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VARIETIES.
The Inquisitl*' 6 Yankee.
A gentleman riding in an eastern railroad
car, which was rather scantily supplied
with passengers, observed on the seat be
fore him a lean, slab-sided Yankee; every
feature of his face seemed to ask a ques
tion, and a little circumstance soon proved
that he possessed a most ** inquisitive
mind.” Before him, occupying an entire
seat, sat a lady dressed in deep black, and
after shifting his position several times, and
manoeuvreing to get an opportunity to look
into her face, he at length caught her eye :
“ In affliction ? ”
“Yes, sir,” responded the lady.
“ Parents ?—father or mother ? ”
“ No, sir.”
“ Child, perhaps ?—-boy ©r girl? ”
“ No, sir, not a child; I have no children.”
“ Husband, then, I expect? ”
“ Yes,” was the curt answer.
“Hum! cholery? a tradin’ man, may
be?”
“ My husband was a seafaring man —the
captain of a vessel; he didn’t die of chole
ra, he was drowned.”
“ Oh, drowned, eh ! ” pursued the inquis
itor, hesitating for a brief instant. ‘ Saved
his chist?”
“ Yes, the vessel was saved, and my hus
band’s effects,” said the widow.
“ Was they ? ” asked the Yankee, his face
brightening up.
“ Pious man ? ”
“He was a member of the Methodist
church.”
The next question was a little delayed,
but it came.
“ Don’t you think that you have great
cause to be thankful that he was a pious
man, and saved his chist ? ”
“ I do.” said the widow, abruptly, and
turned her head to look out of the window.
The indefatigable “pump” changed his po
sition, held the widow by his glittering eye
once more, and propounded one more que
ry, in a little lower tone, with his head
slightly inclined forward over the back of
the seat.
“Was you calculating to get married
again ? ”
“Sir,” said the widow, indignantly, ‘you
are impertinent! ” And she left her seat
and took another on the other side of the
car.
“ ’Pears to be a little huffy ! ” said the
indefatigable bore, turning to our narrator
behind him ; “ she needn’t be mad; I don’t
want to hurt her feelings. What did they
make you pay for that umbrella you’ve got
in your hand ? It’s a real pooty one.”
Beectaer’s Gospel.
When at Manassas, just after the battle,
an officer with whom we are intimately ac
quainted, and whose word is everywhere as
good as gold, stated to us that, among the
Yankee pistols picked up by his men, was
one bearing the inscription—' “Presented by
Henry Ward Beecher" This he positively
assured us he had himself seen, and also
that gentlemen of his acquaintance inform
ed him they had seen others of exactly the
same kind.
When we last saw his paper, (The Inde
pendent,) some four months ago, Beecher
was calling loudly for martyrs in the cause
of abolitionism to rise up in the South.—
lie said if they did not, it would be a to
ken that the South was abandoned of God,
and its doom sealed.
Someone ventured to suggest that the
opportunity for turning aside from millions
of his fellow-men a doom so fiery, as well
as for securing a martyr’s immortality, was
too precious to be lost; and insisted that it
had peculiar claims upon one entertaining
his sentiments. The answer was very
promptly given, that he preferred to die
horizontally, not vertically. “Thou hypo
crite ! ”
We learn from New York papers that he
is just now preaching and writing bravely
about the grandeur and glory of dying up
on such a field as Manassas. Such a man
bears the unmistakeable evidence of being
a lineal descendant of that wretched tribe
infesting the church eighteen years ago:—
“ Ye lade men with burdens grievous to be
borne, and ye yourselves touch not the bur
dens with one of your fingers.”
Beecher, it is remembered, was among
the foremost to procure Sharp’s rifles for
abolition emigrants to Kansas, and in a
crowded meeting, on a Sunday night, in one
of the churches In New Haven, expressed
the special pleasure he felt in giving one to
A-.-, h r ilium —saying it was an auspicious
name—“ Kill-him.” It was on this aeoount
some witty editor in New York remarked
that Beecher's evangelical code was, “Go
) e into ail the world, and shoot the gospel
into every creature.*’
His courage is of the cheapest order, and
expends itself at a very respectful distance.
