The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-05-16

MkEiINd5.-1u6 1uulVeIe1ry
messing OF the American Home Mission Society
took place In New York Wednesday. The receipts
OF tne past year sI75 O6a 6s, decrease on the
previous year of sl5,ls7 50. The disbursements
we're $780, A, still leaving $7,1s3.72, due to
missionaries
Ine number Of Ministers of the Gospel In the
Scsvce OF the Society, in "a different States and
nnrLes during The year, has been g74. The
uer nauI OF congregations and missionary stations
gate OF ministerial ador performed is eoual 10 7ao
yss,s. Tne number of pupils in sabbath schools.
- oS ooo. There have been added to the churches
S,s. ocsz b37 on profession, and 9l3 by letter.
missionaries during the past year: and 46 that b.S
oeeu dependent have assumed the SUPPORT of their
own ministry Fifty three houses of worshin have
oeen completed; 80 repaired and 40 others are in
a process OK erection Seventy five young men, In
connection with the missionary churches are in
preparation for the gospel ministry.
The thirty third annual meeting Of the Bap,ist
Publication Society took place in Boston Wednes.
day From the report of the secretary, we learn
the following facts:
The number of stereotype plates now owned bv
the society is 44,0ll, and the whole number Of
pages printed during the year, %, ,438 COO The
colporterage of the society has been successful
during the year beyond example, and their Sun
day School operations have been very extensive
been S4o, $50 and the expenses S4S. 900. A histo.
~ of the Church of Christ from its earliest day to
the present time, is in preparation under the
auspices vi the Society. The report concludes
with hopeful view of the prospects of the society
In the future.
The forty first anniversary of the American Bi.
BILE Society took place in Rev. DR.. Cheeves Church,
New York, Thursday, Hon. Theodore freezing.
huysen in the chair
eio oh An h ra h.a, .Ia.a -...
OF them South and West, four of tht m in Kansas
Eighty niEe hifs Directors and 10 Lifs Members
have been adied The reseipts of the from all
sources have be Sal BIS 69 being $49 485 ~ more
than the Previous year The portion for boob Sold
&2S8 456 CS Books printed TAI gi9 volumes Books
Issued 72 522 being l04 537 than the is,uss of
the previous year and aggre gats since the forma
tion OF the Society, cf 1904 IA new Royal Octa
vo Slole In Plea type, has been published, and
Toose. sio 9 In Diamond tyre. Also, large New
Ies ement In Great Primer type for thu aged Also
Al the SecistJ's House, New Testam mt in Obws
and Testament In Hawaiian and Engii,h in psral
Isl co.umns In tho Home field, thirty.six gents
have been employed. including the three iu Utah
California, and Greg In the Foreign field, three
hsVs n bsen employed portion of til. tine-kev.
Turkey having died greatly Iameoted Money
granted for publishing the scriptures in foreign coun.
tries, $50 3H 10; which the expense of pub.i,hipg
the two iast usmed books named mat an asgresata
| Tor foreign purposes OF more than $4,000
TRADE OF NEW YoRK-A letter from New
YORK to the Philadelphia Inquirer says:
The principal Gauss assigned for the universal
depression of trade is the inability to collect
moneys due from the West, where funds are rep
| resented TO be extremely scarce in eouse quence
of incrdinate land specu'Sdons The pulsatious of
these specuaton5 felt here through ledgers
and note books, in overdue accounts and protested
drafts and notes. The customers of dry goods
| obbers, importers and commission merchants far
West and North, have bought immense tracts of
land, and have readily paid tour, five and six per
cent month for money really belonging to New
Workers, but which, if withheld from them will
only be seven per cent. per annum
This state of affairs naturally creates much snx-
iesy among our merchan and many affect to be.
lieve that commercial crisis, not dissimiar to
| that # 1868 is impending There can be no
doubt that We are buying too much abroad and
adopting the credit system on too large scale at
home, for general and unalloyed prosperity
whether thecountry is to be speedily oyertsken
by tioancia ruin, ia matter of conjecture il not
of doubt, in the minds of the best informed of our
political economists. Several small failures have
occurred here and in Boston, on account Of the
difficulty of obtaining funds from the West and
the large sacrifices goods sold through the auc-
ton rooms but there have been no more susper-
si)ns, taking the entire through, than the
| average of former years.
The spring trade, however leaves off this year
mere unsatisfactory than for many seasons past
SINGULAR CoINCiDENCE Mrs Mary G. Tray
ers, who died at Tayior's Island on the 18th ut.,
was born on the 18th Of April married on the 18th
of April, and died on the 18th of April, aged 60
years. She was in many iespecs q remarkable
woman During the war of 1872 the British fleet
while lying off the mouth of the Patuxent, took
vessel belonging TO her husband, John c. Trav-