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The Methodist Episcopal Church.
ASHVILLE, N.C. CONF., LEMUEL BOGART.—
Smce I wrote you we have had a glorious re
vival. Bro. Ellar of the Methodist Protestant
Church, and myself commenced a meeting last
Saturday. We had a very interesting occasion.
On Sunday evening we commenced the meeting
at live o’clock, and such was the interest that it
was after ten o’clock at night before we could
close. We had a number of mourners, and
live or six conversions that night, and a num
ber of backsliders reclaimed. We closed the
meeting last night. Left a number of mourners.
Farmers are so backward with their crops it was
thought best not to protract the meeting longer.
We have had about fifty accessions to the
church since Conference. There is some oppo
sition here. At one appointment the doors
were locked against us, but we moved our ap
pointment to a school house, and while we were
preaching the house was stoned. At another
they threatened to whip us, but we went and
preached from Psalm lxxxiv. 11: "No good
thing will he withhold from them that walk up
rightly.”
None of these things move us. Paul says,
“All things work together for good to them
that love God,” and 1 know 1 do. and if we go
on and preach Jesus, and meddle not with strife
we shall overcome all our foes.
White Cos. Ct., Tenn. , A. H. Duncan.—
About two months ago I was directed to come
to this point by elder Henry Stevens of the
McMinnville district to take charge of this cir
cuit for the colored people. The County School
Superintendent of Public Instruction employed
me to teach a free school for the colored peo
ple; the school is truly interesting and the
church is being organized. I have organized
two churches, and have in all forty-live mem
bers. and the prospect is to get a great many
more. The Lord is do ng a good work here,
seven have been converted. The colored peo
ple are truly awake to their interest. One old
freedman came a distance of twelve miles to
my meeting, and joined the church; he told me
he was oue hundred and tour years old and he
expressed a desire to come to school. God be
praised for such desires.
Whitesville. Ga. Conk., Frank J«:seph.
We have organiz' and a church six miles from
Whitesville of lift}' members. The name of
the church is Pine Grore. It has as earnest a
membership as I ever have seen. There is an
opportunity of doing much good in the name
of our Lord. Mr. Daniels the teacher of the
school in that place is a Baptist, a good Chris
tian man, and lias the confidence of botli white
and colored. He is doing all he can for the
school and church. Our work at Whitesville is
prospering. Rev. Samuel E. Paer, from the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, has joined
us; he is a very good preacher. We hope all
the colored preachers belonging to that church
will meet witli us in conference.
Bell Ct., Ala. Cons., J. W. Addington.—
Our third quarterly meeting was held on the
12th of June, and was well attended. Reports
from all the societies were cheering. During
the examination of the members the Spirit of
the Lord was with us. Our beloved presiding
elder, J. W. Tally, was not with us, from the
affliction in his family. He sent brother T. R.
Parker, who preached at eleven o’clock, then
held conference; A. Willson preached at night;
brother Parker at eleven on Sabbath morning,
then administered the sacrament of the Lord’s
Supper; J. W. Addington preached at night.
The services were all attended with the power
and demonstration of the Spirit. Mourners
flocked to the altar. We received 31 in full con
nection this quarter, and the work is still in a
prosperous condition. The Lord is wonderfully
blessing us.
SCOTTSBURGH C'J\, ALA., J. R. JOHNSTON.—
Our second quarterly meeting came off on the
23d and 23d of May. Our presiding elder,
brother A. S. Lakin. was present and preached,
with good effect. God attended the word with
power, and many were cut to the heart on ac
count of their sins. On Sabbath night mourn
ers were found all through the audience in
groups, asking an interest in the prayers of
Ood’s people.
Beaufort. S.C. Cons., S. vs. Hampton.—
I gladly avail myself of this opportunity of in
forming you that our work in this part of the
vineyard is prospering, especially our cl lurches
on the main. Both are increasing in numbers,
and the spiritual state of the same is very good.
Our churches on Ladies Island are also doing
well.
The Missionary Society.
Our New Mission in Peking, China.—
IBeyond all question there is a great internal
movement in the populous empire of China
tending to relax the hold of the people on their
idols, and to destroy their faith in their old re
ligions. This is the Intermediate step between
idolatry and the worship of the true God. This
preliminary condition of things made the late
treaty between China and the United States
possible, and the publication of it has largely
increased the movement mentioned above.
