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BY SAMUEL BOYKIN.
50 NOS. IN A TOL.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX.
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SAMUEL BOYKIN, Editor.
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The Editor
Is absent in Alabama on a short trip to at
tend to some business and to recruit his fail
ing health. E. W. W. will be Locum Ten
ens, as far as his pastoral duties will permit,
until his return.
Bev. S. W. CaUigham,
Agent of army missions for tha Domestic
Board, preached two very acceptable sermons
in the Baptist church of thiseity last Sabbath.
Avery handsome contribution was given in
response to his appeal.
Is it Bight for Church-members to
deal in Ardent Spirits, either by
Manufacturing or Selling itP
A query embodying this sentiment appear
ed in the Index a short time since. We pro
pose to give our opinion on the subject,though
we must confess to some surprise, that the
question should he asked, for we thought the
time had long since passed when information
on so plain a subject should he needed. Bap
tists should never make or sell liquor, save as
a medicine. The moral evils resulting from
the use of ardent spirits are too wide spread
and apparent to require proof of their exis
tence. Nothing can so blind the mind or per
vert the judgment as to incapacitate a man
to see and realize these evils but the unlawful
I love of S S n. That anj professed Christian .
should obtain his consent to give his influ
ence to a business so manifestly injurious to
virtue, good morals and religion, exhibits in
a melancholy view the demoralized state of
the public mind.
It is not a time for Christians to indulge in
business of even questionable propriety, much
less in that which is condemned by the good
sense, philanthropy and moral feelings of all
the wise and good. The rod of our covenant
keeping Father is upon us, and calls for re
pentanco and humiliation. Let us bring forth
fruits worthy of repentance. But the manu
facturer and vendor of ardent spirts fosters
evil. He encourages drunkenness; this de
thrones reason, blunts the moral sense, deba
ses all the better feelings and nsbler princi
ples of men, aud fits them for profanity, Sab
bath breaking, theft, murder and debauehery,
in its most revolting aspects.
The intelligent man, who in this age of the
world, and under present circumstances, would
engage in the liquor traffic, must first obtain
his consent to stop his ears to these injunc
tions of the Bible, “Abstain from every ap
pearance of evil. Let not your good be evil
spoken of. Cease to de evil, learn to do well.
Be ready to every good word and work.” He
must cease to love his neighbor as himself and
to do others as he would have them do unto
him. lie must love h ; s gains better than tho
temporal, spiritual and eternal welfare of men.
He must become indifferent to the social well
being of the community in which he lives. In
a word, he must become an active co-operator
with a selfish and mercenary world whose sole
aim and desire is tbo accumulation of money.
He sells himself to do evil, because he loves
the tcages of unrighteousness.
He puts a stumbling block in the way of his
neighbor over which he plunges into the dark
prison-house of woe. He disgraces the church
of which he is a member, and barters its rep
utation, as Judas did its Head, for less than
thirty pieces of silver. He destroys the con
fidence of his friends in the sincerity of his re
ligious professions; places himself beyond the
pale of Christian fellowship with his brethren,
destroys his ability to judge of moral and re
ligious subjects; renders himself calous to re
ligious impressions, and excludes himselftrom
a participation in any of the divine promises.
He incurs the divine displeasure; awakens
the suspicion of all the good who know him,
and should, if he persists, after affectionate
admonition and warning, be excluded from a
participation in the privileges and commu
nion of the church.
Let the question bo forever settled, that
Baptists “touch not, taste not, handle not,”
sell not, make not, urink not, ardent spirits,
except as a medicine. Locum Tenbns.
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It is always stopped when the time of subrcrip
tion expires.
Full Sheet for Soldiers.
Brethren, do send np voluntary subscrip
tions to supply our soldiers with religious
reading. Cannot the proposition of a “Snb
seriber,*^"published a few weeks ago, to raise
ten thousand dollars in Georgia for this pur
pose, be met? Who is willing to begin by
sending just what he feels able to give? Our
soldiers had better be reading the Index than
setting over the card table, for want of some
thing to read. This is better employment than
listening to or joining in obscene conversa
tions. Indeed our missionaries and chaplains
are calling for them because they consider
them indispensable to their complete success. ‘
Send now. ‘ L. T.
