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More than bairn cerituary ago; d terri
ble 'storm' swept over !the city of London.
It was the hour of midnight when the blast
was beating most piteously, that an aged
clergyman was aroused by a piercing cry
for'help. lle rose, threw aside his curtain,
and'beheld the fort* of 4 rude Man, who
appeared as a common street's Weeper—
. poured in torrents, but theim
ploring accents of the' call indUced the
preacher to take, the arm, of his guide ; and
threading'hiS Way 'through narrow streets
and rude thoronglifares,ho arrived at a rude
dWelling wherein lay a dying man.
A strange tale was this: That very day
a stranger, advanced. in life,. had fallen
speechless at the scavenger's door. The
I:Lid-hearted scavenger had lifted him from
the pavement, opened' for' him his bed,
Warmed his feet, administered a cordial to
his lips;-and ; now ho' was dying!
The apartment was indeed a dreary one.
Up n long flight of - rickety Stairs, inside a
door half hingeless, on a narrow, pallet of
straw, lay this, same stranger. The lamp
!Aiwa dimly on a broken chair ; a few fa
ding embers were on' yonder hearth ; a
leapt without n handle stood upon it. The
rain. Was' beating in the - window, and' in
s'undry panes were stuffed coarse pieCes
of elethieg. A valice stood by the hed'side;
it was the only property Which the strang
er brought with inn. The man was only
half dressed ; his coat was thrown aside,
his neck was loosely encased within a low
shirt-cellar; but upon his legs- there were
a pair: of huge nzili?ary boots!
That face! lt wore ,an expression which
once looked; Upon, Wonld.haurit your mem
ory forever!, That forehead, bold and
manly ; hair slightly changed by - age ; lips .
011 - IRl ' e SS 64 but yet reeving aslf Ail° were
atith to quit, its hold, and large rolling,eyes
that bearned with an unearthly glare.
- '‘Vhat a speetaele I Thosnarms are bran
diSbed in the air ; that fist seeing clenching
a 'sword, or hOlding'n rifle.; a damp cold
sweat starts from .that hand,.ond
wildly
does he toss himself' from side to side 'on
his unaasy. couch. Throb arnil,beat, throb
and be . alternately Vent that poor man's
heart--forhe. was dying. The* clerg,yrnan
toek thatelenelied hand, and gent.
ly bending his head, inquired, 'My friend,
hast thou a christian
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"G sttan , he, c4hoed.in a loud voice
for the first time, and in a deep tone,whieh
made the preacher tremble, "Will Chris
tianity give mo back my honor? Go with
me over the' blue waters: Listen! •We
have arrived. There is my native village,
there is the green dooryard in which my,
boyhood played, there is the roof of my pa.
tem!, mansion, there is the graveyard•—•
but where is the flag that used to wave?,
Another onsign • is floating, infamy is heard I
in the, mouths
,of children, parents are
taught to loath my memory, 0, my God,
the sting of remorse is throbbing in these
very , temples; judgments are imprecated,
dark demons; a tarnished name; a flag of
dishonor, and the curse of unborn infants,
even now rirfg through my soul."
The minister had watched beskle many
impenitent sinners, many rebels, whose
hands were stained with blood, but never',
had lie been called to such,a death-bed.
Suddenly . the man arose. With a migh
ty energy he paced the creaking floor: If,
the storm was without, so was it within in,
a most terrific forrn.• , Those white bony,
fingers' laid hold'of the ivalise which stood,
by the bedside and •drew , from thence a fa- I
.dad : military coat lined with silver; and an
old parchment, ina piece of damp cloth,
that looked like'the wreck:of a battle-flag.
"Look," said the stranger, "this coat is I
spotted with b100d,7---hygone days seemed
,to raise befereliiin—"this coatcovered me.
when I heard of the battle , . of
,Lexingtort,
when I planted the hanaer of stars on Ti
,co.p.deroga; .that.. bullet halo was driVen
through at the siege of quebec , and now
• look ot rue Whisper softly
in your ear--• , -hal they will hear"—One
, 'burning word was said—ouly.one. "Now
help me," continued he, "to put on this
Coat, Ibr I have no wife, no cttild, to wipe
the teld'sWeat from my brow.'• Imtist (lie
'mono; let'; me die as on the battle 11010,
without ,a fear;
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Volume 3,
the Wall, the death-rattle seemed hardly
suppressed in the throat.
