Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-05-30
A Singular Hulnbug.

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 proclams himself 10
the world as the air and successor OF Jesus
Christ, has created the greatest curiosity
among the miracle hunters ot our CAPT
tai.
This man is peasant Of the name of Peri.
moud, about five and forty years of age, Of
simple and unpretendng manners and home
" speech. He is, however, manifes,ly un-
der some extraordinary magnetic influence,
for he has cured by the effect of his touch
alone many hundreds of persons who have
been TO Wis it him. He receives all strangers
who seek him with the greatest simplicity,
disclnims any credit for the wondrous mira
cles he performs, merely repeating the as
surance of his appointment by our Savior,
who appeared to him in a dream, TO go forth
to the world and testify to the uu,h of the
Gospel. He is of short statue, and Of full ex-
pressive countenance. His hair, parted on
the forehead, descends on either side Of his
temples.
There would be nothing remarkable about
the person Of the man were it not for the
circumstance which has given rise to the
wilful lie or the unhappy deIusiou, which ev-
er it may be, that he thus openly advances
were il not for the extraordinary stigmdtes 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 belief have told me
that there is no deIusion about this. The
hands and feet are pierced through and
TIN ough, and the wound in the side is about
two inches long and very deep; 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 thi $
time Perimond remains exhausted on his
bed. lying as it were in a trance. without feed
or nourshnent and TO all appearance dead.
After 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 10 the knee,
with long full trowsers Of the same. On his
head he wears white linen turband Of the
Jewish form. He carries no ornament on
his person save gold clasp which fastens
the band to which his wais, is confined.
The police 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 10 any way serve as excuse for molestng
him. All that is known is the fact that he
has recently arrived from GreDobe, where he
has lived holy and religious life, much be-
loved by the old peasant woman who had
reared him, and who even to the hour of her
death, declared to have found him one morn
ing living beneath hedge near her cottage.
No trace of his parenIage has ever been dis
covered. He never slirs abroad, and dis.
couraces all meetings or assemblies at his
house; therefore the authorities of Paris have
nought to do in his case. Several physicians
of eminence have already been to visit him
but none have us yet been able TO solve the
mistery Of The long fast and bleeding. Dr.
c., the great anatomist, after remaining
two hours in his room last Friday, left in de-
spair, declaring with an oath, that the juggle
was too we'll managed for discovery : and
therefore the MYSTERY, like that of the ecsiatie
virgins of the Tyrol. remains a MYSTERY still
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