Newspaper Page Text
mg in a northern direction. The col
umns were higher than the tulles* man.
and the numbers of those composing the
avenue were equal to the number of
communities who attended that particu
lar temple. The columns composing the
circle were equal in numV>cr to the twelve
Apostles. Those in the wings'were
three in each wing. The altar on which
victims had been sacrificed was left stand
ing, as a rostrum from which the peop:e
were instructed in the new doctrine. Ail
persons, who were akin to each other
within the ninth degree, belonged to the
fame community. These tempo's haie
generally been destroyed by the lwo
inans j but, as they have not penetra.ed
into the northwestern isles—particularly
the island of Seog, where Saul was re
ceived with great favor —it is probable
the people of those islands will be per
mitted to enjoy their religion, undisturb
ed by the rude tread of our polished bar
barians.
“When Saul returned from Britain he
went to Corinth; and while there wrote
to us an epistle, in which he informed us
that the preaching of the Gospel of Je
sus ( hrist was now made manifest to all
nations—that the Scriptures and the
prophets were also made known to all
nations, according to the commandment.
In that epistle he expressed a strong de
sire to visit us again in Rome, on his
journey to Spain, that he might be com
forted with us by our mutual faith.—
That pi ensure we enjoyed in good time,
lie visited us again. My house and ail
I had were at his command. He wrote
many letters to the brethren while he
made bis home with roe. Ihe second
letter to your beloved son, Timotheus,
after he took charge ot the church at
Ephesus, was among the number This
gave us an opportunity of sending our
greeting to one who is beloved by us all,
and to urge him to visit us before the
winter commenced. While Saul was
with us, the circle of brethren increased, \
and we had much comfort in lach other s
society and instruction. Our happiness
seemed as perfect as it could be in this
world ; but it was of short duration.—
The Roman outrages upon the Britons
had increased under the reign of Nero.
Arviragus, called by the Romans Pra
suttagus, died, leaving immen-e wealth
to his daughters and to the Roman Em
peror. But the whole of it was taken
by the Romans. Ilia daughters were
violated, and his Queen, Boadieea, to
whom he had become reconciled, was
publiely scourged. This raised a (lame
throughout many of the kingdoms, and
Boadieea, at the head of a powerful ar
my, took vengeance into her own hands.
She slaughtered one hundred thousand
of her enemies, and captured and de
stroyed London, and other towns, in
possession of the Romans. The legions
of Rome were terror-stricken at first by
the magnitude of her forces, and the
rapidity of her movements; but they
soon rallied, and at last, the Britons were
routed and put to death in great num-
bers. The Romans were determined to
revenge the slaughter and destruction
which Boadieea had caused. r ilie Chris
tians and The Druids were regarded as
the cause of all these injuries to Rome ;
and they were destroyed wherever they
could be found. Nero’s passions be
came inflamed against the Christians from
this and some other causes, and Saul and
Peter were executed by order of that ty
rant. Peter was cruelly crucified ; but
Saul was beheaded, because it was un- j
lawful to crucify a Roman citizen- The
chief charge against Saul was that he ha*l
taught rebellion in Britain ; but we all
knew that Neither Saul nor the twelve
laborers in the vineyard, who went on
the same mission, taught any other po
litical doctrine than that of rer.deiing to
Csrsar the things that were Ctesar’s, as
taught by his master when on earth •,
and there was no more proof against
Saul, on this last trial, than there was
on the first; but his judges were differ
ent in their passions and motives. God
will reward him and them according to
(heir works. Let us hope (or better
things under the reign of the new Em
peror. I have, it is true, many painful
recollections of his prowess in more than
thirty battles with my countrymen, and
you may have many sighs foi your na
tion when you look upon the fresh lau
rels he has brought from Jerusalem.—
, He may have done many things in these
wars, which he would not, himself, de
fend in calni'r moments. But we ail
know that he is brave, noble, generous,
and possessed of exalted abilities. lam
willing to hazard my life in the success
of his reign. I feel assured that God
has raised him up to be a blessing to the
whole world. 1 have not yet seen him
since 1 was his physician and u.trse. —
But he w rote from Jerusalem to say to
Pudens, that he ‘ l*nged to see his pre
server, the pride of the Britons, and the
ornament of Rome.’ I confess to the
weakness of desiring his good opinion,
and I hope I do not sin w heu I feel a joy
in such praise, from such a source. My
heart flutters and my frame trembles as
I anticipate the delight I shall feel when
I see him again. What a change we
shall see in each other !
“This closes the history I promised
for the instruction of your children. 1
rejoice that the task is finished, because,
in relating the distressing scenes of the
past, a >adness comes over my heart.—
But I trust that this will soon disappear
in the realization of our bright hopes for
the future.
“ \Vritten by Claudia Rufina, at Rome,
to Eunice, at Herculaneum.”
Slxyf.Stf.auno in Missouri.—The Chica
go duress and Tribune Announces with a shout
of exultation, that 75 fugitive slaves, from
Missouri, passed through Grinnell, lowa, on
the 21st instant, on their way to Canada. —
They were well provided with weapons to
defend themselves against pursuers. The ne
groes were on tied from Missouri by aboli
tionists in Kansa, escorted through Nebras
ka to the lowa line, and then shipped via the
underground railroad to Chicago. The bu
siness is constantly going on, many trains
of slaves, accompanied by their abolitionist
conductors, passing through lowa, without
announcement of its arrival The farmers
oi Western Missouri feel severely the eflect
ot these depredations, and it is not to be
wondered at that they should inflict the most
frightful vengeance on their enemies when
ever they catch them.— St. Isjui* Keirs.
A Forgetful Minister.—A clergyman of
the olden time, the Rev. Mr. Paiker, of
Princeton, had been lor years in the habit of
praving for the British government; but, at
the*period of the eventful revolution, he, to
gether with most other clergymen of that
day, was opposed to the oppressive meas
ures of England. However, by a strange
absence of mind, he, one Sabbath, long after
America had been declared independent, fell
back upon his usual prayer :
“We beseech thee to bless the King and
Queen, and all the royal family.” Then
pausing, with evident embarrassment ar.d
vexation he added: “Pshaw! pshaw! it
was the Continental Congress I meant”
The Bank of Middletown, at Middle
town, Pa., having missed certain sums of
money, amounting to about $2,000, institu
ted investigations, which led to the detection
of the watchman of the bank, a German
named George Fulger, astlie thief. Having
secured the repayment of the sum abstract
ed, the officers of the bank allowed him to
wane.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
MACON, APRIL 1,1859.
Cotton Market.
M acon, March 31.
Nothing doing since steamer’s accounts.
