The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-10

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Yesterday the Board Of Consult n
II Engineers of the Hudson Highlan
SuspcnsiOn Bridge Company, met a
. Cozzan's Landing, by request Of tn
Board of Directors of that company
A steamer, the w. Fletchersis to ex
3 plore the river on either side between
terplank aud Buttermilk Falls. fol
Ethe purpose of selecting an eligible
: situation foc the site Of the structure
Among the Engineers were Hora TIC
s Allen, Of the Novelty Works, New
= York; Major General Benham, OF the
s Engineer Corps. u. S. A Major Gen
J Eerali y. A. Gilmore and Il. u. Wright
1 Mr.. McAlpire, State Engineer and
Surveyor; Col. n. D. DJyjdge, En-
fgineer Of the New EDgland & Erie
Railroad; W. B. Gilbert, Chief En-
gineer of the Midland Railroad; Gen.
r. w. Farrell, Eug neer- Chief of
the. Bridg. Company; L.. s. Ferry,
First A ssistant do.
The Board was formally organized
with Horatio Allen as President, and
Mr. Davidson, Secretary. The trip
7 oecupied considerable time. Several
tpoints were DESIGNATED as suitable,
but tnnone were determined on. To
day the Boards. Engineers and Direc-
ors held a meeting 10 consider which
Is the most appropriate site for the
| work.
In the session Of the Unitarian
| Conference Rev. ID. Hosmer, Presi-
dent OF Antioch College, gave a state
1 ment of the circumstances OF that In
| stitutiOn; it had three buildings aud
! Presidents house. costing 1872 600.
| The Salaries are insufficient, and as
the Institution has no power to con
tract debts, it has none. The endow-
ment is about one hundred thousand
dollars.
NEW York, Oct 9.-The Episcopal
General ConveDtionl9Set at 10 o'clock
this morning in Tmhity Chapel, and
passed an hour in the usual devotion
al exercises. Bishop McCiosky, of
Michigan, ofiiciated fassisted by Rev
DR.. :. u. Nc Masters 81 Maiae. The
Convention was caliea4to order at119
o'clock by the President, Rev. sDr.
James Craik, nearlyaab the Delegates
| being present. The President su0-
| mitted the Treasurerss report, con
tanning the following summary of ex-
penses, and the receipls of the Gen
eral Convention of 1865: Total dis
bursements, 1921 80; receipts. 81,
545; excess of disbursements. $746 30;
balance due Treasurer, $457 Sc. The
statement was reEerred to the Com
mittee on Expensess@4
The Committee on New Dioceses
reported favOrably tpen an addition
of the Diocese of Nebraska, under
the name of the COunoil Of Nebraska.
5. B. Ruggles, a member ofsthe
scommittee, objected to changing the
title of the church orga nizations in
the States, and thOurht the name of
the. Diocese shouldabe adherede to.
The Convention, he said, should care
fully guard against all such innoya-
''2Rs1 Rev. DR.. Howe, os Philadelphia.
agreed with Mr.. Rpggles. If the
GonYention set thfsv precedent, it
would not be longa tbeiore -Dioceses
would be asking adnission under the
name Of reformed Oath Ollie Clutches
or Synods. -
20 Rev. Dr. PItkin, Of Michigan, was
In favor of admitting She ID ocese un-
der the name of Coureil
Rev. Dr. Mead, Of Connecticut, op-
posed the admissionsof the Diocese of
Nebraska under the title of Council
as unconstitutional. He, however,
proposed 10 vote for their admission
conditional - upon their changing
their title as soon as their Diocese
should meet.
z Rev. DIR. Littlejohn, of Brooklyn,
thought this debate premature. be-
cause the matter was under consider
alton by the Committee on Canons,
and they had not yet reported on it.
DIR. LittIejohn added he held that a
new Diocese had the power to settle
either word.
Rev. j. Peterkin, of Virginia, coin
cided with the previous speaker re-
garding the right to employ either
word
/ The speaker was Interrupted by
1 the reading Of message from the
House Of Bishops, notifying the Cen
! ral.COnvention that they had passed
a concurrent resolution looking to
| the procuring of more convenient
and suitable building in which to
hold the sessions of the Convention.
Rev. DIR. Goodwin, of Penn, sup
ported the resolution.
II Judge Otis, Of Illinois opposed it,
and argued that such innovations
should originate, If at all, In the Gen
| eral Convention. lie, however, fa-
l vered admitting them now on a pledge
| that they would discard the name of
Council, and adopt the recognized title
of Diocese at their first meeting.
Judge Stephenson, OF Kentucky,
! said the new Dioceses should not be
admitted, because such action would
I be unprecedented.
! s. Judge Battle, of North Carolina.
strongly favored sheir admission, ar
/ guing their right thereto from high
point of view.
Hon. Hamilton Fish moved to
i amend the resolution so as to have 1t
Il read that " the Diocese of Nebraska
i should be admitted as soon as they
had amended- their Constitution and
dropped the ebaoxlous title of Coaa-
cil.P
Rev. w Adams, of Tennessee, ask
i ed that the resolution be amended, so
as to admit-the Council OF Nebraska
/ to full canonical union with this
rchurch,- with the understanding that
the word Council" !" as used in their
Constitution, is.identieal and perfeet-
lv svnonimOus with the word "Conven-
1 ton" He advocated the use ofthe word
/. Council in place gof the Convention,
ast the more descriptive of the trien-
NAL meetings of the Protestant Epis-
eopal Church. of the United States.
He objected to the word convention
because the Spiritualists, Baptists and
others held conventions. He thought
the Episcopal Convention should pot
reject the diocese of Nebraska be.
cause thev had used the word council