New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-23
sGEslHCH AND STATE.

The ID ,dest encroaclments ever attempted by
the pro-Si very Churches of the South upon the
tsrrtory OF tho Free States Of tie Union the
organization of congregations and conference, of the
Methodist pisc,pal Church South in California and
Oregon b. ,ch church. school, PAPER and me nber Of
these confer cDcss was an agent for preparing the
way for the introduction of Slavery into these STATES.
Il is one .of me many blessings Of tbs war
.ha; the NJ, thoaiss Episcopal Church South IN
he two Pa cific States rs now threatened with
extinction. tbs many and persevering efforts
which have 'bee made to establish it upon perns-
nent basis, .Save all failed. Dr. Jesse Boring the
rs, founder Of Southern Methods, congregations on
The Pacific, npeis tome 10000 Of Ss private funds
Oh account q is church III San FraDcsco. 2Dd WAS
never reimsars W. Some five years since, the Southern
Conference rec .Tsed the work, they thought under
better auspices. paper started, :. metro
/ pol.an chw'cn edifce projected for Saa Fran
c.eo, to east forty or fifty t.onsand collArs
book depOs tory established Oregon vas Occur
pied n oO5cgt enterprise "ns stafted ana al deiart-
rsents of she york of building ~ she determination
were puse with vigor approaching desperation.
But what hag.5een the result 1ae paper suspended
some months slsce, the editor bismg worked three
years without salary, aud exp nded 5000 Oi bis
private funds 70 keep it ahOt Ihe book depOsiiory
is about 70 Ii0se, with purpcss OF attempting to
reopen it. The college is no DAs, than small pre-
palatory school. Ia Oregon tx. race 81 The church
rs nearly gpn. In short, thu rause Of soaihern
methodist. on the Pacific Coast sgenerally collapsed,
and Wi! soon Cease 10 exist.
The American war will larnish some additional
msieral Tor the science of economical law. Two
disloya members Of the Second P-enOyteriaA Church
of Nasayille having usurpst the control of tho
church edilce and parsonage, AM ous,ad The loyal
pastor thereof, the United iaaes military authorities
at Nashville have restored the church the drec-
ton and control of the legal portion % the congre-
cation.
One of tho foremost theological sbeitors of the
slave power, DIR. Thonwell, died al Charlotte,
n. g, Aug. 8. lie WAS until the outbreak Of tho
Rebellion one of the loading Of The Old School
Presbyterian Church, and few men have done more
than he to pcrven the views CT The Southern churehel
respecting Slavery.
Nearly all tho freedmen Of South Carolina an,
ander tho D.inistration Of Baptist missionaries
who derive their support from the American Baptist
; Home Missionary and tho American Bapts. Pu5 i.
4 cation Societies The missionaries are active anc
efficient, and spaak encoaragipgty Of the progross
their labors. Large numbers Of the colored popula-
ton have been baptised, after giving satisfactory
ey idence of their religious cOnditiOn.
Tile Southern LxtheTaa, in Charleston, 8. c., Q
rabid Secesf;on sheet publishes the following scnt
ment by the Rev. DIR. Bachman, one Of the mos
AGED clerpymen OF Charleston and author Of bOoa
on the Unity of The Human Ruce. in which he main
tanned that negroes human beings, and descended
from Adam;
"You may fet,er the arms and bind freeman IL
chains-yon may lay him in a dungeon, and place 9
gag in Lis mouth, bat the momeHt he breahs h'
s.Gckies, he xW rise up a man, AND THIN wO To
HIS oPPREssoRs.'
OF course, in the opinion Of the author, this II
meant only for the benefit OF the white Secessions
but if the Shareholders should allow their savei
to learn how to read sentences Like the above might
teach the slaves a very dangerous lesson.
The editor Of The Central Christian Adcocdt,
Of St. Louis has learned from Col. Bussey that two
Of the three missionaries Of the Methodist Episcopal
f, Church in Arkansas have been murdered and that
the church herself is extinct. The editor thinks
that little or nothing can be done in that State foI
several years, and that it will take or two gen
eratons TO replant it in that region.
1T seems that the military laws of Ohio do moi
exempt ministers from drafting Tile Evangelical
Messenger, Of Dayton, o., thinks that ministers Of
the gospel must 80 us substitutes for the negroes
whom the Government refuses to accept
!, The Rev. J. V. Hines, who has 30 many timet
fixed uponbe year ia which ths present world is "