The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-03-21

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he should fall in battle, In two wears these
forebodings were fulflled.n
SOLVER Cromwell had r%eolined on his couch.
and extreme fatigue forbade the. coming on VI
sleep On sudden his curtains opened, and
a gigantic female form impaired to him that he
should be the greatest man ia England, The
Puritanical faith and ambition Of Cromwell
might have raised during the distracted state
of the Kingdom, something even beyond thisi
and who may decide if the spectre had whis-
Pered 'thou shalt be King hereafter, that he
Protector would have refused the Crown, as on
the feast Of LuperCal, it had been refused by
CasarW FIX, g.,asei aas
Van officer in the Duke Of Marlborough
army mined Prondergast, mentioned to many
Of his friends that he should die on aparitular
day. Upon thet day a battle took place with
the French, and after it was over, and Pronder.
CAST was still alive, his brother officers, while
they were yet in the field, jestiggly asked him
where was his prophecy now. Prondergast
grayely reflied, Il shall die yet, norwithstand-
ing what you see.' Soon afterwards there
came q shot from a French battery, to which
the orders for a cessation Of arms had not vet
reached, and he was killed upon the spot.p
SHUT can these shallow stories be cited as
prophecies!2 The links in the chain Of causa-
ton are evident, and the veriest skeptic cannot
doubt their sequence, where there was SO strong
a probability. It is merely by rejecting on
the past, and judging the future by analogy
Natural events of human actions have laws to
govern them, and there is seldom foresight With
out the reflection on these laws. Lord Mans
field, when asked how the French revolution
would end, replied, 1T is an event without a
precedent, and, therefore, without a prophecy,
"ln l8fl," writes Lord Byron, in a letter to
Mr.. Murray, ''my old school and former fellow
poet, the Irish secretary, told me he saw me in
ST. James, street. | was then in Turkey. A
day or two afterwards, he pointed out TO his
brother a person across the way, and said,-
There il the man ! took for Byron His bro
Their answered, sWhy it is Byron, and no one
elsc.' I was at this time seen to write my
name in the Palace book. / was then i'll Of a
malvaria fever. If Ihad died, here would have
been a ghost story"
"a farmer, Of Teyiotdale, riding home in.
the gloom of the evening, saw, on the wall Of
a cemetry, a ale form, throwing about her
arms, and moving and chattering to the moon.
With not d little terror, he spurred his horse,
but as he passed the phantom it dropped from
its perch, and, like Tam 0'Shmtefs Mamie, it
fixed itself on the Group of his saddle, and
clasped him tightly round the waist with arms
of icy GOODNESS. He arrived at home, and
with a thrill of horror exclaimed, tTake aft the
ghaist? and was carried shivering 30 bed
And what was the phahtoma A maniac Wild
ow, on her distracted pilgrimage to the grave
of her husband, for whom she had mistaken
the ill-fated farmer.n
"Fhe president of q literary club at Ply
mouth being very i'll during its session, the
chair, out Of respect, was left vacant. While
they were sitting, his apparition, in a white
dress, glided in and took rmal possession of
the chair. His face was pale and cadavorous /;
he bowed in silence to the company, carried
his empty glass to his lips, and soIemnly retir-
ed. They went to hishouse, and learned that
he had just expired! The strange event was
kept a profound secret, until the nurse confess
sex on her death bed that she had fallen asleep,
that the patient had stolen out, and, having the
pass-key of the garden, had returned tohis bed
by a short path before the deputption, and had
died a few seconds after9'
"Dr. Dendy gives the following, as a very
modern date:-A wealthy Hebrew, (Roths-
child,) who was wont to fling his gold even in
the lap Of kings, was once standing on a certain
stane at the London post-ofice, when he re-
ceived a letter, on which he specnlated and
lost 100000. On this he cautioned his friends
never to stand on that stone, lest a similar ill
fortune shDuld attend them. The mind Of this
man was a store house Of superstitions-an
omen was his leading star. A drove Of pigs
would check the completion of a mighty bar
gain. and a flock Of sheep would prompt him
TO- sign biz name toa million. Tho three bro.
Tiers of this great house were once on theil
way to Lord LIVERPOOL in order to the compile
ton Of aloahi to the treasury, when 10! an ar
my Of swine met them on their way. There
was no more progress to Downing street tha
day; but they retired to Stamford Hill, anS
the lord treasurer had to wait twonty-foui
hours longer for the Hebrews gold" +
REPoRT
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