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shall be appropriated to building the school
and church. We have male academy,
Forrest Home, under the charge of Rev. B.
Fl. McCown, one of the oldest and most sue
cessful teachers of the country, within three
quarters of mile of the female school un-
der my charge. Both sons and daughters
can here be educated, at home under the eye
Of the parent, very good desideratum in
these days of corruption and vice amongst
youth. The neighborhood is rapidly filling
up, and property is doubling its value every
few years, but what We specially need is a
few more families Of decided piety and in
telligence, who will aid us in staying the
tide of vice and error that is now rushing
over the entire country. We have beau.
tiful country, excellent society, schools and
churches, but we would like to have few
more Presbyterians Of the old fashioned style
of orthodoxy and piety, which prevailed in
your blessed old State Of Virginia in days of
yore. go 50 SIC Omanes!'' But I find am
running out my communication into as many
pages as | intended sentences when start
ed. If any of your readers would like to
know more about us, let them address me,
or call upon me at Hobbs Station, Jeffer-
son county, KY, on the Louisville and Gin
cinnati, and Louisville and Lexington Rail
roads, twelve miles from the city Of Louis
vile. w. W. HILL.
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collar of gold' who died in his arms at
Clairvaux. The preachers of the twelfth
century took up and carried to an extreme
fashion which offered to the preacher a
good field for pathetic defamation, with, it
must be confessed, abundant facilities for
sounding commonplaces on the uncertainty
of human life and the vanity of worldly
honors. 1t must be remembered, in defence
of the primitive custom, that such sermons
were preached only over those whose life
and principles had been, to all human seem
ing, consistent with sincere Christian pro.
fession. When the funeral sermon became,
as in course of time and under the relaxed
discipline Of the Church it was sure to be-
come, q mere Grafton pronounced over earth
ly notabilities, it degenerated in many cases
into either sonorous enunciation of truisms,
or fulsome and too often unfounded pane
gyric. Henry Quatre, over whom the Able
Valladier declaimed in bombastic strain
which won him great applause, if not much
of a saint, had at least the merit in the eyes
of all good Catholics, of being an, illustrious
convert; but the French kings and princes
of the seventeenth century were in general
but sorry subjects for the funeral preacher.
The moststriking and really solemn passage
to be found in any sermon of this class is
the well-known exordium of Massillon over
Louis lie Grand-"Dieu Seul est grand, mes
feres!" We may well believe that, with
his impressive delivery, it thrilled the au-
dience; and had he but stopped there, it
would have been perfect funeral sermon.
But to return to Bossuet. The King was
so delighted with his preaching, that he gave
him the bishopric of Condor, and soon af-
terwards intrusted him with the education
of the young Dauphin. From that time
Bossuet preached but at rare intervals, and
even then, it would seem, almost reluctantly,
SO absorbed was he with the duties of his
diocese and education Of his royal pupil
When this charge was ended, the King pro.
noted him to the richer bishopric of Meaux,
where he continued and ended his laborious
life, jealous bishop and active controver-
sialist to his death at the age of sixty-two.
The good people Of his new diocese hardly
understood at first the treasure of ability
and learning with which they were blessed.
Louis, with natural pride in so good an
inquired of some of them how
they liked their new bishop? "Pretty
WELL" was the cautious reply; on which the
King expressed some surprise at their speak.
ing SO coldly. They explained that they
thought he was scarcely the sort of man
they expected; whenever they waited on
him, they were told that he was cat his
studies;" and they should certainly have
preferred bishop whose education had been
completed before he came.-Blackwood' 8
Magazine.
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THE TRAvELERS.-Luke xiv.

