The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-11-29
A SoMNAMBULIsT STORY.

IN the month OF Nov. last, young girl named
Eulahe M OF the age OF fifteen was brought
! 10 one oil the hospitals of Paris while lahoring
under a most alarming attack OF cataepsy. The
case was most curious Que, and the mother oil
Inc gIri declared that she was subject to this DIS
ease, but had never been afflicted for so long a
period together, having been tour days and Nights
without conscioushess The doctors OF the es.
Enlistment were oil course enchanted with this
bonnie 0u6Gtne, ana forthwith began 10 expert
mentalize, anu to prove and test hundred dill.
ferent methods OF cure, which, nevertheless had
all been exhausted before the poor patient was
restored TO herself. Such, however, was the de-
olltated state in which the disease or rather the
RENE dies, had left her, that she was compelled
TO remain for sometime longer In the hospital 10
regain her strength.
1t was during this convalescence that a phe-
nomehon of the most extraordinary nature was
witnessed in poor Euaie, which caused the
greatest perplexity and confusion among the
nurses and doctors in attendance upon her She
was seized with an uncsasing ungovernable
how OF speech-wcrds poured in torrent from
her lips; night and day sleeping or waking, it
was all the same. With persons OF her age and
sex nothing is more common; but gentle reader,
1t was the subject Of her discourse, which was so
extraordinary, and which caused even the Oldest
and most experienced OF the medical advisers
gathered round her bed TO turn aside. some in
wrath. others In contusion-it was the complete
unwilling OF every thought and desire which was
passing through the mind of whoever approach.
ed within certain distance Of her bed
The evil grew TO such he. ht-so many se-
crets got atoat-so many suspicious had grown
into Certainty by this MEANS that it was deemed
expedient TO dismiss the patient before complete
schlsm was created among the authorities oil the
hospital. Every celebrity in the magnetic sci
ence had been summoned to visit the girl, and
all had declared that never before had subject
possessing such extraordinary power OF cairvoy-
ance, been met with. Every one OF the profess.
ors, OF course, contended for the honor of bring
ing her into public notice but the young assis
tant OF the hospital, who had ate nded her in the
first instance, became the happy man, aud bore
! of the treasure TO an obscure lodging near the
Rue st. Jacques, giving up, for her sake, and Tor
the dream OF fortune, promised by the wonderful
| faculty which she possessed, his presen: stua.
ton and the certainty OF advancement he had ac-
/ CURED by many years study and steadfast atten.
ton to his arduous profession.
For awhile every thing prospered with the
young couple All Paris Hooked to hear the rev.
citations OF the syhil, and her house was thronged
from morn till night with eager inquiries,-
About year ago Madame de s.. well
known by her eccentric researches in every kind
| oil SCIENCE, became so enthusiastic in her admira
ton OF Eulalie, that she insisted upon her taking
up her abode with her, IN order to aid in certain
occult works upon which she was engaged
the end and aim being directed to no less an Oh
Ject than the discovery Of all the buried treas.
ure which exists through out France. II would
appear that the revelations of the fair EuIaIe
were OF such nature as to satisfy the most gold
co anticipaions Of Madame de s.. Hun.
dreds OF visions, more gorgeous than Imagination
could supply, hurst one by one upon the sleepi ne
sense OF the somnambula but OF all those which
were thus lad open 10 the greedy anticipatons O
the c0Esutfdnte, none seemed to offer such i'm.
mense and certain chance of splendor as tina
which was bebeld at the Chateau of Chalus.
These ruins, so celebrated 10 English song. be.
came forthwith the object oil a pilgrimage, anc
the Marquise de S--repaired thither with the
firm Inleption OF purchasing the ruins, if the
were TO be had for love or money. But the own.
er cared not whit Tor the first, as far as the
| Marquise was concerned at least, and a great
deal too much for the second so that the affair
was rather more difficult 10 manage than Mad
am de S-had anticipated. Nothing however
impossible to those who are gifted with will firm
and resolute as that of the stout hearted MaFoui,
and the bargain was struck at an enormous sactl.
nee on her part, the only condition being the re.
moVal oil The rubbish which eRcumbered the en-.
trance TO the principal dungeon OF the castle,
where, so the persuasion existed, the whole OF
the treasure was contained. The Impotence OF
the tair purchaser was SO great that, tearing the
customary delay in all French proceedings, she
insisted upon the performance OF this part of the
bargain before she would consent to sign the con
tract. Accordingly workmen were seen to com.
mence the task al once. when 10 by the very
stroke ofthe tanmer hi h eveledI:o the ground
the remnant OF the old wall that barred all ac-
cess to the dungeon, recess was discovered hol.
lowed in the stone, and in the recess u casket OIL
iron, curiousy wroughtin the fashion of the Greek
empire, which casket, being opened was found q
contain diamond OF wonderful magnitude, and
OF the first water 1t said to be six times arg-
er than the LegeRt, and the lustre unryslled by
! any stone known as yet to the world. The val.
uc Of the treasure is supposed to be at leas, Is,
| 600, 900 oil frances. Paris Cor Lon Atlas
.This j. an age Of eneryalion in medicine, sure