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Earthquakes.

"There is" says Humboldt, "no
other outward manifestation of force
known to us-the murderous inventions
of our race included-through which, in
the brief period of a few seconds or
minutes, a larger number of human be-
ings have been destroyed than by earth
quakes." Lightning and storm, war and
plague, are but weak and inefficient
agents of destruction in comparison with
the earth internal forces. And as earth
quakes surpass all other phenomena as
agents of sudden destruction, so the i'm
preston which they produce on those
who, for the first time, experience their
effects, is peculiarly and indescribably
awful. Men of reputed courage speak
of a feeling of intolerable dread, :"
produced by the snock of an earthquake,
''even when unaccompanied by subterra-
mean noises The impression is not that
of simple fear, but feeling of absolute
pain. The reason seems for awhile to
have lost the power of separating real
from imaginary causes of terror. The
lower animals are also thrown into a state
of terror and distress. "Swine and
dogs" says Humboldt, "are particular
ly affected by the phenomena of earth
quakes." And he adds that 1.-THE very
crocodiles of the Orinoco, otherwise as
dumb as our little lizards, leave the shak-
en- bed of the stream and run believing
into the woods" Humboldts explana-
ton of the peculiar sensations of alarm
and awe produced by an earthquake upon
those who for the first time experience
the effects of the phenomenon is in all
probability the correct one. "The i'm
preston here is not he says, "the con
sequence of the recollection of destruc-
tive catastrophes presented to our imagi-
nation by narratives of historical events !;
what seizcs us so wonderfully is the dis.
abuse of that innate faith in the fxidity
of the solid and surest foundations of
the earth. From early childhood we
are habituated to the contrast between
the mobile element water, and the immo-
bility of the soil on which we stand.
All the evidences of our senses confirm
this belief But when suddenly the
ground begins to rock beneath US, the
feeling of an unknown mysterious power
in nature coming into operation and
shaking the solid globe arises in the
mind. The illusion of the whole of our
early life is annihilated in an instant"
Go,.,,b,U N101z;np
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What Breaks Down Young Men.

1t is commonly received notion that
hard study is the unhealthy element of
college life. But from tables of the
mortality of Harvard University, col
lected by Professor Pierce from the last
triennial catalogue, it is clearly demon
strated that the excess of death for the
first ten years after graduation is found
in that portion of each class inferior in
scholarship. Every one who has seen
the curriculum knows that where Eschy-
luS and political economy Injuries one,
late hours and rum punches use up a
dozen, and that their two little fingers are
heavier than the two loins of Euclid
Dissipation is swift and sure destroyer,
and every young man who follows it, is,
as the early flower, exposed to untimely
frost. Those who have been inveigled
in the path of vice are named Legion,
for they are many enough to convince
every novitiate that he has no security
that he shall escape a similar fate, A
few hours of sleep each night, high liv-
ing and plenty of smashes, make war
upon every function of the human body.
The brains, the heart, the lungs, the
liver, the spine, the bones, the flesh,
every part and faculty, are -tasked,
worn and weakened, by the terrific en-
ergy of passion loosed from restraint,
until, like dilapidated mansion, the
earthly house of this tabernacle" falls
into ruinous decay.-.Southern Baptist.
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PUBLICATION.

