F., READ & H. H. FRAZIER,--EDITORS. qqa sekiefies. TEE /111W3 SPY. , At the time when General Howe landed .40n Staten Islaud with a well-appointed ar my under his command, with the object of Wresting from the Americans possess;on of the chy of yew York, there was, ins neigh !wring town 'of New Jersey; a young lady e young girl,'we Might say, for she could not have seen more than sixteen summers—who 'was eminently distinguished for her beauty, talents, wit, vivacity, and all those striking characteristics which, ins female, please and , fsrinate the opposite sex, and, win her admi rers among the old and young. She was the daughter of a Major Moncrieffe, of the Brit ish Engineer Corps, and hei gifted mind gave evidence of the lavish expenditure which his affection had induced hint to make to secure to her a brilliant education. The occupancy of Staten Island necessarily brought the war into ber immediate vicinity; and, the neigh boring towns on the Jersey shore having be. come unsafe as a place oi . residence, she a dopted the plan of appealing to General Put nam for protection'. The General sent for her, rued took her under his own individual guardianship, and while he remained in New York: she continued to be a member of his 'fainil3 ,.- . Here she passed the- time,in - com-. !pa ll y with Mrs. Putnam and her daughters, in spinning and weaving clothing for the A merican ;Id iers. The battle. of Lon:: a i d the subsequent retreat of Washington and his army from the rity - caused a change fin the aspect otaffairs, and we find - her soon afterward at the house of a Mr. Wixid, near Peekskill, o:i the Hudson river,. The-advent of sue Van accomplished 'and beautiful crea ture a.sldiss Moncrieffe could niit. be other— wise - .114n a .lubject of interest to the resi dents of Peekskill. and its xieinity, and she ' soon .became the center of attraqion of a bril liant circle. or beanx, among whom were a number of the officers attached to - the Amer ican arliv in the neighborhood. Although at heart a I bitter and uncompromising' Royal ist, Miss• 7 ltoncrieffa managed so admirably to control that fact, and lead those -about her to believe that she entertained the warmest feelinis of.interest in, and earnest desire for, the success of the American vats; that none h e sitated; to' converse before her regarding the plans and operatio hs of the Americans, without the least reserve. • She took-advan tage of this tact to get possession of inioort ant infermation, which - she was in the liabit . of transthitting to General Howe, through the" inearec of a peer wretch who served -as a eon v'enient instrument in her nefarious .plams.— Beitig-ii splendid equeitriene, it, was custom:- airy with her to ride along. the banks 'of the Iludsen in pleaiant weather; and she seized thew opixirtunitieS to communi ca te with her messenger, awl, 'through himoVith the Brit ish commander. At regular jittery:ll,y she would ride down the road, and, at a spot where .it passed through a thick wood, she' would c up, ai though upon some ordinary ocisicn, and hum 'a bar of some tune - agreed u pon.— In . a moment after, the head; followed .by the shoulders and body, of s man, would emerge 1 from the deniie underbrush"; and; : while he pushed back the leaves with one hind, the', other' was held out to receive the inueshe -which he knew Wes prepared for . hire. In this *ay the English General received much valuable informatiott, and so secretly and dis creetly was it managed . that the.-Americans never -once suspected that their fair enchant ress was the spy to whose activity and effi ciency they awed the frustration c'sf...ritany of their plans. Accident at length unieiled tier duplicity and crime, On one .occati* as she was taking her accustomed ride down the read, her horse was startled at, the barking of .dog, which, darted out from 'a ferailiird. which she Was passing, and shyed to-the op - pesite sia-e, so suddenly as to throw her to the ground with considerable Violence. The fstuales in the house, who had esitneased the ran out, took her tenderly vp. in dick arms, and conveyed her within'. deers, while the man went -in pursuit • of her horse-1 The force with winch she had fallen had nen dered her insensible, and she' was' kid twoe a bed, Wkile every means at the command of her nurses was used for tier resusiAation.— Attioits to give her a Beer eespirerioh, one of them,opened the frost of her riding habit; . an d, as she did so, a letter droppidfrom that receptacle upon the Bair. It was picked up and placed upon the table without exciting cariosity. At this Moment the man returned, -to the hease, and in 'slew tnotrientethe young lady began to - recover her consciousneat,;--!.- -Upon being fully restored, and. seeing strange faces about her, she started up and : seized the open laps of her vest, while horror - and dis may were strongly depicted 'upon her coun tenance as she discovered that the missive it had held was gone. In tones which gave ev idence of the most excited• feelings, she asked for. the, letter. One of the females-took it up, And was about to , hand it to her,. when the man, *hose suspicions were aroused by her, manner, took it frum her, and finding that it' was directed to New York, he refused to let her have it. Her earnest - entreaties only' ~e rved ,to ,strengthen his doubts that all was not right, end, notwithstandiug ber.threats and offers of reward, he resolutely determined I: mit to 'deliver up the important document.=, 'Finding all her' efforts for its. reetivery veiling the young woman readjusted her dress, mounted her , horie, and returned :to . Mr. Wood's,. where she made immediate preparations to take. her 'departure for- the city. . Fate was against her, however, as the farmer had. hastened with the suspicious mis sive to headquarters; a party of soldierssode up to , the house soon after, and. the 'officer in command informed her tha tl she was a prison . er. ,Without. giving *her time to destroy of • seerete.her papers,. the was remofed 4 1 . 