Worm in a JtiU-^heH
At last acoounta the 77th Regiment
was stationed at San Antonio, Texas.
A SMALL HIT AT JOHN BULL. —The
King of Greeoe has ordered a monument
to be erected to Byron, at Missolonghi.
—The formation of a uew county out
•of portions of Venango, Crawford and
Warren counties is still being agitated,
and it will probably be accomplished.
—The Iron-olad Dictator, from New
port, Rhode Island, has arrived at Boston.
She' gave general satisfaction to those
•ailing her. She will probably next pro
seed to Halifax.
—Fears are entertained io England
that their ooalfields may give out some
day or other. Ninety millions tons of
ooal are annually brought to the surface
in the eolleries of England.
—There are 6538 boats belonging to
the Erie canal, of which number 1440
are of greater tonnage than tlie velsel in
which Columbus discovered America.
—The Late Tunnel at Chicago has now
reached a length of two thousand nine
hundred feet, and is progressing at the
rate of twelve feet per twenty-four hours.
—lt is a curious fact that President
Johnson was married at Greenville, Ten
nessee, by Mordecai Lincoln Esq., a dis
tant relation of the late President.
—Says the N. Y. Sunday Times : More
than sixteen thousand prisoners have been
incarcerated in the "Tombs ' within six
months ! That is, we have in a part of
New York more than 32,000 law-breakers
a year'.
—Benjamin Brown ofWaterford, N.
Y., in his 98th year, is said to be the
only man living who actually bore arms
during the Revolutionary War. no
fought in the defence of the New Lon
don, in September, 1781.
X Miss Neely, of Mockville, N. C.,
»hot a negro wowan through the heart on
the 2d inst., while the latter was arguing
with her master. Slavery is truly a hu
manitarian institution !
—Col. M'Clure.in his paper,the Frank
lin Repository, says : "If there is one
man in the Stato who more than another
don't mean to run for Governor, it is A.
J£. M'Olure." He ought to know.
—Gen. Ruuifcrt, the Mayor of Harris
burg, has issued a proclamation prohibi
ting the sale of liquors at the bars of ho
tels, taverns and restaurants, in that city
after 11 o'clock p. m., For violation of
this order one of the large hotels has been
fined 850.
—lt is stated that a'"re«peotablo yonng
lady" in Pittsburgh eloped the other night
with a youth, whoso addresses her "cruel
parient" had forbidden. She took along
the old gentleman's money box, contain
ing 8400.
—On the Bth inst., a San Francisco
rowdy, named Billy Mulligan, shot and
killed two men while laboring under an
attack of delirium tremens, and was him
»elf shot dead by a policeman.
—The piers of.the suspension bridge,
across the Ohio at Cincinnati, aro nearly
oompleted, and the wires will be suspen
ded in a short time. The bridge will
have a span of 1057 feet, being the lon
gest in America.
■ —The Fourth of July was celebrated
in California, Nevada and Oregon with
tinparalleled enthusiasm. Speaker Col
fax delivered an address in San Francis
co, having safely arrivod overland from
Indiana.
—Major General Lop an addressed a
large and enthusiastic audience last Fri
day night at the Court House, Louisville,
in favor of the constitutional amendment
prohibiting slavery in the United States.
—A gentleman in New Yof-k lias offer
ed to give 8500, in prizes of 8200, 8150
SIOO and 850, to those soldiers who have
either lost their right arm, or have had it
disabled, who will show the best specimen
of left-iand penmanship—the design Be
ing to induce the men to become skillful
penmen, in order to fit themselves for lu
crative and honorable positions.
—A citizen of Quebec reocntly locked
up his daughter because she wanted to
marry a young lawyer. The young man,
however, though poor in purse, was fertile
in resource, and sued out a writ of habeas
corpus for his belovod. As she was of
age to decide for herself, she was produ
ced, and the couple were married and
went on their way rejoicing.
—The stcry of the murder of a woman
and three children, by three men, near
London, Ohio, and the subsequent killing
of the men by the husband and father,
printed in the last Telegraph, is pronoun
ced a hoax by the Madison County Un
ion, published within four miles of the al
leged scene ot the tragedy.
—The Union Stato Central Committee
held a session at Harrisburg, on the 19th,
and passed a resolution convening the
Union State Convention at Harrisburg,
on the 17th of August. The members
called upon General Cameron and pre
sented to him, from the Union men of
Philadelphia, a life-sized portrait of him
self.