Synod Of Alabama.
South Alaban.a-Dr. j. Il. Rice, Mobile, Ala.
East Alabama-J. K. Hazen, Prattsville, Ala.
Tuscaloosa-C. NJ Hutton, Pleasant Ridge, Ala.
Synod of Arkansas.
Arkansas. W. Davies, Augusta, Ark.
Ouachita-E. McNair, Pine Bluff, Ark.
Ipdian-E. Hotchkin, Doaksville, G. Nation.
Synod of Georgia.
augusta William Finn, Milledgeville, ga.
Cherokee-Dr. N. A. Pratt, Roswell, Ga.
Florida-W. j. Mccormick, Gainesville, Flor.
Macon.
Sarannah-D. 81. Porter, Savannah, Ga.
Synod Of Memphis.
Chickasa,c-J. Fl. Gaillard, Coonewa, Miss.
Memphis-Geo. A. Russell, Somerville, Tenn.
North Mississippi NJ. Richardson, Grena'
da, Miss.
Tuscumbid.
Western DiStrict.-William Cameron, jackson,
Tenn.
Synod Of Mississippi.
Central Mississippi. Hunter, jackson, Miss.
Louisiana. Z. C. Doremus, New Orleans, La.
Mississippi-R. Price, Port Gibson, Miss.
New Orleans.
Red River. F. Ford, Shreveport, La.
Tombeckbee-A. Il. Barley, Charlottesville,
Miss.
Synod of Nashville
Holston-S. B. Campbell, Leesburg, Tenn.
Knorrille-T. 81. McCallie, Chattanooga, Tenn.
NashriUe-J. W. Neil, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Synod of North Carolina.
Concord-E. II. Harding, Concord, N. G.
Fayetteville Farley, Manchester, N c.
Orange. 81. Smith, Greensboro N. c.
Synod of South Carolina.
s. Cdroina-A. A. Porter Spartanburg, s. c.
Charleston-W. 81. Adams, Charleston, S. C..
Bethel-James 81. Sage, Lewisville, S. c.
Hdrmony.--D. +. Frierson.
Synod Of Texas.
Brazos-W. C. Somerville, Houston, Texas.
Central Texas.
Eastern Texas.
Western Texas.
Synod Of Virginia.
A6ingdon-J. N. Naf, Dublin Depot, Va.
T.. Hanorer Resbytery-W. A. Campbell, Pow.
hatan c. e., Va.
Greenbrier.
Lerington-F H. Bowman, Mt. Sidney, Va.
Montgomery-Dr.J j. d. Mitchell, Lynchburg, Va.
Rdtdpsco-J. A. Lefevre, Baltimore, Md.
Rappahannock James L. Leftwich Alexan-
dria, Va.
Roanoke. B. Shearer, Black Walnut, Va.
Vest Hanorer-E. Woods, Charlottesville, Va.
Winchester-M. w. Woodwork, Burlington,
West Va.
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REMARKABLE BIBLE. oLAss.-Probably
the largest Bible-class in the world is
that conducted in connection with Mr..
Spurgeons church in London, by Mrs.
Bartlett, of which an interesting account
is given in a recent number of the Sun
day School Teacher. 1t is stated that
on the first Sabbath of its organization,
about eight years ago, three persons were
present; and at the end of the first month
there were fourteen regular attendants.
The interest awakened increased until
after several changes of location, made
necessary for want of space, the average
attendance became seven hundred, at
which it now stands. More than seven
hundred persons have been received to
the church from this remarkable class.
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Committees of Education and Publication.

The General Assembly resolved that the Chair.
man of the Presbyterial Committees ON Educa.
ton and Publication should be regarded as q
corresponding member of the Assembly's Com.
mittees on these subjects. We give below the
names of such members as have been appointed
by the Presbyteries.
EDUCATION.
Synod of Alabama.
East Alabama-G. r. Foster Wetumpka, Ala.
South Alabama-J. R. Burgett, d. D., Mobile,
Ala.
Tuscaloosa-D. D. Sanderson, Eutaw, Ala.
Synod of Arkansas.
Arkansas-I. j. Long, Batesville, Ark.
Indian-C. C. Copeland, Wheelock, c. Nation.
Ouachita-Geo. Z. Eagleton, Mt. Holly, Ark.
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Preachers and Sermons.