0 the opposite side of the river, where she Was so curtly guarded until her case could receive the at tention of higher authority: Meanwhile, her trunks anefrects were *irefully searched, and gave the' strongest evidence of her gui!t. ''t , veral papers relating to Military matters were . found, and the letter which - eased her arrest proved to contain important Informs-. Lion relative to - the moveinenti of the Amer ' ican irtny. : And, as if to place her conviction beyond peradventure, the niestengetuwhotit •464 e had employed appeared' against her at her examination: Hearing of •her . arrest, AO tearing that hit:connection with her might at feet the welfare 'of his fiimily, fie resolved to oiler his evid.ence, in hopes that ittuight mit igate, Wit did not avert his-Own puttishtfieut, IXer esamination presenied 4 scene worthy t 1 pewit lii-tbe EC O UPI I 4O 4 '411140 .. . ... 1 . . . . . . . . . . :. . . . .. • . . . . - . . --.,... : 2., - ;,. .'.••::,- ;:: : - ~.V •-• ..- - . - 1.:- .;...':.. 1. .. ~- • t '. .- -: . , .-,.. . . , .. . :•-::.: . .., , . -.... :• , ~ 'itll: - -. • • ~. . . : I.zt- .. -, . . • , • . ... • ", ' • . , ~. . . . . .i. . . . • ._ _ -2' ~.• ~ . - :• ' . . • •. . . _ . .. . -•:: , ' '.,', •- - ',,;,..,, '..; .. . : , . --....... -. • , . - . ... ...._ .. , t il l i t ' • .. . ,4 2-: . .. , • .. . _ . ; . „ , . . , ; 40 111 : s , - - 1 .- . . . , . , .. . . . . . and affording, as it does, the autiject for &Stri king' and exceedingly graphic picture, it is ' earnestly to be desired that it may one day , 014 upon canvas, to deikt for future genera- Uons an interesting episode in the "Domestic History of the Reimintim." Although her guilt was self-evident, vet the question of her punishment las one dilfictilt of solution: A gibbet and a rope would have been the fate of one of the opposite sex;. but to punish in this manner a delicate . and highly . accom plished' female—and one, too, possessed of the attainmentfand accomplishments of Miss Moneriefle, war( too revolting to humanity to be entertained lor a moment. ' The solution was made eaorby 'the earnest appeal in her behalf of rehuives and highly influential friends hi New York. She was carefully con ducted under 'allag'. to the British lines, where vhe was delivered into the' bands of her fath er's friends. She subsequently went to Eng ' land; where she spent the rest. of her life, and, l although .for a time she moved in the gist 1 society, yet the qualities of her heart were not calculated to. make her path in life a hip py or pleasant one, and We naturally antiei pate the fact that her .end was amid all the 1-surroundings of poverty and disgraCe. The Itreacherous tneSsedg,er who had aided in her ' crime, and in the hour of her trial had turned lupon her in hopes to secure his own escape, was imprisoned, for a long period, but wheth er he suffered a. severer punishment, is not recorded. - - U. S. Na:gazine. _ Some years since, an eccentric olil genius. whom for convenience we will call Barnes, vas employed, by a farmer, living, in a town some six- or seven .miles westerly from the Penobscot river, to dig a well. The soil and substratum being rhostly..sand, old Barnes, after haying progressed doWnward about forty feet, tbund one morning upon goingout . early to his work, that the well had - . essentially caved in, and was full nearly to the top. Sb, having that desire, which some men have, of kcmwing what will be said of them after they ate dead, and no one being: yet astir, he con ceals('l himself in a rank growth'of burdocks by the side of ahoard fence near the mouth .of the well, having first' left his hat and treek upon the windlass over the well. At length. breakfast being ready, a bOy was dispatched to call bite to his meal, when to!, it was seen ttutt Barnes was buried in the grave uncon sciously dug by his own hinds ! The alarm being given, and the family assembled, it was -decided first to.tat hreakfast, and then send for the coroner, the minister, and his. wife and children. Such apathy did not flatter Barnes' self-esteem a bit, but he waited eatientiv, de termined to hear What was to be said; and ace what was to be.seen. Presently, all parties arrived, and begin " prospecting" the scene of the catastrophe, as people ustially= do in such cases. At length, they drew together, to•exchatwe Opinious as to what should be ' done. :Th s e,lfinister at once gave up'his opinion that th 4 had better : level up the well, and let ~Witicit remain: for," said he, "be is noW beyend the tempt .'ation toxin ; and in the - day of judgment, it will make no difference whether' he is buried five feet under the ground or fiftyjor he is hound to come forth in either-aie." 'The o:mins-I-likewise agreed that "it Would be. a needles espenSeito his family or the town to disinter him, when he was soeffectually hu rled," and therefore entirely coincided with the Minister. his wife thought that as "he had lett his hat and Croat, it would be hardly worth While to ,dig ibim 'out for the rest of his. clothes;" and *Olt was settled to let him remain. But poor old Barnes, who "had no break- fast, and was not at; all:pleased with the re sult of the inquest, lay quiet until the shade of evening stole over the landscape; then be quietly decamped to parts unknown. After remaining - incognita for about three years, one morning he suddenly appeared (hatless and frockleas as he went) at the door of the farmer fur whom he had agreed to dig the un fortunate,well.