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VOL. 10, NO. 39. THE KTJKIiUX LAW. Masterly Defense of its Provisions and Effect Mr. Qroesbeck Ground to Powder. From the Cincinnati speech of Senator Morton-. The Kuklux Bill, Mr. Groesbeck argued, was a gross violation of the Constitution of the Uoited States, and that the 14th amendment gave no power to Congress to enact that law. Mr. Qroesbeck then made a statement to which I wish to -call your attention, and 1 would like to a11 his attention to it. lie Bays": A previous law made it criminal to deprive any person of any constitutional richt. Me who committed such anoffeuse should be prosecuted. The Marshal having at his command all (he force he might need, could arrest htm, and ample proviso ion was made for his trial, condemnation and punishment. All that, you will notice, is a judicial proceeding, and right and proper. But the case here provided for is not a judicial proceeding it is war. It is not. tbe Marshal and his posse making an arrest under a warrant. There is no process in it and no court. It is the commander-in-chief at the head cf his ara.y, entering, the State, not to make an arrest, but to cut down and slay; 1 repeat it, it is war. The State government is pushed aside; the courts are shut, they are not wanted, the writ of habeas corpus is suspended, and the Federal government takes absolute and supreme command.' Now this is the general description Mr. Groesbeck gives of the KuKiui bill, and with all deference to him, say it is untrue in every line. ("Applause J So far from the bill contemplating no court, no process the court and legal process run through every section of it, and this bill, from tbe first Hue to the last, provides for judicial proceedings. Why, the first section of the bill my friends, provides for the punishing in the courts of the United States, aud prescribes the penalty for any person, who subjects any person to be deprived of his rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution of the United States It distinctly points out the offense and describes the penalty. The second section provides that if two or more persons in any State or Territory shall conspire together to overthrow, to put down, or destroy by force the government of tbe United States, or shall levy war against the United States, ot oppose by force the government of the United States, or by force or intimidation delay the execution of any law, with a view to deny to any citizen due and equal pro tection of the law to the injury of any person, and so on, he shall be guilty of felony, and upon conviction shall be punished Yet we are told by Mr.Groesbc k that it contemplates no appeal to the courts, no judicial proceedings, but de clares flagrant war against the liberties of i the people, I fear the distinguished gen tleman did not read tho bill at all, but has taken some Democratic version of it. "Applause Now I come lo the third section of it, which read as follows: Sec. 3. That in all cases where insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or conspiracies in any State snail so obstruct or hinder the execution of the laws thereof, and of the United States, as to deprive any portion or class of the people of such State of any rights, privileges, or immunities, or protoction, named in the Constitution, and secured by this act, and tbe constituted authorities of such State shall either be unable to protect, or shall, from any cause, fail iu or refuse protection of the people in such rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial by such State of equl protection of the laws to which they arc entitled under the Constitution of the United States; and in all such cases, or whenever any such in surrection, violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, shall oppose or obstruct the laws of the United States or tbe due execution thereof, or impede or obstruct the due course of justice under the same, it shall be lawful for the President, and it shall be his duty to take such measure, by the employment of the militia or tbe land and naval forces of the United States, or of either, or by other means, as he may deem necessary for the suppression of such insurrection, domestic vio lence, or combinations; and any person who shall be arrested under the provisions of this and the preceding section shall be delivered to the Marshal of the proper district, to be dealt with according to law.' f Applause J Not to be held as a prisoner of war; not to be tried by court martial; not to be incarcerated in military prisons, but at once to be delivered over to the civil authorities the Marshal of the district to be dealt with according to law. Yet Mr. Groesbeck told the people that the bill did not look to arrests, but to open flagrant ways to kill and slay. As I have before remarked, every portion of this bill looks to judicial proceedings, and the President is authorized to use the army and navy to suppress violence and insurrection. Where the State is powerless to do it. or fails, or refuses to do it. after the parties have been arrested, they are to be handed over for trial. Cheers 3 Wby, if there is a riot in this city, and the Mayor turne out with posse, and if the police are not sufficient, he calls upon me militia, and they make arrests without warranta. They do not wait for that when a riot is going on, and there is burning, killing, and destroying. They arrest the tiolators of law without warrants, and then band them over for trial to the regularly constituted authorities. And that ia what the President is authorized to do in case of insurrection, violance, and unlawful combination, when the State fails, refuses, or ia unable to suppress them by her own power. The President ia simply authorized to do in these cases what the Governnr nf Naw York did the other day. The Governor of New York called out the mil ernor oi new ivit - ..... . -.t itia ot that city, ana, witnoui iwis warraott or writ, tht ware diraeted to fire

'THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.

