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JAS. NATHAN ELLS, Editor.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA:
SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1863.
The Banner. —Enlargement.
This week we present The Banner to its
patrons in an enlarged form. It will be
seen that our readers now have twenty-four
columns, instead of twenty.
We take the occasion for thanking the
many friends who have assisted in the re
cent large increase of our circulation ; and
we bespeak a continuance of their kindness,
if in their opinion The Baptist Banner
continues to merit success. Arrangements
are in progress for still greater improve
ments in our journal, and we hope soon to
announce a corps of able contributors who
will materially aid the editor in furnishing
a first-class paper, devoted to religion and
literature. Our motto : Make home happy.
Convention of Weekly Editor*.
Several editors 'of weekly newspapers in
the State have suggested the propriety of
holding a Convention of the Editors, and
Macon has been named as a suitable place
for holding the
We go in for this, heartily, and hope the
proposed meeting will take place at an early
day—the sooner the better. There are
good reasons why such a convention sjjpuld
be held ; Macon is a convenient and de
lightful locality ; and we move that breth
ren Knowles, Rose and Boykin be asked to
go ahead with this matter—appoint the
time for assembling, make the necessary
arrangements, etc.
—,
Missionary Mas* Meeting.
There will be a Missionary Mass Meeting
of the Rehoboth Association, held with the
Baptist Church at Henderson, Houston
county, Ga., including the fifth Sabbath in
March.
We hope to see a large attendance on
the part of the friends of Missions at this
gathering—the fifth Sabbath in the present
month.
—
Three Day* at Newnan.
Since last Saturday we have spent three
very pleasant days in the beautiful town of
Newnan. A wish long entertained was
gratified, and our first visit to .this pleasant
and sociable place will never be forgotten.
Sabbath morning we listened to one of
brother Wood’s best discourses —a real
Gospel sermon, from the text ‘ Ye must be
born again.’ This was the first of a course
Elder Wood designs preaching on the sub
ject of Regeneration ; and our readers will
be pleased to learn that, at our urgent re
quest, the able author has consented to
furnish sketches of these discourses for the
columns of The Banner.
e must be permitted to express the
hearty thanks, of our compagnon du voyage
and self, to the kind and attentive friends
we met—the hospitable families of brethren
Sparks, Wood, Seals, Robinson and others,
who have placed us under a heavy debt of
obligations for which we shall covet an
opportunity for endeavoring to cancel.
Meeting of the l.rgi«latnrv.
Governor Brown has issued a proclaim!
tion calling upon the Legislature of Georgia
to convene at the eapitol on A\ ednesdav
the 25th instant.
Heath of James 1.. I’ettigru.
The death of this distinguished gentleman
occurred on Monday last, at Charleston, in
the seventy fourth year of his age. He
was a native of Abbeville district, and at
tained the highest distinction as a Jurist in
his State.
Revival in (’amp.—A letter from camp
near Fredericksburg mentions <hat for sev
eral months pas; there has been an inter
esting prayer-meeting in the 9th Georgia
regiment. The brethren have been much
revived ; twenty-five persons have been
converted and have joined the Soldiers’
Christian Association lately established in
the brigade to which the regiment belongs.
John S. I ukasher, ot Texas, has been
appointed Superintendent of the Telegraph
News Agency ot the I'ress Association of
the Confederate States.
lerms of The Banner. $3 a year.
* Fcniina, Divinum, Doouiil
A few days since, we accepted the kind
invitation of President Kellogg, to visit
the ‘ College Temple,’ at Newnan, of which
justly-celebrated institution he is the Presi
dent and sole proprietor.
