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H. C. HORNADY, \ F.DTTOR and PROPRIETOR. f VOLUME 111. The Banner and Baptist IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, AT ATLANTA, GA. Subscription price—Three Dollars per year, in advance. 11. C. Hoknadv, Proprietor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTfON. Weekly, (fifty Nos.,) per annum, invariably in Advance. - - - - - - $8 00 Money due the Office, may be sent by mail a our risk —always mail it in presence of a. friend (other than the P. M. ) or procure a friend to mail it foryou —never register. Contributors should write only on one side of each, leaf, and number the pages, 1,2, 3, &c. The Editor will be responsible only for bis own articles. Those wishing papers changed, should give the Post-Office they wish changed from, as well as the one to be changed to. Those forwarding names of subscribers or re mittances, should always write the name of Post Office, County, and State, in full. All letters containing remittances, or articles or the Paper, should be directed to the Banner & Baptist, Atlanta, Georgia, and not to the Edi tors by name ' The Hope, (lie Star, I lie Voice. There is a hope, a blessed hope, More precious and more bright Than all the joyless mockery The world esteems delight,' There is a star, a lovely star, That lights the darkest gloom. And sheds a peaceful radiance o’er The prospects of the tomb. There is a voice, a cheering voice, That lifts the soul above; Dispels the painful, anxious doubt, And whispers, ‘God is love.’ That voice,"aloud from Calvary’s height, Proclaims the soul forgiven ; That star is revelation's light; That hope, the hope of heaven. [Written for the Banner and Ilajftist ] To the South. We are realizing more and more that we are engaged in a war which will demand all our power and will try our fortitude.— We delayed the evil day from uuthlh f,q ; month, yes, from year to year, hoping that there might be some change in the national policy. We counted the. cost deliberately; ve discussed for a long time the elements of pow er which would be found upon the one side and the other; we weighed in the balances of a cool judgment the dangers which threatened us on either side; and — with a full view of what was before us, of the awful grandeur of the act, of our re sponsibilities to Jehovah as well as to man, of the severe struggle we should have to wage, of the many sacrifices we should be called to endure, —we committed ourselves to Him who ruletli strictly, and assumed our place among the nations. This thing was not done thoughtlessly nor hastily.— For many years have the feelings which have at last brought it about been intensi fying, and the purposes maturing. Ido not believe that it could have been prevented without such a miraculous intervention as the Lord neither vouchsafes in these latter days nor did the union of the north and 1 south deserve. And this long deliberation, together with the interests involved in this . confliet, satisfies me that we are only at | the beginning of a long and bloody war, j and that it is the duty of every southern I man and woman to prepare for the same, j A quick quarrel may easily be settled, but j one which has been festering tor the last j twenty or thirty years must be fought out. 1 Our danger, in a dispute with a popula tion so very much larger than our own, is, j that we shall have nothing in store if wej too hastily exhaust our men. Hut, by earing for every one’s life, by considering ! it a trust given to our infant republic and not to be expended without it is for neces-1 sity’s sake, wo shall have a plenty of whole souled men to earrv us safely through the war. Nothing is so fatal to us at this time as the loss of confidence, among the finks, in those who have been set over us by our own choiqe. We as a nat ion should repent of this sin; for the divisions of Reuben, let there be gnat searchings of heart. Hut besides this evil of discord, we have been manifesting a spirit of presumption, which we should avoid. Soon after our signal victory at Manassas the Lord was in all our thoughts; we mag nified Him, wo praised Him, wo glorified Iftm, wo gave thanks to His groat name.— But as time has passed on, the arm of flesh has boon' continually taking the place (in our language at least, if not in our thoughts) of the power of Clod, Wo have talked as if ell that was absolutely ncossary to vie lory was that our soldiers should be turned ATLANTA, GA., AD GUST 30, 1862. i loose upon our enemies, and as if God, who ! ruleth in all the armies of the sky, had no thing, at all to do with defeat or success! — No kind of a spirit can be more fatal to us than this. We should hear in mind that I God is jealous of His glory, and especially j jealous when lie has taken a people with | their rulers and armies so plainly under | Ilia own guidance m He has this people.