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ROBERT J. RARE, Editor.
MACON, GA , MARCH .‘SO, 1865.
Acknowledgment--A New Hat.
The Editor of the Herald has been brought
under many obligations by the receipt of & fine
new hat —a present from Miss of New
Orleans. It came safely to hand. The ladies
seem to hare an intuition of just what a man
needs. *lf the kind donor meets with this ac
knowledgment before returning, we send greet
ing to oif old friends of the Crescent City.
Got) Bi.kss Them !
—, , M.oreh sth. 1865.
Mr. Editor r i take up my pen with a. query
right on the #nd of it. • Pray tell me the. author
of those exquisite lines, “The Bachelor’s Ele
gy” (not soliloquy), which appeared not long
since in the 11, raid. Were they effusions from
some modern pen‘l or were they gems of
thought from some of tin old poets? What a
truly poetical theme ! and how artistically the
author ha* woven his thoughts into a beautiful
garland *of poesy. But I’m n® critic: let it
suffice that i;.’s fir.-1-rate for the material.
llcally, my curiosity—of which 1 ve no ordi
nary share—is-quite excit-d to know the au
thor, an 1 you w net he so impoli'ic and incon
siderate as to refuse so modes' a request from
a young lady, will > m . Ah ! you 11 ted me,
I know. And again, Mr. KJitor, what say you
to an occasional pen an I ink chat with yourseli
and the soldier.- upon the state of the country,
the war, our finances, and matters and things
generally through the columns of the Ai mg
end NavySb raid ? Could you possibly spare
time from your numerous and arduous tasks to
listen? (I’d do the talking., or would you
deem it an encroac?'-nt- upon your bachelor
solitude to have a -stray visitor now and
then to your sanctum, and bo forced, nolens
volcns, to listen to what men, learned in tlieir
owlt estimation, m-pht; iu tin- .ce.-.s of t heir
vanity, term the meaningless prattle of a modern
younj 1-rdy ? However, this is hardly ft fair
question. Vet, under the eircmnsUntcc*, you’d
l-e id ; ••nr.?': of a •.rategist. to
answer in the liege tv , T know; but nans
verron, as the Frenchman says, wo shall see.
And now, with asking portion for this iui.rmiou
upon your valuable tint , adieu! Believe mo,
with all conceivable admiral ion, respect- and
sstcetn, tho bachelor s friend,
Hosts Rattlh.
ANSWER. ,
A “young lady”-is never more beautiful
and interesting than when laboring under t lie
excitement of curiosity ; there is an enchant
ment, a resistless witchery, in the upturned
eye of anxious inquiry. While, therefore, the
Editor could plead professional precedent,
which with all the force and sanction of law,
enjoins reticence upon the medical, legal and
editorial fraternities iu certain cases, with
reference to their patients, clients and contribu
tors, he is sure that the •‘■bachelors' friend"
will more hi-ghly appreciate, as a reason for
declining* what may seem to her to be “so
modest a request from a young lady,” that
the consequence of gratifying her inquisitive
ness, if not as disastrous as in the case of a
certain young lady in the garden of Eden, of
historical celebrity, might, at least, leave her
less attractive, than when under the inspira
tion of “wo ordinary share of curiosity.” In
deed, he is sure she will accept the declination
as an act-of the most genuine “gallantry,"
when informed that iu ali probability further
knowledge of the “author” would rob the
“Elegy” of that admiration 'which pronounces
it “ exquisite .”
The Editor further assures his fair corres
pondent, that if lie were one of the fraternity
of elves, which furnished the “ material ” for
the “Elegy” and for her contribution, he
would feel himself much’complimented by the
avowal of “admiration, respect and esteem" so
euphoniously Rattled upon the untuned strings
of a discordant nature. But ho suspects that
Miss Battle is laboring under some mistake in
reference to the editorial management of the
Herald. He can assure her that there is no
such place as “ bachelor's solitude '' iu connec
tion with the department; the Editor is not
prone to mental ab.-traqtiou and inclir.-*s to the
opinion that an editor who is so abandoned as
to give himself up to “solitude” in suolt stir
ring times as the present, (especially if he is a
bachelor,) would “ regard all visitors as intru
ders” except the daily [ftipers and the devil.