—The number of letters now received
at the Dead Letter office in Washington
averages fourteen thousand a day. Let
ter-writers should remember that prepay
ment is imperative under the amended
postal law passed by the last Congress.
—lt is known that twelfth diamond
for magnitude yet discovered in the world
was found by an Irishman digging in
Manchester, opposite Richmond, on the
•Tamos river. The peculiar appearance
of the stone, even"in the rough," at
tracted his attention, and after nearly
throwing it away as common crystal, he
sold it for some five thousand dollars.
—David E. Bcvins, who, it will be re
membered, killed his aged parents near
. Adrian, Mich., to gat their property, and
his own young wifo about to become a
mother, that he might marry another in
_ Grafton. Ohio, lias been sentenced to the
Penitentiary of that State for life, this
being the severest punishment known to
.the law of that State. Before sentence
»was passed he made an affectionate speech
his mother, &o. One can hardly
imagine the existence of such a fiend.—
Perpetual imprisonment is a greater pun
ishment than death .It is a life of tor->
, (ana wMwut a JJ loam tf hope.
President John son--The Oeuio
erals—Tho Offcndfiu.
The world does not like to be snubbed.
The New York World likes it as littla
as any other. For eotne time it assumed
a wonderfully patronizing air towards
President Johnson. Any amount of
good advice it gave him, without the ask
ing. It thought out knotty questions
of administration, all for nothing. It'
made the way plain for setting aside the
trial of the assassins of President Lin
coln. But when the President showed a
strong propensity for judging of his own
duty, and acted accordingly, the World
took it sadly to heart. It is decidedly in
a nervous way, on hearing a rumor that
Mr. Davis is to bo tried by a Military
Commission' "The President's advi
sers," it says 11 are mad to do this thing,"
which it cbaracterifes as " a violation of
all decency, justice and magnanimity."
It argues the matter, affording an emi
nent example of strong passion and weak
logic, as follows; "Davis' orime was his
violation of the Constiiution of the Uni
ted States. President Johnson commits
precisely the same crime in trying to pun
ish him in this illegal way; without the
excuse which Daviß had as tbo represen
tative of five million of people.
This is mere absurd nonsense; the
raving of alarm sympathy and mortified
prido. A military court is as legal a
method of trial as a civil court, for its
own class of ofienses. It Judges and
decides upon law and testimony. It
admits counsel to the accused, and the
same liberty of cross-questioning witness
es. The principles of justice have as
much consideration and weight, and even
if it wore otherwise, it is ridiculous to
affirm that Davis' trial by such a court is
precisely the same crime as that of which
Daviß is accused. It is the say
ing that a trespass is equal to murder,
because bbth are violations of law. Wo
know not whether Davis is to be tried by
a civil or a military one; but the law
officer? of the Government, we presume,
are competent to decide the matter.—
The intimations we have, are that if put
on trial for treason, it will be Mr. Davis'
lot to stand before a civil tribunal and if
for the ausassition of President Lincoln,
the trial will be by the same kind of a court
as tried the other participators in the hor
rid crime. In either ease there is no oc
casion for the distressful anxi«ty of the
World on tbo subject. Nor is it alto
gether becoming to declare, as the World
does, that military trials arc for the pur
pose of convicting, as though justice were
thrown out of the account, and vengeance
swayed such tribunal.— lHtt*. Com.
THE UNANIMITY IN JURY TRIALS.
—One of the reasons given out by the
advocates of military trials in place of the
ordinary proceedings by the law courts is,
that juries as at present constituted are
unreliable. Not, indeed, that citizens
who compose these juries are untrust
worthy in the mass, but because our jury
system requires unanimous agreement by
the jury. It issaid that a single tuan who
is obstinate, wrong headed, corrupt or
disloyal, may bring about the escape of
an undoubted tn.itor, murderer or other
felon if ho stands out against the other
eleven. Apart from its applicability to
the present times, this objection is worthy
of consideration a? affecting the whole
administration of justice. It is question
able whother this unanimous verdict,
which is attributable ty the jealous care
of tho English Constitution over the
rights of tho subject?', does not too often
liberate tho criminal, or do wrong to tho
suitor, at the expense of society. In
some of the States three-fourths of the
jury —that is nine out of tho twelve—
arc competent to find a verdict, and so
it should be everywhere.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S MOTTIER.
