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Jftbsqltaiuous Department.
BY THE FBOPBIETOB.
To Correspondents.—We beg the brethren generally
i furnish us with news from the churches—ordinations,
tstnral changes, revivals —every thing, in fact, which
■.iters into the current h.story of the denomination.
Such intelligence is always thankfully received and
pnolished 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.
SUPERINTENDENT’* OFFICE, Ga. R. R. Cos. 1
Augusta. Ga., Sept. 9tb, 1809. )
Rev. P. H. Mell, Athens:
Dear Sir—Yours of the 6th received. In reply, we
will pass delegates and visitors attending the Georgia
Baptist Association, at Greensboro, on the second
week in October, at one fare —parties to pay full fare
going, and return free, on presenting certificate of
attendance from the presiding officer of the body.
Respectfully, S. K. JOHNSON, Supt.
Papers discontinued, when so ordered, and
arrearages paid. ts.
To Club Raisers.—To aid all who are engaged
or disposed to enlist in the service of raising clubs
for this paper we w ill furnish from five to twenty
copies per week, from one to tour weeks, without
charge. Inform the Index of the number of
copies which may be used to profit, with the
address of such friend, and the papers will be
sent as directed. ts.
The Index and Baptist sends greeting to its
brethern of the Press in this and adjoining States,
for the many kindly things which have of late
been said of it. These, corning as they do from
journals whose opinions are worth having, are
highly appreciated and warmly treasured up.
Gentlemen, we m ike our profoundest bow, and
hope always to he found worthy of your good
wishes. Next to the great cause inscribed upon
our banner, is held in high esteem a lofty and
dignified journalism, and our humble efforts in
that direction will always be to secure its eleva
tion.
Wonder how marry of those of whom we occa
sionally hear as raising objections to the subscrip
tion price of papers, would be willing to
or 20 cents a pound tor their cotton, 75 cents per
bushel for their corn, 20 cents per pound for their
butter, 10 cents per dozen for eggs, etc. They
demand and must have 25 or 30 cents (or cotton,
$1 50 per bushel for corn, 50 cents for butter, 35
to 40 cents per dozen for eggs, and prices equally
high for such supplies; but publishers must be
willing to take anything they can get—must by
all means reduce the prices of their products.
Oan’t bot'n wheels lie made to revolve more nearly
in the same direction? Why discriminate so
much in favor of the one and against the other?
An officer of the Hinkley Knitting Machine
Company informs Us that “ the Machines are sell
ing rapidly.” They will become as ermmon as
Sewing Machines in a few years, doubtless, and
will be appreciated as highly by the ladies. Fin
ger knitting is too slow and costly for the times.
For a lady to devote a whole week to the knitting
of one pair of stockings, is a great waste of time
and patience. Throw away the old steel knitting
pins, and buy a Machine, with the use of which
you car. knit two or three dozen pairs of socks
per week.
Bloomington Nursery. This advertisement
will surely attract attention. Fruit growers arc
becoming more numerous and on the alert for the
best varieties, which we . regard as a favorable
omen for the country. W ould that their number
should not only he largely increased, but that the
variety and quality of the fruit—apples and pears
especially, should he improved. A friend at
Lexington, Ky., informs us that ho has tried the
fruits, plants, vines, etc., advertised by Mr. Phoe
nix, and knows them to be true to name, healthy
and all that he claims for them. See advertise,
moot.
From September 22d to 29th, remittances were
received from the following brethren and friends.
The figures after the names indicate the number
to which each has paid :
MH Hester, 2489; Mrs M C Skelton, 2507 ;
J S Ilatnncr, 2507; S Belle, 2507; J Branham,
Jr, 2483; Mrs B W Brown, 2507; Mrs A H
Wimberly, 2507; Mrs M Fitzgerald, 2507; J Q
Ellis, 2507; Mrs J Tooke, 2507; Mrs T J Ander
son, 2507; Mrs E F Way, 2507; Mrs F King,
2507; Mrs J Watson, 2507; W VV Ricks, 2507;
McCormick & Oliver, 2507; H Lawson, 2522; J
O Jelks, 2502 ; Mrs S W Brown, 2507; Mrs J L
Anderson, 2507; Rev M B Wharton, 2495; J
Cartledge, 2505; W Dortch, 2505; J F Edens,
2467; Dr C N Mason, 2470; Mrs M A Lidep
2507; J M Hart, 2507; W B O’Brien, 2507; Mrs
E Dodson, 2507; Mrs M E Walker, 2507; W M
Russell, 2507; Rev G W Gunn, 2486; W H Lee,
2506; H S Estes, 2555; J Nunnallv, 2507; B S
Sheats, 2507; JM R Smith, 2507; J C Jackson,
2507; I Powell, 2520; Dr M S Durham, 2470 ;
W Armstrong, 2470; Rev H Jackson, 2470;
Williams & Chapman, 2507; J C Crowder, 2507.
