BACON, JOEL S., D. D., a Baptist clergyman, professor, and college president, born in Cayuga County, N. Y., in 1801; died at Richmond, Va., November 9, 1869. Prior to his entering upon his collegiate course, he was engaged for some time in teaching in Amelia County, Va. In 1826 he graduated with the highest honors, at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., after which he was employed as a classical teacher, at Princeton, N. J. In 1831 he graduated at the Newton Theological Institution, and, about that time, having been elected to the presidency of Georgetown College, Ky., he accepted the position, but resigned it after a period of two years, and subsequently was, for the same length of time, pastor of the Baptist Church, in Lynn, Mass. From 1834 to 1837 he was professor in the institution at Hamilton, N. Y., now Madison University. After his resignation there, he was engaged for a time as agent for Indian missions, his conciliatory course with the Indians rendering important service. In 1843 he became president of Columbian College, Washington, D. C.; which office he held for eleven years, resigning in 1854. In 1845 he received the degree of D. D. from his alma mater. After leaving Washington, Dr. Bacon was devoted to teachFor two years ing in female seminaries. he was at the head of an institution in Tusca B loosa, Ala. In 1859 he became established at Warrenton, Va., where he remained during and after the war, until about two years prior to his death. For some time after leaving Warrenton, he was devoted to the self-sacrificing labor of travelling through the Southern States, as agent of the American and Foreign Bible Society, addressing the colored people on the importance of Sabbath-school education and the study of the Bible. As a As a student, Dr. Bacon was possessed of a quick and clear apprehension; acquiring with great readiness valuable information, both from men and books. As a teacher, he had an aptness and fertility of illustration which made him a favorite in the lecture-room. preacher, he was earnest and practical. As a man, he was remarkable for urbanity, courtesy, and charity; always taking moderate views in controversy, appreciating the truth partially held by different minds, and never becoming a partisan, or even a leader in new organizations. During the late civil war, he had the entire confidence of the adherents of both sections, whose armies were alternately occupying the town where he resided. Dr. Bacon's versatility of mind caused frequent changes in his public life; but in every position his genial spirit and sprightly conversational powers won him warm friends. BADEN, a grand-duchy in South Germany. Grand-duke, Friedrich, born September 9, 1826; succeeded his father Leopold, as regent, April 24, 1852; assumed the title of grandduke September 5, 1856. Area, 5,912 square miles; population, according to the census of 1867, 1,434,970,* of whom 931,000, or 64.9 per cent. (against 65.1 per cent. in 1864) were Roman Catholics, and 475,918 Protestants. The town population of the grand-duchy is as follows: Three towns with more than 20,000 inhabitants, together, with 86,813, 6.1 per cent. of total population. Three towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants, and less than 20,000, together with 45,470, 3.1 per cent. Eight towns with more than 5,000 inhabitants, and less than 10,000, together, with 57,819, 4.3 per cent. Three towns with more than 4.000 inhabitants, and less than 5,000, together, with 13,421, 0.9 per cent. Nineteen towns with more than 3,000 inhabitants, and less than 4,000, together, with 62,950, 4.4 per cent Sixty-nine towns with more than 2,000 inhabitants, and less than 3,000, together, with 162,295, 11.3 per cent. Total one hundred and five towns with more than 2,000 inhabitants, together with 428,470, 29.0 per cent. The public debt† on January 1, 1869, amounted to 31,285,201 florins; besides which there was a railroad debt of 107,560,330 florins. The Grand-duke of Baden, several times in the course of the year 1869, declared his sympathy with the union movement going on in Germany, and his wish to see Baden enter the North-German Confederation. In a letter to the Minister of State, Jolly, he stated the task of his reign to be the development of a free public life on the safe basis of mental culture, and a courageous sympathy with the national regeneration of Germany. He expressed himself with a little more reserve on opening the chambers of the grand-duchy in September. The policy of the Grand-duke found a hearty support from the majority of both Chambers. In the first Chamber, the opposition numbered only six out of thirty-one members; in the second, nine out of sixty-two deputies. BANKS OF THE UNITED STATES. The banking movement of the year 1869, throughout the United States, has been marked by no important changes, or fluctuations, or reverses. The aggregate banking loans of the three leading Atlantic cities have reached $440,000,000, and, at one period, were $396,000,000-a difference of about 10 per cent. The following tables illustrate fully the banking movements of the United States and Great Britain for a series of years. *The total population here given is what the official accounts call the actual " ("faktische ") population, while the figure (1,438,872) given in the AMERICAN ANNUAL CYCLOPEDIA for 1868, is designated as the "Customs Union Enumeration" ("Zollvereinsabrechnungs") population. In the same volume of the CYCLOPEDIA some fuller state ments are given of the ecclesiastical statistics and of the large towns. + For further financial and military statistics, see AMERICAN ANNUAL CYCLOPEDIA for 1868. STATES AND TERRITORIES. STATEMENT, SHOWING THE NUMBER OF NATIONAL BANKS, ETC., IN EACH STATE AND TERRITORY OF THE UNITED STATES, SEPTEMBER 30, 1869. Total.... 