At present, there is no missionary of the Board in Borneo. Mr. and Mrs. Youngblood have returned to this country with their health seriously impaired, but not until they had given exemplary proof of devotedness to their work. Mr. Steele also, by advice of the Committee, is on a visit to the United States, partly to recruit his health, but more to test the expediency of continuing the mission, by the success or failure of his personal efforts to create an interest in Borneo as a field for present missionary cultivation, and obtain men for the work. He has placed the buildings and other property of the mission under such care, that they run little risk of injury against the early day when he hopes to see the mission revived.

CANTON.

CANTON.-Elijah C. Bridgman, Dyer Ball, M. D., James G. Bridgman, Missionaries; Samuel W. Bonney, and William A. Macy, Licensed Preachers; s. Wells Williams, Printer; Mrs. Bridgman, Mrs. Isabella Ball, Mrs Sarah W. Williams.

(1 station; 3 missionaries-one a physician, 3 male

and 3 female assistant missionaries;-total, 9.)

doubt, however, that theological schools for educating a native ministry at some stage of the mission, and preparatory schools, and schools for the education of the children of native Christians, are of Between three and vital importance.

four millions of pages have been printed during the year.

In concluding their annual report, the missionaries say :

"In reviewing the past year, and comparing our present situation and prospects with those of the previous year, we see undoubted ground for encouragement. The gospel has more free course. We can live among the heathen unmolested, talk and preach of Jesus and his word as much as we please. We are not subject to so much insult, as foreigners, as we were a year since. The more our acquaintance extends, the more freedom have we to perform the work of a missionary."

ΑΜΟΥ.

AMOY-Elihu Doty, Missionary; Mrs. Elenor S. Doty. One native helper.

In this country.-John Van Nest Talmage, Missionary.

(1 station; 2 missionaries, 1 female assistant missionary, and 1 native helper ;-total, 4.)

This most promising mission has been deeply afflicted and seriously weakened by the death of Mr. Pohlman, who was drowned in December, 1848, in consequence of shipwreck while on his way from Hongkong to Amoy. This is the first instance, in which a missionary of the Board has perished by the dangers of the sea. Mr. Pohlman was thus mysteriously cut off in the midst of a career of singular usefulness and promise. Nor did this affliction come alone to the mission. His sister's health, which had not been good, was now so seriously affected, that her return to the United States became a matter of necessity; and it was also necessary that Mr. Talmage should accompany her. Mr. Talmage is therefore now in this country, but will return to his mission as soon as possible. It is the design of the Prudential Committee to send other laborers into this field.

Mr. and Mrs. Williams arrived at Canton a little more than one year ago. Mr. Bridgman is still at Shanghai, engaged with others on a revised translation of the Scriptures. The labors of the mission have been continued as formerly. But little is yet done in either of our China missions in the department of education; and it is the opinion of the The chapel has been completed and Committee that education, regarded as opened for religious worship, and is part of the system of missionary opera- found to answer its purpose well. The tions, should be made the subject of par- little body of church members remains ticular correspondence with the mission- as it was a year ago. aries in China, with the aid of all the spect, except the loss of laborers, are light afforded by past experience, before the prospects of the mission less encourany considerable expenditures are author-aging than formerly, while every year ized in this department. There can be no adds something to the means of success.

In no

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FUH-CHAU.

FUH-CHAU. Stephen Johnson, Lyman B. Peet, Seneca Cummings, Caleb C. Baldwin, William L. Richards, Missionaries; Mrs. Rebecca C. Peet, Mrs. Abigail M. Cummings, Mrs. Harriet F. Baldwin.

On their way-Justus Doolittle, Missionary, and Mrs. Sophia A. Doolittle.

Dwight, Missionaries; Mrs. Rebecca H. Hitchcock,
Miss Lydia Brown. One native preacher.

Одни.

HONOLULU.-Ephraim W. Clark, Lowell Smith, Missionaries; Samuel N. Castle, Amos S. Cooke, Secular Superintendents; Edmund H. Rogers, Printer; Henry Dimond, Bookbinder; Mrs. Mary K. Clark, Mrs. Abba W. Smith, Mrs. Maria P. Chamberlain, Mrs. Mary T. Castle, Mrs. Juliette M. Cook, Mrs.

(1 station; 6 missionaries, and 4 female assistant Mary W. Rogers, Mrs. Ann Maria Dimond. missionaries, total, 10.)

