The Arkansas advocate., 1834-12-12

field Somnambulist, and can exert or res- tram them at pleasure. Though we have not much faith in most of the marvellous things of the day, yet if there be no trick cry about 1t, 1t must be admitted, that she | possesses powers either in kind or degree, that are not ordinarily allotted to the human race. This lady has been visited by one 1 of the scientific and intelligent editors of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, i aiid h6 eofhosses is utter inability biity es..lh,e. discover any iegerdemain in her exhibition, or account for them in any rational hypo- thesis. Speaking of her he says:--
 Mrs. Huntington, fainiliarly called the .Afgstersoas Lady, whose maiden name was Julia Anu Hue, born of French parents In England, and HOW in her twentieth year, IS an intelligent woman, of small stature rather taeitun, though agreeable in con- yersailon. Before an audience of stran- gers, on her first appearance in this city, she was obviously considerably embarrass- 1 ed--whieh might perhaps be easily accoun- ted for, even In a person who has often been before such an assembly, by the fact that she is now enciente. Her faculty of me mory, We were informed by Mir. Hannlng- ton, is quite is remarkable as any thing here after to be related, enabling her to repeat long poems. biblical reading, $ C., withoutihe slightest effort, after having once read them. We noticed. however, no chronological in- dications of such memory--her eyes by no means being more prominent than they should be 10 harmonize eaeclually with the rest of her far features.
 Without further introduction, we shall ] briefly relate what we saw and heard at her
 first public exhibition, not pretending to
 give an opinion upon the subject. Mrs.
 Hannington, having taken a chair in the s centre of spacious hall, her husband
 would place his finger on articles of wear
 ing apparel of spectator at the extremity
 of the room, towards which her back was
 turned, when she would not only designate
 the article instantly, but its color also.-- T Whether a bonnet, reticule, ribbon, q
 watch guard, or q head of hair, 1t made no l difference, as she always gave a prompt
 and correct answer. A gentleman asked
 of what metal his spectacles were made,
 and, when answered, he further desired her
 to tell tho company how many glasses the bows contained. She said four. This
 vas at first thought by tie spectators to be incorrect but On examination there were
 found to be actually four distinct glasses the two upper ones being for distant objects, : md the lower ones for nearer yews-giy- ing an appearance, on close inspection, of horizontal seam through the centre of each eye. When any particular figure on a } watch dial was designated, she told the number-and moreover gave the exact hour and minute of time, at any distance [ from her chair.
 4 box was handed around, into which : whatever article was dropped, was quickly : named. A professional gentleman very se- cretly placed in the bottom a small cake of
 liquorice paste. Mrs. Huntington said it was q cake. This was called mistake. } sWel," said the lady, s'it Is something } blackD-and after a moments reflection, said it was Hquorice. In similar adroit manner, the doctor putin bit of paper on which he had written something, and
 which the oracle correctly pronounced to be the word srhubarb." On depositing our own shagreen lancet case, she immediate
 ly remarked that ii was case containing
 iaeo laacets. We were not certain how
 many there were, till the top was opened to ] ascertain the number, which was found to { be as she had said. She certainly never ] before saw 1t, nor had it been in any other place that day but side pocket, from
 whence 1t was drawn, in clenched hand, to be secretly deposited in the paper box.
 These are only few of the many perform
 anees, of similar order, that might be re- r lated in illustration of the manner of con-
 ducting the eShibiuon.
 | Another class of mysteries consisted in
 dlvining what any one might whisper in her [ husbands ear. It should be remembered, Il however, that the name of some animal, l food, or drink, must invariably be given, or she made no attempt at solution. The < names of various edible fishes, some of I which are certainly peculiar to the place,
 and therefore wholly new to her, were un-
 hesitatingly pronounced as readily as
 though she4were repeating after master. I 30 II was Ill felatioH ID tae cognomen ol
 wines and liquors, by no means familiar to
 all the company.
 Occasionally, as if for the express pur-
 pose of bewildering the spectators with
 something vastly beyond the reach of or
 dlnarily constructed theories, stranger
 was permitted to whisper in another stran-
 gers car, and Mrs. Huntington repeated
 the words whispered instanter. This par
 ticular circumstance initiates, essentially,
 against the supposed confederacy between l l lc - :. L.,shnr,d in ihis mart .af least ofl