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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MACON JULY , 1863.
Notes on the Times.
Vicksburg.
Comparatively little news of interest has
come from the beseiged city since our last
writing. Public anxiety has been much al
layed by the bloody repulses which the enemy
have met in all their attempts to take the place
by storm. As time moves on, the ability of
Gen. Pemberton and the gallant garrison to
hold their position increases. Grant’s “ two
or three weeks ” have long ago expired, and
yet he is as far froin having possesson of Vicks
burg as he was the day of his first assault.
Johnston is preparing himself slowly and
cautiously, determined to withhold his hand
until he can strike a crushing blow.
The VicksbjM; Citizen has been received at
at Jackson. Tne tone of its editorials is cheer
ful. It is printed on wall paper. It states
that for twenty-eight days an incessant shower
of shells has rained upon the city. The lowest
estimate places the number at one hundred
thousand. Yet but few casualties have occur
red. The streets are daily filled with women
and children, who go about free from danger.
For three days the enemy fired incendiary
shells into the city without doing any material
damage. One of the enemy’s gunboats is fast
aground below the city. A number of their
transports loaded with troops have lately pass
ed down the river. The dates of the numbers
of the Citizen received are of the 16th, 18th,
and 23d. We presume that these transports
with reinforcements passed down before Kirby
Smith got possession of Milliken’s Bend. It
is said that Gen. Parson's battery, at Cypress
Creek, twenty miles below Napoleon, fired on
five transports loaded with troops on Tuesday,
crippling’three of them badly. The troops
were landed and attempted to storm the bat
tery, but were driven back with a loss of three
hundred. that Napoleon, near
the mouth River, is the place
meant.— PjsCß at at Napoleon,
and Kirby SmltlTat Bend, will be
apt to give their gunboats and transports some
trouble as they pass down the river. The
Yankee papers say that the western shore of
the Mississippi from Milliken’s Bend to Vicks
burg is lined with Confederate troops. They
are in possession of Richmond and New Car
thage in Louisiana. The former is directly
west of Vicksburg on the railroad, and we
suppose, about ten miles from the river.
The latter place is on the river, and about ten
miles below the city. Constant reinforcements
are being received by them by way of the Wa
chita river. This river runs almost due South
through the Eastern portion of Louisiana, and
is a tributary of Red River. It crosses the
railroad running due west from Vicksburg at
a place called Monroe, which is about twenty
miles from Richmond. It is navigable some
distance up into the State of Arkansas—cer
tainly opposite to Eldorado—for good sized
steamboats.
Official despatches from Gen. Dick Taylor at
Alexandria, 26th ult., say that he stormed and
carried at the point of the bayonet, with un
loaded guns, the enemy’s position at Berwick’s
Bay, capturing over one thousand prisoners,
ten heavy guns, and a large amount of stores
loss in killed and wounded not known. Al
exandria is on the South bank of Red River
near the centre of the State of Louisiana.
Berwick’s Bay is not put down upon any map’
or atlas to which we have access, but we pre
sume it is near the Mississippi River, some
where between the mouth of lied River and
Baton Rouge. Thibodeaux was also taken by
Gen. Walker, it is supposed. This place is in
the Southern part of the States on Bayou La
Fourche. It is supposed that this gives us
command of the river above New Orleans, and
enables us to cut off Banks’ Supplies. As
Thibodeaux is not on the river, we do not ex
actly see how its possession will enable us to
accomplish so important and desirable a re
sult. It appears that the cavalry raids both
in the northern and southern portion of Mis
sissippi have been pretty effectually checked
by Ruggles, Chalmers, and others.
On the whole, we feel encouraged in regard
to the position of affairs in the west, notwith
standing the fall of Vicksburg has been ru
mored. We shall not be surprised if it hap
pens, but we shall not believe it until it is
strongly confirmed. Neither Pemberton nor
Johnston, nor their coadjutors on the western
bank will give over the struggle as long as a
single chance of success remains.
From Tennessee
The news is somewhat exciting. On Wed
nesday, 24th ult., Rosenerans advanced in
force upon Hoover’s Gap and Fairfield. After
three day’s hard fighting, our forces fell back.
Hoover’s Gap being the key to the base of
Bragg’s whole line, it being in possession of
the enemy, he was compelled to begin retreat.
