The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-19

glnla. CT we LOOK upon tlcli lcllo>di
South as the very best thing for themselves,
as it certainly will be for Virginia. The
further they go South. till they reach the
centre of the globe, the more genial will
they find the climate. They will be the
more comfortable and contcnted the farther
they 20. And we believe that it is their
instructive inclination that leads them to
draw nearer to the tropics, and not any
unfricndliness or unkind treatment that
stimulates their multitudinous emigration
to the sunny fields of the far South.
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The northern press, especially that OF
New York, has, we apprehend, invaded
every hole and corner into which things sa-
cred may have reiterated, and there is now
nothing left to respect-not even the in
fcrnal regions, where some New York paper
of financial talents said the other day
linen shirts were legal tender! We really
cannot now remember an idea, religious or
social, "a single being or thing, real or seer
through the eye of faith-that has not been
reduced to ridicule, or utilized down to the
familiar level of vulgar conccits and de-
PRAYED tastes, in columns Of prints that
reach the people far and wide.
The manner in which society is turned
inside out is unprecedented. So free has
been the use made of private relations and
household economy that men anil women
seem to have not only passed the point Of
being shocked, but to have crossed over to
the opposite side, seeking the notorictF OF
public blazon Of their names AMI deeds Us
the objects of highest ambition, however
questionable the deeds may have been.
We have just seen the grand sensation OF
the CooKE-JouSSoH affair, and the strange
dishes that the intcryicwcrs cooked out OF it.
The art and ingenuity. the permaatlnG
force Of the Industrious caterers to NOR
bid public sentiment, were in this case
beyond admiration. Such rare talent has
not been known before. AS great rs the
achievements were in the whole drama
from the flight of the parties to their strange
return and the stage capers of the Rev. Mr..
COOKE, the play is pressed even further,
and We are called upon for fresh surprise
in the art which summons to the very ut
termost the remotcst incidents to prolong
the interest in this very peculiar scandal.
The industrious reporter for the Ilorht
seeks the church so lately filed by COOKE,
and there sketches the scene Of the first
Sunday after the sad and hayward fall Of
the shepherd of the flock. He thus speaks
of the entrance of the congregation and
the gentleman" in the pulpit:
"Men and women Of morbid curiosity,
representatives Of the press, and members
of the church congregation, were out in tull
force. Elderly parents and youthful chill
dren with immense hymn-books passed in
single file through the iren gates of the
church. But before entering its sacred
precincts they usually chatted for some
time at the door. Inside, stout-set man,
with broad forehead and short, stubby
whiskers, occupied the pulpit, and, kneel-
ing, offered up the opening prayer. This
was the Rev. William G. Browning, q
minister of the New York Conference, who
had been selected by the presiding elder to
preach. The prayer avowed the unworthi-
ness of the minister and congregation, their
capability of being led astray, and besecch-
ed the Almighty to succor and protect them
by the influence of His divine love-"
This delicate and sensitive Improvement
Of the occasion by the Rev. Mr.. Browsing
is exquisite; and the reporter shows his
keen discriminating sense by bringing it
before the public. The flock Of the Rev.
Mr.. COOKE is not to be forgotten, although
it may share with COOKE the common in
trinity of humanity" capability of being
led astray."
If the reporter has eelipsed himself in
this he achieved q more adroit feat immc-
diately AFTERWARDS in delicate alluson to
the JOHNSON family, which had been we'll
turned inside out during the week. lie
says:
"Miss Johnson's brother was present
during the morning service, and was the
only member of the family who appeared
in the church."
This is grand How the JOHNSON family
is exalted, and how it must be discussed !.
1t has its partisans and its assailants, and
Miss JOHNSON has worldwide fame. Her
suitors will muster in strong force, and we
shall see the nobleness of notoriety!
Never in the world before had we so Pc
culiar state of society. Never before was
virtue so mixed up with vice-neyer before
we're things venerable and awful brought
into such familiarity and contempt. Noto-
riety is substituted for fame, vice for viz
tue, until the society where such state of
things exists must be in peril, from the
general peryasion of the sentiments and