The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-04-13
No. 35.
He counted it,


was stupefed with amazement. He counted it,
and he told over A 600 f1orins.
4 Again there came knock at his chamber
door. This time he did not even attempt to
conceal the money; and when the baron and
the physician entered he was too much troubled
even to feel surprised at the sight of stranger,
''You have come again to tell me that am
gambler!" he exclaimed, despairingly, as he
pointed to the gold, and leaned his head list
lessly upon his hands
81 say it, my young friend, because saw it, .
replied the Baron; "but at the same time come
to entreat your pardon for having accused yoq
of it. You have played without knowing it;
you have gambled and yet you are no gam
bier
Eyes" interrupted the physician "for SOM
nambulists often perform the very actions
which they detest. But it is with you a mere
functional derangement--not d settled habit
and I can easily cure you. But, perhaps, . he
added, smiling, 'yoQ do not wish to lose SO
profitable malady. You may become mil
lionaire!"
"Ah dqctorl" cried the count, 81 place my
self in your hands; cure me, l entreat you"
"Well, well, there is time enough for that :
said the baron; first of all, shake hands, and
let US be friends
II have horror of play" replied the il
voluntary gambler, "and / shall instantly res
tore to the bank all that have won. See, here
is, altogether, I30, 900 forins!'
s'Take my advice. Albert said the baron,
"and do no such thing. Suppose that in your
sleep you had lost 1870, 900 forms, do you think
the bank would have restored it to you? No.
no. entertain no such scruples. Your father
lost more than thrice that sum at these very
tables-it is but restitution in part. Keep
your forms, and return with me to my hotel,
where Emma is waiting to receive your visit.
You have 13O,0 600 there, ] will excuse the
other 10000 upon which | formerly insisted
and you can make it up in love. Are you con-
tent; or must you restore the money to the
bank?"
History has not recorded the lovers reply;
at all events, he quilted Ems that same day in
company with the baron Won Hohendorf and
his pretty daughter The prescriptions of the
learned physician have, it is said, already effect
ed cure, and the Franl.ford Journal of last
week announces the approaching marriage Of
Mile Won Hohendorf with Albert, count Of
Steinberg.
HYPocRIcIEs OF SP1RITUALIsM.-Dr Hatch.
hemasculine appendage of Cora Hatch, the cell
ebrated advocate of woman's rights spirit rap
per and bloomerised generassimo Of the cog
nate manias CT the day, gives the following state
ment of his ''experence" in the immortality and
humbug of spiritualism Sensible people, and
particularly we Of the south, always had e
wholesome and prophetic horror of the iniqui
tous tendency Of these false and demoralising
doctrines:
sThe most damning niquities are every
where perpetrated in spiritual circles, a very
small per centage of which ever comes to pub
lie attention. care not whether it be spiritual
or mundane, the facts exist, and should demand
the attention and just condemnation of an in
telligent community. Look at the iniquities
which have been committed within the past
two weeks in this city, and that too, by spiritual
mediums, who claim to be controlled by angels.
1t is worse than useless to talk to the spiritual
list against this condition Of things, for those
/ who occupy the highest position among them,
are aiding and abettng in all classes of iniqui-
ties which prevail among them The abroga-
ton of marriage, bgamy, accompanied by rob
berry, theft, rapes, are all chargeable to spirit
ualism. l most solemnly affirm that do not
believe that there has, during the past five hun
dred years. arisen any class of people who were
guilty of so great variety Of crimes and in
decencies as the sprltuaists of America
For long time | was swallowed up in It's
whirlpo Of ofeycitement, and comparatively paid
but little attention TO its e4i, believing that
much good might result from the opening OF
the avenues of spiritual intercourse. But dur
ing the past eight months ] have devoted my
attention to critical invest gation Of its moral,
social and religious bearing, and I staQd ap-
palIed before the revelations of its awful and
damning realities, and would flee from its in
fuence as l would from the miasma which
would destroy both soul and body Spiritual
ism and prostitution. Wth a rejection Of christi
anty, are twin sisters, which everywhere 60
hand in hand. With but little inquiry, have
been able to count up over seventy mediums,
most Of whom have wholly abandoned their
coniugal relations, others living with their par
amours, called 'affinites, others in promiscu
Gus adultery, and still others exchanged part
ners. Old men and women, WHO have passed
the meridian Of life, are not unfrequently the
victims of this hallucination. Many Of the me-
diums lose all sense of obligations, and yield to
whatever influence may for the time be brought
to bear upon them. Their pledges, the integ
rity of their oaths are no more reliable than the
shifting breezes Of the whirlwind, for they are
made to yield to the powers which for the time
control them
A FoRGETFUL MAN-A man endowed with
sn extraordinary capacity of forgetfulnes, was