Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-05-28
\ ew York Anniversaries.

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The anniversaries of the several national religious
and benevolent societies were holden in N. Y City
week before last We can give but an abstract of the
most important
The New England anniversaries being held at
Boston during the present week.
Presbyterian Board of Foreign .W8sions.-The ninth
annual Report of this Society states the receipts at
SOL 764 29-the expenditures, $89,Sl493 5000 cop
les of the Missionary Chronicle and 1900 of the For
egn Missionary have been published during the past
year, and 10 new Missionaries have been sent out.
Three Missionaries and several members have died.
american Seamans Friend Society--The annual
meeting of this useful Association was holden at the
Tabernacle, Monday evening The receipts of last
year were 1928 930-the expenditures $20290.
Perhaps no field is now yielding richer harvest i'll
moral improvement than the At the founda-
ton of this improvement is the establishment ofsome
so Temperance Boarding Houses for seamen, along
our seaboard and the various Marine Temperance
Societies, numbering about 10000 members. The
Sailors Home in New York has had, within the year,
1896 sailor boarders AMI in four years. 4837 at least
one-third pledged temperance men, Five times
many seaman attend Church now were present ten
yeas ago.
The american and Foreign Anti-SlGuey Ociety held
its meeting at the Tabernacle; Arthur Tappan presi-
died. The Secretary, Rev. A. A. Phelps, stated the
objects of the society to be- the employment of agents
to cctureto enlist the press, far as possible, to en-
courage the establishment of papers for the advocacy
of the principles of the Socety-to hold correspor-
dence WITH and to enlist the corporations of friends
in other lands &c. The Society publishes the finer
lean and Foreign .4nt-Stauey Reporter, monthly
also the Union Missionary; and gave the influence Of
the Society, through its columns to the entire separa-
ton of the missionary from SlavehOding and its
supports. The number of papers published and sus
III. Al d.
g Maine 2, New Hampshire g Mass. 5, Vt ], Connec-
tcut l, Pennsylvania s. Ohio ), Indiana g Illinois 2,
Michigan J., Wisconsin 2-total, %. All others d.
recty or indirectly devoted to the An-Savery cause
II, being Al papers of this description published in
the Free States In view of this array OF publications
and of the fact that seventeen years ago. the Lberator
was the only Anti-Savery paper in the land, he ex
claimed ironically, is it not apparent that the is
fast going dotCn!
Lewis Tappan, Rev. Mr.. Rofe of Canada and Al
van Stewart ESQ addressed the meeting
american .4nti-Slarcry 'ocietL-Ths is the old or
Garrison organization and held its 18th Anniversary
lon Tuesday. VIM Lloyd Garrison presided, and the
house was well filled. The Treasurers Report was
read by Francis Jackson of Boston. The receipts Of
the Society during the past year have been S676924
The expenses amount to &c. 159 22-leaving balance
in the Treasury of S6l0,22.
american Tract Society.-At the Tabernacle, Hon.
stated the receipts of the yeurto be $l539lG of which
S82,7Sl are the proceeds of sales, and show an in
crease over the previous year of $685. The expen-
dltures have Just equaed the expenses of these 500
COB were paid for paper, printing &C.; $4,000 remit
ted to foreign lands and S3l 900 for colportage.
The first Anniversary of the african Education and
CiUaizdtion Society was held at the Tabernacle, and
Harper, Esq presided. The receipts had been 1856,
: 49, principally from Life MEMBERS who pay S25 each
S Schools, similar to the Normal Schools are recommen-
ded for the purpose in the Report. Rev. E. L. Ma
COON of Richmond Va. addressed the meeting in sup
port of the idea that colored persons were the most
appropriate instruments for cvilizing and regeneratng
Africa, and that the blacks capable of great NOR
al and intellectual Improvement. Indeed
american Bible Society,". The thirteenth Annversa-
ry meeting of the American Bible Society was held
Thursday morning at the Tabernacle Hon. Theo-
dCre Frelnghuysen, President was in the Chair He
read brief address in which he passed high euo-
GUM on his predecessor, Ho n. John Cotton Smith,
who departed this life in December last The Soce-
ty seems to have extended its operations during the
year with great success The receipts of the year,
II months, have been in all $l97,3674s being an in
crease of S30,75 AZ over those of the preceding year.
The whole number Of Bibles printed in the course of
the year is $4,000 copies H. e. IN eleven monthsl an
increase over the amount Of the previous year of GA
lie $50 copies
&C american Home Missionary Society-The goth an
nversary Of this society celebrated at the Taber-
" nacle, "Wednesday evening, Henry Dwight ESQ.,, Pres
ident Of the Society, in the Chair.
The receipts of this year have exceeded those o
the previous by $6,7S. There are calls on the soci-
ETY. for one hundred additional laborers