HACKER'S PLEASURE BOAT. w. Bound to no party, to no sect confined, tUc World our Church, our brethren all mankind.^

YOL. XYIL BERLIN, CAMDEN CO., N. J., AUGUST, 1867. NO. 2.

HUMS. which Balaam himself was too blind doctrine of necessity, and attempted to see. I must attend to him. to prove it by a Tlie Pleasure Boat will be published medium in a court, monthly at $1.25 for 26 numbers, or in the The first week we were here in who said she was sometimescontrol- same proportion for a shorter term. 5 copies Berlin, as we met this priest while ed to do things contrary to her will. for $6.00. passing to and from our work, he He said Spiritualism was all humbug, Letters and money must be addressedto bowed very politely, but no words and to prove it, brought the juggler JEREMIAH HACKER, passed between us, and all was quiet. Blitz into the pulpit with all his gim- Berlin, I came hither among strangers with cracks, ridiculous allusions and comic CamdenCo. NewJersey. the determination while here, to attitudes "ailed all the Spiritualists speak no word, to perform no act freelovers, and tried to prove it by that I would wish to recall in the an extract from the book of one HALL. SPIRITUALISTS' hour of death—no word nor act that Harris, which book, he said, spirit- any reasonable person would have ualists had adopted, and said Harris A Tree Platform. just cause to reprove or censure, had renounced Spiritualism and re- We do not like pulpits. Tliey and hence had no conversation with turned to the Church. He said that have become cowards' castles. -The an)' one except what business made Spiritualism was older than Christi- coward who has a creed that will necessary. But by some means the anity, and was the demonisnvof the not bear examination, ensconces evil spirits that usually surround the New Testament. himself in his castle, the pulpit, and priests of this order, gave this man Now, in dealing with this poor be- pours out his spleen, his anathemas, the knowledge that I believed in the nighted, weak-brained and weaker- and sometimes the dregs of his. sel- Truth, and not in creeds, forms, and mmded Balaamitish brother, we ad- fishness, lust, and bigotry on his worthless ceremonies that produce mit, as many others have stated to neighbors, who differ from him in nothing good ; and very likely these us, that his ignorance, his greenness, sentiment, and then refuses them evil spirits thought that while here his talsehoods, misrepresentations, thediberty to reply; and if they do alone, among strangers, and shut out bigotry, impudence, insolence and reply in the church, they are some- from the world by deafness, they other vices so prominent in his dis- times dragged into Court and fined or couid use this modern Balaam to de- graceful harangue, place him far imprisoned under the false pretense stroy or silence me, and thus accom- beneath all consideration or notice, of having disturbed divine worship ! plish a work that they had vainly except on the score of Christian And as pulpits have become cow- labored more than forty years to ac- pity, discipline and love; but on ards' castles, and must pass away complish on their old hunting ground this scorc we can notice him, can re- with the creeds that invented them, where I was known, and had many prove, rebuke, chasten even with rid- and as we believe Truth and Error friends. icule it' his case demands it, and thus should have an open field to grap- "When Sunday came and I was not labor to save him from his errors and ple, an equal chance and fair play, at church, tlie Reverend bows ceased vices, whether he will hear or for- we have got up a Free Platform entirely, and on that day he gave bear, and while laboring with him, in the Boat, where our opponents notice that he would preach the next we have also tlie opportunity to shed may have an equal chance With us, Sunday on Spiritualism. Accord- some light on the minds of his honest and our motto is, " Let Truth and ingly when the day came he got off dupes, if there are any simple Error grapple." Truth never hides, a harangue, which one of his most in- enough to be duped and misled by never dodges nor skulks—never tries telligent and candid hearers says his harangue, and we shall at the to silence its opponent by compul- was " a ridiculous mess of falsehood, same time refute tlie same asper- sion, never fires upon him and then misrepresentation, slander, low ridi- sions against spiritualism, from the skulks behind a pulpit, but stands cule and mischievous admonitions." same class of priests in hundreds of out openly and boldly, in the might He classed all who profess to be other places between Nova Scotia and of conscious innocence and right, to Spiritualists in one body, accused California where the Boat circulates, conquer or to die by fair means. A them all of the errors and sins of so our labor will not be lost. Free Platform, on which we each, said they denied the Bible, First, then, the word Spiritualist shall lecture and preach, reprove, were infidels, ignored the marriage includes all people who believe that advise and exhort, as the spirit may covenant; that the mediums were all the spirits of the deceased are here move, and then permit others to re- outcasts from the Christian churches; with, or around about us on earth, ply if they choose in all freedom, if that the Spiritualists here in Berlin and that they can, and do, under cer- they behave civilly and decently. were smart would-be ghost-lmnters tain conditions, communicate in va- But here comes S. Ii. Johnson, a from the land-of Wooden Nutmegs; rious ways with those now living in priest after the order of Balaam, who and advised hfs bearers to go not tlie body. A thousand or million of ran when God had not sent' him, to near them for hell was not far from people may agree in this one belief, curse a people whom God had not where they held their circles; that and in all other tilings in belief and cursed, and abused the beast on he had a chicken die last night and practice, 110 two of them may agree. which he rode because he saw, and they might consult its spirit if they And to charge the errors and crimes stopped before a Spirit in the way, wanted to. Said Spiritualism was a of each and all upon each and every believer in Spiritualismis just as un- theso errors in the Bible, and reject jority of women marry from necessity, just as it would be to charge upon them, and have a sure, unerring test not those whom they love, and with this priest, all the errors and sins of by which they determine which pas- whom they might be happy, but the whole universe who profess to sages are true and good, and which such as offer themselves; and in believe in the same Bible that he are not, and this test I will give at consequence of the above prostitu- does, or to charge upon all the some future time. Spiritualists re- tion of the marriage covenant, the Apostles of Christ, the sin of Judas. ject the errors and falsehoods of the majority of married couples live in The Spiritualists have no Church Bible and receive the true and good. strife, and the majority of the chil- organization, no adopted creed, nor But thou who condemnest others for dren now born, are like those spolcen articles of faith, and therefore if one not believing all the Bible, dost thou of in scripture, that were conceived of them holds an error or commits a believe and obey it? "Thou slialt in sin, brought forth, in iniquity, and sin, it does not affect anj' other be- not kindle a fire in thy house on the as prone to evil as the sparks are to liever in Spiritualism. Sabbath day," says the Bible. Do fly upward ; having no natural af- In charging upon all, the errors or you obey that? "Six days shalt fection because there is no love, but sins of the few, this priest is guilty thou labor." Do you obey that? selfishness, strife and contention be- either of ignorance unpardonable in "Thou shalt not bear false witness tween the parents, who cannot im- the ministry, or else a spirit of injus- against thy neighbor." Here you part to their children affection and tice too malignantto be expressed. are dreadfully guilty. " Thon shalt other good qualities of which them- With regard to denying the