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' lii'IierSon* AuuiverMiririi ia Xt w York. 1 ( f AMERICAN BIBI.K SOCIETV. ! ( f- Abstract of the 20th Annual Report. , ' JVeir Auxiliary Societies. ( |In the course of the year twenty-four of 1 those auxiliaries have been formed, most j | of which embrace an entire county. The j whole number is now nearly 1,01)0. Receipts. The receipts of the year from all societies amount to $10890 43, and were received from the following sources: In payment for Bibles and Testaments, sold $43, 706 73: from bequests, $18,589 66; for distribution in foreign countries, $13,488 19; unrestricted contributions, $23,1 J 2 07; Expenditures. The expenditure, of the year have been j $107, 910 93, leaving a balance in the j viiri' i\i *<0 :i 7! k Tliic lt il-.iiir-o i<i ' o .vi.i?? in part to the fact tint a large lega- j cv has been received, and too near the i close of the war to allow ofits being wise- j )v expended. In part it arises from the fact, that sons) of the foreign ve sions to i)c aided are undergoing imporlent revisions, and the translation of others, nearly ; ready, are not fully completed; consequently th-' Board are inclined to wait a few months for furtlier intelligence, before making many extensive appropriations. Nsic Bibles and Testaments. Plates have been ordered for a new j pocket French Bible and Testament; for j i\ pocket English Bible of small diamond ; type: for a German pocket Testament, and a pocket Spanish Testament; also for n large pica Testament, with the book of Psalms appended to it, for aged people. Books have also beon ordered from the depository of the British and Foreign ** ? I 11 .1 T. ! II ... . _ . uintc oociety, in tuc naiiun, roriugucse, Welsh, Swedish, and Danish tongues. None of the above books however, will be ready for delivery under several months., The increasing business of the society . in publishing the Scriptures in different . tongues and the importance of great accu racy in the versions issued, bos led the j Hoard to appoint an editor, who is to de- ; vote one half of iiis time to the interests \ <>f the society; For tho coming vear the I m Owl Hev. George Hush, of the New York I'ni- | vcrsitv, is appointed to tlic above office. , Bi'/les and Testaments, English Bibles 63,130' English Testaments 150,018 . German Bibles 1;996 German Testaments 1,818 -French Bibles 593 i Trench Testaments 756 j Spanish Bibles 169 j Spanish Tesfamnnls ^13 Modern Creek Testaments 0,646 I Portuguese Bibles and Testaments 51 Welsh Bibles and Testaments 66 Arabic, Syriac, Swedish and Dutch Bibles and Testaments 58 Polish, Danish, Gaelic and Indian 7-3 Making in all, 221,961 copies, and an aggregate since the formatton of the socie- I ty of 1,989,430. New Testaments for the Blind. In addition to $1,000 granted the previous year; $500 more have been granted since the last anniversary awards the pubPPB^WTfToiTof this interesting work. Tbc last sum was contributed by the New Vork Fe- j male Bible Society. The work is now i;i! press at Boston, nnder the superiutcn- | donee of the New-England Institution for the education of the Blind. The first of; four volumes is completed. The remain- j tier will be published in the course of two I months. } i AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. } -MJSTNACT OF THE ELEVEN III ANNUAL HETORT. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. ll?cf!ce<l for publications sold, ?47,573 38 1 donations, including ?29,949,92 for foreign distribution, of which $ 10.000 is front the American Tract Society, Bos. Ion. $10,1*23.27 front Ladies, J audi ?6.101,61 legacy of Mr. | Joseph Burr, 56,G38 04 | Total, (including ?792 IS balancs in, Treasury,) ?105,003 59 Paid for pap^r, printing, stcrotypmg, &c. ?52,117 77 Remitted for foreign distribution, 35,000 00 >\?r publishing Baxtor's Call, ?S:c. for the Bliud, 500 00 AU other expenses, as by ite:ns in the Treasurer's Report, 1G.3S5 82 Tatal paid during the year, as above, . ?105,003 59 The donations received are about ?4,000 ! less, and the receipts for sales ?16,000 I . . i i more, tlian in the previous year; auu ihoug-i only $29,950 of the receipts have been designated for foreign distribution, i the whole sum of $35,000, which the Committee proposed to attempt to raise, has been paid over for foreign stations. JYcio Auxiliaries, 34; whole number on the Society's list, 1180. TRACT VISITATION. In