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4 to the time ei Yho Abbaye wux Bois adjourn to tho hora aux journ @ ho’ is the Rue Blanche. reconciliation in due form was gone through, much sentiment, in the style of Rene and Atal, ‘was talked by “the school,” and all went smoothly enough until the sound of the first cannon boomed through the air, and announced the commencement of the display. Montrond ex- cused himself from mounting to the Belvedere upou the plea of gouty feet, while Madame Hamelin, having been conlined for some time to the sofa, ‘Was compelled to resigh the task of conducting her | poate up the stairs to her housekeeper, to whom ontroud delivered the key with that povu smile and sucking in of his lips which he of Prince Talleyrand. ‘Lhe stair whic Belvedere was ‘a narrow and winding one, their haste the company crowded daioib with rat ernes3 than became so polis tdainty | It sooa became evident thas some impedi- | ment existed which prevented their progress M | while the crackers were heard in vast profusion, capnon rent the air, the red lights glared throug the little panes which lighted the stair, and yet no sight was obtained of the show; the worthy hous keeper was exerting herself with all her enorgio. | insert the key in the lock, but without effect, and there tho company was left to stand eager and im- patient until the deafening sound of the bouqu announced that all was over, when suddenly th impediment in the lock gave way, and the crowd, all angry and feverish, rushed pell mell into the | place just in time to behold the few scattered sparks of all‘colors which always fly upwards before the | whole is extinguished. On their return to the | drawing-room they found that Madame Hamelin | had retired to bed; while Montrond alone rem’ to condole with their disappointment, which, ever, he did with so merry a face, that tre gu withdrew offended and indignant, furious aga oor B——, whom to this hour they accuse of having een a party to the mystification. The President Joses a kind friend and experienced adviser in Ma- dame Hamelin, one who had often aided him in pe- euniary difficulties, and to whom he was wont to fly when hard pong Her loss will be greatly felt by those whose souvenirs lead them to y with affectioy that period of history when the cle- ments of the new society of France were comba- ° ting against the old; and some little gratitude is due to Madame Hamelin for having been one of those to assist in saving from coarseness and de- pravity the fresh organization of society which tollowed the revolution. = Naples. ‘The official journal of the Two Sicilies, publishes 9 statistical account of the population of Naples up ‘to the first of January, 1851. The total number of iwhabitants amounts to 416,175 souls, viz.—203,433 males, and 212,992 females. ‘I'hore were 14,991 births in 1850, viz.—7,606 males, and 7,385 females; pee or were 1,977 foundling: and 1,039 females, besides 124 ille, consisting of 70 males, and 54 females. - Epction of the births to the entire population is as 1 0 27; There were 240 births of twins, viz.—92 of males, 90 of females, and 68 of different sexes The number of deaths amounted to 16,015, viz.—8,133 males, and 6,882 females. ‘There were 17 8 and - ee drowned. The number of ma was 3,051. = D ages 514 coffee houses, 71 sorbet-shops, 5 16 inns, 243 furnished hotels, 62 restaurants, common eating-houses, 798 wine-shops, 400 taverns and wine-shops, 22 dili- gences, 155 two-horse carriages, 213 cabriolets, six sedan chairs, and 550 boats. There were seven de- clared bankruptcies in 1850. The number of ves- _ that entered the port was 517, the departures ‘The New Planet. Tho ¢iscovery of a now planet at the pre- | sent moment naturally suggests the idea of sclect- ing such a name as shall at once recall the epoch of the discovery and the event which is now making its site the converging point for a vast assemblage fr Il nations. John Herschel, who was consulted by Mr. Bishop in reference to the choice of the name, pro- joses to call the planet Irene (properly Kirene— Peace), one of the seasons amon, the Greeks, and therefore satisfying the condition which has hitherto guided astronomers in the seiection of names for newly discovered planets, namely, that it shall be found in the mythology of Greece or Rome. — There is also an allusion to the peace ac- tually reigning in Europe, to the friendly feelin, provailing in relation to all foreigners in Englan at the present moment, and, by implication, to the acts and sciences fostered by peace and represented in the Crystal Palace. The symbol suggested is a dove with olive branch and star on hoad’ We intend to adopt this name and symbol (sup posing there be no prior claim to tho right of dis- covery), and, as emanating from so high an author- ity, we hope it will be received with satisfaction by astronomers n¢ a humble tribute to the art and science of the world. I remain, sir, your most obedient servant, J. R. He Mr, Bishop’s Observato: Regent's ‘Park, May Miscellancous Foreign ftems. | The Swedish bark Antelope was to leave Hong | Kong about the Ry 3 February, for San Fran- , isco, with about Chinese jengers. i "The failure of the be See pate Db. a ae ‘German house at nm announced. ‘total liabilities are stated at between £50,000 and £60,000. The receipts at the Great Exhibition in London, for twenty-four days, amounted to £15,775. During the last month agents of the Russian government have been visitin; and England, to ascertain which country could best supply an extensive order for arms. The agents have at last given the order to some establishments at Liege; 50,000 muskets of the first quality, » quantity of powerful carbines and conic bullets, | are to be supplied. ‘The Madrid Nacion says that a respectable com- | pany has made proj to the government for the establishmont of three lines of Brett's lectric tele- graph from Madrid to Cadiz, Barcelona, and Iran, | which will be less expensive by two-thirds than the prosent system of telegraphs, and that the pp ° ny aeks nothing from the government for construction, and offers sufficient guat os for | eommencing the works at once, and completing them ina short time. It says that the Minister of the | rey Department no doubt accept these pro- | ‘posals. Letters from Warsaw inform us that the now Russian customs tariff has the most beneficial in- fluence on the manufactures of Poland. The ware- houses aro empty, and the manufacturers cannot supply all the orders which they reosive. The atest activity rei Sie markets of the East are now open. Large or- ders bave