The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-10-28

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Supernatural Si.ns and OmCMs
From the Richmond Examiner. October 6.
But, as if to vindicate the poets and super
naturalSts, the attention Of the credulous
has been called, Of late, 10 TWO very extraor
6inary and apparently ulaccountable occur.
rences. Mrs Temperance Carter, Of the
town Of Marietta, Georgia, or elsewhere,
being to all intents dcnnct, was made ready
for burial, when suddenly she rose rom the
dead, and inquired the latest news from the
war The reply was, that Bragg was still
retreating, that the ourt of Inquiry in the
! Vlcksburg disaster had been dismissed and
| that Pemberton was to be restored to his
command; whereupon Mrs. Temperance
Carter again, and without reluctance, died,
permanently, il is supposed, since no It'd,
| ings OF her second resurrection have been
received No consoling Interpretation could
be given to Mrs Temperance Carter's sin
gulsr behaviour, and a still more marvellous,
but less recondte, event, was anxiously
awaited by the aged femal3s, Of both sexes,
throughout the country. Hence the great
Greenbrier wonder, which is thus related:
During the a ternoon of September /, Mr..
Moses DWyer, an honest, responsible, and
unmpoachabe iarmer Mrs Percy, "who
seems 10 have a very clear head" two other
ladies', a you almost grown, and a servant
girl, all saw on the side OIL hill or mountain
te1 miles west Of Lewisburg on which the
sun was shining with full power, "soma
thing" which they were not able to describe
th Hola nd oil
I'Percy's head was probably as clear then as
it ever was. They declare, nevertheless,
that this something" was masses or bodies
OF vapor mist, or something else, of whit.
ish green color five or six feet high, and
two or throe feet wide, which foated above
the tree tops in a perpendicular position,
moving on in line, with the utmost regu
larity and precision, then passing through
the tree tops, without having the line bro.
ken or disturbed, and then passing off in the
distance. II this whitsh green vapor or
mist, or something else, had done no,hinp
more, the exhibition might have been legar,
ded as common freak of vapor on a noun
tain side, but then came q countless multi.
tude OF men, dressed IN white, marching in
column on the ground, through an open field,
up the mountain slope, at a rapid pace,
quicker than double quick time" the men
seen mot only as whole, but the individual
parts heads, arms, leg and feet" Occa
sionally one would lag behind, and could be
distinctly seen to quicken his pace to regain
his 20 itioa in ths line Tney ware passing
for an hour or more; numbered it is thought,
thousands upon thousands; passed over a
field several hundred yards in length, the
entire area OF which they covered in passing:
"their general appearance was white, and
they were without arms or knapsacks."
This is the entire strange story, which. it
must be con n'essed, beats Mis-. Temperance
Carter, the dying prophets, the engraved
eggs, and the intermittng springs, all hollow.
The theory OF the refracton Of light, which
| accounts 50 happily for the wonderful phen.
omema OF the mirage and the F,ta M0,q1na,
might also explain the singular spectacle in
Greenbrler, il the people o. the CJnfederacy
were not predisposed to superstition and en-
Outraged therein by frequent calls Of their
attention to religious obServances rather than
to the just appointments of them, and the
right application which oaly human agen-
cies are involved or need to be invoked
Many pretended solutions OF the Greepbriar
! riddle have been furnished by Southern Wis
ionaries, the latest OF whom "hops" that the
northWard movement of the whtish green
specrers without arms, prognosticates the
speedy return of the vandaiS, deprived oi
their means OF destruction, to their own
homes. 1t is fortunate for the propounder
of this sage Interpretation, that the vapory,
or misty, or something else, bodies in Green
bIier were without weapons, for George
Cruikshanks, the comic artist Of London,
has just published book to prove that,
since the days oi Pliuy the Younger, nobody
has pretended that armor, implements OF
warfare, shoVeis ard tongS, or any formation
Of iron or brass. has soul, and Consequently
that the ghosts Of such things could not be.
As such might be declared of the ready
made clothing furnished the Yankee army
VIII 'ch, far rom having aspirit, has scarcely
any body, if we may trust the newspaper
diatrbe against ''shoiiy'' and ''shoddy con,
tractors" 1t will be prudent, therefore, to
maintain, in spite Of the veracous Mr.. Mo
ses Dwyer, the clear headed Mrs. Percy, and
the "youth almost grown" that the greenish.
white visions witnessed by them appertan n
more to their excited optics than to the realm
OF departed spirits, and that, as a general
thing, it would be safer for the country to
trust to good Generals, plenty of gunpowder,
and strong armies, than 10 green'h white
ghosts going up the side Of the hill at G reen.
brier. But the question, after all, rests with
Mrs. Temperance Carter, who may emerge
eny day lr1m the toomb, and be as anxious
to impart Information from the other world
as she was some time ago to take it from
this.