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The Norcross Advance. VVBUHHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY VINCENT & MORRIS, 81 • INSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one year $2.00 Five copies “ “ Ten “ “ “ ...... $15.00 —ADVERTISING RATES:— Space 1 w 2 wp mj2 ns 6 m-12 m 1 Inch $1 00 $ 1 &0!$ 2 50$ 4 5056 ooi $lO 00 3 “ 150 250 450 7 25.10 00 1800 1 u 200 3 00' 500 900 15 00' 22 00 4 “ 250 3 50! 550 HOO'ISOO I 27 00 W COI. 300 455 650 14 001 25 00l 35 00 M “ 550 800 12 50 1 25 00 40 00| 50 00 1 “ 10 00 l 5 00 15 00l 22 00' 62 00| 100 00 Advertisements less than one-tourth of a column to be charged for bv the square —for first insertion $1 00 and for each sub sequent insertion 50 cents. Special con tracts c: n be made where short advertise ments are inserted for a longer period than thr e months. One inch shall consti tute as< iare. Marriage notices and obituaries, ex ceeding six lines, will be charged for as adverti einents. Personal or abusive communications Will not be inserted at any price. Communications of general or local in terest, under a genuine signature, are respect!u Uy solicited from any source. VINCENT & MORRIS, Publishers. • ~~AT ATLANTA PRICES! IUYW STDBE ARE DRY-GOODS, TAMIL! GROCERIES, IRON, DHCGS, , BOOTS AND SHOES, HARDWARE, TINWARE, n CROCKERY WARE, WOODENWARE, ETC. ETC. I will duplicate Atlanta Bills, and give Atlanta prices for all country products. I respectfully sollict the trade of the citizens of Norcross an d Gwinnett, Forsyth and Milton counties. 1 shall keep on hand a large assortment of everything in my line and shall make it to the interest of my customers to trade with we instead of going to Atlanta to buy or sell. I MEAN BUSINESS! Give me a call and satisfy your self. S. T. McELROY. Dec. 81/78-ly (respectfully call the attention of the PUBLIC to my NEW AND WELL SELECTED STOCK OF GOODS! Consisting of DRY-GOODS, GROCERIES, CUTLERY, HARDWARE, ETC., ETC. BoJ«cted especially for this market, and for irale at reasonable prices. Call and ex amine. G. W. WALLACE. Dec. 81 ’7B-)y 2ThL4 FS oFuaW At Reasonable Prices DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, BOOTS AND SHOES. Call at J. A. MILLER’S on corner next Academy street. Dee. 81, ’73-ty REAL ESTATE AGENCY- In response to frequent inquiries of par flea living at a distance. and also in order to promote the intereat of Norcross and vicinity, I hereby inform the public that I will act as Kani Estate A ;ent for all par flea living In or near Noreroaa, and re spectfully solicit tiie call or correspond ence of all partie* desirous of purchasing land in or near Norcrc#*. jept 12-ts THUS. BORING. M. D. One hundred and ten acr a (110) ( >f land, on the-MvAfee bridge road, two and a half milra from Norcross, about twelve acre* cleared frrsh, and iu a good state of culth a tiou; *<xxl log house and outbuildings, and tt» gcwxl a well of water as there is In North Geo gin The wood* are heavily timbered, and well w »tared. Terms easy. Other lands for ml.- adjacent. Apply to me, or W. G. Wiglev, nt Nor crom. THUS. B. RAI NEY’. o<t'29tf IStnvo j our ’JCectli. My Ttrtnt are Moderate All work warranted. Office at Cousin John'* Hotel I will be iu Norcross the fourth week in every month. IL E. CASON, D. IX S. nnv3 ly Nomination. - Ms »ro authorised t« announce J. R. Horaixa a* a candidaio for re-election to the office of < niton Dinner at the Palace <Un House and W»tcM*ower<»f the Heaver ■ Run Noveltv Works. Having sen ed eev- ] erxl tsars i'e that efll<-e be feels asanred I that he can eive <M»ti*f.»ctio». Thankful forpaat iit»eral patronage, he would inform his patrons and friend* that I ho will gin and peck ibt oae-iwontleth of' the cotton. «Qpil2-3m ; Dr. Ray effr** hi* service in the practice rtf Medi rise *ud Surgery. Ute n i»..lenee » •f net 13-4 w JQB WQBB OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Feourrtv *s» Xfitit FtKomto ar THB ADV ANCF. JOB OFFICE. At Reasonable Prices. gWGIVK US A CALL. THE NORCROSS ADVANCE. BY VINCENT & MORRIS. CHEAP HOMES, AND ON LONG TIME roK s vi.i: in , GWINNETT COUNTY. The lands which were advertised for sale in Lawrenceville, on the first Tues day in this month, by the subscriber, were not sold at auction, as was intended, in consequence of the