THE HERALD OF PROGRESS, DEVOTED TO THE DISCOVERY AMD APPLICATION OF TRUTH

Y O L . 1 . ] \ A. J. D A V I S 4 C O M P A N Y .

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t&T We are earnestly labsring to pulverize all secta-rian creeds and to fraternize the spiritual affections of mankind. Will vou work with us 1

I S B f r i s p c r t n g s t o C o r r e s p o n d e n t s . •" TO ALL WHOM IT MAT CONCERN.''

IMPORTANT WHISPERS t o m a n y c o r r e s p o n d e n t s will appear in our next.

J. N. S We have received your defense of the Harmony Springs Society.

W. D—We welcome your brief letter on the " OH Wells.-' It will be published.

you keep on tha t way. Little vices lead to large ones ; large ones to crimes. We knew a fellow once who got a habit of ' l if t ing ' things—small ones at first—then larger, until a t last he took to ' shop- l i f t ing! ' Conse-quently they sent him to the penitentiary for five years !"

"Tl»c Cost of Ev i l . "— T h e present an-nual production of tobacco has been esti-mated by an English writer a t 4,000,000,000 pounds ! This is smoked, chewed, and snuff-ed. Suppose i t all rfiade into segars. 100 to the pound, it. would produce 400.000,000,000. Four hundred billions of segars ! Allowing this tobacco, unmanufactured, to cost on the average 10 cents a pound, and we have $400, 000,000 expended every year in producing a noxious, deleterious weed. At least one and a half times as much more is required to man-ufacture it into a marketable form, and to dis pose of it to the consumer.

" S y s t e m a t i c E d u c a t i o n . " — 1 T h e North British Review puts forth the following item "Above all, children must not be taught too much nor too soon. Knowledge is sometimes a hur t ful burden ; too much of it in propor-tion to the natural powers destroys origin-ality, and substitutes an unconscious hypoc-risy. If the dialectic faculties are later in their development than the emotions, the memory, the imagination, and the apprehen-sion of the senses, it cannot be disputed tha t the young may best be influenced by personal authority and personal example ; nor tha t the study of languages naturally comes first in order, next the events of history and hu-man life, last of all thc abstractions of phi-losophy ; first words, then things, lastly ideas.

H o m e o p a t h i c S ta t e C o l l e g e . " - T h e N. Y. Times reporter, in his last week's letter from Albany, says : " Mr. Odell gave notice

L. W.LSOV, whose letter on • • Marriage and Di- of a bill to incorporate a Homeopathic State vorce" was recently published in our columns, has I College So one by one the landmarks that forwarded a few mori thoughts on the subject. g r o u n d e d the true pnetaoe are being swept ™ away. I- or all the aid the State can give us,

J . F . H., PLANO, I I I The requisite capital for we shall be unable shortly to determine upon establishing, at. different points, Depositories for what principle we are doctored out of tlic Spiritual and Reform Books, seems not yet to world. In the good old days when the State seek the desired direction. ^ l d a 1 1 irregular but the Allopaths, we en-

—In the coming years, when a central " Eclec- countered, no doubt uncertainty, bu t went tic Publishing Company - shall have gone into quietly to our long repose, serenely certain successful operation, branch offices may mnn- ' t h a ™ were being duly prescribed into the rea<?'iv he established. Let ns lahor and wait world to come i!ut what with Hydro,,aths

e " - !)Wa rldtneopaths. we run a great risk of uymg D. C. W., FARMJNGTON, MICH—We canno' in a very crude way. or, perchance, get t ing

send books by maii without the prepayment of i well despite the drugs—especially under the postage. U is our invariable practice to pay in infinitesimal doses which Mr. Odell proposes full, according to weight, one cent per ounce.! to sanction by a legislative charter. The omission, if any, must have been accidental. . . R a i u a n d E l e c t r i c i t y . " - - T h e scientific Pamphlets weighing less than three ounces each, j o f America has not been willing to see )auch as th Self-contradictions of the Bible, for a n y t h i j i g favorable in our "Philosophy of the example,) may be sent for one cent each, prepaid. Production and fall of Rain," published in

• the Harmonial Man, but the " British Associa-• j t i on" has bestowed more attention on the

subject. Mr Weekes, of Sandwich, writes as follows to Mr. Rowel 1, who at the British As-

:— sociation suggested the possibility of bringing whole need not a physician, but they that are down rain from the clouds at pleasure : " I

sick." | have from very early life been an assiduous : experimenter with electric kites, atmospheric

m c n n n i & l U i f W K P P B < 5 exploring wires, &c. Now, I beg to assure m c u u w a ^ W F U B ^ F ' B r e ^ a you tha t it has several times happened that ,

; when my kite has been raised immediately BY A. J. D. under a distended, light, fleecy cloud, a t a

- , j moderate elevation, a free current of sparks has passed from the apparatus during some

• s ; " ^ V IJ, ^ [k s </\ L ^ • ten or twelve minutes. I have suddenly found ' , \ myself bedewed with a descent of fine misty rain ;

, Y r^r., j.. L/^ and oti looking up have seen the cloud on which I was \ operating surprisingly reduced in magnitude."

' " 'Counter I r r i t a n t s . " — A medical man says tha t ladies who make it a business to " N e w Y o r k i n f i r m a r y . " — T h e eighth trouble dry-goods clerks and never buy anv- i annual meeting of the managers and friends thing, ought to be called counter-irri tants. ' ! of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Wo-

men and Children was held on Monday even-" A B a d P i c t u r e . " — S i r Peter Lely made ing at the Infirmary Building, No. 126 Second

it a rtile never to look at a bad picture, hav- ' avenue. Mr. Charles ButleT, President, in ing found by experience tha t whenever he did i the chair. The annual report was read, de-so his pencil took a hint from it. Apply tailing the objects of the Institution as tol-the same rule to bad books and bad com-! lows : pany. 1. To afford to poor women an opportunity

of consulting physicians of their own sex. " Out-Door Poor."—The Superintendent 2. To furnish to female students of medi

of Out-Door Poor gives notice that a book ! cine the advantages of hospital instruction, of record will be kept a t the office, No. 1 | 3. To form a school for instruction ii

The Physician.

Bond street, and at the Rotunda in the Park, of ail persons destitute and applying for work, and of all persons wanting labor.

"A Knotty Point Settled."—A caviler in our vicinity, the other day, tried to put down his opponent with this quest ion: " I f Noah did send out adove that never returned, where .fid i t go t o ? "

" W h y , " retorted his antagonist. " I sup-pose somebody shot i t . "

"A Druggist'* Bill."—The following is a verbatim copy of a druggist 's bill, sent to a party who had not paid thc same: " M r s . M—' I'laise Say to the Laidy that her child i gave medicine for (the amount is 82c) is on Rook standing and oblige, etc., . "

" T r a v e l i n g a n a M e d i c i n e . " — J O H N MILLKR, of Lexington, would receive much benefit from the magnetic t reatment . Life is worth nothing without Health as its crown-ing glory, and even this glory is worthless without those spiritual feelings which exalt and beautify existence. Rely on your Self-Healing energies ! Traveling is vastly bet-ter than medicine for every one who cannot break up a tedious routine of habits and feel-ings at home.

"Man's L i f t ing Powers."—'Hie Leaven-worth Times thus serves up Dr. Winship, the great lifting athlete, in commenting upon the statement that he had lately " l i f t ed eleven hundred and fifty pounds, dead weight :"

•Stop, Doctor! you'll get into trouble if

sing, and in the laws of health The report showed a balance of $1,781 37

in thc hands of the Treasurer ; 3,843 patients have been visited gratuitously during the past year, and 106 have at various times been accommodated in the house.

The old officers were reelected, and Dr. D. H. Hughes added to the medical staff as As-sistant Physician.—Tribune.

" A L a r g e M c d i c a l P rac t i c e . " W e h a v e on file a number of letters from professional gentlemen, some of whom object to our views of the medical systems of the day. To one of the number we commend the follow-ing : A doctor in Vermont had a son who studied his father 's profession, removed to a distant State, married, and went into prac-tice. After a lapse of about three years, the father visited his son, and, during his visit, he requested the latter to take him round his " r ide ." that he might see the extent of his son's practice. During the excursion the old gentleman remarked two new meeting-houses with graveyards attached, which the younger informed him had been erected since his resi-dence there. He also told his father that he had very frequent calls to a distance from his regular circuit. Upon the old gentle-man 's return home, his wife asked him "how Fred was doing."

"Well , very well, first ra te ," he replied ; "he has already filled one churchyard full, another nearly so, and is doing a pretty fair chance business all about in other parts of the country."

The Judgment Day. C H R O N I C L E S O P P R O C E R D I N O S .

Carefully prepared for the HKRALD OF PROGRESS.

In order that our leaders may be posted in regard to the prose)' Secession movement, we compile the following table, to which we shall add incidentals t ha t may occur, weekly or monthly, according to their importance.

Dec. 17, 1800. T>' South Carolina Con-vention met a t Columbia. and elected Gen. D. F . Jamison as ^ p r e s i d e n t .

Dec. 18. The cofiv ntion removed its sit-tings to Charleston, a< armed by the preva-lence of small-pox at Columbia.

Dec. 19 : The Federal post-master a t Charleston offered the Convention the ser-vices of its mcssenge" s.

Dec. 30 : The Ordinance of Secession was unanimously adopted by the Convention.

Dec. a i : Three Commissioners (Messrs. Barnwell,Adams,and Orr,) were appointed by South Carolina to demand of the Federal Government, the surrender of the Federal property witlii n the State, and upon its coast.

Dcc. 33 : A robbery of nearly nine hun-dred thousand dollars in Indian Trust Bonds —State bonds held by the Government for the benefit of various Indian tribes—was dis-covered in the Department of the Interior at Washington.

Dec. 34 : South Carolina adopted a Decla-ration of reasons for secession, and Gov. Pick-ens issued a proclamation declaring the inde-pendence of the Stat';. On the same day, the State delegation to the House of Repre-sentatives in Congress, withdrew.

Dec. 37: Major Anderson having removed his command to For tSumter , the South Caro-linians seized Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinck-ney. They also on the same day, took pos-session of the United States revenue cutter William Aiken, her ' opimander declaring him-

self a secessionist. Dec- 99 * Tbe -'.>:• . rc.-Vn • • " < ti-b i a an InWvfew vi i i, the President, de-

clared their u l t imatum, viz: the immediate ithdrawal of the Federal troops. Dec. 39s The Secretary of War, John B.

Floyd, of Virginia, avowing his complicity with the rebels, and declaring tha t he had pledged his honor to prevent the succor of the garrison at Charleston, resigns

Dcc. 30 : The United States Arsenal a t Charleston was seized by the secessionists.

. J a n . 3, 1801: Forts Pulaski and Jackson, and the Savannah Arsenal captured by the militia of Georgia. Fort Mason and the Ar-senal a t Fayetteville seized by order of the Governor of North Carolina.

J a n . -1: Fort Morgan and the Mount Ver-non Arsenal near Mobile, captured by troops of Alabama.

a n . 8 : For ts Caswell and Johnson taken by North Carolina militia.

an. 8 : Secretary Thompson resigns his place in the Cabinet, because reinforcements are sent to Fort Sumter without his know-ledge.

an. 9 : The insurgent batteries a t Charles-ton fire into the Star ofthe West, drive her ont-to sea, and prevent the reception of reinforce-ments at Fort Sumter.

a n . io : Fort McRae, a t Pensacola, occu-pied by Florida

a n . 11: The Florida and ^.labama Con-ventions pass ordinances of secession. The National Arsenal a t Baton Rouge, with Forts Jackson, Pike, and St. Philip, taken posses-sion of by Louisiana. J a n . i l : The government barracks, near New Orleans, occupied as a marine hospital, taken possession of by the State Infantry, and 200 invalids ordered to be removed.

Jan. 13 : The Navy Yard, with Fort Bar-rancas at Pensacola, taken by Florida and Alabama troops The same day the Missis-lippi Convention pass an ordinance of seces-sion. and the delegation from tha t State, to the House of Representatives at Washington,

itlidraw. J a n . 13s Col. Hayne, on the part of South

Carolina, and Lieut Hall, on the part of Major Anderson, are sent to Washington, the one with proposals lo the Government in be-half of liis State, the other for instructions to Major Anderson.

a n . 19: The Georgia State Convention adopted the secession ordinance by a vote of 2 0 8 to 89.

Jan. 34 : Steamer Brooklyn was dis-patched with sealed orders to Pensacola, to secure it against, attacks of the insurgents.

J a n . 3 4 : 'Hie, United States Arsenal a t Augusta, Oa . surrendered to Gov. Brown and 700 state troops

J a n . 361 The Louisiana Convention, a t Baton Rouge, adopted tbe Secession Ordi-nance by a vote of 113 to 17

Pel , . 4 : Conference of a Committee from the Border Stat, . at Washington, to arrange for a settlement of existing difficulties

Philosophical Department.

For the Herald of Progress.

The Function of Philosophy. A D I S C O U R S E .

BYSKLDKN .1. FINNBY.

MOTTO:—" Our faculty, at once primordial and permanent, is Reason. It enters at first into exer-cise, and develops itself immediately and sponta-neously. The spontaneous action of reason in its greatest energy is Inspiration."—COUSIN.

Reason is the authori ty of all authorities, the standard of Philosophy, the exponent of Nature, and the ul t imate tribunal of all Science, Sociology, and Religion. Being thus primordial, permanent, and sponta-neous, i t is necessarily absolute, eternal, and impersonal. Every a t tempt at philosophical explanation, is an assumption of the abso-luteness, infallibility, and impersonality of Reason. And Philosophy, in itself consid-ered, is an explanation of all things, and hence it is, in its sublimest estate, an expo-sition of the Reason of the world and its contents. Hence, Reason is transcendental and interpretative.

As Philosophy is the explanation of all things, so its authori ty, viz : Reason, must be the standard of all things ; and Philoso-phy, in some shape, is a universal necessity of mankind, and has been universally at-tempted by mankind. Man at tempts an ac-tual interpretation of the constitution and course of the world. And such an a t tempt is only the sublime effort of the transcend-ent Reason in man, to coalesce with the In-finite Reason in matter .

Nothing escapes this eternal energy for explanation. The sublimest pulse of inward inspiration, not less than the revolution of solar systems, is a fit and legitimate object or subject of its analytical power. Indeed, i t is much nearer home in the realm of soul

of puvrLt—$!u«v.in. fch.i r-wuion, of-I t is a universal solvent, in which all things

It is clear, then, that lie tween man and all that can ever be understood by him, there is and must be a oneness, a sameness of es-sence and nature. But how can this openess, this perfect unity, exist or subsist ? Only on the ground that all Nature gets represented in man—in his Reason. Hence, there being a perfect unity of essence between Nature and man, between the Reason of man and the Reason of Nature, man must be a micro-cosm. Hence, Reason is the exponent of Na-ture. It is in the constitution of Reason, then, that Nature arises into sublime con-sciousness. Therefore, the essay of the soul to interpret tbe world.

I t is thus that tbe mathematics of mat ter are ensphered in man. The sublime Geom-etry of the skies gets repeated in the con-sciousness of the spirit of humanity. Hence we are at home in the boundless universe. We are, not in a foreign world. Every star in tbe sky is our acquaintance and familiar ; every pebble on the sea-shore is a friend, and every wave of the sea ebbs and flows like our in-ward life-pulse. The shimmering light of the stars through the clouds of the world, is like the ray of intuition through the fogs of sense. Here is the origin of the true science of correspondences.

The foregoing discloses the sublime aim of Philosophy. I t is to become conscious of this vast world of instantial wealth. Though all minds perceive this unity in the gross, yet few ever on earth become conversant with the contents of this intuition. Hence the necessity for Philosophy. This sublime union of tbe human with tbe divine essence, is tbe same in the ignorant as in tiie wise; but to become conscious of this oneness, to evolve the contents of this inward intuition into tbe l ight of pure reflection, this is the business of Philosophy, the grand object of our spiritual culture.

What is consciousness itself to man but the action of the Spirit of Nature in and through the spirit of man? Where there is nu action of essence, theru can b<; np cjWLr.

:: . . ,'r . . T X i o f c m e . * . Tnt f f i&cl where there is no action in matter, there can are dissolved, reflected, and relationized. I t i , , .. . . . . -I. ,, , . . . he no formation and development ol worlds 1 is the only universal medium, in whose in-1 , ,, . , . . .1 .1 r . , and their object.v Consciousness m man, finite atmosphere the otherwLse disconnected . ,

elements of the world of matter 'ami history » « * > » . i s t l , c °f u m ° " b e t w e i ! " are held in solution and relationship. ' N " t u r e ' . i " " " ' 1 " " 15 «h® ~ of

Kven the s u p e r n a t u r a l is constantly I t h i s n n i o " ' ^ r i t u a l intuition is the inward compelled to covertly assume Reason as the i "nBe o f t h j transcendent and supreme Na-judge of bis book revelation. He cannot « ^ . d e u c e s the union between tbe prove Ms - Bible " to he what he claims i t , ] human spirit and the Divine .Spirit, bpintual but bv an unwilling acknowledgment of its I consciousness results Irorn the actual union, authority. How are we to determine between : t h e " f « * e d . v m e or spirit-the conflicting claims of these many Bibles. : " a l l i f c « ^ a t u r l ' ' m t o . " , 0 ™ but bv the use of our interpretive and trans- ">»" A " d » « » " , - ? l l c e o u l J cendental Reason? Every at tempt to crowd ground that tbe spirit ot man and ,, ,", „ i ti>,> cnS-Tit-. a t \ : i f . n r e oc . cnnv nos i t . ivp a n d Biblical authority upon the Reason of man • assupreme, is, therefore, unphilosophical, for tbe book which is thus judged to be divine cannot be of any greater authori ty to man than his Reason can make i t ; and its au-thority. if decided to be absolute, can be no more absolute than the authori ty which so decides it. Bible advocates appeal to us. to our spirits, as proof of their claims, and this is a prima facia confession of the divinity of ourselves, al though an ignorant and unin-tentional one. No proof or explanation of anything can take place, except 011 the basis

' of the absolute authority of Reason. Thus, all men, in all times and places, ignorantly or intelligently bow to the absolute, and therefore infallible authority of Reason, as a universal, eternal, impersonal, and divine principle.

the spirit of Nature occupy positive and legative relations to each other ; and these relations can subsist only on the ground that each element of the Infinite gets its repre-sentation and finds its acquaintance in the genius of the human spirit.

The great business of Physical Science is the extension of consciousness into the wide realms of the material world; but the func-tion of Spiritual Philosophy is to extend our consciousness into the realms of the Eternal, the Infinite, the Divine Nature. In both cases the rapidity and perfection of ibis ex-tension depends much upon our own voli-tions. That this is true in Physical Science 110 one will dispute. And will any oneassert that it is not so in divine life and culture ? We cau retard or accelerate our spirit pro-

ress just as we can our scientific, by ne-Human beings float in tbe essence of this I glecting or heeding those attentions which are

impersonal and divine Reason as the stars the conditions thereof. We can partially in tbe ocean of universal electricity, shut up or throw open the gates of the waters

of divine life, as we would close or open swim in the ocean of universal electricity, and we can 110 more escape from the pressure of this presence, than worlds can fly from the soft embrace of their atmospheres. Do we attempt to explain the world without, we only assume, thereby, the unity and same-ness of the Reason in us with the Reason of things. All Science and Philosophy do but explain the relations between facts and prin-ciples ; but these relations can exist or be explained only on the ground tha t a spirit of unity over-arches and begirts them all.

