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’ One »la}% while .^ittin.cr in m y room read ing some lelterK to my family. m y d a u g h te r iK cam o inthiene- ed qu i te unexpeu tc- l ly , an d h egan h v sa v o u r: —

. “ H u r r a h ! h u r r a h ! I am out of ths-m d i r ty s t ree ts o f N e w York.*’

I did not. h r i 'p notes <*f this in terv iew , an d urn there fore only -fate .a.me th ings g ene ra l ly a b o u t it. H e said he was a mov.-hoy in New York, a n d his nam e was T hu I'* ters ; th a t li>* had d ied sh ie r the last 4 th of du ly , o f elmler.i, a u d w as a h o u t twelve y e a r s oM ; that tu- t 'lllu-r had heeu r u n ov e r h\* a rai lroad car ; th a t he w as a m a n o f in te m p e ra te ' l iah i t s ; tha t h i ‘ m o th e r had survive«! him a w h i le ; in leehle heal th , and in- h a d one h ro th e r , n a m e d j Dili, a h o u t ten y e a r s uM. |

He said m a n y ili ings w hich >howc«l me th a t lie!

Y\ ell, she smiled, an d says w hat 'l l u e do w hen this is g o n e r ”

“ We!),” says f, “ mother, give me hail o* that ami Til huy sonn- j-ayers, and

i self." * * *. [Í askeil him how m u c h tin; ha l f w;m--

live pence. 'T w as b e t te r than n o t lu n g ;; h u y a loa f o f l a v a d anyhow .]1 W ell! golly ! I pitch; d d o n o r i ih o u M n

invested m y Mock in pam-rs. T \v : is the M can get lots of Ym for tha t . I g è >:x i’ t iiv«- pvm-i-, an d t l iey tru s te d me thro • m ore for tu p p e m v . I * Î « < : * ' r k n o w how th e y c o m e to t ru s t m e — the hoys Y-.-uml said th e y neve r did it to them . Well, ! sold ¡di luit one, an d w h a t do y o u t i d ’d; I did with that r I k e p t it as a show for n e x t d ay ; fdr if i could only b u y three, four would jook mor- r e spec tab le .— T h a t 's th e w a y folks t rad ;“, y o u km*w. Wei!, I took m y m o n ey home, ami tha t 's the w ay Í helped

1 Tim, my hoy,

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m said t would

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'1’im,” l .-aid, *' L'-t :m- Well, Uni in the witiic.-v

1 low did Vini get m e

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t » buy papers next

Did a n o t h e r job of .-now.[Win!; i wa< writing lids down, the medium

whi.-tled, and he immediately said, “ (lolly! didn’t think I could do that—thought I must do .some­thing while waiting for yer.”

When.* did 1 leave oil”? Oh, I got a shillin', and give it to mother. Stock was up*, hut I had none on, si) I said nothin*. •

When F went home* each night there was a grin on my face broad as a moon. Mother said, “ Tim,

«I i , i •.; . , , ! I've lmm-s of you, if you’ll only keep out of liquor.'’wa.s laminar vaMi the localities near the upper end . . 1 * 5 * ► » 1v.. <ri. , | j •, | i I - ; 1 So down she went on her marrow-hone-—why-on-ot jsa»au Mice!, ami Ins shrewdness, his slan,r ; < J

i i.„, • i i • . , , . r . i • ,• c ; earth .-he did it 1 couldn't, -cc—hut she ups withIcim-, aid in- manner ol .-jieakmg were particu- j 1

larly chararu n-ti-.- of the class of laws to whichhe belonged. And he .-poke of men and boyswith whom he had been thrown in contact, in amanner so natural as, to carry conviction that hewas what In* said he was.

Iherc was a keen shrewdness of thought, a reck­less, devil-may-care maimer, and a Live of fun about him that can b.- .-.e.-n m lull combination only ¡n them. lie iiiii/inm-s swore, hut hnuwdiatelv cheeked iiim-cll, and said that his mother, (who was with him) told him lie must not talk so. lie said he* had -con nm when 1 was a judge, and had read nry letter e! last August. lie had sold mure Jlti'uM* witii that in it than usual. I asked him if he had noticed what eliect it had had on those who read it. He said, “ i have seen a feller sitting on a hydrant, who * h<* liked that feller who opened his jaws, and dared to say what he thought, andnot like -------- , who was afraid of having pinsstuck in him." "

This is a part "uly of this interview, hut is enough to .-lew the character uf it. [Pit in the course of ii, he said that he wanted to give me his ! fii11 :nY 1 Sl n JVs on :t r0r'history, and have me write ;t down, and publish it ' 1 1 waint airard c4 cm, so i stepped on emeof

her eye.’ and says, < h.«l bless Tim !" .Somehow I felt Weak in the joints, ami down 1 went; 'twas catehin', so-ays I, 4* < h.«l bless Tim, too.” Then 1 played ka[t*iVog all round the room, I was so happy. Mother laughed, and said, Tim, my erazj’ hoy;" that made nm heiter, hut i could under­stand it.

I ly m c -h y dad com-.- in, and he smelt like a distil­lery; and oh, if he didn’t rip it ! bur I gave moth­er the wink not to let him know I was set up in busim s ;. When lie come in lie c-mldn't stand up, so he down on /¿ marrow-■ «mus, and swore a blue streak. I thought 1 sm.k brimstone. What was eternal strange- to me w;m, m-uh-er didn’t cry a bit; says 1, “ Tim. that's mighty s-range, she'd cry for you, and not a hit thr that lubber.’' Hut she diil worse-—.-lie look to coughing, and t knew the jig was in f«.r that time. Aud so it went day after day. Dad said she was drunk, but he >n he lied.

Well, I kept selling papers and increasing my stool;. J took the 11 /-.H-h and sold lots of ’em; ’twas a good investment, i ups Droadway one day,

ill Un- .é\n:i:i, ( jna.i:, sm that tlu- i'.cwsla.ys mi-lit j tllt,h' , 'u's- II'- --Ó1' I¡1- « '•'-•vi! <'f :i look—mother see it, l'or it v.ouM “ ho 'em jroo.l." I t..M him I ' •"•'O's I mustn't .--ay thai—miv.-; ! to 15i!l, “ Let’s to would soon give him an opportunity. i our !r< 'Uers, or we'U 1 > to the House of Rc-

\\ e were then ealletl to diimer, but in the after­noon he* came again, and gave me his history, which f wrote down as he went along, nearly in the fol­lowing words :

lie began as before, in a joyful, cheerful tone.Hurrah ! hurrah !Say! that light hurts this ure girl's eyes. [ L'lic

medium wu> sitting facing the window.]You know, as I told you he|o»v, mv name is Tim

Peters. Well, my mother was a good, respectable; kind oi a woman, and worked at sewing when a gal, she say.-. Dad was a day-laborer—that wasn't

was a harness-maker, i did'nt knowHoilv! whv didn’t he

his trail. ..that, I in t n stick to \i't

Had worked at that ever so long after he hitched horse* with mother, and I was his oldest hoy.— W ell, 1 grow’d up ’longsidc my brother, and we had «a jolly good time when little, mother savs.— Mother was Am.-iicau, father was Knglish.

W ell, father took to drink, like a darned sight of other tolks, as id went head over heels downhill last as he knew how. Mother got .-¡civ and worn out, and got to f e e l i n g had.

When dad u>i d t«> conn- home, she dreaded to speak to him. He would come tumbling into the house, euiling us here and there, and swearing at mother, and she used to cry.

One day I come in aud see her crying, and I says “ Well, inarm, what do you feel bad aboutV*’ she cried, and >a;d, “ Tim, my hoy, your father's worse ami worse ; he- lias taken every thing from us, and if he don't take care, In; will take me from you.— And, Tim, I habit got a cent in the house to get breakfast with for to-morrow.”

“ Well.'.-ays i. “ mother, wipe V'our peepers ;I 'll he supporting you. mother; you ain't got twohoys for nothin’ ; just -ay how I i::tn go alioad, iiinl j t-'dkintr >o; ior^ct thu go joukI’ll bu doin’ sonn thin'."

fngu." 1V1 luanl tub of tint!, bit'! usu<l in threaten me with it. 1 lawn by the Park I faw some awful line dandies iirinkin j alontr, says I, “ Hill, just seen the M. P.’s ; now look r.< the M. 'i'.’s.

.So I went it every day ; 1 couldn't feel had, to save my life—suspect I warn't born in a bad time. Mother said it used to make h.-v heart jrood to sec- me come in.

I asked him. " Were y o u so cheerful then ?I warn't nothing else. When 1 used to swear, it

made her feel bad. 1 told her I took it the natural way.

I asked him, " Ibov so':"I had heard my forefathers—i'il tell you what I

heard One day ill the Park.A yreat lubberly feller was leak;ice a speech.—

lie said, “ The time is onminj: when the day shallhe celebrated —-—, hem. ----- that speaks of thenoble deeds of our forefathers." I'm not so grand as lie ; 1 can't make such a cock-a-doodle-doo. So I run home and said, “ Mother, the «lay is coming when it shall be celebrated that speaks of the noble deeds of our I'otaTaliiei s."

She said, ‘'Tim. Tim, what on earth will come of you ' Si) it went along.

One day dad was brought in dead. 1 needn't enter into particulars, 'twas all in the papers. I cried it, and made it an extra I I ;v/P for me.

I asked him, “ How soIt was the celebration of the death of my fore­

fathers.I went home, after getting a few coppers, ami

found mother cryin’ and blubbering like even­tiling. for she ha«l loved him once. She said, “Tim, step softly-, 3-cur father's dead." Says I. “ I will, for I'm Yraid I'll wake him up."

“ Oh," says she, "Tim, you'll break my liearL, ' ' ' him who

| once loved you, ami called you his child." 1 '.vent and looked ; his fare warn't red no more-, and there was a sorrowful expression about his mouth—and I caught s< line tin 1 ig running down lny check afore I knoweil it. Well, they held a coroner's impicst, and he was buried.

I asked wliatma.de bis tears run.1 le bad a kind o' sorrowful look. I felt, oh bear !

suppose he’d been a goo«] man, like 1 see in the Park, woubin't be love Ills Tim and 1 thought, “ '1 ml, «lon’t vou love him'r" ilow could I, when lie made

So she ups with Iter apron and wiped her eyes.That was an awful cold night. Oh, mercy, I'd heard mother say. when she was a gal, if fanners wanted rain, they prayed in nieetin’ for i t ; so when I went to bed, I down ornnv benders, and asked for snow, and somehow or other snow come. So the next morning I borrow«:«! next-door neighbor's shovel, and went along the streetshunting “ snow jobs," as the buys call it. I got one. “ Hurrah !’’ says I,“ now you are set up in business, you're in for it,Tim.” So i pockets my money, ami trudges home. ‘ ni°thcr super so. I sposoil lie was in lull ami (lainSays I, “ Motbir, here's your money.'’ 'Well, I de­clare, if she «1!«1 ii' t make me feel as soft as a girl—I warn t no inure a boy—’ka.se she went to crying agin’.

“ Y ell,” says I, “ mother, I didn't pray for rair, last night. You melt me all down, mother ; and I feel all gone.”

nation they talked of. and 1 couldn't but feel sorry, that was the end of

I watched mother mighty close after father's ex­it. In spite of herself she hreathe«.! freer. I never see the woman so happy. Hill come in with :i for­lorn old black bonnet lie’ll begged somewhere; she kissed him, and said, “ God has blessed me in my

trials." I felt so proud I could have knocked over anv body. W"e had some potatoes that day—Bill got 'em.

| I used often to Gel soft—I was took that way j every once in a while—tears and fun altogether. I ! used to be ashamed of myself, and then I'd swear | a blue streak to h'tle it. Hill sold radishes fur a | jiving. Il.t went into the vegetable line-. I was i more intellectual.| Mother got sewing, true scratched, we scratched, j ami we got along nicely; there was nobody to I drink it nil up.! I was d ea th on the M. P.'s, just for deviltry; I| .... l l - t keep still. ’! I use«! to feel ha«!, coming home nights, to see i mother look so bleached. I saw- a “ pain-killer" ad- vertiseii down Nassau .Street, so I went and got some for mother. Warn't I a fool, liked tc have killed /««/, not the pain.

One day she said to me, Tim, take this ring, m v hoy, and go buy yourself a pair of shoes."— AYel], savs I, “ Xo mother, I can't do it." She says, “ Timmj-, I'll never live to see you wear ’em out, so le t m e sec you have them." If I'd got a lick­ing, I couldn’t have felt worse. So I runs after Bill, and sa y s T, “ Bill, come in here, mother’s kind­er lon ely .” B ill never stopjied for nothing, but after th e doctor he goes—a 'sjjensaiy doctor— m other looked so sick . Says I, “ Mother, open y o u r p eep ers; don’t look so." She says, “ Tim, G od b less y o u , T im and Bill. I hate to leave you, b u t God w ill take care of the orphans." I says, “ M other, I ’m sorry y o u are going, but seeing you can’t stay , hu rry up your cakes, and I'll take care o f m y se lf.”

I ask ed h im , “ W h y did y o u sa y that?"Oh, sh e did feel awful bad ; so sa y s I, “ M other,

Jordan is a hard road to travel. I f y o u get there before I do, te ll ’em I ’m com ing, too." She lau gh ­ed, and, b y g o l ly ! if she didn't die a laughing, and that w as ju s t w h a t I w anted.

B ill didn’t g e t back before sh e d ied . Oil I didn’t lie take on ? P oor c r c tu r ! l i e took on aw ful bad, see in g m o th e r ’d gone before he g o t there. “ AVell," sa y s I, “ Bill, i f I o n ly k n ew h ow to w ear petti­coats, I ’d b e a m other to y o u ; b u t ,” sa y s I, “ nev­er m ind, w e’ll se t up bachelor’s hall.”

I th ou gh t I w a s go in g to s ta y at that p lace, bu t no ; rent day com e, and w e had to g o ; and w h en I ge ts outside I sa id to B ill, “ N oth in g like taking the air.” So w e s lep t ’round in the carts th a t night.

A poor old Irishw om an w ash ed for m other w hen she died. She did it for noth ing. C atch rich folks doing th a t Sh e said sh e kn ow ed h o w sh e ’d feel if sh e sh ou ld lea v e her b o y s k ick in g about, and i f I w ouldn’t b e up to so m an y tricks, sh e ’d k eep us. So w e staid w ith h er after th a t Sh e w a s a darned good old th ing, b u t no t so clean a s m other. I told her I w ou ld do som e odd jo b s for her. H er room s w ere dark, and I w h itew ash ed them , an d w h ite­w ash in g it w a s 1 Sh e w a s aw fu l t ick le d ; b u t I didn’t lik e m y boarding-p lace, ’cau se sh e w ou ldn’t take a n y pay.

S a y s I to B ill, “ I’ll g e t y o u a situation.” So, as luck w ou ld h ave it, I u sed to lis ten to people’s talking, and one d a y I heard a m an sa y h e w ish ed lie had a sm art b o y to take in to the country . I goes up to him and sa y s , “ I k n o w s a fellow .” H e looks at m e, and sa y s , “ AYhat do y o u m ean 5” I says, “ I k n ow s a fellow will su it y o u r cap acity .” Says he, “ A re y o u the chap ?” S a y s I, “ X o, I ail?:, bu t I kn ow s one w h at is." “ AYell,” sa y s he, “ I like th e looks o f y o u .” Says I, “ I ’m obliged to y o u .” So I w h istled to Bill, and he com e. H e w as really a p retty-eyed fellow , j ust like m other. So the m an axed m e abou t m y relations, and I told him ali about i t “ AVell,” sa y s he, “ I like the looks o f y o u r b o y there, and I ’ll take h im .” “ B u t,” sa y s I, “ look here, m ister, don’t y o u lick him ; if y o u do, I ’ll lick y o u back .” I th ou gh t h e ’d d ie a laughing.

So I fitted B ill out. H ow do you th ink I did it ?I g ive him som e gingerbread. ’T w as as hard to part u s a s tw o peas in a pod. B u t the old feller fixed him all up before he w en t out o f tow n. Bill felt so grand and happy, that lie forgot to be sorry at leav in g me.

[I asked him here i f he could tell me the name o f that old Irishwoman, and where she lived. He said it was Bridget Mahan; slie lived near the Five Points; he couldn't mention the name of the street; said it was a short one, and added, “ Hold on ! see if I can fetch i t !" He paused a moment, and not recalling the name, went on:]

1 trudged home to the old woman's where I boarded. I felt awful streaked; I couldn't cry nor do nothing, so I went to tile Xational Theatre. I saw nothing for my tears—had to laugh once in a while. "Twasn't the Xational Theatre—it was the next one to it, where the boys could get in for six­pence. 1 sold papers ever so long after that. I got in all sorts of mischief; took to smoking and j chewing—the boys set me up to it. Then I got j happy again, but I felt lonesome; I went to all the ! fires—used to go to Hoboken ; ¡»itched pennies, till I got enough to pay the ferriage. The boys used to say I cheated. I wonder if I did! They said I was a gambler, but I only used Oihfiuon cads. I bail a black eye every once in a while, fighting the boys who twitted me about Bill and mother. I wouldn’t stand that, so I give 'em something to re­member me by. They are har«l boys—had to be so. 1 used to pitch into the bullies when pushing the little ones away, and hooking their papers.

I made about a shilling a day, depending on the news and the brain of the editor. I tell you one thing, if any of the boys didn't sell his papers, we'd go shucks with him, and each take one—-that was among the good fellers. Tell you what I used to do— go 'long up B roadw ay, and see one o f yo u r

fiin-Iooking'fellows, run agin’ him, most knock his breath out, then ask, “ Have a paper, sir?”

I always thought of mother while bawling my paper at the top of my lungs. Sunday was a for­lorn day.

One day I thought I’d treat myself, so I bought one of them penny ice creams that they sell at the corners. I was took up with the cramp and went home. I had changed my boarding-place, and the way I paid my board was—if I made a shilling, I paid two cents for my board; if I made eighteen pence, then I paid four cents. I was awful sick. “ Tim,” says 1, “ you goin’ home—ain't you glad ?” '

I grew worse and worse, and all grew dark about m e I wished for Bill. I lay on some straw on the floor. I begun to feel so pleasant and happy. I heard my mother speaking tome, “ Tim, my bey !" I jumped l ight up in bed, but I saw noth­ing—then the pain come on. One of the boys come in, and says he, “ Tim, what you doin’ there ?’" “ Ike," says I, “ I am goin’ where the good nig­gers go, I 'spect."

“ Tim," says he, “ I g u ess you'll b e w ell to-m or­row."

“ Ike," says I, “ i f I ’m w ell, I w on ’t b e here.— Mother’s calling m e, and I can’t sta y .” AVhat did he do but cry. I n ever see folks cry so easy . Says I, “ I ..e , don't let the bu llies b eat th a t n ew -com er— the green ’un—w ill y e r ?”

Says he, “ X o, I ’ll tak e care o’ h im till y o u com e back." .

T hen it grew d a r k e r ; I didn’t h ea r h is vo ice .— All at once I saw m other. I had n o pain , and there w as no tears in h er ey es . S a y s I, “ H u r ra h ! I’m in for i t A in ’t I, m other? H o w th e d ickens did I com e h ere?”

Says she, “ L o o k !” ’ '1 looked and saw th em carrying m y coffin ou t o f

the room . T hen sh e took m e w ith her, a n d i f I ain't a s h ap p y as a bee , I te ll you. I go ’b ou t s in g ­ing, bu t not th e papers. T here are lo ts o f other boys, bu t som ehow I feel k ind o f b a b y ish ; I don’t w ant to be out o f her s ig h t I th o u g h t I w a s in­d ep en d en t

I ’ve b een to the Herald o ff ic e ; there I heard som e one sa y , “ T im othy.” “ Oh, grand ,” sa y s I.

“ H u sh !” sa y s m other, “ don’t ta lk so .”T hen the o ther on e said , “ Y o u m u st go back,

m y child, and tea ch th e little n ew sb o y s, th a t i f th ey keep a k ind feelin g in their hearts and tr y to b e good, there is a h a p p y p lace for th em all.”

“ AYell,” sa y s I , “ m ister, w h oever y o u are, its easier said than d o n e ; because, i f a b o y tr ies to b e good, there is a lw a y s so m eb o d y to k ic k it ou t o f him . B u t,” sa y s I , “ m ister, I ’ll do th a t sam e.” S o h ere I am a t i t

AYould y o u lik e to k n o w h o w I learn to read? M other tau gh t m e som e, th en I ta u g h tm y se lf som e. A ll the n ew sb o y s can’t read, b u t w h en th e y have got through se llin g their papers, som e one o f ’em w ho can read s its dow n w ith a lo t ’round h im , and read to ’em ; so th e y k n o w a darned sig h t m ore o f w hat’s goin’ on than y o u th in k th e y do. T hen th e y ta lk it over a m o n g ’em selves.

L ook here, m ister, I te ll y o u w h a t had a w onder­ful effect— w h en a n e w sb o y com e u p to a gentlem an, and h e looked p leasan t on h im and s m ile d ; ’tw as w orth three cen ts to sell a pap er to th a t feller. B u t w h en th e y are cross and p u sh ’em aside, it m akes a feller sw ear. "Whoever it is, te ll th em to b e good to th eir m others, and th e y ’ll be as h a p p y as I am. H u r ra h !

H ere ended th is interview . T he n ex t day h e cam e again, and ta lked considerably. A m on g oth­er th ings, h e said that h e once g o t drunk ju s t to see how it was. “ G olly ,” sa y s he, “ I got enough o f it, never catch m e at it agin’.” I a sk ed h im if he could give m e the nam e o f an y o f h is com panions. H e gave m e the nam es o f four o f th e m : J im , Ike, Joh n Sm ith, and L azy Bob.

H e brough t w ith him at th is in terview th e Spirit o f a b o y y o u n g er than h im self, w ho said h is nam e w as D ick H ardin.

Tt’fi' Hoxbury, J u ly 29, 1854.

THE SEM I-EEEOEM EES IN A QUAN­DARY.

BY S. LEAVITT.

Elder steel sits pondering in his easy chair, after supper; his children the while, to his great annoy­ance, employing themselves (the more vigorously, in view of the speedy approach of bed-time) in va­rious ungainly gymnastics. But a weightier ill is oppressing the Elder, and ever and anon he knits his brows, and emits still more a la Stentor the oft- repeated injunction to silence.

Soon, however, the door-bell announces visitors. Deacon Smooth enters, in company with their mu­tual friend, Mr. Freeman, “ an occasional hearer," whom he had met in the street and invited in.

After the usual amount of small talk, the Elder proceeds to unburthen himself: “ I am,” said he, “ utterly perplexed ; I don't see what the world's coming to ; I am sometimes almost ready to say that I will give up all connection with the benevo­lent movements of the da}-. AYhy, it makes my blood run cold to see what company I am brought into, the moment I engage, 'practically, in forward­ing any reform. And then I am in such a maze trying to distinguish Christians from Infidels—try­ing to determine as to whom T may look upon as true brothers—that I am afraid I shall lose my senses.