New York city, Christian effort, in f conneciion with Tract distribution, has received, within the last year, a double | efficiency. A few master spirits, who j mourn over the moral desolations of the j city, are devoting themselves with unwea- j ried energy, and consecrating their pecuniary mentis to this important object. They have now labouring with them, four- . tocn agents in tiie respective wards, who \ devote their uudivided energies to this j! service, having the co-operation of about j one thousand Christians, male and female. ! By these 1073 neighborhood prayer meet- 1 ings were held the last year, attended, to i a great extent, by those who were unac- 1 customed to visit the sanctuary; and be- ! < sides all other auxiliary efforts, such as (1 bringing children into the Sabbath School,! ? supplying the destitute with the Bible, ob- 1 taining subscribers to the temperance pledge, and ministering to the temporal i wants of the suffering, three hundred and 1 six souls were, during the year, reported j t hopeful'v born info th* kingdom cf. r Jhrist. Nor were they merely reported, < o be neglected and forgotten. At tlic end 1 >f the year, 138 were found to have connected themselves with evangelical church- . is, and some of them had become devoted labourers for the eternal welfare of others; 19 had died; G2 were expecting soon to enroll their names among the people of Clod; 17 had removed from the city; G gone to sea; 3 were prevented by relatives from making a public profession; and 8, there was reason to believe, had apostatized. Most of these were among the destitute and neglected, and had never been accustomed to visit the house of Clod till found bv the Tract visiter. In Philadelphia fourorfne hundred laboui ers are engaged in tlsis work with incrcajdnginterest and success; as arc Christians connected with auxiliaries and churches in various parts of the country. THE VOLUME ENTEIITRISE. . Xo tires for prosecuting the work upon the Society are in irresistible array. The state of the public press claims, in this view the most solemn attention. There arc said to be now on the trade lists in the United States, more than 800 volumes, the larger portion of which arc fiction or of injurious moral tendency. These volumes are issued to please the public taste, depraved as it may be?not to correct it; they arc sent forth to fire the wayward imagination of the young and infold thciu more strongly to the illusions of sin?not to direct their minds to heaven and save the soul. Nor is this evil limited to avowed and J palpable romance. Thousands of volumes a reissued under the aspect of friendship to religion, whose influence, in a spiritual view is scarcely less injurious. It is most clear, that the tremendous influence of the public press in our country may not be lift solely to the operation and influence of sales for the purpose of gain. The most valuable books mnst.be 1 . ? _ji nn/) prepared in an uiiruenw otj/ti, mm _/?*?nished at cost', or less than cast, and Christian efforts must be put forth all over the land to place them in the hands of the people?by sale, if it can be done?gratuitously, if it cannot. This feature of the Society's volume circulation the Committee hope none will overlook. It is no scheme of pfcuniarif profit, but is sustained, and is expected to he sustained only by large expenditures every year. It is the solemn and deliberate purpose of the "Soricty to furnish books AT COST, as the best means of advancing the Redeemer's kingdom; and when the}' arc issued, to employ agents, or adopt other means to arouse Christians to activity in presenting them to all whom they are designed to bless. It is, from beginning to end, purely an effort of benevolence, to tender Divine truth in these interesting and durable forms to those who would not como after it?who would have but a feeble desire to obtain it; but who, without it may perish eternally. Every voluntary christian effort in behalf of this cause is, therefore, so much freely consecrated to God and the welfare of souls. To every donor to the Society there is also this encouragement, that as the volumes are chiefly sold, the amount of each donation returns with evert sale; is sent out again, and again returns; and thus continues to revolve, and may, and probably will revolve long after the benevolent donor slwll be sleeping in dust. Almost daily evidences arc received