the World in a M-fheU
Governor Pierprmt alone has reconi- j
mended over one thousand of the twenty j
thousand dollar clause for pardon.
—A* tbe world moves —so docs the
poor—priirar.
Thomis Wiitnun was shot and in- j
staotly killed, bv his brother Richard, in j
New York ou Saturday. Cause—whis- j
key. • . I
—A Conventinn*of deaf mutes is to be j
hold at Saratoga on the 30th instant, to j
organize association.
—Texas is divided inti three military j
districts Gen. Turner commands the j
district of Galveston, relieving Gen. Gra»- :
gcr.
}f r3 , Surratt, previous to execation, j
gave her counsel an acknowledgement j
tor three thousand five hundred dollars, j
General Merrett's cavalry force lias |
roachcd Austin, Texas, and placed the j
national flag over the State Capitol tor I
the first time in four years.
The Tennessee Colored Men's Con
vention assembled in Nashville on Mon-1
day. Tho object is to petition the Leg- j
islaturc and send delegates to \\ ashing- j
ton to ask the right of franchise.
—The Petersburg City Council has
before ; t a memorial to President John- j
son, asking hfin to have removed from;
the Appomatos river the obstructions |
placed there by tho robe! authorities.
Outrages upon colored mon in Rich- |
mond are becoming more numerous. The :
proscribed peopl' petitioned Gen. leirv j
for redress, but thus far the Gen. has not j
been able to remedy the*vil.
Major Gen Geary recently turned ;
out of his bouse some Hnrriebnrg cop- j
perheads for talking troason, telling them I
at the same time he had seen men hanged •
for saying less than they uttered. j
—The Freedmen's Bureau daily re
ceives accounts of gross outrages com- '
initted on the colored people by their for- ,
mer masters. In tbe interior of tbe j
South, the planters appear to be deter- j
mined t/> make as much out ol nc- :
groes by compulsory labor as possible, :
before the authorities interfere.
—lt is said that much discontent pre
vails among the troops in and about Rich- j
mond, because tbe commissary and quar
termasters stores arc deficient, and there 1
Is no present prospect of being either
paid or discharged. Several racent out
rages have boon attributed to them.
million of dollars will goto
New Orleans by the next steamer, in the
bands of one paymaster, for dislwrse
mcnt to troops about to be mustered out
in Texas.
—Secretary narlan and tbe Commis
sioner of Indian Affairs returned from
Philadelphia last evening, where they
had a lengthened interview with several
prominent Quakers, relaiivc to the estab
lishment of industrial schools in New
Mexico among tho Indians.
—An extensive fire occurred at Gal
veston on the 2d, involving a heavy loss.
It was doubtless the design ol the par
ties to burn the town. The transactions
of the villains in Galveston was never
before equalled.
—The notorious guerrilla, Mo»eby. was
arrested in Alexandria today, and will be
held snbject to the orders ol Gen. Au
gur. He is charged with violation of
his parole.
—One hundred letters per day, on an
average, are received by Genera I Under
wood,"President of the Military Commis
sion for the trial of Wirz, the Anderson
ville jailor, from officers and soldie.'s who
suffered imprisonment there, begging to
be summoned as witnesses against the
wretch. Many of them offer to come at
their own expense.
—The London cortespondcnt of tbe
Cincinnati Gazette , says: John Stuart
Mill declared yesterday in my bearing,
that he regarded the negro suffrage ques
tion as tlie most momemtous one ever
brought before a country, and as involv
ing interminable troubles and obstruct
ions, or unexampled peace aud prosperity
in its decision. He regards the neg'o as
in every way fitted to be at once enfran
chised.
—lt is represented in our \ irginia
dispatches that there is much oppression j
of the freedmen in the southeastern por- j
•iion of that State by the planters. The
negroes are promised only live to ten dol- J
lars per month, and are told that they i
are not yet free, and will not bo until a |
special decree giving them their liberty
is issued by the Government. There is
also Raid to be much opposition among the
old Virginia aristocracy to Northern em- j
igratiou to the State of"V irginia.
—Mr. Burlingame our minister to Chi- (
na is now homo on a short visit, lie
says thai our merchants are highly es
teemed in China; that our commerce is
.rapidly increasing; and that our rela
tions with tho government and the peo
ple arc most amicable. Many large
Ijnglish houses, anticipating a long war
here, speculated so largely in the cotton
of other countries, that they are either
ruiued or serously embarrassed. The
Chinese have translated and published
Wheaton's International Law as the
standard authority.