• To say that an avalanche of questions were rained upon ::birn as to his inysterious reappeaarnee, would convey buts feeble idea of the excitement which his bodily presence created. But the old man bore it all quietly, .and at length informed them, that, on findh% himself buried, he wait ed for them to dig him out, tuna his patience was exhausted, and then he set to work •to dig himself out, and only the day before bad succeeded; for, his ideas being confused by the pressure of the earth at the titne he was buried, be had dug very much at random, and, instead of coming directly to the sur face, be came out in the town of Holden, six mike east of „the Penobscot river ! Nolurthe explanations were sought, Ems Flantan.--There is a disposition observable in some to view unfivorabl v4,ve rything that fills under their notice. They seek to gain eonfidene.e by always difrering from others in jiidginent, and rto deprecate what f l ii tbey allow to be Worthy in itself, by hinti g at some mistake or imperfection in the rforinance. You are too lofty or too low l your frowners; you are toe; frugal or too rofuse in your expenditure you are too tscit rn or too free in your speech ; and so of the Now, guard against this tendency. Noth ng will mote Conduce to your uncom forta leness than living in the neighborhood `of ill ature, and-being familiar with discon tent: This disposition grows with indulgence, iipd i low and base to itself; and if any sbo'd he r ady to pride themselves on 'skill and fa eilit in the science,let-them remetuber that the uisition is cheap and easy ; a child can de and destroy ; ' dullness and stupidity,. s hi ford ban, 4AO COMPAWY.—Lswyers, alhough gam y este, are no match for the ladies. Dimi y takes as naturally to wit as a lawyer does o his client's pocketbook. A lawyer driv* through the town of Worcester, at a cottage to inquire his way. The it lady the house told him that be must keep Etna On for spine trate, then 'turn to the right, ut said that she herself 'is going 10 pass "toad he :corset take,- and that if he could ' Gm amounts LW she coald get her hot* ready, she would show him the way. o.W011,” said he, ",‘ „co m pany is better than haste . git s4 1 ' i i/. It, tit k is id _iv- V -1' 6. I , sallow , , , better . Me," impßmsDaa atm) ROOM' twat VoLLAWERV amp WROGgiao99 A CAPITAL STORY. salckoM lael. inclination at means, can ignorance, prejadice i .and . .envy with a eof teproach.—[Rev. Wm. - Jay. . jogging on fmr fivs or six mites, the stdif kiitbed cribto dig road ley. pori obe , we paned it two lc; but 1 *wed bad company 110, 4 tei 4 7° 43-,lll °RiC with MONTROSE, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1857. Fiom tle Binghamton Democrat, SPIRITUALIOL, WHAT 18 IT! One of the most exciting questions Of the day is, what is Spiritualism Is it of God, the her of our Lord Jesus Christ ? Or is it of man's ingenuity Or is it of Old old serpent the Devil, the prince of Devils? It is of vast importsusce 1 hat this 'question should be decided right, in every individual's mind. And without the aid of the revelations of God, as contained in our common Bible, it cannot be acc' omplisbed. I shall answer, that in my own opinion, spiritualism is the power of the Devil, manifested and exhibited through me diums. In proof of this,l will show that the devil has manifested his power through me diums of different kind; in every age of the World until noW. But as there aresthose who deny the being bf a devil, who profess to believe the Bible, it will he necesery to convince thein of that error, before we -close our subject. There can he no rational crOubt, but what the - SpititualiNts aim to destroy the confide:lms of the people in our Bible, and substitute their own revelations in its . stead. Their revelatior.s futm for theta another Bi- ble, as,really . as those of the niormons do for them. The spirits that. they consult, such as those of John the Ei-angelist, and Paul the 'Apostle, teach that-what is stated, in the Bible o f their wriliogq, do tpa give the true mean ing of what they did write: And that: their writings cannot he riAhtly understood, with- Out the aid of spirits. What if they' . are be lieved, will that -destroy all the confidence of the people in our Bible,ind thus tempt the people as the serpent, the Devil, did Eve, to beiieve 'their lies I They aim also .their dead ly blows at 'the Ministers °fall denominations, tOr the Same purpose. And the Apostle points them out as. plainly; as though lie was' an eve witness. I h_eseeek. you t o take par ticular notice that what Paul says was to take place at this time, " the last days.''—. And he points out the character:of the, medi ums, now amontt ° us; see 24.1 Timothy, 111: 1. „ "This know th:tt in the .last days, perilous times shall come." Then - ,in the •13th v, he - tells us by whom they come, "evil men, and seducers, shall wax worse and worse, deceiv ing and being deceived." They may believe that they are doing God service, so much more the pity.' There can be no doubt but what we live in those " last days."' : Paul had reference to the 'last part of "the gospel dis. pensation ; so also, when he wrote of what should take place in the rise 'and progress of the man of sin ; see '2d Theisalonians, II: 7th to 12th. "The mystery of iniquity dc,th already work, only he who letteth, will let, until he betaken out of the way. And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shalt destroy with the brightness of his coming, - .evenitiin whose coming, is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deeeivable ms of unrightcousnet.s—, in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they miOtt be saved. And for this cause God shall send . them strong debt sion, that all might be damned, who'believed not the truth, but had pleasure in utirighteou4 ttes." Paul say's - that " the man of God, is thoroughly furnished from the Scriptures unto all good works." We have no need of those `new mediums. They do by their "strong delusions li cause 'sotne of our wise men, and some ofour pro les:slog christiatis to give up their hopes of sal vation by Jesus Christ, and thus they deny the Lord that bought them, and " bring upon themselves (as the Apostle says,) swift . de struction." Thesespirits having great power. and signs. and doing such wonders, is a proof that the Apostle prophesied the truth, con cerning them. _ Such evil seducers have existed in every age of the world until now. They have been called pruphets,sooth-ssyers, wizards, witches and many other names, but all were mediums or familiar spirits, (or the devil and his an gels.) We find them spoke.n of from Gene sis to Revelation. In Genesis XLI: 8, ?Limb sent and called for all the Magicians in Egypt (Magieiati, one who is possessed ofan evil, or demon spirit.) In Exodus, VII : 11, Pharaoh also called fur 'the wise men, and the sorcerers and all the magicians' of Egypt. In Leviticus XX.: 26, 21, God said_ to the Israelites "-And ye shall be holy 'unto me, for I the Lord am holy and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.