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VOLUME XXI
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PUbLIbHED DAILY AND WKS ELY BY
JARED IRWIN WHITAKER,
Proprietor.
~ ATLANIA, GEORGIA-
Wednesday. December 22. 1869.
The Province or Jonrntlhm~Tbe Intel
ligencer uud Ite Critics.
Every man thinks he can punch the fire to bet
ter advantage than his neighbor. No man ever
yet planned or constructed a cottage, that was
not open to criticism by everybody else. This
gable is too steep; that door is too narrow; that
chimney is too short; the pilch of this room is
too low; that one is illy proportioned—in a
word, every part must be altered to conform to
the ideal oi -the critic. And if torn down, re
modeled and rebuilt every month in the year, it
would, in the end, be quite as far from pleasing
everybody as at first.
Is this less true of journalism ? The conduct
of a newspaper is an easy task, certainly 1 Every
man who may have acquired the habit of string
ing words together, is apt to imagine himself
abundantly competent to run a newspaper!
Wi'h journalism, as with farming, the veriest
tyro thinks himself competent to the task, even
when he can do nothing else I They regard it
as a sort of retreat for the versatile idler; a ha
ven of rest and recreation for the sentimentalist;
a dernier resort for the disappointed, the soured,
the impecunious and the played out!
A profession that is so accommodating to the
capacities of men, must of course have outside
ci itics in abundance 1 These seldom agree in
opinion as touching any single merit of the
journal. It has not enough oi the spice of per
sonality, says one; it is too disgustingly personal,
quoth another. It is too much wedded to an
idea, says a third; it is rather too accommoda
ting in its politics, quoth number four. It is not
sufficiently courteous in debate, puts in some
fastidious reader; it is “ unsound ” because it
does not “ pitch into ” the personal character of
its political opponents, quoth some fiery parti
zan. And so on, through its whole manage
ment 1 It is either too personal or too stately
and argumentative; or, it is “ too ” both at the
same time! If it adheres to principle, and at
tempts to maintain the faith of its party, with
out descending to the level of the blackguard,
it is characterized as tame and time serving. If,
under the pretense of advocating a principle, it
habitually traduces and villifies the personal
character of an opponent, it at once becomes the
favorite of roughs and bullies. But if, in faithful
adhesion to principle, it seldom finds it necessary
to discuss the personal character of an opponent, ,
the bullies aforesaid suspect its party allegiance 1 I
Said a hopeful scion of Democracy only a few '
days since: “The Intelligence!! is getting 1
fishy.” “ How so, replied a staunch old veteran
of the party, seeing that it presents a consistent '
record on both the XVth Amendment and negro i
political equality—the two living issues in Geor- t
giaj” “Ah well, it don’t pitch into Joe Brown,
Foster Blodgett and Gov. Bullock” said young |
hopeful! (
That is the specification. The Intelligen
cer fights to establish Democratic Principles, t
whereas it should labor to traduce the personal t
character of those who belong to the opposite l .
school of politics I Mirabilien dieter 1 ,
Now, when it is borne in mind that this jour
nal was the first in the State to oppose the rati- t
flcation ot this XVlh abomination ; that it was ’
also the first to oppose a reference to the 8u- (
preme Court of a question which had become,
by legislative action, res judicata ; and that it ’
was the first to repudiate Mr. Tift’s proposition ’
of self-stultification, and the proposed total ,
abandonment of the entire Democratic platform ;
when such a record as this is coal tasted with
that ot other Democratic papers which did at
one time (during the last session of the Legisla
ture) advocate the ratification ot XVth Amend
ment, and which but quite recently fell into line
again by opposing it, and which now seek to
gloss over a defective and inconsistant political
record by violent personal abuse ot political
opponents —when brought into such a contrast
as this, the Intelligencer, can very well afford
to give its critics the widest possible berth. In
time they will come to their senses; oi her wise,
their good opinion is not an object of very great
solicitude! Having marked out our course, we
expect to follow it, regardless of what “Mrs.
Gruuday" may say ; and it is needless to add
that, in the future, as in the past, we shall always
be found the consistent and persistent advocate
oi Democratic Principles.
.lournitlikm ii»l Personalism.
The French papers, it has been remarked, are
almost wholly personal. True, and they are
almost wholly without influence. With them,
it is the editor that gives the paper its status;
consequ ntly, the opinion of a French paper is
simply the individual opinion of one man—noth
ing more. Failing to reflect public sentiment,
the paper is impotent to mould and direct it.
This was not the case three-quarters of a centuiy
ago, when the French press wiis comparatively
impersonal; and when, according to Lamartine,
it wrought the first revolution “by responding,”
not the sentiment ot the individual, but to
“ the long pent up indignations and strangled
sentiments ot the populace." With the freedom
of the French press, passed away its imperson
ality and its influence; and, to-day, the news
paper pre»s ot Paris is notoriously the most im
potent aud venal of the civilized world.
In England, this is not the case. There the
press is tree, and scrupulously impersonal ; and
there, 100, is it preeminently the “ Fourth Es
tate”—a power whose mandates no cabinet may
disregard. The London Times shapes public
sentiment only because it first reflects it. Its
articles are something more than the opinions,
caprices, whims, <crcutricities, ami egotistical
lucubrations oi "tie individual. They are the
utterances ot the journal; and the journal be
ing a recognized conduit ot enlightened public
sentiment, or the authentic exponent oi its
party, and hence necessarily impersonal, carries
wilh its teachings that insignia ot authority
which never adheres to tue opinion ot a mere
individual writer.
Wtsnax X ATUiRTtC Rxn-BOAD, 1
M'vssoertMDSsr'e Orrcv, <
Avlamth, oa, Dec. 11. 1809.)
CoL W’ Awiy, Editor Constitution :
Drab Sih-In ’be editorial coin mis of the
CVm.Di of the 9 h instant., appears the fol—
lowtna :
“It is broadly rumored that Gov Bulhvk took
with him a large sum ot money to use iu in
fluencing the action ot Congress.”
It is further tfuu the many came from the
SlaU hood I're.isury
“The gn>ss receipts of the R nd tor October,”
it is stated, “were $250,000, aud tor November
s29d.tMo Not a dollar has been paid into the
Sts e mb tor either ot those months.”
Neither Gov Bullock nor Mr. Blodgett have
taken any money hom the State Road Treasury.