—Estimating tho national debt at
twenty-five hundred millions of
oud apportiouating it according to tM|
.white male adults over twenty years of
.of age iu the different sections of the
couutry, it has been found that the pro
portions of the New England States, is
8308,689, 532; of the Middle States,
574U,195,342 ; of the Western States,
$893,288. 781 ; of the Southern States,
$161,929,846; and of the Pacific States,
$95,896,677. This calculation makes
the South responsible for over lour hun
dred and sixty millions of dollars of
debt.
—Colonel Thomas, Assistant Commis
sioner of Freedmeu in Mississippi, writes
to Gen. Howard that he has issued a cir
cular directing clergymeu in that State
that they will hereafter be required in
performing the ceremony of marriage be
tween colored persons, to add to the ritu
al as the final words, u La accordance with
the ordinance of God. and by authority
.of the United States of America, I pro_
aounceyou husband aiid wife.
The Fiendish Tortures.
ANOTHER C'll APTKR.
Andersonville Horrors Continued.
The «l>oad I,ine" I»esrrifo«?d
DEATH COURTED TO ENDMISERY.
llow tlio I>ead Wire Unried.
Mr. Ambrose Spencer, whose first let
ter we published a few days »go, has con
tributed another painfully interesting nar
rative in relation to the inhuman monsters
who tortured our soldiers in the prison
pen at Andersonville. We reproduce
the material portion of his statement:
1 have referred to the quantity aud qual
ity of the food given to the prisoners, and
have since been asked if the country was
really so destitute of provisions as to re-,
quire it. At the post-quartermaster's, at
A mericus, nine miles from Andersonville,
there was turned over to the United
.States Government; nearly two hundred
thousand pounds of and an im
mense amount of corn and other produce;
a larger quantity was stored at Albany,
forty miles lower down, and very consid
erable stores at » )glethorpe, eighteen miles
above Andersonville. These amounts
were continually increasing from tithes
and purchases, so that it will be seen that
there was no lack of provisions in the
country wherewith to furnish the prison
ers food.
I have heard inueb of what is termed
the -dead lino;" few, however, know
what is meant by it. After the comple
tion of the prison aud its use, those con
fined there were accustomed 4o approach
the stockade and look through the open
ings between tbe posts, or talk to outsi
ders. After tbe assumption of command
by Major Wirz, be caused the prisoners
to be notified that if they approached
within thirty feet of the stockade, they j
would be shot by the guards upon the out- j
side. This limit of thirty feet was iin
marked by any line whatever ; it was ideal, I
and left to the arbitrary determination of ]
men on guard, a majority of whom were |
as incapable of judging of distances of SO
feet, as were tbe poor prisoners who were
doomed if they transgressed it. The con
sequence was that weekly, yea daily, the
prisoners were shot down by tlie guards,
when these thought they had transcended
the imaginary line which separated thirty
seven thousand human beings from eter
nity.
Upon one occasion, a prisoner who had
been confined there for more than a year,
rendered desperate by hunger, want and
filth, preferring death to a life so unutter
ably miserable, alter writing a last fond
letter to his wife in Indiana, and bidding
his friends around him farewell, deliber
ately advanced towards the side of the
stockade and calmly received the well di
rected shot of the sentinel that released
his soul froui the tortures which he could
not endure, and which his manhood sunk
under. .
The southeast corner of the interior of
the stockade was the favorite spot fur this
kind of practice by the executors of Ma
jor Wertz's will; lor at this point the
brook or stream to which 1 have already
referred entered tho limits of the prison.
Here the water was less tainted and be
fouled by the drainage of the hill, and
afforded a somewhat more palatable drink;
of course this point was sought iu prefer
ence to any other. Butwoetothe untbr
tuuate wretch who ever reached with his
arm beyond tbe prescribed bounds,to dip
up a cup of better water than the reek
ing current below him offered ! A senti
nel's bullet sent oue more spirt trembling
to its God, while the wretch's body lay
prone and washed in the very water that
iiis less unfortunate comrades must drink,
until necessity forced its removal. How
many were slain in this manner will never
be known until the records of a book un
seanncd by mortal eyes be made up in fig
ures of living light.
At a short distance from the stockade
was the field where the remains of the
dead prisoners were supposed to be bur
ied. As if the tortures and degradations
of their wretched life were insufficient,
the culminating stroke was given by their
mode of interment. In long ditches;
scarcely too feet in depth, without coffin
or cover, without even the ordinary de
cent composing of their limbs, but care
lessly hustled into tbe bed which was to
be their last, thirteen thousand eight hun
dred shrunken, ghastly bodies have been
tossed; and there they lie, an " army of
martyrs," whoso cry will go up to heav
en's gates in unceasing peals, asking ven
geance for tbe " deep damnation of their
taking off."