BROOKVILLE, upon the mob, and blood flowed in the treats. Cheers I Hundreds of man were arrested in that case. The Governor . nsed tbe tmlitia as a posse comitate, and those arrested were handed over to the ml authority. The KuKlux bill authorKes the President to do what thetJovernor oTthat State recently did in New York. Tbe authoring of the President to use the army and navy as a posse comitatus is not a new thing. The President would Lave had that power if not named in this

bill. It was first given to the President, ; intelligence and insults the intelligence of H XT tan f rkf I nf tans a t ICfi.T . .. 1 ?i-r't . . - . c

...v.vi-.ig..u xou-i. auiuorizmg , him by that act to employ the army and navy as posse comitatus to enforce any ! law, no difference what it might be, and ; under tbe authority of that old act of Con-j gress, about a year ago, the army was cmployed in Brooklyn to enforce the re venue law against illicit distillers, where the civil powers were unable to. And this is the whole of it. This bill simply empowers the President to do what the Mayor of Cincinnati may do in this city, what the Governor of Ohio may do throughout the State, aud what the Democratic Governor did in the city of New York. But because this power is conferred on the President, the Republican party is assailed as having authorized the President to nialte war. lie is no more authorized to make war than is the Mayor of Cincinnati authorized to make war, or the Governor of Ohio, when he may call upon the militia to enforce the laws of the State of Ohio. So much for Mr. Groesbeck's speech upon this subject. Now I come to a subsequent declaration. He said: 'This is not a temporary law, nor is it confined in its application to any particular locality. It stands as our permanent policy and applies over the whole nation. It applies to Ohio, to all the Western, and Northern, and Eastern States, as well as the Southern States.' Now, I think that is the merit of law. It is not intended for any particular State, but for alt Ihe State?; wherever the fact exists, it authorizes its application. If they exist in South Carolina, it should be applied thero; if in Ohio, it should be applied here. It is not a sectional law, we would not make that kind. The Republican party is not sectional, I beg this gentleman to understand. "Applause It is a singular complaint to come from a Democratic politician, that here is a general law, applicable to all the States. 'From this day, each and all of them are exposed to this military invasion, from this day the writ of habeas corpus way be suspended against your liberties and mine at the will of one man. One man decides the whole ca-e, and be who makes the de cision executes it according to nts own pleasure To put the matter in .the mildest words, we make a permanent despot over us all to correct a temporary and local j evil.' ! Mr. Groesbeck here says that the power is given to tho President, for all time to come, to suspend the writ of habsas corpuds. Now I think, that would be a grave stretch of power. The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is too grave a matter to give to the President of the United States as a general power. What are the facts? Why, that this bill confers no such power. It gives the President power to suspeud the writ of habeas corpus, if in his judgement it is necessary to preserve peace and protect the people in their lives, liberty and property, until when? Until the last day of the next session of Congress, that may be expected to adjourn about the last of June or the 1st of J u ly. After authorizing the President to do this in cases that he can not be suppressed by ordinary processes of law, where it amounts to what is defined as rebellion, it eoes on to say. in the fourth provision of this section, that it shall not be in force after the end of the next regular session of Congress. Yet Mr. Groesbeck proclaims that this bill authorizes the President, for all time to come, to suspend the writ of habeas corpus whenever he sees proper. This more than ever convinces ine that Mr. Groesbeck never read the bill. (Laughter) lie must hive taken the by some Democratic orator or newspaper, and has been the victim of misplaced confidence, lie has more confidence in them than I ever had. I have not time to dwell upon all his arguments in regard to this subject, but I want to say to you that this bill has exer cised a moat seoebcial inauence. it is dangerous only to combinations of rebels, murderers and thieves. It may also be dangerous to Democratic politicians, who want, by the instrumentality of the KuKluz to carry all the Southern States. Applause and laughter. But it is not dangerous to good men, XNorth or south, of any State. Its moral influence already has been remarkable. 