Sftwa iritoutc.
ALTOONA, PA.
THURSDAY, MAY 8. 3862.
“A Idttle More Grape.”
The old pharisee and hypocrite of the Whig
changed his publication day from Friday to Satur
day, in order, as he said, to furnish his readers
Sunday reading!!! The first attempt was a
too* and prpsey article to the “People of Blair,
Caaabria, Huntingdon, and Mifflin Counties,” on
nuHahty and religion, in which he endeavored to
Aow that he was atoning for his past crimes. We
had occasion to touch up his hypocrisy last week,
*Bd we are not surprised, therefore, to see in his
oaal issue, instead of an attack onreligion, an at
' lade on the “great corporation.”
He went to Harrisburg during the winter of
Of ,1861 as a borer in favor of the Bill repealing
the TonnagejTax. Notwithstanding this, all this
winter he has favored its repeal. When the Sen
ate placed a general tax on all Railroads in the
State, and *thc House, influenced by the general
Sediroad interest, refused to concur, the talk was
knocked oat of all the persons who sought to make
personal and political capital by a warfare against
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Brotherlibe.
among the rest, was dumb. In his last issue,
however, die fellow argues in favor of a special
tax on the great Pennsylvania thoroughfare, and
against the general revenue measure. His is the
only paper, save one, in the' State we have seen
that pretended to justify the course of the House.
If a tax is right, why shouldn’t it be general ? If
a rename is needed, why not levy off all the Rail
roads? This same chapj Brotbcrline, has been
threatening: of late, we he intended to
make the company- do what was bight with him.
Will he be hind enough to answer, with the other
questions we propounded to him, what he meant
by “right?” What wonderful influence he has!—
How the Railroad Company must fear him—■
Does the oldshylock mean that it must assist him
in collecting double rents and compel the tenants to
pay the taxes besides ? We hear that one of his
“rights” is N this. It seems that in one of his re
cent bene,contracts, at Washington, he sold out
for one-foorth of the profits and the person he sold
to didn’t “ante up.” “J. B." brought suit, but
the contract not being in his name (why didn't the
booby aee this) he couldn't recover. He now in
ri*t« that the Secretary of War shall compel pay
ment,of his dare of the stealings, and we hear
tbathe threatens to turn ont the Secretory, and
have the House censure the President, unless this
is done within thirty days. Tis said Mr. Stanton
is wonderfully a/eared. Just so. No doubt oj it.
Sow, we can’t say whether all this is true or not.
It may be the contracting editor’s motive. That
he has one, no one will dispute. Will “J, B.”
tdl as, is this the cause of his mxnf rage at the
Pemmsylrania Railroad, oris it the genuine “hard
cash” he wants ? Dance up to time, Mr. Bolder
fine, and teti us if this is the way you intend to
make your “paper pay.” If so, pleLe furnish us i
a statement pf receipts and disbursements up to
this tfme. We mean the receipts in “ hard cash.”
▲ Southerner’s Opmion of Pillow,
Tilghman, Davis and folk
Jfm. XKxner, of this place* now a member of
the “ Ande/soo Body Guard,” serving under Gen.
9ael, while accompanying a flag of trace across
the at Pittsburg landing, immediatelv
after the battle, to look after the wounded, picked
°P »**a t many letters, company rolls and orders,
which had been thrown away by the rebels on their
IeCWaL Scene of them are quite rich specimens
of literature, orthography and chirography. From
one of than, which is well written, we extract the
fallowing opinion of the writer in reference- to
Gate. Pillow and Tilghmau. The letter is dated
Benda, Miss., March 9tb, 1862, and is from
J*B*» Patterson to his son Willis J. Patiereon,
wdfc Win the rebel army. After speaking of the
accotmt given by the Northern papers of the battle
at fort Bamboo, he says:
“There seems to be no donbt but that our men
Ibngfat bravely and desperately all three of the
dm, and especially on Saturday, nor is there anv i
donot in my mind that General Gideon Pillow !
wasas deficient in judgmen t at Fort Donelson as j
bewai at Belle mont, and it is a pitv he was not I
captured with his command, then he could not, by j
bis fool hardy, have caused others to be captured
or shin, as he perhaps will if he is not cashiered 1
and fanned out rf his office, I am confirmed in j
the belief which I entertained in regard to General j
TBghtnan, that he was a fool or a traitor. I told '
tfm Boys when I was at Fort Henrv that General I
either a fool or a traitor, because j
no sensible man could believe that he could hold I
the two forts: with the soldiers there at that time :
nor cowl be hold them with three times the nnm- i
.W* I now more than ever inclined to the i
belief that he was a traitor.”
Xn another part of the letter he discourses as
foUpen:
“The times looks gloomy at present. Missouri
is overrun, Kentucky is overran, Tennessee is al
mortoverruni and the enemy is, or has been, on
Mississippi and Alabama soil, all for the want of
a itttle management on the port of the Govern
ment. It should have strengthened these two
forte on foe Cumberland and Tennessee and have
thereby saved the State of Tennessee, with idl the
ywwg stores on these rivers, and saved some
12,000 etfldien from capture. By neglect or care
*o tbe o6 i Bl ® l°*t 51 say through neglect,
Davis, Gen. Polk, or Gen. anybody
tAitainly knew that Gen. Tilghman could not
, 0 forts with the troops under his coru
naM, eo-u most have been neglect or gross ieno-
if tbe latter, all should be turned out of
lutsCß xbom Mexico.— Advices Vera
Crux to the 24th nit., the French have '
opened hostilities and taken possession of Oraza- ;
bag.Cordova has declared for Almonte. -The
Britiab Mini iter was holding a private interview
witli Dahlado at Pueblo. The Mexicans had re
oafewl niinforcements of 9,ooomen, and General
Zangosa would dispute the march of the French.
tatoeiaof Pottsvilio are on a strike, and
'?W<»delphia have beep called on
Id 9008 the distitrbauce.
