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posed have been alienated from our commun-
ion BY political and ecclesiastio iuflnannea

posed have been alienated from our commun-
ion by political and ecclesiastio influences.
Conformably to the wish OF the last Genera
Conference, we have organized and presided
over annual conferences, composed eXclu-
sively OF colored members, have formed forty
five districts, with circuits and stations, in
oil of which. with few exceptions in which
white preachers have volunteered to act as
supplies, our colored brethren are performing
the duties Of presiding elders and pastors. The
principal fields of these operations extends
through portions of Georgia, Tennessee, Ken
lucky, Mississippi, Kansas, Louisiana, Alabama,
South Carolina and Florida, and ia widening by
applications for the organization OF new con-
ferences. The colored preachers have con-
Quoted themselves. both in their annual con-
ferences and In the exercise Of their pastoral
ration Of those Of their white brethren who
have become best acquainted with their de-
partment. 1t is our purpose, unless otherwise
advised by your body, to call general con-
ference, to be holden next winter, for the pur-
pose OF organizing them into an entirely sepa-
rate church, and thus enabling them to become
their own guides and governors.
The suggestion of district meetings, origi-
mating at the last session Of the General Con-
ference. has been practically adopted. under
the sanction Of the annual conferences, with
signal benefit to the cause OF religion. At
these meetings the lay representatives to the
annual conferences have been elected; the
leading minds of the church, lay & well as
clerical, have been brought together, impres-
sed and moved with new zeal; the bishops, as
far as they could find the opportunity 10 at
tend, have had q new and important field OF
influence opened to them, and the results have
been of great value to all the prominent Inter-
ests OF the church, spiritual as well as econom-
cal. -fi'@
In conclusion, dear brethren, we pray earn
estly that the plentiful enrichment OF the
''spirit of power, and of love, and OF a sound
mind" may rest upon you In all the deliosra-
tions and decisions of the present session
dsm. Could we take you up the shining
mount of vision and show you the vast and
grand future before the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South {; the sublime pos
sibiliues which await development In
the ages to come, and which, as their
condition, ask for answering fidelity to
Christ and the solemn trust he has
placed In your hands for the wcrid,
you would need no loftier inducement to the
patient, resolute, prayerful discharge OF the
duties imposed upon you as the representa-
tives of the entire church. That the Divine
counsel may guide you in all things, Is our de-
vout and constant prayer.
r. o. ANDREW,
R. PAINE,
G. F. PIERCE,
II. H. KAvANAU0H,
W. NJ. WIaHTAAN,
E. n. MARVIN,
D. 8. DoGGETT,
II N. N0TYEInR.
Memphis, Tenn, May s, 1870.
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SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Mrs. Mcfarland Richardson will publish her
story In the Tribune.
The steamer Lloyd Aspiuwall, released by the
Spanish authorities, sailed from Havana yes
terday.
Smallpox Of malignant form prevails at Hav-
ana and many interior towns.
A Toronto dispatch Of yesterdays date says 1t
Ia feared that Sir John!A. Mcdonald will die in
few hours.
Mrs. Mcfarland. Rich hardson's history OF herself
by herself fills nine columns OF the New York
Tribune.
At meeting OF the Woman's Suffrage Assoota-
tion, held in New York yesterday, and presided
over by Henry Ward Beecher, resolutions con-
demning the verdict In the jury in the Mcfarland
atrial were pasaed.
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THE NEW DOMINION.
OTTAWA, CANADA, May II

OTTAWA, CANADA May II.
In the Senate to-day. the Hon. Mr.. Camp
bell, In reply to question relative to the with.
drawal of the British troops, said that the cor
respondence was not complete; that the govern.
meat was demonstrating against the contenplat-
ed policy Of the Imperial Government. He might
say, however, that the view Of the home govern
ment was, that In ordinary times OF peace Cana
da was just as able to bear the expense Of defence
as the mother country. The home government
proposed to garrison Halifax and similar FORTH.
cations, but inland fortiacations would have to
be garrisoned by Canadian volunteers.
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GEORGIA J0rTINGS.

