vj. r. xl u jtiiijAjj vxeiieral Insurance and iionl Instate l owtinda^ Some Fulfilled Dreams. Dickens once had a dream which was fulfilled, at least to his own satisfaction. '•Here," he wrote on May 30, 1863, "is a curious case at first hand. On Thursday night la>t week, being at the ofiice here,'' in London, "I dreamed that I saw a lady in a red shawl with her back toward me, whom I supposed to be E. On her turn ing around I found that I didn't know her, and she said, 'I an Miss Napier.? All the time 1 was dressing next morn ing I thought, ' What a preposterous thing to have so distinct a dream about nothing! Ami why Miss Napier? for I never heard of any Miss Napier.? That same Friday ninht I read. After the reading came into niv retiring-room Mary | Boyle and her brother, and the lady in the red shawl, whom they presented as 'Miss Napier.' These are all the circum stances exactly told." This was probably a case of uncon scious cerebration. Dickens had no I doubt seen the lady, ami been told that i see was M's> Na. ier, when his attention was occupied wis other matters. There would be nothing unusual i \ his dreaming about a person whom he had thus seen without noticing. Of cr.r-e it was an odd coincidence that the lady of whom he had thus dreamed should be introduced to him soon after —possibly the very day after. But such coincidence are not in frequent. To suppose that Dickens had been especially warned in a d'reani about so unimportant a matter as his introduct ion to Miss Napier would be absurd, for whether f.lift.led or unfulfilled, the dream was, as Dickens himself described it, a very distinct dream about nothing. Far different in this respect was the Strang > dream which President Lincoln had the night before he was shot. If the story was truly told by Mr. Stanton to Dickens, the case is one of the most cu rious on record. Dickens told it thus in a letter to John Foster: "On the after noon of the day on which the President was shot, there was a 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 oil' iu something he was saying, and remark ed, '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 invariable custom was; and instead of telling irrelevant and questionable stories, ho v. is grave and calm, and quite a different man. Mr. Stanton, on leaving the council with Atlo. > y G> oral, said to him, 'That is the most s.itisfact tory Cabinet meeting 1 have attended for many a long day. What an extraordi nary change in Mr. Lincoln !' The Attor ney-General replied, 'We all saw .it be fore you came in, While we were wait ing for you he said, with his chin down on his breast. 'Gentlemen, something very extraordinary is going to happen, and that very soon.' To which the At torney-General had observed, 'Something good, sir, I hope?' when the President answered very gravely, 'I don't know; I don't know. But it will happen, and shortly too.' As they were all 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,' lo.it I have had a dream. And I have now had the same dream three times. Once on the night proceeding the battle of Bull Huu. Once on the night proceeding such an other (naming a battle also not favorable to the North). Ilis chin sank upon his breast again' and he sat reflecting. 'Might one ask the nature of this dream, sir, said the Attorney-General. 'Well,' replied the President without lifting his head or changing his attitude,' I am on a great broad rolling river—and I am in a boat—and I drift!—and I drift!—but this is not business,' suddenly raising his face and looking round the table as Mr. Stanton entered,'let us proceed to busi ness, gentlemen.' Mr. Stanton and the Attorney-General said, as they walked oil together, it would be curious to notice , whether anything ensued on this, and they agreed to notice. lie was shot that i night." Here the dream itself wa> not remarl - 1 able; it was such a one as miaht readily j be dreamed by a man from the Western States who had been often on broad roll-! ing rivers. Nor was it recurrence re- j markable, The note wart he point was' the occurence of this dream three several times, and (as may be presumed fiora ti.e effect which the dream produced on its third recurrence) those three times only, on the niglitproceeding a great misfo:- tnlie for the cause of the North.— Riclinrd Proctor. 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