Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-19

Faiter, Sister or Brother who has passed
| from visible existence, M5ny persons
hive made tire trial and have had names
| spelled out to them of their friends, unknown
% any person present. Strangers have tried
the experiment and had their naiDes spelled
out before any person present knew il or
where they came from.
In each iamiy where the sounds appear,
| there secms to be some one or ttcO, whose
presence is necessary TO insure coninunlca-
| lions freely. Generally we find that theee
persons are susceptible TO magnetic infinen-
ces and Cluiryoyant, although we have
! heard il where there were none that had
ever been magnetized or were known to be
| Clairyoyant. In the family of Mr.. Granger,
of Rochester--a citizen well known there
the communications could be had with any
two of the fhinily previous TO any of them
being placed under the magnetic influence,
| but after daughter was magnetzed and be-
came Clairvoyant, no communication could
be had without her presence, No person
had ever boen nagnetized in the family
where it first appeared.
We first became acquainted with these
manifestations about one year since, and we
have taken every opportunity to discover, IT
possible, what il is. We bave become con-
ynced that these three facts there ie no dis
putting, viz: The sOunds,-the Intelligence
and the absence of any collusiop or decep-
ton in the matter.
| Some two weeks since we were IN com
pany with some persons who were getting
communications from this invisible conIlnu-
nicator when message was spelled out to
us to the import that the matter should be
made more publc-that the time Ind nrri-
we'd for the people to investigate the whole
aflair--that it was a thing which will ulti-
mately become known to all men, and that
we should Immediately take measures To
bave it investigated. The directions were
then minutely gwen by these spirits, us they
purport u he, and WHICH we nre willing to
believe ale, until we have as much proof to
the contrary as il required to bring us to
this conclusion. These directions will ap-
pear in the following history, as they were
fully and strictly followed. The great OBJ
ject was TO start investigation aud clear those
who had been hearing it for the last two
years from the imputaton Of fraud and de-
ception,
Accordingly on the evening of Novem-
Der IL, lecture was delivered in COrin-
THAN Hall in the city of Rochester, and n
full history Of the rise and progress of these
strange manifestations was giyeE. During
distinctly heard by the persons in the hall.
After the lecture, Committee was clIo-
sen by the audience, composed of the follow
ing persons-A. J, Combs, Daniel Marsh,
Nathaniel Clark, Esq, A. Judson and Edwin
Jones,
On the following evening the committee
reported in substance as follows: That
without the knowledge of the persons in
whose presence the manifestations are made,
the committee selected the Hall of tire Sons
Of Temperance Tor the investigatiou-that
the sound on the floor near where the two
ladies' stood was heard as distinctly as ut
other places, aud thnt part OF the committee
heard rapping on the wall behind them
that number of questions were asked which
were answered not altogether right nor alto
| gether wrong-that in the afternoon they
went to the house Of private citizen, and
while there the sounds were heard on
the outside (apparently) of the front door
after they had entered, and on the door OF the
closet. by placing the hand upon the door
there was n sensible jar felt when the rup.
ping was heard. One of the committee
placed one OF his hands upon the feet OF the
Indies and the other OH the floor, and though
the feet were not moved, there was IA dis
tnct jar on tho floor. On the pavement and
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kind of double rap as ii a stroke and re-
bound were distinguisllable. When the
ladies' were separated at distance no sound
was heard but when third person was i'll
terposed between them the sounds were
heard The ladies seemed ready to give cv-
cry opportunity to the Committee to investi.
gate the calse fully, and would submit TO Il
thorough investigation by committee OF
ladies il desired. They all agreed that the
sounds were heard, but they entirely failed 10
| discover any means by t0hich IL could be done.
Alter this report aud some discussion on
| the subject, the audience selected another
committee composed of the iollwong per-
sons-Doctor ii. ii. Langworthy, Hon. Fred
erick Whiulesey, ID. q. McCulIum, William
| Fisher of Rochester, and Hon. A. p. Hascall
| OF Leroy. Al the next lecture this Commit
tee reported that they went into the ilIvesti-
gutlon at the Office OF Chancellor Whittlesey,
and they heard the sound on the floor, on
the wall and door,-that the ladies' were pla-
ced IN different positions and, like the other
Committee, they were wholly unable to tell
from what the sound proceeded or how il
was made-tIat Dr. Lnngworthy made OBJ
servatIons with a stethescOpe, to ascertain
whether there was any movement of the
lungs, and found not the least difference
when the sounds were made and that there
was no kind of probability or possibility of
their being made by ventriloquism as some
had supposed and they could not have been
made by machinery. -
Again, after this report another Commit
tee was formed, from persons who had OPP
posed IN the meantime all pretensions TO
there being anything but trick.
This COMMITTEES was composed of DR. D.
he Il A,
Esq, w. B. Burtis and L. Kenyon. This
Commirree met mt the rooms of Dr. Gates a,
the Rochester House, and appointed Com
mittee OF Ladies who took the young women
into room, disrobod them and examined
their persons and clothing, to be sure that
there was no fixtures about them that could
produce the sounds. When satisfied on this
point, the Committee OF Ladies tried some
other exDerinleDts. and gaye the yolInO In