Receipts by the Permanent Committee of Education at New York, during the 8 50 MICHIGAN. Nunda 1st eh, 15 00 Pewamo ch, 3.00 4 25 Dansville ch, 22 19 INDIANA. Denter ch, 6 59 Brownville ch, 14 62 Waterville ch, A H Porter, Niagara Falls, 20 00 Ossian ch, 4.00 North Bergen ch, 7. 00 Alton 1st ch, 35 65 Gorham 1st ch 11 30 Fulton 1st cḥ, 18 53 Circleville ch, 5 00 WISCONSIN. KANSAS. Succasunna ch, 10 00 New Vernon ch, 25.00 TENNESSEE. Madison ch, 73.00 Newark 6th ch, 13 20 PENNSYLVANIA. Mars Hill ch, 6. 00 Caledonia ch, 4.00 Rey Thomas Brown, Philadelphia, E. M. KINGSLEY, Treasurer, Presbyterian Rooms, 30 Vesey Street, 5.00 $1,155 12 Portsmouth ch, add'l, 4.00 October 1st, 1870. New York City. BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. Recent Intelligence. DEATH OF Mr. and Mrs. CornES.-Before this our readers will have learned the death of the Rev. Edward Cornes, and his wife, and eldest child, by the explosion of the boiler of a steamboat at Yedo, on the 1st of August. Some of the distressing particulars of this event are given in a letter of Dr. Hepburn, in another column. We greatly deplore the removal of these missionaries. Their early death is one of the mysteries of Providence, but " even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight." We learn also with much regret that Mr. and Mrs. Lenington have been called to part with two of their children by death at Brotas, Brazil; and that Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg have met the bereavement of another child at Futtehgurh, India. "ADDED TO THE CHURCH."-We are glad to learn from the letters dated in August, that quite a number of converts have been received into the churches. At Peking a young man from Ningpo was baptized by Dr. Martin. At Hangchow three persons were baptized by Mr. Dodd on profession of their faith, one of whom was a young man in the mission school. Mr. Butler speaks of a Chinese woman who was admitted to the church of Ningpo. Mr. Ullmann mentions that five more members have been received into the church of Etawah, three on examination, one on certificate, and a fifth by baptism, a young man of the Bania Caste. Mr. Nassau refers to the admission to the communion of the church of Benita of an old man after baptism. Mr. Schneider reports the admission of four persons by baptism as members of the church of Rio de Janeiro upon profession of their faith. TRANSFER OF THE SYRIA, SENECA, AND OJIBWA Missions of the American Board.These missions and the brethren connected with them have been taken under the care of the Board, in pursuance of the general arrangement with which our readers are already acquainted. These important changes have been made with cordial and Christian feeling by all parties interested in them. The names of the Rev. Messrs. Asher Wright, George Ford and William Hall, of the Seneca Mission, and of the Rev. Messrs. W. M. Thomson, D.D., C. V. A. Van Dyke, D.D., S. II. Calhoun, D.D., W. W. Eddy, W. Bird, Henry H. Jessup, D.D., Samuel Jessup, and James S. Dennis, of the Syria Mission, are included in this transfer. These brethren and their wives, and several ladies who are teachers, and also their native assistants, churches, and schools, will be borne in warm remembrance, we are sure, in the prayers of our churches. Particular accounts of these missions will soon be given in the publications of the Board. Departure of MISSIONARIES.-On the 6th of October, the Rev. John Menaul, lately of the Corisco Mission, set out on his journey to Arizona Territory. His field of labour among the Indians will be determined after conference with the Rev. J. M. Roberts, of the Navajo Mission. On the 12th of October, the Rev. Messrs. John Newton, Augustus Brodhead, James F. Holcomb, Galen W. Seiler, James J. Lucas, George A. Seeley, and Francis Newton, Mrs. Brodhead, Mrs. Holcomb, Mrs. F. Newton, Miss Nannie Dickey, and Miss Margaret A. Craig,— all for India, and Miss Ellen Jackson for Beirut, Syria, sailed in the Colorado from New York. Mr. Newton and Mr. and Mrs. Brodhead are returning to their work; the others are new missionaries. Mr. Holcomb was settled for some years as a pastor at Athens, Ohio. Mr. Seiler is of Harrisburg, Penna; Mr. Lucas, Danville, Ky; Mr. Seeley, Amenia, N. Y.; Mr. F. Newton, Steubenville, Ohio; Mr. Seeley, Mr. F. Newton, and Miss Craig, are of the second generation of missionaries in India, having been born in that country, though educated here; Mrs. F. Newton is of Chambersburg, Penna; Miss Dickey, of Pittsburg, Penna; Miss Craig, latterly of Norristown, Penna; Miss Jackson, of Clinton, N. Y. Messrs. Holcomb and F. Newton are graduates of the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Penna; Messrs. Seiler, Lucas, and Seeley, of the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J. Interesting farewell services were held at most of the places where these missionaries lived, and a very large and good meeting of this kind was held in the Madison Square Presbyterian Church of this city, Rev. Dr. Adams', on the Sabbath evening before their departure. They will be followed by the sympathies. and prayers of the churches. RECEIPTS, MAY 1ST TO OCTOBER 1ST.