The erre« reeetpts ol the Road tor October
wen SO6 792 37, and for November $120805 59
making a total oi $236,597 87, netng 808,403 13
less than the amount stated in yonr article.
The reasons lor the non payment ot the usual
n nount into the State Treasury for the months
ot I'ct 'berand November,were lully stated by me
i: a< m.uuuicatiou to Gov. Bulba'a, under date
<>t November ‘?sJ»,and pubh hid in thecolumus
ol il.e v i the Sh Very respect
fully. E. Hulbkrt, Sop’t.
——l C*.
State Items.
The residence of John F. I’hiuizy, near Ath
ens, was entirely consumed by fire on the night
of the 9th instant. Loss $3,000; insurance
$2,750 in the “ Home,” Columbus, Georgia.
On Thursday night there left this city, on
the Georgia Railroad passenger train, one hun
dred and sixty nine through passengers, and one
hundred North Carolina emigrants on their way
to Missouri. —Augusta Chronicle, X2th.
Mr. James C. Moore has been elected Presi
dent of the Street Railroad Company in Au
gusta.
The Gallon Opera Troupe is announced for
Augusta on the 20th instant.
The Rome papers complain of “ dull trade”
there, notwithstanding the unusual number of
visitors.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Com
pany are negotiating .for the purchase of the
branch road from Dalton to Cleveland, Tenn.
Heavy Cotton Exports.—Yesterday was
one of the h< avi< st, it not the heaviest, day of
the season in cotton exports, both foreign and
coastwise. The number of bales ot cotton,
when enumerated, seems prodigious, and the
value oi one day’s clearances represents the
bard earnings ot many busy hands and heads
throughout the Somh.— Sav. Advertiser, 12tA
Another Cotton Vessel Lost.—Messrs.
Wilder & Fullerton, of Savannah, received the
following dispatch on the 11th instant:
New York, December 11.
Wilder & Fullerton :
The Crescent City was abandoned on the 14th
of November. Crew landed at Falmouth. In
form shippers. Williams & Guion.
This vessel was cleared from the port of Sa
vannah "on the 28th October last, with a cargo
of 4,804 bales of upland cotton, weighing
1,288,969 pounds, valued at $564,555 26. The
Savannah Advertiser says the Crescent City was
a full rigged British ship of 1,500 tons. The
nature ot the disaster is not yet known—fire
most probably. This makes the second disas
ter of the kind this season.
We have been requested to copy the follow
ing from the Savannah papers of the 13th :
Signor Borra, the Italian gentleman who pro
posed last May to introduce Italian immigrants
into the State of Georgia, desires to have an in
terview with the delegatee of the Atlanta Con
vention and all others equally interested. They
can see him every day at his office over St. An
drew's Hal], from 10 to 12 M.
They have a Liquor Dealer’s Mutual Protec
tion Association in Savannah.
A Wonderful Freak of Nature.—Amone
the arrivals in our city on Saturday, was Master
Zack Gaultney, a deformed boy. He is certainly
an unparalleled anatomical monstrosity, and
should be seen by all who are curious in such
matters. He was born in Macon county, Geor
gia, is fifteen years old, and only forty inches
high ; his legs, arms, feet and hands are formed
of notty substances, the latter being as large as
a man’s.— Savannah News IZth.
First Freight —The first down freight from
Macon via the iMacon and Brunswick and
Atlantic and Gulf Railroads arrived Saturday
nigt. It consisted of one hundred bales of cot
ton— Savannah News Kith
The editor oi the Rome Courier, who has
been sojourning through the Northern counties
of this State, writes as follows:
A great part of our time has been spent upon
the cars, and we have bad a capital opportunity
to become sorrowful over the immense and con
tinually increasiug tide of emigrants that are
flocking from Georgia to the great Slates o! the
West.
Every train upon which we traveled was filled
to overflowing by huddled crowds ot men, wo
men and children, that were leaving the richest
and most promising country on the continent,
to try their fortunes in an unknown land.
Most ot them were very gay, lively and frol
icsome to a startling degree. Shouts of laugh
ter and defiance answered the warnings of those
passengers who disclaimed against the wisdom
ot their course. * * * *
Arrangements had been made by which they
were transported from Atlanta to New Orleans
for eight dollars and a half. Thousands took
advantage ot this tempting proposition, and
Georgia will feci before long the effect of this
most disastrous madness that has seized her
people. We will contess that we sec but little
to rejoice at in the status of Georgia, while her
best sons and daughters are fleeing from her in
multitudes.
The Augusta Cronicle, of the 14th, says the
“ party of Cuban filibusters, whose insane expe
dition for the relief of the “Gem of the Antilles,”
has been betore meutioned, were brought back
to the city yesterday. They were overhauled
and picked up down the river by the steamer
Katie, without much resistance being offered.
The celebrated guano war has been reopened
in Augusta Neither party propose asking or
giving quarter 1
They are scrambling over the small offices in
Columbus.
The Georgia Railroad has declared a semi
annual dividend of four per cent, on the capital
stock of the company.
One lot of hogs from Tennessee arrived here
by rail, a tew days ago. The price asked is 12j
cents gross. We have not heard of any sales
yet.—Athena Watchman, 15th.
In looking over Newnan we can observe only
one work of public improvement worthy of
special notice. This is the macadetnizingof De
potstreet, which may be said to be slowly pro
gressing.—People'» Defender, 15M.
Banking Capital, I'ne banking capital of
Virginia before the war was about $11,000,000
or sls 89 to each inhabitant. Now it is only
$2,000,000, or $3 18 to each inhabitant.
Clarke County and Mil Tift.—The
Athens Hanner, sp< aking of the Georgia issue
and Mr. Tift’s proposition,says:
We cannot see how any meml*er of the Legis
lature, who voted to unseat the negroes, can
stultify himselt by patting them back. They
are legally dead, and have no more right in the
Legislature than so many mummies.
l*eraonnl Gimon.
Gen Ames, the military commander of Mis
sissippi, is a native ol Maine, a graduate of West
Point in 1801, and unmarried.
Don Piatt, in one of his recent letters, very
pointedly reminds somebody th it “ the cheapest
philanthropy is that which frees somebody else’s
nigger.”
Rev. Lours H Take, the Sweedenborgian
Missionary tor Georgia, Is lecturing in Augusta
to large audiences.