We omit quotations. Receipt- very light.
Pro£ Britt&n's Lectures.
Professor Brit tan will deliver two Lec
tures at Concert Hall on Hunlay next, at 3
and at 7| o’clock, P. M.
Subject for the afternoon Lecture—The
Philosophy of Worship, or the Spiritual
idea of True Worship.
Subject for evening Lecture—The Nature
and Sources of Inspiration.
As this will probably close the Course of
the Professor in this city, those feeling any
interest in the important matters discussed
will do well to attend. Seats Free.
Private Instruction. —The members of
Prof. Brittan’s Class for private instruction
will meet this evening, Thursday, at half
past 7 o’clock, at the Hall of the Spiritual
Association, for the purpose of organization.
Persons desirous of joining the Class will
please attend at the hour.
Mr. Fleming’s Benefit.— A complimen
tary benefit comes of}’ to-niglit, at Ralston’s
Hall, in favor of Wm. M. Fleming, the gen
tlemanly and accomplished Lessee and Man
ager of the Savannah and Macon Theatres.
The play selected is the Shaksperian Trage
dy of the Merchant of Venice —Mr. Flem
ing as Shylock.
Personal. —The Hon. Kobt. P. Trippe
did us the honor of a call, on Monday last.
We were glad to find him looking the im
personation of health, hut regret to learn
that he will not allow his friends to use his
name again for re-election to the post he
has filled in Congress, so very satisfactorily,
for four years past.
The Hon, B. 11. Hill passed through
the city on Tuesday morning, on his way to
Twiggs Court.
Napoleon’s Concert.
Arthur Najioleon performs this even
ing, at Concert Hall, and we bespeak for
him and his Troupe a cordial reception.—
We copy an article from the Charleston
Mercury, in reference to this musical genius,
which will inform our readers as to the na
ture of the intellectual treat in store for us.
Let all attend and encourage the cultivation
of a pure taste for the science of harmony in
our midst.
City Election. —Dr. Gabriel Harrison
was on Monday last duly elected an Aider
man of the city, in room of Abram Adams,
Esq., resigned.
New Advertisements.
Maj. Comer offers a fine Plantation
for sale, with stock, farming utensils, Ac.
A number of active young men,
who are not afraid of work, can find some
thing to do and get paid for it, by calling on
James R. Butts, Esq.
&JT E. E instein notifies the public, pspe
cially the Ladies, that he has one of the
largest, richest and best stocks of Dry Goods
ever offered in the Southern market.
ge-g* Our merchants will notice that the
Central Railroad Cos. have relaxed one of
their rules so far as to make the payment of
the Freight bills the business of one day,
Wednesday, of each week, after 3 days’ no
tice, instead of being compiled to pay
freight before delivery of goods.
John A. Daniels, Esq., of Crawford
Cos., has a 1500 acre Plantation for sale.
ftirjf 0 Messrs. Greer A Freeman have a
great variety of good things in the eating
and drinking line. Families who desire
something l.ice should not pass by these en
terprising and industrious young gentlemen
without giving them a call.
Jfejy Our old friend Israel F Brown, for
merly of this city and Columbus, has estab
lished an agency, in connexion with his son,
at New London, Conn., for the purchase of
all kinds of Machinery, Steam Engines, Ac.,
for Southern customers. He is a practical
machinist himself, and from a long residence
in the South, in connexion with the manu
facture of Cotton Gins, &e., is well posted
as to the wants of the people. Those who
have occasion to send North for any articles
of Agricultural or other Machinery, will
find it to their interest to give their orders
that direction.
W. W. Woodruff A Cos., Carriage
Dealers in Griffin. Ga., of established and
extensive reputation in their line of business,
solicit the attention of our readers, general
ly, to their stock of fine Carriages, Buggies,
Ac. As our own Carriage men do not seem
to value “ printers’ ink'’ very highly, judg
ing by the little show made by them in the
newspapers, we feel the* moil free to com
mend the enterprize of W. W. W. A Cos. in
venturing to occupy the* ground thus left so
invitingly vacant. They will lie sure to put
money in their purse by the operation.
jgfcgr See Prospectus of the new pajter pro
nosed to be published in Augusta, by Col.
James Gardner.
Printers South, will find a notice of
Cortelyou’s New York Type Foundry and
Printer’s Warehouse, which may be worth
their notice.
Lola Montkz on Love.— Messrs. Dick
& Fitzgerald, of New York, have gent us,
through Mosers. lSichai'ds, several volumes
of light reading, among which is “Anec
dotes of Love, by Lola Montez.” We have
not had time to look into the work, but sup
pose that it will bo found interesting.
Books from Peterson. —T. B. Peterson
& Brothers have sent us several new works
— lranJtor, by Walter Scott; Sybil drey, *
novel, and Ladye of A'hnrone, by Geo. Lip
pard, constituting a sample of the uhiform
editions of these Philadelphia publishers.
Harper’s Monthly. —We are indebted to
Mr. J. M. Board man, for an early copy of
Harper for April.
Maj. Cooper Declines.— The Hon. M.
A. Cooper, in a letter to the Journal and
Messenger, positively and unequivocally de
clines permitting his name to be used in
connexion with the office of Governor of
Georgia.
Eighth District.— Col. James Gardner,
of the Augusta Constitutionalist, has been
named as a suitable person to represent the
Bth District in Congress, in room of the
Hon. A. 11. Stephens, who declines a re
election.
Hon. A. Iverson. —We do hope that the
intrigues of a portion of the Democracy to
supersede this gentleman as Senator in Con
gress will fail, utterly fail. His place can
not be better filled from the ranks of the
Democracy, and the opposition can have lit
tle hope or desire to supplant him, in the
position he has so honored by his eloquent
devotion to Southern Bights. But if the
decree has gone forth and its execution will
not be stayed by the ruthless leaders of
party, (for we do not think the people have
anything to do with the matter,) we would
respectfully suggest that Senator Iverson be
placed in training for tha position of Chief
Executive of the Commonwealth. In him,
the opposition to Gov. Brown can find a
leader that will hoist his Excellency “as
high as a kite.”
Our Semi-Weekly.
In consequence of the great pressure upon
our advertising columns, we have been, in a
measure, compelled_to make same arrange
ment, whereby we could the better accom
modate our city customers, with the neces
sary space for the display of their advertise
ments consistently with our desire to furnish
a well-filled family newspaper to those at a
distance who are not particularly interested
in the local news and business of Macon.—
With this object in view, we have com
menced the issue of a large semi-weekly
paper, to be chiefly devoted to the commer
cial interests of our people, which will ena
ble us to serve all our subscribers with just
such a journal as they may rcsj>octivcly
need, during the ensuing six months.
