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tne teoya". VOLUME XIV. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN., 17, I860. NUMBER 19. -The Dead Iliaing from the Grave ?A Wonderful Narrative. A correspomlont of tlic Crow l'oir.t .{Indiana) /{('/ixter tells the annexed : OiiandTkavkiikr, Micii., May 24. '38. Kus. Hlsinriiv: I send you the fol lowing account of a most extraordinary sent?trnimaetion, or what von will ? .because it ought not to bo suppressed, but thoroughly investignled. In tbo midst #of the excitetmnt here stu b a thing ho cabo am) uuhi need examination is alto gather out or the question ; nor would it be safe to Attempt it, inaainuch as (be sle'ermii.ation of the | eople i* s'rongly to "hush up." Ah I myself Am one of the vhief characters concerned in the all'tir, 1 dare not ulteaip', if possessed the nhili '-ty; to determine the character of what I i not about to telHte. I leA ^Cleveland to establish ipyse'l )?*ve, ah you will remember, some time -Wt Ji?Ijt-*h* young end inexperienced phyfician. Almost the first patient I was called to-'seewss a Mrs. Iliydfeit?a ! woman thirty ft*'e yours of hl'C, a strong j constitution, and a well balanced mind (Apparently,) and (apparently.) with little nr no imagination. She was, however, a* "Spiritual 1*1," with the reputation of beiiiL' a superior ' medium" ll.-r mnul pliv*irinn, l>r. J. N. William*, wa* oh j a???it, hence ln*f application to me, 1 found lior laboring under m nevrre attack of tvphii* fever, which threatened to prove fatal. Having proscribed for her, I left, promising to semi i >r. W en ?jun ait he returned. This eat nn Saturday morning. At itiuUt >1*1. W. took tl.e patient off my Itpiids, ?nd I did not her again until h/itlov evening ??f the ei suing week. 1 tli?n found Iter dying, and remained with iiCf until leer ilceea*#, which took place prfciselr at mtdtiigta. Shd wat, or ap pentad to be, r?ional during the wh'de ngr jrieit, though I was informed that she h^d Itean delirious the greater pari of the There wan nothing remarkable al>oul her e\ diploma; I should say the { ditty"? had token its natural course. .At'U lime of her decern* th?-re were in ll<f hou*e, beside* ime*rf, Iter husband, ' | H|#??Mr#*i? (her sister, ?? (] Mr*. Mil** (a 1 j iiri^lilNir ) li? r hiinli?iiil,'ttliQin ! nnr itc.^Ufiy noticed, w a* v*rv thin, and' w?y*At l Iwn ?ulfrrin)f from a qiick cdn. > muipliou, already iieyond ryovery. 1 fv l*>r* ch racier of ?-cle d-mlnded, very ' . (firm, illiterate, but courteous man, end a , inoet Mienuoua uuheiirter iu Spiritual-' mri. t4 , 1 ( .Jtbrra Ji?d 1-een oonte'vibdiied ronrer *Vyt?, iiu.h a* ie natural'in such acene*. tlia jytliunl taking no part in il except to 1 u * Mini gradually diminish- 1 ( i"l^ vjificu, Iter wmiiU, until about ?n hour i before he/ death, ?h?-ii a sudden nnd in 1 dmcrihahle change PRUTO (Iter her feature*, , Voire and appearance^-a change which he? laic hand noticed hv laying, with, a* 1 thought, wholly ou??wrr*niu I bitter.' newel ? fii* r?j *goe? there curved apirita a paWi," Tltf patient hereupon nncloaed her eve?, and liking a look of untrterahU etnhtion on her huebaml?a look an direct, anarch, ing wnd unwavering llrat I war 0 it a lit X e alariled by it? Mr1. Harden ln?t it' williwomethnig like an unhappy d. fiance, and* finally irked of liia wife what rhe waatt?l. She iminediatidr replied, in a voire of perfect health, "Yon know." I ?m literally aetonivhed at the word a and.the voice in which they were uttereJ. !? w 1 had often read and hear J of a return ' of vofimie and power of voice juat pret ceding diaeolnlion ; but the voice of the patient had none of the natural intonaiioa of aneii-~d? wae, a* I have raid, perfectly healthy. Ii* irfee momenta alie con tinue<U?