— j He is’leading us on to our rest and inde pendence, and we must acknowledge the j song of thanksgiving which David sang be j fore God in the hour of his prosperity : j ‘Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the i power, and the glorv, and the victory, and i the majesty; for all that is in the heaven land in the earth is thine. Rhine is the kingdom, <) Lord, and Thou art exalted as Head above all ! ’ Again: We should avoid profaueness, intemperance, irreligion, and extortion. — In the commencement of the war, religion appeared to hold paramount sway. Nearly every body turned to (rod who ruleth the armies of the sky, as his Help and Refuge. And can not that state of things continue? | Must the very success He has vouchsafed us turn our heads and hearts, and deliver us over to ourselves again? God forbid ! Let us rise up to the height of this great argument, and put beneath our feet every thing that may lower and degrade it. The time has passed for levity, for a disregard of sacred things, fur dissipation, for trifling with the Lord’s most holy name. We are now engaged in a work which demands all man’s self possession and woman’s self sacrifice ; which will separate the chaff from the wheat—the pure gold from the worthless dross. On account of these sins and the weak ness which they have producid in the na tional life, our noble-hearted President has, time and again, exhorted us to call upon the hUTtm’ of the T>.*r<T that- .we may renew our strength. Bless Gud that he knows where a nation’s weakness may he repaired ! Blessod is the people that has such a Presi dent. What is the use of fortifications, in the increase of troops, in the arrival of arms, unless at the same time we wait upon the Lord? The value of troops, of fortifi cations, of arms,depends upon the strength of heart which is behind them and that comes from God. The Lord can encourage, and He can make afraid ; lie openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth. ‘ 1 can do nothing,’ said Balaam to the king of the Moabites ; ‘ You sent for me to curse this people, but God hath blessed them.’ Many a man who does not pray himself is sustained by the prayers of God’s people, who are behind him,suppli-j eating God and crying for His help.— When the youthful Joshua went out to bat tle against Antalek, Israel prevailed in the battle so long as Moses held up his hand toward the Lord; but when he letdown his hand, Amalek prevailed. Our support in .such moments is in the Lord. He must and He will renew our strength. ‘ When my soul fainted within me,’ said Jonah, ‘I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came in unto thee in thine holy temple, for salva tion is of the Lord.’ While our officers are training their men in discipline, in movement, in arms, if they would also impress upon them the great necessity of a moral tone, we should soon be beyond all danger from our foes. It is wrong to neglect moral power while we are cultivating physical power. It was those things which made the armies of Cromwell irresistible ; which enabled the apprentices of London and the artizans of the towns to overcome the disciplined roy alists and tin* cavaliers of Prince Rupert. W. 0. n. Taylor's (stffk) (hi. Continent*. Dear Danner: Sutler a word td com ment on the Report of the Committee on ‘ Our Country,’ presented at the Noonday Association, and published last week. 1. An awful calamity is upon us. 1 have been called upon to realize the most distressing feelings in consequence of the loss of ft brother-in-law. who fell, face tbremost, in the charge made by Magruder on Monday, during the fight near Richmond. He was a man just in the prime of life—* prominent Baptist, a leading temperance man, possessed of fine natural and acquired labilities, loved by all the good who knew knew him. He left a wife and fire dear "HIS BASHES OTIS" IIS IS "£OVH." little children to weep in vain for him to guide and counsel them. A halfdozen nephews are undergoing the sufferings and privations of camp life. Thousands of oth ers all over the confederacy are in a similar, and many in a worse condition. Is not this an awful calamity—and especially when we consider that some of our friends are exposed and falling, who give * > evidence of preparation for death ? 2.-Our God is a God of righteousness I and true holiness. This is the Being in ! whose hands we are, unto whom we must : account —One who can not look upon sin i with allowance. And yet we know that we have sinned, know, too, that we must j suffer for our sins even here, and yet we 1 are continuing in sin—sinning against God, ’ our neighbors, and our country. Against God, in violating His law. lie commands us to ‘ do good unto all men ; ’ to love our neighbor as ourself; to forsake not the as sembling ofourselves together, for religious exercises; not to speak evil of dignitaries and authorities. How are we doing to Others ! Are we carrying out this Divine injunction when we exact the last hard earned cent of the poor widow and orphan, for one-third the quantity of provisions usually purchased with the amount ? And this we do, not as a matter of necessity, but because wo have the power. How are we manifesting our ‘love’ for our neighbor? We consume and devour each other; take all advantages of the times to get gain for ourselves; seem to regard neither God nor man, only so far as self-interest is concerned. Is this loving our neighbor as ourselves? l God save ns from such a fulfilment of the' law as this! Would it not be better for those who aiv engaged in oppression, undue speculation, | extortion (that’s the term), to go and fight the battles of the country, and let the hon <rst ‘ proilffFcT' 'furnish"'- thy hvTT each live for the good of the" OtneFand for their country ? Then would God bi ss us, j and whip our cruel enemies for us, *5. The war is sent and perpetuated in consequence of past and present sins. As a people we had become vain, proud, self confident. The vanities <*f this world had possessed us. The rich were unwilling to appear in church unless they could attract more attention than, any one else. The poor, too vain and proud