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A Name in the Sand
Alone I walked the ocean strand,
A pearly shell was in my hand ;
I stooped, and wrote upon the sand
fly name, the year and day.
As onward from the spot I passed
(Inc lingering look behind I cast—
A wave came rolling high and fast,
And washed my lines away.
And so methought 'twill quickly be
With every mark on earth from me !
A wave of dark oblivion's sea
Will sweep across the place
Where I have trod the sandy shore
Of time, and be to me no more ;
Of me, my day, the name I bore,
To leave no track or trace.
And yet with Him who counts the sands,
And holds the water in His hands,
I know a lasting record stands
Inscribed against my name,
Of all this mortal part has wrought,
Of all this thinking soul has thought,
And from these fleeting moments caught,
For glory or for shame.
(tog-gtilev.
LOST TO THE WORLD.
In the Summer of the year 1815, or
thereabout, a wealthy merchant of New
York took charg e of a little boy who had
been left an orphan. The parents of the
little boy had been actors of some slight
celebrity in the theatres of the United
States ; but dying within a short period
of each other, they lett behind them, in a
state of the completcst destitution, three
young children. The eldest of these was
called Edgar. He was a handsome boy
about six years of age, with a quick eye
and active spirit, and a remarkably intel
ligent countenance. The merchant of
whom we speak had known the parents of
the child; and out of pity for its helpless
ness he and his wife, who had been blessed
with no children, adopted it as their own.
How happily the ardent boy passed his
days in the house of his benefactor; how
he was beloved by those two childish peo
ple ; how he became the favorite of a
large circle ; how, in the strength of their
great affection the merchant and his wife
brought him to England, so that nothing
might be wanted to make him a gentleman
in mind as well as person ; how he spent
some four or five pleasant years under the
care and teaching of a reverend gentleman
near London ; how he came back again to
the city of his birth to finish his educa
tion ; and how he was generally looked
upon as the rich merchant's heir. it would
take long to tell.
But we would linger on this portion of
our story; fain dwell upon his precocious
wit and aptness for learning; fain make
much of his feats of strength and agility
—his ease and grace on horseback, his
dexterity in fence and race stream, and
his success in all that seemed to promise
for him a brilliant career. But the truth
must be told, no matter how unwilling the
teller.. He was sent to the college of
Charlottesville, amply provided with
money. In those days dissipation among
the students of colleges was unhappily but
too common ; and among the most disso
lute and extravagant, the wildest rufflers
of the town, the hardest drinkers and most
daring gamblers, there. was ever to be
found one more wild and desperate than
them all—and that one was Edgar, now a
good-looking, free-hearted young fellow of
eighteen. Friends advised with him, and
he made fair promises in plenty; tutors
remonstrated, and he declared that he
would amend and win the highest honors
yet; companions tempted and wine al
lured, and he embraced the filthy siren,
and so fell. Instead of coming home from
his university with honors, he was sum
marily expelled.
One would think tint disgrace so pub
lic would have broken his proud spirit;
but it did not. Because his benefactor
refused to pay the'gambling debts he con
tracted at college, the wilful young man
wrote him a violent and abusive letter,
quitted his house, and soon afterward left
his country with the avowed intention of
joining the Greeks, who were at that time
in the midst of their struggle with the
Turks. He never reached his destination,
and nothing was known or heard of him
for more than a year. At last, however,
he was found, and in circumstances which
left no doubt as to the manner in which
his European experience had been brought.
One morning the American minister, at
St. Petersburg, was summoned to save a
countryman of his own from the penalties
incurred through a drunken debauch.—
He came in time to rescue the prodigal
Edgar from a prison, and through hi 3 in
fluence he was set at liberty and enabled
to return to the United States.
The first to greet him on his landing
was his old patron, the merchant, who was
now alone in the world, for his wife had
died while Edgar was away. But he took
the wanderer to his arms and led him back
to the quiet home he had quitted so un
graciously. The question then arose as to
what. should be done for the youth ; and
on his expressing a wish to become a sol
dier, interest was made with the mer
chant's friends, and Edgar was entered as
a scholar in the military academy at New
York. For a little time all went on well;
the young cadet was assiduous in his
studies, became the favorite of the mess,
and was looked upon by the officers and
professors as one of their most promising
pupils. But alas, and alas! the old hab
its of dissipation were too strong to be
given up all at once. lie neglected his
duties; he drank to excess; he disobeyed
orders; he openly sneered at the regula•
tions of the academy—and, in ten months
from his matriculation, he was cashiered.
