Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-05-21

pressing his surprise at the unusual promp.
ttude with which the summons had been
answered, and, full of the excitement Of
unlocked for success, yielded to the en-
treaties of the same voice which had spo-
ken before, and which now implored the
evocation of Frederick the Great. The
wizard again stretched forth his hand TO-
ward the door, although doubtful if his
electric current would be strong enough to
accomplish two evocations so rapidly one
after the other. He was observed, how
ever, even in the dimlight of the apartment
TO turn deadly pale, as the door again
opened at his summons, when he called
aloud for Frederick the Great, King oil
Prussia, to appear before him. The mo-
men's pause was truly awful.
By degrees, amid the shadows of the
room could be seen gliding through the
door way, short figure wrapped, like the
one which had preceded it, in kind of
winding sheet clinging to its limbs, and
held around the waist by the grasp of the
hands. The face, however, was undenia-
bly, that of the great hero, and the head
surmounted by the little traditional cooked
hat which makes every Prussian heart beat
with gratitude and loyalty, even to this
day. The figure advanced, as that of
Socrates had done before, close up to the
magician, and there stood still and motion
less within few PAGES of the chimney.
Presently the excitement of the maqi-
clan became intense, the perspiration rolled
in huge drops from his forehead, and his
teeth chartered. Enough, enough-be-
gone, DEPART" said he, in hoarse whis-
per, as the eyes of the figure gIared upon
him with fierce and menacing express
sion. "Begone, | say!' repeated he, in
hollow tone, as the figure still stood mo-
tlonless, in spite of the command. In
another moment, however, the spell was
broken. Rousing himself, by an effor,
which considering the circumstances in
which he was placed, may be regarded as
sublime, he suddenly exclaimed, 81 have
been made the dupe of some my stifcation,"
and stepped close to the figure, which had
still retained lis menacing expression until
that moment, when loud and uncontrol.
liable laugh burst from its lips. and it ex-
claimed, "What! don't you know me?
am Nadaud, and here is my friend Socra-
tes, otherwise Marshall paraguay dill
llers, ready to appear again whenever you
choose; and close at hand is my comrade,
Eugene Guinot in life, and Alcibiades in
death, waiting TO be summoned after me,
as he would most assuredly have been,
had | been able to follow up the joke"
You can just imagine the effect produc-
ed by the discovery Of the mystification.
Mr.. Hume was struck powerless and dumb;
when he recovered he begged it 10 be re-
membered that he had been the first TO
find out the deception, and asserted that
the spirit summoned would have appeared,
and that he does in reality possess the
faculty of raising them. In a few mo-
ments, however, he disappeared, and the
next day we heard, without astonishment,
of his sudden departure from Paris.
1t appears that the three nlauuais plai-
sans who had been excluded from the COM
pany had been determined to revenge
themselves, and with the assistance of a
corafrere, aided likewise by the false white
beard of Socrates and the cooked hat of
Frederick the Great, had almost succeeded
in duping the operator, had it not been
for the uncomfortable laughter of Nadaud,
which betrayed the whole conspiracy.
This is the story told of the sudden de-
sertion of the camp by Mr.. Hume. Time
will show US if this be truth, for he has
promised TO return; and should we not be-
hold him according to his promise in the
space of three months, we shall know
what to believe and what TO doubt of his
mysterious power.-Court Journal
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MANELEss BLOOD HoRsEs.-The Per-
sian Ambassador at Paris, Ferouck- X an,
has just presented to Louis Napoleon, four
.4rdb horses of the purest blood, from his
master the Shah. Their peculiarities are
two-that they are larger than any blood
horses hitherto seen and that they have no
names. Paris was yery much deIiobtad