fl lit i ni tff" BY S. B. BOW. CLEARFIELD, PA'., WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1857. VOL. 3.-EO. 38. 4 I 5 4 I i 1 I a 1 i i i -t TO . . Thera was a time I thought to make A holy love my guiding star ; . When my nnclouded spirit beamed With hopes as bright as morning's car. In youth's fond dreams, I bailed the beams Of love's sun glimmering from afar. I met thee, and in thy pure heart, I deemed my hopes and faith might dwell, With as firm trust as in that power That o'er my childhood breathed its spell ; And hopes of fame. Linked wi'.h thy name ; I loved the chain, I fear, too well. It passed I scarce know how or why ; And from my mind I strove to blot All thoughts and memories of thee. And deemed, at last, thou wert forgot. In the cold world. By passion hurled, I pleasure sought, but found it not. That unrelenting pride, which once, By thee aroused, subdued love's flame, Still in my boom fiercely burns, A tenderer passion cannot tame. Too late, I fear. Unwelcome tears Etart, when I breathe thy once loved name. I weep to think what might have been ; How sweetly, through the golden years, That unfound radiance would have beamed, .Dispelling all our earthly feais. Then let time roll, for my blest soul One refuge true always appears. The love, the faith I gave to thee. Have ne'er returned my heart to bless; If thou canst give them back undimmed. With thine own pure, 'twere happiness; A single heart, Love without art, I ask no more and give no less. Thy smile, thy tones awake again. The dormant thoughts and dreams of old, If thou art all I fondly hope, Again for thee shall be unrolled All I hold dear, And through the years To come, a love as pure as gold. J. II. THE DISGUISED LOVER. My friend Tom has a natural affection for dirt, or rather dirt Las a natural affection for Tom. Jt is to him what gold was to Midas whatever lie touches turns to dirt. No mat ter how white the cravat no matter how im maculate the vest, the moment it comes within the sphere of Tom's influence its whiteness is gone, it is immaculate no longer. Dogs, sweeps and lamp-lighters never pass him with out leaving upon his dress unequivocal marks of their presence. Once, and only once I saw liim cross the street without encountering the wheels of a carriage. I opened my mouth to congratulate him, and before I could utter one word it was filled with mud. The careless blockhead lay at my feet full length in the gut ter. At uiy earnest solicitation he once pur chased a suit of precisely mud color. It was a capita! idea, lie crossed the street three times ; he walked half a mile and returned, in appearance, at least, unscathed. The thing was unprecedented. True, lie was welcomed liy the affectionate caresses of a dog that had been enjoying the coolness of a neighboring horse-pond ; true, he received a shower-bath from the wheels of an omnibus. But to plas ter mud on Tom's new coat was to "gild re fined gold to paint the lily.'' "Tom will bo a neat man yet," I said, as I witnessed the success of my plan. In about half an hour it was my fate to meet a gentleman with seven stripes of green paint on bis back it was my friend Tom j be had been leaning against some newly painted window-blinds. His man Ca'sar declares that he "can't see de use o1) blacken boots when he neber stays bracked ;" and bis washerwoman, with a prop er regard for her own reputation, has been compelled to discard him, not from any ill will, but, as she declared, with uplifted bands, "if any oho should ask me if I wash Mister Smith's clothes, what could I tell them J" But there were few things in this world with which Tom could have more easily dispensed than the services of bis washerwoman. Having no other amusement one morning, I strolled over to Tom's room. I ascended the stairs, and heard his voice, in a very decided tone, say "But it mnst bo done, and so thero is an end to it." "Really," was the reply, "anything within the limits of possibility ; but to make a coat in ten hours I will promise anything in the world j but I really fear I shall be unable to perform this." "If double price would be any object " "Certainly, sir, if you insist upon it cer tainly. I will put every man in my shop upon it it shall be dono in time. Good morning, Kir." The door opened, and a fellow with shears and measure passed out. What could Turn bo doing with a tailor 7 "Just the man I wanted to see," exclaimed Tom. "I require your advice upon a very important affair which of these cravats do you think most becoming 1" And he spread beforff me some half a dozen, of every buo and fashion. "Now, what in the name of all that is won derful, does this mean, Tom 1 A fancy ball, is it 7 You have chosen an excellent disguise ; your most intimato friends will never know you. But you cannot support the character; if you bad taken that of a chimney-sweep, now but that would have been too natural. Tell me, Tom, what docs all this mean 7" . "Why, the fact is, Frank," passing a hand through his hair, redolent of macassar "I Live concluded I think I shall be a little norc neat in future. You doubtless remem ber the good advice you gave me some time since ; it Las Lad an excellent effect, I assure