The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-03

, to the $1,000 raised in Worcester county, and the
grant Of eastern lands by the legislature TO aid the
same institution, nsures Its success. We find
nothing further of general interest IN the report OF
Q their proceedings The Rev. Baron Stow was elect
ed president ofthe society for the ensuing year.
Tar New ENGLAND FEMALE MoRAL Reform
SOCIETY held their seventh annual meeting on the
2Sth ult., at Boston. We learn from their report
that they have a sem-monthly publication, "The
Friend of Virtue" and establishment IN the city
of Boston for the reception of penent "frail ones;
which, by. the-by, IS the only place Of the kind in
that metropolis. During the past year III inmates
had been received some of whom proved too ncor-
Magdaenes reclaimed, the society provide them with
places in respectable families; and 1t is a remarkable
fact that not one Of them had been known to con-
taminate any member of family with whom they
: had found home.
The AMERICAN Unitarian ASSOCIATION held
their anniversary ON the 9th ult, in Boston. Their
report shows that their receipts have been Sll 255;
their expenditures Sl3,774. The theological nsti-
tuition at Meadville under the patronage of this
society, and provision had been made for the sup
f port of professor for five years The expense of
student at this religious seminary is exclusive of
cothing) from $40 to $50 per term Of forty weeks.
Most fatering accounts Were given Of the increase
of Unitariansm in all parts of the country; and the
necessity Of more extensive missionary operations
was particularly dwelt upon. The number Of their
ministers at large Is Increasing; and the utility OF
that system of operations is becoming more appar-
ent From seventy to eighty thousand copies of
their monthly publications had been circulated, and
+ also many volumes of former years.
The MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SociETy
celebrated their 10th anniversary on the 27th-ut
From their report we learn that they received S24,
$50 during the year, and expended 500, 042; of
which S7,SS8 went to aid feeble parishes in the
State, and Sl4 l54 into the treasury Of the Ameri
can Home Mission Society at New York In addi
tion the sum of 81 ,362 had been paid directly into
the New York disappointing, in all, 1852
contributed towards home missions by the orthodox
I Congregational churches of Massachusetts,. The
following extract from the report will give our read
ers general view Of the details of the socety's OPP
erations for the past year: sfW
"Sxtytwo churches in Massachusetts have received aid
from the funds Of this society the past year This Is
smaller number than has been reported since 1888 And of
the number now reported six have renquished their de-
others are preparing 70 az r same
ance Of the appropriation already made has been expended
feeble parishes habua and is likely therefore
be inermnabe may renew the hope Of seeing them all
brought at length into the condition Of selEsupport
"1hrynine of the churches have under the care
pastors; the remaining wentyh have been stately
The average the appropriations to the 81
missionaries now reported is $3.50 % year to each
the residue o. his support having been derived from the
Nearly 1000 families have been under the spiritual
age attendance public worship of more than 1000 and
about 500 pupils for the Sabbath schools and Bible classes
ditions during the year have unusually small
by profession, and iSl by letter whole number l79
These missionary congregations, struggling they
under their burdens have nevertheless contributed
various objects of benevolence far from $1,000 which
is about AZ per cent what they received from this society
Give meeting houses have been erected three have
repaired and $4,000 paid in liquidation of debts
tracted in former years" m
i The SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUN
IsHMENT held its anniversary the 30th ult.-E. X.
. IF N he
chair. A finance committee was organized, charged
with raising the ''snews" of their warfare against the
gallows. Many eloquent addresses made.
Among those who took an active part in the pro-
ceedings of this meeting, notice the names of the
Hon w. w. Charming, Horace Greeley and R.
w. Griswold of New York, Robert Owen of Scot
land, and many distinguished clergymen. The
Hon. Robert Rantou President of the association
was not present.
j Attic anniversary meeting ofthe BosToN BAPTIST
BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS, which was convened
on the 29h ult. in Boston, the Rev. Mr.. Peck stated
that the financial affairs of the board greatly
barrassed. They owe $4,000. The number Of
their missionaries has hardly increased within the
last five years. resolution was passed urging
union among the churches generally in their future
foreign missionary efforts. The Hon. Richard
| Fletcher, member of the acting board Of foreign
missions, repealed the charges made by Southern
Baptsts against the board to the effect that they had
exceeded their authority in answering the questions
propounded to them by the State of Alabama.
The FoREIGN EVANGELICAL SOCIETY," met on the
30th ult. We learn from their annual report that
/ they have about one hundred agents employed in
/ foreign countries Both their receipts and expendi-
lures during the last year from $4,000 to 49,,
Il 600.
i THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY," held its anniver-
sary meeting in Boston, on the 26h ultimo, and
from their official report, we learn that success had
attended their efforts of the previous year; that the
association had issued many tracts and Volumes in
addition to 10000 copies Of their periodicals.
amounting in all to some 100000 pages during the
year. Besides agents for other purposes of the
society, two had been employed for the year solely
in delivering lectures in favor of their principles and
plans. "Ruers, ecclesiastical bodies, and men en-
nent in church and State, had been awakened to the
Importance of their views, and had given them an
earnest cooperation. Most religious, and many
secular newspapers had been enlisted in their cause
and were awakening healthy action in public sem
tment against the punishment of death. They had
stereotyped fifty tracts. Though the friends of the
cause had every reason TO congratulate themselves
its general present prosperity, yet the income of
, the society had not come up to its expenditures;
for the former but $1,000, while the latter had
/; been S4,Sl9 SO. @
: The MASSACHUSETTS SABBATH School SscIETY
. held their anniversary meeting in Boston, on the
Both ultimo. The business operations, according to
the annual report, are in highly prosperous con-
dition During the year just closed, the sales of
their publication have amounted to S26,604 H. be-
ing s26 Al more than those ofthe year before They
have issued seventy nine new publications in the
same making in all SOFA pages of matter, not
before published. The whole number of the years
r publication (new and reprintsl were six hundred
I and twenty-one. They had collected from May l.,
1874 to May 1, 1916, about $4,000 for destitute
schools, of which $500 had been contributed by
Sabbath schools, juvenile societies, and individual
e youth.
E The CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE, an association formed
about year since, in New York city, held an an
4 nual meeting in Boston the 30h and were enter
tanned with many able addresses from distinguished
dissenting minister's denouncing the Roman Catho-
lie church and its efforts in America The Rev.
/ Drs. E. Beecher, L. Bacon and the Rev. Mr. Kirk,
were the principal speakers
In the course of his remarks, the first named gem