— A man or a woman that bath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely. be put to death, they shall stone him with stones, their blood shall be upon them." . Here you see that God's laws were so severe, against the Jews having any fellowship with the evil spirits, or mediums of the heathen round about them, and that had got among them, .that the penalty of death should be put into execution wit only upon the mediums, but upon all that dealt with them. See also, Deut., XVIII : .1-12. " When thou cotneet into the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after*the abom inations of those - nations. There shall not be 'found amcmg you that inaketh his son, or his daughter to pass through the fire or useth div ination, or observer of times, or enchanter, or , witch, or charmer, or a consulter of fa miliar spirits, or wizard, or necromancer.— FOr all that do these things, are an abomina tion unto the 'Lord, and because of these abominations, the Lord doth drive them-out from before thee." Now as God is always of one mind, he can have no fellowship with these familiar spirits, with whoin the medi ums consult in these times. Thiir teachings are as Opposite from the teachings of the New Testament, as theirs were from the laws of Moses. Those Who caused their children to , fire, sacrificed pass through tne l nre, sacrificed them to um. , Gods of the heathen, and Paul said, " that what- the Gentiles . sacrificed , they sacrificed , unto devils, and pot unto God." Ist Cor., X:.20. Nul you see believed that they were real devils. In' Gal., IV : 27, - he says "Neither give claw to the devil." Those who consult with thespirits or mediums, worship devils, fur that was one way that the Gentiles 'op shipped their Gois, for they had many-; , - Paul said, "0 'to/list Galatians, who bath ie . wit 4 ed eu,"6 1 1 1 ., 111 : /. And when he men tioned their alas,; e included f• wise" Did ha speak as a fool, or was there witch etaft among them. . . There is no authority in the liible, to prove spat the souls of the departed do, or. can per brat :what the spiritualists believe they op. The only. history in the Bible, dots ' would countenance this Wee : . _is the account given of Baal, sad the witch of Ender in the book of 144 1141/41ifi f XXV 111 chi if tivit troissetlop! said to be the raising Of &mid, was pee. formed by the agency of Goa t slane, or by his spirit, giving power to the, witch, to call him up, God would be 'directly. the author of sin. -For by his law, the with end Seel the king ought to he put to death, the they trans gressed God's law. Saul was then t t roubled in hie heart, because the Philistines were pre paring to pitch battle with him; Atid he in quired of the. Lord ; but he hadsiinned against the Lord, and he would not. answer him, "Neither by dreams, liar by urim, nor by prophets. He then called his servants, and said, seek me out a woman diet bath a fa miliar spirit. Read that chapter and you will learn that Saul knew that he was sinning against the law of God, by go m to the witch. For he had obeyed the law in driving out all who had familiar spirits. And the witch knew that if she dealt with - a (funnier spirit, she would sin, end be liable to be put to death { And she was hfraid when she found that it was Saul that she was talking with, that he had set a snare fur her, to put her to death. She had then called up something that she said looked like. God, but Saul thought it was Samuel. Wu it Samuel's soul ? Samuel was dead. If it was Samuel's soul, or spirit, then he dealt...with a witch and sinned against. God's law, by which'il he had been alive,- he would be liable . to be put to You must Le um iucxd that it could OE 1t would be a kind of blas- nut be Samuel phemy to charge God 14 being.the agent in raising up Samuel, either by himself or,by a _ holr'angel. . _ Punt said, " Is . God the author of sin ? God forbid." " God forbid that any one should charge God with having:tellowship with witches and wizardg, or any or the devils rive, diurns. If anyone doubts that I arn'in' the. right, let him read this chapter, and the chap ters I hare quoted. I believe that it will be iinpossibl . e fin- him t...holiovo that Goii-roiced Samuel, or that that was, Samuel. But we have proven that the Devil Iris power to transtorin'.himself, and he Or one of his evil angels, put on the Appearance of Samuel.— But why did he tell the truth to Saul. One object no doubt was to raise the cor,fidence of the people, in the ability of the witches, and other mediums, so that at otherFtimes they could deceive them with their bee. So: the spirits of the mediums now, may tell the truth for the same purpose. . But their telling, the truth sometimes does not afilird suffieient proof that they are good spirits. Fur God said to the Jews in Eieut., XIII: I 1-5, " If there ariseth a prophet, or a dream er of 'dreams, and giveth thee a sir, or a, wonder, and the sign or Wonder come to pass, whereof he snake unto thee', saying let us go after other Gods, which theta hest not known, and let us aerve.them ' • that prophet shall be put to death, because he With spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God." The object of that false prophet: ,was to turn them away from the worship of the truelGtxl. He turned the truth by some means into a lie, as the Apostle said the false teachers did in his ,time. See Romani, 1: 25, "Who changed the truth (of God into a lie* and worshipped the creature more than the, Creator." 