Show mysterious KNOCKINGS correspondence b of the daily mail rochester N Y feb 16 1850 the house where these knockings knock ings are heard is on troop street a short distance from the centre of the city the occupants are very respectable though poor the famil family comprises a widow and three daughters the L youngest a girl of thirteen years of age to whom what the spirit makes itself more manifest than to either of the other daughters the mother as yet never having been favored with any manifestations excepting with other people in the presence of these girls the sounds are generally of one description with the st striking of one knuckle after another in rapid succession on a board table or side of a room and will occasionally imitate the boring of an auger or the cutting of a saw and other noises the sounds are E s ane times very loud and at others soft some t his bis a 9 in one room and one place and again in many places and different parts of the house at the same time it is not confined to this house but follows these girls wherever they go and may be heard in any house they ent v in the street even on the pavement or any ct near many visit the house to converse with the kep tep irit which at times it does docs with great freedom and ut others it is very reserved often it di dt ands certain persons to leave the room why wey fr x some reasons are supposed objectionable tuo tio nabie particularly those who openly sneer and pronounce it a humbug imposition ao m hj u who ho wish to communicate with the e general generalli lj sit alt around a table in compa NY v th h one or lore tore i ore of these girls anter after all ali is ir athe the spin spirit hates noise and confusion it I by bri byi i ps its ils il 3 ss to answer c Y u address th the spirit dirc dire atly aly spirit v 1 u do tili till tl tiu u or that ac always in a evy ery respect 1 minner hm hi hilver ever ever over the mide nide of congem n is very sim gim AL when ano no is an answer or we ane spirit declines answer arg 39 M no sound L h u ard when ly jea es is the anew v kv r three shree t rap when u hen ben the ag agi of a person is ked or any riar liar fa iJar question a rap counts HP tip and s so 0 on to i ah h required number vv fi n the op spi it t wis wil hes to communicate calls basfor for the by five raps com nce nee then re ng the alpha alphas t and at the pr 4 1 tite ilie 1 ahe girst first lett letti r forming the r rf tie tle nix niu I 1 it rap this letter put down com corn rien r cien ien len tho the aph alph ht h t igaina and so on till the lc s i pit alt out G it an sv sw a 9 lui lue u eions ath eth ah ng accuracy t Cr frequent equen n ang gret iris itis irist ua s spirit in m at on rt lince ance will ca 00 1 iti L f it of any departed fr i A d with u biorn yu yuu y u can c leate I 1 ir instance nt ance a gentleman a perfect stran r r n fie city c 13 ii d fr the spirit of his w i vh vb belati 3 i him the family history s the nt nii riber of deaths the yer year in nth and day of each death to another arul omo onlo the same particulars ta to another w 0 1 t a brother in Al mexico exico it told his n x r gf pt duliere w here lie he died how bow he died and h ti hw w ir li a ng w he lie had bee been n dead and all au the cire aU attending ending his departure for mex wo keo incidents known only to the person asking askin the questions on one occasion occa aion bion it told a gentleman from a road that erit rhine lie ile left holop hoine one cf hs children had died and that his wife was then very veo sick the next day he received a telegraphic despatch giving the information and desiring his immediate return and BO so on in numberless instances on tile tiie other hand a gentleman called for the spirit of his mother and it stated all the circumstances of her death age ac but unfortunately for the spirit the mother is alive ivean and dwell well weli to another it told that it would tell the town in england where he was born which it failed to do to another it proposed to tell the number since the death of bis father this also it failed to do in communicating it generally raps on tile the floor or table and frequently frequently on the limbs or feet of the person conversing it will also answer questions proposed to it in any language and frequently questions proposed mentally other demonstrations it makes it will call for a pencil and paper to be put on the floor under the table on which it will write its communications writing more in give five minutes than a person can in half halt an hour it will move a heavy solar lamp from one table to another and back again turn a table over and turn it back and again cause it to slide or move from one part of the room to another it will hold it fast to the floor so person can lift or move it it will stop a clock close a door and hold it cause the house to shake as ifft were coming down on one occasion it called the family in tile the night saying that a person was in the yard they arose and looking out the window saw a man stealing clothes from the line on another occasion while in communication with a company of visitors it stated that a house in the neighborhood was on fire on going to it they found the family away the fire in the stove fallen out and tile the floor on fire A gentleman from albany while makin making sport of the hanife manifestations stations received a severe alvere blow on the side of his head held which nearly nearby forced him from his chair other instances similar have occurred persons have had their feet confined to tile the floor a foot suspended and not able to put it down a limb put in rapid motion and not able to stay it while standing unable to sit down and when sitti sitting ng unable to rise wherever these girls are there these mysteries take place the following account of the discovery of chloroform in this country is from the pen of samuel guthrie esq of sacketts Sac ketts harbor N Y lie he ig is known to tile the editors of the commercial advertiser to whom he wrote the letter from which wo we make inake this extract as an able chemist in makin mahin making g experiments some eighteen years fud ago with chlorine and alcohol I 1 ob ta tuned ined a new product having the prop irlies ol 01 the chir calr chi r ne n i ahr hf r of the i chem chi cht ins inn with I 1 suppo d itaf be i ell eli it t cil il As I 1 first obtained it it was in solution in alcohol in con of its pleas int flavor and the delightful lul ful sensation it priidu ed pd when taken into t the stomach it was r ealy sou lit for in my neighborhood as an exi I 1 iran irad i drink after seeing its effects in prodie producing ang al a higher 21 1 her degree of jollification and mirth than I 1 had 1 ad ever seen from intoxicating drinks drink e and finding that I 1 was introducing a dangerous auxiliary to the cause of in intemperance I 1 refused peremptorily ever to sell another drop to be used as an exciting beverage from seeing its surprising powers in restoring a daughter nearly dead from the ear as of burning charcoal in a close room and other known qualities I 1 thought it might prove of much value in asiatic cholera and while that disease was traversing this continent I 1 sent it into canada new york fork new haven ac in the hope that it might be tested in that frightful disease when first obtained it was in solution in alcohol and my first object was to separate it from all foreign matter and to present it in a state of absolute purity this I 1 effected on the oth of january 1832 by concentrating it to a specific gravity of an accart account of the discovery and improvements in constructing ting it up to that time was published in the american journal of science and art by professor silliman it was important to find a more simple simpie mode of concentration than any I 1 had used and finding it was very sparingly soluble in water I 1 concluded that low proof spirits might be used instead of alcohol in in generating it and that the product might be he washed freely with water and thus freed from alcohol the trial was made and resulted in complete success to give ive lve an idea how easily and rapidly chloroform may be made and of great purity and strength avill I 1 will detail one operation made in 1832 from which course I 1 hare have never since had ocea occasion sion slon to deviate into a gallon copper still I 1 paired gallons of common whiskey and then plunged in ibs lbs of chloride of lilaoti liia ilia the still became instantly hot and befog bena befi wip wio rip 01 I 1 had on the head I 1 had a full stream ilof of chloroform from the still worm it continued conti aued to run freely for some time without fuel when the product ceased to come over sweet I 1 removed the receiver and ran off the der of the spirit for future use the product was re distilled from a profusion of water waner or was well washed in some five or six waters watern when it had reached a specific grit griL gravity vity 41 from 2000 lbs ibs lb of ordinary chloride afteme I 1 obtained nearly lbs ibs of |