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Washfn. -S'nitnerhill. Mu3s M. Gillespie Morris Keil, CHURCHES, 3ai."S'5TEXlS, P.,.;,.,.,;,l?F.v. D. IIarei-OX, Pastor. Preacliing oaoDatii piorni.- o'clock, and in the evenius nt 3 o'clock, bath School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer l erery lock, fcab- meet- ing every Tlairsday evening ai u o e.ii. Methodist Episcopal Church -Rev . S. 1 . J0GW? Preacher in charge. Rev. W. Lo:cg. Assis tant Preaching every Sabbatn, alternately at 10 o'clock in the morning, or 7 in the evening Sabbath School at 9 o'clock, A. M. Prayermeetiug every Thursday evening, at. 7 o'clock. r Welch I.i!fprnJi.rttr.zv Ll. R. Poweli., Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at 10 o'cioclc. and in the evening at G o'clock. SibHh School ft 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer Electing on the lirst Monday evening of eh .month T and on every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evening, execptiug the nrat week in each month. Calolnutic 21'thoditt Rev. Jons W illiams, rastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at 2 and C o'clock. 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Leave Ebensburg on Tuesday?, Thursdays na i Saturdavs, at 7 o'clock, A. M. VOLUME RAILROAD SCISEDULE. CRKSSON STATION. West E.xnress Train leaves at 8.51 A. M. Fas't Line " 8.5G P. M. Mail Train " 7.35 P. M. East Express Train 7-12 P. M. ' Fast Lino " 12.17 P. M. " Mail Train " . 6.50 A. M. WILMORE STATION. We-t Egress Train leaves at 9.13 A. M. " Fust Line " 0.18 P. M. M Mail Train " 8. CO P. M. Last Express Trair " 720 P. M. Past Line " ' 11.53 P. M. Mail Train " C23 A. M. COISTY OFFICERS. Ju !j3 of the Conrtt President, Hon. Geo. .Taylor, Huntingdon: Associate.--, George W. "Basley, Henry C. Devinc. Iirottionotary Joseph M Donald. Jtegistrr and Recorder Ed.vard F. Lvtle. ShertjT John Buck. Ditrtct Attorn'y. Philip S. Noon. Count Conimi9ionrt D. T. Storm, James 'Cooper, Peter J. Little. Treasurer Thomas Callin. Poor Ifj'ise Directors J:cob Horner, Wil liam Douglass. George Dc-inny. Poor House Treasurer. .JtorreC. K. Zahm. Poor Houxe Steward. James J. Kaylcr. 'Mercantile ippruiier John Farreil. AuMert John F. Stall, Thomas J. Nel son, Edward R Dnnupgun. CovAty Surveyor. K. A. Vickroy. Coroner. James S. Todd. i'ut. of Common Schools Wm. A. Scott. cnnxsniRG ssor. officers. Justices of the Peace. David Harrison Kinkead. II. Roberts Iurges.i George Iluntlev. School Doctors E. J. Mills, Dr. John M. Jones, Isaac Evans. EAST WAED. Conttable Thomss Todd. Tovn Council Wm. Davis, Daniel J. Davis, E. J. Waters, John Thompson, Jr., David W. Jones. Inspectors John W. Roberts. L. Rodgers. Judgt of Election Thomas J. Davis. Assessor Thomas P Davis. TV EST WARD. Constable 11. M. O'Neill. Jou n Council William Kittcll, IT. ICinkead L. Johnston, Edward D. Evans, Thoma3 J,' fmpectojt J. D. Thomas. Robert Eran J'tdye of Election John L'otc. .i?ficr Richrrd T. Davis." REPORT OF THE JOINT COiilHIITTEE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR. The Heliela Worse than Savages Atrocities tlicy Committed upon our Dead and Wounded at 32anassas SicSieninsr de tails of. Fiendish Cruelties. The Joint Committee cn the Conduct of the Present War Las made, the follow ing report to the United States Senate : On the first day of April the Senate of the United States, adopted the following resolution, which was referred to the Com mittee ou the Conduct of the War : Iif!6oIvt.tI, That the Select Committee on the Conduct of the War be directed to collect the evidence with regard to the barbarous treatment by the rebels at Ma nassas, of the remains of officers and sol diers of the United States killed in battle there ; and that the said select commit tee also inquire into the fact whether the Indian savages have been employed by the rebels, in their military service, against the United States Government, and how such warfare ha3 been conducted by the said savages. In pursuance of-the instructions con tained in this resolution, your committee have the honor to report that they exam ined a number of witnessed, whose testi mony is herewith submitted. Mr. Nathaniel F. Parker, who was cap tured at Falling Water, Va.,' testifies that he was kept in closo confinement, denied exercise, and, with a number of others, huddled up ia a room ; that their food, generally scant, was al ways bad, and some times nauseous ; that the wounded had neither medical