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TiIEJBMNER AND BAPTIST.
Increase in Price of the Banner.
Owing to the immense increase in every
thing connected with the newspaper bust
ue has become absolutely necessary to
advance the price of The Banner to three
dollars per annum, instead of two as here,
tofore. Our patrons will see the propriety
uf this when informed that the price of
paper is more than double that of former
rates, and that of printing and mailing has
also advanced.
We can not publish the paper for less
than the amount stated without loss to our
selves, and we call upon our patrons to
pay the increase of price in order that we
may keep The Banner going. Those who
have already paid will receive the paper
according to the old rates until their pres
ent subscriptions shall expire.
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The Banner for the Soldiers
Dr. N. M. Crawford, $lO. (This was
published, last week, as a contribution for
Colportage, but brother C. informs us that
he intended it for The Banner.)
An unknown Friend, $lO.
Elder E. M. Galt, $5.
William Galt, $5.
Dr. N.‘ M. Crawford, for Cutts* Battalion,
$5. •
Df. W. H. Dean, $3.
Ufoney Received for Colportage.
Indian-Creek Church, per Rev. A. T.
Holmes, $13,00.
* *The Mews.
A few days ago General Pendleton took
it into his hesd to go down the James river
opposite to McClellan’s camp, and disturb
that gentleman’s repose. Getting his guns
in position during the day, he waited until
the darkness of night intervened, and then
opened upon the Federal fleet. The enemy
were thrown into a terrible panic, and sev
eral of their vessels “ skeedaddled ” under
the impression that the night of reckoning
had come. As far as has been ascertained,
very little injury was done to the enemy
except the “ big scare” which he received,
which, by the way, may have important
results. It is said that the gabbling of a
goose saved Rome on one occasion, and it
is possible that the echoes of “ Long Tom”
may send the enemy out of the Peninsula.
Stonewall Jackson is Pope’s front, and
seems to be impudently flaunting the Con
federate flag in his face, in order to provoke
him to give battle. The Federal general
is said to be a man of dashing proclivities,
and, if so, we may possibly have stirring
news from that quarter ere long. At any
rate, “ Stonewall ” with his “ foot cavalry”
don’t stay close to an enemy long without
testing his metal.
General Breckenridge has taken Baton
Kouge, the capifal of Louisiana, and there
may be other plaees to which he would like
to go.
Governor Magoffin, it is stated, has called
the Legislature of Kentucky together to
protest against the emancipation schemes
of Lincoln’s congress.
Generals Buckner, Tighlman, Mackall;
Commodore Barron; Lieutenants Pew,
Kennon, and other officers, ha”e arrived in
Richmond under the new arrangement for
the exchange of prisoners. Gen. Pettigrew
is also en route for that city.
Malvern Hill has been taken by the
enemy.
There has been a battle in East Tennes
see, which resulted in the capture of the
entire army of the enemy about Cumber
land Gap. Bo says a telegraphic dispatch.
At the North the *ar party seem to be
going under, if the statements of exchanged
prisoners are to be credited.
Gaming Houses.
Colonel G. W. Lee, commanding this
post, has issued an order requiring all
gaming houses to be closed. This is a good
move, and we earnestly hope the Colonel
will have the cooperation of our citizens in
carrying this order into effect. We are
greatly pleased with the Colonel’s admin
istration, and trust his health will be re
stored so that he can give his personal at
tention to all matters connected with his
office.
Tike Banner.
We take the opportunity to appeal to our
Banner friends. As you know, it has been
a hard struggle to keep any religious paper
going these war times. But you, your
neighbors, and soldier kindred, need The
Banner. Money is now plenty all over the
country, and there is no excuse for Chris
tians to do without a religious paper. —
When the war is over you will still need
it. Now then is the time to send on funds,
and to exert yourselves lor its greater cir
culation. Come, brethren, sisters, friends,
be up and doing t •
AM Baptist ministers and others, ttt the
Confederate States, friendly to the paper
are requested to act as Agents.
BANKGR AND BAPTIST.
.u—as-rfofc h .gagp;— "ggr *r-- - ' —
A mother’s Hope.
He has wandered long and far
In sin’s most dread employ ;
Has left my bosom wild of lose,
Home’s bright dear shrine of joy.
In blind ambition’s reckless march
He threw his wealth away,
And played with love and hope and truth
As careless infants play.
Of darkness full, of'storm and sin,
He left me for awhile ;
Then, growing madder, wilder still,
Forgot a mother’s smile.