—lt would be interesting to know
more about President Lincoln's moth
er, and of the influence she undoubt
edly had in guiding the mind of the
youthful pioneer. But we never
shall; nearly nl. that remains to us
of her brief biography is, that she
taught her son to read the Bible.
Near tho village of Gentry ville, Spen
cer county, Indiana, is her grave, a
modest grass covered mound, with
out headstone or monument. A few
weeks before hia tragic death, the
President expressed his intention, in
a letter to a friend, to visit the lo
cality and erect a suitable memorial
over the grave. A paper, in com
menting on this fact, remarks "he
was not permitted to fulfill his de
sire," No and yes. He raised no
monument of marble to that sacred
memory, but his life was a token to
her praise such as few mothers in
this or any other land have received.
NORTU AND SOUTH. —Mr. Calvert
Comstock, late of the Albany Argus,
has been making a speech, wherein
he says :
"We, of the Northern States, must
not bo uncharitab e toward those of
the Southern States who hesitate to
admit to the control of public affairs
men just emerged from the condition
of Slavery."
—Good so ! We admit the plausi
bility of this. It sounds well.—
Now try it thit end foremost:
"We of tho Southern States must
not be uncharitable toward our North
ern brethern who hesi ate to admit
to the control of public affairs men
just emerged from the condition of
treason."
—How does Mr. Comstock relish
thatf
A letter from A.J. Johnson, Sunder
land, Mass., July 16th, says: " I am sor
ry to nay that this whole section is almost
entirely destitute of growing fruit. I
have heard sorno of the oldest inhabi
tants say that such a complete dearth of
apples, pears. &c., was never known in
this region before. Hut the root and oc
roal crops could not look better, and they
are certainly three weekg in advance of
the season.
Lt is a good thing to be above board,
but generally afwdihiug to bo overlKucd. |
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Some time since a communication
appeared in our paper, with the caption,
"Things I like to See and Hear." We
first saw this article when printed ; we
had no knowledge of its authenticity, nor
even the locality from which it came.—
We thought however, that it had better
not been printed. We have since receiv
ed a communication in answer to some
of its innuendoes, seeming to recognize
the existence of nialica in its author. We
don't believe that a further examination
of this matter would be productivo of
any good, and therefore, for the present
decline publishing anything further on
the subject—believing that no injury has
resulted from the publication in question.
In the mean time we would suggest that
its author must select some more happy
theme, before reaching distinction in the
literary world.
Tht' Democrat')'.
For some time past, this old defunct
organization seemed to have lost all inter
est in oven the preservation of its own
life. Foiled in all its efforts ty gain pow
er —disappointed iu all its hopes for the
overthrow of tho dominant party of tho
country—expectant upon tho destruction
of our common nationality—the leaders of
the oiin■ groat Democracy, seemed to feel
content that they were "let alone," en
joying the blessings of peace and Union,
lor which their opponents had wielded all
the power of the Government since it
fell into their hands.
The loyal people of the country are
somewhat surprised to observe a fresh ef
fort to galvanize once more, this taithless
organization, and to hold it up as the rep
resentative of Democratic ideas. With
this view their papers are teeming with
appeals to their party friends to rally—
to fill up their conventions, and at least
affect signs of life. To this wc have no
objection. Parties there must be in a
Republican country, and certainly 110
more feeble organization can exist as an
"opposition party" than tho anotomical
fragments of this patriotic (!) organization.
Hut it is no more remarkable to observe
this effort to re-organize, than to observe
some of the issues which some of their
writers attempt to agitate. In the face
of the fact that thO verdict of the people
has been repeatedly entered against the
rebel leaders and their northern allies, as
the disturbers of our peace —the inaugu
rators of tho civil war, which has now
happily terminated in the complete over
throw of both—these unfortunate, un
happy, and defunct loaders, art still heard
to exclaim : "the Abolitionists brought
on the war," and are not even ashamed to
compare such statesmen as Charles Sum
ner and Judge Chase, with Jeff. i«avis,
and ask that they be incarcerated in the
same prison ! Let them have reign, they
can hurt nobody. Their history is com
plete.
The 11th Cavalry.
