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The Albany NIuss.

New York, Tt was rumored, yes.
terdsy, that efforts were making to
bring about q compromise between stall
warts and half breeds, and COMMISSIONS or
French went to Albany empowered to
compromise Oh one haif-breed and one
Conkling senator. 1t was reported that
butcher and Dennison arrived yesterday
and told O0nkling that half breeds would
compromise altogether. Some stalwarts
say the rumors of compromise are un-
founded, but that the legislature will be
adjourned. It was limited that Blaine's
daily interviews with Arthur might mcsn
something in the way Of harmonizing the
party here.
Albany, 8.-First ballot, no practical
change.
Plstt ballot: Kernan, so, Depew, 81;
Cornell, 20; Crowley, Is; Plat none.
Second ballot, no notable change.
a call for caucus was read in joint
convention. Adjourned.
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Mexican Matters.

City of Mexico, Tt is stated in news
papers that the command of the military
line Of Rio Broso will be given to General
Cebsllos.
The police, to-day, spprehended a
Spsniard having in his possession $780,
600 worth of Royal Havana lottery tickets
which, it is alleged, he stole from a public
Office in Havana where he had been en-
ployed.
Alculants Axacs, THE roof of a
church fell, killing four and wounding
ffty-fve men, engaged at work on the
building.
Work on the railroad from Campeche
TO Cslkavi began this week.
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COLLECTIONS MADE At LOWEST RATES

Accoassts Kept on the most fGvoraose
terms.
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The Fire Record.

Newark, 7.-Nssh's brewery burned.
Loss, 5 5000; insured.
Toledo, IL. Sherwood s. Sons to-
bscco fscto-y burned. Loss, $50, 900;
partly insured.
West Troy, n. Y, samuel Grip
pens TWO children were burned in room
which ignited from fire crackers,
Cincinnati, 7.-Revised estimates of the
fire make the aggregate loss 100000.
Buffalo. s -Four hundred cattle per-
ished with the burning of the large feed
ing bars of g. j. Firemich.
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TELEGRAPHIC
Death of Il '49er.

New York, David NJ. Chauncey,
brother of Daniel NJ. Chauncey, preai-
dent of the Mechanics Bank, in Brook
Ign, died on Tuesday in. his brothers. re-
sidence, Jorslemen street, Brooklyn,
from a complication of diseases. He was
63 years old and was one of the for
tunate '49ers who got rich in California:
He was for some years tax collector OF
Sacramento County, and was also a
member Of the California legislature.
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COnkling's DisreputabIe Wis
itOrS.

New York, S.-The Times says ex-
Senator Dorsey is a regular visitor to
Conkling's rooms, as ex-Assistant Post
master General Brady is also on intimate
terms with Conkling. CoRkling's COM
partnership with Dorsey, Brady and
Price, was much commented upon in the
Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening. It is
thought probable that Conkling will not
go again to Albany until after the sena-
tori2l fight iE over.
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Irish Observation-Disclosures

London, S.-The deputation of Irish
farm laborers which arrived here re-
Gently will be accompanied on their visit
to Forster, to-day, by about eighty mem
bers of Parliament, including many
English and Scotch members and several
conservatives.
Sir Stafford Northcete presented Pc
tition in the Commons, yesterday,
signed by, 800 inhabitants of N orthampton,
the borough represented by Bradlaugh,
praying that Bradlsugh shall not BE- ad-
mitted to the House.
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Nakes collections, RENTING pToeeed'
PToRlptIy.
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Paid in Capital, $200.0Ool
Surplus, $4,000
sEsrNE; :spssiTs pkYABlE o. rExAz1
z. AUSTIN,
Manager.

