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BAPTISTS. 



Duke. The Second Chamber is composed of 

 sixty-three Representatives twenty-two for the 

 towns and forty-one for the rural districts, who 

 are elected for eight years, and must be called 

 together at least once every two years. Every 

 citizen not convicted of crime, nor receiving 

 parish relief, has a vote. 



The area of the Grand Duchy is 1,017 square 

 miles ; the population, according to the census 

 of December 3, 1864, is 1,434,754, of whom 

 933,476 were Roman Catholics, 472,258 mem- 

 bers of the United Evangelical Church, 2,554 

 Dissidents or Mennonites, 25,263 Jews. The 

 receipts for the two years 1864 and 1865, were 

 estimated at 23,786,527 florins; the expenditures 

 at 22,044,363 florins. The public debt amount- 

 ed, on January 1, 1865, to 28,160,836 florins; 

 the railroad debt to 75,590,137 florins. The 

 army, on the peace footing, is 7,905 ; on the war 

 footing, 18,403. 



BAPTISTS. The number of regular Baptists 

 in the several States and Territories of the 

 United States, is given in the Baptist Almanac 

 for 1866, as follows : 



Alabama* 61,219 



Arkansas* 11,841 



California 1,985 



Connecticut 17,484 



Delaware 452 



District of Columbia. . . 1,150 



Florida* 6.4S3 



Georgia* 84.567 



Illinois 85,834 



Indiana. 26,779 



Indian Territory 4,000 



Iowa 12,655 



Kansas 1,281 



Kentucky* 81,588 



Louisiana* 10,264 



Maine 20,118 



Maryland 4,815 



Massachusetts 85,858 



Michigan 18,949 



Minnesota. 2,955 



Mississippi* 41,610 



Missouri* 44,877 



Nebraska 288 



New Hampshire 7,905 



New Jersey. 18,746 



New York 89,074 



North Carolina* 60,582 



Ohio 82,839 



Oregon 1,872 



Pennsylvania. 42,080 



Rhode Island. 8,515 



South Carolina* 62,984 



Tennessee* 46,564 



Texas*. 19,089 



Vermont 7,969 



Virginia* 108.888 



Wisconsin. 8,656 



New Mexico 49 



From the States marked with a star (*) no 

 later statistics than those of 1861 have been 

 obtained. There were, besides, 3,244 members 

 in the German and Dutch Baptist Churches 

 of the United States ; 600 in the Swedish, and 

 1,400 in the Welsh. In all, there were 592 

 associations; 12,702 churches; 7,867 ordained 

 ministers, and 1,040,303 members. In Nova 

 Scotia the Regular Baptists have 15,828 mem- 

 bers ; in New Brunswick, 8,821 ; in Canada, 

 14,756; in the "West India Islands, 37,000. 

 Total of Regular Baptists in North America, 

 1,116,708. 



The other denominations of Baptists report 

 the following membership : 



Anti-Mission Baptists 60,000 



Free- Will Baptists. $6,738 



Bix Principles Baptists 8,000 



Seventh-Day Baptists 6,796 



Church of God ( Winebrennarians) 28,800 



Disciples (Campbellltes) 800,000 



Tunkers 20,000 



The anniversaries of the Baptist Societies in 

 the northern States were held in St. Louis from 

 May 18th to May 24th; The A. B. Missionary 

 Union reported an income of $153,195. It has 

 under its patronage 20 missions, which number 

 469 churches and 35,000 members. The re- 

 ceipts of the A. B. Publication Society were 



$153,954; those of the A. B. Home Mission 

 Society, $122,519 ; those of the American and 

 Foreign Bible Society, $31,652. The A. B. 

 Free Mission Society held its 22d anniversary 

 on May 25th, at Radnor, Pa. This society has 

 missions in Japan and Burmah, besides sustaining 

 a number of missionaries among the freedmen 

 of the Southern States. Most of the above 

 societies at their anniversaries, adopted resolu- 

 tions in favor of sending missionaries among the 

 freedmen, of the abolition of slavery, and of 

 negro suffrage. The American Baptist Publi- 

 cation Society, subsequently, resolved to raiso 

 a special fund of at least $50,000, to appoint 

 Sunday School colporteurs or missionaries to 

 traverse the Southern States; to reorganize 

 Sunday-schools among the whites, and starting 

 them among the blacks. 



Most of the Southern Baptist papers had been 

 suspended during the war, but were revived 

 after the restoration of peace. The Northern 

 associations expressed generally, a readiness to 

 cooperate with their Southern brethren in the 

 fellowship of Christian labor; but they pre- 

 viously demanded from the latter a profession 

 of loyalty to the. Government, and they them- 

 selves deemed it necessary to repeat their former 

 testimony against slavery. The Southern As- 

 sociations that met during the year 1865, were 

 unanimous in favor of continuing their former 

 separate societies, and against fraternization 

 with the Northern societies. They censured 

 the American Baptist Home Mission Society for 

 obtaining from the Federal Government author- 

 ity to take possession of Southern church build- 

 ings, and appoint ministers to officiate in them 

 without the consent, and against the protest of 

 the owners and trustees of these church build- 

 ings ; also, for proposing without consultation 

 or cooperation with the churches, associations, 

 conventions or organized boards of the Southern 

 States, to appoint missionaries and ministers to 

 preach and raise churches within the bounds 

 of the Southern associations. Some of the 

 Southern associations, like that of Virginia, 

 consequently, advised the churches " to decline 

 any cooperation or fellowship with any of the 

 missionaries, ministers, or agents of the Ameri- 

 can Baptist Home Mission Society. As regards 

 the negroes, all the Southern associations deter- 

 mined to make vigorous efforts to meet the 

 increased responsibilities devolved upon Southern 

 Christians, and to keep the negroes as far as 

 possible "under the influence of their real 

 friends." 



-The General Assembly of Kentucky, at its 

 meeting at Covington, May 26, 1865, resolved 

 to continue its-fetation as auxiliary to the South- 

 ern Baptist Convention. In Missouri, the ma- 

 jority of the Baptist ministers and churches 

 decided upon the same policy, and also declined 

 to take the oath prescribed by the new State 

 constitution; but a minority organized a new 

 State Convention in connection and sympathy 

 with the northern associations. 

 A number of negro Baptist churches in the 



