The following brief extract from the Paris correspondent of the Courier des Etats Unis, will interest the reader. Will some mundane philosopher be kind enough to give us a suitable disquisition on the peculiar properties of "red cedar" and the marvelous powers of Paris pencils? Everywhere inquiry is being made of the turning-tables concerning the more or less terrible consequences of the great Turco-Russian conflict. A famous table at Sevres is especially questioned on this point. Its top is red cedar. To this a sharpened pencil is fastened, which, once set in motion, answers in writing with a rapidity which confounds the imagination. The Spirit possessing this table is none other than that of Saul, the first king of the Hebrews. In his life this prince did not fear to consult a pythoness. It is not astonishing, therefore, that he aids in doing now what he himself used to do. Gov. Tallmadge announces, in the Intelligencer of May 16th, the expected publication, in the fall, of a remarkable volume, chiefly written by the Spirits through the medium of Mr. Linton of Philadelphia. Gov. Tallmadge will write the Introduction to the work, and be concerned with Mr. L. in its publication. It is said to be an extraordinary book, and the announcement of its anticipated publication creates great interest in Washington among all classes. A BEAUTIFUL Picture, drawn by the Spirits through the medium of A. F. Cunningham Esq., has been framed and hung in the show-window of Taylor and Maury's bookstore on the Avenue, where the public can have the opportunity of examining this sample of spiritual art. A CORRESPONDENT of the Telegraph writes: That after enduring much persecution for his Spiritualism, he prevailed upon several persons in Cumberland County, Md., to meet for the purpose of developing the phenomena of table turning. The experiment succeeded, and they soon obtained communications by tipping. The announcement of this fact threw the community into excitement, and mediums were discovered by the score, and afterward were increased to some hundreds. Some skeptics, for experiment, got together to see what they could do in the way of deceiving each other, when the table "arose to the ceiling of the room, and remained there in spite of all their efforts to get it down." Our correspondent adds that "Spirits have produced beautiful music with and without instruments, and in one instance tuned the violin themselves. They have represented themselves to the natural vision of some, and talked with them in an audible voice, the persons not knowing them to be Spirits until after they disappeared."