The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-05-09

HUMBues OF THE DAy-THE RocHgsrEx ASo
sTRATroRD Spirits COMING TO Tows.-The r.
chester family, 40 affirm that they hold intercour-,
with the spir world, have arrived IN this city, AID
ere in Twelty-frst street. Probably the Stanford
family VIII soon appear here also, they do nos
carry on business at home any longer. We sup
poee that some Of the museums will be the scenes
Of their next experience, in gulling the credllous
people always found in large city, as we'll As IN
the country. There is no doubt that the numerou,
publications which have appeared for the last
three months, on the knockings, alph ,bet, and
communications with good and evil spirits, connec-
ted with Rochester and Stratford, are mere adver-
tisements OF an mposture got up by soms prince OF
humbugs, and supported chiefly by the Tribnae
and the Sun those organs of all kinds of isms and
humbugs. The business, however, is sh imrful, in
a moral, religious and social point of view, and is
calculated not only TO take money from the people,
under false preiences but to shake faith in all the
gospel history and purity. To these humbugs, who
are continually seeking TO obtain money under
false preIences, for which they ought to be made
10 smart the Court of Sessions, nothing is sacred.
The memory of the dead is not respected. The
living sensitive heart is not spared The mystic
ries of God himself are not regarded; aud the low
moral taste mat would engender and perpetuite
such tricktry, would, under other circumstances,
and with motive, rob grave pillag- "a church
From the first, we have secuted the whole thing
as unworthy OF record, even; and have only gwen
much OF the variations as we supposed would be
sufficient TO destroy any belief in the sincerity Of
the tricksters, or in the truth of the affair Not
with the Tribune and the Sun. These journals
have industriously worked to encourage the de-
fusion. The editors of both of these papers have
taken great pains TO force the public mind TO enter
tain the affair important 10 the world. The Sun
has always been foremost n such matters II was
established upon the Moon Hoax" and gathered
fame from chronicling the history Of Joyce Heth,
from her childhood down to the time Of her post
tenn examination, that Recorder Riker, DIR. Fran
cis, Dr. Rogers, and many other distinguished citi-
zens, deceived, and made parties to stupid and
gross imposition And in this recent Stratford BUSH
ness the has made itself notorious tor present.
ing theory To explain the knockngs, declaring
that new principle exists between electricity and
animal magnetism, that connects the spiritual with
the material world, "a gate which is only to be
discovered, as at Stratford, to be passed through,
either way.
Now such impostures are knavish, even in their
simplest form, and particularly where the object is
TO defraud people Of their money They should be
denounced as the schemes of showmen and their
poor DEFENDANTS, while any attempt to touch mat
tiers where the human heart may be lacerated. or
the faith of man in divine things be shaken,
should be frowned down by an indignant COM
munity. Patience should no longer be exercised
towards impostors They should be exposed. They
shall be.
FROM BRITISH GUIANA-We have received our
files of the Royal Gazette, published at George
town, Demerara, to the 18th ult. The following
paragraph, which we find in the Gazette of the
18th, is the only item Of interest they contain,
by the arrival yesterday of the Glentanner,
u days fem 81. Helena, the colony has received
4U4 captured Africans The slave trade, II would
appear, is being prosecuted with undiminshed
iivny on the Coast Of Africa. On the l4th March,
Hei Majrsty's sloop (blg) Wafer Witsh, brought
in to Ct Helena Brazilian plize brig, having $40
Africans On board aud few days previous 10 the
departure of the Glenranner, Her Majrsty's sloop
(screw-steameD katler brought in TO the same
place, an American prize brig, captured under Bra
lillian coors, with $40 wrelched captves Of the
same unfortunate race.
The above 10 a specimen of British PHILANTHROPY,
which is Of almost daily occurrence. Vessels Of
from one to two hundred tons burthen, filled to
suflocation with slaves, captured on the Coast
OF Africa, often within sight Of land, and, instead Of
the philanthropists putting the slaves ashore on
their native soil, they take them to ST. Helena,
from whence they are shipped TO the various colo
MES OF Great Britain, under the name OF appren-
tees, where they remain until they serve their
time (aoiied to them on this earth) out, in the
moet abject misery.