The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-05-17

IA II they had been Kicked with some vlO-
lence. The dead body was consequently
in half sitting posture. The eyes were
again open and this time gazing ct some
thing nearer-very much nearer, than
what they had stared at on the previous
night. The hands were unlocked and
thrust forward, as if to implors or resist ;
the physiognomy, without any change in
the facial lines, be,okened the most agon-
izing Alarm while the general attitude
inclined the beholdsr to the belief that
the body had been stiffened in an attempt
to rise up and make its escape. Some of
the persons who had fed from the house
had Aliens death struggle SO forcibly re-
called by these appearances, that they de.
c!ared his voice was issuing from the
corpse, and repeating lis dying words,
Back back-awa' VII ye! 1t is na sac
written !"
Under the encouragement and direction
of the curate, the body was re- adjusted
He proposed to the people that they sho'd
bury it at once but they would not vo-
late the old Highland custom, especially
siuce 1T was but ane night mair."
The news had by this time spread in
every direction. People came from Edin~
burg and Glasgow. Crowds poured in
from the neghboring towns and ham'ets
until at twelve o'clock the streets of Had
dngton could not hold them. No doubt
more than thousand persons visited the
rooms up stairs in the blacksmith's house.
and hundreds offered to watch with Mr.
Handyside, and accompany him into the
dead mans chamber at the first unusual
sound, (for such was the curate's purpose
frequently avowed in the course OF the
day,) but when that good man, few
hours after nightfal, mounted the stairs
with his candles and his Bible, only four
men followed him. Seated at a table he
Gained the fears Of his companions, by
boldly investigating the awful facts sub
jected to their consideration. he ac-
knowledged his belief to be that a super
natural agency was at work and insisted
that the citizens of Haddington should
treasure up the circumstance as a warning
against dissoluteness. Perhaps" said
tie, with hesitation, as if the idea he wish
ed to advance was incomprehensible even
to himself, "perhaps, in this case, death
has been too eager-so that disease could
not complete its Office of bodily punish
ment, and there is yet in the disturbed
corpse soulless sensibilitv, over which
conscience and Satan have control-not
tina, [ wish to Judge Andrew Allen. God
| forbidw
lie read such passages from the Bible
as had bearing upon the personality of
the Internal Being; and impressed them
upon the minds Of his hearers, by repeating
with happy emphasis, tue sublime para
phrase of Milton:
Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool
! HIS mighty stature on each hand the flames
| Driven back~ ard, slope their pointing spires,
and rolled
In bllows, leave in the midst horrid vale,
Then with expanded wings he steers his flight
Aoft, incumbent on the du,ky air"
Mr.. Uandyside thought it was in the
adjoining room-his friends thought it
vas, perhaps, in the street among the
crowd but there was wail--a subdued
sound like q ventriIoqual shriek-a voice
pronouncing the words back back ava
wi ye. I'm not to be bruised-Im the
seed o the woman!'' Almost simultane
ously with this there was crash. The
benches were all dashed away from under
the boards, and the body rolled upon the
floor. The curate started to his feet, but
his companions held him back. Cinging
to one another they listened in a sort OF
asphyxia for what was to follow. They
heard a step, as of being barefooted-
heavy. The house shook, and the sound
would have been much louder, if the foot
steps had not been cautious, stealthv.-
But soon they heard another noise, like
the dragging of a human body over the
floor. The four men cried in loud voice
but such cry! In its spssmodic quiv-
ering it sounded like laughter, and from
the thronged streets a yell of horror rose
upon the midnight air, such as never yet
had been heard, for the doomed corpse
was dashed against the partition, separa
ting the two rooms with force far above
human. When it fell it was dragged
away, and again hurried against the wal
At each repetition the conclusion pro,
ducing sound more and more dull. The
curate looked every moment for the wal
to be dashed down. He had now No one
to restrain him; he took his candle anc
rushed into the room, excaimng as h'
did so, ait is my duty.'
The reisa continued som etme after Mr.
Handyside entered the chamber, but 8
length they ceased
The people became alarmed for theil
pastor, and several of them went in to his
assistance They found him in swoon
from which they soon rssuscitated him
But they gszed around and-what coult
they expect to see! There lay the bod,
of Andrew Allen, bruised, beaten into I
qaIyering, gelatinous clot Of gore; Will
upon the -four, printed in blood, were foot
prints OF gigantic dimensions.
MIR. Handyside has never told what b
sad. His onl y answer to the importuri
ties of his friends has been, IL tbolght j
was my duty, but was mstaken--I com
mtted sin. Heaven forgive ms."
: A CALIFoRNIA TgAIS.-A train of s.
|. wagons and about 40 horses from Cam
bridge. Dane county, passed through thi