'Do not the spiritualists do the same when they say that, the spirits of the Apostles which they call up, give a new version to what they gave while in their bodies? ' The Apostle aul while in the body, said, " I would rather depart and be with Christ 4(.4.," Phil., 1: And in John VII: 20, Jesus Christ said, "Go unto my: brethren, - and say unto them, I ascend 'unto my father and Your father, and to my God and your. Grid." Paul is with Christ in heavin, where God and Christ are. And of course could not have been down in the spheres where the spiritualists say he is. And it is true that the soul* of those are there, and of course all tbe'true 'believers in Christ are, for Christ, promised that they should be with him there. And theie truths assure all believers in Christ that they will go home, to God when they, die; and will not pass through the visionary spheres of thiNpiritualists.— But Paul said, that "There is none other name under heaven, given among men, where. by we must be saved." And the main body of the , spiritualists send ' the people after their reVelations, in prefer. ence to our Bible... That is saying,'go and worship other Gods, do not worship Jesus' Christ, fur hods not the Savior. They say that we must be saved, by passing ihrough the spheres; Jesus said, 1 1 1 am the way, " no, they say you must gO our way, Who can doubt.but what they are the devils ine. diums ? But the greaten,. portion Of them deny the being of a devil and some the be ing of a God. TO such 1 have nothing to say. I depend on the Bible to prove my be. lief, and I send all to that text, Ephs., VI : 11. "Kt on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." We have as, much evidence here that there is a real personid devil, as of God. Please read to the 17 vs, Math. IV. "Je sus was led up into the mountain, to be tempt. ed with the devil." Mani say that there is no deVil, but the carnal Mind. But Christ could not have had a carnal mind, for he was holy, harmless, undefiled and se ate from sinners, a lamb' without spot, Wit the devil tempted him, by leaving brut a port of the verse, in the Psalm he quoted, XCI: 11,12; he left, out the words,." forln their hand they shall bear thee up ;" this being left out chang. ed the meaning of the proinise, and. tkmpted Christ to be preeumptious,i and cast himself down. The same thing Was done by the false teachers, (prophets)im the primitive church, " there are certain then crept in, who turned the truth of God, into a lie," Romans, 1: 25, ThE same thing is 'done, by all false teachers, who leave out part of the text, to give it another meaning. The devil tempted Eve: i by making her believe that God did not mean what he said, in making out that God was a liar. Some say that the devil did not tack, it was Eve's carnal mind, that produced -rich thoughts of Godoke,.; but Eve had not then fallen--God saw she was goodated bore his image. This puts an end to suck falsei reasoning—the truth is, there is a real persinial, being, called the, Devil, and his best act Was to transform himself into the form of; serpent, in apprar ance. And "Qod said, tilt he was more subtle than any beast of the Oeld." A . beast could uot•tilk, bet be could,lbat proves that he was not a beast, but the; devil, see Gen. 111. - ch. And he is called in tbe Scripture the old Serpent, the Devil, per. XR: 9. Be his great power, and ho ores not what shape 7 or likeness he appears in. eo that be can . 1100eitre the people, Me); called a"& wirer." 6r4 he appeared in'the likeness of a serpent, then in the likeness of good old t~ lolls, Owl f devil and his angels,. orAnferior and (snail's:. spirits, made false, pro p, and wizards, and witches and all those . mediums, among the heathen, or Jews, in old : times, and It lane great thing with him, to posse:is the teadhame, in our day.. He name talkby tapping, loon his *Ma, or familiar spirits, they cnn,lift up tibias with great weights upon theta. - • - They can play on instrninenti ornitUtilk, 'they can make the , ignorant itrai -speak with °the tongues, sta-Musin** .girlit ape*, as with. town Otlllllll.llllllllll They cot . tell the trial to pokko.:**oll . behave *aisle% MO the given an sissoitit.. ot .1 glair quotations by filletobtg *Milk** ty for AU I barn.: ailoi Christ said liForthers ebellerheadlikairkik and false frophists,. and. shall ilierei ire* signs, and wonders . , intannueb, that if I twwsi le they shall deceive the'very The real true' eirtatian mai:take comfort, from their dear. Savior's words, which is a positive proof that the" Elect" or true believ . era cannot- be so , deceived, as to fall from grace, and periilt, • But I do not expect that I shall, be the means of saving those whoin God - has given up, as I have shown before. l . But I have hopes that what I have written will prevent. some from being carried away with these strong delusions, which the Spiritualists man ifest -by the miracles they perform and as the Apostle say "and be damned." And I hope that I shall be the moans of saving the true Church, frOin being shaken in their. .minds. The true believers in the _Bible, : stAnd with their 'fee; upon the rock. Bur' those whostep off, must take a leap .in . the dark. ' DAVIS DINIOCK, Former Pastor of the ilaptist Church of Christ,in Montrose, Susquehanna Co., Pa. The Newspaper Press are requested to copy the foregoing. D. D. HOW VIDOCCI WAS SUPERSEDED. At the time of the robbery of the medals of the Royal Library, the late great thief taker, Vidoeq, was Chief of Police, but failed to discover the rubbers, who were, however, successfully arrested by Lacour under the fol lowing circumstances : ' M. Gi.quct applied to Laconr to discover the perpetrators of the deed. He refused - at first. "You have," said he,. " Your Chief of • Police, M. Vidocq ; let him find the robbers." But Gisquet insisted, and Lacour yielded. Some days after, Lacour, who had . got upon the track of the ris. cats, sought Gisquet, and told him that three men had committed the robbery-.