Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-06-16
MISCELLANEOUS
A FEARFUL DREAM-TIIE LAST
SATURNALIA

=" III Soi''NsS5Oh al SluU vi young lflSI WnlCn,
from extreme pronigacy of its members,
and the RIGHTEOUSNESS Of their orgies, was
commonly called the He'll Club. Besides
their nightly or weekly meetings they
held one grand annual satunalia in which
each tried to excel the other in drunken
ness and blasphcmy and on these occa-
Slons there was no star amongst them
whose lurid light was more conspicuous
than that of young Mr.. Archibald b.,
who, endowed with brilliant talents and a
handsome person, held out great promise
In his boyhood, and raised hopes which
had been completely frustrated by his
subsequent reckless dissipations.
One morning, after returning from this
annual festival, Mr.. Archibald B. having
retired to bed, dreamed the following
dream:
lie fancicd that he himself was noun
ted on a fayoritc black horse that he al
ways rode, and that he was proceeding
towards his own housc-thcn a country
scat cmbowered by trees, and situated
upon a hill, now entirely built over and
forming part Of the city-whon stran-
ger, whom the darkness On the night pre-
vented his distinctly discerning, suddenly
seized the horses rein, saying, you must
go with mc''
"And who are you?" exclaimed the
young man, with vollcy of oaths, whilst
he struggled to free himself.
"That you will sec bye and bye" re-
turned the other, in tone that excited
terror in the youth, who,
plunging his spurs into his horse, attempt
cd to fly, but in vain. However fast the
animal flew, the stranger, was still beside
him till at length, in his desperate efforts
to escape the rider was thrown; but in
stead of being dashed to the earth, as he
expected, he found himself falling .-fal-
ling falling still as if sinking into the
bowels of the earth.
AT length period being put to this
mysterious descent, he found breath to
inquire of his companion, who was still
beside INN, whittier they were going.
"Where am [? Where arc you taking
me ?" he exclaimed.
"To hell" replied the stranger and
Immediately interminable echoes rcpeated
the fearful sound, "To hell to he'll to
hell"
AT length light appeared which soon
increased to blaze but instead of the
cries, and groans, and lamcnting, the ter
rltied traveller expected, nothing met his
car but sounds of music, n,i.th and ioll;ty:
and he found himself at the entrances of
a superb building far exceeding any he
had seen constructed by human hands.
Within, too, what scene No amusc-
ment, employment, or pursuit of man on
earth, but was there being carried on with
a vehemence that excited his unuttcrablc
amazement. There the painting horse
still bore his brutal rider through the cx
citement of the goadcd race There over
the midnight bowl, the intcrminate still
drawlcd out the wanton song or maudlin
blasphemy The gambler piled for his
endless game, and the slaves of Mammom
tolcd through eternity their bitter tasks
whilst all the magnifcencc of earth palcd
before that which now met his view.
lie soon perceived that he was among
all acquaintance whom he knew to be
dead, and each he observed, was pursuing
the object, whatever it was, that had for
merly engrossed him; when finding him
sell relieved of the presence of his un-
welcome conductor. he ventured to ad-
dress his former friend, Mrs. D., whom
he saw sitting, as had been her wont on
earth, absorbed at loo, requesting her to
rest from the game, and introduce him to
the pleasures of the place, which appear
ed to him to be very unlike what he had
expected, and indeed an extremely agree
able one. But with what cry Of AGONY.
she answered that there was no rest in
he'll, that they must ever toll on at those
very pleasures, and innumerable voices
echoed through the interminable vaults,
"There is no est in hell p whilst throwing.
open then vests, each disclosed in his
bosom an ever burning flame These,
they said were the pleasures of hell; the
choice on earth was their inevitable doom!
In the midst of the horror this scene in
spircd, his conductor returned, and, at his
earnest entreaty, restored him again to
earth, but as he Quilted him, he said "Re-
member in a year and day wo meet
again! !"
AT this crisis Of hiS draon, Al. oloo>o,