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"God and our h'ativt Land."
SUSQUEHANNA CAMP. No. 29. nf tha O.
f the U. S. A. holda ita atated aeaaiona everj
Mdy evening in their New Hall, opposite E.
Y. B iii;ht atore. Buubury, I'a. Inititation and
tegalia, $2,00.
D. O. E MAIZE, W- C.
r'iWiitT,n. .
unburv Jan. 12, 1856. act 20 65
o. or xj- -A., ivr.
SUN BURY COUNCIL, No. 30. (). of U. A.
M. merte every Ttkdat evening in the
American Hall, oppoaile E. Y. Bright tore,
Meiket atreet, Snnbury, Pa. Member of th
ttlrr ar respectfully rcqueetcd to attend.
P. if. SHIN DEL, C.
A. HovtH, R. 8.
JSunbury, Oct. 20, 1S55.
WAfHINGTON CAMP, No. 19 J. 8. of A
holda ita atated meetinge every Saturday
evening, in th American Hall, Market Htreet,
Banbury. 1
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A.J. Rockefeller, R. ft. ,
Kunbury, January 5, IH5.V tf.
Cheap Watches SjJewclr;
rHOLE8ALE and Retail, at th "I'liiladel
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North Second Street, corner of Quarry,
PHILADELPHIA,
ft. Id I .ever Watf hea, full jeweled, IS carat eatet. S3S.ll
,d Lermit l1-- ' Fine Silver S.Ucm. l,.SO
f rvar I. full jcwllfd. t Itiold Hracelele, S.0
liver Uver, full jewl'd IS l! aclirt' Oold Tencilt, 1.00
iinr'inr cjuarticrt, 7.Silver Tea apoona, i.t, ,0t
C'lld Siecti-le, ".'KM
iu;d Pent, with Paueil and Silver Holder, 1,00
fiold Tinner Rii, 37 J rent to $80 ; Watch
i;aea, plain, 12J criita ; Patent, 1Sj Lnnet,
25; other articlei in proportion. All good war
anted to b what they are sold for.
Kl'AUEKER St HARI.ET,
On hand,. soma fiold and Silver Lever and
Lrpine, (till lower than th abov price.
Slept. C, 1855. ly.
t. n. smith,
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, PIIILAPEI.PHIA.
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Banker Cae, Traveling Bag,
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Port Folio. . Chea Men,
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llieming Casea, Pocket Memorandum Booka,
. Alao, a general aaaortment of Engliah, French
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Ruinr. Ratoi Strop and Oold Pen.
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By mili deacribinj pn, thu. medium, hard,
er 3f.
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bhamukin, Pa.
Hamakin, July II. U86
;PAT55EETAKB N3TI33.
500 buhl Flaiel wanted immediately at
.. .i ,.,r of V.. Y. Bricht. for which
U highest mitkot price will be paid.
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STOVES- ,
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ir KM, al- soveraf, 0!iu3T CotJ
He'.- Entire at this oftf
Select hdxh
Frora th Warren (N. J.) Journal )
Jonathan's Reply, in Verse, to John Bill's
Boasting in the London Times.
I wonder. John, if you forget, some sixty
ycttrs ngo,
When we were very joting, John, your head
was white) as enow,
You didn't count ss nuicb, John, and thought
to make us run,
Cut found out yur mistake, Jobn, ona day
at Lexington.
And when wo ashed you in, John, to take a
cup of tea.
Made in Bonton harbor, John, the tea pot of
tho frue.
You didn't liko the pnrty, John, it wusu't
quite select ;
There were some aborigines you didu't quite
expect.
You didn't liko thoir manners, John, yon
couldn't stand their tea,
You thought it got iota their heads and made
them quite too free,
Hut you got verv tipsy. John, (you drink a
little still',)
The day you marched scrofs the Xeck, and
ran down Bunker Hill.
You acted just like mad, John, and tumbled
o'er and o'er,
13y your atalwart Yankee son, who handled
half a score ;
But now 1 hope you are sobsr, John ; you're
fur too fat to run,
You barn't got the legs, John, you had at
Bennington.
You Lnd some corns upon your toes. Corn-
wullis that wns one.
And at the fight at Yorktown, wby then you
could'iit run,
You tried quite hard, I will admit, and throw
away your gun,
And gave your sword, fyo, John, for shame,
to one Ueorge Washington.
I do not think you'll e'er forget the time you
went to lork,
And ate so like a beast, John, you raised the
price of pork,
Then w had some to spare, Julm, our hooks
with pork we baited,
And hung them out on Jtrsey shore, aud you
evueuatod.
Another msch-loved spot John, such sweet
associations.
When you were going down to York to see
your rich relations.
The llolohmen of the VoLawk, John, anx
ious to entertain,
Pot up some '(Jute'' that stopped you John,
ou Saratoga's plain.
That hill you must remember, JoId, 'tis high
and very green.
We uieun to have it lithographed, and send
it to your queen,
I know you love that hill, John, you dream
of it o' rights.
The name it bore in '78, was simply Bwinis
Height.