of the attending of the Holt/ Spirit, bles C7 ^ f , sing tlic volumes to the salvation of| precious immortal souls. W ere all the clergymen, and all the members of the clmrches in whose conversion to Christ these volumns have exerted a decided instrumentality, distinctly known, the number, the Committee have reason to believe, would surprise those who have given less attention to this subject. Foreign Distribution. Thirty-fire thousand dollars have been remitted, during the year lo foreign stationsr viz. To China, . $4750 To Singapore and S. E. Asia, 2000 To Siam, 2500 To Burraah, 4000 To Orissa, 3050 To Ceylon and Continent, 3000 To the Mahrattas, 1500 To Constantinople, 1000 To Germany, 1500 To South Africa, 200 To North American Indians, 300 To Northern India, 1000 O ,1., IftAA J o I lie t7UIJU\Vmi L5li?liU.>, 1WU To Syra, 1000 To the Ncstorians, 500 To Smyrna, 1200 To Greece, 2230 To Russia, 1500 To France, 2000 To Moravian Brethren, 700 Total ^ $35,000 At the Sandwich Islands, 5017 are instructed in Sabbath and other Schools and Hible Classes ; and there are about 20,000 readers. About fifty publications have been nrinted, including a Daily Food, a Christian Almanac, and a semi-weekly newspaper. Of these, 270,400 are religious Tracts, and 203,920 portions of Scripture; total issues 35,040,920 pages. ( The missionaries find a most wide and investing opening for Tract, and volume :irculation in whale-ships touching at the Islands, for which more than 300,000 pa- ( jes ot Tracts and volumes have been graned during the year. , The Paris Tract Society circulated he last year 500,000 Tracts, including >1,000 of their Christian Almanac. They tave now in view the preparation of Evau^elicul volumes 1 or the 32,000,000 of rrancc, and have commenced issuing j rracts for Spain, to which France has ' he most ready means of access. The | lev. Robert Baird, at Paris, condensed \ he permanent documents of the Ameri- i ui Temperance Society inro a volume 1 tvhicli is printed in French, and about to i>e issued in German. By the Tract friend at St. Petersburg, Russia, 155,000 Tracts were printed in 1835, embracing nearly 0,500,000 pages;! and Abbott's Mother at Home and Several new Tracts have been translated into Russian. All their funds were exhausted previous to the Society's remittance, and they were 4000 roubles in debt. Their circulation was widely extended over the vast Russian empire, to Astrachan, Boltavin, and the Black Sea ; and to Esthonio, Sweden, and Finland, in the languagesof those countries. The government is entirely friendly to their operations, the * * * - -r Tlm, ?nor r??nnrtprl minister 01 iusuuuiuu that those publishing " these beautiful and useful little books deserve the thanks ol every friend of the human race." The report contains numerous and interesting extracts from their extensive correspondence, showing that among the common people Tracts are universally well received, and that many high in authority purchase largely for distribution. Prince Galitzin, Governor of Moscow has published a Tract on Intemperance at his own expense. In Greece, there were printed in 1S34 and 1835 at the Society's expense, by the American Protestant Episcopal press, 1,714,uuu pages; ana iiev, vr. ivm? ?u seven months had circulated from Atliens 10,000 school books and Tracts, and was waiting for a new supply from Smyrna. 44 I have now," he wrote, 44 scarcely a Tract in my depot. People come from all parts of Greece, to solicit TractsThe law which it was feared might restrain the mission press is removed. 44 We have permission," they write, 44 from the Minister of the Interior, to distribute our publications freely throughout the realm, and a circular has been forwarded to all the fnrhirMinrr fhnm In nilt anV bill dranco in our way." From Smyrna 20,256 books and Tracts had boon circulated in fifteen months. Progress is making in Syra: among the Ntstvrians in Persia; and distributions commenced among the European, CalTree, and Malay population of South A frica. Among the Tamul people in Ceylon, and the adjacent continent,arc 122*schooIs, embracing 524-3 scholars, and a seminary of 124 young men, by whom Tracts have been largely dispersed among their relatives and friends. As the fruit of the late revival, forty-three were added to the Cfcurch in one day ; and several hundreds of the children in the schools were scri ously impressed. The lie