--Froussard, and two others, whose names we have forgotten. "Who I" asked Gisquet. " First," was the reply.." in order to steal the medals, the thieves must know something of their value ; this indicates the criminals were thus learned. Thiq reduces to fifteen the persons among whom we are to seek the robbers of the library. The skill with which the furniture was opened further limits the nu_mber; and finally, the extreme ; elegance of the tools left where the crime was commit ted, convinces me beyOncl_ doubt that Frous sard is the leading spirit in the crime." Then' seek him," said Gisquet. To seek hint was easy—to find him was more difficult. Froussard, more than twenty times condemned to the galleys, had always managed to elude justice. But one day La cour paused upon the bridge De Tournelle, seeing before him two persons dressed with elegance and taste. There was_nothing about them tawdry or tnysterions—nothing calcu lated to attract attention. Suddenly Lamar, who had not seen their faces, said to himself: "I have it! Here are two companions of the chain. In spite of, the elegance of these two gentlemen, I recognize a trait not gene rally perceptible.. fcertain movement. 9f the limb, which the convict contracts from wearing_ the fetters, betrays them. One of these wore the chain upon the left, and the other upon the right leg." • Lacour advanced, and, nothwlthstanding his disguise, recognized Froussard as one of the men before - him. 'He hastened to the nearest post, and begged the officer to arrest the two men. " One of them,"- said he,. is Froussard, the author of the Library `robbe- Ty." Tbe officer, in common with the tary, having a decided repugnance for police. men, refused to make the arrest, unless La 'cour would produce a written order and give the signals. Lacour was distracted,' He could' 004 make himself known ; the robbers would es. cape. Suddenly he saw a magistrate on the quay. He hastened to him and stated the circumstances. "I phtdge my word," said he, "that IC Gisquet has charged me with the'detection of the robbers; trust tome, ar rest these men, and you will secure a re ward." The ,magistrate was convinced, and gave him a blank warrant which he filled out; the commandant was satisfied and gave Orders for the arrest. Instantly Lacour, at the head of some soldiers, seized Froussard by the arms and held him,"for otherwise be would have drawn his knife and fought to the lase As it. was, Froussard attempted to seize his weapon, but be was overpowered. He exclaimed upon seeing himself secured : I " Wl's! arrested with a disguise so perfect! Lacour must be at the hOttom of this; I just ' saw him," added-he, "going to the post." Vidoeq ceased to be Chief of Police soon after the success of his rival. COSMETICS.-" Please inform me, through the columns of your valuable paper, which of the numerous , preparations fur beautifying the complexion, removing tan, freckles, etc., are most effectual'!" There is nothing so good nor so cheap as the " diluted essence of sunshine." To obtain it in its purity you must walk in the open air from the first "streak of day until•the suq is about an hour high. If you climb a steep bi l l wi t h a crick step, aml then descend with a brisk.trot, so as to shake up the lungs and set the blood in lively motion, the Act Will be greatly enhanced. Ttui and freckles will speedily disappear. or cease to do you harm. --Ligifet illustrated. - • irgr A very ostehtsted Swab Divine, in one of his sermons, crowded, the following mass of argument into a sin' sentence Tbe world we inhabit muss have hod . an origins that origin must have been ultintate ; that ultimate power must have been Su. premp, and. that labia always was, and is tilux preme, we konW br ribs nom c 4. Godt7- or A _ . delta tp say t hings which too naa ever said, mal.e . Wine Pink thinp phich riolxo7 ought to oars, 1 H. H. FRAZIER, IrEJ.l3.TAlrourt " --VOl4 a.No. TEO °POOR Inumar is. ilitinalr. From "The Impending Crisis ofthetbuth;" a moat remarkable book, by Hinton ItOyu) Heipey, a native and rebidexit of North Car olina, and one of the "poor wbdes,i'..ornon- slaveholders, of the South, we erect the fok : _ IS TUX SOl7l/1 TOO SOT FOR WILITCYCI Too hot in the South, and too' unhealthy there—wbite men "can't stand itr—eegmes' ,014 out endure the hat of Southall' i4itea! $lO6 often are our eats „insulted with such Whiesdlir fides assertions as those! In who' Isioflatitude--pray tell us—in whit! de r! *Mande do the rays alba nun. Iss -1001114010 01110Tifie for whits) meal Cettainly laiiiipart of the United Butes, for in the ex..; trellis South we find a very large number of atiosigvehOlding Whites, over the age 'of fife 4 . teeua, who. deriv . their entire support : frOm , manual labor • - the ow.il fields. The sun, that bugbear o .slavelding demagogues, shone on moretftin one ntillion of free white labOrers, mostly - agrieultarasts, in the Slave T Statestin 1850, Oclusive of those engaged in , commerce, tradt, manufactures, the mechanic arts and mink*. - Yet, notwithstanding all these instances of exposure .to his - wrath. we have had no intelligence whatever, of a, single case of coup de saki!. Alabatr.it is not too hot; sixty-seven thousand white sons of toil till her soil. Mississippi is not too hut; fifty-five thousand free white - laborpri are hopeful devotees ocher out-door pursuits.