Earlier text: From Bro. Cottrell.The Italian Parliament.—Florence, Dec. 6.—The session of the Italian Parliament opened yesterday. The Prime Minister, Menabrea, in a speech justified the action of the government in arresting Garibaldi, and suppressing his illegal attempt at invasion, but declared that it was as inconsistent for the temporal power to exist at Rome, as it would be for a foreign power to hold possession of Paris. The Alabama Question.—London, December 6.—The Times, in an editorial on the correspondence in the Alabama controversy, says: Lord Stanley is right in refusing to permit the foreign policy of England to be reviewed by any foreign power whatever. On all other points England will gladly meet the United States half way, as she is thoroughly tired of the discussion. The St. Thomas Purchase.—London, December 6.—The Times has an editorial on the subject of the sale of the Island of St. Thomas to the United States. It is pleased with the transfer, and hopes the sanitary measures of the Americans will extinguish the causes of contagious fevers which are so prevalent in that island. The Roman Question.—Paris, Dec. 6.—In the Corps Legislatif, yesterday, Minister Rouher made a speech defending the policy of the Emperor's government on the Roman question. He admitted that the unity of Italy was desirable, but in accomplishing it, Italy should never go to the extreme of taking possession of Rome by force. At the close of the debate M. Jules Favre's motion for interpellation of government in Italian affairs was rejected. Spain Wanting to Sell Cuba.—New York, Dec. 6.—A Havana letter says that, through letters received from Madrid, it is rumored that ex-Queen Christina and Don Romero Navares are urging the cession of the Island of Cuba to the United States, for a consideration of about $200,000,000. Italy.—Florence, Dec. 8.—It is reported that General Garibaldi has again disappeared from the Island of Caprera, and it is feared that another attempt against Rome will be made by the party of action. The speech of the French Minister, M. Rouher, in which he said Italy should not take forcible possession of Rome, gave rise to an angry discussion in the Italian Chamber of Deputies yesterday. Prime Minister Menabrea informed the House that he had asked the French Government for an explanation of the speech, and he expected to receive a reply from Paris by Monday. He added that Italy could only gain possession of Rome with the concurrent consent of France and other European powers, and that it would be impossible to achieve that object by force. At the end of the debate a vote was taken, and the government was sustained by a majority of the members. The Earthquake in St. Thomas.—Havana, Dec. 4.—Forty-seven earthquakes, rapidly succeeding each other, were felt at St. Thomas on the 20th of November. One shock lasted two minutes. The sea rose 60 feet on the city, and everything was submerged. The loss of life is enormous, and immense quantities of merchandise were destroyed. The surviving inhabitants, houseless and destitute, fled to the mountains. Those that remained are striving by every means to leave the island. The steamer La Plata is the only vessel which has sailed since the calamity, and she left 150 persons behind for want of accommodations. Every business firm on the island is insolvent, and all the steamship and other companies have abandoned it. No coal is to be had; and the wharves are destroyed. At the time of the sailing of the steamer, the earthquake continued at intervals. The destruction is incalculable at St. Thomas, and also at Tortola and St. Croix. Little Saba is a horrible volcano, and nearly burned to ashes. France.—Paris, Dec. 8.—Fears are entertained here of a Ministerial crisis, in consequence of the last speech of M. Rouher on the Roman question in the Corps Legislatif. A Congress of American Churches.—The Evangelist, New School Presbyterian, mentions that the late movements toward union in the Presbyterian Church and elsewhere, have led many to look forward to a still larger union, which should bring into one fold, or at least into close relations of intercommunion and Christian fellowship, a number of evangelical churches, which in time should include all the great branches of Protestant Christendom. As a step in this direction, the Christian Intelligencer suggested that the evangelical churches in the United States are “approaching a period in which they might organize a general convention or congress,” composed of duly appointed delegates, the same to meet, say once in three years. The work of this general congress of American churches would necessarily be changed from time to time; but the following are suggested as features that would obtain certain degree of permanence:
1. It would be charged with the duty of exemplifying the essential unity of the several evangelical denominations.
2. By its fraternal counsels it might magnify the essentials and minify the non-essentials of religion.
3. It could concert and recommend plans of labor, which, if commonly adopted, would harmonize and consolidate the aggressive efforts of all the churches.
4. Its deliverances on supreme questions of public morals, could not fail to have large influence, and sometimes check political iniquity when intent upon mischief.
5. It would present a united front against the adversaries of Church and State, and quicken the public conscience when enervated by popular errors and delusions. The Protestant Churchman (Episcopal), in speaking of the fraternization between the Episcopal and Presbyterian clergy, at the late convention in Philadelphia, says: “The scenes of Thursday and Friday convinced us that our foes are not those of other evangelical communions; let us then more heartily than ever unite with them in repelling the assaults of our common foes—genuine and counterfeited Romanism.” Commenting upon the above, the New York Observer (Old School Presbyterian) says:
“These are words which will awaken a cordial response from all in every communion who love Christ and the souls of men more than mere forms and ceremonies.” St. Thomas, West Indies.