“ There used o be none of this trouble when I was a young man. Then an Infidel was a marked and shunned man among u s ; and it was mutually! though tacitly agreed between the two parties, that they should steer clear of one another. But now, somehow, there’s no doing anything in the way of

practical benevolence, without finding yourself cheek by jowl with a rank Infidel. And then there

i is such utter confusion among the Churches. In ! the good old time, when most orthodox church j members did not dare to begin to think that there I was anything wrong in their creed, and those that | did, kept so still that it was all the same—then, I ■ say, all went along smoothly. Then, if a man be­’ longed to an orthodox church, for aught you knew, lie believed the creed which he had publicly pro­

; fessed. But now, since that dangerous liberality ; has spread so—while you are associating intimately j with some church member, in all confidence—you ! are frequently shocked by hearing him coolly disa­i vow his belief in some of the cardinal doctrines ofIthe true faith.

“ Y’et I like liberality, and consider myself quite progressive. I am delighted to see Christians of different denominations uniting in the Tract and Bible efforts. AVhere this liberality is to stop, is a question that jiuzzles me. For if there was no other objection, there is something so incomprehensibly fascinating about the manners of some of these ultra-liberal men, that it is next to impossible for us to cherish what we know to be the true view with regard to their condition and pros.pects; that is, that they are God-hated, God-forsaken sinners, who, if they died to-morrow, would be cast into the eternal burnings. AYhy, one would suppose, from their serenity, that they were, like Daniel, men greatly beloved of God. And yet we know that it cannot be so, for ‘ God is angry with the wicked ev ery day;’ and it is the height of wickedness for a man living in this enlightened age to reject Christ's salvation.

“ But about that fascination of their’s. Don't you see that it is one of the things that is destroy­ing the Church ? Christians deluded by this arti­fice of Satan's—who says, ‘ Let us do good that evil may come’—begin to suspect that these men, also, will get to heaven at last—and co m a le sJiijnerceh

“ Then, again, to sit on the same platform from w h ich th ey are holding forth against the Bible and Christians as stumbling-blocks in the wav of re. form , is unendurable. At such times I feel disposed to say—‘ Give us the old state of things, when Christians did not feel called upon to listen calmly to su ch harangues, even if the car of progress has to stop ; for I fear this car is carrying us all down th e broad road that leadetli to destruction.' And again, th at outrageous attempt to smuggle women in am on g th e delegates of the AA'orld's Temperance C onvention ; as if it was not enough for us to have to endure the society of the male outlaws."

A s may be supposed natural, Elder Steel, just here, “ U n der y in cent."

D eacon Smooth, who was one of thosie universa'1ech oes, “ coincided perfectly with his superior offi­cer, and fe lt very much grieved but finding him in su ch a bad humor, did not unfold the object o* h is v is it—which was to consult about some Church m atter.

Mr. Freeman, knowing that this tirade was partly called out by the Elder's knowledge of U s tendency to liberality, and that some reply was expected from him, now took up the subject.

“ This state of things,” said he, “ which, from your stand-point, must necessarily appear deplora­ble, is a source of great joy to me. For the facts you mention, are every one of them evidences to me, that the time has come, at last, for the noble souls among men to un:te harmoniously in raising the ig­noble and succoring the needy. As yet, although the world has always been full of noble men, a true, thorough philanthropist, has been a ra ra acis among them. One of the principal causes of this was, that there were very few of them, the teach­ings of whose hearts were not in direct antagonism! with either their own or the prevailing religious creed of those around them. Look, for instance, at the English nation for the past few hundred years. The prevailing creed among them during that time has been essentially orthodox. Consider, then, the case of the naturally philanthropic Englishman— thoroughly imbued with that faith. His heart tells him—and perhaps his reason—that it is not right to believe that the heathen, who never heard of Christ, will go to hell forever for not believing in Him. And in many other respects they contradict what he feels bound to believe ; so that, although he may generally enjoy that peace of God which passc-th understanding; his soul is kept in a contin-

| ual turmoil by these conflicting teachings. And,; by the way, many of his ‘ seasons of darkness,’ as • he calls them, must be seasons of light—times ; when nature so prevails in him as to cause him to ; doubt even whether there is a n y truth in his creed ; because lie then so plainly sees that it contains

: errors. Hinc badly j i l t e d iras such a man for active \ usefulness !

j “ Again, the Infidel Englishman, finding himself | surrounded by those who regarded him as a ‘ son : of perdition’—remembering always when his heart ; prompted him to benevolent action, that he was so regarded by his neighbors—could not Help having a faint suspicion that they were right ; and that,

\ moreover, the whole of their creed was right. This ! shackled him. ‘ Ilow absurd,' said he, “ would it ; be for me—who half suspects that death will trans­; port me to a lake of fire—to be troubling myself ! about the present welfare of others.’ So he turned : himself madly to dissipation of some sort.| “ The religious antagonism, and doubt on thei subject of religion, existing among them, have been, j then, one grand cause of the backwardness of men with regard to benevolent effort. It follows, there-

j fore, that one great desideratum in order to the j ushering in of an age of universal benevolence, is,

tha t good men generally should become c f one m in d on the subject o f religion. Religious toleration, alone,

will do but little for the accomplishment of th is end.

“ This universal religion must, I think, find its hey-note; somewhere along that key-hoard w h ose lowest note is the deep bass of Calvin, and w h ose highest is the shrill, emasculated treble o f A . J . Davis.

“ Y'ou would say that Calvin is to g ive th e k e y ­note. All the signs of the times—and especia lly the very ones which you have enum erated— tell me that it will be found somewhere near the m iddle of the board.

“ But God is now working out this problem b e ­fore our eyes, with astonishing celerity, through the instrumentality of such men as y o u and I, even. Supposing men, for the moment, to b e printers’ type, who have been imbedded and ru sted in w h ere they were not useful—I may say that G od is th row ­ing us all into ¡pi, as the first step tow ard gettin g u s all into more appropriate situations. E ven as the various schools of medicine, have been each d ev e­loping some of those great truths which are to m ake up, together, a perfect system; so, also, the various sects have, I think, for the most part—w h ile th ey thought they were building up the only true church —been each only hewing a foundation-stone for the Lord's X cic Church in the E arth . By m eans o f some sects, God has developed great truths; w h ile by means of others—as the Roman Catholics—H e has kept alive great truths ; and by means o f others —as the Mc-thodists—revived great truths ; at the same time, by means of Infidels, keeping alive som e common sense in the world. And now, in th ese ends of the earth and of time; by means o f te le ­graphs, railroads, steamers, books—T em perance, Anti-Slavery, Tract, Bible, Missionary, &c., Societies —He is throwing them altogether, as I said , into p i. The consequence will be, such a com paring o f notes as will result—if I mistake not—in their gra­dually settling upon some universally agreeable re­ligion ; and then, hand in hand, making a dead se t at the devil and all his works !’’

The speaker had become so w rapped up in h is subject, toward the close of his rem arks, th at he sat with his eyes fixed on the fire, alm ost un con­scious of surrounding circumstances. W h en now he lifted his eyes, he perceived that the D eacon w as comfortably sleeping in an easy chair, and that the Elder had fainted, through excessive righ teou s in­dignation.

T o tn iE L E R e t k ie u t io x —A st o r y o f a Faithful Don.—About fifty years age, in the w e ste rn part of the State of Xew Y'ork, lived a lonely w idow , named Mozhcr. Her husband had been dead m an y years; her only daughter was grown up and m ar­ried, living at the distance of a mile or tw o from the family mansion.

And thus the old lady lived alone in her hom e b y day and night. Yet in her conscious innocence and trust in Providence, she felt safe and cheerfu l; did her work quietly during the daylight, and at eventide lay down and slept sweetly.

One morning, however, she awoke, with an e x ­traordinary and unwonted gloom upon her m ind, which was impressed with the apprehension th at something strange would happen to her or hers. So full was she of this thought that she could n o t sta y at home that day, but must go abroad to g ive ven t to it, by unbosoming herself to her friends, esp ec i­ally to her daughter. AYith her she spent a great­er part of the day, and to her she several times re­peated the recital of her apprehensions. The d au gh ­ter as often repeated the assurances that the good mother had never done injury to any person, and added, I cannot think any one would hu rt y o u , for you have not an enemy in the world.

As the day was declining, Mrs. M ozher sou gh t her home, but expressed the same feeling as she did when she left her daughter’s house.

On the way home she called on a neighbor, w ho lived in the last house before she reached her ow n. Here she again made known her continued app re­hensions ; which had nearly ripened into fear, and from the lady of the mansion she received an sw ers similar to those of her daughter. “ Y'ou h ave harmed no one in your whole life time, surely no one will disturb or molest you, go home in quiet, and rover shall go with you.” “ Here Rover,” said she to a stout watch dog that lay on the floor, “here Rover, go home with Mrs. Mozher and take care o f her.”—Rover did as he was told ; the widow w en t home, milked her cows, took care of everything out of doors and went to bed as usual. Rover had not left her for an instant. AYhen she was fairly in bed , he laid himfelf down on the outside o f the bed; and as the widow relied on his fidelity, and perhaps chided herself for needless fear, she fell asleep.

Sometime in the night she awoke, b ein g startled, probably by a slight noise outside the house. It was so slight, however, that she was not aware o f being startled at all, but heard, as soon as she awoke, a sound like the raising of a w indow near her bed, which was in a room on the ground floor.—The dog neither barked nor moved. X e x t there was a nother sound, as if some one w as in the room and stepped cautiously on the floor. T he w o ­man saw nothing but now for the first tim e fe lt the dog move, as he made a violent spring from the bed and at the same instant something fell on the floor, sounding'ike a heavy log. Then follow ed other noises, like pawing of the dog’s feet; b u t soon all was still again, and the dog resumed h is p lace on the bed without having barked or grow led at all.

This time the widow did not go to sleep immedi­ately, but lay awake wondering, yet not deeming it best to get up. But at last she dropped asleep, and when she awoke the sun was shining. She hastily stepped out of bed, and there lay the body o f a man extended on the floor, dead, with a large knife in his hand, which was even now extended.—The dog had seized him by the throat with the grasp o f death; and neither man nor dog could utter a sound till all was over. This man was the widow’s son-in­law, and the husband of her only daughter. He coveted her little store of wealth, her house, her cattle and her land. And instigated by this sordid impatience, he could not wait for the decay o f na­ture to give her property up to him and his, as the only heirs apparent, but made his stealthy visit to do a deed of darkness in the gloom o f the night.

This is one of Uncle Toby’s stories; and is derived as to all its facts, from a most respectab le Q uaker family, whose veracity he cannot d o u b t—P art»-v m ith Chronicle.

V

C h r i s t i a n ^intuiti ist. to suicide, a re as various as th e tem pta- p ro p e rty ; so th a t th e assum ption of th e nam e I . . life. M isfortune comes in one w ay or j “ C hristian” is as like to be challenged b y th e ad­

So long as Men are Honest, so long will Success follow ! an o th er to all, and the true hero is th e m an or ! herc-nts o f th e popular church parties as “ votes”

persons tions of

curred a t h is hou se. T he nam es o f th e persons im - y e t, w h en w e get one th at is life-like, and m irrors plicated in th is alleged outrage w e refrain from pub- j the o rd in a l it is too good, too exact, and therefore hshing un tii th e necessary affidavits a re m ade, and ; not g £ , Surely, tbe m ind of such a re asoner

. , , , . , . , , , , . until th e exam ination tak es place. M eanwhile war-1 \ ,wom an who religiously takes the world and its ; are, on election day, by the politically o r th o d o x .! ran ts have been issued for th e a rre s t o f the accus- < m u st “c TeIT h ard to Please­

---------- ----------- ------------------ — . . . - -----------U rials as God has appointed them ; for it w orketh : There is, no doubt, p rop rie ty in bo th ; for a m an’s j cd.— JVT Y. Herald. ; AYere Spirit-intercourse, however,NEM YORK, SA I'UR DAY , NOA LAILER 2 o, Ibo-L ; 0l,t for such a far m ore and exceeding w eight of | professions o f faith in principles— be th ey religious ! On the re tu rn of ou r friend, he inform ed us t h a t ! led

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in the Footsteps of their Lahors.

EnP-ATCM.—In Ito. id <‘f Uliriillan Spiritunlht, the- third line of third column on pare should read “ they alvo ay., leave a-," i instead of ‘‘ they always leave ut the inu-t deceived.'' !j derstoodj and when fully com prehended, will reveal

| m uch hidden beau ty in the m oral stru c tu re o f the ; universe ; b u t a t p resen t we see “ th rough a glass

T here are some phases of m ortality “ too tender j dark ly" on this, as on man}- o ther subjects. Still,S U I C I D E I E T H E C H U R C H .

to'ieh, " w ithout working the nind into m adness. This

even J ot tendcrne-'i i sensibilities of the though t, now m easurably plain to the cu ltu re and h u m an ity of this age, has not alw ays been prom i­n en t even with the clear th in k ers of the past, else there could not have been such barbarous laws en­acted and enforced as we find in the h isto ry of long aco. fiord Bacon has said th a t “ ce.-A/a is tile

| or political— should be so fundam ental to his con- The philosophy of suffering will be one day un- j duct, as to m ake him attentive to the practical du ­

ties belonging to and grow ing ou t o f such princi­ples, in o rder th a t his profession of faith m ay pass for som ething m ore th an “ sounding b rass and tink­ling cym bal.”

AYe are lc-d to inquire, therefore, b y w hat rigid any one assum es the nam e of “ C hristian ?”

I f we take the plain teachings of the N ew Testa­m ent, the answ er is direct and positive ; for Je su s says— “ H e th a t h a th My com m andm ents, and heeycth then,, lie it is th a t ioveth Me ; and he th a t

we know enougli of the cu ltu re of life to soften the severity o f ju d g m en t and tem per the censure so freely bestowed on the dead and their m em orv ; bu t the pride o f consistency forces m en into con­form ity with conclusions th a t daily and hourly do violence to their b e tte r and holier sensibilities.

God knows only and tru ly the tem ptations of the j loveth Me; shall be loved b y My F a th e r ; and I will e rrin g ; and m en should so translate the follies o f j love him, and m anifest M yself to him .”— Jo h n xiv.

t j ," which is a significant in- j life as to look a t them not only w ith charity , b u t in ] 2 1 . This one verse com prehends the entire testi-drill sergeant oftim ation th a t reason and ju stice have little to do full faith th a t the G reat T eacher— God— will m ake witli it. Be th a t as it m ay, th a t the custom s and j all clear, in Ilis own good time and way.

la in to the m ind of uruch tilines have

fashions of society have be imperfect, looked a t from tin sense and philosophy, m ust b all, when we rem em ber uov _changed and are changing.

In the age of Bacon and Shakespeare, m anners and custom s were very different from those receiv­ed as au thority to-day, and on no subject lias ¡cab- lie opinion changed more than nil .vii. i J . . AYe do not wish to intim ate th a t ii is m ore popular, or that it is on the increase ; far from it, for facts and fig­ures would give a different testim ony were they consulted.

Tiie following, b um Shakespeare 's “ H am let," will give tin- reader a clear conception of public opinion on su'eide, antecedent to the E lizabethan age, in w hich Shakespeare wrote.

In the play, Ophelia is m ade to comm it suicide, so th a t the following dialogue very naturally takes place a t the grave :

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We should [-Pd'.iri-j tit.- -• rvh'T o s lu s tl r. ■¡I’.'- m. judI su- !i As to pe:t';i>d*-i»:irL-'d '-*<uN.

Jsttr. Buy inr i' th-- .-arth And from h-.-r lair and unjo.hi May vioh-r< s{>ri:i_r!—I t.dl :h A mmift'riiii: an_-cl >hV.I mv Wlit-n t!; »u iivG iiu'.v!;-;,' —

and still are very j The course of hum an events is daily bringing stand-point of good I to notice tilings, new and old, th a t rem ind us of

sucli a failli in G od; because the sensitive m ind m ust find some consolation for the ills of life, to save it from m adness. W e know the pow er o f phi-

inony on the su b jec t; for the teachings o f Jesus, however varied in phraseology, give b u t the one con­clusion— “ I f ye love Me, y e will keep My com­m andm ents.”

The m an, therefore, who loves the L ord w ith the

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By T. L. H akeis. JTew SuO Broadway. 1S54.

Since th e advent o f T hom as B. M acaulay and

the channel o f Spiritual com m unications, as th ey have been generally received.”

The w ork is very suggestive, and in m any p a rts

Mr. G ridley, in speaking of th e w ork, u ses th e following language :

“ The narra tive m ain tains the g rea t doctrines of Christianity, draw s them from the unnum bered ab-

cknow -1 su rd ^ * th a t professed teachers have gathered . a j around them , unfolds th e ir philosophy— even to the

ed tru th , and th e im m ortality o f the soul a l iv - • conception and b irth o f the Son o f God— and m akes Ju s tice W elsh and the C lerk of the C ourt, p ro -1 ing fact in conscious life, th ere would no t be such : all clear as light. To all believers in the N ew Tes- nounced th e whole thin"- a hundnia, as no such j contradictions in reasoning, nor absurdities in criti- j tam ent who th ink for them selves, i t cannot fail to“ dela tion" had taken place, and as‘ the m an t h a t ! clsm. ‘ ‘° S? iritua,if ’, . , , . , I ______ _______ "m t>u acceptable, as presenting a phase of Spint-cam e to m ake com plaint proved to be a lunatic, iic j T m o trc niff nTTTf TAUTT? ualism new in m anv of its aspects, and fa r ou t ofwas taken into custody, and is now in the s a fe ’ BO O K S ON O U K T A B L E . --------'--------’ -” -■• " ’ ‘ '■ - "keeping of those whose d u ty it is on B lackwell'sIsland to “ m inister to a m ind diseased.” B u t w hat ___ .m akes th e s ta tem en t o f the H erald a positive ja h e - j m anv o th er E uropean Reviewers, th ere has eome | gives conv‘ncm S evidence th a t there is d ep th and hood is, th a t there were no “ w arran ts issued, and ; t0 t p e m inq 0f tHe read in g public a partia l convic- ! c e y ne"s *c Inm 1 ^ 1S. a rciuhig- no u accused'1 to b e b rough t up for “ exam m ation ; 1 j lion th a t the p 0ET is t0 be num bered a n io n - t h e 1 T ne narra tive Wl11 C0I1Vince every reader th a t

The H erald has for m any y ears enjoyed the not- ’ thin=s tlla‘t ,Terc._ Xruc,) Greece and h e r beauties, to-be-desired repu ta tion of telling an y th in g and c-v- j E om e and he r powers, have served the uses o f an j ery th ing likely to please th e bad taste and co rrup t ext ernai culture, b u t the m ind m u st be indeed lim- feelings o f m any of its readers, so th a t no g rea t ¡ted ¡n Spiritual depth, th a t can give the good bye surprise will be evinced b y th e reading public, j j 0 the w orld 's w ithin, above and a round us. o r con- w hen th ey learn th a t an o th e r lie has been added | sider thym a3 a liea to poetry. I t m ay b e ,'th a t in ­to the m any th a t has graced or disgraced the coi- j fanCy and childhood, are th e im aginative phases, um ns of th a t paper. Still, we couid wish, for the j 0p d le race o r t ]le indiv idual; b u t th a t does sake of hum anity , th a t those w ho have control o f | no t w a rran t th e conclusion th a t as the ’ w orld the H erald s editorial, w ould w atch the m ovem ents . grow s old, th e Spirit ««i-grows the Spiritual elc-, _ . ^row s

fullness of love— th a t com prehends h is entire being, j of their reporters, as th ere is a g reat tem ptation to ■ a len t. N evertheless such conclusions are funda- and th inks o f his neighbor's good while w orking ! fabrications and jW b in j, while the public taste has j m enial to m iich th a t is called scientific criticism

Iosophy, the charm s it lias for some m inds, and the j for his own, is accepted of God, and in fellowship : such a m orbid craving for everyth ing th a t bo rders j and m aterial as thev are th ev are the natural con- iconsolation th a t is offered to the sufferer by the stoic ; with th e Spirit and mission of C hrist ; a lthough he ; on th e outrageous and objectionable. I t is to be re- j s t auences o f the philosophy w iden have been “ the

m ay not profess to m ake Je su s au th o rity for doing | gretted, m oreover, th a t in the m ake up of our pa- i clo'ry and stllamc 0f England ” for over two centu-either. TVlien, however, a body of mc-n and women I pers, good sense is so often ignored, to m ake ries. No wonder, therefore, th a t the poem s of

those row w orshipping a t the shrine of poetry and song, are sickened o’er w ith the pale cast of though t,” and unintelligible to good sense from ex­cess o f m etaphysical refinem ent. Tennyson,

, Browning, Bailey, and Sm ith, a ttem p t the Spiritualings o f Jesu s is o f none effect; since the only test I correction would fail to catch rum or in the p re s e n t ; ^ i ccau^ -he soul was never re ^ -m e d into

publicly acknowledge them selves the friends of Jesus, no one has any lig h t to call in quession the the sincerity o f th e ir faith, nor the p u rity o f their motives, until such tim e as, b y th e ir conduct, theysay, in the living language of f a d , th a t the teach- j be a b e tte r chance of doing ju stice , a lthough the j

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stup id ity thatNo reader can be m.v.ai.fibic la punishes the dead body f i r the ¡•lienee of the Spirit, and consequently cannot be insensible of the change th a t has taken ¡■'ace in public opinion on th is subject. Su'd 7 /. in as objectionable and painful as ever, and is made m ore terrible by painful revelations which each victim finds it ne­cessary to make, in order to soften the severity the ju d g m en t proriotinc. d up. .11 them . The m 0- ticu that ¡irompt suicide in m ost cases, come from inability to m eet certain is.-ucs, painful though ne­cessary under such social and o ther relations as be­long to the position of the suli'ci'cr. Public opinion

but, to our m ind, the consolation of religion, w hich m akes the wisdom and goodness of God adequate to the necessities of every affliction— be the suffer­ings ever so aggravated— is the only one th a t can warm the affections, o r keep the Spirit in love with the discipline o f life.

The following sta tem ent, w hich we find credited to the St. Louis Republican of Nov. S, will illustrate these rem arks : j institu ted by Je su s is, th a t “ by th e ir fruits ye shall j s ta te of society.

SixorLAi: S ric in i:.— Early y esterday morning, | know th em .” B y this test we are willing to be i “ Hr,c the world the bod \ of a } oung m an, genteelly d'ressed, was j judged , for it is fundam ental to every departm ent found on a levee betw een M yrtle and Elm streets, i 0p ~ 'He was abou t five feet seven inches high, had on a 1 black cloth overcoat, black cloth pants, p a ten t lea­th er shoes, gingham shirt, and black silk h a n d k e r- ! t° reap, and a tim e to use the p roducts of the har- chtef. ’H ie cause of Ins death is explained in the | vest season, so there is a tru e tim e for ju d g m e n t ;

since an y th ing out of season— be it ever so good in itself—is like to be unproductive of good in the

room for such f i l th as conies from th e gossip) o f the times.