His left wing, we think, since his advance,
has been resting on Shelbyville and his right
on McMinnville. Bragg now occupies his en
trenchments around Tullahoma. If Rosen
crans attacks him there, we have no fears of
the result. In the skirmishing preceding the
retreat the Ist Qa. regiment and the 3rd Ga.,
Wheeler’s cavalry, lost heavily. Bragg hav
ing an army much weaker than Rosencranz,
acted wisely in falling back to his stronghold.
Indeed we are inclined to think that the object
of his retreat was to draw him into an engage
ment on the bills around Tullahoma. Some
think that the object of Rosencranz is to pro
duce a diversion with a view to weaken Gen.
Lee and to check his operations in Maryland
and Pennsylvania. Others suppose that it is
a bona fide offer of battle, under the impres
sion that Bragg’s strength has been much re
duced by reinforcements for the West. We
very much doubt an attack upon Bragg in his
present position.
From Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Our only reliance just now for news from
Gen. Lee is upon Yankee papers and dispatch
es. He has been steadily advancing with one
column towards Harrisburg, A telegram from
the New York Herald, dated at Harrisburg, on
the 23d, gives the following account of things
in Pennsylvania.
“The enemy gutted all the stores at Cham
bersburg and Greencastle, and drained the
whole country of horses and cattle. Our (the
Foderal) forces are falling back upon Carlisle.
The inhabitants are preparing for flight to
Harrisburg. Many of the citizens have “ske
daddled.” Our poor farmers are driving off
their cattle in crowds. Several wagon loads
of colored refugees arrived this morning too
frightened and excited to give an intelligible
account. Great excitement prevails at Pitts
burg. The rebels are reported at Union Town,
furty miles distant from that place. The citi
zens en masse are digging entrenchments.”
This is a Y’ankee dispatch, word for word.
We confess to no small degree of satisfaction
at hearing that the inhabitants are “preparing
for flight,” that the “poor farmers are driving
off their cattle,” &c. They now begin to feel
some of the blessings of invasion. They are
prepared to sympathize in some measure with
the rebels who have been driven from their
homes, whose property has been destroyed,
and who have been reduced from affluence to
beggary in a few short hours. Let the work
go on xnrtil our enemies have been made to un
derstand fully the “horrors of war.”
A dispatch, dated Baltimore, 24th ult., says
that Ewell’s force, numbering thirty-five to
forty thousand strong, is atßoonsboro’ Valley.
Later news from Philadelphia papers, of the
25 th June, says, the excitement along the bor
der remains unabated. Business is at a per
fect stand still. The prospect of reaping the
crops is discouraging. The rebels are over
running Franklin county. They report Gen.
Ewell’s force in Pennsylvenia. The rebels
were reported as advancing rapidly upon
Harrisburg, being at the time of the dispatch
near Carlisle, which ia only about twenty
miles from Harrisburg. Still later informa
tion 6avs that our troops are now in possession
of Harrisburg and York. It was believed at
Fortress Monroe, and by persons on the flag of
truce boat. The Petersburg Express says that
it has received a dispatch from a reliable
source, stating that there is no doubt whatever
of the fact.
The Washington Star says, it is a deplora
ble fact that the people of Pennsylvania are
utterly incompetent to protect themselves to
the poor extent of driving their horses and
cattle North before a squal of rebel cavalry
pounces upon them. It is a good idea of the
rebel cavalry to wait until the “poor farmers”
collect their cattle in droves, instead of roam
ing over the country and gathering them up
themselves.
Gen. Ewell issued an order at Chambers
hurg, on the 22d ult., prohibiting the sale of
intoxicating liquors under penalty of confis
cation. He admonishes citizens not in niilita
ry service to abstain from acts of hostility,
upon penalty of being dealt with in a summa
ry manner. That is right; turn down the
screws.
Gen. Stuart telegraphs that he took posses
sion of Fairfax Court-house on the 27th June,
together with a large quantity of stores. lie
says that the main body of Hooker’s army has
gone to Leesburg,except the garrisons at Alex
andria and Washington, which have retreated
within their fortifications.
Millroy has been superseded by Col. Pierce;
and it is rumored that Hooker has been dis
placed by Gen. Meade. Thus the good work
progresses. May a merciful God detend us,
and crown our arms with triumph from Penn
sylvania to Mississippi.
