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About The Baptist banner. (Atlanta, Ga.) 186?-1??? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1863)
THE CHILDREN’S COLUMN. Grammar. —We advise every boy and girl to commit to memory the following lines, and then they never need mistake a part of speech : 1. Three little words you often see. Are Articles —a, an, and the. 2. A Noun’s the name of anything, * As school, or garden, hoop, or swing. 3. Adjectives tell the kind of noun, As great, small, pretty, while, or brown. 4. In stead of nouns the Pronouns stand. Her head, his face, your arm, my hand. 5. Verbs tell of something to be done— To read, count, sing, laugh, jump, or run. 6. How things are done the Adverbs tell, As slowly, quickly, well, or til. 7. Conjunctions join the words together, As men and women, wind or weather. 8. The Preposition stands before A noun, as in Or through a door. 9. The Interjection shows surprise, As ah ! how pretty — oh ! how wise. The whole are called nine parts of Which reading, writing, speaking teach. Right aud Wrong. “ Do you think that is right, my child ?” I was struck by the impressive tone in which Mrs. Dayton uttered these words, and looking up, I saw her seriously awaiting theireffect. Thechild was asprightly, black eyed darling, of scarce four summers, and the question involuntarily entered my mind, “ How far can such a child be expected to judge of right and wrong ?” “Does Emma think she is doing right 1” repeated the mother. Emma’s laughing mouth and dimpled cheek grew serious,’as her eyes fell beneath the mothei’s gaze, and she bent them upon the forbidden book of costly prints that she had been turning over. The volume was not injured. The mother pointed out no torn leaves nor soiled pages; but, simply, was her darling doing right in taking the book, when mamma had forbidden her to take it. The little lip quivered, the large eyes fil led with tears, and with some effort, the child replied, “No, mauma.” Then raising the volume from the carpet, where she had been bending over it, she replaced it upon the table,and turning back,she hid her face in the folds of her mother’s dress and burst into tears. The triumph was complete, and it was the triumph of principle. I was'aston ished. When a suitable opportunity occcurred, in the absence of the child, I could not for bear asking the mother how so nice a per ception of right and wrong had been incul- cated. Mrs. Dayton hesitated a moment, and then replied: “ Do not say inculcated, but developed, if you please. God has planted in the heart of a child a sense of the difference between right and wrong, though it may be in differ ent degrees. Let this sense of right and wrong be properly appealed to, and the heart of the child responds to it. So far as my observation goes, it is by far the most effectual means that can be used in family government. The fear of punishment, the displeasure of those they love, and the in > centive of rewards, are utterly insignificant compared with this. There ia a moral power in it that cannot be purchased else where.” A pause ensued, but I waited expectant, and Mrs. Dayton proceeded : “ And think, my friend, what men and women such an education would make. I feel my own insufficiency, for I had such little training myself; but I have often thought what doubts and fears, what gross inoonsistenctes might thus be avoided.— Thousands of people who mean well, and Christian people too, fall into sad errors, because their moral perceptions have not been quickened to make nice distinctions between right «nd wrong. What crimes would be saved the world, what shame and i reproach would be saved our common Christianity, if children were better educa* ted in this respect.” 