confidence that the advanced intelligence and freedom of the age will
yield it an ingenuous reception.

HENRY J. HORN.

NEW YORK, _October 1st_, 1869.




STRANGE VISITORS.




HENRY J. RAYMOND.

_TO THE NEW YORK PUBLIC_.


I have often thought that if it should ever be my privilege to become a
ghost I would enlighten the poor, benighted denizens of the earth as to
how _I did it_, and give a more definite account of what I should see,
and the transformation that would befall me, than either Benjamin
Franklin or George Washington had been able to do in the jargon that had
been set before me by Spiritualists as coming from those worthies.

"Stuff!" I have exclaimed again and again, after looking over spirit
communications and wondering why a man should become so stilted because
he had lost his avoirdupoise.