As fishes are united and relationized by the waters of the sea, so are facts connected with each other and with their causes, by tho Genius of Infinite Unity. Man, living in the constant presence of this Genius of Unity, intuitively perceives his relationship' with all things, and immediately and sponta-neously sets about the work of universal ex-planation—called Philosophy. But this at-tempt can succeed^nly on the basis of tbe oneness of the Divine Reason with the Rea-son of man. The fact of this oneness is an intuition of our Reason, which makes Science and Philosophy possible. Not an inch can we proceed in the business of explanation, but upon this cognition, a priori, of the unity of Nature and Reason. Supernatural-ism is, therefore, a misnomer, adopted only by ignoranoe.

the sluice of a river. To a certain extent v can determine by our life, the volume of spiritual power that shall flow into and through us. i t is, then, the function of Spi-ritual Philosophy to ascertain those laws and conditions by the use of which we can insure the continually deepening and widening flow of the waters of divine life into and through us.

The function of Philosophy in general, then, is to enable us to extend our conscious-ness into all the realms of being. But, as man is a cosmos in himself, its object may bo attained by becoming ful ly conscious of him self. As the "world of forms is but tbe educt of the world of ideas," Philosophy finds its true sphere in the realm of ideas—in the world of spiritual principles. Hence, Philos-ophy is eminently spiritual, ideal, divine in its genius and function. The problems of Philosophy are, therefore, eternal, primor-dial, permanent, divine. It occupies not it self with the fleeting and personal, but with thc everlasting, absolute, and impersonal. I ts great question, the sum total of all in-quiry, is, " What are the permanent rela-tions between tho human and the divine spirit ? "

In one shape or another, this question gets

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repeated in all systems of Science, Religion, Sociology, and Philosophy. I t is the pivotal question of the ages, and the unuttered hope at the bottom of all human movements. Liberty and Immortality, Inspiration and Revelation, are only constituent elements of this one question. No matter what our point of departure, whether a mote in the sunbeam or a world in space, whether the history of the race or an affection of the heart, we all focalize before this Alpha and Omega of all research. As each dew-drop must a t last be traced to the ocean, so each lesser question ultimately resolves itself into this one. Science means nothing only as a method of reaching the ultimate Cause. Religion and Theology are only efforts to get consciously into the presence of the Everlasting Spirit of Nature.

Mythology was, and is, only an effort to unfold our relations to " t h e Gods," that other term standing for the all-embracing mystery. Chemistry struggles to attain to unparticled substance, which, when attained, would be found to be Absolute Being—Essen-tial Spirit. Thus from whatever point of the compass we set out, we go direct to the center of Philosophy.

I am aware that there is a class of persons who are called " Positive Philosophers," who at tempt to ignore the question of ultimate Cause, to stave off the search after the Abso-lute Nature, but the Soul of Science and Phi-losophy will not down at their bidding. They ; pretend to seek only after the "secondary" and**'relative," but the very terms they thus 1

use are so many confessions of . a cognition of j the absolute and independen t. The relative, the contingent,mean nothing,only in the presence of the idea of the absolute and independent. The search after "finite" causes, is significant only in the view that they are outfiowings of the Infinite, and furnish some clue to the Infi-nite Nature and methods.

And let man solve never so many finite and relative causes, he would still push his way onward and upward toward tbe absolute and uncaused Cause. His nature asks ever-lasting questions, because the Infinite Pre-sence begirts him on all sides, and constitutes his own being in esse. He cannot escape the pressure of the Infinite Principle, because he is a conscious embodiment of everlasting

the Nature of thc Universe, as well as sub- ;

jectively in his own consciousness. Man is j reflected in the world of crystal principles that surrounds him 011 all sides, and the world is imaged in his transcendental Reason. Hence the two methods of Philosophy—the inductive and the deductive, the objective and the subjective. Tlic subjective and the objective worlds are the saino in eternal principles, hence the study of consciousness is the study of tlic whole cosmos, and tiie study of the principles of the cosmos is the study of the laws of eternal Reason.

And is it so very strange that the mathe-matics of matter should arise into axioms in man ? Is it even improbable, seeing that the same constructive Genius of the universe, who develops the constitution and course of ma-terial Nature, also organizes the spirit of man. Is it strange £hat tbc intelligence which geometrizes 011 the face of tlic mid-night sky, should also geometrize in the soul of man ?

Suppose there is some element, some prin-ciple in Nature, that docs not get represented in man ; then, as a consequence, there is a balance of attractive power outside of man ; and this balance of power would ultimately dissolve tiie human organism, because it is continually operative upon man as an attract-ive and dissolving force, and not being equaled and counter-balanced by an adequate cohesive or centerstantial tendency, this cir-cumstantial tendency would absorb thc whole nature of man, and mix it up again in thc infinite ocean of primal elements. Tho

| law of reaction would carry back humanity to the primal chaos of unformed matter. But grant man a cosmos in himself, and this centrifugal, circumstantial tendency,is exact-ly balanced and equaled by thc opposite—thc instantial or instanding tendency—and hence his immortal career as an identity. And being thus cosmopolitan in his nature, he possesses unlimited capacity for endless cul-ture and refinement. If there were elements or principles in outside Nature, that did not get represented in the spiritual nature of man, then man would possess no organic cognitions, 110 a priori capacity to prescribe or understand those elements and principles, and this would limit his power of culture, and put limits to his progresssive development.

energies. The scope of his inquiries evidence Stagnation would be the logical result of this the sweep of his being and clearly define the 1 , a c k» a n d a t o t a i inactivity, which would dis-line of his destiny. 1 8 o I v e human nature.

Even Comte acknowledges, that, but for j T h e sweep of human genius is eternal, and in the vast intellectual evolutions of man's

I future career, as well as in those that are the outset of the human mind, man would j PUKt- ifc will a n d must be seen that his primal, have revolved forever in a viscous circle, j spontaneous growth, is from the center out-And can i t be, then, that an inquiry furnished ! ward toward the circumference, while his his-spontaneously by human nature itself, should j career, his apparent progress, is from the prove fruitless in the great struggle of desti-1 circumference toward the center. The reason

bich thus opens and niust be found in the fact that man is

the opening furnished by the question of the absolute and Divine Cause of the world, in

ny f Shall pushes on 11 all obstacles, not also prove opulent of truth ' Is the reason of man totally unable to evolve the contents of a question which it is able to ask even in the infancy of his mind ?

The objective search after an objective In-finite Being, of course cannot be completed, because the Infinite cannot be seen by man as a sum total objective personality, but by de-stroying its Infinity. But the consciousness of man can know at first hand the qualities of the Divine Essence, because in himself, in his own nature and its ideas, the Infinite Nature gets represented. As man is consti- j outward into thc senses,but stops i: tuted by the everlasting Spirit of Nature, he j which is only a mediator betwe<

-• Ph5 ; :<• career through 1 circumstance-ami a centerstance, both an objective and a subjective being, living in two worlds at once ; but the two worlds, not blended in a common consciousness. At first be is an animal, sensuous in his feelings and functions. He does not know that he has a spirit, the body is not conscious of the engermed, immortal, divine Nature within itself.

The first wave of life from without, from the world of forms and facts, reaches only the senses, the envelope. The first from within, from the spiritual life, reaches net

the soul, the two

Laws and Systems. ' Thrico is ho a rmed who hath his quarre l jus t—

And ho but naked, though looked up in stoel, ^ Whoso conscience wi th injuBtico is corrupted.

For the Herald of Progress .

The Credit Sys tem. Notwithstanding the manifold evils re-

sulting to the community from the prevalent practice of buying and selling upon credit, and in face of many examples of tbe advan-tages of an opposite policy, there seem to bc but few who realize the necessity of an absolute reform in this respect, and who are willing to put forth the requisite exertions to secure it. I t is easy to perceive tha t the very existence of the banks, and conse-quently of money stringencies, derangements of currency, and money panics, all depend upon this popular practice of selling upon credit instead of for cash. The credit sys-tem is a colossal structure erected with such materials as notes, bills, &c.', and like the house which the child builds with his cards, tlic least mischance levels it with thc ground. Straightway,upon the occurrence of such a dis-aster, those who profit by its abuse, imme-diately proceed to reerect and reestablish it upon its former foundations. And thus it stands and is expanded by increased exten-sions, until the inevitable shock is again given it, and its props and inclosures fly like chaff before the wind. Such a system is not necessary for the legitimate purposes of com-merce, and it is time that a more earnest movement should be inaugurated to estab-lish a perfect reform in respect to it.

In the city of New York alone, the mer-chants borrow of the banks .constantly a sum exceeding one hundred millions of dollars, for which tbej ' pay more than seven millions of dollars annually for interest. Now, who pays this in te res t ! Not the wholesale mer-chants of New York, but their retail cus-tomers, scattered over the whole Union. The country merchant comes to the city and makes a purchase of goods, giving a six months' note in payment therefor ; the city merchant procures the money from the bank and pays the latter the interest which he re-ceives from the purchaser of the goods : in this manner it is that bank profits are paid by the retailer, and finally by the consumer. But the bank dealer has to be responsible for the payment of the debt, and be thus stands as security for his customer. The risk tha t he thus assumes he values at five per cent, of his sales, and he is willing to make tha t reduction on the price of his goods for cash. Now, if the retailer would adopt the cash system, the wholesale merchant would have no need.of b a n k s ; their existence as loan institutions would terminate, and the whole credit system would fall. In addition to the great good which he vsguld thus confer on the community, bc would save [for himself the five per cent, which he now has to pay for the credit which he procures, and which is an absolute loss to hi in.

The functions of mo§t banks, as now con-stituted, are threefold, viz : issue, loan, and deposit; but there are some which are banks of loan and deposit merely, as the savings banks and the New York Bank of Commerce, tbe latter of which, with a capital of more than eight millions of dollars, has issued bills only to tbe amount of about two thousand dollars. But for the purpose of establishing a good system of currency, all that is needed is the institution of banks of

second limit to their profits.

A third limit is contingent upon accident, such as the opening of new mines of the pre-cious metals, or the influx of coin and bullion from other countries. A consideration of this

this gives rise to that great evil—the expan- j material will be sion of credits. Its operation may be ex-plained thus : a bank concludes to loan all its capital and three-quarters of its deposits, and does so, but at the next meeting of the directors it is found that the deposits have , . . increased say twenty thousand dollars, and limit is not pertinent to our present inquiry, so fifteen thousand dollars of this sum is Now the essential element in the cost of loaned. Those who borrow this sum imrac- j raw material and of manufactures, is the ex-diately deposit it in the bank, or pay it to\pense of keeping a free laborer in shelter, cloth-others who do so. This, then, makes another ing, and food. The natural impulse of the addition to the deposits, and three-fourths mercantile classes, is so to invest their sur-of it are again loaned ; and thus thc opera- j plus profits as to reduce this expense to a tion is repeated, until, upon the basis of a minimum. How is this accomplished? The comparatively small sum of money, a vast j annual profits arc used to monopolize manufac expansion of credit is founded. Thus the I lures and land. In the possession of these twe banks of New York city have issued only | monopolies, the mercantile classes, as manu-about eight millions of dollars in bills, and j facturers and landlords, can dictate the terms.

is constituted of that spirit. Being made up i worlds of facts and principles. Hence it is deposit and issue simply. Companies of this of the elements of nature—a yorld,a universe I that, a t first, there is no Philosophy, because kind might be formed on the mutual system, — a small scale—and his consciousness being i no perception of the unity of the outer and f o r the purpose of providing a treasury for these elements arisen into ideas, into ideal life, the principles of Everlasting Spirit are organized in him, and can be unfolded into philosophical expression. If the very ele-ments of Nature, of universal Nature, are or-ganized in man, and produce his cosmical consciousness, then their nature and laws

inner worlds. But ev>ery succeeding wave , the safe-keeping of the funds of the several

state of sublime harmony 1

Nature.

members. The issues of such a company would be certificates of deposit payable iu coin ou demand. They should be compelled to keep a dollar in specie for every dollar of certificatesissued.and these certificates should be authorized as currency by the State, upon

rith thc Infinite j pany, and the expenses might be assessed upon the members according to the average

from the world of forms rolls farther inward, while each pulse of Divine Life from within comes farther out, until these two waves of light meet each other, and finally blend into one perfect circle, having for its center the spirit of man. This perfect blending of tbe

must stand revealed within him, if not to I light of the two worlds in tbe spirit of man I the company's making their certified weekly him. They can become revealed to him bytproduces the "superior s ta te ," in which Na-; reports to the Bank Department. Each de-philosophic evolution, just as the vague con- i ture and Reason are a unit and man is in a : positor would become a member of the com-sciousness of the infant may be and is evolved A —U 1 :~" 1 —!il- .. into the character and proportions of perfect-ed manhood. All that is essential in tbej But prior to this state, religion and spirit-1 amount of their deposits. No deposits would

ual things are supposed to be miraculous, su- j be received except in specie, or in certificates pernatural; sometimes a wave of inner life j of similar banks, or in the company's own gets momentum enough, in consequence of | certificates. I t might be objected to such a

system that a company could commence busi-ness and receive nothing but tbe certificates of other banks on deposit, jn which case it would, therefore, not have a dollar of specie in its vaults ; but the bank could not then issue a dollar of its own certificates, nor would there be a necessity for it, for all checks could be paid in the kind deposited by tbe several dealers, of which a memorandum would be made in the deposit book. Thus the bank would be strictly the custodian or chamberlain of tbe several members ; and the satisfaction which the knowledge of the almost absolute security of their funds would give, would be cheaply purchased by the tri-fling sum which such custody would cost.

The insecurity of the present banking sys-tem lies in tbe privilege the banks take of loaning out not only all their capital, but also almost all their deposits. Now, such a condition as this cannot but be dangerous to any bank, for it is evident that if the de-positors should undertake to draw their money, all at one time, the bank must break. I t must not only be compelled to suspend specie payments, but all payments, until suf-ficient collections can be made of loans to satisfy the demands of depositors. In 8Uch cases, the bank, in going into liquidation, seldom realizes to its stockholders more than a moity of its capital. But most bank loans are made to the depositors themselves, and

nature of the man, was engermed in the infant, awaiting only development and evo-lution into tbe proportions of manhood, and u . s

the light of reflection. So the man can j the temporary weakness of thc flesh, pro-gradually unroll his inward being into philo- j duced by abstinence or sickness, fasting or sophic thought. All the representative ele-1 great work, to subdue the clamor of the ani-mcnts of eternal Nature in man, can be, one j mal nature, and for a short time hold the by one, evolved frpm his divine genius, un-til, before his intellectual vision, the ele-mental, the abstract, the transcendental Rea-son, shall become possessed of itself. And this is the function of Philosophy—to unroll, one by one, the concentric folds of our own immortal natures. True, it may take an im-mortal life to do it in, but still this is our des-tiny. We can be satisfied with nothing short of this.

But here arises the mooted question, whe-ther man possesses any power of adequate self-comprehension? Tliat he can know himself,in an intellectual and spiritual sense, we are told is as impossible as for him to lift himself by his ears. No one will dispute that he can lift his body by a leverage, or by a voluntary use of his muscles, springing from the surface of the world upward ; true, in this process he has the solid world to push

senses entranced while thc spirit announces its organic and transcendent nature and office. This produces the exceptional moment of illumination of ancient seers and prophets. But what is thus exceptional in the race to-1

day is to become tbe constant state of man. And herein is seen, in its vast extent, the

glorious mission of Philosophy. I t is to ex-pand the inner nature until i ts divine life and light shall penetrate tiie outer world of sense, subduing the animal fever which burns up the flying hours in the lusts of the flesh and the glitter of circumstances. I t is thus that Philosophy proposes to blend the l ight of the two worlds in the one consciousness of man, making that consciousness an eternal sun of Love and Wisdom. At first the body is almost opaque to tbe inward light, but by gradual refinement and culture it tends to be-come perfectly transparent to the light of

against and f rom which to react upon his I Divine Life. By this process of gradual re-own gravity So I reply, his mind can do j finemcnt, the race will reach a stage of cul-

thc Bame thing. I t has an ideal, intellectual, and substantial world of eternal principles to push against, to react from, until it cau throw its consciousness into that world long enough to weigh itself. And as be is a cos-mos, he can behold himself objectively in

ture, in which the axioms of everlasting Na-ture shall Bhinc out upon the world of his-tory without casting a shadow, until man himself shall stand forth, the image of Infi-nite Perfection, the incarnation of Divine Beauty.

possess about twenty millions of dollars in ^ specie : but upon this comparatively small j sum as a money basis, they have made loans to the amount of one hundred and thirty millions of dollars. This is understood as an expansion of credits, and the subsequent contractions which not unfrequently occur, are tbe causc of "stringencies" and "panics ."

One of thc great evils of these expansions consists in the fluctuations they cause in prices of all kinds of property, consequent upon tbe increase and decrease in volume of the standard of values—money. Upon the increase of the amount of money in circula-tion, prices rise ; when it decreases, prices fall. This keeps the business community ii a constant turmoil ; and when the expan-sions and contractions are sudden, fortunes are made and lost. As an instance of the manner in which these changes affect prop-erty, we may look a t their influence upon mortgages. Suppose a house, worth eight thousand dollars, is mortgaged for four thou-sand, the mortgagee may then be said to own one-half the property ; but suppose tbe price of the house goes up until it reaches twelve thousand dollars, it is easy to see that in this case the mortgagee's interest will amount to only one-third the value of the

: property ; and the difference between one-j half and one-third indicates exactly the de-1 | preciation in the value of money which has! ! taken place sincp tbe mortgage was made. | And the reverse of this is also true ; if the j mortgage is made when the value of the i property is greatest and paid when it is least, I i t is the mortgager t ha t loses. Whatever j causes a fluctuation in the standard of values, I works changes in the conditions of property, • which eventuate, more or less, in great in-jus t i ce to large classes of the community, i The remedy for these evils lies altogether in tbe bands of the merchants; i t is for them to apply it and give the death-blow to a sys-tem so deeply imbued with principles of mis-chief. Let banks of deposit and issue be im-mediately formed, chartered, and established, and the cash system adopted by all hoii' st men. Give to no institution thc privilege of loaning your money without compensation, only to result in derangement to all your business affairs. Believe with John Randolph that the discovery of the philosopher's stone is comprised in the words—"Pay as you go!"

'• Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loseth both itself and friend."

0 . H . P . H .

NEW YORK, J a n u a r y 8 t h , 1861.

For the Hera ld of P rogress .

Buying to Sell. W H A T C O M E S O F I T I

I t is an old complaint that Capital is op-j pressive to Labor. But few, however, among j those who are loudest in tbe denunciation of ; this oppression, are able to see that it is an i essential part of the present industrial sys-I torn. Even political economists who make the relations of Capital and Labor a special study, afford no great l ight on the point. Perhaps an illustration of a commercial prac-tice, imagined to be universal, may make it more clear.

Let us suppose a community existing with a circulating medium of $50,000,000. Such a community may further be supposed to cul-tivate every branch of industry, and to re-quire every avocation which would be found among the largest and most highly civilized people. For the populousness of thecommu-nity does not afiect the principle we are en-deavoring to explain. There will then bc ex-isting in i t a Mercantile Class; and we may suppose that i t commences business with $12,000,000, a little less than a fourth of the entire circulating medium a t first assumed. I t bugs to sell, that is, i t subsists by profits. If it invests its whole capital, and reaps a profit of 25 per cent, annually, i t is plain tha t $3,000,000 will be abstracted from the circula-tion a t large at the end of the first year. The new capital is now $15,000,000. If this is invested as before, and now profits are again taken, a t the end of the second year, $3,750, 000 more will disappear from the general cir-culation. If the same process were continued seven years, the entire circulating medium of the community would be in the hands of the mercantile classes.

I t may be said that this is an oxtreme sup-position, and never likely to occur practically This is admitted : and it is brought forward as an extreme case, to show what will occur in practice. For we are now prepared to see the limits preventing a result so singular.

These limits are three. First, the mercan-tile classes will buy manufactured articles to sell again ; and as they cannot generally get these at less than the cost of manufacture, this cost is the first limit to their profits.

If they buy the raw material of manufac-turers, the cost of the procuring of this

on which the laborer shall subsist. The la-borer must his labor ; but the landlord is not obliged to rent his house, nor is the man-ufacturer under an equal compulsion to hire the toil of another. Thus food, clothing, and shelter become very dear to tbe laborer ; or he must, in other words, be content with the meanest bouses, tbe most miserable food, and the poorest clothing of all classes in society. We mean by laborer, the man or woman who has nothing but labor to sell—a class that is constantly increasing 6ut of all proportion to others.

