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Robert A. Baker, late of Summerfie’.d and
Mobile;
“Aud, whereas, Brother Biker was ‘a
prince and a great man in our Israel/ fore-,
most in promoting all the interests of the
boutheru Methodist Church, of which he
was a consistent, zealous and extraordinari
ly uselul member from his youth ;
“ And, whereas, Brother Baker was one
of the founders of the Southern University
an ex-President of the Board of Trustees
and a member thereof at the time of his
death:
Therefore, R soived, 1 Thatwemourn
the loss ol R -bert A. Baker as a great pub
lic calamity and an t fil ction of no ordinary
severity to the Methodist Episcopal Church
Sou h.
*' 2- That we especially deplore the death
of Brother Baker, as by it the Southern
U;i. varsity has lost one of its earliest and
most devoted friends.
“3 That we request the Chancellor of
the University to improve this mournful
event by preaching a suitable sermon iii the
University Chapel on July 2d, being the
Sunday immediately preceding the next
commencement.
*' 4. That we sympathize with the bereav
ed family and friends of brother Baker in
the loss which they have sustained by the
death cf such a husband, father and friend.
“ 5. That copies of the foregoing be trans
mitted to the esteemed relict of brother
Baker, and to the Southern Christian Ad
vocate and Selma and Mobile papers for
publication ia their columns.
“On motion, the meeting then adjourn
ed. T. N. Lupton, Secretary.”
I wM only add that Dr. Wightman prem
izes, 1». V., to comply with the request in
the third resolution.
You will eee by the appointments of the
Mobile Conference, which I sent you from
Mobile, that 1 am stationed this year at
Greensboro'. The church here is in a con
dition 8 milar to that of nearly all our
churches in this country. It needs reha
bilita ion very much. The colored mem
bers are loyal to our church, and we have
no idea of adopting the suicidal policy of
surrendering tl em to strangers. We shall
lab r for their salvation as heretofore.
The University is doing well—it has an
able and laborious Faculty—the s*udents
are orderly—and the Preparatory Depart
ment, under Mr. Hutchinson, is quite
prosperous. The B v. T. Y. Ramsey, my
predecessor in thy station, has charge of
the Female Academy here, wit'' compe'eat
assistants. He deserves and will be likely
to realize good suoecs3.
I hope the-Advocate, under new auspi
ces, will prosper exceedingly. But my
sheet is f 11. Thos 0. Summers.
Greensboro', Ala , Jan 2, 1866.
PROM BISHOP ANDREW.
I returned yesterday from my Western
trp, after an absence of nearly three
months. I took steam 1 r frem New Orleans
for Galveston, which we reached after an
stormy passage of three days.
Cached there on the 1
cars next morning lor Chapel Hill,
re the Texas Conference met. We had
delightful conference. At its close 1 left
*r Rusk and Marshall, where the preach
es of the East Texas Conference were in
structed to meet me to receive ordination.
From thence all the way to Mansfield, La,
the brethren kindly conveyed me in pri
vate carriages.
I shall only say now that I was kindly
received everywhere, and my visit to Tex is
was hailed by the brethren as a blessing
They have suffered much from the absence
of a bishop, but they have maintained the
regular organization and operations of the
church; and from all I could learn all
preachers and people—stand firm oh the
platform of Southern Methodism.
1 have had a long and fatigueing trip, to
which I looked forward at the start with
some apprehension, in view of my age; but
God has sustained me, and I have been
able to perform all my duties, and my
health is about as go and as when I began my
trip ; and, praise to God, I have returned
in safety and found all my loved ones at
home alive and well.
And now let me say that the main object
of this note will be found in the letter ap
pended. The writer, an old and respect
able free colored woman of good report for
piety, ditd some few years since in Hender-
Bon, Texis. She made her will, distribu
ting her goods as follows : she divided her
gold into three parts—one third to the
bishops, another third to the China mission,
and a third to the Southern Christian Ad
vocate. The whole t mount is-.slßo. The
money was put into my hands as I passed
through Texas, and the same is now in my
hands, and can be had by application to
me.
James O. Andrew.
