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L IT i'JjiS WIL.LLPJ WAKINGr U t’.

' liY Ill'.V, I’ II , SliAUS. .

8omc hav^ though Lli.it i.i i.ie daw.iing, in our bein g’*flC-ll- bt ^ |o t\,

God is nearer Intl.: In n than their parent* everknow*

AmI thiit, ii you li?tou Hhurply, hotter things than youCUD ti'iu il,

And a *oit of m\.>tio w i.d om , tr.tklc through their c a n - !«»► }<piv ii

How it is I n im it:i; i.« rr . t.ut I knew a li f tW lii ld ,V ho, ;uu<>nu i i • Ui)iiK‘ ami riuvri* aud the bet:*, wad run­

ning u i!<l,Ami hiMMiit .- o n s iiii iii ii' i' even ing with his ringlets oVr

hid .-y s, 'And hi* ii i. w w tor.i i'i p ic-c ', chasing bees and butter­

f lie s

•‘Now I ’ll ;:«i t > !m l, drai mother, for I ’m vc y tired o f play !” *

And lie paid hi- "Nnw » !;iy m e,” in a kind o f c a r e le s wav.

And ho dtank the o »»»| in «■ water from his little silver cup, And said g yly "• il'k tii it s m o rn in g , w ilt th e A nge la

ti ik c m r ttji ?”

Down hr* pau\ »vit!i r<» rtii-h laughler in hi* little trundle b d

Aud the ki nlly (1 >,1 of Clumber showered the poppies o ’or his In-ad

hat C(j il l jn mu h i- spe king strangely ?” asked his IiU-dug ni>t!i"r th u.—

“ () ’tw as n >tii i ’ >w: h i- p .it: h* > what Can lie of angel* k en ?” 1 ‘ *

There he li-**, hon >-\ve<:t au l placid \ und hi? breathing conit'< and

' l.ikc n zephyr in -vnig < ftlv. nnd his cheek Is I ke a rose ; l)at she Icin d her ear to li ten tf his ureathing-could be

h e a r d - “ Oh,” sh mu ui'in'd, **if t!i angels lock my dai ling at

hi* word

Ni.rht within it- I.d ling im n tlr hath the fderpers both be- gn iled ,

Aud witliin i t < wift einb.aeitig* lest the mother and her cud I ;

Up th e ‘■ ti'lit 'i frmn her drea u;hig, for a Kund l.ath Btru ’U !i tr e i — ^

AnJ it com.-4 fr -at ii ,l «.• Wdhe lying ou bin trundle near,

Vp bIic sp -ingeth , for i t : t« i'.e-* uptm her troubled cai again , -

And h is l) i-a tn } iu louder Cm i Iu k travi Is fion: Ins lung* in p tin.

And his ey-‘- are liv in g it|t'vard o:i h jtic fa e beyond the lo* in

And the b:aekne>s o f the /-iioiicM* from Uis' check hath chaf'd tile b! i!»rn.

Y*t som ewhere 1 know , on the unseen shore, Uhey w atch, and btckun, uml watt lot mu.

And 1 r-it and think when the Min.-ei** t'uid Is Hashing iu i iv o i, and hi.I, nml t-lioje,

I dhall one day bland by t..e waters coltt,Ana li-'t to tiie aouud of ciu: b i.ttman’s nar.

I *ha.l u ateh fir a glcaui of the Hupping ^ iil ;I shall hear the boat as it gam s tin* mi nnd;

1 shall pa>8 rrom s i-h t wit'i tb e b.'aiuia.i pale, l'o IJi« better shore '.«t li.e t pi it hmd } •

I ahull know the Lived who haxegone before, And joyiu ll) s u e e t will tlu* meeting be,

^ la n over t'ie r iv tr , the peaerfnl river,'I lie angel of death h Waiting loi me.

Never mo-v hU ,;N i.v 1 lav me'” will bel^ai^f.'^ui uioth.• cr’p kHrf,

Never ni"r-: among t!,e i L vn will he chase the humble-bee ;

Through t'n’ iiirht -he \\avln -d her darling, now despair­ing. n r.v i i i > to ; ‘ ■

And aboiit in-* or • tk of morning did the angels take himup.

O V E a H I E R I V E R .

Over the riv»*r thev hrek • i * m e,‘ ' .LoVe I n n»- nli • om -M.tu ( In* other S“lde :

The g l-a n «»1 L ;ei su-'w. r.ibt’S ! nee,Hut ill I ' vo«.!- ..r drouh-'l by the rusliing tide.

There’s nn ■ w ill rinylet- •<! s .nny gold^And eN f t 'if cfl w ti in nf he.ivrn’s mvn blue ;

l i e do;* ed :u the tw li^iit gt :iy and c’(dd,And the p le u i>t hid hun irt^ii mo. tul view.

W e taw not aiurt 1- that met nun there,The g tin of the e ily «.■ cmild not see j

- Over the rivfp, ove. ih nvr , ,1 My bruiber sta id " aiti.i^ to wt-bnne me.

Over the river’t!ie boatin in paleCarrieil an ither—the hou>. hold pet—

Her brow.i m i s u av d i.i the gentle ga le ;Darling .»iinni* ! I see h iry e t!

Bhe closed on hei b >-nm-fi'ji' dimpled hands,And feai le-i-ly enteied t'ie phantom bark ;

W ow nt'hed it gl de lr«un ’he -liver vands,And all our >u i-lii ie g e*v strangely dark.

Wo know 4lio is safe on ihe further >idc,AVhcre all the - m is im-d and angelh be ;

Over the rh'or, the mystic • ive>*,Mycluldh »«d’s id.»l is waiting for tnc. '

For none return from tlnac quiet shores,Wlio cro<4 with t : ii »oa'ui iu col.I and p a le ,

We hear tin dip o f the g dd» n oars,And entcli a giimp e of ihe snowy s a i l ;

A ndlo* they have panned frmn our yearninp hearts, ' Tliey crosj the 'Stream and are gone for nyc,Wo may not suude l e v -il apart, '

Tbat hiiles fr*»ui on • J-:ot b t ’i«* gates of day.W e only k'onv that ll d r b i 1-8 D > more

I all w ith us o ’er life ’» doruiy sea )

( L ' o r v f j p i j n i i f n c f .

C R E A T I O N A N D T H h i A S S U M E D

F A L L O P M A N .

I1V JOHN W. KVKUTS.

In treating upon tins s.iliji'ct, in tin* pns’tion

of ii lxasoiicr iiisli'inl of a slu’ptic, ii will re-

q lire mo to (iive u ri'spectlul lii'm inj;. on ihe

Dm t ot mysL'lf, to ii 11 pri'vnius adviincud authori­

ty. But. ut the .siiim.' time, 1 am un'iilling to

aUiihuti' to an;, man any }> real im- autlioiitv

than that which I claim for myself- that o*

rt1.'soiling ai'coi d in g . in tin- oidcr nf thiiigs.'

i lie Mosaic account of the creation of

things, and the first appearance of man,is the

oi.lt one which the present age of civilization,

seems to he willing to accept as hearing histor­

ical testimony; and it has been a c iininon

thing for historians to content themselves with

this simple plan. (As a parenthesis, here 1

will avei that t is is the cause of history being

so nnpiiilosnphical.as ibis.)

Even science, through alo n g and continued

reign of kingly despotism, has never, until

lately, bud the courage to *ake a position in re

gard to creation, witln ut lw'ving down before,

an I becoming reconeilod'tfli.uie most intol-r-

I ant dogmas that the Church and .State were

able tii'invOnt.

In the darkness of history, and the murky,

hut luring tendencies of science, gi oloiry has

stepped in, encouraged reason to tear down

Ihe rites of intolerance, and taught us the sim­

ple lesson of creation, l i u c k x ai d m u n i i n i c i i l s

are silent, liut.truthful preceptors, lo the for­

mer we find the marks made by God, aud in

the hitter those of mini.

In this essay I design to iHiistrate the law of

ciealion, and to show that oi l th im jx re r t i re nn u h n i i t u t h r o u y h the pi-oiji-esxiec elements- nf n a t u r e : the result of which reasoning will

prove that the idea of a momentous creation

is the offspring of instinct, and that the f u l l o f

m a n is an ignoiant assumption. . . .

It would be a vain en leavor to search the

fabulous notions of decayed nations lor light

upon this subject. To study them would lead

the historian into darkness and the philoso­

pher into mystery. The principles of nature,

as discovered in the order of creation, are sul-

licicnt to prov*' that the elements ol mat ter are

controlled by cre tivc intelligence; and also to

establish, beyond the skill O f skepticism, I lie

course which this intelligence has taken in

causing all tilings to appear—earth, \egota-

llon, animal life, ami man !

The Great Alchemist of -Nuture hath so ar­

ranged the Universe that one supreme, eternal

inw, governs all things, and permeates all be­

ing. The operation of this law is seen in ns

many different aspects as there are different

phases " f the different tilings in th e Universe.

Kacli flower and tree, and man and beast, live

upon this law by a legitimate'combination of

the elements ot Nature. One eternal transi­

tion characterizes the action of N atu re’s law,

as seen in the elemental world. Immortal

identity ie the great infinite principle tlmt ex­

ists in the combination, the dissolution, and the

reorganization of ail things.

Iiow grand, and huw sublime, is the scene,

when we b eh o ld the Uifferent places of materi­

al transition! Observe the past, present, and

future ot a grain ot corn : front an identity o!

be ng corn through au unlimited past, it pre­

serves its identity as torn through future time,

as eternal as the uncreated elements ! Or oo

serve the varied conditions of your own mind,

dining the short period ut' your consciousness

on this earth, and how peiftcily does it pix“

fe. ve its different altiihutes of identity, as it

pusses i'roni one condition to unoll e r : the god-

nie is prese veil ; and it proves itsell immor­

tal : it proves that material uTnl ' elemental

identity aie as eternal as the'law of life- g ra v ­

ity ! '

When wisdom has reached that condition of

i.evelopement as to be capacitated with the

power to create an element, aud when love

has reached that condition of purity us to have

the power lo ussimil ,te the elements created ;

when these two principles have arrived at that

point ot perfection as to be capable of acting

| e.ich oiher’s part of attraction and distribu­

tion, of love and assimilation ; then we have,

in the embodiment of these two principles,

the G reat F irst Cause; the Author of Al,

Things; the Creatur of the Universe; the

Kterual Good ! ..

Creation’s plan is consistent with itself.—

The whole fri/x lcm o fH ju u d exists up n h a r ­

monious principles. If the principle of h a r ­m o n y in the laws of the L’irfveisp was li>stf

then At.I. is I ,nsT ! nor could there have been a

Univer>e without it; and, were there such a

tniug as annihilation, the principle of iuhar-

mony would be the first cause lo produce i t ; —

for, without harmony there is discord ; where

there is discord theic is puin ; win re there is

pain there is d e c i j ; and where there is decay

there is death! . , ’

Harmony is th° primary ptinciplc of all

life. Tiie inccbnnisni of mankind is so uni­

form that the anatomy of*one man is that of

ihe whole human race. The niech mi.sm of

every species of animals is repi esenled by one

of ils kind. 'The mechanism of one biiVd is

that of m y r i a d s ; und one fish will am wer for

;ts kind throughout tin- ocean's depths,

Kverv species of animate life works upon

the same principles that all animate matter is

bro ught into action upon— the principles of at­

traction and repulsion. .• W e repel all things

that are nnt adapted to our nature; i. e'., every

thing ■) tnai does not gravitate to the central

I AM of a thing of life, is repelled from i t :

everything that does not belong to'an^organiz-

ation cannet come to it. We attract all things

that are our own—we nltract nothing else.—

We -may retain lliings ft r a time, that we have

obtained hy extraordinary pow<'r, but we can

not retain them forever. We may’'retaln

things that we should repel; and. until we re­

pel such tlim-rs, we cannot attract those things/

which we should not repel. Tbe bucket that

is fulLcun hold no more. , Take out u thing

that is not wanted, and you c:\n.piitin a thing

that is wanted. Why is a millio laire in des­

titution? Why in utter want? Because he

has not his own: others hive what is his, and

be lias wliat belongs lo others. He has lost

his own in the interior cxti ava;uince o f the

.•poor man of learning.” The poet’s exterior

to make the oak. Man cannot exist where the 1 flesh; but that they should also “eat the hert»

elements of matter uie such as mini cannot j 0 f the field." “ In tho sweat of thy face shalt

take up into.his organism. The moon ot this thou cat b n a d , t i l l th o u re tu rn v iito th e g r o u n d *eailb will lie the .habitation of man whenever

il lias i.ltraeted to, itself the elements which

help to c o m p o s the human body. W heat con­

tains the phosphaie of lime ; but the unpro­

c e s s e d phosphates which we dig from the

rucks will not help make wheat. Progressed

matter can lind association only witii progress­

ed nn.tterl Thus it is with progressed mind :

it cannot associate with mind ou the sensuous

plane. Tlieie is no attraction except where

there is a want in the MIC; anil no repulsion

except where the uu is throwing off something

not its own. ’ *

Having now portrayed somo of tiie beauties

of creation, and dwelt sulliciently long enough

upon the laws of life, I will turn to thut part

of the subject which claims an explanation of

the reaction of the_great fundamental principle

of the universe—that of prngresfK.n— and

show that no such reaction can take place, ex­

cept in a relative sense. If there is any such

thing as evil, then there can be such a thing as

a fall, liut if “all partial evil i r uuive,sal

good,’’ then eveiy fall is a gradual rise in the

scale of being. Geology teaches that there

was a time when man did not exist up.in this

earth; a u d i t even goes so far ns to prove

that neither animal nor vcgetiible life of any

kind could have possibly existed in its early

stiigos of development. This is t^ t i m o n y

that/ the theorist cannot run over without yield­

ing to its authority. There is living proof to

show that man has existed in q, condition but

little superior to that, of the beast. We can

find specimens of the human form in all of its

stages of development, from civilization to

barbarity, and from barbarity to brute crea­

tion. With such testiiriony us Nuture is con-,

stantly displaying before the vision of man,

we must, after awhile. In come tame to lie. sub­

lime instruction. We have a teacher always

■liy our side, to guide and direct us in the de­

lightful walks of life, if we would only accept

of Nature's kind intention, bhe, and the god-

me, these two, can deveh pe a mighty being—

a beii g, “ wondeifully and feurlully made.”

• I will now turn my attention to a book,

termed the “ Hible,” for testimony against the

doctrine of hi'inaii depravity. I will refer to

the original testimony upon that subject, as

found in tbe honk called ‘'Genesis.” It is the

only testhn'Miy that there is in tiie book that

has the least show of -uuthiuity upon it. All

else upon the subject is but comment upon

what 1 shall here refer to.'

The impri ssion that man is a fallen being

has hecti generally trceptcd all over the

jeaitli; hut what seems the most .strange is

that it. is founded upon a few passages in the

"Bible,” which have never been read hy its

devotees in an understanding way. I will here

•liat bread ull of our earthly existence!-- . good!” ,

“And tho Lord Qod said: Behold th e man i»

become an one of u s ." To rise t,b the majesty

'of a God would not be falling in any being |

and to become like the “ Lord God,” arising

from a state in wisdom, must have been a deft- &

niie progress, and not a “ full.”

“ Now, lest lie put forth his hand, nnd take

also o! the tree of life, and eat, and live for­

ever, th e n fo r e the L o r d U ix l sent h im f o r th f r o m the g a rd e n o f E d e n ." W hat was il for P

Why, “ lest he should take of the tree o f l i fe 10

From tear that man would live I rever ! W h a t

a rensjti! God Almighty afraid of a thing of

liis own creation! B ut thus it was that mar»-

was turned from tho garden of Eden because

God feared he would rise and live forever as a

God. '

In the above mtinner^lo I jlispose of the

subject; and the ideas in relation to human

depravity are so obsolete that they are only ri>-

ferrcil to in u ridiculous relation.

G id foresees the working of his designs.}

and therefore, everything in the Universe takes

place according to his order; To s i n against

God would he to frustrate his desig n s; and

if the will and authority of ,God are suscepti­

ble to frustration, it must appear evident th^K

the Univeise would he in a continual chaos,

iind the governm ent of God an anarchy. I

shnll content myself with t,he happy b-lief thaf

Infinite Wisdom is at the helm o f the Uni­

verse ; and that all things were to be as they

have been, as *they are, and as they shall b?

throughout all Eternity .

New York, Jun. 2 1 st ., 18(30.

M kssus, FjPitohb .-— Last August in tiie

Supreme Court of this State, I obtained a

divorce from my wife, (A da L, C o a n ;) the

proceedings were conducted in private* in compliance with an agreement with her t h a t

she would drop my name and assume her

-maiden name after the divorce; b u t as she is

now advertising in the B a m u r " a s a medium

utider the name of Coan, I writo this hoping

you wili <lo me the justice to publish it in th s

‘•Aok,” t i n t my friends may know th a t I am in no way responsible for her acts, and um in nt)

way connected with her.

" Yours, ltesjiectfully, '

• W m . B. Coan.

A m u sin g A isk cd o te— D an iel W oh6tet used io rmntn the following anccdo.o o f

penury is caused hy the millions "which his in­

terior is retaining. The rich man may retain

for a time, the wealth of the Indies; b u t the

law of gravity is such that it is bound to hold

every tliii^j eternally in its proper sphere !—

Kclative gravity may hold the shining ore

to a man's bosom ; but there is a universal

F ather S em i, th e inini(.ht\ o t h is b o jlm o d . A s w as th e custi m in thos'o day*, tho o ld gentiim un used to wear b u c k sk in breeohes in co ld w eather, uijd gettiu lg (m l h is pair one Sunday n .o in ing frotv w) a ttic in which

make a few quotations, and comment upon ’ l , l* had h**'1 h “ " * i v 8 «*». ‘ , , , ! louiid a neht of wasph id them . B y o ih -

them ui such a manner that “he whoever may , ^ , al)(ir hQ JUCBeBdt.d iu reroovi llg , he

1 ta('- ’ . intrudera, t\» h e supposed* aud started for“And the serpent said unto the wom an: c h u ic h . JutA ns he w as in the in id d ln o f

Ye shnll not surely die; lor God doth know th e (•ervi.es, kouvb o f th e in sects Still ID- thiit in the day ye eat theieof, then y o u r eyes inaiuinjf, g a v e him a p ie ic e , « h ie h ca u sed it h u ll he o pened , a n d i/e sh n ll be a s G o d , lcnow- btiu to ju m p an d sla p his th igh .. Suvh in g g o o d a n d e v il .” (!) M an is here raised ta t iea tm e n t lulur.iuted th em , and the more a higher place o f existence. “ And unto Adam j be ju m p ed and slapped, the in o ie th ey

hou hast hearkened Hluu«- ‘lih ti cougrejjunuD b egan - to th ii®lie (God^said .: Because thou h a st hearkened

unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of

the tree of which 1 commanded thee, saying

thou shalt not eat of it, c u rse d i s th e g r o u n d f o r th y sa k e .” Here we set; \* ry plainly thpt.

gravity w hicli will attract it to the earth for- j God does.npt curso Adam, hut he says, “c itfs fd , cvor | j i s the g ro u n d /” “Thorns also, and thistle# shall

Creation is the attraction of tbe element of i t .b . in g forth to thee, a n d th o u s h a lt e a t th e Nature to some positive' centre.. W h e n the J herb o f th e f i e ld ." It is not commsnd.ed th a t

ncurn is planted in the ground it t rg ins its at- J man shall ent thorns o r d thistles, hut that h e

t r a d ive operations. It does not uttract those " s h a l l e a t the h erb o f th e f i e l d ! * I t is tho

particle* which would be tuken up by the ma-i highest teaching of *he Harmonial Philosophy

p i e ; it xil l repel all matter th a t will nQt h e l p j th a t the roost progxes^etl njpn sltpttlj. ttOt eat

he was i}rnay, but ho soon explained tiro trouble by mying, "My hearers, don’t ilw alarmed ; iho word of the J^ord is in , 017. mouth, but the devil is ia oiy breeches” . .

C u r e t o r H y d r o p h o b i a . - — A o o r tc * - -

ponc'.ent of the P rovidence Jo u fsu l >K?K- in regard to th is : . ‘‘E a t tKe jfipt'n fdiaotSC; o f a sparagus raw , sleep wM ptMpWlioBF>. w ill bfc in d u ced , nnd thediawuie. be cu r*d .” T h is tcm fdy proved1 efl®Muar' to a m an in G reeqe after th e ja jrvT jvn tf had co m m en ce^ " . , ‘

2 T H B 8 P I R I T T J A . X . A . & E

. 9 M m 4 Meordlnf In Aot of Congrrtt In tho jroor MW In tha Clork’VOfloi of tM DUlriot Court of

Ma>Mahw«tt)< -

DHOULA BEL;—OB THE—

B Y 'JFH B R O S IO R T J O IA N .

B O O t F I B 8 T.

. ‘ [CONTINUED.]

CHAPTER X II.

Tbe events ju st recorded were revealed b r the woman, just as she reoeived the ao- count in sfter years from a mighty one who attended tho council of the Moments, arid bore the reoord thereof to her listening ear. There is a mighty truth contained in what has just been read. Ponder upon it, dear

' reader, nr.d lenrn. * * * *Let us now record the events ip the Ca­

nal street house.Flora continued her iiarrative, saying:

“The morning sun shone bright and ..clear through the windows of my room, but tho ourtaius were cosely di awn about my bed. As 1 oponed my eyes I heard a familiar

* voice 8ny to somo person else in tho room, “W ell, doctor! whut do you think ?”