Buys and sells Exchange on New York, SIS
Francisco. Chicago, st. Louis. Omaha,
London and principal Continental Cities
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but simply to point out how completely
the new version has taken this text out
OF such discussion-by making it to
read: She that is in Babylon saluteth
you"
Evidently the words "church that as"
In the Authorized Version do not belong
to the original Greek, as is indicated by
their being printed In italics. They were
inserted by the translators on the strength
OF certain ancient versions, but cannot be
regarded as authoritative. If then we
leave them out the passage will stand
thus: The in Babylon saluteth YOU"
THE-what2
THE-being the definite article and of
the feminine gender, demands some noun
In the feminine gender with which it
shall be connected. What shall that
noun be2 Ecclesia (church) says the
Authorized Version. "The church that
is at Babylon"
But why insert anything? Why not
translate the article here as a personal
pronoun, according to the idiom of the
Greek language? These are the oues-
lions prevailing in the minds of the re-
visionists, and so they boldly give us the
Thus we emerge from one controversy,
but only to be plunged into another.
namely, as to tie celsbacy of the clerov.
For who is this "she" of the new YER
sion?
Peters wife, evidently-a reply given
by Mill and Wall and others, long before
the new version was written. We know
that Peters wife's mother was taken
with a great fever" this only proves
that Peter had been married man. and
not that his wife was living. But Paul
settles the matter by asking the question:
:" Have we not power to lead about a.
sister, wife, as well as other Apostles
and as the brethren of the Lord, and as
Cephas ?"
. And accordingly we conclude that
Peter not only was married man, but
that he had led about his wife even to
Babylon, and that, as the new version
indicates, Peters wife united with him in
sending salutation to the strangers scat
tered elect which was eminently pro-
per since she was elect together with"
them e co-electa:: SIC con.jatgena suan, a1,-
peIare videtar," says BengeD, and "a sis
ter" that is a believer together with them.
And so, this point being ascertained
that "she" was Peters wife; "Mark nv
son, who also joins in this salutation,
may be John Mark, his son in the gospel,
or may be his own son, as Bengel and
others suppose.
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According to Your Ability.

Every man according to his ability"
is the Christian rule of giving and work.
ing. 1t is not very faithfully obeyed.
There are many persons who have great
ability, yet do but little work; who have
ample leisure, yet give but little time :;
who have large possessions, yet make
small contributions. This is an evil that
we have all seen under the sun. And
there is another that is like unto it.
There are great many people who have
some ability, but who do nothing; who
have not much leisure, but give no time
to the Lords work who have little mon
ey, but who put none at all into His treas
ury. Those who have little, and give
nothing, violate the Christian law lust as
truly as do those who have much and
give little. There are great many per-
sons, young and old, in all our churches,
whose means and opportunities are lin
tied, from whom not much ought to be
expected; but they are able to do some
thing, and they do nothing. They are
transgressors OF the Christian law. They
ought to repent and do works meet for
Observation-Disclosures.
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thing of their devotional habits so as to
understand In measure the secret of
their influence for good wherever they
have served the Master. For example,
1T is reported of Daniel Baker that his
custom was to fall asleep at night with
prayerful thoughts in his mind In the
morning his first impulse was prayer.
The spirit, and often the form of his first
waking thought was, divine Master,
what wilt thou have me to do this day p
He did not use prayer as mode of ex-
hortation, or for making statements of
any kind, but regarding prayer as ad-
dressed to God and in no sense to the
hearers, his petitions were framed in
scriptural words. Whenever he prayed
there was always an adaptation to the
occasion, so that mercy might be obtained
and grace found to help in that particular
time of need. He disliked anything
which hindered him from going from his
knees to the pulpit, and nothing was per-
mltted to prevent this if he could avoid
it. With him it was second nature to
engage in fervent but silent and brief
prayer during the rapid business of the
day.
In reference to all true and efficient
workers before revival, it may be said,
"All their springs are in God, and they
abide near those springs as at the one
oasis in desert world" To change the
figure, let it be remembered that those
branches who desire and hope to bear
much fruit, can only realize their wishes
by abiding in the true vine. If God the
Holy Ghost works in, and by any one, it
must be in consequence of unceasing pc
titions at the mercy seat, and there is
no child of God for whom this mercy seat
is not equally accessible through Jesus
Christ, for He is no respecter of persons.
If all counted worthy in the provi-
dence of God, to be put into the ministry
of the gospel, were by close communion
with Him who has the residue of the
Spirit, to become channels of the descent
of the Holy Spirit upon others through
them, how overpowering would be the
presence of the Spirit Of permanent re-
vival upon the Church and the world
" Awake, o north wind; and come thou
south; blow upon my garden, that the
spices thereof may flow out. Let my be-
loved come into his garden, and eat his
pleasant fruits Song iv: 16.
w. T. P.
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For the Central Presbyterian.
Letter from Rev. M. H. Hous-
ton, d. d.
HANecHow, CHINA, Sept. +