1 be very passage of that bill has saved tbe lives of hundreds of people. It has saved thousands of men from being whipped and scourged, and has prevented nameless crimes and outrages. It has given peace sections to where there was no security for life or property before the bill was passed, And I can say in regard to that bill that it was fully discussed in Congress. The arguments against it fell fiat iu tbe Senate of the United States. Every ohjection to it was answered, and I thought that the objections to this bill were more thoroughly and completely vanquished than were the objections to any project ever proposed iu the Congress of United States while I was there. The power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus is deposited with the President temporarily. Why? There has been organised murder and outrage in nine States of this Union; not in all of any one State, not in any one country here and there, in some Congressional districts, in three or four States, perhaps only half of the State; perhaps you ean find oounties and districts where the Ku-Klux does not exist, but in nine States that organisation does exist i ... tIt o-riata richt across the river in ivec--o- . - tacky, and baa existed for inert than two

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years, and according to tbe confession of rhA rrn. ..r u . - . ... . vi uut yj A U I U i; R V. If J r. Stevenson, the civil power of that State was whnll inoon.t. i and punish crime. TTvere tas been no J protection for men of a certain clas of opinion. The Ku-Klux have always belonged to -one party and the victitna have belonged to tbe tt4ter patty. fAp j plause. I know this is denied; ut a man , who stands Tap bow before a q andieoce Hike this nr) ripnin. it. Aiahnnnr. v. me people be addresses. I Applause 1 The evidence as the existence of this state of things is overwhelming. Hundreds and hundreds of men have testified- the victims have testified. The lacerated, and scarred, anl the maimed have testified; the exiles who have beeo driven out have testified. The evidence is piled mountain high, and no man who has read it can de ny it. And there are men in the South who say: 'It can't be so; I have not seen these things.' There are men here who do not know, of their own knowledge, that a murder has been committed in Cincinnati fur ten years; they have not seen it. It is like the story of a Justice beforo whora a man was tried for stealing sheep. When three men swore that they saw him steal it and six men swore that they bid not see him steal it, the Justice declared that the man must be acquitted. Laughterj ou can find men down South in counties where the KuKlux exists, who will swear that they don't know anything of it; but such testimony weighs nothing against the depositions of hundreds and hundreds of respectable and credible witnesses. And so it was before the war, when antislavery men were tarred and feathered, and even murdered, you could never bring any evidence of it that would satisfv the Democratic party in the North. And when the border ruffiins of Missouri tried to plant slavery in Kansas, and the evidence was piled up in proof, yet Democratic partisans all over the land were denying it, and said it was merely the cry of freedom shriekers. But we are not to ba deceived. The occasion presents an emergency, if it amounts to rebellion, to insurrection, that justifies us in exercising all the power of the government to protect the people in the enjoyment of their rights, f Applause J I want to say that if the government , li us no power to protect the people of the United States, when the States fail to do it, the government is a failure, and ought to bo remodeled. Applause The greatest dangers that have come to this government in its past history, have arise! from denying its just powers. Does any one suppose that the refusal of a government to protect life and liberty is more advan tageous to that government than the exercise ot mere unconstitutional powers; The refusal of the President and Congress in the winter of lbGO-Ol to exercise their jost constitutional powers to souif out rebellion, then just kindling into a flame, was almost the greatest crime of modern times, tbe consequences of which will not be expiated during this ceutury. Aplause.. Be Contented. Bulwer says that poverty is only an idea in nine cases out of ten. Some men with $10,000 a year suffer more for want of toeaus than others with $500. The reason is the richer man has his artificial wauts. His income is 510,000 a year, and he suffers enough by being dunned for unpaid debts to kill a sensitive