The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-05-19
me Last wonder Of the Age.

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The last Of the new wonders is q French
man BY the name of Gandon, who with hi
nephew, lad Of sixteen years, has arrived
al New York. The Home Journal says;
4 "That one mind can be divided and in.
habit two Bodies-one body knowing atleast
everything the eyes Of the other body see
we saw proved incontestibly, and our great
astonishment, yesterday. AT one end Of the
room, forty feet tlong, we wrote at the desk,
with Monsieur Gandon looking over us. The
nephew of this gentleman stood with his
back to us, at the other end of the room,
forty feet off, and without his uncle's turn
ing towards him, or speaking a, word, read
what we wrote. We tried it with words and
with arithmetical figures, and with chance
opened passages Of books on the table. We
tried with wall between. All that one
saw the other instantly read. There is to
be public exhibition of this unexplained
phenomenon, and no person Of ordinary Gu
riosity will fail to 60 and seeits expert
ments."
The Courier dss Etats Unia, says there is
no possibility Of physical communication by
word orgesture between the uncle and neph-
ew. They viii experiment any place, at any
time, before any body, without notice, or
preparation. Everything that the uncle
hears, sees, feels, and knows, the nephew
hears, sees, feels and knows, and the commu-
nication is instantaneous. Write whatever
you please in any language, make the exper-
iment as difficult as you please, still there is
no hesitation, no failure of the result. 1t
seems, indeed as if one soul was common to
both bodies. There seems to be strange an
tagonism between this faculty and magnet
ism, the most successful magnetizers being
unable to put their subjects to sleep in his
presence. The Courier says;
"He seems to possess the power of neu-
tralizing or exercising the magnetic influence,
and his mere presence throws clairyoyant
into indescribable terror. At Brussels la
dy OF high rank and great intelligence, wish
ed to have clairvoyant questioned is to the
nature of his power. She asked his consent
he gave it-and Catholic clergyman put
the daughter Of the lady into magnetic
sleep, he had often done before for expert
ments in clairvoyance. The moment the
sleeper was. requested to place herself in spir-
1t communication with the stranger, she was
seized apparently with uncomfortable fear,
fell into violent convulsions, bade him be-
gons, with loud and delirius screams, and so
agitated and terrified M. Gandon himself that
he quilted the house without further pursu-
ance Of the experiment.
On arriving at his hotel, overwhelmed
with what was complete mystery to himself
as well as to others, it occurred to him to
make a tria! Of his power over the mind of
the other, even when separated. With a
strong effort he concentrated his thoughts and
willed that she should rise and 90 into the
garden which he had seen attached to the
house she resided in. The day following he
called to make inquiries, and was informed
that after his departure, she had remained
convulsed by spasms for fifteen or twenty
minutes, but that she had suddenly arisen and
walked to the garden, where the agitation
seemed to cease, and she had been led thence
to her room, without further symptoms
Questioned afterwards as to what she saw
terrible in the stranger, the young lady stated
that he had appeared to her enveloped in
flames.