A Spiritual Wedding

Western papers are teeming with accounts of and comments upon a spirit marriage which was recently celebrated at the house of a Mr. Isaac Eaton.Leayenworth. The only daughter of this gentleman died at the age of six weeks in 1845, and would now, had she lived, be 34 years old. She appeared to her father and mother, as they believe, in a seance, and they have kept up correspondence with her through a noted medium. She announced that she was engaged to be married to a son of the late President Pierce, and she consoled her father for his disappointment in not securing an office in the present Democratie Congress. In due time she announced that the wedding was to take place on the 20th of June and the ceremony was to be performed by Emmanuel Swedenborg. We give the rest in Mr. Eaton's communication to the St. Louis Qlobe-Democrat : Whereupon Mr. Eaton wrote to that distinguished departed divine, asking him to permit Medium Mansfleld of New York to be present at the wedding. Swedenborg replied in his own hand writing, granting the petition. Subsequently, Sarah Katharine, the daughter, wrote a letter to her father, in which she demolished the Scriptural doctrine that there is no marrying or giving in marriage in the happy hereafter. "That was simply a saying of the priests in early days," she declared, "to induce not only early but frequent marriage for the money they derived from such ceremony." Marriages take place in the spirit lif e more frequently than in earth life, she said, though such displays as her own wedding are unfrequent. The wedding took place according to agreement, and Medium Mansfleld, who professes to be somewhat familiar with the doings of the spirits, assures Mr. Eaton, in a long letter, that it was the grandest spectacle his eyes ever beheld. He made a diagram of the "bower," and took a list of the guests, much after the manner of a weak-minded society reporter. The bride "was arrayed in a dress of nile green ;" Mrs. Pierce, the spirit mother-in-law, was in "pure white." The multitude present passed ;he medium's ability to count. Among ;he more distinguished guests were exPresidents Pierce, Van Buren, Polk and Taylor, Winfleld Scott, Stephen A. Douglas, Rufus Choate, Keverdy Johnson, John Wesley and Wilson Shannon. Since the wedding, "Sarah Katharine Eaton Pierce," as she is now called in ;lie spirit land, has written but little, being evidently somewhat taken up with the enjoyment of a celestial ïoney-moon. "Bennie," her husband, was bom in 1841, and was killed in a railway accident in 1853.