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V O L , . I . SA N FR A N C ISC O , S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 25, 1867. NO. 20.

L I T E R A R Y

T o >F o r th e B a n n e r o f P r o g r e s s .

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BT ELIZA A. PITTS1NGER.

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IN W H A T CONSISTS T H E D IF F E R E N C E ?NUMBER NINETEEN.

That those peculiarities spoken of in my last ar­ticle respecting the Egyptians were partaken of by the Hebrews, is clearly evident to the mind of any one who will take the trouble to read the 21st and 23d chapters of Leviticus, which run thus: “ Forwhatever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach ; a blind man,' or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or anything superstitious, or a man which is broken-footed or broken-handed.” “ No man that hath a blemish, of the seed of Aaron the priest, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord, made by tire.” “ Or whosoever toueheth any­thing that is unclean by the dead,” etc. “ The soul which has touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he wash his flesh with water.” “ And when the sun is dow n , he shall be clean, and shall afterwards eat of the holy things, because it is his food.” “ When the plague of leprosy is in a man, the priest shall shut him up seven days ; if the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall shut him up seven days more.” “ He is a leprous man, he is unclean.” Among the Persians a similar state of feeling exists in regard to the disease of leprosy; a leprous person is not permitted to enter a city, nor yet allowed to have communication with any of his countrymen; believing, as they do, that the individual thus af­flicted has committed some offense against the Sun. When HSschines in his travels stopped at Delos on the way to Rhodes, the people of that island were greatly disturbed by the appearance among them of leprosy —known as white leprosy. They believed it to have been sent by the anger of Apollo (the Sun), because, contrary to th^custom of the place, they had buriedthere the body of a man of rank. Among the Amer­ican aborigines the idea was very prevalent, that the Moon was the wife of the Sun. Indeed, Sun-worship and Fire-worship is to be found everywhere, as well as traditions of an ancient worship of the Sun in the United States, Peru, and other portions of this con­tinent. Mounds were constructed for sun-worshipas “ high places” ; compare the mounds of Assyriaand Palestine, and the “ great high place ” or mound of Gibeon. “ The people sacrificed in the high place because there was no house built unto the name’of the Lord (Iaho) until those days.” “ And as Saul and his servants went up the hill to the city, they said, Is the seer here ? And they answered: He is; for there is a sacrifice of the people to-day in the high place. And Samuel said, I am the Seer, go up before me unto the high place. There shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth-El.” “ Sam­uel called unto the Lord, and the Lord sent voices (thunder) and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.” The Hebrews seem to have had various names for their God at different times. We find in Hosea, 2d chapter and 16th verse, “ That thou shalt call m elsh i; and not B a a li.” “ We . find also Mount Baalah ; compare Allah, Elah-, Elohi, Elohim, Alaloh, Eloa, names of God.” The valley of Elah (Alah). “ And the chil­dren of Israel made Baal-Berith their god.” The Camanche Indians worship the Great Spirit, the Sun, the Earth, and the' Moon, as gods. In Greece the Pelasgi worshiped the Heaven and Earth, Sun, Moon, and Stars. The Peruvians worshiped the Sun and Moon. The Sun-god is Creator. Pachacamac, the Great Spirit of the Peruvians, produced the world out of nothing. When king Atahualpa was told that our Lord Jesus Christ had created the world, the Inca responded that he did not believe that anjTtoeing but the Sun could create anything; that he held him for God, and the Earth for mother ; that for the rest, Pachacamac (Sun-god) had drawn the great world from nothing. Among the North American Indians, who have inhabited this continent a greater number of years than we are apt to suppose possible, or any historical writer has as yet given them credit for, the Sun-god is generally the <7rc«USpirit, or the Great Spirit resides in the Sun. When we come to a proper

and just definition of the meaning of the term sun, we find that it is in close connection with not only our religion, but our existence as well. “ The Sun gives life to all things, to all beings.” “ Ani is the Sun ; Ani-ma is the life, the sou l; Ani-mare means to animate.” “ At the great Kaimic festival which the Peruvians celebrate at the summer solstice (stand­still), at the same time as the Cherokees* the fire used in the solemities was given to theTnea priests by the hand of the Sun. The rays were concentrated in a focus, and cotton set on fire. When it was bad weather they were obliged to obtain it by the friction of sticks. For three days previous there was a gen­eral fast, and no fire lighted in the dwellings. The sacred flame was intrusted to the care of the Virgins Of the Sun; and if by any neglect it went out, the event was regarded as a calamity that boded disaster to the monarchy.” “ The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar ; it shall never go out.” (Leviticus, 6th chapter and 13th verse.) “ The Indian tribes burn tobacco instead of incense as a propitiation to the Sun. The fire in the temple of Vesta was renewed every year by fire produced from the rays of the sun. The Romans had their Vestal Virgins, who kept up the sacred flame, and hence they were virgin priest­esses of the Assyrian Artemis. Among the Greeks human victims were offered to Dionysius (the Sun) as they were to the Hebrew Moloch.” The intro­duction of the serpent among the symbols of Free­masonry, originated in the story of the disobedience of our first parents ; this, we are informed, was for the purpose of commemorating the unhappy event of the fall of man from a state of innocence and purity to sin and wretchedness. Serpent-worship derived its origin from the same source; and even the name, applied with a transmitted authority to the destructive power, has reached our times. “ Thus the Deva or Dive of the East, who was the serpent- tempter ; the Diu of ancient Hibernia, the Armoric Due, and the Gaelic Dhu, was no other than the Diabolus of the Greeks and Latins, and the English Devil.” The most eminent writers on the subject of Masonry, tell us Freemasonry is a system of Wis­dom, Strength, and Beauty; and that this definition was adopted by our ancient Grand Master, King Solomon, who called the science W isdom; which, by the cabalists, was subsequently denominated Baphomet. And he defines it thus: “ Wisdom isthe worker of all th ings; she is the brightness of everlasting L igh t; the unspotted mirror of the pow­er of God, and the image of His goodness. She is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the or­der of stars, and before the light.”

J. D. PIERSON.

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IM M ORTALITY PHILOSOPHICALLY CON­SID ERED .

Let us see what rational' thoughts, if not posi­tive evidence, we can bring to support our convic­tions or belief of the fact of immortal identity. If it could be proved tha t the m aterial universe was formed without intelligence or design, and tha t the hum an mind or spirit is but the result or effect of organization of m atter, then there could be nothing on which to build a 7iope, even, of a continued life beyond this. But there are evidences of intelligence in the formation of everything, tha t compel us to look and search deeper for the First Cause, than in any of the known organic laws of Nature. Then comes the great unsolved question, Can this F irst Cause, or Intelligence, exist inde­pendent of m atter ? or can the great Positive Mind know and act without an organization ? The conclusion of many deep thinkers is, that Spirit (and mind as its organ) is refined substance, inseparable from m atter, on which it depends for outward expression, and tha t the m aterial universe is as a vast laboratory, in which to unfold and incarnate spirit germs, offsprings of th is Infinite Mind.

Some, however, have thought that this idea involved the impossibility of two distinct and self- existent en tities; but I see only the great dual law which unites the Visible w ith the Invisible. Now, if the possibility of the individualization of spirits, as being the grand ultim ate for which all other formations are bu t the necessary pro­cesses, be admitted, then comes the next great question to be solved : For w hat great end, com­mensurate w ith this incomprehensible display of Almighty power and goodness, were they pro­duced or created ? This has been answered in many ways, some of which would not be much to the honor or wisdom of their Author ; but the most rational and intelligent is, tha t it was for the happiness and unfolding of intelligent beings to all eternity. But, to this, has come up the ques­tion, If we are the offspring of a Divine Mind, shall we not be again absorbed into it and return to nonentity ? And if we are only cast up into the realm of organic life, retaining no knowledge of a previous state of existence, like a bubble on the ocean, what surety have we tha t we shall not sink back from whence we came, and virtually cease to exist ? To this question there have been many elaborate answers given', yet none of them seem to satisfy the skeptical mind ; and I do not th ink tha t any theory can fully demonstrate what is the absolute truth. Some have maintained that there can be no other immortality but that of re­production, this being the only conclusion tha t external laws and reason can arrive a t ; and I see no possibility of solving it, only by facts presented from a future state of existence. If clairvoyance is true, and this testimony can be admitted into the domain of science and philosophy, then it can be readily solved in the negative, so far as the

immediate future is concerned, and the proof of continued existence and identity after death. But as to the finale of an eternity, or grand cycle of existence, we need be in no hurry to solve a ques­tion so remote. It may be that what has been called God is only the chemical law of affinity inhe­rent in matter, and that the special Providence be­lieved in by many is only the action of those created intelligences tha t have become able to control the laws of events, etc., which have been heretofore thought to be under the direct superintendence of the Divine M ind ; and that this Divine Mind finds its expression only through the forms and intelli­gences unfolded by the involuntary as well as vol­untary laws of Matter and Power, since Motion must exist whenever these exist ; and then comes the inevitable evolution of all else ; but of tlxe intelligence and attributes of tliat Power, we can only know by its effects. Some philosophers claim that every atom moves by inherent •volition.

There is another theory, th a t may be true, of immortal existence, which i s : that this state is alone to be reached by those Avho shall live-or are born after the laws of organic life have been fully understood and wisely controlled ; when the world and its physical and social conditions have reached tha t state of perfection wherein man shall be able to stop the waste and decay of the m aterial form, and preserve the equilibrium between composition and decomposition. I t has been supported from the analogy of the tree and its fruits, that se\reral years or cycles of its existence were necessarily unproductive of the end to be attained, and that the several generations of leaves, which prophe- cied of fruit, were first subject to decay, not pos­sessing the elements of individual existence, al­though these had first to live before fruit or thehigher and ultim ate existence was attained. Ac­cording to this theory, the Tree of Immortal Life, on this globe, has produced but one or two, if any, real fruits. Christ and Elijah may be such, and perhaps some others, if the theory be admitted, which also claims tha t such are but as it were fruit prematurely gathered, “ whom the heavens m ust contain until the restitution, of all things,” or until the earth has reached th a t perfect state wherein spirits may be re-incarnated and dwell again in m aterial forms.

The reasoning I mostly employ, to satisfy my mind as to the proofs of a future state, is much like that which Thomas Dick employs in his philosophy ; or, rather, I may be said to use his reasons, w ith the additional spiritual or intuitive testimony tha t we are possessed of many faculties which are not unfolded in this life ; and those that are, are seldom fully developed, or but partially satisfied here. l . tt.

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SPIR ITU A LISM T H E RELIGIO N OF NATURE.

N U M B E R T H R E E .

Religion, like every other department of human achievement, is progressive. As in agriculture, min­ing, manufactures, and the natural sciences, new principles are from time to time discovered, and new methods adopted ; so should it be in religion. Spir­itualism is a humanitarian, and not a Deific religion. I t denies that God has revealed himself authorita­tively in a book, be it Vedas, Shaster, Bible, Koran, Swedenborg’s Arcana Celestia, Book of Mormon, or A. J. Davis’ Divine Revelations. I t takes this position because these claims never had any founda_ tion in truth ; and the people are fast finding it out. Whatever excuse there may have been in the infancy of the human race, to treat mankind, in regard to religion, like children, by a plausible deception, that excuse no longer exists. Religion is not for the glory of God, but the benefit of man. We do not claim to know more of God than can be inferred from so much of the finite outworking thereof as comes within the scope of our limited capacities. Since all the forces and elements of nature, at least on our planet, have, for inconceivable ages, con­verged to develop man, and to bring him forward to his present condition, we may infer that whatever tends to man’s improvement is pleasing to Deity. Still, as to the qualities and mode of the DiA’ine Be­ing outside of nature’s unfoldment, we are not ashamed to confess ignorance, and address ourselves to comprehensible principles and practicable efforts. Religion, then, is simply public or social exercises, whose object is the culture and development of the moral and spiritual faculties of our nature. At the foundation of the subject lies the fact, that the^e faculties are a part of nature, and, as such, amenable to the law, that proper and legitimate exercise con­duces to growth, as in the intellectual or muscular system.

Religion, as an associated movement of men and women, proposes to provide for the proper culture of these faculties.

