REMARKABLY OASE OF TRANOS VISIONS OF AN INDIANA BERVANT GIRL. The people living in the vicinity of Whiteland, Jobnson County, have recent- Jy been very mush excited over a matter which, to say the least, is very strange. Several weeks since Miss Van Arusdale,a young woman about seventeen yeu old, living atthe house of a family near White- land, m the capacity of a servant, was taken sick with something like hysterics. She had been confined to her bed a little! over a week, when to all appearance she died. The body, however, did not lose its warmth, and a very slight pulse re- mnnined, ‘The people with whom she was living, supposed that sho was dead, and were making preparations to bury her, when the physician interfered, forbidding any puch step. After remaining in this state twelve kours, cousciousness returned and the girl pronounecd herself much better. She then went on to describe her sensa- tions and experiences duzing the trance, | averring that she had visited heaven and hell, and had conversed with the Saviour and many persons whom she had known on earth, She spoke of secing persons in yak ane Sats eens cultivate it only to the extent of yielding | iim a bare subsistence. ‘Lhe loss to the) North is said to be equal to £50,000,000 | i year in the cousumption of her! so that the sudden abolition ot slavery, while it has ruined the planter, has alsu materially injured the New Eng- lander, And the worst, we fear, bas yet to come, | : Wuy tur Reciproc Treaty was Re- | Pratip.—A United States paper—the Con mercial Lulletin, in an article’ on Senator Ramsay's conglomerate resolution, mikes jthis candid confession—* After having sig- jnally failed in turcing our Provincial neigh- bors into the Union by repealing the Reci- procity Treaty, and after driving the trade to foreign markets, we shall show our wisdom by furbearing to at any proposition which ; bears the resemblance of a grasping polic provided it seconds out efforts to regain tl trade.” This is candid and considerste—very. It lets the ‘eat out of the bay,” and we see plainly why the Reciprocity ‘Treaty was repealed, Yet in the face of this very plain jeuitelnone, we hear it stgted in dillerent parts fof these Provinces, ** Oh, we would never have had the Treaty repealed, if it had not been for Canada, ‘The people of the United ates hate Canada, but love with a tender Maritime Provinces.” And coupled , one often hears it stated t it is both places whom had recently died; in heaven, a young man named Quinn, who, although at one time a professor of re- ligion, had in the last year or two of his life led_a bad life; in hell, the two men, | Hatchell and Patterson, who were lynched at Franklin on the night of October 31,tor the murderof Lyons, at Greenwood, Miss Van Arsdale sent for a number of persons in the neighborhood, and not only impart- ed to them news of lost friends, but told of sins committed by them, supposed to be unknown to any one. Among others was a man who had participated in the exceu | tion of the man named above; she told him that he had been there that night (which he acknowledged), and in’ the sight of Gad committed murder, Previous to this, the names of the band had been kept a profound secret, and this man had not even been suspected. She narrated a good many strange things, relating main- jy to individuals both in this world and the other, many of whict would have been al: most impossible for her to have invented, Jut the stravgest part of the story is yet tocome, A few hours after the expiration of the first trance she predicted that she would have another, and told to a minute the time at which it would end. Every- thing turned out as she had said; at the exact time she fell into the same state. In an ordinary tranceg or cataleptic state, respiration is not suspended, but in’ this exse breathi.g¢ could not be observed. She was to all appearance dead; but the pulse beat faintly, and the body was not cold. All sensation was gone, ‘The physician mide numerous experiments, pricking the body, opening the veins, and so forth, to discover if there could be any deception. In the end he was perfectly convinced that there was none At the expiration of the time set by herself’ she came to, and in a few hours was well enough to go about the house. ‘The story of her experience in the second trance was similar to the first one, and was confined almost wholly toiadividuals, She seemed unable to describe the places she had been in, but gave histories of events and person with remarkable min- uteness. She sisi that she should never have a recarkenes of the trance un- less she should coinmit some tl her authovity for this predictio: the Lord himself had told her so, This is certainly a