Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

FREE Love ExPosUREs-It is hardly jast to
load spirtuaism, as faith, with all the moral
mistakes of its professors, but it must be ac-
knowledged that great deal of impuritp has
for some reason or other been developed lin the
midst" Of the believers. There are half dozen
cases now before the courts and the public of
the most disgusting sort, and the worst Of it is
that they do not occur among persons Of pre-
viously loose habits, but men and women Of
hitherto irreproachable characters are found
lapsing into the grossest sensuaiy, with every
apparent indication that they found their way
there through the influence Of spiritualsm. If
this is not the fact it is unfortunate that the
circumstances conspire to give the public that
conviction.
The case of DR.. Pike, the spiritual lecturer in
New Hampshire, charged with the ruin OF two
sisters Kimbal at Franklin last fall, by certain
devilish arts, has just been decided in the su-
prcme court at Concord by his conviction Of the
crime Of seduction. The testimony showed that
Pike was all tinerant lecturer and healing me-
dium; that he becameacquiuted with the Kim
ball family while lecturing at Franklin; that the
parents were believers, and the daughters, eigh.
teen and twenty years old, were opposed to
spirtualism; the parents persuaded the daush
ters to sit with Pike in circles and they soor
came under the mysterious influence, and became
subjec: to the control Of Pike; he made tbs
most abusive and adhorrent use Of his power
ii, linz tka ;uaua,,ca nf lrnUs IN thnt Of Mes.
mersm TO accomplish his purposes, and the glrl'
have since been imbecile and partially insane
So terrible domestic ruin is seldom made b,
the brutal lust of one man.
The happiness Of one of the most respecta
BILE families in the town of Stow, in Summit Co
has been ruined by the elopement of a marrie'
woman, who heretofore has sustained charaC
ter above rcproach and who now, in charity,
believed TO have sinned only through the vile
of one of The base men who take advantage o
the new faith as cloak for beastly vice. Th
man is healing medium who had been for som
time hanging about Stow protesting to be VI
der the control of the spirit Of Kidd, the pirat
and his conduct is in keeping with such spiri
f ual possession. The woman is also a medium
e She leaves a respectable husband and family b.
e hind, to lament her folly
e The Hume and Morril rape case in New Yor
c appears to be similar to the Pike case. Und'
!. the singular influence called spiritual, Mrs Mo
a ri seems to have been subject to the control {
r Hume, and was not aware Of the outrage con
r mitted upon her at the time. From fear OF II
T. effect upon her husband, aud influenced by Il
threats Of Hume, she also concealed il from h
l- husband till after an addition had been made
e the family circle. Mr. aud Mrs Morrill, a
e Spirtualists, but Hume proiessed to be only
e, seeker after light" Boarders in the house, te
e. tilted to greater familiarties between Hume ar
= Mrs Morrill, than are usually considered prudel
al and an attempt is made to prove from this th
r. the woman's connection with Hume was co
a scious and voluntary, but ii only indicates Il
peculiar mesmeric power generated by the c
le, Gle, TO which Mrs NJ was highly susceptible.