Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-06-21
ANOTHER PROPHET.

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ANOTHER PROPHET.
The following curious statement is
made in recent letter of the regular
Paris correspondent of the London Atlas:
"Wonders will never cease in Paris
A discovery which has been made of an
extraordinary individual living at the
Barriere d'Eufe, and who proclaims him
self to the world as the heir and success
sor 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
unpretending manners and homely speech
Heis, however, under some extrao dina
ry magnetic influence, for he has cured,
by the effect Of his touch alone, many
hundreds of persons who have been to
visit him. He receives all strangers who
seek him with the greatest simplicity, dis
claims any credit for the wondrous mira
cles he performed, merely repeating the
assurance of his appointment by the Sa-
viour, who appeared to him in dream,
to go forth to the world to testify to the
truth of the Gospel. He is of short
stature, and of full and expressive coun-
tenance. His hair, parted on the fore
head, descend on either side of his tenn
piles. There would be nothing remarka-
bic about 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 1t not for the ex.
tradiuary stigmates on his hands and ieet,
and the deep cicatrice in his side, whence
dnring the whole Passion Week, have
issued large drops of blood! Many peo-
pie worthy of belief have told me that
there is no delusion 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 wounds slowly and drop by drop
for hours together during the past week,
and that during all this time Perimond
remains exhausted on his bed, lying as it
were in trance, without food or nour-
ishment. and to all appearances dead AT
ters sunset he revives; the bleeding
ceases; he recovers his senses, partakes
of some slight refreshment, and passes
the whole night in prayerl His dress
consists of short tunic of white linen
reaching to the knee, with long full trow
sers of the same. On his head he wears
awhile linen turban of the Jewish form.
He carries no ornament on his person
save gold clasp, which iastens the band
TO which his waist is confined. The po-
lice have 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 in any was serve as excuse
for molesting him. All that is known is
the fact he has recently arrived frou, ffrouu,
Grenoble, where he had lived holy and
religious life, much beloved by the old
peasant woman who had reared him. and
who even to the hour of her death, de.
clarcd to have found him one mornine
beneath hedge near her cottage. No
trace OF his parcntage has ever been dis
covered. He never stirs abroad, and dis
couragees aid meetings. or assemblies at hi,
hous; therefore to authorities of Paris
have nought to doin this case. Several
physicians OF eminence have already Wis.
ited HIM; but none have as yet been able
TO solve the mystery of the long fast and
bleeding. DR.. O., the great anatomist,
alter remaining two hours in his room last
Friday, left in despair, declaring, with an
oath, that the juggle was too well man
aged for discovery, like that of the costa.
TIC virgins of the Tyrol, remains myste.
ry STILL"
NJ Poussin, the iato French minister to tbe
U. Sis now one of the most radical Red Re