The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-06
80 ~ BIS OSI OF
Expended during the year. II

Balance on hand on LIST. .S43 83
The money expended was for Books, the salaries
of Colporte urs and gents and incidental expenses
of agency in Richmond. .ssI
On motion of Mr.. CARTER BRAxroN of Hanover,
the reports Just read were accepted and ordered to
The Rev. GEORGE ID. CUMM1Ns of the Episcopal
Church, was then introduced by the President and
made very eloquent address upon the divine au-
thentcity of the Bible and the grand results of its
dissemination among all nations. y
The Rev. Dr. Cox was in like manner introduced
and delivered an address enriched by much origi-
nal thought and illustration. Before closing he
made some statements showing the great exertions
of the American Bible Society and the extensive
arrangements they had made for printing and cir
culating the Bible. They expected to raise for
their purposes the present year 100000. They
sent in the month of February $500 to Europe
and Asia. Their present building in the city of
New York cost $500, 900 and the money to pay for
it e. the interest and sinking fund intimately
to redeem the debt had been provided without
touching the funds for the distribution of the bible
and this was done by not the Merchant Princes
but the Christian Merchants of New York. In the
buildings 400 operatives were employed and there
was room for double thatranumber should the bust
ness of the society require them. The Rev. gen.
tleman INDUCED some very patriotic express ions
with regard to the Union, for the preservation of
which he offered his most fersent aspirations. He
spoke with much yeneration of Virginia. and of the
Fathers of the Revolution to whom she had given
BIRTH
On motion of the Rev. H. s. Kepler, of the Epis-
copal Church. the same officers and managers who
have heretofore conducted the affairs OF the Society
were unanimously reelected. They as fol
lows: - - ~
President, Rev. PHILIP COURTNEY. 55se5 I
LIST Pice President, Rev. GEORGE WOODBRIDGE.
End Vice President Rev. MOSES d. HoGE
q Bird pice President, Rev. CHARLES H. READ.
18th Pice President, Rev. LEROY NJ LEE.
Corresponding Secretary. SAMUEL REEVE. Esq.
Recording Secretary, GEORGE N. JOHNSON, Esq.
Treasurer, HUGH A. WATT, Esq,
Other Managers: g..
Rev. Alexander Jones' D. D., Rev. George w
Lanehorne d. D., Rev. Joseph H. Davis, Rev. Hal
sey Dunning, and Messrs Richard Whitfield Mi
chael Gretter, Peter Van Deursen, John vii
liams. Chauncey G. Griswold, Thomas Fl. Ellis
Benjamin b. Minor, Heath ]. Christian. William
F. Taylor, William W. Parker, John B. Norton
and James B. Macmurdo. 5as,,E 3.
Rev. Mr.. HoGE of the Presbyterian Church, cor
rected what he believed to be misappreheusion,
to statement contained In the annual report to
wit: That according to the reports of the agents
of the Society both for the year just closed and that
which preceded, nearly one family in every fve
visited both in Eastern and Western Virginia, was
found destitute Of the Word of God. He thought
the explanation should be made that the agents of
the Society were In the habit of visng principally
those neighborhoods In which they knew the great
est destituton To exist apd that the statement did
not apply To the great majority of our people.
Mr. Samuel Reeve replied to the remarks OF the
Rev. Mr. Hoge. 49, 4Sssfs
And then, after the benediction pronounced by
the Rev. DR.. Cox, the meeting adjourned
FIRE.-A small coal house on the prem