Show the no cult W ban ecce homo 1 from he e family herald SP sep I 1 ad 1 I 1 j within the laatt hobt few weeks week however a lit lufft t mysterious drama has baa been enacted at cholte chelten I 1 hum bara which equals anything which sorcery magic mesmerism bi coq biology I 1 spirit rapping I 1 or table ro moving oving im haa I 1 yei yet recorded whether r all ail which we have heard of it be true or not it is of no consequence the result is the same in whatever j i manner produced the subject so far ss the public performance was cone concerned fined mccu occupied I 1 led foor colu columns mas of the cheltenham free press from om of the of july last but the writer was probably unacquainted quain ted with its private ble history tort A mesmerist in london after putting others to w elefa wi with ill the ibe fa force reta of his will and we the waving of his hand succeeded at last in mesmer izing ing himself lu in this condition he said he be was v visited by the spirit who Is the basett masc line aline half of phrenology thi feminine bel belongs to ap anzi other person under the influence of this golm he acted a roost most dictatorial part and stamped and commanded me like a russian bussian monarch two american citizens resident in london one ot of them a merchant of largo large fortune and the other an M D a spirit medium said and table mover and a aitt zeness the wife of the latter took him under their protection in a few days he be gained a most extraordinary tra influence over them so that his word became a law and now they call him 1 I load LOA and alid master they all declare that they have seen the young man clothed in light like the sun and too luminous even to look upon they have seen him also surrounded with stars as brilliant as those in the heavens they have seen him holding seven stars in his hand and one of them being requested to touch one of these stars with his finger it bidden ly changed chalked into an ah eye eyb as he attempted to lo jo so they have also sen a de detached tache i spin spirit it hand come and ai seal him on the hp forehead I 1 it has done the f same on their own foreheads forehead ill moreover he has revealed th the a secrets or of 0 their lives and thoughts and to use th the e language longridge of one of them he has told them all 40 the things that ever they did an amplification wh which ich will admit of enormous paring to reduce it into size ize but whatever amount of truth the amplification contains this much is certain that an all extraordinary impression his has lieen been made on the minds of these american citizens by thid english youth the son of a in maryle Maryl marylebone ebone one and they now almost if not entirely worship him about two months ago they were all ordered to go to cheltenham where they took a house in grosvenor street a v respectable actable house with a in front there biere ley ibey were ell engaged in writ ing comman communications icat ions from the y youths a mouth which communications were destined to form a new bible for in their eyes th the e youth auth is none other than the jewish Mi messiah selah aluir their names were also changed and the young man himself took the name of ecce homo and had his letters so addressed new and splendid dresses a white awhile linen robe with scarlet girdle and crass a crimson mantle and purple cap were tor dered for the chieftain these were made and no sooner made maae than orders were given to the Aine american rican citizens to return to london they did so and left the youth alone and he immediately appe appeared ared in the balcony in in h his id gorgeous 6 bons eons apparel and collected a con ff of persons person in in the street he addressed them fluently in wild and sarali strange laugn language 8 said he would destroy england witta with fire 6 arit ireland in two and take those who would believe in him to a better land fond in ships he promised to father all the children to brother on all the men to protect and enrich all ah the women give the girls what they want magnificent dresses and no work the cons of all this excite excitement men t was a breach of the peace during which he b incited the mob to resist the police and threatened to shoot or strike with death vy by divine judgment the first who approached pro ached he was overpowered e owe 1 and taken to I 1 the e police court in his bis rich h canonicals and committed for want of ball bail for six months to north leach prison in ten days however they let him out without ball bai upon afi the representation of one of the americans who aie not only not disconcerted at what has taken place but even strengthened in their faith of his ha extraordinary pretensions this is tho the youth who painted portrait the eyes rolling and the hair waving as if it were alive I 1 tt t was sent to london to be exhibited privately we went to torsee see it but were too late for the tradesman a very intelligent man with an extensive business who had undertaken t to 0 show it found it a 4 bone of contention in his bis house and was glad to get rid of it but he told us that the were ffrost greatly I 1 lir exaggerated tho his maidservant maid servant who had haa been much mesmerized and was very susceptible burst into tears w when s she looked at t I 1 it and others when they strained their eyes ere about a quarter of an hour found that a light began to arise around the picture and the picture itself disappeared but wain again ap appeared p eared a so 9 9 soon oon as the eye reco recovered ve red I 1 itself it is one of the die peculiarities of biology that the operator makes the patient see am whatever he be wants him to see taste what he wants him to taste and bear what he wants him tp to hear he can call make him forget his own name land and believe himself A another U person so they say dr darling for instance made one patient believe himself to be father matthew and in that capacity address ach an audience on temperance we have seen a v white mail man persuaded that he was a n I 1 r and under that persuasion sing and dance fil jim crow though when he recovered he assured us privately ity that hi he had never do done he such a thing be before fore the in most 08 ridiculous and Incz incredible edible things are done by this biology quite equal in mystery to this ecce homos doings though not i so assumptive whether the young roan man in addition to his I 1 original mesmeric skill has acquired the still more occult and mystic art of bf wi w cannot ten but to all intents and purposes far the present the three A merican american eit citizens ezelis are aie biolo biology gd and firmly impressed wi wih a belief that uns young man is almighty and omniscient for they have positively used these very words in their de scrip tiou power possesses but the story of this youth would not li be colim complete without its female I 1 the logy 7 or the latter end of phrenology i 1 e the word A young w m M of hy hes i in n london and partially acquainted wit regards ads lik herself is as having the latter end of ahre phrenology por for some weeks past she his has been sent as she says by her spirit to the lord mayor and the clergy odthe of the city and avei ordered into the streets to denounce tile the evils of df smithfield market markel cruelty y to cattle neglect of the poor and sabbath break M ing and finally to foretell the destruction of london don city before the end of his y year ear at last such an extraordinary excitement c took place in her that sh continued a day u and nd n night ight taking little abod and no sleep her went inces samily 1 1 saying rude and impertinent in ti a strange and often beautiful things and praying 4 the most eccentric prayers such as this that men might have sleep and that the snoring pigs might be taken out of them and that men pia an and women might g all A be made beautiful with bright eyes curly lair hair vas and rosy cheek and bodies not to fat nor too lean but clean and pure so that they might never feel dit disgust of one another the excitement at last became so ad great ga that a medical man was sent for and she was taken faken to wandsworth Wands worth asylum in 4 a straight wai waist stew coar slie she is there at present A captivity cap cop for phreno liogys head and a ive waistcoat waist lit coat with skirts fot its latter end I 1 for the sake of giving all the ui sciences their due it in may ay here be remarked that the young man had occasion occasionally resided with fc before BB was taken up p by the americans anil and that he went dat from the aw s to his present at location I 1 1 |