The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1845-04-14
Vol. s, Whole. No, 4O9, No. 3S,

tic IDOLS with strange looking crown upon their
heads, and mysterious emblems in their hands.
Itwould have been either very Indifferent mind
that could remain without Of awe in such
Il scene, or deny that il well calculated 70 in
spire such religious feeling the eye Ooae COM
municate to the soul.
There were many other chambers; but we soon
returned to the outer hall, and ngain reverenty ira
yersed lis solemn aises and galleries. Everywhere
pillars and entNblalure were thcltIy encrusted with
relefs; and many day might bc passed in this
scup,ured library before s vast columns were ex-
hOused Of their interest and meaning.
Once more the torches cleaned over god and war
rior, and cavern and shrine, and we returned to our
boat"
The Mormons Of Nauvoo proceeding TO exc
the provisions of their city charter, just if
had not been repealed by the Illinois Legislature
They express their determination to disregard and Sc,
at defiance tho act Of repeal.
TERRIBLE. The London Medical Journal con-
tuns the particulars Of singular case of luminous
breath in dying man, as recently communicated TO
the Liverpool Pathological Society, by Dr. Gill Por-
tons ofthe statement are startling.
Nov. 10th, IL p M.-Nurse observed "red.hot
coaiiiSc streak on Ms mouth, and (playng) on his
right cheek and top lip he lay in the nsensibiy
Of approaching dissolution This fame lasted for a.
uttwenty mnu,es-ie. until DEATH
The impression the mind of the nurse was, that
he iOds insensi6le during The whole Of his LUMINOUS
combustion of his breath lie lay with his eyes open
on his back. The "Aame red, just like red-hot
coal fires" to which the nurse and the other man
(hcIvor) both compared it. Nurse pointed to the
centre Of the clear fire then burning in the ward when
these notes taken; il .'not blue" ii
president with the breath Of expiration ("wheu he
brealhnd out,',) and not lambert, "not Pickering,
coming and going" There was in the room COM
mon ''raked" fire in the fire place at end, close
to which the stoGd and gas jet burning low,
every iowO suspended from ritter in the middle
of the room, ard about twelve feet from the dying
mans bed. At frst on .pnzzling over the strange
appearance Of fame from the mouth Of dying man.
uad awc-s,ruck at what thoy had Witness
cd before; they began to fancy whether tcoud have
been caused by the reflection orihe fire or The gas
but they soon became satisfied in their own minds
tina, it could not, be owing to either. There chad
not been nnyE wandering ofthe dying mans sens
es." Nurse did not speak TO him, he to the
nurse, during the above Mercer had no, been TAX
ing any phosphoric medicine at all or any alcoholic
stimuent during that day, for six week previous,
though he bore a character Of being drunkard.--
Nurse and McIvor terrified so much, that they
dared not stir from their place until the fl me had
ceased. ...
1t seems worth while quoting the expression of the
nurse, not establishment, but because il adds
much TO Inc vorsimitude OF the narrative as indi-
eating positively state Of mind produced by the oc-
cuuence and it accounts for what stated in the
beginning, viz: that the thing not reported to tho
surgeon until two days nfier, owing 10 the fact ihgt
the two witnesses Of The above viewed it in
moral point Of view, and quite out of the depart-
mem Of physiology or physic, and thus from q re-
served feeling about exposing the last state Of man
whom they judged TO have been in death visited, as
it were, before hand with The terrors OF future iudg-
ment M-hud been swearing and disappearing
the day before. Nurse states that McIvor exclaimed
thinking Of the mans character, Good bless me -
it is dreadful TO look it; it seems like punish
ment, as he wicked a man !" McIyer was too
frightened 10 go near the bed, after death
Nurse states that there the slightest singing
cfthe face, whskers night cap, to be detected az
forwards; tho cheek pale aud nothing extraordi-
nary about the corpse could be observed,
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