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on board the DR.. Franklin No 2, which arrivet
at this port yssterdaJ.-[St. Louis Times, Jun,
18th. 1. :. ..elf ....f ,s..ss
ANOTHER PRoPHET.-The following curl.
Gus statement is made in a recent letter o.
the regular Paris correspondent Of the Lon.
don Atlas: '
Wonders will never cease in Paris.
discovery which has lately been made of al
extraordinary individusl living at the Bar.
rier d'Eufe, and who proclaims himself t.
The world as the heif and successor of Jesu,
Christ, has created the greatest curiosity
among the miracle hunters of our capital
The man is a peasant of the name Of Peri
mond, about FIVE and forty years Of age
of simple and unpretending manners and
homely speech. He is, however, manifes-
'ly under some extraordinary magnetic in
auence, for he has cured, BY the effect Of
his touch alone, many persons who have
been to visit him. He receives all stran-
gers who seek him with the greatest SIM
plicity, disclaims any credit for the wonder.
oqs mirscles he performed, merely repeat
Ing the assurance Of his appointment by
our Saviour, who appeared to him in q
dream, to 60 forth to the world to testify ia
the truth Of the gospel. He is Of short sta
ture and Of full, expressive countensnce-
His hair, parted on the forehead, descends
on either side of his,a temples There
would be nothing remarkable about the
person Of the man, were itnot for the cir
curhstances which has given rise to the
-wilful lie, or the unhappy delhsion, which
ever il may be that he thus openly advances,
were it not for the extraordinary stiymnies
on his hands and feet, and the deep cica-
trice in his side, whence, during the whole
Passion Week, have issued large drops of
blood! Many people worthy of belief
have told me that there is no delusion about
this. The hands and fest are pierced
through and through, and the wound in the
side is about two inches long, and very
deep; that they have seen the brood ooze
from those wounds slowly, and drop BY
drop, for hours together, during thenpast
week, and that during all this time Peri
mond remains exhausted in his bed, lying
as il were in a trance, without food or
and to all appearance dead.
After sunset he revives, the bleeding cea-
ses, he RECEIVERS his senses, partakes Of some
slight refreshment, and passes, the whole
night in prayer. His dress consists of al
short tunic Of white linen reaching to the
knee. with long full trowsers of the same
On his head he wears a white linen tur-
ban of the Jewish form. He carries mol
ornament on his person save gold clasp,
which fastens the band to which his waist
is confined. Tie police have been most
active in causing the sttictest investiga-
tion to be made into the history and antece-
dents of the man; but as yet nothing has
been discovered which can in way serve
rs excuse for molesting him. All that isl
known is the fact that he has recently ar
rived from Grenoble, where lie had lived al
holy and religious life, much beloved byl
The old peasant woman who had reared
hifh, and who even to the hour Of her death,
declared to have found him one morning1
ying beneath hedge near her cottage.-l
No trace Of his parentage has ever BEEN
He never stirs abroad, and
all meetings or assemblies at
MS house; therefore the authoritier of Paris
nave nought to do in this case. Several
physicians of eminence have already BEEN
% visit him, but none have as yet been a.
Die to solve the mystery of the long fast
md bleeding. DR.. c., the great anat-
,mist, after remaining two hours in his
'ooin last Friday, left IN despair, declaring,
With an oath, that the juggle was too well
managed for discovery, and therefore, the
mystery, like that of the ecstatie virgins
f Tie Tyrol, remains mystery still.