The oppression of Labor by Capital, then, comes in this way : There exists a class in society—the mercantile—whose function it is to buy, to sellwith a profit. These profits be-ing obtained without any equivalent labor, naturally seek investment by monopolizing land and manufactures, because there is no limit to them except the minimum expense a t which a laborer can live, and because, by a monopoly of land and manufactures, the labo-rer can be most effectually reduced to that minimum. The natural inference is, that Labor can never be anything else than the thrall of Capital as long as mercantile profits are allowed to absorb tbe circulating medium of a country indefinitely. 1111 some device is discovered by which laborers can share in these profits fairly, they must continue to be poor. Wc shall return to this subject again.

D . L .

The Secession Movement. B O T H S I D E S R E P R E S E N T E D .

WASHINGTON CITY, J a n u a r y , 1861. A . J . DAVIS, DEAR SIR : I h a v e t o t h a n k

you for extra numbers of your most useful paper I have regularly taken t h e HERALD OF PROGRESS f r o m i t s c o m m e n c e -ment, and I strongly recommend it to all my friends.

The great and paramount interest of the moment is the "Secession Movement." I dono t think it is quite correctly viewed by oui Northern friends, and I would like to submit to you a few remarks of my own. I know by private correspondence, the very words used by the leading personages in France respecting this movement, and the propositions of the Leaders. By that cor-

•spondence I know tha t the South has nothing to hope f rom France. But to the question i tself:

All Revolutions which advance the interests of humanity, come from the UPPER classes of society. The lower classes are too much in-terested in gaining their daily bread. The great French Revolution, f rom an aristocratic party, and the literary class ; tha t of 1830, from the same class ; tha t of 1848, from the same again. But in each of these instances, the arming of the people to use their physi-cal energy and love of liberty, threw the power for a time into the hands of dema-gogues. Hence, reactions always followed. But there was something gained by each change. The origin of Grecian liberty has the same character. When the two young Athenian patricians killed the tyrant , did they not ap-peal lo thc people as their only reply ? When Tarquin was killed, did not the conspirators do likewise ? And if these Revolutions, com-mencing with the intriguing and idle class, had never occurred, should we ever have beard of an Athens or a Rome ? Certainly not. The world would have had another history.

We are in a similar Revolution. In the North all is tranquil , because progressive. But in the South all is uncertain and uneasy, be-cause nothing is really progressive. There is a violation of natural laws, and hence the dangers of Revolution. The Southern ele-ments of society are aristocratic, and instinct-ively adverse to these progressive changes, which are the fundamental principles of so-cial growth. And hence its horror of the North and its " i s m s , " and jealousy of its manly industry and independence. This Northern progress is of necessity invading the South, and threatening to drag it along in the same peaceful changes : and as this is e v-ident — more especially to the aristocratic instincts of the Southern Lords—they, losing their old power in thc Government, are seek-ing to save their caste and their rights (!) by founding an " Independent Confederation." They have foreseen this and threatened this for years. Rich and idle by training, wan-derers over Europe every summer in quest of excitement, they have imbibed a false taste for the ultra, aristocratic views of certain parties abroad—ff they do not actually ex-ceed them in their love of the despotic. Hence the propositions to tbe Emperor to "protect t hem," &c., and hence, too, their wish for a monarchy, as a good method of preserving the oligarchial principles which prevail among them.

Now the trading and other classes Sou t h -ai though deceived by the falsehoods of the

it

T II E H E R A L D OF P R O G R E S S . 3 press, which necessarily supports the oligar-chy—have an instinctive yearning for the North and its principles. This continually breaks out, in spite of their ridiculous and well-enforced prejudice against Northerners, as ALL Abolitionists ! And it is this element, now being armed for thc defense of the South, which, in the distress daily increas-ing,will find out its powerand u s c i t i n break-ing the slave power, which has so long OUT-VOTER and humbugged it, and return into the Union.

A poor white man down South is a poor creature indeed—hated more than a negro, dreaded as well as despised, and to him a negro workman is always preferred. Such a system cannot stand of itself so near a progressive North . The South may talk of " R i g h t s , " bu t the very nature of its social and political constitution indicates that a constant, and, I might say, unintended violation of them must go on. No compromise can stop it. And this is seen; hence the Secessionists arc going out without mistake—as they intend, FOREVER!

But the people are among them, and, in all

teachings, I th ink i t is not generally under-stood And though Mr. Lane has given a fine illustration of it i„ a late number of the HERALD and quite intelligible to those who have made human nature their study, to manv others, by whom the positive ami negative relations of spirit and matter have never been comprehended, there mav still seem a vagueness requiring to be cleared up. Take my own case for example.

Religiously educated, 1 was instructed that my shortcomings in duty were due to an in-disposition and incapacity to bc and do what was right, but along with this I was taught to t rust in divine power and pray for divine influences to enable me to will aright. This teaching naturally weakened the native force of resolution, and paralyzed the Will. So, in accordance with what I supposed t he dictates of divine wisdom, I have spent a great part of my life trusting and praying. Reviewing the past, I cannot see tha t I have in the least benefited by such a course. 1 believe that if I had been educated differently, and had been taught that to will was to act, and to incur responsibility, tha t judgment and prudence were intended by the Deity to accompany action and to insure success to energy and iffort, I should bc a better man to-day, and

ages correctly, told the correct time by the clock in the adjoining room, aud rapped out, by the alphabet, thc names and residences of distant friends, and did many other marvel-lous things which I nfefia not mention. The above statements may appear very strange, but they are, nevertheless, true. All thc above was done at a private circle of five per-sons, none of whom were believers in Spirit-ualism, but have been since convinced of its t r u t h . > G . G . , M E A D .

Pulpit and Rostrum. " Evory one's progress is through n sucoei

teachers, each ol' whom seems, at the time, to iiavc . superlative inlluenoe, but it at last gives placo to i now."

For the Horald of Progress.

Spiritual Workers in and around New York.

NUURIKLL T W O .

human probability, a reaction will take place hold a higher position in life. Had I only —or rather a social Revolution will occur which will put the power in the hands of the many, and give them " e q u a l r i g h t s " with their fellow men, however rich they may be, or however extensive their domains.

As neither England or France can or will do anything foy the South, as trade will be paralyzed, and the few staples raised there a poor equivalent for what they will lose by the Union, aud all the burdens have to be thrown upon the land-holders— for fear of the people—it is natural to suppose tha t a "Union Party ' ' will spring up, and Union newspa-papers also, which will denounce this insane cry of Abolitionists, so stupidly direoted against all Northern men, as a mere impos-tu re and delusion practiced upon the masses by these aristocratic politicians.

Among the false assertions against the Nor th is t ha t of stealing slaves. The t ru th is, the great majority of slaves from Middle States are stolen to go South—the Southern papers, under the promptings of the slave dealers, accusing the North in order to hide their own traffic. That a few escape to the Nor th is not doubted, bu t the number of fugitives is nothing compared with the slave stealing business to the South, carried on under pretense of freeing them. In this business the police ar i active parties, ever ready to ar-rest and h 'de away bond or free in a jail unt i l the opportunity of selling them South.

Yours ever, for the t ru th , SPECTATOR.

Voices from tlie People.

T O T H E P R I E S T H O O D O F T H E U N l -T E D S T A T E S .

A CHALLENGE.

MR. A. J. DAVIS : I will meet in discus-sion any orthodox minister, or member of any church in the United States, who may possess the confidence of the religious com-munity, on each or any of the following pro-positions :

I will take the affirmative of the three fol-lowing propositions, for three, six, or twelve evenings, in any city in the Northern States er the Canadas, which the acceptor of this challenge may select.

PROPOSITION FIUST.

Resolved, That spirits of human beings who | have left the earthly form, can and do re-1 tu rn and communicate through mundane media, giving tangible evidences of their ex-istence and life beyond the grave, through ! what is termed physical manifestations.

PROPOSITION SECOND.

Resolved, Tha t the doctrine of the Atone-ment , or that mankind are saved through the blood of Jesus Christ, is a base perver-sion of all law, human or divine, and further , t ha t the teaching of that doctrine tends more towards injur ing the moral and intellectual condition of ear th 's children than to their good, and tha t the doctrine is a delusion, a priestly device, a falsehood, and a disgrace to humani ty to-day.

PROPOSITION THIRD. Resolved, That men, animals, and vegeta-

bles, came into being by the laws of sponta-neous generation and progressive develop-ment , and tha t there is no evidence of a di-rect creative power on this planet.

understood the will to be a power—the con-centrated vigor of all the faculties—and the exercise of i t a positive expression of my whole self in action, ra ther than a passive element of mind, what benefits might have been gained which have been lost, and what evils avoided which have been suffered? And yet religious advisers would council a contin-uance of this profitless course, of this inert-ness of will, in tho insane fa i th t ha t all in the end will turn to our advantage. I believe that thousands of poor sufferers, could they read what I now write, would say that I but speak their own convictions, and that I de-pict their lives in thus describing my own. A character without force of will is a calam-ity, physically and morally. There is, there-fore, some propriety in making your readers understand properly what is meant by the WILL POWER, t h a t i s , a c a p a c i t y f o r d e c i d e d action, which may be developed in the man-ner you have already indicated.

Y o u r s , INVESTIGATOR.

S A Y I N G A N D D O I N G . AUBURN, N . Y . , J a n . 1 8 6 1 .

FKIF.NO DAVIS : I t i s e a s i e r t o p r a i s e m e n and women for their fine sentiments and no-ble thoughts, than to live in accordance with those thoughts aud sentiments. Too much genius and talent are exhausted in the effort to elaborate and publish t ru th , while too lit-tle heroism is manifest in living it out. Any man of tongue or pen can proclaim liberty, but few, however, really dare be free, or face the great battle of menacing myrmidons in the hireling service of social, sectarian, and civil oppression. We bestow the greatestl praise on those who have uttered the loftiest i sentiments, without asking whether the}' have proved honest and dar ing exemplars of what they have uttered, while, perhaps, we treat with contumely and abuse those humbler souls who have really lived out those senti-ments.

Wendell Phillips proves himself a hero in proclaiming the broad principle tha t " R e -sistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Yet, when wronged woman rises to throw off the yoke of marital bondage. Phillips shrinks back and denominates such efforts out of place, and calculated to bring reproach on woman's reform movements. Let silence seal the lips and paralyze the pens of men and women who are not equal to the task of living as they talk. One bold step taken out of the beaten path towards the highway of a true ideal life, shall tell with an elo-quence and power mightier than a myriad of voices—shall prove the signal of hope for millions groaning in bondage. °

M R S . CORA L . V . H A T C H .

Whenever there may be conceived in the individual mind, or in the mind of the com-munity, a shape of some project to be achieved, some labor to be performed, tools and instru-ments fitted for the work, arc, in due time, born for its accomplishment. With the painter aro created his colors and brushes. When the thundering locomotive comes crash-ing through thc brain of its inventor, in quick succession follow engineers, workmen, con-structors, to fill every demand which the full-grown train may make possible. The chisel and pickaxe, the sewing-machine and cylinder-press, are born, work in hand. So, princi-ples and faiths, being iu themselves spirit-ual, intangible, produce machinery of like subt i l ty ; the guillotine, the rack, the stake, are their cunning instruments to scat-ter and multiply reformation. So reforma-tions produce heroes—witness the French Revolution breathing into being a Robes-pierre, a Danton, a Marat, to inflame its blood ; a DeStael, a Roland, a Corday, to in-spire it with soul and sentiment.

Thus we find in the inauguration of this . .. , , , , , , " " UIIIIVIO IU KUDIilCM 11UUIO. UI U1 U1C UK

spiritual era tha t there are temples prepared w t m n s f o r m e ( 1 i n t o t h e L o i , r 8 h o u s e for these descending angels—nests ready-1 T.r„f„,, ,.„„ _ „u T built for these birds of heaven. Gabriel finds a t rumpet for his cal l ; Moses a tablet on which to inscribe the law ; Elijah some fiery soul who can ascend with him in the whirl-wind. Yet this grand conception of the skies —this advent of a spiritual world in a world material—would have utterly failed in accom-plishment if dependent upon human sagacity and masculine intellect for its healthy bir th. But the originators of the scheme, looking f rom their observatory beyond the clouds, and knowing tha t delicate, refined instru-ments were needful for the emergency, point their inspiring fiiu^s here aud there, and Io 1 from obscurity, f rom the factory, the farm-house, the social circle, s tar t forth women, like burners suddenly ignited, and in all directions sluggish, groping, intellects be-come fired with the new life—the divine im-petus thus generated !

Perhaps the finest and best adapted instru-ment these unseen powers have yet employed is Mrs. Cora Hatch. Like an evening star

b r a i n , n e i t h e r is i t m o l d e d a f t e r t h c a p - f r o m w h o l e s o m e k n u c k l e s of b e e f , rich w i t h p r o v e d p a t t e r n o f f e m a l e h e a d s , n a r r o w f o r e - 1 v e g e t a b l e s of a l l k i n d s , s e r v e d o u t i n s t e a m -h e a d , c o m p r e s s e d s i d e s , a n d r i s i n g c r o w n . A I i n « P . 1 ^ b o ^ 8 " ? t c o n t a i n s t h e n o u r i s h m e n t ,„, , , ' . . . . , . . . ... . . . of a l l t h e o t h e r d i s h e s s e r v e d t h e r e , w i t h t h e g o o d , s u b s t a n t i a l f r o n t p r e s e n t s i t s e l f ; t h i s ttdditional r e c o m m e n d a t i o n of w a r m i n g a s w o m a n w o u l d n o t m e e k l y s u b m i t t o a w e n a H fi|]jng t I , e s t o m a c h . E a c h o n e h a s t y r a n t — a s i d e f r o m s p i r i t a g e n c y s h e w o u l d h i s p i n t b o w l f u l l , a n d a s e c o n d o n e if h e d i v o r c e h e r s e l f f r o m a h u s b a n d w h o e n c r o a c h e d w a n t s i t . A t t h e t a b l e s i t s t o u t , r o b u s t u p o n h e r p r i v i l e g e s . j y o u n g m e n , t h r o w n o u t of e m p l o y m e n t a n d

D a n i e l W e b s t e r , ( . ' lay, P a r k e r A n d r e w w i t h o u t m e a n s . w h o w o u l d s o o n e r p a y f o r Jackson, speak through her organism ; not " i c i r " ' " a l s . l a , /T t if. were P°a»Me-i ,; I,, ,. 1 f ' , , ' Then there is the tottering old man, whose brilliantly ; not perchance with the glow and burnish, the bone and sinew they would employ could they reanimate tbe refuse which is encoffined in their family vaults ; but they - ...... v. speak satisfactorily—more than that. Her M'elow the level of the bowl they eat from language is chosen and elegant, her sentences \ U ' i r c welcome and all are fed. As they

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: e n n g . w h i t e n e d l o c k s a n d w r i n k l e d f a c e t e l l of s i x t y w i n t e r s a t l e a s t , s i t t i n g b e s i d e a n e m a c i a t e d m o t h e r , w h o s e b a b e s u c k l e s w h i l e s h e e a t s . H e r e a r e l i t t l e b o y s a n d g i r l s w h o s e c h i n s a r e

generous soup still in their mouths, they •never wings turn to the manager, each and every one,

She never with a " C o d bless you, Sir ," or " M u c h startles by her originality of thought, by obliged to you, Sir ." So hearty comes to flashes of wit or glittering rhetoric, but calm- fchem the answer, " Y o u ' r e perfectly wel

imagery to convey her ideas upward in the blue ethereal

glittering rhetoric, but calm ly and evenly she drives her steeds to the desired point.

The subject of her discourse last Sunday morning was. " Religious Revivals." I t was

come, Sir ; come again to-morrow night, and every night when you are hungry , " tha t they almost feel they have done Mr. Farmer a service.

Another company is admitted, and they a coolly-reasoned, ably-sustained speech, j their seats as directed, waiting in Thought followed thought in natural se-1 l c.n°etheir turn to be served. Here is a little quence. No flighty, disconnected harangue ** r a £ £ e d ,a i! '1 barefoot, 1 , a s »'Pen Is hers. learned clergyman feel proud to produce such an extempore < Campbell. He is soon at her side, and she address as the one I listened to. She adduced whispers. "Please, sir, my mother is sick to-tha t religious revivals, inasmuch as they I n i g h t and can ' t come; won't you please let sprang from an undue action of the organ j "1C t a k e l i e r i l l i t t l c something to ea t?" of fear, or from selfish motives, were demor-1 ;; < e r t a i n l y m y dear ." replies the manager

alluded to the fact that , two or three win- child takes her seat joyfullv. and in a few ters ago. when tbe people of this city and | moments a bowl of hot soup is placed before elsewhere were suffering from a money pan- 'mr, and beside it is a little tin-pail full of ic—when starvation and cold stared them in ; t l i e 8411116 f o o d f o r h e r mother. She swallows the f a c e - t h e n they bethought themselves j a n d t . u ™ i n « t o S i v e t h e

fh e a r f c "

nf u.-irr»iin(r h.,.;. i, • 11 i » i i i 4 t ( ; l t I hank you, sir, runs home as fast as

of warming their chilled hands and hearts , s h e C f t u . H e / e i g t h e J r i ( j h w o m a n > w h o upon the church altar, and to heat them-1 spoke to the men outside the beat which selves blew high the flames of religious ex-j comes into the room from the adjoining c i tement ; but now that their barns are kitchen has warmed her shruuken form; she teeming with plenty, that their banks are j l i n S e r s t o s l ) C a k t o t h e manager. She has a replete with specie, now in this time of the L l t i l e ' d i l u? I . l t e

xr , a t home, whom she

,• . • , ,, , , , . . dare not bring out in the wet. and she wants n a t i o n s rial, the merchant keeps in his t o k n o w i f ^ ^ b l k u h e ; a mouthful of counting-house, the clerk at his ledger ; and soup. " S u r e , " she says. " i t 's no pleasure we hear no more of business men convening j for me to sit down here and eat a hearty sup-for prayers at business hours, or of the theater ' Per> unless she can have some—indeed, sir,

j I couldn' t do i t . " He answers, " S i t down, Mrs. Hatch has one fault , which I hope! T ? ^ ' ? n d ea fc can. ami then you

, • r • I MI ... . .shall take a pailful to your little girl, her spirit friends will overcome. She i t e r a t e | W M l e „h ( . n m n £ u r s h e r th inks , her son,, is and reiterates the leading thought of her j placed before her, and thc little t in pail is discourse too constantly. She manipulates tilled, ready for her when she has finished, it BO frequently t ha t i t loses force—like u ' The articles of food served to tlie poor hy clav image molded by a sculptor. Strong I M r - F i rmer are of tile most wholesome kind bold is it in its lirst conception and forma. - 8 " e e , ' ; f r e s , h J<«etables, Hccker.' fresh and

, , , , . , . ,, ! toasted bread, fresh hsh and meats. lus t f rom tion, yet, touched again and again, the prom- t h e m a v k e t S i a l l c o o k e d i n t h c c l e a

Jn c s f c a n d

indices are flattened, the hollows filled 111.1 nicest manner, The soup is made in a large tiir, from very repetition,-the,original idea forty-gallon cauldron, and is kept on the fire is lost sight of, and the promised effect van-1 constantly. This requires to be replenished ishes. SUSAN G. HOYT. | o n c e o r twice during the night, when more

NEW YORK Jan 30 ' vegetables and meat, ready cooked, are put i in, and the last made is quite as rich as the ^firpt. The number of peyplo fed thus-far of an evening has varied from 150 to 40(¥, many

! of them being regular customers, the meal | they get there being the only regular one they have. In 1857, we are informed that two-thirds of those fed by Mr. Farmer were

| natives of Ireland. This year two-thirds of ! the whole number fed have been Germans, | and there are more Americans than Irish 1 among them. The amount of food con-sumed, aud the expense attending Mr. Far-mer's enterprise for the short time it has

Doings of I Ii o Moral Police, 'There is a golden chord of sympathy, Fix'd in the harp of every human soul; Which by the breath of Kindness whon 'tis swept, Wakes angel melodies in savage hearts."

