New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-25
THE SPIRITS IN A JURY.BOX.

We are bound to believe in the Spirits. This
is safe thing to say-ior such belief may
embrace ANYTHING or everything from the jug
Cling tiends" who intcrfered So sadly with tho
military operations Of the Thane oil Cawdor to
the curious preparation known As Apple-Jack'
The Juggling fcnds have been with Us more or
less since the Witch of Endor; hut Applc-Jack
is peculiarly modern and singularly popular.
Some profane naturalists insist that, next to
Snakes. huckebcrries and the Camden and Am
boy Railroad, it is the only indigenous produc-
ton of New jersey. Tn. be in such a coInblna-
ton is bad enough, but we will not condemn
Apple-Jack on mere reputation: and, a We OK.
pee, no closer sympathy, we must lc, il 90 with
the rest of the Spirits into the world of uncon-
demned nothings. The general respect We
have for Spirits would lead u, 10 hope that such
might always be their fate. The one thing that
can never be investigated is the Spiritual rela-
ton between man in this world and man in the
other world. The laws that govern that rcla-
ton are, IN the Book Of Revelations. written 80
deliberately that any hundred men may read
them and arrive of hundred separate con-
illusions. We never can know more
than we now know. The four Latin words, Hoe
ea corpus mann, have excited more discus
sion and provoked more controversial and the
illogical wrath than any other written SELL
tcncc. Yet the evidence upon which all argn-
mcnts have been based. Is the same that IT
was two thousand years ago, and as 1t will be
two thousand years hence, unless some physical
desperation should come TO Us, true beyond all
manner of dispute. We can obtain no new fact,
and cannot satisfy ourselves if VIC 20 on
wrangling to eternity. The satisfaction is that
We shall know all about it some time. Some
time sooner or later according as We conduct
our relations with doctors, undertakes and SOL
diers. The misfortune is that when we do
know all about il We are scarcely in condi-
ton to make our knowledge known.
| A man named COlchcstcr-a stout, we'll
formed man, according TO the reporters, and il
a spirit, manilestly embodied 'one-has taken
upon himself TO solve this mystery to the salts
faction Of proianc world as represented in "A
UTOldHc Dulldlo jury tOi'i''''if ii"'iii 'SA"p
lishcd relations with the spirits, has been tray
cling over the world and making meat, drink
and clothing, by publishing nature ofthoscre-
lations Last Winter, he was in Washington,
and created what the journals Of that city called
lurore. The affinity Of Congressman and
spirits is we'll known to all who have visited our
capital; and Colchester, with great worldly
wisdom, saw that there at last was his field.
Instead of opening IIole-in-the-Wall and
dealing his spirits out at so many pence per
glass, he had himself drawn Oh a large wood
cut, with an immense mustachc, high Byronic
forehead, and posted over all the fences of
Washington. lie had his agent, his rooms, his
terms, and everything in the most buSlness-like
method. He claimed to have the power of
calling each mans disembodied relatives; his
aunt; his wife; his uncle; his an.
cestors; everybody, indeed, from Julius
Caesar the great down TO Julius Caesar
the valet who died with the delirium trcmcns.
Women who had lost their bluc-cycd chill
dren-young men in love-suSpicious gen
temen who fot that their dead relations had
left wills in Their favor, al Of which wills bad