Bible. not round the corners of thy hair selves are destitute. Furthermore, True Spiritualists, and 1 speak only nor mar thy beard." Look in the children begotten in these prostitu- for such, receive truth wherever they glass, brother. See how nicely the ted discordant marriages, are more find it, whether in the Bible, an al- hair is rounded, how smoothlya part or less physically and mentally dis- manac, or anything else, and reject of your beard is shaven, even the eased, and each generation more error and falsehood, whether it be in poor striving goatee on your chin effeminate and shorter lived than the Bible or any other.book ; and so mangled and mutilated a goat the last. Intelligent Spiritualists see that there are errors and falsehoods would hardly own yon for a brother. this miserable condition of things; in the Bible, 1 challenge any candid I might give you much more scrip- they know by observation,that a ma- ' man who has read it attentively, to ture which you practically reject, jority of marriages is neither more deny. The Bible in many places, but am reminded of a circumstance nor less than legalized adultery,—for c mtradictsits own words and there- of my boyhood. I undertook to de- all that is without mutual love is fore, cannot be true,—one part of it stroy a large nest of worms on a adultery in the sight of God, and they convicts another, and proves for it young, tender apple tree, by firing a are looking for a remedy, while self that it cannot all be true. The charge of powder into it, but had priests and others who ought to aid " Bible contains passages that no min- so heavy a charge it stove and ruined them are shouting Free Love," and 4 ister could be hired to read to Iub the tree. Now as I am only aiming lying about them. congregation, and no decent father to destroy the monstrous nest of It is not true that the mediums are would read them to his children on worms on 3rou, such as ignorance, all outcasts of the churches. Many of account of their vulgarity and ob- bigotry, falsehood, impudence,i inso- them always had too much light scene filthiness. The Bible holds lence, vice, and have no wish to de- and sense ever to belong to such up for our example, men, who if stroy or injure the Rev. sapling itself, concerns as tlio modern churches, they lived now, and were to receive I will not repeat more at present. —many others were not outcasts, their just deserts according to our THE MARRIAGE COVENANT, but came out by the guidance of laws, would be hung, or sentenced to as it is called, has been prostituted good spirits, because the churches the State Prison for life. Some parts to the basest purposes. Many men, are spiritually dead, and the few that of the Bible approve of slavery, and and among them ministers, select were cast out, were cast out because even give the slave-holder liberty to their wives for their supposed they were so far in advance of the beat his slave to death. Some parts capacity to minister to their animal others that they could not endure of it forbade the Jews eating the passions. Many choose their wives their presence any more than the flesh of animals that died of disease, as they would choose a horse or ox, devils of old who cried " Depart from but gave them liberty to sell that selecting those which they think us, thou art tormentingus before the filthy flesh to other people. The will perform the most labor. Some time." Had brother Balaam been Bible calls the Jews God's holy peo- choose their wives merely.for their better acquainted with the land of ple, when they were actually wick- external beauty, and others for their Wooden Nutmegs, he would have eder than the nations they plundered money. The marriage covenant has known that the religion of that land or destroyed. Some parts of the been, and is prostituted to every under which the Blue Laws and the Bible sanction injustice and cruelty selfish lust. Women, by govern- wooden nutmeg business grew up, that would disgrace thieves and rob- ment, and by priest craft and custom, was the very same kind with his own, bers, and some record scenes that have been treated more like slaves and that since so many of the people would equal the records of savages. and menials than equals and com- there have become Spiritualists, the All these things I shall prove as the panions. They have been shut out Blue Laws and nutmeg business Boat goes on, but have not the time of almost every lucrative, self-sus- have passed away, and the religion nor space to do it now. The various taining employment; and when per- like his, which 'was the parent of books of the Bible were written by mitted to enter into any employment Blue Laws and wooden nutmegs too, different persons, at different times their wages are cut down, so that is rapidly following after. and places. Some wrote Truth, they must work from two to five The remark about the chicken some wrote error, and binding these days to earn or gain as much as a must have been a very powerful books in one volume does not make man receives in one day. And if argument in the minds of people them all true because some are, nor they live a single life they are stig- that can listen week after week to a'l false because some are fa lse. matized as old maids—and the very the rautings of such a bigot,—Very True Spiritualists £are well aware Of refuse of the race. Hence, the ma- convincing and edifying ! "Spiritualism a doctrine of necessi- this tribe of priests that curse people Balaam denies all this—he banishes ty," be says, because a medium and frown them down— when they the good spirits from the world, and testified that sbe was soriietimes con- can. Balaam rode off to curse a brings hell and demons here, and trolled to do things contrary to her people and a Spirit stood before him gives them more place and power, will. Dili not Jonah say the same in the" way ; the ass on which he and more converse with the souls of thing ? Was not his doctrine a doc- rode saw the spirit and stopped, but men here, than he allows the Al- trine of necessity ? lie was com- Balaam, like his young descendant mighty, and the spirits of just men manded to go andjtell the Nine- in the priesthood here, did not be- made perfect. vites, that in forty days the city lieve in spirits—ho was too blind to So much for brother Balaam's should be destroyed. It was against see them, so he beat the ass to force harangue against Spiritualism, truly his will to do that, because he be- Him on, but tlie beaBt ran against a miserable mess of low scurrilous lieved if the people repented God the wall and crushed Balaam's foot. misrepresentations, and we are not would spare the city, and then he Then a spirit spoke''through the ass to be taught, admonished, labored would be called a false prophet; so with man's voice, and forbade the with in Christian tone, for our con- he attempted to flee, and according madness of the prophet. How simi- vincement, but are to be frowned to the story, found himself in the lar was his ease to that of this down without mercy. Does he belly of hell, and found it a doctrine younger Balaam. ThU<5hap started know whom and what he is taking of necessity. Paul declared that off to curse the Spiritualists, a peo- about ? Does he know there is any necessity was laid upon him—that ple whom God has abundantly bless- one here that has declared truth woe was upon him if he preached ed, and he too was mounted on an before hosts of frowners before his not the Gospel. All who obey God ass, that is, he was not on anything Reverence was born ? Let him find it a necessity to do so. Bat old divine, it was the beastly animal frown his steeple house down, and Balaam, brother Johnstone and part of the man that he traveled on, when that miracle is performed it other priests of their order who run and though the Spirit of Truth will be soon enough to talk about when God does not send them, who stood before him he was too blind frowning down one before whom he can preach and pray in their own to 6ee it, and in spurring on the is nothing more than a tadpole in a time, will and strength, and curse beastly nature to curse people, he mudpudtllc, either as a Divine ar those whom God has not cursed, has run