Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1860-02-02
NUMBER S.
Religious Intelligence.

NJ. L. CnURcH Tie Washington cores
pondent of the Baltimore Sun says :-"Mis- |
sionary anniversaries and other interesting
preliminaries remind us of the near approach
of the annual session of the Baltimore Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
1t commences on the last day of February,
at Winchester Va The re arrangement OF
the districts, by which two Washington and
Alexandriaj were constituted out Of the old
Potomac, has doubtless been found highly ad-
vantageous, diminishing, to some extent, the
arduous duties Of experienced and frequent
ly aged preachers as presiding elders, and se-
curing u more efficient supervision of the
work in each of the fields Of labor. From
Washington city thcro will be officially re-
ported ten churches, valued at $Sl 100
One new mission chapel in addition, was ded-
icated month since; four parsonages, esti-
mated at Sl7,400 ten Sabbath Schools, and
6 900 volumes in libraries. The member
slip of last year, (including probationers,l
was 2,134 From the SUCCESS in nearly all
the churches here during the autumn, it may
now be set down at 1900 substantial re-
spectacle citizens. Three African churches
are valued at $13,200; the membership Of
Asbury, Mount Zion, and Ebenezer, may be
stated at one thousand They have 2 schools,
36 officers and teachers, lis scholars, and
25O volumes in library.
In Georgetown The membership l4S4
Of last report has doubtless increased to COO
II cy have Two churches valued Mt $4,000,
and a parsonage at $500. Three schools
sixty officers and teachers, with, say 400 pu-
pills and 900 volumes in the libraries
In Alexandria, Va.-Last years report
gave 41O white members, which is now con-
siderably increased. Their colored member
ship, say $50. Three churches valued at
$4,000, and one parsonage $4,000. Two
schools, say sixty officers and teachers, 300
scholars and Go volumes in libraries"
Trouble OF MISSIONARIES IN CHINA
( Intelligence received at Washington from
China, brought by last mail from Europe,
states that the American missionaries there
find their operations obstructcd BY the hos
tile movements which have recently occurred
! there, and by the denominations of tho coole
trade, which have prejudiood their minds e.
| ganst all foreigners. Besides this, there are
two parties in China, one opposed to foreign
crs and in favor, of hostilities, and peace par
ty The Emperor belongs to the peace par
", while the commander Of The affair at
peiho is the leader Of the war party.
BG6r' The daily morning prayer meetings
in Philadelphia, which were suspended u
| short time ago, are resumed under the MAN.
agement of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation.
Bsss" The propricty of continuing to aid the
American Board of Foreign Missions was a
gain the subject of a meeting in Ii. Ward
Bcachcr's church on Monday night. Moth
ing definite was done.
/ BSy- Rev. Henry Ward Beacher was 20 de-
liver a political lecture in the Forsyth street
i Methodist church. New York, last night.
LETTER PROM THE PorE.-Tho Dublin
Morning News gives a Latin copy of the lot
ter from the Pope, in reply to the address o
sympathy adopted by the Roman Chatholit
prelatos at their meeting in Dublin on tho 81
November last. The following il transla.
ton.
"7o our Venerable Brother Paul, Archbish-
op Of Dublin, etc.
| To our venerable brother and dearly be
! loved sons health and our apostolic benedic-
| ton. Nothing could be more agreeable
nothing more lovely, than yonr letters bear
! ing date tho 3D. Of November last, and lately
delivered to us, which brought to us very
great consolation amid the deep sorrows with
which we were borne down. For everywhere
throughout these letters there shines forth
wonderfully your singular faith, piety, love,
and reference toward ourselves and the chair
OF Peter; everywhere your bitter gricfdisplays
itself at the tribulation into which We are
plunged by the wicked designs and endcav-
ors of those men who wage most fierce war
against the Catholic Church, the apostolic
throne, and the patrlmony Of st. Peter and
who are ondeavorlng to destroy the lounda-
ton Of all Divine and human right. We
could not but be greatly delighted by these
excellent sentiments of yours, which, worthy
of all praise IA they are, have raised to the
! highest point our paternal love toward thee,
venerable father, and you, beloved sons. DO
not cease TO pray and bcseech the Father of
all Mcrcies with still more earnest suppica-
ton that lie will snatch His holy church
! from so many calamties, aud daily magnify
and a1orn it with more splendid triumphs,
and assist and console us in our tribulations;
and that lie will deign, Of His omnipotcnt
goodness, to lead back all the enemies Of His
church and of his apostolic throne TO the
paths Of truth, justice and salvation. We
doubt not, venerable brother. and beloved
sons, that you, by the aid Of the Almighty,
desire nothing more than TO perform with
still greater zeal aud earnestness, all those
duties which, fulfilled thoroughly, wisely and
zealor's'y, may SO greatly conduce to the de-
fcnsc of the cause Of God and OF his holy
church, to the salvation Of souls, to the ex-
posure Of the deccits and the refutation of the
errors Of wicked men in this time Of special
iuiguity. BE assured that the feelings of our
paternal minds toward yourselves is equally
warm and devoted As a most certain pledge
whereof receive our apostolic bcnediction,
which from our inmost heart full Of love, we
bestow on thee, venerable father, and on You
beloved sons.
Given at Rome, at st. Peters, the lst day
OF December, 1859, in the fourteenth year of
our pontifcate. PTUs 2. P. lX."