YOU. I. S A N FR A N C ISC O , S A T U R D A Y , A U G U ST 31, 1867. NO. 34.

LITERARY

T l i eF o r t h e B a n n e r o f P r o g r e s s .

INAIoAYZL-

A h , t h e G ood M an I Do y o u k n o w h im — F a i r e s t ty p e o f th e E lohino,F a r t r a n s c e n d in g a l l b e lo w h im

U p o n th i s s p h e r e ?H e b e lo n g s to e v e r y n a t io n —I s fo u n d in e v e r y s ta t io n ,I n e v e r y d e n o m in a t io n ,

B o th f a r a n d n e a r .

S om e l iv e fo r g lo r y a n d fo r fu m e ;S om e to p o s se s s a n o b le n a m e ;B u t th e G ood M an— a h ig h e r a im

H is sou l in s p i r e s .To h im a n a m e ’s a n e m p ty so u n d ; N o th in g in fa m e b y h im is fo u n d ;B u t to do good to a l l a r o u n d ,

C ro w n s h is d e s i r e s .

H e c e n s u r e s n o t , n o r lo o k s u n k in d On th e fa lle n , d e g ra d e d m in d ;B u t a lw a y s t r i e s so m e m e a n s to And,

I t i d ee d o r w o rd ,To r a i s e th e m f ro m th e ir .lo w e s ta t e — T h e ir e r r in g m in d s to e le v a te —T h e m b a c k to m a n h o o d r e in s t a te ,

In r i g h t s r e s to r e d .

H e g r u m b le s n o t , n o r y e t re p in e s ,W h e n in d a r k g lo o m is c a s t h is lin e s ,A n d g n a w in g p o v e r ty c o m b in e s

W ith e v e r y ill.H e k n o w s t h a t h e h a s d o n e h i s b e s t ,A n d n o b ly s t r i v e s t h e s to r m to b r e a s t— B y a l l h is t r i a l s to b e b le s t

B y w o rk a n d w ill.

W h e n p le n ty fills h is w e ll e a r n e d s to r e , A n d g la d d e n e d h e a r t s s u r r o u n d h is d c o r , W h ile e v e r y b le s s in g g r a n t s h im m o re

T h a n n e e d s d e m a n d —H e d o es n o t th e n th e p o o r d e s p is e ;A n e e d y o n e h e n e ’e r d e n ie s ;H e lo o k s on n o n e w ith s c o rn f u l e y e s ,

B u t g iv e s h is h a n d

To r ic h o r p o o r , to f r ie n d o r foe,To a ll, a n d th u s d e s ig n s to sh o w T h a t th e r e is n e i th e r h ig h n o r lo w ,

G e n ti le n o r J e w ;T h a t r ic h e s n e v e r c a n im p a r t ,N o r y e t b e g a in e d b y a u y a r t ,W h a t ’s b e t t e r f a r — a n h o n e s t h e a r t ,

A so u l t h a t ’s t r u e .

S u ch is th e M an I Do y o u k n o w h im — F a i r e s t ty p e o f th e E lo h im ?G ra n t y o u m a y b e l ik e n e d to h im

In w o rd a n d d eed ;T h a t w h e n D e a th co m es to te r m in a te Y o u r e a r th -b o u n d life , a n d e le v a te Y o u r so u l in to a h ig h e r s t a t e ,

Y ou m a y lfc t n e e d

To « a d ly m o u rn a l if e m is s p e n t ,In w h ic h good d e e d s a n d go o d i n t e n t I n h a p p y s e q u e n c e n e v e r w e n t

B y y o u r c o n t ro l ;But-, w i th a s w e e t, c o n te n te d m in d , B e a m in g w ith lo v e to a l l m a n k in d , B le ss in g th e f r ie n d s y o u le a v e b e h in d ,

Y o u f re e y o u r so u l.J. w. M.

[ W r i t te n fo r t h e B a n n e r o f P ro g r e s s .]

THE LUNATIC BRXDE.BY FANNY GREEN M’DOUGAL.

There was an excursion for all the public schools in upper New York, one lovely summer day, several years ago. Many hundreds of children had looked forward to this, for weeks, as the grandest holiday of the whole year.

Under the escort of their teachers and a few favored friends, they had been transported down town by extra cars, and taken over to Hoboken by extra boats. From thence they walked out to the Elysian Fields, where they were to have a grand col­lation, swing/ romp, ride in the fandango, and enjoy themselves generally.

When the fresh breath of the country first blew upon them from the wild Weehawken hills, and the hot old city, with its dust, din, and black, smoky breath was far behind, they surrendered themselves to the beautiful freedom of the place and hour, and became garrulous with joy. As troop after troop arrived, they overspread the grassy ground, seem­ingly as much gladdened by the warm but not oppressive sunshine as a swarm of chirping locusts.

Scattering into groups, as taste or feeling prompt­ed, they seemed disposed to make the most of their present freedom, which the teachers wisely smiled upon and encouraged; for they, too, after long months of toil and confinement, felt the good cheer of the occasion, and were happy for themselves as well as for their young friends, and thus were put in double sympathy with the children.

We leave the headquarters and follow a single group, that had penetrated into a deep thicket, which seemed to be the gate of some hidden way. All of us, old as well as young, lured by the curios­ity which we are said to inherit from our primal mother, love to explore indistinct or unknown paths. The confused but merry music of their shouting, ringing, chirping, chippering voices, sud­denly ceased. A single strain of music had reached them, so full of sweetness and genuine pathos that the gay little creatures, touched, although they knew it not, by the profound sympathy of their divine humanity, 6tood looking at each other in a kind of rapturous amaze, as if fascinated and held captive by some sweet but unknown power.

“ O, it was wonderful !” said Ruth May, a little girl of twelve summers, with the largest, bluest, deepest eyes in the world. ‘‘Hush, D icky!” she spoke to her brother, who stood next her ; “ it comes again.”

I t was a female voice which had so charmed them, and seemed to proceed from the depth of a coppice

just below. They lost no time in penetrating through the tangled bushes that lay around them, when a scene unfolded itBelf which increased their wonder, and fully confirmed the feeling of awe which had been their first impression. The spot was a deep little dell, so walled in by impending rocks, thickly shaded by heavy hemlocks and the umbrella-topped tulip-trees, that the sun was com­pletely shut out, except on one side, where an open­ing of the rocks made a kind of natural gateway; and in it, towering up tall and ghastly, stood the bare white skeleton of a blasted pine, directly against the strpng sunlight that streamed over it with a ghostly glare.

On one of the principal branches of the dead tree, half-reclining, half-standing, was a female form draped in white, and, altogether, wan and ghostly a6 the tree itself. The robe was bordered with sprigs of the beautiful wood evergreen, and a green girdle bound her waist; while the fair hair was garlanded with long floating tufts of fern, and tangled, stream­ing sea-weeds. Nothing could exceed the pictur­esque beauty of the whole effect; but there was a wild and weird expression, which but to think of would make one shudder ; for it was quivering with the jarred music of a bewildered but beautiful soul.

“ O, do sing to us again !” said little Ruth, step­ping forward of the other children, and stretching up her hands imploringly.

The power of a sweet poetic nature, turning to music in the voice of the child, reached the ear—the heart of the woman, as might be seen in the wonder­ful smile suffusing, her paleness with a rich warm rose-hue, as, waving her hand gracefully, Bhe sang the following

SONG.“ T h y f a te i s m in e , O b l ig h te d P in e I

F o r a b r id a l w r e a th I w e a r ,A n d th e b r id e g ro o m , D e a th ,A s b e d r in k s m y b r e a th ,

W ill tw in e i t a r o u n d m y h a i r .O, h o 1 O, h o 1 O -h - o — o h I

. “ ■ ’T is a m e r r y d a y in th e m e r r y M a y ,A n d th e s t r a w b e r r y flo w er is w h i te ;

B u t e r e i t s c lo se m y B r id a l R ose W ill o p en i t s e y e s o f l ig h t 1

H a , h a ! H a , h a 1 H a , h a , h a h I

“ T he b r id a l v e i l , a l l f a i r an d p a le ,R e s ts o n t h e m a rb le b r o w ;

B u t e v e r y fo ld is s t i l l a n d co ld ,N o b r e a t h c a n s t i r i t n o w .

O, ho 1 O, h o ! O - h - o — o h I

“ ’T is a m e r r y d a y in th e m e r r y M a y ,A n d th e h a w th o r n b lo o m is fa ir ,

A n d th e d y in g flo w er f ro m th e o r a n g e b o w e r .I s b r e a th in g a r o u n d m y h a i r 1

H * , h a 1 H a , h a 1 H a , h a , h a h I

“• T h y f a te is m in e , O b l ig h te d P in e IF o r a g r a v e is o p e n in g w id e , _

A n d a b r id a l b e d w i th th e s le e p in g D ead S h a ll r e c e iv e th e b e a u t i f u l B r id e I

O, h o 1 O, h o 1 O - h - o — o h 1”

There was a power in the voice that filled the heart of little Ruth with the strangest, saddest, sweetest feelings she had ever known in her life. She knew not what it could be ; for it seemed as if she had never heard better singing. But by this time the boys began to weary of the sentimental, as the genuine boy ever does, in a very short time, if he yields to its influence at a ll ; and some of them com­menced throwing stones at the woman.

“ O, for shame !” cried Ruth. “ You are cruel! you are cowards! Stop this minute, or I will inform against you!”

“ Capital, Miss May!” said a tall youth of four­teen, who seemed to pride himself on his manli­ness. I wonder who you will take up for next— rag-pickers and street-sweepers, the gentlemen and ladies of the broom and gutter, I suppose?”

“ Certainly,” returned Ruth, “ if I see any wicked boy molesting them. And that makes me think what you did, and how cruel you were, to a poor little news-boy the other day. I thought you were too much of a man to strike or throw stones at a helpless woman.”

“ I didn’t throw any stones,” he replied, looking rather crest-fallen, for many eyes were on him ; and the common sympathy turned in favor of Ruth.

“ No, you didn’t throw stones, yourself,” she answered; “ but you laughed and clapped your hands, and cheered on the smaller boys ; and that was just as bad as if you had thrown every stone that they did.”

“ That is true,” said a larger boy, coming to the side of Ruth, as if to champion both her and her cause; “ and in my opinion it was nothing but cowardice that kept you from the mischief. You encouraged poor little fellows to do wrong, knowing that they will get the very punishment which you yourself most deserve, though you’re awfully afraid of it,”

“ Who said anything about punishment, Tom ?”. returned the other. “ You’re always poking your finger into everybody’s pie, and making mountains out of molehills!”

Then, recollecting what Ruth had said about in­forming, he shouted out: “ Boys, Miss Ruth May threatens to inform against you !”