• The bccond person replied, in answer tp the question, “ She has a very high bruin fe­ver, ftnd i ust have experieno* d something

' yhty terri 'le. thuB to affect her, and bring her to death's door in twelve hours!”

i “And what became of you »ft«r your ill­ness ?” a*ked thu man, ■ r whntev.:r it wps thnt had found an in tm cd >n o Flora’s room, on that uuik, tempestuous night, during which tho cvuHtsof the punt were re­lated to him by tho lonely woman, lie till ra t on the sido of the bed, with his trangely j< w -lleii fingers resting upon the

head o f tiro sleeping in ant, which occasion­ally gave proof i>y u laugh un i orow ih.it it still dreamed. Of what omld it be dn ant­ing? The three invisibles were a^o still oooupying the siuie positions they di 1 when last the reader saw them, while Fl>ra a so sat in the sum • pluce she.had when he be­gan to relute her story to the mnn in red, who, by his own statement was of -

- CfiB pauvres pucux. plfini de bwaventures,Ne po.leul ritii quc de* chorea fu.urca.*

“I will tell you,” sho replied briefly :— “I lay on my bed three weary, long and

Sain-murked months; and when 1 was suf- oitntly recovered to.bear it, was told thut

some farmers fiom the JNoek, oil thi-ir way to market, long before day-light, had tak­en the road by the old stone-mill, and when exaotly abreast ol it, they were startled by aloud shriek which wus evidently, from its tone, that of a man, and wnioh wus al­most instantly followed by another, unmis­takably thut of a female, at the very acme o f/righ t and terror. Alarmt d, they hud pulled up, and utter fastening thoir horses to the fencC, bud leaped it, und ran with all possible t pi ed in the direction of the ■3rcaniH. They entered tbe mill, and one of them stumbled ovei un object whioh prov d to be a dm k lantern with tho slide olo.-ed, which thoy op-tied, nnd found the lamp still burning, an'l evidently with per- ftuned oil Availing themselves of this timely und unexpected a:d, ’or the night was very dark, they we■ robed the interior of ■the mil), und fouud the body of a young (girl, evidently just tnurdoicd, for the blood

. .was yet streaming fr..m her head. Tney iflOO;), upon inspection, however, bcuaiuo• convinced of their mistake m that respeo',: for tbe wound was n t deep, and the blood• flowed from u number ol'emall eioatriues, as , : i f 8he had f»lion against the rough points• of the mill-w.ills. . They took her o u r into i the'open air und tho dew, and cold -om re- 'tived tier. The fiint tiling sho itid after• Opening her eyes was to stiro wildly ab >ut,1 wring her hands, and exclaim, ‘Whero is t h e ! oh,! where is ho! my son! my i-ou! ■Oh! thut hi rrid serpent !. oh, thut ser­pent!’ and instantly relapsod into the

(Moon.' These words astonished the farm- -ers, for the girl was evidently but a ' child ■of *ixteen’, therefore could not be suppos-• ed to be the mother of a son ; and an for ^serpent^, it is we I-known there are but few• on the is'und, these lew being o f a. harmless< natuiv, and none a t till bung ever seen in ’the immediate vicinity of Newport ; con-

1 -neqiiently they eoncluotd thut she was de­i ranged, ai d. w ere speedily convinced they ' were right by un old, veneiable-lookiug

'. man, woo entered tho mill^ weeping bitterly -and orying out ‘My daughter is kilted ! my

< >«ild is dead !’ They soon gave him com­fort on that point, aud he thou stated that abe was subject to these fits; that she had

•left home tha t night in a state of high tx* citem ont; that he, her father^ had, utter a

( long s e a i eh found her in the Old M ill; that .’•<» be og discovered she had at first attempt­

ed to stab him w ithn knile, whioh ouused i him tg shriek, and aferwards, in atteinpt-

lag to tsoape from him had ttuok her head< tgainst the wall, and falling as ahe did so,

r full of mytUo lore, of nought but future thlof«a uero. ' '

0 * her scream attracted the farmera, but he, being igoorant'of their close proiiiqity, had started off for help, hut in turntogjiU head he had aeen the light moyiog about in the will, and therefore had cdroe baok, know* ing belpihad arrayed. Thia story, coining M it did from the lips of a gray-haired old man, was'too plaueihle not to be accepted aa true bv the farmers, who, at tho request o f the'father, agreed to convey tho sense­less girl to her home, to which he give th(?o ample directions, and, after plaoing a well-filled purse in their hands, left them, as he said, to find and fetoh a physician to his dear daughter's aid.

“About twenty minutes thereafter,” con­tinued F lo ra ,' "a luu<t knocking was hoard at the door by the members of my family, none of whom were aware of my ibsence.”

“ I say,''’ cried the man who knocked, “comedown and open tho. door; here is somebody as belongs here, as is sick,—a girl what’d been murdered half to death somehow or o ther; and she’s bleeding bad­ly !”

Every soul in the house was up in a min­ute, the doors were thrown open, and,

“Good heavens!’’ exclaimed a member of my family, “ it is Flora. W hy, how came this 1

“ W e don’t know, ma’am, how it happen­ed. The old gentleman, her father, say* ashow she’s wubjeot to tiieso ere fi s.’’

“ Old geutiemun !—Father !— F its !— why-,.what do you mein? She never had a tit in her life, aud her fa'her has been dead these fifteen yeurs! Why, what does it all mean ? Surely there is some foul play here.” .

‘■Not as we knows on, ma’am : but sar- tain it is, wc expected the uld gent as was a orying, couldn’t bo anybody else . nor her father; more’n that, ho went hisself fora dootur, ma’am, und paid us for bringing the pretty corpus us like to ha been, here to her hom e!” ■

Not muoh further time was spent in questioningfs(or the girl wus bleeding bad­ly from thiTwounds ou her temples; and ho after tellingwhen und how they found her tbe oountrymen took their leave, remarking as thoy did so, hat it was “a strange piece of business^’ “ Yes! it s irtin ly is queer, r a y t h e r , Ben, but then wa are well paid for our trouble,” said one to tne other, “ for the old chap, whoever ho is, gave me a tidy little bag of jingles; and as I put it in my pocket, I heurd the well-known onink of the •yaller boys, and I fi-lt tho doubloons pluin as pre.ichin ; mrne’n that, I’ll bet a plug o’ oavendish, its the beat night’s work wo ever made, or will m.ike this side o’Jordan!’’

“Well, Peto, s’puse wo count the shiners an’ dorvide the npile!”

“All right, my fino feller, here’s the d ust!” said the other, produoing his hand­kerchief, in which ho hud taken the pre­caution to wrap the purse. He unwrapped tbe treasure, and by the light of the lantern gazed at it, and instantly chmged color;— and well he m ight; for instead o f the purse of golden coin, he held in his hand nothing but a blood-btained rug in one end of which was a knot. I t wus untied, an 1 l a ! the con­tents were three pebblo-stunes and a rusty n a il! A t that moment the lantprn fell nnd went o u t; they looked and fell for it, but it- never could agaiu be found!

# * * • # . # # .

Let us leave tho farmers to their wonder­ment and surprise, und turn for awhile to other, parties in, t.iis strango history— o f

f a d s . .

“Doctor °Jones! Dootor Jones! get up instantly and oome dj.wn to Carson's JJlocli, iu Hazard's Line, hext door to the Grum- mar School, for there'n a murder been at­tempted, and queer doings going on !”

These words, coming to tho worthy phy­sician's ears a t such an hour of tho night, operated like magic. Hastily he leap/d from between his comfortable sheets, threw up the window, aud s^w standing upon his doorstep a female whom he well know.— J'wo minutes sufficed for his o l d j i c q u a i n t

a n c e to inform him that a terrible assault had been made upon u young girl, and that his presence wus urgently required. Whilo the doctor dressed hiuisolf tuo female m cb -

senger disappeared.In less than ten minutes the good-hearted

M. D. knocked at the door of tbe house where the young vioiim was lying.

“ Why doctor, how glad I am that you have cotne !” said the good woman who ad­mitted him, “ because poor Flora has had a terrible fit and full, and has bruised her­self horribly!’’ ’

“Why what are you talking about ?” said the astonished doctor. “ I thought you said an awful assault had been committed on her, and that sho was all but dead

“Mo! doctor,’’ replied the wqman, in her turn surprised beyond measure. “ Why, I novor said such a thing in mjf life ! When pray ?”

j'W hy,” replied the other, "about fifteen minutes ago, when you stood on my door­step, as I talkod to you out of the win­dow !” * ■, “W hy, dootor Jonea! you surprise me !

I have not boen outside wy doorstep since tight o’olock l*<t evening ; and F.ora has

just been brought home half dead in that wagon whioh you see yonder ju « turning the first corner*—apd that over five minutes •go.”

"W ell, I could have sworn it was you ; are you oertain of all you tell mo, madam ?"

“ I am ‘dootor—upon my honor I speak the truth.”

“ Humph,” said the dootor. “ By Ju p i­ter i t i t v e r y strange!” * * *

Slowly my health was restored. Many were the questions put to me as to the cause of my illness, but remembering the caution of the old man, I sternly refused to tell it, but gave 6 vasive answers. Finding I would not speak upon the subject, it was dropped, and by all 6ave( myself, after awhile forgotten, # # *

Oooe, alter some months had elapsed, as I lay on my bed wide awako, I saw an an­gelic 1 oking boing enter my chamber, who told me that ho Was tlio Lord of light, and th it in my hour of greatest need he would appear to aid and assist mo, but not until I w as“ U-udv for Him,” and this night I took you to be that angel, and that is why 1

said “ I am ready Lord!’’ * *

•‘Some few years rolled away. M y fe-' male rivals effectually destroyed my peace of min i—especially after tho adventures of the Mill. I saw no more, of the old w iz­ard, )e t have ever beon conscious that I was never left alone, but that invisible be­ings at ended me for good or ill by night and by iluy The memory of thoso two uw- tul nights was ever like uiy shadow, pres­ent ; and Hcarce g day elapsed that I did not mentally recall the whole scenes.— Years rolled away; great changes took place in my person and my fortunes. At length ciicumstan os induced mo to marry. A f imly grow up around me, and poverty succeeded tu gonipotcnee, owing to changes in tiie habits of my husband, who was kin I and ten ier at first, but when the pains uf cbild-beuring had failed the roses frum my cheeks, and. maternity had worn deep, long lines of care upon my brow, he sougLt the society ol others, and left mo to suffer in penuiy, sorrow and neglect. Surely, L need not rehearse to you that bitter, bit'er story ; Suffi e it to say, that I became lonely and to a decree unsooial. I compared my pres­ent pover'y with my past affluence, and 1

have to this day reserved tho remnants of my wardrobo as precious souvenirs of. the pleas.nt. days I once enjoyed.

“ Night after night, when my children slept, t have crept softly down tho stiirs and hii'd nvs to a city of thei dead— i oem etary not far from where I dwelt. There I would sit for. bourn on a tomb, und unseen by mortal eye, assuage my grief in floods of tears. I'was tdo proud to weep iu pres enoo. of the living, for it hath ever seemed to me tnat I naturally hated tho living, and loved the departed to tho samo extent.; because from t h e i r invisible sympathy I found the true.st balm for sorrow. 1 lov ,'d to .think that the souls of the mighty ones of days lang syno wore near me, and th it hy them was I beloved in %pite of the Caro­lines ou my brow. '

“ I had u son, whom I lost, and in that, loss I oiiuld but recognize tho fulfilmmt of the propiotic pan6 rami of tbo Willov in the oid mi I.

"My hnsband’ 8 neglect increased with years, and he m>m?tiin)3 left m.i for mon In together, till what little affection I had for him grotf colder by (Jeirees. Wtio can blame me? Affection is a tiling that quick­ly dies unless it be tenderly nursed. Tiim Mt.iat.oi [ began to oist around m i to pro­vide for my children. William and Caro­line died early ; Harriet I had sent to- Ver- gennes ; Omoe to Burlington, and llann ih to Aliddlebiiry, all in tho State of Vermont.— My daughter M irtiiii I placed at scrvice in Skuneaieies, New York, and her sister M ny near her; and having done tais I t It resigned to whatever it might please G id in nis meroy to inflict. The cuul on th it bed is not quito two years and o.ie in inth old. My husband returned afieran absence of two- yeara-! I mot him with g adn.:8s, aud fondly o'ung to his neck, thinKing that this time I would retain bun forever by my sido. Vain h ip j ! Tae next ntgiit he was absent from h >tno, nor' have I ever seen him since. A tnon'h after­wards I found myself likely to buc ime a mjiher again, and now comes tho most singular part.of my story.

“ About the timo that I made this discov­ery, Hay asleep one night and waiull o f a sudden around by a great bluzo of light in my room, iu tho midst of whieh I bo.ield a benignant looking being, who said to mo “ Woman ! 1 love you, wilt thou lovo me?” I answered “yes." It disappeared, but oame again each night for three mouths, since which 1 havo mourned its absence.— Theneumo another spirit, who sail, “ Wo­man, 1 know much, wilt thou learu l” I answered “yes.” For months it taught me many and s'range things, and I felt that from the ono I drew much lovo, from tho other much of wisdom, and that I did in­fuse bo h into the boing of, my unbora child,

“ 1 asked the names of these two beings, and the first called htmseif “The Stranger,”

and the seoond told me his nutne wns- “Dhoula Bel.”

CHAPTER X III. •

4‘ ’T i l « i t n t n y e t a l e , B e r n a r d o — b y my f a i t h a a ♦ r a n g e t a l e } — a r i f h t r u r t o n i h h t o r y , a n d w e l l . t o l d , t o o , A y e , m a n , w e l l t o ld .* * — D i L A i tC E L L a s .

The woman Flora finished her narrative, leaving only an episode connected with the paternity of her lust child untold. She then turned towavds the singular being, to whom the tale had been repeated, und who she had forgotten, had, on his entrance into her chamber, announced himself as Dhoula Bel —to observe what effect her reoitul had pro­duced.

The attentive reader will have observed that, although tho events of this first book, up to the present chapter, cover a period ol many years, yet that mainly, und in another sense we havo written only the hi>tory of three hours, namely, tire period thut elapsed sinco we first saw her pacing tho solitary chamber in tho C rnul street Iwu^o, on the stormy night of December, J 827, till she completed the rapid sketch of her past ca­reer to, uud at the mpiest of the singular personage who claimed geniseicncc and ge- nipotence as to the Future, hut who knew, accor sing to his own statement, nothing whatever of the Pa-t, except wherein that was connected with t'ie pre ent and the fu­ture, by a singlo tlmvd, which thread rela­ted solely to the business concerning the Neutral men—thi ir condition, hopes', fates und prospedts.

For a minute after she cc sed to Rpenk, the wizard, if sueh we miy call the being robed in red, rested his heat! upon his hand, and appeared to be musing.

Presently his lips began to move, and in a low—very low und tenderly cadenced voiue, but without look ng op, or in any wise changing his posuiun, he slowly chant­ed :

CHANT OF TIIE KliD GNOME. ,

“ Thou haafcjughetl, and ►ufrorciriongp :Thou hu>t tuld me .ill tuy griff

lrutit um, daughter, f»u ti.y w ion g ,1 t<> tliec vrtll bring relief.

Trust me, daughter— ell I,know tht* anguish deep within thy breust

W ell I murk the mlent flow of briny tears. I know thy rc&t

Is hroken,—heart aches bear thee down, sorrow li .verst, b liss denei la thee, aud the hard and iron

‘ crown *Presses o n th y w caiy brow, aud crushes theo to earth

e ’en n ow .Thou th in k ’st no joy r.-mai s for .thee ;

. Poor child ! thou lo i|g>t to bt; frye Thou deeui’at the heaven g |j >m-euih.oudcd *, th ii.k ’at no

star w ill ever I)cam.All thy hope.-aro ovordou lo 1; specter j h.i’in t thy every

dream. .T hou art lonely and b^niglttvd ; every path is strewed

with stones—Paths where others h are hueu lighted,— music-ehcvred.

but for thee groan*. ..Y et remember the d.irkness must come to an nnd,The storm flnd its calm , and ilion llntl .1 friend,—Y et lie'll rob tticcof lite. uml nleul thy la>t breath,Uul give com fo.t lor strife, and n llea teii lor Deutli. I h e ie ’d a s t tr beaming out. o*er ih<* hill, by the sea—*1’w ill ligh t thee to la .d* "f th*i n* ble unit free—'I he home o f the uap.iy, up i i tlio bri^ut sky.Tnen bo not d istressed j 't rfill t»e rig.it by and bye I”

“Ah !” paid FI 'ra, “could I but believe and realize thy glowing (iicture. my sorrows would ond, provided I nad au equal assu­rance of tho welfare of my b >y, after my life’s madness is ended orover.”

To t his he replied, ‘•Diobt not that he also will be happy. I will swear to protent and guide him safely, if of thy own free and unbiased will, he is pur. nto my bauds, and under my guardianship!”

The.'C words were s^ iken in a low but very anxious voice, ii seeuud for the first lime since they had been conversing, that ho trembled with anxi tv for, mo words iii answer lliat might fill fion tho woman’s lips. Other eyes Ilian ins were at the same tiine bent eagerly utiun her face, and she felt a peculiar f.eedom from ail extraneous b as and influence at th it moment, such as she had never felt bjtor ■. It was plain that neither he nor tie others present, dare disobey the Great I jiinc im.

“ l'hiuk well of it, m u deeid* i nly after mature dmioeration,” s a d he, resuming.— “ Tnou hast tlio p iwcr to yield o r . not, us best suits thy m ini. And tnat tboj wilt decide wisely I well believe. Thou hast nearly completed thy pi.grumge of sorrow. 1 havo come to let thee kno>v .t, and that I havo long desired to aid ilieo; und will if thou ■•wilt givo the guardianship of tliy youngest ohild to me, in w lom, daughter, thou boholdest thy fa.-t frienl, Dhoula BjI, ur* ier one of tho three forms in which ho has visited thee. In me behold one, who, liko thyself, is destined to en -.ountea strange vicissitudes; but wnose luture differs fro.ii t nne ; wnose power is greater, und who hath thy interest deeply ut heart. I atu compelled to inform thee now, a s I h a v e b e ­

f o r e , that two great an l ini^tiiy powers oo- exist in this Uuiverse,— .vlnoa by no moans includes the totality of Being,— and that by these Powers, 1, being a representative of tho Principle of Knowledge, have been selected for a purpose regarding not only thy sleeping child yonder, but the entire human race, present and to come. V o i e l a l

m e J a i l p i t i e ; und I will holp you, if you W ill permit me. We aro not ulono in this room, for thero aro other eyes which gaze up .n us h ere ; there are other eurs whioh listen ; other lips whicti cun speak, and oth- or hands to punish tho sorvauc who would do thee wrong, by telling ttiee un untrue tale. My mission ta Day Aud to thee is

ono of neither absoluto pood nor positive evil. I t is one greater than either, being thut of Knowledge, ue the three other, but to theo invisible beings now in this room, cun testify. Those beings are, in eonie re- speots, less powerful than myself, but'in oth­ers more so ; becaiiBo not being so highly organ zed, my affinities to matte- are strong­er; bence I enn uttraot by the power of my ’’ ill certain electiical and carbonic particles, which are ever flouting in iheuir, and whioh are given eff from certain human bodies when they ure of u peculiar olecirioal and chemical construction. These particles cling to my invisible body, un I thus render it opuke for the timo being—a feat easily per­formed by spirits ; but the process differs w.tli them in certain respects from my own. Theirs is a shell, mine u solid body—theirs is mostly a ooating^fiir the tune, while mine is a complete structure in all respects. I nttract lung particles from human lungi, hoirt from heart, enl so on throughout. 1

um prevented from i jnring you, by these other bfings, even if I hail un inclination to do so, whieh of conr.-e [ have not.”

Ho spoke the truth, for the nvo bright invisibles smiled a.-se t ; while lie in red give un im(iatieiit g-s ure, as if lo say that it was indeed bunu.th his dignity to seek to injure a mere mortal.

“Not long since,’’ pursued Dlinula Del, “ I said liiut 1 had appeared to ) 0 U under three different forms. Ifou shall havo tho proof. Now la m I )houla B I, as you see ; but j ust turn yuur fuo.t toward 'lie floor and g zo stea lily upon tnat daik green .-pot up on thn rug :or a minuteor two. nor look up until I shall tell y ,u to do so.”

These words, affected Flora greatly. Sho knew not what to s .y, ilimk or do, n >w that 8‘ic fouul the web of mystery c l o s i n g about her more und nine e'o ely. She however resolved, now tnat d ir was imuieshed in it, to go on until ilie end; a id m fuitherance of this resolution, obeyed tbe wizard, and fixed h :r eye firmly upon the green spot on the oarp.it rug. T >e wiz ml was behind her. Probably not half a minute elapsed before she heard a voice siy io h ;r, in tones as soft as the suinuiei’.s sigh, '‘T.itn! Woman, I love thee ! lovest iiiou me'/"

The sound of that voice fell on her ear like the sweet music of the sky ; for well nhe knew Irom whom it came; well remem- . bered sho those >ilv iy, gonle tones,’ and with a cry , of gladness sue immediately raised her head, and sa v til it although both (ilobeand ti ipoii st od where she l.ist had no­ticed them, yet tne m zud was gone, and in his stead, standing at the tiirtliei' end of tho room, enve oped io a thin, b it resplendent cloud of ligl.t, tne a nno mysterio is baing, to all appeal'd-, ce, by whom she bad beon so often visited, during the tn>t three months after her husband left her, an i somo few months previous to the birth of the child then sleuping ou the bud. It was tho samo being .who had so completely w'on her heart, aud chained her Sjd i i in it m igic bond of love, divine and (iuie ; uud who liai, when he left her, at the,end ot' ninety days, called himself “Tue i>:ra ger." And now again, there he stood, smil'ng bonnily.yetsorrow- fully upon h ir. a s s ic caught his benig­nant eye, a full ti te of eniLtion swept across the str ng.9 ol her soul, awakening music the iu. sweeter tniii ttic cidcncos of adying ui^tiii.igii e. 'i\iro.v:ng herself pas­sionately up ii lioi- ka: t> be ore tho beauti* ful vision, s ic exii.iirn >1. with .ui overflow­ing heart, 'O , lie ivc i! i th ink thee ; for my life, my Ii^nt, jny nne ti is como again !”

But the’iovely li„i ig befjie her waved his llan 1, us if in I.ken ot slignt displois- urc ut her utiuade ><f ad ir itiou ; and said,

.in a tone of voice, wii.ne liquid uielody fe!l upon lur soul l.k.i r.no drops on the sun- scorohoJ Aral), *•'Vounnp nn in ', woman ; adore ou.y the Uwelier in tne Dome!”— pointing upward wi Ii a waul wiiuii he car­ried iu ius rig’ll ban i— ,iin on.y thy good (jreuiu•>; inw in s-ooo is to thy soul ; I am thy te tter pai t, ana lien ;efortti s uill leave thee to Djs iny u.ii u l i j l ; 1, too, haveau err.uiJ to tuy sou throng.) thee, us well us he who Iruiti loti tnee out now, to return again and finish tus m.ior wi ll theo arid uu.ie. 1 ,' too, have a my-nciy to impart to theo- I h.ve listened iu tin rejital thou gav’st the aosfctit, one, thougti unseen by thy clouded eyes. Tnrongii th o, thy son aud the records yet to oe written of thy soul-cxpeiience, si.u 1 a priu ipie be illustra­ted to tue minds of in ;ii o i earth. I t is this ; that man does not make himself what ho is, but is ioitiie l, mentally, moiuily, so­cial y, pnysioully, in ex.ct accordance with tho conditions wii.elr suiTJund him before birth— while y«u iu tuo niotuei’s womb, and afior he becomes u cittze i of tho world.— Tnese conditions ulfcLt me real bemg— the immortal principle ivuhm, luvorably or the reverse of this ; us ure the surrou/idingsof tha mother of eucu baje ; and when man understands this irum, ho will be happy ! but until ho does, tuorc can be uo peace on earth, good will among uien !”