Disgraced and humiliated, where could
the wretched man find refuge but in the
home of his adopted father ? Thither,
then, he went, and was again received with
open arms. During Edgar's stay at the
academy the merchant had married again
to a lady some years younger than himself.
Time passed on ; but just as the sun of
happiness seemed about to shine once more
upon him, a quarrel took place between
Edgar and the lady, which severed forever
all tics of friendship between the merchant
and his protege. Another 'circumstance
which is searcely fit for mention here, was
hinted at, and which, if true, throws a
dark shade upon the character of Edgar.
Whatever the cause, however, the mer
chant and his adopted son parted in anger,
never to meet again, and when the former
died, the latter shared no portion of his
wealth.
Again thrown upon the world by his
own misconduct, the young man tried his
hand in a field common to young men, and
wrote several political pieces and articles
in the American magazines. These were
so well received that he was almost tempt
ed to believe that he could obtain a living
nit GEORGE D. PRENTICE
by literature. But his old habits return
ing, be despaired of success in his new
avocation, and enlisted as a private soldier
in the United States Army. He was soon
recognized by a former companion in the
Military Academy, and great interest be
fon to be felt for him among the officers
It was propoFed to buy a commission for
the talented and handsome young man ;
but just as his friends began to rally round
him, and just as their plans seemed about
to prosper, he deserted.
Fur more than two years the world knew
nothing' of his whereabouts, and it may
be, had almost forgotten him.
In 1833, however, the proprietors of an
American magazine offered two prizes for
the best poem and tale which should be
suitable to their pages. Numerous manu
scripts were sent for competition, and a
day was appointed on which the arbitrators
should meet to judge of the merits of the
various productions. Almost the first man
uscript that was opened claimed attention
from the remarkable beauty and distinct
ness of the handwriting. One of the ar
bitrators read a page or two and was
charmed. He called the attention of his
friends to the tale ; and they were so much
.pleased with it that it was read aloud from
beginning to end, and all admitted that it
was worthy the highest prize. The "con
fidential envelope" was opened—a Latin
motto was discovered. No other tales were
read, and the award was immediately pub
lished. But where to find the author,
that the prize money might be paid ? The
publishers and arbitrators had not long to
wait. In the evening f.dlowing the an
nouncement, a young man came to the
office to claim the prize. He was pale and
thin, even to ghastliness, and his whole
appearance bespoke dissipation, want and
illness. A well-worn coat, buttoned up to
the .chin, concealed the want of a shirt,
and imperfect wretched boots discovered
the absence of stockings. But be looked
a gentleman, nevertheless; for his face and
hands, though haggard and attenuated,
were clean and spotless; his hair was well
arranged, his eye was bright with intelli
gence, and his voice and bearing were those
of a scholar. The publishers and arbitra
tors were interested extremely. Tbcy in
quired lilt° his history, and finally offered
him employment on the magazine for
irliich the tale had been written.
A little money judiciously applied soon
altered the appearance of the young man,
and in a short time he took his post as
second editor of a monthly magazine, with
the means and position of a gentleman.
Now here was an opportunity of retriev
ing his lost character. Here were friends
ready not only to over!ook the past, but to
assist in making his future c..hu and free
from care. Here was a public ready to
listen to his teachings, and a patron ready
t i reward his labors. For a little while
all went on well, and those who knew him
began to congratulate themselves upon the
happy change. Those who before admired
his genius were beginning to respect his
integrity. He was happy and successful
in his uew avocation. He married a young
and beautiful girl, his cousin ; lie teund
for himself a cottage, which the care, econ
omy, and gentle temper of his wife con
verted into a home, and ha was beginning
to be a happy man. It would be well if
our story could end here; but, oh for hu
man frailty ! oh for good resolutions made
without prayer to God! oh for principles
which he assists not ! the young husband
of that fair young wife fell back again into
evil courses, and forfeited the respect of
employers, and the sympathy of friends,
through his devotion to the accursed bot
tle.
