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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 16 (March 18, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2115
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-03-18
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: «- PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT: AUNTRAMMELED LIVES! ._?4 N.’ > , I BREAKING THE WAY ‘FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIQNS. Vol. XI.——No. 16.——Wl:o1e No. 276. NEVV YORK, MAR. 18, 1876. PRICE TEN CENTS. In the days of the voice of the seventh cmgel, the mystery of God shalt be ﬁm'shed.——St. John the Divine. = —————4~+—-+—— THE WORK IN THE SOUTH. Dear Weekly——I am just from Galveston on my way North, and it is my pleasure to inform your readers, that, most un- expectedly to myself, I met Victoria in that city. We were stopping for two days in the same hotel, and 1 had to regret that fate would have it so that I was compelled to leave the city in the morning of the day she was to lecture at night. I have never seen Victoria. on the rostrum, and re- gard 1t as rather an ill stroke of fortune that deprived me of the rare opportunity when it was almost within my grasp. I have not seen her since my return from England. more than a year ago, when she was almost going through the valley of the shadow o...
Show more«- PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT: AUNTRAMMELED LIVES! ._?4 N.’ > , I BREAKING THE WAY ‘FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIQNS. Vol. XI.——No. 16.——Wl:o1e No. 276. NEVV YORK, MAR. 18, 1876. PRICE TEN CENTS. In the days of the voice of the seventh cmgel, the mystery of God shalt be ﬁm'shed.——St. John the Divine. = —————4~+—-+—— THE WORK IN THE SOUTH. Dear Weekly——I am just from Galveston on my way North, and it is my pleasure to inform your readers, that, most un- expectedly to myself, I met Victoria in that city. We were stopping for two days in the same hotel, and 1 had to regret that fate would have it so that I was compelled to leave the city in the morning of the day she was to lecture at night. I have never seen Victoria. on the rostrum, and re- gard 1t as rather an ill stroke of fortune that deprived me of the rare opportunity when it was almost within my grasp. I have not seen her since my return from England. more than a year ago, when she was almost going through the valley of the shadow of death, and when she was in the midst of the ﬁre of persecution thrice heated. She seems in better health and spirits now, and well she may; for, what does not often fall to the lot of advanced thinkers, she is beginning to reap some reward of her efforts . She is coming into popular recognition all over the country. People are beginning to I earn that she had a purpose for the beneﬁt of humanity in her exposure of the Beecher business, and the developments of that rather mixed affair have had a tend- ency to establish faith in Victoria Woodhull, despite all the machinery of Satan set in motion to bolster up Beecher, and to destroy her. Few of Mrs. Woodhull’s friends and admirers would have thought it expedient for her to betake herself and her “ pecu- liar” views into the South; it would have seemed too much like bearding the lion inlhis den. But her triumphant course thus far has proved that Southern chivalry is not dead, and that receptivity is not swallowed up by prejudice in Southern intelligence. She has been granted not only respectful hear- ing wherever she has appeared, but in most instances her reception has amounted to an ovation, as though the people have been surprised to ﬁnd her an earnest, comely woman, telling them, with her heart upon her lips, plain truths about themselves in a plain and comprehensive manner. Especially has she taken the heart of the Southern woman by storm, for the fact of the inertia ‘of the women of this section has tended to make the upheaval all the more start- ling. If the Southern woman has been inactive, she has not been insensible; and the good seed Victoria is sowing is not falling upon barren soil here. Mrs. Stanton. to be sure, has been before her in this fruitful ﬁeld; but, as l judge from what women tell me, she had not the courage to speak out to both sexes; she lectured privately to ladies when she had her most important sexual truths to utter. Not so!Vi'ctoria. She knows that any sexual truth concerns both sexes alike; and as she has no idea of vulgarity in the matter, and apprehends no necessity for mawkishness, she speaks what she has to say to both sexes at once, and, judging from the reports from all the cities of the South where she has appeared, she has had a fair attendance of both men and women. Southern women are not given to maw— kishness to a great extent; they are, after all, much more independent in manners and less under the petticoat govern- ment of Mrs. Grundy than their sisters in the North, conse- quently they have not hung back,f1'_om Victoria’s lectures for fear Mrs. Grundy would not be there. They have determined to hear her, and the consequence is they have accepted her on sight ;_ for they have not heard a word drop from her lips that was not G-od’s truth, requiring no stretch of faith or imagination to believe; truth that each womanly soul has experienced some degree of in her own individual existence Neither are the men of the South backward in extending the right hand of fellowship. Their chivalrous sense recog- nizes the true soul of woman in Victoria ‘Woodhull, and the innate manhood of the true Southern gentleman is quick to ‘respond. They, too, know the truth she speaks to their per- verted powers. Men are not so steeped in the debauchery of ages but theythank the woman, who, for the sake of pure manhood and womanhood,‘holds.them up a mirror wherein they can see the inmost part of themselves, “such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct.” While Victoria has it before her to imbue humanity with a. reverence for itself while she strives to teach the sacred uses of human functions, now, that she has gained patient hear- ing, she need not fear of meeting anywhere a less enthusias- tic welcome than the people of the South have accorded her. God speed her in the way of truth. ‘HELEN NASH. REASON, GOODNESS AND FIRMNESS. The inborn qualities of reason, goodness and ﬁrmness are the fundamental principles of a good mind. Goodness com-i prehends all virtues . Reason includes many kinds of ability. Firmness includes energy and courage. These three quali- ties are conscience, and they are reﬁnements. They are natural education or self-education. Without them book- learning would be undigested and useless. They are what make a good citizen and good voter, even if the person has no book-learning, and is unableto read. The character is good and great according to the degree it has of these qualities. Without goodness there can be no real greatness or ability. The highest degree of reason, goodness and ﬁrmness is a great mind and noble character—a commander and statesman. In other words, it is the military character, which is the perfec- tion of the human mind. Greatness is ability and virtue in great things. War and statesmanship are the greatest things. iThe greatest general is the greatest statesman. History pre- sents great warriors as almost the only persons who have founded empires, been able lawglvers, and raised nations to greatness. True warriors are the truest friends to peacef‘ superior to prosperity as they are to adversity. They are least liable of all men to abuse power or wrongfully assume it. They are always friends to equality and to the laboring peo- ple. Heroism’ is the sublimity of goodness. N 0 man of true military character ever overthrew a good government or injured the cause of freedom. Julius Caesar did not. The Roman people had already lost their freedom through the corruption of luxury and unequal wealth, and the aristocracy had usurped the political power. Caesar took the power out of bad hands into his own. His death by the hand of Brutus was, no doubt, a loss to the Roman people instead of a beneﬁt. Napoleon Bonaparte had no conﬁdence in re- publican governments, and there he was right. He abolished the form of it in France, but maintained equality. With him merit alone was the only nobility or road to promotion. He ‘thoroughly despised aristocracy. Undoubtedly the absolute government of such a man would be better than a republic. Instead of being made Emperor he ought to have abolished all artiﬁcial government and given nature a chance to govern France. He would have been the greatest benefactor the world ever knew. Unmilitary characters, with armies at their command, have often overthrown republics, usurped the sovereign power and enslaved the people. Napoleon the Little was the opposite of a military character. an aristocrat and tyrant by nature. He destroyed two republics,that of France and that of Mexico. The kings of Europe are not military characters, and they keep down their subj acts with large standing armies.. To be at the head of an army is one thing, to be born a. military character is another thing- Previous experience in government affairs is not necessary to a statesman, nor is book—learning. Cromwell, we know, had superior abilities as a statesman. He raised England to a height of greatness that she never saw before nor since. If he was a great statesman. it follows that he was a great war- rior. Bonaparte’s ability as a statesman was equal to his military talents. While at St. Helena he said that his fame with posterity would rest not on his military achievments but on the code of laws he drew up for France. His goodness was ‘equal to his ability, although in some things he was very unwise. * Washington was not a military character and statesman- not a great man-—although an honest one. Winﬁeld Scott was no general or statesman, and not much of a man. Grant is no military character or statesman. Wellington was not a military character nor a good man. In the war of the Rebel- lion the Union armies had but two genuine commanders within the knowledge of the writer: General Thomas and General Isaac J. Stevens. The United States have had but one President, Andrew Jackson; all the others were without efficiency in war or peace. Napoleon Bonaparte said that in all Italy, among a population of eighteen millions, he found only two men. Victoria 0. Woodhull comes near to being a military character. Garibaldi is a. true military character. His nobleness proves it. His enthusiasm of equality and en- thusiasm of truth prove his nobleness. He is a born enemy to aristocracy and priestcraft. ' The military character ‘is, extremely rare. It is doubtful whether more than oneznan in ten millions is one of them. 2 _/' Accordingly, very few persons can know and appreciate it, or distinguish who is one and who is not. The others judge only by success. People can comprehend only such persons as re’- semble ‘themselves. The parents of all true military men were superior persons. The writer of this comprehends it because he is one of them. His parents were the right kind of people for it. A chain of remarkable and adverse circum- stances, beginning in early youth, have alone prevented its display. These remarks concerning myself are addressed only to those who are worthy of them. They are only justice. People judge others according to what they are themselves. In that way I shall be judged by my readers. Aman’s opinion of others proves what he is himself. If we should “ see our- selves as others see us” we should appear to ourselves of different and contra colors. ‘ All examples in history agree with the decision of reason that generalship and statesmanship require the same qualities of mind. ELIPHALET KIMBALL. OXFORD, N. H. ..—.__— WINTER AND WOMAN’S nnnss. Friends of humanity, philosophers who can reason on a consistent method of robing the sacred and sensative human body, speak out your saving truths and lay them on the wings of the thousand steam—ﬂying newspapers, that the wanting may catch them at every point. Men and women who are left sane and sensible amid the demoralizing customs of this knowing, but sinning age, be brave, if possible, now, for the need of your counsel and encouragement is great. Every winter many women contract. diseases that make life a linger- ing period of misery, by insufficient protection against in- clemc nt weather. This needless loss of health and happiness must continue till they are taught that petticoats are but loads, not protection; that they make exercise so tiresome that women are indisposed to it in winter; hence those hav- ing leisure lose force by inaction, and those laboring exhaust under the double burden of toil. and a. perplexing weight fastened to their forms, more tedious than any work. Science, natural laws, indicate the only remedy for all this weariness in weights and fetters, all this female debility and incapacity, all this lack of time and means for culture, art, and all high use. No standard exists for the form of clothing, but the form to be clothed. The nearer dress follows the form, and shows by the easy loosen ess of its ﬁt that comfort and protection are- the objects sought, and decoration a ful dress must give full freedom of motion to every limb, full sway and swell to every limb, muscle and viscera. This can- not obtain in petticoats and corsets. Their use is unworthy present knowledge. iThe idea of healthful dress has so far reached the general mind that truth touching practicality can be understood without long explanations, and now, as ths cold season is come, and the more thoughtful of fashion’s devotees are advising necessary protection before style, let the truly-informed chime in with facts as to what is whole- some and adapted to the needs of the best development of womanhood. Women are awaiting the voice of the press and the people, many of them anxiously; not all are content in their physical bondage. An excellent feature of some of the city papers, the Tribune, for one.is an occasional, article daring to touch the topic of dress. As no reasonable approval or defence could be oﬁered for recent styles, silence accompanied the ﬂoods of fashion plates. When a few will speak for women’s and children’s chilled and abused legs, philanthro- pists will rejoice. These writers advised calf boots and shoes, ﬂannel drawers and canton ones over them, so that one light skirt would be enough. They probably see ﬁnally that skirts do little toward warming the body, especially the legs, and that trowsers or an equivalent is requisite beneath them. Several extra skirts cannot supply the need of one layer of fabric ﬁtted to the leg; their size and weight but encumber and fatigue the poor carriers. Let this ‘be taught; and when they see that it is a vulgar education as ‘well as awicked fraud that has curtainedqand crippled the’ beautiful locomo- tive system, they will ﬁndit easy to drop" the shackles and move forth in grace and grandeur; elasticity of gait will take the place of heaviness, joy of spirit will supplant sadness, bloom of health will put to shame skin-destroying paints, and self-sustaining ability, bless them with something like realized independence. , . ~ MARY E. TILLOTSON. VINELAND, Dec. 1875. secondary idea, the nearer perfect it must be. A truly beauti- I YWOODHULLU as CLAll‘L*IN’S WEEKLY. FEB. 27th, 1876. Editor lVee7tly———One of the most rational ﬁnancial dis- fserta-tions that I have'yet seen inﬁprint is that which appeared ‘in a recent number of your paper onthe question. Who pays the public expenses?” Similar to it was an editorial in the New York I-Iemld about the same time, headed “the bottom fact on whiskey. The former demonstrated the serious dis- ' advantages that grow out of an excessively stupid or wil- fully wicked, or both, ﬁnancial‘system, while, the latter exhibited the woful and shameful results of party Vpolicy and class‘ legislation. To this journal (the Herald) great credit is due for having done more perhaps than any other within the last ten years in exposing and denouncing the wholesale land and money subsidies by Congress to railway and mail monopolies, and the national "banks, ‘whose system of business annually absorbs about ﬁfty millions of the peoples’ money. ' With its party platforms and party measures, created in the interests of political aspirants, the country for the last thirty or forty years has been a house divided against itself, until ﬁnally its industries and business interests are threatened with disaster and general ruin. High tariff and bank notes on one side, with free trade and specie payments on the other, have been the cry; and these measures or principles, with their multifarious offshoots, have all been descanted upon by public speakers and writers, ad inﬁnitum, according to their respective party predilections. Consequently,legislation in Congress and in the State capitals has been for the interests of the party in the as- cendent, whatever may have been the actual needs and requirements of the country at large; the policy having been in most cases to select men for. this purpose, who, though unlit either in ability or in moral, and patriotic principles, or both, were ready and willing to make a. party pledge, and obey the party behests. ‘Hence have arisen. all the bank, railway and other monopolies, with Credit Mobilier, whisky, canal and municipal contract thieves, whose chief object and aim have been to plunder as much as possible, and perpetuate party power. Financial essays innumerable have been writ- ten and published, and meetings have been called and held at public places like the Cooper Institute. Merchant’s EX- change, etc., here and elsewhere, at which our so—called leading and inﬂuential men have, discussed this and that measure relating to the tariff‘ and the currency, and yet they don’t seem to know that they are only trying to prune the upper twigs and branches, while the roots of the tree are being consumed by worms and dryrot. One morning last winter, when passing up Wall street, I was met by a ﬁne, intelligent-looking man, who accosted me with the question, “What building is that?” I informed him it was the Custom House. He then asked if there wasn’t an Assay Office somewhere there? I told him Yes, and where it was. “ Well,” said he, “ they are great institu- tions, aint they? but they don’t seem to be of much use, while we out west, in California and thereabouts, produce ﬁfty millions of gold and silver per annum, sixty or more millions are drained out of the country in the same time ‘for the beneﬁt of foreign bondholders.” And with a swing of his hand as he passed along, he added, “ there must be a stop put to it before long.” I And he told no lie. When we abolish national pet banks and substitute for their. currency redeemable and exportable government greenbacks; shut down on government subsidies to railway and other monopolies; legislate a little for the interest and encouragement of the laboring classes who fur- nish all the golden eggs, and not so much for making the rich richer. and the poor poorer, so that enough gold and grain, cotton and wool may be produced to pay off the national debt some time or other; spend more money at home for what may be requisite, and less abroad in the way of fashionable distinction and aristocratic nonsense; put down all political sinecures and vampires, and hang all ﬁnancial as well as horse thieves, then may we look for an era of renewed con- ﬁdence and activity in all industrial and commercial in- terests. In these days of speculating combinations of middlemen and ‘forestallers, whose unrelenting exactions even for the necessaries of life are alike odious and oppressive, sumptuary laws should be enacted to protect the poor, if no others, from their rapacious aggressions. - The law of supply and demand is of no account in such respects. _ Then in order to avoid a recurrence of the savings-bank swindles which have afflicted the poorer people during the last few years, proper liabilities and penalties should be im- posed on all stockholders and officials of such institutions. History relates, that in China, about three hundred years ago, a swindling bank failure occurred. The result of it was, all the oﬁicials of the institution were decapitated, and their heads thrown aside along with their waste and worthless papers. Since that time, ﬁnancial failures, with appearances of fraud, have not been known in that particular country. The foreign bondholders and our national banks, which absorb ahundred millions annually of the peoples’ substance, are two great evils which neither a paper currency nor a. hard money system can abate; and while our law makers are igno- rant, selﬁsh and venal, those maleﬁc institutions will continue to be a drain upon our resources, and an insurmountable obstacle to our progress. Laws must be passed for the beneﬁt of the many as well as the few, so that the already rich may not be specially made richer at the expense of the poor. And, unless something to this effect shall be accomplished, it will, indeed, seem as if “a bridle has already been put into men’s mouths causing them to err. , STYCA. CO—OPERATIVE HOTEL. I desire to obtain a hotel or suitable house in an accessi- ble, but not aristocratic, part of the city of New York, to be operated on the co-operative plan. ,1. The total rent of the hotel is to be levied upon all the rooms, public and private, according to the location and quality of the rooms, with ﬁve per cent. added to the total sum. * » ,_/_/ 2. The total rental of the public rooms is to be divided equally between the private rooms, ' 3. The restaurant and laundry is put to eo—operators at cost price with ﬁve per cent. added. 4. There will be no liquors sold on the premises, but cigars and tobacco may be sold in the restaurant. " 5. The government of the house will be under a master, who places each department under. its proper superinten- ’dent. I 6. All officers and agents will receive pay for services ren- dered, nothing for the oﬂiceor position. 7 The rules for the government of the house will be just as arbitrary as in any hotel. 8. All outsiders will be charged the usual city prices in the establishment. 9. All bills will be paid in advance.’ 10. Daily receipts will be cancelled by cheeks, receipt or vouc_hers with tlietreasurer at a stated hour each day. 11. At the end of each month, all dividends arising from the ﬁve per cent. margin and outside patronage will be di- vided among the co-operators in proportion to the amount each one has paid into the establishment. . 12. No party can become a co-operator for a less time than one month. - * 13. This is not intended to be ‘a money making, but a money saving, concern. All parties who can participate in this money saving con- cern willplease éorrespoiid with G. W. Madox, 29 Broadway, New York City, and, if an answer is required, enclose stamp. VVINTER. ' It is a chilly day. The sun hath hid Himself behind the clouds that vail the sky; There is no beam that warms the frigid ﬁelds; All that which once my gazing eye well pleased, Looks drear-aye, all the streams that late ﬂowed on Throughmeadows decked with ﬂowers and rattled oc’r Their pcbbly beds, coiyigeal and turn to ice. But just. above my dwelling climbs the smoke, And forms a haze outspread portending storm. The glowing ﬂames that heat the ﬁreplace hot, Scarce warmme; all is chill; the whistling winds Forewarn that soon the snow will ﬁll the air, And whiten all the tract that stretches wide. The forest groans and utters forth such sounds As tell that winter wields his tyrant rod. Methinks he now comes forth with hoary head; I For ’mong the trees I see thick falling round, Like leaves in autumn, loosened by the wind, The ﬂakes of snow that dress in white the ground. Oh, chilling potentate! thy coming stay; . Do hear my prayer; no more my limbs bcnumb. Ah, me! how ruthless; sure ’tis that amidst Bis blustering and storm he hearcth not! See here the dim horizon that, afore, The distance arched as far as eye could ken, Encircles less and less of far-off look. I hear a sound as if the storm ’s more ﬁerce; ’Tis so; it comes and buries deep in banks The walls and fence that line the highway side, And herds and ﬂocks, if chance they be unstsxlled. Whose lotit is to be abroad such time,. Must move with wary steps, else lose the way. See how the sleet blovs s on from drift to drift; Mark how the lawn appears deep-clad in snow; What change in landscape scene the storm doth make 1 The Wind, without a. lull, sweeps through the woods; Anon is heard its roar; then dismal noise Of creaking branches writhed and tossed in air; The tall old elm that high o’ertops my cot, Around whose trunk and limbs the frosts of years On years have wrapped a garb quite colorless, Bows down his lofty top, and seems to shake The snow from off his leaﬂess, pendant boughs. Before my windows whirl the yellow leaves That fell from shrub and tree, incopse, or grove. The storm king regnant, rules in rage the hour, Full clad in royal robes of icy web, With locks all powdered o’er with crystal snow 1 Tie winter I lo, all nature hath a mcin That saddens, and an aspect void of cheer.‘, But why complain I thus of winter’s looks? The solar orb shall soon unvail itself, Effui gent rays again beam brightly forth, The distant hills once more in sight appear, The joyful jingling bells dispel the gloom, And all the town become a gladsome scene I —Dr. Horace ])7*e.9ser. C A NEVV OPPONENT TO THE THIRD TERM. For the last year there has been traveling through the South 2. Dr. J. W. Shiveley, said to be a Worsliipper of the Sun, alter the order of the old Fire ‘Worshippers, who is a self-nominated candidate for the succession. If there is not much method i.n his style, there is, nevertheless, some sound sense in”his method. VVherever he goes he talks to the people, and distributes his circulars, from which we extract the following as a curious evidence of “ truth in the rough:” PROCLAMATION. This is a copy of my New Banking System and my New Declaration of Independence, or bill of Human Rights, which I propose that we, the sovereign people of these United States, shall adopt as our campaign platform, for this, our Centennial Presidential Campaign of 1876; and as one of the free, independent sovereign people of these United States of America, I herewith issue this Proclamation to all the sovereign people, and call upon them to meet in -mass meet- ings in all the villages, towns and cities, on the first day of April, 1876, to ratify this Proclamation and my New Banking System and bill of Human Rights, and appoint delegates to meet in national convention in Chicago, on the ﬁrst of June, or in Philadelphia, on the ﬁrst of July, to nominate candi- Mar. is, 1375. dates for President and Vice-President; and this Proclama-, tion is unto all the sovereign people—-to the Jews and the Gentiles, Catholics and the Protestants, Spiritualists, Free Thinkers and Inﬁdels; the Masons, Odd Fellows, Working Unions, Mechanics, Farmers and Grangers, all, male and female, to meet in mass meeting, on the ﬁrst day of April, in this, our Centennial year, 1876,-——meet in national conven- tion to organize the sovereign people’s party, which shall be called the Universal Brotherhood of the Human Family or human race. And such it shall be. With the wise Old Shiva for president and for —— vice—president, victory is ours; and truth, justice, charity, love and mercy, humanity and honor bright shall rule and govern, and our new party shall be in truth, and fact, and deed, a universal brotherhood of the human family, unto which all the people ofthis earth can come into brotherhood with the sovereign people of these United States. Yours respectfully, J. .W. SHIVELEY. BILL OF RIGHTS AND NEW BANKING SYSTEM. Claiming the right of individual sovereignty for myself and for all the people of these United States of America. male and female. I herewith oﬁer myself as a candidate for President of the United States in 1876 upon the following great fu nda— mental principles of government: Individual sovereignty, equal rights, and universal liberty in all things for all per- sons, male and female. _ And as our fathers claimed in the Declaration of American Independence: ‘ “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all persons have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” and to secure these rights governments are insti- tuted by the people. - And we _hold that all ‘persons have an equal right to ‘the land and the water and the air, and to all the good things that they can gather therefrom by their own toil and labor; that they are the gifts of the Creator, the God of the Uni- iverse, unto all. And we hold that no person. nor any com- bination of persons, company or corporation shall claim or hold any lauds, only what they can cultivate or use for build- ing upon, or for manufacturing pursuits. And we hold that all this hue—and-cry about a specie basis and a specie pay~ ment is all a humbug and a swindle. ’ And we claim and hold that the only way to secure a true principle of ﬁnance that shall never change, never depreciate. is: Let the government of the people—the Government of these United States of America—-issue four or ﬁve hundred thousand millions of greenbacks, or one, two. or three billions of greenbacks, with the right and the power to make and in- crease it to ﬁve or ten billions, if the manufacturing and the business transactions of the people should call for so much. And let the Government of the United States issue "United States bonds to the same amount, with a law and interest at- tached to them, like the laws of the Medes and the Persians that never change. " With a law establishing banking houses in all the towns and cities, counties and villages throughout the United States, place the greenbacks and bonds in these banks, and ap— point agents to transact and do the business of these banks for the Government and people. and to loan out the green- backs to all persons who may want them, at an interest of from to 4% per cent. on the dollar to all who can give real estate, houses, and lots as security, or the bonds, and security of persons that have real estate to give; and all the agents of these banks must give real estate as security for all the green- backs and United States bonds placed in their banks. And any and all persons who get more greenbacks than they can use in their business or loan out to others at 3% to 4%- interest, can take them to the banks at any time and exchange them for the United States bonds, and draw 2% per cent. on the dollar for the full amount of the bonds, which they can return to the banks and get grcenbacks for again at any time. This will give the people plenty of money at all times, and a cheap and unchanging banking system, and will bring into the government of the people a suﬁicient revenue to pay all the expenses of the Government, and kill off all the money rings, and gold corners, and ﬁnancial explosions and smash- ups. The specie basis and the specie payment is all ahumbug and a swindle that all sane, sound, reasoning minds ought to be able to see and know to be; such gotten up expressly for the bulls and the bears of the money rings and money corners, money gamblers and ﬁnance smashers. . Yours respectfully, Pnor. J. W . SIIIVELEY. ALEXANDRIA, VA. BILL OF RIGHTS. ACADEMY or MUsIo, PHILADELPHIA, N ov. 16th, 187 . “A New Declaration of Independence of the Equal Rights and the Individual Sovereignty of all Mank1nd,,male and female.” By Prof. J. W. Shiveley, of Alexandria. Va. 1. “ We hold these trnths to be self-evident, that all man- kind ”——male and female——" are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights: that among these are life, liberty, individual sovereignty,” and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights gov- ernments are instituted by mankind, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. _ And whereas, the land, and the water, and the air, and the sunshine, and light are the free gifts of our Creator unto all mankind, male and female; family, male and female, are, and of right ought to be, free and individual sovereigns at the age of sixteen, with equal rights in all things—-in the land, and the water, and the air, and the sunshine; with equal political and civil rights before the law and in the courts: and the righ.t to vote and to be voted for, and to hold oﬂiice, and the right of free speech, and a free press, free religion and free love, and the right to work, and to get and hold property; and the right to love and to make love, and to enjoy that love with any and all persons consenting thereunto; the right to choose their own love- mates and husbands and wives, to marry and make their own marriage contracts, and the right to dissolve and repudiate them again, when they do not and cannot ﬁndlove and union, peace, enjoyment, contentment and happiness therein. 3. And whereas, according to the laws of nature and of nature’s God, woman ever has been, and must ever be, the mother of all mankind, and of woman, too, and must bear the pains, and the suffering, and the toil, and the care of mother- hood; Therefore, be it Resolved, That all motherhood shall be honorable and re- spectable, and the child shall be a legitimate child, and heir of the father and mother thereof, audthe father shall provide for the mother and the child in their helplessness. and for the support and the education of the child until the community or the State, or the child’s majority, shall relieve him there~ from. 4. And whereas, like ever produces like, and the inﬁrmi- ties. diseases, dissipations, passions and the vices and crimes of the parents are ever visited upon their children unto the third and fourth generation. and we may safely say even unto the tenth and the twelfth generation; . Therefore, be it resolved, That the fathers and the mother of our children should be thoroughly educated, and young and healthy, and good and wise, and temperate in all things; and that it. is the duty of all parents, 0f_§:1_l communities, We therefore hold that every living soul of the human ’ - r" I ‘K I i I- Mar. 18, 1876. and of all States, and of all governments, and of the whole human family, to see that their children are all well provided for, and all well educated and thoroughly instructed in all the mysteries of life and health, disease and death, and the great mystery and love of the sexes; and the time to love and to make love, and how to select and choose love mates, husbands and wives, and to marry and make marriage con- tracts, and the enjoyments, duties and the responsibilities thereof; and how and when to dissolve and repudiate those marriage contracts, when union, love, enjoyment, content- ment. peace and happiness do not come and abide therewith. 5. Andwhereas, according to nature or nature’s laws, we believe that at the time and age of puberty, say from four- teen to sixteen years of age, is the proper time to love and . to make love, and to choose love mates, husbands and wives, and .to marry and to make marriage contracts; ’ Therefore, be it resolved, That it is the duty of all parents, and of tall communities and of all States and all govern- ments, and of the whole human family, to provide all their young men and young women with homes, and means, and husbands and wives of their own choosing, and a good trade or some profession, or a. legitimate honorable business of some kind, so that all the young men and young women of the coming ages shall have a fair and an equal start in the race of life. " 6. And whereas, we believe that the rights,‘duties and responsibilities claimed and set forth in the above preamble and resolutions are inalienable rights, duties and responsi- bilities, and universal, fundamental truths, bright and pure and spotless as the Sun of Light, and believing that it is in and through and by these means alone that the human family, the human race, may be and can be purged and puriﬁed, redeemed and saved from its present degraded, demoralized. corrupt condition, and from the dissipation, prostitution, vice and‘ crime, disease, suffering and the un- timely death of the present day and age; and seeing a bright and glorious future, and eternal life and health and youth and happiness and Heaven and Paradise, for the whole human family, in these inalienable rights, duties and respon- sibilities,- and great, universal, fundamental truths and principles being adopted and faithfully carried out, and lived up to by the whole human family,— Appealing to the God of the Universe for the rectitude of our belief and of our acts, we hereunto set our names, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honors. So help us, thou . Sun of Light, our Creator, the God of all Light and of all Life. and the G-iver of all the good things that we have and enjoy here in this life upon the face of this. our good old Mother Earth. PROF. J .,W. SHIVELEY. W'HO PAYS THE EXPENSES? Under the above heading appears an article in your paper issued February 26th, containing so much truth, and at the same time so much error, that I am constrained to reply to that part which appears to me an unwarranted assump- tion, viz: “Is it any wonder, then, that the bond holders and money lenders are unanimously in favor of retiring the greenbacks and issuing more national currency? If there were 9,’51,000,000,000 more national currencyissued, they would draw from the industrial classes $60,000,000 or more per an- num as interest, because if this currency were issued the banks would have to deposit that much in bonds with the Treasury, on which they would draw $30,000,000 from the Government, and then they would loan the currency for as much more.” . First. I would say from positive knowledge, that the money lenders and bond holders are not unanimously in favor of retiring the greenbacks and issuing more national‘ currency. On the contrary, many of them, and I think, a large majority of the people above referred to, are strenu- ously opposed to reducing the greenbacks below such a point as will place them at par with gold. As to‘ the proposition to increase the currency one billion dollars, I believe that if our currency, or demand obligations, whether issued by Government or national banks, should be increased to that \ ﬁgure they would not be worth the paper they were printed 0111. It is generally conceded by the best ﬁnanciers in the country that the national banks have already more currency than they can proﬁtably, and at the same time safely, ﬂoat; as an evidence of this fact, an examination of the report of the Comptroller of the Currency for the year 1875, shows that during the last year a great many national banks, from all parts of the country, have voluntarily thrown up their charters, sold their bonds and retired their currency, be- cause there was no longer any proﬁt in keeping the same. Within the last Week one of the strongest banks in this city, at a meeting of their directors, unanimously resolved to withdraw from circulation one-half of their entire issue, and the probabilities are that the balance will be taken in within the coming year. Second. If the national bank circulation should be in- creased, wo are told that the taxes would also be increased, because the banks would have to deposit the same amount of bonds with the Government, on which they would draw in- terest. The fallacy of this kind of reasoning becomes apparent when we consider the fact that these Government bonds were not created for the especial accommodation of the na- tional banks, or for any other holder of the same, but, like all other evidences of indebtedness, they were given for the beneﬁt of the debtor. During the war this Government got out of money; the people,” including «most all capitalists banks and bankers and particularly savings banks, who held largely the savings of the poor, came forward and loaned to the United States Government, taking in exchange the Gov- ernment promises to pay at a ﬁxed time (or at the pleasure- of the debtor at any time before maturity), and at a ﬁxed rate of interest, mostly payable in coin. From time to time ‘ many of these promises, or Government bonds, have changed hands and have been sold in the open market, as the people could agree, like all other evidences of debt. When the national banks went into operation, like other investors, their managers went into the open market and bought their bonds at theirpmarket value, and deposited them with the Treasury as collateral security to their circu- lation. A The Government is justly indebted to the holder of its bonds for their face value and the interest as it becomes due, consequently it is immaterial whether such interest be paid to banker, broker, or private individual. It the national banks derive a bBl.lE3_f_li3 from the Govern- ment for their charter, or circulation, we should remember that they pay back to the Government and to the people in extra taxes fully as much as such beneﬁts are worth, and many of our best and most practical ﬁnanciers think a great deal more, otherwise they would not surrender their national bank charters and reorganize into State banks, as -they are doing all over the country. The third and last proposition which I shall now consider is, “ Let the manufacturers exert . their inﬂuence with Congress to have the national bank act repealed, and the Government to issue greenbacks enough to pay oﬂ the bonded debt and stop the immense interest.” Before issuing the two billions of greenbacks necessary to pay oif the bonded debt, let us stop to inquire what are green- backs ? « Strictly speaking, greenbacks are paper evidences of in- debtedness, which the United States Government has forced the people within the limits of said Government to accept at par in payment of all debts (except duties on imports and interest on the public de_bt), contracted prior to the issue of such greenbacks. Although they have been and are still received as a iegal tender, yet they have never passed for a single day at par, except in the paymentof debts contracted before they were issued. All subsequent contracts have been made upon a basis of the specie value of greonbacks. During the late war we have seen gold quoted at a pre- mium varying from one per cent. to nearly three hundred per cent. But this is not true. Gold has remained compara- tively stationary, having fluctuated less than any other known commodity; and for this very reason gold has been selected by all nations of the globe as a standard measure of values or medium of exchange. Greenbacks have ﬁuctuated in value during the last twelve years all the way from ninety-one cents down to thirty-ﬁve cents on the dollar; hence, to attempt to measure values with greenbacks, with out having a ﬁxed price for the greenbacks in gold or some other commodity which the world recognizes, is as uncertain as to attempt to measure land or cloth with a rubber string- It is a fact acknowledged by the world, that the present dis- count on our greenbacks is because the United States Gov- ernment is at present unable to redeem them at par in gold. By comparing the average‘ price of greenbacks in gold with the volume of such greenbacks in circulation during the last twelve years, we ﬁnd that an increase of the same has always caused them to be worthless on the dollar, while a decrease of the greenbacks has always enhanced their value. To pay off the present bonded indebtedness of the United States in greenbacks, is simply to ask the present holdersof said bonds, both at home and abroad, to surrender a Govern- ment promise to pay at a particular time a speciﬁed sum of money (not paper), with interest, at a speciﬁed rate per cent. 7 payable semi-annually in gold, for a paper promise to pay in paper at no particular time. and without interest, redeema- ble only in paper promises to pay. Really, is this anything more or less than simply repudia- tion? J. W. T. SYRACUSE, Feb. 2:2, 1876. ‘ BITS OF FUN. “COURTSHIP is bliss,” said an ardent young man. “Yes, and matrimony is blister,,’ snarled an old bachelor. SOME people think Tweed is still in the city. We think he’s still wherever he is.--Commercial Advertiser. Ir is said‘ that some people have what is called “spon- taneity,” and some haven’t; bub n0b0dV ever sat down on a pincushion yet without manifesting something surprisingly like it.—Brook:lyn Argus. A Sr. LOUIS dentist has mysteriously disappeared. He probably lost his balance and fell in while ﬁxing some St, Louis girl’s teeth.—Chz'cago Times. . A DARKEY who was stooping to wash his hands in a creek, didn’t notice the peculiar actions of a goat just behind him, so when he scrambled out of the water and was asked how it happened, he answered, “ I dunno ’zactly; butdpeared ag gf de shore kinder h’isted and frowed me.” PIoUs old party—-“And now, Mrs. Stubbins, I’ve one im- portant question to ask. Does not Satan ofttimes tell you that you are not a Christian?” Mrs. Stubbins——“ Yes, ’ee do so.” P. O. P.——“And what say you to him on these occa- sions?” Mrs. S.—-—“ W611, 1 8337. Whether I be or no, it can't possibly be none of his business.”—-—Lo‘ndon Fun “IT is not our fault,” says a Milwaukee editor, “that we are red—headed and small, and the next time that one of those overgrown rural roosters in a ball-room reaches down for our head and suggests that some fellow has lost a rose- bud out of his buttonhole, there will be trouble.” BUNNELL, of the Danville Advertiser, has been compelled to abandon his type-writer and return to the goose quill and lead pencil. His ideas—the scintillations of genius, so to speak—ﬂowed so rapidly through the type-writer that they set the machine on ﬁre; and the insurance men threatened to treble his rates if he didn’t stop using it.—-Lyons, (N, 17,) Republican. I “ BENJAMIN,” shouted Mrs. Toodles to her husband, who was going out at the gate, “ bring me up ﬁve cents worth of snuff when you come.” “ Snuff, Mrs. Toodles, snuff?” he ejaculated, as he paused with his hand on the latch; “No, no, Mrs. Toodles, the times are too hard to admit of such ex- travagance; you must tickle your nose with a straw when you want to sneeze.——Fulton Times. ' SCENE in’ a Green Bay, ‘Wisconsin, police court, Justice Westman presiding. Several gamblers were under examina- tion, and one Of the Witnesses was questioned about what he knew of gambling in the saloons in town. Yes, he had seen gambling going on in most of them. “ Well, one for in- stance ?" “I. have seen‘ men gambling in the Old York Saloon.” “ “What were the stakes?” “ They were a horse on one side and money on the other.” “Well, which won?” I “J udge.Westman won the horse.” Peremptory command from the bench——.“-'l.‘here, that will do; this examination is reaching into too wide a range altogethcﬂ’. . ' WOODHULL s CLAFLIWN’S‘WEEKLY.. 3 EDITORIAL’ NOTICES. WE have received from Mrs. L. M. Heath a prospectus of the “Potomac Co—operative Colony and Medical University,” to be located at Free Stone Heights, Prince William County, Va., but too late for extended notice in this number. We can say merely now that it is a grand enterprise. A CONVENTION of the New England Free Love League will be held in Boston, March 26th and 27th. Truly YOUTS. <_E. H. HEYWOOD. 2 THE Spiritualists of Rockford have lately organized (for lectures, etc., each Sunday) onafree platform. Our cause seems to be in a very prosperous condition. Our lectures are attended by crowds of the most intelligent and thinking people in the city, and our last Convention was the best our. Society has had in Northern Illinois since it was organized. Not one word was uttered during the whole Convention‘ against a free platform. They nearly all admit that the question of most interest to humanity is the Social Question. Lecturers desiring engagements can address either COL. E. SMITH, A. H. FISHER, or FRED. H. BARNARD, the Committee appointed to provide speakers for next six months. .._.____. A THE INDIANAPOLIS SUN.——The leading independent reform weekly political newspaper in the Union, the special advocate of national legal tender paper money (thegreenback system) as against bank issues on the gold basis fallacy, and the-inter cliangeable currency bond as against the high gold interest bond. The Sun.has‘a»corps of able corresipndents, the most eminent political economists of _the age, One page , devoted entirely to agriculture. Miscellany of the choicest selection, adapted to all classes of readers. The latest general news and market reports. Terms, $1.75 per year, postpaid Sample copies and terms to agents sent free on appcatiou Address Indi~anapolis'S1.mCompany. Indianapolis, Ind. comprisin- __.__.._._. m.Ed'£t0'rs Weekly-Please ‘announce that I will send copies of the report of the mass meeting at Cooper Institute, contain- ing the addresses, resolutions, etc., in full to any friends in any part of the country who desire to learn our views on labor and ﬁnance, and who will send for them to W. A. A Oarsey, 402 West Fifty-first street, New York City. A INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AND CO—OPERATIVE . I ‘ COLON Y’ Having our plans fully perfected, location selected, and one of the most beautiful and attractive sites secured,—on which to establish a thoroughly practical school, and operative colony of advanced and progressive associates-— we would announce to all who are desirous of co-operating with us in such an enterprise, that we will send them a cir- cular containing full information, in regard to plan, terms, etc., if they will send us name, post and a postage stamp. - a 00;" MRS. L. M. HEATH, ' West Newton, Pa. ALL persons suﬁ’ering from the Asthma, should send for Dr. R. P. Fellows’ Great Indian Asthma Remedy. Mrs. Ellen Dickinson, of Vineland N. J. speaks of it in these terms. “I have suffered with the Asthma, for thirty years during which time Ihave tried all known remedies to no purpose, but now after resorting to Dr. Fellows’ Asthma Remedy, I am perfectly relieved.” Sent to any part of the globe on receipt. of $1 per package. Address Vineland, N. J , I SPIRITUAL CHURCH or THE Goon SAMARITANS, ing the J esus Christ principles as their foundation, at’ the hall in the rear of Charter Oak Hall, San Cal., Sundays at 11, 2:30, 7 P. M. cey Barnes and others. I recogniz- will meet Francisco, Services by Rev. Dr. Chaun- Loxs WAISBROOKER can be addressed till fur Room 22, Western Hotel, Sacramento, Cal. ‘ Friends visiting the city are invited to call. ceive subscriptions for the WEEKLY, ther notice, She will re- THE Northern Illinois Association of S its 15th quarterly meeting in Grow’s Op Madison street, Chicago, Ill., beginnin 10th, 1876, and ending Sunday evening the 12th--a three days’ meeting. Eminent speakers, singers, and test mediums are engaged, among whom are Susey M. Johnson, Dr. Juliet I-I. Severance, Capt. H. H. Brown, and others. Let the Spiritualists of the Northwest turn out and make the Second Grand Centennial Meeting of 1876 a success. Our platform is free, on which all subjects germain to humanity may be discussed with due regard to the use of language. ' O. J. HOWARD, President. E. V. WILsoN, Secretary. piritualists will hold era House, 517 West g On Friday, March ' LOMBARD, Ill., Feb. 10, 1876. WARREN CHASE lectures in Rockford, Ill 22, 23 and 24, or may be addressed ac spend April and May in Ohio. IF Mr. A. Gusley, late of Philadelphia, will address Prof. G-- Vaughan. P05“ ‘Wee. Philadelphia, he will ﬁnd an ear- nest friend. ' ., March 19‘, 21 °0Td,§Hg1Y- He will THOMAS COOK will lecture in Michigan and Ohio from March 15 to April 15. Where public halls are not to be had he gives parlor conversations. He would like more calls in both these States, or Northern Indiana. Let all who woiilidi like to meet and.converse with him upon the subject of “ New Departure,” address him immediately at No, 578 13/g»,1},..,_ ' waukee avenue, Chicago, Illinois. location, ’ —ofﬁce address, WO0i3‘HUi.I.‘_;'& CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY 1 Mar. 18, 1876. TERMS Oli SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. One copy for one year, . 33 00 one copy for six months, - - - ~ - . y 1 50 Single copies, - - . . . . .19 CLUB RATES. 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Oﬁlce.111 Nassau Street, Room 9. death.—Jesus. ﬁg him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the hi en manna.-—-St. John the Divine. ’ That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life- time subject to bondage.——Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hy- pocrisy.———James, iii., 17. And these signs shall follow them: In my ‘name shall they cast out devils; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.—Jesus. 0 x 1 1 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAR. 18, 1876. g . r WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the ﬁrst series of Bible Articles consisting of ﬁfteen num- bers of the WEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. Our friends should lose no opportunity to bring these articles to the attention of those whom they can interest. A careful study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand- s _ ing of the great and all-important truth that is yet to be re- vealed; which must be carefully and judiciously brought be- fore the world, as the sun comes upon it, bringing ﬁrst the break-of-day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian splendor. THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; on, THE SIX-POINTED smn IN run EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship him.——S'r. MATTHEW, ii., 2. g:2.'”r-rv"_ . . 5 3 ; \/7 / This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the’WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and ‘the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced, but w/hich,.deﬁned in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work FRADULENT MATERIALIZATIONS. We have a dozen or more articles which have been received from time to time since the phenomena of materializations began to occur, which are called expositions of mediumistic frauds. We have never published any of them, although some of them bear the signatures of highly respected and wholly responsible people; people who would not bear false witness, and who, with all, are deeply interested in Spiritual manifestations, and would have been glad to have given their testimony upon the opposite side in these mat- ters. We have refrained from taking any position which might be called one of warfare against any class of mediums, knowing too well what are the inﬂuences under which all mediums, necessarily, may be brought; for, to be a medium, in the popular sense, especially to be a public medium for tests, presupposes a variety of influences and conditions, against which the individuality of mediums, let it be as strongly honest as it may, cannot always stand. It is not necessary to go into detail to show what may be the inducements to produce manifestations, where they do not come otherwise. They will suggest themselves to every Spiritualist, and probably have done so to all of any depth of mind at all, or of any considerable breadth of under-. standing and observation. If there is a class of people en- titledto the enlightened consideration of considerate people, that class is the so-called mediums. We have always re- cognized this, and have never, in any way, pursued so- called frauds. But while we have not done this, when it was evident that frauds lrad been perpetrated, neither have we attempted to build up;_or uphold them, as has been true of some Spiritualists and their journals. Our personal experience ‘ among mediums, especially those claiming Amaterializing power, has not been small. It is true that we have never been to Moravia or to the “Eddys;” but our experiences outside of them have been uniformly of one kind, and that not favorable for the reality of the manifestations. We have not hesitated to affirm constantly, and we have so stated editorially, that a fully materialized spirit is as yet an impossibility, because the conditions in which it is possible to fully materialize do not yet exist. Materializations are produced by natural means, under the guidance of law, and we have been shown what that law is. We do not deny that there have been partial materializations, say of the hand, face or arm; but we must confess that we have never seen them occur in the presence of mediums for so-called materializations, although we have been frequently invited to see them. We are sorry to say it, but our regard for the truth compels us to do so, that, if we have any spirit sight at all, all the manifestations called materializations, that we havefwitnessed were not what they purported to be. We have been led to refer to this matter at the present time by a communication which we published last week, signed by Mr. Cadwallader etal. We know Mr. Cadwallader to be an honest, conscientious man; one who is an earnest seeker after truth, and who would not lend himself to anything of this kind if he were _not thoroughly satisﬁed that he is right; and neither he nor those with whom his name appears, was at Terre Haute to expose Mrs. Stewart. They were there at great expense to themselves to obtain satisfactory evidence that materializations are a fact. And their observations were conducted as friends to the medium and not as “exposers” of frauds. But for our reason for saying now what, we do, and for departing from our usual practice regarding mediums. We were once present at a seance where this same Mrs. Stewart (or at least‘, we suppose her to be the same, the one to whom we refer being the Mrs. Stewart for whom Mr. Pence, of Terre Haute, had for some time vouched, by an offer of $1,000 to any one who would demonstrate that her material- izations were fraudulent) was completely‘ exposed, and where she admitted to the assemblage that her manifesta- tions were fraudulent. We have been appealed to by several who were present at that time to make the facts public, but, for the reason before given, we have never felt like doing so until now. This scene occurred during the sessions of the Convention in Chicago in September, 1873. The room in which Mrs. Stewart was holding -;_ her seances was in the same block of buildings in which G1'ow’s Opera House is located. Those who were managing the seance urged us to attend and superintend the preparations. We objected and said that they would be sorry if they pressed us; that we had no wish to interfere with their arrangements, but if they insisted, we would do as they wished. There were some forty per- sons present, many of them well-known names in Spirit- ualistic circles, and some from Terre Haute, where Mrs. Stewart is staying, contrary to her promise at that time,_ carrying on her trade. It is not necessary to go into the details, but, suffice it to say that the seance ended as stated above, with a complete exposition of its fraudulent char- acter, and the production to the astonished gaze of all present of all the paraphanalia with which she had pro- duced several_diﬁ'erent spirit forms, who were recognized bysome of those present astheir friends from the spirit world. If we remember correctly, no form was produced but what was required by some one as a spirit ‘;friend or relation. When the fraud had proceeded sufficiently to make it palpable to all present, the cabinet was upset and the medium seen plainly personating the last spirit with all the mechanical appliances that was necessary upon her; and all those that had been recognized to produce the pre- ceding spirits also about her. She acknowledged the fraud and promised faithfully that she would never practice deception again. Mr. Pence and the other Terre Haute P9°P1e,Who are keeping her to humbug the public and in- ducing people to go to the expense of a long journey to pay her money for what, we have no doubt, are the same mani- festations that she presented in Chicago, are the responsible Parties in this business now, because knowing what occurred at Chicago, it will hardly be good logic for them to say that, While the Chicago manifestations were fraudulent, those which she produces now are genuine. In the present state of this case we do not see how those Spiritualists from Terre Haute who were present and saw the exposition at Chicago can any longer be parties to this fraud, which by their silence they become; nor how they can stand by and see the promise Mrs. Stewart made them at Chicago, daily broken. ‘ [Just as we are going to press a letter is received from one of “ the three,” who now vouch for and defend Mrs. Stewart, who was at the Chicago ercpose. This letter ac- knowledges that that was a fraud. We take this OPPO1" tunity to say that we cannot be intimidated from speaking on a matter in which we have at last felt it to be a duty to speak. Having received this letter, we shall have more to say about this questionable business next week, since they have felt it to be necessary to resort to such means to seal our lips. In the meantime, will these who were present- at Chicago, under whose notice this may fall, please corn- municate with us] D--4 .—>——4 EDITORIALLY PERSONAL. VVc are obliged this week, to goto press without our usual editorial matter. The editor—in-chief, still absent in Texas, though lecturing only occasionally, has failed to send any- thing; or, if she has not, it has failed to arrive. The managing editor has been temporarily disabled from duty by a surgical operationfor an old injury received while in the army, which could not be longer neglected with impunity. He will probably be at his post in time for next week’s issue. A new series of Bible exigeses, more searching and approach- ing nearer to the vital points than anything /previously given, will be begun in the next paper, which will also con- tain reviews of several articles in the present number. ——-———————>—4Q>——<——————- LIFE-SIZE LITHO GRAPH. ._._.. We are now prepared to ﬁll all orders for life-size litho- graphs of Victoria C. Woodhull, from the lithographic establishment of Armstrong & Co., of Boston, Mass. They are splendid pictures, both as a work of art and as like- nesses. They are printed on heavy paper 20 X24 inches, and specially adapted for framing. They will -be sent post- paid, securely wrapped to guard against damage, to any address for 50 cents. The common price of lithographs of this size is $2 ; but we have arranged with the publisher to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they can be resold at the price named without loss to us. They are thus put within the means and reach of everybody who desires to have a splendid life-size portrait of the Editor-in- Chief of the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to the inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which misery, vice and crime shall have no place. In reply to many letters asking for " dealer’s terms” we would say that the lithographs may be ordered by express by the half dozen, dozen, or more at 40 cents, the usual price, less the postage. In explanation of the delay that has occurred in sending lithographs we would say that the third edition has been delayed, but will be received within a day or two, when all orders will be ﬁlled.—[MANAGING EDITOR]. 4‘ 4 7 iv’ . THE GARDEN OF EDEN. The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but we have prepared a pamphlet edition, which, to meet the extraordinary demand that has been made for the paper, we will furnish in lots of ten at $1; or more at sarnerate. THE SPIRITUALIST AT WORK. No. 13 of Vol. II of E. V. Wilson’s paper is on our table. He has experienced the same. difﬁculty that all new papers in reform encounter. He tells frankly what his difficulty is: llfant of a sufficient number of prompt paying subscribers. The Spiritualist at Work is a good paper; a, much better and we should be sorry to have it fail for want of support. Besides it is getting to be something more than a Spiritualist at work, after the style of those who declare the social re- lations not germane to Spiritualism, as will be seen by the following declaration of faith which we copy from the last number: We believe in monogamy, or marriage, but hold that mar- riage grants no rights to one contracting party not shared by the other. The husband has no right whatever to coerce sex- ual relations with his wife, under the marriage contract. The relation between-husband and wife must be governed by love, not lust, and whenever a woman holds sexual relations with her husband against her wish, will and desire, she is guilty of adultery, and whenever a man consooiates with his wife paper now than it was when it ﬁrst made its appearance, . r)\ U .““)1’\_ m! U Mar. 18, 1876. WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. 5 against her will, or coerces her into sexual relations, he should be tried for rape by the laws of the land. The true marriage, the true family compact, must rest on the law of love. Children begotten outside of this law are unnatural results, and in violation of law. Our motto, one woman and one man, under contract to live ' sacredly for each other. All of their acts governed by and through love, and any condition outside of this is irregular and oﬁensive to good society, to law, love and order. Men and women, under these conditions, will not have a wife in one place, a mistress in another, and aﬁinities in every town they may happen to be. Let us have a. true marriage under law, founded on love, and then there will be no need of divorce courts. We hope that Mr. Wilson may sometime see that, where there is law without love, lust is the legitimate result. If love should be the dominant quality in marriage, then law should be made dependent upon love; but the present law andlpractice is precisely the reverse of this, and gives the husband the legal right to assault the wife, and there is no law of which she can take advantage to defend herself. The Spiritualists of the great Northwest should see that the Spirizzoalist at Work does not faint by the way. POST OFFICE REFORMS. / T0 the Editors of the Weelcly :- I , Permit me to call the attention of your readers to a letter on the above subject, copied from the Bayside Ifomet. It -contains an endorsement of the position taken by the WEEKLY, and will form a prelude to further reﬂections I propose to make on the subject. It is as follows: “I am a poor man, and have little time to spare for literary pursuits. I purchase the few periodicals I read at news stores, and receive none through the public mail. Sometimes, how- ever, I send letters through the post, and Uncle Sam carries them for me, charging me, for such service, three cents per half ounce. I understand that he distributes vast quantities of matter in printed form, issued weekly or oftener, by petted publishers and newspaper proprietors, at two cents per pound, while, for my letters, he demands ninety—six cents, or thirty- two times more from me than from them for a similar service. This may seem just to my servants at Washington, but, from my standpoint, it has a very different aspect, therefore I feel justiﬁed in writing this letter complaining of governmental partiality in the case above mentioned. For the life of me I cannot perceive why I, and thousands, if not millions of poor men like myself, should be assessed for the beneﬁt of rich publishers; neither can I admit the immoral claim of Congress to make invidious distinctions in the mail service between rich and poor American citizens. and to tax the latter for the beneﬁt of the former. For my- self, I never pass a large publishing house but I mentally calculate how many of the bricks of which it is built have been paid for by the proceeds of the governmental robbery practiced upon me. And, while I censure Congress for such wrong doing, I also deplore the meanness of the wealthy knaves who are willing to accept the results of such legisla- tivepilferings, and who do not feel called on by their honor to repel the proffered favor with contempt and scorn. For surely it would be more excusable for publishers to solicit aims in the public streets of our cities (for What they would then obtain from the poor would be gratuitously given) than to revel, as many of them now do, in luxuries obtained by such high-handed legal robbery. . Of course, I shall be set down by unthinking people as an “ignoramus” for writing this letter. Such will say, “Why, the man wants to stop the spread of enlightenment among us;” but I dispute the truth of such statement. I assert, on the contrary, that now most of our daily papers are engaged in spreading crime among us, and that their columns are now largely monopolized by the doings of the idle, vicious and criminal classes. As to the fancy periodicals, I fail to per- ceive in them any improvement on the light literature of the past, and do not hesitate to declare that most of their tales of ﬁction tend more to the derangement and demoralization of society than its improvement. v I admit that, at rare intervals, such papers publish praiseworthy articles, butI claim that their general drift is evil, and that their instructions mainly tend to generate vice and crime among our people. But, were they all new translations of the Bible instead of ne wspapers. the excellence of their contents would form no ground of justiﬁcation for my oppression, nor sanction the tyrannical action of Congress in robbing me for the purpose of sending other peopie’s goods at my expense through the public mails. I repeat, at my expense, because it. is manifest that my res- pected relative, Uncle Sam, ﬁnding the carrying of goods for publishers at two cents apound a proﬁtless business, taxes me three thousand one hundred per cent. more than he does them, in order to make up the deﬁcit in his exchequer. This I object to as being reprehensibleboth in its economical and moral aspects. while politically it is unworthy of longer toleiation in our Republic. Yours respectfully, , PETER POSITIVE.” I confess I like the directness of Peter's argument, and can ﬁnd no inaccuracy in his reasonings. This being so, I propose to enforce the position he has taken. Out of the primal in- justice practiced by Congress in making the discrimination complained of, has sprung of late the system of postal espionage, instituted by Congress, and committed by it to the charge of agents of the Y. M. C. A. alias the modern American Inquisition. By such means the proprietors of the WEEKLY have been cruelly, and according to the decision of U. S. Judge Blatchford, illegally deprived of their liberty and foully wronged and persecuted in mind, body and estate. By a similar intrigue, utterly unworthy of the dignity of law, Mr. Lant has since then been arrested, and is now suf- fering in prison. It is no wonder that thoughtful editors who respect the liberty of the press and the freedom of the public mind, are complaining of the high-handed tyranny -thus exhibited, and that many are speculating as to who is to be-the next victim our modern Torquemadas will select to put to the torture. B Of course these evils have arisen out of the injustice com- plained of by Peter, viz., the discrimination made by Con- gress "in the prices for carrying certain kinds of matter through the public mails.‘ This necessitated inspection, and on that inspection has been grafted the meanest system of postal espionage the world has ever witnessed. The true way -to annihilate it is to destroy the system which gave it birth, and Peter Positive has exposed the viilainy of the latter so thoroughly that no words of mine are needed to en- force that part of the subject of postal reform. But there is another view to be taken of the matter. About thirty years ago the penny postal system was introduced in Great Britain by Rowland Hill. That great reform has since been accepted and instituted by many-civilized nations, and has done more to secure the stability of the government of that nation than ﬁfty Waterloos. Congress has it in its power to add to the uniformity then established, the further and grander reform of uniformity of price for all mailed mat- ter. Monarchicai England did well in advancing as far as it did;_ it is a country of castes, and could not be expected to repudiate classiﬁcations entirely in its postal arrangements. But all the reasons which have well proved the correctness of the calculations of Rowland Hill can be cited in favor of the further reform here demanded. Added to these it is our duty to remember that we are a Republic, and that the ad- mission of the idea of classiﬁcation among us was an error, and that its continuation, after our experience, ought now only to be regarded as a crime. That the oppressed and over- charged_ citizens among us are mainly the poor and the un- learned only aggravates the offence Congress has committed against justice, for such among us especially need the defence of the laws, and would and will ever obtain. protection from all our honest legislators. A R. W. HUME. SAVE THE REPUBLIC. Nineteen centuries ago a young Jewish mechanic, ignorant, humble and lowly, yet meditative, sympathetic and earnest withal, crazed at the sight of his native land. beneath the Roman heel, maddened by the arrogance of wealth, the power of mammon, the sickly pallor of virtue’s check, the death of patriotism, the birth of book-religion, the greed and tyranny of the priesthood, the rabies of the politician for plunder, the degradation of woman, the elevation of bad men to high places, the wine-bibbing, the gluttony, the simony, the sodomy, the putrid Lazarus and the perfumed Dives, broke out into that terriﬁc denunciation: Woe unto you, scribes, pharisees. hypocrites, blasphemers, fanatics, money« changers, adulterers, evil-workers, worshippers of Mammon, woe unto you, your hour has come! Better were it for you that mill-stoneshad been slung. about your necks and ye cast into the sea! Your hour has come! Ye shall cumber the earth no more. Alas, it was too late. The lightning oi his breath fell on gangrene; there was no searing it into life. There was but one answer to his arguments, that they gave him—-death. ‘ Mark the result! Out of the womb of that event has sprung that monster, ecclesiasticism, which, with claws of iron and nails of steel, has fastened itself upon the white throat of fair humanity. See what ﬂowed forth when that spear was withdrawn! The simple Words of peace and love that this young teacher murmured in the ears of his friends on the hillocks, under the trees, beneath the clear sky, have been perverted, twisted, distorted into the mysterious jargon of litany and introit, credo and doxology, sacrament and ac- tual presence. In the name of this earnest, simple—minded Hebrew youth, who cursed the gorgeous temple, cursed the priesthood, cursed the prayer—monger, cursed the devotee, cursed the pomp of Caesar and the power of Rome, in the name of this lowly shepherd, thisipeasant-preacher, this gentle enthusiast,‘ the world, led on by priest and demagogue, has reared tem- ples of marble and gold, with painted windows and mosaic , ﬂoors, built lofty altars, gorgeous with embroidery and golden fringe, laden with wine cups and images, perfumed with cen- ser-smoke, and lighted with a thousand tapers! Ay, the ’ world has stripped the sanctuaries of Jove and Apollo of their ﬂowing robes, their stoles, their palliums, their scarlet skirts and {purple vestments to wear them in the lowly He- brew’s name! Aye, more, has robbed the heathen temple of its tripod, censer, pix and altar-steps, its consecrated oil and cakes, to daze the eyes of earth’s weak sons and mesh them ere the spell be broken. All, all, in his name! Alas, poor, lowly humble shepherd, thy pastoral is lost for- ever! But thou,:Rome, joy and curse of the world, shalt drain the cup to its bitterest dregs, for “Peter, get thee be- hind me, Satan, thou art an offence unto me i” * * * And now. citizen of the Republic, take Freedom’s encyclo- pedia, and turn to its ﬁrstietters. Ah. 0, that stands for concord! Bend your head, for we are on holy ground now! Hark! Did you not hear those musket-shots ? There, listen ! Did you not hear that cry: “Liberty or Death !” Look, eight of them stagger, reel and fall dead! Who are they? Patriots, citizen, patriots! Their names,.citizen politician? Go cleanse your month before you speak their ‘names, for you swore falsely this morning to save a few dollars taxes. Your lips are not clean enough to pronounce their names. Aye, citizen- politician, there were patriots in those days. Not honest and pure as the world goes, but as the world ought to go, and did go, then. They were.men who loved their country, not be- cause they held office or had contracts, but because they were the ﬂlowers on Freedom’s heather and had their roots struck deep in the sacred soil. They were true patriots, pure in their families, pure in their townships, pure in their legis- latures, ready, willing, happy to face death for freedom’s sake, even as the politicians now face the penetentiary for mammon’s sake. But mark the-change. The patriots are dead; the politicians live. Corruption, greed and fraud stalk about in our midst. Men begin the week with credo prayer and commandment, and end it with peculation, embezzlement and defaulting. Save the Republic! Churchism and politics are the two ,mill-stones, between which , it is about to fall. The government is by the ‘worst. Character , and intelligence go for naught. Public morality is tuberculous, its breath is fetid. The poor clerk, the starve- ling employe, the white-lipped sewing girl, give of their very marrow to grease the chariot wheels of ‘their masters. The church’s maw, ostrich-like, knows no diﬁerence between pure and impure givers, when the gift is large enough to gorge it. It can digest and grow fat on the conscience-money of the public plunderer. The_churches and politicians go hand in hand . They dare not rebuke the rum—seller, as they dared not rebuke the slave-holder. They dare not fulminate I against the brothel and gambling-hell, lest the bolt fall upon the heads of communicants and voters. The “ mother church,” ogress—iike, devours her own children. The “ ring and caucus.” in the name of freedom,rob the citizen of his dearest rights. Babylonian mystery lets the body rot, while it mutters abracadabra for the safety of the soul! Thus these two manifestations of emotional power, to wit: the cry of outraged, humanity that fell from the lips of the young Hebrew, on the one hand, and the soft, sweet adieux of far- mers and merchants to their wives and children, as they stepped from their door-siiis—to die ;—-thus, I say, these two gigatfticthrobs of humanity’s great‘ heart, that should have set the world in a ﬂow of light and liberty, have shrouded it in doubt and gloom, plunged it into the lethargic dream of a senseless hereafter, and debauched the purity of the town- ship meeting-house and common school. ,Men read their prayers from books. Churchism is triumphant. Money, not morals, is the badge of honor within these beautiful temples where song and musicjdelight the ear, and gaud and tinsel feast the eye; where the priest stands upon the altar-steps and needs but the ﬁllet about his brow to cry out: “Hail, Jove, king of gods and men!” I The caucus has throttled the township . To avow love for one’s country is to be jeered at. Putridity imagines putrid- ity. Men sell their votes and—-live. Save the Republic! Women, earnest and industrious workers, are robbed by the tax-gatherer, defrauded by their employers, wronged by the State, thrust out by those “with sin.” Churchism, non- producing, inert, sponge-like, cephalopod, absorbent. is fed by the State, nurtured on public funds. God is an expense to the orphan and widow. They pay toll on a road that the young Hebrew meant shouldibe free. The priest declares that God dislikes “ black skins,” and forthwith the “ colored an” takes a back seat in the temple, and waits for the “second table” on communion days! Rum and politics both smell alike. The gambling—hell, brothel and police- station are a trinity—-three in one. Save the Republic! The press follows the rabble, as the dog his master, by the smell of-his feet. “One line, ﬁrst page, $2 50;” “second page, $1 50.” Journalism has become “impersonal,” for the writers are owned by corporations. The scholar parts with his glorious “ ego,” and wears the slave-garb of “ we,” to serve his master in. Men of intellect and reﬁnement slaver over the man gy, dirty oretins—ruling spirits of the caucus, ward and bar- room-and though they sicken when the drivel cools, yet must genius befoul itself to live. Men and women sneer at the sacred oﬁice of “ school teacher.” Butter, cheese, oil and pork ennoble those who handle them, while the avocation of preceptor shuts out the incumbent from Dives’ villa. Save the Republic 1» Bank notes, hair dye and diamonds elevate to the gentry. There is nothing genuine save vulgarity; there is nothing unadulterated save ignorance. All is "tinsel, veneer and stucco. Five dollars buys an escutcheon that cost ﬁve cen- turies of virtue, bravery and honor! Save the Republic! * * _ .A .4: %'w#* MRS. VVOODHULLIN THE FIELD. COMMENTS on THE rnnss. (From the Daily Picayune, N. 0., Feb. 21, 1876.) V THE SOCIAL PROBLEM. Last night Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull made her ﬁrst ap- pearance before a New Orleans audience at St. Patrick’s Hall. Owing to a ﬁre which had occurred across the street, and the impediment offered to traveling for some time, the. audience was not as large as it would otherwise doubtless have been. Notwithstanding this, there must have been some ﬁfteen hundred persons present, about two hundred of whom were ladies-young, middle-aged and old. It was a decidedly intellectual aadience, and the professions, partic- ularly, were all generously represented. At 8:15 Mrs. Woodhull stepped upon the platform, and her appearance was the signal for a unanimous burst of applause’ She was arrayed in a handsome brown silk dress, with a trail, which lent a certain grace to a naturally easy and digniﬁed demeanor. , T After a few words of an introductory character, she gave out the text of her discourse. Text from I. Corinthians, iii. chapter, 16th and 17th verses; “ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you. “ If any man deﬁle the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” Her voice was of that clear, musical, ringing sort, born of native power and high cultivation; but it was evident from the ﬁrst that it could not ﬁll the compass of the vast hall. In her lecture she ﬁrst treated of the ethnical constitution of Americans, and the result to ensue from the merging of many nationalities into one. She then proceeded to elabo- rate upon those themes of social interest developed in her interview with the 1-‘icctyune reporter on last Wednesday, ﬁrst stating her opinion of the world and its practices at the present day, then treating of the duties of parents toward their children, the conditions on which marriage should be contracted, wherein she would exact’ an equal amount of purity from both the contracting parties, and closing‘ with an explanation of a personal nature. “ Her speech was very rapid, but distinct, and every word was well rounded and articulated. Her gestures were few and easy, and her face would betimes light up with that 1 6 "V . iwoonnutt. & GLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Mar. 18, 1876. ﬁery energy which sparkled in her eyes. The interruptions were few, for the audience paid rapt attention throughout, and only at times would they break out into applause, which, when they did, was unanimous and “long drawn out.” . , At 9:30 Mrs. Woodhull retired from the platform laden with offerings of ﬂowers, and amid a general expression of enthusiasm. (Frbm the N ew Orleans Republican, Feb. 21,1876.) MRS. wooDHULL’s LECTURE. This lady has succeeded in attracting a good deal of interest in the minds of all classes of thinking citizens. Aside from the novelty of seeing a woman on the rostrum, or appearing before a New Orleans public as the champion of an idea, or the witness of great truths, there is a sort of magnetic charm in the perfectly easy manners, the earnestness bordering on enthusiasm, and the great self-possession of the remarkable lady who ﬁlls the public eye for the moment. The truths which Mrs. Woodhull illustrates are as old as the garden of Eden. She holds up amirror in which very many of the poor struggling integers of humanity see anything but compli- mentary reﬁections of themselves. We may admit her facts to be true, and address ourselves to the inquiry, is her pro- posed remedy—the intelligence of women——adequate for the great evil. And, to pursue it further, is the high condition of intelligence which she demands for all the mothers in Amer- ica, for the whole world, in fact, feasible, or even possible? None who heard her on Sunday night, at St. Patrick’s Hall, can doubt she is thoroughly 3. good, womanly woman, with a heart full of love for her species, and a most intelligent ap- preciation of everything that is beautiful in human love and in the true religion of the heart. She speaks with great ﬂuency and apparently with case. It is next to impossible for a skillful stenographer to keep up with her, though the gist of her remarks is easy to retain in the memory. (From the N ew Orleans Bulletin, Feb. 22, 1876.) Notwithstanding the fact that a ﬁre occurred opposite St. Patrick's Hall, Sunday night, just before the hour adver- tised for the opening of Mrs. VVoodhull’s lecture, a large and respectable audience attended to listen to the progressive views e: that lady. Not only gentlemen attended, but the fair sex was well represented, fully one-fourth of the crowd being ladies. After some little delay, on account of the ﬁre, Mrs. V. C. Woodhull entered, and taking a position near the centre of the stage, read her text. , In her exordium she called the attention of her hearers to the fact that neither in written history nor tradition hasthe conduct and action of the human race been such as to leave upon the mind of an impartial reader the impression that any people ever gave evidence that the body was regarded in a light as sacred as the book of Divine inspiration in- tended. Following this, Mrs. Woodhull with much power and grace of diction, alluded to many other interesting ques- tions of society, being frequently interrupted by the ap- plause of her listeners. , She leaves for Galveston this morning, where she intends to lecture also. (From the N. 0., Times, Feb. 21, 1876.) Alarge audience, one-fourth of which was composed of ladies. assembled at St. Patrick’s Hall last evening, to hear M,.s_ Vim-,o1~'1a.C. Woodhull. (From the Galveston (’Iea;as) News, Feb. 28, 1876.) The announcement that Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull was to lecture in this citylwas sufﬁoient to set every one agog, and develope the greatest amount of curiosity and comment as to the character of the entertainment. Sunday evening, the appointed time for the ﬁrst appear- anoo of this distinguished lady, the Opera House was com- pletely ﬁlled in the parquette and parquettecircle, while numbers were obliged to seek seats in the circle in the second ti(g;0mpt1y at eight o’olock the curtain rolled up, disclosing the set drawing—room scene, and immediately thereafter Mrs. Woodhull made her appearance, having in her hand a small morocco bound copy of the New Testament. Her cos- tume was rich and ‘fashionable, though not in the extreme, while her hair was gathered in a simple knot behind, in which was fastened a white rose. After a most ﬂattering and enthusiastic greeting from the audience, which the lady acknowledged by merely bowing, she opened the Tes- tament, and in low, reverent tones, read her text from I. Corinthians, third chapter, sixteenth and seventeenth verses. Beginning in a low earnest tone, Mrs. Woodhull gradually became infused with her subject until her words rang out like hailstones on a roof, and carrying her audience along with her sheﬁwon repeated and hearty, applause as the telling points were made. At the conclusion of the lecture a large number of the gentlemen who had ladies with them took them on the stage and were introduced to Mrs. Woodhull, thanking her for the fearless manner in which she spoke her convictions,‘ and for the new light she had thrown on them. From the Houston (Te:ca8) Age. March 2. 1876. MRS. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL- There was a large audience of ladies and gentlemen at the Opera House last night, to listen to the dis course of Mrs. Woodhull upon social science. , She came upon the stage with a Bible in her hand, and dressed in an elegant velvet cos- tume, which set 011*‘ to £19313‘ advantizge her tall and command- ing ﬁgure. ' She took her usual text from First Corinthians, and began speaking in a low, nervous, and exceedingly rapid manner, upon the ethnological phase of the world. Gliding out of this, her voice, gathering in strength, broke forth into periods ofigreat oratorical power, freighted with a magnetism of earnestnessyand depth of feeling which captivated her au— r ditory, and bore it along with her to the close of her remarks. She claims that the source of all crime and of all human im- perfections, both mental and moral, is to be found in the pros- titution of the body from unloving sexual intercouse. That marriage without love is simply prostitution. She favors marriage based upon mutual afﬁnity, expressed in perfect love. She denounced marriages of convenience as the gravest sins against God and nature. She sanctiﬁes the human body as being the “temple of God," which no man or woman should dare profane. She urged that man should be as pure as . woman. That young men should have the same moral test applied to them when seeking marriage as is now applied to young women . She depicted the duties and responsibilities of maternity, and portrayed its sacredness in colors of astounding impressiveness. She spoke on in the same nervous, rapid manner for more than an hour and a half, without pausing for the applause which ever and anon broke forth spontaneously from the audience in response to her telling hits. We rarely ever be- held an assemblage of any kind so completely under‘ the influence of a speaker. Men andlladies were to be seen brushing the tears from their eyes as the pathos of this strange woman went home to their hearts, linking them together in that chain of common sympathy whose weird spell no individual present could successfully resist if they would. Many of the most thoughtful, intelligent and prom- inent citizens of Houston were present to hear Mrs. Wood- hull, and the unanimous voice of these attested that they discovered nothing to condemn in what she said, but on the contrary, much to commend. _ * At the close of the lecture, a lady advanced along the dress circle and threw a bouquet upon the stage, which thoroughly interpreted the feeling of the entire auditory. Instead of leaving the Opera house, as is usual when an entertainment closes, the crowd seemed inclined to move toward the stage, and many did so either to be introduced to Mrs. Woodhull, or to purchase a number. of pamphlets which were exposed for sale at the right of ‘the rostrum. If we had been told that such a scene as was there witnessed, could have been possible in a Southern city, with Mrs. Woodhull as the cen- tral ﬁgure, we would have failed to realize it. It was won- derful, overwhelming and astounding to the last degree, and actual presence was necessary to fully appreciate it. Mrs. W. announced that she would remain and lecture again to—night, and we have no doubt the Opera House will be crammed to its utmost capacity. We can assure our citizens that they will hear nothing to offend ears polite, and hope that at least every young man in Houston will go and proﬁt by the severe lesson of morality which Mrs. Wood- hull inculcates. VVe are conﬁdent that none who may go will condemn us for giving them this advice. T R U T H . ro MRS. WOODIIULL BY AN HUMBLE AmnRER, wno FORMED A HIGH OPINION or HER‘ SOCIAL wonrn AFTER HEARING mm LECTURE LAST NIGHT. Oh, my mother, can you love me, Can you call me darling boy, In your prayers to God above me, Can you claim in me a joy, Since I havefrom virtue wandered Far into the swamp of shame? Since I have my moments squandered, Doing deeds of awful name? Since my life I’ve prostituted, Reeling on destruction’s shore ? Since my soul seems so polluted To be lost forevermore ? Can you speak, in love sincerest, To me words of tenderness ? Can you fondly call me dearest, And me to your bosoni press ? Yes, I know you can, my mother, For your love is blindly strong; Can my check with kisses cover, Tho’ there burns the blush of wrong; Even now you think me shameless, The’ I’m deeply steeped in sin; Yes, you look on me as blameless, Tho’ 1’ve long disgraceful been. 011, you never, never knew me, Tho’ confessed to be your child; And I feel you should but rue me, When you know I’ve been so wild; When you know that I’vc committed Acts of sins I blush to tell; When you know my soul is ﬁtted ‘ Better for degraded hell. Yes, to you I’ve been a stranger, Traveling down the path of shame, With my soul in darkest danger Of a hell-tormenting ﬂame; But hereafter, darlingmother, Every thing I dare to do, (Nay, to you, if 10 no other), l’il reveal it all to you. Now I see the shameful error, That I long have slumbered ln, And I shrink abashed with terror At the burthen of my sin; Stranger to my darling mother! She who nurtured, gave me birth! Oh, it is enough to smother, To destroy all social worth! True, the adage that is olden, Truth will not remain concealed; And the one is glorious golden, That is being now revealed. Hear the workers, God will bless them, Give them health and make, them strong, Bid them onward, onward press them, To destroy this social wrong. HOUSTON, March 2, 1876. ' l A committee of gentlemen from Galvestomrwaited upon Mrs. Victoria C. 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' THE WORLD’S Sixteen Cruciﬁed Saviors; _ OR, g UHRISZ I A NI’./°Y Bl/717 ORE CHRIS CONTAINING N ew, Startling and Erotraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin of all the Doctrines, Principles, Prepceplts and Miracles 0 tie CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing a Ifey for unlocking many of its Sacred. Mysteries. besides comprising the Histor-y of Siaiteen Oriental Cruciﬁed Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, . Author of “The Biographg/'of Satan ”_an_d “ The Bible of Bibles ” (comprising a description of ' twenty Bibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the ﬁeld which he has chosen for it’. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the varied information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-heads~follows a definite line of research and argument,to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. 0 O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Cllntroductioni; Address to the e . rgy. Chap. 1.-—-Rival Claims of the Saviors. Cap. 2.——Messianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.—Prophecies by the ﬁgure of a Serpent._ Chap. 4.—Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. Chap. 5.—Virg'in Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.’ Chap. 6.——Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. _ _ _ Chap. 7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the In! ant Savior. Chap. 8.——The Twenty-ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. _ Chap. 9.—Titles of the Saviors. Chap. 10.——The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. _ Chap. 11.—~Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.—The World's Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. _ _ _ _ _ Chap._13.——The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of D1- vinit . Chap. 1):i.~The’ Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.——The Saviorsare real Personages. Chap. 16.—Sixteen Saviors Cruciﬁed. Chap. 17.——The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci— ﬁxion. - ‘ Chap. 18.—Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.——Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.—-Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- Cii§if'21.—The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe O " ‘ . Chal1?gT‘3r2.-—The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.—'I‘he Divine “Word ”_ of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24.—'l‘he Trinity very anciently a current Hea- then Doctrine. _ _ Chap. 25.—Ab_so_lution, or the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. _ _ Chap. 26.—-Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. « _ . Chap. 27.—-The Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen O '0' . Chal;.°gS.~—Anointing with Oil of Oriental _Origin. Chap. 29.——How Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. . _ Chap. 30.-Sacred Cycles explaining _tl_ie_ Advent of the Gods, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus Oh ' t. Chapr.1.§1l1.—-Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems‘. . _ _ _ Chap. 32.——Three Hundred and Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. Chap. 33.—Apnllonius, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 34.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Faith—— Miracles, Prophecies and Precepts. _ Chap. 35.—Logical or Common-sense View of the Doc- triee of Divine Incarnation. . _ _ Chap. 36.—Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. _ _ . Chap. 37.—Physiologica.1_ Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, _ _ _ Chap. 38.——A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus Ch ' t. ' ' ChapI:l§9.—The Scriptural View of Chri_st’s_Divinity. Chap. 40.-—A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus ’ Ch ' t. Chapr.1Z1.—The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus Ch ' t. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-03-18_11_16
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-03-18_11_16
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 17 (March 25, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2116
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-03-25
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: Go-cl.--Paul. 4 ,PRoGBEs.si 1 FREE T1-1oUG1—ITiz UNT1‘~2.AMME A ,.4, 5 ‘BREAKING. THE WAYISFOR FUTURE G-Ennjnsrxousit, V01. XI. —-N o. 17 .—-Whole No. » The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God shall be jinishe0l.—-St. John the Divine. ‘ ' . , 5 Whereof I was made a minister to preach the an-‘ searchable riches of -Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid, in MRS. STEWART’S MEDIUMSHIP. Editors Weekly :—In the WEEKLY of the 11th inst. I see a communication from David S. Cadwallader, of Delaware, on; . fraudulent Inaterializations in Terre Haute, and charging Anna Stewart with practicing fraud ‘in her seances. Now what we saw of D. S. Oadwallader while he was in Terre Haute, and I but reﬂect the opinion of nine-tenths of all who came in contact with him, convinced me that he is acon- ' ceited little pop-in- jay, who knows it all. and concludes what he does not know is not worth...