In the current theology, it is made a prominent feature of religious teachings, that God punishes sins committed in this life by a positive infliction in a dismal locality in the next. This idea is dwelt upon so much that a large proportion of religious people regard it as the object of religious observ­ances to escape this punishment. Hence Spiritual­ists, who have been educated in the old theolgy, often fail to appreciate the importance of religious culture, when taught by Spiritualism that God’s moral government is substantially the same after death as before, and consists in the natural results of inharmony with moral laws. Many do not readily perceive the benefits of bringing individuals to a clearer consciousness of these laws, and thus bring­ing the life more in harmony therewith.

Another idea of the current religious teachings is, that by prayer and pious deeds God is conciliated so much as to render supernatural assistance even in daily avocations. Deity is the infinite Father of all life and being, and will not deviate from his perfect relations with the ever-unfolding universe, even at the most fervent solicitation of his children. Re­ligion, then, being the spiritual development of hu­man beings, is purely a human work, in accordance with practical, common-sense principles. California is paying fifteen thousand dollars a year for a geo­logical survey of the State. Some think this amount entirely too small; and few thoughtful men consider it a misapplication of the people’s money, thus to bring to light something of the geological formation and mineral resources of the State. While a dissem­ination of spiritual truth would be no less valuable, it must )xe done by voluntary efforts, as there is a great variety of opinions as to truths and methods; and the history of the Church has taught the world the value of religious liberty.

True, the religious development of a people can­not rise much above their physical condition and in­tellectual status. Excessive and continued toil un­fits the mind for effective effort, and must becloud the spiritual perceptions. So long as the present in­dustrial condition of civilization continues, spiritual darkness will prevail. While labor and the fruits of labor are so unequally distributed, it is vain to ex­pect a high order of religious enlightenment in gen­eral. But how shall this condition of things be im­proved ? Archimedes could with ease move the world, if he only had a fulcrum on which to rest his lever. Without claiming religious culture as the only means of human improvement, does it not come nearer to being this fulcrum for the elevation of man, when judiciously used, than any other means ? But how shall this spiritual culture be secured ? How but by a diligent use of the best means within the reach of each vicinage or religious association. While there is so much land unculti­vated, or poorly cultivated, it were a pity if a plat could not be devoted to so noble a use as a site for a house for enlightened, untrammeled spiritual cul­ture. Let each association have the best music they can afford, the best lectures they can procure, the best conference, and make use of any other means that the best judgment and enlightened reason of the people may suggest. We have formed our own government, we have established a system of public education, there now remains to inaugurate a prac­tical religion on the basis of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. And this is a work that will neArer cease to be required. Philosophical writers anticipate a time in the distant future when man Avill be so harmonious in his relations as no longer to require governments, laws, prisons, judges, or policemen. But, so long as man begins his exist­ence without knowledge, but with a growing ca­pacity for acquiring ideas ; so long as there is use for a daily press and a public school, so long will there be need of the Sunday lecture and the religious conference. I once heard an intelligent Spiritualist say that Spiritualists were the worst people he ever knew ; for while they know the most they do the least. However true it may be, there are many worthy exceptions of noble workers, who relax not their efforts, though environed by circumstances of unparalleled discouragement. jo h n a l l t h .

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I M M O R T A L I T Y .NUMBER FOUR.

W ho can fully realize all th a t is contained in the single word— im m o r ta li ty ?

There is a grandeur in the idea th a t we shall live forever, w ith continually improving opportu­nities for the development and enjoyment of all our faculties, tha t thrills our entire system, as it increases our self-esteem and gives impetus to our nobler aspirations. W ho can read the words that Bulwer puts in the m outh of one of his heroines, without sympathizing w ith the hopes therein ex­pressed, even if they should not command belief ?

“ And to Avhat num erous stages of being, w hat paths, w hat duties, w hat active and glorious tasks in o ther worlds m ay we not be reserved ? perhaps to know and share them together, and m ount age after age h igher in the scale of being. For surely in Heaven there is no pause or torpor ; we do not lie doAvn in calm and unimproATable repose. Move­m ent and progress w ill rem ain th e law and condi­tion of existence, and there Avill be efforts and duties for us above, as there have been below .”

Is there one who would rather cease to exist than pass into a higher state of being, w ith his individuality, and all his unsatisfied hopes and desires, which have been the bane and pleasure of this present existence ? But in combating the argum ents th a t are sometimes brought forward in proof of immortality, the skeptic does not do so because he dislikes the doctrine, nor that he de­sires to destroy a single tru th , be it ever so un­palatable ; yet he is determined to uphold no faith not based on reason, or cherish a hope which will not bear the closest investigation- His desire is, to “ be ready always to give an answer to every man tha t asketh him a reason of the hope tha t is in him ” ; an answer that will not only silence the caviler, but will satisfy, to the fullest extent, him­self. - ’

The patien t investigator, th e honest inquirer, rig id skeptic th o u g h he m ay be, is Avell satisfied no am ount of faith can m ake a falsehood true, nor unbelief or doubt m ake a t ru th false. N either one nor the o ther can a lte r th e real condition of th ings ; and w hile we dispute, wrangle, and en­gender all sorts of inharm onious feelings, on account of our egotistic determ ination of hav ing our own idea of th ings m aintained, facts, stub-

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born facts, still remain Avhat they were, perfectly indifferent to all that can be said in the m atter. W e may believe the moon to be made of green cheese—of nothing, when the stars were brought into being—according to the development theory, or any other theory which fancy may create or reason dictate ; and all the while the Queen of N ight Avill continue to shine and revolve around the earth the same. Regarding the argument for immortality, based on our intuiti\*e perceptions, our hopes and desires, I am free to confess tha t I haAre not yet ascended high enough the “ Mount of P isgah” to see the “Promised Land”; never high­er than to acquire an unbounded faith in Nature. Believing her principles to be eternal and unchang-. able, beyond the capricious interference of any mind whatever, I have confidence that she Avill continue to operate as heretofore. Job says of God, “ Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him” ; so I say of Nature. If, when my body is laid in the gra\Te, I shall wholly mingle vuith the dust, to be known no more, I have yet this comfort : Nature has taken me to herself, and I am one w ith h e r ; and all that I am, and have been, will still be used by her. If I continue my identity in another state, still there will Nature preserve me and receive my undivided Avorship and study. Nothing can be lost. Every atom in the universe has been eternally doing its duty—eternally doing all it could. Each atom of which I am composed, spirit atom and physical atom, has been eternally at work ; as full of intelligence a million of ages ago as it is to-day—as it vrill be millions of ages hence. To some, this no doubt Avail appear only mere assertion ; to me, it is a self-evident tru th . I have no doubt but that our organisms have, in their gradations through matter, done their duty in flowers and in trees ; in the rock and the min­eral ; in the m ighty reptiles and sauriaas of Geology; in all animated N a tu re ; in earths, comets, and suns. The power that sustained and propelled us through all these changes w ill con­tinue to do so, and make of us just w hat the economy of Nature has determined for us.

Philosophy in vain attempts to pry into the secrets 6f a future life. To the philosopher the heavens are as brass, and the earth, iron ; from the tomb not even a doleful sound salutes his ear ; his science destroys his faith, and only reveals the inexorable facts connected Avith the materials of our present existence. How can it be otherwise, even granting the hypothesis of a future exist­ence ? W e find all animated beings, in their for­mation and organic functions, adapted only to the elements in which they live. Fish living in places like the Mammoth Cave, Avhere there is no light, have no eyes, the only sense through which light can be perceived; no more can man have any perceptions of a state which, as yet, he has not reached, and w ith the elements and condi­tions of which he has only a prophetic connection. He is of the earth, earthy ; and can only analyze and comprehend earthly things. That does not, however, prove tha t spiritual existences do not ex is t; nor does it warrant a blind faith in every- th ing we do not comprehend, which may be pre­sented for our acceptance. There are undoubtedly many things in the universe of which we cannot even have the most distant idea ; forms and condi­tions of existence which have no parallel in our experience. It becomes the skeptic, then, not to be too presumptuous in his denials ; the supra-mun- dane theorist, not to be too dogmatic in his asser­tions. It becomes all, in discussing the subject of immortality, to be candid and patient—receiving all things with caution and rigid investigation— rejecting nothing without a fair examination.

Ch r is t ia n , a n d P a g a n .—Ideas occasionally fall from the pulpit which are in perfect harmony with the religious spirit of the age. The Unitarian Church is not considered evangelical, and may not perhaps be properly regarded as the exponent of Christianity, but it is a question if it is not more in in. sympathy than other churches with the non-pro­fessing intellectual lights of the world. The ruling idea Of the Orthodox Evangelical Church is that there is but one true religion, all others being false lights leading to final destruction. The Creator, in descending to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, invested the teachings of the latter with a sanctity and authority that raise them far abOA’e all other schools of philosophy, constituting them alone the truth from which humanity could take no appeal. This view of the Scriptures shuts out from nations to whom they have not been given all hope of sal­vation, as no one can justly profit by a means of girace of which he is entirely ignorant. I t also makes imperative the work of sending missionaries abroad to preach Christ to the heathen, 6ince the latter must live in sin and die without hope until the light of the missionary shall reach him. This abso­lute aspect of Christianity has caused many good men who were searching honestly for truth to disregard its pretensions. Why had God so favored Christian nations that they only possess the truth without which all must die? Why were pagans to wait the slow leisure of a struggling church for that emana­tion from the Creator which is so absolutelv essential, and which God might have imparted directly,, thus saying unnumbered millions from death without a Christian’s hope? Why was one portion of God’s household suffered to remain in darkness Avhile another was reveling in the effulgence from the heavenly throne ? These questions have never been satisfactorily answered by Orthodox divines. At most, when pushed, they have said that such was the will of God, and the presumptuous man might go no farther in his questioning.— Golden E ra .

W h a t do y o u m ean b y a ca t-an d -d og life ?”a husband to his angry wife. “ Look at Carlo and Kitty asleep on the rug together. I wish men lived half as peaceably with their wives.” “ Stop!” said the lady, “ tie them together and see how they willagree.

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LETTER FROM VERMONT.W o o d s t o c k , March 27, 1867.

ABSENCE FROM CHURCH.Three-fourths of the adult population in this

civilized and Christianized New England stay away from religious meetings. Is it wise or foolish— moral or immoral—pious or impious ? A question of great importance, so long as we have so much wealth invested in meeting-houses and their fix­tures. Then the great expense in running and sustaining all these churches—the cost of rearing “ regular ordained ministers ”—is enormous. The aggregate amount for sustaining them and their families is from five hundred to ten thousand dol­lars a year. W ith this great outlay, this enormous expense all the time, it becoriies quite necessary to institute an inquiry into the cause of so few at­tending religious service upon Sunday.

There must be something radically wrong somo- wliere, with all this great wealth expended in erecting, beautifying, and m aking comfortable and attractive these houses of worship, tha t so small a number give their attendance. Then the men of talent, erudition, superior wisdom, (or who ought to be, as the highest advantages our coun­try possesses are within their reach and contribute to their assistance,) called by God to expound His will and wisdom to His children.

“ If a man die shall he live again ?” Can there be a subject of greater interest to poor, suffering, dying men and women ? I again ask, W hy is it tha t so few attend our Sabbath gatherings ? I can answer only for one. And I do it with the love of God—not fear—and my fellow-men as witnesses. I am too poor, too needy, to waste or squander time as it is done at all our religious m eetings at present. ■

“ Time is money”’ is an old proverb. It is more than tha t to me. It is happiness or misery ; it is salvation or damnation—life or death. There is no exaggeration here either. Horace Mann, when at the head of the Massachusetts Educational Department, affirmed th a t nineteen-twentieths of all the crime and suffering in this world was wholly because of ignorance. In my opinion, had his courage equaled his wisdom, there would have been no fractional exception made. I most trn ly believe and solemnly affirm that ignorance is the sole cause of all our sorrows, wrangles, and bloody wars. Ignorance of what ? ask many. Ignorance of God’s universal, unchangeable laws— man and his relations to those laws.

I said I was too poor to attend church one- seventh of the whole time, under present rules and restrictions. The pulpit has been of very little service in warning our Nation of the ■wick­edness and danger of chattel slavery. Nearly all the ministers south of Mason and Dixon’s line went in for the Rebellion, and far too many were in deep sympathy in pious New England. O, the past record of our ministers and churches, in all the great practical reforms, will appear in a bad ligh t to the purely honest followers of Jesus and all great reformers !