Southern Humanity.
to procure il by setting tcups under t lie eaves to portions of the bodies of onr dted, in order to oh- ' fiW VIMI/O f
catch tbe rain that was foiling, and in this war he tain their hones as relics. Thev could not wait Ivl if IKIIII I "
intent the night catching water and conveying it to for them to decay. She said that she had seen wivtJtJ w *
the wounded to drink. As there was no light, he drum-sticks made of “Yankee shinbones,” as thev vAmripniini nt >an t wrn
wni obliged to crawl on his hands and knees to tailed them. Mrs. Butler also said that she had I UKK.I OW W EVACUATED.
avoid stepping on their wounded limbs: and, he seen a skull that one of the New Orleans artillery
adds. ‘* it is not a wonder that next morning we liad. which he said he was going to send home and at tt> TPAnpe tv pncccccmv
found that several bad died during the night."— have mounted, and that he intended to drink a ‘A
The young surgeons, who seemed to delight in brandy punch out of it the dav he was married 1
backing and butchering these brave defenders of Frederick Scholes. of the city of Brooklvn, New Fortress Mosroe, May 4.—Yorktown was
onr country’s flag, were not, it would seem, per- York, testified that he proceeded to the battle-field evacuated by the rebels last night and onr troops
mitted to perform any operations upon the rebel of Bull Run on the fourth of this mouth (April) to now occupy the enemy’s works,
wounded. “Some of our wounded," says this find the place were he supposed his brother’s bodv A large amount of camp cquippoge and guns
witness, “were left lying; upon the battle-field un- washutied. Mr. Scholes, who is a man of tut- which they could not destroy for fear of being seen
til Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.— questioned character, by hts testimony fully con- teft behind. ’
When brought in, their wonnds were completely firms the statements of other witnesses. He met Headquarters Armt of the Potomac, t
alive with larva: deposited there by the flies, hav- a free negro, named Simon or Simons, who stated Mav 4. 9A. M. j
mg lam out through all the rain storm of Monday, that it was a common thing for the rebel soldiers To Hon Edw« M. Stastov Secretary of war •
and the hot sultrv sunshine of Tuesday. ’ 'Hie to exhibit the (tones of the Yankees. “ I found, ” , \ V e have the
dcad laid upon the held unboned for five days; and he says, “in the bushes in the neighborhood, a munition, canto eauitioace. hoSfTrhe on
tins included men not only of his own, the Four- part of Zouave uniform, with Whe sleeve sticking tire line of their < flio Fmrinoo ml
teenth Regiment, but of other regiments. This Sut of the grave, and a portion of the pantaloons ™ T
tntnera testifies that the rebel dead were carried Attempting to pull it up. I saw the two ends of the and Tori
off and interred decently. In answer to a question grave were still unopened, bat the middle had been ™ rtea br •: nfantr v T
whether the Confederates themselves were not also prised up, pulling up the extremities of the nnifrom {£ion an ’ d “5 ’h moreal d ,
destitute, of medicine, he replied, “they could not at some places, the sleeves of the shirt in another , W est PoinfroTv <yi n
have teen, for they took all ours even to oursur- and a the pantaloons. Hr. Swalm (one „n Yo* k™ T
instruments. He ’received none of the at- , of the surgeons, whose testimony has already teen GkS ° mitted *?
tcntion from the surgeons on the other side, . referred to) pointed out the trenches whire the n P o^loo ' 1
“which to use his own language, “I should have'Secessionists had bnried their own dead, and, on rsir.xml ' VVoo—"n \r r>
shown to them had our positions been reversed.” ; examination, it appeared that their remains had f ‘ • McClellan.
One of the most important witnesses was Gen. •; no t teen disturbed at all. Mr. Scholes met a free ™ ' LATEK -
James B. Rickets, well known m Washington and negro, named Hampton, who resided near the . .f c ° rre, P onde “ t of Associated Press who
throughout the country, lately promoted for his place, and when he told him the manner in which 18 w* tb “ ie *rtny, gives the following particulars:
daring and self-sacnficmg courage. After hating i these’bodies had teen dug up, he said he knew il - °" en ' en ?B the enemy’s works evetything was
teen wounded in the battle ot Bull Run, he was) bad ijeen done, and added that the rebels hat loom- found t 0 •* in utter confusion, as though they left
<-*ap®ired, ana as he lav helpless bn his back, a meaced digging bodies two or three davs after they m haste. Fifty pieces of heavy artillery
partv of rebels jmsHog him cried out, “Knock out were buried, for the purpose, at first, of obtaining vsere left in their works, spiked, with abundance of
brains, the d—-d lankee. He met General the buttons off their uniforms, and that afterwards amniun ition, medical stores, campequippoge, tents,
Beauregard, an old acquaintance, only a year his they disinterred'them to get their bones. He said ! and the l irivate property of their officers.