"Silence along the lines there!" mur
muted the dying stranger ; "not a .whis
per; not one, for the peril of your lives,
aro at stake. Montgomery, wo will moot
in the centre of the town. We will have
victory or death I There are steep rocks ;
silence, every man, as we move up the
heights. Boys, come on, on! Hoist the
flag of freedom ! What care we for dark
ness and storm 1 Hurra ! Now, now, one
blow more and Quebec is gone—it is
ours."
A ghastly look is there. The pale cheek,
the glassy eye, the heaving bosom, the
wild stare, the death-rattle, the tottering
step—and 10, ho had fallen on the floor !
Who is this strange man dying in a gar
ret? this mark of nobility crushed like a
moth?, this wretched maniac still clinging
to his faded flag and his rusty uniform? ,
Whence come these fires of remorse I
this faint hope of heaven? this more than
fear' of, hell 7 Where the parchment—
where the flag ?
Let us unroll the flag. It is a blue ban
ner, with only thirteen stars upon it. But
what of the , parchment? It is a colonel's
commission in the continental army ad
dressed to Benedict Arnold!
Unhonored and unwept, there lay, the
traitor! His corpse was in a rude house;
he was unknown and unpitied, save bv•
strangers. Yet that right arm bad struck
many
,a blow for feedom ; but for ono act
of base perfidy, ho has failon forever.—.
Quenched is the light of his former glory;
remorse hangs like a thunder-bolt over his
soul,. and his last agonies aro those of a
disgraced man, who might have been a
victoliods and successful hero 1
Now, in' dimly:lighted , rooms, when
children beg of aged grandsiresto tell them
tales of the Revolution, Arnold, tip traitor,
is., orernest in their thoughts ; an then the
dreadful effects of treaserr are narrated.—
We are told that ho left the great metropo
lis, that ho engaged in commerce, that his
warehouses were in Nova Scotia,; that his
ships were, in Myiny ports; but one night
his 'stately warehouse was laid in' ashes—
thoowner was suspected as the incendia
ry. The entiro,populution pf the British
proitinces assembled in a mass and in sight
of his wife •they hung, an effigy, whereon
was inscribed, "Arnold the. traitorl"-
-When he stood besideltings, when, in the
House of Lords, all
. faces were turned and
all fingers raised. One venerable lord
arose, and declared that ho could not speak
to his sovereign in presence of a - traitor.
"Ono day," says an historian, from
whom we have gathered the leading fact
of this history, -in a shadowy repm sat a
mother and her two.daughters all attired
in the weeds of mourning, grouped in a
sad circle, gazing upon a picture shrouded
in crape. A visitor now advanced; the
mother took his card from the hands pf the
sorvant,and her daughters heard his' name.
"Go," said that mother, rising with a
flushed face, while a daughter toqk each
hand, "go and tell that man that my
threshold can never bo crossed.by the mur
dorer 61 my son, Arnold, the traitor !"
This was the individual, who is said to
have uttered' "I•am the only man born in
the new world that can raise his hand to
God twd say, I have not ono friend—not
one in all America!"
Seldom does guilt meet such a ;retribu
tion. The stings of•conscienceover goad
ed him ; and has not the despicable wretch
who can thus turn traitor made his own
panderrioniurn while on earth? Can se
verer doom await him?
TnuNDER STotous.—Tho safest situa
tion during a thonder storm is the_ base
ment ; for when a person is below the sur
face of the earth, the lightning must strike
it Wore it can reach him, and will, in all
probability, be expended on it. Dr. Frank
lin advised, parsons apprehensive of light
ning to sit in the middle .9f a room, not pn
der a mental lustre, or any conductor, and
to lay their feet upon another chair. It
will he still . . safer. „lva said to lay two or
three bads or, mattresses in the middle of
a room, and. folding them double, to place
chairs upon.them., Persons in fields should
prefer the open parts ,to the viciaity of
trees,4c. The distance of athunder storm,
and consequently the danger is easly es
timated. As lighttravels at the rate of 102,
000 miles. in a seconcl,,its effects may he
considered ;as instantaneous. within any'
moderate ,distance.; Sound on the contrary,
is transmitted pnly at the. rut of 1,142 feet,
or about asp yards,,in a second., By L ac.
curatoly observieg, therefore, the, time
which intervenes ,hotwcen the flash, and .