We invite the co-operation of our friends
in support of the enterprise, and to give
them an opportunity of so doing, we will
send this number of the new issue to all our
city subscribers, in the hope that all will al
low us to continue it to them in lieu of the
Weekly Citizen. Terms $3 per annum—
which is only 50 cents a year more than
they have each been charged, heretofore, for
the Weekly. If, however, any prefer to
continue to take the Weekly, they have
only to notify us of their wishes to have
them respected. We also solicit subscrip
tions to the Semi-Weekly, from our friends
in adjacent towns and neighborhoods where
the mail facilities are favorable.
The Semi- Weekly Citizen will be publish
ed on Monday and Thursday of each week,
and the Weekly on Friday—thus affording a
Tri-Weekly edition to those who desire it.
Advertisers will please hand in their fa
vors on Wednesdays and Saturdays, for the
succeeding issues. Advertisements publish
ed in the Semi-Weekly will also appear in
the Weekly without extra charge.
The terms of advertising in both editions
will not exceed 50 per cent, advance on the
usual rates in Macon for publication in a
weekly paper.
Both the Semi-Weekly and Weekly Citi
zen can be had for ?4,50 per annum, in ad
vance.
Robbery and Arrest.
On last evening two young men, by name
Geo. Thomas and Bernard Liddy, tempora
rily employed by Wm. Fish, London agent
of Picolomini, to take charge of baggage,
distribute programmes, Ac., robbed the
portmanteau of Mr. Fish of over ?<>oo in
money during the temporary absence of Mr.
Fish at Ralston’s Hall. On the return of
the latter to his room at Brown’s Hotel, af
ter the concert, he found everything in con
fusion—his portmanteau lock broken, and
money gone. He sought the services of po
lice officer Jeffries, who soon succeeded in
recovering nearly all of the missing money,
snugly stowed away bctw’een the linings of
a mattr*ss. Suspicion was aroused against
Thomas and Liddy, and they were arrested
and lodged in jail to await legal examina
tion. These tivo youths were formerly in
the employ of the Ullman Troupe, and w ere
only recently received by Mr. Fish, in char
ity, to enable them to get North. On open
ing one of the trunks of these fellows, there
w’as found a case of razors, which was rec
ognized as the p operty of the father of Pic
olomini, who was robbed on the passage
from Mobile to Montgomery last week,
doubtless by these same fellows. They are
now in a fair .wav to do some service to the
State, in return for this exhibition of their
precocious skill in villainy.
Notice.
All those who feel an interest in starting
a Baptist paper in Cherokee Georgia, are
requested to meet in Rome, Ga., on Tuesday,
the 20th instant, at 4 o’clock, P. M., at the
i store of J. H. McClung, Esq.
March 21st, 1850.
We clip the above from one of our Chero
kee exchanges merely to show that the Bap
tist people of Georgia are getting very sick
of their denominational paper, the “Index,”
under its present administration.
Political Movements.
w e notice that some of our American co
temporaries are agitating the subject of call
ing a Convention to organize, for the ensu
ing campaign, in opposition to the Democ
racy. In our opinion such a movement
now would be unwise, impolitic and prema
ture. There is, in truth, no American par
ty, now in Georgia, and we doubt the expe
diency of organizing under the obi issues,
even if any organization is thought desira
ble. What good can result from such a
measure ? It will be some two months, yet,
before the Democracy meet in Convention
to nominate their candidate for Governor,
and why should the opposition press antici
pate their movement or consolidate the now
discordant ranks of the enemy by attempt
ing a show of fight, before they know what
new principles and issues may arise to ex
cite their antagonism. We dissent, in Mo,
from the proposition, at present. We want
to see “what will turn up.” Already, some
of the Democratic politicians have got into
a snarl about his Excellency, Joseph, and if
the Americans will only keep their hands
off, and let “the unterrified” fight it out,
there may be some chance for the opposition
to profit by the “scrimmage.” In defence
of our principles we will go as far as the
next man, but rash and ill-advised move
ments are not always the most efficient.—
“Festina lente,” or “make haste slowly,” is
as good a umxitn in politics ns in anything
else, and we commend it to the calm consid
eration of those brethren who have an itch
ing to pitch into the mere partizan politics
of the day, merely for the fun of it, so long
before the enemy lias taken the field.
The Bane and the Antidote.
Our neighbor of the Telegraph has partial
ly made the “amende honorable’ to a class
of his supporters, by copying into his issue
of this week, the reply of Miss Amelia Jen
ny Dodds, of New York, to the article of the
New York Herald, abusive of Spiritualists
and Spiritualism, which latter he published
two weeks since. This act of justice would,
perhaps, have been more acceptable had the
Editor accompanied Miss Dodd’s response
with the same explanation publicly, that he
felt restrained to give privately to some of
the parties who felt agrieved at the publica
tion of the Herald article! As we have no
dispositi jn, however, to urge the matter fur
ther, ar.d will n< cept the amende as offered,
onlv suggesting that prudence would dictate
that it were better that the practice of mak
ing such assaults upon the religious faith
and customs of people is far “more honored
in the breach than in the observance.’’
Wars of the Factions.
The Atlanta Confederacy boldly charges
that a gross “bargain and sale” of the peo
ple of Georgia has been concocted by certain
prominent Democratic leaders of the State,
in the matter of political office and prefer
ment. The Confederacy’s article is too long
for our columns to-day, hut we cannot for
bear giving the conclusion of the extraordi
nary document:
“This whole ‘■bargain and gale’ was con
summated about six weeks ago in the classi
cal village of Dalton, the Hartford of Geor
gia, under the roof of Judge J£. R. Hardtß,
Agent at this place. Present, Gov. Brown.
John H. Lumpkin, John W. Lewis, Hon.
L. Crook and £. R. Harden—probably some
other lesser lights.
“From that date the Lumpkin opposition
is hushed, and Joseph The Immaculate be
comes a marvelously proper man for the re
nomination.
“We have gathered these facts from a
source that will not, cannot, and dare not lie
contradicted. We charge w ithout equivoca
tion, that Howell Cobb, John Henry Lump
kin and Joseph E. Brown, have entered into
a most corrupt ‘ bargain and sale’ of the peo
ple of Georgia, without their wishes or con
sent, for the purpose of furthering their own
individual plans and unholy schemes—by
w’hicli means they attempt to stifle the pop
ular voice, and forever crush the principles
of free Government. Will the people of
Georgia submit to it? or will they in their
majesty and power hurl this trio of corrupt
intriguers from place and position? We
know they should, and we believe they will.
