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10, 1856.
For llie index.
To the Washington Association.
Dear Brethren :—After prayerfully considering
the subject, I have concluded not to remain in
Mercer University longer than this term, ending
July 30th. 1 feci that this information is due you,
and the proprfoty of which you wifi see- by refer
ing to your Minutes of last \ car. If you stiii de
sire to aid the cause of Education in your own
bounds, seud up your contributions in.the column
headed “Educational Fund.” Praying the Lord
to Mess you, 1 am your grateful brother,
M. b. L. RTNION.
.Profield. June 30th, 1850,
For the Index.
The Best Commentary.
the question is often asked, w hich is the best
commentary : And persons answer according to
their own preferences. Hence one recommends
Gill. another Scott, another Doddridge, another
Henry and another Clark. But I think the best
commentary of ail, is the Godly life of a man
whose very walk illustrate* the text, of the Holy
Scriptures. i
Reader, do you agree with me; Is that the !
• haracter of your own life i QUERIST.
For the Index.
Pastoral.
r foce, last year, I wao inteusely engaged till
late at night, with the consideration of a Pastors i
obligations. After retiring and falling asleep, I j
dreamed that I was sleeping in one end of a long j
passage, from which door* led into small rooms on ‘
either side. In each room was a church-member;
and I seemed stationed in the hall as supervisor.
I dreamed that I had just awaked from slumber,
when just midway the passage, I saw emerging
frorae one of the rooms the Enemy of .Souls, with
an expression of the utmost joy covering the most
fiendish of features. Like a lightning-bolt, in its
rapidity and power, this sentence flashed on my j
mind, “While the Pastor sleeps, the Devil plays
the wild among his people.’’ I have lately dream
ed out the same thing with my eyes open.
” SAT.
For the Index.
‘An Purity of Deity-
When a child, aHjpusand times have I watch- i
•>i the changing eloudsAn the sunset sky, and fan
cied that I saw the images df men and houses,
hills and birds and “Giants frimfl and almost
every thing. But never qnee, in ail those beau
tiful combinations of light and shade cdor —God’s
grand kaleidoscope—Heaven’s gallery of richest
scenes—have I seen aught inconsistent with ihe
most perfect purity, or the utmost refinement of
soul. It is as if God did write his purity in the
phifting cloud no less than on other parts of Na
ture’s vast unending volume. The fcLing most
evanescent —'hat which is swiftest in its flight ’
from time, must utter, in its passing, God ?.? Pme.
SAT.
Imilnr.
A Creditable Record.
Among the graduates of the University of
North Carolina, at its late Commencement was
Thomas B. Slade, son of Mr. Thos. B. Slade, sr.,
of this city. He graduated with the second dis
tinction in a class of forty-seven. The Annual
Report states the fact that “Mr. Slade was the
only member of this class who was absent from
no one of the four thousand eight hundred atten
dances required in a four years’ course at the Uni
versity;” certainly a very unusual and creditable
distinction. But the President of this noble old
University, Hon. David L. Swain, after reading
this portion of the report, made a verbal state
ment of a fact still more extraordinary, and which
may well be a matter of pride to the family of
which Mr. Slade is a member, tor vre doubt if a
parallel case can be found on the records of any
other institution in this country. Gov. Swain
stated that there was a fact connected with Mr.
Slade’s punctuality that was worthy of notice: it
was that the father and two sons had iu succes
sion passed through the College course of four
years without missing a duty! And in a letter
to Mr. Slade, sr., Gov. Swain makes an allusion
to this fact, as follows:
“I share with you, in no small degree, the
pleasure afforded mo by the successful career of
your two sons, at your Alma Mater. We have
many gratifying registers of punctuality and cor
rect deportment upon record; but yours is the only
instance where a father and two sons in succes
sion have attaiued the distinction of perfect punc
tuality throughout the entire collegiate term of
four years."— Columbus Enquirer.
Important from California.
An arrival at New York brings San Francisco
dates of the sth ult. Casey and Com wero hung
on the 22d of May, the same day on which Mr.
King was buried. The Vigilance Committee had
arrested several other despurate characters, inclu
ding the notorious Yankee Sullivan. The latter
committed suicide on the Ist of June, in his cell, i
at the committee rooms, leaving a confession *
touching the election in San Francisco. The op- j
ponenta of the Vigilance Committee attempted j
to hold a meeting on the 2d to denounce the Com
mittee, but it proved a total failure. Several inur- i
ders in the interiors are recorded. Rumors were j
circulated that Gov. Johnson would make a requi- j
sition to suppress the revolution, but nothing bad 1
been done as yet. These rumors, however, erea- j
ted much excitement throughout the State, and \
word was sent from the interior that a thousand :
men were to march to the assistance of the Com- ;
mittee. Sacramento alone offered to furnish one ;
thousand. Excitement was on the increase.— !