Your old frieud, Ethan Allen, John, of Con
tinental fame,
rYho called you to surrender, in "Great Jeho
vah's" name.
You recognized the "Congress" then, au
thority most high,
The morn he culled so early, John, and took
from you Fort Ti !
1 know you'll grievo to Lear it, John, and feel
quite sore and sad,
To learn that Ethan's dead, Jobn, and yet
there's many a lad
Growing in his highland home, that's fond of
guns and noise,
And gets up just as early, John, as thoso
brave Green Mountain boj.
Oh no, we never "mention it," we never
thought it lueky.
The day you charged the cotton bug's, and got
into Kentucky.
I thought you knew geography, but misses
in their teens
Will tell vou that Kentucky lay, Just then,
below Orleans.
The "beauty" it was there, John, beyond the
cotton bags.
Aud did you get the "booty," John? some
how my memory Quit, ;
I think you made a "swap," John, I're got it
iu ray boad,
Instead of gold and silter, you took it iu
cold lead.
Tbe mistress of the ocean, Joho, she couldn't
rule the lakes,
You had some ganders in your fleet, but,
John, you had co "Drukes ;"
Your cboicctt npirits too, wrre there, you
iuok noes unit HtnTry,
But, John, you couldn't .land our fare you
couiau i lake our t erry.
We make them all juet so, Jobn, ou lund or
on the sea,
We took this little continent on purpose fc
be free ;
Our Eagle's free, he loves to soar, be cannot
boar a cage,
But, John, be loves, to scratch the bars, and
make lion rage.
Our glorious start are sparkling bright, in
creasing year by var,
Supported by a tbousaud hearts that never
knew a fear ;
Our children lisp it in tbeir prayers, 'tis car
ried o'er the sea ;
Dost hear it, Jobn T it thunders there, "We're
children of the free."
Free at our sires of '76, as bold, aud brave
and true, '
To worship Ood, and keep tbe land, dear
J obo, we took from you ;
To keep our flag free ou the laud, unsullied
on tbe wave.
Until the last bright star shall set 0D tbe last
freemau'i grave.
lingular tlarratibe
ALBERT LACH5ER ;
OB
THE DOPPLEQ ANGER.
Albert Lachner was my particular friend
and fallow student. We studied together at
lieidelberg) we lived together i we bad no
secrets from each otber i we called eaob other
by the endearing same of brother. On leav.
ing th ooiversity, Albert decided on followt
ing tbe profession of medicine. , I was pos
sessed oi a modermt) competence, and a little
nut at E.as. .cn th, Lahn ; t I davpttd
myself to tha trseejiHi' lif of a fmpriftt
and a bnok-dreamer. Albert went to reside
with a physicion, as pupil and assistant, at the
little town of Cassel; I established myself in
my inheritance.
I was delighted wkb my homo; with my
pardon, sloping down to the tttshy margin of
the river ; with the view of Ems, the turreted
old Kurbnus, tho suspension bridge., and, fur
ther away, the bridge of bouts, nud the dark
wooded hills, closing in tint little colony on
every side. I planted my garden in tho Kng
lish style; fitted tip a library find smoking,
room ; and furnished one bed umbcr espe
cially for my friend. This room overlooked
tho water, and a clematis grew up round the
window. I plnced there a book-case, and fil
led it with Ii is fttvoritP books; bung the wall
with engravings which 1 knew he admired,
and chose draperies of his favorite color.
When nil was complete I wrote to hint, and
bade lu'm come aud spend his summer-holiday
with me at Ems.
Ha canio ; but I found him greatly altered,
lie was a dark, pale man ; always somewhat
taciturn and sickly, be was now paler, moro
silent, more delicate than ever, lie gretned
subject to fits of melancholy abstraction, and
appeared us if some ull-absorbing subject
weighed upon bis mind some haunting cure,
from which even I was excluded.
Ho had never bci'n gay. it is true; he bad
never mingled in onr Heidelberg extravagan
ces never fought a duel at the Ilirsrheiisse
never been one of tho Mlowhcod or Foxes
never boated, and quarrelled, and gambled
like the rest of us, wild boys as wo were !
lint then he was constitutionally unfitted for
such violent sports ; nml a Inmener-s which da
ted from bis early childhood, proved an effec
tual bar to tbe practice of ull tlmsu ntlilktic
exercises which secure to youth the tnfin nn,ia
in enrpnre tana. irSlill he was struligely tiller
ed j and it cut me to the bonrt t s'o him bo
sad, ond not be permitted to partake of his
anxieties. At first I thought ho hud been stu
dying too closely ; but this lm protested was
not tho cane. Sometimes I fancied that he
was in love, but 1 was soon convinced of n:v
error: be was changed but how or why,
lound it impossible to dircovur.
Alter lie had been with mo about n wecU, 1
chanced one day to ulludu to the rapid pro-
gross Unit was making everywhere in lavor ol
mesmerism, uml uiltied some light words of
Incredulity as I bpoke. To my surprise lie
expressed his ubsolutu faith in every depart
ment of the science, ana tlelemled ull Us phe
nomena, even to clurivovanee and mesmeric
revelation, with the fervor of a determined
wlievcr.