at the L nited States Military Academy, : thev-had taken rails and pushed the ends down in negro who was left in the town states that the
where both were educated. He had met the rebel ; the’centre under the middle of the bodies ati.l rcbeL ‘ l threw a lar 8 e amount of ordnance stores
General in the South a number of times. By this ; prL4ed tbem np ; into the river, to prevent their falling into our
head of the retel armts on the dav after the battle « While digging there, a party of soldiera came hands - . ,
he was told that hts (General Riekctt.-) treatment along and showed us a part of a shintene, five or Several deserters have ,come in, one of whom, of
t™uld depend upon the treatment extended to Ac t six inches i ong . which ' had thc end sawed off - ; the ordnalloe department, states that the rebels
rebel pntateers. Hts firet hentenant, Kamsai, i They said thev had found it, among many other ev:l ‘‘ uate ' l owm B to ,he near approach of onr par-
i %***’ 5 “ one ' op cabins the
He testified that those of our wounded who died hi j * r ,° m lhe a ! , l’ e;irance ot it, pieces hail been sawed nu n ‘ f ! at ! . lie > leami success of the Umou
Richmond were hnric lin . . ! off to make finger-riugs. As soon as the negroes in Trork and Janies rivers, by means
around amone the nc(rrftP • / negro I noticed this, thev said that the rebels hod had °* wltich their communication with the outer world
lit uSmann!" I ri "** Made of onr dead, and thm the? 1? Cn ‘ <*** "T « iren *“ —"
ment of other witnesses :uf to how the risonr,-. ' * lad diem for ? - lle iu their camps. When l»r. ‘\ te , aen .' doli n»ton on Ihursday, to commence
“£j3r l ,7S^&a l r&sK: i »~j-~ «• »«-.*. ~
etts. He himself, wlnle in nrivm moini.- I shlDbon< * of a man. Ihe soldiers represented that', x . ,
upon what lie purchased with Ids own money the t,lere were lots of tliese lM ’ aes scattered through the Ma gruder, m presence of his men who vo
monevbrotiehf !t •• rebel hnte sawed into rings,” &c. ctferously cheered him, opitosed the evacuation,
he savs, “ wiiat thev i-jllled” t, ' The evidence of that distinguished and patri- ■''' x>ann ? tl>at there was no place in Virginia
made of boiled bacon, the haoon being a ode citizen, Horn Wiiliam Sprague, Governor of y^ o^ e Feden,b W “» ed not «*
7 a fl thilt ! , Tire deserters aU agree that the retels are much
w7nd™ no ’ I. f ' a ! His object in visiting the battle-teld at the order, and also that they nnm
whether he had hktd anrthing | tf S of'Sen” 16 " °" peninBnla ’ 400
instance two were shot one was killed and the * Uf ' t,ie Sra ves - ° n reaching the place he states ' l | . ere ordered nnder MBs. and are now in
other wounded bv a man who rested bis gun on ‘ • thnt " e coln ! nenced digging for the bodies of mot ™* the nght md left wings of t&e army,
the window-sill while he camied it ” (Colonel .Slocum and Major Ballou at the >pot - A *!, e |, lmder Gen.Stoneman. consisting
‘*l heard ” he fimtiiinv : ; I>oiuted out bv these men who had been in artillery anti iniautry. are on tiie ad
our nrisoners who 1 be action. W ’ t,Ctn “ vanre, and will probably come up with the rear of
om prisoners who had teen bayonet ted and shot. ; the enemy tefore night, if thev remain near WU-
I saw three of them—two that had been bavonct- i 'c digging, some negro women came up liamsburg
ted, and otic of them shot. One was named Lou- ; and askt d "horn we were looking for, and at the : The gunboats have ,w. Vo.t.owr,
is Frauds, of the New York Founeeu.it. He had | time said that ‘ Colonel Slogan’ had teca dug are thl
received fourteeu bayonet; wounds—one through | >‘P by the retels, and earned to a ravine thirty or Following them is a 1-mre
his privates and he had one wound ven mudt ! yards below, and there burned. We ; who
hke mme. on the knee tu consequence of which i d«»>ng and went to the where we Gen . Magn.dcV swore he was not tlfraid of Me
hi> 1 was amputated after twelve weeks liad S coaU and ashes and bones mingled together, i Cldlan if Gen Lee w-ls. and that if h* ,«„Ln f
passed,: and I would stare here that in regard to | A little distance from there we found a shirt (still , sueceShUv figkt Urn te’re he -uW noUere ‘
Ins case, when it was determined to amputate his i buttoned at the neck.) and a blanket with large Gn | v oae „ larl , left in Yorktnwn ™,l
leg, I heard Hr. Peachy, the rebel surgeon, remark amities of hair upon it, evetything indicating u -as a n"gro \nd C*
to one ot his womtg assistants, “ I won’t be greedy | ,hc bjinung of a body there. W e returned and Black were the first to enter the enemvtmain
you may do ft; and the young man did il. I saw : dug down at the spot indicated as the grave ot works -pile onlv casualty that
a number in my room, many of whom had been j Ballou, but found no body there; but at the killill( . 0 f two min and tvounding of toe W fhe
badly amputated. The flaw over the stump were out as the grave where Col. aioeutn explosion of a concealed shell trithin thTeneto!
drawn too tight, auu some the bones protruted. was buried, we found a box, which, upon being work.-. *
“A man by the name of Prescott (the same re- raised and ojicned, was found to contain the body , j ke works are - ven . .
ferred to in the testimony of Surgeon Homistou) of Col. Slocum. The soldiers who had buried the ; thev were designed bv scientific men
was amputated twice, and was then. I think, moved !n ' o bodies were satisfied that the grave which had ’■ \ n - ofiici-il B rcnort' inu m ob. m h„„ to - .
