Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-02-16

AsorHER SLKvIK CAsE.-Mr. law
renee, a merchant of New Orleans, dis
appeared recently very much in the
manner in which it is feared Mr.. SleVin
was made way with in Louisville, Ky.
The Della of the 9th ultimo gives the
following account of some attending
circumstances:
"In connexion with this unfortunate
affair, the following singular circum-
stance is related from highly RESPONSE
bic source The veracity of the geRtle-
man from whom we received the story
is unquestionable, and all the persons
connected with the matter are of the
highest responsibility. The wife of one
of Mr.. Lawrence's most intimate friends,
who had for a number of years been on
terms of the closest friendship with
that unfortunate gentleman, is mesmer-
ic medium, and her brother is in the
habit of occasionally placing her in a
mesmeric state. Being at the house of
an acquaintance in Lafayette, on last
Saturday night, about ten O'Clock, (be-
fore any person had the least intima-
ton that any misfortune had befallen
Mr.. Lawrence, the company requested
the brother to mesmerize his sister, as
many of them were anxious to see the
effects of mesmerism. The lady was
placed in mesmeric sleep; and, on the
request of several persons present, that
he would PROFOUND to her few ques-
tons, he asked her, "What do you see,
sister,"
She Immediately replied, al see three
men engaged in fight on the Levee." "
"Do you know any of them?" Eyes,
one of them is Mr.. Lawrence; the
others don't know-one is very tall
man-the other about medium size;
and these two men are striking Mr..
Lawrence. Why don't somebody help
him? Why don't he shoot them?-
There, now, they have knocked Mr..
Lawrence down. Good heavensl they
have killed him." "What are they
doing now?" "The tall man is taking
his watch, and the other is feeling in
his pockets. He is taking some bank
bills out of Mr.. Lawrence's pocket;
now he is taking some gold They are
talking together now; and now they
pick Mr.. Lawrence up and are carrying
him towards the river. Will nobody
save him? There, they have thrown
him in. Poor Mr.. Lawrence is goneP'
She stopped talking for minute or so,
when she was asked, "What do you
now see?" She replied, 81 see a steam
ship lying at the wharf. 1t is about to
leave. There is geat number of pas
sengers on board, and among the pas
sengers, l see the two men who killed
Mr.. Lawrence and threw him in the
river. The tall one has his watch, they
are both better dressed than they were
before"
Here the company having become
satisfied with the experiment, the broth
er woke his sister, and when she wa;
informed of what she had said, she
laughed incredulously, remarking thai
+ she recollected nothing of what had
taken place. The sister of Mr.. Law
renee was present, and the company
were pretty free in passing their jokes
about the matter; and all were vocifer-
GUS in their denunciations of mesmer-
ism as a humbug. Little did they think
that the very scene this young lady had
described was actually at that moment,
perhaps, being enacted, and that Mr.
Lawrence was then no more. 1t is also
a remarkable fact that two steamship:
sailed for California from the wharf, or
Sunday morning. Mr.. Lawrence wa:
not seen after leaving his office, with
FIVE or six hundred dollars in his pocket
at late hour on Saturday night. Nc
r anxiety was manifested by his friend:
until Monday morning. when, beginning
to be alarmed, they instituted search
for him. His hat and some other ar.
ticles, with blood upon them, were
found on the Levee, in the Fourth Dis
trict. All then remembered the story
of the mesmeric subject; and mesmer-
ism had more than one convert in that
company. Was Dumas romance ol
the "Corsican Brothers" all a fiction?