Richmond Correspondence of
the Index. •
Richmond, June 26, 1863.
I cannot resist the temptation to quote a lew
sentences from the letter addressed (usder
date, London, April 13th) byJ. L. O’Sullivan,
late Minister of the United States to Portugal,
to Prof. S. F. B. Morse, President of the New
York Society for the Diffusion of Political
Knowledge.
He puts with great foice the inconsistency
of this war with “the very fundamental idea
of Americanism, that the onlyjust foundation
of government is ‘the consent of the govern
ed.’ ” “To continue the war, now purely vin
dictive and tyrannical in its character, for the
mere overthrow and conquest of the Southern
people, becomes, now, at least, the utter nulli
fication of the very cardinal idea of our whole
political theory and system. To attempt to do
so is to stultify our own revolution ; to blas
pheme our very Declaration of Independence ;
to repudiate all our owrj history ; to cancel all
our Constitutions, State and Federal; to sanc
tion all the despotisms, all the alien domina
tions, of other ages and countries. . . . Every
true American, every true Democrat, every
true Republican, is now bound under penalty
of absolute and utter self-contradiction, to give
rather all his sympathies to the resisting, the
self-asserting and self-defending people; a peo
ple amply large and strong enough for distinct
national existence, which he sees battling, and
battling so bravely, so enduringly, so self-sac
rificingly, for the maintenance of that right
divine of self-government, without which all
our history is a mockery, all our political doc
trine an absurdity, and all our national life a
lie.”
The impossibility of our subjugation is af
firmed with equal emphasis. “They never can
be conquered. The past two years, and par
ticularly the past year, have now too entirely
unified the whole Southern people, to make
such conquest ever possible, even though the
North possessed twice its actual superiority in
numbers and other material advantages. In
vading attack needs to be many times superi
or in force to resisting self-defence, before the
desperate game of war becomes equalized. ..
Armies little inferior in numbers, while far
superior in that morale derived from a cause
and a motive, have hitherto repulsed every at
tempt by those of the North to penetrate to
the vital points of the Southern self-defence.
These armies can never be extinguished, while
every day perfects their discipline, increases
their efficiency, invigorates their military fi
bre, intensifies their resolve, and elevates their
morale. Every year must bring forward its
fresh contingent of growing youth, to more
than make good all the losses of successive
campaigns. ... Os the military genius of
their Generals it is superfluous to speak.—
Their past successes, especially, those of the
past year, have animated them.to that confi
dence in themselves, their cause and their
commanders, which in war is more than half
of victory in advance. As for the pressure of
the hardships and impoverishment of war up
on Southern families and homes, no amount of
such suffering pressing upon such a people
can produce any other effect than to embitter
their exasperation- and to nerve their determi
nation. They have already learned how easy
it is after all, when a nation is animated with
a great passion of patriotism, to bear cheerful
ly, nay, even exultingly, the extremest of per
sonal privations, . . . To wish to subjugate
such a people is almost impious. To hope it
is insanity.”
Mr. O’Sullivan also predicts that, as “this
whole war of coercion has been radically un
constitutional from the -owtset,” and as “the
(Northern) war debt partakes of that pervad
ing and irremdiable unconstitutionally,” it
will be “out and out repudiated, every dollar
of it; rightfully repudiated, lawfully repudi
ated, necessarily repudiated, repudiated not
only with a blush of shame, hut with regret
that no further punishment, beyond that mere
loss of their money, can he visited upon the
authors, aiders and abettors of this greatest
public crime of any age, the murder of the
American Union.” He believes, however,
that “the Southern war debt will he paid.—
This will be a debt of patriotic honor and
pride, and in double degree its foreign portion;
a debt gratefully identified with ah indepen
dence so magnificently achieved. In the form
of an export tax upon the cotton crop, the
South will be able to pay it off, with but a
moderate pressure of sensible taxation.”
It is pleasant to assist in “the diffusion” of
such “political knowledge” as this—and Ido
not knew to what better purpose I TOuld ap
propriate my space in your columns at present.
How steadily our cause marches on toward the
conquest of the world’s good opinion—toward
the overthrow of the prejudices of nations and
churches abroad—toward the time when we
shall take our plftce among Free and Great
Powers, with the plaudits of mankind !