NEWS ITEMS —LOCAL.
We are pained to announce the death of
Naunie Logan, aged twelve yiars, eldest
daughter of Col. J. I. Whitaker, of the In
telligencer. Her funeral will take place to
day.
It gives us pleasure to note the fact that
the city authorities of Atlanta are determined
to establish a system of free school education
in this city at an early day. A joint com
mittee of Council and citizens are now ar
ranging the preliminaries. Success to the
undertaking.
The merchants of Atlanta are receiving
their Fail goods, and commercial circles pre
sent a busy appearance. The traffic in dry
goods this season promises to be unusually
large. We a>e informed that one of our
firms has been selling at the rate ot SIO,OOO
pet day for some time. Dealers in the adja
cent towns and villages will make a note of
this.
The reader wili refer to the fourth page
for commercial and monetary information.
It will be seen that prices in the heavier ar
ticles of prism- necessity are still advancing
The merchants of Atlanta have large stocks
on hand, and the autumn trade has opened
vigorously.
After several much needed and copious
showers of rain in the locality of Atlanta, the
weather has cooled off, and our people are
now enjoying that delightful exhiliaration
which attaches to the spicy breath of the In
dian summer. The first frost was reported
up the State Hoad on Tuesday morning.
The Florida Indians.— We learn, says the
Tampa Peninsular , of the 31st ult., the remanant
of the Seminole Indians of this State are greatly
exasperated at some of their pale faced neighbors.
They allege that one of their tribe has been thrashed
by a white man, that they have been robbed of
their deer skins, aod that the squaw of a sub-chief
who recently died has been taken from her grave,
and the jewe's deposited with her taken and car
ried away. These are mere reports, and we hope
Kire without foundation. It is true that there
at few Indians now in the State, but few r as
ire, they are capable of doing much mischief,
hould be let alone by the white people. The
us, since the close of the late war with them,
been conducting themselves well by being at
nes perlectly friendly to the whites, am} the
jrii te people should treat them in a like frilbdly
cjßftquer. • , -f' a
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: ATLANTA
NEWS ITEMS —GENERA!..
I F. M. Grove, of Monroe county, Ala., died on
the 20th instant.
The residence of N. Owen, near Birnesviliej
was destroyed by fire last week.
Cyrus Northrop declines the Presidency of the
Alabama University.
Slate has been found on the farm of J. P. Ren
fro, in Calhoun county, Ala.
Lewis Lester, an old citizen of Clarke county,
died on the 15th, instant.
During the year ending June 30, there were
659 vessels entered at Mobile not including those
navigating the river and bay.
Dr. Joseph A. Jones, of Augusta, has declined
the position of Professor of Chemistry in the
South Carolina University.
Rev. Chas. Wallace Howard is prospecting the
southern slope of Lookout Mountain for iron, coal
' and petroleum.
Jonathan Wilder, an old citizen of Macon,
Died on Tuesday last.
Mis 9 Mattie Patton, daughter of ex-Gov.
Patton, of Alabama, was married on the
22d inst., to Col. John D. Weeden, of Hunts
ville.
Mr. Goulding was killed at Gordon, (C.
R. R.,) the other day, by a man named Nel
son.
The Mariana (Fla.) Courier publishes the
death of Dr. Nicholas A. Long, a gentleman
well known and much esteemed in Georgia.
The Agricultural Fair, at Opelika, Ala.,
has been postponed until the second day of
November. Great preparations are being
made.
The Gainsville Eagle says the Air Line
Railroad has been placed under contract to
that place.