In a former number of our paper the
readers of the CITIZEN learned something
of the situation and treatment of this
brave organization. Many of ourciti2ens
took quite an interest in their case, and,
either in obedience to their own leelings
or the expressed wishes of their friends,
wrote to those in authority, whose influ
ence was likely to affect relief. In answer
to a jetter which we wrote to lion. Eli
Slifer, Secretary of the Commonwealth,
we received an answer from that gentle
man, assuring.us of the deep interest the
State authorities were taking Lu the mat
ter. Our neighbor—Senator M'Candlcss
—has just handed us a letter which he
received from the Private' Secretary of
the Governor, which says that he is di
rected by the Governor to say, that his
"letter and an extract from the CITIZEN
have been referred lo the War Depart
ment, with endorsement urgently request
ing the mutter out of the Regiment." lie
further says that " His Excellency has,
heretofore, earnestly asked the muster oiflf
cf all Pennsylvania organizations at the
earliest period practicable, as well as giv
en special attention to letters and peti
tions of the 14th Cavalry." The Gov
ernor has doubtless done, and is continu
ing to do his duty by the Pennsylvania
soldiery; but we are sorry to say to the
friends of the 14th Cavalry that, since we
commenced writing this article, we have
received, by mail, a copy of an order di
recting the re-organization of the Regi
niant into a battalion, preparatory, we
have no doubt to their intended departure
across the plains. We have also receiv
ed a copy of a Leavenworth paper in
which we find the following:
"To the loyal and generous hearts
of Leavenworth, who have already
done so much ,to alleviate suffering
—for which God ble9s thein—anoth
er appeal is made to supply at least
one dinner of vegetables to soldiers
at the Fort, who expect daily te be
ordered to the plains. The scurvy
has already manifested itself among
them, and the Government, for rsa
sons to itself sufficient, withholds
their pay so that unless friends supply
them, they must subsist on their
rations alone.
Peace has come, but not to them
—to defend our border, tliev are
soldiers still, thousands of miles from
home and loved ones. "As yo would
that others do to you, do ye even so
to them." Remember the stern re
quirements of military law, and let
our willing hands and generous
hearts, free from its trammels, do
for the men what will be life, and
health, and gladness, and to us ful
nes of joy.
Ambulances bearing tho Ameri
can ting will be at the Market House
this morning, during market hours,
to receive donations of vegetables
for this purpose.
It is expected that the presenta
tion will be the occasion of a jubilee.
The Post band and other attractions will
be in attendance, aud a moonlight meet
ing in the vicinity of the camp of the
14th Penn. Cav, of praise and thanks
giving to Almighty (Jod, who hath got
ten us the victory from whom all our
our blessings, will close - the day.
It. BROWN, Ag't. U. S. ('. C
On behalf of young ladies of Sout
Leavenworth."
.From the above, as from every other
evidence in our possession, it seems to us
that the War Department,are still bent
on carrying out their original design.—
We would therefore say to our friends to
be patient; but at the same time continue
to importune the proper authorities on
this subject. For should & sense of justice
not arouse the War Department to a prop
er understanding of this matter, still by
pressing importunity, they may be wea
ried into an approval of the public senti
ment in this behalf. Wo are aware that
the situation of the country has besn such
that. Jhc Government has been compelled
to rule with a strong hand, nor had it
time to pause to inquire into every alleged
grievance; but, happily for us all, that
stern necessity is fast passing away ; and
we trust the proper departments will rec
ognize tin change and net accordingly.—
Mr. Stanton has been charged with the
exercise of more arbitrary power than,
perhaps, any other officer of the (lovern
ment. For his sake, as for the countries,
we hope that the occasions for these char
ges may pass away. At any rate wo
hope the friends of the 14th Pennsylva
nia Cavalry will leave, no atone unturned.
Let them appnal to our members of Con
gress, Messrs. Williamsand Moorhoad,who
we have no doubt will honestly and faith
fully press the subject upon the Hon.
Secretary until this gallant Regiment is
once more, at least, as free as the Reb
el soldiery whom thoy enlisted to subdue.
l.Htfsi from KU'limoiid.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4. —The Tribune's
special says : Every effort is beintr made
to effect a revocation of .General Turner's
order.declaring nul and void the late elec
tion. The antecedents of each candidate
elected are being thoroughly investiga
ted. Tbe result will be the qualification
of one or-two of the minor officials, and
a majority will be declared ineligible.—
Hut when the affairs of the freedmen are
in a more satisfactory condition, and the
people evince a disposition to accept the
new order of things without objection,
there may be expected an opportunity
again to exercise the elective franchise.
Last Sunday morning, at St. Paul's
Episfopal Church, the prayer for the
civil authorities was read—'-Bless Thy
servants, the President of the Confede
rate States and the President of the
United States."