By Harper
It appears, though unofficially stated, that the United States has purchased the island of St. Thomas, West Indies, “with all the rights, titles, inhabitants, floods, and hurricanes thereunto pertaining.” The island of St. Thomas, one of the group called the Virgin Isles, with the Isles of St. John and Tortola, a few miles apart from it, occupies the most convenient position in the West Indian archipelago for the rendezvous of the mail steam-packets and other vessels plying to and fro between this country and the colonies in that part of the world. It has an area of only 24 square miles, and a population of only about 15,000 inhabitants. The soil is sandy and not very fertile. Only about 2,500 acres are under cultivation, and cotton and sugar-cane are the principal crops. The port of St. Thomas is its chief value and attraction; it is open to the commerce of all nations, and is capable of “floating the navies of the world.” The port is visited by about 3,000 vessels annually. Its chief value to the United States will be as a coal station and rendezvous for our fleets.—Harper. The Terrific Storm at St. Thomas.
One week from the day of my coming on shore, a fearful hurricane desolated the island; utterly destroying forty-seven ships—sunk, ashore or capsized, and drowned over five hundred persons. Our house was unroofed, we were wet, and all the furniture destroyed; no one in our house was injured, though the chimney, walls, fences and trees, were actually flying through the air. This dreadful hurricane gave no warning whatever, but commenced blowing from the northwest with utmost fury, and continued for two hours. During this time the distressing spectacle of seven vessels capsized in an instant by whirlwinds, was within my own sight. Nearly every soul of the crews remaining were clinging to the bottoms or to the spars of the sunken ships. A death-like calm followed, and prevailed for half an hour, during which time several vessels put out boats to save lives. The pilot department put out two beautiful cutters through a frightful sea, and had already saved many lives, and the Spanish man-of-war had all her boats out with forty men and officers, when the wind shifted in an instant to the southeast, in such a rush and blinding storm, that all these unfortunate people were swept at once into eternity. All the ships were sunk, and every wharf and building on the water's edge destroyed, and the trees torn up by the roots, and the suburban residences on the hills blown into a million tiny fragments and scattered for miles over the hillsides. Such a dreadful scene of ruin no man living, I think, has ever beheld. This happened on the 29th, and all day yesterday hundreds of corpses were being taken from the lower harbor. In the morning, under a cloudless sky, St. Thomas lay in ruins. Where the day before rode safely at anchor sixty-seven vessels on the smiling bosom of the bay, nothing met the eye but a mass of wrecks. WHAT GOD DOES.—God carries people only when they cannot walk; he pities our weakness, but not our sloth. AN ARGUMENT.—There is one single fact which one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, viz.: That no man ever on his death-bed repented of being a Christian. Mr. Randall exhibits some interesting figures in his report of the operations during the past fiscal year in the Post-office Department, and no inconsiderable knowledge of the history of the intercourse of men with each other, and a knowledge of human nature in the aggregate can be derived from his statistics. His income amounted to twenty millions, and he has saved more than seven hundred thousand dollars. Next year, however, he estimates that it will cost him twenty-two millions, and his receipts will amount to only eighteen millions, requiring additional appropriations of two millions and a half. Over three hundred and seventy-one millions of postage stamps were sold, of the value of eleven and a half millions of dollars. This is an increase of 65 per cent. over last year. The sale of stamped envelopes has increased 61 per cent., which is attributed to the plan of printing upon the envelopes business cards and requests to return the letters if uncalled for. The use of this latter class of envelopes has largely reduced the number of dead letters. Fifty millions of them were used, of which the Department supplied one-third. The total amount of mail matter carried is not given. There are 7,743 mail routes, some of which on an average carried as much as ten tons daily, others, three pounds. These routes were 203,245 miles in length, in the aggregate. Of this, 34,015 miles were railroad, costing $11.75 a mile; an aggregate annual cost of $3,312,000; 15,094 miles were steamboat, costing annually $472,206, or about $14.07 a mile. The other routes were 153,136 miles long, costing, at the rate of $11.65, five millions of dollars. The aggregate annual transportation was 78,982,789 miles. On eighteen railroad routes there are postal routes extending in the aggregate over 4,485 miles. This cost thirty-five thousand dollars more than the old route-agent service, but twelve, twenty-four, and forty-eight hours are saved, justifying the increased expenditure. The aggravated delays of the overland mail are acknowledged, but the failures are excused on the ground of the Indian troubles, which rendered it impossible to carry through the mails except by a military escort which could not be provided every day. The establishment of a mail service to China and of a branch service to Yokohama and Shanghai is described, and the details are of much commercial importance. Two vessels, the Great Republic and the China, are already placed upon the line, and two others are soon to be added. A great increase of communication between the two continents is expected, and recommendations with reference to it are urged by the Postmaster General. A monthly mail service has been established between San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, and the government of Venezuela has proposed another between the two countries, the expense to be equally divided between them. Eighteen hundred and eighty-five post-offices have been