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JJUstqUaiuoitß department.
BY THE PBOPBIETOH.
To Correspondents. —We beg the brethren generally
to furnish us with news from thechurches—ordinations,
pastoral changes, revivals—every thing, in fact, which
enters into the cuireul history of the denomination.
Such intelligence is always thankfully received and
published promptly.
of any character, to insure an in
sertion in the issue of the current week, must reach us
by Monday. Let all of our friends bear this in mind.
Manly — Hair. —Married, at Newberry, S.
C., on Thursday, June 10th, by Rev. Drs.
John A. Broadus and R. Furman, the Rev.
Dr. Basil Manly, Jr., to Miss Hattie Sum
mers Hair. No cards.
The address of Rev. D. G. Daniel is
changed from Savannah to Walthourville, Ga.
1 he name of Mrs. E. Harris is transferred
from Ellerslie to Waverly Hall.
The reader will find commercial informa
tion on the fourth page.
Attention is directed to the advertisement
of Simmon’s Liver Regulator, to be found in
another column.
Subscriptions paid for publishing Dr.
Dagg’s book: Dr. W. T. Brantly $10; E.
W. Warren, $10; J. J. Toon, $lO.
Money Orders.— Up to the 22nd inst.,
the postoffiee at Macon had issued 3,169
Money Orders, and that of Americus 2,008,
and the Atlanta office, to the 23rd, 4,030,
which, at an average cost of 20 cents, would
yield to the Government $1,821 40.
Rev. G. F. Cooper, of Americus, in behalf
of sister S. C—, of Sumter county, sends us
a postoffiee draft for five dollars, towards the
relief of brother Barrow. The amount will
be sent forward at the earliest period possible.
Leverage. —“ What a leverage we poor
preachers have in the Index and Baptist, if
we would but make fulcrums of our brethren's
hearts and consciences .”
Extract from a business letter of another
of the live, active, and successful workers of
Georgia who lately sent a list of new sub
scribers to this paper. There are yet others
who can do the same good thing. Let them
try it! The paper is unquestionably an El
evatok of no common character. Who will
dare to assert that our people do not need a
“ hoisting ?"
Ministers of Jesus! Look to this matter.
“ W. 11. R”—responds to our request with
reference to saving potatoes, and also con
tributes an article on Fertilizers, which may
be seen under the head of the “ Farm, Gar
den and Fireside,*’ page 100. We take no
little pleasure in introducing to our fourth
page readers such able writers as W. B. J.
and W. H. R. They are practical men,
whose articles cannot be otherwise than in
structive. We hope that others will contrib
ute to the interest of this departmeut of our
sheet.
Agricultural Economy.— Will not some
of our practical farmers favor us with their
views and suggestions upon the subject of
“ Plantation Economy ? ” Our brother W.
H. R. promises to enlighten us upon a very
interesting theme in this connection. He says :
“ In my next I propose to treat upon the best
mode of preserving the fertilizing ingredients
of the solid and fluid excreta of our domestic
animals; so much of which is suffered to go
to waste from exposure to rain and sunshine
on many plantations.” We look forward with
interest to this article, and expect much from
his able pen.
The yield of wheat is gladdening the hearts
of husbandmen, and encouraging the hearts
of those who are striving to cultivate the
moral field. Brother Mcßride, brother Hay
good, brother Stockton, Hanks and others
favor their brethren and friends by favoring
the Index with lists of new names. Success
to them and all such.
An Important Circular.
With more than ordinary pleasure do we
give space to the following circular from the
P. O. Department, and congratulate our read
ers upon the prospect of increased protection
to the sanctity of private correspondence.
Certainly nothing more vitally important
than this, in a business point of view, can en
gage the attention of the Washington author
ities, and we hope to see the course they
have determined upon vigorously pursued.
The circular reads as follows :
Post Office Department, )
Washington, June 9, 1869. j
Sir: The several enactments of law de
fining crimes and offences against the Post
Office establishment, admonish every person
in the employ of the Department, that the
law making power intends to throw around
the privity of correspondence the solemn
sanction ot its protection. One of the high
est obligations of the Department to the peo
ple is, to preserve by all the means within
its power the absolute sanctity of a seal.
The enactments of law referred to are en
tirely explicit. You are required to impress
ion your subordinates that any violation of
the statutes in this respect, as well as other
crimes, the Postmastmaster General will
visit with punishment to the fullest extent of
the law.
In tnis connection, and in view of the facts
adduced to the Department, of complicity, if
not actual guilt of one of the clerks eni
ployed in your office, in violating the privity
of correspondence received at your office.
The Postmaster General directs that said
be instantly dismissed from the service.
You will permit no person to continue, or
to be employed in your office whose charac
ter for personal integrity may not command
the confidence of the Postmaster General.
Respectfully yours,
(Signed) G. B. Armstrong,
Supt. Railway Mail Service.
Postmaster at
From June 15th, to June 23d, remittances were
received from the following brethren and friends.