Summerfield, Dec. 20 (h 1865.
The following letter was sent by Bishop
Andrew with the above. The writer refers
to a former letter sent to the editor, but he
has no recollectipn of ever having received
one from her:
Henderson, Texas. April 24, 1863.
JRtv. E. H. Myers, Editor Southern Christian
Advocate:
Dear Brother: I wrote to you before
thi*. expecting to receive an amwer, but
now I have given up all hope of living a
lufficient length of time to receive one,
shojld you have written.
I have left directicns here as to what I
Want you ’and the bishop to do. I leave
three parcels in the caie of Mis. E-till, of
thift design for tie China mis
r WS for Advocate mis>
%ort W •
c s ‘ OD J an d one to asiist the bishops in th- if
travels. I don’t expect to tarry long on
earth. When lam gone Bro Browa will
inform you of the fact. If you ever tpeet
Bro. J. E Evans tell him 1 die in print
peace. He took me in the church and bnp
iized me. -1 have lived the life I wore to
live. I renounced the devil and all his
works, and did not come out and tell the
world I was on their side.
I am your sister, in the faith of our Lord
Jesus Christ,
Eliza Connoway.
(fbitorial Iktbnics.
Tiie Rev. W. A. McSwain. —We are
pained to learn from a paragraph in an ex
change, that this valuable member of the
South Carolina Conference died recently at
his home in Laurens, S. C., from the effects
of an injury received some weeks back, in
jumping from his buggy. He was a devo
ted Christian, a faithful and useful minister,
and a leading member in the Conference he
had long served in many prominent posi
tions.
The Rev. T. N. Ralston, D. D., says
the Louisville Advocate , is doing a good
work on the Alexandria Circuit, Kentucky
Conference. He is comfortably domiciled
on a cozy little farm a mile or two from New
port, and almost in sight of Cincinnati.—
Like the ancient proprietor of the ark, he
has “planted a vineyard,” but, unlike the
patriarchal fruit grower, he does not “drink
of the wine thereof.”
Rev. E. Stevenson, D. D.—lt is not
generally known this side the “lines/’ that
Dr. SteveDsdh, formerly Book Agent, died
more than a year since, at Russellville, Ky.
His end was peace..
Dr. T. 0. Summers is stationed this year
at Greensboro', Ala. We were misled when
we gave Selma as his station, by a telegram
from Mobile to the Selma Messenger. We
expect Dr. S. to be a constant contributor to
the Advocate.
Tiie Rio Grande Conference—We
learn that this Conference held its session in
San Antonia, in October, Rev. J. W. De
vilbiss, presiding. Will some brother be
kind enough to send us a list of its delegates
to the General Conference ?
o
The Nashville Advocate. —The best
proof we have seen that the oft-repeated
story of the restoration of our Publishing
House is at last true, is in the re-appearance
of the Nashville Advocate. It is again in
fewicL as larges? and v?>ry I 'T*V
ural. We make several extracts from it?
columns.
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Rev. Charles Taylor.—The Rev. W.
G. E. Cunnyngham inquires through the
Episcopal Methodist for Dr. Taylor’s ad
dress. It is Sumter, S. C., he being this
year in charge of Sumter Circuit.
The Philosophy of Advertising.
It. is a well known maxim of political econo
my that desire creates demand, and that de
mand is the stimulus of trade. Whatever, then,
produces desire for the articles of trade pro
motes it. This theory is well understood by tai
lors and milliners. The former have their “walk
ing advertisements” in every community, who
display their fabrics and fits, and bring them
custom. The latter prosper notoriously by in
troducing the “ latest fashions, ” and when they
have bedecked some of the “leaders ” in their
finest and richest fabrics, or set them off with
their “ love of a bonnet,” their advertising is
wisely done. For some acute observer has said
of the ladies, that they dress for each other’s
eyes, and what lady is willing to be surpassed
in fine or fashionable dress ?
