The mountain Democrat., 1864-04-23
Extraordinary DEsauaA.

actual reallZatIOn Oi dreams IN ancient anC
modern times, We are not influenced BY
any desire to INCREASE the credulity which
seems to have reached its culminathla
point in the case Of spirit rappings, bu
SIMPLY TO furnish food for reflection fuI
the minds Of these who take pleasure in
the consideration Of subjects removed
from the hard facts Of every day life.
In 1868, Nicholas Wotton, the English
ambassador in France. dreamed two nights
in succession, that his nephew, Thomas
Wotten, then in England, was about to
join an enterprise which would result in
the death and ruin OF himself and family
To prevent such a catastrophe he wrote
to Queen Mary, and begged her to send
for his-nephew, and cause him to be ex
aminrd by the lords Of the council on
some frivolous pretense, and committed t.
the Tower.
This was done; and on the ambassador
return Thomas WOttOn confessed 10 him
that, but for his committal to prison, he
would have joined the inSurrectiOn led bv
Sir Thomas Wyatt. II is also recorded ot
the same Thomas WOtton that he, being
in Kent, dreamed one night that the Ok
ford 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. Singular TO relate,
the letter reached Sir Henry Wotton on
the morning after the robbery had been
actually committed, and led to the dlscov
cry Of the perpetrators.
| n D,;s,,n.e 4. Al .
Of dreams. relates that young woman,
who was living with her unclr, and hn>e
mother was many mil distant, dreamed
she saw her looking deadly pale, and ap,
Paretty dying, and that she heard her
ask fnr her daughter. The prrsonS in tht
room, thinking it was her grand daughter
she wanted, Wh" had the Samr nurnc. went
{" fitch he'; but the dying woman >igui-
tied that ii was not >hr, hut her dnught r
IN Paris whom she wanted To see She
appeared deeply gIicvrd at her ah>ehcr,
aud IN a te" minutes ceased to exist. II
was afterwards ioTud that her mother dill
actually die on that night, aud that the
circumstances attending her death were
precisely those htr daughter had witness
ll,ete ~ n't+ttiter instance which we e.
m' mhc" t" have read, hut wr are unable
at this MON, Mt to refer to the book III
which it is related. Ii is something H.
follows:
A man who was employed in brewe, '
suddenly disappeared, aud no;hing r"ul,l
Oe a>crital ,ed respecting him. Yeas :
passed away without the mystery h,in.
cleared up, until one night one OF tue
VA kmen. who Shpt in the same r"m
with another, heard the latter muttcriug
sum, thing in his sleep abou, the mis>I {
man.
The workman questioned him. aud eli.
citrd replies from him To the fleet that ht
had put thc man iulo tie furnace beneath
the vat. lie was unprecedented nn the toll.
lo"inS day. lie th'n confessed that he
had qnarreled With the other, aud that III
tn passion Of the moment he had killed
hlm, and disposed Of the body by putting Z
ia the furnace.
The author Of Signs before Death" a."
tells Of certain Captain John Rogers,
who cOmmandrd vessel proceeding to
virginia, that he one night Irit the deck
and went to bed, leaving the cli, mate in
charge Of the vessel. About three hours
Aftrrward he woke. and heard the second
mate asking the other officer hcw the yes
sci was gO,ng, and heard the chief mate
reply that the wind was far, and the YES.
Sel VAS sailing fair.
The captain then fell asleep again and
dreamed that man pulled him and told
him TO 90 on decH. lie woke, turned
over, and went to sleep again and again
dreamed the SAME thing. and this repeat
edly, until he could bear il no longer, but
dressed aud went on deck The night was
fair, and there was nothing apparent to
excite alarm. He Questioned the mate
and received satisfactory ans trS. where.
upon he turned to 60 below; but as he did
so, he seemed TO hear a voice close to him
say:
leave the lead"
He asked the mate when he last took
soundings, and what depth of water he
got The latter answered
About a0 hour ago; and found sixty
fathcms."
The captain ordered him TO heave ,he
lead again. The Snunliugs were eleven
iathOmS, and at second cast only seven
tath0ms. The vessel was put about i'm.
mediatrly, and as she wore round she had
only four fathoms and hall under her
stern. The next moyninS they found they
were within sight OI the American coast,
and that had the vessel continued hut one
cables length further un the course she
was steering in the night, she would have
gone ashore.
There is a singular dream recorded in
"Worlcy'S Wonders Of the Little Wmld,"
nf an English gentleman rr>idiug in
Prague. He was lying in bed one morn.
ing, when he dreamed that n shadow ap.
peared to him and told hlm that his father
was. dead. He awoke in great alarm, and
thking his diary, made an rntrv m the
Circumstance, With tlr day and hour ~ hen
ii took .'act. THIS book, with many
other things, he put Into barrel and sent
10 England.
Going from Prague to Nuremberg, he
met at the Inter Psace merchant who
had come from England, and WIN knew
his family we'll. This gentleman told him
that his father was dead. Four years
later he himself reached England; but, he
lore he w0nid touch the barrel he had
sent from Prague, he procured the attend
ancr Of Ills sisters and some hiend>, and
in their presence opened the BARR !, tonk
Out the book. and called their attention To
the entry. 10 the aStoni>hmrnt Of all
present this date was that of the lav OF,
which his father died. This same gentle
man says:
II may lawfully swear that in my youth,
arCambridge, had a like dream Of nv
mothers death; where. NV brother Henry
lying With the, early in the morning |
dreamed that my mother passed hy with
sad cOuntenance, and told me that she