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22 The Methodist Advocate. ATLANTA, GA„ FEBRUARY 7, 1872. E. Cl. FULLER, D. D., Editor. HIM £. W. COFFIN, AHiltut i A. Websim, D.D., (a. Car. Conference,) Orangeburg, S. C. Rov Wm. G. Matton. (N. Oar. Conference,) Jamestown, N.C. Rev! James Mitchell, (Virginia Conference,) Leesburg, Va. Rev. C. O. Kisheb, (WashingtonConference,) Baltimore,Md. K. £. Cobleioh, D.D., (Hoiston Conference,) Athens, Tenn. Rev. J. Braden, A.M., (Tenn. Conference,) NasbviUe, Tenn. Rev. A. S. Lasts, (Alabama Conference,) Huntsville, Ala. - < Rev. James Lynch, (Miss. Conference,) Jackson, Miss. L. 0. Matlaoe, D.D., (Louisiana Con.,) New Orleans, La. Rev. G. W. Honey, (Texas Conference.) Austin, Texas. “The Colored Citizen.” The St. Louis Advocate gives a column and a half of editorial philosophizing upon this topic. It concludes thus: We mast be reasonable in oar conduct toward the negroes. We are glad to know that there is among our readers already a good disposition toward them. Take them for all in all, they have borne their aston ishing change unexpectedly well. Thanks for this, under God, principally to the good mistresses who cared for their souls, and next, to the Methodist preachers who labored in their ministry. But for these, some of the States would have undergone the fate of San Domingo, and a return WAVE OF FIRE WOULD HAVE SWEPT THE blacks to destruction. If wretched car pet-baggers from the North had let them alone, had the pitiful policy of the con querors left the white mind of the South free to control them, we should have little to complain of in them, but the accidents of their ignorance of affairs. As it is, for the most part, they have done far better than could have been expected. The heart of the South recognizes this conduct. But, unhappily, leaders have been sent to them, clothed with the prestige of political au thority, and worse, recommended by the office of Christian ministers, who have fooled them by false promises, excited them by absurd social expectations, intoxi cated them by ridiculous flatteries, and bribed them into demoralizing mercenary relations. The consequences are most se rious, not to say alarming, and must be counteracted if we can counteract them. The Southern people must not withdraw from the negroes. They must not surrender them to that rascally guidance. We must compete for tlieir confidence by exhibiting expectation of permanent POLITICAL friendship with them. They must be made SOUTHERN in their sympathies. Above all, they must be taught to love our SOUTHERN CHRISTIANITY. They must hear it from our lips, but especially see it in our lives and conversation. They must see that we have no resentment, no bitterness toward them. We must protect them from wrong, not permitting them to look elsewhere for protectors. We must condescend to reason with them, we must instruct them, we must convert them to Ood. Now, the preacher can not do all or much of this. Our people must do it. Our good women must gather their Sunday schools and sewing schools again. Kindly intercourse must be re-established, as in the olden time. The negro for generations to come will be dependent upon the whites. There is no help for him but in the bigger brain of the superior race. He knows and feels it every day; but he regards the Southern man as inimical to him. He has been sedulously taught to do so. He must be won back to Ins natural protector by words and deeds of kindness. We must not look back, if we would escape petrifac tion in the vapors of its calamity. We have to do in the present for the future. We must deal with the negro as he is, not as we think he ought to be. It has pleased God that the relation of master and slave should cease. It was a relation that re quired more piety, more self-denial , more devotion to God than the South, as a whole, had to give it. Shall we be equal to the new relation, or shall it, too, end in calam ity? This is a question, of all others, to be pondered by the cool heads and warm hearts of the South, and may Ood help! Amen! And first of all the heart should be made as soft as the head. In nothing do “Southern” writers generally appear more ridiculous than in attempt ing to reason upon the character and des tiny of the colored race. They “under stand the negro,” they are his “natural protectors,” according to their estimation, but in truth their philosophy is simply foolishness. First, the colored people want pay for labor. Where employers will not give this, or where local courts will not pro tect the rights of the laborer, the Gene ral Government should do so. Thousands of colored people now crowd around the cities, poor, ragged, and in destitution, who would go into the country at once, and work for moderate wages, cultivate land on shares, or buy it on time,' and in a few years pay for it, and make them selves homes, and provide all they need for comfort and happiness, if opportuni ties to do so were given. Second. They should have privileges for education and religious worship, with out interference or dictation from their old masters. Third. They should be allowed to ex ercise all of the rights of American citi zens without fear of the ICu-Klux. In short, give the colored people a chance to take care of themselves, and they will do it, and not be a tax upon any, to any extent, for any purpose. They would support themselves, their schools, and their Churches well at this time, but for the oppression and knavery from which they have suffered since the war. All that the “citizen negro” needs or asks is a fair chance to make an honest living. Give him this and he will take care of himself. Anything in the papers of the Church South about the colored people, but abuse of them, is encouraging. Bating the usual slurs upon Northern people and its political and sectional bias, we are glad to see the above in the St. Louis Advo cate. One can not well avoid the reflec tion, however, that if the colored people are as bad as some make them out to be their former teachers, those “good mis tresses who cared for their souls” and those “Methodist preachers who labored in their ministry” were very inefficient in this work. If the “wretched carpet baggers from the North had let them alone,” the Ku-Klux would have had an easy time in keeping them under the lead of the politicians. These “carpet-bag gers” have taught them to read, think and act for themselves like intelligent be ings, and free citizens of this country, hence this Ku-Klux wail of the St. Louis Advocate. “Permanent POLITICAL friendship with them” is important to po litical tricksters and demagogues, and no others. Why then does this religious paper step forth as the champion of those who are seeking to use them as tools and dupes. “Above all , they must be taught to love our Southern [Ku-Klux] Christianity.” That is a bitter pill. They will have to be “taught” if they ever “love” this “Southern Christianity,” which has so abounded in auction blocks, cowhides, paddles, white men’s children by slave women and Ku-Klux diabolism! From such “Southern Christianity” “Good Lord deliver us!” Pre-eminently we suppose this “Southern Christianity” is not the Church of God, or the Methodist Episcopal Church of God, but the Meth odist Episcopal Church South of God! Is this geographical term intended to in dicate the climate of the locality of this “Southern Christianity?” Is it warm there ? A Specimen. The papers of the Church South are just now greatly exercised over the South ern work of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Take as a specimen the St. Louis Advocate of January 24th. First it contains an article copied from the Richmond Advocate , from the pen of one Mr. Frank Hinton, in reply to Dr. Curry’s late papers. This Mr. Hinton claims to have been long a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and to have filled nearly every office in it. We venture nothing in supposing that he is undoubtedly one of those easily wooled putty-heads who has long been a pro slavery, negro-hating, anti-war poli tician, exceedingly anxious to get into “Southern societyor, one who is ready to sell his principles, himself and his Maker all in a lump for thirty pieces of silver or less whenever occasion offers. He labors through a column and a quar ter of twaddle in which he represents Dr. Curry as “dependent for information upon broken-down politicians and effete ministers, soured by disappointment and failure, who, to cover up their ill success have sent back false reports of the land.” How does this tally with Dr. Matlack’s article in the Quarterly? What of Judge Bond and the evidence before the United States Court. Again he says: Most emphatically we do not want the Meth odist Episcopal Church to send its ministers down here for the purpose of cultivating a re ligious field already occupied by a people of our ovyn faith. We feel that the strife among brethren of the same household should cease. We rejoice in bearing testimony to the un wearied zeal, the self-sacrificing devotion, and pure Christian life of those ministers of the M. E. Church South, with whom we have become acquainted. In Winter and Summer, through sunshine and storm, in poverty and discourage ment sufficient to appall the most hopeful, these men are to-day going forth to build up the waste places of Zion by preaching a pure Gos pel. That is a discovery! Has Me. Hin ton been out in the “waste places?” There are multiplied thousands of whites throughout the South, destitute of relig ious care or privileges, in whose behalf the Church South has made no effort. But Mr. Hinton shows himself a falsifier as well as a simpleton by representing the Missionary Society as “supporting North ern preachers at from SI,OOO to $3,000 a head to minister to a couple of dozen of colored people” in Virginia. If he is not a down-right ignoramus he ought to know that the Virginia Conference has entirely a white membership, and that the Washington Conference, including Vir ginia, has a membership of over 25,000. At least the editors of the Richmond Ad vocate and the St. Louis Advocate knew these facts when publishing the stuff of this cat’s-paw Hinton. He also recom mends that our missionary money be given to the Church South, and asks Dr. Curry to advocate this measure! No doubt he would favor the payment of the rebel war debt and also compensation for slaves of rebels by the Government. Second, the same number contains flings about a “huge pile of greenbacks,” (by the way we never saw a preacher of the Church South unwilling to take them,) a‘-wire-puller” and “office seeker” in the South Carolina Conference from a THE METHODIST ADVOCATE. FEBRUARY 7, 1872. correspondent “Perdix,” from that State. Third, we observe the editorial on the “Negro Citizen,” referred to in another column. Next is a nameless editorial of a col umn and a quarter, evidently from Balti more, in which our work is called a “gross sham” of “draft-drawing missionaries.” It says: They know that they would no more dare to march tlieir corps of Southern missionaries