But many tradesmen cannot avail themselves
of the principle in this way. They must con
tent themselves with a display of their wares in
show cases or at shop doors and windows, or if
they wish to create a general desire for their
commodities, they must advertise. Let the peo
ple thus know what there is to sell, and where
it is to be had, and the people want it. Desire
is engendered, and this creates demand. Many
of the most successful merchants have made
their fortunes by generous advertising. When
one’s name appears in all the papers, he becomes
known, as it were, to everybody. When he ad
vertises largely, to many it is prima facie evi
dence that he is selling largely, that he is suc
cessful in trade, that he has many patrons, that
his large trade enables him to cheap, and
everybody wants to buy at his popular, and es
pecially at his cheap, store. Begin a poor man,
and let your .first year’s profits be judiciously
used in advertising, and you are worth more at
the end of the second year than if you had re
( mained hid in your corner.
We commend this philosophy to our readers
—to advertisers of every class.
False Reports.—Some mischievous and de
signing white, persons have circulated a report
among the negroes to the effect that gold and
silver were depreciating in value, and would,
soon be worth nothing. Under the influence of
this ridiculous story, some of them have been
defrauded of their small hoardings of specie.
•+. »-*.— l
Gerard Hallock, Esq., the founder, and for
many years proprietor, of the New York Journal
of Commerce , died in New Haven, Conn., on the
4th inst., aged 66 years. He was a staunch
friend of the South throughout the war.
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
The Rev. William S. Williams, says
the Richmond Christian Advocate, died at
Lunenburg Court-house, at Brother Webb’s,
on Thursday, 28th ult., in great peace, and
Was buried at our church, at the Court
house. lie was preparing to visit his pa
rents in Missouri, whom he had not seen for
six years; but he has, doubtless, gone to his
bettor homo, in heaven. He was a zealous
and faithful minister of the Gospel and a
devoted Christian. To know him, was to
love him.
Bishop Soule.— On the sth instant,
Bishop Soule visited the Publishing House,
in comfortable health. This is the anniver
sary of his entrance upon the itinerant min
istry. Sixty-seven years ago, January sth,
he left his father’s house for his first circuit.
Methodism was then small, but he lived to
witness a great increase. We earnestly pray
that he may be spared to visit our General
Conference in April next. —Nashville Ad
vocate.
Dittos |t ms-
Congressional.
Washington, Jan. 11.—Mr. Johnson made a
speech in the Senate to-day, denying that Con
gress has power to declare war against States;
it could suppress insurrection, but not hold the
Southern States as conquered territory.
In the House, Mr. Rogers made a speech
against the bill allowing negro sufra in the
District of Columbia. Mr. Farnsworth favored
the bill, saying that impartial sutfrage was the
only guarantee for a proper Btate of affairs at
the South.
Washington, Jan. 15—In the Senate, to
day, Mr. Howard effered a jo nt resolution
decking that, whereas it appears by the re
port of the Secretary of war that Messis D tvis
ardelay are held in cor fimment as having
been concerned in the assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln, and fer the murder of Federal
soldiers held as prisoners of war, therefore it
is respectfully rcc >mmended that they be tried
by a military commission.
The resolution, being oljrcted to, lies over
Washington, Jan. 16.—1n the House the cre
dentials of the Representatives elect from
Arkansas, were presented and referred to the
Committee on Reconstruction. A proposition
was made and received only twelve votes, allow
ing the mgroes in the District of Columbia to
decide, by ballot, whether white men should
vote. (A burlesque.) Stevens offered a reso
lution instructing the Judiciary Committee to
consider the expediency of so amending act
sixty-five, relative to the test oath, as to allow
lawyers to practice their profession without
taking said test oath, on an equal footing with
other professions. Adopted. The House re
sumed the negro suffrage bill.
The Legislature —The Georgia Legisla
ture met on Monday, ard adjourned till the
n< day, without transacting any business.
Gov Jenkins’ Message —On Tuesday this
document v.as sent in to the Leg’slature. G-»v.