The figures after the names indicate the number
to which each has paid:
It T Higgins, 2450; J II Callaway, 2494 ; Rev
E W Warren, 2531 ; J O Pitts, 2480; 0 H Per
ry, 2445 ; D W Appier, 2455 ; Mrs R D Kev,
2493; Rev. G A Nunnally, 2470; W Moreton,
2475 ; A M Wilkins, 2518; 1, D Henly, 2493;
W B Graves, 2493 ; Rev R H Graves, 2493 ; Mrs
S Pettus, 2487; I W Orr, 2469; W G Worrell,
2491; W W Waller, 2483 ;W J Thomas, 2497 ;
Mrs N A Perkins, 2494; Rev. J S Paullin, 2460:
Mrs E Spain, 2494.
Twelve miles of the rails for the Thomas
ville and Albany Railioad have been deliv
ered at Thomasville, and track laying will
soon commence from that point. They hope
to be running on eleven miles of the road in
thirty days, and to get as far with the track
as Camilla, (thirty-one miles) by the Ist of
November.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SODTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1869.
NEWS ITEMS —GENERAL.
Mr. Gilly Moore, of Troup county, died in
Greene county recently, aged 93 years.
There are more than 4,000,000 of Germans
residing in the United States.
Mrs. William W. Milan, of Cartersville,
died last week of typhoid fever.
Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New
York Times, is dead.
The survey of the Memphis branch rail
road will be commenced on the Ist of July.
Mrs. L. M. Cadenhead died near Loacha
poka, Ala., on the 12th inst.
Parshall, who killed Conductor Oates some
months ago at Coun.land, Ala., has been
bailed in the sum of $15,000.
Miss Sallie R. Banks, of Americus, is made
Revenue Deputy Collector of Macon, Schley,
Sumter and Webster.
The Elberton Gazette says the people of
that county have subscribed $75,000 to the
Augusta and Hartwell roailroad.
Professor John LeComte has been elected
President pro tem. of the University of Cal
ifornia.
Ex-Gov. Jenkins and lady, of Georgia,
sailed for Europe from Baltimore a few days
ago.
Maj. P. C. Pendleton, editor of the Val
dosta Times, was thrown from his buggy re
cently and severely injured.
A dividend oPtwo per cent, on the capital
stock of the Macon and Western railroad has
been declared.
This year’s wheat crop in Missouri is esti
mated at 15,000,000 bushels, and three times
larger than any previous crop.
The residence of the late Judge Berrien,
near Clarkesville, in Habersham county, Ga.,
was destroyed by fire a few days ago.
The residence of Jas. L. Walcott, of Thomas
county, was struck by lightning last week,
though no one was injured severely.
Miss Minnie Warren, tiie petite sister of
Mrs. Tom Thumb, was married to Commodore
Nutt at Westhaven, Conn., a short time ago.
The survey of the Bainbridge, Outhbert and
Columbus railroad has been commenced. Col.
Harkee, the Engineer, is superintending it.
The Milledgeville Federal Union gives an
account of a white mocking bird to be seen
in that town:
John W. Gray, of Bartow county, has over
120 acres of splendid clover. His plantation
is located near Adairsville.
A cargo of iron for the South Georgia and
Florida railroad arrived in Savannah last
week from England.
Adkins D. Lewis, of Burke county, was
killed by one of his negro employees last
week. The negro stabbed him with a knife.
The Brunswick, (Ga.,) Appeal announces
the death of John W. Hutchinson, an old
citizen of that place.
Gen. Jordan, now commanding a Division
in the Cuban army, has 58 Alabamians in his
command.
Chas. E. Ross, of Macon, died in Jefferson,
Texas, the other day. His remains are en
route to Macon.
- Gen. E. M. Law, formerly of Alabama,
has been appointed Superintendent of the
Charlotte and Augusta railroad, at a salary
of $4,000.
The commencement exercises of the South
ern Female College, at LaGrange, will begin
on the Ist July. The sermon will be preached
by Rev. W. T. Brantly, of Atlanta.
The North Missouri railroad has com
menced selling tickets to San Francisco for
$l5B 35 under the arrangement just entered
into between the Union and Central Pacific
railroads.
Mrs. Scott Walker, of Columbia county,
committed suicide last week. The grand
jury of that county rendered a verdict that it
was caused by the ill-treatment of her hus
band.
The two beautiful and brilliant young
daughters of the late Confederate General
Zjllicoffer, were married on Thursday eve
ning—Nat Gaither, of Kentucky, and Miss
Mary, and Mr. Bond, of Columbia, Tenn.,
and Miss Octavia.
Fourteen platform cars loaded with Rail
road iron, for the road between Montgomery
and Selma, Ala., left Savannah a few days
since.
The Courier-Journal says the pig iron from
the Shelby county (Ala.) works has been in
troduced in the Louisville market, where it is
regarded as equal to any hot blast charcoal
iron in the world.