through Broadway than Falstaff would march his recruits through Coventry. Not that there are not good men among them, but because the goodness would exhibit a mortifying want of torattis, and the brains a frightful want of good ness, while all together would be a spectacle not edifying in the way of missionary collec tions. A procession, withal, headed by ‘‘prop erty agents” (and college thieves might be re garded as an indirect attempt to get sympathy for Tweed. As to “brains” we have only to say that if the Church South has no better supply of this article for its pulpit than it has for its press it has nothing to boast of in that line. The end of the conflict will indicate on which side is the heft of brains. As to goodness, none of our missionaries have sold their children in the market, nor do any of them belong to the Ku-Klux Klan. As to “college thieves,” the writer of the above knows perfectly well that the buildings of the East Tennessee Wesleyan University, to which only he can refer, were purchased by us in as fair business transaction as ever occurred among men, and that the Church South holds from us school prop erty deeded to the Methodist Episcopal Church. It must be a weak cause which requires the substitution of inuendo and falsehood for argument. In conclusion we have this: Particularly as Methodists we ought to study the decline and fall of Northern Methodism in order to see how to prevent the same mistakes and avoid the same consequences. Ugh! Then follows a column of editorial and reprint from the Golden Age , of burlesque upon Dr. Haven. Number six in this category is editorial from the Richmond Advocate in which occur these lines: If we were conversing with Northern Meth odist brethren at their homes on this question, we would say to them plainly and frankly, that if they desire to secure good feeling between all sections of this country, they must cease to pro mote unpleasant, unprofitable, and indeed most hurtful social collisions by sending men among us who plant their batteries and open tire on us wherever they can secure a rod of ground. It is not in human nature, especially it is not in Southern human nature, and we think not in Northern, to feel no risings of opposition when a man comes into a quiet community and be gins to stir up all the elements of strife, to de nounce other people as deceivers and disloyal, haters of the Government, and pretending obedience while they are eagerly waiting for an opportunity to rush into another grand re bellion. We have but two words on the above. They are, first, our Northern preachers have done no such thing as is here charged, and, second, we say of the members and preachers of the Church South, “by their fruits ye shall know them.” Seventh, and lastly comes a clipping from the venerable and learned Dr. Sum mers, an Englishman by birth, and, what he is,from choice, in the official organ, the Nashville Advocate , on “ Non-Inter course.” He says: We are astonished at the verdancy of some men who wonder why we still have no intercourse with Northern Methodist preachers who are laboring in the South. There are thousands of good Methodists in the North with whom we could maintain fellowship ; but we wonder at the weakness of any one who knows any thing about the questions in controversy between us and the North, who could imagine for a moment that we would give any encouragemen t to men whose avowed object is the disintegration ana absorption of our Connection, and who hold much of our property in the South to enable them to carry out their nefarious un dertaking. What would sensible men say if we were to occupy their pulpits and invite them to occupy ours? Would they not look down upon us with de served contempt? Would they not consider us lack ing in principle, and regardless of the claims of truth and righteousness? There must be a great deal of fumigation done by “our Northern brethren” before we can have fellowship with them. While the slan ders of such men as Cobleigh & Cos. are indorsed by the leaders of the Northern Methodist Church we can give neither thein nor their emissaries among us any coun tenance. They have done immense mischief among our colored people, and are doing it still—few of the white people have any use for them. Indeed, they have no call for this field, and they are abusing the confidence of their own people when they beg money out of them for missionary purposes, and then squan der it on these miserable factors of mischief —better throw it into the sea. All of this we find in the St. Louis Advocate , of January 24th, and give it as a specimen of the fairness, learning, tal ent and piety, of the “brains” and “good ness” of journalism in the M. E. Church South. And yet some people wonder why we have any controversy in our col umns with that Church. We admit as little of it as circumstances will allow and do justice to the Church and to the truth. Were our paper twice as large as it is, and printed in small type, it would not contain room enough in which to defend our cause against all of the falsehoods and misrepresentations which we see and hear. It is rather hard to say this time— “still we believe in fraternity”—but we are able to keep our position on record. Let it be understood, however, that we have no sympathy with Ku-Klux “Chris tians” or religious slangwhangers. One object sought by the press of the Church South is probably to so effectually disgust, in advance, the General Confer ence to meet in May next that it will not appoint fraternal messengers to