New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-22
DIR. Richmond on Spirit Manifestations >
Dreams and Magnetism, but no Ghosts.


OH the Manifestations" is due to truth and my
self
lie complains that he gets ono new light or sug-
gestion" from my article-that it Is not as good
as and no more plausible than other theorics-that
he first published the suggestion that Electricity
was the agent used in these manifestations--an
that my article is like the play Of Hamlet, with
Hamlet left out--that don't alude to or at
tempt to explain one class of facts which entirely
overthrows my theory and ch rees that, for the
success of my article, it essential they should
be omitted.
Iwrote for the common people, and not for minds
whose expansWeness covers so much ground a
MrC's | don't hold myself responsible for not
giving him an idoa-he needs none.
As il annoys him, future of hand" opinions can
he omitted and as to my emitting one class OF
facts" it il great error Of Mr.. C.'s. gave the
strongest fact had on that point, the one alluded
to by Mr.. Tiffany, where the boy told that ms
father who dead told him that he owed Meek
a dollar; the family and boy SAID to be igno-
rant of the tact--no hiring being hut Meek know
ing it. This with the story of Mr.. Jarvis, was all
then had of that class OF so called facts. We are
sorry that no one is honest in this matter who OPP
poses the Spirit theory but such appears to be
The fact in MIR. C.'s opmIoD.
lief in the aateifgence that Willis was told by
the rsps some days ahead that he should have a
place on the cars baggage Master, and the
spirits told the number OF shells he had in his
hands when he himself did not know, and the case
of Rev. A. II. Jarvis. The fact that these mcdi-
uns are ma netc persons is undisputed; that they
arc claiivoyant and magnetic drcamers is proven
by the entire mental phenomena attending them.
This admitted the above test facts " vanish into
thin air. Prof Brittan's theory of the w-power
producing dreams and mental pictures covers the
last case. When the child died, every mind was
concentrated ON the absent fdtter. THIS produced
in his mind an impression of the facts, and the
medium, 10y psychometric power took the fact
from has mind and put II into writing: T.. ;.
Senator OF my acquaintance received letter from
an unIecOgnzcd hand, and asked the spirit, through
Il medium, II il would give the contents. The
medium wrote, Bind the letter on my forehead.
He did sound the contents were not rer6ottm,
but in substance given correctly, before the letter
had been opened This might convert Senator,
but il would cony ert no one who understood Dr.
Buchanans discoveries in psychometnc expert
ments on impressive subjects.
A friend OF mine was sleeping one evening in his.
chair, being weary. His wife asked person pres
ont if he would sing certain song. He did so,
the husband remaining sound asleep. On retiring
to bed he repeated some lines of the song and sad
to ms wife, 81 have not thought of those lines for
years. | thought had forgot them She told
vibration of the sound his brain through the ear
when asleep brought the words to memory when
he awoke. Those shells made an impression on
the nerves of the hand, and carried each and every
impression to Mr. C.'s brain, the seat of all his
sensations, and The medium gathered the number
from the impression on hs brain.
Does the simple announcement of a fact before
its occurrence prove the agency of spirits APP
peal to facts Provision has been an observed fact
all ages of the world. Old ladiesm theirtea-cnps
often announce tacts that are to occur. \ year
since girl, not inspired either, told friend, by
the leaves in Il tCa-cup, that she was to be married
so and SO, and it all came ont to dot a boy OF
mnc when two years old, was PLAYING in the room
with his mother; he suddenly came to her and
said, =" Ma the school mistress viii come tonight,
and Pa Will come too" She asked INN how he
knew. He says, Il see 'em.n was ON Jour
ney of 300 miles, and my return was uncertain.
was at the time of the prediction of the child %
miles of. | returned as he SAID, and also the
teacher.
During the past winter have willed friend in
IN Ncwtown 10 write me letters on certain day.
In the first experiment | wrote him on the sans
day 10 deepen the impression. His letter came.
dated the Goth of February, the day mine
written, and another April 10Th. the precise day |
had a second time willed him.
l have twice stated to friends that ! should get
a letter in few DAYS from tins friend the first
or second mail always brings one. always know
when lie is writing to me. These are simple spe-
cmens OF mental impressions at distance. A
Trend states that companion had been absent for
some months at great distance. and on the day
of her return his mind was filled with her iuage,
and facts and hopes all came back with great WV
idness. The Senator of whom | speak, once an
nounced TO his friends that his mother dead
Tia, afterwards he was notified of the fact. A
friend tins winter, While her two children were
very sIck. received letter from her sister, two
hundred miles OF. She writes in her letter, a.
xeH 3hofN Stp no
time OF the greatest sickness. The lady of Rev.
MIR. NJ when child ten years old, told her friends
that a neighbor was dead; they noted the hour bv
the clock; he dsd at the hour she spoke of it.
She also told of the death OF distant aunt, whose
death, one week after, was received 10y letter and
confirmed her as prophet. This lady, when
child feeble and sickly on retiring bed, she
frequently vsitedby specters. A light would
appear at the foot of the bed and in IL would
soon appear the visage of an old man with long
hair and wrinkled brow. These illusions and her
provision lett her at approaching womanhood.
child SIX years old predicted her own death to the
very hour. have eten heard its mother Mrs.
Fox, OF Munson Ohio,) relate the fact. Like cases
are almost mnumerable among the Young and d.
Approaching dissolution often uniods COR interior
srght Swedenborg and the Schern of Prevorst
are familiar examples. An old negress predicted
the oueensmP OF Josephine, and she in return
predicted the downfall OF Napoleon. Grief deyel.
ops the psychological powers. The boy at the
siege of Jerusalem cried "Wo, wo to Jerusa-
lem :" for three days and finally cried 'sWo to
myself" missile struck him, and ne persisted
Just before the outbreak of the Reign of Ter
ror," Nj. Gazette, Frenchman, at social party,
predicted the manner of death of nearly a dozen
present, and his own death also. When the unseen
hsrrors OF that period burst FORTH the entire pre-
diction was fulfilled. The Emperor Julian was
warned in a vision OF his own death. The Mormon
Prophet three wears previous to his death, pointed