The Eufaula papers of Thursday say that an
altercation occurred on Tuesday last, near that
city, between Mr. Jacob Palmer and Mr. John
Grubbs, in which the latter drew a revolver and
commenced firing. Three of theshots took effect
upon Mr. P., and proved fatal in about a half
hour. No reliable particulars given by either
paper.
The Howard University, at Washington, has
been presented with a copy of Banyan's “Pil
grim’s Progress” complete, printed in the Chi
nese language. It was brought from China by a
negi o sailor.
Mrs. Tissue Walker, wife of Rev. A. J. Walker,
daughter of Rev. Joseph Camp, died recently,
near Munford, Ala
Jackson, Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson, Madison,
Suwannee and Columbia counties, Florida, have
made larger corn crops than usual. The southern
and south-western counties cut off a good deal.
On the whole the corn crop will be more than an
average.
J. W. Jordan, son-in-law of Mr. Dyke, of
Dougherty county, and the manager on his plan
tation a few miles below Albany, was stabbed
and instantly killed on Tuesday evening last by
Joe Smith, a colored employee on the place.
Archibald W. Oxenidne, one of “Marion’s men”
in the Revolutionary war, died in Phelps county,
Mo., a short time since. He was born on Pedee
River, South Carolina, in 1759, and was 110 years
old at the time of his death. For over forty years
of his life lie was a Baptist preacher.
The Knoxville Herald says that on Saturday
evening, the sth instant, the citizens of Dandridge,
in Jefferson county, were startled by experienc
ing a well defined shock of an earthquake, lasting
nearly a minute. The shock was accompanied by
a loud rumbling noise, occasioning much alarm
among the people. Window paines were broken,
and a prominent citizen of Dandridge says that
lamp chimneys fell and were smashed to pieces.
Beyond these slight effects, no other ill results of
the earthquake occurred.”
Indians in Council. —We clip liie follow
ing from the Tampa Peninsular, of August
25: The Indians are iu Council near the Dig
Cypress, for the purpose of selecting a Chief
ia the place of Tiger Tail, who some time
since committed suicide Ly hanging himself,
and for the purpose of selecting a delegate to
represent them in our State Legislature.
There are the remnants of three tribes, Sem
ino.es, Tallahassees and Miccosukies, repre
sented in the council, each having an aspirant
for the cniefship; but the Miccosukies are
the most numerous, and it is supposed that
the chief will be selected from that tribe.
The Tallahassees, who live on the head waters
o' Peace Creek, have dwindled down to thir
ty, all told, six of w hom are warriors—and
the Seminoles are fast being incorporated
wish the Miccosukies. From the best infor
mation we have, there are not more than 125
warriors, including all males upwards of six
teen tears of age, now remaining iu Florida,
of the once powerful tribe which, for seven
years, defied the authority of the United
States.
Southerners in Europe. —A correspon
dent of the Nashville Banner , writing of
Ilcrne, Switzerland, says :
1 there met and formed the acquaintance
of Governor Jenkins and family, of Georgia,
and a few days after went with them to Thun
and Interlacheu. The Governor proved a
very pleasant companion, his chief topic of
conversation being, however, a vindication of
his course in refusing to deliver up the State-
Treasury at the command of General Meade.
Did you ever see a politician who could talk
about any thing else except himself and an
tecedents? On the 27tli, I reached Lau
sanne, on the Lake of Leman. “ clear, placid
Leman,” and stopped at Hotel Gibbon, where,
in the little garden in its rear, the great and
luminous historian penned the last line of his
wonderful history. Here I met a Mr. Henry
Buist and lady, of South Carolina.
Cuba.-— Admiral Hoff, commanding the U.
S. squadron off the coast of Cuba, thinks
the struggle wili be a prolonged one, unless
the matter should be settled by the negotia
tions now pending between Minister Sickles
and the Spanish government. He thinks,
however, that the policy adopted by our gov
ernment is the correct one, as the best way
to get around the Spaniards jis not to irritate
them, or arouse their hostility. It is his
opinion that the leading men of Spain are
beginning to see that they cannot hold Cuba,
ar.d that the best policy is to accept, the basis
of settlement offered by General Sickles.