Cries of “ Tell-tale!” accompanied by hisses, and all particular sounds of execration which boys are so fertile in manufacturing, responded. And then suddenly broke in upon the tumult a single voice— “ She is right; she spoke a good word for the help­less ! Stand by her, boys !” Then, waiting a moment for the shouts and cheers to subside, he added, in the low, emphatic tones, which in the interlude of any excitement sometimes have such a telling power: “ Suppose that poor woman was yourmother, boyB! How would you feel, then ?”

A profound sense of shame, mingled with pity, overspread the noisy and tumultuous crowd; and there was a sudden silence for a moment, as if every one was thinking of what had not occurred to him before.

There was a boisterous and turbulent reaction; for a lad, who had wandered from the main troop, came along, saying, “ Come, boys ! they’re spreading the table-cloths! so let’s be off, or we may lose our share of the goodies !” And away the little fellow ran, and away went the whole tribe after him.

“ Go, children,” said the woman, stretching out her hands as if in benediction, “ go to your homes ; go to your graves ; your human destiny awaits you. Go, and enter in !”

Then, after a little pause, she added : “ But one of you will come back to me. There is a cord finer than light, but strong as magnetism, binding that one to me.”

Ruth was borne away with the retiring throng; but the woman’s last words went with her. And amid all the surrounding gayety, still the child for­got herself—forgot even to secure her proper share of the entertainment; nor could she enter into the sports that followed. But, taking her own dearly loved teacher a little aside, she told her that there was a poor woman out a little way, to whom she would like to take any nice little bit that could be spared from the fragments.

Miss Simmons immediately gathered quite a bas- ket-ful, saying, as she put it into Ruth’s hand: “ You are a good, thoughtful, and prudent little child; so run along, for we must all be together by five, as we are to take the six o’clock boat.”

Ruth, thus commissioned, thanked her teacher, and then ran very fast in the direction of the grotto, thinking all the way, “ I wonder if she meant me? Isn’t it curious, that here I am going?—for I know she d id mean me, though there are so many others.”

Very soon she heard the wonderful voice again, and by it was led to a beautiful pine grove, where, beside a little mound, the woman sat swaying to and fro, as she sang

THE LUNATIC’S LULLABY.“ R u c k a b y , b a b y — b a b y m in e I

F lo w e rs — w h ite f lo w e rs— fo r th e e I tw in e ;T h e y b r o id e r t h y r o b e s a n d th e y d e c k t h y b ed ,A n d th e y b r e a th e t h e i r p e r f u m e a r o u n d t h y h e a d !

L u lla b y I lu l la b y 1 O, b y e I

“ R o c k a b y , b a b y 1 th e s tirr iD g V in es A n sw e r th e so n g o f th e s in g in g P in e s !S leep , O b a b y I t h e y ’ll s in g to th e eOf th e h a u n te d s p r in g a n d th e o ld O ak t r e e !

L u lla b y 1 lu l la b y ! O, b y e !

“ I t w a s d o w n in i t s sh a d o w , m y b a b y s w e e t !I ’d l i s t fo r th e so u n d o f t h y f a th e r ’s f e e t ;B u t h e le f t in m y b o so m a p o is o n -d a r t .W ith a b r o k e n v o w a n d a b r o k e n h e a r t !

L u lla b y 1 lu l la b y I O, b y e I

“ R o c k a b y , b a b y — b a b y d e a r !F o r th e s t a r s l ik e a n g e l e y e s a p p e a r ;T h e m o o n b e a m s s m ile on th e o c e a n ’s b r e a s t ,A n d th e L ily g o es d o w n to h e r b il lo w y n e s t 1

L u lla b y 1 lu l la b y 1 O, b y e !

“ R o c k a b y b a b y — b a b y m in e 1F lo w e rs — s w e e t f lo w e rs— fo r th e e I tw in e ;T h e b i r d s a r e a s le e p , a n d th e t i r e d h o n e y -b e e ,A n d th e ro c k in g P in e s , a r e s in g in g to th e e 1

L u lla b y I lu l l a b y I O, b y e 1”

With suspended step, and quelled breath, Ruth had listened to this song; and then, though she knew not why, the tears were streaming down her cheeks, and she sobbed so audibly that the woman heard her. I t was the latent power of womanhood, responding, unconsciously, to the most cruel and terrible wrongs of woman. Rising, the sweet singer advanced to meet the child, with a finger laid on her lip as if to enjoin silence.

“ Speak low,” she whispered, “ and tread softly; for if little Robin is disturbed before he is sound asleep, he will get up and come to me, and disturb me all night.”

“ Who is little Robin?” asked R u th ,'her large eyes dilating with wonder ; “ and where is he ?”

“ That’s my baby’s name, and he’s asleep in his little crib. Don’t you see it, yonder? Let us go and sit down there.”

Ruth was a truthful child, and at home she was accustomed to hear the truth and nothing else. She did not know what to make of this strange tale. “ 7s it a crib?” she asked, simply. “ I t looks just like a very little grave. There are many such at Greenwood, only they have nice white stones, with beautiful reading on them.”

“ I t’s no such th ing!” returned the woman, almost angrily. “ It is little Robbie’s crib ; I made it my­self. And don’t you see what a nice spread the pleasant Spring made for him, all tufted with green grass ; and then the smiling Summer came and em­broidered it with flowers. See how nicely I ’ve tucked it in, so he can’t get the clothes off in the night.” And as she added this, the woman busied herself about the borders of the mound. Thus, having assured herself that all was right, she sat down a little way off and drew the child to her side; but, still with a finger on her lip, she whispered, “ Not quite yet.”

Presently she rose, and, stepping carefully over the crisp leaves, she knelt down a moment, laying her ear to the mound. “ There!” she said ; “ he is sound asleep. I know by his breathing; and we can talk now.”

Ruth, who was naturally a highly imaginative child, was transported at once into the very midst of Wonder-Land. Was this, indeed, the common earth, over which, in her new sense of exaltation, she seemed to float, instead of walking, as she had been wont to do ? Was yonder bit of grassy turf a grave, where a poor little human being lay and mouldered ? or was it not rather a baby-couch, as she had been told, with its embroidered drapery, and its beautiful little lovely sleeper, who was hushed, as she had been in the still evenings, with the singing of sweet songs, and -who sometimes awoke and came forth in the night to nestle more closely in his mother’s bosom ? And was that strange, picturesque, pale figure, really a mortal being, or some weird woman of the wild, with superhuman power to make or mar the good or ill of mortals ? In fine, was she

still in the midst of common-place, every-day reali­ties ?—or had she been suddenly enchanted and whisked off into Fairy-Land, by some great Genius, good or bad, which she had read of in the stormy winter evenings, and which Dicky always laughed at, but she thought of and pondered over? I t was so strange that any one should write such stories if they were not true ; and if they w e r e true, that was stranger still.

In her bewildering excitement, the shadows deep­ened in her eyes, the cheek grew pale, the limbs lost all power of motion ; and, in her complete abstrac­tion, the spirit seemed almost withdrawn. But a thin hand, cold and pallid, clasped her own ; and, if possible, the strange interest was intensified by the question that recalled her; for as the woman ob­served the eyes of the child turned upward, with a fixed look, she asked in a low, solemn whisper, that seemed to have caught the low, hoarse music of the Pines, “ Did you see him?”

“ See who ? what?” gasped Ruth, grasping more firmlj’ the thin, pallid hand, as if she were giddy and had a fear of falling.

“ Hush! hush! Not quite so loud, darling!” re­turned the other; and dropping her voice to a lower and more mysterious whisper, she added, “ I only thought it was Robert. He comes out of the clouds sometimes and beckons to me. I ’m not ready to go yet, but I shall be some tim e; and we shall go walk­ing on the air together, just as I have seen them.”

She broke off abruptly; for the child’s face sud­denly became rigid in the intensity of her interest. The little spirit was almost gone. She had nearly fainted. A momentary feeling of alarm recalled the wandering senses of the Lunatic, and she became possessed of herself at once.

“ Poor child!” she whispered; “ so tender and gentle, just as I was once ! I have frightened her with my strange talk ;” and, thus saying, she clasped the little one in her arms, carried her down the steep bank to a spring that was nearby, and having bathed her face and hands, and given her some water to drink, Ruth was restored. But she was in no haste to leave her new friend ; for a strange and nameless sympathy had sprung up between the two.

“ What was it ?” asked Ruth, as she sat down on a mossy stone at the woman’s feet. “ What did make me feel so ?”

“ Only a little faint. I think I frightened you with my wild stories. I t is strange that I should talk so ; for now I know perfectly well I should not.”

“ If you know better, why don’t you try to re­member?” asked Ruth, simply.

“ Sit still,” said the woman. “ Be still and hear m e; for now I know what I am saying.”

“ Is she crazy ?” thought Ruth, almost going off in another wonder-fit.

“ Child,” repeated the woman, drawing Ruth so close to her breast that it almost pained her; “ either yon have been sent to me, or I have been sent to you. From this hour, though we may never look on each other again, the stream of our lives must flow together.”

“ What does make you think so ?” asked Ruth, releasing herself and standing off at some distance, as if to get a ̂ dearer view of the mysterious being, who, with every word she uttered, grew still more mysterious.

“ How do I know ?” responded the woman. “ I know it by all things—by everything in and around you. I hear it in the air. I see it in the light. I read it in the woman’s soul, that, even now, looks out of your child eyes. I know by every feeling and thought you have awakened—by everything I re­member or look forward to—that such a child-life as this was to be drawn to mine, and become one with it.”

This was said more as if solving a problem to her­self, than addressing another; nor had Ruth any­thing more than a vague apprehension of its mean­ing. But she now stood perfectly self-possessed and quiet, as if a spirit stronger than her own had sub­dued her agitation. And this seems more than prob­able ; for she did not again become agitated, even by the still more exciting words that flowed freely forth, as if her natural speech were song:

• C h ild -life , flow ing in to m in e ,W ith a n in f lu e n c e s o l t a n d fine,

L ook on m e ;F o r a l ig h t in t h y b lu e e y e s ,L o v e d is t i l l in g f ro m th e ak ies ,

N ow I s e e .

“ C h ild -life , f a i r a s m o rn in g d re a m ,S in g in g lik e a s u n n y s t r e a m ,

S to p a n d h e a r ;In th e s h a d o w o f t h y b r o w ,A h ! th e g re e n le a f w i th e r s now ,

A n d is s e r e .”

Perusing the fair young face earnestly, the woman had risen; and, holding Ruth by both hands as she stood up on the rock, in a position which brought the child’s eyes nearly into a line with her own— looking into them, as if they were horoscopes—she seemed to read what she saw..

“ I t has fallen ! I feel it! I see it ! O, cruel ! O, bitter wrong! This child-life has been darkened. These child-eyes have wept the tears of premature anguish. This child-heart has suffered wrongfully. But the vision closes. I see no more.”

Withdrawing her eyes for a moment, then turning back to Ruth with a more familiar look, she said, softly, “ You have suffered, my child.”