The ‘ Temple’ was erected, ten years ago,
and completely furnished, at Mr. Kellogg’s
own expense; and it. was to elevate woman,
to prepare her for the able discharge of her
numerous and arduous duties in the domes
tic circle and society—to qualify her for
wielding the pen in defence of right, morals,
and the Christian religion, that he under
took the laborious and expensive project of
building and supporting a first-class female
college. A well-arranged building on the
left of the Temple, contains apartments for
the library, and philosophical and chemical
laboratory, well supplied with the best of
instruments. The musical department is
under the charge of Professor Seals, a fine
’ instructor of long experience.
To secure the most rigid mental disci
pline in each pupil, no specified time is
[ assigned for a young lady to complete her
education at College Temple, but she is
allowed to advance as rapidly as her mental
and physical abilities will permit; and the
I degree, Magistra in Artibus, is conferred
I upon her whenever she shall have thorough
’■ Ig mastered the extensive course of study
’ adopted by this institution, and manifests a
ripeness of scholarship sufficient to entitle
her to such distinction. It is not the num
ber of her pupils, but the ability of her
graduates, that forms the just pride of the
I friends of College Temple. It now num
bers about ninety pupils in attendance, and,
we think, between thirty and forty gradu
ates. The' founder is determined to make
i this a model school for educating young
f ladies.
The Atlanta Amateur*.
! This talented association gave another
one of their medley soirees on Thursday
! evening. As usual, they were received
with hearty applause, and acquitted them-i
' selves creditably. The entire proceeds are |
I for the poor and destitute of the city.
As our readers, doubtless, have frequent I
’ ly seen notices of this truly patriotic and •
I I useful Association, some curiosity may exist |
“ to know more of them, and a sketch of the
Club and their good deeds will be preserved <
gratefully by Uie thousands who have been
the recipients of the product of their labors.
r The efficient manager (Wm. IT. Barnes)
j and T. D. Wright, during the Secession
! canvass, did much towards carrying the
! I State for secession; and the novel, patri
otic and stirring songs, written by Mr.
] ‘ Billy Barnes,’ were caught up by the
s I people, and the public speakers of the day
t j testified to their influence and efficacy.
At the breaking out of the war, a portion
of the citizens of Atlanta met for the pur
?l pose of forming an association to give con
p certs and assist in the equipment of volun
' teers then going to the field. This occurred
SI . .
t in April, 1861. Mr. Barnes was unani
mously chosen Manager, which position he
I' has held, and maintained with the highest
I credit, to the present time.
, The Club originally consisted of thirty
, ladies and fifteen gentlemen. From divers
causes, and the obligations that many of
I the male members felt due to their country,
now the Association is much reduced in
J numbers. T. D. Wright, Keely, Kennedy,
Mackie, Nash, Hanlon, and Aug. Haynes
are in the service; and of the large num
ber that once constituted the ‘Amateurs,’
the following only are left :
i
Win. 11. Barnes, Manacer. Mrs. Julia E. Willis
' 1 8. B. Sherwood. Treasurer. Miss Mary Frank. W'hitnev
I J. M. Willis, Secretary. Miss Rowena Hale ’ ’
1 James G Barnes, Miss Lizzie Judson
Thomas F. Lowe, Miss Annie Jud-on'
’ | IL O. Haynes, Miss Jennie Sims.
’ This Club has, upon invitation, visited
1 j Augusta, Macon, Newnan, LaGrange, Mil
ledgeville, Marietta and other places, and
given their novel entertainments to the
most enthusiastic audiences. The whole
i proceeds of their entertainments, in every
ease, have been distributed for charitable
' objects—equipping companies, relieving the
poor, providing good reading to hospitals
> and camps —and the truly handsome sum
i of twelve thousand dollars has been donated
i by them.
>' The railways of the confederacy have
. given them free transportation overall their
) lines, when travelling upon invitations to
give entertainments. The press, every
where, has advertised free of expense.
Hall rent has been ever tendered gratis
and here many thanks are due to Mr. Jas.
E. Y\ ihiams for the kindness with which he
1 has placet! the Athemvum at their disposal.