against the Boat, and is so just man. know nothing about this divine ne- blind he thinks a dog bit him, and To show the malignity' of this cessity, and oppose it as they do if his clerical foot does not suffer man a little further, I will say that a nearly all other practical Gospel some by the crash, he will have few Sundays after his insane har- Truth. better luck than hundreds of other angue on Spiritualism, having failed True Spiritualists never adopted priests of the same order that have to receive by cars, lumber for a the book of Harris; they never adopt run against it. fence which I had bought, my lot any book further than to read and Yes, Spiritualism is much older was exposed to a large herd of cows receive the good, leaving the evil, , than Christianity, for it existed in that run at large, and I believed it and if Harris has returned to the the days of Balaam, and long before, to be my duty to watch them. Church, it proves nothing against and constituted the sum and sub- Accordingly, the weather being Spiritualism. There was said to be stance of the Gospel. We are told warm, I took with me a small pail a dog, in old times, that returned to that long before Christ, God made of water to drink, and went from his vomit, and a sow that was wash- his angels ministering spirits. my boarding place to my half finish- ed, to again wallowing in the mire, Mary, the mother of Christ, held ed ten foot palace, and spent the but that does not prove that their communication with spirits. At the whole day in reading, and writing last filthy condition was better than birth of Christ, spirits appeared to to my good wife, who1 is confined in cleanliness. There were people in the shepherds to announce the news Maine with the care of her aged the days of Christ that were com- with the song, "Glory in the high- parent, and other friends. Went to pared to that dog and sow, and so est," &c., and told tliem where to my boarding place a few minutes, there are now. Judas betrayed find the new born Savior. When to dinner, and on my return found Christ, but that does not prove that Christ was tempted in the wilder- two cows eating my corn. I drove Christ was wrong, or his doctrine ness, spirits came and ministered to them out and remained writing and false. hiin. When He was on the mount, reading until'the animals were gone " Spiritualism older than Christi- with his disciples, the spirit of Moses home at night. While I was thus anity." We give brother Balaam and of Elias were with Him, and the engaged, brother Balaam went to credit for telling this one truth, hut disciples saw them conversing with his steeple house, and from his cow- are sorry to say he spoilt it by call- Him. On the morning of the resur- ard castle, told the people I had ing it demonism. "We will not now rection, Mary, at the sepulchre, saw gone by, to my xoorJc, with my din- go back to give the history of Spirit- and spoke with spirits, arid the spirits ner pail, consulting the spirits, he ualism from the commencement, of many who had died appeared to supposed, and B., another spiritual- but will begin with the good old the disciples and conversed with ist, had broken the holy Sabbath, prophet who saw a ladder extending them. John the Itevelato'r saw, and by picking a mess of peas. I had from earth to heaven, and angels or conversed with a spirit, and fell never been in his meeting house, spirits, ascending and descending. down to worship him, when the never had spoken to him nor lie to At another time we read of the spirit told him who he was—one of me, and had given no one in the prophet wrestling with a spirit till the prophets. State cause to attack me. I men- the break of day, and would not let Christ also declares that the King- tion this as another specimen of the him go till he had blessed him. dom of Heaven had come to earth, falsehood, malignity, aud injustice Every page almost, in all the truth- and it did not come without a King that Spiritualism meets with from ful parts <>t' the Bible, is a record of and inhabitants, and Christ and all all the priests of the order of Balaam, spirits and Spiritualism,—butlet us the apostles declared that the King- and they are many. come to Balaam of old, the father of dom should increase, but brother As for the people of Berlin, as f£-i- 3 as I know, all of them, men, women is false, or whether it has any bear- is sowing the seeds of rowdyism, and children, except brother Balaam, ing on, or connection with the sub- scorn, contempt, hate, and other have treated ine respectfully, except ject in hand or not—must have a vices, teaching them to abuse aged in countenancing this man to abuse text to give dignity to their har- and civil strangers who walk quietly me. Perhaps they will not counte- angue, or to form a sort of sugar among them, mourning that they nance it much longer, but if they coat to the trash they utter to make have such teachers, and praying that should, it will certainly injure them it go down, as people sometimes their young minds may not receive more than me. sugar-coat bitter medicine to hide the poisonous seeds from his hand. The Truths in the first number of the taste from the patient till it is If is iirst quotation from the Boat, the Boat seem to have lashed swallowed. was from the line at its head,— brother Balaam's wrath into fury. He then read a chapter from St. "The World our Church, our breth- It appears that he had read so little Paul, after his famous defense before ren all mankind," to which he ad- truth before in his life, that he could Agrippa. Then like a wandering ded " all womankind too which ad- not recognize any part of it as truth. planet started ofl' back into ancient dition was only an outburst of his He is rabid on the subject of lust, times and introduced the discovery lust; a fling of the filth in ldm6elf at which he calls free love. lie is so ot the mariner's compass, as being others; thinking all others as filthy full of it himself, and so apt to judge the great means God had used for as himself. It needs no comments. others by himself, that it rose up in the spread of the Gospel in foreign Besides, he exposed his gross igno- him whenever a woman was men- lands ; but forgot to tell his hearers, rance of language, as in many other tioned, and in various places where that that idea was exploded long places, for the word mankindincludes they were not. Being ignorant of ago, in all sensible intelligent minds, all men, women and children, and pure holy love, that the true man by the fact that the same ships that therefore the addition of " woman- has for all his race, including carried out missionaries, aleo carried kind too," is superfluous, or else sepa- women and children as well as rum, whiskey, fire-arms and gunpow- rates them from the human family men, he thinks all men filled with, der, to make the heathen drunk, and and makes them a distinct race of and slaves to the same low passion use the weapons in destroying each animals, not belonging to the human that is boiling over in him. other, and that the missionaries did race. After reading the Boat, which not preach the Gospel of Peace, but Yes, the world is our Church, and was not printed for the people of the same gunspel that has destroyed our brethren all mankind, male and Berlin nor offered to them, he gave nearly all the Red men of this coun- female. We have never yet met out notice for a dog-hunt at his stee- try, and is now crying for the last with a person so low and degraded ple house the next Sunday evening. drop of blood, of the little remnant but what we could find a remnant It being a new amusement, the peo- yet left—the same gunspel which of good in them, which might be ple flocked to see the sport, as plenty has but recently destroyed two mil- cherished to save them, and bring as they would have done, probably, lions of its own white votaries in them into communion with God and if the juggler Blitz or an organ grin- this nation. He kept all this out ot angels, if there was half as much of der with a monkey attachment had sight, and labored to make his hear- true Christianity around them in been advertised to perform, with the ers believe that the discovery of the others, to