REV. A. C. WHEAT.-We regret to learn that this estimable brother, pastor of one of the Baptist Churches in this city, has been prostrated by a dangerous illness. We are happy to hear that he is convalescent, and will, we trust, be well by the time that this notice shall have reached the subscribers of the Memorial. REV. WM. CROWELL.-We announced, some time since, that this brother had decided to accept of the invitation extended to him to become editor of the Western Watchman, published at St. Louis, Mo. We have since met with him on his way to that important field of labor, and we are sure that he will fill the honored place of his predecessor, Rev. J. M. Peck, with dignity, ability, and kindness. May the Lord make him instrumental in extending a salutary and powerful influence throughout the great West. CALIFORNIA.--Gold digging seems to be prosperous, and large quantities of the dust are shipped every month. The Indians on the frontiers are making considerable trouble to the miners. Seventy-two miners were attacked by surprise in a gulch, near Rattlesnake Creek, and all massacred. The Executive of the State ordered out two hundred men to oppose the Indians. Jan. 9th, forty or fifty Americans attacked an intrenched camp of four hundred or five hundred Indians, killed forty-four, and burned the rancheria. Many of the aged and children were consumed in the flames. Of the whites two were killed, and five or six wounded. There is a report that the Indians from Oregon to the Colorado are leagued together to exterminate the whites. MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE. MRS. JUDSON.-This lady was to leave Burmah for Calcutta in January, whence she was to sail for this country via England. Before this number of the Memorial shall have reached all of the subscribers, it is probable that she will be among us. Some friends at Calcutta contributed ample funds to defray her expenses in a comfortable manner to her native land. MISSIONARY MURDERED.-Rev. Mr. Fast, a missionary from Sweden, stationed at Fuhchau in China, when returning with money from the mouth of the river, was attacked by robbers and killed. DR. JUDSON, before his last sickness, a little more than half completed the Burmese and English Dictionary, which he commenced in January, 1849. Bro. Stevens is designated as the person to complete it. It will be a very difficult task, as much of the manuscript is in pencil mark and interlined. The English and Burmese Dictionary was completed in 1848. LITERARY ITEMS. POPULARITY OF AMERICANS IN GERMANY.-An American student, on leaving the University of Gottingen recently, was honored with a triumphal procession of the students, in presence of a large concourse of people. When the procession reached the principal hotel, an immense stirrup cup was brought forward, and all of the students of the University drank wine therefrom in solemn order to the health of the American student. The American flag was displayed in the procession. m NEWSPAPERS IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.-By official statements we perceive that there are in the State of New-York no less than 458 newspapers, of which 56 are issued daily. The City and County of New-York alone has eighteen dailies, and 108 weeklies. BAPTIST MESSENGER.-This paper, published at Elizabeth City, N. C., has been discontinued, and its list of subscribers transferred to that of the Biblical Recorder. Brethren Hendrickson and McDaniel have conducted the paper with ability, but finding it would be better for the cause to have but one denominational paper in the State, they have, like Christians, sacrificed their own feelings and are endeavoring to assist the Recorder. COBBET'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLE, No. 19, is received. It will be completed in a few more numbers, and will make a splendid volume. HARPERS' MAGAZINE for April is received. Its circulation has reached, we learn, 60,000. DR. CRAMP, late of Montreal, has become President of Acadia College, Nova Scotia. WE learn by a notice in the New-York Recorder, from Dr. Conant, of Rochester Theological Seminary, that that institution has received a donation from the First Baptist Church in this city of a copy of Walton's Biblia Polyglotta, in six folio volumes, a very rare and valuable work. The same church have contributed other valuable books to the amount of $100,00. SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. NEW STEAM-CARRIAGE FOR THE STREETS.