1 Mrs. Dayton ceased speaking, while the triumph of argument, and the glow of en thusiasm beamed on her countenance. Dolli® Dutton is the smallest of all small ladies. Her littleness is especially observable when she is placed beside a girl of the,ordinary sire of her own age. She is smaller than most infants of a year’s growth, and is yet equal in mental development to other chßren of her age. In her appearance she is beautifully diminutive. Head and limbs are developed in exact proportion to her body,and her movements are singularly One follows her about the room, her little pate with flaxen curls bent bash fully downward, and her sweet, blue eyes —such eyes in child or woman are seldom met, roving timidly and thoughtfully over scores of admiring visitors. She sings some well known tunes, and through the, large hall her shrill, small tones penetrate, every word distinct and musical. She walks in quaint, measured steps, and in the arms of a girl other own age nestles like a babe. Tub Puss wen of Gon.—Live in the sight of God. This is what heaven will be—the eternal presence of God. Do nothing you would not like God to see. Sav nothing you would not like Him to hear. Write nothing you would not like Him to read. Go to no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no booh of which jou would not like God to say, ** Show It me.” Never spend your time In took away that you would not like God to say, “What art thou doing F fW I E BAPTIST BAXTER THE LADIES’ COLUMN. Tli© Coquette. Beauty without virtue is as A flower without perfume. When we look out upon the extended panorama of creation, we see much that is 1 admirable and grand —much that is lordly and attractive. The terrible thunderbolt rolls in majestic fury along the heavens ; ■ the immeasurable, fathomless ocean inspires us with awe ; the sunshine is genial and . pleasant; the silvery moon, on her pathway of azure serenity, seems a bright emblem of ] peaceful content; the rainbow’s soft hues 1 are ineffably beauteous ; song-birds gladden < our world with music, and flowers fill it 1 with perfume; and every irrational creature has its own particular bright feather. But ; intelligence and reason rank man the unri- ’ valed “lord of creationand intelligence ’ and reason, with beauty combined, make 1 woman his aid, and creation’s queen. All ; the elixirs of nature’s workshop are embod ied in the nonpariel formation of a beautiful 1 woman. Her brow is grace’s native throne; 1 burning volumes of sentiment and thought ' sparkle from her heaven-lit eyes, whose un written tale is only to be felt; and her hand some form and winning ways elicit uncon f scious, yet willing and universal adoration. Who would think that such a concentration • of beauty could exist without a merit? That such a star could shine only with impure lustre ? That such a flower could blossom without perfume ? That woman, with all these charms, could be a creature “to be known but to be despised ?” And is it so ? We cling to the hope that this may not be; as closely as we would embrace the vision of some bright, happy dream, to whose de lusion we would not awake. We can en dure, even with some degree of patience, other anomalies in the operations of nature; the sun and moon may be eclipsed ; vegeta tion may wither, and the waters of the sea be dried up ; but we are loth to believe the wearer of such exquisite loveliness hateful and unworthy. And yet this is sadly true. This marvel in nature is the living, breath ing creature of reality. It is the Coquette —the conceited, thoughtless, deceitful, reck less, heartless, fawning coquette —the quin tescence of contemytibility. If she be indeed ‘ a creature of Almighty, what can be her mission upon this earth ? The antediluvian mammoth was a monument ofinfinite power; and though, perhaps, practically useless to ' man, it gave him a slight idea of Omnipo j tence. The little ant that crawls at our feet, so diminutive as scarcely to make a shadow, t is a living emblem <Jf industry and economy. ( And almost every intermediate creature between these distant extremes, is a drop in the bucket of “universal good;” but the co quette, with no moral, no beauty, no purity in her composition, is positively a social blast, even a material superfluity. She is no fruit of the “six days’ harvest;” but a mere scratch in the “crawl of the serpent” that blighted the garden