The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-16
MEETING IN BEHALF OF AMERICAN BOARD
OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MIS-



OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MIS-
SIONS.
crowded audience was present at the meeting
held on Friday at the Academy of Music, New
Y ork, in behalf of the American Board of Commits
sioners for Foreign Missions, to hear from the re-
turned missionaries present on the occasion.
The Hon. William Jessup, l.. l.. d. (Montrose,
Pennsylvania in the chair.
The Rev. Mr.. Wood, one of the secretaries of the
Board, read statement, from which we extract
the following:
Since the annual meeting of the board in Septem-
ber DR.. d. Forrest, late of the Syrian mission; Mrs.
Bebee of the Southern Armenian; Miss Riggs, of
the Northern Armenian and Rev. DIR. Worcester,
OF the Cherokee missions, have rested from their
labors. Eight labOrers, on a visit to this country
have returned, and twelve persons, four of them
ordained ministers, and one physician, have been
sent to the missions. Fifteen candidates are under
appointment of whom twelve have received desig-
nation to eight missions. Two missions-the one
to the Abenaquis, in Canada, and the kOlapur mis-
sion in Western India, each of which was carried
on by ordained minster-have been relineuish-
ed. The organized missions of the Board there
fore four less than they two years ago. but the
strength of some of them has been considerably
augmented. Six are among Indian tribes; there
two in Africa, one in Greece, in Syria, three in
European Turkey Asia Minor, and Mesopotamia one
in Persia and koordistan, six in India and Ceylon,
three in China and two in the Pacific ocean. Con-
nected with these 1888 laborers from this coun-
try, Of whom lGS are ordained ministers and five
are physicians; 20 native pastors, 1873 preachers
and catechists, 3l4 teachers and other helpers
making an aggregate of 905. More than lao
churches containing nearly 80, 900 members; of whom
1882 were admitted in the last reported year. In
these numbers are not included seven churches
which have lately ceased to be connected with the
Board, the converts among the HISTORIANS am the
more than 10 900 souls who have gone from the
communion of these churches into the presence of
Him whose name, when heather, they learned to
love. Exclusive of schools at the Sandwich Islands,
about $500 pupils receive Christian instruction in
other bnar6Inp schools
and 3O7 day schools. The printing of the missions
during the last year about As, 000,0 900 pages,
being largely at the expense of American and Bri-
fish Bible and tract societies. The amount from
the beginning is one billion eighty and a-half mil
lion ,OSO, ASH ,0S3) pages in at least thirty dfe
rent languages, fifteen of which reduced to
written form by missionaries of this Board. The
receipts into the treasury, for the nine months, end
ing April 3d. amount, including thank offerings to
S206,2l This leaves about $4,000 to be raised
during the remaining three months to meet the
avoidabe expenditures without diminishing the de-
hct of $4,000 with which the year commenced.
The sum received during these months last year
was Sll5,339 The preceding year was one of
exampled receipts from legacies apd extraordinary
resources. The year following the one of money
panic, has proved, heretofore one of greater trial
to benevolent institutions than the panic itself.
While oppressed with the burden of wants unmet
find encouragement in the facts that the receipts
now stand ST., Ala in advance of those at this time
last year; and that, excepting the years 1867,
those of previous years.
Rev. Mr.. Nuigo, one of the speakers referred to
charge by New York journal that morals had
not been improved at Hawaii; Pharisaism and nv
pocrisy had been the harvest of the missions there
Charles Dana, Esq who had travelled in the Sand
witch islands great DEAL volunteered statement
in regard to the Christian character of the people
there. He said that the statement of the journal
Preferred to by Rev. Mr. Meigs) in relation to those
islands was false. The trouble at the Sandwich Is
lands was from American adventures who carried
pestience and vice there with them. In some re-
spects the Sandwich Islands were above portions of
the United States. A man can travel among them
without carrying pistols and bowie knives; lives and
property are safe. The Sabbath is observed there
much more strictly than anywhere here. He was
shocked at this effort to traduce the efforts of hard
working and honest minded men there.
LATER FROM HAvANA.-The United States mail
der, from New Orleans May 5th, for New
York, via Havana, at which port she arrived
on the morning of the sth, and sailed on the of
ternoon of the same day for New York. The
Philadelphia landed and transferred eighty -eirht
passengers at Havana, and brings 1919 passengers
and fair cargo for New York. The United States
mail steamship Empire City, S. p. Griffin COM
handing, arrived at Havana on the morning of the
Sth, and would sail ON the afternoon of the same
day for New Orleans.
There was little of interest occurring at Havana.
The stock of sugar on hand there and at Matanzas,
was 325, 900 boxes; prices slightly declined Freights
EXCHANGES
tive; prime London 141&@25I P. NJ. New York
and Boston 81 93A; New Orleans 4@94%.
Two steamers (propellers) were discovered at the
east end OF the island abandoned; from peculiar
doors, cleanliness, &c, supposed to have landed
negroes, instead of fllibusters
The Leavenworth K. IT, Herald, of the 7tb.
| says, that at meeting held at Nebraska city for
the purpose of sending delegates to the Kansas
Constitutional Convention, there was much excite
ment, which resulted in general melee, in which
Judge Bennett shot in the groin by German.
| Ii is thought that Benefits wound will be fatal
The excitement became so intense mob was about
| to be raised to hang the German. Judge Miller
arriving at the place, queed the excitement. The
German was arrested and placed in the lookup,
with five men to guard him. Subsequently the
Office of o. P. Mason entered, and his furniture
capsized, for which Gen. Mclean and two or three
others were arresred on suspicion and Gen. Cal
houn arrested for disturbing the peace of the
meeting.
The Hon. William Appleton, of Boston, has
made donation of So 600 for the purpose of estab-
| fishing Pastors Library in connection with the
First Congressional Church in North Brookfeld.
| A portion only of the money is TO be spent at
present, and the remainder will be invested and
the income spent for the annual increase of the
library.
| The Port Clinton (0hi0) Democrat says Mrs Pc
| ter Perry, whose husband was drowned last week,
has since died from the effect of the loss of her
band. From the moment she received the intelli-
gence of his loss, up to the hour Of her DEATH few
days ago, she never exhibited signs of SANITY being
perfectly wild and delirious.
| Mr. Thomas Ball, the sculptor, of Boston, is to
make an equestrian statue of Washington of bronze,
| after a model recently exhibited in Boston, The
statue is to be placed in Boston Common. 1t is to
cost Sit, 900. The same artist is to make statue
of Webster, in bronze, for the New England Society
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