A general convention of the Metho
dist Episcnpal Chureh will be held at
Columbus in September, when it 'is pro
posed to revive all the periodicals in the
interest of this branch of the denomina
tion.
Rev. A. K. Dickson, superintendent of
the rebel army colporteurs, has been ten
dered the direction of the Northern
Oaptist Church affairs in'the South.
terS" Jacob Crouse, late Deputy ; Provost
Marshal, was shot dead in the street in
Bedford, Pa., on the Ist inst., by John
P. Reed, a lately returned Canadian ref
ugee. His brother, Mingel Reed, who j
has been in the'rebel ayny, waa also en- 1
gaged m the affair.
The Rebel Golgotha.
ANDERSONVILLE FIENDS,
Systematic Torture of Our Solders.
Terrible Facta brought to Light
The New York I'ost of Thursday pub
lishes a letter upon the manner in which
our soldiers prisoners at Audersonville,
were tortured. We presume the author
is Ambrose Spencer, formerly <»f New
York, but for mauy years a resident of
Andersonville. who has voluntarily came
North to testify in the case of Capt. Hen
ry Wirtz, who is sion to be tried for his
inhuman treatment of our soldiers while
keeper of the prison at the latter place.
The prison is a stockade of about eigh
teeu feet high, the posts being sunk five
feet; it originally contained eighteen,
but was afterwards enlarged to twenty
seven acres, situated on a hill side at the
foot of which flows a brook five feet wide
and as mauy inches deep. The position
was selected by Capt. Winder,son of Gen.
John 11. Winder, in the latter part of
18t53. When it was suggested to him to
leave the trees standing as a shade for
the prisoners, he replied : "That jvas just
what he wasjnot going to do; he Wui going
to make a peu for the d—d Yankees,
where, they could rot faster than they
could be sent tfiere."
Coloucl Parsons was first commandant
of the post, but was soon succeeded by
Gen- Winder, with his son as Adjutant,
his nephew as Commissary aud sutler,
and Henry Wirtz in immediate command
of the prisoners.
When prisoners were first received it
was usual to subject them to a search for
money, valuables etc., which ostensibly
were to be restored when lliey were re
leased from captivity, but which in real
ity went into the pockets of those who
controlled the prison. Notwithstanding
a law of the Confederacy expressly pro
hibited the dealing in '.greenbacks," yet
the initiated lew whose "loyalty" was un
questioned, could always obtain for a
consideration the greenbacks which they
required.
The writer of this was the forc®an of
the last grand jury which was empaneled
for Sumpter couuty, Ga., and in the per
formance of his duty be had to investi
gate a large number of presentments for
dealing in tho forbidden currency, which
were brought against poor Uuion aien in
every instance. Struck by this fact, he
resolved to examine, as his position gave
him a to do, into all the circum
stances ; where the money originally came
from, who did the selling of it—indeed,
the whole mo(tux ofiernndi- —and lie elici
ted the fact above stated, how the money
was obtained; that Winders and Wirz
were the principals, acting through sub
ordinates, in gath ring bushels of plums,
in tho way of premiums, &c. Meanwhile
the poor prisoners wero left to tender
mercies oi their jailor and commissary
for their food, which might have been
improved in quality at least, if their mon
ey bad been left in their own posses
sion.
At first it wis customary to send a
wagon into the stockade every morning
at ten o'clock, loaded with the rations for
the day—bacon and corn 'b*ead, nothing
else ; but as the number of prisoners in
creased and the greed of gain grew upon
the trio above mentioned, the corn bread
was reduced in its quality, being then
manufactured of equal proportion of
ground field peas and corn, unbolted, un
sifted, uncleaused indeed, Irani the dirt
and trash which peas naturally accumu
late ; and at last, when tho number of
prisoners 'iicreased to over thirty-seven
thousand, the meat rations per week were
reduced to a piece of bacon for each man
about three inches long and two wide,
with one pound of the bread above de
scribed per day. Then, also, the custom
of carrying the prisoners' food into the
stockade in wagons was abolished. They
drove up to the gates, which were slight
ly opened, and the scanty food, foul and
unhealthy as it wan, was thrown inside
by the guard to be scrambled for by the
wretched prisoners, the strongest anil
those nearest the gate getting the largest
share, the weak and sickly getting none.
