intro" . fislrcraiolaY,,,-ANEwirim w;3 • Tim 11PJIL. `The fiial•o,f Captatn~n:rs still progref,f sing in Washington, and the facts thus tar bronghtetit 'exhibit - 156' eearly the %metal and 'utterly 'brutalizing effects of slavery we 'can. Nvith - goad •itia son wonder how the Ali:nighty permitted tes - to hire so longiut nation while conserving and extendingthis daninableinadtntion. Ilere e was a Swiss - mountatieer, "tucked ' the cradle of liberty'," acenstorr.ed to breathe . the air of freedom,''and associated. With, tbose tt, whom servitude or hnman bondage was a synonym- of death. leaves his.native land,-settlesin Louisiana, and recreant to his early teachings; falls.in with the customs of his adopted countrymen, and irriests prop erty in human chattels. As time passes on, his heart becomes seared and callous ; the brutalizing influences grow - ing out . of the re— lation of master and slave stiflt every instinct of humanity; and by the' time the insurree: • tionary fires burst pith, he is educated into a' fiend incarnate, ready and willing to be come the deliberate and wholesale murderer of his fellow - men, be they black or white.— He is selected as the:keeper of the prisoners captured in battle, and forthwith enters with apparent relish upon the unparalleled task of _cruelty and starvatiOti. Pisease does not ' work. with Mfilcient rapidity 'among the vic tims to satisfy his unnatural desires. The , • dead-line, dog, derringer - and . dagger are thereupon brought into; requisition and hast . en the progress of. tile. poor unfortunates to the grave.:• Thee brute gloats over the ago _ vies of the poor Wretches who are lareithing their life away,.and in response to their pite ous appeals for nourishment or medicine, sends the:unerring : bullet crashing through their. brains. • • Such is the work of slaVery ; such is the transformation which the cursed institution • works among those . brought under its influ. ence,.changing the hyperion in.moral 'beauty to the veriest satyr. The war has brought sorrow and afflictions upon many imuseholds, and imposed upon posterity an enormous debt; but the great laboi accompliShed - in the overthrow of slavery Will golar toward recompensing us for our sacrifices, to say :nothing .of the preservation - of nationality and government. We have schievetl a work in coniparison with - which all other philan thropic- achievements 'since the beginning of the,Christian era sink into insignificance. Our festored countrymen, who can no* see in the conduct of Wirz and other of their employed Servauts, the "units of _slaverys tuition, should feel grateful to us that We have, come to their rescue, relieved. them.' . • . from a terrible incubus; and purged them of the evil, spirit which stole aWay their reason and imposed a - physical lethargy upon them. The few riPologizers of slavery among us, and the sympathizers with the incitation in' 'Kentucky and -- New Jersey, who refuse to. • ratify the abolition amendment, should learn wisdom from the teachings of Andersouville. If Wirz, placed in• authority there by a • . 1 -lighr p4 . wer, could commit such atrocious .wrongs upon whites, what must have been •- the sufferings of the blacks' over whom he and other stave owners exereiqed unrestrict ed control? The pictures of cruelty growlig, out of Southe.n serfdom were evidently not overdrawn. The story has not been half -- As regards Wirz the enemies of the:Qoy- • eminent, State, for Auditor - General,.. .Davis, press apprehension .that he is not having .fairtrial., If: this wretch was sunk; ten times as:deep in-crinte,e; were IL possible, as he is, .this GoVernment Which duringthe entirewar , exhibited :its magnaiiiMity and generosity,; .would accord him every'facility to make the bat defende, and give, him a fair trial. 2lf he should be ponVicted, and_ under, the evi dence. it IS .not 'Possible that he can be fte7 . tillitted, it will be afters trial as impar 'tint as.that which would .be accorded him, in any . court of justice •in the country.- 7 The democraey need not worry: theinseives: on that score. `The . r The gnat apprehension that Wirz I% that full. jOtiee will be done him by the court - now engaged in trying him. THE NITIQIIAL, DEBT:, On the of this month the Secretark of the. Treasur - issued a statethent_ of the Na :tional debt. It will be, remembered that .' when - Mr. Mcetilloch's-statement of-the debt •tis it stood on the 31st ofJuly, Wasyublished,... astonished-at the fact that the debt during, the-preceding two. months had been increased: but about two millions per • day, _when it had beeii 'predicted that the • e . xperl % . ._itureS had ruled 'from 'three to five millions p • er day during that interval or.time. -• if an . berease:of one hundred and twenty-two Mil- , ,:..lit - Aps - of dollars.. was an agreeable surprise, _then' for, sixty-one days, . what should :be, titotight . of the exhibit-fur-the thirty-one days. in the month of August, which 'shows an in-. • crease of .debt of only 136,296, And 'n reduc= . tion in the . saMe,thne of $1,230,840 in infer: : est? -According to the . SeCretary's,figUres the debt over .. tind above income has been less than one hundred and firty • dollars. per day. Below we present the folloWing comparative 'statement: crg,T -11- 5 - • • F. ;"•:l 7 = •Fg".:! .fi5417. , =m2 :Q • , • • .