The Litchfield County post., 1828-05-22


 last Report is still in press. The delay arises from the circumstance that those who alone are qualified to correct the proof-sheets, live at distance, in Canada. Some of the sheets were forwarded for correction several months since, ,and as the Board are informed, have proved to be very acceptable and useful. It is expect ed that the whole Gospel will be publish ed sometime in course of the ensuing sum- mer.
 Books issued.
 From the 1st of May, 1927, to the 1st of the present month, there have been is- sued from the Depository 73,426 Bibles in English, 57,O5S Testaments in English, l,943 Bibles in Spanish, LAY Testaments in Spanish, 29O Bibles in French, ,3I2 Tes- taments in French, 27O Bibles in German, 88 Testaments in German, 43 Bibles in Welsh, 10 Bibles in Dutch, 1 Gaelic Bible, II Testaments in Portuguese, Mohawk Gospels :-Making total of 1S4,9O4 CO., pies, which is an increase of 62,999 over the issues ofthe previous year. The tot al number distributed since the formation of the Society, in 1919, is SIX HUND- RED AND FORTY-FOUR THOU SAND TWO HUNDRED, AND TWENTY-FIVE.
 Of the issues of the present year, 127,- 247 have been by direct sale, and 7,29O as gratuitous distributions.
 The Bible Operations in the Si6ersnt States.
 Under this head the Report presents brief survey of what has been done, and is doing, in the different states and territo- ries of our country, for the promotion of this great cause. The facts stated, are tru- ly animating but having been chiefly com municated to our readers at different times through the columns of the Observer, it is unnecessary to repeat them.
 Society's Presses.
 At the beginning of the past year, when the extraordinary impulse in favor of the Bible commenced, the managers took vigor- ous measures to enlarge their means for multiplying copies of the Scriptures. At that time they had but II presses connec- ted with the establishments ,and these of the kind worked by hand. This class ofpres- ses has been increased to 20. Here they have been obliged to stop; for their house would contain no more, and at the same time find room for the other operations of the society. Finding themselves thus strai- tened, they have recently procured addi- tional ground, and are about to commence the erection of another house which will be completed the coming July. Inthis house are to be placed eight presses, worked by steam power, (equal to 20 of the former kind ) together with 20 and-presses now in their present building, which must be removed from the present house to give additional room for binding. When these changes are made, the Board expect to be able to print at the rate of 3OO,OOO copies per annum.
 The number of Agents employed by the Society the past year is II. They have directed their efforts rather to the formation of auxiliaries and branches than to the col- lection of funds, ,and in lis work much has been accomplished.
 Foreign Distributions.
 The principal part of the foreign Scrip lures above mentioned, have been sent to the Mexican and South American States, and to the West India Islands. To gen. tleman going to Metamoros and Mexico, were committed 200 Bibles and 300 Test aments for distribution, from whom no re- turns have yet been received. The Am erican Consul at Mazatlan, on the Vest ern coast of Mexico, thus writes to the se- cretary in respect to some Spanish Bibles which had been sent to his ca e: It gives me much pleasure to advise you that the shipment of Bibles and Testaments comes very seasonably, and that I shall find no difficulty in finding purchasers immediate ly for the quantity you sent. The Report states that no Bibles have ever before been sent to that part of Mexico.
 To four other places in Mexico, viz Tampico, Statillo, Puebla, and Mexico ci- ty, Bibles have been sent within the past year, and also several boxes to Colombia. The manner in which part of these were distributed is rather remarkable. The vessel being wrecked in which they had been shipped, they were plundered by the Indians, carried into Maracaibo, and there sold at high price, to such as would pur- chase.
 At the request of MT. Parvin at Buenos Ayres, 27I Spanish Bibles were sent to his care for sale or distribution, and 274 to correspondent at Monte Video,in Bra ,;l Otbarc havo hoon cont to Matap1oc