Martial law had been declared at Sau Francisco, j
The committee were determined on carrying out j
their measures, and continued to make arrests.
The opposition, however, were organizing with
700 stands of arms. It was rumored that they
intended to attack the committee rooms, which
were strongly guarded with two cannon before
the door loaded with grape shot. All the journals
except the Herald side with the committee.
Indian bostihties in Oregon are partially sup- j
pressed. A difficulty had occurred iu Washing
ton Territory, owing to an attempt made by Judge
Saunders to hold a Court during the existence of
martial-law. The Judge was arrested for safe
keeping until peace is established. The health of
fian Fr ancisco was good. Business moderate. —
Advices from Oosta Rica state that the Army is
d'sbandod Cholera was raging fearfully through
out the State. Baron Bnlow died of it while on
tie retreat Nothing important from Nicaragua.
.. . . “ V ; • % ‘ t, f
JHiscftlttneans.
j. AarJoHae Webb,a wealthy Englishman, and
I the original cultivator of the South Dowu race of
! sheep, is now exhibiting specimens of the breed at
the Cattle Show in Paris. Ho was dressed in a
! peasant’s blouse, under which he wore a magnifi
| cent chain, reaching to his girdle. Each link of
j the chain consisted of a gold medal recovered by
j the owner at some agricultural fair or other, a* a
prize tor the excellence of his South Downs..
J“Tbo Mormons are experiencing hard times
1 at Salt Lake. Food is so scarce that beggary from
’ door to door is as common as in our. Atlantic cit
: ies. Brigham Young denounces the practice, as
likely to be an imposture, though he says where
, any of the saints have gone five days without food
| they ought to make their wants known. Rathc-r
| a task for a man to support ninety wives in a
j country whore, food is scarce,
I . *
jerit is aid to be the prevailing opinion iu
Franco that its Government should take no other
part in the English difficulty with the United i
States than that of offering its friendly mediation ]
The idea is scouted that, in the event of a war be- j
[•tween the two countries, jti any- j
more active way lend her supfflHHljft'ea, Brit
fhe French Emper< r, it b a been
heard to declare- that. tlnwoi*no-possibility ot-sueb
a contest at present; but he has, nevertheless, giv
en orders that a trigate of war should be dispatch
ed to the Central American const, to be kept there
er oUrveillance.
has increased very rapidly in popu
lation of late years. In the year 1850, the cen
sus gave it 212,592 inhabitants. At the Presi
dential election, in 1852, iho totai vote cast was
18,547. As the- population had increased con
siderably in the period between 1850 and 1852,
it must then have been near 300,000. This would
be in the ratio of about one vote to every six
; teen inhabitants. At the election held recently
in Texas, no less than 45,576 votes weWi polled.
Applying thy first ratio to this, we should have a
population of 728,752, being throe times the ag
gregate of the population iu 1850. Taking the
lowest ratio, the total would be 510,017, so that,
in any case, the aggregate at this time must ex
ceed half a million. This is an astonishing in
crease, and evinces that Texas has grown as rap
idly as lowa.
Washington, July I.—The Hon.P. T. Herbert,
charged with the murder of the waiter at Willard’s
| Hotel sometime since, has been indicted and com
mitted to jail.
Climatic Phenomena. —A correspondent ol the
Smithsonian Institude at Fort Clark Alachua
county, Florida, writes that it is a remarkable
foature of the climate of that place that it is en
tirely exempt from storms or high winds —none
having been known for thirty years. The storm
which caused so much destruction in 1854 on the
■’oasts of South Carolina and Georgia, was there
on!; t stiff breeze, ’ cth north and south of Fort
‘Clark, high winds are common.
Cancer Cured by Lightning. — Tho York Herald
gives an account of a man who, while plowing
in the Isold, was struck down by lightning anu
b.ith his horses kiiied. He was so much injured
that his life was despaired of. The doctor during
his attendance upon him, discovered that he was
sufiering-fi om malignant cancer of the dip,” amt
upon his recovery proposed to remove it by an
operation. But jußt as the operation was about
to be performed, it was discovered that a healing
process had commenced, and in a short time the
man was completely cured. If this story is true,
it will raise the question whether electricity may
not be profitably employed as a remedial agent
in cases of this kind.