Rev. Justus Doolittle and Mrs. Sophia Doolittle embarked at Boston on the 22d of November to join this mission. Mr. Johnson has a school with twelve pupils, and Mr. Peet has one with seventeen. Mr. Peet has secured a large and commodious room for a chapel on one of the principal thoroughfares of the city. It has been his intention to visit this chapel twice each day, once for the distribution of tracts and again for preaching. His prospects thus far have been encouraging. He has found a strong desire on the part of the people to receive religious books, and has commenced writing a series of tracts to meet this desire. The mission, situated in the valley of the Min, is surrounded by two millions of souls speaking the Fuh-chau dialect, and mostly living within twenty miles of the houses of the missionaries. The people generally appear friendly and the field is inviting.'

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN.

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

HAWAII.

PUNAHOU.-Daniel Dole, Missionary and Princi

pat of the Seminary for Missionaries' Children; William H. Rice, Teacher; Mrs. Charlotte C. Dole, Mis. Mary S. Rice, Miss Maria M. Smith.

EwA-Artemas Bishop, Missionary; Mrs. Delia S. Bishop. One native preacher.

WAIALUA.-John S. Emerson, Peter J. Gulick, Missionaries; Mrs. Ursula S. Emerson, Mrs. Fanny H. Gulick. One native preacher.

KANEOHE.

Benjamin W. Parker, Missionary;

Mrs. Mary E. Parker.

KAUAI.
Mercy P. Whitney, Mrs. Malvina J. Rowell.
WAIMEA-George B. Rowell, Missionary; Mrs.

KOLOA.-James W. Smith, M. D., Physician; Mrs.
Millicent K. Smith.

WAIOLI.-Edward Johnson, Missionary; Abner Wilcox, Teacher; Mrs. Lois S. Johnson, Mrs. Lucy E. Wilcox.

In this country.-Seth L. Andrews, M. D., Physician.

(19 stations; 25 missionaries-one a physician, 4 ries, and 7 native preachers;-total, 79.)

physicians, 7 male and 36 female assistant missiona

The last Annual Report describes, at considerable length, the measures which have been found necessary by the Committee, in consequence of the arrival of the period when the circumstances of the mission are so changed from their original state, as to require a corresponding change in the constitution of the mission

KAILUA.-Asa Thurston, Missionary; Mrs. Lucy itself, with a view to its prospective and

G. Thurston.

LAHAINA.-Dwight Baldwin, M. D., Missionary; Mrs. Charlotte F. Baldwin. One native preacher.

LAHAINALUNA.-William P. Alexander, Claudius

B. Andrews, Missionaries and Teachers in the Seminary; Mrs. Mary Ann Alexander.

ultimate separation from the Board. The subject can only be alluded to in this tate the independent settlement of the survey. The Committee seek to facilimembers of the mission as pastors and teachers at the Islands, and to place those who cannot yet obtain a living, on the same footing with our home missionaries; and they expect by this means to enable and induce the missionaries generally to remain at the Islands with their families, and thus ensure, through the divine blessing, a Puritan basis for the community, whatever it shall be, which is to exist on those Islands.

Mr. Chamberlain, for many years the able and faithful senior secular superinWAILUKU.-Daniel T. Conde, Missionary; Edward tendent of this mission, has gone to his Bailey, Principal of the Female Seminary; Mrs. Anrest. delusia L. Conde, Mrs. Caroline H. Bailey, Miss MaHe died on the 29th of July. His ria C. Ogden. One native preacher. health had long been feeble, and his HANA-Eliphalet Whittlesey, Missionary; Mrs. death was not unexpected; but his loss Eliza H. Whittlesey. will be severely felt.

MOLOKAI.

Doct. Andrews is now on a visit to this

KALUAAHA. — Harvey R. Hitchcock, Samuel G. country, in consequence of the failure

