The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-09
Methodist Episcopal General Conference

Sixth Day.
BUFFALO, May THE call of the Conference
which was interrupted on Saturday by the adjourn
ment, was resumed.
successful effort was made to reconsider the
action of the Conference on Saturday in the matter
Of appointing a Committee on Appeals and the
Chair was ordered to appoint committee of seven
to prepare code regulating the disposal of all ap-
peal cases, and report tomorrow.
Bishop Morris presented the answer of the Brit
lsh Wesleyan Conference to the Methodist Episco.
pal Conference of America.
The address, among other congratulations ex-
presses warm satisfaction at the existing sentiment
IN the American Church on the subject of slavery;
also communication from the same Conference to
the Bishops of the American Methodist Church, re-
GREETING their inability to send deputation to the
present Conference, and expressing the hope that
such deputation will be sent in 1861. The letter
also acknowledges the receipt of a communication
from the Rock River Conference on the subject of
slavery, but declining to take any action thereon
from Difference to its American brethren. The
letter also expresses the hope that the American
Church will take such action as shall finally
separate itself from all connection with that inst
tuition.
Bishop Morris also presented an address from
the pastors of the Annual Conference of France and
Switzerland, held at Paris, June %, 1859.
On motion of MIR. Sheer, the Committee on Cor
respondence was instructed to inquire and report
in regard to the statement that the British Confer
ence had been memorialiZed by the Rock River
Annual Conference
Bishop Morris presented memorial from Dr. s.
Luckey, which was read, in favor of establishing
an Executive Conference for the government Of
the Church. to consist of the Bishops and one dele
gate from each Annual Conference to be appoint
ed every four years, which shall hold annual ses-
sons, and shall have general jurisdiction over the
various temporal matters of the Church. including
the power to investigate all charges against the
Bishops and to try the same, as well as the
preachers, subject to an appeal to and revisa by
the General Conference, as well as a general SUI
perintendency of the Book Concern and of the Mis-
sionary Committee. The memorial proposes 30 to
elect the Executive Conference that three -fourths
of each body shall be perpetuated in the succeeding
one.
The memorial was referred to a select committee
of seven, to consider and report at an early day.
The Chair announced as the special committee to
prepare plan for the disposal of appeals: Messrs
Moody, Clark, Nelson, Hitchcock, Porter, Grifths,
and Reddy.-Adj journed.
Seventy-three petitions for change of the
Slavery Rule, and two against, were presented
to-day.
From Washington
WASHINGTON, Nav 8.-The Post Office Depart
ment has, for some months past, been engaged In
examinations, with view of lessening the number
of dead letters, and has communicated the result
to the Senate, in compliance with a resolution of
that body. The recent investigation confirms the
former statement that two and half millions of
dead letters accumulate annually, including five
hundred thousand drop letters and fifty thousand
held for postage, not prepaid. After the most
careful consideration, the POSTMASTER General is
constrained to believe that the chief Improvement
must be in the Dead Letter Office, and effected by
providing for the return of the letters through the
office in greater numbers, and at shorter periods,
to the writers. In the city of New York alone,
seventy thousand dead letters are returned per
quarter. Not one-half of the whole number of
dead letters are such as should be returned, under
the present system. The Postmaster General sug-
gests that ten temporary clerks be authorized to
be employed, in order to carry out the plan of the
Department.
Arrival OF the TeutOnia.
NEW YoRK, May 8.-The steamer Teutonia, from
Southampton on the 25th ult., has arrived Her
advices have been anticipated St