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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-02-10
A few Words to Those Who Have the Care
of Souls.

A venerable father in the distant West,
who has been preaching the gospel for more
than fifty years, sends us the following ex-
tract from Bonar, accompanying it with the
remark: cit has administered keen reproof
to myself for my barrenness and stupidity.
1t may be profitable to others"
We haze been unfaahful. The fear of
mar and the love of his applause have often
made us afraid. We have been unfaithful
to our own souls, to our focks, and to our
brethren; unfaithful in the pulpit, in visit
ing, in discipline, and in the church. In the
discharge of every one of the duties of our
stewardship there has been grievous unfath-
fulness. Instead of the special PARTICULAR
zation of the sin reproved, there has been
the vague allusion. Instead of the bold re-
proof, there has been the feeble dsapproval
Instead of the answering consistency of a
holy life whose uniform tenor should be a
protest against the world, and rebuke of
sin, there has been such an amount of un-
fathfulness in our walk and conversation,
in our daily department and intercourse with
others, that any degree of faithfulness we
have been enabled to manifest on the Lords
day, is almost neutraized by the want of
circumspection which our week day life ex-
hbits.
"Few men ever lived life so busy and 80
devoted to God, as Usher, Archbishop of
Armagh. His learning, habits of business,
station, friends, all contributed to keep his
hands every moment full; and then his was
soul that seemed continually to hear a
voice saying: Redeem the time, for the
days are evil Early, too, did he begin /;
for at the age of ten years he was hopefully
converted by sermon preached on Rom.
xii: Il beseech you, therefore, by the
mercies of God. that ye present your bodies
living sacrifice" He was painstaking,
laborious preacher of the word for ffty-6ve
years.
"Yet hear him on his death bedl How
he clings to Christs ghteousness alone, and
sees in himself, even after such life, only
sin and want. The last words he was heard to
utter were about one clock in the afternoon,
and these words were uttered in loud voice {:
But, Lord, IN special forgive me my SINS Of
omission. 1t was omissions, says his biog-
rapher, he begged forgiveness of with his
most fervent last breath he who was never
known to omit an hour, but who employed
the shred ends of his life for his Lord and
Master The very day he took his last
sickness, he rose up from writing one of his
great works, and went out to visit sick
woman, to whom he spoke so fitly and fully,
that you would have taken him to have
spoken of heaven before he came there.
Yet this man was oppressed with sense of
his omissions.
"Reader, what think you of yourself;
your undone duties; your unimproved hours
times of prayer omitted; your shrinking
from unpleasant work, and putting it on
others; your being content to sit under your
vine and fig tree without using all efforts for
the souls of others? Oh sins of omission
Lord, in special forgive me my sins of omis-
sion.'
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-02-10

The DAILY WALK.-There is beauty and
truth in the following: ga Christian life is
pulpit which all may ascend. 1t is unbe-
coming for the child to exhort its unbeiev-
ing parent, improper for the pupil to direct
his teacher, or for the servant to re5uke his
master. But by holy life children can in
struct their parents, scholars their teachers,
servants their masters, and interiors their
superiors, and superiors their Interiors
Many, through ignorance, are unable to
speak word for Jesus, others cannot meet
an objector, and others are disabled by tim
idity; but all can preach most eloquent
sermon through the life
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-02-10

are little fock-and will have the advan-
tage of seniority over the mul:itudes innu-
merable-into which this little flock are soon
to grow.
Well, therefore, may our hearts beat with
irrepressible joy, to hear that the King has
come for the purpose of selecting apostles
and vice gerents from us poor rebels, and
that he now, in order to such selection,
"receveth sinners, and eateth with them.
w. E. B.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-02-10

CoLERIDGE, in one of the most beautiful
of SMILES, illustrates the pregnant truth, that
the more we know the greater our thirst for
knowledge, and the more we love the more
instructive our sympathy: "The water lily,
in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and
expands its petals, at the first pattering of
showers, and rejoices in the rain-drops With
a quicker sympathy than the parched shrub
in the sandy desert. y
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-02-10

upon Sabbath school teachers to renew their
efforts and increase their zeal it calls upon
pastors to ascend into the higher regions of
religious thought, devotion and activity, that
our young people may follow.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-02-10

COMPASSIONATE not ashamed to confess
that you have been in the wrong. 1t is but
owning what you need not be ashamed Of
that you now have more sense than you had
before to see y,ur error, more humility to
acknowledge il, more grace to correct 1t.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-02-10

DEATH sends the believer into his own country,
to live among his own kindred and friends.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-24
LATEST NEWS.

