"COOKING A HARE."

If any one would not make a mistake in this matter of culinary art, he should not forget a somewhat important part of the instructions; viz:-"First, catch the hare." The Pall-Mall Gazette gives an amusing account of an affair which has lately engrossed the profoundest attention of some European Scientific savans, who have grown too wise to believe the Bible, and especially the Mosaic history of the Creation of Man. If they can only get rid of that, they think they can get rid of a great deal else; and especially of CHRIST, and the Atonement, and the Church, and the Sacraments, and the Ministry; and, perhaps, by and by, of the Family, and the State, and, at length, of all Law whatsoever. A Mr. Laing, it seems, had discov. ered a collection of human bones and flint implements in a mound at Caithness, Scotland. The adult skeleton was declared to have ape-like peculiarities, certainly. Here then was proof of the development theory! And the jaw-bone of an infant was pronounced to bear evident marks of the cannibalistic habits of our "pre-historic progenitors." Here was Herbert Spencer's "Evolution," Biological theory, beyond mistake. Professors Huxley and Owen were called in to solve the mystery, and act as wet nurses at the birth of a great discovery! Both looked exceedingly wise and solemn. Their little understrappers in our own country looked wise and solemn too. Finally, the Ethnological and Anthropological Societies took up the matter, and listened to the most erudite dissertations. At last, somebody happened to suggest that the origin of those mounds was a historical item of some importance in such a question. And so, at the last meeting of the Anthropological Society, it was positively stated by several persons who have carefully examined these mounds, that one of these mounds contained a pair of weaver's shears, and was itself the ruins of a common corn-kiln; that the ape-like skeleton is, beyond doubt, the remains of a Danish seaman; and that coins had been found, bearing the date, and belonging to the Reign of William III.! and that there is not in these mounds, the slightest trace or indication of a prehistoric age! In other words, the whole thing is not a whit better than the famous Abbeville bones; which these same savans boasted about a little while ago, and the whole story of which proved to be a bare-faced deceit and fraud.

One moral to be drawn from the above is, that this whole class of men have hitherto been treated with more respect and consideration than they deserve.

POLITICAL PURITANISM AT THE SOUTH.

In the April No. we gave some facts showing this work of Puritan-propagandism at the South. The Rev. Dr. J. P. Thompson, a Congregational preacher of New York, attended a meeting of "The Congregational Union of England and Wales," on the 1st of May, where he avowed publicly the political designs of these men. We make the following extracts from his speech:

"We of the United States received from you with the Pilgrim Fathers a boon which can never be too highly prized, that of institutional liberty." *** "The Puritan brought the family and the Church, as we understand them, and with them liberty and loyalty were incorporated in our commonwealth from the first." *** "Parallel with this, came another doctrine-that men of a certain race and color might be held and treated as chattels. That became planted in our country, more especially in the South; and these two systems-manhood on the one hand, and chattelism on the other-one based on the recognition of man, and another on the degradation of man-developed side by side until the final issue came in the conflict through which we have just now passed." *** "The way is open, and we, as Congregationalists, are entering into it, and beginning to possess it. The Congregational Union and the American Missionary Board, have made a joint interest of the work; they have established churches in New-Orleans, Memphis, Baltimore, Charleston and Savannah, and they are preparing to do so at Richmond. We We are going to every central point in the South, and, as fast as we can, to every town and village." *** "We are working out a suffrage problem in the United States, as you are here, and we mean not to rest until it shall be said that the color of the skin is no condition of, or barrier to, the exercise of the suffrage. The social questions of the day place Congregationalists in the van of those con

tending for the abolition of caste in society and in worship, and the recognition everywhere of the principle of union in Christ, so that there shall be "neither bond nor free." For such a work I bear the greetings of 3,000 Congregational Churches beyond the sea."

There are two or three questions to be asked of Dr. Thompson on the above. They are not matters of opinion at all; they are simple questions of fact. If he is an honest man, he will never make such a speech again.

1st. What sort of "Civil Liberty" did the Puritans establish in New England? Let their Draconian Laws bear Witness.

2d. In respect to "Social Equality," or "Freedom," who was it that stole the negroes in Africa, and brought them to this country, and sold them and their children after them? We refer him to Mr. Moore's volume, lately published, on this point.

