Year: 1876

The following communication purports
to come from the spirit world and from
the spirit of one of Sir John Franklin's
crew. He insists that Sir John and his
crew were not lost, as supposed, but are
still luxurating among the happy people
who inhabit the interior world. Although
it does not profess to be a vcritable ex.
tract from the log book OF Sir Johns
ship, it may furnish little amusement to
your readers. if it does not convince them
of the truth of Capt. Symmes theory.
1t would seem that this people of the in
terror do not die as we do upon the out.
side, but live on until they are finally ob-
sorbed by electricity. The communication
is as follows:


After beating about in Bafin's Bay
for several months, bufeting the storms
and dodging among the icebergs, an open.
ing in tho ice Appeared to tho north of IA.
through which we passed. and running up
Smiths Sound we left the Arctic High.
lands far in the distance on the right and
the Georgian Isles upon the left. Hav.
ing reached the cighteth degree Of north
latitude the temperature became percepti.
oily warmer and the quantity Of ice rapid.
ly diminished BY the time we reached
the eighty-fourth degree the sea was en-.
tirely clear. We were now running
directly north without an obstacle in the
way of our progress


We began to experience occasionally
warm currents of air as they come gushing
out from the vast opening at the pole.


We still held on our northerly course
and at length were greatly surprised to
find that, though We had not in the least
changed our course, we were running al.
most directly south. 1t was not long be-
fore we became satisfied that we had
passed over the verge Or great northern
rim Of tho shell of the earth, and were
now sailing down upon its internal sea.
was RRs' 'qg htaa d dsssned quito deren @
from the light of the outer world. After
sailing several days in this direction we
came in sight Of a strange coast, which
stretched away to the south beyond the
limit of vision. The temperature was as
mild and genial as that of June, As wo
approached the shore the prospect was
most delightful. The whole surface Of
the ground was spread with an unknown
and beautiful verdure. We landed, and
as we passed up from the shore our first
impulse was to pluck the delicate flowers
that sprang up at our feet. But in at.
tempting to do 50 we were startled by
slight shock of electricity. We soon dis.
covered that everything We touched was
galvaDic battery, and that this was the
sole governing principle Of tne country,
permeatiug every object, both animate
and inanimate. There was neither sun.
moon or stars, and Of course no day nor
night. But time was divided into rogu-
lar periods Of activity and rest. There
were no periods of darkness, b1t one uu.
changing period of light The Aurora
Borealis Of the outer world is nothing
more than the reflection or this electric
light flashing up from the opening at the
pole and radiatiug up the sky. And the
reason that this Is not observed on each
successive night Is that sometimes the
electric currents flow south instead Of
north.


&" Ia consequence of the motion Of the
earth upon its axis everything that moved
was found to take north aud south ii.
rectiop. The roads or highways all ran
north and south and parallel to each other
A sad difficulty would have resulted from
this position Of the roads had it not been
prevented oy a very ingenious coutri-
vance. On each OF these parallel roads,
at short distances, and directly opposite
each other, were electric stations. From
one Of these stations to the opposite wires
were stretched from one road to the other,
aud from these other wires were sus-
ponded, to which were attached light and
delicate cars.


"Theso electric stations were always
fully charged with slech ho-magnelism. the
one positive the other negative, and con.
sequently the cars we're constantly pass.
ing from one 10 the other by the power
of attraeton md repulsion When the
people wished to pass from Que road to
the other they had only to step into one
Of these care, aud the moment the ear was
brought in contact with the positive sta.
tion it was instantly repclled, as it is a
law Of electricity that two bodies being
both positive repel each other. The car
being thus repolled by one station aud
attracted by the other, passes across, and
coming in contact with the negative sta.