-In the Avenir Republican of St. Etienne is given an account of the appearance in the streets of that town, of a new steam carriage for ordinary roads, invented by M. Verpilleux, of Rive-deGier, who represented the Loire in the Constituent Assembly. The carriage in question went through all the streets of the town, with the greatest facility, under the most perfect control of the man sitting in front, turning it to the right or left, or sending it backward or forward as he pleased. The carriage weighs two tons, and is of four-horse power. It runs on three wheels, and its speed is ten English miles an hour. Its consumption of coke is exceedingly small. ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY AT ROME.-The Giornale di Roma of the 15th continues to give accounts of new discoveries made in the excavations now going on in the ancient Via Appia. The works have now progressed as far as the fifth mile outside the town. Beautiful fragments of Roman architecture have been again brought to light. Crowds of connoisseurs are constantly on the spot to examine the relics daily brought to view. FOSSIL TREE IN COAL ROCKS.-The Westmoreland Intelligencer, contains a description of a curious discovery, made in excavating for the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Greensburgh, Westmoreland county, Pa. A fossil tree, of "immense magnitude" has been laid bare, lying prostrate, about four feet above the Pittsburgh seam of coal, imbedded in solid sandstone thirty feet below the surface. The part which was removed, measured twenty-six feet in length, and two feet ten inches in circumference at the base. From the size of the two main branches which enter the rock on the opposite side, it is inferred that this tree may have been from thirty to fifty feet in length. At the base it was much flattened by the pressure of the superincumbent weight, but the branches still retain their original cylindrical form. It was entirely enveloped by a coating of pure and beautifully crystalized bituminous coal, measuring from a quarter to an inch in thickness. In a scientific point of view, the discovery of this tree is of much interest and importance, for it is hoped it will set at rest among geologists the much vexed and long discussed question, whether the genus to which this plant belongs, a genus which contributed so largely to the formation of coal, belongs to aborescent ferns, gigantic palms, or lofty pines. GREAT DISCOVERY IN ILLUMINATING AND MOTIVE POWER.-The Railway Times has the following:-The decomposition of water has at length been obtained, and that at a merely nominal cost, and with unerring precision. This great discovery, originating in America, has been perfected by the experiments of an eminent German chemist, and patented in the three kingdoms by Mr. Shepard. The carburetted hydrogen may be formed to any extent, which, while possessing an illuminating power equal to that of coal gas, is capable of being itself applied to the same purposes as steam at a remarkably high presThe gas is also capable of producing an amount of caloric equal to that of live coal, and consequently well and cheaply fitted to act as a combustible agent in the conversion of water into steam. sure. NEW DISCOVERY.-A Mr. Hill, of this State, has discovered a method of taking daguerreotypes and preserving the natural color of the human countenance. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. ENGLAND.-Sheridan Knowles, the dramatist, has entered the arena of religious controversy, and prepared a volume upon transubstantiation, in reply to the lectures of Cardinal Wiseman. We notice the death of John Pye Smith, D.D., Feb. 5, aged 77. He was the author of a work on Scripture and Geology, and several other works of decided merit. Also Joanna Baillie, considered by many, as the best female poet of England, died Feb. 23, aged 90. Mrs. Shelley, wife of the celebrated poet, died Feb. 11, in London, aged 53 years. FRANCE.-Lamartine, it is stated, has consented to write a history of the Restoration, in some 8 or 10 volumes. For the volume of his Confidences, he received from his publishers $8000,00. The Journal de la Librairie, informs us that the whole number of books and pamphlets, printed in France during last year is 7,208, of which 5,848 are new publications. 6661 of these are in the French language, 68 in the dialects spoken in France, 53 in German, 61 in English, 51 in Spanish, 83 in Greek, 115 in Latin, 16 in Portuguese, 14 in Polish, and 9 in Hebrew. Charles Coquerel, an author of some distinction, has recently deceased. GERMANY.—Dr. Schröder has published a work on Talmudic and Rab binic maxims and customs, presenting an account of some very singular usages, particularly in respect to keeping the Sabbath day holy. Professor Shumacher, the astronomer in the Observatory of Altona, died on the 28th of Dec. in his 71st year. For many years he has been before the scientific world, as the editor of the "Astronomische Nachrichten." UNITED STATES.