“A ui it must be Kiioyu ere happiness Oin reign where strife aud misery now hold tneir pestilent cou: t. Man’s external or body is oniy real lor a season. Its na­ture is traus.tory and uusubie; tho inter­

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T H E S P I R I T U A L A G 1 3 3nal, or spirit, only is real, bocauso it is scmpitorn il. I .toll tlieo, woman, and through thio the wido world, that tho amount and kind #of mental power and moral force of character is not, as many think, doterminod by the size of any given human brain, but by contour and refine­ment, which also determines the kin I of motivo—tho hidden springs of action which underlie—and prompts man to. all his outward manifestations. There exists certain external signs—which by tbo prop­erly initiated can be read—by which are infallibly indicated, tho conduction not only of the spirit within the body, but the gen­eral and particular physiological condition aa well of the subject as tlio parents who brought them into being. Show me a child and I will tell yon what tlio parents are. Clairvoyance is a natural -power pm - taining to all mankind.

"Rian is the imago of Qod. Go! is infinitely clear-seeing.* and man’s natural heritage is a finite or limited clairvoyance when he comes into its possession by propo? attention to his education. S j, therefore, there arc two motho Is hy which to arrive at a knowledge of tho character of any human being. The first is external obser­vation, or scientific analysis ; the other, bv a psychical investigation— i synthesis of the spirit itself, whioh is obtained, when by means of magnetically quiekoncd elairv.oy- ancc—another name for Intuition, whether by foreign agcncies or self-induced, a sym­pathetica! rapport is cs’ablishod between the observer and tbe observed. By this procesj alone c;in man discover the great truth that Contour, or Symmetry, and the attenuation or refinement of ihe atomic particles composing the entire frame— which in every case depends upon the de- greo of happiness enjoyed by the m itlicr previous to tho birth of her child, and the happine&tf" of her general and particular s u r r o u n d i n g s —invariably indicate and de­termine,tlio mental calibre, moral status, and physical stamina—which never de­pends upon mere gross c jarscncv1* of struc turc—as many persons of feeble frames live longer and endure far more hardships than thousands of rougher mould—of all who live upon th.; earth. Men must leirn through yon and your son, that the springs of human action. or first motives aro tri­une or three-lold, and that s:li'-lovcis the first member thereof—that it lies at tin very center and is the prim il source of all human action—■'-tie Ibial point a ound which all the f’acnlt.os revolve. But where it predominates tin much over the other two members, the man is limited, warped and crumped. It should be the center but never t li j t y r i u o i al g o v e r n o r of others. The second member is Fraternal Love. W hen it has its proper aud legiii- inato scope and influence, the mind is brighter, smootlur,' and altogether more expansive. Tho soul is quickened into lifo and vigor, and the menial manifesta­tions nre broader, deeper, fairer,, and the spirit yearns for sympathy, while it imparts a genial .warm'U to all around. Universal Love is t h ! third member ol the trinity. At present it is nascent in almost ail hearts, but will spring into lilb ere long under tlio influence 'of man’s Sixth Sense—a si-nse not yet (levelo; ed. As either.of these primal loves predominates at mao's gener­ation or procreation, so will he m tin le­gitimate result. This m iy be an unwel­come tru th , but it. is truth nevortneless. It is a la\y of Nature. of God; for behold, as the tree fillcth so it lietli. As is the seed, so will be the product. As are the parents, so will bo the child ; bat above all, a l l . Ai.r„ as is the in n 'h e r , s.) will be the offspring. Like never attracts, hut always produces like. Ihe fact is accept­ed by mankind as illustrating a principle so far as liors;s, p'gs and oxen are con­cerned ; and why not.be eqi.iby true ol human beings? A couple tnvc tour child­ren. Isaac is a t od; J.ihn a lecherous debauchee; Ilcnry a mo lei ol intellectual peifcctncss ; and Mary the very soal of moral sentiment au-1 seal ol alL'ciion.— llow comes this to be. so ? llow . hceou i}.. lor it? 1 answer: surely the parents,particularly tae maCbrnal one mint bo blamed. They, through their cliildren give an incontestable proof that the fol­lowin'* states of mmd obtained in the pa­rents when each of the above beings were called into existence respectively; namely: Number one is the emoo iimciu ot mental (intellectual) blankness of mind. Number two is i n c a r n a t e , v i v i f i e d l u s t . Number three af mental activity, and number fm r ol tho e m o t io n a l lo v e principle. Tnis through you is a hint lo the peop-e of the world. May they take it kindly. For lo! on an absolute^ knowledge and observ­ance of these primal laws of life, depends the happiness or misery of countless my­riads of the human family yet to be Nor must it be forgotten that every faculty uas a three-fold mode of actum : an inverted, a passive or in rin il, ani an extreme, per­verse, and consequently -abnormal or un­healthy one. Tue t-vo extremes aro wrong; the central one only is ngnt. Auotucr truth it is part of my mission to enforce

upon you. It is this: All souls como d i­rect from Ood in essential form"; pure, serenely beautiful, and holy beyond thy comprehension, Most men in Christendom believo that man is all uncloan ; that his heart is tainted naturally, and desperately wicked. They also believo Ood to be a merciless tyrant, who made a burning lloll in sport of power so to do, and amuses himself by eternally damning his ohildren — his own divine handiwork and master­piece thereto. All this is falso, and a di­rect libel on the great Creator. Such doc­trines havo exerted a bileful influence on the human race, retarded its moral growth, impeded its onward progress, orushed its ever rising aspirations, blasted its fondest hopes, and enveloped the human mind in the appalling folds of-a darkness most terrific. Thoy must be outgrown and cast aside as utterly worthless ore m m can at­tain his perfect stature and stand forth as he should, in the bright garniture of wis­dom, and tho similitude of his Creator— God 1 Fear must give place to the at­traction of love or he -must ever remain unhappy. Having so long been told by those who knew better, that his nature was corrupt, to the extent of requiring a God’s blood to cleanse and purify, man has at last come to mainly believe it, and there fore acts accprdingly, solacing himself with the idea that ho can’t be worse than he finds himself, an I therefore might as well give a loose rein to his perver.so and perverted faculties; precisely as a child, who be­ing told every day that he is a thief, at length resolves to make good his claims to the little thus conferrol, and actually learns to steal. Titis o u 'h t not to be; nor will it, when the Truo Harmonial System of Philosophy, b ise 1 on a correct Anthropology is understood—and prac­ticed. M m must learn the rudiments, first of I t i s naturo, and then he will begin to move iu the right direction. Amongst these primary truths is this, namely: that all essential souls are perfect in q aality, but are inactive of themselves, until matter shall quicken them, and send the divine sparks of Intelligence on their mission of untold magnitude and importance either for good or ill. All that man can do is to furnish the means, and provide the condi­tions plr-sica' for the incarnation anil con- scions development of theto essential souls. The Eternal Coaler of tho Infinite Uni- v or etc tun—tho .inellahle, thrice glorious Over-Soul of All, breathes forth these no ill essences— spirit-monads, »s human beings exhale the carb jme gas from their lumps, or the damask ro.-c its perfume — The very air is full of them, and thousands sum m nl every human being on every earih within the miterial' system of the Universe of universes. "

' “ ‘If this be so,’ you ask, ‘what thon was the origin of the first human beings, who as you say, serve only as the labora­tories wherein the necessary elements for the inearnition, embodiment, hypostasis, and development of these essential or nion- a la l spirits is prepared and compounded?’ I answer : you have questioned. well an i wisely ; and even so will I solve the knot­ty pro iletn for you. Mark one thing well. Man was not ma lo literally of clay, dust or matter, as many have been taught to th ink ; nor could any combi iiition, com­pound or extract tit material elements ever constitute the thing oillel Soal. B nause matter contains nothing witliin inself akin to mind. It is always and ever will be nothing but the, patient or a c te d o n , while soul is ever the a c t o r . Tne refi ied es-en- c e s , extreme attenuation, or ultimUo sub- linntion of matter, constitutesSpirit, which is .but tlio vehicle of Suit, and the medium whereby only can it come into ielation with that-which is s i infinitely beneath itself in point of excellent purity. '

W ITH Itf AND W IM J t/r -

’lis midnight’s solemn hour. _ Ila rk ! the deep-toned hell peals forth tho knell of the departing day, aud ushers in the morn ; the stars, those ‘•gems ot heavi n” spangle the azure cope. The morn just piercing the fleeclv tissue cloud% tinges yon grey tower with her pure beams. The streets are hushed—naught is heard save the quiet murmur of the rinplmg waves as they gently kiss the pebbly beach and softly whisper their good night. Truly seems it gazing on a scene like this, as it no tear could diin the eye, no blighting sorrow crush the heart.

But hark ! what means that wnil of anguish in yon stately mansion ? Ah! the rider ot the pale horse hath entered there; for neither bolt nor bars nor regal splendor can forbid his en­trance, nor tenderest affection stay his pro­gress. The strong man is laid low. Sad sor­rows flit softly around the couch of the suffer­er, and bending near wait for his parting bless­ing. “Weep not for me” he said, the angels h a v e sent their ‘‘pale-browed brother” to bear me home, my Father calls me, fare jc well.

How sweet to remember there is a world f r o m which,death and sin the cause of doath is forever excluded.

^ CapitalA TERRIBLE WOMAN.CIIAPTHR 1.—THE BALL OF THE

- O PER A — A CURIOUS REN­CONTRE.

I t was in November, 1851. I had been wandering over the continent for years, with no particular aim or oojeet —I had nothing, in fact, to do in the world, except to kill timo, until that old mower- down of humanity should be ready to kill jne. That generally tedious and desperate avoeition had been for tnoroj than a year,- however, a good deal lightened by a course of political events in France. Most ^of my friends in that kingdom wore, like 'm y­self, sturdy republicans, and lean afford to c uifess, now that I havo no apprehension of finding a ‘ in o u c h a r d ” always at my e1- bow, I was pretty deep in their soerets and their schemes. •

So it was in November, 18.51, that I catii'i back to Paris, and reinstalled myself in my old lodgment au premiere, Hue St. Ilonore, No.------

The evening of my arrival, the first B a l

d e V O p t r a opened its fasoinations to the miltifariouj throng of pleasuve-seekers who crow-1 its dore and intoxicating hall. Unmasked, and in simple habit of “ gentil- homme,” I dropped in about midirght.— The ball was at its height, or rather under fuli headway for that giddy elevation which it commonly reaches about the smill hours. - I idled about, and bore with prop­er fiegm tho assaults of an indefinite num­ber of travestied young women of the q u a r t i e r l a t i n , not less malicious than beautiful—till I grew weary of being tbe but, of a persiflage, agreeable enough tD n ivices, b u t ' stale to an old habitue like myself. Wearied with it, after u little whiiO, therefore, anil recognizing none of my friends any whero among the surging and whirling crowd, I went a..d sat down in one of tho boxes, resolved to watch the scenc below awhile, and then go homo and to bed, like a good boy, before daylight.

I had r.ot been long seated when a sec­ond person came in also, and sat down in the opposite corner of the box. I looked, of oou se, an 1 saw tin t it was a woman. Women being the “ feature” of the place, however, ami 1 in rather a crusty humor, I took no farther notice of her. I e x ­pected that, as usual, she would launch at mo some of tbe ordinary challenges to con­versation ; but I was mistaken. So, after wiiting sometime iii a dead pause, I began to feel a little curious to know what c.uild be tin; reason for such an anomaly as a si­lent French woman at tho B i l d e V O p e r a

1 drew back in tbe nox a liitle, thorclore, and fell to examining her carefully. Sho was comp'etely enveloped in a black domino, an I closely masked. There she sat, half i-crooned by the curtain, and peering down fixedly on the moving crowd beloiv—and motionless as a statue. A delicate and rounded hand, perfectly gloved in white kid, rested upon ilic'ledge of the box.— That, was all, however, tin t could be seen, by which to form a surmise as to her character or looks. There was not a bow of ribbon about her dress, nor even astiay curl peeping out beneath her hood, to mark her for recognition. Neither, as sho sat there, could you form any idea of her fig­ure beyond tbo fact that she was certainly not a large woman. Even her oyes show­ed through the hides in her mask on y like two little jioints of Si^ht; for tho holes wero smaller than usual, and evidently meant to conceal their size and character. There was, in fact, not a shade pf coquetry about her dress or herself And tlmt fact piqued my curiosity in a manner which the must elaborate attempt at fascination would have failed to do. Directly, however, sho drew from under her domino'‘her other hand, and this held in it a littlo handker­chief. As she raised it, apparently with un involuntary motion of lnibit, to where her iips should- be, but tho mask win, she was attracted by something in the crowd below, and leaned over the front of the box. As she did so tho handkerchief foil from hor hand. Her agitation at this was so m irked that I rose instantly, and said :

“ There is no necessity of being agitated. I f Madame will remain horo, I will bring it to her in a moment.’’

The lady bowed, and I went off on my errand. I lrad no diffnulty. A gentleman, who had picked it up, was stun ting at the fame spot, and returned it to mo a t onco.— I went oaek much more slowly than I hadi.'eseended, and took Jhe chanoe of examin­ing tho fairy wob of lacs by tho way. It was a marvel of manufacture, and perfum­ed with one of thoso delicate, half-scents whioh I own always suggests to me an idea of gool taste and:distinction in the user. There was neither cipher nor mark upon t, but tied in one corner was a little gilt

key. Taat accounted for tho lady’s agita- .ion. There could be no mistake about it*

use. It wan tho key of a “ Hrahinah" lock, and that lock I roolvel at oi-eo vfas on the lady’s writing desk, i f that key could only have talked !— but it was only a gilt key, and no key to the mystery of tlio lady, or the lady’s writing desk.

I regained tho ‘doge;” shut tho door, and presented the resoued “ cstray.” She received it, nnd thanked me in a very low sweet voico. I thought her aceent was a little foreign—not, in fact, cxaotly ‘‘Paris- ienne,” —but the voico was certainly charm­ing. A t any rate, the ice was brokon; anil as the lady d.d not offer to speak, I did. So I said :

“ You do not como here, I see, fair masque, for the 6amo purpose as the com­mon crowd. Yen are not gay. You aro, in fact, sail and d i s t r a i t . Aro you afraid - of this noisy crowd, or of me?’’

Tho lady turned half towards me, nnd said in the same tone of voice, but through which, 1 fancied, pierced a touch of irony :

“ I know you too well, Monsieur, to bo afraid of you.”

‘‘A h!'’ said I, laughing, “you are a for­tune-teller.”

“N o,!'said she, in the same low, half- mockiiVg way. “ Th it is not necessary.— Without being a witch, I can e.-vsily con­vince you of my knowledge. For instance: you camo to Paris to-day direct from Rome. You wero uccornpaniod only by your servant, a negro, very venerable, gray, and pompous. You drove first to tho Rue Vau-iirard to call upon a friend. From thero you went, to the Mi'dstry of Police anti registered your name, and received per­mission to reside in Paris. -It was a wise act.” ' '

This was said with an emphasis that made me shiver a little, and fancy tlmt perhaps the “ iron” band of the police was under that paiticular '■•gant d e v e l e u r s . ’ ’

“ From there,” she continued, “ you went to your apartments, llue St. llonoro, No.—■— , and—” .

“ From there here,” gayety I did not feel ;

IJreak it—even in thought—apd this is oar last meeting.

Whon I turned she wis gono.

C H A PT E R II .— A CRIM INAL AT TH E CONFESSIONAL.

said I, .affecting a for decidedly the

‘But in your i 'o le ofady know too much prophetess you ought.to know the past and future, as well as to-day. Wc have met before 1”

“ Yes.”“ W hcro?” '“In Italy, in England—every where.” “You aro my good or evil genius?”“That will be as you make it.” .“ How c a u l control it?” said I hastily. “Too good genius Ins b.:en with you,”

Siiid she, slowly aud almost solemnly, “for three years.- I l i a v o determined to project you. I have done it.”

Iio w 7” said I, with a little anger; for .1 hato to be mystified, and began to think she was currying the joke too far even fer an opera ball pleasantry. “ How and where ?”

“ In Rome, when you conspired with Mazzi- ni. You were discovered. You reoeivfd a note, warning you of your danger, and (led in time. That note was mine. A tthcbljody field ofNavarra. You fought and fell. Insen­sible, you were carried from the field to a neighboring ‘Poderc.’ My servants car­ried you— it was by my orders. Whilo in­sensible, or wild with tho fever whioh fol­lowed, I nursed you—it was my mission.”

I began to be in a new fever.“ If,” I cried, “ I am under so many ob­

ligations to you, you will not bo so cruel, so heartless as to we ir that mask any long­er. You have told truth enough to mako me believe all true you toll mo. Let mo at least learn to know who I owe so much to.” \ #

“Mr. Heyward,”— I started again, for ihat was my nains indeed,—“ Mr. Hey­ward,” she said coldly, “doo3 not know mo. I t is not probable ho over will. - My face would be strango to him. This I tell him upon my Inner. But he cannot see it.” . ’

“But, Madame” —‘ '“Sufficient sir,” she shad, haughtily; “ such

is my will. Know, however, that I came litre to-night purposely to meet you, and to tell you that oil condition of obeying mo implicitly we meet again.’’

“Madame,” said I, now completely un­der the dominion of this strango creature, “ I promise implicit obcdience. Allow me to fieo you again—often again—and no sfave shall be moro absolutely obedient.”

“ Do so,” sho said, “and I promise you”— “ A littlo love?” said I, with a pardon­

able impulse of vai.ity yielding to tho sug­gestions of tho.place and time. -

“No,” she repliod, in a quick, hard tono, altogether different, “The love of man to woman is a - thing oommon, and generally worthless. I promiso something better—-- friendship and protection. You will need both.” .

Here sho roso, and said :“Mr. Heyward, f must now leave you.

I forbid you to leave this box until fifteen minutes after myself. You havo given me your word, as a gentleman, to obey mo. Keep.it, and you will havo reason to con­gratulate yourself on your good faith, _

From the opera ball nnd its strange ad­venture I went homo thoroughly excited, and a littlo alarmed— alarmed for two rea­sons : first, tho woman knew too much about mo; and second, I felt too much interest ed about her to be oomfonable. I was resolved to see.her again, and probe the matter to the bottom—to find out all about her, and make her tell mo all she knew about myself or— what “ or ?”— That I didn’t fill up. Full of my p u r­pose I haunted every public place ,for a week, in vain; notu sign of my tormentor was to ho seen. Perhaps l him seim her, really, a thousand times during that pe­riod, and did not know her ; for I had seen only a hand gloved, and Paris is full of littlo hands and perfootly-fitting white gloves.

So tlio last day pf the week I came baok to my lodgings, weary and savage, threw my oane one way, my hat another, and lastly my eyos on the table—and a three-cornered note. I pounced upon tha note and tore it open. I t containod two lines :

“ My carriago will cal] for you to-rifajht, at ten o’clock. Lu G ant B lanc .”

From that hour till ten, 1 confess, seem­ed ten ages; but ten camo at las., and so did tho carriage. I shall not undertake to desoribe tho curious mixture of .senti­ments with whioh I took my placo in it, and found myself bosido a gigantic negro ; but I was iu for the adventure, whatever it might result in, and braoed my nerves for all haps and hazards. But, in truth, I really did not apprehend danger as ono of tho results, of tho adventure. Tho lady had professed to havo dono me too much good at odd times—such as in 11 >me, at Navarra, &o.,— and 1 believed her too well to be at all alarmed. -My agitation, therefore, was rather tho nervous excite­ment of hope than fear. During tho/ ride, the negro was as silent as his mistress had been. Tho carriage wai closed; tho cur­tains draw n; I oould not sco whero we went. Only, after a while, I knew, by the sound of tho wheels, that we nad left the pavement of the city, and were riding ov­er a country road. At last, after an hour’s ' ride, tho carriage stopped at the garden door of a largo country house. The night was pretty dark, and I could merely see by tho outlines, and those vague and waver* ing in the obscurity, that it was a hand­some chateau, apparently quite old. My guido opened tho gate, and led tho wayr by another side door, into the houso. . Fol­lowing him olosoly, I camo to an inner dbor, which he opened, und, closing behind me, locked, and left mo standing alone. I listened, nnd heard him descend tho stairs and, I fancied, go out of the houso.

Then I began to look around mo. Tho chamber into whioh I was introduced was furnished luxuriously, and dimly lighted by an argund lamp, in silver frost work, hung in tho centre. A profound silence reigned everywnoro about it. Direotly, however, a door, conooalod by curtains of pink silk, opened, the drapery was put side, and tho unknown entered—m a s k e d .

I was ubout to throw myself ut her feet, and utter somo of tho common plaoes of passion, which all this scenc naturally sug­gested; but she drew back haughtily, apd, with tho air of a queen, motioned me to a scat. I obeyed { in fact, I could not help obeying, her air was so impo ing. Sho also sat down oppnsito me, upon a small Grecian couch, and faint us the light . was,I oould now see that, wliatovcr her face might bo, her figure was as faultless as the white-gloved hand which first attractod me. She was in demi-toilette, and a Spanish waist and full sleeves permitted to be seen an armi and neck white and round— all that lover the most passionate, in fact, or critic tho most fastidious, could desire.

I nttompted to bo gallant and affcotion- ate. Sho stopped me instantly— got harshly, bot decidedly—saying :

“ I tolij Mr. Heyward, when wo met last,, that I knew him ; I Sent for him to-night- to prove it, not to hear professions of love.. Those aro the common coin of our daily lifo. I have something marc important far.. you.”

“ Madame, or Mademoiselle,” said I, “ whichever you may be* for Heaven’s sake toll me what you know of mo, and believe me, my most sincere desire is th a t you may know or think nothing which will pre­vent your accepting from mo more than a common profession^------”

“ Of love 7” said she. •I bowed and laid tny hand on my heirt.“M. Heyward,” sho oontinuod, “I am a

woman of condition. I am joung . My life has been irreproachable, and—I will bo frank with you—I Jove you. S tay!— npproaoh me, offer to rise, even, tp l I bid you,, and I disappear.”

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A o e : — W hen this paper was transferred

tQ new proprietors, in A u g u s t las t , th e u n ­

dersigned engaged to c o n tr ib u te for a season

to i t s editorial c jIu iu is . T u a t en g u g o -

m e n t ba* nmv terminated, and his coonco-

tion with ihe p aper i* a t an end.

I n m a k in g th is an nouncem en t, I d eem it

dus to m y se lf lo s ta 'e (xince m an y of th e

re a d e rs of the A o e seem to hav e m is ip p re -

h e n d i'd th e fa c ts )— th u t sin '0 th e chango of p ro p rie to rsh ip above a llu d ed to , I havo

Aad' n o oontro l o f o r—E C igonsibiiity (y r e ith ­

e r th c e d ito r ia l, m echan ical o r b u s in e ss do-

p s r tn ie o u o f t h e pupur. M y sorv icos have

been lim ited to th o c o n tr ib u tio n o f a ap ee i. fled a m o u n t of in a tto r W eekly, o v e r my

own h ig n a tu re — boyond w hich I have had

b o p a r t in p re p a r in g its c o n te n t? . In fac t,

I havo h a d no o p p o r tu n ity oven o f e x a m in ­

in g th e p ro o f-sh ee ts o f my ' ow u u rtio los,—

in consequonce o f w hich th ey liavo o ften a p ­

p e a re d in a sa lly inutiiate.1 c o n li t im i , m u ch

to m y m ortifica tio n , i f no t to th e m is le a d in g of i e id e rs .

