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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-26
| L. +. Berens VS.. Alfred kearny-Seventh
! District Court for the parish OF Orleans, No.

THOMAS L. MAXWELL,
oc26 uol6 Dc Sheriff of the parish OF Orleans
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The City of New Orlean, vs.. Joseph

THOMAS Ia. NAA " ELL,
$3.50 Ocl5 80 Sheriff OF the Parish of Orleans.
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Armand BelOt VS.. l.. j. N7aiiiOt and Miss

THUNAN u. MIX " Ell,
$3.50 ocl5 90 Sheriff of the parish of Orleans.
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Widow John 4. CO-ianZi Vs.. Ma

THOMAS l.. NaAN Eli,
se23 ocl1 % Sha1.1t OF the parish OF Orleans.
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seq. ocl5 % Sheriff of the Parish OF OIIeans.
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OHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD.-On
\ J and after SUNDAY, LIST of May, 1870, the
Passenger Trains will run as follows, viz:
MAIL TRAIN will run daily between Richmond
and Staunton Except Sunday, between Gordonsville
and Staunton.) Leave Richmond at 1886 a. m. and
arrive at Stanton at ago p. m. leave Staunton at
9.2O a. m. and arrive at Richmond at 440 p. NJ
making close connections at Gordonsville and Char
lottesvile with the Orange, Alexandria and Manas-
sas railroad mail trains for Alexandria, Washing
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, etc.; also
for Lynchburg, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis,
New Orleans, Montgomery, Mobile, etc.
MAIL TRAIN will run tri-weeky between Staun'
ton and White Sulphur Springs on TUESDAY, THURS.
and arrive at White Sulphur at 1905 p. m; leave
White Sulphur at 3:45 m, and arrive at Staunton
at a. m. And going west will connect with stages
as follows viz: at Goshen with stages for Lexing.
ton, Natural Bridge, and Rockbridge Baths; at
Millboro with stages for Bath Alum and Warm
Springs and at White Sulphur with stages for Lew
isburg, Charleston, etc.
STAGES will also leave Staunton on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday mornings, for Lexington
and Natural Bridge.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN will run between
Richmond and Washington nightly without change
of cars. Leave Richmond at S:45 p. M, and arrive
at Washington at 535 a. m. Leave Washington at
6:35 D. M, and arrive at Richmond at 800 a. m.
Making all through connections at Richmond and
Washington.
SLEEPING CARS will be attached to this train,
and will be run through between Richmond and
Baltimore without change.
Through TICKETS issued to all points North,
West, and Southwest.
JAMES F. NETHERLAND,
my lift General Ticket Agent.
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u RICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD.
h-CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.-On and after
WEDNESDAY, December 29th 1869, the PAS
SENGER TRAINS on this road will be run as fol-
lows:
GOING SoUTH.-Lynchburg and Danville passen-
gers leave Richmond daily Except Sundays,) at
915 A. M; leave Burkeville daily Except Sundays
at 12:45 P NJ; arrive at Danvlle daily Except Sun
days) at 5:55 P. NJ THROUGH MAIL AND Elk.
PRESS leaves Richmond daily at $3.50 P. NJ; leaves
Danyille daily at 135 P NJ; arrives at Greensboro
daily at Ais A. M.
GoING Manufacturing and Danville passen-
gers leave Danvile daily Except Sundays) at TAO
a. NJ; leaves Burkeville daily Except Sundays at
l2:45 P. NJ; arrive at Richmond daily Except Sun
days. at 8:5OP. N. THROUGH MAIL AND Elk
PRESS leaves Greensboro daily at 1926 P. M;
Richmond daily at 7:2O A. NJ.
The Lynchburg and Danville Passenger Train
connects at Burkeville with the trains on the South
side road for Petersburg, Norfolk, Lynchburg, and
all stations on the Southside and Virginia and Ten
nessee Railroads, Bristol Knoxville, Dalton, Chat
tanooga, Nashville, Memphis, and all important
points South and Southwest.
The Through Mail and Express connects al
Greensboro with the trains on the North Carolina
road for Charlotte, Columbia, Augusta Savannah,
Macon, Mobile, Montgomery, &C., &C.; and at
Richmond with the Richmond Fredericksburg and
Potomac, Chesapeake and Ohio, and Richmond and
York River railroads
SLEEPING CARS and CHILE'S PATENT RE-
Ginning CHAIRS on the through express train.
THOMAS DODAMEAD,
ian 5-tf Superintendent.
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CENTRAL PRESB YTERIAN