- Texas is not toohot ;. forty-seven thousand free white persons, males; over: the age of fifteenolaily perform their rural: vocations: 1 amid her. unsheltered air. ' . It is stated ott.good authority that, in Jan-- nary', 1856, native ice, three inches thick, was fund -in Galveston Bay ' . we have seen it ten inches . thick in North Carolina, with the tner wry . nt the thermometer at two be-- low zero. • In Jannary,lBs7, while the snow Was from three to five feet deep in-, many parts of North Carolina, the thertnometer in dictated -a degree of coldness seldom exceeded in any . State in the Union—thirteen, degrees below zero. The truth is,..instead of its be ing too hot in the South •fer . white men, it is too cold =for negroes ; and we long to see the da arrive when the latter shall have entire ly'recedo from-their uncongenial homes in America, and given full and undivided place "- • to the former. Too hot in the South for white men . INIp is not too hot for white women. Time And - haain, in different counties in North Carolina, hve we iken the poor white wife of the poor white husband, following hirr.• •in - the harvest - field from morning till night,-binding np the grain as it fell from his cradle. In the im mediate neighborhoOd from which we hail, there are not less than thirty young women, non-slaveholditig white, between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five=-- - -some of whom are so well known to us that we could call them by naniewho labor in the fields every summer; two of them in particular, are near neighbors to our mother, are in the - habit of hiring. themselves out during harvest-time, the very hottest season of the veir, to bind wheat and oats—each of them keeping up with the reap-I er ;and this fur the paltry consideration of twenty:five cents per day.• That any respectable man—any man with a heart or a soul in his composition—can look upon these poor toiling white women ' without feeling indignant at that accursed ay s tem of Slavery which has entailed on them the miseries of poverty, ignorance,, and deg radation, we shall . not.do ourself the violence to believe. If they and their husbands, and their ions and daughters, and brothers and Alters, are not righted in spine of the more - 1 important • particulars in which they have bees' wronged; the fault shall. lie at` other doors than our own. In their behal4 Chiefly, have we written and complied this ;work ; and. until our object shall have been (nal* , guished, theta shall be uo abatement in our efforts to aid them' in regaining the 'natural and inalienable prerogatives out of which they have beau ap- infamously-, swindled. We want to see no.atre plOwing, or hosing, or raking, or grain binding, by- white women in the Southern States ;employment in cotton mills and offier factoriel would be Lim more . profit-- able 'and . congenial to them, acid this they shall bavc within a short period after Slavery shall have-.been abolished. . -EASES OF WAGES AT THE SOUTH. Lim Spring we Made it, our special busi ness to ascertain the ruling Tates i f wages piid for labor, free and slave, in North Carolina. We find sober, energetic white men, between twenty and forty years of age, engaged in ag ricultural pUrsuits at a salary of $B4 per an num—including board _only ; negro men, slaves, - who performed little more than half the amount ofiabor ' and who were excmding ly sluggish, awkward and careless in all their movements, were hired out on adjoining farms at an average of about $ll5 per an num, including board, clothing, and medical attendance.. Free white men and slaves were in the employ of the North Carolina Railroad Company ; the former, whose services, iriour opinion, were at least twice a.s valuble as the services of the latter; received only $l2 per month each; the masters of the latter receiv. ed $l6 per month for every slave so employ ed. Industrious, tidy white girls, from' six teen to twenty years of age, had much diffi. culty in hiring themselves out as domestics in private families kir $4O per annum— board, only included ;; negro wenches, slaves, of corresponding ages,so ungrrreeful, stupid and filthy that no decent man would ever per mit one of them to cross the threshold of his dwelling, were in brisk deinand at from $65 to $7O per annum, including victuals, clothes and itiedieal ittendance. These are facts, and in considering them the Student* of pa Neal and social;eoononly 'will not fail to ar rive at conclusions of their own. • Notwithatanding the greater density ofpop- PlAtion in the Free States, labor of every kind is, on an average, about one hundred per sent higher theta than it is in the Shies Ste*, This la another important filet, and one that, every zoniaborholding whits Amid kapp registered in hua aswp3. onv raw IN Tax Henceforth there ore other litterestrto be consulted in the Sea* slide Wu .thes inwr* este of negro . said elevelicddars.= Oro found sense of duty Incites in to mike the greatest, possible eftrts for the ,sholitgat of Slavery; 1111 equally profound venni orduty eille tBt s cantinebtion of these Sens wail - the very lost **to Freedollt been pttprl vsequidied. To the 11418111068 of the Niitemo monitor within, w shall Indeloor =I El ME to proVeAltltful‘no onwtty For Mkt. ing a ,mortal wo und Vi - Ois Side of Slavery shall liwparj . '01406 to , pass us unimproved . Thes,'w - 14eagendows of the Smith, we hays fully and frail: &and our pasithxs; wo have no tnodlfwatkiW to privossom corn promises to offer l oothbq to retract, Frown Sirs, fret, foam, prepare youi wssOns, threat, strike, shoot, stab, , bring ,OR Civil. - 'war, dis. solve the Union, tisy, s annihnite the solatsys.. tem if you will—do all more, leis, bet ter, worse. an ' i thing—doltbst you wi ll . Sirs, you can lel &Maar. lnkitnidats us; our purpose Is as firmly flood 'or tho' eternal fn. lam of Heaven; we havedetermined to ibol. ish Slavery. and, so help a