Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1832-10-11


take plsce "a 1855. Tive gentlemen. labor
ing nndes unhappy Authorizations % mind,
patrODized Matthias, and he lived IN the house
af one of them AZ rack and manager according
to all accounts, being dressed IN n fine fancy
suit at his expense, and entertaining company
at suppers, which, in his brutal blasphemy,
he Iikened to that which the sacrament among
Christians coinmemOrHtes.
We have said that il is moot point wheth-
e. the man Is lunatic or villain and one or
two anecdotes which we have heard of his
conversations, may help the reader TO form
his own opinion ON the question. A gentle
man who has never made any secret of his
skepiicism as to the divine origin of our faith.
went 10 hear Matthias converse out Of Curl
osity. If, said he. you are the person you
represent yourselfto be, you know tina; have
never believed in your miracles, nor that you
were more than human. What do they say
Of me 10 heaven?" My poor FRIEND" said
Matthias. g there is not an angel in heaven
who has not been anxious every day for the
last forty years to see yOu%"tt and il is Ow-
ing to my mercy alone that you have not
been" The answer Of Matthias was uttered
with gravity which admitted of no merri-
ment. The gentleman, afterwards in the
course Of their conversation, which probably
would not bear reporting, asked Matthias
what was the true meaning OF = Hebrew word,
about which scholars have been always in
doubt. I" My poor friend" said the new He
RESEARCH. % have been inthis world once be-
fore, and before ] came this time, made up
my mind to one thing-not to answer any i'm
pertinent questions" Madmen are often SO
shrewd by fits and starts, and even methOdi-
cally. that Matthias cannot be convicted OF be-
ing an imp0stor, because some Of his replies
! ware liz a ithaca r. q s-8 FL
\ 1t seems that by the Revised laws the PO-
lice Magistrates suppose they have power to
1 commit lunatics into custody, and also, 1t
would appear to the penitentiary. For, by
/ warrant from them, Matthias was sent to
! Bridewcll. where his hair and beard were cut
off. He made no active resistance, but de-
nounced divine vengeance against the bea-
dies for the latter dissertation. And, in truth,
we are at loss to know what right they had
to touch hair Of his head, upon such pro-
cess. He was brought up on habeas corpus,
before the Recorder. and discharged by him,
after an examination of witnesses. $50.
/ immediately on bis discharge by the Re.
corder's order. Matthias was again arrested
on warrant for blasphcmy Ny. pa.
Up TO May 1881. we know obese eruptions
Of cholera in Asia and Europe. In the IA
years in which the cholera has ragged, one
sixth of the inhabitants of India have been
carried of one third of those dwelling in the
| towns Of Arabia one sixth OF those of the
same class in Persia il Mesopota mia one
fourth in Armenia fifth; in Syria a tenth !;
lin Russia a twentieth Of the population Of the
infected. provinces up to May l8Sl-and there
the malady has made fresh progress and car
ried off more victims. In India, as the dis
ease has existed during the whole Of "a years,
NJ. de James calculates the mortality at two
and a half millions annually, which would
give a total Of about $4,000, 900 !; in Older,
however, to understate. he reduces the num-
her to 100000 for Indostan and taking
the mortality for the rest Of the world from
China to Warsaw. TO amount TO about SO
millions, arrives AZ the conclusion that so
millions Of our race have persisted 10 IA years
Of a disease which in 1917 existed only in
few spots of the Presidency Of Bengal.
gYs s Quarterly RevissC.