money crisis now pre vailing, and the heavy rain which fell dur ing sale hours. A minimum price was fixed on each tract, however, and a few were sold at private sale. Those described below were not sold, and are now offered at the price to each annexed, to-wit: The Northeast corner of lot number 141, and a part of number 148, containing about 75 acres. This p’ace lies one mile south ol the Couit-house, in Lawrenceville, on the Covington road. There Is a dwelling house, stable, well of first-rate water, a young orchard, and about forty acres of pretty level gray land in a good condition for a crop next year; the balance is all in the woods. Price $lO per a ;re. The Southeast corner of the same lot, and part of number 148, making another tract of about 75 acres. This is all iu the woods, and contains a good deal of branch bottom, with a beautiful building spot, on the same read. I’i4be $7 per acre.* The Southwest corner of number 141. This is all in the woods, Iles well and is well timbered, except soms ten to fifteen acres, which is a pine old fine. The soil Is good and contains a large proportion of bottom land. Price $7 per acre. The Northeast, Southeast and South west quarters of lot number 140, iwntain ng, according to original survey, sixty two and a half acres each. The Covington road runs nearly on the Northeast line of this lot, and a right of way to the lower side of the lot from the road will be re serve 1. These three tracts are all in the woods, well watered, and on each could be opened a nice little farm. Price of each $7 per acre. As many of the above tracts will be sold together as may be desired, or any person applying can have either alone. A tract of acres, adjoining Wm. J. Born, Dr. Mitchell and Colouel N. L. Hut chins' lands, lying inside of the town cor poration, and good red land, well watered, all ready for the plough. Price sls per aers The Gorden place.with 50 acres of wood land, in the Southeast corner of number 130. On this place there is a good dwelling house, with seven rooms, and a poor crib and stable, one and a fourth miles from the Court-house, on the Jetleraon road. There is a first-rate spring, well Improved and surrounded by the native forest trees, near the house, and about 75 acres of first rate red land, now all lying cut. The houses and fences are in bad condition, but can be made good with but reasonable cost. The two tracts contain 175 acres. Price $1,200. Any competent judge would, on seeing thia property, pro Ounce it very cheap. The Holllnsworth place, on ths same road, two mi e* from the Court-house. This place contains 250 acres, number 207, and has always been considered one of the best farms in the neighborhood. Im provements fair, about one-balf e’eared. and the other In the woods. If desired, this lot will be divided into two equal parts, by running a line across the road. »o as tn throw one-half on the side next to K. T. Terrell, and the other next to J. M. Ambroe’ farm, snd the purchaser can have choice of sides at the price asked, which is $lO per acre. Also, about 75 acres In the Northeast corner of lot number 130, o* the same road, end adjoining the lands of J. M. Ambrose and other*. Os this tract about 25 acres la old field, and the balance’ all ; wood lands. There is an old house place on the road, two and three-fourth miles ■ from town, and several fruit and shade j trees around it—a beautiful place for a j residence. Price six dollar* per acre. All these lauds lie in the fifth district of • said county, sud within eight or nine miles I of the Air-Line Railroad, and to enable - person* of small means to secure homes : for thetneeh es and families, are offered on ; the following easy terras, to-wit: One i fourth cash, one at two years, one at three » and the other at four years, with interest at ten i»er eeat. Wiitiara E. Simmeue, Samuel J. Winn, - or Dr, T. K. Mitchell, would show th* I property io *tn»uger* wishing to see it. | Ftu fUuher partie tiara, address JAMES T. SIMMON*. Nercroes Gevrgia. twr l£tf The Norcross Advance. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1874. READING MATTER ON EVERY PAGE JAS. U. VINCENT. Editor. HON. A. H. STEPHENS~AND GEORGIA EDITORS. Georgia editors seem to th rst for something against Hon. A. H. Stephens. They handled him with gloves off about his speech on the Salary Increase, many of them not even waiting for his published speech. It has been amusing to read in certain papers issued on one day editorials condemning him for “joining the thieving party,” and in the next day’s issue of the same paper editorials eulo gizing him for having made in Congress “ the first constitutional speech in a decade.” Before these editors dried their quills from writing up the Salary speech Madame Rumor said that Mr. Stephens asserted in conversation with Gen. Sherman that “he (Stephens) would go farther than Sumner in securing the political and social rights of the negro.” Into the ink were plunged the quills of the alert, editors and col umn after column of condemna tion flooded the State. When it was afterwards learned that Mr. Stephens and Gen. Sherman did not ever mention the Civil Rights bill the same editors again eulo gize the greatness and glory of Stephens. It is evident Mr, Stephens is a statesman, honest and powerful; it seems that Georgia editors are scri biers,fickle,biased,and superfi ficial. It is evident, too, that Mr. Stephens is not a Silurian fossil as has been asserted for a decade— it is evident that Mr. Stephens is not so dead as was pretended dur ing the recent Senatorial contest In thu Srate Legislature—it is evi dent that Mr. Stephens is electri fying the whole Union. All this is disagreeable to the phrophetic qtiilimen whe opposed his election. W fire United "Slates Senate be cause as they said “ Stephens is a dead fossil,” “Stephens is impoli tic,” “ Stephens could have no in fluence in Congress,” etc., etc. On this subject the Augusta Constitutionalist wisely remarks: NOT TO BE MISTAKEN. Gentlemen just arrived from Washington report that the peo ple of the South have not the faintest conception of the rever ence and esteem held by all class es and people of the country for this great man, the greatest and wisest, take him all in all, that has a seat in tiie National Halls of Legislation. Men of experience and wisdom do not hesitate to de clare that he is, this day, the most popular man in the United Stales, and, if not baffled at home, will become the most useful for the South she has ever known in her history. Let these facts contrib ute something to curb the rash ness of those who assail the purity of his character and the magni tude of his designs—all of which hold in philosophic and humane solution, the glory of the whole country, and especially the wel fare of this section. For our part, we have differed with Mr. Stephens, on minor points of policy, and continue to do so in several non-essoniials. But we have ever mistrusted our own judgment in contravention ■ of his. ami always accorded to | him the best of motives and pur est intentions. GEN. JOHNSTON S CAM- j PAIGN. The Atlanta Herald, of Dec. 31, j intimates that the forthcoming | History of Gen. Johnston will > relieve President Davis of the re sponsibility of having removed ■ Gen. Johnston from the command | of the Confederate Army at At-1 ianta. There was probably no I incident iu die late war that gave ; |so much dissatisfaction to the peo ■ i pie and anny as the removal o’ ■ j Gen. Johnston, and no act oi ; President Davis has heaped so ! much blame upon him. We doubt not that Gen. John | ■ ston will arraign the President for having removed him in his forth coming History, but the General may not tell and may not know what pressure was brought to bear upon the President by lead ing politicians. | Al the time of Johnston's re NORCROSS, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1873. moval it was deemed an impul sive act of Davis,, but in the course of time Confederate Congressmen and Cabinet, officers intimated (hat Davis had been influenced to remove him by the urgent entrea ties of leading Georgians. It was certainly one of the greatest blunders in President Davis’ administration and if Gen. Johnston’s forthcoming History should elicit the facts from Davis it will reveal to Georgians much valuable historical truth. So far as we know Histories now extant are either silent upon this important point or else they are hopelessly contradictory. When the matter will have been sifted by these distinguished gentlemen history can then embody and