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For the Index.
LaGrange Baptist Church—Western
ASSOCIATION, 1856.
FOR INDIAN MISSION.
J.H. Callaway 20 00
.7as. Culverson 20 00
J. B. Edwards.... 10 00
Mrs. A. Hill 10 00
Thos. H. Bacon 5 00
W. P. Beasley ft... 500
11. C. Hooten 2 00
J. T. Cox 2 00
Mrs. H. Lipscomb 2 00
Mrs. McFarlin 2 00
Mrs. V. D. ISaton 1 00
Mrs. Cardelia Fannin 5 00
FOR DOMESTIC MISSIONS.
J. W. B. Edwards 10 00
J. H. Goss 1 00
Miss M. Murphy *...... 200
Mrs. A. P. Hill 10 00
Mrs. N. Swanson 5 00
W. P. Beasley 5 00
Mrs. N. Ferrell 5 00
Miss M. Chambles 2 00
Hilliard Oneal. 2 00
Mrs. Sarah Ferrell 5 00
Thos. R. Ashford 1 00
UNION CHURCH, HARRIS COUNTY.
N. T. Thomason 1 00
Cash 25
MOUNTAIN CREEK.
Mrs. Ann B. White 5 00
Cash. 1 00
Miss J. E. Gray 1 00
R. G. Hood 1 00
HAMILTON CHURCH, COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION.
Mrs. M. J. Gorham 1 00
Britain Williams 5 00
Mrs. E. Roper 2 00
J. Murphy 1 00
Mrs. Ann C. Walker 2 50
REHOBOTII CHURCH, HARRIS COUNTY.
W. H. Jackson 1 00
J. W. Thompson 2 00
Cash 1 00
Mrs. L. P. Watt 2 00
MT. ZION CHURCH.
W. P. Jones and Lady 5 00
Mrs. N. T. Lokey 1 00
T. D. Fordson 1 00
A. L. Mealing 1 00
A. L. Borders (Columbus) 5 00
BETHEL CHURCH, MUSCOGEE COUNTY.
A. Lynch 5 00
Wm. Glenn 2 00
T. M. Giddens... 1 00
P. Hazlelton 3 00
C. C. Willis 2 00
P. Champion W 1 00
Daniel Huff 5 00
John Odom and Lady 2 50
John Hazleton. 1 00
W. D. Lynch 1 00
James Glenn 1 00
Y, E. Heard 2 00
By Collection 2 30
Green E. Lamb 2 00
J. 11. Jones and Lady 2 00
Cash 50
McCurdy Sparks 2 00
Mrs. Sarah Davis 1 00
RUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY.
W. B. Walker 2 00
Cash 1 00
COUNTY LINE.
Leo Duncan 1 00
Davis Duncan 1 00
W. H. Robinson 1 00
UNION CHURCH, MACON COUNTY.
A. Bryant 1 00
E. Peacock 1 00
E. S‘ Crocker 1 00
11. T. Jordan 5 00
John Whitchard. 2 00
David Wells 5 00
L. A. Pearce 1 00
E.S. Crocker 1.00
A. T. J011y... 75
Cash..... 25
GREENWOOD CHURCH.
Mrs. M. Felton 1 00
N. H. Wiggins 5 00
William Felton 5 00
D. W. Orr and family 3 00
W. H. Rice...., 5 00
M. G. & L. D. Rice................ 5 00
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY.
Yirgil Powers 5 00
Wm. R. 8r0wn....._............. 1 06
R. M. Patterson, of Macon 5 50
Miss Ann Miller 25
James Rhodes 50
BENEVOLENCE CHURCH, CRAWFORD COUNTY.
Grief Cheves 2 00
J. S. Hollinshead 1 00
-. R. Felton 2 00
J. Lamar (on old subscription 5 00
TRAVELLERS REST, DOOLY COUNTY.
