The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-30
week was s97, showing decrease Of SO on the NOR

week was 397, showing decrease OF So on the NOR
taity Of the previous week or these go were caused
by consumption, "A by convulsons, 16 by Group, Is
by dropsy in the heal, u by typbus fever, l6 BY in
hapmation of the lungs, Is by marasmus, and IA by
smallpox. There were six cases OF premature birth,
and 26 of stilborn. or the deceased, I27 were I'M
der one year, and $50 under ten years of age; 24o
were natives OF the United States, So OF Ireland, Il
of England, and 81 of Germany.
In the Superior Court, yesterday, Judge Dner gave
bis decision in the Broadway Railroad case, tolera
bly, full report OF which will be found in another
column.
1t is seldom that we are able to embrace within the
columns of one paper such an immense variety OF
information is presented to readers today, a.
win be seen by the annexed list of portion Of the
contents Fall details OF the Discovery OF the
Northwest Passage, including thrilling account Oh
the meeting of British officers from the East and
Wet on the ice; Description Of an Extraordinary
Interview between Judge Edmonds and the Spirits;
Report Of the Investigation in the United States
Circuit Court relative to the destruction of the
steamboat Henry Clay; Lecture by Dr. Hines on
the Poets Of the Nineteenth Century; Meeting to
provide aid for Yale College; Particulars concerning
the Gold Washing Aqueduets in California; Reli-
Judge Edmonds and his New Christianity.
BY reference to another part OF this days
paper. will be found report of visit OF one OF
our corps to Judge Edmonds, in the very sane
tuary Of his new religion. 1t is full and COM
plete account of one Of the most curious inter-
view that ever took place in this sublunary
sphere--highl interesting to those who have not
YET read the wonderful work of the Judge as
afiording a complete and lucid synopsis of his
views, and equally interesting to those who
have perused it, as supplying key to I'M
ravel its deepest mysteries and throw flood of
light on what might otherwise appear mex
plicable.
Whenever anything great is about to come
to light on the earth, the world is thrown into
confusion. This is more particularly the case
in reference to new religion. At present. the
world, both here and in the old country, is con-
yulsed with political agitation. In the United
States we have the great democratic party
completely disorganized, and tossed to and fro
in a state Of confusion worse confounded." 1t
is rent into two or three factions, each waging
war Of determination against the other and
clouds and darkness rest upon the result. The
dry bones Of the lately defunct wing party are
rafting as they are walked into life, while the
anti-slayery principle is hourly gathering
strength, and new combinations are forming
from the chaotic mass Of elements continually
thrown to the surface.
In Europe. the great Powers are embarked on
q sea Of diplomacy, without chart or compass
to guide them, and the air is rife with reports
of war. and rumors of wars between Russia and
Turkey, which may involve all the other
nations: while at the same time the revolution
airy elements arc working and upheaving like
volcano, and only waiting for the general mtite,
to vomit forth flames, and einders, and ashes.
and death, and the darkest confusion. What
the end will be no one knows.
1t is at this favorable juncture that Judge
Edmonds is about to introduce his new creed.
1t was so at the Christian era. When the gos-
pei was introduced into the Roman empire, the
greatest disorder and confusion prevailed. In
the breaking up Of old systems and old IDEAS
the new religion was sown in the fallow Of
agcs-it grew and prospered, and brought forth
expounder of the latest system of religion ex-
poets it to extend all over the land, small, in
deed, in its beginnings, like the grain of mus
tard seed, sown in darkness but growing up by
degrees into q great tree, spreading out its
branches in all directions, affording shadow
from the sun by day, and shelter for the birds
of the cir by night. Judge Edmonds estimates
from actual observation, that there are already
in this city thirty thousand spiritualists and in
the United States upwards Of million; and
these are not merely the uneducated, but the
enlightened and the elevated-men of high
social, political and professional standing; not
the poor, plodding laborer and unpretentious
mechanic, but the wealthy the scholars the
philosophers, the divines, the merchants, the
judges Of the land-the very first circles of
fashionable society. But not only in this coun-
try, but in Europe and Asia ss was predicted
by the spirits to Judge Edmonds, has the new
idea been progressing 1t was making silent
vance in public, because no man of eminence or
distinction had come out and avowed himself
its champion. But from the moment that Judge
Edmonds, who was at first opposed to it. declar-
ed himself q convert, a tremendous impetus
was given to it. The effect upon the progress
Of Christianity produced by the miraculous
conversion Of Saul Of Tarus, the prosecutor, into
Paul the Apostle. Of the same creed, was not
more remarkable than the effect produced on
spiritualism by the conversion of Judge Ed
monds, from being C sceptic. into the great
apostle OF the faith which ia to supersede the
New Testament as the New Testament super-
coded the Old. How will the momentum of the
new idea be increased when the circles are all
organized into churches, with the Judge a, the
chief bishop and spiritual centre, from which
will radiaie the light Of the spheres in all di-
rections
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