The Spanish fleet in Cuban waters, the Ad
miral says, is quite formidable and very ac
tive in watching the coast. In addition to
the large war ships, they have a number of
light draught vessels that are constantly run
ning around the bland watching every thing
in the shape of a vessel. In sailing up and
down the coast, the Admiral’s flagship was
frequently followed by these vessels until
they could ascertain from his movements
where he was going and who he was. The
health of the squadron, the Admiral reports,
was severely tried, and several of the officers
and men died of yellow fever, notwithstand
ing the most strict sanitary regulations were
maintained on every ship. The past season
has been the most sickly that has been expe
rienced in the Wist Indies for many years,
and the Spanish troops have suffered severely
from this cause.
An Indiana paper publishes the following
list of Confederate soldiers from Georgia and
Florida, iutened at that place: Georgia. —J
Harkee; A Owens, Second Georgia Cavalry ;
A Pipkin. Ga. Battery; - Kingham, Sixth
Battery, Georgia Volunteers. Florida. —S
Langanham, J. Crews, Washington Clark, Jas.
Henders, Jno. Harris, It. K. Darbin.
There was a terifie storm at Mariou, Ala.,
week before last. Stephen McCully was
killed by lightning. In addition, several ne
groes were also killed in the same way.
Some damage to crops was also done.
-The Western Crops. —Col. Jones, of the
Culhbert Appeal, who has just returned from
a tour North and West, says :
Suffer, however, a word of advice. A pe
riod of scarcity arid famine is soon to ensue
over a region of country of unparalleled ex
tent. From Middle Georgia to the great
lakes and the Mississippi on the one hand,
and from the Pennsylvania line, all along the
Atlantic slope, until you strike the cotton belt
proper of the South on the other, the corn
crop is a hopeless failure. We assert this
from personal observation and careful inquiry
in a large portion of that region. Many
fields will not produce one peck per acre,
auo, but for an average yield of wheat, those
rich grain growing districts would themselves
be forced to become importers of the cereals.
As it is, hundreds of farmers are already
driving their stock to the Northwest for pas
turage, or selling them at reduced prices.
The hog crop is abundant, but much of it
cannot be properly fatted, and, if sold at all,
must go to the shambles in a lean condition.
We are thus particular in reciting these
facts, because there is yet time for the South
to protect herself against the (amine prices
of the coming year by a wise and timely
foresight in the premises. It is not too late,
even now, to raise on land well enriched a
good crop of rula hega tum-ips, which are
excellent to fatten stock. A portion of the
oat crop, too, should be sowed this fall, and
the remainder in January, to insure an early
or late crop.
Pastures of rye and barley, also, should he
fenced off and "laid down in due season, or
at least all hill-sides beginning to wash should
he devoted to that purpose. It will save the
land, and pay better than any other crop.
In addition, let fall crops of millet bo
planted and highly manured next spring, and
a few acres of early peas, which are fully
equal to corn, when ripe, for mules. These
precautions, with the proper economy in deal
ing out winter food and provender to stock,
will make us independent of the West another
season for supplies. Without them the con
dition of the planter will he pitiable indeed.
True, we have been blessed with a fair yield
of coin in Southwest Georgia ; but who does
not know that enough was not planted for the
wants of our own people ?
We do earnestly trust, therefore, that the
above remarks may he heeded and receive a
practical application.
Atlanta— What People say of Her. —At any
rate she has grown faster and better than any city
on record, and is still on the grow. We say suc
cess to her forever, and to our Roman fellow-citi
zens we say that unless we move more vigorously,
Atlanta will meet us on more than half-way
grounds.— Rome Courier.
Atlanta is no new town to me. I was here at
the commencement of her beautiful and charm
ing growth. When I came, her streets were in
ruins, and neither architect nor mason had pen
ciled or trowled her reconstruction. I was here
when she numbered scarce 6,000 souls, and that
was only in the year 1865. She is wonderfully
changed now. She claims to have 35,000 inhabi
tants, and I don’t doubt it. Grand increase!
Utiequaled ! Atlanta is a grand town. That is
sufficient.— Madison Farm Journal.