Daniel Webster wrote, after continued
i provocation, to the editor of a newspaoer w’hich
■ relerred to bis private affairs, and especially to
j his not paying his di bls. He said :“It is true
j that I have not always paid any debts punctu
ally, and that 1 owe money. One cause of this
i is that I have not pressed those who owe me for
pay. As an instance of this, I enclose your
father’s note made to me thirty ytars ago for
money lent him to educate his boys.”
Prof. A. Ryan is lecturing in Americus.
Thk Knoxville 7Vc*s Herald, of the 14th
inst, chronicles the death of “ Sut Lcvcngood ”
’ (Geo. Harris )He died at the Atkins House
j in Knoxville, on the 13ttr.
Rev. J H. Nall has been regularly installed
as the Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
’ Columbus.
Pio Nino takes his cigar alter each meal.
I Generals Butler and Gary, of South Caro-
I hna, were in Augusta Wednesday.
“ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHE^IREASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”— Jefferson.
ATLANTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22,1869.
Iteport of Major-General Allred Terry.
Washington, December 7.—The annual re
port of the Secretary ot War is accompanied by
numerous sub-reports, some of which are ol the
first importance. That of Major-General Alfred
H. Terry, commanding the District ot Georgia,
is, in view ot the recommendation in the Presi
dent’s message, and in lurther view ot the bill
Io be taken up in the Senate to-morrow, of the
highest interest. It is dated August 14,1869,
and is as follows :
SENATOR WILSON ON THE OUTRAGES.
Soon after I assumed command oi this Depart
ment a letter from the Hou. Henry Wilson to
the President of the United States was referred
to me, with instructions to investigate and re
port upon the matters therein mentioned. The
following is a copy of that letter, and of the in
dorsement placed upon it by the General Com
manding the army.
Natick, Mass., May 14, 1869,
Dear Sir—Can nothing be done to stop the
outrages in Georgia? These political outrages
should cease. Nothing animated the people
more in the canvass than the idea that the rebel
outrages would be stopped. They were checked
much by youi election; still they go on, and
many ol our best frit nds say that we do nothing
to stop them, and that we rather say nothing
about them. I tear that unless something is d-me
many of our most devoted friends will grow
dissatisfied. Cannot a proc-ama ion iu regard
to Georgia be issued? Cannot these criminals
tie caught by the army and punished ? lam
sure something should be attempted. Martial
law is this day needed in that the worst oi ail
the Slates for the security ot the friends ot the
country. 'Yours truly,
Henry Wilson,
EBaDQUABTSHS Os TBB ABMT, I
Washing:on, Jane 7, 1t69 f
Respectfully referred to Commanding General
Department ot the South, for thorough investi
gation and report.
W. T. Sherman, General.
I have delayed making the report thus called
for until the present time, in order that I might
become acquainted with the condition of affairs
in Georgia before expressing any opinion. Now
I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that
the situation here demands the interposition ol
the national Government, in order that life and
property may be protected, fieedom ot speech
and political action secured, and the rights and
liberties of the freedmen maintained. This
opinion is based upon complaints made to me,
the reports ot officers detailed to investigate al
leged outrages, and upon the statements ot many
persons ot respectability and high positiou irom
different parts of the State, in whose representa
tions I must repose confidence, some ot whom
have given me information only under a pledge
ot secrecy, the state of affairs in their sections
being such that they feared extreme personal
violence should it become known that they had
been in communication with me.
THE KU-KLUX KLAN.
In many parts of the State there is practically
no government; the worst of crimes are com
mitted, and no attempt is made to punish those
who commit them. Murders have been and are
frequent, and the abuse in various ways of the
blacks is too common to excite notice. There
can be no doubt ot the existence ot numerous
insurrectionary organizations known as “ Ku-
Klux Klans,” who, shielded by their disguise,
by the secrecy of lheir movements, and by the
terror which they inspire, perpetrate crimes with
impunity. There is great reason to believe that
in some cases local magistrates are in sympathy
with members ot these organizations. In many
places they are overawed by them, and dare not
attempt to punish them. To punish such offen
ders by civil proceedings would be a difficult
task, even were magistrates iu all cases dis
posed, and had the courage to do their duty, for
the same influences which govern them equally
affect juries and witnesses.
HOW TDK CRIMINALS ESCAPE.
A conversation which I have had with a
wealthy’ planter, a gentleman of intelligence
and education, and a political opponent ot the
National Administration, will illustrate this
difficulty. While deploring the lamentable
condition of affairs in the country in which he
lives, he frankly admitted to me that were the
most worthless vagabond in the country to be
charged with crime against the person ot a
Republican or a negro, neither he nor any other
person oi property within the county would
dare to refuse to give bail tor the offender, nor
would they dare to testily against him, whatever
might be their knowledge ot his guilt. That
very many ot the crimes which have been com
mitted have no political bearing, I believe; that
some of them were prompted by political ani
mosity, and that most oi the numerous outrages
upon freedmen result from hostility to the race,
induced by their enfranchisement, I think can
not be controverted.
The same difficulties which beset the prosecu
tion of criminals are encountered by negroes,
who seek redress for civil injuries in local
Courts. Magistrates do not do their duty
toward them, and instances are not wanting
where it has even been beyond the power ot a
Magistrate to protect a negro plaintiff from vio
lence in his own presence, while < ngaged in the
trial of his case. I desire it to be understood
that in speaking of Magistrates, I in no degree
refer to Judges of the Superior Court. They
are gentlemen of high character, and I have
every confidence that they will do their d"ty
fearlessly and impartially. But it is to be ob
served that even they cannot control grand and
petty juries; they cannot compel the former to
indict, nor the latter to render unprejudiced
verdicts The Executive of the State would
gladly interpose to give to all citizens the pro
tection which is their right, but under the. Con
stitution and laws, he has power neither to act
directly in bringing oflunders to justice, nor to
compel subordinate officers to d<» their duty.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN THE STATE.
I do not suppose that the great majority oi
the people oi the State ot either race approve ot
the commission of these crimes. I believe that
not only would they gladly see good order re
stored, peace and quiet maintained, and law
dicated, but would lend their aid to secure these
ends were they not controlled by lheir tears
Governed, how ever, by their apprehensions, and
having no confidmce that the civil authorities
will afford them protection, in many counties
they suffer these evils to exist without an effort
to abate them, and meekly submit to the rule ot
a disorderly and criminal minority.