The Columbus Enquirer learns that meas
ures are being set on foot to rebuild the
Rock Island Paper Mills, near that city. The
Mill was burned by General Wilson, in
April, 1865.
Patriotic ladies of Havana, have sent
$20,000 worth of rich and costly jewelry to
New York, to be disposed of next month at
a fair, for the benefit of Cuban independence.
Capt. Brumby, of Athens, Ga., has a litter
of Woburn and Chester pigs, just seven
months old, which average over one hundred
and sixty pounds—the largest, an open sow,
weighing one hundred and seventy-five
pounds. He pronounces the cross better than
the thorough breds.
One farmer, near Vincennes, Ind., has had
a field of fifteen acres of corn cleaned out
entirely by the army worm, and another one
of thirty acres.
A negro man struck a white boy on the
head with a piece, of board, in Wilkinson
county last week, fracturing the skull. The
boy’s name is Stubbs. The Degro is in Mil
ledgeville Jail for safe keeping.
The Selma Argus and the Mobile Register
strongly oppose the annexation of West Flor
ida, on the ground that it is no time to im
pose additional burdens upon the already
over-taxed people of Alabama.
Shooting Scrape. —A difficulty occurred
in Wilkinson county, on the 14th inst., be
tween Mr. Green, his sons, and a negro, and
a Mr. White. White had been acting as the
next friend of Miss Emily Smith in prose
cuting the Greens for pulling down her smoke
house. The parties first named attacked
White in the road, firing ten shots at him,
wounding him in the left hip and killing his
horse. White fired four shots doing no dam
age.
The Savannah News says it regrets “to
learn that a dispatch, received at Montreal
on June 12th, by Mr. Howell, from Paris,
announces the health of Jefferson Davis as
extremely precarious. At one time, recently,
his Ife was despaired of. It is the purpose
of Mr. Davis, if he lives, to visit Canada
during the summer, and to spend the follow
ing winter among his old friends in the Stite
of Mississippi. We trust that a long life is
yet in store for him.”
Three thousand duels were fought in the
German universities last year, most of them
very harmless affairs.
The Commissioners appointed by the States
of Alabama and Florida respectively have
made a contract for the annexation of West
Florida to Alabama. It is now left to the
Legislatures of the two States to ratify and
make valid the contract as agreed upon.
NEWS ITEMS —LOCAL.
Rev. A. G. Hay good, of Atlanta, will
preach the Commencement Sermon of the
Griffin Female College ou Sunday next.
Our fellow citizen, Gen. Jno. B. Gordon,
was to have delivered the Annual Literary ad
dress at the Andrew Female College, Cuth
bert, to-day.
The Superior Court of Fulton county, af
ter a somewhat lengthened term, adjourned
on Tuesday last, until the third Monday in
July. His Honor, Jno. D. Pope, is making
vigorous efforts to clear up a heavy docket of
long standing.
The Grand Jury presented “Keno” estab
lishments as a nuisance, and the Sheriff has
been directed, by the Judge, to close them
up. This order, it is said, will put an end to
not less than six of such gambling places in
the city of Atlanta.
The Supreme Court of Georgia, now in
session in this city, rendered a decision on
Tuesday last, that the intermarriage of white
and colored people is not lawful.
Many distinguished members of the bar
from various points in the State are in at
tendance upon this Court.
The Atlanta Cotton Factory Company has
been organized by the selection of the fol
lowing Board of Directors : John Rice,
Richard Peters, E. E. Rawson, Jno. C. Peck,
Dr. J. F. Bozeman, and W. F. Herring.
The following are the officers of the compa
ny : John Rice, President; Dr. J. F. Boze
man, Secretary and Treasurer; J. Rhodes
Brown, Superintendent.
CLIPPINGS.
Wm. Britton, of Merriwether county,
killed one of his neighbors named Lapsey
last week. The deceased, it is said, was un
der the influence of liquor, and in that man
ner the difficulty was brought about.
The Albany News, of the 15th inst., says:
“ Those who have iarge stocks of corn on
hand had better look out for a market. The
crop in South-western Georgia is a success,
and we can scarcely imagine a disaster that
can reduce it below an abundant supply.
Miss Martha Boulden, of Pulaski, Giles
county, Tenn., asks information of her lost
father and brother, Benj. and Thomas Boul
den. Any one having knowledge of their
whereabouts, will please address Miss Boul
den as above.
The St. Augustine Examiner says that the
orange crop of Florida will not be a failure,
as was anticipated from last winter’s frost.
The trees are looking well and the fruit seems
to be in abundance. We are informed that
some of the groves in this county, on the St.
John’s, will bear larger crops than last year.
The Thomasville Enterprise says that a
desperate eoflict recently took place at Cairo,
in this county, between two negro men while
at work in a well they had been employed to
dig. One of them stabbed the other so
severely that he died, and the murderer was
lodged in jail for trial at the present term of
the Court. A white man witnessed the deadly
conflict from the top of the well, but had no
means of interfering.