been given by the morchants at Odessa ; and it has been found necessary to procure work- men from foreign countries. Tho wife of Edward March, # laboring man, at Retford, (England,) lately gave birth to twins which hy the far-famed Siamese. The child- ren are both, in every respect, perfect fully formed, but win Joleed By ‘@ kind of broad band from tho naval nw to the pit of the body. Only one of them was alive, and it almost immediately. Affairs in Hayt. May 21) course of last week, the lant conv hither, from St. aoe French and wa niron to the government of Hayti, and Mr. Walsh, United States ae to that government. We learn by tho arrival of there inguished personages, that Mons. in connection with Mr. Usher, the British neral at Hayti, had succeeded in induoing peror F a the som | royis in to his future movements to 6 Domi = ee eae his Majesty would abstain st all hazerds from specific treaty with St, Domingo, he consented to hold entirely on the defensive, and would not cause his army to cross the frontier, unless compelled to oF some aggressive act on the part of the Domi- nicane. This communication was conveyed in mn by Mons. Raybaud to the government of St. Bom ings in consequence left Port au Prince, accom od by Mr. ‘Walsh, in the French war steamer Croco dile, which vossel subsequently landed those gentlo- men at St. Croix. Mons. Raybi ind Mr. Walsh take their departure to-day packet ston’ Merlin, for New York, ii it to proceed to Wash: ngton, whither they are expected to meot Mr. Usher. [Foom the London Times, May 24) P Advieos from Hayti state that the rebellion of Prince Botos bad been easily sw by tho en tio mearares of government. appeared to entirely failed to excite the oruntry people to Pp in his cause. He had fled to the woods. The great and exorbitant topic was tho collective notes presented te the Emperor by the Plenipotontiaries of France, England and tho United States, demanding an acknowledgmout of the Dominican Kepublie or a ceasation of hostilities for ten years. The i:mperor having refused these -eonditions, the American and French representa- tives prepared to embark, and were expected at Jnemel, on their way to St. Domingo and Now York. The Haytiens, loth to believe that Engbnvil or France would consent to jeopardize their commerce for the sake of the United jet, which alone yeu a rich harvest from ther long’ cherished design of ob tarning a footing on the island—the Bay of Samuna, with ts suri ing lands for @ colony, was pro- mised to the United States by the Dominicans, in case its representative n in obtai an ac. knowled S t of their a 4 il other respects country was trang and more pro- duce had been exported to England and the oat. nent in 1850, the first quarter of 1851, thi during the Cave previous years. trons had olny |P | France, Belgium, | 4 | treatment. in the cloth trade, to which | CURIOUS INFIDEL MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, Athelstical Declaration of Independence Andrew Jackson Davis, of Saeimaaena.? (From the Spirit Messenger, May 31.) | Innumerablo centuries have rolled away, and ¢o- | lossal empires have appeared upon the distant hil | have existed for a little season, and have fallen | into ruin and decay. Monarchies and religions have come up in different portions of the earth— | have exhibited great power and despotism—have glided away like a dream of the nigat, making a dim and dark impressioa on the page of history. Countless beings have appeared upon tho earth — have performed some part in the vast and mysteri- ous drama of life, and have passed away inioa higher sphere. % the past has vanished, and the stupendous present is before us. Here we stand, udon the towering summit of the ages past, contemplating the world of matter and the world of mind, We and upon a mighty eminence, with all the vast accumulation of ages, with all the experience and wisdom of the past, beneath, around and within us. the powerful momentum which the revolution aud the developement of ideas and principles © ipa d to us, we have steadily aa progres- vely advanced to a moral andintellectual position, from which we perceive it to be our personal right and mutual duty to present to the world the rea- sons why we occupy this position, and why, also, we are resolved to maintain it, as the only certain foundation of individual culture and humanitary rogression. e hold it to be a self-evident truth, that the principle of reason is the greatest and highest en- dowment of the human mind; that it is the indwel- ling light and the power of understanding by which man is enabled to read the innumerable sentences and chapters contained in the everlasting volume of nature! We hold reason to be the divinely in- herited treasure of the human soul, because it sees the indications, studies the principles, and progres- sively comprehends the countless and infinitely di- versified manifestations of the Universal God. And we, likewise, hold it to be self-evident, that nature {s the only perfect and unalterable “Reve- latien” which the Deity has ever given, or over will give, to mankind. By nature, we apprehend tho material universe, with its innumerable constella- tions of suns, planets, and satellites; and the spi- ritual universe, with its innumerable spheres of love- liness, and with their multitudinous angelic and se- raphicinhabitants. It embraces the stupendous uni- vercelum, which comprehends the kingdoms be- neath, the powers within, and the boundless firma- meats aboveus. We beliove Nature to be the univer- sal exponent of God, and Reason to be the external exponent of Nature ; therefore, that Nature and Rea- son, combined, constitute the only true and reliable standard of judgment upon all subjects—whether social, political, philosophical, or religious—which may come within the scope and investigations of the human mind. . Furthermore, we hold it to be the nature and tendency and divine prerogative of the human soul to explore, to investigate, to classify, and re- duce to a practical application every thought, and principle, and ssience, and philosophy, and religion, which rests upon the everlasting foundations of the universe ; and, likewise, that it is man’s nature and prerogative to candidly, freely, and fearlessly, with an eye single to truth, examine all sciences, and discoveries, and mythologies, and theologies, and religions which have been, or may be, developed among mon; and that if they do not accord with the immutable principles of nature and reason, it is his divine right and authority to openly expose, repu- diate, and discard thers. We believe that there is nowhere, in the mighty empire of this material and spiritual universe, any abrolute sin or evil! We believe that all evil is but the negation of good—all sin the negation of righteousness—all error, the negation of truth —ull discord but the negation of harmony; that is to say, what are conventionally or custom- arily termed sin and evil, among men, is but the misdirection or perversion of the attributes of the human soul, which are substantially good and in- bey reo pure! We beleive that, in consequence of a law of sym- patby and universal dependence by which all created things are inseparably united and con- nected together, the individual affects. society, and that society moulds and shapos the individual. And we believe that all men have two important responsibilities resting upon them: Is’. ‘The protec- tion, welfare, and harmonization of the individug). 