Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14
Light Shed uPOn Darkness--The
Effect of that Light.

/ s-s"AoHOtOi q Suuucn SHt ustS Uteii let III
upon the ridiculous antics of spiritual medis
whose orgies, like other foolish reyels. arc
over held in total darkness, the humbug has
been exposed. A complete exposure cf the
machinery has lately taken place at Colum-
bus, and we beg the believars in spiritualism
to note the fact that the Cardington med
ium, whose fame has extended to this city,
is. the party caught in the disgraeeful trick.
At Columbus, an old man named DR.. En-
sing, and a medium, Miss Vinson, both Of
Cardington, were last week exhibiting what
this DR.. Ensing called a panorama of the
spheres in the spirit world, which panora
ma, hepretended was painted by him nm
der spiritual direction. He and Miss Vim
son also gave spiritual manifestation, and
"a quarter" was the price of admission. 1t
seems that the spirit of "Old King,r-the
same We pressure which the Devenports
called into requisition in the "circle," held
short time since in this city,-was the
great Mogul from the spirit world, at Co
lumbus.. The proceedings there as we see
from the Fact and Journal of that city,
were of the stereotyped kind, to wit: drum
beating, tamborine rattling, tin horning,
bell ringing, DC, and for three nights the
exhibition had passed off SATISFACTORILY
that is, the old man Ensing had pocketcd
the quarters" the believers had been e,li-
fed with music which had it claimed to
have been human would have been pro-
nounced hardly worth the money, and the
skeptics had their two shillings worth of
laugh, and concluded that the sfools were
not yet all dead"
On Friday night last, however, the per-
foTmanee came to sudden termination,
and we give the Denoument as we find it
in the Journal.
The next order of the performance was,
to bring in, fastened upon desk, brass
drum, a tamborine, drum sticks, and a
trumpet, all of which were to be played up
on by band of disembodicd spirits. The
lights were then extinguished and the room
made as dark as a VOLTS mouth. The ap-
proach Of the spirits was preceded by the
singing of hymns and spiritual songs, and
by marches, hornpipes, and "nigger" airs.
The presence of the spirits was known
by some faint taps on the drum and slight
vibrations on the tamborine, which grew
more ''fast and furious as the music pro-
ceeded. The believers set in the front cir
Gle. The medium took her position by the
side of the old gentleman, and at length
the admonitory tap of the drum and the
j ngle of the tamborine, gave token that
spirit King was about coming among us to
beat tune and jingle refrain. He was
admitted, and amid silence and darkness,
he beat and banged away upon the drum,
and the tamborine shook with ecstacies,
and the believers felt how good it was to
be there, when presto change, some wicked
unbeliever struck light, which at once ex-
posed the swindling imposition. The spir-
it Of the tamborine was the female medium
"a stalwart lass, tail, stout, and twenty
five. The spirit of the drum was bog of
about thirteen; and there they were both
discovered rubbing the tamborine and beat
ing the drum. Never did light produce
such an effect.
The female threw down her instrument
and rushed to her seat, self-convicted
imposter. The lad dropped his stick and
disappeared. The old man protested that
he had been deceived, but looked the very
of confusion and disappoint-
ment. The believers stared at one another
very much as a green-horn would do who
bad bet his last dime with thimble rigger
that he could tell under which thimble the
"little joker" was, and had lost. The au-
dience yelled with delight. The old man
said they would give no more exhibitions,
and the door keeper, whom We believe to
be the real principal of the concern, said
the money should be returned, and so it
was; and thus ended the last exhibition of
the "Harmonical Science" or "Spiritnal
Manifestations"