The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1859, Page 2

2 ANNIVE RSARY WEEK. INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS | OF TRE Smerican Home Missionary foclety, National | Keformatory Convention, tmerican Bap- tet Mariners’ Society, Young Men's Chris- tian Union, ‘merican foc'ety for 4me~ Werating the Condition of the Jews, Associated Alumni of Union Theo- logical Seminary, Sfriean Civilizas tlon Society, American Congre- gational Union, Amertean Bible Society, American au Foe reign Bible Society, Bos ton American Tract So- cleiy, Deafand Dumb, Five Polats House of Indostry, Amert- can Temperance Union, National Woman’s Rights Convention, ae, de., i AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The American Home Missionary Society celebrated its Mhirty third aniversary on Wednesday evening, at tho ‘hareb of the Poritans, Union square, Organized in 1826, by various iccal cocieties combining to constitute a nation- al poctety, the American Home Misaion has steadily ad- | ywanced in usefulness and in securing the confidence of the several churches, until #t present it exercises a wide and controlling influence. In thirty three years the soci- aty bur expended three aud @ half millions, and performed gw vect amount of ministerial labor in the thirty-six diffe. vent States and Territories. It has esiablished and alded about 4,500 different congregations in spreading the Gos. pel; and something like 125,000 members have been added to the several churebes under its care. Its mis. sionaries bave increased {rom 169 to 1,050 in number, and ta contributions have been enlarged from $18,000 to $190,000 a year—a ten fold increase. ‘The officers of last year remain almost unchanged, with whe | a waruing | important | there may be with some reasonable personal deco- { + ties and duties, and in the organization of spontancous tri NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1859.—TRIPLE SfiEET. ; 's tom miseration. In one section of the country it apreal ‘Jury, tba great jandmark of Saxon liberty, t0 a aaee and they do disregard, laws demanded vy the universal Voice of Christendom for the suppression of tie slave (rade, and what ie worse and wan anes grep : Crertad re | rattic from the ecora and degre ! Mat unbaly trtlem to ibe. Uigaiy of alaslouary ener | Drise—perhaps, in the opinion of its advovsles, Lo a rival: Hiip witb this society, In another section tt nukes an Almost equally successful appeal to the samo body tw net At panght the federal conskitution~-the only security for national protection abd bational upity—in favor of personal liberty, Personal liberty 18, indeed, invaluable, but it must, like all other human rights, bo regulated by the law and the constitution ; and they who exhort to the wilful yiols'ion of either invoke universal anarchy, and contrib- bie in no small degree to the demotition of the fair edifice in which ail our liberties are easbrined, The tendeucy ailaced to perverts the precepts of the Bible and the teachings of God 0 ite base uses, and pronounces reveogo- ful murder not a felonious killing, bat a judicial sacrifice ; and judge and jury reecho blasphemy. As to ‘the licentious such a doctrino is not withont its uses, but its general adoption would sap the foundations of imdividua) safety and social order. These, and euch things as these, sbundantly prove that this society, how active and useful soover it may be, ean perform only a small share of the work which invites its exertions and demands all its energies. But pasaing these and other like considerations, with the sincere as- sent of the understanding and the heart to their paramount importance, let your attention be directed to the blessed influences which the society must necessarily exert in | forming the character and controlling the destinies of the new towns and settlements which are springing up in all Parts of our extended country, and from which our new cormmunities aud States must be formed. While many of the emigrants to these secluded and far away districts come from foreign lands, much the larger portion of them are from the older States, and leave behind them—ob how great somotimes is the sacriflee—tho advantages of refined association, of organized gociety, the schoolhouse, ‘the town ball, the church, and the sound of the preached Gospel. Much privation and suffering must always attend euch enterprises, whether conducted by individua's or by large bodies of men, even when impelled, as oar Puritan ancestors were, by a desire “for the glary of Gid and the advancement of the Christian faith.” The time necessarily occupied in providing for mere physical wants, in subduing the forest, in tilling the ground, and in providing new habitations for themselves and their families, does not permit much heed to be given to more interests, and, a8 @ consequence, while | rum in private conduct and much devoted piety, there are | & large number of others who throw aside all restraint, a8 if freed from the obligations imposed by civilizadon; aad hence there is also the absence of ail estabiishea and wnited order, resulting not uafrequentiy in general license end lawiesences. This maniieets itself in the desecration of the Sabbath, in border thefts, in the violation of fealy bunais to check and to punish these and similar outrages— @ remedy scarcely to be preferred to the evil it corrects— 1d but for otaer aid, the inhabitants must inevitabty con- we to descend in the social scale. Only a very few of | Such districts, in the early stages of their progress, can sustain the regular institations of the Gospel; fewer auitl exception that the Vice Presidents, Edward G. | can carry with them a tiospel minister, or support him, ty, and Governor Buckingham, of Coa- | or build an edifive in which God may be Worebipped; and Weeleey of eee to supply the places of Inembers | without these there cannot be a well regulated town, vil- Aristorchus Champion, of Rochester, remains President, ena bijion Badger, D. D:, David B. Coo, D, D., and Rev. Daze! C. Noyes, continue Secrvtaries. The exercises of Wednesday evening were, considering Tee slorm, weil attended, Rev. T. Dwight, D. D., Vice President, occupied the chair. Rev. Dr. Parroy opened the proceedings with prayer, after which the Treasurer's re- port and report of the Executive Committee were seve- | lage or community. ‘This great want it ie one of the lead- ing objects of this eociety to supply. BR eends to these re- mote scitlemon!s, a& well as to destitute localities nearor home, the living’ preacher, to dispense the word of Truth, and {0 teach thereby man’s daty to his neighbor, to soct- ety and to God. Heds usually a man of liberal education, of various degrees of azquirement in most of the elements ot human knowledge, in many instances of refined agso- ciation andl cultivation; he has had the advantages of reli- Tally presented by Cuxmrortme R. Bowsers, Bsq.,and Rey. | gious and theological training and education, and above all Motos Brann. D. D, ‘These reports set forth that the number of mi the Gospel in tne service of the Society, in twenty-two dif- erent Statee and Terriiories, has been 1,054. Of tne whole number, 559 have been the pastors or atated sup- rs of { But be goes not alone. plies of single congregations; 345 baye ministered in two | Or three covgregations cech; ‘and 60 have extended their Jabors over stil wider fieids. Ia the operations of the Bociesy the advaniages of a permanent and an itinerant mney are thus bepyily combined, Ten missionaries | and and more than all, is of approved pious life and character. He is the head of a Christian family, and be regards the family institution as sacred, establisbed for the wisest purposes, lying at the founda- tion of all civil society, and he strives to ennoble and pro- tect it. As it embodies the type of civil government, so he renders it ovedience and respect, and secks to mould the people around bim into a Christian community, with well appointed and good men for their temporal guides rulers. His owa hougehold is an example to sepa- have preached to congregations of colored people; and 4 rated, or disturbed, or irreligious households, and they forty-one in foreign languagea~twenty to Weleh, and eigh- teen to German congregations; api three to congregations of Swedes, Norwegians and Frenchmen. The number of ations aud missionary stations supplied, in whole | or in part, is 2,125. The aggregate of miuisterial labor performed is equal to 810 years, The number of popile in Sabbath schools “is 67,300. ‘barches have been organized by’ the missionaries @uring the year, and thirty have become self supporting. Fifty houses of worebip have been completed, 51 re- | paired, and 61 others are in process of erection. ’ Ninety en, in connection with the missionary paration for the Gospel ministry. Tae additions to the churches, as nearly a8 can be ascertained, have been 8,791, yiz:—6,578 on profession, and 2,913 by Wetter. This is a larger addition than haa ever before been made im any one year of the society’s labors. Re- weipie—$185,129 Expendivures—$187,084 $1; loaving $10,456 01 still due to