AUGUSTA, May IL.
The Floral Exhibition Of the Cotton States
Agricultural Association was opened to-day. An
Grafton was delivered by Rev. Charles ". Howard.
About two thousand strangers are In attendance.
The morning papers report that NerEI', the
military sheriff OF Warren County, who was ar
rested for receiving brides, has been carried to
Atlanta by order OF General Terry.
The annual convention OF the stockholders OF
the Georgia Railroad adjourned to-day. John P.
King was reelected president
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RELIGIOUS.
The baptist Convention.

The baptist Convention.
LOUISVILLE, May II.
The Baptist Convention. after adopting
unanimously resolution adverse TO cooperation
with Northern Baptists, adjourned.
The Methodist Conference.
BALTIMORE May IL.
The General Methodist Protestant Conference
adopted the report OF the Executive Committee
regarding oertldcation OF preachers licenses, and
the admission Of probationists to full membership
at the option Of preachers. The Church Register
was adopted.
Many Of the bishops have signed letter ex-
pressing desire to consummate reunion, and
their willingness to do anything to this end that
did not involve sacrifice Of principle.
The conference adopted the following: "No
minister shall celebrate matrimony contrary to
TO our Lords decision In Mathew XIX, verse O."
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Chipping.
y OR M W Z o R K

T o r N E W Y o r K !.
The Al side.wheel Steamship TEN. .E{Se.
NESSEE, Chichester, Commander, win vS2i&26
sail for New York on "WEDNESDAY, NAY l8tn, az 8
O'Clock P. NJ, from Pier No. 2, Union Wharves,
connecting with day Passenger Trains from Co.
Through Bills Lading win be issued for Cotton
to LIVERPOOL, HAVRE, Boston and the New
England Manufacturing Cities.
The TENNESSEE will make close connection
with Liverpool Steamship IDAHO, OF Messrs.
Williams Guion's Line, sailing 18th OF HAY.
Insurance by the Steamers OF this line X per
cent.
For Freight engagements, or passage, having
very superior stateroom accommodations all on
deck and newly furnished, apply 20. WAGNER,
HUGER d CO., No. 26 Broad street, or to WV. A.
COURTENAY. No. Union Wharves. maybe
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RADICAL ROW IN RALEIGH.

RALEIGH, May IL.
The Republican State Convention assembled
here to-day. Over three hundred delegates are
present, Of whom twenty.fo -four are colored. There
has been squabbllng all day about the permanent
chairmanship between the friends of senator's Alb
bott and Pool, the candidates. Psol was at last
cheseh. The delegates are very disQrdeE.J, and
the proceedings are diversified by an occasional
fight.
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by way Of giving a lat job to his Atlanta or
gans, BuocS publishes in the Era anu Intel
liscncer, spread out over nearly two columns and
ilalr OF tllusc papers, a list OF the persons in
Georgia whose political Disabilities have been re-
moved by Congress, IN accordance with the Four
teenth amendment uf The constitution. This il
tic first Instance We KNOW Of In which the names
of aInncstIed citizens III any or the Southern
States have been advertised II the expense uf the
State. The advertisement Is marked 10 be insert.
ed four times and 1T regular advertising rates
will give nice little lee to The ncorruptlDie At
laata organs.
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Ing 70 German capitals. 8 against American
bonds cam from the North GerTGn Consul at
New York
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NOR EDIsTO AND ENTERPRISE,
VIA oHBRoH FLATS, YoUNG's ISLAND
BEARS BLUFF, &C., GOING AND COMING.
t1NL.aSD ALL THE WAY.i

The Steamer reaey:oS Freight az - ss.s:tsl
Decentralization Wharf, and viii leave n3 Ab0Ve
r,1,S nAy the 18th instant, at II o'clock noon.
I,riHrn,na, viii leave E;'Iso on FRIDAY, Ihs lssh
IL rnr sm rassIGe Or Iregh. apply on boar,l, or to
DOU ;LAS n. .SBEr. AGENT
Accommodations Hnarf.
N. r.-PrelgAt and Whari.. e payable hers
mn1Li
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EUROPE.
opfum and Rclicious Grants.

