Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-23

TIE REVIVAL OF BUsIEEss.-The Philade lphia
Ledger notes the fact that the newspapers furnish
the best evedince that business has revived. A
month ago the columns Of the principal business
newspapers in Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York
and Boston were filed with news paragraphs, sditO
rial comments, correspondence and miscellaneous
selections. Now they are almost entirely filed
with advertisements; news and correspondence are
condensed TO the smallest space, and business sxolu
dss labOred editorial essaystO more PrOptOus sea-
son. These are good signs for the public.
nrn- LOLA NoNrEz is represented to have been
very pathetic in her recent farewell lecture before
her New York friends. She said her marriage in
England was an unfortunate enc; I've suspect her
husband thought SO too that Dujaires, her Paris
lover, was killed in duel for her sake that Aus
tria and the Jesuits beat her out Of Bavaria, and
concluded with some feeling remarks to America,
"the grand refuge Of Tberty-the fairest pillar to
freedom that ever rose beneath Gods o'srarching
sky" and cited the concluding stanza of Childe
HarOlrs Pilgrimage:-
Farewell a word that must be and hath been
A sound which makes US linger yet, farwel!
Ye, who have traced the pilgrim to the scene
Which is his last if in your memories dwell
y
A single recollection, not in vain
He wore his sanda' -shoon and scallop- shell;
Farewell. with him alone may rest the pain,
II such there wereWith you, the moral Of his strain
"THE JERKS "A NEW PHAsE OF THE REVIVAL,
In Illinois, the phenomenon known in Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky, about
sixty years ago, as the Jerks" has made its aP-
pearaDce. Il first appeared at prOtracted meeting
ing among the Methodists Of Indian Grove, and
Afterwards at Avoca, the cOntagiOn having been
spread By Eve or six jerkers, whom the ministers
had brought along with them from the former place.
From the account Of the matter in an Illinois
psper the scenes st the latter place have bee gro
b tesque enough:
"F From fifty to q hundred were jerking st the
same time Their hands, feet, and shoulders we're
violently distorted into apparently the most painful
sbapes and positions. The women's bOnnets would
Nv off their heads, as If they had exploded, and
their hair becoming released from the restraint Of
comb or band Tould crack like coaoh.whips. Even
upbelievers we're attacked, and men who tried to
resist the impulse by holding their arms around
their bodies, would lose sll control over their mus
oes and fall to jerking like the rest
This strange exhibitions attributed to the infu-
snce of animal magnetism. It presents all the
symptoms Of that affection. The persons mostly
affected are those beoF medium capacity, and IN
der twenty years old It has been sscerainsd, says
the Richmond Wig
That the viii has entire control it, for If
person amieted wishes TO take drink, he can stop
long enough to accomplish his purpose. As soon
as the TiA is directed TO the object il obtains mas
terry over the muscles. Some persons Of. strong will
have made up their minds to quit it, succeeded BY
violent e1eron' and Al length got complete control
over the muscles, though when in company with
other "jsrkers they felt a strong dis5osition to
relapse. The case Of whole school affected in this
way is ALLUDED 70. The masters ordered m, ssbol.
ars to olsPerse' ana separate, and the charm Of
sympathy having been destroyed the opre vvas i'm.
mediate. The same correspondent saws mai ~
affection is dying away, and that now there srs f
cases One Of the persons who was ATTACKED =,
Indian Grove, q female is in dangerous sitnofio1
having become subject TO spells, in which SIC loss
the power Of motion, and is unable 70 utter word
or do any thing but breathe, for twenty hour
o. time"