Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-22
BALr1MoRE CORRESPONDENTS.
BALTIMORE, March 21-10P.

BALTIMORE, March 21-10PM
1t would appear from recent Developments,
that our legislature has adjourned, leaving the
State in quandary. The appropriation bill
lone of vital importanee) was passed at late
hour tf the session, as supposed, by thirty
votes, and thus engrossed, signed by the Gov
ernor, and passed through all the stages ne
eessary to become a law. The bill provides
for all appropriations next year. Upon recent
investigation, ie has been discovered that only
thirty seven votes were east for it, and so re-
corded Oh the house Journal. The new consti-
tuition requ Tres a majority of all the members
to pass law. Thirty-seven lacks one of that
majority, and consequently the act has not OBJ
tanned constitutional, or in other words a
legal vote. This matter involves question Of
some moment, as the Legislature does not meet
again for two years, and the appropriations
provided for will be required before that time.
The subject will doubtless undergo inves;iga-
ton, and the emergency met, il in no other
way, by calling an extra session.
Persons from different parts of Baltimore
county, and other regions of the country, in
form me that many Of the peach trees are now
in full bloom, and there is serious apprehen-
sion that the recent cold weather may have
greatly injured the prospects Of peach har-
vest. Ice was formed in our city last night
quarter Of anihch thick, and it was quite cold
notwithstanding trees are commencing to bud
The new and mysterious doctrine of spir-
itual rapperism, is exciting some attention
among certain classes in our city. Tables
chairs, &c, are made Ia move, jump, dance
&c. Deputed spirits are called from the mystic
regions Of spirituality, and made to discourse
freely, "A thousand incredulous phenomena
are narrated as facts astounding. In all such
things, 1 am irresistibly an unbeliever-
Ghosts are perfectly comprehensive, and can
be accounted for upon the same principle that
Bennett Of the New York Herald, or any other
cross-eyed person. can see two objects when
only one is presented. By putting finger
below one eye, pressing slightly and throwing
il out of a direct line of vision, and looking Mt
the silver orb of night. you will see two moons
So, in like manner, by distending the imagi
nation, it is no difficult thing for creduIous
philosophers to see ghosts, hob gosblings, etc.
The ouly practical utility that can result from
spiitualism must be its application to physi-
cal purposes; and here is the philosophy. If
tables, chairs, and other minor substances,
can be removed by inc0mprehensible Volt
ton, is it not equally reasonable to believe
that more ponderous conformations of matter
are equally plant to the same power? Is
there not valuable speculation in this new
motive power? Some shrewd down-east Yam.
kee should, at once, form a company, to be
called the Spiritualists Steam Annihilating
or snperceding Association, for the purpose
of upIeoting trees, removing mountains, pro-
polling ships, driving factories and generatin g
mousntsm for oil kinds Of machinery. Here
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