It were a weary tale to tell how often
he repented, and was forgiven ; how he
passed from the editorship of one magazine
to that of another; how lie went from
State to State and from city to city a hard
working, aspiring, sanguine, talented man,
bearing about him the curse of irresolu
tion, never constant but to the seductive
and dangerous besetment" of strong drink;
how friends advised with him, and pub
lishers remonstrated; how at one time he
had so far conquered his propensity as to
call himself, in a letter to a friend, "a
model of temperance and other virtues ;"
and how, at another, he forfeited the oc
cupation which was the sole dependence
of his little family by frequent relapses
into his old disgraceful habits ; bow he
committed, under the excitement of intox
ication, faults and excesses to which no
gentleman would plead guilty; how he
borrowed money of his friends without the
means or intention of returning it; how
he forfeited the esteem, even while his
talents commanded the admiration of the
public; how he succeeded in bringing ma
ny literary speculations into life which his
vicious habits and inattention to business
murdered in their youth ; how lie became
a confirmed drunkard, with only now and
then a fitful hour or so in which to throw
off on paper the vagaries of a mind rich
in learning and imaginative fancies;
how his young wife died broken-hearted,
and how he became so reduced as to be
able no longer to make an appearance
among his friends ; how his wife's mother.
constant to his falling fortunes, and ever
anxious to conceal his vices, went with his
.3ISS. from office to office, and from pub
lisher to publisher, in search of the means
to support him ; how for a little while lie
shook off the lethargy of intoxication, and
again appeared in the polite circles of New
York ; how he was caressed, and feted.
and congratulated ; how the efforts of his
pen were sought by rival publishers ; how
he was engaged to be married a second
time to a beautiful young woman, and how
the engagement was finally broken off
through his return to pernicious habits.
It were a weary tale indeed.
The melancholy story of this man's life
was soon to close—the golden thread to be
rudely snapped asunder—and by his own
hind. He had partly recovered from his
dangerous curses, and was engaged in de
livering lectures in different towns in the
United States. They were well attended,
and it was with something like renewed
confidence that the well-wishers of the
lecturer watched his conduct., which was
now distinguished by extreme sobriety.—
He even appeared to have renewed his
youth and strength ; and it was with
pleasure that his friends again received
him into their houses. At one of these
he met with a lady with whom he had
been formerly acquainted. Their friend
ship was renewed, and they were engaged
to be married. Everything seemed to
promise well ; the dawn of a better day
appeared ; and reformation, so long in
coming, seemed to have come at last.—
But it was not to be. On a sunny after
noon in October, in the year 1849, Edgar
set out for New York, to fulfill a literary
engagement, and prepare for his marriage.
Ile arrived at Baltimore, where he gave
his luggage to a porter, with directions to
convey it to the railway station. In an
hour he would set out for Philadelphia.
Well, be would tike a glass before he
starterl—f,r relresiiment's sake, that was
all. Oh, fat-il hour : In the t a vern h e
me t with s -, me 01. l netioaintance.. who iii
vited him to join with them. in a mo
ment all his good resolutions--home. duty.
bride. honor—were forgotten; and. ere
the night had well st.t in he WJA in a state
of filthy intoxication. Insanity ensned ;
he was carried to a public hospital ; and.
on ‘he night of' Sunday, the 7th or Octo
ber, he died a raving madman. without a
friend or a child Imside his pillow. Ile
was only thirty-eight years old when this
last dreadful scene of his life-tragedy was
enacted.
Not a single circumstance here relateJ,
not a solitary event here recorded, but
happened to Edgar Allen Poe.
gltading # tilt
The "Science" of Spiritualism.
On page 359 of the last volume of the
Scientific ..-Ingeriean, we presented some of
the teaching.' of science regarding spirit-
ualism ; to day we further elucidate the
subject by brief allusion, to some of the
facts in the history of this Litest epidemic
of superstition.