DR.. Guthrie's Sunday Magazine has
the following very sensible remarks on
recent newspaper criticisms of sermons
and preachers;
The dull season in newspaper expert
ence, and perhaps the hot season in the
experience of all, has brought back the
old discussion on sermons and preachers.
The complaints are very rife. 1t is seri-
ously proposed in some quarters that
after prayers there should be a pause,
that those who have no stomach for a
sermon may leave without being remark
ed on. The essays that are read from
the pulpit, we are told, are such miserable
affairs, that if produced at school, the
authors must have been logged. The
array of ''6nallys, lastly, and in conclu-
sions," is more uncomfortable than any
thing else, because they create the misery
of disappointed hope. The longer the
sermon, the more intolerable is the NUS
ance. And so forth. 1t is pity when
the attempt to make preachers 'see
themselves as others see them" or rather
hear themselves as others hear. them, is
accompanied with the unfairness or the
exaggeration that deprives criticism of
its power to amend. There is unfairness
and exaggeratiOn, for example, when the
qualities of an average preacher are COM
pared with the speaking ability of the
House of Commons or the courts of law.
The House of Commons and the courts
of law, or rather the leading members Of
each, are picked men, and, in point Of
number, mere units in enormously large
classes, whose commanding powers have
carried them to the top. Let the occu-
pants of the pulpit be sifted by like or
deal, and the preaching ability which the
elite would represent would be of very
different order. There is another unfair
ness very frequently shown in criticisms
on the pulpit. From the nature of the
case, it is almost impossible that the
preacher can interest his audience in re-
Iigious matters if there be no reciprocal
desire to be edited on their part. There
is certain sympathy with the preacher
in his high aims which he has right to
look for on the part of those who come
to hear his sermons. The message he
has to deliver being in many of its as
poets an unwelcome one, he is entitled to
look for candor in judging of its i'm
port, a readiness to part with prejudices
and personal inclinations, firm deter
mination to hear what the Lord will
speak, even if the message should be a
disagreeable one. But for nearer to
sit, while the sermon is delivered, in the
mood in which he would read his novel
in the drawing or Punch in the
railway carriage, making no effort to
rise to higher regions, or bend his mind
to more serious thoughts, and then to
complain that thesermOn isuninteresting,
is as if one should rush from ballroom
to a hospital, and complain that the latter
was uncomfortable. On the other hand,
when the criticism of sermons is fair and
reasonable, there is no doubt that much
is said that needs to be attended to. Dull
ness is commonly the result of want of
earnesmess, want Ofpainstakingt to eudeav-
or to get access to the minds and hearts of
hearers, want of reliance on God for pow
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Auusehula attnras.
Over the Fence.
BOy.

Boy.
Over the fence is garden fair
How | would love to be master there
All that lack is a mere pretenee,
could leap over the low white fence.
Conscience.
This is the way that all crimes commence,
Sin and sorrow are over the fence.
Boy.
Over the fence can toss my ball,
Then l can go in for it-that Is all;
Picking an apple up near the tree
Would not be really theft, you see,
Conscience.
This is a falsehOOd-a weak pretence,
Sin and sorrow are over the fence.
Boy
Whose is the voice that thus speaks so plalnl
Twice have heard it, and not in vain,
Meier will venture TO look that way,
Lest should do as planned to-day
Conscience
This is the way that all crimes commence,
Coveting that which is over the fence.
CRdds World,
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err to make the truth strike home to the
conscience. A firm, practical belief in
the great realities of the gospel, and an
earnest application of them, are seldom
dull, unless under the inAiction of i'm
moderate length
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LATEST News FROM DR.. LIVING
sToNE.-Sir Roderick Murchison amour
ces the receipt of letters from the explorer
Livingstone, written in October and De-
cember, 1867, al dated at Marungu and
Cazembe, places lying south and south
westerly of Lake Tanganyka. When
these letters were written DR.. Livingstone
had been living for three months with
friendly Arabs, waiting for the close of
a native war before proceeding on his
way to Ujiji, and he told an Arab messen-
ger that after exploring Lake Tanganyika
he intended to return to ZANZIBAR.
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Delicate leaves!
All how their beauty the eye deceives!
Their color foretslls the coming death,
Who wiz take them away with his Iightest breath ;
And their golden palms must touch the earth,
While the loud winds whistle in careless mirth ;
Or softly sigh, like soul that grieves-
beautiful leaves, beautiful leaves!"
Falling away!
Tender and fresh were they IN their day,
Chnging for life to the parent bOugh;
Where is their strength aud their freshness nowE
The stricken trees must lose their dover,
Falling away in a golden shower,
Or looSening lightly, one by one,
In the yellow light OF hay sun;
While sad winds murmur at close of day,
Failing away, falling away"
Drifting away!
Mark where theyrustle at dawn of day
In the forest path! Ere day is done,
They are far away in the setting sun;
Floating-ah, whittier? upon the stream
That bears them away in its tuneiul dream;
Or borne on the wind, which seems to say,
Drifting away, drifting away''
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SOME EMPLoYMENTs may be better
than others; but there is no employment
so bad as the having none at all. The
mind will contract rust and an unfit
ness for every thing, and a man must
either fill up his time with good, or at
least Innocent business, or it will run to
the worst sort of waste-to sin and vice.
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SINNERS sometimes say they would be
Christians if they thought they could
"hold OUT but do they ever think of
whether they will be able long to "hold
out" in the course they are pursuing!
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The GREATEST gluttons are they who
feed upon SANDER.
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A GOOD mother is worth an army of
acquaintance.
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GENTLENEss.-A golden no is often
better received than brutal yes.
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COMMUNE with thyself, 0 man. and
consider wherefore thou vert made.
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Leaves in Autumn.