1 found his views on the subject more ex
tended than any I had previously heard. To
mesmeric influences, be attributed nil those
spectral appearances, such asL'bosts, wraiths,
and dopftlegungers ; all those noises and trou
bled spttits ; ull those banshees or Inmily ap
paritions; all those haunting and miscellane
ous phenomomi, which have from the earliest
ages occupied the fears, the thoughts, and the
inquiries of thu human race.
After about three weeks' stay, ba left me,
and returned to his medical studios at Cassel,
promising to visit mu in the autumn, when the
grupe harvest should be iu progress. His
parting words were eatnest and remurkuble ;
"Farewell, Heinricb, ilein Bruder; farewell
till the gatheriug-seusol). Iu thought, 1 shall
be often with you."
He was holding my bands in both his own
as h said tins, ami a peculiar expression bit
ted across his countenance T,thc next moment
he had stepped into the diligence, and was
gone. Feeling disturbed, vet without know
ing, why 1 made my way slowly back to my
coltuge. This vi3it of Albert's had traiiL'elv
unsettled me, and I found that for some ins
after bis departure, 1 could not return to the
old quiet round of pftulies which hud been
my eccupution und delight before he came.
boiuehow, cur long arguments dwelt unpleas
antly upon my mind, und induced a nervous
sensation of vwiich 1 felt ashamed. 1 hud no
wish to believe ; 1 struggled against convic
tion, and tbe very simple caused me to
think of -it the more. At last the effect wore
away ; and when my friend had been gone
about u fortnight, l" returned almost insensi
bly to my former routine of thought and oc
cupation. Thus the season slowly advanced.
Km became crowded with tourists, attracted
thither by the fame of our medicinal springs;
and what with frequenting concerts, proine
nudes, and gardens, reading, receiving u few
friends, occasionally taking part in the music-
meetings, which are so much the lasuion here,'
and entering altogether itito u little more so
ciety than had hitherto been my habit, I suc
ceeded in banishing entirely from my mind
the doubts and reDeclious Viiiicb bad so much
disturbed nic.
Ono eveuing, as I was returning hemcward
frein lua bouse of a friend iu the town, I tx
perieuced a deluskm, which to suy the leutt of
it, caused mu a very disagreeable, sensation.
1 have stated that my Cottage was situated
on the banks of the river, and was surrounded
by a garden. The entrance lay at tho other
side, by the high road ; but I inn fond of
bouliiiL', and I hud constructed, therefore, a
little wicket, with a flight of woodeu steps
leading dowu to the wuter's edge, near which
my suiuii rowing uoui ivy moored, j ii is eve
ning, 1 came along by the meadows which
skirt the stream ; theso meadows are here
and there intercepted by villas and private
enclosures. N w, mine was tho first ; audi
could walk from the town to my own garden
feoco without once diverging from the river
path. 1 was musing and humming to mvself
some bars of a popular melody, when all at
once. I began thinking of Albert nud his
theories. This was, 1 asseverate, the first
time he had even entered tny mind I'ornt least
two days. Thus going along, my urms folded,
and my eves fixed on the grouud, I reached
tho boundaries of my little damuin before 1
knew that 1 bad traversed half tho distance.
Smiling et my own abstraction, I paused to
go round by the entrance, when suddenly,
und to my great surprise, I saw my friend
standing by the wicket, and looking over the
river towards tbe sunset. Astonishment ai d
delight deprived me at first of all power of
speech ; at lust "Albert !" I cried, "this t
kiud of you. Wbeu did you arrive I" He
seemed not to hear me, and remained iu tbe
same attitude. 1 repeated lite words, und
with a like result. "Albert, look round,
man !" Slowly be turned his bead, and looked
me in the face ; and then, O horror 1 even as
wus looking at biin be disappeared. Ho
did not fade away ; he did not fall ; but in
the twinkling of an eye, bo was uot there.
Trembling and awe-struck, I went into the
house, aud strove to compose my shuttered
nerves. Was Albert dead, aud were appari
tions truth? I dared not think I dared uot
ask myself tbe question. 1 passed a wretched
nigbt ; and tbe next day I was at unsettled
as when be first left me.
It was about four days from this time when
a circumstauce wholly inexplicable occurred
in my house. . I was titling at breakfast in
tbe library, with a volumo of Plato beside
me, when my. servant entered the room, and
courtetied for permission to speak. I looked
up, a,ud supposing that aba needed moooy for
demeitio porposet, I pulltd ont my pars'
frca vj potVtt, asj'isyin g t "W1I, Katriae,
what do you want now?" drew forth a florin,
and held it towards her.
She conrtesied again, and shook be-r head,
"Thank yon. master ; but it is not that."
Something in the old woman's tono of voice
caused mo to look on hastily. "What is the
matter, Katrine? lias anything alarmed
yon ?"
'If yon please, master if it i not n rude
question, bus hits liny one been here lately?"
"Here!" I repeated, "What do you
mean ?"
"In tho bed upstairs, master."
I sprang to my feet, aud turned as cold as
a statue.