Ichabod Davis... I*o 00
Mathew Rftler 1 00
Wm. S. Truluck 1 00
H. S. Graham 1 00
C. K. Taliaferro 1 00
H. D. Mashburn 8 00
Wm. Jelks... 50
Madison B. Henry 1 00
Wm. H. Davis 1 00
BEULAH CHURCH, HOUSTON ASSOCIATION.
Abner Buman 6 00
A. A. Watts 50
E. A.Leggitt.... 50
W. W. Davis 2 00
S. Bjprnan jfcj!
J, KT 8anian.......7777. 1 00
By Collection 30
BAPTIST CHURCH IN AMERIOUS, BEfHEL ASSO.
Horace Thompson 5 oq
Wm. M. Brown 5 00
J. P. Griffin 2 00
Miss R. Hill 1 00
Mrs. A. E. Jackson 1 00
W. J. Barlow 2 00
Sister Hubart 2 00
J. E. Thompson 5 00
W. W. Barlow 5 00
B. D. Parker 1 00
W. L. Johnson „ 2 00
John B. Worrel . 5 00
Charles A. Walker. 1 00
Cash 1 00
Jesse Cock paid his annual subscription
to Indian Mission 5 00
HENDERSON, HOUSTON COUNTY.
S. D. Henderson 1 00
Wm. E. Killen 1 00
E. K. Lewis 50
Hollis S. Rezer 50
Thos S. Cobb 50
John H. Kendrick 2 00
VIENNA, DOOLY COUNTY.
J. J. Collier 3 00
S. P. Jones 2 00
John M. Giles 1 00
Thomas P. Stubbs 2 00
Cash from Dr. B $ 00
Thomas H. Dawson 3 00
Cash , 50
M. C. Monger 50
Wiley Cobb 75
R. A. Davis 1 00
James S. Bealle 5 00
J. H. Taylor 1 00
B. F. Clark 1 00
S. B. Stovall 1 00
W. Wilcoxson.. 20
M. A. Pate 20
M. DeGrafenreid 50
D. Ballard..*, 50
Thomas F. Wells 2 00
H. H. Ross 1 00
T. C. Crane \ 00
James Cobb 1 00
L. C. Copedge 75
Cash 1 00
John B. Colding 1 00
A. Hamilton 1 00
George W. Fish . 1 00
William Adkins 1 00
[concluded next week.]
, For the Index.
Funeral Sermons.
Dear Brother the above
caption appeared an essay last week, over
the signature of L. W. Bartley, to that
communication, I call the attention of
your numerous readers again.
1 am sorry to trouble the crowded col
umns of the Index wifrjj. unprofitable mat
ter, especially when that matter is the
individual opinion of ourselves, or the as
suming the prerogative of rising up
and countermanding the practice of our
faithful Fathers, for the several ages past;
and the supplanting the opinions of those
venerated heralds of the cross whose
names have formed such a bright succes
sion in the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th
and 19th centuries, as has been done by
Bro. Bartley. For because amongst other
valuable labors performed by them, they
have availed themselves of the solemn
scenes connected with the dead and the
.dying of friends and relations, and preach
ed to that community a discourse on the
subject of Death, Resurrection, Judg
ment and Eternity; and used the sol
emn occasion of that death connected
with the sympathies of that people to
bring the truth that “ we must die ” pro
perly to bear upon the minds of the be
reft mourners, and now because such
preaching has generally been done at or
about the time of a funeral, (or a burial)
it has somehow—without the consent of
the Baptists, (perhaps by their enemies,)
been denominated a funeral sermon. And
now as the essay alluded to charges them
together with thousands of living minis
ters with tolerating RomamGatholecism
and Priest craft, together with all the
evils of the ignorant belief of the un
learned whites, and the superstitions of
the blacks, that such sermons will benefit
the dead: this is the position that
Brother Bartley takes, (the funeral of
Gov. Rabun, preached by Jesse Mercer,
at the call of both houses of the Legisla
ture, notwithstanding.) Tell Bro. Bartley
that I don’t think so. And as his opinion
is all he offers in support of his position,
I shall say no more to contradict his grave
charge, till he shows that his individual
opinion is entitled to more respect than
my opinion is.