Such a man may spend a few dollars on
pistols, and in place of the pharisee’s trum
pet, hut with the same object, engrave his
same oa them. But worlds would hardly
%'mm 'MjksmwM. &mw sajpsxss.
tempt him to such a plaee as Manassas. It
is indeed possible that he might have been
persuaded to join, in imagined safety, that
“mixed multitude” which on Sabbath
morning rolled gayly out from Washing
ton u to see the fun ; ” for cowardice is ever
cursed with a deadly hate and a thirst for
low revenge. But as to shooting a pistol
at a Southern slaveholder, much as he
would like to see them all killed, Henry
Ward Beecher has quite too great a horror
of dying “vertically” for any such operation
as that. The great aim of his life evident
ly is to die “ horizontally ; ” a wish very
likely to be gratified, since men commonly
die as they have lived.
[Central Presbyterian .
THE SOLDIERS’ COLUMN.
Will you toe Saved ?
The present is a favored time. Thedooi
of mercy is open. The call of the gospel
is urgently made. Christ is constantly
held up before the people. God’s Spirit is
poured out in many places and in large
measure. Every thing seems to say, Will
you be saved?
You need salvation. You need nothing
so much. No man ever needed health or
friends, or help from man, so much as you
need salvation. Without it you have be
fore you an undone eternity. Your sins
rise up like the mountains. Unless they
be pardoned, they will, like a mighty mill
stone, sink you to an eternal hell. Unless
they be subdued, they will torment and de
file you forever. Your native ignorance of
God, if it continue, will be as fatal as hea
thenism. Oh, you need salvation. You
must be saved. Your soul is worth too
much to allow it to be forever lost. You
can not afford to be damned. Will you be
saved ?
You can be saved. God says so in many
parts of His blessed word. He also tells
you how rich are the provisions of His
grace. You have no want but can be sup
plied from the vast storehouse of His mer
cy. Twenty-six times in one psalm of as
many verses, it is said, “ His mercy endu
reth forever.” His Son has died. Heaven
calls you. Others are entering. There
yet is room. Will you be saved ?
You must be saved soon, or not at all. —
The day of grace will not last forever.—
God’s Spirit will not always strive with
man. There is but one lifetime on earth
i given to any man, and that is very short.
Life ended without an interest in Christ,
eternity must be awful. This moment God
waits to be gracious. Beware how you
lightly esteem the most glorious offers ever
made to sinners, even by God himself. —
Oh, will you now be saved ?
If you are saved, it must be by the blood
| and merits of Christ. Stoddard, the grand
father of the elder President Edwards,
wrote a good book entitled, “ The Safety of
appearing at the Day of Judgment in the
Righteousness of Christ.” There is no
safety for any sinner who attempts to go
through the trials of the last day in any
other righteousness. “ All our righteous
ness are as filthy rags; ” “By the deeds of
the law shall no flesh be justified ; ” “ The
just shall live by faith; ” “ Christ is the
end of the law for righteousness to every
one that believeth,” —these are some of the
forms in which God’s word shuts us up to
the faith of Christ. No blood, no merits,
no advocacy, no priesthood, no sacrifice but
Christ’s can avail. Will you be saved by
Christ? Will you?
Nor can you be saved without anew
heart. You must be born again. You
must be converted. Your will and affec
tions must be changed by the power and
energy of the Holy Ghost. He can take
away the heart of stone, and give you a
heart of flesh. He can annul the love of
sin within you, and write the love of God
on your heart. He can purify your affec
tions, and make you fit for the heavenly
inheritance. He only can effect so great a
change. Will you be saved by the power
of the Holy Spirit ?
Will you be saved ? I hope you will.
Many are praying that you tnay. God in
vites; mercy calls; hell threatens. Your
case is urgent. No mortal can state any
case more so. If you die in your sins, you
will mourn at the last, when your flesh and
your body are consumed, and say, “ How
have I hated instruction, and my heart de
spised reproof; and have not obeyed the
voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear
to them that instructed roe.” Oh, will you
be saved t
Richard Cecil says, Hell is the truth seen
too late. Will you not see the truth in
time to be saved by it t Open your eyes.
Oh. think ; oh, consider. If you die with
out the salvation of the gospel of Christ,
you die “ without merry.” Why will you
pull down ruin on your poor perishing
soul ? I ask again—it may be the last time
any mortal will ever ask— Will too be
SAVED f
®f)e Atlanta Banner ani) Baptist.
FOURTH VOLUME.
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BANNER to be up and doing. We have
entered upon the fourth volume, with the
determination to make this journal more
acceptable than ever; and ask our friends
to aid us in doubling our present subscrip
tion list.