Opfum and Religious Grants.
LONDON, May II.
The resolution against raising a large por-
tlon OF the revenue from opium was defeated in
the House or commons.
committee was appointed TO inquire by what
tenure Catholic and Anglican institutions hold
propcrty.
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ToR SAVANNAH, INLAND RoUTE)

VIA PACIFIC LANDING AND BEAUFORT. =
The steamer PILOT BOY Captain O. r .EK-A
Carroll white, will leave Charles sgs71 - =
ton eyery THURSDAY MORNING, at s o'eloox, lOr
above places. ,,,,-,>,,
The PILOT BOY win leave Savannah every
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, at O'Clock, touching at
Beaufort and Pacific Landing. and connecting
at Charleston with SATURDAYS Steamships for
New York
The PILOT BOY will touch at BnHs Island
Wharf every fortnight, going to and returning
from Savannah. J. D. AIKEN y w.
anr8
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VILE AND PACIFIC LANDING.
EOR PALATKA, FLORIDA,
VIA SAVANNAH, FERNANDINA JACKSON.
VILE AND LANDINGS ON ST. JOHNS RIVER.

sEMI-wEEKLY LINE.
Steamer DICTATOR Captain , 49,
George e. Mcmillan, sails every n
MONDAY EVENING at O'Clock
Steamer "ClTy POINT" Captain Penn Peck,
sails every FRIDAY EVENING at O'Clock. Con.
Meeting with Steamer STARLIGHT for Enterprise.
Pare to and from Savannah 50 each way, IN.
Guiding berth and meals.
Through Tickets and through Bills OF Ladins
for Freight given.
J. D. AIKEN CO., Agents,
tan13 South Atlantic Wharf.
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Victory OF the Snppho.

LONDON, May IL.
The American yacht Sappho was victorious In
the race to-day. Her opponent, the Cambria, re-
turned to Cowes without rounding the stake
boats.
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THEIR PRESENT ASPECT.

THE VIRGINIA B4TTLE-FIELDS.
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r. A. TURNER, socretar;es
w. l.. PARKS,
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THE REGULAR STEAM LINE.
WEEKLY TO PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, BOS-
ID TON, AND THE ClTlES OF THE NORTH
WEST.
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pereou to be specially entrusted Will lne
oversight of these vital interests.
looked by YOU. We cannot consent to surren-
dor to others tho vast power and influence
welded by the press; no church can safely 10
90. In proportion to the potency Of this lnflu-
ence is the solemn obligation resting on us TO
ollard and guide the press. 1t must maintain
q high religious tone-neither SUBSIDIZED py
wealth or power nor perverted by amolIon w
partisan and political purposes. IL shOulo am
steadily at conserving the connectionaiism OF
the church. and be committed to trustworthy
and competent men who love the whole church
too well TO put In peril her unity aud peace.
We should hail with rapture the day that saw
frst-class religious and literary newspaper
In every Methodist family, and our standard
works in every library.
There is, allow us to add, pressing neea O!
greater facilities for procuring our stanoara
has bas suffered greatly from the difficulty Of oh
taning even hymn book and discipline. II,
in your wisdom, any relief can be afforded, q
Great want will be supplied. We congratulate
You upon tho ability and fidelity OF those to
whom the Journalism Of the church mas oeen
entrusted during the past four years; ana es-
pecially upon the energy ability ana SUCCESS i;es
Ing house. They deserve the highest com.
| mendation. The prosperous condition OF % the
publishing interests under control OF the Gene
| raj Conference is matter of special gratifca
ton, and OF high import 10 the future develop
ment of the church.
s,un alter the last session of your body the
bishops proceeded To carry into effect the plar
adopted for the religious benefit of our coloret
members. The effort met with the approva
and concurrence of many of them, notwlth
standing the prcjudices which were attempted
too successfully in many instances-t0 be In
stlled Into their minds against us. Agtca
un,luer of them still retain their attachnen
TO thc,church and ministry that had in the pas
bestowed go much attention and labor upo
their religious instructions, and through who's
instrumentality they had been Enlightened an ~.
converted. Still, 1t Is true, that many thus "E
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If they find that they can impress the Presi-
dent with their views, merely by the contact
of their riches, they will use him to their fill,
and blast his administration with their full
some praise and insidiOus advice.
The Presidents best advisers are not to be
found in the private closet The days of the
Privy Council went out with Clarendon and
the Third Stuart. The Presidents advisers
should be the better press of the country and
the cry of the many headed poor-the over
taxed farmer, the idle sailor, the immigrant.
1t is notifying to our conceptions of the
American Chief Magistrate that he should
feel the contact of any man, much less
merely rich one. This is the weakness of
General Grant-the real weakness He is
used He is impossible He is an abused
man His relatives have not felt, in the
nice sense of delicacy, the duty they
owed him to abstain from solicit
ing Federal favors Many of them are in
office. Others have tried to grow rich by OBJ
tanning his ear. 1t is more than probable
that Corbin swindled Fish and Gould out of
300, 600 by using the name of President
Grant. But if Corbin had grown rich as
Cresus by his high relationship, it would
have been a less dangerous symptom than the
| known fact that people who have climbed to
| opulence by the barbarisms and slips of legis-
lation are looked upon by the President as
the best exponents of American citizenship.
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THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES BOAT
ACE-CAMBRIDGE VICTORIOUS.

