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THE WEEKLY LARTEKSVILLE express. Is published evorv FRIDAY MORNING, n CHrti*ravH!e, Bartow Cos., G«.. by Samuel 11. Smith, EDITOR and PROPRIETOR at the fol ding Kates of SJiiisrription: One Cij.y three months, fI.W) On®copy six months, 2.0*! 4 One copy one year. 8.00 (Invariable in advance.) Parties Advertisinjj will be restricted, in tk oit Contracts, to their legitimate business; that is to say, all Advertisements that do not refer to their regular business will be charged for extra. Advertisements inserted at intervals to be charged as new each insertion '/’Ac above m vriit be strictly adheared to PROFESSIONAL CARDS, MURRELL & BRO.i RESIDENT DENTISTS. Office Over 8. Clayton & Son, CJtnTERSriLLE, GEORgIJt Having permanently located here, and belne provi ded with the latest Improvements In Dental Material, are prepared to do anything pertaining Dental Sur gery. AIX WORK WARRANTED TO GIVE SATISFACTION DBS. M. prepare a “Supe.lor Vegetable Tooth Powder,” guaranteed to contain nothing injurious to the teeth. EXCHANGE HOTEL, Cartersvrilie, Ga,. BY BTJICE &HILL. The undersigned have associated 1 n business. »nd a'ter refuting and re-arranglng that COMMODIOUS HOUSE recently occupied by A. R. llu Igens as a Fam ily Grocery and Confectionery, on the EAST SIDE of the itAIUItOAD, near the late BARTOW HOUSE, have opened in the game aFI FIST CL ABB HOTEL for the Entertainment of the TRAVELING PUB!,IC, which will be kept upon ihe EUROPEAN PLAN. — J..,th parties are experienced In the Business, MR. HILLL having formerly Proprietor of the Ten nessee House. Dalton, but more recently of the Car tersville Hotel, and Mr, BUIOE formerly Proprietor of the late Exchange Hotel, Cartersvllle, Ga., but mo; e recently of the Washington Hall, Atlanta, Ga., Mr. W. Hill Is General Superintendent, and Mrs. Euice Lady Superintendent. BUICE&HILL may 23, Bm. DR. F. M. JOHNSON Dentist. T F.3PECTFCLLY offers his professional IV services to the citizens of OartersviUe and vicinity. He is prepared to do work , . on the latest and most improved style.— Teeth extracted -"ithr r . (by means of narcotie rpray). W<> s «.l warranted. Office oyer.T. Elsas’ Store, CARTERSVILLE, Ga. Feb. 20, 1363wSm JERE A. HOWARD, ATTORNEy AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. PRITCHETT fy WOFFORD , Attorneys at Law CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE OTER ELSAS STORE, Oct, 17, 186 7, THOMAS WTIV! ILN ER, Attorney at Law, r ARTERS VILLE. GEORGIA, Will attend promptly to business entrusted .» his care. Oct. 5 wly j 0 H N J. J 0 K E S ATTORNEY AT LAW. Cartersville, Ga. YTTILL attend promptly to all busi jess en \\ trusted to his care. Will practice in ,he Courts oflaw, and equity in the Cherokee Circuit. Special attention given to the collec ! >n of claims. Jan. 1, 1866. ly John J - Jones. " JOHN J.j"oN7s~” REAL ESTATE AGEST, CARTERSVILLE GA l am Authorised to gull, and have on hand several Houses and Loti®, and also numerous building lots in the town of Oartersville. Also several plantations of vari ous sizes in Bartow county. Parties desiring to buy or sell will do well to give me a call. AJI communications romptly answered. July 17. 1866. S. H. Pattillo, FASHIONABLE TAILOR, am attend promptly to the Cutting, Repair ing and M tking Buy’s and Meu’s Clothing. (M ,fl;ce in back room cf Blair & Bradshaw’s store. (I.J OartersviUe, Ga. The Eartersvllle Ootel. nR. THOMAS MILAM having charge of this House, would he jj j pleased to accommodate a few Board-H ers with BOARD, with oi without QbS&L Lodging. Call end see him at once for teims OartersviUe, Jan 17. O-rsv W • «• MOUISTCASTLE, Jeweller and Watch ami "<ty Clock Repairer, in the Front of A. A. Skinner Ac Co’s store. Caiteraville, jan 25 “'sTb’S KCI ‘ELCSj Fashionable Tailor , URTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY. GEORIG >|g Irf prepared to execute all kinds of work in the Fashionable Tail- Ka —ing line, with neatness and indu-«itt table style. Over J. Elsas & Co’s store. Cartersville. jan Sii. ,T7H. rURTELL! MERCHANT TAILOR, W ltlle Hall Street, Atlanta, 6a. ("ILOTHINU made to order in the very J latest style, and at short notice. 25, 3t. 1858. 