dANGCHoW, CHINA, Sept. Z, 81.
AS we were about to enter one of the
city gates a few days since, we saw a
sight that was new to us in China. 1t
was the cremation of human body. On
a slight eminence near the city wall, a
Chinaman had made funeral pile of
broken coffin boards, and on the pile
had placed the dead body of his friend.
AS we drew near, the flames already en-
veloped the body. We stopped to ask
the Chinaman why he did this. He re-
piled that his friend had just come down
from Hankow and died Of cholera. He
was burning the body so as to take the
bones back to Hankow for burial.
The same day we saw on the further
shore Of the West Lake temple, con-
tanning furnaces for the cremation of
Buddhist priests. We were told that
only priests of high reputation for
sanctity were burned.
In these days when certain German
philosophers and others are urging the
practice of cremation it may be well to
remember that this mode of disposing of
the human corpse is, in all its historical
associations, heathenish. In the Roman
Empire it was practised till Christianity
entered. AS the gospel came in, crema-
ton went out. Among the Jews, Gre
nation was associated with the darkest
periods of their history. When Saul
turned to heathenish ways and con-
suited a nicromancer, God suffered his
body and the bodies of his sons to be
burned. And when plague came upon
the people for idolatry, cremation was
practised in that place Of horrors-the
vale Of Tophet. 1t was when infdelity
reigned supreme in France that crema-
ton was seriously discussed by the As
sembly under the directory. But, as
long as the power Of God has rested on
people, the bodies Of the dead have
been laid down as for long sleep, to
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wake again when the trumpet shall
sound. So, when Jehovah expressed His
favor to His servant, He said, "Thou
shall sleep with thy fathers" (Deut.
XXI: 16; 2 Sam. vii: 12;) and the re-
cord of each of the servants of Christ is,
" He fell asleep" (Acts vii: 60; Cor.
XIV: g..
AS for the sanitary argument, we be-
lieve that we can never do better than
to follow the practical hints of the Bible.
When the sanitary commission of New
Orleans investigated the method used in
European cities for disposing of night
soil, they found that experience was de-
cisive in favor of earth closts-the use of
dry earth as a deodorizer. This was
simply coming back to the method en-
Joined In Deut. XIII: 12-14. And so
we shall not be surprised when cremation
is put fully to the test, to learn that the
gases necessarily set loose by the burn
ing prove far more noxious to health
than anything proceeding from we'll
regulated cemetery: that not merely on
the ground of pious sentiment but on the
score of health, we should bury our dead
out Of our sight.
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A singular treatment of the ruins of
Babylon, and one which might be read
lily overlooked in its bearings upon the
predictions of Scripture in minute detail
respecting this city, has not escaped the
observation of Mr.. H. Rassam, a thor
ough explorer of the site "There is one
fact CONNECTED with the destruction of
Babylon and the marvellous fulflment
of prophecy which struck me more than
anything else, which fact seems never
to have been noticed by any traveller,
and that is the non-existence in the sew
eral modern buildings in the neighbor-
hood Of Babylon of any sign of stone
which had been dug up from its ancient
ruins, for it seems that, in digging for
old materials, the Arabs used the bricks
for building purposes, but always burnt
the stone thus discovered for lime, which
fact wonderfully fulflls the divine words
Of Jeremiah, namely And they shall not
take Of thee stone for corner, nor
stone for foundations; but thou shalt be
desolations forever, saith the Lord (Ch. Ii.
26)."-Amon.
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cogent exegesis, by rendering dikaiosune
theou, "a righteousness" instead of "the
righteousness of God" with the Author
lied Version, or simply Gods righteous
ness" The Revisers here agree with DR..
Shedd and are liable to the same criti-
cism. 1t is however confessedly nice
point and depends on the shade of thought
intended by the apostle. This sort of
rendering is however distinctly charac-
teristic of the new Version. There
are. many examples, but the intelli-
gent reader can find them out for him
self. Not to be classed with such in
stances is the popularity of the Revision
at Hebrews xii: Is, where ga mount" is
substituted for "the mount, for the omis-
sion of all articles in such places would
be in violation of the plainest rules of
English writing. Nor is it likely that
the most exacting censor would have
chided the revisers sharply had they
avoided the beaten path of the Author
lied Version and rendered at Hebrews
TX: IA, Through an eternal spirit" in
stead of through the eternal spirit.
The antithesis points to the divine nature
of Christ rather than to the third Trim
tartan person. Enough, and perhaps
more than enough, has been said on this
seemingly trivial, but really important
as well as intricate topic.
After mistakes in relation to the article
may be mentioned mistakes regarding the
Greek verb. Under this general descrip-
ton there at once suggest themselves
errors regarding the voices, the moods,
and the lenses, of the verb We have
not noticed the presence of any remark
in DIR. Roberts's Companion touching err
rors which have reference to the voices.
These, and errors as to the moods, are
not SO constant in the Authorized Yer
sion as are errors as to the lenses. An
undoubted instance in point, however
occurs at Eph. iv: 13, where the Author
lied Version has evidently mistaken
passive (phameroaCnaemon( for middle
form. Still another instance may be
promptly adduced. Romans iii: 4, close
ly follows the Xxx; but the Authorized
Version have obviously taken the verb
expressive Of judgment, dispute, or liti-
cation, as passive form when it is pro-
badly middle. The new Version is
right as to the first of these passages and
ambiguous as to the second. If the
meaning attached by the revisers to the
k,imeSthoi of the Xxx and of Paul, in the
quotation from Ps Ii, be that the Lord is
represented as one whose personal or
official character is under judicial inves-
tigation rather than as one who is merely
a Etigant before court of justice, it
looks very much as if the revisers have
fallen into the mistake to which the at
tention of your readers has now been
sufficiently directed. AS to the Hebrew
that is another matter. In the Hebrew
the verb calls for an active rendering
Paul often quotes the Old Testament
freely himself, and might well adopt the
Septuagint rendering as conveying the
general sense, though hardly ready to
endorse its verbal accuracy.
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For the Central Presbyterian.
Remarks on / Peter ": Is
BY REV. ]. R. BOWMAN D. D.