v. Ur. Scudder has distributed 20,000 Tracts, since occupying the station at Chavagachcrry; and in many instances they have produced a deep, and in some, it is hoped, a saving impression. For the Tract, "The Blind Way," (Hindooism,) he judges he has a hundred applications from native heathens. Orissa, the station of the English General Baptist Missionary Society, .and site of the temple of Juggernaut, where the Rev. Amos Sutton, who lately visited this country, is laboring, is probably visited annually by half a million pilgrims, speaking all the languages of India from the mountains of Cashmere to Cape Comorin. It is one of the most interesting fields for Tract distribution in the world : many of the Tracts being carried back by the pilgrims to their homes from one thousand to two thousand miles. 'Many of the converts to the Saviour in India have received their first Christian light from religious Tracts." The mission in Northern India is reinforced with a press and fonts of type in various languages, with fair prospects of usefulness. In Burmah are four presses exclusively applied to printing in Burmese, with a type and stereotype foundry, and fonts ol type in Karen and Taling. In 1838 no less than 5,272.000 pages were printed ; and in 1834 2,514,450 were circulated. It is believed that the full amount appropriated by the Society has been ex1 * -? " . !J 1 pcnaca uie pasi year. ^ir. rvmuuiu una made very extensive distributions at Ava, the capital of tho Burinan empire, and many triumphant results of Tract and missionary labour have been witnessed. An old man, who resided in the palace, got a little book of Mr. K. and came to him some months after, thinking himself the only man in Burraah who had received the new doctrine, and giving evidence that a heaven-directed arrow had reached his heart. Some villagers, residing sixty miles distant, had obtained the 4 View of the Christian Religion' and 4 Golden Balance,' and came, saying, 44 all the people in tho village had read them, and wished to hear more about the eternal God." During a festival of three days at Rangoon, 3000 Tracts were distriboted, and 472,000 pages by Messrs. Cutter and Brown in another laborious missionary tour of several weeks up the Irawaddy river from Rangoon to Ava, in which, more than once, the people came wading through the water for Tracts and books. The report presents a view of the * * * . .? obstacles and the encouragements 10 me diffusion of the Gospel in China, condensed from an able article in the Chinese Repository; and shotvs the progress in the preparation of Chinese metal type, which will goubtless greatly facilitate the business of Chinese printing; and details many interesting facts, particularly in the labours of Mr. Gutzlaff, and in a voyage of two months on the eastern coast, lately performed by the Rev. Mr. Medhurst and Rev. Mr. Stevens, in the American brig Huron, chartered for the purpose. In this voyage they spent about two weeks in visiting towns and villages in China without molestation ; distributed 20,000 books, and were confirmed in the belief, that hower hostile the Chinese authorities \ may be to the intercourse of foreigners, i Mr. G:>t7.!u(l has g'ven no exaggerated statement of the anxiety of the people to t obtain books. " Landing on the beach 1 at Tungshan," says Mr. Stevens, " Jive 1 minutes sufficed to bring together as many i | hundreds of smiling people: another j minute taught them our object in coming * thither; and half an A oar sufficed to dis- I 1 tribute some hundred volumes. Had they ; known these to be the last of our stock, | as they really were, they could scarcely t ' have scrambled for them more eagerly and ! i violently. One more excursion to the } eastern shoro, on the next day, took away ? the last of our books." i The report also presents numerous and j | cheering evidences of the Divine blessing ; on volumes and Tracts, and the faithful | personal Christian efforts bv which their ! I..,:.... i..,? i ; i if cdiauuii iico uucii auuiiucu. <j | i i ; AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The tentli annual meeting of this society ; was held in the Tabernacle on Wednesday i 1 evening, the Hon. 8. Van Rensselaer, pre- j ! sident of tlie society, in the chair. The ; i 1 receipts for the year, including a balance 1 i of $5,440 in the treasury at the commence- i I merit, and a legacy of $12,000 from the | late