Where roll’d earth’s elemental storms,
My prayers he could not hear;
Amid its splendid pomp and show,
Could never see my tear.
And now he’s gone —a mother’s love —
A wretched sinner still,
Wafidering thro’ this world of shade,
Woe’s dark black home to fill.
But O my son, my precious son!
It is with joyous pain
I feel, I hope, I know thou wilt
Return to me again.
The war song shook thy being dread
And fired thy leaping soul;
It drove thy knightly heart to where
The battle thunders roll.
I aw thee climb to heights of fame
Where noble wo;thies dwell;
Then saw thee madly plunging down,
As to some yawning hell.
But thy poor mother’s fainting heart
Still follows even here—
Thou wilt return, 1 know thou wilt,
My child of love, most dear.
1 saw thee once in palace halls
With diamonds on thy brow—
Pure diamonds, all brightly burning
As gems of evening now.
Mean tattered rags are now thy dress,
And Want thy haggard friend;
The empty vacant world around
No single charm can lend;
But here’s my heart, my wealth of love,
A mother’s prayer apd care—
Wilt thou return, my ofphan boy,
And find a heaven here ?
Thy vacant seat invites thee back,
And this expanding arm,
My tears, and all thy early joys,
And every holy charm.
Yon shaded streamlet’s babbling wave,
And the voice deep of night,
And sighing ev , as sweetly call,
And morning’s opening light.
Coir.e back ; and live and laugh and hope
On my full bosom blest—-
To me come back, and'to thy God,
And have et* rnal jest. ■ *-
W. D. M.
Macon, Georgia.
To Christian Ministers ih the Confederacy :
The watchmen upon the walls of Zion
should cry aloud against every violation of
the Divine law.
While we are rallying our Churches to
invoke the Divine benediction upon our
arms, there are two palpable evils winked
at by the authorities—drnnkeiiness and
Sabbath-breaking. Either ofthese is enough
to bring down the Divine anathema upon
us. Can we do nothing to arfest these
evils, and avert the anger of our insulted
King ?
Our good President has called on us and
our charges to humble ourselves before the
mighty hand of God, and by fasting and
prayer, beseech Him to bless our land and
prosper our arms. We have done so.—
Now let us call on our wise and Christian
President to dismiss every drunken officer
who will not abstain from the use of intoxi
cating liquors, and to put an end to all
drills and reviews on the holy Sabbath.—
So long as the former continues, the de
moralizalion of our armies will p(ace them
out of the pale of God’s favor and protec
tion, as well as unfit them for the trusts,
sacred and holy, which have been commit
ted to them. The latter is placing us as a
nation in defiance to the authority of Heaven.
} would propose that every Minister in
this Confederacy, of every name and order,
who is willing to sign a petition to the au
thorities at Richmond to have these evils
removed, send their names to Rev. S.
| Boykin in this city. Let us act, and act at
(once, and the evils may be removed.
E. W. W ARRKK. i
Petition to Congress.
j To the Honorable Senate and House of Reo
retentative* of the Confederate States of
America .
| The undersigned, deeply realizing tbe
i truth that we can neither ask, nor hope
with any show of reason, for the favor of
iGod to our loved Confederacy, or His aid
|in the deadly contest in which we are now j
; engaged, while our Government shall de
liberate! v and persistently continue to dis
regard His laws and require the violation
>f them by officials and soldiers in its era- 1
ploy ment —do earnestly petition you to
{take such action as will repeat all daws re
quiring unnecessary mail service to be per
! formed upon the Sabbath-day; and to enact
such as will secure our soldiers from un
necessary drills, reviews, or other labor
upon that day. And as in duty bound
your petitioners will ever pray.
THE GRAVE.
In Meniortaiu
Henry Bunn, the subject of this obituary,
| was killed in the battle before Richmond,
| on the 27th of June.
| At the first call of his country, he buckled
lon the warrior’s harness and went forth to
'battle for human rights. Though very
; young, he was able to stand the privations
|of the summer and winter campaign ; and
bore himself nobly amid all the arduous
duties of the tented field. He ever mani
fested an affectionate concern for his com
panions in arms, and was characterized by
his uniform kindness.
In his sad death he has paid, and cheer
fully, the dearest price whieh can be paid
for human liberty. If the “tree of liberty
flourishes only when nourished by blood,’’
we are watering it with our most valuable
and costly libations.
Though his death was sudden, we have
every reason to know that it did not find
him unready. For several years he had
lived the life of the Christian. He was
baptized (by the writer) in 1858, then four
teen years of age; and, from that time till
the day of his death, he not only did nothing
to dishonor his profession, but on the con
trary, for one of his age, was eminently the
Christian. That he successfully resisted
the temptations of camp life, we have the
testimony of his companions in arms.