Atlanta is what may be truthfully called a live
city, one in which every body vies with his neigh
bor as to who can do the most in the shorter l -1
time. Hundreds of new buildings are in pioecss
of erection, to supply the demand of iLs rapidly
growing population and increasing business. We
have visited many cities and towns, hut never be
fore have found one displaying the energy and
enterprise of the Gate City. Her merchants are
equal to the emergency, and have supplied them
selves with stocks amply sufficient for the de
mands of the large section of country that pour
the abundance of its wealth into her lap. In this
city may he found several first class jobbing houses,
from which country merchants can be supplied
with goods at as low prices and on as good terms
as they can get them in Northern markets, and
we hope they will consider the advantages here
offered, and patronize home merchants, now that
they have the chance.— Sparta Press and Mes
senger.
The editor of the Americas Republican,
says: “There is no rest, no tranquility, no
quiet repose, within its borders. Burn in a
day, it possesses the stirring activity and ex
nberent animation of the young giant, which
it is. With youthful ardor and with youthful
strength it assays every feasible enterprise,
and having accomplished it, turns at once
without resting to the achievement of other
successes. It, is a hard, business place, with
little or nothing apparently of luxurious soft
ness about it. It is a railroad place, and the
several lines of rail which lead off from it to
all points of the compass struck us as the
veins and arteries through which Atlanta, the
great and vibrating heart of material like
themselves, forced the strong, hot currents of
life and power, while receiving from them
reciprocal vitalizing influences.”
The Albany News says: “ Atlanta has
grown vastley since we left there in December
last, and the tingling sound of the trowel and
the merry whistle of the hod carriers may
now be heard in every nook and corner of the
city. We w ere told that eleven hundred and
sixty houses were in process of construction,
and our birds-eye view, from Archer & Son’s
finest turn-out, as we whirled through the
streets, and over the hills and far away, con
vinced us that the statement had much truth
in it. Otherwise we found the city much the
same as when we left it last winter, and Un
people altogether the same genial, pleasant,
rolicking, bustling, busy, energetic, progess
ive enterprising phenomena they were then.
They are a wonderful people, and wisely san
guine that the Gate City is only in its infancy.
This letter is written from a city in which eleven
hundred and fifty new houses are building and just
completed, or perhaps as many as are being construct
ed iu any city ot the Continent. What this assertion
means, tt is not much easier to describe than by say
ing that the side of every square averages at least one
new building; that scatfolding and half completed
walls intercept the view of every window, and that
the tingle of the bricklayer drowns even the screams
of the ever arriving locomotives. The place has a
magaificent opera house, (though it knows little
enough about music, and is never likely to know more;
and though, too, the building has been disposed of to
the Legislature.) Besides the opera, there are several
churches, including the Baptist and Catholic, that arc
being erected upon a grand scale, and when it is
added lhat the Granite Stone Mountain is but a few’
miles distant, besides innumerable quarries in the im
mediate neighborhood of the city, an idea of the value
and permanence of some of these structures may be
readily formed.
At any rate, any one who now treads the new city,
and with difficulty endeavors to discover in the
streets of to-day those which existed before the war,
will find some difficulty in realizing that the whole
place, including several churches and institut oils of
learning, were consigned to the flames, and lhat At
lanta, like another Moscow, was two or three days
in burning. None, in fact, of the old houses, except
in the suburbs, are left standing, or, except those in
which the fires that had been kindled were extin
guished by the exertions of interested individuals.
The most obvious characteristic of the place is tho
energy and life there is about the inhabitants, and
the honest, lair and friendly dealing amongst them.
The next is the extraordinary number of citizens
dressed in spun truck and homespun, and whom you
would rather imag ne to be fresh importations from
obscure back-woods villages than leading business
men of a place containing over 30,000 inhabitants.
Tnis latter fact is readily accounted for by its history.
The whole of the present city sold fora horse twenty
years ago, and the inhabitants had to come from
somewhere. The rise ot Atlanta was at the cost of
the interior towns and villages that were in the vicin
ity of the rising city. Their inhabitants were sucked
i .to the limits of Atlanta like vessels in a malestrom,
and this in spite of frequent and sometimes deserved
ridicule from older towns—themselves not unfrequenl
ly the sufferers iroui the growth of the young rival.