While 1 have been In command of the De
partment, I have end> avored to take no action
which could not be justified by the letter of the
law, even if Georgia should be held to be re
stored to its original relations to the General
Government. I have confined myselt to giving
support to the civil authorities, and moving de
tachments of troops into some oi the disturbed
counties, where their presence would exert a
good influence, and where they would be ready
to act it properly called upon. I think that
some good has in this way been accomplished,
but the great evil has by no means been reached,
as Department Commander, I can do no more,
for, whatever may bp the status ol Georgia, and
whatever may be the powers which an officer
assigned to the command ot the Third District,
created by the reconstruction acts, would pos
sess, it is only an officer so assigned who could
exercise them. They are not vested in me by
my assignment to the command ot this Depart
ment. Where, therefore, the civil authorises
are in sympathy with or are overawed by those
who commit crime, it is manifest that I am
powerless. In this connection I respectfully call
the special attention of the General Command
ing the Army to the jreports in regard to the at
tempts made m Wairen county to secure the
arrest and punishment of persons charged with
crime, which are this day forwarded.
WHY THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD INTERFERE.
It appears to me that the national honor is
pledged to the protection of the loyalists and
the treedmen of the Struth. 1 am well aware
that protection of persons and property is not
ordinarily one ot the functions ot the nations!
Government, but when it is remembered that
hostility to the supporters of the Government
is but a manik station of hostility to the Gov
ernment itself, and that the prevailing prtjudice
against blacks results from their emancipation,
the act of the Government, it would seem that
such protection cannot be denied them, it it be
within the power of the Government to give it
1 know ot no way in which such protection can
be given in Georgia by an exercise ot the powers
conferred on military commanders by the recon
struction acts.
[The General then enters into a long discus
sum whether these powers can still be exercised
in Georgia, and treats ot all laws bearing upon
the question with much vigor oi judgment and
i clearness ot expression, coming to the concla
. sion that they may still be decreased, and clo
-1 sing his report as follows:]
• HOW TO REBTO-iE GOOD ORDER.
In conclusion, I deSUj- to express mv couvic
? tion that the only wayjpo restore good order in
the Slate is to resume lajilitary control ovt r it
“ for the time being, auiHUnltimalely to provide
’> by law that the shall reassemble as
• a Provisional
' ble persons shall be ex mde I, ami to which all
u eligible persons elected it, whether white or
black, shall be admilte" Such a Legislature
would, 1 believe, enact tafch laws, anil invest
their Executive with sucl-. powers as would en
. able him to keep the place, protect lile and
, property, and puuish critae. The process of
( resuming military contmAwould, it appears to
. me, be a very simple one. A.ll that would be
, required is an order from the President counter
' manding General Ordcs No. 55, Adjutant
. General’s Office, July 28, 1868, and Orders No.
103, Headquarters Third January District. July
21,1868, and assigning a| officer to the com
mand of the District, excepting the States of
‘ Florida and Alabama. This action I respect
-1 fully recommend.
gen. Halleck’s erpobsement.
l General Halleck, comma;; ling Military Divi
sion of the South, endorses sods report ol General
Terry’s as follows : ' v
I cannot concur entirely i. the views of Gen
i eral Terry. After the recognition for so long a
time of the Slate Government of Georgia by the
President and highest military authorities, for
these officers to retrace theiAsteps and declare
their own acts illegal and v ;d, would not only
seem inconsistent, but migik produce much
harm,
Should Congress, howcrc— decide to return
the State to the condition ot military district,
under the reconstruction iavT, on the ground
that it had not been fully rest isiructed, the case
would be very different I -therefore, respect
fully recommend that the matter be left for ac
tion of Congress.
The Vacant Supreme Sidgevliip.'
No nomination has yet tn-in made by the
President for the vacant Assistant Justiceship
on the Supreme Bench of the jlnited States.—
The New York Herald, of L»st Thursday, says :
“ No nomination has yet been made tor the va
cancy on the bench ot th6 t- ibreme Court of
the United States. The choice TwfotrbtCdly lies
between Attorney General Hoa and Judge Ers
kine, of Georgia.”
On Taxation,-!
The New York bowe s r wrong it is
on many political topicsis right ojthe subject ot
federal taxation, a reduction of v ,ieh it strongly
advocates. “It says: “ The pei p 3, we are told,
can endure yet longer the evil a deprecated
currency. They are willing toe icede time for
the conversion of outstanding bo into otheis
bearing a lower rate of interest. tßui they are
not willing to sustain a load of t Ration which
impairs all energy, injures all ind' and com
merce, and yields a revenue far in4xcess of the
actual requirements ot the Govern Lcat.”
Buhiness Sense, a
A New York exchange, notici .lg the heavy ,
business doing in Christmas goods4ijs : ,
“The purchases for Christmas Year's ,
use and enjoyment are brisk am j numerous.
The traders who do not hide their cdsire to sell, ,
amt do not secrete their large stocl of goods, i
are doing by far the lion’s share ?■! the vast ,
business.” p ' ,
And so it is in Atlanta. Purchase, tor Christ- ,
mas are brisk and numerous, and j.ose who
advertise are getting the trade, whih ,bose who
do not; or, to use the language* Afctbe New
York paper, those wh > “sec-ete their by
not advertising; are getting ba'
man with “business sense,” crpecrlFy during
Christmas times, w® advertise. J .
Beecher’s Faith.—A corresponkfot of one
of the New York papers asks if Bencher is, in ,
faith, Nicolaitan. The inquirer thuj explains: (
“ The Nicolaitans were a party iigtwnst whom ,
the severest denunciations were pioilounced by
the Savior, by the mouth of the Appstle John, :
which are recorded in the 2d and Bdchapters ot ■,
the Book ot Revelation. These Nicolaitans (
were the ‘Free Lovers’ and' Worjeii ibglits’
ot the first century. Their doctrines taught a
• comrauni.y of wives’ aud general I ‘ free love,’
much, I presume, the same as lbi#t now advo
cated under the modi rn titles above quoted.— 1
They are denounced with great abhorrence by i
the Lord himself, and severe judgments were ,
pronounced on them.”
The JDcmocratie Press United.
The Democratic press of the State, with per
haps two individual exceptions, have pro
nounced against the plan of Mr. Till for squar
ing the legislation of the State to accord with
the Republican party in Congress. We do not
now call to mind a single Democratic p.iper, of
recognized position and influence in the party,
that has not declared boldly in opposition to the
tame and humiliating scheme which would ex
change the Democratic platform for a few scats
in Congress. Among the last to take position on
this point, is the Augusta Chronicle, which closes
an article in its issue of the 13th as follows :
II the Radicals in Congress desire the reseat
ingot the negroes, let them pass an act to that
effect, in accordance with Grant's recommenda
lion. Leading Radicals seem to be wed posted
in regard to the prevailing sentiment of the
Legislature, and are content to give ustimeto
accomplish our dishonor. We prefer—-infinitely
prefer -the course recommended by General
Grant
Mr. Tilt in 'Washington.