In so vital a contest, the desire to catch the
varying aspects of the struggle is not wholly
amiss ; and for the first time in my life, I anl
following the history of a war through the (of
ten confused and contradictory) columns of the
daily press. But this thirst for news needs to
be “kept under,” lest the things which make
for our spiritual and eternal peace should, in
comparison, grow tasteless. Even as a matter
of worldly wisdom, indeed, it were better for
our stability as a people, better for the judi
cious and thorough development of our re
sources, that the public mind should not be
influenced and disquieted by a restless and
feverish anxiety about military movements; to
say nothing of the fact that such movements
frequently -require to he concealed to avert
miscarriage. These lessons Richmond has yet
to learn. From morning to morning seems, to
her citizens, too long a space of time to wait
for fresh tidings from the seats of war; and
newspaper extras are often struck off and
hawked through the streets, when the tele
graph brings dispatches, though these dis
patches prove unintelligible and baseless.—
And so great is popular eagerness for the la
test intelligence, that, as I am informed by a
gentleman connected with one of our secular
journals, the profits from the sale ofh extra
for a single day, are often greater than the
profits from the sale of the paper for a whole
week.
A eolporter, in the employment of the Vir
ginia Baptist Sunday School and Publication
Board, who has recently visited the Army of
Tennessee, found there regiments who have
been in service for two years and have never
heard a sermon. Is it not a reproach to the
Christian ministry in the Confederate States,
that such things can be ? Surely if this neg
lect is not otherwise remedied, it behooves even
the neediest and most infirm of our witnesses
for Jesus, though he have to make the journey
on foot, and lay down his life as the cost of the
generous effort, to seek out these regiments,
and deny them the power to say any longer—
“No man cares for our souls !” There is great
guilt somewhere, in connection with this des
titution of the means of grace in the army.—
Happy they, on whose skirts that guiß shall
not be found, when the Lord makes inquisi
tion for it!
There seems to he an organized and persist
ent effort to assail our Sunday School and
Publication Board. First in Alabama and
now in Virginia, we hear of men, who allege
privately that this Board “publishes sectarian
tracts,” but who take good care not to make
such allegations over their own signatures
in tne public prints. Is it the consciousness
of a bad cause which restrains them from open
and manly assault? Are they unwilling to
assume the responsibility of the charges they
prefer, that they prefer them in a way which
forbids the Board from meeting them with de
nial and disproof? If so, it would be well to
unearth them. Their names ought to be pub
lished to the world ; and they should he held
accountable for slander, when their statements
are shown to be false, as can and will be done
whenever opportunity offers.
Our brethren in Danville, I learn, propose
to erect a larger, more oommodious and more
tasteful house of worship—the population of
the town having greatly increased, through
the influx of refugees from various quarters.
When the Baptist element of the population
had been but partially canvassed, upwards of
SIO,OOO had beata subscribed for that purpose,
and everything bade fair for the success of the
enterprise. How the matter stood in its last
stages, I have not heard. I hope success will
crown the laudable effort. There never was
so much money in • the land: never time,
therefore, whe* the people of the Lord should
cast so much i*te His treasury as now. It
would he well For Christians, at least—well for
them as Christians —if the measure suggested
by Lieut Gov. Montague, during the session
of our Gehersl Association, might be carried
into execution without loss on their part.—
That gentleman expressed the opinion, that,
when the w>r ceases, an inventory ought to
be made of every man’s property, and what
ever was found in his possession over and above
the amount he owned when the war began,
ought to be confiscated to the uses of the pub
lic. ‘
A brother who witnessed the inspection of
the Yankee baggage captnred at Winchester,
writes: “The most singular leaturc in the
heterogenesus mass, and what made the blood
of our bojs boil with indignation, was the
large amosnt of ladies’ and children’s cloth
ing which the scoundrels had stolen from the
-down-trodden citizens of the community. Be
fore coming here, I was inclined to think that
the reported treatment of the people must be,
■ partially, at least, Exaggerated, huFI find the
“half had fiot been told.” No wonder that
the troops who stoop to such dishonor, cannot
achieve a victory. May the fair fame of South
ern soldiers never darken with like spots of in
famy! SEMr.I.
