Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 December 1865 — Page 1

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A Strange Story of Fanaticism.

[From the Detroit Free Press.].

The quiet village of Battlo Crook was thrown into groat excitoment on Saturday last by the discover}' of the dead bodies of three children, tinder circumstances which strongly induced suspicions of foul play. A coroner's jury was at oneo summoned and a thorough investigation of the affair was commenced, but. was not concluded when our informant left. The inquiry has developed a condition of social affairs which is almost too much for credulity to swallow. That, in this latter half of the Nineteenth Century, in the midst of a christian community, persons of both sexes should herd together like cattle, in furtherance of a wild religious fanaticism, almost surpasses belief. When they go still further, and add to their previous crimes the most heinous one known to the laws of God and man, tho community in wliif.h they live may bo pardoned for exhibiting symptoms of unusual excitement.

The circumstances of the case, so far as developed, appear to bo about as follows: Last spring a Mrs. Leonard left her husband at Ypsilanti and went to Battle Creek, taking with her five children, two by Leonard and three by a former husband. It seems that she was a believer in the doctrines of modern spiritualism, and was led to desert her husband through instructions from the spirit world. She herself possessed the power of communicating with spirits, being, in the parlance of that sect, a "medium." By advico from the same supernatural source she dropped the name of Leonard, and being matrimonially joined, according to the ordinance in vogue in the spiritual world, to her first husband, again assumed his name and called herself Mrs. ITaviland. When she reached Battle Creek with her children she had $500 in money, and set up in housekeeping by herself. About this period another character appears upon tho stage in tho person of Doctor Baker, of Adrian, who was also a spiritual medium of great repute among his sect. Doctor Baker boarded with Mrs. Ilaviland.— The house was a great resort for spirt itualists, there being many of thatsecin and about Battlo Creek, and "circles" and "seances" were the principal occupation of the gifted doctor and his pupils for it appears that the Ilaviland house was a sort of spiritual academy for the training up of female mediums through the superior knowledge and gift of the doctor. A Miss Merritt, of Iona, a medium, was of the household, and a Miss Hannas, of Battle Creek, a young lady of seventeen years of age, was a boarder in the family. She was developing her gifts, with tho help of the other mediums, as a "test medium that is, the veracity of spirits in general, and loquacious ones in particular, was tested through her superior gifts. It was said she"developed" more rapidly than any test medium ever known in these parts, being quick-witted and shrowd. The academy went on with swimming success through tho summer and fall, and furnished incontrovertible spiritual evidence of the conversion of tho unbelieving.

About four weeks ago tho doctor borrowed SG00 of Miss Merritfc and bought a lot in tho outskirts of the town, upon which ho built his castle in the shape of a board shanty with one room, where he moved the three womeq above mentioned and the five children, and they all lived together, continuing to "develop" the young lady as a test medium. Wonderful things were related of her powers in capacity. She could go into a tranco and when sho arrived back again to this mundane sphere would relato wonderful things of what sho had seen and talked with any deceased friond you might name, and could describe him or her exactly as ho or sho appeared in this life, tho dress, size, color of hair and eyes,

"Wj mair o' horrible and awful, Which e'en to namo wad bo unlawful."

The party wero getting ready to travel and astonish tho world by a public display of their intimacjr with the spirits. Mrs. Ilaviland had procured a place for her two children named Leonard, and had told the other three that sho would tako care of them. Ou Saturday afternoon last, some children living in the neighborhood wero playirg.near the shautj', when tho two Leonard children made their appearance. On being asked where their older brothers and sisters were, they said they were dead. The children ran homo and told their pa-

renfs, somo of whom immediately via-/ tent also of cobblers, during the oxerited the shanty, and found tho report I ciso of their craft, being deemed by

Thursday about noon. tho second, a boy, aged six years, di.cd on Friday morning at 10 o'clock and tho third, a boy eight years old, died on Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Miss Merriti says sho asked the doctor what they should do with the children if they died, and he said he would make a box and bury them on his lot. They claimed that the children died with the scrofula. .It was generally believed, however, that these mediums, "wishing to travel and not be encumbered with the children, determined quietly to remove them to a bettor sphere. Considering that they could be with them and enjoy their society quite as much in the spiritual world, without the inconvenience of taking care of them and providing them with bread and butter and clothes, the plan, no doubt, seemed a veiy sensible one.

A post mortem examination of the bodies of the children was then made by Drs. Cox, French and Saunders, tho result of which was that the children were healthy, and had the appearance of being poisoned. The stomachs wero taken out by the doctors, and the contents were in process of being analyzed when our informant left. The

The Mormons.