I know not what the benevolent raiss
sion of Captaiu Moore may have accom
plished in this dreary cemetry, but 1 do
know that three months ago at least one
tenth of the whole number there lying
were exposed ; the dirt which had been
carelessly thrown upon them having set
tled or washed away, while legs aud arms
protruded here aud there, sad signal posts
of down trampled humauity, natural mon
uments of fiendish cruelty. Aud over
this Aceldama of the Ncrth's best and
bravest could be seen the shadows of the
thousand buzzards' wings as they slowly
sailed above the festering heaps, or, gloat
ed with their horrid feast, gloomily sat
and gazed upon others who followed to
Mis disgusting banquet of death.
E. Bevins, who, it will be re
memb™. killed his aged parents near
Adrian, JrlNi., to gat their property, and
his own youug wife about to become a
mother, that he might marry another iu
Grafton, Ohio, has been sentenced to the
Peuitentiary of that State for
bciug the severest punishment known to
the law of that Slate. Before sentence
was passed lie made an affectionate speceh
about his mother, &c. One can hardly
imagine the existence of such a fiend.—
perpetual imprisonment is a greater pun
ishment than death. It is a life of tyr
t ires without a gleam of hope.
—lt is estimated that two hundred
thousand cases of discharged soldiers
have been recorded since January ficit of
the present year, and sin thousand thiet
hundred and eighty-five during the past
mouth. t
Ithc gUncriraw (tittern.
ffay- The Largest Circulation oj
any Paper in the County, "©ft
THOMAS ROBINSON. - - Editor.
M. W. SPEAR, Publisher.
BUTLER PA.
WEDSESDAI ATO-, 16 1805.
I
*?/-•• Liberty and Union. Now and Forever, One t
and inseparable."—D. Webtier.
REPU IJIjICAW TICKET.
STATE SENATE.
JOHN X. PURVIANCE.
(Subject to District Conferees.)
LEGISLATURE.
IIF/-RY PILLOW.
JOHN II NE<iLEY.
(Subject to District Xomination)
COUNTY TREASURER
\VM E. MOOItE.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
W. 11. 11. RIDDLE.
COMMISSIONER.
WM. DICK.
AUDITOR.
J. C. KEL KEY, 3 years.
G. 11. GTJMI'EII, 1 year
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
NATHAN M SLATOR
m- During die iast week this localiiy
has became quite sickly ; dysentery and
flux seem to be the prevailing diseases.
This is the usual season for these dis
eases to make their appearance. People
cannot be too careful in reference to
their food, particularly with their chil
dren. Vegetables should be used with
great care
The nomocracy
Of this county met in convention on Mon
day and putin nomination a ticket to be
supported by t'iie " Unterrified" at the fall
election. The fill iwing is their ticket:
For Senate —Col. Sirwell of Armstrong;
Assembly—Jno. C. (.'oil, Esq., of the He.r
--al >!; County Treasurer—Jacob lleiber.
Summit; District Attorney —Robert M.
M'Lure, Esq. ; ' ounty Commissioner—
Lieut. C. S. Barclay of Middlesex ; Au
! ditors—
We congratulate our opponents on bc
iagabla togetrcspjctab'e n.enin sufficient
number to fiil up their ticket. We did
not suppose that there was that many men
iu their party so "public spirited" as to
agree to be victimized by a copperhead
nomination. And we are the more sur
| prised to see soldiers accept such compa
i ny, and lend their reputation, as patriots,
to galvanize disloyalty and latent treason!
The more so when there is not the shad
ow of a chance for the election of a sin
gle one of them. What wry faces the
Murrin's anil the Car's, the Downey's and
the Denucy's, the Dougherties and the
Gallaher's will make when they come to
vote for one of " Lincoln's minions," as
they were !ti the habit of calling then.
Of the avowed sentiments of the con
vention we can say nothing, not having
seen them. We understand, however,
that one of the old '• standbies," who still
votes for "Jineral Jackson," offered a
resolution affirming the stability of sla
very, and was soon called to order for his
imprudence. This is a hopeful sign. It
is an evidence that even some of the De
mocracy have realized that the world
moves.