A Mississippi paper says that Miss Rebecca
Cox, of Amite county, who graduated in June,
1867, returned home in January, 1868,
a negro man 70 years old, two of his daugh
ters, and one boy, not large enough to plow.
The net results of farming operations last
year, paying expenses of place and hands,
were: eight banks of potatoes; 600 bushels
of corn; and $969 in cash from sale of cot
ton over expense.
The growth of clover in Greene county is
a success. The Greensboro Herald says that
Dr. Thos. P. Janes has just finished mowing
a field of five acres of Red Clover, the most
of which measured four feet and five inches
high, and yielded two and a half tons to the
acre. It was planted one year ago last March,
on old land which has been in cultivation for
the last 30 years, and without manure. He
has other fields, planted ten months later,
which bid fair to equal the five acre lot. He
is also growing the various kinds of grass
successfully.
The Memphis Appeal says nine hundred
tons of iron liave been purchased at New
Albany, Indiana, for the Southern Pacific
railroad via Vicksburg, Shreveport and Mar
shall, Texas. It says the amount is sufficient
to extend the road thirteen miles west from
Marshall. So important is the extension of
this road considered by the citizens of Shreve
port, La., that the City Council has made a
subscription of SBO,OOO to it, and levied a
tax of four and one-half per cent, on the real
estate of the city to raise the money.
The Columbia and Augusta Railroad Com
pany and the Charlotte Railroad Company,
it is now ascertained, will consolidate their
lines at an early day, running through trains
between Charlotte and Augusta, one hundred
and ninety miles. The stock and bond ac
count tor the united road will foot up about
$4,400,000; which, at 7 per cent., calls for
over $300,000 net income per annum. It is
expected that the gross earnings will be be
tween $500,000 and $600,000 a year.
The first passenger train on the Columbia
and Augusta railroad entered the city of
Augusta on the 15th inst. The train, con
sisting of a freight and baggage, and two pas
senger cars—entered the city just in rear of
the evening train, on the South Carolina rail
road, and proceeded through the streets to
the Union Depot, where the passengers were
discharged. The train came through from
Charlotte, North Carolina, and made the trip
between that city and Augusta in twelve
hours. The Columbia railroad uses the track
of the Central road at the Union Depot for
the present —until their own track, which is
being constructed between the Union Depot
and the Freight Depot on the Georgia rail
road is finished.
A word of encouragement to Southern cot
ton planters comes now and then from a for
eign source. The New York Times says that
“despite all the efforts of the English and
other nations to foster the growth of cotton
in India, Egypt, etc., the place of America
has never been really filled, and returning
industry at the South will find a plentiful de
mand for its productions. The British Board
of Trade show that there are now 50,000
people less earning their living in cotton Man
ufactures there were before the war; where
as, if the English cotton factories had in
creased during the seven years since 1861 at
the rate they did the five years preceding, the
cotton manufacturing population of England
would be 170,000 more than it is now. So
enormous is the loss which the stoppage of
American cotton inflicted upon British indus
try. The cost of anew war w ould be some
thing frightful to both parties;”
Mrs. Hopson, the newly appointed post
mistress at Talladega, Ala., has taken charge
of her office.
Wisconsin farmers are annoyed beyond
endurance by counties pigeons, which dig up
grain as fast as it is planted, compelling, in
many cases, the re planting of whole fields.
The birds are captured with nets, brought to
market and shipped to Chicago and the East
alive.
Witticisms of Irving. —Washington Ir
ving was fond of ludicrous rejoinders. “Do
you sing?” said he one evening to a gentle
man who had called. “I sometimes join in a
chorus,” replied the other, in uu important
way. “Then give us a chorus.” Mr. Madi
son Morton has put this jest into one of his
many farces. On another occasion some per
son asked, “Do you know Hebrew, Mr. Ir
ving?” “Yes,” he answerer] with the utmost
gravity, “but I can’t speak it a great deal
better than I can speak it.” —From The Phi
losophy of Absurdity, in the July Number of
Lippincott's Magazine.
Sleep. —Great men go to sleep readily, be
cause, at pleasure, they can command and ban
ish thought. Weak men go to sleep with
equal readiness, because they scarcely think
at all. He who sleeps readily, healthfully,
and soundly, is a happier and more fortunate
man than the king on his throne who is tor
tured by continued watchfulness.
“ Then happy low. He down ;
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
—From The Art of Getting to Sleep, in
the July Number of Lippincott's Magazine.
