The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-06

a, 3. iced IN pogtpone the subtect until
/ 49, p ~ IN order to give menbeH an opPoi.
tunity Of examining the report ana seuas up0ns "
:" The o,,se.tion was put and lost
Iar firwrs moved that the report be adoPted, anu
this motion led TO long and excEiog aeDssea AZ
which matters, relevant mo .o,,e 81 tie mem.
Ssrs confending that the Society snouid own
nal and others that il wa. im2oIsic 70 90 20
The report shows that the Committee snRo n,v
purchase one Of the nsfi1 ,our1sw Roddsy
and lanes Bolton. have purchased tue Sta q,
sconer N DR.. C. Gooch, on very favorable
terms. -
nr Ipsrrrn N Norfolk, offered the following -
substitute for the Committees report which was
lost---ayes a. noes 81. 49,
Whereas 1t appears from the report OF lne sps
cial committee appointed by the Society at ifs meet
inc In harlottesve to establish medical journal
a The propersv of the Society, that however ably
conducted this journal has been or may be. tne re,
suit may involve the Society In large deDt-snu
is evident that journal owned and conducted oy
the Society by coming into competition WIN pr.
vate enterprises of the same kind, conducted oy
Fellows Of the Society, had feeling heretofore un
known among us, will result and ultimately prove
utterly subversive of the objects OF the Society;
therefore
Resolped, That the report Of the committee be
adopted. as5 s. -
Resolved That committee of three be appoint.
ed with ful authority to dispose of the Stethescope
upon the best terms, and to apply the proceeds 20
the liquidation of the debt which may have been
incurred in the purchase and combustion OF the
journal 90 far az they go and that the Treasurer
be authorized to make up the deficit OF indebted
ness from any money in his hands not other waie
The question was then taken on the committees
report and 1t was adopted. st..x 80
At q quarter past o'clock the Society adjourned
to meet again at o'clock, P. M .s..s.
BIBLE SocIErY OF VIRGINIA.-The
tortyfrst annual meeting of the Bible Society Of
Virginia was held in Centenary (MethOdisD church
on Tuesday night last - lia 4sst <Fs IA. ssfs
The venerable PHILIP COURTNEY, President of
the Society, presided, and THos. H. ELLIS was ap.
Rev. T.. v. MooRE, by request, read the 55th chap.
ter of Isaiah and prayed. sS -.
Credentials Of the Rev. SAMUEL II. Cox, D, D.,
delegate from the American Bible Society, were
read
Extracts from the annual report of the Beard OF
Managers were read by the Rev. JosEPH H. DAVIS,
pastor of Centenary church. - 81 ~ n
The report declared that at no time had the Soci-
ETY. firmer hold upon the affections aud confidence
of its friends "Its sole object is to do good, to
carry the bread and the water of lite to all that
hunger and thirst" 1t was further declared that
't seeks to superceae other Christian enterprise,
to overshadow none, to discourage none, but to
impart light, and strength, and courage, and hope,
and union to each and all '--'4s' ss u s. 7-f4
The success which has attended the labors of the
Society the past year will compare tavorably with
that of the last four years, while the amount of
money raised exceeds that OF the year preceding by
a very considerable amount. twenty-five disfre
buting agents have been employed in Eastern and
Western Virginia. They have not been actively
engaged the whole year, but have thoroughly ex
plored about tpentyseren counties, fully supplying
about half of them with bibles. Several agents
who have been employed from one to three months
have not reported-the others have visited $3.50
families sold 4l34 bibles and testaments, and given
away s36-making the aggregate distribution 1872
Of the families visited HI "a little over oneftfh)
were found destitute-some few having only tes-
lament or mutilated copy of the Bible.
hereport concluded with fervent appeal in be-
half of the Society.
The reports of the Treasurer and of the DEPOSIT
tary were read-from which we gather the follow
ing facts
There have been distributed (most to agents whose
operations alluded to aboye during the year end
ing the LIST instant $3.50 Bibles and there were
hand at that time, 984, valued at $96614
The balance of money on hand at the beginning of
the year, according to the Treasurer account,
was. .........." observation-disclosures S47 90
From all sources during the year. 1874 Oh