J congratulates the country on the general
quiet that has prevail* and He expects an early
V ■ >--ru : ~ ' "'■ V’ C /'*
Jib '| ifcriiivftatioikin amending
the ConstfMtma, has been counted asaStatein
the proclamation declaring it amended, and
should, of course, participate in legislation un
der that Constitution. He commends the
“code” prepared by the committee for the
freedmen, as “just and liberal to the irceltnen
and sa'e to the citizrn ” He thinks the Wes
tern and Atlantic Road ought at once to be
put in the ore er, and prefers the present
plan of management, with sufficient compen
sation to a superintendent, to command the
highest bu-iness talent, in that department.
He is averse to abandoning thß Penitentiary
system ; but would have its reformatory p< wer
tried to the utmost. If removed, he w uld
have the old Penitentiary devoted to the ; un
isbment of certain primes among the freedmen.
The finances of the State receive full consider
ation. Its present dbt is $3 500.000. To
repair damages, and set the State in working
order before a tax can be collected, may m-ike
it $6 000 000. He would have it raised to thus
sum. He thinks the present debt may be paid by
1881, and the other debts met in good time,
without burdening the people. H° would have
the State meet its p’edges to the Uui.verAty,
and foster education generally. He recom
mendi that the laws regulating in'erest be so
modifi and that 7 per cent shall be the iega! rate,
! w here interest is chargeable by law, but where
! money is loaned on contract, interest may
I run to 10 percent. He advises a medertte
capitation tax upon freedmen, the proceeds to
j be Administered by the County Justices for the
I paupers of that class. He submits a report on
I {he public buildings and grounds, and recom
-1 mends that a moderate sum be devoted to pre
i serving and beautifying them. These are the
principal suggestions of this excellent State
paper. ,
From Europe.— The first batch of Fenian
indictments had been disposed of at Dub in,
a r and the Special Commission had adjourned to
Cork where the trial of John McCafferty, a
native of Ohio, and late a captain Con
federate army, was in progress
ble exctement prevailed in consequence of the
disarpesranee of quite a number ot the most
skillful and experienced of the Irish pilots. It
was thought that they designed, tc take charge
of a Fenian expedition already in preparation
to descend the Irsh coast Spain has agreed
to accept ihi mediation of E g'aad ia her dis
pute with Chile, and abide the resu’l of the de
liberations Advices from Brazil represent
that, through the intervention of the Amaru,
can Minister at Buexo’. Ayers, a cessation of
hostilities between ibe Paraguayans and Allies,
was likely to be brought about soon. Toe
ca tie plague was still on the increase in Eng
lanrt Z Advices from Gaudaloupe, dated 25. h
of November, state that the cholera had bro
ken out there, and was committing great rava
ges at Besse Terrea, a town of six thousand
inhabitants. On the 221 ulitmo there were
107 cases that proved fatal.
France and The United States.—A Wash
ington correspondent s a es that a letter ha-?
been received from Pari?, which states that
the E nperor. in his opening address to:hi
Legislative bodies; will express peaceful sen
timenta towards this country a*d will promise
to remove French troops from M xico as speed
ily a9 possible, provided lhe relations between
the two countries continue peaceful and ami
cable.
Hon. AND Bkv James Harlan, Secretary
of the Interior, has bean chosen U. 8. Senator
for lowa
Sou j h America —We have important and
stirring intelligence regaiding the progre sot
hostilities b j wee i Chile and Spain.' A naval
engagement took p’ace on the 26th between the
Chi'e.ans and Span ards, which r&ulted most
creditably to the former, tl ough it appears that
among their officers tfiere was a valuable infus
eion or the Anglo Salon e ement. The Chil
ean Dava' steamer Es me rah a, which, some time
a so, escaped to sea from Valparaiso through
Admiral ParejVs blockade, and was, for a
while, 1 >&ts gbt of, sudden y made her appear
ance ab >ut f< rty miles to the northward of that
port on the date named, attacked the Spanish
war steamer Covadonga. snd, a brisk
fight of bhlf an hour, ca.pH.red it, with all on
board This affor has much exc : ted and en
couraged the peo} la of Chile. A little Chilean
steamer la also recently captuied, in the har
bor of Til ahua o, a S f ani.-h launch and its
crew, beb nging to one of the blockading ves
sels In fact, the Chileans appear to be wide
awake and prepared for the struggle at all
joints. It was sti.l und rstood that Peru
would firm an alliance with Chile against the
Sj aniardr, though nothing in the matter bad
yet been done by Prado’s government.