This has led the principal churches of the
world to extend or reinforce their missionary
work in China Hence the new missions in Pe
king, the capital of the empire, have taken
strong ground in the city, and manifest great
activity. Among the new missions is one of
the Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis
copal Church. It is not yet organized, but is
quickly to be by Rev. L. N. Whet ler, of the
Wisconsin Conference, and Kev. H. H. Lowry,
of Ohio. The first report we have from their
mission field is in a letter from brother Whee
ler, dated at Peking, March 16, 1869. We
make the following extract from this letter:
“■After a pleasant trip of lour and a half days
from Shanghae in the American-built steamer
alanchu, we arrived at Tientsin on the 4th of
March. About one-half day was consumed i::
passing up the river Peiho to the city, a dis
tance roughly estimated at sixty-seven miles.
At the mouth of the rivers are situated several
forts, which were for many years deemed by the
Chinese impregnable.
“The banks of the Peiho present no striking
scenery, being an uninterrupted plain, and the
eye is only relieved by the numerous villages
seen in every direction, with here and there
great trees and peach and apple orchards.
After passing up the river some distance one’s
attention is arrested by the almost innumerable
conical-shaped mounds of earth. These are
ihe cities of the dead.
‘•At Tientsin we were kindly entertained in
the home of Rev. Mr. Stanley. A few days of
•rest and preparation here, and we were ready
for the last stage in uur journey. Four carts,
drawn by horses and mules, were secured for
ourselves and baggage. Two days of weari
some traveling and bad roads, and two nights
of imperfect rest in the cold, dismal native inns,
brought us to the gates of the imperial city.
Having previously received directions, we were
not long in finding out the compound of our
American Board missionary brethren, who re
ceived us witli warm Christian hospitality. We
are the guests of Rev. H. Blodget, who has al
ready rendered us important assistance in ar
ranging our plans with reference to an early
and permanent settlement in the city.
“There is a wide missionary field in this great
city, not to speak of the smaller cities and the
villages in the outlying districts. Although
several missionary societies are represented
here, the larger portion of Peking is as yet
wholly unoccupied. Will not the Church pray
for us? Pray that the divine hand may guide
and uphold us in our efforts to plant the most
distant outpost of our Zion?
"We are looking for the speedy arrival of
brother and sister Lowry. The state of my
health encourages me to hope for an early and
complete recovery; indeed, I seem to have al
most regained the strength of other years.”
SEND FOR A SPECIMEN.
| Work at Hand—Emigrants.— We may well
i concern ourselves on account of the coming of
a great body of strangers among us. In addi
tion to the increasing number of Scandinavians
and Germans, we are having a greater than
usual number of Englishmen. We notice in
the first week of June 3.000 sailed for America,
and in the second week 8.000. We shall in all
probability find in them what is great matter of
concern in the fatherland, and referred to in a
speech of the Duke of Argyll on a late public
occasion. After referring to the increase of
church ediiices in connection with the Estab
lishment and Dissenting bodies he added, “But
there is one feature I observe in all the congre
gations, and it is one which we cannot too much
deplore, and that is the comparative nay, I
would say the almost total absence of the
working classes, properly so called. I think
this is a most deplorable fact in the congrega
tional statistics of London.” This ‘•deplorable
fact” has been confirmed to us by the observa
tions of an intelligent gentleman from America
who is in the habit of visiting the great cities of
England every year. The Duke in a subse
quent.. part of his speech gave the following
beautiful testimony to the character of his
countrymen, the Scotch: “If there is one pe
culiarity more remarkable than another in
Scotland it is the universal attendance of the
working classes in the parish church. It is the
habit and custom, the most blessed habit and
custom of our country.”
The Treasury. —The Northwestern pub
lishes the address of our Bishops on the wants
of the Treasury, and for itself says “Let us
do our full part. Let us act as we would wish
we had when, thousands of years hence, we
shall be looking down from heavenly hights
upon the joys of a terrestrial millennium. The
way to meet the necessities of the hour is for
every pastor to lift up the cry for help; for all
Missionary Committees to redouble their activ
ities;. for all who are interested to strain up to
the highest possible contributions. One united,
strong, Christian endeavor will haul the old
craft off the bar and launch her again in deep
waters, while angels above and the good below
will unite in shoutings of joy.”