1858. AMERICAN HOTEL, Alabama Street, •A TliJtJTTjt , Ga. Nearest House to the Passenger Depot, WHITE & WHITHQCK, Proprietors. W. I>. Wiley, Clerk. 11AVI NO re leased ami renovated the above Hotel, 11 we are prepare. 1 , to entertain guesU In a most sat isfactory iuaauer. Charges fair and moderate. Our efforts yjll be to please. £4jr baggage carried to and from Depot free of charge a P r &w>f EE. SAS3EEN. B. W. YOItK. K. T. JO CRD AN SASSEEA/'S TJnited States Hotel Cor. Alabama and Pryor streets, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Wit}tin 100 yards of the Passenger Depot. >As>ERtV, YORK and JOUR DON, Propr « j. W. F. BRYSON, ) \ Clerks. R. T.JOURDAN, ) Dec. 20th, 188:7-if. THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS. VOL. 7. Mortgage Saie. A GDFEABIE to the conditions of a D®ed of Trust made nnd executed bj J-ihti W. Rnckrnan to S»mu"l H. Smith, on or abont the loth of January, IBfi7, to secure the payment of the purchase money of 32 acres of land, lying In the 4th district and 3rd sec tion of Bartow county, and adjoining (he town of C»r tersvilla, and the place whereon John 11. Ruckman now resides, will be sold before the Court noose dcor In the town of Cartels 'ill®, on the first Tuesday in August next, within the leva! hours offa'ejthe above described land containing SI acres, more or less. Sa’-ff land is bounded North l y the r-'Vrn nf C-- irs-’m, Fast by lands of Tl,os. H. beak. South by lands of Dr. W. W. Leak, and West by lands of J. A. Terrell. The said Deed of Trust provides that if the payments on said lunds are not met within one hundred days after tnatu’ity of notes, the land may be gold and lilies per fected by trustee, .after advertulng property thirty days, and in ha much as the notes have come to ma turity and the additional lapse of time expired, and no part of said notes have been paid, both amounting to about $2200.00 principal. The above dercrlbed lands will be sold under provisions of said mortgag, or trust Heed. SAM’L 11. SM ITU,Trustee. July Ist ’C3 80d Georssa, limloxv county. ■ytT lIERE.4S, Thomas A. Word, Administrator of the YV estate of John J. Word, deceased, applies to the undersigned for letters of dismission from hts admin istration. Therefore all persons concerned arehereby required to show cause, if any they have, why said administrator on the first Monday in December next, should not be discharged. Given under my band, and seal of office. This 14th of May 1333. J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary,. Georgia, Harlow County. VT7HEREVS, Thomas A. Word, administrator De Y V bonis non of the of the estate of George Si ovail, deceased, applhs to me for letters of diem is! on from bis administration. Therefore all persons concerned are hereby required to show cause. If any they have, why said administration on the first Monday In De cember rext should not be discharged. Given under rnv hand aud seai of office. This 14*h day of May, 1363. J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. Georgia, Bartow County WHEREAS. Thomas A. Word, administrator De ban's nan , of the es»ate of Thomas E. Franklin, deceased, applies tom® for letters of disinissolnn fr m h’s admin istration. Therefore all persons concerned are hereby required to show cause, If any they have, why said administrator on the fi'st Monday In December next, should not be discharged. Given under my hand and seal of office. This 14th cf May 1363. J. A. HOWARD, ordinary. F. M ddlemau, C. 1 Brown. F. M. EDO LEM AN & C 0„ Wholesale Dealers in Boots, Slices Leather, French and American Calf Skins, LASTS, PEGS, LINING AND BINDING siciisrs, eilOE FINDINGS, AC., AC. Next door to Moore A Mcrsh, Decatur Street. Atlaata, Ga. Es”“3hoe Manufacturers and Merchants will find to their advautjge to call on us before making thetr purchases. apr. 29, ISCS.wtf FiCKSIooTIND SHOE House. ARE now receiving their FALL and "■ ■■«» WINTER STOCK of BOOTS j,ND PO \ SHOES, the tarcest ever brought to Ljf \. this market, These goods came direct from the Eastern manufactories, and win be sold to Country Merchants and the Trade at New York prices, expenses added, consisting of Mens’, ‘Boys’, Youths’, tid Childrens’ Wax, Kip, Calf, and Buff Brogau3 and liulmora s—Boots of all styles, thick, wax, kip. calf, dos tha Qaest. q lalittes. Ladies’, Misses’, and Chil n;’ .Boots aad Shoes, of every style, aud all made to ier G. H. FORCE. B. W. FORCE, form®rly of Charleston will be glad to see his old customers. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 10-ly. BLACItaMITHING, jg|U °M. GOODSON. I J-VVLNG COMPETED THEIR NEYV Sri op adjoining Strange’s Tin Sltop, on West side of Railroad,Cartersville, Ga.. are prepared to do all kinds of work in the Blacksmithing line. They flatter themselves, that they can do as good work, and at as low piice, as any like establishment in town. They ask a rea sonable share of the public patronage, and promise satisfaction both in the character of their work and the reasonableness of their charges. A. & M. GOOD SON. Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 31st, 1868-wly. V, R. TOMMEY. J. S. STEWART. Newton Cos., Ga. Oxford, Ga . TOMMEY & STEWART IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN HARDWARE, At the Sign of the MILL SAW and GAME (JOCK, Whitehall Street, Atlanta, G a., Respectfully call the attention of merchants and oth-. ers to their large and well assorted stock, of Foreign and Domestic Hardware, C insisting in part of Iron, Steel, Nails, Builders’ and Carnage Materials* Agricultural Inip'.ements, Grain Cradles, Svthe Blades, Toolsul all kinds, &c.,&c.; -ALSO LEATHER, LIME AND COTTON YARNS. AGENTS FOR Hook’s Anti-Friction Metal. Baugh’s Ravvbone Super-Phosphate of Litne, Buffalo Scale Works, Nonpareil Washing Machine * PROPRIETORS AND AGENTS FOR Brook’s Patent Portable C ot ton and Ilay Screw and Revolving Press In over onehundred counties In Georgia. SCounty Rights for Na/e.-tBS June 51y. Errors of Youth. A Gentleman who suffered for years lrom Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and all ihe effects of youthful indiscretion, will, for the sake of sufleiing humanity, send free to all who need it, the recipe and directions for making the simple remedy by which he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by the advertiser’s experience, can do so by address® ing, in pcrlec t confidence, JOHN B. OGDEN, 42 Cedar Street, New York KAYTON’S OIL OF LIFE--Cures Sprains, Brui ses, swellings and Corns, KAYTON’S MAGIC CURE--Cures Coughs, Colds and Sore Throat. KAYTON’S MEDICINES for sale in Cartersville, Ga.i by W. L. Kirkpatrick, Druggist. REDWINF. & FCX, Atlanta, Ga., wholesale agents for Kay ton’s Medicines. CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.. JULY IT. 1808. FSAWOFOR’ffES! ri DIE undersigned would announce to the 1 J citizens of Cartersville and vicinity that ho is fullv popared to furnish -*S5=X| PIANOrORfES. >• JIV J V 7or 7 1-3 ll llf j J OCTAVES, with ail the very latest improve ments, and most elogas.t style nnd workman ship, one hundred dollars leas than thev can be purchased elsewhere south. They will be fully warranted, PIANOS TUNED and REPAIRED In the very best manner, and all work warran ted, and shall be pleased to give all orders prompt attention. MR, S, TANARUS, ANDERSON will kindly give further information at present, and deliver any orders, or you can address, by mail, F, I„ PREFER, Kennesaw House, Marietta, Ga, He >s also agent for the sale of ail kinds of ORGANS, Jan 25wtf toT THE XiAD llls. ' PREMIUM FAMILY SEWING MACHINES. best machine for every dcscrijition of family sewing made. Call and examine machine and specimen of work over S. Clayton & Son’s stire, Carters ville, Ga. ' S. H. PATTILLO, Agent for Bartow county. Dec. 13th, 186 7-ts. DRUG S, &C, tfie dune Zoom unc/e't /Ac BARTOW HOUSE, an </ am nova Aoca/ccA on M A I N ST, aiea:/ (Aooi /o Gilbert & co., hardware house. c=. / fAy yvobdonaA a/ton/eon t-i f/tven /and /Ate <A/i ft cn-J tny oj nyCEIDTOIISrHIS, an aan de/Amy a// ai= fto/cd in any Aine, due A ad MEDICINES, Oil, PAiNTS, GLASS, &C., AS CHEAP ad can Ae jAounfAojf f/ie dame ai'a/tft: cAdevaAiete. «=;X 4e- doAieif a coaifmci ancc e<A fAte AcincAnedd Acute ZeccivecA. J’ IP. IBIEST. _D. Druggist aud Pharmaceutist. Feb. 7th, 1868-wlv- Cartersville Ga. SADDLERY AND HARNESS MANUFACTORY. riAHE undersigned, determined to give the I people of Bartow and adjoining counties no excuse for going - abroad to purchase their SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS, &C., and for repairing the same, have opened, in the town of Cartersville, a regular, SADDLE AND HARNESS MANUFAC TORY, where they propose to put up everything in their line in the neatest, most substantia! and durable manner, and at prices that will defy competition. They flatter them selves that they can and will do work, which, in every respect, will compare favorably with any work done North or South, lbotSi ist qoalsty and Let no one ig '.'lore our work because it is done in the South, nor our pfices,before giving us a tiial, for that is all we ask to secure trade. Our work is all wart aaltd and that is a sufficient guar antee to purchasers. We are determined to build up a name nnd business in Cartersville that will be a heritage to our children after us, if prompt attention, good work, and mode late charges will secure that end, Rooms it the front of the Eclipse Salo and Livery Stable, THOMPSON & STOCKS. Cartersville, Ga, Jan. 7th, 1868-wl v, JORDAN, HOWARD & HARRALSON, TOBACCO ' Commissi on Merchants / Whitehall Street. ’ AIL ANT A, GEO RSI A, Keep constantly on hand, a large and fine Assortment of CHEW ING and SMOKING TO BACCO, CIGARS, &c., which we offer at the Lowest Whole sale prices. June 10, ISGB. wtf ~i(AYTON'S DYSPEPTIC PILLS--Cures Liver Complaints and Dyspepsia. KAYTON'S GIL OF LIFE- -Cures any Pain or Ache in from one to five minutes, KAYTON’S DYSPEPTIC PILLS- -Cures Sick Headache and all Biiiious Disorders. KAYTON'S OIL OF LIFE--Cures Pains in the Back, Breast, Sides, Shoulders and Joints. KAYTON'S MAGIC CURE--C ures Diarrlioe and Cramp Cholic* *rL& <gk to o fc.JI ■ AT Loewensie in 4’ PFeijev 9 s . XXTE ARE NOYV OFFERING A Sp’en YV did WELL SELECTED STOCK OF * DRY-G-OOPS, boots. SHOES, HATS, CLOTHING. GROCE RIES, ETC., ETC, ETC. WE WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE GOODS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS Daily, AND WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION OF BUYERS COMING TO THIS PLACE THAI WE CAN SHOW NEW GOODS WHICH WE GUARANTEE CAN BE BOUGHT AT LESS THAN ANY PLACE IN THIS MARKET. Call and see Us, an and convince ■you r selves. Remember the UNDER COURTHOUSE, Hi C€ VV• E \S' n SIDE RAILROAD. LOF.WENSTEIN & PFEIFER, Cartersvtlle, Gu. May 14, iddß. To Cousumptlves. The Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON will genfi, f ee o charge, to all who desire it, the prescription with the directions for making and using the simple remedy By which lie was cured of a lung affection and that dread disease Consumption. His only ol.jcct is to Benefit the afflicted, and he hopes every sufferer will t• y this prescription, as it will cost them nothing, aud may prove a blessing. Please address Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON. No. 163 South Second Street, Williamsburg. New York Cartersville, Ga. [Frctn the Sonthem Advocate.] T3»e WiiHlro L?l?»r lur! the Laic General Conference. I\fr. Editor : Wal ro his expound' J n d.«y! «*?.*:> to he ihe doctrine ’ cf Northern Methodism upon the rignf of conquest. His wickeil letter’to the i Knoxville Frep Press has been very generally republished and Northern Methodist papers have with great show «>1 indignation, denied both its authen ticity and its genuineness. They have reely charged that it was written by a Southern “rebel” with set purpose to defame their Church, and one, at least, ha's expressed the opinion that it was concocted in the office ol some South ern Methodist Advocate ! It miy be mentioned just here, as a singular cir cumstance, that the indignant denun ciations of these Northern Methodist organs have been directed rather against Southern papers for publishing the production, titan against the atro cious sentiments it contains. A special committee appointed by the General Conference of the M. fcL Clinch, North, during its late session at Chicago, to consider a memorial lrom the Holston Conference, M. JE, Church, South, (of which and the re port upon it I have something to say hereafter) appended to their report some remarks and a recommendation about this YVaUlro letter. The Com mittee says ; “No effort that we have beenable to make has enabled us to discover