Republican Herald

The Springfield Republican has the following notice of some remarks in the Boston Courier of last week. Some of the statements of the Springfield Editor are almost incredible :

THE SLEEPING WONDER.—It cannot be expected, perhaps, that distant readers will credit all the statements respecting the Somnambulist in this town, inasmuch as many of the acts are unaccountable as well as incredible. We ourselves doubted until we could doubt no longer. The Boston Courier (which by the way gave us credit for the first account, when it belonged to the Gazette,) seems to think the Springfield editors make statements of the conduct of the girl which they do not themselves believe. We as fully believe what has been stated in the Gazette on this subject, as if we had written it; and with regard to our article of last week, we presented the facts upon the testimony of our neighbors.— We have since seen the girl two hours in one of her paroxysms, and the exercise of her mind in that time more than confirmed to us all that we had said. The paroxysm commenced on Tuesday night, and continued till about five o'clock Wednesday evening. The latter part of Wednesday afternoon, she was in so much pain that she would neither read, write nor sing. She evidently suffers great pain, at times, when in those paroxysms. "She keeps her eye lids closed tight, by night as well as day, and in the day time prefers to have a bandage tied over them, for the reason, as is supposed, that light produces pain. On Wednesday, both cavities of her eyes were filled with cotton, and over this was tied tight, a bandage of a black silk handkerchief; after which cotton was stuffed in the crevices between the face and bandage. In this situation, she read very fine writing just written, told the date on a small piece of coin, the time upon a watch, her own name, and recited two pieces of poetry twice with accuracy, but two or three lines of which she could repeat when awake.—

There is also abundance of evidence that she can read in a room totally dark. She is a well educated, innocent artless girl, in her 17th year, rather corpulent, and has every appearance of health, but is subject to the headache. When awake she is unconscious of all that has happened.

We understand that arrangements are making to convey her in a few days to the State Hospital in Worcester : where our friend of the Courier, and all others who doubt, can go and see for themselves. The names of many of the most credible witnesses might be given to the facts which have been stated in the Gazette and this paper; but knowing the incredulity of people about newspaper paragraphs which savor of the marvellous, we did not intend and should not have said any thing more upon the subject, but for the remarks of the Boston Courier.