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SPIRITUAL PArRONAor.-ThO most beautiful


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SPIRITUAL PArRoNAoE.--Tho most beautiful
paper that comes TO our Office Is the New York
Spiritual Telegraph, 1t Is published ut so per
Nnnum, and doubtless pays. Tho SpiriuOlists
pAtrOnzo their paper, and in return tho spirits
and their organ, tho Telegraph help the Spirit
ualiSt'. We should DO glad to know what idea
can spring up, around which an association may
rally, that some ingenious Yankee will not dis.
cover method Of making Il pOyp We can sec
no great harm In this, II tho influences reSortod
10 produce no worse result than that Of merely
putting money In "true believers" pockets.
But the communications given BY the spirits are
Sofrequently incorrect, and their advice SO often
wrong, that tho wonder Is, that in matters Of
Importance anybody can be found who will rely
ON them. Yet they are consulted in cases Of
sickness, either as 10 the physician TO be em.
ploycd, or tho medicine 10 be administered. An
instance In point 10 related In the last Telegraph
For tho last ten or twelve years n Mrs, Par.
rilEe las boon afflicted with u painful RbSeess
alr7 her jaw, After trying several di'tin-
e. shtd doutors, the spirits advised her to try
shoemaker, who effected a cure. Tho
. Tor Is then warmly commended, and his all.
a, e"givOn. No objection can DO raised against
that part OF the article which prhiseS skillIul
operator in surgcryi tho mischief is IN tho en-
enlargement given TO the public TO trust spiritual
advisers in cases Of sickness, and thus lay them
selves liable to suffer from falsO directions, by
eOllu'iOn or imposture. A hundred examples Of
unfortunate results from consulting spirits might
occur, but they would never find their way into
the Telegraph,
We understand that the corn and oats crops
in Shelby and Marion cOuntOS present re
markably promising appearance, Wheat and
grasses will not do so WELL
In a railroad article in another column.
the New York Tribune seems to have over
looked the fact that there are t,cs Missouri
Companies, both "caiming to be on the
track" Of the Pacific Road. Il directnsss
and feasibility Of construction are eviden.
ceS Of good claim, ours may we'll DO put
forward in the front rank,
North Missouri Railroad,
Tho people of Davis county, Iowa, held q
meeting at Bloomfield on tho 9th inst, and re-,
qus'Isd their county Judge ,'tO submit the pOrp.
OsitiOn to tho people ut the earliest practicable
period, for vote for or against subscription
ny the county for 100000 stock in said road, Vt
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DRrHrLAoE OF HESRY CLAY ron SALr,-
Tho farm known as "ClOy Spring" in Hanover
county, Virginia, aud upon which tho orator and
statesman Henry Clay, was born, is offered fol
SalO by its present owner, Mr., William b, Dab.
ney.
CN,NE IN BcSroN,--The Grand Jury in Sur.
folk county, Massachusetts,, have Just made q
presentment, in which they state, as tho result
of their examination into The criminal calender
Of Boston, that three. Courths Of tho crime com.
mittod there is caused by intemperanee, and at
tributablO in II great degree to the swarms Of Il.
legal dram-shops inGesling tho purlieus Of the
city, and they severely rebukO the Mayor and
councils for not diminishing the evil
Chief Justice Parsons said;
II have been so long in the habit Of hearing
criminals Of oil grades refer all thSir hissriss ia