News from Afar. —We have before us
copies both of The Sun and The Christian Star,
from our press in Lucknow. India. The Sun is
called a newspaper, we infer, from what is
written on it by the publisher, Rev. Dr. Waugh.
Superintendent of our mission press at Luck
now. Botli these papers are in languages mys
terious to us, but familiar now to our mission
aries in India. The mechanical execution of
the papers would be creditable to any press.
Norway. —The work in the new mission in
Arendal still goes on prosperously, as may be
inferred from the fact that they have forty-five
probationers and forty members in full connec
tion. Their Sunday school is not large, but is
prosperous. One of its interesting features is
a class of twenty-eight adults in their Bible
class. The school is supervised by the pastor.
Rev. P. K. Rye, who gives instruction to the
Bible class and catechises the children. They
have purchased lots and laid the foundation of
a suitable chapel, winch they hope to be able to
finish by some aid from the Board.
Methodist Publishing and Mission
Buildings. —To those who are to receive the
July number of the Missionary Advocate, we
can say that they may rely upon having as ac
curate and well-printed a copy of the new build
ing as they ever saw come from a printing
press. If the mechanical exelution of this
piece of work is the type of what the Book
Concern is hereafter to do its lriends may well
take heart.
Scandinavians. —At least one thousand
Scandinavians stayed in Castle Garden one
night last week, and probably more than fifteen
hundred were preached to by Pastor Hedstrom
and his helpers during the week. Twenty to
twenty-five thousand of these people are com
ing tliis season.
Illinois—Georgia—lmmigration.
Our correspondent, “ Hamilton,” re
cently published a valuable article in the
Atlanta Daily Intelligencer, contrasting
the States of Illinois and Georgia, showing
the influence of immigration in developing
the resources of the former and how much
immigration is needed by the latter. We
take the following from that document:
I shall present, as briefly as possible, the
leading points in the history and growth of
Georgia and Illinois, the area of the first being
58,000, and that of the latter 55,400 square
miles.
Small settlements were made in Illinois as
early as 1700, but tiie population increased but
slowly. Becoming a portion of the territory of
the United States at the close of the War for
Independence, it was embraced in the North-
West Territory erected in 1787, which com
prised all the country north-west of the Ohio
river. Its present area was erected into a ter
ritory iu 1809, and admitted into the Union as
a State in 1818.
Georgia was settled in 1733, and was one of
the original Thirteen States, enjoying, all the
time, all the inestimable, advantages grow
ing out of that relation,
Georgia contains an aggregate of 26,650,490
acres, of which 8,062,758, (about 30 per ceut.)
are improved, and 18,587,732 are unimproved.
The aggregate value returned in 1860 was
$157,072,803. being an average of $5 90 per
acre, for the whole, and sl9 40 for the improved
lands.
Illinois contains an aggregate of 20,911,989
acres, of which 13,096.374, (about 61 per cent.)
are improved, and 7,815,615 are unimproved.
The aggregate value returned iu 1860 was
$408,944,033. being an average of sl9 55 per
acre for the whole, and of s3l 22 for the im
proved lands.
Thus it appears that Illinois, the smallest and
youngest State, has over five millions more
acres of her land improved than Georgia; that
the total value returned is more than two and
a half times, ($250,000,000!) greater; and that
the average value, per acre, of her unimproved
lands, exceeds that of the improved lands ot
Georgia.
So much for additional values consequent
upon a large and rapid influx of population !
Immigration.
Again, at the first enumeration, 1790. the pop
ulation of Georgia was 82.548; in 1810 (the
first time Illinois appears in the tables.) it was
252,433; and in 1860, the last census, the popu
lation was 1.057.286,0r18 to the square mile.
Tin population of Illinois which, in 1810 her
first appearance in the census returns, and when
she was but a Territory, was only 12.282, was
increased, in 1860. to 1,711 951, or 30 to the
square mile.