Long prosper the Atlanta Amateurs
Mr. Barnes and his coadjutors will be re-'
membered, not only for the concord of
sweet sounds, but for the patriotic motives
which inspire their melodv.
Resignation of Gen. Toombs.—The
Richmond Examiner of the 3d inst. learns,
. on undoubted authority, that Gen. Robert
Toombs, of this State, has tendered the res
ignation of his commission to the Presi-|<
dent. He held the rank of Brigadier Gen
eral
XSffi JB AS'V 88 S
.Religious Faith.
Good men, men of noble parts, have
egregiously erred in weakly deferring to
science and philosophy in matters of reli
gious faith. The main evidences of Chris
tianity are divine things, outside of the
common phenomena of material nature and
the ordinary operations of the mind; and
hence, to put the inductions of reason, how
ever clear and strong, beside them, is simply
to destroy the distinction between God’s
work and man’s work. If our faith has a
Divine foundation, it is treachery to search
for any other.
The proofs of Christianity were brought
by the blessed Christ from heaven. When
| He lay in the manger they lay there with
' Him; when He spoke they spoke; and
whenever His infinite glory shone forth,
? flashing through the darkness of the times
> and startling men into a sudden conscious*
> ness of a fearful splendor about them, the
glory of Christianity blended its radiance
• therewith, and the astonished multitude
> felt at one and the same instant the majesty
• ot a Divine person and the grandeur of
i Divine truth,
The Day of Prayer.
It was well remarked by a cotemporary,
that it is an auspicious feature of the pro
clamation by President Davis, appointing
the 27th instant as a day of fasting, humili
ation and prayer, that it was not wrung
from Government by a series of reverses.
We are called to abase ourselves on the
eve of terrible collisions and while their is
sue is unknown—thus confessing that we
deserve only the stroke of the Lord for our
manifold sins as a people, and yet, casting
the weight of this great unworthiness on the
mercy that is infinite, on the compassion
that fails not. If this national penitence
before the Divine holiness really mingles
with our national faith in the Divine pro
tection, shall we not prove invincible to our
foes ?
This is the secret Napoleon never knew.
I He said, indeed, that ‘ the whole art of war
! consists in being the strongest on a given
point.’ But he did not realize that the best
means—the means indispensable even when
all others are used—of being the strongest
on every given point, is the contrite and fer
vent supplication of a people whose cause
is just, and who feel that ‘the Lord saveth
I not with sword and spear—for the battle is
the Lord’s.’
Rev. Albert Barnes Against Lincoln.!
i —Rev. Albert Barnes, of Philadelphia,
■ whom we supposed was the most deter
mined of Abolitionists, opposes Mr. Lin-
! coin’s proclamation in all its aspects. He
has recently published a sermon, “The
Conditions of Peace,” in which he expresses
i the view that the “ control of slavery, and
■ all the laws regulating it, ought to be left
to the States as such, in all respects, abso-
■ lutely and exclusively.” Mr. Barnes sug-
I gests that “ New Y’ork city might not yet
• have travelled far beyond Canal street,” it
! it had not been for cotton, and “ if the
/South had not been willing that, on certain
well known terms, their money affairs
should be in the hands of the merchants and
i brokers of New York.” Upon another
F point, Mr. Barnes says a word as follows :|
, “In all my life I have defended freedom
i of speech, and fought many a battle for it. ’
I have felt no restraint on that subject hith- <
erto. I feel none now. 1 believe that
when freedom of speech shall he taken,
AWAY, THE LAST HOPE OF THE NATION, THE
LAST REMNANT OF LIBERTY, WILL BE GONE.” I
Atlanta, Ga., March 4, 1863.
Dear Brother Ells -.
During the month of February just
i closed, 1 have been able to distribute among
our soldiers in the hospitals and camps
around the city 17,136 pages of tracts se
cured chiefly from the depository of broth-i
er Hornady—some few of the Evangelical j
Tract Society of Petersburg, Va. Through
. the kindness of these brethren, their agents,
ynany a poor soldier is made glad at the re
ception of one of these small messengers of
; i love.
