only in black letter, but in their own raised letter, with apparatus invented for the purpose.-Indeed it is astonishing to see a book in the common letter, printed by the blind. To such a degree of utility and perfection can the education of the blind be extended. The establishment of such an institution in this country, would be a charity worthy of the support of the good. Use of Liquors in the Army.-The Secretary of War, in reply to an inquiry made of him by the H. of Representatives, whether the use of ardent spirits can be dispensed with in the army of the United States, has made a report. He gives it as his opinion, that the habitual use of ar dent spirits, even in moderate quanti ties, is unfavourable to health, and that the chances for vigour, health and long life, are in favour of him who abstains from it altogether. He, however, thinks that so different times, is not calculated to impair small a quantity as a gill a day, taken at the health of persons engaged in active employments, and that the sudden abandonment of it, by persons who have been in the habit of using it, might prove inju Some idea of the immense extent of the Mauch-Chunk Coal-Mines, may be formed, from the following report of the Committee appointed by the Legislature of New York, to view the Morris canal, and inclined planes:-"On Thursday night, the fourth December, the Committee lodged at Bethlehem. On Friday they proceeded to Mauch-Chunk. On Saturday, sixth December, they went on the inclined plane to the coal field of the Lehigh Company. The day was spent in examining the extent of coal, and the manner of transporting it to the shute or landing upon the Lehigh. The whole top of the mountain, except a few feet upon the surface of earth, is a coal-bed, already ascer tained to be many miles in extent, and in depth has been explored more than forty feet, the coal still of a good quality, and most probably extends to the base of the mountain, which is nine hundred feet high, and may, in a manner be considered as inexhaustible.” Institution for the Blind.-A plan is in agitation at Boston, to establish an institution, similar to those of Liverpool, Paris, and Edinburgh, where proper instruction may be imparted to those who feel the warmth but see not the light of the sun-rious to their health. who inhale the fragrance of the rose, but discern not its beauty-we mean the blind, of whom it is said there are one hundred, of an age suitable for instruction, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts alone, and in New England two hundred. The movements now making to establish this benevolent institution, are owing to the exertions of a medical gentleman, of Boston, from whom the following facts have been gathered, in regard to the institutions of Paris and Edinburgh. The pupils of both sexes are received into different departments, and taught in some mechanical profession, such as making twine, fish lines, galoshes, book-binding, whip making, music, &c. together with such occupations as basket making, mat-braiding, &c. which are often adopted by the uneducated blind. They are paid a weekly salary, according to the amount of work produced, and the articles are sold for the institution. The girls are taught to sew, and perform the common needle-work occupations of females. For these labours, many of the pupils receive, not merely wages enough to support themselves, but sufficient to assist in the maintenance of their families, when their situation renders it requisite. Besides these mechanical employments, the blind are taught to read, by means of the raised letter; to write for the reading of those who can see; to write for each other's perusal by a process now probably completed; to communicate with each other by means of the string alphabet; and to print, not Phoca.-On the 1st inst. a Seal was killed, by Mr. Thomas A. Houston, in Sapelo river, about 3 miles from Southerland's Bluff, in M'Intosh county. From the nose to the end of the hinder fins, it measured seven feet four and a half inches, and across the breast twenty inches. The blubber on his side was fully two inches thick. This is the first animal of the kind that has, so far as our knowledge goes, been killed in Georgia. Indeed the belief has hitherto prevailed that the Seal never visited our coast; though one or two incidents, which happened after the September storm of 1804, impressed us with an opposite opinion. Interesting Discovery.-We understand, that Mr. Jabez Smith, and Mr. Follet, of Petersburgh, have just taken out a patent for a discovery which promises to be of great importance to the cotton planter The object is to separate the kernel of the cotton seed frem the hull-and the former to be used for making oil. any, Each bushel of seed is said to produce 3 quarts of oil, of a quality, little, if inferior to the linseed oil, and applicable to nearly every purpose for which that species of oil is employed.-Richmond Compiler. "Washington Irving's Tales of the Moors," will be out in a few weeks. They are, it is said, a history, in effect, of the rise, glory and downfall of the Moors in Spain; composed by Irving, chiefly out of MS. during his recent stay at Seville. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. we present our readers with both, in the present number. The Subaltern's Log Book.-The Juvenile Keepsake.-The Young Americans.-Stewart's Journal to the Sandwich Islands, 3d edition.-The Fall of Babylon, by the author of Pierre and his Family.Life of the Rev. W. Tennant.-Memoirs of the Rev. Dr. Doddridge, new edition.Alice Bradford.-Mr. Holyoke, a Tale for Sabbath Schools.-Biographical Sketches of Great and Good Men.-Infant Education.-Tales extracted from the English Souvenirs.-Gordon's History of Pennsyl vania.-Zillah, a Hebrew Tale.-Flint's Western Geography.-Life of E. Gerry. Second Series.