We have respectable witnesses to substan
tiate what we have said, and when the par
ties deny the charges and call for the proof,
it can, will and shall be produced, or we
will retract all we have said and make the
amende honorable.”
According to the Confederacy, the scheme
of these politicians looks to placing Lump
kin in the U. S. Senate in lieu of Iverson,
to re-electing Brown Governor, and Howell
Cobh President. We have no means of
knowing whether there is any foundation
for the charges thus made by our Atlanta
cotemporary, but for the credit of the State,
we hope he has been misinformed on the
subject.
♦ a.
Prof. Brittan’s Lectures.
Prof. S. B. Brittan, of New York, com
moncod a series of Philosophical and Moral
Lectures, in this city, on Friday evening
last, which for logical power, eloquent dic
tion and beauty of illustration, have never
been surpassed, if equaled in this place. We
regret to say, however, that owing to sever
al circumstances, the audiences that have
favored him with their presence have been
limited. Had the Professor boon a magician
or sliglit-of-hand performer, or even an ex
port organ-grinder, he would have received,
doubtless, a more signal appreciation; but
on the great themes of life and immortality
—of the spiritual nature of man and the in
effable glories of the celestial worlds, and
kindred subjects, our people seem to have
no ears to hear and no eyes to see. The fact
is humiliating enough, and has long been a
standing reproach to our citizens. Were an
angel of light to announce a Lecture on the
sublime philosophy of the future, we have
no idea that he could enlist the attention of
any respectable portion of the community,
unless ho came accredited by some Pope or
Bishop of a popular theology. Such is the
lamentable state of ignorance, prejudice,
and materialism which exists among us.—
Wo seem to have little or no taste for the
beautiful in nature and art, or for the de
lights of a pure and elevated literature, hut
run with eager footsteps after every foreign
artiste or Ethiopian mountebank that may
happen to advertise an exhibition. In the
mean while, we are fast losing our character
as a moral and religious people. Our repu
tation, abroad, in these respects, is anything
but favorable to our self-love, if any of this
principle yet remains in our hearts. And
no wonder Mitcon will not compare favora
bly with other cities, when the sensual and
the doubtful and worse than useless amuse
ments of the hour are so extensively patron
ized, to the neglect of the good and the use
ful,'the refined and elevating entertainments
occasionally offered for our acceptance.
But we did not intend to read our people
a Lecture on the subject of morals, but in
our regret for their want of appreciation of
the profound Philosophy which is now be
ing illustrated in our midst, we have been
betrayed into an expression of fact which we
could wish were otherwise.
The following synopsis of Prof. Brittan’s
first Lecture, will serve to show the charac
ter of these Lectures, and also how much
our people generally have lost by not per
mitting themselves to hear them. Ilis oth
er Lectures have been equally interesting
and instructive in their character, hut we
have neither space nor time, even if we had
willing eyes to read what we might write
upon the subject:
In his first Lecture, which was on the
Natural Evidences of Immortality, Prof.
Brittan reasoned from the laws of matter
that there must he a wide realm of being,
peopled with innumerable forms, rendered
intangible to the outward organs of sensa
tion on account of the extreme attenuation
of the elements that enter into their organic
structures. It was shown that matter or
substance exists in a variety of states and
combinations so ethereal as to be invisible;
and likewise, that the most sublimated ele
ments are subject to the late of organization.
He contended that the Universe would be
incomplete if with an invisible realm of un
organiziid elements there were no corre
sponding sphere of organized and living
forms. In this connection the speaker re
ferred to the discoveries made by the use of
the microscope to show the foil}’of attempt
ing to define the limits of the organized
world by the unassisted capacity of the
physical senses. This course of analogical
reasoning appeared to warrant the speaker’s
conclusion, that there must be an Invisible
Creation —a world of ethereal forms, whose
refined elements and organic perfection cor
respond to our highest conceptions of the
spiritual.
The logic of the material philosophers was
next subjected to a searching trial. The
speaker admitted that they were right in as
suming that Matter is indestructible, and it
was shown by reference to the processes ol
Nature and the ordeals of Science, that Mat
ter only changes its forms, conditions and
combinations, while not a single ultimate
atom is ever lost. But if matter is inde
structible, Life must be immortal. The in
nate forces and essential laws that govern
the material elements are the revelations of
life and intelligence. Wherever matter ex
ists all its laws exist also, and not a single
ultimate particle can ever be removed be
yond their influence and control. The laws
of Matter are as universally displayed as the
physical elements are diffused, and they can
only cease to be operative when the elements
themselves are annihilated. As, therefore,
substance, form and life, must co-exist, it fol
lows tliut if the first of these be absolutely
indestructible, the last in the category must
be essentially immortal.
The speaker admitted that this argument
did not establish the idea that the separate
individualities among men would continue
after death, anv more than it proved that
their corporeal bodies would be preserved.
Thus far lie had only aimed to show that
the Life-principle it essentially imperishable.
To prove that Man is immortal in his indi
viduality he should depend on certain recog
nized tacts and principles, the occurrence
and existence of which could not be dis
puted without rejecting the experience of
mankind and disregarding the c laims of a
scientific philosophy.
The Lecturer observed that the elements
that enter into the composition and struct
ure of the human frame were, by natural
processes, gradually disengaged and thrown
off, and that other elements were taken up
and assimilated. In this manner the whole
body is changed in the course of each suc
ceeding jieriod of seven years. But the in
dividuality is not lost. On the contrary,
the identity is preserved through all similar
changes, so that the grev-haired sire who
has undergone eight or ten such transmigra
tions is conscious of having been the same
individual through the entire period of his
earthly existence. Memory still links the
conscious soul to all the past. This demon
strates that the individuality does not be
long to the body, and hence that it cannot
perish with the body.
It wat also observed that the amputation
of a limb neither circumscribes the sphere
of consciousness nor sensation—that the in
dividual who sustains such a loss still feels
that he is in possession of all the members
necessary to a complete manhood. Mr.
Brittan insisted that if consciousness and
the exercise of the faculties necessarily de
pended on the body these powers would, in
all cases, be limited by whatever serves to
diminish the sphere of organic action. If
the limbs could thus lie severed without im
posing any such limitations, the speaker
maintained that the boflv mv e eomnlete
ly demolished, and yet all the powers of life,
and sense, and thought may remain.
The sj>eaker next referred to the illustra
tions of eight, hearing; and the exercise of
all the powers of sensation, under circum
stances that preclude the use of the physical
organs. The somnamhule and the magneto
clairvoyant seer do not use the organ of
vision ; but they often sense the presence,
fornis and qualities of men and tnings far
more perfectly than those who do employ ;
the physical organs. They see more clearly, (
and discern many things that are invisible
to ordinary observers. If the senses can
thus be exercised independently of their cor
poreal organs, it follows that the organic :
instruments of the mind may all be laid
aside or destroyed without disorganizing
the mind itself.