TTere the papers o f the day as free to correct a rep o rt as th ey are to fla tter prejudices, there m ight

le.S till, inasm uch as there is a tim e to plant, a time

jitcu to ly in g ? was the aston ­ished exclam ation of Falstaff, and m any find the necessity of echoing h is words, even in th is age of new spapers and telegraphs. IVe know of no re ­m edy a t present, as very few can afford to keep a conscience, m uch less to use it, and so in good faith we m ust be content to w ait p rogress and p ray for the good tim e coming. YTc know, however, there

Spiritual life, and never I f therefore, the poet

m en do no t becom e angels as soon as they go into the Spirit-sphere ; b u t th a t it will m ake ou t a clear case

! o f devilism, or devil-possession, we doubt. I t can­! not fail, however, to be o f in te rest— save to the | m ind that, having come to conclusions, ignores alj : fu rth e r investigation.1 A s UnaUtia a re ra th e r dangerous in our p resent lim itations o f intelligence and philosophy, it w ould be well to read the various phases o f evidence be ­fore condudU ig th a t the ultim ates o f analyses have been arrived at.

The friends of Mr. A. J . Davis, and tiie lovers ‘o f the lla n n o n ia l Philosophy in general, will do well to give some a tten tion to the w ork, as d irect issue is m ade on m any im portan t ¡joints of that school.

A s we have not the room lb r an ex ten d ed notice, the following ex tract m u st suffice :

••’W hy in the world has no t the g rea tes t philoso­p h er of this age ever referred to th is sub jec t?

“ H .— B ecause he know* nothing of it. I tell you again, as I have told you before, th a t I am p e r­sonally acquain ted w ith Mr. Davis ; th a t I have e x ­am ined his interior, and find th a t he is in the first half o f the fourth degree, a lie Spirits th a t have

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following letter, w ritten in the French !angua_ which was found on his person : \

“ I beseech the person who finds m y body not to j . .m ake inquiry, for the act was m ine; I am m y own ! h ighest degree. The ju d g m en t th a t m ay be used ! are thousands in the land th a t long for the time m urderer. My nam e is Francis H enry De L on-j upon our p resen t efforts m ust be very uncharitable, ! w hen honest m en wifi control the p ress and fill tin .guild. I v.as born in Pari.-, on the -tth day of; as wcu ns if censorious and fau lt-find ing ; i public offices generally, for the salvation of th i

Mv family were in tiie great enter- i .p r i s e o f ^ I l ' . " ’*! w a T m a rr ie d to a rare\sp7 rit,‘ and ! because we are V01" ^ a ,ike in Influence, worldly , coun try as well as the world rests m ainly on thei thought m y happiness would alw ays continue. I | «w ans, and, m ay be, w isdom — all o f w hich increase ; developm ent o f princip les an d th e reform ation of 1 ]0left m y native land, w ith a small family, in the m onth | w ith years, w here tiie Spirit o f Je su s and tru e r e - ' public opinion. ' ¡to f May, and arrived a t New Orleans the 2 -ith of j form lives in the affections of those professing to i Could w e address the good sense o f d ie editorial

ibr f i f t^ n davi!“ g?eat f i u a U t v ^ t w J n e ^ I v | l0TC IIis ,nen ,or-v> an<1 to take exam Ijle from lhe 1 * ' vou,d bc to te51 tho for a* *>ciety :dear beloved wife was a ttacked w ith cholera, and I devotion oi I lls bo iy life. All this, we hope, will j is organized, th e tru th will have the necessary | a fter two hours of great suffering, she died. She be em inently true of us as a S ociety ; for we un- j phases to m ake varie ty th e spice o f life. Still, i n ' was hard ly enshrouded, w hen m y little boy, aged derstand the teachings of Je su s to be practical, re - 1 the p resen t sta te o f antagonistic in te rest and p a r ty Itin ee } ea i.-, <hed of the sam e d:.-,ea.-e My distress fo rm atory, hum ane and religious— not theoretical, j prejudice, th ere is every inducem ent for men to F- was g re a t ; bu t God had left me a little girl, tlnr- I . . ’ : , , J , >:teen 'm onths old, which gave stren g th to resist the ! conservative or fonnuhstic ; and, therefore, give little | if th a t tends to the tem poral good o f the issue. In our !

dlL. j m isfortune th a t had occurred to me ; and in this ; heed to tiie speculations o f the theoretical schools \ own m ind, how ever, we are clear in the conviction, Ilittle innocent I could see the likeness of m y be- • of the land. j th a t the m an who is so weak, shallow or foolish as

Therefore, in calling th e p ap er th e “ Christian to lie, believing th a t be can live long in the sun

to afflict, by tak ing every th ing th a t was IcftT 'or'me ! SP:-« tu a& t>'’ wc lm 'e done 'vhat good sense and the in this world. O11 the 2 0 th o f O ctober last, I had i I,lam teachings o f Je su s w a rran t us in doing— at the m isfortune to close th e eyes of m y treasu re— 1 least, so we understand the m atte r a t p re se n t I f m y child. H aving nothing to condole me, 1 re- I -sve ignore any th ing fundam ental to H is philosophy,

we shall be m ost thankfu l to an y one for such in-

p resen t and the fu tu re , as well as the past, we need such conditions of ¿■piritual life as will m ake song inspirational to the souls, now, as in the olden tune.

A nd th is beautifully illustrates th e need and ne­cessity o f a n e w era, th a t the soul m ay grow young again in the ligh t o f hope and tiie- w arm th of love, for w ithout such rap t and inspirational elevation oi Spirit, the h a rp m u st “ hang in T ara s hail, f . r “ the sou! room to c dace Mr. I I

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im pressed bun are in the sam e degree. He has not only not re le rred to the D av 01 Judgm en t, b u t he has m ade no reference to unv tra in peculiar to any condition ol m an or angel above the first half of the four ill circle. Above tiieir own true m oral position, neither m an nor angei can tru iv . and in a Spiritual sense, realize an y th in g — and Mr. Davis is not an exception to the laws that govern oilier intelligences. It tie or Ins ¡spiritual psvcaoa.igists should a ttem p t to ascend onlv the fifth t untii thev are gradually a its conditions, thev wouf. by the h igher societies.

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J loved wife, and I coukl ask no m ore of God than to , 01 j live for m y dear child. B u t God was willing again ! !

to-day, inclines to eonsidtiler all such acts as the re ­sult of cowardice and fear, bu t the conclusion is too general and indiscrim inate. Tiie tim e was, however, when it was a question w hether persons could be sane who would tai;e the life of ano ther 1 or their own : out, to-dav, it is plain th a t bo th can |

L et no one blam e me.resolved to qu it life myself, for life was a b u rth en .”

A n inquc-st was held by the Coroner, and D rs Cam pbell and H em pstead w ere present, and held a post-m ortem exam ination. The con ten ts o f the stom ach were analyzed, b u t nopo iionous substance was found.

ligh t o f good sense as a tru th fu l and reliable m an, ’ is so m orally blind, th a t he needs a Spiritual g u ar­dian to w atch over him. ATe know lying to be a p a r t and parcel o f m ost o f the trad e and b a rte r now carried on u n d e r th e nam e of comm erce, and ;

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form ation as will convince us o f th a t fact. j we know also, th a t it is ju stified b y the doctrine of:AA’ha t wo are doing, as a Society, for th e spread j expediency, b u t w e also k n ow th a t all such m en '

of Spiritualism and the progress o f C hristianity , is, j and w om en have their reward. H ow different will |

d a res . N either saiclv go below d > 1» i " 11 tne lowest classe living only the lower than Mr. Davis or :■ degree. It wouul iv ijum me to go down with 11s, m th m ost rigid and us safely visit or live 1 fore aver, th a t mo.- Spiritual spheres Ills m aetietizcrs w

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Our objeci. m of public opinio the m otives ot t destruction, bu t to the fact th a t the h appy persons coni' su re and the vouch: The C hurch has 110 such ns destroy hie suicide, lor tneir ¡., from life, so that in

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j no doubt, email, in com parison w ith w h a t should j all th is be, w h en con scien ce sits in th e editorial The J u r y re tu rned a verdict th a t the deceased I be d o a c ' S l l i 1 ’ £uch as ¡t is’ ¡t Sives prom ise o f j chair to correct the fo llies and prejudice, and dic-

came to his death by some cause unknow n to ! "dlat shall be, soon as the w ay opens and m eans j ta te the higher la w o f G od to the N ation ? A llien them . I come to hand. A t present, the room s are open to ; t ru th and ju s t ic e illum ine th e n igh t of m ental igr

A\ e have no doubt bu t the angel of m ercy w il l! all who wish to form “ circles,” o r consult such ' ranee and error, th en w ill conscien ce presid overC oroner’s j u r y , ! drol 1 a t<-'aI' over tIiu erro r oi" our d e p a r te d bro th er, j m e d iu m s as w e m a y h a v e to a id in th e e x a m in a t io n j th e councils o f exp ed ien cy , so that noxESTY will

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The t ¿5iOrv iá t and musical asan Al 1 «- ^. a îtnourii i has 10 t his excess ofglitter and reel imuancy oi ligure The followingwill ill astra tu :

But mv pirit tyí:)iíu nie »:;M. -S eek Ji >u the hind.

e of m urder. 1 although good sense can give no other nam e to his

C a t the wisdom ! dceJ th an m ental ' veaknes' ' to inquire into | o seek relief in 1

0!i! If ran b be a!!, ami b raven Dottine, W hat thrice-markeil fool* ive are 1 '

the reader!¡lying lei-tiiiiouy of t i i e s e u n - J to us alike ig no r ing o u r c e n - !

ions of o u r p o p u la r theology, j ¡'■.¡iisohtiuii, not even hope, for i

iinib i' I 'ii 'i. 'imistances like th e j ■ ■ !!",1 closed w i th the ir ex i t I

■¡cry m u s t he their's forever. !ATiicn we find m em bers oi the C hurch, there- i

fore, seeking relief in suicide, we m ay rest assured th a t the theology th a t consigns so m an y Spirits to despair and woe, can have had b u t little influence on th e ir m ind. The following we clip from the Palm er Jou rna l :

Mrs. A nna Jane Maclean, a gibed au thoress o f 'N ew York City, recently com m itted suicide by ta k - ! ing poison. L nrequiU d live, together with, as she ; averred, a “ life which lias, been one of continual! loss,” urged her to comm it the deed. The follow-j ing poem is taken from hoi “ last le tter," in w hichshe said, “ however sinful the world m ay consider 1 ,It • , , 1 ,■ ■ ,, ,1 , i " “ I he in accordance with the principle,th is last act, I die in the lull assurance ol pardon-1 • . , , . 1 ^1 .. ... 1 “ j ¡society, and w ho will in no case exact

: ¡iay from A'isitors or E nquirers.

o f the Spiritual phenom ena. This, and the publi­cation of the paper, is the positive p ro o f th a t the Society wish to w ork for the good o f Sp iritua lism ; since the en terprise is sustained b y th e vo lun tary donations o f friends who consider C hristianity and Spiritualism alike the friends of p rogress and reC H R I S T I A N S P I R I T U A L I S T .

AA'o have received tiie first and second num bers of a w eekly paper o f this nam e, published b y the “ Society for the Diffusion of Spiritual K now ledge,” at No. 5 3 3 B roadw ay, New York, ask ing us to ex­change, in a tru ly polite and courteous m anner.AYe cheerfu lly com ply, and hope to be able to re ­com m end th is paper as one of the best of its kind, i . „. , , 1 m an or w om an to be th e friend and servan t of

lh e objects Oi the soc ie ty and the p ap er a re se t jforth in the first num ber, as follows :

T hev have ren ted for a term of y ears all o f the i , . , , .u p p e r 'p a r t of th e build ing 5 3 3 B roadw ay, X ew I a ®w era now daw ning on th e age, they ignore al] A’ork, w hich th e Society is fitting up, and so j responsibility for the conduct and opinions of others, a rrang ing as to facilitate free and contouent inter-1 as th ey wish in no case to d ictate o r dogm atize bu t cour.-o, to the end th a t there m ay be afiorded to a l l ; leave for good sense and wisdom to adopt w hat

not on ly b e the “ b e st p o licy ,” and v ita l relig ion o f th e soul.

b u t th e practical

THE n e w s -boy ;T he article under th e above heading, on the first

. , „ i page o f this w eek s issue, p u rp o rts to be a Spirit-lorm — mem and wom en of som e experience in the • , , . . , . " '- , . f , . . G „ com m unication— and as *acb, w as taken dow n b v !w ays ot life anu m os. oi them g raduates from some m. „ ,■ , . , , , -r 1 .i , Ju d g e Edm onds. T he m edium w as his d a u g h te r ; ;one or o ther of the theoretical churches o f th e day. .. = . ’ :,T. . , i w hich fact, to those w ho know th e parties, will ’I t ;s th e ir hope and desire th a t the paper and th e I • . ,. . . . , . . ’ 1c . , , _,r . , , | give s trong presum ptive , i f n o t conclusive evidence ISociety m ay be CimisriAX in th a t Divine and Spi-

Far away from the Earth, Avhere th«* ayc-ary are z ’Where the heart hy the »oft ¡summer music is fan id

W here the spirits of Beauty are doathlesslv clad W here the sorroA\> of Earth sire in rapture foruot,

"Be that home of dclitrht Avhere it iiira-.” ' Then I rose till I cutne to a balm-breathing spot.

And a rrpirit of liuht led the ayuv. "And I rested, entranced, like r. dew-drops th:i

In tbe heart of the Summer*.'- first ro»e.W hen the Anu.-l of Pleasure all <!'

A Avatc-h o’er its blissful reoose.

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? ritua l sense w hich m akes it the h iebest honor for a Í

t o thers— for good, for p rogress and reform .In a ttem p tin g to aid in the developm ent o f the i

honest enquirers after Spiritual knowledge, the from the Spheres, free as

I t is som etim es painful, how ever, to th ink o f th e ; ;

1 ■ 1 . a • i - i • c ~ ¿1 u- i ! seem s significant and suatrestive to reason, moralh ah t w hich is daw ning from the ¿spheres, free as ® i u " ‘uthe a ir o f heaven. " ' j sense and the t:\iiuUons o f th e soul. T h is m ay

I t is the intention of th is Society to have, a t a l l ; tatnc to the sectarian, who th in k s th e buildingconvenient hours, test and o th er M ediums, in i of a creed of m ore consequence than the grow th ofa ttendance a t their rooms, whose lives and conduct j a truc and to leran t ch arity ; b u t as we read the les-

or receive ! *0If o flife and understand th e Sp irit o f Jesus, we in m an y o f th e ir b n t to r tu re ^ charactcrs! ieel to say— “ A nd now ab ideth faith , hope and

as to the gen u in en ess o f the com m unication . This : rem ark is predicated on th e supposition th at the cant phrases, th e id iom s o f th e street, and tiie e n - ! tire m ake-up o f th e character, is not native to th e | culture or taste o f th e y o u n g lad y— w h ich supposition seem s to u s legitim ate, from our know ledge of, notice. ,vo m ust be con ten t w ith one m ore ex tract the m edium . T hose, h ow ever, w h o do no t know \ ty ficn we have m ore time, we shah re tu rn to the the parties, m u st draw their ow n conclusions from , tw 0 volum es of B ro th er H a rr is th a t we m-.v era- su ch statem en ts a s th e above and th e stu d y of the : m ore ;n d , :ai5 h o ,v wc a r , im .)rc.ssed a a J ¡U).,;.OTC.d article itself.

The poet's song of Home, b rea th es the sam e |irit c life :

f devot or.al adm iration for the jo y s o f high- j

How DeaUUfli. is Home in Ileuvcn f-r Oiero jV i r tlioueliL£ become subshmtial KUO ll'MilllC 1

T t-n uh.riuus iiffiEs und v »ior:» :a:r: j(V lovinçr t YirS with Hulit of lo •t illume ;

The [oYin? sot !: undluAv il'ur.K-s tne :.;r JUnti • it burns, exhalin- incense r:i

Aj d love trutisforms*to fi-eiiiiR id our thouL'u:. 1Till truth in e jns'dou» h!i-s hrouu :ht. jAs v e did n ot in tend a rev icv.-,, so m uch as a \

; bv these com m unications ; r _ ,i , , ,.! to seek hap unto r the pliflosoTihv oi : - ' •1 1 - i own

rests sh<of the nex t sphere, e ih u ly unfolded into

immediate!}- repulsed ;r. Davis him self d e ­

cani Air. Davis or his associates zero to exaniHK- lhe condition of

! have iiev tr beet: down am ong < ol debased .-mints; though occu- liitn oegree. 1 call safely go m uch

nv ¡spirit from the fourth »¡nrits far advanced of

long tiie vilest of tiie idle. It is us respect, as with you— a m an of the

-ci]dined in tegrity m ay the m ore ,n the vilest society. AYe th e re ­at Mr. Davis has w ritten of the is fanciful, ami nothing more, issess large ideality, and image

upon Ins m ind w hatever tm-v idealize 111 their own. Mr. Davis o lten-rejientea expression, ' I am im ­pressed, is ¡irool posuivo tnat. in ¡spiritual m atters, lie is a sv inpatnetie . ami not an indeiiendent clair­voyant. l i e does not see for himself, bu t sees as he is im pressed to see. AYe know, assured]}', th a t ill tiie developm ent of his own interior— Spiritual g row th— quite a nu m b er of earth 's inhab itan ts arc in advance of him . AYe m ost cheerfully adm it th a t he m ay have m ore intellect and philosophy, and 011 a g reater variety of .subjects, than any living m an ; b u t tiie incorporation and assim ilation of deep in te­rio r tru th to his own Spiritual organism , is su r­passed b y m any others. Air. Davis has expressed the g row th of natural love, if we rem em ber, th u s : 1st, .Self-love; 2 d, f'onjugul love; 3 d, Paternal love; -1th, F raternal love. In the last he stands, as we have said, suprem ely in the lovi: o r max. l ie begins a lready to feci the diliiciuii- of carry ing out practically his own philosophy. He is dealing ra th e r severely w ith a curiam ciass o f m en, while, according to liis philosophy, they are no m ore to blam e for the position they occupy, than vegetation is censurable in the spring, ¡hr net bu rsting the earth in full b l o s s o m , ami bearing m ature fruit. Air. Davis declares the laws of tiie universe are p e r­fect and unchangeable, and the}- of course alone have operated on m an. A"et his favorite expression is, ‘ Alan is m isdirected.' Do perfect laws m isdirect an y th in g ? Mr ra th e r, have they uot developed a certain k ind of liberty or free agency in man, as the ‘ Crow ning Head" of tne universe, by which he is

i able, o f liis own wili. m disregard 1 lio.-y laws, or : viobfle them , a t pleasure — though he is not able to

escape the penalty o f such vi. hition ? If the p e rf.c t operation of N a tu re ’s perfect laws, in her w hirl, has throw n m an oil'in a tan g en t; if traction has not been sufficient to hold him own u n erring bosom, it is exceedingly difficult to

, prove that she is able to draw him back to that j bosjiii. AYliiie if we lake the o th er suggestion,I th a t m an has been m ade free to violate N ature 's | laws, th en a freedom th a t N a tu re hath, given she I will never w ithdraw , and m an will be forever free

-S on his own account, and in liis

eternal he r a t­to her

o f the persons th a t m a y b e th e m edium s o f such issues.

mg grace through the blood of Christ.

t o T me rob o r 'o f die i £ p £ f a i i S , t r id h e r vim | ' . i r e % ' va recci,7 ’ a " d ara adm onished freely to i charity , these three ; b u t the greatest o f these is tues, h e r errors, are now with her God, who alone ! fra? ' ' C ‘(aTe’ tlieaeforc’ ad°Pted as out m otto, ; chanty . The popular creeds o f the dav have given can ju d g e them .m gn t 1:. n. r. : p rh m rv aim o f o u r Society will be to make! the j a d lflerent readlnS t0 th :s P ^ a g e , since it m akes

AA c are please.l w ith the .tm d »>.int ot tne above I m anifestations o f S pirits free to all serious inquirers tbe £reaiest o f the three, and excom m uni- notlce, although we strongly incline to the opinion, ! after the t ru th — by establishing free circles— w here cates all th a t dare to call in question th e wisdom or : i10p_ ,..„ „ r *1 f -f. • . , , - -

jud g in g from the pn.'t ehnritv of the press, th a t had ■ ^ 1C honest seekers after tru th m ay receive the light, au tho rity o f th e ir conclusion. From this Spirit we U u r _ * ClwD1 an ‘-can a 1 ' e 'Ficcom e to the Spiritual fa m i ! v , h c ! “ w ithout m oney and w ithout p rice .” - - • ' • - - - , to re su lt trom

. , , -v», *. ciiosen w av— to cultivate tiie w h eat or the, . , j m edium ship is too im perfectly understood to allow 1 ture< a< In- vhov-<^< th rough ad comino* a-ws One

w ay som e m en reason w h en th e y w ish to se t aside occasions like these to pass w ithout questioning tiie ! th ing is certain, d ia t ail m i r a i ^ d m e l N ^ a n Ssom e conclusion a t w ar w ith their preconceived ; testim ony thus given. j know th a t sy m p ath y and an tipa thy , a ttrac tion andop in ion s; for t h e y n o t o n ly torture sen se and logic, } y e .should say th a t the w ork is o-ot up in a verv : rL'Puli:i0!b a!e co-equal in ex ten t and pow er— that

„ „ - I i . i* f ‘ “ - i none can love tiie L ord his God w ith all liis heartneat and handsom e style, p rin ted well on good, j w ithout hating in iqu ity with a perfect h a tr e d ; that

rp, . • , ,. _ . , . cl°a r paper. I : ie volum e is some forty pages larger \ w hen we hate m en thev feci a repulsive pow er goT h is is so m u ch a m atter o f course w ith j than the epic o f the Stan -v H eavens, and was ! out from us, as surely as th ey feel an opposite

m any, th a t m m a n y ca ses w h ere y o u n g ladies o f j “ cnoken in th irty -six hours " ' pow er when we a ttrac t them b v love. H a tred andculture, good sense and socia l standing, are like to j h i e following,' from “ T he P oet's Soira o f the " 'becom e m ed iu m s, th eir fa th ers and friends oppose ! >0 ul.” will be accent = *

th is m isfortune conclusion would AYe th in k no worse of th cr, because the lady giv

differ in foto, as we a ttach the least of all im port-l , I . , , , , " , *. ' According to this show of benevolence, wc. who * - - , . , ~ ^ ,Ii.ue lieen ,-o cun.-merate.— ; , , ’ ’ ance to our opinions, and wish to be known by.i. _ |i„, ,: , , •■ ¡are unoehevers, and busv about other matters— ! . , 1 , , ' ■ .. . . . . . . . ,Lap'-’st C fiinch , ho w ev -; . -‘■-‘•era ! w nat we do, and the .yard m w m ch it is clone, ra th e r

.i , ; plodding along m the old w av of doing good— need i .1 <- 0 7 • r 7 . ,jiositit e te.-tunon} t h a t , 1 . , • - , ! than for a conceited conception o f hove i t should beher case was one outside of the Still he r dying words are significant and will go to silence the declam ations of the denouncer— for "m a n m ay j ’J ' l j , tail >iod Jcno-ath the heart.''