Heavy at heart, two travellers left the city
Guilty Jerusalem-and sought place
Where grief might hide from eyes that had no pity
And love have leave her sorrow to embrace.
They talked together earnestly recalling,
With sad smazement, all that had occurred:
The mock of trial, and the death appalling
The angel message which the woman heard.
While thus COMMUNICABLE of sad misgiving-
Yet, wondering what the angels question meant
"Why do ye seek among the dead, the iving?"
Their fearful gances down to earth were bent.
They noticed not traveller spproaching
But, all absorbed in sorrow, journeyed slow,
Till, tenderly-not heedlessly encrOaehing
On sorrows rights, he asked their grief to know.
"Jesus, Himself, drew near" had they deserted
Him
How quickly had lamenting turned to praise!
But still, with hardened hearts they walked beside
Him,
Nor thought their dOwncast gIances yet to raise.
And, halfindignant, that He seemed unknowing
Of these strange things that lately had befel
Told all the mournfal history, sadly showing
How He had faileG then, @hold tEey trusted well.
Is it not thus with many weeping servant,
Who treads, distrustfully, the path of woe?
Of the Good Masters presence unobservant-
Their eyes are holden, that they may not know
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TIE PROFITS OF SACRIFICE.-A man of
the world stood upon wharf, and saw a
company of missionaries sail for heather
land. He beheld the son, the daughter, the
brother, the sister, the friends, with Chris
tan selfdenial and love for souls, give the
parting hand; and he protested against it.
"These," said he, "are just such spirits
and talents as we need at home; and it is
not right to send them away"
Such was his judgment of the case.
But mark the result. The scene which
he then saw wrought upon his mind, until
he was constrained to give himself to Christ.
He has lived already to educate, at his own
expense, more young men for the ministry
than sailed in that missionary company.
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Freshness of the Bible.

For our own sakes, and for the sake of
presenting it in its true light to the world,
let us seek to study it in all the vividness of
life and variety of color, with which God
has set it forth. The special want of our
time is to make the Bible more human with
out making it less divine. Christ and the
great truths of his gospel must always stand
in the centre and pervade the whole; but
we should seek to make them do it, as the
Bible itself does, touching mans nature and
his history in every varied way. There is no
Christian, however humble, who may not
grow into the habit of such a study of the
Bible, and thus make it to himself not only
a divinely true, but an ever new book; life
in its heart, manifold light in all its modes of
presentation, till he can enter into the spirit
of this same speaker, 90, how love l thy
law; it is my study all the day."
The man who begins the search after truth
is generally more satisfied with his progress
than he who has been long in the course
Those things which, like the stem of tree,
seem simple and easily grasped, spread away
beneath into interminable roots, where we
can never count them all nor reach the end
of any one. Let man try to master a sin
gle subject, and he will find it SO. The road
becomes longer and the field wider as he
proceeds. Side.paths strike off, related sci
ences penetrate his special subjects of study,
which must be known if he is to understand
his own department thoroughly, till he feels
how "brief is life and how long is know
LEDGE" No mind can touch all these things
far less contain them. The more one knows
the more one feels it; and the wider human
science grows as whole, the less is the por'
ton that can be overtaken by each individ
ual. 1t is surely painful to reflect that i
there be not an infinite mind, the universe
can never, even as material thing, be com
pretended in thought. Each mind is like {
glow-worm with its little spot of light rount
it, but there is no broad sun pouring illumi
nation on the whole. 1t would then be nj
uniuerse, no one thing to any one mind; ant
the increase of knowledge would only max
this more apparent, showing the unknown tt
be always more than the known.-Day
| DaWn.
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
Bellewood Seminary to be Rebuilt.

DR.. Brown,-You were kind enough to
notice the burning of Bellewood Seminary
on the 18th of March last, and to speak of
the influence the institution had exerted for
good in the general region of country in
which it is located. 1t may interest you
and some of your readers to learn that its
friends have gone to work very energetically
to rebuild it in an enlarged and more COM
modious form. They have already raised
about ten thousand FIVE hundred dollars, and
expect to add to that amount so as to con-
meet with it handsome Presbyterian
church, the building to be in the form of the
letter I, the stem constituting the church
building, and the top the Schoolroom. The
church will be Gothic, Sc feet by 60, with a
tower to the side of it, and the school-build-
ing will be two stories high, the lower room
9S feet by so for the main school room !;
above which will be four recitation rooms
and two or three music rooms. If we can
succeed in our designs the fire will prove the
occasion of a real blessing to us, as our
church was mile and a-half from the Sem
mary before, and we found such difficulty in
bad weather in getting the pupils and teach
ers over to it that we were compelled to
hold one service each Sabbath in the school
room. Henceforth we shall have church
right at our door, which will be far more
eligible and central to the body of the con-
gregation than the old church building is.
In this connection I would say to any
Presbyterians in the South who may desire
to remove to Kentucky, to a point where
they can educate their children at home,
enjoy church privileges, and be near to one
of the large and growing cities of the coun-
try, with which we shall soon have connec-
ton seven times a day by rail, in half an
hours run, that [ have had several farms,
small and large, and building lots, put into
my hands for sale, with the understanding
that when, sold q portion of the proceeds
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AN AsToNIsHED CHRIsTIAN.-An able
brother in neighboring city, formerly
deemed it quite impossible that he should
work in the Sunday School. Force of cir
cumstances, however, compelled him to
enter, temporarily, as he supposed. After
goodly probation, he now writes to his for
mer pastor as follows:-"I am daily more
and more astonished that l should so long
have kept out of this great and glorious
work." Truly it is enough to astOnish, not
men alone, but angels even, that so many
Christians do keep out of this great and
glorious work. In heaven, if not here,
many will be astonished at their own neglect
in this regard. $50, work to-day in my
vineyard" saith the Lord.
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Every drop of innocent blood hath a tongue,
and is not only vocal, but importunate.-
What a noise did the blood of my Saviour
make in heaven-The Spirit that heard both
says, at spake better things than the blood
of Abel" A5ers blood called for revenge,
has for mercg." SUB UMBRA.
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THERE IS ENOUGH in the world to COM
plain about and find fault with, if men have
the disposition. We often travel on hard
and uneven roads; but with a cheerful spirit
we may walk thereon with comfort, and
come to the end of our journey in peace.
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SPIRITUAL PRIDE is an inward sin of a
deep dye, because it is vaunting Of our
selves in that which, if indeed possessed, we
have received as beggars from the hand of
God. And pride on our knees, self-com-
placency in sackcloth, conceit of our own
goodness in prayer-what are these but so
many insults to Jehovah
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WHAT a blessed hope is ours it serves as
an anchor at sea, and helmet in battle.
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Economy In the Treasury Depar,m,,,