to go as their: circumstances would permit, stayed at home j or loitered about the streets. There were ' honorable exceptions, however, where they stayed at home and read the Bible. But! this vain and wicked course made many vacant seats in the house of God. Again* The poor minister of Jesus Christ was re quired to be there. He must appear in good time, in good style ; must preach flu ently, logically, eloquently; tell all the Bible teaches, all the newspapers say— when the sun will be eclipsed, and when the earth will get between the sun and moon and how long remain there all this to be! attended to, and ten or a dozen children to j feed at home, books and newspapers to pay for and read, and, at the same time, every! hour of the day required to meet home de mands. If any reading is done, it is whilst others sleep; if studying, it is as the poor] man, riding over bill and dale, wends his! way on to the place appointed; and then it prayer (earnest j is offered for him, it is by a poor minister similarly situated, or by a weeping wife who has wept and pined oven her sad lot until *he is prepared to lay down her work and, with broken heart, pour out her cries to God, And did you know, brother Editor, that, notwithstanding her own sufferings, her first petition is, ‘God; be merciful to my poor, wearied husband ! j Be with him to-day; give him strength of; body and mind, that Thy name may be] glorified and souls blessed ! ’ Here, my brother, are awful sins—pride] and vanity preventing God’s worship ; and then perishing to death those whom God* has sent as messengers of Him. 1 hese sms; have been and are still prevalent, and God will not withhold His chastening rod until reformation is had. For these and other past and present sins, the war is upon us.— The report prescribes the remedy : forsake sin, go to God in humble prayer for help. Lastly. We had become self-confident. Whilst as yet our army stood facing the enemy in front of VS aahington, our people were on their knees, earnestly {'leading for help. At length the clash of arms was heard, the battle was fought, God gave us the victory. For a few days we seem to be humble and thankful; but by degrees we become vain and self-confident. All over the land wo hear it proclaimed, ‘ One Southerner can whip a half-dozen Yankees.’ We ceased to look to God, our only sure Defence, and became a nation of braggarts. God has been chastening us. Let us re form, and all is safe—the victory is ours. Yours, truly, S. M. I*. The Salt ( amps and Camper*. | August 3, 1802. bear Banner: I see you have published my scrawl about Salt; and in so badly a written article, but one typographical error is noticed—that quite a funny, though easy one —making me say wc have no means nor ‘line,’ while salt-making, to catch fish, j instead of ‘ means nor lime' I have received a good many letters on the salt question, which 1 could not satis factorily answer with more time and better means for writing than amid the arduous labors I am engaged in at the destitute place of St. Andrews’ Bay. It is anew business to us all, and re quires harder and more constant labor than the most of us engaged in it are accustomed to. Farm 'managers and black laborers have in the main been left at home, while the proprietors of farms and ‘ professional ’ men, from the necessity of the times, are laboring ‘with their own hands’ to obtain the precious granulation. I am near a lawyer, of Marietta, who, with a merchant, of Alabama, has done as hard, as much and as good work, for three months, as any me chanic could do, black or white; and Jhe su} s it is the first physical labor he ever performed. Such .a man is a man indeed, and is worthy of all honor. There is not far off a Circuit. Judge from Georgia, a ‘ Major,’ a ‘..Captain.’ sevay-al piasachertk and many others who never ‘ worked’ be fore, who have done more work, and kept more constantly at it, than they themselves could have believed possible. This horrid war is developing various resources, and none of more importance than man’s real capabilities and true independence. We ought to be a more laboring, self denying, ease abandoning and practical people, and the hideous war is making us so. God ‘can make the wrath of man to praise Him,’ bring good out of evil, and sanctify our greatest afflictions to our good. The pious observer has not failed to see this already. The salt-makers’ camps are thick and far reaching on the prong of the Bay where I am, yet all are so busy we seldom sec each other except on Sabbath when wc hold Divine worship. Many attend these meet ings; and 1 do not believe much, if any , Sunday work is carried on. Some work all night and turn out more salt, but the most in sight of my camp only work * late and early.’ The Yankee bloekaders not yet having paid us a visit, the apprehensions of some have subsided and they think we will not; be interrupted ; others still fear their de structive hand will yet be turned against i us and we forced home or to some more re mote nook and corner of the coast, or we I will have to take the bush till their shell-i ing ceases and their men of-war gooff-—; then return to our business and labor on as; before. But suppose they destroy our 1 works ? you ask. Well, that would be bad, i but some means would be resorted to for making salt, for we must have if. Some have already made their own supply and quit, and a great many have gotten w ell; under way, while others arc still fixing up, and new’ comers daily increasing. The process of making salt is simple and j the labor comparatively little, but it is hovhthing to get ready at such an out-of-the way place as St. Andrews’, and to travel hundreds of miles, like some, to reach there. 