These incontrovertible facts demonstrate the
importance and value of encouraging and facil
itating Immigration, that “population merely
may be added ;” while what ha been previously
shown, as to enhanced values of property, de
monstrates the value of population in accom
plishing that result.
Again, the number of miles of railway in
Georgia, in 1860, was 1404, costing $29,057,742,
being one mile of railway for every 41 miles of
area, and Mr every 738 persons.
The number of miles of railway in Illinois,
in 1860. was 2867, costing $104,944,561, being
one mile of railway for every 19 miles of area,
and for every 597 persons.
These figures show the astounding fact that
Illinois of half the age, (as a State.) of Geor
gia, has more than double the number of miles
of railway, costing more than three times as
much, and a mile for every 10 miles of area,
while Georgia has only a mile for every 41
mites!
In 1860 there were published in Illinois 286
periodicals, issuing 27,000.000 copies annually,
against 105 periodicals, issuing 13,000,000 copies
annually in Georgia.
THE METHODIST ADVOCATE, JUNE 30, 1869.
Woman’s Foreign Miss. Society.
As we receive many letters of inquiry
concerning the Woman’s Foreign Mission
ary Society' of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and its relation to the Missionary
Society' of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
we have deemed it proper to make the fol
lowing statement:
The Woman’s Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church
orginated with some excellent and devoted
women of our Church, with a view to spe
cial efforts for the education, elevation and
salvation of the women of heathen lands.
Its purposes are distinctly set forth in the
second Article of its Constitution, as fol
lows :
Art. 2. This Society is established for the
purpose of engaging and uniting the efforts of
the women of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in sending out and supporting female missiona
ries, native Christian teachers, and Bible read
ers, in foreign lands.
Though this Society' is not technically
auxiliary to the Parent Missionary Society'
of the Church, and does not pay' its moneys
directly' to our treasury', yet it is auxiliary
in its spirit and purpose, and expends its
funds accordingly, as may' be learned from
the fifth Article of its Constitution, which
is as follows :
Art. 5. This Society will work in harmony
with, and under the supervision of. the Corres
ponding Secretaries and the other authorities
of the "Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church,” and will receive their ap
proval in the employment of missionaries. AH
missionaries employed by this Society shall la
bor under the direction of the Missions, or
Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
to which they are severally sent.
After the Society had been organized, its
officers appointed, and contributions made
to its funds, the Secretaries of the Mis
sionary Society of the Church were invited
to a conference with the ladies concerning
the relation which this Society is to bear
to the Parent Missionary Society and to
our general missionary work. This Con
ference was held in Boston, May 7, 1869.
The Constitution of the Woman’s Mission
ary Society was considered, and its pur
poses and plans fully explained. The one
purpose expressed was to do something es
pecially for the heathen women found in
our mission fields, and in doing this work
to co-operate fully with our missionaries in
those fields.
The ladies also seemed intent on main
taining and enlarging our general mission
ary work, and increasing the contributions
to our general treasury while giving atten
tion to the special work which they have
undertaken.
The following paragraph, taken from The
Heathen Woman’s Friend, in relation to
auxiliary societies, explains the methods
by which they propose to raise funds for
their work :
In any place where there are ladies, few or
many, who are willing to give two cents per
week, or one dollar per year, they may organ
ize themselves into a society. They will then
arrange their own plans for collecting funds,
either by forming missionary working circles,
or by agreeing to work oue day in each month
for this cause, in circles which are already
formed, or by any other means deemed prac
ticable. No public collections should be taken,
but an effort should be made to interest every
lady of each congregation, where such a soci
ety is organized, to do something especially /or
heathen women, in addition to what she may
already be doing for the general missionary
cause. This may require self-denial and sacri
fice, but as the ladies worked during the war to
relieve the suffering soldiers, so let them work
now for their suffering, perishing sisters in for
eign lands.
The case, then, stands thus :
1. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary So
ciety proposes to undertake, through the
agency of female missionaries, a most im
portant work in our missions, a work which
has received, in some degree, the attention
and aid of the General Society for several
years past.
2. This Society will not send out any
missionaries who are not approved by the
proper authorities of our General Mission
ary Society.
3. The missionaries sent out by the Wo
man’s Missionary Society are to labor un
der the direction of the Missions or Con
ferences to which they are sent.
