The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-22

AAPIRITUAL PICNIC.
The Trip TO The Grounds on Board the
BOat---WhAI Occurred Alter Land
InE---spcecb by Andrew Jackson
DayIs---TWO Circles FOrmed-.-The
Spiritual Manifestations that Fol.
IOWed---sInEInE. Dancing and SnOk-
ing.
From he EeD York World Of FTiday.
The Progressive SpiTitualists of New
York aud Brooklyn assem- bIed together
with their wives, children, young men
and maidens, and beLook themselves to
Fort Lee on the steamer Thomas Huise,
which left the foot OF Christopher street
at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. When
this collection OF communications with
the spirit land were all on board, the
visitor had before.hi such II menES
erie OF long haired men ana emHciaIed,
Withholding women, as perhaps he
never before witnessed. Here the
model medium bIoomed in perfection,
with his Leonide locks brushed back
from his noble brow in tine regulation
literary style, a patriarchaI beard
flowed down to his breast, and he
looks meekly from out pair of dim
grey eyes that sometimes ass ume bag
gard, sometimes a wild and wearied
look. HIS conversation is transcend
entail, los cal, and lucid as ink, and the
listener, in the vain attempt to follow
the thread OF his arguments, finds him
self wHding considerably out of his
| depth in sea of verbOSity.
THE SCENES on BOARD
were quite amusing from the presence
of an eccentric individual who rejUices
in II regal name. This gentleman WAS
seemingly an artless youth oil some
sixty summers, with sientoriun voice
| He had spiTitua!isn badly on the brain,
rs the most trivial remark addressed to
him on the state OF the weather, or any
thing equally incOnsequsnt. was sure
to have the ludicrous effect OF starting
him on spiritualistic yarn, which he
reeled of at a terrible rate, and il af-
Iorded q select few much amusement to
observe the way he generally turned
the subject towards his fHvoriIe topic.
He was OF opinion that Christ was i'm
bueu with the spirit OF Confucius, and
the Christian doctrine of dannatiOn
seemed to excite his particular ire. He
was particularly fond Of the expression
doctrine of damnatiOn," and never
| lost an opportunity Of ringing it in.
| Around this genius was an assem- blage
| of women, who dwelt lovingly on eve
ry word uttered by this sPirItuaIist
| sage. Curiosity WAS excited to know
what his profession was, as he had a
knack OF showing the extraordinary
affinity between spirituaiism and
patent medicines, he urging that
| the spirit OF his grandfather had
revealed TO him drugs that would
cure everything, from broken
| limb to the last stages Of consumption;
and now his attention is engrossed in
| growing n spirituHlistic grapevine, the
| seeding of which was revealed to him
| in like manner by his accommodating
ancestor. Altogether the conversation
| and rhapsodies OF this queer yendoHo1
patent medicines was a strange medley,
embracing everything from the oInnIs-
| cience OF God and Srape-vines, to comic
| stories aud sentimental spiritualism.
| The other mediums were quite roared
down by this lion, and kept themselves
! In reserve for a performance on shore.
Occasionally a smile would ripple on
the face OF one of the party who was
! not spiritualist, but he was gently
warned not to indulge in laugh, as
| the unbelievers were in the minority,
and II would go pretty rough with them
| in the event OF a row. The females
greatly affected corkscrew curls; and n
/ Paris milliner would nave been shocked
to death 10 have seen the curiously
combined cOlor6 of their roilettes. Pink
silk with yellow trimmings would have
| been rather neat and quiet display
alongside some of the gorgeous dresses
/ of the lady mediums.
At length Fort Lee is reached, and
after landing of baskets, containing
! n superabundahce of earthly food and
spirits, is effected, these festive religion
lists wind Their way up TO the summit
of the mount.
THE GROUND
is reached at length, and "A preliminary
skirmish takes place for the possession
of tables before the main muffin stFug
gle is opened. When the feast was I'm
lshed dancing was commenced in right
good style. The unsophisticaled
youths went at 1t with their coats off
and lighted cigars in their mouths, fast
and furious became the reels and
waltzes, aud all was going merry as
marriage bell, when II gentleman in
"taII hat" ventured to remark on the
improperly of dancing with coats off
and smoking in the presence OF ladies'.
The newcomer was evidently a scholar
as we'll as gentleman, for he prefaced
his observations with the remark that
such proceedings were not "engregitic'
nor "dIStiHgy." After this, proceedings
We're conducted on the strictest order
of etiquette. This WAS merely au cpl
sode, not given with the intention of
limiting that the audience were not
well-bred, for indeed they were all
highly respectable people, and con-
Quoted themselves with the greatest
propriety.
THE SPEAKERS STAND.
Here the Hon. Warren Chase, ofOhio,
I WAS 9XQuFlluR MS hearers to live prop
erly in this world, so as to be prepared
for another state OF existence; and that
tie further we advanced In this world
the further we would find ourselves add :.
vanced in the next, or, as we go out of
this world, the next will ind us. He
4 spoke very fervently, and was listened
/ to with great deal of attention by an
appreciative audience. When he I'm
ished, two ladies sang a charming Duet
| 10 a very pIaiutive melody, and after it
Mr.. Andrew Jackson Davis, the founder
of progress in lyceums in the United
States" spoke to the effect that the spir-
ttualists were the advanced guards OF
future civilization, and they should
have to encounter much contumely and
derision, but in the end would triumph,
and from the ranks OGthe little boys of
the lyceum now before them would
| spring the future legislators of these
United States. Mr.. Davis is pleasing
| looking gentleman, and evidently sin
| cere in his endeavors to do good; though
having q fair faith in the doctrines OF
I spiritualism. he either discountenances
all other exhibitions conducive of rid
icule, and in his conversation and mar
ners shows no eccentricity. He was
followed by his wife. Mrs. Davis, who
spoke in a beautifully modnlated and
silvery voice. She graphically de-