of Eden. When we reflect upon her character, the object of her delight, the elements of her existence, the butterfly she pursues—a mere bubble on the ocean of life ; her affectation, her vanity, her hypocrisy, and the finality of it all, we wonder at the possible extent of moral I worthlessness. Selfish, artful, and menda- j cious, she stoops to any means, however ig- j noble and unladylike, that may facilitatej her plans. Reputation is traduced, the sacred ties of most tender associations snn-[ dered without scruple, and the bright weav ing of sweet and hopeful anticipation entan gled and destroyed. Insensible to the sor rows and reverses of others, she is not only destitute of sympathy, but rejoices as the unsuspected author of the greatest possible amount of misery. Not bodily misery, such as the deprivation of the external com forts and luxuries of life, but heart misery, whose fruit is melancholy dejection, and in curable discontent. Blighted hopes, es tranged affections, and broken hearts follow in her train ; and her history, with no varia tions, is blqtted on every page. Strangers are her companions, and they must suffer from her arts. An alien in the circle-of her childhood’s early associates, she looks back in sadness to the morning scenes of her life, as the sweet fruit of innocence, whoae full blown flower of happiness she has clipped in the bud. Mantled with beauty, she wakes into life like an opening flower, in the fresh dewy morning of spring, lovely to all ; em phatically, the beauty of the works of na ture. But, eventually, the seeds of vanity and pride—ah ! seeds of sorrow and remorse germinate in that guileless and artless bo- son* Then she arrays herself upon the throne of her own conceit, as the idol oft he “lords of creation.” She heeds the dictation of the impure, and the obligations of polite ness, or even the closer ties of friendship, are lighter than down, and weaker than the spider’s net-work. Y Her enjoyment, founded in error and sin, is evanescent as the vision of a dream, and must terminate in regret. Cut off from the past, engrossed with the present, she enjoys no future, and cannot look ahead through I the long vista of coming years in ex pectancy, to the time when she may be the centre of all the home and family endear-! ments of married life. She dreams es no| rich mine hid behind the veil, with its deepj beds of perfect contentment. All time, en ’ ergy, and wealth are expended for wicked , pleasure! Angling for hearts to be oast away—hou I commendable the occupation! How can woman, peerless woman, become so forget ful of her mission of love, as U> delight in this faithless, empty pursuit, that I promises no rewaiwbut bitterness and dis-1 grace. Lost in a. pleasant delirium, she drifts along on the stream of time, swayed i by every passing breeze, and attracted by i every sparkling bubble that swells upon the surface, unmindful of the pearls that lie hid > at the bottom, lu public, her countenance • may be sunny with smiles; but, if we visit her in secret, we find the worm of insatiate desire at Like the miser of gold, the estimates only what is yet to be gained, I land rejects the immediate employ of any thing useful and desirable. If matrimony ultimately be her fate, it will be the result of necessity ; and some unfortunate son of Adam will have planted in his garden a thorn blossom, with no les son, no fragrance. Oh ! that we might al ways find modesty, purity, sincerity, and worth, embodied over which nature may have thrown the charm of external beauty ! That every casket might enclose a perfect jewel. That virtue and beauty might go hand in hand, and no flower “bloom without perfume.” Then would the standard of female excellence and female influence be elevated to the highest pinnacle of earthly consideration. Men, too, as often, probably, as women, are guilty of the shameful practice of co quetting. Be they of either sex, we pour the same anathemas on their death-deserv ing. Nor is this the language of painful ex perience, as might be presumed ; for as yet, we have