I t is ult-o b u t j u s t th a t I a d d , th a t thc

general management, of tho p a p e r . sinoe tho

• t r a n s fe r , h a s afforded m o l i t t le s a 'in a c t io n ,

a n d m uch d isa p p o in tm e n t. I h av e , h o w ev ­

er, p a tie n tly b o rn e w ith w h i t I h u d no f o w e r to re m e d y , h o p in g th a t th e pu b lish

.era w ould be ab le to ovprcom o th e d ifficul-

■iiea w hich hedged u p th e ir w ay, a n d fu lfill

th e e x p e c ta tio n s th ey h a d r a is e d . Tho

p re se n t p ro p rie to r is now c o n fid e n t th a t ho is on th o ovo o f acc o m p lish in g his in te n ­

t io n s , am i fu rn ish ing , a 'p u p e r o f th e f irs t• c la ss . T h a t ho njiiy su cceed , is m y 'm o s t

' e a rn e s t w ish — as i t d o u b tle ss is th u t o f a ll

th e old friends o f tRo Aon. I t 'is, however,

h is d esig n to make it in somo m easure the

e x p o n e n t of a new i>sue or movem ent,

w h ic h has already beca to toino extent fore­

sh a d o w e d in tliesc colum ns. O f th is I

k n o w too little as y e t to bo prepared to

id e n t if y myself with it, o r even to express

an opinion upon, i ts m erits .

A s re g a r d s the S p iritualistic m o v em en t,

in general , ihough its p re s e n t position as a

M o r a l , Social an d Theological R efo rm , is

(tot all t h u t Cbuld be wished, or th u t nmy

bo reasonably anticipated ere long, yet i t is

m a t t e r for congratulation t h a t i ts basis

fact— the existence and c om m unioating

p o w e r a t disembodied sp irits— is firmiy es-

ta b ished in the eonviotions of a largo p o r­

tio n o f th e intell igent a n l j well-informed

c la v e s , a n d is s ilently but surely leaven­

in g the e n tire public mind. T h a t the ben-

ofioent p ro v id e n tia l ends intended in' this

w o rld -w id e movem ent will in d,ue tim e bo

w r o u g h t o u t , and through heaven-directed

in s tru m e n ta l i t ie s , I cannot d o u b t .

W h e t h e r any fu thor p a r t in the p u b l ic

advocacy o f Spiritualism will devolve on

MS, o r w h e th e r m y w ork in this field is

d o n e , ill be d eterm in ed b y the fu tu re .—

N ev e r Laving s o u g h t the notoriety, tho

w c i .b v " sponsibilit ies, the c ru s h in g and

pe tiiaril u nrem uncrated toile o f editoiial

(ervico in this u n p o p u la r cause, a release

will be most, thankfully accepted, i f D u t y

gran ts it . I retire p i th tho sustaining con.

soio^sness o f having labored long, ear-

H08 'ly and honestly, to t h e e x 'e n t o f my

;ne^i)M a n d abilities, to furnish a Spiritualis-

tio povirnut which should be creditable to

th g ,ea,t movem ent of our d p y — jphich,

a l i k e in i t e litu a r y , moral, philosophical,

re lig io u s an d practically reform atory to n e ,

should re p i; "ent the best plm-es o f (his

g ra n d rev o lu tio n , 'ijho failure of^fiealth,

a n d th e look o f thnt substantial co-operation

jIThich m i g ^ t h a y e p e c n reasonably a n t h i -

puted, in te rru p te d ibc»e l»b"rs some months

►i»3o. T h e p a p e r passed from my control,

an d the rent in^knijurn I t is surely not

g r e a t ly to (he cred it of tho reputed.milliont*

o f believers in Modern Sp^rituali-wi, th a t no

' publi m i e n devoted to i ts advooacy hus

been a b le to obtain a c o m p e te n t sup p o rt

w ith o u t resort lo e xtraneous and sometimes

questionable uids.

T h e undersigned is not u n aw are that b e ­

tween th e S piritualism advocated by him ­

self, a n d much that u n d er this namo, i>

prevalent throughout the co u n tr y , there ex

ists an “ irrepressible conflict.” B i t w heth­

er his future positfbn shall be u puolio or

a privuto ono, he hopes e v e r to rem in an

earnest, advocate of " l h t i o n a l S p i r i t u a l i s m

a n d P r a c t i c a l R e f o r m ' '— an uncotiiprotnis-

ing opponent o f all superficial, spusuulis-ic

and u /npiri tual tl ieirios-wiiich m iy be pro­

m u lg a te d in tho name of*Spiritualism N o

system can be worthy o f t h a t title, or ot

value to the w r r ld , which does not tend

practically to purity the individual from all

selfish a n d fleshly lusts, and to elevate hu

nian suciely io the angelic stato.

Tho sundering o f a connection so long

held with the Spir itualistic press, g ives ri.se

to em o tio n s that oannot heio be ex p ress d.

I n these y ears of toil and endurance in be­

h a lf of a n unpopular cause acquaintances

have been formed and frien Iship* c e m e n te .

which, I cannot doubt, will c o n tin u e in

‘ The Land of tho II reafter.”

I will a v a il myself of the p re s e n t occasion

only to say , th a t the re m e m b ia n c e ot n u ­

merous deeds o f kindness from friend*

whose unly b o rd o f obligation was interest

in a common cause— leeds and wonts whieh

h a v e tended to lighten b u rd e n s that seemed

otherwise in s u p p o rtab lo — will go w ith me

th r o u g h life as a perpetual source o f grati

tu d o and s trength . E ar Ii h a s “ m in is te r ­

in g im pels ,” us well as he iven. May their

n u m b e r .increase till earth -shall be fully per­

v aded by the sp irit of heaven !

F ir m ly believing in the ult im ate triumph

of t r u e S p ir itu alism , and cordially wishing

to all tho - .enjoyments which flow from

s p i r i t u a l i t y of h eart and life, I have h o t to

a d d , Ai>iku! A . E. N e w t o n .

S o m k u v ii .lh , M ass., J a n . 2 7 r h , 1 8 0 0 .

E X P L A N A T O R Y .

W e a re sorry to no obliged to apologize to

the r to d e r s of the A ge for its non-appcar-

ance in its proposed enlarged and improved

fortji this week. Thoso who tire acquainted

with up b e s t , ‘k n o w th it w o had every rea­

son in tho worlJ to suppose th a t the ptom-

iso wc ' m ade in th is respect a month ago,

would bo amply redeemed with this num­

ber. T h e y k n o w , too, that every f oult.y

we possess has been taxed to the utmost to

accomplish a consummation so devoutly t"

be wished, B ui m an proposes and God dis­

poses. .

B u t while wo very much regret that we

wero induced to make promises, to oui

readers whioh must cause them disappoint

ment, we aro consoled with th c knowledge

t h a t w liat wc at first regard' d as an tin-

mixeil evil , is now shown to have been the

deliberate result of an unseen intelligence

far ab o v e tlmt. o f our own. W e feel con­

te n t , therefore, to labor on until our efforts

aro crowned with_tliat succcsh which paiient,

earnest tf lo i t m ust alw ays achieve

Somo g o o d friends ot t h e 'A g e co m p la in

o f th e m y ste rio u s m an n er, m w hich thu p a p e r has bean con d u cted to r som o tim e

p a s t. Well, we con I css th ere is a m ystery

a b o u t i t —»-a m ystery wmcti has involved the

w r i te r h e re o f in i ts to ils fo r m ore than

se v e n y e u r j . T lm t m ystery lie has been

v ain ly try i '- g to so lv e , to p e n e tra te , u n til

now , w h o n ho feels th i t th o so lu tio n is

Well n ig h n ached. And w hen wo become convinced th a t wo c an n o t un i'avel fho web, wc in te n d to m ak e “ a c’lcun b re a s t o f i l ” to

th c p u b lic when we aro sa tis f ied , i t will

unravel itso lf , ^ n d w hen th a t is done, we

believo a n d know thajt we i-hall havo done th e w orld nn e s fc n tin l jwr.yicc, e ith e rd n de ­

v e lo p in g u n im p o ita n i m ovt m e a t, o r in ex ­

p o s in g a s tro n g jj.nd p re v a len t dcluai.Qn.

jBtnir wiiih us th en , J i ie n d s , a l ittlo lo n g ­

er. T ^ .e o n u m b e rs m oro w ill co m p le te a

h a l f VQlumj o f th e A g e s in c e o u r co u n tc -

tio n w i 'h i t . W ° h av e no reu s n to d o u b t

th a t we s h a l l then be a l j e to p re se n t o u r

rea lers wtih a jo u rn al whieh will tie credttu-

hlo to us and th e cause it represents . Wo

sbull have som ething moro definite to say in

o u r next. .

_________ ; ____ A -

SCRA PS FRO M G O E T H E .

I’LAOIAIUBSI.

“ H ow absurd !” says G oethe in s p e a k in g

of the dhanges o f plugiaristn which a r e of­

ten bro ught against writers. “ W c m i ^ h t

as well inqiire, When wo see a s t ro n g in

about, the oxen, sheep, and swine whi -h he

has eate n , ai.d wnioh have co n tr ib u te d to

Ilis strength . •

“ 'V e have faculties indeed, to begin with;

b u t , for unfolding them , we may tljaok a

th o u s a n d influences o f the g re a t world,

from whieh we ap p ro p riate w hat is su itab le

to us. I owe much to the G reek s a n d

French ; I am infinitely indebted to 'S h a k e -

spearc. S terne, an d G oldsm ith ; b u t in say-

n g th i ' , I havo not pointed o u t all the

sources o f my c u l t u r e ; th a t would bo an

endless as well as an unnecessary t>sk.—

W l n t is im p o rta n t is to h a v e a so u l t h a t

lo v e s t r u t h , a w l re c e iv e s i l w h e n i t c a n f i n d

i t ! "

, K A I U U I i , '

[W ill our reflecting friends ponder welI

ypun what, follo-ws. ' I t s t r ik e s us ttiat i t is

, u l l 'o f tru th . • *J

" N a t u r e u n d e rs ta n d s no jo k es;* she is

alw ays tr u e , earn est an d sev ere; she :s ul-

w.iys l ig h t , and all f.iiling an d erro r uiust

belong to man. She disc aim s tho in a d e ­

q u ate ; only to th e a le q u a to ; tr u e and g e n ­

u in e will she reveal her my.-teri'es.”

THE DIVINITY.

‘■The i in d '- r s ta n d i i ig can n e w r scale tho

lof iest heignts. Man m u s t rise th rougho oth e hig h est reason to appro ch the D ivin-

i y which manife-ts i is e lC in ihe p r im i­

tive phenomena, physical, and m oral, iic-

liiud which it d.veilj and which piocecds

from it.

“ D i v i n i t y works in the living, and not, in

the dead, n the iif.COM I no and c i i a n o i n o ,

and not io the becom e .md eh i n j e d . T h erc-

ore l t i i s o o a.-piring to tho Divine, deals

with the becoming, and the living, b u t the

undeistaiulm g with the beeoniA the already

siiff-ned, waicli i t can apply i o use. 31in-

eralogy is the science li.r the un Icrst.in 1-

ing, for piac ieal lile. i ts subject is the d ead ,

which cannot, rise a g iin , and gives no room

for synthesis.

“ The subject o f meteorology, on iho con­

trary , is living, what, we sec dai y working

and i h inging ; so this scionee supposes sy n ­

thesis only o g re a t an accum ulation of

observations is needed for this, th a t n u n is

not yet. prepared. .

“ We s tc jr by hypotheses, by imaginary

islands, b u t the proper l iy p j 'h ^s is wil prob­

ab ly remain an undiscovered c o u n tr y ; and

I do nor, wonder, when I seo how difficult

it, ia to obtain a Nynihe>is a b o u t suidi small

tilings as*])lants an d co'ors.”

‘W hile .w e are.children we a're sensualis ts ,

idealists when we love, an d a ttr ib u te to iim

beloved object, qualities whicii she-does not

p o sso s. Jj >vc w a v e r s ; we d o u b t her fidel­

ity, and we are skeptics before we think of.

it . T he rest of M e is indifferent; we let

it go as it will, ;>ud, like In d ia n philoso­

phers, with Q uietism .'’ ...

KNOW THYSEI.P.

I t has from tli-J olden tim e been said r e p e a t ­

ed ly , th a t mau should strive to know himself.

To this singular requisit ion no man either

has fully answered or shall" a n sw er. Man

is by sense a n l custom lead outw ards into

tho world, und lias a great, deal to d> t h a t

he niay know a n d . make use of this, l ie

knojvs hinisolf oniy Irom jo y and sorrow,

and only in th s way instructed . what to

seek, ami whut to shun.. Man is uad a r k e n ­

ed heiti^ ; he knows not whence he comes,

nor whither lie g o e s ; aho knows li tt lo wf tho

world, anil loss o f himself. I kno,w n o t

myself, and may G od protect ipo from i t !

But this [ can s iy, and in my fortieth y ear,

ivh.de living in I ta ly , I became wiso enough

to know this much of myself th a t 1 had Dot

a tulent. for the plastic a r ts , and th a t this

tendency o f mind was a fulse one. ‘

MAN AND T I IB CREATION.

“ Tho teachers o f whom I Hpeak wouUl

t h in k th e y had lost th e ir divinity, i f ihe-

did nut a d o re him who gavo tho ox h o rn s io

defend him self with. B u t lot them perm*:'

me to venerate h im who was fo g reat in

tho magnificence o f I l is creation, ns after

m a k i n g a th o u s a n d fold plants , to c o m p r e ­

hend th e m in o n e ; and a lter a th o u s a n d

fold a n im als , lo m«ke th a t one whi h com*

prehenHs th e m a l l— M an.

F a r t h e r , they ven erate hiai who gives

thc brast his 'o l d e r , an d the m m meat an d

d r i n k , as m uch as ho can enjoy. B u t I

w orship him w ho has infused into the

World su ih power of production, 'h a t i f o n ­

ly a n iid io n th p a rt of it, shnuld p -ss < u t of

life, the world would swarm with creatures

to such a degree th a t war, pestilence, firo,

a n d water oould n o t prevail u g i in s t them.

T h a t is m y God.

M n s . P e a b o o y . — T his 1 .dy is fist, g i i n .

ing an e x te n d e d re p u ta tio n as a powerfu

healin g medium. Some of her cures a* r e ­

lated to us, aro tr u ly wonderful. L et any

o f o u r frwn 1-t lvIi i k u ) v of I n >e •afu c a -

es,” o f disease, procure the aid of Mrs. P .

W e can testify to h e r rem arkable powers

as a clairvoyant,, b u t have fortunate ly had

no occasion to teSt her as a healing inedi

nm , whioh is her strong point . More c n-

verts are b e in g made to S piritualism th r o u g h

the astonishing euros performed by medi-

u m s ’than by all the lecturing and w r i t in g

of tb e d a y , powerful as these instrumental

ities arc . ^

I f we rig h tly u n d e r s t a n d the doc­

tr in e s of the a u t h o r of tho Sermon on the

‘ F a ll o f M m , ” and those of Mr. liv-erts to

be found in a n o th e r p a r t of this paper,

th e r e is no substantial disagreement betw een

th em . T h e essay o f the la t te r gentleman

is vvell worthy o f careful st idy. Shall wo

hoar from the w riter often ? £

E h U a t a . — In 'he article in last w e e k ’s

p a p e r , entitled “ Sund iy Meeting iu Brom-

ticld H a ll ,” 2 6 ' h line, for ‘Me i” read “ a n d , '1 ’ • 7 whieh very m ateria lly alters the sen-e. A l ­

so, in '40th line, for “ a b o u t” read “ a fc o t .”

Co . v t k n t s o r S i ' i a i T i n r , 11'-:ohtkii FOll 18 f l ) . — C d e n d a r for 1 8 ' i ). S je ik"i\s’ V i n uiaii, O vc t in- ; . S . m i t u d Tl imiry, W h it S j i r i t n i l istn II ts Done , Thc S a i l ’s Au t h o r i t y , I / -vin^ Inspin i t i on , I t '

un ion of F r i ends . T r uu It i f i i rai , In livi lo il Kr.'i!

d a m, S p i r i t u i l i s m and tho Bible, Cm S p i r i t m l i - i n S a n d Alon", Tlio Sp i r i t u il Di spens itimi, \1 (finins Dffni ide I, Ait i tat i i in, Kv li t a l i s a i R ^ o r n i s . S - n r e h tliu S i . riptures, Anj;el Helper s . O' - e i t Mitels, Sp i r i t

u i l P r og r e s s , T r u e M t r r iugn, Vi<ion of p. -ogres' s, Sp i r i t ua l Theo r y , S , ) i r i t n d [ n t e roour se , Tr i ll a te i

Tr i u nol i , Di vine fj-ivii. Spe- ikars , Places o f M,-et

ing. Mil l i mns , J m r n - i l s , P i b h a i t i u a s , S. ;hools , Spi r i t u . i hs t s iu Vuier im S r m n r r y .

A limited auppli- of this Fourth Annual R o is ­

ter, is s ill on Il iad ,-m l mil li.iiniil?! fro < of

po^tngo, on:i copy for ten cents, fourtjun for on -

dollar; one him InvI for fire dollars.

Address, Uriah Clark, Auburn, Now York.

A P )KM.— We Invi! r j i e i v o l f rom Mr. W S

H a ywo o d a poem del ivered hy h i m at the c e l e b r a ­tion o f tiie 1 On " I l un d o r nd t h A n n i v e r s a r y e f t he

i nco r p o r a t i o n o f Wes t mi ns t e r , M i s s . ” T h o u g h it does no t come u p to tho legl iest roach o f j o t ic

a r t , y e t i t oonta ins iron! rl iyinn, whis l i e inhady gnnd

oo-miiou l en s e t hough t s . Tho poe' ri , ui a wonl , eont l i ns muob q u a i n t a n d h u m d y wisd ni. I t is

ih' i V ' nd u o t i on o f Mr. I I ' s pen. We h ive huikc lii o ve r wi th a good J o il o f s i t i s f i c t i o u a a d c d i f m

tion. - .

To Comu:spoNi>K„VTS.— OurSioritic friend, “ Kx

celsior,” who writes s nirtly, shill app'ir, if he

will give his roil namo. We want t-j know our

corres mnduirs.

Bro. Siiaw’s floors will appear in due season.

A n A n g e i , a v i t i i B o o t s o n . — T h e re is

no accounting for litt le c h ild re n ’s inventions

and explanations of th in g s. Two li tt le

pr.att ers were looking o u t o f a window at u

weathervano on t e top <if a stecp'c o f a

U nivcrsalis t C hurch. T h is weatlicrvune

whioh was p u t u p there to t d l which way

tho w ind blew , was in tho shape of a ■< tin

with boots on . Th\) children wondered

w h at it could be. “ I t is a n angoL!” says

ono “ N o ,” said thc othor, “ it can’t, be an

angel, because ungels havo wings, au d a i-

gpls d o n ’t tvear b o o ts .” “ Oh !" said the

first , ' ‘I’ ll tell you what it is, it's a U niver-

8a)jst, tj.tigel wjt.h boots on, going to heaven

.o nfoo.t ,” .

Disapaip.tirent i,s fhe sorrowful child o f t h e

elate hope. Wc all experience thc birth.

I N T R O D U O T J i i Y L - J C T lJ A tE d O N , S P I R I T J A L I d u I

ITS RLMQIOUB, I'll.UIOAI,, AND social

BIONlKlt’AKCl-:.

L E C T U R E I .

I f there is an y ono th in g tlow-a-days;

inore evident th a n atto h-*r, . t is th a t tho

entire Keligious, Politic • I, and Social S y s ­

tems of tbo age, are a f f l :ted witu tno triost

irilliminatory s p e c i e s of rheum atism .

T h e darts ami t - i n g e s o f this exceeding­

ly rheum atic ^ ta te of th ing - a r e flying from

1 mb to i i m ', f o it muscle to tiiUscle, and

a te pi oi ing t ■ th v iy vit Is. Tne dif­

ferent schools of phy-ieians who have a t ­

tended upon this p ticnt lor m any cen tu ries

past , all seem to nc-ord in th e opinion th a t

there is a m an ifi t disea-e here, o f very

long s tanding, b u t (hey d ffer widely as to

its orijtin and ult im ate e m s e s . ' Tl.o r e m e ­

d ie s hitherto applied in t ds case partak e o f

tne character, as I believe, o f too ex tern al

application, so th.it it is not mirprising, if

this be the real mode o f m a c 'ie e a opted,

th a t th e malady still r-g es violently, and

th a t the Religious, P o lin a il, and Social

systems aro still in a painful, still .Ting ^ren­

dition. T h e re was a rem edy brought to

light, however, some l i jh i e e n h u n d re d

years sinee, wiueli,' if prop -r>y applied, an d

adm inistered with salH to it li, would

su r e y eifec , n- 1 nolit-ve, a hale, hearty ,

healthy, and r u d d y s ta te ,

I allude "to (Jiii'isilauity ; a n old and

som ew hat antiquated prescript ioo tu b e sure,

and ono that has been tried and adm inis­

tered for ages, wi'bout, resulting iu any real

recovery. T n eie has also been r m up such

enormous bills of Ices, and siien eXliorb.taut

salaries have been p iid for a t ten d an ce upon

th iscuso, ‘hat not a few aro n nv dispo-cd

to dismiss the physicians, lay aside thc old

prescription, an 1 try souicining a ltogether

d.IF rent. ,

I confess myself more conservative than

this, nnil advise t h a t we still ,-id.icie to tha

olu prescription. Tnere is a measure, how­

ever, which has b :en proposed, q tile recent­

ly, and to winch I give my hearty, entire

assent and appi ov il. Indeed, a i | my hopi3st

a i l ,my coi.fi lence in removing lliis exceed­

ingly rheum atic s t a t e . of Society, Poli tics,

•ttid Religion, are founded u p o n the a d o p ­

tion of this new measure w inch lias Been

p ’dposcd. 9 -

It is, to call in other co u n sel— counsel

from a higher school, a m o re elevated

sphere of practice. I propose as this

counsel those who receive constant instruc­

tions immediately from the Cr eat P h y s i ­

cian; those who liave tln'msclves been en-

t 're ly healed of this disease, who therefore

u n d ers tan d its p i t ology, its p r im try causes,

and know precisely ho v to ad mni ter t h i s

hitherto inad.q-iate U hri' tian a n t i d o te .—

And, I elu 11, my Masters , th is counsel i-i

a l r e a l y a t the door, have made the a larm ,

and now seek to be adm itted into this o u t ­

ward l i o f g e , by ‘ •three dis tinct ta p s ! ” —

This counsel professedly ci-.tncs with

vouchers from t ic G reat fli^li P n o s t , with

true words, w,th nn.ni.stakaulo signs, and

" a fte r strict exam ination, and. J^'gal inlor-

tnatioii)” on my part , I am ' p r e p i r e d to

hail them as worttiy brothers a n d fellows,

from the C e l c ' t u l T a b e rn iclo ! “ Behold I

s and a t the door and knock ; i f any man

hear my Vui -e, and open t h - d i o r , I will

cotne in to him, and wi 1 sup with him, an d

he w ith m e .”. «My h e a rt is str ick en with Fadness, as I

behold the church "ii e n th. I see how it

barf suffered trial, h a s strugg c t a n l fo u g h t

for ages with sin and error, till now it is

weak w ith y e i i s , covered ivith wounds,

shorn of its s tren g th , nnd how it, has bc-

c une a by-w or I a nong the nations. Sian

has been led ro u n d and roun I th e a l ta r o f

God, w ithout yo approaching it . IIo now

needs some more comp :tent in s tru c to r , who

s-hall teach him h >w to advance, a t the o r ­

der o f the G eat l l i g ’i P r ie s t , and b r in g

him lo tho light, IVis have, it is truo, tho

II,oly Bible in o u r midst, and pao i rev o lu ­

tion of tho in igh’y press b rin g s forlh

another volum e of t i n t Second W o r d ,

which is being boroe on the wings of overy

wind, and read by every nation ai)d tppgue.