the Gen eral Conference of the Church South. The press of that Church is evidently afraid of fraternal recognition. To prevent it is an important object. If our General Confer ence should refuse to appoint such mes sengers after the correspondence which has taken place between the bishops, and after the visitation of Bishop Janes and Dr. Harris to Memphis, in May last, this failure on our part would be counted a great victory on theirs. They would then say to the people of the South that the “Northern” Methodists refuse to recognize us as a Church, that we are their enemies and the enemies of the country, with a little show of candor. Let us not be caught in this trap. Friend ship between Christians is right and can be opposed only by mistaken or bad peo ple. Whatever may be said by designing parties against the Methodist Episcopal Church the General Conference of that body must stand upon the broad principle of love to God and man. Its position must be both true to itself and magnani mous toward others. The appointment of fraternal messengers to the Church South can do us no harm however nu merous such articles as those referred to may become. These articles can do the Church South no good. Atlanta Free Schools. —One of the most hopeful indications of future im provement in our State is the enthusi asm attending the opening of free schools in our city. Three school-houses, con taining eight rooms each, accommodating fifty pupils in a room, or twelve hundred in all, have been built at a cost of thirty thousand dollars. By many these were thought to be ample, more than sufficient to *aeet the requirements of the people. But, just before opening the schools, a registration was made of those who de sired to attend them. At every school house there was a rush, and over two thousand applicants were registered. It has been found that so many advanced scholars have applied that it is necessary to open two high schools—one for boys and one for girls. These have been pro vided for, and still about six hundred more have applied than can be admitted to the present buildings. Additional rooms must be furnished at once. The public-school system was inaugu rated with appropriate and interesting exercises last week. The opening of these schools indicates what may be done in the South in popu lar education. The people want schools, free schools, public schools, for the edu cation of all, and, in town and country, if the leading citizens will favor free schools as they have done in Atlanta, their success is guaranteed in advance. The opposition to the schools of our Church, and of governmental action in behalf of the cause, arises from sheer prejudice and hatred of the North. The people want schools, and would gladly accept educational advantages from any if not taught to oppose those from cer tain quarters by “ leading minds.” The old fogies still suppose that the great aim of our schools is to gain political influ ence and to strengthen a particular party. The idea of education for its intrinsic worth is as yet apprehended by but few. But the public mind is growing in the right direction. These schools are all for the whites. The colored schools in the city also passed, under the same administration, on the first instant. Equal provisions are to be made for them, so that all of the' people of this city, without respect to color, will have an opportunity to edu cate their children. The only rivalry between these schools will be in hard study and rapidity of advancement. Here is a chance for the colored people to show their capabilities. Let them stand on their good behavior, work in harmony with this movement, and show that they are worthy of these privileges. We trust that the time for taxing colored people for the education of the whites without a corresponding return is passed. Asa matter of fact, the least that can be said at this time is that, in this State, ten dollars have been raised from the colored people for the education of the whites, to one dollar raised by tax from the whites to educate the colored. We have kept an eye upon this matter. There are some interesting items in con nection with it. During the last year,- under the State law requiring equal priv ileges for both classes, there have been one thousand five hundred and seventy five white public schools in the State, supported by tax, to two hundred and eighty colored, to say nothing of the character of the latter. Atlanta ha® done itself a credit and a favor by this educational enterprise. A like sum of money could not have been expended in any other way so much to the social and pecuniary advantage of the people of this city. Philip Phillips gave one of his de lightful evenings of sacred song in Loyd Street Church on Wednesday night last. He used on the occasion one of Smith’s American organs, which, in our judg ment, is unsurpassed, if equalled by any other reed instrument. This one had marvellous softness of tone and fulness of volume. The entertainment was greatly enjoyed by an appreciative audience, and we doubt not that all felt moved by the power of song to deeper piety and greater effort for Christ. The remarks of Mr. Phillips on Church music were exceedingly happy. Gone North. —Rev. J. H. Knowles, of this city, has been called North by Dr. Rust to spend a few weeks in the interest of the Clark Theological Semi nary, under the direction of the Freed men’s Aid Society. His relation as pas tor of Loyd Street Church is not dis solved, but the pulpit is to be supplied by Dr. Barrows and others