New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-13

Yes and such business! Nune VI your yul-
.ar huckssering your pddierpedery! your small
barter of such insignificant commodities as rice,
cotton. corn or tobacco Fad the General Assem-
bly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church which
met at Evansville, Indiana, on the 2Sth alt, spec
cattd 10 steamboats,, or sold plantations, or played
tnll or bear with dubious st,sks, s"urb0dy might
lave protested against mahirs the Fathers House
a house ui mefchandise-but the Assembly Jealous
Of its dignity and emulous Of ecclesiastical deco
r.m. traded 10 nothing meaner than mer. and thus
preserved from the scandal Of a censorons world
to- responsibility of Cumberland Christianity.
II lis is more pleasing to the fastidlous mind, be-
csu.e, az we pers-ive, a decent demeanor before
tl,- " ord 10 rgldly inculca,sd by the Cumberland
creed. tho proiessore of which were warned by the
Moderator, just before the adjournment, to walk.
circumspeciy before the community in winch
they we're sojolruiog." Tits Mentor, might,
indeed, have used the spir;Gsd words o. Gen. BON.
Farioso-
"Adieu brave army dent kick up ro'r,"
he did, Indeed, with charming modesty remiea
tho general Assemblers Tat they "werc the light
Of the world" aud be, We presume, may be re-
zs,ded in some sort as pair of shutters, charged
with the responsible duty Of keeping the woss
slear from deaths heaao and chDk9rs. We sup
pose that his advice was needed, AMI that the 7ev-
srr,d members smoked their cigars and took their
ie5dies discreetly; for We do not hear OF any Of
them in the caIsboose-- and for the mercaGtlle
s,ecB,tiops Of the Cumberlanders
II seems that Brother Davis, late the Treasurer
Of The Assembly, is no more, he having ynIded
10 the Great Eltingui.her sometime ago. The
Cumberland Christians could have borne their
bereavement with t0lerable equslimty If Brother
Davis, in ,he hurry Of his departure, lad not
forgotten TO settle his acc0Csts, and bad re-
uembered to leave money enS1gh behind hun To
discharge balance against hin. To speak plainly
although it is painful so to speak Brother DAVIS
d,.d dsaulter; and the Trustees, as became care
fnl stewards forthwith took Sat that caraa weapon
called writ; secured that worldly result q jndg-
,nept: and, fnsly, obtsne1 against Brother DsViss
Administrator that persuasive document styled an
execution. Bat an execution against dead Treas
u,er. even of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
ia ol small value, unless the Sheriff can fui some
thug satisfactory wbeIeupOn to levy. So that Off
cor. casting about, discovered sr3a lot Of 50 nig-
GERS" formerly TIE property 81 Brother Davis,
which the Administrator had put on. of his posses
.ion by some kind of hugger-muager, but which he
dlsgorged, so to speak, upon receiving bond OF
indemnity Then the General Assembly Of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church went into mar
ket overt with its little flock Of niggers, and did,
We suppose, with many invocatons Of Gods bles-
sing upon the sale, dispose of the same St public
yeudue, and received the consecrated cash there
| for.
The affair, however, is not yet comfortably
settled. The Administrator threatens an action
| The widow Davis threatens another So that tbs
purchase-money remains in the sacred Golfer, mol
will it be safe for the Assembly to spend dime o
| it until all manner of Courts of Common Law
and of Equity have passed great Va
rie.y Of DEGREES, issued large assorE
msnt Of ipjuuctiOns, received saadry an'