2d. ‘The protection, welfare, and harmonization of societ, We believe it to be our highest interest and legi- timate duty to discover, and decry, and remove every conceivable barrier and obstruction, which, in any manner whatsoever, am serve to derange, impede, or arrest the proj ive developement of peace on earth and good will to all men. We, therefore, hereby resolve to declare ourselves froe and independent of all personal, social, educational and theological habits, customs, and restrictions which militate against, or prevent us from accom- plishing, these grand and glorious ends of our crea- tion and destiny. Among some of the reasons why we are conscien- tiously impelled to make this open avowal of our po § sentiments—this Declaration of {ndopen- dence—are those which follow:— First—The present organization or structure of society, although vastly better now than in any previous age of the world, nevertheless engenders personal and national animosities. It developes many and various antagonisms. It imposes restrio- tions upon the natural rights and enjoyments of i leaves us unprotected mye pn ills of disease and accident, by encouraging and support- ing monopolies, which are monarchies, and by aid- of bi —aw Tt arbitrarily determines upon what book, or what porellas combination of books, we shall revere as e “ Word of Goi;” and then denies to us the right of exercising the same amount of intellectual, moral, and religious liberty. It describes the circle in which ll move, and think, and reason; ively and dogmatically denies to us the moral or religious freedom to advance beyond it. It thus imposes what we conceive to be impro- per and demoralizing restrictions upon our thoughts and investigations—trammels the progressive de- velopement of our minds, and peremptorily denies to us the divine privilege of free discussion and a free expression of our inward sentiments. Second—It unites with society in its unpbili sophieal and unbrotherly treatment of the crim and of the unfortunate victim of crime; gnd it (that is, popelae Theology) sanctions the old bar- barian or Mosaic law of capital punishment. Third—It emphatically justifies society in the ple oat of personal and national animosities and antagonisms. It permits war, confiscation of property, and carnage; and it assists to promote successful military chieftains, without regard to other merit or demerit, to the respousible position of emperors and governors. Fourth—It sanctions the monarchical despotism of monopolies. It smiles, with silent approbation, upon the conflict between labor and capital. It permits the present unjust remuneration of the toil- ing millions. It permits them to live from day to day without the least guarantee of @ home in case of pecuniary adversity or ill health; and, more than all, it openly and emphatica'ly sanstions the dark and fearful sin of human slavery! Fifth—It deforms and enslaves, but it does no} re- form andemancipate the human mind, from the confinements and mournful influences of sectarian- ism _ Its influence is not poluce and reformatory, but it is merely negatively restraining. lt opposes almost every measure or movement which origi- nates with the people. It engenders melancholy and erroneous conceptions of the nature and destiny of man. It keeps up a perpetual warfare between the head and the heart. It encourages a gladito > ~ oar rial struggle against liberty of speech and freedom It even opposes temperance reform .- of action, tion, unless it originates in the church; and formly exerts its multiform influenses, to restrain the proarors of social and prison reforms upon iden- tical grounds. Sixth—It conveys discord into our families. It arrays husbands seni wives, and wives against husbands. 1: produces om private alienations of affection and friendship. [t causes the heads of many familics to separa‘e, an to different and antagonistic s2ctarian sanctuari mn the Sabbath; and it developes sad and unwholesome dissensions among friends—be‘ween membors of socioty, and disturbs the equilibrium of nations! Seventh—It generates cupidity and hypocrisy by teaching our children to regard certain doctrines as truths, which (because these doctrines are not true) cannot be felt, but which, nevertheless, are fre- quently manifested with all the show of confidence in their validity. This leads directly to practical dissimulation and deceit. Many persons are in the constant practice of exhibiting piety, who, at tho same time, do not (because they cannot) feel such sy to be sacred truth; and this apparently will- ‘ul ay on the part of some individuals, leads directly to tho theological assumption—an assump- tion which has retarded human progress for ages— that the heart of man is desperately wicked and de- praved by nature. Kighth—It instils dark and unwholesome thoughts into the minds of our children. It teaches them to believe in the most soul-revolting doc- trines. They are educated to consider them- selves as “totally depraved”—and as being under the “curse” of the living God. It teaches them to regard themselves as evil, and “sinners” by nature; and as incapable of being good and heaven-worthy, independent of the Bible and the Church. They are taught to believe ina “God of Love,” who, at the same time, encourages hate; and in a “God of Heaven,” who, at the same time, permits the ever- lasting duration of Hell. Thus our youth become contaminated by the existing methods of religious education; and, when Lge vance in years, and become men and women, they become either bigots and sectarians, or skeptics and misanthropes. A sadness and gloom are consequently thrown over our minds; and we deprive ourselves and our chil- dren of a large proportion of that enjoyment and