perpetuate the truth. STATE NEWS. Atlanta has 33,000 inhabitants. The Atlanta Herald has post poned its distribution until the 29th of January. It is reported that Col. Avery, the editor-in chief of the Constilutk n will soon resign and of the New Orleans Picayune. Col. J. R. Sneed is expected to assume editorial control of the Atlanta Herald. Col. C. 11. C. Willingham is now editor of the Rome Courier. Gen. Garlington, of Atlanta, has written a new drama entitled, '‘The Fatal Marriage.” Coweta county has seven gran ges. Muscogee county made last year 49,190 bushels of corn and 2,455 bales of cotton. Bibb county G 4, 2GO busfiels of corn and 2,787 bales of cotton. Albany has received 15,000 bales of cotton this season. The Americus grangers have re solved that farms should be run on cash basis. The Savannah News calls for a “division” on the question of a Constitutional Ck)aven..ion, and shows that of the seventy-live pa pers of the State but seven oppose, while thirty-seven favor calling the convention. The voice of the press is clearly for the con vention. —Southern Watchman. In Fulton Superior Court in the cash of the State vs. A. L. Harris, the jury returned a verdict of “not guilty.” It is reported that the North Eastern railroad from Athens t, Belton, on the Air-Line, will be extended through Rabun Gap in to East Tennessee. A correspondent of tire Atlanta Herald writes that the wealthy citizensol Elbert county are ready with the money for the building of the Railroad from Elberton to Tuccoacity on the Air-Line. This road will be fifty miles long and is expected to be built in three months. In concluding an able editorial against the wanton distraction of birds the Augusta Constitutional ist says: We have said enough to shop that it is the duty of the people and the State to throw every safeguard around insectiv orous birds. By their preservation otir fields are shielded from many 'lungers, and even science maj’ ; discern by careful investigation, i that their movements are as im- i portant in heralding the march of; the plague as the phenomena of i Hie atmosphere are jWophecies to, “Old Probabilities" of the gather- , | iug and scope of the sto: m. GENERAL NEWS. Sewing has been introduced as one of the occupations in the j Boston public schools. The great iron bridge of the Chicago. Alton and St. Louis Rail road Company, crossing the Mis- ; ■ sissippi at Louisiana, Mo., is com- ‘ pleted. The engineers and railroad ; hands in the West have ma ’re a 1 i strike. The trouble is stib-i ling. The Congressional Committee! appointed to ascertain whether the abolition of the Franking i ; Privilige has led to any reduction of expense will report that it has caused an increase of expenditure. Mrs. York, of Michigan, and Mrs. Hartsouth, lowa, have both been licensed topreach the Gos pel in the Methodist Episcopal ; Church. j A quietus is at last put to the Virginius affair inasmuch as the “Virginias, when off Cape Fear, and in sight of land, in spite of all etiorts of the crew aboard her, settled and went to the bottom.” Marshal McMahon, President of the hrench Republic, is seventy two years of age and has bad his term of office extended seven years. Tliat is drawing pretty heavily on time. Providence,R. I.,has one million ol dollars invested in manufac tures to ever 1,000 inhabitants. The Cranston print works , em ploys 93,000 persons in the man ufacture oi tire A. <fc W. Sprague calico. At these factories one pound of cotton worth 12 cents makes eight yards of caiico worth one dollar. Mr. Caleb Cushing ms been ap pointed Minister to Spain—a mer ited appointment. The University of the South located at Sewanee Station on the Chattanooga and Nashville Rail road has 250 students from nine teen States of the Union. It is highly prosperous. OUR SCHOOL. The readers of the Advance, to whom circulars of the Norcross High School have been sent, mav have noticed (hat the studies of the Common and High School Grades are given, and no 'curricu lum whatever of the college course proper. Students entering the school with the view of completing a full college course will commence the study of Latin on entering the Intermediate Grade, Greek, German or French, optional on entering Sub-Freshman Grade. Sub-Freshman class must give