The mountain Democrat., 1864-04-23


tested to me that he had dreamed ths
very same and when We had not the
slightest knowledge of our mothers sick
neSs, neither in our youthful affections
were any whit muved with the strange,
ness OF this dream, yet the next carrier
brought us word Of our mothers death.
The dream related by Sir Walter Scott
must be so well known that we hesitate
TO repeat II; but will do so, because we
think II is susceptible Of explanation. -
MIR. X OF Bnwland, gentleman Of prop.
erty in the Vale of Gala, was prosecuted
for very considerable sum, the accumu.
lated arr ars Of tiend, for which he was
said to he indebted to a noble family (the
titularS).
: Mr.. T. was strongly impressed with the
belief that his father had, by form ol
process peculiar to the law Of Scotland,
purchased these lands from the tituar,
and. therefore, the present prosecution
I was gr0undlcss. But after an industrious
search among his fathers papers and in
veStigation among the public records, and
q careful inquiry among all persons who
3 had transacted law business for his father,
! no evidence could be recovered to support
his defense. The period was now near at
hand when he conceived the loss Of the
lawsuit TO be inevitable, and he had form.
ed the determination to ride to Edinburgh
next day and make the hest bargain he
could in the way Of compromise. He
even went to bed with this resolution,
and, with all the circumstances Of the
case floating upon his mind, had dream
to the following purport:
! His father, who had been many years
dead. appeared to him, he thought, and
asked him Why he was disturbed in his
mind. In dreams men are not surprised
at such npparitions. Mr. R. thought he
informed his father Of the cause of his
distress, adding that the payment Of con,
siderable sum Of money was the more I'M.
pleasant To him, because he had a strong
consciousness that it was not due, though
he was unable to acquire any evidence in
t support Of his belct
You arc right. my son." said the pa
trrnal Shad,; 81 did acquire right to these
tiendS for paymc"t OF which YOU are now
prosecuted. The papers relating to the
th''SiN Ai''A' dIG III tIG l'dH'lS VI WI. .
n writer. no is now retired from p,ofrS
>innal hu>irrSS, and r,siirS at lnvcreSk.
n'ar Ehinghurgh H. was person whom
! employed on that occasion for pa:Iic.
ular re san, but wh0 never on any other
/ occasion transacted business on my nc.
count II is very possible that Mr.. -
may have forgotten a matter which is now
of IA very old date. but you may call il TO
/ lis recollection 10y is tnken-that when
rarnr t" pay his account, there was diff
ticuItr in g ttug change tor n Portugal
piece "f gold. and that we were forced to
drunk ont the halaucr at tavern"
Mr.. X. aWoke III the morning with all
the words Of the vision imprinted on his
mud, and thought it worth his while Ia
II !" acto>S tIe country 10 Inverrsk, in
stead OF going Straight to Edinburgh. -
When he came there he waited on the
Q r'lrman mentioned in the dream and.
without saving word Of the vision, lie
Inquired whether hr remembered the cir
cum>taucc,w " lirh after some consideration
lrr did, and produced the papers. There
Is every probability, in this case, that Mr.
L had been tod this by his father when
he was very young, and, from not under
Standing the importance Of the inf"rma-
ton, bad paid 81 little attention to it that
he had quite forgotten it, That incidents
Of old date, totally forgotten in our wa.
king moments, frequently recur tn our
memory during sleep, we have most of US
experienced.
The belief that dreams reveal events
that have happened, or which are about To
happen, had doubtless been much weak
ened "f la;e wears by reading; but it may
be questioned whether it is not now as
strong as ever it was, owing to the publ
cation in the London Times, and other
papers. Of the case Of man who dreamed
more than once that he had seen the body
Of a man hanging in barn, which dream
impressed itself so strongly upon his
mind, that in the morning he went to the
barn that he had seen in his dream, and
there found man hanging. There was
another instance, published in the same
Journal subs, quently.o Il man who dream.
Ell that the body Of one who had been
missing for some time lay under water on
a certain part of the coast, where indeed
it was found.
A very circumstantial account is given
nf two friends, who entered a town TO-.
gethcr, but being unable to get accommo.
datinns in the same inn. separated. In
the middle Of the night one of them heard
riS friend calling to him for help. lie
awoke from his sleep, but finding it only
a dream, he Immediately vent to sleep
again; but awokr, directly after he had
fallen asleep. by hearing, a$ il appeared to
him. his friends cries Tor help. Again he
f,ll ASLEEP, aud dreamed that his lend
stood all bloody beside bis bed, and said
to him:
Though you would not come to help
me, at least avenHe INV death. The land.
lord Of thr inn where you lett me intends
to carry my hndy out Of the town con.
ccaieh in ii load nf straw"
The young man was so impressed bv
this dream that he dressed himself and
went to the city gates, where hc remained
until they were opened. Shortly after
ward he saw cart load If straw approach.
ing. and in the driver he recognized the
landlord OF the inn where he had left his
friend. He appealed to the guard at the
gates, told them of his suspicious, and
without much trouble induced them to
search the straw; and there they found
the dead bndy Of his friend, whom the
landlord confessed he had murdered.
The last dream of this kind we shall
quote Is related, We think. in "Hi>tnIy
Of the County of CnrSreI." We are forced
tn give 1t from memory, as we cannot re-
fer to the volume at his moment We
omit the names, for the sufficient reason
that we cannot remember them. though
they are given in the history referred t"
above. The narrative is SOMEWHAT long,
hut il is to this effect. A man had living
with him q Young WOMAN. who ActeIl as