His parents and relatives have much to
be thankful for in such a brother and son.—
Noble, gallant, chivalrous, pious, devoted,
affectionate, cheerful boy ! His example,
as a soldier, and especially as a Christian
soldier, is worthy of all imitation. The
parents of the deceased should be thankful
that they have had such a son to contribute
to the cause of constitutional liberty. May
! they be sustained under the bereavement
by grace divine; and may they remember
that they shall soon meet him again “ where
the wicked cease from troubling.” T.
j
William G. Mitchell (son of John G.
and Angeline Mitchell, of Greene county,
Ga.,) fell a victim to death, while battling
for the South, in the great battle before
Richmond, on the 28th ofJnne, 1862.
He was a member of the Stephens’ Lightj
Guar’S, Bth regiment Georgia volunteers—
one of the first companies to enter the ser
vice “ for the war,” in defence of the South.
He was an obedient son, a kind and lov
| ing brother, and an agreeable companion.
I Asa private in his company, he was ever
ready to perform the most arduous duties
imposed upon him. As an obedient, will
ing and pious soldier, he had but few supe
riors. But, alas! he is gone to leap the
rich rewards of high Heaven; and may the
Lord sanctify his death to the blessing of
his only brother, who is now in the army.
The deceased embraced religion several
years ago, and was baptized at Bethesda,
Greene county, by Rev. H. H. Tucker.—
From then till his death, seldom was Chris
tian deportment more beautifully manifest
ed in the character of any one.
He has left father, mother, brother and
sister to mourn his death, but it is a great
consolation to them to feel that their loss is
his eternal gain. Wrapt as he now is in
the confines of the red earth, may peace be
to his remains, and his young associates
emulate his Christian example and patriotic
disposition. A Friind.
[Christian Index please copy.]
Departed this life, the 13th day of July,
1862, at the Banner Hospital in Richmond,
from the effects of a wound inflicted in the
battle of July Ist, James J. McMicheal.
He was born January, 1842, in Butts
county, Georgia, where he spent his life
until he entered the service of his country
in July, 1861. Brother James (as we all
usually called him) was baptized into the
fellowship of the church at Jackson, in his
twelfth year.
In conversation with his father (Elder
W. G. McMicheal) a short time since, he
said: “I never baptized a person with!
whom 1 was better satisfied with than'
James, notwithstanding he is my own son.
It is a remarkable fact, that none with whom
I have conversed remembers that he ever
failed to attend a conference meeting of his
church, from the day he was baptized until
he left home as a soldier in the army .”
A few days before his death, when the !
physician informed him he must go, he said
that he feared not to die ; and enjoined up
on him to let bis people know that having
lived in the faith, he was dying in the faith
which worketh by love.
In the death of brother James, the army j
[tws sustained a toss of a worthy soldier;'
the church, one oflts most promising lights;
hia father, a dutiful son ; the family, a be- j
■’loved member. But while we weep for
him, we weep not as those who have no
hope, for we feel that he is gone where the;
wicked cease from troubling and the weary
are at rest. Weep not, then, dear father,,
mother, brother, sisters, and friends; but:
remember, as David said, that il he can not
come to you, you‘can go to him.
W. J. S.
i Died, in this city, on Wednesday, the
23d ultimo, after a long illness,
Hampton (infant son ofD. 11. and E. S.)
Silvet, aged one year and nineteen days.
Rest, sweet babe, thy body in the quiet
| tomb, and thy sanctified spirit in the bosom
{of Jesus. Pastor.
Colportage amongst the Soldiers.
The editor of this paper has been author
ized, by Elder A. E. Dickinson, to employ
six Colporteurs in the Western and South
western armies, and he calls upon the
friends of the Soldier to aid in this good
work.
Three colporteurs are already in the
field: brother Hughes is laboring iu the
hospitals of this city —brother L. G. Cobb
is laboring in the camps of Gen. E. Kirby
Smith’s command, and is meeting with
great encouragement in the work —brother
T. M. Harbin has visited Mobile and dis
tributed tracts amongst the soldiers in and
around that city—and brother V. A. Bell
is making his arrangements to visit and
labor in the various Camps of Instruction
scattered along the line of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad.
To sustain these brethren we must have
funds. These must be furnished by the
voluntary contributions of the liberal and
large-hearted friends of the soldier. Breth
ren, friends, will you help us ?
