Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-04-29
Curious Rxptrimsnts in lalmal Naeaetlxm

The journals oi Paris and Havre have for some hnae past contained accounts of certain singular experiments made hy MT. 6anaon, upon his nephew, Mr. GoughaRalt. which they termed sometimes electric commune alton, and sometimes natural second sight IL would seem frun these statements that MK. GaNdon has established Sueh relstion between his owl mind and that of his nephew, that every thought of the former is in- mediently perceived hy the latter These gentle men have arrived n New York city and inc Con. rer des EtatS UHis. whose editor has repeatedly witnessed thelT exhibitions confirm the statements Of the foreign papers. says that the results arc So rapid so sarpEsing and so utterly from all com ptcity, that the most skepecal must be convinced, and those best acquainted with the ordinary phe- Romena Of magnetism uttsHly aseOnished. The pe- enharty of the case, w that no pSoparaiaonx lsu somnauhaism, ar magnetic pasees. are necessary to establish the relation, but that both parties are al- ways ready 10 exhibit at once. and n any place. We translate from the Courier
 M. Gandon and his nephew presented them selves m our editorial bureau After the hxSt salu- tatons had passed. he asked person present to write down any name, figure, or word, whatever. He kept looking al the paper on which the words were traced, while hiS nephew, who at the arther end of the rooSn with hiS back turned, in~ medlately uttered m loud voiee and without hesitation, the words, names and figures as fast as they were written, whether Greek, Latin, French. English, Spanish, or German, Mir Cfohenaut nrs,- nounced all distinctly. and translated them at the same tune.
 'Ne had jast received our European journals One Of us took one of these up, and pointed with the finger at particular line. which. as soon as Mir Gandoh saw t. the nephew read aloud. Thus,
 the date, the state eI the money market the foreign intelligence, we all given with the same wonder fuI facility. We were utterly eonfounded NJ. GandoH looked at our watch when M. GeGhenaut told the time to a second. We opened Virgil and Homer with the original text wken the young man instantly rcad the lfRes we pointed out All that was necessary was that the uncle should see them If, m writing word, the least mistake was made the young man corrected it at once, and this with out any coRtOrtIon or grimaee. &e. The two gen tiemen seemed to be but one. being m two parts W hat the master sees, the pupil sees what the uncle knows, the nephew knows; what the one thinks the other expresses. What renders the results still more remarkable. IS, that they are wrought without the slightest hesitation og bung- ling. The question IS no sooner stated, than il is soyed.'
 These are the facts says the Courier, and it then proceeds to remark thst the process IS not a mys- tenouSone, though 1t has cost many years of trouble n the discovery Balfimorf Sun
 The New York Day Book gives also an account of similar most successful experiments, which the editor made with M Gaudon and his nephew in the office of that paper on Tuesday last The nephew IS only : years of age and $ eonversan mt only with the French language m the ordinary way