New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-05
LOCAL. MISCELLANY.
WORK AMONG THE CoLORED PEOPLE.
ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE FBREDMENs AID
SOCIETY.

ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE FRREDMENs AID
SOCIETY.
The eleventh anniversary of the Freedmen's
Aid Society OF the Methodist Episcopal Church was
celebrated last evening az St PauPs ~ f. Church, the
president Bishop Wiley in the chair The Rev. DE-. Rust
corresponding secretary read an abstract OF the annual
report The receipts for theyear $634o2 49, and
the expenditures $685. O5 o. Included in the expend
nres was SI5669 50 invested in real estate The debt
OF the society amounts to 81 000 having BEEN reduced
5000 during the year. The total amount collected ana
expended during the eleven years Of the socetys ex
istence Is $715.S52 40.
The society has aided In the establishment Of i've
chartered institutions HAVING full collegiate powers:
Tho Central Tennessee College. Nashville the Clark
University, Atlanta the Cla1in University, Orange
burg S. C.; tho New-Orleans University, hew-orleans
and the SHAW University, Holly Springs, Miss; three
Theological and two Medical Schools, also chartered,
and ten other educational institutions.
The Rev DR. Fowler Editor OF The Christian Adpoc0,
said the desCny OF tiis Nation was allied closely
with that OF the conred race and tnat IN the education OF
It lay the safety Of the Republic The American ArcaD
Aesad has An sO prGcviEes he dts INTO our race,
and he fades presence Tho struggle If the future
will be between TIE AngoSaxOu race ana the remainder
OF the world. The Saxon Is z compound OF lightning,
BItrUgycrrne buzz saws and solhshnesS The speaker
further said thai the work hr society demanded
by the failure Of tho Southern STATES TO do H. Inc pun
he schools had been osed IN many OF thein ana the
Southern churches had done nothing Tor tho colored
people. ,
the present condition Of the negroes In the south ond
that Oftwontg ago He erred to political anrs
ccudcmrng the removal OF troops from the Southern
Sintes, and prasing the "carpet-baBgers who went
there TO preach and teach Christ.
Jubilee chorus furnished music during the evening
The songs greeted with much favor. Inc singers
students from the universities at hew-Orieans anu
Nashville.
THE STORIES OF SHIPWRECKED PEOPLE.
The steamship Gamma, from Bermuda, yes
teray brought passengers several shpwreeaed peO
pie who had landed at Bermuda by other vessels
Among them were Captain Shuttle and eight OF the
of the German bark Consul Piaten, which sailed from
this port September 49, for Plymouth England. with
4J7 OF OIL cake On the twentieth day after leaving
port they encountered hurricane which dismased the
vessel aud caused her TO leak. All Kept at the
pumps for four days until Obliged 10 stop from eKhaus
ton on October 49, IN latitude 49o NORTH Longitude 16o
west they picked mp by the steamship Indus when
landed them at bermuda, when they forwarded
her, by the American Consul Tue vessel which they
had abaudOned not lost. Five men and mate Of
the shin Bndgcwater, winch came across her, went on
bpad thc abandoned bark and took her 20 Queenstown
OF AID rom Halifax, for Kingston, Jamaica, also ar
rIyed On the Gamma. He reports inst his yess" was
caught In the hurricane October 5,WaS smasted and
couscd to lra badly that there hopo OF saving
hrr The rev taken OF tn nest day by the Nor
wegiau bark Syea. which, dntDg gale Oh October -,
los. her fOremas and put into Bermuda on October 81
The oc rs Of tho bark e. Patrick which arrived from
Rottrram report that October l9n latitude 40 NORTH
900 fire. and also saw her sluk the vessel had
been abandoned. Several hOgsheads OF tobacco were
Ito ding about, Of which were picked up by the st.
The steamship sicilian, which left wYork for Ste
tn on November 3 returned ~ port yesterday in oaky
condition. and Will 20 ~ dock for repairs Al a. m on
renamed Tor nearly hours Later she struck again,
aud then began TO leak badly.