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ABDIEL NF.KODA.
An “old pilgrim ” published in our
paper a few years since, a portion of his
“ autobiography,” with the name pre
fixed to this article subscribed to it.
We had supposed that, ere this, they
had wholly passed from the memory of
man. Indeed, they had well nigh passed
out of our memory, but the recollec
tion thereof has been vividly revived
by a letter from an Alabama corres
pondent, who inclosed us fifty cents,
and requested us to send him an equiv
alent in “ The Christian Enquirer and
Abdiel Nekoda, or the Autobiography
of an old Pilgrim.’’ As the autobiog
raphy has never been published in pam
phlet or book form, we cannot, of
course, comply with his request. Our
object in writing that series of articles
was to unfold the character of true con
version, and correct many radical errors
in reference to it. The object was a
good one, and the subject one of ines
timable importance. We would be
willing to revise the series, and follow
them with articles designed to promote
an entire consecration to God, and an
unwavering confidence in his faithful
ness to fulfil every promise he has made
to the truly converted, and transfer
them to any one who would undertake
to publish them, or extract from them,
for the benefit of inquirers after Di
vine truth. We would cheerfully al
low the publisher to condense our state
ments, and append such notes and com
ments as he might think proper to add
—and to pocket all the profits from the
publication of the same, should there
be any.
Personals. —We were gratified last
week by a visit from Judge Burney, of
Madison. He is one of the oldest
ministers of our denomination in
Georgia —a noble Patriarch. We re
gret to learn that his sight is almost
entirely destroyed—that of the left eye
is entirely gone, while a cataract is
forming over the right. His mental
vision, however, is undimmed by the
lapse of years.
—Rev. R. W. Fuller, who is with us
often, has left the city for a trip along
the line of the Atlanta and West Point
Railroad, and will be glad to serve any
who may desire to take The Index.
We commend him and his work to the
favor of brethren generally.
—Dr. H. H. Tucker, the eminent di
vine and worthy chancellor of our
State University, favored us by his
presence during the last week, seem
ingly in fine health, with the full vigor
and freshness of his youth. He is one
of those men who appear never to
grow old. His flow of spirit is like that
of a mountain stream. Dr. Tucker
has no superior and few equals, as a
minister, and we learn from all sources,
that his administration as chancellor
is giving great satisfaction. The Uni
versity is now in as prosperous a con
dition as at any period since the war.
—We had the pleasure of meeting
two of our highly esteemed brethren in
The Index office last week, Rev. J. J.
Hegman, of Washington county, and
Rev. 0. H. Strickland, of Greensboro.
We reiterate the hope that all brethren
who visit the city, will call at The In
dex office We are always happy to
see them.
—Brother C. M. Irwin spent most of
the last week with us, and it affords us
pleasure to inform his numerous friends
that he is rapidly recovering from the
long spell of sickness by which he has
been recently afflicted.
—Dr. E. W. Warren, also, gave us a
call last week, before his departure for
Richmond, Va., whither he has gone on
a short visit. Members of the First
church had better keep him at home.
Personal contact with his worth might
cause others to seek and appropri
ate him.
Portraits. —We see, from the editorial
department of Kind Words, that portraits of
various Southern Baptist missionaries are seen
to appear—such as Dr. G. B. Taylor, Dr. H.
F. Buckner, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford, and Mrs.
Holmes.
The paper that thus patronizes our mis
sionaries and mission work, should be widely
extended among the Baptist children of the
South.
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jS ECULAR JIDITORIALS.
Excellent Appointments. — The
Governor has appointed Hon. Richard
H. Clarke judge of the City Court of
Atlanta, and Hon. Cincinnatus Peeples
Judge of the Superior Court of the
Atlanta Circuit, vice Hou. John L. Hop
kins, resigned. Both of these appoint
ments have been confirmed by the
Senate, and we congratulate the peo
ple of Atlanta, and Atlanta Circuit, in
view of the most excellent men who
have been called to these important
positions.
Judge Clarke is a gentleman of abilty
and moral purity, and Judge Peeples
we regard as one of Georgia’s best
citizens and ablest lawyers. Both of
these appointments will be endorsed
by the people.
