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The Christian Index; VOL. 55-NO. 27. Table of Contents. Fibst Page-—Alabama Department: Record of State Events; Spirit of the Religious Press; National Art Company; Bound Copies of Min utes of Associations: General Denominational News; Baptist News and Notes; Literary Goßsip; etc. Second Page —Our Correspondents : Tile Close Views of Baptists as to the Lord's Sup per—H. C. H.; Brother F adder—Happy Mem ories—The Past and the Future—Baptist Af fairs in Ringgold—Revival Sorely Needed ; Centennial Mass Meeting—J. M. Robertson; What Diverse Things Appear in a Newspaper —Thos. E. Skinner : Heplizibah; Our Sunday school Paper—S. Boylau. Mission Depart ment: The Committee on Missions—lts De sign and Duties—J. G. Ryals; Words of Cheer—C. M. Irwin: Mission Committees in the Churches— T. E. Skinner; How Many?—C. M. Irwin; Associations—C. M. Irwin; Destitu tion in Georgia—T. C. Boykin. j Thikd Page.—Our Pulpit; Baccalaureate Ser mon-Mercer University Commencement. Ma con, Georgia. July 2,1876 —8 y Rev. T. Harley of Savannah, Ga’ Foubth Page.—Editorial: Churoh Going—lts Educational Feature, Prayer Universal—Rev. G. A. Nunnally. The Word ‘‘Baptize”—Quit man. Ga.—Rev. J. S. Baker. Georgia Baptist News; A Soul-Stirring Letter: First Baptist Church Reunion: State Baptist Minutes—Rev- D. E. Butler: etc. Fifth Page.—Editorial: Brief Notes on Various Topics—Rev. J. S. Baker; Monroe Female College. Secular Notes: Monroe Female C liege Commencement; Gems Reset; Nature —The Teacher—Poetry; Georgia News; Do mestic and Foreign News. Sixth Paoe.—The Sunday-school: Lesson for Sunday. July 2s, 18T6 : Help for Destitute Schools : Sunday-school Work ; A Model Sun day-school Teacher ; Among my Correspon dents ; Our Sunday-school Work; Sunday school Convention. Seventh Page.—Agriculture: Winter Pastures Again: Boys Do Something; Guano vs. Nitrate of Soda. Eighth Page.—Obituaries; Tributes of Respect; Special Notices; Advertisments. INDEX AND BAPTIST. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT. There were 158 death in Mobile in June. Corn is selling in Eutaw at 35 cents a bushel. The Iron Age at Birmingham, is offered for sale. The cars run regularly between Eutaw and Meridian. Crop prospects all over the State are excel lent. • The crops around Selma are in excellent condition. The Baptist church at Gadsden, has been re painted and re-papered inside. The State Grange Fair at Montgomery will begin October 24th. Col. J. N. Smith, of Bibb, made 241 bushels of red rust-proof oats on 4) acres. In Mobile in June, the highest temperature was 97 and lowest 63. Stonewall Iron Works, in Cherokee county, are again in full blast. The Dadeville Baptists are making efforts to finish their house of worship. Rev. Henry Urquhart has been elected prin cipal of Greenville Female College. A post-office has been established at Ben nett’s Station, on the A. C. R. R. A. B. Har rison is postmaster. Rev. A. J. Morrison, paster of the Presbyte rian church in Selma, died at Memphis, Ten nessee., recently. Messrs. H. L. McKee of Selma, and S. B. Brewer of Montgomery, have been holding re ligious services in Tuskegee. Mr. D. M. Callaway delivered the Alumni Address at the Southern University in Greens boro. At a recent organization of a district grange, at Selma, a resolution was adopted looking to the establishment of a Patrons and planters warehouse in that city. Rev. Mr. Crump is an independent candi date for the legislature in Blount, on the new county question. Two Primitive Baptist churches in Ran dolph county exclude Patrons of Husbandry from their pale. A post route has been established from Ver n n, Sanford county, to Newtonville, Fayette county, by Auroand Cave Springs. The church in Talladega has secured the services of Dr. S. Henderson for one Sabbath in each month. It is stated as probable, that Dr. Hawthorne, of New York, will be called to the pastorate ofthe First Baptist church in Montgomery The next session of the Uuion Meeting ui the Fourth Di trict of the Tuskegee Associa tion will take place Friday before the fourth Sabbath in August. The gross receipts of the dinner given by the Episcopal ladies of Demopolis, were $450. The dinner given on the same day by the Methodist ladies, realized $650. ♦ • ♦■■ ■ ■ The governor has offered a reward of S3OO for the apprehension of Monroe L. Weaver, of Cherokee county, charged with the murder of James A. Weaver. THE SOUTH-WESTERK BAPTIST, of Alabama. Spirit of the Religious Press, —The Watchman draws the following sketch of|the “ church of the luture:” We, therefore, look for a church of the fu ture, retaining its essential nature, it* imper ishable truths, its simple ordinances, and yet materially ahead of what it is in the present. We are pursuaded that it will be more scrip tural than it is now. Wearied with tradition, and disheartened, the sects will turn to tire Sacred Volume for guidance. This will ne