Show moreGo-cl.--Paul. 4 ,PRoGBEs.si 1 FREE T1-1oUG1—ITiz UNT1‘~2.AMME A ,.4, 5 ‘BREAKING. THE WAYISFOR FUTURE G-Ennjnsrxousit, V01. XI. —-N o. 17 .—-Whole No. » The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God shall be jinishe0l.—-St. John the Divine. ‘ ' . , 5 Whereof I was made a minister to preach the an-‘ searchable riches of -Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid, in MRS. STEWART’S MEDIUMSHIP. Editors Weekly :—In the WEEKLY of the 11th inst. I see a communication from David S. Cadwallader, of Delaware, on; . fraudulent Inaterializations in Terre Haute, and charging Anna Stewart with practicing fraud ‘in her seances. Now what we saw of D. S. Oadwallader while he was in Terre Haute, and I but reﬂect the opinion of nine-tenths of all who came in contact with him, convinced me that he is acon- ' ceited little pop-in- jay, who knows it all. and concludes what he does not know is not worth looking after. He wears his hair hanging down his back like a woman, has a peculiar air of self esteem, looks as wise as an owl, and assumes the im- portance of a barn yard bantum. This fa1siﬁer,(for his‘ state- ments are false, and we can make good what we say to any fair minded person) assumes from his experience which ex- tended through about three day, to have discovered that the materializations through the mediumship of Anna Stewart are frauds, and he has discovered in that brief periodwhat others equally as sharp as he is and as much on the look-out as he, have failed to discover in three years close investiga- tion. Just such wiseacres -as Cadwaliader are the others who sign his card (for it was he, Mrs. H. Morse, another disapoint'- ed medium, and R. Parkinson, of Wisconsin) who were the prime actors in the matter; all the others were merely hang- ers on, not Spiritualists, who would have signed any thing ' thatrwas called an expose of Spiritualism, seeking a little notoriety in’ that way. N ow this man Cadwallader came here from some meeting he had been attending west of this place, and wanted to lecture for us. We read him at once; we did not want him and so gave him to understand. Mrs. Morse was down with the same complaint; wanted to lecture for us,”and wanted to be noticed. Well, we have had as much of their kind as we wanted, and we declined. From that time they became fault ﬁnders, and finally united in giving a certiﬁcate that our mediumiwas-a fraud.‘ Well, it is? being ' made very warm for Mrs. Morse, ‘she will be very sorry for her folly in putting her name to that certiﬁcate," for Mrs. Stewart hasmany friends, who have tested her mediumship, in the region of country where‘ Mrs. Morse is trying to lec- ture, and she is already feeling the eifects of her course, as on- gagements made with her before her folly are recalled, and she notiﬁed that her services arenot wanted. We are in re- ceipt of letters ‘almost daily about this affair, giving us re- newed assurances of their faith in Mrs. Stewart-’s medium- ship, as well‘ as her honesty as a materializing medium. These fools have only hurt themselves, for it has only created a notoriety for the medium, and so well have her powers been established and proved that she cannot be broken down. She may be crippled somewhat by such falsiﬁers, as those of her enemies, who would gladly destroy her or anybody else if they could rise upon her ruin. But that truth crushed to earth, etc., will ﬁt in her case, for if her mediumship is true. she wiliceme out ahead in the end. Another thing in her favorisfthis; she has the full and entirefconﬁdence-of her committee—Pence, Hook and" Connor-and they have the ability, ﬁnancially, and the will do it, to sustain her against all and every attempt to prush her, let it come from whatever source it will, and she not only has this trio of her committee, and a host of friends that will stick to her at all hazards, hav- ing found her to be a genuine medium, and one of the best in the country, and we do not believe she has a superior in ma-. terialization in this or any other country. now before the people. This is sayinga great deal, -but we know that we hazard nothing';in saying it. You might suppose that such state- ments as that made by this upstart wiseacre Cadwallader. and his harpies, would settle her business for her. (I suppose they think so). On the contrary she has all she can do; all her physical powers can stand. I have just returned from a successful materializing scenes, with a room full of bankers, doctors, and ladies and gentlemen of ﬁrst class society from Ohio, Illinois, and other states. The interest not abatinga whit. . , TERRE HAUTE, March. 4, 1876. NEW YORK, MAR. 25,1876. These poor investigators pretend to be Spiritualists, and make a great ado about the cause, etc., etc. Mrs. Anna Stew- art has made and conﬁrmed more real Spirltualists in the last year than all Mrs. Stewart's enemies can in a life time. If they only knew what asses they make of ‘themselves in‘ thus exposing their own ignorance of the laws governing medium- ship, and with what contempt sensible people who have taken the time and provedthese things for themselves look upon these futile attempts to expose such mediums! Dr. Pence is busy answering letters from friends of the medium from, all ‘ directions, who have seen their silly stuff, with words of cheer and satisfaction. ’ I, see at the close of Oadwallader’s article you say you have prepared an editorial on this subject, but that it is leftover until next week. I know you have prejudice against Anna. Stewart on account of that little affair. at Chicago some two ship from experience, as well as observation, and no doubt do know that mediums are not at all times, and in fact, very: little of the time responsible, for what is done through their mediumship (I mean good mediums, and not mountebanks and frauds). \Vith over three years of close intimate relations with Anna Stewart‘/s mediumship, I never yet have detected her in fraud, or an attempt at fraud with u as a committee, and we have put her to every test that we could invent that had reason in it, and have always proved her true. I admit that on the surface at that time it looked as-though allwas not right, but are you prepared to say that at that time some Diakka. may not have had the control, or that some cause that we could not account for governed that occasion? Or suppose she did on that occasion do a great wrong, and which she repented of and never did again, are you ready to crush ’ her for that one act? I do not so understand you, and would regret to ﬁnd such to be the case, for I should lose my faith in your sincerity as a teacher, and I now ask at your hand for Anna Stewart what you are asking at the hands of a gen- erous public, that you have the opportunity to prove your truth and sincerity as well as honest motives. .What could it beneﬁt Victoria 0. Woodhull, in her endeavors to beneﬁt humanity, to throw a bomb at Anna Stewart? It could only have this effect: it would wound her feelings, for she is very sensitive to these things. You could not stop her mediumship. for that will go along unless she istaken to the spirit land, Then again it would embitter her friends against you, and do you harm in that respect. You have many ‘friends among her friends, and her friends would let you drop \ in that case before they would her ;, and they would look upon an attack I by you upon her and her mediumship, as uncalled fo_r,:and . youwould be the loser. I am a ﬁrm friend of Anna Stewart. and will ﬁght her battles to the bitter end... I have also done battle for you and your cause, and hope I may be understood menus speaking. I hope you will not be hasty, but deliber- ate wen , ONE or THE COMMITTEE. 1 ' [From The (N. Y.) Sun, March 14, 1876.] PARAFFINE AND SPIRITISM. V THE ARTISTIC MODELLING THAT was SEEN IN REPUBLICAN , it HALL. V" A w _ Republicanﬂall was well ﬁlled on Sunday ‘evening on the occasion of a seance given byiMrs. ‘M. M. Hardy, the “maé terialization medium}? After somehymns were sung byvla small choir, and a very long.winded address on Spiritualism —-professedly a detail of Mrs. Hardy's mediumistic develop-‘ ment-had been read by Mr. Hardy. the real business of the evening commenced. A committee, consisting of Messrs. Oliver Johnson, Erastus W. Smith, John Liscomb and two’ other gent1emen,‘Mrs. Austin and another lady retired to an ante-room, and in a few minutes reappeared. car1fYil1‘g,3§ common wooden pail containing hot water, Vwithh several’ covering the platform was taken up, carefully‘examin_ed;to demonstrate that it was not cut for any tra.ps,,_ and respread . A large common table, built to hold three drawers, was thor- oughly examined, and readily freed from any, suspicion of trickery, its drawers having been taken out and: J'3»n_il3‘01‘i of the hallvouching for its being the one regularly in use for » Republican committee. meetings in that P13-_06- I _ The two ladies of the committee then carefullyienveloped Mrs. Hardy in a huge bag of mosquito netting. She stopped it PRICE TEN I into it and it was drawn‘ up around her to her neck,and there'securely'tied. The medium was then seated behind the table; the bucket of melted parafﬁne and the bo'wl,.o_,f waterwere set onthe ﬂoor beneath the table; two g_re,at green cloths, like billiard table cloths, and a couple of shawls were drawtniiaround the ‘table so as to completely exclude all light from the space thus enclosed,fwhich,i it was ex- plained, was to be the field’ of operation of the spirits_. I it Some twenty-ﬁve minutes were passed in waiting, the cho_ir.ﬁllingin the time by singing depressing, spiritualistic hymns and songs of the elegiac 'type.. From time‘ to timeithe medium would bow her head near to the table as if listening, and raps, very loud and distinct, seemingly from blows upon the pail, were heard. During all this while, although, the lights werejturned down,,th.ere was still suﬂlciyent illumina- , _ . tion for every movement of the medium’s hands and even years ago. Now, you ought to know something of med1um- o ‘ , her facial expression to be distinctly seen. I ; At length it was announced that the spirit’s work—-'obtain- inga mould of paraﬂine for a. cast of a materialized spirit hand-—had been completed. The lights were turned up, and the committee stepped upon the stage. Mr. Liscomb raised thecloth from oﬁ" the table and exclaimed loudly, with a laugh; “Nothing at all—just what I expected.’ Ha!"ha! nothing there.” ‘ ‘ . - I o I The greaterlpart of the audience were standing up and much excited. “ Loud calls were uttered, “Take the cloths away,’.:* I “Lookiwell’ under there."’ Mr. Iiiscomb again triumphantly proclaimed, there was nothing there, but upon giving a second and more careful in- spection, stooped ‘and picked up from the. ﬂoor, between the ' pail and the bowl,‘n'ear the feet of the medium,’-where the darkness had before prevented its being . seen--a paraﬂine cast of a hand. He lifted it up silently and scratched his ‘head. Great excitement ensued, many pres- sing forward to viewpthe east. "It was a peculiar~hand,i the little finger being deformed and bent inward. A In all other respects it was perfect. , The wrist end was closed together, and no part had been at all bent in removing the formvfrom which it was cast-whatever that formwas. The ladiestook the bag oil‘ Mrs._Hardy,, and upon examinationiit reported that there was not the slightest ‘opening through which any- thinggthe one-hundredth part as large as the cast could have been passed from the medium un:dernie_athttl,1e table_.. I Oliver J ohnsonvreported : “We saw the sack put upon‘ the »liad»y,:and saw, as all must have done, that ehesat motionless in that chair, with the exception of some natural movements of her handslto her. face, clearly, to be seen by"-uall. We have also examined the sack since its removal from her, and find it-has no, openings-whatever. Wesaw the parafﬁne melted in that pail and saw it put under the table under conditions which precluded anything else than the pail and the bowl 2 being there. Here is the» resu1t—-a. hand made »fromlpar- ‘ . aﬁine. Any one that is acquainted with the article! will readily recognize that it is thiat.” . o . ' Mr. ‘Liscomb did «not have any facts to give different from that of Mr. J ohnson,‘ but proceeded to offer his theory ofhow such a cast could be made “upon a rubber hand blown. up with compressed air.” He did notattompt to explain howit got’there,’butosaid he did notbelieve it had been‘ in la. melted condition in the pail, because thelparafﬁne which there put into thepailwas full of impu‘rities.'and this was not. Then, unfortunately for his theory, he dipped his own ﬁngers in the still melted parafﬁue a few times, and they came out covered with a cast, in which notga single speck appeared At this point, when he said,‘ “1 nor any other scientist--’ the audience laughed uproariously. T A ‘ '' lMrs}7‘Austin said :i “Always having thefopinion that it was done somehow by the lady’s‘ feet,.IVt_ook the precautibu to put ‘, V d J g , iny hands pretty well up to see that'th‘ere_‘w.as nothing there pounds, of melted paraﬁine ﬂoating on the surface, and: a“ large white bowl ﬁlled with clear cold water. The carpet- about lth*e,1ady’s feet, and ‘then I saw" her safely enveloped in the bag. where if she‘ had had any ‘casts ‘she could not have got them out, and I examined the baguwhen it was’ taken off h'er,'and saw that it was perfectly sound and whole.’’'" ' , , The Sun reporter, who sat withina few feet of thpevmledium an the ’iime,, in the best possible position - to detect“ 2;; ‘move- ment'on‘her part, had slie made any, was called ‘upon for-cj'or- I roboration of the copinmitteesreport,‘and was compelled ‘by his native honesty to ‘agree Messrs. (Johnston, ,an’d,:'Smith that she at least had notperformed the trick in ,_IiY_viay.;ap- parent from his point of view. ‘ ~ ‘ o ‘ (./ Q Q .445" ' .. one BEST so.oI;err.z . , _.'BY iin_LEN _v M lie "Louis .L?Globc Democrat of__Satur— columns ofjspacfe ‘are&devoteM'd_ to the .- i ’ - I <1?-Y. March 7. sev ral-7‘ M. _ M last scandal in: and ofﬁcial circleMs—the uniserable Belk— ~ napgbusiness; rile iii another column space is given ll to a con1municatio1i}.«ll1eadejG., “;?I]:igh in ;lWa'-shingtoni ‘”}The Swell Ladies and Their G_orgeous. -Gemsjl ” "The matter of th caudal ‘contains an interview General Sherman, w jgch hefunhesgitatingly att;ribu1tesi.i,ithe aﬁ‘ai?r,_t’o the corru.pt-M} Tl14e*~matter _of the“ insiinnhehce of Washijngteln . society. communication, with its “ catching ” head lines, contains an " enviable” inventory of the jewels of the high andamightyf .. dames of “ our best society ” at the nation's capital. A M _ Is not the juxtaposition of those two contrasting, yet..c:o.fr- related items of popular intelligence rather suggestive? still there are women left in that charmed circle of society( ?) who, for the sake of a pitiful ambition to se‘ei7'a. description. of their ﬁne costumes and an inventory of their‘ rare;‘jewel's’paraded“vulgarlyin the publicipress, are ready to barter integrity of purpose and simplicity of life! And svjtillwthere‘aiiecplentyof our'.Ilead;ing journals just like the Globe"Democru.t, ‘so lost .-to“ a sense of ﬁtness, and so dazed bv the corruptions of our shocking social system, that they will publish in the same breath a scandal tl_1at.is__.dMirectlv, A traceable /to the follies of modern >s.ociety, and “an article? that is nothing more nor less than a stimulantgto just such aresult. The purity of the press and the respectability of moAdern';society_are about on :a.’ par in this country. All hail, however, to General Sherman for his bravedwords ﬁtly 's'po‘ke'n,"'like “apples of gold in’ pictures of ”silver.”._ .‘”1‘hB. Vicious o_rganization of _Washing-ton,,society,”,. he says, ~ is responsible for _.this downfallyand what are we to infer‘ when‘heMalsoM:sa:ys that there .are,but two Oabginet-,oﬂ“1cersI whose priviatefortunes will admit of the extravaMgant,sMtylef , . . . . _. .. . f , . ,. b .1 . . th in which they all live in Washington I lie himself was com-;: nessv ﬁnd f9.” the ..°°m?1n“3n°9.°..‘,Pe‘.'p°. “-3 gmw .' lldti 1-.‘ tfth’ up’ ‘Th » ._ .. . .,.. .. P9,‘? 085. 00- O , .3 V0179“ b°°a=“-3°. 9°90-1dn°t"wpport? atmosphere of intelligenc.e, and as the basis‘ of further socie- the life, and because he could not ,rMear his childre_nM under sucha blasting inﬂuence. M . ‘ And what is true of Washington society is true of society ‘atilarigre. iWashington is holding up the mirror to theiproesti-° "tuted “sham. and blind inust“th_eyg'be who fail to s‘ee’r.hemf—. selves‘ as they‘ are.‘ The effort’ to 'live‘beyond their means is icorrupting the higher sense of all classes. , It is notonly, evidenced in large social centres, but it is noticeable in the? I , ‘I , M. _M , __ ' ' l . T . arrangements to the carnal side of ‘humanity.’ church-ridden society of a mean little town. _ S ’ Secretary Belknap and his " brilliant and charming ” lady’ are especially unfortunate in having been caught in the act ;: and their being held up as examples is, in the estimation of true philosophy, nothing but a ridiculous farce, equally as ab-I surd as was the justice ( i) meted out to Boss Tweed. They? only serve, as did poor Tweed, for a scape-goat for thousands’. equally guilty under the immunities of “ respectable society,”: which, to be eligible to, offers a premium to rascality, and ‘still builds churches. ~ ’ ’ What shall we do with that prayer to Almighty God, offered in the august Senate Chamber of these United States, before the “grave and reverend seignors” proceeded to, sit upon Belknap’s case, to spoil a stale egg in the only manner possible —namely, by setting a dead hen upon it? I think the only ,. possible use to be made of it will be to hand it down to pos- terity as a ﬁtting example M of the cant and hypocrisy of the present era. Bah! it makes me sick. this eternal sham cere- _ mony, when a disgusting corpse of our putrid civilization is to be buried out of sight, but not so deep but its mephistic odors w_i'll'assail the upper air, and poison purity despite her religious cloak and long prayers. ' g V 1 But this poor business shall show even one feminine v_ ic um‘ thengaitcdshe going to sure destructionin her allegiance to M "the false god [of modern society, and turnM her steps into more temperate paths, its mission will have been proven." It ought ltopcteach its lesson to the whole world; to send home its rwarning cry to all who are tempting the high seas of sham that are inundat_ingthe simplicity of a‘B.epublican,G_overn- T ment“.” The "necks of the poor are no less ground under a tyrant’s heel in this country which makes so loud alboast of beingthe ."‘pe'o-ple’sGovernment,” to support a royal; pomp of the «favored few, than in those ‘couintrieswhere titles are vcoined out of the sweat of the laborer’s brow’ to. swaddle a’ new-born prince. oriprincessrin purple and ﬁne .1inen.i. ~ ’Tis tim‘evpu“blic' corruption had an‘-awakening, though a .pity that onexpoor victim should suffer for so many that are V guilty. If this a-ﬂair should set in motion the wheels within vwheelsito bring to light the entire system of public plunder and fraud, and rid the" fair temple which our fathers reared of all the money changers, well might the emancipated people _rejoice.M But it. is greatly to be feared that. the casuistry of . government will, for party. considerations, think it.“ expe- dient ” to suppress furtherinvestigation as likely to injure ; fthestatus. of the reigning. power in view of the approaching A election. In like manner do modern churches make use of the good Catholic principle to suppress and cover upseeth-. ing. scandals that ferment from time to time in their sancti- A ﬁed centres. . - , ' 'jA..homily might be read on this affairto some of our refor- : nxatory sisterhood who hold themselves much above the, vulgar planeof modern. fashionable life, yet go -about loaded. from their heads to their heels with a weighty mass of trail- ingdextravagance, ostensibly from the rnanufactory. oI,,Worth direct .’.Ti.5 Bdifying in the extreme to know tl_1,at,_many, _ wives in New Yorkohave driven their husbands into. bank-. T ruptcy in order that they might dress and maintain the re_quisMite‘ _‘‘style’’ as members of "Sorcsis.’? Vanity of. Vanities! T " ‘ Wh_ere.c__aMn fo1r'A glorious womanhood so novblyi self,-pMoised as to be quite removed from the contagion of. H ‘seekingrworldly popularityby any weak concession to modern jrlockeries? _ A woman so nobly, consistent, that, while" she pleads for freedom for her sex, she will not do it tranimeled jinn” the accursed bondage ofmodern fashionable attire, that Belknap ! _sh_e_compromisdes_ her integrity dperhaps to 0.l;7bain,Ma la. Mrs. . gut what's the oddsif .-you don’t getgfoundilout? Youﬁjcan ‘of all modern angelic ministrationsl iscious unity, so thatwhen these carnal machines return dust and the /race amass of corruption. ’ ‘ , j{~,em1‘ed,Mt_liroughfourgenerationds, and that success was probe woonnum. is CLAl§‘LlN’S WEEKLY. ﬂourish like a greenjba other,-j_on tlfiezostensible 1?; T “ ' 'ngton7fsociety, orfany ry of ten 13-‘ usandfayear, though 1 M, sand eﬁyear, soiyou '3t,he intricate~.*process by the o ?.cguestions;:"asked, so .'f'youfi; manage _ " papers aniaccount of your “§magniﬁ- . 7 But, attempt fcut ‘down*exMpenses‘ within your . Sh rmari; Wa.Mshington.. societyf"/gets that simplicity of manners and soberness of life were origin- lived through? Old Liberty Tree has fallen on Boston Com- mon in thehundredth year of the nation’s life! Let Govern- ment see to it that the liberties of the people are“ not cor- rupted intolblightgin the same Qentenn‘i:al yearg, iinooNsrR_'U’0r1oN. M . M d ;;"‘zBMY;“s. T-:’Foii§L;E_R. M l H .‘ "In my experience "as '2. medium har7e“learned that by virtue" of h1”1man"it‘ary‘"associati'on,"We', as centres" "o"f"intelli—' gence, maintain consci;ousn‘ess;M. a-fter.lt.h-ese-l ﬂeshly centres have returned diist ‘to’ “d'u"st‘;‘ "and in "the ratio that we be»- ‘come‘humanely~sympathetic»;~ s ‘ That; t;h_Q oMarna1_ and the angel si_des_o_f Mhuma’nity_ are in- terdependent hemispheresof one worlddhuman _societMy.”) l " Thatnie carnal side as a':ﬁd'é<_1iuiii of sezisesié .c.or1t’iriu¢us1>’ ,necesMsai“Ytheangelside for thevperpetuation of conscious- i_That thee angel side is, 'ne’cessa}\ry_‘to‘thed carnal," side‘ as an tary, unioldment. f _ . That, a11M;;nge, io_Ai’n,t’e_1lige_nces who have ,a_dvManced beyond the aspiratién. i<ir‘]supr9ma.¢Y of g0iiéhiP»".t° the aspiration? ‘for rightfullness have unitedin 1a compactkdnown as "the Angelic Public.‘ A "I M _ ’ __ _ ,, .: That the said Angelic Public have determined’ to reinstate themselves in" hulnan ﬂesh byconjoining ‘rightful societary ' r That this conjunction ‘and reinstatementﬁmplies a com- plete "reconstruction of human society, ‘with all that pertains the‘r_eto,'on the basisiof 1-ightruiihess instead or «godliness. _ That in this reconstruction are comprised the centre, the circumference, the base, and the apex of the intent and use That in the reconstruction there will be a conscious unity of all humanity, ‘angelic and carnal, on this earth, in the flesh of reconstructed human society, for uses goodful.‘ That the carnal side of humanity will then be advantaged by all the intelligence of "the angel side, and the angel‘ side will be advantaged by all the facilities of sense that pertain to the carnalside. i ‘ ' ' T * . e ' i T Then decarnation‘ will cease to‘ occur to human intellif gences ;' for in human society all human ﬂesh will be in con- to dus't,Vit will be"'to' humanity only as the casting offof eifete atoms from these carnal machines. and neither con‘- sciousness or thought willbe‘ aifected thereby. ‘ . ’ Having been consciously a ‘medium for reconstructive purposes for about 25 years,’I can “say from observation that a vaistamount of preparation has been accomplished. and that reconstruction must soon commence on a scale so vast that it will soon supersede all -present societary arrange- ments, poverty and crime*included'. This will be‘ accom- plished in suchamanner that in will recognise the angel hand‘ and the rightfullnesslof sharing the good together. " In the year 1850: I ‘ﬁrst’ became acquainted with what are called spirit m'anifestati0n's. ‘andwas deeply iinterestedlin their import‘ for human well-beir.’g;‘: “and soon! became m.»11§y»* * conscious of the p‘res‘enceM’a'nd inﬂuence of de’ca‘rn‘ated Vin-. telligences. . :_ ,:‘ I ' - J,‘ -, . 2 - . ‘ we 9 , , , , . ; in myithoughts as though‘ sounded in my ears, and it ceased‘ not day or night until Iliad read the text: and understood that angelic intelligenceshad overshadowed me with: their power and anointed me with the spirit of truth and goodwill; that they had chosen me as a messenger of gladness to'the' poor; sight to the blind; ofdeliverance to the oppressed; of healing to the broken~hearted; and of salvation from sin ‘ and suffering.- This anointing has increased: in power to this Not .far from that ..tinq9 Inroposed the forming _of a hea1— ing circle to a trance-"medium, who was: quickly entranced‘ and controlled to speak, and among other things it was said that my plan would pr'eyent".the‘ further acquisition ~of:a/' knowledge ‘of law’ and ‘caiise, aﬁ forgeting‘ of ‘ what had’ been learned ofit. until the )c'ohti_hua1“ disregard of law and recur- renceof disease wouldrender healing a. centinualnecessity, Tdhat ghgy“ ngver ghed-a1¢d Simply for‘ thereliefiof present stif- f’e'I-ilnvg, to gesjljre aﬁténtlold, E0 the’ 6115. that" T ight accomplishe better societary ‘arrangements thanjhad‘ yét. 6.>.X.i.é1="<.3<1_ ens this earth! ' ‘ ‘ ’ ’ ‘ ' " ’ ‘Mhat they ha my faith,’ preparatory to ’a‘ special work for‘ which theyhiid’ [Qhgsen me ;’_am_1‘ _thahby d¢,g‘re¢s‘the power to ‘heal would '§b'e'*’ ”1lf'1T.C?5.i5.1'3’..‘7i.’.ii3.]1'.d51Tr'.‘i!'..V".7.11: U-H15il“theM*speciality was'accomplished.~ ‘ That‘ £h"ey'hsa“_1phg recognised that life, health and *ha‘ppi—’3 ness were ‘ghvahie«i- laws thati were not‘yetu’nderstood by‘ ‘T anyeof/the‘inha‘bitants ofetchis earth, _either angelic or carnal; M’ that they knevfonly gwhavtihadbeenvlearned by experienceiin the 'ﬂes_h.: that the desired knowledge could be unfolded“onl—y i through. brains suited tothe purpose; that myebrain develop- ment, had resulted from eﬁort on their part that had ex-.. lic oiﬁcers.—1would..seem to ‘suggest. . e ire-ga po:mp.‘:;and ‘splcen'dorj:cf' ‘ V.ments..,,..oﬁi:Iany-‘iyetar the Rep75b'lic has action n.o,w»_c.e«nsists ‘n M the letters ofwhich they are composed.‘ jection. _ healed through me for the establishmeninofl l Mar. 25, 1876. The ’.’I"7‘:“.-1‘.’P dMf'$generati. P . M " progreiissiveiiipotency named ex‘stence; also a generative analysis of existence was ‘i A ; evering its genderic principles, constituents, and ‘ eir grades of generative composition ; the genderic M.,of their generative possibilities; the primitive s of existence, and the line of their unfoldment . the star, the planet, the zoological, and the societary n that we know the generic possibilities of society and their order. o_.f,. that We know the order ofethewactualization of the four worlds. We know tl_1e,pr_,,e.senMt,. highest points .,9.f,,M.so,cie.taryﬂeveloprnent. and what_ iiexti;.,poss,jble:l*of Weggaaﬁe "now in thelatter parteof the transition from the first to the second generic stage of societary development ; andsocial reconstruc- ' croduction of the second generic M. . , , xi, stage; ’ ~ —- »~“v‘:*-‘*—v ’ M __ In ...Ii1al:ihg.,,_,t1iese,,.di.sco:£e.1:les...._wa..M,have .dealt- directly» with the ideas, independent'of_ words which have been usedpnly as labels. . In our effort f90._se.b..th9.¥is11t,1abe1.£9r each idea. it hasheen discovered‘ tiiiahhe” language as now used is wholly inade- quate for th_e—.puMrpose, and on further ‘investigation itrwas '1‘~,.c:.. .,v , found that words‘ were not thevprimitive source of signiﬁ- cance; that the signiﬁcance of the wordslwere derived from When the letters were consulted it was found thatieach letter’ had a. genderic.-'signiﬁcance, from which, by analogy, falllwcrdsigniﬁcance-was derived ; also it hasbeen discovered that our languagehad once been perfect, after its kind. That for purposes of self-aggrandizement, the signiﬁcance of letters had been closely hidden from the common people to the end that through ignorance they might be kept in sub- __,That when the people could not. be ,longer,restrained from the_pu_1jsuit .cf knowledge, words were glY611r:.iJh6IIl‘ as the basis of signiﬁcance; also; words ,were.n1VSteriously com- pounded, wrongly,,M_s_pelleMdM and p_,ronounc;ed. Thus, andin other ways the signiﬁcanceof .lettersh_ave been lost in words tothe confusion of words..;1I1,,d the compounding of language. _ This evil has-been andis being perpetratedby the authority of usage, » l ._ — ,. w i . M. In consequence of th,is,ilearMn.ing costs many times as much as it otherwise would, and is then composed mostly of mys- terious vagaries. _ . . .M.. . l How much longer shall we submit to be so cheated and oppressed? Throw offthese. manacles and we are on the highway to civil and re_lig_ious freedom. _ . l About the middleof, JanuMar.y,"1876,_this work. of: language reconstruction, was commenced, underthe influence of an- gel guides. . » . » w . i ’ Satisfactory, general rules for the reconstruction of lan- guage were soon accomplished,-and considerable‘ progress had been made in solving. -the mysteries of letters, when, on the 22d of February, my attent.i0.n,was turned to a partially developed, ,new alphabet, basednon the gender of. geometric lines, hoping to find some light on;-the. mystery of the vQW_e1S, and in the courseM.o.f: about two hours Wehad received [W0,,m0nQgraI}J a, nearly completed, on paper‘; one contained all the: lines for ,i;he..new.a,lphabet,. arranged in ge.-nderio order, and the other contained all.,the .lett_ers of-. the old alphabet. . . . I -7 mu 2 .. This 0ne.purpor.ted_,tor be a key to niany mysteries. We ﬁnd the mystiﬁcation, of, language .at the bottom. of «all the fraudulent,systemS43113;‘?-‘113V9 ever conspired. to oppress humanity, a11d;h‘8n09l-5119,1‘9Q9118i31‘l1Gti0ﬂ..0f:J1a~11gl13g6 is. a work-,0f.presslng im,port.ancc..--.. » : ~ ~. ~;_~:,,.= .M M We ,propose 'entir6s.-diﬁfegard .f.Q1’s”3_.11 .9el1iih01‘i.1?Y,b3S6d OH usage, and instead thereof to .Ms,e,ek to knowthe right. and to -o W111, beginM -as near as We,‘ can ,and.c_or.rect, err,o1',_s,.as fast. as ~disc.0v.er.ed.l l is i l ' .We'm_sha11 accept nothing without ,evidence,. andexpect nothing without effort. . . a i -. »;:'; .~ m g‘ ‘ , To prosecute -this;wMorkM,togadvantagﬂ,We ,1,1ee.d. 0I‘1iJ.101S1I15, informations and f,u;n_éi_S-.~:M , :5». - _ ~ = We hope to ,-S6e*thi.Sa;VVK?Tk:..YVe11. .besu.I1.bY—.ih6..C6nt6n-nial Fourth. » . e 3.13. : s A - As a general guidestothe. re<:0ustr.uctio,n of language. eight general rules rh.‘¢,1V'6 D0611 P1'§D31.‘9.‘1‘.. ~. M; W - . RULE i I.—Sounds.;»inM spoken and letters inwritten language should be regarded. as ,the~,sourcel ,M of signiﬁcance and the deﬁners of W01‘d~S.-’-s _: . s i . A - » i RULE’ II‘.-Letters» and: sounds should‘ iberzso conjoined as to prod-mg ha;-maxi-y in: spelling and pronunciation.‘ :' T - ‘RULE III.-‘Words~ sho~ul.d-the-so composed and divided as tosecure harmony and disti-nctn-ess of signiﬁcance of sound. RULE lV.—-All words, simple-or compound,=shou1d‘have a germinal center~t‘o»:whic‘h-others gnaylbe attacMhed,as.qua.iify- ing radiates ;’ and theseicenters may be classed as primitives, but not as “radicals or ’7roots.’*’~' ~ i ' l RULE V.-The germinal: centres -should; determine the ‘generic,’ and the Iradi‘cal=s‘ they-speciﬁcsuses. . . ~ ~ ‘ Rune VI.—-Correct“ pronunciationrshould bezsecuredi by c-orre'ct' practice,-and all‘?.snperﬂuities. should ' be rejected, whether of soun‘ds,:l'e7tters;'wor.ds or.sj_ense.~ - l. - ‘RULE VII.%Words shoiildlbeused as d?istin'guishi‘ng' labels, or as memorizing’ mordants, and -notimistakeir‘-“for ideas or- l3i1Ql.1'glli3VSJ.’ ’ ' 1 ‘ ' “ ‘ M ‘ ‘ RULE VlIl.——There should be no synonyms in any lan- guage: inevitable analogy will b’et7ter serve in their stead. ,In,respo'nse to‘ Rul’e__l, we‘“doVnots expect in every instance to giveﬂperfect or ful1*cieﬁniti‘on's, but T-shall“ do the best we, Mar» .2?) ,0 5 , ,, .._,__., ._‘. W. ,,..,.M:;,.ﬁﬁ.,;a,g..-.-..,4e.>».~~ ...-.«. ~:tv‘.'a‘ ' as E S I .....-.—.- - can,‘ and submit :_th_e,_m. to the "perfecting"! influences of ci's‘ms+’—ever '1'“eady‘to amend decisions according to evidence. ’-’;,i. ,_",_,._'\-,vr' . . . -‘ l ‘ .. L /. -' ‘Mo7tog77cmo’f‘:tli,e ‘,VZ37'c'e'c7§es (_ fleeces) _ inJlaradisaééalimnobence.‘ ‘~ ' -' i Next wsexiéménfantiiﬁréiéeeatwithdbscrirﬁéne-‘ ‘f 0 .0 0 ..EXCESS.1VE"T¥¥XA0TIO‘?T- . . The pressing .and0'ine:iera0l51é ﬁecéséiiy. 1j'0<>iF0 relief from‘ the grinding mlllstone of_ taézatihon is The taxation of‘ the peopie’ of ‘nae ‘eeunmy in 1350, Feder-al%,vVStatel and local,‘ was ss3,000,'0‘0'0’; in 14sc0,i1_: was ‘$154. 00c',000‘;'_ in‘ 1870‘ it was $730, 000,000. "0 The increase was alinostten fold.” ‘It doubled from 1850 to 1860, and i1ncreasedl"‘ﬁv'Tésfold ‘from ‘I860 to 1870.’ The” taxation in 18507w’a.s 3:57: -for ey‘ory.ma'n,' .0wcmanva»nd child in the'country?;'in0I86Q.it Iwas%$4.$0‘per~capita, and in 1870 it was: 18.91. 0 '].‘h?is_enorm.ou:s giucriease. is. truly ap,pal*ling.-V '.I.?‘h8AeI,10-' tire D1I0P6.1'l7Y.:0f this 9.0untry..;'is;$25.O00.000.9QQ-.; The annual. taxation is ab_out,3 percent. ofqityandv /once ,i111_35,‘years the pgop1e'vgould_ pay taxesthen val_u_eof all the :prop_erty0in; the United States’. A government that demands the value of, all the‘proper,ty‘in its domainbnce in_35 years, in taxes, would; become an unendu1'é.ble‘tyranny. "' V‘ O “ " ‘ A worse ~’fea“tui"e :o_f_t"h'is‘ subject‘ is‘that the'taXatiorf' "of the country exceedis -theneti savings’ »of1thé' pe‘op'l-e”of0 the-‘ ‘country’ by $180,000,000a year.-j’1‘hat:is, they payall their -.net:~sa.vings to the, g.o.v0ernumentl invtaxies, then .dra0vr ong their:-p1'incipalfto: 3 the :3uI,1,oun~t not :$180.00,0,-00Q- .{ ..W1.1e0n, g~ove;rnmen-t_, ‘demands’ in’, . taxes. all t.h,e.ino.0meawh:eh_ prom,/=Y; produces. .its.va1ue is to-0: tally. destrwsﬁ -A Esme 3 Der °9_.rw«.0x.1em:1r::or .suit¢0e<ru1s . t1.2e‘1nc09"%1’°~°f.che pr9P<=rFY-:. 10.*?W0s.<=0u0I2trr..t00r.day prep-arty‘ won't pay interest and‘ tax,es',lso”that,‘ as rule, ‘business ‘can: not be ‘done en‘ borrowed‘ ,eapw‘s1.;—Em’e1se+z;3e:" ,0 0 0GsRI1A~'-01:" E?<PQUN.DE0R$11N BROOKLYN-. 0 W39. ..W<?11{ s.cqssistsd Wk. 3. 01a.d5'" who removed; with her. huspbandp to" pBrookl_yn0 some twelve. years ,,a,<.>;o,V.andl who BEﬁ:oHEI,{iSi1VI .iLLLiS'rf1%j25&.T.ia3D”lsr“.d0irs was universally esteeme_d"as a’. sensible, practical woman, and, . wholived above any'_ shadow of suspiueu asa blameless,” tegr-ity,‘.and no-‘ stain =l1"a's" ever rested“upon her n’a"m"e." lWellL,‘ this woman swas==‘re‘cent‘ly' 'on=a vi=sitlto'her"o1d homle,’5when0a‘n‘ old'friend~asked‘ her, 0“What‘;about.Beecher?*?’i’. S 3 ‘ “ Oh ! he. .is,all~.right—l’0’ was-the—answ_er.i.? ‘:.‘Hi's~rcong-rega~0 tionwill stick; fto 0h,in;1 to the last: and-0_W?elllth:ey0 mayi, for th6re.is but -0e°;H9x.1;r*Y Ward .B.eso0her«0 No other manscoulda Christian. snewas above the average”inixitelligence ‘and in’.-; ﬁll" his 91396;: and .th9>_?.1<n9W:it-...’0’.000 .. .. "f.""B,tit0.19{h§0~3i1i1iY§5”T _ ’ _ ... so ;. _ .0 . . '““Oh‘ ll‘ t'héJt, merges 13e‘_;iiee:%et‘ee Y "ll, he is, he is no worse thlsuf David‘ a;nd"tho'i’i_'sands er lame.-s: His ieeiigrlegatien’ do‘ not blame hi'm,‘3forth‘ey a?l"l’ lkno'w‘how“‘un'happy; his dvomestiicv r.elations3a_re‘,:aud tl1*eys'vv=ill‘*stic—l<r‘t*o him.” * ‘ — * 1 ‘ » -“.Where%is Mrs..0Tilton‘t ?.’a’ 3. ' —~'+ . . “_,Oh ,3 she <an0d,»h«0cr mother are? keepin'gxeboarders**tjui;telinear’ to where ,w.e.;1i.vcd.l,an.c1 are <1oi00n.ig»we_113-.. P~lym‘ou*th:;gave=them, a grezytsnsny presents 901 useful and beautiful tnisnssgf’ . -; “0DO63—Bv9°?.h°1'»g°=*° “‘-‘.’»‘0’..~_'J110"¥-.11?“ l . .‘00h»1Ii.<> !.’0T0hé’nisﬁ. ésY.— this too. .sm=.z.rt to .b0e0.-0caus11t‘ 6- 'rn,e‘iiiéin ‘<_>£‘p1.,_1,i.,‘s;‘, §:<‘>;x.«2:{1j§g‘a_ttio:,1‘ ? Tees %“¢’,11e'y,‘be1iev;e,' him i . -2 Ev 5 3 -» V : -’. . . . . ‘ . ,‘ ='. l ‘-‘ They do note-"care-5to“know !]"'A'fterﬂthef trial hegot has-7 lgetffuls" or. letters "co'ni;a;:ratulatin~;.‘g hi-'rn.*’7‘My lbrother has been» a. member ofv:his‘:;ch1u.rch§ fo‘riy;ea?rsva‘nd".yfiears, and aniusher.” =I' knowéha Wrote to himxsaying :;: .‘;You.-are a?1lsrig.htIro.m'the. W3+iﬁ:l?',11P;5?l@vni11iihﬁéliziﬁ;ﬁ11lE0I~»Ga«¥@<t0:tk‘hOVW !’.’ ms ~ 0 , lkshetntesntstfprecaeieheme;naef1muureds or such‘ letters for‘ she. h‘ad2heard._ »a 'gfeat.'rfra‘ny‘ of 0-his menus »ta.l'k on‘ the subs _.._; ;=..-_ ject,’and ‘this :was- their '{2,i&;'l1"06_'l‘8.'l.}' statement‘ :2“ 1The'm’e‘n: i jest :- * about; it. and saylif 1.16.15. a.s.irrssi.sti:b1e?o1tt .of.tne 1.3011lpi§t‘as.::hc. isinTit»0. they 0d0»n9tb.10:sm.e:.t1is ~¥.°!01.1e_s.;: .ass1.s1..1e.uomen..gen—0 9:ral1_y0.fae1.- 0t1,i0_at hepziid Mrs-: jl‘i,1toI.1. a0gx:ea.I:0 compliment, 00 For HWSOWKII Fella .1.‘ @115 $.10‘5S1.‘h9”ﬁ.‘?‘€?.:.P3' 0151139110. to/ms;0 ref S his meﬁmerie ;‘>‘ev?v’ei~’f1,s‘tso6’g“rest that rue net ’_think” any: w’Qm'an“c‘ould resist him.‘ I‘am‘i_iot' Ia ”m‘en:ibé_§r”of{ hi‘s’c‘hu_rch,V but al’v’vay‘s3 go Fto’ hear" S‘:§.rah’?(5-her 0 sister )" is¥a ‘member, and! she. saysww is‘»a5gireat?’ coi1'?1p'lirtle’nt"7to?- s.hy~=w”olnan«<s to have“ Mn.-:Be;eclier.pay attention: ;to‘1h:er:; ‘and rwlith such a wife as ‘he ha.s,:»Wgha-t.can.a.f!1Yj0I1e‘ expect; or h_0W-;.can:».any» on0e:blame, him: 1’... She WW-.1??=1lii1lg.W“7lH1T%¥9.th91‘ lady sn.0em_ber. who. said: s‘he;Wish0e<1. Ml‘-0. meshefr .W9u1d.0ps¥..-etteetion $00.-I,1e0r.1'~.l:.T00.a3 criti_- ‘ ' — zdiencﬁs and déj1ig0l1t€{d 311, W1.19s,.119.eI‘~d knew better than he how-hard_it w«as0to be-{ti-ed for. life to an uncongenialcompanion.” ‘ A U ’ ' A 7; The woman who made these disgusting disclosures was in simple earnest, and told what ‘she"belie_v'ed; or3r‘k‘n._e'w* to be true;5with—out any »of‘ethIe?horror she would‘ oncefhavel felt “at huch sentilments. istatements .talIy7 s‘o;well2wlth= the‘ ac’-‘ ﬁ9i1;1:9feth3.t«fpeop_le; that _~th'e7re is littljenroom Ito’ ‘do.'u’bt~the’:ir3 correctness ;; and: 0»to;t_lr_cs90.Who‘ -.w§ould_s .saye»' our {social fabric‘ ' $r0m,.vs,inking into ;tIh6{g_lAl0k'Sha:Qd-33:9: .,0_~.f:10gee_;,._ love, ,comes.u:>.*pt:11e‘~ }‘1.'~?e.3-Fi Us iWh3t . tf.>..b.‘? 53001151 tihif?=Wi§1§7Sl3,¥Q0a$1<;°01‘I51lD=:-of my s:te’p—dau-ghter. 0 My father’s wife 71. p., my step“-ldaugh- ter. also had a son; he was,.of‘cou‘rse,*my» tbrother, and in the =the“meantime my grandchildﬂorphe was the son of V ' daughter. My wife was my glrandmhother. because she was ‘ .4 my mother’s mother. I was my wife’s husbandh‘_a;n_d‘ /gra.'n;d... V M A child at the same time, and as the husband ofa p'ersen*s grand».- tion f?_—_-—llT0"'s'._f J c,i1'zc[_ G2. ‘Swish./e:_:l1fn.,.0. in: ChicqgoA,Tr¢b‘2tne, . i 7 ‘Ivwouldzthateveryvangry shaft 2 ‘ 0 v V ' 1 I ,0 . Eromztrouhlclsihitteiy:sheaff'0-; ;_. , p Wou1d‘.vvi,11g0its lilig‘ht’to:p‘icrce my _l1)ee_r_t,::. .0 "’ " S _".l‘(') gif/e t’6’Lhi11'e 1'1elief.,‘ V O , Iwould that‘every,‘ill_anrl woe, , A», , K ‘ ' And everyca1'ki>n:g;ca[1'e - " We111dl*eree=u1eir'tvey Withi:1’1my‘breiast,; * ' :-Tha~t"I.‘for1theeu”night bean." ’ In genial deen'ith1eicly_ehii1‘,“ J - -The b‘ning.frest+’andIed1d,V . ‘~ ’lThe;stormy11empest,love,.il’you. ‘_”. ' l __ Were sheltered in the: Afoldm V, 0 g 0 :v;15f;0myfrailbark?we11bftosse'd.a;b0uTf, 0' '- .Qfja,ngry.wavesAtheisport,j‘ _ ; . Calmas_on,glassy1al{el’dfeel _ __ _0 ~. .; '”l'f‘=tl''1o\11‘ ‘weft safein‘ port. 1 M L _ _ J h M And if thy Lclhoicelshoulhd. oferime peso < " i ‘To bless anevthe’rjs'1'ife,V ‘ to H "5 "His truest mend» I’d’pever“be,’ is H ‘ Because thou werti his wife. the female of itsoracé.”—-i—DEa.rwin. 4 . W . y 5 These words ought ‘to be put in‘letters‘o'f gold over the door of every rum shop inthe. country, and if they were scattered. among the-tenements and. lower haunts» of . all great .0 cities. he Investigator. , 0 001T 7&6 Investigator errs-greatly when sit supposes that *it is over thefd0O1'-;.Of,:the rum.sho}p, or among the tenements and lower 0h.&1;1I1ll-S: of}; all. .~gre‘at‘ ‘ citiesxawhlere those 1 words‘-: ought’ lnost to be. p,ostc.d.=0- -The one .pla.,ce or all others lwherexthey should bcpicsted, is overrtheéhead-boa1'd'of> the ’lega1‘;n1arri-A ego bed. ~Man isvthe iouly animal which sinks so lowas to force the female to be: the unwiillingi means ‘to’ gratify} his lust.a Will .T:h.e Investigator: pleasenotei this. » ‘ 0 0‘3’':‘'’‘ There are idiots" in the United :St‘ates.7’\f—B13?troit :}Event‘ng'News.i' ‘S i A‘ "S -* r “ ' ' ‘-“ §i'.l"1‘scu'ss7i0'i1p;i ‘especially that V of 4 which 5 'ekplai‘r1s' M M .._.._Z. ?‘—.°T4‘1‘Se3 °f‘.idi.7"°5*-", . 0 0. 0 00 . 0 .. 0 MRS. lVooDF1‘UIiL0INlTHEFIELD; ‘ . I " [ coM;mn:ssslssl‘snmrm» 0. V _ L (From.the,(}0tlveston;)Ngws,,l|[cwchfZ,1876.), 1 p .0 AMrs._W=oodhu1l’s_lecture;1ast_,evening drew; a mu_ch;0larg_er I‘ ;house than on the Qﬁﬁﬁﬁidll, ifsﬁrst d91iVé01‘y., and the pro- portion ofladies wias{mu§ch'greater, and g_reat_e,st,_ interest i§was’_ manifeeted throughoutithe ‘lecture. hnany of the ladies ?remaining after‘ it was over to be ‘ilntroducéd to 1\/Ir‘s.Wo‘odhull. Ftlon than-lher first appearance i-n this city. " S’ i ;ZFm’m the Dewy State 'Gd‘ze_tte,‘((Aust'in, Texasll, new. 9, ’1876.‘ l; 1Mrs‘. Victoria C.’VVO0d:hl11l’s lectured last nightjwasiattendled tgbyan extremly large 'a.'udlience. Austin put ‘oil’ its prudery }and treated the fair lecturer and «her- accomplished ‘sister’ as %they always treat strangers; with "op‘e‘n"w'elcome.‘ These wo-‘ {men have been Lraduced inithe North; =.th‘ey“ha‘ve« been! im-S ;rprisoned=;g they ‘une0arthed0-. the,.whited sepulchre:-i:——Beecher——. _ ‘§and.ounpe0P.19‘-9W9 them. gratitude :.f0I'<?3211.3t3. .i.f.f'o“jr nothing , ~ ?:e;lse;.. Beecher Waﬁaﬂle °¥1.V9¥ #05.E1%1g1%§1%d~asainst‘.our;peop1e,. é E3-and was r09°.91Y¢d as Win?-000. .D.r- Q5“-‘~’A“:0"".°101.v.vln2_“%9:I?1‘*lY 0! the ;:Hypof'orité« never had. .3 more. faithful.;¥°P1‘e99¥1tetive..th,an. ?d'amning‘«l1g_is.0immortal soul. ~ Our. private opinion: isethat. it is jngt worth: damning» but-we 3113? b6;«mis,t,ake,n.' .—0.Th_e lecture» V dd lﬁwa-S»a_b1Y d91iV.°1.'.".d-~ 1.“ .1:‘,1"-t:7"' :»r°5P°“SiV°‘ °?}1'°f?d. in the 3”’ ;Remedy. I am perfectly relieved.” n_.__.__ z ﬁeihzeryi part of our couiitrfy. ‘f'l‘l'10cY’ press "speak! Well ‘oI_‘h'er wherever‘ she lectur’es'. iiVWe ’wi's‘h‘7her success all good .works‘,‘and trust she‘ma_y be€indced“a ibenefactress ‘to her‘ §:si‘ster‘s in 5sorrow.—‘ » We =wi-sh we » had room. indurlcolumns? to ;‘succe.ss,i is _0‘true,_ then indeed has: s11:0 WQl1.a.l7>i_0.1'20_,1‘)7 over. error, America ever achieved-—0The svmfsslisf as 0W0rk+ 4 A‘ ﬂ V_ §‘3giI1‘i3$:h°0 0341 d°d§9 ‘.”;‘°‘;m09§ 0l’Y.,t0"5’;i“S 5-2°; .P1£9a?9‘0 °*V.°“3:’.b°.d.3’,1 %kn9.W.it Jﬁdtlthaﬁ"W9§‘?51i9Vé"i¥%;a 0 0 §vif.0‘rT<1’ Ltr"50*i‘n”s té ﬁndlleemﬁ i9”M‘¥9‘°’1¥’[‘¥1i'0$f 59/3‘?»f .a3;3iﬁ'sti'di9? gp-mpg! “every: mlan’s"*’opinio’n,j fighting" and e1bowin’g"jandl‘ Jfextremei 1 Other ‘people have a*righ_t“to't?h—’eir opinions; so have’ Eyou; do’n’.»t‘fall’inito-thielerrors.0! suppos_in~g.5 they= will "j-qgpgét iyou less: for.» mai_rntaining._it, or respect‘ youjmoref i:rUI;.l,tu'rn‘i'x71.g §yQ_u0r coat;ewery...—dsy.» to .mato0101. .t11;ei.rs0o:; W069; «yolﬁ. '».,-of1:0,.",, in asplte of W1I;<_i.;-W1. V!,feat’110e;1‘aA»'3‘..¥2!‘=9.1?'i~.~?.":’...i. s’un‘shi7_n‘?e“.’ uIt0 costs woman with an"uncon‘gcn'i-al‘ husband, his_i_1fiendsh;ip0 be .deSi?“b10°= 010.0? he 099I1.1s10..Byn90I>=,~t0hi.zaW1?" her N0. we Ethe y_aclllatin}:,a7/r1_d irresolutie to“ i _ I _ _ 0,1 10‘ _ :.n':times=the0.‘trou.bleto wind, ?f3n‘.3:.§h91,l1°;,_ fﬁlvzlsl, that, : it .;does -honest, manly . inclepenxr ’ Pou.gh_keepsz'e Eagle. 0 V - fjrage‘Izau{bfA6r\the\YYyoming AL -0tvv‘enty7ﬁ¥.ef“p_eople~ in‘ ’th" .ss0 rights at t . _ 0 , . . 0 0 . . 0 — l ~ »1‘°‘?l"5~01AI"°0"2’1"°‘?0"‘%“‘e‘ “Man is the only;bei,nfg,of the animal creationthat abuses : '. A 0 , 0 .0 _ 0 . 0 ; A/AWE'STEBNé’m?ea9hér.€é'8ud,iier11y—‘rléiﬁsihs1‘ih:0,00.h«is.-sermon, they would do more goodxthain‘ many of the‘ pious ‘tracts;‘—4 ' S " ‘”’” “what a Christian ministerlcan do for the’ sa three times her age, the other ‘day, and who had 31 celebrated Afor her religious .;tend,enfcies,“ a friend’ L. is so well principled that she, could ' make dither’ .discard so and so, whom she 0really,loved, and wh nothing, and marry old P. with his millions.” W 3 p _ A , _ _ , _ _, :0'if's so thoroughlywcll regulated’ she wil1.forgbt ”And yet the Soc‘ial‘quest’ion‘ is not aproper “s/ubjejcttfor ’ As aﬁwhole th‘ele‘ct’ure appeared ‘to*gi've“ev‘en“ more satisfac— 0 . 0 ~T:em INDIANAPOLIS SUN.-0-.-Th'e1ead.i«n §Be'eche'r. "Read Bewenis own ’statemen;§0.ie’ the,_’t”elegraph\1c' so ' fdispatches. Bowen is one of the ﬂock——'a:l'Plymouth"‘saint4¥' “ Ebut‘ like allthe rest of us, having *to die, is rath3er?=charry of 1c,ronr.«§. 1'03 0dl:"i03?"l‘1.l".105"1' é°1d@ﬁ\°l5l!1i0D8' 111; '5 §;pu*blish herzliifelstorygas.given xin-0-a:fM‘emphis ‘jp‘a~pe’r. ‘ . If? all: : .:t.h:ab.ig publishedin the papers of the lan0d,*in regard-to; her *"fals'ehood.».S1aI%d-.61? and.12itserne.s.s..sashes no other W.o.I.n.an_0i:n= ~0A; Men’wxrH9Ur.A1sI0sNEM¥++Hesve11:heir a3ma0n0wh0o05 010m: V nrsuen,an.0iuc11vidua1 evfef .s.u00°0.<?¢?8‘.1i9d ;W§ .51.10u1d »b<?0,s1.a0.<1 W "" ' S im"0s;'e9i1is'thr0ush0the:? Eerewaieg‘ an who *di1ffer' withihinﬁ *rnst,"again,' is another dence to stand its ground.‘ . Take what time 1-you please to make up your mind; but having made it up, stick to it. I married a widow who had a grown up daughter. : My father visited my house very often, fell in lovewith my"step- daughter and married her. So rnyfather became my son—in—— 1aw,.an.d.0,my step-daughter iny mother. beeause=:she0,.was» smy fathe,r’s-,Wi1’..e., Some time after my Wife had a.~.son; herwas my. fathersrbrother—-in-law, and my uncle, for he wastheibrother mother is his grandfather, I’ Was*5‘my own grandfather,0—— Mrs. E*Iou‘gh,a. lady who died i__;1hVA'1,._3x'Va4‘11- . aria, Va., at the age of ninety-sedven_ years, wasonevof the -few women of the country who have cast a‘vote ifox-,_; a_j;1?&;‘geg;i_ 0, dent. She grew up to womanhood in the State of _,1§Ie'w‘ Jar- soy, where she was born, and when of age she atst"t“sete ‘fei- A _’l‘h'o'm-as Jefferson for President,‘t‘as"a‘ propert O V O "/1 in that State then entitled a woman to vote. .~ 0 Ir children were paid for all=,the0.wo=/r.k vthzey do from i..t';he instant, they begin going alone. the y might accumulate 0large wealth before the age of ten.- na. ‘H'm‘rs‘em:‘ ‘er Ls:-am”: f draw 1....s:..;lilvv;.£.....;sex; Qgiiilfwltlp/1II9{ Slaysp,.tliere/"9fre000nvotd her-if/tnegjs cheWB.}%-Nogfivistown0Hc&‘dld}; - 1j'ecently,’ls’aid‘":’ j_.“’I£* ‘theyouth-' that has just ‘strewn t V hat egg in the window will wait till service is over;)l;e0,w i-11.0.1ea“1r,n ylvation off. his; Soul.” . 0 A SPEAK'InG of :1 young 'g,i‘rl”who had married W55’? been p saidwi-th enthusi/333301 to Major Bundy -of 0‘ the New York Mail.“ Yes, duty to‘ ’ 0 0 0 0.“.And will she be happy ?” Iasked. ‘ “—Perfectly.”’ was the reply.» ”“she predilectiouin a. montlror so.,.a0nd thank God o every night for having enabled her to do so.” « S 0 EDITORIAL‘ ivo,'r1oEs., 0 i it ‘ have received from it Mrs. Hneath 11 her knees 1 the “Potomac Co—opcra.tiVe Colony and Medical Uni to be located at Free Stone Heights, Princelwllliam Va., but too late for extended notice in this numb can say merely nowthat itis a grand.ente_rpri_se. 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It has been clearly shown in our present 861188“ of leadin g articles tliatit repre- , sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spirit spheres in a. common brothe_rh,ood,, and the establishment thereby of the luniversal, human. £8,-111115’ .- 113 also‘repre_se_nts still another and more important truth which hasgnot,-yet_been ,introduced,«vbut«.w.hich, deMf1ned_~=in a few words, is, God in -man reconciling the world -unto._l':Iimself We adopt this diagram as emb1e1l3W5.i°i~ 9.355 0111' future WW‘ l the church did at ﬁrst in the Beecher case.‘ ‘ ting the self-same error. M body who says a word against the reality of Mrs. Stewart's FRAUDULENT MATERIALIZATIONS. _ Messrs. Pence, Hook and Connor, of Terre Haute, the special defenders of Mrs". Stewart of Materialization notoriety, make a mistake equally as serious and fatal to their cause as It was held universally, that whoever believed that Mr. Beecher was an .enemy—to Christianity." But three years have proved that those who didnot attempt to bolster up the church by sus- taining Mr. Beecher, were, after‘ all, the better christians. These zealous defenders of Mrs. Stewart are now commit- They take the position that any- materializations is an enemy to Spiritualism. Let us warn them that it will not require three years to show that they are more at fault than was the church in atteempting to de- fend Mr. Beecher. And it will come out at last, that they who would rid Spiritualism of a whole army of leach- ‘ ifng frauds, instead of attempting to cover up and hide every discovered deformity, will be accounted to have been the only consistent Spiritualists, while the converts to Spirit- lualism made through deceit and fraud, willbe placed by the exposure, in a worse relation to the real truth, than before were converted. If Spiritualism and its progress re- quire that deception and lies shall be practiced, in order that may maintain itself, then we say, let it fall, and the soon- er the better. The reason that it has not already fallen, is because behind all the frauds and lies that have been palmed ._ loﬁ‘ in its name, there is a truth which cannot be crushed, let ' whatever weight there may, -be put upon it. Spiritualism— the fact thatspirit life is a reality, and that under certain conditions, it can make itself manifest to human life——wil_l i live long after all fraudulent practices shall have been sunk in the oblivion which theyso well deserve. , j Two weeks ago we published the communication (‘if Mr. Cadwallader et al. The editorial which appeared last week Lwas -intended for publication with the communication, but at the moment of going to press, it was found‘ that the printer had failed to put it in type. We now see the “provi- dence of’ that failure. The notice published at the foot of the communication informed Messrs. Pence, Hook &; Con- rior (whom we shall style the committee) that something unpleasant to Mrs. Stewart might be expected and betrayed The wisdom that 2.8 from “M60 136.7/.8 ﬁfst pure’, menjtihem into the writing of the letter, which we publish in another column, and into a confession which justiﬁes all that was said in the editorial. This letter though not intended for publication, was written by one of the three gentle- men named, but undoubtedly at the instance of them all. We shall assume that the letter represents the sentiments of the committee. So far as the letter relates to Mr. Cadwal- lader andthe persons signing with ‘him, we shall saygbut little. They are able and willing, no doubt, to take care of them- selves. We may, however, call attention to one fact : Mr. Cadwallader guardedly refrainedthroughout his whole letter :from making any positive assertions. He said in substance fdtstinctly, “ After making as critical tests as the restrictions her committee would allow of, I was conscientiously forced to the conviction that the matcrializations were frauds.” The committee say theft he is a ‘.‘,fool” and a §"‘ falsiﬁer.” How has -he falsiﬁed ? How can they know that he has falsiﬁed ? Can they say that Mr. O. was not jconscientiously forced to the conviction that the manifesta- tions were fraudulent ? We say again,—HoW dare the com- niittee to say that Mr. C. falsiﬁes, {when he guardedly lrefrained from saying more than that he is convinced that there is fraud? The error that they have committed is ;si—milar to that which Mr. Beecher committed against Mr. {Bowen-. Mr. ‘Bowen said that he believed Mr.’ Beecher to ’ , i;be"gui1ty' of adultery, perjury and hypocrisy. Mr. Beecher- fsaid that Mr.’ Bowen lied. How could he know what Mr. §.B‘owcn believed? How can the committee know of what lilr, CM. is convinced ? A , M, At the outset, we wish to deny the charge that we are Mr " Zrejudiced against Mrs.'Stewart. -We bear no -prejudices , ‘against anybody. We care only for the truth, and that, we , la.lways‘love, and are always willing to endure whatever- penalty may follow for its defence or statement. ' We idespise and hate a lie, whether it be in the form of a verbal hntruth, a false life, or a fraudulent, spiritual manifesta- I itidns, and are willing to suffer further, aswe have had to do ' int-he past, for exposing them, if it , must be so. In this particular instance,-we should probably have not interfered, ' at;all,~. had we not seen. that those who know. better were be.- ‘ Zfore the public endeavoring to sustain Mrs. Stewart. Tordoa r i this was an openlcleﬁanceito us. We had hoped that others lvvho know what we know, would have saved us from doing l " is Ewhat we felt called upon by duty to do, by coming before fﬁthe public with their statements. But we fear that the ' ispirit manifested in the committee's letter, to cover"up the fevidence of fraud among mediums, is c‘omm‘on "to Spiritua- Qlists‘ generally. Under this conviction, we came at last ‘re-T‘ iluctantlyto speak, but not until in all t_heM.Spii-itual‘p:ap.efs,M Edefsnses of Mrs. Stewart had appeared. These papers are,‘ ‘nodoubt, perfectly honest and honorable linadmittingrthése defenses. Their editors have never seen Mrs. Stewart’s ‘manner .of.presenting spirits as we have seen them.» But will" they, when they read the confession of the committee, that . the seance in which Mrs. Stewart was exposed at Chicago, wasa. fraud, continue to bolster her up’? But what does this committee say in this letter? First they acknowlledgethe Chicago fraud. Second, that she Mrs. guilty of the charges preferred against him, was perforce,‘ mittee, Pence, Hook & Connor, and that they have the ability, ﬁnancially, and the will to do it, to sustain her against all and every attempt to crush her, let it come fromwhatsoever source it will.” Then if she is to be sustained at all events, what we may say will do her no harm ; but it seems to us not look exactly straight. Mllir. Pence saidthe samething be- fore the Chicagoﬁvpose, and backed it by an oﬁer of $1,009., though--"the exposure was complete. Perhaps if we knew in Mrs. Stewart's Mmaterializations, or how we expose our be“_‘ asses,” and to show.our.f‘ignorance,” and to rec_eivLe the “ contempt of sensible people who have taken the time and proved these thingsfor themselves.” , We didrtake the time to prove these things for ourselves, and that was 110? a very long time, either-—‘not more than a half hour." jA.11<,l- to —be applied to-,Mrs-.l Stewart nﬁwhﬁhﬁt we applied. to hot Chicago, the "frauds made evident than would be made .evi.-_ scribing such conditions as prevent all positive ‘tests, and, safety. , But say the committee through this letter,. ‘f I admit on was not right.” .We should think so, for what was there on the surface at that time ? ,Why, there were false faces, false hair, false moustaches, rings, bracelets, laces, and whatever else of “ properties” for “make up” that were required to present a goodly number of spirits and to have successful materializations. We think there was quite enough on the surface to show pretty conclusively that there was little mediumship under the surface. “But,” the letter goes on to say, “ are you prepared to say that at that time some ‘-Diakka ’ may not have had the control, or that some sion?,” Well, No! We are not prepared to say this. On whether the “ Diakka” were spirits from the other sphere, ‘or still living in the forms of those on earth, is another question. We do not believe that all they “ Diakka” are out ‘of the body. Again. “ Or suppose she did on that occasion do a great wrong-, and which she repented of and never did again, are you prepared to-crush her for that one act?” As Messrs. Pence, Hook and Connor are going to defend her at all hazards, and at whatever cost‘, how can‘ she be crushed? We have no desire to crush her or anybody." But we shall speak the truth about her, and draw the logical deductions from that truth, let it fall where it may, on her or on those who are determined to uphold her. ‘That “one occasion!” Now isn’t that rather presump- tious? 4 One occasion, only ! I-Iadn’t she been giving the same materializations days’ before that one occasion? Do the committee’ wish it to be understood that, whileon that occasion the manifestations were fraudulent, the same manifestations upon the preceding days were genuine‘? Iwherefore, all that paraphanalia? Why were they there on that occasion, if they had not been there previously? And :why were they there at all, if she had not resorted to them -before she went to Chicago? Or will the committee assume, that on that occasion, as the spirits, themselves, itheir absence‘ might not belmissled? But if this were the fcase, why should "the medium have made such efforts to -hastily conceal her “ properties ” when the cabinet was put aside? Now does’nt the committeeknow that Mrs. Stewart was provided withall these things before she went to $Haute, previously deceived even the committee, for we will notde them the injustice to believe even, that they were aware of the fraud before it was exposed in Chicago? lwhy conceal them in and upon her person, if it were not }for fraudulent purposes? ‘And when did she‘ obtain them? Not for that one occasion surely. The committee may assumethat she did, but if they do, it will speak little for their good sense; nor will the public be likely to see with their eyes in thisbusiness. Isn’t it clear that Mrs. Stewart ‘went to /that seance provided with those things with the M,upon those whom her false professions should ' entice into }paying her a dollar in the hope, of realizing the most, sacred ;experiences of life? And if she did do so, when, will the icommittee assume that she changed her genuine mediumistic power for this thin and wicked pretense? No! The action of Mrs. Stewart wasthat’ of a practiced, an expert, actress. She came to ‘ that seance with all her “ mediumistic prop’- erties T’ so carefully concealed that a thorough search failed" '_to discover whatllher M after-haste betrayed. Think .oMf_it Spiritualists of the country,‘a,medium with moustaches and curls braided into her -own hair» and false faces concealed in her person where none but a woman can conceal them; and then read the committee’s lame attempt to excuse such‘ trickery as the work: of “ diakkaf’ upon that one occasion, and blush for“ your defenders; -blush for your cause ifit need “such defense! r S A l ‘ ' ’ st: here we touch upon a tender spot in the committee. that the committee -ought notto have said just that. It does But we never asked for nor were offered the forfeiture, al- what “‘ asses they make of themselves»’’ who do not believe ‘ ‘ ignorance ” by assuming this non—belief, we might possibly, refrain, but as we do not and :cannot we must continue.to,;— in spite of the dire. calamitieslthat are held in st0re_fo1'f11S.; we mustsay that we still believe that, if the same testsrwerej-M_ dent again. Of course security in this affair lies in pre_-‘ could not appear, they materialized these things so that Chicago, and that it was with them that she had, in Terre. lWhere did she get them; and why did she get them‘; and deliberate intention of using them to perpetrate atfraud‘ Stewart) “has thetfulln and entire conﬁdence ofM:her‘com-S A being thusprotected, the materializations go on i_n_p,erf1eC_;t - the surface at that time (in,Chicag0) it looked as though all M pause that we cannot account for, governed on that occa-” the contrary, we are rather inclined to affirm it, but ’,‘ Mar. 55, l_876. : . - To substantially prove, at least to logically show, that Mrs. Stewart's fraudulent materializations begun when she be‘- gan to give materializ-ation seances, {is to show that this committee were themselves humbugged by her frauds, or. elsethat they were privy to them. They, are no more oer.-. tain now of thegenuineness of the materializations now. than they were.then_. . Indeed, not so certain, since _Mr., Penc.e.; does not now offer $1,000.for her exposure. But: if they. were d.eiceived‘bef.ore, whymaythey not be deceived > new Welcredit the member of the committee when,at..Ghic_ago, with an honest faith in Mrs. Stewart, because he was zcel’.-: tain ‘she could not be exposed, alt1iough.W.e.were_certain‘ that she could be, and that she would be, if theright; method were pursued.‘ _.Had hehad, any doubts he would have objected to our having everything as we wished, and the exposure would not have been made. j . o . - v ?- But doesn’t this member of the committee remember «the: the admission of Mrs. Stewart, that all her manife‘statio=ns‘ had been made 1 in the same way-; andthat ‘she had :ne’ver» had a genuine materialization? . When, will the: committee: please tell the public,-did Mrs —Stewart’s genuine niediuinal ship begin? A Was -it after the exposure of her previous frauds?‘ lAn’d—?if"sol, how long rafter?‘ V And does heJa1so‘wre-:2 member thatshelgave a promise never "to repeat ‘her.frauds=?