Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-02-22

RdlcS VI tHo plt ~ SUCH IHeuH fubuOOHuS;
bu, Alcohol, who was meaner than his mas.
ter, loved them dearly, and finally prevailed
on him to afford them protection in his do.
minions. Blu. my hear. sickens, and for
the present must lay down my pen,-
When my spirits recover LILLE will write
another chapter ofmy dream. M
(To BE coNTINUED
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... Id From the New York Tribune.
Ghost Literature aD'-
Few Of our readers, except those who
are themselves engaged in the great business
Of ghost. seeking, spirit-rapping, lable,jump-
Iing,speaking in tongues, mysterious writing,
and other phenomena Of the kind, are aware
of the extent 10 which these practices and
relations are carried on in This free and in
dependent country. There is hardly rural
parish, or q city one either, which does not
count its "mediums' and circles Of expo-
rers into this department. Of the misty un.
known. Everywhere the curious and cred
ulons are receiving high moral and spiritual
common.places from their deIunct uncles,
aunts, grandames, apd poslerity. Dear, be.
ieyihg souls exull at the new wnks, and
binks, and squeezes Of the hand, and slaps
on the back, vouchsafed 10 them from the
transmorluary world. and thelaspiring and
hopeful long for the greaser revelations tha,
are promised, but never received, from the
same dubious source. Those wiseacres who
proclaim that the delusion is exploded, and
triumpbanlly knock their knee,joints, or
, crackle their loes by demonstration, receive
linle attention and make no converts. But
, the ghosts do. They 60 on conquering and
10 conquer. The number of their disciples
multiplies from Maine TO California. If II
! be all deuson, there was never one SO
! widely disseminated, and it is lime for those
! who deprecate lis influence and deny lis
spiritual claims, 10 really explode if they
3 can. IL will not do TO wait ill il dies oul o
e itself for, as we hear, scores Of people are
e actually made crazy by it, and the received
S faith with respect TO The life Of man allel
! death is being so widely and dangerously un'
= dcrmined that J! cannot for years recover
. that general assent, which, in The minds o.
religious people a, least, il has. hitherto en-
o joyed.
e The literature Of The sol disanI ghosts
+ already extensive and daily increasing, af
= lords striking indication of The temper o
:, the public appetite toward The manifestation
:. in question. There are some dozen period
II icalS devoted altogether or in great part Il
l. setting forth The high pretensions of lhes
g invisible gentry, and The press groans will
ID spiritual pamphlets and books, in every slyl
10 from grave lreaiises on the inmost secrets o
d being, down 10 narrative Of how Peter Sim
= Pile learned from The rappers that his grand
n mother died five years and three monihsag
re Of phlhsic, and is now in The Second Sphere
q. which wonderfully agreed with his own pre-
is vious knowledge Of The fact; or how Orsd
Y. mus Smudge was lifted from the floor by III
10 ghosts, and violently bumped against III
N ceiling mhen there vas no other person i
re the room: s,.....,, r'.s h..
fd The ghosts provide for a great variety
n; tastes, but their ruling passions seem to b
Up Medicine and Theology. Toward thing
ie Of more ordinary and tangible utility ihei
IS inclination is NOT so strong. We remembe
a very highly-fayored medium who o
;" lered to make us personally acquainted viii
as Socrates, Abel, Swedonborg, Solomon, {
er any other departed worthy, or to descrt
On the scenery Of Jupiter or Hildebran; b.
ST, who utterly declined to tell what was golr
ed on al the moment in London, even thoug
offered very high salary as permane
)" TRANSATLANTIC reporter. Among all the worl
'ui that we Know, written on spiritual informs
ep lion, not one reveals real secret, as for il
er- stance, better mode Of cooking, or ne
ny motive over, Evidently, such matters q
A not in The ghosts line.
on Among the periodical publications Of III
ch kind, the most elaborate is The Shekindh,
led monthly magazine often noticed and cor
lg- mended in these columns. The Spirit,I
Iisl Telegraph, hebdomedal, is conducted by I,
in same editor, Mr.. S. B. Britain. The Spi
Messenger is Published weekly in this ci
by Mr.. Amber, himself medium d
nee may confidently be consulted by all who {
ost sire 10 know what The spirits have TO off
led The Neto Era halls from Boston, is. also
icy weekly, and gives communications frt
old The higher order Of spirils.' But the pre-
my erb thar q living dog is better than a dc
eel lion was never more iediousIy iluslra
mp than In lis pages; 10 hear The braying o.
pit live ass would be agreeable pastmo al
ing their perusal, for, the higher the spin
'lde noun, ,be bigger fools lbey seem 10 becor
ulh il The Neg Era does them justice. Ii
Y" from the Spira World Is published at
The Louis, every Saturday; lis pages are il
reri greul measure fllcdby she contributions
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