SPIRITUALISM IN THE UNITED STATES.
THE ‘Fourth Annual Spiritual Register’ for 1860, published by U. Clark, of Auburn contains some statistics which indicate a rapid increase of believers in Spiritualism in this country and elsewhere, and a corresponding increase of spiritual literature. According to the Register there are one million five hundred and thirty-seven thousand believers in the United States, and sixty-three thousand in the Canadas, Cuba and South America, making a total of 1,600,000 in America. In the State of New York, there are 420,000, in Ohio, 200,000, in Illinos, 100,000, in Massachusetts, 159,000, in Michigan and Wisconsin, 80,000 each, in Maine, 50,000, in Missouri, 32,000, and in Pennsylvania, 40,000. The believers in the Southern States are less numerous than in the Eastern and Western. South Carolina and Arkansas are set down at 3,000 each, and Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and New Mixico, at 2,000 each. Every State and Territory is represented as having believers. Florida containing fewer than any other, is set down at 1,000. It is claimed that during the year there has been an increase of 160,000. Besides this great number are claimed five million “nominal believers.” According to the same authority there are 226 “trance” speaking mediums in this country, and 303 “test,” “healing,” and other mediums, 182 spiritual preachers or speakers, 1,500 places where spiritual meetings are held regularly or occasionally, 600 different books and pamphlets on Spiritualism, and thirty periodicals, with 200,000 circulation, devoted to the subject.