The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1843-10-13


that state, to rise from their seats and
come to him upon the platform And af-
ter fixing the attention of the audience for
this purpose a few minutes, some fifteen
persons (including both sexes) were found
to be sound asleep. Miraculous = And
now occurred most extraordinary sight !:
it was to see one and another rise from
their seats with eyes fast closed, and slow
y approaching the platform on which the
operator was standing Some Of them
seeming unable or unwilling to rise up
and walk. Mr. :. went to them, and they
then followed him to his place, and one of
them went up from the extreme part of the
hall. Room could not be found for them
all upon the platform, and they were fall
ing asleep in such numbers, that he could
not take care of them Hence, the pro-
cess was suspended, and Mr.. S. went
round through the assembly and restored
those to wakefulncss who had not taken
seats upon tho platform; and we have
been credIbIy informed that some twenty
or thirty other gentlemen and ladies' were
decidedly effected and disposed to somno-
lence, rigIdity of limbs, &C., by Mr. SIS
method of operation on that occasion.
Numerous and interesting phenomena
were induced by the operator from the
sumnambullsts around him upon the plat
form. One was thrown in a state of
trance, or ecstacy, and was enraptured
with views Of the Saviour, and her de-
ceased friends. She sung in tones and in
a manner that convinced many at least that
the phenomena were real And they
were brought on without any of the man
jpuIalons of mesmersers or neurologists,
thus demonstrating that the notion obout
the transmission Of nervous fluid have
been altogether uniounded.
We have stated tina, all the phenomena
usually produced by mesmersers a.d neu-
biologists, by manipulation, Mr.. Sunder-
land induces without contact, or use OF
any electrical or nervous fluid. He even
induces the state called second sight. in
persons wide awake, and gives a most
satisfactory explanation of wichcraft and
ghosts which have so much perpIeXed the
minds of the pous and even intelligent
people. TO the investigation of these
subjects he has devoted series of years,
and we agree with our neighbor of the
Patriot, that he has, certainly, done more
to enighten our citizens on the interest
ing phenomena above referred to, than all
who have preceded him, and as far as we
know, either in this or any other country.
But the following paragraph from another Man.
chester paper gives still more astounding parti-
culars:
He induced a state Of trance in several
OF his patients, as he has before done a,
his lectures in this city; and after awak-
ening his patients he paraysed their limbs
so that they could not move them, and
united the hands of four or five of them
by simply putting them in contact with
out any grasp of the hands and neither
themselves or any of the many persons
who tried, could pull them apart. But
what was most remarkable, he produced
in one Of his patients a state of second
sight, or ghost seeing. We sat near the
patient at the time, and we can have no
doubt from her appearance, but she had
as complete perception Of persons dcpar-
ted, as ,cas erer had By any person.
These latter phenomena of paralysaton
and second sight were produced in the pa
tients in their p0king state.