The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-06-01
NEW YORK ANNIVERSARIES.
The American Tract Society held its 22n

The American Tract Society held its 22nd
anniversary, Wednesday afternoon.
Its circulation OF books and tracts, as ap-
peared from the report, has been greater, by
nearly thirty millions of pages, than during
any previous year amounting TO 5l3,9Io
volumes, 5.S4I, $50 publications, or 1859
624 pages. Total in % years, 3:365,624
volumes, S9,603, 7l3 publications, 1.S13,272,-
OPS pages.
The Receipts for II 1-2 months; 10 April
l, exceed those Of any previous year by
s6,e14, amounting to S160, lS1; of which,
Tor publications, $92, 800; in donations S67,-
no.
The circulation by Colporteurs amounts TO
PSI, 1l6 volumes, by sale, and 57.22S books,
and nearly 300, 900 pages oil tracts among
the destitute. gratMtousty, in different Ian
guages. (the French, Spanish, Portuguese.
WEIGH, Norwegian. Danish, and English J
Value Of grants, by celporteurs $l3, l2S.
Besides this labor, the colporteurs have held
Z SOB public or prayer meetings, and had re-
ligious conversation or prayer with three
fifihs (l27, 037) of all ia miles visited.
The number of colporteurs in commission
during the whole or part OF the year. exclu-
sive Of those in The service of the American
Tract Society al Boston, and other branches
has been two hundred and siaty-seven.
Interesting addresses were made by halt
dozen different speakers. The Rev. DR..
Greeu, OF Baltimore, said by The laws oil
population, within the United States there
will be l00,OOO0O0 Anglo Saxon meE, with
all their superior advantages, duIing the lie
Of those now living, The young clergy now
on the sage will live 10 see this country with
| this population. In little more than gen.
Grafton, there will be population oil 100000
900. They will in that time have swept
over Mexico and all South America. How
then shall we meet the wants Of this popula-
ton One OF The most distinctive marks OF
Gods Providence is that when an emergency
arises. he provides means 10 meet it. What
then shall we do? Do our duty. This is
what we must do. The coIporteurs system
is one means provided 10 supply the spirit
ual wants oil these millions"
The N. Y. Colonization Society held its
anniversary on Tuesday evening. From the
Report it appeared that the cause OF Colo
nizaiion has been gaining ground rapidly in
the Stale OF New York, and never stood so
high in popular favor or in the regards OF
Christians as at the present time. In New
York and its neighborhood a number are now
preparing to emigrate, several OF whom are
young men, qualifying themselves to go out
as teachers. physicians and ministers. And
from letters received from the eoionists in
Liberia, the Directors have abundant testl-
mony calculated oirvite emigration. A COL
ored young man, sent out by the Society The
last year at the urgent request Of his iaiher,
who is a very reputable clergyman Of New
York city, writes home the most cheering ac'
commits OF his success. Mr.. Royce, who &C
companed him in the Chatham, in May last.
"a coIored emigrant from Ohio) having clear
ed 100 per cent. on his investment Of $500,
which he took with him as an inventure, has
already returned 10 the United States for the
purchase of new stock, and will go back a.
gain 10 Liberia in the first vessel.