-From churches, $21,911; from legacies, $4,893; from miscellaneous donors, $3,052; in all, $29,857. Receipts in the same months last year, $54,207—of which, from churches, $28,813. LETTERS RECEIVED TO OCTOBER 14th.-From the Omaha Mission, October 3d; Creek, September 28th; Seminole, September 6th; Navajo, September 13th; San Francisco, September 30th; Yedo, August 10th; Yokahama, August 15th; Pekin, July 27th; Ningpo, August 8th; Shanghai, August 11th; Canton, August 11th; Allahabad, August 9th; Etawah, August 12th; Futtehgurh, August 7th; Benita, July 27th; Monrovia, September; Rio de Janeiro, August 24th; Bogota, September 13th. Overturnings in Papal Europe. Whatever may be the result of the war between France and Prussia, we may regard the reign of the late emperor of France as at an end. He is not one who held religion in any great esteem, not even the Romanist form of it, as did his consort; but to conciliate the Romanist clergy in France, so it is commonly believed, he misused the great power of that country to uphold the Pope in Pome, and the Romanist Missions in the South Sea Islands, in Cochin China, in China, and elsewhere, often at the expense of all right and justice to the native inhabitants. All this, so far as France is concerned, will now be changed, indeed is already changed in some places. The Pope, no longer upheld by French troops, has ceased to be a temporal prince; so quickly has judgment followed the blasphemous ascription to him of a divine attribute. In other parts of the world we do not expect to see Romanist priests any longer supported by French naval, military, and political power, and Protestant Missions embarrassed in their work by this unhallowed means. It is not often safe to speak with confidence of the results of national events while they are yet unfinished, but in this instance we misjudge if one of the pillars of Romanism in its citadel has not fallen, if one of the main powers of its extension in the world has not been broken. And now we have calls from France and Italy for pecuniary means to support and realize their evangelistic work. Dr. Grand-Pierre writes to us from Paris, September 18th, "hearing in his study-room the cannon of the forts attacked by the enemy," and he and other brethren make an earnest plea for assistance. Their usual means of supporting their missions are sadly reduced by the war; they greatly need assistance. The Evangelical Society of Geneva calls for funds to support missionary labourers among the soldiers and the wounded, in addition to its usual departments of work. Dr. Revel, who has lately returned to Florence, while on his visit to this country spoke with warm interest of the work of the Waldensian Church as calling for enlargement. One of the first things to be done by this Church would be to send missionaries to Rome; probably, before this, some are there. We hope our friends will enable the Board to make liberal remittances to these European brethern in aid of their missions. Funds thus sent forward suffer no reduction from office expense in this country, and are placed in the hands of good men, well informed and judicious, to be expended in the best way for the spread of the gospel in France and Italy. One of the Transferred Missions. The Ojibwa Mission of the American Board has been received by the Presbyterian Board with the cordial approval of all parties. It needs immediate reinforcement. The only missionary, Rev. Leonard H. Wheeler, owing to feeble health, is no longer able to live on the reservation, and retains his connection with the mission for the present, rather for the sake of counsel than of active services. The native preacher, Mr. Henry Blackford, is well spoken of; and the native church is also commended. It appears in the Minutes of the General Assembly under the name of Odonah, Presbytery of Fox River, and reports twelve members. A boarding-school was conducted some years ago for which the American Board erected buildings at considerable expense; but through the influence of an unfriendly agent this school had to be suspended. It ought to be re-established, in the opinion of the respected Secretary of that Board, who has had charge of the correspondence with this mission. In his judgment an efficient superintendent should be appointed as soon as possible. It is not indispensable that he should be a minister, though there is ample work, we suppose, for a minister of the gospel in this field. In the last Report of the Indian Commissioner, the Indian Agent, Col. J. H. Knight, United States Army, gives an interesting account of the Chippewas of Lake Superior. They have six reservations: of which two are in Minnesota, and two in Wisconsin, but the land of only one of them is valuable for Indian purposes. This reservation, known as the Bad River reservation, Wisconsin, fronting on Lake Superior, is the one occupied by the band among whom this mission is established. It contains 165,000 acres, and the agent speaks in the highest terms of the quality of the land, describing it as the Miami Valley of that part of the country. The number of Ojibwa or Chippewa Indians on the reservation, as stated in the Commissioner's Report, is but 329 males, and 308 females; but the agent recommends that all the Lake Superior Chippewas should be removed to this reservation, about 5000 souls. This would seem to be a very proper