W H E R E I S M R S . A . I i . S T R E E T E R T ST. CHARLES, 111., J a n . 2 2 , 1 8 6 1 .

DEAR HERALD OF PROGRESS : C a n y o u advise us of the present place of address of Mrs. A. L. Streeter ? At the time of the Spiritual Festival in October last, she was here, and delivered two lectures, and agreed to come again and deliver a course when we were prepared for her. Since then we have not heard from her. If she will make known, through the columns of your paper, her pres-ent post-office address, she will greatly oblige.

Since the Festival referred to, we have had frequent lectures here. Miss Bell Scougall has delivered a course, giving perfect satis-faction. At the present time, E. V. Wilson is giving a course of his able and prophetic lectures, which create much sensation among the people. The Universalist Society, at their late Annual Meeting, with their accustomed liberality, again unanimously granted us the free use of their beautiful meeting-house for our lectures and meetings during the

A M O R A L P O L I C E S T A T I O N !

The Tribune furnishes the following inter-she has arisen and shines jus t above the hori- ; esting account of Farmer ' s Free Dining I been in existence this winter, cannot be esti-zon ; the soft, pure, lambent light of her J Saloon. Mr. John W. Farmer, who during mated, as he has kept no account of it. His beams, more harmonizing than electrifying, the winter of 1857 opened a free dining sa- i ' l o w s o i s f u " ° f Provisions, and he feeds the

, c ... i , ,. , , i ,. i A i ^ ., hungry multi tude from the same qualities of awaken a sense of softness and sweet satis- loon, where he fed thousands of the poor f o o ^ J he puts upon his own table He says faction. I lns is not a guiding star—it does land destitute free of charge, has recently that if the times grow any worse, and me-not shine out of darkness. The tranquil j thrown his doors open once more to the j chanics are likely to sufler still more, he landscape, the mellow light of an evening I needy. On the east side of the city he has shall keep his free dining-saloon open seven sky, blend with its mild luster. Beneficent p u t i n circulation hundreds of litt le cards <lays in the week from daylight until mid-

ensuing year. Thus the glorious cause of the Harmonial T h i s c h a l l e n g e i s o p e n t o a c c e p t a n c e a t a n v

, . . . ,J 1 I1UB U1C U1U11UUO 1-auoc VI rase ikwiu. t i m e d u r i n g t h e w i n t e r o r s p r i n g y M y u d - P h i l 0 8 0 p h y p r o g r e s s e s i n t h i s r e g i o n <1 r e s s c a n b e f o u n d i n t h e Banner of Light, o r j E t e r n a l l y , S. S. o t h e r s p i r i t u a l p a p e r s . A l l l e t t e r s t o m e s h o u l d b e a d d r e s s e d :

H . MELVILLE FAY, Akron, Summit Co., Ohio, Box 81.

T H E W l h J j P O W E R — W H A T I S I T ? NEW YORK, J a n u a r y , 1861 .

Ma. DAVIS : Permit me to call your at-tention to the question : What is the Will Power ? Is it aspiration or desire, a mere willingness to be right, to do right, or obtain what is right, without calling into active op-eration the forces needed to accoriiplish what is desired? Or does it mean a capacity to apply the energies and powers of mind and body to secure an end in spite of opposing circumstances? If i t is desire, then i t im-plies a mere passiveness of temper which is ever apt to succumb to opposition, and con-sequently never to advance thc agent thus willing towards the at tainment of an object. This seems to be all that is understood of the will by religious believers. If it is a capacity to resist, i t is then of a positive nature, and may direct the entire force and energy of mind and body to the at ta inment of an end. The Will then, by this definition, means R e s o l u t i o n , a c a p a c i t y t o e n t e r t a i n a d e c i d e d nurnose A proper definition of what you call Will Power would, I believe, relieve the nerolexing doubts and uncertainty of man ; f o r o w ^ n g t o t h e i n d e f i n i t e n e s s of t h e o l o g i c a l

S P I R I T U A L P A C T S .

ST. Louis, Mo.. J an . 13,1861 MR. EDITOR : Having recently seen some

very amusing and wonderful spiritual mani-festations, it occurred to me that a few of tho facts would be interesting to your readers. I have heretofore been a firm disbeliever in Spiritualism ; but recently my views on the subject have become much changed. There must certainly be some reality in the doc-trine, but whether the following feats were done by good or bad spirits we are unable to state.

The first thing done at a sitting at which I was present, was the lifting of the table en-tirely off the floor ; secondly, making it dance to any tune. The invisible agents, a t our re-quest, then held a door so that we were un-able to open i t ; caused the table to move round the room, rapped on the wall, floor, chairs, on our noses and heads, brought a water pail from the next room and placed it under the table ; upset a pitcher of milk, caught us by the legs and arms, pulled our hair, spoke to us with voices that sounded like human voices, played beautiful tunes on the accordeon, caused a book to disappear from the table and return again, caused us to shut our eyes so tightly that we could not open them for some time, rapped out our

i pu t in < and hopeful is the ray i t sheds upon peaceful! which read souls.

This softly-beaming star I beheld at Dod- ] wor ths , last Sunday morning. She arose j transfixed before me, her slight jeweled j hands crossed pathetically upon her bosom,

s follows : J o n n W. FARMKR'8

F R E E D I N I N G S A L O O N , No. 47 Ludlow stroet.

( night. John W. Farmer, while he is not so ; wealthy as many others in our city,possesses | an amount of property which enables him to live comfortably, and to help those who are less fortunate than himself. He is a plumber by trade, and does an extensive business a t No. 248 Broome street.

her flaxen ringlets dripping like pale ydllow tendrils suffused with moonlight, around her

Como and oat, ye poor and hungry, without • monoy and without prioe.

. Open from 0 in the evening until midnight. A s a c o n s e q u e n c e , h i s p l a c e i s c r o w d e d B E N E V O L E N C E A N D I N G R A T I T U D E .

z went to California as an an agent. This gentle-

, , , , ,• , . , , ! nightly bv men, women, aud children, the .... square compact head, her llght-blue eyes m M [ degraded being as warmly " h e " J-0 '" M o n t f turned upw.nl—they might h«ve been col-! w e l c o m e d M i f , h e y were dressed iu the s t ress , she engaged o r e d g l a s s o r s a p p h i r e s t o n e f o r a l l t h c s o u l b i g h t of f a s h i o n . N o . 47 L u d l o w s t r e e t i s a w a s a m a r r i e d m a n , w i t h t w o c h i l d r e n , . - , , . , ,.,„... i;i,„ .. i,,,11....., ,i,„, and seeing hiin unhappy in their absence, she If the audi- j m t t j j t a . , u re I k h .,„ ,, A , w i t h fflcieut w

.ill lit, W life .<w ,, . . V„ them and their mother on. Shortly after unconscious of the fact. You may see many , table runnmg lengthwise. a t which, by close t h e i r t h f i h u g b a n d d i e d ^ t h ( m a saint like this in the picture-galleries 0-f packing on notn siaes, anour n u , person, ^ ^ ttc w i d o w w l d orphans—educating Dutch and Flemish a r t i s t s - aMadonna whose I evening, some time before thc saloon I •"» »'i»ard^s seminary at Troy, glory is not from her own soul, but from tlie I w n b opened, the hungry ones began to as-! : v " '>lh™.r m t h ? ! m t c d f a t e 8 >« Christ to whom she has given birth. Her | ^ ^ . the w a , ^ ^

XN = TCFH'̂ ... ' - . . ! norintimHi'iit. received the ffuests lor Mr. ti ii »i Y V t t perintendent, received the guests for Mr.

thrill them deeply; this strange trance re- j ^ r m e r Preference was given to the women, moves her too distantly to stir the hearts of, t J i e m e n i,eing admonished to "allow the her admirers. ladies to come in first." The table being

Her voice is a rich gift—deep and full—its I tilled up on both sides, the door was locked prolonged music-tones reverbrate through j again to prevent crowding inside, and those the hall as she raises it in prayer. This U « had to j j t f g t f j * ™ young vcstral-wife is an embodied p r a y e r - . n a t u r e f o r m i n g i n i l n e q u i o t l y by the her soul might be the gathered incense from I ̂ Q O r t o awajt their turn. While they wait, a thousand altars. An Ave Marie—a prayer t j l c conversation turns upon the liberality of not of anguish not of sin or crime, not ex- Mr. Farmer, and the blessings of God are pressing the gushing agony of Gethsemane, invoked in his behalf in nearly every known i b b"0 1 = = • . . . , , I hnnirue One haggard looking woman, of not the prayer of a soul astray „i LIT. s great J™|u«ativl?y, w K s so scantily clad that labyrinth ; but thc tuneful prayer of Nature. t h ( , l u o ; 1 ( ! r a t u „ i r „, i M t night pinched such asshe sends up when the golden grain l l f t r f o r m a I H j , 1 J a j e it shiver with cold, is ev-from hor myriad fields is moving ill tliesum | d e n t l y indebted to Mr. Farmer for more mersunllght—a prayer Buch as a nestling wa- than one meal. Kvcry few moments she tcr-lily throws from licrcrcamy, fragrant pet-, speaks to those assembled telling tliem to

,, . i , ,, i„. oatient, and be thankful that God has als, when rocked by the gentle r.pples of the , g t o s o g o o d l l n m n a s M r . F a r m e r . lake—a prayer such as the pines upon the hill- j ( h o m e n s h o s a y s . .. w h e n you get to tops send from their spicy cones when the wind w o r k again in the summer, and are earning stirs among their leaves and branches—a m 0 n e y for yourselves, don' t forget the man prayer such as flashing waves may murmur who fed vou in the winter when you were from blue grotto and mermaid caves. | starving. but patronize him so that he shall

This lady, whom her friends sostrenuously J 0 > 0 i n 8 l d e are astonishing their assert is incapable of uttering, in a normal g t o m a c h 8 w i t h a hearty meal. There is a state, the philosophy which falls from her I v a r ; e t y f o r them to choose from—cold corned entranced lips, seems, nevertheless, to be h , ^ ham, pork, fish, bread, potatoes, cab-endowed with' adequate natural capacity, bage, turnips, onions, &c., and soup. Soup Hers is no ill-shaped head, not a meager | is in great demand—hot, rich soup, made

took place. Lola did not again encounter her protege (who accompanied her husband to a distant State, where he was detailed for pub-lic duty) until a recent period, when she met her walking down Broadway, in company with a lady of the highest ton. With her usual impulse, Lola rushed to her young friend—literally the child of her charity—as to embrace her. The young lady coldy drew back, and said, "Madam, 1 do not know y o u ! " " N o t know me? I am Lola Mon-tez." " Madam," she exclaimed, as she turned coldly away, " I know you not—1 never saw you before, and if you persist in speaking to me, I will call a policeman," and walked away. Lola went home, "more in sorrow than iu anger ," and tha t same day had thc first attack of paralysis, which, a few days ago, destroyed her.

' ' HOME. "—For several months past a Home for the benefit of the poor and friendless, has been in successful operation in the village of Yonkers. During this period, hundreds liave been fed and clothed who would have greatly suffered, and a course of lectures has been delivered for the purpose of raising funds for this object.

fliP A company of boys and girls will leave the city soon from the children's Aid Society, to find homes among the generous and kind people of the West.

4 Spiritualism, North and South.

1 B I L L . O F R I G H T S . 1 "

P O R T A N T Q U E S T I O N .

HOUSTON, T e x a s , J a n . 18, 1861. M R . A . J . DAVIS, DEAR S I R : S i n c e y o u

were pleased to notice my letter and send me ft kind greeting, I take my pen again, in thc spirit of an earnest seeker of Truth and an ardent disciple of Progress, to unburden my mind to you.

I would recount the scenes through which I have passed, in my journey to a more libe-ral plane of thought, since the light of

Nature 's Revelations" first began to dawn upon me ; but my history in this respect dif-fers very little, and tha t probably only in unimportant parts, from the experience of thousands who have 6een the same blessed light.

For Bix or seven years I have anxiously watched thc Spiritual Movement—have read some, and thought much—and a kind Provi-dence has favored me with opportunities of demonstrating these glorious t ruths seldom afforded to tiie dwellers of the far South-west. The various Spiritual papers, which have now and then entered the field of battle to contend with error, I have read with interest, and in tbeir circulation have assisted as best I could. But you are well aware of the settled and in-creasing hatred which all Southerners have to thc principles and outward manifestations of those who are denominated "Abolition-ists.' ' What began a few years ago in suspi-cion, has resulted in determined hatred—so that i t is actually unsafe, nay, impossible, for a man advocating such views to live in any part of the South where I have ever traveled. The great champion of the doctrine, "What-ever is, is r ight ," may see no harm in this; but, to my limited vision, wherever distrust and alienation take the place of confidence and sympathy, there is 6ome kind of wrong. Wc are a great people, and have a diversity of interests. Those interests, politically con-sidered, may clash ; but at least on some sub-jects, there may be a harmony of action and a unity of feeling. As individuals we have a common origin, and in the realm of spiritual unfolding we have a common destiny. But I have a question to submit to you—one in which every Southerner i6 interested, whose mind has become thc recipient of the New Gospel, and who has the common feelings of humanity. I t is this :

Can toe not have a Spiritual periodical for our whole country ?

Can we at the South who love the teachings of Nature, and begin to cast otf the worn and vile garments of priestcraft and sectarian big-otry—can we not have the privilege of read-ing and circulating a Spiritual Literature with-out justly incur no./ the imputation of duscminatv abolitU n doctrines 1 In a word, can we not have an eiptal privilege with our Northern Brothers and Sisters, of promoting this good CAUSE ?

As it now stands, I know of no Spiritual paper—our valuable HERALD not excepted— whioh can be publicly circulated without incur-ring risk. Wc have, become very zealous. As an illustration of the aversion which the peo-ple of the South have to the dominant party at the North, see them severing even the hal-lowed bonds of Union, which have kept us together a great Nation, and choosing any other condition rather than be under rulers of such avowed principles.

But I need not at tempt to prove anything to your mind. I only wish to ask you, in the spirit of brotherly love, is i t not just, that everything pertaining to this political sub-ject—everything which will lay an embargo upon the diffusion of the great t ruths of Spi-ritualism—should be set aside, so that the friends of Human Progress, whether North or South, may labor together ?

You will pardon me if I speak of myself. I have great opportunities of circulating lite-rature. From this circumstance my position is one incurring unusual risk. I saw your generous offer for New Subscriptions, and was anxious to obtain the bonus. I referred the matter to 6ome Spiritual friends. One said, " the paper is open to the objection of Aboli-tionism, as pieces occasionally appeared from such writers." Another asked me for a spe-cimen copy. Having just taken from the office No. 45—not even glancing at its contri-butions—I gave it to him, with the request to get some names. Whon it came back (which was on the following day,) I found on the first page that " Prophetic Vision," in which thc interpreter makes Lincoln and his Cabi-net the only individuals capable of piloting thc ship of state into a safe harbor. The Brother or Sister thus interpreting not only seems to ignore the fact, tliat this commotion of the elements and agitation of the public mind are in view of these officers taking the management of the Ship, but the interpreter is doubtless unapprised of the fact that, to express such a sentiment here, or in any of our Cotton-growing States, would be attend-ed with peril. Do not suppose we are not law-abiding citizens. Judge Lynch has not often to be called to decide questions of law seldom where the due process of law would be able to reach the case.

I am well aware tha t the spirit of the HER-ALD OF PROGRESS is most liberal. I ts columns arc open to free discussion equally for the Texan or the Mainiac ; but this is a subject wc cannot debate, even if we had the desire. We are satisfied of the justness of this sla-very system. Few, if any, can bc otberwise impressod after personal observation; but whichever way it might be, our laws do not

admit of its agitation here. What then t Cannot the great Principles of eternal pro-gression, of a spiritual existence after death, of a just recompense invariably following a violated law, of the possible intercourse of mortals with the departed, of the guardian-ship of angels, and other doctrines, so im-portant to Humanity—cannot these import-ant Principles be taught and the other sub-ject left to itself, or to the care of politicians? God's truth is universal. I t is free as air, and, therefore, he does wrong who attempts to withhold it from bis Brother. Christian-ity, which lias been the highest expression of Spiritualism, is more tolerant, more char-itable, than is the belief of him who would make us acknowledge the equality of the races, before we may appropriate any of the comforts and hopes of the Spiritual Philos-ophy.

Your reply to my interrogatory (see "Whispe r" in No. 42) is very acceptable. I have some just appreciation of your views, I believe ; though I have not the No. 21 referred to. I do not know tha t i t will be consistent with the nature of your Paper to exclude slavery agitation ; but I have set forth what I will term a " BILL OF RIGHTS," to which every Southern Spiritualist would subscribe, and pray you to regard with favor your worthy petitioners.

Truly yours, J . S . NORTON.

Poet ry , " T h e finest poetry was firstexperience."

H E R A L D OF P R O G R E S S . A N D R E W J A C K S O N DAVIS , E D I T O R .

NEW YOliK, SATURDAY, FEB. 9 , 1 8 6 1 .

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•' Not 'midst the festal throng, In halls of mirth and song ; But when thy thoughts aro deepest, When holy tears thou weepest,

Know then thy guide is nigh." [MRS. HUMNS.

Lone a n d uucompla in ing weeper ! S ink ing deep and ever d e e p e r In the vale of dark d e s p a i r i n g , S o r r o w ' s mourn fu l g u e r d o n sha r ing , Turn t h y sp i r i t , m e mory - l aden , To t h y f a r , celes t ia l " A i d e n n . "

Listen to t h e w o r d s I b r ing t h e e , Lis ten to the songs I s i n g thee , S t a y t h e tears forever t h r o n g i n g , Close thy h e a r t to e a r t h l y l ong ing , Come wi th in t h e s i l en t po r t a l Of the P a l a c e n a m e d I m m o r t a l .

Cou lds t t h o u b u t receive t h e b less ing , Lov ing , j o y o u s , a n d c a r e s s i n g , Which w i t h i n m y sp i r i t g lowe tb , W h i c h i t richly now bes towe th , H o l y peace w o u l d float a r o u n d t h e e , As when Eden-bl iss h a t h c rowned thee . 1 '. t h y s t r i c k e n h e a r t , s a d w e e p e r I Whi l e t h e t w i l i g h t g a t h e r s d e e p e r , L is t the s o f t a n d d r e a m y m u r m u r — Music f rom th ? e t e rna l S u m m e r , W h e r e t h e sheen of sac red f o u n t a i n s Gilds t h e g lory-c res ted mouuta ine .

See the r a d i a n t , c rys t a l wh i t enes s , S e e t h e p u r e a n d h e a v e n l y b r i g h t n e s s , W h i c h a r o u n d t h e g a r m e n t s g a t h e r Of t h y g u a r d i a n , b les t forever— L e t one g leam of fife e lys ian S w e e p ac ros s t h y t e a r f u l vis ion.

O p e n t h o u t h y s p i r i t po r t a l To t h e notes of s o n g i m m o r t a l , A u d th i s h o u r of h i g h c o m m u n i o n , Of divine a n d sac red un ion , Of moni t ion , s w e e t a n d t e n d e r , Shall a d o r n t h y l ife with s p l e n d o r .

T h e n le t P o v e r t y assail t h e e , H o m e , a n d f r i e n d s , a n d f o r t u n e fa i l t h e e — N o n e can rob t h e e of t h y t r e a s u r e , N o n e t h y m i n e of wea l th can m e a s u r e ; Grief shal l c h a n g e t o j o y s u p e r n a l — Life is c rowned w i t h l i fe e t e r n a l !

ORANGE, F e b r u a r y , 1861.

[From Life I l lustrated.!

O K I ft © PTE 9 E F $ FT E .