to Richmond tefore the were healeL Pres- been opened, the body taken out, beheaded, and sh 7 stC he Skft seramvine
cott died under this treatment. I heard a rebel bunted, was that of Major Ballon, because it was at GI mceTer ,
doctor on the steps below my room say, ‘ that he ! not in the spot where Col. Slocum was buried, but ; «ere-dso ordnance stores
wished he could take out tjie hearts of the d d i rather to the right of it. They at once said that Another deserter Ins iust ( -nm„
Yankees as easily as he could take off their legs.’ j th e retels b<|l made a mistake, and had taken the ,i ia£ j tff Haris came with Gen Lee
Some of the Southern gentlemen treated me 4v ! »«dy <f.Major Ballon for that of Col. Slocum.- dav lart
handsomely. Wade Hampton, who was oppose! i The shirt found near the place where the body prominent officers, all agreed as to
to my battery, came to *ee me and behaved like a j W:ls burned I recognized as one belonging to Map . except Gen Magruder h U acnahon
generoas enemy.” i i Ballou, as I had teen very intimate with him. We TluulqmHcrs Army 'of th - Poto.nac Mau 4-
It appears, as a part of the history of this rebel- gathered up the ashes containing the portion ot his Evtuinv—h is certain that the mtik
lion, that Geu. Ricketts Was visited > his wife, I remain* that were left, and put them t> a coffin, inforeemenm£tom ***
who, haring first heard tlmt he was Irilied in baft | together with his shirt and the blanket! with the da? hLT. Zt tombaA
tie, afterwards that he was alive but wounded, I ban left upon it. After we had done this we went : x; ;e rebe)s ’ re bad i , . .
traveled under great difficulties to Manassas to see f that portion of the field where the battle had : tymptomsof mutihv on aeeountTf tte “iT
her husband. He says: “She had almost to first commenced, and began to dig for the, remains In-ide thc fortifications ami n
fight her way through, but succeeded finally in of Capt. Tower. We brought a soldier with us to ’ tora onlSto
Below we rive » few rw. .v reaching me on the fourth dav after the battle, designate the place where lie was buried, lie had hurried tornedoes and nemne r ? trea ‘ tt Jf ’ 1 a ' e
VS* f r ? f tCstimoi Tl,ere were ei S> lt l*«ons in Ute Lewis House, at been wounded in the battle, and had seen from the i ocTrionall^cvSoffiuu ? ?hcH ’ " h ‘ ch “**
ny adduced tefore the Congressional Committee Manassas, in thc room where I lay, and my wife, ! window of the house where the Captain was in- General ’ Joseoh Johnston’ m ? ■
appointed to inquire into the conduct of the war. - tor two weeks, slept in that room, - on the floor bv i terred. On opening the ditch or trench, we found been captured ' a baggage has just
Mr. Nathaniel F. Parker who was earumwt of side ’ witliwf> bed. When we got to Rich- i if filledvrith soldiers, all buried with their faces : J) Lathrore Smyrintrojl.m i . .
Falling Waters, Virginia testifies that he CoTwT 0 ’l' * -T’ amo, « them I d P' v,l " ard - °“ takin e or fire ’ , w f been mortally thelxpl^fonLSp^
in close confinement, denied exercise and wnth a C ?’ " 1 who rcalain ed with us until he was ; discovered the remains of Capt. Tower, mingled Another torpedo attached fTn’
numtef of others, huddled up fat hat ‘“Charleston. There we were aU in one | those of the men. We took them, placed hai just beJnXn^to^
their food, generally scant, was nlwßv : s°hall roo . m ’ .There was no'door to it. It was ranch ' th «_m >« a coffin, and brought them home.” he telegraph office.
sometimes nauseous; that the woundal had nei l! would be here, if you should take off the In reply to a question of a member of the com- _
ther medical attendance nor humane treatment doors of this committee-room, and then fill the mfftee- as to whether he was satisfied that they THE PURSUIT
.and that many of these latter died from sheer nee- P 8 Wlt “ wounded; soldiers. In the hot sum-i "ere bnried intentionally with their faces down- • '
lect; that five of the prisoners'were shot hv the ? er “dhAs the stench from their wounds, and ward. Gov. Sprague’s answer was, “ Undoubtedly I Engagement at Wfllknuhnw
sentries outside, and that h 7 to one'man ‘lib fr ° m the a they used, was fearful. There : Beyond all controversy I” and that “it was done as “■ * ■ WliHamsbUTg
bills, of the New York Twenty-seventh Regiment pnv *S at al i’ because, there being no door ; a mark of indignity .” In answer to another ques- Washixgxox, >ifav s.—The following desnteh
ishotashewas passing his window, on the Bth of' t,te room co “|d not bo closed. \\ e were there as j tl0n ! as to what their object could have been, espe- has been received at the War Betartmmt- **
November, and that he died of the wound on the i “ C0m ? 10n Bhaw - Colonel Wikox and mvself i ciaily in reganl to the body of Col. Slocum, he Headquarteus o %
12th. The perpetrator of this foul tnnrd er was i we \ re ob -fects of interest, and were gazed upon as if j replied. “Sheer brutality, and nothing else. They! I
