The Middlebury Register

Convention of "Spiritualists".—A State Convention of "Spiritualists" assembled at Springfield on Wednesday. Dr. H. F. Gardner was chosen President of the Convention, with a large number of Vice Presidents and three Secretaries. From the Springfield Republican we learn that Mr. John M. Spear of this city, announced a communication from Benjamin Rush, in behalf of the Association of Beneficence, which contained directions in regard to the conduct of the Convention, recommending among other things that they make arrangements for a National Convention of believers. Mr. Finney of Cleveland, Ohio, stated that in the city of his residence there were 700 mediums and 5000 disciples; and that in Cincinnati there were 1200 mediums.

Mr. Whittaker, of Troy, said there was an unpoetical writing medium in that city who had under the spiritual influence written 140 pages of very fine poetry. Mr. G. Smith of Vermont, said that as a medium, he could see the internal organs of the body, with the diseases, and simultaneously the remedy: that he had had a view of the planets and of their inhabitants: in Mercury the inhabitants are extremely low in the scale of development; in Venus there is much contention: in Mars the inhabitants are more developed than the inhabitants of the earth: in Jupiter and Saturn they are still more developed: Herschel is thinly settled and all the planets beyond are depopulated in consequence of the cold weather and their distance from the solar system. An evening service was occupied in an address by Rev. Mr. Finney on the theme (says the Republican) of the emancipation of the human race from the slavery of error, and in its discussion, he endeavored to illustrate and enforce the great law of human progress, and to kick over the bible, the priests, and the church.—Boston Traveller.