The Washington correspondent of the New
Yoi k Erprese says :
“ The Legislature of Georgia is soon to acton
the decision ot the Supreme Court of thatutate,
that negroes have a right io office as well as
votes, and hence, it is probable, they will restore
the negroes to Hie Legist dure ejected under the
Georgia Corslitation. Mr. T.ft, late member
from Georgia, is here, urging Congress to delay
action upon Georgia, until the Legislature has
time to act The waiting of Congress, however,
is very doubtful.”
Mr. Tift’s mission to Washington, may prove
successful, in so tar that his representations may
induce Congress to p »tpone action upon Geor
gia till the Legislature meets, but the great mass
of the people of Georgia would much prefer
j that Congress should take action and prescribe
terms of reconstruction to the Slate, thau that
the Legislature should reseat the negro members
and adopt the Fifteenth Amendment. In the
one case there is no dishonor; in the other,
there is.
Choosing a Wife —Keep your eyes open,
boys, when you are alter a woman. It the dear
little thing is cross and scolds her mother in the
back room, you may be sure you will get par
ticular fits all around the house. It she apolo
gises tor washing the dishes, you will need a girl
to tan her. It she blushes when at the wash
tub with her sleeves rolled up, be sure, sir, that
she is codfish aristocracy, has little breeding and
little sense. If you marry a woman who knows
nothing but to commit manslaughter on the
piano, you may have got the noortst piece of
muslin ever gotten up. F.nd the one whose
mind is right, and then pitch in. Don’t be
hanging around like a sheep thief, as though
ashamed to be seen around in the day time, but
walk up like a chicken to dough, and ask for
the article like a man.
General Terr,’* Report.
We lay betore our readers to-day the report
made by Ma jor General A. H. Terry on the
condition of Georgia, together with the dissent
ing endorsement of Major General Halleck.
, The report will be found in another column.
To Adjourn.—Th# legislature of Alabama,
which has been in over a month is about
to adjourn, to re asseAt » in January.
They Want '.—The eoitor r.f
South G- ■
ger.’. .Ta: v ‘
I*t «as»t
istied ... I
Congress and Georgia-What Is to bo
Done I
i The Macon lelegraph & Messenger of the 14'h
instant, contains, under the foregoing heading,
■ an editorial article ot consideiable length from
which we make the following extract:
“ The case, indeed, lies in a nut-shell. If
Georgia reseats these negroes, (Congress accept
i ing the act,) Georgia then escapes all the hard
, conditions of the punitive legislation now pro
posed and certain to be inflicted in case of
our refusal.”
This is the sywimtni? up of the case as present
ed by our Macon cotemporaiy in the article re
ferred to. In it there is a saving clause—“ Con
gress accepting the act.” Now we have no
more idea that Congress will accept “ the act”
as a settlement of the vexed question, than we
have that the question can be settled without a
reinstatement of the expelled negroes to their
seats in the Legislature. And when this shall be
done—no matter by which—Congress or the
State Legislature—all will be accomplished, in
our judgment, that Congress desires, to wit— the
ratification by Georgia ot the XVch Amend
ment, the most odious of all measures following
the reconstruction enactments, and more odious
than the most odious of them all. It is said
that a man was i nee tempted by the devil to
commit rape and murder, which tempta
tion was firmly resisted But baffled though
he was, Satan did not despair, and, per
sisting, tempted hts victim to get drunk.—
He did so, and while drunk committed the
crimes he had previously resisted. Now only
reseat the negro, and we apprehend when that
shall be done by the Legislature, our Macon co
temporary, as well as that body, will find that
all else will follow which is foreshadowed in
President Grant’s recommendation to Congress,
and, thus far, in the woikings of that body. It
is a grave mistake, we think, all make who im
agine the reseating ot the negro iu tlie Georgia
Legislature will be followed by a cessation of
hostilities on the pai lot the Republican party
in Congress, to the Stale. The truth is, Geor
gia is not reconstruct! d according to their no
tion, aud until it is, thej' are determined to make
exactions upon her, which, to the very letter, she
will be torced to comply with, else “ remain out
iu the cold.” Sooner than yield to such de
mands- demands involving a forfeiture of honor
and of all self-respect, we are for remaining
“ out in the cold,” and will welcome military
government instead. “It is impossible that i
a sensible people should hesitate one mo- I
ment which of the two alternatives to choose,” j
says our Macon cotemporary, and so say we. ]
Under all the circumstances, we are as clear too i
in our judgment, as the Macon Telegraph and 1
Messenger is, that “ there ought to be i o reason- ’
able doubt of what should be the di in mds ot a ,
sound and safe statesmanship iu this critical t
condition of our affairs.” And we are entirely 1
of the opinton uttered by the “ Cinstitution ”of (
this city, only a few days u.yo, that all
things" we “ should listen to no man,” (noteven t
the Hon. Mr. Tift) who would advise ” us “to 1
commit suicide in order to defeat the chance of fall
ing at the hands of some one else.” Pei haps “a (
change may have come o’er the spirit ”of our t
Broad street neighbor, since the foregoing lines ’
were penned —indications ot which are plain in j
its yesterday’s issue —stilt we stand by them, i
and will, till the battle shall be over, contending i
for the right even t'vough we may be over- 1
whelmed in the struggle. And when that time
shall come, if come it must, Georgia rnuit bear ,
the shock, as she has heretofore borne greater I
ones. In the language of the Columbus Sun, ’
“conciliation will not parry it, submission will j
only give further fall to its descending weight, i
The time approaches when the ‘cause of Geor- J
gia is the cause ot all ’ and upon the patience !
and courage of her people rests all of her fu- ,
tore.” t
s
Beeclicr and His riliurch. s
Brother Beecher has occupied much of his t
time oi late in explanations. Fitst, he thought J
it n<cessary to explain to the public, through (
the morning journals, that he had been led into <
participation in the Richardsou-McFarland mar- t
riage ceremony through a misapprehension of 1
the “ facts” connected wilh the previous lives i
of the parties. This bore rather heavily upon (
Mr. Greeley, and one or two others who were <
responsible to Mr. Beecher for the “ facts ” upon <
which he predicated his action. (
Next, he enters into a scriptural argument, f
through the columns of Ihs Christian Union i
(of which paper be is Chief Editor) to show !