1 have distributed, through your kind
ness and that of brethrenßoykin, and Wor
rell, (of the Soldier’s Friend) many reli
gious papers—and for the Central Bible
Society of Mississippi, have undertaken to
supply the Mississippi soldiers who are in
the hospitals here with the New Testa
ment. To my great surprise, two hundred
Testaments given me for this object bv
their agent, brother W. 11. Thomas, of
Jackson, Miss., will all be consumed, and
others could be used—a large number of
troops are here from Mississippi. In a
single ward of the Fair-Ground Hospital I
found fourteen men from that State alone,
who needed the Testament. Now who
will give them to the boys from Tennessee
and Kentucky. Arkansas. Louisiana, and
I exas 1 hey need the Word of God, and
shall they not have «t ? During the month
1 collected for mission to the soldiers from 1
Antioch church, Troup county, $27 75- o th 1
er sources $2.50; in all $30.25. ’ i
I raternally yours, ]
M . 11. Robert
[For the Baptist Banner.]
Tullahoma, March 7, 1863.
Dear Brother Wood:
As I am weather-bound to day, I thought
I wmuld give you a few more items as they
have occurred since I last wrote you.—
What good weather we have had, I have
spent very pleasantly in camps. Although
I have seen and heard much wickedness in
camps, some things have occurred calcula
ted to eneouaage me in the great work I
have undertaken in the strength of God.
When 1 behold the vast work to be done in
my Master’s vineyard, I sometimes stop
still and look over the work, and ask my
self the question, Who is sufficient for this
great work ? Then I conclude that God’s
grace alone is sufficient.
About one week ago I was approaching
some camps for the first time; as I drew
near, 1 observed that some of the soldiers
were engaged in a game of some kind. I
began to feel my inability to approach in a
right manner; but I ventured in the name
of my Master. After a while I succeeded
in getting the attention of the captain and
a few of his men, for it was only an artille
ry company. I gave them some tracts, and
left some with the captain for the balance
of his men ; but they were so intent upon
their game that they did not stop to read
them, except some two or three that step
ped aside from their sport, and began to
look at the tracts. I heard a voice from a
tent ask, “ What is that ? ” “ Nothing only
some little religious tricks,” was the reply.
I went to the tent from whence the voice
proceeded, was invited in, and soon found
myself in the presence of a high-toned gen
tleman and a warm-hearted Baptist, in the
person of Doctor Hunt, of Georgia. I
spent a few minutes very pleasantly with
this brother in religious conversation.—
From this brother I learned that the captain
was also a member of the Baptist church.
I then sought and obtainel a private inter
view with the captain, and gave him friend
ly and brotherly admonition. He thanked
me and promised to live more faithful.
The next Sabbath I was passing by the
same camps on my way to preach to a reg
iment by request, when my old friend, the
captain, invited me to preach to his com
pany at three o’clock the same day. I told
him, God being my help, I would do so.—
He informed me at the same time of the
result of my visit to his company and the
admonition I gave him. He said that he
'and Ids men had concluded to start a pray
er-meeting. He requested me to remain
with them after preaching, and assist them
in their first prayer-meeting. I did so
gladly. I opened the meeting w’ith prayer
and a short exhortation. It would have
made you glad to hear the open confessions
of unfaithfulness, and fervent promises
to do better, by God’s grace, and their ex
pressions of gratitude to God for sending
the missionary that way. God willing, 1
shall try to preach to-morrow in camps.
Your brother in Christ,
P. A. Hughes.
[JVr The Baptist Banner.]
Southern Baptist Convention.
Atlanta, March 7, 1863.
