The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-07-05

Stewart College.-Judge w. W. Legare, of Alex
andria, Va, has been elected Professor OF Greel
| in this institution. His ripe scholarship and hi
reputation as teacher, give promise of great use
fulness in his new field of labor.
The Young Mems Christian Association OF Balti
more have raised 100000 for building, and ex
pect to increase the sum to 100000. Two gen
tlemen and one lady have subscribed $4,000 each
The Object of the purchasers of the old Randolph
Macon College property in Mecklenberg county
Va, is to establish an Agricultural University
similar in some respects to the Cornell University
in New York. The intention is to afford educa
on,-that is, board, tuition and books,-tor a
price not to exceed 500 per annum. The proper
ty contains over $50 acres, and according to the
charter, each student must labor personally SO
much each day as the Trustees shall ordain, tol
his own benefit and to help pay for his instruction.
1t Appears from the report of the New York
Mercantile Library Association, just published,
that the library is now the fourth IN size IN the
United States, having on Its shelves l27,237 vol
umes
It is announced that Chinese Young Mems
Christian Association has been organized IN San
Francisco by young Celestials, and forty of them
have already joined it.
Japan is to send specimens of all her industrial
productions to the coming exhibition OF the Me-
ohanios Institute, San Francisco.
The Old Lesson.-The sudden death of Mr.. Val
landigham is one Of those events which beyond all
preaching startle with sense OF the nearness OF
the other world to this. A week ago he stood con-
spicuous amid hot strifes ambitions, schemes: his
name party watchword loud praise and fierce
dcnunciaton lavished upon him. From it all he
is gone as in an instant Ambitions, plans friend
ships enmities, all that yesterday was of so much
account, to-day is nothing to him.
His epitaph will be variously written. Few will
deny to him some solid virtues; and now that
deaths shadow has fallen, calm judgment will
we believe reckon as errors of Judgment what have
been treated as awful sins. But at present our
thoughts rest less on his life than his death. 1t
seems like the voice of God heard amid the strifes
and passions Of earth. While men are waging con-
ficts amid clouds of earthly dust and smoke, that
often bewider even the steady head and inHame
even the honest heart, suddenly the solemn aud
eternal realities rise into sight And every man
must feel, at least for the moment, that it were
well if those realities were less unfamiliar to the
thought 1t would take bitterness from our OPP
positions, it would drive out low motives and
selfish aims, if we so lived that Death was not a
shock when its form rises across our worldly ac-
UVities 1t is an old thought, old as the race, and
yet continually new,-'in the midst of life we are
in death. "-Chr1Stta8 Union.
Liberia.-Late news from Liberia is not of an
agreeable character. A native chief having COM
mitted some depredations within the boundaries
of the republic, the Liberians, in chastising this
wrong-doer, destroyed some property belonging to
British merchants, and complications with the
British Government are feared. There is also a
still more threatening matter IN an lnelplent rebel
lion against the government headed by such men
% nNlo
cation Society, DR.. McGill, and ex President R0-
berts The occasion of the difficulty was an cleo
ton on an amendment to the constitution which
proposed that the presidential term should be ex-
tended from two years to four. The vote was q
merely nominal one, but President Roye took pos.
session of the ballots and declared the amendment
carried. The Legislature denounced this action
as usurpation, and ordered new election for Pres
ident, when ex President Roberts was elected by
an almost unanimous vote. But Roye holds on to
his office, and thus the people are in rebellion
against the administration or Uice rerSd, as you
please. The worst feature of the conflict, how.
ever is that the question Of color is said to enter
into it. Roye is full black, while Roberts and
his party are mulattoes. If the latter, as is al
lodged, think they have superior claims on that
account it is new departure" which may give
the American Colonization Society harder uphill
work than ever
The Cotton Crop.-The Bureau Of Agriculture at
Washington has received returns from nearly three
hundred counties, representing the most produc
tive districts Of each Of the cotton States, and
showing the comparative acreage and the condi-
ton of the crops in the first week of June. A
diminution in the area planted in cotton appears
in every State except Florida. The most careful
analysis of the returns, with due regard in making
averages to the extent of cotton production in the
respectiye counties gives the following percentage
Of reduction in comparison with last year: Vir-
ginia thirty per cent; North Carolina fourteen;
South Carolina, thirteen; Georgia, twelve; Ala
bama, thirteen; Mississippi, fifteen; Louisiana,
eight; Texas, fourteen Arkansas, sixteen; Ten
nessee, twelve These State averages reduced to
general average, the assumed acreage Of the re-
spective States being element in the calculations
will place the reduction of the cotton crop of 1871,
as compared with that of 1870, between fourteen
and fifteen per cent, equivalent to nearly million
and a third of acres This would leave between
seven and half and eight millions of acres as the
present area in cotton,