oessarily make the church more spiritual in its membership, more independent in its thinking, mdre enterprising in its action, more consecrat ed in its form and government. It will lead the world’s thought, and follow less ; it will attack the world’s sins, and defend its own ex istence less ; it will rule in the world’s life, and serve less devotedly the world’s fashions and its modes. Where it.now apologizes, it will dogmatize; where it now pleads, it will com mand ; where it now falters it will strike, sweeping onward to that victory which has been ordained from all eternity, and which shall usher in the day when the wilderness shall rejoice,” and the kingdoms of this world becomes the kingdom of our God and His Christ. —Says the Standard: Chicago churches have not yet arrived at that degree of Christian development which makes the presence of policemen desirable m their business meetings. So far, we believe, New York and Brooklyn have, in this respect, the advantage of all the rest of thecountry. —The Biblical Recorder discusses the hymn book question, and states its grievance thus ; Of course there has been some gain in this multiplication of hymn books; but the losses — their name is legion. The hymn book has died out of the reverential affection of thepeo ple, out of its place on the family Bible, out of the memories of our church members. Sing ing in our households and singing by our con gregations is dying out, and we think that the multiplication of hymn books is the most pow erful agent in the production of these results. Singing, congregational singing, must be done, in most communities, without books. Thia is easy enough in those churches —for there are still a few of them —which have not been deso lated by the war of the holy hymn books. Having but one version of the hymns, they become fixed in the memories and the word's are recalled without effort. But try it in the churches where each of the hymn books in turn has held sway, like the commandants of the military districts at the south after the war. Take anv of our old familiar hymns, “ Rock of Ages,” for instance. It has been so tinker ed and altered, each hymn book having its own version, that if the people undertake to sing it from memory—and they will sing that slay or no* at a!4—you will g.oan in spirit, and, in reference to such congregational singing, take up the language of the Epicopal prayer book, “ Good Lord deliver us.” The people know it and will not try to sing. It is sad to think what loss of spiritual power we are suffer ing in this way. —The Christian Treasury relates this touch ing incident: Several years ago, a small church, struggling for existence in the midst of prevailing errors and wickedness, was suddenly visited witn a previous revival, in which a goodly number were added unto the Lord. The members of the chuich were take* by surprise. It was not what they were expecting. But an aged “ mother in Israel,” who had for many years, been confined to her retired room by her infirmities, said that she was not surprised. It was just what she had been praying for, and looking for. Though hidden from the busy world, and even from her brethren and sisters of the church, she was not hidden from God. He hearkened and heard her fervent prayers; and in answer, souls were converted to Christ. —Speaking of collegiate education the Cen tral Baptist says : We are not in the number of those who be lieve and maintain that mere scholastic train ing is to be the great reform of the world. Knowledge is indeed power, but unless it be wielded in the right direction, and under the influence of high and noble motives, it is just as likely to become a power for evil as for good, and of this assertion many lamentable proofs are to be met with in the history of our fallen humanty. It is, therefore, essential for the furtherance of the high interests that are at slake, that the heart be educated as well as the intellect. And we believe that, even so far as the present life is concerned, and leaving out of view, as we are purposely doing in this article, any consideration of the higher interests of that other life for which the present is but a prepar ation, the claims of these two elements of our nature—the heart and the intellect—are of equal importance. Hence we look upon it as a demonstrable proposition that, hand in hand with scholastic education should go that other education which can only be 'urnished by Christian surroundings. Christianity alone provides the proper motives for right action in the world, and it alone holds the restraints by which the power which knowledge confers is kept within its proper limits and is directed along its proper channel. Some such notions as these must have been in the minds of those who formed our denomi national whose work in the past has justified the wisdom of those no ble-minded and noble-he>rted men and women who called them into being, and the necessity lor which will