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GOD ABOVE NATURE.B T G E O B Q E S T E A R N S .

I t is a gross erro r to confound the C reator with his Creation. Y e t i t is common to speak o f “ the laws o f N a tu re ,” w ithout referring to a higher o rig in ; and the language o f m any in conversation often betrays an inconsiderate deification o f m at­te r. Even in books, “ the God o f N a tu re” figures in reason ing so equivocal as makes i t uncertain now whether the visible o r supernal is m eant, and then w hether the unseen is more than a shadow o f the seen. I t becomes necessary therefore to recollect, for logical purposes i f for no other, th a t Cause and Effect are distinct principles, and th a t N a tu re is no p a r t o f God. A s attraction is bu t the lever o f nominal water-power, and heat th a t o f so-called steam-power, both being grasped and instrum entally wielded by the m aterial hand o f supernat­ural Causation, so Reason distinguishes the p a ten t from the latent everywhere, as apparen t and real, passive and active, creature and C reator. A nd y e t the tw ain are indissolubly conjoined, so tha t the overt implies the occult. ■ The creature is of the C reator, and the C reator graduates such in the ac t o f Creation. N atu re could not be without its A uthor, neither were it possible for God to ex ist w ithout perform ing his appro­priate w ork ; for, like every finite en tity , inasmuch as he oan, he m ost obey the positive impulses o f his essentia, a ttributes. If, therefore, we could penetrate the D ivine M ind, we m ight fbreknow and predict all th a t he will do in the fu ture o f e te r­nity. On the other hand, could we but fu lly explore the past •works o f God, i t would be easy from th a t to infer the outline of his character. To M an, the former o f these conditions is impossible. The la tte r we possess in part, and in so far as enables us to discern the general attributes, i f not the personal features, o f our Heavenly F ather.

“ E very tree is known by its own fru it,” and so the .worker by bis work. Since the senses are the only means by which the soul in the present sphere recognizes m atter and its proper­ties, and oar most effective knowledge arises from our experi­ence in this direction, there appears to be no other method by which we can positively find ou t God or he can communicate w ith us. O f h is being prim arily we know n o th in g ; because the plane of. our development determ ines our m entality— we are immersed in the medium o f effects. H ow can the blind earth-worm know of lig h t? In some fu ture sphere o f our in ­term inable development, we m ay find ourselves in the plane o f celestial causation, ( I do not affirm so much,) and then m ay we see our F a th e r face to fa c e ; bu t a t present we know him only by his works. N atu re is the standing proof, and to us th e only proof, th a t G od is. H ere is the tru e Revelation. T urn ing from this, men ignore the ir M aker. Therefore the m ost thorough natu ra list, th a t is the rationalist, is the wisest theologian.

N atu re reveals G o d ; and in m aking this assertion, I reason as I do o f the works o f men. W hen I read a book, I always a ttach to the au thor those degrees and qualities o f ta len t which I th ink m ust have been employed in composing it. W hen I m eet w ith a fine painting, though I have never seen the person who executed it, y e t I feel in troduced to an artis t whose ge­nius I see displayed in the tone and finish and suggestiveness o f the picture. Do I err in applying the same rule to the works o f G od? W hen, aided by th e form er researches o f Copernicus, and the K eplers and H erschels o f la te r times, I look into the mechanism o f the Universe, m easure the distan­ces o f certain planets and stars, ascertain the ir m agnitudes and m arvel a t th e ir velocities o f motion— with a m oderate proficiency in astronom ical science, is i t logical to speak o f Ike Poioer o f God ? W hen I examine the construction o f an eye. and study its adaptations to the reflective and refractive agen­cies o f light, as well as its internal relations to the varied or­gans o f m ind and the rem oter in tents of thought and emotion, is i t any p a rt o f hum an intelligence to attribu te Wisdom to our M aker ? A nd had I the intellective capacity to grasp the fu ll m eaning of the g rea t complex arrangem ent which we call N ature , the m erest fraction o f which has as ye t come within tbe scope o f human conception; and should I , w ith the te le­scope o f Reason, descry the fa r u ltim ate o f Creation, in the expanded life and w axing jo y o f all th a t breathe, would i t be ju s t and rational to ascribe Goodness to the C reator of Heaven ?

I th ink the notion o f D eity ta llies ever with the concep­tion o f w hat he has wrought.

The ignorant gazer on an evening sky,Admires the folds of darkness, and the sparks Of the spent day which light the world to bed,I f he have heard, he laughs to scorn the tale That stars are suns, and tha t the heavy Earth

Hangs upon nothing. Talk to such a man About the Solar System; tell him what’s The fulcrum of Creation—what the tie Which holds revolving spheres in equipoise;Mind him of the velocity of light,

■ Or think to teach him what old mysteries

The m odern lens and prism dissipate; .“ P shaw !” he answ ers; “ away with your moonshine;

W ho’s been to see if such s tran g e lore be tru e ? ”Now change the topic,— draw him out on God,A nd M an’s celestial home; and m alk how m uch H is worship of Divine resembles fear Of superstition’s Devil. •

He dotes on .A leaf torn ou t o f an old m anuscrip t,

/ On which ’tis w rit (by whom nobody knows,)\^T hat God m ade 'all th a t is in six short days;

"Since when he has done nothing bu t repent O f w hat he w rought in haste. The m ischief was In m aking Adam good as Gabriel, ~B u t no t so wise; then Eve a very witch

1 O f beauty w ithout w it; and last— no, first,An ugly snake, the shrewdest of the three.So ru n s the tale to E den’s sad finale:Forbidden fru it was proffered by the b ru te ,W hich wheedled Eve he r Adam to deceive,W hereat both fell, “ and so came Death and Hell A nd all our woe,” as a ll the W orld m ust know.

Such nonsense Ignoram us pu ts for T ru th , f o r Revelation— Bible— Holy W rit;A nd to his faith adds a fool’s argum ent For sin on E arth and Satan everywhere.So m an will e rr, till Reason teaches him

“ To look through N ature up to N a tu re ’s God.”

F or wiser heads the learned P a u l confessed,“ W ho know in p a r t, bu t prophesy in p a r t ; ”

And Pope for M an, ’Tis but a p a r t we see”O f God’s stupendous work. “ A m ighty maze,B u t not w ithout a p la n ,” alm ost im ports The reach of science and philosophy.No wonder, then , th a t ignorance m akes fa ith A v irtue , and oft worships but the maze.Thus m iracle becomes the bigot’s god,A nd Reason h is Apollyon. Hence there are Who dare not look a t T ru th ; it h u rts their eyes,As day ligh t does those of the n igh tly owl.Hence the Church lives and moves in m ystery,And all her nurslings worship in the dark.So browsing woodchucks choose the dullest w eather I m arvel not th a t such odd w ights can see N othing of God iu N ature.

B u t there are,U nw arped by prejudice, in head or h e a r t .U n tau g h t to cherish a religious lie,Who wisely ponder on the flowers o f E a rth A nd sta rs of Heaven, as oraclcs of God. *They see, w ith more than eyes o f poesy,

“ A Soul in a ll th ings,’* whose all-quickening Love “ W arm s in the Sun , refreshes in the breeze,

Glows in th e s ta rs and blossoms in the trees;Lives in a ll life, extends through all extent,Spreads undivided, operates unspen t.”

To such, N a tu re is the genuine Book o f D ivine R evelation, wherein God translates to hum an language the archives of his E terna l Thought, H ere is the fountain o f Insp iration and source o f hum an knowledge. A ll the sciences are mere dippings from this fo u n ta in ; and all the varied useful lore en- volumed in the libraries o f ancient and modern times, consists o f the copyings men have made from this magazine o f God’s Own W rit. H o ! ye lovers o f T ruth , ye saints sincere, souls long fed on faith who feel your leanness and long for knowl­edge, come to this fountain o f W isdom. A w ay with your old m ythologies, and mysteries, and creeds, and dogm as; leave all the reputed oracles o f Heathendom and Christendom— the Zend A vesta, V eda, Shaster, K oran , B ible— leave all the scriptures o f superstitious men, and come to the B ible ot R easo n ; s tu d y God’s works, and be wise.

T h e R e la t io n o f th e S e x e s .S trange, and passing strange, th a t the relation between th e

two sexes, the passion o f love, in short, should not be taken into deeper consideration by our teachers and our legislators. P eople educate and legislate as i f there was no such thing in the world ; bu t ask the priest, ask the physician— let them re­veal the am ount of moral and physical results from th is one cause. M ust lo re be always discussed in blank verse, as i f it were a th ing to be played in tragedies or sung in songs— a subject for p re tty poems and wicked novels, and had nothing to do w ith the prosaic current o f our everyday existence, our moral welfare ? M ust love be ever treated w ith profaneness, as a m ere illusion 7 or with coarseness, as a mere im pulse? or w ith fear, as a mere disease ? or with shame, as a mere weak­ness ? or w ith levity as a mere accident ? W hereas i t is a g rea t mystery, and a g rea t necessity, lying a t the foundation ot human existence, m orality, and happiness— mysterious, universal, inevitable as death. W h y then should love be trea ted less seriously than death 7 I t is as serious a thing.— M rs. Jameson.

“ I t is always best,” says an old w riter, “ to ascertain who is in erro r before pronouncing judgm ent.” W e th ink so too, bu t only ’tis not y e t quite so fashionable about these times as we should like to see it.

Experience is the most eloquent of preachers, but she never has a large congregation.

M IN IS T E R IN G - S P I R IT S .B Y B E V . W M . W H I T T A K E R .

W e copy the following artic le from the New Y ork E va n g e l­ist. E very th ing is here conceded*essential to the doctrine o f the M inistration o f Spirits :

O f the natu re o f sp iritual and im m aterial intelligences, we can know, com paratively, very little ; and all the inform ation we have in our possession is derived exclusively from the W ord o f God. In the Scriptures we are inform ed th a t two o f these glorious beings conducted righteous L o t out o f Sodom— one of them went before the tru sty 'servan t o f A braham while on his jou rney to seek a fu ture partner for his m aster. A n angel was sent to stop the mouth of the lions when D aniel was cast into their den. W hen the Son o f God became incarnate a m ultitude o f heavenly hosts announced the wonderful event, and revealed his b irth to the shepherds of Bethlehem , and when tem pted forty days in the wilderness, “ Angels came and m inistered unto him .”

D uring the whole course o f his .ministry on earth they “ had charge concerning him ,” and a t last, when p rostra te in the garden, crushed beneath the weight o f a w orld’s iniquities,“ an angel appeared ‘ strengthening him.’ ”

A n angel awoke P e te r while in prison, knocked off his fet­ters, and conducted him forth in safety, and another o f these celestial v isitants was commissioned to assure P au l, while on his memorable voyage up the M editerranean, th a t he and his fellow passengers should be saved from going down into a wa­te ry grave. »

A nd now w hat are we to infer from all these interpositions o f angelie sp irits in behalf o f those who through faith and patience inherit the promises ? Do they not teach us, th a t so far from being ind ifferen t spectators o f human conduct, they tak e the liveliest in terest in our welfare and feel the deepest concern in everything th a t bears either d irectly or indirectly upon our fu tu re and eternal well being? for “ there is joy in the presence o f the angels o f God oyer one sinner th a t repent- c th .” ' /

They have been so long conversant w ith the beings and events o f th is lower world, th a t tliey m ust be more intim ately acquainted with us than we can possibly be with one ano ther; and we are not forbidden to indulge the delightful thought, th a t the pure and beautiful inhabitants o f the spirit-w orld are ever hovering around our pathw ay, taking part in our holier pursuits and aspirations— watching and guard ing our footsteps and seeking by the ir unseen and mysterious influence, to guide us safely to happiness and Heaven. “ W herefore, seeing we also a re compassed about with so g reat a cloud of witnesses, le t us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and le t us run w ith patience the race th a t is set be­fore us.”

M ay not w$, in our ignorance and weakness, be perm itted to claim a share in th a t gracious promise made to the saints of old— “ F o r he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all th y ways. They shall bear thee up in the ir hands, lest thou dash thy feet against a stone.”

P io n e as we are by natu re to wander from the righ t path, and tem pted as we are by the follies and fashions o f the world, do we not need the holy influences of these blessed sp ir­its to restra in us from wickedness— to strengthen us under af­fliction, and to beckon us onward and upw ard to bowers o f rest and peace ? •

“ A re they not all m inistering spirits sent fo rth to m inister for them who shall be heirs o f salvation ?”

A nd i f so, why may not our sainted relatives and friends, who have gone to Heaven, stoop down to perform some kind office and be our guard ian angels through this wilderness of woe?

ta l spark has fled, safely to convey our ransomed spirits to the paradise o f God.

“ Hark! they whisper, angels say ,S ister sp irit, come aw ay .”

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L e t us then open our hearts to receive the impressions which this doctrine is calculated to make, and when beset with the tem ptations and ills o f th is probationary sta te— when strug­gling with difficulties and discouragem ents, le t us rem em ber j th a t our departed Christian friends who have weathered the ! storms of life are w atching w ith unutterab le longings for the moment when we too shall finish our course with joy , obtain the victory, and receive the crown o f glory th a t fadeth not away.

“ I am not quite alone. A round me glideUnnum bered beings of the unseen w orld ;—

And one dear sp ir it hovering by m y side,H ath o’er my form her snow-white wings unfurled.

I t is a token th a t when death is n igh ,She then will w ait to bear m y soul on h ig h .”

“ The sp irits of the loved and the departed 'Are with us; and they tell us of the sky,

A rest for the bereaved and broken-hearted,A house not made with hands, a home on high!

Holy monitions—a mysterious b reath—A whisper from tbe marble halls of death!

“ They have gone from us, and the grave is strong T Yet in n ig h t’s silent watches they are near!

T heir voices linger round us as the song .Of the sweet sky lark lingers on the ear, '

W hen, floating upw ard in the flush of even,I ts form is lost from ea rth , and swallowed up in H eaven.”