man. A man who earns a dollar a day and does not go into debt is the happier of the two. Very few people who have never been rich will not believe this, b"jit is trne. There are thousands and thousands with princely incomes who never know a minute's peace, because they live beyond their means. There is really more happiness among the workingmen in the world than among those who are called rich. A gentleman, wiitiug of a 'long' ac quaintaoca, says there is among his acquaintance one, at least, who enjoys a high reputation, for he stands over seven feet in his stockiogs, and, though a "talented member of the bar, he is a gooduatured. modest citizsn. He was sitting in. the stall of a theater; when the curtain rose and the actors advanced to their positions, a cty of 'Down in front!' became general throughout the audieuce. Their attention was directed towaris the tall B , who, feeling himself the object of remark, thought he was required to settle a little. Jiooking as if he would like to settle through the floor, he proceeded te raise himself to a standing position, in such a manner, however, as to convey an impression that there was no end to him. At last he did get etraigtened out to his full length, when, slowly glancing around ! at tno astonished audience, he very deliberately remarked.- 'Gentlemen, to satisfy you that I was sitting down, 1 now stand up!' A burst of laughter and applause succeeded, the audience and actors became convulsed, the curtain descended rapidly, and thetnanager, with beaming face, came forward, and, amidst the wildest applause, conducted the gentleman to a private box. Tbe Wytheville (Va.) Despatch relates the following; 'Not far from us, a young lady attempted to leave the parental mansion, at dead of night, by lowering herself from her chamber by means of a pulley and rope fastened to the window. She had just reached the ground, where her lover, awaited he,, when her enraged sire appeared, seized the young man, fastened the hook to his clothing, and raised him skywards, leaving him dangling in the air until morning. The elopement is postponed indefinitely. The ruin of most men date from some vacant hour. Occupation is the armor of the soul. There is a patrical poem, in which the devil is represented as fishing foraen, and fitting his bait for the taste and business of his prey; but the idler, .. .. , . v: he said. rav him no trouble, as he bit tbe - - --- o ----- .- naked hook.

THE FEMAIiE PRESIDENT. A Florid Photograph of a Wonderful Woman. Extracts fro.a Tilton'i Life of Wsodhufl. I must now let oat a secret. She ac. quired her studies, performed her work, and lived her life, by the help as she believes of heavenly spirits. From her childhood till now having reached her thirty-third year her anticipations of the other world have been more vivid than her reali mm ivii iiation of this. She has enter tained angeis, and not uuawarea. These gracious guests have been her constant companions. They abide with her night and day. They dictate her iife with daily revelation; and like St. Paul, she is "not disobedient to the heavenly vision." She goes and comes at their behest. Her enterprises are not the coinage of her own brain, but of their divine intervention. Her writings and speeches are the products, not only of their iudwelling in her soul, but of the absolute control of her brain and tongue. Like a good Greek of the olden time, sh3 does nothing without consulting her oracles. Never, as she avers, have they deceived her, nor ever will she negleot their decrees. Oae-third of human life is passed in sleep; and io her case a goodly fragment of this third is spent in trance. Seldom a day goes by but she enters into this fairy land, or rather into this spirit realm. In pleasant weather she has a habit of sitting on the roof of her stately mansion on M array Hill, and there communing hour ly hour with the spirits. She is a religious devotee her f-iaiple theology being an absorbing faith in God and the angels. A GREEK AFFINITY. The chief among her spiritual visitants and one who has been a majestic guardian to her from the earliest years of her rememberance, she describes as a matured man of stately figure, clad in a Greek tunic, solemn and graceful in aspect, strong in his influence, and altogether dominant over her life. For many years, notwithstanding an almost daily visit to her vision, he withheld his name, nor would her most importune questionings induce him to utter it. But he always promised that in due time he would reveal his identity. Meanwhile, be prophesied that she would rise to great distinction, that she would emerge from her poverty and live in a stately house, that she would win great wealth in