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Close of SchoOls.-The daily papers are filed
with accounts of examinations essays, speeches,
diplomas dinners, &C., g., from the Universities
and Colleges, and schools of all grades, male and
female. Not having space for more than the few
which have some especial claim to notice, we yet
beg leave to express lively interest in the welfare
Of al 1t is one of the most gratifying facts con-
nected with our condition that in the midst of
much that is trying and painful, our people are
striving to give their children every advantage of
education within their power, The University of
Virginia closes year of much prosperity and has
fine prospects. Long may it hold on its way, dis
pensing still greater and greater blessings over the
wide area of its patronage, The testimony there,
and in all our Colleges and schools is, that never
have we had such good order and hard study as of
late years. There is life in that fact. Keep up
and elevate the intellectual and moral tone Of the
community, especially of the young, and our in-
terests are ultimately safe We may by others be
subjected 10 painful humiliations; but can never
become degraded except by our own act.
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Education of Ministers Daughters.
GREENSBORO, June 10, 1871.

GREENSBORO june W. 1911.
Mr.. Editor: The Female College at Rome, GA,
was founded by the Synod in 1856. twas broken
up in 1864 As President and Proprietor, L ex-
pect to reopen it on the first Monday of Septem-
Der, with an able Faculty and all needfnl facilities
for conducting first class Female Seminary The
work Of aiding INDECENT Presbyterian ministers
by the present support and instruction of their
daughters who may be prepared to teach, will be
transferred to this institution.
Arrangements have already been made by noble
men aud women in New York and Jersey for the
continuance of this work without any dimiuution
of the number assisted May the Holy Spirit put
it into the hearts OF many more OF the wise and OF
the good both in the North and in the South, to
take part in this benevolent service so manifestly
appropriate, needful and practically useful. | will
be pleased to hear from or of brethren residing in
any of the Southern States who need the aid pro-
posed. Address me at Greensboro until the 10th
of July. j. NJ. M. CALDWELL
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Missionary Work in Persia.

In an address before the General Assembly of
Chicago, Rev. DR.. Shedd said
"The missionary work in Persia is a success
We have seen revivals as precious, as thrilling as
any we witnessed in this country. We havethem
from year to year. Two winters ago-the last
winter that | was in Persia attended for weeks
one of the congregations within two miles of the
station where three hundred persons afterwards
assembled, and morning and night two hundred
assembled, crowding the place of prayer for an
hour or two hours. More than score of souls
were brought to Christ there within that month of
meeting. Not only have We a success in the thou.
sand souls that as we trust have been converted in
the ninety congregations that have been gathered
in the Preshyteries, but we have been organizing
churches with pastors and in the support of those
pastors by those country churches-in some cases
the whole support Is given to the pastor, in some
two thirds, and so on so that all our congrega-
lions give as much as a month out of the twelve
to the support Of the preacher. The speaker re-
put on trial. He was imprisoned for the sake of
his religion, and he was called upon there to con.
fess Christ, and to acknowledge what he believed
about Mahomet. He was brought directly up be-
fore these Needless those ecclesiastical judges of tie
Mahometan law. When he came to confess Christ
perhaps it was an undue zeal, perhaps he was
filled with some wrong spirit-but when they came
to the point and asked him, What do you believe
of MahometY his answer came before them all,
/ believe Mahomet is in the very middle of hell.
That man never went to his home he was put
into the prison, and there he died. As say, he
may have been iDjudicious-we thought he was
but it shows the stuff of some of our converts
remember one old man now, who has been
missionary for the last twenty years; his head is
gray he lay fourteen months in the prison of Van,
but every day he was teaching Christ to the ma
tves that came to listen through the crates of his
prison. He has learned Hebrew and English; he
has translated the gospel into the Kurdish Ian.
guage, and opened the gospel to many. lie is
preaching at this time on the ruins of ancient
Nineveh. He is the learned man of the East, and
if he could stand up before you to-day and you
could understand his language you would feel that
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Rev. J. L. Girardeau, D. D., has requested
Zion church, Charleston, S. CO. to which he has
so long and faithfully ministered, to unite with him
in asking dissolution of the pastoral relation
This request seems to have taken the congrega-
ton by surprise, and was received with deep emo
ton, not only by them but by the whole commu-
nifty. With great unanimity and in the most de-.
cidod manner the congregation passed paper in
which they say-"No moths cannot be; we can
not, must not let our beloved pastor go.
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Food for Reflection. The report Of the Gen.
eral Assembly is completed ia this paper. 1t en-
braces subjects of great Importance, and viii afford
thousands of readers the opportunity of examining
them with care. The subjects presented in the
remarks of BRETHREN as reported this week, cannot
fail to give interest to all rejecting minds. When
the wants OF our own Southern country are con-
sidered we feel oppressed by their magnitude; and
yet those of the heather world are far greater
The address of DR.. ]. L. Wilson gives some strik-
ing statements, showing how great encouragement
Christians have, as they try to obey the last COM
mand of their assembled Redeemer.
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Central 4resbpterian.
REV. WILLIAM BROWN, D. D., Editor.
Richmond, Va, Wednesday, July s. 1871.