The State University. —ln this
issue will be found a card signed by
Hon. Wm. L. Mitchell, Chairman of
the Prudential committee of the State
University, relative to the rumor pub
lished in a few of our State papers,
that the discipline at this excellent seat
of learning is not what it ought to be.
This unfounded rumor, our readers will
see, is authoritatively denied.
We have official assurance that
the condition of the University, the
pride of our State, is all that its best
friends can desire. Every department
works like clock work, and its able and
distinguished Chancellor, with his fine
corps of assistants, have reason to
congratulate themselves on the popu
larity enjoyed by the University, and
the appreciation their labor meets with
among the people of Georgia.
The Blind Asylum. —The Superin
tendent of this humane institution,
with a goodly number of bis household,
paid a visit to our city last week, and
edified a large audience by an exhibit
of their excellent musical talents and
attainments.
This Asylum, which is one of Geor
gia’s noblest charities, is located at the
city of Macon, and is under the imme
diate care of Mr. Williams. There is
no man in the State who could prove
more devoted to the duties of his po
sition than the present large-hearted
Superintendent. Touched, at all times,
with sympathy for the infirmities of
the members of bis charge, he labors
with fraternal tenderness to mollify
their afflictions, and fit each for the
greatest degree of usefulness attaina
ble. Much has been done to give charm
to the lives of those in his care who
are doomed to blindness. Though ma
terial light can exert no influence for
them; though the loveliness and gran
deur of the objects of earth are as
nothing to these sightless mortals;
the purer and more enduring loveliness
of moral principles, and the grandeur
of their practical illustration and re
sults, are made to illuminate their
minds with a steady glow.
Various branches of education are
taught through the medium of sound
and feeling, and instruction in orna
mental and useful arts is given.
Many of the pupils are proficient in
music, to which they are not only de
voted, but for which they possess more
than ordinary genius.
Georgia has done much for this In
stitution, and will continue to foster
and cherish it with laudable pride and
liberality.
Concluding, we will say, in justice to
the Superintendent, that his financial
management of the Asylum has met
with the unanimous approval of the
people’s representatives, bearing the
clear marks of honesty and economy at
all times, not even excepting the period
when the profligacy and robbery of
Radicalism outraged the rights of
Georgians. He is an honest man and
performs his duties well.
OurGallerj. —Only a few minis
ters have, up to this date, responded
to our request for their photographs
for the gallery we have in contempla
tion. We hereby renew that request,
and trust it may receive prompt at
tention, as delay may defeat our pur
pose in the matter.
Literature Secular Editorials Current Notes and News.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1876.
LITERARY GOSSIP.
—Copies of the text of the fragments
of the newly-discovered cuneiform tab
lets, which contain the Chaldean ac
count of the Creation, are being made
by the Society of Biblical Archaeology,
in England.
—Messrs. Hurd and Houghton have
in preparation, a translation of Dr.
Emil Schurer’s Manuel of the History
of the New Testament Period. The
work, has attracted much attention in
Germany. Prof. P. H. Steenstra, of
the Episcopal Theological School,
Cambridge, is the translator.
—Prof. John Stuart Blackie is at
work on “The Natural History of Athe
ism.”
—Dean Howson is at work on anew
Commentary on the Book of Acts.
—Tennyson’s “Elaine” and Enid,”
have been translated into Spanish.
—The following little gem is from,
the pen of a common English laborer,
whose effusions have already attracted
attention in England. As in the case
of Burns, Hogg, Bloomfield, p,nd oth
ers, they again illustrate the fact that
genius is no respector of persons, and
bestows her crown on peasant and lord
alike, with an apparent leaning in fa
vor of the humbler class. This is true
poetry, and, in our opinion, these two
modest stanzas are worth an occa
sional page of Tennyson or Browning,
and all of the transcendental school of
sublimated bosh, frequently imitated
on this side of the Atlantic. The lines
were inspired by the killing of the au
thor’s child by the falling of a beam :
Sweet laughing child ! the cottage door
Stands free and open now ;
But oh! its sunshine gilds no more
The gladness of thy brow!
Thy merry step hath passed away;
Thy laughing sport is hushed for aye.
Thy mother by the fireside sits,
And listens for thy call;
And slowly, slowly, as she knits,
Her quiet tears downfall;
Her little hindering thing is gone,
And undisturbed she may work on!
—Mrs. Augusta J. Evans Wilson
has realized by her writings, within
the last eight years, one hundred tlnytif
sand dollars.
