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.Netr- Eagiaad Saperstiiions.- of tse nest striking instances Of the effects of dlsordered imagination recently occurred iathis vicinity. The following are the facts:

 in September, 1881, worthy and highly esteemed iHhabitant of this town died sud- denly on the bridge over the Merimac, by the bursting oi blood vessel. It was itlst at day break, when he was engaged with another person in raising the draw of the bridge tor the passage of sloop. The s1ddenness Of the event; tic excellent character et the deceased; and, above all, vague nanef, that some extraordinary dis closure was to be made, drew together large eoncourse at the funeral. After the solemn services were concluded. Thomas. the brother of the dead man,--himself n

 most exemplary Christian, roso di,, and desired to relate some particulars regarding the death ot his brother. He then stated,

 and his manner was calm, solemn, im- iFe,--that more than month previous to bis death, his brother had told him. that ms feelings had been painfully disturbed by seemg, at different times on the bridge, quantity ol human blood:--that, sometimes, 'siiiie iio was gazing upon it, 1t suddenly disappeared, as If removed by an invisible hand; that 1t lay thick and dark amidst the straw and litter; that, many times. in the dusk of the evening, he had seen n vessel coming down the river, which vanished just as It reached the draw; and that, at the same ilee he had heard q voice calling III Il faint and Iamentable tone-''I dm dytagt" and that the voice sounded like his own; that then he knew that the vision was for him, and that hls hour of ofdeparture was at hand. Thomas, moreover, stated that, few days before the melancholy event toolSp his brother, after assuring him that he would be called to testify to the accounts which he had gwen Of the vision on the bridge, told hIm that he had actually seen the same yes- sel go up the river, whose spectral image he had seen In his vision, and that, when 1t returned, the fatal fuliilment would take place; that night after night, he had heard what seemed to him the sound of the horn, from that vessel, calling for the raising of the draw, and that 1t was to him very solemn and awful. ssYou all know.n con tnued the narrator, 9how my brother died, that he died fulfilling the vision,--that his blood lies even now upon the bridge, as ho saw it before his death; and that his last words were heard by the captain of the ves- sel-"I om dyingt'

 There was something the circunistance of this narration-the church crowded with faces bent earnestly on the speaker,-thc evident sincerity and deep solernnjty of tho narrator,-and the fearful character of his communication, while the yet mburied corpse of his brotherlay before him,-which was calculated to revive every latent feeling oI superstition, and to overpower, ut least for the moment, the convictions of reason and the arguments ofphilosophy.

 fiaperhsH, list of 6 mo. 1853. J. c. ".