Public Ledger

Union.-Upon the petition of the Northern branch of the Methodist church to join with the Southern branch, presented at the General Conference yesterday, certain resolutions offered by Dr. Kenner of New Orleans were referred to a committee for consideration.

Dr. Kenner's resolutions stated that "the action of the Board of Bishops at their last annual meeting in St. Louis, in response to the message from the Board of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, had the full endorsement of this General Conference, and accurately defined its position in reference to any overtures which may proceed from that Church, having in them an official and proper recognition of this body; that the distinguished Commission now present, of the General Conference of the M. E. Church at Chicago in May, 1868, appointed by it specifically, to confer with the Commissioners from the African M. E. Zion Church, to arrange for union with that body, and to treat with similar Commissions from any other church which may desire a like union, cannot, in their judgment, be construed, without violence as having been constituted by that General Conference, a committee to bear its fraternal expressions to the General Conference of the M. E. Church, South; that this Conference is highly gratified at the visit of the Commission as indicative of the return of proper Christian sentiments and relations between the two great branches of Northern and Southern Methodism, and it extends to them, personally, its highest regards as brethren beloved in the Lord."

The Committee on Union appointed consists of A. L. P. Green, Thurston Polk, J. C. Keener, L. C. Garland, R. Alexander, Judge J. H. Jackson, A. W. Wilson, Geo. W. Williams and E. K. Miller.