From the other republics South and Central
America the news is not particularly important.
. Unstamped Receipts and Other Papers.—
The neglect to affix revenue stamps to receipts
given for money, goods, exprtss packages, and
other papers, lias become very common, even on
the part of business men who are familiar with
t'rn requirements of the law. The omission has
bee me so general as to attract the attention of
the revenue officers, and the commissioner has
directed, after an opportunity has been given
for correcting omissions, to have proceedings
commenced for the recovery of the penalty of
fifty dollars, the amount recoverable for each
case of neglect. The common mode of cancel
ling stamp- with an X is not a compliance with
the law. The initials of the person using the
stamp, and the date when used, should be writ
ten in ink. or stamped. Any other mode gives
an opportunity for a subsequent fraudulent use
of a stamp.
An Important Announcement. —The Rich
mond Dispatch, of the sili inst., reports the re
sult of Gov. Pierpont's late visit to Washington,
that is important to all the States owing the di
rect tax of 1861. It says that the Uni'ed States
officials agreed at once to the proposed arrange
ment by which the Legislature is to assume the
the payment of the land tax due by our people
as inhabitants of an insurrectionary district.”
Three years will be allowed for the payment of
the tax ; but whether it is to be paid in annual in
stalments or not, we have not. been informed.
All compulsory measures for its collection from
the land owners have been prohibited, and none
but voluntary payments nre to be made until
the General Assembly shall have taken action
in regard to the matter.
Death op the Hon. Peter Cone. —This esti
mable citizen of Geotgia, died at his residence
in Bulloch county, on Saturday morning, 6th
inst., aged seventy years. For forty-two years
or twenty-one terms, he served Bulloch county
with ability in tme State Seuate, in which body
he was known as the senior member. General
Cone was a man of sterling integrity and ardent
devotion to the welfare of his native State.
Gov. Jenkins’ Appointments. —The Governor
has appointed H. G. J. Williams and It. L Hunt
er, Secretaries of the Executive Department;
Z. D. Harrison, Messenger; J. G. Montgomery,
of Augusta, Librarian; Jesse Horton, Captain
of the Guard for the Capitol; Wiley C. Ander
son, Principal Keeper of the Penitent iary ; Cnas.
G. Tulbird, Assistant; Dr. C. D. Case, Physi
cian.
i The Supreme Court op Florida. —The follow
ing geuile-ien wei e wccm’.y nomina'c ’ by Gov
Walker, of Florida, for the Supreme bench of
that State: For Chief Justice, C. H. Dufont ;
for Associate Justices, A. L. Maxwell and J.
M. Baker. The nominations were, without the
formality of reference to a committee, immedi
ately acted upon, and unanimously confirmed.
The Supreme Bench.— The Washington cor
respondent of the New York News says that
the vacancy in the Supreme Court will soon be
filled by the appointment of either Governor
Sharkey, of Mississippi, now U. S. Senator from
that State, or of Judge Trigg, President of the
United States District Court of Tennessee.
Southern Steamship Companies. —We learn
from the Philadelphia North American and Uni
ted States Gazette, of the 30th ultimo, that the
committee appointed to raise subscriptions for
the establishment of lines of steamers betweeu
Philadelphia, - Charleston, New Organs, Wil
mington and Savannah, have already raised
upwards of $400,000 and it was thought the
required amount would be made up in a very
short time, as all the committees would be at
work by the first of January.
Wheat. —Our Western exchanges report sat
isfactorily upon the condition ot the growing
crop of ft.ll wheat. We believe that more than
ihe usual avreage of wheat has been sown, and
that the weather thus far has been very favora
ble. More than the usual amount of fall plough
ing has also been done. The fanners may well
feel satisfied on reviewing the result of the sea
son now brought to a close. They have not on
ly had an abundant harvest, and good prices,
but the prospect for the next year is equally
cheering.