NAMES DRoPPED.-Many subscribers are
in arrears-some from two to four years.
No attention is paid to bills repeatedly sent.
We have wronged ourselves in keeping these
names on the roll 50 long. They must now
be dropped, and after an indulgence SO I'M
usual, none such have right to complain.
Other means Of collecting arrearagea must
be sought.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

LITTLE SUNsHINEs HOLIDAY. picture from life
By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman,
with illustrations by Frolich. New York: Harper
Il Brothers, l6mo, cloth, 80 cents.
"Little Sunshine is the first of series of books
for girls between the ages of eight and eighteen BY
this well known writer, which the Harpers, by spe
cial arrangement with her, will issue at brief inter
vals 1t is beautifully printed and illustrated.
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BIAOKwooD's MAGAZINE for June. Reprint by the
Leonard Scott Publishing Company, $40 Fulton
street, New York. Contents:
Charles Dickens. Under the Red Cross: A Mar
ratve Of Hospital Life with the Prussans in France
Part II. Old and New Annslists of Oxford. Fair
to See. Part vi, A Century of Great Poets, No.
l. William Cowper.. Baston's History OF Scotland.
Concluding Volumes.
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The GALAXY for July. Contents: Lady Judith,
a tale of two continents; Abbaye Aux Danes Re.
publicanism in England; Through Window; Over
land The Neither Side OF New York. Conscience
The Dutch at Home; Half an Hour; Ought We to
Visit Her? Edinburgh and its Surroundings; The
Man | did not Marry The Kiss Recoections of
an old Woman; La Belle Dame Sans Merci Drift
Wood; Why is it So? Scientific Miscellany, &c.
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Central Church, st. Louis, Mo-Rev DR.. Brank's
church have completed their Missionary chapel.
DR.. Drank will preach Sunday mornings and lecture
Wednesday evenings in the Church, corner of
Eight and Locust Streets; and Sunday and Friday
evenings he will conduct services in the chapel.
Sunday School will be held at the church in the
morning, and at the chapel 10 the afternoon.
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9TH. That We tender our most sincere and heart
felt sympathies to his surviving and sorrowing COM
panion, who has been so sorely bereaved by this
sad dispensaton, praying that our kind and sym
pathizing Saviour may bestow upon her, and the
circle of mourning friends and relatives, who are
also smitten with this heavy stroke, the abundant
consultations of his free and sovereign grace.
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Campinas, Brazil-The latest news from this
mission station is dated May 18TH Mr. Morton
was very well and was prosecuting his work with
continued encouragement The congregations were
good. The colporteur had recently visited the
town of Rio Claro, over fifty miles from Campi-
mas, and had sold over $50 worth of books all the
Bibles he had, and there was a call for eight OR
ten more This branch Of the mission work grows
in interest, and promises to be Of great value as
pioneer for the missionary and the preached word.
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Appleton's Journal, No. q. American Educa-
tional Monthly Every Saturday. Advertisers Ga
zette. Hearth and HnDA-- Peters Musical Month
ly. The Bookbuyer. Halls Journal of Health
Woods Household Magazine. The Manufacturer
and Builder
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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for July Contents:-
How we met John Brown; From Generation to
Generation; The Boy and the Brook; Castlian Days;
Their Wedding Journey; The Vision of the hath
full; Can Bird Reason? Kate Beaumont; Noun
Overcoat; Sappho TRANSPORTED; Armegart; Our
Whispering Gallery; The Poet of Sierra Flat Re-
cent Literature.
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Richmond COllege-The closing commencement
exercises OF this institution took place June Both,
at the Second Baptist church. The speeches of
the society orators and the address before the lit
erary societies by Rev. Wayland Hoyt, of Brook
Ign, took place on Tuesday and Wednesday nights
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Scientific American. This excellent week
ly journal comes out in new and improved
dress with the beginning of its new year. 1t is a
periodical of great value, and deserves the large
patronage it receives.
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The Messing Systematic subject to which
"Iayman" refers is one deserving serious atten-
tion The price of boarding in all Institutions of
learning ought to be as low as may consist with
good fare, and with reasonable profits on the part
of those who attend to it. If by going into the
messing system our students can reduce their ex-
penses, it is all WE'LL provided they do not at the
same time reduce their health Students who ap-
ply themselves closely need to be nourished by
food thoroughly prepared, and Of considerable va
riety. 1t requires this to make the brain work to
advantage 1t is well, especially under the pre-
sent circumstances in which many young men are
placed to give them all practicable facilities for
making the experiment Of cheaper living. But
the idea OF living at the slow, dying rate" of 81
e week, or any thing like it, ought to be decidedly
discouraged. If care is not taken those who adopt
the plan will fnd dyspepsia at the bottom Of their
bargain. And yet this is not a necessary result;
the scheme if rightly managed may work admira-
bly,, for it has done so in some places, Let it be
tried wherever it is practicable.
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CENTRAL PRES Y | n i.

