The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-07-23
CHATTANOOGA CORRESPONDENCE
CHATTANOOGA, Tsss., July 14th 1855.

terest to your readers.
Prof Hail. is young man, now about
80 years OF age, five feet, five or six inches !,
a resident of this State, and native of Ken
tuck y-has been living in retired life, for
some years past, owing to an affection of
the eyes, which prevented him from en-
gaging in clerical duties At one time he
was the editor of religious Monthly, pub-
lished in Philadelphia subsequently, owner
and partial Editor of Christian Union and
Religious Memorial, New York. OF late
yeals he was associated as editor of a
Southern Literary Newspaper, and Cores.
pendent of the Southern Parlor Magazine,
published at Memphis He founded a -four
ishing Female School in East Tennessee,
wncn he gave up for the principalshfp of
a similar institution in New York City
OF a natural, disposition to search into the
marvellous, and votary of Science in every
sense of the word, the Spitual Manifesto
ton so-caIled, engaged his attention from
the beginning. 1t is curious circumstance
with what different results scientific minds
come out after the investigation Of the
Spiritual problem. Ju'ge Edmonds, Poi.
Hare, Dexter and others on one side, and
Dods, Mahan and Hall on the other. do
not know much about the theories of the
last three named, excepting Mr. Hall. He
takes the ground that the supposed Spirit
po.cer is a physical emenation-traces IL to its
seat in The human b0dy and shows ,chere ii
crisis, and hoy 10 neut,aiize It's efecfs, or
pa,ulyse as porcer Immediately. If this is
not showing that he understands his SUBJ
iect, profess not to be able TO know what
demonstration is. While the Religious Jour
nails .superstitiously ascriDe the agency to
the Devihland the secular-think it sort
of slight OF hand, and the scientific world
dispute the facts as occuling according to
reliable human testimony, ne comes out
fairly and bold y. acknowledging. the
strange manifestations, but showing them
to procede from the very constitution of
our being. How much more rational and
gra tifying is this, than the presumptWe
admission of Supernatural agency. Hall
says like a philosopher" God once work
ed by miracle, but this is an age in which
he wol ks by science. He is familiar with
his subject When the Rapping first APP
peared before Judge Edmonds decade Of
Observation-Disclosures any Spiritual news
paper WAS ever pttoiC CNNt thC
editors of those Spiritual newspapers APP
peared in pubic--he was an investigator
of the Stratford Mysteries" This argues
much in his behalf. Tor the stree 9Th OF his
mind, and the reputation Of his name. As
an example OF his ingenious method OF
searching the Spirits Ne enclosed letter
to celebrated SpirituaIist to describe the
author According to request it was done
"a very minutive description given, and
the letter returned He then requested
the Spirits 10 describe the character of the
writer of another letter, seal unopened -
This the Spirits did The description was
different. and neither OF the descriptions
correct, besides this the first and second let
ter, was one and the same letter. He
wrote TO the Spirituaiist to know whether
one or more Spirits had given that exam
nation to which the Rev. Spiritualist le-
piled, that it was done by a convocation
Of Spirits and President of themo |
mention this circumstance because the
parties are men IN high life and reputation
and what may be affirmed Of one, Disco
Omnes
] would not have your readers under
stand that Prof Hall, derives the power Of
describing authors by their hand writing
inclosed in an envelope, on the contrary he
shows how it is done, but he feels lndig-
nant that intelige mt public leaders OF The
day pretending to set Themselves up as such,
should pervert the truth into a falsbood.-
He says of the strange mysteries witnessed
by him in the families of Judge Edmonds,
Foxes, Conklin and others he fines a cou7-
II tb,, loYf in tho
Medical records of past time. Davis. Jay,
Harris aud other clalrvoyants are not ex-
ceptions of power attainab'e by every one.
1t they choose to do it they can be placed
upon parallel with them in respect to their
extraordinary mental deveops ment. He
does not deny the power of healing, but
shows such is constitutional element In
our nature, but to ascribe it to Spiritual
agency is extremely superstitious.. In the
management of the Tables. which New
York paper called the Evangelist saya, has
certainly . the devil in it,n-the Valuwro-
logist shows conclusively, that al men,
women and children are devils, for he
shows them how they can do it. / would
not name the principles of the new science
with the view Of forestallng the EXPOSE
tloH Oh the aulHO1, LOT ne VIII doubDiess
visit you city in its turn-but am prepared
to say that consider the explanation Of
Spiritualism a perfect one, without any
do1ging, not because am unfrieDdly to its
claims, but because the strange things are
accounted for, even the facts of the Spirit
writer's themselves admitted, and when
that it is done by natural science, supported
by well known principles, why should we
seek the solution in hobgoblins and makers
Of hydra headed Spiritualism.
Having already occupied more space for
the present than at first anticipated, must
close, promising however, to continue this
subject in my next, with such other notes
as will keep the genera! reader posted up in
the transpiring events of the day G. B.
TREE Guap1 rx IAN individual