There is a Germ an legend which says th a t each o f us a t our b irth have a guardian angel appointed to attend us in all our wanderings, and to rem ain w ith us to the la st hour o f life, un­less driven aw ay by our wicked deeds.

This belief, i f not w arranted by S crip ture, is a t least not in opposition to it, and has been embraced by good men in all p a rts and periods o f the world.

O ur Savior says, “ T ake heed th a t ye despise not one of these little ones ; for I say unto you, th a t their angels do a l­ways behold the fac e ‘o f my F a th e r which is in H eaven.”

I t is a delightful reflection th a t the glorified sp irit o f a de­parted C hristian friend is w ith us wherever we go, to warn us o f danger— urge as on in the path o f du ty— smooth our p il­low when throw n p o n a bed o f languishing, and when the vi-

W O M A N ’S S O C IA L D IS L O C A T IO N .B T R E V . T . W . H I G G I N S O N .

H e is idle, she is idler, who attribu tes to any tem porary ex­citem ent the great and gradual movement in these times, which assigns to woman her equal position in the fu ture , as man has had his predom inance in the past. F o r w ant o f this move­ment, for ages, a m inor key of sadness has run through all the words and works o f woman. No man can ever speak of the position o f woman so m ournfully as she has done it for herself. C harlotte B ronte, Caroline N orton , and indeed the m ajority o f intellectual women, from the beginning to the end o f their lives, have touched us to sadness even in the ir m irth . A nd tho mournful m emory of M rs. Siddons, looking back upon years when she had been the chief in tellectual joy o f English society, could only deduce one hope, “ th a t there m ight be some other world hereafter, where justice ^o u ld be done to woman.”

I t is not alone in the great tragedies o f life— it is more in the unseen and private sorrows ; i t is more in the prosperous classes than in the unprosperous ; i t is more among women who make no com plaint, than among the complainants, th a t we see the wrongs in the position of woman. The life— the ordi­nary life o f single women in the com munity— their life from eighteen years to the ir wedding-day— w hat is it, in tens of thousands of cases, but one long, p e tty tragedy ! A life repu ted blameless indeed, bu t also aimless ; a life w ithout a noble hope, w ithout a large enjoym ent, w ithout an earnest purpose! I t is impossible th a t the soul should be satisfied with w hat so­ciety gives young girls as the solid m aterial o f the ir lives— dancing parties, a crochet-needle, the last new novel, and the occasional am ateur m anufacture o f ra th e r indigestible sponge­cake. The soul demands an object, or it dies. This em pti­ness o f life, to unm arried women, has led again and again to insanity and prem ature decline, for which the doctors could find no sufficient reason. Every man knows it, whose position has given him the confidence o f woman. A gain and again have I been asked by women, alm ost w ith tears in the ir eyes— persons who had everything th a t fortune could give them —“ Do not merely preach to us resignation, but point out to us some object in existence.” How hard it was to answer.

W hat is education, w hat all the varied culture o f modern tim es, to a perplexity like this ? I t is only giving wings to a caged bird. I remember a young friend o f mine, now a happy and successful school-teacher, who was asked by a companion, some years since, “ why it was th a t she was so unwilling to leave school?” “ I don’t w ant to leave school,” was the an ­swer, “ because then I shall not have anything to do.”“ N othing to do !” was the astonished answer. “ W hy can’t you stay a t home, and make p retty little things to wear, as other girls do 7” I t was a correct description. “ I t is a sad th ing to me,” said another accomplished female teacher, “ to watch my fine girla afte r they leave school, and see the in tel­lectual expression die out o f their eyes, for w ant o f an object to employ it. I once heard a m other say, “ I have not thought much on this subject, bu t I know th is : my daughters are more gifted than m y sons, more cultivated, have higher aspirations ; ye t i t seems to me, when I th ink o f it, th a t m y girls live, all the year round, very much the sort o f life th a t my boys do when they come back from college, for a few weeks of relaxa­tion. I like it well enough in my boys for a week or two a t a time, b u t I should be ashamed to have brought them into the world i f they lived so perm anently .”

A gain and again, in different forms, th is problem comes be­fore us. I t is a transition age. The old employments o f wo­man are passing by. Lowell does the work o f the spinning- wheel. The sewing-machine is annihilating the needle, and society is to solve a new problem in the position o f women. I pass over the darker aspects o f her existence. I say nothing o f the crim e which fills our streets, o f domestic ty ranny aod sensuality— of the woman whose life, a t first happy, is wrecked by the baseness o f manhood, and who then tu rns to the laws which should protect her, and finds the law worse than the husband. F o r i t is bu t a few years since laws were repealed,

o f which th a t V erm ont s ta tu te was a specimen, which confisca­ted to the S ta te h a lf the p roperty o f every childless widow, thinking th a t the S ta te could probably find better use for i t than she. B u t I speak now ra th e r o f th a t more common po­sition o f the woman, who, cradled in com fort or luxury, finds no place in life for her energies, and has to take her chanoe for existence iu the choice between a husband and nothing; and as some one has said— th a t is often a chance between two nothings. A nd y e t these women thus wasted and weary, w hat is there in existence which they m ight not claim ?— what place in the universe th a t they m ight not nobly fill?

As women are now educated, th e ir whole lives are depend­ent and accidental. I said to a physician once, speaking o f a certain woman who had been under his care, “ How great she was in th a t emergency.” “ D on’t you know,” said he, “ th a t all women are g rea t in emergencies ?” A nd so it is— they are. B u t emergencies do not come to a l l ; and those who are thus grea t when they come, are not educated to create them. I take it, every woman th a t ever lived had wings enfolded in her being, and it was only tim e and circum stances which deci­ded whether she should prove an angel or a moth. Every woman becomes a M adonna by the cradle of her first-born ch ild ; and other things m ay ennoble her also. I have seen a fashionable beauty who seemed as i f she thought butterflies were only made th a t she m ight im itate them in the waving lustre o f her garm en ts; I have seen h e r forget all th a t gor­geousness, and throw herse lf down in the miry street to save a beggar-child from the horses o f an omnibus. From the other extrem e of society, I have seen a woman who seemed utterly lost and degraded— I have seen th a t woman mount guard like a lioness in defence o f her younger sister not yet fallen like herself. I t is so, o f te n ; the heroism and power are there, only g ran t the emergency. B u t th is is not enough.

W e do not educate a man to be g rea t in em ergencies o n ly ; we ask th a t he shall have manhood in him , th a t he shall create his emergency for h im self; th a t he shall not ta u t for victory to come to him ; he should, like N apoleon’s m arshal, be ‘ vic­to ry organized.” W e m ust tra in woman to m eet the same de­mand.

Men judge o f women as they personally see them. How can you expect a man to honor womanhood, i f you do your u t­most to dishonor i t by wickedness or frivolity ? How can you expect any man to labor for the elevation of those who spurn a t the very laborers, and take pains to explain to the world,th a t they themselves, a t least, are not ‘ strong-m inded i fanybody supposed they were ! How can any man reverence womanhood beyond the personal experience o f his own house­ho ld? I do not need to v isit a man to see what his domestic relations are ; 1 can ta lk to him about the rights and powers of woman, and his answer gives me the tru e daguerreotype or his sister, wife, m other, daughter. H ow can he get be­yond the standard o f T hackeray— every woman weak or wicked — if he can only judge from a wife who knows nothing in the universe beyond her cooking-stove, and a daughter who has not much experim ental acquaintance w ith even tha t?

On the other hand, w hat tales o f mesmerism or alchemy can fitly symbolize the power of a noble woman over him who loves h e r? The tale o f Undine is only h a lf the story. Dryden’s story o f Cymon and Iphigenia needs to be placed beside it. W om an not merely finds her own soul through love, but gives i t to her lover. W oman h i s this m ig h tj^ b w e r— when w ill she use i t nobly 7 T here are thousands to-day who are look­ing out o f the ir loneliness, the ir poverty, or th e ir crime, for th e new age, when women shall be tru e r to them selves than men have ever been to women ; the new age o f h igher civiliza­tion, when moral power shall take the place of bru te force, and peace succeed to war.

A new age is coming for woman as sure as the law of gravi­ta tion . E very dem and now made by the strongest advocate for her equality will be fulfilled. W h a t is now called fanati­cism will one day be called simple common sense. Every claim for her cultirf^, every desire for her em ployment or en­franchisem ent ; i t is a ll coming, i t is a ll there ; none of us can prevent it, while every woman can do so m uch— m ore than any m an— to prom ote it. A nd oh, i f m y voice, a stranger’s voice, can reach one woman’s h ea rt w ithin these walls, may this, a t least, be the resu lt o f its im ploring, th a t she who cannot yet jo in in the new claims now m ade fo r woman, may, in bare justice to her sex, rem ain neu tra l. L e t her, i f she will lif t n o hand for helping, a t least have the generosity to refrain from opposing those who are casting down repu ta tion , friends, time, w ealth casting them all down, tha t they may be made living stones in the tem ple o f the fu tu re o f “ W om an in Chris­tian Civilization.”

There are people of so little courage as to be afraid to say that the wind blows cold, no m atter how much they may feel it, unless they have previously heard others express and main­tain similar thoughts on the subject.

Human arrogance, says Douglas Jerrold, is assuredly neTer so pitiable as when, in the snug belief o f its own election, i t looks upon its fellow in this world as irrecoverably lost.

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S A T U R D A Y , N O V E M B E R 6 , 1 8 5 8 .

E D IT O R IA L C O R R E S P O N D E N C E .Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 21st, 1858.

Civilization, H um an Progress, Individual Grow th— a t w hat a cost are these attained ! The pioneer enters the primeval forest. He confronts the stern old monarchs which have here held undisputed sway for centuries untold. H e raises his puny hand against them , armed w ith th a t m ighty sceptre of P rogress, the woodman’s axe, more potent than m agician’s wand; he strikes blow afte r blow through w eary days and months, till a t length each towering and stu rdy giant lies pros­trate before him. H e has conquered a little patch o f te rrito - tory, on which to inaugurate the reign o f Civilization. H e nex t calls to his aid the devouring element o f fire, Speedily the noblest products o f N a tu re ’s handiwork, elaborated through long years, perhaps centuries, o f secret toil, are reduced to ashes and blackened, smouldering ruins. S till rem ain the un­sightly stum ps w ith the ir spreading and strong-clinging roots. O ne by one, w ith slow and patient labor, must these be wrenched from the ir stronghold, and removed from the surface. Then, too, there are bogs, and stagnant pools, the haunts o f slimy and venomous reptiles, which must be drained and p u ri­fied. N ex t the strong plow must run its ruthless share through the bosom o f the earth , tearing out every rem aining root, and burying every spontaneous springing flower and every cheer­ful green blade, in u tte r desolation. Then, and not before, is the soil ready for its best use ; the seeds of richer and more useful crops are cast in, and behold in due tim e come forih broad fields o f golden grain , and orchards o f luscious fruits, to reward all th is weary toil, and to more than compensate for all this seemingly rash and ruthless destruction !

Analogous, or correspondential, to a g reat extent, is the mode of H um an Progress, both in the mass and in the individ­ual. W hen one type o f human development, one peculiarly national idea, o r one phase o f civilization, has fulfilled its mis­sion in the grand economy, and reached its acme, then goes forth against i t the decree of destruction— national decline and desuetude follow, often bloodshed and carnage and devasta­tion o f all th a t was cherished and pleasant, sweep over the land, and for a tim e all seems blackness and ruin. Y et out c f these desolations, in the lapse o f centuries, rise ncbler types o f manhood, new and h igher grades o f civilization, and thc tem ­ples of loftier and purer religions. So m ust i t be in the fu­ture. A nd need we wonder or fear i f one o f these rev­olutionary epochs be even now a t our doors ? I s there not, in the effete and and decaying institutionalism o f both Church and State in th is day a sufficiency o f chaff and stubble to invite the consuming fire ? Surely, not fa r off can be one o f those “ days of the L ord ,” which shall “ burn as an oven” among the rubbish of the past, and light the way to a more glorious fu ture for Humanity. “ W hoso readeth let him understand.”

B u t the analogy o f th is process with th a t o f individual in­ternal growth aud experience is not less impressive. W ho th a t awakens to an aspiration for a tru ly sp iritua l life— a life of higher uses and goods— does not find a t once th a t the soil of his mind and heart is pre-occupied by growths o f opinion, habit and desire—sometimes gigautic and firmly-rooted— which

■ require uprooting and a thorough clearing away ? These may have been im planted by education, oF they m ay be a heritage from those who have gone before, or they m ay have sprung up spontaneously in an untilled soil. N evertheless, w hatever the source or the strength o f erroneous beliefs, unlovely traits, or disorderly desires, we find th a t they m ust be removed before the soul’s garden can be brought to its highest condition o f beauty and fruitfulness— become an Eden of plenty and h ar­mony. And ah ! w hat labor i t costs, oftentimes, to cut down and tear up by the roots those old cherished opinions and loves !— w hat pain, when the searchin^fire lays waste our p re­cious things, and blasts our fondest earth ly hopes!— w hat an­guish, when the plowshare lacerates the bosom, lays bare the tenderest affections, exposes roots o f lingering erro r and selfishness, and buries in desolation every green and beautiful thing in which we had found ex ternal d e lig h t!— and with w hat fear and shrinking, sometimes, do we approach and le t in the ligh t upon those polluted pools of passion, where lu rk the ser­pents and loathsome creatures of the inner w o rld ! These, alas! as in the outer world, are often the last to be ex tirpated and the springs o f life purified from the ir foul presence. Y et from none of this, cost w hat it m ay of pain o r struggle, will they shrink who are seeking for the h ighest and tru e s t culture of the ir own natures. N ever will they be content w ith merely natural and easy goodness, or spontaneous fru its, beautiful and noble as some o f these m ay be in the ir tim e and order. But cheerfully and resolutely will they invite the axe o f criti- icism, and the fire o f tru th , and the plowshare o f sorrow, and will welcome even the harrow of m isinterpretation and slander, i f so be th a t thereby the soil may be mellowed, and the u n ­sightly weeds and fruitless plants o f the natu ra l man m ay be exterminated, th a t th e more lovely and delicious “ fru its o f the Bpirit” may be brought forth in the ir stead.