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All Baptist ministers and others, in the
Confederate States, friendly to our paper,
are requested to act as Agents.
Having associated with us brother Jas.
N. Ells, as joint proprietor and co-editor —
a gentleman of acknowledged literary taste
and of large experience in the newspaper
business—we can confidently challenge
comparison with any weekly paper pub
lished in the South or elsewhere. We
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tend to continue our improvements until
The Banner shall be everything that can
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friends who have stood by us while weath
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many weekly papers, we would return our
most sincere thanks, at the same time feel
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Correspondents of the Banner.
Elder N. M. Crawford, Penfield, Ga.
“ J. H. Campbell, State Evangelist.
“ J. R. Graves, in the Army.
“ G. C. Connor, Army Chaplain.
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“ W. N. Chaudoin, Albany, Ga.
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CARDS.
________ & D. Niw.
Gaar At Nile*,
COMMISSION AND AUCTION
MERCHANTS,
(Store formerly occupied by H. Joiner & Son,)
Alabama street ,
ATLANTA, GA. N1
Robert L. Crawley Ac Bro.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
(Franklin Building,)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
October 1, 1862.
N. A. Hornady,
RESIDENT DENTIST,
FORSYTH, GA.
HT* Office over Lampkiu’a store.
Particular attention paid to oalls at home, and
also at a distance.
Forsyth, Ga., Jan. 10,1862. feb 15 ’62
A. K. Seao,
OPTICS,
At bit old fund, corner of Foreyth and Mitchell atreott,
ATLANTA, GA.,
WAmns—
-2t b*l of HAT.
SO.OCO bushel* of CORN,
MOO bushel* of COW PEAS.
6,000 bushels of BKED OATS, white or red,
WO barrels Superfloe or Family FLOCK,
10,000 lbs. OLD BaC >N, 2v bbte. Leaf LARD,
SI to MO Head of PORK HOGS, either tut, or
ready for feeding,
10 to 100 Head of fat BEEF CATTLE
I or 1 choice SiltXH COWS, with youag calrea.
Also, a small lot STOCK HOGS
I 1U co,tract for any of these article*, to be delivered at
at any railroad depot In Georgia. Enclose return postage,
and ad dree* A. K. BEAOO, Atlanta, Oa.
Who want* to Buy, or Sell, Real
Estate r
PERSONS wishing to purohaee or tell RIAL ESTATE In
the city of Atlanta, or the turroending country, are
requested to leave written instructions et my office, corner
of Forsyth and Mitchell streets. A. K. BE AGO.
For Sale,
fIXTT PROPRRfT, Negroes; Boys’ Shoes; Wear, Rice,
V Varnish, Tobacco, Ae. A. K. BEAGC,
aS ly comer of Forsyth and Mitchell eta
Terms of The Banner and Baptist—
hr dollars a year, in advance.
J. B. Tippin,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer iniForeigu and
Domestic
DRY GOODS,
63T Connally’s Block, on Whitehall|Street,
ATLANTA, QA.
Beach & Boot,
IMPORTERS and DEALERS IN
DRY GOODS,
(Whitehall Street,)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Oct 11 3m_
Hamilton, Mark ley & Joyner,
DEALERS IN
DRUGS, MEDICINES, DYE-STUFFS,
PAINTS, OILS, ETC.,
Concert Hall building, opposite Georgia R.-R. Bank,
ATLANTA, GA. 025
A. C. Vail,
—SIGN OP MILLEDGEVILLE CLOTHING STORE—
Empire House, Whitehall Street ,
ATLANTA, GA.,
Has a large assortment of READY-MADE CLOTHING,
and a large variety of Fancy Articles generally. Oc 25
S. D, Niles,
Fir© and. Life Insurance
AGENT,
[Corner of Whitehall and Alabama streets,]
ATLANTA, GA. Oct 18
Hughes, Hagan & Cos.,
Manufacturers of and Dealers in all kinds of
ENVELOPES,
ATLANTA, GA.,
Having their new machinery, propelled by
steam (in the Franklin Building), are prepared
to fill all orders for ENVELOPES.
Oct. 11. ___ 3m
John Fieken,
MANUFACTURER OF AND DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
SEGARS AND TOBACCO,
Snuff, Pipes, Meerschaums, Segar-Cases, Etc.,
WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GA.