But, alas ! who comes w ith c o m p - te n t au?

th o r ity to open t h a t B o o k , und explain its

h id d e n m c a n iii i 7 N a tio n s . clinrclio-4, h o c ii.

n o ig h l>or-, l>r<>th t n , f'atierK an d sons, m o th ­

ers a n d d.iug H or4, s 'r iv o a*i I w ar over im p ig e s , nnd in d u lg e in p e rp e tu a l (Jtm riels b v e r i ts teach ings.

Every apecies (if bitterness, ha'red, ani- tdosity( nn I contest is engeii lered for this Want of 'Competent until n ity u>i 1 wisd.nn to unfold the real meaning of G id's Word; and this contest is carried into tho very heart of society, into the sinotm ry, the house of ((raver, an I into that pUee, where, of all others, harmo'iy a i j affjetion should d well, the ilom siiis e ir ’le. N ir h n there over h j« i, o ris t.li to iv jj, t ie slightest prospeot of b-jiti r, f,ir us bu n in wisdom ia able to eff'Cf, ill ! unrest rcliot' fro n this rending, tearing si ite of things, wiich no.v preys upon the whole rel'gio is world.

W o must ad nit.'this counsel, brothers and fellows, for they come with competent, skill and authority from-tin Most High, to administer thi.i Curi.-tian antidote, uud lieal mmikipd.

As fur the Political world, every one knows that it could bar lly be made more wretched, chaotic, and di-otsed. Even in the very b e s t and freest governments, po­litical virtue, real devotion lo the ititei'i'tts of the State, is almost. a wonder, and a rarity of the rarest occurrence. There are not only rtiinois of .var.all round the "lobe, hut, that war must surely aud inevi-O * Jtably como— a war between cas es; a war waged tor a tolerablo, supporta'de exis­tence ou one hand, and to maintain its des­potic hold upon th" body aud soul of hu­manity, on the oilier hand.

Nor i* this tlie worst of ir.’ No human foresight can tell when this war will end, or what will lie' the result, whether it will r.igo like a ( ‘input for an a ' \ im i iverish ing and devastating the whole cirth, o" continue but for a 1 i'tie season, giving mankind but a gentle shock ; or wiieiher it will finally result in the elevation and emancipation of Imujani'y, or in a deeper, Btroug r hold of tyranny, upon tlie n "ck of inaiv. ,, . ■

B ut fttipp :se, as the m >re s.argu’ne hope aed expert, thut it should tc rm n ite in the estiblis'une ir, of It ipu'd.cism -through >ut the earth Still man wul lie as sclllsli as ever ho wa\ as av<rieious, as grasping, as lustful for power, as unwilling lo labor, as ready to support himself in luxury, out of the toil and poverty of his neighbor, and thus there will be as much hullo-v prelcnce, as much conspimcy against thu general good, and as much effort to hoodwink and ride over the masses, as there, now is in every State, bow iv’er fioo and enlightened

All this is but the lesson taught us from d iy to day, by the expji’ienca i f o ir 'own Nation. Are we then to hope and look for tne Political redemption o! man­kind through Republicanism? For my part I never have loosed for this, and prob­ably never shall.

Our-own government, with till its vir­tues, its freedom and suff-agcs, has been

' to me, an I i; a sulli dent. ;e-sou here. We may, therefore, pul. the best e'instruction upon the pre-eut and prospective aspects of the Political world, tli.it it is pi ssiblo and reasonable to do, in the absence of a more competent authority, wisdom and purity, than humanity affords, ami then we can expect notlimg fro m ti cm, iu comparison to wliat ought to be done, and must be done, to relieve mankind of its political yoke, and p'ai.t the germs of ri. bteous

• government throughout the earth. *(Ve can cxpect comparatively nothing from these indications, unaided by nn authority, an energy and puiily, emanating constantly and directly from a hUher sphere of thought and wisdom, a mure iiniivdia-te proximity to that Divine J’rc.-enee fioin whence louieih ail right, “ull power and might.” "

Admit, if you please, as I havo already suggested, that. Christianity, the Holy Scriptures afford a complete untidoto for

, this vast Political malady, und still there will remain for our consideration the vital question, whether, from the. experience of tho past ami present, there-is not atv* abso- lnto necessity for a higher than human tkill and wisdom in administering this remedy, and my most emphatic answer to

t is inquiry is wo must cill in control from the ►pirit-world, to aid ub. even in the Political . redoinpnon of mankind. And again, I say, my Masters, thin counsel al­ready knocks at the door, and wishes to he udmi'ted into this outward Lodge!

T h a t whieh now presents itseli as tho

greatest ami most radical evil in sooiety,

growing out of the im p u rity and selfishness

o f m an k in d , is the in c c s sa n t w ar of inter­

ests whi ’.h rages th ro u g h o u t lhe whole so­

cial s t r u c tu r e ; a war w hich exist'1, not

o n :y as between the different classes, differ­

ent trades, an d different occupations, b u t

b itw een thu. members o f th e satri'i ela-s,

trade and occupation ; a war wh ch exists,

not onl) between neighbors, b u t between

brothers and sisters, often waged even over

the lifeless reniuins of a deceased relative ;

ami finally, a war of in terests, which ex;sts

even between the sexes ; a n I wh'ch, b it for

the meekness, gentleness and submission of

the fairer, wo .Id long ere this have resulted

in actual conte-t, and th e a n n ilm ent of the

most sacred o f hum an tics .

I t has become a maxim, ‘-CoinDCtition \s

the life of tr a d e ;” the real significance of

which, is, that the only possible way for men

ami cold , until you ran pinm so him that Society, the C turoh, or the Government shall fulfil thoso offices of affection tu those he so dearly loves, don’t, for the B i k e

of God pud human compas-im, don’t blame him for making money, any way j yes, any way, at any time, aud a t uny s a c r if ic e .

I confess thut, in view of such a state of things, us Society now pro ents, in view of such trying a'ternatives, whieh the exist­ing Seeial organization forces upon its members, I can seo or acknowledge, no real an I charitable meaning, to that con­ventional phrase, “ right and wrong hut in ail tne catalogue of criimna s and evil existence*, I feel to denoin.ee Society, as it no.v is, the greatest rascal iu the wholo column !

Ilere is war, between man’s temporal nature aud his religious being, war be­tween love and obedience to his Maker, and bis affection for his wife ami children : aud this contest, this trying alternative, is incessantly, force I upo’n him by the very posit on in which Society places him. Do .we, then, ask why men are s -ifish 7

I-, it a. matter of surprise that Christian­ity lias not made, and cannot mako man­kind .pure ? Is the fault in tho prescrip­tion? I answer, liny ! It is more in the Sue al structure. It is in that wur of in­terests between classes, trades, occupations, brothers, sisters, nnd even sexes.

It lain that ro a r in g , cut-throat strif', iu whieh one amasses a fortune, while another loses his a ll; in whi di this m m imtlti - plius his estates, monopoliz s the proiucts of the earth, sells them for gold, and locks the gold in his iron safe, while another fails to obtain enough of earth's mirluee

to

to live, as things 'now aro, is to prey upon, and laceiato each other! And do man’s physicians expect to cure him Of sin, do they think to mako men honest, pure und benevolent, so long as every selfish instinct of their natures, is constantly whetted and sharpened from day today, so long.as every generous sentiment of their hearts is being seared and withered by the very positions und circumstances in which so iety compels them to exist, or not to exist at all? O f

wliat real sigeifi •ance, is the doctrine of fra­ternity and universal brotherhood ? of what J to ph-mt his foot-upon and muoh less practical utility is all the breath and .words i eusuie him against absolute want, aid out in enforcing such a docttine, when, j u ,lt whut silul| bc ^ nQ ,v;,|, society ?— uri'lcr the present social uig.inization, men I ] j (MV js this dislocated state'of things to bc might as well attempt to live withiheir heads | removcll ? n „ w ja thu whole tide and .-cv, red from their bodies, as to act toward jj lenj onoy of Sl,ciaI ,ife so to change each oilier as brothers really ought to act ? ; (|uh. dil.cctl0n a!) I)Qt , 0 rCfil,,t in „ ViI!,tl!r

Ministers and lii'inan plijMeiutis may . evil, but in a harmonious a’nd healthy aQ- seold and b'amc men for placing u h'S1" '1'[ j iu n id the Hysteai 7

estimate upon Money than upon Religion j 'jfhe.se are questions to which, as I fo ! -

ind Morality ; because they will toil from j omul j- believe, no human answer can be .Monday morning till faaturiay night, , Earned. No ex iting Social, Political, or struggling to keep up their indn idual in- j Xiuligious theory affords a cine to tho solu- terests even with the rc.-t. of the world, en- (inii ()f these problems. Without Bome

deuvoring to collect toge'her a goodly pc,i- tioti of that which they kno.v, and the world knows is the only possible thing, as lhe world now is, which will savo them­selves and families from pain, pauperism, imtl perhaps absolute disgrace.

Ministers and human physicians tiny s'old at men for Religious p. oerastinalion, for neglect of Divine Worship, for disre­gard of the Sabbath, for lack of Christian philanthropy. ,

15ut what, shall that husband und father do ? • ■ • ■

l ie knows not but in another twelve­month. perhaps in another week, tl at fuithfurcnmpunion of hi,-, youth, those lit tie and hclple-s children, may be left, without his arm to protect them, his hinds to give I hem clothing and bread. Who will do this when he is gone? ■ Who will ensure them a foot of earth to stand up on, und a roof to shelter their heads ' f ’om the. storm? Society will not do this; the C h u r e h will not d o i t ; tbo Government will not do it.

These institutions may givo them the pauper’s portion while tbey live, and when they die, a piece of earth, “ .-ix feet due East and West” perhaps, to stretch their bodies upon, and hide them from tho gaze of men.' '

W hat then shall the husband and father tlo? Surrender his companion and child-, ren to sueh a fite? or toil and struggle, at the sacrifice of every other human end, to obtuin that which will savo his family from poverty and a miserable lifo, were lie to be called to leave them, without n com­petent means of livelihood, llo knows money will do all this, and that notiing but money will do it. Then I say, ministers and teachers, until you cun give that hus­band and father a prospect, that his wife anti daughters shall have food to eat and clothes to wear when ho can n,o longer help them ;that they shall no t'he driven to tho poor-house or to prostitution to avoid huuger

key to unlock the mysteries, set hidden, of the written Word, w.thout a higher author­ity, a knowledge of man’s interior constitu­tion and without a divino energy, such as omy saints and spirits possess-, who receive command immediately from the Grand Master of the Universe, I can perceive or enterta:n no well grounded hope in the Religious, Political and Social redemption of mankind oneuith. Wo must interro- gite the guardian spirits of our race.— We must heat ken to thoso voices which now are whispering to us from the other side, the Jordan of death, appealing to our hearts, our f.ith and confidence, for per­m i s s i o n to counsel and unite with mtn in erecting the temple of universal' industry, righteousness and pease.

Uut there is another necessity which I conceive weighs with exceeding weight up­on all true human progress. It is the ne­cessity o f 'a moro complete and absoluto demonstration to man, of the. immobility of his existence; and this need is the gnater from tho iueontcstiblo fact that there can be no true tlieoiy of lldigiun, Politics, or Society, which docs not icfer to, and is not founded upon, a clear and constant perception .of this one idea.

Perhaps I shall be censured, for even the intimation, that the Setiptures are not al­ready sufficient to this end. But censure or no censure, I nm not disposoi to over­look facts— facts iu this and in every com­munity, in this and in eveiy age. I allude to thoso serious, candid doubts, which very many have always entertained relative to tbo ruth aud authority of I t iV e ^ a t io n , and tho reality of a future stat'e of. existenoo. However satisfactory the evidences- of a risen Savior, to a majority of minds, a very large minority exists, and always h a s ex­isted, who cannot ad',nit such testimony ; and the number of these serious doubters proportionally increases, as humanity is further removed from that ago, in which it is allege 1 man’s im uorUlity was miracu­lously uttested.

H itw h it is vastl/ moro tiuil this, the furl that oven tlio religious portion of man­kind, do not aet with any decree of consit- tence with the idea of their futuro immor­tality, is sufficient evidence thut evon they need n more abiding conseioii'nesfl, a more cmis'ant and absolute demonstration of tho spirit’s und,ing nature. ■

Wnile thoy aot oon-istently with the ends of this life, alone considered, they come f u r short of consistency respecting th it oth­er life, o f which it is thought they aro su‘- fidently demonstrated already. Tho truth is, I apprehend, that, the future und the present existenco must be equally certain, if wo would linve mankind uet wi'h refer- t nce to both, us men generally do with ref- etence. to thus. Th is it is perc • v«l, that net only 'he true 11 • igious d s i y o‘‘ ou - ward hum aniu, but ulso its t .u i Political und Social destiny, infinit ly depends u ;> n a more satisfactory, indeed, upon a constant: and complete demonstration, to the outward as well as inward senses, of a futuro im mortality. '

Here then, is another reason of no snm'l importuned, why we should earnestly i-cck that reliable and intelligent communion wiih tho spirit, whioh shall enable us to receive light, purity and energy, adequate to the tusk of man’s Social, Political and R eli­gious redemption. And it is from these multiplied necessities, which we have seen rest so heavily upon our. race at the present day as well as from many other things that might be named, that many are led to hope,

'ai d'from their own personal experience and investigations even to know, that the timo has at length arrived, when we can hold in­telligent and reliable iiitconursc, wiih those of our.departed race, who have been ad­mitted into that celestial Lod^e, whose light is fully tevealed, at the command of thf Great Presiding Architect of tho Universe t Tnis intercourse, I term Spiritualism ; and its great importance to man, in a Social, Political, and Religious point of view, I havo propisod as the subject, of a series of L'oturcs, of which the present is the intro­duction. Indeed, I would not seek to dis­guise,’ that my expectation now is, by tiie exclusion of every selfish aim so far as pos­sible, to spend the remainder of my days in endeavoring to establish those great prin- ciplosjtyf Religion, Government, and Socie­ty, which nuny have been able, and hope 11 bo able to draw o u t . from Revealed Christianity, through the aid of Spiritual­ism. Nor would I hes tatc to say, that 1 have ceased to hope or repose confidence in any of all of tho sects and ns'ociations of tho day, so fir as their ability is con­cerned, to ren lor humanity any farther es­sential aid. Thou.di I am far from’ being blind to the good done,’ and that will con­tinue to be done, by many Rel’gious, Po­litical and Social organizations, now ex­isting, and feel disposed to givo full" credit for this, I am nevertheless fully persuaded, •that all this work will bc dope over again, ero mankind will havo recovered ill any good degree, from its multitude of diseases

With these views of things, as they now are, and so far as mere human wisdom and power are concerned, seem m ist likely to continue, I havo felt the pn priety, and even the necessity of severing all tios, which bind me to sect. or party, and this I have already done ; declaring' myself a free tnan, to think and act as God enjoins, aeknow-. lodging no authority, save that which He imposes. I therefore appear hercaftor in .the character of a Mini-ter. of the Gospel, in so far as that phrase signifies an humblf Reform er; a signification, which, as you will doubtloss allow, does not always at- taoli to the clerical Profession. I am now fortunately able to look upon all religious, and political, and social sects with an un­biased view of their respective ol linn upon man, with an impartial feel ing and rogird and am equally prepared to yield assent to thoir truths, or expose their errors, accord­ing to my best abilities.

Tho seots and parties of tho day, all ap pear inadequate in their theories and con­ceptions, and as utter y impitent, so far as their ability to effect any great und porma nent change for tho better, is to be regard­ed a criterion of their viitucs.

Religion, as it has now beuorae, I fi\t\&t regard as mere hollow preteuee.

The best Political irstiiui)oiigof tbo >ge( . ure, in my view, inadequate to the wuntf uud nucrssi io* of man. 8 otety manifests >

its disease to the very heart, and is illegtti- mate, pestiferous in almost overy part of ' its structure. And yet, how can I feel to blaine tlieso sects und parlies, when my heart is wei^hea down with the conviction, 'hat ciicnm-tanccB-incident to this duiker state of our being, have rendered nimpossi blc perhaps, lot them to have done nn re lor the world’s good. As before remarked, a painful sense of the trying alternative*! forced upon men, and the war between the 'r temporal and their sp.ritual good, which Society has imposed upon them, leads me to attach none but un uncharitable, mis- formea meaning to that conventional terra U )> o n g , as it is generally applied.

But in ussutning the positions which I do, aud expect to do, b fore m« fellow im-n, I am fully conscious, that I subject myself tO' opposition from almost every direction, to- Cveryspecies of misrepresentation, to u fal­sification of my motives, in d to the effect­ed soorn of’ those, whose vanity exceed tlieif sound und liberal sense.

I am con-oious also, that so far ag mjr temporal pros ects are concernod, I lose ull save a bare subsistence for myself and- family, by disconnecting myself from those scctional interosts, whieh bupport a salaried Ministry. ,

On the other hand, I am assured that in this and in every community throughout the land and world, thore aro thoso in all the walks of life, whose utmost, deepest d e ­sire is, to obtain more light. .

Their true heroic natures prompt them to. make constant inquirios of the spirit within und without, as to what Qod meant hy mun, as to what lie wishes to say and do on earth, aud that heroism will prompt them to act, whenever the timo arrives.— Upon the kiud and generous conlributions of ?ueh souls, I feel that I can safely ri^y for nil that will^bo found necessary to ju p - ply my wants from day to dny. I can go to them without delicacy, conscious that. I ask not for me and mine alono, but in bo- half of humanity, whose sacred cause I hereby forever espouse, and add my hum­ble name and talents at the foot of. those, who freely think, and freely speak, and' freely act, to benefit mankind.

Tho plan whioh I have proposed to my- . self, in a few consecutive Icctures, on the subject of Spiritualism, considered with ref­erence to Religious, Political, and Social theory, may be made known in few words.I havo already received through the medi­um of Spiritual intercourse, and hopo from lay to day to continue to rcceivc.such impor­tant intimations respecting prevalent errors, not only in thcoryt but in conceptions popu­larly deemed, of all things most sacred, suoh intimations of radical defects, in existing Social, Political and Religious Systems, - and havo been caused to experience and re­alize such vital and essential truths, con­nected with Religious, Social, and Political ends of man, as will enable me, I trust, so to point out important defects in prevail­ing systems, so to present higher and more Spiritual suggestions of wisdom , and ovo, as to render you much better prepar­ed to act a^d to labor toward the progress and regeneration of our race. I t will hard­ly bc expected of mo, thut I shall entirely avoid those errors in theory, conception and practice which may appoar to mo to exist in the world, however authorized they moy have become, hy time, sanctity and popu* lar asgtent. ^Indeed, I fear that truth .and’ conscience will force me to attack quite un­ceremoniously at times, many customs, and prevalent conceptions, which are held ex­ceedingly correct, sacrod, and essential to tho general good. But in speaking thus, I will endeavor to use thut candor, and I,feel, that my heart contains that regard and f r a ­ternal sentiment toward all men, as at.least to extort from the most bigoted and'preju­diced an acknowledgement o f my manly and Christian binoerity, if. not correctness- and soundness of judgment an i theory. Ii find, in fact,so many, apologies for mankind,, for what is generally, tormed erroneous and' wrong, so many apologies, derive I from a consideration of the ttyiiig alternatives aad

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6 T H E S P I R I T U A L A G E

. [OontlwMf froa *r« P»fe.J1 sat down again, more and mors put-

■led. . ^»‘I a m fraok with you,” she continued;

“are you «o with me ?”*‘By 'Heaven !** I oommoheod.“ No oath!" she said, quiokly—“ no

oath, sir, or you maybe t w i c e forsworn.” i “ W hat doyou mean?” I cried. “ How can I be forsworn? I love you— madly, foolishly. I have loved you from <hat first hlght—loved without evor seeing your face. True, I cannot conceive it to bo less beau- tifu ltbao a lly o u r j jealousy, or what you please, does permit me to form an opinion of. But this mystery, this strange vague­ness, mixed with so much I know to be teal, at once troubles and charms nie. I hear you speuk, and the tones of your voice pro so gracious, bo full of music, that i t seems to me I never heard before a melody comp»rablo to that voice. You move, and ihe careless grace of every chango enchants too. A t last, you oompleto my intoxica- Mop by<telliu#n«j that you love m o; and when, carried away with so muoh happi­ness, I would throw mysolf nt yout feat, you Recall my. promise—you check me— ypu are cold, haughty, distant: you are •n o longer the boing you feign,- but a strange contradiction, whose only reakpur- , pose seems to be to torment and mystify tno.” ' ’ •

“And why not ?” Bhe replied, bending forward, and fixing thoso points of light, which shone through the eye-holes of her mask, upon me as if they bad power lo penetrate, and dart their light into my very soul—“Why not ? I confess I lovo you.I have a right lo do so, for I am freo and - honest. You offer me love in return—you, who are neither. What kind of love, M. Ileywurd ?” ■ " • ^

“ Of my whole heart, my soul, all my being!" 1 cried, enthusiastically.

“ Indeed!” she continued, in tho samo tone of mingled passion, anger, and mock­ery. “He tells me that. Ho offers to make mo ull these. And because I, a wo­man who loves him, who havo loved him for years, and, unknown, unseen, unsus­pected, havo followed bim day by day, guarded him in danger, nursed him when wounded, sick, without a friend— I, who Confess that my lovo for him is my life—I, who own so muoh of wounyi’s weakness as to admit thiit to converso a littlo with him, to see at lust, face to face, the man for whom I have.done ur.d felt all this, I take those strange means of meeting— ho offers to make-me his—what, sir, what?’’ bho eioluimeed, rising, ond standing bef ire me with /olded arms, her bosom swelling, and hor bead thrown baok, tho very impeifomi- tion of superb scorn—so perfect that, ul- though the mask hid it, I knew, as well its if 1 'saw it, how her oheek flushed and her lip curled—“Wliat? You dare not answer. Married, James Heyward, six yean* ugo, in the United States. Your wife is still alive thero, and yet you daro to talk to mo of love, and offer me— what? what, as the reward of mine?—• Dishonor, remorse, infamy ! Seo, James Heyward, the difference between us; my love, in all its devotion, all its disinterest­edness, has been the Jove of—a woman ; yours, in all its selfishness—a man’s.

