The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-09-23

-Fvry Trance SPeuh;lRg Mediums
un3cr Dem0ntacat LJtusnce-7Aeir
NutrimoAiat Coalition, DC, DC.
- Cora Y. J.. Hatch, who year or more
siuG5 gained a wide notoriety as trance
speaking uedium, aud her husband, DR..
Hatch have separated. The prominence
which Mrs Hatch has occupied among
SpIriInaiists has given the matter much
luipQrtancc in the eyes Of this class OF our
citizens.
Tue cause Of this separation is differ
eutly stated by the friends Of the parties,
Dr. Hatch states that up to July last
they lived happily together; that during
that mouth he went West, and while ab-
scpt received, as he expresses it, 'a beau
tiful AMI afectiopate letter" But upon
his return, or soon after, she took deci-
dei dislike to him, would have nothing to
do with him, nor scarcely speak to him.
Siuce that time they have lived separate
ly. At the Doctors request she placed
herself under the direction of some friends
Of both parties, and one of them--;l prom
fIent chemist--obtained from Mrs. Hatch
promise not to come before the public
until the difficulties were adjusted.
i week ago last Sunday, however, she
wa8 requested to lecture at Clinton Hall,
Brooklyn, in a week from that time
She at first refused, but subsequently, sent
wore that she would comply, The lee
turc was to be free, and a collection taken
for the benefit Of the society.
At the time appointed tor the meeting,
an audience was presept, but Mrs. Hatca
did not appear. Mr.. McFarlan, who has
the chief management Of the meetings,
received and read publicly letter from
her, in which she expressed regret at not
being able to fulfil her appointment ; and
said that DR.. Hatch had expressed the
determination to prevent her holding a
meeting by torci5tc measures, and, under
the circumstances, she did not wish to
appear In the original the words Jofci-
bic measures are underscored. e..
Dr. Hatch atdrms that he never used
threats, but upon hearing of her appoint
ment, went to the chemist referred to, and
told him he did not wish her to speak !;
but if she insisted, not to prevent her :;
and that he subsequently called upon his
wife, and told her the same thing, and
offered to go with her or not, as she chose,
if she was determined to speak.
The Doctors theory of the matter is,
that his wife is possessed Of densoniaco{
Snfuence, and he further believes, if we
understand him correctly, that this is the
inevitable result of such mediumship as
hers; that under this influence she has
become reckless of moral principle, as
have nearly Ill Others of her class.
The writer OF this has ba-.n shown a
list of forty trance speaking mediuRs, Of
both sexes, which will soon be made pub
lie, who have either separated from their
husbands and wives, or are living in ex-
treme pnhappiness. The list includes
most of the prominent speaking mediums
of the country. Some women have aban-
doned their husbands for other "atfini-
ties" One who has figured in the recent
Free Love Conventions is set down as
having abandoned two husbands, both OF
whom are liviGg-and one woman traded
husbands With sister spiritualist. The
male mediums are represented as Of the
same sort.
A friend of Mrs. Hatch, in whose
house she has been visiting good deal
aimee the separation, represents her as ex-
tremely afraid Of the doctor, and says
that upon one occasion, when he was seen
coming from the house, "she turned as
pale as death, and trembled like an aspen
leaf, and begging the privilege of con
cealing herself, hid in bedroom"
Some of the friends of Mrs. Hatch do
not hesitate to express their conviction,
very freely, that all the devil there is in
the matter belongs On the other side Of
the house.
DR.. Hatch was married to his present
wife-his fourth one, we bolieve-about
two years ago. He was upwards of forty,
and she about sixteen. The marriage at
the time, we believe, was understood by
them to be spiritual affinity as well as a
legal union The friends of Mrs Hatch
claim that it was unnatural and produced
by psychological influences, and not by
spiritual affiuities; that since the mar
riage Mrs. Hatch has been compelled to
lecture too much-often when physically
unfit to do so-the doctor reaping there
from large pecuniary bcneft.-N Y.
Ere Post.