Atlanta. —Neither competition in peace,
nor the merciless torch of an invading army,
has been able to keep Atlanta from fulfilling
a grand destiny. From the desolation and
ashes that were bequeathed her as the part
ing gift of the advancing Sherman, she has
risen, Phoenix like, by the energy, industry
and enterprise of her inhabitants. It is won
derful to realize her early triumph. Three
years ago we walked in sullen sadness among
her labyrinth of ruins, and mourned the fate
of our once beautiful inland
city. Gazing on the gloomy spectacle, we
little dreamed that she would spring, as if by
magic, to her present proportions and pros
perity. It seems as if the v.^ry rum that was
wrought, gave birth to energies that not only
restored her but made the star of her destiny
more brilliant. We understand that her
population is at present at least thirty thous
and and we venture to predict that in five
years it will equal, if not exceed fifty thous
and. It is impossible for a true Georgian
not to feel proud of Atlanta as she is, and bid j
her God speed in her future advancement.— j
Newnan People's Defender.
How to Make Potatoes a Sure Cr p.
Captain J. M. Elliott has laid upon our
table an Early Goodrich potato that weighs
twelve ounces. For fifteen years he has
planted Irish potatoes in the following man
ner, and at different times in northern and
southern Alabama, and in various places in
this county —including wet si a-ions and dry
seasons, and nearly all sorts of s Jl —with in
variable success, and never was excelled by
his neighbors, who planted in a different way.
The plan is particularly advantageous for late
or fall potatoes, as it prevents the effects of
drought upon the crop:
First, have the ground well plowed and
thoroughly pulverized, then run off furrows
about two and a half feet apart, for the rows.
Fill the furrow half full or more with wheat
or pine straw, partially decayed, then place
the seed, cut in pieces containing a single
eye each, on this straw, single pieces, at a
distance of eight or ten inches. Put no dirt
about the seed at all, but cover the entire
patch to the depth of six or eight inches with
straw. A little dirt is sometimes used to
weight down the straw, and prevent its be
ing blowui off. A large crop of nice, cleau
potatoes, will be the result, and you have
only to take away the straw, and pick up the
potatoes. —Rome Courier, 18 th.
Farming to Profit —A friend of ours re
siding theree miles from Sandersville, rafi
four plows, last year, workiug two hands to
the plow. From the labor of the eight
hands and four plows, he produced a crop
worth $6,350. His expenses for hire of
hands, provisions, guano, etc., amounted to
$3,000, leaving a clear profit of $3,350. This
is no guess work, but an accurate statement
made to us in person by Mr. , who did
not know that we intended publishing it. To
this account could be added hundreds of
bushels of peas which could nut be gathered
for want of time to pick them, bur which will
come up the next fall in the pork account.
Mr. ’s land is no better, except as he has
made it so, than thousands of acres in the
county. But he plants what he cultivates
and cultivates what he,plants. His corn crib
i#hot located in Nashville, his smoke house
in Cincinnati, or his hay loft in Pennsylvania.
His horses are able to work, and they do it.
If anybody has done better we should like to
see the figures. —Sandersville Georgian.
Crops in Florida. —The Jacksonville
(Fla.) Union, of the 12th, says :
Although almost too early to speak confi
dently of the prospects, yet from personal ob
servation and reliable information, we can
say that the corn crop will be a fair one ; the
cotton crop looks even, fair and good ; the
cold weather has.retarded its growth, yet
with the present warm weather it will soon
catch up; the fields are unusually well pre
pared, the crops planted with care, fences
good, ground clean from grass, aud there is
an evident attention paid to thorough culture.
As yet there is no caterpillar, and some ar
gue that the dry, hot weather will tend to
destroy and prevent them. Sugar-cane looks
well. Sweet potatoes arc looking well. Peas
now being planted can be depended upon.
Fruit trees, grapes and vegetables are flour
ishing. On the whole, we may calculate on
a fair year, and at present prices a profitable
return to the farmers. Labor is more reli
able and uniform. Crime less prevalent.
The past year has witnessed the introduc
tion of new seeds, new manures, new imple
ments and new crops. We shall bring out
before many years, and rival the more ad
vanced States, for, in addition to our own
people, we are attracting the enterprising and
successful agriculturist from abroad.
The Tallahassee Sentinel, of the same date,
says:
Having traveled somewhat extensively
through Middle Florida and Georgia lately,
we have come to the conclusion, and a very
satisfactory one at that, that we have abun
dant cause for thanksgiving in the pros
pects before us of a most favorable year in
Florida.
While some of the old “croakers” have
been prophesying drought, caterpillar, and
all other ills that agriculture is heir to, we
find that the reverse is the case ; that, as yet,
our crops have not suffered for want of “ the
gentle dews from heaven,” nor have they
been blighted by the destroying worm. In
fact, our legislators, now gathered here from
every quarter of the State, report most favor
ably as to the condition of the growing crops
of all kinds.
The corn fields along our line of travel in
Georgia and Florida, never looked better,
while the cotton has been rescued from the
apparent damage caused by*»the protracted
cold weather, aud now shows well under the
more grateful warmth of the last few days.
Our friend, Mr. Purdy, just from a trip as
far south as Cay Bbcayue, reports the pros
pect most flattering for one of the most
abundant fruit harvests that has been known
for many years. He says that the tropic
fruits of our more Southern sections never
looked more promising, while the figs and
guavas are literally breaking down the lighter
branches with their delicious burden.