We have not learned tbe exact number
of districts represented, Out from the best
information we could learn, the conven
tion was not half full. If it was intend
ed liy this movement to demonstrate the
fact, that the party "still lives," it was the
greatest failure we ever witnessed. The
few members that did atteud this conven
tion (1) haden'teven spirit enough to get
tipsy ! A low day, indeed with the De
mocracy !
jjfcgr* Since our last issue, we have re
ceived a letter from Hon. Thomas (Vil
liauis, informing us that be has written
to the Secretary of war ia behalf of the
14th l'a. Cav., and also a copy of the
dispatch of that gentleman, informing
him that the subject had been referred,
by him, to the Adjutant General, for ex
amination and leport. This is "so far, so
good." Mr. Williams alsoasutes ua, that
he clothed his appeal to the Secretary in
such form as he supposed would obtain
for the matter a fair consideration. For
this prompt response to the wishes of their
friends, on tbe part of Mr. Williams, the
14th have a right to be grateful, as they
doubtless will. What the report of the
Adjutaut may be is as yet unknown.—
We have also received a iMtcr from a
. member uf Co. 'E,' (formerly 'L,') of that
Regiment, iuformiug us that he bad been
; (educed to the ranks "for entire worth
lesaness," on account, no doubt, of the
active part he took in demanding justice
at the hands of the authorities. We are
intimately acquainted with this gcntle
mnn. He is our personal friend ; and
we can in all safety say that, in point of
genuine patriotism, true manhood and
mental culture, he is the equal of any
officer in the regiment, and we have no
doubt the superior of many, and yet he
is reduced ro the ranks as a mark of rep
robation !
Mr. Williams in his letter already re
ferred to, assures us that Mr. Stanton is
l; a just man" &c., we will not join issue
on this point at present. We have al
ways believed Mr. Stanton to be a patriot,
and a man of great talent, hut whether
all his official acts have been marked by
justice and wisdom can be better inqui
red of hereafter —when all the evidence
is before the public.
COMMIKICATIOJf.
For tho Citizen.
MR. EDITOR :—As day sun eels night
and night day, so joys and sorrows sue
cced each other in fast rutatimi 1 irne
with lightning speed u-i - nti exist
ence, rain and sunshine j 'b c noim
itant train of evils brings J'.ith its fruits;
and if we examine and enumerate the
fruits of any great evil, our minds s n
back apalled at the enormity cf the de
struction that follows the train. Take for
example the horrid evils of the intoxica
ting bowl, and let any candid luiud watch
the monster but a few short months, an I
however skeptical he may lie in regard to
calling it the agent of the Devil; 1 pie
tunic that after a care'ul consideration of
the subject his opinion will he changed.
A few days ago, business called me to my
old native village, and the news that await
ed me there would have been astonishing
to any one having less acquaintance with
the principals of tho tragedy. A mother
and five children were taken by force to
the place where the largest portion ol the
drunkard's families will eventually go —to
the poor house; and tho sole cause of all
this is whiskey. 15oth the parents were
otherwise healthy, tho only difficulty was
that they had formed a debasing appetite
for strong drink, which had proved their
ruin ; the only mystery to me is, why the
husband was not takeualong ; the wretch
stood unmovei, while the wife of his
youth was bound and taken off with her
offspring, and seemed to desire nothing
but the poisonous liquid fire. Here, ye
advocates,for the "go"d creature" is some
thing for you to look at; you can here
see, where men can be carried by this de
mon of destruction; and yet, pcradven"
ture, men of moral character, that wit
tiesscd this transaction, will sign their
names to a small document ncxtspriug in
this same village, doclaringthat the land
lord is a good sober citizon, an d they
think selling liquor is u.-elul in the com
munity. Well, if making paupers, an.l
filling the jails, poor houses, grave-yards
and perdition is necessary aud useful,
then, selling liquor is an honorable and
uselui occupation ?
Could we but read to-day the fiearts of
m llions of our race that have been bit"
ten by this serpent and sec there the dqcp
agonies aud groans of anguish, sorrows
and lamentations depicted upon their sad
lieaits, and then be permitted to look
down into the dark caver.is of the lost
spirits, and as the smoke if the torment
ed rolled up forever, and the cries would
reach our cars from the «ia ik j >of cter
nal night; as the question v, i be ask
cd them, what brought you hcie? the
roll of muttered voices w..nid I.ring the
sorrowful answer, intemperance led on
from step to step, till we landed here
I his is no overdrawn picture, out some
thing that challenges our candid atten
tion, and determine what we are called mi
to do to drive this great evil froui our ua
tion. If we sec our brother about to iu li
headlong over a steep precipice, if we put
not forth every effort in our power t" save
him, we may be justly called his mur
derer.
