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OF THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS. 297evidently, and the amiability of their demeanour here is striking. However,I cannot tell you but a small portion of what I have seen, but believingyou would be interested in this sketch, I have hastily inndo it, andhope you will excuse the rudeness of it. If I could not witness aji;ainwhat I have seen during the last seventy-two hours, I would not part withthe consciousness of it for the whole State of Ohio.I am very sincerely your friend,To Prof. Egbt. Hare, Philada.Jos. P. Hazard.A VISIT TO THE SPIRITUALISTS OF OHIO.Letter from John Gage.— The Home of the Mediums and the Haunts oftheSjyin'ts.— ]yhat they didj said, and lorote.LOCALITY OF JONATHAN KOONS.—A HILLY LAND.1505. The house of Mr. Koons is in Milford, Athens county, Ohio,twenty-five miles south-west of McConnelsville, forty-two milesfrom Lancaster,and sixty-seven miles from Columbus.1506. Persons going from the West can go to Lancaster, which is thenearest point by railroad, thence down the Hocking River by stage, whichruns daily to Chauncey, thence on foot two miles to Koons. From theNorth persons would take the stage at Columbus, thence to Lancaster bythe lines above described. From the East there are steamboats to McConnelsville,on the Muskingum, both from Zanesville and Marietta, but fromthese private carriages must be got; distance as above, twenty-five miles,but the miles bear no correspondence to the hours, for on every route theythink they do well if they accomplish two and a half miles an hour. Noman ever travelled over so hilly a country anywhere else, and when youfinally get into Koons's vicinity, you find the essence of hills personified )there is no such thing as a level spot large enough to put a house on.THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITUALIST.—PRESENCE OF ELECTRICITY.1507. Koons's house is located on the south-east angle of a sharp ridge,some few rods below the edge of the ledge, and where, when the nativetrees occupied the ground, the lightning was wont to make frolic amongthem; and where it still likes to sport. The stove-pipe above the spiritroom was burst off, and a number of times during the sitting of themediums, the electric sparks were seen to play over the wires of thespirit table.