Brief Mention.
Bev. Charles Miles was ordained to the min
istry in Campbell county, Ya., on the 20th of
Dec., in compliance with a call from the Pleas
ant Grove cbnrch.
We gather frem late Texas news that the
Mt. Lebanon Institution is broken np, and tbe
Louisiana Baptist suspended. Our brethren,
however, seem in good spirits and determined
to do their duty to their day and generation.
CnAPLAixs—Congress has passed a law al
lowing chaplains to draw the rations of pri
vate soldiers, and forage for a horse when
they have one.
Support of Ministers. —The Confederate
Baptist states that as prices now rule a whole
year’s salary will not purchase the preacher a
suit sf clothing, and urges the churches to
quadruple their subscriptions.
Confederate Baptist. —Tke proprietors of
this journal announce that there is danger of
its suspension, for want of support. We hope
South Carolina Baptists will come to the res
cue and that right speedilv.
Death. —The Baptist church at Macon, Ga,.
has been sorrow-smitten lately, by the demise
of a member, whose lovely Christian character,
amiable deportment and tender charities won
her the hearts of J. W. Fears, form
erly Miss Sallie Bledsoe.
CiTAULA, Ga., Jan. 11, ’64.
The state of religion in this section is very
much like the weather, somewhat frozen over.
You know that is one of the best inodes
keeping lion ey. why nptcood for relijtion ‘V I
am an advseate lor warm weather and relig
ion ; I wish to see both different from what I
now experionce. lam one of many troubles.
May God bless you and the Index.
Yours in Christ, 11. S. R.
To the Editor of the Christian Index.
Dear Brother —ls information which I
have recently received is correct, drunken
ness never stalked abroad through the land
with a more unblushing front, than at the
present time. It is, therefore, not without
cause, that your correspondent “Abner” is
grieved at the conduct of professing Christians
with respect to this destructive vice. You do
well that you think of writing on the subject,
and, although you may find but little to say
that will be entirely new, you may profitably
stir up men’s minds by way of remembrance,
and may, from your lofty watch-tower on the
walls of Zion, sound a needful warning in the
ears of the people.
“Abner” inquires if it is consistent with
Christian character to make, buy, 3ellordrink
distilled or fermented liquors as a beverage.
If no one drank intoxicating liquors, the ma
king, buying and selling of them would be in
nocent, In the crime of drunkenness, the prin
cipal offender is the drinker, and ths maker,
buyer, and seller, should bo indicted merely
as accessaries. They may plead that they do
not make, buy, or sell the liquor as a beverage ;
and that they are not responsible for the use
which is made of it; but they are not at lib
erty to shut their eyes to the consequences of
their conduct. If they voluntarily so act as
to promote crime, they are guilty as accom
plices in that crime. Whether their acts tend
to promote crime is a question of fact, about
which,.because of the immense interest invol
ved, they should judge with exceeding tender
ness of conscience, unbiassed by the love of
gain ; and lest the love of gain shonld have
an unsuspected influence on their decision,
they should gladly welcome ihejudgment of
disinterested Christian friends in the case.—
Hence no truly conscientious man will make,
buy, or sell intoxicating liquors, against the
judgment of the church to which he may be
long.
Revelation traces the ruin of our race to the
eating of fruit which Eve saw to be good for
food, and to be desired to make one wise. Nat
ural religion may trace the ruin of happiness
in individuals, families, and communities, to
the drinkiDg of liquor,which is pleasant to the
taste and productive of a pleasant exhileration
which makes men feel happy. The cases are
parallel. In both God’s authority is disregar
ded and the restraint of his moral government
rejected. Let the drinker of intoxicating li
quors be made to feel that he h'as to do with
an awful God who forbids his indulgence afid
let him tremble at the thought, that he sips
his pleasant beverage with the prospect of ruin
in this life, and of eternal exclusion from the
kingdom of heaven. What Christian man will
hold the bowl to his lips ? J. L. D.