No more at present on “ opinion ” till
mine is overruled, then I am ready to pro
duce better supports to my position, viz:
that it is not sinful, nor contrary to the
Scripture, to preach on funeral occasions;
and I think it is .incurring a serious diffi
culty, to say that it is wrong to engage
in anything that has not got a “ Thus saith
the Lord” for it. CARTER.
■4
Imperial Rome governed the bodies of
men, but did not extend her empire fur
ther. Papal Rome improved upon impe
rial ; she made the tiara stronger than the
diadem; pontiffs more powerful than
praetors; and the crosier more victorious
than the sword. She devised a system so
completedn all its parts, for the subjuga
tion both of body and 6f mind, that, like
Arcbimides, she asked for but one thing,
and that Luther denied her: a fulcrum of
ignorance on which to rest that lever by
which she could have balanced the woyld.
TH E CHEISTIAN 11ST ID EX.
Gleanings.
As we cannot judge of the motion of
the earth, by any thing within the earth,
but by some radiant and celestial point
that is beyond it, so the wicked, by com
paring themselves with the wicked,.per
ceive not how far they are advanced in
their iniquity; to know precisely what
lengths they have gone, they must fix
jtheir attention on some bright and exal
ted character that is not of them, but
above them. ‘When all move equally,’
says Paschal, ‘nothing seems to move, as
in a vessel under sail; and when all run
by common consent into vice, none appear
to do so. He that stops first, views as
from a fixed point, the horrible extrava
gance that transports the rest.’— lacon.
Gross and vulgar minds will always
pay a higher respect to wealth than to
talent; for wealth, though it be a far less
efficient source of power than talent, hap
pens to be far more intelligible.
The benevolent have advantage of the
envious, even in this present life ; for the
envious man is tormented not only by all
the ill that befalls himself, but by all the
good that happens to another: whereas
the benevolent man is the better prepared
to bear his own calamities unruffled, from
the complacency and serenity he has se
cured from contemplating the prosperity
of all around him. The sun of happiness
must be totally eclipsed, before it can be
total darkness with him! But the envi
ous man is made gloomy not only by his
own cloud, but by another’s sunshine.—
He may exclaim with the poet, ‘Dark,
dark, amidst a blaze of light!’ Desperate
by his own calamities, and infuriated also
by the prosperity of another, he would
fain fly to that bell that is beyond him, to
escape that which is within. In short
envy is almost the only vice that constant
ly punishes itself in the very act of its
commitment; and the envious man makes
a worse bargain, even than the hypocrite,
for the hypocrite serves the devil without
wages —but the envious man serves him,
not only without reward, but to be pun
ished also for his pains.— Lacon.
The man of pleasure should more pro
perly be termed the man of pain; like
Diogenes, he purchased repentance at the
highest price, and sells the richest rever
sion for the poorest reality.
Most men abuse courtiers, and affect to
despise courts; yet most men are proud
of the acquaintance of the one, and would
be glad to live in the other.
The Law of Newspapers. ,
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contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their
subscription.
2. If subscribers order the discontinuanoe of their
newspapers, the publisher may continue to send them
until all arrearages arc paid.
8. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
newspapers from the offices to which they are directed,
they are held responsible until they hav settled the
bills and ordered them discontinued.
4. If subscribers remove to other places without in
forming the publishers, and the newspapers are sent to
the former direction, they are held responsible.
5. The Courts have decided that refusing to tike
newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving
them uncalled for, is primafacie evidence of intentional
fraud.
6. The United States Courts have also repeatedly
decided that a Postmaster who neglects to perform his
duty of giving reasonable notice, as required by the
Post Office Department, of the neglect of a person to
take from the office newspapers addressed to him, ren
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NOTICE TO TEACHERS.