-The Disowned, by the author of Pelham.-Tokeah, or the White Rose.-Tales of Women.-Life in India.Sacred Countries, with the Modern and Arnott's Elements of Physic.-Map of the Ancient Names.-The Persecuted Family. By R. Pollock, author of the Course of Time.-Hebrew Christomathy, by Professor Stuart, of Andover.-Lectures on St. Matthew, by Bishop Porteus. Cheap edition, published by E. Littell.-Private Thoughts on Religion, by Bishop Beveridge. A Journey round my Room; from As we omitted our list for last month, the French. Religious Intelligence. We earnestly bespeak from all our readers, a very attentive and candid perusal of the following CIRCULAR. Office of the Board of Missions of the General No. 210, South Third Street, Philadelphia, To the Churches and Congregations under the care of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and to the friends of Missions generally. Very dear Friends and Brethren, The Executive Committee of the Board of Missions, appointed by the last General Assembly, beg leave again to address you, respecting the highly interesting and important missionary concerns which have been entrusted to their care. We wish, first of all, respectfully and affectionately to put you in remembrance of our former address, published in several of the religious periodicals of the day, and appended to the Minutes of the last General Assembly, and earnestly to entreat you to give it, renewedly, a very attentive perusal, and a prayerful considera tion. In that communication, the principles, plans, and wishes of the General As sembly's Board of Missions are clearly developed, and have, we would hope, already commended themselves to the understanding, heart, and conscience, of every sin cere friend of the Presbyterian Church, by whom they have been duly considered. We would here devoutly express our gra titude to God, and offer our thanks to many of the churches, and to individual patrons, that the appeal to which we now refer was not made in vain, but has already nd in communications from various parts resulted in a large increase of our funds, of the Union, of the most gratifying and encouraging nature. From the experience we have thus had of your confidence and liberality, we should have deemed a second appeal at this time entirely unnecessary, had not certain circumstances recently occurred, with which we deem it important that you should be as fully and accurately acquainted, as the nature of a special and limited communication will permit. We do most unfeignedly and deeply re gret the necessity which has been laid, upon us, as the servants of the Presbyte rian Church, to present ourselves before you in the unwelcome character of com plainants against any portion of the recognised "household of faith;" and more especially against that particular portion of it, by whose avowed opinions, purposes, and acts, we feel ourselves assailed and aggrieved. But while we are fully conscious that a course of measures has been adopted, and that too by those whom we have ever loved, and still regard as brethren in the Lord, which avowedly contemplates nothing less than the utter annihilation of the long-tried and venerable Board of Missions of the General Assembly, and consequently of the Committee that now address you; we are still firmly resolved to proceed no farther in our statements and remarks to you, than may be absolutely necessary for self defence, although in so doing we must sacrifice not a little of the strength of our cause. We solemnly and honestly repeat the assurances we have before given you, and in the explicit language of our former address we say "Suspect not, brethren, that we wish to excite or cherish in your minds a bigoted or sectarian spirit. We disclaim it utterly: and that we may not be misunderstood, we beg to make a full and frank avowal of our real wishes and views. We say then, that being on conviction and by choice Presbyterians having given a decided preference to the doctrines and order of the Presbyterian Church-we think that, on every principle of consistency, we are bound to support that church. We further say, that it is our wish that this church should send forth missions, both to the heathen and to her own destitute population-believing that the church is bound to this, by the explicit command of her glorified Head 'to disciple the nationsand to preach the gospel to every creature;' and that in obeying this command, the universal church cannot conveniently act, nor at present act at all, but as it is divided into those various denominations, to each of which the members that compose it have formed a special and conscientious attachment-believing also, that our church can be stirred up to far greater exertions in the missionary cause, by her own officers and agents, acting by her appointment, than by any individuals, however personally respectable or influential, whom she does not appoint nor direct, and who owe to her no peculiar responsibility. These, brethren, are honestly our views and wishes; and we have none more sectarian than these, in regard to the duty of our church relative to missionary concerns. If by a wish we could engross the missionary business of our country, that wish should not be formed. We have no desire to hinder, or to interfere with, any evangelical missionary operations by whomsoever conducted, but to promote them.' When this frank and open avowal of our views and feelings was published, and sent forth to the churches and the world, we did hope and thought we had reason to hope, that we should have been permitted to pursue, without hindrance or opposition from any quarter, the course of missionary operations which had been fully marked out and authorized by repeated acts of the General Assembly of former years, and which was clearly and fully defined by the declaratory acts of the last Assembly in the following words, viz.