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ginning of the sessions of 1875-'76,onthe ground 

 that by the adjustment accepted by the Legis- 

 lature, and the admission of representatives 

 whose credentials were signed by Kellogg, 

 the issues represented by him had been sub- 

 stantially determined by parties and causes 

 outside of and above his control, and the con- 

 servative people of the State and nation through 

 their representatives had recognized the per- 

 manency of the existing State government, so 

 that a further contest could have " no practi- 

 cally beneficial result for the people of the 

 State, but might serve to aggravate evils it 

 would be powerless to relieve." 



LUTHERANS. The following are the sta- 

 tistics of the different bodies of the Evangeli- 

 cal Lutheran Church in North America, as 

 given in the Church Almanac, published at 

 the Lutheran Bookstore (General Council), 

 Philadelphia, for 1876 : 



The Church Almanac gives a list of three 

 theological seminaries connected with the Gen- 

 eral Council : The Theological Seminary of 

 the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Philadel- 

 phia, 47 students; Theological Department 

 Augustana College, Rock Island, 111., 18 stu- 

 dents; Wartburg Seminary, Mendota, 111., 32 

 students; two connected with the Synodical 

 Conference : Concordia Theological Seminary, 

 Theoretical Department, St. Louis, Mo., 88 

 students; Practical Department, Springfield, 

 111., 82 students in all 170 students ; Theolog- 

 ical Department, Capital University, 32 stu- 

 dents ; one connected with the General Syn- 

 od South: the Theological Seminary of the 

 Evangelical Lutheran Church, Salem, Va., 11 

 students; four connected with the General 

 Synod North: the Theological Seminary of 

 the General Synod, Gettysburg, Pa., 38 stu- 

 dents; Theological Department of Hartwick 

 Seminary, Hartwick, N. Y., 2 students ; Theo- 

 logical Department of Wittenberg College, 24 

 students ; Missionary Institute, Selinsgrove, 

 Pa., 12 students; the Theological Department 

 of North Carolina College, connected with the 

 North Carolina Synod, 5 students; and the 

 Augsburg Seminary, Minneapolis, Minn., con- 

 nected with the Conference of the Norwegian- 

 Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church. 



The Church Almanac gives the names of 

 four colleges connected with the Northern 

 General Synod, of which three report 501 

 students; four connected with the Synodical 

 Conference, reporting 689 students ; two con- 

 nected with the General Synod South, report- 

 ing 271 students ; five connected with the 

 General Council, reporting 457 students ; one 

 connected with the North Carolina Synod, re- 

 porting 105 students; one connected with the 

 Synod of Iowa, reporting 25 students; and 

 one connected with the Buffalo Synod (Gra- 

 bau's). The same work gives a list of four- 

 teen classical schools and seven seminaries for 

 young women. 



Fifteen English, twenty-two German, one 

 Danish, three Swedish, and four Norwegian 