a city which he pictured as crowded with 6hips; that she would ' pub lish and conduct a journal; and that fiual ly, lo crown ber career, she would beoouie the ruler of her people. At length, after patiently waiting on the spirit guide for twenty years, one day in 1S6S, during a temporary sojourn in Pittsburg, and while she was sitting at a marble table, he suddenly appeared to her, and wrote on the table in Engli&h Ietteia the name j "Demosthenes." At first the writing was indistinct, but grew to such a lustre that it filled the room. The apparation. fa. miliar as it had been before, now affrighted her to trembling. Tbe stately and commanding spirit told her to journey to New York, where she would find at No. 17 Great Jones street, a house iu readiness for her, equipped in all things to her usa and taste. She unhesitatingly obeyed, although she had never before heard of Great Jones street, nor uatil that revelatory moment had entertained an intention of taking auch a residence. On entering the house, it fulfilled in reality the picture which she saw of it io her vision the self-same hall, stairways, rooms and furniture. Eutering with some bewilderment into the library, she reached out her hand by chance, and without knowing what she did, took up a book which, on idly looking at its title, she saw (to ber blood-chilling astonishment) to ba "The Orations of Demosthenes." From that time on, the Greek Statesman has been even more palpably than in her earlier years her prophetic monitor, mapping out tbe life which she must follow, as a chart for a ship sailing at sea. She believes him to be her familiar spirit the author of ber public policy, and the inspirer of her published works. Without intruding my own opinion as to the authenticity of this inspiration, 1 have often thought that if Demosthenos could arise and speak English, he could hardly excel the fierce light and heat of 60tne of the sentences which I have heard from this siogular woman in her glowing hours. ONE HUSBAND. I now turn back to ber first marriage. Tbe bride (pitiful to tell) was in her fourteen year, the bridegroom in his twentyeighth. It was a fellowship of misery and her parents, who abetted it, ought to have prevented it. The Haytians speak of escaping out of the river by leaping into the sea. From tho unendurable cruelty of her husband. She had been from her twelfth to her fourteenth year a double victim, first to chills and fever, and then rheumatism, which bad jointly played havoo with her beauty and health, until she was brought within a step of "the iron door." Dr. Conning Woodhull, a gay rake, whose habits were kept hid from, her under the general respectability of bis family connections (his father being an eminent iudse. and his uncle the May or of New l'ork,)was professionally summoned to visit the child, and being a trained physician arrested her decline. Something about her artless manner and vivacious mind captivated his fancy. Coming as a priooe, he found her Cin. derella a child of the ashes. Four months later she accepted the change flying from the ills be had to others that she knew not of. Her captor once possessed of the treasure, ceased to value it. On the third night after taking his child-wife to his lodgings, he broke her heart by iem-uoiog away all night at a home of ill-repute. Then for the first time, she learned to her dismay that be was habitually unchaste and given to long fits of intoxication. She was stung to the quick. The shock awoke all her womanhood, one grew ten yeara umw. - gl day. A tnmalt of thoughts' swept

WHOLE NO- 507 like a whirlwind through her mind, end. ing at last in one predominant purpose, namely to reclaim her husband. She set herself religiously to this pious task, calling on God and the spirits to help ber in it. Six weeks after her marriage (during which time her husband was mostly with his cups and his mistresses), she discover ed a letter addressed to him, in s lady's elegant penmanship, saying "Did you marry that child beoause she, too was an familiV The fact was, that her husband, on tbe day of his marriage, bad senf away into the country, a mistress who, a few months later, gave birth to a child. A CHICAGO DIVORCH. Hitherto she had entertained as almost superstitious idea of the devotion with which a wife should cling to ber husband. She had always beea so faithful to him that, in bis cup, be would mock and jeer at ber fidelity, aud call her a fool for maintaining it. At length the fool grew wiser and after eleven years of what, with conventional mockery, was called a marriage duriDg which time her husband never spent an evening with her at home, and seldom drew a sober breath, aid spent on other women, not