, 1864-04-09
Extraordinatu nraaana.

ape instances OF their ful6lnent. In giving
the following instances Of the actual rcaliz-
alton Of dreams in ancient and modern times,
we are not influenced by any desire to in.
crease the credulity which seems to have
reached its eliminating poiihat in the case of
spirit-rappings, but simply to furnish food
for reflection for the minds Of those who
take pleasure in the consideration of sub
jects removed from the Eard facts of every
day life.
In 1858, Nicholas Wotton, the English
EmbassadOr in France, dreamed two nights
in succession that his nephew, Thomas Wot-
ton, then in England, was about to join an
enterprise which would result in the death
and ruin of himself and family. Toprevent
such catastrophe, he wrote to Queen Mary,
and begged her to send for BIS nephew, and
cause him to be examined by the lords of
the council on some frivolous pretense, and
committed to the Tower. This was done,
and on the Embassador's return Thomas
WOtton confessed to him that, but for his
committal to prison, he would have jo' ned
the insurrection led by Sir Thomas Wyatt
1t is also recorded of the same Thomas Wot-
ton that he, being in Kent, dreamed one
night that the Oxford University treasury
had been robbed by five persons, and as he
was writing TO his son at the university the
next day, he mentioned his dream. Singu.
lar to relate, the letter reached Sir Henry
Wotton on the morning after the robbery
had been actually committed, aud led to
tho discovery Of the perpetrators.
NJ. BoismOnt, in work Oh the subject Of
dreams, relates that young woman who
was living with her uncle, and whose mother
was many miles distant, dreamed she saw
her looking deadly pale, and apparently dy-
ing, and that she heard hcf ask for her
daughter. The persons in the room, think
ing it Was her granddaughter she wanted,
Who had the same name, went to fetch her I;
but the dying womsn sighifed that II was
not she, but her daughter in Paris, whom
she wanted to see. She appeared deeply
gricSed at her absence, and in few minutes
ceased to exist. II MAS afterward found
that her mother did actually die on that
night, and that the circumstances attending
her death were precisely those her daughter
had witnessed in her dream.
There is another instance which we re-
meuAber to have read, but we are unable at
this moment to refer to the book in which
it Is related. It is as follows: A man who
was employed in brewery suddenly disap-
peared, and nothing could be ascertained
respecting him. Years passed away without
the mystery being cleared up, until one
night one Of the workmen, who slept in the
same room with another, heard the latter
muttcring something in his sleep about the
missing man. The workman questioned
him, aud elected replies from him to the
effect that he had put the man into the fur
mace beneath the vat. He was apprchcnded
on the following day. He then confessed
that he had quarrelcd with tho other, and
that in the passion Of the moment he had
killed him, and disposed Of the body by
putting il ia the furnace. ,''3 ~
The authorof Signs before Death tells
Of a certain Captain John Rogers, who com
manded a vessel proceeding ID Virginia, that
he one night left the deck and went to bed,
leaving the chief mate in charge Of the
vessel. About three hours afterward he
woke, aud heard the second mate asking the
other officer how the vessel was going, and
heard the chief mate reply that the wind
was fair, and the vessel was sailing well.
The captain then fell asleep again, and
dreamed that man pulled him and told
him TO 90 gu deck He woke, turned over,
and went to sleep again, and again dreamed
the same thing, and this repeatedly, until
he could bear It no longer, but dressed and
went on deck. The Eight was fair, and
there was nothing apparent to excite alarm.
lie questioned the mate, and received sat
isfactory answers, Mhereupon he termed TO
20 below; but as he did So, fe seemed to
hear voice close to him say, "Heave the
lead" He asked the mate when he last
took soundings, and what depth Of water
he rot, The latter answered, HAbout an
hour ago, and found sixty fathoins." The
captain ordered him to heave tho lead again.
The soundiugs were eleven fathonls, and at
a second cast only seven fathoms. The
vessel was put about Immediately, and as
she wore round she had only four fathons
and half under her stern. The next
morning they found they were within sight
Of the American coast and that, had the
vessel continued but one cables length fur
thcr on the course she was steering in the
night, she would have gone ashore.
There is singular dream recorded in
" "Worley's Wonders Of the Little World"
Of an English gentleman residing id Ptdgne.