= For a year or more, so far ‘as we know, she made no public attempt to re-establish her mediumship which fell at Chi» cage; but she is ‘now more prominently engaged in it than ever, and is more zealously defended and vouched for than: Can it be possible that she" has sues- before thelexposure. ceeded‘ in convincing the committee, whom she deceived; before, that she is genuine now? If so ‘how "were:th:e'y con-‘= vinced? /Have they ever proved her as? she was tested at Chicago? There is norother positive test to apply, and- having been deceived ‘once they have no right to go before: the public and vouch for her unless she, can stand the test that exposed her there. A l l r . A‘ It is the‘. most improbable fraud that is practiced upon‘ people when it is attemptedto make, them believelthat a spirit that can appear, clad in garments common to man," cannot be touched and handled and held" until alight can reveal’ of what stuff it is composed; a fraud to ‘say that the medium in contact with material things cannot "be known to be in her place, while the —spirit is inanother place, with-’ out disturbing the’co"nditions andiendangering the medium. The only thing thaticanlbe di'stu5rbed by such’ testsis the fraud, and the only danger to themedium is that of exposure, and it isthe‘ fear of these that makes the imposition of conditions‘ which preclude positive tests, néc‘es_sary.= _‘Under’ the light of the ‘expositions of jmaterializing »frau'd's that‘: ,;nOtVAnm bSteWm_tifu.l1yi.eXpQSed_ at Chicago? havebeen, made,’_we'donot hesitate to say that an audience‘ which will sit quietlyVa.nd'acceptfwhat the medium may have ' “ ' T to. o1fer,_Without the application of positive tests, isjfor‘ s that audience to. pretty. surely be humbugged, , The billy ' limbs“ (‘nip '1’nOS”t bf test is to securethe medium while the spirit is present, and to secure the spirit so that a “confederate” is..impossib:1e.'., Let this be done‘ with Anna Stewart, and we ‘have’ no ’hesit-- ation in ‘assertinglourl most persistent belief ‘ that she'woul-idi be found tobe the same fraud that she confessed l herself asf being at Chicago. 01‘. else that an confederat‘e will be caught} andiIi10re,, that within a year she‘will_be.proven to be such, inspite of all the Spiritualistswhom sheihas made, andjalll to whom she has discovered, as they suppose, their ‘dead’ friends. ‘ .. . . .. ‘ The best people have been deceived ‘W before, and 1 by others. The best people may be d.ecei-ved.,»now, byiher. At the Chicago seance, if we remember,‘each one of the spirits which she exhibited was " recognized, by ,som_e__ one of the audienCe,- Let Spiritualiits; 10.91:. .o'ver,ﬂie lhiétorytbf, materi_alizations,,and see what, has h'g.ppe;:e;1_‘,1;1, ,_do,‘z,ensf'of cases when this test -has been . applied. “Not asolitary in-_. stance in which it has failed to discover the fraud...» Look at the Holmes, who so successfully humbugged the-publicssof; long, including Robert Dale Owen; look atthe recent case‘ r in Memphis, in‘ which so good a man as Dr. Watson, of ~the: Spiritual'JIlaga2J.'ne, ‘was fully deceived. — Tl1‘e"; spirit-_ ‘was seized, and fa light revealed‘ the medium, “' ﬁxed ’f to rep,‘ sent a spirit.‘ p. And so on through the whole list’ Let‘ determined persons, who will _not be frightened: attend Mrs.,Stewart’s seance, andrupon’ 9.. signal:;,se_ig_e ‘the. spirit, and they will, was we ﬁrmly believe, eapture.~either Mrs; ‘Stewart or a confederate... When» the-. spirit. walks about the room again with one of the audienc‘e,‘Ias related in the Banner by Mr. ‘Pence, let it be invited to_asejat'with‘t‘ne audience, and let it dematerialize from the"se“at,"or reihagiﬁ with them permanently. ,,Why retire to the Cabinet to de. We cannot. conceive a‘ consistent_and, equitable ._rI why any person should lose faith in our,.,sincerl;t we speak whatwe ,».kno.w:. about . AJ1na.SteWart,~gand,. dra. l 3 the separation of the sexes»: I3¥‘f< 7 4 . ‘ 1 ‘ When ‘we. use these ,terrn‘s, we“ cannot each time declare . .- }what:we”intend teconjveyjby we have oftenenoiigh, , ’“ _ p .. , fstatediclearlyl, whpatlvveiuseitheselﬂnlﬁltotpiriean, but ‘smtngeg : logical conclusionsfromasuch knowledge.w If.'b.y.so_tdoj.n“gj ' ‘ ’ ' " ' W" " W’ ’ ’ ‘ ' weshall lose any ifrieirds; we canlisay‘, they‘.-are slbetterrflost * ‘ ,,‘t..,"_}..‘* a%ssured:.of*l~what theiivcoursegwilllbez u-'l‘.hey are .?“'ﬁrm bitter end.” ~. Thatiis plain; nobodyican mistake whatsthat smeans. But if the success of our mission to humanity de- pend zuponlour silence about this matter, Ithen it will have to .-fail-,f for,knowing.what We do, we becomerindirectly respon-‘ awhich wereiexposedat=€lhic,agoA;.; i 3'I‘his~.:lett‘er speaks’-o of ~ :de—fense‘ ‘-of :onrselves= Imaderrbyl the . be.c_ause_;.he believed in what: we were doing; not because he had entrapped us in any.fra‘ud. ,vWesfeel.very..-so1"ry that we : é.rQ"t0 lose th-isrwriters good-will 3in.»t-he, future,’ for in spite ,<i>f‘; the contradiction which seems; clear to; us,.we"have a1-: : as forgthe \ extraordinary; matter. .of i the letter: itself, . for if it speaking theitruth. = .:, the. _slet:t.e1‘.~ Which we print,;~iand that-= such extraordinary l‘16..9«Su.res=.~;.asr ,.that:lett’er -announces. are to be-‘ used to sustain Cadwallader’s article, informed. them-of what» might be ex-. that we “deliberate well.’T We have done this, and we ,5w_ould be .a.~ ff bomb ”.), will. now inform -the public. it‘ what ivve have said: about Anna Stewart is not.true.~ In short, was A‘ 4 7. GT3 .. . 'MAltRlAGE»AND— nrvoncn. ..-H ;’ gwho do.,not r;ead- ..o.r.hear all that is -.said:by.- the party. dis- " jacannot ;'W_i.lihl3-.~.C.€I’t3.i\1:1ty' know ‘in what sense their author.-f i uses, .tli_em.:. .Indeed=,. vrriters fare . themselves. sfrequently ale: {most cognpe1led.to.use.=th'e =.sam:e. wordto mean: adiiferent : f ﬁthing; at;.diﬁ'erent.;times:_: : This has been specially.e-vident. zin. fourgartieles uxpon..the.-.b‘ibl§e... : : .When an opponent’s. position fthe same religionhs onrownul . stance, .when: we speak of a‘noft~h'er religion, l-wedo‘ -not. mean sT;hi;S.v130Yerty of words. withwhi-eh to?j»convey.:ideasf has ~;-.(,1i¥’;01fce.L»tToione;w.ho;uses the word: .l.ov.e to am-can any “.,I,39,1a,«t‘i-0111:;betWeeI1;the.-s.eXes thatgmay occur . in. marriage,’ the ‘use to .Wl11.c~ 'aI;other;who,=dpe;s:inot; believe in. any ;:la‘w,;f.or d.$Y9.iC1i»9.1°.-A 1?«W- . r eV.ertheless;:1narriage. IQ)a«‘y:~’.Yb.e5f:118.e.'d~."é J properly.to ,me,an.the union of thelsenes Nvhien :.th‘e%.-la not invoked; and .a separation of thoseawho havehneye *1ess11.r.marr.i.ed. .ma.v he properly-des~ignated,as divorc gal marriage or divorce, andwthey then meant the union an than saved; for friends-who cannot stand the -tr’u’th,~‘a‘re3 ut ‘ ‘ ' M enemies in disguise, who at any moment are’liable*to‘dese’1‘t ‘ pi i_ ‘ind: bﬁtlfay us.‘ ,We_pr,efer to, stand alone withhonor and tdrutlnqn, our side, than to stand with.,.the, have nothing; but falsehood and, decéit§«ur.on, Which. is 91?? -. '- 1 . ' » - =r ' ~ , .v 43:, We do not expect, nor do we *speak,7 hoping -for: any» pe1“- W. - spnal beneﬁt from what we have said about Anna Stewart: andthose who defendher; on the contrary we‘expect j " of what_the committee say shall follow us. Wears at’ least ’ .. .. 1i¢’5a!i¢TiiiY.§f. 3i1afriaeéi'ai1€1' d,i$lié1iéf iﬁC{dif- _ By‘ ‘r!easonof':',tliese ,circurnstances,' 'we‘are"’con: st inéd ‘t_._ tnisaime ffriends.:of..AnnaaStewart’s, and w-‘ill=l«=ﬁ.g.ht her battles to the sglble : for zwlratwae :believe»‘ to be a .repetition: of thefraudsi , .rit.er.{...v'»rInzthename of : thew‘ causevwhieh we .represent;. we :a:r.e’oblige~d:for.- all such wordsi -that may have been.:=spoken';‘ ﬁvayslesteemed-him to bela thoroughly -reliable and honor-. zftbley gentleman, and we arersatra-loss <to.account for his pre+= , sent .a.nom'alous. position, as spriesented in. this = letter,». as well A . gniean an‘ything,..ithat meaning‘ is intimidation. ag‘ai.»nst;» . .80, far as Anna V_ Stewart is :involved.,. lweare‘ sorry to have; t to speak against her‘. .She- -ebehavediwell at; Chicago; took: all the.blame,: and shouldered all the :responsibi_1i-ty-,2 and did" not put panythingupon anybodylelse: ‘We admire her. for ‘that. atpleast. We have no doubt that she is imediu-mistic,.and be,-. - ,1,'n‘g»so,»it.i_s hard to tell where .. h-er’ responsibility begi‘ns.: »But..it is nothard "to, tell where that of . the other parties be-= . gins and ends. ,Mrs. Stewart would never have dared to. give. sittings, formaterializations», ‘unless .she,ﬁrst~. had the conﬁ-l ilence_eof:.tl.1i's committee, who knew-= of her previous. deceits,.. restored; '1‘-‘hat t-heyhad counted oniour’ silence, "is clearlfroml Mrs . Stewart‘; shows thatthe “announcement at theclose of , pected if we should speak. The letter closes with the hope, hope that this committee, -sincethey have made such haste. ,to.,intimidate,«usv i from speaking the truth (what they knew ~thin=gs*-~ to conduct dis-1 ’ §cussi-olxlsrelating to reforms,-in which the nomenclature of. Iithatwhich isbe reformed entersllargely into. such discus-.~ sion,; and attlie. same time to be; fully understood by those; fcussing. , “ Diiferentpersons. -use; they same..wo’rds: to convey; . ,diﬂ:'er;en:t .id_eas-,, and whenthizrdparties read the ‘.WOIldS they; 318. ?sta...t.QC1I'; t:he,.-.use ~o£=‘ cértai-ns;vvo.rds.:..d.o {II0l3gDf1éal.'1 ;the: same: ;;thing;.thatIthey meanv.when',stating.:.our own position.u For in-: 3. >19;Y§, «,YVQ|l1<.1.'<.1.1Qt: be ..evident.;,unless . that ~m.ea~ning. were deg-T fined; and_ the some is :_true ;of marriage 'and,;divorce:, , Mary, A rl@»£.¢«. $1.1d.;'»di_VQ1‘QB.:«iH.§$ 1e»ga1n.sense, mean-something .alt;o ' g§t..11..er2diﬂ“erent?f1‘9Intheir.;_meaning..in~the sense which S’ . deed, these,te1:ms:were.i11.11setlong. «beforepthere:.Was;an5?i V .;¢?ii.¢‘é baggie. to‘ .SWt~T 511135? .h°llffl’°§iii9ﬁi é r'~3'~: There are various grades of love, andjconsequently a great variety of manifestations corresponding to; all the dif- 5 ‘ﬁrm. But when rsopl ﬁller‘? can be..no. id69«1~P1,%.e‘.1T=ai‘10Y6 ,w1:1i<;1s;1il.m v12;he=;.su1;I., iWhen- the law’-bindsi people together,~1.ove loosens ‘its; tender hold upon them; 3’l.‘herefor‘e,“whe'n. lovewcannot hold men, iack-ing forceps: ~ 1: A ijzonsonant ;-with, our 1'iidBa'.i0f.3.:W3hﬂﬂ its: ought ; "to ,beL_;,; two, zcrieative natures. If woman?» ‘rightly. comprehended it that is -«reqiuired vbypresent laws and! customs, .t:h'a.n~th,i;s ;'of love is openly deseerated‘. . .Srl1e.. whdshould .,never,b,e;- .‘come. a mother save under; the I hig‘he,st<.and ,divinesti_n— fvvhich‘ shenis to 'become_ so, before the vulgar: public gaze; and asks its sanction,s=its. permission, its license, when she ’ ‘fa.W.onder. that they are asgood as..»they¢are,?., :- §':orde‘r; when womangzjhas-*n‘o means-= of : support» save :that. ;j-of=ma‘rriage4—‘for> ‘that ~ is, iafterv a1li.fthat’- may «be i said, what fwhiins"of‘ man; to be"cast<out<,Uwhen”-he .ha"sﬂ.ruined.' her” nipon theicold ’chari~ties= of the”: world, 'deS'p0il.gdﬂ; oﬁ all ‘meg- I ‘Therefore there —~sh'ouldlbe some protection ‘guaranteedrgto ,§h;er,ibut’ it shoulil/be:~entirelyvof a hivil zcharactert, and the: 5p'ow:er.:; to; vvhich¥ resort’ '1 -may Lproperly beehaldi sshouldsrellate; lwollfy toithings outside‘ 'Vo’t';1ovie<.:! =She.-~.sh:ou-ld%be an equal partners in all: property, W and; until ‘the States‘ shall: .,make it vunnecessary, they ‘should-‘be required :to.::prop'erly= care . for echildr'en..i5~A?’l?1- this should enter intocontract.which.:each» duired to’ conform to ‘a4 general form.» .. . « ébees «specially: iiiustrated recently in me.:.,department.»:or ¢611r1e*svh0ﬁ1i1‘lmaké -f0r*themS©1Vé9;* iﬁsteadvofraill be‘iI.1s:re- isocia1ref0rm.- i.N0:M:0r-dissvare moreiliableto be’r.artedvfr0m~._ , up ,_ _ . _ . ’ V Ft_h_eg meaning gforwhich they are used_ {than .:1ove,. *mam.9,ge [If women unfderstood all this, ‘andtrknevv’tliat‘they’were' [liable to 'b‘efdeserted-'—‘thlat the worn-oﬁtllwiréj» feould »b‘e"-idi¢s- placed iirtlie husbands :_aifectio[n’s‘ by the fresher’ ‘rival‘—'-its ‘it l__iio“t clear, that they be "ce_rtain7,n*ct ‘ to bemadé’ ‘~worn‘- :o’u‘t‘ ‘vvives; ‘is it ffnot‘: evi‘dent_,ji ay_e,;=se’1£:‘évrdeht, «uteri. they 1 * 4 ieserve tlién_1selv_es_‘ always fresh and‘fair'; ‘that they 1 ‘"r"permitltliemseiv‘es‘J]t‘o ‘lie débaiilched by lust ‘or hi1d4bear,in“g. '“ But now, finithéiriseéining security , Qt‘ imagine ‘ that ‘they'lrave’ any‘future ‘to? proivide . ... pron nef1o:1’gei~* has*the"5 attractive U ée1§s.gelsévtn?ere rorétnarzor *1: an , save'in’ '1eg_a41 rarer? and cen;ss’fdivférce&"ribm her.‘-‘ This-is weiladinabelieiiegiui.1egaIilmérfiés‘e‘lheithersoiweebéi '1;ie$fé,ii1*lefgfej1<ii’wz; ; ‘4The‘§ide'ajthat“twfo‘ _persons‘w?ho‘ha'vé xdvea éaI€%1.1';'°t1iﬁ51’? an ifi'iSh'tf<> K5e“’.isar‘fié6;Eiiiteifhé hope ofv‘livin‘g" tpgetheij: fo"r;li,fe,i should be‘c‘ompelle‘d5tt3’ 7 ;d1vdi*ce,iis enough to sicken every’ ‘at; lea*stf,* iéf‘ the‘ thought of entering ’ into wha;t'”'1'nay‘Iead ‘to’: its ‘necessity, religion., very properly so. = :It»may be usedt irepreset the relations of the people in all stages of som'al development- , ferent grades. ,_ Love.,is theaproper narnefor allt11ose,mani- 1 ifestations which roccur,alongsithetyvhole lineof social, de l . epment- It is lathegyﬁtracrtipnz’sbetwesn th;e......nositir9.-and .i - ‘léegativez fences» o.fr»natu}re,.. an<1,...i.ssr>resent... everywhere e;"ini.1..I.a-. < ‘f§éure.: It iivs.1~i}ke heat ,C1=,(?,x1,dsv:01,'.1i?k.‘.3 g4<.>..<>d. or bad, .«a..re1atiV:s. is urged a§9x.1'9f.0m.4:.121l‘?i1‘,.1QY§. it is fan. invitation to .eXh.i151tr'a:.l1ishsr~m?d¢17.: and when .W.,-es speak , ,but~we: do n0t‘<WiSh ..itlto;be.understoo‘d that: this defense::«§f;_tl1e,,love of ‘the, future, we mean thatlove, above {which v,l§las._.any.sueh=:. ‘applicationitoius as the defensei.of.Mrs: 3 Stew-» C q ztrt:,has.to h‘er.R*7: What was this defense? Was it the.:denial;>hles_ses all upon, whom;.its,benignantVinﬂuences fall. Be-, ‘that-wegwereswhat the ..writer.»kn:ewvus* to; be ;. and :was this» side such love as this, all lesser loves are lust. f in glﬁgnowledgie thatfwe. were deceiving the -people,.as‘ he has ' A gSi.CKEQ'W1edged‘“i’ﬁ towbe the case ‘with a. Mrs. Stewart ‘in The ; fauorabletwordsrthat he has. spokenhave been so spoken: r r Soiwhen we ~ say we believe ' :in‘ sand contend for the ‘sanc- tity ofmarriage, we‘ do ; not see how any can mistake us to inean: :1egal~x1narriage.‘ .We.—.do~*;not..‘believe «in legal~mar— . riage, as we have said-: a « thousand? times ‘or. more. 1 A bond . that is strongeniough to unite two‘ peoplezwho o.u.ght to live i together. at all, cannot be =..streingthened.;:by. any sla-ws.‘ :‘,.=I'_n-7 . deed,» we have come:to..tlZ1e. ﬁ-I1I11'.§C£)n.VlCtl0n that thelllaww ‘ iveakens ‘ » real’ ‘unity ‘of all ; wihov invoke- itsupibehests. . and women together, law should not attempt to;:,supp1y., me i. ‘~ .We have ~beeii;”oftenv asked to ‘resent a form of? zurasrriag./e. lIna;a... proper. ‘order-- ‘of: : ‘societysthere - should :be_' a no - r form ,. at; :g1,1'_,_ . existence Tand "=IJflt7rt11lI1: ntecogniti’onf.of love betvs';ee_n:}the:, sexesl is». all the ifor:’nr—-that ought" .to:exist.n -Form, .;li.l<.e.,,,la2gv,., acts1.t’o iinvalidateAthepowergof; love; V Anything»;so:sac1'ed ,as, , loiveshcuéld be,‘ .andashould~theheildwto:be,.is.vdesecrated by .. tiny attempt to circumvent it,’ or -to.:r>.com.pel it to . conformto . legal ‘regulations.:»— Love is V divinity“: is; God in. ;the.- human, seeking to establish. thexequ-ili;brum« between; his. this divinity,; she could; no more; make l the vulgar ;.»paradje of. divinity, would i seek sassociat-ion in the lowest; I:'anvges,0f~ existence. 1 vM§arIriag_e,: with the womanvrof.-,to-.da“y, is alto_,, gether la thing of outward sem-b.Ianc.e', in vwh-ichyv the;san,ctit_y, fspiration of God .:Him;self,v now parades, the_ , methods ‘by. V should only seek. its blessing. :Is -it any wonder that chil-p ’ édren are no better than they are, when their getting must be through so much legal‘ form and r‘eli'gijous ceremony to “ fgwhich the instincts of love must conform? Is it not rather ‘Wesay inia 'p‘rop'er< order of «'¢soc’iety".. I ~*Bu:’t in thelpresenti ,3'which~she"c'an igainby’ the‘ oﬁer -of her. body, either ll1:01‘. out {modern social i relations . amount to—*+some securitys..seems' ‘necessary. <3 ~SheV - should not be ileft. wholly subject to etheﬁ. jifpowers to gain from others what she first gained. from him” each ' other,l’4‘thron"gh’ ,th;e”sluh1's' an'ii"“sevve‘rs or a rial for. ' and does deter.-itholusafndsd fromlseuekingitodfreez themselves d not to unite,. then there will be no need either for ‘provision. ‘ or divorce; but We shallbe as the angels in‘ heaven.-V s W 0 0 1) no 1. L, is icnar L ,1 N__’S Mar. 25, 1376. i justly -de‘scr»i.bed Fit7:~ » ; - r . , .. , . ' « “ Wishing each‘ other not= divorced but dead.” A divorce which 2 is i1o’t e cons‘pira'cy° between the parties to it is an latte-ri1pt""at' iiioral‘ imu-rd-at-=7 foroneior -the other of the parties‘ to ‘it-—'thhst?se -ipre?v“ea.‘ tote: a «thing "beneath the contempt bf tseeiiety?-herere? it‘“;éanebe5grante'd. « ‘And yet we believe‘-that ‘tliose-who" ﬁnd 4‘th»‘e‘nise‘lv-es -‘bo:1*1’—nd“ together with- outtlie -«Ievfs -that 'sarictiﬁ‘es?‘_thé“-uiniting ‘should separate; and- this is to be‘divorc'ed;" 4 ‘sit-’il , gvegaiztwe believe in the = possibility-or unions for which:-'ther’e‘should‘ beho provision for divorce’, because "theie wouldv be “no need for them. It is these i unions that ‘God; will makei which l to‘ meat can ‘put asunder in the future, "wh"en_'?'l"o’vef shalli comes to know its’ own. ‘ T ";r:‘ ‘. , ’ ’...’>: V; 1‘ Each age of 6 the world .adopts~legaI rulesand regulations which express the common or-dominant: sentiment of the- community. :But . no »-such-‘I rules and . regulations can be ﬁnal and permanent, i until» they become perfect of their kind. All theseindicate. the: degree of progress that social evolution makes. :CN.obody,,whose vopi-nion~.is worth a straw,» pretends that our :present- social‘ I systenris a perfect one. Everybody knows. that it’ n‘1.ust‘:.be improved; that it must be changed, . ~The1"e=wa’.s. “a n "time when legal -marriage was. the best possible form{ of social. life; but that. time passed when woman had‘ conceived the idea /of -‘personal. freedom. . The rapidly developing genius of woman cannot be .-con- ,gigne’d to the slavery ‘which; it eimposesﬁ ~'Ilhere-must be equa1.ity.»established;i and .equality in one department is not possible generally; for the 'sex- untilit shall beestablishe-d in all departments. T V-Make .w.oman'Inan’.sequa1 in the-matter. ofsuppor-t; let her -»‘ know tliatj she: need:=not=. marry ‘for a home; letthe industries be" so organizedqthatrshe shall have equal 'right with man; and».-all‘ rmen equal right w'ith.:'each- other, and then set her free socially,.and she will inaugurate the itrueisocial order,._and man may rest assured that that order will not be one of‘-g.reater,=but of :less, sexual "debauchery and degradation '- than rsthe present. .*And twi-the ‘all this, intelligence‘ must prevail upon allvthetvital «questions of life‘ that havehithcrto been taboed; upon hermaternal func- tions and . responsi‘bi‘1ities,'and‘ "the causes of" her present widetgpread"demoralization ‘in this. regard (doctors tell ‘us that there are-not healthy women in‘ these -respects), then a new order~of~ thin‘gs'wil.l begin to ‘be -borniandethe from marital islaveryr. r -Divorce: now me’an.s,ra;s Byron very wor1d't0ibe‘Iegen°mt°d' iwhenlthere dshau be a science“ sreenbacks. why should that have ‘such a terrible ”resultlas'5 i love developed so that the sexes may~kno.w ‘when and when for marriage or for divorce; then therewillbe no- marriage 4; tr?‘ who Pnvs THE vnxrnivsnst In our last number xtliere’ appeared’ a;n*;’article. over the signature of .“ J. .W. ..T.—,’‘ under =th;e« above caption, criticis- ing -our own -article-— of two W.-eeks.:.pre_vious toe that,.of the same title. J..W.'T; imakes:three_ counts against: our article: 1. That all money lenders andybondh.olders are,-,I10,t in favor of national currency. That if the greenbacks s.hou1a_ be,1-eplaced by National .currency that the interest paid to .,capital would,not.-ibeuincrteased, as we had stated. 3. That to payoff-the bonded . ,debt»wi,t.hj greenbacks would i amount to re13ul1i9«ti°-11- t . l l . It may .133’. and probably is, true that ;there are individuals here and there who are interested in.ban;k;s,; who lend‘ money and holdbonds, who areenot. in :f§1¥0r of ,retiring_th,e green- backs and issuing more national currency :; and there may be instances where banks .1.I.1ay.desi'_1ie~t_.0. surrender .their national ~ charters and reorganize as [State banks. ,But does this make‘ our statement any -less tr11ee?- Not at; all..There is. a, part ofthe people of:.the.c01111.t1‘5F . W110. are‘ kno.W:I1e.1o.: ebe, ' in favor of greenbacks bec.oming.—the, nati0nal.c.urrency, and, . 0PP.03ed to -them :a“d.?R1f9Ye31‘1¥1g ;lhei¥~P01iCY.» .33 F13-at .p°rti°h acent only, titszvalue. is all.:the. same untouched. . '1‘-hevalue = knownas na:ti0I1_1?»1.,b9IzI1k, currency P’11'tY- 1 if i.lS>’1d7l7 Q13/.b3i1k people. and those who ; 5“.PP.°T‘: them» .Wl19.ra9F ..m.9¥a national. bank; asrrsnsxé an«.1.Wh.° t11e.sr¢¢9hacks ref tired, -who are they who do ?» ..,A.“.‘1~‘?“PI?f’S¥? that the rates}: backs were}t0._be retired, would not .more..nat:iona1 csrrensy inevitably issue; ..5!3.1.1.‘} .AW°ll1d,.v...?1l?5 _.t-1.1d.‘.?: lbﬁtllks. i3S1l‘h1:g;v it.,b¢57’ ? obliged to = deposit. mftzre. b..‘m-dS‘ ‘V1.3 .7-t;1.*-9} : S°Y°€3?-lﬁﬁﬁt obtain it; .andi_vvQu,1C1, n<>,t;t11,6I6’11#W6» .t‘o..be .b911<1al3'o11[sh. of . ments? If the debt of the government were in non-interest’ their country , and they begin to ‘understand howtliey Want M the capitalists to now do their part, andinot require them to ~ ‘ ‘ toil year after year to produce the surplus wealth.by- which ‘ ithesebonds and their interest must be paid,‘ if ’ theyare‘ paidzat all.:..; .- A. » sWe.also. hold-lthattithe second. proposition is equally 'true.. If more. currency.nwere' to ‘be. issuedto replace greernbackis* .-the -bank-men mightcgo again into» the zmarkct? 'an‘d:*bu5y': bonds; but in the end the money that wouldjzbe thus used» twould.-bfe eventually invested -in. governent bonds uznot‘ yet .:ijssued“and;.sold‘. He.nce,.What. wish the: diﬂferencevwliether it: pass: from the bank-men directly to the governm.eut'?:€or»‘ new bonds, or through two orthree hands before -it” ﬁnally lodges there- Let. it. go whichever sway it gmightgthe zfact at the end would be that there would be a $1,-000',000.000. more bonds ﬂoated - than ...-there are. now,: if’ there-wereso-' much ~more national currency in -circulation‘, "and. lit? this Were ‘so, then there -would be an additional interesti'on“the— increased bonded debt, and there would also-Vbe thevin-. creased interest on the circulation in the hands of theipeople,’ for the banks would not put out their money without in-" terest. So where is.“ the fallacy of this kind of vreasouing ‘P’? :.- It is the same kind of is fallacy as ‘was our‘.other.proposi-T“ tion; to wit, that" the i .labo'ring‘ classes pay all * ex'pens‘es" ﬁnally.-~ To besure, ‘the rich turn the money over: to”theW government, but the laborer ﬁrst puts it into. their hands. So here although the bank-men would. not buy the ‘bonds - directly from the government, indirectly’ they are? the cause» ‘ of their being eventually obtained. For the reasonvstated. above, we assert .-that the government in equity, in humani- tarian equity, is not justly indebted. to the 'bondholdcrsL.for‘ ‘ their interest; but we-maintain that the accumulated wealth which was preserved the results. of the ;War is the proper“ debtor, and athat the entire bonded «debt ought to be? paid, if paidat all, ,by Ilevyiing upon the accumulated‘ wealth of the country,}"the bonds; included, -in 'a— suﬁicieht amount to retire them. The laboring clas'sesV.fought—- and Won the battles: they ‘gave their l‘iv?es freely;=Lnow« let’-the’ non-laboring classes do something, which they-have not as’7 yet done, toward establishing an. equality‘ between the two classes.- ‘One. class shed its.blocd;. the other class put money in its purse. «. N ow letit take *this‘m'oney—'-out of *its'' purse and pay thewar debt, and not ask theiother ‘class to’ do it, which has already given .so:.1'nuch that -is-.: o’fv-more“ value than money. ~ - 7 e p . . 1- :2: Again. Suppose the boded debt were to be pai'd”in J. W. T. foreshadows. It seems to us to be a self-evi'dén"t' proposition that the less "a-person owesthel better‘ is his‘ credit. Is not whatis true. ofpeople true also"of-—gove'rn~“ bearing notes instead of in interest-bearing bonds, would not its real credit be enhanced? ‘What would be the differ- ence from present things? Why, this. The laboring classes would have their savings‘ increased by the amount of the interest now paid on these bonds, while the‘bondh'olders*‘ would have their - annual incomes lessened ‘by the 'sar'ne«’ amount.‘ All. these things begin «and. end» at thei-’same’ place. They are simply questions "of equity between the producer and thehoarder of wealth. t Bu’t~J. W. T. ?asserts that if there were to be one billion. of greenbacks lissuedfthatr they would. not be worth the paper they would= be 'printed*" on. . Well, if they sh:ou1dinot.b‘e, it would be iall-étheibetteri éomnplétiedi by theﬁrst of April, and maybe opened in ample! ' ‘forthe productiveclasses. -They have no is'peciali%need‘of' a currency. Money is nothing! in ‘reality save -a‘ represents-i tion. of values. and the -sooner.» .it.is ‘destroyc‘d the sooner w«-itllftheresbegfin -to be something like justice for labor. ’A‘bu'sl1'c—l offwheat‘ is worth -just so -much always,‘never.na.-ny more, never any less." ‘It will maintain the lives of _a’-Wgiven n‘umber,:6f iper-5 sons”-za given time. _If it cost a:mi1lion ‘dollars, or if" itcost‘ is in the wheat and -not in. the money by which it is-ta " tempted? to measure it .v ‘ So . the i producer of - Wheat does‘ - care .if it ‘requires .a ’bushel-ofrgreenbacks -to»‘buy1a—busl*¥e‘l- of I wheat, the wheat ‘will alwaysiremain of o‘n‘e‘value to him) And what is trueof wheat is ‘true of every‘ other ‘necessity of, life; and when the currency-of the“ country shall~ come i tbﬂbeimade a representativeiotethese‘real vat1ues,.in¥p1ace*or ‘valueiof the gold myth,%a*nation«al-Wcurrency will-'-have the g-o{v-erI1I‘1f311‘..»:~.b«§3.lf.‘5.r<’.« sou , be ’obtained‘anel the’ distinction betweenlthel laboring and sﬁyﬁ 13hi&tr~ﬂ.1‘3 hank-ms-n.W.en.t1nt.. t1-‘Q-mar eh” ‘b ht -f'l_‘[-Tliere-are many more :qu»esti“ons ssuggiemd dbl’ J .’W.L?'l‘.».Is the bonds} in the first villﬁtﬁﬁ-9l‘%?. .;‘VY§1‘a.l§‘l1’I‘§?.§.?'».*??3¢ lhéli tee») ',Did’..fnot~,G9n‘grs§8 11385-;ﬂ.1—:e1a[‘?Y t-°,1?-llt .thé‘¥-bondsfupoh themarket.--.11nd¢r:l11Q:adVi‘3° 5."-..e».i§tr‘l3.'*’ $1‘ > I T 3} bonds could be. had? A déh9.r.it;v‘;.W3s‘--’it«» between. ..tha :g¢ven1.m¢nt W1. *1!-°~b-A“ became M-a,W..T that 911.9? the latter? .AI.1d.if-iwere 1‘ . --ned.the..govern.meat; . ~:std?E1d V1993 9§*U=hf’< wealth of the .c<_>.untIf>'» sS..§t 4114... . W 51°93. £01‘ the sihewsjer wet. where aou1d,haYe.’b9.ea the necessity, national bank act at all? It was becausewthen government was operated in the, inlﬁrtstsl 0*: th.eW¢t1t1+r.ans1las.against the p<f>or.,that the latter were .€;1»1?a£ted» Whi19th.e:ei9*m9r were given thé opportunity ta .$P9¢‘%l=?~*% the - ',w1.°e$sities.9f th.e:si.tl19«til311-en _1té is.e.f<:>.r..this reassess t.¥he.ilab°?i93s..»¢1aS‘s¢$ object,.i3»11<1 that th¢y..h_sw .1‘.-i.=°='.ht ta b39°_t._». it-° «Paying: on .y“t‘he_}interest..on, these, .l)9I.1.d§».1%‘11;'5. t9 ,tI"?;3’1..”8‘. t.h9:P¥in9i.P31 alo. They have $1-Wdy..l1d’l°::‘5¢il-Paliiltlldlid .Pr'eSj<[afv:ivs .kn0W1¢dg° .i.‘v».i’1‘.‘?".“.-1"‘?°«‘59“7:".1¥9”,9°’?i1ll9i‘¢‘i.??‘?‘l.;*¢?l5—9§‘3:‘JJ communication, but we-eanno”t touch on them no’?w.]W .77 W 4; . '17» . vomafn serrate lV93"31i¥!O9i gained :the,.lov.iV'1ési$1a: .. .We- ‘. The lbi11i.lPa5S‘3.d.. ‘hi? .'H."l‘?¢.'. .»".f».. ¥'i¢Pl¢99¥¥li3liYé5‘.5,l?1"lE T ’ 1}?11Dhant1Y,.l?“l_l,V?S dpefeiafed i,Ii1]t.11<-T’~°é°'3,lIi.8t.°;ibi'§_ﬁi.ai.9rityi‘id£ ‘two. Qne‘ moreltrial and ‘victory”will_beassured.’ ’ ‘A "L V ’In Méssa6h'1iSetts.’th<é Seﬁfate .5150 t.1.<i11ied,‘thé.Iixiiit,é.k1 frage bill, wh'ich ‘thedﬂousenhald ‘passed, the vote heihg i,’1fi‘ftt,$ 19,‘ , ‘Itop‘r_jo‘v,id,fet,1 that wemen_het‘ihg, a property-qugi‘iﬁe&t_ibii might vote fret: ’ e’erte1h_ “o1r1eie1j_s. ‘ it was a’ '_iitqhgie1f;eh$efi;r without any iiriricirl-6 is Tanfd iW=isg defeated‘ 'it...de$ttv.¢il to-be. ,If_ woman can_’not,be nianfs equal as ajciitizcn, remain’ his sieve ‘while,'lon’g"er’, _”until__ she" _i’s'_‘st‘u.ns inltl,,‘.l‘§ir lielliong has L.S’he.‘«$i1i“e1y W111 ‘ bl? teréfﬁtﬁﬁlliyl Fillets’ “maI¥’.S11éi11 awake to la‘ s_éns'e'of his own past injustice,‘ ‘freely, ee- The troublenow is that it is held toibealli _ , V, , there is ofwalue, and that is ‘what is the matter withlthe‘ - A T " money question. This false idea’ has got to be--d’estroyed,i ; X‘ that eemt,"o:;< “Issue, i, i " which all of our Bible discussions» aimed,‘was a physical ‘-fact natural to’ the 'human~body', male andflfemale; ' We “come nowto say, that when -that point shall2ib'e gained, -causes and consequences‘-, then they "will '.'continue in the new development and not fall_-backi-nto theold m‘eth.od of "li-v-ing, vaiid‘, asa consequence,‘will realize‘ perfect physical ‘health and a‘ constant. ‘and .complete‘;recuperation of all icanrcontinuous‘ physical life be secured J = «. l ‘ the human body is an involuntary one-roine prepared ‘by~"God.v—:when he . pitched his holy tabernacle, as St. positivelor.-.the‘ negative—neither the male or the. female‘-——,, can :learn singly 'a.nd=_.alon'e. Each requires the constant viviﬁcationior (fructiﬁcation, iiﬂwe may sjo speak) of itsop-; posits.quality-=—aconstantblending togetherof the t.wo'ele-: ijnents: \0f.‘I18lil.~1l'é', so-that the element sexized “by ma1e.=V0,1‘-' fcriialze digestive processes, may belifted intoliving-.matter, of flifebyrbeing.Nitalized by the opposite power, This will be?._.p‘erf,ormed by the‘ new d."evelopInent,in the relations of thesexses, which, as we have said often,-is-, the hidden mys- tery: of. the Bible; the ﬁnal. secret of life. The‘ physical process—--the voluntary. act of -the present.—-in which all the powers of human nature-and passion areconcentrated to -attain their culmination, will be replaced by a new and higherexperience than has_ever.yet.been realized in the most perfect unity of the. sexes, by whichboth the pleasure. and beneﬁt that are now derived, will_be increased_a hundred- fold; Such is the purity, the virtue, the beauty, the; holi-.. ness, the godliness, to which the new, departure invites the prospective sons. and ldaughters of God- Let this be re- membered as having been said now, before the living rea_lization.—-the actual exempliﬁcation—is made, manifest, because when it shall come, then will be the end of “the present order of thingsfthen will come‘ thennew heaven and the new earth, or, in other words',.ltb_e,new.man, and the new woman of the newldisilerisation. T j »' W. ,.1§I1‘ILADELPHlA. MID: Tl‘ HE: .CENTENNlAL- azreclentviisit to Fhiladelphia, we were ',gr,ati,f_.ied t_o,1eur..n that t;h_~e most extensive arrangementshave been made to ac-, fnommodate «the thousands upon thousands of guests who will visit the city durivngithe great. exhibition. Many new and ex-_, pensive hotels have been erected’ near the centennial grounds; and others in various‘pa.rts' of the ‘city: Amongthe most at— tractive andcentral of tlresle is the -George ‘Peabody House, located on Ninth st., about ‘one block south of the Continental.: It -has "a. large number of very elegant rooms, andthe ‘most feomplete kitchen-arrangement for theaccommodation of a llama number. of guests, that We have ever seen. Prof. 1’alne,, Deane! the;Phi1ade1phIa University Of Medicine aud Sur- gery, A232 9th st., and,the owner of this elegant property, informs usthat he is desirious to sell or rent the house toanj -experienced and aoicomplished landlord; anddwe would aid- iv7ise,any one wishing to engage in‘ ‘a Vﬁdrst-cl'as‘s hotel" en’ter'—- ';pri'é_,‘ to 'é'on'rer “with thedoctor in reference to sit.» 1t will be ?time to reap the beneﬁt of the great exhibition. 4; 4 r 'wr’* liBUsINEss }1‘l0TICESl: rit1§he‘w‘s;"the independent prbgress‘ive 3pli'ysic’ian,iis‘l-'succesiifully' treating‘ nervous ‘and chronic dis: §'eases“all over the counltry by letter. as well as at his oﬂiceat h6ine,"lif*hi§ original system of practice, which omits all :drugs" and-mineral" medicines of both old..Vand2ne.vv«schools. Dr.”Fello,ws.has been steadilygaining upon thewoonjﬁdence. of h-e?pu,bflio;1or the past .ei£:ht.Y~ears, during wphrich-»tim_e_he.has_ pitted,--thousands ,0! cases, eighty out.._,o£ every h_undred oif. y;,h;,¢h,,he has.ra_dically cured, while every case ‘has, been bene- =ﬁtted. ’ And at this moment he has ‘patients inlevery State in lthe:U.nion.‘ Every reader of this who hestmy nalﬁfection of itheﬂlicad, throat‘, lungs. heart,‘ ‘stomach, ‘1iver;kidn‘eys,'bla'd-?-' ‘def; bowels, womb,igenlta1 organs,‘ or rheumaticior neuralgia’ idioul-ties;‘or'e1‘uptibns of? the skin, blood impurities, tumors,’ cancers. " ‘or -V any ' ner.'vous,aﬁections .or diseases . oi: .:the‘ e eye. .or{ear,.L’ar‘e invited to.vvri.te..to. D.;r.. li‘e11ows.. .;’1‘h6.remedv \wl«lZhs:which_the treats .these, diseas;es,.,,.so, succe,ssf,u,-1ly., is, his MaszI.1e.ﬁ.Z8¢1P0W‘i91‘-;Wh.1‘¥1¥ vi1lb°.eant;t.0 any asidre-8.8,» at i1 .1i.9.r...i>x>.=:!- :-Afldrer Ylnelandt» N-.-7.’-. . . .. i = V T Auivcnv ‘B‘A;RNEa‘ writesdthat he is still in S'an:Fran- *1: .2 61500, Qa1,.,_ organizing circles for all kinds of‘ mediumistic cieverepmehts,. and iornpractical work. He’ claims toiibe bléss‘e’d'wilth many‘ beautiful 5gifts“——rappings; table‘ "move- iiie‘nts,5 trancess, “sipirituali telegraph-y,.-‘p"ro.pl1esy, diagnosing dieease; healing byvlaying on;of hands and .~wit11»“. the balm’ troina:God’;'a medicine ‘chests-~’-’; He con-tem-pl.ate_sreturning to the Ea.s.t.in.Apri.ls= stop1.>in.s= ._f-or. a While in -Chicago». and. 8°‘; lnvgmnée-to 1?hl1adelp,hia-. - .. .~ .. ‘ « ‘T . I . .1, ‘._. ‘.-I y._'.’..,,{ v , ., . -.‘. ,.».. "1 Sji;t1ir"L,iKi11 Me’1tcnz_hvTn‘. AmBA:smhh_ may b‘efo‘htaine'd b“y*'li’i1eih;g o1.‘m‘m"s ‘SUL15H’Urt SOAP.’:‘vvhich aees~av’yay-r with the necessity’ for"VSulp'hur' Baths. T Try it, 5ladie‘s.= «It ‘is a genuine bea.u‘tiﬂer, and very economical. Depot, Crittenton’s No. '2' Sixth Avenue_ New-York.C,ity- ._ ,; -V * ‘ o r , , We have said all along that the objective point toward ‘Iwhen-i‘t.’ shall‘ have been reached in the eXp.erien'ce of ay « -stwo’ persons, they knowing what .it cans, knowing its lwasting pl1‘ysical'energi"es.-: In tl1is>way,-1aiIdii‘n- no/other, ’ ‘ ’1‘l1e phiysicaliprocsssr by. which " this equilibrium; willv ‘be establishred between? exhaustion ands-recuperation in‘ ‘Paul. says. :Neither»part of the one «whole——.neither-the: _ Hg‘ A r ,..._.e;...; ‘ _»y : .. .V ., IM._.§tlsM‘MliM.MIMNM’MS..MWMEMEM1{ML.,YM__.MM_., - _ . 4‘ ii ‘lM*ou~ VeenMM the Wondeiifiilgi M M M M 1 M M 'M ’ M ‘ ' V 1 Writinghlachinel ; I 8-I6“? ’ Free ,Lo,ve and Free Lovers. " NINE ESSAYS, " 2 nv. fcniis. :w:1nnNi‘iii'r'r. 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M ' I I ,,'l gmggg,mn._rphe Type_w,-iters We purchased of yogi CHR_IS.TIA.VN TESTAMENT; M focus, and of the very strongest magnifying power to (I1S(‘.0V8l‘" them. -Someare so small that-amillion may it; - last June 1‘01_'‘ 0111‘ New ¥0rk._ Albany and 1.315319 and furnishing 0. Keywfor unlocking many or)‘ exist in a drop of water, and notbe discovered by any ordinal-y“m?%g111-f.V1I1g»g19«EB-V V The”. 3611115 are b0th r_ €gi:§iSphI::$}§1,Y§§ §3f,1,1éf1l;’,t,1t:f1:,°g,°:1)t€,he’:.t X? g:En(M,%¢,Vc(;: ‘its 3007551 Mﬂsteﬂesa b€87M3d€-9‘ 007M7lP7‘i53737'»!}"h€*M vegetables and animals, and MunMdMerM thegglass show every structure of life as in the most perfectly formed trees %thB]a.1{.lI]11(il‘!‘e, CII;ncii]iDnatiﬁDet.rgit.Hartford,Louisville, Hi8t0?U Of 513435.93" Ofiﬁntwl C'7M"lM¢3MMiﬂf%d G001 8% and beings around us. These cryptogamous plalilits and iiliicr0_S90Pi1$3 _a=nim:11A19‘i1‘EufMaJ:?1i,iIr1wlizsiéliiistancg ' ' , itt , ‘t V ‘ ‘ ' “ ‘ .8 I - I . . ' .. ' ‘ 0' t ' ' miracu ous. , are e grow Y0i_;(0%et3335 Brgagagay. 811 T10 111018 0 011! N§W BY KERSEY, GRAVE . developed simultaneously. Their rapidity of grow is simp y . V V ,’ . --v V ' h- f h .D.CV t tt We think very highly of the machine, and hopeyou Author of Biograplty Qf Satan ’ ,m2._d ‘T7l¢)_Bi¢§_4 e of mushrooms, and it is known that minute fungi cover miles of eart in a. ew ours r arpen er s a on will meet with good success. _,Respectf_1i1ly_ yours, I Qf’ _ 568 ” (00W%I77‘i-#37157 G d¢8M07M‘5P“0" 97' that the Bovista gigantea grows in a single night, from a. mere germ-Vtothe, size o1'.~.a. large gourd. The P011’- , I _ ’ DUN,‘ BAZRLOW & CO. ' ‘ C A“ ,; _ 31"“!/V 3337168-’)V V 7 poms squamosns and Frondorusare equally rapid in growth. Fricke, the Swedish naturalist, observed, more ' . ‘ f - . 2 . He also saw ’10 000 000 of sporules in a single , ‘ T , , V This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. (‘rav e is than two thousand species of fungi in a square fnrlong. . _ _ . .. i 9, ‘Ml OFMMMMMOEM OF WESTERN g§§g‘11:MG0»MMM <17 El? §,P E373-0 M l “'1”: We “'9 certain.’ time high rank’ “V 3‘ 'b°°k‘V‘.’f]r°f‘. ‘V’ Reticularia maxima. One sporeof the‘Tor‘ula cerevisiae or yeast plant will increase to it large forest of fungi DENSMORE, Yosr & Co.: §’;n°§u$ 0t;1‘;,i§,‘:1t§1,1'§:,l11,1:,lln1(:é’e$ﬁ.;?}tlé) §,‘i,‘,‘,,f,",,‘ 323,3 6,5,5? in afew minutes. Bedliam lias_desc'ribed over 5,000 species-of fungi.» Among these are the Mucor mucedo, Qen,tlemen—_Having had the Type-Writer in use in ile the varied information contained in it must ha ie that spawns on dried fruit; the. Ascophora mecedo, Mor bread mould. t1Mlé’UM1'~9d0 mbigo and ‘1 §eS¢t‘1m 91' 00m V myoﬁice diiring the past two years, IVdo not hesitate Eeeu severe and a1'd\10l1' indeed: and “ow that 1“ 15 ln mould and the Puccinia graminis or wheat and rye rust, etc., etc. _ , , _ _ . . _ to express 00117101310111 0%‘ its grciatt value. Its lliest such convenient shape the gtudejflt of freeghoughfgw ,E 2 . . . . d d . ‘h. t B h ‘It Pr f ‘P ' “comma” 9‘ 1°“ is Simp y 0 my t 3 it is 3' mmp em 13°‘ willingly wow it ‘t° 3° 0”” ° tint" “M e M°'lM' Practice by Lettei-.~Patients residing at a istaiice, an wis mg °_c0n_ “. ,0. 85501‘ 31118. can Writing 1I19«Gh1I.1e- The W01'k Of Writing canbe done ' b no means amere collationo views or statistics: _ . . . . . - I (1 h ' ht ‘ lit 1 h f t‘ ' k with it faster, easier and with a better result than is 3§n~(,y.1gho.1t its entire course the authoi-——as will lie do so in the following way. Write, {giving age, color of hair fttih :)yes.1ée!::d ;W:1Eite._ €‘:11iﬁth:rm1m0.S§3 , p08S_ib19VV1th 5116 Pe11- ,T1}9 H3119 1'eCl11i1'<?d t010_&I‘11MitS seen by his title—page and chapter-heads—follows‘Y a and, as near as possible, the cause of disease; the conditiono . e dowe pp , . arrie or use is not worth mentioning in comparison with the deﬁnite line of research and argument_ to the clo:s e, smg1e_ if more be sexual, diﬂicmty, What it jg ; and how many children. State whether the heart is regular in - 3 advantages aﬁorded by the n1aChIAIl§SO¥q(_)i§l;iS‘ and his conclusions go, like surearrows, tothe marlk. action or not, the bmathmg difﬂcult, and if mere.1,e a cough, howllong it has existed ; the habits in eating, M M ‘V M M I M C ONT EN T 5- ‘ M drinking, smoking, chewing, etc., the occupation,'habit,sMan‘d disease of parentﬂi if €168-<1,‘ What was the cause What Governor Howard of Rhode Island says: Preface-‘ Explanation; Introduction; Address to line ,of thei1.MMde,,th. . ,1f there be any unnaturaldischarge from the Head, hllllfoal, Lungs, Stomach, Bowsls, Bladder D Y & (I;HENIX’ RM IM’ March 27’ 1875M ’ R A 1C1 MM “Clfe{§y'g ' M or Sexual Organs the smallest possible quantity shoiild be put betweeiitwol very small Pieces of glass, and ENSMORE “ST 0-3 Ch . 1.—’— iva aims o. , e aviors. . :, ‘ _ ’ ‘, . 0 ’ - - . .- ', _‘ b f th‘ - V ‘V _ Gentleme’n-We have now had the Type-Writer about ‘Chg, 2___Mess_ianic Prophecies.. I ’ enclosed in _the letter conta-mug the description of the disease. as my 1135:; o e microscope, we can de a month, and are entirely satisﬁed with it. There can Chap, 3,..—Pi-ophecies by the ﬁgure of a Serpent. ~‘ —termine the nature of the afEection‘1nﬁ111t€1)' better than -7 jseemg ‘V P ' ' V l))1?ena(.’(l\(7i(-)01}l,l)StMelJI1leIll‘,l3g(M)lIM IEM§CElSII:M§§l§?§llIl}?l[]:l1e:d.Il§;%lZ C]:ll1%I£)3.(§-(lEMSD1'MirMaMcu1o1M1Ms and I“‘“‘“°‘*.“VteM°°“°°p‘iV°“ Those Wishing to place themselves under their immediate Mprcfessionalccharge, can obtain board and treat- faith in it. An exan-iination sprprised me, but not so Chap,,5,..—M\M7irgin Mothers jandiVirgi_u-born Gods.‘ l men‘, by the week or month upon application. . glucgl as hﬂie §’“°§{$,“1,,W°r§‘§,g- hale’ mytve haze 30 Chap;€'M'1'StarB pomt out me Time and the Savioll M8 For further particulars, send for Professor Paine’s short-hand practice, mailed free upon receipt of on- -rou ewaevrw V.-a.nV isam Vconsany Birtpace, ’ I’ I ‘ , _ , _ , , ~ . , , _ " - 1 V _- ' - North Ninth st. Philadelphia Pa. Medi- . Ith kth t .1: t k thth t= _ V till i h I I - . t. t . P_ofess0r«Pa-mesc0Iisi11tati°n.9ﬁ9°E§ 35,233 ., , .. . ’ r lblegggbﬁlollnvenubgis 0? lh?u€eilMta1?ry.WMVerye %XF§l1y CMM§f«,,I:§ig}_ Angels’ S.h°pherd‘”’n agl V18 t t ‘.3 _n mm :’1,::: ;;].1M3:;:I:l’his oliiice and at the LaboMratory"in the University. «The usual discounts made to the trade. (4 routs, ‘ " _ ‘ ’ HENRY HOWARD Chap. 8.—The Twenty-ﬁftliof December the Birthday L i _ . l s : MQRRISTOWN, June 29, 1825. Clgap. ell.—0Titles ofV the Saviors. 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The result is also so far better than the * l’,l0l1M M MS I M V "The P1103 b3’ 11131.1» $12-Puts "3 WnM'hn;1V e r.e§'._Vt - i Z . ' Q _ V V I ‘E W H; ._'‘W i {V O. I t fr V_._"H . . .V.,;, ., ‘ . ti ass.-2..::§Z”iiZTf.§Z.Z‘Ti.f”Z?§.§‘i.'L ‘IL “ EATING FUR. s.TRE.N:.GiH..‘ ,NVEW-l|iEMTH VWUKEHY 390K- I 1 PM V%1idShand‘t§10S3 who hfoiil say cause iareftkepifz 1fE'01lI!. ()1-1g—m_. , .. ,h ._. fo 10. _M A 2 V ' a. i sa ene 4.. 1‘ V ' t . . . -V , -1 . . V . ' _fni‘i1irigtei-Ell .X'r1lld li’lt<‘iMgetcher..if I vggilildonot procurse 812:3; Inig,-,‘;,S'..,({§,to‘;d,,r;‘§nO’:,en‘;§’i"6r,,gin. V. -s _ Theimok is for the m(3Bt.p,m, uncommonlyliapt, to the pointwithout the slightest elrcumlocution another, I would not part‘ with this machine for a _24_;..Th“ '1‘ ' ‘t var ancientl “a cm-):em;'H .a,- V ‘ tth any larger wo'rl:'s".—4'N’ew’ Y thousand dollars; in fact, 1 think money is not .to be Oh” e am y y y ‘ and” "’°’° “° We pm“ an Mm ne. . - ~ - - ' ' ‘ -— ' - V V .-Advertiser. . . . . . . . VV .then=D0.ctl'1113~:' 2. V=V- V « 7 ‘ One of the best contributions to iecent_1lYg1°!“9ht°r”"“'°' . «b. t V oh”. weighed against the relief of nerve- and brain that it (311 _25‘__;_.‘Ab l,t'on orlthe Confession of Sins of. I ' M 13' 1M 1 .V ‘at ctive aboutithisibooiz is.theabsence, 0 , _.,,)_'g.1el11.0,,, lg‘? ry.—,-y Vsticzn Register brings. Yours. V!3'(33I'E,[T1t1I1)"&BBOTT FRENCH V ‘V V }Mll3)athen*MM(M)i‘%(;)iIM1Ml.M1‘ ‘bi ‘t F B1’ . d lM)Vil1eaxMxiMzM:i1I3§Mhi<M;MtMh3éMr}a§.i:Md zI3M.:M(}§l1e1‘MII133«11‘.B‘Wi1f"r s,ens1Vm,e W0F*U.11§t-th¢§—°.*?‘f?.‘h° ~m°5.FW¥?°1°3°m9 and Practiea ” V, I ’ “ ,26,——0" f.. ' aer ', iii - ,_E,1z. ranson. _, — ., V ,, _ ’ ‘ Pa5l°F'Fir8t 1595- 011-: M°1'riSi°Wn’, N-V1 C1331 the.E()MM113M3MlMGh?)st. ap mm Y ’ M’ 0M ’ MMecelplSaiLilM(:Ml}elEMiM;1(lMiM:es<Miwv‘;rith it.—-H. B. Baker, M. D.. of Michigan 33% B,,a,~d.»af Heaztli. I . r I , _ V I ___,_ , ' 7 ‘ . . . « 1.: >2. _V W Z I. .. Everyone desirous of escaping the drudgery of the Tm Sacrament 0r_,I;ufchaMM1st of Heat ell ; . Sent’ :h.)r.:1.'.f , en lB"6f’:£(l.la'lIl‘y_ln\&l,3e.(lt.; to catljl, at <}ur sterile and learn Chap, 28..—Anointing with gil .of,0rientgl Origin 1 _ ‘ . . A . V 0 use e ype-V r1‘er- I Be 0 mac "1165 Paper .29:—H" ‘M’ 0' clu in Js‘susC rist ineto . V V- »; -, _ .. V:VI . ~§7E_ .‘M 8.l1(l.IIlS_tI‘l1CtQ'.llSFREE.M I V “ 9 ‘ * M ’ . Ctbaepworshipgdv as-3153:. g . ’Ca~' -M J MM MM M " ‘M O 3 All kmdSMM°f copymg ‘me upon t,heM Typ°'Wnter‘ Chap-‘30-‘V-'S3V°"ed: Cycles explaining the Advent .0‘ M 9 What it is and Wha.t it is not Satisfaction 8l13«1'3«Dte€‘»d- , , the Gods, the Mastenkey to the Divinity of Jesus . _ DENSMORE9 YOMST C0-i C]$;’n§"?’M1.‘Christianity derived from Heathen ﬁnd D F 5 . MM BYM A. MMBBIGGSMDAVIS. L ...‘;’*.?;?tf.*:.‘.*.‘%é*.§%.‘:.?.:.Z‘.’ltstitlsis. §.;.3t... o.3§?a?;ir::re....... .... ,..........i~ ........., 00LETA,g yVHITii1sii)l:*3.I;. ,y;gh.gi.tii°i2a- .E’.‘§?i§‘.t1l?.ii%£.‘f‘f€€J.§?.Etf.”i ‘ AI1&10g195 b3tW°enVCh-"st and Cnshm” ' M ‘ 'M M ‘ I M'M ' M’ M M M M ‘ , , M the ahlelit intellectual. eﬁorts of the age. Its views on Chap, 33_.—ApOll0!1l11S, Osiris and Magus as Gods. ' ; A VB Chap. 34.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Fa.1t.;lt,\_\ ‘ ‘ s]_)]‘.§’(}]’_-Af[g'‘l:‘.]I‘:!_!‘.St.-, . .. V ; Eh;i§€f£‘i,g1eg%°§g°:§l1&1§u"g%1?ngogeggﬁngegtiﬁlgg ‘M ' ‘ -——-- ' M M M ‘M MMHMCMGS’ PMM0'phMecMes andMMPreceptsM M M: BUTTER CHEESE‘ ANDMKFUREI EBREED are at once novel and Msolllld. The work is a challen e 5' V - ~ -. . - . V V s . M M ' Chalk 35-—1.«°.81<=8»1°r0°mm°n*S°n5°Vi°W°‘‘h‘”3i°°' ] ’ ‘M ’ ‘ I 1' M to thinkers?~1:lI‘e“?Mv5v‘t5i§- M M —.M:.AM7Mll:>mindB seelrng rest In -5 M . I ‘M m°°M°fDw:1'-He meg’-'rVnamm' ‘ - - ‘ M MBERKSHIRE SVVINIE5 . ‘ o1 Mriith fo£MMMM M‘ life and love should read .1 I . . V V v .V . I Chap. 36.——Phi1osoplncal A_bBi1r€11t1eS of the Docthirie 0. d, solicited‘, » , 4 _ 7 ._ L, V 1 ‘ . I . p I I . L of the Divine Incarnation. , _ . . _ . L_._ Cash 1' ers . - . . hw worth-we rice of the ,V I ' V I , , rghap, 37___Physiolog-ical;Absurdities of the Doctrine» V V— ~ « V P , * . - , , V AGAINST . j of the Divine_Inca_rnatio_n ‘ M _ _. - ii; _ it t N t- 1MMBay11M;MMMs,féMrMling 111,- b°°k' . . . I " . : .,- M V - ‘ M01194?-.38°'MA H‘5t°"V1°“1V °l7Vi°3‘MJ°heD1V1n1l’Y of Jel.-.s“5 REFERENCESM F S 8' Iona . ’. . , M , °ﬂi'§rti§ilnv13§§ is sh .. the onl ossible ho e for 1 osop '37‘ V C1Ve1’]_Ce-... .— . -. . . V . Sterlin Ill. .. . . Jr ., * , VoV Christ. . V . , -,V ~ .. . . . .3‘. Pa.tterson&Co., Bankers, g. , ‘sh . .. .. . ﬁh___,,, . .. _ .. .,. _ ‘ ' Ch V39 -—-The Scriptural V1ew..o£ Christ?s Dlvlnllly ' C°mm“m‘m°.“ ‘hm 35'1"’ -'= -N°'1'°”' 31’-9f 1‘.I"5~ °°d . . A ~ A I V, V ' 1 ; _ Chap‘ 40'_‘A'l'MetohymicVi‘eWV5f 1t*heDivi11Mity0'f Jdghs , hull’s late articles can afford to remain ignorant of - .133. J. PILKINGTO1lVéhof caaiiroiiitila, his writteln : C’.*,§’,',»s,'. , , .. , , V , __ VV ;,_ r i A vévhag-its hgqeéiioidiy ﬂung out to the think-ingsxworld. ‘* ‘V igmhlt 't‘ e i V ' ', /V V ~ 1-. en or aao es. §ls]iM1i1:§c.1§s§Ei".r:ipcts‘_"w1""i'i1 betterapggteauqerort_ir§edl1§&Li%- C1}§“,§;,§t1"‘MI.'he P”"°°"tV‘V and P?“°‘i°“l Ll“ °‘ J‘?°“5' . _ .mn:see;.posapagi3,.io.oents.-_..A.a.i:ess.......-.. .. i .. . ‘Va oral gzind 2:; égglgfggsglcgllgrfgntgggsgggtfﬁgfé Chap. 42M.—~ChristMas a s iritual Medium. INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY V V secu ionso , e , .V V ~ . 7: g V « A. . =3: bulky and ambitious work Li eral friend no ﬁtter Chap’ 43‘—MC°nver51°n’M epenta’mM’eM3’nd “ Getting M‘M‘.R°' . . : ' ‘ M %,\V‘‘ —. ' M 1, ML) ‘V ' .‘. I > I‘ 3‘ EV - , er, ay_ at h0_1I_l,_. _ Samp.e,worth T0 -£1 free. Srinsoii «$5 Co., V-E‘ “" inc’. ' M M ' V ~ ....1iearly exhausted, an- _ , work can be selected to hand to your bigoted neighbor _The Mom1,L§s’son5 of Reu yous His of“. . of the Church than this instructive pamphlet. _Anx- iéuconclusion and Review. 8 t 1:. h V J . , p ’ ' ious to s read the truth. we have reduced the price of Note of Explanation. 'M Sent by mail fo'r':Fiy*e‘Dollars;.j this wo_r (whcih is elegantly printed in clear type, on d ﬁne Whité ., I i . ». emndéd Add ﬁne white paper), to twenty cents, postage2 cents. 32 P1111338 001; as $2 003.‘. égfgfggzoﬁﬁge. a. cases.0f . 81» . . 1 . M M large pages. I . I . 121309 A P S _ 9 - 9 P . 3 G ,1 5- . . A » ~ V. DR; E.:=:L. 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Prefaced by a Sketch of Proudhon s Life I /‘A ' 0 ‘= : _” ,_I'. ‘V I , . I’ 7* A _ _ Of 00111611 Un1Vemt_y- I V I - , _and_’Wor‘ks, by J. A. LAi~IGI.ois, and contain- . ’ 3‘? -I ‘W F I ,; ' A A With twenty-six Illnstratioiis, $150. ' ’ I ; A mg as a’IFr0ntiSpieCe ﬁne St9Ie1IEngraviIng D .I I .I I I . ' I of the Author. , . A‘ A I ‘ jA ’ Address _ I ;i 'A.A,AfII A AA , A systematic, thorough and radical dis- ‘ ‘ r I 4’ . HA3 V! OI:'A_' ., ., V A 0 -a , ,A . V «A l I,I« , I AIAA V ‘V d A I A . AA‘ 4 A A __A.-' AV,’ Nia Erie &'; Michicentral & GreatiWIestern,R, R s, I _ cHAS...P...s0MERBY, cus§1,§>r_1 of the 1n’?t.1‘“’P1°n of Propertv {ts I I III ‘ I» I I I I‘ I , I ‘ g I . , Freéthought Publisher A V basis, its_history,I its present status and its ,. , I_ _ WI .,I . . ._. _ V . _.. ’ I II 135E EIGHTH ISTR.EE:r , destiny, together with a detailedand start- A VV 1 VIV _.V,, _‘ _ " A I A _l I. .. . ' I A ‘I .. 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M . , P IBENJ R TUCKER II:-3I3}I.II»‘c’1’Ié?1‘3‘;1'.".".’II I I ’ 1103*“----I ----------- -- 5-30 It l‘§§if’§2§te.‘lf§f.€1”2$i“&‘i3ni§’£°".3.’£3““?E‘1§’J%‘$‘§§ A‘ ' ' ' "AAA" SanAAFm.IAiciAS'co ' ‘ ' ' " A AA‘ San F;ancmc0'"""" I .830 is boignd‘ to have an immenseggale. Price 2 00, A PRINCETON, MASS. I’IIAi'-I aalesburg; Iﬁ-.40 A,".‘IM; V gggggegfg -------- -- 1}, 9?» i1))es(t)a%§ freée%91A%dres§, IVS17{‘O(())/PHULL & CLA LIN, ! = .I“I= 1.1121163’ ---- .I~ .I_- I3, .. " A ‘ . . ox , . ew‘ or 1y. I I I “ st. Jose h ....... ....... ..10.00 “ =.- .: I ‘ StIJ0seI>h-I- 010 AIM. I II II I. I I_ I I I ..... .. .40 . . ‘ Kansas City £1.25 “ I . . . . I I I: iEtA§nAi{§§inAty'.I".fIIII ..... .. i(i.00 an “ Atchison .. 171.17 “ . I 1 ’ I I 12.10 III?» ;; Iﬁeavenwortn 12I4onoonI ,, I NOTHIN Gr LIKE. IT I I $7 “' Denver;_I.I '7-_0g,*.".n' I I A»\*' enver ‘ ’ ‘ " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " C _ ' A :01», All diseases growing outof false conjugal relations A ‘ gs A ' ‘ A I I ' __ . , A A A will receive especialattention. Ourcombinedmedium I A II} ’ I I I =3 I II " I ‘ ‘ I , I I . I _ A I STEPS TO‘ THE KINGDOM' I hip, shut from theouter world in our cabinet, will ’ "I I’ A I‘ ‘IAII VIA ‘ II-3“‘I‘ '- . I I BY LOIS WAISBROOKEB, I A generate acompound element, Magnetized and Spirit- ‘ ’ .. Arrangern'entS Author of “Helen Har1ow’s Vow ” “Alice V319 H I alized that will prove an elixir of life that we can V , . .- v I 1 . . .I 2 :9 9 II ‘I I 'I II I -I .I I I "‘I I . , "Mayweed Blossoms,” “Suﬁrage for , impart to our patients. _ ;,‘1r,A._m,,_DV,mV,Exp;e55 51-_oV V,Ie,1_tseyV ;CitVy_(VIdaily exce t Sunday), with Pu1ln_ia_n’s Drawing-Room Cars Women ” etc, etc. etc. , ,.'nir1irlrcJgﬁine_ctin ,8.tiSV1‘l’_$l‘1xA)1t3.I1t:B,lV()1I§i}iBl'1;3.1,1‘;'eIV3 I:T;ti‘1:],iI1§;llltI§"§IIi’SBé’:i1;.(:;£131e§&3e6Pmg Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. In Ch t_ , m1I1;_§I_\’ d ’ Vth V_n.b Bfiigiifslzfg likngrlsleﬁplr Elalm1i):.1'taSn((1)f fit: 5:333. ~ ' to 0 Owing ay n‘1‘e'o ‘e I ‘V _ - I V , ris ians ‘ray _ _’ y mg omcome ywi e , 7 - » -r) 1. M,._Ni ht Ex regs ffdm I.Iei~seytiCity I (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through tr done on cart I,as’it is in heaven,” but. they know Powders and Liquid Medicines prepared, Electricized, 7.21. t g P . . ‘ . . “ . . .Chi.cugo without change..a_rriv51iig.,there_at ,8.00 a. m., vmg passengers ample time for breakfast and takc, not,wnat they ask. Christians, read Nothing Like Magnetized and Spiritualized in a Single .01. double the morning trains to all points ;Wes1;.~;~IIorthwest-and outhwest. . E[$SWgI1V1e(‘11seaenié’yﬁuggglaﬁgidétgrléggleaggggr pggyfﬁg Triangle Cabinet 38- the patient may desire The "’ . II I 9 9’ 1 ‘ ' I I. I ' I I‘ I I I . I I I , answer is sure to ,com'e,in its own proper time.’ Guardian Spirits of every patient will be requested to . . , V , _ V ‘ . I Boundiin cloth, 12n:l’o', 336 1 ages, $1 50;" postage accom th M d- - d -d b th 1 - ﬂ , I I: I , , I _ _ VVOOD L . party e eicine an ai y er in uence. _I. I; CGIINN-ECTIOINS.0E:IER1IE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES or I. 0°f*§‘,f”X 3,I;3f,d{?§,%YX‘—,7k g,,y_U IL 5-‘ CLAFLIN? Three strong Healing Mediums will sit the cabinet _ _ _ _ V _ V V g . I . y . . I I , with an electric apparatus when the medicines are pre- . ' ' ' V '- ' ' M?‘ V c c n n .I I ,V, 5, / DIVORCES LEGALLY, QUIEVTLY AND QUICK_ pared.V We shall obserxe all inspirational conditions A3 II . II I ‘IA I7 . I’ ' . A ‘ I . A. ly obtained. Incompatibility suﬂicient cause‘ no that Wm Insure 3‘ fun ﬂow from our Ispmmal Battery’ 0 I. Atst; C.ath§i_me8,..W1m_..Wéuand 3,,-ﬂway, foi-V Port Colborne_- I _ [V pubhqity, no vexatious delays,VIcon_eSp0Ddence’c0n_ and require the same of our patients. The age, sex, V At:Ha,VnIiiltoVn,V vvithvbrancli for Toronto and intermediate stations, also with branch to Port Dover. fiigltaitélglsl. lie?) alfgtgg i1;:c6%eIr,ri;:sl%?:1(:7l0I unnecessary. married, or single, with some of the prominent Vsymp. I Kt;‘H,an,iBbf‘uI1-g,twithan-a_ﬁc*h3Qf:aGg115IQge1ph,;Squtllnmpton and intermediate stations. V . v ' ' ’ "I I ’ I V V‘ V, I I toms and conditions of theitystcrn, will be required. At Paris, with G. W._,lVj3: IW“A’h.q9d°”9h branch Grand Trunk R311W3Y- I A _ I I. g 2 I I. I I . , I One Dollar for a single prescription. Sent by mai At London, with branch for Peturolia and _S_8.l'I).18.. Also with Portstanley Branch for Port Stanley, an Keenest Sad-Vlre of Lfodern 01.; exp-,.eSS_ A stamp must accompany all letters. daily line of steamers f%.r.<.>n1.:tII1=..lsI=rs?«I.i<..’* ‘;’.1.I‘>iI‘..'..‘..‘]1;’.1§*-., f , P t_H. I B h Grand T k I M 1-) I . T. ‘I I I . I Admess, II» I . D t it, 'thD t ‘t &Mi1 uk e aivway or _ or iiron ranc run _Ra.l1way. so ,eI , I 111135, V ~ II_ I ' . A V 3,;-oit'i&t£,:3,1:Asir1(1’g &WI1.ake l€IiA<(:)lii{%an R?l%.IVto,Doward and intermediate stations. I Also Detroit & Bay City R.._R. V V I _ I V V I a V DR. GRAHAM & CO., V I Branch Lake S. & M. _S.I to '1:9le§1<).V _ _V_:_ V n I t V V _V . V V .___ V .. V V I 3,117 _EaIston Ave., St. Louis, Mo. AtWayne withFlint&PereM.R.-R.toPlyin0Il§ 2. °Y,9¢# I_ 5 ,, II ,, . I. I .' ‘ I . I I ll_ Vtbgfpgiianti, ;vViit1ViVVVDl;ztrtﬁiit, ]H)illsVg.;;1€:t B131 }%e:li.i.l‘t&yIe)i(') 1115!. Rs, for Manchester, Iﬂillsdale, Bankerrg, Waterloo 8 0 . I . V Cr‘? ‘““A’A‘I‘* 3“Y> 7”” I49” I? II ’ " ‘I ’ II I II A ' ' ' I ' A ’ I I ENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD ‘ . J,.,Ck;IS(L,n,I.,I,,1 gnd fI,V\;g,11I3yI3 _ h for E_atonI_ ids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nuncia Pent , , __._._ I VV . V y . V ' ‘K LINE , water, and all in*9e1'I:11Z91€;l71%@I??4fIii?‘*§£?R5¥.IfII 199* I:W“1I..‘l‘AA;‘f I‘I"-I’-°I"°gIP°"“?"- §°‘I”°W“’ v'1€,h’°°..1“Ve,ff ‘jgd C*’I55A°P°1i6 I ' I I I . . #5:‘ AND AIrI§IiEI'§:¥iE§TIA$iE{E§iA1L ROUTE. 515° l‘7itIh.'IT‘I‘.°k’ L3'n9m.gII&’ Sagmawl mncaf for gnslggdt S‘AA;.0§sg., l’l%g1Ili1l?AwfA’()r §%g::0l?1enWs]€A,1Crawf°r0 A S-atire in verse‘ on the ' IA A I Trains leave New York, fromIIfootI of.Desbrosse ndzintermediate s.tations.:..IIA:ls9:v}’1l91h:11’0l'tI.. ,, 343119;». E10 . t, 31.11 W 1 _ v 3 91‘ 0°» F?!“ , . I 1 I V,md,Cm.t1,,Indt streets, as follows: ‘ﬂyﬂea and Foil’ vlza -‘Ito Cmcmna 1' I n : I . I Rev‘ HENRY WARD BEECHER> . ' Express for Harrisbulrg, 1:)ittsbui‘tghi1tl(i1es.’V?§g8sK $1116 . AU} 110 C196 "I I911‘ ‘5 I3I1"“'-*‘ 4 ‘ ' I . _' I I . I I I S’ th 'th Pull an Pa ace are at ac e : . . . . A. A Kdlagéndbtt;riil1A§¢i1§h.¥I:Ey9a Ij!rn:;jch,~=to G. Junction, South Haven, etc. Also with G. Rapidsaind. 9”“ *1“? -IA"II‘I=']:‘.‘I"‘I°”"t ‘gt hi; ‘i'F}’.9195‘F‘ 6A:)tAi1:dé?AaA:'0P.M.n§undey.5and8&30hP-SM-Eh LI. In t; ‘t R. for Clam Lake and“inte’r”r‘nediat'eIstations.I -Also with Branch of L3. &M. R. R. . . . _ int c Grea can, a ,. , V . For_Ba1t_1Vmore, Washington an t e on , im _e ‘ I I ,. . f .1: Paw ‘ , . . I _ I I I , I Washin on Express of Pullman Parlor cars. daily, A‘ Lawton’ W1th“Paw'IIP&W“B“R’ ~‘°IlIAI’I '‘I8‘W‘I }‘ I' I A ” I A ' I “ I I uexce t Iunday. at 9:30 A. M.; arrive at Washington ,4:tINi1es,.wit1iII,S°s§e3§£e£1:§£%?1°hnI 'I,’,A';‘. SIR :1“ st: h H In ._,d_ M. k P t I DRAMATIS ..PERSONAE-' , . J 41:10 i:;. IJMM Regular at 8:40 A. M.,3and9P. M. Sun- AtNew Bu1fa1o'withChic:ig‘o Mich. e . . or . osep , 0 an , us egon, en water aiio H W B_ Vh VVVVV _ I _ _ .__H__Th Ia. ,1,.1t6 _ 3, , , _ I , I _ V _ an Intermediate S“§€I°n§.:. I 9; II . §3X'con's ofPI?iio‘§1ih‘ohutch ------- riI°D?33o3Ito3I A4 i?‘1%'%5Bt‘%it1?;h‘&"i5‘fii’?“§t.i'i‘3’3a§§$'II§tI;;&§f%. it A I A A‘IAtAMi°mIgaAn City’ II’°1I1..s‘ 5 An‘). A100 Awlth 'L0niBvme’.N'eW & Q1 Chiefs of the great journals. . .I.- 'lA‘VQ'0dhuu' 8.330 0000 M-A Emiglzanli and 580.0110 013155. 7 1’- M- I cago R. R, V . . . I II I I I I I I . I J6gV,I,thIah'E?§ﬁe<o, For Newark at~6:30,7:20, 1:40, 2% 2, 6%..61l16,1102 ’ ’ If I II " ....... I I . M.,1 :30 3:10 3:40 4:10, :30 , : . : , : , ,. II . V. y , _ . I I II Egjygr RSfgA1,on ‘ A: thep°°p1e“’t°° 0:30,’. 30, E3:10,’10,1ii’:1V:iI0 P. M.,’and 12 night. Sun- V; -I II II I ‘ d.,-52 7-I d8:10. I. I I 3- VALUABLE DISCOVERY.—Dr. J. P. Miller t *”““ I I I ador Elizalgth, 6.. 6:30. 7:20, 7:40. 8. 9.. 10 AI MI. 12 ‘ I racticing Aphysiciamat 327 Spruce street, Phfila‘ THE ‘INDEPENDENT Tm‘-CT s°CmTYIh.”*V° n°“' 1:003 M., 1,2, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 4:30, 4 , 5:20, 5:40 6, V I Idelphia, has discovered that the extract of cranberrier En ﬂ.De ".°‘.’e’S‘ the ab°veI S13ARTI‘m° -AMPHPET’ E ow" 0110, 5330, 7, 7130, 8'10, 10. 11130 P- M 3 and 1'2 1118M 1 an hemp combined cures headache, either biliout mg 1” “V10 0°10” REAL LIFE . I I Sunday. 5.220, 7 and 8110 13- M» ’ dyspeptic, nervous‘ or sick headache, neuralgia. ant I I “BEHIND.ITHE SCENES” . For Rahway, 6. 6:30, 7:20, 8, 10 M.,.1_2 M-_, 1, 2, I I I ne.rvousness.- This is a triumph in medical chemistry Im the greatest Scandal of any age, , . 2:30, 3:10, 3:40,4:10, 4:30, 4.50, 5.20, 5.4.0, 6, 6.10, 6.30, 7, l and suﬂerers allover the country are ordering‘ by The.Iuw,,,.s that were dark, and the tricks that 8:1 10 P. M..and 12, night. Sunday, 5.20 and’? P. M. mail. Be prepares it in pills at 50 cents a box. Th} proved Wm‘ H are here exposed.’ to the g1a_,.ing,1ightI0Vf For Woodridge, Perth Amboy, an South Amboy, 1 Doctor is largelyknownand higmyrespected.——P.’;££'c . 511 an A‘ ’ ‘ I ‘I I I I I II 0511111 10 -0- M-.2130.» 4-50 9IDd5P- MI I delploitz Bulletin. I I I I I gheﬁhimitable arguments of I .. Jonathan... his ,,,,_ I For New Brunswick, 7:20.Iand 3 AI. M.,12 M , 2, 3:10, . vate Iopinion‘sIIpubli‘c1y7 expressed, are .likAeI. nothing 5:205 5310: 7 P- MI» "3001? 1113110 31111033’: 7 . . sin°e1h6Bi»‘¥31°IV Pﬁpefs-”. II ‘ AF AE tM'l1to e 12 noon 3:10 and 4:30 P. M. ’” wn... .I...‘.;.;.;nIi.;I IIOiiAtracts~eanIB'$Amade. I ‘ I I I I wti’Ihn"n5i*i3“§§t§i.3§€€;i3‘2‘%tZ ‘ditgiftﬂitiéi Xltiiiiii ‘F3 L§3IIberAtvsi11IA:1aI’IId F1emfngtonI.9=soAIMIIand A “A, A AA A ‘AA AA I A » ~I~ — Ian D " Y " ”" P O . A‘ II,E‘,A,';‘,*,§§1,A,-",,,A‘”,I“,. puAnIgAe1A.‘AﬂyAseItA foﬂﬁi .Wmi°ut ‘the slightest PAF1:)IrA- Phillipsburgand Belvidere, 9:30 A. M., 2 and . . - . II ’ F‘°°0|°r “.4. “ii Yin .”“‘i”3. .35: “i§’§:.%§‘%ll‘si’§aEf%3nf"?£’¥i'i°55o€é’§ For mentown. Baum-Ionana oamaenI mo and . A A . A '. .‘ ‘ ﬂAale‘$9 et<:e.ss]'.a:(z)i1'A °§§siZ’e§ f:AA>rS1A9.eI'meevv0c>Ii'1e:A. LIl(l3:),Il the Western plains, in cabin and incastle. A ag%:d]:'_%'P M A:sI'IA A +$A§t'I"=% '::A'I:t-lA A A A AA‘AA" ’ Afa‘$Zi§§?5g s§.%%§’§§§§r£t'§“n'i‘éié%? ne1:i8‘5”t1%rep°‘db’Ama”A’15I°e““ "°’ “"g‘° °°"y; IIorFarming<'1a1'e” and sdixad. 7=§1o.CA. Lg. anew; Mg II '0‘ "" "F V I, A . I. I".' -A . I‘ _ F H‘htt ,P b tonan am en,via ert I I§,I3§' ,V I II ,3 5 I V, V I V y( trade. Amateur Printing, dellghé FYANTIII l)I..-—Firs1tl clgss giinvassers, to whom splen Am?) ,1§:305f‘,’."‘ﬁ_ 2,13: gightstown and Pembertom Iqgg IV >35-°I.II _g IIV§,°,V,§-:9; . I giulpastimefor spare hours. BOY». 1 COWUHEEIOVTI W1 P0 .j._1 ‘ ‘ I (;A_ V ,,.g I’I '53 9t A I '° A? S’ A C09 " A "=3 Ac"'°‘Z . . 1'ha'Ye.gr?”'tf‘m and make money fag SELLS AT A5I(I7H'1 ! I . 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-03-25_11_17
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-03-25_11_17
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 18 (April 1, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2117
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-04-01
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: s Vol. XI.-—-No. 18.——Wl.ole No. 278 NEW YORK, APRIL 1, 1876. ._-'-* E3’ ' " vi- o PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make yoafree.——Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shalt be ft'n2'shecl.—St. John the Divine. - Whe7'e0f I was macle a minister to preach the «an- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the l2e_c/inning of the world hath been hid in Cr’oc‘l.-—-Paul. ' O>—< THE END OF THE EARTH. IS THE GRAND CRASH AT HAND. [From New York Dispatch] It is an extraordinary coincidence, to use no stronger phrase, that at the present time Dr. Cummings is by no means alone in predicting that the terrible cosmical convul- sion, by which our earth and its inhabitants shall pass away, will surely overtake us about September of the current year. There have been scares of this kind in the past; but they were invariably conﬁned to one prophet and his disciples. The present heralds of approaching doom ar...