The speaker's concluding argument was
founded on the experience of such persons
as have fallen into trances, resembling the
post-mortem state, and on the observations
of those who have witnessed such occur
rences. Cases were cited in which vital
motion and all outward signs of life were
suspended—the body being cold, rigid and |
motionless—while, at the same time, con
sciousness and reason, sight, hearing, etc., !
all remained unimpaired, as was most clear
ly proved by the subsequent disclosures of
the persons themselves. In many cases the
faculties of the mind are thus active when
there is no cerebral action, and the exer
cise of every corporeal organ is suspended
by a total paralysis. It follows, therefore,
that the human faculties may continue to
be exercised lor an indefinite period, and
hence that the mind does not necessarily
depend for its existence on the preservation
of the body.
The material philosophy, said the speak
er, represents the earth which we inhabit as
the great tomb of the world, while the hea
vens above us are but a star-lighted mauso
leum overshadowing the ashes of the un
numbered dead. Even here, on this mighty
sepulchre, I stand to-day, and hear the in
spiring voices of Nature and Nature’s God
proclaiming “the Resurrection ani> the
Life.”
An “ Arctic ” Breeze.
There was an exhibition here last week of
a painting purporting to be an accurate de
lineation of I)r. Kane’s Arctic Expedition,
under the charge of a Mr. W. H. Paul &
Cos. Either Paul or his Agent, one C. B.
Butters, sent us an advertisement from At
lanta marked for insertion as an advertise
ment, with an order in pencil for us to pub
lish. This we did in the first issue of our
paper after receipt of the order. But lo! on
sending our little bill,'on Saturday morning,
for collection, it was repudiated. Subse
quently either Paui or his Agent, for we do
not personally know either, called at our of
fice and in a very vulgar and insolent way
refused to pay the account. He also grab
bed the ‘advertisement copy and the “ evi
dence of debt,” —viz., the order aforesaid—
and was about to tear them in pieces, when
he was forcibly prevented from doing so !
This attempt, however, showed the fellow's
rascality , and if consummated would have
written him down a felon in fact as well as in
intent. Under these circumstances we were
compelled to arrest Mr. Paul, the principal,
and hold him to bail for the small debt of
$2 50, for which he gave bail, and placing
a deposit of $5 in the hands of his security,
left for Columbus, where he now is. To dis
tinguish this Panorama man from the pro
prietor of another exhibition at Savannah,
and still another, lately on exhibition at
Louisville, Kv., each said to be the original
and genuine Panorama of I)r. Kane’s Arc
tic Expedition,- we will add that this compa
ny have a dog with them called Myonk —said
to be the best part of the exhibition, with a
peacock flag, etc.
j We give the parties this “ special notice”
! without fee or hope of reward except what
arises from the conscientious discharge of
I the duty imposed upon us of guarding the
fraternity of the Press, west, against the
! meanness of a fellow, who would attempt to
cheat the printer out of his bill of advertis
ing, where said advertisement was accom
panied with an editorial reference, and was
in season for three different exhibitions of
the Panorama; Pass him round, brethren!
lie will bear watching!
For the Georgia Citizen.
Hon. B H. Hill aud the Past.
Dr. Andrews, —Indulge me in a few re
flections on the past. It is but right that
1 the past in polities be brought to our mem
ory and pass in review before the present. —
j Some four or five years ago the Congress of
the United States passed a bill called the
Kansas bill, and in that Territorial bill, for
I the first time in the history of this govern
\ ment, Congress delegated the special power
to the people of the Territory the right to
i regulate their domestic institutions in their
; men way. Why was that bill worded dif
ferently from all other Territorial bills?—
Why did Congress give to the peofde of that
Territory the exercise of rights that no peo
ple of any former Territory ever enjoyed?
Why was it made the exception? Let the
I leaders of the Democratic party answer.—
i Let Toombs and Stephens, and their pet, .Ste
phen A. Douglass, answer! That man that
some of the speakers and writers lauded so
high—that man who was defending the
rights of the South in Illinois! Let popu
lar sovereignty, or squatter sovereignty—
that thing that abolished and excluded slave
ry from Kansas—answer! Douglass framed
the bill, and every Southern member to
! Congress who voted for that bill knew
squatter sovereignty was in it; hilt, worst of
all, they voted to delegate a power to the
people of Kansas Territory that Congress
did not possess; to wit, to abolish, establish
or exclude slavery from Kansas. The Su
preme Court of the United States, in the
Dred Scott decision, says Congress cannot
exclude, abolish or establish slavery in the
Territories. Then if Congress has not the
! power, how can Congress delegate the pow
, er? It is too late in the day for Southern
! Senators, who voted for the Kansas bill, to
rise in the Senate now and denounce gqnat
j ter sovereignty, for if they had not the sa
gacity to detect it themselves, Gen. Cass
told them it was there in the Kansas bill.—
He intended they should not be mistaken,
and Mr. Douglass told them that the prin
ciple that heat Gen. Cass for the Presidency
in 1848 in the South, and for which princi
ple Gen. Cass was a martyr, namely, squat
ter sovereignty, was in the Kansas bill.—
My purpose in writing now, is to bring to
your mind, and the minds of the people of
Georgia, the facts stated and arguments
made by the Hon. B. H. Hill, in 1850 and
1858. He told coming events with the sa
gacity and wisdom of a statesman. He told
the people of Georgia that squatter sove
reignty was in the Kansas bill. Tooml>s,
Stephens, and all the cross-road politicians,
denied it was there. Mr. Stephens said,
“Elect the Democratic candidate for Prcsi-
dent, and the country is quieted and the
rights of the South are secured.” Mr. Hill
said, “ If you sustain the Democratic party,
and elect its candidate for the Presidency,
you will continue the same policy and un
settled state of things.” Mr. Hill said,
“ Elect the Democratic candidate for Presi
dent, and, my word for it, it will neither
bring quiet to the country nor secure the
rights of the South in the Territories.” As
Mr. Hill said it would be, so has it come.—
Mr. Hill has a mind that can penetrate the
future; that can tell future effects of present
causes. He has a depth and breadth of
thought but few men have. He is a clear,
pure and original thinker. With a master
hand Mr. Hill painted the future and un
folded to view the corruptions of the pres
ent. Let eighty millions, taken to support
the government, (while Mr. Stephens said
forty millions was sufficient,) say if Mr.