neve' cease t<> exist while hu man nature remains in its present low state in the world. —The Inferior pointedly says: Dr. Cuvier explains that brief pastorates are the result"of “ itching ears, small salaries, and hi; church debts.” If that is all, the remedy is easy. When ears itch, box them. Use good, solid sermons, and strike hard enough to make them tingle—they will not itch after that. Remedy for small salaries—cut the pat tern according to the cloth. Remedy for church debts—do not try to outshine your neighbor. —The Congregationlist has the following very sensible thing to say about a ceitain class of ministers: It is an excellent thing for a man to go to his own place. A preacher uttering heresy from an orthodox pulpit, makes a great stir. He is famous. He enjoys it, and his heretical friends like it much better than to have him FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, JULY 20, 1876. all to themselves. But let him go over and join the heretics boldly, and the glory passes away. So does the disturbance. It is the dif ference between having a grain of sand under one’s own eye-lid, or in the common road-bed. We can think of several unsound preachers who not long ago achieved some undesirable notoriety in evangelical pulpits, but who rather quietly collapsed on going where they belong ed. Would that they always might do it. —The New York Methodist exclaims: What shall be done with the liar? The good Book tells us what will come of him at last, but what shall we do with him here on the earth? The best proceeding is to get him soundly convicted and then soundly converted. Nothing short of that will cure him. His na ture, whatever you may think of your own, is corrupt, prone to evil and that continually. We can think"of nothing short of anew birth that will make a man out of a liar. “ But con verted men lie,” one will say. Well, they need converting over again. Nothing so surely un masks a hypocrite as the discovery that a pro fessing Christian tells lies. —Reflect on this from the Evangelist: it is high time to rebuke the false notion •hat the people are too poor to take a goud re ligious paper. Nothing they eat or wear is so cheap. Too poor! Perhaps so; but it is a significant tact that the most poisonous and banefu> publications ate mainly supported by people ot slender means. It is this class who bur the trash that is sold on the cars and ter ries. The Wretched comic nonsense, and the sensational monthlies which are circulated by wandering agents', are found in the humblest country homes. The Sunday Mercury and dthef stoty papers are bought by the. thousand on Saturday night, by mechanics and servant girls. The sons and daughters of the very men who have for years been “ too poor ” to take a family paper which would have been a living fountain of religious influence, buy quantitie of pestilent trash, which in too many ca.-e.-i leads them, to ruin. National Art Company.—Some time ago several of our correspondents wrote us complaints concerning the National Art Company, of Cincinnati, alleging that they were unfairly treated, and that it was a hum bug. Others, on the other hand, endorsed the company, and stated that the company was all right. We have neither endorsed nor con demned it, our own information, received from a reliable party, leading us to believe that the National Art Company, was O. K. Still, we feel it our duty to allow our corres pondents the privilege to express their own opinions pro or con, and shall in no wise re strict the privilege of a free speech, and of a free press. this explanation in justice to our selves, and all parties conce’rned. Bound Copies of Minutes of Associa tions. —We will, this season, print 200 copies extra of all the Associations in Georgia. This will enable us to supply not only the clerks of the Associations, but such other brethren as may wish a copy of so valuable a volume. In addition to the Minutes of the Georgia Asso ciations, the volume will contain those of such other Associations in Alabama, Florida and Tennessee, as the clerks of those States may fa vor us with orders for printing. The volume will also contain the Minutes of the late Ses sion of the Southern Baptist Convention, where clerks furnish the printed copies. We have the books for last year for a num ber of the clerkß of Associations which we shall be glad to send to them. The Southern Piano and Organ Depot. —We call special attention of our read ers to the attractive advertisement of Messrs. Ludden & Bates, the popular and enterprising proprietors of the grert Southern Piano and Organ Depot, Savannah, Ga. Ail styles of pianos, the Mason & Hamlin organ, sheet music, musical merchandize, are kept on hand by this firm in large quantities, and at prices which cannot fail to attract buy ers. We ask a careful perusal of the advertise ment by all who may desire to purchase first class instruments or musical goods of any kind. The Model Press. —The numberless improvements in facilities in printing seem to have reached their acme in the Model Printing Press, manufactured by J. W. Daughaday & Cos., 434 and 436 Walnut street, Philadelphia. This simple and efficient invention is the most durable and rapid low-priced press ever made. It will print a form irom the size of the chase to the smallest card, and is, undoubtedly, just the thing for business or professional men, as well as amateurs and practical printers. We can confidently recommend it to our readers as the very best cheap press that we have ever seen. — Daily Graphic. Music and Music Books.