The consequences of this gourd vine prosperity can
be readily detected in the neighboring villages, even at
a hundred miles distant.— Cor. N. O. Times.
The Savannah Republican of the 1 st, says:
“ The first bag of sea island cotton from the
islands oft' the coast of South Carolina, was
received in Charleston on Saturday last. It
was from the plantation of Mr. Chadwick, on
Wadmalaw Island. Another bag of the
staple was received iu the above named city
from Florida, on Saturday, by the Steamer
Dictator. It was shipped from Gainesville.”
California Grapes in New Yoyk.— A New
York Correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune
says :
“ A pile of money was lost in the first venture
of California grapes to this market by rail, for
their condition was such th_t three-fourths of
them had to be thrown away. Better luck how
ever, attended the second shipment, and the result
is our fruit stores are daily turned into California
vineyards, and the lover of delicious grapes can
buy almost any variety from twenty-five to fifty
cents a pound.
That this is bitter grapes to growers of the
“ Hamburg,” “ Black Prince,” and other choice
varieties in this reigon, you may readily imagine,
when I tell you that the successful introduction
of the California has knocked down the price of
Hambnrgs from two dollars to sixty cents a pound.
This is retail. What the growers of the famous
hot-house grapes get for their production I do not
know, but it looks to me as if Othello’s occupa
tion was about gomi, for it is nonsense to suppose
that we, in a hot-house , can compete with the
broad and unending vineyards of the Golden
State.”
A Simple but Sure Core for Cancer.
The following, w4*eh I find in an old paper, I
offer for those who may he afflicted with cancers.
I cannot say that it is a sure remedy, but it is at
least a simple one; and if it does no good, it will,
I think, do no harm to try it. If any of our
readers have tried it, or should hereafter do so,
and find it effectual, | hope they will make public
the fact, that others may be benefitted. We must |
all do what we caiiAto help each other in this .
vale of tears:
“ Take sheep somri. wash clean from grit, and
bruise or beat it ujsn a plank ; press the juice !
from it into a pewter ve«sel, and no other ; put it j
in the sun, and takeefcre that no water gets in it; ;
it will then evaporate into a substance thick j
enough to spread as a plaster ; apply it to the 1
parts affected, and let it remain until disposed to j
come ofi of itself, say about two days; then re- j
peat it with anew plaster, until you have the de- :
sired effect; wash the sore with casteil soap, and !
dress it with healing plaster.”
In relation to cancers, I would say to those af- j
dieted with them to allow no old women or ignor
ant “cancer doctors” to meddle with them. Ten
times to one they wifi make the matter worse j
A man in this county- -Surry, Va. —lost his life j
last year under the treatment of a “doctor” from
Norfolk. Better consult first your own family j
physician. Educated advice will prove cheapest j
in the end. B W. J.
imperial JMigious JJote.
National Baptist Sunday School Convention
and Institute.
At St. Lori.*,
November 2nd, 3/d, and 4///, 1869.
LOCAL COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The brethren of St. Louis extend to the Baptist
Sunday school worker* of the United Slates a cordial
invitation to assemble wilh them in this National
Convocation.
All who propose attending the Convention and In
stitute, will please forward their names as early as
possible, to either of the undersigned, and cards of
introduction will be returned assigning them homes
during their stay. It is important that we learn the
number that will probably be in attendance, as early
as practicable.
Delegates desiring tickets lo the social entertain
ment, to be held at Mercantile Library Hall, in con
nection with the closing exercises of the Convention
and Institute, can secure them by remiting one dol
lar. A limited number otltickets will be issued, and
it is hoped that brt lhrenlTJm abroad, that may desire
them, will receive them a: early as possible.
Half-fare arrangements are being made with the
several railroads and packet companies. Announce
ments in detail regardig(|Mslh«m will be made at an
early day. E. D. Jones, Chairman.
E. 11. E. Jameson. Secretary.
2458—41.
Take £Totice.
