Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-08

out his ulusket, rushed into the piazza
Captain Wilcox, supposing him drunk,
put him under arrest.
The next morning being examined, be
declared tbat while on guard at the sur
( 2tUn5 quarters, a gentleman dressed in
black had come toward him He had
never seen MIN before He challenged
Inn and got 10 answer. The gentleman
continued tlI he was close TO him The
sentry threatened to run him through if
he did l4ot answer the challenge Getting
+ no answer, lie thrust, and saw the bavo-
, net pass through the body The figure
gIObered at hIm and turned away. Il
+ was then that he had sIrleked, dropped
his muslet and ran away. Examined by
DF bradshaw. he described the figure
closely the face, hight and dress tailed
precisely with those Of Dr.. Beale, whom
tie sentry had never seen.
Drs. Bradshaw and Hind slept in the
building in scpeEate rooms. They heard
noises, the cause Of which they did not
know, but to which they paid little AT
tention At the the time.
Drs. EIacarthy and Fox came up
They heard nothing. DIR. Mccarthy re
rnaiued there a month, and daring that
time had a severe fever He went TO
bathurst, and returned in company with
DIR. Duggan. Both OF them were in
good health at the time. Neither OF
them had heard the ghost story They
slept, each III an end room, (there We're
three ei1 sasse,) and Dr. Duggan's servant,
boy OF sixteen, in the centre one.
DR.. Macarthy-trom whom | had
these particulars-Ilow heard peculiar
noises in the night. la the piazza out
placed rheir tea things after they had
done with them. He would hear the
cups and sauccrs clashed together, and
the plates, as 1t seemed to him, dashed
iorcibly to the ground. Several times he
went out Iii the morning, expecting TO
find everything broken; but in no in
stance had the position OF the things been
altered in the least. He ascribed these
noises TO some miscilevous fellow who
Ii climbed mt, the E,I4,zs4. lIlobser,-sed by
the sentry below.
He heard also noises in the middle
room, as il heavy pieces Of furniture were
moved about. And often all night long
he wDuld be annoyed by pattering sound
on the floor round his bed. He thought
at first that these were bats which had
fallen on the floor and were unable TO
rise. Bat he could never find them in the
morning Then he supposed that thev
were mice.
One night, instead of going to bed, he
kept his candle Alight and sat on a chair.
with stick across his knee, waiting for
these mice to come out. He heard a
sound at the further end of the room Ii
was like a man walking cautiously on tip
toe. The same came toward him, but he
could see nothing. He strained his eyes
but could see nothing. Then the footsteps
passed close TO him, yet he could see !
nothing.
Doctors are essentially matcrialists
DR. Mccarthy knew that the strangest
sights and sounds can spring from disor- |
dered stomach or a checked secretion.
But when he mentioned his hallucina,on
to Dr D0ggan, and DR. Duggan replied
that he had been troubled in the same
manner, they became perplexed. Still it
did bot occur to them that these sounds
were supernatural. The mind of man is
aycrse 70 believe that which il cannot
grasp.
In the course of conversation they hap
pened to speak 10 Savage about it. He
replied as If it were commonplace mat
ter. . Oh. don't you know the house is
haunted 30 and related the affair of the
senny.
On returning 10 their quarters, Dr..
Duggan observed that his boy was look
ing Ill, and asked him what was the mat
ter. The boy said he did not know, bat
perhaps it was his sleeping in the open
air. On being asked what he meant the
boy replied, with some reluctance, that he
iad gone to sleep on the fiat roof of the
house because tall man in white used to
10 come and wake him up, so that he
could get no rest This boy | afterward
examined myself He told me that it
came and pulled him by the ear, and said,
= wake, wake"
When lie awoke he could see some
hing white moving off in manner
" Vhich he said was not walking, nor rem
hing, nor flying, but something difftrcnt
rom what he had ever seen. | offered
him five shitlings (Which to h:m would 5e
a large sum- offering 10 keep him company.
He looked frightened and refused.
Drs. Mccarthy and Du:gan after that,
slept in the same room. And now,
which IS very extraordinary, these twoi