4. No public collections are to be taken
in aid of the funds of this Society, nor are
contributions to be gathered in any way
tending to diminish the regular annual con
tributions of the members of the Church
to our General Missionary Treasury.
5. The missionary spirit manifested in
this movement is worthy of commendation,
and if carried out according to the true in
tent and purpose will be fruitful of much
good. J. P. Durbin, Cor. Sec.
W. L. Harris, Ass’t Cor. Sec.
The; Peace Jubilee. —Notwithstanding
the efforts to piejudge the monster Jubilee
Concert at Boston, it proved a magnificent
success. On the first rehearsal the
siasm of the audience rose to a fever heat.
The Star Spangled Banner was given with
an orchestra of 1,100, and a chorus of
11,000 singers. Bells and cannon respond
ed at the appropiate places, causing, by the
novelty of the arrangement, a furor that
demanded a repetition of the piece. The
Anvil Chorus was given, encored, and re
peated in similar style. Parepaßosa sang
Ava Maria and Inflammatus to admiration.
On Wednesday the audience was at least
50,000, every seat being occupied. Parties
outside offered SSO, and even SIOO premi
um for tickets, but nevertheless could not
obtain entrance. President Grant was
among the auditors. On entering the Col
iseum the vast crowd arose, and by waving
of baukerchiefs and shouts, gave him a
welcome such as no other public man had
ever received. The Star Spangled Banner
and the Anvil Chorus were again given and
repeated. So dense was the mass that sev
eral persons fainted, one lady—Mrs. Dun
lap, of Chicago—falling dead of heart dis
ease. Thursday and Friday were quite as
successful in the rendition of pieces, and
the attendance, as Tuesday and Wednes
day. Saturday the school children of Bos
ton did the chorus work in magnificent
style. The money receipts of the Jubilee
were beyond the expectations of the man
agers. —[Western Christian Advocate.
The Confederate dead are being removed
from tiie Chiekamauga battle-field, and rein
terred iu tiie Confederate cemetery at Marietta.
The Journal says that about two hundred bod
ies arrived there during the past week.
Over a dozen Philadelphia pastors have
united in the determination to attend no more
Sunday funerals unless ihe necessity is certified
by a physician. As yet they have had none
this year, and the position they take is worthy
of general adoption. In the country more than
in the city is the pastor needlessly and prolit
lessly overtaxed by funerals on the Lord’s day;
and on week-days also, for that matter. — Ad
vance.
The commencement exercises of the Baker
Theological Institute (Methodist Episcopal)
was held on Monday evening at the Centenary
M. E. Church. The exercises reflected marked
credit upon the faculty and the students. —South
Carolina Republican.
The new school-house erected by the Freed
men’s Bureau at Tallahasse, Fla., was dedi
cated June 12th. The total cost, of the school
building was $5,000, and it stands on a lot pur
chased some time ago by small contributions of
the colored citizens of Tallahassee.
Capt. H. J. Sargent has gathered fifty-two
and a half bushels of wheat from one and a
fourth acres of ground within the corporate
limits of Newnan. This is only an evidence of
"’hat may be done by cultivating small 'facts
of rich land in preference to large poor tracts.
—Atlanta New Era.
There are 38,000 Mormons and 8,000 Gentiles
at Salt Lake.
Japan’s first organ is being made in New
l ork.
Methodist lay representation carried Cleve
land, Ohio, by a large majority.
The Legislature of Massachusetts has passed
the Prohibitory Liquor bill by the strong vote
of 152 to 67. *
The population of Charleston, S. C.. is es
timated at 40,000 souls—2o.ooo whites, and
20.000 negroes.
The veteran missionary of the American
Board. Rev. Jonas King, died at Athens,Greece,
May 23d.
§a jot ibt
Died, near Larkinsville. Ala., May 27-, ISG9.
Rev. William J. Venable, aged thirty-one
years. He had been a member of the Method
ist Episcopal Church four years. He was li
censed to preach August 1868. and filled his
commission with grace and ability sufficient to
cause those that knew him best to love him
most. He bid fair to become eminently useful
to the church. His disease was brain fever.