How can a true follower of the great Represen­tative Man attend upon any of our regular church services ? They are built upon the one-man power and wisdom—purely monarchical—the opposite of all of Jesus’ teachings and practices—no freedom of speech, except to flatter the self-righteous and vain ministers. No m atter how inefficient, dog­matic, and boastful they may appear to their auditors and true worshipers of Truth, you must submit w ithout a question or a protest. This has been the rule throughout the past ages of all Christendom. Hence, in my judgm ent, here lies the whole cause of so large a number staying away from Sunday religious meetings. Men and women love improvement, reform, new truths, and feel guilty and condemned if they are remiss in giving counsel and aid to the misled and fren­zied ones, whenever there is an opportunity. I t is like witnessing a heinous crime, and not using our God-given strength to prevent it. Hence, in at­tending upon meetings of any Christian order, and hearing great stress laid upon the sectarian rules of church government, and seeing so little zeal for the great practical tru th of brother­hood, “ Love thy neighbor as thyself,” we become disturbed—even disgusted—and resolve that we .will not waste so much of our time and be wit­nesses to the propagation of error,not being allowed to give a w arning voice against such usurpation. W e all know and feel,’tha t to be passive and wit­ness error, false teachings, deception of any kind, and not raise our voices against it, makes us par­ticipants, guilty and condemned by the civil and moral law.

Beecher, in one of his sermons not long ago, was speaking upon this'subject. He said “ the herd would always be found where green sweet forage grew ; they needed no urging or goading. But when fed upon rye straw, that had been cut five hundred years, they knew enough to stay away ; and he honored their taste.” Here lies the whole secret. A rehash or rehearsal of the loves and sen­sual life of Solomon and David has become stale and unworthy of the time and attention of good, sound, thinking men and women. Beeclier re­marked further, in reference to congregations get­ting drowsy and nodding in service-time : “W hen I discover any of my hearers inattentive and sleepy, I want no messenger-boy, or sharp re­buke, sent among them. It is the preacher that wants awakening and reprimanding. He is in the fault, not his audience. He, or his subject, is out of place and taste. The people know where the ‘green pastures are.’ Yes, as of old, ‘the people hear him gladly.’ ” This is all true, and ever has been. W hen and wherever you find a minister or teacher superior to his hearers, like Parker, Beecher, Chapin, and Starr King; as Beecher says, “ the herd will be there,” and they can’t stay away. All hanker for information and wisdom. But such ministers are rare. Nineteen- twentieths of the professed Christian teachers are far below tlieir hearers in moral standing and in­telligence.

Thus said and wrote Theodore Parker im years ago. He could call together one of the m refined, moral, and elevated societies in all N Epgland, and was himself cultured as no ot man in that region. At the same time, he that many ot his hearers were far superior to li sell in many things pertaining to m an’s liappin

T H E B A N N E R OF F R O G- R E S S .

M ore P u lp it E thics.here And hereafter. He was not willing to assume the whole responsibility, and be the sole teacher. He said there was scarcely a religious society in all New England but possessed from twenty to one hundred members or hearers, superior to their settled m inisters., And, w ith the present church rules, these superior members had no voice—no opportunity to say a word for their starving brothers and sisters. These things should not be ; and he strove to institute a more liberal and demo­cratic course, and give an opportunity to all his hearers tO speak and make inquiries. His meet­ings were devoted one-half the time to conferences and free meetings. The members’ rights were recognized, and all, male and female, were heard. This comports w ith the rules tha t Jesus laid down : “ W here the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” “ Prove all things.” “ Be ready always to give an answer to any one tha t asketh you a reason of the hope tha t is in you.” “ W hy not even of yourselves judge ye not w hat is righ t ?”

The time has come for new rules and regula­tions in our churches. The masses are too far advanced to be cheated by the self-righteous priest any longer. The honest lover of the simple doc­trine of “ Love thy neighbor as thyself,” (without regard to race or color,) will not aid or abet the sectarian religious churches. They are becoming transparent to all lovers of tru th and brother­hood, and a hideous picture they present. Noth­ing will save them but greater toleration, and a more liberal course toward their brother man. Men and women m ust and shall be heard indi­vidually, in all religious assemblies, or they will w ithdraw their attendance and support. This is honest, and I hope to see it carried out in regard to every religious association. I have for many years refused to aid in the erection of any church, or support any religious meeting, where freedom off speech is to be prohibited or curtailed. I be­lieve in h u m a n r ig h ts—equity to all men and women. Na th a n iel ra nd a ll , m . d .

ISaW ttiG ! §SHjOr0V\es8!S.

SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1867.

OFFICE, 5543 CLAY STREET, IIP STAIRS.

BENJAMIN TODD & CO.,P U B L I S H E R S A N D P R O P R I E T O R S .

B E N J A M I N T O D D , W. H. M A N N I N G , E D I T O R S .

TO CORRESPONDENTS.J9S- AH com m u n ica tion s d esig n ed for p u b lica tio n in th is

paper sh o u ld b e a d d ressed “ Editors of the B anner of P ro­gress. ” A ll le tte r s in regard to th e b u s in e s s o f th e paper sh ou ld b e a d d ressed to “ B enjamin Todd & Co.”

Woman’s Eights.Much has been said and w ritten upon this sub­

ject, hut as yet w ith apparently little result in comparison w ith the amount of labor bestowed. Viewing the m atter from the standpoint of the unprogressive portion of the world, woman has no rights tha t the lords of creation are bound to respect. If shown any favor by the male sex, it is not from duty or righ t principle, hut is merely gratuitous on their part ; and woman should be particularly careful to consider it as such, and to show no more than a due amount of gratitude therefor. The philanthropy of a certain portion of m ankind has run wild over the wrongs of the poor Indian and the African, hut has failed to dis­cover the horrors of tha t bondage under which woman has suffered indescribable torture her whole life long, carrying thousands of her sex annually down to a premature grave. Many shrink from the discussion of the subject, from the fact th a t it is so intim ately connected with that so-called h oly institution—marriage. T ru e m arriage is holy, and was instituted by the Father and Mother of the universe. But the marriage institution of to-day is rotten to the core; and Heaven pity the ignorance of those who call it holy. It is the Inquisition, by which woman is daily tortured. I t is the bloody altar, where her heart daily dies. I t is the Juggernaut, whose ponderous, bloody wheels daily run riot over its crushed and groaning victims. It is a hell far more terrific in its torture than the fabled Tartarus of old, or the sulphureous, fiery world of Christian Theology. I t is a perfect cesspool of vice and crime. There is a far greater amount of licentious-, ness committed in the marriage-bed than out of it. In seven-tenths of the number of cases, marriage is but another name for legalized adultery. Talk about the corruption of our political institu tions! They are Purity itself, in comparison with the social relations of life. Is it strange, when the fountain of life is so impure, that the little streams flowing therefrom should be not much less than fiends incarnate ? To us it does not appear strange that fiends should be born in b e l l ! And since we realize from w hat source a large portion of hu­manity flows, we only wonder that the children are as pure as we find them. But this so-called religious or holy institution—marriage—is like the majority of the holy practices of mankind. Not a crime is mentioned in the Decalogue, nor one at which the soul of every true man and woman instinctively revolts, that has not been committed at some time in the name of religion’ or been sanctioned and practiced by some one who stood high in religious estimation.

The religious teachers of the world have ever insisted that woman should he subj ected to the whims and caprices of man. Under the God- sanctioned (?) religion of Moses, a man could marry a woman, take her to his home, use her a while, and then, if not satisfied w ith her, had only to give her a piece of paper, w ith a few words written upon it, and send her out of liis house, and the poor woman had no redress. But no­where do we read in the book that women could send their husbands away, however contemptible, mean, and abusive they m ight behave. They m ight come home drunlv, and in a shameless man­ner expose their nakedness, lUceJiNoali ; they m ight bring home a Ilagar, and u«§ko h e r tlieir mistress, like Abraham ; they mifspFTslay a w h o le nation of fathers, mothers, and sons, and bring homo all the virgins, and give themselves up to general prostitution in tlieir tents, in the presence of tlieir wives, as did the Israelites ; they m ight

have harems, wherein their wives and concubines could be numbered by hundreds, like Solomon ; they m ight go on a “ regular bender,” as David did, and strip themselves stark naked, and dance with the young maidens—and yet there was no redress for the unhappy wives. And if one of them dared to give a curtain-lecture to her way­ward lord and master, it was at the peril of her future happiness, as in the case of David and Mi chal.

In New Testament times, Paul being taken as authority, woman’s condition was not much im­proved. Paul makes man the supreme tyrant over his wife and family, without any redress. In fact, he commands them thus : “ Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands in all things.” The Christian world has held tenaciously to the letter of P au l’s teaching ; and when the wife does not submit willingly, she is made to yield by physical force. . A small proportion of such cases continu­ally appear in our Police Courts.

Many men—in fact, most men—have been ac­customed to look upon their wives as property. They own them as much as they do their horse, dog, or any other kind of property. They buy them of the priest, and pay five, ten, or twenty dollars for them ; lienee they claim that they have a righ t to use them at their own pleasure, in any manner, cruel or otherwise. As the result of such treatment, lingering disease and pain liaunt the brief bonrs of tbe married life of woman, until a premature death puts an end to their physical suf­ferings. It would, perhaps, be more proper to call it a lingering death froin the beginning ; for it is so to many of them. But it is all f l ig h t ; it was done in a holy m a n n e r ; tbe m urder perpetrated was a legal one, and had the sanction of the holy marriage la w ! The physician said the disease was consumption ; and the priest said God had done the deed, and, of course, no one was to blame. And away goes the tyrant, and takes to himself another victim. Yet, such is the state of public opinion, that, if a woman finds herself in such a domestic hell, and makes an endeavor to escape the chains of her tyrant, in order to free herself from a thraldom worse than death—holding her body and soul in perpetual bondage—fastidious, fashionable society arrays itself in the panoply of Mrs. Grundy, and starts after the panting victim, and hounds her back to her master. W hat is the remedy for all this ? The answer . is, Restore to woman her rights and privileges, so tha t she may be equal w ith man. But, you inquire, how is this to be . brought about ? W e reply, by constant agitation of the subject. Let every true reformer speak boldly out bis or her opinion of the ques­tion. Throw fastidiousness and bat-blind con­servatism to the winds. Let not such a barrier stand one moment in tbe way of a reform so much needed as tha t in behalf of woman. Push for­ward the car of Progress ; let nothing hinder. If the old fossilized grumblers are crushed beneath its ponderous wheels, it will he all the better forthe world. t .

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E d ito ria l Notes-

WHERE ARE WE GOING?“ Benjamin Todd writes to his paper, from Port­

land, that during one of Brother Earle’s revival meetings, all the ladies who wished to have better husbands were requested to rise. The uprising was

instantaneous and unanimous. Where does Brother Todd expect to go to when he dies ?” —D a ily A m eri­can JBlag.

W e rather th ink tha t the editor of the F la g slightly exaggerated our assertions ; nevertheless, he is so good a friend of ours, and seems to extend his anxiety for our welfare so far—in fact, beyond tbe grave—tbat we will answer bis question. W e do not anticipate going anywhere when we die, for the simple reason that we do not expect to die at all. That the tenement we now occupy will be found vacant some of these odd nights or morn­ings, we have no doubt. And,.wherever that may occur, we hope we shall not be then obliged to witness the results of these contemptible religious revivals. If we do, we will follow the same occu­pation then that we do now ; namely, going about and tearing down as fast as their-authors build up.

NOT THAT KIND.“ Rev. Mr. Benjamin-Todd, editor of the B a n n e r

o f P r o g r e ss , a paper devoted to the promotion of insanity, free love, and table-tipping Spiritualism, challenges any Minister of the Gospel to a two-days’ discussion of Spirits. Should we ever feel inclined to discuss spirits, we should prefer a different kind of Todd from Benjamin. The name is at least sug­gestive.” —H um boldt Register.

W e think the editor, when he wrote that article, must have been discussing “ spirits ” extensively, and th a t he must have had an estray brick in his hat at the time. It sounds just like a drunken m an’s twaddle.

