The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-07-04

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the probation and preliminary oaths
again. But he conceived mode to
oyerIeap this entiye trouble, while in
Auburn some time afterwards. He was
industriously engaged ia getting up a
revival, and while Urging sinners to the
altar, suddenly, and with a frantic burst
of enthusiasm, exclaimed "Come up,
come up, forlorn and dying sinners !
Come UP to the altar and dedicate your
selves to God! Come up; I'll lead the
wayP' And, as if only to show an ex-
ample, he took the oath anew, and
slipped himself again into the bosom of
the church by trick. Some time af-
ter this, Mrs. Maffit went to Texas, and
there, by the aid of some kind friends,
who commiserated her for her misfor-
tunes and respected her for her virtues,
she established herself in boarding.
house, and honorably earned her own
living. .-.., .-.-.~f
In the course Of his itinerant wander
ings, Maffit came to this city, but did
not signalize himself very remarkably
here in any oblique or amatory way,
until the year 1854, when he rem
dered himself amenable to the revolving
charges we published overthe signatures
of the Rev. Messrs. Peck, Smith and
Scudder, two weeks ago. When Mafit
was first accused of the offences which
these charges embraced, he raved with
pretended indignation, and threatened
to shoot any person who should present
them; but when they were presented,
and he was called upon by the high
authorities of the: church to answer
to them, he left the diocese Of New
York and took refuge with con-
genial friend in the person of the Rev.
j. G. Green, of the Centenary church
of Brooklyn. There Mafit gave HIM
self up to drunkenness and riotous liv-
ing, and it was during the progress Of
these orgies, or rather uuder their ef-
fects, that Maffit was inAamed to seek
possession of blooming young COM
municant, known as Fanny Pierce, and,
by dint Of infatuating the girl with prom
ises of wealth, and false prospects Of
ambition, the prize was won, and by
means of divorce, which Maffit OBJ
tanned against his first wife, in lS43, in
Missouri, on the ground of abandon
ment, he married her.
While this strange Brooklyn court
ship was pending, the Bishop had sum-
moned Maflit to answer the charge pre-
ferred against him by Messrs. Peck,
Smith and Scudder, but as he refused,
they next suspended and summoned
Green to answer for loaning him his
pulpit. A discussion arose, but in the
midst of it, Maffit, tired of his new bau-
fble, abandoned her, and even fomented
SANDERS against her purity as a justin
cation for his slanderous desertion. The
poor child wilted under the cruel shame
that had been put upon her, and soon
: gave the highest proof of purity and
delicacy that never had been soiled, by
dying of a broken heart. The indigna-
ton that followed this in Brooklyn was
so deep and universal, that during the
remainder of his life, Maffit did no,
venture back to this part of the country
He buried himself in Arkansas and
there, after shining in the most brilliant
cities Of the nation, contented himself
with electrifying the "roughs' of the
back woods. Emboldened by degrees
as the impressions Of his wife's death
wore off, he emerged from Arkansas,
and at length worked SO far through tbs
> South as to reach Mobile. 1t was in
that city, on the 25th of May, thai
death overlook him and summoned hin
to his account. 1t is not for us to Judge
him or to speculate on his reward. Oul
duty is fulfilled with record of his acts
: Police Gazette.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT MEMPHIS
On Saturday, June 8, the case of the
Farmers and Merchants Bank cam,
up before court, on the part of DR.. J
Fowkers and others, that the assets o
the bank should be placed under thei
Z control The motion was resisted BY
General Coe, as attorney for porto.
of the creditors. The general read ;