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[For Tkt Baptist Banntr.]
West Florida Association.
ORANGE HILL, Fla., Oct. 28,1863.
Dear brother Elie :
Ths West Florida Associatiox closed
its ISth annual session last Monday. I had
heard that you would be there, but wasdis
, appointed in the anticipated delight of your
personal acquaintance. Brother W. H.
Robert, however, was there, who told us of
you, and represented The Banner with me
and others—though his principal powers
were exerted for the army mission and the
D. M. B. Brother Robert is an extraor
dinary man, and his services were so highly
appreciated, that a vote of thanks for his
active and successful services was unani
mously adopted by the body. He not only
faithfully and successfully represented his
particular mission, but assisted greatly in
our religious services, and in every benevo
lent object that came before the body.—
Such “Agents” as brother Robert must be
hailed with pleasure, and do good where
ever he goes. The Banner subscriptions
are forwarded by him.
The whole amount of contributions, in
eluding whtu the churches sent, was over
SI,OOO. Eight churches were represented
by delegates, and nearly one hundred bap
tisms reported.
We have a large field within our bounds,
and, I am glad to say, brother Robert has
made arrangements to assist us in this sup
ply, through the D. M. B.
Brothers Pyles, Ilugler, Poince, and
Deal, were the other ministers,* besides '
brother Robert, who attended the Associ
tion.
The next meeting of the body is to be at
Greenwood, a neighborhood excelled by
none, in all the qualities necessary for a
good Association. The Lord grant that we
mav have a large attendance of brethren
from a distance, who can do us so much
good. D. P. E.
A resolution was passed by the body,
fixing the price of corn, for soldiers’ fami
lies, at one dollar per bushel; syrup, one
dollar per gallon; bacon, twenty-five cents
per pound, and other articles of in
proportion; and that everybody should
have provisions to sell at these prices, for
such object, as long as they have any at all.
Meetings of citizens are being held to
cwry out the same ; and it is hoped that no
soldier will have cause to complain of ne
glect of his family; E.
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[For The Baptiat Banner.}
What I have been Ddftng.
MILFORD, Bakbr Countt, Ga., [
Nov. 2,1863. t
Brother Ells:— I know that some of my
friends have been inquiring, “ What has
become of brother Pyles, and what is he
doing?” I propose, through you, to give
them a few “yo/j.”
On the 7th of November, 1862, I left,
with my family, the high hills of Marietta.
On the 15th of the same month, we landed
safe on the sandy plains of thia fertile coun
try. Beneath the genial sun of southwest
ern Georgia, in Baker county, three miles
oast of Milford, and twenty miles south
west of Albany, my family has spent the
year.
1 have put in my time in hard labor on the
farm during five or six days in every week,
and preaching Saturday and Sunday. The
Lord has blessed my labors very much. I
have baptized 82 at one church, 5 at ano
ther, and 59 at another. At the latter
place, I have not had either a sermon, ex
hortation, or prayer from a minister, during
the year. Brother B. Sims and myself
conducted a meeting at Mount Carmel
church, in this (Baker) county, for five
days, which closed on Wednesday evening,
after receiving two by letter, and ten by
experience and baptism. The Lord surely
was w ith us.
2 he reasons why I have not written for The
Banner are:
\sl J have only had time to sleep—not even
time to rest.
2d. The extraordinary high prices I have
been compelled to pay for provisions and
stock, seed to plant, &c., has kept money
too scarce to buy paper. The crops are
now made, and I hope to be able to do a
little better.
Yours, in Christian love,
8. M. PYLK9.
p. S.—Tell the unfortunate of other sec
tions to come on. W e have plenty of land,
com, meat, and potatoes for three times
the present number of inhabitants.
The farmers and planters of our
laud constlute by far the largest class of our
population. Having a monopoly of the fruits
of the earth, they can and do control the
price of living, depreciate or appreciate our
currency, and fix and regulate the rates of
everything we buy. They have no right
to come into competition with our small
traders (for we have no merchants now,)
and pretend that their prices are regulated
bv those of the latter, for auch is not the
• case. The tail of a cartor wagon loaded
with pn»duce now is a worse extortioner’s
shop than any trader’s place of business
that we know of.
THE BAPTIST BANIV E K
[For The Baptist Banner.}
* Things Disliked.
I dislike Jo see our brethren, who are
opposed, as I am, to affiliation with pedo
baptists, assuming to themselves the title
of “ Old Landmarkers.” I dislike it for
several reasons, some of which 1 will spe
cify : •
1. It seems to me to savor too much of a
Pharisaic spirit—the very spirit which led
Alexander Campbell and his disciples to
appropriate for themselves excusively the
title of “ Christians.” Where is the differ
ehce ?
