New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-06

ov.r, hit Il Josks IKE it and certainly 'ncons'st
sst With the ovcrpowering importance OF NE iscts
thew profess 10 Disclose. AZ ne nou'T,Pl 81; ~
IN. thew have no night 10 indulge II hi-namoi, sA1
!, he Ike shirts themselves that are 90 toucny, We
.bouId little regret the lose Of their Acquaintance.
NIGHT be supposed that during the enlistment ., su
: ciamn;on a. DR. Hare, unusual smenity woulu nave
beeu exercised and especially at the ~, ~
80. NJ his convictions; but no; the lady then pe'u
r,Iv told him he was too ncredulous and she reiuseu
20 nyoceed. On the following day che "reiehted;;
While perusng this part OF his nana,Vei We eT =,
not resist the idea that il was the poc'ol hi'e "
whom the term was appncsoie' -. IN -. ro,b
NO Of any PRACTICAL value. Their language - COM
mon place-no novel and thrilling imagery OF '1ras,
thew even use NEUROLOGICAL figures oil speech, anei
have solved no new problems in science or ar although
thew have promised to do so. A motive power was
announced and the mechanism begun OUT, nke aoEs
tiops of mortal inventors, II has come 10 nousn.' u
deed it has long been evident that they have not oe
cent eontriver among them or they would not have
introduced the abomnably bunglIng mode OF sPe.une
ont what they want to say by rapping on vans az
ping ON tables and by tables stamping on noors' v,
his thew ought TO have been ashamed years ago ana
not have waited till DR.. Hare enabled them oy Ills
.spi,tseopes" 10 abandon the gross humping system
Their readiness to adopt improvements makes, now
ever some amends for their dulness ana as Pr0gr,S
is proclaimed element OF their existence 10 De
boped they will furnish evidence OF II IN their future
modes of communng with US that the whirng dics OF
DIR. Hare and their accompanying levers CORDS ana
pulley will give place to the s%Ps and within
tabe.drawers; and further, that as their oasnialness
duinishes instead Of speaking indistinctly through
tubes and occasionally making their hdnas visible IN
the dark they will drop all walls, step orth IN Prop,'S
rersona, and converse etrd r0ce, aS S"eiao'e "NN
friendly spirits ought to do. 49,. r ,.r.,,s
FYcept one in which the hands of the medium are
immersed in water the spirit transmitting It's power
through the auid and fingers to balanced board, the
new contriyances are substantially alike. round
dial ike the face of clock, with the letters OF ine
alphabet instead of figures marked on IT. Is tneM ols
tinoushiug feature. In some it is stationary with
movable index; in Others the latter is liked, ana tue
confabulang spirit turns the dial These things, we
are told were contrived by DIR. Hare, to determine
whether manifestations attributed 70 sPrts oOua or
made without mortal AID, ana oy oecluIne Ine que'0
sffirmativey, led 10 his CONVERSION
But even with them 1.-THE working OF which IL 30
much ouieter and less aborous to both carnate anu III
carnate operators than the knocking schemes must
be exceedingly tedious to watch every movement Oh
the index and write down every letter stops al, OF
which stops at il and the So as errors often occur
and as the invisible commandments language Is some
times neither lucid nor brief tits almost infinitely worse
than printers picking up cad oy ead, ana iaI ore In-
certain for the letters have to be made up into words,
ano the words into sentences-no trhng LABOR, Wnen
neither the beginnings nor endings OF either are noted
The dals should be furnished with numerals ana MARKS
of notation As certain words and phrases repeatedly
occur in spiritual correspondence, and have to be
spelled cut every time Dr. Hare has introduced with
the appreciation Of spirits, the principle OF logotypes
so that single movement of the pointer may sufice
spritscopes; "No,"" Yes,"'" Don't knoT," " Tank
se"" Spel orer," " Mistake" Must go"-expres-
sions by the way, Of suspicious significance and too
much allied to the prmities of spirits still in the resh.
Tie water apparatus different ana offers iacties
for test conditions" which the dals and their APP
pendages do not possess. And DIR. Hare Is himself
medium having discovered that he possessed the pow
ers Of one, there is necessity to call IN any other
L.. nf fhA
power which he says was transmitted through water.
His apparatus-a rude weighing machine-conssts OF
horizontal board end of which rests and turns on
fulcrum, while the other is suspended from spnng
balance TO Indicate variations Of weight pressure.
glass vase of water is placed on the board, and the
effect on the balance noted The medium then plunges
or both hands in the liquid, Without touching me
sides or bottom of the vase and, according TO Dr.
Hare much greater depression Of the board follows
than what is due to the hands immersed! Were this
established would be conclusive of the presence OF
an occult force unknown TO modern science and mex
pcsble by it. We of insist that the expert
meuts made llusory, and that the pressures
| on the board simply due to the weight OF the
bodies put into the basin, whether persons hands,
| live fish, parcel of cork or piece OF Lead and we,
in cur present state of unbelief defy any medium to
depr,ss the board to greater degree by the INNER
sion of his hands than would follow the displacement
of an equal volume of the fluid by the immersion our
Own-he invoking the aid OF spirits and we spurning
tier power.
In the two experiments recorded the force exered
by the officiating spirit in case three pounds,
and in the other seven; but, the relative distances
of the vase and baanee-scale from the fulcrum were
as one to six the actual force told the bal
in the fst experiment ls, and in the second
| AZ poundf. But it is said there was 10 REACTION
my st.ry which Dr. Hare can ouy account for by
supposing spirits have the power to deprive bodies of
their r,s inertia Now it is easy to settle the ques-
ton whether the law by which force exerted in one
direction reacts equally in the opposite one was in this
case suspended and whether it is in the power Of spr
it's 10 neutraze it.
Nothing more is required than that the medium
stand, while operating upon platform scale, so that
every variation Of his weight upon may be instantly
SEEN This lie, think, erpcrinseatum cracis
for if fairly made, il will determine beyond question
whether the weight thrown scale by the medi-
ums hands be be not subtracted from the other at
lis feet and rice versa. THE vessel of water might
be laid aside. The medium might just well place
bis hands directly the board unless officiating spirits
prefer the bath.
If DIR. Hare viii repeat the experiment, sug-
gested with moety Of the acumen that has charac-
erized his chemical researches, aud if he does not
find the law of action and reaction in foil force, he will
soon have the sacdHs of oil nations at his feet.
more conclusive mechanical proof of the presence Of
al unknown power could not be given, and there
could be no resisting it.
THE POLAR SEA.