The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-06-03
Another Prophet.

The following curious statement is made
in recent letter of the regular Paris cores
pondent of the London atlas
"Wonders will never cease in Paris. : A
discovery which has lately been made of an
extraordinary individual living at the Bar
riere d'Eufe, and who proclaims himself to-
be the heir and successor of Jesus Christ, has
created the greatest curiosity among the mir
acle hunters Of our capital. This man is
peasant of the name Of Perimond, about five
and forty years Of age, of simple and unpre-
tending manners and homely speech. He
is however manifestly under some extraor-
dinary magnetic influence, for he has cured
by the effect Of his touch alone, many hun
dreds of persons who have been 10 visit
him. He receives all strangers who seek
him with the greatest simplicity, disclaims
any credit for the wondrous miracles he per-
formed merely repeating the assurance OF his
appointment by our Saviour, who ap-
peared to him in a dream, to go forth to the
world to testify to the truth Of the Gospel.
He is OF short stature and of full, expressive
countenance. His hair parts on the fore
head, descendson either side of his temples.
There would be nothing remarkable about
the person of the man, were il not for the
circumstance which has given rise to the
wilful lie, or the unhappy delusion, which
ever il may be, that he thus openly advan-
ces, were it not for the extraordinary stig-
mates on his hands and feet and the deep
cicatrice in his side, whence during the
whole OF Passion Week, have issued large
drops of blood Many people worthy Of
hol;of bo az, tolJ 80 az . al ~
about this. The hands and feet are pierced
through and through, and the wound in the
side is about two inches long, and very deep
that they have seen the blood ooze from
those slowly and drop by drop for hours to-
gether during all this time Perimond remains
exhausted on his bed, lying as it were in a
trance, without food or nourishment, and to
allappearance dead. After sunset he re.
wives The bleeding ceases; he recovers his
senses, partakes ofsome slight refreshment
and passes the whole night in prayer His
dress consists Of short tunic OF white linen
reaching to the knee, with long trowsers of
the same. On his head he wears a white
linen 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 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
discovered which can in any way serve as
excuse for molestipghim. Allthat is known
is the fact that he has recently arrived from
Grenoble, where he had lived holy and re-
ligious life, much beloved by the old peasant
woman who had 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 discourages all meet
ings or assemblies at his house therefore
the authorities of Paris have enough to do in
this case. Several physicians ofeminence hay We
already been to visit him, but none have
as yet been able to solve the mystery Of the
long fast and bleeding. DR.. c., the
great anatomist after remaining twoh hours in
his room last Friday, left in despair, declar-
ing witha an oath, that the juggle was too
well managed for discovery and, therefore
the mystery, like that of the ecstatic virgins
of the Tyrol, remains mystery still"