There was something in her look and tone that drew out, unaware, the young heart’s confidence.

“ How did you know it? ” asked Ruth, looking up sadly, the white lids drooping, as if heavy with the tears they were holding back.

“ I feel it,” was the answer.“ And do you feel all about it, just how it was ?”

returned Ruth, again looking up, with a sudden re­excitement of the faculty of Marvelousness. “ Do you feel how. sick it made papa, and how sad it made

Dicky and me ? But something—it couldn’t he that—made mamma well and strong.”

She paused for a reply; but the hands were only held more closely, and presently the child resumed; “ Do you know all about our cottage, and the two beautiful Dominica hens, and Stockings—that was our cow—and how we had to move away from our new home, and everything we loved best was sold ? Dicky never whistles such merry tunes now, as he used to when he milked the cow; and it seems just as if I couldn’t sing as I did then.”

“ Poor, tender little innocent!” murmured the woman. “ How sad it is ! But I love you the bet­ter. You are nearer and dearer for all this.”

“ And why do you love me?” returned Ruth. “ I t ’s very strange. I believe I love you, too. I can’t see what else it can he, that makes it so pleas­ant to be near you.”

“ I t is sympathy, my child.”“ And isn’t sympathy itself a very sad thing?

Isn’t it what makes people cry at funerals?” an­swered Ruth, so simply, and yet so piteously, that the momentary smile faded from the woman’s l ip ; and after a short pause, once more holding the child’s hands, and gazing into her eyes with the same fixedness as before, she suddenly exclaimed, while her face became distorted, and every muscle seemed to writhe in her intense emotion :

“ I see now the double blow—the double wrong!It was he—he—your father’s brother and m y ------;ask not who or what he was to me !”. The child trembled with a strange alarm ; and be­ginning to think of making her escape, tried to pull her hands away. But they were held more firmly, and she was obliged to remain; and, to say truly, there was a fascination in the whole scene that made her not very unwilling to remain. Perceiving the child’s agitation, the Lunatic made one of those strong and sudden efforts at composure, which were sometimes very remarkable, whispering softly, “ Stay a little while, dear; I love and would bless you.”

Then laying her hand softly among the dark curls, she whispered, as if talking to herself, “ O, the fair lig h t! O, the sweet breath!—the pure, fresh, loving life of the child! Would that I could draw it into my life, and become one with it—one in the deepest depths of that love that leaves no space between the mother-heart and the child-heart—the second advent of the Mother-life in the Child-life! Why have I longed for it with unutterable yearnings ? That which has gone forth from mine, went out in dark­ness ; and wherever I go, I Wfllk only in its shadow. O, if one like this could only come to lie in my bosom, 1 should dream—yes, I could dream, night and day, that it was my lost one !”

The last part of her speech brought Ruth to a question which had for some time been revolving in her mind : “ What makes you live, then, all alone ?”

“ O, that is because I am wicked,” she answered; “ and nobody wants to live with me.” As she spoke, the strange light came back to her eyes, and the strange expression to her whole face.

“ Why do people think so?” pursued Ruth. “ I don’t believe you are wicked ;” and, withdrawing the hands, she laid them softly, one on each shoulder of the woman, and looked calmly up into her large and loving eyes.

There was something so tender and confiding in the whole manner and action of the child, that the heart of the stricken woman melted within her. The bright and burning eyes softened and were suffused with tears. She looked thus for a moment into the clear calm eyes and the sweet trusting face of the child, and then clasped her to her bosom with a yearning, passionate, embrace, that almost crushed the little form in its straining folds.

“ I could tell it to you,” soliloquized the woman. “ But, child as you are, it cannot be now. Again you will come to me, and then I shall unfold to you what I have not spoken to mortal man or woman.”

As she said this, the eyes turned slowly upward, gradually closing, as the sight appeared fixed on some object in the far distance. Then kissing the half-bewildered child, she released her, and they sat down together side by side, their eyes open to each other and their hands locked fast together. As if by tacit consent, neither of them spoke for some min­utes ; but both grew calm and quiet.

“ Ah ! I hear them coming for you ! Run away, my sweet !” said the woman, once more drawing the child to her bosom and kissing h e r ; but it was now gentljT and tenderly.

“ Shall I never see you any m ore?” whispered R uth ; and with the question tears came into her eyes.

“ Yes—yes ; we shall meet again. I shall watch over you and be often near you.”

With a sudden impulse, Ruth threw both arms round the woman’s neck and kissed her, saying at the same time, “ I love you, and shall never forget you !”

And when she ran away quickly to meet the ad­vancing children, tears were on her cheek, from eyes that had been dry so long, they had almost for­gotten the use of weeping.

X

Spiritual Lecture.—W e listened to the latter part of the lecture by Mrs. Stowe, last evening, at Oro Fino Hall. The lecturess, who seemed to be in a semi-trance state, spoke deliberately yet fluently, rarely m aking a gesture with her hands or getting her voice out of the ordinary lecture tone. She is an intellectual-looking woman, w ith a fine eye, and a general cut of features which plainly indicates decision yet affability of character. At the close of her lecture, she made a slight, quick start, opened her eyes as if from sleep, and immediately went on, in her normal state, w ith a poetic recitation; after which she invited any or all who m ight wish to ask a ques­tion, or answer anything she had said, to avail themselves freely of the opportunity, before the audience should leave. She announced that she would lecture again next Sunday evening.— Oregonian, Portland, A.ug. 19th.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1867.

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

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

T O C O R R E S P O N D E N T S .JOES'* A ll c o m m u n ic a tio n s d e s ig n e d fo r p u b lic a t io n in th i s

p a p e r sh o u ld b e a d d r e s s e d “ E ditors of the Banner of P r o ­g r e s s . ” A ll l e t t e r s in r e g a r d to th e b u s in e s s o f th e p a p e r sh o u ld b e a d d r e s s e d to “ B en ja m in T odd & Co.”

K ev. M r. M cM onaglfc’s F o u r th D iscourse on S p iritu a lism .

This gentleman delivered another of his series of lectures at Larkin street (Presbyterian) church on Sunday evening last. The church was about half filled, and we noticed a number of confirmed Spiritualists present. The text chosen was from Leviticus, chapter xx. verses ;6 and 27, relating to going after familiar spirits and wizards, and the penalty affixed by Moses,‘"which was, that the offender should be stoned to death. And while the text is on our mind, we may as well ask why it is tha t Christian ministers take their text so largely from the Old Testament. A testament is a w ill; and if the New Testament he the New W ill of God, w hat need of consulting the texts of the Old W ill at all for rules of conduct ? Jesus said, th a t “ to love God, and your neighbor as yourself,” was the essence of the law and the sayings of file prophets; if, then, this essential part or kernel is contained in the teachings of the New Testament, there can be no further use for the old husk, and we had better throw it aside. If the law of Moses was either supplemented or supplanted by the law of Christ, and the latter contains all tha t is necessary for us, a continued adherence to the former is simply Judaism, and not Christianity.

Mr. McMonagle thinks the result of passive submission to the control of spirits, good or evil, is to make mediums mere automatons and instru­ments of the will of others, and th a t by such submission they surrender their manhood and womanhood ; that it abrogates individual respon­sibility ; that it is impossible to know what is the character of the spirit that controls, nor who he or she may be ; that the control of spirits takes away all ambition for the acquisition of knowledge by one’s own efforts ; that if a medium can command a t will the services of Franklin, or W ashington, or other great minds, there is no need of study on his own p a r t ; that when the spirit departs, the medium is as empty as before, and is not improved or instructed in the leas t; tha t Spiritualism is a fruitful source of insanity, as is proved by the statistics of our insane asylum ; tha t many insane persons are possessed by evil sp irits; th a t those who submit to the control of spirits are slaves ; tha t they are unable after a while to throw off the influence of familiar spirits ; th a t Spiritualism destroys faith in God, and in His word (the Bible); th a t spirits claim to make our affinities for us, and cause separation of fam ilies; th a t it had been admitted by a Spiritualist lecturer in this city, in reference to a recent case of criminality, tha t an evil spirit had prompted the offender to the deed ; tha t Spiritualism was considered as a new gospel by its believers, and spirits were acknowledged as g o d s; that Mesmerism was the foundation of Spiritualism, and equally dangerous to the subjects of it, as P. B. Randolph had at one time testified, th a t there was nothing in the language of Judge Edmonds, Governor Talmadge, Hr. Dexter, or Professor Hare, when they were free from the dictation of spirits, tha t contradicted what he had said on this subject; and the Rev. gentleman then denied that Spiritualists were so numerous as had been represented by Judge Edmonds and others, and concluded by allowing one-tenth of the first estimate of three millions (thirty, thousand) as the probably correct figure. But, as not all who had been witnesses of spirit manifestations or subjects of spirit control could be claimed as converts to a belief in Spiritualism, he could only allow one-tenth of th irty thousand to be the number confirmed in tha t belief, in the United States—m aking three thousand Spiritual­ists. He asked if these three thousand men and women could be considered as any better for spirit influence and control. W as Judge Edmonds a better Judge for it? He answered, No; for they gave up tlieir manhood and womanhood at the w ill of others. He said that the last National Convention of Spiritualists, at Providence, R. I., had repudiated the idea of anything being sacred ; had opposed the Bible, and denied the sanctity of the marriage relation. Mr. McMonagle hoped the Legislature of every State would enact laws m ak­ing it a penal offense to exercise mediumship. He said the curse of God had been pronounced against i t ; and quoted Moses and Paul again to prove that such was the fact.

W e have been tbus particular in enumerating all the points of the gentlem an’s discourse, because tbey comprise the sum and substance of all that has been hitherto said by theologians of all sorts in opposition to Spiritualism. It is evident to us, and must be to all who read the above epitome of bis remarks, that the Rev. Mr. McMonagle is a mere neophyte in the Spiritual­istic doctrines and literature ; for he seems to have confined his researches to a few volumes on the subject by Dexter, Talmadge, Edmonds, and Pro­fessor Hare, leaving the great mass of the history of spirit manifestations unperused, and all the frequent opportunities for personal investigation and experience wholly unavailed of. Fearing the anathemas of Moses and of Paul, and leaning upon the Bible as the substitute for his reason, he has not dared to examine experimentally and independently the evidences constantly being offered to all who will take the trouble to thus exercise the faculties which they possess, or to think for himself upon what he may have already discovered. Another significant fact is discernible in his attitude toward Spiritualism, as well as th a t of many other theologians at the present t im e ; he and tbey no longer deny the occurrence of the phenomena or their spirit origin. But, in

their view, the spirits communicating are all evil, and their communications result in evil to all con­cerned. This point we have fully considered and controverted in our last issue, and w ill not there­fore claim the attention of the reader to it at this time. There were several other statements in the lecture, however, that w ill not bear the test of tru thful examination. Does any honest man believe there are only th ree t7iousand believers in Spiritualism in the United States? Look at our list of three hundred lecturers, and say w hether it is reasonable to suppose th a t they speak to empty benches. Examine our register of Spiritual Societies and Progressive Lyceums, which does not contain more than one-half of those actually in existence, and decide w hether each is probably composed of only a few persons, sufficient to fill the offices. Even the Spiritualistic periodical press is an indication of our numbers. At least a dozen weekly and monthly publications are now issued, w ith an aggregate subscription of twenty- five thousand copies. Allowing an average of five readers to each copy circulated, less than one-lialf of w hat m ight reasonably be claimed, and we have two hundred and twenty-five thousand con­stant readers of our periodical literature. Then there are those who purchase copies of the thou­sand books th a t have from time to time been issued on various branches of the subject, and others who take them for perusal from public libraries. Add to the above those who had no need of the study of any sort of literature, but who became Spiritualists from practical experi­ment and personal experience—the largest number of any—and we th ink there w ill be no difficulty in fixing our number at a figure very nearly approximating tha t which Judge Edmonds has claimed to be the true one.