llerc our brothers, s* ns aud friend
are plunging by scores into ruin aud woe
The demand and imperative duy resting
upon every philanthropist should impel
him to be on his guard aud use all hit
be u t resources for (iod and suffering hu
manity. Here is the largest field of use
fulness iu which to operate. People need
not think that llumse'.lers and whiskey
imbibers will fly at the first approach of
Temperance lteform; they have taken a
strong stood and will make a stubborn
resistance:—But it is the decree of high
HeaveD, that this monster that biteth
like a serpent and stingeth like an udder,
be driveu headlong from the face of our
1 lair earth. No doubt the reproach of
die taxological part of the world will
fall thick and fast upon the heads of those
suppressing the traffic; but when the
storm blows over and the inebriate is
restored to his family; aud plenty takes
the place of want, aud the sanctuary is
filled with pleasant and sincere worship
pers, arid midnight revellings and street
fightigs are heard no more, it will be au
ample compensation to that person tc
know he gave his aid and niiueoce to SL
worthy a cause. D.
' —Mary Harris, the murderess, passed
1 through Chicago a few days ago on hit
" way to her home in lowa, under the nam*
) of Mrs. Phillips, to avoid curiosity.
Is (he Rebellion Ended?
Armed rebellion, as it existed three
months ago, is practically at an end.
Nowhere in all the expanse and mag
nitude of our country is there any vi
olent resistence to the United States
by my <*on)bination of men with arms
in their hands. But, 110 common ob
server of events can fail to see that
there is an unarmed, rebellion of pro
portions sufficiently cosiderable to
attract the attention not only of nil
loyal citizens, but of the Government
itself. It is true that it may not at
all times be warrantable to treat these
coalitions of enemies as we should an
armed band of disloyalists ; never
theless die safety of Republican in
stitutions—the peace and prosperity
of the people, and permanent tran
quility of every portion of the Nation
—may force the necessity upon the
Government to deal with' a steady
and unterrified hand with these dis
turbers of law and order.
Who can look ;it the conduct oF a
sot of political miscreants in the city
of N Ofcun'ii.ir a few days
ago, in which i!i i scape of Jeff. Da
vis, the traitor am-.?r_: traitors, with
out punishment. wa- tlio motiv of
their joint i.-ii.i!., mil in which the
May rof t ii' a wretch nam d
(Junther.'wa- ;;i of the prominent
participator- ! I'iiey say that their
in't ntiou is oniv that he shall have a
fair trial, &u.. as though tiiere was
any purpose to vouchsafe to him any
other kiiitl 112 trial. The very act,
as procl tinietl, is an offence against
the Governni lit, and sh ws the des
perate character oft ese New-York
secessionist*. assisted as they are at
every sti p they take,bv avowed rebels
from the extreme South, who should
not for nn hour be allowed their un
constrained freedom.
At the conclwe that assembled
through tin.' medium of printed circu
lars, at which it was boldly announc
ed that its object was to raise funds
to defend Jeff Davis when he should bo
brought to trial, the speeches showed
very precisely the tenor and temper
of those assembled. A rebel from
Atlanta—a rebel dv din the wool
made a speech to this band of North
ern traitors which was as defiant and
ins lting to the Government as the
most abandoned scoundrel within the
lines of the late rebellion could have
desired, lie proclaimed that slavery
was not dead, but only sleeping—that
the rebellion, though for the present
defeated, would bide its time and
suddenly make its "appearance in an
other and he trusted a more success
ful way ; and that every Congress
man who might be el ctetl from A a
bama in the future, would favor south
ern independence.
This was the kind of treason that
t' e private conclave of New-Yorkers,
with the southern sprinkling, uttered,
but not boldly uttered in that city
only a few "lays ago. We say not
boldly uttered b cause no one ex
cept those nursing the same infa
mous sentiments were allowed to be
present. The Government may or
may not (probably not) have had a
spy among this piecious party. Prob
ably, however, it is well informed of
all that transpired, and will act as it
tnay seem justifiab e by what they
may do 111 the future as well as in
the past.
These humanitaran geiitlejoan
must have cutcrtained a prodigious
ly elevated opinion of the petticoated
ch>ef,to overlook hi fi ndi-di cruelties,
not only to the L nioii prisoners, but
to the sou,ln i;. eon-ciipts their fam
ilies. i.he> umst have overlooked Dr.
iliack u.it S im.v PTTI II I" introduce yel
low it. vel ittio .. .1-Y 11; autl 1 hilad'd
j.lnu, a? lie ain Ncwberu, by which
| lie.uauD'ia lcii v .ft in - lliey uiust have
oitiiiouku i ill.' cit.u tii.hg aranguieots oi
Da*is, agent, lit-lie to throw railroad
; trains, line j .villi peaceful citizens, men
aua u.iueii Uii.i i niltiieti, nil the track
; u\et s 'liic nr. tit into a nuo deep gully,
j iti-j uoiot lii\t veilmked Mr Kcune
oy -• jilaii to 1. 1. -t j utterly New-York.