Tho bed has been slept in master, for the
last four nights "
I Hew to the door, thrnst her inside, and in
a moment sprang up the staircase and into
Albert's bedroom ; and there, plainly, plainly,
I beheld tho imnressfon of a heavy body left
upon the bed 1 Yes. there, on tbe pillow, wns
the mark where his bead had been laid: there
the deep groove pressed by his body ! It was
no deception this, but a strange nml incom
prehensible reality. I groaned aloud, and
stngcered henvilv bark.
"It has been liko this for four nights mas
ter," said the old woman. "Each morning I
huve made the bed, thinking, perhaps, that
you had been in there to lie down during tho
day; but this time I thought I would speak
to you nbont it."
"Well, Katrine, make the. bed once more ;
let us give it another trial ; and then "
I said no more, but walked nwny. When
nil was in order, I returned, bringing with mo
a basin or line sand. First of all. I closed
and barred the shutters ; then sprinkled the
floor all ronnd the bod with sand ; shut and
locked Iho chamber door, and left the kev,
undr some pretext, nt the house of a friend
in li.e town. Katrine was witness to all this.
That ni'jlit I luy awaits und restless ; not a
sound disturbed the utter silence of the au
tumn night ; not a breath stirred tho leaves
aguinct my cnsemer.t.
1 rnse early the next morning ; and by the
time Katrine was up und nt her work. 1 re
turned from V.r.ts nith the ksv. "Come with
nit. Katrine," I fnid ; ' let n's see if all bo
right in the Heir Lnrhner's bedroom."
.At the door, we paused and looked, half
tarrified, in each other's- faces ; then 1 sum
moned courage, turned the key, and entered.
Tho window-shutters which I lmd fastaned
the day before, were wide open unc!o?ed by
lioinortulhai.il; and the daylight streaming
in, fell upon tho disordered bed upon foot
marks in the sand! Looking attentively tit
these latter, I suw that the impressions were
alternately light and heavy, as if the walker;
hud rested longer upon one foot than the
other, like u lame mau.
1 will not bore delay my narrative with on
account of the mental ongnish which this cir
cumstance caused me; suffice it, that I left
that room, locked tho door uirain, and resolv
ed never to re-enter it till 1 had learned tho
fulo of my friend.
The lieXt lluv I set riff fur f'nssnl Tho
journey was long mid futiguing, and only a
portion could be achieved Jv train. Though
1 started very early in the morning, it was
quito night before the diligence by which the
transit wus completed entered the streets of
me town. Paint and wenrv thniiL'h I was. I
could not delay ot the inn to partake of any
refreshment, but hired a youth to show me j
the wuy to Albert's lodgings, ami proceeded
at once upon my search. Ho led me through I
a labyrinth of r.arrow, old-fashioned streets I
and paused at length beforo a high, red-brick 1
dwelling, with projecting stories nr.d curious
ly carved doorway. An old man with a Ian
tern answered my summons; and, on my in
quiring if llerr Lachner lodged there, desired
nit' to walk up stairs to the third floor.
"Then he is living !"I cried eagerlv.
Living 1" echoed the mini, as ho "held the
lantern at the foot of tho staircase to light me
on my way "living! MLin Oult, we wunt no
deuul lodgers here."
After the first ilieht. I found myself in
darhness, and went, on, feeling my way step
by step, nnd holding by tho broad banisters.
As 1 uscended the third flight, a door on the
landing suddenly opened, and a voice ex
claimed :
"Weleome, Heinricb ! Take core ; thero is
a loose plunk on tho last step but one."
It was Albert holding a candle ih his band
us well und substantial as ever. I cleared
thu remaining interval with a bound, and
threw myself into his urms.
"Albert, Albert, my friend nml companion,
ulive ulivo and well !''
"Yes, olive ho replied," drawineme into the
room and closing tho door. "You thought
me dead ?"
"1 did indeed." said I, half Fobbing with
joy. Then glancing ronnd nt the blazing
hearth for now the nights were chill the
cheerful lights, and the well spread supper-
tuble : " liy, Albert, 1 exclaimed, "you live
here liko a king."
"Not ulwuyg thus." he exclaimed with n
melancholy smile. "I lend in geueral H very
sparing oaclie lor I.Ke existence lul 11 is
not often 1 have a vtsitor to entertain ; und
you, my brother, huve never beforo partaken
of mv hospitality."
How! 1 exclaimed quite stupilied ; "you
knew that 1 was coining ?
"Certainly. 1 have even prepared a bed
for you iu my own apartment."
1 gasped lor breath, and dropped into a
seat.
And this power, this spiritual knowl
edge"
"is simply tho effect of magnetic rolutmn
of what is called rapport."
"Expluin yourself."