*tli* Mm? voice. and with btr eyes Blill4Mad upon her buaband : "iMIIfcim, in tour aeiret aoul, you do fc.Mo.t-' . ?? the imploring reply, "that . ia tl??h?eil which baa stood between ua * and JJeeven (or ao many moniha. We' are Ijyjli at the vary verge ot the erava, and. id UoU'a OMua, let hito be buiie.i i 6"L I A pparentl\, without hearing or li3fd? ing him, she repeated her words. ' You dare not ilinl>elit!ve.n "I do," he replied, excited V?v her manner, "while yon are dying?nay, if you were dead, and should speak to me, I liare not believe." "Then,'" sire said, "I will speak (o you when I am dead? I will coma to you at your laiesi hour, and, with a voice from the grave, 1 will warn you of your time to follow me !"' "Hut I shall not believe a spirit." t.i : 11 - ? t win come hi nit) ootiy, anU speak to you; remember !" She then closed her eves, and straightwav sank into her former state. (ii h frw moments? us soon us wo hail somewhat recovered from the shock of this most extraordinary see re?her two ! children were lir?n;lii into the room to ] receive lief tiling h'essng. She partially ^ roused herself, and piwc ng a hand on the ! head r-f each, she put ii|ea faint prayer i to tlie Throne of Grace ? faint in voice, J indeed, hut a prayer in which alt the strength of her great unpolished sou', heart and mind w?i exerted to its utmost ] dying limit?such a pr*ver as a seraph might attempt, hut rone but a dying wife anil mother could accomplish. From ] that moment her breathing grew rapidly weaker snj ns >re d'lhcult; and at twelve] o'clock, she expired apparently without a j Struggle. I closrrl her eves, straightened audi composed Iter limbs, and was about to leave the hou*e, when Mrs Green reipies ted me to send over two \ourig holies from my hoarding house to watch witli the dead. All this occupied some ten mtn uter. Suddenly Mrs. Miles creamed and Mr, I iallien started up froin the bedside wlieie he h id been sitting. 'The supposed corpse was sitting erect in the bed, and strugg'ing to speak ! ll? r , eyes were still closed, and, sa\e her open mouth and q-iireritig tongue, there were nil IIim look* ot deail. tu tier fice Willi | * great l.?-a?o of '.he cheat, At la.it tlie *i 11 tf I ?* word came for lit : "IleilHfUil'er I" Her jaw fell hack to iis p'aea, and alie again Uy down a* before. I now ei mniued ber minulely. That the was [lead there cotl'd be no further poisible d adow of doubt, ai.d *0 1 left lite limine. On the following day l)r. William* I made a careful and minute pn*tininrtem examination of the bodv. 1 Waft proven. 1 ted by buftineftR from at'ending, but I wa? | informed by the Doc'or tlint be found the | brain loil i'nglitljb affected? an unrnmal ' Fact in perming dying of lyphua fe? er? 1 but that her long* were torn and lent e*. 1 Leiiftively, a* if by a andden. ?it?gle and ru.arArf.it ..IV... ...A- 1 : o_ I rt? !?, nutj ?uii nru |)*rilHiy with coagulawd blood. 'I'^iTshu were nil lbs noticesh'e features of the case. She wh? hurried oil ilia a(iernoou of (lie same 1 day. ****** About two weeks kfur I lie death of bis wfe I w is called to vi?it Mr. Harden. * On my w iy 1 inel I)'. Williams Mild lold 111in inv errand, expressing soino surprise at the pre'ere ? . * flho family for myself,1 as I knew bin) lo be a safe and expert-! enced pracliiioiint. 11 * replied that nothing could lore biiil In enter llint bouse, i lie "bad seen things thai?wel1, I would find out wlien I got there." I whs con?d?rai>ly ainused by the Doctor's maimer and warmili, and be* 1 ^utled my way by fancying wliat bad alarmed him, a ph\*ici--n, from bis duly 0(1 my arrival I found no person prea i ent wnb the patient except Mrs. (ireen, who informed tne that tbo spirits bad U-en playing such prank* that not a soul, Dr. W. included, could be itidiced lo j remain. The children bad been gone for j some uinf -, iimv were Ml Iter House. I foui.il the peiieul very Joe, and with Do prospect of surviving the ntuck. lie ?m, however, quite from p:ii?, though very week. While ill tile hou*? I noticed ineny insmifestauons of the presence of the pow er celled spiritualism. Chairs end tables were moved end removed, toilets of wood thrown upon the tire, end doors opened and shut without any apparent agency. 