FROM CALIFORNIA: Episcopalian Liberality Towards Unitarians; Col. Lander is to Tackle the Runaway Indians; Editorial-The Coolie Trade (7/31/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/31/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

SAN FRANCISCO, Monday, July 2, 1860. It may have occurred to you before now that San Francisco is a good deal of a "big village," and quite subject to tea-pot tempests. The last storm of this sort is now raging. Two enterprising lay-churchmen have got up an institution known as the "Episcopal Mission Sunday School." It is a very popular concern, stealing the hearts of the little ones, and doing them great good unawares. It rejoices in multiplied festivals, whereof dancing is an established feature, but many of its teachers and scholars during the year are confirmed and added to the Episcopal Church. Before citizens took any steps toward celebrating the Fourth of July, this School announced its intention to have a memorable celebration -- to have a grand procession with a military escort, girls in white and wreathed with flowers, and a Goddess of Liberty, with stars adorning her, and all that. They invited all the other Sunday Schools, Jew and Gentile, to unite with them; but both the Unions, the Episcopal, and that composed of other "Evangelical" Church Schools, declined to pay it any attention. But, inasmuch as the literary exercises provided by the citizens for the day were particularly unpromising, the public were turning with a good deal of expectation to the "Sunday-School Celebration" for its advertised treat of an address from T. STARR KING. But now the Standing Committee of the Diocese appear in an advertisement of protest. As a sign of the times of the liberalty of a cosmopolitan metropolis in the nineteenth century, I think you will be glad to print it entire. It as follows:

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
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From California: Episcopalian Liberality Towards Unitarians; Col. Lander is to Tackle the Runaway Indians, etc., etc. – 2
Editorial: The Coolie Trade – 2-3
Arrival of the Pony Express-News from the Pacific Coast – 3
Arrival of the New-Mexican Mail – 3
Indian Depredations – 3
The Zouaves at Philadelphia – 3
Base Ball: Atlantic Club vs. Mutual Club – 3