BY MISS A. f. CLARK.
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[ reached my home in safety, where
my wife and little ones were over
.joyed to see me, but for many nights
afterwards l would set up in my bed
bathed in a profuse perspiration, and
trembling all over with some terrible
fear.
At the trial that followed soon
after the following facts were ascer-
tanned:
The man who had passed in the
woods driving so furiously, h a d
been in the hotel, and heard nearly
all the conversation between Mason
and myself. He was the old woman's s
son and together with his brother, he
determined to possess himself of the
treasure that | carried with me- He
it was that had dragged the old tree
across the road, and caused the light
to be placed in the lower window so
do " "oorssoc vu4 ~tte@tie., Thy,
also confessed to having decoyed 9th
er travellers to their haunt, and muir
dered them throwing their bodies
down the old well.
1t is needless for me to add that
the two met the fate they so richly
merited, and shortly after were exc
cuted on the scaffold in the presence
of large multitude.
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WHOLE NUMBER 639.

saw focks in the air still coming to
the roost. The rustic of the wings
In flying was one of the most peculiar
sounds we ever heard; a large flock
passing over our heads, we paused to
listen, and could compare the noise to
nothing but the futter of a million
fans, or the rumpling of vast pieces
of silk. Although the crows will not
abandon their roost, it is most an
noying one, the boys from the city
and adjoining farms frequently going
out with dogs and guns and killing
hundreds of them. On a dark night
they will not fly from a torch, and if
it is wet and drizzly you can hardly
start them up. A double-barrelled
shotgun or an old musket loaded
with slugs, when fired off under a
large tree, has been known to bring
down as many as forty birds. This
itNt,~r,e-., ,.a~~anr 10 frequently proetie
ed by the youngsters, who make bets
on how many crows they can bring
down at single shot. IF startled
out of their sleep, the crows fly from
tree to tree and seem quite helpless
losing in the night time all that Gun
ming which characterizes them in day
light. When the firing continues fol
any time, they will fly into the open
fields and there sleep until daylight
AS soon as the day begins to break
they quit their roost and go-no one
knows where 1t has been estima
ted that a crow will fly hundred
miles for his breakfast, and return
after supper, and we have not the
least doubt that many Of the crow;
who sleep in Kentucky are citizens of
Ohio and Illinois. We think thai
about one million crows sleep at the
rOOst, and about the last of Marcel
they will leave and scatter themselves
over the Northern States, returning
again in the fall to spend the winter
with us. A gentleman who has closel,
observed them for many years, sayt
that every year they decrease in nun
bers, that they are slowly passing
away, and, in time, like the poor In
dian, will become a defunct race OF
this continent.-C Cincinnati Com.
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How ORR kOuAN CAuunrr0 Rnr,r,r
REN MANAGE.-The following from
Mr.. Parton's last article in the At
lantic Monthly, may be rather over
strained, but it affords matter for Sc
rious consideration, nevertheless:
Our Roman Catholic brethren are
acquiring SO great an estate in the
United States, and acquiring it so
rapidly, that it becomes a matter Of
public concern how they get it, what
they do with it, and, especially, what
they ,oiU do with it by and by, when
it shall have become the largest prop
erty held in the country by or for an
organization. Other organizations
usually live from hand to mouth but,
somehow, the Catholics always con
trive to have a little money ahead to
invest for the future. The Catholic
Church, seven-tenths of whose mem
bers are exempt from the income tax
because their income is under a
thousand dollars a year, is a capital
ist, and has the advantage over other
organizations which q man has over
his fellows who, besides earning his
livelihood, has a thousand dollars tC
operate with. There are spots in
the Western country, over which the
prairie winds now sweep without OBJ
struction, that will one day be the
sites of great cities. Our Roman
Catholic brethren mark those spots
and construct maps upon which not
existing towns alone are indicated
but probable towns also. A profess
or of one of our Western colleges
saw, two years ago, at Rome, a better
map Of the country west of the Mis-
sissippi than he ever saw at home, up
on which the line of the Pacific Rail
road was traced, and every spot wai
dotted where a settlement would nat
urally gather, and conjecture record
ed as to its probable Importance
Five hundred dollars iudiciously in
vested III certain localities now vii
buy land which, in fifty years or il
twenty may be worth $1O0,00OO0O
Thirty-seven years ago the best thous
and acres of the site of Chicago coul(
have been bought for $1.25 an acre
onJ +b0ro ic Ono man noxr- ~ Ch:oo ~,
!, who owns a lot worth $4,000 whicl
, he bought Of the Government 70
fifteen and fve-eights cents. Now
: there are in the Roman Catholi
Church men whose business it is t.
turn such facts to the advantage G
the church, and there is also a syste
7 matte provision of money for them t.
expend for the purpose"
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XVHEN YOU VISIT THE NEW