never suffered from a deceiver’s arts. But the promptings of common sense, and all moral considerations agree in the conclusion that coquetry should be held in universal disrepute and detestation as a bane, a curse and a blight upon the face of the earth. Mevolutiom in Fashion. The “fashion” writer of the New York Express announces the fact that no lady of ton will dare to appear now on the Fifth Avenue or Broadway with travelling dress es or long petticoat. Short dresses are now the “ style.” They are scolloped around the edge, and are worn over balmoral ju pons, of sufficient brevity to display the kid boot, or else the skirt is looped up at every seam, nearly to the knee, showing the colored petticoat of mohair, cashmere, or silk, trimmed either to match the dress or in graceful contrast to it, and in correspond ence with the shade of the hat, or mantle worn. The leather boots have very high heels, colored perhaps, and strings and tas sels of leather also. The petticoat is short enough to disclose the instep, at least. To every dress suitable for walking, French modistes now attach little rings, through which pass cords, running through to the waist, to join another cord, which is drawn at will around the waist when a lady pre pares to promenade, and loosened within doors, thus allowing the dress to resume its original length in the saloon. Hoops and skirts are quite exploded in Paris; flounced mohair skirts used instead, to en able the dress to fall gracefully. A Wife.—No sensible man ever thought a beautiful wife was worth as much as one who could make a good pudding, we wish the girls all knew this, for we feel a great interest in their welfare. A 4, x aOCK-BINtJEfIY. e TEN PRESSES IN OPERATION! All kinds of Printing executed in the best style. Address J. J. TOON 4 CO., Proprietors. rUANKLUI BCILDIXG, I “CRAWFORD, FRAZER &C 0 GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Auctioneers, No. “ 8.” Whitehall Street, (Opposite the “ Intelligencer ” printing office,) ATLANTA, GA. q-’HE REGULAR AUCTION SALES of our 1 house will hereafter be on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, * and SATURDAYS OF EVERT WEEK, AT HALF-PAST TEN O’CLOCK A. M All goods, wares and chattels should be sent in the evening or early in the morning of sale day. STOCK SALEH OP HORSES, MULES, ETC., will commence at FOUR o’clock in the after noon on each regular sale day. No. fj. CRAWFORD, FRAZER & CO.. In addition to our AUCTION AND NEGRO HOUSE, at No. 8 "Whitehall street, we have FIRE-PROOF STORAGE i of three thousand barrels capacity at our new • I "Ware-Rooms—No. 1 Alabama street. Our I \NEGRO YARD and Zudt-Up, at No. 8, are! i safe and comfortable. Dealers and other parties will find us pre-: i pared to feed and lodge well; and, from j experience in the business since our boyhood., TO handle the negro properly. Charges reasonable and right, and satisfac tion guarantied in every instance. Parties at a distance may know onr market j ! by addressing us. JOHN FICKEN. manufacturer of and dealer in all KINDS 0F I SEG-APtS, Tobacco, Snuff. Pipes, Meerschaums, I SEGAR-CASES, ETC., Za the new granite building, Whitehall st. \ Atlanta, Ga. GENERAL dikectory. Confederate Government President — Jefferson Davis, of Miss. “ —A. 11. Stephens, of Ga. The Cabinet, — Judah P. Benjamin, of La., Secretary of State. C. G. Memminger, of S. C., Secretary of Treasury. James A. Seddon, of Virginia, Secretary of War. S. R. Mallory, of Fla., Secretary of Navy. Thos. 11. Watts, of Alabama, Attorney- General. John 11. Reagan, of Texas, Postmaster- General. 'S'lie Senate. AfaAzm? —Wm. L. Yancey, C. C. Clay. Arkansas — Robert W. Johnson, C. B. Mitchell. Florida — J. M. Baker, A. E. Maxwell. Georgia— B. 11. Hill, 11. V. Johnson. Kentucky— Henry C. Burnett, William E. Sims. Louisiana — Edward Sparrow, Thos. J. Seinmes. * Mississippi— A. G. Brown, Jas. Phelan. Missouri— J. B. Clarke, R. L. E. Peyton. North Carolina.