Smyrna times., 1866-04-25

HE METHODIST episcopal CHURCH SOUTH.
The address of the Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church to the General Conference
IN session at New Orleans sets forth that regu-
lar conferences were rendered impossible dur
ing the war recommends continued attention
to the spiritual want of the blacks; rejoices
over the fact Of the accession of the Baltimore
(Alexandria) Conference, with l04 ministers
and IL, hn members; urges renewed zeal IN
the training of ministers and the instruction of
children in Sunday schools, and discourages
reunion with the Church North. The address
says: " No proposal of fraternal relations has
come to us from others. In our conscious in-
tegrlty we should calmly await the inevitable
hour, when, in the providence of God, an en-
lightened public opinion will vindicate our
claims as church of God and true type of
Methodism.
CHURCH DFFICULrEs.-Rev.M Mr.. Clemm,
presiding elder of the Winchester district, last
week demanded the keys of the Methodist
church of Charleston, West Virginia, on be-
half OF the Baltimore Conference After va
rous lnterlOcutory interviews the matter was
submitted to an informal meeting of the mem
bershlp,. who unanimously resolved that they
already had minister, the Rev. Mr.. Smith,
entirely acceptable to them and as the church
mad been erected at their expense, aud not of
the Baltimore Conference, they would only
surrender it when the courts so decided.
INFECTED MoNEY.-The u. S. Treasurer at
Washington recently burned $l99 in greenbacks
which had been forwarded by the surgeon from
a smallpox hospital at Bowling Green, Ky., in
q sealed package. The money was supposed to
be infected with the disease, and new green
backs were sent to the hospital in exchange for
IT, Good The prudent care shown by this
doctor Is worthy of imitation.
-. Richmond editors have a hard time of it
!, i,hey have just got through with ttouble with
the printers, and now the proprietOrs of the
Enquirer, having quarreled with each other,
nave adopted the novel expedient of suspend
ing the issue of their journal until their trou-
bles are ended. They, therefore, ask the Z" in
dulgence OF the public until further notice, at
which indefinite period they promise to resume
the publication of the Enquirer.
Louis NAPOLEON. tone of many Paris
letters indicates the growing unpopularity OF
Louis Napoleon. The majority of the Parlslans
have long been against him as shown IN the
elections to the Legislative body, but now they
lose no opportunity of proclaiming their dislike.
Vast beds of oysters, equal to those of fChes-
apeake Bay, have been found in the Gulf OF
California, between Mazatlan and Guaymas,
from which California will in future be suppli-
3D. They are planted in San Francisco Bay,
and there fattened for the market. |
The ruins of two ancient cities have been dis
covered in Mexico. Ii is believed that one of
them was the ancient capital of Tobaseo, which
Cortez occupied at the time of his invasion,
while tradition connected with the other trace
its origin 20 q period 300 years before the
Christian Era. .i1t ~. a.l l...... ..,,r.i
A number of young men of Norristown, PA. &
have signed pledge TO abstain from the use
Of spirituous liquors for one year, on condition
that whenever one of their number violates the
pledge, his name be published in the borough
papers, .t' .atSill
. MILK.-A. New York milkman recently had
his milk forcibly analysed by his customers,
The fifty gallons he furnished were found 10 be 7
three parts of water to one Of milk TO which
was added starch to give the mixture sufficient
thickness, grease 10 make IL Oleaginous, and a
small proportion ofroasted sugar, TO give il a
'ich, yellow, creamy color. ~ =.
We do not wonder that Mr. Dayis's confine- |,
nent in Fortress Monroe is irksome. but are
surprised TO hear that in other respects it is
inheaithful. We are opposed to any captive
lying from fault of his prison--we had that
,plec.on to Andersonville. A paper published
outside the walls begs the President, if he is
unwilling to set his captive free, TO at least
ransfer him to some more healthful place of
'onnnement." We had always regarded For
ress 7 Monroe as well-appointed prison.. and,
possible, the most comfortable, certainly the
most secure. in tho sarvina Ntq 4