ON THURSDAY, the 20th of August next, the
Trustees of Hearn School will elect a Principal
Teacher to supply the place of Bro. J. S. Ingraham, re
signed. All applicants are requested to send in their
names and references to the Secretary of the Board.}
C. W. SPARKS, Presidents
July 15—4 t W. R. WEBSTER, Sec’y.
1 J
AMBROTYPES.
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are to be obtained only at PUGH’S GALLERY. TKs
is the only place inMacon where good and cheap pictuis
are taken.
! Call at the comer of Triangular Block.
Jan. 14. 1856.—1 y.
FOR SALE.
TYPE, Press and fixtures of the old Index Office at
Penfield.
1 Imperial Smith’s Press, $76 0
1 Roller Mould, {iron). 20 0
il Double Imp. Imposing Stone 15 0
>2 Common Stones, without frame?/. - 5 O
iT Pair Imperial Chase* (new) 10 O
1 ■“ “ i “ 5 0
1 “ Double medium I Chases sio
1 Double Super Royal “ 5 H)
1 Supor Royal “ 4 K)
:1 Medium “ 4 >0
7 Chases of various sizes (old) 5 JO
1 Screw and tap 5 00
1 Iron Bar per lb 2 DO
6 Brass Bottomed Galleys
jl Double Bottom Galley 2 16
3 Slice Bottom Galleys, (old) .” lo
;1 Book Binder’s Press and cutting knife 6 K)
7 Composing Sticks 7 H)
30 Pairs of Cases (some quite old) 10 >0
7 Stands,.. do do 60
1 Lead Cutter 2 00
1 Font of Great Primer 5 )0
1 Font of Pica • 3 )0
Several fonts Job type (worn out). 25 >0
2 Standing Galleys with racks (old). 2 >0
20 Brass Column Rule (old) -
The'articles mentioned above can be seen at the f r
mer office of the Index, by calling on Mr. Blain or P }f
JWillet, Penfield, Ga. ,S. LANDRUM, Ch’n.
j April 8— ts Index Com
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our stock of CHOICE UNADULTERATED Drijs,
Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Glass and every hr
ticlte usuafly sold by Druggists. No house can offe a
ptock superior .to ours in genuineness and purity; evjry
Officinal preparation being made in strict accordance
with the formularies of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. ,
f Our stock of SURGICAL and DENTAL INSTRU
MENTS is full, and we have unequalled arrangements
for procuring additional supplies at the shortest notice,
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Successors to D# 3* Flumb & Co#
i Jan. 21,1857-i-ts - :
Albermarle Fefhale Institute,
(LOCATED AT CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA,)
Associate Principals for General Management,
JOHN HART, M. A.
ALEX. POPE ABELL.
Faculty for Collegiate Department.
JOHN HART, M. A., Principal,
Moral Philosophy, Mathematics.
CRAWFORD H. TOY, M. A.,
(Natural Sciences, History and Literature.
Us. N. BRONAUGH, M. A.,
Ancient Languages, Modern Languages.
THIS department, as indicated above,'‘■embraces
these six distinct Schools: (1) Ancient Languages;
(2) Modern Languages, viz: French, Spanish, Italian
and German ; (3) Mathematics—the regular course, in
cluding Analytical Geometry; (4) Natural Sciences;
(5) Moral Philosophy—which includes Logic and Rhe
toric ; (6) History and Literature.
The method of instruction in all is the same, as at the
University of Virginia, by lectures and good text books.
The Institution is provided with an unusually good
Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus.
Certificates of proficiency are conferred in these
Schools separately, and a young lady who has obtained
the certificate in each, will receive a Diploma and the
title of “ Graduate ” of the Institute.
The examinations for these degrees are chiefly writ
ten—in short, the same in kind as at the University of
Virginia.
