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1 : ' r LOWERS COURTS |o jEj^ature.^oinatice ,3iicnce7E^ u ' ca *‘ on - , ^ C ‘- 1 * li ^' : ' ^.SonmumB.w >4 ^l^3§ I —— 11 aa— EDTTOK8 AND PKOPKIETOKS (:’■ PEP ANNUM IN ADVANCE. The Hermit"* Sigh, (IYrittin amid the wilds near Xexv Mexico\ BY TKATIB. ’Tifl when the saddened heart feels most, It si^hs to be out far away XJpou some isle or lonesome coast That blooms along the shining bay; Or. farther still, it longs to dwell Beside some distant western stream, Amid whose wilds the savage yell Is answered by the panther’s scream. Where from the mountain’s craggy heights. The crawling serpents hiss and sing; The vultures take their morning llights, The eagle spreads liis brawny wing, Then rising iroin his rocky home He soars ar und, and up so high, And soi n is lost in cloudy Driving across the azure sky. So wings my rapturous soul above, " here all I see and all I bear. Proclaim (tod’s grandeur and hi* Jove, That bounds creation everywhere; While earth responds. I join the praise That rises from those mountain rills, And gladdens in the morning rays That light the grandeur on these hille. Amid these scenes, O ! let me die. And bide me not with graveyard stones That other hermits, such as I, May venerate my bleaching bones; Let nature in her sweetness bloom; Her sacred odors round me shed. Will honor more than sculptured tomb, With epitaph above m> head. Ye*, let there be no stone to tell Of gloomy vault where I am laid; Above the ground I d rest as well Upon that turf in yonder shade; And then when summons crimes from God, In judgment*# great and awful day, I’d rather rise from blooming sod Than from the deep and damper clay. What if nohuman hand shall shroud ? The weeping night, with pity’s care. Will fold around her velvet cloud. Ami stars will watch my slumbers there, Till birds awake: then virgin morn Will lift her veil so kindly spread, And bring the sunshine to adorn Her tears of dew upon my bed. Then, let me sleep where all looks wild Vs Kd**n with her birds and llow. rs, When man first saw first loved and smiled Beneath her shades and fragrant bowers But w hil#* T live. O l let me dWL*i!.„i. . Is aubwered by tfce panther s screi.m. | Till: VICTIM OF MESMERISM BY MARY E, BRYAN. > We bave read a chapter from the book of marl’said Pierre, as they descended the wind ing stairway of the observatory. ‘What say “ „ .hall we go in and try the laboratory ? lhe new lias is ready for yonr experiments : or will yon recreate a little with a tew pages of Hum- k°‘Nav ’ said young Thorndale; ‘the nignt is . i ’ •’ 1S unci the moonlight tails soft as on ruy ve islands. Let ns sit here tiling shadows of this willov ear yon talk than read ilvn r there is a fascination in > i r, and your words carry my i they will. I marvel not thu won so eloquent.’ uile that llu el over the dark beneatl 1 b l oldt pat nr y&Sjiiu V ; ‘ ■ !>* ■vSi- j* .’i Iijl - Pi ■ -:'W; v:v, Wv-> ;*> .’4 Hy, 'fir u. ' r W • ,!,.=• ■ W ■ go : ' . : 'i i: : •* 1 * • - fj ..r>. ■ . : ! .IV l!*fti ■■fy ■ MW Yj*ii *^s4s- ! ' Vi . ; f v 'VI < S i! Vi-R - !■- ■ ■■■'-tAj "V ", afcS’-ifci iilif PfisS hill tiislv'w 1. * 1 ! T ’ * ,. IV : ;i-Uv.p [tj! ' r'ffyft? i; ' ' ' (\i vi;wi.)4 Itliljil J M,’ ,-fesiii: *1*8 »'^>*! - iji'K. j I • ’ ii • Ml !&1 il !ii: ted to the closest confi dence of life. A consciousness of its separate and independent existence is the crowning glory of humanity. Take this away, and yon un throne the monarch man, and degrade him almost to a level with the brute. Nothing can be more humiliating to a prond, self - sufficient nature ; and yet, to do this is the province of mesmer ism. Rut so infatuated was I with my dream of power, that I gave not a thought to this. I was piqned at the quiet firmness with which Blanche resisted my subtle endeavors to gain the mys tery of her will, (seeming all the time ; with a wo man’s ready tact, as though unconscious of my motive), and I resolved that this spirit; so strong in its up holding principles and its sense of right, should yield to mine. I determined to remove her from all influences that could counteract my own. I had studied woman’s na ture, and I knew that, take a woman—any woman away from society, friends and social ties, and