The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-05-09

NICE MEMBERS OF CoNGREss.-The editor OF
the Louisville Journal was in Washington for
some weeks previous to the recent adjourn
ment of congress He gives the following:
couple of merry fellows, one of them
distinguished member Of congress from south
ern state, and the other a distinguished ex-ed-
ior from Kentucky, concocted letter pur-
ported to be addressed by a young lady to
very fine looking gentleman. Itwas got up IN
first rate style. The pretended lady set forth
therein that she had several times seen the gen
tleman she was addressing; that she was cap
tivated by his fine face and manly form, and
that her heart was deep y touched by all she
saw and heard of him, and that she must
make his acquaintance before his departure
from the city; that she hoped and prayed he
would forgive her seeming boldness, as 1t was
the first imprudent act of her llte-that she
had always moved and was still moving in the
highest circles of the capital; that she would
be upon certain square OF atcertaln street at
precisely 12 O'Clock of the following day, IN a
dress which she described with great partl-
cularity, and that she hoped aud trusted he
would meet her, and thus afford her bret
personal intcrvEsw with the idol OF her heart
The two wags had between thirty andotorty
copies of this letter written by female friend
of theirs, and they sent these copies to between
thirty and forty members of congress, select
ing those of course who were known to enter
tain a very exalted opinion of their own pow
ers of fascinating the gentler sex.
Every thing being thus arranged, the two
jovias called upon us and another young gen
tleman--explaned what they had done, and
invited US to get into their carriage and ride
with them to the point of assgnation and sec
hnc;t,t;,,lx and
we saw sights sure enough. Riding upon the
designated square, we beheld the whole of the
thirty OF forty members, northern men and
nothings, walking to and fro, all gazing in ev~
cry direction, and at every female figure, to
discover the object of their most anxious search.
We concluded that if few more copies OF
the letter had been sent to members of the
house of representatives, that body wou- have
had to adjourn for want of quorum.
Father Walworth, a catholic priest, deliver
| ed discourse in the church of the Annuncla-
ton, on Sunday last, on the subject OF hell.
/ The reverend gentleman undertook to Demon
strate that hell was situated in the inside OF this
earth, commencing about twenty-one miles
from the surface, where granite begins to melt,
He also affirmed that hea; was the predominant
characteristic of this abode Of the damned, and
illustrated the proposition by reference to the
uniformly high temperature of everything
which had reached US from that quarter OF our
globe
The wicked it is to be hoped, will take
warning. Twenty miles is but a small space
between them and ,he internal regions! 1t is
not distance sufficient to ''lena enchannent
to the view"
The good father also improved the occasion,
to inqare into the degree and intensity OF the
heat down there which, he said, almost pass
ed the bounds of human conception. LAS means
of approximating to IA result, however. he re-
ferred to experiments which had been made
with thermometer in arteslan wells and deep
mines Water boils at 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
but it require G, 500 to melt rocks. This, there
fore, was the minimum of the heat OF hell,
whose frontiers, therefore lie twenty -one niles
below the surface of the earth. He also cited
= what he called a well authenticated miracle,
related by one of the fathers, to the effect that
= God once permitted certain religious person
E to receive visit for a few moments from one
of the damned. In the course Of the interview
the latter thrust his hand into vase of water
in the apartment which was thereby so pow
erfulIy heated, that bronze candestlck hay
ing been placed in it, was Immediately melted
Take heed, therefore, we say again, ye un-
repentant sinners! MiIton's Pandemonum was
cool and comtortable,-a gentcel sort Of he'll
compared with father Walworth'sD