Besides these subjects, constituting the regular
course, lectures will be given on Physiology, Geology,
&c., when desired.
PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.
The pupils in this department, which includes all the
common English subjects, with the rudiments of Latin,
French and Mathematics, have the great advantage of
being taught, in large part, by the Instructors in the
Collegiate Department—all Virginians and Graduates
of the University of Virginia. In addition to this,
competent Female Assistants will be employed. An
unusual degree of efficiency will thus be given to this
department.
MUSICAL DEPARTMENT.
This will remain under the charge of Mr. J. M.
Deems, not only a most accomplished teacher, but the
author of much very popular music.
DRAWING, PAINTING, &C.
Ample provision will be made for these by the open
ing of the session.
The next session begins September 16th, (by which
time accommodations will have been provided in the
Institute for some sixty boarders,) and closes on the
last of June.
TERMS FOR WHOLE SESSION.
Tuition in Preparatory Department, S3O
Preparatory Classes in Latin, French and Mathe
matics, each, 10
Each School of Collegiate Department, 20
Board, including Lights, Fuel, &c. 160
Music on Piano, 42
Use of Instrument, IQ
Music on other Instruments, Drawing, Painting, &c.,
at usurl rates.
Address either of the Principals at Charlottesville,
Va. July 23-ts
BROWN WOOD INSTITUTE,
NEAR LaGRANGE, GEORGIA.
Faculty.
I. F. COX, A. M., Principal and Prof, of Mathematics.
11. C. HOOTEN, A. M., Prof, of Natural Science.
VINCENT T. SANFORD, A. M., Prof, of Languages.
Rev. WM. M. CUNNINGHAM, A. M., Prof, of Greek,
and Mental Science.
THE prosperity of this Institution during the two
past years, the experience and energy of the
Faculty, together with the various appliances for in
struction, indicate that there are sow seminaries of
learning which possess equal advantages for the cul
ture of the youthful mind. We have no inexperienced
assistants. The Institution is supplied with ample ap
paratus for illustration in the different departments of
Natural Science, also in Civil Engineering, Survey
ing, &c.
The Fall Term commences the last Wednesday in
August, and closes the first Thursday in December.
The Spring Term commences the last Monday in Janu
ary and closes the last Thursday in June.
Examinations at the close of each Term.
EXPENSES.
Board, per annum $117.00
Tuition 50.00
Chemistry, (Extra) 10.00
French (Extra) 25.00
Students furnished their own lights and towels.
For Catalogues containing particulars address
July 15—ts J. F. COX, Principal
1858. BAPTIST ALMANAC 1858~
NOW READY.
THIS important annual of the American Baptist
Publication Society is ready for 1858, and con
tains a large amount of denominational information.
Its statistical tables are more than usually full and com
plete.
TABLE OF CONTENTS .’
ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS;
MONTHLY CALENDAR;
BAPTIST PERIODICALS IN THE UNITED STATES
AND BRITISH PROVINCES;
BAPTIST INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING IN THJ3
UNITED STATES;
BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES OF THE BAPTIST DE
NOMINATION.
STATISTICS OF THE ASSOCIATIONS OF THE
AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES;
GENERAL STATISTICS;
Besides MISCELLANEOUS AND DENOMINATION
AL INFORMATION of a varied and interesting char
acter.
Beautifully Illustrated.
Terms.—Single copies, 6 cents; 50 cts. a dozen; 20
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the world.” —National Iwtclligencer.
B OWEN’S CENTRAL AFRICA.
ADVENTURES and Missionary Labors in several
countries in the interior of Africa, from 1849 to
1856. By Rev. T. J. Bowen. Price, sl.
lipgg” Columns might be filled with commendatory
extracts of the work, from the religious and secular
press of the whole country. Space will not admit of
such an indulgence at present.