A MEAN DOG SHOULD BE WATCHED.“ Mr. Todd, the lecturer on Spiritualism, gave

the city folks a course of his lectures last week. His lectures are rather pleasant to hear, making about the same impression on the mind that the illustrated title-page to some of the monthly magazines do. There are a few common words in the middle, almost obscured by flourishes, with a border of angels and Cupids hanging to grape-vines, apparently endeavor­ing to decipher the meaning of all the extra flour­ishes within.” — Unionist, (Salem , Oregon.)

Let the citizens of Salem keep watch and ward over the editor of the U nion ist, if they care anything about retaining him on this side of death ; for, unless his nature bo changed very much, lie will wake up some morning and find himself so dogged mean, that, Judas-like, lie will take a “ grape-vine,” or the first piece of hemp he can find, and go and bang himself.

Our esteemed friend, Dr . ,P. W . R andle of this city, lias been appointed Assistant Surgeon of the United States Army, and is now stationed at the Presidio. ---------- ---------------

D r . CnEEVER’s Ciiu ro h ,- in New York, has been converted into a magnificent jewelry store. It is not the first time the “ house of God,” so called, lias been made a “ den of thieves.” M.

A Colored Sp ir it u a l ist L ec tu r er .—Mrs. Wilson, a trance speaker of great power, lias cre­ated a sensation in Charlestown, Mass., where sheis lecturing to crowded houses.

--------- »♦»-----------T h e first official copies of the Declaration of

Independence were printed by a wom an—Mary Catharine Goddard—in 1776.

M e t I I is D oom .—Justus C. Haynes was married at Beckwourth’s Valley to M artha Ann Doom.

A B r i e f b u t P i t h y S e r m o n .—Here is the pithiest sermon ever preached: “ Our ingress into life isnaked and bare; our progress through life is trouble and care; our egress out of it we know not where; but doing well here we shall do well there; I could not tell more by preaching a year.”

The above has been going the rounds of the press for some time past, without credit. W e cut it out of the D a ily T im es of this city, whose cler­ical editors no doubt thought it a fine piece of preaching. W e have been trying to extract the “ pith ” which it is said to contain, but as yet w ith­out success. Let us see if we can put some “ pith ” into it, which will bear the analysis of common sense at least. “ Our ingress into life is naked and bare.” It needed no pulpit orator to give ns the astonishing information tha t Nature does n,ot furnish us with ready-made clothing, wherein we may be ushered into this “ breathing world.” It is a fact patent to every eye in all increasing fami­lies. I t is, in tru th , the “ naked tru th .” Our clerical friends need not have been so indelicate as to tw it us of the fact. W e couldn’t help i t ; for how could we know it was the fashion here to wear clothes? The Second Adventists have im­proved upon Nature in this respect; for they fur­nish “ ascension robes ” to those who are to bo “ born ag a in ”—that is, resurrected ” into the heavenly state of existence. The Pharisaic doo- trine of a bodily resurrection, we suppose, first suggested the idea of clothing, embalming, and mummifying the dead. But reason now revolts at this old superstition. Let us look again at this “ pithy sermon.”

“ Our progress through life is trouble and care.” And what would life be worth without them ? That which costs us no trouble and requires but little care is but lightly esteemed. It is the very trouble to acquire and tlie care to preserve that give all the value to everything we possess. W hat we care nothing about gives us no trouble, and is soon banished from our thoughts. Our desire is no longer toward it. W e part with it without re­gret. All the whining about trouble and care comes from tlie pulpit, which first makes the trouble, and tlien offers its own patent panacea for its cure. W e strongly suspect tha t the clerical profession is as much addicted to quackery as the medical. Its practice in certainly w orse; for it first creates tlie disease by wholesale in society, tha t it may afterward sell its nostrums at a heavy profit, and gain credit for its pretended cure besides. All the trouble which men have is the best th ing for their development, or the all-wise Creator would not have instituted i t ; and all the clerical prescriptions in the world will not remove it from the world.

“ Our egress out of it we know not where.” If it is not quite certain what locality we shall occupy when we cease to live in the body, it is less doubt­ful w hether we can make our egress from life at all. W e believe, on w hat we consider good evi­dence, in a continued existence; and so does the pulpit and its adherents p r e te n d to believe in it, though they do not seem to understand w hat sort' of an existence it is, nor how it is entered upon. To discuss this point here, however, would make this article of too great length. W e shall have ample opportunity for future articles devoted ex­clusively to this part off the discussion.

“ But doing well here we shall do well there.” W h e re ? Having ju st declared that they know not whither they are going, how is it possible for them to know what conditions are pre-requisite for “ doing w ell” in the future state? “ T h e r e ” is very indefinitely used in this case. It may mean anything but a locality where happiness- is experi­enced. But this is not the only solecism the pul­pit is guilty of, in attem pting to impress its pecu. liar logic on the minds of the people. The very argum ent made use of in “ Paley’s Theology,” to describe and illustrate the perfection of the works of the Creator, carried out to its natural and logi­cal results, forms a corollary so powerful as to sweep away the the cobwebs of total depravity, vicarious atonement, eternal punishment, and all other dogmas of the Church, bearing tbe same relation to tlie future destiny of man. And yet the pulpit orators continue to declaim in the same vein, and almost in the same language, as formerly upon these exploded themes.

“ I could not tell more by preaching a year.” Scarcely less could have been told in the shortest time possible. W hat is self-evident in the above extract need not have been told at all. That which is assumed in it had better never have been said. Mere assumption adds nothing to the amount of the world’s knowledge. Proof is what is required. “ Prove all th in g s ; hold fast that which is good.” After assuming tha t we do not know where we shall go at death, to prescribe conditions of attaining happiness there, it strikes us, is the liiglit of the “ foolishness of preaching.” If the world is to be saved by such foolish arguments, addressed to rational beings, the sooner we abolish common schools the better. They can teach us nothing that will be of any benefit to us hereafter. It is only the pulpit and the foolishness spokenfrom it th a t is or w ill be of any value. M.

------------— —-----------Mr s . F oye’s L ast P ublic Seance will take

place next Monday evening, at Mechanics’ Insti­tute Hall, Post street, near Kearny, commencing at 8 o’clock. W e learn that Mrs. Foye will not hold sittings in public again in this city for the present. This w ill therefore he the last opportu­nity of the kind, perhaps, for many months, to witness those remarkable manifestations which occur in lier presence. She will, however, con­tinue to sit daily for visitors at her residence, 124 Sutter street.

Acknow ledging T h em selv es D e f e a t e d .— Some orthodox preachers in Illinois having been invited to discussion w ith Spiritualist lecturers, upon the plenary inspiration of the Bible, and kindred subjects, declined, giving as a reason tliat all public debates concerning tbe origin of tlie Bible in v a r ia b ly in crease the n u m ber o f infidels, a n d n ever increase the ■number o f believers.

“ P a t ie n t s’ H ome.”—Mr. and Mrs. F. Gould continue to receive patients suffering with acute and chronic diseases, at No. 80 Silver street, where they will be treated by electro-magnetism, baths, human magnetism, and botanic remedies. Rooms and board are included, in the charges for treat­ment, which are from ten to twenty dollars per week.

Relics o f B ig o try i.An Ol d -Manuscript.—We were yesterday shown

a manuscript which may be considered quite ancient. I t is a curiosity, not so much from' its great age as from the care with which it was prepared. I t con­tains the notes of several sermons delivered by the Rev. Timothy Edwards, a member of the first grad­uating class of Harvard College. One of the ser­mons was delivered at East Windsor, Connecticut, October 5th, 1718. The Rev. Timothy Edwards was grandfather of the famous Jonathan Edwards, whose reputation as a theologian is world-wide. The man­uscript before us is small, and the writer’s characters upon it are almost microscopic, while every portion of the parchment is thickly covered. The writing was thus fine on account of the exorbitant price of paper at that time. Like most of the' sermons of that period, these are models of accurate and logical reasoning : the intellect, not the feelings, were ap­pealed to. More industrions and thorough scholars than those old divines have never lived, and they have bequeathed to subsequent generations a vast fund of ideas and arguments, which, in new and changed forms, are from day to day presented to us. This curious and valuable manuscript is owned by Mr. S. E. Alden, of this city, who is himself a de­scendant of Jonathan Edwards. He has a treasure which will increase in value each year that it is pre­served.— Oakland News.

The readers of controversial and theological works w ill easily recall to mind who Jonathan. Edwards was, and w hat was the character of his theology. He it was who asserted that hell was paved w ith th e skulls of infants not a span long ! W e should think such ideas would need to be pre­sented to this generation in “ new and changed forms,” to be acceptable to us in our present hum anitarian development. It would be better for our opinion of poor hum anity in the past, if the “ price of paper” had been sufficiently “ ex­orbitant ” to have wholly inhibited the w riting of such abominable doctrines upon its pure white surface. The “ industry ” of those old divines, not to mention their “ scholarship,” seems to have been exclusively devoted to proving God a monster beyond even human conception. Contrary to the opinion! expressed in the above extract, we see no present -value in such works, and do not think that time wjll work any enhancement of the estimationin which they should be held. M.

----------- --------------------A Couple o f Notices.

“ The Banner of P rogress.—We cannot class this among the religious journals, and are in doubt as to what species it properly belongs. But certainly it is very irreligious in its tone and general character of its doctrine ; hence we place it in that division. Its special mission seems to be to denounce every­thing good and holy.” —Pacific Gospel Herald.

The above contains a notable typographical error, and we hasten to correct it. The word de­nounce is evidently a misprint. As corrected, it should read, “ Its special mission is to a?mounce everything as good and holy.”

As to our religious character, we will attend to that m atter ourselves. W e allow no man to dic­tate what our religion shall be. Neither do we plead guilty to the charge of being irreligious ; difference of opinion in religious matters, we be­lieve, is a righ t guarantied protection by the Con­stitution of the United States. W e believe all men are by nature religious—even the Digger Indians.

But here is w hat this Pharisee says of its Pres­byterian contemporary :

“ T h e Pacific .—We have seen a few copies of this ultra-politieo-religious journal. I t does not visit us, and we are not sorry for it.”

“ Let brotherly love continue.” - m .----------- ---------------------

The S abbath.—The original meaning of the word Sabbath “ is rest.” The seventh day of Creation was called Sabbath, for on that day God rested from His labors. The Jews were required to keep holy the seventh day. When the Lord of the Sab­bath was here on earth, the first day of the week was made the day of rest and worship, instead of the seventh, that vthe resurrection of our Savior might be commemorated weekly, until time should be no more.—Pacific Gospel H erald.

The above is palpably a pious falsehood, as everybody conversant w ith religious history knows. The seventh day was not observed as a Sabbath hv the Christians until Pope Gregory ordered it so to he. W hen Jesus—whom we sup­pose to be tbe person called tbe Lord of the Sab­bath by the veracious and very religious paper above quoted—when Jesus was upon the earth, he trampled upon the Sabbath of the Jews in every possible way, and showed his contempt for reli­gions observances in tbe most unmistakable m an­ner. Read your Testament, neighbor. M.

W ise Me n Disa g r e e .— While our friend Mac­Donald, of the F la g , adduces the annual rings of the “ Big Trees ” as negative proof of the Mosaic account of the Creation, the savan s of the Cali­fornia Academy of N atural Sciences have been discussing the question whether these rings a re annual, and w hether they are any evidence at all as to the age of trees. Some th ink they are not, and some suppose they are. Positive proof is w hat we want, gentlemen, and that you cannot give. Indeed, your geologists furnish ns w ith abundant evidence that the Mosaic account is in­correct, and in some particulars even absurd.

M.

‘ S i x t y Roman Catholic priests arrived in New Orleans recently, to open schools for the freedmen. —Exchange.

W ell, we suppose religious history is to repeat itself in the case of these poor colored people. They must pass through the same m idnight dark­ness of superstition as the whites have in matters of religion, before they will see the dawning light of rational belief. The transition, though, will be shorter, in their progress, because of greater general enlightenm ent all around them. M.