Show mores Vol. XI.-—-No. 18.——Wl.ole No. 278 NEW YORK, APRIL 1, 1876. ._-'-* E3’ ' " vi- o PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make yoafree.——Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shalt be ft'n2'shecl.—St. John the Divine. - Whe7'e0f I was macle a minister to preach the «an- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the l2e_c/inning of the world hath been hid in Cr’oc‘l.-—-Paul. ' O>—< THE END OF THE EARTH. IS THE GRAND CRASH AT HAND. [From New York Dispatch] It is an extraordinary coincidence, to use no stronger phrase, that at the present time Dr. Cummings is by no means alone in predicting that the terrible cosmical convul- sion, by which our earth and its inhabitants shall pass away, will surely overtake us about September of the current year. There have been scares of this kind in the past; but they were invariably conﬁned to one prophet and his disciples. The present heralds of approaching doom are not only mem- bers of widely different schools of speculative philosophy, but their well recognized ability entitles their opinions to great respect, even when expressed indvidually. How much more so, then, when they unite in declaring a single unmistakable conviction! . During the past decade our idea of the universe has under- gone a complete change——a radical metamorphosis——though but few persons appear to recognize this fact. The notions entertained ;by astronomers respecting the stars and the heavens have disappeared. Take the constellation called the “Great Bear” or “ The Wagon ” as an illustration: Every one has regarded that as the enduring symbol of pre-establish- ed harmony—of the unalterable durationof the ﬁrmament. For several centuries the mariner has watched the two last stars in that constellation——those that form the rear of that imaginary “ wagon,” and termed “ the pointers ”—as point- ing infallibly within a few points of the polar star. The polar star and “ the pointers ” are the emblems of sta- bility to the mind of every sailor who crosses the ocean. Yet that ancient constellation is passing away, and its form will be completely changed. Each star in the “Great Bear” has a motion of its own. Formerly, as the eminent French as- tronomer, M. Camille Flammarion, recently demonstrated in the Revue Scientiﬁque “the constellation had the form of a cross; it is now in the form of a wagon, and is gradually changing into an ellipse, when it will be of no service to the sailor.” - Nay! the polar star itself, as well as the stars in the “ Great Bear,” are drifting away from us and from each other at the velocity of thirty miles per second. It takes _a cannon-ball, about ﬁve seconds to go one mile. The stars of this constellation are, therefore, drifting sideways from the pole star and each other one hundred and ﬁfty times as fast as a cannon ball. At this rate, how much longer will our present “ pointers ” and the pole star be reliable for naviga- tors ? ‘ But it is not necessary to examine distant constellation in order to seek evidences of disruption. It has been custom- ary to treat the planets as members of one family, and as- tronomers have expatiated enthusiastically on the remarkable fact that the planets all moved in nearly one plane, corres- ponding with the centre of the sun’s body, and that the motion of the sun on its axis, those of the planets round their axis (the sun), and the satellites round their primaries, were in one direction-—from west to east. Some of the other rela- tions of these bodies were also garrulously presented—as, for instance. that the primary planets show an increase of bulk and diminution of density from the one nearest the sun to the most distant. These facts were adduced to prove the nebular hypothesis, and to form a theory of the manner in which puclei (planets) were formed. “ Supposing, from a peculiar- ity of nebular composition,” writes an eminent living scien- tist, “ nuclei are formed, we know, by virtue of the law of gravitation, how the neighboring matter would aggregate to these nuclei. It is a well-known law of physics that ﬂuid matter establishes a rotary motion when it collects to a centre, as for examples, whirlpools, whirlwinds and water sinking through a funnel. We know by mechanics that in this revolving ﬁre-mist (nebulae) two forces——centrifuga1 and centripetal———would act in forming the planets, and in severing them from the shrinking mass.” It was all as plain as a. pike-stalf. «After the planets were formed, one school of astronomers proceeded to people them; while Professor Whe- well, of Cambridge, and others, resolutely {restricted life to our globe. But the “More-worlds-than-one ” disciples had the best of it for years; and they gave glowing descriptions of the delightful climate of Saturn, and the glorious skies his inhabitants would enjoy in consequence of his long summer, and the gorgeous illumination produced by his belt and his Gight revolving moons. His solid earth, it was true, was not so dense as our earth’s—-hardly as dense as water, in fact; but then might not his inhabitants be a superior race to what we had any conception of~—beings not touched with any feel- ing of the inﬁrmities of mortalmen? Then, there was Ju- piter, the magniﬁcent, whose mass exceeds all the other plan- ets, including Saturn, two-and-a-half—times! What a sub- lime race of beingsuprobably archangels-—must inhabit his prodigious orb! With the bold dash of genius, in short, these scientists declared that man’s world was not solitary in tne wilderness of the solar system, but that it had companions and brethren whirling in the sunshine, and capable of afford.- ing all the conditions which life of the highest kind needs for its development. The late Sir David Brewster and the pre- sent astronomer royal of England were the leading expon- ents of these views which were shared by a_large majority of scientists and divines. And, indeed, the idea was in accord with common sense and the analogy of nature, as far as man- kind have an opportunity of interpreting nature. It was, therefore, a terrible revelation to Professor Airy when, examining Saturn one night with the mag- niﬁcent , equatorial telescope at Greenwich Obser- vatory, he discovered that the planet had suddenly changed shape. Normally presenting the form of an ellipse, he beheld withawe that the two zones of theplanet corresponding with the north and south temperate zones of our earth were mys- teriously ﬂattened, communicating what he termed a “square shouldered aspect” to the hitherto beautiful orb. In plain terms, the planet looked like a rectangle with rounded cor- ners. The astronomer was ‘convinced his eyesight was im- paired. He tried another combination of lenses, and a differ- ent eye-piece, but the result was the same. There was Saturn and his belt out of all shape! An assistant was summoned. He, too, saw the extraordinary change. What could it indi- cate? The professor began to consider. There was the mighty mass of Saturn, exceeding that of the earth ninety-fold. That stupendous mass was endued with gravitating energy pre- cisely in the same way as the eart.h’s mass. There must be from the surface toward the centre a continually-increasing pressure. This pressure is incalculable. It must enormously exceed the internal pressure existing within the earth’s in- terior. Steel, in fact, would be as yielding as water under such a pressure. Such a phenomenal sinking and change of shape as this, must have involved amazing and most stupend- ous throes-—throes whose force and magnitude paralyze the imagination and prostrate the mind with the vertigo of the inﬁnite! The cataclysm would certainly involve the utter destruction-of life—so far as we understand the term. The astronomer felt that doom had overtaken the favored inhab- itants of Saturn, with their glorious summer, and mellow, eﬁulgent skies. Henceforth he revealed in his orbit round the sun the silent graveyard of an unknown race. It was from this remarkable planetary catastrophe, combined with certain prophecies of Daniel, Zachariah, and the Apocalypse, that led Dr. Cummings, some years since, to believe that the “Great Tribulation” was close at hand. In this, however, he was mistaken; for it was not then even dreamed that planets, like human beings, vegetables, and nations, have a period of youthful development, maturity, lingering or sudden death. Mars, for example, has passed through these stages before the epoch of man on our planet. A gigantic spasm had con- vulsed him, during which his oceans were gradually drawn into the interior as it contracted, not by large crevasses, but by a power resembling, if not identical to, capillary attrac- tion. Two of the family, so to speak, were therefore dead—— clothed in everlasting silence-—and the former inhabitants had gone to Judgment, or perished like the verdure of a by- gone summer. “Tbe sun himself is but a star in the ‘milky way,’ and an unhealthy, changeable, organically-diseased star at that. The planetary family that revolves round him are likewise sub- ject to sudden‘ internal maladies—convulsive eruptions or morbid and fatal spasms. Mercury is probably burned to a cinder-or more properly resembles a. red—hot iron ball, unin- habitable except by celestial salamanders. Mars and Saturn‘ V-,1: German astronomer, I-Ierr Schroter, of Lilienthal, when an extraordinary experience was vouchsafed to him. He be- held, in fact, the death of the majestic planet of the solar system—-the grand and transcendent Jupiter! He reports the awful catastrophe as follows: 0 “This evening being extremely ﬁne, I was watching the second satellite ofJupiter as it gradually approached to tran- sit of Jupiter’s disk. It appeared in contact at half-pa st ten o’clock, and for some minutes remained. on the edge of the disk, presenting an appearance not unlike that of the lunar mountains coming into view during the moon’s ﬁrst quarter, until it ﬁnally disappeared on the body of the planet. After an interval of exactly twelve minutes I again turned to Jupi- ter, when, to my utter astonishment, I perceived the same satellite outside the disk. It remained visible for precisely Lfour minutes, and then suddenly vanished. No possible ex— planation of this most extraordinary phenomen on can be conceived. Of course, even to suppose that a cloud layer rose or fell in a few minutes several thousand miles——about eight thousand miles—is as inadmissible as to suppose the solid crust of a globe to undergo so vast a change of level.” The phenomenon will probably forever remain an impene- trable mystery; but there remains not an atom of doubt that such a gigantic throe involved the instantaneous destruction of everything resembling life on the planet. Death, in fact, overtook Jupiter as it had overtaken his three brothers, and as it may in a few months overtake our earth, or any reader of these words. 1 Saturn and Jupiter seem to have been suddenly convulsed. by a gigantic spasm of gravitation very much as the individ- ual is suddenly stricken dead by apoplexy. There are good grounds for believing that our globe, as well as the kindred planets, Venus, Uranus and Neptune, may perish simul- taneously in what will be the crowning convulsion of our system. Father Secchi, the eminent astronomer of Rome, and the highest living authority on the sun, has recently dis- covered that the grand source of all terrestrial activity-the controller of the planets whether /alive or dead—-the origin of all energy, activity, vigor and vital power——the sun himself-- is at present subject to some extraordinary inﬂuences, which produ.ce continual changes in his form as well as in his size. I-Iis diameter is less than usual, his colored sierras are deeper, While his red prominences are larger than usual. These per- turbations, the learned father declares, indicate a disturbance of extraordinary character and vehemence in the solar-cloud. envelope, probably occasioned by shrinkage in the sun’s mass. For it must not be forgotten, ‘while examining the probabili- ties of the impending convulsion and extinction of life from our earth and the solar system, that this fact of the sun’s shrinkage has been tolerably well known to astronomers for nearly a decade. Of course the sun cannot continue to give off the vast amount of heat that it does without expending material. You cannot heat every room in an immense house without a large daily expenditure of fuel. The sun emits every minute as much heat as would melt a shell of ice forty feet thick all over the _sun’s surface. There has been, and still is, a great deal of conjecture about the originof this heat. Some have attributed it to chemical combinations; but if the sun were of solid coal it would have been completely burned out during the Scriptural chronology-——say 5,000 years. The view that some astronomers entertain is, that ‘the heat is maintained partly by the inﬂex of meteors——wrecks of ex- ploded planets—and partly by a contraction of his volume. This contraction is variously estimated at from 300 to 1,000 feet in diameter per annum; but while the contraction is well established, the amount of it is almost total conjecture. Father Secchi, in this alarming solar disturbance, traces a striking comparison between the fate of the planet Saturn and that likely before long to befall the sun. In Saturn and his system we see a miniature of the solar system. In each system there are eight orbs circling around the central body; and each system exhibits close by the central orb a multitude of discrete bodies—the zodiacal light in the solar system and the scheme of rings in the Saturnian system—subserving am unexplained purpose. There is still another momentous consideration. The vari- ous planets probably act upon the sun even as the sun acts upon them. Let us look for an analogical system of action and reaction. Unquestionably the moon exerts an inﬂuence on the occurrence of earthquakes and volcanoes in our planet PROGRESS: FREE THOUGHT: UNTRAMMEL:ED L1:‘V:e:.e2i BREAKING- THE WAY FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIQNS. are dead.” Thus reasoned a few months since the famous ‘ ‘.9 —-—not. be it understood, by her own attraction directly, but s woonnnti. s CLAFLIN’S wrsxr.-r. by affecting the balance between terrestrial forces. We ob— serve the direct action of the moon in the tides; but in the indirect acti.on of which we speak, the primary forces-centri- fugal‘ and centripetal~are affected. Similarly, as the emi- nent F°rench savan, M. Flammarion, has remarked, “the planets indirectly affect the sun’s condition, and the recent gigantic throes in the two prime planets, Saturn and Jupiter probably exerted a powerful and disastrous inﬂuence on the central orb of our system.” As exhiiting the terrible experiences through which our globe has already passed, the distinguished philosopher just quoted remarks: “ There are grounds for believing that the moon will unite itself with our earth. The results of the col- lision are manifest. The whole mass of the moon and the cold crust of the earth would be raised some thousands of- degrees, and the surface of our globe be converted into a ﬁery ocean. Such a collision is by no means improbable, however; for it is almost certain that such processes of combination between different parts of our globe may have repeatedly happened before the earth attained its present magnitude, and that luxuriant vegetation which now exists as deposits of coal may have at different times been buried under the ﬁery debris resulting from the conﬂict of those masses.” Some- thing in the same style, on a smaller scale, is continually hap- pening in our day. Thousands of meteors are daily falling upon our globe, mostly in the form of ashes, consequent upon the ﬁerce conﬁagration of those bodies while being projected with inconceivable rapidity through our atmosphere, and it strikes the ground like the Iowa meteor of February 12, 1875 --a series of metallic fragments, weighing in all over 5,000 pounds. ' Let the imagination that is not appalled by these immensi- ties strive to conceive of them. Yet science is as certain con- cerning these distances as in predicting that there will be a total eclipse of the sun on the 17th of September next, visible in the northern and western Paciﬁc Oceans and in Australia. When astron.omers, therefore, enter the ﬁeld of prophecy, their presagements deserve attention. But when theologians, skilled in Scriptural exegesis, and believers in Spiritualism, who are incapable of charlatanry, unite with the mathemat- ical astronomer in predicting that the end of mundane things is at hand~—is at the very door, so to speak~—people of sagacity an.d acumen will perceive that this is no crude Millerite sen- sation——no fanatical dream. THE CAUSE AND CURE or CRIME. BY WARREN CHASE. Of all the many theories to account for the recent increase of crime and its reckless enormity in our country, we do not recollect to have seen one that attributed it to our cruel, wicked, nefarioussystem of legal swindling from the pro- ducers of wealth by our ﬁnancial policy—short currency, ruinous interest, enormous taxes, unjust distribution of them, and the fostering of monopolies by robbing the people to enrich them; a system carried on by Congress for the nation at large, and by State legislatures for the several States. The ﬁrst great evil and cause of poverty and crime, often resulting from it, lies in our Congress trying to make a currency for the people out of material of which there is not enough to be had anywhere to make what is needed for the business of the country; and failing in this, to try to patch it with fractional or other material, resting on the deﬁcient article for redemption—~a policy that has no ra- tional support but the interest of speculators, since every one ought to know it is the stamp and not the material that makes a piece of gold, or a piece of silver, or a piece of paper of money value, else we might use cotton or corn, which have as much commercial value as gold and silver. The effect of this specie basis is ruinous to the industry of the country, and turns thousands of willing men and women out of employment; and the old saying is " the devil ﬁnds plenty of work for idle hands to do,” and pressed by a necessity that knows no law, these idle and oppressed classes are largely the criminal, while another class which has been bred in luxury and extravagance ﬁnd salaries, or earnings, or speculations inadequate to keep up these ex- penditures, and steal in various ways. by law or without law, if they must, and become defaulters, forgers and crim- inals of various kinds, often prefering death to a failure to maintain their social position. Had Congress at the close of the war, or at any reasonable time after its close, made a currency of metals and paper, and by law made it of equal value in all transactions, and regulated its issue as proposed in the House of Representatives by Messrs. Stevens and Kelly, by making it interchangable for bonds with a low rate of interest, our national debt would soon have been con- ﬁned to this currency and bonds, gold and greenbacks of equal value regulated by the stamp, the laborers of the coun- try employed, its resources developed, its people happy, with plenty of work, plenty of money, plenty of everything needed for prosperity; and crime, instead of being increased, would have diminished from 25 to 40 per cent. The repub- lican party could thus have saved its credit with the people, and would not have lost its hold on them and control of one branch of Congress with doubtful prospects of retain- ing any power at all. But ﬁrst our executive was cap- tured by speculators, and enough of them elected to control Congress and enact only such laws as would enable them to carry on gigantic schemes of swindling. For this purpose a legal difference between gold and paper money was established, and then the control of the increased. body of the paper currency put in the hands of the national banks which are paid for circulating and loaning the currency, which they can inﬂate and restrain at pleasure, so as to keep the price of property and the rate of interest in their hands, while debts (and specie which cannot be obtained) are of unalterable value. Failures, forfeitures and crimes are the result, and yet nearly all the leading papers of our great cities are actively engagedand in this nefarious scheme of political robbery, and the leaders of both parties largely involved in it, and are trying to lead and control the parties _to ./x support it. The Inter Ocean of Chicago is a worthy excep- tion in our State, and some others equally so in other States, but papers like the Herald, Times, Tribune, World, etc., of New York, and Times and Tribune of Chicago, and Republi- can of St. Louis, cannot be expected to advocate the poor man’s policy, nor measures which speculators will not pay for. Whilesuch sheets are constantly parading the increase of crime, they will not advocate the proper and true remedy which is simple justice from Congress in the matter of a currency for the country. Resumption of trade, resumption of business of every kind, resumption of our highest state of morality ever attained, would soon follow the adoptlon of thetrue currency policy, and a resumption of equal values between paper and gold would come without special legis- lation on fhe subject. We cannot believe that it is ignor- ance of these facts which. are so plain, that prevents Con- gress from the adoption of the measure, but itis the political rings and the money of speculators that control these rings, and through the rings control Congress, as they long have the President, and no doubt knew they could before they secured his election the second time. Except Spain, no civilized nation is so shamefully ruled as ours at this time. With the best and most abundant resources and employ- ment for far more labor than we have, over 1,000,000 laborers are compulsorily idle for want of money which Congress could supply with one act of law that would employ all who want work, and keep hundreds from crime and punishment; and yet for political reasons neither party will even advocate it for fear the money of speculators will be turned against them and defeat them. The people maybe compelled to organize a new party and defeat both, as it surely would if these measures could be understood. Of State legislation we will say nothing at this time, as it is not so glaringly absurd as the national. We have waited and watched the demo- cratic ascendancy in the,house to see if it was going to be what democracy once was in our country, the party of and for the people, but we watch in vain: it fears the power of the wealth that was procured by bad legislation and must be kept by the same, and which threatens to destroy any party that opposes its schemesﬁ , SACRAMENTO, Feb. 10, 1876. Dear l/Vselcly: I send you a few extracts from T. L. Harris’ “ Lyric of the Golden Age,” which are full of signiﬁcance to , me. I have underscored some portions that seem so pregnant with meaning when taken in connection with much that has been published in the WEEKLY for the past year, that I can hardly forbear directing particular attention thereto. Would it not be well for those who fear “ Free Love,” to banish that grand poem from their libraries ? LOIS VVAISBROOKER. “ Oh mystery of being, mighty love! Thou ocean that dost flow through many streams; Thou soul that ilowest through many lilies; Thou day that ﬁllest all tliiugs with thy light; How beautiful art thou I How wond’rous is thy mterblendéug force, Merging the all in one, Merging one in all. The self-forgetting energy that ﬁres The lovcr, hero, saint or martyr, ﬂows From thee and is thine own. ' In loving we grow wise ' Beyond all ﬁnite thought. Love is the blood which veins the life; Love is the life that lives within the soul, Love is the tree whose fruits are golden suns; Whose branches ﬁll immensitics of space; W/Lose essences are spim't-ual spheres, Whose most ethereal substance lives from God. >l< * =l= * * There is no virtue separate from love, There is no virtue but is born of love. Heaven is love. All men are heavenly mansions built of God. :}: =l< 4? :1: When love renews the world below, All thoughts shall like the roses blow, ()n lilies white virgin snow. . =l< >x< >1: vs at Christ hath descended to humanity; Earth shall behold her deserts bud and bloom, And thrill :in all her veins of Deity, And error die, and love make all men wise andfree. '35 * tit * >.‘< In heaven again, The dust that now obscures the minds of men, Quickened by spirit~ﬁ1-e, transformed shall glow Like crystal moonb cams shining on pure snow; ll,/[miter 7'eﬁn.ed and purified, shall be T/w_/looting garment of ;‘he Deity. =:= =k a: Men to angelic stature wisely grown, Embody in one form of might and grace Not the perfection of one mind alone, But all the forms and forces of the race. g .4; >l< =:< is Out of the ashes of this great decay Shall spring swift revolution, for I hear A voice prophetic, pregnant with all fear, All terror, all confusion, all distress. ::< =1: * =l< « * And I will arm him (Revolution) to avenge the woe Oi’ millions on despotic heads. His call Shall rouse the nations, he shall tear the pail From the Christ, and it will wave so bright That tyrants. pierced and blinded with the sight, Shall reel and perish with the morning light; I’ll temper him a sword, and he shall smite Revenge and bigotry; but ancient Night Shall rise against him, and his feet must tread Where blood shall rain as from the skies o’erhead; The lurid ﬂames shall follow him, his form Shall burn with agony, through strife and storm, Battling with all the enemies of man. The end of government is to perfect The human spirit. Laws that merely serve To aggrandize and elevate the few, Destroy at last the statelicst commonwealth April 1, 1876. Which topples by its own ill—balanced weight, Crushing the builders in its overthrow. , God’s government, unlike frail mortal man’;-3, Contemplates as its chief design and end A perfect life for every human soul. a: =l< ‘ That human hearts have m'g7u's, That tyranny is crime, that error springs Zvozffrom the human hearts, butfrom The wrongs that crush humanity. Then earth, From the Antarctic to the Arctic pole, Shall blush with ﬂowers; the isles and continents Teem with harmonic forms of bird and beast And fruit, and glorious shapes of art, more fair Than n1an’s imagination yet conceived, Adorn the stately temples of a new Divine religion. Every human soul A second Adam or a second Eve, Shall dwell wz'tlL its pure co-unterpart In sacramental vnurriuge of the heart.” NOTES. OBSCENITY. A On the silver gilt gate—plates of the palatial mansions in. our “ garden district,” aregwords deeply graven with a knife point, too obscene to be on prison or brothel walls. words out there bychildren who had been conceived and gestated “in lust, and lust breeding secrecy in training, until their natures are drunken, and poisoned with it. IGNORANCE. Theignorance of woman gives the longest leash to the vices of men, and many a pure and innocent woman has gone down to her grave, ignorant that the vital source of life had been poisoned by her husband, and her trusted family physician, knowing her ignorance (from the accursed laws of conventional forms) helped her husband to conceal his crime of murder, aye, murder no less, than if he had seen her fair limbs stiffen under the daggers deadly thrust. Ah, there are men before me now who wish not that the “winds of heaven should visit their darlings too roughly,” and yet by their cruel and lust- ful, dominatlng nature, are slowly killing them, sapping life’s forces. and rendering the blooming girl the prematurely aged woman; vampire like feeding on her vitality, until she sinks outwearied, the mother of many children——~life’s race half run, and too often glad to lay the weary burthen down. A woman of your city said to me “God speed you, I am condemned for not being a christian; but my breast yet’ Warm with the touch of baby ﬁngers, my lips thrilling un- der the loving kisses of my husband, I have enough of the Christ principle in my heart to strip and be ﬂayed alive, if by so doing I could infuse into the hearts of women the love for humanity, and the knowledge of it that I possess. ’ It is easy to be a latter day saint and tie your children’s dainty bows and sashes and send them to Sunday school to learn some old, old story; to dress in dainty silks and costly laces, and sit in cushioned pews and languidly fan one‘s self whilst listening to the well salaried divine for a given hour. But oh, to imitate the Master, to go into the lowly places, lift up the bruised and broken, and then, when maligned and reviled by saintly ones, to be able to say: “God, Thou knowest I forgive them, they know not what they do.” This is not easy work my friend. Miss. E. SAXON, New Orleans. NEW YORK, March 12, 18‘£"G. Editor Weelclg/——Recently, while in conversation with a gentleman about the amount of possessions acquired by some persons in the world’s history, he remarked that he believed there was never yet a human being so much of a monster as to be called a billionaire. I told him there never was and never would. be. He thought, however, it was quite possible, as one of the Rothchilds, who died lately, left live hundred millions, and he only wanted 150 per cent. more to make him worth a billion. His notion therefore was based on the idea that a billion was a thousand millions instead of a million of millions. Now, ever since our late war the word billion or billions, though expressing an uncommon number, appears to have been brought into quite common use. For when the national debt has been adverted to by different writers, many of them have spoken of it as so many billions, instead of so many thousand millions. Where they get this sort of numeration I cannot imagine. It is not according to decimals, the per- fectly correct system of operation by ﬁgures. It may be from ignorance. as it appears to be; or, it may perhaps be because when writing they are too lazy to express themselves by thousands of millions, and so they say billions for con- venience. lf the latter be the case it is exceedingly repre- hensible as well as ridiculous; and if the former, it would perhaps be advisable for such writers of disquisitions in ﬁnancial matters before they thus make wrong impressions on the minds of others, to try and meet some of our public school children on their way home, and learn from them the numeration table up to decillions. quintdecillions, etc. De— nominating numbers or sums in such a way is certainly very discreditable to our national system and policy of common school education. The true is always better than the false. A Yankee school—master seeking an appointment,’ on being asked if he understood ﬁgures, said he was not much of an arithmeticer, but he was desperate on fractions. It would seem that those who are apparently so familiar with billions, are equally desperate on whole numbers. DABOLL. Dear Weekly: Permit me to add my congratulations to the many rejoicings at the success of Victoria C. Woodhull. Like truth crushed to earth, she is triumphantly rising over her enemies. Well I remember the depth of my feelings which almost culminated to rage, at the great injustice of the sisters imprisonment, and the destruction of their paper for having in its columns an article which other papers printed and sent broadcast with impunity. I now hold a. April 1, 1876.: letter which I had written and directed to Mrs. Woodhull in Ludlow Street Jail stating the above facts, supposing in the excitement of the arrest she had missed seeing them; and .. which (I am ashamed to confess) I was scared by friends into applying to the station where I had but a few moments be- fore dropped it, for its return to me. The postmaster re- fused to grant my request, although holding my letter in his hands at the same time, until it could be sent to the General Post Oﬂice and opened. I had been a subscriber for the WEEKLY from its ﬁrst publication, not because I endorsed allits tenets, but for its teeming truths, substantiated by able and philosophical arguments; a journal in which I saw no guile, owned and edited by women who earnestly advo- cated the elevation of their sex. Timid and sensitive as I was at the pointed ﬁnger, I soon rallied, and with increased vigor defended the WOODHULL AND CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY (long may it live) often in the face of derisive insults and the loss of friends. When public sentiment hung like a pall over the head of Mrs. Woodhull, a gleam of light seemed to tremble through its blackness, which gave me a trusting hope that justice would yet awake and sting the cheek of this Re- public with the blush of shame. God speed Victoria 0. Woodhull, is the earnest wish of YOUFS. Darsr J AYNE. IS THERE LONGER HOPE. 7(l/altom of the Weekly: While there is life, there is hope; u is often said in desperate personal ailments. and it may be true in a governmental and religious sense. But what is life in a religious, or a national sense? What, but justice, truth, righteousness, honor, integrity; private virtue in public men, public spirit, fortitude, manly courage in securing and sustaining right, in the private citizen? Public virtue in private men and private virtue in public men, regulated by reason and conscience, the eternal law of equity and right, old as human nature, immortal as the soul of man; only this is life, to nations and governments, and when such life fails, there is no longer hope. In any worthy sense, the United States government has ceased to be; is dead, putrid, “smells to heaven,” demand- ing, for the health of humanity, a Sodom ;g:_5&m*ﬁ’_'1t-,h brimstone and ﬁre. The president has proved weak and wicked alike; vulgar, coarse and besotted. And his minis- ters, mostly, are worthy their master. And the Congress did not need three years to prove itself in statesmanship, as idiotic as it is totally depraved in prin- ciple and moral character . Three full Congressional years it has now been wrestling with the ﬁnancial problem; and wiser men than any of them now say it had been better for the nation had every member of both branches stayed at home all those years. And yet, when the present panic (now become chronic) broke out, by the bursting of the Jay Cooke bubble and the subsequent explosion of the “dissolving views” in Wall Street, and similar “open sesame” caves, commerce thought it could not wait three months till Congress should regularly assemble, but must call an extra session forthwith to pro- vide relief and protection against impending calamity and ﬁnancial ruin. But the people did wait the three months; have now endured three whole Congressional sessions, and are appar- ently worse off than ever before! The Congress taxes, plun- ders and punishes the people, and that is all. And the popular government is as good as the prevailing religions in the land. Were our thirty to ﬁfty thousand ordained priests and preachers any better than the “dumb dogs” of the ancient Hebrew prophet, there would be re- pentance or revolution in an hour. Revolution seems now the only and inevitable remedy. And revolution unto blood! More needed, a thousand times, in 1876 than it was in 1776; and more to be justified. The return of the brave Helen Nash to the columns of the WEEKLY is some consolation for the much absence of its peerless Editor in Chief, though her triumphs in the lectur- ing ﬁeld are suﬁicient to delight every true and liberty-loving heart. even were they at the cost of temporary suspension of the WEEKLY altogether. For her inﬂuence is omnipresent wherever or however it be diffused; and universal benefac- tion as well. PARKER PILLSBURY. Cincinnati, 0., March 12, 1876. '_«1 WOMEN WHO ARE TO BE EVER YOUNG. (J onnie J hue in Baltimore American.) Action is the secret of immortality, and now that women are entering the active ﬁelds they will cease to become old; they will remain young, like men. There was a time when women only lived ﬁve years——from eighteen to twenty—tl1ree. Before that they were “chits;” after, they were talked of pityingly, sneeringly, as “old maids.” Married women were supposed to be out of the world altogether, to have no interest for any one but their husbands and their children, and with the natural perversity of human nature, when a , woman ceases to have an interest for any other person than her husband, she quickly ceases to have an interest for him. The time has gone by when women ceased to be interesting because they had passed girlhood. Womanhood is found to be as much richer, as much liner and more attractive when ' it is developed and employed, as summer than spring, or manhood than boyhood. “This is my last call,” remarked a ﬂippant young gentle- man to a young lady who was soon to be married, on a re-- cent occasion. “I never call on married women or unmar- ried _ladies after they have reached twenty-ﬁve.” “You do well, sir,” gravely remarked an elder lady present. “At that age and after marriage they begin to know the value of. time and do not like to waste it. ” Who stops to think whether George Eliot (Mrs. Lewes) is ‘ young or old? Who cares for noted women until they are old, or at least until they have passed their youth? for it is their experience and the use to which they put it, which makes them worth knowing. ' each one has paid into the establishment. -ﬁrst thing},-—Broolclyn Argus. WOODHULL & 0LAFLIN’S WEEKLY. CO—OPERATIVE HOTEL. I desire to obtain a hotel or suitable house in an accessi- ble, but not aristocratic, part of the city of New York, to be operated on the co-operative plan. b 1. The total rent of the hotel is to be levied upon all the rooms, public and private, according to the location and quality of the rooms, with ﬁve per cent. added to the total sum. 2. The total rental of the public rooms is to be divided equally between the private rooms. 3. The restaurant and laundry is put to co-operators at cost price with live per cent. added. 4. There will be no liquors sold on the premises. 5. The government of the house will be under a master, who places each department under its proper superinten- dent. 6. All ofﬁcers and agents will receive pay for services ren- dered, nothing for the office or position. 7 The rules for the government ‘of the house will be just as arbitrary as in any hotel. 8. All outsiders will be charged the usual city prices in the establishment. 9. All bills will be paid in advance. 10. Daily receipts will be cancelled by checks, receipt or vouchers with the treasurer at a stated hour each day. 11. At the end of each month, all dividends arising from the five per cent. margin and outside patronage will be di- vided among the co-operators in proportion to the amount 12. No party can become a co-operator for a less time than one month. . 13. This is not intended to be a money making, but a money saving, concern. All parties who can participate in this money saving con- cern will please correspond with G. W. Madox, 29 Broadway, New York City, and, if an answer is required, enclose stamp. 111 ,. __ ; ﬂea-.'“’é.’t".§"L ' I }? BITS OF FUN. Old lace is the object of the latest fashionable mania, and the factories are running double time to supply the demand. Alabama State Journal. “You ain’t afraid to die?” said the clergyman, tenderly. “No,” replied the sufferer, “I’m only afraid it I do that the old woman will go snooting among my private papers the A Brooklyn girl is engaged to be married to an Italian Count, and in the course of four or ﬁve years she may be looked for on the street with a. hand-organ playing the usual tunes. The Baltimorean says a woman is more ecconomical than a man, because her “waist" is smaller. Of corset is.—Boston Post. We always thought lace expensive .——Detrot't Free Press. Stay that!——St. Louis Republican. Come, now, don’t play on those stringsany more.—E:r,. A correspondent inquires the etymology of the word “restaurant.” It is from two Latin words—-“taurus.” a bull, and “res,” things-—bully things, originally referring to ox- tail soup and the steaks usually found there. Judge Brady, of New York, tells this good story: He was one day on the wharf while an emigrant ship was coming in. An Irish laborer, who knew him, edged alongside, and, after alook at the crowded ship, turned to the Judge and said: “ Tell ye what Misther Brady, thim furriners is goin’ to play the divil with us entirely. What’ll we do at all, at all?” “Who’s Herbert Spencer, Pop ‘P’ asked an inquiring Brook- lyn boy of his father the other morning. “He’s a famous English philosopher, my son.” “And what’s aphilosopher '2” continued the lad. with the business air of a person. who could keep right on asking questions until doomsday. “A philosopher.” returned the father, gravely. “is aman who never marries.—Brooklyn Argus. Prof. Rudolph says that he has found out that the sun is a white, hot mass, 850,000 miles in diameter, having a sur- rounding ocean of burning gas 50,000 miles deep, with tongues of ﬂame darting upward 50,000 miles, and volcanic forces that hurl luminous matter to the height of 160,000 miles. Darwin says the male grasshoppers use their hind legs to ﬁddle on the edge of their wings, and that the boss ﬁddler always wins the affections of the female ﬁrst. The editors of the Norristown Herald aver that they have frequently noticed this, but didn’t think itcworth while saying anything about it. A promising young shaver of ﬁve or six years was reading his lessons at school one day in that deliberate manner for which urchins of that age are somewhat remarkable. As he proceeded with the task he came upon the passage, “Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from guile.” Master Hopeful drawled out, "Keep-thy--tongue——from-—evil—-and ——thy—lips——from——girls.” A case of chronic laziness is reported at Washington. A young man appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury Depart- ment was conducted to his desk and informed what his duties were. The chief of the Department discovered him a short time after comfortably reposing in his seat, with his feet characteristically resting on the desk. “Hello,” said the chief, “don’t you expect to do any work?” “Work be hanged!” exclaimed the astonished youth, “I had to work hard enough to get here.” A corpulent woman, wearing spectacles and a very serious look, was a passenger on a Woodward avenue car yesterday. and inquired: “Can you ringgthe bell?” “With pleasure,” he responded, as he rose up and yanked the strap. The car stopped, no one moved, and after a long look through the As the car rolled along she smiled at a man sitting opposite,/i door, the driver started up again. The man looked across at the fat woman for an explanation, and she said: “I didn’t know whether you could or not.”—Dctro'il Free Press. A drag driven by an elegantly attired lady, and with a trim and neatly dressed colored boy perched on the foot- man’s seat behind, was passing through the streets, when it was espied by an old negro woman. “Bress de Lord,” she exclaimed, raising her hands as she spoke, “Bress de Lord, I never ’spected to see dat. Wonder what dat cullud young gemman pays dat young white ‘Oman fur drivin’ dat ker- ridge? I know’d it'd come, but never ’spected to lib to see it. Dis nigga’s ready to go ’way now.” A Dutchman being advised to rub his limbs Well with brandy for the rl1eumatism,s-aid he had heard of the remedy; but added, “I dosh potter as dat——I drinks do prandy,den I rubs mein legs mit der pottle. A‘ 4 V Cr EDITORIAL NOTICES. A CONVENTION of the New England Free Love League will be held in Boston, March 26th and 27th. Truly yours, ._E. H. Hnrwooi). THE INDIANAPOLIS SUN.-—The leading independent reform weekly political newspaper in the Union, the special advocate of national legal tender paper money (the greenback system) as against bank issues on the gold basis fallacy, and the inter changeable currency bond as against the high gold interest bond. The Sun has a corps of able correspndents, comprisin- the most eminent political economists of the age. One page devoted entirely to agriculture. Miscellany of the choicest selection, adapted to all classes of readers. The latest general news and market‘ reports. Terms $1.75 per year, postpaid Sample copies and terms to agents sent free on appcation Address Indianapolis Sun Company. Indianapolis, Ind. THE Spiritualists of Rockford have lately organized (for lectures, etc., each Sunday) onafree platform. .,Our cause. seems to be in a very prosperous condition. Our lectures are attended by crowds of the most intelligent and thinking people in the city, and our last Convention was the best our Society has had i.u Northern Illinois since it was organized. Not one word was uttered during the whole Convention against a free platform. They nearly all admit that the question of most interest to humanity is the Social Question. Lecturers desiring engagements can address either COL. E. SMITH, A. H. FISHER, or FRED. I-I. BARNAR1), the Committee appointed to provide speakers for next six months. ’ ALL persons suﬂ’ering from the Asthma, should send for Dr. R. P. Fellows’ Great Indian Asthma Remedy. Mrs. Ellen Dickinson, of Vineland N. J. speaks of it in these terms, “I have suffered with the Asthma, for thirty years during which time I have tried all known remedies to no purpose, but now after resorting to Dr. Fellows’ Asthma Remedy, I am perfectly relieved.” Sent to any part of the globe on receipt of $1 per package. Address Vineland, N. J. .__.._.__ SPIRITUAL Cnnnon or {run Goon SAMARITANS, recogniz- ing the Jesus Christ principles as their foundation, will meet at the hall in the rear of Charter Oak Hall, San Francisco, Cal, Sundays at 11, 2 :30, 7 P. M. Services by Rev. Dr. Chaun- cey Barnes and others. ‘VVARREN CHASE lectures in Rockford. Ill., March 19, 21 22, 23 and 24, or may be addressed accordingly. spend April and May in Ohio. G. Vaughan. Post Oflice, Philadelphia, he will find an ear- nest friend. THE Independent Labor Party meets every Saturday at Masonic Hall, 13th street and 4th avenue. All who believe in the organization of an independent party, based on liberty, equality and justice, with its results, labor, land, ﬁnance and social reform are invited to attend. Dr. E. P. Miller will ad- dress the meeting next Saturday on the labor and ﬁnancial questions. ' LoIs WAIsnnooKER can be addressed at Eureka, Hum- bolt County, California, during April. Will take subscrip_, tions for the WEEKLY. LE0 MILLER AND MATTIE STRICKLAND will receive 03,113 for lectures on liberal subjects. Engagements in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan particularly desired during the spring months. Terms reasonable. Address Omro, Wis. 'l.‘1—10MAs COOK will lecture in Michigan and Ohio from March 15 to April 15. Where public halls are not to be had he gives parlor conversations. He would like more calls in both these States, or Northern Indiana. Let all who would like to meet and converse with him upon the subject of a “ New Departure,” address him immediately at No. 578 M11- waukee avenue, Chicago, Illinois. No science ever developed itself more rapidly than has that of psychometry, or soul reading, and it is destined to take a place beyond all others in usefulness and grandeur, Mrs. H. Augusta White possesses remarkable psyl isometric and clairvoyant powers, and willgive readings :t the C0- operative Home, 308 Third avenue. Hours from 10 to 5, LShe will also give written delineations from a lock of hair. 1 9 1, age and sex must be given. Terms, as in advangee He will IF Mr. A. Gusley, late of Philadelphia, will address Prof. ‘V 4, ‘ woonnunr. a cLArLIn:'s WEEKLY 4April 1, 1876. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I PAYABLLE: IN ADVANCE. One copy for one year, - 33 on Une copy for six months, - - - - - . 1 50 Single. copies, - - - - - - - 10 CLUB RATES. I Five copies for one year, - - . $12 00 Ten copies for one year. ’ ' - - - 22 00 Twenty copies (or more same rate), - - - 40 00 Six months. - - - — - - One-half these rates. ' F()RElGN sucscrurrron ' GA-N BK MADE TO THE AGENCY 013' THE AMERICAN NEWS OOMPARY, LON non, nnqrnnn. . One copy for one year, I . $4 00 One copy for six months, - - ‘ - 2 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING. I Per line (according to location), - I From $0 50 to $1 01) Time, column and page advertisements by special contract. pecial place in advertising columns cannot be permanently given. \dvertiser’s bills will be collectedtrom the office of this journal, and must In all cases, bear the signature of WOODHULL & CLAFLIN. specimen copies sent free. _Newsdealers supplied by the American News Company, No. 121 Nassau street, New York. All communications, business or editorial, must be addressed Woodhull «Ii (Jlaft'in’s Weekly, P. 0. Box, 3791, N. Y. Oﬂice,111 Nassau Street, Room 9. If a man heepeth my saying he shall never see death.—Jesus. A To him that overeometh, I will give to eat of the hidllen manna-.—St. John the Divine. That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life- time subject to hondage.—Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to he entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without joartiality and without hy- 1o0crisy.—James, iii., 17. V And these signs shall follow them: In my name shall they cast out devils ,' they shall take my serpents ,' and they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them ,' they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.-——Jesus. . a NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1876. WE are prepared. to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the ﬁrst series of Bible Articles consisting of ﬁfteen num- bers of the VVEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. Our friends should lose n.o opportunity to bring these articles to the attention -of those whom they can interest. A careful study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand- ing of the great and allimportant truth that is yet to be re- vealed; Which must be carefully and judiciously brought be- fore the world, as the sun comes upon it, bringing ﬁrst the break-of—day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian splendor. ' 0»-49-..-——_... THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; on, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship him.——S'r. MATTHEW, ii., 2. /\ - /\ This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been intrbducecl, but which, deﬁned in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world ‘unto Himself. We adopt this rliagrarri. as emblematic, at our future work. '1 PARENTAL DUTY. There is an idea prevalent in the world, that, if children I are well fed, comfortably clothed, and given such a tolerably good book education as may be obtained in the public schools, the full parental duty has been performed; and that, let their after health and life be what it may, parents are in no wise to be considered responsible. But is this true? To be sure, it is the duty of parents to furnish their children food, to clothe and give them shelter; but these, save in the ﬁrst few years of their existence, are generally . more than well~earned by the children; and the same may be said of education, since the direct beneﬁt that accrues to the parent from the education of the child, much more than compensates for the expense incurred, even in‘a ma- terial sense, leaving out entirely, the other question of in- direct recompense in satisﬁed aﬂection. In a large sense, parents are also considered responsible to the community as well as to their children, for their morality, or for that thing which is understood to be meant by that term, as well as for their religious training and habits. If, at the legal age, the man or woman stands the test of public criticism in these regards, the parents of that man or woman are said to have fulﬁlled their duty; and to have failed to have done so, in so far as he or she fall below thattest only. But, we ask again, is this a true test; or a true standard of parental responsibility? It may be true as far as it goes, but if it go no further than to include these, and leave out the question of physical health, than we say it is not true at all, for of what use are all the accomplishments, in whatever direction they may be gained, if the body sink under their weight, by reason of physical weakness and disease? But let parents be held as c,-ulpable as they may, for any lack in any of the respects inentioned, they are seldom ever even censured for any falling of their children below the stand- ard of perfect health, while in no other respect are they so directly the cause of what their children may be, and con- sequently so responsible, as in this regard. In the ﬁrst in- stance, at birth, the child is, physically, just what the parents make it; is free from taint, or free from the seeds of disease, as they were free or full at the time of conception, and dur- ing gestation and" lactation. In the second instance, the health of the child who is free from physical taint, and the degree of the want of it in the c hi.1d who has inherited ten- dcncies to disease, depends almost wholly upon having proper care, which involves a great deal more than is usually understood to belong to the care of children; indeed, ex- tends to proper food, bathing and exercise; to regulatio n of habits of eating, drinking and sleeping; to application to study, to labor and recreation. And in the third instance,‘ they are specially responsible for the private and secret habits of children, by which so many, perhaps wholly free from inherited taint, are brought to physical ruin, and by which more of the other class are consigned to the grave before muturity, or else to a life of physical suffering and misery, to still further depress the common health of the race, by begetting children to whom they transmit -their own degraded standard. We believe that what goes by the name of Christianity- modern Christianity—-is responsible for the physical degen- eracy of the people. It has taught that spiritual growth is to be attained by the cruciﬁxion of the body; and has brought the natural and necessary appetites and passions of the body into such disrepute that the body, as a whole, has fallen into total neglect. In the days of Grecian and Roman supremacy, the physical perfection was held to be of par- mount importance, and every known physical law was rigidly observed. Had this idea been retained, and upon it there had been engrafted the further ideas of intellectual, moral and spiritual perfection, all would have been well. Common sense should have taught that this should have been done; but, as the Bible was falsely supposed to con- demn such a course; indeed to teach that there was no ne- ccssary connection between physical health and moral recti- tude and spiritual perfection, its modern expositors have made it the block over which the Christian world has stumbled into physical decay. Instead of parents teaching their children how to develop in.to physical perfection, they deny to them all the knowl- edge which they might communicate, as well as all other sources of obtaining the needed information, and quickly, usually sternl_,', attempt to check_the rising thought that would question them about it. In the respect in which there should be the most complete conﬁdence between parents and children, all means of conﬁdence are cut off, and parents remain utter strangers to their secret habits, and they are left to gain the knowledge they should obtain from their natural instructors, in purity of thought and pur- pose, from impure and vulgar sources and for degrading purposes; for where there is a want in child or adult that IS not satisﬁed in a proper and normal way, it is pretty certain to be ministered unto by improper and abnormal methods, To look into the faces of the rising generation and see the pallid cheeks, pinched and thin; the sunken eyes, encircled with yellowish brown; the attenuated limbs and undeveloped forms, flat and angular and covered with shriveled skin, when they should be full and rounded out, and their covering full "of life and rosincss, is quite enough to make one sick at heart who looks only one generation ahead. Nor are these signs conﬁned to one sex. Both boys and girls, youth and maidenhood, alike carry the fearful evidence of their secret yiees written illli1t}§Ql7‘tl11Q;€ll)l8,Cll§tl‘§tGt6l‘ii all eve; thcirfaces and forms. Many children are, to be sure, debilitated and weakly by reason of the vices of their parents, and between them and those who are the cause of their own degeneracy, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish; but when children, once rosy and healthful, become shrivcled and lead-colored, parents may. rest assurred that secret vice is at the bottom of it, and that it may be charged to their own criminal negligence in not teaching their children properly about the functions of sex, and warning them of the danger of the practices that have become so common among the young. But parents live on blindly, and see their children fade away and pretend never to.-suspect the cause; but the children themselves, the boys especially, after awhile learn that something is wrong with them. There are plenty of books that point out the evil, of which they get hold, after the evil is accomplished. They try to, and in many instances do, break off the vice, but the fatal effects - only then begin to appear, for, what had been a voluntary habit, now degenerates into an involuntary and abnormal ac- tion and more rapidly than the vice itself would have done, pushes along the evil work begun in ignorance. Some parents excuse themselves for having left their children to drift into this vice, by saying that no warning would have deterred them from it. But the incompetency of this reply is demonstrated by the fact that, when the vice has become a habit, children break themselves of it without assistance when they learn what are its fearful effects. No! Intelligence upon all these subjects is what is needed by the young, much more than any other kind of instruction; instruction communicated from pure lips for the high and pure purpose of preserving the dependent young from falling into the snares that are set at every dark corner of the earth to catch them in their fatal noose. The purest minded peoplc—men and women—in the world are those who were taught the most about their sexual functions by their saintly mothers; are those who can dis- cuss intelligently any problem that relates to the health and disease of these functions, or to the origin and develop- ment of life, and do so without being seized upon by the demon lust. The really impure minded are they who blush and simper and hide their faces when any one happens to refer to a question of sex. To the really intelligent there is no more disgusting sight than to see a woman pretend to suffer from an affront against her ideas of propriety, when the relations of the sexes are being discussed. It is from this class of young women that the seducer obtains his Vic- tims. He knows well enough that it is useless for him to attack one that understands herself and can speak about herself, or others, without the idea of impurity or vulgarity ﬁnding a place in her mind. It is such women--such young womcn—who gain and hold the respect, and ulti- mately command the love of the better portion of the op- posite‘ sex, while to the simpering idiots in these things, fall the other portion. Children who are strangers to their parents in these deli- cate regards, sooner or later lose a large part of the respect for their parents that ought to exist for them during life. They learn that they were afraid to tell them what they knew, or else were afraid to trust them with the knowl- edge; often times they remember such lies that were told them in answer to some of their questions, and this teaches them that their parents had no regard for the truth, and they distrust them in everything else besides. In fact, there are thousands of instances in which children go to some respected acquaintance, or to the family physician or minister, to learn something that they dare not inquire about of their parents. Nor does the evil of this want of conﬁdence end in the subject in which it began, but it spreads into all the relations of parents and children, and is frequently the source of untold ills to both. Not only is the insatiate maw of death constantly felt by ill-timed victims of this estrangement, but asylums, hospitals", and prisons are ﬁlled by its results; and the ranks of vice in all its forms are constantly recruited from the self-same cause. -When we say that, if parents were to become acquainted with their children, thoroughly, and know [them through and through, and were to teach them just what they should know about the only portions of their bodies and their func- tions of which there are not other proper sources of infor- mation, a generation only would be required to banish al- most wholly, all misery, vice and crime from society, we say what we most assuredly feel would be true. In the exceptional cases in which this conﬁdence has existed, the results have been so marked and beneﬁcial, that we are forced to conclude that, next in importance to proper gen- eration stands proper education in these respects. In a moral sense, parents who know the ills to which children are exposed and do nothing to warn them, are as responsible for what befalls tbem as he would be who should see an- other walk blindly into the jaws of death without giving him warning that there was danger in that direction. We are aware thatthere are too many parents who know next to nothing about these subjects which have been hid behind the veil of mystery so long that knowledge of them has come to be forbidden fruit, and many, who have some . knowledge, profess to be ignorant lest they fall under the curse. We but reiterate what we have said often before, when we say that, if there is anything bad, anything Wrong, in any way among a people, the very best way to get rid of it is to teach the rising generation freely about it. The possession of proper knovrrledge upon. any subjectshuts cit ,. W7’//.9" __ _ .A,pri1 1, 18’? 6. woo:onUI.L as CI.AFLIN’8 WEEKLY. r I 5 the demand for the improper and really vulgar knowledge upon the same subject, by which the hearts and lives of the young are now so widely tainted. Proper teaching by parents and teachers would soon destroy the occupation of the agent of the Y. M. C. A. for the suppression of vice, for, if what ought to be known by all, was properly com- municated to the young,‘ there would be no morbid curiosity to be satisﬁed in any vulgar way. , Hence we appeal to the mothers of the country to be- comepure and virtuous enough, ﬂrst to never beara child . that is not desired before it is conceived; and, second, never to permit one to run, blindfolded, in igngrance, on the rocks or shoals upon which so many lives are stranded, so many happy futures blasted, and so many moral virtues wrecked. To do the opposite to these is to fail to perform a parental duty which, in our esteem, is to be guilty of the greatest of all crimes. Think of these things, moth- ers, and then see whether you have done your whole duty to your children, and if you see you have not, then lose no time in making whatever amends so late an awak- ening may still render possible. .4; V7 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. If there were ever a time in the world when the hearts of those who look for great and radical changes, should feel rejoiced, it seems to us that :the present should be that time. While the large majority of the people look on the evidences of decay and rottenncss that are being daily exhumed from the sinks of corruption, with growing dis- may, amounting to terror in special cases, the inconoclastic reformer smiles a smile of satisfaction to see this work go on, and sits quietly to wait for the grand culmination. He knows that all great changes are preceded by long- continued ages of healthy growth, but he also knows that the new era is only born when the old one dies. The new grain appears after the old has decayed and become Lthe the seed in which the new has its ﬁrst life. Development in institutions follows the same law that the seasons observe with such wonderful regularity. Each season has its seed- time, time of growth, and seed-yielding-time, and when the last appears, the effort that develops it exhausts the process, and in :the chilling winter a new one is provided for the coming year. So with institutions, governments, and all other organized bodies, whether of men or things. It does not require a prophet to tell that the institutions of this country are in their “ sear and yellow leaf.” There is no soundness, strength or virtue anywhere. Onevast seed—yielding-time spreads over them all. They are about to give up the fruit that they have bourn, and fall into decay, out of which will spring the new and better order. It is not true that the decay is of quite recent origin, but that the people have discovered that there is decay and are hoping to sound its depth and length to learn the strength ' of the foundation still left to stand upon. Everywhere it is one and the same thing, ;from the Epettiest government oﬁicial leading even into the White House itself. Look at Congress-a body chosen by the people to legislate-spend- ing all its time investigating corruption ! Regard the heads ,of high oﬁicials, as one after another, they fall into the death-basket! There IS no department of the government G that has not been under the control of a “ ring ” for specu- lative purposes. But this does not tell the whole tale one-half so well as does the other side of it. VVith all the evidences of fraud and corruption morally chargable upon the present adminis- tration, the people of a prominent State, last year almost democratic, now go strongly republican. Have the people gone so far into the chronic state that nothing will arouse them; has mortiﬁcation, insensibility, already set in, or are they still more fearful of the “outs” than they are of the “ins” that they hesitate “to ﬂy to the ills they know not of ?” It is questionable whether if Grant himself should be found to be the very head and front of all the peculation that has been carried on,. the people would be moved even by that to a change of front. Tweedism in New York, and Grantism in Washington are the touchstones of the two old political parties, between which there is no choice by which the people feel there can be any advantage gained. One thing is certain: With all the exposure, the opposition is not as strong to-day as when Congress assem- bled. There have been no statesmen developed among‘ the new members, and the old ones baﬂie the new by their superior tact in almost every move that is made, often turning their own weapons upon them and doing fearful ex- ecution in their ranks. It may be true that for every Bel- knap there would be found a Pendleton, and that the “ins” having this assurance dare the “outs” to move upon “their works,” and they may hesitate to shoot at the highest game for the same reason that made it impossible for Horace Greeley to use a certain lot of letters which he had in his possession, to which the name of one of the Grants was signed, and addressed to the Sub-Treasurer and others at New York prior to, and at the time of, that never to be forgotten Black Friday——the beginning of the present depressed commercial condition of the country. They probably involved individuals belonging to his party, whose exposure would have done him as much harm as Grant would have received by the exposure of the other side. I ‘ What has become of those letters? Documents for the tpcsssssicri at which friends at iii-6 adnjiinistraticn were willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, which sum was refused decidedly by their holder, must have contained some interesting facts. Documents of such value would "not be likely to be destroyed. May it not ,be possible that they are still to come before the public and cap the climax of all the corruptions of all the lesser officials? What would the people think of their republican government if, after all, it should culminate in having at its head a man who was willing to involve every -busi- ness interest of the country, so that his friends might speculate in gold, he rushing in at the eleventh hour, after they were safe, to rescue the business interests from ruin by using the whole power and inﬂuence of the United States Treasury to stop the panic that had been purposely inaugurated? Republicanism in politics, coupled with competition in industry, or rather with money-getting, has culminated, and is verging to its overthrow. But the people are no more aware of what is to take its place, or even that it is to pass away wholly, than they were that, when the late war begun, it was destined to overthrow slavery and the slave power. The few, only, saw that the purposes of the extremest abolitionists were the ones that were to be ac- complished by that war; so now it is only the few who see that the purposes of the extremists, only, are to be subserved by the impending revolution. One portion of the people are asking for greenbacks, interchangeable into bonds, bearing “8.65” interest, never dreaming that they are to get money without interest at all; another class is asking for slight reforms in land tenure and possessions, never thinking that all the land is to belong to the pub- lie in common, again. Laborers are striking for better wages and fewer hours, never imagining that there is to be an organized industry in which all will have an equal right, and that they will stand side by side with their -recent employers in everything; and the same in many other things. But they are to come as the result of the next revolution, and all distinctions, save those established by nature without the aid of man, are to be laid low. Woman, too, is asking for the ballot, never dreaming that the days for voting, as voting is now done, are rapidly coming to an end; or that they are to be accorded all the God-given rights by which they are endowed, as freely and as necessarily as political equality was accorded to the recent slaves. slavery, to which she is subjected_by the law of marriage, is to be abolished, and she be elevated to be the queen in the domain of the affections, and be thus restored from the curse put upon her through her common mother, Eve, by which her sorrows and conceptions were multiplied, and she made subject to her husband. ‘ And least of all do the Christians think that the prayer which they have been praying, parrot-like, so many ages, that “Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” is to come, as Christ said, “like a thief in the night,” and ﬁnd them not waiting to receive it. Little do they suspect the near advent of the reign of Christ upon the earth, coming to His temporal as well as spiritual kingdom; and little do they imagine that we are soon to be as the angels who “neither marry nor are given in marriage ;” or that the time of the end is near. But all these things are true, nevertheless. _ .A._4 r Vﬁ V LIFE-SIZE LITHO GRAPH. We are now prepared to ﬂll all orders for life-size litho- graphs of Victoria "C. Woodhull, from the lithographic establishment of Armstrong & Co., of Boston, Mass. They are splendid pictures, both as awork of art and as like- nesses. They are printed on heavy paper 20 X24 inches, and specially adapted for framing. They will be sent post- paid, securely wrapped to guard against damage, to any address for 50 cents. The common price of lithographs of this size is $2; but we have arranged with -the publisher to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they can be resold at the price named without loss to us.’ They are thus put within the means and reach of everybody who desires to have a splendid life-size portrait of the Editor-in- Chief of the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to the inauguration of a new dispensation. on earth, in which misery, vice and crime shall have no place. In reply to many letters asking for " dealer’s terms ” we would say that the lithographs may be ordered by express by the half dozen, dozen, or more at 40 cents, the usual price, less the postage. In explanation of the delay that has occurred in sending lithographs we would say that the third edition has been delayed, but will be received within a day or two, when all orders will be ﬁlled.——[MANAGINe. Enrron]. __ln. 4 V wrw THE GARDEN OF EDEN. The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but we have prepared a pamphlet edition, which, to meet the extraordinary demand that has been made for the paper, we Will furnish in lots of ten at $1; or more at same rate. -—---————-—>—<Q>—--4 A SHAKER MEETING will be held at the Brooklyn Academy v of Music, Thursday evening, -March _30. Addresses, and Shaker music under the directicti of Elder 1}‘, W. Evans, Mt. lsebanen. (.301. cc:-.. -3.37‘. 3;‘. Nor does she dream that her greatest, CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN NEW ’ ' YORK. ’ MEDICAL “ SCIENCE” ARRAIGNED, CONVICTED AND CONDEMNED. Editors Weekly: I learn through the press that the San- hedrln of, your State have commenced the work of perse- cution on Mrs. Holmes under the law of May 11, 1874, for practicing and obeying what Jesus Christ instructed his disciples and followers to do—-“ And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the'sick.”—Luke ix. 2. “And heal the sick that are therein.”—Luke x. 9. To the man who had been helpless thirty-eight years Christ bade ' him “ arise, take up thy bed and walk, and immediately the man was made whole ”—John v. 8 and 9. “ Verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater.”-——John xiv. 12. For doing these things, had Christ and his disciples lived infNew York, they would have been subjected to the tortures of persecution and the penalties of the law referred to. Personal experi- ence, in the iecture—room and at the bed-side of the sick, for over twenty years, with the vast amount of corroborative testimony of the most eminent medical men of,a1l ages, have established in the mind of the writer the lamentable fact “ Physicians are tossed on the sea of unfounded hypothesis, and feel convinced in their own minds that absolute dark— ness prevails in the medical practice.” In the month of March, 1848, the (supposed to be) “ honorable degree of doctor of medicine ” was conferred upon the writer, on the grounds as recited in the parchment. that he had “ sustained an honorable examination before the Faculty of this College, in all the departments of medical science, and has been foundto be duly qualiﬁed to discharge all the highly‘ re- sponsible, important and complicated duties attached to the oﬂice of physician, surgeon and accoucher,” etc., and in con- sequence of the said “ honorable examinations 7’ and the eminent qualiﬁcations possessed by the candidate, and the authority vested in the said faculty by an act of the Legis- lature, the said degree was conferred, “ with all the honors, privileges and immunities thereunto belonging, both in this country and among all nations.” This document was signed by the Faculty and the Board of Trustees, under their great seal, with a long blue ribbon attached, and thus executed in due form. was delivered to the happy recipient. Who won- ders that a youth without practical experience, armed with legal authority and solemnly declared by seven wise teachers of the mystic art, to be “ duly qualiﬁed to discharge its re~ sponsible duties,” should go forth to battle disease with high hopes and unbounded conﬁdence in his ability to “heal the sick, raise the dead,” and cast out of the human system all manner of (d) evils! Twenty years of study and practice have brought me to the following conclusions in reference to the prevailing systems and practice of medicine. They have their merits and demerits. Anatomy, physiology and surgery are their merits. Of pathol0gY. nosoiogy and thera- putics the educated physician knows as little correctly as the astrologers of old, and his ideas of disease and its proper. remedy areas inconsistent in the light of truth as the in- cantations of the “ medicine men ” of the forest. I believe that every honest physician will concur with me that every step taken in practice, from the portals of that college from which he went forth clothed with authority and full conﬁ- dence in the merits of his chosen science, has led him deeper and deeper into darkness and confusion. Every practi- tioner will acknowledge to himself, if not to the world, that the endless classiﬁcation of symptoms to be found in the various works are not truthful guides to the proper under- standing of complaints, nor to the proper applications of remedies. He knows that every new case presents new symptoms, and that in eight cases out often he is obliged to rely upon his own judgment in making out what appears to him to be the proper diagnosis and prescription. He is forced absolutely to ﬂee from the superﬁcial authorities of the pro- fession into an independent, individual system. The indi- vidual who receives his medical dogmas from Hippocrates, or from books by minds walkingin the same well-beaten track, rejoices that the whole philosophy of medicine is hypothe- tical and conj ectural. He feels secure in his unsound but popular position, knowing that neither the profession or the people are capable of making an exposition of the‘time- honored fallacies of the schools. Thedarkness and uncer- tainty whichenveioped all my early experience as a medical practitioner led me to doubt my capacity to comprehend the “science,” and my skill to properly apply it to practice. I was ﬂattered when my professors declared, over their official signatures, that I was duly qualiﬁed to judge of the nature and character of physical derangements and capable of ap- plying the proper restoratives. My experience taught me different, and had I not held a. court of inquiry and sum- moned the most reliable experts who have ever graced the profession, I might have settled down under the mortifying conclusion that I had mistaken my calling: that the science was perfect, and that in my case the “ honors of the degree?’ had fallen on unworthy shoulders. As I before said, I called a court of inquiry in which the following testimony was elicited. If the medical profession object to the evidence, I have only to say, the witnesses are your own, your teachers and your authors, and as a general thing your superiors: “Oh, that man Would stoop to learn, or at least cease to destroy.—-STOKES’ Pmcttce. . “All the metallic preparations are uncertain, as it depends entirely on the state of the stomach whether they have no action at all, or operate with dangerous violence.”--—i Hoornn. ' “The physician is a fortunate man, if positively he does not injure his patient.”——BoERHAAvE. “N 0 physician whose works I have read, no professor of medicine whom I have ever heard speak on the nature of diseases, has ever discovered, or even hinted at, the nature and cure of fevers; all have delivered theories which amount to open acknowledgment of their ignoranceﬂ’.--DoNALDsoN “The science of medicine has been cultivatecl for mere than tire ttiassaud years the sgevetaa greatest l 4.“; ,.v V-~./' s I C S swoonnonn a CLAFLIN’S"‘WEEKLY. A-r—\ talents have been exercised. Yet upon no subject has the Wild spirit of imagination been more widely displayed. VV6 know nothing of the cause of diseas,e.”——DR. G001). “It is not less certain,’ but still more deplorable, that the majority of the people are yet a prey to medical credulity, superstition and delusion.”—-PROF. RAFINESQUE. “Both surgery and medicine can and will, in the present astonishing strides of human intellect, be forced to pass a rigid scrutiny, and undergo. a radical improvement.”-,- SMEAD. I “To harmonize the contrarieties of medical doctrines is indeed a task as impracticable as to arrange the ﬂeeting vapors around us.”——PRor. CHAPMAN. “Medicine is as yet in a very imperfect state. The philo- / sophy of diseased action is very little known.”-—PRors:ssoI«: ‘ ‘.NUNNELY. ~ “Very few of the valuable discoveries in medicines have been made by physicians. They have either been the effect of chance or necessity, and have been opposed by the faculty till every one else was convinced of their importance. An implicit faith in the opinions of teachers, and an attachment to systems and established forms, will always operate on those who follow medicine as a tI‘ade.”——BUCHAN. "Taking the general run of practitioners, we can convince ourselves that most of them exercise nothing but the rudest empiricy under the cloak of science.”-—PRor. HARTMANN. “I have long enough been tossed on the sea of unfounded hypothesis to feel convinced that absolute darkness prevails in the medical practice.”—REIL. _ “What a mass of credulity and error has actually accumu- lated in medicine from the presumptuous attempt to grasp at obscure objects, and make hasty and dangerous application of them to practice! When we cast our eyes upon our shelves loaded with volumes, few of them containing any genuine proﬁtable knowledge, the greater part of them composed . chieﬂy, either nugatory, erroneous, inapplicable or mischiev- ous, in which the dear——bought grain is to be sought in the bushel of chaff, may it not be questioned Whether such re- searches have not tended more to retard and corrupt than to advance and improve practical medicine ?”——SIR GILBERT BLANE. “The refusal in universities to tolerate any opinion in the private or public exercise of candidates for degrees in medi- cine, which is not taught or believed by their professors, is restraining a spirit of inquiry in that period of life which is most distinguished for ardor and invention in our science.”—- Rnsn. “Many individuals are blessed from their birth with such a powerful constitution that they are able to resist the worst kind of medical treatment.”——KREUGnR HANSEN. “ Physicians have been tinkering the constitution for about two thousand years. The result of their discoveries is that brimstone and mercury are the only two speciﬁcs. Diseases remain what they ever Were.”--COLEMAN. “Except we adopt a reformed system, we shall lose our practice.”-—P.aorsssoI«: JACKSON (medical, not pyrotechnical, professor). “Minerals are the most destructive to animal bodies that malice can invent.”—-DR. Cl-IEYNE. “If God will not impart to man the secrets of medicine, it is right to consult the d0Vll.”——PARAC ELSUS (inventor of mer- curial practice). “Medical men have ﬁrst obscured their art, and deluded the community into the belief that in medicine there is some charm, some conjuration, or some mighty magic. Men are indignant when we prescribe means as simple as the waters of Jordan, instead of smiting upon the part and uttering some technical incantation.”-N. R. SMITH. “I have seen nearly every form of chronic disease, after resisting almost every kind of medical treatment for months and years, yield in a very short time to correct diet and a well regulated general regimen.”———GrRA.HA1rI. “The whole nation is groaning under thelpresent practice of the medical profession, which fosters disease more than it cures it, and debases or ruins our constitutions."--MoR1soN. “Of all sciences, medicine is the most uncertain.”~PRor. ALoNzo CLARKE. A “The science of medicine is founded upon conjecture, im- proved by murder.”—-SIR ANTHONY CARLISLE. “The reason why quacks accumulate fortunes is, because regular physicians are so generally unsuccessfu1.”——MUrtrr:'a. “I was a dogmatic at twenty, an observer at thirty, an empiric at forty, and now at ﬁfty I no longer have any sys- tem.”-—BoRDEN. ‘ “I giveallkinds of medicines, in all kinds of doses.’ ’——DR. W. H. HoLooMB. "1 am sick of learned quackery.”—-Pnor. WATERHOUSE. “It is so impossible toseparate from the trivial, that it were better to reject all.”—— LEUTAND. “I am wearied of guessing.”-—D’ALEMBnR'r. “Few are the remedies whose virtues and operations are certain. Many are those which are doubtful, suspicious, fal- lacious, false.’ ’-—Ilo FFMAN. A “Universities are but dull repositories of exploded opin- ions.”-—-DR. ADAM SMITH. "An undue attachment to great names--Hippocrates, Galen, Avauteus, among the ancients; Boerhaveu. Cullen, Brown, Broussais, among the moderns——have in their turn established a despotism in medicine by the popularity of their names, which has imposed a restraint upon free in- quiry, and thereby checked the progress of medicine.”—- Rusn. _v ,7 “The psople are a goose, and I’m going to pluck it. -- BEALE. I _ “From the month of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.” Here is the evidence. Let the suf- fering professional-ridden masses, as jurors, render a ver- dict ’If medical science was an individual. amenable to the laws of the land, the above array of testimony would be more than suﬂicient to convict it of a great capital crime, and the unbiased judgment of public opinion would consign it to a felon’s doom. Still, with this terrible record. of ignorance and crime, the "profession” is allowed to control your legislative councils, and to further outrage humanity in its self defence, by making it a penal offense in the Empire State to obey the teachings of Christ, in curing disease by the “laying on of hands.” Out upon such laws, and shame upon those who enact and sustain them. — B. L. HEATH, “M. D.” HE is no common soul she loves- The one on whom she ponders When, in some dream of tenderness, Ilcr truant fancy wanders. A The form that glides her vision through Is like some god of old, In tales of prince and paladin That ininstrelsy has told. Man may not hope her heart to Win, Be his of common mould. A HILL~SIDE HOME. At an informal Convention held March 4th, 1876, at Pitts- burgh, Pa., Hon. A. B. Bradford being called to the Chair, and Milo A. Townsend, Secretary, the following Call was pre- sented, read, and on motion of Col. B. S. Heath, was adopted. - TO THE LIBERALISTS or AMERICA. The light and experience of the last century, and particu- larly the present deplorable, social, political and ﬁnancial condition of society. admonish us that we are on the eve of a Revolution, no less radical or important than that of a hun- dred years ago. For years, We have been drifting toward the rocks, without chart or compass, pilot or engineer. Self- preservation has coinpelled mankind to suppressitheir honest convictions, and toilpander to a corrupt public sentiment, to honor those who are unworthy of honor, to cringe before the power of money, and to shout huzzas to gilded villiany. The Angel of Justice has forsaken the Ship of State. Millions are “asking for bread, and receive a stone.” Moral honesty has become a jest and a by-word with those in power." In view of these facts, it is deemed important, that ad- vanced and liberal minds should meet in a Congress during this Centennial year, in the vicinity of Philadelphia, and de- vote the months of May and June to the discussion and elaboration of such Political, Industrial, Commercial, Finan- cial, Social, Educational, Co-operatived and Communal Sys- tem, as humanity demands, and the times warrant, so that America may yet become the Messiah of nations, even though it may be through other Grethsemanes of Agony,” or other Seas of sorrow,-but leading ultimately to grander heights of national glory, where Justice shall build her shrines, Humanity her homes, Science her temples, and the Religion of Righteousness, her altars. After such systems have been wisely conceived, elaborated, digested, and adopted by the Congress, let it be proclaimed to the world on the 4th day of July next, with such appro- priate ceremonies as the occasion requires. The beautiful Mansion, ' "THE HILLSIDE HOME” at Carversville, Bucks Co., Pa., has been leased for the Head- quarters of Liberalists during the Centennial period. Its scenery and central location, proximity to Philadelphia, ease of access, beauty of surroundings, its pure soft spring water, its numerous and well furnished apartments, capable of ac- commodating one hundred and ﬁfty guests, and the cheap- ness of living, all combine to render it the most desirable and appropriate point for the purposes named. At this place, the Liberal Congress will convene on May 4, 1876, and continue its session from time to time, until its ob- jects are accomplished. All persons of liberal minds are cor- dially invited to participate in its deliberations. It is espec- cially requested that the Llberalists of all nations at the Centennial, will be represented in this Congress, and units with us in proclaiming a new Declaration of Independence. THE ROUTE. From New York and Philadelphia, by the Pennsylvania. R. R., via., Trenton, N. J., Belvidere division to Bull's Is- land, thence to Carversville, a distance of two miles through a beautiful valley by stage, which meets the trains that ar- rive at B. I. Quick connections at Phillipsburgh, Camden, Elizabeth, Flemington and Monmouth Junction, with all parts of the country. From Philadelphia by the North Pennsylvania R. R. to Doylestown; thence a distance of’? miles over good roads by a new and comfortable stage, which connects with trains from Philadeiphia. Quick connections at Lansdale, with Bethlehem, Norristown, Allentown, 8tc. ' A. B. BRADFORD, President. MILO A. Townsnm), Sec’y. CO-OPERATIVE COLONY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. The undersigned begs leave to announce to her numerous correspondents and co—workers, in her efforts to establish a co-operative Assoc iation and Industrial School, that in view of the assembling of a Liberal Congress, at the Hillside Home soon, to digest and elaborate a more perfect system for the management and guidance of such associations and Commu- nal Homes, it is deemed advisable to postpone furthur nego- tiations on the subject, ‘until the deliberations and conclu- sions of the Congress are proclaimed. She hopes to meet at the Home the coming summer, all who are interested in the proposed reforms, where future plans and arrangements can be perfected, and the co-operators meet face to face, thus se- curing the beneﬁts of personal acquaintance, as well as the wisdom and experience of the combined assembly. It seems to be of the utmost importance that those. who con- template association and co—operation for a lifetime, should meet, get acquainted and exchange freely their thoughts and views. In the present inexperienced, isolated and unorgan- ized condition of public sentiment onrthis subject. we be- lleve time, money and annoyance will be saved by awaiting the deliberations of the Congress referred to. After April 1, my address will he Carversville, Bucks Co., Pa. Hoping the above will meet the approval of my friends, I am, fraternally yours, L. M. HEATH. ‘April 1, 1876. BUSINESS NOTICES. DR. R. P. FELLOWS, the independent and progressive physician, is successfully treating nervous and chronic dis- eases all over the country by letter, as well as at his ofﬁce at home, by his original system of practice, which omits all drugs and mineral medicines of both old and new schools. Dr. Fellows has been steadily gaining upon the conﬁdence of the public for the past eight years, during which time he has ” treated thousands of cases, eighty out of every hundred of which he has radically cured, while every case has been bene- ﬁtted. And at this moment he has patients in every State in the Union. Every reader of this who has any affection of the head, throat, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, kidneys, blad- der, bowels, womb, genital organs, or rheumatic or neuralgic difficulties, or eruptions of the skin, blood impurities, tumors, cancers, or any-» nervous affections or diseases of the eye or car, are invited to write to Dr. Follows. The remedy with which he treats these diseases so successfully, is his Magnetized Powder, which will be sent to any address, at 9.51 per box. Address Vineland, N. J. DR. CHAUNCEY BARNES writes that he is still in San Fran- cisco, Cal., organizing circles for all kinds of mediumistlc developments, and for practical Work. He claims to be blessed with many beautiful glfts——-rappings, table move- ments, trances, spiritual telegraphy, prophesy, rlizigzlosiug; disease, healing by laying on of hands and with “the balm from God’s medicine chests."’ He contemplates returning to the East in April, stopping for a while in Chicago, and go- ing thence to Philadelphia. A SKIN LIKE MONUMENTAL ALABASTER may be obtained by using GLENN’s SULPHUR SOAP, which does away with the necessity for Sulphur Baths. Try it, ladies. It is a genuine beautiiier, and very economical. Depot, Crittenton’s No. 7 Sixth Avenue New York City. The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 Washington street Salem, Mass. Mus. S. A. 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A perusal of its mass of facts will better post and fortify the Lib- eral mind as to ecclesiastical pretensions and the per- gecumons of the Church in all ages, than many a more bulky, and ambitious work. Liberal friend, no ﬁtter work can be selected to hand to your bigoted neighbor of the Church than this instructive pamphlet. ‘Anx- ious to spread the truth, we have reduced the price of this work (whcih is elegantly printed in clear type, on line white paper), to twenty cents, postage 2 cents. 32 let e a es. g p g INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY. Publishers Worcester, Mass. Agents! A $5» Article! Several are wanted in every house. A purchase leads to a desire for our $15, $30, or $40 article. All of great utility. Physicians Prescribe f,Tlie1n. No coinpetition to speak of._ ). Full infoimati.on on receipt of Stamp. 9; my Wakeﬁelcl Earth Closet Co., 36 DEY STREET, NEW YORK. THE WORLD’S Sixteen Cruoiﬁed Saviors; on, UIIRISZ /A NITY BEFORE CHRIST. CONTAINING N ew, Startling and Extraordinary Re'vclat'z'.o'ns ‘in Religious Hwistory, 'wht'ch disclose the Oriental Origrin of all the Doctrqines, Principles, Precepts and Miracles _ of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and _furm'sh1}ng a Ifey for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides corrtprrisimg the Iltstory of Si-acteen Oriental Crucqiﬁecl Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “ The Biography of Satan ” and “The Bible of Bibles " (cornprlsing a description of twenty Bibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the ﬁeld which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the veried. information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a more collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-heads——follows a definite line of research and argument_to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. C O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Cllntroduction; Address to the 6 rgy. Chap. _1.~—R.i.val Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.—iVlessianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.-—Propliecies by the ﬁgure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.—lVliracu.lous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. ‘ Ch:ip..5.—-Virgiii Mothers and Virgiii-born Gods.‘ Chap. 6.-Stars point out the Time and the Saviorls Birthplace. ' ' Cl§ap._'7.——Ange1s, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant avior. Chap. 8.—-The Twenty-ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. Chap. 9.—-Titles of the Saviors. Chap. 10.—~’l‘he Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble . Birth. Chap. 11.~—Christ’s Genealogy. _ Chap. 12.——The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. Chap._t13.—The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of Di- vini y. ‘ Chap. 14-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.—~’l‘he Saviors are real Personages. Chap. 16.—Si‘xteeii Saviors Cruciﬁed. Chap. 17.—-The Aplianasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- ﬁxion. Chap. 18.—-Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.——Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.—Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. Cl1(z)ip_. 21.—The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe l‘l0'1ll. Chap.b22.--The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.—Tlie Divine “VVord” of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24.——The Trinity very anciently a current Hea- then Doctrine. Chap. 25.—Absolution, or -the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. Chap. 26.-Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. ' Chap. 27.——The Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen Origin. Chap. 28.—Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.—Ho\v Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. ‘ Chap. 30.——Sacred Cycles explaining the Advent of the Giods, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus Chris . Chap. 31.——Christia1iity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systeinsl Chap. 32.—Three Hundred and Forty—six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. Chap. 33-Apollonius, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 3:1.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Faith- Miracles, Prophecies and Precepts. Chap. 35.-—Logical or Common-sense View of the Doc- triee of Divine Incarnation. . Chap. 36.-—-Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. Chap. 37.~Physiological Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, I Chap. 38.—A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. . Chap. 39.——The_Scriptural View of Christ’s.Divinity. Chap ._ 40;—A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. _ C15Lp.4%.-—-The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus hris . Chap. 42.——Christ as a Spiritual Medium. Chap. 43.——Conversion, Repentance and “Getting Re- gion” of Heathen Origin. V Chap. 44.—The Moral Lessons of Religious History. ' Chap. 45.——Conclusion and Review. ~ Note of Explanation. Printed on ﬁne wliite paper, large 12mo, 380 pages, $2.00; postage 20 cts. I Send orders to WOQDHULL & CLAFLIN, P. o, Box 3,791, New York City. = .AF”LIN’S 5WEE5Ki.?Yi A V 7 ..._T. A s\ \\\~ _ \ "S \ ILILI/>\l‘l\5.R\\\\.‘i~\\ PBACT CE BF MED to a Science, BY . w- PAINE, A. M., M. 13.. Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and Pathology in the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery; Ex-Pi'ol’essor of Sui'gei"y and Diseases of Women and Children in the American Medi.eal College; Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons ; Ilonorary Member of the Academy of Medicine; Auth.or of a large work on the Practice of Medicine ; one on Surgery; one on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; one on Materia Mediea and New Remedies; a Review of Homoeopathy and Old Physic; former Editor of the University Medical and Surgical Journal, Medical Independent, etc., etc., I etc., etc., etc. In no department of human knowledge has there been more beneﬁcent discoveries than those we have made in relation to the germs of disease, and the methods by which they are introduced and propagated in the human system. These germs are so minute that they are not only incapable of being perceived by the . mere unassisted human senses, but some require a glass of from one-twelfth to one-ﬁftieth of an inch of focus, and of the very strongest magnifying power to discover them. Some are so small that a million may exist in a drop‘ of water, and not be discovered by any ordinary magnifying glass. These germs are both vegetables and animals, and under the glass show every structure of li.fe as in the most perfectly formed trees and beings around us. These cryptogamous plants and microscopic animalculae, are in most instances developed simultaneously. Their rapidity of growth is simply miraculous. All are familiar with the growth of mushrooms, and it is known that minute fungi cover miles of earth in a few hours. Dr. Carpenter states that the Bovista gigantea grows in a single night, from a mere germ to the size of a large gourd. The Poly- porus squamosus and Frondorus are equally rapid in growth. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-04-01_11_18
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-04-01_11_18
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 19 (April 8, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2118
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-04-08
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: v 2 F:RE.E tr.r1oUG—HT: UNTRAMMELED LIVES BREAKING THE WAY FOR ‘FUTURE GENERATIONS. A s . Vol. xi.—No; 19.—-Whole No 279 I v “s i O 0 . ' I ‘ V o y T , NEW YORK, APRIL 8, 1876. . PRICE TEN cnnrs, Nae truth shall make you f7'ee.—-V-Jesus, feel grateful to the spirit world for having selected you as to you that this was not their intention or purpose. ‘We In ﬁle days of the voice of the seventh omool, the the chosen one to whom the important knowledge to an an x- might say much in regard itothe‘ other signers of the card, in mysgeyy of G o d Shah be ﬁno-ohod.______St. John the locus People is revealed: will You in return please condescend -which thepublic are told that they only suspected fraud, but’ Divine. _ _ 0 tell the “ world and the rest of mankind” who the messen- our reply is growing lengthy, and " we will pass to your state- . _ , ger is that was commissioned by the spirit world to point out ments of what took place at the easpose, in which you saylthati W’/Ler...