“ Mr. Bowen in youth was a bold and hardy soldier;
but in his manhood and his Christian devotion the
qualities of a Hero born in him have found a field which
no soldier ever has a chance to enter. To penetrate
alone into an entirely unknown and hostile region; to
go straight through the gate of a city peopled by hun
dreds of thousands who looked on him with the same
wonder as they would oil an angel or a fiend dropping
down from the clouds; to say before the Court and
King of a great nation, in whose presence he stood ar
raigned, as Bowen did, “The God of Heaven is my
King ; I am a soldier, and this book, (referring to the
Bible), is my sWord,” and thus to conquer his way from
city to citv, and through people after people, is an
achievement such as an Alexander never would iave
dreamed of undertaking. It is comparatively cowardice
to be a conqueror shielded on all sides by an invincible
army.’- • - • ■
Peculiar Intellectual as well as moral traits always
belong to such a pioneer.” —National Intelligencer.
“This book is of rare interest. It is thrilliug as a
work of travels, and possesses double value in the esti
mation of the philanthropist who would see Ethiopia
stretch out. her hands, and a whole .continent regenera
ted.”— Louisville Journal.
The author’s profits are appropriated to the
“ Central African Mission.”’ Those, therefore, who
buy the work, will do themselves a favor, and promote
the interest of a very important mission.
ipgp Remit one dollar, and the work will be mailed
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. JOHN A. FOSTER, A. M., Professor of Physical
Science and Languages.
Rev. HENRY E. BROOKS, A. M., Professor of Moral
Philosophy and Mathematics.
Miss ELIZA R, STITT, Presiding Teacher and Gov
erness.
Mrs. M. BROOKS, Primary Department.
Miss ELLEN BROOKS, Teacher of English Branches.
Miss SUSAN A. FOSTER, Primary Department.
Prof. D. W. CHASE, Principal Music Department.
Mr. GEORGE W. CHASE, Miss HATTIE HARRING
TON, Miss MARY F. CHASE, Music.
Mrs. M. CHASE, Ornamental Department.
Mrs. LUCINDA ALLEN, Matron.
The next session of this Institution will begin on the
first Wednesday in September. June 23-ts
BOOKS AND MUSIC.
THE SUBSCRIBERS would respectfully inform their
Baptist friends, and the readers of this paper in
general, that they will supply, at the lowest prices, all
kinds of BOOKS, STATIONERY and SHEET-MUSIC.
Also, WALL-PAPERS, FINE CUTLERY, GOLD
PENS, &c., &c.
They are especially interested in the sale of BAP
TIST BOOKS, and keep a supply of the publications
.of that denomination for sale at low prices.
Having three places of business, their facilities for
both buying and selling low, are greater than usual,
and they are also thus enabled to keep well supplied.
They are resolved to sell “as low as the lowest” for
cash. Any book or piece of music will be sent by mail,
or otherwise, upon receipt of the price, and one cent
per ounce weight to prepay the postage, if by mail.
§3F’Churches and Choirs supplied with HYMN and
SINGING BOOKS of the best kinds at Publisher’s rates.
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Armitage and others. 75 cents.
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VOYAGE OF LIFE.
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the young. Embracing the discussion of self-duties,
domestic duties, duties of patriotism, philanthropy and
religion, sphere, and duties of women and lights and
shadows of city life. With portrait. 75 cents.
THE HOUSE OF GOD.
Claims and importance of Public worship. An ap
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vative of public virtue, the safest guide of social pro
gress,-the firmest bulwark of the State, and the surest
guardian of religion and happiness. With frontis
piece. 60 cents.
LIFE AND THOUGHTS OF FOSTER.
Resplendent with intellectual and moral beauty; a
complete treasure of thought and sentiment, arranged
with index; ingots of purest gold, pearls of the first
water. With steel engraving. 75 cts.
CHILDHOOD;
ITS PROMISE AND TRAINING.
A book for parents, guardians, teachers, and all
studying the best and most available method for the
individual and social improvement of the race. 300
pp. Price 75 cents.