The Executive Committee, appointed by the West
ern Association, at its recent session, consisting of
U. B. Wilkinson, John E. Robinson, J. C. Smith, W.
D. Orr. Rev. 11. R. Jackson,C. Ware, W. C. Barnes,
B. C. Johnson, A. L. Anthony. A. F. Kendrick and J.
F. Awlrey, are hereby notified that there will be a
meeting of the Committee in Newnan, on the Wed
nesday before the 4ih Sabbath in October, commenc
ing at 10 o’clock, A.M. As it will be the first meeting of
the Committee, it is very important that every mem
ber should be present. The business of the Com
inittee will be to provide some one to labor as an
Evangelist in the bounds oft be Western Association,
and to provide means to sustain the mission.
J. F. Awtrgy.
September 22, 1869.
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feature to it, in the shape of an Eight Quarto Page
Supplement , to be issued once a month, and to be a
medium through which subscribers to the Christian
Index will receive a rich store ol “ Choice Literary
and Domestic Gleanings,” from the vast and fresh
fields of Literature, and the qbiet walks of Domestic.
Life. It is believed that an existing want in the
home circle will thus he supplied, and lhat families
will find leod for reflection, as well as delightful en
tertainment arid recreation, the choice reading
matter which it is designed to furnish them in the
proposed supplement. Not romance and indifferent
poetical effusions, but the choicest gems of solid Lit
orature - sketches of travel, extracts from new books,
biographies, educational notes, historical incidents
etc.; to which will he added valuable domestic in
formation for the garden and culinary department.
It is contemplated to make the latter feature especial
ly useful tothe ladies in their every day home duties ;
will also be of special interest to Farmers.
This new Supplement to the Christian Index will
have for a name.
THE HAPPY HOME;
Or, Choice Literary anil Domestic Gleanings,
and will comprise eight elegantly printed quarto
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who have b-en for so many years the steadfast friends
of the paper. Parties wishing The Happv Home
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terms ot Index.) would seem to constitute induce
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ly hopes and expects that tho large additional expen
dtftmPof money and labor which The Hoauc.
will necessitate, will be returned to hiftiTTOfing tin*,
year in new accessions to his subscription list.
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lers his services as Teacher the ensuing year. A
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or Academy, preferred. Address
TEACHER,
2457- Jonesboro, Ga.
A full graduate of Hollins Institute. Va., wishes a
situation us a Teacher in some High School for young
ladies, or in a private family. She has no objection
to going South or West.
The scholarship of this young lady is extensive
and thorough, and her character and principles are
such as eminently adapt her to the companionship or
superintendence of children and youth. Her em
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0.. Hanover county, Va. CHAS. L. COtKE,
2457-3 t Supt. of Ilollins Institute.
A graduate of Mercer University, in this State, who
has determined to adopt teaching as a profession, de
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Satisfactory references given. Address Box 28,
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500 Acres, Closely Planted.
All (’ion* and Buds cut by careful hands, and from
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His Peach Trees are wholly free from the '‘Yellows”
arid his entire stock is healthy and vigorous.
When Plants. Vines, Trees, etc., are sent out, they
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Pear; 45 of Peach; 20 of Plum and Cherry; 35 ol
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F. K. PHCENIX,
2457 —2459-31 Bloomington, 111.
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Ho’ Knits with all the machinery in full view of op
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• 29. Knits Figures, Letters, or Monograms for AH
ghans.
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Win. pr.ici.ee
and in the United Stales
•ern District of Georgia.
Office over Ga. National Bank, Ala. Street.
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JIN FI R M ARY FO R THE BLIND.
DR. W. A. HOOTEN
Hns permanently located in
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
He has opened a large und commodious Infirmary for
the Blind. He is treatiug diseases of the Eye success
fully, giving his personal attention to all cases pre
sented. Dr Hooteu was blind three years himself, and
after having exhasuted, as he thought, the skill of the
Medical Profession both North and South, he came into
possession of a svstem of treatment bv which he was
soon restored to sight. He was a graduated physician
and successful practitioner before he became blind. Ho
practices the same system b.v which he was restored.
In the past twelve years he has perfectly and perma
nently restored a great many persons from total blind
ness.
To remove from the minds of the most credulous any
prejudices that may arise, he refers the public to the
following first class names, giving the post office ad
dress of each, and proposes that, lor proof that any of
the certificates herein published by him are not genu
ine, or that these cures wore not affected by him as
therein stated, to pay to the order of the individual pro
ducing said proof, five thousand dollars.
references:
Gen. J. B. Gordon, Atlanta, Ga.
