wers and capabilities.

"CLAIRVOYANCE.--MRS. SEYMOUR, 110 Spring Street, a few
doors west of Broadway, the most successful medical and
business Clairvoyant in America. All diseases
discovered and cured, if curable; unerring advice on
business, absent friends, &c., and satisfaction in all
cases, or no charge made."

The clairvoyant branch of the fortune-telling business seems to
require a certain amount of respectability in its practices, and
they sneer at the grosser deceptions of the more vulgar of the
necromantic trade. They keep aloof from the greasier sisters of
the profession, and they feel it due to the dignity of their
station to reject the cards, the magic mirrors, the Bibles and
keys, the mysterious pebbles and the other tricks which do well
enough for twenty-five cent customers; to sojourn in reputable
streets, in respectable houses, and to have clean faces when
visitors come in. There are, it is true, clairvoyants in the city
who live wretchedly in miserable cellars, whose garments and very
hair are populated with various specimens of animated nature, and
whose bodies are so filthy that the beholder wonders why the
spirits, which are so often disconnected from them and sent on
far-off missions, do not avail themselves of the leave of absence
to desert for ever such unsavory corporeal habitations. But the
majority of these persons prefer parlors to basements, and make
up the difference in expenses by double-charging their customers.
Many of them, as before stated, combine a little spiritualism of
the other sort with the clairvoyance, and they can all go into a
trance on short notice and rhapsodize with all the fervor if not
the eloquence of Mrs. Cora Hatch; they can all do the table-tipping
trick, and are up to more rappings than the Rochester Fox girls
ever thought of. For these several reasons therefore Mrs. Seymour
would be a wife worth having, or at least so thought Johannes as
he pondered these truths, and arranged in his mind his plan of
attack on the affections of that susceptible lady.

The house No. 110 Spring Street, occupied by Mrs. Seymour for
business purposes, is not more seedy in appearance than the
majority of half-way decent tenant houses, which all have a
decrepit look after they are four or five years old, as though
youthful dissipations had made them weak in the joints. From
appearances, Mrs. Seymour's house had been more than commonly
rakish in its juven