full style, and watched over its success with
all that devout and gracious tenderness which
made all men love him greatly. l cannot
but feel that, in my being permitted to move
the adoption of the report on the table, some
slight recognition is intended to him whose
name is linked to the name of Regent Square,
as long as the name of Regent Square shall
be remembered"
Mr.. Dykes contrasted the effete and worn
out Hindoo with the Chinese, "who are at
this moment the great colonizing race of the
East. They are beginning to play an impor-
tant part in the future of all the lands that
touch the wide Pacific. They swarm in the
Straits settlements; and in Australia they
form an important element in the population
which no statesman can venture to disregard.
They are making their appearance in large
numbers in California. And since the cessa-
ton of civil war in America, they have found
their way into the southern portion of that
mighty continent, SO that you should not
wonder if, in generation or two, they may
have displaced the negro race from the do
nestle life of the Southern States. With
facts like these before us, we have good rea-
son to congratulate ourselves that we have
been led, in the providence of God, to plant
our mission stations on the seaboard of their
vast empire"
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The Missions in China.

The Missions in connection with the Eng
lish Presbyterian Church have been wonder
fully blessed, Notwithstanding occasional
breaking up of churches and severe persecu-
ton. Mr.. Hugh Matheson, an eminent mer-
chant, and devoted and exemplary Chris
tan, from the period when the sanity Will
liam Burns, the well-known coadjutor with
McCheyne in the revival days of 1889, went
out, has watched over these missions, as
also did DR.. James Hamilton as long as he
lived. There are twelve European miSsiona,
ries, of whom three are medical men, and
there are seventeen native evangelists. The
total membership has risen rapidly, from
$50 to about 730. But these direct fruits
represent but part of the work" To the
above is now added Mission in China from
the Irish Presbyterian Church. Warm sym
pathy and large help are yearly presented
from friends in Scotland. At the meeting
of the English Synod, one of the missiona
ries, young man obliged to come home for
time on account of i'll health, gave interest
ing particulars of this glorious enterprise.
The Rev. Oswald Dykes, the successor Of
DIR. Hamilton in the Regent Square church,
London, delivered noble speech in support
of these China Missions. He made grace
full opening by referring to the departed
James Hamilton, as follows:
81 might we'll shrink from the prominent
position to which the courtesy of the com.
mittee has called me, but for two reasons
could find no theme more consonant with my
feelings on which to make my first appear
ance on the floor of this house, than on
Foreign Missions; and in the second place,
and chiefly because no part of this church's
work is more closely connected with the
name of my disting uished predecessor III
Regent Square than this. I cannot forget
that I owe my seat here to the fact that
am, however unworthy, the successor of one
who for years was convener of your Foreign
Mission Committee. In the presence Of sc
many who remember him with the vividness
of personal love and almost lifelong friend
ship, it would be presumptuous for me tc
speak of his services to this Church. But
neither | nor any other Presbyterian Chris
tan outside your borders could fail to know
that to the service of this mission he devoted
his rare, rich gifts, illumined its narratives
by his delicate and felicitous fancy, advocat
ed its claims with his flexible and most grace.
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How Good it is That we Have God. "

A little boy of four years old was sleep
ing one night in. low bed in the same
room with his mother. He was lovely and
thoughtful child, and though so young, had
always received into his mind the idea Of
the great God who made him, and rules over
all. He was happy in having been taught
to pray to this great God, and was daily in
the habit of asking what he most wanted Of
his heavenly Father, without fear and with
out doubt
But this night of which I speak, he awoke
out of sleep with a loud cry, as if he had
been disturbed by frightful dream. When
his mother tenderly inquired what was the
matter, he told her that he was afraid, and
begged to know if God would indeed take
care of hir
When assured him that God
ssa,ss. ss..s in the darkness as
well as il lsl., he sunk back upon his
pillow and aed out, How good it is that
we have God" He then fell asleep peace.
fully, as if he felt the everlasting arms
around him.
Christians, who have long been in the
school of Christ, would do well to go back
and take first lesson from this little child
When the way is dark before them, and
those trials come upon them which they had
every reason to expect, and which they need
for their sanctifcation, instead of complain
ing, let them cast themselves upon the care
of Him who is mighty to save, and say tc
their hearts, "How good it is that we have
God"
So when the hour Of death comes, thai
darkest hour of all, the Christian may bt
sustained by the thought that comforted the
dear child in the dark night; and falling
back on the bosom of Jesus, may sink tc
rest exclaiming, GLOW good it is that We
have God"
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EALL AND WINTER ARRANGEMENT

