The preachers were stationed as follows:

NASHVILLE DISTRICT-ALLEN A. GEE, P. E.

Nashville, David Rutledge; Murfreesboro, Amasa A. Brown; Shelbyville, O. H. Huffman; Bedford Circuit, J. R. Ivie; Rich Valley Circuit, W. H. M'Ree; Farmington Circuit, Wilson Turntine; Mount Pisgah Circuit, to be supplied; Macon County, to be supplied; Gallatin and Lebanon, to be supplied; William Ear shaw, Chaplain in the Army-member of Nashville Quarterly Conference; John Seys, United States Minister resident and Consul General to the Republic of Liberia-member of Nashville Quarterly Conference; O. 0. Knight and W. B. Crichlow, Principals of Freedmen's School in Nashville.

M'MINNVILLE DISTRICT-HENRY STEVENS, P. E. M'Minnville: First Charge, Clement T. Frame; Second Charge, to be supplied; M'Minnville Circuit, P. A. Pearson, one to be supplied; Hillsboro Circuit, E. G. Robertson; White County Circuit, James F. Snelling; Short Mountain Circuit, Daniel P. Searcy; White Plains Circuit, to be supplied.

MEMPHIS DISTRICT-W. H. PEARNE, P. E.

Memphis: Union Church, W. H. Pearne; Centenary, L. Hawkins; Shelby Circuit, R. D. Utter; Hardeman and M'Nairy, to be supplied; Fayette and Haywood, Amos Hays.

NASHVILLE MISSION DISTRICT-OTIS O. KNIGHT, P. E. Nashville: Clark Chapel, William B. Crichlow, Daniel Brown; Nashville Circuit, Calvin Pickett; Brentwood Circuit, Gilbert Brooks; Gallatin Circuit, Hilary W. Key; Lebanon and Wilson County, J. N. Campbell, Benjamin B. Manson; Murfreesboro, Braxton James; Murfreesboro Circuit, Miles Smith; Shelbyville, Joseph Johnson; Winchester and Tullahoma, to be supplied; Pulaski and Columbia, to be supplied; Clarkesville, to be supplied; Franklin Circuit, J. W. Sneed.

WESTERN GEORGIA AND ALABAMA.

The missions in Western Georgia and Alabama have been very prosperous, and, at the time of the organization of the Tennessee Conference, comprised four thousand nine hundred members and probationers, forty-five local preachers, and thirty-three traveling preachers, making a total of four thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight. There were also twentytwo Sunday-schools, with nearly four thousand scholars.

Under date of December 14, 1866, Bishop Clark writes to the Mission Rooms as follows:

The organizing of our work in East Tennessee into the Holston Conference, and that in Middle and West Tennessee into the Tennessee Conference, in October last, has left to the Middle Department only that portion of the work known as the Western Georgia and Alabama Mission District. This district, though organized so lately as January 24 of this year, (1866,) has rapidly sprung into the proportions of an annual conference, having 44 traveling, and about 52 local preachers, and, at this date, nearly 6,000 members.

Having become too expanded and unwieldy for the personal oversight and management of one man, I have found its reorganization necessary, and, after careful study, and full consultation with the very able superintendent, have adopted a plan which is to take effect January 1, 1867.

The superintendent will have the general oversight, as before. In his favor all the missionary drafts will be made, and he will receive the reports of the preachers; only they will now come through the presiding elders. Those designated as presiding elders are to be his general assistants; they are not merely to hold quarterly meetings where the work is already organized, but they are especially to be rangers and organizers. The superintendent is to see that the churches built in part by missionary money are properly deeded and secured.

The following is the plan of the work for 1867, to which allusion is made in the preceding letter, namely:

MIDDLE DEPARTMENT: WESTERN GEORGIA AND ALABAMA MISSION DISTRICT-JAMES F. CHALFANT, Superintendent. Headquarters, ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

ATLANTA DISTRICT-Supplied by Superintendent.

Atlanta, Wesley Prettyman; Clayton and part of Fayette counties, Ga., R. H. Watters, J. B. Powell, Joseph Lane; Newnan and Coweta counties, Ga., C. M. Caldwell; Part of Fayette, Meriwether, and Campbell counties, Ga., A. Dorman; La Grange, and Troup, Harris and Heard counties, Ga., John H. Caldwell.

OXFORD DISTRICT-J. W. YARBOROUGH, P. E.

Newton and Gwinett counties, Ga., to be supplied. Hull, Habersham, and Jackson counties, Ga., William Brewer; Gilmer and Gordon counties, Ga., J. S. Fowler; Murphy county, Ga., D. W. Smith; Whitefield and Catoosa counties, Ga., J. M. Hall; Haralson, Paulding, and Polk counties, Ga., S. D. Brown; Campbell, Carroll, and Cobb counties, Ga., John Murphy, N. Trimble; Randolph county, Ga., Edward Henderson; Spaulding and Butts counties, Ga., C. W. Parker, George Kendall.