ou." Now, it so happened that of all the good ad vice 1 had given Tom, this was the very first- instance in which be bad seen tit to follow it. So I could not attribute the metamorphosis of my friend to my eloquence. Who but a wo man ever changed a sloven to a fop 7 "Fray, where are you going this evening," I continued, "that you must have a new coat so suddenly 7" "Going? Nowhere in particular. I indeed had some idea of calling on my old friend, Mr. Murray. No harm in that I hope." - Conviction began to flash upon me. "Your old friend, Mr. Murray. And Lis young niece, Miss Julia, has no share . in the visit, I suppose 7 I heard that she arrived in town last night," said I. "Xow, upon my word, Frank, you mistake me entirely. I did not know that she was in town last night when I that is, when I I did not know anything about it." "And so you were there last night, too ! Really, this is getting along bravely." "Why, the lact is, Frank, you must know everything. I called last evening to see Mur ray on some business about the real estate, you know. I had no more idea of meeting a woman than a boa constrictor. My beard was three days old, collar ditto, and the rest of my dress in excellent keeping. I became en gaged in conversation, and somehow or other I forgot all about the real estate." "And so you are going again to-night and that is the secret of your new coat ?" "By no means j I wanted a new coat, and tailors are so long, you know.. Do you think blue will become me 7 Blue is her favorite that is, I moan blue " "Oh, go on, don't stammer blue is her fa vorite color, isn't it 7" "The fact is, Frank take, another glass of this wine the fact is good wine, isn't it 7 Been two voyages to the Indies the fact is, I suppose I rather fancy I am little in love. Try a little of that sherry. What are the symp toms, Frank 7 a queer feeling about the heart, a something that drives the blood through me like lightning 7" Exactly ! I believe I have seen Julia short and chubby, is n't she with red Lair, and a little squint eyed 7" "Frank, I never did knock you down, tho I have oltcn been tempted to do so a great many times ; but if you do not stop that non sense, I will." 'Quite valiant in the defence of your lady love. Well, Tom, I confess that she is a love ly girl, and to-morrow I will call to learn your success. So, good morning." "Well, Tom, what success 7" I inquired, as I met him net day. "Would you believe it 7 She did not recog nize me." "Not recognize you 7" "No. You know what a quiz Murray is. As soon as he saw me enter, dressed in such style, he came np, shook bands with me, and without giving me a chance to say a word, in troduced me to Miss Julia-as Mr. Frederick somebody. And would you believe, the little witch did not know me! I think I shall not forget her quite so easily. Nor was that all. Murray said something about the fellow who called there the previous evening a country cousin, be said, clean enough, but an incorri gible sloven. And Julia said he dressed like a barbarian just think of that, Frank, a bar barian. She shall pay for that, yet. Such eyes, and she steps like a queca. Well, Frank, a clean collar does make a vast difference in a man's appearance. Lovely as Ilebo herself. Terrible difference clean linen makes." " The last time I saw Tom, lie was scolding his oldest boy for coming into the drawing room with muddy boots on. Julia thinks tho child inherits a little of his father's peculiar propensity, already mentioned. Lucid Instructions. A judge of one of the inferior courts of Illinois, in a "certain suit before his court pending," instructed the jury in the "case" as follows : "If the jury believe from the evidence, that the plaintifFand the defendant were partners in the grocery, and that plaintiff bought out the defendant, and gave him his note for the interest, and the defendant paid the note by delivering, to the plaintiff a cow which he war ranted "not breacby" and the warranty was broken by reason of the breachtness of the cow, and the plaintiff drove the cow back and tendered her to defendant, but the defendant refused to receive her and the plaintiff took her home again, and put a heavy yoke or poke upon her to prevent her from jumping fences, and the cow in undertaking to jump a fence, by reason of tho poke or yoke, broke her neck and dipd, and if tho jury further believe that the defendant's interest in the grocery was not worth anything, and the defendants note was worthless, and the cow good for nothing either for milk or beef, or "green hide," then the jury must find ont for themselves how they w ill decide the case for "the court if she un derstands herself, and she thinks that she do," don't know how the d-I such a case should be decided." Tho instruction fully explains the whole case, and, no doubt, Bettlcs a very important principle. JUDGE WILMOT'S LETTER. . Towanda, April 22d, 1856. ' Gentlemen : On my return Lome, after an absence of two weeks, 1 found your communi cation informing me of my nomination- as a candidate for the office qf Governor, by a Con vention of the Freemen of Pennsylvania, op posed to the leading measures of the late and present . National Administrations, which