The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-08-07
BRIMsToNE.-The "Cbristian Evan

assisted by J. Creath, Mo; A. Chat
terton, Iowa, and J. F. Rowe, I'll, I"
showers out page and half Of the
salt peter and birthstone, peculiar to
the sect to which it belongs-on our
head, because, sometime ago, we
thought proper to ask Elder Chatter
ton, what he would have us under
stand by a dead faith, -" of which he
is writing to the Evangelist all the
while 3 We meant no disrespect to
the gentleman to whom the question
was propounded, nor did we expect
for n moment to interfere with the
mission Of the Evangelist F; and 10 this
manner call down the wrath of broth
er :" d. b. and the shower Of suffer
Gus stones he throws at US. Not at all.
We asked the question in order to
be set right, on the grave question of
"dead faith" about which, elder
Chatterton, wiU continue to talk,
through the Evangelist.
The following thrust of brother
I'D. b. touches us in the fifth rib,
and smarts exceedinglyimuch What
may be the religion Of the Comet
editor, or whether he has any at al,
we know not but at all events if he
has any, it don't appear likely to do
mueh-harm." The same cannot
be said, of a great deal Of the stuff,
that floats out into the community
through the /" Christian Evangelist"
Several copies of the book comes to
this place, and it is not only our right
but our duty to enquire into It's mean
ing, when it talks about dead
faith" and like nonentities.
We are obliged to Bro. d. b.
for turning us over to the tender
mercics of our neighbor of the Adso-
cate" Our confrere is man of com
mon sense, and has some reason on
on such subjects as the Evangelist
throws very dark light upon. Our
confrere is gentleman--a man of
sense. If he talk wildly at times on
politics, no matter; he is sound on
other subjects, and if Bro. I'D. b."
will just quit and let us alone-and
not punch at US again through the
Evangelist, about our opinions of a
dead faith" we will never say another
word but willingly resign ourselves to
the tender mercies of our Church street
friend and neighbor.
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LUNAcY IN ENGLAND.-The tenth
report Of the Commission of Lunacy,
states that the number Of lunatics con-
fined 10 asylums, hospitals, and licens-
ed houses in England, is somewhat
startling in amount. There are in asy-
lums, including private as we'll as pau
pers, 629S males and 1926 females;
in hospitals 1872 males and s37 fe-
males; in metropolitan licensed houses,
HOS aud 1886; and in proviencial
licened houses, 1886 and 1915; ma
king total of male and female luna
tics 50 confined of 20,64O. In addi-
ton to this large number, there are
$50 lunatic criminels, IF whom 538
are males and 121 females.
Now, compare this statement with
the lunacy among the slaves of the
South, and then say whether the con-
dition of the wretched. starving and
toiling poor Of England, thousands of
whom are born in the mines, and are
in reality hcathens, as shown by the
testimony taken by parliamentary COM
mittees, is not in every respect more
deplorable than that of the worst used
slaves on our plantations. What
must be the intensity ofthat blindness
which can overlook the gaunt poverty
and squalid abasement, gross ignorance
and appalling vices, under the very
noses Of British philanthropists, and
which can, at the same time, shed
tears over imaginary WRONGS thousands