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New York; the new bridge over East river, | and views of portions of the city of Brooklyn an index, alphabetically arranged, of the con- l tents of the calendar. 2. Of pad, or block, consisting of 366 sheets, furnished in @ neat paper box designed to hold the pages as they are day by day removed, and to preserve them for reference. An oblong space on the card marks where the pad is to be pasted on. The author has introduced many subjects which one needs to know to be ready in the | facts Of our history-among them are the origins of terms one daily hears used, ''Uncle Sam" "Yankee Doodle" Brother Jonathan" Mason and Dixon's Line," | fags-dellar. marks, ,etc. There are sketches of all our Presidents, of many authors gener- als, parties, etc. Short accounts of remark all), wars, treaties, land and naval battles, admission of the States settlements of cities and territories of institu- tiens, sects. colleges and manufactures, etc. growths of sections of our country, and of telegraph and telephone interests, of railways, pages are October 21, 'Dark Days in New England;" December 12, John Jay;" De- cember 8, "Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin;" all fitted to instruct young people, if not older ones, in these days when the past events of this country's history are apt to be too little needed. It is not unreasonable to expect that the pages of which we write will incite many to read more books of history of the United States than they have hitherto done.
 Sincerely do we hope that Miss Lyman will be amply rewarded for her careful and accu- rate labors by very general use of this ex- cellent "Oalendar" in families, counting rooms, offices, public and private schools and libraries. R. s. F.
 New Haven, October so 1883.
 The Ohio spirftuaIIsts.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 writer of an article published in the is- sue of October 30th in regard to the Ohio Spiritualists and their conduct in the recent political campaign seems to have Iabored un- der series of mistakes. And first he thinks the voters were easily deceived by the in genious circulars sent to them by Demo- cratic managers, charging that the Jennings law had trespassed upon the domain of re- ligious freedom. Now the factR as regards the trespass against the religious rights of Spiritualists have been often set forth by the leading Spiritualistic newspapers, and show that it was law passed by the leg islature of that State which made 1t i'm cumbent on all spiritual mediums to apply for and obtain license which should cost a yearly tax of three hundred dollars. This tax, go levied against the ministers of the spiritual religion, was seen by the more in- telligent class to be 8 plain interference with the duties of media in whatever form of development they had become developed, to shed the light of truth to our world. Of the forty or more phases in which the actors find themselves placed by surrounding condi- lions and influences, their lot was not chosen by them, but brought upon them. And be- ing made poor in this worlds goods through the scanty compensation eked out to them during the last thirty-five years of labor and toll has made them very far from riches. nor should it give to them the charge of money making mediums. The author of this un- righteous law was not Jennings but Russell, and it still bears his name.
 The fact that mediums are not the rich of this world is so well-nigh patent that it need not be argued by me. And being poor, they could i'll afford to pay the three hundred dollars demanded of each person before he or she could speak entranced, or by impress sion made by an unseen intelligence on the sensitive sensorium. And not being able to pay the tax what should follow as the natural sequence save arrest and imprisonment2 If 1t be true, as the writer alleges, that in the State of Ohio there are twenty thousand Spiritualists who are subscribers to the vRri- ous spiritualistic newspapers issued in the United States, and whose addresses had been quietly obtained from the publication offices by the Democratic managers in order to send them circulars, it would show at leaat that the aforesaid Spiritualists are power in the land, and it becomes diff cult to know why the framers of the Russell law could ignore the. fact that it's enactment against them would be likely to bring opposi- tion at the ballot box.
 That the Republican party did thus tres pass upon the rights of others and their rights to employ their own ministers of re- ligion does not admit of a doubt. And it may be added that the result of such an act is far from being supernatural. That man should vote in defence of religious freedom is eminently proper, as against the powers that would enslave him and his family. And why discriminate against Spiritualism and in favor of MethodiEm2 We say, let all the avenues to light be opened.
 The writer says the law does not interfere with ''Spiritualists at large" But as pre- cedent 1t does indirectly interfere with this large class in every State, for it's provisions may be enacted in other States than Ohio, and when enforced therein may become through legislation the supreme law of the land and incorporated into the Constitution of the United States. Then the lovers of freedom may have to find an asylum within prison walls.
 Closely following She enactment of the mo- torious law in question, Judge A. G. Carter, prominent Spiritualst of Cincinnati, Ohio, declared the law clearly unconstitutional and that it could not be enforced. And, further, that the first case of prosecution for it's in fraction would be contested in the courts of the State. And that the obnoxious law would cause loss of the State election to the Republican party.
 E. P. GooDsE11.
 New Haven, Conn.,, Oct. 31, 1883.