The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-09

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YouNG MEX's CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
The annual meeting of this Association
was held last night, the President, Colo
mel Lee Powell, in the chair.
When the meeting was called to order,
hymn was sung, and prayer offered by
the Rev. DR.. Gwathmcy.
The President then presented the an
nual report of the Association, an abstract
of which is as follows:
In giving the reasons for the present ap-
parent want of zeal in the work Of the
Association, the President mentions the
unsettled. unemployed condition Of many
of our young men as the most prominent.
These noble fellows, he says, who, through
wears of privation and danger, illustrated
all the virtues of Christian hcroiSm, are,
many of them, so impoverished as to be
denied the privilege Of renewing their
membership with the Association, while
others seem to have been so stunned by
the results of the war as to have lost the
energy with which to engage in even
works of Christian charity.
An earnest appeal is made to the buSi-
ness men of the city to encourage and up
| hold the efforts of the Association, claim
| inc that no men in the community are
more benefited than are those who en-
pov men, in having thrown around them
such influences and restraining aSSocla-
tions as must guard their morals
and keep them from the hauntS of disSi-
patton and dishonesty with which our un-
happy city is now cursed. Fathers and
mothers are urged to induce their sons to
become members of the Association, as al
fording the means for cultivating all the
noblcSt affections of the heart and of learn
ing early the lesson of Sclt-dcnial and un-
selfish labor for the good OF others. a
feeling allusion is then made TO the many
members OF the Association who have de
Tended, even unto death, their convictions
of truth, Justice, and duty, in the late
war, while the surviving members are urged
to take their places again in the ranks to
contend against the world and the devil,
both of which enemies are so buSily at
work in our midst.
AlluSon is made also to the dangerous
work being done by volunteer philanthro-
piStS who having no ignorant or poor peo-
pies children at home to need their cha
ritv, have invcigled into their traps the
children Of too many persons willing to
have their children taught on the simple
condition of paying nothing for it, and who
are paying the fearful penalty of having
those children taught to hate their own
homes, their own friends, their own fathers
honor and by being compelled to attend
the Sunday schools taught by these self
imputed humanitarianS, there hear that
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true varieties Of religious faith.
How can any Southern man, says the re-
port, expect his child to he taught truth,
historical or religious, by persons enter
tanning the bitterness of feeling such Strag-
glers do feel towards the South, or who
teach the religion, not Of God, but OF New
| England
An amendment to the Constitution, in
relation to the number required to form
quorum of directors and members, was then
| proposed and adopted.
After long discussion in relation to the
propricty Of making report to conven-
tion OF the Young Mems Christian ASSOcia-
tion to assemble at Albany, the whole
matter was referred.
The following officers were then elected
Colonel Powell not being nominated at his
own request:
Presidet-Asa Snyder.
Wee e-PreSilntS.-D. Lee Powell, ". II.
Cemmitt, G.. l.. Bidgood, A. Boiling, j. b.
Watkins.
TrcaSuer.-T. B. Baker.
ReyiStrm.-J. Il. Moore.
LiJrariop.-R. r. HowiSon.
DrectorS.-C. f. Winston, W. II. Ty-
Ter, r. C. Nicholas, W. S. Gordon, W. Will
lis, Jr.
corresponding ScTetmy.-B. F. Howard.
Recording ,SecTetmy.-J. L. Burress.
The meeting then adjourned.
1t is extremely gratifying to us to find
that, through the generosity Of friends, the
library of the Association has been so
largely replcnished. The valuable library
of about four thousand volumes was burned
on the Sd of April, 1865, but it now numbers
one thousand volumes, and is being added
to daily. In addition to these advantages,
the reading-room of the Association is
furnished with sixteen papers, daily and
religious, and with five Of the foreign
reviews.
Two very large and well-ventilated rooms
have been fitted up for library and read
ing-room, which afford delightful retreat
from the noise and heat of the streets; and
we are glad to see that bya recent vote OF
the Directory the privilege of subscribing
to the library and reading-room has been
extended to persons not necessarily men,
bers Of the Association.
This noble association of Christian
brothers was untiring in its efforts to pro-
vide for sthe wants of the poor and III
nursing the sick and wounded during the
war, while its members also established
schools at the hospitals, and held in many
of them regular religious services.
The objects of the Association are such
as must commend themselves to every good
man of our country, and we call upon
every one who can spare dollar, TO help
it's officers in extending its usefulness.
We observe that the Association num-
bers but about four hundred and thirty,
while before the war it had enrolled nearly
eight hundred members. Let the young
men of the city hasten to seek member
ship. Business men wanting clerks will
surely prefer to know that those to whom
they entrust such valuable interests are
Christians and active members OF the
Young Mems Christian Association.
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New PASSENGER CARs.-Mr. William N.
Bragg, the efficient superintendent OF the
roadway of the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac railroad, has just completed
a train of new and beautiful passenger cars,
which will run up to Ashland this after
noon, leaving here at and returning about
\ o'clock. We shall be along, and shall
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