The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-05-16

proprey publishing such tracts and the time 1T which
they should be issued Stormy the session was, and
parakng il did during portion of the day of all
those elements Of combustion which have frequently
displayed themselves Of late in conventions and pop
uar assemblies, the clamorous demonstration speed
lily suppressed and the business Of the day appro
pratsy closed with the usual benedcion So far then
respects the promptness with which dangerous ques
ton has been met and disposed Of the Tract Society has
done WE'LL But the of that disposal Is not 10 be
commended The responsibility being cast upon the Ex
ecuve Committee, the day Of final action is indeed post
poned but this indecisive leaves to the agatos
loop hole Of which they will not fail to take advantage
The NJ " lason for The Bind held its anniversary at
the Academy of Music There about $50 pupils
the stage, of whom so males. The young women
were the most part attred In white and blue and
presented appearance of uniformity In their costume
not discoyerabe on the part of the young The
band composed OF fifteen blind boys occupied
of the stage and another large pile of the ut
itan products of the industry of the pupils of the ns
tuition. The teachers, of whom eleven blind gradu-
aes of the school, occupied the front Nearly three
quarters of the audience were ladies.
The Unipersalsts had an Annual Convention in the
morning and Sunday School Anniversary in the
afternoon at Rev. DIR. Chapins church. Horace Greeley
WAS the principal speaker before the Sunday Schools
The american Home Missionary Socidy celebrated Its
thirty anniversary in the Church of the Purns
1t has been called to the decease, during the year.
presidents of its vice presidents Rev. Nathaniel W.
w. Taylor, d d. and four of its missionaries. Tho
Der of Ministers of the Gospel i'll the service of the Society
in twenyour different States and Territories has been
10l2 Of the whole number SEA have been the pastors
of stated supplies of single congregations 34l have
mnstered in two three congregations each and lat
have extended their abors still wider fields Eleven
missionaries have preached to congregations of coored
people and Al in foreign languages to Welsh and
10 to German congregations and to congregations of
Norwegians and Frenchmen. The number of congrega-
tons and missionary stations supplied in whole part,
is 2,O34 Receipts, Sl7597l 81. Expenditures, $780,
,k;u H. a. ..{.o
for labor performed towards canceling which and meet
ing further claims commissions daily becoming due
amounting in all to $50 $50 59herei balance In the
treasury of Sc ,4SS OF.
Thursday, May lath.
The american Bible Society held its forty second annual
meeting at the Bible House. in Astor Place, and then
walked in procession to the church of the Putans
is stated that larger number of clergymen from all
parts Of the Union have been gathered together.
The Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen presided, and the
Managers report showed that, during the year past
y-two life directors have been added and $50
life members In the same time, eghty-nno new
iliares, most of them in the States and Territories
The receipts of the year have been $500 49, OF this
sum- S252 1871 o. from the sale Of books and $751;
92S As from donations and legacies This income is less
than that of last year, the difference being mostly in leg
aces The books printed have been $50 900 Bibles and
3S 900 Tesaments and 500 volumes in raised letters
for the blind making total Of 63l 800 The issues of
the year have been 878 volumes making a total
since the formation of the Society of H. 808 487 The
number of agents employed in the home-eld is thirty
FIVE including those in California and Oregon Three
also employed in foreign countries in Brazil
in Spanish America, and in Turkey. Grants of
money for publishing the Scrip abroad have been
greater than ever before, amounting to $3l 432 90
These funds have gone to France Russia, Geneva flor
Italy, Turkey Persia, India, Northern and Southern)
Siam, and China. sH
The hsftuion for tho Deaf and Dumb held its exhibition
at the Academy of Music The intelligence and aptitude
of the pupils their cheeruness and general health and
the marked evidence of progress made and making gave
very great satisfaction to all who could get view 81 The
stage and of the complete success OF the sign language
The Congregational Union had very interesting meeting
eff very and very agreeable people of both sexes on
Thursday night at the Assembly Rooms. The Congre-
gational singing refreshing and exhilaratng
than anything heard for twenty out of the
of Opera carried many back home to the days
of Aud Lang Syne The collation. generous consider
ing the large crowd--with icecream and bouquets
thrown in--but "tbe Niger, 'the everlasting niger
the Monster Tonson of about every Congregational
ing adays, was thrown in by almost every speaker
which not exactly fair to other Christians OF other
denominations, and to of other sects, who under
the invitation not expecting to feast upon .ne
GRO" Oh oh If there white left on
earth, do consider there some white women.
The Anaerican A6olitim Society met in DR.. Cheevcr's
Church The attendance small and in the absence
Of the president, Lewis Tappan oficated After the
usual Introductory exercises, Mr. Goodel corresponding
secretary read long string of resolutions of the ultra
abolition stamp in which the general government, the
bred Scott decision Lecompton and the Tract Society
not mildly spoken of. Speeches made by Rev
DIR. Gardner, Mr.. Goodel Dr. Cheever, and Frederick
Douglass
The american Temperance Union celebrated its twenty
second anniversary at the church of the Purans COM
mencng with prayer meeting for the conversion of IL
quor dealers secretary read abstract Of the
nua report which recognised the present extensive
vva of religion throughout the country and consequent
cheering prospects of the temperance Donations
for the year. sl,997 90 Addresses made by Rev
G. t. Peck, H. c. Hays esq, and Rev. Mr. Schneider
from Asia collection then taken up defray the
debt Of the Union, after which the meeting adjourned
The american Nec Church association held its annual
meeting at the book-room of the Swedenborg Pub
fishing Society, No 20 Cooper institute Rev Mr. Ber
wick delivered a sermon.
The Young Mems Christian Union celebrated its first ami
verary at the Church of the Messiah In the afternoon
the Rev Drs. Osgood and Barrett and Rev B. Peters
the speakers and in the evening addresses
delivered by the Hon. Horace Greeley the Rev A. u.
Mayo the Rev. I. w. Higgnson, and the Rev Mr.. May.
The Womans Rights National Convention held two-days
session in Mozart Hall Mrs. Susan b. Anthony pre-
sded-Mrs. Lucy Stone being kept away by s'home du-
ties The principal speakers Mary F. Davis the
Rev. Anoiniette Brown Blackwell Erncstinc L. Rnee
Frances d. Gage Sarah Grimke, Wendell Phillips Geo
VIM. Curtis, the Rev. T. w. Hgginson, William Lloyd
Garrison, and other fnatca drones Stephen Pearl AN
drews,s the Apostle Of Free Love- made ia speaa Of
the occasions He said that the resolution which declared
wholly Free went, perhaps further than they
intended to go. He in entire sympathy with the
Womnns Rights movement, but he thought il only q
beginning He thought that womsns first right was to
maternity to maternity under the best circumstanoes
and that she had right to ascertain by experiment the
best conditions Of serving the generation to come He