any such person in this city. Certainly, no such person has any right to speak in our behall, or declare our purposes, much less does he de clare them correctly. We recommend tliat the paper be dismissed as anony mous, and unworthy of onr further con sideration.” ►Suppose, for a moment, that the M E. Church. North, ha! never violated her plighted faith with the Church, South, as to property and boundaries ; j mat iter Bishops and managers had never taken advantage of the military occupation of the Southern States and of t!ie potent influence of partisan mobs to hold Southern Methodist churches and parsonages against their rightful owners; that Bishop Simpson had not evoked the authority of Secre* - tary Stanton to dispossess our minis ters of their pulpits ; that Bishop Clark had not organized his Holston Conference in a Church that cunning and violence had won from Southern Methodists, in the name of “loyalty and religion that other Bishops and agents and bummers had not exhausted every art known U their unmeasured craftiness to get control of our Publish ing House in Nashville; that under the inspiration ol the crusade they have led against us, we had not had so many brethren martyred in Missouri and so many outraged in East Tenn esse ; suppose, if your imagination is equal to the undertaking, that North ern Bishops and Lite, fanatics they have duped and the hitelings they have bought, had uctually done in the South nearly all that YYaldro only claims the right to do, how would his infamous letter have been received ? If ith con- % tempt. It would have been dissmissed as the ravings of a maniac, or des pised as an irreverent hoax. I take it upon me to say, that the one quality about Waldro’s letter that has. among Southern people, who are acquainted with the history, the meth ods, the associations and the issues of this eclesiastical invasion, excited attention or aroused indignation is its strikiny verisimilitude. llis letter is so essentially like other emanations from the “advanced thinkers who have inaugurated these enterprises against Southern society and religion, and who are responsible for the outra ges that have attended them, that we can only regard Waldro—whoever he is—as a bolder or less politic paitisan in these unholy crusades, whose avow ed purpose, if Dr, Curry be competent authority, is our “disintegration and absorption.” I am glad to believe that within the communion of the Church, North, are many thousands, who, knowing the facts, disapprove "these wicked schemes for the eclesiastical conquest of the South ; and these, in God’s name, should cry out lhe wrongs, and failing to correct it, rebel against a dominant majority tint threatens to drag into the maelstrom of a common apostasy all i that is free in the State or sacred in the Church. 1 believe that the great majority of that communion—long un der the dominion oi an intolerant bigo try, created and nourished by an ever» active press that has spent its chief en- i ergies in slandering the South, are ig- \ norant of the facts, and for this class l j entertain, a sinere commiseration and feel it to be mv du'y to pray that they nny yet be enlightened. The able C.miniitev say ot Wald ro : “Certainly, no such per«*<n has a i l ight to speak in our behalf, nr declare • 'Mir purpoe. s, much less does he declare 'Hiein cnrreeilv.” Ha« this committee then, and the General ConfcriMt'-e that •adopts its reports—have all these Bisli | ops and Editors and Secretaries and Delegates a right to speak in bi-haif of j the Church, North? And docs this j body represent that Church correctly? Let us consider the report made bv i this committee upon the main subject they were directed to ir.vestlaate—the memorial of the Holston Conference of the M. E. Church South, The Holston Conference of the Church, South, did at its session, last j October, order the appointment of a ! committee of seven “to memorialize the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to be held in Chic ago, 111., in May, 1868. setting forth the wrongs we have suffered in the taking and holding of property in i churches and parsonages by preachers and lavtnen connected with the M. E. Church—pronerty belonging to the M. E. Church, South—and