THE PASTOR’S AID: THE CHRISTIAN'S GUIDE: THE SINNER’S FRIEND.
MACON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1864.
For tbe Index..
The Comparative Usefulness of Army
Missionaries and Army Chaplains.
Bro. Editor —Will you permit one who has
been in the army since May ’6l, who has been
both Chaplain and Missionary, and who—has
bad a pretty fair opportunity of judging of the
workings of the two systems to say a few
things with reference to them ?
I will endeavor to state fairly the advan
tage* and disadvantages of both. The Mis
sionary has—l,-The advantage of a freer lo
comotion and wider field. He is not confined
■ to one Reg’t but may go from ReginieTfCUo
■ Reg’t as there may seem most need for his ;pr
vices. 2. He is not subjected to petty annoy
! ances which an irreligious Colonel will some
times subject his chaplain to. 3. He may go
at pleasure from the hospital to tbe field as
the weather or the circumstances of the army
may indicate that he may be more useful. In
a word he is his own man —free to pursue
whatever plan of labor bis conscience nmy
dictate, while the chaplain is under military
regulations which may sometimes seem an
tagonistic to his work.
The disadvantages are : 1, He has no reg
ular “mess” arrangements, but must either
board in the neighborhood of the army, which
is frequently very inconvenient and expen
sive, or share-the hospitalities of some uffijier
or private to whom he may be
2, He has no transportation for either his beg-
gage or himself and when the army move&iie
must go to the rear, or else trudge along thro’
dust or mire until he is too much worn hut
to render much service in his calling. These
two disadvantages may be sometimes obvia
ted where one has friends at head-quarter^- —
But there is another and much greater disad
vantage under which the missionary labels.
3, He is a comparative stranger to all of pis
congregations. He does not know their wahts
and consequently cannot adapt himself Bo
them. He loses all the power which a minisß
of the gospel may exert in private intercourse
with those whose religious status he knot s.
In a word ho is all the time a visiting mirjis
ter instead of a regular pastor.
The advantages of the chaplaincy are, Ifct,
The chaplain has his regular home in the \r
my. He pitches his tent amongst his charft,
has his “mess,” lives with (not on) his ag
gregation. (
2. He has ample transportation for
ding, books, &c.; and while the law on tjhe
subject is somewhat indefinite and the privi
lege has been sometimes denied, I’ve knoivn
very few instances in which a chaplain has
been denied the privilege ot keeping a
He can move whenever aud wherever the %r
----my moves, and thus avail himself of every <kn
portnnity that may present itself of preachiig
along the march. This latter may be esteem
ed es little moment since it is the general im
pression that not much can be done during &
active campaign, but I am satisfied that son*
of the most impressive sermons that have
preached in the army hav# been during tfl
most active campaigns, and by the faitlrl
chaplain who has stuck to his post and water
ed for opportunities of proclaiming the gls{l
tidings. I remember that when the enenjy
first advanced to the Rapidan last summer
and our army moved forward to meet them
■ihat many of oar missionaries left when in a
few days everything was quiet, and the chap
lains and the few missionaries who remained
were laboring as before in the glorious revival
with which the “Army of Northern Virginia”
was then being blessed. And when Gen. Lee
moved forward on his “Bristow Campaign”
nearly all of the missionaries went to the rear
losing the opportunities of preaehing along
the march, ministering to the wounded, and
preaching five or six times a week as many of
us did after recrossing the Rappahannock and
setting down to a brief season of rest.