attention nor humane II t V 4l l I' J . - died from sheer neglect; that-five of the prisoners were shot bv trie sentries out- side, and that he saw one man, Tibbilts, of the New York' 27th Iledmcnt, shot as he was passing his window, on the Sth of November, and that'he died of his wound ou the 12th 1 he pert rpetrator ot lov foul murder was subsequently promoted by the rebel Government. Dr. J. ;i. IIov-i -ion, eurgeon ct the Fourteenth New Y'ork or Drooklyn' regi ment, captured at Bull Pun, testifies that when he solicited permission to remain on the field and to attend to wounded men, some of whom were in a helpless and pain ful condition, and suffering for water, he was brutally refused. They offered him neither water n. r anything n the shape of tood. He and his companions stood in the streets of Manassas, surrounded by a threatening acd boistcious crowd, and was afterwards thru:-.t into an old building, and left, without sustenance or covering, to sleep ou the bare fio or. It was only when faint, and without food fur twenty four hour?, that some cold bacon was grudging) v given them. When, at last, the3 were permitted to go to the relief of our wounded, the Secession surgeon would not allow them to perform operations, but entrusted the wounded to his young as sistants, "some of them with no more knowledge of what ther attempted to do than an apothecary's clerk." And fur tlfer, "that these inexperienced surgeous performed operations upon our men in a most horrible manner ; kouir of them were absolutely frightful." "When," he adds, "I asked Dr. Darby to allow me to ampu tate the leg of Corporal Prescott, of our rc-iriuient, and said that the man must, die if it were not done, he said that I should be allowed to do it." While Dr. Ilom iston was waiting, he says a Secessionist came through the room and said, "Th.y are operating upon one of the Yankee's legs up stairs." "I went up and found that they had cut off Prcscott's leg. The assistants were pulling on . the flesli at each side, trying to get flap enough to cover the bone. They had sawed oil the bone without leaving any of the flesh to form the flaps to cover it ; and with all , the force they could use thcyieould not j get flap enough to cover the bone. They were then obliged to saw off about one inch more of- the bone, and even then, ! of his clothing but his socks, and left na wben they came to rut iu the sutures (the ! ked on the field. He testified that those i - i n . il i ; ... ii '""a'csj iney couiu not approximate me . , i :.i - 1 r .. . . :. . 1 cuj;l miiiiu less man un men auu a half of each other ; ot course, as soon as there was any swel'.in out and the bone stuck Dr. Swalm tried afterward: by performing an oth. Frescott had become he could not survive." Corporal Pres cott was a young maa of high position, and had received a very liberal educa tion The same witness describes the suffer ings of the wounded after the b:ttle. as inconceivably horrible ; with badTood, no covering, no water. They were lying upon the floor as thickly as they could be laid. "There was not a particle of light EBENSBUEG, PA., THURSDAY, MAY in the house to enable us to move among them." Deaf to all his appeals, they con tinued to refuse water to these 'suffering men, and he was only enabled to procure it br setting cups under the caves to catch the rain that was falling, and in this wav he spent the night catching the water and conveying it to the wounded to drink. As there was no light, he wa3 obliged to crawl on his hcud3 aud knees to avoid stepping on their wounded limbs; and, he adds, "it is not a wonder that next morning we found that several had died during the night." The young surgeons, who seemed to delight in hacking and butchering these brave defenders of our country's fiag, were not, it would seem, permitted to perform any operations upon the rebel wounded. "Some of our woun ded," says this witness, "were left lying upon the battle-field until Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. When brought in, their wounds were completely alive with larva?, deposited there by the flies, having laid cut through all the rainstorm of Monday, and the hot, sultry sunshine of Tuesday. ' The dead laid upon the field unburied for five days ; aud this in cluded men not only of his own, the Four teenth Regiment, but o; other regiments. This witness testifies that the rebel dead were carried off and iuterrcd decently. In an.