Mr. Purdy, who is a close ooserver and
quite a skillful botanist, argues that the early
frost, which it was feared would prove ruin
ous to the orange crop, had the tendency to
inaugurate a “new season,” and the conse
quence is, that the yield of the orchards and
“ groves” bids fair to be unprecedented.
®bituarg.
MRS. SARAH A. KINSEY. -Died, on the 21st May,
at Elleralie, Harris county, Ga., Mrs. Sarah A. Kinsey,
consort of Lazarus Kinsey, aged 52 years, 11 months
and 6 days.
She was baptized and united to Brier Creek church,
in Warreu county, in the summer of 1839, and removed
to Talbot county in the winter of 1856, The life of
Mrs. Kinsey was one of much Christian consistency
and ardor; and her faith in the Saviour, though tried
by long and severe suffering, remained firm and cheer
ful in death. Her last connexion with the church on
earth, was at Bethesda, near Ellerslie. Pastor.
June 15, ’69.
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The Index and The American Agri
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The Index and The Scientific American 6 00 7 00
The Index and The American Farmer 5 00 6 00
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The Index and The Manufacturer and
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Should more than one ol the abi ve monthly or
weekly journals be desired, any one will be added at
the same rate of discount.
Address, with specific instructions, and enclosing
money, J. J. TOON,
2445—ts Atlanta, Ga.
Rectal J|otues.
Appointments.
Rev. Wm. A. Parks, Assistant Agent American Bible
Society, for Georgia, will represent the Bible cause at
following places;
Lawrenceville, Gwinnett county, Sunday, 4th July.
Monroe, Walton county, Sunday, 11th July.
Jefferson, Jackson county, Wednesday night, 14th
July.
Cumming, Forsyth county, Sunday, 18th July.
Dawsonville, Dawson county, Wednesday night, 21st
July.
Canton, Cherokee county, Sunday, 25th July.
Commencement Howard College, 1869.
Commencement Sermon, by Rev. J. C. Wright, Sun
day, June 20th.
Undergraduate Exhibitions—Monday and Tuesday
nights, June 21st, and 22d.
Anniversary of Literary Society—Address by Robert
Christian, Esq., Wednesday night, June 23d.
Commencement Day—Address by W. C. Ward, Esq.,
Thursday, June 24th. •
Anniversary of Society of Alumni—Address by Col.
W. T. Hendon, Thursday night, June 24th.
E. Q. THORNTON, President.
Marion, Ala., June 10 th, 1869. 2444-2 t.
Trustees of Mercer University.
Your Annual Meeting will take place on Monday,
July 12th, 1869, at 9>£ o’clock, a.m., in the Library
building, Penfield, Green co., Ga.
2444-41. D. E. BUTLER, President.
Sunday School Books.
F. M. Haygood, Macon, Ga., Keeps on hand a full
supply of Baptist S. S. books, and can fill orders for
religions books generally.
To Farmers and Gardeners. —As many of our
regular readers are of this class, we would, in behalf
of those less experienced, propound to them a few
questions of practical importance, to which we trust
many of them will respond. We would urge them to
the performance of the task for which they are so
amply qualified :
I. The best method of curing and preserving Irish
potatoes for winter use. 11. The best variety of On
ion, and the means for their preservation during the
winter. 111. The method of saving seed peas, beans
Ac. IV. Howto secure a good stand of turnips in a
wet or dry season. Y. The value of the root crop,
such as ruta-baga turnips, mangels, carrots, pars
nips, &c. VI. The effect of taking fodder from the
corn before its maturity. VII. The best plan of sav
ing seed corn, wheat, oat«, barley and rye. VIII.
Articles upon the management of stock and poultry.
Contributions upon any of the above subjects will
be thankfully received and duly acknowledged. ts.
New Advertisements,
g OUT HERN FEMALE COLLEGE.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.
EXAMINATIONS (before Committees) — Thurs
day, Friday and Monday, Ist, 2nd and sth of July.
COMMENCEMENT SERMON-July 4th, by Rev.
W. T. Brantly, D.D.
JUVENILE CONCERT-Monday night, sth.
JUNIOR EXHIBITION—Tuesday. 6th.
GRAND CONCERT—Of Vocal and Instrumental
Music—Tuesday Night, 6th.
COMMENCEMENT DAY—Wednesday. 7th of July.
ANNUAL ADDRESS
BY
IIENRY JACKSON, Esq., OF ATLANTA.
2445 ~2t I. F. COX, President.
ADVANCE.
“KIND WORDS” TO BE ISSUED TWICE A MONTH,
AT REDUCED RATES.
TEN THOUSAND NEW NAMES WANTED BY
FIRST OF JULY.
The Board, at its last meeting in order to meet the
wants of ours schools, to increase the usefulness and
double at once the circulation of Kind Words, and to
make it the cheapest and the best Sunday School
paper in the South, resolved to issue it twice each
month, at the following rates, viz :
Single copies 50 cents.