Another misstatement of the Rev. gentleman was tha t in relation to the statistics of insane asylums. The reports of all the asylums in the United States have heretofore been examined by competent persons, for the very purpose of ascertaining the facts in regard to Spiritualism as an exciting cause of in san ity ; and the result was, tha t nineteen per cent, became insane from religious causes, and less than one-half of one per cent, of the whole number confined became insane from Spiritualism. And, on a recent visit of one of the public journalists of this city to the Stock- ton Asylum, the Resident Physician of that institution could show but three patients whose malady was attributed by their friends to Spirit­ualism—one per cent, of the whole number there­in confined ! On recurrence to the reports of tha t Asylum, we found his statement corroborated. W ith w hat grace or conscience, then, can a Christian stand up in the pulpit and make such baseless assertions ?

But the Rev. Mr. McMonagle desires legislation, to stop the exercise of mediumship and the spread of SpiritualismT^SQpes he wish to revive the scenes of the days of Cotton M ather and the Salem witchcraft? W ould he have mediums fined, imprisoned, and otherwise m altreated ?—for it is not to be supposed possible for him to go so far as to burn, drown, or hang them now, as in those days. If report speaks truly, the Rev. gentleman has had a little experience and exam­ple of spirit mediumship in his own family. W ould he like to see any one of his own social circle dragged off to ignominious punishment, because some loving spirit of a mother, or sister, or little child who departed in its innocent years, desired to manifest her or its presence and contin­ued affection through such of the family as proved susceptible to spirit influences ? How would any man, w ith hum an feelings, like to see the wife of his bosom, the daughter of his heart, the boy of his pride, arraigned in a court of justice, charged ■with the crime of being a wizard or a witch because susceptible to spiritual impressions, and undesirous of repelling them ? Let the Rev. gentleman beware. He and all who th ink with him are treading upon dangerous ground. No better method could be devised for ascertaining our numerical strength, as well as for increasing it, than to begin a course of legislation of the kind indicated. In the conflict tha t would soon follow, there would be small chance for the escape of the Rev. Mr. McMonagle and his coadjutors from the just and merited scorn of an outraged and indignant people, if no worse fate should overtake them.

W e are not apprehensive tha t the advice or the wishes of the clergy, in this m atter, will ever be regarded by our law-makers. Too many of our sort of people already occupy the chief Beats in the councils of the State and nation, to make a single misgiving on our part necessary. W~e feel perfectly easy on th a t score.

The rem aining salient points of the lecture we will notice more at length when we come to con­sider the subject of his discourse on Sunday even­ing next, which w ill he upon the Scriptural accounts of the visits of angels. M.

T h e S a b b a t a r i a n s .-—These misguided people are hard at work upon the politicians, endeavoring to make them commit themselves in favor of a more stringent Sunday law. As yet, they have met w ith poor success. The C h r is t ia n A d vo ca te accuses one of the candidates for Governor of withdrawing from the Sabbath Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association, “ to secure the votes of German infidels and Sabbatli-break- ers,” and says tliat any candidate who will do thus “ ought to be slielved by all good men.” W e apprehend tha t the politicians know better than to commit themselves, before election, to any measure so unpopular as the Sunday law. W hatever they may do to satisfy the sectarians, after they are comfortably seated in their official positions, they are not such fools as to fly in the faces of a ma­jority of the people from whom they are to obtain the votes necessary to elect them. M.

T h e C l e r g y C h a l l e n g e d i n P o r t l a n d .— The first public seance of Mrs. Foye in Portland was held at the time of the assembling of the Methodist Ministerial Conference. Thirty minis­ters were present during the day at the Confer­ence ; and although Mrs. Foye’s public notices challenge the clergy to the investigation of the phenomena which take place in her presence, not one of the th irty made his appearance at her hall for tha t purpose. Four hundred citizens, how­ever, did attend. m .

Confucius, C h ristian ity , an d Spiritualism .

I t is to he regretted th a t secular pens are not more frequently employed in giving us transla­tions of the history of other nations, and that we should be so dependent, for much of this sort of literary labor, upon the scholarship of theologians. Wrhile this is the case to so great an extent as at present, we must submit to receiving works at their hands in such a shape as they choose to give them to us, w ith all the faults of omission and commission, in the translation, to which they are subj ect.

The work recently issued in this city, purport­ing to be a translation of “ Confucius and the Chinese Classics,” is no exception to the rule ; for we perceive tha t much has been omitted from its pages whicb would appear to contravene tbe re­ceived doctrines of the Christian Church. Not­withstanding this fact, enough has been a d m itte d to satisfy the candid mind that all tru th was not kept in abeyance until tbe Christian era, “ th a t it m ight be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets.” Confucius, in fact, gave utterance to truths, verbally and in writing, which we find almost literally reproduced as the sayings of Jesus in the New Testament.

But we wish particularly to direct the attention of the reader of this volume to the effort made, in the sketch of the history of China which precedes the translations from the Classics, to discredit the records of th a t history wherever they appear to contradict or differ from the records of the Old Testament. For instance, although he acknowl­edges tha t there is only a difference of fifty years between the Chinese chronology and tha t of the Jews, in relation to the Deluge, the translator (Rev. A. W . Loomis) is not w illing to consider the Chinese account as tha t of an “ overwhelming flood,” which the Noachic Deluge is supposed to have been. The Chinese Emperors and their people were able to encamp on the tops of mount­ains until the waters subsided. Their ability to do this would of course throw discredit upon the Bible account, wherein every living th ing is rep­resented as having been swept from tbe face of the whole earth, except the pairs of each kind which Noah took in with his family into the ark. It therefore becomes necessary, in order to save the infallibility of the Bible from depreciation, to consider the Chinese Deluge as only an overflow of one of their great rivers, and a change in its bed. But, as this is the only account of a g re a t flood th a t the Chinese have—one which drove the people to the tops of mountains—we are forced to consider it one and the same w ith that of Noah ; especially as the time fixed in the Chinese chro­nology varies but f i f t y y e a r s from tha t of the Bible, according to the authorities cited by the translator himself. The inference from all this is, th a t the Noacliic Deluge d id n o t drown out all the inhabitants of e a r th ; for the Chinese historical records date back to 508 years before that event, and the translator furnishes the words of their Emperor during and subsequent to its occurrence.

Again : A lthough the Chinese themselves do not trace their origin either to Noah or Adam, our translator su pposes tha t they emigrated from the region between the Caspian and Black Seas, and, traveling eastward, entered China. And, curiously enough, though it does not seem to astonish our translator, they found neighbors already there be­fore th e m ! One author calls them an “ indigenous race,” but our reverend theologian will “ not ad­mit of any ‘ indigenous race ’—any race tha t did not come from the same original center of the world’s population as themselves ” ! Considering tha t the Chinese survived the Deluge, and that the translator believes that the whole earth was re-peopled from the loins of Noah, this is truly refreshing in its coolness ! The Chinese are de­scribed in their earliest history as a “ black-haired” people, undoubtedly to distinguish them from the aboriginal people whom they found already in the country ; and they are “ black-haired ” at this day. But our Bible-worshiping translator seeks an ex­planation of this term by considering its origin as anterior to their entrance into China, and tha t it was used to distinguish them from other descend­a n ts of Noah, who journeyed in an opposite direc­tion ! And this in face of the fact tha t the only record of their being “ black-haired ” existed among themselves long a f te r they had entered and inhabited China !

These examples w ill tend to exhibit to the candid reader the advantage accruing to truthful history, of having such works translated by reli­gious bigots, who bend everything to their purpose of supporting the dogma of the infallibility of the Bible, regardless of logical conclusions, or of tbe stubborn, unyielding facts.

But our principal intent in reviewing this work is, to make clear the fact that Chinese history and Chinese religious literature afford indubitable evidence that their early worship, like that of the Jews, was conducted under the tutelage of the angel world. Their religion was and is essentially Spiritualistic. The translator, in tlie historical sketch before mentioned, admits tliat tliey offered prayers and sacrifices to the “ host of spirits.” They never formed an idol in m aterial form to represent the Supreme Being. Their idea of Him was similar to that entertained by the Indians of North America. They thought of Him as the Great Spirit. And they coupled His works with Him in a pantheistic sense, by using synonyms like “ Heaven,” ju st as we do, unconsciously, for God Himself. They sometimes used the combina­tion “ Heaven and E arth ” w ith tlie same applica­tion.

The Chinese sacrificed to departed friends, and do so at this day. “ T h e sp ir its o f the d e p a r te d ”— we quote from the sketch aforesaid—“ were sup­posed to have a Icnowledge o f the circu m stances o f th e ir descendants, a u d to be able to affect th em .” This is what Spiritualists do not suppose at all, because they Jenoio it. W e quote again : “ Events of importance in a family were communicated to them before their shrines ; many affairs of gov­ernment were transacted in the ancestral temple.”............“ W hen Shun found the toils of government too heavy for him, and called Yu to share them, the ceremony took place in the temple of the ‘ spiritual ancestor,’ the chief in the line of Shun’s progenitors. In the remarkable narrative, which we have in the sixth of the Books of Chow, of the Duke of Chow’s praying for tlie recovery of his brother, K ing Woo, from a dangerous illness,

and offering to die in his stead, he raises three altars—to their father, grandfather, and great­grandfather ; and prays to them, as having in heaven the charge of watching over their great descendant". W hen he has ascertained by divina­tion that the K ing would recover, he declares that lie had got W oo’s tenure of the throne renewed by tbe three Kings, who had thus consulted for a long futurity of their Louse. This case shows us that the spirits of good kings were believed to be in heaven.”

