necessary for home consumption. The southern market opens up to them, through the channel of the Wabash, and in a year or two through the canal, to be extended southward; or the northern market opens to the farmers of this highly favored country through the canal to Erie-through that lake to Buffalo, &c.

Warren. This county coutains, as by the census of 1840, something less than 6,000 inhabitants. It is a prairie county, principally. Its production in 1840 was-corn 414,000 bushels; wheat 32,000; oats 89,000; rye 1,400; potatoes 15,500; coal (bit,) 25,500; wool 18,500 pounds; sugar 8,200; hay 2,300 tons; swine 15,800 head.

Fountain. This county is part prairie, part timber, soil very fine. See the products of 1840; corn 711,000 bushels; wheat 30,000; oats 40,000; rye 8,000; potatoes 23,500; coal 10,000; salt 1,000; wool 28,000 pounds; sugar 118,000; hay 3,800 tons; swine 30,000 head.

The population of Fountain was 11,200 in 1840. Vermillion.

1840.

Population 8,300 in

Products-corn 508,000 bushels; wheat 51,000; oats 83,000; potatoes 18,600; hay 2,000 tons; swine 23,000 head; sugar 29,000 pounds; wool 15,000.

Parke. Products-corn 943,000 bushels; wheat 107,000; oats 137,000; rye 4,000; potatoes 23,000; coal 12,200; swine 44,000 head; hay 4,600 tons; wool 36,000 pounds; grains 125,000.

Putnam. Products in 1840-corn 825,000 bushels; wheat 72,200; rye 2,200; oats 98,000; potatoes 26,000; wool 35,300 pounds; tobacco 27,500; hay 3,600 tons; hemp 27; swine 42,500 head.

Montgomery. Population 16,800, Compares with Tippecanoe, l'arke and Putnam, and Clinton compares with Vermillion in production and population.

The counties of Putnam, Parke and Montgomery are timbered counties, the growth consisting of walnut, sugar maple, ash and cherry along the streams, some other growths occasionally appearing. On the upland the same growth prevails except in

some localities, high grounds, ridges, &c., the oak, hickory and poplar prevail, mixed with beech, and very often with maple, and sometimes with ash and walnut, all on the same ground. Stone coal appears in great abundance in Parke, Vermillion, Warren and Foun tain, and also in Vigo, which county will be noticed hereafter with Clay. Numerous quarries of fine limestone are found in various places, from the forks of the Wabash to the terminus of the canal at Terre-Haute. On the walnut branch of Eel, and on Raccoon and Sugar Creek, immense quantities are found, valuable for lime and for building stone. Iron ore is also found in Vermillion and Parke, and probably elsewhere in the valley. There is a valuable iron establishment owned by Mr. Hugh Stuart, in Vermillion county, in successful operation; another in Parke county on Rock river, owned by Coffin & Co.

Vigo compares with Fountain in soil and population, as well as in products. Terre-Haute, her county seat, is the terminus of the Wabash and Erie canal, and also of a short canal partly constructed, connecting Eel river with the Wabash at Terre-Haute. It is now a flourishing town, and stands on similar ground with Lafayette, in reference to the trade of the Wabash. They are, indeed, rival towns, but their rivalry will only end like the rivalry of two thrifty farmers, in a concurrent race of prosperity. They are new, both places of considerable trade, and the capital invested will insure the growth of each in spite of the other.

Clay county is woodland-compares with Warren in population, but falls short of her in products. The soil is good, but it is only recently that public attention has been directed to that region. It is rapidly filling up, but there is immense space yet for emigrants. These two counties are watered by Walnut, Eel river proper, Honey creek and other creeks-all valuable streams. There are immense beds of stone coal in Vigo-inexhaustible.

