New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-14

tombke dampness settled upon its magnificent cham
ber and there, Mt the present day. it stands mean
choly monument of departed grandeur. But of this
apart The ghosts have quit the old house. as place no
longer fit for gentee spirits to inhabit Another reason
for their quitting it, the fact that the spectre fam
lily has increased to such extent that there is longer
room for them there Wherefore, initiating the example
bees they swarned out and gone to hive in
spacious quarters They have spread all around the
Fourth District--this rural region, where airs,
,. -'yernal airs,
Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune
The trembling leaves, while universal Pan
Knit with the draces and the Hours in dance,
Lead on the eternal Spring"
has become charnel for the habtaon of ghosts Many
of them have taken up their quarters in private families
Some good mediums have been developed, and the
ghosts have commenced teegraphng from the spiritual
world in dead earnest.
Numerous proseytes have been made to the faith
About three weeks ago the first demonstration made
medium having been discovered Ia lady susceptible to
spiritual inluences about dozen gentlemen got to-
gether determined to try the thing on Modus opeali
thus
A table was placed in the middle of a room-and. by
the way the table carried there by gentleman who
was determined that there should be no gougng by
means of traps and secret sprngsand the whole party
gathered around It, The medium" sat alone The
party around the table placed their hands upon cord
disposed creulary around the table Through this cord
from ono to the other the spiritual supposed
to pass Some five of the party being of positive tenn
permanent, were instructed by the medium to quit the
circle as the fluid would not pass through them Having
done seven were left in the ring of negative const
tuition and the circle complete
The knockings then commenced They were first heord
like the ticking Oft watch around the chair Of the lady
dunn Afterwards the table in the midst of the circle
The table, which heavy mahogany dining table was
raised from the floor without any apparent human agency
and moved back and forth The whole power the party
could not keep it still Communications attempted
to be held with the deceased relatives of of the party
but the first trial this failed from the fact that the
amedium' not sufficiently subiimsed for perfect
operations She is growing daily subnised aud in
due time will develop The above statements vouched
for by respectable and intelligent gentlemen in the Fourth
District
Other experiments were made in other quarters The
operator called the spirit of friend and injured
whether the future was known to the spirits
The answer was one rap signfying yes
Question.-Are the destnies of this Union known to
you?
.41swer.-0ne rap.
+ Question-Can you inform me who is to he the next
President?
.anstcer.-One rap.
Qaesos-Will it be Mr. Webster?
No
/ Qteson.--Will it be Mr.. Hale
No answer.
Quesion.-Is it to be Gen Scott
Silence still
Queson.-Wiil it be Piercee
No reply.
Quesion,-Will it be General Franklin Pierce?
.3nswer.-Rap, rap, rap rap, very violently,
This spirit supposed to be that Of Edgar A. Poe who
was known in life to be the most incorrigble hoaxer
extant.