satisfactory evidence of complet ing the studies of the lower Grades. No young man will be received or continued in any class of this Institution who is guilty of habit ual profanity, intemperance or any other known vice calculated to exert a demoralizing influence on the mind of the student. The scholastic year commences on the first Wednesday in September closes on the last. Friday in June. Although students will be admit ted into the school at any time, when they can enter classes alrea dy formed, yet we urge the im portance of the student being present at opening of the session and continuing to (he close as real and lasting good requires regular attendance. We give the following studies for the first two years of college courses subject, however, to such modifications as the requirement of the student may indicate. FRESHMAN CLASS Algebra complete; Geometry; Physiology and Hygiene; Sal lusts Cataline; Virgil; Xenophons Anabasis; English and Latin Prose Composition with Rhetorical Ex ercises through tire year. SOPHOMORE YEAR. Geometry completed; Trigo nometry, Mensuration and Sur veying; Cicero’s Orations; Horace; Homer’s Uli.ad; Xenophon’s Mem orabilia; Rhetoric; Latin and Greek Literature. For the ladies: | Gjreek, German or French, option j al. Tuition in regular college class ' es has been fixed at SSO per schol astic year —4l weeks payable quaiterlv in advance and no de ' duction for absence in any of the I classes, except from protracted : km s.-, or some other Providen tial cause. We think the course of study above indicated sufficiently ex tensive for the present youthful j I age of the Institution, when how-1 ever the advancement of the I sthocl is such as to require a fur-; iher extension, we shall endeavor i i to fill the Professors’ chairs with ; the best teaching talent we can I i command. TEXT BOOKS. The iodivious selections of text ; books by tire former Principal, Prof. Vincent, seems to require : but very little change; and no change when classes are already formed and books purchased, j This h in accordance with the ■ view of onr advisory Committee— > twelve carefully selected men, to : whose opinion and judgment we I shall give a most respectful con sideration. • V, hen it is necessary to advance , VOL. I.—NO. 27. the classes to the higher Grades, we shall make such selections as we deem most judicious, always however, giving the preference to authors of our own section of country —the South. " Many of the text books will be the same as ar used in the schools of Atlanta, hence those coming to our school from that city will incur but little expense in this respect. Books and sta tionary used in the school will be kept in the place and sold at At lanta prices. For further particulars ree ad vertisement in this paper or ad fl ress. N. F. COOLEDGE, Prin’l or J. U. VINCENT, Sect’y. [COM.’SUNIOATED. ] OUR CHURCH CASE. On the 16th of October, last, Rev. W. M. Davis presented charges against ths undersigned of heresy, in teaching in a book that Jesus Christ “was not a man in any sense,” and that he had no human soul. A council of Ministers was called and met the Church, to advise with the mem bers on the trial. The charges were with drawn, with leave to amend and report them again. Counter charges were prefer red and so the case stood until our Decem ber meeting, when the original charges were jjp?sented again, as amended, so as to read as printed below; and ol leave grant ed, the counter charges were amended also, as will appear on reading the following, and which are all the charges in the case, as it now stands. On Friday l:ist I called on Col. J. J. Thr ishrr, a friend of Rev. Mr. Davis, and said to him, that as the proceeding in the Church bad been revived against me, it was necessary that I should defend myself, and that I could not do so successfully, without publishing all the charges as they now staud, and thereby informing the public of the true nature of the case. 1 hat the charges against Mr. Davis bad hitherto been withheld from the public, because I am unwilling to say, or do, anything which might, in any way, in juriously effect the influence of a Minister of the Gospel. And requested Col. Thrash er to see Mr. Davis and say to him, that if he would consent to let the whole thing drop just