The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-24


Affirmed.
The appeal docket will again be called tomorrow.
! Adjourned at 3 o'clock until tomorrow at 10
O'Clock, A. NJ.
PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY 20. Sl
AT INDIANAPOLIS.
SECOND DAY.
! The Assembly convened at nine O'Clock this
| tional exercise.
The minutes of yesterday were read and pending
the motion to approve them, Rev. Dr. Mitchell, d,
D., moved to amend, by giving to each representa-.
tive ms appropriate title prefxing Reverend and
alhxlng ID; D. to the names of whomsoever might
| be entitled.
broad smile swept over the countenances of
| delegates, and DR.. Mitchell persisted
DIR. Humphreys read from the minutes of the
last Assembly, showing that titles had been ex-
! plunged. ~
The Moderator manifested distate for the motion.
put submitted 1T with something of scornful SMILE
! the response being one feeble "Aye" and a yery
| general and emphatic "No." So "Rev" and st0
| ID" were not added.
! The Moderator said he had never been able to
| perceive the wisdom of former Moderators in ex-
hausting the General Assembly in the organization
! of Committees-his predecessors seeming TO have
| placed every representative upon some Committee
| In the absence of instructions from the Assembly
| he would submit his opinion that small Committees
| are more Servlceable, and he would therefore Or
ganize them in that spirit. Thereupon he appoint-
| ed some twenty Standing Commttees-whose func-
tions, and the names of whose members would not
| interest general readers.
On motion, the Third PRESBYTERIAN Church of
| Rochester, n. Y, the Third PRESBYTERIAN Church
at Memphis, Tennessee, and the West Arch Stree.
Church at Philadelphia, were nominated locations
| for the General Assembly in 1860
Upon balotng, 236 votes were cast for Rocbes-
ter, 40 Tor Philadelphia, and 80 for Memphis
The General Assembly of 1860 will therefore con.
at IL o'clock A. NJ.
member from Philadelphia suggested the ne
cessty ot selecting that point, in order to fill three
vacancies in the Board of Trustees which, accord
ing to the constitution can only be filled in Penn
syivanla: His motion was not well taken.
Considerable time was frittered in discussno a
question of order" when DR.. Rice analyzed it,
showing 1t to be constitutional question" NOT
within the authority of the Moderator to decide
but subject to the General Assembly 1t involved
the character of the evidence to be offered from
PreSbyteries concerning the "demisson" or retir
ing OF superannuated and disabled preachers, one
| party contending for the production of cony
of the records Of each Presbytcry, signed by the
clerk; another holding written statement bv
Commissioners sufficient evidence of the views Of
the Presbytery. The subject was finally tabled,
ana all papers pertinent required to go to the ap-
propriate committee.
1t was announced that Dr. Van DYKE, of Brook
lyn, would preach at night, when, on motion of DR.
Humphreys, the Assembly adjourned until to-mor-
row morning, to afford the committees onnortunitv
! to mature business.
| FIFTY-SEvENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BoARD oF
| DOMESTIC MISSIONS.
rms Board reports reduction of receipts COM
pared with the previous year, and a slight dminu-
tion OF missionaries. The average salaries of tba
latter were slightly increased. The balance re-
naming in all the treasures, at the close of the
year, was SIS, ,422l9, being O37 "a more than the
| balance last year.
! The number of missionaries in commission March
L, 1853, was 600; number of churches and missona
ry stations, wholly in part supplied by our
missionaries, is Sl5; number of newly organized
churches, so; number of admissions on examination,
2,7O9; on certificate, 1,S01; total admissions, 5IO
number of baptisms, 1892.
The number in communion with churches con-
nected with the Board is "a OILS; number of Sab
bath Schools, 355; teachers 1900; scholars l7453
Of the 600 missionaries in commission durinp the
year, l75 (or onefourth) have not sent special re-
ports.
The appropriations made to our missionaries.
from March J. 1858, to March l, 1859, have been as
At the Philadelphia office s5s. 800 II
Louisville 36116. .66
Total s94, ,476. SO
The receipts from all sources during the same
time were S99, $780, to which add balances in the
different treasures March lst 1858, of $40 25;
making the available resources of the Board DURING
the year Sl20, ,057.2S.
The amount paid out at PHILADELPHIA, ipcludino
the Presbyteria Treasures, was S74 493 a. at
Louisville, SIT, 7,l4l75. Total payments so, ,635 o.
leaving balance aforesaid stated The amount
due missionaries at the same date was Sl2, ,699 81,
leaving an unexpended balance of Sl5722 so
Clothing valued at Sll 1888. 20 was received during
the year and distributed among missionaries who
needed it. of this amount S7,093 80 was received
at Philadelphia, S3,552.68 at Louisville and ST.
1922 at Pittsburg. ~
New missions were established throughout the
state during the year, and in the territories
one missionary was added to California and apoth-
er has been commissioned for that field; one added
to Oregon, one in Washington one in Rhode Island
one IN Ohio, ten in Illinois, two in North Carolina
two in Louisiana, two in Arkansas three in Iowa.
two in Minnesota and one in Nebraska Twenty
sE, seven q mis- missionaries were employed iinera,s.
The Board speaks encouragingy of the missionary
labors The average salary paid by the Board and
people to missionaries is S53,068 per annum. The
Board also represents the ''need of funds"
The Newark Advertiser makes the following ex
tract from private letter from gentleman in the
army:
Fort ARBUcKLE, Choctaw Nation, Nav LIST,
1867 We had two battles with the Canaan
che Indians in February-one on the 24th in
which one of our men was killed, and one wounded
ana ana three Indians were killed; the other on the
18th, in which no soldiers were hurt but nine In
dians were killed. Since then we have chased
them several times, but have not been able to
catch them, owing to our horses giving out They
travel night and day, when they are pursued by
troops.
The country around this fort is inhabited by the
Choctaw Indians. They are generally civilized
have fine farms, raise good stock, and many have
iom ooV " o,OOU neau OF cattle, ana horses
merable Forty miles east OF here i, a large mis-
sion, where their children go to school, get an
English education, and are taught the Protestant
religion. This establishment is supported by The
American Tract Society.
Slavery is in its glory here. Every one has
more or less of the blacks, who held in bondage
and valued as property. No white man is allowed
to settle in this nation unless he marres one of the
women. Most of the females are nearly white,
owing to their being half Breeds and some of them
are as beautiful as our Broadway bellies They are
naturally SO, not being deformed by paint or any
artlhcal ornaments. AS general thing they
nave common education, and are able to read
and write The weather here is delightful.
A ripe scholar and good one, says the London
Illustrated Ne.cs, has just passed from among us at
ripe age. He knew more than he could turn to
account 1t is idle even to think on the knowledge
that has departed with him. We refer to a clergy
ford-an admirably read man. with cultivated
taste for all that is sublime and beautiful in nature
all that is pure and poetic in art.
The European correspondent of the New Albany
(lnd Tribune gives good account of our Minister
at Berlin, Ex-Governor Wright. The writer states
that he has called on five American Ministers on
cover in the whole of them would not balance those
of the Hoosier Minister. The Governor invited him
to breakfast and treated the gentleman to buck |
wheat cakes and molasses, which no doubt, in part
accounts for the visitors admiration. He saws he
found plenty of assumed dignity in other American
officials, but in the Governor he found the pure ar
ticle itself. The Governor rents church. has a |
bible class with which he meets regularly and when
they have no preaching they hold class meeting,