Joseph Burr, of Vermont, amount to j $107,039. The expenditures have been , $92,108, leaving a balance in the treasury I of $14,930. The progress of the society, j as tested by its receipts, has been as fol- j ;lo\vs: First year, $18,130 7G; second,1 i $20,035 78: third, $26,997 31; fourth,! j $33,929 44; fifth, $48,124 73; sixth, | $49,422 12; seventh. $68,627 17; eighth, | $78,911 44; ninth, $88,863 12; tenth, 1 *ini l.V ~TI ie number of missionaries under the j j cave of the society during the year lias been j 753 in this country, and 17 in France; i total 770. I " | AMERICAN SEAMEN S FRIEND SOCIETY. The eighth annual meeting of this socio- ! ; ty was held at the Tabernacle, on Monday evening. The whole of that immense : building, was filled to overflowing by an 1 audience whose fixed attention throughout :' the exercises, gave a pleasing proof of the i interest felt in this important cause. The : chair was taken at 7 1-2 o'clock, bv A. Van Sindcren, Esq. And the exercises of the evening were opened with prayer, by the Rev. Dr. Do Witt. A portion of the t Psalm commencing with Uod of the sea! whose awful voice, to. Was sung by the choir, under lite direc,! tion of Mr. Hastings. Tiie annual report, | of which the following is an abstract, was i next read by Mr. Grecnleaf, the Corresponding Secretary of the Society. The labors of this society will be better understood when reviewed under the following heads: Foreign Operations?At. Janlic Seaports?Inland Waters?Seamen's Home?Means of general improvement. 1. Foreign Operations. Canton.?Rev. Edwin Stevens, Chaplain. i ,1" -- - .1- -i-i?. ? X MIS JS lilt; OlUUbl UMUUilMiiilCiu ui IUU Societv. This was the place where the experiment was first made whether k was practicable to sustain a ministry for seamen '! amid the floating population of a thronged foreign port. The past year has disclosed no very material alterations at this station. The Bethel flag has been displayed at the ship anchorage almost every Sabbath for the year, and an audience collected on the . deck or in the cabin of some ship, either American or English. In tlve course of the year, Mr. Stevens has made two con| siderable excursions along the eastern coast j of China, once in company with Messrs. i Cordon and Gutzlnff, and once with Mr. j Mcdhurst. By these excursions much im: portant knowledge of the coast has been j obtained, which may be of service to the j society in their future operations, j Havre.?Rev. David De F. Ely, Chap: lain. During the past year the Seamen's ; Chapel at Havre has not been closed for a ; single Sabbath. The services of the Lord's i dav. the wecklv lecture, the stated prayer | J 7 - - - - V ' I meeting, and tiie Sabbath school, are all | attended. Tracts are distributed, and a ! reading room kept open for the accomodai tion of sailors. Though the assemblies ; arc generally small, yet we are not without i evidence that some good has been effected, I nor could the station be abandoned without i detriment to the cause. Marseilles.?This important port was one I of the first ever designated as the station I for a seamen's chaplain, but circumstances , beyond the control of the committee have ! hitherto prevented its occupancy. A prosi pcct is now opening for employing a j chaplain there. The services of the Rev. ! Eii N. Sunteli, of Louisville, Ky. having ] been secured by the Board, he has. been appointed to labor at Havre, and the com- : mittee have proposed to the Rev. Mr. Ely to remove to Marseilles, inasmuch as his ' thorough knowledge of the French lan guagc and character will render him more i T..1 4 4Kir* nnt? norcA)! ni*A_ I i nseiui ui -*iuiduiuwo iiiun cuij |/uovii ^iu- | | babh* could bo who went directly from this j '> ! countjW, while the station at Havre can be 1 appropriately filled by a person speaking the < English language only. It is expected j that Mr. Ely will proceed to Marseilles i | when his successor shall arrive at Havre. J Honolulu.?Rev.John Dieli, Chaplain.? j < t The port of Honolulu, in the island ofOahu, one ofthe Sandwich Islands, is the principal resort of the whole ships in the Pacific 1 Ocean. At that place cargoes of oil can 1 he landed, if need be, and fresh provisions 1 and fruits are readily obtained. It was i hence chosen as the most appropriate place l for a seamen's chapel. i It was stated in our last report that the i chapel was completed, two reading-rooms i prep'ared, and a house for the chaplain i built. The committee have now the plea- < sure to state that the bills for the whole s have been discharged, and that establish- t ment freed from pecuniary embarassment. 