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MUHLBACH MUHLHAUSEN and suffering on the cross, left Elias as his vice- gerent in heaven during his absence. They were attacked by William Penn in a book called "The New Witnesses proved Old Here- tics." Muggleton was arraigned at the Old Bailey for blasphemy in 1676. The first com- plete edition of his works was published in 1756. In 1832 another edition appeared in 3 vols. 4to, including his rhapsodies and those of Reeve, with several tracts by others. MUHLBACH, Lnise. See MUNDT, KLARA. MLHLBERG, a town of Prussia, in the prov- ince of Saxony, on the right bank of the Elbe, 40 m. S. E. of Wittenberg; pop. about 3,500. It is memorable for the victory obtained here, April 24, 1547, by the emperor Charles V. over the elector of Saxony, John Frederick, which terminated the war of the Smalcald league, the elector himself being taken prisoner. The Protestant cause in Germany was completely prostrated, but the fruits of his victory were lost to the emperor by the defection in 1552 of Maurice, the new elector of Saxony. Ml HLDORF, Battle of. See AMPFING. MUHLENBERG. L Peter John Gabriel, an Amer- ican general, son of Henry Melchior Muhlen- berg, the founder of the German Lutheran church in America, born at Trappe, Montgom- ery co., Pa., Oct. 1, 1746, died near Philadel- phia, Oct. 1, 1807. He was ordained to the ministry in England, and preached at Wood- stock, Va. His last sermon was upon the du- ties men owe to their country; and saying, "There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to fight, and now is the time to fight,' 1 he stripped off his gown after the service, put on a uniform, read his commis- sion as colonel, and formed a regiment among his parishioners. He was made brigadier gen- eral in 1777, and major general at the close of the revolution. After the war he removed to Pennsylvania, where he was elected a member of the supreme executive council, and in 1785 became vice president of the commonwealth. He was a member of congress in 1789-'91, 1793-'5, and 1799-1801. In 1801 he was elected United States senator, but resigned the next year, and was appointed supervisor of the revenue for the district of Pennsyl- vania. From 1803 till his death he was collec- tor of the port of Philadelphia. His life has been written by H. A. Muhlenberg (Philadel- phia, 1849). II. Gotthilf Henry Ernst, an Amer- ican clergyman and botanist, brother of the preceding, born in New Providence, Mont- gomery co., Pa., Nov. 17, 1753, died in Lan- caster, May 23, 1815. At the age of 10 he was sent to the university of Halle. In 1770 he returned to America, and in 1774 became as- sistant to his father, then pastor of the Lu- theran congregation in Philadelphia. In 1780 he became pastor of the church at Lancaster. He was a member of the American philosophi- cal society, of the Gesellschaft naturforschen- der Freunde in Berlin, of the philosophical and physical societies of Gottingen, and of various other associations in Germany and Sweden. His chief works are: Catalogus Plantarum Americce Septentrionalis (Lancaster, 1813), and Descriptio Vberior Graminum, &c. (1817). III. William Augustus, an American clergyman, great-grandson of Henry Melchior Muhlen- berg, born in Philadelphia, Sept. 16, 1796. He graduated at the university of Pennsyl- vania in 1814, was ordained for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church in 1817, and became assistant in Christ's church, of which Bishop White was rector. In 1821 he accepted the rectorship of St. James's church, Lancaster, where he was instrumental in es- tablishing the first public school in the state out of Philadelphia. He founded in 1828 a school at Flushing, L. I., which was afterward known as St. Paul's college, and for nearly 20 years was its principal. In 1846 he became rector of the church of the Holy Communion, New York, which was erected by his sister, and was the earliest free Episcopal church. Not long afterward he began his efforts to se- cure the founding of St. Luke's hospital, which was erected in Fifth aveuue and 54th street, and opened in 1858, Dr. Muhlenberg becoming its first pastor and superintendent, which post he still holds (1875). In 1845 he organized the first Protestant sisterhood in the United States, and the ladies of this association are in charge of St. Luke's hospital. He has also, within the past few years, made an effective beginning toward establishing an industrial Christian settlement at St. Johnland, Long Island, about 45 m. from New York. He is the author of the well known hymn, " I would not live alway," and of other poems, has pub- lished " Church Poetry, being Portions of the Psalms in Verse and Hymns suited to the Festivals and Fasts, from various authors" (1823) ; in conjunction with Bishop Wain- wright, " Music of the Church " (1852) ; and " The People's Psalter " (1858). He originated the famous memorial movement in the Epis- copal church, and has written much on evan- gelical catholic union. MUHLEIiBURG, a W. county of Kentucky, bounded N. E. by Green river and W. by Pond river, its principal branch ; area, 430 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 12,638, of whom 1,633 were col- ored. The surface is hilly and the soil gen- erally fertile. It contains coal and iron mines near Green river. The Elizabethtown and Pa- ducah railroad passes through it. The chief productions in 1870 were 36,544 bushels of wheat, 364,513 of Indian corn, 86,880 of oats, 1,821,988 Ibs. of tobacco, 27,091 of wool, 76,- 389 of butter, and 2,615 tons of hay. There were 2,985 horses, 1,290 mules and asses, 2,961 milch cows, 4,024 other cattle, 13,959 sheep,- and 17,830 swine. Capital, Greenville. MUHLHAUSEN, or Mfflhausen (Fr. Mulhome), a town of the German Reichsland of Alsace-Lor- raine, in the district of Upper Alsace, on the 111, 19 m. N. W. of Basel and 62 m. S. S. W. of Strasburg; pop. in 1871, 52,825, since which it