—Churches, Sunday-schools, singing societies and amateurs are requested to read the new advertisement of Oliver Ditson & Cos , the famous Boston Music house. They advertise a series of music books by several eminent composers. There is also a notice of new miscellaneous music, just pub lished, or in press. Lovers of music and choir leaders will do sell to send for catalogues '.o Oliver Ditson & Go. Carolina Central Academy and Business College, Ansonville, N. C. — The fall session of this sterling and widely ap preciated college will open August 7th. By referring to the advertisement, our readers will perceive the valuable attractions this school offers for the finished training of youth. Lady Teacher.— A lady of Virginia, of experience, desires a situation as teacher. See notice. General Denominational News. —lntelligence is received by missionaries in Japan that much interest is manifested on the part of the natives in regions which no foreign preacher has visited. Converts when on their travels are often besieged by their countiyme n desiring information. Dr. Talmage’s church of 1,219 members, ac cording to the minutes of 1875, contributed $2,500 for education, $66,721 for congregation al expenses, and SBB6 for miscellaneous pur poses, besides its gifts for missionary purposes —The church of the Brethren, sometimes called German Baptists, or Dunkers, held their annual meeting in Miami county, Ohio, re cently. This people number from 100,000 to 150,000 members. They are conscientiously opposed to reckoning and publishing their nu merical strength, believing that as David, king of Israel, displeased God by numbering the people in his day, so the same should not now be done. —The Committee on Episcopacy of the Methodist church, North, has decided that a woman cannot become a’legally licensed local preacher. —Eighteen free churches and chapels hav e been established by Protestant Episcopalians in Baltimore, within six years, with a seat ing capacity of six thousand, and having con nected with them about two thousand commu nicants and about twenty-five hundred Sunday school children. —The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, have appointed a Week of Prayer to be observed throughout the connec tion, beginning with a fast on Friday, August 3. —The goods of the Hebrew exhibitors at the Centennial Exhibition, are covered up on their Sabbath. —At a recent meeting of the Evangelical Continental Society, Gavassi reported 50,000 regular attendants at the evangelical churches in Italy. There was not a member prior to 1848. —The receipts of the English Wesleyan Missionary Society the last fiscal year amount ed to $920,000. —A Congregational ministerial Bureau was organized to help unemployed ministers to supplies and pastorates, bat it does not pay ex penses. Ijd Menus per cent, on the salaries iotjaMm year for permanent places, and five per cent, on receipts for supplies. —The Reformed Episcopal church now numbers fifty congregations, sixty clergymen and four bishops. —ln Paraguay nothing has been attempted beyond Bible circulation, though the country is open to missionaries, and Bolivia has not yet been explored with the Bible. —Only one missionary, the Rev. J. F. Thompson, is laboring among the native pop ulation in Uraguay. His average attendance Sunday night is about 300. —A Mormon temple is to be built in Brook lyn, near the Plymouth church. BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES. —Elder J. R. Hamlin, pastor of the Baptist church near Cuba City, Crawford county, Mo., recently baptized twenty persons, fifteen of whoti were Methodists. —Rev. D. J. Pierce, of Portland, Oregon, says: I have the woid of our missionary, Dong Gong, that the Christian Chinese of San Fran cisco, belonging to the Baptist church, have for two years supported a preacher of their number in Northern Canton district, who has received sixteen converts, and has now re moved into a neighboring field, where the converts have called and supported another preacher. “By their fruits ye shall know them.” —The new Baptist church at Jackson, is said to be one of the moßt elegant church edi fices in West Tennessee. Over thirty of the students of Waco Uni versity, Texas, were converted this year un der the labors of Bro. W. E. Penn. Nearly ninety thousand Baptists in Mis souri last year, gave for