CHEATING THE GALLONS BY

 MESMERISM. g sz 4.
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The city of Pittsburgh is now excited to a considerable degree, by very singular subject, being no other than report, firmly believed by numbers, that Reidel, who was to have been hanged there couple ofweeks since for murdering his wife, and who was reported 10 have committed suicide in his cell the night previous to the day fixed for his execution, did not thus voluntarily cheat the gal!ows ny his own act, but was mess naerized into coffin and out of Prison.- Some go so far as 10 say that he has been seen alive in Louisville since his reported death. The story goes that Reidel's coun- sel is man who is capable of exercising powerful magnetic influence over any per- con upon whom he chooses to exercise it: g that during his intercourse with Reidel he had accidentally discovered that he was highly susceptible to the mesmerie infu- ence. The idea struck him that by this ] means he might escape. Arrangements were made accordingly. A quantity of blood was conveyed to Reidel in his cell, which he was directed to throw over the floor. A strong dose of laudanum was left for him to take exactly as the town>cloclr tolled certain hour, immediately after ta~ king which he was to cut his arm to keep up appearances, and to place himself with the blanket rope about his neck. The powerful influence of the magnetizer was then brought to bear upon the system of the prisoner, and by this means, together with the laudanum which he had taken, he was thrown intoa state resembling death, and

 remained in this condition until he was ta- l ken away in the coffin by his brother, on

 Friday afternoon-the mesmeric influence

 was then thrown of, and the escaped pris-

 oner left. Such is the story. It throws the

 reported mock suicide of J. c. Colt in the

 shade -Irus Sun. e