aid them, as there is of the sanction of their Priest, to raise compass '{had really been the profession of it. We are all the funds. He commenced the sport— means of spreading the Gospel, in- creatures of God. He maketh his and it must have been sport to wag- stead of the destructive gunspel. sun to shine and his showers and gish dogs that had their eyes open, j Thus he deludes and cheats his dews to descend on all, and neither coming as it did from the coward j audience, if they believe him, as bad the Balaam's of to-day, nor the castle, which they had been taught as the juggler Blitz did, and on a Balaam of old can draw a line of was God's holy sanctuary in his holy solemn subject too, tampering with separation, and say where God's house—by telling them that some ot their souls, while Blitz deals in tri- church begins, nor where it ends, so his friends had advised him not to go fles, and honestly tells the people those may come down who place on with his dog hunt, or, in his own it is deception. themselves on high, in 'their own language, not to preach about the Then he ran out a tirade against imaginations,and frown down, and Boat, but let it alone and the nuis- the "men of little heads and less denounce to hell, or try id,—honest ance would abate, of itself; but a brains," and finally got back to the peaceable neighbors, simply because brother who then sat at his right paper or dog, and called it a goat. they believe that glorious scripture hand had said to him—"We found It appears that he Was not so blind Truth, that the spirits of our depart- the defunct carcass of a dog lying but what he had a glimpse of the ed friends still live and are some- between our two houses, and we "Spirit" that stood before him in times with us, a fact abundantly buried it before the noisome exhala- the way, but could not see enough testified of, by all the best writers tions had spread sickness, bad odors to decide what it was. Sometimes of both the Old and New Testament. and corruptions on the surrounding he thought it a Boat, that he was We claim even this man as a airso he proposed to bury this trying to ride over, sometimes brother in the great Church, and ex- paper to night. Said he might be he thought it a dog, sometimes a pect to find good in him, notwith- called upon to make sarcastic re- goat, and again was so puzzled about standing all the wrath he is now dis- marks on the subject, but it deserved it that he had to call it a nuisance. charging. When he gets his eyes them. Then he chose his texts, for Poor blind brother! If he could open to see clearly the good "spirits," there were three of them. These see, receive, and enjoy the spirit that that would guide him, and is purged fellows must always have a text of is in the paper, how much happier from the old leaven, good will spring- scripture to back them up, whether he might be, and how much better up. It' it does not while he lives they are trying to save or to kill his influence would be over these in the body, he will have to wade men, or bury dogs, and whether the precious youth, tliat have been through repentance in the spirit text is from that part of the Bible taught to regard him as a man^of land, and bathe his soul in-the wa- which is true, or from the part which God, and iu whose- young minds he ters of contrition until he ia clean; A for the ways of God are the ways of denouncing and warning the people we never use them, but have weapons progression, upward and onward against more than twenty years, and that are over and above them all. forever and ever. hundreds of the people of Portland I said something in the Boat about He quotes again from the Boat,— have told me since the fire, that if trying to raise a little food, which, u here are our heart and hand, no less they had heeded those warnings the he quoted, and then contemptuously devoted than formerly, to the inter- cit.y Avould not have been burnt. I exclaimed,—"Yellow bean vines ests of humanity which are above all have heard of but one priest, in striving to climb up vast bean human laws, all creeds, all isms," the score and a half with which poles." and says it should have been woman- Portland is cursed, that charged the His wrath reminds me of the wick- anity instead of humanity, which is Almighty with that fire, for most of ed Jews, who pretended that God only another outburst of his lust— them would be ashamed to tell such had ordered them to destroy a whole flinging ai others what is in himself, a plain absurd falsehood if they nation ; not only the people but their simply because they believe in wanted to. domestic animals too, must be cut Spiritualism, and he is willing to use As for God's having mercy on off' in spite and wrath. He can not re- any and all means to drive people Berlin, the people may rest assured lieve his chafing, fretting wrathful into his church, or crush those who that he will, if the Boat exists here soul without cursing my poor beans ; will not enter, having been accustom- and they read and practice its truths. but he was so blind lie could not see ed to ride rough shod over all who The'y will get rid of such a preacher the peas, potatoes, cabbages, cu- do not bow to him. lie knows noth- at once, and if they must have a cumbers, &c., so they escaped his ing of me or my former life, wheth- minister, they will get one who, if curse, and I may get a little food er good or bad, and these flings at. he possesses 110 grace nor goodness after all, and I noticed the next me are all entirely gratuitous—made will at least have the good sense, to morning that most of the struggling in blindness, like a blind man throw- avoid all efforts to set neighbors at beans had reached the tops of the ing stones where he hears an indis- variance,—will abstain from giving vast poles and some of them hung tinct noise, without knowing from these precious children bad exam- down several feet, though I do not whom, or what the noise proceedeth. ples, will not teach them to insult think there was power enough in his And his course shows his own foul- aged strangers, nor stone other peo- curse to aid or injure them. If I ness, malignity, and lack of princi- ple's dogs on their own premises, nor could believe that either the curses ple. And because I said humanity to frown people down, simply be- or the prayers of such a nincompoop, is above all human laws, all creeds, cause they differ in belief. And to in such a spirit, could have any ef- all isms, he exclaims,—"This man, exchange such a preacher as they fect on anything, I should expect J. Hacker, above the Holy Scrip- have now, for one possessing com- them to act as manure, and would at tures!" Yes, brother Balaam, this mon sence, even without grace, once speak for a few cords to use on man, all men, all woman, the small- would be a very great blessing to the fruit-trees and vines I hope to est child is above the Holy Scrip- begin with, and others would follow, have. ^ "Sarcasm !" is it. Well, it tures. God placed them all above the wonder to me is, how they have is your own ammunition that Ave the Scriptures and gave the Scrip- tolerated, or endured such a man so took from your magazine, and caught tures to us,—or such part of them long in the cubby-castle. from your guus ; the only difference as came from him—for onr use ; but He quotes a line about my seeking is, you threw it in falsehood and hate the Priests of Balaam have always a new location after the great fire, for our destruction, while we return placed the Scriptures above men, and exclaims—" Yes, left his coun- it in truth and in love to remove and made of them an enormous try for his country's good, perhaps," the thick scales from your eyes, that machine by which to crush humanity an expression usually applied to you may be saved. in the dust, instead of placing them thieves, highwaymen,or other pests He quotes a line from the Boat as a lever to raise them up ;—by of mankind. It is a little singular, about a palace ten feet square, and twisting the Scriptures to their if I am as bad as his base insinuation exclaims,—u Large enough for one creeds, they slew Christ. intimates, how I spent sixty years in coupled Another outburst of his He quotes a