strange thing. The irl is uneducated, and has lived about as & servant ever since she was able to work. She has alw borne a good char- | aeter for truthfulness, and is a member of | a chureh. She is almost the last person in the world to have manufactured ‘such stories, and one thing especially noticeable is the fact of her sending for persons to whom before her illness would have been afraid to have spoken, and conyers ing with them without the least restraint, Canada (that was) which lies inthe paul | obstruction toa renewal of the Treaty. That fis notso, Our Republican neighbors know | the glorious results to be derived from a policy fof divide and conquer,” and are in conse- | quence busy spreading the statement that if it had not been for the back Provinces, Novi | Scotia would have had a treaty long ago. All which is about ss true gospel as is Joe Sanith’s Mormon Biblo,— dz. Reporter. Tue Vatce or Sr. Tuomas To tun Unirep Stratus. —A writer inthe New York Ttrases thus discourses on the advantages which will insure to the United States from the acquisi- Won of the Ishind of St. Thomas: By the possession of St. Thomus the United | States make themselves masters of Vorto | Rico and Cuba, and in this it is necessary to ; confess thit Secretary Seward has proven} jhimselfa great strategist, having made an irresistible & movement against Spain. | getting to her windward and placing Porto Rico under the 12-inch Parrett and Dahlgren gins of Fort Carlotta Amalia, The illustrious Webster, in 1827, speaking of the Congress of Panama, proposed by Bolivar, said that not even Spain had se much interest in the Spanish gAutilles as the United States. ‘The ance of power” between the North and South afterward pre- vented ingression of Cuba and Porto Kico into our Union, with an increase of political power, thinks to. shive in favor of the oT 20, South. This political r n has disappeared, Slavery no longer exists, and therefore the radical ditlculty in the way of acquiring the Greater Antilles has) b removed. ‘Lhe United States without slavery are, for Cuba and Porto Rico with slavery, tlre gliss of Archimedes, invented for the purpose of burning ships fromafar The ancient mathe- matician, although right in’ principle, never succeeded in effecting his purpos But with the new ustorious glass it happens that it is as successful in its effects a3 it is rational and nd in principle: ‘Lo propose to Spain, as chivalric and full of vanity as her illustrious Don Quixote, to sell us Bilin: would be an insult, and the ex rebel Soule lost his leg when sattetying at the pistol’s point the wounded honor of the Spaniarda which he had injured by merely proposing what they will now come and ask us to do, The New York Tribune gives publigity to arunmorthita plot has been discovered on} the part of the Fenians to kidnap Queen Vi uwhile visiting the sanctuary of the late very much Iunented Prince Albert, and shipping heron board a gunboat for Aby sinia, where that ferocious savage could have carried out at his leisure his intentions to compel her to marry him. ‘The plot, how- ever, seems to have been discovered in season, and the Queen onlyevisits the afvresaid sanc- tuary at present under the protection of a regiment of cavalry, Necro Barpanrtsa in TWaytr.—A_ special telegram to the Y. Herald contirma the report of the murder of Gencral Leon Montes, and telling them stories and facts not the least palpable to worldly people. She was visited by a great many peeople,sone of them eminently respectable, who vouch | for many of the statements of her illness. | The physician in attendance is positive; as to her conditionafuring the whole time, and had it not been for him, she would, have been bivied alive —-Jadianapo: ald, a THE SUFFERING IN THE SOUTH, Tt would really seem as ifthe Southern States were destined to share the fate of Jamaica, only on a larger and more in- tensificd seale, Froim an oflicial report mide by General Gillem of the state of i, itis clear that social perity has gone forever. halt the cotton crop ©) tedh been ad, While the price has fallen about a hall trom what it was last year The consequence is that nine out of every ten of the planters are ruined, and many estates abandoned altogether, Lhe fre men ire starving, and yet refuse tu wor except on terms which cannot be granted, They are under the impression that the Jand is actually to be Qivided nmonz them, and are content in th® meantime to live in a great measure by stealing whatever they ean lay hands on. In Louisianna thou- sands of negroes are dying of actual star- vation. The lands have been repeatedly flooded, and the owners being no longer able to compel lapor, and’ without the means to pay for it, everything is going to dgstruction.