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LUBECK. 



comprehensive lenity with the most speedy and cer- 

 tain revival of general prosperity? 



Very respectfully yours, S. P. CHASE. 

 Messrs. J. 6. RUDANEZ, L. GOLLS, and L. BANKS, 



Committee. 



The loss of the State on the Confederate side 

 of the conflict was severe. Of fifteen thousand 

 men in the army of Gen. Lee, in Virginia, only 

 BIX hundred were reported as remaining. 



LUBECK, a free city in Germany. Accord- 

 ing to the present constitution, which was 

 adopted on December 29, 1851, the executive 

 power is vested in a Senate, composed of four- 

 teen members, and the legislative authority in 

 the " Burgerschaft " (House of Burgesses), con- 

 sisting of one hundred and twenty members, 

 chosen by all citizens who are members of any 

 of the twelve guilds of the city. Ltibeck is the 

 seat of the Supreme Court of Appeal for the 

 four free cities of Germany, which is com- 

 posed of a president and six councillors. The 

 "Budget " of 1863 estimates the public revenue 

 at 1,334,450, and the expenditure at 1,300,214 

 marks current. Area, 109 square miles ; popu- 

 lation, in 1862, 50,614. They are all Lutherans, 

 with the exception of about 400 Calvinists, 200 

 Roman Catholics, and 500 Jews. The contin- 

 gent of Lubeck to the Federal army of Germany 

 is 679 men. The value of imports in 1863 was 

 as follows : 



Marks current. 



By Sea 20,36S,798 



By Kail 40,010,811 



Other Conveyances by Land 4,8-26,085 



PJvcr 1,253,701 



Total 65,958,345 



Lubeck possessed, at the commencement of 

 1862, fifty-seven sea-going vessels, among them 

 thirteen steamers. 



LUTHERAN CHURCH. There were, in 

 1865, twenty-three Lutheran Church, school, 

 and missionary periodicals published in the 

 United States, namely, seven English, thirteen 

 German, two Swedish, one Norwegian. Not 

 included in the above list are two new Eng- 

 lish papers, which in the latter months of the 

 year were announced as soon to appear in Vir- 

 ginia and North Carolina. 



The number of theological seminaries or the- 

 ological departments in connection with col- 

 leges was fourteen. They are situated at Phil- 

 adelphia and Gettysburg, Pa. ; Columbus and 

 Springfield, 0. ; St. Louis, Mo. ; Hartwick and 

 Buffalo, N. Y. ; Springfield and Paxton, 111. ; 

 Strawberry Point and Decorah, Ind. ; New- 

 berry, S. C. ; Watertown, "Wis. ; Selinsgrove, 

 Pa. 



The number of colleges and collegiate depart- 

 ments is sixteen; of female seminaries, six. 

 Lutheran Orphans' Homes and Christian Hos- 

 pitals for the Sick have been established in va- 

 rious parts of the country. In 1865 such insti- 

 tutions were in operation at Pittsburg, Zelien- 

 ople, Rochester, Germantown, Middletown, 

 P&; Buffalo, N. Y.; Toledo, O. ; Milwaukee, 

 Wis , and other places. 



The "Lutheran Church Almanac" for 1866 



LUTHERAN CHURCH. 



(published in Allentown, Pa., by the Rev. S. R. 

 Brobst), gives the following statistical view of 

 the Lutheran Church in the United States : 



The Synod of Kentucky, at its session in 

 May, 1865, passed a resolution to dissolve, and 

 it commended the ministers and churches with- 

 in its bounds to join the Olive Branch Synod 

 of Indiana. 



A contributor to the " Lutheran " of Phila- 

 delphia gives the following survey of the expres- 

 sions of the Lutheran synods on the loyalty ques- 

 tion during the war : " I happen to have in hand ' 

 the minutes for the year 1864 of twenty-three 

 synods, out of the twenty-four thus associated, 

 the Synod of Kentucky alone excepted. In 

 running my eye over these pamphlets, I have 

 found that the larger number of these bodies 

 did, in the last year, give strong evidence of an 

 unmistakable position on the side of loyalty 

 and nationality. In regard to the remainder of 

 these synods, I have examined other numbers 

 of their minutes from 1861 to 1863, and am 

 gratified to find that only two synods appear 

 without giving a decided expression in the right 



* The synods marked t are not connected wilh the Gen- 

 eral Synod, which meets biennially. Those mnrkl ' 

 merly belonged to the General Synod, but were uot repre- 

 sented at the hist meeting of the General Synod. 