as sembled at the State Capitol on the 25th ulti mo, together with a copy of the declaration of principles rromulgated by that Coavcntion. . I accept the position to which I am called by the unsolicited suffrage of the body whose organ you are ; profoundly grateful for so.dis tinguished a mark of confidence of my f ellow citizens, yet painfully sensible of my inability properly to meet its responsible obligations. The approaching election is one of no ordi nary interest. Important questions of State policy, affecting the public welfare and pros perity, are not alone involved in the issues pre sented. As one of the largest and most pow erful of the sovereign States of our confeder ate Republic, the honor and interests ot Penn sylvania arc deeply concerned in the princi ples that animate her National Government. She cannot, with safety to her independence and the liberties of her people, be iudifforent to the momentous questions of National im port in progress of settlement questions touching the constitutional powers of the Fed eral Government, and vitally affecting the dig nity and rights of free labor. Nor can she, without dishonor, withhold her protest against the wrongs inflicted upon her sons in a distant Territory, under tho license of Federal au thority. The dearest rights of freemen, secured by plain, Constitutional gnarnntsrara ruthlasa. ly violated on the soil of our national domain. American citizens are made the victims of a tyranny unknown in the despotisms of the old world. The annals of civilized and Christian nations furnish no examples of cruelty and outrage on the part of a government towards its people, such as Las been endured by the people of Kansas, unless they be found in the persecutions of the Huguenots, under Louis the Fourteenth, of France, and of the Protes tanls of the Netherlands, by the Duke of Al va, under Philip Second, King of Spain. In deed, the barbarities to which the people of Kansas have been exposed, were of a charac ter so inhuman as to provoke incredulity in tho minds of a large portion of our citizens. Thousands have been deceived into the belief that, for partisan purposes, fictions were sub- stituted for facts ; although no events in A merican history are better authenticated than are the murders, robberies, arsons, and lawless rapacity inflicted upon tho free settlers of Kansas. These outrages had for their object the subjugation of that Territory to the curse of slavery. We speak of quiet being restored to Kansas, because armed bands of lawless men do not to-day infest her highways and plunder her people because her towns are not sacked and tho cabins of her settlers in flames. This peace is deceptive and insecure. It will be broken the moment that the people of Kansas make a vigorous effort to recover those rights, of which they have been fraudulently deprived. The purpose of her enslavement is inexorably pushed forward. A system of ingeniously de vised fraud, kindred to that employed in the usurpation under which she now groans, is be ing carried out for tho consummation of this great wrong. To this end also the power of the Federal Government is basely prostituted. We are given trord-i of fairness, but persist ence in support of tho wrong. Every appoin tee of the President in Kansas is an active co worker in the scheme for her enslavement. Principles of eternal truth and justice,which lie at the foundation of a Christian civiliza tion, and upon which repose the rights of hu manity, are defiantly assailed by tho power that controls in our National Government. . Those truths, declaratory of the natural and inalien able rights of man, contained in the Great Charter of our liberties, are condemed by our highest judicial authority as unmeaning and false. The sanctuary of our Courts of Justice is closed against an entire race of men. The poor and downtrodden are not allowed to pe tition for a redress of their wrongs, in thoso tribunals of human Government that should most nearly represent the beneficent attributes of the Creator and final Judge of all men. In view of these incontestible facts of tho wrongs perpetrated against the rights of Amer ican citizenship, and the dangers to which our liberties are exposed thus presented in its true aspect the contest before us assumes a dignity rarely given to human affairs, and im poses duties upon our citizens as high and sol emn as ever appealed to the hearts and con sciences of men. Tho question is beforo us from its demands thero is no escape. Do cide we mnst, either for the right or the wrong. Sooner or later the verdict of this groat Com monwealth must be pronounced on the issues forced upon the country by the advocates of Luman bondage. History will record that verdict to her enduring honor, or to Ler ever lasting shame. The repeal of tho Missouri Restriction, and the attempt to force slavery upon Kansas by fraud and violence, precipitated upon tho country a conflict between the antagonistic systems of free and servile labor, In the is sue cf this conflict is involved the democratic character of our institutions of government, and the independence, dignity and rigiits of the free white laboring man and his posterity. Slavery