The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-07-07


Still neare- home than I think.
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Strange Dclusions.
The Enziiish papers report very
curious law case lately tried before the
vice Chancellor, in which the mysteries
81 = pzraugs assec izs that country.
called tho Agaponene, are partially
developed.
The q Agapomene'' - or abode OF
love---is the creation of an erratic prea-
cher of the Church of England. The
name would seem to indicate sort OF
..free love- association, of the dissolute
sort, which has made SO much scandal
81 our Northern cities. But it rather
appears that the opposite quality OF
extraordinary confluence is one OF the
conditions of the reception of members,
and that even marriages there were to
be entirely spiritual. It was disclosed
asaone Of the offences against tho rules
of the association, that one marriage
there had the natural result which
ordinarily occurs elsewhere.
The head of the establishment is one
Henry James Prince, who received
orders in the English Church, but was
silenced in two curacies for his eccen-
trio conduct. He finally took this place
andorganized an association, pretending
or assuming to have especial sanctity,
and to be directed, like Brigham Young,
BY communications from heaven. He
acquired such influence over four SIS
ten Of the name of Nottidge, young
i,ad@ of fortune, that they obeyed his
4 commands implicitly, followed him to
hissatreat,. and on his direction, from
a revelation he asserted that he had
from God, married three of his friends
whom he indicated as their predestined
husbands. They were instructed that
no settlement of their fortunes was
necessary for the benefit of children
as it was part of the spiritual nature o
their marriage that they were not t.
have any. Their fortunes, some 10000
($30,O00,) went into a sort of common
stock. The fourth daughter found n
husband in the ..abode," bat she wa
persuaded to convey her whole estat
to the director, Prince, SO that he an
his followers got possession of tn
property of all four. 1t was show
that he had other followers from whol
he obtained large sums - 91O,O0(
5O,OOO)--from four sisters of anothe
family, and various other sums {
sI,OOO and less, and considerabI
annuities.
The concern got into court, first, by Il
attempt of the husband Of one of the
Nottidge ladies' to compel her to quit u
institution and lie with him elsewher
On the trial it was shown that great i
dgnities had been practiced towards hi
for the crime of bearing child to her ov
husband; but she became infatuated wi
the place, and would not leave it; at Ia
the unmarried Nottidge died, and h
brother sues to recover that portion of t
estate which she had assigned to the Ag
pomene, and this is the trial upon viii
the testimony comes out, which we
describing. -,
The proof is one of strange hallucir
ton, and is remarkable that 1t does
appear to have been associated with
licentious purposes, in the misoellanec
Z Z, assembly of men and women in an "Abc
'oflove," but rather as a mercenary scher
in which fanatic austerity was sedulou
IA cultivated by appeals to the eXtravag'
= exactions Of a religious sentiment.
ET [ should not envy that ma
feelings, who could see leaf with
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