Lewis Creek Church, in New
Garden, Russell Cos., Va.
This church was raised up through the
indefatigable labors of Elder D. Kitzmiller
in 1860. At the time he commenced labors
in New Garden, there were not a half dozen
Missionary Baptists in the whole section of
country. The church numbers now about
110 members, and notwithstanding the war
has been raging over two years, and the
church so near the border that she has been
nearly in hearing of the guns of our enemies
all the time, yet she has been steadily pro
gressing in the work of the Lord all the time,
maintaining strict Bible discipline, and en
gaging in every good work. It has been my
lot tojterve t ils church as pastor the last two
and a half years, and lam happy to say
peace and love has pervaded the church all
the time.; And in these war times when
many churches are failing to support their
pastors, and a consequence are left without
pastors, this church is coming up nobly to
the support of the pastor, and as the price of
every thing rises the members raise their
subscription. They have one great object
in view, that is the support of their pastor;
and they are determined to do it.
Bra Jloykin-—I feel truly thankful to
God tEjrt It is my privilege to labor for such
churches in these hard and troublous times.
Our house of worship is not yet finished, and
I fear it will not be till the war closes. I
must not forget to tell you about our Sabbath
School at Lewis’ Creek. We have a school
numbering about sixty scholars. Deacon
Wm. M. Lockhart is Superintendent, and
is prompt in his duties. I was in the
school last Sabbath and I must say I was
greatly delighted with, the exercises; it is
really a model Sabbath School. Several of
the brethren have offered books as premi
ums to the scholars who commit the greatest
number off Verses of Scripture to memory
againfet the first Sabbath in September. I
heard one little girl repeat three chapters of
Matthew cbmmitted to memory in one week.
I suggested that the brethren make up mon
ey and send on for 20 copies of the Child’s
Index and we soon had the amount made
up. It should be in every Sabbath school.
My sheet is full.
Yours in Christ,
A. ROUTH.
From Florida.
Camp Cobb, Fla., June 12th, 1863.
Rev. Samuel Boykin —Dear Sir: I
acknowledge the receipt of several packages
of the Christian Index for which, in behalf
of my command, I return you my sincere
thanks. I distributed its issues amongst
them and was surprised to see with what
eagerness they received them, and careful
they pertjeeid Its interesting pages
There is no other paper of the kind finds its
way into this regiment, and I trust it will be
as bread cast upon the waters, and that your
generous gift will not be in vain. Our Reg
iment can toast of as much morality, per
haps, as any in service. It is in fine health
and spirits. We have preaching occasion
ally through the generosity of the preachers
of Quincy. A. few nights ago, after a very
interesting sermon all those who wanted an
Interest in heaven were invited to come for
ward, and about forty soldiers promptly came
forwarded and bowed the knee. Our lot is
happily cast. We are stationed in a healthy
country, fine water and a fine prospect of
planting provisions, and from present pros
pects we shall be able to sit under our own
vine and fig tree, and enjoy these luxuries,
unmolested. Gen. Csbb visits us frequent
ly, and through his kindness and affable
manners, has the hearts of this regiment.
Youre truly
Capt T. J. PRITCHETT,
Evan’s Reg., Cobb’s Command.
For the Christian Index.
Friendshff) Baptist Church.
* Calhoun Cos., Ga., Jane 20, 1863.
. Whereas, Friendship Baptist church, at the
October conference, of 1860, excluded some of
its members, and has been ready at any
time since to restore them upon gospel terms
as practiced by Baptist churches; and where
as, recently a church called Shiloh, was con
stituted near by, in the presence of, or by, El
ders T. Muse, W. M. Pope, and John Martin,
and have received three of those expelled mem
bers, without making personal application for
restoration ; and whereas, a member has made
application to Friendship church for a letter
of dismission to join Shiloh. Therefore
Resolved, by the church in conference, That
we cannot have fellowship for said church,
which has so departed from the principles of
the gospel and the usage of Baptist churches,
and that we cannot grant letters to go to, or
receive letters from said church, while we
know such disorder exists.
Resolved, That we believe if that course of
receiving members is endorsed by the Baptist
denomination, its days of peace and prosperity
are numbered; that the right to expel for of
fences is ,\t an end; and that each church will
be liable to have its expelled members thrown
back upon it at any hour.