"Not now, Heinrich. Yon ore exhausted
by the mental and bodily excitement which
you huve this day undergone. Hut now; est
und rest. After sntiper we will talk tho sub
ject over.
eurica as 1 was. curiosity, nnd a vague
sort of horror which I found it impossible to
control, deprived me of aupetito, and I rejoi.
ced wheu, drawing near the heurth with our
meerschaums und Kliiue-vniie, we re.umod
the former conversation,
"You are, of couise, an art," began my
friend, "that in those cases where a mesmeric
power has been established by one mind over
another, a certuin rapport, or intimate spirit
vul relationship becomes tbe mvsterious link
between those two natures. This rapport
docs not consist in the mere sleep-producing
power ; that it but the primary form, tho sim
plest stage of its influonce, und iu many in
stances may be altogether omitted. , By this,
I mean that the mesmerist may, by a supreme
act of volition, step at ouce to tbe highest
power of control over the patient, without
traversing the intermediate gradations of
somnolency or even clurivovauce. Tbi high
est power liet iu tbe will of tbe operator, and
I enables him to present images to tbe mind of
me otner, oven as tuey are produced in bis
own. I cannot better describe my subject
than by comparing the miud of tbe putieut to
a mirror, which reflects that of tbe operator
as long,' at often, and at fully at be may de
tiro. Tbit rapport I have long sought to es
tablish between Oi," , i
Bufjcw btv aot fdcMtded,"
"Not altogether j neither havo my efforts
been qajite in vain. Yon have struggled to
resist me, and I have felt the opposing power
baffling moat every Ptep; yi-t someliines I
bavo prevailed, if but for a short time. For
instance, during many days after leaving
Ems, I left a skrong impression upon ysur
"Which I tried to shako off, and did."
"True; but it was a contended point for
some days. Let me recall another instance
to your memory. A hunt five days ngn, yon
were siidilwiily, und for some, moments, forced
to succumb to my influence, although but on
instant previous you were completely a free
agent."
"At what tftne in the day was that ?" I nk
ed, falterincly.
"About bulf-past eight o'clock in tho even
in;?." "Hut whore were yon, Albert?" I muttered
in a hitlf-aiidable voice.
He looked up, surprised at mv emotion;
th en as if catching the rcllex of iiiv agitation
fiom my countenance, ho turned ghastly pale,
even to bis lips, and the drops of cold dew
Started on his foreheud.
"1 was here," he said, with n slow and
laboured articulutiuii, that added to my dis
may. "Hut I saw yon I saw yon slonding in my
garden, just us I was thinking of yon, orruth
er, just as the thought of you had been forced
upon mo."
'And did yon speak to to the figttro ?"
"Twice, without being heard. Tho third
titno 1 cried "
"Albert, look ronnd man !"' interrupted
my friend, in a hoarse quick voice..
"My very words! Then you heard mo:"
"But when you bad spoken them," be con
tinued, without heeding my question "when
you hud spoken them what then
"It vanished where and how, I know not."
Albert covered hi tuft with his bauds, and
groaned aloud
Great God!" he said feoblv ; "then I am
not mad 1"
1 iw so horror-struck, that I remained si
lent. Presently be raised his head, poured
out a half a tumblerful of brandy, drank it nt
a (Taught, un I then turning his face partly
aside, and speaking in a low and pronaturul
ly even totie, related to me tho following
strange und fearful narrative:
lr. K. , under whom I have been study
ing for the lust year here in Cassel, first con
vinced me of the reality of tho mesmeric foc
trine, before then. I was as hardened a scep
tic us yourself. As is frequently the case in
these mutters, the pupil being, perhaps, con
stitutionally inclined more towards those in.
Huetices soon penetrated deeper tti to the
paths of mesmeric research than the master.
By a rapidity of conviction that seemed almost
miraculous, 1 pit reed nt once to the essence
of the doctrine, aud passing from tbe condi
tion of patient to that of operutor, became
sensible of great internal power, and of a
strength of volition which enubled me to es
tablish the most extraordinary rapports be
tween my patients and myself, even when
separated from them by any distance however
considerable. 1 becume oware of another
and a still nioro singular phenomenon within
myself. In order to convey to you u proper
idea of what this phenomenon is, 1 must beif
vou to anulyzo with mo the ordinary process
of memory. Memory is the reproduction or
stimmoiling back of past places and events
With some, this mental vision is so vivid, as
actually to produce tho effect of painting the
place or thing remembered upon the retina
or the eye, so us to presor t it with all Us
substantive form, its lights, iU colors, and its
shadows. Such is our so-called memory
who shall say whether it be memory or reali
ty ? 1 had always commanded this faculty in
a high degree ; indeed, so remarkably, that if
I but related a passage from any book, the
very page, the printed characters, were spread
before my mental vision, and I read Irom
the volume. My recollection wus therefore
said to be wonderously faithful, und, as you
will remember, I uever erred in a singlo syl
lable, fliiice my recent investigations, this
faculty has increased ill a very singular man
ner. 1 have twice felt us though my inner
self, my spiritual self, were a distinct body
yet scarcely so much a body as a nervous es
sence or ether ; and us if ibis Bccoud being
in , moments of earnest thought went from
me, und visited the people, the places, the
objects of external lile. " Nay," lie contin
ued, observing my extreme agitation, " this
thing is not wholly new iu tho history of mag
netic pbenoiiiuua but it is rare. We cull
it psychologically speuking, the power of far
woiking. Hut t hero is vet another and a
moro oppul!ing phase ot far-working that
of a visible uppeunmee out of thu body that
of being hero and elsewhere at tho s.inio time
that in becoming, in short, a dopplcganger.
