New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-31
Rn.ran Anniversaries.

go G-.vs md DR. W.rer Claiming Of thi. city. The
audience large. the great mass OF whom renamed
until nearly II sclock when the Society ADJOURNED 10
another evening when the discussion u 10 be resumed
The none Of contention the report Of Mr. {. sum
- ON the opposition Of the Msssachuseetts Prison DIS
rippe society 10 reference 10 the Philadelphia eys'
ten a. called Ia defending his report Mr. sumner AZ
tacsed the Secretary OF the Mas.schusetts Prison Dis
cipline Society with great severty-secusins nm OF
gsrblng extracts. supervising dstes merrp resenunz
iscis snd Of general untsrness IN ia e1ors 70 nJre
the PENNSYLVANIA system and % support bis own
f.vorits svst.m H- also charged the Secretary Win
indoleuee snd general inefciency and prodgai ard
almost use expenditure OF the funcs az the society lie
Instituted 40 invdious parsou between Mr. pNights
reports snd labers and those OF the am OFT onnfres
ut Secretary Of the Board Of Education and bis elias
Ste prnductiors
After speaking nesrly an hour and half Nr. sum
ner sat down. snd followed By Kew Ny Alitn'
Chaplain Of the Worcester Hospital for the Insane wh0
defended the Secretary from the ssfersions which nsd
been thrown on him He had known Mr.. y wight from
h. boyhood and before the gentleman Who bad stisck
Cd bin had being. bis friend was engaged in acts Of
unosients,ious benevolsuce and such bad ever been
his character; for be no, one Of those men whose
philanthropy expended itself Ia eloquent speeches snd
finely wrou ght tropes and nsures
Hon Francis C. Gray moved the indefinite postpone
meut Of Mr. summers report he wss opposed % that
report because IL called on the Massachusetts, Society TO
what u had slresdy SAID IN condemnation OF the
Pennsyvana or solitary system OF prison discipline -
Mr.. ray proceeded. In speech OF great power sud
eoogence dend the position taken by the Asssacnu'
u
presented variety OF facts and OF statistical IN
formation des gned % show the il adaptation OF that
system the highest purposes OF prison discipline ana
It's tendency to undermine the bodily health the meniS
powers and even the OF the prisoners subjected
70 ts operation.
In reference to the opinions Of the foreign delegates
who visited prisons some Ten or twelve years ago
and expressed their preference for the PennsyTania
system 10 which allusion bad been msde by the first
speaker Mr. Gray said competent judges
As was sny French man or Germsn' Moreover nose
gentlemen came the Massachusetts, prison with their
mnia made up In favor OF tho Pennsylvania system.
He knew this from personal conversation with the gen
tlemen And beside al this, great improvements had
been made ia cur system since those gentlemen VISITED
Chariestown And be earnestly desired that our own
system should be abandoned until more satisfactory
evidence should be sduced than had yet been brought
forward that there better system Of prison disei
pine
Dr. Walter Claiming followed Mr. Gray, In opposition
20 Mr. C. Summers report and remarks but Il being
then more than half past 10 O'clock Mr. Claiming gave
way 10 motion 70 adjourn for iarInsr oscussion OF
the subject. Traveller.
GRrAr RESULTS or HUMBLE EFToRr-A meet
ing OF much held in Baldwin place Vestry
on Friday evening. Among other exercises, Colpor-
from Western Virginia. (Mr. Crosse who i sus-
tanned By the Church Ia Baldwin place, was introduced
by Rev Mr. Haynes. G neral Agent Of the Boston Amer
icen Tract Society Mr.. Cross made numerous state
ments In reston to the nature snd extent of his work
hishly satisfactory to his patrons He said white there
were many excellent people In Western Virginia highly
benevolent and refined large mss.es Of the people
in degraded state He hsd found large neighbor
hoods that had not had preaching for years within ten
miles Of them. Many have Bibles or rel gious books
OF sny kind. tie often found those Tho
All religion to treat him roughly 1t first but the
power of Christian love generally successful IN win
ming them IL Wss generally admitted, "A stated al the
NEE ting that the Co porteur work had been emineniy
successful In that fed He began all alone now be has
nine al work with him. sustained By benevolent
persOus In that region.
II. occupied an hour in this statement, when the
members OF the Church gathered round him, full OF
gratitude for his the amoner Of their humble
bounty Il stated thst 10 the of two and half
years be has salary of $50 year, distributed
about $4,000 volumes and given away 1000 beside cir
culatng 1900 pages Of Tracts aud holding numerous
meetings. journal.
DisGRAcEFUL RIOT.-The Anti-Slavery COnven-
ron held Ia, last session AZ Marlboro Chapel on Thurs.
day evening. when addresses were made ny Rev John
l. Russell OF bingham. Rev. Joshua V. Hines VIM
Charming. Charles l.. R-mond Parker Pillsbury and
Wendell Phillips. Early in the evening symptoms Of
rotous conduct shown by various persons mostly
young mon. aud arrests az that time by the
police who present would have put stop 20 every
thing the sort little past nine o'clock several seats
broken doVn Ia tuccsssion and the police nsooed
OF the parties engaged IN the proceeding. whrn
great rusn made tO rescue him, Notwithstanding
which be taken of 10 the lookup after which there
scarcely the slightest disturbance We noticed that
the most violent uprosr took place when the American
Churches and Board Of Commissioners tor Foreign his
sioss were sssailed- iChronoype
AMERICAS UNITARIAN AssOCIArIOS.-TbIs body
adopted the following resolution;
Res0lred That believe -laveholdng 10 be in direct
Opposition TO the and i OF God entirely ncompst
IDLE with the precepts ana spirit Of Christianity and
wholly % variance with Christian prois ssion.
ANNIyERsARr WEEK The closing ceremonies
Of the week place the Mount Vernon Church on
Friday where most OF the clergy. who had been in AZ
tendance during the week. were present Short exhor
ta,ons were given by several Cergymen the state of
religion IN their several parochal limits. Mr Kirk who
led in the exercises took for bis subject tho state OF
piey ia ministers OF the gospel generally The Clergy,
he said were apt % indulge IN philosophy poetry,
&c 70 crafty the sensual appetite without disturbing
the couscences of their bearers Or Dana took for his
subject the decline of tie spirit OF prayer in proessed
Christians which he chars erset as the great defect
in the beet OF Chrstisrs The subject OF Dr. fuckers
remarks we're ths Injurious effects produced on the
Church by spurious reyyas" His own experience had
taught him that undue excitement In religious reyyss
had produced disastrous results on the prosperity
of the Church. Dr. Waterbury, OF Boston, In his re-
marks enlarged the spirit OF worldness that per
vades the Clergy Dr. l.. Beecher spoke on tho retri
butons Of eternity p Mr. Shepard of Bristol K. l. on
the declcnson Of family religion and Dr. Humphrey
on fidelity 10 pastoral yisitatons."
The Wsshing ionans have held series Of meetings
this week their hall in Broomheldst all Of which,
We believe have been fully attended. Courier.