Gen. Grant recommend-, the retention of
a sufficient military force M.vhe Sou h, to pre
serve tranquility, and doubts the propriety of
arming the Southern militia.
Still Later from Europe. —The Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland had refused to appoint a Com
mission to inquire into the escape of Stephens,-
the Head Centre. In the case of Captain M'Affer
ty, who served in the Confederate Army, ihe
counsel objected to the indictment, on the.ground
that the prisoner was an alien, who had commit
ted no crime within the jurisdiction of Great
Britain, and the judges held the objection well
taken, and the jury, under their instruction, re
turned a verdict of not guilty. At a subsequent
sitting of the commission, Dillon Bryan and
Joliu Lynch were arraigned for treason-felony;
and the grand jury found true bills against
several pariies. The cattle disease continued
on the increase in several counties, the number
of cattle attacked being estimated at five thou
sand a week. Already forty thousand had died
of the disease. The Prince Napoleon had ar
rived in Paris. The King and Queen of Portu
gal had extended their visit to Warsaw. Gen
eral Schofield had returned from London to
Paris, where he was to spend the Winter.
Christmas and the Negroes. —lt is with no
small satisfaction that we record there was but
little negro rioting on Christmas at the South.
Fore-warned of what was threatened, the milita
ry werearined, and t lie citizens also. There is
a better state of th ngs cxisiing in Florida,
North Carolina and Mississippi, than formerly.
From the old sugar regions of Louisiana we learn
that all the sugar planters now want is laborers,
and they will doubtless be able to get more than
half their original numbers wilhout much trou
ble. If negroes will not work, high prices of
sugar will bring white laborers to the cultiva
tion of cane. These lands will be eultitated.
Sugar will be raised.
Items.— Two safes of the Adams K pre s
Company were broken open on the train of the
New York and New Haven'Railroad, recently,
when the same was only thirty miles out from
New York, and the sum of sso'>.ooo stolen
The thieves were in such a In r y, that they left
behind SBO,OOO in bank notes, and $60,000 in
Government bonds. Four of the thieves have
been arrested, and a good deal of the mcney re
covered Col. W. 11. Stiles, formerly member
of Congress from Georgia, and Charge d’Af
faires at Vienna, died at Savannah, Ga., on the
20th ultimo. During his residence at Vienna,
he found time to collate valuable materials for a
history of that country, which he published
soon after his return home in 1849. Soon after
the commencement of the war, Colonel Stiles
raised a regiment, from the command of which
lie retired after his health had been much im
paiied by exposure in the service Mrs.
Catherine P. Hayden, perhaps one of the oldest
citizens of Savannah, died recently, at the age
of 85. She was the only child of Col. White,
a distinguisned officer of the Revolution, whose
gallant exploit, capturing near Savannah, by a
s*cecssful stratagem, a considerable British
force, illustrates one of the brightest pages of
the history of Georgia ’-A destructive fire
occurred in Nashville on the 9th inst. A gen
tleman named C. B. Moores, of the firm of
Cook, Moores & Cos , was burned alive. He
was a native of Fayetteville, Lincoln county,
Tenn. Property to the amount of SIOO,OOO
was destroyed by the fire The Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad has begun a suit against
its late President for one million dollars dam.
ages for permitting the late Confederate Gov
ernment to use the road and its machinery dur
ing the war Letters from Charleston say
the regulations for controlling free labor are
nearly perfected The copy of the contract re
quired between freedmen and employers, in
South Carolina, is published. Freedmen are
made responsible for all animals and tools en
trusted to their care, and are required to give
assurance of good faith in the performance of
their duties It is a subject of comment at
Washington, that at the President's reception
none of the diplomatic corps recognised or
spoke to the. Mexican Minister, they evidently
not acknowledging him as a representative from
any government. Senor Romero was cordially
received by President Johnson, but remained
only a few moments in the reception room,
leaving some time before the other minsters—-
An entire family, five in number, in Brooklyn,
have been poisoned by the use of musty flour,
purchased at a neighboring grocery, One has
died, two are still dangerously ill, and the re
maining two are convalescent At the lowest
estimate there are now in the District of Colum
bia at least fifty thousand negroes against
about eighty thousand whites The Provost
Marshal at Lexington, recently confiscated a
quantity of valuable hides belonging to a tan
nery in that jlnce, which were in part the pro
perty of the widow of Stonewall 'Jackson
The U. S. Consul at Port Mahon writes to the
State Department that the cholera has nearly
disappeared from that province, and say£ that
the mortality in Spain has been far greater than
will ever be known The office of Provisional
Governor of North Carolina having been vaca
ted. the State finds itself in an anomalous con
dition, without civil officers, including mayor,
town commissioners, judge, &c., those having
been appointed by the Provisional Governor.