In conclusion, the Editor congratulates the
“ Superfluous man’’ upon the flattering in
terest manifested in knowing his name. If
Miss Rattle could enter his solitude (incog.,) be
hold his hoary locks, upon which rests his
ancient hat, well worn and mashed iu with
THE ARMY & NAVY HERALD,
time; survey his once grey coat, representing
the many d:awn battles between grease spots
and tortt places, the latter, haif-clo-cd with
hideous stitches that grin like the teeth of the
slain ; his ti owsers, made in the minimum style
and all shaded about the knees like the varying
colors in the backgr und of a winter scene:
his feet shod with one slipper and one disabled
boot, and suspended.by ins venerable lower
‘members to some resting place above ihe fire
grate, and his eyes ever turned upward, as if
t.o gnze.upon the moon through the dingy •pil
ing of his dilapidated house, it is n®t unlikely
that she would consider the “ material ” not.
very tempting to a poet or a fi*tr artist, except
upon the supposition that, the exigencies of
war have enforced an economy which drags
out, “ nolens nolens," many garments rejected
in our belter days, and after subjecting them
to the processes of renovation, reconstruction,
dyeing and trimming, dons them wi.ii as much
nonchalance as if they were of the freshest
“ material."
[For the Army and Navy Herald.]
To the O Dicers and Soldiers of the
Confederate Army.
15Y KEY. L. riKKCB,
[ Continued. ]
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the
Lord: and the people whom he bath chosen for
his own inheritance.”- —Psalms xxxiii: 1”
We come now to inquire wherein we are to
find the true meaning of the remarkable words,
“ Whose God is Hie Lord.” They surely allow
the idea, that a nation might have a God,
and yet that God might not. be the Lord. Al
most any nation that has ever been chronicled,
has had a national God—most of them many
gods. It looks as if the apprehension of a
Supreme Intelligence was inseparable from
our race. Man must have a Ihiiy. Indeed,
man is, by a sense that may be not inaptly
called his religious in-tmot, a worshipping
creatiu-o. To such .a creature, nothing was so
needful as a reliable revelation, making known
to man the true and living God. And it, is
worthy of special notice, lift from the very
point, where the Jehovah Godot the Old Tes
tament, commenced an immediate revelation of
liittrse'.f to the chos a i- d> m
sivauve acis, that be did so i . 1-f/ypi. fti the
court of Pharaoh ; and that, by ien successive
miracles, all of them intended to show, in the
most sensible manner, the iinpofency of the
gods of the Egyptians on the one hand, and
the all-sufficiency of the God of Abraham to
deliver and to save on the other. And here let
me enlarge, enough to engage the reader’s at
tention to the great doctrinal fact, that after
lids immediate revelation of himself to man, as
Jehovah in covenant with him, he never spoke
of himself as the God of creation, or as the
Go<l of the flood, but always as of the God of
Abraham. This is because, is. is in the com
muning of the angel of the coveuant, with
Abraham, that, we begin to be introduced into
a more manifest knowledge of Jesus Christ, in
the person of the Jehovah of the Old Testa
ment, and of Christ Jesus ip the New. This is
put beyond (lie reach of cavil, by Christ, him
self, who said of Abraham, that he rejoiced
to see his day—that be did see it, and was glad.
Sec John viii: 56. This seeing of the day of
Christ, refers to the occurrences recorded in
Genesis, 18th ch. In this history of divine com
munication, there are three personages men
tioned, but only one of them is recognized as a
divine person—called by eminence the Lord.
He, by this eminence, was doubtless recognized
by Abraham in all this wonderful history as a
divine person, fbr the divine exposition of
these revelations of himself to the apprehen
sion and comprehension of the patriarchal
fathers Abrah tut, Isaac and Jacob—see Exodus
vi: 1,2, o. To these fathers he says lie had
appeared under his more generic title, God Al
mighty ; but had not been known to them under
his specific title of Jehovah, as he was about
now to make himself known to Moses, and his
church and people forever. It is under this
august title, that God reveals to us his eternity.
Tiic title conveys the idea of continuous, self
dependent life. Hence-, when Moses so belli -
titigly inquired what answer he should return,
when the people demanded of him from whence
he received his commission, was told to say:
“I Am hath sent me unto you.” The whole ot
God’s mysterious name, as given to Moses, is
intended To convey to us mortals, the over
whelming conception of a sell-existent, self
dependent being, wito, if I may venture the
term,'is also only self-responsible. Christ, in
order to show liis personal presence in all these
incipient revelations of himself in the times of
Abraham, in his reply to tire quibbles of the
Jews, said, “Before Abraham was, I Am.” As I
believe, declaring himself to be the I Am of the
Old Testament, claiming eternal affiliation.