1 heard struggle* and unaccountable i noises, loo, and felt an unusual sensation, caused, t\o doubt, by the mysteries which surrounded ami mocked mo. Noticing my uvr.nusr, the patient observed : ' It's nothing. You must gel used to it, doctor." ' I should not he content unless! could explain them, as *ell as become iudifler. ent to them," 1 replied. This opened the way to a long conversation, during which I probed tnv pa tieul'a mind to the bottom, hut without^ delecting a shadow of belief. Speaking | oi ma wne, lie saul : "You heard Helen promise to warn nie of mv lime to die !" "1 diil ? I>111 do you believe lier ?" "No. If it ia possible, s!ie will ke? p lier word, in spile of heaven or bull. Hut jt ia simply i hi possible. She promised to come in body and speak to me. 1 shall accept no other warning from her save the literal meaning of her words." "And what then ! ' "How much of her holy is there left, even now, Doctor ? and she has not come yet. She promised to come from the grave. Can she do it ? N ?, no ; it is all a humbug? a delusion. L'oor Helen ! Thank Hod, Doctor, the devil which so] haunted her life, and stood between her soul and mine, cannot reach leer now !" "Hal if she should come ! You may he deceived." "I cannot. Others mast see her too, and hear lier. I shall believe no spectre if there are such tilings. Her b ulv aa it is, or will he, let that speak if it can 1" From that 1ms up to the hour of bin death I was with him it'iimst constantly, ana was daily introduced to some new and startling phenomenon. The neigh* 1..,.. I.u l i . i ?-v.? uhm icaiiir*i in bum. me nouoe, aed even ilia Vicinity, as they would the plague; and strange sloriea travelled from gossip tu gossip, acquiring more of the marvellous at er?-ry repetition. Nevertheless, my practice increase 1. * On the morning of March 20, I called earlier than usual. 1 luring the visit, the manifestation* of r supernatural pies' enoe were more frequent, wild and vio lent than ever hefoie. 1 was informed that they had teen exceedingly violent during the preceding night. Their char* acler, too, had greatly changed. Iteside the moving of all moveable articles, the tinkling of glasses and the rattle of tin ware, there were frequent and startling sounds, as of whispered convocations, singing and subdued laughter ? all per- j fee*, imitations of the human voice, hut J too low to enable me to detect the words i used, if words they were. Still, however ! none of these unusual sound* had enter ed Lite kick iomwi. They followed the footsteps of Mr*. Giteu like a demon echo, but paused on the threshold of that room, as if debarred by a superior power from entering there. I found Mr. ilayden **? worse, end sinking very fast. Lie h>t<l passed a beu night. Doubtful whether he would sur! vive to see another morning, I left himf promising to call at evening and spend the night with him, resolved, in rr.y se eret thoughts, to be 'So at the death."? if thete was to be a ghostly warning, I meant to bear it, and, if possible, to solve the strange enigma. ' The day had been exceedingly cold ' anJ stormv, and the night had already eel in, dark and diema1, with a fierce j gale, and a driving stonn of rain and hail, when I again stood beaide n>y pa tient. The moment 1 looked at him, I perceived unmistakable indications of the near approach of death upon his features lie was free frofn p?in, his mind perfectly clear ; hut his lif.i was ehhmg away with very feeble breath, like the slow burn ing out of an exhausted lamp. Meanwhile the stern* rose to a tempest and the glooiu grew black as death in the wild oight without. The win!) swe| t io tremendous gusts through the adjoin ing forests, ratt.ini? the icv l,r*tirh?? ?.f the treee, and came wailing and ahriek* ifikC through every crack aid cranny of the building. i Within there wai yet wilder commc* tion. All tual bad been aaid or