BY MRS. J . H. TUOMAS.

H e oomes to m e , a n d the s o l e m n j o y Of h i s p r e sence fills my room ;

T h o u g h f a r a w a y on a s u n n y s lope , W h e r e I k n o w t h e violets bloom,

H i s g r a v e is b r i g h t wi th t h e S p r i n g ' s first g i f t , A u d f r a g r a n t wi th i ts p e r f u m e .

H e comes t o me in t h e s u m m e r ca lm, Of the pine-wood cool and deep ;

W h e r e a n t h e m s , such a s the a n g e l s hea r , Th rough the cha rmed s i l ence s w e e p ;

A n d soul a n d s e n s e , f r o m the i r b u r n i n g p a i n , Are fo lded in b a l m y s leep.

He comes to me w h e n t h e h a r v e s t moon Is l igh t ing t h e A u g u s t eves ;

When maids s ing low in t h c p l e a s a n t fields, As t h e y b ind the g o l d e n sheaves ;

Or b lu sh ing , l is t to Hie dea res t voice In the shadow of t h e leaves.

He comes to me when I d r e a m a lone In the hea r th -g low b r i g h t and w a r m •

And h e a r t h e wail of the w i n t r y winds ' As they s t r ive wi th n i g h t and s t o r m ' ;

He holds m y hand , and he l e a d s me o n ' F a r in to the goldou m o r n .

Ah ! well I k n o w t h a t t h e violets b lue Arq vai l ing his t e n d e r eyes ;

B u t calm a n d d e e p in m y «oul t h e y smi le t h r o u g h the b l o o m s of P a r a d i s e :

And still I lean to his gen t le c l a s p , Where d a r k e s t m y p a t h w a y lie*.

ALL life is eternal : there is none other-and all unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immor ta l i ty to recover her lost intuition of thc same by reason of her descent amidst the lusts and worship of thc idols of flesh and sense Her discomfort reveals hcr lapse from innocence her loss of the divine presence and favor Fi-delity alone shall instaurate the God-head in h e r bosom.—ALCOTT.

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Miss HOYT'S admirable sketch of Mrs. Cora Scott, (Hatch,) will arrest the at tention of every reader. __

A MOST convincing statement of newly-wit-nessed facte, in the late wonderful picturc-exeroiscs of Mrs. E. J . French, will be pub-lished next week.

READ the able paper on " The Credit Sys-t em." Its reasonings and inculcations will make a deep impression. Do not fail to read D. L. 's practical reflections on the same sub-ject. _

T o LECTURERS AND MEDIUMS.—Let u s h e a r from you, one andal l—just a note, if nothing more, informing us of your current experi-ences and appointments in the field—so tha t we may keep the thousands authentically ap-prised of your respective movements.

" T H E FUNCTION OF PHILOSOPHY," b y o u r Brother S. J . Finney, is a t ru th fu l and com prehensive inspiration. It strikes to thc depth of man ' s opulent interior nature, and brings l o the surface some long-hidden price-less treasures. This profound Discourse will well repay careful and studious perusal.

" W A S IT PROVIDENCE OR THE DOCTOR ? i s a question familiarly disc nssed in a suggestive original article in thi-; week's Miscellany. "Unc le Will iam's" stout, rebellion against his beloved nephew s udden departure,

iuld not bc found an isolated instance could we but unvail the present universal uprising of independent thought versus " au thor i ty ."

7. To help the poor and despairing by teaching them to help themselves, and to work out their own salvation from error and injustice.

8. To probe and expose Statecraft und Church-craft.

9. To concentrate the spiritual power of all just and reasonable minds against THE CAUSES of Self-ishness, Intemperance, Poverty, Crime, Injustice and War.

10. Lastly, and in a word, lo avow those Spiritual Truths and advocate those practical re-forms which exalt both body and soul, which chasten and beautify Lira, which harmonize the family and fraternize the neighborhood, and which exemplify the principles of Eternal Truth and Righteousness-such, m brief, will be the. leading aims and objects of " T H E HERALD OF PROGRESS."

Boundless Spiritualism. Question : " C A N WE NOT HAVE A SPIRITUAL

I KRIODICAL FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY ? "—See the Texan letter in another column.

OUR ANSWER. T o MR. J . S. NORTON, BROTHER IN PROGRESS:

With pleasurable emotions we acknowledge the reception of your fraternal epistle. Hu-man words always find sympathy in human hearts. We have respectfully read your letter, and havo conscientiously studied its persuasive propositions, in the holy light of tlmt brotherly love which flooded your soul while constructing its sentences. In every part of your communication we discern the celestial influence of spirit-ual t ruth . In each proposition we en-counter the heaven-anointed angel of all peaceful Progress—the immortal guardian stationed at the gate leading to the palace of all permanent happiness—whose name, above all other names, is LOVE. Under the exalt-ing magnetism of this sublime principle, the material distance'is melted, and all party dis-tinctions, with their pomp and pride, fade rapidly ou t of mind. Even educational prejudices are obliterated, or are rendered powerless, by the magic touch of fraternal love; and ut ter strangers, in obedience to its at t ract ion, though separated by space and circumstances, meet in a center of consent-aneous interests and common friendship. And thus, like a shaf t of spiritual l ight breaking through a sky full ' of threatening storm-clouds, is unmistakably foreshadowed the possibility of a universal BROTHERHOOD.

These sentiments and reflections were awakened while reading your brotherly epis-tle. But the political bearing of some of your suggestions seemed to force into our mouth the expressions of an ancient medium (Ecclcsiastes, Chap. 1), which read : " T h e wind goeth toward the South, and turneth about unto the Nor th ; i twbi r le th about con-tinually, and tbe wind returneth again ac-cording to his circuit. ' '

This remarkable passage is true to tHe teachings of Nature . The seasons do no t more harmoniously roll than do the circles of human progress. You say that you are "an ardent disciple of Progress." We be-lieve you, Brother, and bail you as a fellow traveler. But the path is no t flowery nor

THERE is a charming naturalness in the story for "Chi ldhood," commenced in our present number, which cannot fail to interest even children of a larger growth than those connected with " The Skating Pa r ty . " Our friend " STELLA" is also conveying an import-ant moral lesson to the minds of our youth-ful readers, which will doubtless be more and more apparent as the story proceeds.

THE powerful influence of mind in the Spirit Land is visible, cropping out ever and anon, in the propositions of several leading public men. " T h e gods" are inseparable, f rom much of the conduct of individuals.

There's a divinity tha t shapes our ends"— in political revolutions not less than in pri-vate life—and we regard the denial thereof as equivalent to a confession of heartless Athe-ism.

THE HERALD OF PROGRBSS i s n o w f u l l y a n d firmly established, and its continued publica-tion insured beyond peradventure. In fact, so essential has it become to our weekly en-joyment, and so large is thc income wc derive from thc many letters of hearty fraternal sympathy and encouragement, which we re-ceive, tha t we could not think of abandoning the enterprise, even were its peenniary suc-cess far less positive.

We sometimes wish that our paper makers and printers, who are sure to receive near-ly every dollar the letters convey, could share in the more imperishable but less marketable commodities which they contain, and from which tbe editorial income is largely de-rived.

A I M S A N D O B J E C T S O F T H I S P A P E R .

THE HERALD OP PROGRESS is pledged to con-tinue to labor in the field with the following aims and objects:

1. To free men from thc thraldom of error and superstition.

2. To expose and demolish false systems of the-ology.

8. To open up Ihe pleasant way of Progress, through experience, facts, principles, reason, and faith.

4. To fearlessly oppose every political or ecclesi-astical scheme, which tends to increase the sum of human servitude and misery.

5. To advocate with unfaltering zeal every new measure which promises to multiply the sources of human happiness.

6. To espouse and encourage every Cause or In-vention which seems to meliorate the condition of : the unfortunate.

governmental net-work of American police;, The great Judge of the world is inherent JUSTICE. Wisdom crowns his beautiful head, and Love inspires his large heart, and hi» whole being is full of Power. Silently, as the eternal sun shines upon the evil and the good, the Judge pronounces sentence equally upon individuals and Nations. Agitation w extrcmest during the hours of trial, and the tribulation is saddest when the verdict is ren dcred, but anon all is still and tranquil, for the justice of the holy Judge is seen, and with one accord there is once more "Peace on ear th ." Only sectarians and unhappy skep tics regard men as the self-constituted agents of world-wide evil ; the true believer, stand ing on the deep foundations of knowledge, "sees God in clouds and hears him in the wind." Even the drama of Christianity could not reach its climax without traitors, rebels, courts, and executioners. Yet it is a custom universal among Christians to " thank God" for thc crucifixion and for the resurrection of Jesus! Of course, then, all the so-called evil agents of thc sublime event are covered with the royal mantle—the seamless robe— of unbounded love and charity. Who can resist the Will-power of the Infinite? Re-member : God is inherent—inseparable from all things and events—and it is atheism to deny the t ruth .

We come now to your quest ion: " C m we not have a spiritual periodical for our whole coun-try f"

We love the Catholicity of your question, Brother ; and with much happiness we an-swer " Y e s . " The hospitality of our columns is not circumscribed. Our paper is not devo-ted to " one i d e a ; " therefore i t is neither one-sided nor sectional. Like the symphoni-ous music of happy distant spheres, the wave-lets of far away thought-seas have beat and intermingled in the prose and verse of our many Contributors. Strangers from the ex-treme East and West—antagonists from re-mote North and South—spirits f rom low Earth and from high Heaven—such, and yet others, have met and sympathized beneath the folds of our cosmopolitan flag! Many human souls, almost dead on the bare bosom of cold humanity, have been resuscitated Several unhappy minds, long diseased and despairing, now live beneath the sheltering wing of Hope. Hundreds who feared the ap-proach of grim Death, or dreaded the awful dawning of the mysterious Future, are now lifted to spiritual bights where Science and Truth shine with inextinguishable beauty. Friends and enemies, acquaintances and strangers—of all shades of social, religious, and political conviction—have stood shoulder t o s h o u l d e r i n t h e HERALD OF PROGRESS. T h e y have written for one another 's good—words of God—breaking from the unfathomable-deeps of Nature, Reason, and Intuit ion.

Please observe, Brother, that we have not permitted in our columns any gladiatorial controversies, brimful of egotism, for the sake of conquest or defeat. But in the light of Brotherhood, and under the skyward-flying flag of Spiritual Progression, we have exem-plified and proclaimed the inherent right of FREE SPEECH. A c t u a t e d b y t h i s s p i r i t , a n d sunny a t all times. Of individuals, so also

of the Nat ions ; they must labor and revolve regulated by the standard of this inherent in obedience to the principle.

We are no politician, bu t the net-work of government is not incomprehensible, and we sometimes look at i t a little. Popular com-motions seem to have a political origin. Ele-mental strife, all through the intestines of our government, seem to be conditional. Learned statesmen toach the "doc t r ine of circumstances," and thus philosophically at-tempt to explain the origin of political revo-lutions. They argue reasonably well, but almost invariably they ta lk like atheists or materialists, who believe in no inherent prin-ciples of boundless RIGHT. Of late we have read many of the debates in Congress—the speeches of some of our leading Statesmen from both sections of thc country—but we do not often find a sober recognition of in-herent t ru ths and causes.

Enlightened Spiritualists, on the other hand—and all t rue friends of Progress—re-ceive into their souls the Principles of Na-ture as the Laws of God ; which are su-perior to all legislative enactments, more di-vine than all governments, and certain to punish thc transgressor with an appropriate and unerring punishment. And who can fail to see tha t these heavenly Principles are working with omnipotent energy in and through all our American insti tutions? I t is impossible t ha t one m a n ' s intellect should comprehend the mighty sweep of these pro-gressive principles. Let us contemplate the fields of earth—look into the history of Na-ture, whose heart all men adore—in order to learn the lessons of Progress anew. At-trition, t r i turat ion, commotions, disintegra-tions, and new combinations of dissolved el-ements—these are the steps of the sublime Principle. In this grand way all organic matter climbs the steeps of Nature—decom-positions, separations, secessions, confedera-cies, reorganizations and so on, over and over, unt i l better conditions are evolved and higher positions attained. Thus are wc edu-cated by our universal Mother.

Nations, governments, institutions, consti-tutions—however powerfully organized, bow-ever lovingly inter-confederated, however ce-mented by the prayers of priests or blood oi martyrs—cannot reasonably hope to escap. the overwhelming flood of these regenerative principles. Mere routine politicians, with out the light of Intuit ion, are blind to thes< Spiritual Dispensations. " T h e Judgment Lay " i8 a t hand ; not afar off. I t s right-eousness is shining perpetually upon th. thrones of Europe ; and no t les6 upon the

right, we have precluded angry debate and said " n o " to over-heated partisans, even

h e n the subject was most congenial to our sympathies. Nor have we admitted republi-can articles of fa i th to please our Northern subscribers, or pro-slavery arguments to please the inhabi tants of the South ; but, as before affirmed, we have published both sides, in order to establish and exemplify the funda-mental law of all individual or national Pro-gression, namely—FREE SPEECH. Under this flag we accept a great variety of volunteers, with different shades of inspiration, and dif-ferent weapons of spiritual warfare. During the past year the public mind has been driven by the gales and whirlwinds of political revo-lution. Partisans have for long periods "sown to the wind and reaped the whirlwind;' ' and, as a consequence, during the departed months, we have published considerable on these questions.

" Is it not just," you ask, " that everything pertainring to this political question should be ' set aside?"

The answer is already given. We do not see how, under any circumstances, we coitfd p u b l i s h t h e HERALD OF PROGRESS b e n e a t h t h e banner of universal Liberty and Free Speech, and at the same t ime exclude ' ' everything pertaining to this political quest ion." We have hundreds of nor thern friends who would advise us to take this popular course. Others would exclude the 1 ' Marriage and Divorce question ; " others, all reference to the errors of the Pulpit ; others, being merchants on t h c almighty-dollar principle, would exclude everything f rom our columns tha t is no t " m a r k e t a b l e . " Such a course might be ex-pedient—it migh t be prudential—it might be freighted with 6tore6 of worldly wisdom—it might be preeminently "po l i t i c , " and luxu-riously congenial to a large majori ty of our subscribers both North and South ; but , O Bro ther ! there is an inspiration descending momentarily from the augnet sphere of. Principles—there is a voice from the over-arching Spirit Land—there is a prayer perpet-ually ascending from the heart of the toiling Millions—which erects a pyramid of impossi-'dlitics between the mission of the HERALD OF PROGRESS and the granting of your petition.

We would not have yon separate yourself from us, Brother—the march of Spiritual Progression is sublime, toilsome, beautiful, rewardful, and eternal—and the lovers of t ru th should bear cach other company ! But in tho Soutli you "cannot debate" the ques-tion of Slavery, if you should so desire ; be-

149 T H E H E R A L D O F P R O G R E S S . c a u s e t h c " r i s k " is t o o great, t o e n c o u n t o r -thc responsibility of independence is too •weighty and perilous—and so, very natural-ly, you want our HERALD to come to you without encountering opposition. Our sym-pathies flow out toward all human beings so unhappily circumstanced. There must be something wrong somewhere—what is i t? and where ? Let thc law of Progress answe I t will ere long surely mel t away the obscu-rities of the problem, and the Nations will then behold the fair face of Tru th ; and then, too, will all the inhabitants of this con-tinent, as one man, go on their way singing the songs of gladness and prosperity.

You frankly pu t the question : ' ' Can not have the privilege of reading and circulating a Spiritual Literature without justly incurring the imputation of disseminating abolition doctrines ? "

The term " Abolition doct r ines" is vague. People thoughtlessly employ this expression, and often unjustly apply i t to the great ma-jority of the nor thern population—some-what as church people stigmatize all Spirit-ualists as " F r e e Lovers" or " In f ide l s , " so tha t i t becomes well nigh impossible to get a fair hearing in the case, or to sepa-rate reality from popular fiction. There are hundreds and thousands of openly avowed anti-Slavery people at the North, who have no sympathy for £ John Brown raids," and no wish to coercively interfere with the rights and institutions of the South. They believe in thc efficacy of spiritual power ; not in the power of thc sword.

But you well know, Brother, tha t wc would no t have you or our southern friends incur •4 risk " for the sake of our journal. There are several " Spiritual Periodicals" devoted to the advocacy of the facts and philosophy of Spiritualism. Some of them studiously avoid thc discussion of other ' ' isms, ' ' and especially are they silent upon the subject of Slavery in the Southern States. Tlie Spiritual Magazine, a very able monthly, is published 111 London, England ; thc Banner of Light in Boston, Mass. ; and others in different parts of this country ; and i t is but fair to say that each of these journals merits the patronage of those, who, not wanting a wide range of topics, prefer to read of the continually arising phenomena of Spiritualism, p We arc no t regardle66 of consequences, but we must, in the spirit of universal love to man, do tha t which, under the inspiration of eternal principles, is required of us. The management of the editorial department of t h e HERALD OF PROGRESS d u r i n g t h c p a s t y e a r —which has been a year full of extraordinary temptat ions to print severe articles from over-heated partizans—may be regarded as a standard by which to judge of our fu ture conduct and impartiality.

In olosing we repeat, that , in our estimate of the mission of this Philosophy, our journal is preeminently cosmopolitan. I t is hardly patriotic enough to be wholly in love with America ; i t extends a welcome to trans-At-lantic Brethren ; and our HERALD is mailed every week to England, Franoe, Scotland, Ger-many, and to yet other parts of the Old World. If we should receive a petition from Europe to furnish a Spiritual Literature, with-o u t any reference to Monarchial systems of government, we would answer the Brother as we now answer you. We can break, but not bend—we can stop and stand under our flag —but we cannot change, except for the better and the Best. In view of all these consider-ations, if you can consistently remain with us—and continue to aid us in our effort to universalize the facts of Spiritualism and the t ru ths of the Harmonial Philosophy,by means of unhampered FREE SPEECH, with fraternal love—then, Brother, we shall rejoice with a

j o y full of strength and gratitude. Yours, for all Truth ,

I NEW YORK, F e b . G, 1861 . EDITOR.

T O E X C H A N G E S .

We are indebted to several of our exchanges for very friendly notices of the HERALD, for which they will accept our acknowledg ments.

By calling attention toour aims and objects, with terms, &c., papers, which, from thoir location, are of no value to U6 by way of ex-change, can render a full equivalent for the HBRALD OF PROGRESS f o r t h e c o m i n g y e a r .

" W E S T E R N " L E C T U R E R S ' C O N F E R -E N C E .

For the general good of the cause in which we arc engaged, and in cooperation with our colaborers of the East, we hereby invite the lecturers on Spiritualism and connected re-forms to meet a t Sturgis, Michigan, Tuesday, April 23d, for a four days' Confer-

ence. The objects of this meeting are sUbstan

tially the same as those of the Quincy Con-vention, viz: A free exchange of views and sentiments, to the end tha t we may under stand and appreciate each other, unitize efforts, and establish a general cooperative feeKng among Reform Lecturers. The calling of a National Convention at Oswego, N. Y. in August next, by thc "Qdincy Committee,' being contemplated, we hope that the Le( turers, as far as possible, will attend this Conference, and thus become interested in and add strength to the general movement. Although this call is particularly to Lectur-ers we heartily desire the attendance of all friends of reform to meet and enjoy with us thc exercises of the Conference. Our friend^ at Sturgis have kindly tendered us tlie use of the " F r e e Church," also the hospitality of their homes, and will do all in their power

to make the Conference interesting and bene-ficial.

I t is hoped tha t Lecturers Avho arc inter-ested and cannot attend, will indicate their cooperative views and suggestions by letter. Address, " Lecturers' Conference," Sturgis, Michigan, care of J. G. Waite, or either of the names attaohed hereto.

Mrs. H. F. M. Brown, F. L. H. Willis, Abram Smith, Mrs. Laura McAlpin, Charles Holt, N. Frank White, A. B. French, Frank L. Wadsworth, Mrs. S. E. Warner, S. J. Finney, Laura DeForce, Wm. Denton, James Cooper, M. D., Hudson Tuttle.