Clubs of 10 and upward, each. 25 cents.
POSTAGE
Is always paid quarterly, in advance, to the post
office where the paper is received, and on Kind
Words is:
10 copies, or under 6 cents.
1 copy. 3 cents.
Will not all the Superintendents in the bounds of
the Southern Baptist Convention interest themselves
in the circulation of the paper, and aid the Board to
make it all that is desirable in a*Sunday School paper ?
The cordial and prompt co-operation of each Super
intendent and Teacher, is most earnestly solicited. Ten
thousand additional subscribers will be needed in
July to cover the extra expense. Shall we not have
them ? Will not the Eastern Schools come to our
help? Address S. C. ROGERS,
Publishing and Depository Agent,
2445—2457-13 t 361 Main street, Mesphis, Tenn.
pi ANO FO RTE S,
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All made with the brilliant Agraffe treble, over
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now in use. We are agents for the sale of the above
Pianos, and to our friends, and all wanting a good in
strument, we would say be sure to call and see them
before purchasing any other. We have testimonials
from Professors and Teachers in all parts of the
country as to their general merit and superiority.
Prices ranging, from $l6O to $1 000.
J. J. & S. P. RICHARDS,
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Bank Block, Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga.
TESTIMONIAL FROM GEN. LEE.
Lexington, March 2, 1868.
My Dear Sir: The Piano which was sent to me, of
your manufacture, in 1865, still retains the excellent
tone and melody it possessed at that time, and con
tinues to afford great gratification to ourselves and
friends. I can, therefore, testify to its good qualities
Yours, respectfully, Robert E. Lee.
To Chas. M. SteifT, Baltimore, Md. 2445—2457-13 t
Advertisements.
ONR O E FEMALE COLLEGE,
lorsyth, Ga.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES, 1869.
Friday, July 2d.— Examination, with Rhetorioal
Reading, by Freshman Class.
Sunday, July 4th.—Commencement Sermon, by Rev.
G. R. McCall, Hawkinsville, Ga.
Monday, July sth.—Examination, with Rhetorical
Reading, by Sophomore Class.
Tuesday, July 6th.—Examination and Junior Exhibi
tion. Concert, 8 o’clock, p.m.
Wednesday, July 7th.—Senior Exhibition and Lite
rary Address, by Hon. Cincinatus Peeples, Griffin, Ga.,
at 8 o’clock, P. M. Address before the AUumn«an
Association, by Col. A. D. Hammond, Forsyth, Ga.
jgF”Fall Term begins Monday, August 2d.
June 12th, 1868. S. G. HILLYER, Pres.
2444, 2446-31. R. T. ASBURY, Sec.
gOUTIIERN BAPTIST
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
GREENVILLE, 8. C.
JAMES P. BOYCE, D.D., Professor of Systematic
Theology.
JOHN A. BROADUS, D.D., Professor of Interpre
ation of the New Testament.
BASIL MANLY, Jr., D.D., Professor of Biblical
Introduction, Polemic Theology, and Preparation and
Delivery of Sermons.
REV. CRAWFORD H. TOY, Professor of Inter
pretation of the Old Testament and Oriental Lan
guages.
WM. WILLIAMS, D.D., Professor of Ecclesiasti
cal History, Church Government and Pastoral Duties.
The next Session (of eight months) opens on
Wednesday, September 1, 1869, when there will be an
Inaugural Address by Prof. Toy. It is on every ac
count important for Students to be present on the
first day.
The studies are exclusively Theological, and em
brace an extensive range of subjects, in which the
best College graduates and those who have only a
plain English education can alike find whatever they
are prepared for and prefer. The whole course re
quires at least three years, but a Student may come
lor only a single Session, and select his subjects, with
aid from the Professors, if desired, and may graduate
in each of the particular schools he attends. No
charges for tuition, nor fees of any kind. Text-Books
lent to those who cannot conveniently purchase them.
Students may board at the Seminary Hall, with rooms
free of rent, and paying only the actual cost of living,
which, for the past Session, averaged $8 25 a month.
Those who prefer it, may board in private families, at
about sls a month. In either case, fuel, lights and
washing will add some $2 50 a month. Brethren
wishing to attend, but unable to command the neces
sary means, will please write promptly to Rev. B.
Manly. Jr., who will arrange lo give them pecuniary
aid. Churches and individual brethren and sisters
are requested to send him contributions, large or
small, for that purpose. Greenville is in a healthy
mountain region, and is reached by railroad, via Co
lumbia, S. C. For further information, Catalogues,
&c., address Rev. James P. Boyce, (Chairman ot the
Faculty,) any of the Professors, or
B. MANLY, Jr.
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rpHE ROLL OF MERCER UNIVERSITY.
