Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-04-12

RzI1o4ous TSrELLlGgScE-1 zfaaeriea,l and
E1retga Bile .S9ciety.-The stated monthly
meeting of the Boart1of Manage was held in the
Bible House 169 and III Nassau street, New
York, on Thursday, at r NJ The Rev. DE-.
Telehs the venerable President of the Society,
IN the chair The ocular reports of the standing
COMMITTEES ON solpoftaee agency, publication and
finance were presented and adopted. Erom the
report 81, the It appears that the trea-
snry was still oyerdrawn about one thousand dol
lars The Board however, proceedeftot the cleo
ton of Eve more corporteurs by a unanimous vote
50 pressing Was the demand for this kind ofla6or
OF the five three were German and two were1rlshi
they were appOinte1'to labor among their own
counrymcnin communities of many thousands.
a summary Of twenty -ttEe coiporteur reports,
presented for this meeting gave the GLOWING re-
suits for the mont of larcll:5 500 visits in BIZ
BILE readings, from house TO house; 3sS families
found desttatc of the Scriptures 40 persons III
duced to attend meeting; 334 children iptroduc-
cd into Sabbath schools; 2445 prayer meetings
held 200 sermons preached; 1913 visits to vessels
and for seamen made; 81 hopeful conversions,
and SO persons beptized. The whole number of
conversions for the last three months not inclld=
ing those from the Iabors of colporteurs in foreign
Lands, gwere reported to lie 191, very many ,of
which were among German and Irish.
american Bible iS9ciety-The stated meeting
of the managers was held. at the Bible House.,
Aston place, New York, on Thursday, at halfpa
4io'clOcll-HOn. A. BEuyn Has, in tho chair, as
sisted by VIM. Crosbya and Benz. L. Swami, Esqs
-Four new Societies were reconizcd, of which
one is in Indiana, one in Wisconsin, and one in
Gonnesticnt.
Communications were received from agents,
showing the State of the work at home; from
Hon. Thos. Shankland, Kansas, in regard to BIZ
bic distribution in that Territory; from Rev. O..
Byin.tjn missionary among the Ghoctaw Indis
ans in, reference to the scriptures among that
people; from Rev. T. T. Cabauis, Secretary of
the Frcnch and Foreign Bible Society, Citing
encouraging accounts of Bible distributionin
France; from Rev. Ludwig S. Jacoby, Of Bre-
men, giving very gratifying accounts of Bible
distribution in Germany; from Rev. AIR. VIM
mer, a Hungarian clergyman now at Bremen, in
reference to distribution of Bibles among the
prisoners in jail at that place, and showing the
good effects which III some instances followed;
from Rev. Ramon Montsaly and Rev y. II.
Wheeler, showing the openings for Bible distIi-
button in New Grenada. -tr
Some preparatory measures were adopted in
regard to a general aud systematic exploration
and supply Of the entire country with the Bible.
Grants were made to Bible society in New
Brunswick, n. j., for mission Sunday school.
to feeble auxiliaties in Kentuck, Texas, Illinois
and Missouri; pulpit Bibles for several new
mission churches, al, home and abroad 3 to the
American and Foreign Christian Union, for dis
tribution in Germany; two volumes in raised
letters forthe bind; and several smaller grants
in different languages.
!. Appropriations in money were mad of 81, 600
to tile Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis-
copa! Church, for Germany, and 81 900 to print
an edition of &c, 00D of the lteyal New Tcstiment
in Russia.
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FAtLuass-The New York Independent, Of
Thursday last, furnishes the following list Of
recent mercantile failures, assignments and sust
pensions:
l.. H. Culver, Ithica, n. Y, failed and assign
cd; liabilities $4,000.
C. W. Davenport, Newburyport, Massacliu-
sets, failed; he owes about $l5, 600; assets S.,
600. 1879
jose. Hibbs, Philadelphia, hardware; stock
to be sold at auction.
George Il. Brown, Defiance, o., failed. Large
confidential debt; general creditors anticipate
small dividends
C.{S j. 8IcClunc, Wooster, Ohio, suspended.
Indebtedness 100000.
Harmon V. Bcsson, of Canal Dover, Ohio, fail
J6dk K; Berry. of Fredericksburg, Virginia,
suspended
S. w. Chandler & Co., Lebanon, KY, assign
cd, prefarring home creditors. Have lost heav-
lily on pork. A good dividend by the general
. : Nathaniel Brewster, Mount Pleasant, Indi-
ana, filled, and '.gonc" it is said, ito the Far
West"
j. j. Miller, Snmptcrvillc, Ala. assigned.
Hurl',ut s AmeS, Ellcnburg, Ill. failed.
Harrison, Fay & Co., a large house in Boston,
in the produce and provision business, has, it
is said, made very bad failure. More than
year since they were embarrassed aud obtained
an extension.
F. NJ Weaver, an.extcnsivo retail dry goods
merchant in Milwaukee, has been closed By at
taclDnent. Indcbtednss large in New Yoriiand
Boston. 81 ,sss. ga .,za7:fa}a
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CurRcn Sfrsic.--''yt new choir is inauguratcd,
a new leader new dispcnsation of ambitious
display, of musical sensitivcncss, ofquarreliing
and disgust, Of revolution and quartcttc until at
length, in some congregations all that any. one
hopes or dreams of is, singing that shall not dam
age all the.rest Of worship. In other churches,
having lost every vestige ofsanctity, music isTe-
garded outright rs one of those forms of moral
anuscments in which men may indulge without
sin, in the church and on the Sabbath, and they
plunge their hands into their pockets and pay
for Dro FrsSiOnal singing Then King David finds