An Explanation. Information received from
some of those most nearly connected with Rev. l.
Edwards Converse, renders it proper to say that
in so far as the statements of Professor Woodrow
before our General Assembly are to be understood
as duplicating his honor or moral character, the
correctness of any such inference they emphati-
cally deny This declaration is intended as safe
guard until one more ex pcit is made, at such time
and in such way as may be Judged best.
1t is also proper to mention that on the day after
Professor Woodrow's speech, he obtained perms.
sion to correct number of misstatements appear
ing in the daily report (7He Memphis R'esIyte-
rian-extra.) Among them is the following
"In the third place, it is said: Dr. Woodrow
was going on to say some very bitter things OF Mr.
Converse. deny, in the presence OF God and OF
this Assembly, that was going on to say any bit
ter things of Mr.. Converse. was simply reading
letters in reply to the call of DR.. Hill | max
ing and intending to make no comments upon
them
In addition to this we can state most positively,
having received it personally from the Secretary OF
Foreign Missions, Rev. j. Leighton Wilson, D. D.,
that at no time have they impeached the character
Of Mr.. Converse.
Our desire has been and is to do what is just
and right In this matter, and what will avoid evil.
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ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES of the Memphis and
Shelby county Bible Society, held at the First Cum
berland Presbyterian church, Memphis, March II.
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The BIBLICAL RFPERToRY AND PRINCETON REVIEW
for July. Charles scribner & Co., publisher, Goa
Broadway, New York. Contents:
Mark, the Gospel for the Roman Reformation
and Restoration Sunday School Libraries. Pres.
byterianism. Recent Expositions of Daniel. The
General Assembly. Notices of Recent Publications.
Literary Intelligence.
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THE CHRISTIAN WORLD. The organ of the Amer
lean and Foreign Christian Union. July, 1871. New
York: Published at No. a Bible House.
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Inslee Fund,-By order of the Assembly,
Committee, remittances should be made to Rev.
J. F. G. Doremus, Bible House, New Orleans, La.
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The SOUTHERN MAGAZINE for July. Published by
Murdoch, Brown & Hill, l66 Baltimore Street,
Baltimore, Nd. Contents:
Some of our Q.ocal) Great Men, Shooting Stars
and Aerotes. Vashti, Dramatic Fragment
Dukesborough Tales, No. VIII. Official Report Of
the Operations on Morris Island. Horace. My
Rival Lovers. Letters from the South Arthur
Hugh Clough. "Ca Ira!' Lord Kilgobbin, Chaps
XIII, XIV Run to Earth. Chap. III. Re
views The Green Table.
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Our MONTHLY for July. Alfred Martien, publishe