God, abolish it wo will! Take ads to bed itighlm to. eed, Sirs, and think about lt, dream mien, and let us know how you ReflO•moirOir monk-. PROGRAM= sox AMOUTIOS ar SIATZRY. . , First Orpniaation .suld lode pendent.Politioil.Antion cat aka :park of the • Non•Slaveholding 'whites at:the-South. :\ • . • Serend ,• filsveholdera-r ss, Never another" vote. to ffie Trafficker in wan Flesh; . . - Third: No Co-eperation.withSlaveholdaa in Polities—No Fellowship witirthem in Re ligion—No Affiliation with them in Society. - Fourth: No ?atronage to SlavehiAding Merchants—No guestship In Slave-waiting Ilotels—No Fees to SlaveholdingLawyers— No Employment of Slaveholding Physicians • Audience to Slaveholdm; Parsons. • Fifth; Recogniti ' Pro-Slavery men, except as Re i* s, Outlaws and Criss . • - Si.rth: Abrup • iscontinuanco of Sub- . seri ption to Pr y: laver! Newspapers. Seventh ; ' Greatest Possible Enema,: akemeei, to Free White tabor. - Eigh,fh:": No more. Hiring of • Slaves' by- NonSliveliolders. - . Ninth: Immediate Death to Slavery, ovif - not immediate, unqualified Proscription °fits. Advomtes during dui Period of its.Etistenee. Tenth : A Tax of Sixty. Dollars on every Slaveholder for each and every Negro in his Possession at the:present time, or at any in- termediate time between now and the 4th of July, 1863---said money to be Applied to the transportation of the - Maas to LibOis,to their Colonization in Central or South Amer ica, or to their Comfortable Settlement with in- the 4oundaries of the United States. Eleventh : An additional Tax of Forty Dollars per annum to be levied annually ou every Slaveholdeiforeach. and every N eg ro found in his possesaion after the 4th of July, 1863--said money to be-paid into the hands, of the Negroes so held in Slavery. oi, in eases of death, to their, next of kin, and to be used by them at their own option, - This,. then, is she outline of our scheme for the abolition of -Slavery in the Southern States. Let it beactedopon with due prompt: • itude, sad, as certain as truth is mightier thane error, fifteen years will not elapse before .ev= cry foot of territory, front the mouth of the Delaware to the embogurng of the Rio Qninde, will glittor with the jewels of free dom. Some time duririg this year. Dist, or the-C-yeer following, let there be a ipmeral Convention of nunalaveholdera from every Slave State in , the Union, to deliberate on the momentous, issues* , radius, First, lei them adopt measures for holdingin relaxant the diabolical excesses of,the oligarchy; sec ondly, in order to east ' '. the thralldom which the infamous slave-power - bat fastened upon them, and as the first -step neceinuiry. to be taken to regain the rights lord liberties with which they were invested by Nature; but of which they have beers divested by the , accursed Utters in human ,liesk let them devise ways , and menu Ste. the cont-.. pieta anuihilatiMi of Shiver thirdly, ]et them 'pit forth an equitable . a nd :comprehen sive platform, fully defining - ther position, and inviting the active sympathy; and, mope-, ration of the millions of don't-trodden - ncut• sliveboldera tlmaighout tbe Southern "end - Southireseern States. - Let 'all these *NO be done, not -too brainy; but _with Orate* deliberation, prudence, and ohamuipeetion ; ifteed beilet the;: delegates to the . Convert-- Um' continue in ;Mike Mt tit trio weelugi only let their labors be Wisely end thoroogb ly pirformed; AWN. on Wednesday morning, presetit to - tba poor , irbitoi nit: tits South a weltdigeated sebum *mil* raelton‘ ation of their ancient rights sad ;mop** and,°on the Thursday adicuring„ Slimy In the United Stites will be ieirtit iehaoletely less than notbing for Oen, beside being so vile and pmentions eat nobody will want it, it will be a hating reproach to those la whew hands it is lodged. 2 orifilaveifire "looking up" ill price,. 'A few days smce: in lifissourt, - "a .boy;".of 24 was sold for $1550, and a woman with three children for $2350. Whether tlie woman bad any, peculiar" attractions - " beyond . 'knit fulne.ss is not stated. But the ptices me quite Roman-like, and show that Otztv.. Wise's prey diction° about OS rise in value of such chat; leis are likely to be about half realised, which is saying much of political prophecies, 'There is something horrible itt these tads 1 men and women's sales, by auction being quoted in the prices current , of the land of freedom _I - In what respect ii the country where such thing* are permitted better than Sahara, !Owe ship. • wrecked Christians are bought and sold at high rates' Men_ are horrified when they read of the sale of a woman , by the Napoli etas Arabs of the desert; but these . . Arabs nese? proclaimed to the world - their tonvic tion that all men were created frecothd equito. nor have they deeounced ,tme branch otthe . slave trade as piracy, white carrying on the oth e r. Wit ' the utmost briskness. . The. Arab slave-tra I. frank old consistent, and . sees the Ong° r - Providettoe in a wreck, while the American merchant' (!)-of the ;Arne 044 rants abont liberty, pockets the dollans e and - sup, ports the Democracy, both *on principle . and interest. , They aresomewhaidivided in this Irurld, but they will not.ixt iii, the , next. Usrarriatuir.-liii a warning; it may be mentioned that drenghts of vinegar and ,oth e er acids od iica (when 'they,do not cause death) on , byelamegbitthe':ll o . l end heiltb through the injury they ramie to the digestive mud. Marty yoking permits have Win victims AO 11141.11111nial brought on, by .4ally dome oralitew *ken laith tin', Aso of mating 11110.011,1111 011012i4, - persist, eoc in.drilikieg:**ll7 iiii 4 e 11 4 414041 1 ads iiollo ma 1 Wroari . 'kr th e i Or' cesai haa roved injurious, As to slight dosed of" flk or lodide of Otis, shun, to diminish fat, they Iskaysisigitied is Pt* WOrd'refaiKes MI
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