Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-06-02
Some Fulfilled Dreams.

curious case at first hand. On Thursday
night last week, being at the office here
in London, Il dreamed that | saw lady |
in red shawl with her back toward me,
whom l supposed to be f. On her turn
ing around I found that | didn't know
her, and she said, Il an Miss Napier?
All the time | was dressing next morn
ing l thought, What a preposterous
thing to have so distinct a dream about
nothing. And why Miss Napier? for l
never heard of any Miss Napier? That
same Friday night l read. After the
reading came into my retiringroOm Mary
Boyle and her brother, and the lady in
the red shawl, whom they presented rs
Miss Napier These ere all the circum-
stances exactly told
This was probably 4 case of uncon-
sciouS cerebraton. Dickens had no
doubt seen the lady, and been told that
see was Ms, Ma cr, when his attention
was occupied WITH other matters. There
would lie nothing unusual il his dreaming
about Il person whom he bad thus seen
without noticing. OF course it was an
odd coincidence that the lady OF whom he
had thas dreamed should be Introduced
to him soon possibly the very day
after. But such coincidence are not in
frequent. TO suppose that Dickens had
been especially warned in dream about
so unimpOltant matter as his introdUct-
ion to Miss Napier would be absurd, for
whether fulfilled or unfulfllcd, the dream
was, as Dickens himself described it,
very distinct dream about nothing.
Far different in this respect was the
strange dream which President Lincoln
had the night before he was shot. If the
story was truly told By MI Stanton to
Dickens, the case is one of the most Gu
rious on record. Dickens told it thus in
letter to John Foster: 'On the after
noon of the day on which the President
was shot, there was Cabinet council, at
which he presided Mr.. Stanton, being
at the 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 en-
tering the room the President broke off
in something he was saying, and remark
cd, let US proceed to business, gentle
men, Mr. Stanton then noticed with
surprise that the President sat with an
air of dignity in his chair instead Of loll-
ing about in the most ungainly attitude,
as his inyariable custom was; and instead
Of telling irrelevant and questionable
stories he Was grave and calm and quite
different man. Mr.. Stanton, on leaving
the council with ehe Alto .ey. General,
said to him, THAT is the most Sltsfact-
tory Cabinet meetingI l have attended for
many a long day. What an eXtraord.-
nary change in Mr.. Lincoln ? The Attor-
fore you came in, While we were wait
ing for you he said, with bis chin down
on his breast. Gentlemen, something
very extraordinary is going to happen,
tornet-General had observed, Something
good, sir, | hOpe?' when the President
answered very grayely, Il don't know; l
don't know. But it will happen, and
shortly too AS they were al impress
ed by his manner, the Attorney General
took him UP again. Have YOU received
any Information. sir, not yet disclosed to
US? No. answered the President bit |
have had dream. And | have now had
the same dream three times. Once on the
night proceeding the battle Of Bull Run.
Once on the night proceeding such an