The irrefragable evidence of this truth 1
have tievwr dured to doubt, but it has always
impressed me with un unpurallelled horror.
1 believed, but I dreaded ; yet twie 1 have
for a few moments trembled at tho thought
that 1 1 also may be O rather, far, fur
ruthcr would 1 believe myself dultided, dream
ing oveu mad I Twice have I felt a con
sciousness of self-absence once, a conscious
ness of self-seeing 1 AH kuow ledge, ull per
ception wus transferred to my spiritual self.
while a sort ol drowsy numbness and inaction
weighed upon my bodily part. The first time
was ubotit u foruiirht before I visited yon at
Luis ; tho second happened five nights sinco,
ut tbo period ol wlncu you nave spoken, un
that second eveuing, 1 1 enrich" here bis
voice trembled audibly" 1 felt myself in
possession of an unusuul mesmeric power.
1 thought of you, aud impelled the in Buency,
as it were, from my mind upon yours. This
time 1 found no resisting force opposed to
mine ; you yielded to my dominion you be
hived."
" I was so," I murmnrcd faintly.
At the same time, my brother. I felt tbe
most earnest desiro to be once more near you,
to bear your voice, to see your frank and
friendly face, to bo standing again in your
pretty garden beside the running river. It
was sunset, aud 1 pictured to myself the scene
from that spot. Even as I did so, a dullness
came over my senses the picture on my
memory grew wider, brighter : I felt the cool
breeze from the water ; I saw the red sun
sinking over the Tar-woods ; 1 heard the vet'
per-bells ringing from the steeples; iu t
word, 1 was spiritually there. Presently 1
becume aware as of tbe approach of tome.
thing 1 knew uot what but a something not
of the same nature at myself sometuuur'
that Cllod me with ashivering, half compound
ed of fear and half of pleasure. Then a
sound smothered and strange, at it unfitted
for the organs of my spiritual tense, teemed
to fill tbe space around a sound resembling
speech, yet reverberating and confused, like
distant inuuuor. u came ana died away a
second lime, yet wore distinctly. 1 distin
guisbed words, but not tbeir teuse. - It came
a third time, vibrating clear, aud loud.
14 Albert, look round, man!" Making a ter
rible effort to overcome the bonds which
teemed to hold roe. , I roturuoil I taw you I
The text moment a sharp pain wrung me hi
very limb ; lltex cuius a brief darkacas, and
I then found myself without any opparent
lapse of lime or sensible motion, sit ting by yon
der window where, garit.g on tbe sunset. I had
begun to think of you. The sound of your
voice yi t rantr in my ears j the sight of your
face was still before trie; I shuddered I
tried to think that all had been a dream. I
lirted my hands to my brow; they were
numbed and heavy. 1 strove lo rise; but a
rigid torpor seemed to weigh tipon my limbs.
You miy 1 was visibly present iu your gar
den ; 1 know I was bodily present in this
room. Can it bo that my worst fears ore
confirmed that I possess a double being?"
Wo were both aiietil for seme nifmcr.ts.
At last 1 told him the circumstance of the
bed and of the Toot-marks cn tho sand. He
was shocked, but scarcely surprised.
"I bavo bcou thinking nint h of yon," he
said; "and for several successive nights I
have dreamed of you und of my stay nay,
even of that Very bedroom. Yet 1 buve beeu
conscious of none of these symptoms of far
working. It is true that l'liavo awakened
each morning unnTrcshed nud wary, as if
from bodily fatigue ; but this I Attributed to
over study and constitutional weakness."
"Will you not tell me tho particulars of
your first experience of this spiritual ab
sence ?"
Albert sat pale and silent, ns if ho heard
not. 1 repeated the question.
"Give me some "more brandy," he said,
"and ( will tell yon."
I did so. He remained for a few moments
looking ut the lire before be spoke ; at lust he
proceeded, but in Ftill a lower voice than be
fore. "Tho first time was also in this room ;
but how much more terrible than the second.
1 had been reading rending a ntetupbysicnl
work upon tho nature of the soul when I
experienced quite suddenly, n geusatioti of
extreme lassitude. Thu book grew dim be
fore tny eyes ; thu room darkened ; 1 uppeard
to ti in! i'n sell' in the siroels of thu town.
Plainly I suw tho churcht'4 in the gruy even
ing dusk ; plainly the hurrying passengers j
plaiuly tho faces of many w hom I knew. Nov
it was the market place; now thu bridge;
now the well-known street in which 1 live.
Then 1 came to the door: it stood wide open
to admit me. I passed slowly, slowly up the
gloomy staircase : I entered my owu room;
und there"
He paused ; his voice grew huskv. and his
face assumed a stony, almost a distorted ap
pearance. "And tu9 you saw," l nrgeu "you
saw
Mystlf! Mvevlf, sitting In this verv chair.