that the Sermon on the Mount may be so ex- (
plained and interpreted as not to be iu conflict i
with the Indiana divorce law, whereby Mrs. i
McFarland got rid ot her husband ! This is a ’
rare piece of theology, and will be interesting <
to special pleaders and quibblers. |
La.-lly, the Reverend gentleman is arraigned i
by his congregation, at the accustomed prayer .
meeting hetures, to show cause why the Church ,
should not proceed to censure his conduct in the
Richardson matter; and, in explanation, he 1
i here stated, in a style peculiarly his own, that,
“ If my foresight was as good as my hind sight,
I should do a great many things belter than I
do" The plain English of which is, he now
sees his error, and would have done better had
he a> first understood the Ricbardson-McFarland
casa as clearly as he undetstauds it now. This
appeared satisfactory to the members ot his
flock, and the case was dismissed.
Tlie RemandiUß: of Georgia.
Rumors are rite in regard to the remanding
of Georgia, by Congress. Some of them affirm
that the State will be let alone till alter the
Legislature assembles and acts upon the negro
eligibility question; others that Congress will
act promptly and remand the Stale, and still
others that it will not a< t till after the approach
ing holidays, but will ih-o act regardless of what
the Legislature may du. It seems, however,
irom the following special telegram to the Nash
ville Union & Aniericao, that the Senate Judi- j
ciary Committee —we give the words oi the
telecram —“have agreed to report the bill pro
viding for the reassembling ol the Georgia
I Legislature, the exclusion ol members ineligible
under the fourteenth amendment, and the re
seating oi the heretofore excluded colored mem-
I bers of the Legislature. To Is provisional until
the United States Senators and Representatives
are admitted to Congress.”
This does not look like a postponement of
action on Georgia affiirs, nor docs it seem to
regard anything the Georgia Legislature may
do as at all affecting the action ot Congress. ;
The Stamp Act.—ln the Internal Revenue
Bureau during the month of November 583,600
i distilled spirit stamps were i-sued, valued at
' $5,000,000, and tobacco stamps valued at $lB,-
000,000. The Internal Revenue Commissioner
decides that although distilleis and brewers can
; sell at the place <>f manufacture so tong as they
i sell in the original casks or packages, to whicu
I tax stamps are affixed, without payment ot the |
i tax as l.quor dealers, a rectifier ot the distilled I
products, cannot sell without paying the tax as
i liquor dealer at any place.
Progress.—Twenty thousand men are out ot j
! employ ment in Chicago, and the streets of that :
city are fi led with idlers and vagrants.
1 Tennessee. —Gen. Thomas D. Arnold is a
candidate tor the Tennessee Constitutional Con
vention from Greene county.
3 DECISIONS
And Proceeding* of the Hnprema Court
1 of the Slate of Georgia.
• DECEMBER TERM, 1869.
1
I Reported fpeclally for ths Atlanta IMligemer by
Col. Z. D. Harrison.]
f
OBDBB or CtUCUrT>>, WITH THU NUMBSB OP CASES
fuom each.
1 Southern 5
- Southwestern .
’ Pataula '' /. 7. ,’?3
Chattahoochee \.... 81
Macon ' " 13
Fl nt ”
Tallapoosa .10
At anta ’ wi->
Rome I. t>
Chcrokes ./J’.Sl
Blue Rulje //.. /// li
Western / /.././ H
Northern 8
Middle.
Ocmueee .10
Eastern ’ 4
Brunswick 1/’//.7/ 0
DAILY PROCEEDINGS.
The following judgments were rendered :
Brown, C J.—James Stewart and Allen S.
Cults, plaintiffs in error, vs Benj. Mordecai,
defendant in error—Complaint and petition to
transfer the same to the Sth Circuit Court of the
Uunited Slates from Sumter Superior Court.
Judgment ot the Court below affirmed, and
transfer allowed.
D P. Gibson, plaintiff in error, vs. C. C.
Williams, defendant in error—Complaint and
motion for new trial, from Lowudes county.
Judgment of the Court below affirmed, and mo
tion relused.
James H. Hill, plaintiff in error, vs. Wm. O.
Fleming, defendant in error—Rule against as
signee iu bankruptcy, from Dougherty. Judg
ment of the Court below reversed on the ground
that the whole proceeding was without authori
ty ot law, and was unauthorized and erroneous.
William Mitchel], plaintiff in error, vs. Benj.
Mitchell and Benj. Willis, defendants in error—
Disolution ot injunction, from Worth. Judg
ment of the Court below reversed on the ground
that the Court erred in dissolving the injunction.
As the paitiesto theconveyance were volunteers,
it was not necessary that the donee be cognizant
of the mistake, if it is clearly and satisfactory
shown that the donor acted under the mistake
when he made the conveyance, and did convey
his dwelling house and the cleared lands ad
joining it, when he did not intend to include
them in the conveyance.
McCay, J.—A. T. Burke, et al, plaintiffs in
error, vs. Robert 8. Anderson, defendant in error
—Equity, from Pulaski. Judgment of the Court
4?elow affirmed.
Levi G. Hollaway, plaintiff in error, vs. Fran
ces Chiles, Administratrix, defendent in error—
Motion to set aside a judgment, from Mitchell.
Judgment of the Court below affirmed, and mo
tion refused. i
Covingbon Dumas, Administrator, plaintiff iu j
error, vs Jesse Robson and L. D. Munroe, de
fendants in error—Motion to open f. fa., from
Calhoun. Judgment reversed on the ground
that the Court erred in passing a judgment on
part of the issues submitted to him, and referring '
another part to a jury; and on the further
ground, that the record introduced, and which
was the only evidence upon the point, did not '
show that the consideration of the debt, on •
which the judgment was founded, was slaves or
the hire thereof, and the Court ought, upon the
whole case, to have opened the judgment and ’
ordered it to proceed for one-third of tue amount .
pue before the judgment in 1864
Warner, J.—R. G. Fulgham, plaintiff in er- !
ror, vs. B. B. Johnson, defendant in error— guo >
warranto aud rule nisi, irom Pulaski. Judgment <
of the Court below affirmed.
