Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-24

cal Affairs of life is, after all, the real touch
stone ~ which to try it, The story is capital
one:
200 BAcKERs-Ay INCIDENT OF SPIRITUAL
ISM "A long bearded customer recently entered
sP ritual bookstore in this city, and applied for
al agency. He proposed to take large quantity
OF books to his part of the country, away out
west, where he represented that he could soon
sell them, as he was assured by the 'invisibles ~
The enterprising bookseller was of course de-
lighted with this prospect Of a sale; but his en-.
thuslasm was somewhat dampencd when the
long beaded gentleman remarked that he had
no money and wanted the books entirely upon
credit.
Are you responsible ?" was the natural inqui
ry of the merchant.
"Perfectly.n
'What evidence of your Reliability can vo, f,r
nish !n ~ WV "
81 have the best of backers-men whose names
you know well.''
Inc merchants countenance frightened every
we'll" said he, ''let us your papers,
Thereupon the customer presented the follow
ing document:
10 Thona it nloy concern: We the under
signed having been acquainted spiritually with
years, recommend him as perfectly reliable ond
would not be afraid to trust him to any amount
GEORGE WAsHINGToN,
THOMAS JEFFERSON,
HENRY CLAY,
THOMAS PAINE,
JOHN MILTON, and others
Il nrOugh Jane l., medium
The bookseller remarked that the hackers were
good II the medium was reliable; but he thong ht
on the whole, he would prefer to keep the books
The customer hereupon denounced the buoksel-
Ter as an imPostor, telling him that he did not
believe i'm his own doctrines and that tho ep;rits
would expose his duplicity to the world or
this he felt assured by the spirit of pTophecy
within him. The bookseller was not convinced
TENDERED.-Our impression derived from
data on which we place confdence) is that Mr..
Halliday, the recently elected Collector of the
Corporation of Washington, has rendered TO
Mr.. VIM. Cooper, Of the Seventh Ward. one Of
the two clerkships of his bureau or Office Mr..
Cooper, who being thoroughly acquainted with
the city's affairs, will make capital officer, by
the by, was the master printer with whom Mr..
Halliday served his apprenticeship. We men.
ton the fact because, under such circumstances
bis selection by Mr. II. shows that Mr.. Cooper
was Kind and faithful master and guardian,
and that the new Collector is properly impressed
with gratitude and respect for his old employ.
er's kindness and good qualities
We may add that, but for the fact that the
pay Of MIR. Jno. d. Brandt, Of the Sixth Ward
has been recently increased by the Government.
IN his present position in the Washington Navy
Yard, we think it highly probable that he would
have filled the other clerkship under the new
Collector, which he is understood to have de.
ciined
MIR. Cooper is an Old Line Wing and Mr..
Brandt Democrat
The recently elected Corporation officers take
'neir places In the conduct Of the Corporations
affairs on Wednesday next.
IHE GovERSoRsHIP OF UrAu.-We mention.
Cd day or two since that Col. Cummins of Mis-
souri,, had probably been called to this position,
and subsequently, have learned nothing to shake
our confidence in that impression though there
were doubtless other gentlemen pressed on
the Executive for that Office. By the by, we
may not appropriately add that Col. c. has
not been an applicant for it. Or, in other words,
that the office sought bim-not he. the Office:
which fact tells no more forcibly for his high
character and qualifications for it, than for the
determination of President Buchanan to disre-
gard the solicitations and Claims of every
and any politician, when the necessities of the
public service make that course his duty to his
trust; which not unfrequently occurs in these
Tunes OF indiscriminate struggling for Fedora!
Office
"SrUFFING. THE New York Times occa-
sionally roasts the Herald most numerically
and never more efectually than when showing
up the badness Of its charlatansm,-as in its
issue of Monday last, in quoting, in parallel
half columns, Emerson's English Traits, chan
ter XIV, with the Heraid's London correspon.
dence of the 9th Of June, made up entirely
Of thefts from that work, thus palmed on the
American public as original. 1t strikes US that
If the correspondential department of the Her
ald costs half the fabulous sums its proprietor
is in the habit Of Boosting that it costs he is
fhirly entitled to receive better treatment at the
hands of his employees.
eENsIBLE.-"IOn," of the Baltimore Sun, we
perceive, comprehends clearly the points of the
otan imbroglio so far as the rights and duties
OF the General Government in connection with
il are concerned. In his letter IN. lay h. nv
presses upon the subject views identical with
those not unfrequently enforced editorially in
the Star-as follows:
1.-The idea that they can be exterminated or e,.
PEELED from the country, that their fanaticis,n
will be repressed by force, is wholIv ,,snyd
Treason against the constitution and law. M H.
United states may be punished, and this is the ex
tent Of the power OF the Federal Government over
this matter.
There is nothing in the constitution that ius !
tfes crusade against polygamists any more than |
against aboltionists. or Ronanists, or Calviniss,
or seventh day prophets. The anti-slavery jour- |
nails are the iercest Of all In opposition to the
Mormons. Ii they can find constitutional power |
Tor one crusade they can for another.
" But the administration does not share In the |
extravagant views which are put forth on this |
subject, and the instructions TO Governor Cum