her.olf, all the money be had ever earned she applied ia Chicago for a divorce aud obtained it. RESURRECTING THE DEAD. Previous to this crisis there had occurred a remarkable incident, which more than ever confirmed her faith in the guardianship of spirits. One day, during a severe illness of hsr son, she left hiin to visit her parents, and on her return was startled with the news that tbe boy had died two hours before. "No," she exclaimed, 4,I will not permit his death, and with frantio energy she stripped her bosom "naked, caugkt up his lifeless form, pressed it to her own, and sitting thus, flesh to flesh, glided insensibly into a trance, ia which she remained seven hours, at the end of which time she awoke, a perspiration started from bis clammy skin, aud the child that had been thought dead was brought back again to life, aud lives to this day in sad half death. It is her belief that the spirit of Jesus Christ brooded over the lifeless form, and rewrougbt the miracle of Lazarus for a Borrowing woman's sake. A SUPPLEMENTARY HUSBAND. There is a maxim that marriages are made in Heaven, albeit contradicted by the Scripture which declares that in Heaven there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage. But even against the scripture, it is safe to Bay that Victoria's second marriage was made in Heaven; that is, it was decreed by the self-same spirits whom she is ever ready to follow, whether they lead her for discipline into the valley of the shadow of death, or for comfort in those ways of ' ploasantuess which are paths of peace. Col. James H. Blood, commander of the Gth Missouri regiment who at the close of the war, was elected City Auditor of St. LouU, who became president of the society of Spiritualists ia that place, and who had himself been, like Yictoria, the legal partoer of a morally sundered marriage, called one day on Mrs. Woodhull to consult her as a spirit ualiststio physician (having never met her before), aud was startled to see her pass into a trance, during which she announced uueonsciously to herself, that his future destiny was to be linked with her in marriage. Thus, to their mutual amazement, but their subsequent happiness, they were betrothed on the spot by "the powers of the air." The legal tie by which at first they bound themselves to each other was afterward by mutual content annulled the necessary form of Illinois law being complied with to this effect. But the marriago stands on its merits, and is to all who witness its harmony known to be a sweet and accordant union of congenial souls. Colonel Blood is a man ot a philosophic and reflective cast of mind, an enthusiastic student of the higher lore of spiritual ism, a recluse from sooiety, and an expectaot believer in a stupendous destiny tor Victoria. A modesty not uncommon to men of intellect prompts him to sequester his name in the shade rather than set it glittering in the sun, PERSONAL APPEAR ANOB. I mnst say something of her personal appearance, although it defies portrayal, whether by photograph or pen. Neither tall nor short, stout nor slim, she is of medium stature, lithe and elastic, free and gracaful. Her side face, looked at over left shoulder, is of perfect aquiline outli.io, as classic as ever went into a Roman marble, and resembles the mask of Shakspeare taken after death. Tho same view, looking from tbe right, is a little broken, and irregular, and the front face is broad, with prominent cheak bones, and with some unshapely nasal organs. Her countenance is never twice alike, so variable is its expression and so dependent on ber moods. Her soul goes into it and comes out of it, giving her at one time the look of a superior and almost saintly intelligence, and at another leaving her dull, commonplace and unprepossessing. When under a strong spiritual influence a strange and mystical light irradiates from her face, reminding the beholder of the Hebrew lawgiver who gave to men what he received from God, and whose face during tbe transfer shone. Tennyson, as- with the hand of a gold-beater, has beautifully gilded the same expression in his stanza of St. Stephens, the martyr, ia the article of death: "And looking upward, fall of grace, Tie prajed, and, from a happy place, God's glory emote him on tho faoe." In conversation until she is somewhat warmed with earnestness, she halts, aa if her minds were elsewhere, but the moment she brings all ber faculties to her lips for the full utterance of her message, whether it be of persuasion or indignation,, and particularly when under spiritual control, she is a very orator for. eloquence pourimr forth ber sentences like a mountain " . .1- .v .. . stream, ffweaping away evaryMuuj n Vets lU flaod.