Hill wa a not right in his charges of corrup
tion. Let a government, bankrupt and dis
graced, say if Mr. Hill was not right in his
charges of corruption. Let'a once peaceful
and happy, but now distracted and section
alized country say if Mr. Hill was not right
in his charges of corruption! Let truth,
justice, purity, patriotism, and family altars
say if Mr. Hill was not right in his charges
of corruption upon the Democratic party.—
His country will respect him for the hones
ty and nobleness of his nature! His coun
try will honor him for the simplicity and
grandeur of his intellect. Lowndes.
Arthur Napoleon.
M. Napoleon is one of the most remarka
ble musical geniuses of the age. He was
born in Oporto in 1844, and in 1850, when
only six years of age, he played with suc
cess before the Court of Portugal. In 1853
he first appeared in Paris, where he played
at the mo3t fashionable parties, and received
the utmost praise from the first musical crit
ics of the French capital. On his visit to
LondoD, immediately following his Paris tri
umphs he was not so successful; bat in the
provincial towns, Leeds, Liverpool, Manches
ter, Ac., he won great reputation. In Dub
in he achieved the first great triumph of his
history, where he was made the recipient ct
a piece of plate, presented in behalt of the
public by the Lord Mayor. In 1854 he re
turned to London, which then revoked her
former decision and received the wonderful
child with enthusiasm. He has since visited
the chief continental cities of Europe, and is
now making a tour in the United States. —
He is still a mere youth, but possesses a pow
er at once surprising and gratifying. He not
ODly executes the most difficult pieces of
Thalberg and Listz, but will improve re
markably. A competent critic in character
izing young Napoleon, thus alludes to his
delicate and refined taste, as evidenced by
the most exquisitely soft, elastic, and liquid
touch we have ever heard , the marvellous
precision with which the exact degree of
pressure that is required, is given to every
individual note, so that, mors especially in
sustained cantabile passages, and in those
where a melody is heard contemporaneous
ly with arpeggios and other ilorid devices of
the modern pianoforte school, the effect is
more truly vocal than can easily be conceiv
ed possible, as coming from an instrument
of short percussion, like the pianoforte ; the
consummate judgment W’ith which he intro
duces alterations in the time, exactly at the
proper points, and up to the proper degree;
and lastly, the unity and continuousness of
sentiment which he contrives to impress on
, whatever he performs, so that, more than
any other performer, he gives you the idea
of listening to a definite discourse full of the
richest poetry and symmetrical in all its parts.
Charleston Mercury.
The African S ave Trade.
It is said to be a foul bird that defiles its
own nest. We have been painfully aston
ished to find Southern men and journals
raising a hue and cry against Southern men
for attempting to force an issue upon the
law restricting the African slave trade.—
That there can be found anywhere in the
federal Constitution express authority for
the passage of such a law, no one will pre
tend to say : and, as we have before said, it
is dangerous for the South, being the minor
ity section of the government, to permit any
doubtful construction of that instrument. It
matters not who did or who did not vote
for the law prohibiting the African slave
trade. Southern men might have done so,
under circumstances vastly different from
these that now exist. The wisest of men
(and we conceed the framers of the federal
Constitution to have been as wise men as
ever existed) could not have anticipated th •
necessities of a country like ours. With the
number of slaves that were in the colonies
at the time of the formation of this Govern
ment, and the unremunerativeness of their
labor, our ancestors may be pardoned the
belief that the institution would become bur
densome from its natural increase. But
could they be restored to life to-day, they
would not be more astonished at the neces
sity for mote slaves, than they would be at
the vast demand tor every species of labor
and the enormous increase of popu'at on,
territory, commerce, manufactures, internal
improvement, Ac. Not realizing the neces
sity for more slaves, they omitted, in the
Constitution, to provide expressly for their
future importation ; but are we to inter from
this that they repn bated the slave trade
arid esteemed it piratical and a moral wrong?
Certainly not; because if they had so is
teemed the traffic in slaves, they would have
been derelict in duty not to have at once
provided for ils extinction by positive and
unequivocal legal enactment. The truth is,
they considered slaves property, s iVjoct to
the general laws and circumstances govern
ing property ; they had thrown all the self
guards that their wisdom and foreright could
conceive, mound the rights of persons and
property, and they had, therefore, reason to
believe that no attempt would be made >o
Congress in after time, to transcend the strict
letter of its delegated poweis, and pass laws
discriminating between the rights of prop, r
ty North and South. They did not give Con
gress the right to prohibit the African slave
trade and we defy any one to show us the
clause in the Constitution that does. Wheth
er they designed to give that iight or not, is
a matter of no momeat. The right never
has existed, and circumstane s now demand
that it should not exist.
The increasing demand for slaves and the
product of slave labor is sufficient argument
against the right to prohibit the importation
of slaves. We have no patience with those
sickly sentimentalists Smith, whoprate about
the immorality of the traffic, or the resistance
to a law which is predicated in error. Their
sophisms are of a piece with the cant of
these Northern hypocrites who prob-s® to
believe that the curse of Heaven will rest
upon all who, in the remotest degree, toler
ate the institution of slavery. We have no
ticed, of late, editors and correspondents at
the South, who have abundance of ciocko-
Jile tears to shed over an infraction of the
African slave trade law, that scarcely ever
no ice the practical nullification, North,of tie
fugitive slave law. They allow no latitude
of opinion to a Southern man ; they will not
permit him to test at his own risk the con
stitutionality of what he deems an unconsti
tutional federal enactment; but they join in
the hue and cry of those who have for years
robbed us of our slaves with impunity, and
deplore the degradation of the Southern Afri
can slave-trader! More than this, they have
the art to commend their sentiments North,
and the press of that section, delighted with
the novelty of arraying the South against it
self, take up their productions, give them
prominence, and seDd them forth to their
own people as evidences of Southern admis
sion ot the moral and political evils of slave
ry ! We do not care one jot or tittle wheth
er the projectors of the expeditions of the
Haidee, the Echo and the Wanderer, were
right or not. Acting upon their own respon
sibility, and impelled by a consciousness of
right, we are willing to leave them to a fair
test of the power of this Government to
prohibit the slave holder from purchasing
slaves where “they can be most advantage
ously obtained. If we believed them wrong,
we would not prejudge their cause by say
ing so; but believing them right, we will
never cry on their federal persecutors, nor
join in denouncing that as piracy and mor
ally wrong, because done in Africa, which is
legally and morally right when done in Qeor
gia f
But there is another view which the op
ponents of the African slave trade South
take of this question. They assume that
those who encourage it are countenancing
rebellion to law, and giving our Northern
anti-slavery enemies just cause for renewed
acts of aggression upon the South. They
say that, having heretofore planted ourselves
upon the constitution and the laws, we were
panopled in the strong aimor of right and
justice; but that now we have deserted our
strong position and taken one fatally vul
nerable, and which will be sure to invite at
tack. To this we reply, first, that resistance
i to an unconstitutional law is not rebellion.