It will be seen that the region thus sketched contained in 1840 about 140,000 inhabitants. In these counties, where the time and facilities have enabled the people to open up the

series of meetings. I think I can say for myself, and speak the feelings of all the rest, it was the most blessed season we have had in the territory. May God send us more and richer! The church were happily and joyfully united; the cold were revived, the wayward reclaimed, and many were established in sound doctrines and strengthened in faith. I never saw doctrinal preaching take such effect. It was the power of God, and I am convinced that the doctrines, when properly presented, are most powerful swords of the Spirit, and will produce the best results. Two aged men, husbands of members of the church, were deeply interested at this meeting. One, the father of eleven children, who, as I was informed, hindered his children from attending meeting, came with his family. The other had been far from God; but both were convinced, and, as we trust, converted to God, and renounced their errors, exhorted their former companions to flee from sin. Others were deeply affected, who made no public acknowledgment of it. A number of the children and youth were inquiring.

About four weeks since the Congregational Association of Northern Iowa met with us. The travelling was extremely bad, and the churches were not all represented; but the meeting was harmonious and interesting. The reports given by the brethren of their labors and prospects, showed that they were gathering with diligence the whitened harvest. One young person recently converted was added to our church by profession, and the preaching of brethren from abroad left impressions which we trust will not be soon effaced.

From Rev. H. Adams, Farmington.

Some inconveniences incident to new country.

It has rained more or less for more than almost daily. It has been impossible "forty days and forty nights," for farmers to put their seed into the ground, unless their land was naturally very dry; and those who did plant the first of May, have had to plant over again. In this country, where bridges are few, it is of course impossible to travel about much when the streams

Clinton Co.

General usefalness.

I have distributed some few tracts and books belonging to the A. T. Society. I have, also, to a very limited extent, circulated, in my immediate neighborhood, Bibles and Testaments, of which I have a quantity by me. About two hundred volumes of the American S. S. Union's publications have been put into five different Sabbath schools. These books, I know, have done much to give interest and permanency to these schools. They have been written for from different quarters, and would have been all distributed had I been able to visit the places where these books are needed. Our own school consists of about 35 scholars, and is conducted with interest and efficiency.

narily so low as to be passed by a footman, and even for the most part dry, have been over a man's head, and very rapid. The rains still continue. Steamboats of very large size can pass up the Des Moines nearly 300 miles from its mouth. But as the banks of this river are very high, we do not suffer in the least from inundation. All the injury that it has done relates to two things. It sets back in its tributaries, and makes it dangerous to cross them where our roads often run, and it has injured some of our mill-dams, so that it is difficult to have sawing and grinding done in many places. There was to have been much building done here this spring, but it is impossible to obtain lumber even to cover brick walls when they are up. All building operations with us are arrested. Large portions of the country west of the Alleganies, and especially west of the Mississippi, have been visited with an almost literal flood.

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Scriptural Instruction.

In the infancy of a mission, there are many things important to well organized society that must be very imperfect. We are gratified to find that the missionaries in Iowa are generally awake to an early attention to these collateral methods of doing good, and that, as in the case of this correspondent, great success promises to attend their efforts.

Our meetings here, and at Bentonsport, where half my Sabbaths are spent,

have been as well attended as could

have been expected. We have always had a meeting on the Sabbath, though in some instances it rained furiously nearly all day. Since my last report we have established three Sabbath schools; one four and a half miles below this, on the Missouri side of the river, with 25 scholars; one here with 100 scholars; and one at Bentonsport with about 50 scholars. At the latter place we have a Bible class once in two weeks, on Saturday evening, conducted by your missionary. That embraces those members of the church who are situated so that they can attend, and many impenitent persons. But the weather has been such that we have no regular number, sometimes fifteen, sometimes thirty. At Farmington, the superintendent told me this week, that if we had room for them in a week's time he could get another hundred to attend. There is, however, one other difficulty, the want of steady and faithful teachers. We are happy in receiving two libraries from the Mass. S. S. Society. Such auxiliaries are encouraging, and strengthening to our hearts in this land where there is so little religious literature. I have four places for occasional preaching on week days. At these, the attendance and attention have been good-sometimes a crowded house, sometimes the falling tear. Have three times as many invitations to go out and preach as can be complied with. Our temperance society continues to flourish, and its effect on the morals of our community is very

evident.