I have mentioned the small brook which
runs through the lower part of the stock
ade, and which supplied the water for
drinking anil washing. This brook has
its rise in a swamp u«t far from the pris
oj, and at no time, certainly not for a
lengthened period, was the water suitable
or healthy; but when tho ficces and filth,
the drainage of the whole camp of pris
oners, came to be superadded to the nat
ural unfitness of the water fbr drinking
or cleansing purposes, my renders can
judge what thirst was assuaged, o. - (ever
cooled, or throbbing tPUijd.es washed, by
this floating stream of filth and disease !
At any time, uuder the most rigid hygi
enic restrictions, it is difficult to main
tain ' health and clean.iness amongst a
large body of men—what do you think
was the coudition of thirty-seven thous
and half naked, half starved men. with
out any police regulvtions, under no mor
al and restraining influences ? ' If the
remnant who were filially allowed to pass
,out of this military Golgotha were not
wild beasts, unwashed, befouled devils,
po thanks are to be given to Henry*rt'irz
for lack of effort to produce such a con
summation.
When it rained, as it does in that cli
mate almost continually during the spring
and fall months, the soil within the en
closure was one mass of loblolly, soft mud
at least fifteen inches in depth, through
which stalked and staggered the gaunt,
half-clad wretches thus confined. The
stenrlt from the prison could be perceived
for two M UCM and farmers living ill the
neighborhood bet/an to Jear for the. health
of their families.
As a consequence of thij, the hospi
tals—facetious was Wins in his horrible
humanity—were crowded to repletion
with the emancipated, starved and dis
eased men who wore trundled iuto them.
The hospitals were constructed of legs,
unhewn, the interstices unfilledand open,
admitted the rain, without floow, cots,
bunks or blankets, filthy and fetid with
the lettering putrid bodies of the sick,
the dying and ibe doad. [ 'inco muster
ed the courage, impelled by the earnest
entreaties of a northern friend to enter
one vl tUuw, to vi»it uio.wiie jtm Utaiior- ■
ly reared, and walked in the best ranks
of Conneticut society. I believed I had
seen before this what I deemed t« he hu
man wretolieduess in its worst forms I
thought that I could nerve myself U> wit
ness mortal agony and wretchedness, and
destitution, as I heard it described with
out blanebiuir or trembling. But if the
condensed horrors of a hundred "black
holes" had been brought before my mind
to prepare me for the ordeal they would
have failed the facts as I saw them face
to face.
I cannot, in a daily paper read by in
nocence and virtue, detail what met Jny
sight on the occasion I refer to. L will
not pollute any page save the records of
the court that must try the culprit for
the crime of torture by disease aud filth,
with the details of that caravansary of
horrible, intentional slaughter. For fear
that some may think that I have exag
gerated, an episode here will perliaps'dis
pe! such illusiun. Convicted by -the hor
rihle fact that was a disgusting stench in
his nostrils, General Winder, then Com
missary General of Prisons, but haviug
his headquarters atj Andersonville, was
forced by ■jectiiicj/ not humantty, for this
he himself asserted, to ask the aid of the
Presiding Elder ol tho Methodist Church
of that circuit to adopt some means to
alleviate the miseries and soothe the
wretchedness of the poor inmates of that
Andersonville hospital. This gentleman
invoked the co-operation of the women of
Sumter county, who responded with
clothing aud necessaries only, for these
alone were allowed, to the amount of four
wagon loads. Upon the day appointed
four ladies, accompanied by their hus
bands, went to the prison, atfd sought
from the provost-marshal a pass to take
their benefactions to the sick prisoners.
It was refuted with a curse ! The party
proceeded to Winder's headquarters,
where Henry Wirz was in company with
the General. Tho demand lor a pass
was repeated. Understand, the Indies
were present, and the reasons given why
tho party were there, iu accordance with
Winder's special request. To their as
tonishment (hey were met with this re
ply : "G—~d d-—m you, have you all turn
ed Yankees here ?"
"No General," responded the spokes
man of the party, "I am not, as you know
nor are any here present; we have come
as you requested us. through tho Rev.
Mr. 1)., to bring the necessary articles
for tho Federal hospitals, and ask a pass
for tho purpose of delivering them."
" It's a d-—n lie I I never gave permis
•ion for .-anything of tho kiud ! Be off
with you, all of you!"
As it this fearless display of martial
valor and gentlemanly bearing wus not
sufficient, Henry Wirz essays to and
eclipsed bis General in profanrty and in
decency—aud 1 here assert that if the
lowest sinks of the must abandoned parts
of your city were gleaned, they oouhi not
surpass the ribald vulgarity and finished
profanity of this jailor, exhibited in the
presence ol refined and "loyal" ladies.