—Miss Alcott’s beautiful story,
“Little Women,” tbe publishers say,
has been sold to the number of nearly
one million copies.
Remember the Poor. —There are
thousands of worthy Baptists in the
South who from extreme poverty, and
a variety of causes, are denied the
blessings of regular attendance upon
the preaching of the Gospel. These good
men and women, and their famlies,
should not be left thus neglected. It
would be a most appropriate act of
Christian benevolence to send The In
dex to this class of our denomination.
Each brother, who is blessed with this
world’s possessions, would do a most
excellent work by selecting some worthy
Baptist family suffering from poverty,
and send to them The Index for at
least one year. The good which might
be accomplished by observing this sug
gestion would be incalculable ; and the
resulting happiness of the beneficiaries
beyond human estimation. It is the
province of all Christians to do good
as they have opportunity ; they are all
stewards, who must give a strict ac
count for the manner in which they
have employed the talents committed
to them.
We make this suggestion in behalf
of the poor, and trust it will not be
passed heedlessly by. If each wealthy
member of our denomination in Geor
gia will perform his part well, in this
particular, The Index will visit each
indigent family weekly, fraught with
joyful tidings and healthy moral pre
cepts.
Something Old.— Mrs. C. N. May
son of Kingston, Georgia, has in her
possession a copy of Dr. John Gill’s
Exposition of the Prophets, printed in
1757, and a newspaper edited by James
Franklin 117 years ago, both of which
she desires to dispose of.
The Albany News says : “Nearly
all the planters in this section, have
procured their quota of labor, and
gone to work vigorously for another
crop. “Never say die! ”is their motto,
and their resolves to go forward and
recover last year’s losses is highly com
mendable and most gratifying.”
GEORGIA NEWS.
—While a number of gentlemen were
engaged in covering the church build
ing at “Prospect,” in Jackson county,
a scaffold gave way, precipitating some
ten of the party to the ground. Three
of the ten were injured—one, Mr.
Green Wallace, badly—the other two,
Messrs. King and Wages, slightly.
—The Good Templars’ lodge in
Carnesville has been reorganized.
—The total number of acres of im
proved land, in Georgia, is 28,202,795
acres, valued at $95,421,177. The wild
lands sum up 706,866 acres, assessed at
$3,096,507. The average value of the
improved is $3,38! per acre > and the
wild land 29| cents per acre.
—Large quantities of pork, stored
by our farmers for winter use, were
spoiled by the recent extraordinarily
warm spell of weather.
—The aggregate value of all taxable
property in the State amounts to $261,,
755,884 against $273,093,292 for 1874,
showing a decrease of $11,337,408,
nearly half of which, or $6,385,680,
resulted from the exemption of SSO for
household and kitchen furniture, by the
last Legislature, to each head of a fam
ily. The remainder can readily be ac
counted for by the general shrinkage
in values of every description.
—Oranges are successfully cultivated
in Sumter county.
—The Dahlonega Signal says:
“Notwithstanding the large number of
students here, and the hundreds of
miners at work in our town and sub
urbs, we can justly boast of the most
quiet and orderly place in the State.
Cause—no whisky under any pretence
to be had here.
—Hon. A. C. Pate has been reap
pointed and confirmed judge of the
Oconee circuit.
—At ameeting held by the committee
appointed at the Canton mass-meeting,
called to urge the improvement of
Etowah river, it was agreed that the
.municipal corporations and towns
along the line of the Etowah river be
requested to appropriate a sum of
money to defray the expenses of an
agent to remain in Washington City to
look after t he interest of the memorial
in Congress, and to aid in giving the
proper information for the enlighten
ment of the members of Congress on
the importance to tbe country of an
appropriation for the improvement of
the Etowah river, and to lay all the facts
of necessity demanding such impove
ments.
—The post-office at Enon Grove,
Heard county, has been re-established.
—The Griffin News says: “We
learned from < ne of our farming friends
yesterday, that the prospect for a wheat
crop was never better at this season,
and that the farmers are determined
to plant more corn and less cotton, so
they might be more independent and
live at home.”
—A Library Association is contem
plated at Newnan.
—The Carroll County Times says:
“Avery sad accident happened in the
Eleventh district the other day. Mr.