It broke out about twenty five years
ago, and the manifestations were popularly
known as Rochester knockings or spirit
rappings. The first mediums were three
sisters; their name was Fox. They in
vented the raps, the rap lang uage, and a
good part of the spiritual lingo They
originated the seance, and drove a lively
business. Spiritualism speedily became a
recognized institution ; there was no lack
of mediums ; notoriety and munev were
the substantial incentives ; people. it is
said, are fond of humbug, and ply more
liberally for it than for tie necessaries of
life. the majonty of people, as at the
present day, looked upon spiritualism as a
supremely silly thing; the scientific world
treated it with ridicule or with a silence
inspired by disgust and contempt. There
were investigations; and although many
of them were very Polish. the rapping
trick was fairly exposed. The rape were
traced to the persons of the Fox girls.—
The mechanism of the raps was concealed
and protected by the defences of woman
hood ; to the modest investigator the girls'
skirts were barriers more formidable than
stone walls. Had women dressed like men.
there surely could have been no spirit rap
pings, and probably no spiritualis'n ;
commend the fact to Herr Tenfelsdroeek.
the great philosopher of clothes, anti we
shall look for a discussion of it in a future
edition of his "Sartor Resartus." Of the
devices employed by the early mediums.
the most ebb irate and sueeessful 11411 that
of a bar of lead suspended at its center by
an elastic cord attached to and operated
by the leg; of course this was available
only to women, and the men were obliged
to resort to something else .
The devotees appeared in swarms, and
at the very beginning, and with the sa me
capacity of swall.,winz as those of the
present day ; let a jackass bray in the
presence of your genuine spiritualist, and,
at a hint from his medium. he hears there
in only the gentle and loving voice of his
dead grandmother. Tha early expoeun.-.4
counted for little among the faithful : a
thousand bogus raps, they said, could not
disturb their faith in the one that they
knew to be genuine. Also the theory was
invented at a very early day that there are
wiekedspirits, which make hon,t me.linms
cheat and lie.
Thus the Rochester knoekinirs became
modern spiritualism, with a vitality and
diffusiveness comparable to those of the
Canada thistle. From the ridiculous be
ginning of what, in its inception. was
probably an innocent freak of a little girl.
we have to day a superstition which will
make the nineteenth century ni.2morable
for all time.
Spiritualism, as an ism or theory. wan
soon perfected. Rut the charlatanry. by
which it is mainly kept alive, depends upon
juggling tricks which may he modified sad
improved. For jugglery, like all human
arts, is improvable, and is governed by the
laws of evolution. The raps grew into a
thousand and one modified forms. Some
of the new tricks, like the spirit speaking
and writing. and planchette, were too
thin, and are retained only among the
most saturated of the devotees, while those
that bad the strength of real merit of it
gengity, like the Davenports' cabinet and
rope tying, have maintained the populari
ty. At last, and we wish we could believe
it the final culmination of such things, we
have the spirit meterialization. The ma
terialization trick was invented Ly a me
dium of this city, named Gordon. about
two years ago. His exhibition was some
what artistic, and is worthy of a descrip
tion. A curtain of mosquito netting,
stretched across the room, separated the
operator and his paraphernalia from the
spectators; the netting served t protect
the medium from intrusion, and also to
give a more ghostly appearance to the ob
jects exhibited. in the middle of the
spiritual sanctum was erected a gurgeous
altar or throne. about which Gordon. ar
rayed in a priestly robe. incanted or chan
ced during the performance. The light
was turned down to that faintness in which
ghosts and spirits love to walk abroad.—
Gordon makes his right arm invisible by
drawing over it a black cloak. lie raises
this arm away from and at the side of hie
body, holding in his right hand acomenn
paper mask or false face. such as the chil
dren get for their amusement, at a cost of
five or ten cents each. Then he gently
moves the mask through the air. or ducks
it or bobs it up and down, etc. The per
formance is repeated with variations other
masks and other motions. for an hour or
two. Some of the masks are a little dron
ed up by means of a white handkerchief
thrown over a part or dangling from the
lower end ; in such simple ways is an old
lady with a white car, or a baby in a long
dress. corstructed ; a la-life is got up by
placing a gauze veil in front of the mask.
Gordon's rerrtnir. of masks was extrn.ive ;
he was able to bring up the spirits of mss,
women, and babies of all races of man
kind.
From the front of the netting the view.
especially to the eyes of the devotee, was
impressive. Gordon was a solemn great
high priest, or head center ; and in re
sponse to his incantation, the spirits date
departed, as life like as if they were tea
and blood, appeared at his side. The sm.
terialized spirits were often recognized. It
was a common thing to hear. from the
crowd of eager spectators, sighs and sobs..
at.d such expressions as Is that you,
Jane ?" "Is it my grandmother?" "Is
your name smith ?" "It is my darling
Robbie ; are you happy ?" To all of which.
through Gordon's skillful manipulation of
the masks, came the appropriate responses.