Further on, our translator makes the rem ark that “ the ancient Chinese can hardly he said to have had the knowledge of a future state.” From what has been already quoted, in the translator’s own language, it will be perceived tha t they knew as much about it as we of the present day, or as any nation under heaven has ever known. K n o w l­edge and belie f are distinct and different things. W hat more have theologians to offer us, of actual knowledge, than the Chinese have? "What man has ever been to any place tha t could be called heaven, in the flesh, and returned in the same con­dition to tell ns what he saw, heard, and expe­rienced? W hat, then, is the utility of talking about the Jcnoicledge of a future state ? They only have the knowledge who have entered upon it ; and they can only come back to us as they went away from us, in the sp ir it . This they have done from time im m em orial; and we propose to show, in our next issue, by extracts from this imperfect compilation of the Chinese Classics, tha t this people had as clear a conception, if they do not now have, of the spirit world and its inhabitants, as the Jews ever had ; and th a t the Christian reve­lation of immortality—so called—is preceded, by thousands of years, by the doctrines of the Chi­nese sacred writings. M.

Sarcasm an d R idicule.As we have before remarked in this paper, no

one who knows the legitim ate use of such weap­ons will apply them to the faith and opinions of others. W e have said tha t the proper province of satire is to ridicule the follies of men’s acts. Re­spect for the op in ion s of opponents is characteristic of the true gentleman, and the lack of it consti­tutes the blackguard. W hen, therefore^ a* self- appointed critic shows his want of good-bidding by sarcastic personal allusions to those who kre so unfortunate as to hold religious opinions not in accordance w ith his prejudices, he betrays the bad blood of an ignorant and depraved nature. Incapable of distinguishing argum ent from ban­ter, lie imagines tha t a logical statement can be overthrown by a smart saying relative to the per­sonality of the author. And thus it is tha t we see so many nonsensical little phrases applied to Spiritualists, inclosed in invidious “ quotation m arks,” insinuating some ridiculous peculiarity which no other class of people are supposed to possess, and intim ating doubts of their sanity, as well as throw ing dark aspersions upon their char­acter for morality, etc.

Now, we submit to candid minds, th a t such a mode of meeting facts, and argum ents based upon them, is neither ju st nor convincing. I t can only end in bringing confusion and contempt upon its perpetrators. New ideas and opinions m u s t stand upon the trustworthiness of the statements of fact brought to their support, and not upon the per­sonal qualities or qualifications of their advocates. W e do not propose to argue w ith fools, nor to “ cast our pearls before swine,” by attem pting to enlighten the willfully blind and ignorant ; but we will not submit to personal abuse and vilification at their hands on account of our opinions, to which we have as much righ t as we have to life, w ithout striking back in the best manner we are able. If our blows hurt—as we should th ink they had in some instances, when the cries of the culprit have been exceedingly meZo-dramatic—we cannot help it. W e have no apology to make for defending ourselves when attacked, for sueh is the privilege of every creature that lives ; we should be more or less than man if we did not resent any outrage upon our personal rights. Let offenders against these themselves take warning. N o li m e ta n gere is upon our shield, and tha t should be sufficient to discourage all temerity of tha t kind. W e are not philosopher enough to bear w ith the folly of the foolish, without m aking him feel th a t he is a trespasser, and tha t we do not wish to hear any more of his nonsense. m .

T h e R e c e n t R e v i s i o n D e b a t e .—A life mem­ber of the American Bible Society takes the Rev. Mr. Buel, their Agent, to task for the manner in which he conducted his side of the discussion at Calvary church. Through the columns of the P a c if ic G ospel H e ra ld he administers a severe re­proof to the gentlem an for his saying that the American Bible Union is composed mostly of Baptists, and wishes to know if there are not thousands of Baptists in the American Bible So­ciety. Altogether, between Mr. Buckbee and the Baptists of the Bible Society, Rev. Mr. Buel would seem to have got into serious difficulty. W e are pleased to see these brethren disagree so heartily, because it is an evidence of the foo lish n ess of preaching from dogmas founded upon the writings of fallible men like themselves—only not so en­lightened, let us suppose, as are our present

>r.religious teachers

W e don’t see that the B a n n e r o f L ig h t makes any mention whatever of the great work now going on in Oregon under the auspices of Brother Todd, Mrs. Ada Hoyt Foye, Dr. Bryant, and Mrs. Stowe. Do the B a n n e r folks still labor under the willful self-delusion that their lecturing agent on this coast is the only worker in this cause here ? W e shall take repeated pains to disabuse tbeir minds on this point. m .

T h e acrostic sent to us from Sacramento, con­taining the name of the B a n n e r o f P r o g r e s s , although very flattering to its conductors, is deficient in both rhythm and rhyme, and we prefer to decline it for th a t reason. Much obliged for the good-will of the friend who sent it. at.

T h e editor of tlxe Visalia D elta , when he speaks of this paper and of Spiritualism, emits no un­certain sound. W e have heard the same from his kind before. He has done for himself what Sliakspeare’s “ D ogberry” wished some one else fo do for him.

A n U tilita rian .A writer in the Golden E r a , subscribing him self

“ Spiritualist,” proposes to “ utilize Spiritualism,” by calling together a “ Congress of Mediums,” and endeavoring to obtain the services of spirits of the Old and New Testament writers in a revision and retranslation of their writings, each for himself, so as to put an end to all controversy as to the true intent and m eaning of tbe Scriptures. W e doubt very much the utility of such a procedure, inas­much as there are many reasons why it would be unsuccessful. In the first place, it is doubtful w hether the writers themselves knew what they meant when they wrote ; secondly, it is not prob­able tha t they now have a very exalted opinion of their own compositions ; thirdly, they are more happy in other employments ; fourthly, more con- tresersy would ensue over the question of the reliability of the mediums engaged in the work of revis" n than now subsists in regard to the present translation ; fifthly, it is of no earthly or heavenly consequence w hat the Scriptures mean, so long as Nature and Reason remain for our guidance. And we m ight go on from sixthly to sixteenthly, w ith reasons for considering the pro­position a preposterous and absurd one, if it were worth our while to do so. He m ust be a queer Spiritualist who could wish to employ spirits in explaining tbe Bible, wlien inspiration may be ob­tained direct from the spirit world, whence ema­nated all the inspiration the Bible really contains. That world is ju st as near us to-day as it was in the days of the Bible prophets, and ju st as clearly perceptible to the vision of our own seers as it was to those of the Jews. W hat “ utility ,” then, would there be in summoning or entreating tbe Jewish sages from their rest or recreation for the purpose of harnessing them to the work of trans­lating to us the obscure passages in their writings, which, after all, have no application to our day and generation ? As Spiritualists, we have neither need nor desire for any such interference in our behalf. W e are satisfied w ith the Scrip­tures as they are. , I f they are not correctly composed or translated, the errors are their own, not ours, aud we cannot be lield responsible for them. As we do not place our salvation in the letter of the Scriptures, it is a m atter of indiffer­ence to us whether it expresses tru th or falsehood, except so far as it may mislead or betray others into wrong actions in regard to ourselves. And this last consideration justifies our strenuous endeavors to discourage the use of the Bible as an infallible guide in the practice of daily life. If the “ Spiritualist ” of the G olden E r a will join his efforts w ith ours in this work, he will accom­plish more than he ever could by ever so many congresses of mediums to tinker the translation of the “ infallible ” Scriptures. M.

C alifornia P rison Commission.The Trustees of the Unitarian church, on Geary

street, tendered the use of their church last Sun­day evening for a m eeting of the California Prison Commission. About three hundred persons were present. District Attorney Porter said that there are between eight and nine hundred men in the State P rison ; when they come out, and the eye and the finger is pointed at them, they are shunned, and are almost compelled to resort to crime to obtain bread. A word of kindness, fitly spoken, m ight save many of them from a fresh career of crime, may make them men again. Mr. Porter related a number of cases that had occurred in his long and varied experience, in which men had been redeemed by apparently very simple acts of kindness. Some States set the prisoner free with two dollars to start life and become an honest man. The man needs more—more, too, than money. He wants advice and assistance to know where to go—w hat to do.

Mr. Woodworth, the Secretary of the Commis­sion, related in detail the work that lie had been engaged in, in connection w ith the Commission— his visits to all our penal institutions—his in­quiries into the character and the wants of the inmates—his attentions to those who were dis­charged, etc.

The Rev. Mr. Stebbins was pleased to th ink what a marked improvement had been made in the treatm ent of prisoners, paupers, etc. The old idea of punishment was, that it was perpetual— the old religious idea. No efforts were made to reform. He remembered when jiaupers were put up at auction to the man who would take them cheapest—“ sixpence, and a treat all round.” The civilized world had improved in this matter. Cali­fornia m ust keep pace as a m atter of duty, as well as pride.

Nothing was said about reforming society, so tha t it may make no more criminals by unjust laws and unjust administration. The Church thinks herself and her dogmas all-sufficient for that. But we see that crime flourishes even among the clergy, where neither poverty nor the injustice of society can be offered in excuse. W hile the poor criminals in our prisons are driven by necessity to crimes against property and wealth, the pious teachers commit crimes against morality tenfold more heinous, from their own cultivated depravity. During the past month, we have given the names of six teen clergymen who are now ar­raigned in various parts of the country for every degree of immorality. Yet, somehow, they all will manage to escape punishment, as is usually the case with “ distinguished ” criminals. M.

C o n v e n t i o n o f M e d i u m s .—The second quar­terly Convention of Mediums in W estern New York was held at Rochester, July 27tli and 28th, There is something p e c u l i a r l y appropriate in ap­pointing a meeting of mediums to be held in the city where infant Spiritualism was cradled less than twenty years ago, to exchange congratula­tions upon its unprecedented growth, and take counsel with the angels in regard to its continuedunfoldment. M.

------------- *-♦*♦----- -------O n a L a r g e S c a l e .—Balzac, tlie great French

novelist, is said to be much addicted to romancing in more than the literary sense, insomuch that those who made no allowance for his genius used to speak of him as “ an enormous liar.”—Dva^ m a tic Chronicle.

W e are now enabled to account for tbe Chronicle editor’s unfortunate propensity—he has been reading and emulating Balzac !

“ A ; Me,”

C o n s t a n t R e a d e r , ” s i g n i n g will receive an answer next week.

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C O M M U N I C A T I O N S .

S P I R I T U A L I S M .N U M B E R N IN E .

The ancients held th a t between the spirits of the elementary spheres and mankind there existed a certain sympathy, the nature of which corre­sponded w ith the temperament of the individual and the sphere of the spirit ; the bilious, lymph­atic, sanguine, and nervous temperaments, agree­ing, respectively, w ith the elements—earth, water, air, and fire.