1914 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Contents:
Cut Of. Up Mount Washington in Winter. The
Mantle of Elijah. A Darwinian Philosopher. Abe
lard's Theology Leaves from the Note Book of a
Village Doctor Hugh Miller. Fervor. Poetry J
A Defence of Mother Goose. Changes in Celestial
Scenery. Story of an Ancient Picture. "Barkis is
Willin." Daybreak, (Poetry.) The Flowers on
the Rock. Chief Justice Marshall. Domestic Bliss.
(Poetry.) The Little Trapper Boy Those Guineas.
The Birds Story. Our Miscellany. Our Scientific
Summary. Our Book Table
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us made my very pleasant duty to respond to
your sind and hrethery message. l am not mis-
taken in urr0s,aS thas I utter the sentiments Of
the whole Church represented in this body, when
j say in ia words of ono Of the fathers of this
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81 So shall her holy bounds increase,
With walls OF praise and gates OF peace,
So shall tae vine which martyr tears
And blood sustained In other years
Nll .-esher i;le be clothed upon,
and 90 ihe wcs'd in beauty show
like Che rose plant of Jericho,
aHa glorious as Lebanon.
Ys-. sir. we shall see the fulflment of that
anticipation that has aoated in the visions of
Gods people for centuries gone by, when
the temple Of God shall be established, and
It's broad basis shall be the globe, its walls
shall be THIS pilIared sapphire sky, its dome
shah be the highest heavens, and the light
thereof tie Lord God Almighty, and the
Lamb.
NIr. Moderator, in the name and behalf
Of the General Synod Of the Reformed
Church ia America, present to you and to
this body our afacdonate salutatiOn, and in
Their name I invoke upon you, through Jesus
Cars. cur Lord, the blessing of God Al
mighty, the Father the Son and the Holy
Gb0s.
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RAILROAD TIME TABLES.

MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD
Arrives. Leaves.
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The managers of Elmwood Cemetery,
for the, convenience Of the public, have
opened an Office in the city, at No, 80
Union st&et, and appointed q Secretary
and Treasurer. ,
On account Of the many complaints
made by lot owners of depredatons on
lots. the company is compelled TO en-
force a rigid ticket system from and after
first May next. Each lot owner is en-
tiled 10 n ticket of admission for his or
her family, with the privilege of intro
dncine strangers accompanying them.
Special permits will be given TO strangers
and Others wishing TO visit the cemetery.
Lot owners will please call at the office
in the city and procure their tickets,
which may be had from this date.
From and after first of May, no inter
ments made or work done without an
order from the Secretary in the city.
A messenger will be sent out to the
Cemetery daily, when required, at 10
a. m. and pm, during the week days,
and on Sundays at 10 am: Persons
having orders to send out will be par
ticular to note the Office hours before
the messenger leaves.
Samuel W. Phillips is Superintendent,
and has chsfge of the grounds his office
is at the north entrance of the Cemetery.
The Office in the city will be open from
to 10 a. M, and 2 to p. IN. daily, Sun
days excepted, On Sundays will be
open from 3 to 10 q. m. only.
No lot can be used until paid for, and
all work ordered must be paid for in adj
vance, at the time the Secretary gives
his order.
BY order Of the managers.
Jos. LENow, President,
JOHN III. LESow,
Secretary and Treasurer.
s. W. PHILLIPS, Supt.
MANAGERS;
Jos. LESow, A. N. EDMuNDs,
w. B. MILLER, j. ID. WILLIAMS,
]. M. WILLIAMSON.
April 10, 1871.
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law abolishing entails, the law abolish
ing the privilege Of primogeniture, and
dividing the lands Of intestates equally
among all their children, and the law
for religious freedom, as laying
the ak at the root of what he
called pseudo aristocracy." He
commended that by the education plan
referred to worth and genius would have
been sought out from every condition Of
life, and completely prepared by educa-
ton for defeating the competition of
wealth and birth for public trust. His
proposition had for a further object to
impart to the wards mentioned those
portions Of selfgovernment for which
they are best qualified, by confiding to
them the care Of their poor, their roads,
police, elections, the nomination of
jurors, administration Of justice in small
cases, elementary exercises Of militia
in short, as he expresses it, to have
made them little republics, with warden
at the head ofeach, for all ofthose which,
being under their eyes, they would better
manage than the larger republics Of the
country or State" He even said such
system would be - the keystone of the
arch of our Government. The scheme
is mentioned in letter of Mr.. Jefferson
to John Adams, October %, 1913. The
Virginians may perhaps find some con-
ISOLATION in the township system from the
reflection that it has the sanction of Mr..
jefferson, not always, however, the most
practical of men, Baltimore Sun.
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A JeRerseninn neheme.