Terrible Effects of Lightning. —A correspond
ent of the Wilmington Herald, writing from
Brinkles’ depot, N. C , Judo 5, says:
This evening about 5J o’clock, two negroes, a !
young woman and a boy, and five mules and a
horse, the property of Mrs. M. E. Brinkly, were j
all struck down aud kiiied in a pile, at the carri
age house near this place. The negroes had ta
ken the mulee from the field, and carts to the
carriage house to bo sheltered from the rain, and
the two negroes killed were on mules.
1 visited the scene soon after the occurrence—
was attracted by the cries and lamentations of the
large company of surviving negroes collected, and
found the dead negroes and mules huddled togeth
er, partly upon each other, mostly in the door way
of the house. The electricity penetrated the roof
and gable end of the house. It was attracted, I
suppose by the volume of stesrn rising from the
nostrils of the heated animals.
Local Theological Schools. —Some of our eo
temporaries are noting it as a significant, fact, that
the movements are in progress in South Carolina,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont, for the i
establishment of Diocesan Seminaries. They see j
in them, as they affirm, an evidence that the Epi
scopalian Church has-tried like other bodies, tho j
experiment of Theological centralization to its j
cost. “The overshadowing General Assembly |
under partizan control, and moulding the ministry I
of tho Church after one pattern, is scon by a j
large portion of the church to work disastrously
to the true interests of religion.” These schemes j
for local Seminaries are supposed therefore to be j
reactions from the evils of excessive centralization. j
“The fact is suggestive,” remarks one writer. “It ;
is'an evil to have too many TijMAtfUCui Semina- 1
ries—but it is a greater evil one.” !
Crops in Tennessee. —The crops in East Tennes
see, taken as a whole are. very promising. The ;
lato Spring and cold rains, at one time, did threat- f
on to damage tho crops generally, by setting them
back. Complaints were also made of the fly, in
the Wheat—but tho damage of Wheat from the
fly, turns out to be slight, and confined to but few
‘localities. Corn, Oats, and Potatoes, are promis
ing throughout East Tennessee. The fruit crops
also promise a very larcre yield. And the coun
try is generally healthy.
Prom our exchanges, we arc gratified to learn, ;
that iu Middle and West Tenhessee, the crops are !
very promising, and that unusually large crops are !
out. Ono responsible man in Middle Tennessee, j
has offered to furnish one hundred thousand bush- 1
eh of Wheat at fifty-five cents. In this market, !
it cannot bring what it did last year, nor can Flour *
remain at present rates.
To our farmers we would say’, cease your croak
ing and complaining at the ways of Providence, i
and be thankful for what you have and are.—
Knoxville Whig.
The Hotel Harvest at Cincinnati. — The Roch- I
I ester Union, speaking of the excessive charges of
the Barnet bouse during the late convention, in- 1
stances some eases: ‘
“We bear of gentlemen being charged $5 a ■
day for board—though even at that price they
j could not ‘et single rooms. Bills made out in
gross —and,the sums were stated in round num
bers. On* of the delegates from New England
paid some $250 for a single room for their con
ferences. The Hard delegation paid $460 for
THE CHRIST IAN INDEX.
theirs, and the Softs paid SBOS for room rent
alone! In one of the two rooms occupied by the
latter were several beds in which the delegates
: slept. But their board was probably the same as
lif their room rent was not already paid. Other
j delegations had corresponding bills to settle; but
we doubt whether any other States suffered so
i much as New York.”
Tribute of Respect.
The undersigned having been appointed by the
Baptist church, at Vienna, in Dooly county, Geor
: gia, at her last conference, to the duty of ptepar
| ing a report relative to the usefulness of our bro
j ther, Rev. John W. Wilson, deceased, as a Chris
tian minister, and also manifestations of the feef
i iugs of the churchMn view of hi* loss to them,
j would beg to say wilt, tho limited knowledge I
j have of his early fife, Irrstory, the boundary of
i his labors, it would be folly in me to undertake.