passage fiom the Maine, thirty of them in the largest, lust. • Boat, where I alluded to the burm city, and more than forty years in I said something in the second col- ing of Portland and cxclaims,— exposing the priesthood of Balaam, umn of the Boat about hearing the Yes, God destroyed the town of Port- and was never arrested, though for spirit, voices of scattered friends, &c., land, and may he have mercy on more than twenty years it was a which he quoted and exclaimed,— Berlin if this paper is suffered to constant study of the priests to de- u Bull Frogs ! there are evil spirits exist here." In this he is charging vise some means to destroy me. enough in our town now—we don't the Supreme with incendiarism. Ilis This base insinuation against a stran- want any more brought here." remark would be rank blasphemy ger who has quietly walked these What, will my scattered friends say were it not for the excuse of igno- streets or labored in sight of Balaam's to this, when many of them have rance. The plain truth is, God nev- windows more than three months, written to me, and I heard their er had anything to do with the de- shows the deep malignity and black- spirit voices and replied to their struction of that city, further than ness of his heart. In all these three questions before their letters had to make a general law that Are months that he has been watching reached me, and in some cases while shall burn combustible matter me from his windows, not one accu- they were writing to me hundreds with which it comes in contact, and sation can he, nor any other here, of miles distant ? wind shall spread the flame. The bring against me, so lie yelps out a . Are they willing to have this sweet people set fire to the city in a row- base insinuation, and then pops his communion and scripture Truth dyish celebration of victories gained head down Ijeliind his coward castle called the voices of Frogs or of evil by such wars as the false part of the yelping " Perhaps !" to save himself spirits, lor both are the same to him ? Bible, and Balaam and nearly all of from the law against slander and There are many who know what I his order approve of—celebrations defamation. But he need not dodge mean, and to them this man's rant- that the Boat and Chakiot had been from the missiles of carnal laws,— ing is like the ranting of a blincj. man about colors and objects he that if God has neglected to prepare a hell, pincers, thrown upou sharp knives, revolving never saw. brother Balaam, if he had the power, would with velocity, stretched upon the rack till they He read a passage from the paper, rejoice to make one and put me in it, and judg- were torn limb from limb ; sawn asunder, cast saying that " Government-craft and ing from the spirit he has manifested from the into lions' dens, into the fiery furnace,and boil- Priest-craft were two of the greatest first Sunday I was here, when he looked for me ing oil, and slain in many other ways of the impositions that ever cursed the at church and found me not. I have no doubt most excruciating torture. This Balaam is world," &cand but his hell would he like the furnace we read breathing out the spirit that wouid joyfully exclaimed that do all " Hacker wanted to do away with all of, heated seven fold hotter than it was wont to this, if he had the power ; and there are be, and then I must take the hottest corner in thousands and thousands more like unto him, in laws, all religion, that men may walk it at that. this up and down the earth and the You see, my friends, the deep de-jj nation, who are preparing their nets, while enjoy pravity of this is the spirits of martyred desires of their lustful and man. and be a specimen ofi thousands are hovering depraved thousands and thousand" who now occupy the! around you, striviDg to impressyour drowsy hearts." Another outburst of the evil coward minds with a sense of within castles of this nation, and have been your danger and arouse him. He knows what he calls constantly plotting and coutriving, since the you to action. or considers enjoyment, but does not close of the war, to get the governmentof the B-tlaam having hunted the dog about his know that to some, what he would en- nation into their own h-tuds, and will yet cer- coward castle—for he don't dare to hunt out- joy well, would be a hell. He knows tainly do it if the people do not awake to a side of that—without catching him, turned what he would enjoy if he was at lib- sense of their danger. They are in every part upon brother Harris, quoting a6 follows,—" The erty to, and thinks all other men like of the nation, holding their secret meetings and clergy have appointed a ' Stop World ' for us himself,*—does not seem to have the plotting to effect the above purpose ; v ; king all, unless we are ignorant enough to believe least idea that there are men who can slyly while the people are scarcely aware of it. and follow them in their unfounded ideas;" walk up and down the earth in purity, But this priestly spirit crops out more in Penn- to which he exclaims —" And that man was innocence and goodness, and enjoy sylvania thau any other State. There they are possessedof an uncleanDevil." that which is as much purer and higher bolder thau elsewhere, and have resolved that It the spirit that tells the truth about the than what he calls enjoyment, as the the names of God and Christ should be incor- clergy is an unclean devil, what kind of a one heavens are higher than the earth, and porated into the Constitution, and that .the is that which would make an eternal bell and would be impossible to convince him government should be administered by the put souls iu it ? Doubtless a very clean one, in and others like him that there is such RigJiteoUs, and they are to decide who the the eyes of Balaam. The fact is, they have not a condition. But I choose to explain righteousare ; so if they carry their plans, these only appointed a "Stop World" but would my own meaning when it is necessary, Balaaniisb priests, who want to create hel s for cram hell like a wallet with other folks souls, and will therefore say that I want to civil people, and for a difference iu a belief, if they could, and then say as the Priest Ed- see people come out from the Govern- and their deacons and other supple tools, are to wards did, that one of the chief joys of the ment of wrath and revenge, which fiil all the offices and make and administer all Saints in glory, would consist in looking dowu vainly labors to overcome evil with the laws; and it would not be five years before over the battlements of He iven, and witnessing evil, to the golden rule or law of God they would have a parish tax for the support of the torments of the damned. which overcomes evil with truth and priest-craft, on every family, and every man, He then quotes a passage in which brother love. I want to see this foolish, revenge- woman and child would be required to attend Harris invites people to subscribe for the paper, ful government pass away, because at the steeple houses to bear them bark at sins and wants to know if brother Ilarris pockets it requires, at a distance, while blind to the sins under their bis part of the profits. No ; no profit is expect- every few years, the sacri- own nosi-s, as they are uow and fice of thousands of precious lives, mil- ; these laws ed by any one from the paper, though it would will be enforced by tines and penalties, and be no more than fair and just for uie to receive lions of money, corrupts the people and even by burnings at the stake, if they leaves in can enough to give me a comfortable home in old its train maimed and mangled get the government into their own hands. age, after devotingmy men, and weeping women and chil- life to the good of mau- My countrymen, and ye women all, who fol- kind. Our highest hopes are to receive enough dren, and produces no good, but ren- low or countenance these fellows, what I to pay the expenses of paper--it ders the worse. the was not people worse and I have here stated are facts, and I vvaru you of started for profit—is a work of love—yet if want to see this government and your danger and call on you to arise and come there should be enough of the wise a:id good