YYe hope, liawever, the Baptist C hurch will learn charity from this ailiietio;-, and speak and th ink m ore kindly of ihn unfortunate, since life has its sorrow , its woes, which no philosophy can cure on

accomplished.C hurch 's eontrol : =Ive ourielvcs 110 uneasiness about an y advantage and win -0 far i 0J1' Spiritual friends m ay possess, as all the

' ' benefits ..................... " ‘ ' 'soon roach us w ithout ou r seeking, ¿m s is eenso- • , . . . . . .. , , c j and fidelity to the duties w hich areIation, and costs us nothing. „ T ,_ , - ! alike to th e teachings of Je su s and

B ut tne m ost r< nurr/.allc th ing of all about tills I mardlood

" XIto et e rv t r u e S p i r i tu a l i s t :

su ch a position .O f course the reader w ill th in k there m u st be a

good and su fficien t reason for th is, sin ce i t is a com ­m on conviction th a t “ there, m u st b e som e fire w here there is m u ch sm oke.” In th e case o f S p i­

, ritual com m unications, how ever, th e y w ish to m ake Ifits will be diffused so freely that th ev will j ^ 13 h ° PCd’ th c cforo’ that the reader m ay see j jt a ll sm oke; for th e m an y, to -d ay , ignore not on ly ; roach us w ithout ou r seeking. This is cc-nso- \ S!°, r a ra m l '" <• C hnstlan> j Spirit-in tercourse, b u t dou b t th e im m ortality of th e j

fu n d a m en ta l: sou]. yy-fiat wonder^ then , th at a n y article purport- i a developed : jng to com e from th e Sp irit-land sh ou ld b e held in ;

! doubt, and criticized in su ch a w a y as to m ake i t .new move is, th a t it is called by the nam e of. “ C hristian !” In the estim ation of these Spiritual-

earth. How sail m ust he r Spirit penn ing these sad fa re w e ll lines to cart

lJVIXG M 'lM r.t.'TS.DY MKra AN'N'A JaN'E AIM LT-A N.

There’s n r.i'tiiv-'-'r f wc Avinir-i— Bright cri-iiturt-' 1. ;4vi* i!i.* >kv—* They corn«* to -«•«•. in her mjuhy,

A m ortil si.-'t.-r <i There is no one ne:.r

W hen she hreflihc Save the ariL’e!.'5 thiit .

Their brigiit A\ny i*r< rn the s

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have been while i ists’ llle nam e of “ C hristian” m ust be m ore respect- i able th an it is w ith some of th e ir cotem poraries j a round us here. P e rh ap s th ey tru ly appreciate i such sen tim ents as are found in “ B arnes’s N otes” ; on tiie nam e “ C hristian” ;| “ H e w ho lives according to the im port o f thisi nam e, is th e m ost bless.ed and em inent o f mortals. The nam e shall be had in rem em brance when the

objectionable to sense. Still, w e m ay be perm itted ! to reflect on such conclusions w ithout dogm atizing. •

j in o rder to find if there is sense o r m ental san ity in : j them . lj The following is p e rtin en t to these rem arks, !

S P I R I T U A L I S T S I N B A D R E P U T E .A few days since, an article in the N ew York

H erald w ith the above heading, a ttrac ted the a t­tention of m any, and was read w ith m arked excla­m ations o f surprise and doub t the whole sta te -, . . . ,

. 7 ■ t i . , . . . . i w hich we take from the S ta te Capital Fact •m en t seem ed so im probable and impossible.— ¡ „ . ‘ JLl •Knowing, however, th a t the p ress is no t over nice j storT of t L ^ é w s b o v ^ l ^ r ÿ r i ï "hrom ffl thM m giving public ity to an y th ing th a t tends to m ake j m edium ship of Judge ' E dm onds’ daughter, gave a I As Ip iritualism objectionable, we cu t the article out o f j h isto ry of his sh o rt bu t eventful life, we advise you

I t sl-cIjU.*u th«.' -j.lt became u ßea.A living .-eu of adornunp.

W h o s e AYtKers m a n e t i ie fr .-eAnd pure m JIe:tA-eu s r<*L'>*ncY::?ifip

POT pUiieA n.A; loie fflld truthA n d a\ luce-i. petice JiiA' sou l ru’rAMu'..'!

M r bt’a r t ' ' ' 'j

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'* Bov; v ru A i .

A nd AA'hé 1

o:i u:imiortni vourh.1 I e 1•V dea:u uni'll^

he power that Heaven 1«an unseen \r„e L 1en tnu sol:i h TCA-er "iow:

V c 1e» its peerless <

i S o u l : :re l n tc r w e d .üiid L:e in ImmrieC srcOflilor.• l i te i n n e r »out n o th tread-• lei ti t e r m Geturnt» to t em i h e :

‘ C C ’ . V ee I “ i «.«^ e rt»e to H e a v e n , b u t n o t b v d v i n g ;

TV ec ro » » n o uarK. t u m u l t u o u s **\\ e Iva A e I to lo r m in im w e-A U ird ivintT

¡ amrer, as well a s evi Is of ::ill k inda, the:ri, are no t, negative. as Air. Davis tdiìnn S. 1AYe refe r to evils; possessm:g m ort:il qu:di ties. not cartliouakes, nor: hailstones, nor level's •) H Mr. Davis ifliould be: perm itted1 to stai; on eaidb till In: has p;issed theju d g m en t , and be ¡ieri ni tied to V,•rite aftei • that, his

j indignation agai; ist v i iful tra nsgr ossioil wc aid blaze! up and ru n thro¡u d ì li is Wl ili'mis like a trr;dii o f igI n ited bri:nslone. I t is etiti:div ;n ue th a t ne would! be vasti v m ore 1.Kur-si. Dr; il:*" i ti li i m erciful than at; p resen t : y e t lb.ose vi.ri ues \Volili■ 1 be so health ilv; exercised as by i¡o me ai is to , .1 .... (.llu,r the gui! \y ."

: Tur Bidli: : I s i t a G u id i•: to H i : A’TN ? BV G e o r g i : B.: SMITH. S•audujuA-., Ghia Pubii»hod lbr lhe Author. Fori Mild bvT-K F-TF.: I*G r: v Bri:ti'an. a **• BrludAvav. N V.

The pn 1 - 1 V Ol tli] s VO s of the ex ternalschool id rim s a t cr itieism rat! ier than constiti!-tion, and I 1 i i i ¡a ib e a[j:e. 'flic m an th a tfinds it ii; C 1 j il.- day to r ehasli t h e old is-sues ol It tl 1 c 1ie of tl ie tl:icological or m ate-

“ W ccbaug’e. unfoldinu, through our love, _An inner form of purer essence,

L ntil yvo rise- to Heaven above,A n d Avorship in the P u th e r’s presoucc'.*"

nam es of ro\*alty sliall be rem em bered no m ore ,, - - . . , . «an d w hen the appellations of nobility shall cease to : one of the exchanges, requesting a friend to take | p rocure and peruse it. \\ e should have pub-

Thc-y’i l s a y i t v. :^ b. f-ur fu l tBInir T o y ie ld u p l iv iuu brc;ifh. ”

W i t h o u t a h a n d tn v jr„j r.-.vay Th«i ua tl i ' -r inu d-v. i,f

O h ! h o w b!«.-‘-t t h a t f lufu-rintr S p i r i t AA-i O n va rt h cuu rn-’er be k n o w n ;

P or the- ruhtiinu of lit-:: arff'i !-.' A-.in'-i W e r e l .c tr d b y b. r rtlom.-.

am use or dazzle the w orld.’L et us see how m uch our Spiritualist friends

ernsi adopted.

R emarks.— N o doub t m any, in reading the above. ! 1 will conclude th a t the republication of such a notice !

the precious morceau to Ju s tice AYelsh, and asccr-

rial school, is sadly a t w ar w ith constructive sense and philosophy of tile age, w hich seeks to find “ good in ccerythiry." The critical poin ts o f Air. Sm ith are old, and have been so often before the public in one form or another, th a t we are unable to a tta ch m uch im portance to their l'epulilicatior.. AYe are not, however, of that class who th ink the

e have delayed noticing th is work, the b e tte r to Bible so sacred and perfect a thing, th:" revelations '

TorXD IX G I ACTS FRO»: THE S l 'm iT -W o R L D . WÚlléSSe«! a t l h e b o u s e Oi J . A . G r id le y , S o u t h a m p t o n . Muss. , b y a c ir c le o f . n e n u s , e m b r a c i n g t h e e x t r e m e s o f G o o d a n d E v i l . S o u t h ­a m p t o n . M a s s . : J u s i a i i A . G r i d l e y . ISb i.

. . . , , . ., T j neff'fflund* R ^ ti^ lo n ^ fo r 'w rI ia T C ^ a ^ o tc d ^ d is l ik c ' •] "" F t ! ^ LU i,u u o n S ln ,s " 'o n :, tne b e tte r to B ible so sacred and perfect a thing , th a t th e mindtam if there was an y t ru th in it. In o rder th a t the to dividing a well-told tale in to h a lf a dozen p a rts ' . m k ° U,t* r fveia tions it contains. A nd now th a t th a t criticizes it m ust be denounced as “ inrhl, l,"

sliall prove them selves w orthy of the nam e th ey reader m ay know how to value the conscientiousness j and publish ing it b y piecemeal. ‘ • it has been w ith us over a week', and we have read and excom m unicated fi oni the ¡¡ale o f good "sense,lia ie now adopted. ¡._ s. ! 0f reporte rs w hen Spiritualism is the subject o f r e - ! f ?t?rF 0^ ^ le N ew sboy, w hether it cam e ! o10“! ° f i t cautiously, we feel as if we needed m ore bu t we do feel th a t the m ind th a t can find -o much

* * ■ » . i s s z t s i z t f m S S s g s z » ¡ a b e 1 t z r t r r ? T r “ ,,r“ m r ‘im - « « * - '• • «<* ¡» »• w .... . —SnniTL 'A LiSTs IN B a d R e p u t e — A l l e g e d Y io - in a p e c u l ia r v e in o f b ro a d , r o u g h h u m o r , ’r i c h ly i n - : “ n a t u r a l to o u r p r e s e n t l ig h t a n d c u l- h a v e p e c u l ia r i t ie s o f h is o w n , w h ic h m a k e h im b a d

terlarded w ith the rough jo k es and slang of t h e : tUrC‘ . au th o rity in argum ent, and a doubtful counsellor ins t r e e t The only objection we have heard to the ! V e arc som etim es calic-d to account, bv som e of the all'cctional sphere T hat tiie Bible h«« im n v

s r s i * » r - • « ..... *»■ <• « ■ » ^ *th a t th e p o rtra itu re is too riffldlv oriranal__the’ ' <-u 1 " C CT~ II10‘ l-i and - Cl-m *■•!/ w arm advocates, hu t it is m aking w ar on goodN ew sboy is too brigh t, good-natured nnd°mi.sckicv-1 ,. S e ' ' ° ri S: b u t a!1 sueh com plaints m u st be sense, and substan tia lly id lin g th e m ajority cl­ous— in a w ord, he is too m uch of a N ew sbov. Tiie ; ' - :lnd presum ptive , un til the g reat phiiosopliv o f Christendom oast and iiresc ' *

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. _ . i AYomax ey M e d iu m s .— A few daysis very m uch out o f date, if not entirely u se less; : ago, a nian nam ed A lexander D rum m ond appeared bu t as it was sen t to call a tten tion to the seem ing | a t th e Essex M arket Police Court, and m ade a corn- inconsistency of our use o f th e term “ C hristian ” it pla >nt before Ju s tice AYelsh against five individuals is necessary th a t we m ake a few rem ark s,” th a t in ! lb r having violated the person of his wife, Sarah

I . ’ : Jan e , whue she w as throw n into a state o f msensi-^ answ ering it, we m ay answ er so m any as labor un- j b ffity, b y those parties, who he believed to be Spi-

T h ere is an o th e r le -r .n to be learned from th is , ! J t r like m isconception. To say tru th , how ever, i t | ritual M ediums. ” - ■ - -how ever, an d th a t o f a vary practical kind.

He sta tes th a t on th e evening ofind. T he ! seem s hard ly called for, as the p ap er lias been Ion"-! the 4-th instant, five m en called a t his house, No. lot society i enough before the public for tiie thinking m ind to ! T h ird street, in the character o f Spiritualists,question comes hom e to the reader, cannot society i enough before the public for tiie

, • 7 i ..„a.i „ j . i ;,,,.. i " . , . . 7 “ , ,, ... . ! and com m enced their operations b y th row ing the , , .b e so organized and social lufflior.., so harm onized ju d g e w h e th er the expositions of moral principles : comp]ainant and his wife into a drow sy or ra th e r | be 50 Sood as i0 « s w here th e dividing line tion for m uch of its phiiosopliv.a s to obviate the necessity of such painful and un- and the general teachings of its com m unications are unconscious state, w hich effected, they proceeded, ; com es? I f the com m unication is too good, or no t The book is divided into tw o Ls I f -th ap p v issues? I t ’s a n old question, and “ day into 1 consistent o r not w ith tiie Spirit and precep ts o f ' each of them , he says, to violate the person of his ■ '’■¡-"■'Si •'-«■-i- *- «• - ci — i _ :n ----- — - - - ‘ p a r s the lirs tday u tte rc th sjieech, and n igh t unto n igh t addetli Jesus. j wife, she being unable from th e ir fiendish ac ts toknow ledge,” in favor of th e affirm ative answer. j AYe know, however, th a t the nam e of C hrist is ! Inake an.y cxerh 2 ? w bat.e'v“ mt° asa ias.t than.i»uv>iA.ui->, i . , i gross outrage. l h e s ta tem en t o f the com plainant

I t m ay no t be for m any , m an y years, because held as exclusively b y the conflicting and antagon- j is corrob orated by two m en, nam ed Jo h n McMant h e c a u s e s that p r o d u c e m elancholy and p red ispose | izing sects and churches as a n y item o f p e r s o n a '¡a n d -------- Barnes, w ho inform ed h im o f w h a t oc-

critics th ink he gave too exact an account o f h im - ! dem onology is understood. The w ork before usSC Tf . t0v be ! CaI1 hlmse!r-” : Will aid in th is investigation ; for if the na rra tiv e

t f this objection is a valid one, will some critic au then tic and Spiritual, there ise is

presum p-

good enough, to b e Spiritual, will som e of the rcry being a detail o f tiie m anv circles held and the a=- ucm critics please inform the read ing public w hat is founding facts witnessed' a t th e house of J 1

a" ou^ ^ ! it ? The general objection urged against ! G ridley ; w hich form s a n a tu ra l basis fo r th e se œ n d m ost Spiritual com m unications is, th a t th ey are no j p a rt, w hich is philosophic and controversial in m any m ore like th e originals th an “ I to H ercules.” A nd j o f its phases.

cut, that they a ro loots, by this indiscrim inate censure of the language, narra tive , and philosophy of the Bible.

AA’e have no t th e room , nor the disposition to w rite on th is subject at ¡.resent, for there is so lit­tle in the w ork th a t relates e ither to Spiritualism or C hristianity , th a t our notice of it would be more critical and argum entative than we wish our book notices to be. In read ing th e work, however, w e fe lt conscious th a t M r..Sm ith w as very m uch more at hom e, and therefore, m ore h ap p y in h is reflec-

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tions in tlie intellectual and scientific department of [ to the following, that the example may be followed ! and its influence on the human organism, without his labors than in the affectional or religious. That I by others, as it is worthy of imitation : ' seeing the remedy or knowing the name. Thirdlyhe is honest and truthful in coming to his conclu- j Thanksgiving Dinners.—We notice in the Provi- ; S‘TC a correct description of any person, how-

labor is light, and thev draw instruction from ev-! -»<> “ <"■» » e the dove which has lost It. nuto.didl there 2 nd c 1 - _ ; yourselves allied to those for whom you. were created. No moreG1*T thing. They scclc to discover tlie UsG Of boo.utV, ; corrow there—no more grief, but the Spirit will kneel and pour and the beau tv of use. There are no drones among ■ oat its think-.aivlr.g= to the Itulet of a’.l things.

sions, we have no reason to doubt, but it does not follow that his is either a catholic or a universal mind, simply because it is honest ! If Mr. Smith

deuce Journal the following rather unusual adver­tisement, by a Mr. Lewisson, who evidently pos­sesses a large and benevolent heart:

I do hereby invite, indiscriminately o' all reli-

1 them,; all are bus}-, arid , happiness of all.

all seem to labor for :

SPIR IT COMMUNICATIONS.so 1 .

We have come to piead with skeptic.

ever distant, their physical development, moral, intellectual and social character.

This opens an unlimited field lor investigation,¡11 give ids attention to some one department at a j an poor peupirio cab^ on ThT'sOth day of an(i> !f true- a discovery of vast importance ; and

time and elaborate it by the light of history and j November, lS5-i—beginning at 7 o’clock in the : who will deem it to be beneath their notice? It is procress as developed by the general economy and j morning, and continuing through the whole day— ■ a power which will move the world, and the incre-providenee of C o d . w e have no doubt he would j a n ( t receive a good, substantial Thanksgiving Din- dulity' of man shall yield to its influence. If it is j the heart of the idolater from his idols; soften many of his reflections and be a little ; 1,CT; ^nj j farther invite -il the poor people who • an e!cment of tbe ,luman mind, it is the most im- j words of cheering and solace to the mour more respectful in many of his conclusions. i should happen to he s w l to send their neigh- • portaiit one yet developed to the world. We are j to turn the joyous impulses of the gay and lively j

M'e make lle.-e reflections in the kindest Spirit ! hors, a few weeks previous to Thanksgiving, to my ’ now prepared to put this matter fully to the test, ; into ways of adoration and love. Wii! you not help to Mr. Smith, for mir past experience as a skeptic, : bazaar, and leave the address of such poor sick : an(j au wi, 0 have any desire to investigate the sub- | us in our mission ? Shall we be met by the pro-1 has taught us useful lessons, which admonish us to : J’?01’1,0’ a.n<? 1 re 11 “U"d them * =p°d’ Substant,al ject—and especially editors—are invited to call. | fessed lovers of goodness with scorn, contempt and !

We will devote the hours between 11 A. M. and ' derision i I append to every no no impulse of Inc ;

; to win to speak

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he ehriritahle to all mm. We ll-el that the language ' of ,s-nw-v;-’ -lioiiM lie left at the door of the trroat : temple of’ truth, for the harmonies of a divine and perform»! philosophy will never spring fn>m th e 1

culture that ¡s foriued hy surh inspiration. Feeling thus, we deal ij.»t with the unclean thing, and hope should a second edition of this e>say he called for, '

nake such modifications in some 1 tie; Spirit of its sentences, as • tolerant and respectful. That Xature or that [»art of Nature, ; nf

‘And I further invite all my workpeople, who 1 P. M. to the benefit of the public, inviting their ! soul, and may I not he answered truW? Knowhave ever worked for me since i came to Provi­dence, to call upen inc privately, the day previous, and receive a bountiful supply for a Thanksgiving Dinner.’’

that Mr. Smith \vi of its language, r to mala- loin neoMr. S. is a Kwreecit in lie- wmu-I’T <>1 s.-i-moc*. i- following- e'jrrae;. \\h- givL- it, a.

ffilo of ev. rythinj, end love than lhe angul.tr in the author a: says, p. -i".

‘'Suppurine that tonhtain a view of the vastness of tin- world ve step into a hallomi and make an ascent above it : th" 1 >:< ath is .‘-tilled—thrilling sen­sations »o*,-*>j,p-ad th<‘ In.dy as it risr-s. Making a

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free investigation, “ without money or price.” We j thyself; examine we;! your own heart; test your have investigated this subject sufficiently to Inoir \ own capabilities; try the depths of your own spirit; whereof we testily; and it -\s ’of such vast import- j and measure the length and breadth of your whole ance, both to the world and healing art, that we are j internal nature. Then, knowing yourse-ii ihorougn- desirous of having the subject fully before all who | ly» assist Nature in developing the gems you will

A proposition to bnve som e m usic was ca tered into w ith Spi­r i t by all the com panv, and som e pic-c«.*? wore sung w b:ch added m a d : to the pleasure and harm ony of the Conference.

M rs. Coles spoke under Spiritual-c-ntran cem ent. Lr.t we are unable to rive- the speech, ow ing to its length and the s ta te <>l ou r columns.

Mr. Toohcy m ade reference to the h um an ita ry m ovem en t com m enced by Miss D ow —the R agged School—showing the im portance o f action in the m atte r, and gave som e inform ation re la tive to the m ovem ent of som e ladies who contem plate ge t­ting up a F a ir in its aid.

