The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-21

1t is glorious thing to know that beyond the
Slough of Despond, there are always smiling mea-
dows that behind the darkest clouds the sun is
still sereuely shining and that in these disointed
times, to quote the Circular of certain Utopians of
New York, ga favorable location for
Colony of beatifed mortals has been Sc
"cured'-in the State of Camden and Amboy-
Combining every advantage Of climate and soil
tthat this planet affords, and only waiting the right
sort of people to constitute it perfect para
disc than that in which our first parents lived and
loved. before the tree of knowledge blossomed and
fruited, and Sin and Death came into the world.
In an age when the Virtues 90 draped in mourning
and the Vices faunt it in ribbons and steamers
gay as ships tricked out with gala flags; when
Vanity Fair, like many another specious but
equally hollow institution is 'in the full tide of
successful operation when in what is called
general society," there are almost as many
masks as faces; when Copper Captains are es-
teemed to be right honorable gentlemen, and
Quack ,salvers and CharIatans learned The
bans - when Responsibility is thrust
aside that Rascality may attain to place and pow
err when there is wrangling in the Federal Coun-
cils and good sense, like an out-of-town note of a
suspended Bank, is at heavy discount; when
merchants have drafts to meet, and bills to pay
and no money wherewith to accomplish that happy
result; when, in short, all things are topsy-turyy
and everybody shakes his head and yields solemn
assent 10 the reflection that it is "a mad world,
"my masters" the glorious announcement that a
second Eden, minus the Tempter, is about to he
tlocated' in the State of New Jersey, who is
there that will not exult at having the marvellous
fact authenticated through the colu INNS of the
newspapers? Skeptics may sneer but the procla-
nation has actually gone forth. The Convention
under whose auspices the 'good time coming is
to be inaugurated, met q week ago this day. at
the Astor House. New York, and-we like to be
particular in a matter of so much Importance to
the human race, individually and colectivey-in
room No. Al, the identical apartment, says the
W0rld, "where WooD once plotted and WEED
PLANNED" The Convention comprised, we are
told, "Some forty or fifty persons" They assem-
bled in response to a Circular commencing with
'Dear Friend, and closing with "JoHN LANDoN,
"Empressari0 Of the Department Of Cozonization;"
the same being countersigned by tNEwMAN
'WEEKs'-let no malicious wit declare it was
"NEwMAN Notwithstanding of the Department
aforesaid. The object of the meeting is so mell-
luousy expressed in the Circular that it would be
wrong to seek for information at any other source;
and besides, the fountain is always purer than the
stream, because less travel-soied. The Circular is
indited by Empressario LANDoN himself, gentle
man formerly well-known as an ardent advocate
of "Woman's Rights" and more recently as a
Spiritualist of the most impressionable kind. He
starts out with the proposition-to which we re-
specially call the attention of AGAssIz, MAURY,
HERscHEL, FARADAY, and other men of kindred
genius-tha ''recent discoveries of new PRINCIPLES
and unfol1ngs in the world of art of science, and
social life have often been quckened into action
land power from the working of minds in the
Spiritual World" Such being the case he calls
upon 'the most receptive and advanced minds
among those to whom he specially addresses him
SELF "to concentrate at this time - for the purpose
OF comparing notes, with reference to the re-
construction of society," upon the basis of all sci
''ence, all love, and all life' This is cutting out
work for the philosophers at great rate; but the
forty or fifty of both sexes who assembled at
Groom No. Al" evidently felt themselves equal to
the task, or they would not have met together to
that he acted under Spiritual influence in making the
call; and we learn from subsequent disclosures tina
they-the Sprits-directed him to secure in New
Jersey favorable location for colony whose men,
oers, being in harmonious rapport, Knight proceed
forthwith to carry out the plan which the Spirits
n"u devised Tor 1.-THE reconstruction of society the
harmony OF the race, and the establishment of
1.-THE kingdom Of Heaven upon earth We do
not know whether ''the receptive and advanced
''minds, with "a picturesque tendency in the d-
erection ofbeard and collar on the part of the males
and IAN unmistakeabe cast.iron style of counte.
nance on that of the females, accepted the impor-
tant mission which they had been so solemnIy in
evoked to fulfil. All the information which has
thus far been impaired to us is, that the spot Sc
lected for this new Heaven upon earth is not
called Eden, or Paradise, or the Vale of Cash
mere, Or Loves Bower or by any other Biblical his
torlcal or romantic name; but is simply and Sc
verely styled ''HAMMoNToN" and that it lies in a
region which is at present entirely given up to the
vulgar occupation of grazing cattle, and of raising
squashes and fiat Dutch cabbages for the Phadel-
phla market One thing, however, strikes u.s.
and 1t is this 1t being conceded that certain dis.
embodied Spirits are taking at this time, an extra
ordinary interest in Mundane Affairs, and have
mad a voice potential in suggesting the organiza-
ton OF little Heavenly Kingdom upon earth
among the cabbage patches of New Jersey,
we respectfully submit TO these same I'M
seen Influences and Presences, the prop riety of
giving to the world new and equally desira-
'le TEST OF their powers by composing in an hon.
HI.
oraoIe way the sad differences which now exist be-
tween the North and the South.