New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-07

merism, clsrvey anee psychology, Fourefsm si"'e'-
ism NermoRis and al other supersttions, deason''
and i.ms that ever have been probably ever su De-
IL strikes Us BY the way, that this astonishing eAa
eepe IN incomplete with no mention OF either wafer
cure or the Bs timore platform.
The main argument on which Mr.. hattlson relies 70
Si.prove the reality of e pretended spiritual maniiesa
tons is their discrepancy with the teachings OF the boe
which uniformly maintains that departed spirits hold 10
communication with the living earth. He does NOS
however, confne himself to the argument from the
Bible but ofes BY various considerations from sther
sources For instance the raPpers all rap 10 the Ing
sh language which he regards very suspicious CIR
cunstance and brings the following elegant aaecaoe in
illustration of his views: a Dutchnan, consulting
the rappers and discovering the sudden change OF hin
wifes yernacuar reasoned this wise: Ish das !ou'
Mrs Hsuntz y inquired the Dutchman. Yes dearest,
il is your own WIFE Who You lie You ghost, inter
rupted HAUNT starting from bis seat. mine WOW speak
noting but Dutch and she said tearest in her e
always Haunt you thief or HauutZ you shkamp
And the Dutchmaa hobbed from the room, well satisfied
that the rappDg spirits were all humbug and that he
was safe from any further communications with his
shrewish vrow on this earth"
With regard TO the writing mediums, in which a de-
parted spirit takes possession of the body of living
person. Mr.. NJ. tersely puts the following difficulty;
Another rather aughsble result of this sublime phi
osophy is that is quite conounds the sexes and obt
crates all the distinctions of natural history In the case
cited by Mr. Ballou the spirit of deceased geasmGs
enters the body of young lady, Adins soul in Adces
body Wen, then, which i, il, Alice or Adm lady or
a gentleman' Could the medium answer the ques-
ton Would she not find it difficult to identify her
self as certain Mr.. Ami, Of whom we once heard
Awaking morning after nights lodging In the GUT
ter his clothes torn and muddy, and his person not
little disguised he was heard thus TO solioquze: Am
ami or am not Ami If am Ami, uhsre am II
And if am not Ami, chdt am . So Miss Alice might
have inquired. Am Alice, or am not Alicei' VIII
some of cur Seers inform who the medium was un
der the circumstances, Adm Alice lady gentle
man."
Another objection to the reality of spiritual nantes
tatons it, that the mediums often directed to dance
on the Sabbath "a gross immortality" which no
Christian ascrbe 70 the agency Of departed spirits
Equally Objectionable, in the opinion Of the suthor is
the kind Of theology which is found in the "gdosi
books and papers For instance the spirits teach
that both matter and spirit eternal that " the
doctrine of false "thss needs
no external assistance to reformation, Jesus
Christ wrought any miracles, that the Bible
is the work Of disemboded human spirits and not the
Word of God that " there is no such place az Hell
and no such beings devils, that ministers of tse
! Gospels time serving slaves and the foes Of hui
man progress with numerous other doctrines equal
ly heserodox and sOudestrsyins, forming detestabe
compost of Unitarianism Unversalism, Mormonsn,
Deism, Fanny Wright-sm, aud Atheism.
The conclusion of the whole matter according to
this author is that with all the light he has been
able to gather from books, mediums, periodicals, and
eye-witnesses he admit superhuman or extrsor
binary manifest atoms"
The two great motive powers of the spirit humbug
CrTDur and ISFIDELIrY. The latter has aresdy bsen
exhibited, and the former stands out prominently in all
their operations The Fox family nOw Mrs Brown and
Margaetta Fox live in fine house in Twenty sixth st
this city and getting rich the expense of their de
luded visitors Partridge and Britain seem 10 have an in
tersst in the and puff Justify in the Telegraph
by publishing the miracles that there So nourshny
Mrs Browns business that writer in the 3-ih number
OF the Telegraph says 10 i impossible for her - give
that attention h AL that they and the subject demlud
Further on tlf Same writer SAYS Some OF the best IN,
dums have Jsen actually bought and Appropriated 70
private use thus bnryns theie talent in tbs love Of SILT
&c But who are those best mediums that have been
bought up Has Mrs Brown been bought up in this
way Partridge and Brttsn From the interest IN tn.s.
ted in her establishment it probable that they
are part owners Ia the concern
Such system Of fraud and deception such deep.
sid plot Tor striking heavy blow 40 revealed religion
such blending Of everyTpelcs and shade OF nid-ly
such unolushug ypocr,y isehooi aud detractOu
resrttd To TO keep up the douso were perhaps never
/ before witnessed.
II will be seen from the samples we have given Of
Rev. Mr.. Mattison, that he deals largely in bitter de-
nunciaon, appeals TO popular religious prejudice, and
the species Of rhetoric called rgmarOle His book
throws 10 light on the phenomena in question aud may
be set down as a worthless ebullitiOn of fanatca zeal
The next book on our ubric by Dr. Rogersis q mich
more respectable production, showing patient aud m.
partial research acute observation and able logical reas
onng The spirit of his work is eyinced by the motto
on the utle'page. 90 The relations of physical agents
TO the animal economy are infinite" I'VE s,aud in
connection with the universe by ne# aud hitherto uu
suspected recprOcaion" After cOpiOus induction of
facts relative 10 the physical phenomena, which have
appeared in connection with supposed spiritual mani
fe.atiOns, the author 70 the conclusion, that
there q sgenE developed in these operations
tirey Of material charscter-dentcal with that wit
messed by Arago Matteucc ThilOrer, Ritter, and
Amorett in the in which their experiments have
been pubshed-and wish that discovered by Reichen-
bach, named odyle, and demonstrated to be identi-
cal With the animal magnetism Of Nesmer, and that il
is material force differing essentially from electricity
and magnetism proper. Read the following summary
Of principles carefully and you will have the gis Of the
authors theory:
IL follows therefore, that he agent which has been dc
Vtoptd ia the experiments OF mesneTiZers not an ex
elusive sgent Of the human organism, but a universal
force IN nature That inasmuch the human nerves and
the centers II the brain peculiarly susceptible 10 it, In
medium Of th agent brought an intimate relation %
the ce,ters Of the human organism.