A aentlem an re la ted a fact of Spirit-presence, l i e had a friend who died, w ith a prom ise, if possible, to m anifest him self after he hud le i: th is sphere. A few m onths after, he had a dream , w hich was connected w ith th.- labors and inventions of his friend, and was finally aw akened by hearing sounds upon, his b id . l i e Questioned these sounds and found they purpo rted to be m ade bv his friend, of w hom he had been dream ing. The sounds w ere only m ade upon Lis bed, b u t upon ids person, and w ere verv convincing to h im as a proof of S p irit-presenceand identitv. ’ this .

evident from the ; we seek for the the ‘ju i i ' / l rather ¡u the man. lie

v í g e - r - i : - ; t o

pbily beneath i. fields d¡m;ni-ii to

viverne then), we survev, calm- . ■firth which seems to sinlc ra- ;

I !< I i ces become shrubs, its

,*> ; u iv h :ir«N , í 11 »-:i« i* v s .n .U ti ; : , - lo-Mi,; i fu i! y !,u :tllL* 1 M ’1b a n tin g ; Y' í • • ' X im i t ¡ ü v ;i inri y i: ii!’ iM inirUKfo !i! : -r m ìn i: i í 1 m - i rV SN Îlvcry t l ì l - n - l : ; r.n I ♦¡u- lll i n y iü - r t s «t u •.vii::-.; ni*'»:!tiYuS :iri Ì t r a u : r - I ' r 'iîî«r 'r ì»v u¡ vi:\< U! j-.ru!lio i u 111 n il , u ru l t h - n ,1 > :M-1l;*vs trn tlio i- w » iu M 1 s u t i lo u t s o in * lirilla« •1, : 11id ¡tig:

X.u.Y V : 111:< lim it i in ■0t-k : ■1 a- iv o ¡uri' an*i G r i l -MU U-. ai:[* N v ¡ j i ­- tv»,1 :(h o s o n t v a s ni i s i ia la n <■Lri »riToi »h s hg -:i;í \' I v : \ - l• i< t" lii- : i . - i v¡>: .a , i r :ir i *•: :t h a t o u r IllU Il1 !: in*- di '•IV íj in s in y . . ,j h a p i :ir ¡nw h ü u in l* ’ ufo i'.'," til! '' ■Ugii t!l i t f u ü y >■:;“ !! ; !ii1 ' r r i Y -. ri|»!:iy ¡i»'.: ; i'r*. ii ’v ir a n i ro s « i ! i »T- 1 : t ' i ! v î t !v iM n o S : ; in li i 1i (I,;** "Zr**u:¡l lp u ll >’¡u m n L -. V. 5 !. Vi* ip.

ll •:in*.sl u ; m. ; » ti g- j * '; ln* i r .v l < grî*- »! i ; i. ! , u w h-an 1 m i'-senl.'dde !•- ing \i<. ID' a* i:n::r the work- of th- s t n n g c that ineii vcions, !rdug : i ; i 1 i : » ■murky misi' nil t:i pure air nf he:i\ i-n

‘d light in i’

dcui and !'"ivs(sjurn to hush-' m.-aii'ieving roads, and : ni'iim-ntajily, variegate *

>)\v t!.e scenery spreads; g ; ciii'-s rise in the dis- f ; rivers staring out into ; i1 igi■ steamboats look like i their siirirua-s; Iocomu- ‘ cMiblo little blocks ‘deal- ; n ; hills shrink into gen- : pi :ir : and extensive val- ful lawns. But throwing ¡ i t still our ascent pro- n elevation extinguishing .'transition to enniprchcn- :

-ive territories comes up-; willfully pellucid, as llio’ ■ ut of it. A panorama of I extent hursts upon our 1

Mg the mind with wonder 1 can he so grand and im- iimen-v masses of clouds, . lie openings, the earth is i vws, cities and countries 1 i - ' o! v i r i g rivers. L o ft y h preeipici-s of frightful . id, ami summits towering; g.-mis clouds of splendid ■

until vision is lost in ; •.•Im us with the vastness

inty e*f the (“reation surround- j iS'*, ¡mw sublime, and amazing 1 I’rea'or! It seems, indeed,! :l grovel in dark and dreary re- ; .'ving in sulphury vapors and ; ir days, new t* breathing tlie ! -r I'ldmlfiing a rav of undim- 1

[F rom the D eligious Telegraph.]i z y i rL o v n iiN T .

K m ploy rnen t! e m p lo y m e n t!0 , th a t ii on joym entl

T here 's no th ing like •• so inetb iag to do f *Good hea rty occupation l i health and salvation,

A Secret th a t’s know n to b u t few.

Y e listless and lazy !Y e heavy and hazy !

G ive heartl hands and feet full em p loym en t;Y our Spirits ’tw ill cheer up,Y o u r foawy brains clear up, •

A nd teach you the real en joym ent.

T he l i l iv they toil not, _T hey drudge not and moil not, .

Am i y e t they’are cared for ’tis tru e ;T h e lily in beau ty , .Fulfils its whole d u ty —

K'en lilies have som eth ing .to do.

T hey sow not, they spin not, .’T is tru e —b u t they tin n o t :

T hey w ork, uncom plaining, G od's w ill—T h e ir w ork no t basting,T he ir tim e never wasting,

T h e iaws of the ir natu re fulfil.

Y e Lands, w “Ijte as lilies,Item em ber God’s w iii is.

W hoso shall n o t w ork shall not cu t;’Tis heart-occupation P reven ts heart-starvation ;

W ouhist thou tin* great Law -giver cheat ?

T hen , up, man and w om an ! lie godlike—be hum an !

To self and to natu re be true .E m ploym en t 1 em ploym ent!0 , tha t is en joym ent'.

T hcro’s noth ing like “ som ething to d o / '

have any desire to investigate or share the benefits ; which it is capable of imparting to mankind.: Editors who feel an interest in this subject, willI please give this an insertion ; for if it is not founded ; in truth, it should he exposed; but if i: should ' prove true, in the progressive development of the 1 race, it is as the foreshadowing of fhe early morn­ing rajrs to a brighter day.

Dp.. ISAAiNjlAIilUXGTOX,B . F . H a t c h > M . D .,

No. 712 Broadway, N. Y.

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Nature and the uni- I>e inferred from the We r in s e OUI* n o t i c e . :

m-vi light ¡n ifs transparent splendor.”! I is faith In th..- h a rm o n y oi

t h n n i i v *>f Natur«-’s laws may following e \ ’r:. '‘b w ith w h ic ’u lie says p. 7". !

‘‘ t ’uv icT , w h e n M iu w n :t .- in g le l i s i i / c a l c , o r h o n e • o f s o m e fo s s i l a n i m a l , c x i> tm g ]> e rh a p s m i l l io n s o f ; y e a r s s in c e , e u i i ld d e s .T ib « ' t h e c l a s s , o r d e r , g e n e r a , I .• p ec ie .s . a n d e v e n v a r i e t i e s . A n d u n t o o u r o w n ; A g a s . 'i z is a s c r i b e d i J j : • bourn* o f s k c t e h i i i g , f r o m a i jb - s il I r a g n i ' i i t , l ip - i'M! i i v ¡’u i 'n i « ' f a n u n k n o w n a n i - ; m ill, t h e s u b s .- p n a t 111 ■ i>v «-r v <<t w lii« ;li t e s t e d h i s \ c o r r e c tn e s s . In tin - ' f a i t t h e l Y u lc s - v r w o u ld c la im \ n o s u p e r n a t u r a l i i c - p i r a l 'o n <w .o m n is c ie n t w i s d o m ; ; h e s im p l y h a d p e p 1.- i i:ii«> th e t h r e s h o l d o f N a t u r e ' s ! r e p o s i t o r y o f s j- e iv ts . a n d h a d e-»t a g l im p s e o f o n e ; o f l u r h e a u i i i ’a i Iv .v s . th - ' <>ne w e a r e n o w c o n s i - ■ d e r i n g . O n Ip r m i v a r y i n g p r in c ip l e o f v'--u,t a n d ( u h i j t t t ’tl"..-, h e d e i c n i i i u e d t h e ib n iK i t io n o f t h e m u s c l e s , a n 1 th« ir n e c e s s a r y c o n n e c t io n w i th o t h e r : h o n e s a n d m u sc le .- ., a m i ln -n e e t h e o u t l i n e o f t h e b e ­in g . K n o w in g , t h i n , i t s c a p a c i t i e s a n d s i t u a t io n , l ie m i g h t w r i t e o u t i t s n a t u r a l h i s t o r y 'w ith th e s a m e . v r i u i h t v a s i i f o u h i it h a d b e e n h o u s e h o ld p e t , e r a s c e r t a i n l y a s a n a r i i s i n w o u ld g iv e y o u t h e p o s i t i o n a n d nets« n o f a w a t c h - w h e e l y o u m i g h t p re s e n t , to m m . A i d t h e ik v f o s s o r u m i M te ll y o u t h a t i f h is o h s e l V’.tb 't : r o i i l d o n ly g O g //' t b yp r e s e n t i n g to h im t h e v a -L p a r ti* :le o f m a t t e r c o g ­n i z a n t t » hi** i n - f ru m .- i i t , h e c o u ld te ll y o u i t s c n - ' t i r e s t r u c t u i 'e an«l r h / e / e T c r , c a j« ',u u t if s :u e l p o w e r s , w h e t h e r it w a s f r o m l iv in g o r i n a n i m a t e o r g a n i z a - ' l io n . T h u s , t a k e tie* « d ip p in g s o f a s in g l e h a i r , h e c o u l d te ll th«.* k im i o f h :-a u it g ia -w u p o n , t h e n c e t h e b o d y , a n d u n a '. ’y th .• in t e lh g e in 'c a i d « ;!iara-tc* r o f t h e i n d i v id u a l . T h a t h e c m /. >' ¡c.nr >!•> d , h e ; c o n f e s s e s w i th > < -r ro w ; ic ;t. h e a»:-! t h m i s a n d s ««f i> th c r t a l e n t e d m e n a r e s t r a i n i n g t h e i r w i t s t o th e u t m o s t in t h e l o p e o f !■ vi n t u a l l y : e v o m p l i s h i n g it . O n th e s e p r i n d p e 'S a r e p h y s io lo g y , a n d p h r e n o l o g y , a n d c o m p a r a t i v e a n a t o m y la .s « d , a n d , a s w e s o o n : s h a l l s e c , i t is th e .-a m e p r '/m a n le o r la w u p o n w h ic h a l l s c ie n c e a n d k n o w le d g e an* a l s o f o u n d e d .”

SS 3 I A P P I X E S 1 ?

e y c o b e u t j u iin s o n .

Ilour.-i of biis* arc* ur.w .Ivpartetl, Scenei«if clill'lhnud, hope and joy .

A re all gone, we. b roken hearted,Sigh for «lays th a t blessed the boy ;

Th'CsoiDe transien t gleam s of glory F lo a t across o a r m anhood 's prim e,

Y et old age shod tells the story, H appiness is not for time.

H ere, 'm i.l ea rth ’s delusive pleasure, G olden stream s in prospect liow,

H olding o u t each w ished-for treasure, E ver gilding as they go.

’Til you th in k j ’ou’re a t the fountain, W hence to draw life’s pleasure free :

T hen like shadows on the m ountain . T hey will leave no trace for thee.

W arrior, sta tesm an, m an of trade,T ell m e plainly, if y ou can. '

W here th is earth has ever m ad a P erfec t happiness for man.

Is it in the halls of nations?Is it on tlie ten ted ground?

Is it linked w ith riches, stations?Tell m e w here it can be found.

P leasure’s votary, have you found it In the giddy rounds of life?

T h o ’ in Backus’ cup you 'd drow n it, H as yo u r conscience ceased Its strife

In the gilded halls of folly T h e re 's a d rug to clog the soul,

A nd w iil lead its m elancholy T hu ' vou drow n it in the bowl.

nrono. d spot

W h e re , t h en . no..:s t r u e j o y a ’W h e r e ’s t h e r«i-rugo w e can

W h e n all other« shall for sakeW e w o u l d kn<•»w s o m e saie

Te l ! us, t h e n , an: r e m a n canYe b r ig h ;.hs n e a r the

I f in all t h y r**t:i ids so m « b r i:T h o u ha- id to us u nk!

T h e n t i ie a robed in bea'S to o p e d wilin' in b is beavo:

H i g h iu v esu -u n u un- mitv .P o i n t s j»oor m

B ids h i m take , tl lough o f i r e j tT h a t w h irh Tii

Seek.Jovs w hich u h : _*h: b u t lie

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W here H ope >ifo b W here' T im e s

Ai! tastes, all ph-vsTo consecrate m e s i!ic

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T he best, tile b rightest boon ill U f ah iife’a sw eets the Very

Uh ! w ho b u t car: recall tlie ev T o b reathe, in suine green w

W hen S um m er flowers with m A nd w inds sigh’d soft ar«*u

1 Life a tb s com bin.

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PROGRESSION.—NO. 1.BV S. M. P E T E I« .

When the excessive toil of the d::y is over and the shadows of nicht hane: over the earth, it is

| sweet to sit alone and feel the wear}' mind refresh.I ed by the promptings of invisible monitors. This j is my greatest pleasure, for worldly honor has no j attraction, wealth has not a charm. The worldling may ask, “ what do you live for Live for hu-

j inanity. God has given me a mind that hopes, and ; trusts always, even when looking out upon the ; battle-field of life with all its monstrous inequali- ; ties, perversions, and wrongs. I look upon a chris- i tian city, and I see the palace and the hovel in close ; proximity, the house of worship and the house of ; ill-fame side by side. I see tiie school of divinity ¡and the primary school of prostitution in the same ; neighborhood. I see men preparing to carry tiie ; Bible to heathen in foreign lands, while every city in Christendom swarms with heathen more benight­

: ed than those who never heard the mime of Jesus.; And yet, in the midst of this miserable mockery, I | see the clear stream of progression flo.’.ing ceasc- i lessly onward, while over all, I behold the star of , hope that heralds tiie ‘‘good time coming.’’ If doubt for a moment dares to show its hateful face, I turn and read the pages of the past, and though I mar­vel not that materialism declares the mission of

; Jesus a failure, yet I can see that the Jewish church in her time was inferior in some respects to the

1 modern Christian church.| The Mosaic Dispensation was one of force and i temporality. Its best promises were feasts of fat • things; its severest penalties the loss of country j and nationality. Immortality was not taught by it. Even Solomon, with all his wisdom, hau no de­

i finite idea of a future existence. The harem was ; his heaven ; the most beautiful daughters of Israel,] his angels. It was a vain-glorious, selfish, sensual ! church, and its worshippers hesitated not tu imbrue : their bands in tlie blood of all who doubted or dis­: puted its claims. Bold was the man who ventured | to lift his voice against it within the Jewish bord­! ers. The thirst for rapine that such a religion natu­; rally engendered, involved the Nation in almost in­; ccssant wars, which eventually weakened its mili­: tary power, and reduced it to the humble condition

■ vs ; 1 of an imperial province. 'While in this mortifying, attitude, a remarkable individual was seen wending j his way up to Jerusalem. lie was on foot and clad I in a coarse robe; his external appearance indicated

xNUn°t!ie1£e»rt”' unpretending poverty, hut there was a majesty in his deportment, and a cairn fearlessness in his eye that riveted the attention of every beholder. His character was the embodiment of a new principle— immortality. With mingled rage and astonish-

Ch-ine. merit the Pharisee heard him proclaim the end of the law of force, and the beginning of the Gospel

. of love. And though rejected and despised by thesurely ibis, formal church, he faltered not, for he knew that

truth was an eternally unfolding principle. His mission was Aiovt, and tlie evening of his earth- life dark and gloomy. His disciples wavered for

v o w , ' a while, and then followed in his footsteps, manyof them leaving their tortured bodies behind as a tes­timony of their sincerity anu devotion. Opposed by potentates and powers, the doctrine of eternal life could not be driven from ihe soil where its seeds had been planted by the humble Nazarene. Eight­een centuries have rolled away, and it still lives,

find so richly bestowed.Then, know thy_God.

adore is the tyrannical avenger of the Jews, or a Father you may love, and the merciful Dispenser of good to ail By your idea of God, you shall judge for yourself if you truly know Him. Knowing Him who is th” source and Creator of all things, you will then learn the objects of His creation.

c.NO. -2.

To many, it is the work of a life-time to prepare for death—to learn how to die. But to us, it seems far more important to learn to live. Death is but one of the many circumstances that throng around you; but life is a lesson never to be mastered. You are but learning the first'principles. To live ! to cultivate each noble thought which springs up in your mind ; to ma.-ter every wayward impulse that would crush, as it were, the young and yet tender principles ; to day by day perform those manifold duties which, to the most idle, will still remain to be accomplished; to resist, hourly, temptations which threaten to poison all of good in u s; to do all, he all, surfer all, endure all—this it is to live! An earnest, steady principle, a child-like faith in “ Our Father,’’ and a consciousness thft you have a work to do—these will teach you the art of learning to live. c.

The following was written in answer to some re­proaches from those in the circle, for her not com­municating oftener: -

I dare not now indulge too much in the yearning affection I feel for you, lest I excite as much of your’s in return, and thus cause an idol-worship to spring up in your hearts. We that have gone be­fore, know the beauty of an individual heart, and endeavor, by our communications, to assist our friends in preparing so beautiful an offering to the Father of all. But if we indulge in these feelings of affection for friends on earth, which are welling and gushing up from brimming founts deep laid in the soul’s recesses, we are defeating our own pur­poses, and forging chains which bind us to earth, instead of weaving threads to draw you to heaven. Here, after you have stepped beyond the grave, I will lay before you the wealth of love I have gar­nered. Its influence, however, you shall still feel; for though I cannot often make you realize my presence, you shall never forget the love of a sister.

Procidence, N ot. 20, 1854. a.

The gentleman recuested an CNjHnalion o: on f.r.v oihc-r than uc sp.r* i.a. hypothesis.

¿ome one sngg'"‘' :e|: n ¿ili nave been atlream,The gentleman responded mat he had no: got to that point

. vhen n man's senses could not indicate whether Le aaitej* or ; awake- "When it should come to that he was prepared todmeard

Know if Lite God VOU i ah human testimony.~ ' Mr- Jones «poke of h:= re.utu-’ to Spiritualism. Leingu con-

J, as he fo wavs hau been, from all churches and sects andi nect< Uree I pr;

Bur he believed the true mission of Spiritualists was a.; oUe*

d m*--f-apLvsics : the-v forgot that the great object u

IDOCTOIt H. A« BE.\TO.\,O C w — (L A T E OF B R O O E L Y N .)- -1 S 5 L

P S Y C H O L O G IS T A N D E L E C T R I C I A N ,S c . 4 2 S E C r o o m e - s t r c e t ,

ONE DOOE EA ST OF B R O A D W A Y ,

N E W Y O R K .FA Iours from 0 A. M. t<> o P . i L —E ven in g s a n d S cnd ays,

BY A P PO IN T M E N T .

B.—All Diseases, ¿ ^ P A L T I C U L A E L Y N E R V O U S ,. ^ 3 scarc«ly afo llare by electricity-in som e form .

EiectrP* M edicated Baths,* ab o u t read v for operation.__________________________ ___________________ '_________29-lt*" Vw'i).ii»LEFl'L DISCOVERY,T H E N E P Y E -S O O T H IN G V IT A L FLUIDS,

A new Medicine purely Vegetable,P R E P A R E D E N T IR E L Y B Y S P IR IT -D IR E C T IO N . TH R O U G H

H R S . E- J . F R E N C H , M E D IU M , P IT T S B U R G H , P A .These F lu ids are divided in to classes adapted to th e diseases

specified under each num ber, and are separately or in com ­bination a sale and certain cu re for all th e diseases nam ed under tn e ir respective heads, and m any o f w hich have for aces, baffled the skill of the learned, am ong w hich are SL V itu s ’ D ance, T ic D oloreux, N euralg ia. I lheum atism in all its varied form s, Lock* ed Jaw , Epilepsy or F alling Sickness, Palsy , N ervous and S ick H eadache. D yspepsia, D iseases of tho 'K idneys and L iver. D ia rrh ea . Irregu la rities o f the F em ale System , T e tte r, and ail Cutaneous Diseases. Chills and F ever, C ram p, Cholic, Cholera M«>rbus. Cnulcra. Q uinsy, Influenza, and all A cu te P a in s and N ervous Diseases. T hese F lu id s have n o t failed to g ive re lie f in anv of tlie above cases w here th e y have been fa irly te sted , and w e Lave now a n u m b er of liv ing w itnesses to w hom w e can refer. ^

Also the L u iia and Cough S y rup , a safe and invaluab le reme* Coughs, Colds, Sore Throats, BronchhU Affections " ’ of tiie L ungs and C onsum ption In

7 li:

dy for Croup .—a sure cure for B leeding :*wS first stages.

Feeling it m y du ty to m ake know n to th e afflicted these in - vuluable rem edies, n o t on ly in obedience to th e positive com ­m ands oi n jv hpirit-gtiides, b u t from a th o rough conviction

T i ie r v e -e i f s i i e r i n : coo m uch in the n-uior. of I U » t tn e y t r r ail th a t is claim ed for them , and from a desire to • ~ ) reueve the suttorings of afflicted hum an ity , I propose to p lace

| them in tiie hands of all a t th e m ost reasonable rates, and shall, i as fur as I have th e ab ility to do, cheerfully sup p ly i t w ith o u t ; charge, to all w ho m ay n o t have the m eans to pay for i t F o r

fu rth e r particu lars, address T . C clee e tso n , A gent, P ittsb u rg h , P a.

G eneral A g e n ts : P artr id g e A B rittan , 300 B roadw ay, N ew Y o rk : Fedvrben A Co.. and 13 C ourt s tree t, B o sto n ; "W. M Laning, 27C B aitim ore-s:., B a ltim ore; H en ryS tagg , 43 M ain-at t u Louis. A lso sold by D r. G ardner, B o s to n ; D i. B en ch , 160 A rch-st., P h ila d e lp h ia ; D r. G reves, Milw&ukie, W is .; H . O. B a ­ker. F ond du Lac, V is . ; F . B ly, C incinnati, and others. P r ice $1 per bottle, or 0 bottles for

M rs. F H E N C H w ill continue to m ake C la irvoyan t E xam ina - E xam ina tion and prescrip tion , w hen th e parties a re prea-

practic;logic a:Is ?o d n g- ’Dil V e >-boun: loou tnc m a tte r in the face as a great tru th . V. e should n o : look lo r com onstrutions and new t ru th s ; b u t w au w arm in heart, and take those w ho do n o t believe and le t ibem see these* dem onstrations wc have seen, th a t they, ;oo, m av becom e S piritualists w ith us. L e t us be m ore ea rth .v , if vou p lease; le t us belong to Bagged Schools. V e have become alm ost crazed ou th is sub jec t; wt* are too s p i r i tu a l ; wo Deed to do good on ca :th , and then we should prove ourselves to be true

M r. F arn sw orth spoke in favor of the B agged School, and com m ended all efiorts of a h u m an ita ry tendency to the a tten tion of S piritualists. ;

.N ear the close of the m eeting , a noble exam ple o! prac tica l- Spiritualism was show n by M r. T u ttle , w ho, w ith the first oiler- \

tn t . ; if absent, $10. 29T H E G I1EA T P IA N O à M U S IC E S T A B L IS H M E N T O P

Ï 3 Ü ÏC A C E W A T E R S ,N o. 333 B B O A D V A Y , N E W -Y O B K .

inS in Ms h=r.J, caiWd upon all who fc!t a n y th in ? ; T h . h*r,-ost a sso rtm en t of P ianos, M elodeons, M usical In s tru -m ere w ords in th is m a tte r to come forw ard and show it. T he j m eats of nil kinds, and M usic to be found on th e A m erican S p i r i t b e c a m e infectious, and unite a sum was collected in a fow ; C on tinen t. T ; G i l b e r t A Co.’s P rem iu m P ianos, w ith o r m om ents in aid of th is h um an ita ry m ovem en t—the Bagged I

fflooL jO ther rem arks w ere m ade in favor of th is object, w hen the j

Conference adjourned for one w eek.