is a deadly enemy of free labor. The two cannot co-exist on the same field of enterprise. Either labor will vindicate its right to freedom, or it will sink into depen dence and dishonor. Free labor is clothed with intelligence agd power. It stands erect in the dignity of a true manhood. - It sustains by its energies all the noble institutions of a refined and perfectly developed social life. It is the source of our prosperity and national greatness. Slavery is labor in ignoranbe and cains a brutalized humanity, stimulated to industry by the lash of a master. It makes the laborer an article of merchandize, without aim and without Lope. ''y In the place of an in telligent citizen, ready to defend with his life the honor and interests of his country, slave ry gives to the State an ignorant savage to be held in subjection. It endangers the social fabric by converting its great element of strength into an implacable enmity. Never, in the history of partisan warfare, were men more unjustly and perseveringly misrepresented than are the opponents of the extension of s'lavery. This arises in part from the intolerant nature of slavery, and the wea pons it is necessitated to employ, and partly from the fact so omnipotent has the Slave Power become in our govnrnment that sup port of its every demand is made the single test of party fidelity, and the only road to of ficial preferment. The citizen who dissents in terms of earnest and manly protest against whatever exactions Slavery makes, booomcs thereby in so far as the National Government can iuiDose dijai"tti almost as much an a lien and outlaw as is the slave himself. If the freemen of the North consent to occupy such a subordinae position in tho government of their country, tho spirit of manly indepen dence will be crushed out in their posterity. Our sons will become a submissive and servile race, slipped of manhood and self respect. The slaveholder, proprietor of the soil and master of the government, will dominate over them with scarcely less of arrogance and pow er than he rules over his hereditary bondsmen. To this condition arc the non-slaveholding whites ot the South already reduced. They have to-day little more of practical power in the formation of public opinion, and in the af fairs of government, than has the slave. The same fate awaits our posterity, if slavery is al lowed to monopolize the virgin soil of this continent. It is the inevitable retribution of heaven on any people that have not the cour age and integrity to maintain their rights. It is not true that the defenders of the rights of free labor seek the elevation of .the black race to an equality with the white. They do not propose the emancipation of the slave, but leave that question, both as to time and the mode of its accomplishment, with the States in which slavery exists. They wish to deal with this great and embarrassing evil in a spirit of friendly forbearance towards those States; but they cannot carry ' their forbear ance as far as to become slaves themselves as to surrender the soil and government of the nation into the bands of an aristocracy found ed upon property in slaves. Free white labor has rights in the soil supe rior to the pretensions of slavery. The slave holding capitalist claims that his property, be ing largely invested in slaves, will depreciate, unless the field whereon he can employ it be enlarged. The white laborer, also, has a pro perty in his labor, quite as sacred and as wor thy of the care of the Government ; and where is the field upon which he is to make that la bor profitable to himself and family, if slave ry is to monopolize the fertile and virgin lands of the West 7 Labor is depressed almost to the starving point in tho densely populated countries of the old world, because of tho narrow field upon which it is imprisoned. The demand for labor is small, compared with the thousands who have labor to seil. So it will be at no distant day in this favored land, un less we keep our vast public domain as a sa cred inheritance for the free white laboring man and his posterity forever. In the soil of our extended empire, the toiling masses have the only sure guarantee for their future pros perity and independence. This tho cupidity of capital would take from them ; and here lies tho real issue that the Slave Power has forced npon the country. It is a struggle for land. On the one side stands the owner of slave property, demanding a field upon which to em ploy Lis servile labor upon the other side stands free labor, claiming tho soil as an in heritance for a free posterity Central and Western Europe, teeming with its millions of population, is not as large as the domain of the American slaveholder. He and his bondmen already occupy by far the most fertile and go nial portion of this continent. Let him rest content wtth his territorial possessions and power. We do not seek to disturb him. . We neither assail nor defend Lis assorted right to hold his peculiar kind of property. We sim ply affirm that we have nothing to do with it, and propose to let him and Lis slaves alono where they are. .We make, therefore, no ques tion about tho abolition of Slavery in the South. We