The following action was taken by the
Second Baptist Church at its regular con
ference held this day :
AV hereas, Columbus, Miss.—the place
to which the Southern Baptist Convention
stands adjourned—is threatened by the ene
my; and whereas,communication with that
j city being at this time diffi. ult and danger
|ous with parts of the country—
Resolved, That the several Boards and
i members of the Convention be cordially in
vited to hold the next Biennial session of
that body with this Church, and that the
clerk be requested to transmit this invita
tion to the several Boards, and publish it in
our religious papers.
W. T. Brantly, Moderator.
. S. Root, Clerk.
I
The Baptist Banner.
Will not its friends sustain it—not only
so far as to enable it to live, but to flourish
1 and increase its usefulness? It is a great
benefit to its patrons, to the denomination,
to toe public at large. It does improve in
spite of the times, and its influence will in
crease in proportion to the value we place
upon it. That value is indicated by our
exertion for its circulation, the efforts we
make to support it. Many are doing well
for the paper—all may do something. Let
every one, desirous to promote its noble
mission, lend a helping hand and share the 1
blessedness of doing good. D. P. E.
Pastoral Settlement.
Rev. George W. Selvidge, formerly pas
tor of the Baptist Church in Dalton, Ga.,
had again been called to the care of that I
Church, and is now in charge. He was
pastor of the Baptist Church at Corinth,
Miss., before the Abolitionists occupied
that place; and, like many other Southern
pastors, had to leave or be bastiled. We
wish him great success in his renewed con
nection. W e know his labors were greatlv (
blest in his former charge.
H. E. T. 1
Receiving Christ as a Little Child. I
The profound intellect of Bishop Butler
was able to remove doubts respecting Chris
tianity as a divine system from the minds
of others. I have before me the record of
three persons who were convinced of the
truth of the gospel, and of their own lost
condition as sinners, by the study of his
Analogy of Religion. Yet Butler himself
was in darkness in his last hours. A friend
in attendance said to him, “ You do not.be
lieve in Christ. He is able to save them
to the uttermost, that come unto God by
Him.” “ I never understood that verse be
fore, said the dying Bishop, after a mo
ment’s reflection, and those words of the
Divine Teacher lifted the clouds of doubt,
and restored confidence and peace to his
soul. All his life he had been studying
the mysteries of redemption, but the truth
by which he was brought to rest on Christ
at last was so plain and simple that the lit
tle child may understand it.
Perhaps no one ever won a prouder hom-'
age to his intellectual greatness, from his
own age, than Dr. Johnson. But in all his
wide surveys of knowledge, he found no
lofty and exclusive portal through which in
tellects like his might enter into the king
dom of heaven. He must bow low and en
ter the door of faith in Christ, side by side
with the little child. Throughout his fife
he recognized the Cross as the only way to
heaven, and this conviction deepened to its
close. His last days he spent in prayer
and strong entreaties, lying low at the throne
of grace. To his faithful negro servant he
was frequently explaining the simple truths
of the Bible, often saying to him, “Attend,
Irancis, to the salvation of your soul,
which is of the greatest importance.”
It has been said of John Foster, that
“few spirits can have passed away from
earth endowed with more of intellectual
grasp and penetration to meet the won
ders and grandeurs of regions immense and
untraversed.” Yet one year before his
death he said, “If that great cause of faith
and hope,.i he all-sufficient merits and atone
ment of our Lord and Saviour, were taken
aw r ay, I should have nothing heft.” And
on his death-bed, when conscious of the
failure of his mental powers, he exclaimed,
But I can pray, and this is a glorious
thing.” *
In the one great and all-important con
cern of life, how insignificant are those dis
tinctions of which the world thinks and
makes so much. Are we great, here we
must become humble. Are we lowly, here
we stand on a level with the ; for
“ whosoever shall not receive the kingdom
of heaven as a little child shall not enter
therein.” The Gospel of Christ! in its
adaptation to man, how wonderful ; in its
beneficence, how worthy of its Divine Au
thor !
Valor. —Perfect valor and perfect cow
ardice are extremes men seldom arrive at.