: 'l,hey nverlo ,liu>l caietully any insigui
lii aiti in ..tcir. like ttie.-e. Their object
was oi another nature—me of higher
purpose an I Injiliei ui.itincts —one wortb
l"y oi llie nuoie?t e'loits of New York hu
manity it wa- the -afetyund lreedom of
the man who ordered all these—who in -
aujseiated the rebellion—who presided
over its Ui-stinies—by whose order hund
reds ot ihoiisandsol lives were sacrificed,
huutireUs ol thousands ot widows and or
phans weie mailt. —the prosperity ot halt
a nation destroyed for a (jaartei of a
century to eouie —and all lor the phi
lanthropic eul of overthrowing the wis
est and best Government the sun ever
shone upon. Truly Jeff. Davis deserves
the love and charity of Mayor Gunthcr
and his political confederates of New-
Y ork
'lhese events, taken in connection with
many others of recent development,
should not ami cannot mislead any one.
There is au undercurrent ot uiischiel
which it beliooxes us to all watch and re
gist with all means ample as they are,
we have at command. That many of
the leading rebels of the Snuth, with
| their special Irion-.s, big and little, ol
the N nth, mean, it they can, to ni ric
slavery <|uteily and persistently, though
they have only a straw to support
them above water, the signs of the times
: fully warn us. 'I he meeting at New
I York apprizes us in unmistakable term:
j as to the lengths and breadths to which
they will resort to carry their point, how
ever reckless or iufamous that point mi]
, be. Slavery may be dead, but not sc
deid that it may out be resurrected—not
iso deeply buried that it IU ty be exhumed
—unless the most ceaseless vicilanct
Shall be maintained—unless we meet at
the threshold every seeming look t«
j .to its galvanizing, whatever fdini the at
i tempt may as-uuie. A death-blow may
ji>e long in bringing a monster to hie
knees; and if to his knees, in knocking
and keeping the breath out of him. Lot
us be sure first that he is positively dead,
and then let us watch the corpse until
the last obsevuies are performed aud the
last mourners have removed their black
habiliments.
It is only by the steady pursuit of such
a course, ami its complete accomplish
ment, that Slavery may be regarded as
Dead, and the llebelliou at au End. —
Gtr. Telegraph.
From the Richmond Republic, Aug. 5. (
l.'lric Itnlilgrcn.
The month of March, 18G4, is memo
rable in Richmond for one of the grand
est Union raids that up to that time had
menaced the Confederate capital—a raid 1
which was the imuiediatu precursor of
Gen. Grant's famous campaign from the
Wilderness to James lliver. 'l hc histo
ry of this raid is too familiar to the mind?
of all of our readers to make necessary
any recapitulation of it, even if it com
ported with our space It is known that
Col. Dahlzren, after the attack on Rich
mond on Tuesday, the Ist of March, did
not suecc- in forming a junction ffith
Gen. Kilpatrick, and while pushing thro'
King and Queen bounty, toward Glou
cester Point, was killed on the night of
Wednesday, March 2d, near Walkerton.
It is also known that his body was brought
to Richmond, but what disposition was
made of it by tho Confederate authorities
was kept a mystery at !he tiuie, and the
facts, even to this day have never been
published. Wo purpose to give them to
the public for the first time, vouching for
their entire authenticity.
When intelligence was received in
lliclimond of thedeathof Col Dahlgrcn,
messengers were dispatched to bring it to
the city for identification. It reached the
city on Monday, March 7, by the York
River Railroad, and laid during that day
at tho depot, where it was examined by
large numbers of persons. 11 is death bad
been caused by a gunshot wound in the
i head. The little linger of one hand had
I been cut off on the field where he fell by
: some one anxious to secure, with the least I
trouble, a valuable diamond ring. '1 hat
| night the body was carried to Gcueral 1.1-
| zey's office, in llelvin's block, and the
j next day, having been placed in a com I
| mon pine coffln, of the kin I then used
| for tho burial of soldiers, which in turn
I was placed in a box, and was arausferred
j t > Oakwood Cemclry, u mile east of the
j city. The hearse used on this occasion
was a four mule street wagon, and the
attendants consisted of a Confederate
officer of inferior runk and two soldiers.