2. It seems to me to exalt the ritual above
the moral requisitions of the Word of God.
That a literal observance of divine rites,
and a withdrawal from those who taught or
practised otherwise, were “old landmarks,’
[ readily grant; but, “to deal justly, love
mercy, and walk humbly,” are landmarks
fully as old, and to say the least, as worthy
to be observed, as are the first mentioned.
To love God with all our heart, soul, mind
and strength, is a landmark as old as the
creation, and one that underlies, as the Sa
viour tells us, all the other landmarks set
up by the King of Zion. lam not satisfied
that we, non-affiliators, or “Old Landmark
ers,” as we have called ourselves, as a class,
evinee, in general, more love to God, or
our neighbor, than do Pedo-baptists. There
are stronger evidences of love to God and
man, than the mere submission to believers’
baptism, and a withdrawal from those who
pervert this ordinance. Do you ask where
are these evidences to be found ? I would
refer you to 1 Cor. xiii., and more particu
larly to the fourth and fifth verses of that
chapter. Many an “ Old Landmarke'r” ®vi
dently lack the evidences of love, there de
scribed.
3. I object, in the third place, that it
seems to exalt a certain class of Baptists
above the Christian. It has been said, very
properly, I think, that “a Christian is the
highest stye of man but many of the so
called “Old Landmarkers” act as though
they thought a Baptist to be the highest
style of man ; but a man may be a Bap
tist and no Christian. It is equally true
that a man may be a Christian and no Bap
tist. To judge, then, of the merits of any
one, we must look beyond those old land
marks from which we derive the name of
Old Landmarkers, if we would obey the di
vine injunction, and “render to every man
his due.”
i There are some other things I have seen
; that 1 much dislike, but must refrain from
specifying them at present. In all kind
ness I would suggest to my non-affiliating
Baptist brethren the propriety of adopting
some other term by which to designate
themselves, than that which, to many, will
ever seem to savor of arrogance, whether it
really does or not-
JOS. 8 BAKER.
CAMP NEAR ATLANTA, Ga., I
November 12, 1863. f
Dear brother Ells: I arrived here the
6th instant from Macon (where I had been
preaching to the dear soldiers about four
weeks), and have been preaching to the
boys day and night—distributing religious
papers, die. 1 find <|£ite a large field for
labor here; and but ft w laborers. Why is
•t that our good people at home are not
‘ sending out more missionaries to the army?
, Every effort is being made to supply food
and clothes for the soldiery, and why not
. make just as great an effort to supply food
fur the soul? I believe you find little dis
, fieulty in raising money to furnish religious
• reading to the army, but why is it so few
i preachers are sent us?
There are now abopt six thousand men
in and around Atlanta, quite a number of
, whom are sick in the hospitals—there be
, iug seven or eight hospitals—and I do not,
find a Baptist preacher among them. lam
( doing all I can, but you know I can’t visit
all of them. Last evening when you asked
, me, at the Fair-ground, to ride to town in
your buggy, I had just walked out of one
t of the hospitals. While in that hospital I
j talked and prayed with the sick, and when
-1 started out one pour Baptist brother call
s ed me to him aad told me that was the
i first prayer he had heard in six months.—
How long shall this state of things continue?
Do, brother Ells, sound your trumpet and
rally the brethren at home to this good
. work. The soldiexs are anxious to hear'
, preaching, and I am happy to inform you
i that several have professed faith in Christ
since my arrival here.
Yours in hope, W. O. DARSEY.
President Da via has a very contemptible
opinion of extortioners and those who owe,'
but dodge the military duty. “If I were a
young girl,” said he, in a late speech, “and
wanted to marry, I would rather lean up
on the empty sleeve of a soldier who had
lost an arm in battle, than upon the muscu
lar arm of him who stayed at home and!
grew f*t.”
I
CmLDRRX.—Jean Paul Ays, beautifully/
’ of children : “The smallest are nearest God, |
as the smallest planets are nearest the sun.”
Georgia Relief and H»apital A aso
cial lon.
The Buard of Directors of this Associa
tion assembled at Augusta on the 28th ult.
The Committee on the Annual Report, of
which Rt. Rev. Stephen Elliott was Chair
man, and Bishop G. F. Pierce was a mem
ber, recommends to the Executive Com
mittee to present strongly to the Governor
1 and Legislature of Georgia the exhausted
resources of the citizens of the State, and
their inability to supply the soldiers for the
future with such things as blankets, wool
ens, shoes, liquors, &c., and to recommend
the immediate importation of these articles
under State authority.