[From tho Chicago Republican.]

Brigham Young is said to bo about sending Mormon missionaries to Turkey, Syria and Egypt a trouble which he need not take, considering that polygamy is far from being as common in the East as generally supposed.— Thc'great majority of Mahommedans havo only7 one wife, and none but great pashas or nabobs aro able to kee'p extensive harems.

The Mormons, however, seem determined to out-Turk the Turks, and Brigham Young is reported to have 185 wives, Silas Itoeder 129, Jeremiah Stern 111, Job Billisen 93, Julius Hoffman 92, Ilabacuc Croatzy 91, and Gideon Ruffian 84. These gentlemen, we suppose, aro tho notabilities of Salt Lake, particularly tho last named.— Bingham's oldest wife is not over fortynine, and his }-oungest not abovo fourteen, while ho is the survivor of no fewer thin twenty-eight spouses. Silas Roeder, the noxt in authority among the saints, as might be supposed, is so apt to forget the names of his wives that he has to call them by numbers.

The masses in tho Mormon country havo only one wife, and the average does not exceed two or threo apiece.— Brigham Young is the reputed father of 24-4 children, of whom thirty-two are dead. The surviving balance of 212 consists of 85 boys and 12S girls. Silas Roeder is thrice and Jeremi-ah Stern nine times Brigham's brother-in-law, these worthies having respectively married threo and nine sisters of their chief's wives. Tho preponderating nationality among tho male inhabitants is that of Sweden, and the Danes come next. The Scotch, noted for their metaphysical propensities, surviving all tho whisky of the land of Burns, outnumber the .Norwegians. Next to them are tho Swiss, Germans, and Americans. As l'or tho French, there are only two in all the vast Mormon domains, and there are not more than three Italians, and only one Spaniard, air isolated representative of Don Quixote in Salt Lake. As far as tho female population is concerned, it is noteworthy that there is not a single Frenchwoman, while there aro eight Italians and two Spanish women, and even 1 representative of classic Oireoeo. A French lady would be lookod upon as tho most precious of acquisitions, and other Latin females aro also in great domand, in proportion to their greater scarcity. The majority of the women come from tho United States, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Germany, and Mexico.

Not a few of tho settlers havo been tailors, shoemakers, &c., in the old country. The Mormon agents, with a keen appreciation of the influence of occupation on tho mind, ransack tho tailor and cobbler shoos of Scandina-

via and Scotland with peculiar zest, the singular posture and meditative opportunities of tailors, and to some cx-

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oner's jury were awaiting the result of such analyzation before deciding upon their verdict. The parties had been placed under arrest until the facts of the ease could be more fully investigated. The affair naturally created considerable excitement in tho town, and the greatest indignation was manifested toward tho inhuman mother who could perpetrato such a deed upon her own offspring.

to bo true. Tho woman Leonard alias these agents, as especially productive field Houso, is estimated at betwoen Haviland, said that the A-oungest, a of a susceptibility for visionary rcfloc- ?12,000 and S15,000—-none of which traveling ba/ girl aged about four years,, died on tions. was covered bv insuranco. 'home

The XJnion, in any event." Terms:

The Value of Brains. Working as an ordinary hand in a Philadelphia ship-yard, until very recently, was a man named John L. Ivnowlton. His peculiarity was, while others of his class we're at alo houses, or indulging in jollification, ho was incessantly engaged in studying upon mechanical combinations. One of his companions secured a poodle dog, and spent six months in teaching the quadruped to execute a jig upon his hind legs. ICnowlton spent the same period in discovering some method by which he could saw out ship timber in a beveled form. The first man taught his dog to dance Knowlton, in the same time, discovered a mechanical combination that enabled him to do in two hours the work that would occupy a dozen men, by a slow and laborious process, an entire day. That saw is now in use in all tho ship-yards in the country. It cuts a beam to a curved shape as quickly as an ordinary sawmill rips up a straight plank. Ivnowlton continued his experiments. lie took no part in parades or target shoot-

