The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-05-26

transactions for the Bank Of Kentucky received pay
meet from !, according 10 the contract bet Them
i lie has also saJ Thai statement of all the affairs Of
HE SchuyIkiIl Bank, during he whole period lncud
ed by these spurious issues laid before the direct
prstpice in eGch ireeh and Away accessible to
then that this statement exhibited the amount vi
balls dlscounied OF notes circulation, OF debts To
deposlturs, all the lb les OF the bank all lis means
and The sources u tbose means; and that his own IN
disdual account was the books of The bank, and
II be there siiiI and "hns not been cut out or de-
sroy,d," will subsantiate all tn statements
| II Lewis prove all these fac ., what beaut full
system that of finuncierns, And what honest fell
lows are its managers! We advise a certain gentle
man, with peculiarly about Of his feet, to
engage the whole of them for recruiting seIge-n's
1 EXPERIMENTS IN PHRENO-MAGNETISM.
! An EXTRAORDINARY CAsE-Not long since some
curious experiments were performed by DIR. Blu
chanan, Of Louisville, through the agency OF
what is called Phreno-Magnetlsm, the applioa-
ton of Mesmerism to- the different organs of the BRAIN
as developed on the craniun according to phrenoo-
gcal principles. The accounts Of these experiments
which appeared in the Louisville papers, were copied
into various journals throughout the country were
rdlcued impostures in nine out OF ten, al
though they did not escape the notice of all believers
! in Animal Magnetism and Phrenology. The res
portability of DR.. Buchanan was nevertheless vouch-
ed for, and in one or two cases witnesses were adj
duced to prove the authenticity Of the details The
!
time in relation to Mesmerism, and thus few Of our
citizens, among them or two ply siclans, were IN
duced to notice the prominent points more partcu-
lary, and to make observations the of their
experience, calculated either to explode the errors
to verify the truth Of the statements One Of these
gentiemaA of the highest standing professional and
private in this community had his attention drawn in
especial manner TO the of boy who was
liable to the Mesmerc sleep, called, and when in
this sleep, developed moral emotions and physical
vI,a Tho tpfyar nj ntor cd In
1 the phrenal developments on his Uranium, and with
/ an accuracy truly wonderful The result startled
/ the physician himself He had but little faith in
phrt nology at the time although he had numer
Gus instances of sleep produced through the Influence
/ OF animal magnetism. The OF the boy, how
ever imparted additional interest to the subect-he
noticed ii to intelligent friend, ard in connection
with that friend, commenced series OF experiments.
! The results here were still more astounding Indeed,
SO much incredibly had heen expressed by medical
and scientific with regard to mesmerism, its pro-
fessors were rdicued and laughed al so generally
that in the case under consideration even hose who
had practised the experiments or witnessed them,
spoke upon the subject with caution, conscious from
4 the extraordinary developments, that niney-nine
persons out Of every hundred, would either suppose
| the operators deceived themselves, worse, were
anxious to deceive others.
Under these circumstances, number of highly re-
spectacle culzens, and among III majority OF the
editors of Philadelphia mbIed at the dwelling of
1 the physician above noticed, Tuesday evening
last TOR he purpose OF being afforded occular proof
here were probably thirty gentlemen in attendance,
besides the physician who operated and The indIvdu-
al, friend Of ours of unbIenished integrity supe-
nor int igence and unsued4 character, wno con.
4 ,ened TO be the subject for he evening and who had
tmlliarsed himself with The whole scene by former
experiments. 1t is not necessary for US in this artl-
Gle u express an olii1n, 10 the truth taislty
either OF Mcsmer sn or Phrenolosy. We merely
state facts as they passed undcr our own observation,
and as they will he currobarated by similar accounts
from other gentlemen who were present.
II The Company being sea,d the operator and his
subject also took seats Immediately opposite, when
the history of the matter was given IN few words by
the phi slclan and il, substance as have recorded
il above, concluding With observations to the
! following effect
g The phenomena will not yet call them facts to
he presented 10 night, of novel and curious cha
racter. OF their existence you Will yourselves be
ry eyewitnesscs. Indeed. the phenom, ma of
Mes aersn are not ihtmscves quest nablc; nor
hare they been questioned even by Franklin and the
us ,ngushrd Committee he French Royal Aca-
Idemy, OF which he was leading memb r. The d.
vcrsty of sentiment has been coniaod chiefly TO the
mode Of cSplainng them: far as they exclude,
what easily proved 60 be false, Cidirr0yJnce ana
Prerison Setting these aside, for tn are IN their
i nature impossible and have been by my own labor
Gus inquiries, demonstrated TO be faces, the pheno-
nena no y 10 be exhibited may he explained in var-
Gus modes. The believer in Mesmersm and Phlc
noIogy, having difficulties to overcome easily re-
rfs them TO one of two souIceslst to the mesmerlc
stimulation Of the cerebral organs, ID, to the lr
to the operator affect ny, under these relations
the mind of The subject of HE experiments. Those
who are PhrennoaistS but not Me-meri,ts, may con
tend with DR. Buchanan, that the ef cts are me pr
lu Of eairaaiSn cxcr ed the organs, through
which the mind IN this sublunary bondage, is coni-
PEELED to act
Those who admit the existence of that NITROUS
ercitcnent called 4Ncsmerism, but who deny e tru h
of Phrenoogy, have but one admissible explanation,
and &C ordlngly believe thahe subject oil the experl
mrnt having as almost all If us have, some know
ledge of the external phre biological mapi Is
ri9uslv led hv association of IDEAS to the expression
of a men al state comfortable 10 the supposed infu
ence of the organ touched
Finally those, and they are ye. the million, who
d, nv both PtrenoIogy and Mesmerism, resort, as did
the Franklin committee, 10 the explanation of admit
/ ted phenomena by supposna them til, effect OF ina
einetion and imitation; while sturdy scrpIics
I refer the whole scene TO joke or trick,
Being myscli only an inquirer, and making II
rule TO KEEP strictly on NEUTRAL GROUND while sub
iect is " being examined as friend Chandler would
say 81 have not reached any settled Conviction and
NAV not for years to come Each of you will select
theory for himself; and as the gentleman who Is TO
he the subject Of experiment is the acquaintance of
ALL and the intimate friend of most of you, You
rvr to his eminent talent and WORTH better apprecia
non than even can do and Tins rid yourselves OF
one dht uy 10 which the exhi OF unknown
and uniccreditcd ind vlluals mus. ever give rise
After these explanations, the expcIimenter thea
pac d his right hand on the forehead and VITA hs
1 le gras ed hand of the patient In he caGIse o.
all at two minutes the latter fell into Mrsmeric
sleep, when the physician 50 pronounced IN con
versrd ftey ~ explanation ot the va'i'uS pPnts IA
the case AID ptoc, ed,d oary the phrtno-ina !nctt
tets. tie theneyhhrGd cast with cranlum Hark
ell out according u the ioc,tinc. Of phrrnonGs AM
applied his fugef iotle Nm'"nS ueNe' pemep's IN W.
cran,um o hIs ta,icht Ihe eject 's'onlshed evef,
one u,e,ent an kucw Vac character o the suit g.
and therefore kncv there could be 10 CO. usIrn
mex no decelrrA WhattvG But jusi as thc lhys-
IN tcuc cd wh hs finger the sovttal specific lnd
II INNS on The read If the su Jet did thai ruhcc d.