New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-03
Spiritual Manifestations.


liable, and worth knowing from the unseen world
you Will give him hearing come to you 10 ena.
Die YOU to perform that promise.
have, as you are personally aware, had very
many opportunities of witnessing Spiritual Nantes
tatlons have been engaged for nearly two years IN
investigating the sub ect, having, during that time,
seen many mediums. and witnessed many hundred
exhibitions of that which, TO some, Is so lnexphcable
and with your permission, will give to the world
through your columns the knowledge of what have
seen heard and felt. II VIII require number of art
Giles 10 do this. and some labor my part yet Will
cheerfully undergo IT, because the matter seems TO
ME of so much importance to all living beings. l
have no personal object to answer am as YOU are
aware, pursuing a mechanical business of my own
which affords me a competence, and desire to make
no money out OF this matter. have no book " On
Ghostseeing" or the like, whose forthcoming wish
TO herald. and from whose ready sale can realize
profits | have no lectures to deliver nor exhibitions
to make, under the interesting announcement of
Admittance 25 cents Children haltprce.' have
only the wish that my fellOw-creatures may know
what Is going IN Their very midst on subject SO
intensely interesting, that they may be induced 10
examine for themselves.
would advise no one to believe that what shall
relate emanates from the spiritual world merely on
my say-so nor indeed on that OF any number OF per
conclusion. upon once twice, and even three times
Witnessing the Manifestations The evidence IS so
personal IN Its character, that 1t Is Impossible Tor
language convey the precise effect produced upon
the observer. and the process OF communication is
so slow through some modes and so imperfect IN all,
being IN fact bat vet merely rudlmental, that II ought
to require several interviews TO come 70 any conclu-
sion. But such interviews ought TO De mad such
examinations ought to be made, for the world Is very
much msled by pretenders who claim 10 have solved
the mystery, while no one Is merestedto expose the
shailOwneSs of the pTetensOn. | have read and ex-
amined carefully these pretended explanations, and
they are to me- and 10 all who have gwen the SUBJECT
any attention, most unsatisfactory, most nconclu-
Siye, nav, even ridiculous and absurd
Thus a Mrs Culver processes TO have solved the
mystery, by depOslng TO a conversation with Miss
CaihaTIne Fox, a girl then about fourteen years OF
age. III which she alleges some tricks OF the Fox
family were confessed Mrs &. does not, and doubt
.ess cannot IN truth say, there was any confession
that there was 10 reality In Spiritual manifestations,
but simply that they had discovered "A mode OF pro-
ducng SOUNDS, winch they could resort 10 al slttngs
where they were anxious TO excite somebody's IN
terest, when spirits declined to cooperate.
D But, 10 believe tins even, shall want something
more than er parte statements. and dn assurance
that they were not obtained while under Nh Burr's
psychological influence. Miss CatharIne was al my
house Wien short paragraph IN the paper appeared,
giving the substance OF a statement made by Mrs
culver. witch would shortly be printed read II to
her ana she promptly Cenled II, and requested me 10
write oIt iull ana uncqusOcal DENIAL for her To
publish which advised her to defer until the state
LETT my house. Therefore II there Is any blame tor
her not promptly and publicly denying the statement
made by Mrs Culver feel 1t should rest upon me,
she having relatives nor advisers here at that time
But even If the child dad say all that Mrs. Culver
states She did II of but little consequence as So
luton, because these manifestations are constantly
going on IN all parts OF this country, and IN many
parts of Europe, where the Fox girls never have
been. Many mediums nave been developed IN iami-
lies no dsbeeyed IN the possibility of spirits mani
fe tng their presence TO the natural senses OF man
f,fff.t QllF city
been disturbed by spiritual manifestations when igno-
rant OF the cause and have come 10 me 10 learn If
what they witnessed coresponded with my expen.
ence Some of these families have been convinced
of the reality OF spiritual mamie stations through one
of their number becoming medium, which they, as
they say would not have made public for the world
because of their reluctance TO believe, or the unpOpu
larIty IN which they or their friends hold II. Were
u not unpopular, plenty OimedIumS would be found
IL our MIDST The number OF mediums IN the NJ
tee states may be safely estimated al one thousand,
while the believers number tens of thousands The
rational view OF the matter, As related by Mrs
Culver, under the family Jars, eaOusles, and other
circumstances. ls that the girls were willing to
amuse themselves with MIS-. C.'S attempts 20 make
sounds and performances resembling these super
terrestrial phenomena They however. must stand or
fall by thelr own integrity only ask for them can
cor and far dealing Tor II they any one else have
pracuced deception IN this mat,er-oi all others the
most sacred IN human destiny since the advent OF
Christ no words can express the baSeness IN which
Ihold them. II there Is deception their part. II IS
most uIaccouniable that the Fox family should allow
this little girl fourteen years OF age, 10 come alone
10 the City Of Newly ork, and for months submit
to the scrutiny of hundreds ofpersons, males and fe
males, day and night, asleep and awake, al any time.
and IN any place where she CHANGED to De. say II
ali deception on theI part, this is wonderfully
strange She resided III my family several months.
have many times taken her 10 church, and places
Of amusement, when rappngS would occur, 10 her
ere at annoyance, Ia spite Of all her efforts 10 prevent
them. ] have her several times, IN church,
when lie raps on the floor were beginning 10 excite
strangers sitting Dut knees
up against The seat ia front ner feet did not touch
the roor within foot, or thereaoOuts and as II 10
seIIfy 10 her that she should not attempt 10 teach
them pTOpneiy. they would Tap mucn louder IMAM
before. until she resumed her natural position.
On several OF these occasions | have asked the
spirits to express by signals and sounds. or by touch
lLe me II different places, Their appreciation OF DIS
APPRECIATION Of the sentiments uttered by the preach
er which hey have done IN a mos, discriminating
ard satisfactory manner Others OF my acquaint-
aIces have Witnessed and experienced these things,
ard IN these and many other instances which shall
hereafter relate impossible that Miss Cathrne,
who the only medium present. or any other
person on the form, could have touched me where
ard as was touched. without my knowing Il.
Again, \ Mr.. {. {. Burr, who lectures and writes
with great flppancy. and with assurance that IS
eCuaLeC only uy his Want OF candOr or knowledge
OF the subject, processes 10 explain one OF the many
uoces through which spirits manifest ihelT presence,
namely. rspplngs BY motion Of the toe-loints Now
have heard him, and others among my own ac-
Quai tance who coult make sounds with their joints
slightly resembling the Rochester knoekIngs IN
some OF ther phases which might mi.lead those, and
those only who are unfamiliar with the sounds made
by the splrts. But Can relate 70 YOU hundreds.
ave thousands Of incidents. IN which have heard
sounds which could not De produced by breaking the
toes Of all the people N the world
Drs Lee, Coventry and Flint, Of Buffalo, profess
10 have discovered The secret IA some peculiar use
of the knee and their disclosure has been AGAIN
and again put forth most complete solution OF
the whole mystery. Why. what hey have SAID
10 more solves II than Z explains how The mix gets
the cocoanut and can give 10 YOU numerous
facts which would carry convection 10 any candid
mlnd-io any mind, indeed, where ignorance had