Thus, in the first and sim plest labors o f the pioneer o f civili­sation are plainly typified the requisites o f a progressive sp ir­itual life. Thus are strik ingly symbolized the processes o f the soul’s true regeneration. Thus is clearly set forth and ju sti­fied the m inistry o f sufferings, o f sorrows and of persecutions,— o f heart-rendings and u tte r desolations o f soul which often p repare the way for a tru ly noble and unselfish life.

Suoh, reader, was tho tra in o f thoughts which came trooping into my brain , as I was being whirled along upon tbe ra il from D u n k irk to this place. T he route lies through a country com paratively new, where large trac ts o f the old forest still remain, w here m any o f the clearings a re y e t thickly studded over with unsightly stumps, and the fires o f the woodsman are Still burning. I t was these, w ith the usual indications o f fall husbandry, th a t suggested this, perhaps to you, strange series o f analogies. I f you see in them any th ing o f tru th , o r beau ty or value, make the most o f th e m ; i f otherwise, le t them pass

as a dream o f fancy. To me they are fraugh t w ith mighty and momentous import.

Cleveland rejoices in the title o f “ The F o re s t C ity, and of a ll the places I have visited, east or west, i t is best entitled to th a t a ttractive designation. W ith tbe exception o f a few streets in the exclusively business portions o f the city, the houses generally a re literally embowered in trees and sur­rounded by gardens. The present, however, is the tim e o f the “ sere and yellow leaf,” and the glory o f sum m er is fast de­parting . M r. F rost, the artist, whose magic doings in another q u arte r I mentioned in m y last, has hard ly deigned to v isit these p a rts as yet,— otherwise the F o rest C ity would now be tru ly in a “ blaze o£ glory .”

Cleveland has some peculiarities which strike a New-Eng- lander qu ite oddly. I t s principal business streets a rz floored w ith plank— omnibus drivers, like pharisees o f old, sound [tin] trum pets before them in the streets— a practice to a Bostonian strongly suggestive o f sell-Jish proclivities— and portly porkers dispute the sidewalk with biped pedestrians. I ought in ju s ­tice to add, however, th a t since I have been in the city , • the M arshall has issued a proclam ation which stares us in the 'face a t every street corner in English and D utch , threatening to impound all swine hereafter found running a t large. L e t this im portan t fact be noted, as indicative o f the westward progress o f civilization ! W hen the people o f this country can be per­suaded to take another advance step, and in terd ic t swine from passing down the ir th roats and running a t large through their whole constitutions, then m ay we look for a less swinish and more sp iritua l race o f men.

S piritualism in Cleveland is in a ra th e r d iffused condition. T hat there are hundreds, probably thousands, o f people who believe in the cardinal fact o f sp irit communication, there is no d o u b t; bu t for some tim e there has existed little un ity o f feel­ing or action among them . One cause o f this has doubtless been the lack, amoi:g those who have undertaken to give di­rection to the sp iritua l sentim ent here, o f a disposition or an ab ility to direct it to the promotion of any useful ends, either o f public benefit or personal im provem ent. W henever S p irit­ualism is received as a m ere pleasing theory, or a source of amusement and self-gratification instead of as a help to the d is­covery of vital tru th and an aid to a more true life, i t is sure ere long to pall upon the taste and to lose its hold upon the individ­ual and the public mind. I t must present some im portant and valuable end to be attained, in which to enlist the consciences and hearts o f men and women w ith an earnest and religious purpose, or i t will fail to bind them together, and will be,— and deserve to be,— scouted from the community as a thing of no real worth. A true Spiritualism will tend surely to p racti­cal results— to g rea ter personal purity , sp iritua lity , and an earnest self-consecration to works of use and beneficence. These rem arks are not caculated for this la titude alone, but, like the Old F arm er’s A lm anac, “ will answer for any p a r t o f the U nited S tates.”

L ately , B ro. J . H . W . Toohey, well-known to Spiritualists in all parts o f the country, has located him self here, and, in conjunction w ith other earnest sp irits is zealously laboring to un itize and concentrate the d isin tegrated elements. Through his endeavors, seconded by others, a hail has been secured and tastefully fitted up for Sunday meetings through the w inter. B ro. T ., besides being the advocate o f a rational and religious Spiritualism , is a natu ra lly ordained apostle o f tbe Gospel o f C h e e r f u ln e s s and P hysical H ealth . One of his favorite m ax­ims is, th a t “ there is a good deal o f religion in a hearty laugh j” and he is very successful in inducing those who esso- ciate with him to reduce this maxim to practice. F rom a re­cen t public address o f his on “ am usem ents,” I clip the follow­ing pithy sen tences:

“ W hy should not m an lau g h ? L augh deep, loud, and lo n g ? He is the only crea ture capable of such experiences, and should be taugh t to consider it one of the crowning excellencies of his coronated m an­hood. N a tu ra l history authorizes the statem ent, and hum an experience dem onstrates its t ru th .”

“ O f the relations of m irth and amusem ents to the religious and de­votional m ind, m uch m ight be said, as reform was never more needed th an here. As it is, we can only say, th a t a continuance in opposi­tion to the m irthful and recreative, is not only a g rea t, sad m istake— it is a crim e! Theological teachers a re becoming sensible of the fact, if we can rig h tly comprehend the sta tem ent of H enry W ard Beecher, when he told his congregation it was “ bette r to laugh— even in the church— th an sit like the rem ains of one taken from a mumm y p i t .” '

“ Every person should cultivate an acquain tance w ith the m irthful and fun-loving side of life, th a t his health may be good and his re lig ­ion n a tu ra l; for excessive sensibility and m orbidness o f feeling is the resu lt of disease, and disease only, though the insp iring and producing cause m ay be religion, theology, social isolation or business exclusive­ness.”

I had the honor o f giving the first addresses in the newly fitted H all, on Sunday last, (the 17th,) to good and attentive congregations. Iu my second lecture, which was ou “ Spiritu ­alism as an A gency o f Reform ,” i t came in my way to speak o f its apnlication, among other directions, to the m arriage relation ,— showing th a t a tru e Spiritualism m ust lead to a higher m orality and pu rer relations between the sexes than those now sanctioned by S tate or Church. I was not long in ascertaining th a t m y reference to this delicate subject was the occasion of some flu tter in g on the p a r t o f a very few individ­uals present— not as I can learn, on account o f the views ad ­vanced, bu t because i t was desired th a t the topic itse lf should be wholly tabooed in S p iritualist meetings. I had the ra re sa t­isfaction o f hearing m y nam e associated w ith some not special­ly com plim entary epithets, spoken from excited lips. The dis­affection, however, was very lim ite d ; and I have only to add th a t a Spiritualism which fails to reach and purify the very springs o f life, in the roost in tim ate and im portan t o f all hu ­man relations, will prove o f very trifling worth to mankind : and the S piritualist who shrinks from the application o f pure principles to every-day transactions and duties, is of little val­ue to the cause o f H um an Progress, and would find more fitting associations in the bosom of some “ respectable” though lifeless church-organization.

I had designed to notice several other m atters o f in terest which have a ttrac ted my attention while here. B u t the al­ready too g rea t length of this epistle cofnpels me to defer them . '

On Sunday next, I expect to speak a t Geneva, and on Tues­day evening following a t Painesville. Thence I go to R a ­venna to attend, a two days’ mass m eeting called a t th a t place.

P . S.— Oct. 29 th. Since the foregoing was w ritten and forwarded, I have had the pleasure o f an interview-'w ith the gentleman m ainly alluded to as objecting to one o f my lectures in this place. I t appears th a t his exceptions were founded chiefly on misapprehensions which are now happily dispelled. H e expresses him self as not only agreeing w ith the sentiments advanced, bu t as satisfied o f the propriety and wisdom of avowing them. Thus it often happens th a t a m utual under­standing is all th a t is neccssary to remove antagonisms and to secure fra te rna l co-operation. A . E . n .

THE DIVINE MATEENITY.B T MART F . DAVIS.

“ E v e r y w o m a n b e c o m e s a M a d o n n a b y t h e c r a d l e or h e r f i r s t b o m c h i l d . ” — R e v .

T . W . n iG G l.N s o x .

In the glow of m any a sunset,In the hush of m any an eve,

S its a young and sweet-voiced m other,W here the plaintive low winds breatho

Through the leaves of th e latticed window A song of the sum m er d a y ;

W hile she chants a sweeter m easure To h e r darling a t rest from play.

Y oung mother! th u s singing a t tw ilight To the b a b j upon th y breast,

L ulling w ith tenderest carols -I ts beautiful form to rest—

Dost thou feel the encircling presence O f the God who h a th chosen thee

To clothe in His glorious image .The soul of H um anity ?

V ery n ear to th a t Infinite n a tu re—V ery n ear to the heart of God—

More blest th an th e “ hills of B eulah”W hich the white feet of angels trod ,

Is the sacred h eart of W oman— 'The n a tu re through which alone *

‘ The Divine can become embodied,A nd the sp irit reach its home.

Look up , O, my drooping sister!To the crown which aw aiteth thee .

W hen T ru th like a m ighty anthem Shall float o’er the land and sea;

W hen W oman, the M other of N ations,The cherished, the noble, the blest,

Shall be to the future millions Ap angel o f peace and rest.

Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 20th, 1858. .

C L E R IC A L H E A L T H .A correspondent o f the Boston T ra n scr ip t ( J . B . W ., o f

S till R iver, M ass., who, we think, is him self a clergym an), re­pudiates the common idea tha t the prevalent ill health o f the clerical profession is attribu tab le to a lack o f physical exer­cise, im proper d ietetic habits, e t c . ; b u t ra th e r to supineness of mind, and w ant o f living sym pathy w ith the progressive sp irit o f the age. H ea r him :

“ Clergymen are not healthy because of the deadness of th e ir occu­pation. O ur age is not a religious one. There is not a question on gospel in terpreta tions th a t has excited the slightest in terest in o u r com­m unity a t large since the T rin itarian controversy raised by th e fathers o f the U nitarian denomination. And it needs old men to remember th a t battle. C ontrast the in terest felt by the citizens o f the United States in the questions arising on the constitutional form ula ‘ held to service,’ or on M r. Choate’s gloss, ‘ g littering genera lities,’ w ith the interest they show in relation to any question re la ting to the Sermon on the M ount, and we can understand somewhat why we h ear no th ing of the ill health of politicians and everything of the ill health of clergymen.

“ For the form er there a re no more physical exercise, early hours, p u re a ir , well-chosen diet, than for th e la tte r ; n o r one-tenth so much. B u t there a re , for the politician, b rig h t, earnest controversies, m anly ba ttles; there is varie ty of life, there is b rillian t hope— for ou r people are intensely political. F o r the clergym an there is no one of these th ings; for things religious our comm unity generally care n o to n e straw . And it is a question w orthy of consideration w hether, for this general supineness, the clergymen are no t in g rea t m easure to blame. For if they have throw n ou t upon the world m any questions or sugges­tions w orthy of m uch serious thought and earnest action, d u rin g the last ten years, such questions and suggestions have escaped my notice, as they have th a t of the m ajority of our people. A nd I honestly th in k th a t the ill health which pursues most o f o u r clergym en is well-earned and well-deserved. This is a very severe charge, bu t I hold m yself bound to m ake it good.”

There is certain ly some tru th in this. P o ring y ea r afte r year over such ghastly and worn-out themes as O rig inal Sin, E lection and R eprobation, the R etributions o f E tern ity , and others which form the staples of discussion in m any pulpits, is enough to induce dyspepsia, liver-com plaint, and any am ount of morbid physical cond itions; while the d reary repe tition of thread bare ideas, so common to clergymen, we had alm ost said, ought to produce bronchitis, i f i t doesn’t. There is no in sp ira tion in such performances, and no hearty response from the h e a re rs ; hence there is no recompense, e ither in te rna l or external, for the v ita lity expended. If, then, clergym en would enjoy physical health, to say nothing o f mental and spiritual vigor, le t them leave the ir ancient and m usty theological lore and the ir lifeless “ gospel in terpretations,” and grapple with the v ita l, practica l questions o f to-day. They need not be­come “ politicians,” a t least in the objectionable sense o f the word ; for in the grand and living themes o f a S p iritual P h i­losophy, a R ational Theology, ana P rac tica l Reform , there is surely enough to enlist the utm ost energies o f any philan­thropic m ind. . a . e . n .

B e a u t ifu l In c id e n t .The Boston H era ld publishes the ob ituary o f M rs. E llen

C arter, o f H yde P a rk , Dorchester, M ass., who recently passed to the spirit-land a t the age of fifty years. She passed away sleeping, her cheek resting upon her hand. I t was a sweetly peaceful exit. D uring her last days a very beautiful little in­cident, well worth commemorating, took place. H e r husband, who lay sleeping in her room, saw all a t once a wondrous light, and in the m idst she stood, as though already an angel, and bending said, “ H enry, here a re some lines for my tomb­stone.”

’Tis sweet to die when gone before The loved one of m y h e art,

M y angel son says, “ M other come, ’We never m ore shall p a r t .”

T h e C a u s e a n d C o r e o f E v i l .— The lecture o f A ndrew Jackson D avis a t the U tica Convention on this subject has been published by B ela M arsh, Boston. T he pam phlet is got up in such good shape, w ith large type and clear paper, tha t it is a luxury to read i t aside from the intrinsic excellence o f the production.

W e im prove th is occasion to say, th a t as we have already devoted all the sp a ce we have to spare to the proceedings of the Convention, we shall not be able to publish in the A g e any portion o f th is speech, nor o f the le tters read a t U tica. '

The only w ay to render Spiritualism tru ly “ respectable”— to m ake i t command the regard o f the rea lly sensible portion o f the com m unity— is to apply i t d irectly and w ithout com­promise to the rem oval o f acknowledged evils. This w ill necessarily give rise to opposition, obloquy and m isin terpreta­tion for a tim e ; bu t tru th is m ighty and will prevail.

