Show afos INCI incident DExT T in iii the course of our reading 0 we to havo hao mot met with a few cases whore where at tho moment of death a vision of tire the dead lias has appealed to friends at a great distance horn the place of death ns as if to tb give ive notice of tile the event but these instances stai ices were in E europe drope arid and occurred a long oil 6 time ao a ago 0 o so one might doubt their authenticity pr or at least be excused for not accepting them ay as veri ties and all tile the mole since hotl nothing 1 id 0 0 of f the kind was ever heard in liis his own legion 0 we have now a case which 1 is free fice from these objections and is ia quite as extraordinary as any that have yet been recorded A friend whose name we do not give simply because aecus we did riot not happen to ask his hia authority for publication recently called upon us who has lost a son in ill the army an officer of good promise servin serving 0 under gen banks we al eluded to the great loss of our friend arid and in conversation upon that subject lie he said a very remal remarkable kable tiling thing happened in connection with it when lie had no 1 reason cason to doubt the well being of his son arid and had no anxiety for hi him in beyond what was usual arid and was waa sleeping cal calmly lIlly lie ho was suddenly aroused from his slumbers by a shock Is as if lip ho had been shut shot through h tire the head his first thought was t eliat blat ho had been shot or to use rise his own ex pies sion this is death but the next instant a vision of his son appeared to him and the impression was that liis his son and riot not himself was killed ile he had never believed in ill ghosts or spit spiritual igual manifestations nor did lie he at the occurrence of the vision nor does docs lie he now undertake to account for for it or call it a spiritual manifesta tion ile he did riot record the late date or hour but lie he did in tile the mo mailling illing I 1 elate the circumstance to two or of his hia friends they did not record tho date but when about three weeks intelligence was received of tile the death of liis his son by a shot through the head at port hudson at six iu ill the mornin morning the recollection of one of them no waa vas that thu the vision and the death wei e on the samo same day aud and of the other that the vision was on oil the same day or tile the next day after tire the death of the son such stich was waa the account given even us arid and we wc have no doubt of its truth our friend would n not 0 t trifle on oil a matter which to him lias has not only the solemnity of the grave but a ISO also touches liis his keenest affection vermont watchman and freeman P r f e in a a |