Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-06-11
Extraordinary Spiritual Mani
~festatiOns In Southern Illinois.

A correspondent of the Du Quoin M
nina Journal, vouched for by the editor as
"a man of truth under ordinary occurren-
ces," gives the following account of some
very singular manifestations near that
place of which he say be was an eye-wit-
ness:
About the middle of the month of March
last, after l mad retired to my bed for the
night, and was thinking of my plans for
the next day, 1 heard a loud knocking upon
the door, and opening it found my nearest
neighbcr. Mr.. L., waiting me. He was
trembling from head to foot, at which 1
was greatly surprised, as the night was
quite warm, considering the time Of year.
"For God sake come to my house imme-
diately. Satan or some of his crew have
taken possession of the premises and are
playing tie d. generally
He would give me no time to ask qlies-
tions, but was exceedingly anxious l should
accompany him. l had scarcely got my
cloths on until he took me by the arm and
hurried me along towards his residence
He entered the main room of the building,
closely followed by myself. There the
most wonderful sight l ever beheld present.
ed themselves to my view. Mr.. LIS wife
and two eldest daughters were huddled up
in one corner of the room, and each was
the personfication of terror. They were
clinging to each other and sobbing violent
ly. Near the fireplace was the youngest
daughter, q very pretty girl, moving round
in q kind of waltz like dance, with arms in
a horizontal position. seemingly paralyzed,
and humming a singular air. Stranger
than all, every piece of furniture in the room
was keeping perfect time with the move
ments of the girl, and a clock on the man
telpiece had ceased running, but a contin-
uous stream of sounds rung from its bell,
and, added greatly to the confusion then
prevalent. A square table cut the queer
est antics of anything in tho room. First
it would tip forward on the two front legs,
hen on the two hinder ones, and lastly spin
around on one leg like a top, and again tip
backward and forwards. A fire shovel
was dancing on the hearth, the wood was
about, and pots and skillets made
outlandish racket.
Suddenly the young girl ceased her
Waiting stood like n statue-and in
simultaneously every article of furniture set
tied into their accustomed places. The
candle, which was standing on
the mantle-piece. WAS suddenly extinguished
as if by an invisible person. The fire upon
the hearth was quite low, and gave a very
fam. light. immediately after the extin-
of the candle, a green light, in
terspersed with oranged colored rays, SEEM
to envelop the upper portion of the
BODY, giving her a supernatural
and the most melodious sounds
resembling the music of the aolian
,arps, appearing to be around, below and
.bove the occupants Of the room. This
asted about five minutes, when the music
ceased and the green light disappeared;
,ut as if by magic, the candle on the man
was again ignited, and the girl fell
nsensible to the floor. Some two hours
before she fully recovered from her
rance like sleep; but every vestige of the
performance in which she had par
had escaped her memory. Al
most nightly since, spiritual demonstrations
ave occurred at my neighbours house, yet
in many respects from those wit
me.