3d. Does he mean by the above, as he seems to, if he means anything, that Congregationalism is opposed to a Constitutional Government of any sort? That it is mere Familism, or Communism, or Free-Lovism? And if it is, then we ask him, what sympathy it has with, or what resemblance there is between it and the Constitutional structure of our Republic?

In one respect Dr. Thompson is outspoken. He avows the political demagogism which belongs to the preachers of that denomination, and Southern Christians should so understand it. He did not tell his Congregational brethren of "England and Wales," that these New England Missionaries "to every central point in the South," are already beginning to sneak back to their homes, with their self conceit and pharisaism in a greatly damaged condition.

FREEDMEN'S COMMISSION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL

CHURCH.

In our last No. of the Review, in the Article (V.) "The Church: Puritanism: The Freedmen," we described the two modes now in operation of treating the Freedmen of the South; one, through the agency and cooperation of the Christian white population of the South: the other, through the instrumentality of Northern Puritan radical emissaries. Since publishing that Article, developments have appeared and facts been made public which we could not then use, though they were known to us. The Speech of the Rev. Dr. Thompson before the "Congregational Union of England and Wales," alluded to above, clearly implies all that we now refer to. The "Freedmen's Commission," so called, comprising the radical elements of the country, is practically, to a large extent, in the hands of these Puritan and radical Propagandists, who have thus far so managed as to make the "Freedmen's Bureau," an Institution beneficent in its pretensions, subservient to their ends. This Dr. Thompson, whose Speech we have quoted, and the famous William Lloyd Garrison, who has for years denounced the Constitution as a "COVENANT WITH HELL," are two of the three Vice Presidents of the "American Freedmen's Commission." The Freedmen's Bureau, which they have so largely controlled, cost the country last year, we believe, over thirty millions of dollars; its estimates for 1866 are over eleven millions. The President's Veto saved the country from some of the designs of these men. As it is, the whole scheme is so cunningly managed practically, that we are all taxed to pay the salaries of these intermeddlers, many of whom cannot find employment at home. We are helping to build up a Puritan System at the South, which is dying out and losing its hold upon the people of the North, as statistics clearly show. We are coöperating with men who can tear down, but who cannot build up; and who now seek to foment divisions between the whites and the blacks of the South, the result of which must be the extermination of the one race or the other. This "Freedmen's Bureau," as thus perverted, besides its other mischievous influences, has been used by some of these Puritan emissaries to perpetuate the most barbarous cruelties, and the grossest frauds upon the poor blacks, whose good it pretends to seek. We have had evidence of this before; it now appears from official Reports recently published with which our readers are doubtless familiar. Of course, it is the policy of the leaders in this whole movement to perpetuate the separation between the North and the South, to prevent, or VOL. XVIII. 28

put off to the latest moment, the Reconstruction of the Republic, and so to deny to the South, Civil, Social and Religious Rights which are guaranteed to them by the Constitution. It is no wonder that these men make war upon President Johnson and upon his Cabinet. The Sermon, which we have quoted above, is only one index of a temper and spirit which now is the only obstacle to union, harmony and prosperity. Rule or ruin is its firm determination.

The "Freedmen's Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church" proceeds entirely upon another basis. Every Diocese, at the South, we believe, without exception, asks its aid, and pledges its full and cordial coöperation in the intellectual and moral education of the Freedmen, and in fitting them for their new position. The work is well begun, and is successful beyond the hopes of the most sanguine. Already industry, temporal comfort and prosperity, and mutual kindness are apparent. It is the true basis. It is the Christian basis. It is the Constitutional basis. It has the Sanction of Christ and His Apostles. It is the basis of common sense and sound reasoning. It is the basis of peace, and love, and good will. It is the only basis which promises to make Freedom to the blacks a blessing, and not an unmitigated curse. We state now, that its principles and practical workings have been clearly laid before President Johnson and leading members of his Cabinet, who have given to it their decided approbation. We believe they will sustain it, if it should chance to come in collision with the schemes of designing, selfish, mischief-making, factious men. So far as it can coöperate with the Freedmen's Bureau, of course it will do so.

Our readers will find details of its movements in the successive Numbers of the Spirit of Missions.

ANNIVERSARIES IN NEW YORK.