She s;it down, and leaned her beud upon her bands.

I also sat tor a little while, silenced nnd confounded by theeiicigy, the charaoter, u( onco tender and daring, passionate and full of principle, of this “ terrible woman.” But, alas! everything the did, from its very unusunlness, from being out of thu common track bo utterly, only fascinated and chained mo the moic hopelessly at her feet. A nd us she sat there, so motionless after her iiei ce.accusal, sho. seemed to me to be, ns it were, a judge, having tho right to coi demn, the power to pardon, to whom

. 1 was Uuuer an al Solute necessity of lying opeu all my past lifo, as a defence of what 1 had done und thought since that first evening a t the opera ball. I obeyed tho impulse, ut d told the story o l'm y life;

' "as truly as to Heaven, I do confess tho viocs of my blood.”

CH A PTER I I I .—MY CONFESSION.

I t vill bo remembered that, at the con­clusion or the last chapter, I felt myself absolutely compelled to lay open all my .pastlifu to the “terrible woman” whoso iu- dignation I bad so unexpectedly aroused. Thus 1 commenced:

“ You say that I am married : 1 confess that it is so. I confers, also, all the wrong I havo aoue you in my thoughts ; but yon

, do not know how greut my exouse------”“ I buve.not aiked you to excuse, to de­

fend yourself,” i'be said, mourufuliy, and without ru lin g her heW: ‘ I have asked only how you dund to insult, to humiliate m o ; and I waB wiong to ask .even that, for I ha've invited i t—i have laid myself open

‘ to it by my own weakness."“ You w II let me nmko what reparation

l e a n ,” said 1 '; “ if not for yourself, ut (east lor me ! You are too generous to ro- fuse.” •

She bowed her head slightly, as if lo say “ Oo on, sir, if you insist upon i t : I must bear it.”

“ Madamo,’’ said I — .“ I am am an orphan, and I h a v e n o h u s ­

b a n d !” Said my mysterious tormentor, in a low but very marked tone.

“ Pardon me, M a d e m o is e l l e . You say you know [ am married, and I admit i t ; but, so strange has been my life since that event took place, that somoiimcs'it passes from me entirely, and always, indeed, rather an uncoipfortable dream than a reality of life. Six years ogo I was married. I was an only son, and my futhera widower. His character wus violent and imperious. Our plantation adjoined that of Colonel Pink­ney's, who was alto tho father of an only child—a daughter. This young lady was seventeen, awkward, thin and sallow, nnd still further cursed with a timidity and shy­ness wbicb put herself and everybody who cumo near her into a state of peipetual mis- cry. But it ploused our fathers to insist up on our inarn'age. I had simply disliked the young lady beforo, then I begar. to hate bet. I t was wrong, perhaps, but I could not help it. I had no option given me ; I must either marry her, or risk my impetuous pa­rent's ourse, and be disinherited by him.—I marriod as a man goes to the gallows.— The ceremony over, I jumped on ray horse, rode to the next town, took the cars (br Baltimore, thence to New York, and thence by the first vessel for Liverpool. S'.nct then I have lived in Europe. 'My allow­ance, which is princely, has alway3 been paid by my father; but he has never writ­ten me a line. My own letters have not been noticed, and from the hour I was married I have seen noiiher my father nor — my wife. Judge, Madame, whether 1 am not excusable in sometimes—espeoially when tried as you havo tried me— ‘orget- ting that I havo neither the right 10 love nor to bo loved.”

I was ngitutcd, and spoko rapidly and warmly. In truth, this woman had acquir­ed such an empire over me, that, whpther she spoke or listened, my thoughts centred upon her wholly, and took shape and color fur my momentarily increasing desire to penetrate tho niystevy with whioh she so ob­stinately surrounded her.-elf. Confessing that she loved me ; rela ing lo inj constant ly just enough to stimn'ate curiosity mid deepen interest-; revealing now new beau­ties by a toilette as studiously enqnetish asi her dr< ss at tho ball of the opera hud been plain and billing ; yet still, as then, refus­ing to lift lor a moment tho closely fitting silk musk, und disclose a g'imp-o of the face it covered, the charms of figure, cur- linge, manner, conversation, the dilutions quality of her voice, all she hi J and all she discovered, alike added fuel to the flame and at once so pleased and exasperated me, that I was not fur ti moment in my right senses, whether present or absent from her And she knew it ; she practised on it. My weakness was her strength ; my infatuation her glory; for 1 was infatuated to that point tlmt, although maddened almost by her arts, and eapabic of the wildest, actions I dure not approach her if the mere motion ot’ her hand repelled me— I dare not diso­bey her, n i mattej- how strange or despotic her commands or her restrictions.

Thus, when 1 had finished my confession,I waited like a criminal to hear her decision — sitting silently and still, without a thought, of rebellion—no matter what it might be. After a pause, she said, slowly :

“ Upon vour honor, as a gentleman, you have told me tho whole truth ?’’

“ Upon my honor—my soul — I havo!" “And this—this girl—your wife— was—

so repulsive, so awkwaid,. ugly, thut your heart revolted from her?”

1 bowed assent“Spe k, sir,” sho said, almost harshly.,

“ you havo words at will. This girl —this wife—rutlier than even see her daily, you preferred exilo an i an aimless life?"

" I did !” saiii 1, emphatically. .My tormentor broke into a littlo sharp

mi cking laugh, wh ch rasped.on iny nerves like the filing of saws, and went ou : ..

“You excuso yourself well, sir ; but il is with the common sophistry of your sex.— Grunted that ull the ciroumstanees ot youi- relation are truth, and I accept them us such, havo you not deceived yourself iu the inotivo of this aversion to tho girl—your wifo? Bo frank; aruyou not one of those to whom marriage to any one seems an odious und galling chain?—to whom the oath and duty to love only ono woman, and keep youiso f to her alone till death sepa­rates you, appears suoh an infringement of yipur manly liberty—your heroic man’s right to havo all tho pleasures of the world, without its sorrows or self-denial— thut the touch of the marriage ring upon your fin­ger transformed to hate wliat, under other circumstances—circumstances bent and fash­ioned to suit your wayward will —might havo been love ?”

“N o !” 1 oried, impetuously. “ Thatgirl was a horror to mo. Nothing could con­quer my invincible rcpuguunod for her. It wus not the act of mariiuge, it wus sh alone who transformed me from whut 1 might

havo been to what I am. From that mo- ncnt I have avoided woman; I nuve never

lovo t u n t i l ---------”

“ W hen?"“ I saw you.”“And you wish me to believe this ?”“I am rcudy to prove it," s 'd I desper­

ately, “ with my life, if need bi.”“You wear upon your finger a curious

ring,” said she.I looked instinctively to where she point­

ed, and there, to bo sure, on the second fin­ger of my left hand was my engagement- ring, a curious piece of gold-woik, repre­senting two hands clasped and holding be­tween a single diamond. Given me Uy my wife before that accursed marriage), I had always worn it out of a kind of pity for the girl, since, abhorrent as sho was to mo, I could not help confessing, in my heart of hearts, that her case was littlo happier or moro fortunate than my owi).

“ Yea!” 1 stammered.“ Do you value it very highly ?” said she,

carelessly.“N o!” said I ; and 1 told the truth.“Let me see it,” said she ; “ it is unusu­

al.”I took it off and'handed it to her. She

took it, roLe, and walked nearer to the dim light, as if to examine it. A t that moment thero camo a knock at the door.

“E n te r!” said the lady.And my conductor, the gigantic negro,

entered, an I spoke a few words to her.— Then they both ,wcnt out, sho saying only as she disappeared :

“ Wait and tru s t!”I sat, 1 know not exactlyhow long, af­

ter she left me—it must, have been half an hour, perhaps mure. At last the door re­opened, and my ebony conductor re-appear­ed. l ie approached me, and placed in mv hands a small package.

“But tho lady,” I exclaimed.“Has lett the chautcau,” he answered. “ And whither has she gone 7” I cried,

the blood rushing to my fnen, and my heart contracting with a vague sentiment, of fear.

“She will be in Pans before us,” said ho laconically. “ 1 am ready to re-conduct you.”

'Ihcre was nothing for it But to let my­self bo us blindly led bade as I had been brought there, and so I did. " ...

We left the house; the night had grown darker, and I could seo still less of its.ap­pearance than on my arrival. I entered ilie carriage, siink biok into my corner, and •fell into a fit, uf abstraction which lasted un’il we stopped at tho door of my lodg- ingj. Tho carriage rolled away, and I was left, standing, stupi-l ujui again bafllid, but more than ever inlatif ited, on the step of n\v own door. I looked after it till night hick it, from me, anil then sprung up stairs, passing iho concierge in a way which must havo given him an idea that r,n escaped lu­natic from Bicetrc had got into the house, instead of tbe ordinarily quiot, Mr. Hay­ward, locked myself in my room, and tore open tbe packet which had been placed in my hands by the negro.

It contained a small jewel-box and a ro te . In the jewel-box was a ring in the form of asm ill serpent, holding in his mouth an emerald—g ee:., a symbol of abandonment.I awn the idea plca-e I me. The note, how­ever, did not exactly suit me. It was wiit- ten in one of those beld English hands, all of which look- alike, and have no character to mark them as ci’her masculine or fem­inine. and ran thus:

“ I wil l keep y o u r r ng. T i m you c m h ive no olij e t io t i to, n i you sot. no speu i t l va lue on if. In e x c h a n g e I .“•■ml ymi a symbol . It is for y o u r wis'lmn to kI r — il will oc also wis loin to w e i r , it. R.-un'iiibei', I seo yo-*- ill ways— I m ay he e v en looking a t yuu while yuu read th i s .”

I st artel, and looked burr oily 'around the room, ,almost persuaded that from some dim nook or corner those little black d ia ­mond points of light, which had jilntored ihnugli her mask so maddeningly, were peering oat at mo in reality. The note went nil :

¥;.“ Wo nli ill, at any r.i'e, mcil dnily, as wo have

wot xo often in tlio last month—in the street, uf mio'cty, at tlio opera, theatre, everywhere; hut, when your uoo l demands it, we shall also meet as wc mot to-uijrhi—I say your good, for perhaps, iu your vuuity, f,,r you me a man, you suppose our meeting to-nij'ht was but to please a n i m n s fan­cy. \ ou are nrstaken. Hememhej:—think — ind you will know why you were lakeu from I’ ir s this night. To-ni(flit, your companions met in the Rue do IJehler. At elevt n o’clock they wore arrested hy the police. Not a man es-iapeil. At eleven o’clook you were at my chateau, and you cscupcilj

•‘T hu W i i i tk U l ovb . ”

I crumpled up tho note in my hands, and fell into a bitter train cf thought. I t wastrue ; that night the society of ----------, a,lrepublicans, and swbrn to check tbo grow ing ambition ot Louis Napoleon, had fixed as the night on \yhich to meet, in the Hue de Heliiur, und formalize a plan of—insur­rection, in short, if th ■ t extreme resort should be the only remedy, the only bar­rier remaining between liberty and despot­ism. I had promised to bn there— my oath bouhd me to bi} thero. My honor was com­promised. What opinion woul.i they have of m e? Might they not even believe tha: U was I who had betrayed them? And Ui

this a woman—a woman whoso face I hod not even seen—a syron who bewitched mo by hor voice—probably a secret agent of that very ubiquitous policointo whose hands my brave and unfortunate companions had fullen— had lured me ; she hud turned • from the path of honor and duty, and brand­ed me forevor'whh tho ineffaceable mark of cowardioo and treachery. I passed a b i t­ter ond sleepless night, alternately cursing myself and her.

C HAPTER IV.—A WOMAN’S R EV E N G E .

Towards daylight I fell into an uneasy sleen, from which I was awakened hy unusual sounds in the streets. I rose hastily nnd looked out. A troop of cavaliy, followed hy a section of a battery of artillery, passed at full gallop— ven­ire a tc rre ." There could be no mistake about the sign. There wns trouble in the good city of P aris—pel haps an cneule, perhaps a revo­lution.

It was the 2d of December, 1851 . I dress ed myself in feverish haste, and thrust my pistols into the pocket of my coat, and rushed out of the house. It was about nine of the morning. All Paris was astir, nnd troops moving in every direction.

As the day wore on, the result so well-kr.own —the coup d ’ c ta t of Louis Napoleon— was de­veloped in all its cool and malignant atrocity. The people weie defeated, and his artillery proclaimed-the terrible fact that against a bat­tery of a hundred guns, in position, and cov­ered b y . even a mere handful ol veterans, a popular revolt is madness. It wns a repeti­tion of the 18tb. Brum«ire,'and his great un­cle’s triumph over the “Sections.”

T hat was the result to the >world of that d a y : to me it wns very different.

In the thickest of the fight I threw myself recklessly. I t was nol bravery— I pretend to no superior amount of that quality— which impelled or supported me. I was simply tired of life and disgusted with myself. I desired to wipe out, by some desperate act, the recol­lection of the woman of the opera who had so tormented me, lind my neglect and failure to meet my republican companions on the even­ing before; therefore, wherever there was the most, promising and lively chance of being knocked on the head, I put my miserable head in the way of being knocked. _ Death, how­ever, alter the custom of that intractable mon­ster, seemed studiously to shun' inc. At last, as the sun went down on that, scene of pitiless carnage, I got what I sought, and went down with him. A bullet in the -boulder, and a sharp bayonet thrust— it seemed to he in my breast, but I was not certain— stretched me senseless, and all the rest was ‘mere obliv­ion. -

llow long I lay there I know nol, nor how I was taken ilway; but with the first faint gleam of returning consciousness I was aware that I was n o longer lying in the open street, among a crowd of the dying and the dead. I felt that I was upon a bed. At lirst I (lid not even try to open my eyes, but lay loi:g and quietly with them closed, striving to rally my thou jilts ithd recall the scenes of the day which I supposed to he ju s l passed. My con­fusion was that I had been taken up, and cur­ried with the luckier wouiuh (1 to the Hotel ]) ieu. On the contrary, it appeared to be a large, old fashioned apartmeni, richly furnish­ed in the style of Louis XIV, and breathi.ig every where, of wealth and luxury. I was puz­zled, but too weak and sick to think very hard, aud would have sunk away into a dozv, dreamy s'ate again, but something stirred in the room—somebody crossed it and came and leaned over me. I looked up —i was again in the bands of that terrib le w o m im ' The samS ’ mask was on her face—tiie same points of light shining through the ey e h o le s; but now she was dressed as a Si ter of Cnarity.

She caught my eye, and'in-tantly holding Uj) her linger adaioni.shingly, Miid :

"You must not speak— the doctor forbids it. You nre safe, aud in hands which have nursed you once before, aud will nur-e you till Heav­en sees lit to 'm a k e them no longer necessary to you. 1 linosv your impatience of character, and, to prevent your disobedience, I will tell you what I know you would most wish to usk. You have oeen hero three days, always, until now, insensible. In three days more, the doc­tor *says, you will he able lo talk, perhaps to move. Now sleep.” ‘

And she sat down - by the bedside. I did not turn to see— I had not the poiver to do so ; but [■ knew she was tlu're. 1 could hear her regular breathing, aud once 1 thought I heard a sob.' It must have been fancy : that woman sob, and for me!— no, no! . he could not weep, except, perhaps, if fate should merciful­ly take me beyond reach.of her power to tor­ment, to kill me by inches. T in t was what she was watching there for. She would not even allow me to d ie : she would snatch me fiom the very jaws of the grave, and tiring me back to life to haunt and- torture me. Why, why, should she?' Wlia could I have done to her, that she should follow me so piti­lessly with her Oeuelits, her protection, her maddening.mystery. And so, thinking dream­ily, dizzily— so, »bnost bating lur , and yet peii' trated with a strange feeliiu of tender­ness and happiness to lind her beside me— willing, almost, to have her kill ine as she pleased, so it was she who killed— I fell away into a deep sleep.

The next.day nnd th e day following, and still the third and fourth days were tne same : constantly a dreamy half-sieep, and the con­sciousness of that tenible woman's being al­ways near me, compelling me to gel better nnd better. When I thought at-nll, that was the one fixed, unvarying train iu which my thoughts moved. Sho was compelling mu to get well, to live in spite of myself, in spite of fate. And what for?— what for? To make a wandering Jew of me - ehe always tallowing me like the curse? And I could not help myself— 1 was

i powerless. The spelt was on me. 1 felt, I I knew if that was her purpose she would fulfil

it, and I —submit. Thus all the while, hour

after hour, she was there, nn inexorable fnte a voice ond filmy shadow in my dreams—a pres­ence half 'imaginary, half real in my hulf- dreamy waking. She seldom talked herself; but when she did, her voice was lower and softer than I had ever heard it.

My scrvnnt, too—“iny boy,” ns we of the south call them always, even when timo has sown a grizzle oil the case, und age and a fros­ty pow nre strangely at odds'with the idea of boyhood—he wns there. Horn on the same day as myself, upon the same plantation, lie had been given to me, and belonged to me ; not in th a t aeceptation'of the word which to northern ears conveys merely nn idea of prop­erty; b u t belonged to rile body and soul—or I belonged to him, ju s t as you please to phrase it. Indeed, I believe the iatter to be the truer statement of the f a c t; lor “Pomp,’’ indepen­dently of the fact of his being a much finer and more fastidious'person than myself, wns clearly -persuaded in lrs own mind that he owned me, und was responsible for my out-go­ings anil incomings from the cradle to the . grave. Those who buy sevvicc with money' may be well served, servant fashion ; but they' neither love nor are loved. “Pomp,” fine g e n ­tleman as he was, had no fineness where I was concerned ; and all bough a religiously cow­ardly rascal about his own sable skin, was brave as a lion if mine was threatened. Now, however, as always, he seemed so much a part of myself, thut I attached no idea to his being about me, nor how he came there, a n y m o r e Ilian to finding my own arms and legs in their proper place. It was the presence of that ter­rible woman which occupied all my thoughts. Even the daily visits of the doctor never d i­verted my thoughts from her a moment. The doctor, to my mind, w as only a part of her plan, her machinery for compelling me to live.

And so a week', two weeks, wore on, till I got strong enough to sit up in bed, aud my wouuds c 'ascii to pain continually—or.ly reminding me of th e past by occasional burning and ner­vous itching as they healed. 1 hen another week, nnd I was well enough to he put into a great chair nnd wheeled to the lire, ant. to the window, which overlooked a park, beyond which n qunint old village lay sparkling in the ciisp sunshine of winter.

Now I began to talk— doggedly and sullen­ly at firSt, and then in a gentler way ; for my masked owner \.as so kind and gentle, and bore my hardness so meekly, that spite of my anger nt being made to live whether I would or no, I could not help being touched and soft­ened by her forbearance.. Then she told ire how, on that terrible 2d of Dccembcr, 1 bad been followed all day, by her orders, hut had fallen at last among such a crowd of dead nnd wounded, that 1 n e \e r would have been found but for the “ serpent i ing” upon my linger— the ring she had sent, and warned me to weir , ahd by which she had directed her agents to identify me, if necessary. Of course. 1 knew it. Only another proof of her diabolical in ­genuity, in governing my life or death to suit her hidden purp sc—only ano'her proof uf what a ten ib le woman she w; s. And her agents had found me by that “.lerpcnt ring,” and biought me back to the fascination of tbe beautiful serpent who enveloped me w*lth her deadly coil. They had brought me, she told nvj, and I was there in her chateau—leagues and leagues away from Paris—alono, afid in her power. Well, I c u e d not. 1 was past that. Let her do now what she pleased with me: it was all one to me— good or evil.

And so again another week wore on, and I was well enough to walk ah ut, leaning on a cane. Then for change of scene they took me —I following docile enough — about the old chateau, day altered.>y; she ul-vuysby me.— And strangely, as it seemed to me, she discard­ed, and refused to be brought to any reference to tho past or to ourselves, but diew me on ill conversation about books and men, displaying, as she did so, a completeness of information and brilliancy of wit and faji -y, which marked her as a woman of umiMial capacity, and fasci­nated me more aud more every hour.

At last, one day, as I was .sitting iu tho li­brary, reading,'‘she came in there. I knew it was she, although I did not raise my eyes to look. It was n it necessary for me to do so.— She never came neai me, whether I heard her step or not, hut 1 knew, by some strange sym­pathy or repulsion—which it was I could not deline.-r-that she was there. So when she came in I did not look. Neither did I,- when she catne also arnlsat down lacing me, and v e ry ' near. I kept on reading my book till sho said : '

“Janies H e y w a rd !’’ .The address was so unusual—so brusque,

that I started an ! looked up at once; and when I did so, the book'dropped out of my hands upon the floor, and I sat staring at her like tCgreat awkward.scbool-hoy the first time a pretty girl challenges him to kiss her. F o r there she sat looking me in the eyes— and she was u n m a sk e d . Unmasked ! and beautifuT be-« yond even what my dreamiest and most fanci­ful hopes or desires hud ever pictured her.— There she was—one of those faultlessly b eau ­tiful American .women, compared to whom the beauties of aU other climes on earth show dull and full of bleurshes. Tnere was tbe smooth brow ; the arched eyebrow; the great dreamy intellectual and at the same time passionate oyes, indefinite iu color— a kind ot grayish-ha­zel— the mouth arched like Cupiu’s bow, and at once tender and imperious; the nose straight and cleanly cut a> the Greek type, only with a little piece chipped olf the end—ju s t enough to take away ihe classical severity of form without detracting a whit from its per­fectness or g r a c e ; the complexion not fair nor dark, but dazzling in its purity, nnd tinged all through with a, warm Hush of life—and all around the brow and checks a cloud ef dark auburn curls, irregular, careless, perfect.— Great Heaven! what u terrible '*'oman—how terribly beautiful .she was, ns she sa‘, there.

I looked, aud looked—that was ull I coulill do. Perhaps some very clevei people think they could have done soinetning else better. ■ Perhaps they might; I couid’t. I could only look, and as I looked confess, that if that woman

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as k e d me to murder half mankind, offering me aa a recompense only tlio Ijheriy to look at her »o daily— 1 should do it without remore.

And «he_»at as compost'd and quiet as if it w as not'A bit strange tlmt «lie should be such a terrible woman. Only after a moment or tw o she said placidly, and with a kind of gen­t le irony :

“You like me, then, without n mask. You approve of me, J mes Heyward !"