/19,410i80 of the., thutAerilvhickl9ll9wp it,:a,
vory.near calcplatien, y• Iv triglo of its
(iistrkilco,,rind :there is pp better ,rpoptp3,ef
removing oppzelionsipp,s.
, ,
.' FAprpren,Anv,tcb.—",lecires my lad,
heel), awey . Cram the gals .' yen you epe
ono ,coming dodge, ; 41111% ,SUCh. 4crittQi as'
quit young clot9)ipg the stoqr-step,
Cother side of the 'street, fooled, your ,poor.'
1, 1 ( 1 , JPmmy. :If , hadn't, been ,for.,her,
you end your trlght been ; 4101 ,
ifortiv hued ' intunvi 1070 •--
Why' me 111diephAttriikil itn;ipposititip
railroad ? : Because they ` dticc tha far
Clearfield, Pa., June 4, 11352.
Crime Detected.
AN ANECDOTE OF TIIE PARIS POLICE.
Previous to the year 1789, but at what
precise date I cannot say;the city of Parisi
possessed as guardian of its safety, and
chief minister of police, a man of rare tal
ent and integrity. ,At the same , period the
Parish of,St.' G ; eimitins, in the quarter-of
the Rue St. Antoitio,had for itsVue a kind,
venerable old niri, whose whole life' was
spent in doing gobd to both the souls and
bodies of his fellow-creatures, and whose
holy consistency and dignified courage
caused 'him to be loved by the good, and
respected by even the most abandoned
characters. .One cold, dark winter's night
the boll at the old cure's door was rung
loudly, and he, although in bed, immedi
ately arose and opened the l door, anticipa
ling a summons to some sick or dying
bed.
A personage iichly dressed, with his
features partly concealed, by a large false
beard stood outside. Addressing the cure
in a courteous and graceful manner, he
apologized for his unseasonable visit,which,
as ho said, the high reputation of monsieur
had induced him to make.
"A great and terrible, but necessary and 1
inevitable deed," ho continned, "is to 'be
done. Time presses ; a soul about to pass
into eternity implores your ministry. if
you come you must allow your eyes to be
bandaged, ask no questions, and conent
to act simply as spirittial consoler of a .dy
•ing woman. If you refuse to accompany
me, no other priest can be admitted and
her spirit must pass alone."
After a moment 'of secret prayer, tho
cure answered, "I will go with you."
Without asking any further explanation,
ho allowed his eyes to be bandaged, and
leaned on the arm of his suspicious visitor.
They both got into a coach, whose Win
doWs werenminediately covered by wood
en shutters, and then. they drove off rapid
ly. They seemed to go a long way, and
make many doublings andturning•s,ere the
coach drove under a wide archway and
stopped. • , •
During this time, not a single word had
been exchanged betiveen the travelers, and
ere they got out the' stranger assured him
self that 'the bandage over his companion's
eyes had not been displaced, and then'
taking the , old ,man, respectfully by the
hand, ho, assisted him to alight and, to as
cend the' ide steps of a staircase as far
as the second story. A great door opened,
as if of itself, and several thickly-carpeted
moms were traversed. in sitcom. At
lengthanother door was opened by the
guide, and the cure felt his bandage remov
ed. They were in a solemn looking bed
chamber; near a bed half-veiled by thick
damask curtains, Was a small table sup
porting two. wax lights, which feebly illu
minated the cold derail-like apartment.
The stranger (he was' the Duke do—)
then bowing to the cure, led him towards
the bed,' drew'back the curtains, and said
in a solemn tone :
"Minister of Ged,before you is a woman
who has betrayed the blood of her ances
tors, and whose doom is irrevocably fixed.
She knows on what conditions an inter
view with you has been granted her ; she
knows too that all supplication would be
useless. You know your duty, M. le
Cue; I leave you to fulfil it, and will re
turn to seek, you in half an hour."
Sosaying ho departed, and the agitated
priest saw laying on the bed a young and
beautiful girl, bathed in tears battling with
despair and calling in her bitter agonies fOr
the comforts of religion. No investigation
possible, for the 'unappy creature declared
herself bound by a terrible oath to conceal
her. name; besides she knew not in what
place she was.