Shocked, terrifiod, beaten to tho very
dust with mortification, the party retired,
aud, foiled iu their effort to succor the
sick, or alleviate the tortures of the dying
Union soldier, they gave their loads oi'
clothing and food to a passing column of
Federal prisoners, on their way to anoth
er place—Milieu. They, at least, had
the satisfaction of knowing that some
were benefited, even it tney had failed
in their efforts for those who ru .at needed
their assistance.
During tlie last winter—which was un
usually cold lor Georgia, when the ice
in ado an inch thick—no shelter, im blank
ets or clothes, no wood was provided for
' the wretched inmates of that prison.—
Squads were permitted, to the number of
thirty, to fro out under guard daily, for
one hour, without axes or ;iny cutting
tool, to gather the refuse and rotten wood
in the forests; and ii' tiiey outstaid their
time they were fried by a drum head court
martial, charged wilh violating their pa
role, and if found guilty, were hung If,
myself, saw thrc bodies hanging, who
wero thus executed. Poor fellows, I
thought, (rod has taken pity upon you
and given you deliverance from your cru
el jailor. When you and ho meet at an
other judgment-seat, woe to him if his
authority be found in sufficient for this
taking of your lives, wretched though
they be.
sly house was the resort, or I should
say, refuge, of most of the prisoners who
made their escape from the stockade, and
the tales of starvation and distress which
they told would have melted an iron heart.
I must close my hurried aceount of what
1 have seen. It is far from full: not one
half has been told ; by far the most has
been kept back from very shame, and iu
respect to your readers. I have not em
bellished. The pictures were too rough,
the characters too forlorn for the flowers
of rhetoric tu bloom iu their presence.—
Rroken hearts, crushed spirits and man
hood trampled on, may answer as fitting
subjects for the romancer's pen, but the
horrible reality, so seldom seen, burns its
images upon the beholder's soul, that no
other impressions can efface, and they re
main life-pictures indeed. S.
\nlloiiul loinpTrmu-e
The seventh regular meeting of the
National Temperanao Leaguo of Allegh
eny City was held iu the East Common
Methodist Church on Tuesday evening,
Rav. V. Lucas, presiding, and <*as open
ed with prayer by Ilev. J. JJlaqk.
The committee appointed by the last
meeting of the Leaguo to prepare a pro
gramme of subject* for lectures with the
uauie of suitable persons to lecture.
First—The History of the Temperance
Reform in America, by the Kev. Mr.
Diekson.
Second—The Importance of Temper
ance Reform to the Church and State,
by Rev. VV. Reed.
Third—The Influence of Intemperance
on Moral and Social Life, by Rev. \V. D
Howard, I). I).
Fourth—The Influence of Intemper
ance on Man's Physical and Mental Na
ture, by fbos. F. Dale, M. D.
Fifth—The Effects of Intemperance as
Exhibited in Crime Pauperism, by Judge
Sterrett.
Sixth—The Duty of tho State iu Ref
erence to Intemperance, by Rev. W.
Lynch.
Seventh-r—Tho Duty of the Church in
Reference to lutwiipc-t'.iuce, by Rev A
' IW>
KigUth—The Influence and Responsi
bility of Womau iu the Temperance 1 In
form, by l'rrvfessor Samuel Wilson D. I).
Ninth-—What are the Best Means for
the Hemoval of Intemperance from tho
Land, by Rev. D. M. B. MeLain.
The committee further suggested that
the first lecture of the oourso bo deliver
ed on the second Tuesday of September,
and that tho Seoretary of this Socioty bo
instructed to notify the persons nomina
ted without delay.
On motion the above report was receiv
ed and adopted. Due notice will be giv
en of the time aud place of each leeturo.
A committee, consisting of Dr. J. B.
Clark, Rev. T. X. Ori, aud Prof. L. 11.
Katon, was appointed to prepare and for
ward a communication to the Temperance
Couventiwu MII to assemble at Saratoga,
State of New York.
It was moved aud carried that a com
mittee of five be appointed to prepare a
form of remonstrances against the grant
ing of any license for the salo of intoxi
cating liquors, and to report the same at
the next regular mooting, with the numoj
of two members from each congregation
in the city to circulate tho same in their
respective churches, aud secure the sig
natures of all interested iu the cause. —*
The committee oppointod by the Chair
consists of Rev. W. Lynch, Col. J. B.
