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Within a few years a neat little Episcopal Church has been erected on the site of the old Shadrack Osborn mansion. It will be remembered that this was the head-quarters for commissary stores and recruiting during all the Revolutionary War. Since the last writing, the Union Church edifice, at Southford, has been renovated and repaired, as well as the Brick School House. This quiet inland town keeps on in the even tenor of its ways." Its population, by the last census, is 1,319. In 1860, it was 1,346 -—a loss of 27, which is not a large one, when we consider the waste of the late war.

At the date of the last edition, Rev. Mr. Loomis was the pastor of the Congregational Church in Bethlehem. He had been ordained and installed over the church, Jan. 29, 1850. Mr, Loomis is a native of Massachusetts, and a graduate of Williams College. He was dismissed from the Pastorate, at his own request, June 5th, 1860. He continued to reside in Bethlehem until 1868, when he removed to Greenfield, Mass., where he at present resides. He supplied the pulpit of the 1st church in that place for one year.

Rev. Ephraim M. Wright, the eighth Pastor, was ordained and installed, July 2d, 1861. Mr. Wright is a native of Massachusetts. He entered the ministry in middle life, having been, for many years previous, engaged in teaching, and political life. At one time he was Secretary of State (Mass). He was dismissed from the Pastorate Oct. 2d, 1866. For four years he supplied the church in Terryville. He is at present at the West.

Rev. George W. Banks, the present Pastor, was ordained and installed Oct. 3d, 1866. He is a native of Greenfield Hill, Fairfield County, Conn; graduated at Yale College in 1863, and at the Yale Theological Seminary, in July, 1866.

The following persons are to be added to the list of deacons of the church given in the old edition. William R. Harrison, Nov. 3d, 1867. Theodore Bird, Nov. 3d, 1867. Present number of church members, 130.

1 Bethlehem has always been the name of the Society, but when the charter of the town was granted, by a clerical error it was called Bethlem. By special act, May Session, 1864, the name was changed to Bethlehem.

The Episcopal Society has gone on with a decided material prosperity. During the last year, it has repaired and re-built its church edifice.

The Methodist Society has built a new and commodious church edifice, and has much increased the "borders of its Zion."

The war record of Bethlehem, as given by its clerk, is substantially as follows:

"At a special meeting of the town, held Aug. 8th, 1862, a bounty of $100 was voted to volunteers to fill the town's quota. On the 11th of September, the bounty was increased to $125 to each volunteer. On the 27th of July, 1863, it was voted to pay $200 bounty to every man who should be drafted and serve in the United States service, or who should furnish an acceptable substitute. At a special meeting, held Feb. 25, 1864, it was voted to pay the town's recruiting officer whatever sum he should find necessary to fill the quota of the town. At a special meeting, Aug. 25, 1864, it was voted to pay a bounty of $500 to each volunteer, substitute, or drafted man. Nov. 14, 1864, it was voted to pay $300 to each person liable to draft, provided he served, or put in a substitute. In the latter case, the payment was conditioned on the payment by the military subject of $100 out of his own pocket. There was at this time a provision by which military subjects could put in a substitute for three years before a draft, and be exempt from draft for that period.

The whole amount paid for bounties during the war was $11,066,66, commutation $300; other war expenses, $320.83-estimated amount paid by individuals for bounties to volunteers and substitutes, $4,750.

The list of volunteers, drafted men and substitutes from the town, is as follows:

Baldwin, Charles,
Baldwin, Levi,
Burke, Edward,
Burr, Andrew W.
Boyce, Joseph,
Clary, Felix,
Crane, Wm. B.

Dugan, Francis,
Duffee, John,

Ferry, John,
Foot, Isaac,
Garvey, Michael,
Gilbert, James H.
Hogan, John,

Hubbard, Henry J.
Hayden, John,
Howard, Patrick,

Hunt, Daniel,

Flynn, William,

Jorie, John,

Johnson, Oliver,

Kasson, Alexander D.