It is, perhaps, not generally known
that Thomas Jefferson once proposed to
divide every county in Virginia into
wards of FIVE or six miles square, like
the townships Of New England; SO that,
after all, what is now considered in Vir-
ginia an innovation, and is unpopular
from the fact that it was not the free
choice Of the people, was originally a
favorite idea Of Mr.. Jefferson, with a
view, however, to the more general diffa-
sion of learning. For this purpose he
prepared bill, proposing the divisions
above mentioned, and TO establish in
each ward a free school for reading,
writing, and common arithmetic; 10 pro-
vide for the annual selection Of the best
subjects from these schools, who might
receive, at the pubic expense, a higher
degree Of education at district school;
and from these district schools 10 select
q certain number Of the most prominent
subjects, 70 be completed az a university,
where all the useful sciences should be
taught Mr.. jefferson regarded this
measure as one OF several, including the
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nIending of COIors.


They are fast approaching the higher
civilization in South Carolina. A cor
respondent of the New York Sun, writing
from the capital Of that State, tells what
he saw and heard at a grand military
ball The affair was something very
recherche, and was attended by the col
ored ton of the place, among the num-
Der present being the noted Rollin girls,
the bellies of Columbia. Referring to the
latter, and the white lover Of one of them,
the Sun correspondent says:
THE Misses Roiiin were accompanied
by the white Senator, Mcintyre, of Collie
ton, who is the fdnce of Miss Charlotte
Corday Rollin. The Senator, who is a
very small man, was attired in full eve
ming dress of black, and in his button
hole bloomed rosebud which had been
plucked by Miss Lottie. The Senator
was decidedly the most graceful dancer
on the floor and won unbounded admi-
ration by the skill with which he executed
some of the most difficult pas seHls.
Miss Lottie presented a very beau
tiful appearance. She danced very fire.
quently with her betrothed. She is easy
and graceful on the floor, and excited
the highest admiration as she aoated
about, claped in the arms Of Senator
Mcintyre"
Then we have a picture Of white
lady and a dusky partner going it with a
rush in the giddy mazes of the dance:
Among the white ladies present, and
one that attracted much attention for
her beauty and elegance of attire, was
Mrs. Coviesart, the wife of Northern
man, merchant in this city. Mrs.
Coviesart presented a lovely appearance.
She was dressed in plain white, with
flowers and no jewelry. She is also
beautiful dancer, and attracted much
attention in the YarsOvienne, in which
she had as a partner Alderman Minort,
who il equally graceful in that beautiful
dance. The Alderman is colored man,
but is very fine looking and elegant in
his manners. Heclasped his fair partner
as firmly as an iron band clasps a cotton
bale, and undulated softly to the music
like ground swell on the beach.
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WHAT HAVE You TAKEN FOR IT2
said Mrs. Laura Thompson to her friend
Miss Lake, referring to sick headache
with which the young lady was contin-
ually afflicted. "0h," said Miss h.,
I've taken cathartic pills enough to
load a cannon" Discard them" said
her friend, and try my medicine, Plan
tation Bitters. Bile is the caose of your
difficulty; and know by experience the
Bitters are certain cure for bilious
ness" Miss Lake adopted Mrs. Thomp
sons advice, and was cured within a
fortnight She is now at the Metropoli-
tan Hotel, and will confirm this state
ment.