Show morev 2 F:RE.E tr.r1oUG—HT: UNTRAMMELED LIVES BREAKING THE WAY FOR ‘FUTURE GENERATIONS. A s . Vol. xi.—No; 19.—-Whole No 279 I v “s i O 0 . ' I ‘ V o y T , NEW YORK, APRIL 8, 1876. . PRICE TEN cnnrs, Nae truth shall make you f7'ee.—-V-Jesus, feel grateful to the spirit world for having selected you as to you that this was not their intention or purpose. ‘We In ﬁle days of the voice of the seventh omool, the the chosen one to whom the important knowledge to an an x- might say much in regard itothe‘ other signers of the card, in mysgeyy of G o d Shah be ﬁno-ohod.______St. John the locus People is revealed: will You in return please condescend -which thepublic are told that they only suspected fraud, but’ Divine. _ _ 0 tell the “ world and the rest of mankind” who the messen- our reply is growing lengthy, and " we will pass to your state- . _ , ger is that was commissioned by the spirit world to point out ments of what took place at the easpose, in which you saylthati W’/LereofI_ was made mmmzster to preach the ‘MW so clearly the law? Truly we should be glad to know, and “it is unnecessary to go into detail, but suffice it to say that searc/table 7‘?,C.h68.0.f 0/wast, and the mg/ste7'y in the meantime must say, “ from such egotism Lord deliver the seance ended with acomplete exposition of itsfraudulent » 75077; the begznnmg of the world hath been /Auden nus.” V y ’ character, and the production ‘to the astonished gaze of all Q(r——=-Paul. no. ‘A ~ . . The medium Whose .. fmndnlont materializationnvv W oro ny present of all the paraphernalia with which she had produced -- - i ' I w . . your asnlntanoo dloovorod no Cnlongo is supposed to bo yon several different ‘spirit forms who were recognized by some MR. HOOK PUTS HIS FOOT IN IT AGAIN. ' . say‘ u the Mrs. Stewart wnonn Mn Ponoo of Torro Hnnto’ had of those present as their friends ‘from the spirit world,” and‘ _ Editors W/Ieekly :——I ask you to give the following reply to for some time vouched by an offer of $1,000 to any one who ll? the °l0slnE remarks» l‘0191'I‘ln8.' t0 tl16AB«b0V09 70“ B33"! ‘"111 , an editorial found in the WEEKLY of March 18th, under the would demonstrate that her materialzations were fraudu- the Pr°“°“t state of this °3“° "9 do not 59° 11°" l"h°'°’sPl1°ll"“ 0aptionof"F d1tMt'l' "i ° . - ’tf’T Ht ll t “th - .. ..r::.“.:“....a;:;:.;::*;f: .::. 2:12: ans: ::;”~’;“1:;°.m:i:’°.:° °‘:“.‘“::S ‘° 1;,“ :::::.:.*::“..::;:. :;::.°.;', ‘;.::::: *.’.:°“::..::°:::;:..:.:: that Y 911 00111913’ Wllill tllls 1'9q11ssl3- Tbs many sxaﬁgeratlolls Wale: ul1de:I‘a<:l:l‘ s:pes1'vei3sij)n, §e:::::§1‘,a llor dl:)rw:rbeEli:venl?l::t Whl°h by ‘heir “ll°“°° they b°°°m°' 11°” h°W they “"1 stall‘; and misrepresentations in the article should not pass uncor— she ever of her volition practiced deception. For the hun- by and 899 lills Promise that she W°‘1ld 1l9V°1‘ P1's°l7l°° d°°°P" 1'°°l"9d- '.l-‘l10 article P0I‘D0I‘l3S‘t0 be 3' 1‘9D0I‘l3 Of 3 ssanse given dredth time she passed successfully the critical examinations‘ ‘loll sgsllls made them 3'5 Clllsﬁgos dally b1‘0k°l1-" gyeggrtz. Stegvagt in Chicago. Sept-, 1873. at which you were made by a committee of ladies (skeptical and prejudiced) In reply, I request that you answer, in a truthful manner. “J an Y Y0111‘ assistance She Was eXp0Bed- Since who were privileged to examine her person, wardrobe and the following interrogatories: First.‘——Descrlbe all the para— :]l;‘f’:ri5h9 has bee? Psrﬂfllilisd by )7_0l11'_silen06 to Gontinue her cabinet in any way desired. During each examination, a phernalia found, and explain how it is possible that she could _ this isotllllse :7;’°1:tl"f“ Wlthtlnsrsaslsg 1I_1l701‘6st'- Realizing‘ that standing offer of $500 as a reward should they detect fraud, pcrsonate spirit forms so accurately as to be recognized by ’ » ll 0 3 Wall ed neslectlon )’0l11‘ Darn. it now be- was constantly held over,the heads of the committee by Dr. friend. Second.—‘—How many representations appeared, and ‘ 0011135 necessary. 3763-. Important. that the Public should Pence, the only request reserved was that a lady friend should how many reccgnized—,_and who were the recognizing parties? 4 lgnow _w1i_at restraining‘ influence has caused this long be present for the obvious purposejof detecting any imposi—, lThird.—Was it the -full form or onlyotheface that appeared? =' ‘ <~ slay, 1D_ l“fsl3_0Ds0 130 Wlllsll the f0ll0W"1R» as an apology 130 tion that a dishonest committee might attempt. A precau— Finally, who were the Spir_itualists_presen_t at the seance? 5, the Public. 15 Introduced: We have refrained from taking tion thatshould have been observed at Chicago. Remember that the questions refer to the one seance. It will any position which might be called a warfare against any . . ‘. ' class of mediums, knowing too well what are the inﬂuences From the .f0u.0W1.ng quotation It would seem that you under which all mediums nnw no brought; for to be a me_ accepted the invitation to attend the seance under protest, dium presupposes a variety of inﬂuences and conditions VIZ‘: “thoselwllo were m“"‘s‘”s the seance urge? us to at‘ against which the individuality of mediums, let it be as telld and supermtend the pr-epamt.l0nS' Wen oblected and gm-ong1y honest-, as it may, oannol; always otanoy, said that they would be sorry if they pressed us; that we had 1 can readily poroolyo too strong iinoont-No that one knoW_ no wish to interfere with their arrangements, but if they in- ledge of the above would have to restrain an honest, sympa- slated We would do as they WiShed'” so _a'fter 3?“ you did thetic inind, and to such minds, under ordinary circum¥ not Want to expose Mrs’ S‘; Oh’ no l will you mfofm the tances, must prove a successful barrier; but in this case, it publm, who managed‘ the Seance and Why y,Ou. Ob,Jected? _ . . , . should be remembered that, by the sllonooo a Wily Woman Knowing, as you have explained, that all materializations arc Since writing the above, my attention has been called to has been enabled to gain as 3 mntorlollzlno medium 3 na_ fraudulent, a curious people may conclude that you were the publication in your issue of the 25th of my private letter. tional reputation, plaolng hon at one hood, if not lo advance, willing that this bogus medium should continue to deceive I do not objectlto this betrayal of conﬁdence,“neither am I of all others, and that hundreds of om. most Worthy and them. Verily, it has that appearance. And further, explain now surprisednthat the honor held sacredby others should be intelligent citizens have boon by one dooonoivo inﬂuences of whyothe managers should be sorry ? Was it because they did ignored, by you.« I should not notice the letter were it not this lllltal-ate and unsoplllstloalod woman mono to believe in not want her exposed‘? If so, they too werelunfaithful to an proper that I should explain the following which appears in contradiction to your Wonderful and nroonotio vision (to important and sacred trust; your refusal may be predicated the letter, to wit: to I have. done battle for and your which 1 shall presently rotor), that one time for .,matorian'_ on the sentiment expressed in my first and second quota- cause!” This is even so, though I never have endorsed the zationg H has truly and surely oomo; and yforthor, doubtless tion, but for the committee we have no excuse. _ radical and extreme measures advocatedby you. My request, ‘ by spirit agency tl_1I‘0l1gl1 Your mediumship, it has been re? That you have strong sympathies for bogus mediums no that m pubnshmg the report of the exl?0.86’ that you wpuld vealed-that her seance—room is crowded day- after day with one can doubt, particularly after being told that it was n0t.be.hasty’ was based on Him f‘“l"’f"?‘“°“ tha't'lanytmng_ honest, earnest investigators, among Whom are judgsﬁ, 1a.w— through this restraining inﬂuence that Mrs. Stewart wasper- indloalnng fraud’ lmwever “iv 3,1 It mlght. be’ well (1 be ex‘ yers. professors, doctors, in short, the advanced minds in the mitted to continue her deceptive practices’-for two and a-half “$39” ed and mmrapresented. 'by Pm-ludl°e' whmh wp_p°' 00‘1I1l?1‘Y- Fesllﬂg lsssllll’ that YOU are 1‘ssP0ﬂsll>l9 110 the D11b- years; and we are ready to believe but for theinterference smon has been proven correct In the course taken by You’ not do to confound this with others, unless you are prepared to show that the paraphernalia found was used to practice de- ception. Having noticed worthy points, each in their order, I will close the review by assuring you that the unprejudiced who have witnessed the manifestations in Mrs. Stewart’s seances to any considerable extent are astonished at your foolish report, the result, doubtless, of prejudice and malice you hold against all materializing mediums, clearly mani- fested by the language foundvin your report. alilolls l3Y Which the dear people have been imposed‘ upon, sympathy would not have been changed to ma1ice,in evidence the consideration in as brief a manner’ as possible certain m"_‘k°5_1l‘ ne°°sss1'Y that something more should be offered in of which we reproduce the following we have taken from statements found in your three and a——half column article T * ‘ms d1l‘3°tl0D- F01‘ this Purpose We ﬁnd the f0ll0Wll'-lg: “ If your article, viz., “We have been led to refer‘ to ‘this matter which the letter called out: In your comments you intimate ﬁllers ls 3 Glass Of P601318 sﬂlilsleﬁl 50 the enlightened consider- at the present time by a communication which we published that the committee know that Mrs. Stewart is afraud, but, ation of a considerate people, that class is the so—called me— last wet~k,signed by Mr. Cadwalla/dér (Professor,if y'ou'please,) Beecher-like, work to cover up her fraudulent materialize.- dluml We l1sVs‘ 9-lW3»Y s 1‘900gI1lZ0Cl this. and ha‘-*6 never in et at. We know Mr. Cadwallader (professor) to be an honest, tions. In all candor and seriousness, let me ask a just and 3»DY.«WaV pursued 80~0a1led frauds.” Of course those ac- conscientious man, one who would not lend himself to any- discriminating public: Is it reasonable to suppose that were Qzllalﬂlisfl With meﬁllllmshlp Wlll Gompreheud the sentiments thing of this kind if he were not thoroughly satisﬁed that he this true we would continue perseveringly and persistently 30 Vrulhfully’ expressed ln Elle a~b0V6 quotation... and Will, is right, andlneither henor those with whom his name appears our investigations at a great expense oftime and money, re- d0l1lJ'0l6s_sa bet astonished to ﬁnd that one understanding this was at Terre Haute to expose Mrs. Stewart. They were there ceiving naught in return but scoffs and sneers of the ‘bigoted so well is guilty of pursuing vindlctively, with gross mis- at great expense to themselves to obtain satisfactory evidence skeptic, and the annoyances of the repeated charges of being ‘ represent~ations, one who is classed with our most reliable that materializations are afact, and their observations were dishonest ‘confederates, made "by unprincipled ‘newspaper 1I16d1U-ms» and 01 Wl10!1l you know so little. , conducted as friends to the medium, and not as exposers of scri/bblers, as an example of which the attention of the '1 Your prejudice against materializabioxl is fu 11y expressed in frauds.” We now regret that we did not have your endorse- reader is directed to your article, and this reply? Such a sup- - the following quotation referred to above, viz. : “ That a fully ' ment of the Professor previously. Had this been known in position is preposterous to the reasonable mind, and to this materialized» spirit is as yet‘, an impdggibiligy, because we * time his request to address our citizens from the rostrum in class we appeal with assurances that we have a higher and fcondmong in which ll; 1,, possible to fully materialize do not Pence.’s Hall might have been granted. His commanding more noble purpose in our work than that of aimposing a yet ' exist. Materializations are produced by natural means appearance secured the admiration of many, and we might fraud in a sacred matter on our unsuspecting friends and the under the guidance of law, and we have been shown what have known, to be sure, that he was no ordinary personage. public. But to thesubject: You deny~pr'ejudifceagainst any- that law is.” Oh! how thankful we should be for this. impor. The perfect symmetry of person, the beardless face and fair body, and say “ we care only for" the truth. and that we , taut information. But alas! how humiliated must, those 301. complexion, and above all his long, silky hair of agolden always love.” This assurancef voluntarily. made requires no ‘entists feel who have declared to the worm than the question hue, which extended far down between his shoulders, gave comment; your article sufficiently‘ answers ‘to the "truth or by scientific research has been settled in the aﬂirmative, to to him an attractive appearance; in fact his demeanor falsity of that declaration. ' ’ ' ' »- . * say nothing of the thousands of the best minds of the old and throughout was so angelic that some fanatical people were i we now callﬁattention ‘to the paraphernalia reported to have {new world who have openly acknowledged that materializar “lads 30 l39ll0Vs that M1's- Stewart has mstsrlsllzsd she been foundiat the e:'vpose,a.ndlCparticularly-request the readers tlons of the full spirit form to them isa fixed fact dem0n— Na7“‘“‘sl1s- A. to make a note of this wonderful discovery, “false faces, lstrated beyond the peradventure of a. doubt. That the over We readily acknowledge the force of , your decision with false hair, false moustaches, rings,‘ bracelets, laces, and~what- ssslous may 1101'» again 00IIlII1ll3l?l1ls 0FI'0r, will you be so kind regard to his purposes, ‘but how you obtained the history and ever else of ‘properties’ for make up that were required to pre- , A as to state at about what stage in the world’s progression object of his ten associates is beyond our ken. We admit sent algoodly number of Spirits, and to have successful "ma- ~ will the conditions for materializaticn ripen. Doubtless you they did not expose Mrs. Stewart, and this may be evidence ‘terla1izations.” Will it not appear strange that the thorough 4| ll0 T01‘ Dsrmlliting this bogus medium to practice her machin- of your especial friend, Prof. Cadwallader, the professed I now re-indorse all that is said in that letter, and "pass to . WOODHULL as OLAl4‘LiN’S WEEKLY. April 8, 1876. Search 02, her perscn, which, yo.u‘admit .,w,as_._mad,e, previous to ' binjiet, fail to reveal s_o”me_;.‘of;‘the articles ng of-_?.the good omittedlin j_i , A _ , away; ‘(Your state-— fwejre ‘fﬁconcealedilinéheriperson, where n" ctnceal .them,,*;’~'is to ujslsimply absuijd “just be isoflto all who halve.’ ’_itnessefd_itlie rem lied (and thgi {mayf relie,v§e you; absu ,‘ity> thfat at‘§t_;he time si're}f’e1§i:e I pientt.;31stag.e‘s.i}of deyelopment then manifestations; con’-_ sisted ‘of'”showing”‘ha'n'ds" a'n‘:d”‘faces which appeare~d at the window in the cabinet door, whereas since the 24th of March. 1874, the full materialized forms are exhibited, among, V whom are recognized the persons whose faces previously.,ap,.-‘ii peared. Your wise suggestions demonstrating the only sure; 1' test by which materialization can be proven has not pasvsfed: unnoticed: it is—“The only test is to secure the medium’ ‘ while the spirit is present, and to secure the spirit so that-"a con_federate_. is lmpo_ssible.”, Can it bethat you are so igno-_ _ rant of the laws governing materialization thatyou do not know, that such a test istfan impossibility ?; rm. that‘"‘the‘ putifb may"know Ehéﬁii staaaniené of the - facts as reported, for I was not in the room at the time the raid was made but entered immediately tﬂhehreafter, I found the company greatly excited, the ‘cloth cabinet"demo1islie'd,l and the medium terribly frightened; she was menaced with arrest and": imprisonment; iurider that threat, the defenceless woman", trembling» with fear, was willing to make any conces- sion that gave hope of relief from the besiegement. I was the only person present from Terre H‘aute,'a'n’d declare your state- ment that -Terre Haute spiri.tualist_s were in attendance, to be false. There. was none, until I came in, to whomshe . could appealfor sympathy, .excepti_ng her husband who . I was present during the examination,,at the. close of which. at my sug—, * gestion,.she was conducted by her husband to a private room . and soon. left. for Terre Haute. Now, with your list before me, and in contradiction to which I furnish the following which ,« I assert is all that was produced to us to wit; one small piece 3 of linen. the size of_ an ordinary handkerchief, in which was enclosed one or two pieces of paper, silver tint; this neatly , folded. was foundin the seam of the under-dress, and a ~' with the odds against him, wasjépowerless. smhll, bunch of hair whichmight have been_.used to repre- sent chin -éwhiskers; this was found. inher back hair. This _r comprises the entire list, and is what I referred to in the ad- mission made in my private lettcr “ that on thes urface at that time it looked as though all was notright.” Had there been’ as you state, “ false faces, false moustaches, rings, bracelets laces. curls braided in the hair.” etc. produced, I must have known it. That the committee for two and a half years should remain in profoun_d ignorance of this discovery is passing strange, particularly when it is known that during all this time it has been the business of the opposition to. bringto the surface everything that could possibly militate: against Mrs. Stewart. After the medium withdrew from the. room I instituted a thorough investigation, and learned of those present at the beginning of the seance that the raid» had been pre—arranged .by you and the two or three others aiding. you previous to entering the seance-room, and was made on the cabinet at the appearance of the first face. I shall now close by a brief history of the committee, with Mrs. S. We learned of her ‘,husband;‘_incide,ntally that she possessed ‘mcdiumistic powers, but refused to let them be made public because of the persecutions that would follow, and for theafurther reason-that she was subject to the control ~ of evil, designing spirits. These objections were overcome, and the. ﬁrst seance. was given,January 1, 1873. For several weeks they were private-——herpowers increased rapidly, and she ﬁnally consented to make them public. We were con- stantly. annoyed by this class of spirits. referred to‘; they frequently broke up the private seances, and we were occa- sionally forced to prematurely close the, public seances through their disturbing inﬂuences. The medium, Ewhen tied securely with a rope around the neck, the ends of which were passed through openings made in the cabinet and se- : curely held, and while under that test condition they would get contrcland cause her handspand face to appear at the A apperture after replacing her in the ropes as secure as before -a feat that we defy any sleight-of-hand performer to ‘ac- complish. . ' n A A During the seven months that Dr. Pence’s reward was of- . fered,-he was continually threatened by this class that they would compel the medium to secrete paraphernalia which would causeher exposure and a forfeiture of the reward. Fearingthis, the doctor was in the habit of having a select committee of friends to examine her before the committee selected by the company would take charge of her. - With these precautions he felt perfectly secure. So perfect was this control that, under these inﬂuences, she conducted the domestic affairs about her house under an unconscious inﬂu- ence; so pérfect did they personate that it was impossible to detect the entrancement. We felt greatly relieved in knowing that since they have come -out in full form this annoyance has ceased, the band explaining that they had I added additional forces, and were able te hold them off, and I now aﬂirm that neither theprivate or public committee ever found anything in their examinations, and reaffirm what I‘ publicly stated at the . examination, that I do_not believe that she ever would, if left to her volition, attempt a fraud. We know Mrs. Stewart tobe a good, reliable and truthful woman, possessed of extraordinary and wonderful medium- istic powers; and you-should remember that thoughtful people will believe their sensesin preference to any assertions that you or others may make’; and if there are those who fqo1igh1y__ suppose that falsehood, sneers and scoffs, ..or any , . threats that they ma.ke, will drive her_ and the Committee A ,from their duty, let them be undeceived, for belt known that acovenantis made between the Committee and her noble band,» each to theother, the character of which is that they , willprotect us and the medium against diakkaism on their side of life, and we in return, knowing that We are in the ‘ she wiasilin the in ci- , ., right, with truth on our side, are determined to protect her and her noble‘ band to the extent of our ability against the sameiclass belonging to this side of life. I have much more I would like to add, but thegreat length of this reply ad- monishes me that I must close. Yours, etc.. TERRE I-IAUTE, March 20,,,18’76, J Ange Hook. THE BELLS OF SHADIDON. With fond affection ' . And recollection ‘ I think upon those Shandon bells: ‘ Whose. sounds so wild would A In the days of childhood - -Thus ﬂing around} me their magic spells; ’ ’Tis thus ~Ip]0I,_1der , , ‘Wnere§er'I'wander, “And grow}"the‘fonder, sweet Cork,of thee, ’ A - Witlithy bells of. Shandon That sound so grand, on ' The pleasantwatcrs of the river Lee. I’ve‘ heard thebells chimiu g A _ Full many aclime in, ‘ " » Telling sublime in» the cathedral shrine, ‘ While at a glib rate " ‘N ‘Brass tongues would vibrate; But all their music spoke naught like thine. For mem’ry, dwelling On each proud swelling, Of the belfrysknelling bold notes free, . Made the bells of Shandon Sound for more grand, on The pleasant waters of the river Lee. I’ve heard bells tollin g , ‘Old "‘ Adrian’s Mole ”. in, Their thunder rolling from the Vatican; And cymbals glorious, Swinging uproarious, ' V In the gorgeous turrets in old Notre Dame. But thy sounds were sweeter Than the dome of Peter Flings o’er the Tiber, pcaling solemnly; O, the bells of Shandon Sound far more grand, on The pleasant waters of the river Ice. There’s 9. bell in Moscow While on tower and kiosko In St. Sophia, the Turkman gets, And loud in air , Calls men to prayer From the tapering summit of tall minarets; Such empty phantom I freely grant them,’ . But there’s an anthem more dear to me: ’Tis the bells of Shandon That sound so grand, on. The pleasant waters of the river Lee. MATERIALIZATIONS. Mrs. Parry was engaged in giving a seance at Rockfort, Kent County, a few evenings ago, and everything passed off as per programme until the spirit put forth its hand from the cabinet and boldly slapped a Mr. M. Lockwood on the ear. That was exactly where he missed it, for he instantly seized the hand and called for the light. A light was brought, and strange to relate, the spirit was found to have vanished, while there stood Mrs. Parry hitched to the other end of the arm tugging and pulling at it as if it was her own. She got it, but gives no more seances, and the cabinet, having proved utterly untrustworthy for spiritual purposes, now does duty as a wood box.—~— Detroit Post. RADICAL SPEAKERS IN CALIFORNIA. SAN Fnsncxsco, Feb. 19, 1876. ‘ Emrons WEEKLY: The way opened here by Victoria Woodhull for the utterance of radical thought on social sub- jects is well followed this year. There are a half dozen rad- ical lecturers new speaking in this State. First in point of earnestness and unyielding adherence to principle, is your old friend Laura Kendrick, and Benjamin and Marion Todd. About eight months ago these three commenced a series of meetings in a small hall on Market street, Mr. Todd opening the course, followed by Mrs. Kendrick who spoke two months, the audiences being so large it was necessary to take a. larger hall. The meetings for the last four or ﬁve months have been held in Social Hall, on Fourth street, during most of which time Mrs. Todd has occupied the platform, speaking morning and evening, on marriage, stirpiculture, divorce and kindred subjects, the audiences continually growing in numbers and interest. Some of her hearers are occasionally shocked by the plainness of her speech, but notwithstanding her boldness, she is increasing in popularity. Mr. Todd at present is in San J ose. _ All of the radical meetings were so well attended that Mrs. Kendrick thought she might venture to engage a hall on her own account, and inaugurate a new series of meetings. Her hall is expensive, and as the admission fee is only ten cents, she will have to draw full houses to make it pay: but she has the ability to do it, and all earnest reformers will be glad to hear of her success. ’ " Lois Waisbrooker, another outspoken radical, has lectured here several times, speaking mainly on ﬁnance and labor re- form. She is now lecturing in the southern part of the State. 1 Mrs. Belle Chamberlain, an inspirational speaker of great power, and whose utterances are as radical as those of any of the others mentioned, is also traveling southward after a se- ries oflwell attended meetings in this city. .. J. L. York, an iconoclast, yet a builder, an advocate of sci- ence inreligion ‘as in otherhuman aﬁairs, has taken Mrs. Ohamberlain’s place, and will continue to speak before the society—-“the Spiritual Union-—during the month of March. He is an able man, but is most liked for his genial nature, his lively style of speaking and his evident honesty. Free Thought is his hobby, if he has any, but in that heiincludes almost everything. He has just returned from the north, having traveled all over the settled portions of Oregon, Wash- ington Territory and British Columbia. ' Our Lyceum for Self—Cu_1ture:continues prosperous, and is -= serving to develop a ‘number of young debaters who are taking strong ground against the shams of society and in favor of common senseiviews. The leading speaker and most prominent thinker is Geo, W. Lewis, a young man of fine natural abilities, considerable culture, and much mental ac- tivity united with grcat industry. He has improved wonder— fully within two years, and the more he knows the more ‘modest he becomes. He was formerly very dogmatic and tenacious in the maintenance of his opinions, but seems now less intent on sustaining Lewis, than in ascrtaining and up- holding the truth. J. L. Hatch, formerly of Boston, is taking a leading part- in all healthful reforms here-—industrial, social and religious. .Mrs. Frances Rose Mackinley, although seldom ‘seen"in pub- lie, is living her own life, surrounded by creature comforts and congenial friends. Mrs. Anna Richardson, who was praised in the WEEKLI for daring to have a love child in deﬁance of custom and law, has joined, with Mr. Richardson, a society known as the “California.Industrial Community,” and the couple, with their “wonderful baby,” are living on the ranche selected by the community as the principal thea- tre of its operations. She is a woman who lives her princi- ples wherever she is. Dr. J. H. Swain, a profound thinker, a humanitarian and a great lover of justice, is also a mem- ber of the community, but remains in this city for the pres- ent. In time, as the facilities for giving employment at the communal home are extended, all the; members will proba- bly take -up their residence there. There are in this State also two noted speakers, who do not call themselves radical, although they claim to be reform- ers. They aim to be “highly respectable,” and within the limit marked out by themselves, they are perhaps doing a good work—Mrs. Tappan and Miss Jennie Leys. All of your readers know them, by reputation at least. Miss Leys is rusticating at Riverside, where she has been for more than six months, “ waiting for the materialization of Jesus Christ through her organism.” Mrs. Tappan gave a dozen of ‘her liquid discourses here. (" Liquid” means ﬂuent. not watery). She has an easier flow of ﬁne language than any woman who has .visited us since Victoria came; but, except in that one particular, there is no room for comparison between the two women. Mrs. Wood- hull is earnest in her eloquence, calm in statement. clear in logic, convincing in reasoning, occasionally denunciatory, at times vehement, often electrifying, full of pathos, magnetic in manner. tenacious of the right, condemnatory of the wrong, now rousing her hearers to indignation and anon melting them to tears, but in spite of all her moods, ever the same truthful. sympathetic, loving woman; heaven bless her. woman’s best friend. Mrs. Tappan never shocks the proprie- ties, never awakens deep feeling, never calls forth earnest endeavor, but gently lulls into a quiet enjoyment of the passing moment, charming with the sweet music of well chosen words, leaving her hearers barren of thought. Her smooth sentences fall like gentle showers—a tepid bath of rosewater words—-after which the people exclaim, “How beautifull” D—n such beauty, I say. Give me pwordsthat mean something, though they be as rough as the ragged edge on which Beecher hung. I am angry with myself to think that I, too, have been momentarily charmed by sweet words that mean nothing. Yours, for the honest thinkers and ear- nest workers everywhere. W. N. SLOCUM. MATERIALIZATIONS. Editors Weekly: As you seem to doubt that materialize- tion is not yet an accomplished fact in spiritual phenomena. I hereby send for publication a detailed account of manifes- tions taking place through the mediumship of my wife (Mrs. Emma Backus) which are produced under conditions that preclude the possibility of fraud. We have a cabinet of the usual construction, with an addi- tional door immediately in the rear of the medium, which can be opened, unknown to her, at any stage of the seance. The medium is secured by tying her hands behind her back, with a small cord madefrom shoe-thread,and thoroughly waxed with shoemaker’s wax. She sits on a stool in the cabinet near this side door, and is tied with the waxed cord to a strong wooden bar secured to the wall of the cabinet with screws. Her feet are fastened to the ﬂoor with straps similar to skate straps, which are also fastened to her feet with waxed cords. While in this position hands are shown at the opening in the front of the cabinet, about six feet dis- tant from the medium. Immediately on the show of hands the door is opened and discloses her secure in the fasteningr. We also blacken her hands with lamp—black when she stands near the opening. In this position her blackened hands and the white hands of the spirit are shown alternately in rapid succession, precluding the possibility of any artiﬁce or decep- tion. Arms are shown to the shoulder, frequently striking the outside of the cabinet with considerable force, showing them to be composed of solid material; but no drapery or clothing of any kind appears. When tied with the waxed cord to the cabinet a large din- ner bell is rung violently, andlthrown out of the opening. A piece of iron weighing about 40 pounds is also lifted and thrown out of the cabinet with apparent ease. The doors are repeatedly opened from the inside while she remains tied. At any time during the seance the visitor is permitted” to open theside door to catch the fraud, if any exists. When the medium is released, the cord is found to adhere 111:‘ April 8, 18'} ii. woonHULL a oLAELIN*s WEEKLY. A 1 3 so tight to the wrist that in taking it off the cuticle sometimes comes with it. The knots cannot be untied, and‘ must be out. No one can doubt that the fastenings remain undisturbed throughout the seance. We also blacken the handle of the bell, when it will be rung and thrown out of the cabinet, and on immediately ex- amining the medium’s hands no blacking is found on them.. « TERRE HAUTE,iMarch14, I876.’ ’ J. R. BACKUS. “There will be no liquor sold on the premises, but cigars and tobacco may be sold in the restaurant.” " To G. W, MADOX: . so My Dear Brother? I was both grieved] and surprised on reading the above quotation from your“ Co-operative otel”, notice in last week’s WEEKLY.‘ ‘ I A I I 7, ” _ Can it -be possible that a manso good, so much interested in the elevation of humanity, would allow Amerlca’s greatest curse, tobacco, to be scld,‘or even used in a house the objec of which -is the good of humanity? I And I was also grieved that the WEEKLY, a paper devoted. to the highest -interests of humanity, should have silently printed the fourth itemiof your notice. a ‘ . -In love, your friend, . Vineland. March 15., , _«, . SEWARD MITCHELL. IS .IT TRUE ? Rev. H, W. Beecheer said, in a» recent sermon, that the chool directors and teachers ;_ in New York and Brooklyn employ women, to teach upon certain conditions, naming, them. Now, Warren Chase comes forward and indorses Mr. Beecher’s statement, giving corroborative evidence in the case. He has been in Washington, in club rooms, in other places where our law makers congregate, and hehknows whereof he writes. He instances a U. S. senator who boasted of having secured clerkships for seventy women, and had been intimate with every one of them. Are these things so? Where are the Brooklyn and New‘ York school teachers ? Why do they not rise and each ask " Is it I ?” By implication every woman teacher in the two cities is a Magdalen. ' ‘ ; Andwhat of the men charged with crime ? If guilty. let honest men‘ be put in their places; if innocent, let Mr." Beecher’s congregation and the rest of the world, know the fact. The senator is a moral idiot. A man possesed of one iota of decency will not boast of his baseness, especially when women are implicated; so his words are as worthless as the braying of a beast. Is it likely that cultured women who seek occupation that they may be self-supporting, will give their conﬁdence to a man, simply because he has given them employment? If it is true, the pity is that" it is true. And moreover, it proves, beyond question, that society is corrupt to the core. Where is the remedy ?_ Let us" have it. H. E‘. N. BROWN. NATIONAL CITY, Southern California. ’ A.VOICE FROM THE SOUTH. Editors Woodhull & C'laﬁ75n’s Weekly: I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mrs. Woodhull and her sister during her visit to Texas, and heard Mrs. Woodhull speak’ at Galveston and Houston about the last of! February, I was agreeably disappointed bin! Mrs. Woodhull. both as to her appearance, her department, and the character of her speeches. ‘I had formed of her altogether a different opinion from what I found her to be. Certainly she must be inspired, or she could not talk as she does. I know of no one, man or woman, who is her superior in intellect, and in general and universal information, or her equal as a speaker, and more capable of using the strongest arguments to support her opinions. I ﬁrmly believe her to be a good and pure woman, actuated by the purest and best of motive; and it affords me pleasurejto ﬁnd that our people, with some exceptions of course, appreciate her. I believe if she were to travel through our State a great change would be brought about for the better in the minds of the communityybuti strange to say,’ and a pity it is, the ladies, those for whom she specially pleads, and whose good seems to be ‘her chief end and aim, and heartfelt desire, are {most opposed to her—the married ones especially,‘ who of all others; should know for themselves that shedoes, speak the truth. For my sincere belief (and I am 50 years of age, and, have been a close observer of the ways of the world) is. that 999 out of every 1000 married women are, by our laws and usages, the veriest slaves that ever lived on the face of God's green earth. Yea are even worse than slaves. I have been a married man; I married my wife when I was very young,barely 21 yearsof age; I married her because I loved her ?as‘—I did my own (soul; my love ‘was fully recipro- cated by my dear wife; wetloved each other to the last lin— , gering, moment that she breathed. During her last protracted illness I waited on her constantly, and kindly, and continu- ously, day and night for four months, and for 25 days‘ pre- ceding her death, I slept not on an average one hour out of the twenty-four; {and I love her memory. She was a good woman, a good mother, a good Christian, a good wife, and a good neighbor. and I know she is happy in heaven at God's right hand. Her last -words were " My dear husband, meet me there.” I I I promised her I would, and I will always pray that I may so live that when time is no more for me here, that I may again!-restimy head on her- pure bosom in a better and brighter clime than this. We l-ived together 26 years, and at no time would I ever have forsaken her if there were no law binding us together; so that it is not because of my own personal experience of the married life that I say Mrs. Woodhull has spoken the truth. 1 ' I am now living a lonely, and I must say an -unhappy life, since the loss of my dear wife ; but the fear of living one still more unhappy than that I am realizing or enduring, prevents me from binding myself, by our man~made laws, and running the risk of alife-long union of misery, and therefore from even attempting to marry again; because, I tell you, as Gdo is my judge, that the grave would be more Welcome than to become the subject of a life-bound contract to -a wife with whom I could not live in love, and peace, and happiness. Yours truly, THOMAS R.uHILL. LETTER FROM PARKER PILLSBURY.' _ . Editors of the Weekly: ‘ . . 1 ‘ This is written in storm and tempest-atypical of the times. Storm sweeping across the sea and land, whelming Amer-A, icaland Europe, ifynot reaching round the world! . . i And the moral and spiritual elements as convulsed, at least{ in our country, as’ the material air, ear'th,'seas or skies! ‘ Grant in the Presidency; Lant in t'he‘Pe‘nitentiary. _' ‘ ’ ‘ “Right forever on the scaﬁold‘; I A ' ‘ Wrong forever on the throne 1”‘ » Schenck home from England to be whitewashed. Dana rejected as his succe-ssor, though his appointment was greeted with general joy. Barrabbas versus Jesus, again and ‘again. . Not an honest man, apparently, in the government at Wash-. ington. Not one Lotin all that Sodom, though plenty of- Lot’s wives, if not daughters. » L I ' : " _. New'IrIam»pshire declares for Grant-v1sm,*if not for Grant, a_ s‘ third term;” will have no objection, evidently, to Grant himself, with his Babcocks, Belknaps, and brothers and; brothers-in—law, if the party bell-wethers so appoint. V ‘ Congress is still tinkering away at the ﬁnancial problem; as? many minds as members; more bills than brains brought; forward and considered, and fortunately, generally aban- doned. Three sessions already: given to the subject; and, three times three more such might only make matters worse 1' A The people, meantime, only taxed and plundered and pun- ished. . ‘ Verily, we needed a Revolution in 1776; but we need one “~' “ a hundred times more in 1876. And revolution has long seemed our only remedy for present ills. There is democracy as it was, and republicanism as it is ; but one brought us where we are, and the other keeps us there. If both do not prove the doctrines of total depravity, and the need and justice of everlasting punishment,'those terrible doctrines should forthwith be renounced forevermore. John P. Hale once said in the United Senate: “ If the people only knew how we are here spending our own time and their own money, they would come in a body and scourge us out of the Capitol.” That was near thirty years ago. What might not that senator say to—day, were he there a? Who does not wish a Cromwell? Is it conscience, or coward- I ice that so seals all senatorial lips, as that .no one utters, a with Apocalyptic inspiration, “ Cesar had his,Brutus, Charles * the First. his Cromwell,” and Jean Paul Marat his Charlotte Corday; and if that be treason let political inanity andtyrr anny in the name of republicanism make the most of it! “ I PARKER PILLSBUEY. ' CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 20, I876. ' R (From the Independent, Henry 0’,B0wm, Editor and Sale Prcoprleto r, ’ February 10, 1876. WHEN LOVE WENT. BY SUSAN COOLIDGEu' What Whispered Love the day he ﬂed? Ahl this was what Love whispered: “ You sought to hold me with a chain. 1 ﬂy to provesuch holding vain. ‘ “ You bound me burdens, and I bore The burdens hard, the burdens sore; ' I bore them all unmurmuring, For Love can bear a harder thing. “ You taxed me often, teased me, wept; I only smiled, and still I kept Through storm and sun and night and day A My joyous, viewless, faithful way. . “ But dear, once dearest, you and ‘I This day have parted company. Love must be free to give, defer, Himself alone his almoner. “ As free I freely poured my all, Enslaved I spurn, renounce my thrall, Its wages and its bitter bread”- Thus whispered Love the day he ﬂed! PERSONAL LETTERS. — = - MAXWELL 'HoUsE, Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 7, 1876. Mrs. V. 0. Woodhull: V _ b I I I am inclined to think that you are mistaken in ‘giving Nashville only one night for your lecture. Had you stayed one night more you would have had what you expressed a desire for—-a full house of mothers and daughters. Can’t you return and give us a repetition of the best common sense address I ever listened to. Respectfully, _E. F. M. ‘ ‘ « ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 15, 1876; Mrs. V. C’. Woodhull: . A -. A, As I thought, you missed it by «not remaining with us over Sunday. I am-sure that you would have had. a packed house. I never heard many regrets at the departure ola stranger from : their midst as came to my hearing on account, of your de- parture. Many of our best citizens, men that have never taken any interest in the greatiprogressive movements of the age, were pointed in their expressions that you were the most vilely traduced and slandered person‘ within th‘e'scopej_of their knowledge, andwere loud in their praises of your course» Remember me kindly to sister Tennis and your amiable and venerable mother, and come back to us as so.on.9«,.8 Youoan. Yours, fraternally, F. IE‘. TABEB, M. D. ‘ appointed to ‘provide »;spéakers S‘-'foir.’n _, ' during“_wh4ich time .vII-have ~tr,ied. . ‘Q]hE0‘"M.II.L‘li:R MATTIE , ea ,, for lectures on liberal’ subjects. Engagements in Illinoi, ‘MEM1>HIs,'Tenn., Feb. 11, 1876. MY DEAR E.: Yours with Mrs. Minni’s came a few days ago, and yours of February 7’ came just.this_inst.ant. I would have replied to your idea: of forming a. Union of Women, but I have been so busy, and "the-=’W‘oodl:nill has driven everything else for the nonce away. She "is simply I . M grandl; she is great, and and add "another, good,‘="to‘rtJ1em. She has wonderfully improved since»I-heard her ii1"r*’i’?2';: then she was at bay with the world, and threw her gauntleit“‘down and dared it to battle. The battle has been waged, itheinnost unequal_battle ever fought on earth. I V‘ ‘4 ,_ g g A V: b 011 0110 Side. the church, the press, the ‘prejudiced wbrldl; on the other, a woman! And the woman has whipped the trio! Never was so tremendous a revolution! I"wi1l,send 5 you the Appeal with its plaudits. The theatre was crowded .. from pit to dome; she held’ them spell-bound for two hours. V’ I saw men and women weep, so passionatewere her plead- ings for the downcast. Theipreachersuare cut;.they abuse heryet. N o wonder; she preached to a crammed house, they I>r.each,to empty .ben.ches. .She to7deep1y,.incereqted- crowds, they to as listlessfew. , But those who, di-d:.no_,t hear her are crazy to hear her. If you see. .hfe1,',, b,eg-:'1.1°r;17Q.§i.Yﬂ us one more lecture. V She could get a jammed house.of,,Ch”nis— . tians, despite these preachers. If you possibly.,..can,, fq,ee,M;-g, Woodhull when she, g9es,,1ao, 15?, aw Qrl9aus., Yomg;u,,1m her; you caift help, it. Tellher to st_.op"‘1_,1 re as she returns, L and lecture. Hundreds‘ tare crazy to‘:hear'hei'. Oh, if we had a thousand such’ women,_w_e could _,1"ev‘oluti‘or1izey the ..world. . I told her shewould ﬁnd‘. one noble .woman;in New Orleans, ifxno more“ I dojhope-_.byouwill be able to hear her. With‘ ‘true lov.e.,Wou.1'~ ‘ I E/. A? Muaaxwnrnma. \ _ liars: I pa 1 , Ale‘ r.m°other;5’wlfom you have this night taught me to love more than ever, and you may rest assured that your ‘lecture’ has done more for the morals of the young men of Nashville than all the Whittles and Blisses in the country. could do. * V I I F0!'m6I‘1Y I have" .traduced-you ,(;but because I_ did not know you); now—your.name shall always be held sacred by me ;' and may God‘ give you health ‘and strength to carry on your good work, is-' the prayer ‘of your unknown friend ‘and convert. ' I - :w_ H_=H_: ‘ _ .‘An.._4v r ww:~w V ;N:O4TICES.! THE I-NnIANAPoLIs SUN.—-The leading independentreform weekly political newspaper in the Union, the special advocate of national legal tender paper money (the greenback system) as against bank issues onthe gold basis fa11acy,.and*the.inter ‘changeable currency bond as against the high gold. interest bond. The Sun has a corps of able correspndents, comprisin- the most eminent political economists of the ago. .One page devoted entirely to agriculture. Miscellany of the choicest selection, adapted to all classes of readers. The latest general news and market reports. .1 Terms: $1.75 per year, postpaid Sample copies and terms to agents sent free on.appcation Address Indianapolis Sum. Company. Indianapolis, Ind. THE Spiritual-ists of Rockford have —lately organized (for lectures, etc., each Sunday) on afree platform. ,Our cause seems to be in a very prosperous condition. Our lectures are attended by crowds of the most intelligent and thinking I , people in the city, and our last,Convention_.was?,_ the bestbgpur Society has had in Northern Illinois since it was organized. Not one word was uttered during the whole Convention against _a free platform. They nearly all admit that the question of most interest‘ to ‘humanity is the Social Question. Lecturers desiring engagements can address either 001:. E. SMITH, A. H. FIsHEE, or__FRED._H. BARNAED, th.e,,C0mmittee . ‘Iisi”'17Xl.A.I'IlL.L’<J.:r1ti':il:s. ALL persons suffering from the Asthma, should send: for Dr. R. P. Fellows’ G1-eat“'I3ndian’Asthma Remedy. Mrs: Ellen Dickinson, of Vineland N. J. speaks of it in these terms, “Ihave suffered with the Asthma, for thirty years purpose, but no:w“aft'e'r 'res"6‘rt’ing“§to'lﬁr£‘:’Fe Remedy, I am perfectly relieved.” Sent to any part of the i globe on receipt of $1 per package. Address Vineland, N. 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To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the hidden manrw-.—-St.,.John the Divine. , That through death he might destroy him that V had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life- time sulgiect to bondage.——Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good ruits, without partiality and without hy- poerz'sy.—— ames, iii., 17. And these signs shall follow them : In my name shall they cast out devils; they-shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recooer.—--Jes’us. - ———‘-—*' NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 8,1876. ‘ The articles on “re-construction, by S. T. Fowler, are crowded over by the- subject of materialization. Brooklyn Academy a of Music. A 44 ‘A r ‘C’ Tliursday, April‘ 6th. V‘? Victoria c. WOODHULL * SUBJECT: The Human Body, lhelempls of Bud. 4; V7 Afllllission-»$1i.00, 75 cts and 50 cts. . . Reserved Seats $1.00, secured at Ohdndler Bros, 181 Montague" st., Brooklyngllala Broadway, and 111 Nassau st., (Room 9), New York. THE PARAFFINE HANDS_EXPLOD_ED. . Mrs. M. M. -Hardy, the medium through W'110n1 the materialization of hands to form casts of parafﬁne, has recently caused -so great a commotion among Spiritualists, especially in Boston—her place of residence—recently gave three seances in this city—one at Republican Hall, the Sun’s account of which has, already appeared in these ‘columns, ~was all spattered with paraﬂine. L and two succeeding ones at the private residence of Mrs. Dr. Hull, a prominent Spiritualist and investigator, of this city. The circle consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Austin’ (the same f onejmentioned in the Sun's account) at whose house Mrs. H. . was a guest, Mrs. Lita Barney Sayles, Mrs} Dr. Hull, Bronson Murray, Mrs. Winchester aindvsome thirty others. As Mr. and Mrs. Hardy were proceeding with Mr. and Mrs. Austin to the residence of Mrs. Hull on the evening ap- pointed for the second seance, Mrs. Austin observed that Mrs. Hardy had dropped something, and called her atten- tionto the fact. Whereupon it was discovered that it was A a fully_prepared paraﬂine hand carefully wrapped in wool which, by the way, was a substance that Mrs. Austin had noticed was plentifully scattered over the carpetof the T room occupied by the medium, when Mrs. H. found that she had dropped and spoiledher paraﬁine hand, she be- came very much excited, and took her husband to task for so carelessly preparing the bag in which she carried it, probably suspended among her clothes, remarking, “You know wellenough that -it is the only one we have got.” The result of the seance of that night was a failure—no hand ' appeared, but in place of it some exhibitions of ﬁngers and toes through the ‘cracks formed by separating the boards of an extension table. Strange to say, the following day a stock- ing, cut eﬁ above the toes, was found in her room by Mrs. Austin’s niece, who also on another occasion, on entering the V room suddenly, discovered Mrs} Hardy making a hurried but ineffectual attempt to hide a parafﬁne glove-cast under the folds of her dress. This scance occurred on the 16th inst. ‘S ’ On the 18th inst. the third and last one was held. By this time the suspicions of the party were fully awakened, and everything was prepared with the greatest care,‘ and the performance guarded with every" possible precaution. At the first trial they enveloped the table in the bag, with the seams‘ on the side opposite to the medium, and the aperture tied with a cord, the end of which was held by a person present. A lengthy space‘ of time was insufﬁcient; no hand was produced. The medium was then put in the ‘bag with the seams at her back. A hand was produced this time, but the bag had been turned round with the seams in front, and One of the party was deputed to watch her through a darkened window. She saw her work the bag round, and her hand through the seams, but the light was too dim to discover when the paraﬂine hand made its exit from the bag, but that it did so, none of the above-named parties have the slightest doubt. Another test which was prepared was weighing the parafﬁne by the chemist from whom it was purchased, and its being reweighed by the same after the pretended materialization and found to be exactly the same to the sixteenth part of an ounce. As the cast weighed at least a pound, this fact proves that it was not formed from the paraﬂine in the pail. All of these facts, together with much other detail, have been put In the form of an aﬂidavit, signed by the acting members of the circle, and copies forwar (led to all the Spiritualistic papers. Coming to us just as we were’ going to press, we could make room for no more than this. And so another, and apparently the most indubitable evidence of materialization that has as yet appeared, is exploded, and Spiritualists left to fall back upon other and less tangible facts for proof of spirit existence. 4-; -V ? FRAUDULENT MATERIALIZATIONS AGAIN. M ._. “What can the sheaves on the barn ﬂoor avail, _ Till the three her has beat out the chaff with his ﬂail.” Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologer, the star gazer, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; theyshall not deliver them- selves from the power of the ﬂame.—Isaiah xlvii, 13-14. But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift,..of God’ may be purchased with money. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter; for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.—The Acts, viii, 20-21. - But Elymas the sorcerer, withstood them; seeking to turn the deputy away from the faith. Then Saul, ﬁlled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes _on him, and said, 0 full of all subtlety, and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the ways of the Lord.—Ibid, xiii, 8, 9—10. In another column will be found a lengthy communica- -tion from Mr. James Hook, of Torre Haute, the author of the‘ letter published two-weeks ago, over the signature of “ One of. the Committee.” That letter was not intended by him for publication, and for that reason his name was not appended to it; but as he now avows its authorship, we can that letter was written and received, in our estimation, war- ranted the use to which it was put, and we are perfectly satisﬁed to let Mr. Hook’s criticism of that use go to the world,-with the contents of the letter, as our justification for its publication. Had we not have received-that letter, it is doubtful whether, after all, the editorial would have appeared in the exact form in which it did appear; in fact, when the ’ letter was received it was being revised; but the letter de. speak more freely about it. The circumstances under which cided us that we were right, and it was published accord- ingly. Since then our course has been endorsed to us by those whom we serve--those upon whom Mr. Hook goes so far out of his path to make an exhibition of his powers of sarcastic ridicule. , If he can stand it, let us assure him that they can do -so much better. ‘ . ' ~ " But we do not intend to permit ourselves to be led ‘into any personal controversy with Mr: Hook or anybody else. Ourmotive in speaking of this business as we did, at that- time, was not a personal motive atall. If we are not un- derstood upon this point we can aflord towait until we are, for our justiﬁcation, as we have done in many other things. We have no personal ill-feeling. ill-will,for ill-wishes against any medium in the world ; on the contrary, there is no "class of persons who deserve the sympathy of the Publicso much as they do. If, a personbe a medium, no other per- son is capable of being his or her, judge ; since. it is.impos- sible to tell where the personal, responsibility leaves off, or where that of the controlling inﬂuence begins. -All the fraudulent manifestations ever produced may,.so.far as we know, have been produced by’ the medium at:the.instigation of the spirits; but if they were so, does that make the manifestations anythe less fraudulent in their character? We have always claimed that it is against the evils of the world, and not against those’ through whom they come that we wage our warfare.‘ .» . . .- . Those who are familiarpwith the NVEEKLY know well enough that we have frequently proved logically, in. its columns, that in the labsoluie sense there is no such thing possible as free agency and consequent personal responsi- bility ,; that there never was an act committed, with the ca- pacity to commit which the iudividualcommitting was not endowed at birth, and which was notcalled out at the time, by the inﬂuences by. which he or she was sur- rounded. So, when it is assumed that we have attacked Anna Stewart, the assumption is not true; we have__ at- tacked the manifestations for which she is the medium. And if she had been instigated and assisted to perform these manifestations by her committee, it would still be no business of ours to attack either her or them, but still again to represent the manifestations to be what they are. As for the motive which has prompted her to produce them, we only know what. she told us herself, andthat was, that’ it was the only way she had ‘to make a living, and she was compelled to do it. If this were true, even then, according to our philosophy, she would be less at fault than the system of industry which forces awoman to such an alternative to live. So all we know of Anna Stewart is What We saw, only of which we have as yet said anything about.- We did not set ourselves up to be her confessor at all. We were appointed to do a certain committee work, and we did it faithfully and fearlessly. Nor was any promise extracted from her under any threat by us. She begged that the expose should not be published, and so far as we were con- cerned, we assured her it should not be, if she did not at- tempt to repeat her seances. She has repeated her seances which, we have said we have notthe slightest doubt, are of the same character as the one we observed at Chicago, and we have said whatwe have about the repetition. If this be, to be “guilty of pursuing vindictively with gross misrepre_ sentation one of whom you know so little,” then are we guilty, and are willing to stand so charged until tried and acquitted or corrected by “the Powers” which alone can try this case, but which will try it and all similar cases, soon, as by ﬁre, and to prove of what manner of workman- ship they may be. " Norahave we any preiudice, nor have we ever (expressed any prejudice against materialization, as asserted by Mr. Hook. We have said the conditions do not yet exist which make it possible for a spirit to’ fully materialize, and weasay so still; and Mr. Hook’s attempt to ridicule; our reasons for this assertion, fail to touch us. Two years ago last Septem- ber, when the spirits whom alone we obey and serve, di- rected the preparation of the speech “The Elixir of Life,” we were very deeply interested in the then comparatively new phenomena of materialization. Startling as were many of the propositions propounded to us in that speech, none were so strange as another made atthe same time, incident- ally to the others, which was that all the so called materiali- zations, were not what they purported, to be, i and we were advised not to waste our time on them, but to devote it to prepare the only way in which the ‘real return of the Spirit can ever be accomplished. That .,Was fully’ explained to us by the Spirit then, and we are more fully convinced of its truth day by day, as tlielaws of the relations between Spirit and matter are unfolded to our comprehension. Let others say what they may, we know that our sources of information and instruction have the good of the world at heart; and we know that through us they have moved the thought of the world in the direction of the real materialization as it -has been moved by no other Spirit. - . A The spiritual body can never*be constructed until the elements that are required to compose it are developed to the spiritual level. Nor will these elements be taken by it is now assumed that they are, but which Would notbe so assumed, if a little consideration were given to the proposi- tion before it was made, since, how can a medium furnish the material out of which another body, equally as heavy as her own, can be constructed and still have any body left? It is a «physical impossibility, simply. A body, which we have already related, and what she told us, a part — the returning spirit direct from, the body of a“ medium, as. .,. ,3. ._.. x-_ ,.. ix \\ if ‘ #- i -2-. April 8, 1876. whether of a medium or any one else, consists of so many pounds of certain elements. They cannot yield up these elements save by the laws which govern the exhaustive processes of all bodies; but the matter that passes from L the body into the atmosphere, by these laws, is spiritualized to the ‘standard represented by the spiritual development of that body, and so far as spirits can make‘ use of that matter, they can produce manifestations, and no farther. The reason that the elements contributed to the atmosphere from some bodies can be, while that from others cannot be, used, is because the former represent a higher order of spiritualdevelopment than the latter, and for this reason‘ are mediums through whose means the spirits can commu- nicate or manifest themselves. ' A I The laws that govern these things are not unknowable ;I they are evident to anybody who will take the time to inquire into them. Nor are they exceptional, but rather, are common to.all organic constructions. There must be an adaptability of the matter used, to the purpose for which it is used, or else there can be_no result. I Matter to be used by spirits to rehabilitate themselves must be of that The matter‘ of the bodies in which we live is still our master; we are‘ compelled to yield obedience to its power and laws; are? character that can be molded by their will. still its slaves to a great degree. The matter that spirits scan — control to construct bodies must be that-which has «been reduced to subserviency to the spirit, and which has -therefore transcendedthe laws of its own existenceiby: always produced, did she tell the truth or not? and when 5 she showed us how she had represented a certain “ Spirit,” ;By this it. must not be understood that we deny that the yielding 'to'a higher law. ‘ I ” ' spirit body of spirits is not discernible. The spirit sight of thousands is so opened—the material conditions in which the spirit eye is envelopedjhave been so far over- come——that spirits are seen and are as palpable to that sight and sense, as if seen through the medium of the material eye. We have ourselves seen spirits habitually, from our earliest years, and they are as real existences to‘ us as are any people still in the form. We have repeat- edly seen the spirits of Demosthenes, Bonaparte and Josephine, and they have repeatedly spoken and been heard by the spirit sense as audibly as we hearcommon conversation by the material ear. During our last lecture trip, the former two. with Alexander of Macedon, have always accompanied us on the rostrum, and from them, largely. came the power that has so moved the audiences that have been addressed. These spirits have been the actual movers, in behalf of the Congress of Spirits whom they serve, in all- the labors through which we have passed. We believe in and rely upon them. They have never deceived us. We have not, perhaps, at all times understood their full meaning, but that was no fault‘ of theirs. And now when they in- struct us to proclaim to the world that the professed mater- ializations of the present are fraudulent, as those which we have taken the trouble to investigate have been proven to be, we do not hesitate to do it, any more than we did to proclaim Mr. Beecher when commanded so to do; and we know in the present case, as they have done in the former, that they understand what they are about, and will justify _ _ I we admit. There is no question that she is mediumistic; their position, and prove their words to be true. So it must not be assumed .that we are opposed to Spiritualism. -We doubt if there be any person in the world more grown into and grounded upon the fact of spirit existence and communication than are we. But we wish it to be fully understood that we are opposed to all the jugglery and deception that is practiced ‘_in its name. Dark circles, cabinets and all other coritrivances to make _ deceit possible Tare an abomination to the spirits who have the elevation of the world at heart, and ought to bebanished from the ranks of Spiritualism to those of legerdemain where they belong, and where, too, they will have to go, soon. These things have been the stumbling-blocks that have prevented Spiritualism from moving on to do its legitimate work of preparing the way for the real resurrec- ' tion, through the perfecting of the physical bodies of its. mediums. In the blind allegiance that has been given to physical tests of spirit life, the possibility of proving that life has been lost sight of. Years ago we warned Spiritual- ists of this, but the prejudice and bitterness felt toward us by some of the then ‘leading lights of Spiritualism, has pre- vented the large majority {of Spiritualists from giving heed to the warning. And even now, as we write this, the spirits show us an immense balance, on one side of which are ‘placed all this external Spiritualism, and :it goes down together withall its workers, and the spirit adds, “They have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.” True Spiritualism is going to shed all this sort of stuﬁ. The Terre Haute performances, in spite of the determination of “the Committee,” are to be shown up for what they are; thosethat have been going on at Memphis are already ex- posed, let Dr. Watson say what he may to the contrary. We saw the persons who were at the seance, and they in- formed us that the Appeal report of it was true to the very" _l‘etter. Nor will the proposed machinations at Ancora, N. J., organized to catch the anxious seekers after spirit evidences, who will throng to the “Centennial,” escape, any more than could the paraﬂine exhibitions of recent notoriety in this city, as detailed by several people whose devotion to Spiritualism cannot be doubted any more than ‘ "can their veracity. .In their blind zeal Spiritualists may ~ attempt to cover. up these deformities that have attached ‘ themselves, vampire-like, to the body of Spiritualism, but -said? declarations, after the great fright of which he speaks was; momentous character of what isnow made the su-bjectof all over; andiyet he speaks of Anna Stewart as being ‘ ‘ vin- 3 another quarter. fraud ‘of which he had been cognizant, or else that had been presumptive evidence of what has occurred since. woonnum; s onnrniivs wnnntgr. that will not save them. They are doomed. Let us warn them to ﬂee from the wrath to come upon all such attempts to desecrate the holiest ties of human sympathy by feeding them with a sham-, which ask for bread and are offered , stones. If to say this, as we are commanded to do by those whom we serve, is to fall under" Mr. Hook’s charge of. “egotism” then are we there. I I ._ In regard to Mr. Hook’s statements and questions we have only to refer him and the reader for our replies, to our former article, from which we have nothing to take away; to which there might be much added. He may be disgust- ed at some portions of that statement; we confess that we were at the facts which made the statement possible. Mr. Hook, rather than to attempt to defend himself’ and his ,medium by dodging the point at issue‘——whether she was or was not exposed at Chicago-—by'asking questions, had bet- ter explain how it happened that the diakka instructed Mrs. Stewart to construct; her underskirts with blind pockets, in which her paraphernalia of sundry kinds could be and were bestowed. V Was that skirt prepared for that especial seance, or was it not the self same skirt that she was in" the habit of wearing during, her seances at Terre Haute previ- onsly? and were not the gauze,~the tinsel and the hair, which Mr. Hook-admits, usodby her previously for the same purposes for which she used them at Chicago? and when Mrs. Stewart said that the manifestations that she pro- duced at Chicago were of the same character that she had by putting the whiskers on, was not that the same, spirit which she showed in the cabinet, and the same which she had produced repeatedly before she came to Chicago, as she Mr. Hook stood there and heard her make these dictively pursued with gross misrepresentations.” While, as we said, it is not our province to make these articles of a personal character; while it is our province to speak plainly of all things that relate to any of the individuals to the frauds that are being practiced, we may be permitted to say‘ that such strictures and others similiar, contained in his let- ter upon our course, would come with better. grace from In a brief seance, Mr. Hook was shown a imposed upon him, which months of his own investigations had failed to discover. Mr. Hook was aware of the character of her manifestations, she said that she did not know, but at the same time de- clared that Mr. Stewart was not awareof them. How did she know the one and not the other? If she were the truthful woman she is represented to be by Mr. Hook, could she not have said that he did or did not know? She did not claim that there were any “ diakka" about the affair at all. She said that she performed all the manifesta- tions herself for money-making purposes. Then why does Mr. Hook endeavortoshoulder the responsibility upon the diakka? Mrs: Stewart‘ is a woman of strong character, quick and keen, and eminently capable of conducting just such a fraud successfully; and she has been very successful, enough so to come into rapport with the sympathetic -among those who gorto see her; and in this way she adds mental evidence of spirit individuality to the improvised spirits whom she presents from time to time. A ' A In this connection we wish to call attention to Dr. Pence’s article in favor of Mrs. Stewart in the Banner of two weeks ago, in which he. gives her credit for honesty because she refused to be silent when her hands were found blackened by the’ contact which the “spirit” had with the hand of one of the audience, who asked to see her hand after the seance was ended, and whoiremarked that he _“ wouldn’t say anything about it." The theory upon which this cir- cumstance is explainedby Dr, Pence is, that the lamp—black was communicated to the hands of the medium "by the spirit as it dematerialized through the body of the medium; that is, as the spirit body departed into the medium’s body; and the Banner makes no comment upon this way out of the dilemma. All mediums for materializations are pro- vided with explanations for the most common methods of‘ applying tests ‘to mediumship. The spirit who shakes hands with its audiences must expect sometimes ‘to get its hands blackened, and some favorable "excuse must be at hand to ward off the suspicious circumstances. We wonder that the Banner can be caught with such chaﬂ’ as that; but we wholly agree» with the Banner in its statement in last week’s issue. Fraud detected at one time is only presumptive evidence that fraud -has been com- mittedat other times byﬁthe same medium. But the me- dium’s own confession in this case seems" conclusive about all thathad gone “before theChicago empose, and is strong If Anna Stewart deceived Messrs. Pence, Hook and Connor pre- vious to the expose, may she not have done the same since? CWe learn from a recent communication. from Mr. Cad- waller that anything like test conditions,-are absolutely denied, and that Mrs. Stewart refuses to be even searched. ‘Then how can “our investi ations be so strict thorou h 1 1 2%" , and persistent as to be entirely independent of the good or bad character of the medium?” as the Banner suggests. But let us ask the Banner people if they had at one time thoroughly and unmistakably provena medium to be a fraud, and she had confessed it, and declared she would = When Mrs. Stewartlwas askediif 5 never repeat the deceit, would they then consider it neces- sary to continue their thorough and persistent investiga- tionswith-that' medium? This is the point at issue now with ‘us: Mrs. Stewart was exposed and adm_itted the de- ception. Is it necessary -thatwe see her now to convince us‘ that she is still a fraud? _ And if so, how often is it necessary to repeat an exposition to prove a fraud? Shall we go day after day to the same medium and believe that although she was a fraud yester,day_and~ admitted it, she may be genuine-to-day, and is there- foren entitled to another trial ? Will the ’Ba;mzer lay down its rule upon this point, so that the peoplemay know when they are at liberty to conclude that a medium is really a fraud? In regard to tests, materialization differs from -all other manifestations. A medium‘may give a communica- tion purporting to come from aspirit, be wholly true or false, and still there may be no doubt of her mediumistic power, but a medium may dress and “ put up”. herselfto personate. aspirit and have no claim at &all to mediumship. V i No one can be more desirous than ourselves for the in- auguration of the resurrection day; and when it shallcome perhaps it will be found that few have done more than we have to hasten on the time. We. know that it is near, but we also know that it has not come. " We are anxiously watching the signs of its appearance, rind we trust our lamps are trimmed and readyfor its coming. Of this time no one knoweth. the hour or the day, for it will come “like a thief inthe night.” % It is to be the great as well as ter- rible day of the Lord, in thefwhich every one’s works will be tried»of‘what sort they are.-7 It will be the send‘? of the one 7 dispensation‘; the inauguration of another -when old , things shall pass away and all things become‘ new. ~~The such imposition, is scarcely dreamed of by even the most thoughtful; but if it ‘wereireally ‘understood, thousands would join with us and help to clear the debris of the present, out of the way, so that the glorious dawning to the world may not be delayed thereby. \ , . 1 COMMUNICATIONS. ' v A s’ “ = j s A ‘NEW LoNDoN, 1nd. March ‘:20, 1876. Editors Woodhull and Claﬂt'n’s Weekly: I A I In response to a request in your paper dated March 18, also in response to my own sense of truth and right, I feel it my duty (though it is repugnant. to me to be the accuser of any- one), to testify to the facts in connection with the so—called “ materialilzation seance,” held in Chicago by one ‘Mrs. Stewart, while the National Convention of Spiritualists was in session in thatcity, in the fall of ”73; but iniadvance, I wantlto say that I have been an investigator of'Spirit.Phe— nomena. from its ﬁrst spread over the country as rappings, and-that it has been mvtgcod fortune to witness it in_ nearly ‘all its phases. A .. I V ' 1, I have stood the storm of slander and prejudice on account of my belief, almost alone in my section of country fora quarter of a century, and with such an experience it could not be supposed that I would lend myself to the per— secution of any one in its advocacy. r ‘ ' The evening preceding the expose, my wife and I attended one of Mrs. Stewarts seances. at which Mrs. Strattan assisted in the examination of _Mrs. Stewart, both before and after the seance, and immediately after the seance she told me that her suspicion had been aroused upon discovering that her clothes and hair had been re-arranged,’ and that quite a number of pins were sticking here and there on her clothing, that she, Mrs. Strattan, knew were not thereiwhen she entered the cabinet. It seemed tome that all the faces that were shown Were the same; I especially noticed the same heavy dark eyebrows on all. Nearly all who attended seemed satisﬁed, many having recognized friends and relatives. I I was so much disturbed in my mind_ that I. concltlded to visit her :-again the next afternoon, at which time she was ex~ posed. I saw the cabinet torn from over her; saw her making frantic efforts toconceal the paraphernalia in which she was enveloped; heard her confess it was all a fraud, and that her materializations had all been frauds; and at the request of Mrs. Woodhull, she explained and exhibited to the crowd how she had rigged herself to represent the different charac- ters. Mrs. Stewart seemed to he-in’ great agony on ..,_;.;:ount; of the detection and dread ofexposnre through the press, and she begged Mrs. Woodhull not to pt:hi;sh.*her. Mrs. Woodhull then told her upon her solemn promise never again to attempt to practice deception, she would, promise not to make the affair public. After those mutual pledges, Mrs. ‘Woodhull and her sister iboth spoke very kindi y to her, and seegned T.»<‘~'.z~y sorry for her. All that I have stated occurred under my own personal observation. - In conclusion, viewing the position taken by the WEm:I.Y in regard to fraud and OO1‘1“«'. ;.ion of all kinds, and that Mr. Hook (one of Mrs. Stewart-‘s committee), was a party to the pledge given by Mrs. S., and the fact that they, not Mrs.Wood- hull, have violated the pledge, it seems to me that Mrs. Woodhull is ‘not only released from her pledge, but in view of the position occupied‘ by her, compelled either to. publish -themior be in some degree accessory to the fraud. Yours for the truth, S.+..MUr:L E. STRA'rirArI.. A , A A CLARION, Iowa. March iii, 1876, Dear Weekly: As.you wish to communicaAt'e with those present at Mrs. Stewart’s exposure at the Convention of ‘the cabinet. Mrs. Stewart professedtto be ignorant of the fraud, and very -thankful for the exposure. I ,Were I giving the details I/should vary slightly from yours. As my stand... point was not yours, the diﬂ’erence is easily accounted f0I“s. She frankly acknowledged her fraud and promisedanevento. practice it again. . A , I will further state thatl went from Iowa in thatﬂonven-at September, 1873, I will state‘ that I was present, sitting near E o ’ , woonIIuI.I.a GLAFLIN’S,,,WEEKLY. tion more to witness materialization, perhaps, than to attend the Convention.‘ Previous to Mrs. 'Stewart’s expose l had paid my dollar to the Bangs’ and got no proof. Afterwards I visited Miss Alley, who. my friends there assured me, was no fraud. I paid my dollar again, got no test -worth naming, and came home disgusted with professional materializers. Some of them are making money in their profession, and that seems to be the object in all professions. Why then is it not as legitimate and honorable as others of similar type? Sham is -the order of the times in‘ which we live, and no sham pays better than sham spirit manifestations, as every one is. interestedcin» ;that direction. Hurry up the new dis- pensation, please,.,-and, oblige, , ‘ HARmsON,BRooIrs. Editors Woodltull and,Claﬂz'n”s _Weeklyi:‘ We see by the last paper (March“18) that all who were pres- ent at the expose of Mrs. Stewart, during the sessions of the Convention in Chicago in September, 1873, are requested to communicate with you. Aslwe were present and witnessed the expose, we send you our names. Yours, for truth, EMILY R. BRADWAY, CORNELIA B. STEVENSON. MAQUOKETA, Jackson Co., Iowa, March 14, 1876. 4; V? STEPHEN H. VINCENT. Many Spiritualists will remember that, some seven or eight years ago, there was a very promising young medium boy of about twelve years of age in this city, and at that time possessing remarkable mediumistic gifts. He sud- denly disappeared and remained unheard of until quite re- cently, when he returned from Mexico, where he has been taught to perform many of the wonderful tricks which pass for Spiritual manifestations. .We spent an evening at his. rooms-303 'West 21st st.—a week or so since, and among other things, witnessed his trunk trick. This trunk is a very heavy wooden one, stsongly bound with iron bands, and upon examination, presents a perfectly solid and sub- stantial appearance. Heavy blows upon any*part of it fail to discover any weak places, or to reveal any means ‘by which a person conﬁned in it could possibly obtain egress. It is 35 inches inlength by 20 deep, and 16 wide l—just large enough to admit the body of Vincent in a cramped up position. This trunk is placed in a small corner room of the second story of the house, on one side of which is the sitting room, and the other - the hall and stairway the front door, the room being directly over the front hall, and having one window which overlooks the street. In the room there is nothing whatever save the trunk. When he is ready for the performance, the Committee search the room, examine the trunk, and having ﬁrst enveloped Vin‘- '-cent in a bag, which is tied with the utmost care possible, they put ;him into the trunk and close and lock it, the lock being a common pad-lock—nOt the usual trunk lock—- and take the key away.’ They are then at liberty to tie the trunk about with as much rope as they please. When done, they retire from the room and close the door, and in thirty- five seconds Vincent, having A released, himself from the trunk, will open the door and exhibit himself. Upon examining the trunk it is found precisely as it was left. ‘The Cominittee having satisﬁed themselves that the trunk has not been opened, again leave the room with Vincent in it, and in about thejsame length of time, he will call for the Committee, who ﬁnd him back in the trunk again just as they first secured him, the keenest examination failing to disclose his method of egress and ingress. While conﬁned in this room and in the trunk, he also produces ﬂowers in profusion, shows hands and faces, and many other spiritual tricks, all of which would pass for genuine spiritual manifestations, and yet he says that they are nothing but tricks which were taught him by an old Mexican Indian Spirit; and the same spirit also tells him that all the manifestations similar to those which he per- forms, are also tricks taught the mediums by Juggler Spirits. He is soon to “travel” to give exhibitions, the ﬁrst_ part of "which are to be of genuine spirit manifestations, and the Elatter, of these tricks which he callsﬁby their right name. ‘We advise those who are interested in witnessing, as tricks, what they have been accustomed to consider as genuine spirit manifestations, to attend his “ seances,” and judge whether there be any difference between the two kinds’. 3 4 v'< LIFE-SIZE LITHOGRAPH. ‘We are now prepared to ﬁll all orders for life-size litho- graphs of Victoria 0. Woodhull, from the lithographic establishment of Armstrong & .CO., of Boston, Mass. They are splendid pictures, both‘ as a work of art and as like- Inesses. They are printed on heavy paper 20 X24 inches, sand specially adapted for framing. They will be sent post- fpaid, securely wrappedto guard against damage, to any ‘address for 50 cents. M The common price of lithographs of this size is $2 ;. but w_e- have arranged with the publisher to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they -can be resold at the price named without loss to us. They arethus put within the means and reach of everybody who «desires to have a splendid life-size portrait of the Editor-in- Chief of the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to -the inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which misery, vice and crim e shall have no, place.» leading to I In reply to many letters asking for " dealer’s terms ’f we would say that the lithographs may be ordered by express by the half dozen, dozen, or more at 40 cents, the usual price, less the postage. In explanation" of the delay that has occurred in sending lithographs we would say that the third edition has been delayed, but will be received within a day or two, when all orders will be ﬁIled;—[MANAGING EDITOR]. ' _..xQ4 r<gy< ‘THE GARDEN OF K V. The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but We have prepared a pamphlet edition, which, to meet ‘the extraordinary demand that has been made for the paper, we will furnish in lots of ten" at $1; or more at same rate. Cr--4 —MRS. WOODHULL IN THE FIELD. . ' . COMMENTS on THE PRESS. . . (From the Daily Statesman, Dallas. Texas, March 9, 1876.) It is a great pity that every mother, father, daughter and son in Austin, able to think reasonably, could not have been It was a moral discourse, surpassing anything related to it think and act as she -taught upon this occasion, man would become so ennobled as indeed to. make of him the “Temple of God.” She would teach man to be pure, and she believes‘ the way for the world to become puriﬁed and man ennobled is for the mothers of the earth to, cultivate the acquaintance of their children, to make them their conﬁdants, and to teach them from childhood their true origin and the ‘dangers that await them in society. And this is the great social question, about which, through ignorance, she has been anathematized. She would lift mankind into a higher sphere, out of which there would come a noble freedom of love,‘ which would purify the races of the earth, and thus‘ she deﬁnes her theory of free-lovism. She claims. that mankind shouldnever be- come enchained bv ignorance and_ vice, and that daughters should be reared to protect themselvesjagainst marri'a2:e_con- tracts with men not as pure as themselves. Her discourse was elegant and pure, and she held her audience so enchained that the ending of it was met with universal regret. She will lecture again to—night., on special request, her proposed theme being “Woman’s Curse,” and we express the belief that there was not a husband or son who listened to her through her discourse last night who is not anxious to have the wife or ‘mother hear her. i ' (From the Herald, Dallas, Texas, M arch 16, 1876.) MRS. wooDHULL’s LECTURE. Fields’ Theatre was ﬁlled last evening to listen to Mrs. WoOdhu1l’s lecture. Without going through the formalities of an introduction, M-rs. ,Woodnu1l stepped upon the stage and began to speak. Her tone at ﬁrst was nervous, but gradually she overcame this tremor and for an hour she held forth to an audience that seemed to not only understand, but thoroughly appreciate the greater part of what she said. Mrs. Woodhull possesses a powerful voice, and it is of won- derful ﬂexibility and modulation, and under perfect control. Of the lecture, it is hardly necessary to speak at length. That the theories advanced by Mrs. Woodhull, however im- practicable they may seem when applied to a‘ heterogeneous mass, are soundjand pure,;no onejwill deny. But it istothe utter impracticability of these theories, doubtless, that Mrs. Woodhull owes so few followers; for surely could they but be put into practical use, the world would be far better, purer and nobler. At any rate, no one could possibly be the worse for hearing it, while many a father, mother, sister and brother might learn from it a most valuable lesson. ' . MRS. woo1_)HUI.L’s LECTURE; last night. Mrs. Woodhull camevbefore them, held her listeners enthralled by her powers of oratory, by her beauty, by her ﬁnished address, by the statements of undeniable person within the sound of her voice. What she said may the knife of facts and ﬁgures cut away the diseased cancer of ignorance or willful blindness that has been eating into our hearts, and as yet no physician has been found skillfulror daring enough to probe the fester to the bottom. We wish that every mother in our city could have heard her last night, listened to her as with a mother’s love, a mother’s exper- ience, and the deep feeling that must be felt by every true mother, plead in piteous tones for the more perfect enlighten- ment of the rising generations.‘ Her heart -’ was in her voice, barbed arrow of self-condemnation as they listened to her words, and felt that she: {too plainly exposed the injuryand I neglect our children sustain from those who love ‘them ‘best,’ through a false delicacy. Many gentlemen were there who are thankful that they embraced the opportunity to hear, and who emphatically stated that, if she would remain an- other night, they would be onlytoo glad to have their wives, mothers and sisters attend. ‘ There were men there, too, which would pander to their depraved tastes; but we will venture to assert that those same men left the hall feeling that they had received a just and merited rebuke, and who will hereafter speak of the ladywho addressed them last night in far different terms than what they did previously. Mrs. Woodhull has done a great work here. She has dropped good seed that will fall on fertile ground and bring forth the perfect fruit. And wherever she goes, and in whatever city she visits, she willreceive no more hearty welcome than in Dallas, should she ever return here. - present last night to listen to the lecture of Mrs. .Woodhull. that has ever been delivered in this city. If the world could There :was a large number in attendance at the Theatre; truths that struck conviction to the heart of every intelligent‘ have grated harshly on the ears of some; but it was because , and deep down into the sanctum of every breast sank"the‘ who went out of Va prurient curiosity, expecting to heartthat. April 8, 11873.‘ (From the Statesman, Austin, Texas, March 10, 1876.) Mrs. Woodhu1l’s second lecture at the Opera House last night was more largely attended than the ﬁrst ; fully one-half were ladies of the elite of Austin. In the most thrilling, glowing" sentences she depicted the thralldom of woman, owing, asshe claims, to, the sense of false modesty which prevails; and exhorted the women, as mothers, to emancipate themselves, to rise to a true sense of their dignity, and to endeavor to rear a “race of gods and goddesses.” She hails with joy the approaching millenium‘ of free ‘discussion, through the medium of the press, ‘of truths which have here- tofore remained as a sealed book. The auditors were held spellbound by her simple, unaﬂected eloquence,Tand bursts of applause were frequent, demonstrating the :fact that her words carried conviction to the hearts of the hearers. ' (From the Waller County,“ Oou‘km'eai~,i _1EI_enipstead, Teams, lMa'rch 16, 1876.)’ VICTORIA WOODHULL. The lady whose name heads this article lectured last Sun- day evening to one of the ’ largest and most respectable audiences ever assembled ih the city of Hempstead to hear a lecture on any snbject. I ' ‘ ’ §MRS. WOODHULL IN THE SOUTH. Mrs. Woodhull was called back toGiddings by a committee or gentlemen and ladies who,'being so well pleased with the ﬁrstlecture, tendered her anovation which should came her to feel proud of the (conquest won. She leaves the Lone Star State for her home in N ew;-York City, laden with laurels nobly battled for and cheerfully given. Mrs. W’. is accompanied on ‘her southern tour by her beautiful and ta- lented sister and mother, the appearance of the latter cf whom is that of a- courtly lady. When speaking of her tal- ented daughters, her eyes will ﬂash with the old—time ﬁre, as she-tells of the noble blood that ﬂows through ‘their veins. BUSINESS NOTICES. DR. R. P. FELLOWS, the. independent and progressive physician, is successfully treating nervous and chronic dis- eases all over the country by letter, as well as at his oﬂice at home, by his original system of practice, which omits all drugs and mineral medicines of both old and new schools. Dr. Fellows has been steadily gaining upon the conﬁdence of pthepublic for the past eightyears, during which time he has treated thousands of cases, eighty out of every hundred of which he has radically cured, while every case has been bene- ﬁtted. And at this moment he has patients in every‘ State in the Union. Every reader of this who has any affection of the head, throat, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, kidneys, blad- - der, bowels, womb, genital organs, or rheumatic or neuralgic diﬂiculties, or eruptions of the skin, blood impurities,tumors, cancers, or any nervous affections or diseases of the eye or car, are invited to, write ‘to Dr. Fellows. The remedy withwhich he treats these diseases so successfully, is his Magnetized Powder, which will be sent to any address, at $1 per box. Address Vineland, N. . i I DR. CHAUNCEY BARNES writes that he is still in San Fran- cisco, Ca1., organizing circles for all kinds of mediumistic developments,‘ and for practical work. He claims to be blessed with many beautiful-gifts—rappings, table .move- ments, trances, spiritual -telegraphy, prophesy, diagnosing disease, healing by laying on of hands and with “the ba1m_ from GOd’s medicine chests.” He contemplates returning to the East in April, stopping for a while in 'Chicago,land go- ingithence‘ to Philadelphia. V A The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 Washington street Salem, Mass. _ _ p , p , 5 V . Mns. S. A. WAKEMAN COOK, 578 Wilvvaukee Avenue, Chi- cago, Ill., Psychometrist and Developing Medium, will give heriatgtention to answering letters addressed to her, or will go into ‘whatever town, hamlet orcounty wherever ‘she ' may be sent, or called to gc——taking, pecuniarily, whatever those whom she‘ visits or aids in their. development may be in- spired to" give, letting] each oneimeaisure their own‘ pockets, and be their own judges of th,eircapa'city;tc' give, There. can be no new era, until all things have passed away. I feel that I cannot belong to the new,era so long as I make Inerchandise lot the Holy Ghost (the Spirit of an Truth.) CI.AIRvorANcE.——Mrs.j Rebecca Messenger, diagnosing dis— ,ease,,or reading destiny, if present, $1 00; by letter, $2“-‘O0. Send age and sex.» Address her,’ Aurora, Kane Co., Ill. P. O. Box 1,071. (303). V V , , ~ _ , ‘WE still, mail our bOok,_pLhamp_hlets , and tracts-—“ Free Lcye,” “ Mrs . Woodhull’ and her Social Freedom,” “‘ True and, Fals.,e'Ifrove,”"f'VOpen'Letter'to ACJ. Davis,” “Letter /to a Mag'dalen,’_’ “God orﬂno God,” “,To‘MV Atheistical B‘rothers,,” including myPhoto, for One Dollar. ‘Canyou favor me? tAddress Austin Kent, Stockho1m'St., ‘Lawrence CO., New York. ' Box 44. . : ‘ . : I PROF. LIsTER, the astrologist, can be consulted at his room 'No. 319 Sixth avenue. Address by letter, I’. O. B ox'4829. NOTHING is more harassing than ulcers or boils. Fortu- nately they can be quickly healed by the use of GLENN’s SULPHUR SOAP, which purges the sore of its poisonous virus or proud flesh, and thus removes theonly obstacle toits (healing. iDepot, Crittenton’s, No. 7’ Sixth -Avenue, New York,City. . . . « (4.0.- ALL families and invalids should have Prof. Paine’s short- hand treatment of jdisease——a "small book of forty pages Sent freeon application to him at No. 232 North Ninth street, Phi1a,Pa.» Ii‘ ' ’- ‘ April :8, 1876.3‘ wooD;HULL as CIiAFLIN’S WEEKLY Have you seen the Wonderful Type- ‘ Writing Machine? because of the drudgery of the pen. The Type- Writer has found rapid acceptance wherever intro- duced, and has fully sustained the claim that its work is twice as fast, three times as easy and ﬁve times legible as that of the pen. It paragraphs, punctuates, underscores and does ﬁgure work—ii'i a word, all things necessary to the production of a perfect manu- script. Any size or quality of paper may be used, and the most satisfactory results obtained, at a saving in time and strength of at least one hundred per cent The Type-Writer “ manifolds ” ﬁfteen copies at once, and its work can also be copied. in the ordinary copy-press. READ’ THE FOLLOWING INDORSEMENTS. What Mr. Jenny, of the New York Tribune, says 2 about it: NEW Yonx, June 10, 1875. DENSMORE, Yosr & Co.: G’entlemen——I am an earnest advocate of the Type- Writer. Having thoroughly tested its practical worth, I ﬁnd it a complete writingmachine, adapted to a wide range of work. The one I purchased of you several weeks since has been in daily use, and gives perfect satisfaction. I can write with it more rapidly and legibly than with a pen, and with inﬁnitely greater ease. Wishing you success commensurate with the merits of your wonderful and eminently useful in- vention, I am, respectfully yours, E. H. JENNY. OFFICE on DUN, BARIJOW 8: Co., COM. AGENCY, 335 BROADWAY, New York, Dec. 8, 1874. G‘entlemen——The Type-Writers we purchased of you last June for our New York, Albany and Buffalo oﬁices have given such satisfaction that we desire you to ship machines immediately to other of our oﬂlces at Baltimore, Cincinnati, Detroit, Hartford, Louisville, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and no more to our New York oﬁice, 335 Broadway. We think very highly of the machine, and hope you will meet with good success. Respectfully yours, DUN, BARLOW & CO. Orinon on VVESTERN—_I—]N.ION 'J‘nLuonA1=n Co., CHICAGO, July 8, 1874. Dicnsiuomt, Yosr & Co.: Gentlemen—_~Having had the Type-Writer in use in my office during the past two years, I do not hesitate to express my_ conviction of its great value. 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CONTAINING ‘ New, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin of all the Doctrines, Prmctples, Precepts and Miracles of the I CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furm'slt'ln.g a .Key for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besid-es coinpristng the .History of Siocteen Oriental Cruciﬁed Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “The Biography of Satan " and “The Bible of Bibles ” (compr1',sz'ng a description of twenty Bibles.) _.j__. This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the ﬁeld which he has chosen for it. The amount of menial labor necessary to collate and com- ile the varied information contained in it must have een severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—-as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-heads—follows a deﬁnite line of research and argument_to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. C 0 NT E N T S. Preface; Explanation; Clint:-oduction; Address to the er gy. Chap. 1.~—Rival Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.~Messianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.—Prophecies by the ﬁgure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.——Mii-aculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. _ _ Chap. 5.—Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.‘ Chap. 6.—Siars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. ._ _ _ ChSap._'7.—-Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the In'ant I avior. Chap. 8.—-The Twenty-ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. _ » Chap. 9.—Titles of_ the Saviors. — Chap%&0.——The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Bir . » Chap. 11.—-Christ’s Genealogy. i Chap. 12.—The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. _ _ _ Chap._ 13.—The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs {of Di- vinity. Chap. 14.—-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.-The Saviors_are real Personages. ‘ Chap. 16.——Sixteen Saviors Cruciﬁed. ' Chap. 17.—The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- ﬁxion. Chap. 18.—Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.—Resuri-ection of the Saviors. iors. Clgtp. 21.——’I‘he Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe ri n. Chapg122.-~The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.——The Divine “ Word ”_ of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24.—The Trinity very ancieiitly a current Hea- then Doctrine. _ . 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Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-04-08_11_19
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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 20 (April 15, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2119
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-04-15
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: s PROGRESS! 1i‘I~?.lE3El"i?i.[—IOUi(5}-l?EIT! UNTR.AMMELED LIV}%3S§ __n -n .5 BREAKING THE WAYS FQR FUTURE CG-ENER.ATI0"NS.l Vol. XI.—No. 20.—-Whole No. 280. The truth shall make you free.——Jesus. In the clays of thepeolce of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shall be ﬁnz'shed.—St. John the Divine. . Whereof I was maole a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, ancl the mystery which from the beginning of _the worlol hath been hid in Gaol.-Paul. 4; V7 SPIRITUALISM THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE. Editors Weekly: Mylast articles were more political than is my habit or taste, but seemed necessary at the moment, and so were written. In one of them I spoke of the National Capitol as ripening apparently for a Sodom cremation. Your types made “convention” of my cremation-«another affair altogether. Had Sodom survived its ﬁrery baptism, and got annexed, in some way, to these United States of ours, our Presidential Conventions might appropriately be held there...
