The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-11-12
LOCAL MATTERS.

CoIpoarxua CONVENTION Day.-This
body resumed Ito Fittings on yesterday, at NJ
The colporteur work in which it, members are en-
gagged, 10 of the most selfdsnying and christian
character; and the American Tract Soci ty, OF
which these coporteurs the agents, 10 an asso'
station supported by all CT the evangelical denomI
nations OF the country. They meet in this work
on the broad % attorm of Christian Union and Love
There are large number of the clergy and isify
of the different denominations In attendance upon
this convention, who manifest a marked intereitin
its proceedings. The following gentlemen constr
iute the convention proper:
Rev Stafford, Richmond Rev Baron Stow
Boston; Rev NJ Sumner, Hanover county, Va; Rev
s Warren, Secretary OF Maryland 8; hev
Wells, Agent T 8, in Western Va; Rev Martin
Bibb Fayette county, Va; Rev Seth ISIS, Secretary
of At g. Boston; Rev Alex Branch, uvanna co,
We; Rev Cook and Rev C Eastman, Secreta'
ries of New York 7 s; Rev S Gitean, Secretary OF
Maryland S. Rev II Holmes. Rev J Ham
ner and Rev r s Killeo, Maryland; Rev w G Mar
grave, Grsenbrier county, Va; Rev Joseph Mason,
N C; Rev NJ w Osborne Chesterfield county. We;
Rev Philips, Caroline county, We; also Johu
Tappan, Boston; J N Andrews Guilford CO, c;
w Barksdsle, Paul Christian, J Cross, w Crow.
der, S Humphrey l. Hubbard 8 Jet, II M Parsons
A Perkins, Rouse, C r Ross, Snyder Stur-
divant G w Taylor, w Thorman, w Tin.ley,
w Walkup, TT WombelI, w Wright, of Viz
ginia; and Shaw, T Britain, J NJ Grant, of Mary
land.
After pray er by Rev. T r. Hammer, of Baltimore,
the narratives were continued Mr.. Britain, Col.
poreur of the Maryland Tract Society, gave an in,
teres.ing statement of his labors in the cars and
steamboats, and in the city of Baltimore. Messrs.
Humphries, Hubbell and Margrave, Colporteurs In
Western and South Western Virginia. sketched
their history and abors and described their respec.
tive fields
Rev. Mr. Cook, one of the secretaries of the pa
rent American Tract Society, then stated that Rev
Mr. Tappan and Rev. Mr.. Bliss of Boston, would
give narrative of the Incidents and facts connected
with the early history of tract operations ia New
England. John Tappan, Esq, of Boston, Mass, who
has been connected with trnct work for forty years
in Massachusetts, first addressed the meeting. AT.
ter nnrrating his early religious experiences In the
course of which he stated that shipwreck at sea By
which he was threatened with death for three
days in an open boat on the ocean, had greatly i'm,
pressed his mind and led to his conversion. Mr. T.
remarked thai. in the enjoyment of good me asure
of health and 72 years of age he could testify to the
fact that drinking water alone for period of forty
years, would not impair destroy health, and that
totoi tOA dlCouUiiC uqulu5, aQQ an 6rtl-
Gle in common use (tobacco) would not kill either
man or awoman. (5ensation)
The organization of Religious Tract So ceties did
not commence in London until the year 1899, and
in Massachusetts until 1914. In 1923 there were
forty auxiliary societies in Massachusetts, to the pa.
rent Tract Society in Boston. In 1924 tie Massa
chusetts Tract Society united with the Society
in New York, and since that time they had labor
ed together with the utmost harmony-the head
and centre of operations being transferred to New
York city. 1t was at his suggestion that the sys
tenn OF pictorial establishment which had now at
tanned SO great perf5ciioE-had been engrafted up
on the publications of tho society Mr.. T. enlarged
at length upon the operations of the society," and
then gave some incidents that csme under his no.
tice in tour through Europe. They had heard of
the restitution of instruction in Virginia, but what
was it to compare with that which existed in Great
Britain and other parts Of Europe. He had seen
married in cathedral In the town of Manchester,
England, with ia population Of 100000 persons,
twenty-six couples who could not even make a
mark to their names But 40 per cent. of the whole
population of England could read or write. The
population was in very degraded conGition. He
had seen some years since, twelve women working
in an open field for seven pence sterling a day and
aquart ct beer, or eight pence without the beer
equal to about ninety.six cents per week. our cur.
rency. This was in a moral community and hun.
dreds were willing thus to labor In Germsny he
saw woman harnessed to a cart with dog for a
tandem. (Sensation) He also saw women in the
same country doing the hardest of mems labor,
breaking hemp. In Italy he had seen women
cleansing livery stable. (Msrked sensaticn) Such
things We're not seen in this country where the
means of instruction, moral and relig US, were ex
tended to all. Rev. Mr.. Bliss, of Boston, followed
with an outline OF the rise and progress of the
Tract Society in Massachusetts,. There was great
moral restitution in Maine New Hampshire, Yer.
mont and the borders of Canada Rev. Mr.. East
Society, N. Y, then gave statement of operations
there. Receipts first year, in 1926 $40 000 &C.
cond year, 10000, and go on, until they amounted
this year to $34 1000 $226 900 were received from
the sale of publications, and $4,000 from dona
tons. Circulation of the American Messenger,
100000; the German Messenger, $4,000, and
Child's Paper $1,000. Rev. Mr. Cross, gent of the
A. T. Society for the State OF Virginia. next gave an
interesting narration of tract operations in this
State and his labors in connection with them
Rev. Mr.. Cook, Secretary of the American Trac,
Society, NY, and Rev. Mr.. Guitean, Secretary of
the Maryland Tract Society, also gave brief nara
tons. The receipts of the Marylan T. g., it was
stated were larger than those of any other benevo
lent society in the State.
The convention then adjourned until o'clock
this morning.
public meeting viii be held in the Rev. Nj
Hsge's Church this evening, Friday) in connec
ton with the Colporteur Convention. Addresses
will be made by delegates from Boston, New York
and Baltimore, and by Colporieurs of the American
Tract Society in Virginia and North Carolina.
SERIOUS AccIDENT.-An interesting youth, about
10 years Of age, named Elias Levy, son of Lewis
B. Levy, was riding on freight car down the rail.
road on Broad street. VIXEN he attempted to jump
ofE aIl and one of the yxhanla Of or xna.al