Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-07-20
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Prophet.

---- - Another Prophet.
Tho following curious statement is made in
rac.ut letter Of the regular Paris correspon-
don't Of the London Atlas. This, indeed, ap-
pears to be the age of imposition and humoug'
Notwithstanding our boosted light Of the nine
teecth century. When we look at the WIDE
spread popularity Of Mormonism' Ml'er'sm,
the superstitutious belief in the mysterious
knockings," and the long catalogue OF ties
and isms of the day, it would, after all seem
our boosted intelligence dwelt but in a name.
(Matagorda Tribune.
Wonders will never cease in Paris. A dis
coverv which has lately been made of an ex-
traordinary individual living at the Barriere
d,Eufe, and who proclaims himself to the word
AZ the heir and successor of Jesus Christ, has
created the greatest curiosity among the mir
acle hunters of our capital. This man is a
peasant Of the name of Perimond, about tive
and forty years Of age, of simple and unpre-
tending manners and homely speech. lie is,
however, manifestly under some extraordinary
magnetic influence, for he has cured, by the
effect Of his touch alone, many hundreds OF
persons who have been to visit him. He re-
.ceiyes all strangers who seek him with the
greatest simplicity, disclaims any credit for the
wondrous miracles he performed, merely re-
beating the assurance of his appointment by
our Savior, who appeared to him in a dream,
TO 90 forth to the world to testify to the truth of
The GOSPEL. He is of short stature, and of full
expressive countenance. His hair, parted on
the forehead, descends on either side Of his
temple.
There would be nothing remarkable about
the person of the man; were it not for the cir
cumstance which has given rise to the WIitul
lie, or the unhappy d~elusion, whichever 1t may
be, that he thus openly advances, were it not
for the extraordinary stigmates on his hanas
and feet, and the deep ~cicatrice IN his SIDE,
whence during the whole of Passion Week,
have issued large drops of blood! Many peo-
ME of beliefhave told me that there is no de-
fusion about this. The hands and feet are pier
ced through and through, and the wound in the
aide is about two inches long, and very deep;
that they have seen the blood ooze from those
wounds slowly and drop by drop for hours to.
Qether during the past week, and that during all
this time Perimond remains exhausted on his
bed, lying as it were in a trance, without food
or nourishment; and to all appearances dead.
After sunset he r~eyiyes; the bleeding ceases;
he recovers 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 trou-
sers of the same. On his head he wears q
white linen turban of the Jewish form. He
carries no ornament On his person save a gold
clasp. which fastens the hand by which his waist
IL confined. The police have been most ac-
tive in causing the ~strictest Investigations to
be made into the history and antecedents Of
the man; but as yet nothing has been discov-
cred which can in any way serve as an excuse
for mo'esting him. All that is known is the
fact that he has recently arrive from Greno-
BILE; where he had lived d holy and religious
life, much belovedby the old peasant women
who has reared him, and who, even to the hour
Of her death; declared to have found him one
morning lying beneath a hedge near her cottage.
No trace Of his parentage has ever been
discovered. He never stirs abroad, and discour-
ages all meetings or ~assemblages at his house;
therefore the authorities have nothing to do in
this case! Several physicians of eminence have
already been to visit him, but none have as
yet been able to solve the mystery Of the long
fast and bleeding. d. c. the great anatomist,
after remaining w hours in his room last Fri
day, left in despair, declaring, with an oath,
that the juggle was too well managed for dis
coyery, and, therefore the mystery, like that OF
the ecstatic virgins Of the Tyrol, remains q
mystery still.