Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1881 — George Washington’s Ghost. [ARTICLE]

George Washington’s Ghost.

Josian Quincy, of Boston, is qither unable to appreciate a good story, or else he delights to tantalize his leaders by telling them just enough to make them ravenous for more. In the last number of the New York Independent, he says that his father, the late Josiah Quincy, Mayor f Boston, member of Congress, and Pr si dent of Harvard College, actually Baw,whal appeared to be the spirit of Washington at Mt. Vernon, which he visited when a young man. He says: -. “The chamber in which his uncle had died was assigned by Judge Washington to his guest; the host, as .he withdrew, mentioning the rumor that an interview with Washington had been granted to some of its former occupants. If thi were true, my father pondered upon the possibility that he might be found worthy to behold the glorified spirit of him, who wa so revered by hi- countrymen. And during the night be did see Washiug ou, aud this is all I have to say about It. If I gave the par icu;ars, I should feel Ixmud to give a full explanation of them by Dr. Hammond, or -om - other expert in cerebral illusions; and this would occupy too much space for an episode. It may be worth while to say that nothing my father saw, or thought he saw, was useful in confirming his faith in a spiritual world. Hih assurance in this matter was perfect. He believed that brain action (if that is the' correct expression) was at times set up in us by •friends no longer in the flesh, and that bis own life had been guided by these mysterious influences.