American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-03-18
he had been serving the Lord and hammerng
against the devil of late.

he had been serving the Lord and hammerng
! against the devil of late.
! George Woodbury. affirmed he believed in
| Miss Harmons visions, because she told his
wife's feelings correctly 1t was his impression
that prisoner kissed his wife. Believed the
world will come to an end within two months;
prisoner breaches SO. This is the faith Of the
band. 1t was said, and he believed, the sisters
Harmon and Bakers revelations as much as
though they came from God. Sister Harmon
said to his wife and the girls if they did not do
as she said, they would 90 to hell. His wife
and Dammon passed across the floor on their
hands and knees. Some man did 90 into the
bedroom. Heard brother Dammon say the
gift of healing the sick lay in the church,
Dammon advised US not to work, because there
is enough to live Oh until the end of the world.
Others Of the band testified to prisoners
good character, and one (Nlorrison) that they
sat on the floor in order 20 convene more peo-
pie.
Thomas Proctor testified that prisoner con-
fessed to him that Miss Baker had an exercise
in the bedroom, and he went in and helped her
out.
Elder Flavel Bartlett, testified that prisoner
did not belong to the Free-wil Baptist church,
Joseph Knights, of Garland, testified that
he attended one of Dammon's meetings at Gar
land. lie behaved we'll till meeting was over,
and then he fell to kissing and hugging girl.
In Garland, 1t is common report that he is a
dsturber of the peace.
Much other testimony was received, pro and
con, of similar character, and the prisoner
opened his defence. He cited Luke 7, SO;
John Is, last chapter in Romans. Philippians
4th; list Thes. 9Th chap. J. S. Holmes assist
ed him in his defence G.. l.. Chandler and II.
O. Morrison argued the cause for the State,
Prisoner again arose, and read the 50th and
I26th Psalm He argued that the day of grace
had gone by, that the believers were reduced,
but that there were too many yet, and that the
end of the world would come within week.
The prisoner was sentenced to ten days IN
the House of Correction; from which sentence
he appealed.
On Tuesday, after the trial was concluded,
and while the Court was waiting for the coun-
sci to come in, prisoner and his witnesses asked
permission, and sung that hymn, by John
Craig, beginning
''While was Down in Egypts land,
heard my Saviour was at hand;
The midnight cry sounding,
And | wanted to be free,
So left my former brethren
70 sound the jubilee"
These scenes are not enacted at Atkinson,
only. In this city, we are informed, "grosS
deeds" are enacted by one section of these ia
natics-for there are two: one worshipping with
propriety at Beethoven Hall, the other at pri-
vate houses. The latter hold to kissing, wash
ing each others feet, SC. Many of these were
once respectable, happy, and comfortably stu
ated.
Mr.. GoUGH's TEMPERANCE LECTURES. A
writer at Alexandria, to O. Northern paper,
thus eloquently refers to the lectures on tenn
perance by Mr.. Cough:
Well, | have heard at length the Temper
ance lecturer-John B. Cough. He arrived
in Washington, from Baltimore, the latter part
of last week, and after addressing crowds at
the Capitol, visited US on Tuesday, and spoke
in the Lyceum Hall, spacious room, on Tues
day and Wednesday nights. On Wednesday
afternoon, the Second Presbyterian Church
was filled with ladies, to whom by previous APP
pointment he delivered an address on the power
of female example and exeltion in the cause
of Temperance. Our expectations, it must be
confessed, were high in regard to him, but they
have been we'll sustained. The first night pre-
sented regular jam; it was therefore deter
mined that the people should have an opportu
nifty of testifying, in a small way, their sense
of the value of Mr.. Coughs labors on the sue
ceedng night. The price of admission to his
eloquence was accordingly fixed at IL l-2 cents,
and behold the hall was crowded more densely
than before! After prayer, Rev. Mr.. Marsh,
the laborious and indefatigabie Secretary of
the American Temperance Union, arose, and
in an appropriate speech of some few minutes,
adverted to the character and the triumphs of
this cause, glancing at the progress of the past,
and the prospects of the future. Having hap
PLY prepared the way for his young coadjutor,
MIR. Cough now rose, youth of pale counte-
nance, bordering even on pensiveness, person.
ally stranger to us all, and burdened with
reputation for eloquence, which it seemed diff
ficult for him much longer to carry. But oh,
that concliatory exordium Was it the power
Of nature, or was it the perfection of art2-
There was art in it, but it was learned not in
the school of the Rhetorcian, but Of Nature.
1t was indeed an ingenious dsavowal of 'all
claim to the character of an instructor, or to
the gifts of we'll furnished public speaker
AS to education, his audience had doubtless en-
joyed advantages superior to himself, he said,
since he had never been at school, This de-
ference to his audience, composed of tue flower
of an intelligent city, combined with the unaf-
fected modesty of his demeanor in all things
touching himself, opened clear way for the
march of his oratory. We were now prepared
to 60 with him into any field he might select.
The wand of the magician began to exert its
influence, the magician himself the while SEEM
ing to be unconscious of the waxing powers of
his enchantment.
He began by touching some of the finer
chords of that instrument which God has
strung within US all, and the responsive echoes
truly told it was not in vain. He appealed TO
that love and sympathy which little children
naturally excite in our bosoms, when we be-
hold them in a state of suffering. A child with
broken limb-a child drowning child burn
ing-a child in any condition of distress, in
stantly awakens sympathy and meets deliver
ance if deliverance be possible. But who cares