Mill in Craftsbury and have looked the
concern all over, the "Honest Giant included
and have satisfied yourself that it is capable of
dong It's own 6toaoing, and after going to POW
ELLIS and getting your Dry Goods and Grocer
les cheaper than at any other place in the county,
then while you are meditating upon the astot,ad-
ing truth that there are az least two honest men
in the Mill Village, just take walk over to the
Blacksmith Shop and see what your "Uncle
Dudley" has been up to the past year for the ben
eht of mankind, himself in particular. He has
built built two new improved FOrges and has been
max hhiahhg old things new generally. He keeps on
NC, nanu good lot of Horse Shoes, all ready to nail
a., "nu @ II you want to find out how smart he is
ynr eco over the ugliest piece of horse-hesh
y you Gan : uhe in ten towns and see him shod. and
sneh JuuSe LOT yourself. He also holds himself in
[eaaiuess a 70 40 any kind of iron work that may
Ug wanteu' ana can charge as fast as the honest
gratis. anu see' huSice
Craftsbury, March 2l-l2we L. ~
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Accounts from Abyssinia indicate
that King Theodore means fight. His
army is entrenched in a very strong
position, with 5000 warriors. The
roads are very bad and difficult to
travel, the country being for the most
part dry and of volcanic formation.-
The English soldiers are suffering
from dysentery and fever.
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Who Killed Tom Roper?

Who killed Tom Roper?
Not l said new Cider,
couldn't kill spider,
l didn't kill Tom Roper.
NotI, said strong Ale,
make them tough and hale,
didn't kill Tom Roper.
Not I, said Lagar Beer,
l didn't intoxicate. Dye hear
didn't kill Tom Roper.
Not l, said Bourbon Whiskey,
1 make sick folks spry and frisky,
The doctors say SO; don't they know
What quickens blood that runs too slow :
| didn't kill Tom Roper.
Not l, said sparkling Champagne.
No poor man e'er by me was slain;
l cheer the rich in lordly halls,
And scorn the place where the drunkar
falls,
didn't kill Tom Roper.
What juice Of grapes, product of vines,
Kill man! The Bible tells
That wine all other drink excels;
We didn't kill Tom Roper.
Not l, said Holland Gin,
To charge such crime to me is sin,
1 didn't kill Tom Roper.
Not l, spoke up the Brandy strong,
He grew too pool to buy me long,
l didn't kill Tom Roper.
Not 1, said Medford Rum,
He was almost gone before I come,
l didn't kill Tom Roper.
Ha ha laughed old King Alcohol.
Each struck the blow that made him fall;
And all that helped to make him topper,
My agents were to kill Tom Roper.
Youths Temperance Banner.
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The largest organ in the world is
credited to the little city of Fry
burg, Switzerland. When in full play
it pours forth tempest of sound
through a forest Of pipes seven thou
sand and eight hundred in number,
shaking the walls and the foundations
of the old St. Nicholas Church in
which it stands.
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Fears are expressed in certain
quarters that Chief Justice Chase is
deserting his coIors, and affiliating
with johnson and the Democrats
Gerrit Smith, who knows Chase well,
declares, however, that as we'll may
1t be feared that heaven will be trans
mitted into hell as that Chase will
lose his integrity"