It is probable that the military authorities will
direct the officers heretofore acting for the State
to continue their functions for the present.
MARRIED,
In Houston county, on the 9 h Dec , 1865,
by Rev S R. J Sistnuik, Dr W F. HysLop,
of Arkansas, and Mbs Ecgkma E. Riley,
daughter of the late G. F. acd,Mrs Ehzabeth
Riiey, of Houston county.
, On tie same day, by the ramfe, Mr. John G.
Woodward ard Miss Sarah E Moiris, all
of H< uiton county.
By Rev T. T. Christian, on the 11th inst.,
Capt. A O. Garrard, of Columbus, and Miss
Anna J. Walker, of Dawson.
At the Parsonage, in Morgan co., Jan. 2d,
by Rev. D. Kelsey, Mr. S.. Fulton, of Mon
ticello, and Miss Georgia R Kelsey, of
Morgan county.
In Mu cogee co., on the 19th Dpc., 1866, by
Rev >• S Boyden,*Mr. F. C. McLendon, of
Merriwether co., and Miss M E. Biogebs, o[
Muscogee county.
In Muscogee county, at the residence of the
bride’s father, Rev. B W. Clark, on the 26th
Dec., 1865, by the Rev. A. S. Boyden, Capt.
David L. Cohen, of Pensaco!s, Florida, and
Mrs. Lucy A. McCoy, of Muscogee.
On 21st Dec., by the Rev J. T. Ainsworth,
Wm. Bell and Miss Ellen Fullyobd, of
Buena Vista, Ga.
On 28th Dec., at the house of the bride, by
Rev. John A Reynold*, Mr. John H. Rhodes
and Mrs. Mary J. Malone, all of Richmond
county.
On same evoning, by same, at the residence
of the bride’s father, Mr. William W. Tinlky
and Miss Elvira J. Elsmork, all of R.chmond
county.
Da 9;,h January, by same, at Mrs. Elizabeth
ifißp's’, Mr. Whitney H. Rhodes, of Rich
mond county, and Miss Rebecca Rhkney, of
Jefferson county.
THE
mu cirai mm.
1866. *
This old and well estab
lished religious family weekly, in entering upon
its TWENTY-NINTH VOLUME, takes a,new form to
adapt itself more fully to the wants and interests of the
present limes. It will be issued
AS AN EIGHT PAGE QUARTO,
In combination with
THE MIRROR OF TIIE TIMES,
(Lately J. W. Burke h Co’s Mercantile Mirror.)
Thus The Southern Christian Advooatb, becomes a
double half devoted, as heretofore, to Re
ligion and the Church; and one half to Literature,
Science, Art, the News, the Markets, Advertisements,
etc, etc., etc. ' •' T
fn thi * form, it is proposed to make it equal to any
Family Newspaper in the c rnntry—being A1 that a
family that takes but one Newspaper can need; and
also worthy ol a place with other Newspapers, where
several are taken. Besides, it is offered as the
Cheapest Paper In the South!
The price being only
Three Dollars a Year,
(In Advance)
It may justly claim to be
THE POOR MAX’S PAPER.
And as such
It hopes that a gemrous public will giro it* liberal
patronage. It is only by such a patronage, that it out
be sustained at this price.
Any person sending m subscribers to the amount of
S3O 00, wll. be entitled to a coj y, tree for one y t er.
Address ■■ • \ -
I p. H. MYERS, D. D. Ed tor,
■' j! ' > Macon, Q*,