Bat Gordon's career as a materialiscr list
ed only a few weeks. One evening. in the
midst of the performance, a gentleman of
the audience leaped over an intervening
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hangireil and •izty feet.
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nsweing PPninientr Trial* ohs 4 mow
the yilintrY 4 prayer. it found as ths awry
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weather. ass ri shoo I Ise oil pm. alba
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the d'h”74 that ttsed to wear sourpleelt,
anti run •-wilder istrrehetro
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'try of hrze depa,eta of beet irne ore withis
a skort , ii43nec of her limits.
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Ends the ureater number of bile sowirers
in Eng!an.l and Tennyson in America_
The Foamlvy st rstonallyen,
has inereaseil a day's wiwk to tee hears.
and 112 A 2;1 its workmen in seeplaysees.
The I , ;mp.aitor. .30 the l'iitenva &sly
newspapers have nr7,3llllilllPd s taurprrause
dab. A, asset eonitnesdnitie preeewhis.
In Pennsylvania there 119 Niatinosi
banks with a ',apical 4 552.004.010. avid
117 :4tate banks with a capital or 11 14 .370.-
160
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that OTPT a ton of Milli w awararity lOW
slimed in that town in dippisx. ehiedy by
women
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known :1,4 illrmony Centro. ! 4 assiselosess wmamehr wan
county. ht. Iwen t.. that .1, uses. pememme._ r e T s ` sierwitievisinea
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to Beecher. 411111..
Captain-General eqecks hap r.-reiv.4
permiipi•ni t.. triers tfi STrais witbnet
waiting thf. arriv2l 4 h:4
Clunt Vilrnueda.
The Ohii, papers it, already talkiwac
about tie _real Farsigine swr
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the year in that Mate.
Es-Vire PrP.i.itrot Schuyler Collies boo
eootributefl a thn.t.on.l.lollars to therms
hopper soffer►n in autonomy is Nobratilt
whieh bear. hig 1.1113,
Daniel Martin. of .i.enttlirisitn.
aged seventy jean. wwe reorody 1111111 -
Tied to a little girl of thirteen yawl_ rani
(lei, of .Japer, Tenn.
Wag-rier, the hie of Shealy upernieree.
goys that God will not allow hive to be
hanzeil. and that a miracle will intere.ne
on the iientrold h, +aye hint
At the Renamelare Mille at Troy. N.
ererything is propossiog favorably fel
the rail mill the boarioot rails monstoe
tomd are now bring mad.-
t:onw of the citizen.. of Dauphin oosioty
have appointed a eo•mittee to nurition,
the rights sod privileges of she
phia C, , al and Iron rospony .
William Vomits is am, eighty-toe yrs.,
old, but he walks about& im liffear. *bombs
is nem lirinr. like say row iiilmar
is the epoch of siirriwas old new.
The loan Froath_ trbu sousiessi s rail
way enzinert thc lief& km
bees eseested at Obssok. It was los
execution in private which low nominal is
Austria.
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kind. of willing people: tire who
are willow, to take all the ellfw
the work : emend. these who sr' Redlie,
thy
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in New York City grease William W.
Tweed to recover $11.400.0116. slimed se
have her', se. lee by hint or prrasse .na
ni...tf-d with hint.
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rin: the twenty roar mosethe which wit ea
on the 30th of Jane nest. the raise awl"
merrhandise export+ be grown tbras
th3t or the insperrt.
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mine in Kern l'.ornty. rat They bow
for it at the rat. , 4 .900,1111111. sad
have an eizbty .tamp will seedy rawly bo
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n.' hin;refl. bat ntrely eared. sod tb•
.rientifie world be invited in to tntannitte
hi. await .initnisr ease. Min spitentmeiss
that .hoil , l be .tallied the beer& 44
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ton. the principai hanti•lnarter. rof the on
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120 again.n.
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a solemn envesisse, by the tee_ of shiell;
the 4ilser prasiamo to bows" mod
se a l'hriatias Atavism
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carolina wri lam wept expelled ftwo dist
body for haring arritsea a paliphiaa4l/97-
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the l'aiveroe. A similar now sea spit
in New York vierin a merits trial. stirs a
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