missionaries for \sbor performed, | Yowards cancelling whicu,and meeting further claims oa GommMireions day vecumeg que—amounting in all to $80,635 2)—there is @ balance in tha treasury of $7,542 99, Acomparicon of the leading items in the resuud ur ine Year wish thoee of the year previous is full of eacouraze- ment. The receipts exceed those of the year preceting by $12,167 92. Forty-two more missiouaties have been im the rervice of the society; one huadred and oue more sengregations have received the ministrations of the goe. one thousand aud eight hondred more children and ith bave been instructed in Sabbath schools, and two 4 apd three more communicants have been adied tw the churches. [To the mise marches the past year has been a year of maay trials. in poverty, aud often amid sore Hardships, have herve faithful laborers persevered in their divine tasks— ministers and private Cariatians alike proving them. | God's recorded will to man, and he mai: Seventy-six | pasion of bis life and tho ruler of all his con are induced to copy its spirit and imitate its virtues. No, he does not go alone. The spiritof his Master accom- panies him, the spirit to do gond, to benefit his fellow man, to take from him the evil of ain and to make him a child of holiness. Moreover, he takes with him the Bible— it the com- et. Through its agency he communicates divine kaow lode to the be- nighted, and Jeads them to repentance aud reformation. The benelicial effects of his labors and anxietivs are wit- nessed in turbulence giving place to gentleneas, the dram Shop to the school and the church, intemperance t z0- briety, profanity t prayer, Sabbath breaking to Sabbath keeping, idlenes to industry, denial of God to his reve- rence and Worship, anda disorderly and licentious com- munity toa well regulated and orderly one—for, from a knowledge of and obedience to the precepts of the Bivle, prvateand pubdjic thrift and social order are sure to follow. Mr. Noyes proceeded to dwell on the multiplied ger- vices which a missionary performed, ag the schoolmaster and the teacher of divine truth. There should necessarily Tesult from the well directed efforts of evory home mis- sicuaiy uu wOvanced State of civil society, in all the re- gions that came within the sphere of his operations, From all these considerations be advanced Wo the practical conclu- sion that it was the duty of every man to do something towards cupporting home missionaries, The necessities of the cause and rapid increase of popuiation rendered the employment of a larger missionary force absolutely eszential. The tri(ling sum of $260 paid for an entire year of misionary labor under the society, The rich might anes and ther | furnish many missionaries from their abundance; the poor, Oue, or contribute to the support of one. fe coa- | cluded by drawing attention to the example of the late selves, in patience and eelf deuial, good soldiers of the | Orces.’ In like manner have thore to whom the Society Jeoks ‘or the means of carrying on its work demonstrated Aheir frm and reliable attachment to the cause, manifest- | ® prompt cad just apprehension of ite exigencies, aud pth and and trath of devotion most enconraging. ‘But if in tewporal things the past year has been a eea- won of trial, these trials have been over balanced by the rich spiritual ingathering. Churches baye chaunted with | their barvest home, as they have brough: together | goto the Lerd’s house the fruits of hig abounding crace. Thus bas the season of man’s weakness proyed the hour of God's triumph; and while temporal rigbes hay? beea taking to themselves wings, eternal treagures have 222 | Jaid up where they shai) never be moved. ever before have the churches learned to put their trust immediately in God—looking not upon eloquent preachers as mediator? to bring down the presence of the Spirit, but eing themselves to the Father, believing that to then ‘hat ask the infinite bizesing is given. Rev. 8. Lacy, of San Francisco, Cal. offered the following resolution: — » Was introduced, More thast | Benj. F. Butler, who for over a quarter of a century had suataincd alone one of the missionaries, aad called upon — to follow in bis steps. e addres@ of Mr. Noyes was followed by a hymn afler which Bie spas ey Rey. Henny M. Dextan, of Boston, Mass., spoke to the next resolution — Rerolved, That as personal holiness is the necessary fruit of Christianity within the soul, so missions (drs home, then foreign) are but its natural developemea: in the world without. A benediction being pronounced, the meeting adjourned. AMERICAN BAPTIST MARINERS’ SOCIETY. SECOND ANNIVERSARY, Thie tociety celebrated its second anniversary on Wed- needay night, at the meetinghouse of the First Baptist churcn, “Orne? of Elizabeth and Broome stroets—Deacon Peter Balen in the chair. ‘The exercises commenced at half-past sven O'clock by the singing of an anthem by the choir of the church, ‘Resoived, That the ali pervading influence of the Gospel | °oMmeucing— i# ymdispenstable to the conservation of the institatioas of pony ar PS Ail » iee country. ae S ‘This resolution war, he said, peculiarly applicable to Ca- nia. The history of tbat country presented a remark- able illustration of tie hand of Providence in guiding the | wifairs ef men. For centuries Califoroia remained aimost | wmoccupied, but no sooner bad it come into the postegmon + of a Protertant Christ'an nation than its velné of gola ware epened to the world and an unexampled quickness of set- Bement commenced. Its inhabitants, brought frem eve. FY qoarter of tneglobe, had, by a simultaneous action, | Sormed themselves into a free republic, showing that the iple of freedom was inherent in the human breast. thja happy effect might be traced to the Bible inflnence om the mind of these who first had a controlling yoice re. The Gospel was not favorable to the ‘divine right’ of kings, but made men fvel their individual responaibility to God. Owing to its mixed population, the character of these who had been attracted there by the love of gold—many of them outlaws from other countries—great wickedness ‘ailed there, undoubtedly; and the Society's vigilance ‘and care were largely demanded. Mr. Lucy went into an interesting review of the mineral and agricultura! re- novrces of that State, ita advantages of climate, soil, &., which be said must have the effect of drawing thither multitudes of people. He gave some statistics of agricul- tural produce which were truly wonderful. In San Jose Valley a field of ifty acree of bariey produced five crops from one sowing —the last yielding torty three barrels per ‘mere. It promised to be the greatest grape growing Stats, ‘and he was among those who believed that in the cultiva- tion of the grape would be found one of the greatest cures of intemperance. The size to which vegetables and fruits Bitaincd wag something enormous. Theee facts, and a pe- eoliarly healthy and beantiful climate, must attract ‘The Saciety would therefore sve that a wide fleld of ‘weefniness lay before them there. Much good had been tone by the #eventeen missionaries sent there; but more red, and he made an urgent appeal for at least Bye additional ministers to be sent there thia seagon, ‘The choir sang a hymn, commencing, ‘Thou whose goodness guided ‘The pilgrims o'er the sea, &c, Wx. Curis Noyes, Esq., moved the adoption of the wext resolution:— Retolved, That a diligent and successful prosecution of tbe bome migeionary work ia essential, not only to the tontinuance and improvement of our religious charaster aud privileges, but also to the extension and perpetuity of the civil institutions whick secure to us the blessinga of liberty. The proposition, he said, embraced in this resolution, may flartic tome of my hearers who are accustomad to | | view the great cause in which this Society is engaged | from one osly of the many headlands which jut into tue ocean of its operations, It is weil, however, to contem. plate its purposes and objects from a different point of ‘observation, in order that its unequalled importance ma: be felt and acknowledged. No thooghtful maa “wi andervalue the work of the Society in ita purely religious aspects; but many who give it scarcely a passing unought ‘will be induced to lend it their favor andaid if convinced ‘hat it bas political and economic bearings, which may not be overlooked without detriment to the community. 