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JBT JAS. P. HARRISON k CO. 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. For terms, see onr advertising columns, and subscribe for your school. The Christian Index. INDEX AND BAPTIST. Publication Rooms—27 and 29 South-Broad Street 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. Ami Tl.i-jC t jm \vi>■ 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,