Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-20
ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.

The METHODIST GENERAL CONFERENCE
NEW ORLEANS, April IA report was SUBJ
mitted to the General Conference to-day,
calling for the election Of six new Bishops.
The Committee on Changes recommend the
abrogation of the probation system of the
Church, making membership dependent upon
the profession Of faith; also that class-meet-
ing no longer be regarded, as q test Of men,
bership, but only as privilege also,
the establishment Of Monthly Church
Meeting, where the interests of the Church
will pass under review. The Committee on
Colored People recommend the establishment
of day schools for the instruction of colored
children. The Conference adopted the sug-
gestion, and will organize at once such plan
for the education Of colored people; also,
that colored conferences districts and sta
tons be organized, and colored preachers be
ordained and appointed to such works. The
Bishops were requested to publish COM
mentary upon the Church Discipline, cons
tanning all the legal decisions Of the Bishops
A resolution was adopted stating that as the
boundary line agreed upon between the diff
ferent branches of the Methodist Church, in
1854, had been totally disregarded by the
Northern Church, that this Church remove
all restrictions, and extend Its boundaries so
as to include the whole of the United States.
telegram was received from the New York
Conference, now in session OF Tarrytown,
New York, requesting the appointment Of
commissioners to meet theirs upon the sub
jeet of reunion of the Methodist finally.
II was transferred to the Bishops for a
decision.
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been received from Halifax, dated April I 8:
"Fhe city medical Office reports that up to
last evening 10 deatils of the passengers BY
the steamer England had occurred, including
the forty who died on the passage from Liv-
erpool. 1t is believed the disease is probably
a severe form Of ship fever, with many OF
the prominent Symptoms Of cholera, and
amounts to a regular plague. The surviving
passengers have been removed to Her Btil
ianic Majesty's receiving ship Pyramus, and
others to tents on the shore at the quarau-
tine grounds. The disease Is apparently
decreasing.
"W. NJ JACKSON, U. S. Consul"
MIS- PRlcE, wife of Gen. Sterling Price,
sailed from New York, for Mexico, on Tues
day last She is accompanied by her daugh-
ter and two sans, one Of whom, Capt CELSIUS
Price, served wi h distinction on his fathers
staff throughout the war. Another son is
now with his father, at Goniova, in Mexico.
The Tribunes Washington special says an
attempt was made by the Federal troops
stationed at Lecsburg to arrest the notorious
guerrilla John J. Mostly, for appearing on
the street dressed in Confederate UNIFORM
Mosby took to the woods and has avoided
the guards, who fired several shots.
WAsgISGros dispatches of Saturday say |;
Circular and letters have been sent out this
week from the WarDepartment and General
Giants headquarters, TO the Division COM
niandhrs OF the South, in explanation Of the
Presidents reesut peace proclamation. They
are informed that II does not discontinue
martial law, ard does net restore the priv.
ege OF the writ of habeas corpus. Il was
also stated To them that the troops are not TO
be Withdrawn at p7eseat: that more will be
sent to any place when they are needed, and
that the duties and preroganves Of the mill
,ary ar not in any respect thereby sfvidged.