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 toll dish pretty feely, and manufacturing meal and flour has got 10 be first rate business and what is better, my whig customers, all I though their grists of meal don't last quite as f long as they used to, are well satisfied; and 4 now. Mack,I don't want you to be blowing away here that Evans speech is not true. and that this whig doctrine about the high tariff making goods lower is all wrong, for i you do my pond is out, and ] am ruined. with my new toll-dish operation
 But, says Mir. Mcconnell, pray Bob, how do you get along with your democratic GUS ! toners, surely you can't humbug them with your Evans speech and whg arguments?
 Oh shaw, no, says Bob, l use the old toll dish for them and all goes off well, but now don't you tell any body what told you.
 METHODIST GENERAL CONFERENCE.
 EVENING SESSION, Friday, June '.
 REPORT.
 The select committee of nine appointed to consider and report on the Declaration oi the Delegates from the Conferences of the l Slaveholdng States, beg leave to submit the following Report
 Uiercag, A Declaration has been pre- sented to this General Conference with the signatures Of 51 delegates oI the body, from 13 Annual Conferences in the SlaVeholdlng I States, representing that fer various reasons enumerated, the objects and purposes of the i Christian Ministry and Church organization cannot be successfully accomplished by them under the jurisdiction of this General Con- ference as now constituted, and whereas, in the event of separation, Q contingency to which the Declaration asks attention, as not improbable. we esteem it the duty of this General Conference to meet the emergency with Christian kindness, and the strictest equity: therefore,
 Rcso7rcd, By the Delegates of the Seve- ral Annual Conferences. in General Confer ence assembled. That should the Delegates 1 from the Conferences in the Slayeholding States find it necessary to unite in distinct ecclesiastical connection, the following rule shall be observed with regard to the northern boundary of such connection: All the Socie- ties, Stations and Conferences adheringt to the 1 Church in the South, by the vote of a ma iority of the members of said Societies, Sta 1 lions and Conferences, shall remain under the unmolested pastoral care of the Southern Church; and the ministers of the Methodist Episconal Church shall ii no wise attempt to organize Churches CT Societies within the limits of the Church South, nor shall they attempt to exercise any pastoral oversight therein, t being understood that the ministry of the South reeiproeally observe the same rule in relation to Stations, Societies and Conferences adhering by vote of a majority to the Methodist Episcopal Church, provided also that this rule shall apply only 10 Socie- ties. Stations and Conferences bordering on the line of division, and not interior charges which shall in all cases be left to the care ol that Church within whose territory they are situated.
 BcSolred, That ministers, local and tra- yelling, of every grade and office in the Me- thodst Episcopal Church, may, as they pre- l fer, remain in that Church, or without blame attach themselves to the Church South f Rcs0ired, By the Delegates of the Annual i Conferences in General Conference assem- bled, that we recommend to all the Annual I Conferences, at their first approaching ses- sions, to authorize a change of the 9th restric- tive Article, so that the first clause shall read thus: They shall not appropriate the produce i of the Book Concern, nor of the Chartered Fund, oany purpose otherthan for the bene- fit of the travelling, supernunery, superanu- ated and worn out Preachers, their wives, widows and children. and to such other pur- poses as may be determined on by the votes 1 of two-thirds of the members of the General i Conference.
 ReSolccd, That whenever the Annual Con ferences, by vote of three-fourths of all their members voting on the third resolution shall have concurred in the recommendation to change or alter the 9th restrictive Article the agents at New ork and Cincinnati shall and they are hereby authorized and directed to deliver over to any authorized agent or appointee of the Church South, should one be authorized, all notes and book accounts against the ministers, church members or citi- zens within its bounds, withauthority to col i lect the same for the sole use of the Southern 1 Church, and that said agents also convey to i the aforesaid agent or appointce of the South, all real estate, and assign to him all the pro- perty, including presses, stock and all right and interests, connected with the printing es- tablishments at Charleston, Richmond and Nashville, which now belong to the Metho- dist Episcopal Church.
 Resolred, That when the Annual Confer ences shall have approved the aforesaid change in the 6ih restrictive Article there shall be transferred to the above agent of the Southern Church so much of the capital and produce of the Methodist Book Concern as will, with the notes, book accounts, presses, Sc, mentioned in the last resolution, bear inc same proportion to the whole property of said Concern that travelling Preachers in the Southern Church shall bear to all the travelling Ministers Of the Methodist Epis- coPal Church: the division to be made on the basis of the number of travelling Preachers in the forthcoming minutes.
 ReSolred, That the above transfer shall be in the form of annual payments of S25,000 per annum, and specifically in stock of the Book Concern, and in Southern notes and accounts due the establishment, and accruing off tt.o s,..,t fropeln, ,,,o,,fi,ood