Show mores PROGRESS! 1i‘I~?.lE3El"i?i.[—IOUi(5}-l?EIT! UNTR.AMMELED LIV}%3S§ __n -n .5 BREAKING THE WAYS FQR FUTURE CG-ENER.ATI0"NS.l Vol. XI.—No. 20.—-Whole No. 280. The truth shall make you free.——Jesus. In the clays of thepeolce of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shall be ﬁnz'shed.—St. John the Divine. . Whereof I was maole a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, ancl the mystery which from the beginning of _the worlol hath been hid in Gaol.-Paul. 4; V7 SPIRITUALISM THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE. Editors Weekly: Mylast articles were more political than is my habit or taste, but seemed necessary at the moment, and so were written. In one of them I spoke of the National Capitol as ripening apparently for a Sodom cremation. Your types made “convention” of my cremation-«another affair altogether. Had Sodom survived its ﬁrery baptism, and got annexed, in some way, to these United States of ours, our Presidential Conventions might appropriately be held there”; but I did not so contemplate in my letter. My mission, for ﬁve-and—thirty years or more, has been rather religious than political; and since the popular chris- tianity proved itself unable to grapple successfully with chattel slavery, and ﬁnally was compelled into bloody war in its behalf, it is a most solemn question, what religion shall come in its stead ? For it surely should not last. Roman Catholic Christianity supplanted Judaism ; and for three hundred years Protestantism has been seeking to ex- tegfminate Catholicism, and might have succeeded in the “Western hemisphere but for the support it lent to Southern slave breeding, slave trading, slave hunting and slave hold- ing. In the guilt of all these, the Protestant Church of the United States was implicated, long after the Catholic Church had been seeking to exterminate it, at least from its own do- main in the South American and Mexican states and sov- ereignties. It was Roman Catholicism that abolished slavery in Mex- ico in the year 1829. Mexico then included Texas, which contained a vast number of slaveholders from our Southern States with their thousands and thousands of slaves. These incited rebellion and revolt against the government, which led ﬁnally to war between Mexico and the United States, and the subsequent seizure of Texas and its annexation to these States, with slavery, of course, restored and secured, and our payment of the war debt of Texas, amounting to ten millions of dollars, into the bargain. The slave power now felt itself omnipotent in the nation; supported by the State, sanctiﬁed by the church. Disgrace- ful as was our war with Mexico, waged, as all the world knew, in behalf of slavery, and for nothing else under heaven, still the Northern Protestant ministers actually shamed all de- cency, shocked all modesty, by their loud clamors to be ap- pointed chaplains to accompany the regiments and ﬂeets. And the war ended. Mexico plundered, and slavery magni- ﬁed, the church. north and south, with most insulting mock- ery. everywhere gave public thanks to God that the Protest- ant cause and faith were victorious. But the time came when Protestantism saw another sight; when the drum beat at dead of night, eommandlng tires of death to light, with the contending parties, not now Catholic and Protestant, but both Protestants; and that same church and clergy that so gallantly fought side by side against Catholicism in Mexico, and in *behalf of slavery, only half a generation before! V The most astounding phenomena of the nineteen christian centuries were the Protestant Church of the United States defending slavery; santifying slavery; dying in Mexico for slavery; drinking together, North and South, the very blood of the.slave at their sacramental altars in wine bought with his unpaid toil; and then when occasion called, arming against each other—-on one side, ﬁghting for slavery; on the other, for a Union with slaveholders, in a four years’ war, the most demoralizing, most bloody, most destructive to life, limb and property, the World has seen in a thousand years! Such is American Protestant christianity illustrated in the history of the thirty last years. Robbing and murdering Roman Catholics in Mexico, in a most disgraceful war waged wholly for slavery and nothing else, and then turning their blood besmeared weapons against each other to sustain and .NEVV YORK, APRIL 15, 1876. prolong another greaténation of Protestant slaveholders and their Northern abettors. - And now that the war is over, these saints of the contend- ing hosts, such as survive, are rushing into each others arms: and to each others sacraments, baptisms and love feasts, as 1311011811 not one handof theirs was ever stained with brothers blood! Such in very‘ brief is the religion which Spiritualism, or some sublimer faith, must meet and overcome. Such is the Protestantism the abolitionists encountered in their ﬁrst at- tempts against that slave system which has cost the nation a half million human lives and those millions of dollars “than human sinews bought and sold have ever earned!” Let Spiritualism study well its history if it would maintain triumphant warfare upon it, and supersede and supplant it with something more divine. PARKER PILLSBURY. PAINESVILLE, Ohio, March 30, 1876. GEMS FROM F0 URIER. SELECTED BY A. CRIDGE. MECHANISM or enonrs AND snnrns. This can scarcely be outlined, much less deﬁned. Fourier’s style is not clear in general, and he considered even a volume too small for an. adequate exposition of this branch; nor would minute details be of much use until the ﬁner shades of co-operative life require to be considered, by reason of success in initial experiments, when it may be found that Fourier’s plans need important modiﬁcations. It is possible, however, that recently formed communities may have reached a point where Fourier’s views on. the subject may be suggestively and practically valuable. I therefore subjoin extracts and condensations thereon: The series of groups he founds on The ﬁve external senses. The affections of friendship, ambition, love and familism, or paternity. / Three other “ passions,” little known and much condemned by “ civilizees,” viz.: The Cabalistic.——Love of reﬁnement, intrigue, emulation. The Butterﬂy.—Love, of variety, or alternation in both labors and pleasures. The Composite or Compound.—-A desire to realize two or more pleasures at once; as, for instance, to dine with per- sons whom you like,’ where there is a ﬂow of agreeable con- versation, uniting gastronomic, intellectualand social pleas- ures; love of combination or cumulative action . The three last named are regarded in civilization as vices; but God created them to operate by series of contrasted groups; from them is born true wisdom, the equilibrium of the passions, resulting in unity. Moral science pretends to repress the discordant passions; but repression is not mechanism, is not harmony; the end should be to reach the spontaneous mechanism of the pas- sions without repressing any. To regulate them it is neces- sary that each iudividual in seeking only his personal inter- ests, should constantly serve the interests of the community, which is exactly contrary to the civilized mechanismlwhich operates only by repression and constraint.——(vi. 48-51). Cabalism is for the human spirit so imperative a need, that in default of real intrigues it seeks with avidity the factitious at games, theatre, romance. An artiﬁcial intrigue is created when a company assembles by means of cards. The princ ipa property of the cabalistic passion in the serial mechanism is to excite discords or emulative rivalries between groups similar enough to each other in occupation to dispute the palm.—(vi.) [REMABK.--In civilization and lower forms of social life, the cabalistic passion shows itself in cliques, rings, sects, parties, and their accessories of backbiters, swindling and slandering. These cliques and rings to—day—not the people- control this and other governments, regardless of “forms of government,” for which, Pope says, "fools contest.”] Civilizees, with instinct of falsity, have chosen for the pivot of their social system a group essentially false-—-the conjugal couple; false by the number (limited to two) by the absence of freedom, and by the divergencies and disagree- ments of tastes.—~(vi. 57.) A passional series is a league of divers groups graded in ascending and descending order, united passionally by identity of taste for some function, as the culture of a fruit, 3. special group undertaking each variety of work in connection with the object with which the series is occupied. if the series is PRICE TEN CENTS‘. ,. devoted to the {culture of the hyacinth orethe potato, for instance, there should be as many groups formed as there are varieties of these articles adapted to the soil of the locality. A single series (in a phalanstery or community). would be useless; there must be series mechanised and interlocked to the member of at least 45 or 50. The passidnal series utilizes disparities of character, tastes, instincts, fortunes, etc. A series is fed only by contrastedi and graded inequalities. Discords are so necessary in a pas»- sional series that each of its groups must be in full antipathy with two contiguous groups, and in graduated antipathy with the sub-contiguous, as in musical tones. Three conditions are indispensible to the success of a series, V VIZ: . Compactness, or nearness of varieties of any given plant cultivated by contiguous groups. This is necessary to secure activity of the cabalistic passion. Short Sessions.——Long ones fetter the butterﬂy (variety) passion. Division of Labor.—-—The civilized mode compels one person to ﬁll all the functions of a given labor, thus fettering the play of the composite passion. vi, 52-54.) Minimum for sub-groups, three persons. Minimum for full-Igroups, seven to nine persons. . A series operates on a group as a group does on the respec- tive individuals composing it; and should contain at least ﬁve groups. A full series comprises twenty-four groups. The individuals comprising a. group should be as follows: viz: Transition 1 - “Ambigu” Superior Wing 2 Bachelors Centre 3 Adepts Inferior Wing 2 Novices Pivot 1 Chief (vi, 60.} To attain passional success, to mechanise the passions, we must have in operation ﬁfty or sixty to ﬁve hundred series, thus abridging their seances and enabling each societary to ﬁgure in a large number of series, ﬁfty to one hundred, if he can. It is a stnec qua non to interlock: one with anothe1'.—~ (ii, 143.) We insist on the stupidity of the civilization which, pre- tending to have studied man, has neglected to analyze groups, their contrasted properties (iii, 344), their ranges in divers degrees (iii, 352). It is a blunder of the same magnitude as if, in agriculture, we had omitted grains, and wheat, barley’ and cats were still disdained, despised, as coffee was for_sev- eral thousand years until goats, by their intoxication, had disclosed its properties. The learned world has this charac- ter of servilitv, of persisting in a prejudice because some master was imbued with it. Aristotle did not mention cof- fee: twenty succeeding centuries concluded that coffee and its bean were not worthy of attention. . Plato made no an-— alysis of groups; therefore groups are not worthy of study. Thus civilized genius forms its opinions; yet it claims to have perfected reason! ! ! A In all descriptions of passional series * * * * * the accords of passion and sympathy, the rules of which seem to civilization an undecipherable scrawl, are, on the contrary, a mechanism accessible to geometrical methods. Civilizees, in this as in all other problems, see nature only in a simple mode; they believe all sympathies to be permanent; they are, however, permanent, occasional, periodic, etc. This calculation is one of the new worlds of science, to which the genius of civilization has been unable to obtain access, but which has about it nothing impenetrable, notwithstand- ing popular supposition to the contrary. Allnature is an immense mechanism of sympathies and antipathies, very methodically ruled and very penctrable to genius, provided the person possessing it studies as preliminary the two the- ories of passienal attraction and association with which our great minds have never dared to occupy themselves.-— (vi, 65.) The mechanism of equilibrium in the series absorbs indi- vidual cupidity in the collective interests of each series and of the entire phalanx; and absorbs the collective claims of each series by the individual interests of each member in numerous other series.——(vi, 315.) [I think this is what F. calls “engrenage,” or interlocking] , In great industries, re-union not distributed in passional series is subject to two radical vices :, 1 / ‘I. . I / f-\.,_..~ ~41.-..».~é-.~4i "‘ ltlediocrity of product for Want of industrial attraction. ‘Waste, for want of guarantee as to management.——(vi, 475.) _ The contrasted passional series is fed exclusively by the ‘disparities which disconcert civilized methods. It operates as does the laborer who from heaps of dirt draws the germs of wealth. The waste, ﬁlth, dirt and general refuse which gpollute and infest our houses, become for him sources of tic-rtiine. It is the same with our passional dirt for which ‘our present [social] policy has no use. We are about, thanks to the lever I have named, The Contrasted Series, to trans- form into precious materials all those leavens of social mad- ness. The more numerous are they, the better will the series be graduated, contrasted and aptly interlocked.—(iii, 31.) UiEMAR-K.——Which suggests Huxley or Tyndall’s remark, that “dirt is matter in the wrong place.” But as such ma- terial dirt never should have existed in any place in actual forms, so there is much passional dirt for which no form of society will have any use. I refer to such as is not merely misdirected, but owes its origin and form wholly to sexual unions that are merely lustful or enforced. Such “ passional dirt” must be incapable of utilization, having its origin in a “sin against the holy spirit (of love) which cannot be for- , given either in this age or the age to come,” but the results of which will become less and less obvious in generation after generation of that social harmony which can be born only of freedom; or, as Swedenborg has it, “there is no regeneration but in freedom.” YES, “WHO PAYS THE EXPENSES?” Editors Weeklg.'——In your issue of March 18, “ J. W. T.” in , criticisinga previous article, and defending the National Banking system, states “ so much error” and so little “' truth,” “that I am constrained to reply” to those parts which are unsupported and “unwarranted assumptions.” Elie ﬁrst is in substance, that if we should increase our our- rency one billion dollars they would not be “worth the paper they were printed’ upon.” From what data does J. W. T. draw this “ assumption?” From oﬁicial ﬁgures we ﬁnd that ‘the total circulation of all kinds outstanding in 1865 was $2;,003,874,179.25; in August, 1875, we had only $764,908,217, sh owing that the currency had been contracted; $1,238,965,962,- 25; also shcwinggthat we have had more than “ one billion more currency” than we have now; but can he recall a time when it was not “ worth the paper they were printedﬁon? ” If not, what reason has he for assuming that they would‘ so depreciate now or in the future? I assume, that if that amount of currency (a non-interest bearing debt) was aﬂoat, instead of being locked up in unproductive interest bearing bonds, itwould be compelled to seek productive enterprise, set the wheels of industry moving as in 1865, giving employ- ment, food and clothing to our laborers. Again, J. W’. T. says: “It is generally conceded by the best ﬁnanciers that the national banks have already more currency than they can proﬁtab1,V» and at the same time safely ﬂoat.” This “ﬂoat” means to loan, and the “best ﬁnanciers ” ‘are the national bankers, who know how to “ﬂoat” or loan money so as to have it pay them well, and double their fortunes everyfour to eight years. All over the West and South the “ﬂoating” rates are from 10 to 24 per cent per unnum, and if national banks are retiring their circu- lation, it is because the people see nothing but bankruptcy in these rates, and refuse to borrow and invest in productive enterprises. But right here is the point with such as J. W. T. and the national bankers: Money must reap its reward, “ proﬁtably and safely ﬁoat,” whether labor be rewarded or not. La- borers may starve and freeze, be made “tramps ” and " thieves,” the nation driven to bankruptcy and ruin by the enforced idleness of its wealth producers; but money must be well protected and rewarded, it is so much superior and of so much more importance than humanity I J. W. T. also assumes that the national banks “pay back to the govern- ment and to the people in extra taxes fully as much as such beneﬁts are worth.” Now, what are the facts? The national banks pay a tax on their average circulation of half of one per cent semi-annually, making. lone per cent per annum. Would not the people be glad to borrow currency at that rate? ‘ “ Horace Greeley, in speaking of this stupendous fraud, at one time said: “ If the government can afford to loan $300.000,000 to bankers for nothing (or a tax of one per cent), it can afford to loan the people $300,000,000 at three per cent per annum;” and I add,;with that interest pay some of the expenses of running the government and stop taxation. Another fact is, that the bankers do not pay the government or the people anything—not one dollar in taxes. This has been clearly proven many times in the WEEKLY: all that they pass over to the government as taxes is wrung from the labor of the people in the 10 to 24 per cent interest charged to those who are compelledto borrow the money that they (the national banks) get from the same people, in their col- lective capacity, at a tax of one per cent. . I will intrude upon your valuable space only to reply to one more “unwarranted assumption” of J. W. T., which I quote as follows: “By comparing‘the average price of greenbacks in gold with the volume of such greenbacks in circulation during the last twelve years, we ﬁnd that an increase of the same has always caused them to be worth less on the dollar, while a decrease of the greenback has always enhanced their value.” ’ g c I In September of 1864, gold was quoted at 275; it is well known that the issue of greenbacks continued to increase until after the close of the war, and that gold fell to about 150. . According to the reports of the Comptroller of thejCurrency, we have over $13,000,000 less greenbacks aﬂoat now than we had one year and one month ago, and are thirteen months nearer the day ﬁxed for resumption ;‘ yet gold is 114%, 114%, against 111%, 111% then. How will J. W. T. account for these facts? All that is wanted to bring_our greenbacks to par with gold, is to have the government receive them for all dues, woonnum. as CL.aFLiN’S WEEKLY. and not discriminate in favor of gold. This is no assump- tion, for we have proven it, as the “ demand notes” that were issued during the last War were made receivable for duties on imports, and remained at par until they were all drawn in and cancelled. _ Our ﬁnancial legislation since the close of the war, managed by and in the interests of “ the best ﬁnanciers,” has been such as to cal.l forth the following severe criticism from the London (Eng) Economist: “ It was said by one of the mase culine writers of the seventeenth century, in discussing the evils entailed on Ireland by bad and stupid laws, that if such laws had been adopted by the devil in the government of his dominion, the kingdom of Satan could not have lasted a year. We should hesitate to apply so strong a description to the American policy since the war, but we have no hesita- tion in saying, that that policy, in its violence, ignorance and greed, has, in its economical results, left little to choose between the United States of 1875 and the Ireland of two hundred years ago." Very truly, A. W. ST. JOHN. CARTHAGE, Mo., 1876. ' ‘ A LOVERS PRAYER. BY HELEN M. COOKE. C (LOTTIE LINWO D). Touch gently now, oh happy sleep; The dear beloved’s soulful eyes; His glowing visions guard and keep; Shut in my light of paradise. And from his tender poet—face Smooth out each lineament of care; And over all his features trace The beauty of my worship there. Breathe on the lips I love so well, Round which such wondrous sweetness clings 'Whispcr the words I dare not tell; ’ Sing him the song my spirit sings. [1 Lay thy soft hand upon his heart, \ Oh envied sleep! and make it strong To meet my deathlcss love i11 part, ' And cherish it from every wrong. New Yonx, 1876. - PERSONAL LETTERS FROM TEXAS. Editors ‘Weekly: An incident recently came under my ob- servation which shows the perverse depravity of men and the wild delirium to which their passions are allowed to rise, and above all, the injustice of society in its dealings with the parties to it, so vividly, that my soul is chilled with hor- ror and ﬁlled with indignation. I feel moved to write for your columns the facts as I learned them, and at all other times to do all that in me lies to lift woman out of the power of man, and to make him bear the ban which society attaches to the commission of such deeds, from which he now goes “ scott free.” In quite the early part of my public work I was called to give a course of lectures in a thriving country village in C0nnecticut——the State designated as “the land of steady habits.” While there, I met a mother who carried in her arms a blooming infant, scarce twelve months old; its eye was bright, its complexion fair, and as it laughed and carroled in its baby glee every one" stooped to kiss and admire it. As time passed on, I chanced again in the social circles of life to meet this mother who now led by the hand a shy, timid child, for the baby girl had grown to be some ﬁve or six years old. She was somewhat delicately formed, and had an expressive face, and although she seemed fright- ened when observed; or addressed by a stranger, a few gentle words won her conﬁdence, and as she grew to be familiar, she would come and twine her arms about your neck, /and as you attempted to interest her in the recital of anything com- prehensible to her childish intellect, her little cheek would dimple with smiles, or her eyes be brilliant with tears, as the theme was either grave or gay; quick to laugh when mirth was in the ascendancy, rapidly reacting, easy to cry when her sympathies were touched; tender, sympathetic, conﬁding, teachable, always looking up to her elders with conﬁdence and trust. Men or women were to her the embod- iment of all wisdom, and upon them she looked with great . reverence. Like a ﬂower that could only blossom in the sunlight, she was only happy in an atmosphere of love, and in such her young mind expanded and absorbed its neces- sities, giving out in its turn sweets which, if she had been properly guarded and directed, could not have failed to have. blessed the world. Some weeks since, while sojourning in a city not outside the limits of the State in which this young and promising child was born, I met apoliceman in uniform who rudely hurried along the walk a young and fragile girl, apparently not more than ﬁfteen years of age, with a pale and forlorn countenance, and beautiful brown hair which hung in a mass of dishevelled ringlcts down her shoulders. As they turned a corner of the street, men jostled them on the walk, and called out to the officer to know where he was go- ing with his “ young cub.” I turned about and heard girls who had homes and protection, and whose only boast might be that they were better dressed, and mothers, too, who should have felt different, saying “the outcast,” the vile thing,” " she is not ﬁt to live,” and other similar epithets which aroused my indignation. I had gazed into that girl’s wo- begone face, and saw the look of agony as the oﬁicer of the law hurried her along, and I knew she was a victim of man and of that society of which he is a pampered favorite. I inquired to know the “ head and front of her offending,” or why the ofﬁcer had taken her into custody. A woman re- plied, “ her appearance tells what isjher offence ; why she has been in the stable all night where the men took her, and did with her as they pleased, the miserable thing.” “But where are the men, her associates in sin,” I asked ? Alas! none knew or cared. It was enough that this youngjand helpless girl was to be arraigned for what she had done. The author- ities cared nothing for the men who had degraded her. But Whatmen? There were men (or things having the forms of men) who enticed this girl into a saloon, and through some means yet- unknown induced or forced her upon a billiard- table. To gratify their beastliness a dozen or more of them abused her person, until she lay in a dead swoon, andthen, April 15," 1876. like the cowards they were, afraid to stand the consequences of their acts, sneaked away, leaving their victim to her fate; but one more humane than the rest, who was an ostler, lifted her. in his arms, and carried her to his stable, the only avail- robes and blankets, and brought her wine andrefreshments. At daylight, when she had so far recovered as to be able to move about, and as he was casting about to see how he could aid her, a policeman who had been informed of her where- abouts took her under arrest. And this was the prattling in- fant I had caressed, the promising child I had admired and loved! My heart sickened within me, and my soul cried out, “ how long, oh! how long will it be before this christian community will make a higher standard of morality for man, and hold him as rigidly accountable for his acts as it does the woman ?” The explanation of this sad case is simple. The mother had sickened and died. The father left her with distant relatives who took no interest in her, and proved re- creant to their trust. Through a combination of inﬂuences and circumstances she fell, and there were none to reclaim her. Mothers would not do it; society would not do it; and what protection or help had she? Think of it, mothers; for to you belongs this work. To-day all is prosperous with you, and you have homes and can give your daughters protection; but reverse may come quickly, and your own daughter be turned out upon the cold charities of an unfeeling world, to share a fate like to this poor girl’s. She was not a prosti- tute who had sold herself; none had paid her money: but she had yielded to the entreaties of men with Whom her fate had thrown her in contact, because she had neither strength nor capacity to resist them. Let women put it beyond the pow- er of men to do these things by making the censure and con- tempt fall upon them, and by standing together and uniting E. ANNE HINMAN. __—__._. HEMPSTEAD, March 14, 1876. Miss Termvlc 0. Olaﬂin: The citizens of our town are circulating a letter of invi- tation to your sister to deliver another of her interesting lectures. Some of those who were the most opposed to her have the matter in charge, and my advice would be to throw the responsibility on them of making it a success pecuniarily. Should your sister conclude to return on the invitation (it will be sent to Dallas). select Messrs. Haveman & Co. as the parties to work it up. You will in any event have the hearty support and assistance of your friends. Respectfully, etc., Cns. F. VERLANDER. HEMPSTEAD, March 12, 1876 Mesdotmes Wbodhuzl & Otaﬂm: Dear Friends: As Mr. Verlander is writing, I thought I would give you an idea of the impression your lecture pro- duced in this little community. The Vlfoodhull friends, next morning, could be counted by hundreds. All the leading young men thank you ‘a thousand times for your most elo- quent advice; indeed, the one I pointed out to you at the hall called to get your address, as he had written you a let- ter to which he had obtained a dozen other signatures. I told him to leave it here and I would enclose it. They all most earnestly request your return, promising a sum sulﬁ- cient to satisfy you. The ladies, who were “ strong-minded” enough to have listened to you, have been most generously envied by those who most unfortunately remained at home_ Should you be induced to return, you will have a warm wel- come from us of the City Hotel. I will give myself the great pleasure of again addressing you in a few days, enclosing the young men’s letter, which they most earnestly hope you will have published in the most popular papers. My kindest re- gards to your mother, with heartfelt wishes for you and yours. Mus. M. P. VERLANDER. City Hotel, ‘Hempstead. THURSDAY MORNING, DALLAS, Texas, ‘ March 16th, 1876. My Dear Mrs. Woodhull : ‘ I was an attentive listener to’ your beautiful and inspiring appeal last night at Field’s Theater, and want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the great good you did me. and in speaking for myself I believe I do so for the entire audience and Dallas generally. Indeed I heard enough, be- fore leaving the room, to assure me your sentiments are pre- cisely mine, and have been since I could think for myself. May God speed and bless you in your noble work. My dear mother was taken away from me when only three years old, and I have had no one to direct or advise me as I should have had, and today, at twenty—four, my heart hungers for one I could call mother—~such an one as you pic- tured to us last night. How I wish I was able to give utterance to my heart as it feels, that I might teil you all the good brought to the surface since hearing you the second time: I say second time; per- haps you recollect your lecture at Bordentown, N. J., in ’68, ’69 or ’’70 (I forget which). B. is my native town, and though younger) as now. » I am going to read carefully your lectures in pamphlet form, and anticipate much pleasure and good results. I feel, my dear madam, that I have no apology to offer for thus intruding before your notice, but trust you will receive my words as a slight token of the esteem and brotherly love that I bear you. Truly and most respectfully yours, ‘ GEO. B. Honsrrnnn. AUSTIN, Texas, March 7th, 1876. Dear Lady: From the core of my heart I ihank you for your lecture last evening. 1, am librarian in a reading-room of weekly papers. As I listened to you last night it seemed to me as if it were as tongues of ﬂame issuing from your lips; it was, as it were, -molten lava pouring through my veins; the tears poured over my face-«me, almost an old woman! able shelter he had for her, and made her a resting place of 1 our eﬁorts to save thoseof our kind who need our assistance. - I enjoyed your lecture I was not so impressed (being much. .5 F I x“ ‘J April 15, ism. Now, I wish I could make all the mothers in Austin go to hear you. Many women.are thanking you. I couid write on and on, and tell you of a th.ousand things that are in my heart, but I must say good—night; we shall never meet, but I shall always pray to the good Father to give His angels charge over you, that your ways may be made more smooth, the hunger of your heart ﬂlled, the love of the whole earth poured upon you. I see in the future monuments erected in your honor. I shall not see it, but your child will live to see it. She will raise her hands to heaven in thanksgiving that the day has arrived——“ Ah! if my darling mother could only see this.” M. HIGBY, Librarian of Austin L. Ass’n and Cor. Sec, (From The American Sm'm'tnal M agaziine for M arch.) MRS. Vroronm wooDHULL. This remarkable woman, who has been reported. to advo- cate doctrines subverting the very basis of our social fabric, created more interest than ever any woman did in this city’. We called to see her at the Peabody, and told her we always made it a rule if we said anything against any one to tell them of it the ﬁrst opportunity. Handing her a bound copy of the Magazine to see it all, she smilingly said that she was shocked when she heard the construction that was put on the sentiments she had uttered, The press called to see her, and gave lengthy reports of interviews and of her address, all of a v.ery favorable character. We must,,in justice to her, say that we presume no woman was ever more misunderstood, or more misrepresented, than she has been. Her teachings were of the most excellent character, and her system of the purest chastity. M4-a THE HARDY SEANCES. To THE PUBLIC :-—The following facts have forced them- selves upon us during the past week spent by Mrs. Hardy in New York, and we shrink from the duty, which as Spiritual- ists who have become cognizant of these circumstances, is incumbent upon us. ' - - Mrs. Hardy gave her ﬁrst seance of this course, at Repub- lican Hall in 33d Street, before the 1st Spiritualist Society of New York, upon Tuesday evening, March 12. It was, upon the whole, considered quite satisfactory to the majority pres- ent, and the Press gave several good notices of the same; although Mr. Austin has a piece of DRY oorrrou WOOL picked out from the mold produced upon that occasion, upon. its being exposed to the amdience. Mr. and Mrs. Austin having previously invited Mrs. Hardy to visit them during the week. a seance was held in their house Tuesday eve, when about thirty people were present. A small pine table was previously prepared by Mr. Austin, measuring 18 inches in width by about 4 feet in length with an opening across the centre into which a board or leaf was " so closely ﬁtted, that, though it could be removed with one hand, it would require both to replace it. The pail contain- ing the parafﬁne and water was sustained by one arm of a scalebeam, which was suspended from the frame of the table in such a way, that while the pail was under the table, the ' other arm, supporting the nicely balanced weights, was out- side, and in full view of ‘the audience, passing through a slat in the black glazed-muslin bag which enclosed the table and its contents, and which was of sufficient depth to overlap itself upon the top of the table where it was thoroughly secured by pins on the opposite side from the medium. The seams of the muslin bag were sewed by a lock-stitch machine, and over the table were thrown blankets to exclude the light. Mr. Austin had some colored par-aﬁne which he desired to use, but it was declined. It was proposed by Mr. and Mrs. Austin to make their seance arrangements before the en~ trance of Mrs. and Mr. Hardy, but in this matter they failed. No light was allowed in the room, and only a moderate amount from an adjoining one, as the “ spirits” complained that the conditions were not favorable. Very soon a slight motion of the outside beam was increased to such a degree as to throw the weights from their place, which naturally at- tracted the gaze of all to this point, except that of Mr. Austin and two other gentlemen whowere intent upon the fact that Mrs. Hardy frequently introduced her left hand under the blanket; and ﬁnally the motion became so attractive to her, that she rose many times, and leaned over the table to observe it, but never failed to pass her hand under the blan- ket at the same time. The last time leaning over a violent motion to the outside beam indicated the same to the pail within, and on the in- stanta light “thud” was heard as of some substance dropping inside upon the carpet. The left hand of Mrs. Hardy was withdrawn, and the blanket, previously left rumpled, was now carelessly smoothed out, and it was soon indicated that the work was ﬁnished. Upon removing the blanket, Mr. Austin found the muslin pinned differently upon the top of the table, from what he had it, and having in the spot where the left hand had been hidden, a strained appearance ;—-and the mid- gdle board was found displaced.. A paraftine mold was lying upon the bottom of the bag, a little under the edge of the bowl. . Wednesday evening, as Mrs. Austin and Mr. and Mrs. Hardy were coming to a seance at the house of Mrs. Hull, Mr. ‘Hardy being quite in advance, and Mrs. Hardy next, in crossing the street, Mrs. Austin, who was last, saw a paraf- ﬁne mold lying in the gutter where Mrs. Hardy had just passed. She exclaimed, “ Why. there’s a parafﬁne hand!” And Mrs. Hardy, returning quickly, crushed it, and both ladies icked up pieces from the fragments. Mrs. Hardy ascoldecfher husband for being so careless about “ carrying that bags” he ought to know».the top was liable to spring open, and now perhaps there would not be parafﬁne enough to form another to-night.” Mr. and Mrs. Hardy had, just before-leaving Mrs. Austin’s house, denied, to them and to another lady, that they had any parafﬁne molds with them. Mrs. Hull, at this seance used an extension dining-table, with a slight opening in the centre. But the medium failed to ,obtain a mold;—-owing, she said, to the too great thick- ness of the coverings of the table, which consisted of a linen ﬂoor-cloth laid beneath, and brought up securely around the Whole, with table-_cor_ver,s above to exclude the light, and which was arranged by Mrs. Hull, Mrs. Sayles and Mr. Mur- ray ;—'and secondly excused, after our dropping the covering upon her side of the table as desired, on the ground of her “lgreat fatigue of previous night, etc.” On this occa- sion, Dr. Hull, who occupied a favorable posi- tion during the materializatlons of spirit-hands, etc., declared to Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Sayles that he assuredly saw toes three times, when Mrs. Hardy professed that the s irits WW3 showing hands; and a lady who sat by Mrs. I-lar y’s side felt the vibration of her chair, and saw a movement of Mrs. I-Iardy’s,d;e,s_s and handkerchief (in her lap), at every presentation of purported spirit-hands at the opening. We had also writing upon slates, when Mrs. Hardy desired all pencils t_o be removed, as the “spirits were able to write without pencils.” Present, 30 people. Lights -very dim. — ' I On Thursday evening, Mrs. .Lane and Miss Lane, her daughter, calledon Mrs, Hardy at the house of Mrs- Austin, and both saw the ﬁngers of "a paraftine mold lprotruding from beneath Mrs. Hardy’s dress, and which she hastily con.- wccsscm. e Gf.AFLII\I’£S wnin cealed as soon as she was informed, and declared them mis- taken. During this evening, Mrs. Austin having arranged a small table with parafﬁne and bowl of water, all within a netting or bag, the position of the seams of the bag not being noticed, heard, as did also Mrs. Lane, Miss Lane, and Mr. Murray, 3. rubbing and scraping under the table, and after- wards saw a mold inside the netting with its thumb detached, and claimed by Mrs. Hardy to have been formed by the “spirits” from said. paraftine. Mrs. Austin’s niece, whoiwas sitting at the table, upon looking beneath during the after materializations, saw Mrs. Hardy’s foot manipulating the bell, etc. Light was abundant for distinguishing each per- son in the room. Nine only were present. On Saturday, the 18th, Mr. Murray received a package of paraﬁine from Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Sayles, which was designed for use at that evening’s seance with Mrs. Hardy, at the home of Mrs. Hull, and taking it to an apothecary near by, had it accurately weighed, and the weight, which was 1% pounds avoirdupois, marked on the wrapper. Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Sayles kept this sacredly until the evening, when it was shaved up in their presence, and before them and Mr. Mur- ray and others was placed in a pail and hot water poured upon it. A table about three feet square was enveloped, with paraﬂine and water--bowl, in the netting bag used by Mrs. Austin in her seance of Thursday night, but the seams of ' the bag were placed at the ends of the table and beyond the reach of Mrs. Hardy. No mold was forthcoming; and Mrs. Sayles assisted Mrs. Hardy to hold a slate for spirit-writing, in exp1anation—to be done, as usual without pencil. ». Mrs. Sayles saw Mrs. Hardy carry her hand to her head, ostensibly for the purpose of arranging her hair, both before and after such writing. She saw the form of Mrs. Hardy’s hand, through one thickness of table—cover, move as the writing progressed, and return to commence the second and third lines of communication, and motion with each faint tap which announced the writing ﬁnished. Mrs. Sayles held the slate six or eight times. The writing was always done across the corner of the slate near Mrs. Hardy’s hand, and never out of. her reach. Mrs. Sayles once lifted the cover a. little quicker than was anticipated, and saw Mrs. Hardy’s ﬁrst ﬁngers and thumb above the slate, which was not, how- ever, supposed to be noticed by her. Mr. Austin and others in reading the writing, saw once a double formation of the letters. and were puzzled. After the close of the seance, Mrs. Hull found and preserves a bit of slate~—pencil‘, one and one—quarter inches in length, having one pointed and one jagged end, and which was lying on the carpet, above which place Mrs. Hardy had been sitting. The “ spirits” desired us to place Mrs. Hardy, instead of the table, etc., in the netting—to which we acceded, as they declared that they could not otherwise make the mold.‘ In tying the netting bag about Mrs. Hardy’s throat, Mrs. Sayles strove to leave both seams behind Mrs. Hardy’s shoulders, inwhich she was entirely baﬁled by Mrs. Hardy, who shrugged the fulness over her right side, and ﬁrmly grasped it with one seam in her right hand——Mrs. Sayles carefully before sit- ting down brought down the table-cover to the floor on the side next Mrs. Hardy, while others looked after the exclu- sion of the light from the other sides. She found, upon come ing again to Mrs. Hardy, that the whole cover on that sid- was lifted and laid over her lap. The lights were required so low as to be of no avail in the back parlor, at the extreme end of which she sat facing her audience ;—all the light allowed being from two burners in the chandelier in front parlor, partially turned down. No one was allowed within a semi—circle of ﬁve or six feet from the table. The mold was soon declared ﬁnished; and on be- ing quickly examined (by a novice, as it happened) another bit of dry cotton-wool was foupd within the oriﬁce of the wrist, which Mr. Austin has with the first in his possession. This table, etc., was then’ placed aside, and we resorted to the same table used Wednesday evening for spirit—hand ma- terializat-ions. Mrs. Hardy ﬁrst seated herself at the end of the table, which was built with a heavy standard, opening in the centre; but soon the “spirits ” found it necessary to change seats, until Mrs. Hardy was placed on one side and opposite the opening. when about the usual after manifesta- tions took place. Thirty-ﬁve people were present. After the dispersal of the company, Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Sayles found the paraﬁine cool enough to roll up, and turn off the water, which they did, laying back the parafﬁne till Monday morning, when the bits adhering to the pail being also detached and placed with it in the same wrapper formerly used, Mr. Murray took the package and had it weighed on the same scales, when it balanced exactly 1% lbs avoirdupois, the same as before the seance. He also received the paraﬁine mold or glove from Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Sayles, and found its weight to be 2% oz. avoirdupois. The druggist performed the weighing in both instances. Mrs. Austin was unaccountably annoyed by bits of cotton wool abouther carpets while Mr. and Mrs. Hardy were with er. . Upon Sunday, the IQLII, Mrs. Austin saw Mrs. Hardy’s stockings worn the previous evening at Mrs. Hull’s seance; at about two inches above the toe they were cut across the sole and left open. . I Each can draw his inferences from the facts we state. VVe subscribe our names to verify what is attributed to us in this statement. Bronson Murray, 238 West 52d Street, N ew7.York. Elvina Ann Lane, 66 Park Avenue, New York. Mattie A. Lane, 66 Park Avenue, New York. Thos. K. Austin, 418 West 57th Street, New York. Margaret Z. Austin, 418 West 5*Zfth Street, New York. Jane De Forest Hull, 140 West 42d Street, New York. Lita Barney Sayle s, 140 West 42d Street, New York. March 23d, 1876. . L. B. SAYLES, Scribe. At a meeting of the N. Y. Association of Spiritualists, held in the Harvard Rooms last evening, the following reso- lution was adopted unanimously: - , . _Resolved, That the ladies and gentlemen whose names were subscribed to this report read before our conference thig afternoon, by Mr. Bronson Murray, in the case of Mrs. Hardy, are persons who, in our estimation, are entitled to our full credence and conﬁdence. P. E. F.-mnswonr, Sec’y. “ NEW YORK, March 27, 1876. . BITS OF FUN. minute. “SHE Stoops to Conquer,” was written before the days of pull~back dresses. I “HOw,are ye, Smith.” said Jones. Smith pretended not to know him,.and answered hesitatinglyg “Sir, you have the advantage of me.” “Yes, i suppose so. . -Everybody has that’s got common sense,” A BACHELOR returning from a hall in a crowded coach, de- clared with a groan that he had not the slightest objection to “rings on his ﬁngers,” but he had a most unequivocal aver- sion to “belles on his toes." 7 “Now my little boys and girls," said a teacher, “I want you to be very still-so. that you can hear a pin drop.” In a moment all was silent, when a little boy cried out, “ Let her drop I): . “HM-{E you any nice fresh farmer’s eggs ?” inquireda pre- ! cise old lady at a grocery store I’ “No, ma’au_1,” replied the K L‘ Y. O I 3; clerk, “but we have some very good hen’s eggs,” She took three to try. JOYCE is writing a drama entitled “The Whisky Ring,” in the hope that the audience will “call out” the author. A COLORED wrrnnss in the J ohnstown murder trial said he was a Democrat. “ I signed de pledge t’ree y’ar ago,” he said: “ ’haved myself an’ voted de ’pub1ikin ticket. But I’Ee a Democrat now. Tuk to drinken’, boss, an’ got into bad kump’ny.”—— Rochester Democrat. KNEE~BREECHES are said to be coming in fashion, and Mrs. Fiske——late Burnham——writing for the St. Louis Republican, says she is much exercised about the men’s legs. Tut, tut I You just let ’em alone my 1ady.—~Rocheste'r Democrat. THEY haven ’t caught Tweed yet, but there is ayoungmun bread to keep from starving. “FIGURES will lie,” said a young married man the other day, “and don’t you bet on the ﬁgure of a woman until you know by actual observation just what you have to sustain your judgment. Yes, Sir, I know that ﬁgures will lie.” “PIETY,” remarked an Arkansas preacher to his congrega- tion the other day, “does not consist in noise. The Lord can see you give to the needy just as easily as he canhear you pray the roof off.” AN Arkansas man ate a pint of sawdust a few days ago on a bet. An intelligent physician who “was called in, told him he would have pain in his lumbar region if he stuck to such board as that. A. LADY put her watch under her pillow the other night. but couldn’t keep it there because it disturbed her sleep. And there all the time wa her bed—ticking right underneath her, and she never thought of that at all. AN elderly maiden who had suffered some disappointment, thus deﬁnes the human race: “Man, a conglomeratcd mass of hair, tobacco-smoke, confusion, conceit, and boots. VVoman the Waiter, perforce, on the aforesaid animal.” ..________ M’... THE Spiritualists are disturbed by dissensions among themselves. Some of the believers are trying to introduce occult philosophy, including a belief in necromancy and kin- dred things; but a great number, probably a majority, reject the innovation. There is likely, however, to be a schism upon this point. Another trouble is caused by Home, the well known medium, who denounces as impost ers the Daven» ports, Eddys, and all other operators in materialization. Home says that everything done in the dark, behind our- tains, or in cabinets may be properly regarded as trickery. This arouses the resentment of a numerous class of Spiritual- ists, who retaliate by saying that Home is a trickster. The Oneida Community has embraced Sriritualism, Sand that. has revived a discussion of socialism, upon which Spiritualists are divided:-N. Y. Sun. MATTXE Srnr cKLAND.——We extract the folluwing comp1i_ mentary notice of Mrs. Mattie Strickland, from the Ripon, (Wis.) Eree Press, of a recent date: . “Mattie Strickland lectured in the Unitarian church last Sunday evening, on the subject of woman’s rights. She is an educated and reﬁned lady, and her lecture was one of the most brilliant ever delivered in this city. , Her voice is clear meanor that of a cultured lady. In appearance she is degid- edly handsome and were she to quit the rostrum and go before the foot lights, there would be little doubt of her success. To think that a woman so highly gifted shouldiadvocate the. damnable doctrines of free love, is lamentable.” "-W Q»-4 EDITORIAL NOTICES. LOIS WAISBROOKER can be addressed at Eureka Hum- bolt County, California, during A.prifl1 Wm take g:1bgcrip-. tions for the VVEEKLY. I i‘ f LE0 MILLER »"~{7D: MAATTIIF STRICKLAND will receive calls or lectures on. liberal subjects. Engagements in Illinois, Wlsconsin and Michigan particularly desired during the Spring months. Terms reasonable. 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And these signs shall follow them: In my name shad’ thmg/__cast out devils,‘ they shall take up serpents ,' and if’ they drink any cleaclly thing it shall not hurt them ; they shall lay haricls on the sick and they shall reeocerr-Jesus. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1876. Brooklyn Academy of Music. _.-4ﬁ+_.g+#-1»---~———— Thursday, April 6th. WJOODHULL SUBJECT: The lluman Body, the lempleouf Had. A Admission-——$1.00, 75 cts and 50 cts. Reserved Seats $51.00, secured at Chandler Bros., 181 Montague st., and at Bolles’ Book Store, 244 Fulton street, Brooklyn; 114- Broadway, and ‘.111 Nassau st., (Room 9), New York. MEDIUMSHIP—-THE FALSE AND THE TRUE. 0 generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.—-St. Matthew xii. 34. tion of hell ‘?—Ibid. xxiii. 33. 0 generation of vipers, who hath warned you to ﬂee from the wrath to come ?——St. Luke iii. *7. Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily 1 say unto you, there shall be no sign given unto this generation{—St. Mark viii. 12. For there is nothing covered that shallpnot be revealed; neither hid that /shall not be made known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in closets shall be proclaimed upon Ihe house—tops.-—St. Luke xii. 2 and 3. ‘ Tell us, when shall these things be‘? and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world? For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.—St, Matthew xiv. 3, 24 and 14. But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the ﬁrst fruitsof them that slept. But every man in his own order; Christ the ﬁrst fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his co1ning.~—1 Corinthians xv. 20 and 23. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. . 4 . And the dead in Christ shall rise ﬁrst.——1 Thessalonians iv. 16. The last enemy that shall be betrayed is death. For this corruption shall put on incorruption, and the mortal must put on immortality.—1 Corinthians xv. 26 and 53. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God. Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the ﬂesh is of God—1 John iv. 1 and 2. It is impossible but that offences will come; but wo unto him through whom they come.—~St. Luke xvii. 1 . GENERAL STA'EI‘EMEN’]‘. Our readers who have followed us through the editorial columns of the WEEKLY during the last year, know that we believe that the end of the worlcli-the present dispensation —is at hand. We have shown that the fruit of the former, or Jewish dispensation, was thefperfect man Jesus. With the yielding of that fruit. the dispensation passed away—- died——even to the extent of numbering the years from the beginning of the new. Surely there was an end of time and the beginning of anew time. The old dispensation was, under divine guidance, evolved purposely to produce the desired fruit. The Jews were a peculiar people; specially the objects of spiritual inﬂuence, all pointing t-fo the one thing——-the man Jesus. It was to “ Abraham and thy seed” that the promise was made. There was nothing feminine about that era, But the new promise was to Mary and her seed, and the Christ era has been specially femi- nine. In this era Woman has risen from nothingness into a thoroughly independent individuality, and soon there shall come forth to the world the perfect woman—-the fully developed fruit of the {present dispensation; and the fruit of the old and that of the new shall merge the opposite powers which they represent, respectively, and from them there shall spring the new heaven and the new earth, and the end of the world or this dispensation will come, when all its powers and principalities shall go down as did the Jews, when out of their decay had risen the beginning of the new era. Indeed, the signs of decay and dissolution are, even now, evidently written in bold and unmistakable characters all over the face of existing things. The body politic, the body religious and the body social are rotten, and the scent of their decay already oﬁends the nostrils of all those who seek not the ﬂesh-pots of the day and age. Dispensations —-eras of time——come and go intheir alloted seasons, with the same regularity that is true of all things else; and they yield their fruit with the same unerring certainty. As the seed planted in the earth dies, and as the new germ springs forth from its decaying organization, so do eras die, and so do new germs spring from their decay and become the basis of the new. Seed time and harvest come with every year; they are necessary for the needs of man. Other things come and go in greater lengths of time, —~in decades and centuries. But the eras of man himself, organized in the great races, come and go with the cycles of the sun, every two thousand years——~Adam, Abra- ham, Jesus, mark the dispensations known to historic lore, and with the transition of the sun from the zodiacal sign of Pisces, into that of Aquarius, will come another era, risen from the seed of Mary. Nothing is more evident than that allthings in the universe work together; nothing truer than that if understand the law of one department, we may . learn of all others by analogy. The incubating process of the truth born into the world in Jesus, is seen in the dark ages when civilization, as it were. Went down into the frozen winter, in conformity to the going down of the sun into the central period of the sign Pisces-—Signifyin_g the descent of the fish into the depths mid ocean. As the sun approached the surface of the water, to be on the shoulder of the water carrier, Aquarius, light began again t0 lighten the mind of man; and now, as it appears on the si1rfac.e-—the end of the sign-—the pure spiritual light Washed clean of all the mire it had taken on when it descended into the depths of the former sign, begins to illuminate the dark- ened recesses of the heart, and to show to man the relation- ship between the Father and His children. mun JOHN THE BAPTIST. Ye yourselves hear me witness, that I said. I am not Christ, butjthat I am sent before him. He must increase but [must deCreaSe-—St- J01111 iii. 28 and 30. i The advent of Modern Spiritualism into the world marks the time when the spiritual body began to gain the ascend- Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the darnna~ -. ency over the material body through which it had, till then, been obliged to manifest itself. ’Tis true that, in all ages of the world, there have been exceptional cases in which this ascendency has been markedly exhibited in individuals. They were the lights set upon the mountain-tops at which the world might gaze, and, if possible, learn of the future by what they prophesied. But the modern manifesta- tions are something more than prophecies; they are the realization of prophecies, and prove that what belonged to a few individuals scattered here and there throughout the world, now comes to be the inheritance of many, perhaps the majority, of the race. The seed planted ages ago in the constitution of man is now beginning to yield its fruit, and thousands shall rise who will inherit the gift of God. All mediumship is the proof of the independent action of the spirit still conﬁned within the body. In ordinary life the spirit is compelled to use the various organs of the body through which to receive and give communications; but in the extraordinary life, illustrated by mediumship, the use of the physical organs is dispensed with, and the spirit gives and receives communications, coming into direct rapport with disembodied spirits; or what would probably be a better statement of the fact is, that some special organ of the spirit body, having gained the ascendancy over the physical organ, which it inhabits, reduces the latter to its use instead of being subservient to it. Hence a medium may hear spirits converse, or see them, when to others present there would be neither sight or sound to indicate their presence. This being true it is not strange that manifestations of an opposite character should be desired by the seekers after knowledge about the dead; nor is it strange that such manifestations should he supplied. The spirit, still in bondage to the law of the body; still obliged to depend upon its functions for all its interviews with things external to itself, is skeptical to all things that do not appeal to it through the medium of the physical senses. A medium may say to such an one, that a spirit says thus and so, or that such and such a spirit is present, and he will believe or disbelieve, according to the character of the say- ing and his conﬁdence in the medium. When manifesta- tions ﬁrst appeared many readily believed; but as the gift of mediumship began to be prostituted to money-making purposes, and mediums began to make manifestations when the spirits failed to furnish them, the basis of belief and conﬁdence was damaged so seriously that other and more tangible evidences were demanded, and they have been furnished to meet this demand, in various ways, up to the latest developments called materializations. We do not remember ever to have stated what be believe to be the philosophy of all that has occurred which is in- cluded under the head of modern Spiritualism; but that there is a philosophy underlying it, there can not be the slighest doubt; nor that this philosophy is a necessary part of the transitional development from the material to the spiritual condition in the race. All new developments in man are foreshadowed by some expression of a need, or to say the least, some want, and this need or want stimulates efforts to dis- cover the meaus for its satisfaction. In almost all cases the ﬁrst means coming to furnish this satisfaction, are de- ﬁcient or imperfect, sometimes being wholly useless, though often when so, illustrating the principle involved and point- ing the way to a genuine realization. Tlierefore We say, while none of the results of mediumship that have been manifested, have been; such as to warrant their being called the real coming; the real inauguration of the new dispensa- tion, proving the death of the old, still, all that has been or purported to have been spirit manifestations, may prop- erly be denominated .the prophecies of that which is to come. It may be possible even, that what are termed ma- terializations are necessary to prepare the conditions in which the real resurrection of spirits may be eﬂected; as well as to also prepare the minds of the people generally, for the real appearance. Had there been no such prepara- ation; had there been no idea instilled into the public mind that the resurrection of the dead is possible, aye is probable, and a spirit had been really resurrected, it would have been like to the coming of Christ to the Jews; he would not have been received. But now, without saying anything about the fraudulent character of materializations, the public is prepared to receive him who shall ﬁrst appear, raised from the dead. Before this is probable, however, there will come “ signs and wonders that, if it were possible, shall deceive the very elect,” “ Then shall the coming of the Son of Man he.” The signs and wonders that will come near to deceiving the very elect have already raised the hopes of the world to such a degree that thousands are as conﬁdent of the reality of spirit existence, as if one had really returned from the dead and testified about it. When these signs and wonders shall be shown to be not the real coming; when their true cliaracter shall, be unmistakably demonstrated, what a wail of agony will then go up from the souls of those who now feel secure! May not such a wail; such a terrible agony; such an intense desire make the real coming ,pos_ sible, which might not have been had not the unreal gone before; had not the John the Baptist come ‘,‘ crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” The John the Baptist who preceded Christ was beheaded, but he never claimed that he was the Christ. So will the John the Baptist that now precedes the second coming be beheaded, but unlike the former, "there are claims set up that it is the real Christ. The fact that the beheading of the false forerunners is being done so rapidly, ,’- ‘v. ‘. .1‘, g__ ,_ ‘« ,.. L .6 April 15, 1.876. is pretty conclusive evidence that the reality is near, even ‘at our doors, and warns all to have their houses prepared, and their lamps burning, to welcome it; warns all to watch, for, of the day and hour when it shall come no man know- eth. And thus the falsities and errors of the past become the stepping-stones to the truths of the future; while the genuine quietly pursues its way, veering neither to the right or left, welcoming all the tests that are required to disarm skepticism, but shivering at all contact with that Which is not like itself; that is not pure and true. NO TEST CONDITIONS PERMITTED. It is utterly impossible for any thinking person to regard the recent movements in the domain of so-called 1naterial- ization mediumship, and not come to the conclusion that it is to be put into the crucible under such conditions as to preclude the possibility of trickery, and tested thoroughly. We have no hesitation in declaring our belief that when this is done, that its pretensions will be exploded; We say that absolute test conditions ,will be required, but they will will not be permitted by the mediums. There h.ave been no precautions yet applied that preclude the possibility of trickery. It may be true that there have been manifesta- tions produced for which the uninitiated could offer no explanation, and because none were possible to this class, the claim of reality seems to have some foundation. B11t who that has seen Houdin, the Fakir of Ava, the Chinese Jugglers, will dare to say that there is any com- parison between the inexplicability of their performances, and the bungling manifestations of modern materialization? Yet no body pretends that the unaccountable things of the former were performed by spirit power, and yet if they had claimed that they were they would have had a more plausible pretense than their more modern prototypes. Of course to persons who are unaccustomed to the wonderful feats that have been performed by slight—of—hand, in the light and before the concentrated gaze of an entire audience, without detection, the feats of mediumship seem unac- countable, and they are ready to admit its claim. The simple feat of the Chinese egg is more difficult to perform or to be conceived of, than are all the tricks that are ever performed by mediums, for it is quite impossible for a person to conceive how an egg which he may bring from his own henery can, before his very eyes, be ﬁlled with anything that he may desire, and the egg still present the same unbroken surface that it did before the trick was done; but it is done nevertheless ; or rather it appears to be done. Or who, after seeing the trick performed by the Fakir of Ava, of concealing a watch in an orange, would say that modern materializations , may notbe tricks? The conditions under which the watch trick is performed seem to preclude the possibility of human, agency, but it is a trick nevertheless. The Fakir desires the audience to designate some prominent citizen from those present; some one known to everybody. Of this person he asks the loan of his watch which the citizen himself walks up and hands to the Fakir. Next he asks the man of the watch to designate some one to go out and purchase a half dozen oranges, which when done, and as they are being brought to the stage, the Fakir commands the bearer of the oranges to stop half-way down the audience and re- quests the man of the watch to go to the orange-bearer and select an orange from the half dozen. This orange so selected is then opened before the whole audience by the man himself, and his watch is found inside of it. Now, here are conditions presented in which it seems absolutely impossible that the watch left in the hands of the operator can ﬁnd itsway, by any human means, into the orange from which it is taken; but it has been done, nevertheless, and that, too, without spirit agency. We hold that it is fair to question the genuineness of the manifestations which any medium may produce, when such medium refuses to submit to any test conditions save those prescribed by herself. And the same may be said of the Terre Haute Committee, when they refuse to allow any conditions save such as are approved by them. Their offer made through the Bummer, viewed in the light of the facts presented in the following extracts from a communication from Mr. Cadwallader, is seen in its true light: “I did not intend. neither do I claim to have made in the least degree, any scientific expose of Mrs. Stewart’s fraudulent manifestations at her public seances; I claim that there are other avenues to knowledge, equally important and reliable, as what is generally termed scientiﬁc methods; and when opportunities are offered by managing committees for a full and free investigation of so—called manifestations by the inductive as well as by the deductive methods, then, indeed, is it superior to either one alone. But, remember, no test conditions are allowed by the trio during these materializing seances, not even a simple examination of Mrs. Stewart’s person; and in conﬁrmation of this, I will now make a state- ment of facts—which is the ﬁrst that I have made public in connection with Mrs. Stewart’s seances, although I am deﬁ- antly branded by “one of the committee” as a falsiﬁer; of what, I pray? can any one tell ?——and I defy Dr. Pence, Capt. Hook, Mr. Connor or the medium, Mrs. Stewart, to deny it or call me a falsiﬁer. Truth is too precious to me to be re- creant to it, and I not only speak it, but live it to the best of my ability. On. Sunday evening, January 23d, a materializ— ing seance was held by Mrs. Stewart, at which there were about thirty persons present. The manifestations were of the usual character, very unsatisfactory and. as many ex- pressed it, “verythin .” At the close of the seance, just as the medium was about making her exit from the cabinet, Mr. Townsend, a very intelligent gentleman and a reporter of the press, arose from his seat, and after making the state—- ment that he was there in the capacity of a reporter, and in the interests of hundreds and thousands of people who de- sired a truthful account of his investigations, etc., he made a request of the committee that Mrs. Stewart, then and there, be thoroughly examined; and for that purpose he had brought with him a female friend. At this stage of the pro- ceedings, great. was the consternation of the trio, who were present, and after a few moment’s silence, the great mogul spoke. and said: “That the committee had no -objection, if the medium had none,” and so the whole matter was re— feared to her; whereupon Mrs. Pence stepped on to the platform, and held a short colloquy with the medium, which resulted in a positive refusal by her to submit to any examin- ation, alledging that sheﬁdid not feel Well, but at the same time promising that the examination should take place the next evening. We all, of course, bowed assent, and so the matter rested. Mr. Townsend left the next day, assuring us that he was too old a bird to be caught with such chaﬁf, after giving the medium 24 hours for preparation. Many will in— nocently ask, did she keep her promise? Not she, for during Monday afternoon, it was authoritatively announced by Dr. Pence that Mrs. Stewart would not, under any circumstances, submit to a personal examination again; so. ended that farce. The trio have it all their own way, and the audience have to grin and bear it, losing their time and money for the privi- lege of being humbugged. While at Terre Haute I was credibly informed that the majority of the most advanced and inﬂuential Spiritualists of that city had little or no conﬁdence in the genuineness of Mrs. Stewart’s manifestations,‘ as a materializing medium, and did not afﬁliate with the management of her seances. Do not these we1l~informed and truth-loving people lend a hand to deception and become accessory to the guilt, by their negative acquiescence in these manifestations, instead of their positive public declarations of what they know of their unreliability and falsities? I Before leaving Terre Haute I received the testimony of a very estimable, moral and intelligent gentleman, who, in fact, was one of the nine signers of the Declaration, and withal an honest and earnest Spiritualist of several years standing, that he was present at Chicago on “that occasion” already spoken of by you and by “one of the Committee,” and was fully cognizant of all that transpired at that time, at which time she also made a solemn promise that she would never again be guilty of perpet rating such a fraud as long as she lived.” In this connection, although somewhat out of its proper connection, we will present a letter from Mr. and Mrs. Belden which will tell its own story; I N EWBURGH, Tenn., March 27, I876, Woodhull db Cldﬂtn: We ask pardon a thousand times for having delayed so long to reply in reference to the “Stewart expose” at Chicago. Should you need any testimony to corroborate your state- ments, as already published in the WEEKLY, we are ready and can testify to all that you have stated, as we were there and saw the cabinet lifted off frompher, and saw her with a portion of her paraphernalia in her lap endeavoring to conceal it, and saw another portion of it (false hair and jewelry) con- cealed beneath her hair which she wore, cut short in her neck, and heard her tell you her tale of sorrow as an excuse for her acting such a part, and her promises to abandon it. VVe are Spiritualists, and have seen what we believe to be genuine materializations through the Eddys and others, but we think Mrs. Stewart’s were the work of Diakka in the form. 0. H. BELDEN, . M. B. BELDEN. We do not hesitate to say that the people who attend Mrs. Stewar t’s seances are entitled to place her under their own conditions, provided that they are such as, while precluding the possibility of fraud, will not interfere with the operations of spirits. One thing in particular should be insisted upon. There should be provided for the me- dium an entire change of clothing, and the change should be made under the supervision of ladies selected from the audience, who should not take their eyes oﬁ‘ the medium until she is in the cabinet, her own clothes in the mean- time being urlder guard. This would prevent the Diakka from forcing her to conceal improper things upon her person as the Committee complained that they threatened to do. "The cabinet should be placed in different positions in the room so that no accomplice ca 11 enter; indeed it should be placed in the center of the room with the audience en- circling it; and then when a spirit should be bold enough to walk about the room, it should be asked to take a seat with the audience and remain with them, or else to demate- rialize before their eyes. We venture that even these simple precautions would, if insisted upon, be rejected by “the Committee” and by Mrs. Stewart, as conditions under which the spirits could not materialize, but they should be insisted upon, and she should be judged by them or others equally effective. So long as the Committee have the arrangement of every essential thing, spirits will continue to materialize, but when positive test conditions are im posed, our word for it, spirits will not be able to put in an appearance. I MRS. M. M. HARDY. , Elsewhere we present the full text of the statement from which we last week gleaned the most important points re- lating to the recent seances of Mrs. Hardy in this city. It has been published entire in the Bamter ofjLz'ght and the ,Spz'r~z'tucl Scientist, and is to appear in other Spiritualistic & GIsAF‘LIN’S _ A ‘ , 5 papers. The position of the Banner is that of a partisan. It denominates the statement made by people of unques- tionable veracity and honesty of purpose, as an “ad captandum vulgus” document prepared by “would~be ex- posers,” and unhesitatingly endorses Mrs. Hardy, by saying, in a despatch to these same “ad captandum vulgus” writers, that she “was completely vindicated here last night.” We shall reproduce from the Banner the statement of the seance which is the basis of this vindication. We trust that all these things will receive the careful and unprejudiced analysis of’ all the readers of the WEEKLY; that they will sit upon the evidence as judges rather than as advocates. It is in the interests of both Spiritualist and Spiritualismt that the truth about these manifestations slia-ll be demon- strated beyond a doubt, and it is to the interest of all honest mediumship that the fradulent should be exposed. We have been frank to state our belief about all these things, and our reasons for this belief, but we do not see why this belief should warrant the charge of “enmity to Spiritualism” that is made against us in some quarters. We should be enemies of Spiritualism if, having this be- lief, we should hesitate to declare it, and we trust that this view may prevail during the discussion that is now certain -to continue until an irrevocable decision is arrived at, about the manifestations that now stand impeached‘: Now, what are the decisive points in the “ ad captandunr vulgus” document? The following will readily appear to» the careful reader: 1. The refusal of Mrs. Hardy to allow the use of colored paraiiihe. Upon what principles of law can spirits produce the casts of hands, from white, while it is impossible to do the same from colored parafﬁne? Would it not be prepos- terous to assume that a neutral coloring matter used in pa- raiﬁne should make the materialization of a hand from. which a cast could be made, impossible‘? 2. If Mrs. Hardy relied upon the spirits to produce the cast, why did she carry one to the seance of Wednesday I evening‘? and why, when that one was dropped in the street and broken, was it impossible for the spirits to pro- duce another, as it is claimed that they did usually? 3. If the paraiﬁne moulds were fashioned from a material~« ized spirit hand from the paraiﬁne in the pail,‘ how did it occur, upon two occasions, that those pieces of cotton-— wool were found to be adhering to them, that being the same substance in which Mrs. Hardy kept the moulds which she is known to have had in herposses sion? 4. Why did Mrs. Hardy deny having any moulds just be- fore leaving for the seance, and then how did it occur that, admitting the truth of her assertion, she could drop one in the street? and why, if the spirits produce the moulds, does Mrs. Hardy have them about her at all? 5. Why was it necessary to the success of the productions; that the seams of the bag in which the medium is envel- ,oped, should be within her reach; and when they were not ’ so, that no mould was produc ed ‘P . 6. If on Saturday" evening, the mould weighing two and a half ounces was manufactured from the paraiﬁne in the. pail, how could it be possiblethat precisely the same,- amount of parafﬁne could be removed afterwards from the pail tha twas ﬁrst put into it! '7. Why do mediums ﬁnd it necessary to wear stockings . cut across tthe bottoms above the toes, so that they may ‘be turned ,back over the foot, when. they are to produce mate- - rialized toes? Admitting the statement made by these seven persons to be true, is it possible to conclude otherwise thanthat the moulds purporting to have been the product of materialized spirit hands, were really produced by the medium herself? And yet the Bcwmer, with all the nonchalance imagi nable, dismisses the issue by saying that, “they make no one strong point,” and the statement is published “ in deference; to the ladies and gentlemen who prepared it, rather than on account of any particular weight contained therein.” It would seem rather out of place for the Ba7t7t6'7‘ to pay‘ any deference to ladies and gentlemen who can so far forget. themselves as to write “ ad captandum vulgus ” documents.- I for publlcation against “ a completely vindicated medium."” In the present status of the case, Mrs. Hardy will be obliged to present rebutting testimony to secure her acquit-» tal. She should answer categorically and deny speciﬁcally each charge made by the,‘ signers to the statement of the New York seances, and explain the points fully, to which we have called attention. But beyond this even, she will ultimately be required to produce moulds of hands under positive test conditions, such for instance as these : A com» mittee of skeptics should aloe appointed, who should. pre~ pare a box which should be placed under the table, with colored paraffine in it, and securely locked without being seen by Mrs. Hardy. Nor should she be permitted "to ex-— amine the box or parafﬁne, but should take her seat; at that table, in complete ignorance of the construction of the box and the color of the paradise.‘ To still further guard against the possibility of collusion, she should be required to change her apparel under the supervision of proper par»- ties who sh-onld know absolutely that she does not take: anything whatever to the table with her, save what she: should be observed to put on. Then the table should he surroundeed by the party so that all sides might be under surveillance all the time. If, under these conditions, a. mould should be formed inside the box, it would have to be: conceded that it was not done by the medium. But we-. predict in advance, that Mrs. Hardy will submit to no such L I ‘ ‘ 6 I A wconhurlt a cLArr.Iu=s test conditions. We have only to refer to our remarks last week regarding Stephen H. Vincent, to show‘ that anything less than such conditions would not amount to a positive test, for it is easy to conceive tl1at Vincent could success- fully produce parafﬁne hands in his trunk under -more severe test conditions than any to which Mrs. Hardy has ever been subjected. We are informed that the signers to the former statement, stung intorretort by the tone and treatment of the Banner, have prepared a second statement that will contain several points, which out of deference to Mrs. Hardy, were omitted from the ﬁrst. hand, said to be as perfect as any ever produced by Mrs. Hardy, wh.ich was obtained under the same conditions to which Mrs. Hardy was subjected in her‘ seances here, by, we believe, one of the signers of the statement, who has learned the trick by watching Mrs. Hardy. A LETTER FROM ANOTHER THE HARDY SEANCE PARTY. Editors Woodhull and Clafliws Weekly: As Iwas present, by the invitation of friends, at Mrs. Hardy’s seance of Saturday, March 18, referred to in the signed statement published in the Banner of Light and Spiritual Scientist, I am able to corroborate the truthfulness of the same, so far as that evening is concerned. By permission of Mrs. Hardy, I placed my right hand be- tween the folds of the table during the intervals of the supposedspirit hand materializations, and am able to testify that I was then struck from beneath the table three times by warm human ﬂesh. As an old student of surgery in the Hotel Dieu and Ecole de Medicine, Paris, I know the diﬁ“er- ence between the warmth of a human body long or recently dead, and that of a living person under various conditions. I can therefore positively assert that the ﬂesh was that of one alive. I should add that a further request I made for the spirits (Z?) to grasp my hand was not acceded to, and my hostess informed me after the seance that Mrs. Hardy stated she did not desire my presence,[again in any future sittings. - I haveibefore me on my desk, at this moment, a parafﬁne cast, taken by natural means from the hand of a friend ;j it is in every way equal to those produced by Mrs. Hardy, who, if my opiniqn be worth anything, has an unanswerable case to 1 meet. The categorical facts in the signed statement must bemet by point blank denials, supported by evidence equally credible to that by which the charges are supported. N 0 _further manifestations are necessary to prove Mrs. Hardy’s genuineness, and no special pleading by her friends can "dispose of irrefragible proof. The signed document styledgby the Banner of Light of an ad captartdum /vulgus character, is a plain, unvarnished tale, marked by digniﬁed simplicity, and can in no way be considered either clap—trap or an appeal. to popular prejudices. I am astonished that the editor of the Banner should have taken a position more suitable for a defendant’s attorney than that of a judge imi- partially summing up the cases of both plaintiff and de- fendant. - 3 ‘If the friends of Truth are to be answered by argument’ like this, then Spiritualism is not Worth much, and to attack the signers of this document is simply to attack Spiritualism in a most vulnerable place, for these ladies and gentlemen are known and esteemed not only as recognized Spiritual- ists, but as of elevated social position, and what is more, of honesty and discretion. It is also quite as unnecessary to sneer down my friend, Professor Van Der Weyde, a scientist and a gentleman, as Mrs. Hardy’s husband isf;per— mitted to: in the Banner of Light. He may be a Materialist and a skeptic, but he has at ieast a right to give his honest convictions without being insulted. If the editors of the Banner‘ had ‘heard the remarks of this gentleman (a brother editor) in the N. Y. Liberal Club last Friday night in refer- ance to this Hardy exposure, and his belief in the sincerity of Spiritualists whom he nevertheless considered mistaken, I am conﬁdent he would never have allowed the publication of that portion of Mrs. Hardy’s husband’s letter in reference . to the Professor; or, if he had seen the poignant sorrow which both Mr. Thos. K. Austin and myself expressed when speaking on the same occasion about this miserable business, I am certain he would never have indulged in the reﬂections which he has deemed it necessary to make on persons seek- ing the truth and endeavoring to do their duty. Yours faithfully, CHARLES SOTHERAN. NEW YORK, April 3, I876. .~——————~o-o<>———————— SPECIAL ! SPECIAL ! ! SPECIAL ! l I ""’”“‘?““‘ We wish our friends to give their immediate attention to the bills that will be found in what we call, the “West ” and the “North” Mail, which include the States of New York, Michigan and the West. OUR friends who have written letters that require answers, will please be patient. The disability of the Managing Edi- tor has been such as to prevent him from attending to any, save the absolutely necessary ofﬁce business. We would also remind our correspondents, in View of the great amount of correspondence that is accumulating in our drawers, that the VVEEKLY is only an eight— page paper Which. requires gpzﬁlly ﬂa few short articles to ﬁll. Every week we receive snore than matter enough to make three papers. We hope soon to return to our original size, and shall probably have something to say about it in our next number. L_____.>a4@+-<——— ‘ WE take special pleasure in calling attentionto Dr. Philip .5. Koonz, No 1 Great Jones st., city. Unquestionably Dr. V,- ln. is one of the most accomplished dentists in the world. Vile have seen specimens of his work done at twenty—four hours’ notice, which for beauty of ﬁnish and every other We have also seen a parafﬁne mould of a A I .T:Cl’$.‘ requirement cannot be ‘excelled. Besides, his prices are in accordance with the times. Work for which many dentists charge from thirty to ﬁfty, he performs for from ﬁfteen to twenty-ﬁve dollars. His rooms are elegantly ﬁtted up and centrally located, and easily accessible to visitors to the city. Any of our friends who need dental work will ﬁnd Dr. K. athorough gentleman and that he will furnish the very best. ALA 4 V T’ ‘ LIFE-SIZE LITHOGRAPH. We are now prepared to ﬁll all orders for life-size litho- graphs of Victoria C. VVoodhull, from the lithographic establishment of Armstrong & 00., of Boston, Mass. They are splendid pictures, both as a work of art and as like- nesses. They are printed on heavy paper 20 X24 inches, and specially adapted for framing. They will be sent post- paid, securely wrapped to guard against damage, to any address for 50 cents. The common price of lithographs of this size is $2 ; but we have arranged with the publisher to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they can be resold at the price named without loss to us. They are thus put within the means and reach of everybody who desires to have a splendid life—size portrait of the Editor-in- Chic 0 the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to the inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which u:..‘i.ser;7, Vice and crime shall have no place In reply to many letters asking for " dealer’s terms” we would say that the lithographs may be ordered by express by the half dozen, dozen, .or more at 40 cents, the usual price, less the postage. In explanation of the delay that has occurred in sending lithographs we would say that the third edition has been delayed, but will be received within a day or two, when all éorders will be ﬁlled.——[MANAGING EDITOR]. 1 I .__.;g 4 V wF*V ' THE GARDEN or EDEN. The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but we have prepared a pamphlet edition, which, to meet the extraordinary demand that has been made for the paper, we will furnish in lots of ten at $1; or more at same rate. 411,.‘ V wr‘ SPIRITUALISM IN JAPAN. From the Liverpool Daily Courier. Mesmerists and mediums may hide jtheir diminished heads. There are two old women in Japan who have the reputation of doing far more than any electro-biologist has attempted. Near the temple Eikon, called the demon Baba, dwells an old lady who casts out evil spirits from suffering people and cures them of all their complaints. When fever is epidemic she is an important personage, and has more work than she can ac- complish imposed upon her. Another old woman, rejoicing in the name of Oshakakababa, is a -centenarian and very wrinkled. This lady, when she condescends to give her aid. swells out to an enormous size. She says Shaka has entered her stomach, and makes use of her mouth. Shaka a veritable medium, answers all manner or questions, tells the origin and cure of sickness, and relates .,the doings of the absent and the dead. It is said that she is visited by all ranks of people of both sexes and all ages. “WHO ART THOU THAT JUDGEST ?”—-Who can judge men righteously, seeing how they differ widely from one another‘! Who can tell where to snap the line of real merit as regards ,moral agents so unlike in their spiritual equipment? Is temperance any virtue to him who has an actual distaste for liquor? Is placidness of speech a test of excellence to one who was born meek and gentle. and whose training educated him into Quaker-like mildness of address? Is the man who was never thrown, because he was never pressed by a devil- ish passion into a corner and had to wrestle for his life, to be crowned; while he whose whole llfe has been but a long wrestling match with Satan, and who has been on the ground half the time, is to go unwreathed? What human eye and ﬁnger can adjust the scale to accommodate such dissimilar conditions? Who can unravel this tangle of preceding causes and thread out the degree of virtue and of guilt which belongs to each of two men who are in their nature and sur- roundings so utterly unlike? Jesus was right when he taught his disciples not to attempt to judge men. It is a task to which men are not equal. It must be left to"; Him who alone knows how to be just. “Who art thou that judgeth another man’s servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth.”—- The Golden Rule. ' THE rhymer who wrote the line, “Dearer to me is the turf- tossed beach,” probably had in his mind the recollection of his bill at some sea»-side hotel. UP-HILL business——Sitting on a wheelbarrow and trying to wheel yourself to glory. AN Iowa man went into his cow stable the other day and by mistake mixed her up a. nice warm mash in a box full of sawdust, instead of bran. The cow, merely supposing that hard times had come and they were all going to economize, meekly ate her supper, and that man never discovered his mistake until the next morning, when he’ milked that cow and she let down a half a gallon of turpentine, a quart of shoe pegs. and it bundle of lath. IN relation to American marriage laws, the Sunday Courier says: “In the course of a journey across the continent, from New York to San Francisco, the same man and the same woman may, as the locomotive rushes them through State after State, be living a life of alternate marriage and concu- binage half a dozen times over.” rwnnntr. April 15, 1876. A SHOCKING CRIME.-—A Special to the Boston Herald da- ted March 22, says: On Sunday morning last four young lads, all about seventeen years old, forcibly entered a dwelling house in Sandwich, occupied only by a widow lady. and out- raged her, one after the other. Then they took the railroad- track and started towards Boston, and were seen this after- noon near Tremont. Instead of sending missionary carpet—baggers through the South, some attention should be paid to the proper education of the rising generation in the State of Massachusetts and its neighboring commonwealths. S MY own aﬁairs are mine and not the public’s. I positively decline to say whether these stories are true or false. Some years ago, similar stories were printed about me, and I gladly contradicted them, but I was told that my denials were eva- sive, and, afterward, that I had j ilted a Worthy gentleman merely to make good my denia.ls,——in other words, that I lied about it for a purpose: so now I’ll say nothing, and, if people say that is proof th at the stories are true, why, I cannot help it. They cannot say I encouraged them.——0lara. Louise Kellogg. AL‘ 4 # ‘wr V BUSINESS NOTICES. A Theaddress of Nellie L. Davis, is 7235 Washington street Salem, Mass. 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THE WORLD’S Sixteen Cruciﬁed Saviors" 7 on, CHRIS] /A NI’./’Y BEFORE CHRIST CONTAINING P New, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin of all the Doctrines, Principles, Prccepts and Miracles of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing a Key for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides comprising the History of Sixteen Oriental Gruciﬁeol-Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “The Biography of Satan ” and “The Bible of Bibles ” (cmnpristng a description of twenty Bibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the ﬁeld which he has chosen for it. The ' amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the varied information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author——as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-heads—follows a deﬁnite line of research and argument,,to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. C 0 N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Cllntroduction; Address to the e gy. Chap. 1.--Rival Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.——Messianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.——Prophecies by the ﬁgure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.~—Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. _ _ Chap. 5.—Virgin Mothers and Virgm-born Gods.l Chap. 6.—Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. _ _ _ Chap. 7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant Savior. ,— Chap. 8.-The Twenty-ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. Chap. 9.~—Titles of the Saviors. _ Chap. 10.—The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. Chap. 11.—-Chrlst’s Genealogy." Chap. 12.—The Woi-ld’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tiyiii in Infancy. _ _ _ . Chap. 13.——The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of Di- vinit . Chap. l:i.—The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.—-The Saviors are real Personages. Chap. 16.——Sixtcen Saviors Cruciﬁed. Chap. i"(.——The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cr1ici— ﬁxion. Chap. 18.~Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.~—Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.——Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- s. Chap. 21.——The Atonement: its Oriental or Hcathe Ori ‘ii. 4 Cha.p.gl22.——The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.—The Divine “ Word ”_ of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24:—The Trinity very anciently a current Hea- then Doctrine. Chap. 25.—Absolution, or the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. _ Chap. 26.~Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. _ Chap. E27.——’l‘he Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen ‘ Ori in. Chap.g28.~Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.—How Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. the Gods, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus Christ. Chap. 31.—Christianity derived from Heathen -and Oriental Systems’. ‘ Chap. 32.—-Three Hundred and Forty—six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. Chap. 33.——Apollonius, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 34.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Faith—- hliracles, Prophecies and Precepts. _ Chap. 35.—Logical or Common-sense View of the Doc- triee of Divine Incarnation. Chap. 36.——Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. Chap. 37.-—Physio1ogical Absurdities of the Doctrine ' of the Divine Incarnation, _ Chap. 38.—A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. Chap. 39.—The Scriptural View of Ch.rist’s_Divinity. Chalp. 42.—A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus C ris . Cl3at11)._4tl.-—-The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus ris . Chap. 42.——Christ as a Spiritual Medium. Chap. ,43.—Conversion, Repentance and “Getting Re- gion” of Heathen Origin. Chap. 44.-—The Moral Lessons of Religious History. Chap. 45.—Conclusion and Review. Note of Explanation. 121110, 380 pages, $2.00; postage 20 etc. Send orders to WOQDHULL & CLAFLIN, P. 0. Box 3,791, New York City. . Chap. 30.——Saci'ed Cycles explaining the Advent of ~ Printed on ﬁne white paper, large. ‘ \ lLuAas.'\‘.m\a Ell ll Reduced to a Science, B Y w. PAINE, A. M., M. 1)., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and Pathology in the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery; EX-Professor of Surgery and Diseases of Women. and Children in the American Medical College; Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons ; Honorary Member of the Academy of Medicine; Author of a large work on the Practice of Medicine ; one on Surgery; one on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; one on Materia Medica and New Remedies; a Review of Homoeopathy and Old Physic; former Editor of the University Medical and Surgical Journal, Medical- Independent, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. In no department of human knowledge has there been more beneﬁcent discoveries than those we have made in relation to the germs of disease, and the methods by which they are introduced and propagated in the human system. These germs are so minute that they are not only incapable of being perceived by the mere unassisted human senses, but some require a glass of from one-twelfth to one-ﬁftieth of an inch of focus,'and of the very strongest magnifying power to discover them. Soie are so small that a million may exist in a drop of water, and not be discovered by any ordinary magnifying glass. These germs are both vegetables and animals, and under the glass show every structure of life as in the most perfectly formed trees and beings around us. These cryptogamous plants and microscopic animalculae, are in most instances developed simultaneously. Their rapidity of growth is simply miraculous. All are familiar with the growth of mushrooms, and it is known that minute fungi cover miles of earth in a few hours. Dr. Carpenter states that the Bovista gigantea grows in a single night, from a mere germ to the size of a large gourd. The Poly- porus squamosus and Frondorus are equally rapid in growth. Fricke, the Swedish naturalist, observed, more than two thousand species of fungi in a square fnrlong. He also saw 10,000,000 of sporules in a single Reticularia inaxima. One spore of the Torula cerevisize or yeast plant will increase to a large forest of fung in a few minutes. Bedham has described over 5,000 species of fungi. Among these are the Mucor muccdo that spawns on dried fruit; the Ascophora mecedo, or bread mould, the Uredo rubigo and U. segetuni or corn mould, and the Puccinia graminis or wheat and rye rust, etc., etc. ‘ Practice by Lette1°.—I’atients residing at a distance, and wishing to consult Professor Paine, can do soiin the following way: Write, {giving age, color of hair and eyes, height, weight, length of time sick, and, as near as possible, the cause of disease; the condition of the bowels and appetite ; whether married or single; if there be sexual diﬁiculty, what it is ; and how many children. 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M. “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A. M. 11.30 “ r “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 ‘- “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.45 p in lAr Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.30 Au.‘ M. 11.50 A Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. {.11. 5.30 a. m. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. .8.55 P. M. . . .. Ar Prairie du Chein.. . . . . . . . 8.55 p. m. ‘Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 P. M. 7.05 A. M Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. 7.05 a. in. 'A?st.Pau1....'. ............. .. 6.15 P. M. Ar St. Paul ...... ..... .. 7.00 {M ' [Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A. M. Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. M. .. .‘Ar Sedalia ........... .. . ..... .. 5.40 1-. M. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-04-15_11_20
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-04-15_11_20
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 21 (April 22, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2120
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-04-22
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: is . o {.4 ‘I PROGRESS: FFREE i’I:‘.I.—IOMUGI-ITVI UNCERAMMELED LI“V‘ES,.! BREAKING .'rie1EL WAY iron FUTURE G-ENERATIONS. ~ Vol. XI.-—No. 21.-—who1e N5. 281.. The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the’ mg/stery of God shall be ﬁnisheol.—St. John the Divine. W/tereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searehable riches of Christ, and the mystery. which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in Gocl.——-Paul. r ’ . __._____._,.,___;__ ENLIGI-ITENEDI IN DIVIDUALITY. GALVESTON, Texas, Feb. 25, 1876. Dear W eekly: As I journey over the country from town to town, and take notes, here a fact and there a fact. all tend- ing to show the corrupting inﬂuence of the age, the weakness and incapacity of human laws to meet the needs of human- ity, and above all, the supineness of human nature, its prone- ness to take the world as it goes; as 1 note the indifference of victims and the assumptions of might over right, I think how few.ar...