For a long number of years it was held by
many that the Missouri Compromise was a
constitutional law, while others denied it. —
The test was made, and it has been pro
nounced by coupe teat authority, unconsti-
I tutional. Would resistance to that law have
i been rebellion ? Certainly not, ibr being un
authorized by the Constitution, it was no
! law. Such we hold to be the condition of
the law restricting the African slave trade.
! Second, while we would give to Northern
fanaticism no just provocation for renewed
aggressions upon the South, neither would
we have Southern men abate one jot or tit
tle of their honestly conceived rights, from
fear of their enemies. So far, no resistance
1 has been made to the law, by those said to
have been engaged in the recent importation
of Africans. It lacks demonstration that any
law has been violated, and but for the very
i tender susceptibilities of certain editors aud
their correspondents South, who, with more
| zeal than discretion, deferred to Northern
anti-slavery prejudice by a hasty denuncia
j tion of the men of their section, who, ifguil
! ty of wrong, were amenable to and about
; to undergo the scrutiny of law—there would
j probably have been no excitement upon the
subject of the African slave-traders. Most
of the feeling upon this subject, we are sor
ry to say, has been stimulated by a Soutb
j ern press—a press that scouts the idea of a
separation from the nullifying States of Mas
; sacliusetts and Vermont; a press that lauds
! to the skies a Union in which slave-holders
j are murdered for attempting to get their
j property under the law; a pres3 that coun
• sels Southern submission to unconstitutional
federal legislation, and can realize no evil—
not even the complete subjugation of its sec
tion —of equal magnitude w'th that of a dis
solution of an unjust and discriminating gov
ernment. By such a press, have the North
-1 ern hounds been cryed on to their malicious
sport of hunting down slave-holders and
slave traffickers!
And for what has all this hue and cry
been raised ? Because men of the
j conscious in their belief that the Constitution
does not sanction the law restricting the
foreign trade in slaves, were willing, at their
own risk, to test the right of Government to
say that the South should not procure from
whence she pleased laborers for her rice
fields, her cotton and sugar plantations, her
mines and her factories, while the North is
unrestricted in her right to import laborers
for any purpose she may deem proper. Be
cause, it may be, these men actually believe
that more slaves are needed at the South,
and that a direct judicial issue will determine
the question of a right to import them in
their favor, are they to be denounced as “pi
rates,” rebels, disorganizers, Ac. ? There
may be honest differences of opinion upon
the policy of introducing more slaves into
the country, but must men be viilified, and
that too b} their own home press, because
they favor su‘h introduction? Why, there is
hardly a Southern State that has not, in
some way or other, advocated the policy of
more intimately identifying every class of
her citizens with the institution of slavery.
It has been proposed in Georgia Legislatures
to exempt one or more negroes from leyy
and sale, in order to induce poor men to pur
chase them, and thereby become pecuniari
ly intonated in a spreies c f property for the
protection of wh’ch, at a future day, their
services may bo needi and! Can they ever
hope to become the of such pro
perty at its present enormously high prices?
And if there are men at the Somh who
think that the best way to subserve the end
which Southern legislatures would secure by
exemptions of negroes from levy and sale,
is to introduce more slaves, and thus bring
their price down to a point within the reach
of the poor man, are they to be bitterly as
saulted for their opinions? We are astonish
ed at the war which has been made by a
Southern press upon Southern men, for fa
voring the importation of slaves. There is
neither patriotism nor justice in it. It is a
subject upon which we nay agree to disa
gree, but certainly we should tolerate free
dom of opinion, and not assail with bitter
ness those who conscientiously differ from
us. If slaves ate imported, ami the people
will purchase them, it is an evidence that
they arc needed ; but if they cannot find
purchasers, they will not be imported
These are sell- vident propositions, and why
contest them ? If public sentiment at the
South is again-1 tlie African slave trade, it
will manifest itself by refusing to accept
slaves procured through its agency. This,
we esteem, the proper view for the South to
take of the subject. As we have said in a
previous article, if there'should prove to be
an imperative demand for more slaves to
subserve the great and growing interests of
the South, no law of Governme .t will be
permitted to obstruct their imports! iun. It
will have to be repealed, if a constitutional
law, or it will be disregarded, if unconstitu
tional. lex abolition Ism rant and rail as much
us it pleases.— Griffin Jnd. South..
More Federal Corruptions.
The Washington Correspondent of the
Richmond Enquirer (Gov. Wise’s organ)
writes as follows to that paper :
“In my last I eave a furtive glance at the
state of the General Post Office Department.
This branch of the Government is absolutely
bankrupt, not so much from the want of a
self-paying revenue as from the corruption
which is said to exist in the matter of con
tracts for carrying mails to the Western
States. If Congress, or anybody else, doubts
what is the opinion of those who ought to
know the modus operandi by which the ‘fat
hogs’ are greased for Presidential purposes
by Presidential aspirants connected with
that department, let them call for the } tapers
on file belonging to the different divisions
represented from the figure 1 upwards.—
Seven million of dollars, at the end of the
present fiscal year, will hardly supply the
deficit in the ways and means to meet i*s
wants. I would like to see the comparison
made between the condition in which this
Department was when Judge Campbell left
it on the 4tli of March, 1857, and what it will
be on the 4th of March, 1861. Campbell
was io aspirant for the Presidential chair,
and, consequently, contractors and corrupt
Congressmen, who had their fiugers in the
contract pies, had to respect and abide the
laws made to protect the Post office reveuue.
It is how 3aid, however, that-things there
are greatly changed for the worse.”
The Alleged Abominations of Spirit
ualism—Eeply to Dr. Hatch.
Tt the Editor of the New York Uerald. —
In your Sunday morning Herald, March G
I perceive that B. F. Hatch has taken the
liberty to usi my name in a connection with
his abuse of spiritualists which places me in
a false position before the numerous readers
of your wide spread and useful journal. This
I beg leave to correct, and have no doubt
that you will grant me the favor. Your ed
itorial notice of Mr. Hatch’s letter renders it
important that I should do so.