-wer to a qucstiou, whether the (Jon federates themselves were iot also desti tute of medicine, he replied, "they could not have been been, for they took all of ours, even to cur surgical instruments." lie received none of the attention from the surgeon? o:i the other side, "which," to u.-:e his owa language, "I should have shown to theui had our position been re versed." The testimony of Wm. F. Swalm, as sistant surgeon of the Fourteenth New York Ilegiment, who was taken prisoner at Sudley's Church, confirms the state ment of J)r. Ilcmiston in regard to the brutal operations on Corporal Pre.seott.- I lie also states that aftci he himself had j becu removed to lllchmond, when seated j one day with his feet on the window-sill, j the sentry outside called to him to take them in, and on looking out he saw the sentry with his musket cocked and poin ted at him, and withdrew in time to save Irs life. He gives evidence of the care less, heartless and cruel manner iu which the surgeons operated, uoon our men. Previous to leavinir fur Richmond, and ten or twelve das after the battle, he saw some of the Union soldiers UDburied upon the field, and entirely naked. Walking around were a great many women, gloa ting over the horrid ?ight. The case of Dr. Fergu?on.of one of the New York regiments, is mentioned by Dr. bwalm. "v hen getting into his am bulance to look after his own wounded, he was fired upon by the rebels. When he told them who lie was, they said the' would take a parting shot at him, which they did, wounding him in the leg. He hud his boots on, and his spur3 on his boots, ;md as they drove along his spurs would catch iu the tail-board of the am bulance, cau-ii!r him to shriek with aiio nv." . Au officer rode up, and placing his pistol to I1I3 head, threatened to shoot him if he continued to scream. This was on Sunday, the day of the battle. One of the most importaut witnesses was Gen. James D. Pickett?, well known in Washington and throughout the coun try, late! promoted for his daring and scJi-sacriuciug courage. Alier having. been wounded in the battle of Dull Uun, he vas captured, and as he lay helpless on his back, a party of rebels passing him cried out, "Knock out his brains, the d d Yankee." He met General Beau regard, au old acquaintance, only a 3'ear his senior at the United States .Military Academy, where both were educated. He had met the rebel General hi the South a number of times. By this head of the rebel army, ou the da-after the battle, he was told that his (Gen. Pick ett's) treatment would depend upon the treatment extended to the rebel priva teers. His first lieutenant, Ramsey, who was killed, was stripped of every article of our wounded who died in Ilichmond, i wero buried in the negro burying-ground, among the negroes, and were put into the what he purchased with his own money, the money brought to him by his wife. "We had," he says, "what they called bacon soup soup made of boiled bacon, the bacon heing a little rancid which you could not possibly cat; and that for a man whose system was being drained by a wound is no diet at all." In reply to a question whether he had heard any thing about our prisoners being shot by g, the stitches tore earth in the most unfeeling manner. for aught I know. W nen 1 got to luch- of obtaining the buttons oil their uniforms, been very intimate with him. We gath- through again. The statement of other witnesses as to mond, I spoke to several gentlemen about ! and that afterward they uisinterrel them j ered up the ashes couiaining the portion 3 to remedy it how the Prisoners vere treated is fully this and so did Mrs. llicketts. lhey ?aid 1 to get their bones, lie said they had ta- , ()f his remains t bat wsre left, aud nut. cr operation, but i confirmed by Gen. llicketts. He himself, j of course, the carriage and horses should 1 ken rails aud pushed the ends down in j them, in a ccn. together with his shirt so debilitated tint 1 while in Prison, mainly subsisted upon 1 be returned ; 'mt they never were. "1 here the centre under the middle 01 the bodies, and the blanket with the hair lefL-vnou the rebel sentries, he answered, "Yes, a number of our men were shot. In one instance two were shot ; one was killed, and the other wounded by a man who rested his gun on the window-sill while he capped it." Gen. Iticketts, in reference to his hav ing been held as one of the hostages for the privateers, states : "I considered it bad treatment to be selected as a hostage for a