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ARMY AND NAVY HERALD. PUBLISHED FOR THE SOLDIERS’ TRACT ASCOCIATION, BY THE SUPERINTENDENT FOR TIIE DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH-WEST. YOL. 11. %mv & fpvg Hevahl PUBLISHED BT J. VT. BUIiKK Jt CO. MACC&, GA , MARCH 23 ; 1865. Rates of Advertising. ' Twenty-five cents per lino, or $1 per square of lem lines, each insertion. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Twenty Dollars a year. Ten Dollars for six mouths. Invariably in advance. The Weekly Herald will be furnished fra of chary * to Chaplains and Missi >uaries or to other persons duly authorised to distribute in commands which have no Chaplains, for gratui tous cirouiation amongst ihe Soldiers, Marines and Sailors of the C. S. Army and Navy. Subscribers outside •!’ the Army and Navy will be charged Ten Jtollars for Six Months , invariably in advance. All Profits Arising THOM S»DSJRII"i'IONS (IF ANY ACCRUE) WILL BE FAITHFULLY EXPENDS* TO INCREASE TUB SUP PLY TO THE SOLDI BBS. ~ Directions for Obtaining the Herald. Give us the number of mosses in the command which you think it will lie profitable to s' pply —and be very explicit in giving the diix-etions how t# send. Business Department. All communications connected with the Edi torial or Business department, should lie ad dressed to Rev. Robert J. Harp, Editor nnu Pub lisher, Macon, Ga., and all subscriptions should be sent to him. Donations. All contributions of money for circulating the paper in the Army and supplying the soldiers with Bibles, Test am opts, Hymn Books and Tracts, should be seat to Ret. J. W. Bußitis, Treasurer’ Soldiers’ Tract Association. Macon, Ga., who will publish in the Herald ones each month an acknowledgment thereof f-f-g- Rer. W. A. Parks.—The friends and correspondents of the above, can address him, in care of the office of the Herald, Macon, Ga. ffhjT The Herald is published weekly for gratuitous circulation amongst the soldiers ol the army and navy, supported-by voluntary contributions ot their friends at home. &&A All remittances of contributions should be addressed to ltev. J. W. Burke, Treasurer Soldiers’ Tract Association, Macon, Ga. General Exchange or Prisoners.-‘-More than tw.o thousand Confederate prisoners, says the Examiner, have already been returned to Richmond since the re-institution of the ex change. The t>ruee boat went down yesterday, expecting to bring up front Boulwarc’s landing about ouo thousand more. In addition to thesp, wo learn that Colonel Mulford expected there would arrive yesterday at Fortress Mon roe, tn route for exchange, two thousand of our prisoners. So far, most of these men have been drawn from the prison at Point Lookout, and the most distant prisons will probably have their turn served last. Point Lookout is prob-. ably the most populous of the Yankee prisons, and contained some time ago seven thousand Confederate prisoners. The number of Con federates, in the hands of the enemy, if re duced to privates, will, wo learn, exceed forty thousand men. The return of our prisoners at this time is most beneficial in a military point of view. Constitutionalist. Tiie Culminating Point or Infamy-. ITe are familiar with the stories of silver stolen by the Yankee thieves ; of rings lorn from fingers ; of brooches forcibly plucked from ladies’ bosoms; of pockets turned out; but listeu to this, the extreme height of Y ankee brutality : lit Barnwell District, a Yankee scoundrel in serting his filthy finger and thumb into a lady’s mouth, pulled out her false teeth for the sake of the gold setting. There is in this something so ludicrously horrible, so j disgustingly brutal, that we think it surpasses any act of Yankee infamy, or of any brigandry, as an art, per se, we have ever heard of. x Can soldiery made of such material conquer us ? If so, we deserve it. Constitutionalist. MACON, GEORGIA, MARCH 23, 1865. Daily Bread. \_Sclestions for Every Day in the V>etk ] SA'tBATH, MARCH 26. “ Remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy.”—Exod. xx: 18. May I throughout this day of thine Be in thy Spirit, Lord ; Spirit of humble tear divine. That trembles ty thy Word; Spirit of faith, my heart to raisq, And fix oß.things above; Spirit of sacrifice and praise, Os holiness and love. When a believer lays aside his pen or loom, brushes aside his worldly cares, leaving them behind hint with his week-day clothes, and comes np to the house of God, it is like the morning of tiie resurrection —the day when we shall come out of great tribulation into the presence of God and the Lamb. When he sits under the preached Word, an,d hears the voice of the shepherd leading and feediug his soul, it liAtind;- him if the day when the Lamb that, is itt the midst of the throne shall feed him and lead hint to liting fountains of waters. When he joins in the psalm of praise, it reminds him of the day when his hands shall strike th - lturp of God— “ Where congregations ne’er break up, And Sabbaths have no end.” When he retires, and meets with God in secret in his closet, or, like Isaac, in sente favorite spot no tr his dwel-injr. it reminds him of'o'.e day when “he shall he a pillar in the house of our God, and go no more out.” —M Cheyne. MONDAY, MARCH 27. “ Ask, and it shall be given youl’—Matt. vii : 7. Come, my soul, thy suit prepate, " Jesus lives to answer prayer; lie himself Ims bid you pray, Therefore will not say you Nay. Our prayers and God’s mercies are like two buckets in a well: while the one ascents, the other descends ; so, while our prayers a-cend to God in heaven, his blessings and mercies descend to us upon the earth.