The above books are for sale by
SHELDON, BLAKEMAN & CO.,
Publishers, 115 Nassau street, N. Y.
May 27, 1867 30 3m.
PRIVATE ACADEMY FOE YOUNG LADIES.
GEORGIA.
THE exercises of this School will be resumed on
Monday, the 17th of August.
Number of pupils limited.
Tuition, per annum, including the usual course of
English studies, Languages, Music, Drawing, Painting
and embroidery of every variety, $125.00 —half in ad
vance.
The School is provided with anew and extensive Ap
paratus—also, with Pianos for daily practice. No extra
charged made for Hie use of Pianos. Pens, ink, paper,
slates, slate-pencils, &0., supplied gratis.
Bobks, Drawing, Painting ahd Embroidery materials
and sheet music, at tho usual'rates.
Board sl2 per Month.
J. R. BRANHAM.
January 6th, 1867—ts
Twenty-Five Witnesses of Paper Money; or, The Forger Convicted!!
MERCER UNIVERSITY.
PENFIELD, GREENE CO..GA.
Faculty.
PROFESSORS:
COLLEGE.
S. P. SANFORD, A. M., Chairman—Mathematics.
J. E. WILLET, A. M., Chem. and Natural Philosophy.
H. H. TUCKER, A. M., Belles Lettres.
U. W. WISE, A. M., Greek and Latin Languages.
WILLIAM G. WOODFIN, A. 8., Modern Languages.
Theological Seminary.
Ecclesiastical History and
Biblical Literature.
WM. WILLIAMS, A. M., Systematic and Pastoral
Theology.
Academy.
J. L. ANDREWS, Principal
STUD I K S.
The Studies in this University are
A Theological Course of three years designed for those
who are preparing for the Gospel Ministry;
A Collegiate Course of four years, equal to that of
Other Colleges in the country;
A Scientific Course of three years, including, with
some additions, all the Studies of the Collegiate Course
except the Ancient Languages;
An Academical Course, including whatever is neces
sary to. prepare for admission into College.
ADMISSION.
The regular time for the admission of Students, is at
the opening of the Fall Term, the last Wednesday in
August.
Candidates for admission into the Collegiate Course
must sustain satisfactory examinations on Geography;
Arithmetic; English, Latin and Greek Grammar; Ca;sar;
Virgil; Ci<j*ro’s Select Orations; and Jacob’s Greek
Reader; and must be at least fourteen years of age.
Candidates for admission into the Scientific Course
must sustain satisfactory examinations on Geography;
Arithmetic; English Grammar; Simple Equations in
Algebra; and two books in Geometry; and must be at
least sixteen years of age.
EXPENSES.
Tuition Feees. Spring Term. Fall Term.
In Theological Seminary.. . Nothing. Nothing.
In College $25 00 sls 00
Scientific Course 26 00 16 00
In Academy—
Preparatory Class 26 00 16 00
Second Class 20 00 12 00
Third Class 16 00 9 00
Elementary Class.. 10 00 6 00
Room Rent 6 00 4 00
Contingent Expenses 2 00 1 00
These expenses are required to be paid in advance.
From Students who lodge in the College buildings,
fifty dollars will be received as full payment for tho
tuition fees, room rent, and contingent expenses of the
year.
The price of Board in the village is sl2 per month
of washing, room rent, and fuel $3.
COMMENCEMENT AND VACATIONS.
The Commencement is held on the last Wednesday
in July.
There are two Vacations, dividing the year into two
terms, as follows:
First Term —From last Wednesday in August to De
cember 15th.
Winter Vacation —From December 16th to Februa
ry Ist.
Second Term —From first day of February to Com
mencement.
Summer Vacation —From Commencement to last
Wednesday in August. S. LANDRUM,
Secretary of the Board of Trustees.
January 7.
“It is destined to be one of the most popular books
of the season.—Michigan Christian Herald.