The intermediate space is prodigious, and
contains all the different species of courage,
which are as various as men’s faces and
humors. There are those who expose
themselves boldly at the beginning of an
action, and who slacken, and are dishearten
, ed at its duration. There are others who
aim only at preserving their honor, and do
little more. Some are not equally exempt
1 from fear at all times alike. Others give
occasionally into a general panic. Others
advance to the charge, because they dare
not stay at their posts. 1 here are men
whom habitual small dangers encourage,
and fit for greater. Some are brave with
the sword, and fear bullets; others defy
bullets and dread a sword. All these differ
ent kinds of valor agree in this, that night,
as it augments fear, so it conceals good or
bad actions, and gives every one the oppor
tunity of sparing himself. There is also
another more general discretion: for we
find that those who do most, would do more
still were they sure of coming off safe: so
that it is very plain that the fear of death
gives a damp to courage.
A Plea for Intellectual Modesty.—
The Divine knbwlftjge of mankind strong
ly enforces distrust of our own understand
ing.
-Men are prone to rely on their strength
of mind; to “lean to” it; to be intoxica
ted by the persuasion ot superior wisdom,
bo far from “ reasoning at every step they
tread, with strange inconsideration they
are giddy and eager in the chase of earthly
i vanities; while their higher interests, which
j suffer wreck at every step, though standing
in connection w ith the most perplexed and
difficult of all inquiries, scarcely obtain a
thought at their hands. I hev are wise in
their own eyes.
, i But let them reflect. Os the universal
i map of knowledge which spreads out before
' the view of the Most High, they see only a
, narrow strip, and see that but diml v. From
i the original and copious fountain of under- j
. standing they have never been allowed to'
drink; but there has been appointed to
I their mental thirst a mere transmitted and)
j diluted drop of its waters. The full-orbed I
sun of truth shines not on them : they walk |
in a night of ignorance, under its reflected
broken light; and even this, clouds of wil
lful prejudice often intercept and shut out.
j Shall they suffer, then, a vain sense of
their intellectual power tc inflate them?—!
Shall they presume, on the strength of
speculation that must be dark and wHd to
reject counsels, “to whom all times'
are but one moment, all places but one :
point, all truths but one idea,”— JJ ls w fo o i
I “sees the present without a medium the
past without recollection, and the future
without foresight'?
o
The learns from a gentle
man just from the coast, that a Massachu-i
setts regiment at Fort Pike, near the mouth 1
a aid ..f
gmentof American citizens of Afri
can descent,” and threatened to shoot said i
ncan escendants should they persist in i
their offer of assistance. |<
! Signs of’ Peace.
Messrs. Editors :—I have ventured to
- suggest a few thoughts relative to the fu
' ™ re ’ a sed. upon a professed revelation
from God but from past experience and
present indications. 1 think we may confi-
a cessation hostilities
early in the spring. I wi]l assign my rea-
H SO 1 1,1 the first place, I
] think that the providences of God will use
- some means to check this bloody war, in
i asmueh as we have been already sorely
r scourged, and m the exercise of His sover-
- eignty He will draw it to a close. In the ”
- next place, I think the people both North
; and South are now prepared to offer up to
, God in earnest, the breathings of their
s hearts for peace. Ido not mean by this
r to say that everybody is prepared to do so,
i but I mean to say that a large portion of
t the weight of our people can unite and pray
- God to interpose and give us an honorable
peace accoiding to His will and wisdom.