His friends could talk but little to lim; but
when spoken to he said that he bad no fear of
death—knew he would be better off. He spoke
feelingly of some communities that lie would
like to visit. Brother Venable was a sweet
singer, a faithful preacher, a kind hu-band. and
a tender father. May the Lord mercifully
guide his numerous friends and bereaved wife
and orphan children, to heaven at last.
J. R. Johnston.
pelting*.
I will be at the following-named places, viz.:
Galesville circuit, the 3d Sunday in August, and
Saturday before; Lebanon circuit. Ist Sunday
in July, and Saturday before; Marshal circuit,
the 2nd Sunday in July, and Saturday before;
Murphrees Valley circuit. 3d Sunday in July,
and Saturday before. John W. Tally, P. E.
Missionary Moneys-
To the Pastors:
Dear Brethren —A large number of drafts
for the support of missions in the West and
South are maturing, while the funds received
for the Society are already paid out. Pastors
who have taken the missionary collection will
please forward the moneys they have on hand
at once. If we can receive, enough to meet the
claims as they mature without being forced to
borrow it, a heavy interest to the Society will
be saved.
We are compelled to pay out a large amount
on our recent purchases of property for the
Book Concern in Cincinnati, and are expending
a considerable sum in the erection of a printing
office. Brethren therefore will greatly oblige
us by forwarding the moneys due on periodical
and book accounts. Please forward what you
may have on hand, and collect and forward the
balance due at your earliest convenience.
Remit by Draft, Post-Office Money Order, or
Express.
Yours, truly, Hitchcock & Walden.
jijwml UatoiS.
The following letter was received by the ed
itor of the Cincinnati Medical Journal:
Chauncy, Athens co., 0., Feb. 25, 1860.
Thinking you would be pleased to hear what
success the Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla
and Stillingia had met in this vicinity. I venture
to send you a statement of a case' treated by
me in this place. The patient was a young
lady, rapidly sinking under the full
ment of Scrofula —profuse scrofulous dis
charges, etc. She had been under treatment
for some time, with the advice and counsel of
several eminent physicians, previous to coining
into my hands, without receiving anv benefit.
Since the has been using Seovill's Blood and
Liver Syrup, her improvement has been rapi ;
and satisfactory. C. W. Pratt, M. I>.
Entire confidence can be placed in the above
statement.
A Cure for Incipient Consumption.
Those who wish to find the most efficacious
remedy for Coughs, Colds, and the early stages
of Consumption, and yet have no confidence in
popular medicines generally, will never regret
a fair trial of Dr. Hall’s Balsam. It has cured
its thousands.
BS“The great wonder is, why Dr. Mott's
Vegetable Liver Pills should possess such as
tonishing virtues when thev operate so mildly.
They being composed ol chemical vegetable
extracts, relieve the stomach from all woody
and inert matter,-thereby rendering them very
efficacious, without producing pain.
ggi*”Mothers, relieve the toothache of your
children by applying Dr. Townsley's Indian
Toothache Anodyne.
ggp“Useful, practical hints about the every
day out-door and in-door-work, are always of
great value. A single hint olten saves a valu
able animal, or changes one’s method of per
forming a particular kind of work so as to
greatly lessen its drudgery. A farmer was
troubled with smut in wheat. A single line in
his newspaper told him to “wet the seed with
tar-water and roll it in lime.” Acting on this
hint for part of his crop, gave him an increase
of over five bushels per acre of fine wheat,
worth a hundred dollars on twenty acres, and
many hundreds of dollars in afte years. The
knowledge, extended to his neighbors, resulted
in thousands of dollars of net profit. Similar
illustrations are continually occurring in all de
partments of life, Indeed, progress and profit
come from an accumulation of these hints.
The above train of thought is suggested by
looking through the American Agriculturist for
June Ist, an advance copy of which Inis just
come to hand. It s pages are crowded wit h useful
hints and suggestions, told in plain language,
by practical, observing men, and in a multitude
of instances illustrated with engravings that
speak directly to the eye and the mind, more
effectually than words can do. We doubt if
there b a family in the country, or in a village
or city', for that matter, that would not find this
journal "tenfold more valuable than its cost —
a year. YY’e notice that the publish
ers otter a beautiful “Annual” tree to eveiy sub
scriber to the Agriculturist received during
June, for the current year. Orange Judd &
Cos., publishers, 245 Broadway, New York.
