The New York herald., 1869-01-25
GATHERING Of THE GuoULs,
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The Isms and the Schisms in Council-Bur.
lesque, BIasphemy and BlackguardIsm Rana-
pant-Thc Bible Absurd God Nonsense, and
ssThats What's tho Mntter.0
The ghouls which fit across the vision OF decent
people from time to time have turned up again at
Metropolitan Hall, on the Sixth avenue and yes
terday afternoon, according to previous notice,
they convened to ventiate their ideas on "Positive
Philosophy and "Spiritualism.n 1t was q motley
group that assembled to discuss such weighty
themes A Shylock-lookng individual, with deep
sunk eyes, shaggy brows, hooked nose and long
name hanging from his chin shunied around In
the vicinity Of the door and levied tax Of ten cents
on each person coming In. Near patchedup stove
in one corner OF the room was collected number Of
best plan OF returning to specie payments. Among
this group was gent VINO would 90 well
sGs Man, When ns't disguised II e as sss
merchants two or three looked like prize fighters out
Of training, and one OF these latter was amusing
tween his huge teeth with the long blade Of four
inch knife. There were four females In the room
around the mouth ana the crows feet plainly Visible
through the decelying veil which hung before her
countenance; another 9th In A velvet sack, mink furs
and very long nose, high cheek bones and heavy
teeth, and the fourth dressed in mourning who had
When there were enough present to secure the rent
Of the room one OF the gh0uls, who wore above his
Alien the n Minstrel, used to delight in) psir II
bull's-eye spectacles, and Kept his nose pulled uG
With an expression such % as might convey ths idse
placing % bis - right hand over the lowest Sutto Of
right he said:ssTh' yem four these meetin hav.in
arrived move that Missis How-ed take the y-er's
Mrs: Houd was duly elected, and the lady Of velvet.
took Of her frs and velvet laid them the table,
then stood up on the platform and turned toward
wrsS ss Then looking ss the orers Of nc
which ornamented the walls on either side and Che
the "Genevieve Social" she seemed to gain the ne.
cessary strength and requested the debates to pros
Seed. gee .a snky man Wn M cs Dusy " white w ,n asir On
read rom slips : collection ot very long words
prohibit Q person from believing anything he
pleased, but claimed that it must be proved. ne
created Adam as full-grown man and equally
absurd to think that He created him as baby, and
% l. was also absurd =, to imagine & that there was
into the sculpturtng business. He concluded his
harangue BY declaring that Planchette was worked BY
Spiritualism In every family In the land. Z.
A gentleman then undertook 70 rebut the state-
ing that nothing could be proved that the gentleman
(he OF the bushy head and mustache) had asked;
that they were manifestations BY God, and that thosS
fanatcal doctrines would be taken care OF BY God
In practical way. He defended the doctrines Of
OF the Holy Ghost. The speaker did not suit the
crowd much and the ghou Of the bus-eye spectacles
him This ghoul was evidently the heavy gun OF the
coterie. He commenced by quoting from the Bible
sdn~e e n o
ing to his folly lest he be wise In his own conoen
Then, referring TO the Holy Ghost ne said that thls
but that none Of them knew what was meant 81
Holy Ghost. 1t came no said, "from the Hebrew
wn the sa
puckered nose and Mr.. Ghoul went into the recital
q vS Ssras sss oss sa
and the sun alone was God; was tho Crestof
being and thing owed Its existence to the sun. His
sallies aud illusions were very erce and must have
obliged to roll around in their and pull their
hair 10 keep their risibites from overcoming thom.
tines been ham6usssa By the sprtassss but shst
he wss ready S snypg could
looked like cone set on his shoulders and ending ID
monstrous top knoi This Individual believed thas
which were stated In the Bible were ridicuousy IS.
surd-everything depended on matertalism. There
omnipotence, % omni.anythins. This Tentiemsn.
while speaking, would speak 80 loud and so long
eSsry little Ms s a tho g
matter,u and often when obliged to take an extra
breathing spell he relieved the wait" by giving the
ejaculation again.
Another ghoul berated all doctrines, of either Jews
or Christians, and asserted that by means OF scien-
t1c instruments we could place the Holy Gh0st-Or
the "sun custom q scale and measure and weigh
It, Just the same rs any other column Of air. He was
followed by Britisher, who did not believe In 00d
or the SOUL or q "yearafer, nor hanythink ov that
sort OF think:r that mind was the result OF mat
ter entirely and that there was no such thing - the
soul IN mans body. The s'sun worshippern before
referred "came up" again and reiterated his doc
trne OF the the only God but although two or
three OF his fellows put their hats or caps down lex
tinguisher fashionl, as notice for him TO desisb
and although somebody politely requested him 70