Yes, ym ; myself stood gazing on mysolf!
o looked' we looked into each cuch
other's eyes we we we'"
His voice tailed; tue liaud holding the
wiue-glnss grew stiff, ffnd the brittle vessel
fell upon the hearth, cud was shattered into a
thousand fragments.
"Albert! Albert!"! shrieked, "ieoK np.
O heavens what shall I do ?"
I hung frantically over him ; I seized bis
bunds iu niiuo ; they were cold ns marble.
Suddenly, os if by a last spasmodic effort, ho
turned his head iu the direction of tho door,
and looked earnestly forward. The power of
speech was gone, but his eyes glared with a
hi; lit that was more vivid Until Unit ot lilo.
Struck with ou cppnliing idea, I followed the
courso of his gaze. Huik! n dull, dull sound
measnred, distinct, nnd slow, as if of feet
ascending. My blood froze ; I could not re
move my eyes Irom the doorway ; X cotiid not
breathe. Nearer and nearer came tho stops
alternately liht and hcavv, light and
heavy, as the tread of a lumo man. Nearer,
und nearer across the landing upon the
very threshold of the chamber. A sudden
fall beside me, a crash, a darkness! Albert
hud slipped from his chair to tho floor, drug
ging tho table in his tall, nnd extinguishing i
the lights beneath the debris of the accident. 1
l'orgottmg mstautly everything but the
dunger of my friend, 1 flow to the bell nod
rati!; wildly lor help. I bo vehemence ol my
cries, and the startling energy of tho peal in
the midnight silouco oT tho house, roused
every creaturo there ; nud in less time lhun.it,
takes to reluto, the room was filled with u
crowd of anxious aud terrified lodgers, some
just roused iVom sleep, und others culled from
their sludieo, wilu their reading lamps in
their bunds.
Tho first thing was to rescno Albert from
where he lay, beneath the weight of the fallen
table to throw cold water on his face und
hands, to loosen his neckcloth, to open the
windows for tho fresh night-air.
"It is of no use," said a young man, hold
ing his bead.. up und examining his eyes. "I
am a surgeon : I live in this bouse. Ypur
friend is dead." ''
"Head 1" 1 echoed, sinking upon a chair.
"No. no not uuud. He wut ho was sub
ject to this.".
"No aouoi. repneu mo surgeon : "i. is
probably his third uttack."
"Yes, yes I kuow it is. Is thcro no
hope?"
lie shook his bead nnd turned awny.
"What has been the canso of his death?"
asked a bystander iu an awe-struck whisper.
"Catalepsy."
Pickks's Pictikb of Womas. The trne
woman, for whose ambition a husband's love
and her children's aJoration are sufficient,
who applies ber military instincts to the dis
cipline of ber household, and whoso legisla
tives exorcise themselves iu making laws for
hernnise; whose iutelloet has field enough
for her in communion with her husband, and
whoso heart asks no otber honors than his
love and admirutiou ; a woman who does not
think it a weakness to attend to her toilet,
and who does not disdain to be beautiful ;
who beliuvos in tho virtue of g'ossy hair und
well fitting gowns, and who e.njjcws routs
and ravullod edges, slip-shod shows and utnla
ciotis make ups; a woman who speaks low
and does not speak much ; who loves more
than sho reasons, and yet does not love blind
ly ; who never argues, but adjusts with a
smile ; such a woman is the wife we bavo ad
dreamed of ouce iu our lives, and is the mo
ther we still worship in thu backward distance
of tho past.
Am Umxcsy Kick. J. V7. Oilman, of
Jouesboro', Me . while at work in a saw-mill.
in attempting to kick a dog.froxu tbe end of
ine log aceideulully nrougul lus tool in con
tact with the descending ittw, which severed
the foot from the leg-in a twinkling.
Lady fashionably dressed Little boy cau
I go through this gate to tbe river ?
Boy Perhapt. A load or hay went
through this morning. .
A cotemporary tayt that the difference be
tween Joan of Are and Noau't Ark, u tdiat
oue wat Maid of Orleans, aud the other was
madt of Gojhir wood "" .
Ftur hundred emigrants tafid from Ken
Orleans fpi Nicaragua 00 tbt o'.b inst.
Tier are no 3 ( est vQlces in Kanta.
A GOOD TAKE Off.
Wo have never seen a belter travest'n of
the ontrnftPOtis puffing advertisements of
mero worthless stories, than ihe following,
from tho Albany E.ienintj Journa'. ' '
A htimeioiis corrrtspnndent sent ns it tr
veptie of one of tin's sort of advrlisemepts-,
which is so little exit iterated that it haJ a
narrow escnpe from being put into cur adver
tising columns r n getiuino article.
Will bo published early nxt month, rni-
form with the Lamplighter, tho Hot Corn
Girl, the Watchman, tho Barber and tho
Tco Nut Pedlitr.