Book Concern Bonds.
The .Agents of the Methodist B~ok Con
cern in the city of New York, having as
sumed a liatility of $675,000 as their share
of the purchase money of the New Connec
tional Buildings, on Broadway, find it
necessary, in order to pay the whole of the
above-named sum. to borrow for several years
$500,000, and in accordance with the advice of
the Commission appointed and authorized by
the last General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church to raise money by loan or
otherwise, have prepared coupon bonds of SIOO.
S2OO. SSOO. and SI,OOO, for the above named
sum of five hundred thousand dollars, redeem
able in three years, and payable in fifteen years
from June 1. 1869. with semi-annual interest at
the rate of seven per cent, per annum, payable
at the office of the said Agents, at 805 Broad
way, on presentation of ihe proper coupons.
These bonds can be had of the Book Agents at
200 Mulberry-street, New York, at par and ac
crued interest.
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THE METHODIST ADVOCATE
WILL BE SENT TO ANY ADDRESS
« MONTHS FOl* ONE DOLLAR.
OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
[Official.]
Executive Department,
Atlanta, Ga., June 33,1809.
Whereas, a vacancy has occurred and now exists in
the office of Ordinary of Twiggs county, caused by the
death ot Wm. S. Kelly, the person having been elected
thereto.
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of this
State and of the Militia thereof, do hereby appoint John
F. Shine, of the county of Twiggs, Ordinary thereof, to
fill the vacancy aforesaid; and order that he, the said
John F. Shine, upon his executing and filing in this De
partment his official bond as Clerk of Ordinary, in the
sum of one thousand dollars, with such sureties thereto
as the law requires and satisfactory to me, to be com
missioned accordingly.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Executive De
partment, at the Capitol, in the city of Atlanta, the
day and year above written.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK, Governor.
By the Governor:
Eugene Davis, Secy’. Exec. Department. 20-lt
[Official.]
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, A great safeguard for republican institu
tions is to be found in the general dissemination of
knowledge among the masses ot the people; and
Whereas, it is almost universally the practice of State
Governments to relieve from taxation the capital in
vested in material necessarily employed in the printing
and publishing of books, magazines, newspapers, etc.;
and
Whereas, a proper construction of the present statutes
in force in this State will not permit an exemption from
taxation for capital so employed.
And in order that the General Assembly may have an
opportunity to enact a law specially exempting fi-om
taxation the value of material employed in printing and
publishing; and to the end that no unnecessary bur
dens may be placed upon these valuable and important
public benefactions till the General Assembly may have
an opportunity of exercising its wisdom in deciding
this question,
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of this
State, and of the Militia thereof, do hereby, by virtue of
the authority in me vested by the 70th section of the
Code, issue this my proclamation suspending the col
lection of all State taxes assessed upon the value of
type, printing-presses, and other property belonging
thereto, actually in use for the purpose of publication
or printing, till the next session of the General Assem
bly.
Os this suspension the Comptroller-General will forth
with give notice to the Tax Collectors of the various
counties of this State.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at
the Capitol, in Atlanta, this 26th day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1861*, and of the independence of the
United States of America the Ninety-third.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK, Governor.
By the Governor:
David G. Lotting, Secretary of State. 26 It
[Official.]
!N"otice to "Proprietors of Newsi>apers
and Printing Establishments.
Comptroller-General’s Office,
Atlanta, Gs., June 36, 1869.
You will please make return of the value of all your
taxable property in the usual way to the Tux Receiver
of your county, transmitting at the same time a special
report to this office of the value of all property of the
description mimed in the above proclamation, in order
that a record ot the items may be made for tiie informa
tion of the General Assembly.
Respectfully, MADISON BELL,
june 30 26-lt Comptroller-General.
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Parlor and Vestry Organs
Mr. GEO. WOODS, for twelve years foreman in the
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possessing ample means,now offers to the Public and the
Trade, Organs of every style, containing all the excel
lencies in organs hitherto ranking first, in point of merit,
together with valuable and important improvements of
his own invention,of recent date. Send for Price List
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june 23—25 ts
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AND
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