-' We do not expect a church of God to re
s ceive a blessing unless the Lord first pre
-5 pares them for the reception of the bless
) Ing; yet, we have never known every mem-
- ber of any church to be in readiness for the
- blessing when it comes. We always have
. some dead weight to carry ; so we have
> many amongst us now who give no evi
« deuce of being humbled before God ; but
> we believe that the praying portion of our
i people are getting ripe for the reception of
• a blessing of peace, that the effusion of blood
i may be stopped ; and I think we could ap
i preciate it as a token of God’s providential
i care over us. Twelve or eighteen months
, since we could not have placed a proper es
, timate upon such a boon; I think we can
now, which inspires the hope that the end is
, near. The North, with the exception of the
Abolition fanatics, who are lost to reason
and given over to delusion, are earnestly
desiring some terms of peace. Another
reason why we may hope for an early.
, peace is, the growing discontent amongst
themselves and the restless condition of
Europe. I believe that God is using Lin
coln as an instrument to bring about this
result; he was the cause of this bloody war
being forced upon us, which has brought
, desolation, suffering and death to our doors,
; and he will be instrumental in stopping this
unholy crusade by his wonderful proclama
tion, and other things which are in keeping
with it. We should look to God alone to
deliver us from our enemies, with strict at
tention to the duties we owe to our coun
try, and find it in our hearts to forgive
them, and leave vengeance with the Lord,
to whom it belongs. There would be many
rejoicing hearts to know that the war would
stop, when the suffering soldiers would re
turn to their homes, and the distressed fam
ilies, who have been deprived of all their
supplies and homes, could be better provi
ded for, and our commercial interests bet
ter regulated. We have good reason to
hope that God has a blessing in store for us
after we shall pass through this bloody
struggle.
But we have one more enemy to meet
; first: drunkenness has been suppressed by
the high price of liquor, and by military
and civil authorities; when these restraints
, are removed we may expect a flood of dis
, sipation and drunkenness to deluge our
country, but will be of short duration ; God
will follow these reverses with a special
visit from His holy presence. Our Zion is
clad in mourning, the ministers of the gos
pel are fast wearing out and dying up, and
no young ministers rising up as witnesses
to the truth. Our prayers should go up to
the Lord to send more laborers into His
vineyard ; and when all these results are
developed we may confidently hope to re
alize peace and quietude, and expect God
to send us a gracious reign of grace and
converting power, and raise up an 1 addition
al supply of able ministers of the New Tes
tament, and we be humbled before God
and rightly appreciate all such tokens of
11 is mercy. John Talbert.
Mckinly, Marengo county, Ala.
The Dead.—We are indebted for the
following piece of statistical information to
a gentleman connected with the office of
the Commissary General of the State—an
office, by the way, to which the future his
torian of our State will refer for much im
portant and varied information connected
with the war, and the losses and sacrifices
made by our heroic troops in it. y
Our info, mant states that the number of
maiiied men, whose widows are now’ or
' were recently, living, killed, or have died
• in the service of the State and Confederacy
up to the time the battle of Perry ville was
1 fought, as reported to the Commissary Gen
eral, was 3,6lß—the number from this
(Fulton co ) being 40. That a number
have been killed, or have died since that
time, there is no doubt, but no report of
them has yet been made. This informa
tion has been made through applications
made for salt, by the widows of the deceas
ied,to the Commissary General, at his office
in this city.—Atlanta Intelligencer.
' Mckoebino Wombs.—We learn from
the exchanged prisoners who arrived here
on iriday from New Orleans, that on their
1 eparture from that city, large numbers of
true-hearted Southern ladies gathered about
I lhen 2’ w T a W r their handkerchiefs and cheer
i mg or Jeff. Davis and the Southern Con
-1 ederacy. tor this the whole military
force was called out and ordered to charge
upon the crowd, by which four ladies were
I known to have been killed.
[ Vicksburg Citizen.
Beware of the Swindler. —J. Randolph
A-alleau is passing through Florida obtain
ing money under false pretences. lie
claims to be a civil engineer, a graduate of
West Point, a native of St. Augustine, arid
a refugee from Louisiana. It is said that
he has papers about him purporting to be
signed by officers of the army. lie has ob
tained money from citizens.of .Tallahassee
and Quincy by representing himself as a
stranger in distress.