1 do not use the word political in the degraded sense to which ithas been go generally reduced, but in a nigher and hobler one, as pertaining to sound policy, to the adminis- Wwation of clvil goverument, to a just regard for and distri- | ution of right among men in their several stations and yelationg. ‘In this sense only one other subject—the sal- ation of immortal soule—is worthy of being ite rival. Nor must it be supposed that the necessity for the vigilant Prowecntion o¢ the work, In order to, the fr Men, is under-estimated,” Neyer, until the d ial islory arrives, wit ti fa the corrupted Uatare ce eeeity opase evitably lease him, aaa ed, to prefer evil rather ht and knowledge th of mille- ; for it exists of man—that tendency which in- general rale when unregenerat- than good. Even in this day of | | | conversion of | | | | © disposition exhibite itself amon, Classes and in private and official stations, producing, | as it always has done, violence, dimrder, oprrrecion mek moisrule, It shows iteelf in Moe the family vite } Of public resort, in the jury bor, upon tne eines, Rime ‘and in the haile of legislation. e judicial bench, It ueeks to pronounce the gale of liquid poison, resulting in the dastrvers femporal und eterual inleresis of the “hasta Of Ue people, and among the ¥, of our most yaln- able citizens, oa a er branch of political economy, and’to clevate the right to carr: i 7 7 it on wth zank of a fondamental principle of goverument saperior to all jaws and constitutions. 1s aims twodeclare, by vue ald of medical science—the noblest and Kiadiiest of humsa aehievernonte—that a neries of succeasfol forgeries is oniy the manifestation ef w disordered intellect, a m ira! ay, which degeryce, not punithsnent, b gan at benevouent com ) life. | S “ Thou who hast spread ont the skies, And measured the depth of the sea, ‘Twixt heavens and ocean shall rise Our incense of praises to Thee,” Then followed the reading of the 107th Psalm by Roy. Kiyemay Nort, the jastor of the church. The Treasu- rer—Wa. M. Wriremons—then read his annual report, from which it sppeared that the receipts from alj sources was $1,050 98, and the disbursements $336 69. ‘The SxcneTary then read the Managers’ Annual Report. Tt commenced by congratulating the friends of une socicty for the signal manner with whica God had been pleased to bless their eforts in the cause of the seamen. In the ro- trogpection of the past they had just cause to offer devout thanks to Almighty God, who “ig the confidence of the ends of the earth; and to those who are fur off upon the gen.”” had been one event, however, in God’s pro- yidence, h they were called upon to nee with feelings of sorrow—it waa the death of the late Pre- ident, Deacon Izaac Newton, He had been calied away to his final reward. On this account they felt that they have loet a wise counsellor aud a warm, devoted friend to the welfare of seamen. The First Baptist Mariners’ Church of this city, whore interests had claimed and re- ceived their most immediate care and attention, was, they believed, the first church ever organized for the express purpose of bringing sailors under the influences of the preaching apd ordinances of the Goepel. This church was organized in the year 1843, and after struggling for more than fourteen years under pecaliar difficulties, arising from an apparent want of sympathy on the part of sister churches, epential to give it suflicient aid as a mis- aionary church, they resolved to call a council of said churches for aid and advice in carrying out the great missionary cause in bebalf of seamen. From the pastor's annual report to his church it appeared that durmg the year 1858 there had been 190 baptisms, making the total Toemberehips 308, of which 47 were on board the United States receiving sbip North Carolina, where the cious work of grace eltill continues. They urged with considerable force the adaptation of seamen for the missionary work in foreign coun: tries, on account of their familiarity with different languages; and with their hearts changed by sovercign grace, eminently quaiifles them for this work. The mana- gers urge the necessity of placing one more missiouary in the field in this city immediately, on account of the siz- nificant fact that about 260,000 seamen visit this port an- nvally from other lands. The managers report contained other interesting data which the limits of this rey will not permit to be given. The chairman then rea@ a letter from Governor Morgan, excusing himeelf for not being Present om that occasion on account of the press of ofli- cial business. The Rey. W. H, Pawpiwrow was then introduced to the asembly. He said, by the suffrages of the Board he had ‘deen called upon to express upon that occasion the feel- inge and views which he entertained in regard to their so- ciety. The account that had been read, enumerating the work done by them during the past year, and showing the present condition of the society, satisfied him that it ig destined to acquire an enviable distinction through- out the world; und in return for their efforta, receive their final reward in beavenly places around the hill of Zion, He felt that, upon the field that they had entered—and he could speak from ao fall and feeling heart—~the character of the work before them would meet cheerful response to their claims for the seamen, end the courte, objects and plan of their society. Their claims on the citizens of New York have become to familiar to require reiteration upon hie part. They are written in visible lines all over the city—in the gor- geousness and splendor of the palatial residences of the avenuce; in the magnificient carrieges, with their liveried servants, that run through the fashionable thoroughfares: upon the magnificent temples where fashionable worshippers pay homage to the Deity; and upon every stone im the building in Which they were seated; for there was bardly one of his hearere that was pot in debted to the sailor for the comforts and necesearies uf There are few, if any, that can escape the couvic- ticn of the indebtedness to the gallor. Tnere are other Claims, higher claim#, mare potent, more certain to make their appeals to the Christian’s heart—mouves whicn ally themseives to the intereat which they neve ia the glory of the Lord Jesus Chriat, If the Christian does ihwg for’ hie species, it is bub opening the heart, “that streams of sympathy pd affection many flow others whore condition demands it, The incex to the good Sa tan, portrayed in | | 2 Plain terme by the Lord Jesus Christ, “Go thou and dy | Hkewige.” He would iqeire what are the motives that urge the Christian vy ment of this principe? Some bad heard of the deplorable condition of tisir rao There i @ motive—a potent motive that appeals to the Christan’s beart. They look out upon the world and be- hold idolatry and degradation, until sey feel to lay Qemselyes out to rescue people from tho damaing influences of sin. The church feels this, und feels & powerful motive to engage in this work. Is tnatal\? Is there bo other, no higher one? By no meaas ; there is a great Apring, an attractive, mighty principle, an unseen irtluence, and more "poient motive, which no party or power can allay ; a power atove al) others, that when compared with human tostrumentalities they are but ‘weak and insignificant, greatly as ee ey, ‘esteem them. ‘To's power ig tue iiluence of the Holy Spirit, and its working upon men’s hearts and converting them from the darkness Of sim to the light of heavea, Jt is under. stood by the church as the ultimate glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, To epread the knowledge of this power emong seamen was the object of their socvety, that they might take part and be made inetruments in the se- complisbment of this great work of salvation. This, he said, is the migsion of the church. It isa noble and great mission; and he asked whether they had not tuat one great instrumentality in the seamen? The speaker then reviewed, in terms of commendation, the report of the secretary’on the past operations of the socicty. fe said this people (the weamen) God had chosen to show forth his praige, and be inatrumental in gathering in the forces of the Gentiles, The seamen are mep soul, men of nerve, men inured to toil and privations, aud able to brave storms and surmount obstacles, and overcome everything that can be expected in an opposing world. The epeaker then related many incidents of the influence exercised by Christian sailors, A blind gaiior, named Hendrickson, when no longer able $8 scieage in his duties ‘on shipboard, was sent to Sweden, and ‘experienciog some difficulties, at last got to work in the missionary cause, and now gathering in soldiers of the Cross. He said the care of the seamen shouid Claim the especial attention of every one there. The conviction with him was, that seven hundred dol larg expended im the city of New York for the support of @ missionary and epreading the cauge of Christ among sea- men would tell with tenfold more effect on the shores of foreign Jands than ten times that amount expended en the foreign field, a8 they have been doing in the past. Would they respond to the society’s ciaime, or shall they longer wait and suifer it to go on in ite feeble effurte ? By their sympathies with a pormhing world, ani by their interest im the kingdom of their Lord Jeaug Christ, he emphatically answered, ‘No.’ He urged them fo arise and enlarge their efforts, and iend thom. selves to the support of this great worl, with the expecta. tion that God would continue to bless them. Rev. Ina R. STEWARD, pastor of the Seamen’s Bethel, 1m this city, was the next speaker. He said he hai been invited to second the motion on the adoption of the mana gers’ annual report; and in doing go he could wruly say he did it moet cordially. He dia not know of auy one indi viduai that bad a greater reazon to second the adoption of the report that bad been read than he bad bim- self, The few months that the society had been in exist ence—eince the commencement of the year 1853—it nad been instrumental in relieving him of a very great bur- dep, svsinining ag it does the missionary interest atnong feamen,a work in which he had been engaged tor the Inet fifteen years. Fourteen years of that tine he had Deen to work in @ Way be used to work when he went fishing, for he was once a fisherman, in a regu. Jar apostolic succeesion, Ho used to figh ag long 6 he had bait; would then dig bait, and then fish again. And for the Jast fifteen years he had been, speaking Sguratively, in the preaching of the Goepel. Since the commencement of the last year, by the efforts of their society bis labors have been materially lightened, and about all he had done was to accept invita- tione to preach, and take collections without bezging for the privilege. They merely invited him a few times, and be went; aod in this ww had been able to devote much of his time among his seafaring friends. Ho was thankful to God for his past success, The charoh of which he was pastor was organized in 1843, In the firat sevea Years there were 72 persons baptised—the firet years of Telease according to the old digpensation. The next seven years they had seventy-cight more, making one hundred and fiity admissione by baptism. In no year daring that time bad they less than four ad nor more than twenty-one. In this way they went on without any special help. Since the commencement of last year God had blessed them abundantly. He had been enabled to give himself exclusively to the. work. Since one = ago last Jaovary be bad preached 602 times; 1 had baptized, during period of seventy-two weeks, eighty-five times, and bad administered the ordinance to 288 pereons, and had attended 248 religious meetings, and wade 3,299 official visits. Out of the number of seamen baptized, he bad given 147 commissions, recommending them to all Christians wherever they might go. Un the back of these commissions a set of rules or instructioas as to how they should conduct themselves in their voyages to different parts of the world. At present they have two bundred sailor missionaries. circulated all over the world. They are requested by the rules to show their commission®, as s00n as they go on board a vessel, to the captain and crew. Once in a while they fail to do thie, but it was very seldom. The sailors call this ‘‘nail- ing their colors to the mast and throwing the hammer overboard.” The officers of vessels often tell their Chris- tian seamen that religion is & very good thing if they only live up to it, In addition to this rule, each gailor mission- ary as he goes from port to port is requested to look up gome Chyistian minister or other Christian men. In this way they introduce themselves to mer- chavig and’ others; and when they arrive at ome they advise their shipmaten ‘to get out their closrances. The speaker cited an instance :a which A poor little German suilor boy, who had taken out bis “clearance,” aud who had shipped for a voyage. Tho ext inorping be wes to go on board bis vessel; the alghy Previous the little fellow told a young brother that ho Wanted to get cn board before the officer got there. Ho Went on board, and as soon as the captain came tue little fellow showed bim hie papers. The speaker supposed the captain ibought they must have a queer set of m: ies togivea mere bey a commission, who was hardly able Kk the Engtish language. ‘After the captain bad the paper the salor boy asked one favor of pain, Aud it was that he might have a prayer moet. ing on deck every day at twelve o'clock. The captain asked him ‘who would do the praying?” The boy said he would. “Very weil,” replied the captain, ‘you sbal! do. it, and keep it up 1g the voyage.” And, said the speaker, what did they think waz the result? The efforts of that litle sailor boy were blessed of the Lord, and one of the crew came home hopefally con verted. He closed bis remarks by an earnest appeal for aid in the work of digseminating gospel truths amopy aman. He earncetly believe that the same amount of moxey could not be expended with such good results in any other missionary work upon the giobe. Rey. Pnivgas Stow, the pastor of the Seamen’s bethel in Eoeton, then made a ehort address. He said aaiiors had not only hearts but intellects. He hada conversa tion with a returned missionary (Rev. Me. Kincaid) on the subject of fitting out saiiors tor migeionaries; and he said that we wero all avieep in this matter, as be had een the great bene@ts derived from the influence they exertéd avicad, and bad learned to estimate tucir value, He thought thé jpduence of ungodly seamen in ungodly Janda bad an exiché utd iufluente for evil far more exteu- tive than in any other race of men, and vice verea with the Christian sailor. They belt the globe with an influence for or againgt Christianity. In the world it is supposed there is three millions of sailors, and each one has at least three persens that care for them; thus it would appear that eighteen millions of kind friends feel interested in seamen, Just think, added the speaker, of the influence at home and abroad wielded by these men. Never bas there been @ time when the American navy bas received such heavenly impulses from the Baptist church. He liked to baptize satiors, for they were not alraid of water. He then spoke of the characteristics of the sailor, and whom, he thought, bad an influence and power Mout them that mounts up te heaven. He com. pared a careless suilor to the blacksmith’s dog, which thought a great deal of its master; but. when the black- smith beat the hot iron, the sparks flew and the dog growled and gnarled; bat by and by he got 80 used to jt that the dog could. sleep while the sparks were failing. Tt was s0 with some cov; ations, but be was thankful that it was not so with all eailore. The fpeaker related many anecdotes iliustrating the character of the eailor, and closed with an urgent appeal to carry on the work among seamen, unti! sailor missiouaries were in every part of the world. The choir then sang an origival ode compoeed for the occasion :~ Thy way, O God, ie on the sea, hy grace now triumphs there; Like ciouds, like doves, our seamen flee To Christ, in Lumble prayer. A collection was then taken up, followed by short ad. dreeses trom converted sailors, An election was then held for cflicers for the ensuing year, when the following named gentiemen were elected : Prendent—Veter Balen. Vice President—G. W. Bleecker. Sccrelary~M. K. Frisbie. ‘The services closed by singing the doxology and the pronouncing of the benediction. THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR AMELIO- RATING THE CONDITION OF THE JEWS. This society was incorporated in April, 1820, Elias Boudinot, Preeident; John Q. Adams, Jeremiah Day, Wm. Finlay, Aehbel Green, flerman Le Roy, John H. Livings- ton, Philip Milledoler, Jarsee Millnor, Wm. Phillips, Robert Troup, Stephen Van Rensselaer and James Wade. worth, Vice Presidents; John B, Romeyn, Secretary for Domestic Correspondence; Alexander McLeod, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence; Paachal N. Strong, Record. ing Secretary; Peter A. Jay, Treasurer; Jonn Beekman, Garrat N. Bleecker, Pelatiah Perit and other well known citizens, formed the Board of Directors. According to the coratitution, as it existed in 1841, every person paying one doilar annually ehall be a member; every person paying fifteen dollars at one time shall be a member for life; a donation of fifty doilars at one time shall con- stitute an honorary director for life, who may sit as a corresponding member, bat not vote at the meetings of the Board. The constitution as it now stands is the some, with these exceptions:—Every person paying twenty-five dollars at once shall be a member for life, a donation of {ifty dollars at oae time shall covstitute an honorary director, and the annual meeting of the society shall be held in the city of New York duriag the tecond week in May, at such time as the Board shati direct. The present object of ths society now is to fur: nish to the Jews the ordinances of the Gospel with a view to their evangelization, and to establish a fand for the support of missionaries, colporteurs and other laborers among them, or to défray any other expenses that may acerue ip carrying forth the main design; algo to meliorate the Jews’ condition, by the establishment of a fund to re- lieve thore in pecuniary distress, irrespective of any pro. fession they may make of Christianity, ag may appear ex- pediens te the Board. | The primary ouject, as laid down in the cons#iution a8 it exieted in 1820, was ‘to invite and receive from any part of the world such Jews as do already profess the Christian religion or are desirous to revive Christian instruction, to form them into w settlement, and to furpivh them with the ordinances of the Gospel and employment in the settlement; bus np one shall bo received unless he comes well recommended for morala 4 without charge to the society, and plance and continuance