let her know that you alone are to be her a 1—her world, and if you are not a very devil, her yearning, loviDg heart will pour all its rich oint ment of affection at your a solra’-y nest tor the bir ‘. i wished to tame, and al ter some wandering I found it. There is a small, uriinhabitt d island off the sands and moaning pines, the property of a French man, of whom I found no There was a single house upon the easterncoast—an the quaint, French style sir, how you you lean on vlmt memories it nble ! Will you till you are bet- nothing—not That bird' ■d ot memory, von to-night I tr God that f my life- given the absorb tb< The it wi I ! : it of t triti I so km pTb the 1 Di v > soli’ud. Horn 111 -New ing but a moment: cry jarred upon Sit*down, Ray le. ? I never have done j iv duty, and I will not shrink I spoke just now of my power to j I half denied it; but it is true. 1 it ! It has been i6 of the few to j power to magnetise, to at- i wills—aye, the eery souls 1 cret ot this* strange influence - peeu • fpiained. It is not love ; it is it is something more subtle than eith- ” ’ ■ n electric power that pervades the 1 tDe movements—the touch and concen- itself in the eye. 1 knew that I poss^ss- . er and there was a tune wuen its S Cw ’into a passion. I threw aside all "’Vi this bewilderingly beautiful ons ot uoiil Pnvsical anatomy was h rtbe mysterious e.s^ce of HtV that ,, t j studied all that is science- but it was not enough to ex 's i beautiful work of art—a temple, amine man a . bnt ( uinst penetrate into • . - d-irklv veiled, and in whose sacred ^,7 qunuoJ.be ‘perfumed taper of life, I,v the breath of G id himself. •J > ' i W ent to Germany h onk • r \j esf npri*m, <»t r-ueno- i,S 8 i “ sciences .bat deal with the 11 ,1 ‘ ‘ ‘T 1 investigated all the phe- U ',i "clairvoval.ee and of so-called ‘spint- u I tell you now that their secret is U a!i-m, “ d soul over annther-th« m- t ,e 1,0 Tl sn rit upon spirit, und upon mnlmnl flnence et spun I ^ lec'nre upon . Mlnnce. \ ou bav ® , j s „id: but I dared L.s, ’-P' 1 ,T°T n hedieved and knew of .be soul’s Stii* .*««*• * u “ pr. )f elec re the >1 the b ■ 0V( er, lov. if power v * >nvui: . has id that, this snbt , strength that in irful n ii flu. But that I its tin >irit. [ '111 Vi infatn It st mi st i r\ dan lire and for ten ver matter and s: s not to the pn mys If up to th.< it of Spiritual Mignetism. computativelv new field, ami i s very and occultness were alliuing. But it i g.-r us thing io trifle with the holy s our 'unman microcosm It is assuming rill r;itive of G >d, and it is profanation to seek l<> wield au influence over the soui of another, ex cept f.r high and holy purposes. It is danger ous for ignorance to tamper with liie fiery, electric fluid-; how much more so, th- n, t r n to experiment nckb-.-.-ly upon the more subtle and powerful spiritual essence! I made mans ’ experiments in the science, and met with a suc- I cess that dazzled me. But 1 found ii diffiouli j to obtain s.itj cts upon which to operate, i Scarcely, by brims, could 1 induce even tin : wretched mendicants and rag pickers ot ] Sobwartzburg, to consent that I should operate : upon them, so averse is even the m<‘s at j -et oi I human creatures to relinquishing their in li j vidnali-y. Indeed, the city was rid oi several of its worst nuisances, by their running away •to escape a second course of experiments. Once | having got their will under uiy control, there | was no escape tor them bnt in flight. At last I ; found a little German girl, scaicelj more than i seven years old, with mild, beseeching eyes, | and the gentlest face I ever saw. I bought he of her beggar mother, and used her tor experi mental purposes. I operated upon her daily, I and I soon possessed her soul, as confidently as did mv own. I have kept her asleep for urs, with her little hands folded upon her , flutter wi of mv w it to shri all these < ib. but th< t that st u mg bow the si . make the pal returning life, and then an would cause the awakening back to its nest. Sue submit; periments with the docility -ft I was an appealing look ia hf i mv conscience for a moment; hut it was soon ' quieted bv the anodyne, that I W is perfecting a | glorious science, destined to supplant all others. Mv little German subject was too weak am. I mediocre to satisfy mv ambition. The little i out was frail and small as the delicate body. I She was very pale, and she faded like a Idly . shade-1 from the iight. Finally she died. The ohysician reported it a case of dropsy ot tn brain; bnt Ru le, that child’s mournful, implo- | ling eyes haunted my dreams for years. After that, T left G rmany and returned to ] my native 1 mil. Iu New York, I went for cnri- j -'sity’s sake into gay society, and my power *>■ | magnetising fascinating, as you term it coul > - ave ma le me a second Lothario; but I *ti»» 111,1 spire to the distinct!