Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-12-11

A.. Proctor in the London Belgravia.

On the afternoon of the day on which
the President was shot there was cabi-
net council, at which he presided. Mr..
Stanton, being at that time Commander
in-chief of the Northern troops that were
concentrated about here, arrived rather
late. Indeed, they were waiting for him,
and on his entering the rOoom the Pres
ident broke off i'm something he was say
ing, and remarked: Let us proceed to
business, gentlemen" Mr.. Stanton then
noticed with surprise that the President
sat with an air of dignity in his chair,
instead of lOlling about in the m0strun-
calmly attitudes, as his lnvarlaole Gus
tom was; and that instead or telling IT.
reyeleyent and questionable stories he
was grave and calm, and quite differ
emit man. Mr., Stanton, on leaving the
council with the Attorney General, said
to him: "This is the most satisfactory
Cabinet meeting | have attended for
many long day. What an cextraOr-
binary change in Mr.. LincOlnP The
Acknowledgement replied: ave all saw
it before you came in. While we were
waiting for you, he said with his chin
down on his breast: Gentlemen. some
thing very extraordinary is going to
happen, and that very sOOnP TO which
the AttOrney-General had observed:
Something good sir, hopper when the
President answered very grayely: Il
don't know don't knows But 1T will
happen, and shortly, too" AS they were
all impressed by his manner, the AttOr-
ney-General took him up again. "Have
you received any Information, sir, not
yet disclosed to us?" NO." answered
the President, "but have had dream.
And l have now had the same dream
three times. Once on thenight proceed
ing the battle of Bull Run. Once on the
night preceding such other (naming
battle also not favorable to the North.
His chin sank on his breast again, and
he sat rejecting. Might one ask the
nature Of this dream, sir" said the At
torney-General. "Well," replied the
President. without lifting his hat or
changing his attitude, Il am on great,
broad, rolling river and | am in boat
and drift and / driftl.-but this is
not business Suddenly raising his face
and looking around the table as Mr..
Stanton entered) "let us proceed to bust
ness, gentlemen" Mr.. Stanton and the
Acknowledgement said, as the walked on
together, it would be curious to notice if
ANYTHING ensued on this, and they
agreed to notice. He was shot that
night. Here the dream itself was not
remarkable; it was such one as might
readily be dreamed by man from the
Western States who had been often on
broad, rolling rivers. Nor was its re-
currence remarkable. The noteworthy
point was the occurrence of this dream
three several times and Gas may be pre-
sumed from from the effect which the
dream produced on its third recurrence,
those three times only on the night pre-
ceeding a great misfortune for the cause
of the North. However, there is nothing
In the story which cannot be attributed
to merely casual coincidence, though
the coincidence was sufficiently curious.
As three years had elapsed from the
time of LincOln's death when Stanton
told Dickens the story, it if possible that
the account may have been incorrect in
some details.
Ii the London Daily Telegraph, some
months ago. in an obituary notice of
General Richard Taylor. sOn-Of former
President of the. United States General
Zachary TaylOrl and one OF the South
ern generals during the civil war, the |
following curious narrative was relat- |
ed:
On the morning of the day when the
city and Suburban Handicap was won
by Aldrich, little-fancied outsider, it so
cnanced that General Taylor travelled
down to EPSON in company with Lsrd
Vivian, and heard from him that it was
his intention to back Lord ROsebery's |
horse, because he had dreamed that he |
saw the primrose and rOse-hOOps borne |
to victory in the race which they were !
on the road to witness. Acting upon
this hint, General Taylor took 1000 to
80 about Aldrich, and swas not little
elated at the success of what is justly |
called "a leap in the dark" But for the !
accident which caused LemnOs, another |
muck-backed candidate for the race, to
fall at TOttenham Corner, there is little
probability that the dream of Lord Wv
ian would have found the Interpretation
upon which General Taylor counted.
The story probably had come from one
who had heard the actual circumstances
as related by Lord Vivian himself at the
time of their occurrence. The narratOr's
recollection of what he had heard, and
Lord Viyian's recollection of the event
itself, may both have been to some de-
gree defective. That one or the other
was i'm fault is manifest when we COM
pare with the above account LOrdVivian's
own statement day or two later. He
wrote as follows to the editor of the
Daily Telegraph: I'm your leader on
General Taylor, in this days paper, you
introduced an anecdote relative to
dream of mine. The facts are these: Ibid
dream on the morning of the race for
the city and suburban handicap, that
had fallen asleep in the weighing room
of the stand at Epson, prior to that race;
hnI hnn RIM
awakened by a gentleman-the owner OF
another in the race-whO Informed me
that The Teacher had won. OF this
horse so far as my recOllectlOns serve
me, had never before heard. On reach
ing VittOria station the first person
saw was the gentleman who had appear
ed to me in my dream, and | mentioned
it to him, observing that l could not find
any horse so named in the race. He re-
piled, There is horse now called Aid
Teacher" The dream SO wildly i'm
pressed me that 1 declared my intention
of backing Aldrich for e1O0, and was in
course Of doing this, when was ques-
toned by his owner as to why backed
his horse., replied, Because / had
dreams he had won the race" To this
was answered: "As against your dream,
1 will tell you this fact. tried the
horse last week with a hurdle jumper,
and he was beaten distance" Il after
ward learned that the trial horse was
LOwlander). thanked my informant
and discontinued backing Aldrich. Cen
eral Taylor who had overheard what had
passed, asked me if did not intend
backing the horse again for myself to
win him $1,000 by him. This | did by
talking for him 1000 TO 80 about Aldrich.
Such is the true account Of my dream