ia the society Bliail hi cretion of the directors.” In 1619 a converted Jew, tho well known Rev. Charter Fry, atthe wme of the Presbyterian denomination, and afterwarde & Baptiat, ¢ame to this country td awakened psiderable intercet Dy representation | 5 fhe dewa in Europe, aud by is. e-,9-c# 9¢ Ube condition of rtions and inflacace this tociety was formed, fe After the fortss’ion 0? “ag sorioty, the frat practical ftep taken was the Wor chase of a farm of several bundred | acresin Dotebes”, county, in the vicinity of Hyde Park, and there they intended to make a home for converted Jews, and give them employment; but this scheme did not Btcceed. Few of the invited Jews could be induced to eottle on the Jand—only two or three families-—and the ‘Board of Directors had appointed an agent to conduct the affairs of the settlement in Europe—s Dr, Rowen, of the Dutch Reformed church, to whom they gave a ralary of be- tween $4,000 and $5,000. He, it seems, squandered the s0- cietys funds, baying become addicted to intemperance, and 80 embarrarsed ne hoses was Lng ly the farm was gold to liquidate the debte of the society. After this the efforts of the society were almost entirely turned to micsiopary labors. In 1855 @ diffloulty ovcur- red in the election of officers, which caused considerable excitement and scandal among the members of the so ciety, and it appears that the feelings then awakened are still active.” The Rev, D. R. MoGregor, who wee Corres. ponding Secretary at the time, was a candidate for re. election, but it seems that several rumors detrimental to bis moral character and profession were in circulation, aud some of the members and friends of the society de- manded his removal. He remained, however, in office some length of time, and at last lef’ the society and tra elled to the West, where he is now living. This disa- Breement as to the re-election of Rev. D. RB. MeGrogar caused much sore feeling, and still worse on the part of one faction, after his re-election, who allege, it seems, or rather suspct, that Mr. MoGregor employe the aid of his brother Freemagone—gave them tickets of member- ship, and, of course, secured their votes at the election, &e. After this difficulty the affairs of the society remain ed dormant; bo eiestions were heii, and no meetings could be formed for three years. it ip said by some members that a Mr, Abbott held the oflice of Beeretary and the books of the society, without any authority, during the whole of this time, In Decem der, 1868, the society was reorganized and new officere appointed. Mr, Abbott now hands im a claim of $2,000 for ealayy againet the aociety, In the Treasurer’s report for 1846 and 1847—~ The gross receipts were $6,690 14 Expenditure 6,087 89 In 1868— s Receipts ..... -914,375 28 Expenditures , 14,115 60 Balance. $160 60 These fig repor ‘the Rev. J B. Pinney, present Corresponiling Secretary. He also ‘in- formed ‘him that the records of an earlier date than 1846 are destroyed or lost. The meeting was opened with a prayer, by the Rev. Wm. ©. Guipin. This aseembling of the members was not for the purpose of an anniversary—in fact, the present state of the society’s erganizmion would not admit of it~ but merely for the election of officers. The Rey. J. B. Pixnzy moved that the minutes be omit- ted and that they should at once proceed to the buziness of election, which was seconded and adopted. A Nominating Committee was at once formed, and the following names were presented:— President—Rey. Jobn Forsyth. Vice Presidents—Rev. Jno. M. McLeod, Rev, Thos. De- witt, Rev. G. B. Blagden, Rev. Jas. W, Alexander, Rev. J. S. Durbin, Rev. J. W. J. Wylie, Rey. J. ©, Gu'din, Re Fdward Lathrop, Rev. Edwin Hatficid, Rev. Jes. H. Me- Neil, Rey. Jno. ©. Jacobi, Rev. J. C_Adamso Foreign Corre:ponding Kecretary—Rev. Jno, Neander, Domestic Corresponding Secre'ary—Rev. J, B. Pinney, Recording Secretary—David Payne, Eeq. Treaswer—J Hi. Browning. After a motion that the names of the members presen: be recorded, the meeting adjourned. AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY. FIRST ANNIVERSARY. ‘The first anniversary of this eociety was held in the Church of the Puritans, at Union square, on Wednesiay, at balf-past three o'clock P. M. As this ig a new society upon the carpet, and as this is its maiden attempt to place themselves amongst the bene. volent a#tociations that are calling upon the people to pour out their gains into their treagure, aud as its originators seemed to be men of determination, our reporter has taken epccial pains to lay befyre the public the aims and ob jects, its history and its claimed merits upon the public. By examining the papers, circulars, and all matters pub lished by the society, we have been able to put down its objects ag being ‘‘the evangelization and civilization of Africa, and of tbe descendants of African ancestors in any portion of the earth, wherever dispersed; alzo the de struction of the African slave trade, by the introduc tion of lawful commerce and trade in Africa; the promotion of the growth of cotton and other products there, whereby the uatives may become mdustrious pro- ducers ag well as consumers of articles of commerce; and, generally, the elevation of the condition of the colored population of our own and of other Janda. The society was only organized in August, 1858, consequently their plans for future action are not fully matured, and thus far no measures have been taken to raise funds to carry op the work, but a!! that has been done, has beea by the principal founderg, the most prominent and active of hom ig the Rey. T. Bourne, wey have rented a room in the Bible House, from which radiate all their works. It is their object to take @ different field and pursue a dif- icrent channel than avy other gociety organized in behalf of the colored race, leaving to Garrison and bis foliowars to cry abolitioniem, and to the other zocieties to travel the road they think proper, The leaders of this aseociation seem te took chiefly to Christianizing Africa, but intend to use a8 an auxilary to their cause the developement of the rich aud productive soil of that country, and in that way opena new channe! of commerce, making a market for the wares of our New England mapufa turers, and in that way enlist the co- Operation of merctiants engaged in fore trade, and open a new fleld erprise. They intend to furnish wo ‘be public from t to time @ detail of the result of ex. emipations made as to the advantages of the soli and climate ‘n raieing the etaple article of cotton, and the Capacities of the country for supporting a civilized race; and if yd find the inducements great enough they arc eatisfed that they will find the Yankeo with bis yarious Wares, from the clock to the wooden nutmeg, with appa- rel to cover the African from his head to hig feet, seeking that country for a market. The introduction ofa lawful comer edie Rerae of Africa is one of tbe moans contemplated by this society to on their work of the civilization of its inhabitants, . X & vote) leaves 25 city for Liberia, whieh will take with them two persons (Messrs. Campbell) and Purnell) who go as surveyors and explorers to make an examination of that country. Miss Backue, of New Haven, Connecticut, will algo accompany them, a8 a missionary teacher, and will goat once to Yoruba; others have gone, and many more will be despatched as soon as the Proper arrangments can be made. o. Notwithstanding the inclémency of the weather, the body of the Church of the Puritans was nearly filled be fore the hour for commencement, apd amongst the audi- ence was ¢ispersed a large number of colored people, only eight of them on the platform. ¢ aseembly was called to order by the President of: the astociation, Rev, H. H. Gaaser (colored.) Rev. Geo. V. Lucas opaned the proceedings by reading the eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, after which he offered up 8 prayer in behalf of Ethiopia and the cause they bad asacmbled bere to promote, and’that it might be the means nt accomplishing the object that had brought it into ex- istence, ‘The report of the directors was then read by the Secre- tary, Rev. T. Bourxr:— The commexcement of the report and the first portion of it relates to Atrica and the negro gs he is found in his native condition, followed by a denunciation of the slave trade, and characterizing it as having its ee in rapa- city, avarice and manetealing, eanctioned by the Pope of Rome, under the pretence that all newly discovered coun- tries belonged to the see of Rome, a8 the vicegerent of God cn earth. Four of the Popes in the fifteenth century granted t their trusty and dutiful song, the Catholic and taithful Kings of Portugal and Spain, the right to englave the Pogans on the coast of Africa ‘for the welfare of the couls,’”’ and this was the plea made use of now by those who approve of the reopening of the slave trade, The report went on to give statements of the sufferings of Afri- causin the “middie passage,” and stated that for two hundred years or more the pathof murderous pirate slavers acroee the Atlantic has been marked by the blood of the Africans; and characterized the stealing of ne- grocs, from ite inception until its consummation, in the sale of the victim on the Arerican shores, as a Ged defying and damning crime. The experiment of Eng- land to cstablish colonies on the coast of Africa hag been & germ of inetrumentalities for the redemption of Africa, In our own country similar attempts have been made, and under ees adverre circumstances have successfully established a free und independent republic upon that coast, and has led many to examine into the theory of migration of races and forming new States. During the post week the first Liberian vessel, owned by a coiored citizen of that country, had landed at our shores, sailing under the flag of Liberia, having on board 30,000 galions of palm oil. The writer of the report thought in that arti- cle alone was something worthy of the attention of the commercial men of this country, Among the causes that bave led to the organization of this eociety are the ip j — The present condition of the free people of color in the United States. 