—In Georgia anatters are still tvorse, for there the negroes believe that the wkites have lowered the price of eotton for the purpose of ruining them,and though starving, are acting together in gangs, and destroying property wherever they can find an opportunity, The sane appalling story of want, idle- ness and violence, comes from Florida and Arkansas. ‘The South is utterly ruined, and while the planters in most cases have lost everything, the freedmon are still worse off. ‘They believed that the aboli- tion of slavery meautitlso an end to servile labor, and that they were to possess the Jand and every comfort without the ne- eessity of doing any work. ‘Tho sudden eufranchisement of the blacks has been a dire misfortune to themselves as well as tothe country. But the thing kas been dube, and the consequences must be en dared. It is questionable whether cotton growing inthe Southern States will not pave to be abandoned. It-requires steady and constant labor and large capital. But the labor must .be negro Tabor, and the negro, it has been found there us olse- whore, will not work steadily unless under compulsion, Such a state of things will probably go on from bad to worse, No Proudniun's Bureau can do much to mend it, untess by pissing a law compelling eyery man to work for a given number ot hours a day, or to perform a given amount of work for so much pay, or be subject to punishment asa vagrant. But we ques- tion if even thisis practicable, ‘The result will thorefore be universal poverty,—the abandonment of the land by the whites Wieuerer thay cans While the wegro will} lis Her- | inthe dungeon atCape Haytien. — The original report was bad enough: but, bad as it was it left us in comparative ignorance of the actual fucts of the case. The details as we now have them are horrible in the extreme. Kept without food for four days, dosed with poison, smothered to the extent to which the available strength could smother him, he is only deprived of life at last by eated stabs inthe skull with achisel, ‘This, however, was notall ‘The brother of the murdered inan, who hadip the meantime been captured, was chained down to the bloody bed on which lved of wickedness had been perpetrated. only relieving feature in this barbaric picture is the announced fact that the parents of the brothers Montes have beca driven to desperati Itis tobe borne in mind that this barbarity has heen accomplished by offi- cial commend. What is the lesson? Do we require to state it? Were it not for the especial benefit of our New Englund philan- thropists we should ,be ashamed to do so. This is a specimen of negro civilization; this jis what the negro can do when left to govern himself; this isan illustration before hand of what is to be expected from negro supremacy in the South. A word to the wise is nut lost. Iyven the unwise sometimes learn. God save the South from such masters. —.¥, VF. Llerald. Inpixbixa Crisis is tun Sorti.—The “La Crosse Democrat” ca Is the Houses of Congress by the very elegant title of ‘the Rump Hellat Washington,” and under that heading gives its summaries of doings for both branches. ‘Che same papertsays ** Vir- giniais ripe fora Negro insurrection—a war of races.” It then proceeds with a savagery of tone almost appalling to us, whose fates are happily enst under better auspices: + For tie blacks we cain have some pity, but for the white scoundrels who have tucited them to violence, only vengeance—spvedy and sure—a punishment of the most extreme character. Let them look to it! For the black niggers, jusiice tempered with mercy ; for their while all justice, but No sengy. Mark them, one and all. When you hear a man with a white facd advocating negro equality, spot him; fix a mark upon hit so that when the destroying angel of white su- premacy sweeps over the land, he niay see and mark his lawfal prey.” The New York Tribune, commenting upon {a letter from its correspondent in Walrussia, says, ‘* The new territory, it appears, is not a land flowing with milk and boney, though under favorable circumstances itis capable of supporting human life. Agriculture is not its strong point. Cabbages have no heads, turnips and potatoes no body, cauliflowers no sweetness, and fruit trees no fruit. ‘Thgro is plenty of timber, but one cannot get at it owing to the natural obstacle to. transporte tion. In summer thero is no dry weather and in winter no seow for sledding. . . . The greater part of Mr. Seward’s $7,200,000 in fact, seems to have been expended for} Codfish.” Hopeful purchase, certainly, Tho New York Z'ridune, referring to the flood of crime and accident with which the columns of newspapers have of late been burdened, sayst— “The telegraph wires bend under their weight of woe; the old earth quivers with throbs of aguny from the centre to the pole; cities are shaken down, countries aro en-+ gulphel, fair domains are dvertlowed with red hot lava; wife is arrayed against hus- hand, mether agninetehild, son against vather; | aheentomb is sacrificed on one railway, half #8 many on another, and on still another the idth of abair stands between a thousand and sudden death, In social life, our news- papers are smutched all ever with reports of divorce and separation trials, of infidelity and lisgrace, of gigantic crimes undertaken, half What shill be nplished or completed. the end of these things?” From Mexico, New Yorn, Jan. 8th.