during his ab sence. We commend him cordially to the friends in the North, and hope that his calls will receive such liberal re sponses that he can soon return to his work in Atlanta. Golden Hours , the young folks’ favor ite, for February, spreads an attractive table for the mental appetites of its patrons. Clark Theological Seminary. In order to secure, without delay, the requisite funds, the Board of Directors of the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church request Rev. J. H. Knowles, pastor of Loyd Street Church, Atlanta, Ga., to present the de mands of the Clark Theological Semi nary. He goes North for this purpose. He can be absent from his Church but a few weeks. He desires in this time, by earnest appeals in public and in private, to raise the whole amount re quired. He enters upon this work with a deep sense of its magnitude. We trust every one will respond by contributions, however small they may be —at least, by proffering sympathy for the cause. What is so closely identified with the salvation of redeemed souls? Nearly two millions of colored people in the South are to-day largely dependent upon our Church for the Gospel. Seven years ago they were in slavery—without instruction, without the intelligent agencies of the Church. To-day they are citizens; flock around the standard of “ Old Methodism ” ; de mand our services; adopt our system of Sunday-School work, and invite us into new territory unoccupied by any Chris tian organization. Behold what God hath wrought! About six hundred col ored preachers have been raised up in our Southern Methodism within six years, and are now regularly employed by our Church. Over two hundred were or dained by our Bishops in 1871. More than one thousand colored local preachers are identified with us. We have reason to believe that God is calling hundreds of colored youth to His ministry, and asks the Church to open the door for them. Never, in the history of the Christian Church, has there been among any other people such a genuine and universal prompting to the sacred calling. For the Church to regard these deep convic tions with indifference or contempt is to incur guilt. But these young men need immediate instruction. Who must give this? The Church. No other calls, at home or abroad, are more imperative. They stretch forth their hands, implor ing us to teach them the elements of Christian doctrine. Their yearning de sires cannot be expressed, but are man ifested in the flashing eye, the broken prayer. How can we resist such ap peals? Romanism is stealthily moving through the South. It will require im mediate and united action on the part of the Church to baffle her insidious designs. Her missionaries are to be educated men. We cannot meet the foe with ignorance and mere religious enthusiasm. Rev. J. H. Knowles is fresh from the field. He wituesses daily the aspira tions of the colored people to rise so cially and religiously. His words are spoked from deepest convictions. Let us hear him. Now, when the Holy Spirit moves so many colored youth to preach the Word, let us testify our love for Christ’s cause by gifts, sympathy and prayer. For fifty dollars a room in our new building can be furnished, and the individual or Church will have the privilege of naming it. All sums, unless otherwise ordered, will be ac knowledged in our Church papers. DR, CHASE’S RECIPES; or,lnformation for Every Body: An Invaluable Collection of about Eight Hundred Practical Recipes, for Merchants, Grocers, Physicians, Druggists, Tanners, Shoe Makers, Harness Makers, Painters, Jewelers, Blacksmiths, Tinners. Gunsmiths, Farriers, Barbers, Bakers,Dyers, Renovaters,Farmers, and Families generally. To which have been added, A Rational Treat ment of Pleurisy, Inflammatory Diseases, and also for General Female Debility and Ir regularities—all arranged in their appropriate departments. By A. W. Chase, M.D. Such is the title of a valuable book on sale by Hitchcock & Walden, Atlanta, at $1.25. The merchants and grocers’ de partment contains articles on baking powders, butter, eggs, fruit, jellies, inks, vinegar, etc.; also, recipes for making ice cream, lemonade, soda water, Byrups and domestic wines. For these wines we have no use—never have, and never would keep them about the house. They are useless, a temptation to the thought less, and a social nuisance which yearly leads scores to ruin. If these items were tom out of the book it would be an im provement. The medical department contains much valuable information use ful to every family, while the tanners’ harness-makers’, painters’, blacksmiths’, tinners’, gunsmiths’, jewelers’, farriers’, cabinet-makers’, barbers’, toilet and mis cellaneous departments should be in every household. As long as people continue to eat, good cooking is important to health and do mestic happiness. The science of cook ing is but little understood, and the art is neglected still more if possible. This department of Dr. Chase’s book is by no means the least, but may be the most im portant of all. It is a book for the mil lions, full of good sense on domestic affairs. Old and New has a Washington num ber for February. There is no fear of bringing the life and character of Wash ington too often before the public. The articles in this number are varied and able. It is reported that the estate of the late Isaac Rich, of Boston, amounting to over a million and a half of dollars, is given to lound a Methodist University in Boston. The widow of the late Bishop Clark contributes the second thousand dollars