of his health. Dr. and Mrs. Wetmore It has been found impossible to do have joined the mission within the year, any thing for these Indians since the having reached Honolulu on the 11th of tragedy which occurred at Waiilatpu, March. Mr. Hunt has gone to preach to November 29, 1847, and the wars and emigrants at St. Francisco in California. rumors of wars consequent thereupon. Mr. Armstrong, with the concurrence of Even among the Flat Heads, Messrs. the Prudential Committee, has taken Mr. Walker and Eells deemed a continued Richard's place as the government Min-residence unsafe; and they accordingly ister of Public Instruction. We fail in availed themselves of a military escort our grand object at the Islands, if the which was offered to them, and removed schools are not properly cared for. The to the white settlements. The conduct government of the Islands assumed the of Col. Lee in proposing, and of Major expense of the common schools some Magone in commanding the escort, has time since. They have now assumed been highly praiseworthy; and the disthe expense of the seminary, or college, interested zeal of the sixty volunteers at Lahainaluna; the Board giving them who went upon the expedition, deserves the buildings, library and apparatus, on the strongest commendation. condition of their so doing. The government also supports the school for educating the sons of their chief men. The measles and whooping cough, which were never before at the Islands, in connection with diarrhoea and influenza, have occasioned great mortality among the natives, and have caused the year to be one of mourning.

In these circumstances, the missionaries have endeavored to make themselves useful among the whites. The Committee have thought it advisable to relinquish their operations beyond the Rocky mountains; and in this opinion the missionaries fully concur. Hence the efforts of the Board, in behalf of the Oregon Indians, may be considered as at an end.

CHOCTAWS.

WHEELOCK-Alfred Wright, Missionary; Henry Wright, Mrs. Abigail Copeland: Mrs. Ann B. Duna, K. Copeland, Assistant Missionary; Mrs. Harriet B. Misses Sarah Ker and Caroline Dickinson, Teachers and Assistants; Pliny Fisk, Native Preacher.

STOCKERIDGE.-Cyrus Byington, Missionary; Da

Ms. Sophia N. Byington. Mrs. Winship; Mrs. Laura

E. Lathrop and Miss Elizabeth J. Hough, Teachers and Assistants.

PINE RIDGE.-Cyrus Kingsbury, Missionary; Mrs Electa M. Kingsbury; Misses Harriet Goulding and

Hannah Bennet, Teachers and Assistants.

The admissions to the churches during the year under review were about 1,600. More than 200 pupils were taught in boarding schools. The printing for two years has amounted to 80,524 volumes, and 11,512,000 pages; and there has been a steadily increasing demand for books. The purity of the churches has been in a good measure preserved; dis-vid H. Winship, Steward of the Boarding-School cipline maintained; and Christian doctrines are better known, and Christian duties better practiced, from year to year. Cases of defection and discipline have been fewer the past year, than in previous years; for,-to use the language of the mission,-" Knowledge is increased, the light of the gospel shines clearer, the standard of morality is gradNORWALK.-Lewis Bissell, Steward of the Boarding School; Horace W. Pitkin, Teacher; Mrs. Mary ually elevated, Christian character is be-J. Bissell; Misses Marcia Colton and Eunice Starr, coming more and more established, and Assistants. Christians are more confirmed in the faith of the gospel." Several of the churches and congregations have been favored with a revival of religion. Aside from the fearful mortality which has prevailed among the natives, the year has been one of not less than usual prosper-censed preacher, 6 male and 21 female assistant misity and encouragement.

GOOD WATER.-Ebenezer Hotchkin, Missionary;

Horace D. Smith, Assistant Missionary; Mrs. Philena T. Hotchkin; Misses Catharine A Fay, Juliet Slate and Angelina Hosmer, Teachers and Assistants.

MOUNT PLEASANT.-Charles C. Copeland, Licensed Preacher; Mrs. Cornelia Copeland.

OUT-STATIONS.-Mount Zion and Good Land. Absent.-Edwin Lathrop, Assistant Missionary ; Mrs. Cornelia C. F. Lathrop.

(6 stations and 2 out-stations; 4 missionaries, 1 lisionaries, I native preacher ;-total, 33.)

Many changes have taken place among the members of this mission during the past year. Miss Fox has been obliged to return to her friends, by reason of impaired health. The places made vacant at Good Water by repeated trials have been supplied by Misses Fay, Slate and Hosmer, the latter of whom, from Bedford, Massachusetts, joined the mis

PARK HILL.-Samuel A. Worcester, Missionary; Worcester; Miss Eliza Ann Worcester, Teacher; Stephen Foreman, Native Preacher; Mrs. Ann O. Edwin Archer, Native Printer.

LEE'S CREEK-Timothy E. Ranney, Missionary ; Mrs. Charlotte T. Ranney.

HONEY CREEK.-John Huss, Native Preacher.