"I am," she said, the victim of a secret
family tribunal, whose sentence is irrevo
cable ! . More I 'cannot tell. I 'for g ive
mine enemies,as I trust that God Will for
.
give me. Pray for me!"
• The minister of religion invoked the sub
lime promise Of the gospel to soothe her
troubled seal, and ho. sueceeded. Her
,countenance, after a time, tscarne compo
sed, she clasped her ban& in earnest pray
er and then' extended, them towards her
consbler-. • • ••.
. -As she did so the' , cure' perceived' that.
the sleeve of her robe . was stained with
blood. • -
. .
"My cbild,". said lio n with a trembling:
voice, thiS
"•:"Father, it' is'ti'vein whicli they, have
already opened,' rind the bandage* doubt,:
was carelessly put on." -
At these•words a' sudden thought struck
the priest, . the - •dressing,,,al-:
loved the,,t!leod,to flow, eteoped,lus hand
kerchief in it, then replaced the bandage,:
concealed the etainedliandkerehief within
breaßt, andwhiSpeked": • ' '
•"Farowell,•rny daughter',.take courage
And : confidence in ,Gfid I!? . •
Thy half-hour had expired,. and Of° step',
of his terrible' conducter
, • Was heard
,np
proaeliing. • •'` • - ' ' 1- :H• • '
"I am ready," said the cure • rinditair-'
log,allewed his eyes.te heciweAd beltook
4h, rroolthe Duke do andlett the
"p"'•.4, roorn,praying,,mesewhile, with se ,
•4efforvot. • '
—,..._ .
Arrived at the foot of the staircase the
old man succeeded without his guide's
knowledge in slightly displacing the thick
bandage so as to admit a partial ray of
lamp light. Finding himself in the car
riage gateway, ho managed to stumble and
fall 11 ith , both bands forward towards a
dark cornet. The duke hastened to raise
him, both resumed their places in the car
riage, and after repassing through theaame
tortuous, route, the care was set down in
safety nt his own door.
Witheuf one moment's delay, ho called
his servant. ''
"Pierre," he said, "arm yourself with a
stick and give me your support, I mustin
stantly go to the minister of police."
Soon : afterwards the official gate was
opened to admit the well-known venerable
pastor.
"Monseigneur," ho said addressing the
minister, "a terrible deed will speedily be
accomplished, if you are not in time to pre
vent it. Let your agents visit, before day-'
break, every carriage gateway in Paris,
in
the inner angle of ono of thorn .will be
found a blood stained handkerchief. The
blood in that of a young female, whose
murder, already begun hp been miracu
lously suspended. Her fltmily have con
demned their victim to have her veins open
ed one by one, and thus to perish slowly
' in expiation of a fault, already more than
punished by her mortal agony. Courage,
my friend, you have already some hours.
May God assist yoU—I can only pray."
'That same morning at eight o'clock, the.
minister of police entered the cure's room.
"My . friend," said he, "I confess my
inferiority; you are able to instruct me in
expedients.".
"Saved!" cried the old man, 'bursting
into tears, ,
"Saved," said the minister,'"and rescu
ed from the power of her cruel relations.
But the next time dear abbe, that you want
my assistance in a benevolent enterprise,
I wish you would give me a little more
time to accomiksh it."
Within the next twenty-four hours, , bv
an express order from the king, the Duke
dc --,nnd his accompliens were secretly
removed from Paris, and ConVeyed out of
the kingdom.
The young woman received all the care
Which her precarious state required; and
when sufficiently recovered; retired to a
quiet country village where'the royal pro
tection assured her safety. It is scarcely
needful to sav, that next to her Maker, the
cure of St. Germais was the object of her
deepest gratitude and, filial- love. During
fifteen - years, the holy man received from
time to time the expression of her grate
ful affection ;• and at length, when him
, seli, from extreme old ago, on the brink of
1 the grave, he received the intelligence that
she had departed in peace. -
Never until then had a word of this
mysterious adventure passed the , good
cures lips. On his death bed,however,ho
conffiTed the recital to a bishop, one of his
particular friends; and from a relation of
the latter, I myself heard it.
This is the exact:truth.