— George Davis, W. T. Dortch. South Carolina— Robert W. Barnwell, James L. Orr. Tennessee — Gustavus A. Henry, Landon C. Haynes. Texas— L. T. Wigfall, W. S. Oldham. Virginia— R. M. T. Hunter, William B. Preston. , House of Representatives. Alabama: T. J. Foster, W. R. Smith, J. P. Ralls, J. L. Curry, F. S. Lyon, W. P. Chilton, David Clopton, J. S. Pugh, E. S. Dargan. Arkansas: G. A. Garland, James M. Patterson. (Incomplete.) Florida: James B. Dawkins, R. B. Hilton. Georgia: Julian Hartridge, Charles J. Munnerlyn, Hines Holt, Aug. H. .Kenan, David W. Lewis, W. W. Clark, Robert P. Trippe, Lucius J. Gartrell, Hardy Strick land, Augustus R. Wright. Kentucky : (Not yet elected.) Louisiana: Charles J. Villers, Charles M. Conrad, Duncan F. Kenner, Lucien J. Dupre, John L. Lewis, John Perkins, Jr. Mississippi: J. W. Clapp, Reuben Da vis, Israel Welch, 11. C. Chambers, O. R. Singleton, E. Barksdale, John J. Mcßae. Missouri: W. M. Cook, T. C. Harris, Caspar W. Bell, Adam 11. Condon, G. G. West, L. W. Freeman, Hyer. North Carolina: W. IT. Smith, R. R. Bridges, O. R. Kenan, T. D. McDowell, A. 11. Airington, J. R. McLean, W. S. Ashe, William Landor, B. S. Gaither, A. T. Davidson. South Carolina: John McQueen, W. Porcher Miles, L. M. Ayer, M. L. Bonham, James Farrow, W. W. Boyce. Tennessee: Joseph B. ITeiskell, W. G. Swan, W. 11. Tibbs, E. F. Gardenshire, Henry S. Foote, Jr., Meredith P. Gentry, George W. Jones, Thomas Mennes, J. D. Adkins, John V. Wright, D. M. Currin. Texas: John A. Wilcox, C. C. Her bert, F. W. Gray, F. B. Sexton, M. D. Graham, B. 11. Epperson. Virginia: M. R. 11. Garnett, John B Chambliss, John Tyler, Roger A. Pryor Thomas S. Bococke, John Goode, Jr., Jas. P. Holcombe, D. C. DeJarnette, William Smith, A. R. Boteler, John B. Baldwin, Walter R. Staples, Walter Preston, A. G. Jenkins, Robert Johnston, C. W. Russell. Government of Georgia. Joseph E. Brown, Governor. N. C. Barnett, Secretary of State. John Jones, Treasurer. Peterson Thweatt, Comptroller General. E. D. Brown, Librarian. John Billups, President of the Senate. J. M. Mobley, Secretary “ “ Warren Akin, Speaker of the House. L. Carrington, Clerk “ “ J. B. Campbell, Secr’y Executive Dept.; IT. 11. Waters, Private Secretary. J. S. Rowland, Sup’t State Railroad. James A. Green, Keeper Penitentiary. T. T. Windsor, Book-keeper “ Supreme Court Judges. —J. 11. Lumpkin, of Clark. Charles J. J enkins, of Richmond. B. F. Lyon, of Fulton. Times and places of holding Court.— First 1 District, composed of the Eastern, Middle land Brunswick Circuits; at Savannah on I the second Mondays in January and Jun?. ; Second District, composed of the Macon, 1 I Southwestern, Chattahoochee and Pataulaj Circuits ; at Macon on the fourth Mondays I I in January and June. Third District, composed of the Flint, I Coweta, Blue Ridge, Cherokee and Talla , poosa Circuits ; at Atlanta on the fourth I Monday in March and second Monday in I August. Fourth District, composed of the West iern and Northern Circuits; at Athens on the fourth Mondays in May and November. Fifth District, composed of the Oemulgee and Southern Circuits; at Milledgeville on the second Mondays in May and November. Robert L.. Crawley, [COMMISSION MERCHANT, (Franklin Building,) ATLANTA, GEORGIA. I Octotar 1, 1862. Atlanta Female Institute. THE Atlanta Female Institute having been taken for a hospital, the exercises of the School will be resumed on MONDAY, the 27th September, 1863, in the house belonging to Judge John Ndiil, near the Second Baptist church. I hope to continue to receive the patronage of my friends. J. R. MAYSON. Collegiate department, for six months, - $47 00 Preparatory “ “ “ “ - 85 00 Primary " “ •>“«*.. 