| the duly assigned—lo attempt which would be
doing injustice to his memory. But to speak of
; him as to his labor among us. or so far as known,
1 would be to say that he was a faithful watchman
! on the walls of Zion, a bold, fearless, candid, true j
i and honest expounder of the Gospel of Christ. :
I One who labored for the edification of the church- I
| os, establishing them in faith and doctrine, and a
i firm believer in lire final peiseverance of the
saints. This faith and doctrine ho exemplified in
bis very latest con versations, for being interroga
ted a short time before his dis.sointion.no declared,
“that tho faith and doctrine he had taught sustain
ed him iu the moment of death.” And when we
come to,speak of tho esteem in which he is held i
among us, and our loss at his death, language is
wanting to express the emotions within us. yet we
should pause and consider who has caused these
feelings to exist, ami in the reflection we are forc
ed to tho conclusion, that it is best we are thus
exorcised, the Author never doing only that which
is right. Aud though a bright pillar of our
church has fallen, aud a faithlul laborer removed
—removed to the bosom of his God—let us cease
our murmurings and wipe away our tears, and en
deavor to imitate his virtues, and follow his pre
cepts. They lire with us, though we hear not his
voice, which was—when descanting or portraying
the plan of salvation, free grace unmerited, and
the final restoration of the Saints in glory—it
was like music, and sweeter than honey in tho
honey comb to the child of God. But that voice
is bushed iu death. We shall hear it no more in
time, and as a manifestation of our feelings, beg
leave to offer the following’
REPORT.
Wheseas, the dealings of death have made it
our melancholy duty to make known that our
highly esteemed and very worthy friend and bro
ther, the Rev. John W. Wilson is no more, he
obeyed the summons and the door of destiny was
opened uuto him. He was a faithful watchman
on the walls of ZioD, and evidently attached to
the cause of his Divine Master. But alas for us,
yet joyful for him, he has been summoned from
labor, and all who knew him will regret his de
parture. By this mournful event we are forcibly
admonished that
The spider’s most attenuated thread
Is tord—is cable—to man’s tender tie,
Our earthly bliss—it breaks at every breeze.
And man is not master of a moment here,
Frail as the flower and fleeting as the gale.
Yes, our brother’s work on earth is done. The
grim and relentless monster has mowed him dowu
at-a rijp>g age, and bis body must soon mingle
with tbS mother eaftb. yet while we mourn ins :
dissolution, our hope is strong that his spirit, dis
engaged from the cumbrous clay of mortality
here, will bloom and flourish in immortal vigor
and fresnness tbrougl out eternal day in that
house not made with hands, eternal in the heav
ens. The many noble traits of character that
adorned the career of our brother constitute an
example well worthy of our remembrance and
emulation. Therefore,
Resolved , That a page of the records of the 1
church be directed by this testimonial of respect
to the virtue and memory of our deceased brother.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Bv order of the church at Vjenna, Dooly eo.
JAS. S. BEALLE.
Receipts of payment for the Christian Index
to July 8,1856.
B. S. Dimsdale to Feb. 3, 1857, 1 18
Mrs. E. V. Battle to Dec. 15, 1856, 2 00
Mrs. T. B. Fall to July 7, 1857, 2 00
Miss Amanda Evans.. to J une 7, 1857, 2 00
Mrs. B. M. Sanders.. .to Dec. 15, 1857, 2 00
R. Howard to July 7, 1858, 4 00
W. D.Dauhtry.......to July 7, 1857, 2 00
C. F. Newton ...to June 23, 1855, 2 00
James Carter to June 28, 1557, 2 00
Mrs. M. B. Granberry. .to Nov. 24, 1856, 2 00
L. C. Tomlinson to July 7, 1857, 2 00
J. W. Rabun... 7 to Nov. 17, 1857, 500
Geo. W. -Griffeth,... .to Mar. 17, 1857, 300
Rev. Win, Spence.... to Sept 13, 1857, 10 00
L. A. 5nead.........t0 June 30, 1857, 2 00
James Carroll to June 30, 1858, 2 00
T. Burk to June 21, 1857, 2 00
N. Bickers to Aug. 4,1857, 2 00
Geo. W. Pritchett..... .to Feb. 24, 1857, 200
Posey Madox to Dec. 15, 1856, 2 00
J. M.‘ Scott .to Mar. 10, 1857, 2 00
G. H. Perdue ~ .to Nov. 3, 1856, 2 00
D. W. Orr -.to Feb. 3, 1858, 5 00
L. H. Gordan to Feb. 24, 1856, 5 00
J. W. Kennebrew.... .to Feb. 10, 1856,- 5 00
W. M. Pope .to Apr. 14, 1857, 2 00
MARRIED,
On the morning of the 6th inst., by-the Rev.
L. R. L. Jennings, Mr. John S. Jackson, of Han
cock co., Ga., to Miss Artjmisa, only daughter of
John Hall, Esq., of Greene county, Ga.
OBITUARY.
‘Dost thou art, aud uuto dust thou shall return.”
James Barrow.