The balance on hand Oct. 10th, 1863,
was as follows : Amount drawn, but unex
pended, $6,013 26; amount undrawn from
State Treasury, $20,000; amount of pri
vate contributions unexpended, $26,142 28;
total, $51,15554. $31,037 61 wasexpended
.up to Oct. 26th, and $6,319 39 received,
leaving a balance at that date of $26,387 82.
The value of articles on hand, including
materials, clothes, groceries, medicines,
hospital stores, tec.. &c., at cost prices, is
estimated at 200,000, making a balance oi
funds and material at $226,337 82. The
Committee says:
“This will enable the Association to carry
on its work upon a limited scale fur some
time to come, although the disproportion
between the money on hand and the mate
rials on hand, may prove embarrassing.—
Should the Legislature entrust no further
appropriation to this Association, the un
designed would recommend the Executive
Committee to take such measures as will
bring about a proper proportion between
the cash on hand and materials.
“Should the Legislature desire to use the
agency <.f t his Association for a longer pe
riod in furnishing the wounded, sick, and
destitute troops of Georgia with such nec
essaries and comforts as they cannot other
wise procure, the Association will take
pleasure in placing its organization, which
is now perfect and complete, at the
disposal or£he State, and will cheerfully
undertake the work of disbursing suqh
sums as the Legislature may appropriate
to this purpose.”
Beltlug.
Betting, it has always seemed to us, is
but a poor business at the best, if it is not
too close allied to gambling to be altogeth
er a somewhat defensible transaction. So
that when we find a “biter bitten,” at this
sort of game, we confess that we look upon
I the victim as not a subject for much com
miseration Here is a very laughable case
in point; called, if you please, “Charley
Macauley’s Bet.” It is an East India sto
ry, and quite old enough to be new to
ninety-nine out of every hundred of onr
readers:
At seven o’clock the dinner was served
up, and a better one was never given in Cal
cutta; but us every pleasure time must have
an end, so this excellent dinner was at last
finished. The desert was served up, and the
1 hookahs begun to emit their guttural notes.
Many were the subjects broached, and got
rid of; many the toasts which enlivened the
fashionable feast.
At length, by the moat skillful man ecu
vering, and with infinite tact, Mucauky
brought the beauty of the fine new tablee
on the tapis. Every one present admired
them, and felt grateful to them for having
so lately supported the tich dinner of their
host.
“ They are of the finest mahogany I ever
saw,” said Major Briscoe.
“ They are perfect,” said another. “ 1
never saw any so well proportioned in all
my life. I must have some made just like
them.”
“They are too high,” chimed in Charley
Macauley, with well affected indifference—
“just a little too high. Don’t you think so,
Gordon 1”
“On the contrary,” replied the host, “if
anything, I consider them a shade too
low.”
“ You are in error ; they are not more
than two and a half.”
• “ Don’t bet, James; for lam sure of the j
fact. I tell you I cannot bo deceived ; my
eye is always correct.”
“Not bet I If the tables were not my
own, and consequently I should be betting
on a certainty, I’d lay you a lac of rupees
that they are not more than thirty inches in
i height.” •
“O, if you are willing, 1 will make the
bet; but remember, gentlemen, I tell you
beforehand, lam certain of the apt. I say
these tables are at least inches
from the floor.”
“ Done I for a lac of rupees,” cried Gor
don.
! “ Done I” re-echoed Charley.
j The wager was duly registered. A ser
vant was ordered Co bring a yard measure,
: when Macauley turned round, with an air of
triumph and said:
“ You may save yourselves the trouble of
measuring I—ha! ha I” and he chuckled with
delight. warned you fairly that I bet on
, a certainty, so the bet must be binding,
| James.”
“ 1 will certainly stand to my bet, w said
j Gordon.
I “ Well, then, pay me the money ! 1
measured the tables this very morning
while you were shaving, and there is their
. memorandum of height—thirty-on® inches
fexoetly !”
“ I know you did,” said Jarn4s; “I saw
| yow you do so in my looking-glass.”
The Colonel started.
“ Yes, 1 saw you do it; and as soon as you j
had gone away, knowing well your object, 1
- had an inch sawed off every leg; so my
very knowing friend, for once the tables are
- turned,”
The roar that shook the table would have
• startled Niagara. Charley Macauley left
Calcntta next day, ten thousand pounds
poorer than he was the day he arrived ; and
what was worse, the very youngest ensigns
in the army quizzed him about it forever
• afterward.
I Perhaps he was richer in the end, how
ever, for it was his last bet.