It is now positively stated that Ohio ha.
elected = Republican Legislaturs-close
shave tho'-there being but.one majority in
the Senate and three in the House. But, a.
the old saying has 1t ga miss is as good as
mile"
There was quite a severe earthquake shock
felt in New England on Friday morning. 1t
was particularly severe in the vicinity Of
Newport, r. l. The dispatch says that two
hotels we're destroyed.
The rebels in some parts of Florida are
making armed resistance to the enforcement
of the revenue laws. Seven murders have
been committed in Jackson County, and the
State Tax Collector and his wife have been
killed. This looks like new rebellion, on
a small scale. President Grant must look
sharp after these things.
Andy Johnson came within four votes Of
being elected Senator by the tennessee
Legislature on Thursday. As they say at
the euchre table "four is mighty bad place
to stop at"
The first of the Atlantic and Pacific Ex-
press trains arrived at Sacramento ION
time, Friday.
The Sacramentans and San Franciscans
are rejoicing over some car loads of fresh
New York oysters, just arrived.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-24

THE FENIAN SCARE IN CANADA
dispatch dated New York Oct. 20 says:
A Herald special from Toronto says
all the Toronto field battery has been
engaged packing up their necessaries
for move, if required, they can be on
the road fully equipped, guns, etc., in
two hours. Fifty kegs of powder have
been sent by express to Goderich. All
the armory and guns, stored at Kingston
at the time of the last Fenian raid, are
now being distributed. The gunboats
Rescue and Prince Alfred are fully
armed and equipped and ready for sea.
The former is at Kingston, on the st.
Lawrence, the latter at Goderich, on
Lake Huron, under orders to sail to.
morrow. The troops here are notified
to be in readiness, and can move in
twenty-four hours notice.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-24

FEMALE SUFFRAGERs GONG THRorGH
THE MoIIoYs.-The New York Suffrage
Association, at recent meeting, passed
a resolution inviting the women of the
State of New YORK to Immediately pre-
pare themselves, by information and
otherwise, and TO appoint their inspec
tors, hold their polls, and make their
returns after the legal manner adver'
tised in the papers, as nearly as may be.
Although this resolution passed, yet it
did not meet the appreciation of many
of the members, who declared that the
course Of action prescribed amounted
merely to playing at voting. One lady
illustrated her argument with the anec-
dote of the man who, coming home to
supper and finding nothing to eat in the
house and no money TO buy food, direc-
Ted his wife to lay the table-c cloth and
put on the dishes and plates, SO that they,
in the absence of substantial meal,
n ght at least 60 through the motions.
The speaker argued that as little salts
faction would be derived by going
the motions of voting.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-24

A. JOHNSON INTERvIEwED.-A Cincinnati
reporter went to interview ex-Presidsnt
johnson on the Senatorial question, and this
is what he got for his trouble: Gas general
thing the men ought to marry while young.
You see, when we grow old our tastes and
habits become fixed, and they are hard to
change to suit another. believe, like Frank
lin, that matrimony ought to be encouraged.
But at the present day a young man who
has not inherited fortune, and one who
must rely upon his own efforts for every cent
that he gets, will find difficulties III the way"
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-24
NAPOLE0NIC INCONSISTENCY.

