The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1846-03-14

sion into an asylum specially instituted
for receiving respectable persons. fallen
into decay-the hospital Of Laroche-
foucauld. There he now remains, to
end his'days in peace.
From The Cincinnati Commercial.
REMARKABLE PHENOMENON.
Not very remote from Cadiz, Ohio,
says Clergyman of that place, there
lives Mrs. B., a member of the
Presbyterian church in good standing.
This lady for years past, had involun-
tarilyand uncomSciously delivered a re-
ligious discourse from one to three
hours in duration regularly on every
other Sabbath at about the usual hour
Of the morning service.
She generally appears somewhat un-
well and oppressed on the morning
preceding the exercises, near the time
Of commencing her discourse she ap-
pears swooning away, from which she
appears to recoyerin some degree, still
fro thing at the mouth, pale and deeply
exercised; she reclines upon her couch,
and regularly addresses an audience OF
from two to five hundred persons. AZ
ter she closes she appears'to faint away
with exhaustion; but is soon restored to
her ordinary health and spirits. Then
she is totally unconscious of what she
has done or said, and can only remenl-
Der what occurred up to the time that
she seemed to pass under the strange
Influence.
Her discourse isa pious, lervant strain
of exhortation, often melodical and va
ried, and not remarkable for repetition.
She is decided Calvanist, and is some
times severe in her animadversions up
on the sins OF the day. -
Many people in the neighborhood
think she is inspired. Intelligent per-
sons regard her affections as a remark
able species of catalepsy. There are
some things about it that are very diff
cult to explain. In some respects the
case appears analogous TO the German
servant girl, who under the delirium Of
fever repeated correctly pages Of
Greek and Hebrew, of which languages
she was totally ignorant.
1t may be that the religious reading
of this lady and her devout meditations,
to which she is inclined in her ordlna-
Try health furnish. her with the mate
rials for her sabbath discourses; and
that these things are brought up while
laboring under her cataleptic affection
on the same principle on which the
Hebrew and Greek-which the SER
vant.gir had heard read, came wildly
to mind and got utterance at her lips
But why these affections, wholly in
vol untary should be on the Sabbath and
note on week day--why they should
be every other Sabbath and not every
third Sabbath-and why they should
be about eleven o'clock in the morning
and not at six or nine or some other
hour Of the twenty four-I shall leave
to your wiser correspondents to answer.
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The lady to whom the above article
refers, is we'll known to our citizens
We have been to hear her. on two oc-
casions, and believe that the account
given above is literally correct. Her
discoursesS are generally religiously
beautiful and intensely affecting. We
ry often they cause the audience to
shed tears, and produce good and last
ing impressions on the mind. Similar
cases are reported in medical books,
butthis one is said to. be more remark
able than any other on record. We
have often wished that some physician
at earning ngswould give the public a full
! Landssatlsiac tory account. of the case.
|fn ~ ~ .Cadiz ,Sentiael.
|s The mean general duration Of human
|aife iss1etweens SO and AZ years. The
natural limit OF human life is from so
to 90. OfsalI newborn infants out
of4 dies the first year;two-lifths scarce
ly attain their 5th year; and before
their 22nd year one half9of the gene