Arriving at Oakwood, which was the
burial place of all soldiers who died at
Chimborazo, Howard's Grove, and other
hospitals in the eastern portion of the
citv and suburbs, the negro grave diggers
and other attendants about the ccmctry
I were driven off and ordered to absent
| themselves until notified that they might,
return. Olio of the negroes, now living
in the city,having his curosity excited,
secreted himself in the woods near by,
determined to see what was to he. done.—
The two soldiers dug a grave, placed the
box in it, and covered it up. Tliey then
shouted to recall the attendants of the
cemetery, and getting into the wagon, re
turned to the city. Tho only circum
stance in the proceedings that struck the
negro as unusual, was tho mystery obser
ved aud tho circumstance of the box, no
corpse over having been brought there
before except in a pine cifiin; but there
having been a great deal of talk as to
i\ hat was to bo done with the body of Col.
Dahlgrcn, he at once decided tjiat this
could be no other than the corpse of that
officer, lie, however, kept his opinion
to himself at that time.
The question,what had been doue with
the body of Dahlgreu ? was the subject
of inquiry and conversation for many days
in Richmond, to be revived from time to
time up to the day of the evacuation.—
And there were many stories on the sub
ject —that it had been burnt, sunk iu the
river, &c. A city paper of that day an
nounced, with a solemn and knowing air,
that it would uever be found until the
trump of doom should sound. A number
of Union men of the city, believing it
possible that it might be recovered, were
anxious to secure and preserve it for the
family of the deceased. Prominent among
them was Mr. F. .K. Lohtuan. a grocer
doing business near the New Market.—
Mr. Lohinau at once began his inquiries
and investigations—which, in the then
state of popular feelings, it was necessary
to conduct with great caution —determin-
ed, at whatever cost and risk, to ascertain
its fate. After nearly a month's patient
and untiring inquiry, he, with the assis
tunee of Mr. Martin Meredith Lipscotub,
wh sc business it was to attend th inter -
i meut cf all the Union prisoners who died
| at this post, made the acquaintance of the
! negro grave digger whom we have men
j tioned as being the sola spectator of the
! burial of Col. Dablgrcn. They found
j him at Oakwood. pursuing his regular
business. When first approached on the
j subject, the negro was very much nlarin-
J cd, and protested that he would have
1 nothing to do with the matter. Rut alter
j repeated assurance by Mr. Lipscomb,
whom be knew well, that ho might rely
upon Lohtuan and that no harm should
befall him, he consented, on Mr. Loh
man's giving him a 8100 note, to point
out the grave. This ho did by walking
bear and casting a ctouc upon it, while
Lohman and Lipscojnp stood at a diituace.
lie was afraid to employ any other meth
od lest ho might excite the suspicion of
the superintendent of tbccenietory or some
of the attendants. The grave lay among
thousands of those of Confederate sol
diers. Subsequently, after a great deal
of persuasion and the promise of a liber
| al reward, the negro agreed to meet Mr
| Lohman at the cemetery on the night of
i the 6th of April, at 10 o'clock, and ej
! home the body.
| The appoiuted night having arrived,
Mr. Lohman, his brother, John A. Loli
j man, and Mr. Lipscomb, started for the
cemetery in a cart drawn by a uiule. The
night was dark aud stormy, and well sui
i ted to conceal their movements. The
j party left the city at 0 o'clock, and reach
| cd their "destination about 10, and there
1 found waiting for them the gravedigger
and two assistants. The negroes being
assured that all was right, began their
j work of exhumation., the three white men
remaining with the cart outside the ii>-
closures of the cemetery. The heavens
were hung with their deepest black ; 110
object ten feet distant could be distin
guished, and no sound broke upon the
loneliness of the place save the howling
of the winds and the choppiug of the
resurrectiouist's spade. Once the mule,
snuffing the tainted air of the city of tho
dead, atrenipted to break away, but was
quickly quieted by a (inn hand.
In twenty minutes from the time tho
negroes tegun their work they approach
ed the cart, beating between them tho
coffin, which being badly made, fell to
pieces as tli> y rested it on the ground.—
It was then discovered that the body had
not decomposed in any perceptible de
gree. Mr. Johman satisfied himself of
tue identity of the corpse by passing his
hand over it. The little finger, torn off
to secure the jewel it bore and leg lost
in buttle were missing. He paid the
negro with whom he had contracted 81,
500, aud placing the body in the cart,
the party started ou their return. The
mule, alarmed as animals frequently aro
with drawing a dead body 112 r tho first
time, became difficult of management, and
with tho darkness of the night, made the
first part of the expedition one ot 110 lit
tle peril. More than one hour spent
in reaching tho gas lights of the city on
Church Hill. It was part of the plan to
convey the body to the house of William
S. Rowlctt, a Union man, living on Che
lsea Hill, ti half mile north-east of tho
city, there to remain until a metalic case
could be procur d for it. From Church
Nil), Mr. Lohtnan drovo down liroad st.
to Seventeenth st., thence up Seventeenth
st. 11 it* northern terminus, and thence
up ti e hill t'> Mr. liowlett's, reaching
the last place at 2 o'clock 011 the morning
of tho 7th ol April. Here the bod was
wrapped in a blanket, and Mr. Lohman
came to the city in search of a coffin,
which ho obt ine'd by the aid of Mr.