privateer, when I was so lame that I could not walk, and while my wounds were still open and unhealed. At this time Gen. Winder came to see me. lie had been an officer in my regiment; I had known him-for twenty-odd years. It was on the Oth of November that he came to see me. lie saw that U13- wounds were still unhealed ; he saw my condition ; but that very day he received an order to se lect hostages for the privateers, and, not withstanding he knew my condition, the ! nest, day, Sunday, the 10th of November, I was selected as one of the hostages." "I heard," he continues, "of a great many of our prisoners who had bten bay onetted and shot. I saw three of them two that had been bayenetted, and one of them shot. One was named Louis Fran cis, of the New York Fourteer.th. lie had received fourteen bayonet wounds one through his privates and he had one wound very much like mine, on the knee, in consequence of which his leg was am putated after twelve weeks had passed ; and I would state here that in regard to his case, when it was determined to am putate his leg, I heard Dr. Peachy, the rebel surgeon, remark to one of his young assistants, "I woa'i be greedy ; you may do it," and the young mm did it. I s.tv a number in 1113' room, many of whom hid been badly amputated. The flaps over the stumps were drawn too tight, and in some the bones protruded. "A man by the name of Prescott. ("the same referred t) in the testimony of Sur geon llomiston) was amputated twice, and was then, I think, moved to Itich- mond, bojorc the taps were healed. Prescott died under this treatment. I heard a rebel doctor, ou the "steps below my.room, sa3, "tfat he wished he could take out the hearts of the d d Yankees as easily as he could take off. their legs." Some of the Southern gentlemen treated me very handsomely. Wade Hampton, who was opposed to my buttery, came to sec me and behaved liie a r;enerous en- cmy. It appears, as a part of the history of this rebellion, that Gen. llicketts wa-s vis ited by his wife, who, having first heard that he was killed iu battle, afterwards that he was alive, but wouruled, travelled under great difficulties to Manassas to see her husband, lie says : "She had almost to fiht her way through, but sueeeded Siially in reaching me on the fourth day alter the battle. There were eight per sons in the Lewis House, at Manassas, in the room where I lay, and my wife, for two weeks, slept in that room, on the floor by my side, without a bed. When we got to ilichmond there were six of us in a room, among them Col. Wilcox, who remained with us until he was taken to Charleston. There we were all in a room. There was no door to it. It was much as it would bo if you should take oft the doors of this committee room, and then fill the passage with wounded soldiers In the hot summer months the "stench from their wound-;, and from the utensils they used, was fearful. There was uo privacy at all, because, there being no door, the room could not be closed. U e were there as a common show. Colonel Wilcox and myself were objects of interest and were gazel upon as if we were a couple of savages. The people would come in there and say all sorts of things tc us and about us, until-1 was obliged to tell them that I was a prisoner, and had nothing to say. On our way to Ilichmond when we reached Gordonsville, many women crowded around the cars, and ask ed my wife if she cooked, if she washed, how she got there. FinallMrs. llicketts ' appealed to the officer in charge, and told him that it was not the intention that we should be subjected to this treatment, and it it was continued she would make it known to the authorities, General John- son took my wifo's carriage and horses at Mauussas, V'pt them, and has them yet j 13 one UeL-r, says mis gauant soiuier, "that I desire very much to pay, and nothing troubles me so much now as the fact that my wounds prevent me from en tering upon active service at once " The case of Louis Francis, who was terribly wouuded and maltreated, and lost a leg, is referred to by General llicketts ; but the testimony cf Francis him sell is startling. He was a privato in the New .1.1 ..!- 1802. York Fourteenth rcirinieut.