—A City of Mexico lutter of Dec. 17th, states that every device has been putin operation to raise money— the first great need of this Government. A municipal tax law his just been issuad. which it is expected will produce some thre: millions of revenue. An excise law comes into help. Also, putting a tax on every con- veyance, Private carriages must yay 60 dollurs a year. Publie conveyance, 120 to 180. dollar awn Brokers, 456 dollar down, According to their cliss bakeries 10¢ dollars. Guaimbling Saloons, a ne ity here. 450 dollars, and so forth. Pather Fisher, the well known Confiden and Confessor of Maximilian, has at last bec setat liberty through the intercession of hi friends, inclusting some Amer.cans. Gorrespondence, LETTER FROM BOSTON. - Bosroy, Curisraas, 1867. Dear Journal i— Cunisraas is a great day in Boston,aun in ull American” cities, Windows a beautifully decorated, and posts and. pi avs dined with loncly evergrecns in hone of the birth of our Gresat> Master an Teacher, Were it vot tor cold west winds you would: suppose i is iidsumine from boy fers and waggons oO the strects rugning in every direction ‘Lheve is no winter here y Lat winds ar cola and: people's hearts just cold * Hard ties” is the word wherever yo: goj hundreds are ont of eniployment, wh: scarce Know how to face a hard winter But not so hard kere asin New York.—. few days ago a poor woman poisoned he tour children and then attempted suicide rather than face hard times, Vendors o everything press you to come in and buy that which is held up and praised for tha. almighty doll, Yo my young Ishur friends who have good homes,” my voice: is, be content there where you. are sul and out ol temptation, ‘Those who cour here and are prudent may do well, ris: and inake money; but if foolish and Jus: they soon find the way that leads to ruin’ Those who wish good society and choic company will lind sueh here ; soci¢ties ar here of the very best description, to the most of which students are invited free’ Lhe Young Men's Christian Association is ® moral ornament to the city, with its Reading Rooms, Lecture Rooms, and Prayer Meetings. ‘There are excellent temperance socicties here; Odd Fellows, Templars, and Sons of Temperance, The Divisions are A. 1, and by the way I must tell you that temperance men, like the fools, are not all dead yet. The sale of tum is not legalised in this State, but the PU Ls" at the late clection claim tu have won a victory, and itis supposed rum shops will soon be as open and common as they ever Were. Last Sunday our popular and teetotal preacher in mont Temple toll us t+ thit the lawmakers feared the people rather than God and the right, and accordingly done wrong that gocd might come—greenbacks into their poekets—that there were meu in Boston who would stab sweet temperance to the very heart, but they couldivt do it—that a rumseller was a soul-murderer and the devil's tool, and he knew it too.” Ytis at present remark- able how seldom a drunken person is scen in the strects her Thave hitely been at two Levees, Where I saw nota drop of any- thing that would intoxigate. We all last Priday evening enjoyed ourselves very nicely at the Revere,” at the annual Levee given by the Faculty of Harvard University, The affair cost about $1800. There were present about 8d protessors and doctors, and about 400 students. Lhe supper Was all that could be wished, At thersand goblets, filled— 2 wine—but lemonade and pure sparkling walter. ‘Vhe entertainment wound up With Lousts, speeches, » and ended by giving sist three cheers forthe Queen, three for tie President. three for the F ully, &e.. ke, Your Island you may suppose Was fecbly represented on one oceasion, the duty having fallen on yours most humbly, T will now lead my young friends to the Hospitals, of which there are three, anne lirmary and a Public Dispensary. The are filled with pationts suffering eto which humanity isheir, Lt is enough lo make the stoutest heart weep, When first seeing the sufferings which: are endured here, Some