priest-craft abolished that men may forth to sustain the few paper* that dare to rally around the paper to give any profit, more come to the knowledge of the True hunt these wolves in their own lairs and beard or less, brother Harris has uo promise,expecta- -God, ami walk up and down earth in them iu their own dens. If you are not willing tion nor wish for any of it; but on the contrary, purity and love, each doing all iu their to do so much as this, you may find yourselves with the hope of liberating one or more souls power for the happiness of all. The* and children captives in their toils before you from the dark steeple-house of error, and government and priest-craft must and are aware. bringing them to the sunlight of Truth, he has will pass away before the millennium Alreadyis the Custom house in one of our generously offered to pay for papers for those ttate can be realized, and the sooner large cities, as well as other public institutions too poor to pay for it themselves. hey are gone the sooner will that in the uatiou, iu their hands. Their Sabbath He next pitches into the article of Mrs. Cum- happy condition exist in which all will schools in every nook and corner, are training mings, quotiug the following,—" Allow woman be brothers and sisters dwelling in the youth to this purpose, and they ct-n raise a voice in the making of tbe laws, and she is a purity, harmony, and love. But the funds to buy up the papers, politicians and bondslave no louger, but free, if her husband baseness and blackness of Balaam's demagogues, who lay the political wires and mistreats,or neglectsher, to take her children passions, would lead him, if he had spring the nets over the people ! Aud tbey and leave him," and to this he exclaims,— jiberty, to seek enjoyment in an oppo- will do it before you are aware, if you do not " Yes, and in f 11 our large cities we find plenty ite course, until the l>ivine Spirit in arouse and sustain the papers that will faith- such women willing to give their company on others would subdue his beastly nature, fully watch and expose them, instead of aiding easy terms." and purify or change him until he too, such papers as they can bribe or buy into If it is a fact that any such women are will- gained control over his dark passions, | their service. Will you slumberon the brink of ing to give their company on easy terms, to isnd found a new boin nature that destruction, or will you arise now and work be- save their children from starvation, so much would delight in purity and goodness. fore it is too late ? Men, who if they had the the more disgrace to the clergy and their Because I would have a revengeful govern- power, would make eternal hells for your souls churches. Were they what they should be ment that exists by evil, and brings forth only in another world, simply because you will not when a woman is lorced out into the world evil, and a priest-craft which is the servant of bow to them, will not if they get the power with her children, by the abuse or neglect of a the same government—because I would have fail to make hell here on ear.h, to bend you to brutal mau, to whom the law had alreadybound these done away for the above glorious purpose, their wills or crush you into the earth. Go her too long.they(the clergy andchurcheB)would Balaam pours out his wrath by relating an an- read the history of those of old, who wore rally round her like brothers and sisters—would ecdote of General Jackson and the sceptic, who driven out by the same class of men, cHthed iu give her honest employment, and encourage her asked Jackson if he believed in a hell. The sheep skins and goat skins, and dwelt in the to earn an honest living ; and the man or wo- reply was,—"If there is not a hell there ought dens and caves of the earth—who were hunted man who would continue to bind a woman to a to be one lor eucli men as you." So it appears and tormented, beheaded, torn £with red. hot man who abuses and neglects her, is ust fit to (K 'J ~ s M ~ have Balaam for a priest. It is a burning rlie- abuse of civil neighbor?*—at the head of " Salt frighten these dogs from their posts, Samevel. grace to the churcfies, that auy woman can be River," which you know is a place to which Spir- No, no, by day and by night, in sunshine and found on easy terms. itualiststake offenders instead of hanging th'm, in storm, in hunger and thirst, they are true, or banishing " will and be He next pitches on Delia's article where she them to the Dry Tortugas," and and stand shot before they will speaks of women who go out washing while leave them to their reflections and the influence leave their trust—are so faithful that many of of good " spirits, that they been known to starve and their husbands strut up and down ; and when may repentj confess them have pine and they come home their husbandstake the money and forsake these sins, and become fit to bo re- die while watching. The watch dog will lay stored to decent society • and our physician, for with one eye half open, and you would and then scold them because there is no food in think we have, all well as deaf—he will the house. Delia says she would join heart and necessary help in our crew, will he was blind as let you administer to you a few " step on several times, to learn hand to break down all laws that bind women Pills of Truth," his toes whether sugar-coated with so:rte of determined to abuse bim to such worthless fellows. Balaam comes down your sarcasm that you are really want- '• you are so fond ol, which our spy from only. He will keep so still you would on this like a thousand of bricks," as the say- took think your ja,r -ig or rather I should have said, like a medicine-chest wlien you were hunting the he was dead to learn whether you are mean Dog. So please to and he cloud of emoke. He struts up and down, while attend the physician. enough to kick a dead dog, when is sat- isfied you are a thief, or a wolf, you must, as I others wash and scrub for him, and he don't want his bread and butier taken from him. 1 Well Samevel here you is with your suite, at paid, look out or you will have ragged breeches, can see no other reason for his opposing Delia the bead of Salt River, where you will be left Now Sumevel, don't you never go dog-hunting together repentance and again till you know what kind of a dog you are here for certainly no disinterested person that all for ; it is your own is more than half witted, can think it right for fault Samevel, that you are here. If you had after; and don't you take the advice of that to be bound to, and maintain such obeyed your mother when she told you not to right band brother, for he don't know much women " " worthlessfellow^ in idleness, and be scolded to saes strangersand stone other people'sdogs, about any dog only tbe yelping cur, the greedy boot. If women learn that their husbands you would not have been here now ; but it was dog and the dumb dog. should not abuse them thus, they may next your nature to do wrong, Samevel. iou was And Samevel, you must beware of the Vim- learn that the priests should not. Wilh much not born nor begotten right—you are one of min or Vimenanitv as you calls them. You sophistry,he appealed to his female auditors on that kind the scriptures speak of, that are con- must not go any more, after them Viminin as brought in easy this point, asking them if they were much ceived in sin, forth iniquity and you say you finds on such terms in the burdened with husband and children. Had he prone to evil as the sparks to fly upwards; so cities, Samevel. It ain't wholesome to go after you it is your nature to sin them—it ain't wholesome for sinners, and it is first placed bis female hearers in the condition see ; but nature can sometimes be improved, Samevel, and if you awful for a holy man that stands up in a little of tho?e Delia spoke of, and let them go out mol.hi r and house on Sunday, with a long face on, and washing a few years, then had their money ta- had minded your not allowed your- cubby self to throw stones at dogs, you would abuses a neighbor for picking a mess of peas ken from them, and been scolded because there have nature some, and was not food, they would not have sat