Clark, Prof. L. 11. Katon, lion. Robert
McKnight and Bcnj. Heckcrt Esq.
Several addresses were mado by cler
gymen and others, after which the meet
ing adjourned, with the benediction by
W. Lynch.
Acquittal of Mary Harris.
Everybody who read the proceed
ings on the trial of Mary Harris for
the murder of A. J. Burroughs, at
Washington, must have seen the ro
sult of it. Indeed to our untutored
eye the trial seemed like a burlesque,
the New- York Tribune, in referring
to the ease, makes theso appropriate
remarks:
Miss Harris had a beau. Ilia
name was A. J. Burroughs. Slio was
quite Young when they wcro
attracted to each other. He was
several years older—say 21 to her
14 rather better educated, and
moved, perhaps, in a little higher cir
cle than she did. They corresponded
when separatei], kissed when they
cune together, were very fond of
each other, and had an under tand
ing, if not a positive engagment, that
they w rein due time to bo married.
So far thero is nothing peculiar or
distressing in the case of these young
I people. Most girls hive beaux—wo
mean, one apiece—or wish they had.
And if "the course of ' rue love" had
only run as it too often won't, they
woul 1 probably have been as happy('f 1
as humdrum, and as rnconspicious as »
the most of u-.
But Mary, mainly out of sight, in
time was out of mind. Burroughs,
tired of .his engagement (or under
standing,) wrote less frequently and
fervently ; finally became acquainted
with another, whom he found moro
attractive than Mary, wooed, won
and was married—not to his earlier
1 love. Hence disappointment, jeal
ousy, bitterness, revenge and mur-r.
but no, we must respect tho verdict,
and say., insanity.
Wo reject the hypothesis that Burroughs
sought to,entice Iritt affianced into a den of
infamy. It is not clearly proved; and
there was no rational nrotivo for such an
act of villiany. Tboro is no suggestion,
no hint, that he over said or did anything
that Miss Harris should have, roscntcfl
throughout the years of thoir unreserved
intimacy and her undoubting affection.
That must be a tnnsf. supererogatory
scoundrelisrrr that would thoroughly re
spect her ipaiden purity under such cir
cumstances, yat afterward seek, by an
anonymous note iu a disguised hand, to
lure her into a den of shame. Who
could fail to realize that innocence would
be alarmed and repelled by such palpablo
enticements to infamy ?
Burroughs jilted Mary Harris, and sho
shot him. Had she jilted him, and he, had
therefore sjiot her, nobody would have
adjudged him guilty of insanity. But
she is a women ; and it is virtually adju
dicated that a woman who shoots the
man who has been faithless to her ig
necessarily insane- We don't see jt.
Yet there is a rough, "wild justice" in
this and kindred verdicts. Our laws are
made by men, and they arc not just to
women. They ought to punish tho con
spirator against female purity severely.;
but they do not, because too many of our
legislators and jurists are libertines. That
is rather a blunt way of stating it; but it
is a fact. This city is full to-day of dens
of lewdness, eaoh of them a perpetual
snare for female innocence. Every wo
man (or .man) who makes a gainful
trade of ministering to other's lechery
should'be felon by statute; every one
who conspires or aids to deprive a girl of
her virtue should be punished at least as
sverely as burglar, a forger, or a highway
robber. They are not so punjshed, be
cause it is to magnates inconvenient that
they should bo. Yet the wrong is felt,
though not redded: hence the rudo
equation effected by such verdicts as that
which has ju.-t acquitted Miss Harris.
THK DICTATOR. — It seems to be un
derstood that this Monitor will visit Port
land aud Halifax, and cross the ocean.—
Captain Rodgers has perfect confidence in
being able to show our British cousins
something which, though jt lot&s .very
much like a cheese-box on a raft, is, in
fact, as little like such a thing as can bo
imagined.
MONTREAL, August 4.—Tbe attempt
ed abduction of' tieorgo N. Sanders ia
pronounced by Judge Armatinger nn un
mitigated boax, got up to create sympa
thy for tbe broken-down secessionists re
siding here.
BAD FOII BRAZIL—The rebels in tliw
Southhwent propose to emigrate to Brazil,
and an agent has been sent to that coun
try to procure territory and terms. We
( trust he nuy succeed. It will be a bles
sed thing for ihe Southwest, but very ba#i
fbr