Dr. Redfield, in his very interesting and com­prehensive system of Physiognomy, accepts this division of the temperaments as natural, and

;eing with the physical construction of man, and also with that of all Nature. Messrs. Fow­ler and Wells, of New York, object to it, and adopt three, as being more agreeable to Nature. And A. J. Davis, in the fourth volume of his “ Great Harmonia,” also objects. He says:

But the nervous, bilious, sanguine, and lymph­atic programme of temperaments has an odor about it, irresistibly reminding one of the age of Astrology—of the days when ‘ Humors ’ and ‘ Vapors ’ were suggested by Aristotle—when the doctrine of demoniac influence was accepted as gospel tru th by the greatest intellects.”

Now, it would naturally be supposed, tha t after expressing such abhorrence of astrological odors, Mr. Davis would have adopted a theory redolent of th a t better suited to his olfactory nerves ; but he had either forgotten, or was ignorant of, the fact that the ground he was exploring had been surveyed and laid out by the astrologers ages ago. He shows this in adopting the number seven—a number much more suggestive of astrological odor than the one he had rejected on that account. For astrologers recognized a higher order of tem­peraments than tha t of the elementary four, cor­responding to the seven planetary or angelic spheres—the very order which Mr. Davis accepts. He says :

“ By virtue of careful interior searchings, I have j ust discovered the existence, among men, of seven radical temperaments.”

The astrologers had discovered the same thou­sands of years ago ; the elementary being physio­logical, the seven planetary psychological. Mr. Davis also sees a correspondential relationship existing between the temperaments and certain metals ; but he ought also to have known, that, in the astrological system, each planetary tempera­ment had its representative metal, w ith which It sympathized. Then, when speaking of the changes of which those seven temperaments are susceptible, and in order to increase the perm uta­tions so as to correspond w ith the great variety of hum an characters, he adds the “ negative, passive, and positive conditions,” corresponding to the “ masculine, feminine, and neuter ” of Astrology ; each planet being called masculine or feminine, except Mercury—which was either, or neither, ac­cording to circumstances. T hat his arrangement should be complete, he tells us of “ twelve grand societies,” which have an odor about them irre­sistibly reminding one of the “ twelve signs of the zodiac ”—another modifying chain of tempera­ments in which Astrology had, in its odorous in­genuity, anticipated Mr. Davis.

These four temperaments being in natural sym­pathy with the four lower spheres, each individual attracted around him those spirits in harmony with his predominant temperament, and the higher or lower order of spirits of tha t sphere by his men­tal cultivation and moral development, who m in­istered to his wants or thw arted him, as they were pleased or displeased with him. From this arose the idea of sacrificing, and doing, what they sup­posed propitiated the gods ; for when enraged, and a choice, like th a t given to David, presented— famine, slaughter, or pestilence—it became a serious matter, and it behooved them to be on the righ t side.

The four elementary spheres were also con­sidered as hells, or purgatories, for those who, on their departure from this life, had not so improved their spiritual condition as to be able to return to the ethereal spheres—their primeval home. The sphere allotted to them was the one best adapted to their condition and character. In it they en­tered upon a probationary life, which, when well spent, upon their next demise, enabled them to rise into a more progressed condition of existence ; but, if not improved, they returned to earth to pass through a series of transmigrations, till purified enough to be given another trial.

This theory, w hether admired for the ingenuity displayed in its construction, or accepted as an article in our creed, presents a beautiful consist­ency—a system of distributive justice far exceed­ing in completeness the spiritual economy of Christianity. In it, no sentence of eternal damna­tion is passed ; and, whether falling or rising, on the earth or in the spheres, the ultim ate in view is the perfecting of the man till he reaches the state of the gods.

W hether the inhabitants of the spheres were all the departed spirits of men, or tha t some were independent sp lits—genii or demons—were open questions. Such demons as manifested themselves, declaring no knowledge of a previous life, were, in the opinion of some, only in the condition we are, who have no recollection of any pre-natal ex istence.

Speaking of the fairies, elves, and sprites, which our fathers imagined occupied the space around them, Buiwer remarks :

“ And O, is there not a tru th also in our fictions of the unseen world ? Are there not yet bright lingerers by the forest and the stream ? Do the moon and the soft stars look out on no delicate and winged forms bathing in their light ? Are the fairies and the invisible hosts but the children of our dreams, and not their inspiration ? Is that all a delusion which speaks from the golden page? And is the world only given to harsh and anxious travelers, th a t walk to and fro in pursuit of no gentle shadows? Are chimeras of the passions the sole spirits of the universe? No! while my remembrance treasures in its deepest cell the image of one no more—one who was ‘ not of the earth, earthy ’—one in whom love was the essence of thoughts divine—one whose shape and mould, whose heart and genius would, had poesy never before have dreamed it, have called forth the first notion of spirits resembling mortals, but not of them. No, Gertrude, while I remember you, the faith—the trust in brighter -shapes and fairer than the world knows of—comes clinging to my heart ; and still will I think that fairies m ight have

watched over your sleep, and spirits have m in­istered to your dream s!”

The sentiment herein contained has found, and will find, an echo in many hearts. In spite of our philosophy—our most clear-sighted philosophy— we cannot contemplate unmoved the idea of the annihilation of “ the dear departed,” be they hus­band or wife, father or mother, brother or sister,or, perhaps, V

“ a d e a r e r o n e S til l , a n d a n e a r e r one Y e t, th a n a l l o th e r ” —

a dear Gertrude, our love of whom is wedded to our most sacred memories. ’Tis then our finer feelings receive the severest shock, when we at­tempt to realize, that

“ A ll t h a t r e m a in s o f h e r ”

is only so much m atter undergoing a chemical transformation in the great laboratory of Nature— tha t she is no more to us than the clod of the val­ley, o’er which treads the clumsy foot of the most unthinking of mortals. Ah, n o ! the hallowed passion of the heart can never admit th a t the ob­ject of its love is dead !

“ In a love like this, there is something ineffably beautiful—it is essentially the poetry of passion. Desire grows hallowed by fear, and, scarce per­mitted to indulge its vent in the common channel of the senses, breaks forth into those vague yearn­ings, those lofty aspirations, which pine for the bright, the far, the unattained. I t is ‘ the desire of the m oth for the star ’—it is the love of theso u l!” J. w. MACKIE.---------- ----------------------SYSTEMS OF RELIGION, AN CIEN T AND

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crucified, is Jesus Christ the Son of God, and true and Almighty God. Amen.

That the world did not come to an end at the time specified in the above logical argument, was not the fault of the writer, whoever he m ight have been ; it is only equaled by another Christ­ian document, wherein is given the reason why the end of the world was expected some time ago :

“ Consider, my children, w hat th a t signifies. He (God) finished (creating) them in six days. The meaning of it is this : tha t in six thousand years the Lord God will bring all things to an end.”

J . D . P IE R S O N .

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

It was the common belief of those communities who lived nearest the period of the Apostles, that the duration of the world we inhabit was not to exceed 5,500 'years. This can be shown by a Christian work, which, if not in the catalogue of canonical books, has as much claim in fairness as any there found. I allude to the so-called Apocryphal New Testament, which had a place among the sacred books of Christendom for at least the first four hundred years of our era, and was, w ith a large list of other books, set aside as uncanonical, by th a t most sapient body of nincompoops, drawn together by order of the Em ­peror Constantine, at a place called Nice, then belonging to Provence, a dependency of France, but now a part of Italy. Gf this august body of pious scoundrels, w ith a villainous murderer at their head, we shall have something to say before we have done with these articles. The compiler of the Apocryphal New Testament “ assures the public that this work, and the New Testament, contain all the historical records relative to Christ and his Apostles, now in existence, and considered sacred by Christians during the first four centuries after his b irth .” As this rejected book is in the hands of but few persons, it w ill not be unin­teresting, perhaps, to the general reader of the Banner of P rogress, to quote an entire chapter from the Book of Nicodemus, in which occurs a chronological point of importance, to complete the list already gone through :The Gospel of Nicodemus, formerly called the Acta of

Pontius P ilate.C H A P T E R X X I I .

1 After these things Pilate went to the temple of the Jews, and called together all the scribes, and doctors of the law, and went w ith them into a chapel of the temple.

2 And commanding tha t all the gates should be shut, said to them, I have heard tha t you have a certain large book in this temple ; I desire you, therefore, tha t it may be brought to me.

3 And when the great book, carried by four ministers of the temple, and adorned with gold and precious stones, was brought, P ilate said to them all, I adjure you by the God of your fathers, who made and commanded this temple to be built, that ye conceal not the tru th from me.

4 Ye know all the things which are w ritten in that book; tell me, therefore, now, if ye in the Scriptures have found anything of that Jesus whom ye crucified, and at w hat time of the world he ought to have come ; show it to me.

5 Then having sworn Annas and Caiaplias, they commanded all the rest who were w ith them to go out of the chapel.

6 And they shut the gates of the temple and of the chapel, and said to Pilate : Thou hast made us to swear, O judge,by the building of this temple, to declare to thee tha t which is true and right.

7 After we had crucified Jesus, not knowing that ReT was the Son of God, but supposing he wrought his miracles by some magical art, we summoned a large assembly in this temple.

8 And when we were deliberating among one another about the miracles which Jesus had wrought, we found many witnesses of our own country, who declared tha t they had seen him alive after his death, and that they heard him dis­coursing with his disciples, and saw him ascend­ing unto the height of the heavens and entering into them.

9 And we saw two witnesses, whose bodies Jesus raised from the dead, who told us of many things which Jesus did among the dead, of which we have a w ritten account in our hands.

10 And it is our custom annually to open this holy book before an assembly, and to search there for the counsel of God.

11 And we found in the first of the seventy books, where Michael, the archangel, in speaking to the third son of Adam, the first man, an account that after five thousand -five hundred years, Christ the most beloved Son of God was to come on earth.

12 And we further considered, that perhaps he was the very God of Israel who spake to Moses : Thou shalt make the ark of the testimony ; two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. (Exod. 25 : 10.)

13 By these five cubits and a half for the build­ing of the ark of the Old Testament, we perceived and knew that in five thousand years and a half (one thousand years) Jesus Christ was to come in the ark or tabernacle of a body.

14 And so our Scriptures testify tha t he is the Son of God, and the Lord and K ing of Israel.

15 And because after his suffering, our chief priests were surprised at the signs which were wrought by his means, we opened that book to search all the generations down to the generation of Joseph, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, suppos ing him to be of the seed of David.

16 And we found the account of the creation, and at what time lie made the heaven and the earth, and the first man Adam, and tha t from thence to the flood, were two thousand two hun­dred and twelve years.

17 And from the flood to Abraham, nine hun­dred and twelve. And from Abraham to Moses, four hundred and thirty. And from Moses to David the King, five hundred and ten.

18 And from David to the Babylonish captivity, five hundred years. And from the Babylonish captivity to the incarnation of Christ, four hundred years.

19 The sum of all which amounts to five thou sand and a half (a thousand).

20 And so it appears, tha t Jesus, whom we

W H A T GOOD1?It is often asked, W hat good has been done by

or through Spiritualism ? W e answer, the spread of the tru th , on the dearest, purest, and holiest rela­tions of man, and the backing away of the clouds th a t gather around the minds of men in view of death and futurity, the darkness of which can nowhere be more distinctly perceived than in the asking of such a question.