A new and extraordinary American Ro
mance, entitled
. f B BAOOAOS MAIIGS I
This wonderful work has been over eight
months in prepirntinn, and is the joint pro.
dnetinn of tix nf tlifi. most dikingrished au
tlinrt connected with the Sunday Ou-ltt ; who.
under the assumed incognitos nf "Hnx "J nx,"
"Nux," "Chnx," "Qix." nnd "Tux." have for
years pat delighted the literary world with
their thrilling and Roiil-inspinlip productions 1
It was thought that tho enpapement of snch
nn array of talent could not fail to result in
The mott astounding Fiction ever issued from
the press.', , 4
And the verdict of posterity will show that
in this expectation, the publishers bava no
been disappointed ! . . .
ONE TnOCSASD DOLLARS A DAY.
Ho has paid to the authors of Pnggnge
Smasher, during their labors ; and eneh, in
bis proper department, has showered upon ii
tho most brilliant, corrnscnttons of his genius.
The plot has been elaborated by flux the.
characters have been developed by .Tux the
conversations have beeu wrought out by N'ix
end Chnx arid the scnery been depicted by
Qtix : white tho jokes bavo been gleaned by
Tux frou tho sayings of tbe
rrrEB tks TiiorsAxp,
With ihrs raturul traits of brilliancy nnd
refinement Tux is, by station nnd association,
perfectly familiar 1 ,
Tho plot elf the Iai;gnge Swasher, V ongh
novel in thoexfreme.it strictly founded on
fact. Tho Baggagii Smasher, bursting open
e trunk by too hastily dropping it upon the
deck, discovers n fatherless bey r.?!rep iuaido.
He adopts tho child ns h t own. and ia rewor
ded for his generosity by being promoted
from ono situation of trust to another, until
he arrives at. the-dignity of being clerk of
the steamboat. In addition to which, tho
friendless boy is subsequently discovered to
be a cast-oil' son cf tho '
PI KE OF WF.I.MNCITCW.I
The wholo is severe nnd correct, inculca-'
tii:g thu virtue of newspapers, the liability of
gr.'ut men to err, tho inefficiency of patent
leather straps upon bagfp.se, nnd tbo evils cf
t'uo present social system ns regards tho mar
riage statu.
As un instance -A tho varied contends cf
the B.iggags Smasher, we subjoin n synopsis
of a certain portion, selected at random.
CIIAI'TKR IX.
" 1 lie downward passage 'Call at tho Cap,
tain's office and settle.' '1 he tun that
wouldn't betlle. lie is put ashore. TIow
will I be avenged? The tilting instrument !
Tho Jesuit ticket boy 1 Tho gimlet-hole in
tho boiler 1 The Baggage Smasher heroical
ly stops np tho bo!u with his thumb ! fSensn
tion! Tho burstod trunk ! The discovers of
the innocent child ! 'Where's jny ma?'
, Sympathy of tho p-s?en?urs. Fall of lh
Jesuit ticket boy. Hai' Columbia!"
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Master for the press, our ;Aira gross of
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Tho First Grey Hair.
TTere it is. a wee bit of silver thread,
on its sleuder form hargs a talo cf sufficient
weight to bear dowu thu spirits, and load tho
miud with unpleasant reflections. It tells
that childhood's days tre past, tbe only daya
of unalloyed pleasured days in which we
laughed aiid sported nil day long unconscious
of future ills, days in which we dreamed not
of sorrow. It tells of boyhood' days when
hilarity was our greutest characteristic and
the schoolmaster' rod our o;:ly fear ; days iu
which iu farcy we acted over future life, as a
warrior winning battles nnd conquering ua
tions, anil theu returning iu triumph from a
hero's achievements to claim thu bund cf our
Hulcinn, then the little bluo-eyed girl of our
acquaintance. It tells of our collego days,
when we labored up the bill of knowledgo,
und struggled bard for tho mark of its bon.
ors ; days cf collogd fseindships which we
thoiight, were cudlf S3, iw of which aro so,,
but others. n!os, are ended by neglect, and
the object passing below our f.oindship, ia in.
temperance and disgrace. It tells of boy.
hood's love as trr,3, perhaps, as any, bt not
so ftublo ; of our joutl.ful n.anliood't love,,
when we admire tne object cf our aC'ection
as 0, pure. fAullless bein.tr; yen, 03 on angel
of perfection stat ts. cr.rtb expressly to make
ns happy ; but, alas, it was a delusive fancy,
and now is past. It tekW of disappointed
hopes and ampliations of youth when, mdeed,
"Hope told a flattering tulo,". proniisiuj;
wealth ood fame. It tells many misspent
bonr of misdeeds that brings the blush or
shame to the cheek to- think of. It reminia
as of our giay-buiredi futher, when first the
frost of age began tot settle on bis manly
head, aud reminds ns that, like him, wo tooa
must totter with uge, or lie down iu death..
It reminds us of that grey-haired mother,
whose life hat been a continual sacrifice to
our comfort, too often repaid by unkindness.
It reminds us that we are passing away, and.
soon must be forgotten. Much more it tellj,
ut that it profitable. for reproof, fur .edifies.,
lion, and for btttcriug tho heart.
., A distinguished liUrary tourist wat oue
found in a parpxym of teanovor the sup
noted tonb of VYashiiiKtuu. at AlCuut Vr
tuon, but It tnrncJ out tg l voiy tbt ice-Jkonst.