Ih e n I burst oiit with u torrent of passion­ate declarations, and would have thrown myself at her feet; but she said quietly:

‘‘Stay, sir !— 'the law hath another cluim up­on, you.’ Head this!”

And she handed me {i paper. I rend it with dazzled eyes and a brain on fire. I t was my marriage certificate— the marriage certificate of “James Heyward and Gertrude H unter Pinck­ney, of South Carolina 1” *

I was like one struck with palsy ; or a con­vict taken in the height of his rage und rebell­ion, and thrust umler the sh >wer-lmth. R e ­covering from the shock, rage took the place of everything else, and I made a motion to tear the fatal paper.

‘‘S to p !”' said my inexorably tormentor.— “Tear that paper, and you’ll never see me again in tl.is world.” .

“ Why ? Why should I not tear it ?” I ex­claimed, wildly. “ W in should 1 not destroy it, her, u.ysell'-- everything connected with this horrible chain, this nightmare o f my life j this fatality which stands between me and all caith- ly happiness ?” •

“ Hecmise,” >aid she, slowly, at the same tirne : rising and standing befure n o with folded a rm s—erect Inughty , commanding : ‘Hecause,I am GerliMile l’mekoey— your wile!"

I covered my face with my hands: there was something in the look, the tone, which awed me. I saw it all :>ow. Il was perfect.I who ha I left her, w n to b • in turn left, after I had been taught to 1 ive The revenge was exquisitely diabolical—il was worthy of a wo­

' man. •And she went o n ,- in the same cold, quiet

tone, with, scarce tin inflexion of voice nnv- where : "You married a poor, confiding girl j ono who knew nothing of life or men; You say you had no option given you j your father forced you. B it \ou never told her that.— And yet you knew that little silly girl had loved you almost from her cradle. liuKshe was not beautiful j she was thin, and sallow, and awk­w a rd — ”

Oh, the infernal malignity of her triumph, in recalling and repeating my own wonls, as she stood there now so superldy beautiful, and knew that I was mildly in love with her!

“She was sliy and timid ; she was repul-ive hideous, to your delicate taste, your exifcting will— and you left her. You disgraced her in the eyes of a prnud community. , You left her to hear their scandal at second hand ; to find herself the common talk of age and youih — nn aband med wile. All unioned for what ?— You know; f . r n wliiin— a stubborn and cruel wilfulness. And y it she had to hea>' it hinted at, girl as she wis.t ' .ere might lie reasons why James Heyward I.-ft bis bri le the very even­ing of their marriage—there might be some c r im e !” ■

“S j a r c m e ; spare me,” said I, humbly; “I never thought or dreamed that such things could beth o u g h t by otheis.”

“N o ! lor you are a man. And the poor girl cried herself sick, and lay upon her bed for weeks and months between life and death, after you left, her: nnifctheu she said, he has gone from'me because I am ignorant; and she had books brought t> h e r ,m e n before she was able to leave her bed, and began to study.— And when she was well enough, she had mas­ters got for luu'.nnd labor d day and night to make herself equal to what she fanc:ed other women must be, whom their hush n Is loved and cherished. And she suceeeiled. Thenher old father died; not ........ sorrow, JamesH eyward—you had no part in that. She was so dear to him in her sorrow tlmt it changed his nature, and he never spoke harshly to her after that n i g h t ; and if y< u bad come hack to. take her from him he would have killed you.

•But be died ! and s h e — s h e — followed ihe hus­band who abandoned her, to watch unseen over him, to be a spi ci.il providence always

.beside him: ev. ri'wbeie—in dai.ger, sorrow, sickness—everywhere, except iir happiness and scenes of enjoyment .these she left to him nlone. And now—” _

“ Now,” said 1, gloomily— “ now, having humbled m e ; having conquered my f t v e ;

• enslaved, infatuated me— your revenge is per­fect ; aud you, proud ri the beauty which you know to be matchless, are ready to drive me away forever— or le.iv; me, as 1 left you.— Well, I have deserved it ,m adam . The crimi­nal is before you, defenceless. Sentence him!-’ '

Now, do you know what that terrible wo­man did P She rose and left me. She over­whelmed me with scorn. She drove me from her with contenqrt, a i d bade me never even dure to speak her name'^

N o ! .She laid her head upon my bosom, and sob-

l e d and laughed—and told me how she had loved me wi;h a love stronger than death and more jealous than the grave, every minute of time through nil her weary years of watching over me; und now the worse I was thc more that love grew perfect and unselfish; and how htyr whole revenge for all my cruel coldness and desertion world be, to love ine better, all my life, than I could love her if I would let her.

Let h e r !Oblige mo by finishing this story yourBelf, for

I am a changed man. 1 have no time to write. •My time belongR to my wife, and which is more, I h v e i n s u c h a terror of not loving her enough, a n d of ever saying or doing anything to lessen h e r love for me that I urn not going to say a word abo^t our life after thnt, o r hint another W ord about the “ ’I c n i b l e W o m a n .”

BAH0NES8 DE 8TAEL

EP* He who goes to bed in anger has the devil for a bed-fellow. . A wag knows a married man, who, though he goes to bed meek and gentle as a lamb, is in the same predicament

Anno Louisa Germaine Neckor, daughter of the; celebrated M. Neoker, was Loin ut Paris, 1700. Fianre, nt this tinr.e under tho reign of Louis XV., \vun 'ust verging on to that terrible revolution unparalleled in history. The amhi'ious wars of his predecessor, together with his own profu­sion and fiscul management, had burdened the perple beyond endurance ; and though no public manifestations of the prevailing sentiment had as yet been made, still tlieie was n cloud, dark and po' tenti us. looming up in the horizon of tbo French govern­ment, which subs' (j .ently burst in umniti . gated fury over the land of her nativity. •

M. Noeker, tho father of Anne, was a man of sterling worth and ability ; and, in tho reign of Louis X,yi., waB appointed minister of finance. His influence was felt for good over a wide extent of country.— Discovering his daughter ut an early age to be possessed of extraordinary talent, sho afforded her every advantage for obtaining a liberal education. I le r understanding was peihaps somewhat after the masculine order, but this fact was doubtlcss^oA'ing in a great measure, to the ago in which the lived.

No female of ancient or modern times has excelled her in native strength of intel­lect, especially as manifested in an eleg'Hit and profound philosophy. She was manied nt the age of twenty to Paron de Stacl, n native of Sweden. The evn from which her public career may properly be dated was three yeais subsequent to her marriage, when she published “Letters on the char­acter of lioii'Seau these, though well written, showed plainly tho masculine cast of her wind.

At this period in her history tbe French Revolution commenced, in which she took an active pint. A t Paris she engag'd in political intrigues, and many times assisted in concerting plans which involved the most com-ummate skill, as well ns a thor­ough knowledge of tho complicated affiirs of tho nation. The ciuse which sho es­poused was grea'ly offensive to. 'B inapirte, whose star was then on the asi'endaiit ; and fearing that her rapidly increasing influ ;nce m i'lit prove detrimental to liis interests, he banished her . from the capital. She first repaired to Germany, next to Italy, and twice visite 1 England. Her strange and eventful life closed in 1817. The highly finished pioductioiis of her pen have heen justly c lebrut<d; among which may be particularly noticed “Corienne, or Italy,’’ a beautifully written novel, and her book on ‘•Thelnfluen e of Literature upon Society .” She appears to have been a strenuous ad­vocate of the so-called new philosophy, ond devoted a l.n ge portion of her time and tul-“ cuts to its promulgation. Although steru, masculine, and unyieliing, wc cannot but admirS ihe high tine of morals inculcated by her character and writings.

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A letter from Nico-ift, in tho island of Cyprus,

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cloudy, and the wind blew with great violence,

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Upwards of ope Hundred mules also porished, and

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Disapointirent iB the sorrowful child of the elate hope. We nil experience the birth.

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iOKli the-MWiriof tf*spirit #oiM, painted by the late*- itodger. w^lta In as entranced state. There are over thlrtr joeue., with a pair of dUK^ring view laoterm, Said t*«>. equal to aUy Uk tbe VkMeiiBiatth A food lecturer wou t And thl. a ran oppwtmnlty to adrann hli own ^the cau e of BpiritMSsm.' lor (tartlw1«rtth>war».I * ■ send one ol Mr. Kodgen’ dfoidm to *njfeotle«Ku v |p may desirei ssisai# « im l^ a g o n iU * pf t l»of the soene*. Ant iafonMlta (n " * * * « «•how inf them and U n V n u *> “ *•> ,

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[Continued from #tta (»Jei| .’ clrcamo'Bnce , f*oroed tipdn iMito In the ek*1 Js'fntf ntufe o f tMttgn, thAt i t is tio t in me to

'‘‘f M i iv M those In u iin iw iirw l U ffns, who 1 life,. my4filf. art> on lU hle to error.V o;falli- < ble in natiire. T h a-. i t will not b e ■ difficult

1 fo r me to use oharity in w ord nnd deed,1 toward the fables of my fellow be n?s.

And ho'fc it. t< not improper, as I dosifo ' to rt'iiiiirk. with special reference to itiose,' with whom I h«ve been connected formerly*’ b y e c c le - ia s jlc a l flew, t h a t in w h a te v e r I m ay

‘ feel it'my duty to *ay nnd do. my wurds mid tc f n w i I h iiv e n o re fe ren ce - to th e m , e x c e p t

! in th e w ay o f p r -m o in g th e g e n e r a l Rood'oT man; and especially "’ill this bethecn-e,n n le ^ it should happen, contrary lo my ex- pectnti n* and hopes, that circumstances

. 'should foroe me to aut somewhut iu self­defence.

The sect t o which I formerly belonged.■*8 well as all other sects aud parties wil ever claim my synpithies for its vii tues. as * ell an <lem nd my opposition tu its er­rors nnd faults.

B ui before closing these remark-, I wish to offer a few suggestions, specially tieniun- cd f .r those who ire partially or ful ,y c *n- vinoed of the real renity, and sup.’dmo im- port.nee of Spirituilism ; and thus will doubtless sympithfoi and oo-openuo with me, in waole or in part, in the advance­ment °f iho.«e interests which Spiritualism contHmplates y i I is destined to promote.

Ir shouVlliA deeply and constantly im- pressel upon your minds, th-it tbuse things which ii'itv, nio>t ot all otlieis, verj mu h need saying an* doiusr, cannot a n l will not be s»id mid done, without entire devotion to truth, »nd the most heioio action cn your

. part. That you aro to investigate patient­ly and unweariedly into the wisdom of love is but a eolemii.duty imposed upon all.

Hut. with referet.ee to tho good contain­ed «nd contemplated in Spiritualism, those who rcp'ise confilen.:e in its reality, h >ve a gpeoi.l, individual, ajid bacred mission to accomplish.

F iiendsof Sp'ritualism, your constant m»tto is, and must be d e v o t io n a n d a c t io n !

JJor is thia devotion and action to lie im as- trcd hy what you may esteem to be your own private interests.

You may settle it in your minds as a 4 x d laot that no compromise with exiting theories and conceptions, no disposition still to .retiin your present ennueotionu with sects and parties, will satisfy the de­mand* of Spiritualism, upon your abilities tu be, say, and do. You must put yout- eelvts iu a perf ctly eligible position to act.and speak f.eelyjn behalf of t his ,ause. in a position to give it your whole sytnpa-_ thies, or you will not bo deemed wortny to havo the least lot or part in the matter. If there is any one things which Siiiri’iinlists need more fully to realize and consider, it is thut they ure nut to fold their-hands, ex­pecting to have their Guardians of the Ce- leMi.l Tabernacle contribute to their mero

; amusement or.gaiilLation. The utility of this matter is to bu immediately' sought,

. and then lo be j>r< moted at every sa-.'ifio.o

. of our mi,ro selfish individual interests.—1 Constantly b«»r in mind then, that you aro i not to be li t i f f with a few seasons of pleas­; ant spiritual in'cronurso, nor to be content • with the mere gratification that thi-* thing is a re n iy , not to expect oui Guardi- 1

ans'nrc going to ollect the regeneration of m -n und things, wi'hout your aid, but that jou must net, us well as talk, act, as well

..*< think beautiful thoughts, aot, us well as 'listen to and behold wonderful mmici-ta-

tiuiB. The standard of christian d ty and dev 'on generally, recogniied os sufficient for pructic.il purposes, is no longer suffic- i in t lor your standard. Nothing short of

• th e saoriftue of all things for Christ’s holy . euuse.'wiil answer tho demands of this sub- jeoi upon you. A u i s t y o u r s e l v e s , are tho

> «m|ihutio words of those who seek to iiiu .mankind now in attaining its ttbd Relig­ious, Political, »nd Sooial destiny, lle-

u#e/nber those' words; “ Assist yourselves, rind- theo wo will help y o u !”

: 'With a devotio'n and action such as this, rBi.iritualisYs'xna) hijpe for all. thitigs. For there u i«> > “<l»oniy, a purity,a Mtsduui and l o v o enlisted in this cause, far tx e edmg th.it which frail hujnan na­ture now affords.

Amid tho storm of deedi* oil earth, there is a still rmOl vqiee (tently whispering frum behind the v e il; amid the rnarof time and the discords of life, a sweet concor iant note is sounding from tho sphere* above; and now the gentle Spirit moves up, and down from earth t‘« heaven, and toils and fpins in its crystal palaee( to weave a muntie i t peace and charity, I'or poor and nak. d hu- mant*y. Up. heroio sons and daughters, b ithe your «eary breasts in the morning light, and unfold your hearts to cateh its g ilden ray.

Speak the thought* that burn within you, and utter the feeling that rises in your bos-

T h u s ohnnts o u r gentle G u ard ian S p ir it ,

and says; -‘go out, yo sons and d a u g h te r s ,

reap the bl s-ful h a rv e s t of e xis 'ence , for

my h*ai t is full, a n d ho.>o .mid peace de­

scend. L o v e ’s e ternal sea ebbs a r d ; flows,

and moves o u t and in. alonn the s lu m s of

time, ana throw it's h.irmonial ► p ™ ^ up .11

the parched earth. , '

8 liritui'lists, |p t y o u r henrts be filleil

•with the conoord o f wiblom and love. Bi-

not. indolent in pain, hut active with uiHy-

ing p easure T " in k not. of self o r i-ttfi.sh

ends, when your highest happiues ' is in p r o ­

m oting the highest good. Seek to do and

be, w h a ' G ut would now express by man.

Be more truly royal in y o u r feelings, sen­

t im e n ts and n atu res, than to fear th e op-~

pro'ir um, which will doubtless be c ist u p ­

on this cause, ns upon all new m e , .s u n s ,

how ever effective they may -uSm quifiitl)

liec me, ui.d lunvtver popular, w h en they

achieve the v x to r y .

W hile most people imagine S p ir i tu a lism

long since exploded, you know its reality ;

yon know that, thousands and tens o f thous­

ands in our land nre being n um bered u-monj

its firm aud unfl nehin^ a d v o cate ' . You

know, therefore, that, victory is i . u r ’-, niao’.-.,

G od’s and C h ris t’s, sooner or la te r .

L e t this knowledge, and a .noble sense

o f vour d u ty p ro m p t you to in v e s tig a te , to

act, to reap th e golden harvest of uxis tencr.

. V □

O n tho m orning o f J a n u a r y ^ ,0

whole pircntnferenee of Paris s to p p e d o u t

a milo ai d d rew within its embraces th ree

h undred th o u s a n d now in h a b i ta n ts . P a r i s

now contains a ’population o f a ,m illio n und

a half. W h e n . ompleted tho new city will

be 8 0 m iles in circum ference with 9 2

gates. T h e old octroi wall is to he con­

verted in 'o a boulevard and p la n te o with

tr e e ' , and w ill constitute the larg est s t re e t

in the w o rld . T ho peoplo living b etw een

the old at d new wall have been a c c u m u ­

lating lor some time great, q u a n ti t ie s of

wine and o th e r articles suhjc'-.t to city ta x ,

wi'h a view of lieing provided for years

.liter 'hey » re annexed to the c ity with a r ­

ticles th u t h i v e escaped the o c tr o i . 1 his

evasion o f th e law has aw akened the a t -

ie111io11 of th e auth irii.ies, but th e r e seems

to be no rem ed y for it. The c ity revenue

wil) be largely dnni .ished th e fi s t y ear by

tilts ingenious d " d tt ,! ol the law.

Spiritual liUflings in Boston.iWISS MOl't.TON win hold clrcfcn ifi tlictlrit room on

tiie KtL'ot-d floor, f lo . 171, corn er'o f C ourt ti Sudbury atrectu, B o .to ii, every Monday u ig lit, for tm nce »|ieok i i i j ! i vory Sundny »ud M cduemlay n lg lit, for iMircellu- ueoua cnBiuiunlentioim | nnd every Fndny for devit» |)- ui^ut, c.iuiiu inciiig at 7 1 1 o ’cloek I*. M. Aduilp«lmi 10ct». She w ill iiUo g ive private h itting- for the ilevelopuielit o f uimlluuli (lor whieh her p o n e ts are cpeeinlly adapted,) 'ur ivl ieti elio w ill require tu be p.iid a reason- nlile c.iuipennation.uccoiding to cirouuistancei). lu lf

M k b t i n i i s a t N n. 14 I I i i o m k i e i . I ) St .— A Spiritualist meeting is held ever) 8uin|uy m orning, u tlO 1 2 o ’clucki and ulleritoon at 3.

A ClonlereDco M eeting held every Mondiiy evening, c 7 1-2 o’clock.

Jnnoim cfinnits.

A cargo ol two nun I red atid t ' ' i rty-sev-

cn tuns ot h u m a n bot.es lately u n i t e d in

Enjlaml from Sevastopol which are to bo

ci'iive.i ted in t o m t n u r e ! T n e l i r t i s h h o ­

lier niav lie cheered to th in k th a t i t is

sweet, lo d ie fur his eountry, b it one wou'd

think he woulil not be much comfortod

with th e th o u g h t th a t his ties1.' may be

given to lhe v u l iu ie s , und his bones

bro ught h ack to un English i.uiigli 11.—

^o in e o f them no douht, how ever, "oib

leave, a n d in th e shape o f bones come

n-ck to ih e ir country for tn e ir country s

wood. W e -lioul I th in k h it s n d i C<ni>-

tiao tuitions as E i^l m , F iatiee. and Rus-

-ta, in g lit hy tieaty soiemniy s p u e lie

bones ol t h e i r so diets.

UU^IC

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I you” “ 1’ i '^ p r i t F i’iin c ttis ” w ith b a s s uiru»geim*.i ta ior tho I 'i;tu t), O r g . in . u iu l M clotliiiii. o tc , o i t lio am ip lo a i r o f tlic u tio v e , i 'l c m iu o c tio n w ith t v o u ih r tu rn :- CiiUotl th e a ilatiM if- vV;u- S i^ i iin o r ,'1 an d th*? “ S io u m F r i^ u t t s ’ f ud ip t-d to th e V iolin , I'’:u to , l 'i f o , ( . l a i i o i l o t . o t i ., ( th e - a m o ln U d v p>OM-ntcd to th e l .u i |io n » r o f th o F m ic h ) u n it b eo i* t;ii iotl on u p p lic ttion to M ow-ra. O liv e r i ) i t on i t Co , No ^77 'i ir tl ii iu lo u s i , H«>m o ii, 1** ice

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elev. li le g ls te is in (s op s,) and eupul.leot g:eat power, and yet In Ule use o f -lie stops, nia) lie p la jid as si It a- the .’Killian liui |i . The I’ei foi in e l, lit is optlnli. can iinilate the l'lu te, l-'ife, (.'lari, net, or l la iit l i . .) , -n per- feetly tll.it one «ou |.J supposi-tlllll th e) we. e li.-liilng ti eitln-i o f t. e ab m c in>l. ninelits sepa a le ly , nr i uu.lui e the Hluile, and t li ll- tfive the etlect o[ (jliAMi OltUA^ —111 an ele"anl rusew nod case loi S-'W).

•rilK I’UD.M. HASS II.VUMOM l M is u n a .ged «itl> tw o m an u a l-or banks ,kf K eys, tin* low est set illi.i'l. g an oet.ive lllghei than tile other, and may be Used sepa­rately, and to il- n et in "lie case t» o d istin ct in -ti utmTits; oi lt\ ti.e Use <>l tne coupler, the I o banks o i Keys lu lie played ill lh e sam e tiuie by tlle .llse in the tinut set on )), l liis coniiee.led with the K ub-llass, " i l l p o- iluce the etiecto t a tinge o igali. and is sutlU-irntly hea\y to llll ii holl-e that seals fiou i lOi.O to l.')UU pe soils.

T il l: u lK i M LI.ODi <IN is d es ig i.u l lor parlor aud 11 ivate u e. The co listiuction is sluillm to ti eChinch Instillm en t, being ariangcd with two banks nt fu ith er notice. VI ill speak in the su: .ounilin

and uheli used togeth er, by m eans o f the coupler -

NEW BOOKS.

W kston, January 18th . , 1800 .

M essrs. E ditors: — I will steal a few mo­

ments from my home-studies, to express to

you the sincere pleasure and great satisfaction,

which 1 experience, to perceive the high mor­

al tone and truly spiritual tendency of the Agk

since the new year has begun. Y >u seem to be

fully awake, and deeply feel the ho’y task and

sacred mission, which rests upon your piper,

to form tho character of your r-aders , and

lead them higher and higher towards the sou Cl-

of all li),rht _.

Hut especially do t take, pleasure in peril-

sing the articles on “Goveinment,’’ wherein

the most progressive thoughts' and highest

truths are set forth in an earnest, simple way,

which, without ostentation or c'iiinor, readily

calls out the most lively Rynipathy with, and

conviction nt the necessity of practically adopt­

ing tne views expressed in the lectures, ere the

first pillar of the Kingdom of God on the Earth

can lie built. ,

The mission of Spiritualism, truly is to lead

us to a Harmonial Life and Government. The

muterial character o f the past Century, with

its Pantheism, its lake.varmtiesa and .rivolitie*,

is being succeeded by a l iv in g relisjion, based

upon a strong ami powerful faith in the Di

vine Guidance an I Providence, in » re c o in .-

tion and deep felt reality* of the existence ot

he i-pirit world, with its mis ions ol Angels,

in a true love and reverence for the inspired

Jesus j)f Nazareth, in place of the cnti e re

jection, or blind subjection to Church creeds

and Dogmas.v

And nf all this, Spiritualism is the Herald

nnd H arb in g er!

Through it, we verge from childhood into

vigorous youth end manhood.

Tiue I am at the present tim e.'n o t a Spirit­

ualist in the sense the terni is generally under­

stood, hut I acknowledge that Spiiitualism led

me to he a Christian ; it was the means of my

k n o w in g nnd fe e l in g , the truth of the U.ble>

where, before 1 in \e s 'ig a t o' Spiritualism, I on­

ly believed in the Bible—the Redeemer— yes,

the .Father.

Accept my hearty congratulations of .the

season, and the well'1 wishes of yours in the

bonds of true Christianity, L. P .

