Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-05-15
The Three Mysteries.

49, NA"SAsS
little excitement throughout this country and
in obedience to custom, inasmuch as editors are
expected to be better enlightened than most
folks upon the affairs of the day, from the vast
number Of newspapers they are compelled to
overhaul daily, we are induced to make some re-
marks expressive of our views npon the sub
jects embraced in the above caption.
l. The national or political mystery is the
report relative to the invasion OF Cuba, which
has been in circulation for a long time, and
which at length seems to be working Itself INTO
light: That there is a secret expedition on foot
| of a warlike character there can be no doubt;
large and organized bodies of armed men are
leaving the country, but their leaders are I'M
known, their rendezvous a secret, and Their OBJ
iect, as vet, but little better than surmise. But
from various circumstances-tfle uncontraaiet-
ed rumors relative to the intention OF those Sc
cret bodies and the cause Of the:r mysterious
movements, the destiny which seems to be at
tached to the Spanish rule on this continent
the tyranny and the discomfort that persades
her last possession, its contigulty to the
.land of the free and the home OF the brave
all, proclaim in language louder than words,
that Cuba will soon %unravel those mysterious
movements, and show to the world another
land redeemed from thraldom and bigotry
through the spirit and power of the Anglo
Saxon race.
2. The next mystery which we allude to APP
pears to border On the supernatural, and as yet
cannot be accounted for. We refer to the
"Wonderful Revelations" on the first page
No one can read the statements contained in
this article, without being sorely puzzled what
to think. Few, in this enlightened age, will
admit their belief in supernatural agencies j; but
what must such persons think, when relation
Of facts, such as gwen in the article alluded to,
is made and vouched for in all seriousness by
the editor of the most extensively read news
paper in the world! We are bound to believe
a man serious WHO makes such grave asser-
tons. If, however, they should be made in
wantonness, merely to affect the sale OF his
paper, some punishment is due for such gross
imposition, SO well calculated to injure the
minds of others THAI the ignorant and the
young. This marvellous account, however, gi-
ven in the New York Sun,~of the apparently
supernatural tricks performed at Stratford,
Conn, bears with it some semblance of truth
from the fact that similar occurrences have been
enacted at other places within the last year
We first heard Of singular and apparently SUI
pernatHral 4raps'' occurring nightly in New Or
leans, in a house on the corner of Common and
st. Charles streets, which became SO notorious
and caused such crowds to be collected, that
the police had to be called ont to disperse them.
Eventually the invisible agent took its depar-
tuze from the Crescent City, and thus the mat
ter dropped. We next hear of him trapping
away in a house at Rochester, New York, and
his inyisibility being addressed, condescends to
speak as well as knock-all vouched for On the
most substantial authority: The next debut Of
this wonderful agent, Of this or the other world,
is given in the account published o. the first
page Of to-day's paper. And lastly, we find
by the mail of Monday that it has changed
its quarters to Newark, N. +. where similar
pranks are now being enacted. in reviewing
all this. the wisest may well exclaim that they
do not know what to think. But to cap the
climax Of these wonderful revelations, stimuli
taneous with them, a man is going about the
country OR. Fiske, and we know not how ma
ny more0 lecturing upon the absurdity Of
ghosts Or spirits Of the other world, who as
serted in our hearing that the Witch Of Endor
was not superior to himself in wonderful per-
formances, and that it was in the power Of him
self and others, with the knowledge Of a sci
ence which he pretended TO teach, easily, at al
most any time to raise . ghost; and afterwards
in our presence gave some evidence Of the fact
by making 4 subject attempt to pick up a
squalling baby from the floor where lay moth
ing, causing shim to dodge from brickbats
thrown by an Infatuated mob, and bringing
delight to his countenanee by the sounds Of
sweet music! How do we know but this sci
ence, thus practically and undeniably iilustra-
ted, has some connection with the arappings''
&c. aforesaid. Time, probably, will determine;
and to that sage gentleman weleaye this second
mystery.
!. And now comes the mystery surrounding
the Webster case. In the nineteeth century,
and III ope Of tho most enlightened cities in the
world, 4 trial and conviction for murder have