The following Resolutions were adopted by Friendship
church, Merriwothereonniy, in conference, July 9th, 1856:
Ist. Resolved, That by the •foath of our brother James
Harrow, our church has lost one of its most precious and
useful members—one whose examples should, be patronized
by his surviving brethren.
2d. That wo sympathise with our beloved sister in the
loss of a kind and affectionate husband, and with his chil
dren the loss of a tender and beloved father, and that we
make their case the subject of our prayer to God to sustain
them under the sad bereavement.
3d. That tho foregoing resolutions be recorded on our
church book and that the same be published in the Christian
Index, and a copy be eent to sister Barrow.
PHILIP MATHEWS, Mod
E. G. Mathews, Church Clerk.
Departed this life at his residence in Carroll county, Ga.,
! on Thursday, the 19th of June, Silas Dobbs, in the ‘l7th
year of his age. He had been a member of the Baptist
. church about seventeen years. He has left a disconsolate
! wife and nine children to/moqrn for our loss; we believe, it is
1 his eternal gain. He left a good testimony that he had a
house not made with hands eternal in the heavens. May the
; Lord sanctify his death *0 the dear children.
‘ A FRIEND.
A Sentinel copy.
i Departed this life in Elbert county, on the 4th of May last,
at the residence of her youngest son, Henry t>. liulin,
Mrs. Margaret Hulls, in the 74th year of her age, widow
of the late W<h. I!.din. The had been a sub'ect
of affliction for the last thirty yean, most of the time ui.ole
— “~-r ——.■ ... ~
. to attend to her domestic business. Her disease finally ter
!■ mutated uvconsymiitton and tor the last twelve or thirteen
j months she was confined almost entirely to her bed. The
; only comgung reflection seemed to be the consolation of the
1 g°- s (’■-•'• ?oe knew in whom site had believed, and was per
fectly resigned to his will, having embraced the religion of
Christ in early life and attached herself to the Baptist church
j at Vann* creek, during the ministry of Elder Dozier Thorn
j 10,1 • Ber children (four sons and two daughters) and the
j many grand children mourn not as those without hope. May
. they imii.tie the example of the mother and grand mother,
j and be prepared, ere they go home, to dwell together with,
i her m that better world above, where sickness, gorrcw.pain.
| ‘Md death, are felt and feared no more. D. ft/
| Died, ip LaFayette, Ala., on the 20th of May, 1856, Sister
j „ ,tUL, wife of Bro. Wade Hill and daughter of
j Rev. Wm. D. Lane, deceased, formerly of Putnam county,
G B -’ jo 1 , .I 1 year her age. Slie was a native of South
Caftduta, had been a member of the Baptist church forty
five years!,and was baptized by Rev. Elijah Moeely, into
JamriG (>*eek. chureih, Hancock county Ga She was an at
feetioftsae wife, a devoted and conscientious mother, an in
aulgepfioistres®, and a kind and useful neighbor Though
unable through feeble health in person, yet she always Felt a
lively mferest in the Sabbath school. She always took great
pleasure m encouraging and helping forward poor young
mhos tew. and m sustaining, aiding and administering to the
wants of old ones in destitute circumstances. She was a thor
ough missionary in heart ami life, not only in theory, but in
practice. Her entire trust for salvation was in the blessed
Savior. During her last illness, she spake of death with
calmness and composure, staling that she had no raptures,
> but paaW fnd often thought of the words of the hymn—•
i “ ’Tvvas Jesus, my friend, when he hung on the tree,’
i Who opened the channel of mercy for roc.”
j She bare her protracted sufferings with unusual patience
and Christian fortitude, and died without a struggle. The
last Ityjna she. requested her friends to sing, was one she
called ‘‘Bro. Str.lls’ hvron,” from Jiaving frequentU’ heard
hire .-iog it.ivtiiiefoe waie her pastor :
. iJ #■’tea iraveliug i.Me -
-yWT you go? will you go?
-To sing our Saviour’s dying lore.
Wilt yon go? will you go?
Our sun shall then po more go down;
Our rnron shall be no more withdrawn;
Oar days of mourning past and gone.
Will you go? will you go?
In the death of sister Hill, her family has sustained an ir
reparable loss, the church and community one ‘ f its best and
most pious members; but we sorrow not as those wlio have
no hope,.for our loss is her eternal gain;- and, although she
cannot come back to us, wo may go to her, “Where the
wicked cease from troubling, anil the weary are at rest.”