P . B . R a n d o l p h .— The papers have it th a t R andolph, the m ulatto , who has figured in tim es past in New Y ork and elsewhere, as a trance-speaker— little to his own credit, less to the credit o f the cause— has received a call to the “ Christian m in istry .”

The Spiritualists in D rewsville, N . H ., are fitting up a H all, which will be ready for occupation in a few weeks.

D ID A C T IC S O F T H E W I S E A N D W O R T H Y .PREPAR ED FOR THE SPIRITUA L AGE.

I t is a doubt whether m ankind are most indebted to those who, like B acon and B u tler, dig tho gold from the mine o f lit­era ture , o r to those who like P aley , purify it, stam p it, fix its rea l value, and give i t currency and u tility . F o r all the prac­tical purposes o f life, T ru th m ight as well be in prison as in the folio. The schoolman, and those who release h er from her cobwebed shelf, and teach h e r to live with men, have the m erit o f liberating, i f not o f discovering her.

T he tru e end o f freedom is to develop manhood and woman­hood, no t to m ake authors, mechanics, o r statesm en.

O n a n igh t when the winds are hushed, how noiseless falls the snow ! W ith w hat profound q u ie t i t accum ulates! Y et the m ighty and hitherto invincible arm y o f Napoleon was sub­dued by a R ussian snow-storm. Thus i t is w ith the soul. B u t a sm all p a r t o f its deepest and tru es t activ ity can be dis­played.

To speak tru th , reader, there is no excellent beauty, no ac­complished grace, no reliable refinement w ithout strength as excellent, as complete, as trustw orthy. A s well m ight yo'u look for good fru it and blossoms on a rootless and sapless tree, as for charms th a t w ill endure in a feeble and relaxed nature. F o r a little while the blooming semblance o f beauty m ay flour­ish round weakness, b u t i t cannot bear a b la s t ; i t soon fades even in serenest sunshine.

T rue peace o f mind is like the deep, still-flowing river, over its pearly bed. However it is stirred , i t doth not cast up mire and d irt.

F ea r to displease and dare to displease.

N o thoroughly occupied man was ever y e t very miserable—so far, indeed, therefrom , th a t the active alone have the tru ei t i Arelish o f life. None so little enjoy life, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do, or who will do nothing.

V olta ire somewhere tells a good story o f a m an who was about.to ford a river, aud who asked another, on the opposite side, which was the safest place. “ Turn to the r ig h t,” said the la tte r. The questioner went hi a t his own righ t. “ N ot th a t way !” bawled out the other ; “ you will be drowned ; tu rn to the r i g h t waving his hand to his own righ t. “ The r i g h t ! th is is my righ t,” persisted the m an in the w ater, and so sunk and was drowned.

In the character o f a complete gentlem an, satire should oc­cupy no position o f consequence. I t should be held subordi­nate to the higher principles and nobler sentim ents. A desire to diminish and ridicule is m eaner than the am bition to elevate and surprise. I t is even more agreeable to find eulogy in ex­cess, than censure. A boaster ranks above a ta ttle r , and a vain-glorious fellow is always better received than a carking, contemptible deprecator. E asy , pleasant raillery is not the th ing we m e a n ; bu t a cold, malicions, sneering hum or,— a turn for degrading and v itiating everything.

I t belongs only to little minds, and such as move in a n a r­row sphere, to be decided and and opinionated. The farther we extend our progress in life, and the more we observe upon society a t large, the more cautious do we become o f pronounc­ing judgm ent upon others. \

A man o f fine m anners shall pronounce your nam e with, all thc ornam ent thut the titles o f nobility could ever add.

M an is partly a creature, and p artly a creator o f circum ­stances.

T he sublime vision comes to the pure and sim ple soul in a clean and chaste body.

W hatever purifies, fortifies also the heart. C a l v e r t .

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A n o th e r S e ll .The C larion gives a facetious account o f a la te an ti-S p irit­

ualist perform ance in A fton, Iow a. The hero o f the affair was a sort o f second-rate juggler, who claimed to have discov­ered a new electrical law to account for all the modern spirit­ual phenomena. H e professed to be a very pious Simon M a­gus, and the clergy w ith the ir flocks turned out in g rea t glee to w itness the u tte r ann ih ila tion o f Spiritualism .

The man said th a t he had been in all the spirit-rooms in the east, and could m ake the raps, tip th e stands and tables, and do everything himself. W ell, he did rap and upset the stand, bu t when called on to raise thc stand, he said his electricity had become exhausted ! H e then w ent through a series of second-rate “ slight o f hand” performances, closing w ith the feat o f swallowing several jack-knives, and offering to teach any person who would come on the platform how this jack- knife business was accomplished. W h a t the m an had said against Spiritualism w rought so far on the confidence o f the pious, a devout old M ethodist bro ther took the platform for the purpose o f practising in the jack-knife line. The juggler placed the old gentlem an w ith face fronting the audience, and made him throw his head up back, and open his m outh w ide, close his eyes, and then told him to stand thus till he was otherw ise ordered.

The old man followed directions to the le tte r, while the ju g ­gler slid back out o f sight and left his M ethodist pupil s tand­ing with expanded jaw s and closed eyes till th e audience ex­ploded w ith laughter. The good bro ther and the clergy wero sold. The open-m outhed M ethodist was only an illustration o f th e ir gu llib ility and readiness to swallow a g rea ter hum bug than Spiritualism ever was supposed to be. The perform er left town early in the morning, swearing a blue streak a t his landlord’s bill. The clergy and the ir flocks were chop-fallen, and now the people a re ready to hear some good sp iritua l lec­tu res.

H ow t o S p e n d M o n e y .— Z ion 's H era ld repeats a falsifi­cation about a man out W est who, it avers, has lost a fortune by following spirit-direction, and says, “ W e believe th a t all who spend sm all sums o f money to get sp iritua l inform ation a re equally foolish.”

I t would be perfectly safe for any one to “ spend a sm all Bum of money” in a subscription to Z io n ’s H erald , for there is no danger o f his ge tting any sp iritua l inform ation from th a t source. H eralds o f the m odern Zion have little to do with spiritual things.

W e have received a note from M r. Foster, the medium, con­trad icting the statem ents o f M r. Y on V leck as given in our Conference rep o rt last week. I t is not necessary to publish it. D etractions from such a source cannot harm either M r. Foster or any one else. The public will place little reliance on the assertions o f one who by his own confession has deliberately acted and spoken egregious falsehood.

O u r N e x t N u m b e r .— Among the in teresting articles we in­tend publishing in our n ex t is a sketch o f the wonderful career o f H um e the medium, and a spicy le tte r from B attle Creek, Mich.

/ ■ N o te s b y th e W a y sid e .■ Salem , M ass., Oct. 21st, 1858.Gentlem en or t h e Age:— Since I la s t w rote y on , ire have flown an

th e w ings o f tim e an d th e steam -horse from the pleasant locality of New Bedford, to y e anciente citie o f y e witches— Salem— the birth­place of y o u r very hum ble correspondent,——a place around which the m isty vapor of d a rk days and d a rk e r deeds still lingers, like the solemn shades of n ig h t, tinging th e m inds of the people with an m far a ll th ings sp iritu a l, except th a t w hich comes th rough the regular (irrcga- la r ) channels of th e church and th e clergy.

WITCHES AS THEY W ERE.

On Tuesday m orning, in com pany w ith Mr. Johnson, as guard of honor, we paid a visit to the Salem C ourt House, a beautiful granite stru c tu re , fire-proof, in w hich a re preserved th e archives of the c i t/ and th e valuable documents o f Essex C ounty. Through the oourtesy o f M r. Hodges, one of th e gentlem anly clerks o f th e coart, we wero shown -the orig inal depositions and d ea th -w arran ts upon which the wiz­ard s and witches o f th a t tim e were tr ie d , condem ned an d executed, by the various processes of h ang ing , b u rn in g , drow ning au d crashing.

In a sm all glass vial, closely sealed, to p ro tec t i ts contents from p i* - thieves, were th irteen o f the identical little brass p in s, which it is as­serted were taken from the a rm s and flesh o f th e v ictim s of witchcraft.

There is som ething deeply and painfully in teresting in perusing the old records o f Salem w itchcraft, a lthough th e people of this enlight­ened age laugh a t the tales told by the fireside, o f w izards and witches, as being bu t the mere fancies o f a diseased b ra in . I am satisfied, how ever, from the a rra y o f evidence presented, th a t those s tran g e phenom­ena had a real existence, and were no t, as i t is asserted , drawn en tirely from the fountains o f the im agination , b u t were bona fide spirit m anifestations; as m uch so as those o f o u r own day an d tim e ,although i t m ust be conceded th a t they were o f a very different character and of a low order, and were produced in th e presence of m edium s of liko m erit who a ttrac ted to themselves sable influences.

There was som ething rem arkable in th e evidence presented by tbe various witnesses, as i t was not of a conflicting characte r, bat agreed in a ll the leading and essential points. F o r in stance, they nearly all testified th a t th e apparitions presented to them a black book, in which they im portuned them to enroll th e ir nam es; and i f they would not do so, to touch b u t the lid of the cabalistic volume.

The witnesses fu r th e r testified, th a t th e phantoms> choked, pinched» pricked, and did otherw ise to rtu re them m ost grievously. They i also prevented from eating , d rink ing or sleeping. Their nights m ade hideous by tb e nocturnal v isits o f the witches into their locked sleeping a j» rtm en ts ; and when once in , they would present before the terrified vision o f the occupants the corpses of persons whom they knew ;— the dead testifying to the m anner o f th e ir death; one asserting th a t he was killed by being pierced un d er the arm with a knitting-nee­dle; a second that his th roat was cu t with a knife— and thereupon the wound would gape an d the crim son c u rre n t of life flow out. One wo­m an testified th a t a neighbor had sorely bewitched her sow, and 8t01 another h e r cow, and so on th rough th e en tire catalogue. .

A lthough the accused were generally from the most hamble walks of life, the poor and illite ra te , yet m any of their answers to questions were exceedingly shrew d and a p t, be tray ing m ore than ordinary intelli­gence. I f I were not fearful of trespassing too much upon your T ala- able space, I would send you several specimens of tbe evidence. A a i t is, I take the liberty to enclose you the following copy of a deposition as a fa ir sam ple of th e whole:

[COPT.]T h e d e p o s i t i o n o f M a r y L e w i s , a g t 1 9 y r . w h o t e s t i f i e t h a n d s a i t h t h a t i n t h e l a t t e r

e n d o f A p r i l 1 6 9 2 t h e r e a p p e a r e d t o m e t h e a p p a r i t i o n o f a s h o r t o l d w o m a n w h k f e

t o l d m e h e r n a m e w a s G o o d y M a r t i n a n d t h a t s h e c a m e f r o m A m e s b n x y ; w h o d i d

m o s t g r i e v o u s l y t o r m e n t m e b y b i U n g a n d p i n c h i n g m e , u r g i n g m e v e h e m e n t t o

w r i t e i n h e r b o o k ; b u t o n t h e 2 d o f M a y 1 6 9 2 , b e i n g t h i - d a y o f

s a n n a h M a r t i n d i d t o r m e n t a n d a f f l i c t m e m o s t g r i e v o u s l y i n t h e t i m e o f b c r c u n i o t -

t i o n , f o r w h i c h s h e l o o k e d u p o n m e p e r s o n a l l y . S h e w o u l d s t r i k e m e d o w n v a t a t r t

c h o k e m e , a n d s e v e r a l t i m e s s i n c e t h e a p p a r i t i o n o f S u s a n n a h M a r t i n h a s B o a t | i l i

v o u s l y a f f l i c t e d m e b y p i n c h i n g a n d a l m o s t c h o k i n g m e t o d e a t h , n r g i n g m e t o w z t t s -

i n h e r b o o k ; a n d a l s o o n t h e d a y o f h e r e x a m i n a t i o n I s a w t h e a p p a r i t i o n o f S o u - n a h M a r t i n g o a n d h u r t t h o b o d i e s o f M a r y W a l c o t t , E l i x a b e t h H u b b a r d , Abagai W i l l i a m s a n d A n n P u t n a m . S i g n e d A l x a c r L m s .

I t will be seen from the above deposition and o th er like testimony, th a t even hang ing did not sufBce to cu re th e evil o f witchcraft; far

'som e of the poor c reatures who were executed d id not cease from tor­m enting th e ir victims a fte r th e ir m o rta l bodies were cold in the silent grave.

Some of the accused stou tly denied the . charges preferred against them , p ro testing th e ir innocence, while others again confessed their gu ilt, pleading in extenuation of the foul crim e th a t they were acted upon by some m ysterious influence over which they had no control, and were compelled to bewitch th e ir accusers.

T ru ly , “ tim e works w onders,” and th e asserted falsehood of yes­terday becomes the t ru th of to-day. Tbe penalty o f being a medium in 1692 was D ea th ; in 1858 it is beginning to be respectable, although a ll the persecutors a re not dead, as we have ample evidence.

QUITE AS BEW ITCHING.

A few more words about Salem w itches, and I w ill change the sub­ject. From my own observation, I am fu lly convinced that there are really more witches in th is city to-day, than there have been a t any tim e since the place was first settled. A lthough I don’t wish them any v ery serious h a rm , still I m ust give my evidence against them for their enchantm ents in hav ing w ittingly o r unw ittingly affected my eyesight, w hich I have heretofore considered tolerably good. On nu­m erous occasions since my a rriv a l here, both in and out of doors, have they placed before my eyes m any very bewitching Tisions of earth­ly angels; the m agnetism of whose d a rk lustrous orbe, rivalling in beauty the s ta rs o f heaven, th rilled me with a strange fear for the ef­fect of th e ir wonderful power and beau ty , and I really think if I had not found a m arke t years ago. I should have fallen an easy p n y to the most fa ir w itches of Salem of 1858, and enrolled m y nam e in their sweet b u t magic book of life.