— "The Committee of Conference reported, that after mature deliberation, they recommend the following resolutions, which were adopted, viz. "Resolved, That the Board of Missions already have the power to establish missions, not only among the destitute in our own country, or any other country, but also among the heathen, in any part of the world; to select, appoint, and commission missionaries, to determine their salaries, and to settle and pay their accounts; that they have full authority to correspond with any other body on the subject of missions; to appoint an Executive Committee, and an efficient agent or agents, to manage their missionary concerns; to take measures to form auxiliary societies, on such terms as they may deem proper; to procure funds; and, in general, to manage the missionary operations of the General Assembly. "It is therefore submitted to the discretion of the Board of Missions, to consider whether it is expedient for them to carry into effect the full powers which they pos sess. "Resolved, That an addition of seven laymen be made to the present number of the Board of Missions." But we find it our painful duty, brethren, to inform you that the kind, and open, and fraternal expressions of friendship and good will, on the part of the Board of Missions, have not been reciprocated by all the Christian brethren to whom they were cordially addressed. Shortly after the rising of the last Assembly, respectful and affectionate letters, as mentioned in our former circular, were sent by this Board, both to the A. B. C. F. Missions, and to the Executive Committee of the A. H. M. Society. The letter to the American Board was answered in a manner which was peculiarly gratifying to our feelings, and we were encouraged to believe, that we should ever be regarded by the highly esteemed members of that venerated society, as humble co-workers with them in the hallowed enterprise of evangelizing the world -nor has any thing since occurred to destroy this confidence. The letter to the Executive Committee of the A. H. M. Society was also answered, but in a spirit so manifestly different from that which characterized the commu never visited our coast; though one or two incidents, which happened after the September storm of 1804, impressed us with an opposite opinion. Interesting Discovery.-We understand, that Mr. Jabez Smith, and Mr. Follet, of Petersburgh, have just taken out a patent for a discovery which promises to be of great importance to the cotton planter The object is to separate the kernel of the cotton seed frem the hull-and the former to be used for making oil. Each bushel of seed is said to produce 3 quarts of oil, of a quality, little, if any, inferior to the linseed oil, and applicable to nearly every purpose for which that species of oil is employed.-Richmond Compiler. "Washington Irving's Tales of the Moors," will be out in a few weeks. They are, it is said, a history, in effect, of the rise, glory and downfall of the Moors in Spain; composed by Irving, chiefly out of MS. during his recent stay at Seville. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. we present our readers with both, in the present number. The Subaltern's Log Book.-The Juvenile Keepsake.-The Young Americans.-Stewart's Journal to the Sandwich Islands, 3d edition.-The Fall of Babylon, by the author of Pierre and his Family.Life of the Rev. W. Tennant.-Memoirs of the Rev. Dr. Doddridge, new edition.Alice Bradford.-Mr. Holyoke, a Tale for Sabbath Schools.-Biographical Sketches of Great and Good Men.-Infant Educa tion.-Tales extracted from the English Souvenirs.-Gordon's History of Pennsyl vania.-Zillah, a Hebrew Tale.-Flint's Western Geography.-Life of E. Gerry. Second Series.-The Disowned, by the author of Pelham.-Tokeah, or the White Rose.-Tales of Women.-Life in India.— Arnott's Elements of Physic.-Map of the Sacred Countries, with the Modern and Ancient Names.-The Persecuted Family. By R. Pollock, author of the Course of Time.-Hebrew Christomathy, by Professor Stuart, of Andover.-Lectures on St. Matthew, by Bishop Porteus. Cheap edition, published by E. Littell.-Private Thoughts on Religion, by Bishop Beveridge.-A Journey round my Room; from As we omitted our list for last month, the French. Religious Intelligence. We earnestly bespeak from all our readers, a very attentive and candid perusal of the following CIRCULAR. Office of the Board of Missions of the General To the Churches and Congregations under the care of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and to the friends of Missions generally Very dear Friends and Brethren, The Executive Committee of the Board of Missions, appointed by the last General Assembly, beg leave again to address you, respecting the highly interesting and important missionary concerns which have been entrusted to their care. We wish, first of all, respectfully and affectionately to put you in remembrance of our former address, published in several of the religious periodicals of the day, and appended to the Minutes of the last General Assembly, and earnestly to entreat you to give it, renewedly, a very attentive perusal, and a prayerful considera tion. In that communication, the principles, plans, and wishes of the General Assembly's Board of Missions are clearly developed, and have, we would hope, already commended themselves to the understanding, heart, and conscience, of every sincere friend of the Presbyterian Church, by whom they have been duly considered. We would here devoutly express our gratitude to God, and offer our thanks to many of the churches, and to individual patrons, that the appeal to which we now refer was not made in vain, but has already resulted in a large increase of our funds, and in communications from various parts of the Union, of the most gratifying and encouraging nature. From the experience we have