 nays Is.
In the evening session Professor Fisher of the COM
mittee offered the following resolutions which were
unanimously adopted:
ReSotced That this Synod recognizes its obligations
70 70 aohere TO one OF the fundamental laws Of cur
Church organization, which enjoins that Synods and
councils are to handle and conclude nothing but that
which IS ecclesiastical, and shall not interfere with
clyil aiiurS which concern the commonwealth"
Resolred, That in view Of this Injunction the Sy-
nod Will not permit the Introduction of secular topics
nor the discussion of political resolutions during its
sessions.
HAMLET WITH New ScENE.-Nlany have doubt
less heard of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet" left
out, but none have ever a added to its rep
resentation Yet the audience at the Academy of
Music, on Monday night unconsciously to themselves
at the time, very narrowly escaped scene that would
have eclipscd the ocund humOr of the grave-digger
It happened in this wise:
Five Episcopaan ministers nearly all of whom
well known throughout this city nrnposcd to t
tend the inauguration exercises OF the American
Union Commission, presided over by Bishop Nell
vane They hal tickets of invitation for the ccre-
monies at the Academy, and started Off unconscious
that the Musical Fund Hall had been afterwards Sc
lected Arriving at Broad and Locust their host dis
covered he had left the tickets at his home Not
wishing to turn back. at the loss of an hours pleasure
they resolved to enter at the stage door,
One Of the party clergyman from the ncighborng
cltyi OF a big heavy builq similar in figure to our
great trasediaI. casting his shawl closer about his
shoulders, la CoriolanuS toga, led the way into the
hall;
Good evening Mr.. Forrest" spoke the complaisant
doorkeeper The divine thus addressed did not catch
the words.
The hour was late, anl they hurried upon the stage
regretting Their detention. They passed between two
ranks of soldiers too startled to notice closely the
leather headed pixies and paper helmets. They
walked forward till the painted canvas halted them
abruptly.
Hamlet and the Queen were on the stage; their
voices could be heard through the thin partition and
IN moment the five dlvnes were alive to the oddity
Of their position.
'Righ about face, forward march. Standing not
upon the order of going, but going at cuce,'' was
promptly done One of the soldiers believing them
to be actors warned them to make less noise, or they
would be heard in front.
what is tie play to-nght?" asked him of the
tragcdian tigue. OF the door keeper.
:. log cant tool ue Nj. Forrest, you have played
1t hundreds OF timcS!'
Had those particular scenes rolled aside few
minutes earlier that evening, the peculiar contrast
OF hye black coats. and i've white ncck-tics to the
martial array of Denmark'S half dozen infantry,
would not now require the above plain true nara
tive to be youched for as an actual occurrence.
Phaodclphta inquirer
The Erie Railroad nefaulter il, New Or
Observation-Disclosures of his Arrest.
The detaulter Albert a. Jones. formerly
clerk in the Erie Railway freight Office, whose
flight from this city with a woman, and whose
arrest i'll New Orleans has already been re-
ported was taken into custody on the night of
the 9th of October. This man, on account OF
the illness Of the freight collector of the Erie
company, had charge of large sums of money:
and he stole a few thousand dollars, a consid-
cradle portion of which he spent in this city,
In New Orleans, Jones went by the name of
Wood. and passed as "Confederate'' soldier.
1t appears he convinced a rebel colonel that he
had been Il member of Harry Gilmore bat
talon of cavalry, and that the colonel recon-
mcnded that he be employed as a bartender,
Jones representing that he was reduced to
poverty.
lie was on his way to accept the situation in
the liquor store when the New Orleans detec-
tives, who had received copies of his photo
graph, arrested him. The man finally admit
ted that he was Jones, though he endeavored
to prove that he had been in the rebel army.
The girl who is with him says he has no
money, and that he had only three hundred
dollars when he left this city. He declines to
give any particulars in regard to his pecula-
tions.-N. I. Post.
LApoR.-Horace Greeley, who has recently
made long journey through the Western
States, says in regard to the employment of
laborerS:
"We could hear of no dearth of employ
ment anywhere. We doubt that there are
one thousand men looking for manual labor in
the two States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
which together have about one million mhabi-
tants. An average mechanic receives in Cen
tral Minnesota the price of three bushels of
wheat or fifteen bushels ofpotatoes for day 5
work. COMMON ldborer is paid the price of
two bushels of wheat or ten bushels of pota-
toes, and there is work for more men than
can be had. We do not believe there were a
hundred men looking for work or wanting it
in the two cities of st. Paul and Minneapolis.
with Joint population OF twenty thousand.
The WIFE OF THE MURDERED PRESIDENT
BARRIos. The Panama Star says:
THE unhappy wife of General Barrios is
now i'll Guatemala. She is one of the brightest
ornaments in Central American society; a
lady of the highest refinement, dignity and in
tclligcnce. The loss Of a husband to whom
she was so much attached, and by whom she
remained so faithfully in his day of adversely,
will be an irreparable aiiiiction to her; but,
with all her woman's modesty, she has a hero
courage, and we doubt not she will outlive hcl
present grief, to see vengeance wreaked at
some future day on the heads of those who
have so deeply imbrued their hands in her
husbands blood, and who now stand before
the world disgrace to the whole Central
American race, and a stain on the very name
Of humanity and civilization
SOUTHERN EMIGRATIoN.-Ihis Brazil emi-
grafton scheme, says a Montgomery Ala.
correspondent, is having a sorry success. !
have made it a point to inquire particularly OF
the most Jealous Southern men l have met,
how many men of their personal friends OF
acquaintances, who are really solid and useful
persons, whom the South could not afford tc
lose, and whom they should be sorry to part
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