EMMA HARD IN GE’S LECTURES.

In the evening I joined a p a rty o f about seven hundred intelligent people, and visited Lyceum H all to pay ou r respects to Miss Harding* and to listen to h e r inspired breathings. She is t ru ly a most estimable lad y , and decidedly the best speaking medium we have in the country; and it is very m uch to be regretted th a t we have not many more of the sam e ch aracte r, as very m any of ou r teachers would find their more proper sphere in being taught. Miss H ardinge is of th a t class of medi­um s who reflect credit upon the cause, and whose services are of great value in the broad field o f sp iritual labor. She possesses that impor- san t requisite— a classical education; being well versed in ancien t and m odern h istory , and fam iliar w ith th e m yths and religion of the old na tio n s.

She is a powerful opponent for the forces o f old theology to combat, and so well aw are a re they of th is fact, thaW A ey dare not mtet k t r i a open debnle least their m ach inery s h o u M ^ t dam aged in tbe emcoon- te r , and their w ta k points exposed tp t f e i r worshippers. They rather prefer the safer position of rem aining behind th e ir velvet fortresses and h u rl forth denunciations and pions slanders against the friends of Spiritualism th an to come ou t in to a fa ir field o f action.

The subject selected for the lec tu re w as th e “ Philosophy of M ir­acles,” which was very logically and ably handled , g iv ing great satis­faction to the num erous and a tten tive audience.

VENTILATION NEEDED.

T ha conservatism of Salem has become mus ty a n d wants airing, and I am fearful i f th is is no t done soon, i t will become m oth-eaten from ita closeness. I have alw ays tho u g h t, and still do believe, that there ia m ore real good in every m an, woman and ch ild , than harm; but I am often asham ed and mortified a t the conduct o f those who profess to be God’s children, yet crucify th e ir glorious m anhood and womanhood daily on the a lta r o f public opinion, and say by acts louder th a n worda, •‘T r u th , I know ye not in presence of these.” I t is indeed deplorable that so m any lack the m oral courage to let their poor benighted and enslaved souls shine out through the g ra tes o f th e ir d a rk prison house, F nan. I en terta in a p ity m ingled with contem pt for a ll those who haTe n o t the h eart to acknowledge their own thoughts an d act tnemselTea before those who entertain different' views on religious m atte rs . I have been led into this tra in o f thought, o r the expression o f it, by th e eondaet of certain persons whom I have m et in m y travels, a type o f a large elaae who will acknowledge the existence o f a S p iritu a lis t when there are no other eyes upon them , b u t a re both dum b a n d b lin d to your p iu tn os when in the company of unbelievers. Poor, poor creatures, God kelp them is m y p ra y er, for they have no t sense enough to ean bodies. Very truly yours,

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L e tte r fr o m G le n s F a l ls .G lexs F a l ls , O c t 23d, 1858.

M r. 8. B . 'B r i t ta s :—D ear S ir— As I suppose there is no corner of the M aster’s v ineyard so un im portan t as to be w ithout in terest to those ■who look eagerly for the signs o f the times, a word in reg ard to our sp ir itu a l sta te in th is northern region may not be ou t o f place.

Mrs. Ada L. Coan, the well-knowu test-medium, has held several cir­cles in the U niversalist church in our village, and though reports o f her success iu o ther places had prepared us for som ething excellent, y e t th e reality has fkr exceeded ou r anticipations.

The sounds have been so distinct in he r presence, and th e answ ers so decided and correct, that opposers have been completely silenced. Even th e theory-mongers were a t their w it’s end, and forced to ad­m it th a t none of their inven.ions would explain a ll phases of the m an­ifestations.

A n interest has been awakened in the adjoining towns, an d Mrs. Coan has had constant calls to hold sittings in all d irections round us. She will be thus engaged du ring the present week a t H artfo rd , F o rt A nn, Oneida Village, &c., &c. .

On Tuesday o f last week Mr. Joel Tiffany lectured to us, a fte r which M rs. Coan held a sitting . D uring the m anifestations, which were, if possible, still more satisfactory than a t her previous seances, M r. Tif­fany gave occasional explanations and rem arks th a t were listened to w ith g re a t in te res t'an d attention.

In response to a generally expressed desire, Mrs. Coan and M r. Tif­fany have promised to be with us again on Monday the 25 th in st., and hold m eetings th rough the ensuing week.

The sm all circle o f believers here a re now enjoying the privilege of lis ten ing to the preaching of J . F . W alker, and the com m unity around u s seems to be w arm ing into sp iritual life un d er the stim u la ting effect o f his occasional w ord, for he has had invitatious to preach in m any of th e “ waste places of Z ion,” where the good seed sown has already ta ­ken root.

I f such an u n usual conjunction of good influences fail to enlighten an d spiritualize our com m unity, I fear th a t we m ust be m ade up of uncommonly un tractab le m aterials. In the hope th a t g reat good m ay be accomplished, I am , w ith m uch respect, a . e. b.

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E m m a H a r d in g e ’s L e c tu r e .N ot till some ingenious a r tis t sha ll invent a means o f combining the

powers o f the phonographer with those of the daguerrean and m usician w ill i t be possible to do justice to the eloquent discourses given by Miss H ardinge a t tbe Music H all and Melodeon. The series has proved a perfect trium ph over everything in the shape of gainsaying opposition. Perhaps the best guage of success is the size o f the audiences in a ttend­ance. These have increased in num bers since he r first lec ture , till on Sunday evening last the Melodeon was crowded to an uncomfortable degree; and notw ithstanding the closeness of the atm osphere they were held , to an individual, w ith the most absorbed a tten tion du rin g an unequalled discourse of nearly two hours in length.

I f there be a better test than the above of he r success, i t is to be found in the concessions she has extorted from the b itterest opponents o f Spiritualism . The Boston C ourier—whose most excellent represen­ta tiv e , Prof. Felton, was present a t her last lecture in the Music H all, — am idst the m ost ungracious quibblings is forced to adm it as m uch asthiB:—

“ I f a n y o n e s u p p o s e s t h a t p o l i t i c s — t a r i f f , f r e e t r a d e , K a n s a s , D o u g l a s , S t a t e

r i g h t s , o r t h e a p p r o a c h i n g S t a t e e l e c t i o n — a b s o r b a l l t h e a t t e n t i o n o f t h e g o o d p e o p l e

o f B o s t o n a n d v i c i n i t y , h e o r s h e w h o c h e r i s h e r s u c h a s u p p o s i t i o n , l a b o r s u n d e r a

s l i g h t m i s t a k e . T h e m y s t e r i o u s , t h e u n k n o w n a n d t h e u n k n o w a b l e s t i l l e n g a g e t h e !

m i n d s o f m a n y . y e a , v e r y m a n y m e n a n d w o m e n . N u m e r o u s p o l i t i c a l m e e t i n g s w e r e 1

h f l d l a s t n i g h t , b u t w e v e n t u r e t o a s s e r t t h a t n o s u c h m e e t i n g J i e l d u n d e r a r o o f c o u l d 1

c o m p a r e i n n u m b e r s , o r s u r p a s s i n e a r n e s t n e s s a n a s s e m b l y o f b e l i e v e r s i n S p i r i t u a l ­

i s m , w h i c h m e t i n t h e h a l l u n d e r t h e M u s i c H a l l . T h e s p e c i a l a t t r a c t i o n o f t h e o c c a ­

s i o n w a s M i s s E m m a H a r d i n g e , a m e d i u m f r o m E n g l a n d . T h e e n t e r t a i n m e n t w a s

w e l l c a r r i e d t h r o u g h . ”

We doubt if there is a m an or woman in the country who would ven­tu re to en ter th e lecturing field and for n igh t a fte r n ig h t, and week af­te r week, a ttem p t to extemporise discourses on any them e which m ight be presented, which should defy the criticism of determ ined opponents. I t would be a marvellous success for any hum an being unaided by those inspirational influences w hich are a tten d an t upon th is gifted medi­um .

B en efit o f th e P o o r.—Miss H ardinge has k indly volunteered to lecture a t the Melodeon on T hursday evening of the present week, the proceeds to be passed to the Ladies’ H arm onial B and, for the benefit of th e poor. This act of practical ch arity will form an appropria te finale to a m o n th ’Bmost acceptable and efficient labor in th is city , and will clinch th e hold Bhe has on the hearts of the people. We have the p leasure also to s ta te th a t the beautiful panoram a of the “ P ilg rim ’s P rogress” will be unrolled before the audience on the same evening, completing the intellectual and spiritual feast. As our readers a re m ostly aw are, this panoram a is no cheap affair, b u t ia of a h igh order o f a r t well worth viewing. Only 26 cents, the usual price o f the panoram ic exhibition, is required of each visitor. The Melodeon will be crowded once more.

The C onference.— A t the Conference a t No. 14 Bromfield street on W ednesday evening of last week, M r. Edson was chosen to preside. H e explained the object o f the m eetings, w hich was m oral and relig­ious improvem ent and the expression of thought in a social and friendly sp ir it, by which he hoped both Bpeaker and h earer would be benefitted. The question , - Is any th ing w ro n g ?” was taken up and discussed w ith ab ility by Dr. Child, M essrs Lincoln, B aker, Bobbins, Adam s, Kice, C hapm an and others. The same subject is continued for consideration th is week.

D e p a r tu re of an In te re s t in g and Prom ising G ir l .— I tis no t often th a t death takes from the family circle a more beautiful o r prom ising object th an th a t o f A nna Cora, daugh ter of Lewis B. Wilson, twelve and a h a lf years old, who died on W ednesday and was burie i on Sat­u rd ay las t, from her home. No. 885 W ashington street. She possessed to more th an ordinary degree a- b rig h t in tellect and a w inning, happy n a tu re ; and had won from her teachers a n d all w ith whom she was ac­quainted , not only respect b u t sincere adm iration. D uring the last few days o f her life, she is related to h a v e seen angels hovering about her bedside, w ith whom she conversed, and he r c losing hours were made ra d ia n t w ith happiness by the celestial visitants. H er death was wor­th y o f one fa r more advanced in years. R ev. W. R. Alger, in whose Sunday School thc deceased had been a favorite scholar, officiated a t th e funeral and made a most eloquent and touching address, which deeply affected a ll present. The scholars o f he r class a t th e F rank lin School were in a ttendance, each of whom brought fresh flowers to lay upon the lifeless form o f th e ir late beloved companion. The corpse, w hich was laid out in full dress, and w ith exquisite and appropriate ta s te , looked more like one asleep th an dead. She was an only child, an d one upon whom h e r paren ts centered a world o f affection and hope.

A case in which Mrs. M ary J . Poole petitions for a divorce from her husband , on tria l in Boston the p as t week, shows terrible cruelty on the p a r t of the husband. I t appears th a t i t has been a common th ing for ten years, for him to pu ll her h a ir , choke her, knock her down and brutally beat her. A daughter, eleven years old, corroborated her m o th er 's testim ony. In reply to a question from the court, she Baid— “ I don’t feel well tow ards my fa ther, for he trea ts my m other bad, a n d I 4an’t feel well towards any one who trea ts my m other b ad .” The w itness h ere b u rs t into tears.

T h * M e l o d e o n M e e t i n g s .— I t will be seen by th e notice th a t Mrs. F . 0 . Hyxer, whose lectures proved so acceptable on a former visit to this c ity , is engaged to speak a t the Melodeon n ex t Sunday. Report 3ays th a t she has g reatly im proved as a speaker since she was w ith us before.

Th* P a r t y a t U n i o n H a l l . —There were about fifty couples p resent a t the Levee o f the Ladies’ H arm onial B and las t week Thursday. E verything passed off delightfully. The second of the course will take place on Thursday evening, 11th inst.

O u r thanks are due to M r. Alden, o f C larem ont, for a box o f the most lnsoions pears. M ay he long live to cultivate such ; and m ay the fru its o f h is inner Eden equal those in p u rity and excellence.

We would also thankfully acknowledge the reception of a barre l of excellent applesfrom M r. Geo. Bailey, of M arshfield. Will he accept the A a* m a weekly rem inder o f our gratefulness for a y ear to come ?

C o n fe r e n c e a t th e L y c e u m , C lin to n H a ll , A s to r P la c e ,F rid a y E vening , Oct. 29th.

D r. O rto n re£d the list of questions as prepared by the committee. The discussion was continued on the second in the list, viz: “ W hatare the causes and conditions o f these phenomena, and th e reasons for and against the supposition th a t tuey are produced by sp ir its?”

M r. W eston, a m erchant o f th is c ity , subm itted a w ritten statem ent c f facts in h is experience, going to prove the tru th o f spirit-intercourse. I t was in substance as follows:

In 1848, M r. W eston was a m erchant in Rochester. He had an uncle o f the Fox girls in h is employ, which brought him into an ac­quaintance with them. The rappings through them , however, he con­sidered a ll hum bug, and refused to investigate the subject. In 1849 he removed to New York. Hjp acquain tance w ith those m edium s was still continued, b u t he gave no heed to th e ir pretensions. This contin­ued u n til a deep domestic affliction overtook him , in the loss o f alm ost h is entire family. In four years he lost his m other, b ro ther, sister,

j wife and son. This prepared the way and led him to investigate the phenomena of Spiritualism .