C ontinen t. T . .....__t ____ _w ith o u t tiie -E olian , w ith iron fram es, (adapting th em to an y clim ate.) ami c ircu lar scales. H orace W a t e r s’ m odel, o r m odern im proved p ianos, hav ing grea ter pow er, b rillian­cy, and richness of tone, elastic ity o f touch, elegance, and

j du rab ility of m ake, than r n y o th e r P ianos m ade in th e ! U nited fitates. H u lle t A C um ston’s P ianos, (of th e old firm I o f H aliet A C’ori P ianos o f several o th e r celebrated B oston and • N ew Y ork m akers, second -hand P ianos a t g rea t bargains. I P rice . $uu, *3g ?7o. *100, $120, $130, etc., to $175. B eau ti-

. -, , „ ,m,.. ful Pianos, w Liich have been rented but asbort time, will be sold»Vc a r e s o m e t n i i e s a s x e t i in \y l i â t p a r t . c t i . ^ i s ; very low. E ach in s tru m en t guaranteed, and prices low er th a n

followers of: can be had c-lsewhere. "" x‘ ' 1 \ Melo deons.—fi. D . A H . W . S m ith 's celebrated M elodeons,

S w e ( le n b o r * p ; b u t i n a s m u c h a s t h e r e s e e m s to b e a j tuned in the equal tem peram ent, and having grea ter sw eetness # c ¡ of tone and elastic ity of touch than any o th e r m ake. M elodeons

l i b e r a l a n d an o r t h o d o x c o n c e p t i o n Oi m e s p i r i t a n a j of all o ther sty les. Schools, Associations, Churches, and C lergy­; a . „j. ! mt-n, supplied w ith P ianos or M elodeons a t a discount. D ealersiM Jsii.u L ii ...s j supplied upon tho v e ry b es t w holesale term s.

M rs ic .—Tho choice productions of th e first E uropean and A m erican a rtis ts published daily. A large asso rtm en t o f all m usic published in the U nited ¿ ta to s constan tly on hand. I n ­struction Books of all k inds, Glee Books, et<x, etc. M usic sen t by mail, post-paid. G eneral and select catalogues and schedules of price? forw arded to ar.y address, free o f charge. 25

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I!ut v.-lien the Al­ls' }'e::v with His good- tho uelii-'i'etl fruits of

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An u.:hnr..vhM God, end "f nur th e d u ty n f a f 'iu mighty Ii:ts uxain1K.PS, :iud We :ireHis Is'Uiitv, i> is {■mii:-, n'ly fittili;: thiit we offer tii ' s.-K'i in*- : * !' p*':.i-e ni.'! thauhsyivint:.

I tii'.-ret.uv '.'.pp":.:.! Tlll'CSDAV, the noth day Novendi'.:', td*r t i ¡ ; - J *I..| ■ v : t*.- s. i \ i. ■* - ; ar.d invitethe oitiz.'tis *,!' th • Ht-it" to asseml,!-* on that day in their respe*:!:'.', p'.ae,'. *.f *r~i i i ¡ *, t** present theiriiekn'i'.v'.edeime.ts i*. the Parent of the L’uiverse fir His multiplied un r e n e. An i ing, let us niiuyle prayer- Ihrnumberless I . J . - r w* - . usmembering tii.-it II ■ lirect, Ilis powi r su* Strengtil mul s..nrj!;

In witness wiier*". my u.'tni'', the hiate,

[i.. s.j tenth day eivlit 11 u i) * I:

with our thanksyiv- :i ..'oMtiruian*'*' of the :t ■ ¡*eop!e, enjoy, ro­il a.!":ie i.-.'in rightly *i His g..«'*dncss vive

A nd all was rap tu re then w hicu is o u t m em ory r o w 1

T H E R A G G E D SC H O O L.Tlie lectures ut Dodworth's Academy last Sun­

day, morning and evening, were elaborations ofsuch facts in the economy of Nature and society, i rvliere? Its outward appearance is not very as were best calculated to convince the inind that, promising; nominally, it is the religion of onlyone- the efforts now making to sustain the Ragged 1 pfYp 0f the human family, and its vitality is hardly School ami enterprises of a like character, was not discoverable in the multiplicity of its antagonisms, a thing ot a day, but the dawn ol a new philosophy, Seemingly, the church of to-day is no improvement winch would malm philanthropy as fundamental' ,ip0n the church of the “ chosen people," but in to the harmony of society as love to God was in • - - - -vital religion. The attendance was large, the feel­ing good, and the collections all that could be ex­pected from those who are taxed in so many ways to aid progress ami help on the car of reform.

It is hoped the friends will continue to give the helping hand to this enterprise, as the best possible use will be made of their donations. We not un- freipiently receive letters from abroad, some from Indiana ami the far west with small sums, that

reality the former is a step in advance of the lattc-r. In theory and practice the Jewish church was wholly temporal, while the Christian church is Spi­ritual in theory, and temporal in practice. A sad state of things truly, but a decided step in progres­sion. We should not despise the dav of small things. And when we reflect upon what the church has gone through since its first organization by Con­

; stantine, we ought to be thankful that it is no

Í ha :ml :

theof N

o subscribed privv seal of All,liny, this me thousand

worse. It has brought the world a long way in speak good will and ins.ui'c hope for the fatuie. ; (]le road of progression, and now that it has grown Let the Ragged .School experiment hat e a full and j ^ an(j <j ei'orljjedj it ¡5 not fair to leave the old fair trial before any doubt be expressed as to its!utility, and then the rteuf!.- selves.

will speak for them-

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cripple behind. The church contains within itself the elements of progression, and by the aid of a helping hand it can be developed. The encrcetic elements of the world arc concentrated on this con tinent. The pioneers of the race have turned back and arc hewing their way through the wilderness of mind.

What do we live for if wealth and fame are be-

Abstract of the Proceedings at the Conference at No. 553 Broadway, Friday Evening, Nov. 17.

M r. L ev i spoke o f a case w here L o h ad suspicions regard ing th e m edim nship o f a ce rta in person, an d as h e w as a m atte r-o f- fact indiv idual, believ ing o n ly w h a t w as su b stan tia ted b y ev i­dence, he had been free to express h is susp icions am ong his friends. H e w ished to s ta te th a t h e h ad n o w ev idence to satisfy his m ind th a t h is fo rm er im pressions, though h o n es tly en te r­tained, w ere incorrec t. T h e person referred to w as M rs. B rad ­ley, a d raw ing m ed ium —and h e w ished, in th is pub lic m anner, to sta te h is convictions, in ju s tic e to h im se lf a n d th e lady.

M r. T oohey follow ed w ith a s ta tem e n t o f feet, in reference to th e m ed ium sh ip o f M rs. B radley! H av in g h ea rd m a n y rep o rts prejud icial to th e m ed ium sh ip o f M rs. B ., an d consequen tly In ­volv ing h e r v e rac ity as an ind iv idual, h a h a d s ta ted h is im pres­sion to th e lady’s husband frank ly . T h e reu p o n h e rece iv ed an inv ita tion to v is it M rs. B ., and w hile in h e r presence, saw h e r execute a v e ry beau tifu l d raw ing, w h ich h e exh ib ited for th e in ­spection o f those p r e s e n t M r..T . th o u g h t th is case w as in s tru c t­ive to S p iritualists, as show ing th a t a g rea te r am o u n t o f cha rity shou ld b e exerc ised tow ards m ed ium s. R efe rred to th e course p u rsued tow ards m ed ium s and believers b y those w ho d id n o t en te rta in a belief in th e m a n ifes ta tions; th o u g h t i t show ed a de­plorable condition w hen m ora l ev idence w as ig no red am ong m en. R em ove th is k in d o f ev idence, an d y o u rem o v e a t once every m eans of se ttlin g an y question, un less y o u can convert yourselves in to a un iversa l m ed ium . A ll h is to ry becom es a dead b lank , w hen y o u re je c t m ora l ev idence. T h e ty ra n n y of th e senses is th e m o s t d am n ing n f all k in d » —th e m o st soul­crushing. T e t in a ll cases w e shou ld b e respectfu l to th e senses, and g ive fa ll a tten tio n to o u r eyes an d ears. I do n o t m ean th a t w e should ta k e fo r g ran ted e v e ry th in g an d any-th ing . U pon thi3 poin t, I am fixed, th a t th e re is such a th in g as S p irit-sigh t and S pirit-hearing , for if th e re is n o t, th e n ab o u t tw o -th ird s of o n r m anifestations a re good fo r no th ing , so fe r as a ll p roo f is con­cerned. I f th e re is n o p ro o f o f th is, w e had b e t te r confine o u r investigations to rap p in g aed tip p in g . A ll o u r ta lk in g is good for noth ing . T o illu s tra te th is p o in t : Suppose I sa y I w as one o f a n u m b e r o f persons to w h o m dem onstra tions w e re given. T h e w ord o f an y in te res ted perso n is n o t to b e ta k en a t law , and m y evidence, therefore, m a y go fo r no th ing . A H th is is p red i­cated on th e feet th a t w e liv e in an age o f su sp ic io n ; w e do n o t accept th e testim ony—w h eth e r i t is from la ck o f m ora l evidence, o r from a fear th a t w e m a y t e h um bugged , I do n o t know . G et toge ther all th e facts in th e w orld 's h is to ry , an d h ow m u c h rich e r are y o u if y o n ignore m oral ev idence ? F rien d s , I believe you are b e t te r th a n com m un ity ta k es y o u for. T h e doctrine o f ' to tal d ep rav ity is n o t dead y e t, th e seeds o f C hu rch cu ltu re still live w ith us, b u t I h ope y o u w ill a ll ta k e i t hom e, an d ask y o u r­selves, w hen a b ro th e r is’taTking to yo u , w h e th e r y o u believe o r disbelieve h im . S uspicion is n o t h ea lth y ; i t is th e p ro d u c t o f a bad cu ltu re. I t is b e t te r b y all m eans to suffer hav ing faith , th a n to g lo ry w ith th e tr ic k s te r because h e is ch eating ev e ry body .— W hen you b lo t o u t m ora l faith , w h a t a re y o u ? I f y o u h ave a b ro th e r o r sister, tru s t th e m ; i t is th e fellow ship o f life ; i t is the g reat consecrated e lem en t w h ich n o t o n ly bap tizes life, b u t m akes a hereafter w orth liviDg for.

M r. R andolph referred to a v ision h e had had , in w h ich h e saw an exact rep resen ta tion o f a flow er d raw n b y M rs. B rad ley , th e lady before alluded to , w hich h ad had th e effect to conve rt h im from a disbelief to a firm b elief in th e D eity . H e con tinued : I know tha t th is ea rth is th e garden w h ere th e seed has been so w n ; D eath is th e gardener who shall ta k e m e hence, and tra n s­p lan t m y sou! w here i t w ill ta k e deep ro o t and bloom forever more. Is n o t th is a hap p y know ledge— a so m eth in g w hich

teachings of that eminent man, ami we have not had the tune to make the necessary comparison, so as to be able to say who does and who does not faithfully represent him, wc have nothing to offer, at present, that could be very satisfactory to the critical mind.

Were it an object, however, to say in what we differ from the teachings of Swedenborg, it could be summed up in few words; for if we understand him, his philosophy is not only too conservative, but is too anti-reformative and progressive for the needs of human culture and the necessities of society. Still, as extremeism is the one thing to be avoided, our opinion must be taken with some cau­tion, as vre are a party to the issue, and, therefore, interested in the conclusion. As we wish, however, to do justice by all parties, wc give the following, from the New Church Repository, fer October, which will explain the reformatory position of Prof. Bush, the editor, and those in sympathy with h im :

Will Messrs, (ramson A Co. lake it as an c.ilence if wc"say that the Spiritual explanation of Ishmael, given by Swedenborg in the following paragrapu, applies itself, by a certain instinctive spontaneity, to the school of reformers which they represent.

The rational principle consists oi good and of truth—that is, of those tilings which appertain to charity, and of those things which appertain to faith; rational truth is that which is s'gnhied by the wild ass. This, then, is what is represented by

L A R O Y < U S D E IIL A X D , O C U L IS T ,BO STO N , M ASS.

B em edlc i for O j.thalm ic Affections, D im , W eak and D efec­tive V ision. 1’erfectly tufo and reliab le in all diseases o f th© eye and its appendages, o f w h atever k ind, and from w hatsoever cause. T hey have res to red m u ltitudes (some from to ta l b lind- lie^.-. ) cured persons burn b lind : cured blindness o f fifty years, an d 0:10 patien t was 105 years old ! Can be sen t by m ail.

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ceive p rivate parties betw een the hours of 10 A. 1L and S P . M., on Tue=d::y>, W ednesdays. T hursdays and F ridays , and pub lic parties on the evenings of the duvs m en tioned , for the investlsra-tion oi sp in ti ::

ays and F ridays , and _ the days m en tioned , for the investlga-

1 m anifestations.. 0-1 B ast F ifteen th -stree t, betw een T h ird and • 17

raduate of th e M edical School of P a r is phicu! In s titu te o f F ran ce , and assistan t •i and the Baron du P o te t, has an office r, w here he w ill rece ive patien ts and

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¿vu. b h a k d o'sons m m odern L am ruares a t th e H arlem -<•> near od A venue. Y oung gen tlem en and

n — connt r v, disposed to learn d u ring it la tin- c \ d f l i a cuw-tw, muv com e and tr u s t w ith fu ll , ... J ) .. i..i_..r*I*, a.- a pruCiic&l teacher. T e rm s by

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•elated ihciiisetves toge ther in th e ir professional busi- ju .r^ .iïe o. cu uceatraung th e ir pow ers in diagnos- .Teaung m.-care in :m u s various s ta re s and forms.

1K. J1A i (. . i La.- I** e.. I rt»le.-?wr of Mid wiJery and diseases e-rue., a..-,. <_ liiti.rd i, i:i a Meuieul School in Boston, and

.. u .1 im p .*u ei.., n t in the tre .m n en t of fem ale Diseases. Dr.. ! I A a .l . lN G 1 i.’N Las luj:a been m a r e m a r k a b ly *uc- .••i-*.. .. c****., .... i.- u nip u, the m o st c te c u ra tt

.;=eo'\ enng the real cause, locality and n a tu re p roper rem ecy . o f any one in A m erica. H e /•-feeeing, o r in tu itiv e pow er heretofore un - .iLuieu a> it ].•> w ith a v e ry ex ten s ive m edical n him self am; Ins associate, they have no heal- ■- <-4 " ;7 a to :ree„ cescrip tion of all diseases, and i a .. ca;e= w here it is in th e p cn cer o f h u m a n

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Ishmael, and is described in this verse. No uuc , can believe that rational truth, separate from ra­tional good, is of sucli a nature; nor should I have known it myself to he such, unless I Lad been con­vinced by "lively experience. It is the same thing whether tre speak of rational truth, or oi a man whose rational principle is of the nature here described: such a man, who l 1 p* n ,*i c ¡ ’c such that.he is only in truth, aUhoudi m the trutn of faith, and not at tiie same time m the good oi charity, is of this character : he is morose, imp::-i tient, "opposite to all others, viewme everv one ns : in a false principle ; instanti_ 1 oH i p c * i_ j and punishing : he is without - t_t , i e h 1 lie apply himself nor endeavor to bend the minds and affections of others; for lie resards everythin:: from a principle of truth, and notions irem u plan- ciple of good. The rational pnncip*e. witnout me from celestial good, is as here described—viz., it fights against all, and all fights atrmnst it. Rational good never fights, however it is assaulted, be­cause it is meek and gentle, patient and i ' A i- attributes being those cf love and mercy: anu al­though it does not fight, yet it conquers ail, never thinking of combat or boastmq ol victory. It acts thus because it is divine, and is safe of itself; for no evil can assault goou, or even exist in the sphere where good is: if it only feels us approxi­mation, it recedes of itself, and retires ; fur evil is infernal, and good is celestial. But truth separate from good, which is here represented by Ishmael, and is described in this verse, is altogether differ­ent—viz., it is like a wild ass, and fights against all and all against i t ; yea, it thinks and breathes scarce anything but combats, its general delight or reigning affection being to conquer; and when it conquers, it boasts of victory. It is, therefore, de­scribed by a wild ass or a mule of the wilderness, or an ass of the forest, winch cannot abide with others.’’—A. C. 10«, HMO.

If it should appear problematical whv the advo-. j i H i . u ' * r . n n i a ; w a i o n t t i a v u t* U L - u v c r c t i p c r b u icates of f c w e c ie n b o rg d o n o t e n l i s t m o r e h e a r t i l y IP. I B loods D v.-parch: in the la tte r case, a foe of $ 2 'is expected to

manV p o p u l a r m e a s u r e s o f r e f o r m s , w c c a n o n lv i l 'v encH.hcc]. Ifors.-ns rchi.Um: in the country , a t an y d istance,, , r . r r , •. ,-fr* . i - - t : ^houlc v.-rue ev icau . T.*i-:-r.!L:il. cunlonm:*;: to tho d irections assay that w e f in d it m i f i e u l t t o ^ .s y m p a th i z e w i th | ab ,1Vl. L.;,.t.n . • '* 1 ’ °

movements where the Ishmael Spirit is pivdomi- I HxamiMtinns for DL-easc will also he made, with dlaznoiis„ „ I TVe have for ourselves a verv «tron- im- ! A ■"<* <lf I,air or hand"Titin£ should be en-nam- no , . . . - : = ! Closed man e::ve;*'I' whtn the patient cannot attend person­presston as to the intrinsic wrong and evils oi i ally. it—tfthe system of American Slavery, but we do not, we I trust, make Anti-Slavery the whole c-f our religion ; | nor do wc find any necessity laid upon us to give j up a divine revelation in order t * “ reconcile the j wavs of God to mans' What association, more- j over, can S w la ib o rg u im , as they are called, have • with those who would put Jesus, whom they sol- I emly regard as the Lord of heaven and earth, the :

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aaaou v is it th e city m ay h e assured tha t, b y lave d ie real cause and na tu re o f th e ir disease ■nd th e most, clfe-ctual m ethod of tre a tm en t .»•h uo iiiticu accuracy as though th e y w ere 1 Lose v ho v rite w iii bo requ ired to enclose

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~ PSYCHOMETEEICAL DELINEATIONS OF CHA- RACIER.

! T o read m e character ot persona by holding th e h an d w ritin g . to tho forehead, is u gift w h ich m ay be em ployed in n um erous ; instances fur the p rom otion o f good, and to p rev en t fraud and

im position upon the unw an*.• Cases arc of constan t occurrence, in th e business o f life, w hero , a prev ious know ledge of characte r w ould n o t on lv save m uch

troub le, vexation and p ecun iary loss, h u t w ould often p rev en t• the m ost ru inous consequences. '• _ In o rder to obta in a delineation o f characte r o f any one, notli- . ing m ore is requ ired than to possess a specim en of th e ir h an d ­; w riting , (it m ay be a le tte r, note or any o th e r docum ent.) T h is . m ua t be enclosed in a b lank envelop, tak ing care th a t th e re be: no o ther w riting , e ither upon the envelop or the enclose, le t i t ; be careful!}' sealed up. p u t into an ou te r envelop, and d irec ted 1 t<> D r. C iiA n B , co rner of G reene and S even teen th -stree t.1 I 'h i ............................ ‘ ....................... ‘•Iphia; w hich m ay Le delivered personally , o r s en t thro '

n o t ic i :.Persons desirous oi' becoming ZTIembers of

** T i i e S o c i e t y f o e t h e D i f f u s i o n - o f S f i r i t u a i . K k o v l - f .l d g e , " m ay m ake application f o r th a t purpose t o e i t h e r o f t h e Officers of tiie tv-oiety. or a t tlie office of T h e C h r i s t i a n * S p i r ­i t i * a l i - t .

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INTUITION.Xcw discoveries and principles are constantly un­

folding to the human mind. Before one discovery ceases to excite the wonder and admiration of the public, another demands their attention ; and he who has kept up with the improvements of this ; ginning to be viewed as burdens, and not as bless. I wonder-working age, is not startled at the announce-j ings V What did God create us for among the merit of any new fact, however astounding or un-Aofty mountains, the lesser hills, the sloping lawns, natural it may, at first, appear to be. What the : the fertile vales, the extensive savannahs, the in- liniitations of the powers of the human mind are— ; land seas, the broad rivers, and magnificent water- what vibrating and sympathetic chords bind to-; falls of this mighty continent“: Was it not thatgether all intelligences—both mundane and Spirit- our souls might listen to the inspiring voice of Xa- ual—is a problem yet to he solved. Who dare say ; ture, where she spoke in her sublimest tones ? Was that the great fraternity of man, to a largo extent, ; it not that We might pave the way for a race of is not a u n it ?—that every act and motion of each ; mental giants? Who can say that Jesus [.reached

sinks down into the deepest recesses of man's nature, and causeshis soul to eap.and with love and j 07. I have begun to live ' t r u e a n d o n lv J e h o v a h , u p o n another life : and I fee! another m an; and I can raise m y voice ; a n d th e p r o p h e ts , a n d m ix h im u p w ith s u c h w o r m s in ar.v place and in any society in behalf of the great cternaj I cf th e d’JSt as L u t h e r , C a lv in , W e s le y , a n d S w e tic r .- trnth which is now being developed on the earth, that man is ; •; t i e a r e - - - - -immortal, Spiritnaiisni shall magnetize the world; before i: onward march shall fall every system based npon error, fdau

: shall no longer slay his b ro th e r m an. E a t in the day w hen S p i-

thc wisdom ami (hi! with this day, at pr attention of the rca Ing can In: mad.- tic mane and aifvtio friendship, vlm u ■ the memory of the of this r.y sr'-:ng manifest their inc-:/•rely," and • v for one day, at !• ■:ts he suggestive of m long rememinn't'd den many a heart, will unit'; and barn

We shall b : ilbappuited if the poor of Xew York ance, nevertheless differing from it—by which'we ! doors on every side. Some are larger than others, find not sympathy to greet them on that day, and I are enabled to detect disease in any part of the sys- j but there is nothing to indicate extreme affluence plenty to make them merry. 1 lem, and trace it to the developing cause. Secondly, or indigence. People of all ages are seen every-

Hoping that such may he the case, we give place j ye will give the medical properties of any article, j where engaged in their daily avocations. Their

individual widens and extends its circular undula­tions until it affects the most remote intelligence?

Recently, the Clairvoyant power was developed, and the most credulous were skeptical until over­whelmed bv incontrovertible evidence. And now

in v a in ? t h a t C h r i s t i a n i t y is a f a i l u r e , w h e n its richest promises arc being consummated ?

