[for the Richmond Dispatch.]
contributions for the soldiers.
Richmond, Va. Oct. 18, 1861.
Within three months, George J. Sumner, Treasurer of the Baptist Colportage Board, located in this city, has received three thousand five hundred dollars to aid in supplying the soldiers of the Confederate Army in Virginia with religious reading.
These donations have come from every State in the Confederacy, except one.
We publish but a portion of the names and amounts, as you could scarcely spare us space for all of them:
| Rev. Dr. Quarles, Louisa co., sends from his school and churches | $55 60 |
| Rev. C. Tyree, Powhatan co | 95 00 |
| Several friends in Halifax co | 100 00 |
| Dr. Wm. H. Turpin, Augusta, Ga. | 20 00 |
| Young Ladies' Missionary Society, 1st Baptist Church, Petersburg. | 8 00 |
| Collected by Rev. H. H. Wyer, Goochland co | 50 00 |
| Friends in Buckingham co | 60 00 |
| W. W. Waller, for 1st Baptist Church, Montgomery, Ala | 160 00 |
| First Baptist Church, Charleston, S. C. | 50 00 |
| Friends in Spotsylvania co | 25 00 |
| Collected by Rev. E. W. Roach, Charlotte co | 50 00 |
| Friends in Bedford co | 30 00 |
| Prof. C. L. Cocke, Hollins's Institute | 10 00 |
| Dr. Wm. Gwathmey's family, King William co | 14 00 |
| Some Christians in Knoxville, Tenn. | 17 00 |
| Friends at Rock Hill, Ala | 43 50 |
| Thos. D. Toy, Norfolk | 50 00 |
| Collected by Rev. Thos. Landsdell, of Louisiana | 25 00 |
| Walnut Grove Baptist Church, Hanover, per Rev. Mr. Patterson | 26 50 |
| Peter V. Daniel, Esq., Richmond, Va. | 10 00 |
| Rev. G. H. Northam, Richmond co. | 35 50 |
| F. M. Latham, Esq., Culpeper C. H. | 20 00 |
| Georgia Baptist Convention | 40 00 |
| Dr. R. H. Ryland, La. | 10 00 |
| Sparta Grays, per Rev. A. Broaddus | 28 00 |
| Thos. Hurt, Caroline co. | 20 00 |
| Collected by Rev. J. H. Fox, Scottsville | 25 00 |
| M. M. Anderson, per Rev. T. Hume, Portsmouth | 10 00 |
| Friends in Staunton, Va. | 80 00 |
| Rev. J. W. Ward, Southampton co | 20 00 |
