MICHAEL STANTON, Lord May Dublin, May, 2, l8s7.
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CHEATING THE GALLows BY MEsMERIsM.

 The city Of Pnshurg. Pa. is now excited 10 considerable degree by very singular subjeci-being no other than a report, firm ly believed by numbers, that Riedel, who was to have been hanged there couple of weeks since, for mardering his wife. and who was reported to have eommitied suicide in his cell the night previous 10 the day fixed for his execution. did not thus yolun- tarily cheat the galIows by his own act, bu, was mtsmerizcd into a coffin and out of a prisot. Some go SO .lar as to say that he has eeen been alive ia Louisville, since his reported death. The story told is. that Rie- del's counsel IS a man who is capable of ex- ercisiug powerful magnetic infuence oser any person upon whom he chooses to exer- else il; that during his intercourse with Rie- tel he had accidentally discovered that he was highly susceptible to the mesmeric in- fluence. The idea struck fIm that by his means he might escape. Arrangements were made accordingly. A quantity of blood was conveyed to Riedel in his cell, which he was directed to throw over the floor. 4 stlong dose of laudanum was Jeff for him to take exactly as the town clock tolled . certain hour, immediately after taking whichhe was to GU, his arm to keep up appearances, and io place himself with the blanket rope about his neck. The powerful influence "f the magne,iser was then brought to beat upon the system of the prisoner, and by this means. together with the laudanum which he had taken, he was thrown into state resembling death, and remained in this condition En,il he was taken away in the coffin, by his brother, on Friday sfeera on; the mesmeric influence was then thrown oR. and the es- capped prisoner left Such Is the story. h throws the reported mock suicide of John C. Colt quite in the shade