— Hopkins. TUESDAY, MARCH 28. “ Lord, tcacli us to pray.”—Luke xi: 1. Lord, teach us how so pray aright, With reverence and with tear; Though dust and ashes in t hy sight, We may—we must draw near. We perish if we cease from prayer : Oh! grant us power to pray ; And when to meet thee we prepare, Lord, meet us'by the way. When God pours out his Spirit upon man, then will man pour out his heart before God. Mason. % WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29. “ Watch thou in alt things.”—2 Tim. iv : f>. The praying Spirit breathe, The watching power impart : From all entanglements beneath Call off my grovelling heart. Suffered no move fc rove, O'er all the earth abroad, Arrest, the prisoner of thy love, And shin me up in God. The Saviour joined watching to prayer; and what I*s litis joined together let no man put asunder. In vain 1 invoke God if 1 am care less ; and expose myself needlessly in danger ous places and company ; and leave without a sentinel Toy senses, and appetites, and pas sions ; and keep not my heart, with all dili gence ; and use not all the means of preserva tion which are placed within my reach. Prayer without watching is hypocrisy ; and watching without prayer is presumption.— Jay. THURSDAY, MARCH 30. “Cleausc thou me from secret faults.”—Ps. xix : 12. Dear Lord ! accept a sinful heart, Which of iteelt complains, And mourns, with much and frequent smart, The evil it contains. There fiery secds’of anger lurk, Which often hurt my frame, And wait but for the tempter’s work To fan them into flame. Oh I cleanse me in a Saviour’s blood, Transform me by tby power, And make me thy beloved abode, And let me rove no more. Is there, in the best, a strong proneness to sin? What cause have we, then, to long and breathe after heaven ! for not till then shall we be free from it. indwelling sin hath taken a lease of our souls, mul holds them by our own lives ; it will be in us to the last gasp, and as the heart is that dies, so also is that corruption that lodgeth in it. But yet die it must, and die it shall ; and this is the comfort of a child cf God. that though he brought sin with him into the world, ye: he shall not carry it with him out of the world. As death came in by sin, so also shall 6in itself be destroyed by death, — Napkins. FRIDAY, MARCH 31. “ I.ovest thou me ?”—JoiiNxxi: 16. ’Tit a point. 1 long to know, Oft it causes anxious thought— Do I love the Lord, ot no ? Am 1 bis, or am 1 nut ? Lord, decide tbe doubtful case, Thou who art thy people’s sun : Shine upon hy w .rk of grace, If it be indeed begun. Let me lore thee more and more. If I hive at all, l pray; If 1 have not loved b foie, Help me to begin to-day. They that l ive Christ, love to think of him, love to hear of him, love to read of him — love to speck of him, for him, to him. They love hit presence, his yoke, his name. His will i< then will—his dishonor is their affliction—his cause is their care—his people are their com ; : uions—his day is their delight—his Word is tit .r guide—his glory is their end They had rather ten thousand times suffer for Christ, tfi.n that he should suffer by them.— Mason. SATURDAY, APRIL 1. Grow i.t grac —2 Peter iii : 18. Mow many years ha t. thou, my heart, Acted tiie barren fig tree's part Leafy, and fresh, and fair, E: joying heavenly dews of grace, j, A natty smiles front God’s own face— Rut where the fruit ? tilt ! where ? Learn, 0 my soul, what. God demands Is not a faith like barren sands, P>lit fruit of heavenly hue; By this wc prove that Christ we know, If in bis holy steps we go— Faith works by love, if true. It. is some hope of goodness not to grow worse ; >t is part of badness not to grow bet ter. 1 will take heed of quenching the spark, and strive to kindle a fire. If I have the good ness 1 should, it is not too much—why should 1 make it less ? If I keep the goodness 1 have, it, i-t not enough—why do 1 not seek to make it more? He never was so good as he should be, that doth not strive to be better than he is ; lie never will be better than he is, that doth bear to lie worse than he was.— Warwick. A Specimen of Humanity.—At Bamberg. 8. C., Gen. Sherijian made his headquarters at the house of Captain Bamberg. His staff was nu merous ; one important portion of his military family was about fifty New York negroes. These rascals, imitating their Yankee brot) era in arms, pillaged t-he house. When fire-wood was to be obtained by crossing the lot, they would unhesitatingly take mahogany chairs, and wrenching off a leg, kindle the fire with it. After staying three days af Mrs. Bamberg’s, this lady was entirely stripped of every por tion of food, and, ventured 1 >» retnonslrnre with Gen. Sherman, asking him, “What shall 1 do when you leave, sir ? You have not left me a morsel of food. Myself and family must starve.” “Do! madam?” replied Gen. Sherman. “Do? Do as the Indians do*; live on acorns and roots!’’ .« « LOT “Corporal Saprelleott” writes very patri otically and btavely in the Montgomery Adver tiser. The following application, which he makes of an old story, is excellent: One frenchman who no speak much english, itc went to London. He got a quarrel with one englishman who proposes fight with what yon call fists. 