progressive happiness which are the iaalionable ‘ights of man. Ninth—It seeks to array its conservative and authoritative influence against scientific inventions and improvements. It asserts this whole world of human beings to be under an Adamic curse or con- dempation. It has most dogmatically pronounced, and still continues to assert it, that all the sorrows and perplexities, and vicissitudes, and trials, and discords, and diseases, and all the afflictions of this inundane state, are ex] ly sent by the living Giod to punish man for his alleged manifold transgressions ! And it has openly opposed every medical reform, every social improvement, every benevolent design, upon the fabulous ground that such moral attempts wore wicked, and would prove unavailing, because they wero in opposition to the “will” and punish- ment of God. And it trammels the progress and advancement of mankind, by teaching our children and our communities to believe the erroneous and baneful doctrine, that no improvement or reforma- tion can be premanetly accomplished, except through the so-called “divine” instrumentalities and multifarious restrictions and principles of the “Reece ie perpstekton soclal, pilitiol, ad ‘enth—It tuates social, political, and pro- fessional contin by itself manifesting that tieeraas sectarianism and aristocratic intolerance which are the invariable symptoms and inevitable concomi- tants of ignorance and peruicious error! It presents to the world numerous examples of jealousy and clerical ambition which subserve the of sanctioning and confirming, and rendering fashion- able the war of the trades and professions which ing and perpetuating sa » and consequent crime, and consequent misery. i Second—It does not reform the criminal and tho morally deformed, by fraternal and hospitable It does not attract the gambler from his hades of vice, by kindness and principles of brotherly love and good will; nor the voluptuary from his pandemonium, by the positive sphere of Jove and wisdom ; but it rates and brutally disposes of the transgressor and the criminal, and ' repels the gambler and the licentious man with pre- judicial words and unrighteous deportment. ‘Third—It contaminates our youth. It converts a joyful and confiding child into @ sad and si ting man ; it transforms a fair and happy mind into a dix ed and miserable one; and, conse- causes and perpetuates unhappiness, mis- tion, and error amon, Nea developes ¢ tation, cupidity, envy, malice, hypocrisy; and “eakes subsistence coceres E> ot cone Soe ete n, and inseparately connected with, individual intrigue, i} b= am sed Enavery. Fi It is based upon antagonistic and conflict- ing interests @nd professions; and thus derangos and Ue waterp prising aad onerGiing faculties €. the hr t ene \u- man mivd, and couse Tikes fhultice to manifest themeelves in strifes, contentions, wars, and in « em sen ive, sordid ne ge “i ‘h—It keeps up® perpetual war between bor and capital. It sanctions a conflict between in- terest and duty. It causes a man to lacerate and deform his smother the inward moni- tor—in order to augment his worldly interests and emoluments. This is true of all the trades and fessions. On the other hand, pot ag oily profession, of society compels a man to interests—yea, his reputation, his friendships, his subsistence, and life even—in —— ispers in his inmost ear. Tho almost proverbial, that “an man cannot succeed in business.” makes the lawyer's interest consist | and social disturbances--in contentions, tions, and inate love of truth, and jus- Pocikiment t, neverthe! his and com| to honestly obey the serene voice of duty, intuition constantly wh Fe has become iti His inward deity. and See aay Sens iy for the utter ad to seri er ious! of al discords | interest impels him to individual disturbances in i ‘aud con- ceivable manner. This conflict between interest and duty wo hold to be vitiating and demoralizing to mankind We hold that that man is immoral; situated whose duty tells him one thing and — another. And this is the work of prosent society. Lighth—The present structure of society we like- wise bold to be demoralising and depraving, bo- cause it makes the physician's interest to consist in the existence, prevalence, and multiplicity of hu- man disease and physical suffer: is duty—his love of general health and happiness—may prompt bim to earnestly desire the extermination of all bodily infirmities and distress; but it cannot be dented that bie pecuniary interest consists in the abundance of organic violations, and disease. And his interest, also, prompts him to strenuously op- pose all medical reform, or the introduotion of any popes which tends to banish disease and destroy jon. (he present social arrangemonts mako ites; the elergym: interests to conflict also with his duty. It causes his interest to consist in the pro- valence of ignorance, and in ths existence of moral tranagressions. It csuses him to usurp tho right to reason and de side upon reli ubjects. It causes him to deny the privilege of free diseusion to oth ors. It prompts him to oppose the unrighteous restric- tions npon our speech and actions. It vitiates his mind by assigning tohim a false and unnatural posi- tion; and, then, exerts uy us pon our chikiren @ correspondingly je and unnatural in- fluence. Among the numerous reasons why we are moved to declare ourselves free and independent of the isting forms and institutions of theology, are the following First—It assumes to be, or to possess within its organization and cardinal doctrines, the medium or totality of inspiration, and it arrogantly proclaims itself to be the supreme and soversign authority. surrounds us in society, and by which we are more or less injuriously affected. Eleventh—It unqaalifiedly to professes not bring we ea sword!” i conta we a Coemnges ee om cally con- demns natural or physical enjoyments. 