Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-11-27
Strangely Fulfilled Dreams.
TRicbard A. Proctor In the Lon don Belsrsy;a, !

Strangely Fulfilled Dreams.
| tRicbard A. Proctor In the don Belsravial
On the Afternoon or the day on which the
| at which he presided. Mr.. Stanton, being at
| that time Commander Chief OF the Northern
| troops that were concentrated about here ar
rived rather late. Indeed, they were waiting
for him. and on his entering the room the
President broke OF In something he was saying,
ana remarked. "Let US proceed to business,
! surprise that the President sat with an air of
dignity in his chair, instead of lolling about 10
| the most ungainly attitudes, as his lnvariable
| custom was; and that instead OF telling ire
levant and questionable stories. he was grave
and ca!In and quite different man. Mr.. Stan
ton, on leaving the council with the Attorney
fseeTa sad to m This Is the most salts
Change in Mr. Lincoln" The aa Attorney n,. aen
erai replied: We all saw It before you came In.
! While we were waiting for you. he said, with
bis chin down on his breast, Gentlemen, some
thing very extraordinary is going TO happen. and
that very soon. !, TO which the Attorney General
| lad observed, Something good, sir, 1 hope!r
| when the President answered very gravely.
Il don't KNOW don't know. But 1t Will
n IA Pc n.ss ard shortly, too As they were
General took him up agsfa. Have you received
any information. sir, not yet disclosed to
| us?" NO" answered the President, .but
have had dream. And have now had the
| same cream three times. Once on the night
| preceding the battle Of Bull Run. once on the
| nlght preceding SUCH another (naintng battle
! also not favorable to the north). His cnia sank
on MS breast again, and he sat RET actiug
Might one ask the nature Of this dream, Sir!
said the Attorney General. Well replied Ia
PRESIDENT, without lifting his head or changing
| MS attitude Il am on great, broad rolling
river and am in boat-and l drift:-4ni
| drllt;-but this Is Dot business (sud1e ally r H.
| as Mr. Stanton entered) let us proceed to bus
| ness, gentlemen. Mr.. Stanton and the At
torney General said as they walked on To-
gether, it would be CURIOUS to notice If anything
eDsued on this, and they agreed to notice. He
| was shot that night Here the dream itself was
nov remarkable; it was such one as might
readily De dreamed by man from the western
| states who had been often On broad rolling
| rivers. Nor was its recurrence remarkable.
| me noteworthy point was the occurrence Of
| this dream three several times, and las may be
| presumed from the effect which the dream pro-
duced on Its third recurrence, those three times
| Only, on the night preceding great misfortune
LOT me cause CT the north. However. there s
nothing in the story which cannot be attributed
70 merely casual coincidence though the coio-
cidence was sufficiently curious. AS three years
mad elapsed from the time OF Ltncoln's death
when Stanton told Dickens the story, it Is
| possible that the account may have been incor-
rect in some details.
In the London Daily 7pleg,u,h. some months
ago, In an obituary notice of General Richard
Taylor, son of a former President OF tue Unltei
States General ZacharyTay lori, and one O,
following curious narrative Is related:
On the morning of the day when the City and
S sur Handicap was Won by Aldrich, a
little fancied outsider, it so CHANGED that
company With Lord vivian, " and l'ol heard I'd
from him that 1t was his Intention
TO back Lord Roseberys horse, because be
had dreamed that he saw the primrose and rose
hoops borne to victory In the race which they
We're On their road to witness Acting unn1
this s hint, General Taylor took 1000 to 80 about
A dsn and was not little elated at the sue
cess or what ne justly called "a leap In the
dark" But for the accident which caused Lem
nos, another much backed candidate for the
r rro 70 TAU AT at Corner there is little
nave found the Interpretation upon which Gen
eral Taylor counted.
:, :. The story probably came from one who had
heard the actual circumstances as related by
LORD vivian himself at the time of their occur
renee. The narrator's recollection of what he
t had heard and Lord vivians recollection of
the event itself. may both have been to some
degree defective. That one or the other was In
lault Is manifest when we compare with the
ABOVE account Lord Vivian'S own statement q
cay eao OF 5W 20 later BE wrote as follows to the
on General Taylor, ia this days paper, you In
troduce an anecdote relative to dream OF
nine. me facts are these: did dream on the
morning OF the race for the city and Suburban
Handicap that had fallen asleep in the weIrh
Ing room OF the stand at EPSON, prior to that
race; and that after 1t had been run 1 was
another in the race-wh0 informed me that The
TEACHER had won. OF this horse, so far as INV
[ecoliec!lons serve me. had never before heard.
on reacning Victoria Station the first person I
me In my dream, and mentioned it to him
observing that could not find any horse SO
ham IN the race. He replied, There Is a
called The Teacher" The dream so yiviaiy i'm
pressed me that declared my intention of In *
!hg Aldrlch FOR elo0 and was In course of doing
W. 10 ryyn
why backed his horse" Ireplled. "Because
had dreams he had won the race" TO this was
anSW .s las against your dream, Will tell
you tniS iact: tried the horse last week with
hurdle jumper, and he was beaten distance.' '
afterw ards learned that the trial horse was
LoWlanderl. | thanked my Informant and dis
G COM %, packing Aldrich. General Taylor,
y, VINO naa overheard what had passed, asked me
II dla not intend backing the horse again for
myself TO win him 81 900 by him. This iia
6 6y taxing for him 1000 to 80 about AldrIch
Sucn Is the true account of my dream and of
General Taylors profit from it.
inc dinerence between this account and that
ID na, the Damy 9s'fgraM may not seem intrnsl-
eating the probability that in other details
tnere may have been changes (unintentionaI. of
course.l The Spectator made the following re-
marks very much to the point. 1 think on this
LORD vlVtans letter adds very much to the In
eXplicable element In the story. In the shane
m when the Datly Iefegrdph originally put it.
ChCiS was uOGulllS dt oil III Inc cream OUT What
1t was quite reasonable for any one to expIain
somewhat remarkable coincidence, between
cream OF the event and the event as it actually
resulted, the bet offered being, however, q
practical proof that the dream, as alleged. had
occurred and had greatly influenced the mind
OF the dreamer and one Of his companions before
the prediction was fulfilled. But Lord Vivian's
teStlm02y that, instead Of dreaming Of Aldrch
as the winner, the friend seen In his dream had
mehtlOned horse whose name was utterly I'm.
known 10 hlm-at least, unknown to him In his
Was1ng state-and OF whose running he had no
knowledge, and that the name so dreamed OF
proved to have been the name OF a former horse
actually In the race. supplies very excellent
reason why be should have been sufficiently
struck by hts dream to intend actiug upon it
untu he was discouraged by hearing OF the
horses defeat by a hurdle jumper, and why
General Richard Taylor insisted that fr LORD
Vivian did not bet on Aldrich on his own
account, he should still bet on him on behalf OF
General Richard Taylor. In truth. Lord Vivian
has supplied the only really striking feature In
the story. Everybody would be disposed to
explain Ii at once as case Of coincidence but
for the bit OF fresh knowledge apparently sup
piled In the dream, and verified in fact before
the Chief prediction OF the dream had been
tested. Now, here we have exceedingly good
evidence not only OF successful prediction OF an
unlikely event-for that is nothing and occurs
every day-but of its prediction after fashion
which appears to have been beyond the scope