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paid for in advance. TJnlei! a particular time ia SDocllea bn Vatife 2 ed in, advertisements will be published on til ordered oat and charged accordingly. Her bair, which, when left to itself, ia as long as those tresses of Hortense in which her eon Louis Napoleon used to play hide and seek, she now mercilessly outs close like a boy's, from impatience at the daily waste of time in suitably takinz oare of this prodigal gift of nature. FREE LOVE. On social questions, her theories afs similar to those which have been long taught by John Stuart Mill and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and which are styled by some as fr en love doctrines: while others reject this application on account of its popular association with the idea of a promiscuous intimacy between the Bexe3 tbe essence of her system being that mar- - ti ro im tf ihm Tie, rf si vtil nnt tJiM Ivm; that when love ends marriage should end with it, and that on civil statute should outwardly bind two hearts which have been inwardly, sundered; and finally, is religion, she is a spiritualist of the most mystical' and ethereal type. In thus speaking of ber views, I will add to them another fundamental article of her ereed, which an incident will best illustrate. Once a sick woman who bad been given up by her pbysioian, and who had received from a catholic priest, extreme? unction in expectation of death, was put in care of Mrs. Woodhull, who attempted to lure her back to life. This sealoua pbpsiciaos, unwilling to be baffled, stood over ber patient day and eighty neither sleeping noreating for the days and nights, at the end of which time she was not only gladdened at witnessing the eiok woman's1 recovery, but at finding that her own body, instead of weakness or exhaustion front the double lack of sleep and food, was more fresh and bright than at tbe begin-' oing. Her faca during this discipline grew uncommonly fair and ethereal, bet flesh wore a look of transparency; and the ordinary earthines of mortal nature began to disappear from her physical frame, and its place to be supplied with what she fancied were tbe foretokens of a spiritual body. These phenomena were so vivid tor her own consciousness and to the observation of her friends tha she was led to speculate profoundly on the transformation' from our mortal to our immortal state, de ducing the idea that the time will com when the living human body, instead of ending in death by disease and dissolution in tbe grave, will be gradually refined away until it is entirely sloughed off, and the soul only, and not the flesh remains. It is in this wsy that she fulfills to her darling hope tbe prophecy that 'The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.' MORS FAVORED THAN ST. PAUL. Engrossed in business affairs, neverthe' less, at any moment she would rather die than live such is ber infinite estimate of tbe other world over this. But she disdains all commonplace parleying with the spirit-realm such as are had iu ordinary spirit manifestations. On the other hand, she is passionately eager to see tbe spirits face to face to summon tbem at her will, and commune with them at her pleasure. Twice (as she uusbakenly believes) aha has seen a vision of Jesus Christ honored thus doubly over St Paul, who saw his Master but once, and then was overcome by tbe sight. The Evening Mail says: 'Terrible news from Baltimore next week! All Smils,Smiths, Smythes, Smyths, Schimtts Schmidt), Schmidts, Sehmitis, Smidts, and Smitts are invited by some rash enthusiasts to join an excursion by water, and fears are entertained that the harbor will be so filled with the sunked overloaded ships that Baltimore will be made aa in--land town. Thoy have horse flies in Arkansas;. These arrangements are not, as the name might seem to imply, ranked among the sports of tbe turf, but are winged monsters, a size smaller than prairie chickens, with, nozzles like well-augurs, capable of boring, clean through an everage equine aud cfinching on t'other side. As far as heard from, the horses do not 6eem to like tbsro,but fly as soon as the tormentors appears. This accounts for the name, also for thefact that the farmers are obliged to do their plowing by moonlight, when the. insinuating bores are at rest. A young lady was entertaining pomer friends tbe other evsning, when one ssid.v 'Miss , your braid is comiog off.' She 'clapped ber hands to ber bead and foundnothing unslipped. The gentleman quietly pointed to the braid of ber dress,, about a half a yard of which had beeatorn off and was lying on tbe floor. There: was aa audible smile. Tbe Cincinnati Commercial, in speakings of Generald Noyes as a candidate for Governor in Ohio, says:. 'There are aeveralt things in favor of General Noyes. In the' first place", he hasn't a wooden bead; and,, in the second place, he has wooden leg,, having lost a member on tbe Fourth of: July, at a celebration in Georgia, the fireworks being conducted by Generals Sherman and Johnson.'' Reasoning by Analogy Cecil (who is in the habit of- surreptitiously dissecting b'w sister's dolls). 'O aunty! I declarei if here isn't a great big 'bormous heap oft' sawdustl' How very, very, dreadful!' Aunt. 'Dreadful, darling Why?' Qecil. 'Why, the lots of men and women that must have been killed here,. you know! A. story is told of a father io a ehnreb who, when the marriage service came to the point where the olergyman 8ks,. 'Who giveth this woman to be marrhd o tbia roan?' replied: 'Well, sir, I am ca'led to do it, althgh ifr do go again tbe grain. I wanted her to tyarry Bill Plowstr, who, is woth twice the money o that 'ere uiau' The answer was not considered reguUt. Haw w Jook ttoisbto?; W b'l4.