Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15


the family. My industrious, active
minded taikative sister SADIE, who was
the beauty of the family, engaged with
her mother in domestic duties.
Ny brother Joe, who was runabout,
indulging in a favorite amusement of
playing marbles; and my youngest
brother Eb, who was but wee thing,
and had, but month or two before |
left home, made his first appearance on
this worlds stage, was enllvenlng the
scene with some discordant cries, pecul-
iarly unpleasant to a cultivated musical
ear.
the aid of memory, as L quicl<lyFetraced
my steps to the scenes of the past, while
setting there, holding the hands of the
Clairvoyant.
"I have found the place." she said.
"How do you know ?'' l asked,
doubtingly.
az know it is s.. Intutively know
it."
"Well, we shall soon prove it. Please
describe the town."
She answered by giving rapidly a cor
rect description of the place, and the
mountains which surrounded it. She
then went on to describe the house and
its inmates.
was bafhed and surprised. l could
not understand. She had done it cor
rectly. l only knew that 1 could not
comprehend the psychological law of
mind, which even now is but little
understood, philosophically, that ena-
bled her to traverse great distances, and
describe scenes which, in the flesh she
had never seen, and if she had, could
have known nothing of my family.
1 was thoroughly interested, and
questioned her to my hearts content.
She did not evade my question, but
answered them readily and without re-
serve. She made no feints, to draw forth
suggestions from me, as is too often the
case with these clairvoyants who make
business of it.
She impressed me favorably with her
artlessness and unassuming manner;
and l believed her to be truthful. had
undoubted evidence of it in the singu-
larly correct answers to all my questions
often volunteering statements regard
ing my family, which 1 afterward
learned were correct. I believed in
her, so did several of my friends, whom
l introduced to her, who obtained SINH
not do otherwise.
One day her uncle told me she could
| discover hidden treasure-that she could
see it buried in the earth, wherever it
might be hidden. So we agreed to test
| it.
There could be no lurking, selfish
motive in thus acquaint ting me with her
power, for 1 was to pay nothing for the
privilege of testing it but, on the con-
trary, if she failed, it would manifestly
be an injury to her.
In city like New Orleans, with its
peculiar and varied nationalities, it
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concealed somewhere within its boun-
Diary.
We agreed to give her a fair trial.
There were two of my friends who were
admitted in the ring" We were not
required to disburse any money, but
simply to join and assist in the enter
prise.
There was stout Joe Knox, chief-engi-
neer on a steamboat lying up for repairs
| in the fourth district there was Won
Valkenberg, "the Baron" as he was
called-which, with the uncle, the clair
voyant and myself formed the party OF
five to the compact.
We agreed that, in case anything
should be discovered, we would divide
| the spoils equally.
Well, the claivoyant was soon put into
| the somnoiescent condition, and re
her wanderings about the city she
stouck upon wide avenue, which, from
her description, must be in the lower
part of the city-the third district.
" What is the name of the street?"
asked.
She cast her eyes upward, as if look
ing for the name on a corner of a street
and said she could read Esplanade.
every well. What do you find ii
that locality? ?' Ut was one of the old
est parts of the city,
She replied there was an old, weather
beaten, one-story frame-house on th'
corner, one room of which was used a
iunk-shop; in the other, the man VIII,
kept it lived with his family. The man
wife was sick at the time, and was lyini
in bed. Under this bed, one of tn
boards of the floor had been sawed out
and made to be easily removed; unde
this square piece of board, and at dis
; tance of a couple of feet below the SUI
face, was buried an earthern pot, file
with old Spanish coin and jewels
l they had belonged to an old dago, VIII
: was then dead, who had occupied tn
house when Louisiana was a Frenc
7 colony. He was river thief and assass
in he had placed the pot there for safe
keeping: was captured while on traC
2 ing visit to the Nassau tribe of Indians
r for some crime or outrage committed
E and was killed and his pot of none
had remained undiscovered.
# But how to get it-that was the diff
o Guilty. We visited the place, and foun
/ the house as she described it. One inc
:, dent in our visit produced a dee
: impression upon all. She had describe
o some of the articles in this old curiosity
/ shop. Dickens must have had in HI