NALL AND WINTER ARRANGEMENT,
1869-TO THE NORTH, EAST, and WEST,
Uia the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad carrying the United States mail twice
daily Elegant cars with new patent sleeping chairs
on all trains. The through trains on this road are
now run from the depot, corner of Byrd and Eighth
streets as follows.
The DAY THROUGH MAIL TRAIN leaves
Richmond daily at Ills A. NJ, arriving in Wash
ington at 6:45 p. M, connecting with the early
afternoon express trains for the North, East and
West.
The NIGHT THROUGH MAIL TRAIN, with
elegant cars with the new patent sleeping chairs at
tached, leaves Richmond daily Sundays excepted)
at s:15 P NJ, arriving in Washington at 6:1O A. NJ,
connecting with the early morning trains for the
North East, and West.
Both STEAMERS stop at Alexandria each way.
The ACCOMMODATION TRAIN for Milford
and all waystations leaves depot corner Broad and
Eighth streets at $3.50 P. NJ Returning, arrives at
S:45 A. M.
Through tickets and through baggage checks to
all principal points.
For further information and through tickets, ap.
ply at the Office of the company, corner Broad and
Eighth Streets Shockoe Hill, and at the ticket Office
corner Byrd and Eighth streets.
j. B. GENTRY, General Ticket Agent.
SAMUEL RUTH, Superintendent.
no LIFT
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Central Dresbpteriarr.
Office No. 1015 Main street, nearly opposite
the Post Office.
TER MS.

Three Dollars year, payable in adrance Pay.
ments made within the first tDo months from date
of subscription, will be considered in advance.
-Four Dollars year, if payment is not made with.
in two months.
All subscribers who do not give express notice to
the contrary will be regarded as wishing to continue
their subscription, and the paper will be sent to
them accordingly.
No paper will be discontinued until arrearages
are paid except in special cases at the discretion Of
the Editor.
PosTAeE.-Twenty cents year-to be paid at the
Office where the paper is received.
The BEST MODES OF MAKING PAYMENTS are here
put down according to the order in which they are
preferred:
/. To local agents wherever practicable; all min
listers of Church authorised to act as such.
2. A BANK CHECK, or Posi- OFFICE MONEY ORDER
may be sent by mail without risk of loss
8. Where neither of these can be procured, send
in registered letter. Under the new regulations
this mode is ordinarily safe.
The cost of the money order or registered letter
may be deducted from the amount transmitted.
Money sent according to the directions above is
at OUR RISK If transmitted simply by mail, IT
MUST BE AT THE RISK OF THE PARTY SENDING 1T.
MARRIAGES AND DEATHs.-Notices inserted with.
out charge.
OBITuARIEs.-Chsrged at ten cents line. The
party sending can make the estimate By counting
eight words to lire. Payment Invariably in ad-
UGnce.
COMMUNICATIONS AND LETTERS ON BUSINESS should
be addressed to Central Presbyterian, Box II,
Richmond, Va
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ceeding rigor, and was again under Charles
H., after the restoration. Pious communl-
ties were hunted into mountain hiding places
by cavalry commands. Men of whom the
world was not worthy had their noses slit,
judicially, and were cropped of both ears,
by officers of the law. One good man,
Prynne, 1 think it was, of honor and inau-
ence, after being cropped, had his ears re-
placed again, Immediately, by skilfull
surgeon, so that they adhered and grew to
their places. This same man was again
judged, and was deprived of both his ears,
a second time.
1t was in this persecution, by Protestant
England, that John Bunyan, for preaching
the Gospel, was imprisoned for twelve years
in Bedford jail; where he wrote the Pilgrims
Progress In this many hundreds of Puri-
tan ministers of the Gospel were exiled from
their pulpits into private life by the govern
ment. And it is to such cause as this that
we are all indebted for whole Libraries of
the best books that were ever written by in
spired men. Bunyan's Pilgrim is one OF
them. This persecution peopled New Eng
land at the first; affording to the settlers the
unamiable lesson that they did not quite fail
to learn, and did not unlearn Immediately.
Poor human naturel Through the heart of
this century the English mind, the British
mind, the English speaking mind was exer-
cised in its every nerve and fiber about ques-
tions of liberty; and especially religious
liberty. And on these questions it is a
shame to dispute that the Puritans were the
worlds benefactcrs. McAuley is eloquent
enough on this admission. And David
Hume writes out verdict that think will
have to stand till the end Of the world
This giving of the Bible to the people by a
King and a national legislature was itself a
Gospel sermon to congregation of nations.
And this elaboration from the Bible of a
science of sacred casuistry, and pulpit phi
losophy such as the 18th century has given
us, is before the man who is now asked to
say, Did, or did not the great work of our
worlds evangelzation advance in the 18th
century? Can the world ever go back of
these great facts? Was not the 18th GEN.
tury nearer the millennium, spiritually, than
the 10th? After all, have not the three last
centuries stood up before US, in some respects
like rounds of Jacobs ladder The reader
will pursue the subjects in his thoughts, and
in his own way.
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The New Church Charter.
reported on third day.