With an intuitive perception of tlie effect of ope­rating causes, I behold a vast garden extending from the east to the west shore of the continent—

well as the sympathy that we invite tho attention of the public to the develop- j Among the groves of fruit-trees are thousands of iz: i:nriy souls. , ment of an Intuitive Perception, akin to Clairvoy- j strange dwellings. They are circular in form with

ritualism becom es the system of th e w orld, peace on earth and goodw ill to m en w ill be inscribed upon th e ban n e rs w hich shall then fioat in the b reeze : and everv m an and w om an shall be a ' liv ing tem ple devoted to th e w orship o f G o d ; and everv child • shall no lo nge rbe doom ed to so rro w and despair, b u t shall be a ■ loving child, bloom ing in im m orta l b e a r.t r and inspired w ith the S p irit of sym pathy and love. Spiritualism is in its iu fa n c r ; it is a m achine, and A lm igh ty T ru th is th e fu lcrum on w hich it rests. M 'hat shall s tand before i t 5 N o th in g ; it w ill tram p le iu . th e dust ail th a t is bad, and upon the ru in s of society, as it now ; s tands,shall be erected a temple., rising in expand ing g ra n d e u r: . its spire shall reach un to the farthest heaven. T h e F a th e r hath . not been id le : the Spirits from the u p p er w orld, a ttracted by i the love they bear to m an, have left the sh in ing courts of Lea- : ven, and upon the w ings of tlie m orn ing have they com e to you. M y bro thers ar.d m y sisters, th e y are b reak ing to you the joyful tidings of a w orld redeem ed from sin. and e r ro r ; th e y are te lling you w ith a loud voice— and th e ir voices are tu n e d to the m o s t ' exquisite harm ony—th a t the re is a life beyond the grave, w here , the soul shall find th a t re s t for w hich it sighs, and w here the ‘ poor and dow n-trodden slave shall res t from his labors, and in- ; harm ony he know n no more. T hey are po in tin g y ou forw ard, : beckoning you onw ard to th a t b rig h t shore, to th a t celestial ely- ; sium . T h a t desolate and crushed S pirit, w hose hopes have been I b lasted in the bud. shall the re unfold ; ull th e dissonances o f life shall m elt aw ay in th e m ost exquisite m elody. A euphony shall ; go up from all the w orld—a euphony and m elody w hich shall bo ; caught up b y S p irits in h ig h e r and h igher c irc le s ; and all hca- ; ven shall re-echo w ith tho cadences o f celestial harm ony . Y e |

and .'gweaen- horrified by such desecration cf

what is to us most holy and divine. YTc may say, too, that wc arc inevitably compelled to stand somewhat in doubt of the character of that crood- ness which so completely ignores genuine truth.

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A s I m used, in fancy friendless,TVbilo tin? shades of even ing fell, F rom the land w here angels dw ell

Cam e the w hisper. “ L ove is endless, Endless, endless !"’

F rom the land w here A ngels dwell.

F ro m m y though t the vail w as ta k en ; In m y h ea rt I knew th a t Love, F ro m its holy hom e above.

G en tly cam e m y soul to w aken, "Waken, w aken,

F ro m its b ia s e d hom e above.

T h en from all its lead of sorrow, L ifted up. m y m ind w as free;F u ll of dadm -ss, daw ned on me,

Love-inspired, a bu tter m orrow , M orrow, m orro *v,

F u ll of gladnes-. daw ned on me.

H eaveuly dew of peace descended, A m i m y L ord, from IJis D ivine, Com forted th is heart of m in e ;

A ll m y aTief in h»ve was ended, Ended , ended,

Com forted tins h ea rt of mine.

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Love Is endless in m y breast.

N earer «’raw s the b lest E lysian ; I ’erfeot glows tin* holy spell;L ove is endless; all is well.

B righ ter grow s the heavenly vision. Vision, v is io n ;

L ove is endless ; all is w j l .

r.Y j<>ns s a x i :.

Of all an iu se im -n is l’. .r tin: m in d .F r o m logic d o w n to i ishing,

T h e r e i sn ’t m i - t h a t y o u . 'a n Jirnl S o v e r y cli cap as *• wi.-h in"

A v e r y choice d iv er s io n , too,If w e b u t r i g h t ly n se if.

A n d not . as w.- a rc apt. to do,Pe rver t , i t and a h u -e i t.

I w is h —a c o m m o n wish , i n d e e d —M y p u r se was s o m e t h in g fa tt er ,

T h a t 1 m i g h t c h e e r the chi ld o f need , A n d n o t m y p r id e t o i h f t t e r ;

T h a t 1 m i g h f m a k c o j .p re s- ion reel ,A s o n ly gold can m a k e ¡;,

A n d b r e a k tie- t y r a n t ' s rod o f steel ,A s o n ly gold can b rea k it.

I w i s h — t h a t S y m p a t h y a n d L o v e ,A n d e v e ry h u m a n passion

T h a t ha s Us o r ig in ab ove ,"Would co m e a n d k e e p in ik -h ion :

T h a t scorn, a n d •h -a m u-y a n d l l a t e , A n i l e v e r y base e m o t io n ,

"Were bu r ie d l if ty fa th o m s du.-p, B e n e a t h t h e w a v e s o f o-man ;

I w i s h — th a t fri . mis wvro a lw a y s t ru e . A n d m o t i v e s a lw a y s p u r e :

I w i s h tin- good wv jv n o t so iVw,I w ish th e had w e r e ibw, r.

I w ish t h a t parsorm n e ’e r f orgot T o h e r d t h e i r pimis t each ing '- :

l wish that p r n r i i - i n g was not*Ev> iliîIVlYu t t'r.'Hi i. tvnv f.ir.ir !

I wi.-ll— lil i ,t in..'!. v. <irHi mi- i i!A}.; irai't-' I Wnii î ru: W .i n«l rami.

I Wiil i t ha t in tu w fi­r<- ftv.!F ro■m tr<-a.-iiiTV an-i ui'It-T :

I \V i ri ii t h a t r.i. -a'*.! li-ir Vi»WA V.' (.1 u !TIi: it w.n:: 1* - J1 lie" iT U'i fi • r<-Yurri ;

Í w ish t i ia t W iw - ’Avre a 1 w ay .s kiAn. î h u - l a ’.v.'uy.-: !lavurri!

1 w i s h — in E ik— t h a t j "V and m i r th ,A n d e \ v r y go od Id . af,

M a y com e , e rewhih- , t h r o u g h o u t t h e ea r th .T o he th e g lo rio u s [b ad ;

Til! G o d shall e \ v r y c r e a t u r e bless W i t h hiS S U p r e l i i C ' L Me-.-inJ-,

A n d h o p e he lo -t in hnppine.-t,A n d w i s h in g he p o —e -s in g .’

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H Y W I L L I A M < G l . U N . P -RY A N T .

T w o tliU’k-*'Vt-i! i:iai'dri . a t s h u t o f d:ay,S a t w h e r e a r iv. T r oil èd aw ay ."With ca lm , sail l>ro A ri.i a: id rav.'- n h a ir ;A n d o n e wari j.a! e. :Iti ' 1 Un h w e r e li tir.

L r i n g llowtTri. tl.i-'-V SA b r in e i lower s unidB r i n g f a n - t Mo<- lllri OI' nam.- un km .\vnH r l n g hml-lin-- .-[■r.'i Vri fro III WOOd a n d wi ld .T o s t r e w th e hi-- r <•.i i Yu. t h e .-Lih 1.

C lose sof tly , ft .ut I w I d ! • • y e w.'•ep,I l i s t ycri, t i i at <U•:Ù! 1 II tav .-mum 1 slefi J’-A n d to ld hi - har. d-; iu si-' u o f re:I l i a w a x e n ha nd ri fu r.' l¡ is bru;:ltì.

A n d m a k e hi s ^ rav iv]j. •re vi.» fats LidW h e r e srar -lJ ' .w urt­ .-mIv v the ri vu L•l's .Sid.',A n t i b lu e l>ir-K iti tiri r ni i ' t y <i • ritiOf cloudle-ri >k:. •s a-mi minier. , siti a'-

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B u t wo sh a ll m o u r n L 1 • ■ n ir. a nd ruisH i a r e a d y smi!«*. hi ■i r.ùad y kiri-ri,T h e p r a t t l e o f li. ¡si itt le IS w eet f ro w n s an d s .-■red P lira?lóri fsw o e t

A n d g r a v e r look < c« r. •m* a n d lu:o’h.A l i g h t o f heave n in t h a t v.i i in:: e y

boaA l l t h e s e shall h:ant it iis t ill the r tS h a l l a c h e , a m i a.eh- l !1 d Leur.- •will r t.

T h e b o w , t h e La ml .-h; o! jfall ÎO .ItlriJT h e sh in in g arro sie w i th r listA nd all o f L o w th;U .ea r1tu can d a iBo b u t a inetu.-r .tld

N o t thus his nob PÊ. n •-hall diVeliA prisoner m his rriB u t ho w hom no w ■ fa f ro n i m en,In the dark grou nd,

Sitali break the cm- a f . Till of litri it."With nobler in k P 1¡rer sik!•ut.A nd in the et. rn ry :

i.... 1s t a n d /

H ighest a n d new : G "s r i / u t ha mi.

D e a t h P k e f f . i: i : i: i > t o D i s h o n o r .— During the Irish reign of terror, in 1 Toa, :i circumstance occur­red, which in the din's of Sparta would have im­mortalized the heroine ; it is almost unknown—no pen has ever traced the story. We pause not to inquire into the principles that inlluenced her; suf­fice it that she, in common with most of her stamp, beheld the struggle as one in which liberty warred with tyrrany. Her only son had been taken in re­bellion, and was condemned In-martial law to death ; she followed the oliicer on whose word his life de­pended, to the place of execution, and besought him to spare the widow's stay : she knelt in the ag­ony of her soul and clasped his knees, while her eyes with the glare of a maniac fell on the child be­side him. The judge was inexorable, the transgres sor must die. But taking advantage of the occas­ion, he otfered life to the culprit on condition ofdis- covcringthe members of the association with which he was connected. The son wavered ; the mother arose from her humiliating position, and exclaimed: “ My child, if you do, the heaviest curse of your mother shall fall upon you, and the milk of her bos­om shall be poisoned in your veins." He was exe­cuted; the pride ot her soul enabled her to behold his death without a tear: she returned toiler home —the support of her declining years had fallen ; the ties that bound her to life had given away, and the opening of that day that saw her lonely and child­less, Ielt her at rest forever. Her heart had brok­en in the struggle.—Joed,;,:ob tin :,I t,.

beautiful sentence from othing ran be more elo-

B e a u t i i t i ..—Here it the pen of Coleridge, quent, nothing more true :

“ Call not that man wretched, who, whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted or pleasure denied, has. a child for whom he hopes, and on whom lie doats. Poverty may grind him to the dust, obscurity may cast its dark mantle over him, his voice may be un­heeded by those among whom he dwells, and his fancy may be unknown by his neighbors ; even pain may rack his joints, and sleep flee from his pillow, but he has a gem with which he would not part for the wealth defying computation, for fame, tilling a world’s ear, for the highest power, for the sweetest sleep that ever fell on mortal's eve.'’

Is lin s LiTr.itary F a m e? — Oh, destiny! what a capacious weaver of fortunes art thou ! Cervantes fought and suffered, lost an arm in battle, and was sold as a slave for eight years. Then, having made the Spanish name forever illustrious in literature, was left to die by the Spanish nation, poor and friendless, in one of the lanes of his native city. ! Camcens served his country and fought her battles bravely during a period of forty years of a lonely and unhonored life; then wrote a poem that makes the best literature ef Portugal synonymous with his name. Yet lie died in an alms-house, blind, poor, starved, and miserable—one faithful negro slave the only friend by his death-bed, the only mourner by his grave.

H istorical and Practical Treatise on Fas­cinations, Cabalistic ?Iirrors, Suspen­sion^ Compacts, Talism ans, Convul­sions» Possessions. Sorcery, "Witchcraft, Incantations, Sympathetic Correspon­dences, Necromancy, etc.» etc.

Translated from the French of L. A. Cahagnet,A u th o r o f th e “ Celestial Telegraph/*

SEVENTH DIALOGUE.

S P E L L - T H E 0 W X ,O k S o r c e r ie s — W it c h c r a f t s — C o r r u p t io n o r t h e

R e a s o n a n d I n t e l l ig e n c e — P o s s e s s io n s— B l o w s g iv e n a n d r e c e iv e d a t a D is t a n c e — D e c l in e s w h o s e c a u se is u n k n o w n — O ccult m u r d e r — E v il e v e s — P h il t e r s , A c., Arc.

10. “ The parliament of Bordeaux did not recoil before the scandal of consulting theologians in or­der to decide whether a house of that city- was or was not haunted by evil Spirits. On the affirma­tive answer of the theologians, the parliament pro­nounced the annihilation of the lease."

17. In the lawsuit of Ganfridi, La Palud said to Ganfridi, page ISO, “ You cannot deny these four things:

1 st. “ That 3'ou deprived me of my virginity.2d. “ That you have baptized me in the sorcer­

ers’ meeting.lid. “ That you have given me an Agnus Dei,

and a bewitched peach.-1th. “ That you have sent a devil into my body.”“ Father Baillctot put his linger upon Madelcin’s

mouth, and ordered Beelzebub to quit her body.”“ It is to be observed,” says the narrator, “ that

the persons who are possessed never bite the holy fathers by whom they are exorcised."

I will here quote the conclusions of the same author, article “ Arrests.’’ “ The Imperial Cate­chism admits, as every one knows, the existence of sorcerers, and the Supreme Court has pronounced an arrest on witchcraft, the loth March, 1S11. . . . In the last year, three courts have received accusa­tions of sorcery ; and it will probably be enough to quote the decision that took place at Bordeaux, on the 31st of March, ISIS. Superstition seems to take new forms every year, and instead of dying away, the monster everywhere extends its ramifi­cations."

IS. I read the following passage in the “ Infer­nal Dictionary of Colin de Plancy, 1st edition." “ A certain shepherd had prepared a talisman with the hoofs of his cattle, as it is customary to do to preserve the herd in good health. This talisman he usually wore in his pocket; but a neighboring shepherd succeeding in stealing it away, and as he was an enemy of its proprietor, he reduced it to powder, and buried it in an ant hill with a mole, a green frog, and a codfish tail, at the same lime he pronounced the following words : malediction, per­dition, destruction. Then, after nine days he dis­enterred the talisman, and spread it over the spot where the cattle had to pass.’’

19. “ Other shepherds make use of pebbles ta­ken from different churchyards, and accompanying them with certain words, they produced diarrhcc, or other diseases, which destroy as many animals as they ma3' wish."

2 0 . At the word “ Blokuia," the same author sa3'S, that “ In the village of Mohra, in Sweden. sevent3' sorcerers were condemned to death in 1070, under the charge cf having assisted at the sorcerers' assemblies. Tlie3' knew how to milk a cow in the following manner: the sorcerer pushed a knife into the wall, fixed to this a kind of nail, a rope which lie touched as he might have done to milk a cow, and the cattle he had in his mind were at once exhausted of their last drop of milk. They make use of the same means to injure their ene­mies, who sutler dreadfully as long as the rope is thus manipulated. Another practice of theirs was to kill their enemies, simply by striking the air with a wooden knife. On such declarations, sever­al hundred sorcerers were burned in Sweden; and a great number still remained in spite of these ex­ecutions."

J o h n .— The last tacts 3-ou narrated leads us un­consciously into the phenomena of magnetism.

A l b e r t .— It is not without motive that I do so; it is, on the contrary, to enlighten your conscience, and lead it insensibly to the conviction of the truth, that I have selected such facts. It is yen- much to be regretted that Colin de Plane}' did not make a more serious stud}- of the power of that princi­ple. So superior an intellect could not but have derived from this study, better and sounder con­clusions than those which are to be met with in his famous “ Dictionary.” It is still sadder to see him giving to the scientific world such an example of darkening tendencies; and yet such is the fact, for the second edition of this book has been praised by the ver}- persons he had ridiculed in the first one. But it is always so ; when this tyrannical rather than religious school, cannot out-do its ad­versaries b}' occult means, it darkens their reason, destro}-s it, or kills them. You must understand that it is painful for the man who domineers over the stupid societ}' b}- which he is surrounded, to see this glory often unmasked b}' the least of his audi­tors, and reduced to naught. We cannot be sur­prised to see these men having recourse to any means for proving to posterity, that if they- were not the most ignorant—they were, at least, the most criminal of the human species. Colin de Pla­ne}' did not want such an auxiliary to give relief to liis real knowledge. Ilis quotation of the power exercised by certain shepherds, is more true than he thinks. I have myself witnessed a similar fact of substraction upon man; and I cannot doubt that a real communication is thus established, by which the mesmerizer can really excite'in the mes­merized subject every sensation he may choose to make him experience. But it is forbidden to me to go farther on this subject. You may yourself attach a thread to the garments of any body, and pass your fingers several times on this thread ; you will soon be aware of the effects you may obtain. I do not think that any one could bear for ten mi­nutes this hallucinating substraction, without losing one's sentiment. Only there is a particular man­ner of making these passes, which I will show you, although I do not like to teach it publicly. The same effects may be produced at a distance. I will prove by a passage of the “ Portative Encyclopoe- dia,” that the author of this work has been so struck by the phenomena, as to admit thc-ir possi­bility through magnetism. It is not more difficult to deprive cows of their milk, than men of their lives. .But to avoid lengthening this article #too much, 1 shall limit myself to a few quotations ta­ken from the present time. They will prove to you that there is not a minute of our existence in which such manifestations do not take place. They will also prove to you also that they produce incalcula­ble evils, though denied by a skeptic science and ignorant judges. God alone can fathom every heart, and judge it according to its real worth.

21. The following quotation is taken from a book

entitled “ Observations in Occult Magnetism, by Emile Ray, Doctor in Medicine, 1846, pamphlet in j Svo., 14 pages.” The writer seems a very learned | man ; this book is full of good faith and liberal ap-; predations. I shall only extract a few passages Í from this pamphlet, in order to avoid tiresomeness. !

“ It was in March that three strolling mesmer- ¡ izers came and began to magnetize me at a dis-1 tance, and with criminal designs. Inexplicable j phenomena very soon took place, and preoccupied j me very much. Thu3 I heard persons calumniat- j

ing me, but I could not distinguish whom they' were. I experienced serious headaches, became j anxious and perplexed. The whole of my nervous j system began to fall into a state of chronic irrita- jtion, A.-C., Arc............Troubled afterwards by voices jwhich insulted and menaced me, especially during ! the night; I thought these obsessions were j work of a certain family named Leraud, which - j accused of betraying me. I therefore left this, house wheie I had met with all sorts of kindness.”

“ A short time after my change of residence, the wretches who had rendered me so miserable, and who had skillfully calculated the advantages they might derive from my state of loneliness, . . . ap­plied all their resources to act and place me under j their direct control. The fact is, that they succed- j ed in doing so toward the end of the month. I t ! was in these circumstances, that on the point of | passing from wakefulness to sleep, I was powerful- i ly magnetized, and on the following day I was en- j tirely in their power. Thus it was that three; strangers I had never seen before, had taken hold j of my liberty, of my free will and moral powers, j After that moment I could not see but through their eyes, could not hear but through their ears,” &c., Ac.

I shall not speak of the thousand vexations to which this gentle-man had to submit. He finally brought a complaint before the courts, and in 1S42 the case was presented to the House of Commons. Mr. Croissant was reporter in this affair, and spoke very powerfully against the fatal use that might be made of magnetism. But the petition was discard­ed. To strengthen his case, this writer quotes the fact observed by a famous doctor of the faculty of Paris, Dr. Recarmier. The fact is as follows :

“ A peasant, apparently healthy, began to expe­rience all on a sudden, a sleeplessness to which he had never been subject until then. At a precise hour every night, he heard a terrible noise of caul­drons, Ac. "When he was already asleep, this noise awoke him ; when not yet asleep, lie could not close his eyes for the remainder of the night. This man could not imagine where so unpleasant and fatiguing a noise came from. For some time he thought he was afflicted by a disease of the ear, or by a brain intermittent fever. Hearing one day that the famous Doctor Recarmier had come to pay a visit in the neighborhood, he made up his mind j to consult the Parisian doctor about the cause of his infirmity. As a skillful and experienced prac­titioner, the illustrious physician addressed him several questions, and yet could not obtain any answer that might throw light upon the nature or cause of the affection. But in this difficulty itself, he found a new motive to examine seriously and attentively the case ; he therefore waited until the noise should strike the patient’s car, which happen­ed as usual. But the patient alone perceived the noise, and none of the persons who stood by his side could catch the least sound. All these people thought, therefore, and not without some reason, that the wretch was the victim of hallucination, and perhaps of a mental disorder. But new ques­tions having been addressed by the physician, the patient’s answers threw some light on the subject, and he recovered his tranquillity. A certain black­smith, living in a village rather distant from the patient, was amusing himself with tormenting the latter by drumming upon a copper cauldron every night at the same hour; although this noise could not be heard by any one who was not under his influence, the unfortunate peasant heard it as clear­ly as if it had been made in his own room. The doctor having been informed of the enmity that existed between these two men, and guessing the malicious influence of the one upon the other, went to the blacksmith, frightened him, obtained the confession of the magnetic actions which thus tor­mented the peasant, and menaced the mesmerizer with so severe a punishment if he continued, that the wretch swore he would act no more upon his vic­tim. The fact is, that since this movement, the peasant was left tranquil, and never heard any noise."

23. To follow my plan and observe faithfully the order of dates, I shall now quote an article of M. Ricard's. I extract it from his “ Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Amimal Magnetism,” vol. 8 .

“ A faculty I have not yet spoken of,” says the writer, “ is that some clairvoyants have to injure certain persons, without the knowledge or will of their mesmerizers. Yret this property is common to almost all subjects, although there are many who never make use of it. Others are so wicked as to try to injure their own mesmerizers, however kind they may have always been. I often meet with such somnámbulos ; but I never failed to check their evil propensities, and they have often had to repent For that I thunderstruck them, (if I can use this expression,) when they tried to resist me. They had thus to bear all the suffering they tried to throw upon me. I confess that, in such cases,I never feared to be too severe. I think it is bet­ter to expose the subject to all the sad consequen­ces of his bad conduct, than to permit the develop­ment of such a tendency. . . . By speaking of the subjects who are excited to do evil, I am lead to reveal the baleful influence which is exercised by certain persons known under the name of sorcer­ers. These people are, in fact, nothing more than magnetizers; although they usually do not know even the name of magnetism. But their power is nevertheless too often terrible.”

“ Coarse and uneducated people, especially those i of the country, are not therefore so absurd in their ! notions as is often thought by persons of refined ! education. They are eapecially not far from the ; truth, when they dread the influence of certain j persons either upon themselves or their children. I The result of this influence they call a spell-thrown. | Hence arise many customs, like that of taking a pa-1 tient to a sorcerer, or to the curate of the parish, j These poor people are not so devoid of good j sense as they are represented to be.” j

24. I borrow the following article from the “ Por-1tative Cyclopaedia,” 1S42, page 135 : “ Sorceries or witchcrafts became so extremely frequent in the sixteenth century, that they excited very much the interest of the magistrates. . . . There were seven different kinds of witchcrafts............Avery singu­lar fact is, that the most frequent of these sorceries —the piercing of a wax doll’s heart—has been met with among the savages of North America. This fact, which wc are the first to mention, deserves serious attention : for it is evidently connected with the phenomena of animal magnetism. This magic art is really nothing but a powerful concentration of the entire person’s mind upon that of another upoD whom the former intends generally to take

revenge. The famous Trois-Echelles, who made so much noise in the time of Charles IX., was only a spell-thrown. Xo one can read the valuable book of M. Remaud without being convinced that the magical process of spell-thrown known to the most ancient of nations. Did not, in fact, the enemies of the prophet attempt to kill him by such a process?”