eung, written or dreamed of ghoetly visitation', waa tben and there enacted. There waa the ringing of belli, moving of furniture, eras!) of dishes, whispers, howls, crying, laughter, whistling, heavy aud light footsteps, and wild music, as if in very mockery of the infernal regions. All these sounds grew wilder with the rising gale, and, toward midnight, they were almost insuflerab'e. As for us three?the patient, Mrs(Jrecu and myself?we were as silent as death itself. Not a word passed our lips itin-r v o ciock. As lor the state of our minds, God on'y >kt:ows. Mine, in the wi.le world of thought and event which followed, forgot all tho past save what < have recalled and penned, hit by bit, a hove. 1 remember only looking for the final catastrophe, which grew rapidly nearer, with a constant endeavor to con cer.lrate all my faculties of mind and sense upon the phenomenon which I, at least, had begun to believe would herald the loss of my patient. As it grew closer upon 12 o'clock (for upon tlifc striking of that hour had my thoughts fixed themselves for the expect* ed demonstration,) my agitation became so great that it was with extreme diilicul ty I could control myself. Nearer and nearer grew the fatal mo' ment?for fatal I perceived it \tould he, to the patient, at least ? and at la-t the ! seen ii Is trembled on the Li ink of mid, ! night ; the clock began to strike?one ?two ? three ! I counted the strokes of the hammer, which seemed as though they never would h are done?lei: ? eleven?twelve! I drew mv breath agsin. The last lingering echo of the final stroke had died away, and as yet there was no token of sny presence save our own. All was silent. The wind had lulled for a moment, and not a sound stirred the air within the house. The ghosts had tied. I arors and approached the bedcile. The patient was alive?dra w ing his breath very slowly?dying. The inter vals between his gasps grew longer ? then ' he ceased to breathe altogether?he was ' dead ! Mrs. Green was sitting in her place, j Iter elbows resting an her knees, her face 1 buried in Iter hands. I closed the open m mill and pressed < down the eyelids of the dead. Thei: 1 j touched lier on the shoulder. "it is over," ! whispered. ".Thank (iod," was tlic fervent reply. ' * * * The I wc bath slaricl. Tlio'O was h rustbng of the bed clothes ! Mr. 11 ?y den was adting erect, his eyes wide open li s chest heaving in a mighty vlforl for one more inspiration of the biased air. liafore 1 could reach the bed he spoke : At the same instant the wind caine hack with a sudden and appalling gust and a wild shriek, as it ssept through the crevieo* of the building. There was a crash of the outer door, then a stagceri ing and uncertain step in ilia outer room. It approached the sick room, the latch , lifted, the door swung open--and then? ! iny God I what a spectacle ! I wonder, ever, now, that I dare do ! scribe it?think of it?reniOtnV.*r it. I wonder I believed it then, or do now ; ' ihat I did not go niad or drop down ' dead. Through the open door there stepped a figure, not <4 Mrs. H ivden, r.ot of her Corpse, not of death, hut a thousand limes more horrible, a thing of corruption, decay, or worms, ?ud rolletuitss. The features were nearly all gone, and the skull in places gleamed through, while and terrible, ller breast, abdomen and 1 neck were eaten away, her limbs were putrid, green and -inevprestihly loath- 1 s mis. And yet to th.?se putrescent jiws there was born a voice?smothered indeed, and j strange, but distinct : "Coin*, William ! they wait for you! I wAir I" I dared not luru my eye* fiom the in t'udor; 1 could not, if 1 dared, though 1 heard a groan behind me aod a fall. Then it?the thing before me?sank down upon tire floor, in a heap dark and loathsome?a heap of putrescence and dismembered fragment* I I remember that I did not faint, that! did not cy out. How long I stood trans, filed, fascinated, 1 know not; but at last, with an effort and a prayer, I