measure, for various reasons assigned. These Indians are described as peaceful, manageable, and much in need of education and the means of improvement. They have some funds in the hands of the Government, the interest of which is paid to them in the form of "supplies," but changes in the way of dealing with this matter should certainly be made; these changes might well follow the settlement of all these Indians on the Bad River reservation. These brief notices will serve, as we hope, to turn the attention of our readers to this Chippewa Mission. It would be a matter of great regret, if the earnest labours of excellent brethren in past years should not be continued and enlarged, and this without delay. Death of the Rev. Edward Cornes, and his Wife and Son. The newspapers have already given accounts of the distressing death of our missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. Cornes, at Yedo. We insert here some further particulars from a letter of Dr. J. C. Hepburn, dated at Yokohama, August 15th, 1870. The telegraph will no doubt convey to you the sad news of the death of our Brother Cornes, his wife and eldest son, Edward. It occurred on the afternoon of the 1st of August. They had taken passage in a small steamer-City of Yedo-which plied daily between this place and Yedo, and just as the boat was leaving the wharf, the boiler exploded, killing instantly our three friends. Their little infant of about three months old was asleep in the cabin, lying on the transom, and escaped with only both hands badly scalded. The infant is with us, we have taken it as our own child, if Mr. Cornes' friends in the United States consent; if not, we shall send it to them when it is large enough to go. Its hands are rapidly improving, and will heal without deformity, I think. Mr. Cornes was much liked in the Japanese school, where he was labouring, and bade fair to be a very useful man. The government officers connected with the Board of Education have presented his estate-the infant-with eight hundred dollars, as a tribute of their esteem for him, and sorrow at his loss. He had made very respectable progress in the language, and was looking forward with much hope to being engaged more directly, at some day soon, in his peculiar missionary duties. He always regarded his connection with the school merely as a temporary matter, which he would be glad to lay aside for the work of preaching the gospel. But "God's thoughts are not as Our thoughts," and our brother has been taken away from us and his work here, in a moment. We mourn our loss, and the loss to the missionary work in this country. The Lord knows what is best for us all, and for His work. I trust others will soon be raised up to take his place. The country needs all the missionaries the Church can send into it. Work of Christian Women in China. We insert Miss Brown's letter, but abridged for the want of space. It is dated at Tungchow, June 16, 1870. Our readers will see from this narrative a part of the work which Christian women are permitted to do for the Chinese, especially for Chinese women. No one can doubt the importance and the encouragement of such work as is here described. Miss Downing and I started at noon on the 28th of April for a trip to Pingtoo, she in a shenza, and I on a donkey. We were accompanied by the native elder, Mr. Lin, our cook; Kaon Foo Shin, of whom I have before told you; and two muleteers. Going by the way of Lai Chowfoo, we reached Ningkea about five o'clock on Saturday evening, three days after leaving home. This pleasant thrifty village of five hundred or six hundred inhabitants, the home of two native Christians, is only about twelve le [four miles] from the city of Lae Chow, and two hundred and sixty le from Tungehow. Like many other places in China it is settled by one family by the name of Ning, the kea being the Chinese word for family. According to the long established custom of the country, the oldest, wealthiest, and consequently the most influential man in such a village, is lord over the rest, and his word is law. The head man of Ningkea hates foreigners and their religion intensely, and when one of his name, though a distant relative, became a Christian, and devoted rooms in his own house to be used as a chapel, his rage knew no bounds, and he threatened to fine any one who should be seen going to the chapel five thousand cash, and any one who was seen speaking to this man or his Christian brother, who lived in a neighboring village, one thousand cash. Notwithstanding this a few went secretly to the chapel to talk with these men, and inquire about the doctrine, among whom was the oldest son of the head man. After a while his father found it out, and told him if he joined the foreign sect he would "dig out his eyes, and break his legs." But the more the young man read and heard, the more anxious he became, and before our visit there he made one attempt to run off and come to Tungchow, but his father had him taken back, and while we were there he was a prisoner at home. After we left he attempted twice to run away. Succeeding the second time he followed us to Pingtoo, and by a different route came home with us. He said his father burned up all his books that he could get his hands on, and that he could |