Concern for the welfare of Zion. I should be happy, indeed, could

say that sinners were inquiring what they should do to be saved; but such is far from the state of the case. These desolations, this reigning, prevailing stupidity, disturbs my peace day and night. There are kindling emotions of grief in my heart while I write. Such distressing feelings in view of the desolations of Zion, I was little acquainted with before I entered the ministry. The tears fall thick and fast while I pen this gloomy state of things, but I cannot write good tidings in my report when the chariot of salvation is delayed. But these things give Gospel to my people, a deeper feeling of the importance there is in improving all the time for God. They bind me more closely to this field.

me clearer views of the value of the

Rays of light.

But now and then a ray of light breaks in amid these deep shades of darkness. Five were added to this church at our last communion, and they are members that we highly esteem, intelligent and active. They conduct the first Sabbath school noticed in this report.

A trophy of victorious grace.

One who has been long lost amid the mazes of infidelity, is now using the language of Canaan. His case is interesting in many respects. He is an intelligent man forty years of age. He was taken dangerously ill this spring, and continued so for two or three weeks. This spoiled his skepticism. A more distressed man than he was I have seldom seen. But his distress was mental, not physical. He says he could not have survived long had he not experienced relief. "Such haggard, dark, awful forebodings," said he, "no man can conceive of unless he has experienced them." He endeavored to cast his all upon God. He became calin, patient, resigned, and very clear in his views. "The Bible," said he, "why it needs no corroborative evidence of its truth. There it is, it speaks for itself. What a fool have I made of myself, and how wickedly have I done in rejecting it. I do not know as I am a Christian; I do not know that God has forgiven my sins. But I feel that he is a good

Being; I feel that I love him, and every body else; and by his grace I mean to serve him, and train up my family to serve him." When any of his infidel friends came to see him, and asked him how he did, he replied: "I'm here, on a sick bed; and I'm thankful that I am here. I feel that this sickness has been one of the richest blessings of my life. God has shown me my heart-how wickedly I was doing in disbelieving the Bible, neglecting him, and ridiculing professors of religion. I now try to pray. I can't pray as others can; but God can understand it. I try to pray in my family; and I mean to go to meeting as soon as I am able. I have been serving sin for forty years, the best part of my life. O how foolish!" I visited him almost daily in his sickness, endeavored to show him the real state of the unrenewed man, the ground, the condition, and the evidences of pardon, taking care to set forth the danger and the consequences of a false hope. He has now recovered, asks a blessing at his table, prays in his family, and is found in the house of God on the Sabbath. He is very decided, and is storing his mind with religious truth. I believe that infidels are ready to acknowledge that he is a changed and a happy man. As to myself I am so much afraid of sick-bed repentance, that my hopes are not so sanguine as those of christian people here who know the man; but certainly he appears well.

MISSOURI.

The new impulse given to the cause of evangelical religion in Missouri, by the increase of its ministers within the last two years, is seen already in the greater activity of the various moral elements contained in that interesting, but neglected state. The writer of the following letter went to Western Missouri in the summer of 1843.

Reformation of morals.

fighting and drunken carousals have been of frequent occurrence. The wickedness was so great that a Methodist minister who was asked to preach in the place replied: "It is too wicked." And since my labors commenced there last September, the dissipation in some instances has been most disgraceful, and that in open daylight; and worse, their shame was their boast. Cockfighting, with its attendant evils, has been practised; and even the youth, by their quarrels and disturbances, showed that they had imbibed the spirit of their elders. The Gospel and its ministry have also been slandered, and scoffed, and denounced. It appeared, for a few weeks, that sin would certainly triumph. But a sermon preached on drunkenness and its causes seemed to stay its progress. The friends of religion were strengthened. The people met, and resolved that the groceries should not be opened on the Sabbath, which is a stricter rule even than the state law; that the authors of the first outbreak should be prosecuted; they also appointed a sheriff to commit disorderly persons and enforce order, and made such other rules as will prevent the repetition of past excesses. All is now calm. The Sabbath, before a noisy, drinking, carousing day, is still. Preaching does more good. Christians are encouraged from God, whose arm hath wrought all this before their eyes. Seven are pledged to form and sustain a church. The Sabbath school, with additions of pupils, teachers, and books, is doing well. A great change, wonderful to see and to feel, has taken place. To the same Being, in whom is all our hope for the future, because he is always a "present help in time of trouble," belongs all the glory.