missions $6,221; near ly eight cents per member. —Bro. Lofton, Centennial agent for Ten nessee, has resumed his pastoral duties. Rev. H. F. Buckner, in the Texas Baptist, states that in the recent Southern Baptist Con vention, no opportunity was given him at any time to ask for a collection for Indian Mis sions, though at great expense he took with him two native preachers. The Religious Herald, remarks upon this: He might have raised SIOO or more by a hat collection, if he had asked it. If one wishes to raise money for good causes, he must come to the front and plead for it as for his life. —The Religious Herald in an analysis of the statistics of the Baptist General Association of Virginia for 1875, Bays that of the 650 churches, 5 have less than 10 members; 85 have less than 30; 186 have less than 50 ; 426 have less thati 100; 116 have between 100 and 150; 56 have between 150 and 200; 33 have between 200 and 300; 12 have between 300 and 400; and only 7 have over 400 mem bers. Nearly two-thirds of our churches have fewer than 100 members each. So far as the report of the treasurer of the General shows, 258 churches, re porting 16,321 members, made no contribution whatever to any of the benevolent work of the General Association. THE HERALD of Tennessee. —Rev. H. A. Tupper, Jr., son of the Secre tary for Foreign Missions, is supplying the pulpit of the Fulton Baptist church, Rich mond, during the time his esteemed father en joys his needed vacation. The young broth er’s sermons are said to be exceedingly inter esting. —Rev. M. Stone, D.D., in a malicious letter published in the Journal aiul Messenger misrep resents both the white and the colored people of the South. This brother writes with polish but it is rotten stone polish. —The Religious Herald says; A friend wishes to know what we think of the new plan of Georgia Biptists in having a “Committee on Missions” to take charge of all collections for missions in that State. A simi lar plan was tried in this State, but had to be abandoned. Possibly Georgia Baptists may do better than we did. —The Centennial Dollar plan appears to have been abandoned in Pennsylvania. —Tile Baptist Reflector of July 13, says: From Lynchburg to Amherst we rode with Bro. M. B. VVhar.on, once pastor at Bristol, now agent for the Theological Seminary for Georgia. Bro. Wharton says he has succeed ed in raising about SIO,OO in Georgia, for the Seminary. His health is slowly improving, and we hope it will not be long until he is re stored, so,that he can resume the pastorate again. , The same paper says : We had the pleasure of spending the night with Dr. Montgomery, in Lynchburg, last week. The probability is that Bro. Manard’s chapel will be organizad into a church, soon. It ought to be, for Lynchburg is strong enough to afford two churches. Ll rttltlKY GOSSIP. —The Religious Herald, in an article on the grave of John Randolph, reprints a couple of stanzas of a commemorative poem by Whittier : “ There, where with living eye and ear, He heard Potomac’s flowing, And through his tall, ancestral trees, Saw autumn’s sunset glowing, He sleeps, still looking to the West, Beneath tbe dark wood shadow— As if he still would see the sun Sink on wave and meadow.” The Herald points out the mistake made by the poet, and which has found a place in the history of literature, that Randolph’s dust.reposes on the banks of the The great rest ing place is *ii Charlotte coAntv* one hundred and fifty miles from’ the Po tomac. The Herald point* out the egregious blunder Whittier makes in the opening lines, in which he speaks of Randolph’s eye “ hearing ” Potomac’s flowing. The Herald's strictures are very per tinent, and prove how often a close criticism of an artist’s work will bring to light grave flaws and errors. Some of the most melodious and daintily con structed lyrics, if translated into plain prose, would show absurd departures from the law of common sense, and jingling rhymes dragooned into service as substitutes for reason. —Dr. Russell, of Bull Run fame, who attended the tour of the Prince of Wales to India, as correspondent for the London Times, will soon publish a book embracing the incidents of this brilliant hegira of the Prince. —Henry Vincent, the well known English lecturer, will visit the United States in the fall, for a farewell lectur ing tour. —Miss Ora Arrington, only sixteen years of age, living in Sumter county, Alabama, is the author of a fine novel : “ Leona, or Shadows and Sunbeams.” —Another attempt is being made to translate the Talmud. Dr. Sammter, a well known rabbi and Talmudist, has in the press a German translation of Baba Mezia, with a commentary in the same language. It is to be published in Ber lin, in ten or twelve parts, large folio. The original text accompanies the trans lation. —John Esten Cook, of Virginia, the Southern novelist, has written for the Detroit Free Press a serial entitled, “ Cannolles ; The Fortunes of a Parti san