subsequently promoted bv the rebel Government j we W£ . re a couple of savages., The people would i did it on account of his courage and chivalry, iit To Hon E If c •>
Hr?J. d Homiston. bf the Uffi N?w T" 6 m there aad aU of-thiigs to us and i forcing his regiment, fiercely and bravely, ’upon , Onr and ° J nar:
j York or Brooklyn regiment/captured at Bull Run ‘ abont ns ’. nntll 1u a - obliged to tell them that I ! them. He.dcstroyed about oue-half of that Georgia tbe enemy’s rear Came ? p Wltll
[testified that when he solicited permission to re- ,vas a prisoner, and had nothing to say. On our I regiment which was made up of their best citizens. *? entrenchments,
I main op the field to attend to wounded men some wa - v 10 Richmond, when we reached Gordonsville, [ Wbeni the inquiry was pm, whether he thought A bri«k fight cn'turi 6 ' U 'am?bnrg
of whom were in a helpless and painful condition man J' crowded around the cars, and asked Jbese batb r nn ted by that regiment, Smith’s Division of aid , Gen
and suffering for water, he was brutally refused -r m - v tf she cooked, If she washed, and how she be responded, - By, that same regiment, as I was and I presume, arrlT ed on the grotmti,
him neither water nor anything in f I • rw • , ' ‘““f, , Wl 1 ‘ <ro n d d were buried with I have Sot the-enemy s works, though
the ehajpe of/ood. He and his comwintonQ «tnnrl A “t J- 856 °* oms Francis, who was temblv marble head and and names upon them. The Pnom*’- ,
in the streets of Matrasses, surronndeS'te a*threat- i woand f d a "d maltreated, and lost a !eg, is referred " ere b ned aIH e t led, in trenches— enough np th’ere tonsw^TTn 8 ’ bUt I haTe force
citing and boisterous crowd, and were afterwards i b . v . General Ricketts: but the testimony of Fran- ; p b*s emme t r <#> ludes hts testimony as We have thus far f^M”* 1 **B** 8 **
thrust uiftfan old building, and left, without sus- 'S? btmself is startling. Ifc was a private in the [ follows : “ I ,«, e puUsucd au order to my second i and j a seve ?‘- v “ one heavy
temmee or covering, to deepen the bare floor It I ew ,^° rk Uth regiment, and he says “ I was : regiment, to which t»se officers are attached, that All alone °f ,ents ammunition,
was only when .faint, and trithout food for twenty- ' att f < * ed two rebel soldiers, and wounded in the I I shall notie-;*atisfira with what they shall do un- been most formid*hb ' a'lr works t 0 have
four hoL that some "gbi knee with a bayonet. ■, As I lay on the sod less
given to them. When: at last, they wtrcmJil' hy s ep^ “bayoneting me imtti I received fourteen ‘ each own qiiAitefe” The strcTss is hrilli»7 1 haVe pnrSued ’
d aSesK: f : il ' 4 ODers —^
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“ I went up and found that they had^cut offl^- ! T a ? othcr “ f be tlitgl. teue was sawed; Cloons »> TI . ’ • May 4th— lf. M. i
cott’s leg. The assistants were puffing on the ’“■* ye®* 8 after the amputation, and before , Totals 17'p; -sso "77 e.::' 8 ad'ance of the forces under command of
flesh at each side,, trying to get flap enough to cd ’ 1 rell l ovt ' d ,he wbaceo factory.” * ' , ' 88 “ ’ )&> - G’eneral Stoneman, wuh the view of ascertaining ■
cover the bone. They hdd sawed off ithe bone v operat,o, “ were subsequently performed on TotalkiUed, wounded and missing, 13.569 % Position of the enemy, reached this place B
without leaving anv of the flesh to form the flaps f la "-7 7° , at 1 ° itrcss M° nroe anJ one at Brook- About .500 n otanded have since died. Our burial * , 110,1 18 nvo an d a half miles from Williamsburg
to cover It; and wi'th all the force .KSld £ New Y ork-after his release from captivity. oop ? rt -’5OO to 3000 fetels a ‘«Vlock this afternoon, on theiTdfto
they could not get flap enongh to cover the tene ! ! Revolting as these disclosures are, it was when ‘““ad dead on the held. Beauregard lost not less , I
They were then obliged to saw off about aniucli c ° m “ I,,ee oal,lu to examine witnesses in refer- ‘?" n , " cntJ 7^! lU!il “ ld rae “ in kille d, wonmled, . 1 he c °nntiy, in most instances was laid deso- i
more of the bone, and even then, when they came 111 al . oar ,ierolc dt>ad dtat the, and the slok ’ a P and panic stricken la,e ’ and b . nt of the houses along the road 1
to put in the sutures (the stitches) they coukL7t ?i ,d ‘ of . thore, >d'coders was most promi-' d^llnn B ( bc movement from Corinth upon Hitts- occupied.: 8 rnad
approximate the within kLS «foch , Dlultel ***>!> of Wash- b “K ’ On emerging. &«,, a corner of the woods we I
and a lialf of each other; of course assobn as tocre i G^s^ I rt“f h rnmlT t ‘ o xr in c “ m l lan - v w ' i , th w^i b '“ e ' v <* Williamslmrg and the enemy’s!
was anytswciling, the stitches tore out, and the': Massatfausctts, who ; «• Slave catching is at a discount in Western ' A ‘ the . sa,no no guns win I
tene stuck tough again. Hr. Swjdm ; tried af- e 7m Bl7tb. J- p' r . W / ’aO* who Mr. Norton, United States Mmsha .7? on^| e . e «emys works, but a regiment of!
