The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-05-31
A Singular Dream.

Some thirty years ago, there houriShed
in Glasgow, Scotland, a club of young men,
which, from the extreme profligacy of its
members and the licentiOuSneSS Of their
orgies, was called the He'll Club. Besides
their nightly or weekly meetings, they
held one grand Saturnala, in which each
one tried 10 excel the other in drunken
ness and blasphemy; and on these ncca-
siOns there was no star among them
whose lurid light was more conspicuous
than that of young Archibald B, who,
endowed with brilliant talents and a hand
some person, had held out great promise
in his boyhoOd, aud raised hopes which
had been completely frustrated by his
subsequent recklcssnesS and dissipation.
One m'rning after returning from the an.
nual festival, Archibald B having re-
TIRED to bed, dreamed the following dream:
He fancicd that he was mounted OH a
faSOSite @aSG &Ns, Ne that he ALWAYS rode.
aud was proceeding toward his own house,
thsN ecNASntry seat eruhowered With trees,
and forming part of the city, when a
stranger, whom the darkness Of the night
prevented his discerning, suddenly seized
his horses rein, and said:
"fOu must go with me-"
land who ere you?" exclaimed the
vunNg maN with vollry Of oathS, while
he struggled to free himself
"That you will see by and by" re.
turned the other in a tone that excited
uncomfortable terror in the youth, who
plunged his spurs into the horse, attempt.
ing To fly, but in vain.
However fast the animal flew, the
stranger was beside him. till at length,
in his desperate etfmtS to escape. the
rider was thrown hut INSTEAD of being
,Stg~'..ci' te ~. ~.--'i' os be expected, he
found himself falling, falling as if sink
ing into the bowels Of the earth.
At length, a period being pnt to thi'
mysterious descent. he found breath to
enquire Of his companion. who was still
beside him, whittier they were going.
"Wbere am |. Where are you ta-
king me z" he exclaimed
10 hell" replied the stranger, and
Immediately nnumerable echoes repeated
/ the fearful sound:
To hell to hell :"
At length light appeared, which soon
/ increased to a blaze but instead Of the
cries, the gruans and lamentations, moth
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