New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-23


Of mind.
This Davis is young man about eighteen By
trade shoemaker and well known for five year.
past in the neghborhood Of Poughkecpsie he
has received scarce any instruction from books or
schools The statements given IN this painphei
where his views are thrown by the pen OF DIS ell
tor into the shape OF lectures, would be reindfHape
from anv source from youth so situated they lp-
pear mraculous-we mean in point of intelligence
The only way in which the skeptic might evade
this conclusion would BE- to suppose them the
thoughts of his editor whether infused into The
mind of Davis in a magnetic state or inferred
from slight data given by words of the magnetized
We do not feel competent to pronounce upon
this without knowing the parties, and, exactly the
circumstances, having seen much OF uncon
scious selfdeluson and mutual deusion where we
did know them. But the impression made by the
book is favorable. We have read with care The
Fourth Lecture, and with this are much pleased
for il corresponds with our own impressions as to
spiritual facts If the book is accessible hts COS er
gives no information as TO whether or where other
copies than this before be obtainedj all who
are interested in the subject viii find in this lecture
a simple and commanding statement
Another pamphlet, sent US some time since to
which we meant to have referred, is unfortunately
misaid 1t is by an officer in the l. 5. Army and
shows habit Of fair examination and love Of truth
1t cites many instances from the history OF former
ages which We must now class with those we are
observing under this title Of Animal Magnetism. BY
the way, though every writer invents new title
there is no Improvement Each new name is clum'
sier than the last How can 1t be otherwise we
cannot name what we know so little about. Get
hold of the child first before you are so anxious TO
baptize it, For the present. name is good for no
thing except a. a hook to angle for the subject
whal. The facts, the facts what We want
now, no lIasiy. ambitious theories no premature dc
fnitous but carefully examined, distinctly recorded
facts All these three pamphlets please Us m tins
that they aim at facts inquiry merely, not al
theory.
The following story We translate. by way
L'Envoy, from French paper. We say NOT
whether be fact or fable. but il il vouchcd for
the former in il birth place.
A MIRACLE or sOMNAMBULlsM
From Ia Presse Of 9Th June
The following has OF late made great noise III
the nciehborlood of Paris, and IT, authenticity is
ailcsted by numerous witnesses
On the 2slh a youth OF nineteen, Mr. b. only son
of n rich farmer Of the commune Wuissons near
Antony, canton of Lonumeau, left home with
cart and carter 10 get load of stone ON the rock oif
Saulx les Charireux, eight kilometres from Wuls
sons
Having there loaded the cart the carter took 1t
to Paris the young b. accompanied HIM as lar as
Lonumeau There he met young farmer oil hl'
acquaintance. r. Of Chilly. They dincd together
At eight in the evening ,hey parted X. reconduc'
inc b till he was within short distance OF hi'
BIS own home
Meanwhi next morning found Mr.. and Mrs 3
in great uneasncss, for their son had not returned
They assembled sixty persons OF the neishborhood
to search for him Near large and deep piece o.
water called the Grondc, they found letter which
had been put under the young mans care Tins
made them fear n crime had been committed they
sounded the waters, but found nothing.
Search was made in every way on foot, onhorse
back and in wagons with Newfoundland dogs III
the pond but wiihou, any success. Every day
they sent 10 Paris to inquire at the Morgue and
elsewhere. The Gcndarmerie OF Loniumeau the
National Guard. set TO work, and searched the
country day and night.
He had disappeared on Tuesday. On Friday
night two men found in woods, seeking for game
were arrested on suspicion.
On Saturday they applied to the Project OF Seine
ct Disc who was at Loniumeau, and he gave orders
of search to the greater part Of the brlgadcs o.
i. l. l.. i.
But now desperate with anxiety. Mr.. and Mrs
b. recalled what they had heard Of the wonders OF
magnetism. and went to Paris to consult somnam
bust This also on Saturday.
Your son is not dead said the somnambulisi,
see him ON rock the cart had been loaded witt
stone he descends, follows the cart 10 the town
There he dimes with friend. see him at dinner
and afterward walking Then see your son me
by two men they stop him. make him drink, but
know not what liquid. From this moment | los,
sight of him can tell no more, except that he 1
10, dead He viii return tomorrow, Sunday, an'
will not know, himself, where he has been
Returning to Wuissons Mr.. and Mrs b. iispart
ed to their neghbors the faint hope with winch TN
-omnambust had inspired them. The news sprea'
Ia the villages round about all were IN state O
the greatest excitemcnt-the singular disappear
ance OF the Young man who was universally be
loved the strange accoun, given 10y the somnambu
list aud the coincidence between the arrcs, of TN
two men with her story. exalted their imasina'ons
sunday morning all the roads and paths by whic
il Is possible to gain access TO Wuissons wer
thronged with people. They wait. they look fear
hope Al last at eleven IN the morning the dill
gence of Orsay drives mp. stops. young b. gets Gu
and runs 10 embrace his parents.
They crowd upon him with questions He con
firms, in every point the narrative OF the somnam
buhst. After being left by his friend r he wa
seized bv two men who made him drink. Ate
that. he remembers nothing, does not know wher'
he was. nor what happened for three days excep
that GA Saturday night, woman took HIM 10 =
Aubin but he does no, know the place from whicl
she took him She left him in the middle OF th'
street. SAYING A diligence passes through TIN
village. which will take YOU home. HE got in' ac
coriinsly. when il came up. aud thus reached home
All questioning and cross questioning drew iron