150,000 150,000 135,500 135,000 1 100,000 40,000 36,000 36,000 1 100,000 75,000 63,500 63,500 1,694 74 1,620 $432,163,611 $342,475,100 $317,992,516 $299,789,892 RECAPITULATION OF STATE BANKS IN THE UNITED STATES, DECEMBER, 1869. THE BANKING MOVEMENT AT NEW YORK, BOSTON, AND PHILADELPHIA, 1867, 1868, 1869. THE BANKS OF NEW YORK IN THE YEAR 1869. THE BANK OF ENGLAND FOR FIFTEEN YEARS. Circulation, Deposits, Loans, and Bullion, at the close of each Year, 1854-1868. THE BANK-NOTE CIRCULATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Average aggregate amount of Notes payable to Bearer on Demand, in circulation in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, at the close of each Year, 1854-1868. THE BANK OF FRANCE IN 1867, 1868, AND 1869. Comparative condition of the Bank of France, in January, 1867, 1868, and November, 1869. BAPTISTS. I. REGULAR BAPTISTS IN AMERICA.-The following are the statistics of the Regular Baptists in the United States, as given in the American Baptist Year Book, for 1869: Members. 54,773 180 5,131 58,536 17,395 The anniversaries of the (Northern) Baptist Societies were held in May, in Boston. The fifty-fifth anniversary of the American Baptist Missionary Union occurred on May 18th. A summary of this report shows that the whole number of the missions is 13, the increase being one in the African mission during the year. In the Asiatic mission there are 19 stations where American missionaries reside, 328 outstations, and 315 churches, having an aggregate of 15,974 members, and the baptisms during the year were 1,295. The whole number of Americans connected with this mission, including those under appointment, is 101, of whom 47 are males and 54 are females. The native teachers, preachers, and colporteurs, number 423, of whom 74 are ordained. Taking those churches in Burmah not immediately under its supervision, the Union has 427 out-stations, 414 churches, with a membership of 20,193, and 1,528 baptisms during the year. The na2,536 tive helpers number 512, of whom 80 are or100,000 dained. The tables from France and Sweden 16,785 19,833 represent 301 churches, with 24,388 members, 5,134 300 preachers and colporteurs, and 678 bap39,457 tisms during the year. Combining the missions 17,062 in Europe and Asia, there are 715 churches, 3,040 with 44,581 members, and there have been 44,042 39,195 during the year 2,207 baptisms. The report 697 of the Secretary of the Home Department 7,815 showed that the total receipts for the year 23,599 were $196,897. The total expenditures, in96,703 67,904 cluding the debt of the year previous, were 87,522 $210,273, leaving a balance of $13,376 against 1,580 the treasury on the 1st of April last. The 50,497 amount received from donations was $168,363, 9,243 an increase of $11,317 over the year previous; 51,343 50,563 and the legacies of the year were $17,986, 22,590 against $6,406 the year before. The following 8,433 amounts were received from foreign mission 87,244 fields: Assam, $838; Burmah, $25; Madras, $20; 14,692 China, $866; France, $457; Germany, $187. The treasurer's report further showed that the invested funds of the Union amount to $56,303, and that, of the $180,137 expended, all was for foreign missions except $573 for the Cherokees, $3,712 for publications, $15,412 for agents, and $12,575 for rent, salaries, and other office expenses. The anniversary of the American Baptist Publication Society was held May 20th. The receipts amounted to $272,160.63. Of this sum $227,083.88 were received in the business, and $45,076.75 in the missionary department. The increase over last year in the business is $35,973.31. The increase in the missionary work is $1,774.69. The total gain of the two departments over the receipts of the previous year is $37,748. Branch houses have been opened in New York, St. Louis, and Chicago. Sixty-five colporteurs and Sunday-school missionaries have been at work. Number of days of service, 12,991; miles travelled, 195,618; volumes sold, 50,859; volumes given away, 9,521; pages of tracts distributed, 514,170; sermons preached, 5,160; prayer-meetings held, 3,548; persons baptized, 980; families 9,989 Total in the U. States. 651 12,011 8,695 1,121,988 The number of baptisms during the year was reported as 60,787. Some of these returns, especially those from the South, are pronounced very imperfect, through failure of clerks and others, upon whom compilers are dependent, to make full returns. The table is therefore unsafe for purposes of comparison, and places the gains of the denomination very much below what they really are. Thirty-five periodicals are enumerated in the American Baptist Year Book, as published in the United States, of which twenty-one are weekly, twelve monthly, and two quarterly. Two of these are published in the German, and one in the Welsh language. Four weekly periodicals are published in the British Provinces. There are twenty-five Baptist colleges in the United States, and one in Nova Scotia. The number of theological seminaries and theological departments is fourteen. |