We have received the following note from the Treasurer of the Conference, which we conclude to publish as the best method of correcting the wrong impression in the minds of the brethren who attended the camp-meeting in regard to the matter referred to.
N. Y. Conf. Com.
To the Conf. Com. of the N. Y. and Pa. Conference: I write to inform you that no money was fraudulently taken from the funds in my hands as was reported on the camp ground, but the supposition that such was the case arose from a mistake in not including in the account of the money paid out, the last payment made in settling with ministers. This mistake, which was several times repeated, was not discovered until I reached home, and I take the earliest opportunity to inform you that the wrong impression which has gone out in regard to the matter may be corrected. I am heartily sorry that such a mistake has occurred, or that suspicions have rested upon any one, in consequence of my blunder.
E. S. LANE.
Locke, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1873.
Minnesota Tract and Missionary Society Business Notice
Notice.
THOSE wishing to transact business with the Secretary of the Minnesota Tract and Missionary Society will address S. W. Hickok, Concord, Dodge Co., Minn.
Appointment in Iowa Taken Up.
By George I. Butler
THE appointment of Bro. Nicola of a general quarterly meeting at Knoxville, Iowa, Sept. 20, 21, is hereby taken up, the meeting at Osceola in October being designed to take its place. Geo. I. Butler.
Russia Mistress of the Black Sea.
The times are changed, when Russia defiantly breaks through the provisions of a solemn treaty with England and France, whereby she engaged to have a fleet in the Black Sea no more forever. She is now building a Black Sea fleet, and has inaugurated it by the launch of an ironclad at Nicolaieff, a seaport of about 70,000 inhabitants, located on the Bug before it joins the estuary of the Dneiper. This has been done in open day, just as if the treaty signed at the conclusion of the Crimean war never had an existence. To be sure, it was intended to cripple Russia, to keep her out of the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, and England and France willed it and would maintain it. But the hand that dictated it is no more, and these nations have fallen from their rank in Europe. Russia is drawing slowly but surely a military cordon around Turkey; her future Black-Sea fleet can capture the latter’s famous capital at the beginning of a war, and her army, having crushed Tartary and awed Persia, can, by crossing through the latter’s territory nolens volens, soon be in possession of Jerusalem and the holy places, the object of the former war. The inexorable finger of fate seems to point to the annihilation of the Turkish power, and to the restoration of the Empire of the East with a Czar—a Cæsar, a Christian monarch, enthroned in St. Sophia, and sitting again in the palace of the Constantines.
The fire which occurred in Portland, Oregon, recently, surpasses in its dimensions the one at Baltimore. It is fast becoming an every-day occurrence to witness such conflagrations. Inhabitants are left homeless and without friends in the full enjoyment of prosperity. The earnings of long years of toil and pain are swept away in a moment. No security can be provided against the march of the fiend, and the question becomes, Who shall be the next victim?
Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Number of the REVIEW & HERALD to which the money received pays—which should correspond with the Numbers on the Papers. If money to the paper is not in due time acknowledged, immediate notice of the omission should then be given.
$2.00 EACH. Thomas Wilson 44-20, Sarah M Fuller 44-1, John F Ballenger 44-13, W Henry White 44-12, James A Ashbaugh 44-12, Mrs N C Walsworth 44-10, J F Carman 44-14, Richard Atkinson 44-13, Mrs A F Moe 44-12, P M Hill 44-12, Mrs J House 44-13, Mary Robinson 44-13, Mrs Nancy Miles 44-13, Z D Baird 44-13, J G Jones 45-1, Chester Webster 45-1, S W Randall 45-1, H W Hodge 44-12, W H Ball 44-13, D Roak 44-12, J R Israel 44-13, John Emery 44-13, Mary Foster 48-1, John G Estes 44-13, Mrs C C Whitman 44-15, H W Applegarth 44-14, Mrs Anna Strand 44-13, Wm Fox 44-13, Dwight Crumb 45-4, W Fairbanks 44-13, E C Hoxie 44-14, Zelenda Tyler 45-1, J Martin 44-13, Celia S Archer 44-17, Wm Camp 45-1, Charlotte Amy 44-13, E P Cram 44-8, J Buchanan 44-8, Jasper N Turner 44-13, Eliza Isaacs 44-13, S Sellers 44-13, Mrs Courtland Briggs 44-17, James Hendry 44-14.
