Allowing two _local_ to one _circuit_ preacher, which is rather under than over the proportion, would make 1802, which, added to the number of those whose names are on the Minutes of the Conferences, would make 2703 Methodist Episcopal ministers of the gospel in the Valley of the Mississippi. The Pittsburg Conference Journal, Western Christian Advocate, and Western Methodist, are their periodicals.
3. _Methodist Protestants._--There are two conferences of this denomination in the West,--the Pittsburg, and Ohio conferences, and their circuits, preaching stations and members extend through the States north of the Ohio river, with a few stations and churches south.
_Pittsburg Conference_ has 28 circuits, and 85 local preachers and licentiates, 25 circuits, 4 stations, and 2 mission circuits, with 6,902 members in society.
_Ohio Conference_, has 28 circuit, 90 local preachers, 22 circuits, 3 stations, 3 missionary circuits, and 3667 members. The Methodist Correspondent, a neat semi-monthly quarto periodical, published at Zanesville, Ohio, is devoted to their interests.
4. _Presbyterians._--The following table (with the exception of Illinois) is constructed from the returns to the General Assembly in 1834,--the Minutes of 1835, we understand, have not been printed.
------------------+-----------+------------+--------------- States and parts. | Churches. | Ministers. | Communicants. ------------------+-----------+------------+--------------- W. Pennsylvania | | | and W. Va. | 212 | 135 | 22,687 Michigan, | 32 | 20 | 1,397 Ohio, | 400 | 255 | 27,821 Indiana, | 99 | 55 | 4,339 Illinois, | 71 | 50 | 2,000 Missouri, | 33 | 29 | 1,549 Arkansas, | 12 | 9 | 390 Kentucky, | 120 | 83 | 8,378 Tennessee, | 121 | 90 | 9,926 North Alabama, | 15 | 12 | 725 Mississippi, | 33 | 24 | 761
Total, 56 Presbyteries, 1,148 churches, 753 ministers, and 79,973 communicants.
_Periodicals._--The _Cincinnati Journal and Western Luminary_, published at Cincinnati;--_Christian Herald_, at Pittsburg;--_Ohio Observer_, at Hudson, Ohio;--_Western Presbyterian Herald_, at Louisville, Ky.;--_New Orleans Observer_, at New Orleans;--and _St. Louis Observer_, at St. Louis, Mo.,--all weekly;--and the _Missionary Herald_, republished at Cincinnati, monthly.