These evidently designed manifestations of the
Christ of the New Testament, in the Jehovah
of tlic Old, is proof as clear as God could make j
if, that the “ Herd that was wit It God was God.” ;
But as God’s general name signified l all-suffi- !
cient. it i3 most likely he meant by this par- J
tacular title, at this particular time, mainly to
suit it demonstratively to the fulfilment of his
promise, to bring his covenant people out of
Egypt and into the premised land by the em
ployment ®f bis own almighty arm. In this
way—by manifestations ®f his all-suffi
ciency in various test issues, he fully estab
liilied bis indisputable right to be believed in
and to be worshipped as the only true God. In
this way he was by eminence distinguished
from all idol g«ds. by the affix of the God of
the Hebrews, the God of Daniel, etc.
Whose God is the Lord: That is, in my
opinion, whose God is Jesus Christ the Lord.
This appellation. Lord, is everywhere applied
in the Old Testament Scriptures to, that divine
personage engaged in the conditions and prom
ises of the Abrahamic covenant, which cove
nant St. Haul says was confirmed of God in
Christ. There is no one article in the doctrines
to ho believed, that is more emphatically en
forced, than the doctrine of Christ s absolute
right to the disposal of thrones, of principali
ties, of powers, and of all issues dependent,
either on the right of creation or on the right,
of redemption—see Col. i: 15, 16. Did you
never feel yourselves called on to pause, and
inquire why it was that Christ gave the dis
ciples such particular notice, after his resur
rection, of the plenary power with which lie
was clothed in all the pending issues of heaven
and of earth ? These terms, heaven and earth,
may fitly represent his jurisdiction over both
Church and State When he said all power was
given into his hands, he must, have meant, civil
power, as well as ecclesiastical. He is declared
to be “The blessed and only Potentate, the
King of kings; and the Lord oTiovds, wh*
only hash immortality, and welling in the light
which no man can approach unto, whom no
until letih seen nor can see; to who** be honor
and power everlasting. Amen.” The want of
this amen, the spirit and the will to say, so let
it l»e, is, in my opinion, the deleterious consti
tutional taint that has, and will, and i* Divine
. to stamp v. ith the seal <
bation every government that spreads its shield
oTcr a, Knd trHero revelation is «, iantp
to our feet. It is the decree of lleAvon, that
been use Christ iu his crucifixion waived all
cldim to exemption, either from its infamy or
its agony, on account of his being in the form
of God, and designedly made himself of no
reputation—that being found in fashion as w
man, he might humble, himself, not only low
enough to die,-but to die the death of the
cross, that she should be highly exalted and
receive a name which is above every name;
that at the name of Jesus “every knee should
bow of things in heaven, and things in earth,
and things under the earth, and that every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ, is
Lord, to the "glory of God the Father.” Here,
then, ye officers and privates of our armies,
you can see the theological reason why the
text says, Blessed is the nation whose God is
the Lord—the nation that openly and believing
ly acknowledges Jesus Christ as the Son of
God and the Saviour of the world. There is sure
enough in this case only one Lord and one
faith; and as according io Daniel's visions
and revelations, the mysterious stone which he
saw smite tho image and break it, was to grow
on until all the kingdoms of the world were to
be swallowed up in it, and to tieeome the king
dom of God and of his Christ, I take it for
granted that this leaven—that is to leaven the
whole lump—must and will become a national
leaven before the earth is tilled with the knowl
edge of God.
This Confederacy can never be blessed of
God until it makes Jesus Christ its Lord, not
merely' as a national sentiment, but truly as a
national faith.
Guerrillas in Kentucky.-— The Louisville
Journal, of the 20th February, soys :
The passenger train which left Nashville on
Thursday morning, on the Nashville and De
-eatur • Railroad, was captured by a squad of
rebels at Spring Ilill, twelve miles below
Franklin. No particulars have been transmit
ted.* The telegraph along the line of the road
is in working order, not having been molested.
A party of guerrillas, Thursday, made a de
is in wogking order, not having been molested,
wood on Murrell’s lands, near the Murfrees
boro’ pike, about seven miles from Nashville,
they robbed ihe negroes, and set fire to and
destroyed thirteen wagons. A general stam
pede followed the surprise, and the negroes
went rushing pell-mell into the city. Upon ar
riving on the Square, one of the darkies, speak
ing to a companion, .said, “ Dar, by golly, 1
just thought of it, 1 left anew pair of boots on
a stump.” The negroes had but recently* been
employed by Mr. James Calvert.