tenvardte to remedy if by performing another ojjc- 0 f July Thev foun 1 thpm C act * c,n | >f or rfiat Strict, was recently requested by one off inV™ 0 S<^ tt approaching, aljout one mile i
ration but Prescott had become so debilitutcd that Allc .\ * oun d tnp graAc: the clothes were George Buckler of Bevcrlv *n « e .J llO, off m line ol battle.
he did not - survive.” Corporal Prescott was a ldentlhed 5 s 9?*? ot 3S brother, on account of but declined for'reasons thus mtbilv'Ut i Ca P^ in Gibson’s reserve battery was then or
young man of high position, and had received a ; S ° m » e I^ cl } . ianty ‘ l \ l tlie f or th ey had lieen ; “ In answer. I have to say that if I Imd *K V dered front ? t 0 open on thb enemy’s anoroachinff
very liberal education. ”**"** made, bv Ins mother; and tin order to identify I have not) Val whiie a 1
Th « witness describe the sufferings of tlte ; ~.re “ aVe 110 »« oimply wilh yom 7- anTkS “ t 0 ‘ he ’
after the battle as inconceivably horrible* “ W#» fmin I n ii« a * *k i , i The Government of tlie United State* from the battery was very ef- :
boose to enable ns to move among them,” Deaf somp DmK i e f’u A w e ls cre .. ien » alone to arrest your ne«fr«i if ICh ~7. a “ of being deserted,
to. all hia appeals, they continued to refuse water jto 1 “h 7 the 0 " oral hv'T deadf onr trpop B i
to there tmffenng men, tmd he was only entibied the place, aaid to in to S ffi®. a R d .»‘ my%.u 0 u artijlerr posted behind the I
S stmssed. At thc same time the ’rebel cavalry continued i
Since reading the report of the Congressional
ComAalttec on the conduct of the war, wc confess
that our mind has undergone considerable change
in reference to the character of the people who in
habit some of the seceded States. 'We have been
entirely deceived in them. From representations
made to ns, coupled with what wc bad seen of
them, previous to the inauguration of the rebellion,
we were wont to look upon them as human be
ings, equally as good as the people of the North
(barring their institution of slavery) in point of
honor, humanity and all that adorns a civilized
people. But alas 1 how have we been disappointed.
It seems that their ruling passions were cmly re
strained by the strong arm of the law, and no
sootier is this cast off than we find them perpetra
ting; atrocities, the most horrible, snefa os leave ns
in doubt as to what class of being; they belong,
whether the savages of the forest, the Sepoys of In
itiator the inhabitants of the Cannibal Islands.—
Of ode thing we are sure, a portion of them at
least do not possess the first characteristics of a
civilized people, and the other portion is bat little
better, else it would not have permitted the out
rages to be perpetrated.
In another column will be found a few extracts
from the' testimony adduced before the committee.
We pan hardly conceive of beings so low and de
graded, so entirely lost to all the sensibilities, of
human nature, as to be guilty of such atrocities as
were perpetrated upon the wounded and dead
Union soldiers after the battle of 801 l Bun. We
blush to think that they were ever considered cit
izens of the United States. Some of their deeds
are so damning that the darkest devil wonld close
his eyes ere he performed them. The tallest imp
of darkness could not have invented more exqui
site modes of torture than did these human devils.
To have at once despatched the wounded and then
made food of their flesh, after the manner of the
Cannibals, wonld have been a merciful act com
pared with the amputating processes through
which they had to pass,' under the hands of their
inhuman batchers. The Sepoys of India, from
want of education, could not have invented the
terrible tortures to which onr wounded were sub
jected, and the savages of the forest, who burn
their captives, would have been considered humane
benefactors: But it remained for the enlightened,
chivalrk, honorable soldiers of the Southern Con
federacy, in the middle of the nineteenth century,
to invent and carry into effect the most hellish'
modes of dealing with wounded and dead adversa
ries. The Cannibal seeks for food when he picks
the bones of his fallen foe,' but the high-bred South
ern gentlemen who robbed the graves of Union sol
diers at Manassas, have not the cannibals plea to
enter in extenuation of their 1 conduct. Would
that they had. Can they complain If, after learn
ing the treatment given their comrades, the soldiers
of the Union become desperate and show them no
quarters? We think not. They deserve death,
and a more ignoble one than that of a battle-field.
Think yon, reader, that if a secession officer,
who had been taken prisoner, accompanied by his
wife, were to pass orer any of the railroads in the
North,: that oar ladies would collect at the depots
and insnlt his wife, after the manner Gen. Rickets
wife was insulted by the ray respectable, and aris
tocratic (adie* of the South? No,'sir: They are
better raised than'that. They will cheer and en
courage their own. but they will never insult a fal
len foe.. The actions of both the men and women
of the South have brought a reproach upon that
part of the country which it will require ages to ef
face. Hereafter Southern chit-airy; will be but
another name for all that is fiendish and mean.
Let us hear no more of Southern gentility, moral
ity, or chivalry. ‘
Beport of the Committee on the Con
duct of the Wax.
advancing mini they were checked )>
made by a portion of the Fust and Sixil r '
which wag performed in a maetadmira) ’
In more instances than one it was a tv )
enconnter with tlie enemy's cavalry • f, .
ito relate, none of oar men were taken"' -
while we captured aliont twenty-five of th^ n ' ! '
among whom is Capt, Frank" Lee. ,«■ '
Florida infantry. ' Jt “>« c-
One of oor guns was lost bv sticking f
mud. ‘ * liw in
Lient. DeWolf was raortallv wounded
Lieut. Colkrees, of the Kim Cavalry’
horse shot under him, while engaged in i," if* 1
hand enconnter with two of the
escaped with a few slight braises. • ■ ii.