John McGarity, jr., was playing with
a little child, by tossing it up and down,
and as it came down, he, unfortunately,
missed his hold on it, and let it fall to
the floor, crushing its skull, and bruis
ing it up considerably. Its condition,
at last accounts, was thought exceed
ingly precarious.”
—Mr. Haywood Barrow, one of the
oldest citizens of West Point, died at
his residence recently.
—The whole number of polls in the
State is 209,338, of whom 121,819 are
white, and 87,569 colored. The school
children between six and eighteeu
years of age, including Confederate
soldiers under thirty years, count 400,-
891. For the free education of these,
in the several counties, $151,304 were
expended during the past year.
—The Presbyterian church at Darien
was recently dedicated by Rev. C. B.
King. Rev. A. B. Curry is the pastor.
—Chatham county has $4,089,817
invested in stocks and securities. Ful
ton $2,554,806, and Bibb $780,739.
—Marietta has declared, by a late
municipal vote, that her people shall
in future be saved from the baneful
effects of bar-rooms. We congratulate
her fathers, and mothers, and poor bro
ken-hearted wives and daughters, upon
this auspicious event.
—lt is estimated that Georgia con
tains 150,000 dogs. Taxed at one dol
lar per head, what a handsome divi
dend it would add to our public school
fund.
—The citizens of Monroe county, at
a recent mass-meeting, protested
against the unneceasary taxation to
which they allege they are subjected.
—The Middle Georgiy, Co-operative
Grange, at a meeting in Griffin, re
solved to form at that place a Pomona
Grange, consisting of forty subordi
nate Granges.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Jack, one of the
first settlers of Rome, died near that
city last week ; aged 78.
—The Cartersville Express says:
“We have a plethora of corn in our
county; price, 55 to 60 cents per
bushel. Oats, hay and shucks, and all
si ch provender, are lower in price than
since 1860.”
A German is looking around the
country near Dahlonega, for the pur
pose of selecting a good place for the
establishment of a colony from Lor
raine, who will devote themselves to
the culture of grapes.
—A national bank will soon be
opened in Rome.
—A number of gentlemen near
Woodville, have opened a store at that
place, on the co-operation plan, and are
succeeding even beyond their most san
guine expectatious.
—Hon. Alexander H. Stephens will
not be able to go to Congress this ses
sion.
—Hon. Cincinnatus Peeples has been
appointed ; Judge of Fulton Superior
Court, in place of Judge Hopkins, re
signed.
i —Judge Richard H, Clarke has been
appointed Judge of the City Court of
Atlanta.
—At a meeting of the stockholders
of the Terrell Industrial Association,
on the 14th instant, S. R. Weston was
elected President, and Judge S. L.
Williams and Dr. J. R. Janes, Vice
Presidents; Dr. W. W. Farnum, Sec
retary, and Dr. R. J. Janes, Treasurer.
Capt. J. W. Roberts, Hon. W. G.
Simpson, E. Bellflower, J. W. Ragan,
J. P. Sharp, J. B. Crim, Capt. R. F.
Simmons, Maj. M. A. Huson and
Judge W. G. Parks were elected a
Board of Directors. S. R. Weston, J.
W. Roberts and R. F. Simmons were
elected’delegates to the Agricultural
Convention, to be held in Brunswick,
on the Bth of February.
—Mrs. Cochrane and her little
daughter were brutally murdered at
Eden, and the house robbed. The
coroner’s jury has returned a verdict
charging Prince Roberson and Paul
Campbell, negroes, with the crimes.
These negroes were carried to Savan
nah, and are now in jail. The evidence
against them is only circumstantial,
but it is believed that before the trial
additional facts will be developed
which will leave no doubt as to their
guilt.
—The Talbotton Standard says :
“Just across the river from Talbot, in Up
son county, lives Charles Dußignon, colored,
late of Spain and other foreign countries.
The Colonel, hy actual count, has lived a
century and a quarter in this vale of tears.
His former master, Colonel Dußignon, who is
now dead, was a witness to his age. The old
fellow is as agile as a kitten now, and treads
the earth with remarkable vigor. On last
Wednesday he was baptised by immersion, in
Flint river, having recently joined the Bap
tist church. A friend of ours happened to be
passing the river at the time and witnessed the
novel occurrence. This remarkable old negro
is a real character, then, and no mistake. He
gives a clear autobiography of himself in
which he explains his transit from Africa.