Kasson, Edgar N.
Le Blanc, Louis,
Lounsbury, Albert J.
Monagha, Peter,
Mcgee, Richard, Jr.
McBride, Thomas,
Nash, Olin,

Northrop, Dexter A.

Northrop, Harson B.
Northrop, John K.
Oswald, James,
Rourke, Patrick,
Stewart, Theodore,
Tolles, Abram B.

Williams, George,

Waldron, Philip L.

The present population of Bethlehem, by the census of 1870, is 750-a loss of 65 from the census of 1860. Small as it is, it has had its full share of the historical honors of the State.

WASHINGTON.

Rev, Ephraim Lyman was pastor of the church in Judea Society, in Washington, at the date of our last edition. He was installed Pastor of this church, June 30th, 1852, and was dismissed June 3d, 1863. The following Preamble and Resolution was passed concerning his resignation:

Whereas, The Rev. Ephraim Lyman has tendered his resignation as Pastor of this Church and Society, and Whereas continued feeble health will not permit him to perform that amount of ministerial labor which in his judgment the highest good of this people requires; therefore,

Resolved, That while we as a church unite with our Pastor and Society in requesting the Council of Consociation to dissolve the relation between him and this Church and Society, we do this with reluctance and heartfelt sorrow, that we are thus to be deprived of the services of one, whose ministrations have been preeminently faithful, fearless, kind and true. In his study, in the Sanctuary, at the bed-side of the sick and dying, in the house of mourning, or of joy-in all positions, he has been among us the Christian man and minister, one who needeth not commendation from us, his praise being in all the churches. May the Lord give him health and strength to resume, enlarge, and perfect, with joy, his labor of love for man.

During the interval between his dismission and the settlement of the present Pastor, the desk was supplied by different individuals, from four weeks to eleven months each,-the Rev. Wm. H.

H. Murray, now of Park street church, Boston, the greatest length

of time.

The Rev. Willis S. Colton, a graduate of Yale, Class of 1860, was installed, August 21st, 1866, and is the present Pastor.

Deacons appointed have been, Stephen S. Baldwin, Sept. 1849. Samuel Frisbie, Sept, 1860. Charles L. Hickox, Jerome S. Kinney, July, 1867,. and Simeon D. Ford, 1869.

Under Mr. Lyman's ministry, seventy-five persons were baptized. Interval between Mr. Lyman's and Mr. Colton's ministry, eleven. During Mr. Colton's seventy-one. To the church under Mr. Lyman, eighty, principally as fruits of revivals in 1851 and 1858, were added to the church. Under Mr. Murray, twenty-four. In 1864, under Mr. Colton, eighty-three, principally as fruits of a revival in 1868. The present number of resident members is 240.

In New Preston Society, there have been dissensions, and a new church and society has been formed, with its location in Marble Dale, "under the hill." As is usual in such dissensions, they have not "aided the work of the Lord,”

Washington, as a good, patriotic town, having been incorporated in the very midst of the Revolutionary War, and havlng received the name of the "father of his country," at that early hour of supreme trial, did its full duty during the war of the Rebellion.

On the 30th of July, 1862, the town voted a bounty of $100 to volunteers. On the 23d of August, this bounty was raised to $150. On the 8th of September, the town voted to give the nine months men $200 bounty, and if enough patriotic citizens of the town came forward as volunteers to save the disgrace of a draft, then the volunteers were to receive a bounty of $250. July 25, 1863, a bounty of $300 was voted to drafted men, who should serve. On the 10th of August, this vote was re-affirmed, and a further vote passed, authorizing the Selectmen to furnish, at the expense of the town, a substitute for each drafted man, who did not want to go to the war. On the 30th of November, 1863, Orestes Hickox was appointed recruiting agent, and committees for each school district were appointed to solicit subsciptions, to aid in the filling of the quota of the town. On the 24th of Dec, 1864, the town voted $300 to each man who should put in a substitute in advance, on a regulation then in force, granting that privilege to military subjects.

A gentleman of the town kept a record of what the town con tributed in men and money, to the defence of the country, and