Oct. 18 3m
D. Mayer. J. Jacobe. J. Kapp.
I>. Mayer, Jacobe & Cos.,
AUCTION and COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
For the sale of Merchandise, Real Estate, Stocks,
Bonds and Negroes,
Whitehall Street, ATLANTA, Ga.
Oct. 18. 3m
E. M, Edwardy,
WHOLESALE AND RETA L DEALER IN
Grroceries, Family Supplies,
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Oct.. 18 3m
A. C. Wyly & €.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Corner of Walton and Peach-tree sis.,
ATLANTA, GA. O 25
J T. Porter
WHOLESALE GROCER,
AND
COMMISSION MERC H ANT (
Marietta St.,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA. 025
Thomas F. Lowe Ac Cos.,
General Commission Merchants,
(exclusively,)
tag- For the sale of PRODUCE, ami all kinds
of MERCHANDISE; Negroes,
Real Es'ate, <fec., &c.,
(In Daniels' Block, Peach-tree st, and Winship’e
corner, ditto,)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Thomas F. Low*. J*ss Lows, of LawrencevUle.
John C. White. W. Power#.
White & Power*,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
GROCERS,
DEALERS IN
PRODUCE, and FAMILY SUPPLIES,
Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Oct 18 ' 3m^
Gen. I. R. Poster. J. L. Queen. H. R.F owler.
Foster, Queen At Cos.,
GROCERS,
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
ATLANTA, GA.,
Keep constantly on hand all kinds of PRO
VISIONS and Family Supplies. Buy and sell
all kinds of Tennessee and Country PRODUCE,
and sell Goods consigned to the best advantage.
Oct 11. 8m
Perino Brown. Thos. P. Fleming. M. L. Liebtenstadt
Brown, Fleming 3c Cos.,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
(Masonic Hall Building) Dcatur]Bt.,
ATLANTA, GA.
Advances made on Sugar, Molasses, Wool and
other Produce. Special attention given to the
Texas and Georgia trade. Oct. 11 3m
Andemoit, Adair 3c Cos.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
PRODUCE AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, ,
(Whitehall Street, near Georgia R-R Bank,)
ATLANTA, GA.
Oct 11. Sin
Pease 3c Davit,
WHOLESALE AND RSTAII I>KAL*BRS 111
PRODUCE and PROVISIONS,
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
(Winahip’s iron-front store, Peach-Tree *t)
ATLANTA, GA.
P. P. Pease.] [L. B. Davis.
Ant business entrusted to us will receive prompt
attention and returns early nude. We ask oui
friends to give us a call when In ourcity. Any Pro
duce consigned to ns will receive every advantage
oar market can give. Also we can make purchases
to the very best advantage, as we are always pos
ted in reference to the market prices.
February 15,1862.
School Wanted in Georgia,
BV A VIRGINIA LADf.
A returned Missionary—every way competent
to teach—is desirous of obtaining a School in
Georgia. For particulars, address the Editor of
this paper. Nl*
Wanted,
AFIELD GF LABOR (one or two Churches
and a small School in a healthy I ocaiity.
Satisfactory references given Address Eider
E. B. Babjlbtt,', Irwin ton, G*. Oct. 18
RAILROAD GUIDE.
Georgia Railroad & Banking Cos
Augusta to Atlanta. ...l7l Miles.... Fare $5 60
GEORGE YONGE, Superintendent.
Morning Passenger Train.
(SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.)
Leave Atlanta daily at..... 6 10 A. M
Arrive at Augusta at 5 04 P. M
Leave Augusta daily at 0 45 A. M
Arrive at Atlanta at 5 32 P. M
Night Passenger Train.
Leave Atlanta daily at 7 15 P. M
Arrive at Augastaat 5 30 A. M
Leave Augusta at * 4 00 P. M
Arrive at Atlanta at 2 05 A. M
This road ruus in connection with the trains oi
the South Oaroliua and the Savannah and Augusta
Railroads, at Augusta.
Macon and Western Railroad.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Macon to Atlanta.... 104 Miles.... Fare $4 50.
ALFRED L. TYLER, Superintendent.
Leave Macon at 10 00 a. m
Arrive at Atlanta at 4 00 p. m
Leaye Atlanta at 11 00 a. m
Arrive at Macon 4 55 p. m
This train connects with Central, South-western
and Muscogee railroads at Macon.
Western & Atlantic (State) Railroad.
Atlanta to Chattanooga, 138 Miles—Fare,... $5.
