MANA MADURA.-William B. Capron, Missionary ; Mrs. Sarah B. Capron.-One catechist.

PULNEY-Charles T. White, Missionary; Mrs. Anna M. White. Two catechists, three readers, one schoolmaster, and one schoolmistress.

PASUMALIE-William Tracy, Missionary; Mrs. Emily F. Tracy.-One catechist, four teachers in the seminary, and one schoolmaster.

SIVAGUNGA.-Three catechists.

USALAMPATTI.-(In charge of Mr. Herrick.)— Four catechists, and one reader.

CUMBUM.-Joseph T. Noyes, Missionary; Mrs. Elizabeth A. Noyes. - Fourteen catechists, four readers, six schoolmasters, and four schoolmistresses.

On the way to the mission.-Nathan L. Lord, M. D., Missionary; Mrs. Laura W. Lord.

In this country.-John E. Chandler, Missionary ; Mrs. Charlotte H. Chandler, Mrs. Harriet L. Scudder.

The Madura mission has experienced a severe bereavement in the sudden death, by drowning, of the very promising young missionary, Rev. D. C. Scudder. Dr. and Mrs. Lord, formerly of Ceylon, have returned from a visit to the United States, now to labor in this field. The Madura Collectorate contains an area of about 10,000 square miles, and a population of 1,800,000, in thousands of towns and villages, many of which it is impossible for the present number of stationed missionaries to reach with the word of life. The brethren ask for new laborers to engage in a specific, itinerating work. Upon such a work they have recently entered themselves, to some extent, going two by two, for a few weeks at a time, into destitute sections of the field. Much has been done heretofore by mission tours, so that, during the past year, the gospel has been preached in many hundreds of different villages and hamlets, by the missionaries and their native helpers. There are connected with the mission, 29 churches, with 1,144 members in good standing, 55 of whom were received the past year. The number of native helpers is large, 6 pastors, 93 catechists, who are virtually preachers, 39 readers and 65 teachers, and their work is very important. The brethren are laboring to establish permanent, self-supporting religious institutions, with native pastors and teachers; and they feel that, though

much time will be required for this, their "line of operations is in the right direction," and that they can record progress. There are 58 pupils in the seminary at Pasumalie, 43 of whom are pursuing the full course of study. The female boarding school at Madura has been much blessed. It contains 46 pupils, and is thought to be now "prepared to do more than ever before toward advancing the interests of female education."

CEYLON. (1816.)

BATTICOTTA.-William W. Howland, Marshall D. Sanders, Missionaries: Mrs. Susan R. Howland, Mrs. Georgiana K. Sanders, Mrs. Hannah W. C. Ward. One licensed preacher, three catechists, one teacher for training and theological school, seven school-teachers, and four other helpers.

TILLIPALLY (In charge of Mr. Quick.)-Two catechists, and five school-teachers.

PANDITERIPO.-James Quick, Missionary; Mrs. Maria E. Quick. Two catechists, four schoolteachers, and one other helper.

OODOOVILLE.-Levi Spaulding, Missionary: Mrs. Mary C. Spaulding, Miss Eliza Agnew.-One licensed preacher, one catechist, four teachers for boarding school, four school-teachers, and four other helpers.

MANEPY.- Eurotas P. Hastings, Missionary ; Samuel F. Green, M. D., Physician; Mrs. Anna Hastings, Mrs. Margaret W. Green-One catechist, three school-teachers, and two other helpers.

CHAVAGACHERRY.-James A. Bates, Missionary; Mrs. Sarah A. Bates.-One native pastor, two catechists, two school-teachers, and two other helpers.

OODOOPITTY-John C. Smith, Missionary; Mrs. Mary C. Smith.-Two catechists, five school-teachers, and one other helper.

The seven missionaries in this field, are aided by four native pastors, two licensed preachers, and eighteen catechists, who are also virtually preachers, engaged in making known the gospel in their several villages. Stated religious services are held in thirty-six different places. To the ten churches, only 17 members were added by profession, and the whole number of members at the close of the last year reported (449) was four less than at the beginning. But the churches are making progress in a more perfect organization, and in assuming their proper responsibilities. Fifty vernacular village schools, with 1,592 scholars, are under the superintendence of the mission, but only thirty of these, with 1,070 scholars, are supported by mission funds. There are

to aid in the general diffusion of Christian knowledge among the people. A native convert does well in addressing the people. Seven persons were baptized during the year, and on the 27th of February last, a native church was formally organized, with ten members,eight males and two females.

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. (1820.)

THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.

[Of the persons named below, Messrs. A. Bishop, P. J. Gulick, Coan, Bond, James W. Smith, and Pogue, derive their support wholly from the Islands; and Messrs. Thurston, Baldwin, Clark, L. Smith, Paris, Lyons, Alexander Parker, Emerson, Rowell, Dole, O. H. Gulick, Johnson, S. E. Bishop, Forbes, and Wilcox, only in part. The relation of the brethren to the Board is similar to that subsisting between Home Missionaries and the Society which guarantees their support.]

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WAIMEA.-Rev. George B. Rowell; Mrs. Malvina J. Rowell, Mrs. Mary P. Whitney.

