The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-30

and yet to know that this Is their natal SOIL and that
they were born under the same western sky. The
foreign illusion u kept up BY the aspect Of other
thiDes-the bulky, unWieldy wagons Immense
barns, with lower story Of solid masonry and pro-
ectng lots and various old world customs unkno
In New York and New Englaoc. Mrs. Lsforee, Who
Is almost % much Of . character as her husband,
speaks English with . sweet for ign accent, very
uDgamAticay, and, believe, has never been out Of
the couny but once in her life. She still talks OF
that immense journey, some twenty miles over the
mountains.
Somerset county is suffering no less than Others
from the drought the pastures so famous for their
unfading green, are dead and brown; the COWS, -
ore" the wells and springs Of the village ara most
ly dry, and such demands are made on the atenuatr
ing stream ever flowing into Laforge's ample water
trough that half the time 1t is below the point where
it overfows by pipe into his milk cellar. To nee
the droves Of cattle and sheen that come by, driven
from the burned up pastures Of Ohio and painting for
water, fainting tor food All across the great States
Of Pennsylvania and New York the same sight is
wifneesed-these columns Of beeves and mottons
advancing upon your cities for untimely and un-
profitable slaughter. For while We feared La
forees unfaDg spring WOULD give out Its perpetual
gurgle grew 30 faint: but the late showers have
maze il sing NJ ain, and h)ueh there Is absolutely
no hope OF the second crop of hay, the cattle once
more find slender food in these mountain pas.
lures.
The drought affects everything. The apples in
our hosts superb orchard, which are digger than
my fist he ays in ordinary years. "are n,thid' at
oil any more"-qute shrive-l led up: the bses in his
long range Of sheltered hives make NO honey for the
WI lite clover blossom-their mine Of sweets-is not
to be found in the dry meadows. The millers have
stopped grinding corn for want Of water.
Last week an Albiight1amp meeting came of 10
the neghb 1ood OF Laforg eville. This Is
soD to draw together all the boys and girls for miles
around particularly those who are fond Of little
upgody fun. Curiosity ed me to the camp ground
20 al timea / Ut N al their
tio1 those extrao; binary physical p eaomena de-
ecrbed by Soutbey in the life of Wesley, aud which,
believe, have to considerable extent disappeared
among the Methodists. The last night OF the meet
ing was most fruitful in these singular displays
l was told that / should see strange things. At
first The proceedings extremely quiet, as they
had beeL on other occasions. Fires, disposed on four
elevated Platforms. at the corners Of the camp,
which formed hollow square, threw strong but
ftful and wavy light over the congregst on, while
the trees overhead intefarched ket the columns and
roof of q gothic cathedral. The preachers were
rather calm and prosy than otherwise; the prayers
and hymns unexciting, and the latter had q fine
effect upon the night and the open woods. The
women were scrupulously seated on one
side of the spacious enclosure which they call the
altar and the men on the other. OF q sudden,
somewhere beneath the pulpit, and withdrawn from
my view, began to "hollar''-1 know not what else
t, call it; 1t was neither q scream nor groan. It
was articulated, however-"Oh! O-h!"-with
buhIU upWhIO mutCtlOu ~ Tic ClObe, anu CuSu CAmc
"Glory! gloeoryw in the came tene. Here was
speaking right out in meetin with vengeance
and an evident disturbance. The speakers voice in
the pulpit was interrupted and drowned by these
shril wild cries. One of the ministers leaned over
the desk and requested, in low vol ., that the sis
ter should be removed. In q minute they were
drawing her gently along from the pulpit. She came
in sight-struggling,. panting--and shouting "glo
ry" fell forward at full length almost at my feet. The
women closed around her, and bore her away in
their arms to one Of the tents, whittier there was
general rush Of the wilder portion of the audience.
The preachers with difficulty restored order,
chiefly by insisting that the curious could see nothing
at present; ard that If all kept their Seats all would
be able to hear, and, IN due time, to see also.
The sermon went on, a certain number of
persons being gathered outside the tent where
the woman who had been carried off
was still screaming at intervals, "oh! oh! Glory
glo--o,yw You would have said that she was in
her last agony. AT last, the cries continued, OBJ
ger wing lat the crowd around the tent did not in
crease, resolved to join it. I easily insinuated
myself among those who we're standing outside, or
in the next tent, gazing over the boards, which
cone only about b east high, upon the scene inside
The tents are really boarded ,anties, rooed to shed
the rsin, with spaces for cOor and window, which
are closed only by white muslin curtaius. Within,
;he floor was the bare earth; the foruiture, tabs,
best, tench, snd, al one end, SORT OF narrow
bunk coa.aiDng bed. These people clme 70 camp
meetirg equip I'd like eIrigrants gong West, ooiy
which sre ranged outside TIE square,
Within tins narrow cabin, then, sbcut twelve feet
b. eight, lighted by 0 talow candle, the woman
With the poser" wac raDgitg, attended by two
three Of her female friends; yh 'ung of curious
faces Of both sexes peeripg IN at the lateral open
lpgs, bat Chiefly yaurg men o. the farming or labor
ilg lass. Rather to my surprise, fousd that @
was young woman, Of not more tnan nine
teen or t.erty apparently and / recognized
Ter as whom had seen partially affected IN my
previous visit. Her figure was good her stature
above the mean, her features regular, with ripe,
full contour. Her hair bad fallen down, las 1t al
ways does in these tantruDs) and streamed over
her shoulders, black, profuse aud waving. She was
on Ter feet walking about: back and forth, rapidly
and gracefully, singing and throwing about her
arms with great deal Of fine action her head
thrown back, not looking at anything or anybody
the eyes liked Ike epilepsy, preternaturally bright
and staring, and ever and anon stopping to shout,
"Oh, my soul Glory to God ~ with the same perc.
ing upward infection.
After . while this paroxJsm seemed to calm-she
stood motonless her face grew pale, her head fell
more backwards, the lips became livid, the whole
person grew rigid the arms became stify ex ended,
and her friends caught her inst she was about TO
fall backward: They carried her to the couch,
where one of them pported her bead aud builder
on her lap the arms remaining stif1y ex.en lei and
the whole body rigid and motioness.
About this time | managed TO enter the tent, ss
the crowd at the door had thiDned on the girl grow
gether with the women, and after while asked
permission to feel the pulse of the patient pleading
q medical character, to which have some remote
claims. They were perfectly willing. | found the
artery beating regularly and rather full, but soft
and not too fequent it became speedily &C elerated
however, under my fingers, although TO a certainty
the girl was unconscious. Indeed, my touch, or
sorue other cause, ex tied the paroxysm again. Her
bosom began TO heave her arms to work; the risiog
was so fearful from that epileptic rightly that In
voluntarily retreated to q COZ ner of the tent In
minute she was on her feet, crying "glory' again;
and now everybody noticed that in her promeDades
(much resembling those of wild beast in cage)
she invariably came towards me. The women got
before her--as they always show that kindness to
each other-and she retrested, but still returned.
could not catch her eye, still fixed on vacancy
bright, entranced, glitteriDg- but to me she came
She began to leap, to jump up and down, her hair
floating, her garments dancing with the rapid mo-
ton, her either clasped gracefully extended
st' crying, "Oh, my soul praise the Lord !" and
craving NJ arer and nearer 70 the corner where
vss eisconced, till fairly frightened,
watched my opportunity, when the other
wcmen had turned her back, to escape to the other
SIDE Ct the tent. Now she charged her style on
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