Methodists.
The population of all denominations of Methodists in the United States exceeds three millions.
Publications.—The Christian Advocate and Journal, New York city; Zion's Herald and Wesleyan Journal, Boston, Mass.; Northern Advocate, Auburn, N. Y.; Christian Repository, Philadelphia, Pa.; Richmond Christian Advocate, Richmond, Va.; Southern Christian Advocate, Charleston, S. C.; South-Western Christian Advocate, Nashville, Tenn.; Pittsburg Christian Advocate, Pittsburg, Pa.; Western Christian Advocate, and the Christian Apologist, a German paper, Cincinnati, Ohio.
There is also published by this denomination, the Methodist Quarterly Review, New York city; Ladies' Repository, (monthly,) Cincinnati, Ohio; Guide to Christian Perfection, (monthly,) Boston, Mass., Sunday School Advocate, (semi-monthly,) New York city; Sabbath School Messenger, (semi-monthly,) Boston, Mass. The Methodists have ten colleges, and thirty academies.
In the Methodist church in Canada, are two weekly newspapers viz., Christian Guardian, Toronto, U. C.; The Wesleyan, Montreal, L. C.
From the “Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the Year 1840,” we copy the following table:—
Conferences, Ministers, &c.
| Conferences. | Whites. | Colored. | Indians. | Total Com. | Trav. Prs. |
| Troy | 24,488 | 78 | 24,566 | 144 | |
| New England | 22,319 | 235 | 22,554 | 157 | |
| New Hampshire | 20,084 | 20,084 | 151 | ||
| Pittsburg | 35,276 | 474 | 35,750 | 136 | |
| Maine | 22,359 | 22,359 | 145 | ||
| Black River | 15,908 | 27 | 15,935 | 96 | |
| Erie | 17,860 | 50 | 17,910 | 107 | |
| Oneida | 22,909 | 65 | 22,974 | 142 | |
| Michigan | 11,308 | 12 | 87 | 11,407 | 74 |
| Rock River | 6,519 | 21 | 45 | 6,585 | 75 |
| Genesee | 27,931 | 50 | 27,981 | 162 | |
| North Ohio | 23,594 | 91 | 213 | 23,898 | 95 |
| Ohio | 53,621 | 662 | 54,283 | 168 | |
| Illinois | 24,607 | 80 | 24,687 | 103 | |
| Missouri | 12,386 | 1,224 | 382 | 13,992 | 66 |
| Kentucky | 30,679 | 6,321 | 37,000 | 114 | |
| Tennessee | 21,675 | 4,405 | 26,080 | 95 | |
| Indiana | 52,208 | 407 | 52,615 | 156 | |
| Memphis | 12,497 | 1,995 | 14,492 | 69 | |
| Arkansas | 4,228 | 725 | 1,524 | 6,479 | 41 |
| Holston | 25,902 | 2,420 | 28,322 | 68 | |
| Mississippi | 8,433 | 4,178 | 67 | 12,678 | 81 |
| North Carolina | 15,983 | 4,480 | 20,463 | 61 | |
| Texas | 1,623 | 230 | 1,853 | 19 | |
| Alabama | 19,491 | 5,821 | 25,312 | 87 | |
| South Carolina | 26,945 | 30,481 | 57,426 | 102 | |
| Virginia | 21,841 | 3,086 | 24,927 | 94 | |
| Georgia | 28,868 | 9,989 | 38,857 | 127 | |
| Baltimore | 42,789 | 13,904 | 56,693 | 182 | |
| Philadelphia | 35,094 | 8,778 | 43,872 | 128 | |
| New Jersey | 22,733 | 542 | 23,275 | 108 | |
| New York | 36,284 | 405 | 36,689 | 215 | |
| Liberia Mission | 922 | 922 | 19 | ||
| Total, 1840 | 748,442 | 102,158 | 2,318 | 852,918 | 3,587 |
| Total, 1842 | 796,495 | 107,251 | 2,617 | 906,363 | 3,846 |