R e v . Mr . E a r l e is at Virginia City, reviving religion, which has died a thousand deaths in that region. Mr. Earle is getting to be tbe great miracle-worker of the Pacific Coast. He goes about “ raising the dead,” and, as the D a ily T res­p a s s e s it, “ melting stalwart men.” The same paper says that “ many submitted to Christ on tbe spot”—whatever that may mean. Seriously, if there ever was a “ ja rg o n ” made use of in re­ligious literature, these canting revivalists aremasters of it. M.

------- --------H e ’s Be e n and Gone and Done It .—The

hitherto unmarried partner of J. J. Owen, editor of the San Jose M ercu ry , has jumped the fence, and is now in clover. By the chuckling in the m ar­riage notice column, we should judge he had a better th ing than tlie office of State Printer, to which Owen aspires. To complete the luck of the establishment, Owen should get said office. W e suppose, however, if he does get it, it will be owin’ to circumstances. M.

THt e B A N N E R OF P R O G R E S S

P H E N O M E N A L F A C T S .

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i Writing Mediumship.It may be stated • w ithout hesitation, that, in this

particular phase of mediumship, so far as tests of' spirit manifestation and identification are con­cerned, no medium has hitherto been developed who exhibits the spiritual phenomena in so won­derful a manner, as Mrs. Ada Hoyt Foye, now of this city. Could a history of every exhibition given by th is lady be written, with each particu­lar manifestation and test minutely specified and substantiated, it would form a volume of evidence of spirit communion invaluable to all seekers of tru th , and irrefragable by its enemies. W hile Mrs. Foye was present at a Spiritualist gathering at the Melodeon, on one occasion, discovering Prof. Felton, of Plarvard University, in the audience, she arose and publicly challenged him and the whole Faculty of tha t institution to a public or private test of her powers—or, rather, of the pow­ers of the spirit intelligences for whom she is the instrum ent. It is needless to say the challenge was not accepted. A committee of that Faculty had been previously worsted in an investigation with the celebrated “ Fox girls.” Prof. Felton was chairman of the committee, and Agassiz was also a member of it. A report by them was never made, although they were appointed for that very purpose, in order that the public m ight know what those scientific savan s thought of the (at that time) new and strange development. And, to this day, the “ wise m e n ” o f a ll the Universities have deemed it wise to ignore the spirit manifestations altogether, thinking, perhaps, that, without their authoritative endorsement, the doctrines necessa­rily resulting could make no progress among the people. But appealing- to authority has become obsolete in a great degree in our days, and people form their opinions more independently than formerly. They prefer living testimony to ancient tradition—rational religion to dogmatical assump­tion and authoritative interpretation. The result is, that the evidences afforded by spirit manifesta­tions of the real state of man after the death of the body are being rapidly accepted as the only solution of the question of our destiny.

Mrs. Foye’s speciality as a medium consists prin­cipally in w hat is called the “ ballot test,” al­though tests by other modes are frequently given by her both in public and private. The mode of procedure is as follows: The medium sits at atable, if in public, w ith a committee of two, chosen by the audience, whose duty it is to watch every proceeding and report to the audience at the close of the sitting whether all has been conducted fairly and without deception. The committee is generally selected for .their acknowledged skepti­cism ; though it is always desirable that unfair and prejudiced bigots should not be chosen to that position. Folded slips of paper are then collected or passed up to the table from the audience, each containing the name of some deceased friend of the party w riting it. Mrs. Foye then takes them up one by one, and, while holding each, s t i l l , fold­ed, asks for the spirit whose name is in the paper.If the spirit happen to be present, a response is received by three loud and distinct raps upon the table or upon the platform on,which the medium sits. She then asks if the Spirit will write the name contained in the paper. The answer in the affirmative is returned as before, by three raps. Mrs. Foye‘s hand and arm immediately become

spirit, all of which were responded to correctly. At the seance on Monday evening last, a nephew of Joseph Smith, the Mormon propnet, announced himself, uncalled, by w riting ; his name was W m . C. Smith ; there was bu t one person in the au­dience who knew him ; this person came to Cali­fornia w ith him on the ship B rooklyn, in 1847 ; he questioned the spirit, and received correct replies. The most remarkable th ing about this manifesta­tion was, th a t another "Wm. C. Smith had been called for by another person in the audience, and did n o t make his appearance; but this one came and answered to the name contained in the ballot, and identified him self as the nephew of the foun­der of Mormonism.

Interesting replies are frequently received in re­lation to spirit life, and the present religious faith of the spirit communicating, as compared with his belief on earth ; and these replies are sometimes the source of much amusement. Remarkable as these public manifestions are, it is in private sit­tings with the medium that the inquirer obtains the most indubitable proofs of the presence of his or her friends in the spirit.

In our next article, we will give a few examples of communications made and tests given by Mrs. Foye at her own residence, when sitting for per­sons by special appointment. These far surpass anything tha t has been or ever can be obtained at a public seance. u .

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T h e C a l i f o r n i a B i g T r e e s G i i o w u n g f r o m S e e d , i n N e w Y o r k .—The N. Y. T im es of April 16th says :

“ It is an interesting fact in natural history, which, we imagine, is not known to everybody, that the celebrated ‘ Big Trees ’ of California are now being successfully grown in this State, and are increasing in magnitude, according to the proper order of things. I t is now thirteen or fourteen years since a gentleman, resident near Rochester, made planta­tions of these gigantic trees from seeds procured i n C a l i f o r n i a ; a n d the progress they have already made gives proof that in two or three thousand years they will attain their full growth and cover an empire with their shadow. When we consider that they reach a hight of 300 or 360 feet, and a circum­ference of 90 or TOO, it is evident that this country will not be as destitute of lumber in the far distant future as some people have feared. The experiment of introducing these trees into this part of the world has excited more interest in Europe than among ourselves, and the proprietor is constantly receiving inquiries from England as to the procuring of seed for use there. The 1 Big Tree’ on General Wads­worth’s estate, on Genesee flats, under which the Indians in early days held their councils, used to have a good deal of celebrity, but that was only thirty feet in circumference, and is completely dwarfed by those gigantic wonders of the West.”

Two or three thousand years is not a very long time, but it is too long for /ms to wait for these trees to “ get the ir grow th”’ W e shan’t wait.

rigid, and are involuntarily moved to write. The writing is performed in a singular manner, from the righ t side of the bottom of the sheet, toward the left, so that it appears upside down to herself* while to the committee-men opposite or beside her it is w ritten in the natural position. She is. thus obliged to tu rn the sheet round in order to read what is written. She then hands the folded ballot to one of the committee, who invariably finds that the name -written in it corresponds to that which the medium has just w ritten upside down. Some­times whole conversations are written in this way —the spirit giving instructions to friends still in the form, w ith as much apparent interest as when on earth. The name is frequently written by the medium first, and then the ballot is selected from the heap on the table by raps as before, and handed to the committee for inspection. In either case, the names are always found to correspond w ith each other. The person in the audience who sent up the folded ballot to the table is then requested to ask any question of the spirit, to which an answer is given sometimes by raps and sometimes by w rit­ing in the same way as before described. The questions asked are such as would suggest them ­selves to any friend or relative of the deceased ;— such as the age at the time of departure ; number of years or months deceased ; number of children living on earth ; total number of children ; names of surviving friends ; names of children ; events known only to the deceased and the inquirer ; na­ture of the fatal disease; how long the sickness lasted ; general questions as to the present state of the spirit communicating, etc.;—-all of Avhich are answered with a readiness that astonishes all who hear. Sometimes the person making the inquiries, while sitting among the audience, will write several names on a slip, and among them his own, and, pointing at each separately with a pencil, ask the spirit to rap a response when the name of the inquirer is reached ; and this is invariably accom­plished, w ithout a mistake. The same th ing is done with the sp irit’s own name, with dates, ages, events, or any subject upqn which the inquirer may desire information. The spirits frequently are so desirous of communicating with their friends, that they crowd in upon the medium by writing their names by. her hand before the spirit already in possession gets through ; thus bringing two com­m unicating spirits before the audience at once. It then requires some presence of .mind on the part of the medium to prevent confusion.

On several occasions during her seances in this city, spirits have announced themselves present who were not. galled for by their friends, and un­expected tests of an indisputable kind have been given by-them. One instance of sudden, unex­pected, communication was by a little girl, who wrote that she desired her mother not to grieve for her as she had done, for she was there present alive and well, and signed her name in full. The mother was much affected, and acknowledged that the name was that of her little daughter; she th en proceeded to ask several questions of the

P o e t i c a l R e a d i n g s a t M e c h a n i c s ’ I n s t i t u t e H a l l .—Miss Eliza A. Pittsinger will read selec­tions from the Poets on W ednesday evening, May 29tli. Among the productions selected w ill be some of her own pieces, such as the “ Tribute to W oman,” and tbe “ Tribute to California.” Miss P ittsinger’s claims as a poetess have been long since acknowledged by the reading public, and her poems need no encomiums from us. The price of tickets has been fixed at one dollar for a lady and gentleman. Single tickets, fifty cents. W e copy the following notice of the Readings of Miss Pittsinger from one of the interior papers :

“ Miss Eliza A. Pittsinger, the talented Poetess of the Pacific Coast, gave one of her chaste entertain­ments at the Metropolitan Theater last evening, which transcended anything of the kind we have been permitted to hear. Miss Pittsinger has but few, if any, superiors in the art of elocution. ‘ The Yankee Ballad,’ and ‘ March to Moscow,’ kept the audience in a roar of laughter. Poe’s ‘Raven ’ was delivered in an exceedingly impressive and tragic manner—but by far the grandest feature of the Readings was her own magnificent poems, which show tier wonderful command of language.”— Meadow Lake Sun.

Pbofhbtic Dream.—A few days since Miss W., of this city, dreamed that she had called ou Mrs. B. whom she found in the nursery, wearing a scarlet jacket and attending on her child, sick with the measles. Miss W. related the dream at the break­fast-table as singular, and said it reminded her that she had not called on Mrs. B. for some time, so she must visit her that day. She _went, and was some­what astonished at being invited into the nursery, where she found Mrs. B. in a scarlet jacket, attend­ing a sick baby. Miss W. asked what was the matter with the child, and the mother could not te ll; she had not seen a physician and thought it was a fever. Miss W. said nothing of her dream; but she was satisfied the disease was the measles, and for fear there might be on her clothing some infection that might be communicated to her little niece and nephew, she spent several hours in the street, and in paying visits to adult friends, before going home. A week after, she met Mrs. B. and inquired about the baby ; the reply was that he had the measles, but was nearly well again. She foresaw the visit, the recep­tion in the nursery, the dress, and the nature of the disease—the last being at the time entirely unknown to any person. When she told the dream at the breakfast-table she did not imagine that it would be verified. She is not a Spiritualist, neither does she pretend to have any powers as a medium.—A lta , 3 fa y 11th .

P l a c i d C o m m u n i t y .—As related by the Trespass, Brother Earle hadn^t very good luck in Virginia City. The obdurate\ sagebrushers wouldn’t “ re­vive.” The exemplary editor explains that

“ Our people mix their religion so evenly along in their everyday affairs, that they leave no wickedness to answer for in big lumps. They keep smoothly on, and offer their condolence and sympathy to those who do feel secure in a title to mansions in the skies. Brother Earle is soon to go to Carson, where there is more wickedness to the acre.— D a ily Am erican F lag .

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LECTURE.-^Last evening Mr. Benjamin Todd, of the “ Friends of Progress,” closed his first course of lectures in Salem. The court-room was crowded; notwithstanding the fact that all could not be seated, scores of our citizens were forced to stand up night after night and hear him through. Mr. Todd, apart from his ability and occupation as a lecturer, is a member of the newspaper fraternity, being chief editor of the B a n n e r o e P r o g r e s s published at San Francisco. He has made many warm friends during his short sojourn among us.—Salem ( Oregon) Weekly Review.

I m p r o v e d . — The Times has discontinued its Satur­day double sheet, and has become a seven-day paper. That is a great improvement, in addition to a valua­ble facility. I t will enable the apostolical editors to write and publish the Sabbatical exhortations which they ought to be addressing to infatuated sinners, who are going to the diabolical Old Scratch as hard as they can.—D a ily America?i F lag .

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W e never beard whisky called by- that name before.