1+ strives to awaken in our minds what we consider to be imaginary compunctions of conscience. It imposes hat we conceive to be unnecessary and Sevrming trials upon ws; and causes us to crucify ourselves, an bear crosses that aro wholly unnatural and wrens. We therefore feel that it has defrauded us, and ‘enerations that are gone, of two-thirds of the real appiness and mental consolations which we solemn- ly believe to be ours, according to the laws of the human consti‘ution and the universal Providence of God! Yea, it deprives us, and seeks to deprive our as. OE Peper ego Fee he * u yt songs, of ony oo ay Ve Soke wales, chtsh ane mani- festly natural usefal for man. jirteenth—It dogmatically asserts nature, and reason, and conseience even, to be subordinate to ecclesiastical authority. It ves the baneful doctrine that our very heart im) are naturally Sinful and opposed to the “will of God.” ilore in it creates a false issuc between the heart and head; and thus it has been the sole cause of im- po Gee minds into sad and hopeless insanity. ie a melancholy, dismal gloom over our fami- homes, and the nations of the civilized It renders this life a dark, and toil-ome, and uncertain gift of God; and, with its clouds of igno- rance and superstition, it darkens our thoughts and anticipations of the other life. When our friends their material forms to the grave, then this the: fills our hearts with sadness, and our minds with distressing dou! concerning their future welfare and eternal |. And thus it spreads gleom, \d suicidal and tal sien, wens 1 ‘ and cheerfulness, and righteousness, and jo, and peace, and happiness should and might exist in : Fourteenth—And we are moved to declare our- sire—“ our continual prayer” for social peace cabinet-makers,6 carp nters, 5 coopers, 6 masons, | in t waivers uly! eel ‘machinists, © printers, rop.*makers, 2 weavers, atly hese depredations is brought more And it is our happiness to belicve (with James | 1 wateh-maker, and 1 tanner, so’ that it is well pro- | It is not ‘that I should, in this re; Victor Wilson,) he chief employment of our | vided in to mechawics, The tailors and | relate to your Honor the many ingenious departed friends, the dwollors of the spirit-land, is | shoemakers not only make clothes end shoes for the / adopted by this class of thieves, to carry ew their the transmission of thoughts, truths, and pure affee- tions from circle to hog and from sphere to sphere; and that true happiness and true progression con- sist, both here and hereafter, in receiving and iin- parting; in unfolding the elements of our being, and assisting others to unfold; in seeking the Great Divinity and imparting to the world the results of our investigations. And we, moreover, freely declare it to be our sacred conviction, which we base upon the past his- torical experience of humanity, and upon our highest institutions and reascn, that all true religion and alltrue inspiration are natura) to the human soul. We believe that heaven is harmony, and that no man can secure this condition merely by doin, ponenes at the virgin’s shrine; nor by being praye: ‘or or praying; nor by building churchesand hiring the gospel preached; nor by believing, or trying to believe, avy system of religion. Ou the contrary, we do declare it to be our deepest conviction that Heavenis attainable only throuyh self-developement and telf-harmenization. And we believe, that popular theology, and popular education, and popular society, are insufficient to supply the human *pixit with its proper nourishments and encourage- ments to an easy, natural progression towards truth and perfection! We believe that theology is inad- equate to the reconstruction of society; and that mo- dern systems of education (which are saturated with this theology) are inadequate to a proper educa- tion and cultivation of the spirit. We declare ourselves free and independent of these systems, we repeat, because they restrain us in our investigations, and set up many and various barriers to our developement; and we declare our- selves free of them, also, because they do not cover our wants, nor respond to the iaparesive necessities of our outer and inner being! We feel that we have mentally and morally out-grown them—out-grown their virtue, their principle, and their means and methods of individual ret social reformation. And we furthermore declare ourselves indepen- dent of these systems of superstition and error, be- cause they circumscribe the sphere of ourresearches; Community and its neighbors, but .send their pro- duets to i sold at St. Louis, wher.’ the Commu- nity keepas store,and where the whiskey ‘of the distil- lery‘and othersurplus articles are also sent. The ma- chinists also work as blacksmiths, and the , ¥en of the other trades find more or /ess employment in’ repairs, &e., for the people of the vieinity. The domestic arrangemenss are far from con ‘plete, though, as in the case with every other depart. tent, they are constantly improving. ‘The commu. Wty occupy one large house with 40 Apactanenta, in wh: °2 120 persons, married and siagle, have theirlodgings.« | ‘There are also some twenty smaller houses, four of’ | which are occupied by the schools. A. large edifice, 150 feet by 60, is now nearly completed; the ground- | floor of which will serve as the kiteben and dining- room, with apartments above. ‘T'hit dining-room Will aecommodate above eight hundred person at | able. The whole body now eat together, except the | children at school, who ure served in 2 sefwrate building, whero they are also lodged, at some | distance from the common dining-room, whither | their meals are carried from the kitehen. e | carrying of these meals being a comparatively difficult and unattractive duty, owing to the distance and to the fact that in bad weather the way iv | muddy, it is done by the leading men of the com- munity. The same persons also serve the tables in | thedining-room. ‘There are three meals daily, at 8 _ A.M., and 1, and 64, P. M. Meat is served at all, the severe labor of the men being thought to render that necessary. The beverages used are water, tea, and coffee. ‘There is excellent fishing by seine in the river, which often supplies the table of the society. For a single meal, 25) Ibs. of fish are required. the labor of the kitchen and dining room is per- formed regularly by four men and three women. After tea, four other women come in to help, and | in this latter function all the women of the commu- nity take turns, a week at atime. On Sunday th» no cooking at. private kitchens, except for nurses and the sick—all the meals being prepared and ta- and because they create a false issue, and perpetu- ate a conflict, between physical philosophies and sciences, and what they term religion; while we be- lieve all truth, whether scientific or religious, to be equally divine, harmonious, and eternal We believe that social or political sciences com- prehend :— 1. Marriage; 2. Language ; 3. Amusements; 4. Temperance; 5. Education: Government. We believe that Material or Physical sciences comprehend :— 1. Agriculture; 2. Commerco; 3. Chemistry ; 4. Anatomy ; 5. Physiology ; 6. Mechanism. We believe that VPsychological or Spiritual sciences comprehend :— 1. Poetry ; 2. Music; 3. Painting; 4. Astrono- mY; 5. Philosophy ; 6. Religion. ‘e believe all these sciences