The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-05-18
THE sPIRITUALIsTs.

i
censes Mt the Old stand-spiritaal Sunday
Schools and the Like.
strange, migratory race; Arabs In tents camp
ing along the desert OF lfe Gypsies by instinct
all moral questions; wandering Jews, forever pod-
ding after that which they never hnd religious Bo-
| hemians, as well as Bohemians in some other re-
| spects; deluded individuals who have the shrewd-
ness to turn a penny with the exhibition OF their
| decisions; nomadc clans, which migrate In herds
and browse gregariously upon any items Of philoso-
| ply which happen to suit their whim; strange
race with strange ways of thinking, strange ways OF
wearing their hair and beard and clothes and strange
ways OF amassing visible means Of support; goblin
crew, who profess to talk with g0bAns and to
interpret the inner sense OF things from goblin
standpoint. These fare the modern Spiritualists
Yankee ragamufin of twenty two with carroty hair
blear eyes, lank limbs and general awkwordness
both Of manner and matter, In faded black suit
out OF which he ems to have grown at both eLs Of
it, takes the steamer for Europe, thrives on his
wits in Paris, ekes diamond rings out OF the credu
lily of q Russian Emperor, and wheedles q fortune
out Of the pockets OF o credulOus London widow. A
Robinson Crusoesh story Of adventure, indeed, but
true in every syllable, In this enlightened nineteenth
century. This is the biography Of single Spirtu-
ast, and only one OF many similar biographies. So
they migrate, like s6mnambulists- people
walking IN dream. TWO years since, they had
their cOterie at Metropolitan Hall, in Sixth
avenue, a fOrlOrn ana ragged band who eked out a
scanty subsistence through admission fee OF ten
cents and whose intellectual stock in trade consisted
solely OF lampoons. Then true to their migratory
instincts they folded up their tents like the traditional
Arab In LOngfellOw's poem stole out OF Sixth avenue
ae ewn h IKE tne same 1raaonM AraD ana I'm
season. The next that was heard OF hemwas at 81
Broadway In forlorn attic where like ghouls they
could steal In and out and play the mediunstic and
indulge in frances and antics, turning penny by
them. Here the clan took to the business Of reading
the stars for desnes at twenty five cents capita,
probably for the reason that, being located in an
attic, they were somewhat more intimate with the
skyIght It was the old story Of inspiration in its
garrett with rather invisible means OF supporter
prophecy IN the wilderness FED ny ravens or getting
depended upon as q cOmmissary department. Then
they betook themselves to Dodworth Hall, and Miss
Emma Hardinge, one Of the llOnesses OF the frater
nifty, returning from London about that time, with
London laurels upon her and London pennies in her
ciety at DodwOrth Hall, and there have they abode
for many days, having ceased from gipsying and
Thence, having thrven in pennies they have radated
whereas, two years since the prophets were few,
same prophets have found prophecy exceedingly
prontable For the propagation OF prophecy, there
A SPIRITUAL SUNDAY SCHOOL,
which has proved to have all the nomadic habits
that were peculiar to its founders before they set
tied down and betOok themselves to visible means Of
suppOrt--having found invisible means occasionally
rather scapty Accordingly they set about gathering
street and - there Was exnouned TO the lames the
deep philosophy. Of nomadism until, having i'm
p,oS Due soSms y, S'u sieuay INC , rs &c
quence was that when our reporter made his APP
ppoaa hoor oM% nancu Win the 9sd,1tnn a
umbrella, that peregrnating functionary OF the
portfolio, instead Of the iegended radical car;
hat the sn;rItnal sunday school was NON
ssss and That the Young Arabs II imitation
tents and sentix stolen away No mnnaiG rent hills
were on hibited. In foct tne viUant f,nctionary On
from, yvSosa hot i,,n the rai, drnned IN 1roe ~
fnky drons was not OF over conildentiai incnation
anu, tnereiore - saie 10 say nat no UNPAID os
rea RI ds,mapd the rent in advonce from oil mil
t,o,s or nnsdic nroc,v;ties Latino the wnris
herusted Latin for attn nv disuse has s nroresses
OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES these four Latin syllables in
his we'll tnumhed nofe hook the reporter Turned
sadly away nnft,rled his umbrella and in the cX-
prcssve language OF Mr. Dickens 0coven strampcd',
nfter the meuTntsc brethren in another direction
Having arrived at the Everett Rooms the umbreia
was again urlcd and the pencil and notebook were
orougas snc,rTT or pRccRrss,vr sr,nuA1srs
were here doing the BOanefges which being inter-
preted means ssSOns of Thunder.n The day was a
damn one; the society was in dampened spirits. A
BODY OF plauant peculiar Pickwickwia appearance
with a lady at the desk with whom somebody
seemed to have ssswapped noses was the first ammo
tation and then came budget OF queer disjOinted
impressions concerning the indvidualities present,
which 1t would be rather libeIous than otherwise to
print II did not take long TO ASCERTAIN the fact that
Mrs c. Fannie Ayn-nOtice the aristOcracy and
distinction OF spelling the plain word "Allen''
with v i'm the last syiable-was one OF
those institutional persons who assume to speak
upon any topic, however profound, at moments
tce making very carefully prepared impromptu adj
dresses with their eyes very carefully rolled IN into
the tops OF their heads and the lids just sufficiently
open to exhibit the whites thereof and Undue the an
dience with the impression that the speaker has
been taken suddenly with III OF epilepsy. SUB
ects were by the audience, with the pro,iso
that should the audience omit furnish appropriate
subjects the speaker might discourse without sub
ject which IL the general mode OF proceeding. Two
things only In the way OF public speaking are bur
Iesaueable-yiz, the subliinty Of sense, which may
be easily metamorphOsed into absurdiy, ana the
submity OF nonsense which is buresque In and of
itself Of the former ON the present Oc-
casion there was neither sublimity Of one
nor subimity OF the other and bafled Tor
lack OF some stray shred Of either KIND OF sublimly