Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-28

THE graves stood tenantless. and the sheeted
dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets"
During Thursday afternoon, a half
dozen or more strange apparitions were
seen about the hotels of this city. Towards
nighlfall, they began to glide ghOstlike and
silently along the streets. BY yesterday
morning, their number had increased to
twenty-five or thirty. They held no speech
with the wondering denizens of the town
who looked asSant at them as they moved
along, and collected in clusters Of three and
four at the street corners. They difiused
an earthly and sitting smell. Specu-
lations was rife as to who and what they
were. Though human in shape and gait,
it was clear that they were visitants from
another sphere. Some thought them pro
ducts of the eclipse - inhabitants
perhaps Of the moon, who, IN
the strange conjunction Of the heaven
ly bodies a few weeks since had fall
len from that planet. Others guessed that
they we're beings whisked from the tail of
the late comet, who had just recovered
4. from the stun and got on their feet again.
Others less imaginative, took them for the
Kuklux az seen by daylight, with the i'm
pIements of their horrid trade laid aside.
A few only recognized them as dead men
of this world, who had slept nearly
month in their graves.
About noon, one long lank corpse with
coal black locks, shrunken in features, and
with "no speculation in his eyes," strobe
by, and a. the general eye fell upon him,
the mystery was solved. Decomposition
had not entirely effaced the lineaments
of the last Of the Narragansetts; and
at once il was remembered 10
be the 9th Of Augustine day appointed
for the resurrection of the Radical
party of Tennessee. This beggarly num-
Der had scrambled out of their collins, and
come TO revisit the scenes of their earthly
struggles. Some holder citizens ventufed
10 question them As TO who they were, and
why they were here, but in a majority Of
instances, their sepulchral tones gave out
denials of their identity as they lately ex-
listed in the flesh, and eVasive replies as 10
their business. At three o'clock in the
afternoon, they were observed TO file, one
by one, into Cedar street and dis
appear into an office. As they
approached this spot, not one was
seen 10 turn his hollow eyes towards
the Capitol. They spent the remainder
of the day in secret conclave, and what
they said or did, no living man can tell,
though much was the talk of this strange,
weird council Of dead men. As they
emerged in intervals and in small groups,
and sialked away, if approached by one
who seemed inquisitive, each laid a skinny
finger on his lip, and made no sign of
answer. Last night il il said, they COM
menced TO go a. they came, and before
this miraculous narrative will reach many
Of our readers, sthey will be in their
graves again, and lying beneath tombs, on
which will be written RuRquam reargua.
This was the meeting of Stokes leaders,
called to reorganiza the Radical party in
Tennessee, and devise ways and means
for further mischief, and this is the way it
ended.
P.S At late hour, it is rumored that
the ghost of the great departed-the "hAld
eagle'-has burst the ceremenLs of the
tomb; and that the council will not return
10 earth, until II has looked upon his res
mains, when all will go down 10 company
this evening to the shades.