Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-08 00:00:00

NOTICE.

ELECTRO-PLATE Goons.—There are few branches of art that more
perfectf in has been attaine I in than in this portion of our manufac-
ture, and the most beautiful specimens of spoons, forks, geb!ets, and
other table articles of the sort, may be seen at Mr. E. T. Hall's, of 23.
SAitn John-street, who, to his other branches of business, has added
a department for the sale of these articles, having been appointed
agent to one of the first manufacturers in Birmingham. The designs
in these articles are beautifnythe quality very superior (nearly as good
as silver), and the price, considering all these, moderate a degree.
An inspection of the goods will prove the above facts.—Northern
Times.
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Sent carriagef ree to any part of the country.

IMMORALITY IN THE UNITED STATES.—We do no, think
that even the laxity of morals at New Orleans or Mobile
is so great as at Cleveland er Buff de, notwithstanding all
the ab lition ti,adee about the profligacy engendered by
by tha system of slavery. We not believe that Southerners
occupying respectable positions in society would shamelessly
publish a contract like the following, the parties to which
re ide at Skaneateles, in this State—" This certifies that
Mr. George W, Lewis and Miss Harriet Wheeler have
uni ed as conj igal mates; that, they recognise no legal
coutr,-.ct whatever; that they consider that if man and
woman be drawn together by proper affinity that they are
truly married ; that they live for each of her henceforward
and fur ev..,r, providing the affinity continues to exist.
And it not—if that affinity which the God of Nature
designed to unite man and woman diminishes or ceases to
exist—,hey hold themselves perfectly free and at liberty
to separate, if they choose to do so ; that they throw aside
the legal contract altogether, knowing it to be a curse
and a nuisance—believing it to be the means of burning
out and destroying the very love and affinity that should
unite all mankind in ,the conjugal relations. And 'in
testimony of which we subscribe our names—George W.
Lewis; Harriet Wheeler Lewis."—We could hardly
beli,-ve this to be a veritab'e document were it not for the
fact that these people are not the first who have entered
into the same agreement. It is, as we have said before,
the elf cts of the filthy doctri es of Fourier, which were
introduced here by Brisbane, and promulgated to the people,
through the press, by Ripley, Dena, and their compeers.
For years they laboured in their phalanxes to disorganise
society by d-ing away with the marriage tie, and the
poison which they infused into the American mind has
begun to appear after tLer tystem has been acknowledged
to be a rid.culous failur. What th v attempted to do in
organ:st.d communities is now accomplished by individuals.
Such shamelessness as is expressed in the agreement above
quoted we u!d have raised a storm of popular indignation
before the advent of Fanny Wr'gt.t in this country. She
attempted to prove that the marriage relation was all
wrong; the Fourierites went a step beyond, and advocated
promiscuous intercourse between the sexes ; and the
,piritualis s and free lovers toik up the doctrine of
" affinities "—that is, you may take an affinity to jour
neighbour's wife, and if the affinity is mutual, it is right
that, you should run away with her, and live with her
while the affinity lasts, when you may both be at liberty
to get another affinity. This doctrine has been preached
all through the West, and the records of the courts and
insane asylums show its trfeet-s..—Wcw York "Jerald.