3. But the most important advantage which,
tbe chaplain has is that he is the pastor of his
regiment. The faithful chaplain by mingling
freely with his charge, talking with them
around their camp fires, marching with them
along the weary road (while he resigns his
horse to some foot-sore fellow, - ) sleeping un
der the same tree, going to them on picket or
in the trenches that he may speak words'of
cheer, ministering to the sick and the wound
ed, in a word, by sticking to his post and do
ing his duty—can acquire an influence over
them and a power to do them good which a
transient visitor, however competent and faith
ful, can never attain. I know a brother who
came out as private in a Ga. Reg’t, young and
of but little experience, as a preacher, who as
chaplain exerts a far greater influence for
good than the ablest missionary I have ever
met in the army could command.
The disadvantages of the chaplaincy are suf
ficiently indicated in the advantages of the
missionary work, but it may be remarked
that these can be greatly obviated. The chap
lain can do a great deal of missionary work
without interfering with his own immediate
duties —e. g. I have known a chaplain to
preach from fifteen to twenty sermons per
month outside of his regular duties. And then
if a chaplain deports himself properly ho has
a sufficient freedom of commotion and meets
with all neocssary respect from his officers
(nnless they happen not to be gentlemen.)
On the whole, I am thoroughly persuaded
that the best method by far of supplying the
army with preachers.is to fillup the vacant
regiments with chaplains. Some brother may
say that it would be best to have permanent
missionaries, but besides the difficulty of sus
taining them, the fact is that the Government
provides for chaplains, and if we as Baptists
oppose chaplaincies the result will be that the
regiments will be filled by brethren of other
denominations and there will be no opening
for cur missionaries. 9nr denomination bas
been sadly delinquent in this matter. We
have in this army only about half as many
chaplains as our Methodist brethren, and not
near so many as our Presbyterian brethren.—
And we have also been content to send to the
army the vonng and inexperienced (with hon
orable exceptions,) while the ablest and most
useful of our ministers stay at home. Now
this ought not to he—the army has claims up
on the very l#st pastors in the land. If it is
right that the flower of the land should be in
the army is it not equally right that our best
preachers should bo their pastors ? And now
that our Ya. Board, (which by the way has
always led the way in our army work) has re
moved a standing excuse, I trust that Georgia
Baptists will send to the army brethren who
shall be worthy to labor amongst the noble
veterans of the “Empire State.”
I will not be understood in what. I have said
to oppose the sending of missionaries to the ar
my —I would have the number greatly increas
ed—but I only mean to say that it would be
as wise to dispense with all pastors at home
and attempt to do the work by means of Evan
gelists as to dispense with chaplains, (ourar
mypastors.) and attempt to supply their pla
ces with missionaries.
And I trust that I will not be misunder
stood in the remark that we have not our
“ablest” men in the army. I bear willing
testimony to the fidelity and success of most of
our Baptist chaplains, but it is still true that
our ablest men are at home. Brethren, you
are needed in this great work— will you not
comet MISSIONARY.
Camp, near OraDge C. 11., Ya., Dec 31, ’63.
For the Christian Index.
From our Army Evangelist.
The past year—Purposes for the future—Trig
to Savannah — Defero i of the City— preach.
- ing to the State Gua. —Pleasant interview
—Wayside Homes ti„ain —Injudicious Ap
’ pdliitineut.
Bro. Boykin—The beginning of last year
found me ‘ \ very poor health, but it gradual
ly improved ns-the months progressed, so that
I wad enabled io perform more labor than du
ring the year previous. The liberality of my
brethren and friends enabled me to continue
in my chosen field—the army—as an indepen
dent Missionary. To say I am grateful to
them and to God for the support thus spon
taneously and generously afforded, bat feebly
expresses my real sentiments. Strong induce
ments have been offered to divert me from this
work, hut I cannot give it up—and, so I am
in the field, as “Army Missionary,” for an
other year.
Though there is much to be done at home, I
felt impelled to vist the coast occasionally.—
A recent trip to Savannah proved on the whole
a very pleasant one. The defences of the city,
already formidable, are still being pushed for
ward with great energy. The presence of
Gen. Gilmer is accomplishing wonders. Even
the official drones thereabouts seem tj be in
spired with new life. The enemy make slow
progress in getting to Charleston. They will
find Savannah a still heavier job, should they
ever undertake it.