Will all papers friendly to the call please copy.

C E N T R A L A N D W E S T E R N N E W Y O R K S P I R I T U A L C O N V E N T I O N .

All spiritual lecturers, mediums, believers, and inquirers, are nereby cordially invited to a t tend a Convention to be held in the Univcrsalist Church, Victor, Ontario Co., N. Y., on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, February 6th, 7th, and 8th, 1861. Victor is on the N. Y. Central Railroad, between Rochester and Auburn. Speakers and as many others as possible will be entertained free, and arrangements are made with the hotels, within a few rods of the church, to take visitors a t the rate of 75 cents per day. W. Dickenson, C. Fisher, D. Goodwin, Mar-

ccnus Wright , Committee.

E X P I R I N G S U B S C R I P T I O N S .

This week's paper will carry to many of our subscribers notice of thc termination of their subscriptions with our next issue. We desire tha t i t may also convey a friendly in-vitation for renewal.

A l l w h o l o v e t h e HERALD OF PROGRESS, a n d value its harmony-promoting, truth-search-ing, and creed-pulverizing work, will, we hope and believe, continue to labor with us. In view of the peculiar condition of political agitation and suspense, we solicit the timely efforts of our friends, lest, in this era of se-cession, thc increasing necessity for a free and fearless journal be forgotten or overlooked.

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

F R E E S P E E C H .

At the recent Anti-Slavery Anniversary at Bpston, which was greatly disturbed by the mob, and finally broken up by the Mayor, Rev. T W. Higginson gave thc following ra-tional view of the issue presented by these

( riotous demonstrations: j " I f speaking bccomcs a crime, if speaking is to be put down by the quadrupedal sounds

I we hear this morning, why the sooner we be-gin to talk the better. I believe nobody over denied the abolitionists the use of that wea-

| pon at least. We are not here to-day to de-bate any of the issues of the past. We are not here to-day even to contend for the slave.

I The slave to-day must take care of himself j for the moment, while we are fighting thc I rights of the white men of Massachusetts. (Applause.) We thank those rioters who have

! placed us in such a position, tha t we are sure of the victory, a t last. Whether slavery or anti-slavery be right or wrong, free specch is r ight always. (Applause.) We have come back to a position which is impregnable. They have driven us out, it may be, for a mo-ment, from the Fort Moultries of our posi-tion, but it is only to enable us to fall hack upon that Fort Sumter of our right, which the sons of Massachusetts will sustain."

fl*?" W. S. Wolf, 420 South 10th Street, above Lombard, Philadelphia, keeps thc HER-

| ALD OF PROGRESS f o r s a l e .

Brief Items. —Kansas has at last been admitted as a

State. A letter from Japan states that Tommy,

t h e b o y p e t of t h e e m b a s s y , h a s l o s t a l l h i s t r a n s - A t l a n t i c g l o r y , a u d c a n b e f o u n d i n v e r y h u m b l e q u a r t e r s , w h e r e h i s m a n y a d -m i r i n g A m e r i c a n y o u n g l a d i e s w o u l d . b e l o t h to j o i n h i m .

—A California paper reports the existence of a riata one hundred feet long, made from the hair of the women who fell a t the massa-cre of the Mountain Meadows.

—The Seneca Courier reports the recent cracking open, with a report like a pistol, of

. . . . , , . a mahogany center table. The only explana-Yi e trust no large body ot our subscribers | ̂ o f f e r c d i s that the table came from

will be disposed to " seccde " f rom the HER- i Kochestcr! ALD OF PROGRESS. j —Miss Burdett Coutts is erecting an im-

I posing drinking-fountain in London, to cost S P I R I T U A L FACTS IN P A R I S , j five thousand pounds.

—Lord Caithness recently appeared in Lon-The Paris correspondent of the New York | don in his steam carriage. He threaded the

World communicates the following : j crowded streets without difficulty or danger " A young man, named Squire, from Boston ; to any , . j , one of the editors of a Spiritual journal The schoolmistresses whom Gov. Slade, of

called the Banner of Light- is puzzling the : Vermont, sent ou t to Oregon, were to pay a Parisians, and promises to create as great an fine<)f $ 5 0 ° i f they married under one y — excitement in the circles of the curious as M o s t o i t h e m P a i d t h e , m c -Hume did two years ago. Most of the news- —The N • y • Observer, notorious a t the Nor th paper itemizers have been to see him, and a s a violent pro-slavery religious paper, has have published descriptions of the perform- been denied a circulation m some parts of tlie ances of his wonderful table, which he has South, on account of its ii.cendiary diaracter. Had made expressly f rom solid oak, for the —The, subject of capital punishment is purpose of testing the strength of the spirits, being discussed in public meetings a t Boston, which, he says, raise i t from the floor, and, 'Charles Spear, Hon. M, H. Bovee, and Mrs. carrying i t over his head, land i t upon a bed c - s - B- s P e a r a r e speakers, in the rear of him. The table weighs about! —Several ladies regularly at tend the Ieo a hundred pounds, and being placed in t h e ' t u r e s o f Professors of the University of St. center of a room, Squire, with his legs tied to Petersburg, and take notes like students, a chair, sits jus t far enough away from it to | —Mrs. Martha Washburn, of Stafford, be able to reach it by extending his left arm I eighty-two years of age, has woven nearly to its full length.; and his left hand rests upon I 011 e thousand yards of rag carpeting during theedgeof the table, while the other is held l>y j U i e Pasfc t w o y ^ 8 -

. —A correspondent in a new England State inquires what medium may be best consulted m regard to the present difficulties of thc country ? Vanity Fair replies, unequivocally, a Circulating Medium !

FOREIGN ITEMS.

18UU1 l a t C B t u d v i c e 8 f r o m Europe are to Jan.

—'Hie Court of Queen's Bench, England, has granted a writ of habeas corpus in thc case of Anderson, the Canada fugitive. I t is thought thc final decision of this Court will be favorable to the discharge of Anderson.

—The weather in England still continued very cold, and many railroad accidents had occurred, owing to the action of the frost on the iron.

—Prince Alfred had arrived at Plymouth, for the purpose of embarking on the St. George, to join thc North Americkn squadron.

—There had been a decrease in the revenue of France for 1860, as compared with 1859 of 21,000,000 francs.

—Count de Persigny had given orders for all foreign newspapers, without exception, to be allowed free circulation throughout the French empire.

i —The French occupation of Syria is to con-j tinue, a t least till af ter March, in spite of the | remonstrances of England.

—Commercial difficulties in France had in-creased, the advance on the rate of discount having checked operations.

The French embassadors a t Vienna and Berlin had notified those Courts, respective-ly, that the French fleet would quit Gaeta on the 19th of January. The bombardment of the city by the Sardinians, which had been temporarily suspended, it was supposed would recommence on the 21st.

I t is reported that in the event of a war between Piedmont and Austria, a French army will occupy Lombardy without declar-ing war against Austria.

—The new Prussian king takes tlie title of William I, instead of Frederick William V, as a t first reported.

—The new lieutenant of Victor Emanuel, a t Naples, is Prince Carignan, who was sa-lu ted by the English fleet on h i s arrival in tha t city, and enthusiastically received by the people.

I —The property destroyed in the sack of the | Chinese Emperor 's palace, i t is said exceeds j £6,000,000. Every soldier accumulated a large amount of valuables.

—The total shipment of gold to America from England, since Nov. 28, had amounted to £2,945,000.

—Vast numbers of laboring men were out of employment in London. At thc Thames Police Court, the number relieved, within a few days only, was 1500.

Attractive Miscellany. All things aro ongaged in waiting their history—

The air is full of Hounds; the sky, of tokens; the ground iN all memoranda and s ignatures; and evory obicct oovercd with hints, which speak to thc intelligent."

a person who sits behind him. - o a While the room remains lighted, nothing remarka-ble occurs; but, upon the lamps being re-moved, a creaking noise is heard, the table gives signs of agitation, and the lights being introduced, i t is found upon thc bed, having by some means been carried eight or ten feet. The Russians seem to be particularly de-lighted with these feats, and, as they did Hume, they have taken up Squire, and he has given several seances a t thc houses of promi-nent Russian noblemen. Hume, as the re-ward for his endeavors in tlie Spiritual line, married a Russian laxly of great wealth ; and i t is not impossible tha t Squire, who, like Pyramus, is a 'sweet youth and tall , ' may be equally fortunate. At any rate, he has be-come one of the celebrities of Paris, and has, it is said, been already requested to appear before the Emperor, who, when Hume was here, invited him quite frequently to the Tuilleries. While in England, Squire and his table bad the honor of appearing before the Queen and royal family ."

G R E E L E V O N D I S U N I O N .

The following emphatic passage occurs at the conclusion of Horace Greeley's letter to Mr. O'Sullivan :

You ask the Republicans to assent to and

Why cannot the Emperor Napoleon in-sure his life? Because no one can be found who can make out his policy.

—Fears are expressed that there will be an extension of the McCormick Reaper patent, which has already yielded an immense for-tune. I t is notorious tha t money controls most Wasliington officials, and in th is cor-ruption lies lasting peril to our country.

—Among the recent awards of the United States Treasury Note Loan, the New York Tribune Association is down for $5Q,000, a t 10J per cent, interest.

—A.North Carolinian writing to a lady in New York, 'pays the following compliment to women : ' 'One less Lucy Stone would be one less John Brown, one less Harriet Beecher Stowe would be one less Henry Ward—and one less Charles Sumner and Seward would be livo less plagues upon the earth.

—It is said of Ethan Allen tha t he once at-tended a church, where a minister made an estimate, the result of which was that out of the whole human race, not more than one a hundred would be saved. On the announce-ment of this result, Allen took his hat and walked out, saying as hc went, " Gentlemen, if any of you want my chance, you arc wel-come to it. I t is not worth staying for ."

—The late Miss Mary P. Townsend, of Boston, left by will $60,000, " the income of which is to be applied to the support of those

concur in establishing a policy condemned females who, in legal phraseology, are callcd alike by our own consciences and Uie unani- 'spinsters,' or single women." Th mous judgment of the wise and good through-out the world. We will never do i t ! You may cajole a few leading politicians to their own ruin, as has been done in memorable instances already ; but the masses will not bc frightened, and cannot be bought, As for roe, sharing their convictions, baptized into their spirit, owing nothing f to the oracles of Wealth, Trade, or Power, but everything to the Toiling Millions, who, defying Panic, and Pressure, and threats of Disunion, unfal-teringly uphold the standard of Free Labor and Free Soil, I pray God to keep me faith-ful to the end !"

FLW T h e HERALD OF PROGRESS c a n b e o b -aincd in Philadeljliia, of Calhr.dcr & Co.,

A. Winch, and all other news dealers.

E N D O F V O L U M E .

With next week's paper closcs the first year of t h e HERALD OE PROGRESS. T h e t i m e s h a v e been in most respects extremely unfavorable for every new enterprise, especially one in no ways relying upon currcnt excitement or pop-ular prejudices. Yet the BUCCCSS of the HER-ALD has exceeded our most sanguine expecta-

tions. I t will continue to maintain a fearless aud

single women." The money is to endow a " Spinster's Home."

—The question of the validity of Jerome Bonaparte's marriage to Miss Patterson is again revived in France. The son seems prepared to assert his legitimacy persistently. If established, the American Jerome would be the next heir to the French throne after the Prince Imperii, 1.

— T h e y have a juvenile prodigy at Boou-ville. A " wee bit of a boy " astonished his mother a few days since. She had occasion to chastise him slightly for some offense he had committed. Charley sat quietly for some time afterwards, no doubt thinking very profoundly. At last ho broke out thus : " Muzzer, I wish pa'd get anuzzer house-keeper, and let you go ." " Why so, my son?" "Cause I 've got tired of stein' you ' round."

—Father Dean, for mauy years a preacher in one of the old towns of Connecticut, was one summer day preaching to his flock, when he discovered signs of upproaching rain. Stopping in the midst of his sermon, hesaid; "My friends, we should not slight tho gifts of the Lord by neglecting to take care ol them ; and, as I have a little piece of grain cut that is likely to get wet, if you will rise f will pronounce the benediction." Having given this, the old gentleman went to look after his grain, leaving his sermon for thc next fair day.

T H E V R E S T N ® T H E B E .

BY EMMA HARDINOB.

I In the fall of 1869, says tho Banner of Light, while Miss Hardinge was in St. Louis, the ohoir.wero desir-

of singing some new piece, and under tho inspira-tion of the moment Miss II. composed thc following.] Where do t h e dead find r e s t — w h e r e a r e t h e y

s leeping? Benea th t b y w a t e r s , me lancho ly sea?

S a y , a re tbe i r sp i r i t s st i l l in t h y s t e r n k e e p i n g ? Ah, n o ! thy w a v e s in music a n s w e r me :

T h e y r e s t not h e r e !

In d im ca thed ra l aisles, whe re n i g h t winds sigh-ing .

S t i r t h e old b a n n e r s , waving mids t the g l o o m , The re g a l l a n t kn igh t s , 'neatli s cn lp tu r ' d tombs a re

ly ing ; A n d y e t a still voice echoes f rom each t o m b —

T h e y rest not h e r e 1

Where g r aves are g r e e n and summer sunsh ine fa l le th

On moss and flower, and t h r o u g h the rus t l ing t r ees ,

W h e r e e a r t h w i t h smiles her weary one r eca l l e th ; Still t h e so f t m u r m u r floatetb on the breeze—

T h e y r e s t n o t h e r e !

P e a c e dwe l l e th n o t in t o m b t — t h e r e only l ie th T h e e m p t y c a s k e t t h a t con ta ined the g e m ;

F a r , f a r f r o m e a r t h t h e r ansomed spi r i t f lye th , By ange l s we lcomed , e v e r m o r e wi th t h e m

To be a t res t .

For the Herald of Progress.

Was it Providence or the Doctor?

A D I S P U T E D Q U E S T I O N .

Kansas Aid Concerts. B. M. Lawrence, of LeGrand Cushman's

" K a n s a s Relief Concer t " Company, fur-nishes us a few items of the success of this novel and attractive movement in aid of the unfortunate. He wri tes :

' ' We are prospering in our efforts in behalf of _the Kansas sufferers far beyond our first anticipations, having already sent more than one hundred dollars in money, and not less than one thousand dollars in grain and other articles, including twenty boxes of clothing, boots, shoes, &c. These boxes contain many new and valuable articles, and average in weight about one hundred pounds.

"Many little incidents occur in our travels which portray so much genuine goodness that I regret they should be lost to the world, while so many are trying to enforce thc doc-trine of total depravity of human nature,

" In Racine, Wis., the Episcopal clergyman attended each concert, and not as a ' dead head. ' He gave a fine notice of thc concerts from his pulpit, wrote a complimentary letter to the Milwaukee Sentinel,and himself brought in a large basket of valuable donations.

" A t Waukesha we enjoyed the hospitality of Elder Spooner, a good orthodox Brother, who is one of Nature 's true noblemen. Be-fore our arrival he had sent S50 from his own pocket, to Kansas. On Christmas day I gave his little daughter some pennies for a present, and asked her what she would buy with them. After thinking a moment, she handed them back, saying, ' Buy something and send to the poor little girls in Kansas, who have no Christmas toys.' On arriving at the store where thc box was being {Kicked, I found her older sister had just purchased the material for a dress and placed it in thc box. The father gave mc ten times their worth in goods for the pennies, but the large box was not yet full. The good Elder could no t bear to see it nailed up till closely packed, so hc threw off his excellent great coat, re-marking, that he still had another a t home that would keep him from suffering. We then closed the box, and the American Ex-press Company took it immediately to Kan-

,/ree. • At Frccport, a good Old fanner came

nearly ten miles, and brought a load of grain, and passed in his family. He came up and shook us by the haud with a 'God bless you,' a f ter the concert.

At Beaver Dam, the next morning after the concert, Mr. Bardwell's little daughter Lucy, got up early, and before nine o'clock, tlie time the boxes were to be closed, brought the second little sled load of articles her kind friends had helped licr to procure. Then, after watching me pack the two largo boxes sent from that place, she gave me a large handful of pennies, and with a countenance beaming with benevolence, said, 'Now buy something and send to thc poor little children of Kansas.'

" If thele is, as we all must believe, a Su-preme Ruler who doeth all things well, may wc not find that war, slavery, and even fam-ine may ultimate in good to all those who strive to serve Him l>y feeding and clothing his hungry and naked children."

We are advised that this concert troupe will shortly visit Joliet, Ottawa, LaSalle, Bloomington, Atlantu, Springfield, and De-catur, Illinois ; thence to Terre Haute, In-dianapolis, and Ricl.mcnd, Indiana ; Cincin-nati, CohmbuB, and Cleveland, Ohio ; they will then visit Buffalo and Eastern cities.

Miss L. Bennet, a vocalist of merit, is now added to the company.

Mr. Cushroan'6 address is Box 1,495 Chi-cago, 111.

Uncle William Jenkins was a peculiar man, so people said. Peculiar! What a word of vast and varied significance has this «ome to be in these latter days. If a man chance to differ from you in any respect, he is peculiar. You are not, of course ; it is only he, who does not happen to walk in the track of your ideas and sentiments. If a man venture to dis-sent from a prevailing custom, or to fall upon a new idea with a free, open, out-and-out way of expressing it, he is peculiar. As though a person might not perchance have that inner vitality, tha t vigor of thought and perception, by which he might shoot outward and up-ward among his fellows in intellectual growth ! If one is gifted with any independ-ence or originality of mind and manner, he is forsooth peculiar. As if every one were not privileged to exercise his own special person-ality, and hadn ' t a perfect r ight to have a way of his own. Must every one be cast in the same mold ? Must every one hold his thoughts and ideas permanent, as if stereo-typed or cast in a foundry ? Yet so it is. such the sentence pronounced by the world on those who dare to differ from the common herd. Uncle William was not jus t like every-body else, so uncle William was peculiar.

" Mrs. George," said he to a visitor, and an esteemed friend, (she was esteemed by uncle William because shc had a tincture of practical good sense in her composition—one of his peculiarities, no doubt)—"Mrs. George, look at that picture," handing her a photo-graph. " T h a t ' s the face of one of the finest young men the sun ever shone on. Can' t you see it in the eye? Isn ' t he handsome? Wasn' t he good?"

I should say itbelongcd to a noble-heart-ed, vigorous, manly character," replied the lady. ' ' Whose is i t ?"

That 's my nephew tha t died last week. Died?—that was killed, I mean," said uncle William, with great vehemence.

His visitor looked up with a startled expres-sion. " Ah !" exclaimed shc, "how?"

' Killed ! Mrs George, murdered ! by the doctors, in this nineteenth century! The rascally scamps! I only wish they could

The wish, however, was suppressed, for polite reasons doubtless.