FROM the N. 4. Herald.
The Oxford and Cambridge University
eight-oared boat race contest came off on the
river Thames on Wednesday. The struggle COM
menced at o'clockin the afternoon. 1t was
made on the usual course, from Putney to
Mortlake, a distance of about four and quar-
ter English miles, The trial was short, sharp,
and decisive, the Cambridge crew winning by
one length in twenty minutes and thirty
seconds. The Oxfords were favorites at
odds in the morning. Cambridge, however,
reversed the popular anticipation and dissi-
pated the outside calculations by victory,
the first which her sons have achieved over
the boys of the lignt blue in ten years.
The scene ON the banks of the river, and
on the water itself, under the police rules
and guidance of the Thames Conservancy,
was brilliant and animated as in former
years London was ''out" in holiday attire.
The royalty, aristocracy, and democracy of
Great Britain were side by side for the mo-
ment, the social and legislative gulf which
has hitherto separated them having been
narrowed considerably within few years
past, and being still in process of oblite-
ration, or becoming at least more shallow
hourly, like as to the condition OF the river
on the fringes of which they had congregated.
If permitted to indulge in speculation in mat
ters of science, we should say here that the
temporary reversal of the fame and glory of
Oxford may be attributed, to certain extent,
to the working of the measures OF university
reform which have been applied gradually of
late by the English Parliament to the diff
ferent seats of learning in that country. The
colleges have received new blood. They
have more muscle, more of the crdsanentuRe
or fibre of humanity in the classes and hence
the new, as it were, and more powerful sweep
! of the oar, the closer approach to an equality
| of power, the quick time, and the 'leetle
ahead" only of the result. The shortest time
previously made over the same course in the
| past ten years was made in the year lSGS-a
| year of university reform-when the Oxfords
| won in twenty minutes exactly.
The young men of Oxford and Cambridge
universities have now contended in this manly
aquatic sport twenty-seven times In the
| year 1916 the first race was pulled over the
course--four and a half miles then-in out
| rugged eighths, and the distance made IN
| twenty-one minutes and five seconds. Oh
tho whole number of contests Oxford has
now won sixteen and Cambridge eleven. In
addition to the regular struggles just men,
toned, the universities men have contended
| together five times at the Henley regattas in
the same heat for the grand challenge cup
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THE MCFARLAND JURY.