7,; frenchman he always fight with ze sword like a gentH hom-me, but lie very brave, he accept. He know nothing about fist tight. Ze people make one ring around and say ze man got enough say so, find ze fight shall stop. Zey fight. Ze frenchman he got nit in the in ze eyes he see thou-and stars dance around, he cry, ze more ze englishman hit. Ze french man get exasperate, lie make one grand effort and he whip ze englishman, who cry imediate ment., “enough!” By gareze Frenchman say, “zat is ze the very word I try to remember for one hour?” New, ze morale—if you say enough, ze yankee will he like my friend ze frenchman, you take ze word out of his month. Destruction of Bennachorib’d Host. Read the 18th and 19th chapters of 2d Kings, anil learn what pawer from on high raspouds t« true repentance and faith, and how easily God delivers those who cry unto him. The Assyrian came dviwn like the wolf an tha fold, And his cohorts wera gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like atars on the s a, When the blue wares roll nightly on deep Gali lee. Like the leaves cf the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners fit sunset was scan Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown. That host, oti the morrow lay withsred and strown. For the angel of death spread Lis wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eves of the s’ecpers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever were still. And there lay the steed with his nostrils all wide. But through them there rolled not the breath of his pride; And the foam ofhia gasping lay white on the turf, . And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay tbe rider, diverted and pale, With the dew on ids brow, and the run on his mail; And the tents wore nil silent, the banners alone The lances unified the trumpet unblown. Andthe widows of A itur are loud in their wail, And the idols are tyro! ut in the temple.- of ! land; And the might of the Gentile, u.isrueto by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord. —he < iiurcti t;< Las’s Army.—A soldier in Bee’s army, writing to flu Richmond Whig, says: A stranger to pass along our lit.es here would Conclude, we Weir* * Terr rrtrgfcus people, it* would see commodious churches every six or eight hundred yards. They are mads of logs of course. To save labor and heat, they ar# three or four feet below the surface. The con gregation is well and comfortably seated. Frayer meetings aro held mice generally du ring tide week, ami-preaching twice on Sabbath. Young Men s Christian Associations are organ ized 1 understand that the association near us. attached to Corse’,a brigade, have invited urn tty dist inguished gentlemen to lecti t e before it 1 his Winter, and that there is a pr ,-pcct of success iu t'tiv wo’thy enterprise, lit great theme will be the twin duties—l’iel\ anil Pat riotism. There are noble subjects. The world furnishes many splendid illustrations for the speakers, and they will be used with effect, I doubt, not. Thank God in our own shori histo ry wc can furnish noble examples ot'b th these cjmlinal virtues. Our causa has been already baptized with the blood of Christian patriots. Among th# speakers invited to address the as sociation we may mention Die. Burrows, Dun can, lloge, and Alinnegcrode, and Gens. TYise and Pendleton ; also, lion. Messrs. I! art ridge, Goode, and others. We have no doubt but that these gentlemen will fire the blood of many a man who is now lukewarm. Wc feel not halt'as despondent as tbe people of your town—indeed never have—but there arc doubtless, men in the army who would be profited by a word of cheer. Tlie Christian man needs line upon line and so does the patriot. 'Not that he has any idea of abandoning hi: glorious work, l>u. mat he will do it with more cheerfulness, and con sequently more thoroughly. A Timely Intention. —There is now in suc cessful operation at the Confederate States La boratory, in this city, a machine capable of turning out three hundred and fort; iuousand peveus.'-ion caps in eight hours, filling and pres sing them. The fastest machine used in the Untied States, of which, we have any knowledge, is Wright's patent, which only turns out thirty thousand in ten hours. The champion Confede rate machine, or machines—a- there are two of them—are capable of turning out an amount of work by. three hand/ that formerly required ouo hundred and tw nt.y operatives. The in ventor is. (’apt. V*esley N. Smith, commanding the Laboratory, whose skill, perseverance and jtngcnuify, first called into existence, at the in ception of the war. the extensive Laboratory works uow ojser along in Richmond. The gra duated 1 use cut ter, nowiu general us/, Is anoth er ofCapt. Smith's inventions and has demon strated its entire Efficiency on numerous occa sions. Tito inventor of the labor-saving ma chine is still devoting his experience and knowl edge, gained by twenty-five years of study, to the invention of machinery calculated to'sub stitute abk-bedied labor, now so sorely needed in the active operations of the army. Richmond Enquirer. “ The poor is hated even of his neighbor; but fie rich hath many friends.” “A time to lore, a time foliate, a time of tear, and a time for pt ace.” NO. 12.