. • ,
TILE CALL TO P 1 n. --Among t
le
very beautiful illustra;io to the solemn
and soothing sound of tho'"cbUrch/going
bell," as it rings out on the clear-rtforning
of the Sabbath, commend us to the follow
ing quaint, yet surpassingly effective hom
ily, from tho pen of tho gifted Jerrold, the
well known author of "St. Giles and St.
James."
There is something beautiful in the
church bells. Beautiful and hopeful.—
They ,talk to high and lowoich and poor,
in the same voice ; there is a sound in them
that should scare pride and envy, and
meanness of all sorts froin the heart of
man; that should make him look on the
world with kind, forgiving oyes; that shohld
make the earth scorn to him, at least for a
time, a holy place. Yes; there is a whole
sermon in the very sound - of the church.
bells; WNW only have the cars to understand,
it ; there is a preacher in every ,belfry that
cries--" Poor, 'weary, struggling,'fikhting.
Oreatures—peor human things, take rest,
ho `criet--,-Forffet Your vanities,, your fol
lies; your week day cralh"
And You ye human vessels, gilt and
painted, believe the iron tongue . that, tells
yo Thai, for all your gilding, all your col
ors, ye are the Barrio Adam's earth, with
Old beggars at your gates.. Como' 'away,
conic, cries the church hell, and learn to
be humble learn that, however daubed
a n tstained 'abOut, with jewels; you
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Aro. but -grave clay I 'COme, ,hives ;. Come, and be taught. that ,all Your glory,
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beautiful lit
t4O o ye tho sores : qc.t,kie
iiigLniali,lis; and ye , poor Orea.'
pares,,livid ! and faint- . —stained"• and crush
ed;
by tha i Pride' , " and the',
world'—oome,.e alie f Cries . the ,With
the voice . of an . imgefrreonie ; and, learn
kPii.roy ~And i . ll4igoalce
honk, and walk amidst , tlt vie eclness, the
cruelti of the world , calm y ' a s Daniel
walked ornOn,gthelconii.
• •so diflleole for a poor min to
cornintid . respeet,' as it .Would be for thd
elesill i to 'de bushiess ivithoui theitties
. and.
other shows. •
TILE VISION OF JUDGE EDMONDS.
Wonderfnl Statement.--PCHOnnl Experience.
•IfY THE lION. J. T. EDMONDS.
roEn.
Ho who receives
Light from above. the tountain of all light,
No othe7doetrino needs."—Paradive Regained
now a little over a year since' was
afflicted with the loss of the one most near
and dear to me on earth. I was in great
di3tress, yet I never entertained the idea of
seeking consolation in spiritual intercourse.
Indeed I know not oven of its existence.
I had been for years a mere man of the
world. I knew nothing of animal magne
tism. I had 'once, and only onee—and
then as a mere matter of curiosity—seen
a clairvoyant. The 'Rochester knockings'
I had heard of, but never witnessed, and
looked upon - the matter, when L thought
of it at all, as one cif the fancies of trans
cendentalism, which, like many others,
would have its day, and be forgotten.
At length, through the solicitation of a
friend, and more to gratify her, and while
away a tedious hour, than anything else,
I was induced to witness an exhibition of
spiritual intercourse.
I saw much to surprise and interest me,
and I gave the subject all the attention I
could spare, that 1 might thoroughly inves
tigate it, and expose the deception, if there
was one. I have now continued that in
vestigation for more than a year, and have
been careful to keep an accurate record
of all I have witnessed.
As I have progressed, I found that I was;
myself becoming, in some measure, a me
dium ; and when alone by myself, without
any medium near. me, I was receiving
communications that were to me, in an em
inent degree, interesting. These come to
me in different forms. One is by seeing
pictures painted to my mind's eye,as bright,
as vivid, and as distinct as- any that my
physical vision can convey to the mind.
One of the earliest of these I now give
you.
THE VISION
My dear S. appeared to mo clothed in
shining and flowing garments—her coun
tenance beaming with affection and glad
ness. She approached, leaning affection
ately on the shoutder of a female older
than herself, and some shorter in stature.
1 was impressed who, that was. , They
were accompanied by other spirits, whose
identity was made known to me. Others
were there, or came, among whom I rec
ognized my father, my Mother, my chil
dren, and my brother and sister, some of
whom had been thirty years in the: spirit
world.