but stand in defence of Freedom in the North. Kansas is ia tho latitude of Philadelphia. In geographical position it is a Northern Territory. It was dedicated by a solemn compact in 1820 to Freedom forever. We claim the fulfilment of the bond. We de fend the integrity of free Northern soil against the cupidity that would subjugate it by vio lence into a plantation for slaves?. Much Las been said on the dangers involved in this controversy. We arc counseled to sub mission and acquiescence in the wrong, be cause the wrong doer threatens greater calam ities if we shall dare to defend our rights. Such threats are unbecoming those who make them, and an insult to those upon whose fears they are expected to operate. Great ques tions of governmental policy, involving the very substance of our liberties," and the hap piness of remote generations, are not to be settled by appeals to the fears of any part of the American people. Reason, and calm judg ment of an enlightened public opinion, must decide between freemen threats are a terror to slaves. . Imaginary dangers become reali ties to the. timid to the courageous they van ish on a nearer approach. So here the only dan.qer lies in becoming alarmed. The dan ger is overcome the day it is met with reso lute courage and determined .purpose. The right must prevail, and the wrong must give way. Upon no other basis can the questions in issue ever be permanently settled. It is no impeachment of the manly qualities of our Southern friends to say that they will and must submit to that which is just and right, when constitutionally embodied in the legislation of the government. Let the freemen of the North announce in language firm and unmistakcablc, their purpose to resist tho spread of slavery and, at every cost, to preserve the integrity of the Lrnion, and we shall have a lasting peace, such as no compromise, having its foundation in wrong, can ever secure to the country. The position taken by the Convention, in its resolve touching the duties and obligations imposed upon thoso who seek adoption into our great American family of freemen, must meet the approval of every patriotic citizen. We Lave a right to expect and require a per fect and undivided allegiance, from all who are invested with the high perogatives of citizen ship. As the adopted citizen receives in full measure all the rights and immunities of the native born, so ought he to render the like single and unreserved devotion to the country of his adoption. He should acknowledge no earthly power superior to the constitution'and sovereignty of the American people. There is no danger that we shall err in our zealous devotion to our country and in the cultivation of an intense American nationality. I have not time to speak of the other topics embraced in the rdatfwrm of principles adop ted by the Convention, in the manner their importance deserves. Opportunities will be afforded me hereafter, to make my views known on some matters of domestic policy closely connected, in my judgement, with the growth and prosperity of our great Common wealth. While the utmost care should be ob served not to disturb the vast business inter ests of a Commonwealth so rich, and of such diversified pursuits as our own, yet it caDnot be denied that ours, the richestCommonweaith of its extent in the world, has not kept pace in the development ot her resources, and in productive industry with some of her sister States. We may, therefore, without the charge of rashness, inquire if our policy could not, in some respects, be made more conformable to the spirit of the age, and more in harmony with the wants of an ever active enterprise. In conclusion, gentlemen, permit me to ten der my thanks for the very kind and accepta ble manner in which you discharged the duty assigned you. Very respectfully, Your obed't servant, D. WlLMOT. To J. S. Bowes, Wf. D. Kelly, John R. Edie, G. Rusk Smith and Russell Errett, Committee. C7"A girl who had become tired of single blessedness thus wrote to her intended : "Dear Jim, come rite off if you're cummin at all. Edward Keldeman is insistin' that I shall have him, and he Lugs and kisses me so continuity that I can't hold out much longer." K7Wendell Philips defines a politician as "one who serves God as far as Le can without offending the Devil. " TLis is epigramatic and not far from the mark. When yon find a man doing more business than you are, and you want to know the reason, look at the advertisements in the newspapers, and look out. rC"To ascertain whether a woman is pas sionate or not, take a muddy dog into her parlor. DFriendship is a silent gentleman that makes no parade ; the true heart dances no Lornpipe on the tongue.. ITT-When a Baltimore lady is kissed, she says she is taking chloroform, and remains in sensible as-long as the operation lasts. E7-Ilappiness is like a pig with a greasy tail, which everybody runs after, but nobody can bold. D-To make Republicans send Democrats to Kansas. They como back with the scales taken from their eyes. AGRICULTURAL. Get nr Root Crops. We write under the settled conviction that the profits of the gen eral farmer may be more rapidly increased un der a judicious