ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD. ORDINATIONS. W. A. Anthony, Corinth, Mississippi,| Aug. 9. Daniel Ash, Middlebourne, Virginia, Sept. 13. R. M. Austin, Uniontown, Virginia, Sept. 27. G. O. Atkinson, West Halifax, Vermont, Dec. 10. V. K. Barber, Summit, New-York, Oct. 7. G. W. Buzzell, Sheldon, Vermont, Sept. 30. H. C. Beals, Adams' Village, NewYork, Sept. 30. L. M. Bennett, Tompkins, New-York, Sept. 2. Charles D. W. Bridgman, Hoboken, New Jersey, Sept. 28. G. W. Bickell, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 27. E. P. Brigham, Salem, New-York, Sept. 2. A. H. Bliss, Stamford, Connecticut, Sept. 10. Jos. Buzzell, Sheldon, Massachusetts, Sept. 30. N. A. Bailey, Murfreesboro', Tennes- Wm. R. Connelly, Lowell, Michigan, C. S. Crain, South Otselic, New-York, Francis W. Chiney, Carmel, Georgia, Nov. 6. Jos. D. Chambers, West Union, Kentucky, Dec. 1. J. P. Chapin, Wayne, Maine, December 15. P. S. Evans, Boston, Massachusetts, Oct. 1. G. G. Ferguson, Peekskill, N. York, Aug. 26. Lyman J. Fisher, Middletown, Ohio, Oct. 3. J. N. Fairchild. W Troy, New-York, Nov. 5. H. C. Fuller, Forestville, New-York, Dec. 7. Pinckney Graham, Madison County, Mo. Oct. 11. Wm. H. Gregory, Northville, Michigan, Nov. 18. A. Gordon, San Francisco, California, Oct. 18. Stephen Gilmore, Chatham County, North Carolina, Nov. 29. L. M. Horn, Sulphur Spring, Kentucky, Aug 30. Jas. S. Hartfield, Mt. Zion, Georgia, Oct. 8. Thomas R. Hawkins, Forest Hill, Virginia, Nov. 1. E. Holroyd, Smyrna, New-York November 5. S. W. Hull, Stockton, California, Sept. 28. A. K. Harbaugh, Taneytown, Maryland, Nov. 27. W. H. Hartin, South Carolina, November 29. Luther R. Jaynes, Alliance, Ohio, C. H. James, Phillipsville, New-York, E. G. Jefferson, Scottsville, Virginia, November. H. S. Knowles, West Barre, Ohio, Sept. 30. J. P. Kefauver, Roanoke County, Virginia, Dec. 11. L. P. Lowery, Ridgeville, Alabama Nov. 7. Silas Livermore, Broad Run, Virginia, Sept. 12. E. B. Low, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, Oct. 28. A. H. Lackey, Goshen, Illinois, November 12. Henry Lowry, Memphis, Tennessee, Nov. 1. Jos. C. Maple, Cape Girardeau, Mo., Oct. 4. C. C. Meador, Washington, D. C., Sept. 27. Lewis Marshall, Broad Run, VirginJia, Sept. 12. W. H. H. Marsh, Bethesda, Pennsylvania, Sept. 25. J. T. Milner, Van Buren county, Ia., Oct. 11. J. B. Morse, Orange, New Jersey, Nov. 5. J. C. McDaniel, LaFayette, Alabama, Nov. 28. J. B. Maudelet, Louisville, Kentucky, Dec. 13. Lyman G. Shipman, Middletown, Ohio, Oct. 3. Charles Sholtz, Smooth Prairie, Ill., Sept. 16. H. B. Slater, Saratoga, Minnesota Territory, Oct. 13. James Suvine, Vernon, Michigan, November 4. John Shorthill, Mahoning, Pennsylvania, Oct. 12. John C. Power, Arkansas, July 19. Judson W. Truesdell, Vestal, NewJ. M. Peay, Beaver Dam, Kentucky, York, Sept. 23. Sept 26. Hiram K. Pevear, Roxbury, Massachu-sylvania, Nov. 12. setts, Dec. 3. Wm. C. Tilden, Middletown, Penn Ed. Tompkins, Tivoli, New-York, B. J. Powell, Chester, Ohio, Novem- Dec. 9. ber 5. Adoniram J. Waterbury, Petersburg, W. T. Potter, Oxford, New-York, De- N. Y., Sept. 30. cember 16. Philip A. Woods, Ritchie Co., Vir W. H. Rice, Marshallville, Ga., Octo-ginia, Oct. 