MI were clad in the same shining gar -
ments, except occasionally someone would
appear in the dress ho wore on earth, that
I miglit recognize him.
It was thus that William Penn appeared,
and said that he had been one of my guar
dian spirits since the incident oft ho kitten;*
that ho happener i l to witness that, and was'
struck with the effect it had produced up
on me. Ho had ever since been near me,
trying to induce me, and had influenced,
though not enough to keep mo always
from going astray. He had, however,
helped much to produce in me my repug
nance to slavery, and to inflicting suffer-
Inc.
Sir Isaac Newton then appeared, and
told mo he was wrong in considering the
attraction of gravitation as a distinct and
substantive principle, for it was, in fact,
nothing but the effect of a combination of
motion—motion being a principle that pre
vailed all created things, and one or its ef
fects was gravitation: *
Swede nbu rg then appeared, and said to
me that in his revelations of what ho had
seen, ho was right and truthful, and to be
relied upon, but not in the theory which
ho had built upon them; and especially
ho mentioned his doctrine of correspon
dence, and his attempt to reconcile his rev-)
elations with the popular religion of his
day. And he said, as the Bible contained
many important and valuable truths, yet
being written in and for an unprogressed
ago, tt contained errors and imperfections . ;
so his theological writings contained ninny
valuable truths, as well as some errors,
produced by his desire to reconcile the
truths which were
,unfolded to burn with the
prevailing theology of his.age. Ho bade
us-beware of errors, to receive ns true
revelations, bit
appeal
theories, and
instead. of them appeal to our understand
ings for the inferences to be drawn from
the truths he had developed..
Dr. ; Fret - 11(1in then came forward and
said something about enlaining to me the
Manner
.in which:the "Odic Force " was us-
.
• *rho - incident alluded to ocouried when I was a child, an I
Moto than lent - reap ago . 11 was one evening playing in the
streets of the village where my patents resides , sun with my
boyish camper/WM. alon g tatter wis e , Amtd our May, a kit
ten wartime to run the sider toid In the I rollok of
our boyithod FiVa rave 0..6 chase. sartrionrsc.el• it iota a TO.
Cant lot, which was surrounded ha a blab fat or. We mussed
it' at Mind the lot. 1 ono thins we tboesoterslsc emcee 'ed
withoutr,,il we ba t ten to t.tt.w Insist at
Ito and. lieallY.
having actual y 'Wedded is, we kino lt loomed
that my mochas, a'aentla (broker Indy watt session bu y h lot
walla we werotnns endued, and was - ettracted by moo
to observe what we affa. (Mag.' Oa lay return h tone I found
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thug shouldo take its li'e." and thou she read me a loosen on
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bed the 'slather. , expressed by Newton. nod Bad made trittol
• .abservaliens to test tts accuracy. Alter I had become con.
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title; I had a ;Uccle dealro to Make some %equines on the sub.
joist; tad welted Several months. wipat Hinting a titling ott.
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ed in making' spiritual manifestations.*—
But some how oother his explanation was
not made, and in the meantime ti great
crowd of spirits appeared—idl of them
bright and happy spirits—among whom I
recognized many acquaintances wham
had known when on earth. A sort Of sem
icircle was formed fronting where I stood,
S-- and her companions forming the
centre of the arch, and on their left, Penn,
Franklin,Newton, Swedenborg, any many others, Behind tho front rank, spirits' in
great numbers were there, and the num
ber increased every moment. I was per
mitted to see far beyond where we wore—.
hit - indeed into the regions of space----and
I saw millions upon millions of glad and •
happy spirits—and many of them froM
other plunats—all crowded around the
semi-circle.
They had musical instruments in _their
hands and were rejoicing that a commu
nication had been opened between the in
habitants of this earth and the spirit land.
And their joy was not merely because they
could again commune with those they had
left behind, andovhom they !ono' so welt, ,
but also because they would thus be able
to reveal to man his duty and his destiny,
and roll away from his mind the cloud •
which had so long rested upon it.
They set up one glad shout which rang
through all space, and pointed to Dr.
Franklin, as him whose practical and en
larged philosophy, they were indebted , for
perfecting the discovery.