Washington special of the 10th 70 the New
YORK Herald, says As the labors of Mr. E. r.
"asnDurne's committee on appropriations leak
OUT ther enorts 10 force economy uDon the gov
eminent departments create something of sen.
sauOn among the heads of bureaus and their clerks
IL seems that the committee has reduced the an.
propflation for the treasury for the fiscal wear
endiIR June 80, 1870, to surprisingly small sum,
and nave designated. without consultation with
the department officials, the exact number ;of
CLERKS, copyists and messengers that will need TO
De discharged In order to bring their expenses
'Wlinn the limits OF the appropriation. The heads
vi OurtAus are troubled not little to decide upon
the manner IN which these reductions shall be
made, and some Of them declare that their present
force IL so small that the current business of the
government is barely transacted. In the Office of
the commissioner of customs the clerical force
has bees reduced by the figures of the COMMITTEES
as follows: One third class clerk, salary $1,000:
two second class clerks, combined salaries $500:
three Ftltst class clerks, combined salaries $500
Inc n.essenger's salary has been cut down from
$1,000 70 $780, and the salary of the laborer has
been reduced from s720 to 5000, making a re.
duction OF expenses for the year of $500.
some OF the gossips Of the treasury, in speculs
ing upon this cramping Of tho treasury officers,
think that the neagreness of the APPROPRIATION IL
sn uDmistakable evidence that MI Wasbhurns
does not expect to be secretary of the treasury
under PRESIDENT Grant. or he would not so imnoy.
erish that institution as TO provide for its chief
world Of perplexiiy and embarrassment in the
Mr. whburne expects the process Of ,adn.,;nn
to begin at once, the whole matter ia on'na
schemet,o provide goodly supply of vac .ncies
10 De hEed by the incoming secretary for ihey do
not DOUBT that all the vacancies created by this
reducuqn Will be filed after the 4th of March |
and means Of payment furnished nv a deScisnc,, |
bill II this be the object In view there Il hnts
poor prospect for the harmonious working Of the |
plan, az it Is understood that mn. McCnIIoch has |
intlms,qa his intention not to take single st9p
towards tne execution OF the plan. The sppropri. |
atoms fer the fiscal year 1850 will he snc{ant 70
serve Though his term of Office ana tbs hns;nsss
Of dischtrgipg and Responding NAV he na-forNsd
by bis successor.
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WnE Ggfa Orleans Grtsteut
SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY %, 1869.
The Light ne Home.

The light at home, how bright it beams
When evening shades around us fall:
AND from the lattice far it CLEANS,
To love, and rest, and comfort all (; ......
when wearied with the tolls of day,
And strife for glory, gold, or fame,
How sweet to seek the quiet way.
Where loving lips viii lisp our name
Around the light al home
When through the dark and stormy night
The wsyward wsnderer homeward flies,
How cheering is that twinkling light,
Which through the forest gloom he spies
II 10 the light Of home. He feels
That loving hearts will greet him there.
And safely through bis bosom steals
The joy and love that Danish care
Around the light at home.
The light at home-how still and sweat
1t peeps from yopder cottage door.
The weary laborer to greet,
When the rough tolls of day are o'eri
Sad IL the soul that does not know
The blessings that the beams impsrt.
The cheerful hopes and joys that flow,
And tighten up the heaviest heart
Around the light at home.
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PROCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR.

PROCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR.
MAYORALTY OF NEW ORLEANS
City Hall, Jan. 4, 1869.
By virtue of resolution lib, new series, of the
Common Council of the city of New Orleans, and
IN accordance with section III of the city charter
notice is hereby given that il is the intention of
the city of New Orleans to cause to be opened
and wldened the northeast side of Orleans street
from Bayou st. John TO Metairie Road. to mi
form width of one hundred and eighty feet &C.
corolng 10 an act entitled ian act to regulate the
oreniDg, laying out and improving streets and
public places in the city of New Orleans and its
suburbs, incorporated and not incorporated. and
the banlieus of the same" approved April Sd,
JOHN r. CONWAY, Mayor.
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MAYoRALTY OF NEW ORLEANS,
N.e. HolI no rnan

MAYoRALrY OF NEW ORLEANS
City Hall, Jan. %, 1869. (
mo. l245-N. 81
RESOLVED, That the controller warrant on the
treasurer in favor of John F. Rust for The sum of
I'VE hundred dollars ($500) in United States cur
rency, In reimbursement of q similar amount de-
posted by him at the time of the Adjudication of
the contract for digging canals.
(Signed) THOMAS MARKEY,
President Board Aldermen.
(Signed) JOHN RprTS
President pro TEN. Board Assistant Aldermen.
Approved Jan. %, 1869.
(6gned) JOHN r. CONWAY Mavor.
true copy:
JOHN w. OVERALL. Secretary. 49,
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PROCLAMATION DU MARIE.

PROCLAMATION Do MARIE.
MARIE DE LA NoUvELLE ORLEANS,
Hotel de Vile, Jsnvier 4, 1869.
En- vertu de Ia resolution No. lib, nouvelles
Ieres, du Conseil Commun de la vile de Ia Non.
velle Orleans, ct d'spIes la section III de la
charte de la vile.
Avis est dome que la vile de la Nouvee Or.
leans Pintention de fsire ouvrir ct eargr lie cote
nord-est de la rue d'Orlesns, du Bayou ST. Jean au
chemin de la Metarie, sur une largeur uniforme
de cent qustrevingt pieds, commencement a IN
acte inttule "Acte Pourvoyant Fouyerture. an
trace. ct a Pameoration des rues ct places pub.
Eques dams la vile de la Nouvelle Orleans ct de
SEES fsubOurgs, ineorpores GU non incorpor6s ainsi
Avril, 1882.
(Signe) JOHN r. CONWAY Maire
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OFFICIAL.
DETlTION.,
...PETITION.