We'believe you will, and upon this faith
in your liberality and benevolence we have
sent forth the above named brethren, and
if you-will furnish the means we will send
forth two others to win the brave defend
ers of their country to Christ.
Contributions may be sent either by
mail or by express to this office, and will
be faithfully employed in the manner des
ignated by the donors. There are hundreds
of brethren, and sisters too, who can aid
us in this enterprize, and w T e appeal to them
in the name and in behalf of their own sons,
brothers and husbands.
H. 0. HORNADY, Local Agent.
Address to Southern Baptists.
Brethren and Sisters: „
Permit us to address you in behalf of
our Mission interests. Nothing is dearer
to the heart of the Christian than the cause
of Christ. That cause, owing to the condi
tion of our country, is in danger of suffering.
The public mind is necessarily drawn off
from every other subject, in the universal
interest felt in the prosecution of the war.
But is the disciple of Jesus justified in pay
ing tribute to Ciesar alone ? Should not
God receive His share? Is the command
of the blessed Saviour abrogated, and the
obligation of the Christian laid aside, under
any of the circumstances in which he may
be placed ?
To this Board has been committed the
spiritual welfare of those at home. It is
expected to look after the interests of the
Domestic field.
The Indians in our western territory have
been the objects of oui sympathy, and have
shared largely in our aid. Shall the Board
continue to supply this aid ? Those tribes
to which we have sent our missionaries are
true to the Confederate government, and
have risked their all in its support. Shall
the Board still furnish them the Bread of
f*
Life? Then your sympathy and codpera
tion must be continued.
The large number of our male population
in camp, battling for the independence of
our country, has called loudly for our as
sistance. A small proportion of the regi
ments in the service of the government are
provided with chaphins. To meet this
want the Board has appointed Missionaries
to preach to them the Gospel and to fur
nish them Testaments and religious tracts
as far as possible. Six brethren are already
Under appointment and are prosecuting
their work in the camps and hospitals in
Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida
and Alabama. Others will be appointed
as soon as the means can be secured for
their support. Twenty-five missionaries
would not be too many to meet the urgent
demand for this field. To carry on this
work will also require your liberal contri
butions. Shall we appeal to you in vain?
Shall this work stop for want of a small
effort on your part? ‘ Will you go to work
at once and do what you can, yourself, and j
get others to do likewise? Much may be|
done, if all will do their duty—do whati
they can. Shall the Red man, shall the:
Soldier-boy, appeal in vain to the Christian |
patriot ? They ask for the Bible, for the j
Word of God, for the Minister of Christ, j
from whose sympathies and labors they are
cut off amid the dangers of the camp, while;
you are quietly and safely enjoying your
accustomed privileges of home and the;
sanctuary.
We do hope that a prompt and generous
effort will be made to enable the Board to,
fo on with their Heaven-born work. —:
Irethren and sisters, do not read this article;
and go away to forget our wants. W are
dependent upon your voluntary contributions
to continue the operations of the Domestic,
Mission Board.
Yours truly, in behalf of the Board,
M. T. SUMNER, Cerr. Sec j. j
Correspondents of the Banner.
Elder N. M. Crawford, Penfield, Ga,“
“ B. F. Tharp, Perry, Ga.
“ W. N. Chaudoin, Albany, Qa,
“ R. J. Mays, Florida.
“ A. E. Dickinson, Ricmuuud, Va.
“ W. D. Mayfield. South Carolina.
“ G. C. Connor, Thomasville, Ga.
“ J- H. Campbell, Griffin, Ga.
“ G. T. Wilburn,
M. W. Philips, Edwards, Miss.
AENTBforthehammer.
The following brethren will act as Agents
for the Banner, and will receipt for money
paid for the paper.
Elder J. S. Murrow, Traveling Agent
“ F. M. Haygood, . do
“ J. H. Stockton, Thomson, Qa.
“ Thos. Musk, Cuthbert, Qa.
• “ Robt. Cunningham, Macon , Qa.
“ Thos Aldridge, Millwood, Qa.
“ W. W. Odom, Valdosta, Qa.
“ G. F. Cooper, Americas, Qa.
“ J. H. Campbell, Griffin, Qa.
“ W. J. Speairs, Peaks P. 0., Qa.
“ John H. Clarke, Henderson , Qa,
“ P. A. Lawson, Qaiffin, Qa.
“ William Lowe, McDonough, Qa.
Dr. E. R. Carswell, Waynesboro', Qa
William Roberts, Byrumville, Qa.
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sirous of distributing Tracts in our hospitals
can obtain them by applying at the office of
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