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T h e fo llo w in g p e r s o n s a r e a u th o r iz e d to a c t a s A g e n ts fo r th e B anner of P rogress, to r e c e iv e s u b s c r ip t io n s a n d m o n e y fo r th e s a m e , a n d f o rw a r d th e m to t h i s office. N o s u b s c r ip ­t io n w ill h e a c k n o w le d g e d w hen , u n a c c o m p a n ie d w i th t h e m o n e y .A. C. STO W E, S a n J o s e .J . M. G RA N T, S a c ra m e n to .E. B . H E N DEE, O ro v iile .J . R . BU CK BEE, Q u in c y .A. F . BLOOD, T a y lo rv il le .E . D . BOW M AN, S u s a n v il le . C. P . H A TC H , P e ta lu m a .IR A A L LE N , W a ts o n v ille . THOS. B U R D rC K . L o s A n g e le s . J . H . H IC K O X , D o w n ie v il le . TH O S. LO YD , G ra s s V a lle y .

E . F . C A L K IN , O a k la n d .D r. C. H . V A N G U EL D E R N ,

S o n o m a . 'A . D. O A K L E Y , P la c e r v i l le . : R O B ER T W EST, N a p a C ity . M rs. L . H U TC H ISO N ,

O w e n s v il le . JO H N L . M OORE, V ir g in ia .J . W . PF.TERS, P o r t l a n d , O r. J . E . C L A R K , S a le m . O r.S. H. D E P U Y , A u s t in , N e v .

p r e m i u m t o s u b s c r i b e r s .4® ~ A n y p e r s o n s e n d in g u s h is o r h e r n a m e b e f o r e th e

f i r s t o f M ay, a c c o m p a n ie d b y th r e e d o l la r s in c o in o r fo u r d o lla r s in g r e e n b a c k s , a n d tw o th r e e - c e n t p o s ta g e s ta m p s , s h a l l r e c e iv e a c o p y o f t h e Ba n n er of P rogress fo r o n e y e a r , a n d th e “ B o u q u e t” a n d “ E x p o s itio n o f T h re e P o in ts o f P o p u la r T h e o lo g y ,” a d v e r t i s e d in o u r c o lu m n s .

T H E P H I L O S O P H YOP

P a r t i c u l a r a t te n t io n -g iv e n to CO PY IN G A N D R ESTO R­IN G OLD PIC TU R ES.

P ic tu r e s ta k e n e q u a l ly a s w e ll in c lo u d y o r r a in y w e a th e r . A ll w o rk do.ne a t th e lo w e s t p r ic e s , a n d p e r f e c t s a t is f a c t io n

g u a r a n t ie d in a<l c a s e s , o r n o c h a r g e m a d e .N . B .— G a lle ry o n ly u p on e f lig h t o f s t a i r s .

C. A . M AR3TON,J . R IL E Y M A IN S,

1 P r o p r ie to r s .

A . N E X P OS I T I ONO P

THRKE POINTSO P

T H E O I i O a Y .L E C T U R E ,

D e liv e re d a t - E h h i t t Hall., N e w Y o r k , S e p te m b e r 10, 1865,

BY BENJAMIN TODD.1. O rigin and Character o f the Orthodox Devil.2. Positive Daw in Opposition to D ivine Providence.S. M an's Own Responsibility in Opposition to Vicarious

Atonement.P r i c e 2 5 c e n t s .

W e w ill se n d th e a b o v e , p o s ta g e f r e e , o n r e c e ip t o f th e p r ic e in c u r r e n c y o r p o s ta g e s t a m p s ; o r c o p ie s m a y b e h a d o n p e r s o n a l a p p l ic a tio n a t th i s office.

W ill soon be Issued,S P I R I T U A L I S M D E F E N D E D

A G A IN ST T H E C H A R G E O P

I M 3 I O R A L I T T -

F A . 3 v r F H : X j E T .B Y B E N J A M I N T O D D .

— t16m o. p p . 64. P r ic e tw e n ty - f iv e c e n t s . F o r s a le a t th i s

office. A l ib e r a l d is c o u n t to b o o k a g e n ts .

R E M O V A L .

4 ® ~ Dr . Paine r e c e iv e d th e F i r s t P re m iu m a t th e M e c h a n ic s ’F a i r , 1 8 6 4 . 1

DR. H. A. JBEJVTOIV SAYS :RH EU M A TISM , N E U I^ L G IA , L IV E R A N D S P L E E N D IF F I­

C U L T IE S , a n d o th e r d e ra n g e m e n ts o f t h e s y s t e m , m u s t y ie ld to th e life -g iv in g e n e rg e t ic effects o f E le c tro -M a g n e tic a p p l ic a ­t io n s , w h e n p r o p e r ly a d m in is te r e d ; a n d , in s o m e c a s e s , f a c i l i ta te d v e r y m u c h b y th e H o t A ir a n d E le c tro -M e d ic a te d V a p o rvB a th s — a ll o f w h ic h a r e n o w r e a d y a t h is n e w ro o m s , o v e r C o n g ress H a ll , B u sh s t r e e t , a d jo in in g th e R u.-s H o u s e .

N . B .:—T e rm s r e a s o n a b le , b u t “ CO IN ” is e x p e c te d a t e a c h t r e a t m e n t , in a d v a n c e , u n le s s th e t r e a t m e n t is g r a tu i to u s , to th o s e w h o a r e u n a b le to p a y . A ll s u c h , w h o a r e d e s e rv in g , w il l b e a t t e n d e d , a g r e e a b le to a p p o in tm e n t .

2

J O B P R I N T I N GN E A T L Y EXECUTED

A T T H E O F F I C E O F T H E

BANNER OF PROG-RFSS.4 ® - CARDS, CIRC U LA R S, B ILLH EA D S, PA M PH LETS, a n d

e v e r y d e s c r ip t io n o f P la in a n d O rn a m e n ta l P R IN T IN G , e x e ­c u te d n e a t ly a n d e x p e d it io u s ly , a t th e lo w e s t m a r k e t r a t e s .

OFFICE, 533 CLAY STREET. *

A T j A I V E E P A

FROM PACIFIC STREET W HARF,C o n n e c tin g w ith th e

San Francisco and Alameda Railroad.

TH R O U G H TO H A Y W A R D ’S B Y BOAT A N D CARS.

O nly T w elve Miles from W arm Springs.

U NTIL FURTHER NOTICE, THE HOURo f d e p a r tu r e , e x c e p t o n S u n d a y s , w i l l b e a s fo llo w s :

SAN FRANCISCO.7.30 a . M.9.30

11.30 2.00 P. II.4.30 6.15

ALAMEDA. 5.40 A. M.7.359.35

11.452.05 p . sr.4.35SUNDAY

SAN LEANDRO.5.20 A. M.7.159.15

11.301.45 p . m .4.15

TIME.

HAYWARD’S.5.00 A. M.7.00 9 00

11.15 1.30 p . ar.4.00

SAN FRANCISCO.9 .0 0 A. M.

11 00 1 30 p . a t . 4 .3 0 6 15

SAN LEANDRO.8 45 A. M.

10 45 1 20 p. M.4 206.00

HAYWARD’S.8.30 A. M.

10 .30 1 00 P. M.4 00 5.45

A L A M E D A .9 00 a . M .

11.001 .4 0 P. M.4 406.2j>

H o rs e s , B u g g ie s , a n d a ll d e s c r ip tio n s o f S to c k c a n b e tak en , o n t h e c a r s to a n d f ro m H a y w a r d ’s .

A L FR ED A . COH EN .4 G e n e ra l S u p e r in te n d e n t .

T i A J J P a P J E U E l B L Y .

FROM THE FER R Y SLIP,C O R N ER O F P A C IF IC AMD D AVIS STREETS,

C o n n e c tin g w ith th oSan Francisco and Oakland Railroad.

BY BENJAMIN TODD.

P r ic e 25 c e n ts . F o r s a le a t th is office. A l ib e r a l d is c o u n t to b o o k a g e n ts . I t is a p a m p h le t o f 24 p a g e s , 12m o. T h e re a r e tw o in s p i r a t io n a l p o em s b y L izz ie D o ten , w h ic h a r e w o r th m o re t h a n th e p r ic e a s k e d .

D R . R . S T U R M A N ,Office 138 K earn y Street, near Sutter,

I s p r e p a r e d to t r e a t a ll k in d s o f D ise a se s , to w h ic h h u m a n ity is s u b je c t . F e m a le C o m p la in ts a n d th o D ise a se s o f C h ild re n w ill b o p ro m p tly a t te n d e d to .

N . B .— CANCER an d S c ir rh o u s A ffec tio n s , D ise a se s o f th e E ye , a n d th o se o f a p r iv a t e n a t u r e , t r e a te d , a n d a p e r m a n e n t c u r e in s u r e d . A nd , fo r tb e b e n e f it o f .th o s e w h o m a y w ish i t , a p r iv a t e e x a m in a tio n , b y o n e o f th e m o s t r e l ia b le C L A IR ­VOYANT in th e S ta le fo r d e te c t in g D iseases in th o s y s te m , a n d p r e s c r ib in g fo r th e s a m e , u n d e r tiie s u p e rv is io n o f m e d i­c a l s c ie n c e a n d e x p e r ie n c e c o m b in e d , c a n b e h a d a t th e D oc­t o r ’s office a t a n y t im e d u r in g office h o u r s , f ro m 8 to 10 A . M ., a n d 3 to 7 P . M. ^ 1

J A C O B S K E W ’S

PIONEER PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,Late 315 M ontgomery Street,

IS REMOVED TO No. 612 CLAY ST.,N o r th s id e , fo u r d o o rs a b o v e M o n tg o m e ry ,

SA N FRANCISCO.

H a v in g s u p e r io r a c c o m m o d a tio n s , a n d e v e r y f a c i l i ty fo r a l l b r a n c h e s o f th e A r t , a t g r e a t ly re d u c e d r e n t , I a m e n a b le d to p ro d u c e th e v e r y b e s t q u a l i ty o f w o rk , o f a l l k in d s , a t p r ic e s a b o u t

Twenty-five per cent, below the Montgom­ery Street Galleries,

a n d e q u a l ly ’a s lo w a s th e m o s t in fe r io r g a l le r ie s in o th e r p a r t s o f th e c i t y , a t tb e s a m e t im e ta k iD g th e g r e a t e s t p a in s to g iv e e n t i r e s a t is f a c t io n .

JACOB SHEW,Pioneer Photographer,

8 612 C lay s t r e e t , a b o v e M o n tg o m e ry .

B O U Q U E T N O . X .A C H O IC E C O L L E C T IO N O F

r i O f ' E E S ,C U L L E D F R O M T H E

G A R D E N O F H U M A N I T Y .A C O M P IL A T IO N O F

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED POEMS.BY BENJAMIN TODD.

J S F ” P r i c e 25 c e n t s .W e w ill se n d th e a b o v e , p o s ta g e f r e e , on r e c e ip t o f t b e

p r ic e in c u r r e n c y o r p o s ta g e s ta m p s ; o r co p ies m a y b e h a d o n p e rs o n a l a p p l ic a tio n a t th is office.

U NTIL FURTHER NOTICE, THE TIMESo f d e p a r tu r e w ill b e a s fo llow s (S u n d a y s exGept-ed",

w h e n th e f i r s t t r i p e a c h w a y w ill b e o m it te d ) :SAN FRANCISCO.

6.45 a . m .7.45

SAN ANTONIO.5.30 a . m .6.457.509.50

12.50 f . M.2.50 4 00 5.15

EXTRA

O A K LA N D .5.40 A. M. 6.55

. 8.00 10.001.00 P. M.3.00 4 10 5.25

TRIP SATURDAY

9.00 .11.15

2.00 P. m- 4 00 5.15 6.30

NIGHT.L e a v in g S an A n to n io a t 6 .30, O a k la n d a t 6 .40 , a n d S an F ra n

cisco a t 11 30A lin e o f F r e ig h t B o a ts fo r O a k la n d a n d S an A n to n io w ill

le a v e F e r r y W h a rf , n e a r fo o t o f M a rk e t s t r e e t , d a i ly ( S u n ­d a y s e x c e p te d ) , a s fo llo w s :

SAN ANTONIO. OAKLAND. SAN FRANCISCO.7 50 A. m . 8.00 a . m 9 00 a. M.9 00 a m 9 10 a m . 1 0 15 a m .

