The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-02-16

Of GONE very mysterious knocking" at Rochester
aud one or two other cities in New York, and ma
ny persons have been actually led to believe that
man had nj length succeeded in finding a way faI
flesh to hold CONVERSE with disruhoi!ei spirits
The hs'or. Of the matter seems to he Ike thus
some six years ago, Professor Bu-h, Of New IyI,
CITY noted la.iavariu The doctrines Of Emanuel
Svedeubory. puJlishe,a book in which q hos; Of
exceedingly wonier', eal mlr.eilous diroyer..
were given that had ,h,u} recently been madel by
one Anlrew Jackson Davis an i,cra,e shoe.
maker, but 4 very bright c'l'r.2gagt. sail disc,
ycre- tending to place beyond the possibility Of
cayi the truth Of tho Sweieuloy-an revelation
4 wear or two later another book even more mar,
ye,lous than tina: pu; out 10y Professor Bush, va,
published by Mr. AaIr,w jackson D5yi, himself
mnl if tithe Of is contents could b. behave L.
tl,n indeed la, he New Jerusalem COME in lie
, MI Sv,isu5l.E;la srusa Of tae term. Vow !. !,
one Of the a9ltrisss o., lie View Church tia. lis
members, bT tue exercise of faith cnt good
work, can attain to sa,A.a high state q holmes.
! as 70 te enabled e communicate with the 'pli'
/ world, anI the books Of Professor Bah and Mr.
: Andrew Jackson Davis undertook TO show thai.
{ q; lcas; the lt.,r had hal"such Communication
with the spin. w.G.I. and hey pretended 81 give
numerous messages shat had been received from
/ hat ,r,nsuunI-le country. The ~,5lS operIaii
ofre,eyiar these communications seems TO be on
/ lie pan Of the magnetic Telegraph barring the
wires. \ regular alphabet CT conclusions or
knocks Is established, and the words age spelled
/ on, BY mean: @! these by the spirit.
A. this is m age Of progress. Of course !: was
Mt slai.iea: H.: Andrew Jackson Davis sAo2L
remain The only operator who could translate to
a world brr-tius v..L Ignorance and intense car.-
o.i.y the mo.uou'ols message, from the mhab.t-
ant, oItha o.hyr side o. tie river Styx. a"l a,cor-
dinghy Mr. Dayi. appears to have lad tAc A.ulues,
to make arrangements SO thu; = number Of per
son, be! lies himself can be accommodated with
the privilege Of coatb with tie spir.s Of tie
dead At least so we infer from the article tia.
we copy on oar first page from the y. !. tribune.
which reviews another book that has Just been
published BIZ SOME Of The associates Of lIr Davis,
AMI which claims TO give tie rsry 'a'es. h'a,i
gene, or communications O, lc-t tina, have been
received ly this ;ran.phlcgs,honian Telegraph
10, being augnc the iui;iatodve csrnot,cl course,
v5u-h Tor he accuracy Of the intelligence received
bu; the reader viii probably have no difficulty in
making up uis mind on Tia; head.
Willie vpan d.a. subject, however, We a-o con.
strained 10 say to-; there are many respectable
ocop,. VIII, u:::ag,y rjslt all tho prc;onsion' and
as,umpt.ons Of Mr : risow Jackson Davis, anlset
lin down FIR an arran, ,,.1aIgS and AnaTe.
To this class cyidcntly belong, Mr ". i. Lancwor-
thy, VIII, i, spoken o! in the following ar,i,i,
THAT KxockryG Srlrpau One ". \ Ian.
worthy, of Rochester, has written letter tia, is
published IN the Adrian UiI'ehiour which gives
a different version Of the mysterious noises lie
SAYS, ~ one Of the committee appointed 30 inquire
into the matter and after satisfying themselves as
regards the ahslTIity OF the answers TO questions.
that by placing the girls on q table and putin,
orr han Is on their feet, the knocking stopped
b. tying their dresses around their au-les !t also
ceased | may ~ vsll mention here, tia. 90
all occasions, w.th0g: one single exception this
knocking was always under tLgir feet, and "uv
s.atemer; that you may have seen, incompatible
with ;his. !, gsg fabrication When there was
knocking on the doors and tables, which commit
mcstcI a vibration to the hand, these girls were
in every case touching these articles wiki the back
Of their dresses. We tried other experiments Of
a diiercn; nature al Of vh.h fastened on our
minds con lIs.vely tie conviction that Iii, my.
FERROUS m7rug~ was So Intimately connectclwlrh
,A- person, Of Ties. girls that were they thor.
r-i.'t. ,v.u.fr.T.i srrg rH..ff.s tl, r|.-' vluIl