Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
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MALTBY HOUSE
BALTIMORE, Feb. Is, 1867.


BALTIMORE, Feb. Is, 1867.
Dear Spectator On Saturday evening, |
took the cars for Baltimore; I could not help
but contrast the smoothness and steadiness of
the running of these cars with the jolting and
reeling of the cars on the Virginia Central, and
the Orange and Alexandria Rail Roads, to say
nothing Of the improvement in speed After
quiet Sabbath, everything seems in hustle and
hurry The streets and the stores were full OF
Many of the ladies wore fine dresses trailing In
the mud to shameful degree.
[ was fortunate in finding my way, on my ar
rival in the city, to the Maltby House, kept by
A. B. Miller, gentleman from Virginia, and
he is true son of the good old stock, and knows
how to make his guests feel at home. had a
nice quiet room, a nice clean bed, great desld
erata,pa and such fare at the table as any gen.
tleman might we'll be pleased with who had a
good appetite and quiet conscience. would
advise all the people of Virginia, and, more
particularly of the Valley, to go to the Maltby,
and l venture to say, they will not want to
change while they remain In the city.
Sabbath morn dawned as fair and as beautl
full as May day, which was the more cheering
after the long period of cloud and rain through
| which we had passed [ went to church on
Eutaw Street, temporary place of worship for
| the congregation of the Rev. Mr. ROssel OF the
| Baltimore Conference of E. nj. Church Mr..
| r. preached one Of the most powerful sermons,
which [ have ever heard-from the text, For
where your treasure is there will your heart be
also to a large and densey crowded as well
as deeply interested audience. He divided his
text into two general heads 1.-THE treasures
of the natural man." and 'sThe treasures of the
spiritual man." While speaking Of the ava
riciousness of man, he said that money was
the root of all evil, and that the worldly man
in its pursuit had the appetite of the tiger, the
insatiableness of the grave. He said that ''the
Old Serpent, which had coiled himself around
the tree of life in the garden of Eden, had drag
ged his Shiny length into the pulpit of the
House of God, and that many of the ministers
| preached for money! that las long as we 1.-THE
| people, have money enough, we can get what
claimed the preacher, 'and the Devil will give
| them their credentials" In another part of
his discourse, he said, if riches increase on the
good man, as sometimes they do, set not your
heart upon them, but fall upon your knees and
ask God why this affection has fallen upon you. }"
Altogether the fervent zeal, the glowing elo-
quence, the pathetic appeals, and the forcible
admonitions of the preacher to the congregation,
which seemed wrapped in profound attention
combined to make it truly a powerful sermon.
The Reverend gentleman is large and fine
looking man, with a big head, and one of the
most expressive faces which | have ever seen.
His GESTURES were very graceful and appropriate,
and his eye now quick and fierce as tigers,
now sympathetic as the morning dew, is as
bright and glowing as the evening star Toap-
preciate the sermon, you should have seen as
well as heard the man. Being Methodist, |
was highly delighted to hear the glowing and
beautiful comments made by persons at the
hotel table, who, [ suppose, are not members
of the church, in regard to said sermon. One
| other remark in regard to the large and quiet
congregation, and am DONE [ was greatly
pleased that the choir sang, to the accompani-
ment of small church organ, plain and easy,
though beautiful and appropriate tunes to the
hymns, and did not give us the abominabe op-
cratic music, which seems to have become SO
popular in most of the churches to the detri-
ment of the cause Of religion. When will our
people cease to try to serve the Lord IN the hcey
of the Devil? The hour was consumed by the
minister In his notice of the first division Of his
text the treasures of the natural man, and
short hour it seemed, and he did not take up
the other division. Owing to the division Of
the Baltimore Conference, this congregation
have no church in which to worship, but have
fitted up a hall for that purpose over one of the
banks Of the city. 1t will not be long, however,
until they build one.
Mr. Doolittle made a speech in the Senate on
Saturday in opposition to Stevens bill for the
military government of the South, in which he
said he had travelled over large portion ofthe
South Nth saothsng but a small pocket knife, and
secuted the idea Of the disloyalty of the South.
But the Senate will pass it, and if the President
vetoes it, as he will no doubt do, Congress will
pass it over his veto, and we will have set of
military satraps and peccaninnies placed over
us who will tyrannize over us in every conceiv-
able way. It seems that Congress intends to
rule or ruin the South in spite Of all justice and
| all rights. They are carrying out the old pro-
verb-''to the victors belong the spoils