one of the most pretentious and
most clever of the clairvoyants, and she does a very large
business. Most of her customers come for medical advice,
although, in accordance with her printed announcement, she is
willing to talk about "absent friends," and whatever other
business the client may choose to pay for.

One branch of the clairvoyant trade which formerly brought as
much money to their pockets as any other department of their
business, was the finding lost or stolen property, and giving
directions for the detection of the thieves. This specialty has
however been pretty much abandoned of late by nearly all of them,
in consequence of law-proceedings against certain ones of the
sisterhood, which have in three or four instances been commenced
by parties who have been wrongfully accused of theft, through the
agency of the clairvoyant impostors. Several suits have been
instituted against them for defamation of character, and they
have been made to smart so severely that they are now all very
careful about accusing persons of crimes.

As an evidence of the implicit faith put in these people by their
dupes, it may be mentioned that many applications have been made
to Judge Welsh, of this city, and to the other judges, for
warrants of arrest against respectable persons, for theft, the
only grounds of suspicion against them being, that some
clairvoyant had said that the property had been stolen by a
person of such and such a height, with hair and eyes of this or
that color, and that the suspected person happened to answer the
description. Of course, all such applications for legal process
have been refused by the magistrates, and the applicants
dismissed with a severe rebuke.

Mrs. Seymour was an intimate friend of Mrs. Cunningham, of the
Burdell-murder notoriety, and was a witness in that memorable
trial.

The Cash Customer had an interview with this woman, which he thus
describes:

Another Clairvoyant, who is not much in particular.

If a man be desirous of knowing what sort of a moral character he
bears in the spirit-world, and what style of society his
disembodied soul will circulate in, or if he desires to know the
particulars of the after-death behavior of any of his acquaintances,
of course he will find it to his interest to marry a "medium" of
average respectability, and in good practice, and so save the
expense of frequent consultations. The "rapping" and "table-tipping"
communications from the sp