GRACE TRUMAN;
OR
LOVE AND PRINCIPLE.
BY
SALLIE ROCHESTER FORD.
1 vol. 12mo. Price sl.
From N. Y. Home Missionary Record.
“This charming book will stir up the sympathies
and Christian graces of every Baptist heart. It must,
we suppose be called a religious novel, but it most ef
fectually “holds the mirror up to nature,” revealing in
a single fiction, a thousand realities in the history of
Baptist progress.
“ It treats the subjects of believer’s baptism (immer
sion) and communion with much ability, presenting
the arguments methodically and sustaining them by ac
knowledge authorities on both sides, yet in a strain of
popular colloquy, blended with illustrations of human
character, in such natural and pleasant arrangements
as divests the subject of all mere dry discussion. “ The
fact of the business is,” as old Mr. Holmes the persecu
tor would say, it is a book that must and will be read.”
From the Louisville Courier.
While she has written one o —the most vigorous, en
tertaining, and instructive of novels, she is perfectly
willing that her readers shall know that her weapons
of Christian warfare have been thoroughly immersed
in water. It is written with consummate skill, and
displays talents of no common order.
From the Christian Times.
The reader becomes interested in its incidents and
its characters, among whom Aunt Peggy, a slave in
Mr. Holines’ family, but a zealous Baptist, is by no
means thb least important. A special good quality
in the book is its thorough and able discussion of the
Baptist argument. We trust that Baptist pastors will
procure supplies of the book, and see that it is put into
the hands, especially, of those who are inquiring and
seeking upon the subject of Baptism.
From the New York Examiner.
We have read the book with uncommon interest.
The tale is well told, and its development is natural.
It is intended to illustrate the trials and triumphs of
a young wife, in maintaining her principles against the
intolerance of the open communion friends of her hus
band ; and this is done so as to preserve unfailing
freshness in the narrative, and to throw a flood of light
on the principles and practices of the Baptist denom
ination. We expect to hear that that the book will
have multitudes of readers.
I From the Michigan Christian Herald.
It is destined to be one of the most popular books
of the season. Those who have read “Theodosia
Ernest, the Heroine of Faith,” can form some idea of
what this book is.
A sufficient answer to this is, that the work before ns
is true to life. These things are actually met in the ex
perience of thousands. Mrs. Ford has skilfully drawn
a picture of what she has seen and known. The work
is true to real life, and therefore it will be read. It
will find warm friends and earnest opponents. Iris a
work of talent, and places Mrs. Ford among our best
female writers.
SHELDON, BLAKEMAN & CO.
keep constantly on hand, and offer to the trade, at
Publishers’ lowest rates, a large stock of books issued
by the following houses most of which wilL contain our
imprint as New York publishers, viz : Childs & Peter
son, Gould & Lincoln, Ticknor & Fields, Phillips, Sam
son & Cos., Little, Brown & Cos.
SHELDON, BLAKEMAN & CO.,
Publishers, 115 Nassau Street, N. Y.
June 24-ts
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PRINTING HOUSE.
THIS Establishment is believed to be one of the best
appointed in the State, and to offer unsurpassed
inducements to those requiring any species of Book or
Job Printing. It is provided largely with new and
beautiful type and Power Presses of the most approved
construction. It keeps also, on hand, a complete as
sortment of the varieties of material used in Book, Blank
Book and Job Printing i? general; Heavy and fine
Book paper, white and colored; sized paper for Blank
Books, Circulars, Notes and Invitations—from superoy
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per of a variety of patterns and appropriate for business
or social intercourse. Cards of every size—plain, em
bossed and illustrated—for business or social purposes.
Particular attention will be paid to printing Pamphlets,
and when ordinarily lair manuscript is furnished no
fears need be entertained of the correctness of the Press.
Cash will be expected for all Job work on delivery.
Orders respectfully solicited.
Macon, January, 1867.
AUGUST, 1357.