The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1850-02-07

in what depths of despair and wee 81
many human creatures move and live
He learned lesson of mercy and com
passion.
A young man, when at school
dreamed one night that he went home
to take leave of his parents, as hewa.
on the eve of departure for the cent?
nent. 1t was night when he arrived a
the house, and he walked right up to hi.
mothers bedside, and said, "GooG
bye" when his mother cried out, "Nas
my son is deadm
The next day he received letteI
from his father stating that his mothe
had dreamed that she had heard the
noise of some one entering al night, ant
that she saw him come to her bed-sid,
and bid her goodbye: on which she
awoke in dreadful alarm, exclaiming
"Alas! my son is deadw The young
man, by writing, set their fears for hin
at rest Nc event followed upon thi.
dream, and we may look upon it witt
no less curiosity as an instance of avery
remarkable coincidence.
Everybody is aware what powerful
agencies the moral faculties an ii
dreams. The terrors of a guilty con-
science are beyond all description al
times, and we may ima CINE the vision:
of the murderer when the grimy hor
rible scene is acted over and over again
in his unrefreshing sleep, or when the
hideous face of the corpse appears tC
him clad with terrors that are unname
able. The dreams of children are full
of poetry and beauty. The most deli
cious melodies float about their eyelids
and the loveliest pictures open out be
fore them. Scenes, purely elysian, di
vested almost totally of all that is earth
lv. forms a world in which the sinles.
spirit moves. Trades and profession:
have great influence in the formation
of dreams. The soldier dreams of bat
ties, and an instance is recorded of al
officer, whose courage was not particu
larly great, who during his sleep would
dream of cannonading and of slaugh'
tiers, particularly if any of his comrade:
shonted or groaned in his ear. AT one
time he was SO alarmed by the hideou:
sounds they made without awakening
him. that he started up fast asleep. and
would have run away. In going from
the tent he stumbled across the ropes
and the violence of the fall alone awoke
him.
Things almost contemplate will ere
ate dreams of the most portentous ma
ture The falling of a pair of tongs pro
duced dream of hearing the sigma
gun-the landing of the enemy-the
i-...vdrufnent OF mo s-.,--.,. --I GIL the
horrors consequent upon such s-.ies
of events. Dreams may be modified OF
even changed in their progression by
whispering in the sleeper's ear. The
Poet Coleridge, under the influence Of
anodyne, and the reading book upon
eastern travel. dreamed whole poem,
and waking instantly wrote the melodi'
Gus "Kubla Khan The versitication
Of the same lines, we may add, is one
of the most harmonious and beautiful
things that we have in the language.
One very extraordinary feature in
dreams is the sensation OF bodily pain
experienced. You imagine yourself
torn to pieces by the fangs of wild
beast, burnt by lire, shot with a gun OF
pistol. or violently injured, being sensi
Bile all the while of the keenest torture
and suddenly awake without feeling
any pain in the slightest degree. Some
times the sleeper endeavors to escape
from some deadly enemy, and every
thing becomes wild and vague, as vel
as grotesque and terrible. Many thing.
impressively told, are certain to prodnct
dreams. The writer, when child
heard preacher describe in powerful
terms the burning of a Hindoo Widow
He did not then well comprehend wha
the meaning of the Suttec was. Til,
shocking description, however, mus
have struck him deeply; for he remem
bers that the same night he dreamed
that the world was burning, and tina
sea and fire were Mingled together IL
awful confusion. The telluric confia
grafton was like a huge, extended cata
ract of living fame raining down from
heaven! HE
Instances of singular dreams coult
be easily multiplied to infinity; and, In
deed, if each was to relate his most re
markable vision, they would form col
lectively a deeply interesting histor!
of that condition OF man when one Sc
ries of organization is paralyzed OF sus
pended, thus permitting our more inca
pable nature 10 be operated more ac
lively upon. Dreams we consider to b.
a species of animal magnetism.
BRILLIANT REPARTEs.-The dexter
GUS leap of thought by which the min'
escapes from a seemingly hopeles