In the m onth of May last he was in Ph iladelphia , and was invited to see young R uggles, Prof. H are’s favorite medium. There he heard rap s , and saw a table moved w ithout physical contact. He locked the doors o f the room, and they were unlocked by an invisible agency, as fast as he could lock them . The sp irit of his b ro th er H enry announced himself. M r. W. rem arked th a t H enry was a g reat h u n te r, when sud­denly there was an explosion like fire-arm s, and a qu an tity o f shot ra ttled about the floor, some of which he gathered up and preserved. W ater also dropped down on him from an invisible source, and marbles and bookj on another occasion were throw n about the room. A t a sub­sequent sittin g , his m other corrected the spelling of he r C hristian nam e, w hich, being an unusual one, he had mis-spelled. The lead was taken m ysteriously out o f his pencil, and re tu rned to him , ro lling on the paper before him , a t his request. -

Dr. H are believed th a t the spirits could, and d id , transm ute m etals, th rough Ruggles, and Mr. Weston asked them if it was true . An af­firm ative reply war given, an a by their direction he pu t a q u a rte r of a dollar under a tea-cup, no one touching the cup, meanwhile, b u t him­self, and in th ir ty seconds, he found in place of the silver, a square piece of gold of about equal weight, which is pronounced good gold by the brokers and assayers of W all-street, and others, who have tested it in every form. [M r. W. exhibited the piece of gold to the audience.] Dr. H are, M r. DeWolf, and several others, were p resent a t the time of th is transm utation . This, and the other experim ents, were performed in a good light.

On M r. W eston’s re tu rn to New York, he addressed a long letter to his deceased wife, in cypher, which was answered, and his own letter transla ted , by R uggles, w ithout the breaking of the seals. He then induced Ruggles to come to New York, and continued his experiments.

The sp irits would throw pears about the room ; they cut a piece from a water-melon. They threw eggs and h it him and Ruggles on the head, when there were no eggs iu the house, sayiog th a t they were good subjects for sponge-cake. They threw a pie against h is back. They took down the bedstead when he and Ruggles were in bed. They altered the time on th e ir watches, and then took off the hands, and subsequently replaced them with paper ones. Going on board a boat, he found he had left an im portant paper behind in his office. The spirits told him not to re tu rn for i t— th a t they would bring it; and on going to his state-room he found it there, pinned against the wall, together with a pencil they had brought. On his way down from Harlem on one occa­sion, he lost a th ree dollar bill, which was subsequently re tu rn ed to him on his shoulder. He went to Boston with R uggles, and stopped a t the Revere House. The room given them did not su it the sp irits, and so they went to ring ing the bells a ll over the house, and kept the wait­ers answering im aginary calls. W hile there, Mr. Weston rem arked th a t he wished he h ad his - R ailroad Guide, which was a t his office in New Y ork, when th e book— the same bock,-unm istakably, having his own nam e in it— was brough t and laid in his room. He opened a bot­tle of cham paigne and poured ou t a couple o f glasses, when the bottle disappeared. I t was Boon discovered balanced on a peg, where no hu ­m an being oould have sustained it, w ith the cork replaced, and a pen stuck in it. ”

One Sunday, as they were about going out, Ruggles received a q uan­tity o f saw -dust on his head, and down his neck: and as he was con­g ra tu la tin g h im self on his escape, he was treated in like m anner, the sp irits saying th a t in old times it was the fashion to powder the ha ir, and they wished them to appear like gentlemen. They arrived a t the door of th e ir room, and found they had not got the key. The sp irits unlocked the door. The sp irit of his fa ther related to him the events of his (th e speaker's) life, for a period of eighteen years. A t the tr ia l o f the steam fire-engines in Boston, the sp irits announced to him th a t the Ph iladelphia engine would be the victor, which fact he published in Boston on the m orning of the day in which the tria l was to be made.A sp irit announced to him th a t he had left money in his pocket book, not distributed by his w ill, which he wished appropriated in a certain direction. The sp irit brought the money, seventy-two d o lla rsin am ount, each bill m arked w ith tbe in itials of his Dame, and dictated a le tter; and M r. W eston enclosed the money and sent i t by m ail, according to the sp irit’s direction, an d received a rep ly from the recipient, enclosing a le tter to the sp irit, which was also answered by th e sp irit. He went to B arre , which was his b irth-place. L etters addressed to him from different places were brought by the spirits and delivered in his room. One letter, which would have required three days to reach him by the mails, was b rough t in th e space of a few hours. He wrote a letter to the Boston T ra v e lle r , enclosing a dollar. The sp irits told him not to p u t a stam p on it. They took it from his room , and he subsequently ascertained th a t i t was prom ptly delivered a t the place of its destina­tion. L ast week, a t M r. H ussey’s room , on C anal street, while they were em ptying a bottle of Saratoga w ater, a le tte r dropped on the ta­ble containing several dollars; and the sp irits informed them there was som ething of value in the bottle, when th ey b ro k e it, and found seve­ra l dollars more. This money was appropria ted to a specific purpose, by direction of the sp irits .

M r. Weston was questioned a t some length. Among other th ings he stated th a t he had been greatly relieved of a chronic c a ta rrh by inject­ing a solution of common salt up his nostrils, by direction of the sp ir­its , and th a t several cases of bindness and deafness had been cured by the same remedy.

M r. D resser said, th a t for m any years his life was despaired of by reason of hem orrhage from the lungs. By spirit-im pression first, and afterw ard by full comm unication, he was directed to a rem edy which effected a cure. Touching the transm utation of m etals, he believed th a t sp irits could do it. Several years ago there was a wonderful man a t A lbany, by the name of Sprague. This m an w ent to California, and the transfer of the vessel in which he went w as made a t his (D resser’s) Law Office, which brough t him acquainted w ith Sprague. Sprague gave him evidence th a t thiB could be done. I f any one would take the trouble to examine Cotton M ather’s M agnlaia, they would there find evidence th a t the sam e thing3 now occurring took place a t Salem two hundred years ago. Sprague sta ted th a t he received reports o f the battles in Mexico, th rough the sp irits , as they were fought, a ll through the course o f the w ar.

The discussion was continued by D r. O rton , M r. P a rtrid g e , M r. Sm ith, of Chicago, M r. Coles, M r. Pierce, o f Providence, M r. Paine, of W orcester, and Dr. G ray. A perfect avalanche of facts, of a more astounding ch aracter, perhaps, th an have ever been placed before the public, were poured out on the large audience in attendance, to the to­ta l discomfiture, for the present a t lea s t, of the sp irit o f skepticism.

J . R. O.

Spirit gtanifcstaiions.S p ir its a t a D e a th -B e d .

From a le tter received from Dr. Geo. A tkins, we ex tract the following statem ent in his own words:

Some m onths ago I was called to visit a youDg m an in the city of New London, C t., who was an a r tis t in Norwich, and a m em ber o f the B ap tist church in th a t city. I found him in a condition beyond all aid , life being alm ost ex tin c t; and a few hours after m y a rriv a l he passed on. There were some th ings connected w ith his sickness and passage to spirit-life w hich m ay be interesting to y o u r readers, which I will here relate.

One evening he informed his friends a t his boarding-place th a t he m ust go to New London th a t n igh t and see his b ro ther, who lived in th a t place. There was a severe ra in storm on th a t evening, and his friends tried to persuade him to w ait u n til the n ex t m orn ing , b u t all to no purpose ;. he was determ ined to go. After m uch opposition was raised against i t , he a t last said , “ I feel th a t if I ever go there I m ust go to -n ig h t.” H e w ent, and a few hours a fte r his a rriv a l was taken bleeding from the lungs, and never afterw ard left his bed, in the form.

As I said above, afte r it was too la te for any assistance to be ren­dered, I was sent for, and on my a rriv a l found him dying. H is speech was almost gone, yet occasionally a word could be understood, and he appeared to be conversing w ith others than those present in the form. Among the words which were u tte red , we understood those of “ F a th ­e r ,” “ M other,” and the names of o ther friends who had passed on before him. These nam es were d istinctly h eard by several of the friends who stood n ear his bed, as well as myself. -

Some tim e after th is he revived so as to converse a very little ; and when asked if he had seen those nam ed, h is answ er was, “ Yes, they are a ll w ith m e.” A gain he relapsed in to the form er condition, and was heard to say , w ith raised hands, “ Shall I follow you ?” and then , “ Don’t leave m e.”

Soon a lte r this his sp irit left the form , and , as all were satisfied, in company with o ther sp irits passed into the interior life.

The following lines, suggested by th e above-mentioned occurrence, I copy from an ob ituary w ritten by one o f his friend! a n d published in the Norwich A u ro ra :

M o t h e r ! y e s , ’ t i s m o t h e r d e a r ,

F a t h e r ! y e s , y o u , t o o . a r e h e r e ;

C o m e t o m e e t y o u r d y i n g s o n —

C o m e t o t a k e h i m t o y o u r h o m e .

O t h e r s p i r i t s r o u n d m e t r e a d —

A n g e l s h o v e r o ’ e r m y b e d ;

' A l l h a r e c o m e f r o m P a r a d i s e —

: C o m e t o w a f l m e t o t h e s k i e s .

E a r t h l y f r i e n d s , w e e p n o t f o r m e ,

J o y s c e l e s t i a l n o w I s e e ;

D o n ’ t d e t a i n m e b y y o u r t e a r s —

. L e t m e g o t o h e a v e n l y s p h e r e s .

F a r e w e l l s i s t e r s , b r o t h e r s , a l l ;

G o d d o t h f o r m y s p i r i t c a l l ;

A n g e l s , t a k e m e b y t h e h a n d — ‘

L e a d m e t o y o u r h e a v e n l y l a n d .

M r. Foster w rote : “ The little one would be v ery glad to w rite under the table, b u t has no t the power.”

And was not th is , a fte r a ll, the best test th a t could be given 1 For i f i t was deception, w hy not have it perfect aud m ake her w rite?

M r. F . then requested me to sit by h is side, as a sp irit wished to speak. This was necessary, in order to m ake me hear. I was then favored w ith a noble speech from F ran k lin , o f perhaps tw enty m inutes in leng th , recognizing and setting forth facts and conditions o f which the medium could no t have known an y th ing , no t only giving me great encouragem ent and com fort, by recognizing m y tru es t w ork, b u t m ul­tip ly ing tests o f the rea lity o f w hat I heard w ith almost every sen­tence.

In short, I am convinced th a t M r. Foster is no t only a seer and a medium for new and s trik in g m anifestations, b u t th a t he is soon to unfold fa r h igher and more rem arkable powers th an he has yet exhibited. His dem eanor th roughou t th e whole, was quiet and alm ost chilklike in its sim plicity and frankness; and if he could thus deceive w ithout any m ateria l for deception, p lann ing the whole w ith such a r t as to make a perfect correspondence, w ithout a single flaw anyw here, he is a magi­cian of the h ighest order, and one who needs looking to as the archest o f all deceivers. T hus the sp iritu a l theory cannot, a t least in th is case, be set aside w ithout recognizing’in i ts stead a host o f miracles, in the centre o f which is the unexplained and unansw ered In te llig en ce , th a t still and continually asserts its power, and defies explanation by any o ther th an sp iritu a l laws. F rances H. G reen.

Various $frats.

In C incinnati, a servan t g irl o f somnambulic hab its, after leisurely prom enading the roof o f a h igh building, fell into the street and fa­ta lly in ju red herself.

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nnomutnuitfs.

Here is a specimen of religious liberty in A ustria . A countrym an in the neighborhood of M ariazell m et a procession of pilgrim s on their way there, and neglected to take off h is h a t while i t passed. This is an of­fence un d er the new concordat, and the delinquent has been accord­ingly tried for i t a t V ienna, and sentenced to a fortnight’s imprison­m ent w ith h a rd labor.

A correspondent o f th e N . Y. E v e n in g P o st, who has been reading Spurgeon’s Gems, is m uch struck w ith the originality of the idea there expressed, th a t we should a ll probably like to h a ye fr e e passes to the palace of Heaven. He a t the same tim e suggests th a t th e holders of those passes would probably be “ dead heads.”

C hcrcii T roubles.— I t is a pa in fu l and somewhat rem arkable fact th a t for years there have not been in the B aptist churches in th is city and v icin ity , a t any one tim e, so m any in ternal strifes and discords, as a t present. There are now a t least four churches in the city and its suburbs suffering from sore dissensions. A nd so soon after the glori­ous revival. And still more, a ll these churches shared largely in the revival— and still more, the difficulties th a t afflict them commenced in each case while the revival was yet in progress. The inference of skep­tics and scoffers is, th a t these so-called reviva ls a re bad th ings; pro­ducing fru its th a t a re carna l and selfish.— -A”. Y . Correspondent W atchm an and Reflector.

In im itation of the m otto o f the Fulton street prayer-m eeting, N. Y ., “ No controverted points discussed here !” a fashionable d rink ing sa­loon in th a t city displays the legend, “ No sw earing a n d no religious discussions allowed here!” ‘

R em a r k a b le E v id e n c e s o f S p ir itu a l P r e se n c e .Though bu t little in the habit of visiting mediums, being seldom fa

vored 'by sp irits th rough any other th an my own m edium ship, I re­ceived, a few days since, a d irect and strong impression th a t I should visit Mr. Foster, who is now, as I believe, stationed a t M r. M unson’s Rooms, which I accordingly did , and arranged for a sitting .

W ith those who have been confessedly deceiving in th is m atte r, I have nothing to do. The evidences w ithin myself, which are repeated with every conscious moment of my life, could not be strengthened by any outside testim ony. They are such as no theories outside o f the sp iritua l, can either account for, refute or explain away by any recog­nized laws of e ither m atte r or mind. I did not, then , go e ither to be convinced or confirm ed; b u t it was with open eyes, and an extrem e sen­sibility to the sphere or quality of the consciousness th a t came in con tac t w ith m ine; and th u s , though without suspicion, I was actually fore-armed against deception. I t m ight have been th a t I was sent there personally to hear the testim ony which I shall now proceed to give.

On tak ing our seats a t a sm all Pem broke, o r breakfast tab le, M r. F. requested me to fix my m ind on some sp irit from whom I wished to re­ceive a comm unication. I imm ediately thought of F ran k lin , when I was requested to take a card containing the alphabet and point to the letters successively, when the sp irit would rap a t the r ig h t ones; tak in g care, however, to keep the facts th u s elicited concealed from the medium. This was done, the sp irit rapp ing so loud th a t I heard w ithout my trum pet. Thus the name of Benjam in F ran k lin was spelt, and the in s tan t th a t it was finished, the m edium ’s hand was seized, and w ith the pencil which it held, two nearly paralle l and deeply waved lines were draw n on a sheet of paper th a t lay near, he saying a t the same tim e, with a m arked and peculiar emphasis, “ There, you know w hat th a t m eans?”