(5 stations; 5 missionaries-one a physician, 2 native preachers, 2 male and 10 female assistant missionaries, 3 native assistants;-total, 22.)

Miss Stetson was removed from her labors by death on the 29th of December last. For many years she had proved herself the steadfast friend of the Cherokees. Mr. and Mrs. Orr have retired from the nation, after having devoted to the missionary work the best years of their lives.

sion last spring. Mr. and Mrs. Potter and Miss Edwards, at their own request, and with the consent of the mission, have been transferred to the Sioux mission. Mr. and Mrs. Strong, at their own request, have been released from their connection with the Board. He is expecting to labor as a home missionary in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Breed returned to Connecticut a few weeks since, on account of her failing health. She has since died; and he is released from his connection with the Board. Misses Hall, Keyes, and Root have received permission to discontinue their labors among the Choctaws. Mr. Edwin Lathrop and Miss Dolbear have been united in marriage. Miss Eunice Starr, of Norwich, A new station has been commenced Connecticut, and Miss Elizabeth J. by Mr. Ranney, in a district where no Hough, of New Britain, Connecticut, missionary has hitherto lived. The popand Mr. Horace D. Smith, of Williams-ulation in his immediate neighborhood is town, Massachusetts, joined the mission mainly composed of "full Cherokees;" last spring; and Mrs. Laura E. Lathrop, a class who are becoming more and more formerly at Good Water, has been desig- anxious to secure the benefits which a nated to fill the place of Miss Keyes at Christian civilization holds out to them. Stockbridge. He is encouraged by his prospects of usefulness.

Though the number of ordained laborers is but four, and only two others are The past year has been marked by few licensed to preach the gospel, (a mis- incidents of special interest. Quiet and sionary force which is altogether inade- good order have generally prevailed; and quate,) the blessing of God has attended the Indians are manifestly advancing in the means of grace, and there have been social improvement. A desire to obtain constant accessions to the churches. a fortune in a few weeks or months has The whole number received on profes-induced a few to leave their homes, and sion, during the year which closed in September last, was two hundred and four. Two new churches have been organized, with encouraging prospects. There appears to be an advance in the piety of many professors of religion, from year to year; while others cause their teachers to stand in doubt of them.

The boarding-schools continue to be prosperous. The pupils make decided progress in their studies, and are conforming more and more to the customs and habits of civilized life; while some are attaining to a saving knowledge of the gospel. During the past summer a few have felt unusual solicitude in regard to their spiritual interests. The number of pupils in the four schools for girls is one hundred and sixty-three; in the one for boys it is twenty-five.

CHEROKEES.

DWIGHT.-Daniel S. Buttrick, Worcester Willey, Missionaries; Jacob Hitchcock, Kellogg Day, Assistant Missionaries; Mrs. Mary Ann Willey, Mrs. Nancy B. Hitchcock, Mrs. Mary L. Day; Misses Eliza Giddings and Julia S. Hitchcock, Teachers. One native assistant.

FAIRFIELD.-Elizur Butler, M. D., Missionary ; Mrs. Lucy A. Butler; Miss Esther Smith, Teacher. Ose native assistant.

brave the perils of the overland journey to California. Should the experiment prove successful, others may follow, to the undoubted injury of the nation. Education and temperance have made some progress.

The missionaries lament that so few have experienced the renewing influences of the Holy Spirit. For a long time have they desired to see the gospel which they preach becoming extensively the power of God unto salvation; but the blessing is withheld. Only ten were received into the churches by profession during the year ending in May last; several, however, have been admitted since. There are some signs of progress in Christian liberality. Some have resolved to consecrate a tenth of all they can earn or raise to the service of the Lord. About six hundred thousand pages have issued from the press at Park Hill. The number and character of the mission schools remain unchanged.

SIOUX.

LAC-QUI-PARLE.-Stephen R. Riggs, Moses N. Adams, Missionaries; Jonas Petijohn, Farmer; Mrs. Mary A. C. Riggs, Mrs. Mary A. M. Adams, Mrs. Fanny H. Petijohn, Miss Martha A. Cunningham.

TRAVERSE DES SIOUX -Robert Hopkins, Joshua Potter, Missionaries; Alexander G. Huggins, Farmer and Teacher: Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs. Potter, Mrs. Lydia P. Huggins, Miss Jerusha Edwards.

PRAIRIEVILLE.-Samuel W. Pond, Missionary; Mrs. Cordelia F. Pond.