HUNTSVILLE DISTRICT-A. S. LAKIN, P. E.

Huntsville, Ala.. to be supplied; Jackson and Marshall counties, Ala., William Bellamy, Roland Wood; Stevenson, Bridgeport, and Bellefonte, Ala., Nelson Jones; Lauderdale county, Ala., James Billingsley, one to be supplied; Franklin and Lawrence counties, Ala., William Handy, George Merrill; Morgan county,

Ala., Lewis Stribling; Madison and Limestone counties, Ala., Howell Echols.

TALLADEGA DISTRICT-J. W. TALLEY, P. E.

De Kalb county, Ala., James Cole; Cherokee county, Ala., William Flemming; Asbury circuit, Randolph county, Ala., J. N. Dibbs; Flat Rock circuit, Tallapoosa county, Ala., D. W. Harris ; Lineville circuit, Talladega county, Ala., J. E. M'Cane; Bell circuit, Randolph county, Ala., T. R. Parker, J. W. Addington, J. L. Freeman; Wesley circuit, Calhoun county, Ala., J. P. M'Gee; Talladega circuit, Talladega Co., Ala., Thomas Lambert; Coosa circuit, Coosa county, Ala., William F. Stansel; Wedowa circuit, Randolph county, Ala., Kinchion Corly; Green and Tuscaloosa counties, Ala., J. B. F. Hill.

3. SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT.

This department was organized into an Annual Conference, April 2, 1866, by Bishop Baker.

The Secretary of the Conference, Rev. T. W. Lewis, has furnished to the Mission Rooms the following account of its first session:

THE SOUTH CAROLINA MISSION CONFERENCE.

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, April 2, 1866. The missionaries of the Southern Department met, agreeably to the call of Bishop Baker, at the school-room of the Baker Theological Institute, at nine o'clock A. M., for the purpose of consulting in regard to the interests of the work. Religious services were conducted by Bishop Baker; after which the bishop called upon the brethren present to express their views on the subject of the organization of a Conference. The subject was freely discussed, and the importance of a conference organization fully conceded and concurred in.

The bishop then said that the last General Conference had adopted the following resolution :

Resolved, That the bishops be, and they hereby are authorized, when in their judgment the interest of the work requires it, to organize Annual Conferences in the states and territories not embraced, at the close of this General Conference, in an Annual Conference; such Conferences to possess all the rights, powers, and privileges of other Annual Conferences, excepting that of sending delegates to the General Conference, and of drawing an annual dividend from the avails of the Book Concern and Chartered Fund, and voting on constitutional changes proposed in the Discipline;

which restrictions shall continue until the next ensuing General Conference.

And that, in accordance with the authority thus conferred, he recognized T. Willard Lewis, Alonzo Webster, Joseph C. Emerson, and Dudley P. Leavitt, members of an Annual Conference, under the name of the South Carolina Mission Conference, embracing in its geographical limits the states of South Carolina, Eastern Georgia, and Florida.

On motion, Alonzo Webster was appointed secretary.

The statistics were then called for and presented.

On motion, took up the subject of the Baker Theological Institute. The minutes referring to the organization of a Board of Trustees, and the appointment of a Faculty, were then read by A. Webster. An organization had been effected on the following basis:

CONSTITUTION.

ART. 1. The name of this Institution shall be that of the Baker Theological Institute.

ART. 2. The object of this Institute shall be the more ready and perfect preparation of young men for the Christian ministry, whom the Church shall deem divinely called thereto.

ART. 8. No doctrine or opinion shall be taught therein which is not in harmony with the Book of Discipline, and the standard authors of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

ART. 4. The Institute shall be under the direction of ten trustees, (but the number may be increased by any annual meeting of the Board,) five of whom shall constitute a quorum. All trustees shall be members in full connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church. And all vacancies occurring by death or otherwise, shall be filled by the Board from persons nominated by the South Carolina Mission Conference.

ART. 5. The officers of the Board of Trustees shall consist of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, whose duty it shall be to present annually a full report of the condition and funds of the Institute to the South Carolina Mission Conference.

ART. 6. This Constitution may be altered or amended at any annual meeting of the Board, with the concurrence of the South Carolina Mission Conference.

The following persons had been appointed trustees, namely:

T. WILLARD LEWIS,

ALONZO WEBSTER,

SAMUEL WESTON,

H. JUDGE MOORE,

JOSHUA WILSON,

JANUARY HOLMES, and

JACOB MILLS.