1 W1 find the following contrast in the
Cincinnati Enquirer. It speaks volumes :
In his correspondence with the govern
i rnent at home, Lord Lyons, the British
Minister at Washington, says that Mr. Sew
ard, then, as now, our Secretary of State,
said to him:
“ My Lord, I can touch that bell on my
right hand, and order the arrest of a citizen
in Ohio. I can touch the bell again and or
der the impressment of a citizen in New
York, and no power on earth can release
him except' that of the President. Can the
Queen of England, in her dominions, do as
much ?”
Lord Chatham, of England, said :
“The poorest man in his cottage maj
bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown
It may be frail; the wind may blow through
it; its roof may shake; the storm may en
ter; the rain may enter; but the King oi
England cannot enter it. All his power
doe.- not cross the threshold of that mined
tenement.”
Privileges of the Sabbath.
The Sabbath is the day when you may sit
down to the Bible without fear of distur
bance. It is the day when, with our sinless
progenitors, you may take the tcur of para
dise, and listen to the anthems of a newly
created world ; it is the day, when, along
side of Enoch, you may feed the flame oi
devotion, and try to divine the wonder,and
imbibe the ardor of a walk with God. It
is the day when, according to your various
moods, you may mourn with Abraham at
Macphela, or meditate with Isaac in the
fields of Mamre, or go down into Egypt to
view Joseph in all his glory. It is the day
when you may bid Jacob’s star twiukb
anew, and Zachariah’s fountain to flow
amain. It is the day when you may fill your
ear with draughts of David’s sounding lyre,
or let your spirit ride aloft on Ezekiel’s fly
ing wheels. It is the day when you may
take a pleasant walk to Bethany or Em
maus, or, as a fourth disciple, ascend Tabor
with Peter, James, and J ohm It istheday
when, with Mary, you may clasp that cross
that quivers no longer, and look up to those
pale and painless lips, which never need
repeat, “It is finished,” and gaze on that
countenance, in death so divine, and beneath
its thorny crown,so ll ssful and benign,till it
says to you, “Be of good cheer, thy sinsare
forgiven.” It is the day when in the uppei
chamber, you may listen to the sermon of
Paul, or go a pilgrim to Patmos along with
the beloved disciple John again.
Pries or Printing Paper, &c.
The Macon Daily Confederate of Oct. 19
says:
“We received a small lot of printing pa
per this morning, lor which, in former
, times, we would have been charged about
SSO. The invoice before us shows an ad
vance of over 500 per cent., or $250 80
, Lalor has also advanced more thun 100
per cent., and has still an upward ten
dency.
“ hi view of these facts, the price of sub
cri ption of newspapersand advertising must
be advanced in the same ratio, or the busi
ness must be given up. Printers and edi
tors must live, and to do so, a liberal appr* •
ciation on the part of the public must be
extended to the Press.”
(We may add to the above fact that our
supply of paper for 1864. just purchased,
cost more than seven times the price re
quired f>r a much bitter ankje before the
waV and the cost <>f type setting, wrapping
paper, tec., has also greatly increased ; and
all heads of families need no information it I
regard to the unreasonable and outrageoU
' advance in th 5 , price of provisions, clothing.
, wood, house-rent, and all the necessaries of
life.) —[Attyuxta Cultivator.
,1 Hoo Cholera.—Mr. J. W. A. Sanford !
i sends the Milledgeville Recorder the follow
i ing remedy for hog cholera :
J Tar and grease, mixed in equal proper-!
I tions,is a certain antidote fur this prevalent
'and h iherto fatal disease. The treatment
’ 1 is as simple as tha remedy itself. Catch
\ the affected animal, turn it upon its back.
1 j nag it, and drei ch it with nearly a gill of
the mixture. The effect is almost instan
-1 taneous. In a few hours the animal recov
-1 ers its appetite, and is seen busily engaged
inquest of food. My stock minder says,;
I with whom the practice orignated, “it you
can get the tar and grease in him, you count;
‘ good for bacon.” In more than twenty;
cases he succeeded in curing every one.
‘| True Courage—Tis not alone in the'
’ hour of triumph that a nation exhibits true,
‘'greatness. When reverses overtake it-1
c arngs, and fortune seems to frown; uhei.
faint h» arts despond, and fickle friends d*--.
' sert; then it is that a nation’s courage
II shines most brightly. When it is actuated
’’from principle, and not by impulse nerved
, by love of liberty, and not by the Mnilesoi
fortune ; when its heart grow s braver, and <
its arm stronger, as the imspect darkens—
this is true greatness. Ihete was a greater i
display of sublime courage by the marshal-''
ing of our hosts for the conflict after our sad
1 reverses in the spring of *62, than in our ’
glorious victory on the plains of Manassas./
[Columbus Sun.