to be in strict har- mony, one with another, and that our bo rer consists in their proper and universal application to individual wants, and social improvement. ‘We are not merely opposed to the prevailing systems of ignorance, superstition, and wrong; we are not merely disciples to the science of human magnetism, and to its sublime and spiritual pho- nomena; we are not merely anti-slavery, anti-capi- tal punishment, and prison reformers; we are not merely social, philosophical, and religious refor- mers; but we opens: avow ourselves henceforth to be the germinal constituents of a harmonious bro- therhood. We are ready, and willing, and expect to hear it said of us and to us, that we are ‘ infidels,” and “mystics,” and “fanatics,” and “ conspit and * blaspheme: and “imposter: “workers of iniquity” even,—so long as these odious terms and epithets will subserve the pi se to remind us of our free and independent principles ; and to arouse us to the sacred aud holy conscious- ness, that we are determined foes of ignorance, error, injustice and tyrannical institutions. And we hereby declare that we will oppose and remove what we conceive to be social, political, or religious injustice and error, when and where and just so far as (according to our highest reason and intuicions,) we apprehend such opposition and re- moval beneficial to the individual and universal conditions and rights of mankind. ‘We hold it to be self-evident, that all books, creeds, and institutions contain more or less truth and useful instruction; nevertheless, we solemn; declare it to be our intuitional conviction, that all books, creeds, and institutions are inferior and sub- ordinate to the divine power within the human mind—the reason-principle—without which all thoughts and truths were the merest fancies, and the sublime universe an empty shade! And furthermore—until we feel and comprehend greater truths—we hereby declare that— Our Book is Nature ; Our Master is Reason ; Our Law is Love to Man; Our Religion is Justice ; Our Light is Trath ; Our Structure is Association ; Our Path is Progression ; Our Works are developement ; Our Heaven is Harmony; Our God is the Universal Father! And we feel moved to fraternally suggost to those minds, everywhere, who are aol, tellectual- ly, and constitutionally endowed wi th powers and blessings superior to the great mass of mankind about them—the propriety of immediately organiz- ing themselves into a true harmonial brotherhood— declaring yourselves free and independent of all those habits, forms, creeds, restrictions, and cere- monies in modern society, theology, and education —without regard to sect or nation—which tend, in any manner whatsoever, to arrest, prevent, or de- range the progressive iness of im: |, or to retard their progress toward universal unity and per- fection. For we believe that such an or; tion is necessary in order to learn what is useful, what isjus- tice, pee what is power; and beauty, aspiration and —— will then be familiarly learned from the fields of universal nature and humanity. To under- stand what harmony is, we must ourselves become harmonious. A harmonious individual is a revela- tion of the Divine Mind; for every human spirit is 8 baad embodiment of the elements of the Infinite We conclude our Declaration of Independence, by affirming—what we do most religiously believe— that all men to be b worthy must aspire to heaven ; to be perfect, they must aspire to fox. tion. But this no man can perfectly do of himself; jon use man wey a pe byrny tho duncan ness of progenitary bias; upon the propitious- ness of eater condit tos ; ' he harmonious- ness of social circumstances, for ability to ice such ration mony must begin with the Indivi spread over our families and communities; thence it will flow and ramify through the innumerable veins and arteries of the distant sects and nations ; then the Whole will it the Individual! the Individual the Whole ; and God will be all in all In presenting to the wide world, and ne discussion an a we do not we ourselves to adhere to ta infalli- ble sad prentetre creed; but wo make a rae Me gp ow Ny 5. gir sentiments princi ich, every where known) weare | henceforth to revore, love, and maintain—until we discover and compre- hend truths still higher and better, and more worthy of our sacred esteem and confidence. Organization ef an Infidel Community at jauveo, Iltnots, (Prom the New York Tribune, May 24) We had yestorday the pleasure of a visit from M. Cabet, the founder and head of the Icarian selves free and t of the existing theology in all parts and jones of the earth, more partiou- larly and especially, because it endeavors to retard and proves the march of social improvement and bhumanitary ; because it seoks to vilil and anathematize us—to denounce us—to woun our reputations—to lice the multitude against us—to ye mobs ant riots (by inspiring their children with the spirit of sec:arianism and intele- rance)—to injure usin our commercial or business tom our families against us by mis representing our sharacters and sentiments to our associates and offepring—to calumniate us in our daily walk and conversation—and, more than all the rest, it strives to provent the free investigation, the general ‘ion, and the universal expansion of our harmonial philosophy, yh we do most sa credly believe to be the sublimost incarnation of the eesential principles of christianity, and tho spacious vortibule to a templo of eternal truth. ‘We believe that the destiny cat men he gay tality, endless happiness, and ote progression. ‘@ bolieve—in accord-nce with the interior and material constitution of the human siew—that there is a general mission for each individual to ac- cone es ly beget and perpetuate his kind. Ml. To, Mietly reepect and honor, and wisoly direct 2d. T and cultivate the heaven! a spiritual ‘inciple—which is deposited in the soul. k Pad. ‘o live here with special reference to indi- vidual and social happiness, and with an ultimate reference to another and higher life. i We believe (with the g a te yey o it is ly the good who die happily; for the troublesome or troubled spirit, is somotiones not quieted until after @ bas boen, for a considerable length of time, removed from the earth; and until it has expe rienced the subduing, tho chastening, and disci- plining inflaences, which universally pervade the spiritual habitations of all spirits, angels and se raphs. ‘We, therefore, declare it to be “our highest duty” to become enlightened cone: ves ; concerning tho powors and spheres of the hu- man mind; to the end 4a m: z! — oo sonal harmony—give