Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-12-11
A Strange Character-Proph About
the War.

A strange Character-Prophecy About
the War.
! The aerial Infantry seen in Greenbrier
not having marched North as per contract,
and having on the contrary made somewhat
violent demonstrations southwark one NAV
reasonably lay that sreacherous phenome.
non upon the shelf as entirely unreliable
ard entitled to hardly as much credit as that
l.gentleman" who occupies his Lime in ar
irving in Richmond with the only authen-
tic account Of what is not going on in the
Confederate armies or anywhere else. OF
course this vacancy in the supeahuman de.
partment must be illrd, and we think we
have the article. Merely promising that
the following is entirely true, wevery hand
somely give our readers the right to believe
what they please Of the prophecies Of this
new seer.
"In the Valley of Virginia, In g town
which has felt sorely the tread of invasion,
We knew an old gentleman who was great
| y given to dreaming, and saw many won
derful things.in his visions, or WILSON'S"
as he was pleased to term them. The most
remarkable fact with reference to these vis-
ions, as compared by those who took the
pains to listen to their narration with the
| development ofevents subsequent, was their
futillment nearly to the letter. When our
army lay at Harper's Ferry, in the begin
mag OF the war, the people of the Valley
generally believed that fight in that sec
ton was inevitable, aud after the evacuation
OF that point. and the army retired 70 Bum
ker Hill collision between Gen. john
ston's forces and the enemy under Patter-
son was hourly looked for. Our friend in
sisted that no fight would take place there,
farseeing ken of the real prophet foretold
that the field of Manassas was to be the
the are Of the first great collision and that
| the armies Of Johuston and Beaurecard
would their be CONSOLIDATED to resist the
march OF !nvso.,~n He pictured the Val
ley overrun and laid waste, and the u, 100.
scenes Of the Chiekahomipy passed in pam
oramic view before him twelve months be-
fore they we're enacted
after the battle of Sharpsburg, aud
whilst our army was still in the lower Val
ley. the writer met with this remarkable
dreamer, and TO while away an hour, al
most in the presence Of the enemy, devoted
a brief time in listening to the prophets
recital Of what was ia store for the future
With much more than prophetic minuteness
ne detailed the transactions which after
wards occurred on tho Rappahannock, the
successful repnlse and slaughter of the enc
my at Fredericksburg. the appointment Of
a new commander Of the Federal forces. the
long interval Of quiet nntii the spring cam
paign should open; and then second fight
on the Kappahapnook was to occur, il which
the enamy-~oula, be defess.g, but on our
side We would sustain the loss Of great
commander, over whose fall the whole land
should mourn. He did not name jackson.
The second invasion of Northern soil
was clearly foresesn, and wildly pictured
Our troops would advance further into the
enemy's country than they did in their first
attempt; and Harrisburg and perhaps Bal
tlmore were to fall into our hands. But
still the second Invasion would be attended
with disaster, and our forces be compelled
to withdraw to the borders Of Virginia,
where winter campaigd would pass with
out much heavy fighting. In the spring Of
o. our troops, victorious on the soil Vir-
ginia, were again to turn their faces north
ward. and march into the country of .,re
enemy This third invasion is to be sue.
cesStai, and treaty Of peace, granting all
for which we have con.ended, except the
State Of Marylaua, will be dictated on the
enemy $ owa territory In this last inya-
sion me people the North are to be much
more kindly disposed towards our troops
than ever before, aud opposition to the fur
Their prosecution of the war SO violent as to
compel the Abolilo authorities to grant
our demands.
With reference to what have since
transpired in Mexico. our prophet predicted
the following early in the summer of '6l
Ihere was to be tripartite alliance of three
European Governments whose oLect was
! to DC the redemption Of Mexico from anar~
chy Two Qf these Governments we're soon
10 Withdraw from this alllaHce; but the third
and greatest of ssie ti,ree, would prosecute
the object tos which the alliance was form
ed to a successful issue Then European
Prince was 70 be placed upon the throne
and the world would witness the inaugura-
ton of monarchy on this continent, and
no arm raised to oppose it.
The writer Of the above is an intelligent
gentleman. and what he writes is known
to segeroi highly respectable residents OF
Richmond With this explanation we sur.
render the superhuman department. to the
next conner, ard turn our chair towards s.the
spring CT 81 2