The Arkansas advocate., 1832-04-04


 eond appointment with the ghost dele gate for the next day ]; and tofender ary designof Imposing uponhlmuttcrly abof- 1 live, took hlln into lheopen fields. where not house. or q tree, or even a bush WAS in sight, capable of screening any ssifeRosee confederate. iie .eA ti ;tordi- nary cautIon excited the veftriloquist 10 exert all the powers of his art. Nyher- ever the banker conducted hirrl. at eve y step, his ears were saluted on allsides With the complaints and groanss not on- lyot his father, but of all his deceased relations, linploring him, for the love of ood, III the rame of every saint in the eaiendar5 10 Have mercy on his soul ant theirs by etlectually seoondine "tth bis purse the intentions of his wor thy companion. Cornu could no lon ger resist the voice of heaven. and ac- eordingly carried his guest home with him, and paid t.im down 10000 crowns. with which tie honest yentriloquist re- turned 10 Paris and married his mistress. The catastrophe was fatal. The secret was afterwards blown, and reached the nsurer's cars, who was so much affected hy the loss of his money, and the morti- l}lng railleries of his neighbors, that he took to his bed and died.
 Another French yentriloquist. named Nj. St. Giles, was not less adroit inhis secret art. Entering a convent. and finding the ewhole eomnfunityinmorniHe he inquired the cause, and was told that one of their body had lately died, who was the delight and ornament of the whole society, and tiey spoke feeling y ot the scanty honors they had 5estow- cd upon his memory. Suddenly a voice was heard, apparently proceeding from that part of the church where the sing ing of thechoiris performed. lamenting the situation of the defunct in purgato- ry, and representing the brotherhood With their luke-warn9ness and want of Zeal on his account. The friars, as soon as their astonishment gave them power 10 speak, consulted together, and a. greed to aeguaint the rest Of the com. munity with this singular event, SO in- teresting to the s.ssihioile s.ssihioie society. Nj. St $ Giles, who wished to carry on the ioke still farther, dissuaded ihemtrosa taking this steps telling them that they would be treated by their absent brethren as a set of fools and visionaries. He recom- nendcd to them, however, the immedi- ately calling ef the whole community into the church, where the ghost of their departed brother might probably reiter- ate his complaints. Aceordingly, all the friars, s,noyices, lay brothers, and even the domestics of the convent, were imme- diately summoned andcollected togetl1- CT. ln shorttme the voice from tho roof renewed it's lamentation and reproaches, and tho whole convent fell on their Ea- cessand avowed a solemn reparation.- As a first step, they chantcd De pro- Jaoldls in full choir; during tllc inter- ylls of which the ghost occasionally ex- pressed the comfort he received from their pious exercises, and cancellations cn his behalf When all was over. the lriar entered into a serious conversation, with M. St Giles; and on the strength
 " ''ss .=.'ss" uel i'f'ssea5 saSaciously H. weighed against the absurd incredibly of our modern sceptics and pretended philosophers, on the article of ghost or separations. M. St Giles thought 1t now high time 10 disabaso the good f,- a thers. This purpose, ,however, he found it extremely difficult to effect, till he had prevailed upon them tefetarn " ith him into the church, and there be witnessed of the mannerin which he had conduct ed this ludierous deception.-Dr. 7hat- cher's Essayo, Glosts aad .Apparitions. RENEWAL OF THE BANK CHARTER.
 Viesos of the .uojority.