A record is an awkward thing t,
"draw" on some men. As we progress
toward power we are apt to become OBJ
livious to some of our earlier promises
apt to kick down the ladder after we ar,
safely on top; and so it seems, wher
others, (if the French Emperor himself
does not) look back at the history o.
Louis Napoleon's successes they dis
cover at least one very remarkable
event which, study his character as
favorable as we may, seems quite ire
conciIable with the attitude which he at
present maintains. The following proc
lama,ion, which appeared upon the
Walls of Boulogue, in ls4s, at the time
of the landing of his present Majesty,
when he came from England to accom-
plish his celebrated Coup d Etat, has
just been revived by Partisan paper:
Frenchmenl My dear fellow citizens:
| have come to respond to the appeal
which you have made to my patriotism.
The mission which you impose on me is
a glorious one, and shall know how
to fulfill it. Full of gratitude for the
affection you manifest toward me, |
bring you my whole life, my whole soul.
They belong to you, as did the life and
soul of that man whose glory, the in
heritance of US all, has by its reflection
s
ton, hitherto condemned to obscurity,
but which | shall know how to render
conspicuous if ever danger should
threaten our common country. Broth
ers and citizens, it is not pretender
whom you receive into your midst. l
have not meditated in exile to no pur-
pose. A pretender is a calamity. l
shall never be ngrateful-never a NAL
efactor. 1t is as sincere and ardent
you. | call to witness the mighty shade
of the man of the age, as | solemnly
make these promises. l will be, as |
always have been the child of France.
In every Frenchman shall always see
a brother. The rights of every one
shall be my rights. The democratic re-
public shall be the object ofmy worship.
will be its priest. Never will l seek
to clothe myself in the imperial purple.
Let my heart wither within my breast
on the day when l forget what owe to
you and to France. Let my lips be
forever closed if l ever pronouce a word,
a blasphemy against the republican
sovereignty of the French people. Let
me be accursed on the day when | al |
low the propagation, under my name,
Of doctrines contrary to the democratic
principles which ought to direct the
government of the republic. Let me be
condemned to the pillory on the day
when, criminal and traitor, shall
dare to lay sacrilegious hand on the
rights of the people-whether by fraud,
with its consent. or by force and VIC
Ience against it. Believe in me as
have faith in you. Let one cry issue
from all our breasts, as a prayer ad-
dressed to heaven.
Iirs .janaais la RepuJlqae.'
Louis BoNAPaRTE.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-24

ID the metropolis must give way to the
pressure Of the broader civilization and
the less narrow business principles with
which it has suddenly been confronted.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-24

VIRGINIA SENATORS ELECrED.-Lewis
and johnson, the two candidates of the
Conservative" wing of the Virginia
Legislature have been elected.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-24
THE SITUATION OF THE FIFTEENTH
AMENDMENT.

From the Washington Chronicle of Oct. 16.l
The following States have officially
notified the Department of State that
they ratified the fifteenth amendment on
the dates set opposite to their names:
Missouri, March l, 1869.
Kansas. February 81, 1869.
North Carolina, March 5, 1869.
West Virginia, March 3, 1869.
Massachusetts,, March 9 and II, 1869
Wisconsin, March 9, 1862
Maine, March II, 1869.
Louisiana, March 5, 1869.
Michigan, March s, 1869.
South Carolina, March Is, 1869.
Pennsylvania, March 90, 1869.
Arkansas, March 80, 1869.
Connecticut, May 10, 1869.
Florida, June Is, 1869.
Illinois, March 5, 1869.
Indiana, May Is and IA, 1869.
New York, March 70 aud April 10,
1869.
New Hampshire, July I, 1869.
Nevada, March !, 1869.
Virginia ratified the amendment last
week, but has not yet notified the State
Department.
OF the above, Missouri, ewing to q
defective telegraph dispatch sent from
Washington by one of the members CT
the House, inadvertently omitted the
second section Of the amendment; and
Kansas, in her ratification, changed the
of the whole amendment
1t is not doubted that the Legislatures
of the States will correct these mistakes
after their meeting. That
of Missouri meets on the last Monday of
December, and that of Kansas on the
second Thursday of January next. The
of Missouri was elected for
two years in 1868, but an election for
another Legislature in Kansas will take
place on the first Tuesday in November.
When these two States correct the
mistakes in the ratification. twenty
States will have sanctioned it. Eight |
more are needed. Seven of these are as
follows:
Ohio-Legislature elected last Tues.
iay-meets on the first Monday in Jan
uary.
Acknowledgements elected in No.
rember, 1868, for two years, largely |
Republican-meets on the second Non
day in November.
Iowa, largely Republican-Legisla-
ure meets on the first Monday in JAN
lary.
Minnesota, largely Republican-Leg-
stature meets on the first Tuesday in
January.
Nebraska-Legisla,ure largely Re
publican, elected last Tuesday.
Vermont-Legislature largely Re
elected on the first Thursday
n September, and meets on Thursday
Iext, the 2lst of October
Rhode Island-Legislature largely
The Senate ratified the
on the 9th of May last, but
be house postponed action till January,
$40, when the work will be finished
ccording to all our advices.
These States makes the number
Texas and Mississippi, when admitted.
7ill give US twenty nine, one more than
Iecessary.
We see no possible obstacle in the
-ay of the ratification, unless OHIO
hould not prove to have Republican
legislature, or Rhode Island should
bstinately refuse cooperation, but we
o not apprebend the contingency. The
lfety of the amendment is so assured
lat we look rather for assistance from {
,me of the States heretofore most bit
rly adverse TO it.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-24
OUTRAGEOUS CRUELTY.-The S. F. Bnlle-
tin of the 2lst has the following:

| 1 -
A local officer, while walking along Mont.
gomery street, this morning, keeping keen
eye to the right and left for one chance law
breaker, perceived a dog lying on the street,
in dying condition. The officer examined
the brute, and discovered that his back was
broken and his jaw dislocated. An urchin,
who from the other side of the street had
been watching the policeman bending over
the body of the dog, went over and informed
him that the animal had been thrown from
window Of the house above. The officer
harried up stairs, knocked at the Office door.
and gained admittance. arrested a mild-look-
ing German, the sole occupant of the room,
on a charge of cruelty to animals. In spite
of the protestations of the man, he was car
ried off to prison ; but to the disgust of the
officer, he could prove nothing against him,
and the man was discharged.
Minnesota Staats-Zeitung. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1877, 1869-01-28

ssti &
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-24
Personalities.

Hon. Edward Mcpherson, Clerk of the
House of Representatives, sails in the German
steamer from Baltimore next Wednesday.
George Peabody and w. W. COrcoran are at
the White Sulphur Springs, Virginia.
The PalazzO Mutt SavOrelli has been secured
for the Marquis of Butte next winter. 1t is that
which was occupied by his collateral ancestor
the eXiled James II, when in Rome.i
The Independent says it is a marvel that no
eX-President since the days of John Quincy
Adams has ever had the courage to revisit Wash
ington after his term of Office had expired until
Andrew johnson lately returned to the scene of
his former greatness. Has the independent for
gotten that John Tyler was president of the
Peace Convention OF 1861 which was held in
Washington?
The Chicago Journal has this from New
York; Commodore Vanderbilt buried his wife
a few months since-a noble woman who had
been his companion from early manhood, and to
whom he was indebted for very much of his
success in life. When he kept country tavern
on Staten Island, she ran the hOnse and attended
to everything while he was absent on his boat
ing expeditions. Report has it that the Commo-
dOre, who is now seventy-tye years OF age, Is to
lead to the hymeneal altar in a few days n
blooming maiden of seventeen summers"
The following distinguished personages are
in New YOrk:-COunt de Turenne, of the French
Legation at Washington, is stopping at the
Albemarle Hotel. General j. b. Murray, of
Seneca Falls, is at the Hoffman House. Senator
j. G.. Harris, of Louisiana; Senator FentOn, OF
New York; Judge A. Nelson, of Poughkeepsie,
and George B. McCartee, of Washington, are
stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain
! the Hon. w. Ward, of the British Legation at
| Washington. and Martin Deschapelles, of Phila-
| deIphia are at the Clarendon Hotel, Governor
! Clayton, of Arkansas; Senator j. w. Nye, of
| Colorado, and General j. G. Hutchings, of Cali
forna are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain
| r. II. Waterman, of San Francisco, and e.
! Vaughan Richards, of London, are at the
Brevoort House. r, Pruyn, of Albany; Colonel
j. Bingham, of Philadelphia, and j. A. Richard
son, Of st. Louis, are at the Astor House.
! Major-General j. Z. Robinson, of the United
States Army; General E. f. Jones, of Bingham
ton, and Senator Ross, of Kansas, are at the st.
! Nicholas Hotel.
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A letter from Niagara Falls states:-"The
change in the Falls this spring is the greatest
that has been Witnessed probably, by any one
green water is seen, the rock has crumbled
away to the depth of about thirty-aye feet, on
the side nearest Goat Island. The circular
appearance of the Horse Shoe is now changed,
and is more in the shape of triangle, tnan
ANYTHING else The American Fall has
also met with some alteration, which old
habitues notice this season; more particularly
is it seen on the site towards Luna Island, and
were pointed projection of rock to give way
the appearance would be changed to that of a
Horse Shoe. 1t is estimated by competent geo
logists that some one hundred and fifty tons OF
rock must have given way from the Horse. Shoe
alone The beauty of the Falls is not III the
tues seem to like the Falls this year much better
than ever"
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-24