J. F.
superiority of American inventive geni
us, not only over that- of our English progenitors,
but indeed of all other nations, has become too tan
gible to be disputed. It was notorious at the World’s
Fair in London, that the Americans far out-stripped
all others in the useful inventions which they sup
plied. We beat the English in vessels, railroads,
telegraphs and manufactures by power. We are
beating them in tho scientific arts of Chemistry and
Medicine, as we have long beat the rest of mankind.
Anew and practical proof of this assertion is shown
in the tact that the principle remedies of the allied
armies of the East are furnished from the laboratory
of our own countryman. Dr. J. C. Ayer, of Lowell,
is filling orders fer immense quantities of his Cherry
Pectoral and Cathartic Pills, for both tho land and
sea forces in Turkey. His medicines have been tri
ed and approved by those in power who have found
them the most reliable which they could proepro lor
the exegencies in which they are to bo employed.—
W Y. City Times.
lEssuiy OR UXTIVBRSITr.
Commciicenient-1856. -
July 23d, 24th, and 25th.—Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday—Examination of the Collage Classes.
•lily 27th- -Pvbbath Morning—Commencement Ser
mon, by President Crawford, at 104 o’clock.
Sabbath Evening.—Sermon before the Young
Men’s Missionary Society, by Rev. J. R, Ghaves, of
Nashville, Tem*,, at 7 £ o’clock.
July Mott day Declamation hv
’ - members of the Sophomore Class, at 10 o’clock.
July 29th—Tuesday Morning—Junior Exhibition, at
IQ o’clock.
July 80th- -Wednesday Morning—Commencement Ex
ercises, at 10 o’clock.
Wednesday Afternoon—Address before the Lite
rary Societies, by Hon. Thomas W. Thomas, of El
bertor., Ga., at 4| o’clock.
J. E. WILLET, Sec. Fac.
. J uly 3 td
To the tllumni of Jttercer Uni
versity.
In consequence of the failure of our Orator and the
Alterflates, there will be no address before the Alum
ni Association at the approaching Commencement.
July 3 ts J. E. WILLET, Cor. Sec.
RABUN & S3IITH.
COMMISSION’ MERCHANTS,
SATUTWAH, GEORGIA.
J. W. Rabun. W. 11. Smith.
Savannah, July 10, 1856. 2S--tf
GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE.
C4 OMMENCEM ENT in this College is not held until
J late in October.
Pupils may yet avail themselves of the advantage in
climate, location and facilities for instruction which
arc here presented
Tuition is charged from the time a pupil enters to
the end of the term. GEO. Y. BROWNE. Pres't.
Madison, Ga., July IC. 28 3t
Private Academy for Young Ladies.
ISATONTON, GA.
THE Second Session of this School will begin on
Monday, 11th August. Number of Pupils limited.
Tuition per annum, including the usual course of
English Studies. Languages, Music, Drawing, PaintiDg
and Embroidery, sl2s—half in advance. Every fa
cility is afforded for a thorough and complete female
education.
Any information regarding the School may be ob
tained by addressing the undersigned.
-2k 5t 7. Pv. BRANHAM.
’ TO THE PUBLIC.
J iqtkOKEE BAPTIST COLLEGE,
ONEAR CASSVILLE, GA.
WING to the late destruction of our College
elifice, by fire, we are deprived of the occu
pancy of the same for this year. But wc arc happy
to stall that the contractors have commenced, with
renewtd energy, to rebuild the same, relying on a
generoLs community to assist thorn so far as able.
Tfctfßoard of Trustees announce that the School
wiHJbegin as published in our Prospectus and ad
verlMetocnts, on the Ist WEDNESDAY in FEBRU
ARY next. We liave procured a good house, con
taining six convenient rooms, in the out-skirts of the
village] in which the school will be conducted. We
also liave procured, on the premises, the use of three
small buildings which will accommodate ten or
fifteen young men wishing to board themselves. —
We therefore say to one and all, come on and you
will have good accommodations and the very best of
instruction.
In view of the great los ; we have sustained, we
would make a most earnest appeal to our old sub
scribers to pay up their old subscriptions without
delay, The subscribers to the endowment fund are
respectfully requested to pay, immediately, the inte
rest en their subscriptions for the first year—due the
Ist uft., and so mu ih of the installment due, or sub
scrijpjion, as is convenient for them. The same can
be paid to Rev. Edwin Dyer, Rev. John Orawford,
or amt to me by mail. Any additional sum from,
any one to enable us to meet our losses, will be grate
fully received. We hope, in view of our calamity,
no ether call will be necessary.