Col. Loftin, of tho State Guards, sent his
horse to the city for me, and I rode down “three
miles below the city on a beautiful Sabbath
morning to preach to his regiment and oth
ers. When I reached the encampment, some
were already singing in front of brother Mill’s
tent, and others, were flocking together. (Rev.
P. 11. Mell, you know, is Col. of one of these
regiments.) Never have I been more impres
sed with the “terrible earnestness” of our
people in this struggle than when I saw be
fore me so many of the “anoient m#n” of the
State, who have left their various pursuits for
the tented field. These men are neither vis
ionaries nor enthusiasts. Posterity will hon
or them as true patriots. There was a moral
sublimity iu their characters and conduct
which impressed me deeply. Into many a fa
miliar face did I look that day while I preach
ed “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to
day, and forever.” I had the pleasure of di
ning with brother Mell an! brother Saunders,
of Peniield, after which I returned to.the city.
On the Central train, homeward bound,
while distributing tracts and religious papers
as usual, I encountered Lt. Hughes, son of
brother G. B. Hughes, of Wilkinson county.
I found him an intelligent, pious young man.
He is a member of Barkaloo’s veteran Regi
ment, with which he passed through the Mis
sissippi campaign and endured the horrors of
the seige of Vicksburg. He and other pions
men were in the habit of keeping up nightly
prayer meetings iijt their company. After
marching all day and until tern or eleven o’-
clock at night, they would hold their prayer
meeting. The usefulness of such men in tbe
army will never be fully known in this world.
At Millen I went with a crowd of soldiers
to the Wayside Home for a sapper. We were
cordially welcomed by that same old lady,
whos face is ever radiant with smiles and
beaming with benevolence. And those youn
ger ladies, God bless tl^m! llow they do
wait on those warworn soldiers with their own
fair hands, and encourage them to eat by such
attentions as none but such women can bes
tow. Reaching Macon at dawn of day on a
cold morning, I repaired to the Wayside Home
for a warm fire and breakfast. Regretted to
find that certain changes in its rules and
management have been made, which to my
mind, are of doubtful utility. There was a
certain coldness about the establishment which
I had not witnessed before, and I was sorry to
see several soldiers turned off without break
fast. Not being acquainted with the new
manager and the new regulations, I thought
best to-go with them, which I did.
By the way, brother Boykin, can you tell
me how and why it is that so many foreign
born men are placed in positions which give
them control of the business of feeding and
otherwise providing for our soldiers! I learn
that many of the principal Quarter Masters,
Commissaries, Ac., iu this State and elsewhere
are of this class. Asa citizen of this Confed
eracy, I beg leave to enter my protest against
the policy. “It is all wrong.” If these men
are disloyal at heart, they have it in their
power to starve our soldiers and to withhold
from them other things, vital to the success
of our cause. I have the utmost confidence
in the loyalty of many of our foreign-born cit
izens. Let such go into the ranks, if fit for
service, and let the feeding and provisioning
of our soldiers be confided to our own South
ern-born men. J. 11. CAMPBELL.
Written for the Indew.
NELLIE NORTON :
or,
SOUTHERN SLAVERY A THE BIBLE.
BY A GEORGIAN.
Nellie lost no time in introducing the sub
ject. “Well, uncle, I have engaged Mr. Pratt
as my representative in our Bible discussions
on slavery. He has consented to take my
place, if you have no objection, and as you are
so confident of your ability to justify slavery
the Bible, I feel sure yon will consent
to th'c arrangement. .Your Southern chivalry
will haturaily desire a foeman worthy of your
steel.”
