The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-12-23
J. 20. lIs. 10. .224 WhaIa.No 9I5.


able house. There are many tales about thii
old place, and some really disbelieve it haunt
ed. But inthese days Of research and inves
tigation, labored articles. have been written K
prove that Col Dick Johnson neither killed
Tecumshet or wrote the Sunday Mail Report
that Richard the Third was no hnmpback
and that Napoleon Bonaparte was not ambi.
tious; and some dp assert thatin early past
times,amugglers and counterfeiters used to find
It much to their benefit % have the old La Va.
rters house haunted, so that no one would rent
it and detect them. Who can tell
Being in something Of spiritual mood,
after my visit above recorded, accepted
an Invitation the night afterwards to visit a
circle Of spiri,ualists who are in nightly
communication with the other ''spheres. .
I use their nomenclature. / went skep-
tic, how ! came away-I shall not tell. Per-
haps may as well say, as my friend Gen.
Foote is reported to have said. in Jackson.
when asked his opinion Of spiritual rappers:
Gentlemen it is new question. and |
have not yet taken position upon it,
The night previous to the one / visited
the circle they had been favored with long
spoken communications from DR.. Ben Frank
lin and Galvani, the Italian. Ilseems these
two gentlemen have an affinity for each
other, and are no doubt pursuing their re-
searches together. While Galvani was
speaking, through a medium Of course a
lady whose child was thought to be dying
of cholera. sent over to consult her spirit
sister as to the probable result Of the child's
illness. Galvani was asked to prescribe for
it. With his characteristic modesty, he said
be was no doctor, but would recommend
or the making Of magnetic pas
ses from The child's head 70 its feet as a
means e relief. The mother 81 ne child
IS partial medium,< md when She com
menced her manipulations over her dying
child, she felt conscious that Galyani him
self had magnetized her. The child imme-
diately became easy and slept swcetly all
night. It is still in precarious state. If
it gets well, nothing will ever convince the
mother and the rest of the 'shining circle"
that the discoverer Of galvanism did not cure
it. Apropos Of galyanism and cholera.
I was told the other day Of a sure prcventa-
tive against the prevailing disease, and one
which the French physicians are advising,
and a good part of the city adopting. It is
10 wear copper plate upon the chest and
stomach next to the skin. They say that
cholera is produced by an interruption of
he electric currents, and the copper plate
keeps them active and equalized, and there
fore prevents all diseases consequent upon
heir suppression. But to return TO the
Spirits. The family that visited arc highly
and from the father down to a
title girl Of ten years old, are all mediums,
n partially so. The mother is a speaking
Medium, and sometimes, makes speeches Of
N hour long as medium for Gen. Wash
ngton, DR.. Franklin, Galvani and other
avans. The night wss there the little
,irl wrote communication in Chinese from
spirit calling himself in English, Peter
.ong shong. A familiar spirito the house,
part Of alittle boy that had died
d the family, that they called Eddy, was
sked if there was any one % translate the
stter Of Peters. There WIS motion of
he little girls hand, sienifging YES. After
while the pencil she held began % move
nd the name Of Doctor Nj. dis !,
inguished Missionary TO China, was pia inly
7ritten. He was then requesed 81 trans
ate;, but he saidit would take some 3me 0
. it, as the character in which it Wa vri
en- was not exactly familiar TO him. having
hanged since his day, somewhat. After
thile tbs, little girl wrote that the Doctor
vould prefer her elder sister as his medium.
Hiss took the pencil and wrote two
erses Of beautiful poetry which regret
ow did not copy, as it lay on the table Il
,efore me. II it was al an imposition, he'll
Dung lady can write beautiful imPromPtn
erses. We looked around, and Che mother
ras undergoing the process of being mag
etlzed by some spirit that wanted to speak
through her. The muscles Of her neck
rere contracted, her eyes we're set, her
lands were rigid and shaking, and alto
,ether she looked horrible beyond descrip
ion. One young lady present shed tears
d looking 1t her The husband looked on
Nth perfect indif Inference. asked him what
meant and be said. keep sill and We viii
lear directly Alter d quarter Of an hour