Private Noble Irish, of Major Barker', m „
lan Dragoons, had his home mu.) a J Mc< \
verely wounded in the leg by the exnl
torpedo while passing through Torktot^ 00 * :
The rebel cavalry was forced bv om
abandon their position, bat the wknt of w
prevented our men from advancing on th»„
works. It being evident that it was osefa^' -
tempt further operations, the troops fell ul "I
two hundred yards to await the arrival '
General Hancock's brigade soon after
it was deemed advisable to defer farther '
tibns until to-morrow. °!*s
AVe have information that the enetnv are « ,
the retreat beyond Williamsburg. The rea/ 11 5
of the enemy Ls very strong, as was showT^'
THE LATEST.
Boat of the Bobels at Willlamslm-
. . WaSHKOTOX Mflv •
Despatches frran Gen. M-Clellau raaiCE ‘:,
evacuation of WUliarasbuig bv the rebel ‘
that our army is rigorously following them
road to Richmond. a -
. {he battle* of Monday- was verv severe, .
loss of the rebels proves to have been large. '
[second despatch.]
Washington. May 7.—The following h™. .
received at:the War Department:
Headquarters Army op PoTOIUc )
. Ipy&iwsiary, Mav 6th. lis> '
To Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secrctoiv of \V a ;
V.. •»/“ e to announce the Occuiwi..
of this place as the result of the bam-fbmrht
yesterday. ; The effect of General
bant engagement yesterday afternoon was to v
the left of their line of works; he was strong;
mforeed and the enemy abandoned the entire,
mon during the night, leaving all his sickT
wounded in our hands. His loss vestenhr
very severe. We have some three hundred nni -'
jured prisoners and four hundred wounded. rC
loss in killed is heavy. I have sent Wafo'"
pursuit. The conduct of our men has been eire:
lent with scarcely on exception.
The enemy's works are veiy extensive, and «
ceolingly strong both in respect to their
and the works themselves. Our loss wafh^
tn Gen Hooker’s division, but very litde on oik
parts of the field. Gen. Hancock's success «,!
gained with a loss of not over 2u killed
wounded. The wither is good today, hat there
is great difficulty in getting np. food, on accoum !-■
the r6ad. V cry few wagons have as vet come r
Am I authorized to follow the e.-caiuj,les of nth'-;
generals, and direct the names of battles to C
placed on the colors of regiments. We have etk
battles to fight before reaching Richmond
(Signed] G. B. McCLELLAS,
Major General Commanding.
THE FALL OF HEW OEIEASS.
Full Particulars from Union Sources.
: New York, May 7.— The steamer Columbia
hns-amved with dates from Fort Jackson to ik
21>th ult.
, The attack on the rebel forts below New Or
leansxommenced on the 18th ult.
: On the 23d, Commander Farragut, in the U <
sloop of war Hartford, with thirteen steamer
passed the forts, and General Butler landed 4.i»
tnen above. i
,; The rebels lost eleven gunboats and the Holk
turtle. known as die Manassas ram.
Our forces took fonr hundred prisoners.
: ;We lost one hundred and fifty men and «&•
gunboat.
_ On the 24th a flag of truce was sent to Commo
dore Porter asking conditions for a surrender, i.
which Com. Porter replied, “so condition.*.’'
Our flag now waves over the Custom House.
An American war steamer reports capturing
three rebel steamers and sending them to
West. -t
rebel steamer was chased into Bahh
Honda.
Twenty mortar and three gunboats were en
gaged against the forts, silencing them after six
days incessant fighting.
The chains across the river were removed hj
pur gunboats. The rebels sent fire rafts down the
river but they did but little damage. One set tire
to the Hartford, but it was speedily extinguished.
The U. S, gunboat Verona and the rebel iron
clad steamer Webster had a splendid engagemuer.
The Webster run into the Verona and sunk her.
but before going under the Verona’s crew poured
jn a volley of eight guns so destructive and cru?h
mg that both the Verona and Webster went down
together. " *
■ Arrangements for the surrender of Jack
son and Philip were to be made on the 27th ult.
\ The day alter the D. Jackson left Fort
Jackson.
The ram Manassas was sunk bv the United
States steamship Mississippi.
Our forces sent small boats to the fire-rafts and
towed them out of the way before thev oonld do
4uy harm.-
The rebel loss is unknown.
Sow Gen. Siegel Handles his Men.