The month of May has for many years been the time of the Anniversary Meeting of various Societies in the City of New York. It has been on these occasions that the most violent radical and infidel sentiments have been exhibited. Slavery having been already abolished, this extreme radicalism is now arraying itself against other forms of Social Organization. For example, a "Woman's Rights Convention" was held in the Church of the Puritans. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton presided. Addresses were made by herself, Susan B. Anthony, Theodore Tilton, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Mrs. Frances D. Gage, Lucretia Mott, and others. The Convention resulted in the formation of "The American Equal Rights Association," of which Lucretia Mott is President. This Association not only demands that woman shall be admitted to all the rights and duties of political and civil life; but the more openly pronounced determination is, that she shall be free from all the hitherto accepted relatlons of the Marriage Institution. What all this means, the old French Revolution teaches plainly enough. Who the men and the womer are, most prominent in this new heathenish Vandalism, the names above given testify.

Another noticeable event at these Anniversaries, was the meeting of The American Missionary Association. The object of this Association is, in one way or another, to combine all the influence of the North, men and money, in one organization, in order to propagate Northern Radicalism in the South. Not a few Churchmen have been drawn into this scheme. These are the men who are hindering the restoration of a Union of the States, and endeavoring to revolutionize the Government.

The most openly avowed declaration of their opinions and determinations was made at the Meeting of the American Congregational Union, held in Henry Ward Beecher's "Plymouth Church," in Brooklyn, May 10th. The Rev. Dr. Boynton, Chaplain of Congress, whose Sermon we quoted in our last Review, was present and made a speech. He disclosed the plan to force Northern Radicalism upon the South. The Independent thus quotes him: "As Christ's method of reforming society by the forces of free thought has been obstructed at the North and violently rejected by the South, and because mere force cannot settle principles, was it not the true significance of the war to compel the North to raise her blockade upon free thought, and to force open the doors of the South, and break all her barriers

down, and deprive her of all power to oppose the truth hereafter, and let the missionaries of Christ and freedom enter upon her territory, and sow it all over with thoughts, the germs of a new order of things. If these views are correct, then no one will doubt that we are just entering upon a sharper, sterner conflict of ideas than any that we have already passed through. And upon the result of that struggle the fate of this nation depends. More than ever before-and thank God for it-moral and religious principles must be the great forces in our political movements; and more fully than at any previous period of our history, the fate of this country is committed unto the churches of God." * * * "Our task is to put down this rebellion forever, by sowing society all over with ideas which will displace the miserable wreck and rubbish of the present with the nobler growths of Christian freedom. Having swept the obstacles away by war, we are now to conquer and regenerate the South by mightier forces of thought. The analogies between a military campaign and the war of ideas upon which we are entering are too striking to be overlookod. It seems equally important in both cases to seize and hold the main stragetic points. * * * At every available point this element ought to be gathered and made a center of transforming power. Let this be done, and we, with other evangelical churches, may become a most efficient power for the reconstruction of Southern society, and Christ-like sowers of the seed from which will spring a new and stable order of things."

A collection of about six thousand dollars was taken up to build a "Congregational Church" at Washington City; whose influence, it was claimed, would extend into Virginia and North Carolina. Ex-Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, presided at this meeting; of whom the Independent significantly says: "This applause will be repeated by the whole country when, a year or two hence, the Governor shall succeed to the seat of Mr. Dixon in the United States Senate."

We give below reports of several of these Societies.

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.-Jubilee year. The fiftieth annual meeting was held on Thursday, May 10th, at the Academy of Music. Mr. Lenox, president, delivered the opening address, in which he reviewed the various customs of the ancient Jews in observing times and seasons, and particularly the jubilee, the year of freedom, of gratitude, of rejoicing. Receipts from all sources, $642,625,-of which $365,000 were from sales, $50,000 in legacies, and $182,879 by donations. The issues of the last five years (6,555,231) exceed those of the first thirty-three years of the Society, (6,347,140) by 107,091 volumes. The distribution by the United States Christian Commission, of books granted to that body for the army and navy, during the war, was 1,466,748 volumes, valued at $179,824. Dr. Spring moved the first resolution. Other addresses were made by the Rt. Rev. Bishop McIlvaine, the Rev. Dr. Anderson, of the American Board; Robert C. Winthrop, Esq., seve ral foreign delegates, Bishop Janes, and Major-General O. O. Howard.

AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, N. Y.-The 41st anniversary was held on Wednesday, May 9th, in the Dutch Church, Fifth avenue. The Rt. Rev. Bishop McIlvaine in the chair. Receipts of the year, $437,679; of which $124,327 were in donations. Gratuitous distributions, $59,953. Volumes printed, 726,880; publications, 7,898,000. Employs 188 colporteurs, in 21 States of the Union.

AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The 40th anniversary meeting was held on Wednesday evening, May 9th, at Irving Hall. President Woolsey, of Yale College, in the chair. Income, $221,191; of which $55,916 was in legacies. Ministers employed, 818, in 28 States and Territories; 524 with single congregations, four of them colored, 13 Welsh, and 13 German. Congregations and preaching stations, 1,594. Addresses were delivered by President Magoun, of Iowa College, and Dr. S. Wolcott, of Cleveland.

AMERICAN CONGREGATIONAL UNION.-The meeting for business was held in the Chapel of Plymouth Church. Rev. Dr. Bacon, of New Haven, Ct., President, in the chair. The Treasurer, N. A. Calkins, reported the receipts, $136,246, of which $22,832 was in donations from the State of New York. The Secretary,

Rev. I. P. Langworthy, said that nothing short of seventy-five to one hundred thousand dollars a year could keep up the Society. It requires a collection in every Church, to be taken every year.

Rev. George F. Magoun offered a resolution, which was adopted, recommending the Trustees of the Union to use their most strenuous efforts to raise the residue of the $200,000 required for the purpose of church extension. The appointment of Rev. Ray Palmer, of Albany, as Corresponding Secretary, was officially announced.

AMERICAN FOREIGN AND CHRISTIAN UNION.-The seventeenth anniversary, in Fifth-avenue Church. Receipts for the year, $75,000. Never before was the work of the Union so successful as it now was, both at home and abroad. The Chapel at Paris was filled to overflowing from the exertions of Dr. Sunderland. In Italy, Churches had been raised, and a vigorous work was going on through the missionaries and native helpers: Addresses by Rev. Drs. Storrs, Schaff, Sunderland, and Rev. Mr. Pascal, representative of the Central Society of Paris.

AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.-Meeting at Cooper Institute, Lewis Tappan in the chair. In the first seven months of the current year the receipts have been $149,902. Major-General O. O. Howard, Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, delivered an able and eloquent address, in the course of which he portrayed at length the obstacles which had been thrown in the way of the Bureau in which he was interested. An eloquent address followed by Mr. Beecher.

NEW AND IMPORTANT MOVEMENT IN NEW YORK CITY.

The Services of the Church have already been commenced in the Spanish language, in this city, for the Spanish-speaking population. The Congregation at present meet in the University Chapel, the use of which is kindly given by the Parish of which the Rev. Dr. Hawks is Rector. Dr. Hawks himself has taken a deep interest in inaugurating and guiding the movement, his familiarity with the Spanish language enabling him also to assist in conducting the service. The Rev. Angel H. de Mora, formerly a Spanish Priest, is Minister of the new Congregation. Rev. Mr. de Mora is a thoroughly educated man, who renounced Romanism and conformed to the American branch of the Reformed Catholic Apostolic Church several years ago. On the 15th of June, 1866, previous notice having been given, measures were taken to incorporate a Parish under the name of IGLESIA DE SANTIAGO. About thirty gentlemen were present. At this meeting, Serapio Recio and Samuel Sherman, Esq., were chosen Wardens, (Mayordomos,) and Messrs. Dr. Agustin Arango, Fernando Estrada, Agustin Castallanos, Manuel Delgado, Francisco Golibart, Miguel Castellanos, Pablo Estrada, and Geo. H. Squire were chosen Vestrymen, (Diputados Parroquiales).

We propose, in another Number of the Review, to show the importance of this movement, and the results which, if it be successful, may be promoted by it, throughout the entire American Continent. It only needs nerve, wisdom, faith and prayer.

SUMMARY OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ENGLAND.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF LIMERICK.-The Rt. Rev. HENRY GRIFFIN, D. D., Bishop of Limerick, died (being aged seventy-nine years) on Thursday morning, April 5, 1866, at the University Club, Dublin, after a short illness. His remains were removed to Benburb near Armagh. It is said he was originally a Roman Catholic, although his father was at least a legal Protestant; but he entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a member of the Established Church, and obtained a scholarship