The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-05-18
Correspondence of the National Intellegenccr
New YORK APRIL 20, lS49.
REPRODUCTION OF ANIMAL AND
VEGETABLE FORMS.

| utu 'Ht hpostIt Tdul hseufee Us III
here will he resurrection of the huma
body sfer death, he takes care TO expla
hat there will be very essential diferenc
between the body TO be raised ard the bt
dy that perlshes. cit is sown a nature
body and raised spiritual body ;"--"rber
Is a natural body, and there is spirl,ua
body" Whether science may ever throw
any light upon this sublime doctrine @
revelation or not, II might be almost irrev
efeni to offer conjecture. The christian
philosopher, however, has the high salts
faction OF knowing ,ha, as far as the devel
opmen's OF science have Yet gone 10 am
direction, their known truths are neve
found IN coLfct with the undoubied re-
cords and interpretations of the Sacred
Scriptures. That there is some my s,etl,
Gus essence abou. bodies, both animal and
vegetable, by which their forms, separate
from the natural bodies are sometimes
presented TO the senses, by reflection OF
some other means, there seems to be much
reason TO believe. By the help of some
chemical preparations tie light Of the Sun
transfers TO Il metallic pate The apparent
form oil any Object with The creates, min
u'eness nnd perfection. and leaves il there
permanently Gsed. Vessels hundreds OF
niles a, sea, 10 certain states Of the s,mos.
phefe, have sometimes been seen fi,a,inc
IN the air near shore with pctGct distinct.
tess. The appearance Of human forms
about burylng grounds, Though 10 mos, ca.
ses perhaps having no existence except in
The excited imagna'ious or supersti,ous
Tears Of the behodsrs, may sometimes be
a reality, the result OF natural cause,
which may prehaps hereafter come TO be
regarded natural process as much as the
growth Of plant from the seed.
My thoughts we're turned TO this subject
a. ,h,s tine by sonie singular paragraphs
in late number of the " London Mechan.
les Magaz ne" one of which is said TO be
an esttac, from work Of Oe,inger. emil.
lied Thoughts on the two faculties Of
Feeling and Knowing" and which is as
olloas:
81 chopped up some balm, Put /, into
argc glass reiott, poured rain wafer upon
/. connected the retor, with goods zad
receiver, aud lie, i, hea. at a cuppel, gently
Al first, then more strongly. Upon this
here went into the water a yelIow.green
sh oil it to' k up the whole space OF the
'eceiter, end swan on he surface of the
water the thickness of the back of a table
inifc. This oil had the form Of innamcr.
Die balm ieores, which did no, lap over or
IN into one another, bu, lay aside each
perfectly drawn, end with the dsincness I
# all the lines Of balm leaf. lie, i,
iand long time that all about me might |
observe il. AT last shook the recev.
=, because | had to pour i, out the leaves |
on together, but in no less than minute I
estored Themselves 10 their former position
nost distinctly
The writer in the Magazine follows this
Inoiation By saying:
cater reading the above came quite
Unexpectedly upon a similar accoun, in
lace where one would not certainly INA.
line any thing OF the sort likely to lie |
ouud, VIZ 10 Ptavsi's Causes Celebres,"
collection Of the mos, celebrated crimi
'al trials IN the French courts, (lhe source
, hence Dumas has drawn The greater part (
II his popular work, celebrated Grimes. y /
n the - h volume there is one entitled |
: lie Spectre" at the end OF which Piaval /
n'ers INTO some reasoning on The subject I
# spectral illusions, and brings forward I
he following experiments TO show that the I
orms of things may exis, without. their |
The sui joined quotations from P,ava
IRE given 10 the Magazine in French,
\ hish are here Ions!ated INTO Euglish for
he readers Of The ln.elligencer:
Besides i, is possible tina, The appear.
ance of speclres may have a natural cause
or another reason. Chemists show that
he palingenesie (being born ugain) or the
'esurreciion OF plants is very possible
Able chemists IN great numbers have made |
experiments by which, placing the ashes
IF plant in vial, these ashes exhale and
arrange themselves as nearly as they can
IN the very figure which the Author Of Ma
lure htst Impressed upon them.
"rhe Able Valemont in his treatise on
The curious ties in nature and art. teach.
es the secre, of making this palingene.
sic. He says that the father of Scott,
a Jesuit, assured him that when he was IN
Rome, he had the satisfaction to see the
rose made TO arise from its ashes whenever
ii was desired, by simply employing lii.
tie heat. The same auIhor also laugh,
the art Of using some mineral water which
caused a plant, dead down 10 the roots TO be-
come green as in life. From this palingene.
sic of plants we come TO the palingenesie oil
Gatierel, a very able chemist, states
that NJ. Duchene, one of the best chemists
Of the age. reported that he had seen We.
ry able Polish physician IN Caraeow who
KEEP, in vial. ashes Of sImos, oil plants. so
that when any curious person desired to
see, for example rose in phial, he took
one containing the ashes Of the rose well
preserved, and warming il over lighted