where it then was, I would say no more about it, and let the matter take that course; but if the case had to go to trial, 1 would be compelled, in jnstice to myself, to publish the whole case, and should do so this week. On Monday last .Col, I’hrasher informed me that he had seen Rev. Nir. Davis, who informed him that the case must go on, as it is now progressing. Norcross, Ga., December 20, 1873. I o the Baptist Church of Christ, at Nor cross : Dear Brerhren: In the fear of God and the love of Ilis truth, 1 feel it my im perative duty to prefer against our brother J. P. Simmons, the following charges, to wit: I CHARGE IN GENERAL 1. That the book published by him con tains many grievous errors of doctrine. 2. That in his private conversations and in the paper published by him he expresses opinions which are unscriptural and calcu l.ited to do much harm. Amonr other points of error, I specify the following, to wit: Sl-EOIFICATION 1«T. His book teaches that the souls of men are the fallen angels. In verification see pages 143, 157, 257. He also taught the same doctrine in a sermon delivered in this village. SPKCJFICATIOX 2XD. His book teaches that Christ came into this world to save fallen angels. Io verifi cation see pages 116, 129, 140. specification 3rd. His book denies the doctrine of “Original Sin ”as generally received by Baptists. In verification Me p.'ge 236. BPECIPtCATION 4th. His book teaches that men will be saved, in large numbers, without the gospel. In verification see page 238. SPECIFICATION STH. His book teaches that human depravity cannot be accounted for except on the hypothesis that the souls of men are fallen angels. See page 277. specification 6th. Ills acceptance of the Bible seems to be based on the doctrines of his book. See his preface, page V. SPECIFICATION 7th. He teaches iu the Nobcbo*s Advance. of October 27th, 1873, that a child has no tod till it is born and breathes. SPECIFICATION BtH. He taught in a sermon recently delivered in this place, and afterwards printed in the NoßCßoes Advance, of November 12. h, 1873, that our Lord, Jesus Christ, bad no human soul, and on page 275 of his book he teaches that Christ was not a man in any sense. SPECTHCATION 9th. He denies the doctrine of Election as generally held by our people. This he has done, if not in public, yet in private con versation. SPECIFICATION IDtH He denies the doctrine of the persever ance of the Saints as held by Baptists. This he has done in private ccnven-ation. specification 11th. He las stat.-1 it as Im opinion that iu the ■ time* of the Apostles men were not unfre quently baptised while unrejemrate, and that this was done with Apostlic knowl edge and approval. This also in conversa tion. I specification 12tm. He has stated publicly that rkther than be in no church, he would join th* Roman Catholic Church. I desire that these general charges and these specifications be investigated by the Clmreh, and that a Council of Ministers be invited to aid the Church in the investiga tion, and that the Church shall afterwards take such action as it may then deem most , consistent with its prosperity, with the cause of Evangelical truth and with the ! will of God. Earnestly praying that the great Head of ■ the Church may incline your hearts and m nds to do that which is right, I am, dear Brethren, affectionately your pastor, W. M. DAVIS. COUNTER CHARGES. 5 Georgia, (Gwinntt county. To the Baptist Church, at Nurcioss. Dear Brethren: The undersigned, James, P. Simmons, a member of your body, in discharge of that which he con siders his solemn duty to himself, and the great cause which we all profess to, and should, esteem as most sacred, hereby charges Rev. Wm. M. Davis, a member and the Pastor of our Church with the unfair, ungentlemanly and unchristian conduct following, that is to say : 1. That the said Wm M. Davis, -pastor as aforesaid, did, on the night of the 16th instant, cause a few members of our Church to assemble in private session, as a confer ence, and there preferred before them a charge against the undersigned of heresy, as set forth therein; and in virtue nf 4 that confidence which is due a Pastor from his flock, caused them to approye and adopt said charge as true, and to enter the same on the Records of the Church as the action thereof. And the undersigned alleges that said conference was called and held in direct violation of the rules of the church, and that said charge was so artfully drawn by him as to deceive, n»d for the purpose of deceiving the members present, by mis representing and falsifying the views clearly expressed in the writing from which the extract was taken. 