From the N. Y. Times.
The right of challenging jurors may be
seen exercised on truly Brobdignagian
scale in this city whenever a trial of unusual
Importance is coming off. Nearly seven hun
dred citizens were subpenaed in order that
twelve men might be found of sufficient in
telligence and fairness to try Mcfarland If
things go on at this rate, small town will
not be in a condition to afford the luxury
of jury much longer. Even New York
might not be able to stand the embarrass-
ment to business which half-a-dozen import
ant trials going on at one time would be
calculated to produce. The present system
does notstend to further the ends of justice
so much as to enable the counsel on each
side to have little ''sparring" across the
court, and waste good deal of valuable
time. They talk at one another about their
respective cases, and ''chaff" the citizens
who have been summoned 30 the court, to
their great inconvenience and loss Thus,
when dealer in drums was called the other
day, it was instantly seen to be an excellent
method of greeting him to remark that he
was ''sound," 5" that he could not be beaten,
and that he would make too much noise. The
counsel added to the effect of these exqui-
site sallies by calling the gentleman "Mr.
Drums" Perhaps we cannot have too much
of such humor as this, but the Recorder Ito
say nothing of the prisoner) must have
wished that the counsel would 'leave their
damnable faces and begin" When man is
on trial for his life the best of jokes may be
lost upon him.
This abuse of the privilege of challenging
| jurors is short-sighted in every way. 1t does
not find out the best men for the duty. The
counsel, not satisfied with putting the ques-
ton, shave you any prejudice in your mind
concerning this case.?" frequently pressed the
Juror as to whether he had formed any inn
preston whatever concerning it, and the
mere reading of the newspapers seemed in
some cases to be taken as sufficient disquali-
tication. A man who does not read news
paper cannot be a very fit person to sit on any
jury; and as for impressions" whose mind
is free from them when case of this kind
is brought before the public? But juryman
is sworn to render verdict in accordance
with the evidence produced during the trial
his mind is not supposed to be ''sheet of
white paper" when he enters the court. 1t is
ordinarily deemed sufficient for the judge to
admonsh the jury to dismiss from their
minds all that they heard previous to the
evidence, and juries are as rule intelligent
enough to see for themselves the necessity of
doing this. The oath surely ought to be
strong enough to overcome mere ''impres-
sions, but not much Importance seems to be
attached in legal circles to oaths nowadays.
We do not seek to censure counsel for ex-
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OF these races--to the year 1S55-Oxford
won three and Cambridge two. At the
Thames National Regatta, June %,
1874, Oxford beat Cambridge in a smart,
exciting race. We sympathize with the
young men of Britain in their steady pursuit
and patronage of a civilizing, healthy sport
Its yearly progress marks the refining ad-
vance of a nation. Manly as free-born men,
cosmopolitan and generous in spirit, and with a
happy comminglement of the best blood and
most healthy material of the Old World lands
in their veins, hands, and arms, the youth of
America have taken in aquatic sports, as if
naturally, from the earliest dawn of the his
tory of the country. Broad and expansive in
their views as is the land of their birth in
territory and resource, they multiplied row.
ing clubs rapidly, the history of these Ameri-
can organizations filling good sized portly
manual to-day. Joyous on the rivers, many
of them have taken to the "wide, wide sea-"
They have 'gone down" to the ocean in feet
yachts, under canvas and by steam, and,
crossing over the Atlantic, have surprised
we cannot say intimidated to Englishmen-
the present stock by the exhibition of
their personal elasticity, skill, and courage,
as is known by the history of the yacht
America victory to the present moment. John
Bull has stared considerably; he has even
growled; but we must recollect that John is
Tor the most part, more practical than an
educated parsonage, and one who can fight a
battle or run race without troubling himself
in the slightest degree about either the bal
ances or retributions of humanity. Oxford
and Cambridge have done well on the river
America will coax their men to the ocean,
Here they may do better. 1t will be a vast
change. Orsin Pinnini, ''the keeper of her
Majesty's bear gardens, memorialized Queen
Elizabeth against zone idle Will Shake
speare," as demoralizing the ''manlie sporte
of bull-bating." Yet the bull-fght has dis.
appeared as an English sport. The logic OF
progress is inevitable, as the science medal
men of both Oxford and Cambridge know.
AS proof we need only mention that the uni.
versities race commenced on Wednesday at five
o'clock in the evening, London time, but the
result was reported at the Herald bull ling al
two o'clock in the afternoon, New York time
Electricity and the prophecy of Puck.
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HOW GENERAL GRANT IS USED b
RICH MEN.
From the Chicago TriLune.

From the Chicago Tribune
President Grant has one defect of character
rarely met with in high places-an inexplica-
bic respect for rich men. Now, rich man
without recognition of some kind is one of
the poorest of human creatures. Either COM
merce, literature, society, or politics is neces-
sary to make him happy, and this is why SO
many ounces sit in the Senate and House,
paying out their money TO be noticed. This
sort OF man is apt, if he have republican
conscience, to be a good sort of man for a
President to take by the hand now and then,
to encourage him with the fact that even en-
terprise is not the worst thing in the State,
and to assure him that respectable wealth
need not debar any person from visiting
Magistracy occasionally
Now, why should the President take plea
sure in such merely rich men as Borie and
Corbin; or, worse yet, in such designing rich
men as Oakes Ames, Daniel Morrell, and
others, who are, of course, pleased with his
attention and interested in his person, but
who have more important designs than either
social recognition or historical reminiscence?
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