Daily American organ., 1856-11-14
The Denominations.

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The Congregational Church was ORGANISED ~
1920, and had, at the taking of the last census,
| 1874 church edifces, valued at s7,97s,662 and
accommodating 79b, l77 hearers. ~
The Baptist Church was organized In 1883, and
have 6,79l churches, vIued At 1881, $50. and
accommodating 3,lS0,S76 persons
| The Presbyterian Church was organised in l7o6,
and have 686 churches, valued at ~, ,369, 1888,
and accommodating 2,040,054 hearers.
The Roman Catholics were organized in Balti
more in 1888; they have IL church ediices IN
the United States, valued at S. 1888, and ac-
commodating $40, 800 hearers.
The Universalist Church was organized in Ok
| ford, Massachusetts,, in 1885; it has 494 church
edifces in the United States valued at 81 1867 9l5,
and accommodating 205, 464 hearers. go 81
The Methodist Church was organized in Balti-
more December 20, 1884; it has II, ,467 church
edfces, valued at $l4,o26,o74, and accommoda-
| ting 4, ,209, 1888 hearers.
The Freewill Baptist Church was formed in New
Hampshire in 1880; it has this year ,I73 church
es, 1,l07 ministers, and 49, 500 church members
The foregoing, from the National Intelligsacer,
centains error in respect Of the Roman Church.
| The error in the first figures, however, may be
| typographical, 1888 may have been intended. 1t
was in that year that the Assembly of Maryland,
at st. Marys, enacted, or tried TO enact that Holy
| Church within this Province shall have and enjoy
Htr rlSnJs, lD6rtle5, anu IranCni56s, WHOIy duu
| without blemish." Now, what all these rights,
liberties" &c, were we know very well from the
history of the Papal and most of the other Italian
States, of Spain and Portugal Mexico and all other
countries in Chrstendom, before the infusion of
Professionalism.
Lord Baltmore's colony was not planted till
1884; and this effort to establish the supremacy
of the Church Of Rome in Maryland was before
Clayborne's colony of Episcopalians on Kent Island
q, tha hl,o GA NJ.
yet having acknowledged the Jurisdiction of Lord
Baltimore. That Episcopal colony was planted in
1928 or 1929, and was under the pastoral care of
the Rev. Richard James. II had for some years
been represented in the House of Burgesses in
Virginia, and they were exceedingly averse to
exchanging the Jurisdiction Of the Protestant gov
ernment OF Virginia for that of Roman Catholic
Proprietary of Maryland. @a6s
This Episcopal colony, according to the most
authentic accounts extant, was, when Lord Balti-
more's colony arrived in the Chesapeake, superior
to the latter in numbers. The Roman Catholics
have, from the beginning, been in the minority in
Maryland. As to Baltimore city, it was not found
ed till 1929. In 1852 1t is said to have consisted
of twenty-five houses only and sixty years ago it
contained only about 10000 inhabitants The Rev.
| John Carroll was ordained Bishop about 1855
Dr. Franklin, in his journal dated Passy, France,
July !, 17s4, says: ,
| The Pope's Nuncio called, and acquainted me
that the Pope had, on my recommendation, appoint
ed Mr.. John Carroll superior of the Catholic clergy
in America, with many of the powers of a bishop ;
and that probably he would be made a bishop in
partibas before the end of the year"
Dr. Franklin seemed to inquire of the Nancio
whether or not the ordination Of Mr.. Carroll would
give the officiating bishop in anoihe country, an
authority over the American bishop, and ntima-
ted that, in such case, the American government
might take offence. He (the Nuncio) said, not in
the least; that when our bishop was once ordain-
ed he would be independent of the Others and
even of the Pope; which did not clearly under
stand" (See vol. l, Works of Franklin, by
Sparks, p. 58l.)
Now, this statement of the Nuncio shows too
much ignorance for a Nuncio, or design to de-
ceive Dr. Franklin. 1t is true, the French church
at that time maintained degree of independence
under the repealed DEGREES Of 1882 but the Nun
clio could not have been ignorant of the fact that
such independence had not only never been ac-
knowledged by the Pope, but that he had actually
and formally denounced the sentence Of excom-
munication against al of the bishops who had the
temerty to declare such Independence. And is
it to be supposed that he was ignorant of the
fact that no other Roman bishops in the world
claimed independence Of the Popeg
Or, may we suppose that he really believed that
in virtue of the nature of the American Govern
ment, Bishop Carroll would necessarily be inde-
pendent of the Popep But, admitting this, it
would seem to imply disregard of the bishops
oath of obedience to the Pope. Well might DR..
Franklin say, (which did not clearly under
stand"
In regard 10 church accommodation, Papal
churches afford three to five or six times as much
as Protestant churches of the same capacity for,
while the same persons attend each service in
Protestant churches totally distinct congregation
attends the several services on Sundays in Papal
churches. So that Papal church that will con-
tain only 500 people at one time, may accommo-
date, during single Sunday, as many as 1000 or
5000 people, for 1t is not uncommon with them
to have mass performed four or five times in the
same church during the day and thus, in the case
before us, instead Of 62O $50 persons for the ll2
churches, as reported by the census tables, we may
safely estimate the number at four times that sum-
or even more--say about 100000.
KANSAS 0UTRAaEs.-A writer in the Journal of
Commerce expresses the belief that many Of the
outrages In Kansas were committed by banditti
not connected with either the free State or pro-
slavery parties. but who used these organizations
as cloak for the perpetration of their deeds. He
says that during recent tour in the West he was
informed by free State man from Kansas that
such was the fact If this is 30, why have not the
government officers arrested and punished these
wretches, instead Of representing that outragcs
were committed
Judge Hopkins, President Of the Boston and
Worcester Railroad lies very i'll at his residence in
Boston, having returned from Europe, where he
went to obtain ameloration of his ply sical con-
dition, without apparent success.
A MERrrEo CoNpIIMxNT --1ov Pollock bas ad
ded TO his staff Lieut.. VIM. ii. Backwood, Of the