Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-05-13


New York on Monday night, May lst
D iyRev. Dr. n j. Hickok ThstfeasurJ
is free from dehf1 Thereremains, bow
ever, heavy liability for extra exchaagt
on bills sent out but not yet mAtured
The entire income was larger than in
npEeefdiHEyeaE, the FeceiRte-being S269,
Z i428.0l; the expenditures we're $256, AZ.
81. Sixteen missionaries and assistants
were sent out during the past year, and
Eve abseatees fetuFnedA TO theirifelds of
labor The number Of native lsborers
has received an increase Of twenty-nine.
Over thirty Churches are reported in
different countries, with upward Of
a4bousand eunHfuhicabts, and many
/ thohsand scholars in the schools
fubgEKG IAU-r-ET TIA
Some one has prepared q table Of
/ eOmlaHatlge stetistiea. showing the pres
!. ept condition and relations Of the bodies
known as New and Old School Presby-
terians in this coantry. The Old School
body has 2, 2,266ministers, 1922 churches,
:s3i sl6kkmAp bkw aaaaxssnfribnte during
the yeas 1864, s376, ,S57 fcE benevoient
purposes, The New School has I, ,344
ministers, Az clutches, l3S, ,074 msm-
bers, and Contributed for 1864 the sum
Of $537, 502 for BENEVOLENT purposes
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= SECESSION PIErT4.A correspondent
of the ei6eindgti Commercial thus writes
from Raleigh, North Carolina: A.
z Herr, as elsewhere, ti1e Methodist Epis-
copal Church South was the frst organi-
zatidn, ecalar1 or orassllei6us 10 advocate
and the last, to Rbandnn it as
hopeless cause. do not know why il
is 20, but that 1t has been so witt not be
denied bg anq one who has had fair
opportunity Of forming q judgment on
tka suhjadt. : ada The frat Sunday sue
ceeding ashes0ceapatieH OF the city, the
pastel, OF the Methodist Church refused
to permi. ope Of our army Chaplains to
preach from his peipityor rather he apol-
ogizedf in Advance, for not asking one
of them to do so, by saying that be could
not recognize the Chaplains Of our army
as preachers in good fellowship, that
they were his enemies and the enemies
Of his country, etc. ~ ~
At that time the seeeshs brother hadn't
heard Of the collapse Of the Confed-
/
-aFsF F.Eas- a, ased-up- concern, or chat the
Soph IyasIa subipg gsted Institution His
eyes have since been opened 10 these
iB0lemrItruths, and he, yesterday, called
np0uE Chaplain Pepper of the lS0th
Ohio,to preach a sermon for him. He
said, In doing SO, ghat tie Rar was ov : \
the South had failed, and he felt il to be
his duty TO do all he could toward heal
ing the wounded spirits OF the people
} North and South and bringing about
better state OF feeling between the two
.seetions. Me- Pepper accepted the call,
and treated the congregation Of the sub.
jugated parson 10 a tlrst-rate loyal SER
monAin even yHaapecstbe best discourse
that had sgFaced their earF for four years.
u, A "REMINISCENCES OF MR. LIScoLN.--0n
the day of the receipt of the capisnla-
tiou of Lee, IS we learn from friend
intimate with the late President Lin
cola, the Cabinet meeting was held an
hour earlier than nsaai,a Neither the
President nor any member was able for
the tins eto give utterance 10 his feelings
AT the suggestiou OF 3Ir, Lincoln al
dropped on their, knees, and offered, in
SILENCE and I'm. tears, tkoir humble and
heartfelt Acknowledgements TO the Al
mi ighty, for the triumph he had granted
the National cause. The same day, in
the afternoon as We learn. from the same
sources the President was in frame Of
mind peculiarly happy. To his wife be
said
aThg7war is nov ahpuC COver; we have
had a long rand wearisome four year
siege, and we must travel little this
summer, and recruit Ii must be with
out fuss and display You must write to
Bob that.he mast come home and resign
his. Captaincy, and 20 to7his books. Let
him prepare to earn bis living as did,
ffepsrding on his own hands and brains"
On the moFning Of the day of his
death Xxi ndredll conversations were held
as, % the manner of spending a portion
OF the summer, and what disposition
should made of g Bob and i'Tad," as he |
always used to call his Two sons, Robert
and sThaddens ga aaf Is rs4 gfls
:Tnagmos fa2a bsas E---z--- shes s15 ~
=. \ TAkiSe II. .LarxRAII.lys.--- * :" Father,
think you told fibin the pulpit to-day /
-said,a a iittle son OF . clergyman. "Why,
what, do iyonmesn7 Isl" You said, One
word more and ] have DONE then you
vent on and said great many more
words. The people expected you'd
leave Of, because yon promised them.
But you dfdn {, and kept on preaching
long whfie after the time was up" n