New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-02


before she DE- parted
will conclude this chapter with the fo1og wing
extract from Lo'khar's Lie OF Scott"
"WALTER sco1T 20 DASiEL TERRY AprH 80. 1879 (The ,
hou's a. AtbotfFe bring h<a "a ProJre.' scorI
Irpg o. er part ao4t ioj h"tHgl
80 The eEp0sed ssa's y ny house has lef 70 /
GmJTeIous cisur0snoe TEE night o. re las. ~e ssre
she. Cd by violent Doie IKE sing h-a,5 ooros
s'on the % part Of the huuss fanci-d something nd
ilsn sro hoo. b. no N 70 s'o1't. Tan vai e1oa' 20
ike ming Lat isht q. ne same =" Ich " df ln5
very ssue noise &. aIs SsJal yoI t1ow,i
Istser tin er'ore' 30 up g'L with Besrdies broad
Ev.To uLcer my am
Bolt upright
And ready to hsht"
Put nohipg Of order, neHet can discover whai
occAsiOrto Tue cisiufnhnce y"
Mir Lochhsrt ads "On the morning that M
Tom received the fregone letter in London, Mr..
" iiam Erskine wss breaAiasting With hln' aud
the chief subject Of their conversation vas the sud
den death OF George Bullock, which ha1 occurred
on The same night, and, - nearly as they could as
certain at the very hour when Scott was reused
from bis sleep by the mysterious disturbance here
described. This coincidence when 'ott received
Eek nes minute detail of what had happened IN
Tenterdop st shat is, the death OF Bullock, y no
bad the charge Of furnishing the new rooms At 40
bOtstord made much stronger IMPRESSION on his
/ mind than might be gathered from the tone OF an
ensuing cOmmuIicaii ~.
Itbpyesrs that ullock had been at AbbotsDrd
and made himself a great favOrlte with old and
Young Scott week or two siEerward, wrote
thus 10 Terry Were you not struck WITH toe
fstttsticsl coincidence u our nocturnal Disturbances
NJ a bbO,sfo'd with the melancholy event thai iol
/ loved ! protest to you, the noise re'e nbed hal
dozen men hard at WORK. putting up ooirds and
! furituTe; and nothing Gao be more CERTAIN then
that n ere " as nobody the premises al the time
| Will 8 few additional touches, the story would
| figure In Granville or Aubreys collection. In tue
! n5esntine, you may set it down with poor Dlbs-
! sop's = rnines as q remarkable coincidence com
ing under your own observation
The chapter on w arnings" is equally fruitful in
strange incidents:
very singular circumstance was related to ma
! by Mr. =, as having occurred no. long since
! 10 himself A tonic had been prescribed 70 him by
! bis physician, for slight arrangement OF the sys-
! tenn AID as there was good chemist in the VII
LACE he Inhabited he was 10 the habit Of walking
10 town about five miles OIL 70 get the bottle I'LL.
Cd IS occasion required One night that he had
/ been to Al for thIs purpose, aud had Obtained
his last supply for be was now recovered, and
about 10 discontinue the medicine, voice seemed
TO warn him that some great danger was lmpend'
ing, bis lite was in jeopardy then he hoard, bat
not With bis outward ear, beautiful prayer "It
wss not myself that prayed he said, the prayer
YVES far bey ond any thing am capable of composing
it spoke Of me in the third person, always as he;
and supp icated that for the cake Of my widowed
mother this calamity might oe ayerted. My iather
had been dead some months was sensible OF al
| thu, vet | cannot say whether i was as'eep or
was present TO my mind, although | had slept
souncy in the interval felt, however, as If there
was some mitigation of the calamity, though what
I the danger was with which was threatened,
/ had no L, lion. When ! vas dressed prepared
10 take NY medicine but on lifting the bottle | fan
/ cied that the color was not the same as usual
looked aeen, ard hesitated, and finally instead OF
taking two tables poonsiul which was my accus-
toned dose took but one. Fortunate II was that
did so he apothecary bad made mistakes the
..o,, 4 ,xytfh q vipl arf am.
/ ting, and otter alarming symptoms from which l
va with difficulty recovered. Had taken the
two spoousfu should, probably, not have survived
to tell the tale.
The manner in which happened to obtain these
/ particulars is not uninterestlng. | was spending
! the evening wth MIR Wordsworth, st Ridal, when
he MENTIONED to me that stranger, who had called
or him that morning. had quoted two lines from bis
boem of L sodamia" which, be said, TO him had
peculiar interest They were these
"The 1v.ible world with thee hath s7mpsiazedi
Be thy of scront raised aud solcmniz ID"
al do not know what he all1des TO-" said Mr.
Wordsv orth; " but he gave me 10 understand tnst
these lires had deep meaning for him, and that
n. L-a .'----If heen the subject oil such sym
pathy.' -, ILL.,.
Uoon this ! sought the stranger, whose address
the poet gave me- and thus leaned the above pr
ticulsrs from himself. His very natural persuasion
was that the interceding spirit was his iaIher; lie
described the prayer as enc OF earnest angus
/ ,hot hos come 10 my nO~edge, is that OF Mr..
" of Kings borough. This gentleman, being
on q VOYAGE to America, dreamed, one n'cht ina. a
i,tIe old man came into his cabin and sad " 6e'
mi Your life is In danger upon "ulchi VI,
II ayoke; but considering 1t u be ony
dresm. he soon composed himself to sleep AGAIN
The dream. however, If such 1t were, recurred a11
the old man urged him still more strongly 70 get az
directly but he still persuaded himself IL was ony
dream; and after listening lew minutes, ahc
W al turned
sdore,aed himself once more 70 sleep. But nos
, the old man appeared again, and aDgrny babe hin
him rise instantly, ard take his gun and ammunl
ton with him. for he had not moment 70 lose
The Injunction was now SO distinct that Mr. NJ
4 felt he could no longer resist IL; so he hastily
dressed bimseG took his gun, and assembled to tn
4 deck where be had scarcely arrived when the shiE
struck on a rock, which he and several Others con
e trved 10 reach. The place, however, was uninhao
: tied, and but for bis gun they would never have
been able TO provide themselves win 1000 ll Nes
r se arrived 10 their reiet
}. Now these can scarcely he looked upon as IN
stances o. clear seeing, or OF second sight In sleep
:, which in Denmark, Is called frft-seeing, believe
for in neither did the sleeper perceive tue dan
). ger much less the nature oft. II, therefore, vi
Il reCfe to attribute them 70 some external protect
h ing il fuence they resolve themselves into cases
vague presentinent; bat It muat then be amltte'
= that the NODE Of the manifestation IS very extreo'
, binary so extraordinary indeed, that We fall ms
2 fully great difficulty as that offered oy the sup
v position II guardian spirit
= An American clergyman told me that an Oh
- woman, With whom he was acquainted, who ha
IL two sons, heard voice say 10 her In the nlgh
10 "Johns dead This was her eldest son. shor'
& " afterwArd, the news Of his death arriving sa
= said 10 the person who communicated the lntem
"a eepce to her, " If Johns dead, then | know tbs
"A David is dead, too for the same voice has slnc
"a told me so; and the event proved that the 10
I'd formation, whence ever it came, was correct
~ Not many years since, Captain 5 was pas
A. ing a night at the MaIse OF Strachur' IN Arg. :
40 shre, then occupied by a relation OF his o"a
~ shorty after be retired, toe bed-curtains we
w opened, and somebody looked in upon him. Sol
posing it to be some inmate Of the house, who we
ia lot aware that the bed was occupied be TOOK
ne notice OF the circnn stance. I'LL II being two Of thre