The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-09-09

ter at Nicaragua, proposed to Mr.. Sheph rl,
the holder OF the repudiated Mosquito grant
that for one-eighth of the grant he would
undertake to have it confirmed and fur
ther that Shepherd had already sold out TO
company, of which several confidential adj
visers OF the President, including one mem.
Der of the cabinet, are members, and that it
was in the interests of this company that
Greytown was destroyed II Alb. Register.
VETO OF THE RIVER AND HARBoR BILL
The Prairie du Chen Courier has the fol-
lowing sensible remarks on the provoking
veto OF our River and IIarbor bill by Presi-
dent Pierce:
" How happens it that Congress never UNI
derstands the subject as the President does ?
Why will the House pass bill every ycur,
which the chief magistrate cannot sign p
And why is it that this unfortunate bill! is.
invariably, the only one sthe people care
fig about? Congress will not do anything of
real public utility except the passage of an
annual appropriation for the improvement,
of our rivers and harbors, and the President
will not let them do that. So, between
them we get no legislation at all worth hav-
ing. Mr.. Pierce's pretence that he was com
PEELED TO withhold his assent from the bill
because it contained provisions for local
Improvements Is sheer nonsense. Every
! Improvement has, to some extent, merely
local value, and every improvement is, 10
some extent, general benefit, and it would
not be asking too much of the President, to
insist that he should permit the members Of
Congress, coming as they do from all parts of
the country, to know what works are of sufh-
cient general utility to justify the assistance
of government. Can't we have Congress
that knows asMuch as the President, and
President that Knows something?'
| Ofall the senseless, ridiculous, funny and
revolting performances which the spiritual
rapping theories and practices have given
birth to, this that follows takes the prize:
! John NJ Spear, in the New Era, spirtu-
alist paper. says the world is to be blest with
a "New Savior" This is a machine made
by the spiritualists at Lynn Mass, which
! they claim as mi-mechanical and semi
human. 1t is an exact correspondence Of
the human body. After construction. lfc.
was furnished to it by revelation to Mrs.
- that she should become mother in Il
new sense" the Mary of a new dispensa-
ton She was to 90 to Lynn, which she
did, being directed by message through
Spear. Here she experienced the peculiar
sensations of parturition-" differing some
what from the ordinary experience, inasmuch
as the throes were internal and of the
spirit, rather than of the physical nature
but nevertheless quite as uncomfortable and
not less severe than those pertaining to the
latter. This extraordinary physiological
phenomenon continued for about the space
of two hours. It's purpose and results were
wholly incomprehensible to all but herself
but her own perception is clear and distinct,
that in these agonizing throes the most in
terror and refined elements of her spiritual
being were impaired to, and obsorbed by, the
appropriate portions of the mechanism-its
minerals having been made peculiarly ecep-
tive by previous chemical processes"
The machine then began to have life and
/, pulsation, under process "precisely analo-
} gous to that of nursing;' and in the New
Era of July 5, ]. Wolcott says that it grows
) in size, and throws off from itself small
machines after its own pattern, and these
reproduce others. '"".