of ’Bl. A story of the Revolution.” —Dr. Jeter’s “ Centennial Poem,” in the Religious Herald for July 13th, has an introduction as remarkable for the modesty and Spartan simplicity of its language as the poem itself is for gran deur of conception and rhetorical bril liancy. For blinding splendor of dic tion, undefinable and awe-inspiring mystery, a mosaic style beyond the grasp of the most nebulous of ancient or modern masters, and power of resist ance to the rays of light that commonly serve to illume subjects that can be contemplated by the average human mind this poem, composed upon “ the WHOLE NO. 2227. etherial heights ” of Richmond, must rank permanently with the most unique literary productions of modern times. With Lanier’s Cantata and Dr. Jeter’s Fourth of July poem in hand, what uncharitable critic shall dare to assert that the American Centennial muse has not reached, nay, over-topped by a million miles, the highest pinnacle of Olympian glory? —The contributions to the fund for the creation of the chair of Celtic Lit erature in the Edinburgh University, now amount to upwards of £B,OOO. Longfellow, in one of those short, sweet poems, so characteristic of his genius, relates a legend found in the Talmud, which, for its beauty, deserves a passing notice. It is an old Jewish superstition, that the mighty Sandal phon, the angel of prayer, stands at the gate of the Celestial City, with his feet on the ladder of light, seen by Jacob in bis dream, and listens to the sounds rising from mortals below: “ And he gathers the prayers as he stands And they change into flowers in his hands Into blossoms of purple and red- ’ And beneath the great arch of the portal Through the streets of the Citv Immortal Is wafted the fragrance they shed. ” ’ —Tbe earliest mode of writing was on bricks, tiles, oyster shells, stones, ivory, bark and leaves of trees; and from the latter the term “ leaves of a book” is probably derived. Copper and brass plates were very early in use, and a bill of foefiment on copper, was some years since discovered in India, bearing date one hundred years B. C. Leather was also used as well as wood en tablets. Then the papyrus came into vogue, and about the eighth cen tury the papyrus was superceded by parchment. Paper however, is of great antiquity, especially among the Chinese, but the first paper mill in England was built in 1586, by a German, at Dart ford, in Nevertheless, it was nearer and a half—namely, in iri3- 8 , * stationer F * per . ma j „„ any thingt&S JjLyfection. The first approach to a pen was the the stylus, a kind of iron bodkin - r but the Romans forbade its use on account of its frequent and even fatal use in quarrels, and then it was made of bone. Subsequently, reeds pointed and split, like pens in the present day, were used. —A new Southern authoress has come into the literary field, Mis* Sue W. Hubard, of Buckingham county, Va. To her was awarded the prize of $275 offered by the Baltimore Sun for & serial story. Her work, “ Two Sides of the Question,” is spoken of in high terms by the critics. The Raleigh News speaking of this rising literary star says : The success of Miss Hubbard is of peculiar interest to the people of North Carolina, for she is a descendant of Willie Jones, of Halifax, who was one of North Caroiini's uost dis tinguished sons in his day and generation. His wife was noted for her loveliness, her tal ents, and brilliancy of wit. There are few North Caolinians who can Dot recall her cele brated reply to Tarleton when he attempted to slur an American officer. The gifted descendant of this distinguished couple has many friends and relations in this city and North Carolina, generally, who feel an interest in her success; and hope that her signal triumph over the ninety writers who contended for the prize that she won, is a harbinger of a bright future in the wide and charming field of fiction. Culpepper (Va.) Female Insti tute. —The President of this excellent Insti tution of learning announces, through our col umns, that the next session will begin Septem ber 13th. The curriculum is thorough, the location of the Institnte one of the moet attrac tive in the State, and terms of tuition very rea sonable. Address Dr. Vaughan, and read the advertisement for further particulars. Messrs. Ludden & Bates, of the Great Southern Music House, Savannah, G*., advertise in this issue a charming new song: "Good Night, Little Neil.” This firm also publishes the only Musical Magazine published in the South— lhe South ern Musical Journal. It is an excellent maga zine. See advertisement. Chemical Paint. — Those in want of a durable paint should read the announcement of the New York Enamal Paint Company, in this issue of The Index. Ward’s Seminary, Nashville, Tennessee. This popular and celebrated in stitution for young ladies will open its fall ses sion September 4th. Its marvellous prosperity for many years is the best testimonial of its merits.