Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1860-05-03
NUMBER Is.
Religious Intelligence.

PRoTEsTANTs IN HUNGARY-On the "a
Instant Baron Gabriel Won Pronay, of the
AuSsburgh Confession in Hungary, remind
ed his brethren that the day which was men,
toned by Government as the latest period
for the organization of the Protestant COM
munities in accordance with the Imperial
patent Of September the 1st was passed On
the 31st of March, the day alluded to, 226
Lutheran communities had been organized in
accordance with the Imperial patent, and 333
communities had declined to recognize its
validity. According to authentic data, 806,-
1856 Hungarian Lutherans had accepted the
Imperial "octroi," and 543,712 have rejected
it. As net more than five or six Calvanstc
communities have been organized in accord
ancc with the patent Of September /, about
100000 Hungarian Protestauts have for
lcited their corporate rights.
Considerable excitement exists at Eddyville
IN. ~ in regard to the preaching of the Rev
j. II. Curry, late pastor of the Methodist
Church at that place. Mr.. Curry has recent
bolted from the old Methodist track, and ia
ken to preaching that death destroys both
the body and soul of the wicked The church
being shut against him, he now holds forth
to crowded audiences in a barn at New Sa-
lem.
Bishop Meade, administered the rite of con-
tirmation recently, to forty persons at st
Pauls, and in the evening to fifteen in Christ
Church, in Norfolk, Va.
DR.. PoMERoY FoRGIvEN. Our readers will
remember the case of Dr. Pomeroy, the de-
| fauter, upon whom was practiced the conf
dence or "extortion" game, in Boston, some
/ time since. We now learn that the First
Church, in Bangor, Maine, of which DR.. Pom
eroy has long been a member, after careful
and anxious investigation of his caac through
a period Of nearly four months, have recent.
ly communicated to him tho assurance of
their cordial aud entire forgiveness; declaring
him entitled to all the rights and privileges
Of a member in good and regular standing,
| and aaectionately commencing him to the
sympathy and confidence and fellowship of
the churches Of Christ throughout the world
The final action was with entire unanimity.
The bark Mendi sailed from New York
last week for Monrovia, taking as passengers
Rev. H. A. Clarke. wife ana son, and two
iceu tiates, one of the Baptist and the other
Of the Methodist church. Mr.. Clark goes
out as a missionary The Mendi is owned
~ iNcSi'" ihSiSii"iito, anu 10 iuu DO u EcSu-
lar packet between New York and Monrovia
In few weeks fine little steamer, the Seth
Grosvenor,' built by the New York Coloni-
zation Society, as mail packet, to connect
the Liberian coast settlements, will leave for
Liberia.
Father McCabe, Catholic priest of Du.
buque, Iowa. was lately brutaly assaulted by
an Irishman named James Naughton: of
Nashville, Tennessee. There was difficult
ty about the purchase Of some land, and
Naughton beat the priest so badly with u
club that he left his victim for dead.
In tue list of contributors in the aid of the
Pope in London. we notice the name of the
Dutchess Dowager of Leeds, for one thousand
pounds sterling. This lady is an American,
and one Of the grandaughters of Charles Car.
roll, Of Carrolton, ono of the signers Of the
Declaration Of Independence.
THE Boy PREACHER.--A boy preacher
named Crammond Kennedy, was last week
edilyng and electrifying the citizens Of Har-
rsburg, Pa. He is but seventeen years OF
age, and his head is said to measure twenty
four inches. The Telegraph, of Harrisburg
say:--"flis extensive knowledge Of the Scrip
lures, his precocious power of oratory, and
his singular gifts as preacher Of righteous
ness, have given him reputation through
out the country equal 10 that of the most
celebrated pulpit orators Of the day"