2. Their future prospects resulting from the war of tyravnical legislation which bas been commenced upon them. agjelbtlt daty to aid m Christlanizing and civiliing rica. 4. The remarkable discoveries of modern travellers within the past ten years, 5. The fact that Africa pr limited developement of the terpriee. 6, The certainty that the resources of Africa, when fully developed, will ‘stimulate commerce, manufactures and agriculture, in proportion to the vastacss of its capacities, the unrivalled ricbnees of its native productions, and the growing wants of its teeming millions of inhabitants. if te gt wgiat | as well 08 the necessity of the dlescend- ants of Africa gallantly aiding in the suppression of the mfamous slave trade, 8. The remarkakle discovery that Africa may become the great cotton field of the world. 9. The certain truth that the elevation of the colored race everywhere proceeds with the clevation of the na- tives of Africa, for which purpose the gospel must bo preached among them and the Christiap civilization intro- auced by the agency of the colored Christians of the Uni, ted States. ‘hese considerations have been struggling in the Amerl- cep anti slavery mid, and the question was how a perma. nebt organization should be formed to acéomplish this end, Or arreliorate the condition of Africans. The work of the past year has been wnolly to awaken the public mit d more thoroughly upon the point of sending migsiona- ries to Africa, and in that way enlighten tho native Afri- cans aud open a new field for commerce whilst christian. izing the inbabftante, A Provisional Committee on African Civilization, with a view of organizing permanent xoylety, wae cetabiished ts & fleld for the almost un- pirit of adventure and en- | yast summer, to initiate the work. The eolored Bantists of Phitadeiphia'bave the bonor of being the projectors of : Toission to the west constof Africa in 1857. Tne knowled cg that has recently been given to tho public of the Mvorior of Africa not ouly had opened a wide feld fo? Christian miegionarics, but the facts concerning climate, soil. Produotions,” minerals and vast commercial facitities of Africa, seem to demand the tniroduction of Obristian ciy!- dzation to ageiet in its developement. Extracts were taken from Dr, Livingstone and Bow- en’s reports of Central Africa, and conclusions drawn therefrom as to the feasibility of this enterprise; nod cancludes that ther hopes of the elevation of Africa in the scale of nat Those who felt an interest in tha evangelization and civilization of Africa met to promote these objects on the 26th of August, 1858, when it was ro- solved to take moasures to carry forward these plans, and on the 13:h of September last a committee was regularly or- ganized, and # constitution adopted; among the firstotlicers we flud the names of Rey. Albert Barnes, Rev. a. D. Smit”, Benjamin Sisliman, UL D ; Rev. Theo. L Cuyler, Isaac 1” Smith, Rev. T. Bourne, Roe Lockwood, and others. Sinco the organization meetings have been held in a number of the principe! cities throughout the Union, aud the greatest encourage it imaginable bas been given them. From every qusrter letters bave been received of the most flat- tering kind. An extract of a letter from Rey. Albert Barner, of Philadelphia, indicates their nature :— PuiLapELenia, Feb, 9, 1859, I bad the opportunity of looking a little into the plans and objects of the eociety afew weeks ago, and they feem to me, £0 far as Tunderstood them, to be benevolent, and worthy ef the public confidence; in fact, suggesting the only feasible scheme for accomplishing the full de- signs of benevolence in regard to Africa and the colored eople of our country. The plan seems to me to have Tigh clsins to patlio conédenoe, and T shall cheerfully render it any ald in my power, ‘Reapectfally youre, ALBERT BARNES. Several cocieties of the rame kind have been formed in different parts of this country and in Cacada that are be- coming auxiliaries to this. Tbe report further states shat it is gratifying to know that with their limited moans so much bas been done in fo short a time, not only ip getiog prominent men, bat the colored people of this country enlisted in the cause They consider the catablishing of civilization on the coasts of Africa, on the basis of Christianity, » work that will not only clevate Africa, but ennoble those who engage in the work, The events of last year are such that they congider that Providence hag fixed the present a8 the time to inavgurate this noble work. Tho expor- tation of a large quantity of cotton from Central Africa to Great Britain, eignalizing the prospective importance of Afriew as a cotton growing region, ig one of the many in- ducemenis for the people of this country to turn their attention towards civilizing Africa. One of their arguinents in favor of this movement is, that they consider that by opening anew field in Africa and enlightening fhe millions now there in mental dark- nese, they could, ina measure, put @ stop to the clave trade. The report coneludes by an appeal to the public to ex- amine into their merits, and, if worthy of their asaistance, to lend a helping band, and the notes would re- sound from Africa, and from valley to mountain the strains bull echo and re echo, while Ethiopia stretches out its bands unto God in adoring gratitude and love. ‘Then shal) the long englaved and outraged African be “heard in the universal harmony of redeemed human na- ture, singing praise to God, At the conclusion of the reading of the report, Rev. As D. Smimu addressed the assembly. He said that ne was happy to addrees the President (Rev. H. HL. Garaet, colored) ‘by that title; be had long recognized him as a Christian brother, and he rejoiced in baying this opportunity to address him by that title. He was in danger of being un- duly excited when he plead the caute of Africa, but only as all Christians should pe. Ia 1846 be crossed the Atlan- Wc for his health,and ip passing the Straits of Gibraitar he determined to nee pot only Spain, but that much abused country Africa,and told the captain to call him from his bed when they came there, whatever hour it might be. He was called up in the dead of night, and there and then Saw away off in the distance the ounce vatiaot Spain, and on the other band Africa, that had been wronged by Obristian men; there was au emotion aroused in bis breast, and there and then he resolved to aid any enterpriee that would agsiet in elevating Africa and her inhabitants. (Applause.) There wea one subject that he would refer to here, and that was—W hy have we organized anew society, and why did they not.co operate with some of those already formed? There wero obetacles against adopting the Colonization Society, an: one of these was, that the colored eens ot the North had no confilence in that society; ut in the society that we have organized we enlist the energies of the colored people and throw the responsibility upon them. He thought it was well that they had a new society; he was fond of new things, and went for all mo- dern improvements, He gave his reasons at length why he was engaged or enlisted in an enterprise like thi among them was that the obligation resting upon the churches of America to evangelize the nations are peca- liarly emphatic in relation to their duty to Africa, owing to our treatment of her children, Anything that would ele- vate the condition of Africa and its oitants hai a par- ticular charm for him. He then drew a description of the African character ag he viewed it, and stated that he be- heved that Africa would yet furnish the heartfor redeem- ing the world. Present, gaid he, the Gospel to Africans, give to them the Bible, and they would cast away all Ekepticiem, and rush, Uncle Tom like, and rally to the Croes, He cloeed by wishing the cause Godspeed, Rev. Thxopork L. Cuvier foliowed in a characteristic speech. He said that he congratniated the Civilization So- ciety in having so good a meeting to cemmence this enter- prise. He was glad to come where he could speek out just ag he felt, He was at the