New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-18
Mysterious Rappings The Fox Family-Mrs.
CuIyer's Statement.

We ought to have stated before tnat we
have received from the Misses Foxes of Roches-
ter and their sister, Mrs A. l.. Fish, the most
peremptory contradictions of the statement and
subsequent affidavit OF Mrs Betesy Culver OF
Arcadia, WAYNE Co, duplicating the above
named ladies' as having directly or virtually con-
fessed themselves the contrvers and makers OF
the singular sounds known as knocklngS or
'Rappings,' and by many attributed to dlsem-
bodied spirits which once inhabited human
bodies We have not printed these letters, part
" owing to the crowded state OF our columns,
and partly to other considerations, among them
the blending in these letters of relevant and
totally irrelevant matters, some OF which we
could only print at the hazard of libel suit.
Suffice that each of the sisters contradict Mrs.
Culver's story in all its various parts, and repel
her implications by implications equally serious.
They and she are (by manlage) very distant
relatives. but appear to have long been at va
rance. Mrs Fish deals more especially with
the averment Of Mrs Culver that Catharlne Fox
once confessed to her that the mysterious sounds
heard in her own Uhe Culyers) house had been
made by Mr. John D. Fox, father OF the Fox SIS
tiers to which Mrs Fish replies
Il pity her she stands condemned in the sight OF
Heaven for thus shamefully slanderlng an innocent
old man, that never harmed her About ten years
ago scale Of hot iron flew IN MS rigM eye ana &c
prvei him of the sight OF that eye. lie can see Win
The left eve, but not sufficiently 10 venture out
after night alone from the house to the 0arh'
lie lives a mile and a half from Nh Culvers Nor
mans faher) Part of the road Is LAID out through
swamp and most Of the time IS very muddy
My rather Is Sixty-three years OF age man Who
was never known 10 NEEDLE WIN otheI PeoPle >
business strictly religious, VINO, IhSIeau VI uds'
ersing the uneven ground which lies between MN
and Mr. Culver al midnight, 10 prdcilce deception
upon the family. Is silently praying 10 Heaven u pro-
teCi hs injured children
Mrs. Fish states that the persons who have
certified that Mrs Betsey Culver Is woman OF
tr-th and character, nearly all live several miles
from her, and that her nearer nelgh5ors either
were not asked or would not consent to sign any
such certificate And in answer to the averment
that Catherine had confessed that the Mysterl-
Gus Sounds heard in the dwelling OF the Gull
vers were made by Mr.. John d. Fox, she gives
the following certificate from one Of the Culver
family
"ARcADIA, Saturday, Oct. 4th, 1851.
II feel it my duty to state to The public that kHof
the sounds which have been heard IN my fathers
house (where also reSlde) were not made by John
D Fox.
positively say that owing TO the peculiar circum-
stances al different times, when the sounds were
heard, kgotr there was no possibility OF his or any
of his famllys making the sounds.
CHAuNcEY Culver.
We believe the above are all the points IN Mrs.
Fish's letter which it Is incumbent on Us 20 pub
lish Perhaps We ought to have retrenched Mrs
Culvers statement in like manner with the
abOy,