| Show k 4 I 1 A SINGULAR the washington of mr lippardt Lipp ards paper the qua aua quaker city communicates the following curious account of a recent remarkable dream of mr oal ca 1 holins loiuis ho lins iuis we have not much faith in nj supernatural appearances or in ill washington correspondents but if any apy ting thing could lead load the 0 ghost host of the FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY to revisit re visit the realms beneat beneath 1 tile tiie moon it would be the thought that his beloved country was int in danger of DISUNION which is but another name for CIVIL WAR WAH we give the segry story for ford what it is worth worth I 1 trashing washington TV ashing ton lon D ajan 12 50 MB MR EDITOR the other marn morning id at the tiie breakfast table our fiend friend tie tle hon john 0 calhoun seemed very much troubled and out of spirits you know he is altogether a venerable man with a hard stern scotch irish face soft softened olied piled in its expression around the tile mouth month by a sort of sad smile vilich which wins tile the hearts of or all who converse with him his hair is snowwhite snow white ile he is is tall thlu thiu and angular he ile reminds you vou very much of old hickory that lie he is honest no one doubts lie he lias sacrificed to his fatalism the 0 test hopes of political advancement van cement has offered up on oli tile tiie shrine of that iron necessity which lie he worships all that can excite ambition even the presidency of tho tile united states but to my story tile the other morning at the tiie breakfast table where 1 I an ail unobserved spectator happened to be present calhoun was way observed to gaze frequently 0 t his right hand and brush it with ins iii lil eft teft in in a nervous and hurried nia nu itter luer he ard this so often that chat it excited attention at I 1 len ien length lenth th one of the tile pd berns rang composing sim the breakfast parter part li 1 iv name I 1 think is is Too inis mlis and lie is a member of Congre congress 5 from ador georgia took upon himself to ask the ciMon oc cinon of air disque etu elu ie te 1 ires ices dc es your hand band pain yau you he abided to this Cal cai calhoun houft replied in rather a t t rill ed manner 11 pshaw it is 11 nothing oti alting 1 only a dream which I 1 had llad lad iad last night and which makes me see ce perpetually a large black spot like ail an ink upon the back of my right hand an optical delusion I 1 suppose of course these words excited the tile curiosity of the company but no one ventured to beg tile the details of this singular dream until toombs asked quietly what was your dream like im ilot not very superstitious superstitions about dreams but sometimes they tiley have hae a good deal of truth in in them but this was such a peculiarly absurd dream said mr calhoun again again brushing the tile back of his hill right hand 11 however if it does not too much intrude upon the time of our friends I 1 will relate it of course tile tiie company were werf in their expressions daix of anxiety to know all about tile the dream in his singularly 0 sweet voice mr calhoun related it at a late hour ilour last iii night 12 lit jit as I 1 was s eting in m my room e engaged i g a E a c 1 4 in ill i writing I 1 was astonished by b the entla entrance ride tide of a visitor who entered and without a word took J seat scat opposite me at my illy this tins surprised sul sui me nie as fillad I 1 had fivek particular orders to the tile servant pant ye cant that I 1 should on oil no acca int I 1 lc L c cis dis eis imbed tiie the vanner manner manner in which the intruder so perfectly self pos lessed taking liis his seat opposite me nic without a word as though my iny room and all within it belonged lip to him excited in me as much surprise as indignation As raised my head to look into his features over the tile top of my shaded lamp I 1 discovered that he fie H w as ii wrapped rapped in a thin cloak clow which tte ftc dually concealed his f face ace and fra fractures ratu tures res from my view and as I 1 used rosed my head lie spoke 11 N vhf had hat are you yon writing sena f om south carolina lie ho said I 1 did not think of liis his imperati cgee at first but answered him hlin i I 1 am writing a plan for the tile 0 i ss J ution lation ot of the american un i 1 YOU yon know no r gentlemen that I 1 am acri expected to produce a plan nf f dissolution ia m the event of f tt contingencies to this the intruder replied in 0 i coolest manner poss possible ble bie senator from south carolina T A f 1 ou allow mo me to look at your 1 I 1 your I 1 liht i za t liand hand 1 11 i rose t the he cloak fell and I 1 h ht 4 his fa face garb gentlemen the alt sit at of that eliat foxe struck me like a I 1 1 11 1 clap it was the face fact of ti ad d i man mail whom extraordinary ent fits have called back to life tuo tup foa fda tims were those of george W apinton 3 yes yen gent lelii U tiie tho i was none other than r ORGE washington lie ile was hf s d in tile tilo revolutionary cos t tu tule v ir such suph as you see sec preserved II 11 til th patent office here mr calhoun paused appa r atly ally much agitated hiis his aaita til ton I 1 need not tell you was f iad arnd lad by the company toombs at broke the embarrassing aum mim auw well weil well w e c 1 1 what was w is thil thit isme isue lsne isao is no of this scene mr calvi hami resumed this intruder I 1 have said roso and alku to look at my iny right hand As via vua P I 1 had rot vot the power to rr 1 I 1 exter wied vied it 16 truth is 1 I felt a stran P chill amt me at his tonch touch ilo tie grasp apt nt it near the light s ifo lio line no ac full bill tim to ex I 1 amine every feature of his face it was the face of washington gentlemen I 1 shudder as I 1 beheld the horribly dead alive look of that visage after holding 0 my hand for a moment hn hr looked at me steadily and said in in a quiet way 1 and with this right hand senator from carolina you would sign your name to a paper declaring the union dissolved dissolve dil 1 I answered ansu answered erod ered in the a affirmative yes said I 1 if hlf a cei certain min contingency arises I 1 will sign my name to the ho declaration of or dissolution 1 but at that moment a blace black blotch appeared on the back of my hand an aai inky blo bio blotch tell teli which I 1 seem deem to see even now what is is that cried 1 I alarmed I 1 know not why at the blotch upon my hand that I 1 said HE lie dropping my hand liand th that a t is the mark by which wincil benedict arnold is is known in the next world he said sald no more gentlemen but drew from beneath his hia cloak an object which lie he placed upon the tile table placed it upon the very paper piper on which I 1 was writing Z that object gentlemen was a skeleton 11 there said HE there arc are the bones of isaac hayne clayn who was hung in m charleston by tho british he ile gave his ins life in order to establish the union when you put sour your name to a dc ia ration of dissolution why you may ulay as well have the bones of isaac hayne before you ile he was wag a south carolinian and so are gou you but tilro tillro was vas nb ab blotch upon his right hand I 1 1 I 1 with dilcie these wards word the indru intruder der left the thero there rom am I 1 started back from grom the contact with the dead man mans s bonef bones and awoke by labor libo I 1 had fallen asleep and been bemi dreaming was it not a singular dream all ail the company answered i in the affirmative toombs muttered 1 ing vil pil aar lar very singular 1 at the gamo game ane i nc looking 13 rather cu riou rlou no asly sly siy at the back of his ins re liht lit hand and mr calhoun placing in g his hio licad head be between tween his hands b ed ii a tho kloht lit I 1 tit |