V i
Terms of The Baptist Banker, ss*
per annum-—invariably in advance.
.. . w t , i. g —
FOR MAY 08.
We are authorized to announce JAMES M.
CALHOUN, the present ire nn ltnt, as a cctdldal*
for re-election to the Mayoralty of Atlanta.
Atlanta Land Agency.*
PURCEIAbERS can find very desirable
Residences and Invest merits
W ‘ U wri “ M
OFFICE at Stewart & ore’s. Decatur st
Address, JAMES N. MOON
fr»x 12, Atlanta, Ga.
A Lady Teacher.
AV IRGINIAN offers her services, and
will teach the usual branches, with
music on piano and guitar. Has elementary
French and musical works, oil and water
colors, and a guitar, at the service of pupils.
Address (stating salary, &c.)
Miss E. H. R., Barnesville, Ga.
TEST PRESSES IN OPERATION!
All kinds of Frintiug executed tu the bcsutjle.
Addrise J. J. tccN a tu., Ironietois,
FKAKKUH BCILPIAG,
CRAWFORD, FRAZER & CO/
GENERA L
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Auctioneers,
No. “ S.” Wlii clsall Street,
(Opposite the “Intelligencer” printing office,)
ATLANTA, GA,
THE REGULAR AUCTION SALES of our
house will hereafter be on
TUESDAYS,
THURSDAYS,
and SATURDAYS
OF EVERY WEEK,
AT HALF-PAST TEN O’CLOCK A M
IST" All goods, wares and chattels should be
sent in the evening before, or eatly in the
morning of sale day.
STOCK SALES OF
HORSES, MULES, ETC.,
will commence at FOUR o’clock in the after
noon on each regular sale day.
No. 8.
CRAWFORD, FRAZER & CO..
HSF” In addition to oar
AUCTION AND NEGRO HOUSE,
at No. 8 Whitehall street, we have
FIRE-PROOF STORAGE
of three thousand barrels capacity at our new
Ware-Rooms—No. 1 Alabama street. Our
NEGRO YARD and Lock- Up, at No. 8, are
safe and comfortable.
Dealers and other parties will find us pre
pared to feed and lodge well; and, from
experience in the business since our bojhood,
TO HANDLE THE NEOKO PROPERLY.
Charges reasonable and right, and satisfac
tion guarantied in every instance.
Parties at a distance may know our market
by addressing us.
I’eaSe A Dark,
WHOLESALE AND 1< KT * IDEALEKS IV
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS,
. ANO
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
(Winsbip’s iron-font store, Peach-Tree »t.)
ATLANTA, GA
P. P. Pease ] [L. B. Davis
j Ant liusiness entrusted to us will receive prompt
Attention and returns early made. We ar-k out
friends to give u.- a call wliet; in our city. Auj Pro
duce consigned to u.- will receive every advanuige
our market can give. At>o we can make purchases
to the ver, be»t advaniave. a> we are always pot
ted in relerence to the market prices.
February 15, 1862.
And* rtton, Aditir A Co.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
PROPUCE AND--’ 1
COMMISSI ON MEK CHA N TS,
Whitehall street, mar Georgia R.-IL Bank,)
ATLANTA, 01.
Oct. 11. 9m
Gen. I. R. F< st-r. J. L. Queen. H. R.Fowler.
Foster. Qu< t n & Co.,
GROCERS,
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
ATLANTA. GA.,
Lowe. Fambroogh A Co.,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
IN" DANIEI.B’ A>D W'lssittp’s BLOCK,
ATLANTA, GA.
GT- For the sale of PRODUCE, and all kind#
of MERCHANDISE; Negroes,
Real Es ate, ±c., Ac.
Orders and consignments respectfully solicited.
POU SALT?.
A VAL U A 151. E FAK M.
desirable FARM, containing
Four Hundred and Fire Acres,
one hundred and sixty under cultivation; well
w acred ; good h u-e (-ix rooms); kitchen-* ; Ha
bit-; gin buu-e and screw; all lying w 1), two
miles from the Chatiahooche river,”und eleven
miles from Newnan, Ga.
The owner will take twentv thousand dollars for
the Farm, inducing o' CORN now s and-
ingin the fie.d, which gathered n. the course
oi Un days.
Possess ion given by Christmas, or sooner if de
sired, and the ca-h is paid.
Apply to GEO. W. COOK, on thepremise«, or to
JAS N. ELL 3,
Baptist Banker Office, AtUuos, Ga.
Oa’.obtr 17.1363.