Tract Society meeting to- day,and he was ata loss toknow whether some men there were actuated by the “higher law” or the “fom Hyer Jaw.” When the Secretary of this society camo to him and asked bis co-operation, and stated that Dr. Be thunegnd Heory Ward Beecher both endorred its object, he thought that when two men who had been for so lorgatime so far apart now agreed upon this, it must be a good organization. He denounced the idee ‘of judg- ing the power and talent of the African race when in slavery. You might, guid he, os well put a flat stone on a plant and then denounce it because it did not grow. He then referred to the label upon the city cars, ‘“Oolored pecple allowed in this car;” he thought that'they must have big bearts, and he wondered if they would, could, put a jabel all around the world, “No colored peo- ple allowed on this plauet.” Ho thought that God never created the Africans to be hewers of wood or drawers of water to the white people; he came here, however, to give no sugar nills to the black people, and he would tell them that the white people were not going to elevate them ; they had got to work for themselves, and workRg out their own destiny, Ail he wanted to do was to give thom an opportunity to help themselves. He believed in colosization; it was that that settled the vexed Kansas question. He wanted the colored people to take the Bible and go out to Yoruba and work out their own problem, and form there a model republic; and he didn't want them, when they got their republic started, to label any of the cars in the treete, * White people allowed in thie car.” He also fayored this move- ment On account.of the growth of cotton in Africa, for it was said that cotton couid be grown in Yoruba cheaper than in this country. He hoy that this society would ald ail commercial efforts to develope that country, both fn material, commercial and religious points of view, and closed his address by stating to-dgy they launch thia blessed work for Africa; we now stand at its cradle, and no man lived that would see its hearse. ¥ Rey. H. H. Garner (colored) then followed, and claimed to be one of the originators of’ this society, and said that the colored people bad been #20 restive under the op- preseive eentiment of the North that they wanted to go where they would have a free atmosphere to breathe. He denounced the abolitionist of the North for oe so much and having no true feeiing at the heart. He thought that the white man’s property in this country was justly mortgaged to the Africans. He wanted to get into some couatry where he could gee & flag that he could call his own, and breathe afrce atmosphere. The following officers were clected for the ensuing year:— President—Rev. H. H. Garnet (colored. ) Treasurer—leasc T. Smith, No. 1 Third avenue, Secretary—Rev. Theodore Bourne, No. 23 Bible House, Directors—Robert Sears, James 0. Pond, R. L. Murray, and about half a dozen others, with some thirty vice presi- depts; amongst them are the names of Rey. Albert Barnes, of Philadelphia, Rey. Asa D. Smith, Henry Ward Beecher; Professor Stow, &o., &c. A collection was then taken up, aud Rev. J. B. Smith (colored) followed in a short speech, of about the same tenor as Rev. Mr. Garnet’s, after which a benediction was pronounced, and the audience NATIONAL REFORMATORY CONVENTION. SECOND DAY, This Convention again met, pursuant to adjournment, at the Historical Society’s rooms, at ten o’cjock Wednesday morning. After the Convention had been called to order by the President, 0. S. Strong, and prayer by the Rey. B. K, Purrce, of Mageachusette, and the reading of the minutes, which were adopted, Mr. Caus. L. Brace, Chairman of the Business Committee, reported resolutions recommending the employment of a reporter for the Convention; the Umitation of each speakér to fifteen minutes, with the re- quest not to occupy more than ten; and that the superin- tendent of each of the Houses of Refuge and other refor- matory institutions be requested to add his name to the annual report for the ensuing year statement of the or- ganization of the institution over which he presided, and of the m:thods of commitment which are authorized by law. Adopted. The list of institutions represented was then read. Mr. Cuas. 1.. Brack—As one of the committee who drow up the first topic umder diecussion—namely, the distino- tion which should be observed between vagrancy and destitution on ope hand, and crime on the other—I would say that we had in view that there was a narrew line of distinction between these two sides. We felt that, with every poor boy and girl ina city like this there is a certain line of distinction, beyond which if he proceeds he be- comes a criminal, and on this side of which he 8 peculiarly susceptible to reformation and pro- ventive fufluence, In considering teat topic we feel that the different institutions represented in the Convention are really concerned with dif. ferent sides of it, The Hove of Refuge 1s more especi. ally concerned with the children who have passed that line; while the preventive societies are more interested in those who have not reached that vague, shadowy line of distinction. Therefore, the great question with ug who represent the preventive Institutions is, what are the principles of treatment for children who havo not become criminal, or come under the legal authority? If we act with force upon the question of juvenile vagrancy, Poverty and crime, we must in the first place act in coincidence with the great laws of God. It will not do for ns, ovou with the most complete theoretical system of reform, to 0 against what are natural principles and natural awe, Thi ciple 1s now recognized everywhere in the diffe. rent institutions for tho treatment of the criminal, vagrant and destitute, We must consider what the Creator has established—for instance, the family inatitution, He has arranged it 80 that every human being is influenced more for good in the family than by any other influence in o- | ein! life; and no organization which deals with the young ean hope to produce the begs offect without, using that far‘qntion tm some form or. other. Wo should ember what it is in a@ country like ours w moat of all educates each of us. We are apt to that it ig the common achool, the church, or this ‘bat; but more than the sehoo!, and more thun the ebay the influence that trains each of us for good 18 an iad vane inGnanee — through the nee nee vation, and especially in the family, which appeals to individual sell respect, hope and prospect of success fe, This ipfluenoe ia what tnakes such wonderful ¢ in poor immigrants and their children; what makes Foor German peasant a self govorning and independ man. Jn addition to considering these great laws of we must alg consider, in & country like ours, the jar iniluence of eur pecallag situation, America different from the Old World in the influences it can bri to bear upon the poor. The whole question of reform be is a very different one from what it is in the old counter and I fear that our institutions often err in copying t7 closely the plang in uge in the Old World. Ia Eagland @ boy 18 brought into a public tnetitution, and is train and reformed there, the question is what to do with hi They do not know ‘where to put him, every branch d labor is 80 crowded. In th's country we have an jnmer advantage—of which, however, we should not be proud—of room; we bave room enough for vaet population, and in addition to tbia, bave en unlimited demand for labor. There is ever where a demand for lnbor, juvenile and adult. Peculiarities of country must be acted upon in any gran system for the reform of the juvenile poor. In additio that there is throughout the Spanier peculiar deo; religious principle or sentiment—the old Puritan princip of New England—that every Christian family is bound some respects to deny iteelf for the sake of doing othere. We can in the United States appeal to thi in ciple more than in any other country in the world; an this principle must be Scgpitered in any plan for the is ‘ovement and reformation of the juvenile po| on je epeaker thought that the viciougness of see iy delin} quents was frequently leas than generaily supposed. H had learned from experience, contrary to expectation, the remarkable abnormal cases of depravity of which sometimes heard were really exceptions to the neral rule, and most juvenile detinquer are ularly susceptible to ‘good influences, was glad to find in America a growing confidence the influence of Christianity in ae cases Y it bad formerly been supposed that it woul be ineffectual, ‘The Christian part of the community had begun to beli that there is no human being so sunk, 80 degraded, that the light of Christianity canno; ” reach This he regarded as emipently truo of chikiren Jn the oiy of New York the Children’s Aid Society had attempted in gome degree to apply these grand principles. This inetitut‘on did not, as had been intimated, pring} from theory at all, but came from practical men, 7 being designed beforehand, but arising from the ver: wanls of the claes they were dealing with, and gradu developing itself {nto