•Col. W. H. Prtiden, Dalton Ga.
Rev. Isham J. Wood, Rome, Ga.
Prof, S G. Hillyer, Cai tersville, Ga.
•Capt. W. T. Callier, Calhoun, Ga.
,Rev. B. L. Ross, M.D., Fort Valley, Ga.
■G. S. Dasher, Conductors. W. Railroad, Ga.
J. F. Fox, President Female College, LaGrange, Ga.
•Col. B. A• Thornton, Columbus, Ga.
Hoc. C. B. Wooten, Dawson, Ga.
Dr. J. T. Roberson, Eufaula, Ala.
Hon. Chuiies A Stanton, Tuskegee, Ala.
Dr. W- \V. Ford, Amerieus, Ga.
Dr. F. F. Taber, Ag’t. Jour, dk Mess., Macon, Ga.
Rev. J. F. Hooten, Atlanta, Ga.
Col. 11. C. Hooter., Union Springs, Ala. <(
Hon. W. H. C. Ouvenport, Lone Star, Texas.
R. G. Holloway, Esq., Cotton Hill, Ga.
lion. W. M. Tumlin, Culhbert, Ga.
T. N. Vintug, Esq., Macon, Ga.
Hon- J. T. Clark, Cuthbert, Ga.
Thus. W. Johnson, Proprietor Eating House, Smith
wille, Ga.
Rev. Thos. H. Muse, Cuthbert, Ga.
Rev. T. H. Murphy, iiogansville, Ga.
Hon. James Hilliard, Quitman, Brooks co., Ga.
CERTIFICATES:
For the benefit of those suffering with sore eyes, and
In justice to Dr. Hooten, I will state that I took my
•wile to Dr. Hooten on the 7th of May, 1868, entirely
blind—.tb-e result of u very high degree of inflamation
of the eyes. She commenced improving very soon un
der his treatment, and continued to improve rapidly
until quite-restored to sight. On the 15th day of July
following she returned home with her sight entirely re
stored, witbout-theslightesi inflammation about her eyes
perceptible. I feel safe in recommending Dr. Hooten
to everv one suffering with the’r eyes.
8. S. DUNLAP, firm of Morgan A Dunlap.
Macon, Ga,, July 25, 1858.
1 have been afflicted with Granular Conjunctivitis
three years. Eor the last twelve months I have been
almost blind. 1 had to give up the management of all
any business in consequence of this affliction. I have
been under the treatment of Dr. Hooten three weeks.
In about four days l could see to make my way with
out inconvenience. I think I can now see us well as I
■ever could. The disease appears to be removed, and I
Billy believe that my eyes will be as good as they ever
•were. In the short time that I have been under Dr.
Hooten, I have seen persons who came to him blind,
•who are now entirely restored to sight. lie has a large
number of patients, and so far as my knowledge ex
tends. they are, almost, without exception, improving
we ll. B. F. COWART.
Macon, Ga., Aug. 13, 1869.
For five years 1 have suffered greatly from Granular
For two years I have been unable to
gi.ve personal attention to my affairs. During the five
years-of my affliction I tried"many eminent physicians,
m vaiu. The result was—blindness. In this distress
ing condition, I placed myself under the treatment of
Dr. Hooten, three weeks ago. In one week I could see
to make any way alone over the city. In two weeks I
•wrote a long letter home to my family, with mv own
band. To-day, the end of three weeks, 1 have indulged
in reading fine print. I have every reason to believe
lhat I shall soon be restored, f have conversed with
■many persons whom Dr. Hooten has entirely cured,
and I leel safe in advising all who are afflicted with
diseased eyes, to make no delay in giving him a tr-al.
Let every u-iend of suffering humanity take every op
portunity of placing this certificate in the hands of the
afflicted, C. B. McCotchen.
Franklin, Ga., Aug. 18, 1869.
(Communicated,)
®R. *9OTEN’B INFIRMARY for THE BLIND —IMPORTANT IN
FORMATION TO THOSE AFFLICTED WITH DISEASE OF BYES
—VO HUMBUG.
Aware that there are many persons who are assidu
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sion that Dr. Hooten is a
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