“Thank you, Nellie. lam pleased with the
arrangement. I shall have a double advantage
in Mr Pratt. A scholar fully able to under
stand the meaning of the Divine word, and a
Christian with moral honesty enough always
to eonefede a point when fairly established
from the infallible source of truth. I can only
express surprise that a student of the Bible
should not already have so far satisfied him
self on the subject as to admit without further
investigation, that slave) y is a divine institu
tion, that it is of God.”
“So far from this, sir,” said Mr. Pratt, “I
believe it is the institution of Satan, and only
permitted to exist for a short time, like other
sins which are forbidden, as a scourge to our
race, as a trial to us, to prove men, and see
what are the depths of depravity which exist
in his heart. lam only surprised to see a man
of your intelligence and professed piety, hold
ing slave3. To see you guilty of such injustice to
your fellow beings as to hold them in bondage,
forging chains and riveting them upon them,
and crushing out their manhood with the
“weight of servitude.”
“Do you believe,” said Mr. TANARUS., “that the ne
gro is less a man in his Southern bondage,
than he is in his African idolatry and super
stition ? Do you believe his contact with the
social and religious elements of southern soci
ety, though restricted by slavery has degraded
him beneath the Bushman, the Hottentot, the
Cannibal, or even below the somewhat more
elevated central Africans, who bow down dai
ly to their household gods, and who in their
superstition, lay on the funeral pile, the survi
ving widow to be consumed with the body of
her deceased husband ? Do you think the en
lightened and Christian Slave, is less happy,
less contented, less elevated in tbe scale of
moral existence, than his ancestors were in
the dark land of Ham? Your familiarity with
ethmology, has long since taught you that
Southern Slaves aie the happiest of theirrace,
and approximate more nearly the great object
for which God has created man. This being
undeniably true, then where is the injustice of
which you speak ? Is it doing a man injustice
to enlighten his ignorance,to teach him howto
enjoy the social relations of life, to deliver him
out of barbarism and introduce him into civi
lized life, to break tbe fetters of idolatry, su
perstition, and teach him the knowledge of
the true God, to take his being and fill it with
all those holier purposes, desires, and aspira
tions; which have been so long exiled by the
reigning demon of darkness ? If this be injus
tice, then sir, do we plead guilty to the charge,
not otherwise.”
“Injustice is done a man,” said Mr. Pratt,
“when his natural or acquired rights are ta
ken from him, no matter what these rights
are, or whether he uses them or abuses them ;
if he should misuse them, the wrong is to him
self”
TKRMB, $5.00 IN ADVANCE
YOL. XLIII.—NO 5.
“ I suppose then,” said Mr. Thempson, “if
a man purchase a gun to shoot himself, and I,
knowing that fact, take it away, I do him an
act of injustice, by taking away from him the
power to commit suicide. If a man threatens
the life of another, the officer who arrests and
imprisons him, thereby preventing murder,
does injustice by stopping tbe abuse of physi
cal liberty; or if a woman in a violent passion
is about to beat her child to death, and I seize
hold of her, and by constraint dispossess her
of the freedom to kill her child, I do her injus
tice. Or to put a very plain case, when a man
becomes so depraved that he is not restrained
from the violation of law and a court imprisons
him as a felon, it does him injustice. Or if an
individual refuses to pay his just debts, and
his creditors hv due process of law, imprison
hint, he does him an act of legal injustice. Sir,
is this your sense of justice? You cannot
deny that these are legitimate deductionsfrom
your premises.”
“O, that is not what he meant, uncle,” said
Nellie, rather emphatically, as she eaw her
representative kad committed himself too far,
and that her uncle was making him appear the
advocate of a most licentious and wicked free
dom, and taking from society all lawful means
of self-protection.
“I mean, sir, that God has made “all men
free and equal, and any infringement of this
freedom and equality, except for the mainten
ance of law and order, is an act of injustice,
and one at which a pious man should shud
der.”