$1.00 EACH. T Bootcher 43-13, Joseph Butterfield 44-13, Mrs James Goodwin 43-15, Mrs H Johnson 44-9, S W Hickok 43-10, Peter J Fuller 44-13, Mrs Wm A Chesbro 43-12, Seymour Blinn 44-12, Smith Commings 44-13, H D Covey 43-1, Emily Palmer 43-12, John Adams 44-12, Moses Childs 43-12, Eliza Clark 44-13, C W Stanley 43-14, A More 44-1, John Israel 44-1, Dolly Kelley 43-13, Nancy Haddock 44-13, Henry S Priest 43-14, Alfred Chase 44-1, Eliza Rousseau 43-14, Louisa Pancoast 44-25, G S Copeland 44-13, Mrs C Paul 43-9, Mrs Weltha Wells 44-13, M Hall 44-13, John G Cook 43-14, Elisha Graves 43-13, I G Camp 44-1, Hiram Patch 42-14, Samuel Heath 44-13, Margaret Bentley 43-13, Sarah Ann Woods 44-13, H M Barney 43-13, John W Green 44-13.
Miscellaneous.
Mrs Sarah Smith 25c 42-26, Eld A M Hunt 50c 43-13, Mrs James H Davis 50c 43-12, Charles Clark 50c 43-13, Stephen Rosie $1.50 44-13, Frank Curren 50c 43-12, Mary J Bardwell 50c 43-12, D O Lewis 50c 43-13, Andy Means 50c 43-13, Mrs Randle Taylor 50c 43-13, J B Walsh 50c 43-12, O T Booth 4.00 46-13, Mrs Lucy Dutton 50c 43-12, Mrs Jacob Colter 50c 43-12, J B Calvert 50c 43-12, Mary L Tower 50c 43-13, Liberty L Burnitt 50c 43-13, Wm Willcott 50c 43-13, Hannah Bartlett 75c 43-13, Charles N Bennington 50c 43-13, Anna E Newton 1.50 44-1, Susan E Lasley 50c 43-13, N A Mill 4c, Wilber Shade 4.00 44-1, Wilkeson Daughty 50c 43-13, H K Elliott 3.00 43-11, James Marvin 3.00 44-1, Hannah Way 1.50 44-13, Samuel W Randall 50c.
Books Sent by Mail.
L H Vanard 30c, D D Steward 50c, Mrs J House $2.00, P M Hill 3.00, B Horion 30c, C O Taylor 75c, C J Spear 40c, G W Colecord 10c, A S Osborn 2.32, J Hawkswell 60c, H T Hickek 1.00, E M Clark 20c, C R Fletcher 20c, H G Washburn 1.00, Eli Febley 75c, O M Patten 25c.
Donations to S. D. A. P. Association.
I G Camp $1.00, Elijah Sedgwick 2.00.
Michigan T & M Society.
District No. 5, John Sisley, $9.20.
Michigan Conference Fund.
Received from church at Holly $2.00, Otsego 25.00, Charlotte 25.00, Potterville 7.81, Burlington per J. H. Waggoner 5.00, Oneida 10.00.
Cash Received on Account.
Wm S Ingraham $38.00, Iowa Delinquent Fund, District No. 5, 25.00. Mich Delinquent Fund, District No. 4, 150.42, Mich Delinquent Fund, District No. 8, 257.55, Vermont Delinquent Fund 50.00.
HYGIENIC BOOK FUND.
B M Hibbard $2.00, A Phillis 1.00, A F Ball 5.00, M J Proctor 5.00, Widow's Mite 2.50, Benjamin N Berry 100.00.
Donations for Advent Tidende.
Laura Bee 10c, Lewis Bee 10c, Benjamin N Berry $100.00.
Book Fund.
Benjamin N Berry $125.00.
Donation to Health Institute.
Benjamin N Berry $100.00, I G Camp 1.00.
Shares in Publishing Association.
Benjamin N Berry $150.00, Marcus Ashley 30.00, D. 5.00.