New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-20
RELIGIOUS Intelligence.

HOME EFFoRTs.--Tnough the American Tract
Society of this City have the past year. greatly extended
their operations t they by means meet the demands
which coming In, every week, In unexsmpled mum
ben. they have upward OF two hundred coipor'
lures 10 the field they would gladly employ thousand
of these gent devoted men, who give their services
for 50 year. And the necessity Of such an agency Tor
furnishing religious instruction to the destitute millions
in our and Territories is becoming every day
apparent By referring to the State Registers OF
the and South wesern Districts Will be seen
in many that the proportion unable to read 10 fast
Increasing and especisy that 20 adequate provision
made to meet The wants oil the people Is IL rospec'e
colportsur in Wisconsin says in letter to the Tract
Society Many mothers in this region, who have large
families Of children, cannot even spell the name OF the
Saviour. Who shall educate their sop' the future voters
The agent Of the Virgins Bible Society recently stated
its meeting in Richmond, that there were In that
read aud 10 900 families destitute OF eny portion OF me
Word of God" And Il the existence OF Republic must
de pend the integen and virtue Of its population
-snd Guizot says in HE History Of Civilization
If the object Of Rel ion tsto gope the human passions
If all religion restraint gopernment coming ~ me
nane of dirins ap svbda ha~an natsrs and reform
tie uH ererng moral poper oper man through his oion
fee eonnf-can Republic AFFORD to hsye any portion
its Inhabitants in ignorance OF divine aw-tsis con
trolling moral influence: Must not every friend OF the
tion. c9eerfuy lend his aid in furnishing the multi
tudes yet destitute Of the bble the religious tract AMI
the sacred mnisry-thus enabling all to attain that de-
gree OF setsovernment whe will render them safe and
| useful citizens Of our great Republic
L
tion are coming in from dHer,n parts OF the Union,
companied by appeals for aid 10 the Bible, Tract and
that the several Committees of these Institutions resz
ing the magnitude Of the work and the insaequscy o.
their means are often ready 10 excsim Who sum
for these things - Truly there much need of
sympsthes and cooperation Of the WISE and the Of
patriotic press throughout the land
Yet there no occasion for encouragement II s cheer
know that thousand ministers chiefly gradu-
from Eastern Institutions are now laboriue Mis-
sion aries Of the American Home Mission cety, in
places where the Inhabitants cannot provide able
teachers for themselves These sefdenying give up
many Of the comforts which they had been accustomed
and spend their lives with only very scany support
and the expectation Of no other reward than Is found in
Its cheering also to know index Of public sentiment
and religious pteisenes, has within few yeas attain
regular circulation Of upward OF one hundred and
twenty thousand eoPies-thus showing 40 increased
interest in religious Information. d.
MExIco.-Cassius NJ Clay of Kentucky, who
captured by the Mexicans and for months held
prisoner delivered lecture few nights since in Wash.
ington. Notwithstanding the heavy rain, large and In
tesent audiences present. There was nothing
culsry In WHIST he said, but he listened 10 with
pleasure, the narrative of traveller is always interest
ing. The most fertile portions Of Mexico, he said are
owned by about my thousand proprietors, who have
splendid haciendas with their thousands Of poems OF
slaves Labor in the fields and shops performed by the
Indian race and 10 const red by the whites 20 be degra
dalton herce the saying Il is better 10 rob. steal, ol
play At moat than 10 work. The Indians areoppressee
aud as they regarded Inferior by the descendants
the spauiards they are Indifferent as TO who are ihei
, ruie.s.
In repeated conversations with OF them at Touea
they sae, " Let Americans come Out Of thousand IN
one regiment hundred seod their ground oefore the
walls Of Mexico They were forced TO JOIN the army and
their hearts not IN the cause How different with
our troops Every the humoest soldier IL Tbt
ranks has friends home who, with intense anxiety
watch his movements. lie knows tina, be has country
to serve and the honor in which he shares TO uphold
THIS 10 the secret why were always victorious
The Indian are very partial TO the wnes Aht
therefore is no marvel they consider themselves besseC
IL they procure husbands from among them SUCH mar
rsges elevate the female and give them position IL
society they could enjoy 10 their own sphere WoneI
partial foreigners. Ladies OF our country have
treated with marked attention prisoners Of war, although
6 they were very inferior specimens.
THE SrRrAD OF SLsvERY.-The WdshsHgf0h
National Era thar slaves held in Oregon
Slaves nov exist in the laaan Territory west Of Missouri
. and in the portion OF Texas north Of Sc 80.
III ALABAxA-The Legislature OF Alabama adjourn
ed n< dx the 9Th Instant The Tax Bin finally BEGAN,
law.