JOHN S. ROWLAND, Superintendent.
PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, nightly, at...., 7 30, P M
Arrives at Chattanooga at 4.51, A M
Leaves Chattanooga at 5.00, P M
Arrives at Atlanta at 2.30, A M
EXPRESS FREIOHT AND PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, daily, at 3.00, A M
Arrives at Chattanooga at 2.50, P M
Leaves Chattanooga at 3.15, A M
Arrives at Atlanta at 3 38, P M
ACCOMMODATION PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta at - 2.00 P. M.
Arrives at Kingston at 7*oo P. M.
Leaves Kingston at 5.30 A. M.
Arrives at Atlanta at - - - - 10.50 A. M..
This Road connects, each way, with the Rome:
Branch Railroad at Kingston, the East Tennessee:
and Georgia Railroad at Dalton, and the Nashville:
& Chattanooga Railroad at Chattanooga.
Atlanta and West Point Railroad.
Atlanta to West Point 87 Miles Fare $3 5(1
GEORGE 3, HULL, Superintendent.
MORNING PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, daily, at 2.45 j. AC M
Arrives at West-Point at 7.55, A M.
Leaves West-Point, daily, at 12.4®, P M:
Arrives at Atlanta at.. 5.3®, A Ml
EVENING PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta 6.00, P. M..
Arrive at West Point - 11.22, A. M.
Leaves West Point - 2.00, P, M.,
Arrives at Atlanta - - - 6 48, P, M.
This Road connects with the Montgomery andl
West Point Road at West Point.
ADVERTISEMENTS^
School Nolice.
JQgP’ Miss ANNIE SMITH, a graduate of a
Southern Female College, has just opened a
School, for girls and small boys, in the base
ment room of the Second Baptist Church in
this city, and respectfully solicits a share of.
public patronage.
For testimonials of scholarship she refers to
Prof. U. W. Wise, Pres’t li. D. Mallary, andi
to Rev. H. C. Hornady.
Atlanta, June 6, 1862.
MERCER UNIVERSITY,
PEN FIELD, GREENE COUNTY, GEORGIA
FACULTY.
President—N. M. Crawford, D. D.
Professor*—S. P. Sanford, A. M.,
J. E. Willett, A. M.,
Theological Seminary. —Professor N.
M. Crawford, D. D.
DEPARTMENTS.
1. A college course of four years, equal to that
of the best colleges in the country.
2. A theological course, of three year#, design
ed for those who are preparing for the Gospel Min
istry.
3. A scientific course of four years, including,
with some additions, all the studies o< the collegi
ate course, except the ancient languages.
4. An academical department, embracing all who 1
are not prepared to enter college.
COMMENCEMENT AND VACATIONS.
The Commencement is held on the second Wed
nesday In July.
There are two vacations, dividing the year into
two terms.
Fall Term begins on the first Wednesday in Sep
tember, and closes on the 13th of December.
Spring Term begins on the fourth Wednesday in
January, and closes on Commencement day.
S. LANDRUM, Secr’y Board Trustees,
July 26, 1862. Savannah, Ga
Janie* McPherson Ac Cos.
HAVE opened next door North of BEACH
& ROOT’S Store on Whitehall Btreet, a
new and select Stock of
BOOKS and STATIONERY,
Together with an endless variety of fancy arti
cles, such as,
ENGRAVINGS, GOLD PENS AND PEN
CILS, WINDOW SHADE SAND GILT
CORNICES. PICTURE FRAMES'
WALLPAPER, FIRESCREENS,
RICH CHINA AND PAIUAN
VASES, PARIAN FIG
URES, Ac., Ac,
Foreign Books imported to order.
Teachers and Merchants supplied at Charles
ton prices, freight only added.
BF*Picture Frames made to order.
Remember the New Book Store of
jas. McPherson & co.
Frank I if! Printing House,
ATLANTA, GA.
Having purchased of Messrs. Wood,
Hanleiter, Rice & Cos. their entire establish
ment, favorably known as the Franklin
Printing House, we would respectfully ask
a continuance of the patronage heretofore so
liberally bestowed on them, and promise to
use every exertion to render entire satis
faction. Our facilities for the printing and
binding of BOOKS, and for general JOB
WORK, it is believed, are etjual to any
establishment in the Confederate States.
A reasonable stock of Printing and Binding
Material now on hand, and will be kept for
the purpose of suppling any demand.
L L TOON A CO.
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