Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-23
Southern Methodist Conference.

NEW ORLEANS, April l9.-The Conference
has spent two days on the case Of Rev. It. +.
Dagget, who: appeals from the decision OF the
Virginia Conference The decision Of said
Conference was sustained.
The Bishops characters were taken up, and
their conduct in the discharge of their duty for
the past eight years was endorsed. ....5.
The Book Committee failed to agree, and two
reports were submitted in reference to the pub
fishing house, the subject Of introducing Dis
triet Conferences into the Church, etc.
The Committee on Correspondence made a
report and the Conference adopted the follow
ing: ,,, ;.
Church South stands this day, as she has always
Stood, ready and willing to consider. with
Christian candor, amy unequivocal and scrlptural
overtures for sympathy and fellowship which
may be rendered her by any body OF Christians
10 their general representative capacity.
That the General Conference most warmly
reciprocates the fraternal greetings and express
Union of Illinois, by their messenger, Rev. j.
Deitzler. :, 49, -. -.-......
That one Bishop and Rev. S. II. Linn are
hereby appointed fraternal messengers from
this body to the annual council of the Christian
Union Church. r....l .....,.
That should any church or association slgnl-
fly their desire to unite With us, they shall be
received on giving satisfactory assurance OF
their belief In our Articles of Religion, and
their willingness to conform to our discipline,
their ministers coming in the same grade as
they hold in their own church, according to the
mode prescribed in our discipline"
|: One of the Bishops and Rev.sG. F. Deems
were appointed fraternal messengers to the
General Conference of the Methodist Protes-
tant Church, to be held at Georgetown, D. G.
in May next. lt.tt.Ils. .s.s
! Asiatic cholera now exists in the New York
harbor and in that. of Halifax. Each Of the
ships in which it originated had above thous
and persons within limits not as large nor as
good for Accommodations and successful treat
treatment as that afford in a first class house
of New York city. This packing of persons
within pent-up limits, like riding for days to-
gether in jammed and unventilated cars, severe
y taxes the general health, and usually re-
suits in development or recurrence of that
form. of sickness to which one is predisposed.
And as the cholera at this time exhibits itself
inithe over-crowded emigant ships, compared
with which the famed British prison ships and
the black hole Of Calcutta were delectable gar
dens, it-Would seem that there is something in
the European atmosphere, or in the system OF
Europeans, that tends to development OF
Asiatic cholera. .,.r-. -
MARTIAL LAW prevails in the Military De-
partment of Virginia, now under the command
of Brevet Major General Turner. The order
was given by General Turner on the 18th
April, in consequence Of the negro riot at Nor
folk. 1t was heretofore explained, by order Of
the War Department., in reply to the inquiry
whether the Presidents proclamation removed
| martial law, that it had not that effect, and did
! not operate in any way upon the freedmen S
Bureau IN the exercise of its legitimate juris-
dlction. The order added, however that it
| was lnexpedlent to resort to military tribunals
10 any case when justice can be attained through
the medium of civil authority. 7:s-l'.
The practice Of setting apart every Saturday,
for the reading of speeches In the House OF
Representatives, isjustly ridiculedin the news
papers ~ -. - 80. -.@
Cases Of smallpox, principally among the
freedmen, are reported in Washington.