I answered “ y e s ,” for the lines had a strik ing analogy to the wires in a m agnetic in strum en t, which, as I believe, D r. F ran k lin is teaching me to construct; and again my response was received with unm istakable dem onstrations, confirming th ings of which the medium knew noth­ing.

Up to th is time the nam e of F ran k lin had not been mentioned a t all, I having kep t the paper where the letters were w ritten down one by one, closely concealed; when suddenly the m edium said: “ I see a sp irit standing by you .” He then described the appearance, and gave the nam e of F ranklin .

So also were the names of my father and m other spelt; and several little comm unications obtained. While th is was going on I felt a hand passing slowly over and p a ttin g me, under the tab le ; when it was im­mediately w ritten w ith the m edium ’s hand , “ I t was I, dear daugh ter, th a t touched you—M other.”

I did not understand this, and th u s unconsciously opened the way for ano ther test— for I had thought i t was my child. B u t a fte r a little while it was again w ritten by the medium , who could have known noth­ing of my thought: “ Dear d au gh ter, i t was I th a t touched you .”

My m other was also seen and described before he r relationship was m entioned. About this tim e, I heard th rough the in terior voice which I alm ost alw ays h ear— “ D ear child, your fa ther w ants to speak with you.”

A t the very in stan t the left hand of the m edium grasped m ine; while w ith his r ig h t hand was w ritten “ George,” my fa th e r 's Christian nam e; and to confirm the whole, the w riting itself was a perfect auto­graph . This was followed by an appropria te speech. Thus the raps, the w riting , and the words, in every instance, had an exact and spe­cific relation to m y th o u g h t, o r my own knowledge of facts; while eve­ry successive motion was prom pt and perfect.

The m edium then requested me to sit opposite to him , th a t I m ight thus better scan a ll his movements, saying th a t the sp irits would write in colors under the table. He then told me to make certa in m arks on several pieces o f paper, by w hich I m ight identify them . These were folded, and one a t a tim e given to M r. F. He laid the first one under the table beside him a t hia r ig h t h in d , being thus a t the farthest pos­sible point from my rig h t hand , in which he directed me to hold a pen­cil, also under the table.

A fter a short time there were uneasy fidgeting m otions o f the table, when M r. F. discovered th a t som ething was w rong, telling me a t the same tim e to hold the pencil lower down. I then bethought me th a t I was holding the pencil w ith the poin t up. I tu rned it, holding it loosely in my hand ; and though I was noting everything m ost carefully , I could detect no sensation in the hand. I t was, how­ever, bu t an in stan t, when the table, by three d istinct im pulses, as if su rm ounting three superincum bent billows of a ir , rose w ith an undula­tin g motion as i f buoyed up by an exceedingly elastic power, to the height of perhaps four or five inches from the floor, yet w ithout inclin­in g or tipp ing in the least. M r. F . interpreted thia as a sign th a t the sp ir it had w ritten ; and on lifting the paper i t had my fa th e r’s auto­g rap h , perfect in every line— w ritten in ligh t red. On opening it m y own m ark was found on the inside. Thus, and w ith precisely the Bame proceedings, the nam e of my m other was w ritten in brow n, and th a t, too, w ith h e r own peculiar spelling of the name. Then the in itials of F ra n k lin ’s nam e were w ritten in blue.

In the m eantim e I had been th ink ing of my dear and only child, w ishing th a t she m ight come, bu t saying no th ing ; when the medium suddenly exclaimed : “ I see a sp irit standing by you .”

My hand was instan tly lifted to the height o f a child o f ten or twelve years, when he understood the sign, answ ering, “ Yes, i t is a little girl. She has a fair complexion and ligh t hair. She says he r nam e is M ary, and she is your ch ild ;” a ll o f which corresponded exactly w ith the facts.

I then asked he r to w rite ; and she said she would t ry ; b u t a fte r a short in te rval o f effort, indicated by the uneasy motions of th e table,

N early a ll the phrases so necessary in PartialiBt theology, as trinity, triu n e God, God-man, to ta l deprav ity , endless m isery, eternal death A dam ’s fall, endless hell, o rig inal sin , divine an d hum an natures, God the Son and God the Holy G host, sta te of probation, vindictive justice, finally im penitent, infinite pbligation, o r sin , o r misery, &c. &c., a re not to be found in the Biblje.

L ectu res o n Sp iritu a lism .The following a re am ong th e topics for th e discussion o f w b k ii

subscriber offers his services to the pnblio:1. Objections against Spiritualism b y believers in th e B ible.2. Spiritualism defined and proved from the B ible t o have

d u rin g th e first 4000 y ears o f th e w orld’s h isto ry .8. M odern Spiritualism a revival o f P rim itive C hristianity .4. The Philosophy o f communion w ith disembodied sp irits . .5. The Uses o f Spiritualism . "»

The Abuses o f Spiritualism .False and in ju rious views o f the Bible.

8. Insp ira tion , general.9. H um an reason the u ltim ate au th o rity in m atte r* l u t k a a i

practice.God, M an, and the DeviL , ■

11. Philosophy of Religious Revivals.12. Sp iritual growth.13. O ur enemies our advocates.Lectures on the abo \e topics w ill be furnished s i n g l y o r in e o v s v

five and six lectures each. Address, office o f S p ir i tu a l Jtge,44—3111 ‘ J o b x H o i a s x ;

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Tue Im piety o f C rin o lin e .—L a d ies in Hoops Forbidden to P a r ­take o f the Sacram en t. The resolutions of the Miami Conference of the Church of United B re th ren , declaring the wearing o f crinoline in compatible w ith a tru e C hristian’s profession, seem to be rig id ly en­forced by the authorities of th a t denomination. A t a cam p m eeting of the U nited B re th ren C hurch, recently held n ear W est B altim ore, Mont­gomery county, Ohio, Bishop Russell forbade any one with hoops on to partake of the sacram ent, affirm ing th a t they would not be welcome a t the table of the Lord.

A Mormon Exegesis.— A t Holytowu, E ng ., the o ther Sabbath , one of the Mormon preachers, du rin g his discourse, used the expression th a t th is was “ a wicked and an adulterous generation.” A fter a short pause h e resum ed, saying, “ Yes, m y b re th ren , and I will prove it, too. Are no t your tea, coffee, su g ar, spices, pickles, preserves, m ilk, m eal, snuff and tobacco adu lte ra ted?— n ay , alm ost every article of y o u r daily consum ption ?” T hen , stretching him self up to his full height, he w ith g reat emphasis eixclaimed, “ Who, then , will dare to deny the fact th a t this is a wicked and an adulterous generation?” ' E n g lish P a p er .

S in g u la r In c id en t.— Five weeks ago th is day , the freight tra in upon the V erm ont and M assachusetts R ailroad brought to two young men in a town in th is county , who were pa rtn e rs in a flourishing business and brothers-in-law , two elegantly w rought iron fences, which they had or­dered from Boston, to be placed about th e ir lots in the village grave­y ard . On the gate of each fence were raised letters giving the name of the owner. The nex t day they superintended their erection and re­tu rned to th e ir homes, which they did not again leave u n til th e ir life­less bodies were borne by th e ir neighbors to be deposited in th e lots they had so recently fitted up for th e ir last earth ly resting-place.— Greenfield Gazette.

A C hurch Inciden t.— The Fulton G azette tells o f an am using inci­dent th a t occurred not long since in a church in th a t county. As the “ wine” was being passed, it came to a newly converted French g irl, and was offered w ith the usual sa lu ta tion—“ D rink ye all of th is ,” which she in terpreted in a lite ra l sense, and proceeded forthw ith to swallow the whole, only stopping to breathe when it was h a lf drank up.— i lb a n y A lla s and A rg u s.

This rem inds us of a genuine African com m unicant, who, years ago, in a neighboring town, when the “ w ine” was for the first tim e handed him in church , d rained the cup , and sm acking his thick lips exclaimed, “ Oh! how I lub de Lord Jesu s ; gib me some more!” — Syracuse R ep

P E R S O N A L A N D S P E C IA L .

L. Judd Pabdee will lecture a t New Bedford on Suuday, Nov. 7th. He m ay be addressed for the present a t the Fountain House, Boston.

E . S. W h eele r will speak a t Quincy, M ass., Nov. 28th, and may be engaged for the 7th, 14th and 21st, or any evenings in the m onth of November, by addressing him a t th a t place as soon as convenient.

A nna M. H enderson will lecture in B ridgeport, Ct , Nov. 7th , and in W iilim antic the 21st and 28 th ; after which she w ill v isit Philadel­phia. F riends will please address he r a t Newtown, C t , through the m onth of November.

A. B. W h i t i n g will speak a t W altham , Sundays Xov. 7th and 14th; New Bedford, 21st and 2 8 th ; and a t Providence Dec. 5th and 12th. Those desiring lectures th rough the week m ay address h im a t either of the above places.

An English g irl, eighteen years o f age. wishes a situation in a Spir­itua lis t fam ily, to do sewing, cham ber-w ork, o r take charge of chil­dren. Inquire a t Miss M unson’s, 13 L agrange Place.

* M rs. H. F. M. B row n, of Cleveland, O., editress of the The A g ita tor, will lecture to the Spiritualists a t Clinton H all, corner of A tlantic and Clinton streets, B rooklyn, N. Y ., on Sunday, the 14th in st., a t 3 and 7 P. M, also on th e following Sunday, e ither in B rooklyn o r New York, of which due notice will bo given.

L oring M oodt will lecture on Spiritualism and its relations, in New Bedford, on Sunday, Nov. 7 th ; Taunton, or EaBt Taunton, Sunday, Nov. 1 4 th ; M iddleboro’, Sunday, Nov. 21st., and on intervening eve­nings in neighboring towns or villages. W ill friends o f t ru th seeth a t a ll needful arrangem ents a re made ?

. B o sto n , Oct. 25th, 1858.Owing to my constan tly increasing business, and in order tha t m y

patien ts m ay receive the most careful atten tion , I have ■Tmnatrd vH& me M r. W i l l i a m E. R i c e , who is well known to the Spiritaalista « f Boston, as a reliable M edical C lairvoyant, an d as a M edium lor % prescrip tion of Sp irit remedies.

To such of the afflicted as desire sp iritn a l trea tm en t for their diseas­es, I would say th a t, w ith th e increased facilities which I now have, both for ascertaining accurately the cause and n a tu re of their diseaaa, and for the application o f th e p roper rem edies, and being togive them my constant personal a tten tion , I can ensure them a speedy re tu rn of health in a ll cases in which th e ir disease is curable.

Dr.. C. Ma in . 7 Davis St., Boston.

Pub lic M eetings will be held regu larly in Concert Hall, B u rlin g ­ton , V t., every Sabbath , u n til fu rth e r notice, a t 2 and 7 P .M . l l n . Sarah A. H orton will speak Sunday, Nov. 7 th an d 1 4 th ; Mia. J . W ,

C urrier, o f Lowell, M ass.,’Nov. 21st and 2 8 th ; and Mr. H. B. S te m Dec. 5 th and 12th. M rs. Ada L. Coan w ill give public manificstaticBE a t the same place, Tuesday and W ednesday evenings, Nov. 9th and 10th.

H. B. S to k e r , Iusp ira tional M edium, will fill engagem ents to lecture as follows: A t M anchester, C t.,N ov. 7 th ; W orcester, Mass., N o t . 14th; Lowell, Maes., Nov. 21st and 2 8 th ; W iilim antic, C t , Dec. 5th; C h e s t e r , C t., Dec. 12th. F riends in the vicinity o f th e abo' places who m ay desire his services, a re requested to address him a t either of the above towns a t w hich he is to be nex t a fte r th e ir letters are w ritten. E arly application should be m ade, th a t there may be no loss of time.

Mrs. Fannie B u rbank F e lto n will lecture in Willimantie, C t., Sunday, Nov. 7 th and 1 4 th ; and in Norwich, Ct., Nov. 21st and 28th, and Dec. 5 th and 12th. Those w ishing week evening lecturesnm address W illard B arnes Felton a t e ither place.

Miss Emma H ard in g e will lectu re in P o rtlan d , M e., the first two Sun­days in Novem ber; in M ontreal and Philadelphia the last t* o . Mira H a r­dinge tvill spend the m onth o f December in S t. Louis, and will be happy to receive applications from western cities for F eb ru ary and M arch. Ad­dress during November to 194 G rand s treet, New Y ork, and d a r in g December to th e care of A. M iltenberger, E sq ., S t. Louis, Mo.

George A tk ins, trance-speaking and healing m edium , w ill lec tu re Sandwich, Nov. 7 th ; B arnstable, Nov. 1 0 th ; Y arm outh , Nov. 1 2 th ; Ilyann is, Nov. 14 th ; H arw ich, Nov. 21st. H e will continue on to Provincetown, lecturing and a ttend ing to th e sick in a n y place w hen his services are desired, between, and also a fte r, these dates. A ddrtM , W ebster, Mass. He will act as agen t for th e S p ir i tu a l J & g t .

W a rre n Chase will speak as follows:— In B ethel, V t, N o t . 14th; in Newport, N. H ., Nov. 17th and 1 8 th ; in M anchester, N . H., N o t . 21st; in Pittsfield, N. H ., Nov. 24 th and 2 5 th ; in N atick , Mass.,28th.

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M rs. F . O. H yzer will speak a t the Melodeon, on Sunday next, a t 3 and 7 1-2 o’clock, P . M.

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A C onference M eeting is held every W ednesday evening a t 7 o’clock. Admission free.