2. That the said William M. Davis, in his attacks upon the undersigned is not, and has no' been, acting under the influence of a holy desire to promote the best inter ests of the Christian religion, by the en couragement of peace, harmony and con cert of action between and on the part of all Christians, but that, being himself de ceived by the arch-enemy of Christ and his church, he is and has been striving, and by the most unfair, ungentlemanly and un christian means, as aforesaid, to destroy the influence of one whom he considers a stum bling-block and a hindrance in his way to the accomplishment of his sectarian and selfish purposes. 3. And the undersigned further charges that the said Wm. M. Davis is guilty of heresy, in this: That he wrote and caused to be published in the Norcross Advance, of the 3d instant, an argument to prove the unlawful, unchristian and demoializing proposition, that if a child has no soul pre vious to its birth, there is no harm in de stroying it; in which article the following words were used: “If an embryo lias no soul, then its death is a double mercy. It ie a mercy to the mother, who is saved from untold suffering by it. It is a mercy to the child, since, if it comes on the stage of action it will, most probably, suffer no little in this life, and in the end sink in the rayless night of do<»m. It follows then, that the physician who can debt oy the greatest number of human germs, and do it without hurt to the bearer of them, is not a monster of iniquity, but a benefactor of the first magnitude.” And all of which charges the undersigned proposes to establish by positive pro» f, a* to acts, and by a train of circuinstancea capable of proof, as to motives All of which is most affectionately sub mitted. JAMES P. SIMMONS. • Norcross, Ga., Oct 20th, 1873. amended charsxs against rev. wm. m. DAVIS. 1. That the latter clause of the Bth speci fication of his last charges, to-wit: “That Christ was not a man in any sense,” is false-, and was known by him to be false when he wrote and preferred said charge. 2. That when I “ stated publicly, that rather than lie in no church, be (I) would join the Roman Catholic church ” (aud which remark I did iu substance, but not just in that form, make), he, the said Wm. M. Davis, while in the discharge of his p istoral duties to this church, or should have been at least, in reply to such aenti mt nt, and in dissenting from the same, during his remarks in closing the services on that occasion, expressed a preference for Mormonism over Catholicism, and in substance, said that if put to the necessity of joining the Catholic Church, or Brig ham Young’s Church, he would, “go with Brigham.” And whi' h sentiment and remarks I in sist arc in conflict with the articles of faith as held by this church, contrary to the doctrines and practices of Baptists general ly, and disqualify all who may hold and teach them for the sacred office and trust of a Baptist Minister. All of which is af fectionately submitted. JAMES P. SIMMONS. Dee. 21st, 1873. The above grave charges against the Rev. Mr. Davis have not been published hereto fore, but have been withheld from the pub lic eye until now, with the hope that such publication might never become necessary. But as he has brought forward his long list of charges agoinst me, and caused another Council of Ministers to be called, and a day ap|x>intcd to try the case, and r.'fuwa my li'ieral offers to abandon it as it now stands, justice to my own reputation, and the cause of truth, requires that the true character of the case and nature of my defense be made known. This I could not do more fairly, or satisfactorily, than by giving the public I all the charges, as of file, and without a word of comment, except to remark, that as it is said, I am not the first who Las had occasion to complain of similar con duct on bis part, JAMES P. SIMMONS. Nojwwms, Ga., Dec. 31sf, 187a.