80 00 Incidentals, - - - - - 150 I Music, and piano rent, same old prices. One half of the above charges must be paid in advance in wery instance. J. R. MAYSON, President. MONROE FEMALE UNIVERSITY, FORSYTH, GA. THIS flourishing and well established Institution has now been in successful operation, under the supervision of the present Principal, for the last twelve years. It has received a large patron age from nearly one hundred counties in Georgia, and a number of pupils from almost every State in the Southern Confederacy. The Faculty will do , all in their power to deserve and receive a liberal patronage. The FALL SESSION will open on the 7th of September, and close on the second Friday, the 11th day pf December. Price of tuition in College this session is S2O; Music on piano, violin, guitar, &c., S2O; use of instrument, $4; contingent ex , benses, $2. The BOARDING DEPARTMENT is in charge of Mrs. Rebecca N. Martin, an intelligent, kind, pious, and motherly lady. Board and washing fur nished at SIOO for the term. For further information, address either of the undersigned. _W. C. WILKES, President. MERCER .UNIVERSITY ~ PENFIELD, GREENE COUNTY, GEORGIA. FACULTY. President—N. M. Crawford, D. D. Professors—S. P. Sanford, A. M., J. E. Willett, A. M., U. W. Wise, A. M. W. G. Woodfin, 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 years, 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 of the collegi ate course, except the ancient languages. 4. An academical department, embracingall who are not prepared to enter college. COMMENCEMENT AND VACATIONS. The Commencement is held on the second Wed nesdayin 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 I*R OS PEET US OF THE Confederate Baptist Review. THE undersigned propose to publish in the city of Columbia, S. C., a monthly religious maga zine, to be called “ The Confederate Baptist Bevieu'," to be edited by Rev. J. L. Reynolds, D. D. We have determined to undertake this enterpiise from the conviction that such a periodica] will be useful and highly appreciated throughout the Confederate States? The editor and the proprietors will do every thing in their power to give to their readers a wel come messenger of good tidings, and worthy in every respect of their support. All who may read this prospectus are earnestly solicited to use their influence in obtaining subscribers, and to forward their names immediately. As soon as a sufficient number of subscribers to secure the success of the enterprise is received bj r us, the first number of the Review will be issued. The subscription price will be five dollars per annum, in ail cases to be forward ed by the subscriber upon the reception of the first number. The Review will be published in pamphlet form of about thirty-six pages, printed on good paper, indexed, &c., and nicely arranged for binding. All communications must be addressed to The Confederate Baptist Review, Columbia, S. C. Dr. I. D. DURHAM,) Prn ,_ R G. T. MASON, _ ( 1 ’ ”SOUTHERN factory, (Over Lowe, Fambrough Co.'s store,) PEACH-TREE ST., ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Hughes & green, (successors to Hughes, Hagan & Co.) always keep a large stock of ENVELOPES and PAPER on hand. July 25,1863. NOTICE. Having this day disposed of my entire interest in the “ Southern Envelope Factory” to my former partners. Messrs. D. W. Hughes and John D. Green, I take pleasure in recommending them as gentlemen worthy of the confidence and patronage of the public. | The Factory will be continued at the old stand, by my successors, Messrs. HUGHES & | GREEN, who will settle all the business of the old firm. JOHN T. HAGAN. ! Atlanta, Ga., July 23, 1863. jy2s ly CITY AUCTIOIN —AND— eoammra hoiks, SHACKELFORD, SAINT & CO. HAVE removed from their old stand into the I Intelligencer building, where they are prepared to I receive all kinds of Goods and Merchandize on con- I signment. Special attention given to the sale of DS, NEGROES Ac. AUCTION SALES EVERY DAY AND NIGHT. 8. J. SHACKELFORD, J. C. SAINT, M. A. SHACKELFORD. 3m. George E. White, M. f>., ATLANTA, GA. E3T" OFFICE at Nile®’ Insurance Agency, up stair* corner of Alabama and Whitehall streets. At night, he may b“ found at his residence, near the ! dwelling of Judge Lyon, Whitehall. Dr. White would solicit the attention, especially, of those affiicted with chronic complaints. March, 1563. jTippin, i Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domestic X>l?3r G-oodE, Connally’s Block, on Witheball Stree’ ATLANTA, GA. , Terms of The Baptist Banner, $5 | per annum—invariably in advance.