earncsltv pray the said General Conference that they will devise measures by which said property'shall be restored to iis right ful owners, for the honor of Methodism and a common Christianity.” This is the language of the resolu tion called forth the Committee, consisting of E. E. Wiley, W. G. E. Guntiynsrham, Jas. Atkins, B. Arbo gast, G. YV. Miles, G. Stewart, and ont other, whose name I have not before me. We know that the memorial was such as it became these Holston breth ren to offer. Wednesday morning, May 13th, Bishop Clark rose in his place aud said to the General Conference that “he had in his hand a memorial from the Holston Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, making some complaints about our brethren there.— They sav. they have disturbed them." The memorial was referred to a special committee of seven upon motion oi that model “disintegrator” and mem ber of the Republican Convention— T* 11. Pearne. On Friday, May 15th, afi r duly considering the necessities of the case —a case tn u he had helped so much to create —Bishop Clark announced the following Committee : “On Memorial of Holston Conference of the M. E. Church, youth—Luke Hitchcock. Jos. Castle, J. M. Reid, N. Shumate, G. \Y'. Clarke. John Kizer, J. M. Walker.” I give you their names—they de serve to be held in perpetual remem brance.—(See Daily Advocate ol May 14 and 15.) 'After protracted incubation this com mittee, on the last day of the session, June 3, brought in the report ihat is certainly one of the most remarkable documents ever passed upon by an eclesiastical assemblage. From the account of it in the Daily Advocate, we are left to infer that the report was adopted without discussion—so unan imous was the General Conference. The Committee among other ti.ings reported io the Conference : “By per sonal examination” (they do not mean of poor Neal’s bleeding back it is sup posed) “we have endeavored in vain to ascertain what foundation there is fur the affirmation that our ministers and people encourage violence toward the ministers of the M. E. Church, South. We believe aud truul there is no foundation lor the charge : for if true it cculd not but meet our unqualified disapprobation.” It is gratifying that such disapprobation, though long W'th held, is at last expressed, and as it is to be hoped that the zealots of Missou ri and Eeast Tennessee will consider themselves very sternly rebuked and govern themselves accordingly. The Coinii it tee go on meek 'y to ob serve : “Our own ministeis and people in the Sooth suffer severely in this way, and sometimes, we apprehend, at the hands of our Southern brethren.” To illustrate what we mean by “suf fering severely” “at the hands of their Southern Brethren,” you must allow me, Mr. Editor, bv way way of paren thesis, to refer to a very startling para graph in the Duly Advocate of May 5. “We learn from Rev, J. YV. Tal ly, (!) representative of the Alabama Conference, that the spirit of perse cution is raging to a fearful extent against our people in Georgia and Al abama. Rev. tl. Breeßenridge, ol Griffin Ga., on Saturday, Aptil 26th, was driven away from Griffin, and pur sued by over one hundred men,’ News, certainly, to our worthy friends in Griffin ! But the Reverend gentle man escaped from the furious “over one hundred” and ’placed himself tin NO. 4. | der ib< protection of the military at At lanta.” Henceforward let Zenophon and his ! ten thousand be forgotu n and Joe John ' ston's str !, etfv he mentioned no mnri 1 t f *rev«r For the eomfort of your dis tant readers. | may remark, that ne collision has oeurr'd between the ex eited “one hundred” and the garrison ; j that Atlanta is not in a stale of siege, i anil that G. n. Meade, up to last advi— ] res, had not asked for reinforcements. I The same issue of the General Con ! ferenee organs informs ns of the hair ! breadth escape of another loyal and ! pious propagandist. “At Adairsvilie, Kev. Wesley Prettytnam, Presiding Cider o| Atlanta District, was driven away from the quarterly meeting by a m b. lie escaped just in time to save his life from the hands of lawlass men !” Os this statement T take the liberty of rem irkt’ie that ev -rv mar, in Adairs vilie knows it to be