The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-01-27
DOMESTIC MISCELLANY.

COleQidR. 1t is issued under the auspices of
the literary societies of the college, and edited
by MeSsrs. @. @. Garrett and t. S. Wilkinson.
In an address recently delivered at an Agri
cultural Fair in Staunton, Commodore NJ. I.
Maury said: Did you ever reflect that Vir-
GINA is in the latitude of the Promised Land
that the same skies upon which David and
Solomon and our Saviour gazed, are garniShed
for us as for them; that the PleaideS, Orion
and Arcturus rise and set and shine upon us
as they did upon patient job; and that every
thing that is grown there, from the fig and
the vine and corn and oil, grow here as well,
and other things besides? Did you know that
Virginia and North Carolina have given the
greatest gifts from the vegetable kingdom that
men have received since history began-that
Indian corn potatoes, and tobacco came from
this part of the world2
The United States paid $500, 900 for English
books last year, and received from England for
American publications only So, 900.
Southern Educational Aid Socisty.-Rev. A.
l.. Porter in charge of the school at Charleston,
s. c., under the care of this Society reports
that the Day School and the Home School are
both in a hOuriShing condition, the former
numbering nearly four hundred pupils, the
latter more than fifty boys, most if not all OF
whom would, but for the timely aid rendered
by this Society, still be without opportunities
for education, and some Of them even without
visible means of support.
Although the Society has been scarcely
year in existence, it is evident that the gener
Gus assistance, given by Baltimore and New
York, has not only been productive Of much
real good, but has given such encouragement to
a disheartened people, aud that the school is al
ho 70 ha h.-ft
at and near home. The monthly receipts from
the parents and friends OF scholars already
reach an important amount, and as the eondi
ton Of the South continues to improve, it Is
very evident that the citizens Of the different
Southern States will gradually be able to pro-
vide for their own schools. Though grateful
for charitable acts, the people of the South
receive aid because it Is necessity, and they
look hopefully forward to the day when they
will be no longer obliged to ask for it.
New Books.-The Book Buyer, a monthly
advertising publication issued by Scribner &
Co., New York, gives the following about
books issued recently in London:
1.-The lectures of Rev. Fl. p Liddon on the
Dirihity of Christ have had sale unparalleled
among theological books in the elegant and
cOmpendiOuS form of the recent edition. Per
haps no author has reached higher stand on
the strength of one book. Its success has led
TO great inquiry after his other writings, aud a
new edition of the only other work published
by him, Uairersity Sermons, thoroughly re-
vised and enlarged, is in press, uaiiorm with
the Lectures. Old foundations like the "Bamp
ton" and Boyle" Lectures, seem awakening to
life in the hands OF earnest and eloquent men.
Mr.. LiddOn's Lectures were the hampton Lee
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form, of those for the following year, The
Dogmate Faith, by Rev. Edward Garbett,
has been recently called for, and the Lectures
for 1868, delivered by the venerable DR.. Mo
berly, Canon of Chester and formerly Master
of Winchester School, The Administration Of
the Holy Spirit az The Body Of Christ, bid fair
TO equal any former series IN popularity. The
Boyle Lectures for the present year, by a
younger divine, the Rev. Stanley Leathes one
of the Queens chaplains, The Witness of the
Old Testament TO Christ, are spoken of as
displaying unusual talent, A new edition
teagerly looked for) has been brought out by
Dr. Pussy of his triumphant vindication of
the authenticity of the prophet Daniel 1t
contains a valuable preface of so pages of new
matter devoted to a refutatiOn of the replies
attempted to his work since the first edition.
Religious Condition of the Countrywide. Jo-
seph NJ. Wilson, publisher of the Presbyte-
rian Historical Almanac, mas issued in pam
phlet form a series of tables setting forth the
religious condition of the United States ac-
eOrd,ng to the last census. These tables show
the number of churches Of each denomination
by States, the aggregate church aceommoda.
tons and value of their church property; the
number of churches of all denominations in
each State, and the aggregate church accom-
notation and the value Of church property
in the States; the average size ard cost of
churches, and their number in proportion to
population, together with their increase from
1850 to 1860.
The tables of population are no less carefully
prepared. aud embrace so many important
facts and deductions in a convenient and &C
ceSsible form, that many will be glad to avail
themselves Of Mr.. Wilson's labOrs His ad
dress is l23 South Fourth street Philadelphia.
The Christian at Work, edited BY DR.. Water
bury, announces that it has reached eircula-
ton of $4,000.
Messrs Appleton & Co. are about to publish
Underground Life or, Mines aud Miners,
translated from the French Of l. Simonin, by
II W. BriStOw, f. r. 5.
The same house will also shortly publish,
Hawaii: the Past, Present, and Future Of
the Island Kingdom, by Marley Hopkins, H.
b. Nj. Consul General at the Sandwich Islands
being a history OF Polynesia In all its aspects
with fine portraits OF the Royal Family, and
numerous maps and pictures exhibiting the
topography and scenery Of Hawaii Also, the
=" Life and Letters of Fitz.Greene Halleck, E"
BY James Grant Wilson, illustrated with por
traits OF the poet, and views Of his residence
and monument at Guilford.
Sugar Crop of LOuisiana-The sugar crop of
Louisiana for last year, is estimated at l25 900
hOgsheads of sugar and POO, 600 barrels OF mo
lasSes, worth at current prices over $50 ,OOO,-
600, against $4,000 hogSheads of sugar last
year, and the same proportion OF molaSSes :;
or, in round figures, total of not one third of
the production this season. Next year 1t is
said that $50 900 hOgsheads of sugar will be
produced, because the planters generally in
Louisiana are retaining large portion OF their
cane for seed. In some instances the entire
crop Of plantations has been reserved for this
purpose.
Growth Of our Railway System.-Less than
fifty years ago there were no railroads on this
Continent Now it is estimated that there are
in daily use. on the 81 900 miles of railway
lines in the United States, |, $50 600 truck and
car wheels, Z, 500 locomotives, 6, 500 passenger
cars, 3 700 baggage and express cars and 100,
OO0 freight cars Passenger cars make an
annual mileage of 2S 400 miles or SS4 miles
daily, and $40 days per annum, with an aver
age load of 81 tons. la the State of New Y Ork,
with freight service Of | /, 4SS l2S train mile
age per annum transporting IS ) tons of freight
per train, the annual mileage per car was IA,
kA0 vnflas NTH an avaraua load If At TONS