25. We have now arrived at the epoch wherein Lebel, the lancer, was tried by a military council under the charge of swindling a family called Tourncmilliere, of whom I have already spoken, on the occasion of the animal found ill Rev. Pcrralid's house. I thought I should render this trial clearer by collecting all its phases together, and supplying the details of Lcbel's supposed cheating. The facts are as follows: After having rid the Tcurnc- millieres of the obsession by which they were tor­mented, and restored every one to health and peace, Lebel fell in love with the young lady of the

1 'e, and obtained from her father the money he w-“ to put a man in his plr.ee in the regiment. But ’bel did not fulfil his engagement, and in­stead paying a man to take his place, he proba­bly spe the money with his comrades. The fact is, that charge of false pretences was brought before his superiors. But instead of being unfa­vorable to .Lebel, the family’s evidence was quite in his favor. Y’et, he was at first condemned; but having brought the cause before a new court, the first judgment was reduced to nought. It is all I could know of this affair. I thought it would be useless to report in full the particulars of the ex­amination, but they are perfectly well abstracted in the following quotation taken from “ The Court Gazette,” of the 20th of August, 1843, and follow­ing. I must only warn you against the smarter tone of that paper, which cannot, of course, accept such absurdities. But you will perhaps have anoth­er opinion about this affair.

To be continued.

had the curiosity to attend, as the lion of the eve­ning was to be Martin Farquhar Tupper.

This gentleman did not make his appearance, but j there was quite an interesting company of great authors, "Washington notables, and other celebrities ;

; whose claim to admission there was founded on : great deeds performed, elsewhere than “ on

means of secreting and purifying our juices, to ena­ble them to increase their activity and exertion ? By neglecting the critical period, they destroy the whole crisis of so much importance ; and, though they go to bed towards morning, cannot certainly obtain^ on that account, the full benefit of sleep, as the critical period is past. They will never have a

’Change.” perfect, but an imperfect crisis; and what thatAs all the remaining claimants at this end of the ] means, is well known to physicians. Their bodies

! line, have been thoroughly described and overhaul-! also will never he completely purified. How clear- j ed, in a great number of novels and pulpit discours- j ly is this proved by the infirmities, rheumatic pains, j es, we will make short work with them. Suffice it and swollen feet, the unavoidable consequences of ! to say, that their claim to be considered our best j such lucubration.I society (and they, By the way, are the set who have ! Besides, the eyes suffer more by this custom ; tor ! always had the wane awarded them by tha multi- j one labors, then, the whole Summer through with : tudej—is founded on the fact that they have plenty ; candle-light, which is not necessary for those why 1 of monev, and “ go it blind" into everything tiiat is ; employ the morning.calculated to please the senses. They put no re- . And, lastly, those who spend the night in labor, ftrictions on themselves with regard to balls, tbea-. and the morning in sleep, lose that time which is

I tres, watering places, card-piayinu, and all r ,n „ r- the most bcauldul and the best fitted for labor.| table dissiuations. *" .After every sleep we are renovated in the properest! It is evident, from this brief review of the claims sense ol the wore!; wc are, in the morning, always ! of the various" classes and sets existing in Xew taller than at night; we have then more pliability,; York city, who claim the pre-eminence, that it is powers, and juices ; in a w,.rd more of the charac- | not the easiest thine: in the world fur a Xew Y orker teristics of youth ; -a uhc, at night, our bodies are ■ to know when he is in vem/ cood company. drier and more exnausted, and tiie properties of old

" " ’ age then prevail. One, therefore, may considereach day as a sketch, in miniature, of human life, in which the morning represents youth ; noon, man­hood ; and evening, old age.—Who would not then employ the youthful part of each day for labor, rather than begin his work in the evening, the per­iod of old age and debility? In the morning, all na­ture appears freshest and most engaging; the mind at that period is also clearest, and possesses most strength and energy. It is not, as at night, worn out, and rendered unequal, by the multifarious im­pressions of the day, by business and fatigue, it is

S L E E P .[From Hufelnnd’s ‘ Art of Prolonging Life,’re­

cently published by Ticknor, Reed and Fields, we copy the following chapter on sleep:—]

I have already said that sleep is one of the wis­est regulations of Nature, to check and moderate, at fixed periods, the incessant and impetuous stream of vital consumption.—It forms, as it were, stations for our physical and moral existence ; and we there­by obtain the happiness of being daily re-born, and

O D E B E S T S O C IE T Y .

BY S. LEAVITT.

There are various cliques among the upper cir­cles of Xew York Society, each of which consider themselves entitled to the above appellation. Be it our pleasant task to dissect, in jovial mood, the great carcass of upper-tendom, in order to display the various merits and demerits, of the numerous claimants to the honor of being esteemed the high­est class in the community.

Pious b est S ociety .— It would ast n~ t - r u people, to learn what a strange mixture ol Bod and Mammon worship, some of those upper circles <ns- play, which lay claim to the possession ol pietv.— Mention shall first, however, be made, ot those who really seem to possess a considerable amount of it.

It is difficult to decide as to where j o c - o - h L.-i S o ­c i e t y finds its dividing line, between itseh and the middle classes. One might however, suppose tins line to be somewhere near the position ol many wealthy people, who attend such cnurelies as Henry Ward Beecher’s. As a class, the wealthiest ’portions of such congregations may be thus described. They can hardly be called Mammom worshippers, o r people of the world—for their leaning seems to be decid.dly toward attending to the things of the world to come! Having plenty of this world's goods, they nevertheless do not generally indulge in much extravagance, in the way of costly furni­ture or attire. Though fond of society, they do not give large parties. The theatre and the ball­room are tabooed among them. They spend their time in a pretty rational way during the winter, in attending religious, anti-slavery and- temperance meetings ; in visiting the various untabooed places of amusement; and in that endless variety of home employment which the Rc-v. JL itm i-rca u e il so elo­quently recommends to them. In .summer, they seldom visit the fashionable watering places.— Those who have country seats, s i t quietly in them through the hot seasons. Those who* have nut. take board with some farmer wlio chances to be located in a pleasant nook. Their claim to being “ our best society”, is founded on the fact that, al­though they do not make such a grand display as some other cliques— they go e x a c t l y a * j a r with re­spect to literary and artistic acquirements; ele­gance of dress, manners and furniture; and ming­ling in the fashionable world—as it is proper ami right for true Christians to do. “ So ¡nought it he!"

The class next above these, to which we would now draw attention, is composed of such as belong to fashionable Presbyterian churches, with a m i./ ture of Episcopalians. The religious element is not quite so conspicuous in the character of this e'.asj. They also keep up quite “ a fair show in the flesh." They are quite regular in their attendance in the beautiful gothic church, (for we have now reached the gothic s tra ta of churches.) They qnile frequen­tly attend the weekly prayer meeting and lecture : especially when “ the dear man"is an unusuallv “ lair spoken literary gentleman,” not deficient in “ melodious wind and soft-sawder.” But this class, while they look upon the theatre as the road to de­struction, have not a very heartfelt abhorrence for things of that sort They can be pretty easily per­suaded to go to Xiblo's, when “ it’s only a perfor­mance of the Ravels": and although they don't go to the Opera, because “ their religious feelings are such”—they are really dying to go ; and wonder what enormous reward their Heavenly Father will give them—for thus relinquishing the vanities of the world for the kingdom of heaven's sake. Thev are, however, pretty well solaced for this loss, bv the amount of pious horror which thev enjov, in contemplating the downward course of those'that do go. But if there is anything on the carpet in the way of opera singing which passes under another name—you may be sure they are on hand : and on that occasion show plainly enough by their famili­arity with them, that they are of the same feath­er as those “ poor sinners,” of whose eternal dam­nation they are so sure.

This class most plainly distinguish themselves from the one first noticed, by their unhesitating expenditure for costly afire, houses, furniture, carriages, liveries, etc. In this respect they are like the Quaker, who, after he had allowed an an­tagonist to give him a beating, pulled off his coat and went in to him saying—“ The Lord's had his dues, now I'll have mine!”

The class of claimants for the name of “ Our Best_ Society,” which next claims our notice, has for its most striking feature, the love of what the Germans call “ msthetic t e a o r , in plainer lan­guage, they are pious literary people. Thc-y stand on the dividing line between those of upper-tendom and o f the literary world, who make no pretension to piety, and that clique of pietists of whom wc last spoke. These people, who arc well represented bv a certain learned professor, who lives not far from YYashington Park, are very fond of giving and eo- ing to a sort of literary and musical soiree’s or recep­tions, where those classes meet one another, which, as has been said, they serve to connect.

In these soirees, those pious young ladies who are in the habit of teaching Sabbath scliool, an d at­tending most faithfully to all the duties incumbent on “ those who trust they have been born again " —meet and enjoy exceedingly the society of a mul­titude of foreign musical stars and domestic literati, who are the very men most prone to all sorts of dis­sipation, and to tlie frequenting of places that these pious ladies think of with a shudder, and whose souls they are in duty bound to consider as abso­lutely lost as that of Satan himself.

In-nous B est S ociety .

YYe have now reached a point where we will no longer be annoyed by any false pretences to piety. That is to say, though most of those now to be spo­ken of are well content to show themselves occasion­ally inside of a fashionable church—they do not lay themselves out at all to be pious. The clique that seems most naturally to claim our attention next, as aspirants to the honor of being called the highest class of our society ; are a set of literati, who, not being generally very wealthy, affect to despise that disposition which is so general, to rate men accord­ing in their wealth.

These also have their soiree»; one of which we once

Dilation, into a new and refreshed life. "Without j crs. This is the period of new mental creation, of this continual change, this incessant renovation, j their conceptions and exalted ideas. Never does

j how wretched and insipid would our life be ; and | man enjoy the sensation of his own existence so : how depressed our mental as well as physical sen-: purely and in so great perfection as in a beautiful ■sation!—The greatest philosopher of the present j morning. He who neglects this period, neglects ; age says, therefore, with justice— Tahe fr o m m an | the youth of his life.\hoj,c and slceji, and he will be the most wretched i --------- o----------being on earth. I A B l in d G i r l F e e l i n g r o u a S unbeam.—The

| How unwisely, then, do those act who imagine i sun has just burst out through the clouds, and a ■ that by taking as little sleep as possible they pro-; heavy golden beam conies in at our window. How

............................... ' bright and cheerful! It comes in so silently, yet itspeaits to the heart. 'Thank a kind God for sun­shine ! Ages on ages it has illumined andgladden-

long their existence. They obtain their end neither i:i in ft/tsi'■<: nor extensive 7ijc. They will, indeed, spend mere hours with their eyes open ; but they

"" never enjoy life in the proper sense of tirewill ed a world, yetwe hardly think of the great foun­tain of light and beauty.

Writing of sunshine brings to mind a touching incident which came under our observation as we were travelling in the cars. Opposite us were seat-

family of four, consisting of a man and his and two children—a boy ard a girl—twins,

and totally blind. Two lovelier children we never much, nothing wastes us | saw. The famih were from the -South. A south­

ern sun had tinged each cheek a rich olive complex­ion, relieved by a lieahid'u! bloom uj c® the children’s countenances. The hoy was lightly Luiiit, had finely chiselled features, ami iiairofa dark brown, cluster­ing in rich curls around his neck. The girl was

hat is useless and pernicious.—It is, as it were, a i vet more slender, as fragile as the leaf, and of the dailv crisis, during which all secretions are perform- | most spiritualized beauty, ller habit was dark, ed in the greatest trannuiilitv, and with the utmost: Her hair was as black as night, its heavy, glossy perlection. Continued watching unites all the pro-, tresses confined by a golden hand which glittered jierties destructive of life ; incessant wasting of the bright!}' upon the dark background. They both vu.'o power and of the organs, acceleration of con- j seemed happy, conversing with an intelligence be- smiiptic.n, and prevention of restoration. . yond their years.

Ai e must not, however, on this account, believe - The train stopped for a moment upon the route, that too long continued sleep is one of the best The windows were all raised, anti the children lean- means for preserving life. Long sleep accumlates ; ing out as il to see. The little girl heaved a long too great an abundance of pernicious juices, makes : sigh and leaned back in the seat, exclaiming, “ Oh,

............................ .............. mother' 1 cannot see any tiling.” A tear trembled

word, nor that freshness and energy of mind which are the certain consequences of sound and suffi­cient sleep, and which stamp a like character on all our undertakings and actions. i

But sufficient sleep is necessary, not only for i ed ; intensive life, but also for extensive, in regard ! wife to its support and duration. Nothing acceler­ates consumption _so much before the time and renders us old, as a want of it. The physical effects of sleep are, that it retards aii the vital movements, collects the vital ¡lower, and restores what has been lost in the course of the dav: and tiiat it separates from us

| the organs too flaccid and unfit for use, and in tins ' maimer can shorten life also. In a word, no one i should, sleep less than six, nor more than eight | hours. Tiiis may be established as a general rule.

To those who wish to enjov sound and peaceful ; repose, ami to obtain the whole end of sleep, I rec- omtncnd the following observations :—

1st. 'The place where one sleeps must be quiet and obscure. The less our senses are acted upon

; by external impressions, the more perfect! v can the

in her eye, and her voice was so sad and low that it went to the heart of every passenger who heard the beautiful but unfortunate creature. “ Neither can I see, Beil ; but I know every thing is beauti­ful," said her brother, as the light winds lifted the thin locks upon his cheek. “ You’re beautiful, arc you not, Bell ?"

Just then a flood of .sunshine gushed from the white clouds in the \ \ est like a flash, and fell full

sou! rest. One may see from this how improper , and warm upon the cheek of the sad girl, and upon I the custom is of having a candle burning m one s ' ’ ’ ' ' 'bed-chamber during the night.

2 d. People ought always to retied mat their bed-chamber is a place in which thev pass a great pan of their lives; at least, they do not remain in any ¡'lace so long in the same situation. 11 is ol the utmost importance, therefore, mat tins ¡dace s’m>u!u contain pure, sound air. A sleerc.ng apart­ment must, consequently, be rooinv and high : neith­er inhabited nor heated during the dav: and the windows ought always to be kept open, except m tile night time.

3 d . I.liie s h o u ld e a t li t t le , a n d omy c m d food lo r .-u p p e r , a n d a lw a y s s o m e h o u r s b e fo re g o in g to b e d . ' " "

•Hii. Vi hen a-bed, one should lie not in u forced or Constrained posture, but almost horizontally; the head excepted, which ought to be a little raised.

the tear in her eve. Quick as thought she put up her hand, and attempted to grasp the golden pen­cils that were playing through her thick braids up­on her neck and cheek. Eagerly she shut her hand upon Vacancy, and a shallow fell upon her counte­nance as she tailed to touch the sunshine. “ Motll- ei, 1 CaoiKu led it ; has it lied out m" ti;e window?”

!\ list. Beil; :-a:d la-r brother. “ The sunshine Ahnion. It toutned nqv rheeig Icm. I cannot touch that. I he nioduci e eyes swam in tears, as did those e*i iit.ii it all m the cat. A Mind girl feeling lor a sunbeam upon her cheek 1 That " beam was rauiam wun ijeainy, yet .-he could mu. behold it. It gleamed upon a world, hut all was ¡fight to her. Its silver bursting m the least, or its golden fading in the A\ est, lolloved as da}' juiioved day, hut it burst not upon her vision, nor faded at decline of day. It glowed in the sky; noon forest, and field, and'ilow-

Xothing is more prejudicial than to lie in lied half- e r ; and lake and river ; hut not in the blue orbs of sitting. The body than forms an angle; circula- the sightless girl.tion in the stomach is checked, and the -¡line is al­ways very much compressed. By this custom, one of the principal ends of sleep, a free and uninter­rupted circulation of the blood, is defeated; and, in

By a singular coincidence, the boy tried to feel the breeze that came cool upon the cheek as the cars spied swiftly on. The breeze swept over the yellow fields, and meadows, and still waters, and

boy ; but itsinfancy and youth, deformity and crookedness are ’ coquetted with the locks of the blind often its consequences. ; footsteps were unseen by him.

5tli. All the cares and burden of the day must be ! AYc involuntarily thanked God that we could look laid aside with one's clothes ; none of them must be j upon the beautiful world He has made, and dropped carried to bed with us; and in this respect, one bv ■' a tear for the hapless children who must grope their custom, may obtain very great power over their way to the grave through a long night.*" But the

: thoughts. I am acquainted with no practice more : light of bliss will burst upon them 1 destructive than tiiat of studying in bed, and of; Eonc shall we remember the two blind children.reading till one falls asleep. "By these means the ; ----------<•----------

j soul is put into too great activity, at a period when j C u r io u s P r e d ic t io n .—Mrs. Swisshelm furnishes i everything conspires to allow it perfect rest; and i t : the following:; is natural that the ideas thus excited, should wan-: Six years ago we heard Rev. Dr. Wilson, then of: der and float through the brain during the whole ! Allegheny City, and Professor of Theology in the night. It is not enough to sleep physically; man : Reformed Presbyterian Church, sav that in less

: must sleep also spiritually. Such a disturbed 1 Plan ten years a war would break out in Europe sleep is as insufficient as its opposite—that is, when : between Russia and tiie Western Powers—a war

: our sp:ntual part sleeps, but not our corporeal; ! which would be one of the most terrible ever re­such, for example, as sleep in a jolting carriage on a j corded in the annals of history, and which by its journey. ; wholesale slaughters would carry the name of Chris­: Gth. One circumstance, in particular, I must not; tendom with a thrill of wonder to the most remote; here omit to mention. Many believe that it is en-j and barbarous nations, awaken a curiosity about ; tirely the same if one sleeps these seven hours eith-: civilization that would prepare the way for the in­I er in the day or the night time. People give them- \ troduction of the Bible and Christianity into thoes selves up, therefore, at night, as long as they think i benighted lands, whose people would be taught bv proper, either to study or pleasure, and imagine ; the rumors of this war, to respect and fear the arts that they ¿»cep in tiie forenoon, those hours which • af civilization. 'Ibis declaration was made again they sat up after midnight.—But I must request; and again in public from the pulpit, and was the re- every one, who regards his health, to beware of so ! suit of a life-time stud}' of the prophecies, of the seducing an error. It is certainly not the same, ; Bible. The war, than unthought of, is now begun, whether one sleeps seven hours by day or by night; I and the aged preacher always said the Western and two hours sound sleep before midnight arc of Powers would lie victorious; that the teeth of the more benefit to the body than four hours in the great Bear would be for ever broken, and with themday. My reasons are as follows :— j the ¡lowers of the pope. We heard this same man

That period oftwentv-four hours, formed bv the ! Prcfbal fbe Mexican war }'ears before it begun, and regular revolution of our earth, in which all the in- i tcP Bie great tire of 45 in Pittsburgh ; and we in­habitants partake, is particularly distinguished in the physical economy of man. This regular period is apparent in all diseases; and all the other small

; periods, so wonderful in our physical history, are | by it in reality determined. It is, as it were, the i unity of our natural chronology.—Now, it is ob­; served, that the more the end of these periods coin

great tire o f ’45 in Pittsburgh ; and we in­cline to think his gift of second sight was more re­liable than that ot the maker of this old statue, and that the Russians will he masters of Constantino­ple. From the first word about proposed hostili­ties between Russia and Turkey, we have been in the habit of telling our friends to buy their flour, for it would be fifteen or twenty dollars per barrel

cides with the conclusion of the day, the more is | iJe*°r.° ^ 'vou'd be five again, and so we still think ; the pulsation accelerated ;—and a feverish state is ! lC 'vl,! ,J.C'> b'r we are of opinion our preacher I produced, or the so-called evening fever, to which j r'1!' Into >be prophecies already written. He ever}' man is subject. The accession of new clivle i this ould take place—would lie very terrible to the blood may in all probability contribute some- • Rent,'ab ami that it y. as the last war before the thing towards this fever, though it is not the only ; ’'Rber.-al peace of the Millennium.

; cause ; for we find it in sick people, who have neitli- j --------- « - ..........: er eat nor drank. It is more owing, without doubt, A W oman' s M a g n a n im it y_V miller’s do" broketo the absence of the sun, and to that revolution in his chain ; the miller ordered *the maid servant to the atmosphere which is connected with it. This | tic him up again. She was attacked and bitten by

; er cuing fever is the reason why nervous people find the dog. On hearing her cries, the miTer and his . tneniselyes more ht lor labor during the night than | people ran to her assistance “ Keen off" said she during the day. To become active, they must have j shutting the yard door, “ the do- is mad. I am id-’ an artificial stimulus; and the evening fever sup-1 ready bitten, and must-chain“lfim alone." Xot- p..cs the p-aceofwinc. But one may easily ¡.er- j withstanding his l.itimr, she did not let him -o~but

; CCAe that lhlj !-s an unnatural state; and the conse- chained him up, and* retired to her cham l/r ’and : quences are tnc same as those of every simple fever with the blest resignation, prepared to die Svmn- | —lassitude, sleep, and a crisis, by the perspiration toms of hydrophobia soon broke out- and she* died : vine.i ta,vcs place during that sleep. It may with I m a few d'ays. The dog was killed without doin'- . propriety, therefore, be said, that all men every night j further mischief.—IIon,\ Journal. °■ bave a critical perspiration, more perceptible in i ; some and less so in others, by which whatever use iless ' ‘ ‘ ‘ 'our

; secreted ! toand the proper period of it is when the fever has attained to its highest degree, that is, the period when the_ sun is in the nadir, consequently, mid­night. hat do those, then, who disobey this voice of Nature which calls for rest at the above period and who employ this fever, which should be thè

ime ana less so in others, by which whatever use-1 The love of admiration3= or pernicious ¡.articles have been imbibed by ; the heart of many a lovely worn k b°d,'t 'S’/ r cre:iH'd ill them during the day, are ; its worst form, i t insi.mates il creted and removed I his daily crisis is necessary ; nature, and either makes the vu lTZ or public notoriety.

Tiie lote oí admiration is the canker upon~ "...... ' ' an. It is vanity in

self into the moral ,coman an object of

. . When her beau­ty is gone, the absence of the stimulant to her weakened nature leaves her irritable and disappoint­ed. Beauty is a dangerous inheritance, and requires a special duty from the owner of it. The destiny of a beautiful woman is nobler than to be stared at by a vulgar crowd, or flattered by heartless society.

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