The purity, angelic loveliness, and divine holi­ness th a t such a faith, if firmly based, m ust inspire in the loyal soul, is like heavenly beatitudes in the contemplation.

Its power to restrain and reform ; to soften the hard heart addicted to evil indulgence; to expose the still harder heart of bigotry and religious denunciation; to moisten the eye of criminal effrontery, which the hypocrisies of the world have made stern and fixed; to bring the strong man of selfish apathy, as a child, once more into the company of his brother-children, at the feet of m aternal or sisterly tenderness, of those whose earthly bodies have long since been entombed ; to keep down the unnatural separations of families, beneath the fatherly affection of one who claims all as his, and as still needing his care ; to turn the scoff of godless ribaldry into loving faith, and the shame of pulpit curses pronounced by h u m a n brethren on h u m a n beings, of eternal doom, into the beauty of eternal help ; to make all—yes, all— realize an inner religion, which worships at the altar of eternal tru th and unchangeable love.

W ith such aims and prospects before us, to ask what is the good of general, tangible spirit inter­course, is to ask the good of immortality, of heaven, and of God. B. L.

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Th e Oregonians bave embraced Spiritualism ■with, a will. Our accounts from Portland, Oregon City, Salem, Albany, and Corvallis, tbe larger towns in tbe State, are full of encouragement and promise. Tbink of a thousand bearers at a Spirit­ual lecture in tbe little city of Portland, wbere tliere are only seven thousand inhabitants ! Mrs. Foye’s seances also bave been fully attended, and Dr. Bryant has bis bands full to meet engage­ments in different parts of the State. A Society has been organized at Oregon City, m aking three now existing in tbe State. On tbe return of Mr. Todd next month, we shall be enabled to give a fuller account of tbe work performed in Oregon. Brother Loyd, of Grass Valley, wbo bas been on a visit to tbat State for bis bealtb, informs us tbat tbe foundation already laid for tbe progress of Spiritualism in tbat quarter is solid and perma­nent. m .

C l a i r v o y a n c e i n P e t a l u m a .— Miss Janeson, we understand, bas been very successful in Peta­luma. In one case, she detected by her clairvoyant powers a piece of criminality, and identified tbe criminal by bis photograph. She bas been invited to Bloomfield, in tbe same county. M.

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LYCEUM DEPARTM ENT.“ A n g e ls w h e r e ’e r w e go a t te n d

O u r s t e p s , w h a te ’e r b e tid e ,W ith w a tc h fu l c a re th e ir charge d e fe n d ,

A n d e v i l t u r n a s id e .”---- CU ART.ES W E S L E Y .

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O ur b a b y g ir l , o u r l i t t le o n e ,An o p e n in g b u d o f m y s te r y ,

A n e v e r la s t in g h ope b eg u n !

O u r b a b y is a g u n n y th in g ,A e u n n v th in g o f love a n d lig h t ,

A n d lik e th e sk y -g a p s b r e a k in g th r o u g h A p e a r ly cloud in S u m m e r d a y s .

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F o r s h e r e m e m b e r s E d e n ’s ro se ,A n d s u n n y b a n k s o f a sp h o d e l ;

Gov. Bullock, at tlie Framingham. (Mass.) Normal School examination, advised the teachers and pupils to cultivate more naturalness in read­ing, and said, if he could have his way, he would forbid corporal p u n is h m e n t in schools by law, and predicted that it would soon be done.

"Wh en the Hindoo priest is about to baptize an infant he utters the following beautiful senti­ment : “ Little baby, thou enterest the worldweeping, while all around thee smile. Contrive so to live tha t thou mayest depart in smiles, while all around thee weep.”

A l i t t l e g i r l , showing her little cousin, about four years old, a star, said, “ That star you see up there is bigger than this world.” “ No it aint,” said he. “ Y e s , it is.” “ Then why don’t it keep the rain off.”

------------- •+ « -------------“ W hy pain yourselves in searching for a Divine

law, whilst you have that which is common to all mankind and engraven on the tablets of N a tu r e ?” — T ertu llia n . ’

What He Wanted.—Little Harry, some three or four years old, who had been taught to pray, one day said to his mother: “ Mother, I wish there wasa real God.” “ Why, Harry! what do you mean?” exclaimed the mother. Harry replied : “ I prayedto God for snow, and it didn’t come; and I prayed for griddle-cakes in the morning, and I can’t get them. I want a real God.”

Candor consists in giving a fair and deliberate hearing to opinions, statements, and arguments, and weighing fairly each side.

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B e o u rs to k e e p h e r s h in in g t r a c k A s s in le s s to h e r h o m e a b o v e 1

----------- < > » -------------The Model Progressive Lyceum.

TO M . B . D Y O T T , P H I L A D E L P H I A .Our thought ever reverts to the Philadelphia

Lyceum as the best, all things considered, we have attended. How—why is it thus? There must be similar material in every city. Answer us these questions,’ dear brother :

I. To what extent, if any, should the financial interests of a Society and Lyceum he co-related?

II. How do you manage to keep the social, mental, and spiritual interests of the two so thor­oughly united ?

III. How do you contrive to throw wisdom’s net over so many youth of both sexes, say from four­teen to twenty, and hold them in the Lyceum as by magic, while helping them up the steeps of progress?

IV. How have you convinced the Spiritualists of Philadelphia that it is neither consistent nor wise to send their children to sectarian Sunday schools, to be taught creeds and monstrous theological falsehoods ?

V. W hat healing panacea have you discovered for the permanent relief of little petty jealousies and rivalries, and the spirit that says—“ If things can’t be thus and so, I won’t come any m ore” ?

VI. Does the Lyceum service just before the lec­ture increase the attendance and more thoroughly impress parents with the educational interests and moral issues of the hour and the age ?

R E P L Y O F M R . D Y O T T .The inquiries you propound admit of no other

answer than those based upon our opinion and belief, corroborated by what measure of success our efforts and experiences may have earned for them. W e believe the financial interests and re­sponsibilities of the Society and Lyceum should be separate and distinct from each o th e r; that each should feel and realize the necessity of self­sustenance, independent of each other.

Self-reliance is an indispensable prerequisite to success, and we do not believe that element will flourish where the financial interests of the two are united, and each dependent upon the other. The Lyceum, if directed with any degree of ability, is a self-sustaining institution; but in order to develop its powers and resources, every individual member should be taugh t to feel that his or her efforts are necessary for its success, and tha t the Lyceum will be ju st what they make it. The Society, in my opinion, should be a separate and distinct organization, and should inaugurate and devise its own means of sustenance and con­trol its own affairs.

In their work, aims, and purposes, the Lyceum and the Society should be one and co-operative; in their existence and government they should be distinct and separate. Each group should have the righ t to elect its leader, and the whole Lyce­um should elect its elective officers. The officers and leaders should govern and manage its finan­cial and executive business, and, as far as it can be, a fair proportion of the officers and leaders of the Lyceum should be members of the Board of Directors of the Society, and officers and directors of the Board should also be officers or leadors of the Lyceum. That fact, I believe, will furnish a solution to the second question in regard to the unity of the social, mental, and spiritual interests of our Society and Lyceum.

The reply to your third inquiry will he found in the institution of frequent social meetings, which combine pleasure and amusement with physical, intellectual, and musical instruction. In a word, by making everything in connection w ith our Lyceum as a ttra c tiv e as we can.

In reply to your fourth inquiry I would say : Ifwe have, to any considerable extent, convinced the Spiritualists and others of our city tha t it is neither wise nor consistent to send their children to sectarian Sunday schools to be taught creeds and theological falsehoods, it has been by the demonstrated utility and superiority of our teach­ings, as practically illustrated in our Sunday ex­ercises, our week-day practieings, and our public exhibitions, which have exhibited such a striking contrast with tlie old stereotyped, monotonous, erroneous teachings of the sectarian Sunday schools, that their reason and judgm ent can no longer withhold tlxeir verdict in favor of the Ly­ceum system. Their children are not only attract­ed to and become members of the Lyceum, but they bring their yiarents with them, and both become interested in our progressive work.

To your fifth inquiry I would say : Having been blessed with exemption from petty jealousies and rivalries in our Lyceum, we have had no need for a panacea to cure them. Our offices are, and have been, all filled by those who have rather shunned than sought preferment.

Sixth: The Lyceum services preceding themorning lecture do increase both the attendance find interest in our morning and evening meet­ings, and draw into our fold hundreds of parents and others who would otherwise never have heard a word of our beautiful philosophy.— B a n n e r o f L ig h t.

T o u c h i n g C o i n c i d e n c e .—Mrs. Clark, of Fra­mingham, Mass., who was recently lost on the coast of Maine, at Mt. Desert, while preparing for her jouruey thither, was engaged in packing her trunks, when a disabled soldier, with books to sell, called at the door. She said to a friend, “ Though I am very busy, it would be very selfish in me not to help the poor soldier a little.” She bought of him a child’s story-book, entitled, “ Lost on the Sea-shore,” and laid it upon the parlor-table 03 a gift for her little child when she should see it again. When the child returned home from her visit to a neighboring town, there was no mother there, but this little book was handed to her a3 the last gift of her mother. Burst­ing into tears she said, in her simplicity, “ Mamma knew it—mamma knew it !”

A Challenge to th e C lergy.To the C lergym en o f the P a c if ic Coast :

R e v . G e n t l e m e n :—I hereby extend a chal­lenge to any one of you whom your religious organization will endorse as being capable of defending your articles of faith, to meet me either in this city or in Sacramento, San Jose, Marysville, or Napa City, in oral discussion on the following questions:

1. D o the sp ir its o f the d e p a r te d possess p o icer to r e tu r n a n d com m u n ica te in te llig en tly w ith th e ir f r ie n d s in the eartJnlife ?

I tak ing the affirmative, you the negative. Discuss two days.

2. A.re. the teach ings o f S p ir itu a lism im m o ra l in th e ir tendencies, a s co m p a red w ith the teach ings o f the B ib le a n d C h r is tia n ity ?

You to take the affirmative and I the negative. Discuss two days.

An early reply is desired.Yours respectfully, b e n j a m i n t o d d .

The following personal invitation has also been addressed:

S a n F r a n c i s c o , April 2, 1867. R e v . M r . D w i n e l l :

S i r :—In the Sacramento U nion of recent date, I saw the report of a discourse delivered by you, in which you speak in a m anner highly derogatory of Spiritualism. I herein challenge you to meet me in an oral, discussion, either in Sacramento or in th is city, to continue four days, upon the fol­lowing questions:

1. D o the sp ir its o f the d e p a r te d possess p o w e r to r e tu r n a n d com m u nica te in te llig en tly w ith th e ir f r ie n d s in the earth -life ?