1 Sailors' can now avail themselves of all the * customary means of grace while in this 1 I port. . 1 J Lahaina.?This port, in the island of < ! Maui, another of the Sandwich Islands, is more frequented by seamen than any other ?t 03b,ftpt JIufKiV':. Tut? c<5n5.^rr;t:oJi led i lie American missionaries at that place c nore than two yearn ago to open a reading ; \ oom for sailors, and to make special efforts ! s or their instruction when in port. The ex-j ( >cnsc of the reading room has been as- t sumed by this society, and an agency for \ the benefit of seamen established there. Smyrna.?Rev. Josiah Brewer, Chaplain. | The number of American vessels at Smyrna | i is not large, and there being several pro- j s testant missionaries residing at that place, j | the sailors have some opportunities for j J religious instruction in common with others.' * The whole time of a chaplain at that port' s has not therefore, seemed as yet to be j ] demanded. Air. Brewer finds time to | J perform some important services for the, seamen in addition to his missionary work, | and at least ono service for the special ac-11 _ i_x! *i i ? i ii i commouauon 01 sailors nas ucen new on nearly every Sabbath for the year. [ Rio Janeiro.?Rev. Obadiah M. John- j son, Chaplain. This station has been recently occupied. Mr. Johnson received' ordination in October last. Ho embarked at Richmond about the first of December, and arrived at Rio Janeiro on the 20th of January. lie has commenced his labors under favorable appearances. Calcutta.?A Bethel chapel has been sustained at Calcutta for several years by the joint labors of the resident missionaries, of all denominations. Within the year past an arrangement has been made for occupying this important port by a chaplain, of tliis society. Batatia.?Some attention has heretofore i been paid to the instruction of seamen at i Batavia by the Rev. Mr. Medhurst, and j the late lamented missionaries, Munson and i Lyman, by whom many books were distributed, and Bethel meetings for prayer and preaching frequently held on shipboard. An agency is now agreed upon through the missions rics of the Reformed Dutch Church, who are about to be stationed at Batavia by i the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The spiritual wants of: sailors at that port will now be attended to, and a foundation laid there for the employment of a permanent Chaplain of this Society. Nearly the same may be said of Singapore.?An arrangement has been j made with the American Board to secure for the special benefit of seamen at Singa-j pore such efforts on the part of their mis-! /-II. nnt f.irfli n'ltiintlt 111- ! aiuuuncs to uiv.cm j/ui <w< ? mwivut ??.- ; terfering with their more appropriate duties.: An agency is thus secured, which will soon J lead to the employment of a regular Chap- j lain of our Society at this place, which is i destined to become one of the most im-! port ant ports in the East. Such are the foreiga operations of this : Society embracing five regular Chaplains j in foreign ports, and important agencies at j the expense of this Society cither commenced or about to be established in five other places. 11. Atlantic Sea poets. Tracing along the coast of the Atlantic j we find sixteen Bethel chapels, situated at! the following places: Eastpore and Bath, j (where public worship is occasionally maintained) Portland, Sakiii, Boston, New j Bedford, Mystic, New York, Newark, j Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond,Charles, j ton, Pensacola, and Mobile, where regular officiating clergymen arc constantly found ; and in Savannah, where public worship is maintained in the winter season. These are all under the patronage of local societies except Pensacola, where an arrangement has recently been made by the American Seamen's Friend Society with the Rev. Mr. Steels, the Episcopal clergyman of that place, who is now to devote a portion of his time to the instruction of the seamen. In Mobiic this Society supported a Chaplain last year. "The Mobile Port Society" has since been formed, and the support of the Chaplain assumed by themselves/ Tt io cfntwl in nnr last renort that we had reason to believe the Bethel cause was