BY REV. ]. R. BOWMAN, D. D.
"The church that IS at Babylon, elected
together with you, saluteth you: and so
doth Marcus my son."
These words of the Authorized Version
have been subjected to severe dismember-
ment at the hands Of the revisionists,
whose new version sets forth the passage
in this form:
"She that is in Babylon, elect together
with you, saluteth you and so doth Mark
my son"
Strange to say, this exceedingly revo-
lutionary alteration has elected no com
ment from any one of the multitude of
recent critics. We feel assured, how
ever, that such neglect must have arisen
from mere oversi ght. Certainly it did
not arise from the insignifcance of this
passage of Scripture, for, so far from be-
ing insignificant, these words of Peter
have served as an arena of many hard
fought fight.
Was the Apostle Peter ever at Rome
This question once occupied conspic-
uous position in Polemic Theology, as in
volving issues of great moment. Upon
the determination of this question de-
pended this other question Was the
apostle Peter euer the pastor ofthe church
at RonaeP And upon the determination
of this second question was suspended the
P41naocy of the Pope Of Rome, claimed by
him as the successor of Peter.
Nor are the issues here indicated
" dead" They are, in an eminent de-
gree, living" issues, which still greatly
agitate the world.
AS to whether or not the Apostle Peter
ever was at Rome, tradition says that he
was. But Protestants attach little weight
to tradition, unless the tradition be sup
ported by the Word of God. What then
do the Scriptures say in respect to this
question: They are ominously silent.
Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles makes
no mention of Peters being at Rome.
Paul in his epistle to the Roman church
makes no allusion to Peter as ever hav-
ing been at Rome. And Peter himself,
in both his epistles, is perfectly silent
upon this subject, unless this passage,
now under consideration, can be CON
strued as teaching that he was at Rome
when he wrote these words.
"The church that is at Babylon salut-
eth you" The Babylon" Of this pas
sage, say certain Romanists, is not Baby
lon on the Euphrates nor Babylon in
Egypt, but the Apostle Peter used the
word Babylon" here mystically to sig
Nifty Rome, and consequently the SEN
tence should be read, 1.-THE church that
is at Rome saluteth you" In this inter
probation quite number Of learned Pro-
testants have concurred, such as Grotius,
Whitby, Lardner, and Others
But the difficulty is that this argu-
ment proves too much for the Romanists,
for if Babylon" here be taken to stand
mystically for Rome, then they must not
refuse to accept the Babylon Of the Apoc-
alypse as likewise standing mystically for
Rome. And SO, to avoid this dilemma
many Romanists, notably Bellarmine re-
ject the mystical Interpretation Of the
word " Babylon" in this passage.
What this present article aims at, how
ever, is not to enter into this discussion,
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Humbleness is peculiar to Christianity.
Goodness is admired and taught in all re-
ligions. But to be good, and feel that
your good is nothing; to advance and be-
come more conscious of pollution; to
ripen all excellence, and like corn to
bend the head when full of ripe and
bursting grain-that is Christianity.
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No matter what are the surrounding
circumstances, the heart can 90 to God.
Wherever Abraham pitched his tent, there
he raised an altar TO the Lord. So,
wherever the Christian heart is, there
is also an acceptable altar from which the
incense Of prayer and praise many as
cend.
No one ever did designed injury to
another but at the same time he did a
much greater to himself.
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The Cash-ShannOa Duel.
THE TRIAL OF CASH BtGUN-COAyGCTl0N n
pRDRARIE