The atteTlion of all who have, at any time, been
connected, as students, with Mercer University, is
earnestly invited to the following extract from the
Catalogue of 1868-9. As soon as practicable, cor
respondence will be opened with all who send their
address. ‘
Very respectfully, J. E. WILLET,
Sec. Faculty.
Mercer University , May 21, 1569.
THE LOST CHILDREN.
Many of the children of Mercer University have
strayed so far from their Alma Mater, that all com
munication has ceased. But a parental solicitude is
still felt for these wandering ones. Are they living?
If so, where? and what are their pursuits?—what is
their position, and what is their success in life? Are
they in health and prosperity, or are they wasted and
worn in constitution by the hardships of the tentless
camp and the wearisome march ? Are i hey wounded
or whole? Are their bodies still entire, or are they
mutilated by tne demon of war? Have they passed
from life? If so, where was the sad scene of their
departure? Did they perish in battle, surrounded by
fire, and smoke, and carnage? Or did some far-off
rifleman stealthily murder the picket on his lonely
round? Or did the noble boy fall fainting by the
roadside, on the long march, and die, unpitied and
alone, from hunger, thirst aud exhaustion? Or did
he expire in some huge and ghastly hospital, mocked
by its empty > omforts, or murdered by its heartless
neglect? Or did he languish in some loathsome dun
geon, starving in a land of plenty, and freezing in a
land of Arctic climate, but of abundant fuel? Did
his brave spirit bear up long under the vengeance of
his captors? or did death bring early deliverance ?
Where lies his body ? Was it tenderly cared for and
buried ? or was it rudely thrown into the trench ? or
was it left on the field, the prey of the elements?
These inquiries, and many more, the Alma Mater
would make with all a mother's feelings for her much
loved boys. All her wounds are opened afresh by
the frightful mortality which appears in the published
list of her Alumni. In the class of 1861. more than
one-fourth of the whole number are known to have
been slain ; and for aught that is known, the propor
tion may be larger still!
Besides those who have actually graduated at
Mercer Universi.y, hundreds of other young men
have been enrolled as her students, but who having
taken no degree, are not technically classed with her
Alumni. But a parent feels no less concern for chil
dren who leave home before their majority, than
so r those who remain until legal manhood. The
University claims as her own. and cherishes as sons,
all who derived nourishment from her bosom, whether
they remained to receive academic distinctions or
not.
Alumni, and other former students of the Univer
sity, are alike scattered, not only by the ordinary con
tingencies of life, but by the tremendous emergencies
of war. The lo’ving mother, weeping over those
known to have perished, now anxiously inquires,
“Where are the others?”
EVERY ALUMNUS,
whose eye may fall on these lines, is requested to
send his address at once to the Secretary of the Fac
ulty.
EVERY OLD STUDENT
of Mercer, whether a graduate or not, is requested
to send his address to the Secretary of the Faculty.
FRIENDS OF THE DEAD.
Any one knowing himself to be the next friend of
a deceased Alumuus, or -ther former student of Mer
cer University, is requested to write at once, and
make himself known as such to the Secretary of the
Faculty.
WH.V.T WILL BE DONE.
Correspondence will at once be opened with those
who comply with this request, and certain printed
questions will be propounded to them, the answers
to which will constitute a brief biography of the sons
of Mercer. The information thus obtained will be
digested and classified, and placed among the cher
ished archives of the University, and when the day
of greater prosperity comes, it may be published.
WAR RECORD.
It is especially desirable that the part taken by the
sons of Mercer in the late war, should be matter of
record. It was with this object in view that the plan
was first conceived of collecting the names and ad
dress of ail the living, and of the next friends of the
deceased; but the original thought has been enlarged
upon, and the desire of the Alma Mater now is. to
obtain a brief but succinct history of all her numer
ous children, whether living or dead.
THE LAST APPEAL.
Let every graduate or former student, whether
graduate or not, consider himself personally appealed
to. Some may imagine that their connection with the
institution was so long ago, or for so short a time,
that the fact is devoid of interest; others may sup
pose that their departure from the institution is so
recent as to be of no historic interest, and that all the
facts in reference to them will be remembered by the
Faculty. It is hoped that neither these views nor
any others will prevent prompt response on the part
of all the persons addressed.
In regard to the dead, who cannot respond for
themselves, it is earnestly hoped that some friend
will be influenced by this appeal, and open corres
pondence with the Secretary of the Faculty.
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GEO. S. OBEAR, Secretary.
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C. F. McCAY, Actuary.
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The money retained here will bring better interest,
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Every Southern man will bo sure to assent to this,
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him precisely the'same securities as the Northern
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MOUNT ZION , GEORGIA.
Washington College, Gen. Lee, President, has con
ferred upon this Sohool the Scholarship for this Slate.
“The student wlo may prove the best scholar on
Competitive Examination, will be entitled to one
year’s tuition and College charges, free of expense—
money equivalent, one hundred dollars.” The Rec
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who may prove second, a half scholarship in Wash
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Class in any College, or for Business. Expenses re
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