-Prof. J. A. Alexander, of Princeton, is preparing a new critical and exegetical work. The Messrs. Harpers have in press, Dr. Achilli's Dealings with the Inquisition, Keith's Harmony of Prophecy, Schmitz's History of Greece, the Philosophy of Mathematics, by Prof. Gillespie, and the Journal of Capt. Obadiah Conger, by Rev. H. T. Cheever. At a recent meeting of prayer for Colleges, in Boston, the number of Colleges in the United States, was estimated at 121, and the number of students at about 11,000. In our 43 Theological Seminaries, 22 Law Schools, and 45 Medical Schools, we have about 6,000 more young men, In Great Britain there are 60 Colleges and 384 Professors. Oxford and Cambridge have 41 Colleges and nearly 13,000 students, and in the other Colleges one-third more— in all, making 17,000 training in these schools. In the Universities of Germany there arc 18,000 students; in France, 12,000 students, 7,000 in Paris alone; 10,000 in the Spanish Universities, and in the European Universities there are not far from 80,000. MINISTERIAL CHANGES. Rev. John Francis, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Amherst, N.S., Rev. W. G. Gordon, of Indiana, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Spring Bay, Woodford co., Ill.; Rev. David Avery, of South Colebrook, Ct., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Tyringham, Mass.; Rev. Noyes W. Miner, of East Longmeadow, Mass., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Lebanon, Ct.; Rev. Nathan Wildman, of Lebanon, Ct., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Waterford, Ct.; Rev. Lemuel Porter, of Lowell, Mass., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Pittsfield, Mass.; Rev. D. P. French, of Lyndboro, N. H., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Mason Village, N. H.; Rev. J M. Frost, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Mayslick, Ky.; Rev. J. W. Warder, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Maysville, Ky.; Rev. John Seage, (recently a Methodist clergyman,) has become pastor of the Baptist ch., Carmel, Putnam co., N. Y.; Rev. Lewis Smith, of Hatboro, Pa., has been appointed a Missionary to Santa Fe, New Mexico, by the Am. Bap. Home Mission Society; Rev. H. J. Hires of Vincent, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Glen Run, Parksburg, Chester co., Pa.; Rev. Folgambe, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Grand-street, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Rev. J. M. Carpenter, of Perth Amboy, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Jacobstown, N. J.; Rev. J. Aldrich, of Framingham, Mass., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Middleborough, Mass.; Rev. J. H. Waterbury, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Elizabethtown, N.J. REVIVALS. Baltimore, M. D., 103 had been baptized up to March 1; Middletown, N.J., 224 baptized up to April 1; New York city, Twelfth-st. Bap. ch., 50 baptized up to March 1; Radnor, Pa., 40 hopeful conversions up to March 1; Amherstburg, C. W., 36 baptized up to Feb. 22.; New Haven, Ct., (Academy Bap. ch.) 12 baptized March 2; Rockford, Ill., 90 obtained hopes up to March 1; Trenton, N.J., 26 baptized up to March 10; Jefferson, Schoharie, co., N. Y., 22 baptized up to March 27; Detroit, Mich, 115 baptized, and united with First Baptist ch. up to March 1; Factoryville, N. Y., 26 baptized up to March 1; Red Bank, N.J., 23 baptized up to March 20; Portageville, Wyoming co., N.Y., Rev. G. W.Huntley, pastor of the Baptist church in that place, writes to us, (March 24) that a precious revival is progressing there. 15 had been baptized; Newark, N.J., up to April 1 there had been several baptized, and many inquirers; Nautmeal, Pa., 63 baptized up to April 1; Lexington, Mo., 35 added recently. There is an interesting state of feeling in most of the churches in our large cities, and many hopeful conversions. In Troy, N. Y., there has been an interesting revival, and many have been hopefully renewed; New Woodstock, Madco., N.Y., 72 baptized up to March 20. MONTHLY LIST. Deaths of Baptist Ministers. Thomas Smith, Jr., New Orleans, La., Joseph Mathias, Hillstown, Mon. co., Ammi R. Cleaves, Cumberland, Me., A. F. Spalding, Montreal, C. E., March David Budlong, Paris, Oneid. co., N.Y., aged 87. Ordinations. Highland, Ill., Jan. 19. Morton, Tazewell co., Ill., March 6. Peter Van Winkle, Napoleon, Mich. Brandon, Mich., March 15. Feb. Zenas Coleman, Mt. Vernon, Mich., J. S. Read, Vernon, O., Feb. 15. Richard's Mills, Warrensburgh, March Boston, Mass., (Baptist Bethel church,' Dedications. Gloucester, Mass., March, 19. |