false. I mention these items in the report ami th< se slatidi rs in the Daily Advo cate that our people may see how it is that Northern Methodists have come to hate us so relentlessly. These jour nals have carried the art of slander to its utmost perfection. The Daliv Ad vocate in these reckless statements lias been matched onlv once—when the tNew •York Observer in reciting the brutal outrage recently commuted up on our brother Neal represented that lie was a Northern pntrtot or saint, whipped by Southern rebels ! These very mild and general dis claimers were to he expected in the Committee's report, but m that part ol it which considers the complaint of the memorialist that the Soul hern Church in Easi Tennessee has suffered, at the hand of Northern Methodist Mission aries and their abettors, the loss ol much valuable property, there are some expressions—considering that the re" port winds up with a professed repudi ation of the principles of Waldro’s let ter — that are suHicientiy startling and that furnish an admirable appropriate text for Waldro’s strange homily on the "doctrine of conquest." In considering tins part of the Hol ston memorial, simple denial is impos sible. All the world knows that they do hold property that hue long- been in the undisputed possession of the M. E. Church, South. It was entirely satisfactory to the Committee and the General Conference to say in vindica" lion of their course in this business ; "It seems that much oj the property in question is deeded to th<‘ M. E. Church, it being so held before the secession of the Church , South. IVe have no proof that amj contest is held otherwise.' I'hey have the grace not to attempt the vindication ot their right to the property they hold that has been ac quired since the separation. But as to the other class of Church property that existed prior to 1844, what is thei r claim and title ? What does this well considered offi ial utterance of the General Conference mean ! That in their view the Church, North, is enti tled to all the Church property held in the Soutli prior me separation ! Ail such property they have appropri ated whether they have been able to do it and now their General Conference, speaking tor the whole Church, ex plains the ground upon which they have proceeded: "Much of the prop* erty. in quc.iltou is deeded to the M. E. Church J" 1 have long known that this was thoir practice, hut they would have the shamelessness to avow it, l could not btiieve —even of them. VValdro’s letter has nothing more abysmal in de .pravity than this. That they should again, in this solemn way, repudiate the plain separation”—drawn up by a committee ot nine, six of whom ad ,tiered to the Church, North, and adop« led by a General (Jonlerence in which Northern pieachers were overwhelm ingly in the majority—does not sin pnse me, but U does sui prise me, that I they should be willing to go before the country with tins avowed contempt of the decrees of the Supreme Court cf the United Slates, aud thus openly de ny their obligation to observe them.— It that Court ever decided any question, it decided that the property they now claim with such assurance is the prop erty of the M. E- Church, South. I had read, in an earlier number of the Daily Advocate, Dr. Porter’s bit ter and unrebu *ed denunciation of the Supreme Court that compelled them to keep their word ; 1 have known all along how they have smarted under that decree; I have Known how anx ious they are to re-open the Courts— more favorably related to them—and as one of them has amiably expressed it, “rip up that decision,” but that this “truly loyal” body should openly deiv die authority ot the highest Court * I % ■ * ’ # I f**n '■* to our Constitution ta ;<!mo-t incrdible. EiUiei thrsp gentlemen have nei recognized I heir ohllgat ion to re*|> t the law as interpreted by the Supreme Court, and have hitheito k ;pl lh> ir bands ofl our property because tin y have lacked opportunity, or else, this Genera! Conlennce —in the very spir it of the Waldro letter—takes the rn sition that the fortunes of war have changed the legal status of the pa-iies, and that Bee's surrender has worked * reversal ol what Dr. Porter feel* fr *e to denounce as “that infamous decasiou given in the interest of slavery.” Certainly this General Conference lias “made history.” It has by simp!