I have read a pamphlet entitled "FACTS, etc., from DISTINGUISHED PHYSICIANS AND OTHER SOURCES," respecting a vice which is undermining the health and happiness of many, and degrading them, in some respects, below the brute creation. I think there is nothing in the manner of this pamphlet which can be matter of just offence to any considerate mind. I am persuaded, that, delicate as the task may be, the time has come when benevolence demands that some effort should be made to enlighten the public mind on the subject of which this pamphlet treats; and both the remarks of the pamphlet, and the facts stated in it, seem to be well adapted for this purpose. Most heartily do I wish success to that benevolence which is willing to undertake a task so delicate and so difficult as this. It is time for those who love the purity, the well-being and the most interesting relations of human society, to speak out upon a vice which is dangerous in proportion to the secrecy and silence in which it has been involved. We fully concur in the above. M. STUART. L. WOODS. R. EMERSON. Recommended by the Boston Recorder, Zion's Herald, and many other papers; also by numerous clergymen, teachers, physicians, &c. Dr. Woodward, of the Worcester Hospital, has done much to expose this solitary vice. He says no cause is more influential in producing insanity. According to the Report of the Institution, for 1838, out of 199 patients, 42 are considered victims of masturbation. RECOMMENDATIONS. _From President Humphrey, of Amherst College._ AMHERST COLLEGE, April 17, 1842. REV. ORIN FOWLER:--Rev. and Dear Sir--I thank you heartily for your pamphlet, on the use of that vile narcotic, _tobacco_. It ought to be the abhorring of all mankind, as it is of all other flesh; and the extensive circulation of your timely and powerful antidote, cannot fail of doing great good. The public in general have no idea of the enormous expense of smoking and chewing in this country; much less of the waste of health and life occasioned by it. I rejoice that your essay begins to be loudly called for, and wish that as many copies might be circulated as there are miserable slaves to the habit, which, next to alcoholic drinking, is stupefying more brains, and probably shortening more lives than any other. Very sincerely and affectionately yours, H. HUMPHREY. _From Rev. M. Tucker, D. D._ PROVIDENCE, April 30, 1842.