Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-06-26
Remarkable Prophecy,
CoNcEREIsG THE PENDING REBELLION AND CIVIL WAR By
SPIRIT GEN. JACKSON.
To the Editor Of the ". Y. Tribune.

To the Editor Of the ". Y. Tribune.
SIR: The following communication, ,purport
ing to come from the spirit of Andrew Jack
son was so startling, the events therein pre-
dlcted were so unexpected at the time it was
gwen. and the same having met with so strik
Ing iufl!ment, so far as deveopemonts have
| already progressed, | solicit its publication in
your widely circulated journal. That it may
the better be appreciated as veritable spirit.
| ual announcement, | will preface It with a re-
iation Of the circumstances and some OF the
| Singular test facts that accompanied it
| On the evening of January "a, l86l-six-
teen months ago-Mr George Sanderson, a
highly Influential, ,wealty and intelligent citizen
of Scranton, Pa, called at my house No 26
West Fifteenth street, New York, and said
he would like to witness Spiritual manifesto.
tions, such as had described to him as wit.
messed by NE. | accordingly invited bin TO
go with me TO a medium, to which he concent-
ed, aud We proceeded 10 the rooms of The late
DR.. G. A Redman, No Varick place.
On our way thther. | proposed to Mr. S.
tha. wonld Introduce him merely as friend, u
aud gave it to his spirit friends to disclose his
name, if they chose to do So Accordingly
his name was not mentioned by me, aud was
not known to the medium, DR.. Redman having,
ill tneu, never seen Mr.. s.
We were invited to take seats at table
about three aud half feet square, and We
occupied three sides Of ito other person
than Dr. Redman, Mr.. Sandersou and myself
being in the room
Mr. S, being skepical ms to the possibility
of spirits communicating with men, wished for
tests and with this end in view he wrote the
earthly names, ages. occupations. diseases, and
places OF residence of perhaps a score of his
relatives and frinds who had passed into the
spirit world, on small slips of paper, at the
same time holding a book between his hand
and the medium, so that be could not see
what was writteu. Each of the slips thus
written on by hi n Was rolled up in the form
of bullet While Mr.. S., was writing, DR..
r said to me. - Why don't you write some
thing 7" | answered that during that sitting
| wished my friend to have the full attention
of the spirits He replied that it would make
no difference as to that, but that the more pa
pers there were written, the more satisfactory
the tests would be. Accordingly | wrote on
nine slips of paper, and rolled them up in bull
let form, aud put them with those written and
rolled up by Mr.. s., who took them all in his
hands. and mixed them together SO that no
one could know which paper either of US had
written upon, nor that was written upon it,and
they were all together placed on the table be-
fore US, numbering about thirty.
Taking each of the paper bullets, separate
y in bis hand, DR.. Redman requested that if
the spirit bearing the name written on that
paper was present, he should signify the same
by raps. Affirmative responses to several Of
these questions being received, DR.. r., pr: the
several papers thus designed, by themselves
upon the table. Mr.. Sanderson being about
10 open one of The papers thus designated. DR..
r., requested him to wait moment. when in
stantly his hand spasmodically seized pencil
wrote on a sheet of paper lying before Mr..
S., vary rapidly upside down SO that Mr.. S,
could read it without turning the paper, a
communication which seemed to be the greet
ing of an affectionste relative, and signed it
Emily E. Sandersou" Mr.. s., then uDroled