established during the past year, and 25,163 are now in operation. About ten thousand (9,744) postmasters have been appointed, the majority evidently as the result of Mr. Johnson’s effort to gain popular support in favor of his policy. Four thousand resigned rather than submit, thirty-five hundred were removed, two hundred and fifteen died, and eighteen hundred and eighty-five were appointed to the new offices. A sweeping, expensive, and probably unprofitable change, for the purpose of gratifying Executive obstinacy, was thus foolishly made. Nine hundred and thirty-four carriers distributed letters free of charge in forty-seven cities, at an expense of seven hundred thousand dollars. The postage on local matter in New York amounted to $171,401, the expenses to $151,829, showing a profit of over twenty thousand dollars. The mental peculiarities of the human race are governed by laws almost as invariable as those which regulate the tides. Every year it is found that nearly the same number of persons forget to put stamps on their letters, misdirect or neglect altogether to direct them, or write illegibly. During the past year 4,306,508 letters (domestic and foreign) were consigned to the dead letter office; a decrease of 882,097 from last year, due to the use of stamped and “request” envelopes, and to the fact that people are gradually learning the necessity of preparing their letters. But 443,780 people forgot to affix a stamp, or directed their letters to places having no mail service—a decrease of nearly one hundred thousand since the last report. In large cities and thickly populated districts, improved modes of delivery have served to reduce the aggregate of dead letters. But three-fourths of them have become so from causes beyond the control of the Post-office Department, which cannot compel people to be careful in their address, to write legibly, or prevent the persons to whom the letters are addressed from changing their residence or dying without the knowledge of their correspondents. Of the whole number of such letters more than a million and a half have been restored to their writers. The rest amounting to nearly three millions were destroyed—some probably by accident. A million and a half were worthless, containing circulars, and gift or lottery advertisements. The writers of two hundred and fifty thousand could not be found, and one million letters were burned because their writers either failed entirely to sign their names, or signed them in an illegible manner! Twenty-one thousand letters contained sums of one dollar or more to the amount of $138,865, while 18,577 of the writers were lucky enough to have them returned, and were “in pocket” by the amount of $127,135. Nearly fourteen thousand people each sent less than a dollar in their letters, to the amount of nearly four thousand dollars. Ten thousand four hundred were enabled “to see their money back” to the amount of thirty-five hundred dollars. Fifty thousand people used the mails to send photographs and jewelry which their friends never received; and thirty-five thousand of them were gratified or disgusted at getting back these tokens of affection. The pictures and jewelry of the remaining fifteen thousand brought about nine hundred dollars at public sale. Over five millions of dollars worth of checks, bills of exchange, deeds and other papers were vainly sent in twenty-one thousand letters, and twenty thousand were restored to their owners. The number of letters sent in envelopes with a request to return was 1,077,875, and eighty-four per cent. of the writers received them; fully sustaining the policy of the free return of such letters. In the year 1867, 462,279,710 letters were mailed, being an average of one million three hundred thousand a day, or one letter to every twenty-three inhabitants; or an average of over fifteen letters annually to each person in the United States. Gross frauds are being perpetrated by the use of the lithographed fac-simile of the franks of members of Congress, which are freely used to circulate obscene books and pictures, lottery circulars, business cards, etc. Unless this is checked, one million of dollars will be required to transport free matter. Mr. Randall urges that the law be changed, and that the written signature of the person entitled to the franking privilege be required. The postmaster General anticipates an excess of expenditures over receipts, for some years to come, owing to the opening up of new territory and the sparseness of population demanding postal advantages. But he believes ultimately and at a comparatively early period that the Department will be a source of revenue. Publication Department.
By Editor
The Publishing Association.
The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association was incorporated in Battle Creek, Mich., May 3, 1861. Its object is to issue “periodicals, books, tracts, documents, and other publications, calculated to impart instruction on Bible truth, especially the fulfillment of prophecy, the commandments of God, and the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Its capital stock is raised by shares at $10 each; and every shareholder is entitled to one vote in all the deliberations of the Association, for every share that he or she may hold. The Association has now a large and well-furnished Office of publication, established in Battle Creek, Mich., and employs two steam power presses in carrying on its business. A meeting of the stockholders is held each year, at which a board of trustees is elected to manage its business, and editors chosen to conduct its periodicals, till the ensuing meeting. All persons employed in the publishing department, are engaged at stipulated wages, and all profits accruing from the business, are strictly applied by the Association to the carrying out of the object of its formation, and to its charitable uses and purposes. All lovers of truth, who “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” are still invited to take shares in the Association, and have a voice in all its deliberations. The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
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