Samuel Lindsay, former Sheriff, plaintiff in
error, vs. Benj. F. Cock aud John Thompson,
defendants in error—rule nisi, answer and de- .
murrer, from Lee. Judgment ci the Court be
low reversed, on the ground that the Court erred
in holding the Sheriff liable lor the value of the
bank bills up..n the uncottlroveried tact slated 1
in his answer, that the bank bills were ol but ;
little or no value.
George F. Robinson: plaintiff in error, vs. J.
B. Hoss & Son, defendants in error—motion to
dissolve an injunction, from Lee. Judgment of
the Court below affirmed in refusing to dissolve
the injunction, and in refusing to revoke the or
der appointing a Receiver to take charge of the '
plantation, stock, crop, etc., for ihe present year;
but it is the judgment ot this Court, that if, in
the discretion ot the Court below, it should be
necessary to keep the property and plantation .
in the hands ot a Receiver until the final termi
nation of the litigation between the patties, then
the complainant should be required to furnish !
said Receiver with all the necessary means and
supplies to make a crop, and carry on the plan- 1
tation for the ensuing year, as is specified in the *
written agreement for the lease ot the premises, •
for the mutual benefit of the parties, as stipula
ted in that agreement; and in the event the .
complainants shall fail or refuse to do so, then 1
the order appointing a Receiver should be re
yoked and set aside. j
McCay, J— Thomas C. While rnd J. 8.
Wiiite, plaintiffs in error, vs. Wm M. Huslelt
and Elbert M. Rucker, executors, defendants in
error—Relief, from Elbert; and Thomas C.
White, plaintiffin error, is. Dillard Herndon,
defendant in error—Relief, from Eibert. Both
these cases were returned aud argued together
at the last June term. Judgment ot thia Court
rendered to-day, reversing tlie judgment ot tlie
Court below, on the ground that the Court erred .
in dismissing the affidavit, without, permitting
the defendant in the judgment to set up against
the judgment the equities provided tor by ihe
act of 1868, known as the relief law. Brown,
C. J., concurring. Warner, J., dissenting.
George T. Connell, plaintiff in error, vs.
Thomas Vaughn, defendant in error—Relief,
from Carroll. Judgment of the Court below
affirmed
John McK. Gunn, plaintiff in error, vs. Dav'd
H. Jones, defendant in error-Motion to set
aside a judgment. Judgment of the Court be
low reversed, on the ground that the defendant
did not show any equitable grounds of defense,
which would authorize him to open the judg
ment.
Wm. Reimshart, plaint iff in error, vs. Jesse E
Hann, defendant in error—Relief aud Rule on
foreclosure of mortgage, from Bryan. Judg
ment reversed on the ground that the defindaut
in the judgment did not prove such tacts as enti
tled him to any equitable r.lief under the Act
of 1868
No. 17. Sou'hern Circuit, Gardner and Sprad
ley, vs Kersey, et al— Bill and motion for injunc
tion, from Lee—Was called in its order, and ar
gued by Messrs. Fred. H. West aud D. A. Vason
tor plaintiffs in error, and by Col. W. A. Hawk
ins tor defendant in error.
No. 18. Southwestern Circuit, Johnson vs.
Stewart —Equity aud Rule for contempt, from
Lee—Was withdrawn.
The Court announced that it would adjourn
for the Chris'mas holidays on Wednesday, 220
met., till the 2d Monday in January.
The Couit then adjourned till" 10 a. m., to
morrow.
Wednesday, December 15, 1869.
The Court met pursuant to adjournment.
No. 19, Southwestern Circuit, E. D. Watson,
et al, vs. Henry Johnson, et al, was first in ordei i
This case was dismissed, because the original |
bill of exceptions was not served on defendant I
or his counsel as required by law.
No. 20, Southwestern Circuit—Watson vs. ;
Johnson—was dismissed, beciuse nc transcript
of the record of the cause in the Court below
had been certified and sent up to this Court by
the Clerk of the Superior Court of Lee county,
as required by law.
No. 21. Southwestern Circuit, Neal et al. vs
Patten—Motion for new trial, from Mitchell.—
Was argued by Messrs. Samuel Irwin & D. A.
Vason for plaintiff in error, and by Gen. Henry
Morgan for defendant in error.
No. 22. Southwestern Circuit having been
I previously disposed of, No. 23, from the same
Circuit, which bad been catered on the docket
by an order of the Court, was next called. It is
the case of Wm. McAffee Littleberry Mulkey,
from Lee county. Pending the opening argu
ment ol Judge D. A. Vason, the Court adjourned
till 10 o'clock, a. m., to-morrow.
Another Explanation.—The last phase ot
the Beecher-McFarland-Richardson sensation is
; a correspondence between Robert Bonner of the
Ledger, and Mr. Beecher, wherein the latter
gracefully retracts certain damaging statements
I made about McFarland, in his preface to the
: marriage ceremony. Mr. Beecher says he
knows of no legal proof against McFarland
justifying his wife’s libel for divorce under the
laws of New York. He acted upon mere hear
say. Poor Mr. Beecher!
NUMBER 52.
THE LATE “GO UJP.’»
I
Cruise of the “ Hyperion “—An Interest
ing Aeconnt of the Voyage as Given by
Dr. Hape.
7 It was the first gas balloon that ever ascended
from Ailanta, and as the little coquett rose mt
s jestically to the upper air, she was greeted with
5 wild cheers. She at first drifted toward the
3 West, but upon reaching a higher atmosphere
i she changed her course to Northeast. We bad
’ anticipated a glorious view, but were scarce pie
; pared to view the world from a different stand-
> point than we bad heretofore been accustomed
• to. It was beauty everywhere. “ Perfection
. cannot be flattered.” Neither can the beauty of
i such a scene be described. It was like some
’ glorious vision ot dreamland, and we almost
’ fancied that we could see the fairies and sprites
> in the background. Roads, paths, rivers, and
1 smaller streams could be traced tor miles upon
this miniature world. The picture was ever
Changing, but ever perfect. It was hard to
realize that we were traveling at the rate of
forty miles per hour, yet such was the case.
, Atlanta was soon lost in the background, and
Stone Mountain, with its sullen front, formed
, one of our principal sky-marks. It had the ap
pearance ot a huge pyramid, and though «e
were one and a half miles above its summit, we
could notice many familiar places. We now
tested the quality of an oyster pie and some
“ Old Catawoa,” contributed by “ Pease & His
Wife.” After dinner we deccended low enough
to have a talk with the folks below. They wue
anxious to learn where we were from ; where
we were going ; how we could swing to that
bladder; and one gentleman exhibited a very
long rifle and informed his friends that “ if them
cussed revenue fellows troubled his still, he
would bring ’em out of their d n bladder.”
