Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-11-21

That has power to chain my gaze,
Or hold it in control!
The beauty that l most admire,
Shines spotlcss from the soul.
The beauty of the form and face,
Last only in our prime;
Tho charms that centre in tho soul,
Will never waste with time:
The radiance from tllat inncr shrine,
Will chain for hours my earnest gaze.
Its charms can ncvcr die,
A Remarkable Magician Necro-
mancer In Algeria
Every one has seen, or heard spoken Of
the great Robert IIoudin. Beside being
the prince of coniurors, heis an able math,
emalican and machanician, aud his cleo
trio clock, made for the Hotel de Willie of
his native town of Bois, obtained medal
atthc Paris Exhibition it is not general.
ly known that he was sent 10 Algeria by
the French Government on a mission con.
ncctcd With the black art--probaby the
first time lhaLa conjuror has been called
upon to exercise his profession in Govern.
nent employ. Some details of ls eNhibi,
tion have just been published. lis object
was to destroy the influence exercised a.
mong tho Arab tribes Ivy the Marabouts--
aninilucncc often mischicvously applied
by few clumsy tricks and impostures
these Marabouts pass themselves off as sor-
cerers; no one, 1T was Justly thought, was
better able to. eclipse theirskill and dis.
credit their science than the man Of mex
haustible bottles.
One of the great pretensions Of the Mar.
about was to inyulnerability, AT the mo-
ment that loaded musket was aimed at
him, and the trigger pulled, lie pronounc-
ed few cabalislic words and the weapon
| did not 90 Off lIoudin detected the trick,
and showed that the tubehole was plugged.
The Arab wizard was furious, and abused
his French rival, "You may revenge your
SELF" quietly replied Houdin; "take pis,
tol load it yourself; here are bullets; put
one in the barrel but before doing so, mark
it with your knife" The Arab did as no
was told. You arc quite certain, now"
said Houdin, "that the pistol is loaded and
will 90 off. Tell me, do you feel no rcmorse
in killing me thus, notwithstanding that I
authorize you 2" "You are my enelny,"
coolly replied the Arab "I will kill YOU"
Without replying, IToudn stuck an apple
on the point of knife, and calmly gave
the word 10 fire..
The pistol was discharged, theapple flew
far away, and there appeared in its place,
stuck on the point of the kuife, the bullet
that Marabout had Marked
! The spectators remained mute from stu.
pcfaction the Marabout bowed before his
superior. "Allah is great p he said, N am
vanquishcl." Instead of the bottle from
which, in Europe, Robert Houdin pours an
endless stream Of every description of wine
and liquor, he called for an empty bowl,
which he kept continually full Of boiling
coffee, but few Of the Arabs would taste it.,
for they made sure that it came direct from
the devils own coffee pot lie then told
them that it was in his power to deprive
them ofall strength, and to restore it to
them at will, and he produced small box,
so light that child could !ift it with his
finger; but it suddenly became so heavy
that the strongest man present could not
raise 1t, and the Arabs, who prize physical
strength above everything, looked with ter
ror at the great magician vino, they doub.
ted not could annibilate them by The mere
exertion of his will They expressed this
belief; Ioudin confirmed them in it, and
promised that, on dayappointed, he would
convert one of them into smoke. The day
came tho tIlrong was prodigious; ia.
natical Marabout had agreed to give him.
sell up to the sorcerer They made him
stand upon a table and covered him with a
transparent gauze; the Houdin and anoth
er person lifted The table 10y the two ends.
and the Arab disappeared ina cloud OF
! smoke,
The terror Of tho spectators was indies,
I cribable; they rushed out OF the place, and
ran long distance before some of tile
boldest thought of returning 10 look after
the Marabout. They found him near the
place where he had been cyaporated, bot
| he could tell them nothing, and was like a
drunken man, Ignorant of what had hap
pened TO him. Thenceforward Houdih was
vencrated, ,and the Marabouts despiscCl; 1.-The
object Of the French Government was com
pletely atlained. The fashion of qestimo.
malls" having, itappeared, infected even the
Arabs, and a number Of chiefs presented
\ the French eopjnror with a piece of Arab
writing, wonderfully decorated, Iayperboli-
cal and eulogistie, aud to which they were
so attentive as to append French trans
lation. Besides this memorial of his Aloe-
rine trip, Houdin has rosary which he
one day borrowed from an Arab to per-
form trick With, and which the owner,
persuaded that Sbitan in person. was be.
| fore him. refused to receive back london
| Times PARIS Correspondent. sah
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