Butte record., 1854-06-10
SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATIONS.

will doubtless be read with great inter
est:
The circle met in the library of Judge
Edmonds. Present-Dr. Dexter, Gov.
Tallmadge, Mr.. and Mrs. s., and
Horace Greeley. The notes of the rev.
Citations and impressions of the last meet
ing were read and corrected by the spir-
its.
After an interesting, but somewhat
desultory conversation was introduced
by Mr.. Greeley, on the subject of jour-
nalizing in the spirit worlds, the hand of
DR.. Dexter became visibly moved, and,
obeying its magnetic influence, il wrote
as follows:
''In the name of the human race Gut
tenberg and Faust, whose influence, even
from the highest spheres, are shedding
transcendent glory around you. greet
you to night, my friends -
"FRANKLIN."
Judge Edmonds enquired what posi-
tions editors and printers occupied in
the other world. DIR. Franklin immedi-
ately wrote
MAN is forever progressive. Those
who have done good on Earth, are re-
warded with the opportunity of continu-
ing their acts Of benefcience throughout
eternity. The Press is the Archime>
dean lever, which first moved humanity
from its intertia, and gave vitality and
power to all the elements of progress
1t is like the sun in the heavens, giving
light and heat and life to nature. WHY
then should not authors and editors and
printers be rewarded, when they have
shufhed off this mortal coil :"
Here Mr.. Greetey, manifesting evi-
dent delight, enquired what his own po-
sition would be in the spheres The
hand of DR.. D xter, obeying the spiuit-
ual influence, wrote:
Man is like a sower, Horace, and he
is constantly scattering the seed Of good
and evil, and. what soever he sows it
springs up with a prodgous increase
When you get to the land of Spirits, you
will there behold all the acts Of your life,
which are the seeds that you have sown
ready for harvest. Among your wheat,
Horace, you will perceive a considerable
quantity of cheat and cookie; and that
you will have to pluck up stalk by stalk,
and the garner, and then, Horace, YOU
will take your place in the army of Phil
osophers, and proceed upward and on
ward"
Horace tainted. Mrs. S, held
bottle of hartshorn to his nose, and he
revived. Judge Edmonds remarked
soothlngly, that in his life by repentance
and good works he might ex xpurgate the
Tribune of most of the meritricious SEN
tlmeEts and false philosophy that had sui
lied it in the past but on the other hand,
Bennett, would have hard Job of it in
the other world with his Herald. The
lineaments of Mr.. Greeley's inexpensive
countenance received their wanted eaua-
nimlty. The hand moved on.
"My friend the Judge is correct about
Bennett. Mr.. Greeley is reformer, and
has made some mistakes those that are
unintentionalIy will be forgiven, and
those that proceed from evil passions, or
corrupt sentiments, must be atoned for.
You wish to know if we have newspapers
IN the spheres We have but they are
so sublimated and refined that I can hard.
ly describe them to your comprehension.
As you receive your news from confede-
rate states and foreign nations, SO do We
from ''planets, SUBS and adamantine
spheres" Your news printed and dis
seminated; SO is ours. But amor. the
spheres there are no delinquent subscri-
bers. No spirit of the eartA is ever per-
mltted to read the journals OF tie skies,
who has ever cheated poor printer out
OF his just dues. That Is considered
here as one of the unpardonable sins
The spirit Of those men who have de-
irauded printers inhabit a vast monoton-
ous plain surrounded by unsightly and
lmpassable mountains and there they
remain for centuries craving to know
what is going on in nose bright worlds
beyond their reach and without finding
kindly spirit compassionate enough to
crafty their longings. l went once
among them, as advanced spirits are in
the habit of doing, to instruct the peni-
tent but found in my heast no yearn-
ings of compassion for their situation.-
If one of them ever gets out of that
dreary realm, it is by begging the prin-
for that he has cheated to ;ntorood g.