' 11.30 A. M. 10.25 A. M. 11.30 A. M.I 2 .0 0 P. M. 2 10 p. m . 2 00 p . m .

H ® - A n EX TR A BOAT to le t fo r E x c u r s io n s .A. A . C O H EN ,

4 G e n e ra l S u p e r in te n d e n t .

SAN PABLO AND SAN QUENTIN FERRY.Through to San Rafael via San Quentin.

T

FROM V A LL E JO A N D D A VIS STR EETS.

HE FAVORITE STEAMER

CONTRA COSTA,C A P T A IN ......................................................... ;....... JO H N T. M cK E N Z IE 1

W ill le a v e a s fo llow s :SANQPKNT1N SAN FRANCISCO.

9 30 A. M. 1 00 P . M. 5 .00

8 CO A. M.11 30

2 .30 P . M.C o n n e c tin g w ith S ta g e s fo r S a n R a fa e l , O lim a , T o m a les , a B o lin as , in M arin c o u n ty ; a n d a lso w ith S an P ab lo . 1 f u r t h e r p a r t i c u la r s , a p p ly to th e C a p ta in on b o a r d , o r to

4 C H A R L E S M IN TU R N , A gent.

T H E B A N N E R OF P R O G R E S S

® t u e § £ » « « * * o f ^ * o 0 t o i s i 6 i .

SATXTBDAY, MAY 25, 1867.

LYCEUM DEPARTM ENT.

Pretty is that Pretty does.

BT A1.1CB CARY.

T h e s p id e r w e a rs a p la in b r o w n d re s s , A nd s h e is a s te a d y s p in n e r ;

To se e h e r , q u ie t a s a m o u se ,G oing a b o u t h e r s i lv e r h o u s e ,Y ou w o u ld n e v e r , n e v e r , n e v e r g u e s s

T h e w a y s h e g e ts h e r d in n e r .

S h e lo o k s a s i f no th o u g h t o f ill I n a l l h e r life h a d B tir re d h e r :

B u t w h ile s h e m o v e s w ith c a re fu l t r e a d , A n d w h ile s h e s p in s h e r s i lk e n th r e a d . S h e is p la n n in g , p la n n in g , p la n n in g s t i l l

T h e w a y to do so m e m u r d e r I

M y c h i ld , w h o r e a d s th is s im p le la y W ith e y e s d o w n d ro p p e d a n d te n d e r ,

R e m e m b e r th e o ld p r o v e r b g o es T h a t p r e t t y is w h ic h p r e t t y d e e s ,A nd t h a t w o r th d o es n e i th e r go n o r s t a y

F o r p o v e r ty o r s p le n d o r .

’T is n o t th e h o u se , a n d n o t th e d re s s , T h a t m a k e s th e s a in t o r s in n e r ;

To s e e t h e s p id e r s i t a n d s p in ,S h u t w i th h e r w e b s o f s i l v e r in ,Y o u w o u ld n e v e r , n e v e r , n e v e r g u e s s

T h e w a y s h e g e ts h e r d in n e r 1

Z e b r a .

The Zebra is a native: of Southern Africa. I t is nearly as large as a horse. Zebras are of a pale brown color, and striped with broad black bands. They are naturally very w ild; though, with some care, they may be domesticated. Mr. Rarey was successful in taming them. They associate together in large herds, traveling rapidly from place to place. Their flesh is eaten *by the natives and hunters of South Africa, and iB considered very good, though the fiber is coarse. Baldwin, the great African hunter, was very glad to make a meal of boiled Zebra, and share it with his Kaffir friends. The Zebra is very shy, seeking the most secluded spots for grazing. When attacked by an enemy, they put their heads together, forming a circle, and defend themselves by a shower of kicks.

-----.--------- ^W o rd P uzzle .

I am composed of 10 letters.My 1 is in pies, but not in cake.My 2 is in Isaac, but not iu Joseph.My 3 is in paper, but not in cloth.My 4 is in reap, but not in sleep.My 5 is in open, but not in shut.My 6 is in finger, but not in hand.My 7 is in wood, but not in bark.My 8 is in rap, but not in knock. ■My 9 is in teamster, but not in driver.My 10 is in sweet, but not in sour.My whole is a musical instrument.

---- ---------- ^ » >How t o S a v e Y o u r T e e t h .—Mr. Beecher, who

is something of a physician, as well as geologist, editor, author, lecturer, and reformer generally, says : “ Our teeth decay ; hence bad breath, unseem­ly mouths, imperfect mastication. Everybody re­grets it. What is the cause? I t is the want of cleanliness. A clean tooth never decays. The mouth is a warm place—ninety degrees. Particles of meat between the teeth decompose; gums and teeth must suffer. Cleanliness will preserve the teeth to an old age. Use a qflill pick, and rinse the mouth after eating; brush and castile soap every morning, then brush with pure water on retiring! Bestow this trifling care upon your precious teeth, and you will keep them and ruin the dentists ; neg­lect it, and you will be sorry all your lives. Chil­dren forget. Watch them. The first teeth deter­mine the character of the second set. Give them equal care. Sugar, acids, hot drinks, saleratus, are nothing compared with food decomposing between the teeth. Mercury may loosen the teeth, use may wear them out, but keep them clean and they will never decay. This advice is worth more than a thousand dollars to every boy and girl. Books have been written on the subject. This brief article con­tains all that.is essential.”

T h e E f f e c t s o f T e a o n t h e S k i n .—If you drop a few drops of strong tea upon a piece of iron—a knife blade, for instance, the tannate of iron is formed, which is black. If you mix it with iron fillings or pulverized iron, you can make a fair article of ink. If you mix it with fresh human blood, it forms, with the iron of the blood, the tannate of iron. Now, when we remember that the liquids .which enter the stomach are rapidly absorbed by the veins and absorbants of the stomach, and enter into the circulation, and are thrown out of the system by the skin, respiration, and the kidneys, it is probable that a drink so common as tea, and so abundantly used, will have some effect. Can it be possible that tannin introduced with so much warm liquor, pro­ducing perspiration, will have no more effect upon the skin ? Look at the tea-drinkers of Russia, the Chinese, and the old women of America, who have so long continued the habit of drinking strong teas. Are they not, dark-colored and leather-skinned? When young they were fair-eomplexioned.

.------------♦♦♦---------------Silk .—Heliogabalus was the first Roman who

wore a garment all silk, which must have been about the year 220 A. D. The Emperor Aurelianus, who died in 275, denied his empress a robe of silk, because it was too deaf. In the year 555, some monks, who had been in India, brought some eggs of the silk­worm to Constantinople, where, in time, they pro­duced raw silk, which was manufactured at Athens, Corinth, Thebes, etc. Charlemagne sent Offa, king of Mercia, a present of a belt and two silken vests in the year 780, which is the earliest account we have of silk being seen in England.

A Toy.—-A top has been invented in Paris, called the prolific top ; it is set spinning by means of a thread and nepdle. As soon, as it is fairly in motion, a half dozen small tops come out of it—how ? that is the inventor’s secret—and begin to spin around it like the satellites around Jupiter, and after some time •the top re-absorbs them.

Illinois has abolished capital punishment.

B O R N .

In t h i s c i t y , M a y 21, to th e w ife o r R a s e y B iv e n , a d a u g h ­t e r .

I n th is c i ty , M a y 20, to th e w ife o f C h a r le s W . P ie rc e , a d a u g h te r .

In S a c ra m e n to , M a y 18, to th e w ife o f Geo. H . W in te r b u r n , a d a u g h te r .

In S a c ra m e n to , M ay 19, to th e w ife o f L . D ry fu s , a d a u g h ­t e r . '

In S an Jo se , M ay 11, to th e w ife o f H . B e v y , a d a u g h te r .In S to c k to n , M ay 16, to th e w ife o f T. E c k s t ro m , a so n .In Y re k a , M ay 14, to th e w ife o f E . L a u e r , a son .

M A R R I E D .“ O m a r r ie d love !— ea ch h e a r t s h a l l o w n ,

W hen tw o c o n g e n ia l so u ls u n ite ,T h y go ld en c h a in s in la id . w ith d o w n ,

T h y la m p w ith h e a v e n ’s o w n sp le n d o r b r i g h t . ”

I n th i s c i ty , M a y 21 , J e ro m e N . S te v e n so n to E m m a A . G ra h a m .

In th is c i ty , M a y 21, H e n r y I). H u d so n to M ary C. M u iro rd . In th is c i ty , M ay 19 , R . D. W atso n to S a ra h J . T h o m as,

v In th is c i ty , M a y 19. G eo rg e V a u g h n to A n n ie R o g e rs . ’In th is city-, M ay 19, P . P u c k h a b e r to C a th e r in e B orcliee.In O ro v ille , M a y 11, A . G. C o n g le to n to M . L y n c h .In O rov ille , M a y 1 3 ,.-A. W h itin g to L u cy >1. In g a lls .In Sun Jo se , M ay 13, W a sh in g to n V alp y to L in a C am alio .In B odega C o rn e rs , M a y 10, A lb e r t H . H e llro u to S u ra h

W a tso n . f.

D K P A R T E D .“ D e a th is n o t d re a d fu l ; to a m in d r e s o lv e d ,

I t s e e m s a s n a t u r a l a s to lie b u rn !”“ M an m a k e s a d e a th , w h ic h N a tu r e n e v e r m a d e .”

In th i s c i ty , M ay 2 0 , E m a n u e l L e v y , ag e d 7 m o n th s a n d 16 d a y s .

In th is c i ty , M a y 22, F . M . O w ens, aged 43 y e a rs 3 m o n th s . In ti i is c i ty , M ay 21, R ic h a rd C a rp e n te r , a«< ‘I 36 y e i r s .In S a c ra m e n to , M ay 18, P a t r ic k G rid in , aged 26 y e a rs .In W a sh in g to n to w n s h ip , M ay 8, B m j. E . M a tth e w s , aged

31 y e a r s .In (Santa R o sa , M ay 1 . G eo rge B a d g e r , ag e d 4 y e a r s ; -May

9, J o s e p h B a d g er , ag ed 1 y e a r ■;irid C moni.li?.In Id a h o C ity , J. T ., A p ril 29, S. I-U E m e rs o n , f o rm e r ly of

B o d eg a .

Progressive Lyceum Register.B ro o k lyn . N . Y .__A t 3 p . m . , in th e C u m b e r la n d S t r e e t

L e c tu r e R o o m , b e tw e e n L a f a y e t te a n d D eK alb a v e n u e s . J o h n A . B a r t l e t t , C o n d u c to r ; M rs. F a n n ie C oh ill, G u a rd ia n .

B u ffa lo , N . Y .— In M usic H a ll S u n d a y a f te rn o o n . M rs . S.H . W e r tm a n , C o n d u c to r ; M iss S a r a h B ro o k s , G u a rd ia n .

Charlestown, M ass.— C. C. Y o rk , C o n d u c to r ; L u c y A . Y o rk , G u ard iaD .

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a n d SUN D A YS, good fo r r e tu r n u n t i l M O N D A Y M O R N IN G O N LY .

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CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD.ON AND AFTER NOVEMBER 39, 1865.

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S a c ra m e n to a t 12:30 p. m . ; a lso , a t 1 p . u . , a r r i v in g a t S a c ­r a m e n to a t 6 :30 p . m .

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IMPORTANT MEDICAL DISCOVERY.E lec tric ity as a C urative Agent.