When quite an athletic young African, he
was captured by the Spanish and carried to
that country, and sold as a slave. He now
is probably the oldest man in United
States. YVe get these facts from the most au
thentic source.
—The Methodists, of Newnan, pro
pose another entertainment at an early
day, for the benefit of their church.
—Rev. Robert F. Jones, late editor
of the Senoia Enterprise, and former
preacher in charge of the Senoia cir
cuit, died of consumption on the 17th
instant.
—Ora, a little daughter of Mr. Virgil
S. Roberts, of Greensboro, was burned
to death last week.
—The new Methodist church, (color
ed), in Dahlonega, is about completed.
S3 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
THE LIGHT OF LOVE,
FIRST VOICE.
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Dear light of Love divine !
Bright on onr pathway shine :
And guide the pilgrim’s sight
To holy lands of Light,
Beyond the grave.
—Charles W. Hubnbb.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
DOMESTIC.
The proprietors of the new paper, called the
Indian Progress, started at Muscogee, Creek
Nation, were ordered to leave the Nation, and
their property was confiscated by order of the
National Council, on the plea that they advo
cated the policy of a territorial government, to
which the Indians are opposed.
—The wife of ex-President Andrew Johnson
died at her daughter’s (Mrs. Judge Patterson)
residence a few days ago.
—Hon. James B. Beck has been elected
United States Senator from Kentucky, to suc
ceed Mr. Stevenson.
—The receipts for the fiscal year to date
have been from Internal Revenue $64,500,000,
and from customs $84,375,000.
—Great frauds have again been discovered in
the United States post-office department.
—Whittle and Bliss have begun a series of
revival meetings in St. Louis.
—Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar has been elected to
the United States Senate from Mississippi.
—The Indians in Arizona Territory arc
troublesome. War is apprehended.
—Arkansas is flooded with rains.
—The Supreme Court of Michigan has de
cided that the Sunday liquor law, enacted at
the last session of the legislature, is constitu
tional.
—A General Christian Evangelical Associ
ation is in session in Philadelphia under the
auspices of Moody, the evangelist.
FOREIGN.
Telegraph lines are now running to Central
Africa. A telegraph office has been establish
ed at El Obeyd.
Heavy storms in England have caused loss
of life and great damage.
—A terrible railroad collision took place on
the Great Northern road near Huntingdon,
England. A large number of people were
killed and wounded.
—1 he city of Trebinge is surrounded by in
surgents, and the citizens are on the point of
starvation.
—Henry Varley, the English evangelist, is
dead. His visit to this country last year was
marked by very successful meetings.
A Madrid correspondent says the Romanist
electoral agitation is increasing, but the min
isterial candidates are certain of a majority.
The archbishops and bishops have signed pe
titions to the King in favor of religious unity.
Pastorals have been issued by the bishops of
Catalonia, Saragosa and Burgos, advising the
people to vote only for candidates who support
religious unity. These acts of the clergy have
created a marked sensation.
—A Berlin dispatch says the police dis
covered that Thomas, the author of the Bre
merhafen crime, was charged, in 1866, with
scuttling a ship, on board of which he had
goods, insured in England for twenty-four
thousand pounds. He was arrested, but sub
sequently effected his release.
—The North Georgia Mining Com
pany have discovered a copper mine on
their lands, near Rockmart.
THE PRICE OF A PLEASURE.
Upon the valley’s lap
The liberal morning throws
A thousand drops of dew,
To wake a single rose.
Thus often, in the course
Of life’s few fleeting years,
A single pleasure eosts
The soul a thousand tears.
Do not think of one falsity as harm
less, and another as slight, and anoth
er as unintended. Cast them all aside*
They may be light and accidental, but
they are an ugly soot from the smoke
of the pit, for all that; and it is bet
ter that our hearts should be swept
clean of them, without over care as to
which is the largest and blackest.
—More than one-half of the church mem
bers of Richmond, Va., are Baptists. The
total of this denomination in that city is 14,-
292. The last year’s increase amounted to
1,468, while the aggregate additions to *ll
other denominations was only 662.
—A recent revival meeting at lomcbburg,
Va., resulted in forty additions to. the chords
by baptism,