to the Clark Theological Seminary. Virginia Conference- To the Stewards of the Va. Conference: Dear Brethren: Suffer a word from your correspondent on a matter of great importance to the cause and work of God in our State : Conference is at hand. Have you supported your minister in his efforts to meet the general collections on your sev eral charges? But, chiefly, have you paid your minister all you promised to pay him? Please remember the moral obligation you are under to do this. God will bless you in proportion to your devo tion to His cause, kingdom and servants. The work is not theirs. It is God’s work. They are but His servants. The Conference will, no doubt, call for a stew ard’s report. Will you not aid your minister to make a good one ? Do not ask any of them to balance the account with you by the surrender of their claim, or the report that it has been paid by their contributing that balance to the steward’s fuud. This will not be just to the minister, and will have a bad influence on the moral tone of your charge in fu ture years. In truth, these ministers cannot afford to give you that balance. If our income from chartered, or other funds, was worth anything, a report of full receipts would cut off their claim for deficiency. Let us be just to each other. For your encouragement, let me say the people of the Hoiston Conference, the best in the South, with a membership of 23,549, paid their ministers out of their quurterage collections, on an average, about $143.42; or, in other words, to seventy-three of their ministers, who re ported their receipts, they paid $10,470. The Virginia Conference has about one fourth the membership of the former, 5,844 being our returns last year. If we take the collections of the Hoiston as a basis, aim-fourth of their collections would be $2,617.50. Now I feel confi dent we can do better than that if we will try. Please try. James Mitchell. East Tennessee Wesleyan University. This Institution closed its ninth term, under its present President, Rev. N. E. Cobleigh, D.D., Wednesday, 24th ult. There were one hundred and twenty-five students in attendance. The examina tion of the classes was very critical and thorough ou the part of the teachers and examining committee, and eminently sat isfactory to the friends and visitors pres ent. The examination continued four days. The classes, respectively, stood higher on the graduated scale of scholar ship than the corresponding classes at the close of the session last June. The stu dents gave evidence of studious applica tion to, and marked proficiency in their studies, and that they had been under the care of most faithful and competent teachers. The Faculty, prescribed course of study, government and general advan tages of this Institution will compare favorably with the oldest literary institu tions in the South. Its locality and sur roundings are of a very favorable and desirable character, and its support and success should lie near the heart of ev ery lover of learning throughout this broad land. The Spring session opened this morn ing with cheering prospects. J. W. Mann. Athens, Tenn., Feb. 1, 1872. Holston Conference Apportionment. At a meeting in the city of Knoxville, of the presiding elders and Conference Board of Church Extension, for the Holston Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, the following apportionment was agreed upon, with a resolu tion to raise the entire amount: Whole amount assessed to the Conference by the Parent Boards, for Missionary, $2,000; Church Extension $500; apportioned to the districts as follows: Mitflioaury. Ch. Exton. Knoxville District $379 20 $ 94 80 Morristown District 279 70 69 92 Jonesboro District 400 10 100 00 Ashville District 213 80 53 45 Athens District 372 00 93 00 Chattanooga District 258 30 64 57 Hiawassee District 87 40 21 85 57 20 14 30 To defray expenses of delegates to General Conference, whole amount to the Conference, S2OO, apportioned as follows: Knoxville District, $35; Morristown District, $25; Jonesboro District, S3O; Ashville District, sls; Athens District, SSO: Chattanooga Dis trict, $35; Hiawassee District, $10; Holston District, $lO. The above apportionment was made per cap ita, and the presiding elders requested to make the apportionments in their several districts as soon as possible. J. F. Spence, Secretary. Knoxville, January 24, 1872. [Notice.] CLARK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, ATLANTA, Will commence its First Term on Wednesday, February 14th, at 9 o’clock, a.m., and close June 20th, All who are studying for the Chris tian ministry, and can bring suitable recom mendations, will be received. Tuition free. One dollar Incidental expenses per term. Board fpr a limited number can be had in the institution at sll per month. Also, board can be had in private families, and rooms for self boarding. It will be greatly to the advantage of all who .enter, to begin with the term,whether they remain a long or short timo. Let applica tions be made early, In person or by letter, to L. D. BARROWS, Atlanta. For the Truttret. The Ladies' Repository for February is out in good time. Beautifully printed on fine white paper, with two charming steel engravings, no magazine published in this country presents a more attractive appearance, while its literary merit should make-it a favorite in all our families. The Russian government has authorized the Jews io build a synagogue in St.'Petersburg, a privilege never before granted them. This is a very significant and important concession.