BAD RIVER. Leonard H. Wheeler, Missionary ; Mrs. Harriet W. Wheeler.

(2 stations; 2 missionaries, 1 male and 3 female assistant missionaries, I native catechist ;-total, 7.)

OAK GROVE.-Gideon H. Pond, Missionary: Mo-connection with the Board, on account Mr. Ayer has been released from his

ses S. Titus, Farmer; Mrs. Sarah P. Pond.

KAPOSIA.-Thomas S. Williamson, M. D., Mission

ary and Physician Sylvester M. Cook, Teacher; Mrs. Margaret P. Williamson; Miss Jane S. Wil liamson, Teacher.

RED WING-John F. Aiton, Missionary; Joseph W. Hancock, Teacher; Mrs. Nancy H. Aiton, Mrs. Hancock.

(6 stations: 8 missionaries, 5 male and 14 female assistant missionaries;-total, 27.)

Messrs. Hopkins and G. H. Pond were ordained to the work of the ministry in September, 1848. Mr. and Mrs. Potter, accompanied by Miss Edwards, joined the mission last autumn; and they are now temporarily at Traverse des Sioux. Mr. and Mrs. Hancock, late of Saratoga Springs, New York, arrived at Red Wing's Village in June.

of a disease in his throat which incapacitates him in a measure from preaching the gospel. As the American Missionary Society are willing to take charge of the station at Red Lake, where Mr. Ayer has been laboring hitherto, the Prudential Committee do not expect to send another missionary into that field.

Mr. and Mrs. Ely have also been released from their connection with the

Board; and the school which he has been teaching at La Pointe, will be intrusted to the care of Mr. Charles Pulsifer, who, with his wife, have recently joined the mission.

No material change has occurred in the plans or labors of the missionaries at La Pointe and Bad River. There have

been rumors of an intention on the part of the United States Government to remove the Ojibwas, residing within the chartered limits of Wisconsin, to some other locality; but no announcement of such a purpose has been made to the Indians.

NEW YORK INDIANS.

TUSCARORA. Gilbert Rockwood, Missionary ; Mrs Avis H. Rockwood; Miss Mary Jane Thayer,

This mission is still obliged to struggle with very serious difficulties. The Sioux belong to a class of Indians who are not readily brought under the power of the gospel. Among them, moreover, there are obstacles to missionary effort which do not exist elsewhere. "The education fund," as it is called, operates as a constant hinderance; instead of promoting education, as the United States Government wish, it produces the contrary effect. Efforts are making to obtain a new cession of lands from the Sioux. Indeed, commissioners have been appointed to make another treaty; and though it is not expected that any thing will be done immediately, events of great moment to the Dakotas may soon occur. Should these efforts prove successful, important changes must necessarily take Teacher. place, both among the Indians, and in the plans of the mission.

At Lac-qui-Parle, last winter, more than ordinary attention was given to the doctrines of the gospel. Two persons were admitted to the church; and it is hoped that others have become new creatures in Christ Jesus. At Oak Grove a Dakota woman has been received into Christian fellowship. A "medicine man" died at this station in December last, after giving some evidence that he was prepared for his great change.

OJIBWAS.

LA POINTE-Sherman Hall, Missionary; Charles Pulsifer, Teacher; Mrs. Betsy P. Hall, Mrs. Pulsifer; Heary Blatchford, Native Catechist.

Teacher.

UPPER CATTARAUGUS.-Asher Wright, Missionary; Mrs. Laura M. Wright; two female teachers. LOWER CATTARAUGUS.-Asher Bliss, Missionary;

Mrs. Cassandra H. Bliss; two female teachers.

ALLEGHANY.-William Hall, Missionary: Mrs.

Caroline G. Hall; Miss Margaret Hall, Teacher.
One native helper.

OUT-STATION-Old Town.- Miss Sophia Mudgett,

(4 stations and 1 out-station; 4 missionaries, 11 female assistant missionaries, 1 native helper-total, 16.)

The revolutions and overturnings which were so frequent in the old world during 1848, have had a humble counterpart among the Seneca Indians. In one respect, however, the parallel fails. Though there has been intense excitement, no blood has been shed by our red brethren; a fact not less honorable to then, than it is to the missionaries who have taught them the doctrines of the Prince of Peace.

Prior to the recent change, the government was in the hands of hereditary chiefs. This system had come down from past generations, serving at the