long, improvedyour would not have Sunday after be, himself, has broken the com- quietly swallowinghis sophistry. He not only been caught and brought here by a dog, for at- mandment six times in the week, which tells tempting to kill him. him to work six days and earn his own bread. abuses others but deceives his own people. Finally, instead of burying the dog as he had And now Samevel. wheu yon repent and come The Virnmen that you say you Giids in the city promised, for the amusement of the crowd, down the river again, don't you never go dog- so cheap ain't the kiud, Samevel, that Mrs. huuting till you know what kind of a and and you he did not even catch him, but wound up by dog you Cummingrv Delia sp^ke of, must is to find more of them. declaring war against the dog, or paper, and are after, for there a great difference in not go any that, is the declaring that there should be no peace till it dogs; remember Samevel. There If you can't govern yourself' and keep away to was abolished or driven from the town. He cowardly looking cur, that barks at every from them when you go the city, you must stranger that passes. If the stranger turns to take some of the deacons aloag, to take care of told his people that if he owned all these broad men; acres, before he would sell them to these eastern look at him,he dodges into his little cubby-house you, if they are trusty but if they are under the stoop to save his skin, and like several deacons of your sect that I kuow scoffers that come here to settle, he would pray or door then when the stranger turns to go, he will put of in olher places, and shall tell you about if for the power ol an earthquake to sink them; were offered a thousand dollars a his head out and bark, as though he had coui- your impudence requires another " woman- yea, if they " square foot, he would advise his brethren not to age to tear a man all in pieces. This kind of unity pill, you bad better leave them behind, are not worth hunting nor noticing, only and get some of tbe scoffers, or ghost-JlC~ sell to these scoffers. curs honest to give them a whipping now and then, to still hunters to go and take care of you. Now Balaam, I feel influenced by the spirit them when you get tired of their noise. Then Farewell, Dr. the good old prophet, who told the Weller. of Bible tells about greedy dogs that never i(rr priests of Baal to pray louder,—to make you the have enough, and the dumb dogs that bark for an olfer. You think your prayers can command Well, brother Balaam, we will now bid you bread. You can rpad the history of these an earthquake to sink all these broad acres. their with a parting song, by our in the Bible. You need not be afraid adieu, choir— If you will come down here to the depot, some two dogs hunt any of these three kinds if you have How happy are they, who their conscience day, and pray a strip of land three or four feet to good keen weapons polished and burnished obey— wide, right down about two feet, far enough to- And perform all their duty to mau, with some of your sarcasm, and only keep your " ward Atco, to let the water run off quicker Who' take up Salt River," the pirates that " " them and not let them come behind to when it rains hard, I promise eartin that I eye on shiver for they never have will take the dog right out of town by the first bite jou in the back, All truth-laden crafts if they can. euough to face you. These three train, and that will eud all your troubles—and a courage ponder, mongrels hatched in one We leave you to while we're failing great deal more—it will build up-your society kinds are all worthless yonder, getting the that and help you pay for the steeple house and litter, and are always families In love, over ocean and plain ; You will please organ for the miracle will be noised abroad— harbor them into trouble. tell And wheu you've repeuted,of acts so demented, We'll take you down river again. people will learn that the prayer of a Balaamite that brother that sits at your right hand about tell him if he, or any of his has been answered, a miracle that has never these dogs; and So fare you well, brother, please call cn your dog loafing about in the been heard of but once, and all the eastern friends have any such mother, ecolfer, smart wooden nutmeg ghost-hunters, way, breeding mischief, the sooner they get To teach you good manners and grace, they That on your returning, you may not Spiritualists and free-lovers everywhere, and rid of him the better, for are always more come than profit, and sometimessneak away spurning pernaps a few free lusters too, will flock here to plague Tbe civilest men in the place. •join your church,and then all these broad acres, and destroy lambs. cobbler, a linker, a instead of being sunk and lost to the world, Then there are the shepherd's dog, the hunt- Be a common sense thinker And give' up your itching to preach will be settled by a people your own heart; er's dog, and the faithful watch dog, and you ; after Or dig clams and peddle, but never more med- and then you will not have to make, nor hunt must beware of these, Samevel, when you go dle for a hell to put others in, for you will have one dog hunting, or your clerical breeches may With things that are out of your reach. of your own right here under your own nose, want before you knows it. These patching Balaam inquired at his dog bunt,—" and can look down from your window and fat dogs don't bark much, but when they do, What is ' he here for V Who wants bim ?" His first ques- upon the groans of us wicked scoffers. We they mean it; it ain't a yelp, a splurge, and then tion is now answered. have now arrived with you and your suite— a cowardly dodge into their cubby house. \ I came to hunt wolves, and capture pirates7 that is, those who countenance you in this vile j You can't coax, nor hire, nor drive, nor and sent bait in advance, to draw them out k- 4 CAPTAIN'S OFFICE. gers as soon as they know that a relentless * * * *- * war is declared against the Boat, never to end Sectarian strife and political wrangling has ever cursed the with for our seeming till it is destroyed or driven from the town. world war, poverty, and ignorance. Our friends must pardon us Away with it forever. Study the laws of nature Thanks to the friends who have written, for in want of respect for them, and attention to their kind wishes, encouraging words, and man, animals, and earth, where are taught ; and we hope now that we liave material aid. health, development, and progress. Thore are no tlieir wants two causes more powerful in the degradation of captured the pirate that has dogged us wicked- HEW" Bro. John. The fox and wolf decoys mankind than tobacco and intoxicating drink. wantonly, without cause or provoca- I sent from various places, in advance, to as- Reformers in these vices should merit the honor of ly and certain the character of the game, worked co the world. Far the that we shall above heroes on tented fields ion,.for the last three months, a charm. I found the wolf decoy ripped and campaigns of devastation. They stupefy the have time to cleanse the Boat from the filth open. More anon. moral sense, imbrute the mind, and destroy the taste for refinement, and of the Salt River passengers, and be in neat education, progress. The HALL,. ! bar-room presents a scene of filth, ribaldry and trim on the next excursion. We have been REFORMER'S degradation far below the den of brute animal. necessary duty—one that was The rum friend's song is there practically dis- performing a For the Pleasure Boat. played : upon us, and have no apologies to TRUE AMBITION. " forced All hail to the world, our banners are unfurled, make for it. For three months we silently bore BY .TAMES FLAGLER. Our streamers are playing well; " If men cared loss for wealth and fame, the insolence of this wolf in sheep's clothing, Will you join our throng as we march along, And lows for battle-fields and glory, To the bottomless pit of hell." until he and others regarded us as a dead - If writ in human hearts a name There is no hope for the world while the use ol or one so near dead as to need burying. Seemed better than in song and story ; dog, If men, instead of nursing pride, tobacco and intoxicating