** resolution put itself “outside the Con stitution and the law. and resolved itself into a prayer meeting-—moving earth and heaven, to the drest of its ability—* f )i the conviction and deposnl of a po litical enemy on trial before the Senal* of the United States? And what worse does Waldro say? He says : “Methodism in the South was conquered and subjugated, ami henceforth has no claims on anything used, or belonging to its former self.” The Conference savs with the utmost complacency, us the full vindication of its agents in East Tennessee, “Much of the property, in question is deeded to the M. E. Church!” Such, then, is either their opinion of “the powers that be” that they recognize no sort of obligation to obey them, or else the whole of them stand on Waldro’s broad doctrine of the rights of conquest The General Conference has placed it - self in this dilemma ; if it save its “loy altv” from one horn, its honesty is im paled upon the other—unless, indeed we are no longer to determine questions of honestv by that old fashioned Book which says, “Thou shall not steal." and are henceforth to shape our conduct hy the comprehensive maxim ol Bryce Jagger : “ Mariners have, no rights after the keel touches sand]" But why waste words? I have rare fully read the Daily Advocate, and l declare to you that there is not in the address of the Bishops, in the reports of the Committees, in the debates before the Conference, a single word to show that they are conscious of ever havrng done the Southern Church any wrong* There is not one word of rebuke or regret for anything done, or attempted, bv their Bishops and agents in Ne*v Orleans, in Nashville, in Charleston, in East Tennessee, in West Virginia, or in Missouri. There is not a single syllable of assurance to en courage the charitable hope that then* r***p*ar»ndiafa would not. to* morrow, if they could, seize upon s'l the property of the church, South, held prior to the separation, and set up a claim to it, like this by which the Gen eral Conference dares to justify to the world its hold upon our property m East Tei nessee, and that all the bal ance they would hold by right of eon" quest. II Emory College were in East Ten-* nessse and the mob were strong en« ough to help them reverse the decision of the Supreme Court, they would seize it to-day and report at the next General Conference—in reply to any protesting memorialists —“This property is deed ed to the M. E. Chureh. it being s<» held before the secession oftheChurcn South !” Waldron says; “We propose Ur make a proper application of our Bibb to all the Southern States and people,” Let him be comforted—tfie application has been made I “The good old ml# Sufficeth them ; the simple plan That they should take who have the power And they ahould keep who can 1” In report No, 2, on the state of the Church, the General Conference re joices that “as far as is known, she numbers not in her commuuion, one single rebel against our noble govern ment *” If we recall the partisian and pro scriptive virulence of the political res olutions passed by nearly all their An nual Conferences, the shameful specta cle of a great General Conference re solving itself into a prayer meeting to influence the voles of suspected Sena tors, Bishop Simpson standing beside the infidel Carl Shurz and invoking Heavenly benedictions upon the Chi cago Convention,—in a word if we con suler this General Conference, and the Church which it represents, as openly contemning the authority of the Su preme Court, and as allying itself with a dominant majority in Congress to overthrow the Executive obstacle that has stood in the way of their ambition it is impossible to mistake what they mean by “rebel against our noble gov ernment,” or the animus with which thev propose to extend their work m the South. Sir, this Gospel of the “Higher Law” grows while they preach it. To oppose this Church pr not to vote with the Party to which it has married its political and ecclesias tical fortunes, is disloyally. There was a time in France when not to he a Jacobin Was “incivUmi.” Men dual (Concluded on second page.j