• / ? ; JOHN H. RICE,
Oilssville, Ga. Sec’y. Board of Trustees.
Jan 24 4 ts
COMMENCEMENT.
Monroe Female University.
FORSYTH, CiA.
‘’I' , HUIt ; DAY, JULY 10th.—Examination of Pri- ‘
i l mar/ Cltsee*. |
JULY 1 Ith.—Examination of Preparatory and I
Freshmen Classes.
JULY 13th.—ComrnciK-euienf, tsermon by Prof. A.
M. CRAWFORD, President of Mercer University.
JULY ,14th.—-Examination of Sophomore, Junior
and Senier Classes. Annual Concert at Night. Board
of Trustees M ill npet in-the OlJk'ge Saloon, at 10
o’clock, A. M.
JULY 15m- Commencement Day. A splendid
FAIR and SUPPER at Night in the College Chapel
by the ladies of the village and vicinity.
The Pall Term will begin on the Sd Monday in
August., and close on the Ist Friday in December.
R. T. ASBURY,
J uly 3 2t Sec’y of Faculty.
O<MtME!VC’EIWEN‘r AND K\AHIIXATII\
OF THE ;
Houtli Western Baptist Female College.
CUTHBERT, GA.
Commencement sermon wm he delivered,
July IStb, by Rev, P. H. MELL At Night, Ser
mon before the Young Ladies Bible Society.
Examination—Monday and Tuesday.
Concekt—Tuesday Night. -
Commencement Day —Wednesday, July lGth.
Commencement Address, by ,T S’O. T. CLARK, Esq.
June 26 St-26 ft. D. MALLARY, Pres’t.
W bODLANI)
FEMALE COLLEGE,
CEDAR TOWN, OEOROIA.
! The Trustees have made the following arrangements
for the year 185:
j J. M. WOOD, PresiJeut.
C. W. LANGWORTHY,
Teacher of Music.
J. D. COLLINS,
Prof. Natural Sciences and Languages.
J. A. ARNOLD,
Prof. Mathematics aud Moral and Mental Science.
J. H. TERRELL, Steward.
SESSION* AYI) VACATIONS.
Spring Session. —From the Second Monday in Jan
uary to the First Wednesday in J ’ly.
Fall Term. —From the First Monday in August to
the last Wednesday in November.
The intervening time will be vacation.
EXPENSES.
Washing and Board (candles excepted)... .s>B per m.
Tuition in t.he College Course S4O per an.
Tuition in Music 40 per an
Primary Department (First Class) -40 per an.
Primary Department [Second Class]..., 16 per an.
Charges for Bucks, <fec., to cover cost.... 20 per an.
Settlements will be required at the close of each
session.
SCHOLAR' ’HIPS are offered at the following rates:
The payment of S7O will secure to a pupil the
privileges of the Literary Department, for two years;
$?00, three yeat*s; 120, four years S4OO will secure
a perpetual scholarship. By this arrangement, a pu
pil cap be boaided and educated for sllO a year, a
less amount than is paid for board and washing pt.
most Institutions, and :early tin hundred dollars less
than is paid lor the str.e faculties at other places
T' - ese mdueements are offeied by an ootKy of money
from other sources than tho income of the .School—a
uratuliy to the public.
FACILITIES
The Faculty is composed or able and enperie” oed
teachers. They havf good Ghcmical and Philosophi
cal Apparatus at ‘heir command. The boarding
hour * is managed by a good Steward and lady, who
will guard *fhe health and morals of young ladies.
Pupils will be required to attend Sunday School and
preaching every Sabbath.
REGULATIONS.
Rules for the government of the School are snch
as we deem necessary for the good of pupils, and the
institution, enforced with kindness, but with firmness.
Persons wishing to enter pupils, or purchase scholar
ships, will please address the President. By order of
the resident Board of Trusstecs.
J. M. WOOD, President.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Elder E. Dyer, E. D. Chisolm, Col. S Gibson, T. 11.
Sparks, W. P. Wood, Elder Wm. Newton, D. S. An
derson, A. N. Verdery, W. A. Mercer, A. Darden, El
der G. H Stillwell, E. H. Riehardson, Joel H. Terrel),
W. O. B. Whatley, A. F. King, C. W. Sparks. Wm.
Peek, L. W. Battle, W. E. West.