to jan society a healthy , homooentrical de- constitut! thus gratify our Community at Nauvoo, Ill., and were glad to see him looking quite as young and vigorous as whon we met him some three years since at Paris. He is now on his way to —— » _— phe ge atmosphere is sufficiently tranquil, he ° France to seok justice in respect of the legal com nations paseed upon him since his absence in this country, on necusations and evidence which could only — aie bef b| ~F - motion and feeling. js quiet, M. Cabet is confide hd the sentences will be re versed on his appeal. ‘ rm from him that the Community at Nau- state of rity, and that he regards sere ful, abs , were it otherwise, he would hardly leave it for so long @ ti The be- nefits of association ho considers aro fully demon- strated by his experiment. Greater cheaj social as of vo~ the happi and intellectual im hese benefits, and althoug! unity suffers from the want of adequate o: - nd means of organi Se eee justry, it has at sa! ry progress, and Tosarded by its founder and members as irmly established. ‘The learians, now about three hundred in nam- ber, ocenpy fifteen acres of land in the town of Nauvoo, where are most of their workshops and residences. The kitohen garden of ten acres. At m of seven handred acres, leased lands. Of this they now have one hundred scres in wheat, one hundred and fifty in Indian corn, fifty in oate and fifty in Jord, hen the whsle requiting tho constant labor .5 the whole requi cons! r ef six farmers and ners with reinforce ments [Sy Waren te gi yaks oc, ee} teen 5 0 of 0; ‘y que and beth, ont asmall flock of sheep. For to Nauvoo, s distance of some five fint boats, and coal which they tig almost at t! oS Sevens nae two run ofstone, whiok s them not only to grind their own flour but to aecommodate in the vicinity, and two ciroular saws. with o whiskey lery , occupies some 15 men. The Com- munity also sumbora 10 tailors, 12 shoomakers, 12 I, _=_L$£L$___<<£<$L tion as is afforded to ‘on the land, both be~ | ing within the “juriedietion of the corporate authori~ ken in common. | ‘The washing is done at half a mile distance, on @ little creek which flows into the Missouri. ‘The clothes are received by two women charged with cooks have two other men to aid them. There is | 4: depredations without fear of detection, or the manner in which they put their schemesinto opera- tion, although many'new facts have lately come to m; ers ige. in my former report the deta'ls wi with sufficient dlatinotuees to pet ye arte of every person interested in the subject, and ] beg to refer your Honor to that report for a more elaborate statement of the schemes and devices em- ployed by river thieves, to depredate upon the pro- perty exposed upon the docks and in our waters. In a report made subsequent to the one before re- ferred to, the peopel ony of lighting the piers of the city was urged as a measure demanded alike by a regard for the lives of those who are compelled te t tavel them at night, and as a means to prevent the ec “Mumnission of crime. As they are at present, it is im, Wssible to detect offenders who o on their dep: ¢dations with impunity, amid the darkness of night,» and if, by chance, the policeman should overhy ‘ar them, his efforts to arrest them are ren- dered ¢ utirely useless. If the; °@ Were no ie inh on the piers or afloat im our slips to be guarded atnight, yet, as a means of protection to the life and limbs of the large number of sailors a ud other persons who live on board of the vessels, sud who are compelled to pass over the piers at nig bt, the lighting of them would be in- valuable,and / am fully convinced that a careful examinaton oi” the subject would satisfy any im- Barish person t Lat great bentit would result to the city and individuals from the measure proposed. 4:ll of which is respectfully submitted. Geo. W. Mars&ux, Chief of Police. PAINS OF THE SEVERAL PaTRon vo Tur CUURY OF Porc DED FOR Frio Ie, MispeMEAxOR: YENORS, ¥ROM Viner Day ov Jan imav-rIRST DAY 0: C TH Feae Tek, sting 2, ‘ J | bet BBermemiereBaretintin gees! Feb. 1 9 326 il ul 1 21 3 a 7 4 that duty; they are carried in a wagon to the wash- | j,umtiuative Larceny ; om house, where’ ¢ labor of washing is done by four- | eee eatntes ay ates | teen women, with the assistance ofone man. After | Driving wit ‘ ? 14 being dried, they are handed over to the menders, | fren" FY I H and finally to the ironers; from whom they are | 7 Fy r again taken by the two overseers and distributed } 5 5 5 to their owners. Fig! SB & ur The schools are far from complete, and, in con- | or 46 168 Sequence, the Community has been obliged tode- | § 2 . 3 cline many applications which it has received for | {ntowic 52 HL 1,008 the admission of pupils from abroad. From this | Intoxication&disorderly cond erry oe Las source, as soon as the proper arrangements are | frre’ posure of person.... 8 6 2 completed, the institution may derive a large in- pening Fema 7 a os 8 come. Miscella o @ Hh 9 ‘The affairs of the Community are discussed and | M» ‘ = 4 decided in weekly meetings, held on Saturday even- | Poti tarseny sot 283 ML ings, when all the members, men and women, are | Picking pock . e expected to be present. The majority decides. | Passing counterfei money. 8 gq un w 4 ‘omen take part in the deliberations, but notin | i") i eae 2 2 Nhe Co lish Kl led dy ORY “abite F 6 Community pu es a weekly paper, calle: The Popular Tribwne, of whose merits we have be- | eeitiny’ 2 4 t ' fore spoken. It has some three or four hundred sub- | Selling lottery 3 1 5 2 scribers. Most of the original articles are written ening iif. oe ee. a in French by M. Cabet, and the other editors, and ~~ edeamesmcsmpeomintgt ak ame wen translated into English before going to the com- positors. Sunday is devoted to recreation, as is the habit of | tke French at home. The Community has among its members fifteen instrumental musicians, and the young people, and indeed the greater part of the otter members, are trained to sing in chorus. There are dances in tho open air, and the theatre | within doors. A temporary stage is erected and arranged in the large dining hall, and there como- | dies and vaudevilles are performed for the amuse- | ment of both actors and audience. The children | : take part in the performances, and exclusion from | ; the stage or the chorus on Sunday is the severest punishment that can be inflicted on the disorderiy at school. e No religious ceremonies are observed in the commu- nity M. Calet regards his doctrine as being purely that of the Fownder of Coriatenty. In his view, work and happiness are