Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-03-11
A WONDERFUL STORY.
CLAIRVOYANCE.

Professor Grimes, who has given twenty
years attention to mesmerism, psychology, &c.
has given several lectures in this CITY and
| Springfield, during the past week. He sterny
opposes modern Spiritualsm, and his argu-
ments are often quite Ingenious He assumes
that the raps are always humbugs, and that wri.
ting mediums are psychological subjects. He
makes them write, when on the stage, apparent.
ly by an effort of his will. But notwithstand.
ing his extreme hostility to spiritualism he as
sumes that there is such thing as clairvoyance
and asserts that he exhibited a woman in Bos-
ton, who could and did read with her eyes clo-
sed. The experiments upon her were conclu-
sive. Gentlemen placed their fingers upon her
eye.lids and she would then, with her eyes
thus effectually closed, readily read the words
which any one of the audience wrote upon a
slip Of paper; and could read any print sent to
her.
This principle of clai-voyance, if it is really
established as principle, is wonderful. We
have seen quite number of the examinations
Of Mrs. Mettler, of No. 8 College street, in this
city, very worthy lady, and one of the clear
est clairvoyants, probably, now living She
examines to ascertain the nature Of Diseases
Within four or five years she has examined
three or four thousand cases. We never heard
of case which she failed to give correct des-
cription. She could give hundreds Of certifi-
Gates, If she pleased, from persons whose com.
plicated difficulties have been pointed out by
her in complete detail, and who have been either
cured or greatly relieved by her prescriptions.
Still, strange as it may appear, this lady when
in her normal state, knows nothing of what she
has said in her clairvoyant condition. Most Of
the cases presented to her consideration are of
the most desperate kind, which have been pro-
nounced hopeless by the physicians in New
York and Connecticut, which this lady desert.
bed minutely and prescribed for. Her direc-
tons were followed, and the patient was cured
We allude to this, as there was complication
of difficulties in the case, and it does not seem
that there could be any guess work in the ma
nagement Oft.
A week or two back Miss Agnes Comstock,
of Shurburne, Vermont, visited Mrs. Mettler,
accompanied by her mother. Thirteen years
ago bone was displaced in the shoulder of
Miss Comstock, and she had suffered much
from it. Several distinguished surgeons had
been called to attend the case, and they did all
they could for it, supposing the bone had been
properly set. Still she could not use her arm,
and so intense was the pain that something like
an abscess was formed below the joint, and the
physicians had decided to cut off her arm. AS
a last resort, before consenting to amputation,
she came to Mrs. Mettler, to ascertain the con.
diti0n of the bones in her shoulder. She en-.
tered Mrs. Mettley's dwelling an entire stranger
Mrs. NJ, not knowing that any such person
was about TO visit her. She did not even hint
at her difficulty, but submitted to an examina-
ton. Mrs. Mettler's hand, as she was in the
clairvOyant state, rested for a moment on Miss
Coms:ock's head, and then slowly passed to her
shoulder.
After some little preparation, with directions
to position, and assistance in holding Miss
Comstock, Mrs. Mettler wrenched the shoulder
producing loud crack which was beard in the
adjoining room. The patient screamed with
pain, but it was all over. The young lady, for
the first time in l3 years, placed her hand on
the back of her head. The shoulder ives bath.
ed. and the next day Miss Comstock returned
home, able to use her arm, nothing remaining
Of her long seated difficulty, save soreness
about the shoulder, which was fast disappear
ing at the last accounts from her. When Mrs.
Mettler came out Of the clairvoyant state, she
did not know that she had touched Miss Com.
stock. This is wonderful case. First, Mrs. !
Mettler, found the precise difficulty at once, !
without asking question. She seemed to see |
It, and to comprehend the previous movement !
that would place the dislocated bone where it |
belonged, and this by the power of clairvoy-
ance. This is remarkable fact as showing
hat there is such a principle as clairvoyance;-
md that the person possessing il, as Mrs. Met
.ler does, can see and comprehend that which |
'annot be seen or comprehended by the ordi-
lary powers Of vision. The facts in the inte. |
esting cases we have here narrated can be es-
ablshed to the conviction of the most skepti. |
Times.