The committee appointed to consider the
subject Of the Charter of the Board of Trus,
tees, begs leave to report that, after mature
elaboration, it is perfectly satisfied that the
present charter, obtained from the State OF
North Carolina, is ample in its provisions
for all the actual necessities of our Church,
and that the enactment of such bylaws OF
regulations as may be necessary can be made
by the General Assembly, under the provis-
ions Of the charter.
The difficulties which presented themselves
to the last General Assembly and led to the
appointment of this committee, are supposed
to have been the following, viz:
l. No seat for the operations of the trus-
tees has been established, and it is under.
stood they have held meetings outside Of
the State of North Carolina, which, it was
believed, would render their proceedings,
enacted at such meetings, null and void,
under decisions of the Supreme Court Of
the United States.
,. The scattered character of the Board
Of Trustees renders it difficult to obtain a
quorum.
5. The charter makes the executive COM
mittees of the Assembly branches of the
corporation, but points out no method by
which this provision can be made available.
4. The existing order of the General
Assembly, authorizing and directing the
Trustees to obtain the enactment of the
same charter, by other States besides North
Carolina, it was feared would have the effect
to create confusion, and render it difficult
to identify the corporation.
Whether all these difficulties are real or
only imaginary, it is not necessary to dis
euss. The practical and important fact is
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that the power of the General Assembly,
without the necessity of any new act OF In
corporation, or any amendment of the pre-
sent one. The provisions of our charter
are liberal and ample; and by its express
terms the General Assembly has the ap-
pointment of the Trustees, and the regula-
ton of their tenure of office; and "no by
laws, ordinances or acts DONE are valid, if
"repugnant" to 'any direction of the Gen.
eral Assembly" Moreover, all the pro-
perty which may be acquired by the Trus-
tees "shall be held, used, and disposed OF
according to the directions of the General
Assembly" No charter could give the AS
sembly more complete control of the corpO-
ration.
The committee, therefore, recommends
that no effort be made to obtain new act OF
incorporation from any other State, but that
the following resolutions be adopted to give
greater efficiency to the present corporation
ResoIved, 1. That the seat of the opera
tons of the Board of Trustees be established
at Charlotte, in the State of North Carolina,
and that the Trustees be directed to hold all
their meetings at Charlotte, or some other
convenient place, within the State of North
Carolina.
2. That sufficient number of Trustees be
elected residing in Charlotte or its immediate
vicinity to make quorum of the board, and
that no one hereafter be elected Trustee
who does no. reside sufficiently near to Char
lotte to give the prospect of his attendance
at every meeting.
8. In order to give effect to the provision
of the charter, which constitutes the Execu-
tive Committees of the Assembly branches
of the corporation, resolved, that the Secre-
taries of Education, Foreign Missions, Pub
LEGATION and Sustentation, for the time being,
be and hereby are appointed Trustees in adj
dition to the number required by existing
bylaws. The Trustees are directed to con-
slider the subject of this resolution at their
first meeting after the rising of this Assem-
bly,, and, after conference with the executive
committees and in concurrence with them,
to take such action and establish such addi-
tional bylaws as may be necessary to give
practical effect to the provision of the char
ter alluded to. The Trustees are further
directed to make full report of their pro-
ceedings in the premises to the next Assem-
bly,.
4. That the number of the Trustees be
gradually reduced to -, exclusive of the
Secretaries of the Assembly, and that, in
order to this, at every election - persons
shall be appointed to fill the vacancies which
annually occur.
5. That the resolutions adopted by pre-
vious assemblies, authorizing the trustees to
secured the passage of the same charter
by Legislatures of other States besides North
Carolina, be rescinded.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
A. D. DICKINSON,
J. ]. GRESHAM,
E. L. BAIRD.
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The Dusty Room.