I tak ing the affirmative, you the negative. Discuss two days.

2. A .re the teach ings o f S p ir itu c d ism im m o ra l in th e ir tendencies, a s co m p a red w ith the teach ings o f the B ib le a n d C h r is tia n ity ?

You to take the affirmative, and I the negative. Discuss two days.

An early reply is desired.Yours respectfully, b e n j a m i n t o d d .

W e intend to keep the above in a conspicuous place, because some have imagined tha t the chal­lenge had been withdrawn on account of the temporary absence of Mr. Todd on a lecturing tour in Oregon. I t w ill not be withdrawn forany reason except illness. M.

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New York.S e la b . V an S ick le , G re e n b u s h . M ic b .Pr- f. S. M. S tr ic k , in s p i r a t io n a l s p e a k e r , P e o r ia , 111.J . W. S e a v c r , in s p i ra t io n a l s p e a k e r , B y ro n , N . Y .M iss L o tt ie S m a ll, t r a n c e s p e a k e r , M e ch a n ic F a l l s , Me.M rs. M. E. B . S a w y e r , B a ld w in s v il le , M ass.M iss M a r th a S . S tu r t e v a n t , t r a n c e s p e a k e r , B o s to n , A lass. M rc .M a ry L o u isa S m ith , t r a n c e s p e a k e r , T o led o , O hio.H . B. S to r e r , in s p i r a t io n a l l e c tu r e r , 75 F u lto n s t r e e t , N ew

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F er M erchandise F re ig h t, ap p ly to M essrs. W ELLS, FARGO & CO.

The sp len d id S tea m sh ip COLORADO w ill be d isp a tch ed on MONDAY, A pril 1 st, 1867, for HONGKONG, v ia K an agaw a , ca rry in g p a ssen g ers, m a ils , and fre ig h t.

F or P a ssa g e and a ll o ih er in form ation , a p p ly a t th e P acific Mail S team sh ip C o.’s office, corn er o f S acram en to an d L e id es- dorff s tr e e ts .

3 OLIVER ELDRIDGE, A gen t.

FARE AND FREIGHT REDUCED!FOR, ALY1SO, SANTA CLARA,

AND SAN JOSE.rp iIE NEW AND ELEGANT STEADIER

« » 3 C 9T. C. W A L K E R ..................................................................................... M a s te r

W i l l l e a v e P a c i f i c S t r e e t W h a r f , FOR ALVISO,

Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,A t 3 iO O o’c lo c k , P . M.

CONNECTING W IT H A SPLEN D ID L IN E OF COACHES F O R SAN TA CLA R A AND SAN JO SE.

F a r e to A lv iso ..................................................................... § 1 OOF a r e to S a n ta C la ra a n d S an J o s e ............................. X 5 0F r e ig h t to A lv iso ............................................................... X OOF r e ig h t to S a n ta C la ra a n d San Jo se

T h is r o u te is u n e q u a 'e d fo r c o m fo rt, a n d th e t r a v e l in g p u b ­lic h a v e h e a r t i ly e n d o rs e d i t s re o p e n in g b y th e o w n e rs o f t h e CORA. T h is s ta u n c h a n d e x c e e d in g ly s w if t- ru n n in g b o a t is e le g a n tly f it te d u p a s a D ay B o a t e x p re s s ly fo r th is r o u te , w i th a la rg e , a i r y a n d lu x u r io u s sa loon . P a s s e n g e r s w ill b e la n d e d in S an Jo se a t th e doo r o f t h e i r h o te l o r r e s id e n c e , a n d in S a n F ra n c isc o w ith in h a i l of s t r e e t c a r s r u n n in g to e v e r y p a r t o f th e c i ty . To th o se w h o a r e t i r e d o f th e c ra m p e d s e a ts , d u s t , s m o k e a n d stiff n g a tm o s p h e re o f r a i l c a r s , a n d w h o p r e f e r th e h e a l th g iv in g b re e z e s a n d b e a u t ifu l s c e n e ry o f th e B a y R o u t e , w e offer a il th e a c c o m m o d a tio n s re q u ir e d b y b u s in e s s m e n , w ith th e p le a s u re s s o u g h t b y e x c u r s io n is t s ; a n d n o e x p e n s e w ill b e s p a re d b y th e o w n e rs o r e x e r t io n o m it te d b y th e officers a n d c r e w o f th e CORA to in s u r e th e c o m fo r t a n d g o o d -w ill o f o u r p a t ro n s .

RETURNING} :S ta g e s le a v e SAN JO SE a t 8:30 o ’c lo ck a . m . , e v e r y M ON­

DA Y, W EDNESDAY a n d F R ID A Y , c o n n e c tin g w ith b o a t a t A lv iso ; b y w h ic h a r r a n g e m e n t p a s s e n g e rs w ill a r r i v e a t S a n F ra n c is c o in t im e fo r th e b u s in e s s o f th e d a y .

F o r f r e ig h t o r p a s s a g e a p p ly on b o a r d , o r toP . CADUC.

jg g ff-A rra n g em e n n s w ill b e p e r fe c te d in a fe w d a y s fo r c a r r y in g f r e ig h t th r o u g h to S an Jo se . 3

SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.

S. F. AND S. J. R. R.ON AND AFTER WEDNESDAY, MAY 1st,

1867, ( u n t i l f u r th e r n o t ic e ,) T ra in s w ill r u n a s fo llo w s : PA SSEN G ER TRAINS* le a v e SAN FRANCISCO f ro m th e N ew

D epo t, ju n c t io n o f M a r k e t a n d V a le n c ia s t r e e t s :F o r S an J o s e a n d W ay S ta tio n s a t 8 .10 a . m ., 3 .40 a n d 5 .00 p .m. L ea v e S an J o s e a t 6 00 a n d 8.00 A. M ., 4 .00 P . M .

ON SUNDAYS :L e a v e S an F ra n c isc o a t 8.20 a n d 9 40 A. M , 4 20 P . M .L e a v e S an J o s e a t 8 .00 A. M , 4 00 a n d 7.00 P . M .F R E IG H T T R A IN S w i th P a s s e n g e r C a rs a t ta c h e d L e a v e S an F ra n c isc o a s a b o v e d a i ly , ^ S u n d a y s e x c e p te d ) a t 1 .30 P. M . L e a v e S an J o s e a t 3 .00 A . M .

T ra in s le a v e on s h a r p tim e .EX C U R SIO N TICKETS is s u e d on SA TU RD A Y A FTERN O O N S

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

I I . M . N E W H A L . L . , P re s id e n t .R . P . H A M M O N D , S u p ’t . 4

CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD.ON AND AFTER NOVEMBER 29. 1866.

u n t i l f u r th e r n o tic e , th e t r a in s o f th e C e n tr a l P ac ific R a ilro a d w ill r u n a s fo llo w s :

Going E ast.P a s s e n g e r t r a i n s w ill le a v e S a c ra m e n to a t 6 :30 a . x . , a n d

a r r iv e a t C isco a t 12 m .; a lso a t 2 p . m ., a r r iv in g a t C isco a t 7 :30 P. M.

Going W est.P a s s e n g e r t r a i n le a v e s C isco a t 6:30 a . m . , a n d a r r i v e s a t

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

T h e m o rn in g p a s s e n g e r t r a in s c o n n e c t a t A u b u rn w i th s ta g e s fo r Y a n k e e J im s , F o r e s t H ill , M ich igan B luffs a n d G e o rg e to w n ; a n d a t C olfax w ith S tag e s fo r G ra s s V a lley , N e v a d a a n d S an J u a n ; a n d a t C isco w ith S ta g e s fo r S u m ­m it C ity , A u s t in , V irg in ia C ity , a n d a ll p o in ts in th e S ta te o f N e v a d a .

T h e 6:30 A. x t r a in c o n n e c ts a t th e J u n c t io n w i th th e c a r s o f th e C a lifo rn ia C e n tra l R a ilro a d fo r L in c o ln a n d M a ry s v i lle , a n d a ll p o in ts n o r th .

A ll t r a in s ru n d a i ly , S u n d a y s e x c e p te d .C. CROCKER,

S u p e r in te n d e n t C. P . R . R .G. F . H a r t w e l l , A s s is ta n t S u p e r in te n d e n t . 3

D A IX aY c o a s t t i n e .San Juan & Los .Angeles U. S. IVL Stages.

D a ily W inter Arrangem ents f o r 1866 & 1867.

P ASSENGERS FOR SAN JUAN, FASO RO-b le s H o t S p r in g s , San L u is O b ispo , S a n ta B a rb a ra , S an

B u e n a v e n tu ra a n d L os A n g e le s , le a v e S an F ra n c is c o b y th e M orn ing T ra in of t h j San Jose Railroad, d a i ly , a n d w ill ta k e th e Coa- lie s o f th e C om pany on th e a r r iv a l o f th e t r a in a t th e Depot in San Jose.

* S “Pa.ssengers o n lie over at any point of the route, and resume their seats within six days. Through tickets to Los Angeles, or to any place on the route, can be procured at the San Jose Railroad Depot in San Francisco. Further informa­tion. and tickets, can be obtained at the Company’s Office, 232 Buslx street, opposite Occidental Hotel.

W. E. LOVETT & CO., Proprietors.WM. G. ROBERTS, Agent.

3 WM. BUCKLEY, General Superintendent.

STEA M ER PETA LU M A .FOR P E T A L U M A AND SONOMA,

(via L akeville .)

S U M M E R A R R A N G E M E N T :THROUGH TO BIG RIVER IN SIXTEEN HOURS !

Shortest and most p easant route to Geyser Sprmgs I F A R E A N D F R E I Gr H T R E D U C E D !

From Vallajo street wharf, at 9 o’clock a. x.

F o r SONOMA (VIA LAKEVILLE) ANDPETALUMA, connecting with stages from Bloomfield,

Bodega, Duncan’s Mills, Tomales, Santa Rosa, Windsor, Healdshurg, Gevserville, Skagg’s Springs, Geyser Springs, Anderson Valley. Novato. Albion and Big R ivers, Novo, Fort Bragg, Ukiali and Long Valley.

The well known and favorite SteamerP E T A L U M A ,

C. M. BAXTER.......................................................................... CaptainIn order to better accommodate the traveling public, w ill

run DAILY as above, Sundays excepted.Returning, will leave Petaluma at 2 p. x.,jg^-Freignt received and receipted for at all hours of the

dav. and taken at the lowest rate.3 C H A R LES M IN TU R N .

G -en era l N e w s A g e n ts .SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED FOR PAPERS

AND MAGAZINES PUBLISHED IN ALL FARTS OF THE WORLD.

j j y S end fo r S u b s c r ip t io n L is t . A d d re s sH O IN BROS.,

N . W c o r n e r M o n tg o m e ry a n d J a c k so n s t r e e t s ,5 S a n F rancisco*