be used without detection. The powwowings and witchcraft which prevailed so long in New England among our ancestors are now at an end. Our homes are no longer disturbed with an unaccountable noise, as of old; our children do not vomit crooked pins and tenpenny nails; nor have we either magic or sorcery. We no longer have those spirits which the Rosicrucians tell us inhabit the elements: sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders. Yet, grave and earnest men have, of old, believed in witchcraft, and many at this day believe in this Spiritual communion with the dead, as well as in these mysterious knockings. "We, however, are not of that number; but would not censure or condemn those who are. The world is curious--these knockings are curious--and these young ladies are worth seeing, and the mysterious worth hearing. Then let them pass for what they are worth." ARTICLE FROM THE N. Y. DAY-BOOK BY ITS EDITOR, R. N. SIMPSON. "_The Rochester Knocking Girls._" "O ho! you are all coming into it are you? "It is somewhat amusing to see editors of papers, distinguished men, literary characters and others coming into the belief of Spiritualism, or mysterious knockings; eating their own words and swallowing Spirits, girls, knockers and all. We say that it is amusing--it _would_ be amusing, were it not disgusting to see men, who pretend to possess an ordinary share of intelligence, so completely stultify themselves--as many of these characters have. "More than six months ago these knockings commenced in Rochester, and a committee, composed of the most respectable citizens of that city went into a thorough examination of the cause of them, and reported to the world the result of that examination. In that report they tell us all and more than we have heard or seen since the girls have been in this city, and conclude by exonerating the girls from practising deception or fraud in any of their exhibitions. "After reading that report, the writer of this went to Rochester and visited the girls: the result of that visit he published in the _Day-Book_ with just as much expectation of his statements being believed as if he had said that the cars ran off the track, or that he crossed Seneca Lake on board of a steamboat. What was his surprise to find that not one in twenty believed a word of them. _The Journal of Commerce_, _The Courier_, _The Express_, _The Christian Intelligencer_, and in fact all the papers in the city amused themselves and their readers by making fun of the whole matter. When we met a friend he would accost us with, 'Well, you have been to see the Rochester knockings, have you?' "'Yes sir,' would be our answer. "'Well, what do you think of them?' "'I think just what I have written and published!' "'Stimson--you don't pretend to believe in that humbug?' "'I believe that I heard the knockings, and that the girls had no direct agency in making them.'