Show moreis . o {.4 ‘I PROGRESS: FFREE i’I:‘.I.—IOMUGI-ITVI UNCERAMMELED LI“V‘ES,.! BREAKING .'rie1EL WAY iron FUTURE G-ENERATIONS. ~ Vol. XI.-—No. 21.-—who1e N5. 281.. The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the’ mg/stery of God shall be ﬁnisheol.—St. John the Divine. W/tereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searehable riches of Christ, and the mystery. which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in Gocl.——-Paul. r ’ . __._____._,.,___;__ ENLIGI-ITENEDI IN DIVIDUALITY. GALVESTON, Texas, Feb. 25, 1876. Dear W eekly: As I journey over the country from town to town, and take notes, here a fact and there a fact. all tend- ing to show the corrupting inﬂuence of the age, the weakness and incapacity of human laws to meet the needs of human- ity, and above all, the supineness of human nature, its prone- ness to take the world as it goes; as 1 note the indifference of victims and the assumptions of might over right, I think how few.are worthy of liberty. A Those who have caught the fascination of the sound of the word Freedom, for the lack of the balance-wheel of good judgment, or ‘rather because its cogs are out of gear, fly off into rank fanaticism and commence winding ram’s horns around Jericho, to the disgust of ears attuned to the bar- mony of sweeter sounds;'while those in Whose harmonious composition freedom is safe from perversion, do notiseem to comprehend the strength there is in union. Consequently, the ranks are scattered and the courageous pickets in immi- nent danger of the respectably entrenched foe. Self-control is evidently the ﬁrst requisite for individual liberty. Howimany,would stand the test? How many are even conscious of the necessity for self-control? How many confound self-control with self-immolation, to which it bears no more resemblance than the high soaring eagle to the scare-crow. ’ ' " Even those worthy of freedom, through the harmonization of their natures, are so hemmed in and hedged about by cir- cumstance and precedent, that to set themselves free is a task too great for their individual eﬁort. Thedogmatist 1n morals, or laws that pass for morals, sets it down as an indis- putable fact that self-control is in the power of all; that we are absolutely free agents to do right or wrong, when it is obvious to the thoughtful mind that the dogmatist himself is the direct refutation of his emphatically expounded fact (i’). As this world goes, self-control often involves the control of others in whom the temporal law has vested rights,(?), who possess, as it were, a power of attorney over the _lndividual will. This must strike the logical mind as a relative truth though an absolute falsehood insulting to personal rights. There is much to be said in favor of natural affections,’ yet they are but a snare to the feet of the unwary when wisdom ‘ ‘andixuildecstanding are lacking. in the,indiviclual who is in their bondage. , _For instance, the mother k’ills'l1er. child .by over indulgence throughigher undisciplin?ed;.hu\man" love which lacksthe sure in‘stinct~of the brute because shewas endowed with a sovereign reason which the f_orc‘e'ofi cir- cumstanceland educated indifference . have blunted into in- activity. Yet she must needs pay‘ thelpenalty of her self- I indulgence, and not onlyshe, but her-child whom she de- prives of the self-controllin g power derived from d_isci'pline in childhood. ‘ ' . f . j _ I We Again, for in'stance——and_ their name is legion--wives, throughthe strength ofjaiselﬁsh aifection, quite:na’_tural,; but totally undisciplined and unreasonable, are daily dethroning . their selfhoou, assassinating their womanhood, yielding the most sacred’ individual rights in the bondage, of custom,‘ hoary with age andrespectability as it is old in iniquity and death—dealing disease. Yet precedent has determined that such a course of s'elf-immolation (not self-sacriﬁce) is I the course best calculated to win the applauseof men and an im- _ mortal crown hereafter. The falsehood. and ignorancelthat induce the Hindoo,widowtor.immolateiherself on_the'funeral pyre of her husband is " but aphase of. the same piernicious‘ principle :th’at causes»ch_ristia~w»ive to submit themselves unto their husbands till the last yvestige , of "their divine self- ‘hood is prostituted unto lust.‘ But the more a womaniqsesli in such yielding of individual sovereignty, the“s‘urer is she of the testimony on her tombstone th‘at”'she was a. faithful wife and exemplary christian. I S A ‘ ’ Yet law is law; not that made by fallible men, but the im- Nnwgvonx, APRIL. 22,1875. mutable law that heeds not the manner of its breaking, but visits the same judgment upon those who break it in utter ignorance for “Christ's sake,” and those who break it in . sheer wilfulness, knowing the inevitable consequences. And what a penalty the world is paying for its ages of miscon- ceived duty, sacriﬁce of its birthright for self, not of self! by which I mean the yielding of individual rights,‘ based in im- -mutable law which we cannot break and retain our birthright —self-control. There is no legitimate demand of. any soul which involves the immolation of any other soul. All such demand is based in utter selﬁshness, and can but foster selﬁshness at the ex- pense of life and liberty. This is a nice point in morals, and its misconception has proved a stumbling block to the human race: for with all our boasting, humanity is in a bad state. How can I illustrate my point, to make it as clear to others as it is to me? It occurs to me that the case of Mattie Stricl; land’ will serve my purpose. Now, the thought less and the bigoted and the illogical re- gard Mattie Strickland as -the incarnation of disobedient selﬁshness, never recognizing her fealty to her selfhood through her comprehension ‘of the law of individual sov- ereignty. It is held that she has wantonly broken her pa- rents’ hearts—self—love is amerciless heart breaker—merely to indulge her own wicked desires. Now, in my opinion she has done no such thing, If she had not comprehended the law of her being, if she had merely been tempted of her de- sires, though the basis of the law were in them, without her intelligence recognizing their uses, and her aspirations sanc- tifying them, she might come under the’ condemnation of a selﬁshness born of ignorance, in which all the world is wal- lowing to-day, and for the controlling of which all our stupid laws are made ; which, however, through suppression of an evil, and not its eradication, only serve to augment that which they seek to assauge; laws which hold in bondage spirits awak- ened to the glad song of freedom upon the mountains as well as the insensate dolt who yet slumbers after the satiety of self. Call this sophistry—-those who fail to comprehend it—— but there are many, nevertheless, to whom it will come as fundamental truth. Mattie Strickland had but to look around upon perverted, not to say debauched, manhoodgand womanhood, to ask her- self its cause. Her free soul answered well, when it in- formed her that prostitution of selfhood is the cause; and over all else. Sh'e recognised her right to herself and over herself, and repudiated theinterference of any other soul. She has set an example worthy the emulation of all women whose perverted mission it is to breed sinners under present rule. \._ . ,. .,- . , Mattie Strickland, in her fealty to her own womanhood, has deﬁed the ﬂaming sword of modern society to bar her entrance into life. She is nearer salvation than those of her sex who weep with her parentsﬁlover her fall ('2), and yet yield their free will daily to legalized lust. I The world needs more such examples of rare courage; examples of that sort of unselﬁshness which will keep the reinover itself though itawadeknee deep through mheislaughtered selﬁshness of all its kindred; which will work out its own salvation, when it holds dear. Thus it is that Christ came torbring not peace but a sword. - ' » \ How well I estimate‘ the pangs her course has cost Mattie Strickland! It costs "the high s"‘oul moreto be true to itself than to weakly~yield‘itself for thevmisconcfeived comfort of those who are so steeped in selﬁshnessness as to ﬁnd joy in another’s sacriﬁced. For instance :. We -will say that awife-l— and we need -not suppose a case‘, there are cases enough in po‘int—a wife yields her will to the demand of her husband which grows by what'- it feeds upon, ﬁrst because she loves him so selﬁshly she has not the sublime self-control to deny ‘him an indulgence more detrimental to the welfare of both than“ ignorance can conceive‘, but which enlightenment is beginning" to sense the-enormity of. The wife who yields her selfhood is never conipeiis-ated; such as-gases self does not deserve compe'nsati6n,§though it be under a devotional sense of "obligation to ‘the law; for it insiilts the higher law. The woman’s selﬁshness isioften on a par with that of her husb'and’s; he demands of his'1,us't, "she yields of her self-l“6_ve", when she should care‘ be strong and*unselﬁsh'in‘ hehifealtyi to her womanho“od whosevdefnand she swore allegiance to the demands of her own womanhood’ sees the way, though it have to wound the self—love of all it" , I PRICE TEN CENTS. i J’ is more sacred than any other, and of which selfhood alone can be cognizant,’ and the individual will is solearbiter. But did the wife dare be true to herself in personal sov- ereignty, and refuse her husband his “ vested rights ” under the statute, the idiotic law would grant him a divorce, if he shouldavail himself of it, and if not, her life would be a martyrdom which, if she could endure forthe sake of her sacred obligations to herself, think youher struggle would not cost‘ her tenfold what a weak yielding to the “ respecta- bility' and majesty of the law” would cost? Mattie Strickland could’ have purchased temporary peace by yielding to the self—love of her parents and the respectable customs of society which could immolate another victim upon its altars with the usual pomp and ceremony, But she rather choe to forsake father and mother and {assume social ostracism in her allegiance to herself. Ten to one the boil- ing waters of worldliness do not overwhelm her, but the spirit of her grand action hath eternallife. I _Am I asked if. T have no pity for her. poor parents? Yes, pity for their bondage to self which blinds them to the merit of their daughter’s act. Pearls have been cast before swine before, and the swine have turned to rend, though I never heard of one possessed of Isuﬁicient cunning to advertise its in sensibility in a newspaper. Yet one must e’en view all things from the line of one’s vision. Some drink in the glories of the sunrise fromiﬁthe ‘mountains, while the dwellers in the valley are yet in slum- her. Over and above all, there is compensation. Mattie Strickland ﬁnds hers in the exaltation of a reciprocal pas- sion of love, the only unprostituted relation, and the offspring ofwhich she is not likely to murder in embryo; her open course has "exempted her from that sin. Her parents, no doubt, ﬁnd their compensation in the ‘turbid tide of a vulgar public sympathy which they publicly and vulgarly expressed the need of. . I ‘Well, it don’t matter, so we all are compensated, if one prefers the delicate wine in small quantities and in discreet season, "and another chooseto iswill down a quart of bitter beer three times a’day or oftener. But your beer drinker should not attempt to force his mess upon the more reﬁned — sense of the connoissieur of rare wine. Aind over and above all is Law which we cannot break for nothing.“ For I, the Lord thy’God, am a jealous God, visit- ing the sins of the parents uponthe‘ children! Thou shalt have no other gods before me! §God is Law, and Law is love! The law well kept will insure happiness to the children of men‘. Who so keepeth the law is wise, and his seed shall ﬂourish as ‘a cedar of Lebanon or a rose of Sharon. But wrorldl‘y‘s‘ucc’es's is not a cedar of Lebanon or a rose of Sharon. It‘ is a Upas tree that dropspoison into all the sweet springs . of simple, natural holiness. I The sweetest, purest lives, are not those about whichﬁcluster the ﬂaunting; bristling cactus- blooms of modern respectability, but those which are led by the spirit through green pastures and beside still waters. Though ostracised of mammon, and anathematised by its god I would prefer to inhale the pure sweetness of Mattie Strick- ‘-land’s life to holding the position of the most respectable dame who ever won her. claim to worldly distinction by a trick of custom to-cloak the outraged law. HELEN NASH. THE “INTERNATIONAL”. How comes it that the International Workingmen’s Asso- ciation which a few years ago presented so imposing a front, ﬁlling with uneasiness every crowned head in Europe, in- spiring with cowardly terror the base plutocratic herds that crowded around their several thrones. lies now prostrate, shattered and impotent? That. grand association, animated by so noble aims, breathing forth sympathies so sublime, that most characteristic of all the manifestations ever. pre- sented in purely practical life by the genius of christianity, --where is it now? Wherefore this strange paralysis? Here and now. in the city of New. York, amidst all the actual misery and frightful destitution, where its presence in all its POWBI‘ is more urgently needed than at any other time or place befgre, even in Paris on the 18th March, 1871-——ann iver- V 8?o1‘.‘7 f01' 311 biII16.S&cred!.——WhY do we see or hear no vestige or I sign of it? . . Answer you leaders——Banks, Ward, Elliott, Madox and the rest !—-you who were going to make a revolution with bullets ' './when.bal-lots failed! For how much worse failure, more complete, more ignominiousymust youneeds wait? The people are dying for want_of bread; the ballot gives you a ‘Campbell in place of a Porter! woonlnntt an oIT.srL1N's wnnxnr. The true answer is simple enough. The; International Workingmen’s Association lies to-day everywhere prostrate because it fell under the guidance of leaders who succeeded in making it turn a deaf ear to the wise counsels which had so large a share in its Original organization;.; succeeded, in fact ﬁnally, in tyin-g up its fate with that of mad schemes of ' madder dreamers. Demagogues like_ Karl Marx andff the other pure disorganizers it is’ who have defeated that grand international movement that ten years ago promised so I much; not the armies, not the I police, not the prisons of the combined kings, priests and plutocrats! Not even the bloody plains of Satory. ’ ’ » ' Upon a sound line of policy the working classes, being in the immense majority, must needs be invincible. ‘ They can be defeated and still further oppressed only by the dissemin- ation among tnemselves of falsities and chimeras. These are. the real dynamite exploders! They can be safely warranted to sink the tightest vessel ever launched! That stupid false-I hood, for example, which confounds together two things so vastly diﬁerent as the abominable parasitism that is eating out the heart of our modern society, and a social function so utterly indispensable as the accumulation of capital. This alone would have suﬁiced to wreck the noble ship of inter— ' nationalism even if all the rest of its planks had not been contributed by passionate invention instead of by calm ob- servation of facts. There is a truth underlying each one of those, planks, no doubt, as happens with all other human deldsions. and even with human vices; but that in nowise‘ hinders the errors being fatal. It only demands, as the true mode of criticism, the elimination of the underlying truth from the superposed falsehood. the latter being usually fatal in about even proportion with its seeming simplicity and superﬁcial truth-likeness. Nothing certainly can look more just and true on the face of the matter than the assertion that the workman is entitled I to the whole produce of his labor. Nor anything more easy to see, as soon as one begins to study the teachings of social science, withamind desirous of learning in spite of all pre- conceived notions, than that such an assertion amounts to less than nothing in view of the grand problem of this age, the problem of radical justice to the working class. A man does not want the produce of his own labor; he no, more wants the produce of his own labor than he wants land. What he wants on the contrary is the produce of other men's labor. -But he could not have it if he did want it, because in fact there is no such thing. A man for instancemakes a pair of shoes, or rather he is said to make them; but are the shoes the product of his labor? Not by any means; he did not create the shoes; he only superadded -certain labor to pre—existing materials, rendering those materials thereby more adapted to human use than they were before. The man that tanned the leather, the man that butchered the ox, the man that fattened the ox, the man that bred and raised it. the man that made the nails, the man that smelted from the ore the iron from which the nails were made, the man that drew the ore from the bowels of the earth, aye, the man that thousands, of centuries ago ﬁrst began to tame animals a little wilder than .was then man himself, and he who ﬁrst artiﬁcially producing ﬁre gave to man, not merely the secret of ‘forcing from rude and useless ores the priceless metals, but also a power that should some day enable him to dethrone the gods themselves,——these, all these, had directly or indirectly co-operat ed in making that one pair of shoes. And besides, even if the shoes were the product of‘ the labor of the man who made ‘them, he does not want them. He wants anything and everything except shoes; but shoes he has no use for at all. That is to say. he has already all that he wants and more. He has made himself all the shoes he can wear for a long time to come, and has done the same for his wife and all his children. So now there is not a thing under heaven but he wants a great deal more than be A wants shoes. The things he wants, too, and wants imme- diately, and must have, and have this very day or die, are products of days long gone by; products of toil during long sweltering days under the broiling sun of a year ago last summer, and of many, many day, hot and cold, since: sow- ing wheat, and reaping wheat, and husking wheat and stor- ing wheat—-not to speak of the indirect but none the less in- dispensable service of the building of the vast granaries years and years before——-and grinding wheat, andwpacking ﬂour into barrels, and bringing a barrel of it to the shoemaker’s door ;-—all this, and a thousand services more of the same kind, are what the shoemaker wants, aye, and must have, and not by any means whatsoever the product of his own labor. The workman of to-day is in fact subsisting, and must by the very nature of things continue" to subsist, so long at all _ events as he remains a human being, properly so called, and does not return to the state of his Chimpanzee ancestors in the forest, upon the products of labor long ago performed by great numbers of persons, mostly with no consciousness of any mutualrelations between them, and products, moreover, stored up and ‘taken care of tillthe‘ moment that he wants them, brought to him, too, at or In anticipation of that mo- ment, from all points of the compass, for varying and some- times for very long distances. It is in the very nature. of ‘things, therefore, that the produce of his own labor will have to be in its own turn stored up and taken care of and kept ready for the use of the several citizens who may in their turn again have need of it. The facts of the case. re- maining indeed none the less immutably facts because a great many of the workers in this vast, spontaneouly devel- oped and continuous co-operation are too dull and Dar. row-minded, or too much preoccupied each one with his own separate and personal interests, to care anything at all about it, or to be in the least degree ‘conscious of its existence, nor indeed werelany number of them too stupid i to perceive it when thus pointed out. If a man will persist in butting his head against a two-foot-thick stone wall his ‘head may quite likely be hurt. The stonewall can stand it if he can. W . I . , That which the workman really does need, which we all need most urgently.-all honest citizens, that is-—..-that which ” the workmen might well unite in demanding, and most proh- .«// ably would unite in demanding, were only envious and ambi- tious, demagogues to leave of diverting-their attention from" social products, into the production of which hisown labor and the labor of all other honest citizens enter directly or in- directly, should be distributed among those only who in one. shape or another contribute to the supply of the so vastly varyingfnoeds of the body politic, and that none of it should be squandered upon those who are living a life essentially parasitic. For any human being to be suffered to devour the products of the social‘_.co-operation-—and all really humanin- dustry is of sheer necessity, as we have just seen, a vast and continuous social cjo-operation-without yielding in return any useful gjservice to humanity. is unquestionably is foul; wrong donewto every honest -worker... Sofar as “property,” or any other institution, really does tend to this result, it is assuredly a “robbery.” That the moral theories actually; prevailing among us, do, however, unhapplly, encourage and protect, instead of justly reprehending this ‘robbery, is only too manifestly true. Wherefore, by-the-bye, is it plain enough that a bodyof men who would teach a higher, purer, nobler morality, audenforce the same upon the social con- cience by all the means available to such an end, by what- ever names such means, mayhave heretofore been known among men, would be rendering to society, and especially to the honest toilers, 3-‘ service incomparably greater, more ur- gently needed, at this day" especially, and always, in fact, continuously, to be "more urgently needed, than that of any shoemaker, or wheat-grower, or ox-breeder, or“ delver for ‘iron ore, or other laborerwhomsoever within the sphere properly to be calleaftheflndustrial. Rsmsnouu. DEATH. NOT DIVIDE US. 1_$r__ w. s. n. In my heart of ,hearts lies hidden A secret, sacred drawer, Where my lifels most precious jewels Its sweetest mcmoricsare. I Here are pearls«..of childhood’s laughter, Here are diamonds of sighs, Which came from hearts as pure and true As the people in the skies. Here are bars of golden music, Snatched iromson-ow’s saddest hymn, And priceless gems of glittering tears Time can never, never dim. Here wreaths of warming welcome smile Which adorned the college prize; Here are sparks which made the love-light Bless and cheer the sad good-bycs; ’ Here are rubies from the wine-cup, Where the lips gave but the click Of telegraph which spoke from hearts That were throbbing warm and quick; Here are drops of holy water, Which were once my mother’s tears, Still perfumed by her hallowiug love And her consecrating prayers. And in this drawer an inner drawer Far more sacred yet than all, Whereimy life is ever lingering, Waiting, waiting for its call. Here are smiles made up of God’s smiles, Light of pure and holy love; Here are sighs and tears to teach me That she was not from above. Here is trust andtruth and beauty— Mulsic, mirth and gentle grace; Every feature speaks the goodness That irradiates her face. And her form is lithe and lamb-like; Rarest gifts by God were given—- Human love and holy living- She clings to man and climbs to Heaven. Angels took her up one morning From my clinging arms to God, And my heart was racked with anguish, Broken, broken by the rod. But I heard within this drawer, Like the voice of Sinner-’s friend, " Love, your own is with you always, Always, even to the end.” And I looked and saw her smiling, And I listened to her prayer. “ Patience, darling! wait a. little; Where I am thou shalt be there.” God, whose care is e’er beside us, Tells me “Death shall not divide us.” - I I éﬂvening lllail. ‘la, "E PLURIBUS UNUM.” BY wsnuuu onssn. As our light literature is ﬁlled with fictitious stories of happy marriages, we should have occasionally one of the genuine cases of real life from the holy institution. “In one of the semi- christian semi—barbaro‘us towns on thewest side lion is not yet exterminated, there lives an old farmer now about sixty, with no education, but rich for a country farmer, being worth forty or ﬁfty thousand dollars. He owns a wife near his age, to whom he was legally married; when they were young. She is worth nothing, never had any'prof- perty nor money,never owned even the clothes on her scarred body, which bears the marks of many a blow received from theman who owns it. .She has borne him ﬁfteen children. fourteen of whom are raised to an age of self-support, and, as fast as they are old enough, are forced to do it. One is a‘ cripple, with a good brain, but like the rest, theﬂlfather refuses to board-this boy and let him go to school and get an education to support himself by. . The old man, thinks educa- main object of,life,.lr,e deems time wasted in education,_.. ‘-He age in life, and th'ey:both« tell at it, making it no secret, until. it is the common knowledge of the whole" neighborhood. People often ask her why she does not leave him, and she. says if she should he would soon marry another and younger wife, as his property would secure one, and then another realities to their insane and immoral chimeras, is" that all the? i of the Misissippi, where slavery once ﬂourished'1andvrebei—- tion useless, as he got property without it. and as that is the A quarrels withhis ?wife and abuses and even beats heiiaii -.t,1':,u. I crop of children Wcillgl oomgcbig, and hers, tor whom she, April 22, l{’T6. hasiworked all her life, would be robbed of all their and her share in the property, for she knows him so well she is sure he would do this, as he has no natural regard for his children, or for her.’ This man——worse than a brute--is a husband and afather. This poor slave woman is a wife and mother,.and - the sacred property of her husband, made 0 by law and re- ligion, and held by both in slavery after the black slaves are free. Therebis no emancipation for her but death, and that would have relieved her long ago but for her maternal love which binds her to the interests of her children in_spite of the misery she endures. Let no one suppose this is a solitary case raked up from a wide extent of country, for every neighborhood has cases in some respects resembling, thisfaud going to show that it is time our marriage laws were abolished and a substitution of equality in partnership for man and woman to take the place. Justice requires that every wife should not only control her own person, but have it protected by law, and that she should control and own half the property and the children, but our holy system is too sacred to allow of justice or to be tampered with by unholy legislation. Let the women vote and then see if they will protect their own sex. BANGOR, Van Buren C0,, Mich, Feb. 22, 1876. The New Departure has ﬁlled us both with new life and light. In less than four months my husband wholly over- came his previous desire to hold me in bondage, and became to me a new man. When he unloosed the shackles that bound me, and I saw that I was indeed free, then the repul- sion that had existed iu my heart faded away, and I gravi- tated back to him, and now we are happy in each other’s love, and are trying to live a pure life ; to live the best we know how, and to develop to the possibility of eternal life in the body together. My weaknesses are almost gone and my men- strual ﬂow has decreased one half.| We both feel that it is not too much to say that you have been a saviour to us; that we were caught like brands from the burning ﬂames. When the ‘tie of love was very near severed, thou camest to our rescue. Accept our best wishes and prayers for your prosperity and health. Ever yours for the truth. ALVIRA 85 DENNIS Cnmnsrnn. RECONSTRUCTION. BY s. 'r. FOWLER. LsNoUAen—contz'nued. The ancients watched the sun, moon and stars and record- ed their apparent movements, for signs of the times and sea—‘ sons, and thus they learned that day and night with the varied seasons of the year were dependent on the sun’s posi- tion iu its journeyings among the stars; also that certain apparent positions of the stars indicated the progres of the sun’s journey and of the approaching seasons. From these discoveries it became apparent that the fruit- fulness of the earth was dependent on the sun’s inﬂuences; and being familiar with genderology on their own plane, they inferred that the sun and ‘earth were as father and mother, and that all life on the earth depended on the im~ pregnatiug inﬂuences of the father sun. This led to the worship of the sun as the great ﬁrst pro- genitor of all good, and to fearing him as the progenitor of all evil. As they saw no apparent copulation between the ‘sun and earth they judged that impregnation was accom- plished by the breath, spirit, inﬂatus or holy ghost that pro- ceeded from the sun to the earth. . Sun worship is the worship of generative power, and so are all worships of every description. Sex worship i only the beginning or outside of gendcric worship. All the sym bols of sun worship have been derived from astronomical records. These symbols became the names of-the various gods or god ideas, and these names have become the basis of language. T ' i From this it results that a complete diagram of the heavens becomes a complete monogram of the alphabet. From this monogram each family or nation selected letters as the representatives of the particular idea of godliness that they chose to worship, and thee in monogramic form he- came their national emblem. ‘ ~ From this it becomes. evident that a true monogram of th alphabet is akey to the signiﬁcance of letters, words, god’ names and all symbols of worship, withall its myths, par- ables, riddles and allegories. ' ‘ i _ 4%’ /- . /...«-I»-.‘...'...-sw"9~"‘ "Thepccntre or the monogram represents the earth; the squares represent thchavens, houses, domislles or homes» i i ‘x . 1 l . ._,_,‘.:.(,3;‘:-1»-.32“...-1.c_n. -———-"———=« »«-— ~ .April'22, I8’? 6. .«-an .r-uJ1,l1l')<" w.oo.n.HU»LI. a-oI.ar,LI:n-s-,wsfEK,L,Y. . p *3 The large circle represents the path of the sun’s yearly journey. ’ ' ‘ - These constitute the original basisof the monogram, and hence we present a diagram of them separately. The large square represents the house’ of many mansions.) not made with hands, the eternal home of the great father, sun among the stars- ~ The quadrants of the large square represent the domiciles ' of the sun in the four seasons. The twelve outside small squares represent his monthly mansions. i ' ‘ i ‘ The centre-piece inside of these twelve mansions is the home of the earth and moon: and the quadrants of this square represent the" weekly abodes of the moon. ' By’ a metamorphosis the large circle represents -a day's journey of the sun. ' I ' I I In the above diagram the four dots on the outside of the square, perpendicular and horizontal to the earth, represent the noon, evening, midnight and morning sun. I The pendant ray of the noonday sun gives theletter j. The‘ quadrant ofthe circle performed by the sun‘ between noon and evening is the original R in its simplicity. The corner on the outside of this quadrant (or R) is the,’ letter L in its simplicity. V q _ q The. horizontal or evening sun ray, resting on the earth; and thus conjoined to the 1, gives the letter E. More anciently the sun’s path was represented by diagonal lines through the domiciles of the seasons, and then these diagonal lines served as R, and the. D was the delta of the Greek alphabet. . . I ‘ * The next quadrant of the sun’ journey accomplished the letter D in its original simplicity; and the midnight ray of the sun accomplished the letter T, though not in its present position. These are the T D of the evening tide. ’ The third quadrant of the sun’s. daily journey. and the I morning ray, gives the midnight T D, which was tide as spelled without the vowels. I The fourth quadrant of the sun’s daily journey brings -to the noon-day tide. ' ' , .1 The completed circle gives the letter 0., and the haif of which combined with a portion of the square gives the letter U. Also the H, with the plain F, the .C and the G may be found in this primitive ﬁgure. The circle in this diagram may have been premature, otherwise the oblique lines come next in the order of ‘ generation. — . « They and the circle seem to represent a dial plate and points of compass. I p Z: The diagonal lines between the 4 sun points were first in order and represent the 4 cardinal points, south, west. north and east; (this seems the true order) and the diagonals of the square represent the medial points of compass. ' The cardinal points divide the day into 4“ equal parts, be- ginning with afternoon and ending with forenoon._ ‘ ‘ The 8 points divide the day and night into 8 watches. These lines, added to the diagram above, make, create, compose or are the monogram before given. . They add A, V, M, N, K. X. Y, Z to the alphabet. They also give the B P and R in straight lines. _‘ ‘ J These represent the creation of animals,‘ including man, and bring us to the Garden of Eden, where the ﬁgieaves, or apron and breeches appeared. ' ’ With the diagonal lines the gods were made ﬂesh, and in’ the genderlc image of the gods. , The ﬁg leaf represents the fall of Inan from genderic inno- cence, or the naked truth, to genderic wickedness and hypo- critical mystiﬁcations. ’ — * ‘ I Change: of circumstances have Aencroached. on _oura.tixx;1e'. and will, mostly _.monopolize it for -some. weel_£§.. but our ,readers_ mayvolook for the signiﬁcance ofilletteifs,Aiif<e"_;;K;t,.]:V_v,'eek, and ,a‘ft‘erfthat we}‘will endeavor to send wecklycon V,ib_ution's.' . Errat'a‘.—-In my ﬁrstarticle ‘.‘perpetual”* grp‘iv‘th,“inithe‘ 'third"par_ag_raph,l should" read “ intell'ectual”; growth: and “perpetrated” by authority, in ninth "paragraph, second‘ K column, shouldread “ perpetuated” by, etc. - ' _ _ p I - - A SUGG}E'_ST10"N;‘ _ V . A.Congress of liberal andhumanitarian mlndswill convene at IIiliside_ Home, Carversville, Bucks ’County,‘' _Pa.,jon the 4th of May.” All hail’ the glad‘ tidings! “ May the angel hosts of heaven join with us to proclaim the principlesof universal justice and love, freedom and equality. On the 4th of Jul ,? 1876, a new Declaration of Independence will be signed. I ” ' I The ventilation of an idea neverigives anybody a cold... hope many. women, as well as many men, will sign it; but can wemen consistently sign ‘a declaration of independence with their badges of dependence fettering their forms? ' Now, I suggest that every woman who expects to sign that declaration array herself in agfree dress, and thusaid prac- dawn in this our Centennial year. ‘ _ ' in the consciousness of right‘! Come. brave sisters, let the pure air of Hillside Home resound with the anthemof liberty’s: song,’ and let woman march to its music with a step as free as her brother man's, that she may walk by his side as an angel. ‘ ’ ‘ . ' Noble brothers, ye who are interested in this glorious suggestion. One hundred years ago there was _a Declaration of I udependence signed in “the times that tried men's souls.” ; These are the times that try women’s souls. Then letrouri courage be tried. Grand will the triumph be, with free bodies clothed in raiments of health and comfort, with free ' spirits adorned in thebeauty and majesty of truth. J I I ' Prayerfully and hopefully,’ ' SADA BAILEY. SALEM,'Q., March 16. ‘ ‘ - ‘ ' I ~ ‘ I . A w I ' ‘ Onauoaﬂjolinton 00.,‘ Iowa. _ I have felt all my life that we have not attained the highest’ bility..b,ut could not solve the mystery. All that I have read and heard seemed unatisfactory until your ideas were ad- vanced. They ﬁll the void. I ' SABRA A, STRANG. (Written for Woodhull and Claﬂin’s Weekly.) WHO ARE THEY NOW? A loving soul, by men denied A resting place, was cruciﬁed For telling truths to pomp and pride. Who are the Cnarsrs’ to-day? Self righteous Pharisees were shocked To see Truth’s mysteriesunlocked, And thus their gilded pathways blocked. Who now on corners pray? The Tories, when their souls were "tried," Stood cringing bythe tyrant’s side, And LIa1m'rr's behests -"denied . Who now to power bow? At risk ofliberty and life, The noble fewbegan the strife, And won the ﬁeldwith gloryrife. Who are the nanoas now? Taauros, N. J., Oct. 22, 1875. EXCELSIOR. Du. R. P. FnLLows,' the distinguished Magnetic Ph yslcian stands _to-day without question the most successful physician of the age. He is now treating the sick in almost every State success.-—‘—N. Y. Truth Seeker. ‘ V The aﬁllcted should avai1...thT_emselves" of Dr. Fellows’ valuable services.——-‘Banner-of Light,-;_Bo'ston, Mass. ’ Lrra Bamvnr SAYLES. ln__ autarticlc in anold number of the Revolutian on 5‘ Friendship Between the Sexes,” says: ' “No doubt,,if husbands and wives would only allow then}- selvcs to understand their own needs. they would ﬁnd this the great element lacking in our social life. Barring this. we feel only from each other, and get so disgusted in time with continued honey and molasses, that even an emetic would be welcomed to change the programme. People get thisgreat nausea, and not having freedom‘. ‘nor being willing to take or grant it. they contract emeticipfriendships, where were are plenty waiting for them of the sensible, bread-and-butter I I, kind, which will cherish lifeginsteadl of draining the system. Both husbands and wives are, too exacting in the company of each other. ' We need other magnetisms than those with which we continually come i_u'_,._ contact, in order to bring ‘out our full natures and develop ‘all our powers. Let us learn to have more conﬁdence in our husbands and wives, our brothers and sisters, and believe. it possible for them to be actuated by high and holy motives- in seeking at times other than our exclusive society.“ ' - - .._._.—. . I -' A airs" or run. ,. IN what place are -two htbads better than one»? In a barrel, In spite of the hard times the wages of _-sin are up to~..tho_ old standard. C J ‘ ’ ' _ Wnris your wife like ~'d»y-nainite? Because" she is apt to -. blow up if harshly handled.‘ SAID a cobbler who had j-u’s~t-setuup in business : ‘ “My rm: purchase is in*y1las_t.”' ' t ' I S ' S ' ' omxmuxxm. hotelprices in"gBh’iladelphia will be *3 three dollars ayday, board and lodg‘iiiW'cxtra." " I “EXPLOIlING waist places, __djJohn Henry,,,as he'_put his arm around -the pretty c’h'amrbermaid. “Navigation of tihe .’alr.” said _Ml'8- HBIITV. Ovérhearoing him, and sailing into his ravencurls-.—.—Cincz'nnatc' Tiiliﬂsf ; g _ So Brooklynis to have a meter inspector, it: seems. .W6 Brooklyn U_ii'b'0n.—New ITorZt_;,.Ooijnmercial,Advertised" asked: “Wh0'i8»the master ofthis house 2''" “I.a'n1.s'ir," rc- plied the-lan»dlord;‘. "My wife» has _b_cen dead about three weeks.” I I » . AN’ Indiana farmer don’t pay any tolls; Hetshoots the gatekeeper, and jogs right along... They have tried7hiin twice, but he gets clear. since one ofhis aunt's cousinsusedc to act ‘‘ﬂighty‘like.’’ " ' " "- ' UPON the marriage of Miss. ‘Wheat, of Virginia. an editor V THE gentleman *who‘k-issed a lady's “snowy brow” scautght a severe‘ cold,’ and has been laid up ever since.... ’ ‘ ticablyyas welias theoretrically,. to usher in the millennial‘ movement, we believe you will give encourageinent to this: tor to the Atlantic. conditions. and been conscious that “‘eternal,life ” is a possi-I in the Union by his Magnetized Powder withnnsurpassed ' hope _he,‘l1_look after those chaps ;_;that write poetry for the . _ ,A_ cur.Nrr.Lr;MAN rode up’_to‘a~gpublic house in the country- and ‘ hoped that her pathmight be ﬂowery, and {that she might‘ "never De thmshedby hm‘ husband‘: E O ’ H ’t I V . Lecturers desiring engagements can address either COL E A PROVINCIAL paper says a witness was asked by a county court judge, rocently: “Did you go to the party yourself '1'” Witness: “Yes, sir.” Judge .' “And what did he say to you ‘I’ ’ W'itness:,he told me to go to the devil, sir,” “And so," says the Judge, quietly taking a pinch of snuﬁ’, with a rogueish _smile, “You came to the county court l" -Many a true word , _ V g , I , ‘ spoken in jest.-. A few more-years and the signers of that declaration will be ' ‘ I ‘honored’ by all the people. greatestrglory deeply rests PROF. Dana,_'of Yale College with a party of twenty—five,' went on a short excursion the oiher day for the purpose of observing some glacial scratch-es.‘ One of thetstudents se- cretly made gome scratches of his own upon a rock, and calling on the Professor to account forlthem, received the reply: “They look like the work oflan Irishman.” A LADY applying for admission to the junior classof an Eastern seminary, being questioned by the President. as to her qualiﬁcations, replied: “I ain't much of an arithmetic- ker, but I am anjexcellent grammarist.” A CORRESPONDENT wants to know the best way to become aliterary man. Well. the quickest way for him is to make a short voyage to sea. He will very likely become a contribu‘-‘=- N0 Chinesebank has failed for ﬁve hundred. years. When the last failure took place the ofﬁcers’ heads were cut off and ‘flung into a’ corner with the other assets. A WRITER in the Cleveland Sunday Voice has an article headed “How Shall We Rise 1?”, Did he ever try sitting down on‘ a‘ can of nitro-glycerine.——Cincinnati Saturday Night. _ THAT, much-talked-of telescopef it is said, has really brought t_i_1e_ moon within te_n_milesof the earth. One or two turns morc~'oi the screw may bring the whole thing. down on us. . “WILL your Honor please charge the jar ,” asked“, A,-i. kaiisas lawyer at the conclusion of a horse-thief trial. “ I will,” replied‘ his Honor, “the court charges each jurymau one dollar for drinks. and six dollars extra for the one who used the Court’s hat for a spittoon duringthe ﬁrst day of the session." " I A LADY remarked to ‘a popular divine ‘that his sermons were a little too long. ‘f_Don’t you think so ‘P’ said she‘. “just a little?" “ Ah ! dear madam,” replied the divine, “ I am afraid you don’t like ‘the sincere milk of the Word.’ " “Yes, I do,” said she: “but "you know the fashion nowadays { is condensed_milk." A CORRESBONI)ENT,t_an ardent admirer of Bryant, inquires of us the meaning of i“Thanatopsis.” It is latin for deat~,h_ When‘ Brutus, the ﬁrst temporary lunatic, slew Caesar, he remarked to his sister, “Jule is deader Than-—a-top—sis.i” A A I W wyy EDITORIAL NOTICES. LOIS Waisnnooxnai can be addressed at Eureka, Hum» bolt County, California, during April Will take subscrip- tionsfor the WEEKLY. I I Lao MILLER AND MATTIE STRICKLAND will receive calls for lectures _on liberal subjects, Engagements in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan particularly desired during the spring months. Terms reasonable. Address Omro,1Wis. .._:..—.. .'.‘_.WABR1LjN CHASE will lecturein Clyde, Ohio, April 9th; in Painesville, Ohio. April 16th; in Geneva, 0., April 23d; in Akron, 0., April‘ 30th; in Alliance, O., the first two Sundays ‘of May; and in Salem, 0., the last two Sundays in May. Ad- dress accordingly. ’ . WE take special pleasure in calling the attention of all our sreaders :\_vho_._need dental service to Dr. Koonz, at No. 1 Great J ones_S?treet;,, New York, who is both judicious and scientiﬁc in all departments of dentistry. _ His rooms are ﬁtted taste- fully-and,1el.egantly, and being constantly ﬁlled with the elite of the city, testifies that his practice is successful. He ad- ministers the nitrous oxide gas with perfect success in all cases. _, ’ . . Tr_In-next-‘Convention of the Spiritualistts of Van Buren County, Michigan, will be hold.en at Paw Paw, in Professor _ Cookf‘s_M,usic Room, April 29th and 30th, commencing at 2 ’-o'clock- p. on Saturday and continuing over Sunday. Susie Johnson is" engaged as one of the speakers. Let there“ beta general attendance of all interested, as" the friends :1 Pa.w“P'aw, and vicinity will spare no pains to make the ‘C0DVéIiti9n_¥,a success. R. 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Y. 0ﬂice.111 Nassau Street, Room 9.‘ . , If a man lreepeth my ‘saying he shall never see death.—Jesus. » ' b To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the hidden‘ manna.——St. John the Divine. » That through death he might destroy him that u had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life- time subject to bondage.—Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hy- p0crisy.——James, iii. , 1 7. And these signs shall follow them: my name shall they cast out devils; they shall take up serpents; . and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them ,' they shall lay hands. on. the sick and they shall rec0ver.—Jesus. .. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. V Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth ;~» but I say unto you resist not evil. Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate. thine enemy: -But I say unto you, Love your enemies; That ye may be the children of your Father which is and sendeth_ rain on the just and on the unjpst. Eor if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye ? Do not even the publicans the same ?~—St. Matthew v. 38, 43, 44,and 46. ' ' ‘A new commandment give I unto you, That ye love one another.-St. John xiii. 34. ’ ’ Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulﬁl.—-St. Matthew v. 17. ‘ Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of ﬁre upon his head. Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil‘ with good.—Romansxii. 20 and 21. — . ' ‘- Vengeanceis mine, I will repay saith the Lord.,—Ibid. 19. . The progress of civilization is more distinctively marked by the recognition and maintenance of the life and rights of the individual than byany other single means. That community which does not regard the inherent, natural relations which. it bears to. its individual members,.though it may be advanced in learning, art and science, does not belong to a civilized nation. As we follow the records of nations and peoples from * early historic time down to the present, there is found to be a. constant though gradual elevation of the individual, and a corresponding going back- ward and a lessening of the power of the community over the individual. ‘This is to be observed not only in the character of the punisliments that have been inﬂicted for so-called crimes, but also in the character of the crimes for which the highest punishments have been provided. A few centuries ago life was forfeited for the smallest of crimes. There were do less than twenty different offenses for which the life of }the offender might pay the penalty. But now, in our couiitry at least, life is not forfeited save for having taken life;’—’ and every year some State departs wider and wider from this even, by recognizng different degrees of murder, and a. different penalty for each degree, life only being required for the ﬁrst degree; while in four States the death penalty has been abolished altogether. The barbarism of the old Mosaic law remains, therefore, but in one respect. Blood for blood is theonly remnant of that law, and thatis not left intact. That which Christ- nineteenhundred years, ago came- to fulﬁl is but now be-‘ ginning tobe recognized "as having been fulﬁlled by him, even bylthe most sincere professing Christians. Indeed, it is the Christians who cling most stoutly to the eye for eye, tooth for tooth, and blood for blood method of punishment. The death penalty lias been restricted to murder only, not by, but in spite of Christianity, so-called. The rack, the stake, the torture of ...va_ri_o_us. kinds-, havebeen forced from Christian usage by thosewhom they have called inﬁdels and devils, and today, ~ev’erywhere,r:‘those who-stand in the Tfrontand advancing ranks of civilization are not the "re- NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 23,1876. ‘ cognized Christians-. No one can observe the course ‘of events and say that WE are prepared to furnish a few liundrekfcomplete sets of the ﬁrst series of Bible Articles consisting of ﬁfteen_num- I Our friends should lose no opportunity to bring these articles to the attention of those whom they can interest. . A careful study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand- , ingof the great and all3important truth that is yet to be “re- ” vealed; which must be carefully and judiciously brought be- , , forethe world, as the :.'sun comes upon "it, ﬁrst the ' break-of-day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian bcrsiof the WEEKLY, for one dollar, postageupaid. splendor. V TIIE DOUBLE 'TRIANGLE":;, ' -on, THE SIX—P_OlNTED srnu _,11v 'rnE‘._nAs"fr.', For we have seen his star in the East, and we are‘ comeltoiworship ‘ "hf-,‘m,_'_Sv1‘..NIA'I‘:':l“£IEW,ll.,2. ’ I " This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of‘ which the “WEEKLY is now devoted. ‘It has been clearly, ‘ shown in our present series "of leading articles that it repre- ,, sentsthe, coming blending together of the inhabitants (if the,__ earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood,.an§. the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced, butwhich, deﬁned in a few words, is, God‘ in man reconciling the world unto Himself We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work. V capital punishment is not destined to be wiped out of the penallaws of the world. Besides, the States in which it has been aboli’she;dR, its abolition has been agitated many more,'if, not in all others. In the Legislature of our own State thereis constant agitation over this question; each year some amendatorv law is enacted restricting the-number of cases inwhich l[if8.:%II13.y be -forfeited. ‘It «is safe to say that‘-‘in aﬁve years ~—«this’ remnant of - barbarity ‘will have ceased to exist in New York%.':- ‘There ‘has been a wonderful, change ', in public ‘sentiment within” even single year;‘;_, This may be seen in ‘tlle_“‘tToiie'7of the prvess, which: is the“ barometer of the public thought.11ppn "any given stibject, rather than the projector of ;that‘tho1igl1t. Prominent papers that, a year ago, ,clamgred for the blood of Foster, and that would have denounced the Governor had he com- muted the sentence’ to_i;mprisonmcnt for life, would now commend that act of, mercy in the ‘case of Dolan, should the Governor be suﬂiciently: imbued w‘ith‘the_ spirit of the age, to make the commutation. Mr. Tilden is an aspirant _act that he has ihtinqhis power to do to, would so turn that gre at mass of people, k'n‘owr’i"as liberals and radicals, toward: him , as this one of mercy to this poor man. . The law gives ‘the Governor the power-.‘ Let‘ him rise to the height of a» Mosaic slrall be by ‘victims op the lgallo,v_y_s. But aside from the Christian duty and view of.,the case, there ,_is another question: whether capital punishment is expedient. . MThZos"‘e who have given most time to the study of the subject; who‘, have deduced the legitimate teach- no State where the law has been once" abolished can the leg“-" islatures be induced to retrace their steps taken tow»ard‘4?per- fect enliglrtenrnent.. It has been frequently :observed that a ‘number of murders -follow closely on ‘the executioniof a murderer. And it should be expected thatthey would‘. The whole air becomes loaded with the horror, and"'those who at, that ‘time are‘ thrown int’o:circ‘umst_a“nces' which tend to devdlop theﬁendish in{h_u‘man-natnre,,_are_toucl1ed by the general, inﬂuence, and by it are pushed into committing crimes‘ theyjwould otherwise have escaped committing. Children even play hanging, to see how it feels, and the in heaven; for he maketh the sun to rise on,,thc evil and on the good, ' - deed ; was born a murderer. for the presidential successi‘on. Let us sayto him that no" ‘eﬁgct real Christian and say. while that power remains in_.his_ ’ ‘hands, no i'1_1ore"fde'nials ‘that Christ wasthe fuﬁlment of ‘ the? ” [whole public pulse beats with the horror in some unpleasant L sense. While this is all true, it cannot be proven that the fear cg being hanged ever prevented any contemplated murder, nor will it be assumed by {anybody that it ever could prevent one done in the heat of passion, in which most murders are committed. But there is another and a still more horrid view of hanging as a punishment‘ for murder, and one which, when it shall come to be understood as it ought to be, will prove that hanging is not only inexpedient, but that it is an active cause of murder. The inﬂuence that hanging has upon children has been alluded to-, but what shall be said of the inﬂuence that it has upon children in gestation? It is during this period that the future character of children is formed. Every child born inherits the capacitiesto do all the deeds that it will ever perform. Every person who ever murdered was born with the capacity to do the ‘horrid The reason that one commits a murder under the same circumstances that another. does not, is because the latter did not inherit the capacity to be roused to the deed by the circumstances that had that effect upon the former. The world knows little about the inﬂuence that mothers have upon their unborn ehildren, but it is the most important period of life. It is while in this condition of development that the whole future character is decided. It is true that care and education may develop or restrain the good or bad that is impressed upon the child V by the mother in the gestative period; but they can never wholly eradicate the bad that is then sown,{or in graft the good upon the character in which it is lacking at birth. Hundreds of cases might be cited to prove that mothers not only meke their children what they are physically, but that they do so much more frequently and potently, mentally and mor- ally.’ Indeed it is a terrible fact thattmothers make their children just what they are, save what they derive from the father by the ‘law of heredity. Let the whole calendar of vices and crimes he run tlirough, and it would be found, if the truth could be arrived at, that the cause for the promi- nence of any special tendency of the individual to either was derived from the mother before its birth. Monstrosities even, have been known to be the result of the sudden im- pressions made upon the mother by some monstrosity. This being true, it is easy to conceive the awful results that hang- ing may produce through the mother upon the child. It is doubtless true that the real cause of nine~tenths of all the murders that_are committed, might be traced to some horrid things, impressed upon the mind of the child in embryo, and it is also doubtless true, that hundreds, if not thousands, are born and live having the capacity to murder, who escape the deed because no sufficient circumstances ever come upon them to develop it. Every fact that sends a thrill of horror through the soul, should be studiously avoidedby all child-bearing mothers, and especially should themost horrid of all horrible things—a brutal taking of life upon the gallows in deﬁance of all sentiments of human- ity and mercy, and of all the’ teachings and precepts of Christ—be banished from the knowledge of mothers when performing the divinest of all human missions; when creating an immortal soul, a temple of thelliving God. , If this line of argument be once recognized as logical, and it be shown that it is sustained by facts, the past in- justice of the world, to so-called criminals, will be made clear; A This unfortunate class will be shown to have suf- ’fe1§e1_dr}for the wrongs of the community. Being themselves the results of the evils that exist in the community, they are made to suffer the -penalties of its crimes. Every act is the result of adequate producing causes, and go backward and still backward each effect can be traced through a con- stant series of «causation, until the .primal' cause, -be it of ill or good, is reached, which. determined the whole. It is truegthat this wil1“d,estroy the commo,nly,acceptcd.idea of personal; responsibility; but if such responsibility be a thing havingfjio foundation in fact, ought it not to be destroyed? say,‘ unhe-sitatingly, yes! For if it be a myth, then its explosion will};-clear,_ the_..way for right-thinking and right- acting upon. the ‘cases which it has hitherto controlled. hen}.-crime shall come 1’-to be considered as a hereditary diseaselof_the mind or body, as the casemay be, which it really then the proper method for its eradication from society, willbe considered. Now, the people deal with its I s,‘ never looking‘ back to learn the causes. ;Cure’s of es, physical, mental and moral are what the efforts of ’ arefexpended ~to perform; Prevention is scarcely , , about as necessary or possiblevwhile, if one-half the effort were expended upon methods for prevention, that are put forth to cure or punish, viceaud crime would almost wholly-disappear within a generation.’ _ _ . _ “This is’ the end toward which all our efforts have’ been ings from statistics, not hesitate to say that hangings‘-V‘ . increase rather ‘thangdecrease the number of murders.~ In; 'a’imedi We would have ithelawsof generation and the re- -lations of the sexes so well understood, and the responsi. ‘b,i1ities_and duties of parentage so clearly deﬁned, that a child with evil ttendenciesf might be made an Impossibility.’ We would have this truth brought home to every parent’s heart as well as mind: That, if their children turn out to be more of ill than good, or wholly bad, it is because they failed ‘ in some respectsto do their duty to them, or else that they were conceived under circumstances, the existence of which sh_ould- have forbidden the conception. Here is theﬁreal point at which efforts ‘must begin before any permanent good can be effected.“ So long as we go on punishing crime merely, without seeking to stop its production, the same crimeswill continue to be committed, and society will re. ‘I «Mr. . is l-.=_ , April 22, 1876. woonnunr. as CLAVFLIN’ WEEKLY.. main where it now stands. But let the axe be laid to the root of the evil; let crime and vice and disease cease from being transmitted from parents to child1'en, and improve- ment will be at once perceptible. The same law that gov- erns, and that is recognized as governing, in breeding stoek and fruits and ﬂowers, governs also in the breeding of the human race. If avicious horse become the sire of a colt which is foaled by a vicious dam, the owner expects a vicious colt, and is never disappointed. So the children of vitiated parentage may, with certainty, be expected. to be vicious. - It was the understanding of this law that enabled < -4%.. Jacob to raise cattle of the color that he desired, and to thus circumvent Laban. The exhibition of the desired colors to the dams, during their proper seasons, secures those colors in their young. So will the exhibition to mothers of the dreadful horrors of the gallows, either literally or by pen-pictures secure in their young the .ele- ments of candidacy for the same horrors. , Too much cannot be said upon this theme. It is one of the most important that can enter the thoughts of thinking peo- ple, looked at from whatever view; from the standpoint of justice or expediency, or of mercy, capital punishment has nothing to recommend it. It stands as the one horrid remnant of almost effete barbarism; it stands as the one great denial that the Christian Era has been ushered in; it stands defying the immutable law of Godwhich declares, that “vengeance is mine; I will repay,” saith the Lord; it stands a mockery to justice, to mercy, to humanity. Let Governor Tilden defy its pretensions, and deal it a -blow from which it can never’ recover, by commuting the sen- tence of the unfortunate Dolan to imprisonment for life; and if he will do it for the reasons set forth by us, and set them forth to be his reasons for the act of mercy, he will become the prophet for its certain and speedy destruction in every State in the Union. Let him rise to the grandeur of the real issues involved in the question; rise above Dolan and above the thought of mercy for him; above his victim and his avenging ; rise to the good of lfumanity ; to the heights of principles and truths which underlie the un- deloped welfare of the race, and his name will go down to posterity as a saviour. ———————-+~9-—-—-—- MRS. HARDY’S DEFENSE. We had intended this week to publish Mr. Hardy’s state- ment in rebuttal of that of Bronson Murray and others’; which was contained in our last week’s number and also to have made a close analysis of the Boston Herald’s state- ment of Mrs. Hardy’s seance in Boston, which the ~.Bam2e7' denominates her vindication. But as Mrs. Hardy has now joined in a statemnnt in answer to the original one,‘ we‘ shall content ourselves with its’ presentation——merely re__- marking that to our mind a point blank denial would have been stronger, especially as they neglect to explain the Cotton-wool detectives—together with the second statement of her New York impeachers. We may observe, however, that we seenothing in the Herald’s statement of Mrs. Har- dy’s vindication but what might be performed without the aid of spirits, while it will seem strange, to say the least, that after spirits go to the trouble of materializing‘ a hand to form a paraﬁine mold, that ‘ they should invariably crush it nearly ﬁat, and drop it about so carelessly as to break its ﬁngers. Let Mrs. Hardy, or the spirits through her mediumship, produce,.a mould under the conditions mentioned by us last week, then she may fairly set up-' the ,elaim of having done so under test conditions. But even ttoauzwevw then the persons having charge must be investigators and not friends of the medium. , . ‘ We repeat again that we arefully convinced that the con- ditions under which complete materialization can occur ' do“ not yet exist, and that when they do they will not bevvfound a public business seance room. A spirit materialization of any kind can enlyhpbe produced wherethevnecessary ma- terial exists in the atmosphere. That material will ’not' be taken directly from the body of the medium, nor cana=sin- gle medium furnish it. It must be the "harmonized ele- ments that have passed through the organism of two people completely-unitized in the relations of the sexes. ‘Iii’: other.“ words, the elements cannot bewholly male or female, but must be blended properly together, the latter being viviﬁed by the former, upon the same prmciple that original con- ception takes place. Hence genuine materialization may be ‘ expected to appear in the harmonic lfome, where by lapse of time everything becomes permeated with the spirit of unity which rules- the dominating spirits of that home. In the ‘ ,' quiet sanctuary of love, shutout from the cares and bustle of the world, and from the iinharmonies and’skepticism ofwa modern investigating seance, is the place where ‘a spirit from the otherworldwill be most likely to put in an ap- pearance. Where this place may be we‘ dd not know ; but that ‘such a one is being prepared we have the fullest" assur- ance of those who have the matter in charge, and who have been moving for ﬁfty years to bring about the proper" con- ditions. One of two things is certain‘: Our in_formation that there have been no genuine materializations is correct, or else that for ten years we have been. under the guidance ' of a phantasy, and our work means nothing." For our part we have no doubt which is true, and we havethe most su- preme faith that it willbe made clear to the world that it is so within the present year. . 1 It is no part of our design that the WEEKLY shall be made the medium for the exposition of fraudulent materializations. We have higher objects than this. All fraud in medium- ship will fall of itself in time,’ and all false materialization will hide its head when the genuine shall appear. THE KOBOLDS HAVE COME. POSITIVELY THE LAST APPEARANCE AND BENEFIT or EMMA HARDINGE BRITTEN. “‘l3ub’ble, bubble, toil and trouble.” VVe have received from some unknown friend, we pre- sume for notice, a copy of the long-expected work, entitled, “Art Magic; or Mundane, Sub-Mundane-and Su'per—Mundane editor, and about which such a tremendous hub-bub has been made in the Banner of Light and other Spiritualistic papers. Now that jwejhave this volume on our editorial table. we are enabled to "judge of its merits, and we can conﬁdently state, after careful perusal, that this book is not at all what we were led to expect it wouldbe, from the grand ﬂourishes successfully victimized with the idea that what this book i shbuld contain would be something altogether new to Eng- lish literature; something that could not be optained else- where. The seeress of the Theosophists, the acquaintance of the Kobolds, and the Queen of the Light~Fantastic, A has gained a victory over Professor Gardner's protege whose toeless, stockings and cotton-wool pale into insigniﬁcance before the -awful histrionic majesty of the unparalleled em-prenziere danseuse. N If the book be an’ apology for the Theosophists, we are sorry for them. They have made agrand mistake in mixing themselves up with such a concern as these 467 pages. We had a better appreciation of the judgment of Arch- _Magus Olcott and High Priestess Blavatsky, the friends of D. D. Home and G. L._Bloede than that they should have fathered such a bantling. They have damaged their cause irretrievably, and their chancesof transforming the present jangling discordance of Spiritualism into a kind of hybrid Theosophy, is now very slim. After this ﬁasco, we would recommend them to integralize with the Pantarchy, if Stephen Pearl Andrews will open his “Magic” Portals and accept them, if , When we read the ﬁrst notice of “Art Magic” to “Ad- vanced Thinkers. and Students of Occult Science,” we thought it “ rather thin” to say the least. That “European gentleman, temporarily sojourning in the United States, who had been a life-long student of the theory and practice of occult science, acquired in Arabia, Egypt, the East and results of his wonderful and extensive researches into Nature’s most profound mysteries with a. limited number of worthy students,” we had not much belief in. We even had the temerity to imagine that he might be identical with his friend, “Emma Hardinge Britten, 206 West 38th street, New York City, who will act as Secretarypro tem., and receive the names and addresses of those persons who de- sire to make one of the 500 subscribers,” neither more C?) nor less (?) _ x V . We -were not much mistaken, (and we will refer our readers to our last year’s ﬁle,) in supposing that there was tobé some trickery in a work which was . “not to be pub- lished or sold by any professional ﬁrm, nor submitted for review-to any professional critic,” and we were certain ,th_ere_would be some “Theosophy" in the manipulation of .,the $5 "subscriptions to be paid C. ,0. D. We wondered from whence the necessity came of making stereotyped plateswhen “Art Magic” could be printed from the type d‘irect_,'and the further necessity of destroying type which, _ -afte_r.di-stribution, might have been used again. Although wefhdfd our doubts, we must acknowledge that even for a time we believed there was something in magic, and began to realize the possibility of the mundane devil of a printer being superseded by the super-mundane and sub-mundane Gnomes, Sylphs and Salamanders, who might, in the twinkling of an eye, by some occult_ “hocus-pocus” means, incarnate 500 ﬁnite (:9) copies of the.European gentleman’s dubricationsy to be supplied at $5.00, C. O. D. But, no! iAll our hopes were dashed like a super-mundane Undine amid the waters, when “Abecadabra,” and “Hi—Presto” had to make way for “Wheat & Cornett, Book and Job "Printers," 8 Spruce Street, New York,” who, alas! have to be paid byimundane Yankee dollars. . - r ' w‘The- book which Wasiimpudently prospectused to A be “the ﬁrst and, it is believed, onlypublication in existence magic, natural magic, Modern Spiritism, the diﬁerent orders of spirits in the universe known to be related to or in communicationwith man, together with directions for invoking, controlling, and discharging spirits, and the uses and abuses, dangers and possibilities of magical art,” is nothing of the kind, and Emma Hardinge Britten and her ‘ ‘‘European gentleman” are as much awareof thefact as our- selves. It is simply a re-hash of books accessible to any student of even limited means, and can be readily found in. almostjany book store, or on the shelves of any public library. Ennemoser’s “History of Magic,” Howitt’s “Supernatural,” Salverte’s “Philosophy of Magic,” Hargrove Jennings’ i“Rosicrucians,” Barrett's “Magus,” Agrippws “Occult Spiritism,” of which Emma Hardinge Britten claims to be- that were indulged in, invitbs ‘prospectus. The subsc:ibers. to “Art Magic,” in our opinion, have been completely and- West Indies, etc., ete.,” who had “at the earnest solicitation- of some of his friends and associates, consented to sharethe , which will give an authentic and practical descriptionof art‘ Philosophy,” and a few others, are the real sources of this wretched compilat,ion,,which is full of bad grammar and worse assumptions. We unhesitatingly assert there is not a single important statement in the book which cannot be discovered in already printed works, and if there be a few of no importance not t_o be so found, then they have been concocted in Thirty-eight street. As for composition, it would have been done better by a Writer" of hysterical literature on the,_New York Weekly, which we insult by the comparison. H P I ' The paste pot and scissors have been most injudiciously used; a tyre in what the book pretends to discourse upon, would have made a‘ better book, and what is more would, by using the least brains, have escaped making the errors of which “Art Magic Spiritism” is full to repletion. T The deﬁnitions of matter, force and spirit are altogether ‘ erroneous, and the. account’ of the opinions of the pre- Christian systems of magic and occultism, all at sea. Then the philosophy ofjthe Rosicrucians, Fire Philosophers, and Medimval Mystics have been grossly misr‘epresented. By far the mpst egregious absurdity is, however, dis- coverable in thatfpart relating to the Elementaries and the ritual to be used for invoking, controlling and discliarging (H? - those interesting creatures after having caught and bottled them." ‘The directions supposed to be given by Emma Hardinge Bi'itten’s magical E_u_ropean gentleman (I) is simply word for word the already" published folly of old Peter de Abanol Here circles and pentagons are resus- citated in all their pristine glory. The co-jﬁsecrations and benedictions of perfumes, and exorcisms in the name of the “God of Abraham, God of .Isaac,’and Gcd‘ ‘of Jacob,” are ' entered into at great length in what must appear to Christians themostjblasphemous manner. But the crowning ridicule, is ‘the dress necessary for invocation, which must be a “priest’s garment,” if possible; “but, if it cannot be had, let it be of linen, and clean.” We wonderwhether Cardinal McCloskey is aware of the value appertaining to the surplices of his clergy, if not, we would advise him to enter at once into arrangements with Emma Hardinge Britten, 20.6 West 38th Street, New York, to supply the Theosophical Society“ If this fail, then, perhaps, Lester Wallack or Edwin Booth might be induced, for “auld lang. syne,” to,have theirgreen rooms rummaged and send a con- tribution of cast off clean white linen ballet garments to the Mott Memo rial Hall, where they could be submitted at one of the fortnightly meeting of Theosophicans to Emma Hardinge Bri,tt_en,, who, from past experience, understands the ins and outs of all that “sort of -thing.” , A Instead of the ritual given, it would _have been sensible to have reprinted the witch scene in Macbeth, or the invocations in Faust, as the plagiarised -rubbish of which this part of the bookis full. , V The illustrations are, however, a pretty good,‘ perhaps the best, indication of the actual character of the book. There are two hideous plates of the real, original howling dervishes, which, strange to say, have been copied from the cartoons, representing the tour of the Prince of Wales in India, in a New..Yor_k weekly. -The ridiculous fall from the European gentleman ,(?) Twho hasvtravelled in “Arabia, Egypt, the East and West Indies’, etc., etc.,” culminating in the sublimity of the conceptions of one of Frank Leslie’s draughtsmen is as magniﬁcently grand as one of the trans- formation scenes Emma Hardinge Britten used to ﬁgure in behind the footlights as a sub-mundane Kobold or a super- mundane Fairy. 1 » _ F . , W 4 I The wood cuts of the Pentagon, Sistrum of the Celestial Mother, representing the Symbol of Virginity, Harpocrates "adoring the feminine generative organs, the Crux-Ansata, the -Egyptian Amulet of Anubis, Ezekiel’s‘ Wheel, the Tower of Babel, Stonehenge, etc.,,are all taken without acknow- ledgement, in common parlance, stolen, from Hargrave Jennings’ “The Rosicrucians.” ‘ The cut of Cornelius Aggripa is from Morley’s “Life of Agrippa,” and the portraits of Nostradamus and Paracelsus are from Mackay’s “Extraordinary Popular Delusions.” ‘ .It is a great pity that the “Newgate iCale"ndar”'an'd the _“Beecher Scandal Trial” were not drawn upon, but we/suppose that the length of -theqimagination. of ‘the. compiler did not run to the extent 0_f believing that the special_~500 could be so_ ex- traordinarily deluded as to believe that these fruitful sources could have had anything to do with an “European gentle- man temporarily sojourning in the United States.” From a careful analysis of theistyles of composition in “Art Magic” with that of . Emma. H'ardinge’s “Modern American;Spiritualism,” we-do not hesitate to assert the H ‘ belief that the authors are identical.-, Emma Hardinge Britten may endeavor tohide her head in the sand as muchras she pleases, -but those accustomed to her Trago-dr amatical mode of writing canscarcely be mistaken. The fulsome and eulogistic credentials of herself are too ‘characteristic and too‘ rich to be overlooked, 1 particularly where’ speaking t'ncognt'to of her high tone and excellence, or‘ where she is styled a “highly esteemed Englishifriend” (l) or where “the unworthy jibes, sneers, for our gentle, faithful, and long-suffering editor,” (1 I) “and cruel insults which have been levelled against the excellent lady,’’ (! l !) "her judg- ment andhhonesty,” (1!!!) “her good ,'faith"and hon- esty,” (! ! ! ! !) etc., etc., etc., ad mtuseum, are treated" of. Taking all this into consideration, about which thereisnot much’ magic',"but a, considerable amount of, art, and the en- dorsement of. thatvoluminous series of-. extracts from the Banner of Light and other Spiritualist papers called Har- equally , U / x misery, vice and crime shall have no;place‘ 6 . V WOODHULL 4% OLAFLIN’S:'f;WEEKLY. dingc’s “Modern American Spiritualismﬂ.’ we feel it to be our duty to call the attention {of the great "American show- man to this champion assumptionistlof America. But as “all the world’s alstage, and all the men and women on’t are players,” so we suppose Emma Hardinge Britten must play her part as she.has done since she skimmed over the boards! over twenty-ﬁve long years ago. If she choose to dance the Can-Can in one of her old Columbine costumes before the Theosophicians, she has the perfect right to do so. ‘i If she choose to assume the role of. an, Alchemist and publish awork claiming to be in- spired by Hippocrateps, and extolling Emma Hardinge Britten’s “Great New French and Viennese Systems of, Electrical ‘Cure, and the Infallible Electrical Cranial Diagnosis,” by means of Emma Hardinge Britten’s “Elec- trical,Vapour Bath” and “Electra Magnetic Medical Battery,” she can do so with perfect impunity. ' Y But when she attempts‘ to palm off a book of this descrip- tion’ upon a chosen 500 as something entirely new, and as fresh from the brain of “an European gentleman brieﬂy so- journing in America,” (of whom even the Theosophists themselves are kept in ignorance;’’) we are not restricted by any rules of honor from pointing out the truth about it, as we have endeavored to do in this review of this most wondrous of all the wonderful booksof the world. Had this book been offered to a special 500 as a_ compila- tion from well-known authors of theories, mysticisms, symbolisms, and of illustrations of the old'Pha11ic Worship, we could have commended it; but even then the same things could have been obtained from‘ other and original sources in better form, and for less money than $5.00 0. O. D We prophesy that this attempt to found a society based upon the ideas of old mysticisms, of which E. H. B. shall be the central ﬁgure, ‘Will’ be «a failure, because it 2 lacks honesty of purpose at its foundation, which is an essential element of success in whatever undertaking. A4: A V ‘wr'* OPENING OF SCIENCE HALL. We commend the attention of our readers in New York to the -fact, that Sunday, April 16, Science Hall, 141 Eighth Street, will be dedicated to the service of Liberalism. The Religio-Scientiﬁc Society, the Liberal Club, and other organizations will hold their meetings in this new hall in future.’ and in order to have a proper ‘opening, Mr. Charles Sotheran, the well-known liberal author, has con- sented to give the dedication address. » His subject will be, “The Struggle between Theology and Science; Torque- made and Gallileo. We trust that all who value the inesti- mable privileges of free thought and free discussion will be present, not only indeference to the circumstances of the occasion, but out of regard to the lecturer, one of the most hearty workers in the cause of religious and social reform. . % LIFE-SIZE LITHOGRAPH. We are now prepared to ﬁll all orders for life-size litho- graphs of Victoria 0. Woodhull, from the‘ lithographic establishment of Armstrong & Co., of Boston, Mass. They are splendid pictures, both as a Work of art and as like- nesses. They are printed on heavy paper-20x24 inches, and specially adapted for framing. They will be sent post- paid, securely wrapped to ‘guard against damage, to any address for 50 cents. The common'price.of lithographs ofthis size is $2; but we have arranged with the publisher to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that. they can be resold at the price named without loss to us. They are thus put within the means and reach of everybody who desires to have a splendid life-size portrait of the Editor-in- Chie o the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to the -/inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which ._...—_-——p--<o+—<-—-—-——- THE GARDEN or EDEN. The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but we . have prepared a pamphlet edition, which, to meet the extraordinary demand that has -been made for the paper, we Will furnish in lots of ten at $1; or more at same rate- ——-_—..--—-—p-—-«Q»-< (From the Brooklyn Argus, April 7, 1876.). vIcToRIA C. w0,'oDHULL’s LECTURE. Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull stepped upon the stage Of the Academy of Music, last evening, with a morocco bound copy of the Bible in her hand, and read in the. presence of fully twelve hundred people, these words: “Know ye notthat. ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man deﬁle the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple Y8 are-" An outline of the lecture based upou this Biblical text has already tappeared in the columns of the Argus. Mrs. Wood- hull was frequently applauded.__ Z R A TEXAS judge is credited; with the following decission: “The fact is. Jones, the jail is an old, rickety affair, as cold 9.; an iron wedge. You applied to this court for a release on bail, giving it as your opinion thyt you would freeze to death there. The weather has not moderated, and to keep you from freezing, I will direct the sheriff to hang Y0l1.3t 10111‘ o'clock this afternoon. _ . ; » P » ‘ V THE REPLY on MR. AND MRS. HARDY. Allow us to express our surprise and astonishment at the course pursued by Mr. Murray and the other signers, call- ing themselves old Spiritualists, toward a. medium of ten years’ standing, meeting with us at these seances, all of them under strict test conditions, and pretending to the very last that they were well pleased and satisﬁed as to their genuine- ness, allowing us to leave your city without even a hint of anything wrong, and then_,». in star-chamber fashion, con- spiring -to blast the fair fame of a medium and woman, without giving an" opportunity of explanation, denial or de- fence; without even extending the poor boon, granted by the commonlaw to the murderer before trial, to plead guilty or not guilty,«and then rush said star-chamber proceedings into the press all over the country. Had anything been discovered during any one of these seances tending to prove fraud, why was not the medium confronted with your proofs on the spot? thus giving an opportunity of explaining or denying, if possible, instead of bidding us God-speed to the very last, with a Judas kiss from Mrs. Austin’ thirty minutes before boardingthe steamer. Talk of old theology! why, there is not a church in the country that would thus have condemned, unheard, one of the most miserable of its, members! If such are the fruits of Modern Spiritualism, then either old theology or materialism would be preferable for there is more humanity in either. A I In regard to the charges made in said statement, the mos ' of them are too insigniﬁcant and ridiculous to claim our no— - tice. ~ As to the parafﬁne dropped in the street, while we were going to the seance, it was a handful of pieces that had been removed from those previously taken.‘ while in your city. The paraﬂine molds are removed from the plaster cast in pieces, and saved for futureuse at the next trial. The valise containing the paraﬂine sprung open and some of these pieces? fellout, and Mrs. Hardy and my- self gathered them up. l_ Mrs. Austin did not exclaim,“ “There is a. paraﬂine hand!” the word mold, or parafﬁne » was not mentioned by either of us three, on the occasion, and Mrs. Austin did not even stoop to gather up a fragment of: it. and the question was not broached at Austin’s house, pre- vious to starting, as to whether we had any molds or not. So this merely resolves itself into a question of veracity be- tween Mrs. Austin and ouijselvos. As to the charge that what is seen and felt in the aperture of the table, claiming to be hands, on which rings have been put hundreds of times, and which takes bcllsfrom our hands and rings them, ofttimes three at once. are the toes of the‘ medium, as certiﬂedto by Dr. Hull on this occasion, it is too ridiculous to notice. Mr. Murray knows better himself, from his own experience with Mrs. Hardy at his own house. and other places. In regard to ﬁngers being seen by Mrs. Lane protruding from under the dress. of the medium, it was a manifestation of materialized ﬁngers, often occurring with thismedium when sitting with Spiritualists. On this occasion Mrs. Hardy was sitting before and near an open grate ﬁre, hot enough‘ to destroy a paraﬂine mold in ﬁve minutes. It was explained at the time, and Mrs. Austin made this remark: “What a sensation I might get up, were I so disposed, by declaring I saw a mold fastened under your dress l”, - ~ ' The only other point worthyof notice in this famous docu- ment, is in regard to the weighing process. This test has been applied about twelve times in the presence of large com- panies, four times of which were in public halls. the- weighing each time superintended by a committee chosen by the audience, and weighedby them before, and re-weighed after the seance then and, there, and never going from the cogni- zance of said committee; the result. on each occasion, a. weight gone from the vessel containing the liquid, equivalent to the weight of the mold taken. Now, on this occasion, instead ‘of having a disinterested committee from the audience, one of which at least being a . friend of the medium, and having the whole thing settled on the spot, Mr. Murray goes alone, slyly, and weighs a certain portion of parafﬁne. Then he loses sight of it, and it goes intothe hands of two others, who have every opportunity of manipulating, the same at pleasure. Then water is added to it; then, after the mold has been obtained, instead of re- weighing the vessel in presence of all the parties, they slyly wait till the “dispersal of the company,” when twoladies take the paraﬂine, while yet ‘so soft that it can-lrbeﬂrolled together, and lay it away till the next Monday morning. Who or how many had access to it between Saturday night and Monday morning, no friend of the medium knows.‘ . Then Mr. Murray again, alone, takes it away, and weighs it, and. behold! it weighs the same as before. And will you call this a. fair. candid and honorablerproceeding? And does'Bronson Murray lend himself to such an equivocal methodof trylnga. medium he has sat‘with, tested and endorsed during five years? and sign his name, in condemnation, on such=te'sti— vmouy? Et tu Brute? . Of the Austins, we have nothing more to say. Their con- duct in this whole thing (taking into consideration thatwe were their urged and invited guests), is beneatli,g.1’cont'e‘j,1‘i’pt. But Mr. Murray, whom we respect as a candid. honestvand upright man. and who fully and thoroughly endorsed Mrs. J Hardy as a genuine medium, in the matter of these seances, before your honorable Conference, the S_undayz;:following these seances, and who was probably induced to sign the Austin document by the seeming discrepancy in the weighing , process, ought not to have tried a dog on such loose manage- ment as that last weighing. Perhaps we have more experience in this matter than he has. Let us suggest to him the following experiment: Take a. stated quantity of paraﬁine, dissolve it in water, and then allow it to stand until the water be.comes thoroughly cold. Turn off the water, and the wax will weigh the same as when deposited in the vessel. But remove the vparaiﬁne, as was done in this case, while yetlsoft and pliable fenougjh to be rolled together, and there will be water enough remaining in the mass suﬂicient to weigh’ down the mold of any hand. Will Mr. Murray try the experiment? ” I V “ The very fact of the parafﬁne being removed fromthe ves— sel. as that was by those ladies, and rolled up while,yet.~s,o,ft, and weighing the same as the original, is proof positivcthat a portion of‘ the parafﬁne had been abstracted frornthe mass. To have proved this point it ought to have weighed two or three ounces more than the original. Thus much ' for the weighing process. ~ _ Mrs. Hardy thoroughly appreciates the good sense of the Conference, in twice refusing to lend’ their sanction to that unfair, unkind and ex parte statement, and trusts that it will not be long before she will prove to you that you have ‘not misplaced your conﬁdence. ‘ It is gratifying to be assured that she still has some true friends_in your city, and friends who do not desert when under a. guerilla ﬁre like this are friends indeed. She has no fears for the future. The loved ones over the border, who have so signally stood by her for the past ten years, will see her safe through to the ,last‘. And we assure you we‘ are very grateful that the Conference re- membered that Mrs. Hardy was not present to defend her- self, and took the course they did. Yours fraternally, ! J onrv HARDY, . * . MARY M. HARDY. 4 Concord Square, Boston, April 3d, 1876, A April 22, 1876. AGAINST MRS. HARDY. .Pursuing our inquiry in this matter of the genuineness of the molds produced in New York by Mrs. Hardy, we ob- serve: 1st. That our statement of the 23d of March and its facts are not contradicted nor denied by Mrs. Hardy, the Banner of Light, nor any one in its last issue. 2d. That statement, besidn other facts not necessary now tobe used-, asserted that dry cotton wool was found in the molds claimed to have just come from paraﬁine ﬂoating on water; that parafﬁne placed in the pail weighed twenty ounces when it went into the pail and twenty ounces when it came out of the pail, while the mold claimed by the Har- dys to have come from it, weighed two and one-half ounces; that the weighing was done on an apothecary’s scales which were accurate; that when the seams of the bag were known to be out of Mrs. Hardy's reach, no mold was produced. .‘3d. From the above we deduce that, measured by the standard selected by Mrs. Hardy, viz: weighing, these New York molds did not comefrom the paraﬂine in the pail (as claimed)‘ but did come from some other source. We wait for an explanation as to what that source was. In the absence of such explanation from the Banner of Light. Mr. Hardy, or any one else, we propose in our next to state where they may have come from, much more naturally and easily than from the spirits or the water, and how they could have been deposited under the table by Mrs, Hardy, which Mr. Hardy in the Banner desires we should do. BRONSON MURRAY, 238 W. 52d St. Trros. K. AUSTIN, 418 W. 57th St. MARGARET Z. AUSTIN. “ ELVINA ANN LANE, 66 Park Ave. MOLLIE A. LANE, “ JANE DEF. HULL, 140 W. 42d St. LITA BARNEY SAYLES, ' " 4; %7 BUSINESS NOTICES. The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 Washington street Salem, Mass. 4 ' WANTED—A competent lady associate in the conduct of a Radical Magazine. Albert, 205 East 14th street. To LET.—A nicely furnished front room, 820 Washington st., Boston. To arﬁrst-class clairvoyant or physician, this is a desirable opportunity. Call and see. Dr. N. G. COLE. M . 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M “Jackson ............. 1.001 DI. 11.30 1*- “ Chicano . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 ‘ “ Chicago”... . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 8.45 i) in Ar }l.ilu'aIiko 5.30 A M 11.50 A M, Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. 5.30 a. m. l‘{r.Prairie du__CheiIi . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 P M. . Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . .'.. 8.55 p. m. In ............. .. 11.50 P. M. 7.05 .1. M Ar LaCrosse .............. .. 7.05 .1 r_)I_ 7.05 a. m. I17-“st. Paul .................. .. 0.15 1». M Ar St. Paul ...... ..... .. 7.00 .1. M. 3 15 11. M. Ar St. Louis .............. .. 8.15 1». M. ‘Ar Scdalia ...... ......... .. 5.40 1». M. Ar Sedalia. ............... .. 6.50 1. M. “ Dcnison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Denison ......... 8.00 “ 10.45 “ “ Galveston ...... . .1 10.00 “ . Ar Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M. Ar Bismarck..... ......... .. 12.01 P. Jr. “Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 A. M. . .. “ Columbus ...... 6.30 “ “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 P. M. “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Ar Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. 111- A1 Burlington ............ .. 7.0!) P. M . _ “ Omaha ................... .. 11.00 P. M- “ Omaha ........ ..... .. 7.45 A. it. .. ’ “ Che venue .. . “ Cheyenne......... ..... .. 12.50 P. M. .. ‘.“O’5'(J13(3l1...‘ ............. ' ::::::..:.: :::: I “Ogden ............... .. 5.30 « .2: “ Srfn Francisco...... . . . . . . . .. ”‘ “ San Francisco ....... .. , 8.30 “ .. Ar Halcsburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A. 111- . Ar Galesburg .......... .. 4.45 P. M. . , “ uincy . . . . .. . 11.15 “ ,_ “ Quincey.... . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.45 " “ St. Joseph....... . 10.00 “' ..‘._ “ St. Joseph“... . . . . . . . .. (L10 A. M ..., “ Kansas City . . . . . .. . 10.40 P. M . . “ Kansas City. .......... .. €1.25 . “ ;...- ' “ Atchison..................... 11.00 “ . . “ Atchison .............. .. 11.17 “ -2 *- LeavcuW0rth.. ...... .. 12.10 .“ ~' " Leavenworth .......... .. 13.40 noon. ,,_‘.‘ Denve1'.,_,.~....._...:,,_........ 7.(\l2’A.,_M. .....-J, H “ Denver, .......... .... Cl. 9 Through? '*=SleepiI1g" Car Arrangements, .15 .e..',:.I.-—Day Express from Jersey _City (daily except Sunday), with Pu1lma_n’s Drawing-Room Cars ind connectin at Suspension Bridge with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. m the following ay in time to take the morning trains from there. 7 - .20 P. M.,-—Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to Ch,icu.gO without change, arriving there at 8.00 a. m., the morning trains to all points _West, Northwest and pouthwest. iving passengers ample time or breakfast and take CONNECTIONS or ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES or liicliigaii. Central & Great.WesterI1;DRailways. At St. Catharines, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne. — At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. At Harrisburg, with branch for Gait, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunk Railway. At London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. , Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley, an daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk Railway. Also De troit, Lansing & Lake Michigan R. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Also Detroit 85 Bay City R, R, llraiich Lake S. & M. S. R. R. to Toledo. ' At Wayne, with Flint 85 Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc. AtYpsila.n’ti, with Detroit, Hillsdale 85 Eel River R. Rs, for Manchester, Hillsdale, Bankei-‘s, Waterloo Columbia City, N. Manchester, Denver and Indianapolis. At Jackson, with Grand River Valley Branch, for Eaton Rapids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nuncia, Pent . water, and all intermediate stations. Also, with Air Line for Homer, Nottowa, Three_Rivers and Cassopolls. Also . with Jack, Lansing do I Saginaw Branch. for Lan81ng&0w0SSO. Saginaw, Wenoua, Standish, Crawford and intermediate stations. Also with Fort Wayne, Jack Saginaw R. R. for Jonesvllle, Waterloo, you-1 Wayne, and Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cin. R. R. to Cincinnati. R Id. for Clam Lake and intermediate stations. At Battle Creek, with.Peninsular R. R. I A Kalamazoo, with South Haven Branch, to f31.egl1‘1${)tlg0]1311,a§1%l1litl3fI:£8:V§IJ&e§(E: ,A1ﬁ‘o1\{lth G. Rapids & Ind, Lit Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw. At Niles, with South Bend Branch. ‘ At New Buffalo, with Chicago 85 Mich. Lakes.’ R. R-. for St. Joseph, Holland, Muskegon, Pentwstsr and all intermediate stations. , At Michigan City, with Indianapolis, Peru. 85 Chico: B. 3» Also with Louisville, New Albany do Chi,- caszjo R. R. At Lake, with J oliet Branch to J oliet. UK ( 1 At Chicago, with all railroads diverging. _ ‘ ’ ' “P A ‘ VALUABLE DI_SCOVERY.—Dr. J. P. Miller, a , practicing: physician at 3'27 Spruce street, Phila- ; del hia, has discovered that the extract of cranberries /, _. . lan hemp combined cures headache, either bilious, ._-..-...v.....r._._.«.~. g Where Advertising Contracts can be made, dyspeptic, nervous _or sick headache, neuralgia and nervousness. This is a triumph inmedical chemistry, and sufferers all over the country are ordering by mail. He prepares it in pills at 50 cents a box. The ‘ Doctor is largely known and highly respected‘.—-Pl:.éla- tlclpkia Bulletin. THIS PAPER Is’ ON FILE WITH V ‘ ’=> I , . K , O - . I O xce]_sm,.D0 Your 0wn Printing ' f A d - E. ﬂab $9} 555.?‘i§§§.$.1i§§‘%SlS1.§“§‘it%‘§f.5’ ___, ‘vi .\‘. ' Business Men dotheirprin ingand \°/’ iul pastime for spare hours. A-~ V '=**"*:-r—-'--«<-«-‘-~-:....,-....-.. .. ... advertising, save money and increase trade. Amateur Printing, deli - ht ‘aid; “ 45.5.3’ ' ‘J.-' B0 S :3 3.3. §§_§, ' E3 5%}: _~ have greatfun and make money fast .2‘,,,'a . :1 : >561» , |’rm-hr,-4'_] atpiinting. Sendtwostampsfor full :3‘; o 5 as r P 55 catalogue presses type etc, to the Mfrs ..;.*.’;§“: _ -~ 5 *5 ‘:3 ~ T6853 KELsEv&co.morsuen.oonn. » A <u::'5 :~8".: :. gag .. . -.»~—~—.- . - ... . WOODHULL & CLAFLIN. S WEEKLY April 22, 1876. SPIRIT COLLEGE. I MEDIUMS DEVELOPED, HEADERS INSTRUOTED, AND LEGAL 1 DIPLOMAS GRANTED THEM. Address Prof. J . B. CAMPBELL, M.jD., 136 Longworth street, Cincinnati, Ohio. What Young People Sh0uI0 Know. TI-IE REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION IN MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. By PROF. BURT ‘G. WILDER, of Cornell University. With twe1ity~six Illustrations, $1 50. Address _ CHAS. P. soiusnev, I Freethought Publisher, 139 E. EIGHTH STREET, New«York. JUST PUBLISHED. The Relations of the Sexes BY MRS. E. B. DUFFEY, - Author of “What Women_Should Know,” “ No Sex in Education,” etc. coNTENTs ". CHAP. 1~—Int7~oductory. . “ 2-Seamal Physiology. . _ ' . “ 3—2he Legitimate Sociat Instztutwns of the World—The Orient. . “ 4——The Legitimate Social Institutions of the World—- The Occident. 5-Polyqamy. “ 6——Free Love and Its Evils. “ 7—P7‘ostitutz‘on—1ts History and Em’. “ 8——Pr0stitution—]ts Causes. ' “_ 9——Proslilut12on-+Its Remedies. “ 10- Chastity. “ 11——1lIa7'riage and Its Abuses. “ 12—Marréage and Its Uses. “ 13~—7l7.'e limitation of Ozfspring. “ < 14——Enlightened Parenlaga. This book is written from a woman’s standpoint, with great earnestness and power. The author takes the highest moral and scientiﬁc ground. The book be und to have an immense sale. Price $2 00, postagp free. Address, WOODHULL & CLAFLIN, . 0. ox 3,791. New York City. NOTHING_LIKE IT STEPS TO THE KINGDOM. : BY Lois WAISBROOKER, Author of “Helen Har1ow’s Vow,” “Alice Vale,” Christians pray, “ Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” but they know not what they ask. Christians, read “Nothing Like It,” and see if you can afford to have your prayers answered; and, if not, make preparation, for the answer is sure to come in its own proper time. Bound in clotl1,12mo. 336 pages, $1 50; postage 18 cents. Address, WOODHULL &2 CLAFLlN, P. O. Box 3,791, New York City. _ DIVORCES LEGALLY, QUIETLY AND QUICK- ly obtained. Incompatibility suliicient cause; no publicity, no vexatious delays, correspondence con- ﬁdcntia , fee after decree, residence unnecessary. Address, P. 0. Box, 19, Corrine, Utah. SULPHUR SOAP. THE LEADING EXTERNAL REMEDY FOR LOCAL DISEASES OF THE SKIN, Bé.EMIS1ilSES‘0F THE COMPIEJXION, ORES, CALDS, URNS, nEU- MATISM AND GOUT, AND A RELIABLE DISINFECTANT A AND PREVENTIVE OF CONTAGION. This incomparable speciﬁc removes entirely and speedily, Eruptions of the Skin _or Scalp, Sores. Scalds, Burns, &c.; cures Rheumatism and Gout, and counteracts a predisposi- tion to those diseases. It especially COMMENDS. ITSELF To THE LADIES On account of its PURI- FYING and BEAU"I‘II1‘YING_ inﬂuence up- on the COMPLEXION. Every one possessing a cake of GLENN’s SULPHUR SOAP, costing 25 or 50 cents, MAY ENJOY AT HOME ALL THE BENEFIT DEuIvAi3LE~FIiOM a series of costly SULPIIUR BATIIS. . It disinfects clothing and linen im- pregnated by disease, and prevents ‘ obnoxious disorders caused by con- tact with the person.“ , Dandruff is eradicatedand the hair prevented from fa11ll;1g‘~.O,l_1l3-OI‘ prema- turely turning gray by its use. PHYSICIANS RECOMMEND ITs USE. . PRICES, 25 AND 50 CENTS PER CAKE, PER Box, (3 CAKES,) 60c and $1.20. N. B. The large cakes at 50 “cents_are triple the ,5. size. Sold by all Di-uggists. “ Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye,” Black or Brown, 50c. O G. N. CRITTENTON, Prop’1', 7 Sixth Av.vN.—Y. What is Property ‘.7 OR, AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLE OF RIGHT AND OF GOVERNMENT. V BY P. J. PROUDHON. ' Translated from the French by BENJ. E TUCKER. Prcfaced by a Sketch of Proudhon’s Life and Works, by J . A. LANGLOIS, and contain- ing as a Frontispicce a ﬁne steel Engraving of the Author. A systematic, thorough and radical dis- cussion of the institution of Property-—its basis, its history, its present status and its destiny, together with a. detailed and start- ng expose of the crimes which it commits and the evils which it engenders. Of this, the ﬁrst volume of PIOudhon’s Complete Works, the Index says: “Together with Mr. Holyoake’s incom parable book, this new volume will greatly enrich the literature of the labor reform.” Alarge octavo of 500 pages, handsomely ‘primed in large new type, on heavy toned paper, sent, post-paid, on receipt of price. Price in cloth, bevelled edges. . . . . . $3 50 “ full calf, blue, gilt,edge.. . . .. 6 50 All orders should be addressed to the Publisher, ' BENJ. R. TUCKER, “ Mayweed Blossoms,” “ Suﬁrage for 1 Women,” etc, etc., etc. PRINCETON, MASS. TRIANGLE PHYSICIANS. All diseases growing outof false conjugal relations will receive especial attention. Our combinedmedium hip, shut from the outer world in our cabinet, will generate a compound element, Magnetized and Spirit- : alized, that will prove an elixir or life that we can i znpart to our patients. MAGNETIZED BELTS for all parts of the system. BATTERIES for the head, hands and feet. Paper, Powders and ‘Liquid Medicines prepared, Electricized, Magnetized and Spiritualized in a single or double Triangle Cabinet as the patient may desire. The Guardian Spirits of every patient will be requested to accompany the Medicine and aid by their inﬂuence. Three strong Healing Mediums will sit in the cabinet with an electricapparatiis when the medicines are pre- pared._ We shall observe all inspirational conditions that will insure a full ﬂow from our Spiritual Battery, and require the same of our patients. The age, sex married or single, with some of the prominent symp- toms and conditions of the system, will be required. One Dollar for a single prescription. Sent by mai or express. A Stamp must accompany all letters. Address,‘: 1 DR. GRAHAM & CO., I 3.117 Easton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. , ._ THE GREAT TRUNK LINE . . .~ *4 AND UNITED STATES MAIL ROUTE. . Trains leave New York, from foot of Desbrosse, and Cortlandt streets,as follows: Express for Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, the West and South, with Pullman Palace Cars attached, 9:30 A. M., 5 and 8:30 P. M. Sunday, 5 and 8:30 P. M. , For Baltimore, Washington and the South, Limited Washin ton Express of Pullman Parlor cars, daily, except Iunday, at 9:30 A. M.; arrive at Washington 3:10 Regular at 8:40 A. M., 3 and 9 P. Sun- ay, . . Express for Philadelphia, 8:40, 9:30 A. M., 12:30, 3, 4, 4:10, 5, 7, 8:30, 9 P. M., and 12 night. Sunday, 5, 7, 8:30 and .9 P. M. Emigrant and second class, 7 P. M. ' For Newark at 6:30, 7:20, 7:40, 8, 9, 10, 11 A. M., 12 M., 1, 2, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 4:30, 5,5:20, 5:40, 6, 6:10, ' 0, 7, 7:30, 8 10, 10, 11:30 . M., and 12 night. Sun- _ %'§::'a$« - - ,_, Q, . E - " I0 . C‘ co he .0 3 - co )5 D-‘ 9 - 115 C13 .9 ’ 10 P. M. and 12 night. r Woodridge, Perth Amboy, an 10 A. M., 2:30, 4:50 and 6 P. M. I New Brunswick, 7:20 and 8 A. M., 12 M. i):3§)v,[ 5:20, 6:10, 7 P. M., and 12 mg t. S For East Millstone, 12 noon, 3:10 and 4:30 P. M. ’ Flpir Lambertville and Flemington, 9:30 A. .M., and " 'FL1irPhﬂlipsburg and Belvidere, 9:30 A. M., ,2 and For Bordentown, Burlington and Camden, 7:20 and 9:30 A. M., 12:30, 2, 4, 4:10» and 7 P. M. For Freehold, 7:20 A. M., 2 and 4:10 P. M. -- For Farmingdale and Squad, 7:20 A. M. and 2 P. M. For Hightstown, Pemberton and Camden, via Perth Amboy, 2:30 P. M. For Hightstown and Pemberton, 6 A. l\: . - ‘ . _ Ticket Olﬁces 526 and 944 Broadway, 1 Astor House, and foot of Desbrosses and Cortlandt streets; 4 Court street, Brooklyn; and 114, 116 and 118 Hudson street, Hoboken. Emigrant ticket oihce, 8 Battery Place. FRANK T1IoMI>soN, V D. M. BOYD, Jr., .‘ General Manager. ,_ General Passenger Ag’t. l-3:191:37-* ‘:3 9 one» 6 S 2: 8- 6 4 \. L .»..s.
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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-04-22_11_21
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-04-22_11_21
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 22 (April 29, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2121
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-04-29
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: s .1‘ Am ' ‘ . Al PBOGBEiSSI‘g1FR]d3E LIVES 2 ' BREAKING. THE WAY FOR” FUTIIRE. G-ENERATIQNS. Vol. xI.—’No.: 22.—w1:o1e No. 282 NEVv?;YoRK," APRIL 29, 1876. PRICE. TEN cENTs. Infthe days'of the coicelgof A the seventh angel, th mystery’ of God shall ‘be _ﬁm'sheol.——St. John the Divine. I , 3, _ j _ g. A - Whereof I was maole a.m1Im'ster to preach the un- searchable ‘riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning‘ of ~ the world hath been hid in Gool.——Pa2u1. “ I‘ " I .4Ag_ V? CO-OPERATIVE COLONY AND INDUSTRIAL ‘ I l SCHOOL. » VINELAND, N. J ., March 14, 1876. Mrs. M. L. Heath: " ’ MADAM: A prospectus of the Potomac Colony and Practi- cal University has been handed me for examination. I have looked it over carefully, and ﬁnd in it much to approve,‘ nothing to cqndemn; but I think some things are not ex- pressed that ought to be understood before your plan can be -entered upon, practically. You may regard me as one who is entirely in...