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WOiU.D Uy U ibort D.ilo Owou. $1.25(iO l) \ S H id I’llJY lU L N C E S. lly W . M Fernald.—

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too .Miracles o f Jcmw 13y Prol. M. Uurias, IMce 2‘i cont". *

MIK WAY OF SALVATION calmly cotisiderfil *, heiug . ii l’ p i^ u re of th<: Kund.imi’ii'al l)n*-t ino» o f l,van gelical Chri*temioui. It) J. S. 1 / >e and. 1’iico 8 ct-. The above are jn.-t published nnd f »r nule at uholcoalc

or retail uy HeU AUi .->h, U il:o.ntield «t. ISomIou.ni>3tf

i> e ipiihte of a^^5toat \o lu u ie c»I power a t llte C huicu ii^ lm u ien t, »»lu it u-ed illiou t tlu* l*edal>.

Ah'***, every vm ie t \ o f M l j U ' b l . t ^ S fm I’Ailtir uho I’lircliar'Oi> u.a> elv upon iiii-ti nuiehU f. t>ui "in uian

ulat'loi y beintr ilt.ide in the uioht cou. plete and tliorongh ui.iiiiiet tiiniiiL' resum ed ’the s-paciou:* lm .ld u .a -, f>l 1 \N .i>iiiiii?t"ii S n e e t , we h a \e eveiy la e ilits loi uiaitufac m in*; u m p o - .s , ami em ploy none hut tin muM e .p o nenceti «orhn.ei». In ohoi I, u e u ill p. e o iu eun l»iui(*i> an ii^ t. uuieiit eijual if not Mipe, i- i t«* :.h> man m a .tu r e i, i.i.tl um a ntte entl-o anti l e i l e t i Mit^iaeU«m.

M il-ie l’ea in e » f. l.oatlei>td* Choi>h» an«l olltei •> inter e>ted iu u n i'ir u i . i t t u ia r e it fp o i’ttu lU inM tid to \i.*it. ou. m om s ui .t.i) tim e, and exam ine or te.-t the in ?l.u ment* on ex lu iiitiiin for sale at their plea>nre. ,

A a ''till lu .tu e . yuarantee to the im ldie a to lhe excelle iiee «»t the Meloileoii.- ami (lur»»'.»iiiuuin f.m n our m.im .laettuN, ««• In g leave to refer, h> pe uibM tni, io the f.illmwiij! i’im o Foite maiiufactm ern nt H olton, n l o Iia\e exam iueil our In^truuionls, and m il i ' e their opinion when ealled upon :

C h iek e iii^ Sc S o u s Wui I’, h u ie ix m ; b en . Ilew s;I la ilc t & Cuui 'ton , lWowu & Allen. \ \ ood w a»d it t vj ................ _ .. .. w .

^ . ' u V l i . A l ' x ^ A N tV i S M u N t l M r u i ' v n i i . - - for w ick eveniup . * hV be attend, d to. /d d ic

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Min** 1’mma H arpincr w ill lecture in Philadelphia Providence, I’o illam l, &r.. nfter Kebrim* y, when hIiu re* turn h to New Yo k lorn w eek to form hpring engage uients. A p ily to B FeU ithA venuo N ow Y oik .

Miss Uardin^e lectu es in Cinciuu.ttti the two flnt Puntlays iu February *

M ih- IIosa T . A mkj»V will lerture inC lucngo and M il­waukee during the uiontbs of May aud June Friends on the route desiiiuK her t-mieet* on the t*a!.bi.ih or week cvcni’.ign, w ill p lease adthe-t) her during tin* present n onth care of 1). L l'o- le , 0>wrgo, N . \ ; hiti addrosi g en era lly ,:^ Aden et., Ht>ht«kn, Mu-s.

Mi.-B A. M. Mli-Lil.KinicoK will lecture in Meaiphln, Tenn., 4 Sundays in lob ; St. I.nui». I Btmdayy in M arch; Terre lla u t , 2 t in t ‘‘ inii.ay- iu A p iil. Applica- li"n.< for week evei ings >\ ill t e ’attended to Addr t»s in M emphis, care o f 1. E. fh u d w ick t t . I unis, eai’c c f A. M illet beignr. .

K S. \\HEiU.nR will receive calls to lertn te on the principles o f natm al Spiritualism . Addm i*, Utica, New Y ork,

N. l*uANk WlilTK will h etu n - in Tu*). N. Y ., tlnovgb F eb .; Plym outh, Mas- , M aieh ttit and l l t h ; Quincy, Mat cl) 16th aud :fnh i lo x lx ro * Api I Ihi , l.u w e l April 8il> a.r 1 oth ; Ijoiltvoiili i la li . New \ aU .A p ii Cind and SMithj l’roxid nee, K I., May 0 Ii .uid l-t li j VV l.iuiitntic Conn ,'Ma\ 20i.li and 27th; Oi.\\eg«i\ N Y .. th uu liJune. A ppliactions tor week eve.tiugs aituressed as above will be a iti not'd to.

j .firs. A. P. TttoMr.soN, rianr»*-P)u a lu r on liiblo s u b ­ject*.' Address I.owt 11, M ass.,tili fu; ther m.tiee.

j Mrt<. A. P. I'lHiMi’soN n ill l leclu te at I au ren ce , Mali.**.the first SaUbath in le lu u a r y .

Mrs. A. P. Tn.iursi'N ui; y be jttldref-sed nt I.tiwelM illtow ns on

the Sabbath if d ish e d . *

C in iU .K S A. II \Y I KN. Trane- S it-a ’ lnz M edium .w ill receive calls to lecture. Address at thin ollice. '

F L. W ai 8W okth t-ptak? Ji.n. U t, n D< 'phia, ltd . 8th, in F.lkhart, Ind ; l.'itn, in sttij^ i . Mivb.; -2d , In t dr ian , M ith .; I eb , h a lt ,e Ci e* h . Mi el. j I . \h , INtUai.d “2 Itb. Kockfoi (I, III; nreli-till, 1 h h , 1Mb and iloth , |.)t)lif-, Mich. Addi ef» a-* ab-.vt,-.

' S iiss A. W. SFHKit I » ill fp'-ak at I)a\< npojt. low n, Ift, Sunday in Ja n ., a t Cin in n .i.i, ^n.i , m tl i'-d mi pays, at Terr lla u to , Ind.. 4ili. au*i &tb. sm ulay-. and ..t Chicago through February.

II. P. Faikfikld will spenk in Stafford, ('t , Dec. t8th ; (ii New liedfortl, Sun, ay, Pee ’2.r)tli . in Pmllatid, M e., th e tw o lirst tiabbath- in J-muaiy ; in W ildm antic, C’t., the tw o la st $ubl».itli- ol J.mu.iry ; aiid in Urldg. port, C l., the four fcumluv - ol M .ru n -y . Apj licationd

’ at tho

BOSTON E P lIH lU A i C0NFEKENCEThe lloston tpitHualCoideimcfVTili be heldeverv \Ve«ln«8-

tlay evening, ^cintiieiiciug at 7 1 2 o ’c lo (k ,p ‘ the bl'thlTl'* t. •m;k H a l l , for the di*cust>iuii ol (juefcliona conmcted with Spiiitual tin aiiUrelorm. tiHt

P e r » o i i > w i i o n i d i t o h i r e M e h i d e t m x ' a n d l l a i u . t . n n . n . w i l h a v i e u o i | . u e l i a > i n s ; a t t h o e n d o l t h e \ e a i , c a n

h a v e t i l e r e n t e m i t t e d a.*, p a r t p a j u i e u t o l t i i e p u « e h a . - » e m o n e y . T n i > m a t t e * i s w o t u y o l > | e e p . l n o t i , a s i t

e n a b l e - I h o . - e w l i o i l e s i e a f a i r t o t o f t h e i n s - l . u m e i i U b e t o i e p U i e h a r i n g , t o o b t a i n i t a t t h e e x p e i ^ e o f t h e i

m a n u l u c t n r e t .*<, t o t h e e x t e n t a t l e a > t « ) f u \ e a i ’ t« i c u t .O i i t e i s ' l o m a n y p a i l o t l l i e c o u n t i ) o r w o r l d , M * n t I

t l i - e c t t o t h e m a n u f a e t o i ) i n l l o > t o n , w i t h c a > h t u > a t i > - | V j ( . j , , j t y t i i e a b o v e p l a c e d , f . u - t o y i t - f e . e i . e e , w i l l b e p r o m p t l y a t t e n d e d t o a n t i a s ' •f a i t h f u l . v e x e c u t e d a s i f t h e p a i t i e * w e i e o i c ^ i t , o r

e m p l o y d a n a g e n t t o s e l e c t , a n d o n a s r e a M » n a l > l e t e i u i s .

111ICK LIST.S c r o l l l e g . I I - 2 o c t a v e . £ 0 0 ; S c r o l l l e g , f> o c t a v e , $ 7 3 ;

P i a n o > t v l e , f) < n ? i a x e , S l b O j P i a t n » s t ) l e , e x t i a l i i i ? b , . )

o c t a ' v e , £ 1 1 0 ; P i a n o s t ) l e , c a i v c d . k i k $ l - r>i P i a n o s t ) l e ,2 n e t . - o f i c e d - , l f>0 , P u w i t T M y l c , 0 o c T t r v x ^ M . i t ) ; O i y a n ^M e l o d c o t i , S ‘2 0 0 , H a r m o n i u u i , S ^ r M l i r t H l i i l l J i a - ? ;

l i a r o n i n u i~ l l i u o t i a t c i r T . a l a l o g u e s e n t f r e e o n a p p l i c a t i o n t o

S. 1). & 11. W. SMI I’ll,t il l W .V a lllN G l’ON STltK K l', llO S T u N .

an'O ly . • rn2!i ly .

M r s M A I t Y A . K I C K l U t , T r a n c e M e t l i u i n . r o o m s , M f >

H a n o v e r s t r e e t H o » - t o u O l h c e H o u r s I r o m 1) A . M . , t o (>

L» M T e r m f o r p r i v a t e « i ' t i n g > i f , 0 0 p ^ r h o u r .

W ^ N T t i D _l l y a f l p i r i l u i l L e c t u r e r a n t i L x a m i n e r , s u i t i l d e r o o m s " -

l m u i * h e d . H e i s n o t a l w ’i . y s I t e i e , b u l . x i . e c i s t o e x a u i -

i n a n . i g ' v c P - y c h t - m e t i o l o a d i n g - w h n h e i s i n t h e

v i i y . ’l h e r e n t m i l ^ t n o t b e l a g e , h e n c e a r e t i r e d s l i c e t ,

w i t h a r e c e p t i o n o r ■■v. u l . . t g , a n I a u e x a m i n i n g l o . n n i >

w h a t i » l i e e t l e d . P l a i n n e s ? a n . I e c o t n m i y a n : t h e o b j e c t H .

A d d r e * “ U o M c l n o i A N , ” a t t h i s o l l i c e , s t a t i n g l o c a l i t y

H l h t U ' t t l l H .

N o w Grao*i‘onber-' W a to r C u r e u n d H iD e s ip a - i h i c l i u t i t u l e , (n e a r t t i c a , N .Y .)

Tld» cf-taldishm eiil lias been in sncce^^ful opi rntion for th e past iw e h e y e a r s . and unUei' the con tn I ol the p u s- ent PliNsieian d u iii.g ih t w lo le tiu .e , hidi is a lo:i|jer pt-i iod than an}'tiin iliir iin-tili.tuin I ut h been conducltd by the a m ie ihdi\ idunl in this country.

1',1,1'CTUtriTV, (M-NKHal and Am m a l ) ie our grentcf-t apent in cut it>g tl c ilh w bich tiet-h is heir to, but experi- r ie iu eh a > oeuionsntit*tl tl nt il is m ci t-Miiy to i.m!cr- e lam ltlie u se ol w a tir lo i it n ^ft fi.< cesfliil ;i] i li'.aiieii

'llio se w ho believer iu cu ie by the lin in g on of handt*, w ew ill* id d that man) o f our m ost iinp oil.,n t •curca have been etfectetl iu pai t by tutch uicans. -

For particulars, addrcaa . 11. I10I.1.AN1), M. I) ,New (Jrat IFenheig, N . Y,"

W m * H o l la n d , Clairvoyant and Klrctrnpathic P h y s­ician. Carelul aud llmrough exam iuatioua made in ev cry ca^c. . 121, Iludsun pt.

n 20 . 3 d iob .

Mr. S a n i l ’B P a m p h le t , givinS aa acc.mnt of the Uh- y -•»]) .rt b.ivx and n Ii eiatiou ir »nt ja il by the sp 'n U . is r»r Mtlenuth apii itual Honk ti tore ol 1 ela S .m s l i . l l I I m. i i i I I i ' KI s lr . i t Hoston.

N I ’ u a n k W i i i t r w i l l l e c t u r e i n T a u n t o n , M a s - . , J a n .

29t . , ; r .n y S V ., tliroiiKh Feb. J I’lyin-.uth, »«» M ar.J i l l a n d 1 I l h I ’ b a s e u d d i c » > a s u b u v c f , r W e i k e v , n n i K s ,

All of Mrr. Mettler’s Colobrated fln irvoyant • J em ojies tor Sale aB lo llcw :

H e - t o r a t i v e S y r u p . l | t s . . $•■! , Oi l i l l i l l l s § 1 ,.P,I , I ’ ; i l m o i l i ,

t l l ' o ; N e i i t r . 1 ' 111 u M i \ t , i r . ‘ , TiO e l s . ; l . l u i r f i - r ^ l h U i a ,

S t l c t i . ; l < y s . n t e r y O u l d i a t , S t ) c t f l . ; l . i l i i u i e l . t , * 1 ,0 U i

(Jiuitp. nt 2-' cts S. T . M u n s o n , Ull Fulton st. N. Y ., Whol'v-ale^ and

ltelail Agent

New a u d V a l u a b l e * W o r k B -J u s t P u l l i s h e d .

(ion IN His 'pitowiM nck— *iy F kus *i.u—* *..rkI.a-r«’C. ivrd the h igh est cotnm cndatioin from the h*>c ml ( ’liristi in, Spiritual, and Secular press throughout

the Counti y. I r ee f 1,00.

F o o t f a l l s ox t h k H oundahirs o r A n o tj ik r U on i.n — hy Robert P i le Owen Price $1 ,-5 .

Titr: l i t t n k it ii— *y A. J DavU P iice $1 CO.

T uk A i h a n a o r N m u n t—by H udson lu U le . P iice

S' o:i•All o f the ah'iv*e u ny be obtained, at wl.olesale nnd re­

tail, o f S. T. Ml'NSUN, licueral llook Ag nt I4 i I ulton st , N. Y

o f Ihla Marslt, P os-

NO.A £ . CHILD. M. D., L en tist.

15 TUF. ON I' y l’KDKT, Bt BToN . M \SS.

A JtrvENiLK P un.— A little five-year older being shown an almanac a few days since, hav­ing on the outside leaf a vignette, representing a d r o v e o f oattle, was asked what kind of a book i< was? “ W hy,” replied he quickly, “I • .ouldcallil t c a i l l t l o g u t t "— [P togresaiveA ge

SKETCHES FROM NA1URE; FOB UY

JTTVEMIE FEIEND8.

By FltANoa MOWN.

Price in cloth, 38 ct« . In cloth, g ilt , 50 cts . For snip by 11F.L\ M A11S11, 14 UioDifleld street. til4 t f

Footfalls on tbe Eoondary of Another Wordl, w iih N u n ative llln itia tii nt liy Hi bi i t Hale O uen, f .ii-' l Member of Congieas and American Minister t.i Na^ileH. An cxeetdingly Interesting Hook o f 5‘J8 p age. 12mo. l’rice $ l . ‘J5—p.istaee 20 cents J u ft[lu b - lislied .u d for sale by llela Marsh, 14 Biomfleld Street.

n 21, If.

MEDIUMS IN MAINE.Mrs.I/Nich, llrew er, Wriliiitj and Traoee M.'itiuin Mr. llri liitiiill. UeTf.ist, pcwcrlul tleiilnin .Mediinu illr, A. 11. Pierce, llcifust, Triincc-Spcakinit Meilluoi. l.ibson Sun'll, llaoideii, Trance 8peakiuj{, llciiiln^ and

Lecturing Medium. 'Mr. Caleli I tnioias, Camden, powcr'ul t’reseribini;, Pe-

scribing and llc a lin s Meaium, by tiie laying on of lia .ds John 1\ C oiion , bearap^rt, Uapping anjl 1’i.ysieai A.u-

diu m.Joseph N . llodu cs. Monroe TrcBcribiug, 'Irance-fpetik

ing aud l/x tu n n g Medium. * ’ >U. 1). Hopkins, OMtown, Trance-Speaking Medium. lloi>au M. Sm ith, Hampden, Trance trpiaking Medium. 8unnn W . Jackson, Hampden, Happing Tipping aud

H ealing Medium.. UuRtfoll Severence, lln d ford , powerful H ealing and

Trance Medium -MUv Kmedtie Cunnlimbkm, Bradford, Trande Speaking

aud P icserlbing Menium.Mra. Kren, Augm*U, W riting and Trance Mrdiuui. j l 1,. L ovell. Yarmouth, C lairvoyant. H ealing, 1 ranee

Speakinif and l.erturinir Medium. ,Mr«. tliiKKellilluckflctd, Trance-Speaking nnd Leclur

lr.g 'Icdium.M in. A. C Cram, Steven.* P la in ., VPrkti)?, Trancc

8peaking and Lecturing.Medium.Iknj. <Mton, Monroe, rromrlWnt »Iwi Trtne* Me4 « n

above places aud dates

Mhs J. W CuutilKii will leelurc in Portsmouth, T rc. l l th ; l.avvrence, Dec. 2.'jth, ;it d Jan 1>1.; liu n lirg tcn ,8 h; Moodus, C t., evening- «»i M)tn l- th , Cliickopce, l f i t h , - J O t l i ; I’niiiiai., f t , 1, b fiili-, lo x b o io , li lh & llitllj Marbleliead. ililh . Ml. will speak e v i n

Aikile.-H, llox 815,

Low ell, Mass.

Mih . R. II. n n t T will givflectun-H on every thing per­tain ing to Spiritual aim Pi nciieal li e, llelipion iitid Mela ],hy^ic8 under the lnllui'i.ee uf kj iri!rt. A dd ichslhe a^uve ut N y^yrColuuibta ^ti’d t, iio>tou, :.Jn-.s. lft tf

OF.OROK ATlvINS w ill red ive calls to lecture on tbe Sabba h. Address; No. ;i W inter street, ltoaten.

LlNDLt’.Y >1. Andukws, Superio. l.« ctiiier, wiil travel i« the douth uud W est thU FajJ anil W Inter Per-ous de siring his Hervices may addicss him vither at Yellow Springs, Ohio, or at Menduta, 111., until funher notice f

given. '

Mra. C. M. T cttlkchu tn'addresRed at et*t Minuted, C on n ., d u iitn the wnuer, ami any iriend cimmunicating to her lin in g her present tu.ite «.! he.ilth, #hicn i exceed* n^ly delicate, w ill he gr.itefuHy ree.tiveil and let those who can send any metJ^aye M ■ oi ih e sp ii it spheies that may

aid lo t lie e r aud 8tuiiB tl.cn her,

J H I,ttvHt.AM>, will Jee^ture in O sw ei o. N . ^ during Ihe m onths o f Nov & I tb ; and iu l io -o n the tlnee Hrtt Sundays iu Jan. Will I- e tu ie wet L evenin'*' iu the \iciu* it) ol the above named places.

Addiesrf at 14 lSiouiileM st . ton. - .

ChkistiaN Lin da ,T rance SptMking Medium, vvill rocelvft calls to lecture in any p ir l »l t us west ru c mntry. Ad­dress Christian Linda, ciu e ot ll* uj. Teutonic, box W l, A l­

ton, 111.J im s C. C lukr, and. his danglitei m s ik , will nnfiwer

calls tJi 1 'Cture m n l |t i-e IC-.i.l.i««- on Sunday or other even ing-. AdilrefH No. 5 Hay rire. t, or at this O ffice - Mr. C. will act as agent lo ijh e Aidu

M. P. l'AiitriKLD may 'be m liiv s^ d nt Greenwich ^il-

lage, Muss.Or. J amks Coopkh, o f 1 i llefon ta iu c, O hio, ain-ffcr*

calU to lecture in tiance »>late .

J ames II. Hiiki’AUH, speaking and S erin s > eilium w ilt a in w er calls to le'Ctme >> lie n , \ n II. >■ l i i . n d . m aydcB lie. Post Ollice Uil.iresH, b i.m ii Acuni t l i . N. l i ­

N S MtEKNLKr.r is r, a.'y t.. a iise er ta il i to lecture on tile Sabbath. Adilre.a l« i« e*l, Mass. .

II I' (jAHDINEIlofHnfti.il, « ill answ er calls to leetlir . on SundajB and week day e\eu in t;s.

M is s 11 11 A m e i iy , ' a -3 Allen s t r e e t . B o s t o n , T i a n e . S p e a k i n g M e d i u m , wi l l u n s u e r c a l l s (or s p e a k i n g c n th* S a b b a t h a n d a t a n y o t h e r l im e t h e f r i e n d s . m a y ,lc:' i r f -

A d d r e s s h c r a t 32 A l l en s t i c c t , l l o s tu n . £C> S ‘‘« " , s •

iitlend h iucraU .II L UowKBH't N atick , M ass.w ill give leeturew on Ppir-

i t u a l i s m a n d i t s p r o o f - , fo r I n t u i t i o n , fo r s u c h c o r n p e n .

s i i t lo il a b o v e e x p e n s e s a s g e n e m s i V nni> p i o u i p t .

C 11 KTEUBINS speaks o n Sundays tin oubIi the year ntAnn Arbor, M ich ; and «i l l answ er calls to leetu r* i»

that v ic in ity iir th e w eek .A C ltuB iN S O N , t r a m e speaker, wil l n c e iv e t a i l s V.

Iccture. A d d ressa t Kali lt iv e i, Mass.Rev J ohn ^i e M'On t w ill leeivc calls to speak on f f l r-

ilu a lis in . A ddiess WeBt J ledfou l, Mass. .

He n ja m in D an po rtii wil l i c i e i ve calls to preath •»Ancient a n d Modern B piiitua li-« i syno iijm ou s with tfcoG o s p e l o f C h ritt, aa h e uiulci s ta n d s it. Addiens at Mt‘«-

tu u . ^

LIFE OF CAPT. JOHN BROWNB Y K lUi.'A TH .

This exceed ingly Interesting hi. ffraphy o f the U b»0 of K an sas and I lA a r e R ’s Km,b y is iio,v ready. It i» beau­tifu lly illustrated and e n ib ll lish c d with a Unc portrait o f

I th e old R o m a n . P iice $ i,00I 8 . T . M U N 80N , 8 o U Agent for H Y ., 113, lu lU in t».