724 UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST. 



UNITED STATES. 



our fellowship to use all due diligence in raising 

 funds which shall enable the American Unitarian 

 Association to meet the great call from all quarters 

 for the knowledge of the truths which we hold dear. 

 Resolved, That the churches be requested to raise 

 $100,000 for the use of the American Unitarian Asso- 

 ciation, next year, and that we approve the sug- 

 gestion of the committee, that the second Sunday 

 in November shall be known as " Collection Sunday." 



The Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar, of Concord, 

 Mass., was elected President, and George W. 

 Curtis, of New York, first Vice-President. 



A committee was appointed to raise $100,000 

 to endow the theological school at Chicago, the 

 property of which has been bought for $50,000. 

 The Conference also passed a resolution of sym- 

 pathy with Humboldt College, Iowa. 



UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST. The 

 official statistics of the United Brethren for 

 1870 were reported as follows : 



Sabbath-schools, 2,420, with 16,41 7 teachers 

 and 112,425 scholars; collections for church 

 purposes, $580,288; value of church proper- 

 ty, $2,506,600 ; sittings in churches, 483,099 ; 

 meeting-houses, 1,473. 



The Church has four bishops, whose terms 

 expire at the meeting of the next General Con- 

 ference, namely, J. J. Glossbrenner, David Ed- 

 wards, Jonathan "Weaver, and John Dickson. 

 The publishing-house of the Church, w,hich is 

 located at Dayton, O., published, in 1870, five 

 papers : The Religious Telescope, weekly, cir- 

 culation 9,204; the Children's Friend, semi- 

 monthly, circulation 43,261 ; the Missionary 

 Visitor, semi-monthly, 16,152; FroeTilicTie 

 Botschafter, weekly ; Jugendpilger, monthly. 

 The Church had six colleges : Otterbein Uni- 

 versity, at "Westerville, 0. ; Hartsville Univer- 

 sity, at Hartsville, Ind. ; "Westfield College, at 

 Westfield, 111. ; Lebanon Valley College, Ann- 

 'ville, Pa. ; Lake University, Lecompton, Kan. ; 

 and Western College, "Western, lo. 



UNITED STATES. The census of the pop- 

 ulation of the United States, although taken 

 in June, 1870, had not been so far compiled, 

 early in the ensuing year, as to show the num- 

 ber of inhabitants. As far as the work was 

 finished, it presented the following results: 



By reference to the table on the following 

 page, the increase of population in some of 

 the principal cities of the United States, for the 

 last ten years, will be seen. 



The fifteenth amendment to the Federal 

 Constitution was ratified by the necessary 

 number of States early in 1870. The Legis- 

 latures of twenty-nine States voted in favor of 

 its ratification. On March 30th, the President 

 in a message reported the votes to Congress and 

 announced the result. (See, in this volume, p. 

 168, CONGRESS, U. S.) In that body a bill was 

 at once introduced and speedily passed to se- 

 cure the freedom of suffrage to the male colored 

 population of each State. No serious resistance 

 or obstacle was presented to this suffrage any- 

 where and it was quietly conceded. A major- 

 ity of the new voters cast their ballots in favor 

 of Republican candidates, and in many cases 

 secured their election ; but it was manifest be- 

 fore the close of the year that, under a party 

 aspect, this suffrage of colored men was not a 

 permanent element of strength to any political 

 party. A few colored men have thus been 

 elected to office. On the evening of the day 

 of the first ratification of the amendment, the 

 President, and some other distinguished ad- 

 vocates of the measure, were serenaded in 