thus had of your confidence and liberality, we should have deemed a second appeal at this time entirely unnecessary, had not certain circumstances recently occurred, with which we deem it important that you should be as fully and accurately acquainted, as the nature of a special and limited communication will permit. We do most unfeignedly and deeply regret the necessity which has been laid. upon us, as the servants of the Presbyterian Church, to present ourselves before you in the unwelcome character of com plainants against any portion of the recognised "household of faith;" and more especially against that particular portion of it, by whose avowed opinions, purposes, and acts, we feel ourselves assailed and aggrieved. But while we are fully conscious that a course of measures has been adopted, and that too by those whom we have ever loved, and still regard as brethren in the Lord, which avowedly contemplates nothing less than the utter annihilation of the long-tried and venerable Board of Missions of the General Assembly, and consequently of the Committee that now address you; we are still firmly resolved to proceed no farther in our statements and remarks to you, than may be absolutely necessary for self defence, although in so doing we must sacrifice not a little of the strength of our cause. We solemnly and honestly repeat the assurances we have before given you, and in the explicit language of our former address we say "Suspect not, brethren, that we wish to excite or cherish in your minds a bigoted or sectarian spirit. We disclaim it utterly: and that we may not be misunderstood, we beg to make a full and frank avowal of our real wishes and views. We say then, that being on conviction and by choice Presbyterians having given a decided preference to the doctrines and order of the Presbyterian Church-we think that, on every principle of consistency, we are bound to support that church. We further say, that it is our wish that this church should send forth missions, both to the heathen and to her own destitute population-believing that the church is bound to this, by the explicit command of her glorified Head 'to disciple the nationsand to preach the gospel to every creature;' and that in obeying this command, the universal church cannot conveniently act, nor at present act at all, but as it is divided into those various denominations, to each of which the members that compose it have formed a special and conscientious attachment-believing also, that our church can be stirred up to far greater exertions in the missionary cause, by her own officers and agents, acting by her appointment, than by any individuals, however personally respectable or influential, whom she does not appoint nor direct, and who owe to her no peculiar responsibility. These, brethren, are honestly our views and wishes; and we have none more sectarian than these, in regard to the duty of our church relative to missionary concerns. If by a wish we could engross the missionary business of our country, that wish should not be formed. We have no desire to hinder, or to interfere with, any evangelical missionary operations by whomsoever conducted, but to promote them." When this frank and open avowal of our views and feelings was published, and sent forth to the churches and the world, we did hope and thought we had reason to hope, that we should have been permitted to pursue, without hindrance or opposition from any quarter, the course of missionary operations which had been fully marked out and authorized by repeated acts of the General Assembly of former years, and which was clearly and fully defined by the declaratory acts of the last Assembly in the following words, viz.— "The Committee of Conference reported, that after mature deliberation, they recommend the following resolutions, which were adopted, viz. "Resolved, That the Board of Missions already have the power to establish missions, not only among the destitute in our own country, or any other country, but also among the heathen, in any part of the world; to select, appoint, and commission missionaries, to determine their salaries, and to settle and pay their accounts; that they have full authority to correspond with any other body on the subject of missions; to appoint an Executive Committee, and an efficient agent or agents, to manage their missionary concerns; to take measures to form auxiliary societies, on such terms as they may deem proper; to procure funds; and, in general, to manage the missionary operations of the General Assembly. "It is therefore submitted to the discretion of the Board of Missions, to consider whether it is expedient for them to carry into effect the full powers which they pos sess. Resolved, That an addition of seven laymen be made to the present number of the Board of Missions." But we find it our painful duty, brethren, to inform you that the kind, and open, and fraternal expressions of friendship and good will, on the part of the Board of Missions, have not been reciprocated by all the Christian brethren to whom they were cordially addressed. Shortly after the rising of the last Assembly, respectful and affectionate letters, as mentioned in our former circular, were sent by this Board, both to the A. B. C. F. Missions, and to the Executive Committee of the A. H. M. Society. The letter to the American Board was answered in a manner which was peculiarly gratifying to our feelings, and we were encouraged to believe, that we should ever be regarded by the highly esteemed members of that venerated society, as humble co-workers with them in the hallowed enterprise of evangelizing the world -nor has any thing since occurred to destroy this confidence. The letter to the Executive Committee of the A. H. M. Society was also answered, but in a spirit so manifestly different from that which characterized the commu |