improving, some i ing, some sinking, some dying; some With their novels and papers, some at their prayer books, others at their bibles. Lhave admired the excellent tracts laid here by societies, und the sheets printed in hinge type, with choice passages oi Seriptare, and hung at the bedside of the dying, Death often chads sufcitng here, but convalescence oftenor. Patients here are kindly treated and skilllully attended by the very best physicians and surgeons— wl are under good hygienic treataientand everything kept scrupulously clean. Here 1 have met one poor tellow trom P. EL 1, whu is no stranger to my home and yours The sad results of the late cruel war are yet to be seen in those hospitals. Mes without arms and legs are here almost in scores, Our inesns of instruction in’ the medical art here are threctold, — trom » by lectures, and best of all, at the le. If we do not gain knowledge tis our own fault.” Every facility and privilege are here rendered by gen- Uemen possessed of genuine kindness and ability, The number of patients under treatment and the probable expense at tending each hospital, Lam unable to give you; but you may form some idea trom the fact that there are thirty nurses and filteen servants besides assistants, in each of those excellent institutions. In the Marine Hospital at Chelsea, through which Ip d to-day, there ie 110 poor in- valids, chictly seamen, who seem to be skillully attended to, To our young men who intend studying the medical proiession, (and [am proud there ave so many, and that sunie at least are distinguishing themselves), 1 would say your requirements are fouriold—a love for the protession—a love of study and great perseverence—a thorough Huglish edueation, aegood knowledge 1 fair knowledge of Greek and Freneh—and last, oh! that it were least —a purse which has uo bottom. But let those not seare you. The profession is an honorable and Important, though responsible one. Be attentive to study and be bound to be edu- cated, and commence business in’ an honorable and legal manner, and scorn quackery, : Should a holiday again occur before the term closes, yo mmiy expect to hear from . r Yorrs, as before, MACA, IDE JOURNAL, TH return © of Latin, oa, URSDAY, JANU ARY 2 a netiats teeesageesece sternite 3, 1868. Sumnerside Journal. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1868. No notice ean be taken of anonymous coin munications. We must know the names and addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty of their good faith. We cannot undertike to minunications that are not used, ABYSSINIA. NO. 11. Ir appears that the present ruler of this country became offended with Mr. Cameron, who since 186] and at the time of his imprisonment in 1864, was the representative of Queen Victoria at the Court of Abyssinia; and subsequently ix others shared the same fate. We iced not recapitulate the causes in which wiginated the misunderstanding that ed to the capture of Mr. Cameren, and -he other gentlemen who, with some of neir ladies also, have had to endure the iardships of an inzarceration in the wrison of a semi-civilized country. Suf- ice it to add that the treatment which ‘hese prisoners have receivéd, combined ‘vith the gross insult cust upon the jritish Empire, have aroused alike the -nger, pride and sympathy of the British sation, Various means have been re- orted to to endeavor to affect -their vlease by peaceable and friendly means, Hof which have proved abortive ; and ue ery of the captives being constantly ecard in the distance, and their tale of listress reiterated through the press, re- rearsed in private, social and public cssemblics, so continuously, that En- slishmen have fiom the dead, as it were, vn that distant land again heard Shake- speare’s honest old councillor in agony srying out;— * All torment,trouble, wonder and anazement Inhabits here: Some heavenly power guide us Out of this strange country!” jo that the Government, as the exponent f the nation, have replied to the eap- ives substantially thus: ** Inthe absence of aheavenly power to guide you out of shat fearful country, and especially since peaceful and friendly efforts have been «availing, we have determined to en- deayor to rescue you by the strength of our arms, from the gresp of his Sable Majesty, and ulso to forcibly remind aim that British subjects cannot be, abused with impunity by any foreign power.” Abyssinia is to be taught that they— * Must be free or dic, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake.’ ” When war was determined upon by the Government of Great Britain, much analety was manifested respecting the nature of the country against which war had been proclaimed, and the best means of reaching the enemy.