By the church in conference.
B. SIMS, Moderator.
Wm. Tucker, Ch. Clerk.
For the Index.
Bethsaida and Ebenezer Baptist
Churches.
I took the pastoral care of Bethsaida church
in 1843, the numerical strength of which at
that time was 37 members. We have had a
gradual accession of members every year since
I first took the charge of the church. She now
numbers 284. We still have a gradual increase,
though very many of our young, active mem
bers are in the war. We keep up a regular
prayer meetiug for our absent brethren and
our beloved country. Upon the whole, I con
sider the church in a healthy state. This
church is located nine miles Northeast of Fay
etteville, Fayette county, Ga.
I am also supplying the church at Ebenezer,
Coweta county, Ga. I took the charge of this
church about seven years ago. She has enjoy
ed pome refreshings from the presence of the
Lord. During the past year we received and
baptized about 26 members, and the church
is still in a healthy state. Many of her mem
bers are absent in the war, and they are greatly
missed.by the church. To God be all the glo
ry. J. S. DODD.
For the Index.
Resolution passed by the South
ern Baptist Convention.
On motion of Bro. Nichols:
Resolved, That with a view of a partial sup
ply of religious reading for our armies, the
pastors and supplies of the respective church
es be earnestly requested to secure from the
subscribers of religious periodicals, such num
bers ns aro not filod, and forward to the chap
lains and colporters for distribution.
Resolved, That the Secretaries be requested
to furnish a copy of the above resolution to the
denominational papers of the Confederacy.
S. LANDRUM, Sec’y.
Other denominational papers will copy.
Lay Representation. —The Maine Method
ist Episcopal Conference has adopted, by a
large vote, a strong report in favor of lay rep
resentation.
Obituaries.
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L. L. SHARPE.
The subject of this notice was born the 3rd
of May, 1833, and died in the hospital at Dan
ville, Va., the 17th of January, 1863, aged 29
years 9 months and 14 days.
The deceased joined the Baptist church at
Powelton, Sept. 3d, 1855, and was baptized by
Elder W. J. Harley. His life, up to the day
of his death, was consistent with his profes
sion. He was kind and affectionate to his
aged parents; amiable, cheerful, warmly at
tached to his friends, and punctual in attend
ance upon the meetings of his church. Feel
ing that his country needed the services of her
sons, he cheerfully gave his, —joining the 18th
Regiment Georgia Volunteers.
A while after entering the service his health
failed, being confined in the hospital a consid
erable length of time before he died. He lived
in camps, as he had lived at home, a Christian.
No relative or friend was near to hear his dy
ing testimony; but we feel that Levi has gone
to that bright world above, where the storms
of war are heard no more.
Died, on the sth Dec-, 1862, in the hospital
at Knoxville, Tenn., Edwin T. Sharpe, aged
23 years 11 months and 16 days.
Although the deceased had made no public
profession of religion, yet his parents and
friends are not without hope that he has gone
to a home in the skies.
He volunteered his services in defence of his
country’s rights and went to Virginia in 1861.
His health failing, he was discharged and sent
home. After recovering his health, he again
enlisted, on the 12th of June, 1862, and went
to Tennessee.
When about to leave home the last time, his
sister said to him—“ Are you going to leave
your Bible ?” “No,” he replied, “I had rath
er leave everything else than that.”
He was a good soldier; always bouyantand
happy. He secured friends and bound them
to him by his frankness, cheerfulness and in
tegrity.
In the death of these two young men the
community has lost two useful members, the
Confederacy two good soldiers, and their pa
rents two kind, affectionate, and obedient sons.
They leave brothers and sisters to mourn their
early fall. May God sanctify this to the good
of all, and give the aged parents grace to bear
up under the affliction. J. W. E.
Died, on the 22d of April, 1863, at Thomas
ville, Ga., Wm. Royal, in the 67th year of his
age, after a painful illness of two months. He
was a native of James Island, near Charles
ton, S. C., where he spent the greater portion
of his life.
He resided in the neighborhood of Bruns
wick, Ga., for several years, and fled, after the
capture of that place by the Northern army,
to Thomasville. The troubles and anxieties
consequent upon this removal, coupled with
the loss of children, brought on the disease of
which he died.
