Washington telegraph., 1850-07-10
A MIRACULOUS CASE.

| Wonders will never cease in Paris A
| discovery has lately been made of an ex-
traordinary individual living at the Bar
| riere d'Eufe, and who proclaims himself
to the world as the heir and successor of
Jesus Christ, has created the greatest
curiosity among the miracle hunters Of
our capital. This man is peasant of the
name of Perimond, about five and forty
years of age, of simple and unpretenGing
manners and homely speech. Heis, how
ever, manifestly under some extraordinary
magnetic influence, for he nas cured, by
his touch alone, many hundreds of persons
who have been to visit him.
He receives all strangers who seek him
with the greatest simplicity, disclaims
any credit for the wondrous miracles he
performed, merely repeating the assurance
of his appointment by our Savior, who
appeared to him in dream, to go forth
into the world and testify to the truth of
the gospel. He is of short stature, and
full, expressive countenance. His hair,
parted on the forehead, descends on either
side of his temples.
- There would be nothing remarkable
abou: the person Of the man were it not
for the Circumstance which has given
rise TO the wilful lie or the unhappy de
lusion, whichever it may be, that he thus
openly advances-were it not for the ex-
Irao'dinary Sttgnsates on his hands and
feet, ard the deep cicatrice in his side,
whence Issued during the whole of Pas
sion week isrge drops Of blood, Many
people worthy of belief have told me that
there is no delusiop about this.
The hands and fee, are pierced throuoh
and through, and the wound in the side
is about two inches long and very deem
and they have seen the blood ooze from
those wounds slowly, and drop by drop
for hours together during the past week,
and that during all this period Perimond
remains exhausted on his bed, living as it
were in trance, without food or nour-
ishment, and to all appearance dead. Af.
ter sunset he revives; the bleeding ceases;
he RECEIVERS his senses, partakes of some
slight refreshment, and passes the whole
night in prayer. His dress consists of a
short tunic of white linen, reaching to
the knee, with long full tfowsers of the
same. On his head he wears a white lin
EN- turban of the Jewish form
He carries no ornament on his person
save gold clasp. which fastens the band
to which his waist is confined. The po-
lice has been most active in causing the
strictest Investigations to be made into the
history and antecedents of the man; but
as yet nothing has been discovered which
can any way serve as an excuse for mo-
testing him All that is known is the
fact that he has recently arrived from
Grenoble. where he had lived a holy and
religious life, much beloved by the old
peasant woman who had reared him, and
who, even at the hour of her death, de-
cared to have found him one morning ls.
ing beneath hedge near her cottage.
No trace of his parentage has ever been
discovered. He never stirs abroad, and
disconrages all meetings or assemblies at
his house; therefore the authorities of
Paris have nought to do in his case
Several physicians of emiuence have al
ready been to visit him, but none have as
yet been able TO solve the mystery of the
long fast, and bleeding. DR.. c., the
anatomist, after remaining two hours in
the room last Friday, left in despair. de-
carirg with an oath, "that the juggle was
too well managed for discovery" and
there fore the mystery, like the ecstatc
virgins of the Tyrol. remains a mystery
still Paris Correspondent Of tie LOn-
don AtLGS.