Jan 26 6t 26
GINS AND THRASH ERS\
FOR SALE B V THOS. WIME.
f'jnHE subscriber informs the planting community
X of Georgia and South Carolina, that he contin
ues to manufacture his superior FIRE-PROOF COT
TON GINS, near Bel-Air, Richmond county, Ga. I
would also inform them that I have invented a
SELF-ACTING BOX, and also a CURVE BREAST,
to put to my Gins; and I will warrant them to gin
from one hundred and fifty to two hundred bales
without clogging between the ribs. If they’ do, in
ginning that number of babs, I will make them good
again, free of charge. I will only’ allow t.he purcha
ser to gin from ten to fifteen bales upon trial, and if
my Gin does not please, the purchaser can notify me,
and if I cannot make it perform well, I will take it
back, and put one iu its place that will. I will let
the purchaser use it (if I cannot make it perform well)
until I replace it with 6ne that will perform well—
the purchaser notifying me as soon as he thinks the
Gin fails to come up to the warrant.
Oolumdia Cos., Ga., March 27, 1806.
1 hereby certify that I bought a Forty-Five Saw
Curve Breast Cottoi Gin of Mr. Thos Wynne, of Bel-
Air, Ga., iu the year 1856, and having thoroughly
tried said Gin, I am nbt afraid that 1 shall say more
for it than it deserves, as that is a simple impossibili
ty It gins as fast and makes as good lmt as I, or any
other reasonable man could expect. In fact, there is
no defficiencv in anv respect about it
R. FOSTER,
W ashington, Cos., Ga., May 7, 1856.
I certify that I am using a Sixty Saw Curve Breast
Cottou Gin, which I bought of Mr. Thos. Wynne about
two years ago. Said Gin perforins, without excep
tion, to my complete satisfaction. It makes a good
sarnplo—so good that I never fail to get the highest
market price for the cotton ginned on it.
DANIEL HARRIS.
Columbia Cos., Ga., March 26, 1866.
This is to certify that I have bought for Mrs. E. F.
Lumpkin three Fifty Saw Curve Breast Cotton Gins,
manufactured by Mr. Thos. Wynne, of Bel-Air Ga,,
and Ido not hesitate to say, that they are the best
G ins with which I have any acquaintance, though I
havfe considerable experience in that line. I can rec
ommend Wynne’s Gins to the public, as being in every
way worthy of a trial.
’ • THOS. H. PEEK.
„ I will deliver my superior Gin at the purchasers
residence, or eo that he can get it, within one hundred
aud twenty-five miles of my Factory, at $2.25 per
saw, aud warrant it iu every respect, both as regards
good performance, and making a good sample of cot
ton, according to quality before ginning.
I will sejil my Common-Breast Gins, delivered at
Bel-Air, at $175 per saw, and warrant them to work
I am offering superior THRASHING MACHINES,
Double Geared. Self Oiling Boxes (a late improve
ment) at $37.60, delivered at Bel-Air. My Thrashers
with common friction boxes, (an excellent machine)
will be furnished Wheat G-owers. delivered as above,
at $36.
All orders addressed to me at Bel Air, Ga., or con
tracts with bv agents for the above articles, will meet
.with prompt attention. THOS. WYNNE.
N. B. My Common Breast Gins are equal, in every
way. to any other Gins made in Georgia, or South
Carolina, Mv Curve-Breast Gins are decidedly su
perior, l will repair old Gins and put my Curved
Breast to their old Gins, and make them perform as
well as new Gins, if tb saws are good and good teeth,
say fine teeth. Please rend on your old Gin., soon if
vr i will want me to repair them.
3 THOS. WYNNE.
June 6 8 4tf
i MERCER UNIVERSITY.
PEAFIELB, A.
FACULTY.
1 ‘w
PRESIDENT,
N. M. CRAWFORD, D. D.
PROFESSORS:
COL.IL.EaiS.
S. P. SANFORD, A. M„
Mathematics.
J. E. WILLET, A. M,
Chemistry and Natural Philosophy.
H. H. TUCKER, A. M.,
Belles Lettres.
U. W. WISE, A M.,
Greek and Latin Languages.
WILLIAM G. WOODFIN, A. B„
Modem Languages.
THEOLOGICAL SE3IIMARY.
N. M. CRAWFORD, D. D.,
Ecclesiastical History and Biblical Literature.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, A. M.,
Systematic and Pastoral Theology.
ACADEMY.
THOMAS A. SEALS, Principal.
The Commencement is held on the last- Wednesday
in July.
The next Term will commence on the last W cdne*-
Jav in August.
The price of Board in the village is $lO per month
washing, room rent, fuel, Ac, $3.
By order of tho Board of Trustees.
S. LANDRUM, Secretary.
May 15 20 2m.
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