its present shape, Mr. Brace at edme length upon the character and work of the CI ren’s Aid Society, He was willing that tts character should be inferred from a full presentation of the testi aslo ita results and the character of those it bad in fa. milies in the country. Ag to any rivalry between the re-| formatories of this city, the gentleman who bad it, be thought, must have been incorrectly informed. Judge Mason spoke at considerable length of the Child- ren’s Aid Society. He regarded it as occupying a flald not| within the province of apy other society. Some few of" its subjects bad turned out Lewor 9] but ip this regard it. ‘Was bot different from the Juvenile Asylum or the House of Refuge. By constant correspondence with those who bad received the children of the Children’s Aid >| they were aseured that, with scarcely an exception, behavior of the children afforded a complete demonstra~ = - the theory upon which that society was cen- jucted. Rev. Mr. Bauupay had not 20 good an opinion of the| children of New York as some others, and thought it! wrong to have them placed in fumilies in the country] without some previous trainin; Mr. Brown, of Parasols his, promeet to address hin self etrictly to the discussion of the one point that ne sarily arose under the first topic. There was an attemp bere to establish a distinction, such as they bad mot cognized in their Philadelphia eystem, and he was sure would be a very long time before they would be prep to recognise it. Gentlemen, in endeavoring to sift the inmates of these various inatitutions, or hery the subjects of treatment, made a distinction b tween vagrants made so by destitution and the made £0 by actual crime. He was not aware that an) very distinct effort had been made to defae wi they meant the juvenile criminal; bat gentleman from New York (Mr. Bryan) at fogs at by taken great pains, not only in language, tration, to detcribé Wiss Clauses o: i to be regaracd as vagrants. The case of the merel titute child seemed to afford no difficulty, Orpb Asylum and the Children’s Aid Society provided for paturaily, because in this as in all other commanit there was great willingnesa to take charge of that class children, The difficulty began when they advanced this grade of destitution, when they approached the ge clases, Representing the Philadelphia House o efuge, he should never vote for apy attempt to set upo establish @ Class of juvenile criminals, atricthy speakn in this or any other community, as the subjects of refo matory trcatment, for this renson, that the very ye characterized them as criminals, you placed an aln impassable barrier between them and any attempts at form. He would bo very reluctant to eu: ‘that the children in the New York House of Refugo—in a cit overrun us it is with a worge class than they nad in Phi detphia—could be properly and stricuy treated as ¢ nals, He assumed that under no circumstances ough their institutions to treat micore, under the age of 6, Juvenile criminals. If there happened to be cases d in which offences again Property were of 80 serious a charac that the courts should baye control of them, tl becam subjects of prison discipline, If they would’ take th trouble to refer to the statistics of their reformatory inst tutions for juveniles, they would find that not one twenty could be properly designated as criminals. Toi subject bad been carefuily considered in the Philadelph House of Refuge. They had the sanction of their Saprem Court for deciaring that that institution was, in all aspects, an educatioha), and not 4 penal establishment that ite Board of Managers were simply exercising guardianship delegated to them by the State, standn in loco parentis, to exercive in @ parental manner tt roper care and protection. That was the theory of thel Ww. The act incorporating the House of Refoge clear! roclaimed it, and the former action of their Board lanagers had beon to that point, that they would treat these children ag the subjects of penal infliction, rather as subjects of punishment. It was for that reso that in their reports and in their publications the of Managers WH ate the Legisiature to recognise th house asa part of the common school education of State, not with the view of disparaging the system public education, but with the view, as far ag possible, of elevating this branch of ‘it, which th found, under the prevalence of such ideas as existed this convention, bad gradually eank in public estimatid 80 far that at length it became quite difficult to find sul ble places to apprentice their children. He had list with a great deal of interest to this discussion. He at the outset to what they were drifting, and the he heard this resolution read he considered standing on slippery and d resolution were adopted as Ui? clans of elldren ian by any saber poen 18 y any other ole Mr. Fay, of the Female Taduedtial |, Of Lancast ‘Mags. , cid not propose to enter into the discussion of th question at any great length. He was a practical and he disliked extremely to spend time in theo There bad been numerous here thesubject of crime and. connected with | om. They and suppress the evi). his mind, whether the system been philosophical. Much had been said here ‘upon a ni diatibotion which had been drawn between juvenile c: nals and children who were only destitute vagrants, did not admit it was policy or philosep for them to. make any at They spoke of juvenile delinquents and vagrants, came they 20? Were we not all children of circum ‘and was it not certain that many of us, if not all Preeept, would have been vagrants or juvenile quents if we had been placed under the same cu Stances as theee children whose case they wore consid ing? They should regard these children not as crimit 1 eal with them assach. of the speakers guid morni that they would by investigation that these children were not so bad| they seemed tobe, Bo thought that any gentleman would carefully watch their condition when they committed to thege institutions, and their Progress, wo be satisfied of the justice of that view of the sab The gentloman also remarked, that no human b 80 degraded that he might not Be reclaimed. in that doctrine fully; aud they should act Pome that doctrine, at in a case they would succeed, system of placing children in familios as the best not only in justice to the children, but in an institution as he was connected with. But ano question arose, where could find proper families would take all the large number of juvenile delingu It was not an easy matter to find a sufficient numb Proper families who would receive them. An individ who would take these children for serdid and mero motives, and make them menials, could hardly be Pected to reform them. His own experience was, th eee case cairo the oe had been taken fro nevolent, philanthropic motives, they bad done well; where they bad been taken from the ether considera they bad failed to do well, Another thing he would vert to: it had been said that the children must be pu der reatraint. He agreed to that in a limited senge; he asked, what opportunity had they in their large i tions to acquire self-government and qualify th to go out Into the world and regulate their own co These were questions which seemed to him vital, } ahould be duly considered. It waa remarked y. that the main object should not be punishment ia co ting them to these inatitutions. He contended that #4 should be no objectof punishment other than what wall cidental to the main object of reformation, His friend the left (Mr. Hastings) yesterday alluded to the p of Scripture, “Train up a child in the way should go, and when he was old he would not depart from it.” He believed in that doctrine, but he did’ find in any of his dictionaries an ailusion im {J definition of the word “train” to muy severity, aodg the gentleman would introduce another of Si ture to countenance beating children, whose parents di wards them. pel them. That would be desirable; but the qceation mediately arose in hie mind, how are you to do it? principles Would you adopt te that end? The law musth old of the children—muat atand ‘in loco parentis’” child, or they would bav@ no power to reach these | dren, Very few vicious or degraded parents Voluntarily place their children in thelr institutions; ag the gentleman remarked, the parent will ask, cannot I bave my child after he is placed there byrd law? He had a case of this kind afew days ago, A rent camo and wanted his daughter, and said that #¢ was no fault in ber, no charge against her, “How she to be sent to the institution” “Why,” sala he, “PS the House of Correction.” “Where ‘was your ‘She was in the Houze of Correction.”’ ‘Ab!—for wi, ‘She get drunk; I havo come out and taken tho in “flow ts it with your wifo now? does ahe driok ar “She drinks a little yet.” Now, this case showedwnl they could not rely upon the parent, unless the law pelied bim to place his child in the inatitution or ‘the care of the State, expecinily in the case of @ who did not properly provide for himself. “The genttt, froma Ohio (Mr. Remelin) yesterday gald tha! tho go, or systems Heb at all though he did not fend wo