Don't, pray don' t be so violent, so extra-vagant, Mr. Jenkins," said the lady. " No doubt it was an affliction to you to lose your nephew, but—"

' An affliction ? Why, Mrs. George, he was the joy of my heart, the hope of my old age, (Mr. Jenkins had no children) the very pride of my eyes. I t was only four weeks ago I left him in perfect health. 1 gave him two hundred dollars. There, said I, Joseph, go and get anything you want, clothes, books, everything, and in October you come down to New York, and spend the winter with me and I ' l l put you through right. I ' l l tell you what I was going to do with him. I had given him a splendid farm of a hundred and fifty acres out west, and I was going to finish out his education so tha^ he'd know just how to manage it. And of all the men in this country, Mrs. George, let me tell you, the thoroughly educated, scientific farmer is the noblest, thc most influential, the very best. You may talk about your professional men—

they arc all one-sided ; your business men they are every one crooked; your literary men—they are mean and contracted; but a genuine farmer—one who understands tbe soil, and lives to work on it, and that knows how to bring Science and Art to bear1 in i ts improvement—has the most harmonious of «J1 human developments. He is vigorous in body, active in mind, sound at heart. As a man, a citizcu, and a Christian, he will stand head and shoulders above the rest of man-kind. I know Joseph had i t in him by na-

6 T II E H E R A I D O F P R O G R E S S. t u r e . H e w » m a d e t o d o s o m e t h i n g i n t h i s I i . i m t o t h e l i g h t a n d t h n s of s w i n g m a n , r » w o r l d . H e w o u l d h a v e m a d e h i s m a r k . | va lua l» le l i t e I u t i m e t o c o m e , OO H B ( w i n u n g i y

' a n s w e r e d t h e l a r g e s t A r a b , d o w n w i t h m c a s f a r a s h i s s c h o o l . H i s ti r e t h e h o m e l i e s t g i r l i n b r i g h t f a c e a u d e x t e n d e d h a n d w e r e a l w a y s

. ' , , ' , , , ' f I J n „ H death of t h i s young m a n m a y h a v e b e e n s c h o o l ; m a y b e t t II m a K e « ' » ! ' « A n d n o w , j u s t l o o k t h e r e ! a h e a p of I ' ^ t e d b y P r o r i d e n i f o r t h i s v e r y p u r - " O h - o - o - o - o , h o - o - o - o - o , c r i e d a n d c o r r u p t i o n , h u r r i e d a w a y o u t of o u r p e r n y t h e 8 a c r i f i c c ( i v i c t i m g i r l , r u n n i n g h o m e a s f a s t a s s h e c< s i g h t i n t o t h e g r a v e S p o i l e d , c r u s h e d d e - ^ s e . i T J t h e i t l l l . •• w h a t d o y o u m e a n , ^ t r e a t i n g

S o t h e i l l n e s s t a u n t i n g l y , " y o u re t .c * , w e l c o m e , a n d h e b o u n d e d a l o n g b e s i d e m e , l a y h a v e b e e n | s c h o o l ; m a y b e i t ' l l m a k e y o u n a n a s o m c . c h a t t i n g , a s s u o h d e a r l i t t l e f e l l o w s o n l y c a n . liis v e r y p u r - " O h - o - o - o - o , h o - o - o - o - o , c r i e d « t w e T h e c i t y h a g l n i t m a n y d i r t y , u n c a r e d - f o r

c o u l d .

f o r t h c r e d e m p t i o n of o t h e r s , t h e p r o p i t i a - i " W h a t d o y o u m e a n , «<s m y s i s t e r t i o n f o r t h e p h y s i c a l w e l l - b e i n g of m u l t i - 1 s o ? " s h o u t e d J i m m y W i l s o n , r u s h i n g a t t h o stroyed, by those infernal doctors! Mrs.

George, you must excuse m e : I am mad." I " I t s e e m s t o m e y o u o v e r l o o k s o m e v e r y

i m p o r t a n t f a c t s , M r . J e n k i n s . Y o u a p p e a r t o , t h i n k t h a t y o u r n e p h e w h a s c e a s e d t o e x i s t ,

n o w t h a t l i e h a s p a s s e d a w a y o u t of o u r s i g h t . D o we d i e w h e n t h e b o d y d ies , M r . J e n k i n s ? D o w e n o t r a t h e r l i v e o n , w i t h t h e s a m e f a c u l t i e s , t h e s a m e a c t i v i t i e s a n d c a p a -b i l i t i e s a s b e f o r e , o n l y e n f r a n c h i s e d f r o m t h e i n f i r m i t i e s of a p h y s i c a l c o n d i t i o n , a n d r e f i n e d a n d s u b l i m a t e d b y c o n t a c t w i t h t h e i nv i s ib l e? Y o u s a y y o u r n e p h e w w a s m a d e t o d o s o m e -t h i n g i n t h i s w o r l d . P e r h a p s t h e g r e a t a n d w i s e C r e a t o r s a w t h a t h e c o u l d d o t h i s w o r k b e t t e r w i t h o u t t h e b o d y t h a n w i t h i t , a n d so h e s t r i p p e d oft ' t h e o u t s i d e , t h c i n c u m b e r i n g h u s k , l e a v i n g h i m f r e e t o w o r k w i t h g r e a t e i r e a c h a n d p o w e r t h a n b e f o r e . "

U n c l e W i l l i a m w a s p u z z l e d . I n e v e r s a w h i m m o r e so. H e r e a l l y l o o k e d s o l e m n . T h e fierceness, w h i p h h a d a l m o s t d i s t o r t e d h i s f e a t u r e s b u t a m i n u t e b e f o r e , s u b s i d e d u n d e r ,

t h e f o r c c o f a w o m a n ' s t h o u g h t . H e l o o k e d a n d m o v e d , J i n h i s f r i e n d ' s f a c e ; h e l o o k e d d o w n a t w h e n h e w a s n o n p l u s s e d ^ I c a r p e t . h e l o o k e d u p a t h e r a g a i n . H e w a s _ M r s . G e o r g e b a d m u c h m o r e to. » , i n M , m s i l e n t f o r a f e w m o m e n t s a f t e r M r s . G e o r g e I d i c a t i o n of a m e r c i f u l a n d w i s e I ro* d e n c e

1 d e c l a r e , y o u a r e t o o d e e p f o r m e , M r s . G e o r g e . I c a n ' t r e a c h so f a r : I ' m t o o s o r e . I f ee l o u t r a g e d , e x a s p e r a t e d - - "

" A n d d i s a p p o i n t e d i n y o u r p r o j e c t s ? " , „ « „ „ „ „ J | „ „ , . . . , " Y e s . t h a t ' s a f a c t . 1 d o n ' t t h r o w a n y t h e i r c l o t h e s were t o r n , a n d w h e n t h c

b l a m e o n G o d , b u t t o b e l i e v e t h a t h e w i l l o d ' • u n k i n d

i t , t h a t I c a n ' t s u b s c r i b e t o . " " W h a t e v e r i s , i s right." " I d o n ' t b e l i e v e i t . " " N o t right a s f a r a s m a n ' s a g e n c y a n d ac -

c o u n t a b i l i t y a r e c o n c e r n e d , b u t s u r e l y r i g h t a s f a r a s t h c S u p r e m e B e i n g h a s a n y c o n n e c -t i o n w i t h t h c e v e n t . E v i l i s a p a r t of t h o

b o y w i t h c l e n c h e d l i s t s I t w a s s a d t o s e e t h o f a i r w i n t e r s c e n e s o

s o o n c h a n g c d b y t h e s e l f i s h n e s s a n d a n g e r o f t h e s e l i t t l e b o y s a n d g i r l s . T h e w h i t e s n o w

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W h e n S u s y a n d J i m m y h a d e a t e n t h e i r s u p p e r , a n d t h e t e a - t a b l e w a s s e t a w a y , t h e i r m o t h e r c a l l e d t h e m t o h e r , a n d p u t t i n g h e r a r m s a b o u t t h e m , s h e a s k e d : " W h a t i s i t m a k e s o u r l i t t l e p a r l o r s o c h e e r l e s s t o -n i g h t ? "

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b a n k , t h a t r o s e o n o n e s i d e of t h e l i t t l e I s a i d t h e i r m o t h e r , p l a c i n g o n e of h e r h a n d s j G E O M > J A C K S O N , I n s p i r a t i o n a l s p c a k -s t r e a m , w h e r e t h e s n o w w a s m a n y f e e t o n e a c h h e a r t . J i m m y u n d e r s t o o d i n s t a n t l y ^ m a y ^ H ( i , i r , . s s , . , | b y f r i e n d s w i s h i n g h i s d e e p . I h e r m e a n i n g , a n d b l u s h e d w i t h s h a m e , a v e r t - S C r v i c e s , a t B e n n e t t s b u r g h , S c h u y l e r C o . , N . Y .

S o m e of t h e s e h o l e s w e r e q u i t e w i d e , a n d i n g b i s e y e s f r o m h e r g a z e . | l i n e d w i t h h e m l o c k b o u g h s , t o m a k e t h e m " C a n S u s y find t h e b e a u t y i n h e r h e a r t . L | M R S . S . L . C H A P P E L L , i n s p i r a t i o n a l w a r m e r , a n d t h e c h i l d r e n t h o u g h t t h e y w e r e j w o n d e r , t h a t h a s g o n e o u t of t h e r o o m ! " s h e t h e s n u g g e s t l i t t l e s n o w h o u s e s t h a t e v e r w e r e ) s a i d . S u s y l o o k e d w i t h q u e s t i o n i n g e y e s i n t o m a d e . B u t t h e n i g h t b e f o r e t h i s s a m e a f t e r -n o o n , t h e n o r t h w i n d b a d c o m e d o w n t o s e e w h a t h e c o u l d d o , a n d w h i l e t h e s e l i t t l e c h i l d r e n w e r e s o u n d a s l e e p i n t h e i r b e d s , h e a m u s e d h i m s e l f b l o w i n g t h e s n o w i n t o a l l s o r t s of f a n t a s t i c s h a p e s ; a n d j u s t o n t h e o p -

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d i f f e r e n t b e c a u s e w e g o t a n g r y o n t h e i c e ? " s h e a s k e d .

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h a d c e a s e d s p e a k i n g . T h e n a l o o k of i nc re -d u l i t y a u d s k e p t i c i s m p a s s e d o v e r h i s f a c e . ^

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• B u t y o u a r e a C h r i s t i a n . M r . J e n k i n s . " " Y e s , y e s , " h e s i t a t i n g l y a s s e n t e d u n c l e

W i l l i a m , a s if l i e w o u l d r e a l l y d o u b t t h a t , i f s h e w e r e g o i n g t o p r e s s s u c h a d o c t r i n e u p o n t h i s n e w bas i s .

" A n d a t r u e C h r i s t i a n c a n n o t h e l p b e i n g a S p i r i t u a l i s t , i n t h e highest s e n s e of t h a t w o r d , f o r l ie p r o f e s s e s t o ' live as seeing Him who is invisible'—to b e c o n t r o l l e d a n d g o v -e r n e d e n t i r e l y b y t h a t w h i c h i s i m p e r v i o u s t o a n y b u t t h c l i g h t of f a i t h . A l l h i s m o t i v e s , p u r p o s e s , a s p i r a t i o n s , a i m s , h a v e t h e i r r o o t a n d t h e i r r e a l i z a t i o n i n t h e u n s e e n w o r l d . Y o u c a n n o t b u t b e l i e v e a l l thi&. N o w G o d h a s d o n e t h i s . "

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" I t e l l y o u h e n e v e r a p p o i n t e d t h i s . O n t h e c o n t r a r y , I a m s u r e h e i s d i s p l e a s e d w i t h t h e w h o l e p r o c e e d i n g . N o w j u s t l o o k a t i t . T h e r e w a s p l e n t y of w a t e r a n d i ce a t h a n d — t h e v e r y m e a n s t h e y n e e d e d t o c u r e t h a t D i p t h e r i a — a n d i t w o u l d h a v e d o n e i t i n a w e e k . . Iu6 t t h i n k , n o w , M r s . G e o r g e , h o w s i c k y o u r h u s b a n d w a s , a n d h o w s o o n h e w a s u p a n d k n o c k i n g a b o u t t h e s a m e a s - e v e r . A n d h e r e t h e y p u t a s i d e t h e v e r y r e m e d i e s G o d h a d so b o u n t i f u l l y g i v e n t h e m , a n d t h a t p o o r b o y w a s b l i s t e r e d , a n d p l a s t e r e d , a n d b l e d , a n d p h y s i c e d , a n d d o s e d w i t h b r a n d y , a n d n o t o n e d r o p of w a t e r g i v e n h i m t o c o o l h i s p a r c h e d t o n g u e ! Y e s , t w e n t y - o n e d o l -l a r s ' w o r t h of b r a n d y w a s p a s s e d d o w n t h a t j

p o o r t h r o a t i n t h r e e w e e k s ! W h y , t h a t of i t s e l f w a s e n o u g h t o k i l l h i m , t o b u r n h i m u p a l i v e . A n d y o u t e l l m e t h a t t h e g o o d G o d w a s a t t h e b o t t o m of a l l t h i s , c o n n i v i n g a t s u c h o u t r a g e o u s i n i q u i t y . W e l l , t h a t w a s w h a t t h e y s a i d a t t h e f u n e r a l . T h e m i n i s t e r c a m e i n w i t h s u c h a s a n c t i f i e d , s o l e m n f a c e , a n d s a i d w e m u s t b e s t i l l , b e c a u s e G o d h a d d o n e i t . I c o u l d s c a r c e l y k e e p s t i l l i n m y s e a t , n o w I t e l l y o u . M y v e r y b l o o d b o i l e d w i t h i n d i g n a t i o n . T h e m i n i s t e r i s c o n f e d e r -a t e w i t h t h e d o c t o r s , s a y s I t o m y s e l f — a l l o l d f o g i e s t o g e t h e r . "

" B u t , M r . J e n k i n s , l i s t e n t o r e a s o n . B e c h a r i t a b l e . T h e d o c t o r d i d n ' t w i l l f u l l y k i l l . H e s i n n e d t h r o u g h i g n o r a n c e . "

" S u c h i g n o r a n c e i s w i l l f u l i n t h e s e d a y s of l i g h t a n d k n o w l e d g e . T h e r e ' s n o t t h e s h a d o w of a n e x c u s e . "

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8 THE H E R A L D OF P R O G R E S S . Spiritoscopic Mediumship.

C U R E S P E R F O R M E D A N D T E S T I M O -N I A L S G I V E N .

CHAGRIN FALLS, 0 . , J a n . 22 , 1851. BROTHBR DAVIS : T h e f o l l o w i n g t e s t i m o n i -

als, thc first f r o m a lawyer of note, and the second a mechan ic of w o r t h , a re submi t t ed in c o m m e n d a t i o n of t h e new and improved sys-tem of Pract ice, a not ice of which I very brief ly gave t h r o u g h t h e HERALD a few weeks ago. T h e n u m e r o u s pa t i en t s , and grea t suc-cess w i t h which m y labors a re crowned, ena-b le m e to say t o such as a re suffer ing under t h e afflictive h a n d of disease, t h a t t hey m a y fo rward the i r cases and I will , to t h e bes t of m y abi l i ty , secure a fu l l rea l iza t ion o f j t he expecta-t i on held o u t in thc card to he seen in th i s w e e k ' s issue of t h e HKRALD.

A . HARLOW, M. I ) .

DR. A. HAUI.OW : As reques ted , I g ive be-low a s t a t e m e n t of m y case, now be ing t rea t -ed by you .

Some th ree yea rs since, I bccame seriously t roub led w i t h some k i n d of a u r ina ry diffi-cu l ty , caus ing m e c o n s t a n t pa in in the back, w i t h f r e q u e n t ino rd ina te a n x i e t y of ur ina-t ion , which difficult ies became ser iously ag-g rava t ed by being t h r o w n f r o m a su lky , two years since. 1 cal led t h c best mcdical advice he re , and in Cleveland, Detr io t , and o t h e r places, b u t could o b t a m only t empora ry re-lief f r o m a n y of t h e m , a n d f r o m some sus-ta ined a posi t ive i n j u r y ; n o r could any two of t h e m agree in t he i r diagnosis. T h u s I passed on till one yea r las t spr ing, when m y bra in became ser iously affected, so as for days a n d weeks a t a t ime to render me incompe ten t for business. By th is t ime t h e en t i re u r i n a r y organs , to wi t , k idneys , u rc tus , b ladder , p ros t a t e g land , u r e t h r a , all bccame ser iously involved wi th t h e disease, w i t h a m a r k e d dropsical tendency, and a l i fe of con t inued suf fer ing was t h e consequence ; a n d t o add to m y despondency, I could find n o phys i -cian who could g ive m e h o p e s of recovery , bu t on t h e con t r a ry , d u r i n g las t s u m m e d , t h e best of t h e m f r a n k l y to ld m e t h a t t h e y k n e w of n o ce r ta in h e l p for me ; some were f r a n k enough to tel l m e t h a t in al l p robab i l i ty I could no t l ive l o n g ; and t h u s I l ingered a long, h a v i n g f r e q u e n t a t t a c k s t h a t would p r o s t r a t e m e on m y bed w i t h t h e m o s t acu te su f fe r ing .

I n October las t , I was t a k e n down m o r e ser iously t h a n usual , a n d f r o m pas t exper i -ence suppos ing a phys i c i an ' s ass is tance value-less, I refused to call one, ti l l m y f ami ly sup-pos ing m e dying, in despair , s en t for Dr. Har low, who pract ices b y t h e assis tance of a " S p i r i t D i a l . " He camc and labored over me c o n s t a n t l y f o r t h r e e days , when exhaus t ed n a t u r e re fused longer to sus ta in such con- ,

Al though repeatedly and falsely repor ted worse, a n d dy ing several d i f fe ren t t imes since becoming the especial ob jec t of the care a n d t r e a t m e n t of a spir i t doc tor , I have h a d no reason to r eg re t the changc , for 1 have been steadily improv ing in every pa r t i cu l a r ; so t h a t 1 a m now able to si t u p a la rge por t ion of the t ime , and engage in reading, wr i t ing , and o the r useful t h i n g s to d iver t a n d a t t r a c t t h e mind . I have r idden o u t ; a n d thc last t ime vis i ted f r i ends by special i n v i t a t i o n re-siding miles f r o m he re—al l of which I ac-complished in one day, a n d r e t u r n e d h o m e again w i t h o u t i n j u r y — a much g r e a t e r feat t h a n I eve*- expected to be able to p e r f o r m th is side of the sp i r i t wor ld , t h r e e m o n t h s a g o ; a l t h o u g h n o t yet well, a n d t h o u g h I may, hy some unforseon s y m p t o m s s e t t i n g in , never a t t a in to a s t a t e of h e a l t h which I now have every prospect of reach ing .

I a m , f r o m m y own experience, satisfied of one t h i n g , to w i t : of t h e super ior i ty of t h i s sys tem of practice, or m o d e of t r ea t ing dis-ease, overaiiy a n d at! o t h e r s w i t h which 1 have become acqua in ted , a n d as such a m h a p p y to givo th is hones t a n d u n v a r n i s h e d t e s t i m o n i a l in i ts f avor , t h e r e b y r e c o m m e n d i n g i t t o t h e afflicted eve rywhere . F- Ji'DD.

C O N F E R E N C E O F S P I R I T ! A L S P E A K -E R S .

NATIONAL CONVENTION.

A f r a t e r n a l Conference of Spi r i tua l i s t Lec-t u r e r s a n d Teachers will be held in t h e c i ty of Worces ter , Mass. , commenc ing on lues-day. t h e 16th day of Apri l , 1861, a n d con t in -u i n g fou r days .

T h e objec t of th is Conference is, to f u r t h e r t h c good work so well begun a t t h e la te Quincy Conven t ion—namely , t h e p r o m o t i o n of m u t u a l acqua in tance , respect, a n d confi-dence, a m o n g the publ ic advocates of Spir i t -ual Re fo rm, t h e secur ing of g rea t e r u n i t y of h e a r t and purpose , a n d thufe g rea t e r fitness for t h e work devolv ing on us .

The p r e s e n t d is turbed and d is t rac ted s t a t e of t h e publ ic mind in re la t ion t o social a n d pol i t ica l in s t i tu t ions , as well as to re l ig ious a n d theological ideas, m a r k s a t r ans i t iona l per iod in t h e wor ld ' s h is tory , of no o r d i n a r y m o m e n t . Thc Old is pass ing a w a y ; the New j is s t rugg l ing i n t o b i r t h . I t t h e r e f o r e be-1 hooves those w h o a rc called to be Sp i r i tua l teachers , t ha t t h e y be qualified to leud t h e w a y to a n e w age of Wisdom a n d of H a r m o - j n y — t o t h e i naugu ra t i on of b o t h a m o r e v i ta l and pract ical Rel igion, and a m o r e j u s t a n d f r a -t e rna l Civil izat ion. A n y t h i n g less t h a n t h e s e | will fail to m e e t t h e d e m a n d of t h e t i m c s | a n d the promise of t h e open ing era .