I have, Mr. Editor, delivered no lecture in
defence of libertinism, as Mr. EL insinuates
by placing my name in the category with
such vile characters. My lecture was against
that, odious sentiment, and in defence of the
sanctity of the marriage institution. I la
bored to sustain the majesty of the law and
the right of the community to interfere in
this matter, and bring the violators of the
law to justice so long as the law continued
in force. True, I recommended an amend
ment of this law, or the enactment of anew
one, so as to enable the poor as well as the
rich to obtain a divorce before some legally
appointed officer of the government, without
incurring the great expense and publici’y that
the parties are now compelled to encounter,
and which deter many an abused and suffer
ing wife from the attempt. Still, I decided
ly maintained that it should be done accord
ing to law, on the proof being presented to
that appointed officer of the truth of the suf
ferings of the complaining party; and that
on the strength of this the divorce be de
manded as a legal right.
I profess, sir, to be a Christian spiritualist,
and contend that Iroth marriage aud divorce
should stand on Bible grounds, sustained by
law. But Mr. Hitch’s object is to impress
the public mind that I am an advocate of lib
ertine principles, have delivered a lecture in
defence of that od.ous sentiment of which,it
would s- ere, lie confesses himself to have
been a professed and practical advocate, and
“ for his timely escape from amoDg those
who cherish such principles he thanks his
God far more than for any other event of
his life.’ If his professed reformation shall
prove to be sinceie, I certainly congratulate
him on his ibrtunate escape, believiug that,
in his case at least, there will be 14 more joy
in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth
than over ninety-nine Just persons who went
not astray.”
I feel myself by no means disposed to un-
I dertake the humiliating task of answering
the article of Mr. Hatch in detail. I shall
only defend myself against his foul insinua
tions. He has jroured out the vials of his
wrath upon certain spiritualists, whom he
denounces as destitute of all moral principle,
and with whom he once fondly associated ;
then calls me by name, and by an intention
al misrepresentation of my sentiments, places
ine in the ranks of his former bosom friends,
whom he now denounces as the most un
principled of our race, so as to fasten upon
me the odium of the community as a public
lecturer. This I feel it my duty to correct,
even in a man who makes it a part of his
business to abuse females. I feel no dispo
sition, Mr. Editor, to show the inconsisten
cy of a man who, in his first article, admits
I spiritualism to be true, and then arguing that
truth is infernal and can be made a damage
and curse to the community, and renders its
sincere advocates a set of unprincipled be
i ings. The admission that Christianity is true
would, on this ground, prove it to be a curse
to the community, and all sincere Christians
unprincipled beings tor believing and advo
cating its truth. Among the disciples of
Christ there was a Judas, who sacrificed him
for money. But did this prove Christianity
to be demoraliz.ng, or that the other eleven
disciples were unprincipled scoundrels? In
all ages there have been in the Christian
Church Judases, base hypocrites and false
pretenders, who remained there for the sake
of popularity and the hope of gain in their
business puisuits, so long as it would sub
serve their selfish interests. But when these
failed to answer their unprincipled ends,
they could turn, and, like Jupiter swagger
ing on the top of Olympus, hurl at the devo
ted heads of true Christians a thunderbolt,
and half believe they had done God service
and rendered the unbelieving community a
favor. ArnoDg all Christian denomi; ations
now on earth there have been and still are
Judases - false pretenders, oppressors of the
widow and the fatherless, thieves, robbers
and swindlers, and murderers, and even lib
ertines of the most degrading character, who
perhaps can descend so low as to introduce
their own wives to women of ill fame ns
companions, and who practically set the
sanctity of t e marriage covenant and ail hu
man and divine laws that sustain it at defi
ance. And many of these have been con
victed, and not only filled our State prisons,
but others have been executed upon the
gallows, and even among these clergymen
have been numbered. But, dear sir, does
this prove that the doctrine of Christ is de
moralizing, or that all pure minded clergy
men and all other sincere Christians are also
destitute ol all moral principle ? By no means;
and those who argue in this manner judge
others bv themselves.
That the same miserable characters, Ju
dases and hypocritical pretenders, are pro
fessed spiritualists is freely admitted. For
the hope of gain they enter their ranks, reap
perhaps a rich harvest, deny even their lec
turing wives the common comforts of life,
so as to embezzle their hard earnings, ami
when cut short of the golden harvest, turn
upon them in holy wrath—curse the causa
of spiritualism, hold on to the ill gotten gain,
and endeavor to ruin the reputation of their
bosom companions, who brought money into
their hands which they were unable to earn
for themselves. Ah, there is nothing like
[Ki’iey. But that all this proves spiritualism
false, or its truth demoralizing, or that its
sincere advocates are unprincipled scoun
drels, I have yet to learn. All this has no
power to change the purity of an Edinonds,
a DaVis, a Warner, a Talrnadge, and thou
sands of others, or prove them to be unprin
cipled rnen because they are true spiritual
ists. They stand on a mental and moral ele
vation far beyond the reach of Mr. Hatch.
Spiritualists have no written creed, no or
ganization as a body, and have no right to
deal with un:u!y and unprincipled professors
of spir.tualism. Each stands or falls on his
or her own responsibility, leaving them to
the keen and searching glance and scrutiny
of public opinion. That is the grand tribu
nal to which ail the spiritualists appeal, be
fore which .they stand, and at wh;ch Mr.
Hatch as well as they must be tried.
AMELIA JENNY DODS.
Brooklyn, March 10, 1859.
An Extraordinary Case.
A Clergyman Arrested for Forgery whi' f
P> caching a Funeral Sermon. —The Cleve
land Phindealer of the 11th relates the fol
lowing extraordinary case;
We had an interview with Mr. I s * 4o
Reynolds, of Trumbull county, last eveninf’
who had just returned from Glen wood,
Mills county, lowa, where he owns soffi e
land. He gave us an item of interest 1,1
last Monday afternoon, as the Rev. William
Watson, the pastor of the Methodist Church
in Glcnwocd, was preaching a fucer&l ser
mon, he was arrested by officers from an * ■’
joining county for passing counterfeit money
The people in attendance at the funeral we* 9
so incensed at the officers that they thrust
them from the house, and they concluded to
retire until the obsequies were concluded.”
The clergyman did not accompany the p rL
cession to t.he grave, and the officers arres.
ed him.
They previously searched his house, in the
cellar of which they found inks, presses, p 8
pers, rolling machines, and the entire api ‘
ratus for the manufacture of counterfeit * D
bills. They also found about SI,OOO incoui
terfeit bills, S3OO of which were 10 3 on |,J *
Forest City Bank of this city, and **
S2OO in s’s on the State Bank of Ohio. e
clergyman made a clean breast of the 1113
ter. He became connected with somecoun
terfeiters al>out two years ago, and as be *
been in early life an engraver, he had bei D
a very useful and hard-working member j