- Ho says: "1 was attacked by two rebel soldiers, and wounded in the right knee with the bay onet. As I lay cn the, sod they kept bavonetting mc until I received fourteen wounds. One then left me, the other re- maiunig over me, when a Union soldier coming up shot lnm in the breast, anJ he fell dead. I lay on the ground until 10 o'clock next day. I was then removed in a wairon to a building : mv wounds examined and partially dressed. On the Saturday following we, were carried to Manassas, and from there to the general hospital at Ilichmond. My leg having partially mortified, I consented that it should be amputated, which oper ation was performed by a young man. I insisted that they should allow Dr. Swalm to be present, for I wanted one Uniou man there if I died under the operation. The stitches and the band slipped from neglect, and the bone protruded ; and about two weeks after auother operation was performed, at which time another giece of the thigh bone was sawed off. hix weeks after the amputation, aud be fore it healed, I was removed to the tobac co factor-. Two operations were subsequently per formed on Francis one at Fortress Mon roe and one at Brooklyn, New Y'ork after his release from cuptivity Revolting as these disclosures are, it was when the committee came to examine witnesses in retereace to the treatment of our heroie dead tht the fiendish spirit of the rebel leaders, was prominently exhibited. Daniel Bixby, .Jr., of Wash ington, testifies that he went out in com pany with G. A. Smart, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who went to search for the holy of his brother, who fell at Black burn's Fird in the action of the ISth of July. The- f.ju ud the grave. The clothes were identified as the-.se of his brother on account of some peculiarity in the make, lor they liad been maae by his mother; and in order to identify them, other clothes mane by her were taken, that they might compare them . . ; "We found no head in the grave, and no bones cf any kind nothing but the clothes and portions of the. flesh. We found the remains of three other, bodies all together. The -ilothes were there ; some flesh was left, but uo bones." The witness also .-tates that Mrs. Pieice Butler, who lives near the place, said that she had seen the rebels boiling portions of the bodies of our dead iu order to obtain their bones as relics. They could not wait for them to decay. She said she had seen drumsticks made of "Yankee shinbones," as they called them. Mrs. Butler also stated that he Lai Sceu a skuil that cne of the rebel artillery had, which, lie said, he was going to send heme and have mounted, and that he intended to drink a brandy punch out of it the day he was married. Frederick Scholes, of the city of Brook lyn, New York, testified that he proceed ed to the battle-field of Bull llun on the fourth of this month, (April,) to find the piaee where he supposed his brother's body was buried. Mr. S oholes, who is a man of nr. .j-. -lioned character, by his testimony t'uiiy confirms the statements of other witnesse.?. He met a free negro, named Sinicn or Simons, who stated that it was a common thing for the rebel sol diers to exhibit the bones of the Yankees. "I found," he says, "ia the bushe3 in the neighborhood, a part of a Zouave uniform with the sleeve sticking out of the grave, and a portion of the pantaloons. At tempting to pull it up, I saw the two ends of the grave were still uuopencd, but the middle had been prised up, pulling up the extremities of the uniform at some places, the sleeves of the shirt in another, aud a portion of the pantaloons. Dr. Swalm (oue of the surgeons, whose testimony lias already been referred to) pointed out the trenches where the Secessionists had bur ied their own dead, and, O'l examination, it appeared that their remains had not been disturbed at all. Mr. Seholes met a free negro, named liampton, wh, resioed j near the place, and when he told him the ; manner iuvhich these bodies had been ; dug up, be said he knew it had been done, ! and added that the rebels had commenced j diircrin bodies two or three days after j they were uuncd, lor the pu v - - ... i urpuse, urst, and prised theui up. "'Ihe information of the negroes of Benjamin Franklin Lewis corroborated fully the statement of this man Hampton. They said that a good many of the bodies had been stripped naked ou the field be fore they Were buried, and that some were buried naked. I went to Mr. Lewis' i house and si?okc to him of the manner in which these bodies had been disinterred. 