liquors exists. Their ef- His influence on I he youth, who had treated Would loam to hate it and abhor it; fects will evor counteract all the efforts of reformers other us with great civility, and many of them with If more relied, in directions. Get these vices out of the On love to guide, way, then the world will be more ready to listen respect, was such, that quite a number of The world would be the better for it." to the teachings of morality, justice and truth. No them had commenced to manifest the bad ef- man or woman should consider themselves great The aim of men and women should be to until they have conquered vicious habits and pas- fects of his teachings, and there was no other establish justice throughout the earth, and sions. Example speaks louder than words. All way for us but to take him and such as coun- to have abolished all unequal laws. Let candidates for fame should exemplify a perfect character their tenance his conduct up Salt River, and give both sexes have equal rights and protection in daily walk and conversation. the is open Show to the world, practically, a greatness worthy them an opportunity to reflect and learn wis- under the government, then way of all imiiation. for the display of a laudible ambition in the dom. In dealing with them, we have used Great, not like Cresar stained with blood, journey of life. A wise selfishness will see But only groat as they are good." just such weapons as the case demanded, and the necessity of a fair open field for the dis- we leave the subject, only asking you Remarks.—Brother Flagler, when men, or here play of talent; that no injustice is done to a majority of them, come into the spirit of whether your favorite paper, after its long the least nor the greatest by unequal laws brotherhood that the poem at the head of and faithful services, through tempest and or willful intruders. Content and harmony your article alludes to, no government of storm, shall be killed and buried at last, after cannot prevail on any other basis. Free force will be needed or tolerated. The wise schools for all without respect to sex, color, and all its faithful services, by a priest of Bala- good will then look a sinner into repent- or countrj', should be considered the main ance. Extend your faith a little further, and am's order, just for the lack of means to sub- pillar of any nation. All should be taught plead for the abolishment of all penal laws. sist on, or shall it have subscribers enough to the way to sustain themselves through use- To attempt to make men better by such live and battle longer for the truth? We do not ful labor, and not desire or expect to live, means is attempting to overcome evil by a here and expose life, charac- prosper and be happy, without work. All greater and more powerful evil, aud the re- ask you to come sult usually is, to make the offender worse in- good name to the wrath of a man need clean, comfortable homes, and should ter, and to strive stead of better. would make a special hell have the education and ambition who, if he could, honestly to get them. Such being the aim Lock a man up in a stale" prison for crime and it sinks him still lower ; when he comes for you ;—all we ask is for you to furnish the and determination, competence would be up the requisite number of out, he has no character, self-respect is forever means, or make the rule, and not the exception, as now. gone, the world points him out as a prison subscribers to enable us to move smoothly Poverty and oppression is unfavorable to bird, there is no sympathy nor pity for him, along through all opposition. If enough sub- peace and happiness. Owners of comfortable no one dares to employ, trust or harbor him ; and war. scribe, you shall have a sail in the Boat twice homes are not disposed to riot he feels the injustice,and that, together with The reckless outcast is a fit tool for unholy of once. There are other his necessities, drive him to desperation, he a month, instead ambitious knaves, to use in war and rapine. becomes reckless, adds robbery and murder pirates stronger, more wily and crafty, (but it Society should see to it, that no such class to theft, and goes on 1o destruction, corrupt- vs impossible for them to be more malignant,) be allowed to grow up among them. TheK>, ing and draggingothers with him. Thus by and we may be attacked by a whole fleet of wise philanthropist comprehends and antici- applying evil, force, wrong to the correction please decide at pates the result of such corruption, and of evil, the stream of evil becomes wider, them yet; so, my friends, deeper, and more rapid as it passes down whether the Boat shall float victorious works to avert it by destroying its cause. once We may be selfish within the bounds of jus- through the vale of time. This nation has or sink to rise no more. It depends wholly ever lieen laboring to overcome evil and tice and a true regard for the rights of wrong with greater evil and greater wrong, on you, and now is the time to wake up sub- others. Then we assist the weak and un- on. There is to be a and has been all the time growing wrorse in scribers and hurry them fortunate in their efforts to obtain compe- morals, until now at the present time you can war between Truth and Error, as fierce as the tence and happiness, thereby securing our- scarcely take up a paper without reading late war between the North and South, and if selves against outrage from a class of from one to half a dozen thefts, robberies, your duty at once, wTe shall be ready wretches that would otherwise exist. Hence rapes, or murders. you do the benevolent exertion on the Yes, yes, " sectarian strife go down in the battle, we wisdom of and political for it, and if we part of the fortunate, to have all the world wrangling have, indeed, ever cursed the will go with the colors nailed to the mast temperate, industrious, and happy. A name world" and ever will, until the false religions head, and not hide in the caboose or cub- written in human hearts, by acts of justice, aud the governments of force—the hot beds in which they are are destroyed. house. kindness, and love, will be immortal ; can- hatched, not die while endless ages roll. The glory LINES TO MITTIE, WITH A ROSE. of battlefields, where death, agony, and hor- New Fence.—Joel Heacock, of Marlboroj ror, prevail—although for a seeming great " you— Ohio, has discovered or invented a method of The last rose of summer!" I.send it to with the renown of blooming in sunshine and dew ; good—cannot compare constructing board or rail and I've watched it while mercy who portable fence, kisses of Love sweet and pure, the hero of peace, justice and ; I've filled it with averting the deadly will sell patents for States, Counties, and though the rose fadeth, the love will endure. was instrumental in And strife by destroying its cause, in educating Towns. It is readily moved, and is not Then look at it often in bloom or in fade, the world in the love of the true and the thrown out by frosts, like posts set in the sorrow, in sunshineor shade, In joy or in beautiful in nature and art. ground. And knowthat the heartwhichthe offeringgave, and the your love as a ship to the wave. Give all the world equal justice good Will be true to is nothing to For Sale Uuap.—Ten acres of land, cause of war is gone. There not over three quarters of a mile from Hain- If the Love-tideia full, then^the true heart will sail fight about. Every man, woman and child, thro' gale, monton station—four of them grubbed and O'er reefs and o'er breakers, tempestand has tlieir rights, and will be contented. Am- land on the bright summershore, ploughed, one and a half in strawberries, and Till safely we bition to do right under all circumstances Also join with the loved ones, and suffer no more. one iu blackberries and raspberries. To meets the approbation of human nature. peach and plum trees, plenty of muck, and a Laws to enforce such a principle will be sus- pleasant site for building. For further parti- ' Subscriptions are coming in every day} I tained, and rulers administering them will culars inquire of Geo. W. Niclcerson, Ham- and I shall look for a strong rush of passen- - be honored monton, 'N. J. o I