The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-06-12
a.pERsrlrIoN REsrscITATEp.


 } Empird was marked Jy the almost absolute
 IImbecilfy which seemed to take possession
 nankiuf Noi only through the utter indit'
 ference manifested all oven the known world
 to the .rtvival of arts and sciences, was thi,
 eyiucealbut demoralizing and binding agent
 ofinfntpy greater magnitude held the human
 mind iu1thraldom Dark and dismal super
 stitOns, wild and strange doctrines-legend-
 ofthe past paganism-formed the dogmas of
 ofeyen the learned of that age. Immediately
 after the Crusade3 arts and sciences were re-
 vived and every species of enlightenment bounded irresistibly forward through the dis
 spating mazes of ignorance anI superstition
 until the 18th century was ushered in,
 when scarcely a shadow of the past remained
 At this point, it would appear, the acme of scholastic progress was attained. The super stitions of the dark ages seem to have been col
 ected from the ruins of four centuries by some
 spectre hand, reftted, painted with the most fas-
 cinating dyes and handed to the erudite of the present day
 Grey haired men, who have attained their three score and ten" tell us that they receive spiritual manifestations" that they converse with denizens of high Heaven and that they can find out for us from their spirit associates, the habitations of the spirits of our departed relatives. Much of the jugglery employed in olden times to deceive the creduous, and which long since fell into dsuse, is being revived, and aided by the mechanical genius of the present day is empOyedt to produce "spiritrappings" and other Spiritual agencies" which have but too many devotees, It would hardly be matter of surprise to find this folly existing among the ignorant classes, but it becomes surprising in deed when We consider that it really pervades all classes, In the Spiritual photograph case recently tried in New York, Judge testified that he ''belieyed the photographs to have been produced by spiritual agency" that he has seen spirits in their grave clothes, and asserts that at a court in Brooklyn, at the trial ofa case in which was an action in policy of insurance, he saw Standing up behind the jury the spirit of a man who told me he was the one whose 1 life and death were involved in the policy < The appearahce of the spirit was shadowy and transparent, and could see m9terial objects | through it." Another individual interested in l the same case believes that he has heard the 1 voices of spirits but strangely he never happen ed to see a spirit.
 Nov, among the many dupes of spiritualism, and of superstition generally, of whom we read, the presence ofone class ofmen | special surprise journalists. Some of the most respectable journals of the day come to hand, containing the details of some mysterious occurrence, or phenomena, as they | right be related by a child six years of age without aneffort at explanation. The "San Jose | mysteries are instances of this (these stories | must have been read by many of our readers as hey were copied from the San Jose Patriot trough most of the newspapers published in instead of explaining these mys- cries, or seeking to do so upon the only laws ,nown to govern matter some journals view hem with evident dread, declining to give any pnion, while OtherShint spiritual interposition, To cite the many incidents which come under ur observation in which jugglery and super titon prove an overmatch for reason, even in -ell cultivated minds, would fill large volume nd cannot therefore find room in our columns Questions which, only half century ago would ave enlisted the efforts of every thinking mind 3 discover to them solution are, at present xplained as spiritual agency" by the major y of theorists.
 Strange that the enlightenment of the pres- mt day should in so many instances be trodden own, as it were, to give place to this swelling de of idle fancies? Strange. however though
 be, we find this benighting influence to pre- ail and day afe- day, gathering fresh strength,
 is gradually extending is dismal wings wari the ;ermiui of every Chris:ian land. We are permitted to publish the following ztracts from Q copy of the official reror, made O ? Col. Dunkleberger upon his scouting ex~ ! edition north of the Gia in the latter part of