American Bible Society

rtio AnnualReport of this Society for 18 il givcs the amount wiiich has been received by the Society during the past year from each State. From this statement it appears, that twelve Free States have paid into the Treasury, for books and otherwise, 378,220, while twelve slaveholding Slates have paid $12,950 during the same time. From Connccticut and Arkansas, nolhing1 was reported. So that eaoh slaveholding State has paid one dollar while cach free Stalc has paid about five. The reader wül ask, vvhy thie disproportion] We can answer it in part, by saying that there aro in the elave States, 2,300,000 ölaves, nearly all of whom cannot read, and of course they have no need of Bibles. In several of the States, it 13 a Pemtentiary ofience to teach a slave lo read the Bible. We believe, too, that raany professed Christians at the South do support and countenauce such laws, and if an agent of the Bible Society should attempt to tcach the slave to read God's revcalcd will, they vvould execute the penalty of the law upon him. Yot the same slaveholders, if rightly applied to,miglit be induced to contributc liberally to the funds of the Bible Society, to supply the destitute heathen in China or Japan!UíThe Boston reformed drunkards have followed tlioso ia other cilies, and or[janized themselves into a "Washington Total Abstinence Society," wliich has now 4öO tncmbers. At the late eleclion of County Commissioncrs, in Essex county, Mass. the ranks c-f party were completely broken up, and the ueetion was teraperance and anti-temperïnce - ücence and anti-license; and tempen anee won the victory by a large raajority. ÖpThe Legislature of Alabanaa, have Iejalized the suspension of specie payrnents iy the bankt? of that State, without limitaion of time.