The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-22
The GraSshOppers.


The purport of reports is that there are
no grasshoppers in the district devastated
by them last year, nor in any part oil
Minnesota, North, South, East or West,
except in very small area and in COM
paratiyely small numbers, confined to
the group OF countries on the great bend
of the Minnesota river, consisting OF n
small district of blue earth country,
and in some townships of Frown, Nicco
let and Lesulur with some very small
and feeble detachments of sklrmlshers
IN Meeker and MCLead countries. There
seems to be no danger of any serious
damage from locusts this season, but that
the raid of the pests, if any remain long,
will be limited to spot in small districts.
Presby terian General Assembly.
ST. LOUIS, May 2l.-The General AS-
sembly of the Presbyterian Church,
South met again this morning Modera-
tor Hoge in the chair. The usual stand
ing committees were appointed and the
Committee on Sustenance made a report.
Rev. VIM. Brown, d. d., chairman OF
the Committee on Friendly Relations.
appointed to adjust the differences be-
tween the Northern and Southern
churches made lengthy report which
was laid over for future consideration and
action. This committee met similar
committee OF the Northern church at
Baltimore the 7th of last January and
entered into full and exhaustive DIS
cussion in writing of the grievances and
differences between the two bodies repre-.
scnted by them. The gist of the report
from hurried examination, seems to lie
in the following passages from Rev. Mr..
Brown. chairman of the Southern Com
mittee. He says: "lf your Assembly
could see lis way clear, to say in few
PLAIN words to this effect, that these OBJ
noxious things were said and done in
times of great excitement, that they are
to be regretted, and that now in calm
view OF the imputations cast upon the
Southern Church are disapproved, that
would end the difficulty at once In re-
ply to this, DR.. Niccol- says: "We can t
make this recommendation to our Assem-
bly for the reason that We are still Of the
decided conviction that its actions for the
last four years, so fully rccited to you
in our communication, constitute ,utii
cient ground for fraternal correspOn-
denCe.'
DR.. Niccols then rciteratc~ that all the
acts and deliverancies Of the Northern
Assemblies, of which you complain, are
wholly null and void, and has no bind
ing efficacy. As the judgments
of the church We represent, or ms rules
of proceedings for its Pres
bvteries and church sessions, that in 50
far AS they or any Of them can be sup
posed to import injurious imputa-
tions upon the present character and
standing OF the churches and members
of the Southern Assembly Us Christians
OF Presbyterians, such an application
of them would be unjust to you, and
would be disapproved and regretted by
Us; that the acts and dclivrranccs Of the
Norther Assemblies, of which you com
plain, were made in peculiar times and
under strange and exciting & circumstances,
when the passions and feeling of men
were profoundly moved; that as
acts of Assemble which We
in judgment upon them nor express
any opinion rs to their character; that
we lccl competent to express the desire
that may be considered by you in
the same spirit of charity and Christian
forgiveness, which We trust the people OF
whom we represent would exercise to-
wards any thing to which they may oh
ject in the proceedings Of the Southern
Assembly.
To this Rev. Mr.. Brown replied THAT
the grievances of which we complain and
which we desire to see removed, live back
of the present, and an adjustment which
entirely ignores the past is unsatisfac-
torly.
This virtually closed the controversy.
Meeting of Us. Centennial Commits
sioH.
PHILADELPHI, May 2l.-The United
States Centennial Commission met this
morning, and elected the following otii-
GERS: President, General James Haw-
ley, Connecticut; First Vice President,
Creates Cleveland, New jersey; Second
Vice President, John d. Creigb, Cali
fornia; Third Wee President
Robert Sowery, Iowa. Fourth Vice. Pres
ident Thomas H. Caldwell, Tennessee;
Fifth Vice-PreSidcnt John Mcneil, Mis-
souri,; Sixth Vice. President William
Gurney, South Carolina; John l.. Camp
bell Secretary; John l.. Shoemaker,
Counsellor and Commissioner. EIccu-
tive Committee, Daniel J. Morrell, Pa
Alfred T. Goshorn, Ohio; \. NJ. Beck
worth, n. Y; Alex. R. Boetler,
W. Va. Richard q. Mccormick,
Arizona; John Lynch. Louisiana; Chas
p. Kimball, Maine; Samuel F. Phillips,
North Carolina; Fred. l.. Matthews, H.
linois ". p. Blake, Connecticut, James
+. Dexter, District Columbia; Colonel j.
l: bernard, FIorldai Georg" d. h"r'hS,
VI -uas'acnt'Se'''' a. i'Il :, r,r-
-, Commissioner Matthews oI II., tl'Iu2.s,
Cha'rtnSn C', Oh 'ne oonihit'ee on OPe"'ns
Ceremonies recommends appropriate
ceremonies on the opening ana tloSe ol
the eAhloitioh, and on the T ourtn ol
july partial programme Is NS lOllOW>.