Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-02-14
CORRESPONDENCE.
LAKE MILLS, FEB. 10, 1862.
NEssRs. EDITORS

nicatlon of the 9TH inst. published in your
last issue, told you one truth (!!t) which
las astonisleI his neighbors more
perhaps, than any other phenomenon that
has occurred for series of years.-Not as
tonishcd at the fact, but that it could
come out of Nazareth" II is true that
the Davenport Boys" have been here as
he has stated.
The routine of the cupboard exhibition
you arc already familiar with; l will give
you but variation or two:
1t was my good fortune to be present at
the first evenings entertainment. That
candid gentleman, known to you and your
readers as Johannes Dislocatus was also
present, ito give the subject thorough
and impartial investigation. Having no
opinions of bis own "pro or CON-" (..what-
ever that may beg, he considered himself
peculiarly qualified to test the matter. -
Hence, when the committee had fastened
the boys in the box, unbiased Dislecatus
| inquired of one member of the committee
If he had fastened the gentleman SO that
he could not get loose
The Committee Ibid not know: pre-
sumed ne reuld get loose "''Ws want you
to say positively that you Anop be cannot
get loose, and We shall insist upon it,
said disinterested Dislocatus. II cannot
say that. said the Committee, .'for ex.
psci he will get Loose
Then" said MAGNAN1MoUs Dislocatus.
Il move that the gentleman be discharged
rom the Committee, and one be chosen
who ariH say it. But as it seemed difficult
to find man in the audience, with integ-
rity so lax, as to enable him to positively
assert what he did not believe the meet
ing proposed compromise, and a gentle
man was added to the committee who sim
Fly declared that he considered the man
firmly bound Thus disappointed Dislo-
catus. was disposed to forego that thorough
and impartial investigation" which the i'm
portanec of the subject seemed to demand.
hope you will not form, by the above,
an erroneous opinion of our friend Dislo-
catus. Nature has dealt beautifully with
him-he is man of more than ordinary
natiee talent. But unfortunately he was
at one time of life very much reduced by
the too free use of Bishops Purely Teg-
eta6le Pills" While in this condition of
keen mental and physical susceptibility his
brain became alalmingly affected by the
supplying influence of the aroma exhaled
from beds of heated hops. in his drying
house bunting his mental acumen, and rem
dering him in degree Irresponsible for
any wrong he may perpetrate. And l.
would plead these facts in excavation Of
the course be has pursued, or may hcreaf-
ter pursue, Also his very mognaniasous
and gea'fenaonly personol aliusions, his ac
euraoy in actual n1ea surement, such. for
instance, as making the hypethenuse of
right angle triangle, "seren feet and eight
inches" whose base and perpendicular were
respectively three and fo,r feet Mathema-
ticians of lesser pretensions ought to know
that Dislocutus actually elongated" the
the truth, two feet and eight inches;
which is one inch farther than he alleged
that the DR.. elongated bis body and arm"
But Charity, who is ever by my side, sug-
gests that on the occasion of this ''actual
measurement and Indictment of the let
ter, be must have had in addition to his
other dif6ulties, q very severe cold and ca
tarrh.
! do net say this in justification of the
course the DR.. has taken, by any means,
| am not positive but he really deserves
the rldicule he receives in that communi-
cation When the Davenport Boys told
him plainly, that the manifestations were
spiritual, he had no earthly business to at
tempt to account for the phenomena by
any natural principle. Ought he not to
believe when they declars it, that the dis
embodied spirits Lave power Gin the dark
to form instantaneously perfect human
hand, by the condensation of the effete
matter exhaled from the human BODY in
insenslole perspiration? Ought he not to
believe too, for it was SO declared that
there is magnetic influence and power in
the human eye sufficiently strong to en-
tlrely control these disembedied intellieen-
ces-bring the music to sudden rest
force the Instruments from their grasp
ard In an instant re-yaporizing those phys
ical hands dissolving them and difTusino
through the atmosphere their Invisible at.
oms? He should believe these things be-
cause they say it. But he has no right
to believe that there is any controlling ell
element or influence, in the concentrated
effort and action of the human brain-tbat
powerful battery from which the "cyep
oorrows all its powers and receives all its