_l. he following is from Siegels rejort of ■
the movements fltodtoLnnder his direction on the I
first day of the Ridge. It shows bis R
famous strategy-on a retreat;—The troops now left j
tp me consisted of about eight companies of the u
Twelfth Missouri, with an average of forty-five I
men; five companies of Benton Hussars, and five R
pieces of the flying battery—in all about six him- R
dred men. The troops I directed to march in the R
following order: Two companies of the Twelfth. R
at the head of the column, deployed on the right E
and left as skirmishers, followed*by the firing hat- - B
tory; one company of the same regiment on the If
right and one on the left of the pieces, marching p
flank and prepared to fire, by ranks to the C
nght and left—-the remainder of the regiment be- 6
hind the pieecs; two companies of cavalry to sup- p
port the infantry on the right and left, and the rest
of the cavalry, under command of Col. Kcmert ||
with one piece of artillery following in the rear.— g
;In this formation, modified from time to time, ac* i
! cording to circumstances, the column moved for* S
■wnrd to break through the lines of the enemy, who E
had already taken position in our front and on both a
flanks, whilst he appeared behind us in the to'vn 1
i m line of battle, - reinforced bv some pieces of I
j. Ulleiy. ?§ ■"
: The troops advanced slowly, fighting and repel- J
hpg the enemy in front, flankward and rear, |
wherever he stood or attacked. From the moment |
we left the town at halfrp&st ten in the morning- |
until half-past three id the afternoon, when we |
met the first reinforcements—the Second I
the Twenty-fifth Illinois, and a few companies of I
the Twenty-fourth Illinois—we sustained three |
tegular attacks, and were muntemintedlv in sigh* I
and under the fire of the enemv, When the first I
reinforcements had arrived, I knew that we were |
safe, and left it to the. Tweatv-fifth and Second I
Missouri, and afterwards to Col.' Qsterhans, to take |
care of the rest, which he did to the best of my |
sattsfecdon. It would take too ranch time to g° y
into the detail of this roost extraordinary and 'ctit- |
icdl affair; but, as a matter of justice, I feel it fe. r I
duty to declare that, according to my humble opic- I
iotij never bare troops shown themselves worthier §
todefend a great cause than on this day of the 6th |
ofMarch, I
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LOCAL ITE
Death of Capt. P. T. Keys.—Sho
the battle of Pittsburg Landing we were
learn that our late townsman; Gap*. P.
of the Regular Army, had been badly wb
He was removed, as goon as possible,
scene of conflict to the hospital at Evnnsvi
where he recivod every medical attentit
the fetal wound had been given, medical
of no avail, and on Saturday night lest,
of another generous, noble And bravo re
tive of “ little Blair” passed into that undi
counter, to which all are journeying, a n
the cause of right and justice, whose bk
from the gory field "of Shiloh for vengeai
the beads of those who inaugurated this £
conflict.
Martial life was Keys’ delight, and on
break of the rebellion he endeavored to j
company for the war, but partially foiling
and hieing determined to do something
oonntiy, he secured a lieutenancy in the 16t
try U. S. A., his regiment rendezvousing
cago. Previous to going into active ser
was promoted to the office of junior ca
The regiment was qnickly filled up and r
with Gen. Halleck's army through Kputin
Tennessee, and participated in the fight a
burg Landing, where he received his death
Report says that no braver officer that
Keys unsheathed his sword in that terrible
and we believe it. Fear entered not into h
position. , Blair county has famished her ft
of victims, in officers and privates, to the (
the Union. They willingly gave their live:
tain the best fonn of government the woi
Saw, and their memories will be cherished,
to their ashes.
P. S.—The remains of Capt. Keys an
the Mail Train this (Thursday) morning, a
lie in state in Logan Hall, which was neat
up by Messrs. Elmer E. Epler, Geo. Lond
others, to receive them. A neat canopy
ted in the centre of the room, decorated wi
flags, nicely craped, on either aide of whic
the photographs of Gen. McClellan and Co
G. Murray, and at the head the photograpi
deceased, all craped. The coffin (metal i
mining the remains is covered with an At
flag, over which is crossed the swonl and sc
of the deceased. On the coffin is a silvo
containing the following inscription:
Captain P„T. Keys,
J6th Infantry, U. S. A.,
Died May 3rd, 1862,
Aged 26 years, C roontlp.
At the head of the'coffin stand three dim
on the other, in pyramidal style. The wall
room are decorated with large likenesses ot
Washington and Scott, and small photegrt
Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, Col. C«
and others, and with flags, wreaths and
trimmed with evergreens and crape. ;
Capt. Keys was severely wounded by a 1
ball, in'the right arm, near the shoulder, fn
efiects of which he died, after ampotatioi
been performed. In appearance he looks
and hearty, and it is sickening to thibk thj
who promised so fairly, in the prime of life, i
be thus early called from the stage of act
victim of the vile conspirators of this- unbn
bellion. They will yet reap the “deep dam
of bis taking off.” He leaves a wife am
child to mourn the loss of an afieciionat
band, kind father, and brave soldier. [
- His remains will be interred in the Gi
Cemetery, at this {dace, this afternoon,At 5 o
The funeral procession will move from Loga
at 2 o’clock, and proceed to the Catholic t
where the usual funeral ceremonies of ti
nomination will be performed. I
—The election for officers of I
toona Gas and Water Company, was held oi
<iay last, and resulted as follows:
fVesifenf—Wm. H. Wilson.
Treasurer—Benjamin F. Bose.
Managers—\Xm. M. Lloyd, Charles J.
Brastmv ßownmn ’ W. Kessler, Lt
Tom the report of the President of the
m leant that the present number of gas me
n»e, is 183, and of water takers, 204; Dari
Pa®t year 3540 feet of water pipe and 400
?a« pipe have been put down, and one fire plug
Chanqb of Schbdulb.— A new Scbei
umoier Arrangement— went into operation
ccnsyivmjja Railroad on Monday last,
of ftains is about the same as last so
Westward leaves this station a
Ewtward •* 8.40 P. M. The Faa
A U *‘ Ves * B2O P - Eastward a
v‘‘ . 1 Mail Westward leavesat T.OO
at 7.46 A. M. The Way Pas
tween Hollidaysburg and Hunt
P M ** *0.50 A. iL, and returns j
of SS!T~ A colored PW' named “T«
in a .~7 y *y*rPg> «» recently committed (
V*Vter, nnd for which she didnot My.
Sh^w*t^ Mthere **** “«•*"
about that time, ’