The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-01-09
Spiritual Manifestations,

series OF singular supernatural Pheno-
mcnon that has been exciting num-
Der Of our citizens for the past few
weeks: indeed we doubt much wheth-
err any other name for the phenomena
will ever be substituted, inasmuch as
the agency at work, seems to be remoy-
ed far above our comprehension, and
cannot be made manifest ia sny 81
our senses.
We know we shall be laughed at
by the same portion of this cnlighten-
ed community for giving place to a
few words on this interesting subject
butetais has nothing to do With the
factS-the facts arc the same though
the whole race Of man condemn them
as untrue, and we must confess we
believe We believe that Us there arc
countless myriads of animal life be-
low us in the scale of creation, so there
may be types, forms, or the shadow
of substances above US that are not
manifest to our ordinary senses
There is either some imnaterial
agent continually issuing from the sen.
soramm of that wonderfully constitu.
ted machine the living human brain,
or there is some spiritual agency thro'
which it acts upon matter One or
the other propositions must be true,
or we must acquiess passivoly in the
phenomena of somnambulism second
sight, and clairvoyance How shall
VIC account for that mysterious III
Huence that one mind has upon anoth-
or without this admissior9 How
shall we account fer the attraction
whereby one person is ,rystcrious!y
drawn to another, in the mcsmcric
sleep It cannot be done
With all the cant and rant of
WINNING : H@a1bmg =" there is
no man so madly blind to The evidences
Of his own senses as to disbelicve the
facts in animal magnetism Or mcsncr-
ism. Not theAess astonishing is the
agencySShercby inanimato things arc
made to move, and questions answer
ed with astonishing accuracy and pre-
cision. Say that there is collu
sion and fraud and humbug, but
at the same time show us where IN
til which we shall believe that there is
subtle agent at work about US no
less immaterial than the essence OF
light and electricity
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+ LICENSE OR No LrCENsE.--Al-
though up to the time of writing this
article we have not seen any official
report of the vote as to whether
licenses should orsshould not be granted
to coffechouscs, still the universally
admitted rumor that the cofeehousea
have carried the day by an overwhel-
ming majority (2O29) admits not OF
disputatiou.
We have anticipated this result and
while we will yield to no one in our
advocacy of the cause Of temperance,
still we must be PERMITTED to express
the opinion that any attempt to legis-
late or vote men sober is just as use
less as would be an attempt to declare
by ballot, that individuals should be
moral, honest and religious A few
years since tic Legislature of 4 neig-
boring State passed q most stringent
liquor law. Under its operation there
was not grog shop in The State where
liquor could be obtained by tic glass
at any price. Yet dissipation inereas-
cd alarmingly, and continued to in
crease until the repeal of the gallon
law permitting the licensing of retail
cofcchouses, when q diminution in
drunkenness became scnsibly apparent.
Thousands drank who never drank be-
fn,o cimr.Iy Looausn tbc S,tatc Govern