The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-09-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

REMARKABLE DREAM.  At the close of the American war, Frederick Caaldfield was on his way from England, when he met, in the ship a young man named Hickey, and formed an acquaintance with him. .They arrived at Waterford, and Hickey in formed his companion that his friends lived in the county of Cork, and that be was going to see them, after a long absence in Newfoundland, where he had made some money by the fishery, which he was carrying home; he invited Caalfield to accompany him, and they proceeded on their journey together. After a short time, Caulfield came back to Waterford. He was a grave man,of decent appearance, and serious religious manners, and no observation was made on his returning alone. A trifling incident, however drew attention to him. He wanted a dozen shirts made in a hurry, and to expedite them he gave them to twelve different eempstresses tl work. Soon afterwards, a ru. mour was heard of a young man was expected home by his friends In Cork from Newfoundland, but had nut appeared. On the circulation of this report, an innkeeper at Portlaw, named Rogers, came forward and stated that Caulfield had come to his house in company with Hickey and left it along a ith him. On being asked if his house was not an inn much frequented, and if so, how he could swear to the identity of a casual passenger, whom be had never seen before, he hesitated, and said it was caused by a circumstance so extraordinary that he was unwilling to mention it. On being pressed, he declared that on the  ------morning of that day, his wife, on awaking, had told him a dream which had made • strong impression on her mind Two men, she said, had entered the house together dressed like !tailors, a tall and a short man; they had some refreshment, and soon after they left it. The spirit of her dream followed them, and she saw one of them strike the other as he descended a gap, murder him on the ground, rile him, and bury him beside a hedge. The locality was distinctly painted to her vision, and she described the spot. As soon as Caulfield and Hickey enter ad the house, she ran to her husband and said they were the men Am had Seen in her dream. They remained some time taking refreshment, eat and drank together in great apparent friendship, and hawing obtained some directioas as to their intended line of journey, they were about to depart, when Regera, feeling some strong misgiving in his mind, from the impression his wife's dream had made upon him, entreated them to remain where they were till the morning. This they refused to do, and proceeded on their journey. The locality described by Rogers as the scene of the murder in his wife's dream, was searched. It w is on the road between Portlaw and Carrick-on-851r and the body of Hickey was found there, in the identical situation indict dby the dream. Caulfield was arrested, tried at the ensuing assizes, and convicted. The circumstance of the dream being mentioned at the trial, the witnesse, were cross-ezannine i about it, with a view to throw ridicule on their testimony; but the manner in which it I had transpired before the finding of the body made a deep impression en tbe jury. The judge, whose name, by a curioua coincidence, was also Caulfield, in passing sentence strongly adverted to it as an instance of the interference of Providence for the detection of murder. Caulfield after his conviction acknowledged his guilt. He said that the steady gaze of the innkeeper's wife as be entered the inn at Portlaw so appalled him, that he ha! given up the design of murdering his companion, till he himself afforded him an opportunity He had a stick which hurt his hand, and Hickey offered him his knife to pare it. He was in the scs of doing AO, and Hickey was descending a gap in the hedge "when the devil Odd Caulfield) appeared to me, and whispered in my ear ' now strike." He did so, and then cut his throat with his own knife while be lay op the ground, robbed him, and tried to bury him in the spot where he was found. Another remarkable circumstance connected with the dream was the mode of its interpretation. The dream represented the less of the two men murdering the larger—this was contrary to the fact; but that was °confirmation .strong as proof of' holy writ"  to establish the truth of he ;talon, to ttioee who believed in dreams than in Ireland—the estsblished faith brine that dreams always go bj contraries.—Skstches of Irish History.