THE TRIAL OF CASH BtGCN-COAyICTION NOT
PROBABLE.
CHARLESTON, :. c.. February y A NelrS
and courier special from Darlington Court
house gives a GetaileI account 81 Yesterday,
proceedings in the trial OF Colonel T.. Il. &.
Gosh for the murder OF Colonel shannon in
a duel last summer. The jury was formed
without much trouble, and composed eX-
clusiyey Of white men, the delence having
challenged every negro called. Attorney
General IOuman> conducted The prOSCcu-
ton. y number Of eye.witneS,es OF the
duel were examined, who testified TO facts
Of the meeting substantially a. heretofore
published. Several witnesses swOre that
Ca.h WAS urged by his son Just before Tie
principals took position 10 be certain TO kill
shannon, and Cash had replied that nc
would do il a. sure a. there was a world.
There was >carcely any cross examination.
When the ease for the state was closed
| the defe0cc announced that they would moi
trouble the jury with any evidence in reply.
| The argument was then opened by Colonel
Il. &. Watts, who based ms plea for the &C
cuSed on the ground that cnslom, pubic
opinion. and example Of eminent men in
South Carolina had always sanctioned GueI>.
| lie alluded TO the change in public opinion
| in the state on his subject a. 4 very recent
one. and denounced the present effort IA
make Colonel CJsh a SclpcgOit for all for
mer dueli>tS as persecution. He alluded f.
the circumstances that the AltOrnPy-GcneTa
bad been sent here in pei son, although Il
was not usual for bin 10 take part in prose
cullOn, even Of most yi!lalnOu> mul dcls.
Solicitor George W. Dargin opened IL
reply for the State. He SAID the jury mus
regard Ca-h simply ~ a man vino mad "lO
lated the law. u they conGnned his Offence
they would share his guilt. lie urged tina
| Cash's words Just before the killing wert
the clcare-t proof oi malice, and he appealed
10 the jury to disregard their >ympathle
and do their sworn duty.
| General W. l. j. Prince followed in M
elaborate argument for the defence, justify
ing the code duello BY the example Of bon
orable men in various countries. The pres
ent law had been rashly passed 10 pacif.
supposed public -eutmeDt, and Cash >houl'
not be made its victim. He finished ut 7'P
NJ, and the court then adjourned until Il
A. VI. Tomorrow, when Attorney Genera
WilIet will open f9r the State, aud be FOL
lowed by Major Spain for the accused. Ia
tense interest l. ieIt in the case, the gcncra
Iopinion being that the jury VIII acqult o
Tail 10 agree.