reviving in New Orleans. We regret to say that those hopes have been blasted. A subscription of 810,000 was made to complete the Mariners' Church, but the building stood on land owned by the United States' government ; it had been for a Jong time iu a ruinous condition; it was presented by the Grand Jury as a nuisance, and finally ordered by the government tc bo removed. The effect of this on the seamen's cause at New Orleans time only will disclose, III. Inland Waters. PuriDg the past year the friends of seamen and boatmen at Buffalo and that vicinity, bolieving this cause demanded more direct attention than it had ever received, formed a Society called " The Boatmen's Friend Society," which it is proposed should take the oversight of the boatmens' cause in that section of country. A periodical called " The Bethel Magazine" is issued by this society, which is well calculated to advance its interests. Bethel ministers are now established at Cleveland, Buffalo, Utica, Troy, and Oswego, and in each place, except the last named, there are regularly organized christian churches, two of which, viz. those it Cleveland and Boffalo, have been organized within the year. Measures arc in train at Albauy for a similar institution in that city. IV. Seamen's Home. Three years ago this society purchased a ot of ground in the city of New York on which it was proposed ultimately to erect a ' buildifjg which should accommodate the va- J [ -ious offices of the society, and other insti- j utions of the city for the peculiar benefit of ] nariners, and $7,000 of the purchase mo- ' ley was paid. Last autumn a benevolent ndividual came forward, unsolicited, with < an offer of $1,000, provided the amount necessary to erect this building should be subscribed before the close of the year. The rustees thereupon resolved to enlarge their ; )lan, and to provide a true home for the sailor, where he should be boarded and ' odged during his stay on the shore. An , additional lot of ground has been "bought, 1 md $2,000 of the purchase money paid. 1 \ subscription lias been obtained sufficient;? o erect the building as originally planned, i rtt hrge rv.m is still necessary to carry >ut the plan in all its liberal details. The J vant of this, and some other prudential con- I liderations have induced tlie committee to \ lelay commencing the building. However, lie resolution to build is passed, and the vork will ultimately be accomplished. V. Means of General IaipaovEMKifr. Under this general head we include the teamen's Hymn Book and Devotional Assistant, 7,000 copies of which have been wblishcd and circulated by the society'Hhe bailor's Magazine, an edition of 3,000 copies jf which is published monthly; an edition of i Sailor's Temperance Almanac for 1836, published by means of a donation from the Board of Underwriters of the city of New York, and 100,000 copies of which have been put in circulation by this society, thro'- , out all the ports in the United States jtogeth- \ er with the free distribution of religious tracts \ and books to a large extent. . The following committee were appointed bv a late public meeting in Charleston to attend the Rail Road Convention which is to assemble at KnoxviOe, 7enn. on the 4th of AprU nexK Delegates?C. J. Colcock, Ker Boycc, James Nicholson, Joel R. Poinsett, R. B. Smith, Isaac E. Holmes, Thomas Lowndes, David Alexander, Benjamin F. Dunkin, James G. Holmes, Afit. chell King, J. C. Levy, S. P. Ripley, Otis Mills, C. Edmondston, Nath. Heyward, Alex. Black, Daniel E. Huger, Alfred Huger, Edw. Lynah, Wm. B. Pringle, James Gathbert, Wm. r. tinley, John A. Stuaat, James Mursh, S. II. Dickson, A. S. Willington, T. Topper, James Walton, J. W. Toomor, Dr. T. Y. Simmons, James Gadsden. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaints. v^m% ARE universally acknowledged to liave tola], ly eclipsed the pretensions of every other remedy; and superceded the necessity of every other mode of treatment, wherever the above diseases are found to exist, as well as in enlargement of tha Spiern and in Jaundice. Among the symptoms of Dyspepsia and Liver Complaints, are flatulency, sourness or burning in the stomach, melancholy, irritability, disagreeable taste in the mouth; great irregularity of appetite, which is sometimes voracious, and at other times greatly deficient, thirst, fetidbrsolb, nausea weakufcss of the stomach, acid