Show mores .1‘ Am ' ‘ . Al PBOGBEiSSI‘g1FR]d3E LIVES 2 ' BREAKING. THE WAY FOR” FUTIIRE. G-ENERATIQNS. Vol. xI.—’No.: 22.—w1:o1e No. 282 NEVv?;YoRK," APRIL 29, 1876. PRICE. TEN cENTs. Infthe days'of the coicelgof A the seventh angel, th mystery’ of God shall ‘be _ﬁm'sheol.——St. John the Divine. I , 3, _ j _ g. A - Whereof I was maole a.m1Im'ster to preach the un- searchable ‘riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning‘ of ~ the world hath been hid in Gool.——Pa2u1. “ I‘ " I .4Ag_ V? CO-OPERATIVE COLONY AND INDUSTRIAL ‘ I l SCHOOL. » VINELAND, N. J ., March 14, 1876. Mrs. M. L. Heath: " ’ MADAM: A prospectus of the Potomac Colony and Practi- cal University has been handed me for examination. I have looked it over carefully, and ﬁnd in it much to approve,‘ nothing to cqndemn; but I think some things are not ex- pressed that ought to be understood before your plan can be -entered upon, practically. You may regard me as one who is entirely in favor of the general objects set forth in your prospectus. (1.) But I canlgive no assurance of practical co-operation till I know morexof practical details than is set forth in your“prospectus. (2.) You speak of calling a meeting of subscribers to perfect further arrangements. I must know the result of that meeting before I could bind myself to become a Colonist, because its action might defeat. or run counter, to my highest convictions of Liberty, Equality and Justice. * ”‘ (2.) In most efforts in the past, that professed to be in the right direction upon this subject, the inner de- sign wa s Self. Let this be avoided in your movement, and all will go smoothly. Respectfully, R. GARTER. REPLY. Editors Weekly: . The foregoing extract from Professor Garter’s letter is but a sample of» scores we are daily receiving on the same subject,- and I beg the privilege of making a general reply through ‘the’ medium of your columns. Allow me to reply, by changing the numerical order of ‘the subjects of inquiry,‘ byﬁrst an- swering (3): T Knowing that the most fruitful cause of failure in the ef- forts heretofore made in this direction, was the “inner” selﬁshness of one, or afew leaders, who stuck their arbitrary stakes. marked out theiflimited boundaries, promulgated their patriarchal“ details,” and then invited subjects, or follower, rather than co-operators, to join them, we have carefully avoided this fatal rock on which there has been so much splitting. Believing, from the hearty approval of hun- dreds of correspondents, that our School System, coupled with a proper, co-operative, Social and Industrial System for adults, would meet the demands and needs of the day, we, in our prospectus. designed to present, or. suggest, only a general plan, or ground-work, leaving the detailed ﬁlling- up, as well as the location, even, to the joint voice and wis- .,dom of those who were to associate with us. Prof. G. is but oneof hundreds who have expressed themselves “ entirely in fayorof the general objects” set forth in the prospectus, and, like him, “ fail to see suﬂicient of practical details” to _ pledge assurance of ‘substantial. and practial co-operation. In this they all display that caution, prudence, and kind of good, practical common sense that warrants success when they do see, approve of, and adopt the “details" notexpressed. If I, and my few personal associates, had professed to possess the wisdom, and arrogated to ourselves the prerogative, to legislate and arrange details, rules and regulations for the observance of the large number whom we invited to associate with us, we would, in my opinion, have displayed a degree of’ »ar‘bitrary egotism which-would render us unﬁt co-operators. and unworthy associates. Now we desire as many as agree with us in the “general objects -set forth,” to meet us in convention. at the Hill-side Home, Carversville, Bucks Co., Pa., as set forth in Circular N o. -2 (which can be had by ad- dressing me at the Home), and assist us in_ elaborating, de- signing, planning and establishing. the missing link——t~he de- tails. Let us _hold a post-mortem on all defunct methods; studythe causes of failure, and devise a remedy; ascertain the’ defects of’ oldisystems, and substitute new safeguards.‘ Let a‘ harmonious “seventy-five,” more ‘or less, pick them- selves out from among hundreds,and let them agree upon de- tails and a location, Potomac or elsewhere. {Start out harmo- The.trath- shall make you j"ree.-—Jesus. ' - I niously. understandingly, wisely. Then, if our motives are pure, our souls purged of selﬁshness, and imbued with the high and=noble principles of “ Love thy neighbor as thyself,” and “Peace on earth and good-will to men,” we cannot fail, but will continue to growiinsbeautiful grandeur and parties who adopt another ceremony that is equally legal’ God-like symmetry: and harmony, Euntil =our Homeiis reality a “ Union Station on the ‘Royal Road, where kindred spirits, in the form and out,~can meet and hold sweet com- . munion; where the weary and sick, in body and spirit, can ﬁnd rest and health; where the blind’ in error can ﬁnd light, . and where the poor down~trodden and outcast can ﬁnd guardian angels to whisperfinto their souls swords ofcheer and sympathy, and point them to the path of virtue and hap- happiness.” ' ‘ ‘ - I I ' - Believing thelabove statement to be of generalinterest to your readers, I solicit for it a place in your WEEKLY. Re- spectfully, ' ‘ L. M. HEATH. O :—..__. THE PROPHETIC PRESENT. STOCKHOLM, N. Y. April 1876., Editors Weekly--Bro. Parker Pillsbury (see WEEKLY, April 8th), touched the corruption of the higher political life of our nation with a heavy but very j usthand. It seems tome that he closed his article t'oo*soon,: and before alluding to ‘the most hopeless fact in our condition. The people, not all, but I fear a majority of them, are corrupt. From a spirit of political clannishness, bigotry, and more or less real dis- honesty, they will vote for one of their party- in church and in State— whom they know to be of doubtful honesty, when the most honet man can be had as well. Seeing and know- ing this to be so, I have little hope for good in any possible “ revolution.” I am old and weak in body and in mind, but . I do not forget what it may cost a poor and helpless man to state and repeat such unpopular truths. The people are corrupt. Men liehabitually, and by rule, in their “resolu- tions” and professed principles, in political gatherings, from the district school—house up to Congress. A strictly honest man stands a small chance to gainan ofﬁce of value, from the town meeting up to the State and Nation. 1 do not see more honesty in religious‘ organizations—in the churches. Wit- ness a sampleor two in the late Beecher ea;-pa/rte congrega- tional council in Brooklyn, and the earlier troubles in the Methodist Book Concern. The like happens all about us. Where has justice and integrity ﬂed to? ‘I believe China is many thousand years in advance of us injpolitical honesty if not in the general morals of her people. With us, men may adulterate nearly every article of drink and provision with little risk. We eat and drink poison daily. Good lawsyif we had them, as we have not. could not be executed here; if they could, our prisons could not holdione in one hundred of our criminals. I know men in good standing in church and in society, unrebuked, who are proper subjects for States—prison by such laws as we have. For more.‘ than ten years nearly allnthe people, not all by any mean, have been insane in waste and extravagance. All this must stop before we can have a permanent and healthy relief from hard times. Any relief short of this will be spasmodic and be followed by worse times. Twenty years ago a poor man could, in the country, be buried when dead, “decently” for twelve dollars; now, less than forty is not “decent.” The change in the rich is not less. If these were my last words, which I think they may be on this matter, I must » tell my countrym_en_, that till the people generally improve . , themselves, and improve or reject the counsel of some of "their unwise radical leaders, a “ revolution” may, perhaps must, come; buttit will add to the sufferings of the poor, and be more likely to leave ourcountry worse off. All revolutions do not improve the condition of the poor, or of the country. The ,“ destruction of property” will injure the poor vastly more than it does the rich. I pray, that my poor brothers may not be drivengby their own bad hearts orby unwise counsels to injure themselves. . I beg voters to, break every tie, incliurcli or in State, that prevents their voting for and promoting the best, wisest and mosthonest -men they know. If this could begin in the towns._it would soon reach Con- gress. It is 45 years since L.t9pk;.,...a stand for “woman’s rights,” defying. all prej,y1diccs.5 Sincethe Boston“‘W. N. women” virtually sold their vote,_ before they got it, to a corrupt party for less than a_song o.r a mess of pottage, I have little hope for immediate good in politics from woman.. In love to all, both poor and rich. AUSTIN KENT. 4 ‘ ' .‘ /' _REPUDIATING AND YET FULFILLING THE LAW. BY/H WARREN CHASE. Some of our friends seem to go into extacies ever the\pub- lie repudiation of certain kinds of marriage ceremonies by bringing them into matrimony, and under the law regulat- ing it,.as inexorably as the rejected ones, and by which they live, and try to ’love, as exclusively as those who are married V by the God established ceremony of a Catholic priest. Our —_ friend, Susie Gilbert, and her companion. in ‘Indiana, had a legal trial after their self—constituted marriage ceremony and public repudiation of any other party’s interference, and the Court decided, as of course it should, that they were legally‘ married, and had married themselves by declaring they loved each other and would live‘,together. Living together as man and wife, and exclusively, had previously been decided to be marriage. even though no ceremony of any kind had been performed, and the property been decreed to offspring accordingly, and that, too, by courts of the highest jurisdic- tion. Any ceremony, or no ceremony, brings parties who live together as man and wife, under the marriage laws, where there is no legal barrier to such relation, and where they are exclusive in such relations. This is assumed to constitute . marriage, and. such parties are, under the law in all respects, except, perhaps, that part requiring divorce in case of‘sepa- ration, and the ceremonial marriage afterward, and that has not, to our knowledge, been tried yet or settled by any legal decision. When Lee Miller and Mattie Strickland come before the‘ public with their declaration of love and union in life, they are as fully married, if there be no legal barrier to their marriage, as if they had been married by a bishop and four priests in presence of a crowd of witnesses; the law is fill»- ﬁlled and .its requirements complied with, 0 what can be the diiferenee to them or anybody else how they get into the meshes of the law that makes her his property? To us it seems useless to repudiate one form and adopt another with the same eifect, except so far as it ignores the business and oiﬁce of the magistrate and the clergyman, and the ceremony as religious. The law and its cruel barbarisms will not be put down in this way. We must expose its wickedness, and get * it repealed and removed from the statute books; but while . it remains there we are compelled to submit to it or stay out of the family relations which it attempts to regulate, since it assumes control over all parties who live in such relations, no matter how they get there. We cannot see that anything is gained by the air-line or short route. It seems too much like J ulia in Byron, who, declaring she “ never would con- sent, consented.” We never have resisted the marriage law ' nor the fugitive slave law, but declare both wicked, cruel and wrong, and work for the repeal. MRS. STEWART PRO _AND CON. . PRO. Editors Weekly: Having read your Erecent editorials upon “;Fraudulent Manifestations ” with deep interest, and feeling assured you desire to know all the facts you can obtain in relation to the manifestations occurring at Terre Haute, through the mediumship of Mrs. Stewart, I give you the following, and if you deem them worthy, please publish them in your valu- able paper. On the 12th day of February, 1876, I arrived at Terre Haute, and on the evening of theyvsame day I attended a cir- cle at Dr. Pencels. I did not see any of my spirit friends that night. ' “Wm” - The next evening, February 13th, I attended a circle with the same result. ' I On Monday evening, February 14th, 1876, I attended a cir- cle at ‘Dr.., Pence’s. There were present about ;25 persons, amongifwhom‘ was Mrs. M. B. Cary,469 North Dearborn .street, Chicago, Ill., who sat next to me. On this occasion a spirit came out oflthe cabinet, whom I recognizedias my bro- ther John; he came to me, bowed, and shook hands with me in the same peculiar manner he was wont to ldovwhen living in the earth form. I looked at him closely, and am positive if ever I saw him in earth life I" saw him then; there can be no mistake about it, if I am to trust the evidence of my senses. , He did not speak but returned to the cabinet, and, after a time, came out of the cabinet again, when both doors of the cabinet were thrown wide open, and while he was out- 1. M‘/” gv 27 2 ,,,./ £91 WOODHULL as OLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. April 29,,‘1s76. side of the cabinet I could plainly see the mediiim, Mrs. Stewart, sitting in her place inside the cabinet. I On Tuesday evening, February 15th, I attended a circle at the same place, but owing to unfavorable conditions no manifestations occurred, and the money was refunded tothe audience. ‘ ‘ b On Wednesday evening, February 16th, I attended the cir- ole, but‘ owing to the bad weather not many visitors were present. At this time my brother came out of the cabinet; I sawhim even plainer than I did. on Monday night. He came to me. and ‘shook hands, and while he was with _me I saw Mrs.’_ Stewart sitting in her place in the cabinet, the doors. being wide open. At this seance six spirits came out of the cabinet. One, a militaryoﬂicer, dressed in military uniform, with epaulets, etc. ; and a lady present said she re- cognized him as her brother. ’ A little boy then came out, who appeared to be from ‘ﬁve to eight years old, and was recognized by Mr. Gary as her son; he kissed her and called her “ Mama.” 1 My sister came; stood close to me and shook hands. I saw her features distinctly, and she was dressed in black, just as she used to be on earth ; and, while she was close to me, I saw Mrs. Stewart sitting in the cabinet. Then. Mrs. Stewart steppedtout of the cabinet, accompa- nied by a spirit, who gave her name as Belle; they walked together on the platform, and some one suggested that they be weighed on a Fairbank’s scale which was then placed upon the platform. Mrs. Stewart and the spirit, Belle, to- gether then stepped upon it, and Dr.Forden, of New Or- leans, three times undertook to weigh them; 1stweight......... ...... 96 lbs. 2d “ ...... '75 “ 3d “ ..... 56 “ The spirit, Belle,‘ then said she could not keep control unless she placed her medium" back in the cabinet, which being done, Belle came out again alone. She turned to me, and asked if I could weigh her? I told her I would try. She stepped on the scales, when I found I had not weights enough; then, again, she did not appear to weigh anything. After the seance closed, Mrs. Stewart came out of the cabi- net; I requested her to step on the scales. and she weighed 125 pounds. On Thursday morning, February 17th, I attended a pri- vate circle, at same place. I invited Mr. Cary and her un- cle, Mr. James Clark, of Chicago, to be present. A My sister came, dressed in black as before, shook hands with me andkissed me. I saw the medium, Mrs Stewart, sitting in the cabinet when the spirit came out to me. Then my brotherJohn again stepped out, walked up to me and shook hands. I asked him if he could not talk with me? Upon which he went back into lhe cabinet and closed the doors. He then threw the doors wide open and stood in the doorway, and while he stood there I saw the medium, Mrs. Stewart, sitting in her place in the cabinet. He then spoke and said to me, “James, I am sorry Mr. L. could not have stayed, I should like to have shown myself to him ; but the conditions were such I could not do it.” While he was thus talking his material‘ form commenced growing shorter and shorter, until his head was on the ﬂoor, and while looking at this strangephenomenon, "I distinctly saw his spiritual form in full above. Mrs. ‘Cary, who sat on my left, observed: “ There is some- thing I never saw before.” I asked her what she saw, I still keeping my eyes on the strange sight. She replied, “ I saw your brother’s spirit form above his dematerializing form.” He dematerialized fully in our presence, at the same time the doors of the cabinet were wide open, and we could plainly see Mrs. Stewart sitting in her place in the cabinet. Please allow me to say that Mr. L., above alluded to, meant a gentleman who came to Terr‘e«Haute with me, and was a particular friend of my brother John. Then a lady spirit, very ﬁnely dressed, came out of the cabinet, making deaf and dumb signs, whom I immediately recognized. I knew her in 184.4, in Columbus, Ohio. She turned her‘ back to me, and showed me her long curly hair, which reached more than half way down her person. She was very proud of it when in the earth life. Then Mrs. Cary’s little spirit boy came out of the cabinet, and his uncle recognized him, as well as Mrs. Cary. We saw Mrs. Stewart in the cabinet as before. ' Thelast seance I attended at Dr. Pence’s was on Thursday night, February 17th. There was a large number present, and a number of manifestations took place. My brother J ohn_came and bid me good—bye. , The spirit, Belle, came out of the cabinet, and, in presence of all, knit two mittens, Mrs. Cary holding the yarn which was maimed by the spirit to be materialized yarn. The time occupied in knitting the two mittens, I should judge, did not exceed ﬁve minutes. -I distinctly saw the kniting com- mence, and watched its progress to completion; and while this was going on we con medium, Mrs. Stewart, sitting in her place in the cabinet- One of these mittens was pre éented to me by the spirit . Belle, with the request that I w ould hang it up under the lady’s portrait in my store And I will here state tha I have the portrait of Mrs. Wood- hull hanging up in my sto .. In justice to Mrs. Stewart, and the committee, Messrs.- , Pence, Hook and Connor, I must say that during my stay among them, I did not see the slightest evidence of fraud or deception. . V ~ The names ofthe lady and gentleman mentioned in my article, I have taken the liberty to use, without asking their consent, but Ilfeelasssured they will not take exceptions on this occasion. Your friend, JAMES H. HASLETT. Ponr HURON, St. Clair Co., Mich., April 4th, 1876. ‘ . CON.» “ Stealing the livery, of heaven to serve the devil in.” Dem‘ Weekly: I feel it my duty to oppose the claims of the “ Terre Haute Committee,” ence, flock and Conner, who have made themselves .-quite notorious by sustaining Mrs. Stewart as a genuine medium for materializations. I was at the Chicago convention, and attended Mrs. Stewart’s “se- ance,” and witnessed the exposure by Mrs. Woodhull, who had not been in the room ﬁfteen minutes when she remarked to me that “she saw’ clairvoyantly it .was all a fraud.” When the cabinet was upset by one of the ungulllble and unterriﬁed, there was a scene for harmonial philosophers to‘ contemplate. The hearts of all present were melted to pity, ,mixed with contempt. for the bogus medium who made fran- tic attempts to conceal the very material evidences of her, abominable imposition. ‘ _ Committeeman Hook was loud in denouncing the act of detecting her as “ ungentlemanly,” and as doing violence to her conditions, etc ., etc. But when she confessed the fraud- ulency of the entire transaction, and showed how the thing wasdone, from playing the banjo by the materialized’-ola Ne-? ; gro, to the white alabaster saints 4 with golden curls, he was silenced. She then told us all about how she had concealed the trappings under her back hair and other equally‘inge— nious places, and how she baffled the scrutiny of the ladies’ investigating committee. She ‘then cried piteously, and said she was a poor woman, and had to wash for a living, etc. lM’rs."W’oodhul'1 "told her she had "better far remain poor and honest than gain wealth by “ stealing the livery of heaven to serve the devil in ” by “ imposing on the credulous, 7‘and lead-‘-, 1 ing them to think they were beholding and addressing darling friends g‘o‘ne'befor'e.”“ Nothing can be more recreant to the sacredness of the love of our spirit friends than such monstrosities opalmedoﬁ‘ as spiritual communion. . » Bro. Hook, after taking in the entire situation of the “lit- tle unpleasan_tness,?’ became as pale as death, and said “ ten vininutes ago I would have given_two hundred dollars toany one who would discover any fraud in her manifestations.- Then he was honest, and acknowledged himself terribly gulled. But now I cannot say I think he is honest, for a few weeks since when Mrs. E. W. H. Beck, of Delphi, Ind., was at Terre Haute attending those sean'ces,sho5, being an excellent medium herself,saw through the operation at once. But Committee-man Hook ﬂew into a violentrrage, and shook his ﬁst in her face, and said what Byron Reed had told her concerning the Chi- cago eazpose “ was a lie.” Such conduct needs_ no comment. The glorious cause of Spiritualism, per so, cannot be injured by suchgtransactions, but its acceptance can be greatly post- poned, and persons can be as walls of darkness preventing the light_ of truth from shining into hungry souls who are eagerly seeking the light. The Committee’s “ ﬁnancial abil- ity ” is their stronghold. Had they expended as much of their ‘‘ ﬁnancial ability” for the cause of truth as has Victoria C. Woodhull and many others, they would be like the gene- rality of Spiritualists-—inot very ﬂush. The fact of their not paying the one thousand dollars, fairly forfeited at Chicago, is evidence that the ﬁnancial ability is simply used as bun- combe to intimidate into silence parties who know too much. Even admitting that she has some mediumistic powers, which'I doubt, she cannot be relied on, for the fact that she is tricky is too thoroughly apparent to every thinking mind to allow her manifestations to have any importance save to the gulilble few who seem to glory in being deceived- When- ever George Washington takes the trouble to take on a mate- rialized form, the magnetic elements must be pure and truth- ful. He “ could not tell a lie,” even when a lad, and he surely would not mingle in corruption at this advanced state of his development. Let us try well the spirits and see whether they are of Washington or Arnold. ‘ My kingdom for truth. BYRON REED. ANOTHER. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 7', 1876. Editors Woodhull &: Claﬂz”n’s Weekly : A , As one of those present at the exposure of Mrs. Stewart at Chicago, in September. 1873, I do not hesitate to indorse your statement in every particular. I stood beside Mrs. Stewart almost immediately after the frail structure, called. a cabinet,,had been overturned by Mr. Anthony Higgins, and received from her hands (Mrs. Stewart’s) the false whiskers and other portions of the disguises which she had secreted in the skirt of her loose wrapper, and which she informed us she was in the habit of concealing in the “ facing ” of said wrap- per, whenfshe entered the room. I witnessed the seance held after thisexposure, she assuring us that if we would have the cabinet‘ replaced, she would “ show us how she did it,” which she accordingly did, producing, by means of a piece of white cloth and gilt tinsel, the white-draped “ spirit arm and gold bracelet,” which had been pronounced so “ spritual” and “unearthly in its beauty ” by the enthusiastic, when it was evolved after much singing of I“ Home, sweet Home,” some ‘» half hour before. Also. with the same, piece_of cloth and false whiskers attached to elasticcord, did she “ m_ateria.l_ize” the head of 9‘ turbaned Turk out of her own: the poor soups "tout distinction of 1 sex, can a true republican government he husband meanwhile, like a second Adam, declaring that “ if there was deception it was the woman who got it up, forthe didn’t know nothing aboutiit.” Of course the fact that Mrs.’ Stewart has once practiced fraud is novevidence that she continues to do so: but it should induce the utmost caution on the part of those who are ‘now investigating the phenom— , ena said to occur in her presence. Yours, for the whole .;;1-uth. , I LAURA’_KENDRICK, , ,1 * ~ ' (formerlyllauraCuppySmith.) _ _ p ‘ v , ,_ p , . .. . _ 1 A lwith view of arranging a vigorous State campaign. STILL ANOTHER.‘ I was at the Chicago expose of Mrs. Stewart, and was one of those whom shehad humbugged. While she was char— ; acterizing a negro boy, having previously presented ‘several * other ‘characters at the same seance, some one stepped rapidly derfully astonished to discover the fraud, for there she stood before the gaze of all, unveiled. She had a mask on,” which —. she gave up, together with whiskers and some otherithings ' that she acknowledged that she used to‘ perpetrate the fraud. A I She acknowledged- that she was playing fraud, and was ter- ribly humiliated’ because she‘ was detected. ‘She’ plead“ear- ' nestly to not be published to the world, and promised not todo it again. Mr. Stewart afterward said to me that he had no idea that his wife had those masks. At this seance there the female of his race.”¥DarimSn. were several who the day before had thought they recognized their friends in the presentations made by the medium. CIRCLEVILLE, 0., March 13. S. R. Eownnn. A fact, ‘is God in’ manifestation; just as really*so, when outwrought in the material, as wheifuhnvciled by the spiritual world; just as truly so when expressed by li§etjero‘doxy, as when enunciated by orthodoxy; forif there be‘aGreat First Cause, allufacts-must be the fruition of that cause‘. ' C ‘ - ’ E.*7BRINroN. jL'()VE MAKING ’Tis a dear little hand, i Half assisting My efforts,to kiss it again, That, at the last moment Whewl makes my ear tingle with pain. ’Tis a lovely blue eye, Half assenting When I ask for a kiss ere I go; ' And’ ripe, pouting lips, V » Not dissenting, _ ;fl‘empt'me on tcfa ‘£t1;liIl8.“b10V:VV. . 3; , - V - , But that dear little hand, Loving, coaxes; ' . Those velvety,lips,«pout full of bliss; ‘ And'fI soon find the blows ‘Are but hoaxes—- . Little stings “ to’ add zest to the kiss.” NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCI ATION—1876. The National Woman Suffrage Association will hold its .Ninth Annual Convention, in Masonic Hall, New York, corner Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third street, May 10th and 11th, 1876. - I C ’ t This convention, occurring in the Centennial year of the iRepublic, will be a mostimportant one. The underlying principles of government will this year be discussed‘ as never before; both foreigners and citizens will queryas to how’ closely this country has lived up to its own principles. The long debated question as to the source of the governing power, was answered 5 century ago’ by the famous Declara- tion of Independence which shock to the ‘foundation all rec- ognized power, and proclaimed the right of the individual as above all forms of government; but while thus declaring it- self to be founded on individual right, this nation has failed to secure the exercise of their inalienable right of self-gov- ernment to _one—half the individuals of the nation. It has held the women of the nation accountable to laws they have had no share in making, and taught as their one duty, that docrine of t rar'1ts— un uestioning obedience. Y ‘ Liberty to-day is therefore but the heritage of one-—half the people, and the centennial will be but the celebration of the independence of one-half the nation. The men alone of this country live in a Republic, the women enter the second hun- dred years of/national life, as political slaves. 4 i That no structure is stronger than its weakest point, is a law of mechanics that will apply equally to government. In so far asthis government has denied justice to women, it is weak, and preparing for its own downfall. All the insurrec- tions, rebellions and martyrdoms of history have grown out of desire for liberty, and in woman’s heart this desire is as strong as in man’s. The history of this country cannot" be written without mention of woman; at every vital time in the nation’s life, men and women have worked together; everywhere has Woman stood by the side of father, brother, husband, son, in defence of liberty. The-work of the women of the Revolution, is wellknown; without their aid the Re- public could never have been established; their patriotism ‘and sacriﬁce equalled that of the m_en,abut while the men have reaped their reward, women are still suffering under all ,-the oppressions complained of in 1776. » Theﬁve great principles recognized in the Declaration of Independence, are 2 '1st.- The natural rights of individuals. ' 2d. T-heexact "equality of those rights. ea. T-hat rights not delegated_ ‘by individuals, are retained. by individuals. ’ H p 4 _ . ' . 4th. That no person can exercise the rights of others with- out delegated authority. 1 _ , . 5th. That non-use of rights does not destroy them... Under these principles therights of every man,"’bl'ack and whit'e,“native-born and naturalized, have been s‘ecured;' but only"throug-h'*equal, impartial suffrage for all citizens, ‘with- established. ‘ A k ' « All persons who«beIie*ve‘ these principles should be carried out in spirit and in truth, are invited to be ‘preseint at ‘the May convention. I. ‘ ' ‘ v ‘ 1 H p , j . MATILDA J OSLYN Gxen, President. SUSAN ,B.xANTHONY, Ch’niEx. Com. : 3 I — ‘N.’ ‘B.——'l‘h‘e' New ‘York State Woman I Suffrage _ Association (organized in'18G‘.l)‘ will conduct proceedings the second day, Mrs. L." Dnvnnnnx BLAKE, Acting Pres’t. , ELEANOR’ KIRK, Sec’y. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Chfn Ex. Com. I @Allcomn1_unications.or contributions for either Soci- ; lety, should be addressed to to the cabinet and demolished it. The audiencewas won- , LILLIE Dnvnunux BLAKE, .. 106 East 55th St., New York. “ Man‘ -is theionly being of‘ the animal creation that abuses ’ HWE‘ notice a very able letter"upon woman’s wages in The Sunday Telegram, Springﬁeld, Mass; from the pen of our friend F.‘ R. Ladd :‘ should like to make extracts from it, but our limited space forbids it. ’ “i l . 5 g . ti’ . {ya - \ \\-—.«r- r . 7&v§.?,v,...,:.~.«« , , . 5 ‘i _ __ ._,-,,_..»__~.-2,. . . «— -'~ “‘ __.,. - “27..;.::¢‘;a; '-‘e.::’s-;—-‘---~“ Aps: ‘gt, M6,, M‘ns;'L.HARDY’ AND THE caox jTEsT——LETT_ER_ ERQM , DR.GARnNER._". ,_ _» _ To the Editor of the Herald: 5 During the 26 years that I have been lproiminently identiﬁed with 1 modern Spiritualisnl, my determination has been that whenever’, I‘ had occasion to public1y'make any statementsin regard'toan_y personal ex- periences, or of the‘ phenominal phases of mediumship which I have witnessed, I have always endeavored to- carefully guardmy: testi§rno,ny from exaggeration, andjto give. onlythe exact truth as I perceived it. In carrying out this,deter_m;in- ation I now ﬁnd myself underthe necessity of making an explanationto the public. V , - _ , ., , On’ Sunday evening, March 26th, a public seance was held in Paine—Memorial building, on which occasion a paraﬂine mold of ahand was produced in a locked, box through the mediumship of Mrs. M. M. Hardy, under what I announced to be strictly testcond-itions. The result was considered at the.-timeto be eminently satisfactory, and to fullysustain what my advertisement had claimed for it as a “crucial test.” Atthe close of the seance I announced it to be, according to my honest conviction,a perfect demonstration -—a conclusive test—and urged the scientiﬁc worldto the investigation of a‘ subject which allowed ‘of such direct and satisfactory meth- ods of veriﬁcation. Having no personal interest to serve, and being only desirous to present the public with the “truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” in relation to this great subject. Ifelt myselfunder the necessity of stating that subsequently an imperfection was discovered in the con- struction of the box, which-invalidated the claim I then made, that the production of the mold of a hand in said box should be considered a positive demonstration, a “crucial test,” that no human being in the earthly form could have assisted in the result. Since that time the box has been thoroughly examined and'the ‘defects remedied, and arrangements have been made for furthersittings to demonstrate the production of paraﬂine molds under the “crucial test” conditions pre- viously advertised. In the meantime We ask for a suspension of judgment upon this matter, until after further experi- ments. Let it be distinctly understood that the above men- tioned fact in no degree reﬂeots upon the wonderful me- , diumship of Mrs. Hardy, or upon her personal integrity. On the contrary I wish here and now to bear my testimony that by means of various sittings that I have had with her for the production of par-afﬁne molds, under what I consider test conditions, I am satisﬁed’ of the genuineness of “her mediumship. I await with intense interest the result of fur- ther investigations to obtain satisfactory results, which shall demonstrate one of thegreatest truths in the world’s history. Respectfully yours, H. F. GARDNER. - -Boston Sunday Herald. THE editorial staff of the New York Tribune is made up of twenty—three persons, ﬁve of whom are lady writers._ The entire force of the establishment, including attaches of the publishing, Areportorial, and mechanical departments, num- bers upwards of one hundred and ﬁfty persons. ' ‘ ._..:.—. PROPHECY MADE IN 1453. In twice twohundred years the Bear The Crescent shall assail, But if the Cook and Bullunite, I The Bear shall not prevail. But 10! in twice ten years again Let islam know and fear, I The Cross shall wax——the Crescent wane, Grow pale and disappear. It will be “ twice ten years ” _ next spring from the conclu- sion of the Crimean war. ‘ WHILE the Iowa House passed a bill in favor of woman suffrage. the-Senate has defeated, it by two majority. Pretty near a victory. ~ ’ ‘ ‘ ” I is —_..—..__u JBITS OF ‘FUN, COSTLY furniture: Indian bureaus. ‘CAN the man who carries Jay Gouid up stairs_.be accused of bearing the Paciﬁc male._ . A . _ t ‘ _ AN Old Dutchman froze his nose, . While thawing the frost out, he Said: “ I hat carry datrose forty year, unt he never k_freeze’hisself before. I noundcrstan dis. ting.” IN Ceylon, thelmarriage ceremony is the couple together by the thumbs. In usually put together by the ears. performed by tying this country they are "31:’!-]!}.l1eW fast mail train has been dubbed the “ Widow” by some _of_ the. postal service* attaches-becausel it ‘fetches the mails _much« quicker than any other train. ' SOME ineanrfellow, after saying there, is one physician to, every 300 inhabitants, adds that they begin this way, but after a while there are not so many inhabitants.—N. Y. Sun, ‘ THAT wasa shrewd girl, and not devoid of sense either, who remarked, when othengirls were —ma.king fun of her short skirts, and affected to be much shockedat _ the exhibi- tionltliereof at a part‘/y:,' “If yQI1_’d,only,p1_1l~1:up yourvdresgeg about your neck, where they ought to be, they’d be as short as mine!" She was not troubled any more. THE Reese River Reveille editorial makes the following im- portant statement: - _ g , . v ~ The pull—back_skirt is nothing new. It is mentioned in the Bible, where Mrs. Potiphar pulled back on the skirtof the garment worn by that member of the Egypt ,You,ng,Me,n’s Christiah Association, whose front name was Joseph. A I Pownn or IMAGINATION,-—The other ‘days. man took home a book containing‘ several. anecdotes showing the power of imasinationirand. ..=>»ﬂi6I‘ reading the.n:1:-to his: Wi.f.e.. he tenderly asid..= 9W».As1...se.1isaa .yoa msx:.some.tin;es ;—inas121.e that you hear‘me”'kissin'g the servant ‘girl in the other radar“ and ,wooi)in:oLLjasi cLA1rI.IN¢sr WEEKLY. A you see how base it would be to. accuse me of such a thing.” “John Henry,” she replied, ina smooth voice, “I; I ever imagine such a thing you’ll need a doctor within ﬁfteen minutes, no matter what that book says.” “CUSSED, if‘ the darned thing ain’t agoingl" was the sur- prised remark of a ,sight—seeing Granger from Maine, who ca ressedthe teethrofia circular} saw in a North,End plainng mm; and ‘now should _yo1_1_pr,opo.;u__nd to. him. that ﬁrst prob- lemn for young arithmeticians, “How many ﬁngers have you sadly reply, “Nary, stranger l”—Boston. Globe. « settled it_.« He jumped up from the table, and started for where the sun could shine on him, cxclaiming, “ Whoopee! Plenty damn cold grub. ! No cookee nuifl same like ice _wagon.——N. Y. Sun. A “WHo’s Herbert Spencer, pop ?” asked an inquiring Brook- continued the. lad, with the business air of a person who could keepright on asking questions till doomsday. »“A philosopher,” returned the father gravely, “is a man who never married-” him what he was doing. He replied, “ Shoost now nodings, Ihaf made arranchements to go into pizness.” “Glad to to hear it. What are you going intog” “Veil, I goes into partnership mit a man.” “ Do you put in much capital ?” “No, I doesn’t put in no gapital.” “Don’t want -to risk it, eh?” “N 0, but I puts in do experience.” “And he puts in the capital?” .‘Yes, dat is it. We goes into pizness for dree years; he puts in de gapital, I puts in do experience. At the end of dree years I will have de gapital and he will have do experience.” “ Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand; ’Twil1 soon be dark. Up! heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark.” LONGIN G. Oh, to see the new grass springing, ‘ And he not here! Oh, to see the sun awaking Another year! ‘ To hear the soft May winds caressing The budding trees; To know that violets are blooming Upon the leas; To see the birds return together From wandering!- The longing heart feels all its sorrow, In the spring. Appletohﬂs Journal. ' THE PHILOSOPHY or AFTER MARRIAGE.—“Y011 love me no longer,” said a bride of a few months to her better-half in his gown and slippers. “Why do you say that, Puss??? he asked, quietly, removing a cigar from his lips. “You do not caress me nor call me pet names, you no longer seek so anxiously for_my company," was the tearful answer. “ My notice a man running after a car? How he does run!-—over stones, through mud, regardless of everything till he reaches the car and he seizes hold and swings on. Then he quietly seats himself and reads his paper.” “And what_ does that mean ?’r’ “ An illustration, my dear. The car is as important to theman after he gets intas when he is chasing it, but the manifestation is no longer called for. I would have shot any- one who. put himself in my way when in pursuit. of you, has I would now shoot any one who would come between us; but as a proof of my love you insist on my running after the car.” BoRDENTowN, April 1st, 1876. answerthat we use the French method, which gives a new name to every third ﬁgure above millions. By this method each, thus : V A ' 000 000 _ 000 000 , ‘000 000 g I . - an "3 :5 2 :3 E -E .2: 2 S‘ I :2? ‘:3 ‘ '7: — E 5' .3 ' ":3; , ' 0'» 5‘ ca 2 [-1 D In aperiod of three ﬁgures we cannot possibly get thousand of millions; all we can -get is units, tens, hundreds of _mil- lions; units, tens, hundreds of billions, etc. , Daboll must entertain the idea that we use the English method of numeration which includes six ﬁgures in a period, -but he is mistaken; and the Rothschild who accumulated lion. . “ A. P. J. A (From the ,Brooklyn Eagle, April 7, 1876). ’MRS. WO0DHULL’S LECTURE. A. CHARACTERISTIC DISCOURSE IN THE ACADEMY OF ‘MUSIC LAST EVENING, ON “THE HUMAN BODY, THE TEMPLE or GOD.” At eight olclock last evening, over twelve hundred persons were seated in_the,.crches.tra and parquette ofthe Academy, 0l5;.1l4.1le5i-99,?-V¢?li;l?il1;g_Fl1.9.349933-13309 of .Mrs. . l§ic§qri.a O.;.:: Wood,-. hull, who was announced to lecture, on “The Human Body, Fleeze belly all A life. fname traduced were facts familiar to the thinking people of . the country, but the work to which she had set her hand was I dear to her heart and approved by her conscience, and with dear,” continued the aggravating wretch, “ did you ever‘ Dear Weekly: If Daboll shouldmeet some of our public; schoolchildren and question them concerning the methodf Of numeration usediin the United States’ they would readily 5 readers who need dental service to Dr. Koonz, at No. 1 Great ' Jones ‘Street, New York, who is both judicious and scientiﬁc the given number is divided into periods of three ﬁgures» S ﬁve hundred millions certainly had monopolized half a bil-’ . 8 the Temple of God.” After some delay the drop scene slowly ascended, and a magniﬁcient stage parlor scene was disclosed ~ Presently there was a rustle, and Mrs. Woodhull walked forth through the centre door i_n the rear. She was attired elegantly. Herdress was of wine colored velvet and brown silk. At her threat was a diminutive cluster of roses, and around her neck and wrists were lace ruffles‘. Her hair was neatly coiled in her neck and fastened with a white rose. In her hands she held a small open volume, bound in ‘scarlet, on which her eyes were fixed as she entered. Ad- on your. right ,hand?’-’ he wouid bite that lonely thumb, and ' vancing to the centre of the ‘stage, Mrs. Woodhjull raised her ‘ eyes, and repeated the following words: HIS teeth began to chatter over the ice—cream.' He but- I toned uphis jacket and swallowed another mouthful, That 3 “ ‘Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man deﬁle the temple of God, him shall G-od destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.’ First Corinthians, third chapter and sixteenth and seventeenth verses,” said Mrs. Woodhull, adding: “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you? sixth chapter and nine- _ pf 11 f th h th _ ‘ H , f Eteenth verse.”,, Mrs.’§Woodhull then began her lecture, which lyn boy 0 is a er t e 0 er morning. ‘ e s a amous , “ , h 1 h ” I;was declamatory and declarative. English philosopher, my son. ’- And what s a p i osop er? ' -She condemned modern society and predicted for the pre- sent race of men a speedy end. She furnished statistics, showing the prevalence of impurity and crime, and attrib- 1 uted it all to the fact that mothers had not done their duty, I . either by obviating motherhood or by failing to instruct I GOT to chatting with a German acqaintance, and asked L their children in the science of reproduction. The essential point in the lecture was, that the existing re- lations of the sexes is practically bestial, that the bodies of men and women instead of being kept pure as temples wor- thy of God’s presence, are degraded by unbridled lust into pig-styes. In support of this proposition, Mrs. Woodhull used an abundance of illustrations that were in the highest de- gree explicit, and which the audience, as evidenced by their applause, considered apposite. Once or twice it seemed as '1‘ Mrs. Woodhull was going to discuss the scandal, but she made noldirect reference to it. That she had it in her mind was indicated by some general sentences about the social rottenness that has been discovered in we1l—known circles. In conclusion Mrs. Woodhull referred to her personal eﬂorts for the uplifting of her sex both politically and in domestic I That her position had been misrepresented and her the assistance of God she would, through ill report or good report, persist in it while life and strength lasted. She be- lieved that woman was designed to be the "partner and the _ equal of man, not the debased minister to a debased passion, or the occasional ornament of occasional gatherings, and to assistin putting woman in this her rightful place ,was the aim and purpose of her (Mrs. Woodhull’s) life. The future of the human. race depends upon the success or failure of this movement. While it lags man must continue in animalism; when it comes to fruition he will live in the freedom of un- trammelled intelligence and celestial impulses. This was the substance, or rather the line of argument of her lecture. At the end of her effort, Mrs. Woodhull was warmly ap- plauded and was presented with a beautiful star and pedestal of ﬂowers. .__.Q. 4 f ‘Cr . V EDITORIALS NoTIoEs. Lors WAISBROOKER can be addressed at Eureka, Hum- bolt County, California, during April Will take subscrip- tions for the WEEKLY. >7 LE0 MILLER AND MATTIE STRICKLAND will receive calls for lectures on liberal subjects. Engagements in_Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan particularly desired during the a spring months. Terms reasonable. Address Omro, Wis. ;WAnREN CHASE will lecture in Clyde, Ohio, April 9th; in Painesville, Ohio, April‘ 16th; in Geneva, 0., April 23d; in Akron, 0., April 30th; in Alliance, 0., the ﬁrst two Sundays _ of May; and in Salem, 0., the last two Sundays in May. Ad- dress accordingly. WE take special pleasure in calling the attention of all our in all departments of dentistry. His rooms are ﬁtted taste- fully andelegantly, and being constantly ﬁlled with the elite of the city, testiﬁes that his practice is successful. He ad- ministers the nitrous oxide gas with perfect success in all cases. THE next Convention of the Spiritualists of Van Buren County, Michigan, will be holden at Paw Paw, in Professor Cook’s Music Room, April 29th and 30th, commencing at 2 o’clock p. m. on Saturday and continuing over Sunday. Susie M.,;_’Johnson is engaged as one of the speakers. Let ‘ there be a general attendance of all interested, as the friends in Paw Paw and vicinity will spare no pains to make the Convention a success. R. BAKER, President. _:_...—,—.. THLI INDIANAPOLIS SUN.—The leading independent reform weekly political newspaper in the Union, the special advocate of national legal tender paper money (the greenback system) as against bank issues on the gold basis fallacy, and the inter changeable currency bond as against the high gold interest bond. 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That through. death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life- time sulgject to b0n0lage.—Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then and good fruits, without partiality and without hy- pocrisy.——James, iii., 17. * And these signs shall follow them .' In my name shall they cast out devils,‘ they shall take up serpents; ‘and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them ,' they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recoeer.—Jesus. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1876. ____ WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the ﬁrst series of Bible Articles consisting of ﬁfteen num- bers of the WEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. Our friends should lose no opportunity to bring these articles to the attention of those whom they can interest. A careful study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand- ing of the great and all-important truth that is yet to be re- vealed; which must be carefully and judiciously brought be- fore the world, as the sun comes upon it, bringing first the break-of-day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian splendor. ‘THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; OR, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. ~ For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the ‘earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the establishment thereby of the universal human family. ‘ It also represents still another and more important truthxwhich has not yet been introduced, but which, deﬁned in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself ISOWING AND REAPING; 03, ARE THEY nor YOUR FRUITS. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or ﬁgs of lhistles ? ' A A Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. , » _ , A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit; neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.‘ Wherefore by their fruits shall ye know them.-—St Matthew vii. 16, 17, I8 and 20. ‘ ~ _ ' Visiting the iniquities of the fathers on the children unto the third and fourth generation.——Exodus xx, 5. _ 0 generation of vipers, how can ye, being” evil, speak good things? for out of theabundance of the heart themouth speaketh- A good man, out ofthe treasure of his heart, bringeth forth good things; as an evil man, out of the evil. treasure, bringeth forth evil things.-—St. Matthew xii. 34 and '35. I If there is one fact of which it can be said that it is as fully established as anything can be, it is that of causation. Let the ﬁrst movements toward the evolution of this world have been what they may, they were its primal incipiency, and from them, spreading into vast varieties of forms, have come, legitimately and necessarily, all that is. It is im- possible that there should be a single fact in existence; im- possible that there should ever have been such an one, that is not the legitimate result of the cause or causes out of which it sprang. Allithe ills of the world—its miseries; vices, crimes, diseases, whether physical, mental or moral, as well as all the good, must be comprised in this. If there are evils among the people it is because there were evilcauses to produce them; if blessings of good abound, it is because their sources were good. Evil does" not come from good, neither good from evil, things. But though this is a ﬁrmly established fact; though it is a scientiﬁcally demonstrated fact: though it is an intellectu- ally admitted fact, how little does it descend into the prac- tical affairs of life. People in all phases of life go on doing the evil things, and expect that good will ﬂow to them. In to such a condition havethings come that thoroughly honest transactions in business are the exception rather than the rule. The best qualities of whatever is offered for sale rather than the worst, are presented to the purchaser, and every possible effort made to drive the best bargains, even ‘at the expense of downright lying, though this perhaps is not resorted to so often, as is a still more contemptible method covering it up. Our institutions even are the legitimate outcome of so- ciety—they are the fruits of our social ethics. What greater condemnation can be made of the morals of society are disgracing the pages of journalism? And yet why should the people ﬁnd fault? Indeed why should they not expect just such things to be the result of their own moral apathy. It is not the men who ﬁgure in the disgr-aces who are wholly to blame. They are but the creatures of circumstances that exist in theicommunity, for which the community and not they alone are responsible. To be sure they are the examples which come to thelsurface, but they come not more to show their own corrupt condition than they do to demonstrate the rottenness which lies behind them in the social body from which they spring. They are, in other words, the natural and to-be-expected fruits of our imperfect insti tutions and the moral torpitude that blasts the manhood of men and the womanhood of woman in all departments of society. Men live lives of_ which they are ashamed to have the community, which throughout is equally as had, be- come cognizant; women make use of the cloak - of marriage under which to do deeds for which they ostracise their less fortunate sisters who inhabit the known sinks of vice. Rail- road magnates and merchant princes live and die,'and re- ceive the honors of those among whom they lived, when, if their real lives were known; if the misery of whichthey were the cause had been;able to lift itself into the public gaze,though that same public were every whit as bad, they would have been anathematized and scarcely given Christian burial. In this way a vast system of hypocrisy has been inaugurated, and the moral rule has come to be “, No matter what you do so that it is not ‘found out.” And this is the tribute which vice pays to virtue through the medium of hypocrisy, mak- ing the world a vast living lie-—everybod y knowing that everything he looks upon is tainted, and yet pretending to believe that nothing whatever is other than it should be. Of what practical use to the world has been the demonstra- tion that good results cannot ﬂow from evil sources ? And yet. Christians pretend to believe in the teaching of Jesus, that they are to be known by their fruits. If this age and generation are to be known by their fruits, what shall we say, save that they are far gone ‘into decay? , But still. more than in any other regard do people deny ment of their life. -Here, none ever expect to be judged by their fruits. They go on living in conditions and relations that are an abomination to virtue and purity, and bearing children without the slightest idea that such children will be their legitimate fruits; never thinking when they are bad that the causes were back in theirparentage; never charg- ing upon themselves the miseries, sufferings, vices, crimes, diseases and premature deaths, with the agony of which the air is full. . And yet it is just here where all the other ills ﬁnd their source. Whatever evilthere may be in industry, We adoptthis diagram as emblematic of our future W9¥k: .4’ moral torpitude. business, especially, do they follow this practice. Indeed,- of deceit, which consists of either withholding the truth or ; ;man; and beyond all things else should they solemny pledge themselves never to bear another unwished-for child. in practice what they accept in theory, in the social depart-. ii; commerce, inpolitics, in moi-a.1s,.in ,re1igion~,‘—-it is charg- .April 29, .1s,7§_. able to social evils in which the people whoafterward be- , come the actors are born and bred. And yet, when one goes before the world to sound the alarm, to callattention to this awful but unrealized fact, almost to a person’ the world turns away and refuses to listen to the warning. The people blindly shuttheir eyes, their ears, "their hearts, and refuse to look at the horrid factsgwhich hem. them in upon . every side. __ i , , Let an attempt be made to present these evils to the pub- lic through the press, and its columns are shut against the “improper subject;” let mothers be warned of the evils that they are transmitting to their children, and theyjturn upon and often, with most ﬁendish rage, shut the door of respect- able society against the intruder. They will not listen to the voice that calls them to‘ judgment; that would show them the fruits that they are producing, but blindly rush onward to the destruction that is just in advance,vignoring the future danger and making merry in thepresent. But there is an inexorable judgment awaiting all such The wailings of agony that will rise from the hearts of future generations, will come up in judgment against, the mother’ and father of the present in mortal sorrow. It will soon come to be known that all the suffering that curses man, is the fruit of improper parentage, and the evils will be brought home to the doors of their progenitors, there to eat like molten lead into the vitals of their con- science, and to consign them to the lowest hell. In view of all these facts, we repeat what we have said often—that there is no other question before the people that is worthy to be thought of at all, when comparrd with the social question. _ This is the fountain head of all the good or ill that is, and it is crying aloud for recognition as such. The laws of reproduction ought to be fully understood by all persons before they should be allowed to reproduce, and the ‘organization of society should be changed and per- fected, having solely in view the production of better children. Whatever custom, law or usage that is found to interfere with the production of the best children, should be frowned down by the people, no matter how hoary it may be with respectability and age, or how sacred it may be held to be by religion. Mothers should meet in solemn conclave, declare their freedom, and put forth a declara- tion of their independence. They should most solemnly vow never again to permit their maternal functions to pass beyond their contro1;ﬁto be made to minister to the lusts of The demon, lust, which goes up and down the world seeking whom it may devour, and devouring all over whom it can than to call to review the list of oﬂicial delinquencies that Egain Control» Shmlld be deﬁed and ki119d, and W0ma11 a1011e can do this deed; for it is she who must bruise the ser- pent’s head; and she will bruise it and kill it effectually when she shall redeem herself from her present servitude to man. Let mothers go through the country and see the thousands on thousands conﬁned in loathsome prisons, in hospitals and asylums, and remember that those unhappy beings are the natural fruits of their depraved social rela- tions. Look at them, mothers! They are your fruit. By your fruit shall ye be known; by your fruit are ye known. Man, in his ‘reluctance to yield up the sway he has so long maintained over theperson of woman, stands in his own light, both individually and as a sex, for, if he but knew it, his ’,loss in yielding it would be his gain, because the glory that would come to him would be a crown of never’- fading joy, when compared with the miserable damnation that his present course evolves. But, if man be not wise enough to gain the blessing which is in store for him, by doing the right and bringing justiceto his too all-conﬁding companion, let her compel him, and setup the abomination of desolation which will ultimately come to allyvho, resist the demands of the age; to all who insist upon continuing the reign of lust in place of love; to all who shall sacriﬁce the future welfare to their present selﬁshness. A 4.; T7 MORE ABOUT THE VINDICATIONS. Phenomenal Spiritualism has been attacked in its strong- hold, and it is not to be wondered at that those who are more interested in this phase than they are in putting. forth efforts to so preparekmortals that they shall be highly devel. oped spirits after death, should spring to the rescue with all the energy and pertinacity of despair. There is a class of, Spiritualists who really thimk if the physical phenomena were to be exploded that Spiritualism would die. We do not happen to be of that class, and are therefore prepared to criticize and expose so-called phenomena, whenever’ we deem it to come within the sphere of our duty "so, to do. The Banner of Light is, of course, the accepted organ, of ‘phenomenal Spiritualism, and pays little attention" to the broader and, to our thinking, more important phase involved in the condition of spirits who enter the spirit world. We are not fully aware of the convictions of its conductors about the utility of physical conditions and their relations to the future condition of the spirit; but let them be what they may, they fail to make them a subject for considera- tion in the pages of their journal. Indeed, we_. do not re- member ever to have read an editorial in the Banner in which was discussed the laws and conditions of physical development in their relations to the welfare of the spirit ' here and hereafter. Perhaps their readers are not interested in tl1is‘;iﬁ-1fl;5orta11,t.subjec15. and that -they restrain themselves 4, --—._--.-.-_._.-_--.--.-.g._. 1,. ., ,§L___,___4,__._*. ,,M___ a 1-.--2.,» _ , - ~../; ,.,, n: .-A. , -. . .»» April 29,w1:8,76..-_ - ‘;-.imr::‘;s::-‘- -"mi.-":4:-:.a_.,r. .,- \ WO0D.HULLl& CL.AFLIN’8’ VVEEKLY. _ 5 " from treating to accommodate their paper to this de- mands. In this view of the case itis not strange that they should treat anybody or anything contemptuously that presumes to question the genuineness of .the corner-stone upon which the Bdmzor stands, or that what, in the minds of impartial people, is direct evidence of fraud, should be denominated “frivolous _charges,” or ‘finsinuations rather than direct charges.” ' And then, the “bits of cotton,” they are mere nothing, for, says the Banner,’ '‘p‘ it must have been well known to the persons ﬁnding them that if the cotton was used too wrap themolds in, itmight have been used hon- estly as well as dishonestly. Ah, but how could cotton used’ honestly‘, in which to wrap the molds," have found its way into the molds lmade by the spirits from the pail of paraﬂine? Let‘ the Banner inform its readers about this. Mrs. Austin would probably never have suspected that the cotton found upon her carpet had been intended‘ for dis- honest use,'or,had been used dishonestly, had not some of the self-same story-telling cotton been found upon the molds purported to have been formed by the spirits. In a word, Mrs. Hardy is put under the necessity of explaining the presence of that cotton in that suspicious relation,_ or else remain open to the strictures contained in the published statement.” Then there is a direct issue of veracity between her and Mrs. Austin. Mrs. Hardy says that the paraﬂine that she was so unfortunate as to drop in crossing the street, consisted of broken pieces from formerly constructed molds. But Mrs. Austin has made the following aﬂidavit : _l S'rA'rE'o:r NEW YORK. E City and County of New York. Before me, S. G. Hyatt, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said city and county, personally came Mrs. Margaret Z . Austin, of said city, who, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That on the evening of Wednesday, the 15th day of March last, crossing Broadway, in said city, at Fifty-seventh street, in the full blaze of a street gaslight, she plainly “ saw a paraiﬁne mold lying in the gutter where Mrs. Mary Hardy had just passed,” and that said “mold was the mold of a full-sized hand and not a “ handful of pieces,” as stated by said Mary and her husband in the ‘Banner of Light news- paper, dated April 8th 1876; and said deponent further says that much other matter in the letter of the said Mary Hardy, in the said Banner of Light, is untrue and false. [Signed] Mxnexnnr Z. AUSTIN. Sworn to before me this } 10th day of April. 187 6. [Signed] S. G. HYATT, Commissioner of Deeds, County of New York. - lWhen this question of veracity is taken into considera- tion, with the further fact, that upon the night in question the spirits were unable to produce the mold of a hand, we do not think that it is one of the “ti-ivialities,’-’ the name given by the Banner to the several parts of the statement, any more than is the further fact, that the spirits were unable to materialize a hand with which to produce a mold, when the table under which the’ parafdne was placed was - enveloped in a" bag with the seams at the ends, and out of the medium’s reach. It will be remembered that in the Boston. Herald’s statement of the vindicating seance given in Boston, the covering of the table was slitfrom the table to theﬂoor in f'ront'of where the medium sat. The query is, whether this slit was necessary to enable the spirits to materialize; or whether it was so for the medium to ma- nipulate the box. It is true that the proofs against Mrs. Hardy’s New York seances are all circumstantial; that is to say, no one saw her carry the mold from its place ‘of concealment and ‘deposit it under the table; but the circumstances seem to be almost as strong as if this had been seen. She re- quired conditions under which fraud was possible, and when these were denied, she failed to produce a mold; If the proof against her in New York be held to be clear and ‘conclusive,-which it is certainly by those who were: present, then the production of a dozen molds under the conditions named as having been imposed in Boston amount to nothing, because, while thehspectators may be able to saythatmtheyccould see no possible chance for imposition, they cannot say that there was none—the well-known slight-of-hand performance——which none save experts can detect, make it impossible for any to say so positively. They may notsbe able. to tell how it is done, but if it has been‘ done fraudulently in-any single case, it isfair to maintain that all the probabilities are upon the side of fraud in all other cases like it. Mrs. Hardy owes it to herself to permit the test conditions that we have presented as the only ones that can prove that paratﬁne molds are made by some power aside from herself. Then it will be time to inquire what that power is, and how it produces the molds. In Mrs. Hardy‘s_letter she asked, “How in the name of common sense could Mrs. Hardy deposit molds under that table?” Mr. Bronson and his co-signers to the statement are ableto answer from their observation of Mrs..Hardy’s seances, and by having produced them under the same con- dititions that were necessary with Mrs. Hardy, thus :- Dip your oiled hand several times in parafﬁne dissolved or melted in. hot water. When partially cooled it separates from the hand, which, by little practice, is easily withdrawn. Warm and compress the wrist, and you have a respectable " glove or mould. When cold and brittle, a novice would judge it impossible for you to have extracted your hand. Conceal the mold beneath your female dress and enter the exhibition room. Have this lighted from an adjoining room, dimly. Encase yourself in a bag of netting having seams, “ overhanded” loosely with short thre-ads——-the long thread of a machine would not suit you—-it would reveal your trick, because you have toopen a seam.) Seat yourself behind a’ table enveloped with heavy covers reaching to the ﬂoor; gather the seams of the bag into your lap asyou seat your- self. Allow no spectators within four feet. Keep them all in front of the table ifvpossible. The pail of paraﬂine is under the table, also cold water in a basin. They are for show only, notfor service‘. Set the ‘people to conversing or singing. Convenient knots will allow you to open a seam four or ﬁve inches. Slip the mold from its hiding-place through, the seam. Conceal the action by wiping your per- spiring face with your handkerchief, previously left on the table. Euvelop the mold in the folds of the nettingn It is a complete illusion and bar to sight in the dimness. Slide the mold to the ﬂoor,,push it under the table cover with. your foot; or, if safe, lift it with both feet into the coldwater basin. Put away your needles; there is plenty of time; be de~ liberate. It often takes an hour and a half. Half an hour will do if favorable conditions are allowed. Do not allow ._ the paratﬁne to be colored, nor “ specks” of any sort through it. “Say the spirits object” to that. Now, rap three times with the edge of the sole of -your slipper against the table-leg or against your other shoe’s sole, and proclaim the work completed . ” » MRS. ANNA STEWART. A This medium has also been vindicated in the columns of the Banner, the introduction to which is as follows: “Since the appearance of the crude, unjustifiable charges against Mrs. Stewart,” etc., etc. It willbe remembered that a part of these charges is that she was exposed at Chicago and that she admitted the fraud, and said that all her perform- ances had been of the same character. And this the Banner calls “crude and unjustiﬁable.” We must beg to differ with the Banner on this score, and tosay that they are proof: positive that Mrs. Stewart was a fraud. Suppose that, here~ f after, Mrs. Hardy should be caught in her performances, and should confess, would the Banner thus cling to this kind of defense of mcdiumship, and say that a charge of fraud, under those circumstances would be crude and un- justifiable? We shall see when it shall come, as come it will, or else materialization, through her, will be an estab- ished fact beyond all doubt. It is not beyond the range of possibility, indeed, it may be probable, that Mrs. Hardy is the woman appointed by God to bring life and immortality to light in the ultimate and immortalized condition in the ﬂesh. If so, none more heartily than we shall, will welcome that auspicious event— ‘ an event the importance of which,iif ther e be any reliance at all to be placed upon our spirit sources of information, has never been stated to the world, or even conceived of by the mind of any medium or other person. What would be the results of a failure to attain to this condition are not known, save to a few of the most advanced in spirit life. There are persons in this life, who are convinced that some great and universal calamity is impending over this earth, but they do not tell it publicly. So there are spirits who know that if this calamity come, before real materialization is ex- T perienced; before the resurrection is begun, then that all living individualized existences, both in earth and spiritplife, will be dissipated into the original elemental condition, and another million years pass, ere the earth can attain to its present status of civilization. If human life were to be cut off, if the earth were to be depopulated, spirit life would also cease, for that life is dependant upon the magnetism of this individualized existence, as this is dependent upon the organic kingdoms which lie between it and the inorganic. Were the organic kingdoms to be destroyed by any general change in the elemental world, human life could not con- tinue; so too if human life were to be destroyed, spirit life would necessarily cease, because human life is the connect- ing link between organic life and spirit existence. The fate which is impending over this planet will turn upon the attainment of the resurrection for the dead, and to immortality inthe ﬂesh for the living. We are not dis- posed, at this time, to enter into any philosophical consid-. eration of this assertion; but the time is at hand when it will be demonstrated,§and:we labor, being under the convic- tion that, upon the puriﬁcation of the race, or some portion of it, within a given time unknown “to us, ;but impend- ing now over the wo'rld, depends the continuation of indi-. vidualized existence upon this planet. Materialization, to us‘,the1'efore, is a most solemn thing——a thing too momen- tous to be made a subject of trickery and bu siness, and we should not have diverted our attention even temporarily, as we have, from the main thing to be attained, had not this thought come over us, that even “the elect” might be de- ceived" If there is any excuse reqmred by anybody for the’; established facts to warrant a rush to spirits, for an explanaﬁ digression from our usual course, we offer this, with the further explanation that we had no idea into what it would expand when the departure was ﬁrst made. We would also say, that if all the mediums were to be exposed, we should have no personal feeling in the matter. We should regret that all these things had to come, at the same time, realizing fully that wo would come upon those through whom they come. i We. are_ so anxious that all mediumistic power shall. be utilized to forwarding the great event,- that we are, perhaps, over earnest, when we see it frittered away in_ any manner;° and it is this anxiety, and not from -any per- sonal motives, for or against mediums, that-impels us to speak. If {mediums really knew -what depends upon the With needle and thread, previously concealed in your dress, sew up the rip any seamstress will show you how 3 to “overhand” by rolling the seam around your needle. ; perfection of mediumship, they would never cease to fast and pray; consecratingi themselves in theliolysanctuary of a harmonious home, to the use of the spirits, until it should be gained. Convincing all the world even of the fact of spirit existence, is of no moment at all beside the awful re» sponsibility that now rests upon ‘mediumship. Were the world convinced of -that existence today, it would not save a single soul from the destruction that awaits the failure of the resurrection. If? this were knownto mediums, they would indeed assemblethemselves together in some sancti- ﬁed place, and, shutting? ~the'm‘selve‘s up from the world, would consecratej their lives to God,” to usher in’ the Golden day of death destroyed~—that day when the reign of .“ him who hath the power of death, that is the devil,” shall‘ end for ever. A C it A ~ T — '—1‘4 ‘ V '7' TWEED'LEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE. Annie Eva Fay advertises as a"‘spiritual' medium.” We *-never believed her to be such, although some of the very parties who now are so swift to assert Mrs. Hardy a cheat, tion to showghow little reliance can be placed on hasty evi- dence. Mrs. Fay has lately been holding “ marvelous, seancos” in Orange, N ..-J . A late number of the Orange Chromcle thus rrotices one of them: . A p r “ One of the members of the committee, being of a skepti- cal turn of mind, watched very closely the methods of the ‘ medium,’ and became s Ltldﬁed that the exhibition was pro- duced by mere sleight—of-hand or jugglery. Keeping his con- victions to himself, with the exception of one friend whom he admitted to his conﬁdence, the gentleman went to work to perfecta plan by which he could produce exactly the same manifestations or phenomena, which, after a few ‘trials, proved so successful that_they concludedto give a parlor exhibition before apfew chosen friends.”—J3anner of Light, .Aprtl15. , _ , . , We have no doubt that our readers will join with us in ,—'an expression of. surprise that the above paragraph could ‘have found its way into the identical number of the Banner in which others are taken severely to task for their skepti- cism about Mrs. Hardy’s and Mrs. Stewart’s mediumship; or for that matter, into any number of the Banner. We are afraid that friend Colby’s wisdom was asleepwhen this oc. ‘curred. He has never believed Annie Eva Fay to be a spiritual medium. , No doubt he has good reasons for this frankly expressed belief; but does he forget that she has been scrutinized by even “higher authorities" than ever Mrs. Hardy passed before, and came out unscathed? “Some of the very parties who now are so ready to assert Mrs. Hardy a cheat” happen to entertain the same opinion about that lady that he holds about Annie Eva Fayg « “Who shall decide when doctors disagree.” Now, we shall not fly off at a tangent in defense of Mrs. Fay,whom we believe to be a spiritual medium; nor shall we call the assertion of his belief without‘ the presentation of any evidence whereby to sustain it, as ahasty,ill-timed, crude, unjustiﬂable, or even “ad captandum vulgus” charge against her. ,We shall frankly admit the right of friend Colby to his belief, and in admit- ting this, we also admit, necessarily, his further right to have that belief stated and treated in a courteous manner in _.these columns, which right in others we are sorry is not admitted by the Banner inits columns when it so happens that such beliefs are not inharmony with those of its presid- ing Editor. If he maintain that Annie Eva Fay is not a medium, though she has successfully passed the scrutiny of those who believe that Mrs. Hardy is not a medium, is it not incumbent on the Bcmner to admit the possibility that all hands may be deceived?-.-ii Or is friend Colby the only competent person to decide upon the mediumship of pro- fessing mediums? If this be really so, let the Spiritualists make him Pope at once and put the burden and responsie bility of mediumship upon him, and make an end to this constant jingling over exposures. C But illogical, and inconsistent as is the position to which we have called attention, the quotation from the Orange Chronicle seems still more so, since, if the fact that Annie Eva Fay’s_ manifestations have been produced without the aid of spirits, be held to be a proof of her want of “spiritual - mediumship,” then the same fact must be admitted as ag‘ainst‘Mrs. Hardy, because, like Mrs. Fay, her production of paraiﬁne molds has been imitated without the agency of spirits. We do not hesitate to assert that, under any of the we have any knowledge, paraﬂine molds may be produced, T ad mﬁnitum, without the aid of spirits. So long as mediums A can offer only such manifestations as can be imitated, there is no necessity of attributing them to spirit agency. Illusions, tricks, psychology and delusions are too wel_l tion to the uninitiated of any seemingly incomprehensible phenomena. L H ' p A But we may be wholly at sea about what purports to be the materialization of spirits; and the Banner may be safely at anchor in the haven of their realization; but until our present belief is changed we must entertain it; at the same time, however, admitting_the_ right of others to an opposite belief, and respecting them for holding as well as expressing it. We have made but poorprogress toward the possibility of a-perfected life on earth, or anywhere else, if we cannot agree todisagree in kindness and brotherly love; if we can- not submit with good grace to. brotherly andsisterly criti- ¢1sm_,w1;to_s;._rgi1ing ts. calling, hard gnamles, he attributing "fully endorse Mrs. l3‘ay,’s mediumship. This we simply men-» pp conditions under which Mrs. Hardy has been put, of which 6 ‘ WOODHUVLL ds.lCLAFLIN’S’i.‘“WEEKLY. Aprill’29, 1114876. improper or base motives. We believe both Mrs. Fay and Mrs. Hardy to be spiritual mediums; but we also believe them both to be liable to palm oﬁ their own productions as manifestations of spirits. Besides, is not the testimonyof those who are admitted on, all hands to be spiritual medi- urns, to be taken for something when they say that materi- alization is a humbug? We have in our mind several well- tried and often-tested mediums, one especially, who has given more tests perhaps than any other, who has travelled more extensively, besides having been before the public; from the very first days of spiritualism, who does not hesi- tate to say, that materialization is: simple trickery; and placing the same reliance upon our own-sightin this, that we havelearned to do in other things, we have no hesita- tion in asserting the same belief. They make a mistake who think that spiritualists. are a unit about this phase. of manifestation. We doubt whetherveven a majorityput any faith in itat all. So we think it is fair to say thatthe fact still remains to be demonstrated. * A 4; %f g@” A valued correspondent, residing in Baltimore writes: “ Why these constant ‘ hubbubs ’ about mediums who have been thoroughly tested,’ like Mrs. Hardy? When will Spirit- ualism be lifted out of this turmoil and confusion that is so detrimental to the progress of divine phi1osoph.y.”—-The;Ban- ner of Light. Apm'l15. We wonder that the Banner, when appealed to alter this manner, did not deign to make some reply; as it did not, we will attempt to do so: . ' We think that these “ constant hubbubs” will cease when mediums shall stop using their hands in imitating spirit hands, and being detected in it, as was Mrs._Parry "at Rock- fort, Mich., some months ago; when_ they shall stop using . false hair, false faces, lace tinsel, etc., etc., to be detected in it, as was Mrs.- Stewart, at Chicago, in September, 1873; when they shall stop having confederates to personate spirits, and being detected in it, as were “the Holmes ”; in Philadelphia a year ago; when they shall stop issuing from the cabinets with their outer garments turned over their heads, to seem to be spirits, and being detected in it, as was Mrs. Miller, at Memphis, recently; when they shall cease to carry plaraﬁine hands about With them, and drop them in the street crossings, to be seen of others, and of being ‘un- able to produce them at seances immediately following the former circumstance; when bits of cotton shall cease to adhere to molds which are fashioned onspirithands (to say nothing of a hundred other phases that have been exploded); in a word, whenlmediums shall be nothing but honest and truthful, and shall invite rather than decline every possible test condition, even if some of them shall prove to be such as the spirits cannot overcome (one of the best evidences of honest mediumship, tous, is the fact that failures to get the desired manifestations. sometimes occur);-— when all these things shall cease, then “a valued correspondent” of the .30//t7?/6'7’ may be sure that “ these constant hubbubs” will also cease, but not before. ‘ 4;. SCIENCEVHALL. The above named hall, situate at No. 141 Eighth Street, was publicly dedicated on Sunday, April 16th, under the auspices of the Religio“Scientiﬁc Society, and will be occu- pied on future Sundays by “ The First Congregational Society of .the Religion of Humanity.” _ The programme of the Society instructs us, that its design is “ to promote human happiness by increasing Love, maintaining Order, and securing Prog1'eSS.f’ It further declares: “ Allwho are now outside of, and debarred from fellowship in the old church, by reason of having outgrown itssuperstitious and’unsc_ientiﬁc methods, will‘ ﬁnd ’a home inlﬁthis‘ ‘church’; provided they have (or desire to possess), clean hands, pure hearts, and devotion to Humanity.” ' A very fair attendance assisted at the dedication, which took place in the afternoon. I Mr. G. L. Henderson presided and opened the meeting. Miss Hume, assisted by a ‘piano accompanimentggave “ Consider the L’illies” with marked, eﬂ:'ect.‘ The music was followed‘ by the reading of J.jG' Whittier’s poem" “The Reformer,” by Mr. H. Brown. The invocation, delivered by lMr. Henry Evans, asked a blessinglon the Religion of Humanity and its work. An address followed, by Mr. Sotheran, which exhibited. the long struggle between Theology andScience, in which were ably and beautifully depicted the lives of Torquernada and ,; Galileo——many of the contrasts in the same calling forth the vehement applause of the audience. . . The subjects of the evening lecture were, “ The Divorce of Theology and Science and the Marriage of.Seien,ce_and Religion.” These positions were illustrated in a veryablle-_ address by Mr. T. B. Wakeman. He was followed .byMr. Henry Edgar and Mr". G. L. Henderson, the lattertofnwhorn drew a very vivid picture of a struggle between humanity and theology, which had occurred in Scotland, in which the man triumphed overvthe Presbyterian in a very'delic_ate case respecting the baptism of an illegitimate child; the describing of which, in the __ genuine. Scotch dialect of the actors therein, was_frequentlyapplauded. Asiinthe after- noon, the hall, though notncrowded, was wellﬁllied. ‘ ‘ ' Sunday ev_ening,Ap'ril, 23d, R. W. Hnumelisdappointed to ~ discuss the subject of “ The ‘Shortcomings of Creedal rag ligpions,” ' l I I ' - ' ;.I:i.s9;1,c11is,i§>ﬁ. ,.v9;.vou.1d sayithere is .r.ées§nL‘t6l’bé1ievé§ the scieaanaii isomers it’se'lf'*to"be*an6the¥'ic8htr’ ; e »; : understand . the Liberal Club is to hold its future meetings ground that she is a woman.—-N‘, Y, Sun. same gallants will undoubtedly deny that women are in July The Creation and Fall of Man. 7Sept. 4. The'..-Reconciliationlof Man to God. for free thought and free speech in this metropolis. We there, and the “Truth Seeker” our respected contemporary has transferred its oflice to the building in which it is loca- ted. As to the “First Congregational Society of the Reli- gion of Humanity,” if it be true to its name, and open to the discussion of all questions affecting the interests of the human race, we wish it (and believe it will obtain) speedy and sure success. .4’; ‘v 7 The whole. supply of water and gas in London is under the control of private companies, and .the Registrar-General estimates that one—half the present cost of gas and water in London would ‘be saved to consumers if the works were in the hands of public authorities. With us in New York, for- tunately, water is not controlled by private; corporations, and in\this respect -we are better off than residents in Lon- don; but ‘the gas monopolylstill continues to be a. serious ‘evil. I . A We are surprised to ﬁnd such a paragraph as this in the Sun. Is it really true, after all, that Mr. Dana is not false to his old familiar socialistic theories? and that he is using the Sun to gradually popularize them? If water and gas can be better supplied by the community than by private corporations, and if this be the conviction of the Sun now, l1ow long will it require for it to also become convicted that f_erries, street railroads, steam railroads, in short, all methods of ‘public communication, should be placed in the category with the postal service, the public schools, water and gas? -. ' From. the Irtdianapolis J oumal, April 15. SHALL A WOMAN EARN AN HONEST LIVING? A strike took place in the newsroom of the Telegraph oﬂiceiiight before last against the employment of Miss Amanda Boetticher, a lady" of many accomplishments and skilful in the art preservative. The strike was purely on the No! is the reply that the gallant gentlemen (?) of the Télegraph make to the inquiry of the Sun. And yet the bondage. Probablynot one of these “striking” gallants be- lieve that a woman has any rights which they are bound to respect; that she has any rights either inherent or acquired, political, industrial, social. We have not any doubt, how- ever, that they believe in the right of_ man to bind woman in legal slavery to his passions, and that if so bound, and any attempt were made to exercise the right of personal freedom, that [they would “strike” in another sense than they have done as stated. Gallants of the Telegraph ! ye are on the record. THE TVVO SERIES OF BIBLE ARTICLES. Before beginning the third and last and most deeply im- portant, thrilling and all-absorbing third series of articles completing our exegesis of the Bible, and the relation of its hidden meaning to the development through which the race, or some portion of it, will attain to life immortal, in the ﬂesh, or, as the case may be, resurrected from the dead, we desire to once more call the special attention of our readers to what l1as been said already. In the two se- ries already published most of the doctrines and theories of religionists have been examined in the light of the new exe- gesis, and the biblical "truths upon which they are founded, set forth. Everybody should have all of these articles, be- cause, when theinext series shall begin to appear, theylwill be neededyforreference. The series,..and the dates of the WEEKLY -in which they appeared, are as follows: FIRLT SERIES. April 17. The Culmination of Events. ‘ ’ S 24. The Fulﬁlmentof Law. May 1.’ On Earth Peace, Good Will. ‘8. 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G ‘Wakeﬁeld-Earth Closet Co., 36 DEY STREET, NEW YORK. THE WORLD’S Sixteen Cruciﬁed Saviors; on, - I OHRISJ/A NITY BET! ORE’ czrnrsr. CONTAINING - New, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations. in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin, of all the Doctrines, Prtnclples, Precepts and Miracles of the . I CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing a Key for unlocking many of tts Sacred Mysteries, besides comprising the Histor'y ‘of Sixteen Oriental Oruciﬁecl Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “ The Biography of Satan ” and ‘FT/lie Bible of Bibles ” (comprising a description of twenty Bibles.) . This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the ﬁeld which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the varied information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—-as will be seen by his title~page and chapter-heads——follows a deﬁnite line of research and argument _to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. - 9 C O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; (introduction; Address to the er gy. Chap. 1.—Rival Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.~Messianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.—Propliecies by the ﬁgure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.—Miraculous and lmniaciilate Conception of the Gods. . _ Chap. 5.—Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods) Birthplace. . Chap. '7.-—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant Savior. ‘ Chap. 8.—-The Twenty-ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. Chap. 9.—Titles of the Saviors. Chap. 10.-—’l‘he Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. Chap. l1.—Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.—-The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- ti 11 in Infancy. Chap. 13.—-The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of Di- vinit . "Chap. 1y4'.—-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.——The Saviors are real Personages. Chap. l6.—-Sixteen Saviors Cruciiied. Chap. 1'i.—’1‘he Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- ﬁxion. Chap. 18.——De_scent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. l9.—Resurrection of the Saviors. iors. Chap. 21.——The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe Origin. = Chap.b22.—The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. ‘Chap. 23.-—The Divine “Word” of Oriental Origin. ‘ Chap. 24.-——The Trinity very anciently a current Hea- then Doctrine. ‘Chap. 25.——-Absolution, or the Confession of Sins, of ’ Heathen Origin. Chap. 26.—Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, ‘ and the Holy Ghost. Chap. 2"/.——'l‘ne; Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen Ol‘.‘l°‘lll. . " Chap?28.—-Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.-—Hoiv Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. Chap. 30.—Saci-ed Cycles explaining the Advent of the Gods, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus Christ. . Chap. 31.—-Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems.‘ _ Chap. 32.—-Three I-Iundred and ‘Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. .Chap. 33.~—Apo_ll0ni11S, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 34.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Faith- Miracles, Prophecies and Precepts. Chap. 35.—Logical or Common-sense View of the Doc- triee of Divine Incarnation. Chap. 36.—Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. Chap. 37.—-Pliysiological Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, Chap. 38-—A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus ri Ch st. Chap. 39.—The Scriptural View of Christ‘s Divinity. Chap._ 40.——A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. Chap. 4~1.—The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus Chr'st I . . Chap. 42.—-Christ as a Spiritual Medium. Chap. 43.—Conversion, Repentance and “ Getting Re- gion” of Heathen Origin. Chap. 44.—The Moral. Lessons of Religious History. Chap. 45.—-Conclusion and Review. ' Note of Explanation. . Printed on fine White paper, large 121110, 380 pages, $2.00; postage 20 cts. Send orders ‘to WOODHULL & CLAFLIN, P. O. Box 3,791, New York City. ‘ A SURE CURE FOR ' GOITREI Sent by mail for Five Dollars. A cure warranted in a cases, or money refunded. Address DR. E. L. ROBERTS, Mar-shall. Mich. A SURE CURE non PAINFUL, TOO FREQUENT AND CoPIoUs, AND TAR1-)Y MENSTRUATION. One package, dollar. GOITRE CURED for Five dollars. Address §Dr. E. L. ROBERTS, Marshall, Mich. Chap. 6.—Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s I Chap 20.~Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav— ‘ ‘W’ “ .-=-i...gu.‘s~_f " ' _._ - ..4-.e-‘-... ;» -' in GE or MED Realuiced a. Science, W. A. M., M. D... 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-04-29_11_22
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-04-29_11_22
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 23 (May 6, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2122
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-05-06
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: - 1.»: 7. _...._.._4 W PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT 2. UNTB.1kl\llZhdELEDiLI“VESl " V01. X_I.-—No., 23.—Whole No. 283. 5 NEVV YORK, 6, 1876. BREAKING «ms WAY FOR FUTURE cnnsnarxons. A ‘ PRICE TEN ems. The ma shall make yoit free.~——-Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of ~ Gocli shalt be ﬁnished.—St. John the Divine. ’ ‘ ,WhereofI was made a minister] to preach the im- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which n from the beginning of the world hath beenlhiol in 4; ‘rvr THE ONE POINT OF EQUALITY. GRANDISLANI), U. P. R. R., , i I . March,31st, 1876. Dear W eekly: On the train that was about to leave Omaha a few days since for the “ Paciﬁc Slope,” a small circular was handed round to each passenger, to the effect that there is “ Nothing better when _you Travel than a Ticket of Insu- rance against Accident,” assuring the apprehensive indivi- dual that for a quarter of a dollar per diem . he is insured at the rate of $15 per week if disabled, and $3,...
Show more- 1.»: 7. _...._.._4 W PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT 2. UNTB.1kl\llZhdELEDiLI“VESl " V01. X_I.-—No., 23.—Whole No. 283. 5 NEVV YORK, 6, 1876. BREAKING «ms WAY FOR FUTURE cnnsnarxons. A ‘ PRICE TEN ems. The ma shall make yoit free.~——-Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of ~ Gocli shalt be ﬁnished.—St. John the Divine. ’ ‘ ,WhereofI was made a minister] to preach the im- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which n from the beginning of the world hath beenlhiol in 4; ‘rvr THE ONE POINT OF EQUALITY. GRANDISLANI), U. P. R. R., , i I . March,31st, 1876. Dear W eekly: On the train that was about to leave Omaha a few days since for the “ Paciﬁc Slope,” a small circular was handed round to each passenger, to the effect that there is “ Nothing better when _you Travel than a Ticket of Insu- rance against Accident,” assuring the apprehensive indivi- dual that for a quarter of a dollar per diem . he is insured at the rate of $15 per week if disabled, and $3,000 in theevent of death. ' . -_ , « Then ‘follows a curious marginal note in large. caps, blue letters, on a. clear white ground: - T “WOMEN INSURED AGAINST DEATH ONLY." In a- few - minutes‘ smug comes ‘thuiublquitous R. R. sen-at with papers. My mind still in‘ a sort of dull heavy mazelas to the signiﬁcance of the aforesaid “large caps ‘in “blue let- ters on clear white ground,” I became possessed of a‘ copy of that chaste sheet, the Chicago Times, and the ﬁrst thing that‘ glared at me from a middle column of the ﬁrst page, also in large caps, black letters on a white ground, was :- “MAD ANTHONY,” ‘ “ Otherwise known as Susan l13:{., ﬁne ‘Popular Advocate of Woman’s ig ts." - " Who went into one of her Tantrums in McCormick’s Hall, Yesterday Afternoon.” ‘ Then followed some more “large caps,” etc.,_ insimilar ele- gance of tone and conception. but not worth reproducing, as a sample is a dose: and still again, in condensed , matter, V some more of the sparkling emanations of a fair specimen of an ordinary reporter of an ordinary paper; said reporter in- forming us that there was a packed and jammed audience to listen to and see “Mad Anthony” in her “tantrums,” and further, that she “ appeared promptly and began her address in those calm and dulcet tones that have been familiar to the public for the last three quarters of a cen'tury.’’. ; My ﬁrst impulse, in view of the large caps in blue, and the ditto in black——after the reflection that “ one woe doth tread upon the heels of‘ another, so fast they follow”——was to have a sigh of regret that fate had ordained me to be a woman; for my sense of justice was pierced as with_a poisoned arrow by that small circular and that Chicago Times’ report of Su- san B. Anthony’s lecture. ' There’s no use disguising it, “womanhood , is wounded at ‘every turn by thoughtless ignorance and stupid insensi- bility, ingrained and bred in the bone, nursed in with mother’s milk, impregnated with prej udioe and falsehood. N 0 use my getting mad and raving over the vulgarity and foul slang which the Times’ reporter no doubt considered smartness; nor the gross injutice to women contained in that marginal notehto a very small circular. No use my call- ing that reporter hard names, thinking him beneath con- tempt——he is not so much to blame for being an excrescence of our boasted civilization; he has found himself a black- guard among blackguards, and he has no ambition to tim- prove his condition; or else he stultiﬁes his ﬁner perceptions for apenny a line in “ large caps” and “ condensed matter.” Perhaps, after all, my latest impulse, summing up the causes and effects in both the circular and the newspaper, was only pity fora state of society so whitewashed in its own conceit as to boast of itself after producing such specimens of manhood as a Chicago Times’ reporter, and such distinguish- ers of impartial justice as are capable of drawing so ﬁne and nice a distinction, from a purely masculine standpoint, be- tween the sexes as set forth in : “ Women Insured Against Death Only I” , — Of course, if a woman gets her life insured against acci- dent, and only happens to get disabled, she stands in no need of $15 per week to help her out; she is supposed, in pro- found massuline wisdom, to have, Somewhere or sgmehow, a male protector, which if she have not, thefault cannot certainly lay at the door of “impartial and unimpeachable masculine wisdom. ' 0 no! it must be the woman’s fault, since woman is at the bottom of allthe mischief, from mother Eve to Mrs. Belknap. ' I ' . Anyway, in the framing of all obligatory instruments, from the Bible to a “ very small” circular of an Accident luau- rance Company, man has ever held“ hard to his wise conceit ‘of a—“male protection” on whose ch-ivalrous and infallible potency woman can depend, even while she works her ﬁngers stiff to support the children she has borne to his“ selﬁsh lust; a masculine head to’ whose sturdy and oak-like proportions woman can cling as the vine, and just as woman has clung, I and just as woman will cling. in spite of swaggering reporters befogged in tobacco, bad whiskey and modern civilization; in spite of nice distinctions drawn upon‘ her status by men in whom the last trace of natural justice is legislated into sham in consideration of manly prerogative. “ Why do they insure us against the accident of death even? Indeed, one can scarce divine, unless they have our nearest -of kin in a male line in view of their “manly prerogative ;” for women in general are as generally muddled as men in general, and ten to one, if a woman should ‘get killed and have $3,000 for it, she would “ revert”'it to her husband, or her pa, or her brother, or her son, or her cousin John, though her maiden sister were making shirts for a living at twenty-ﬁve cents apiece. ‘The average woman’s "sense of the ﬁtness of things is in‘ full accord with the average spirit of the age and the blazonry of modern respectability. I have not the slightest doubt but as many foolish women have giggled over that‘eﬁ‘ort of ’ thatsmart Alick of the Chi- cago Times to write himself an ass, as stupid men have leered and winked and joked over it. _ The courage of some women is high, and grand to enable them to breast thethick and offensive surge of popular preju- dice and ignorance. Many a capable woman’s voice is silent, and her inﬂuence suppressed, because she is too timid and weak to face the vulgar rabble which in her soul she esteems so unworthy even hercowardice. . _: . » ' A Still the work goes bravely on, and crowds go to hear Su- san Anth ony, drawn in large-numbers by that very spirit of‘ senseless detraction manifested by the 0 Times. All things have their uses. Even the slime ‘spewed up by the reperto- rial lizards of modern newspapers manures the ﬁeld whereon is fought the world’s great battle of progress, in which women are equally interested with men, despite the efforts of bifur- cated nonentities to write’ the fact with ridicule; desp

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