All Lec tu re r s a n d Teachers ( inc lud ing Me-d i u m s a n d Edi tors) ident i f ied wi t l i or i n t e r -ested in t h e Modern Spi r i tua l R e f o r m a t i o n , w h o recognize t h e des i rab leness of t h e ob jec t above n a m e d , a n d w h o m a y be a t t h e t i m e

wine be fo re the i r visi tors on New Years d a y . T h i s Chr is t ian paper denies t h a t to ta l abs t i -nence is b ind ing upon , or even adv i sab le for Chr is t ian men , and s tyles t h e r c c o m m e n d a -of the Chris t ian Associat ion no t on ly as " improp r i e ty and foo l i shnes s , " b u t " i m p e r -t i n e n c e . "

The Boston Investigator, t h e Infidel o rgan , opposes these s t r i c tu res of the Churchman, and offers ea rnes t And f a i t h f u l t e s t i m o n y aga ins t wine d r ink ing .

FIFTH ANNUAL SPMUTCAUST RBGISTEE. U .

CLARK, Editor . A u b u r n , N. ^ Wo have received this nea t l i t t l e a n n u a l ,

a n d find i t to con ta in a Ca lenda r for 1861, seven teen pages of original a n d selected ar t i -cles a l ist of 475 speakers a n d 345 m e d i u m s , wi th a con jec tu ra l es t imate of thc n u m b e r of Spir i tual is ts in Amer ica .

These f igures show an increase of " bel iev- j e r s " d u r i n g t h e year of 145,000, a n d t h e ' to ta l number 1,745.000 ! Since Sp i r i tua l i s t s have n o t ( fo r tuna te ly ) to a n y considerable e x t e n t , organized themse lves as a d i s t i nc t sect, we are a t a loss to conceive on w h a t a u t h o r i t y th i s es t imate is based .

| A correct l ist of public speakers a n d me-I d iums , w i t h the i r proper address , is of in ter -es t a n d v a l u e . I t s \TtIue, h o w e v e r , depends u p o n i t s co r rec tness ' a n d we t h e r e f o r e h o p e in f u t u r e ed i t ions of t h i s Regis te r to sec the c h a n g e s necessary to m a k e it re l iable ,

I even t h o u g h t h e n u m b e r in t h e agg rega t e be t h e r e b y d i m i n i s h e d . C. M. P.

A C O R R E C T R E P L Y .

We copy t h e fo l lowing as a s a m p l e of t h e l e t t e r s received a t our office :

" I f one do l la r will assist in ' p u l v e r i z i n g al l sectar ian creeds , ' it answers the ques t ion : ' W i l l y o u w o r k w i t h us? ' "

Traveler^ Guide. N E W Y O R K .

s t a n t suffering, a n d for n ine h o u r s I lay t o j w i th in c o n v e n i e n t d is tance , a r e co rd ia l ly all appearance in a d y i n g s t a t e ; e v e r y t h i n g i n v i t e d t o be p re sen t . k n o w n t o t h e l iv ing medical wor ld , had ap-1 I t is p roposed t h a t t h e first two days of pa ren t ly been done , a n d d e a t h was a b o u t | th i s 'Confe rence be devo ted exclus ively to t h e end ing m y suf fer ing . benef i t of Lec tu re r s and T e a c h e r s — t h a t t h e

A t th i s cr i t ical s tage, Dr. Ha r low l e f t m e in t h e care of m y k i n d f r iends , w i t h i n s t ruc -t ions to keep m e a l ive if possible for a s h o r t t ime , whi le h e w e n t i n t h e middle of t h e n i g h t a n d once m o r e consul ted his " Dial." He was gone b u t a s h o r t t ime , when he re-t u r n e d w i t h orders to change t r e a t m e n t , w i t h assurance t h a t I would ra l ly u n d e r i t , a n d so i t was. In a few hours . I passed in to a na tu r a l qu ie t sleep, and thence began m y convalescence. True , t h e Dial i n f o r m s mc t h a t i t will be m o n t h s before I sha l l g e t s o u n d ; ye t t h a t wi th s t r ic t a t t e n t i o n to i t s prescrip-t ions a fu l l cure can be effected, w h i c h I a m now led tp believe, f r o m t h e fact t h a t I a m to-day more f r e e f r o m disease t h a n for t h e las t two years, a n d can dai ly sec a s teady a n d appa ren t ly cer ta in i m p r o v e m e n t , a l l of which I feel t h a t I owe to t h e super io r ski l l a n d abil i ty of t h e Spirit Council, c o m m u n i c a t i n g th roug l i t h e medica l Dial in Dr.' Hay low ' s possession, a n d can m o s t hones t ly •recom-mend all suffer ing f r o m disease, to th is va lua-ble assistance. W . W . AINGER,

Attorney at law. CHAGRIN FALLS, 0 . , J a n . 19, 1 8 6 1 .

ORANGE, O h i o , J a n . 2 1 s t , 1861 . T o ANY WHOM THIS MAY INTEREST :

H a v i n g beon solicited to m a k e a brief s t a t e m e n t of my case a n d t r e a t m e n t , I would say, t b £ t on t h e 21st day of J u l y last , whi le engaged in ra is ing a por t ion of t h e floor o f !

m y factory, I was u n f o r t u n a t e l y , b y t h e s l ipping of t h e u n d e r p i n n i n g , c a u g h t u n d e r its c rush ing weight . W h e n ext r ica ted , I was supposed dead or d y i n g ; b u t l i fe l inger-ing, medical aid was speedily sen t fo r . T w o experienced physic ians p ronounced m e fa ta l -ly in ju red with luxation a n d fracture of t h e ver tebrae . All sensat ion and m o t i o n were as much suspended f r o m t h e midd le of the back and body downwards , as t h o u g h I h a d been actual ly dead.

I remained under the observat ion and

n ? n | B( 1 ^ ° U n y first " i e d ica l a t t e n d -

an t s til l the 10th of October las t , and d u r i n g th i s t ime, instead of any a p p a r e n t improve-w ^ » y C a 8 C

<- f o r U , e b c t t e i > e n t i r e loss of all sensation and mo t ion con t inued nearly the same in the ent i re body below t h e p r o m i n e n t i n j u r y of the back, a la rge por-t ion of t h e lower part of thc spine, or back-bone, be ing lei t qui te hare by t h e s l u f W

-away of the sof t parts , m a k i n g I t f r i gh S ' g look a t ; and to increase the danger a n d dif-ficulty m m y case, h igh ly in i lammatory s y m p t o m s supervened ex tend ing no t onlv t h r o u g h the en t i r e pelvic region, b u t t o o t h e r pa r t e of t h e body . W h i l e i n ' th is c f i s t a t e or condi t ion , appa ren t ly baffling the

session be spen t in f r ee , conve r sa t i ona l i n t e r changes of op in ions a n d experiences , a n d such o t h e r m e t h o d s of accompl i sh ing t h e desired ends as m a y be deemed su i tab le .

T h e r e m a i n i n g days (Thur sday a n d F r i d a y , Apr i l 18th a n d 19tli,) will be m a i n l y a p p r o -pr ia ted to publ ic mee t ings , f o r addresses a n d for the cons idera t ion of the gene ra l in te res t s a n d c la ims of Sp i r i tua l i sm. To these mee t -ings , all Sp i r i tua l i s t s and t h e publ ic g e n e r -al ly are inv i t ed .

T h e f r i e n d s in W o r c e s t e r h a v e g e n e r o u s l y offered t h e hosp i ta l i t i e s of t h e i r h e a r t s a n d h o m e s t o all l ec tu re r s w h o m a y a t t e n d . T h e place of m e e t i n g wil l be a n n o u n c e d i n d u e t ime.

T h i s Conference is des igned as p r e l i m i n a r y to a National Convention, which t h e C o m m i t t e e , in pu r suance of t h e d u t y ass igned t h e m , in-t e n d t o c o n v o k e in t h e m o n t h of A u g u s t n e x t , (14th to T8th.) a n d in t h e c i ty of Oswe-go , N. Y. T h e pu rposes of t h i s N a t i o n a l m e e t i n g will be m o r e def in i te ly s t a t ed in t h e Call, t o lie h e r e a f t e r issued.

In view of t h e prof i tab le r e su l t s w h i c h may be expec ted f r o m such g a t h e r i n g s , t h e unders igned f r a t e r n a l l y r e c o m m e n d to t he i r co-workers in t h e W e s t e r n S ta tes t h e h o l d i n g of a s imi la r Conference a t s o m e cen t r a l p o i n t in t h a t sect ion, a n d a t or a b o u t t h e s a m e t i m e , a s -p repa ra to ry to the Genera l C o n v e n -t ion in A u g u s t . One of our n u m b e r (F . L . W a d s w o r t b ) whose field of labor is a t p re sen t in t h e West , wi l l g l a d l y co-opera te w i t h t h e m in ca r ry ing o u t t h i s sugges t ion .

A. E . N e w t o n , H . B. S to re r , Leo Miller , A m a n d a M. Spence, F. L. W a d s w o r t b , M. S. Townsend, Members of Committe ap-pointed at Quincy.

A N E X E M P L A R Y C H A R I T Y . '

W e have before us a copy of t h e t w e n t y -s e v e n t h A n n u a l Repo r t of the Ladies ' Depos-'.tory, No. 876 Broadway , N . Y. T h e p u r p o s e of t h e Society is dec la red to be, " s u p p l y i n g work to respectable f e m a l e s of every religious denomination.''

T h e i n q u i r y sugges t s i tse l f , w h e t h e r these ladies d o u b t t h e capac i ty of " w i c k e d poor peop l e " for suffer ing , or feel u n w i l l i n g t o in te r fe re w i t h Providence i n in f l i c t ing pover -ty u p o n t h e m for t he i r sins.

Possibly on ly respec table a n d p ious people ever suffer t h e p a n g s of h u n g e r , o r s h i v e r wi th cold ; s t i l l we h a v e a s l i gh t desire to see some efficient c h a r i t y f o r f emales n o t qu i t e " r e s p e c t a b l e , " a n d e m p l o y m e n t f u r -n ished for t hose need ing it , w h o m a y be

ina-Ce Grape.

NEW Y0HK AND NEW HAVEN RAILROAD. 7 A. M., Accommodation Train ; 8 A. M., Boston Ex-

press ; 9.30 A. M., Norwalk Special; 12.15 P . M., Ac-commodation ; 3.15 P. M., Boston Express ; 4.10 P. M., Accommodation ; 5.30 P. M.. Norwalk Special ; 6.30 ; P . M., Portchester Special; 8 M., Mail.

NEW YORK AND HARLEM ROAD. 7 A. M., Albanv Express : 8.15 A. M., White Plains ; ;

10.30 A M, Mail , 2.30 P M, White Plains; 4 P M, Cro- ! ton Fal l s ; 5 P M, Albany Express ; 5.10 P M, White | P la ins ; 6.15 P M, White Plains. Williams Bridge j Trains a t 11 A M, 8.30 and 11.45 P M.

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7 A M Express arr ives Albany, 11.45; 7.30 A M Poughkeepsie, 10 A M, Sing Sing W a v : 11 A M, Ex-press and Mail; 1 P M, Poughkeepsie Wav : 3.15 P M, :

Albany Mail ; 3.45 P M, Peekskill Way : 4.30 P M, Sing ' Sing Expres s ; 5 P M, Express. Albany a t 9.55: 5.30 : M, Sing Sing Passenger : 6.40 P M, Sing Sing Passen- j ger : 9.45 P M, Sleeping Car Express.

NEW YORK AM* E R I E RAILROAD. L E A V E FOOT OL DOANB S T .

A M, Dunkirk Express : 8.15 A M, Mail: 3.30 P M, W a y ; 5 P M, Night Expres s ; 4.45 P M, from Je r sey City, Accommodation.

NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA.

ski l l of t h e m o s t exper ienced, I fo r tuna te ly 1 H H I became t h e sub jec t of examina t ion and pre- j w i t h o u t t h e pale of " r e l i g i o u s denoni1

s c n p t i o n t h r o u g h Dr. Har low ' s " Medical U'lons. " -- •• D i a l , " a n d receiving indub i t ab le evidence of I t h e presence a n d skill of an in te l l igence of a super io r o rde r c o m m u n i c a t i n g t h r o u g h th is cu r ious i n s t r u m e n t , was induced to place my-self u n d e r t h e exclus ive care of Dr . H . , to re-ceive such t r e a t m e n t as d ic ta ted t h r o u g h his Spir i toscope.

I a m h a p p y to say, t h a t , u n d e r th is new a n d i m p r o v e d s y s t e m of medica t ion , t h e m o s t a l a r m i n g s y m p t o m s were speedily re-m o v e d — i soon, b e g a n to ga in in flesh, vigor, a n d genera l h e a l t h .

Par t ia l sensat ion a n d m o t i o n have re-t u r n e d ; t h e f r i g h t f u l cav i ty , caused by bluff-ing, over t h e sp ine , h a s been qu i t e or nearly healed w i t h s o u n d a n d h e a l t h y flesh.

I N F I D E L O R C H R I S T I A N 1 F o r years the o r t h o d o x press h a v e g iven pub-

licity to t h e (false) s t a t e m e n t t h a t T h o m a s Pa ine was a d r u n k a r d . W i t h m a n y hones t -minded Chr is t ians , " I n f i d e l " and " profli g a t e . " or " d e b a u c h e e , " a r c s y n o n y m o u s t e r m s .

We invi te t h e a t t e n t i o n of a l l such persons to t h e fact t h a t the Churchman, a l ead ing Episcopal o rgan , criticizes the act ion of t h e Y o u n g Men ' s Chr is t ian Association of Brook lyn, in u r g i n g the c lergy to e x h o r t the ladle* of the i r congrega t ions to ref ra in f r o m placing

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B p " Let there be a grand rallying of the people. The friends in the several places will give free enter-

tainment to those in attendance from the country.

NEW YORK STATE CONVENTION. The Fourth Annnal New York State Anti-Slavery

Convention will be held at Albany, in Association na i l , Monday evening. Tuesday anil Wednesday afternoons and evenings, Fob. 4, 5, 6.

Wendell Phillips, Hon. Gerritt Smith, Luoretia Mott, Rov. Beriah Green, Ernestine L. Rose, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Oliver Johnson, Rev. S. J . May, Aaron M. Powell, Susan B. Anthony, and others, will addrees thc Convention.

Afternoon sessions will oommence a t 2X o'clock. Admission Free. Evening sessions at o'clock. Ad-

10 cents.

M i s c e l l a n e o u s . Brown ' s W a t e r F u r n a c e Company.

Manufacturers of Brown's Pa ten t H O T W A . T K R F U R N A C E ,

For wann ing and ventilating Dwelling, School and Bank Buildings, Hospitals, Stores, Green-Houses, Gra-peries, &c.

Also, S team Appara tus constructed for warming Ho-tels, Factories, &c.

274: Cana l S t ree t , N e w York ; , Three doors eas t of Broadway

I N O T I C E T O M E D I U M S A N D S P I R I T U A L I S T S . As we are opening a NEW HALL, in New York, and

desirous of procuring, from time to t ime, tho bes talent in the field, both as speakingi healing, and test mediums, of every description, we hope all such will forward their addresses as early as possible.

I n connection with the Lecture Hall, we shall hold Conferences and Circles daily ; furnish Baths and Med-ical T rea tmen t ; rocieve orders for all Spiritual Publi-cations ; act as Agents, and givo general information in every way, to advance the cause, to all those seeking the light of Heaven.

Address R. D. GOODWIN & CO., Banner of Light Office, 143 Pulton St., New York. 51

M R S . S M I T H , 47 Bond Street , will give si t t ings to heal by laying on of hands ; also for seeing spir i t friends. Circles on Monday, Thursday, and Friday evenings. 50 tf.

A L A D Y with tho highest roferonoe, desiros a situ-ation to teach in a school or family. I s preparod to teach tho English Branches, French, Latin, Music, &c. Salary moderate. Address " Carr io ," No. 274 Canal St., oaro of A. J .Davis .

A G E N T L E M A N wishes to form tho acquaint-ance of a lady possessing a competence—or talents equivalent—refined tastes, and an ardont tempera-ment. Address, with full part iculars, in confidence and good fai th , L n u u , Boston, Mass.

M R S . A B B O T T , a developing medium, will receive calls a t 421 Sixth Avenue, N. Y., from 2 to C P.M., Sundays oxoeptod. By laying on her hands, persons soon become influenced, and a fow si t t ings develop thora lo thoir various gift/;."

W O M A N ' S R I G H T S . The Second Annual New York State Woman's Rights

convention Will be held at ALBANY, in ASSOCIATION HALL, Thursday and Friday, afternoons and evenings Feb. 7 and 8.

Lucretia Mott, Wendell Phillips. Ernestine L. Rose, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Hon. Gorritt Smith, Rev. Be-riah Green, Rev. S. J. May, Aaron M. Powell, Susan B. Anthony, and others, will address the convention.

Afternoon sessions at 2% o'clock ; admission FREE. Evening sessions at 7 ^ o'clock; admission 10 cents.

W . H . W I L L I A M S , DEALER IK

HOUSEKEEP ING ART ICLES & WOODEN W A R E , 40-52 341 8th Avenue, bet. 27th & 28th Sts.

FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES. " Wilder's Pa tent . "

A . S . M A R V I N & C O . ,

SUCCESSORS TO

S T E A R N S <te M A R V I N ,

335 Broadway , N e w York, Ofier for sale a large and well-assorted stock o f t h e above

CELEBPvATED SAFES, Which have effectually preserved their contents in

nearly 300 conflagrations. F A M I L Y P L A T E C H E S T S ,

BURGLAR PROOF BANK SAFES, W i t h " D e r b y ' s Combinat ion" Bank Lock, and

"Cover t ' s P a t e n t " P e r m u t a t i o n Bank Lock.

A . S . M A R V I N C O . , 335 Broadway, Cor. Worth St., N.Y.

N E W S P A P E R I N T E R E S T ?0R S A L E . Half the Material , In teres t , and Good-will of one of

the MOST SUCCESSFUL WEEKLY REPUBLICAN PA-PERS IN THE NORTH-wis ST, can be purchasodat a bar-gain, for Cash. Thc Paper is Anti-Slavery and Re-formatory , Liberal in Sentiment, and Independent in Opinion , and is located in a growing section of tho country. I t has a large State , County, and Commer-cial Advertising Pat ronage, and as a peouniary invest-ment, will compare favorably with any Paper in the State. The advert iser is selling out half his interest owing to ill health. To a man of good business capa-city, and literary taste, this is a chance seldom met with. Address,

WILLIAM TEBB, 49-tf Grand Haven. Mioh.

M B . J. V . M A N S F I E L D . This dist inguished Writ ing Test Medium for answer-

ing seated letters may be addressed at Chelsea, Massa-ch usetts, Box 60. His fee is three dollars and four post-age s tamps. Persons wishing his services will please not wri te any superscription on the letter they desiro the spir i ts to answer, but seal it so that it cannot bo disturbed or tampered with without detection. Tlio answer and the sealed letter will be both promptly for-warded to tho writer. 62

THE N E W BKICK MACHINE Is gradually extending over the United States and Canada—is worked by one man, by horse and by steam—makes from 4,000 to 26,000 bricks a dity—oosts from $75 to $400. For fur ther particulars, in a pam-phlet giving full instructions on brick setting and burn-ing, address, inclosing three stamps,

43-eowl3t FRANCIS II. SMITH, Baltimore.

THE LANCASTER CIRCLE As wo have been frequently importuned, any ques-

tion having for its object Progression, and proposed in a spirit of serious inquiry, will be answered by tho spirits of the Lancaster Cirolo. Address, Tho Lancas-ter Circle, Lancaster, l 'a., inclosing $1. to expenses of medium's time, &o.

N E W J E R S E Y LANDS . Par t ies desirous of purchasing New Jersey lands

will find it to thoir advantage to call on, or address, II. Franklin Clark, TRIBDNR Biiilduigs, or 183 E a s t Broadway, Now Yerk- 44 tf