eructations, palpitation, drowsiness, irregularity of the bowols, pressure on the stomach after meals, pain in the head, dizziness or vertigo; confusion of mind, attended with loss of memory, a gnawing in the stomach when empty, dullness, affection of sight and hearing, pain and weakness in the back, lan. guor, disturbed sleep, coldjfeetand hands, tremor, uneasiness in the tlutoat, cough, pain in the side or breast, Ac. - .! >"/' ./ These medicines are becoming known and valued. {.f - 4V, Eich box is accompanied with numerous Cartitieates front the highest sources of respectability. f Tiie unrivaled success of the medicines, in curing the above maladies has given them a reputation which time only con destroy. Da PETERS VEGITABLE ANTIBILUOUS PILLS Thcso Pills need but a trial to recsmmeufl them. They are purely vegetable and well knitted for the removal of all Billions complaints. They act specially upon the Liver, when in a tornid condition, carrvincr off a larme uuantifv of bile, through the influence of the excerneotlunr. tion, which, if suffered to remain in the system, would produce either Jaundice, Liver Cofoplaint, Billious Fever, Fever and Ague, or some other grievous bodily affliction. In ail cases of torpor of the bowels, they act like a charm. In recnt cases of Dyspepsia, they are a certain corn. dfiu ny persons who were subject to violent attacks of sick head ache, have been much benefitted, and several perfectly cured in a few weeks by their use. They are highly recommended as a preventive and cure of Billious complaints. Persons who are subject to that distressing complaint, sea sickness, by taking a portion or two of them a few days previous to embarking on ba?M the vessel, will be almost certain to escape it. Females can use them at any period, with oat incurring any risk. Persons going to see, ot to a southern climate, should by all means tAe some of these Pills with them.?Their virtneft will remain unimpaired for years in any - climate. No family should be without these Pills; % portion of than, taken occasionally would bp the means of preventing much suffering from sickness. It is from neglect of keeping op a regular peristaltic action of the stomach and bowels, thussoAring to be absorbed and mingled with the blood, una*, siinikitcd fluids, that most diseares are produced. Dr. P. feels confident that no person who gives these Pills a fair trial, will ever after foci willing to be without them, lite testimony of thousands speaking in the highest trans of efficacy, might be added, but the very high reputation Dr. P. has acquired as the inventor or the "Patent Vegetable Medicines SUmockicm et He. patieee," for tlio euro of Dyspepsia, sad liver complaints, is thought a sufficient guarantee to those wishing to nuke a trial of their -vtrtaoe. They contain not a particle of .Mercury, or any ingredient that doea not act in hanno?/ with health and oppose disc see. Dr. P. wishes h distinctly underload* that these Pills noasrsa beneficial Qualities mdepen dent of their purgative effects; theyore both ton. ic and de obstruent, acting upon the accreting and exhalent functions; thus atrengtbemag the patient, white they remove obstructions ?-Modicines which possess no other, excepting cathsr. tic qualities, debilitate the patient, and their-re. peated use lays the foundation of a long catalogue of Chronic Diseases. Dr. P. having been educated under, the most eminent American and European Mfediea] pro. fessors, and practised his profession rem Mors in the South, where diseases of the moat obstinate character prevail, considers himself well qualified to judge on the nature of diseases incident to warm climates. ^ ' Prepared by Jostrn Piuestlt Pjstos, m. n. r. b. c. r. m. at his Institution for the cure of obstiiiate diseases, by means of vegetable remedies, No 129 Liberty'street, New York, inventor and sole proprietor. Each box contains fdMy Pills. Prico >0 Cents. A fresh supply of the above Medicines, just re. * ;cived and for sale bv JOHN I. WBSTERVELT, Drvggiif. Cheraw, May 3,1836, 25 6m. A. Private Teacher Wanted I WILL give, to any gfcntletaan capable of teaching Mathematics k the died Languages, with good recommendations of morel character, md without family, e salary of $300 with ioard, to teach my chilfiten Jfor tfte year, com. ncncing as soon as convenient. Letters to bo lirected, post-paid, to IK F. Pcgues, at Cheraw ?, C. AT>rii 2nd. .' pegfe.*. J