turned to the bed. Mr. llaydca had fallen upon ihe floor, face downward : stone dead. | ?I raised and replaced liim?I composed j his limbs; I cloned his eyes and lied up his chin ; crossed his hands upon his breast and tied them there. Then 1 bore out the body of bis "Sister insensible) but 1 not dead, into the pure .air?out of that 1 horror and stench into the storm and dark , ness?out of death into life *zain. j "Cot'nty ok Guand Tiiavkksk, Mich., t-s: , "Mrs. Joseph A. Green, beinz duly nwnm, deposeth and says, <lmt the letter by l)r. John Morton, hereunto appended, which she has roar!, is strictly true, so far as it goes, though much of the history of what ocourre'l at her brother's (the late Mr. IlavJen) house is omitted, and thus she deposes of her own knowledge. Mrs. .losKI'll A. GuKKN*. "Sworn and subscribed before me, a | Nolf.ry Public in and f r the county of Grand Traverse, and State of Michigan, on the 2.">th <1 ?v of May, A. I). 18d8. ( "J amks r.wi.o?:, Notary Pub!:c." "Cot'NlV OK GuANI) TltAVtfllSK, M'loll .BS.fi "James Ilueson, being duly sworn, do-|j poses and savs that he, in company with | , George Green, Albert J. liaily and lien I | ry K. Smead, on the said 1st day of ' April last, in the afternoon of day, did go to the house of Wil iain II. 11 ay den, I then deceased, and that they found upon . the floor of the room, in which the body j of the said deceased lav, and near door of said mom, toe putrid remains of a human corpse?a female, as the deponent verily believes and avers; and that they carried ( away and buried the body of the said 11 aytlen, deceased ; and found the grave of the wife of said llayden, deceased, in | , llie month of August 1 ? ?f, open at the ( head of said grave, and that said grave was empty of the body of the said wife of i cite said Uaydcn, deceased, being gone , from said grave ; and that they returned to said hoirte wherein said llavden died; and, after removing the furniture from said home, tSie deponent d'd, at the re piest of Mrs. (.rreen, sister of sa:d Hay den, deceased, anil of Mr. (jieen, brother- ' in law of said llayden, deceased, set fire! to said house, and that said house was thereby entirely consumed, with all that remained in said house, and Lnrned to ashes. This I aver of my own knowledge. "J vmt'.a Hue.son." "We aver and solemnly swear that the ahove affidavit is strictly ar.d entirely ; true, of our own knowledge. * I5 K Smkad, (ii;oi;<;k <>iu.lv, A. J. It all.ky. "Sworn and subscribed before tne,No txry Public in And for the county of! Grand Traverse, and Slate of Michigan, i on the 'Jolb day May, A. D. 18iti. j "JAyitr; Taylor, Notary Public." Wii.i.iso to Pay.?iTlie Hartford Press j tells a story of a recent accident on the New London Railroad. An intoxicated i Irishman was sitting en the '.rack, when the engine struck hiiu and throw him j down an embankment. The conductor ! . . . . i uaciceu ins train to picK tip tlio dead ) body. The victim was found alive liow. ' ev?r, only somewhat bruised, and taken to Norwich. Here the conductor kindly , ( tiered to send the man to his lioine, a few miles away, in a hack, but lie insisted ; on his ability to walk, and refused to he . sent home. The conductor pressed the matter, when the Milisian, who had stood the butting of the cow catcher so well, ' bristled up with: ''(io away with yer kerridge. I'll go home by myself; an' j I if I've done any d-iinmage to your ould . engine, bed ad I'll pay for it on the j Spot." Punch and Pmkk links.? A penile' | man lately took the following nieteoro | | logical journal of hi* wife's temper : Monday?lUlber cloudy ; in the af- 1 ternoou rainy. Tuesday ? Vaporish; brightened up! , ? little towards evening. ! Wednesday?Changeable, gloomy, in| clined to rain. Thursday ? High wind and some peals of thunder. Friday?Fair in the morning; varta* I ble in the afternoon ; cloudy all night. Saturday?a gentle breeze, hazy, a thick fog and'a few Hashes of