[For tho Army and Navy Herald.]
Dines Written on tYe National Fast
Day.
To thee, O Lord, we render now
Our willing tribute, love and praise ;
Wilt thou, to whom all flesn must bow,
Accept our bumble, grateful lays ?
Thy providence has kindly led
Our nation through its perils past,
And “lifted up” her fainting head—
Be still her strength, thou First and Last.
0 see *ur infant nation bow,
A trembling suppliant, at thy feet.;
A deadly pallor clothes her brow.
Her life is now with woes replete.
Her enemies now fiercely wage
A cruel war on all things dear,
And heed not iu their fiendish rage
Tiie old man’s groan or woman's tear.
Our foes are strong, and madly rave :
Our trust is in Thy arm alone ;
Wilt thou not from their malice save
And still our nation bless and own ?
Sharon, Miss., March 10, 1865.
[Special Correspondence Army A Navy Herald.]
Froan Tallahassee.
BATTLE AT NATURAL BRIDGE.
TIIPEE CHEEKS FOR LADIES AND CITI
ZENS OP FLORIDA.
Ur. EH tor: You have no doubt heard of the
battle below Tallahassee, at Natural Bridge,
| (not “National” Bridge, as ono of th* paper*
jin your city lnvf it). It wai a complete rout of
: the enemy, and came near being x complete
®*ptu » of their-army. Never w*s a thing
mors handsomely, more nobly done, and never
wa* Providene ■ more strangely manifested in
! our behalf. Tho signal guns eollec?ed every
| thing, from tin* Meih-usalem Grays to the young
! Cadets nt. school. Never was there a more
j hearty response. From Quincy, from Baldwin,
j from Tallahassee, Madison, Monticelio, and
I from the c> uti:vy, as if moved by electric fire,
| weve thrown together by the first Shock of
alarm. Wealth and poverty, vounc men and
| r j ’ j a
i maidens, old men and children exposed their
lives iu the conflict. It makes my hair vise
on my head and my heart flow warm when 1
think of it. Actually, the heroic young ladies
at. Newport exposed themselves in carrying
food to our soldiers in the trenches while the
missile* of the enemy were flying round them.
Li forcibly reminded me of the song of Debo
rah (Judges, 5 eh.) “when the people willingly
offered themselves." I will not stop to carry out
the simile, but “ Merez,” in this instance, was
not left behind. Gen. Miller was therewith
his clear head and brave soul, watching dili
gently every movement of the enemy*, and
moving rapidly to every place where his pres
ence was needed, fearless l of danger. Long
will he live in the hearts of his comrades in
this battle. Col. Scott, with his eagle eye and
indomitable will, working like some secret,
power, only known by* its effects, performed
(next to) miracles in his movements; and a
like spirit moved our subordinate officers and
men ; and last, but no? least, Kind Providence
directed all to a happy issue. I cannot forbear
io mention one circumstance: John Williams,
the circuit preacher , and four others, fighting
behind our breastworks, kept back one hun
dred Yankees from entering Newport for three
hours, and finally drove them from their en
trenchments.
Our loss was one killed and about twenty
wounded—wounds mostly slight. The Yankee
loss was four hundred killed, wounded aud cap
tured. Yours, very truly,
E. B. Duncan
An Irishman being lately asked by his priest,
a curate, why he did not come to confession,
said to him, “Please your reverence do you
ever confess?” “ Yes, I do, to the rector,” “And
do you pay?” “Yes.” “And to whom does
the rector confess ? ” “To the bishop.” “ And
does lie pay him ?” “ Yes.” “ And to whom
; does the bishop confess ?” •• To the vicar*gen
eral.” ‘’And pays him?” “Yes.” “And to
whom does he confess?” “To the Pope.”
“And pays?” “Yes.” “And to whom does
the Pope confess?” “ To Jesus Christ.” “And
doeshe pay anything ?” “No.” —“Then please
your reverence,” said the man, “ as I am very
poor, 1 think 1 shall go to Christ,”
“Boast not Thyself of To-morrow.”—At
a Christmas party one observed, that if they
should ever meet again, something was to be
done. Another exclaimed : “If we shall meat!
—we will meetbut he was the only one who
died in the interval!