1 never saw’ whiter salt, nor whiter any thing , than is made there, ft is very fine, because so rapidly evaporated, if coarse salt be preferable, that can easily be made ,by having evaporating vats, which some are preparing, to throw off the strong Irene in. Well, well, well! 1 have written on both sides this poor brown paper, and it is too much to expect you to decipher and publish—but 1 declare 1 can’t rewrite it! You must try to read it, and tell those you sec any thing contained which you can re remember and think will benefit any body. There are some negroes, as well as white J TERMS: Three Dollars per^nnum, J STRICTLY IN - ADVANCE. j laborers, employed. Quite a stampede j seemed to have eonnneocedsome time ago. i Li a day or two after one company arrived | bringing several negroes, three of them j were missing; a few mornings after, two j from another camp were gone; and before ! the excitement in the various camps died j out, the news came that f three other darkies were gone,’—making eight from three camps in less than a week. Two of this number evidently attempted to reach the blockade, for they were found on the other side of the Bay, faint and hungry, and very anxious to get back ; three got tired of new masters or new business, and attempted to return home, but, being stopped at the first ferry, quite willingly returned to camps; the other three not yet heard from, but it is believed they went home to Randolph county. That’s the last of negroes’ going to the Yankees, and nobody seems to ap prehend further danger. Salt sells at ten dollars per bushel, when any for sale. It can’t be afforded there for less, till first expenses are to some extent covered. If the work continues it will sell lower, though all that is made there will be but ‘a drop in the bucket.’ D. P. E. P. S. 1 have heard, since I left camps on a few days’ furlough, that Yankee ves sels had been recoinnoitering the coast, and produced much excitement among the salt makers by approaching so near to their camps. A white flag being raised was un noticed by the marines, who seemed to be prying into things more closely than the campers liked. Bo Ikiml (o your Wife, Be kind to your wife. Think how*, in ; the first blush of maiden beauty, she turned aside from the haunts of pleasure and the * caress of fond parents and brothers and ; workT Think with what blendfid hope and* : agony you foliow*ed her from place to place, w atching her every look, and pondering the ! meaning of her most careless tones, until, ! won by your importunity, she placed her hand all trustfully in yours and said, ‘ 1 am all your own.’ Think of the cares and anxieties and physical suffering she has en dured for you, and do not desert her now, when her cheek is faded, her step ha3 lost its elasticity, and she sits an uncomplaining watcher over your best interests, a self incarcerated prisoner in her own home. There she lingers at home, a God-com missioned watcher over helpless children ; singing the babe to sleep, bending to catch the lisping voice of those dear ones who have a thousand imaginary wants, encoura ging the quiet and soothing the fretful.— She is weary, but does not complain ; her temples throb, but she does not heed their throbbing, as ever and anon she turns a wishful glance towards the door, for she expects her husband. .She expects you : and her whole world of happiness will be there when you arrive. Will you enter that room w*ith cold in difference? Will you sit down with that frown on your countenance, or complain of the burdens you are called to bear? Will yon thoughtlessly remind her of her faded beauty ? or manifest surprise at her igno ranee of many things now passing in the great world from which she has been ex cluded by her peculiar duties? Will you suffer the recollection of any more youth ful or more beautiful to haunt you in home’s hallowed precints, or cross the white leaf of conjugal felicity with one unhallowed thought ? Oh! remember your early love, your early promises; think how faithfully she kept hers ; love her as you ought, and she is still beautiful—beautiful in her pure, motherly affections, her self-sacrificing de votion to you. Realize that she is all your own ; that throughout the wide world you are sure of but one heart whose every cord is linked invisibly to a counterpart in yours; realize that upon her bosom alone you may w*eep out your sorrows in the day of trial without the fear of being mocked. Husband, love your wife! Gather her to your heart of hearts, as if in her w*ere all your hopes of happiness combined.— Bless her daily for her patience and truth. Stand up like a man between her and the rude, cold world ; and teach your children to honor her, that. God may honor you. — In all the relations of life there comes a parting hour; and we beseech you so to live that, if it should be your lot to kiss ; her clay-cold lips and lay her away in the ] grave forever, you may lay your hand hon iestly upon your widowed heart and say, ‘I have never wronged you ! ’ Men move on, as it were, arm in arm iu crowds, and are drawn downwards or up wards in innumerable, companies. J hings are so ordered in the Divine plan, that we are certain to do cither good or harm one ito another. We draw and are drawn, by ] one another, either to heaven or hell. NUMBER 41.