lightning. Sunday?Tempestuous and rainy ; toward evening some what calmer. Kit)in the Net Yoik News. (Jen. Sterling Price. Letters luve teen received iu this city Iroin (Jen. Price, dated at Cordova, Mexico, on t!ie fifteenth of November. Governor Harris of Tennessee,the Honorable John Perkins, Jr., of .Louisiana, General Shelby of Missouri, and a great mapy . m ? ?i ~ ftiici vnicuia ?vi,u n.cn 01 1110 iaie i^oni federate army, wore also at tbe same place; tlie district of Cordova having been selected by the Imperial Corami{? doners as the seat of the colony which those gentlemen propose to found i,n Mexico. We are permitted to quote what Ceneral Prico sa\s about the lands which have been set apart by Maximilian For this colony. "They are about seventy miles from Vera Cruz, and on the railroad leading thence to the City of Mexico. This road is being rapidly constructed, and is now iu operation to within lifieen miles oftbis p ace, and will be completed to the town of Cordova within a w months, and tp the City of Mexico within two years. These lands are three thousand feet above the level*of the sea, and are as fertile as any of lb* Platte lands. IN ote.? The Platte purchase, which is the norlliwesi tern part of Missouri, comprises tbe richest lands in that State, and perhaps in the Union.?Ku. News J They are unsurpassed in the production of corn, tobacco, coffee, vegetables of every k ind, and all the tropical fruits. The lands, which lip between this elevated i-ounirw m..l it? J ?..v .U? coast, product) as much and as good cot loll as (tie Louisiana lands. We arc practically as uear the markets of New (Jr'ean* as the people of Central Missouri are; and the climate is the best in the world. The thermometer never rises above ninety degrees, nor falls below seventy. The water is ew?l!ent, can get ice from the mountains covered with perpetual snow, which are in plain sight, and abAiit il.irv miles distant. The Imperial Government has purclittsed the lands from tho original proprietors, and sells thciu to Us at cue dollar an "Our colon)- commences with aboat lliirty Confederates, all of whom are in high spirits, and expect to make fortunes raising coffee. A. gentleman who has lived I.ere h few years, sold his last, years coll"-e crop for (*10,000) sixteen thousand ilollais. It was produced on sixty (CO) acres of land, lie works only ten ba nds lie tells me that bis fruit trees can sup1 ply Ins table with a different variety of fiuit each day in tbe year. IIis coffee plantation, shaded with every species of fruit tree laden with fruit, and tbe walks bordered with pine apples is certainly tbe most beautiful farm that 1 have ever seen." Katai. Occl'kurnck?We have been informed by a passenger, who arrived ia this city tester Jay, of a fatal occurrence on the l'eo Dee River, where the Wilmington and Manchester Uailroad Bridge formerly stood. On Wednesday, it appears, that in crossing the river, the passengers became excited ' at the reported sinking of the flat, and a number of persons, principally women aud children, jumped overboard. Eight are known to have been drowned, and several more are supposed to bave lost their lives. One ol the ferrymen (a freedman) saved a lady passenger, at the risk of bis life.? W hat originated the report, it is impossible to say ; the Hat arrived on the other side, in perfect safety.? Col. Phunix, The Chicago Tunes thinks Mr. Sum* ner's proposition that, in all Stales wher* one sixth of. the population are colored, on* half of each grand jury shall consist of colored men, should be amended so that, in places where two-sixths o( the population are black, all (he jurors shall he colored, and where one-sixth of the people are mulattoes, one-half of tbs jurors shall be colored women. . General Washington breathed out his spirit in the last hour, on the last day of the week, in the last month of ths J ear, and io the last year of the last csntury. I lie died at 12 o'clock, December J 1st, 1 n:o. -