a-Qd in a short time afterwards he secured a patent for a machine that turns any material whatever into a perfectly spherical form. Ilo sold a portion of his patent for a sum that is equivalent to a fortune. The machine is now in operation in this city cleaning off cannon balls for the Government. When tho ball comes from the mould its surface is incrusted. and the ordinaiy process of smoothing it was slow and wcarisomo.' This machine almost in an instant, and with mathematical accuracy, peols it to tho surface of the metal, at tho same time smoothing out any deviations from the perfectly spherical form. Within a few da}rs the same plain, unassuming man has invented a boring machine that was tested in the presence of several scientific gentlemen a few days ago. It bored at the rate of twentytwo inches an hour, through a block of granite, with a pressure of but throe hundred pounds on the drill. A gentleman present offered him ten thousand dollars upon the spot for a .part interest in tho invention in Europe, and the offer was accepted on tho spot. Tho moral of all this is, that people who keep on studying aro sure to achieve something. Mr. Knowlton doesn't consider himself b}r any means brilliant, but if once inspired with an idea he pursues it until ho forces it into tangible shape. If everybody would follow copy, tho world would bo less filled with idlers, and tho streets with grumblers and malcontents.— Philadelphia North American.

Woaid-bc Assassin at liberty.

[From the Baltimore* American.]

A few da}-s since the case of "Col." G. W. Gaj'lo came up before the United States District Court, in session at Montgomery, Ala., Judge Busteed presiding. Gayle, it will be remembered, advertised, something like a year and a half ago, in a Selma (Ala.) paper, for a one million dollar fund to aid in the assassination of President Lincoln, ho himself offering to contribute one hundred thousand dollars of .tho amount. A few months since he was arrested and taken to Washington. Ho was, however, sent back to Alabama by the President, and now stands a good chance of soaping scot free, like a number of other rebels, as will bo seen bj' the following from the Montgomery Mail: "Geo. W. Gayle, of Dallas, appeared beforo the United States Dist. Court, yesterday, in accordance with the conditions of his rocognizance, to answer an indictment, at tho suit of tho United States, for conspiracy. No Grand Jury, howevor, having boen organized at this term of the court, no indictment was found against him. Ho therefore entered into a now recognizance to appear at tho futuro torm of the court until his caso is disposed of. Ex-Gov. Watts, Ex-Gov. Shorter, Chief-Justice Walker, Judgo E. W. Pettus, Judgo Porter King, Judgo John Cochran, Gen. Jas. II. Clanton, Gen. J. T. Morgan, lion. Alex. White, Hon. W. P. Chilton, Col. D. S. Troy and Gen. J. T. Holtzelaw, appeared and wero recognized as his sureties."

When the leading men in the State, such as Watts, who was Governor at the collapse, Judgo Porter and Generals Morgan and Holtzelaw, stand by a villain who instigated the assassination of tho beloved head of the nation, it certainly does not look as if there was any repentance or change of feeling in Alabama, at least.

A destructive fire took place in Chattanooga city oh Tuesday last.— Six buildings wero burned, including the Crutchfield Hotel. The loss of Mrs. Bishop, proprietress of tho Crutch-

Ratification of the Constitutional Amendment.

SLAVERY FOREVER ABOLISHED.

Win. H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States to all whom these presents may como, greeting:—

KNOW YE,That whereas the Congress of the United States, on'the 1st of February last, passed a resolution which is in the words following, namely: "Arc-solution submitting to the Legislatures of the several States a proposition to.amend tho Constitution of the United States."

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of tho United States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following articlo bo proposod to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of tho United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shali bo valid to all intents and purposes as a part of said Constitution, namely:

Articlo 13, section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to onforce this article by appropriate legislation.

And WHEREAS, It appears from official documents on file in this department that the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed as aforesaid, has been ratified by the Legislatures of the States of Illinois, .Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Novada, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, Arkansas, Connecticut and Georgia, in alFtwen-ty-soven States.

And WHEREAS, Tho whole number of States in tho United States is thirty six and whereas the before specially named States whose Legislatures have ratified the said proposed amendment constitute three-fourths of the actual number of States in tho United States:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, William II. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, by virtue of and in pursuance of tho second section of the act of Congress approved tho 20th day of April, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for the publication of the laws of tho United States and for other purposes," do hereby certify that tho amendment aforesaid has becomo valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution of tho United States.

In testimony whereof I havo hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of tho Department of State to be affixed.

Dono at the City of Washington, this 18th day of December, in tho year of our Lord, 1865, and of tho independence of tho United States of America the 90th. WM. II. SEWARD,

Sec'y of Stato.

