The Placer herald., 1863-04-25
President Lincoln a Splritualist.

The Baltimore Republican, under the heac
of"A New Key to Our Troubles" pubIishe.
a strange story. The same ideas have beer
expressed in hints in other papers during
the last two months. The Republican says
at is said, upon unquestioaable authority
that Mr. Lincoln is convert to the doctrine
of spiritual rapping manifestations and rap
port theories. We need strong evidence OF
the fact, yet the evidence is at hand. Rob-
ert Dale Owen. who has been the repository
of religious novelties and monstrosities, and
has such religious diosyncracies as made
hln embrace IN turn every manner of reli,
gious fanaticism-Robert Dale Owen, as
corrupt in politics as in religion, is one o
the chief counselors of Abraham Lincoln
Go at any time to the Presidential mansion
Judge f lmonds and the whole family OF
table turner's, Philips and all the athestcal
club Of New England. For years Joshua
GiddiDgs has been a spiritualist, and now
the President is in the same category. 1t
has been hnted that Mr.. Lincoln was once,
through dysp 'ysia, so nervous AS to be parl
TALLY insane, and many believe him to be so
now. Summers organ demands his resgna-
ton; this may be the ground, rs Sumner
knows him, and the influences to which he is
susceptible.
A prominent State official from Kentucky
who was in New York after visit to Wash
ington, some two months ago, stated that
the Presi lent had given himself into the
hands of dreamers and theorists, and that he
regarded him as insane. Col. Phillip b
Fouke, the present member of Congress
from the Bellville District, in Illinois, ha.
repeated the same remark in the course OF
the last two weeks. In fact, the advocates OF
Uncle Abe's Greatness" are getting to be
quite numerous.
The Coon OLD WINTERS In 4Ol the
Black Sea was entirely frozen over. In 663
not only the Black Sea, but the Straits OF
Dardenelles, were frozen over-the snow in
some places rose fifty feet high. In s22 the
great rivers of Europe, the Danube, the Elbe
etc. were SO hard frozen as to bear heavy
wagons for mouth. In $50 tho Adriatic
was frozen. In 99l everything was frozen,
the crops totally failed, and famine and pes
thence closed the year. In 1907 most of
the travellers in Germany were frozen to
death on the roads. In 1874 the Po was
frozen from Cremona to the sea; the wine
sacks were burst and the trees split by the
action of the frost, with immense noise. In
1885 the Danube was frozen to the bottom,
and remained long in that state. In 1916
the crops wholly failed in Germany; wheat,
which some years before sold in Eng land at
Gs, the quarter, rose to 60. In 1903 the
crops failed in Scotland, and such famine
ensued the poor were reduced to feed on
grass, and many pershed mi,erably in the
fl Ids. The successive Winters of l432-3-4
were uncommonly severe. In 1868 the
wine distributed to the soldiers was cut with
hatchets. In 1868 it was excessively cold.
Most of the holIies were killed. Coaches
drove along the Thames, the ice of which
was eleven inches thick. 1909 occurred
the cold Winter; the frost penetrated the
earth three yards into the ground. In l7l6
booths were stretched on the Thames III
l744 and l745 the strongest ale in England
exposed to the air, was covered in less than
fifteen minutes with Ice an eiylh of an inch
thick. In 1909 and again in 1912, the
Winters were remarkably cold. In 1914
there was fair on the frozen Thames.
Hunts Merchants Mdgdzine.