Lipscomb. ()n bis way into the city from
ltuwlett'B Lohman notified a number of
persons of Union sentiments, among
whom were several Indies,where the body
had been placed, and they hurried out to
see it. Several of those persons had seen
Col. Dahlgreu while bo was exposed at
the York River Railroad depot, and im
mediately recognized tho body as his.—-
I The metalic coffin having been procured,
and the body placed in it, tho two Loh
mans, at noon 011 the 7th, sot out with it
conccale.', in a wagon loaded with young
fruit trees, for tho faim of Robert Or
rieks, a Union man, living in Henrico,
two miles from Hungary station.
At 4 o'clock that evening they rcach
e 1 Orriek's, and buried tho body under
an apple tree, in a field, avoiding the
grave yard for fear of exciting inquiry,
which might lead to discovery.
The rest of this story may be told in
a few words. Orricks, some months al
ter the second burial of Col. Uahlgren,
succeeded in getting through tho Con
federate lines, and seeking an interview
with Commodore Dahlgren, informed him
of what had been done to secure the
body of his son. '! he corpso of the sol
dier laid in this, its second grave, until
the evacuation of Richmond, when an
order having been sent for it by tho \\ ar
Department it was again disinterred by
Iho two Lohuians and sent to Washing
ton .
It has been our object to lift the vail
of mystery from nil olnscurc and intercs
tiujr event. lu doing so, wo have con
fine! ourselves to facts strictly relative
to the secret fates of Col Oahlgren's body
from the time of its arrival in Richmond
which, until after the capture of the city,
remained, to all except the few individu
als named by us in the course of our nar
rative, one of the most impenetrable mys
teries of the war. Many Confederate
officials knew that the body bad been
deposited at Oakwood, but they were ig
norant to the last that it had ever been
removed. It has at length found its last
earthly resting place.
THE RF.BEL GOLGOTHA —Capt. Jos.
M. Moore, A. Q. M., who left Washing
ton several weeks ago, in charge of a par
ty of mechanics, &c., for Andersonville,
Ga., for the purpose of giving decent
burial to the remains of oursoldiera, who
were cruelly murdered there, writes to J.
E. I'otts, chief clerk in his office, under
date of July 20, that they had arrived at
Andersonville, and were encamped with
in one hundred yards of this prison pen.
The Captain describes it as "a pen in the
fullest sense of the word —a human pen,
where 150,000 of our soldiers were hud
dled together in an inclosure not 200 yards
long and scarcely 100 wide, where they
were exposed to the rays of an almost
tropical sun for months, resulting in the
death of thousands." The Captain also
says:"This pen should not be destroy
ed, but it should stand until its stockade
falls to the ground from decay, so that
the unbelieving of the North may be
able to look on this ground and convince
themselves of the inhuman cruelties per
petrated by the South on our prisoners."
NEW ORLEANS, Augnst 11.—Cotton
active; sales ot 12,000 bales middling
at 40@41c. Sugar active. Freights un
changed. Large quantities of cottou are
arriving daily ajt Houston.
Major Genera! Merritt arriwsd at San
Antooio on the Ist. Tho Sari Antonio
Herald is informed that there are thirty
thoHsand troops at Victoria, Green Lake,
lowa, and Indianola, 5,000 of which are
eolored.
Robberies by negroes aro becoming
fearful in Texas. Reports frou| that
quarter indicate a cheerful disposition on
the part of tho people towards the restora
tion of the State to the Union.
The heavy rain storm on Wednes
day occasioned general destruction of
property in Illinois. Railroad tracks and
bridges were washed away in many pla
ces. The thunder and lightening were
terrific at several points. At Morris a
Mr. Urayton, returning from his farm
with bis son in a two hurse wagon, his
son and both horses were instantly killed,
and himself Knocked some distance
from the wagon aud badly injured At
Mattersen a German family returning
from tho field were struck, the daughter
ninteen years old being instantly killed,
ann the parents seriously hujrt.