“You take for granted the very point in is
sue, and quote from the Declaration of Inde
pendence instead of the Bible. God did not
make all men free and equal, ne has enslav
ed Borne by placing them in bondage to oth
ers. Ham manifested the wicked traits which
afterwards developed themselves in his des
cendentr, and on this account Heaven forged
the chains of slavery and placed them upon
him, using his father, Noab, as his agent.—
Hear him : “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of
servants shall he be to his brethren. And he
said, blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and
Canaan shall be his servant. Ged shall en
large Japhet and he shall dwell in the tents
of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.”—
Thus, when there was but one family on earth,
a portion of it was doomedtoY servitude. A
“servant of servants,the slave of
*pvv:int-.. N..vr ■■ -‘f so. Was
it of Satan or of God , haOle made
all men free and equal? Were Ham and Ja
phet made equal, when one was placed over
the other ? Were both made free, when one
was put under slavery to theother ? Tle.-e is
a great deal of prating nonsense in the world
claiming very high and respectable authority.
To be Continued.
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II A Bussey, . . . 10 00
Mariah P Slade, . . 10 00
Dr W B Crawford, * . . 10 00
A Soldier’s wife, . . 10 00
Rev T H Stout, . . . 10 00
Mrs M L McDonald, . . 10 00
Mrs L Smith, . . . 45 00
T Whitset, . . 10 00
Jesse Beall, . . . 5 00
Mrs M Beall, • ’ . . 5 00
Miss Annie Beall, . . 1 00
Mrs Fannie Beall, . . 1 00
Miss Mary F Livingston, . . 50
Mrs Harriet Livingston, . 2 00
Mrs J A Key, . . 5 00
Jas Cason, . . . 5 00
3 A Mullen, . . 2 00
Jatf4Nfewn, ■ 5 00
H Arrington, . . 5 00
Receipts to Feb. 1, 1864.
Mrs M J Kimble, July 26, C 4 $3 00
WN Nelson, “ “ ..3 00
J R Way, March 31, 04 1 85
Dr F Ficklin, March 6, 65 5 00
F Shanks, Jan 26, 05 5 00
Miss H Warren, Dec 31, 64 3 00
John Holder, Jan 26, 65 5 00
Sallie J Hurst, Dec 31, 64 5 00
W G Whilden, Dec 31, 64 5 00
Rev C S Gaulden, Dec 31, 65 5 00
Rev C M Irwin, Julv 31,06 13 00
W C Gill, Dec 31, 64 10 00
T Green, July 11, 65 5 00
Mrs M T Pope, Dec 31, 64 5 00
J G PolhilL Dec 31, 64 5 00
Mrs C S Rollins, July 31, 64 2 50
Mrs M B Barron, Jan 22, 65 5 00
Col II Till, Feb 6, 65, 5 00
Mrs. C W Bruner, Dec 31, 65 10 00
Rev J A Preston, Feb 20, 65 5 00
Mrs W J Brown, July 31, 64 3 00
Mrs T A Hubert, Jan 25, 65 5 00
II Hargrove, “ “ 500
Miss C Brewer “ “ ....5 00
Mrs £ Hardison, “ “ 5 00
J O Sanders, Apr 30, 64 1 50
Col E M Seago, Dec 31, 64 5 00
A Lampkin, Jan 25, 65 5 00
J P Milner, June 30, 65 5 00
MrsE B Green, Jan 25, 65 .5 00
M B Perkins, Dec 31, 64 10 00
Rev J G Ryals, Mar 6, 65 5 00
Mrs L A Ryals, Mar 6, 65. 5 00
J T Boykin, Feb 29, 64 50 *
Mrs E Powell, Jan 26, 65 .5 00
Jas II Calaway, May 8, 65 5 00
J Averitt, Dec 31,64 5 00
J L Griffith, Jan 26,65 5 00
Rev W Tharp, Jan 30, 65 .* .5 00
Cash received to send Index to Soldiers.
A Young Lady, by M. Joyce, Boxville, SSO 00
Rev C S Gaulden, Ohapilco, 147 00
T J Swanssn, Madison, 40 00
Mrs E A Kirby, Macon 5 00