SPIRITUALISTS ELECTED

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Apr 18, 1854

SPIRITUALISTS ELECTED

A majority of the voters of the city of Camden, N. J., have shown themselves free from that silly bigotry which sometimes prompts persons to consider others as crazy, or as leagued with the devil, because they happen to be advocates of the doctrine of intercourse between the Spirits of the departed and those still dwelling in

the flesh. As an evidence of this, a correspondent (P. Zieber) sends us a statement of the fact that Josiah Swan, a clairvoyant medium, was recently elected by a large majority to an office of temporary public trust in that city, and that Dr. Birdsell, also a publicly avowed Spiritualist and medium, was elected justice of the peace.

FITS CURED BY SPIRITS

Mr. B. W. Williams, of Deming, Hamilton Co., Ia., communicates the fact, that Mrs. Alice Wiles, of that village, who had long been subject to fits, and was badly, and to all appearance hopelessly diseased, was brought under Spirit-influence and cured in the space of six days. Since the last operation by the Spirits, when she was pronounced cured by them, she has had no more fits, and she is now daily gaining strength, and looks better than she has done for many years.

A STRONG CASE

A correspondent of the Vermont Daily Tribune states that some few weeks ago, the wife of one of his fellow-citizens, Mr. Henry H. Mitchel, was controlled by a preternatural influence, and made to write a communication purporting to be from Mr. Mitchel's father, who had died in 1816. The Spirit stated that at the time he left the mundane sphere he was entitled to a quarter section of land located in Pike County, Illinois, for military services which he had rendered in the war of 1812; and he requested his son to write to Washington, as the patent had never been issued from the office there, and stated that the land was now valuable, and justly belonging to his heirs. Having but little confidence in the communication, and no knowledge that his father was ever entitled to government land, Mr. Mitchel at first hesitated to write to Washington, but was finally persuaded by some Spiritualists to do so for the sake of the test which would thus be afforded. He accordingly wrote to the Hon. James Meacham, one of the members of Congress from Vermont, requesting him to examine the records and ascertain whether there was any truth in the representation. A short time afterward he received from Mr. Meacham, his papers, and a copy of the record with the official seal of Hon. John Wilson, Land Commissioner, showing that his father was entitled to a quarter section of land that was located and recorded, October 16th, 1817. The location, as indicated in the documents, was in Pike County, Illinois, just as the Spirit had stated.

BAD HABITS CURED BY SPIRITS

A correspondent [B. W. W.] writing from Deming, Hamilton Co., Ind., says that until recently he was an "uncommon slave" to tobacco, but coming under the influence of Spirits, he requested them to remove from him, if possible, the appetite for the weed. Not long after, he found that the appetite had entirely disappeared; and such a change had been wrought in his system, that if he puts the article in his mouth it makes him sick, just as it does any one who has never formed the habit of chewing. He had frequently attempted to rid himself of the habit before, but had always failed. Our correspondent also states the case of another person who had in a similar way been cured of an inveterate habit of smoking, and who is now instantly made sick by an attempt to renew the practice.—Spiritual Telegraph.