24. ber 18. J. W. F. Rogers, Holly Spring, N. C., Nov. 8. Samuel D. Ross, Greenville, Michigan, Nov. 25. Kelsey Walling, Green Point, N. Y., Oct. 28. J. T. West, Cedar Town, Tenn., No vember 1. Luman Yale, Guilford, New-York, J. C. Stevens, Clifton, New-York, Sept. 16. Oct. 1. CHURCHES Smooth Prairie, Ill. Sept. 16. CONSTITUTED. Beechers, Mich., Oct. 20. Mechanics Falls, Me., Oct. 27. Newark Village, N. Y., Nov. DEATHS. A. Irons, Sheridan, N. Y., July 2, aged 54. A. M. Lewis, Huntsville, Mo., August 26. Joseph Grisham, Georgia, April 9, aged 67. Rufus W. Griswold, N. Y., Aug. 28. J. Baxter, Georgtown, Ky., Aug. 30, aged 69. Philip Awtry, Randolph co., Georgia, Sept. 13, aged 50. Augustus Hubbard, Limington, Me.,| Oct. 5, aged 39. James R. Miller, Bullock co., Ga. Oct., aged 43 Cyrus Churchill, Almont Mich., November 4, aged 53. Francis H. Brown, Jonesboro', Ill., J. D. Jones. S. Danville, N. Y., July 27, aged 56. H. A. Brown, Greenfield, Ohio, Oct. 15, aged 33. S. S. Lattimore, Aberdeen, Miss., October 17. John Shepard, Port Byron, N. Y., October 14, aged 93. Isaac Devinnell, Tolland, Conn., Nov. 11, aged 79. Robert B. Goforth, Cllnton, Mo., November 7, aged 46. Henry Miller, Shelbyville, Tenn., September 21, aged 50. Dan'l. Whitaker, Toungoo, Burmah, August 14. N. J. Norton, Cordova, Ill., November 12, aged 37. Zebedee Delano, N. Berwick, Maine, Aug. 3, aged 90. P. M. Swaim, Rockville, Ill., November 23, aged 39. James Reed, Hamburg, N. Y., November 27, aged 60. John S. Lee, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, November 13, aged 74. James Phillips, Darlington, South Garolina, November 17, aged 55. Elisha Perryman, Richmond County, Ceorgia, December 1, aged 90. John Rushing, Rutherford County, Tennessee, Aug 17, aged 65. Wm. L. 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We do not now remember to have met with the suggestion any where, but it has frequently occurred to us, that, of all the ancients who have become historic, Cicero was best prepared to be at home in modern civilization. Such was the breadth of his culture, and such the cosmopolitan catholicity of his appreciation, that, to our fancy, it involves but little incongruity to think of the polite and philosophic Roman re-nascent, as a fully naturalized citizen of our times. We do not imagine it would occasion more than perhaps a slight involuntary start, to step out, shortly after reading some of his epistles, and recognize the writer, redivivus with the air and habit of a thorough bred "modern gentleman of stateliest port," quietly purchasing a ticket at a railway station, or despatching a message by Morse's Telegraph; and we seriously insist the anachronism would not seem so very flagrant, to light upon a paragraph in the papers some morning, announcing that "Hon. M. T. Cicero had already signified his willingness, and might therefore be expected, to address his fellow-citizens, at such or such a time and place, on the great questions now pending before the country!" A certain similar facility of accommodation to different states of society, belonged, we conceive, to the character of Erasmus. We do not, however, derive it from a similar |