F., READ & H. H. FRAZIER,--EDITORS.
qqa sekiefies.
TEE /111W3 SPY.
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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
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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 .
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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
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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
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