Columbus Whig. (Columbus, Miss.) 1843-18??, 1844-02-22

Il. Harper, of New York, are
criptures in q most magnificent
beautiful engravings, and with a
bat has never been surpassed in
Shortly after the first number
kur ministers of New Jersey over
fatures, published a protest warn.
1 against the pictures, because
Endecently represented without
a baby, which helped TO Ell up
n'teven a fig leaf toconceal it,
ior Jack Downing has taken up
IA the following we extract from
New York paper:
last new things we got here was
Der of Harper's great s.pictef BIZ
was nigh about a cart load OF
/ they all went Off as fast as Zeb
over the counter. For my part
Dks oft good deal. for I'm ma
picters, and / thought most OF
the pretttest picters I'D seen in
great while. And lcan't help
Ii sorry that the book can't 90
)Iished, but has got to be cut right
and all the first numbers throw
Use burnt at the stake. But that
i it by them four ministers out
Iarseys, has killed it as dead as a
\ here was delighted with the
eek or two, and every body was
a looking al the picters. and as
be, to think he was agoing to
handsome Bible-till one day
/ got hold ola newspaper that had
1 t. And he come into the house
lth and found his wife reading the
wing the children the picters.
h aays he. as soon as he could
hough to speak, 'shet that abom.
ight up, and don't let it be seen
on's wife was thunderstruck. -
now, says she, what do You meant
Il YOU see,' SAYS the Deacon, 1t is
ent book to have ahonf-
Snow, how-can you say soSaDoeat
i is so,' says the Deacop-'and
the newspapers signed By four
] u.s. said Mrs. Snow, swherea-
indecent 9 l.,. :
ia the Deacon, that very pictef
be at now, at the beginning of the
81 Genesis. Don't you see that
got any great coat on, and that
Is running about there without
on; and that there's q deBF
The water there, with his hinder
wards us?'
US! said Mrs. Snow, and she
right over The picter, and would
hlldren look at it afterwards.
isn't.the worst oft, neither. The
BIT stop here, he went round the
called a meeting of the Parish
hands. Deacon Snow was called
or rather he TUX the chair, and he
TEST TO the meeting, and said be
'eed with them ministers, that il
indecent book. and called upon the
Express their minds freely about Z.
leemed ready 10 speak, be turned
|er, the schoolmarnl, who Is q mid {
y and has a good deal of laFnin, and
uncommon taste about SIGH mali
'ked her to express her opinion
ldecentness of the picters:
II said, for her part, she thought
great elephants thst was gong I'M.
ought to have blankets over en-.
cne of the picters had a baby IN g
dressed, which she thought Was
per-
lght Aunt Kesieh MP. She said
she didn't think ii was any worse
en- elephants than il was 60 look
IN the cow-yard. And az 70 the
ad seen babies without clothes cIi
y, and she guessed there WASH I
meeting but what hads But stih
'blection to that Bible, ant. d gresf
I'd she felt it her duty % state il /
| it is, said Deacon Stow, sit il The
J one to bring up their objections
! the thing can be stopped IN the
objection said Aunt Ensiah. lie
ng to rum all the children and aan-
Olks, byskeeping EN- reading and
ae peters SO that they never have
thing else.'
d Mrs, Shaw, shat il Is; my Sally
ven full of pies burn up YESTERDAY.
was reading that pieter Bible and
out 'em
.ree to that, said Mr. Jones, It Il
LIE ruination of our children. I've
al the wood to keep my fire agoing
ast. because the boys have been &c
J That picter Bible, they could MI
cusa STICK
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