and indeed, it seemed to me that the weakness
had left his back and gone into his knees No
politician ever saw was weaker-kneed than
ahis un-Reseryed old Grey.
The company, by-the-way, are under strict
discipline, except when they are under their
tents The thermometer to-day is 1OS almost
as high as gold in the shade but the boys have
not taken any of the padding out of the breast of
their coats yet, evidently determined to sweat it
ont on that line if it takes all summer; but at
the rate they are sweating it now, don't think
il will take all summer.
The company, as I said before are under
good discipline as far as it goes. Some of them
have
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-24

Etiquette forbidding the President to take his
cigar out of his mouth, and the Colonel to take
OIL his glasses, they both enjoyed their bath by
digging holes in the sand to put their feet in.
The Reserves yesterday were treated to ride
out to sea on the Lady of the Lake" and as old
ocean was little rough from the last nights
storm many of the Reserves had to throw off all
reserve, or nearly all, making them doubt
whether the trip was intended by the Colonel in
kindness or a sanitary measure. Some had,
ON the day previous spoken of the inferior
quality of the pork furnished them at the camp,
and even went so far, when out to sea, Us to
throwi up-to the Colonel.
The LADY of the Lake" soon returned, and
landed the Reserves, what was left of them,
at the Island, when they again marched
to their camp. Mr. w. B. Miller, the owner of
the farm on which the camp is situated, is more
pleased with the Reserves every day. He says
| each day must shorten their stay on his place.
| lie told me he had never seen more green-bottle
| mes, or green bottles fly, around his farm than
ne mad this past week. Mrs. Miller would like
Drum-MaJor Babbitt to stay down all summer.
She says she believes he could knock more ap-
| pies with that club of his than both her bows.
Inc Reserves tell me that they have enioyed
4helr "Trip immensely, only it was a little difficult
70 stceP ana get things to eat; in every other
particular 1t was very pleasant, if it had not
Oeen so hot the few days it didn't rain. The
ram made the ground little damp, but it soon
dried, except in their tents, and it would have
aIleu there II they had taken their tents down.
Ihey have orders to strike their tents tomorrow.
Ohe OF the boys said he would rather strike
the tent-maker, because he thinks he is the most
10 Dlame, and not the tent. ] asked him ''FoI
what = lie said, I'VE had very good time
or would have hadifw had been home" Which
wise opinion is endorsed by
Yours ever, the Sc
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but it was only their whiskers and moustacbe
that they subjected to this ordeal, and when any
of the Greys were killed they were turned into
blacks; consequently the night rate of mortality
would be equalled by the nitrate of silver used
on the occasion. Owing to this want of expe-
Tience in drilling, very mortilying event hap
pened to the regiment on the day of their recep-
tion of Colonel Lattas friend and companion,
President Grant, on the pier at the steamboat
landing. The Colonel had his men all drawn ur
in line on either side of the long pier, to allow
the General and his suite to pass through After
the President had passed, the Colonel, in his
prompt and commanding way gave the com,
mand,
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The Esrnte Of the Hon. Henry ]. Rnymond.

The Hon. Henry j. Raymond died worth
about $500 a little over S25000 was in real
estate, the balance being in personal property
On petition of his widow, Juliette, Surrogate
Tucker has granted letters of administration
upon the personal estate left. The petition re-
cites that the petitioner resides at No. ~ West
Ninth street, in the city of New York; that the
deceased left no will; that the value of de-
ceaseds personal property does not exceed
$500, 600; that deceased left surviving him the
following children;-Henry w, Raymond Cot
full age), Mary E. Raymond, Lucy M. Raymond
and Aimee j. A. Raymond, minors The petition
concludes by asking that letters OF administra-
ton upon the personal property be granted to
the widow, jointly with Edwin d. Morgan. The
sureties on the bond given by the administrative
and administrator are George ID. Morgan and
John T. Terry, both of Irvington, Westchester
county each of whom swears that he is worth
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