The Doctor received their congratula
tions in the most meek and - humble man
ner. No gratified vanity appeared in hiM.
but his fa ce beamed with humble and
overflowina a joy that so much had been add
ed to the happiness of his fellow immortals
both there and here.
Very many of those who stood at the
right of my dear S—, and behind her,'
then pointed downward to the right and
far in the distance. She clasped her hands
in a gesture of great sorrow, and lined , up
her eyes with a countenance full of hope.
Still I could not see at what the spirits
pointed. They looked at me, and then in
the direction in which their hands wore
out-stretched, as if they were saying to me,
"Go and sec."
At length I was permitted to look where
they directed me, and oh ! what.a sight 1
beheld ! Innumerable spirits were theM,
engaged in perpetual pursuit of each other.
They were dark end sombre in appear
ance and the vilest passions were most op
parent.
There I saw the murderer with his
drawn dagger, with fiendish hate pursuing
his victim until he struck him to the heart.
When lo! his bloW had itliglited'iipieffitri
palpable air, and he bad missed the darl
ing object of his pursuit. Rage and des
pair devoured film at his failure,' and he
fled howling, his intended victim pursuing
him in turn, with revenge and hatred rank
ling in him.
I sawthe adulteter pursuing the object
of his raging lest, with a fury that was
frightful to behold. lie caught the object -
of his pursuit, and in her found a willing
participant in his unholy love. But it was
naught but empty air he embraced, and he
threw her from him with a loathing flint
was unuteruble, while she turned from him
with scorn at his impotence, and a fiendish
gladness nt his sufferings.
I saw the miser, unheeding all that was
around him, sitting on the ground, grovel
ling in the soil of the unholy place, and
gathering up sparkling atoms and laying
them carefully in a heap by his side. At
length he turned to his cherished and
piled up treasure, and found that it had
turned to dust. He threw himself; in des
pair, prostrate upon this useless emblem of
his wealth, and howled wildly in the mad
ness of his disappointed cupidity.
I saw the hypocrite essaying, and as ho
fancied, successfully, to hide the diabolical
purposes of his heart, yet as he approach
ed his victim, he felt and knew that his
every thought was revealed. He fled in
horror at the picture which himself had
made. And I - learned that he'vmS ever
'engaged in the same fruitless effort—ever
deceiving himself-with the same belief in
his success—over meeting the same terri
ble disclosure of himself.
I saw the seducer approach with bland
and subtle arts, and-when on the point
success, his arms were filled with nothing.
ness, and his heart riven with reproachful
looks of betrayed affection before which be
writhed and fell down.
I saw the warrior, heading nn army,
which, rioting in wild confusion refused to
obey him, and in the vain'pursuit of an 'en
emy that was no whole to he found. •
1 saw the suicide bound st to the earth
which he had quitted in his itripiOus des
pair,hound there by the spiritual unbiliCal
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''To eutor into a full exolanallou of what is here alluded to
w I,pid .will this slots beyond duo proportions. That mar hs
tb. sulkitut of u future oeu , r Is will besulllaleet now to say
b is Ilf ibis t—l told mom as.ared that there was nothisit so
pareaturel in rp,rltoal itaiercourso—that it was hat Site result
o f himpin echtren. I bad said it ill it is as, thea it mast ha in
obediaace te a geuelai low. '. Veil " If am, caa we gut theta
madman(' it as mill ) at the can electiicity or gongbuthem— ,
Again it was said " es." And 1 made many , 'mottles to
[tank it. , Um , dunauity Irou.it: t was in my own ignorance
t - the laws of swore. and I inquired whirthof those Wet any
balk whist, IL mold studs , hat weal I yet, me to understaed
it ; and 1.1v4 interred mato a Vol Itehmenhaeh's Dynamics
of Mesnot'ent,u hook I had thee never howl of: and wham
nature lilt times I tiadome aware el a new foto sof fluid in
. which it.wed frout mute, and was the p rad unt of lb;
ohentiaet cation or digest' ,u Gad respiration . • .
At substrosmt Miele.. I war told that this forest o l d old Rm.
ad "bet" o r 'sidle." by that author. was mod to liILII a
manifesto/lens. and was usJallsed that the nandocf tlt • t. ,
.t won used shoold y l l. 14 expluluati.