A young girl was sweeping my room one
day, when she went to the window shade and
hastily drew it down.
ct makes the room SO dusty" she said,
"to have the sunshine coming in
The atoms of dust, which shone golden in
the sunbeams, were unseen in the DINNER
light. So the untaught girl imagined it was
the sunshine that made the dust.
Now many persons imagine themselves
very good people. I have often heard them
say they had never done any thing very
wrong in their lives. One poor old man,
who had lived all his life without thought
of love to God, said he was all ready to die.
Gle didn't owe any man cent in the
world.
Now, if the Spirit of God should shine
down brightly into such heart, how do you
suppose it would look? O! it would show
them such sight of dark sins that it would
almost crush them. Even the very best
heart in the world would quake, to see itself
as God does. 1t is heart-sins that are the
terrible ones they lead to all the rest.
The light of the Spirit is like the sun
shine in the dusty room. 1t reveals what
before was hidden. When we begin to feel
ourselves very naughty, and are unhappy
about our sins, let us never try to put away
the feelings. Don't let us put down the
curtain and fancy there is no dust. 1t is
the Holy Spirits voice in our hearts. He
is showing us ourselves; and, better still, he
will show us the true way Of happiness. 1t
is only found in repentance at the foot of
the cross. You know it was only there that
Christians burden was loosed from his
shoulders, and rolled down into the sepul-
cher.-Presbyterian.
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l, Academical Course


The Student selects his own course of study. I'M
der the advice of his Parents or of the Faculty The
several Schools are so arranged as to admit OF a
complete course of study in the following directions
l. Department of Arts, to which is attached the
Degree of Bachelor of Arts
2. Department Of Science-with the degree OF
Bachelor of Science.
s Department of Philosophy degree of Bachelor
of Philosophy.
The Degree of Master of Arts is conferred on
Students who have completed the course of study in
eight of the Schools, and have taken the highest
distinction in seven of these.
Q. Professional Courses
l. Department of Civil Engineering, with the di
ploma of Civil Engineer.
2. Department of Mining Engineering, with the
diploma of Mining Engineer.
8. Department of Law and Equity, with the de-
gree of Bachelor of Law.
1t is proposed still further to extend the practical
and Scientific Departments in the direction of
l. Mechanical Engineering. 2. Applied Chemis-
try g. Agriculture. 4. Commerce.
8. Preparatory Department.
This course embraces the subjects of Latin, Greek,
Mathematics and English, preparatory to the regu-
lar College classes.
A. Students Business School.
In this School Penmanship, Bookkeeping, Ac-
counts, &C.. are taught, unuer tne authority oi Tic
Faculty.
Special Privileges and Honors.
AS special inducements to diligence, three Gold
Medals and FIVE Honorary Scholarships. the latter
covering tuition and College fees, are annually
awarded.
Three Masters of Arts are annually appointed as
PRESIDENT Masters" with valuable privileges and
emoluments.
The College educates, free of charge, all candi.
dates for the Ministry, properly recommended. II
appoints to free Scholarships twenty five young men
gives long credit to meritorious young men with
out means.
The next Session opens on the 10th September,
and closes on the 25th June.
Necessary expenses need not exceed 1926 per
annum.
For further information address
j. M. LEECH, Clerk of Faculty.
Vo
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comes with soothing influence and indescriba-
BILE charm. 1t is natures "peace be still
to the perturbed spirit, and whispers of the
beauties of better land. Simplicity is the
essential element in their construction, and
the natural arrangement of few large stones
may give the happiest effects. Should the
stream be of sufficient size to require for
NAL barrier, this may be built of stout plank,
and be masked with rocks and stones, so ar.
ranged as to seem the true cause of the in
terruption.-S. Planter & Farmer.