Orleans: VI 'ne CITY Oh Nss
The rndersigDed Owners of Estate which fronts on
SAINT Cnsres teet SIDE between Tyol Circle street.
Bocy to order said portion Of Charles street AZ
% ZEN ,o Circle street and Toledsno street to be paved
a. Wallace Bunler. ~ feet
j. N. Reid 50 feet inches.
f. & Keep, g. feet.
II Bidwel, go feet
. y. Goldsmith, Ill feet.
Isaac forchimer 81 feet.
Charles II. Lee 81 feet
Henry KOpman n feet.
Msry Regan, 81 feet.
J. Newman for the N Z. Church, IS feet.
Mrs. y. K. Walker, Sc ct.
Louis z. d 6omergue. per pro. of A, so fact
r Irwin, l07 feet.
G; y Ferguson los feet.
Charles Jumonville. 90 feet.
y Htzmapn, 1856 feet.
Sd. ssRn E Be- %s sS. g feet
r Fitzgerald 1helan, &c feet.
A:Ma-chsnd 81 feet.
6h aasa, u A. Hushe. % feet.
VT. Richards l3s feet.
f. Il; Harris, l29 feet
Mrs NJ V. Brynon, 26 feet.
S. Hackstt, IL feet.
James Byrae, 80 feet.
I. Oestsc, 6feet.
Charles Gallagher 50 feet
mrs A: M. Jennings per Forneau, So feet.
+ Quinn ngs, ia feet
Mrs.; z: :. Watkins, 60 feet.
L j. Webster. "a feet.
George W. Wet IS feet
Chss Churchill tutor etc minors H. Thorn "a feet
O. q Churchill, 26 feet.
; rthur kcGrirk, 100 feet
John Henderson. Jr.. IS feet
r. Rusha 81 feet
smith Mckenna Us feet
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MAYoRALTY OF New ORLEANS
City Hall. Jan. 20, 1869.
mo. l246-N.S]
RESOLVED, That the controller De and he is
9eIeoy authorized to readjudicate, after five
days notice, the contracts for renarino and
keeping in repair the bridges and crossings and
Tor building new bridges and crossings. in the
FIRST. Second and Fourth Districts, for the IN.
expired term of Daniel Mulligan's contract. put
(Signed) JOHN BREFN
President pro TEN. Board Assistant Aldermen.
(Signed) THOMAS MARKEy.
President Board Aldermen.
Approved Jan. %, 1869.
(Signed) JOHN r. CoSwAy Mavor.
A true copy:
JOHN W. OVERALL, Secretary.
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BAEBRUP TCY-FSTATg or SAMUEL
n Blu bank individual and as co partner Of Thomas and
q n Burbank, Of Jefferson. United States Marshal's
Unhce. District OF Louisiana, New Odesns, January
- let9 This Is to give notice thst the twelfth
cay OF January. A. D. 1862 Warrant IN Bankruptcy
Orleans In parish Of Orleans aud State Of Louisiana who
has been acjudged bank bis etit0n the
men Of debts and delivery any blooerty bsoaz;
70 such bankrupt 70 him hts and the Of snV
property BY hm are forbidden law; that nesting on t
creditors OF the said BANKRUPT 20 THAR and 10
enc Sc one or more sssnees Of his tate will be I'D Al
Court OF Bankruptcy holden at No al EXCHANGE Pis
IN TIE city OF New Orleans Louisiana befO Donafien A..
y o'clock - - y io'' ~
A-No rs ;, uEppox
ial4 fec rs Marshal ID .,-i., ~ 5000.
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IN ANERUPTCY-EsTATE OF TRAsINoN
U tied states Marshal Dstrict az Ioni.S
ana New Orleans Januarv H. ls69-Jhis n 20 yiye no
USte W 1e s.n DAY Of January 1852 warrant in bang
snst tne estate Of Trasimou Landry of
ton that Rss ossn sSudsed bankrupt on own pei
pIpy belonging to said bankrupt 10 him or for his No.
a. @ ansIer OF any property by him. are forbidden bvis
their OF ,he creditors OF said bankrupt 70 provs
vii be- bsa 70 choose one sssgDees q his
Exebsnss Oonrt q Bankruptcy. to be holden At No AZ
Febrnary ns aapgns,in Register, the 9th day OF
jal2 fe27 Us Ms,.h.i r y; - nEshhON,
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MAYoRALTY OF NEW ORLEANS,
City Hall, Jan. Is, 1868.
mo. l233-N. 81
Resotced, That the controller be and he is here.
by directed, after five days notice in the official
Journal, to adjudicate to the highest bidder the
collecting OF the revenues of the Ninth Street Mar
ket for the unexpired term of Mr.. John Haas.
placed in default; Provided, The adjudication be
made for United States currency only.
(Signed) JOHN BREEY.
President pro TEN. Board Assistant Aldermen.
(Signed) THOMAS MARKEY.
President Board Aldermen.
Approved Jan. Is, 1863.
(SigDed) JOHN r. CONWAY. Mavor.
A true copy:
JOHN W. OVERALL, Secretary.
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MAYoRALTY OF NEW ORLEANS,
City Hall, Jan. 20. 1869.

MAYoRALTY OF NEW ORLEANS,
City Hall, Jan. 20, 1869.
mo. 1234-N. 81
ReS0tred, That the controller be and he is here
by authorized, after five days notice in theIoicisl
Journal, to adjudcate to the lowest bidder the
contract to shell and grade Dorgenois street from
the Carondelet Canal to Esplanade street. the
work TO be performed according to specifications
on file in the Office Of the city surveyor.
(Signed) THOMAS Marley
President Board Aldermen.
(Signed) G. PANDEIy-
President pro TEN. Board Assistant Aldermen.
Approved Jan. 20, 1869.
(Siened) JOHN r. CONWAY. Mavor-
true copy:
JOHN ". OVERALL, Secretary.
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THE PARDONING POWER.

IEssAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT IN ANSWER TO RE-
SOLUTION OF THE SENATE MOURNING BY WHAT
AUTHORITY HE ISSUED TIE LATE AMNESTY PRS,
CLAMATIoN.