The Serves ia Cholera. A story is published in Paris con firming the fact of the immense influ cnce of the nerves in cholera, as illustrated in tho year 1832 byr Professor Racamier. Ho was summoned to bedside, whero ho found a djring man, the features rigid, cramps all over the body, the voico changed—in fact, all the most fatal symptoms strongly characterized. After an attentive diagnosis the sagacious Doctor snatched off tho bedclothes, and commenced flo_ ging the patient writh all tho strength he possessed. The spectators, for an instant electrified, were naturally en raged. Tho dying man by one expiring effort, started from his bed, threw himself on the Doctor, who ran off, hotly pursued along the passages and corridors by the cholera patient, till both reachod the top of tho hospital stairs, when the breathless Professor stopped, and looking at tho ghastly pursuer coolly asked "And how do you feel "Feel 1" said the astonished patient, "feel, indeed! why"—after a pause—"I have no more cramps!"— "I believe you but after this race you require rest." Some cups of tisane, and the psoudomoribund was saved.

A Corpse in a Carpet Bag* The following fact, though horrible, has in it something ludicrous:

A gentleman visited one of the bat-tle-fields near Petersburg not long since for tho purpose of recovering the remains of a brother, killed in battle during the last month of tho war.— Having obtained them, he made inquiries as to tho cost of coffin and transportation, and finding that this modo of conveying them would bo very oxpohsivo, ho put tho bouos in his large and thus carried them

81 50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE 2 00 WITHIN TIIE YEAR.

The great predominating elements of Mr. Lincoln's peculiar character, were: First, his great capacity and power of reason secondly, his excellent understanding thirdly, an exalted idea of the senso of right and equity and fourthly, his intense feneration of what was true and good.— His reason ruled despotically all other 3 faculties and qualities of his mind.— His conscience and heart were ruled by it. His conscience was ruled by ono faculty—reason. His heart was rolled by two faculties—reason and conscience. It is generally believed that Mr. Lincoln's heart—his love and kindness, his tenderness and benevoleuca —were his ruling qualities, but this opinion erroneous in every particular. First, as to his reason. He dwelt ia the mind, not in the conscience, and not in tho heart. He lived, andbreathed and acted from his reason1—tha throne of logic and the home of principle, the realm of Deity in mart. It is from this point that Mr. Lincoln must be viewed. His views were correct and original. He was cautious Jiot to be deceived he was patient and enduring. Ho had concentration and great continuity of thought ho had a profound analytic power bis visions were clear, and he was emphatically the master of statement. T7o boast not his equal here. His pursuit! of the truth was indefatigable, terrible. He reasoned from his well chosen principles with such clearness, force and compactness, that tho tallest intellects in the land bowed to him. with respect.

Death of Simon Sugg#." The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, of tho 5th inafc., says: "Bird H. Young, of Tallapoosa county, died last month at his residonco in that county. Ho lived to bo nearly seventy years of age. He was a man of generous good heart and many?: weaknesses in amoral point of vio^r. He was most respectably connected, and at one timo possessed of groat wealth, which ho recklessly wasted.—' He was the original of the portrait familiar to many thousand readers in tho United States under tho name of Simon Suggs, whoso 'Adventures,' written by the talented Hooper, make a cherished book in tho library of overy lover of genuino American humor.".

EXCITEMENT IN MEXICO.—A tolograra. from New York says: "Tho Herald's Vera Cruzfc'orrospondent states that tho last news' from tao United States caused a profound sonsation, and was regarded by all as an omen of an approaching stotm. Tho news that Major-General John A. Lo-: gan had been appointed as Minister to the Republic of Mexico, was at onceconstrued as an ordained dotormination on tho part of tho United States to maintain that Republic even by force of arms. It was not believed that the Lieutenant General spoko without duo deliberation and a full knowledge of the extent to which his speech would command attention on

this territory."

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CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM LINCOllS.

Opinion of His Law Partner. -V

Hon. W. H. Herndon, twenty years the law partner of the lato President Lincoln, has been delivering a scries of lectures in Springfield, 111., on Mr. Lincoln's character. He said Mr. Lincoln was a sad looking man, and that his apparent gloom was one of the means of his great success, creating sympathy for him. He did not think Mr. Lincoln knew what real joy was for many years. His perceptions were slow, cold, preciso and oxact. No illusion ever passed undetected by him. He was not impulsive of fanciful, but saw all things through a perfect mental lens. The suggestiveness of his mind was one of its strongest peculiarities. He read less and thought more than any man of hit) class in America. He possessed originality and power of thought in an eminent degree. He was eminently analytic. Before he could form an idea of anything, he must know its origin and history, in substance and quality, in magnitude and gravity. He waa thoroughly self-reliant.

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citizen of. New Orleans, who

has just returned from Matamoras, reports that tho French officers considered a war between' the United States and France, on account of tbo Mexican question, as imminent, and that tho Rio Grande valley will be the opening battle ground. They profess to have already mapped out their first military operations.

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