Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-04-30

OF our paper. A letter written by our friend
M. de Trobriand, who accompanied them in
their visit to us, has since appeared in the
French journal of This city, however, and
from this we will translate one or two Of
the leading data. 1t is letter, by the way,
not intended for addressed by
M. de Trobriand 10 "Madame la Com,esse
de =" at Paris-.and obtained with diff
Guilty for print, by his co-Edi,or, who states
this in an introduction. 1t is an epistolary
essay on the subject, in fact, written with
the charming grace and well-bred elegance
so we'll known TO the readers Of the Etas-
Unis, and though we had fully intended to
translate it all, we have time only to jot
down the mere additional information it
conveys.
Before coming to this country, NJ. Gandon
had travelled through France and Belgium,
giving representations of this miracle to the
scientific and curious. The phenomena
seems to have been as much surprise and
mystery to himself, as to any one else One
or two instances Of his own first experiences
are given. He had lef. MarseiIlcs to give
an exhibition at Toulon, leaving an order
at the Hotel where he had been staying, to
receive and reserve any letters which nigh,
be addressed to him there. Arrived at Tou-
Ion, he was lying on sofa, reading, after
dinner, when he suddenly saw sealed let
ter on the page Of the book. Rising and
walking about, 10 be sure that he was not
the subject Of some passing illusion. he a.
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letter, in which was written the announce
ment lha. his wife was dangerously i'll. He
made these phenomina known to persons
ofrespectsbiIi.y, postponed the intended lee
ture, and left Immediately for MsrseilIes,
where he found sealed letter waiting for
him, precisely like the one of which he had
seen vision, and containing precisely the
words he had before read. He hastened TO
Paris, and arrived only in time TO see his
wife few minutes before her death.
But the most curious fact given by NJ. de
Trobriond is, that, between the power Of
Monsieur Gandon and that of ordinary mag
nersm and clairvoyance, there is a strange
antagonism! He seems TO possess the pow
er Of neutraizing or exercising the magnet
ic influence, and his mere presence throws
a clarvoyant inlo indescribable terror. Al,
Brussels, lady Of high rank and grea, in
,elIgence, wished 10 have a cIairvoyanl
questioned as 10 the nature Of his power
She asked his consent-he gave it-and a
Catholic clergyman put the daughter Of the
lady into magnetic slumber, as he had Of
ten done before for experiments in clairvoy-
ance. The momen, the sleeper was re-
ques,ed to place herself in spiri.-communi-
cation with the stranger, she was seized ap.
parently with uncomfortable fear, fell into
violen. convulsions, babe him begone, with
loud and delIrious screams, and so sgila,ed
and terrified NJ. Gandon himself that he
quilted the house without farther pursuance
of the experiment.
On arriving at his hotel, overwhelmed with
what was complete mystery to himself as
we'll as to others, it occurred to him to
make trial Of his power over the mind Of
The other, even when separated. With 3
strong effort, he concentrated his thong hts,
and wllled That she should rise and 60 into
the garden which he had seen attached to the
house she resided in. The day following,
he called to make inquiries, and was inform
ed, that, after his departure, she had remain
ed convulsed by spasms for fifteen or twenty
minutes, but thu, she had suddenly arisen
and walked TO the garden where the agiia.
lion seemed to cease, and she had been led
thence to her room, without further symp-
toms. Questioned, afterwards, as to wha,
she saw terrible in the stranger, the young
lady slated ,ha, he had appeared to her en-
veloped in flames!
| In Paris, the most successful magne,isers
have assembled for the same kind ofexperi
ment, bu, even those who ordinarily find
no difficulty in putting persons into a mag
netic sleep, were wholly unable to produce
the efec, upon their most accustomed sub
jec,s in M. Gandon's presence. The only
instance of magnetism he has ever witnessed
was the one above described.
With the strong interest at present alive
in Newly ork as TO spiritual phenomena, " e
trust NJ. Gandon will be Pu. into explanatory
communication with the most in,eligen, ex-
permentors and seekers for truth. He is
here with his nephew, spiri.-Siamese,
waiting to let US examine the ligalure a. our
will, and all who have seen him hitherto,
have been bewildered and as,onished. We
will not further anticipate speculation on
the theme.
PERsEvERE.-Knowledge cannot be ac-
qired without pains and applications. 1t is
troublesome, and like deep digging for pure
waters but when once you come 10 The
spring, they rise up and meet you.
The diver for pearls plunges into the
depths Of The sea, and the man who aspires
to glory passes his nights in vigiIs.