He had been a consistent member of the
Baptist church for thirty years, and in his last
illness expressed himself frequently as not on
ly willing, but having a desire, to die.
Quiet aud unostenatious, his acquaintances
only appreciated him after frequent and inti
mate association with him. His sound judg
ment and incorruptible honesty thus won their
confidence and respect.
He was devoted to his family, and prizing
the education and proper training of his child
rsn as above all else, he submitted to any per
sonal sacrifice for this purpose.
Such was his kindness as a master that not
one of his servants deserted him when he fled
from the coast, although the enemy were in
sight of his dwelling at the time; and it was
truly affecting to witness their demonstratioas
of grief when they felt that his end was at
hand.
He leaves behind a wife and five children to
mourn their loss. Although deeply afflicted,
they submit to the will of Him who doeth all
things well.
“Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord;
yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from
their labors, and their works do follow them.”
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Died, in Hamilton, Ga., on the 23d of May,
1863, Lucius Clarence Jacxson, the son of
Mrs. Millie Ann and Mr. John W. Jackson,
aged 9 months and 29 days.
Truly “man’s days are as grass; as theflow
er of the field so he flourisheth. For the wind
pas Beth over it, and it is gone; and the place
thereof shall know it no more.” “Our life is
even as a vapor, that appeareth for a little time
and then vanisheth away.” “Thou carryest
them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep;
iu the morning they are like grass which grow
eth up. In the morning it flourisheth and
,groweth up—in the evening it is cut down and
witheretb.”
The flower of promise has perished—little
Lucius Clarence is gone. But mourn not, for
he has been taken from the evii to come—
from a world of sorrow, to the blessed Saviour,
who says—“ Suffer little children to come unto
me, and forbid them not, for of sueh is the
kingdom of heaven.” .
“No, if a wish could call him back,
We would not have the darling boy
Brought from his everlasting rest—
Snatched from his Heavenly Father’s breast.”
J. G. J.
Died in the hospital, at Richmond, Va., on
the 17th of May last, Lieut. George C, Fra
zier, aged 26 years 3 months and 9 days.
The subject of this notice was a young man
of many generous and noble qualities, whose
virtues had won him a large circle of friends.
Asa soldier, his gallant bearing had gained
the confidence and esteem of both officers and
privates; and we feel sure that no braver man
could have been found in all the ranks of our
army. More than two years since he took up
on himself the name of Christ, which name he
never disgraced. He has therefore left to his
fond young wife a reasonable hope of meeting
him, • „
“Beyond these chilling winds and gloomy
skies,
Beyond death’s cloudy portal,
In that fair land where beauty never dies,
And love becomes immortal.”
L. L. V.
June 10th, 1863.
Died, in the hospital at Jackson, Miss., of
Chronic Diarrhoea, Bro. David H. Beaty,
aged 36 years 4 months and 4 days.
The subject of this notice was born in An
derson District, S. C., on the 15th of Decem
ber, 1826, and died the 19th of April, 1863.
lie made a profession of religion and was bap
tized, he and his wife, by T. S. Allen, into
the fellowship of ‘Flat Creek church, Fayette
county,’ Ga., and lived the life of a Christian
up to his death. A few years ago ha moved
to Carrol county, Ga., and when the call was
made for men to go forth to drive back a wick
ed foe, moved by a patriotic spirit and the love
of liberty, and the protection of his wife and
children, he joined the army, and left those he
loved most on earth, and went with Cos. G, in
the 41st Reg. Ga. Vols. He was wounded in
the fight at Perryville, Ky., and afterwards
being taken sick, he came home on furlough,
but before he got well his regiment was order
ed to Jackson, Miss. He told his wife when
he left her, he never expected to see her again
in life, and if not, she might know he lived
faithful to his God.
Thus another soldier of Christ has gone
home to reap his reward. Bro. Beaty leaves a
wife, six little children, two sisterß, and one
brother who is also in the army, and numer
ous friends to mourn his death. But wemourn
not as those who have no hope. We would
say to the weeping wife and children, sisters
and brother—meet thy husband, father and
brother in heaven, for the Lord has taken him
home to rest, where there is no war, nor part
ing of relations ; all sorrow is driven away.—
Then let us say, the Lord gave and the Lord
hath taken away, and blessed be the name of
the Lord. T. S. A.