1 15, NUMBER 84. j He admitted that it was infamous, and condemned principally the Louisiana Ti gers, of General Wheat's division. He admitted that our wounded had been very badly tieated." In confirmation of tho testiuiftny of. .Dr. Swalm and Dr. Hoiuisr ton, this witness avers that ,Mr. Lewis mentioned a number.of instances of men who had been murdered by Lad surgical treatment. .., Mr. Lewis was afraid that a pestilenco would break out in. consequence of tho dead being left unburied, and stated that he had goue aud warned the neighborhood and had lhadead buried, sending his own men to assist iq doing so. "On Sunday morning (yesterday), I went out in search of my brother's grave. AVe found the trench, and dug lor the bodies below. : They were eighteen inches to two feet be low the surface, and had been hustled in in any way. In one end of the trench, we found, not more than two or three in ches below the surface, the thighbone of a man which had evidently beeu dug up after the burial. At the other end of the trench, wc found the shinbonc of a man, which had been struck by a musket ball and split.' The bodies at the ends had been pried up. . . "While digging there, a party of sol diers came along and showed us a part ot a shinbone, five or six inches long, which had the end sawed off. They said they had found.it, amcng many other pieces, in one of the cabins the rebels had desert ted. From the appearauce of it, pieces had been sawed off to make finger-rings. As soon as the negroes noticed this, they said that the rebels had had rings niudo of the bones of our dead, aud that they had them for sale in their camps. When Dr.. Swalm saw the bone, he said it was a part. of the shinbone of a man. The sol diers represented that there were lots of these bones scattered through the rebel huts sawed into rings," &c. Mr. Lewi and his negroes all spoke of Col. James Cameron's body, and knew that "it had been stripped, and also where it had been buried." Mr. Seholes, in answer to a question of one of the committee, descri bed the different treatment extended to the Union soldiers and the rebel dead. The latter had little headboards placed at the head of their respective graves and marked; none of them had the appearance of having been disturbed. The evidence of that distinguished and patriotic citizen, Hon. William Sprague, Governor of the State of llhode Islaud, confirms and fortified some of the most revolting statements of former witnesses. Ilis object in visiting the battle-field was to recover ,jhe bodies of Colonel Slocuni and M;:J6r Bullou, of the llhcde Island regiment. He took out with him several of his own men to identity the graves. On reaching the place, he states that "wo commenced digging for the bodies of Col. Sloeum and Major Ballou at the spot pointed out to us by these men who had been in the action. While digging, soma negro women came up and asked whom we were digging for, and at the sametimo said that 'Colonel Slogan had been dug up by the rebels, by some men of a Gtor gia regiment, his head cut cfT, and hi body taken to a ravine thirty or forty yards below, and there burned. Westop ped digging and went to the spot desirnar ted, where we found coals and ashes and bones mingled together. A little dis tance from there we found a shirt (still buttoned at the neck) and a blanket with large quantities of hair upon it, every thing indicating the burning of a body there. We returned and dug down at the spot indicated as the grave of Major Bal lou, but found no body there ; but at the ' place pointed out as the grave where Col. Sloeum was buried, wc found a box, which, upon being raised and opened, was found to contain the body of Col. Sloeum. The soldiers who had buried the two bod ies were satisfied that the grave which had been opened, the body taken out, behead? cd, and burned, was that of MajorBallou, because it was not in the spot where Col- Sloeum was buried, but rather to tho ii-ht of it. They at oice said that the rebels had made a mistake, and had taken the body of Major Bullou for that of Col. Sloeum. The shirt found near the place where the body was burned I reeocruized V - o as one belonging to Major Ba'lou, as I had it. After we had done thi, we tfrnt Ui that portion ol the field where tby battlo had lirst commenced, and began to dij for the remains of Capt. Towe?. We brought a soldier wit Ii r.s to designate tart place where he was buri. d. He ha5 beeu wounded in the battie, and had reen from the window of the houso where the Cap tain was interred. On opening the ditch or trench, u? found it filled with tioldirs, J
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