D. F. G oddard lectures Sunday afternoon a t No. 14 Bromfield street, a t 3 o’clock. Adm ission free.

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A R SV O L T J^IO W A K Y l e g e n d .6 r G E O R G E L I P P A R D .

I t was in the wilds of Wissahicon, on the day of the battle, &s the noon-day sun came shining through the thickly clus­tered leaves, that two men met in deadly conflict near that fock which rose like a huge wreck of some primeval world, at least one hundred feet above the dark waters o f the Wissa-

' hicon. .The man with a dark brow and the darker grey eye flashing

with a deadly light— with muscular form clad in a blue hunt­ing frock of the Revolution— is a continental named W arren. H is brother was murdered the other night a t the massacre ef Paoli.

The other man, with long black hair drooping along his ca­daverous face, is clad in the half military costume of a tory refugee. This ia the murderer of Paoli, named Dehaney.

They met here by accident, and now they fought, not with sword or rifle, but with long and deadly hunting knives they struggled, twining and twisting over the green sward.

A t last the tory is down!—down on the turf, with the knee o f the continental upon his breast— that u p ra ise^ knife quivering in the light— that dark eye flashing death in his face!

“ Quarter! I y ield!” gasped the tory as the knee was pressed upon his b reast; “ spare me—I yield !”

“ My brother,” said the patriot soldier, in that tone of deadly h a te ; “ my brother cried for quarter on the night of Paoli, and even as he clung to your knees you struck that knife into his heart. Oh, I will give the quarter of P a o li!”

And as his hand was raised for the blow, and his teeth were clenched with deadly hate, he paused for a moment, then pin­ioned the tory’s arms, and with a rapid stride, dragged -him to the verge o f the rock, and held him quivering over the abyss.

“ Mercy!” gasped the tory, turning black and ashy by turns, as that awful gulf yawned below. “ Mercy ! I have a wife, a

r child— spare me !”} Then the continental, with his . muscular strength gathered

for the effort, shook the murderer once more over the abyss, and then hissed this bitter sneer between his te e th :

• “ My brother had a wife and two children. The morning after the night of Paoli, that wife was a widow and those children orphans ! W ouldn’t you like to go and beg your life o f that widow and her children ?”

The proposal made by the continental in the mockery of bitter hate wan taken in serious earnest by the terror-striken tory. H e begged to be taken to the widow and her children, to have the privilege of begging his life. A fter a moment of Berious thought the patriot soldier consented. H e bound the tory’s arms still tighter, placed him on the rock again, and led him up the woods. A quiet cottage embosomed among the trees, broke on their eyes. They entered the cottage. There, beside the desolate hearthstone, sat the widow and children. She sat there a matronly woman of about th irty years, with a face faded by care, a deep dark eye, and long black hair, hanging in a dishevelled state about her shoulders. On one side was a dark-haired boy of some six years ; on the other side a little girl, one year younger, with light blue eyes. The Bible— an old and venerated volurue— lay open on the mother’s knee. And then the pale-faced tory flung himself on his knees, and confessed he had butchered her husband on the night, o f Paoli and begged his life a t her hands. .

“ Spare me for the sake of my wife-—my child!”H e had expected this pitiful moan would touch the widow’s

heart, but not one relenting gleam softened her face.“ The Lord shall judge between u s !” she said in a cold icy

tone, that froze the murderer’s heart. “ L ook! the Bible is in my lap ; I will close that volume, and this boy shall open it, and place his finger at random upon a line, and by tha t line you shall live or d ie !” « .

This was a strange proposal, made in good faith, of a wild and dark superstition of the olden times. For a moment, the tory, pale as ashes, was wrapt in thought. Then in a fainting voice he signified his consent.

Raising her dark eyes to Heaven, the mother prayed to the great Father to direct the finger of her son. She closed the book— she handed it to that boy, whose cheek reddened with loathing as he gazed upon his father’s murderer. H e took the Bible, opened its holy pages at random, and placed his finger on a verse.

There was a silence. The continental soldier who had sworn to avenge his brother’s death, stood there with dilating eyes and parted lips. The culprit, kneeling Upon the floor, with his face like discolored clay, felt his heart leap to his throat. ''

Then, in a clear, bold voice, thc widow read this line from the Old Testament. I t was short yet te rrib le :

“ That man shall d ie!"L ook! the brother springs forward to plunge a knife into

the murderer’s h e a r t; but the tory, pinioned as he is, clings to the widow’s knees. He begs that one more trial may be made by the little girl, that child of five years old, with golden hair and laughing eyes.

The widow consents. There is an awful pause. W ith a smile in. her eye, without knowing what she does, the little girl opens the Bible as it lay on her mother’s knee ; she turns her laughing face away and places her finger upon a line.

_ •That awful silence grows deeper. The deep drawn breath

of the brother, and broken gasp o f the murderer, alone dis­turbed tho stillness. The widow and the dark-hp.ired boy were breathless. The little girl, unconscious as she was, caught a feeling of awe from the countenances around her, and stood breathless, her face turned aside, and her tiny finger resting on that line of life or death.

A t length gathering courage, the widow bent her eyes to the page and read. I t was a line from the New Testament:

“ Love your enemies / ”Oh, book of terrible majesty and child-like love— of sublim­

ity that crushes the soul into awe— of beauty that melts the heart with rapture, you have never shown more strangely than there in that lonely cot of the Wissahicon when you saved the murderer’s life.

Now look you how wonderful are the ways of Heaven. That very night, as the widow sat by the lonely hearth, her orphans by her side— sat there with a crushed heart and hot eyelids, thinking o f her husband who now lay mouldering on the blood- drenched soil of Paoli— there was a tap a t the door. She opened it, and th a t husband, living, though covered with wounds, was in her arms.

H e had fallen a t Paoli, but not in death. H e was alive and his wife lay panting on his bosom.

T hat night there was prayer in the wood-embowered cot o f Wissahioon.

S T O R Y O F P R E S E N T I M E N T .Here is something (says M illington’s Medical Experience,)

that will please the ladies and astonish the m en:—The singu­lar sympathies that forewarn a future union between the sexes, have, in some instances, been most surprising. The following, which came within my knowledge, is perhaps one of the most singular: _

M r.-------, a brother officer of mine, was a man of taciturnand retired habits, seldom frequented public places of amuse­ment, and when there, felt anything but gratification. One evening after supper, he was, however, prevailed upon to go to a ball. W e had not been long in the room when, to my utter surprise he expressed great admiration of a young lady who was dancing; and what still more amazed us, he engaged her to dance. Such an act of apparent levity on his part, struck us as a singularity, which might have been attributed to an un­usual indulgence a t table, had not the contrary been the case, for he was remarkably abstemious. The dance was scarcely over when he came to me, and told me, with a look of deep despondency, tha t his lovely partner was a married woman. The tone of sadness in which he addressed me was truly ludi­crous. A few minutes after he left the ball-room. The strange­ness of his conduct led me to fear that his mind was not alto­gether in a sound state ; but I was confirmed in my apprehen­sion when he told me, the following morning, tha t he was con­vinced he should be married to the object o f his admiration, whose husband was a young and healthy clergyman in the neighborhood. Here matters rested, and we both w e n t abroad. W e did not meet until three years after, when to my surprise I found that his prediction had been verified. The lady’s hus­band had died from a fall from his horse, ancLthe parties were married. B ut what rendered this circumstance still more strange is, that a similar presentiment was experienced by the young lady, who, on returning from ^the ball, men­tioned to her sister, with much emotion, that she had danced with a stranger to whom she felt convinced that she was des­tined to be married. The conviction embittered every moment of her life, as, despite her most strenuous endeavors, she could not dismiss the stranger from her constant thoughts, reluctant­ly yielding to tbe hope of seeing him again.

C U R IO U S D O C U M E N T .The following is a translation from an old French paper. I t

is a bill presented to the curate of the church of Barreville in 1710 by Jaques Barbou, decorative p a in te r:

1. Correcting and revarnishing the ten commandments.2. Embellishing Pontius P ilate and putting a ribbon in

his hat. 7 -3. Pu tting a new tail to St. P e te r’s cock and repairing his

comb.4. Fixing the good th ief to his cross, and making a new

finger for the same.5. Restoring the Angel Gabriel’s eye.6. Washing the servant of Caiphas the high priest, and

putting rouge on his cheeks.7. Renewing the heavens, adding two stars and gilding the

sun and washing the moon.8. Brightening tho flames of purgatory, aud restoring sev­

eral souls.9. Renewing the fires of hell, and putting a new tail to

Lucifer, repairing his left claw, and making several suits for the damned.

10. A new border for Herod’s robe, putting in two new teeth and readjusting his wig.

11. Patching the leathern breeches of Amos, and putting two buttons on his waistcoat.

12. New gaiters for Tobit and a new belt for his knap­sack.

13. Cleaning the ears of Balaam ’s ass and shoeing him.14. Restoring the ear-rings to Sarah’s ears.15. A new pebble in David’s sling, enlarging Goliah’s

head, and setting his foot further back.16. New teeth in the jawbone o f the ass in Sampson’s

hand.17. Pitching the bottom of-Noah’s ark.18. Putting a new shirt on the prodigal son.

Total, 70 livres, 06 sols.

“ B lu e S k y S o m e w h e r e .”Children are eloquent teachers. Many a lesson which has

done our heart good, have we learned from their lisping lips. I t was but the other day another took root in memory. We were going to a pic-nic, and of course the little ones had been in ecstacies for several days. B ut the appointed morning broke with no glad sunshine, no songs of birds, no peals of mirth. There was every prospect o f rain— even Hope hid her face and wept.

“ Shan’t we go, mother ?” exclaimed a child of five with passionate emphasis.

“ I f it clears off.”“ B u t when will it clear off?”“ Oh, look out for the blue sky !”And so he did, poor little fellow, but never a b it of blue sky

gladdened his eyes.“ W ell, I don’t care, mother,” said he when the tedious day

had a t length numbered all its hours, “ I f I haven’t seen it, I know there is blue sky somewhere.”

The next morning there was blue sky, a whole heaven full of it, clear, glorious blue sky, such as only greets us after a weary storm.

“ There, mother, didn’t I tell you so?” cried a joyous voice;“ There is blue sky !”

Then the little head dropped for a moment in silentthought.

“ M other!” exclaimed the child, when he again looked up, “ there must have been blue sky all day, yesterday, though I never saw a bit of it, cos you see, there ain’t no place where it could have gone to— God only covered it up with clouds, didn’t he?”

T h e D i f f e r e n c e . — “ In Sweden a man who is seen fourtimes drunk is deprived of a vote a t elections !”

In this country a man who gets drunk is entitled to vote early and late, and as many times as he pleases. On election day he is considered a good fellow and he is treated with great consideration. This is the difference between Sweden and the United States.

A M i s t a k e . — “ Have you not mistaken the pew, sir ?” blandly asked a Sunday Chesterfield to & stranger who entered it. .

“ I beg pardon,” said the intruder, rising to go out, “ I fear I have; I took it for a Christian’s !”

Music.__I ever held this sentence of the poet as a canon ofmy creede; that whom God loveth not, they love not musicke. — T . Morely, 1589.

. For the Spiritual Age.

tJ P A H D A W A Y ,

I was th ink ing one day, o f the ja r r in g and strife,And tb e sorrows th a t often em bitter th is life, s O f the poverty, ignorance, folly and crim e.T hat a re casting their shadowa.o’er a ll coming tim e,A nd my sp irit repined, m ust i t ever be th u s?And is there no hope, no redem ption for us?A h o ft voice I heard, and that voice seemed to Bay,

“ Despond not,- reproach not, b u t up and aw ay !”

A varice, selfishness, folly and sinStrive w ithout ceasing, their victim s to w in,And Fashion looks on like a queen from her throne,And calls th e whole race, m en an d women, h e r own.Oh! surely the world stands in “ perishing need”O f a faith th a t is shown not in w ord, b u t in deed.Shake off your fetters, be free while you m ay !M anhood, and womanhood up and away!

Oh! there is w ork, there is work to be done, "The w hitening harvest is only begun;The toilers are few, yet the labor is g rea t,W hy do ye sluggishly linger and w ait?T hru st in the sickle, be earnest and b rave,Think of the souls th a t your efforts m ay save,B ear w ith the burden and h eat o f the d a y ;Cheerily, hopefully, up and away!

A nd when the d a rk shadows of death are descendinj A nd time and etern ity rap id ly blending,W hen memory unlocking he r treasure-house v ast Is linking the present un to th e dead past,A nd the fu ture looms up , g rand and glowing before ua,W hile sp irits a re hovering around us and o’e r us,O h ! then m ay o ur souls in th a t last solemn day ,Rise calm ly and trustfu lly , up and away! V ieg ih ia .

T io ga , Co. , P a .

E V E N I N G M U S IC O F T H E A N G E L S .

Low w arblings, now, and so litary h arps,W ere heard among the angels, touched and tuned As to an evening hym n, p reluding soft To cherub voices. Louder as they swelled,Deep strings s truck in , and hoarser instrum en ts,M ixed w ith clear silver sounds, till concord rose F u ll as the harm ony of w inds to heaven;Yet sweet as n a tu re ’s^jpringtide melodies To some worn pilgrim , first, w ith glistening eyes,G reeting his native valley, whence the sounds O f ru ra l gladness, herds, and b leating flocks,The ch irp o f birds, blithe voices, lowing kine,The dash of w aters, reed or rustic pipe,B lent w ith the dulcet distance-mellowed bell,Come like the echo of his early joys.In every pause, from sp irits in mid a ir,Responsive still were golden viols heard ,A nd heavenly symyhonies stole faintly down. H i l l h o u s e .

T H E S O U L .

O lady! we receive b u t w hat we give.A nd in our life alone does n a tu re live;O urs is he r w edding-garm ent, ours he r shroud!

And would we au g h t behold of h ig h er w orth Than th a t inanim ate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd,

Ah! from the soul itself m ust issue forth A ligh t, a glory, a fa ir lum inous cloud

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