New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-31

that than Of the shells eosd impress ths
Of ny hand and time after time these shells are
counted correctly Is il TO be accounted for BY sAyinx
Those shells made an impression the nerves Of
the hand and carried each snd every impression 10 Mr.
Cs brain tire Of all bis sensations and the medium
gathered the number from the impressions on his brsin'
It is an absurdity, when the other circumstances
are tsi en- into consideration. The medium psyas
attention to what was going on-was talking with
another person and on a subject entirely foreign.
is something new even in clsirvoysnr to have them
see so minutey without urning their attention to he
subject which is correctly stated by them. think
there few, very few, cIsirvoysnts who could see
such cases correctly. and knor the medium 10 the
she'll case could not for had tested her cisrvoysst
powers VI Der variety Of Circumstances. Could any
person who rejects the whole matter a trick be il
duced to look upon this theory reasonable than
that Of spirit, II understand at all the theory Of mind
ope rating grosser matter il is that the viii can only
effect movement Of a, ALL by concentration on ,hs
object be moved and the direction 1t is to be moved
In the of the guitar spoken Of there no thought
Gifts moving until it did move, and went entirely b
yond the reach of all in the and in diiferen, n.
rections Does any reasonable man suppose that the
minds Of the visible persons caused such movement
III thcy they nluSt De gted Win OF mar
veousness and fai h. As musical sounds without 10.
struments Doct Richmond constantly speaks Of them
fo.cir through the medium - wish ask him
plain question On this point Where DO they dow oap
U1re DO they come from-where orgins,edi, Bear In
mind the speak OF not only sounds but Eass
of different kinds uncaled for and in many cases,
thought Of Again. how do you explain that in the
neighborhood one of the cesrest and perfect Of
ap.s these or
sour ds agh we attempted and for months We
met in circles and concentrated minds on this
very subject Why this dnference wish again 10
state that the best medium have seen here is a. far
from any magnetic psychological impressions any
person have seen, and she has experien-
ced any Kind of sensations when the sounds going
on, any one of the phenomena think the doctor
must have been very unfortunate in falling In with 20
many kotheaded mediums trust he has caught any
{ the infection.
The cases and facts stated by the Dr. (Which do not
dispute however interesting do not touch the caedo
not explain the OF these phenomena IL
to me- OF what possible application to my facts has the
case quoted from Euleri The case OF Mcmahon never
heard Of but have many similar and do not pretend,
and never did that the ore,eing of event, necessarily
proves the existence Of spirits This is no theory Of
mine.
Il Is not my province to say what spirits or what me-
diums small fry, 90 use the pitky language q. the
Doctor) and l. well as he know that much deception
is practiced for have repeatedly detected 1t, and for
my faithful determination expose SUCH and TO test
every medium have been called the skeptica believers
but the existence of deception does not prevent my
looking facts rhich YET hare been accounted fer
except on the spiritual theory, full the face, and giving
them their full weight
The question will naturally enough arise, when pc.
rusing the Doctors manner of accounting for the casa
reported by Rev Mr.. Jarvis, why Mr. Pickard did not
know his child was dead before it raped Quot
written) to himi The Doctor says:
"When the child died, every mind was concentrated
on the absent father. This produced in his mind i'm.
precision of the facts and the medium by psychomet
ric power took the fact from his uind and put into
writing"
This would to be useless If the fathers brain
were so powerfully impressed to impar that impress
sion to others. do not admit that 1t Is proven that all
mediums "clairvoyant and magnetic dreamers." On
the contrary absolutely certain that this Ia not the
case The Doctor admits the facts Of these strange
currences, except where they trcks and agrees
that the medium is honest, not cheating Let sec
about this If medium Is impressed 30 that he or
she knors how many shells, any thing else In my
hand, they know 1t without rapping or writing, and
could tell of it. and they know that is not spirits
that are making the sounds Ii they protest that they
do not know and the sounds protes, that they sp
itual, they are dishonest There is escape from this
conclusion. The friends of the electric theory
must to be consistent abandon the idea of any kind Of
honesty In the media for honesty OF media aud spirit
ual pretensions are inconsistent If such strong im
preston exist as the Doctor states.
have written four times as much az Intended and
will stop and leave the subject for those who have moro
time and disposition for discussing matter which
little patient waiing will probably settle a scientific
and firm foundation. T. w. CAPRos