the best and truest worship, anda Society based on and living in equality and fraternity needs no other ritual. This, with the | mode of spending Sunday, has scandalized some of the neighbors, but none who have visited the lca- rians on that doy have been able to deny that they — happier than people in the common world without. CRIME IN NEW YORK THE REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE. Hon. naps perp ae Mayor :— sistas Mr mnex present you a roj > Shor the number of arrests, and ihe condition of the Pe lice Department, for the quarter ending with the 31st of March, 1851, from. which it appears that the Rerort mani spony Total4d 4 29 155 2s 2400 2854 7,966 THE CAPTAINS OF THE SEVERAL PatRror Prue NUMER AND Districts, ro THe Cuimy or Porice, Description ov O¥¥RNcKs COMMIT? TY IN Rack Disrrict, ¥: ARY, TO THE THIRTY sive. Aavpang syoyrod yd wang on duane? *fuar4v7] purigy 29407] 2a mM41SUOD + pouapatey 28721 “Aavpzang 7 }dw9yip* SeRSSEew “* Pittttetttbhiad wt PL IStttel erases Tne, Pultttettt oe “ecaeam |x| saernseseanscocecens me) ! 650 Rerort MADE BY THE CA! mat Day ov Manon, 1851, eNT TO THE CORPORATION ATTO! re of Offences. whole number of arrests amounted to seven thou- | J2,t*lstion to— Jo. FO a4 Teak, sand nine hundred and sixty-six (7,966), being Stage: at ™ 3 as three hundred and fifty-six (356) less than during wee gS 8 Rm 3 the previous quarter. This decrease in the num- ert: ae eT ber of arrests has occurred mainly in such of- i 2 ~ is fences as assault and battery, aud intoxication be 319 = bd and disorderly conduct, while there has been an | 5; + oe 4 e hUte increase in the number of arrests for violating Cor- , Bt i « 2 poration ordinances, of one hundred and fifty-sever F n 3 s (157). For the higher grades of crime, the num- | j,,.) 10 3 rl i ber of arrests vary but little from the previous | §j ~~ 8 8S quarter. The whole number of offences committed | Hoist he 5 3 durin, the quarter amount to eight hundred and | Wags, Py i H + nine (09), being three-hundred and fourteen (314) | Throw: SB 9 - a less than during the previous quart Selling meat ee a oe ae In the month of January last, in compliance ims dae with your directions, 1 issued a general ordor di- recting a more strict and energetic enforcement of all the city ordinances; and in consequence theroof nm made to ‘To THe Tren ty-rEnsT a umber of complaints h: | glenn Aa Attorney of violations of the ordi- | _}%l, treuvsr 4 as el oe nances, During the quarter ending on the Bist of Hq z eS 3 if g December, 1456, the whole number of complaints 5 a4 Fy eke & was two hundred and ninoty-one (291,) and from | 2 2 2 g RS 4 the annexed report it appears that the whole num- * es? 5 8 3 ber of complaints made during the quarter fy 2 2 i * $ on the 31st March, 1851, was-four thousand four hun- 7 2 i ee ae 3 dred and eighty-one (4,441.) These complaints Pe Seger ss & mainly made from the Grst, second, fourth, 3 & 3 S82 § h, fourteenth ok and from é & ¢ i, 3 Pe tu 0. — 0 8 - Md e quarter fifteen thousand a a ee ae are ee ee isee tee age ot a ‘s and sixty-cight (668) lost sae i-ius § 208 hundred and a9 168 7 4 rons aided, ty. ait a Re one (51) rescued from 3 fifty-two ) 17 6 Lm 2 4 pa Sree dxtooguishea; two hundred and fity-one i} | Be ee 8 stores and dwellings found ¢ 3 two hi and 4 Bo226 seventy-two (272) cattle, one hundred and one A} 4 " - ; g (iol) found astray and restored to their "8 7-8 rf owners; and nine pose / five hundred and sixty- ‘161 6 am 6 06 four dollars a Sv alaaie: conts ($9,564 83) 4 8 z= 3 on taken for lodgers drunken persons and returned Be to them again. Totals....15,308 668 M5 51 88 $2566 ‘The number of sick days Fame LAA getenee. dur- ing the quarter, was two thousand seven | Crntosrres or Cantronsta.— the we er RC ERD. ne ae aan tare! the pcr rsh day, the average being ee Sone the’ Preceding. qua ‘here were Lamy (%) complaints against policemen, being ee eee mbor made during each of the two it arters. n'a dormer repert I took the liberty of calling the attention of your Ho Predecessor to the peces- sity of establishing a river police, to t the large amount of property constantly a in our harbor, and which is oxposed to depredation by day and night, while the police force, with the facilities they now possoss, is gg & uate to afford the necessary tion. subject was Inid before the Common Council, but up. to the nt time no action has been had in to it, and it is to be feared that their attention beon drawn from the subject by the malviplicity of busi- nes that has preased them. Since tho time of making the report above alluded to, depredators have carried on their operations with increased vigor, enjoying the samo immunity as in former years. ‘are daily mado to me by merchants and ship owners, of the loss of their Web kato aright ts expect, am which the depart ve & it to expect, and wi ment is unable to exter to them for the want of bot dy my “ghey or to tect the tl ‘es. Property temporarily ¢: d on tho docks, or afloat in our harbor, is intitled to the same protec- ties of city, and can no more with justice be withheld from he one than the other. If tho tradesman, in the it of his avoeation, | should bo protected from the sneaking thieves that prowl around by day, or the daring burglar, who seeks his under the cover of night, the mer- | chants cdl shipmasters, whose ty is necensa~ | rily much more exposed, have a right todemand an in T of New York is eminently a Ro cae ity, and its present ure is nearly allied to ite, com prosperity; and every measure ro ~Dy¥ the — pe sony yn the fot} on our | aa ee ve to leoreees that braneh, of insagitial | uit, and a 6 mw Cy vod the wealth La } ‘ity. Cons in subject, therefore, | purely selfish view, it calle for immediate attention; | But wi it is considered as an act of justice right, which cannot be without a mani- est violation ef the trust confided to us, it increases ‘mimpertance, ond tbe pecosity for prompt ection could plainly be uniting with other from the mountains ins similar manner, it many miles thi h the valley, bounded by pictu- rosque hiile, until it enters a deep canon, in many places im: jc, with numerous rapids and cate- racts, until, after a cours of ly three hundred miles, and after receiving its middle and south forks, it immerges from a y canon three miles below ‘ger I bar, at the base of tablo mountain, and flows thromgh the valley of the Sacramento, to throw it- self into that river at Vernon. yee ery A been found in small quantities in thet the country does not a to be #0 - fous at a's Ginanee of me thirty or below. Between this valley and AG oi s awe