KOLOA.-Rev. James W. Smith, M. D., Rev. Daniel Dole; Mrs. Mellicent K. Smith, Mrs. Charlotte C. Dole.

WAIOLI.-Rev. Edward Johnson, Mr. Abner Wilcox; Mrs. Lois S. Johnson, Mrs. Lucy E. Wilcox.

Letters from the missionaries at the Sandwich Islands, represent the moral and religious condition and prospects of the people as much less promising than they have sometimes been; yet the General Letter, written in June last, remarks that there was never more decided evidence of piety in the churches, and never a larger number of persons who would suffer persecution, and death even, if called to do so, for the name of Christ. Substantial progress is said to have been made in the work of education during the year. The Lahainaluna Seminary, which was destroyed by fire in July, 1862, has been rebuilt, by the aid of Government; the site of the former "commodious but somewhat ungraceful structure," being now occupied by "three elegant and convenient buildings," so that, "in the fitness, the beauty, the comfort of the new, all regret for the destruction of the old is lost." The Oahu College, and several select schools, are reported as doing well. To the churches, only 244 members have been added by profession during the year, while about 1,100 have been removed by deaths and excommunications. The native population of the Islands is still rapidly decreasing. The history of the mission for the year is intimately connected with the visit of the Senior Secretary of the Board, some account of which, as well as of the changes made and contemplated, in the manner of prosecuting Christian efforts at the Islands, was published in the Herald for November last.

MICRONESIA. (1852.)

RONKITI, (Ponape.)-Albert A. Sturges, Missionary; Mrs. Susan M. Sturges.

EBON, (one of the Ralik Islands.)-Benjamin G. Snow, Missionary; Mrs. Lydia V. Snow.-One Hawaiian preacher, and one helper.

APAIANG, (one of the Kingsmill Islands.)-Hiram Bingham, Jr., Missionary; Mrs. Minerva C. Bingham.-One Hawaiian helper.

OUT-STATIONS.-Kusale, (Strong's Island.) Tarawa.-One ordained Hawaiian preacher, and one helper.

Absent. - Edward T. Doane, Missionary.-One Hawaiian helper.

In Micronesia, some of the brethren have been permitted to witness much evidence of the presence of the Spirit, making their labors among the degraded Islanders not in vain in the Lord. Within a little more than one year, Mr. Snow, at Kusaie, admitted twenty-seven persons to the church; and though there came a trying time, of apparent falling away, those who had sinned soon gave satisfactory evidence of repentance, and were all restored to their former regular standing. At Ebon, the names of thirtyone individuals have been enrolled as those who profess to love the Saviour, one has been admitted to communion at the Lord's table, and quite a number appear to give evidence of a real change of heart. Three members have been added to the church at Ronkiti, on Ponape. The little church at Shalong, on the same island, left without a missionary, has suffered much persecution. The work of translation has been going forward at the different stations. Schools have made little progress, except on Ebon, where the Hawaiian helper has been quite successful in teaching; and in September of last year, nearly all the youth, at least 150, were under instruction. Mr. Snow has left Kusaie, which is to be occupied by an Hawaiian helper, and gone to Ebon. Two helpers have been sent to the mission, from the Sandwich Islands, one of them ordained. Dr. Gulick's connection with the mission has ceased, and he has left the United States for Honolulu, to assume the duties of the position to which he has been chosen, as Secretary of the new Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association. Mr. Doane is absent from the field.

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.

DAKOTAS. (1835.)

SIOUX AGENCY, (on the Missouri.)-John P. Williamson, Missionary; Hugh D. Cunningham, and Edward R. Pond, Assistant Missionaries; Mrs. Mary B. Cunningham.

Without a Station.-Thomas S. Williamson, M. D., Stephen R. Riggs, Missinaries; Mrs. Margaret P. Williamson, Mrs. Mary Ann C. Riggs, Miss Jane S. Williamson.

The calamity which overtook our brethren among the Dakotas in 1862, was mentioned in the last Annual Survey; and it was then said, "The future of the mission is altogether uncertain." This statement may be repeated now. Still, the year under review has been more fruitful of spiritual good to these Indians than all which preceded it. After the defeat of Little Crow at Wood Lake, a military commission proceeded to try those of the prisoners, held by General Sibley, who were charged with participating in the attack upon the white population; and 303 were sentenced to be hung. These, with some others, were removed to Mankato in November. The President of the United States subsequently directed that such only as had been concerned in the massacres, should be executed; hence all but thirty-eight escaped the extreme penalty of the law. A large number of Dakotas, mostly women and children having near relatives at Mankato, were taken to Fort Snelling.

Upon both of these bodies of Indians, the Lord was pleased to bestow the influence of his Spirit in a very remarkable manner. Our missionaries, in connection with Rev. G. H. Pond, (who was once a fellow-laborer in the same field,) have actually baptized more than four hundred. It is not to be supposed, of course, that all these have met with a saving change: but there is no reason to doubt that many are new creatures in Christ Jesus; and none can be hereafter what they have been in past years. Their old religion is dashed in pieces as a potter's vessel.

Last spring, the prisoners at Mankato were removed to Davenport, Iowa. Dr.