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Facts And Fancies."A NEW religious sect has arisen in Persia, in consequence of the preaching of a man named Bab, who has written a new book, to take the place of the Koran. He is said to have already made several thousand proselytes; and eighteen of these Babbees, as his followers are called, have been publicly beheaded by order of the Shah."
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