W h e n i t w a s p r o m u l g a t e d b y t h eD ire c to rs o f th e Electropathic Ixstitutk, t h a t d ise a se

c o u ld h e e n t i r e ly e r a d ic a te d f ro m th e s y s te m w ith o u t th e u se o f p o iso n o u s d ru g s , th e th o u g h tle s s , a n d th o s e whfo do n o t lo o k d e e p ly in to c a u se a n d effect, s c o u te i th e a s s e r t io n a s c h im e r ic a l , a n d w ro te long a r t i c le s r e p le te w ith s o p h is t r y , c la im in g t h a t o n ly th r o u g h th e d ig e s tiv e s y s te m co u ld th e b lo o d b e p u r g e d o f th e p o iso n s w h 'c h c o n s t i tu te d is e a se ; a g r e a t c r y w e n t u p f ro m th o se in te r e s te d in th e c o n t in u e d s u p r e m a c y o f t h e o ld s y s te m o f o n e p o iso n to c u r e a n o th e r . A ll o f th e e m p ir ic s jo in e d in th e c h o ru s , a n d in th e i r ig n o r ­a n c e la u g h e d a t t h e n e w s y s te m , c irc u la t in g b a s e s to r ie s o f i ts ill s u c c e s s , a n d q u o tin g im a g in a ry ca se s a s p ro o fs . T im e h a s d e m o n s t r a te d th e i r d is h o n e s ty . A fte r five y e a r s o f u n in te r ­r u p te d su c c e s s , t h e E le c t r o p a th ic s y s te m is th e le a d in g id e a in m e d ic a l ju r is p r u d e n c e . W h ile b y th e o ld sy s te m p h y s ic ia n s w e r e c o n te n t to c u r e o n e in e v e r y f iv e c a se s , th e r e w e re th o se w h o w e re d iv in g d ee p in to t h e sc ie n c e o f th e c u r a t iv e a r t ; a m o n g th e s e w e re th e E le c t r o p a th is ts ; f in a lly i t w a s d is c o v ­e re d t h a t th e fa i lu re in m o s t o f th e c a s e s o f o rg a n ic d is e a se , w a s e n t i r e ly d u e to tb e m a c h in e . Ta& ing th is v ie w o f th e c a s e , D r. J . H . JO S S E L Y N , a f t e r y e a r s o f e x p e r im e n t , h a s p e r fe c te d a n E le c t r o p a th ic I n s t r u m e n t , w h ic h w ill c u r e a n y d is e a s e to w h ic h flesh is h e ir , a lw a y s to b e u n d e r s to o d t h a t th e c a se is n o t so f a r a d v a n c e d a s to s h o w a d e s t r u c t io n o f tb e v i ta l t is s u e s . W e do n o t c la im t h a t th e u s e o f m e d ic in e s m a y n o t b e m o re a d v a n ta g e o u s in so m e c a s e s , b u t t h a t , in c o n n e c tio n w i th m e d ic in e s , i t w ill p e r f o r m a c u r e m u c h so o n e r th a n w ith o u t , a n d a lso t h a t d is e a s e s h i th e r to d e e m e d in c u ra b le c a n b e c u r e d b y th is s y s te m . F ro m e a r ly m o rn u n t i l l a te a t n ig h t , t h i s in s t r u m e n t is em p lo y e d , im p a r t in g h e a l th a n d s t r e n g th to a l l w h o a r e so f o r tu n a te a s to o b ta in i t s s e rv ic e s . D ise ase s w h ic h , b y th e o ld s y s te m , to o k m o n th s o r e v e n y e a r s to c u re , a r e n o w c u re d in a few d a y s o r w e e k s . T h e c o s t, to o , is n o t so g r e a t a s b y t h e o ld s y s te m , b e s id e s th e s a v in g o f t im e .

D u rin g th e t im e t h a t th e I n s t i t u t e h a s b e e n in o p e ra t io n , th e r e h a s b e e n m o re b e n e f i t to th e h u m a n fa m ily d e r iv e d fro m th e s y s te m th a n f ro m a il o th e r s y s te m s c o m b in e d d u r ­in g th e s a m e p e r io d . A m o n g th e .m o s t tro u b le s o m e d ise a se s to w h ic h C a lifo rn ia n s h a v e b ee n ex p o se d is R h e u m a tis m ; n o n e h a v e g iv e n th e h o n o ra b le p r a c t i t io n e r m o re t r o u b le to re l ie v e , a n d n o n e h a v e p r e te n d e d to c u r e ( i f w e e x c e p t k n o w n e m p ir ic s ) p e r m a n e n tly . B u t th is s u b t l e d ise a se g iv e s w a y b e fo re th e E le c tro p a th ic S y s te m in a v e ry s h o r t t im e , e n a b lin g th e su ffe re r to go a b o u t h is b u s in e s s w i th o u t p a in o r th e f e a r an d d re a d o f a re la p s e . A nd so w ith m o s t o th e r d is e a s e s , c o n s id e re d in c u ra b le . W e m e n tio n R h e u m a tis m b e c a u s e o f i t s a b u n d a n c e , b u t w e co u ld e n u m e r a te m a n y o th e r d is e a s e s fu ll a s tro u b le s o m e , a n d so m e f a r m o re f a ta l in t h e i r r e s u l ts . T h e re is on e m o re d ise a se , o r d is o rd e r , w h ic h s ta n d s upon th e c a le n d a r , w h ic h is ra ta l b o th to b o d y a n d m in d . I t is o n e a b o u t w h ic h th e r e h a s b e e n m o re d e c e p ­t io n u se d b y e m p ir ic s , b e c a u s e i t is o f a p r iv a t e n a tu r e .

W e a l lu d e to s e x u a l d e b i l i ty , p a ra d e d b y q u a c k s in th e jo u r n a l s o f th e d a y u n d e r th e h e a d o f s e m in a l w e a k n e s s , s p e rm a to r rh o e a , n o c tu rn a l e m is s io u s , e tc . T h e p o o r v ic t im is k e p t ta k in g m e d ic in e s a n d p a y in g fo r th e m u n t i l h is la s t d o lla r is g o n e , a n d th e n a s soon a s h e u n d e r ta k e s to w o rk to o b ta in m o re fu n d s th e t r o u b le c o m e s b a c k in a l l i t s lo a th ­so m e n e ss . To th is d is e a se E le c t r o p a th y is p e c u lia r ly a p p l ic a ­b le , i t s a c tio n b e in g up o n th e s p e r m a t ic n e r v e , s t r e n g th e n in g th e s e c r e to r y o rg a n s , a n d a t th e s a m e tim e , c r e a t in g a n e q u il ib r iu m in th e s y s te m , th e r e b y p r e v e n t in g re la p se .

We d w e ll up o n th is d sse a se b e c a u s e i t is on e a b o u t w h ic h th e r e h a s b e e n ' m o re d e c e p tio n u se d th a n a l l o th e r s p u t to g e th e r .

TO FEMALES.T h e D ire c to rs w o u ld s a y , E le c tr o p a th y is p a r t i c u la r l y

a p p l ic a b le to y o u r d e l ic a te a n d f ra g ile s y s te m s , a n d to th e n u m e ro u s tro u b le s o m e a n d p a in fu l d is e a s e s to w h ic h y o u a r e l ia b le ; sh o u ld y o u b e i r r e g u la r , a few t r e a tm e n t s w ill r e s to r e th e fu n c tio n s to th e p r o p e r s t a t e w i th o u t p a in o r in c o n v e n i­e n c e . S h o u ld y o u b e w e a k a n d e n fe e b le d , e i th e r g e n e r a l o r lo c a l, t h i s s y s te m im p a r t s s t r e n g t h a n d v i t a l i t y , m a k in g th e r e c ip ie n t fee l b u o y a n t a n d y o u th fu l , w h e re b e fo re th e y w e re la n g u id , a n d e n a b le to e n jo y th e p le a s u r e s o f life . O ne g r e a t b le s s in g c o n n e c te d w i th E le c tro p a th y is , i t p u r if ie s th e s y s te m so th o ro u g h ly t h a t i t b e a u tif ie s th e c o m p le x io n , m a k in g th e c o a r s e a n d f re c k le d s k in a s p u r e a n d f a i r a s p o s s ib le , g iv in g th e p a t ie n t a f r e s h a n d h e a l th f u l look .Dr. Josselyn’s Preventives are Safe and Sure.

TO THE NERVOUS.T h e D ire c to rs w o u ld s a y t h a t y o u c a n b e e n t i r e ly r e l ie v e d

f ro m th o s e d re a d fu l fee lin g s o f e v i l fo re b o d in g , a n d y o u r s y s te m s t r e n g th e n e d so t h a t n o th in g c a n d is tu r b th e c u r ­r e n t o f y o u r life . S e v e ra l c a s e s o f in s a n i ty , a r is in g f ro m a d is a r r a n g e m e n t o f th e n e r v o u s s y s te m , h a v e b e e n p e r ­m a n e n t ly c u re d b y th i s s y s te m .

C o n n e c te d w i th E le c t r o p a th y is th e c e le b ra te dElcctro-M ague tic B aths,

th a n w h ic h th e r e is no m o re p o w e rfu l a u x i l ia r y in th e w o r ld fo r th e r a d ic a l c u r e o f d ise a se . T h e re is no in s t i t u t e in th e S t a t e r w h e re th e E le c tro p a th ic s y s te m is p ra c t ic e d , e x c e p t a t th e3 E S l e c t r o r > A t l i i o l a x s t i t i x t o ,

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s o m e th in g o f th e s y s te m b y w h ic h d is e a s e s a r e so r a p id ly re m o v e d f ro m th e b o d y . vE lc c t r ic i ty is a flu id o f so s u b t l e a n a t u r e t h a t i t c a tf '.p n ly b e s tu d ie d b y i t s r e s u l t s . W e k n o w t h a t i t fo rc e s ,-e y e ry th in g o f a fo re ig n n a t u r e in th e b o d y u p o n th e s u r fa c e , w h ile th e ^ v ita lity w h ic h i t im p a r t s fills u p th e v a c u u m , p r e v e n t in g th e r e b y th e s u b t le p o ison f ro m r e tu r n in g to th e h i th e r to d ise a se d p a r t s ; an d h e r e le t i t b e u n d e rs to o d t h a t th e B a th sh o u ld n e v e r h e a d m in is te re d u n t i l th e d is e a se h a s b ee n fo rc ed to th e s u r ­fa c e , e x c e p t, p e rh a p s , in c a se o f co ld , w h e re f e v e r h a s n o t s e t in . I t s a c tio n up o n m e rc u r ia l d ise a se s is p e c u lia r . T h e b e s t a u th o r i t ie s a r e o f th e o p in io n t h a t i t liq u e fies t h e , m e rc u ry , w h ic h ; w h e n in a liq u id s t a t e , b y i t s ow n sp ec ific g r a v i t y fo rc e s i t s e l f o u t o f th e b o d y . T h is r e s u l t h a s b ee n a r r iv e d a t b y te s t in g th e w a te r a f t e r a n E le c tro -M a g n e tic B a th . A fte r s u c h t e s t s h a v e b e e n fo u n d in tb e w a te r th e p a t ie n t is n o t tr o u b le d any- m o re w ith th o se p a in s p e c u lia r to th e d is e a se . In a l l o th e r c a se s i t fo rc e s i t s e l f to th e s u r fa c e a n d is w a sh e d off b y th e b a t h . T he w h o le s y s te m in i t s a p p l ic a tio n is a L U X U R Y , th e r e b e in g no p a iu o r in c o n ­v e n ie n c e a t te n d in g u p o n i t , b u t th e r e v e r s e in th e ca se , b e in g o n e c o n t in u e d p le a s u re .

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T h e I n s t i t u t e w a s e s ta b l is h e d to , if p o ss ib le ; p r e v e n t th e u n w a r y f ro m fa llin g sin to . th o se d e n s o f r o b b e r y (y c le p t q u a c k d o c to r s ’ t r a p s ) , a n d h e r e a f te r th e sc ie n tfic o r ig in a to r s o f th is I n s t i t u t e w ill n o t b e 1 to b la m e i f th e a fflic ted a r e ro b b e d o f th e i r m o n e y , a n d in ju r e d in th e i r c o n s t i tu t io n . T h e re is a lso a n o th e r V iew o f th e a ffa ir. T h e r is in g g e n e ra tio n sh o u ld b e r e a r e d w ith s t r o n g c o n s t i tu t io n s , a n d th e D ire c to rs w is h to a ro u s e th e i r g u a rd ia n s to a p r o p e r s e n s e o f th e i r d u t ie s iu tb e p rem iseA j i f p o s s ib le , to p r e v e n t th e m s tu ffin g th e i r y o u n g c h a rg e s w ith d e le te r io u s d ru g s , w i th a c h a n c e o f e n ta i l in g up o n th e te n d e r c o n s t i tu t io n , j u s t fo rm in g , a c o m p lic a tio n o f e v i ls a th o u s a n d tim e s w o rs e th a n d e a th .

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