Many could be seen running as if their salvation
depended upon their speed. A crowd of boys,
engaged in fishing, became frightened, threw
away their fish and ran through the pond to get
home. All were enchanted by Prof. King’s
music (in a horn) and believed that Gabriel was
blowing his last toot. One lady informed hi r
friends that “ the world was coming to an end,"
and “ thanked God that she had lived to see it.”
Many very earnest prayers ascended, and many
deep curses followed “them fellows in a
bladder."
It was near sundown when Prof. King began
to look for a suitable place to alight. An old
sedge field was spoken of, but the Professor de
cided to goon “over the woods.” We were
now traveling at the rate of forty miles an hour,
and it was evident that we must strike “ among
the pines.” Everything that could be spared
was now thrown overboard. Sand bags, pro
visions, wine, and even our beautiful bugle
was sacrificed; still not enough to prevent
striking. Seizing the side ropes, we braced our
selves, and the next instant had struck and
bounded thirty feet in the air. It was all we
required to carry us clear ot the woods and into
the cotton field beyond. Still there was danger
that our little vessel would be dashed to pieces
amongst the dead pines. In a few seconds she
struck one ot the pines, puncturing a hole in
her side. We continued to sail low until ena
bled to grasp first a peach tree and then a large
stump, to which we finally succeeded in fasten
ing our cralt. The natives in the immediate
vicinity were having a first class camp meeting,
and firmly believed that the last day had arrived.
They finally succeeded in getting over their
fright, and entertained us In friendly style until
next morning, when they conveyed us to Mari
etta, where we took the morning train for At
lanta. Prof. King has made one hundred aud
forty-one successful ascensions, but declares
that he has converted more people upon the last
occasion than in all his previous voyages.
North Georgia Conference—Ordination of
Preachers.
The following named ministers were ordained
aa deacons of the M. E. Church, by Bishop Dog
gett, at Rome last Sunday :
Henry J. Ellis, Sidney Babcock, John M. Bow
den, Curtiss A. Connoway, Wesley G. Hanson,
Alonzo M. Campbell, Franklin M. T. Brannan,
Robt. T. Wilkerson, Oliver P. Ritch.
On the evening ot the same day, the iollow
i ing named preachers were ordained elders:
Wm. D. Heath, Thos. H. Seals, Wm. P. Kra
mer, John W. Heidt, Amicus W. Williams, Wm.
P. Rivers, Joseph C. Holmes, and James IL
Mayson.
The following arc the supcranuated preachers
of the Conference:
Wm. J. Parks, Jesse W. Carroll, J. B. C.
Quillian, Edmund W. Reynolds, John P. How
ell, James B. Payne, Henry Cranford, Andrew
J. Deavors, Miller H. White, John M. Bright.
Knv. Dr. Wiley, President Emory and
Henry College, and Rev. Mr. Arbogast, Presi
dent Martha Washington College, are in attend
ance upon the Conference, and addressed that
body, in the interests of the institutions over
which they preside, on Monday.
We notice among the proceedings that Dr.
Jessee Boring, of this city, tendered his services
to the Church as an effective minister. For
some time past Dr. Boring has been, from una
voidable circumstances, a supernumerary, but
he desires again to be in “ harness.”
The following named gentlemen were elected
delegates to the General Conference to be held
at Memphis, Tennessee, next Spring :
Atticus G. Haygood and Alfred T. Mann,
were elected. Reserves W. R. Branham, H. J.
Adams, and G. J. Pearce. Lay Delegates, Rev.
J. E. Godfrey, Col. Geo. N, Lester, Dr. J. P.
Garvin, T. M. Merriwether, Esq., H. R. Harris,
and L. D. Palmer. Reserve Delegates, W. A.
Turner, C. H. Johnson, Dr. L. Smith, W. 8.
Thompson, F. L. Little and Judge John J.
Floyd.
Important Supreme Court Decision—Bank
Tax Constitutional.
In the Supreme Court the case of Reascie,
the Cashier ot the Bank of Bengor.w. Jeremiah
Finn, Collector, came up. The general question
to be considered was, whether or not the tax of
10 per cent, on State Banks, or National Banks
paying out notes of individual or State Banks
used lor circulation, is repugnant to the Consti
tution. The Chief Justice in his opinion, said :
This question cannot be determined by the
Court. The judicial cannot prescribe to the
legislative department ot the Government limi
tations on the exercise of acknowledged pow
ers. The responsibility of legislation is not to
the courts, but to the people having, in the exer
cise oi Constitutional power, undertaken to pro
vide a currency for the whole country. It can
not be questioned that Congress may constitu
tionally secure the benefit of it to the pub
lic by appropriate legislation. To this end
Congress has denied the quality of legal tender
to foreign coins, and has provided by law against
impositions ot counterfeit and base coin upon
the community. To the same end Congress may
discourage, by suitable enactment, the circula
tion, as money, of any notes not issued under its
ovn authority. Without this power, indeed, its
attempt to secure grand and uniform currency,
lor the country must be futile viewed in this
I light as well as in the other. As duty on con
tracts or property, we cannot doubt the consi-t
--ency of the tax under consideration. The three
questions certified Irom the Circuit Court ot the
ahtrict ot Maine must, therefore, be answered
affirmatively. The questions are, first whether
the second clause ot the 9th section of the act
ot Congress ot July, 1866, under which the tax
was collected, is a valid and constitutional law.
The other two questions were different in
form.
In a New Role.
The New York Herald has entered the field of
Theologieal disputation. Its ethical creed is a
curious combination of the Systems of Emanuel
Kant, Spencer, Spinoza, Renan, and the Ger
man Rationalist Philosophers, with Christianity
as taught by Sweedenborg and Thos. L. Barris.
It professes to have discovered no very conve
nient back door to Heaven, but is latitudinous
to a degree that would exclude no man there
from tor prelering a road of his own construc
tion! This Broad Gage Creed has doubtless
been suggested to the Herald by the private lite
of many Clergymen in and about Gotham 1
Another Death.
W e learn that Mb. Walter H. Mitchell
for many years Treasurer of this State, died at
his late residence in Oxford, on Tuesday night
last, after an illness of some weeks.