cultivation of the various loots than in any other way ; that more than doub le the value per acre may be obtained from them than from hay crops, and more even than from the small grains or Indian earn. The cultivators of England have long under stood this secret, and Lave become prosper ous under its teachings. No man probably from this country ever gave the subject so much attention as did Mr. Webster during his mission in England ; and few men, in our judgment, have done their country so signal a service as he did by his investigations of this subject, and by a promulgation of the facts which he learned. They awakened attention, and the fruits of his suggestions are now man ifest all through New England at least. Of , the turnip there is a great variety, and their cultivation is too well understood to need any explanation of ours. For winter and spring use many persons prefer not to put in their root crops until the tnird week in June. Wo prefer a little earlier date. We are gratified to notice that the cultiva tion of the sugar beet is beginning to enlist the attention of farmers. Those who have made a trial of it speak of it in terms of appro bation. It is not only very productive, but one of the best roots that can be fed to milch cows and young catth, causing a rich flow of milk in the former, and great vigor, spright liness, and hardihood in the latter. There is pobably no climate in the world more admira bly adapted to the cultivation of the sugar beet than that of New England. In no case which has fallen under our observation have those who planted it tailed of securing a pay ing crop, while in most cases it has yielded a greater profit than any other product of the farm. It should be planted in drills, on good, deep, and rather warm soil, well stimulated with rich invigorating manure, and should be carefully hoed and kept clear of weeds. The soil between the rows, and between the roots in the rows, should be kept light, in order to facilitate the absorption of those fertilizing a gents from the atmosphere upon which in a very great measure the perfect development and maturity of the system are found to de pend. A mechanic having a cow and but a small piece of ground from which to derive tho means of sustaining her cannot do much bet ter than to plant a portion or the whole of it in sugar beets. He will in this way secure mo'C salutary aliment for his animal thaa in any other way, and at less expense. From eight to thirteen hundred bushels have been taken from an acre, and in several cases the crop has amounted to fifteen hundred. The roots attain a large size, and arc very nutriti ons'and wholesome. Swine fatten rapidly on boiled sugar beets, and the pork made on this food is said to be more solid than that made on potatoes or any other root. We advise every one this season to put in a small lot of this vegetable, aud give it a trial. JWto England Fa rmer, Ma rch. Grotesque Dressing of the Yorxo. It is bad enough to see the mothers dress in such extravagant styles as our streets exhibit; but nothing can exceed the pitiable spectacle of some two or three hundred vulgaily dressed young people of the feminine gender from tea to sixteen years of age, parading the streets on some gala occasion on a cutting March diy. We witnessed such an exhibition the other day, and were it not for our professional con viction of the sad consequences to their bod ies and morals, we should have shouted with laughter. Tobacco and brandy arc bad enough in the fathers and brothers ; but flowers, hoops, bare arms, thin shoes, short frocks, and molasses-candy are quite as bad in the women and children ; when you come to add boarding-schools, "natural philosophy," and the polka, they are worse off than the men. Of the exhibition we allude to we do not know the purpose ; whether to see a live mermaid at Barn urn's gratis, or to receive a Fejec Island convertj we are not advised: if the former were veritably there, she would have no cause to blush at the scarcity ot garments our moth ers used to think indispensable ; and if the lat ter, we are quite sure, ho .would die of envy. So grotesque an exhibition of finery and legs we never yet witnessed ; bad a blind woman been passing, sbe would Lave probably done as tbe poor blind Scotch woman, who dropped a curtsey te Madge Wildfire, when she was drag ging Jeanie Deans up the aisle of the village church, because she was conscious that some thing very fine and. glittering was passing by. Poor children I is it any wonder our young men drink, chew tobacco, and gamble, when we consider that these girls are to be their wives 7 New York Scalpel, for April. U7"The following is a genuine Hibernian advertisement: "Missing from Killarney, Jane O'Fogerty ; she had in her armstwo ba bies, and a Guernsey cow, all black, with red hair, and tortoise-shell combs behind bcr ears, aud large black spots all down bcr back, which squints awfully." drThe Methodist Chnrch was organized In Baltimore, December 25, 1784, and is now of 72 years standing in America. It has 12,457 church edifices, valued at 14,626,074 and ac commodating 4,207,333 hearers. - 1 1 V If
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