- n of a lady-killer, lie irts iere bnt paltry game; souls were what I sougnt . possess, and I could fl .d bnt few ot that stroug, yet delicate orguu zition I desired. One night I attended a private musical .soiree, • fi»i on outerin^ tlie salon l ntood, ,onI> i b h voice that rose troiu behind the in^* oioos ' iy woven screen ol vines and tl >wer^, iur.oi on tbe temporary single before me. I* . VrtSa contralto of hucu woudtrfnl purity and delicacy, that it etheriahz-d every thought and til ed the room with melody, sott and trai q' v zmg ns summer moonlight. At once I recognized tn* charm of a superior soul in that voice, tlie face of the singer was not distinguishable behind the net-work of flowering vines, that permitted only a glimpse ol the flowing w 1 1 draperv and th and efin i ,ith charmed my senses. Voice and face tied. Both had the same elevated e both possessed all of woman’s purity i ment. Her face was fair as any water-uiiy, save where the vermillion of her small month cou- ; lasted with the colorless cheek, while the long, brioht hair fell around it in a sbit ing shower, enrdredino that fair head with a golden h do. like those we see in the pictured saints of Cor reggio. I do not think her features were regu lar or that others civile I her le autitul; nor w:s her beauty the magnet that drew me «ithin her sohere; but it was the spirit that shone like liyht through aclond, from every lineament oi | n ?r face, lighting the depths of her i.dhomh s eves and sitting enthroned upon her brow. Before 1 left the .Won, I bad mentally deter mined that she should be mine, body and soul. i;, u it w is no easy task. I could scarcely ap- oroich her. through the atmosphere of purity ; !mt encircled her, like the halo round the umi len moon. Her nature instinctively oppos ed itself io mine, and her clear, candid eyes read my own, till I shrnuk from their searching ^ BiR l won her at last. Her heart at least was mine, and l deemed that I held the ruby key to tbe temple of Eb-usian mysteri-s; bnt for once 1 bad miscalculated. I could gain no ascendency over that perfectly balanced mind. My J, * though she was, and surrendering, a-she did her pure heart unreservedly to my keeping, ver, there bung between ray sou and hers that v.-il ot reserve which is ordained by God himself. I had no right to force my way into that inner sanctuary. Every individual soul lias its se crets between itself and its God secrets w Inch should be held sacred, even from those admit- iltd sunsbi and i and \Yli th bah de-ired influence over my wil power a soul almost as strong t«r more refined and elevated the intoxication of conseicu rvraDts uiiaht command tlieb • in obtaining e. I bad in as my own, and I re veil ei i power. Kir dv: my dc mu „„r the sjdi it. I gave myself up unreserv- I edlv to this analysis of the Luman soul, lhe exi'eriments I made in mesmerism and spirit- I mil magnetism would fill volumes and startle ! the world, were they published. The mesmeric ! ph- nomena related by Gassendi, by the Bishop j „f Bordeaux and all who have written upon this I subject were but commonplace occurrences, compared to those I witnessed in that loiu-ly | house. Frequently 1 prolonged my wife’s I slumbers f >r days, noting every change wrought in tbe body by the returning spirit. I carried h<r soul through tbe classic scenes of tbe East - among which 1 bad wandered, but which she had never seen and enjoyed with keen delight her eloquent and accurate description of ’heir loveliness. I caused her to reail, with closed eyes, books placed at tbe back of her head, as did tbe famous Rachael of Springfield. I made (Concluded on bill page.).