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editorials, in the Memphis Appeal, are very
pleasant reading where one has the time,
When the same lady imprison* d in the city ; end of the tabie, faced to the rightabout, and
of Washington, in 18£>2, if sbflAkpd through marched oul, returning to their dens, or muneb-
her barred window at the Northern troops I ing their “ rations” in the open air. A North
marching the streets, “no sooner would they ’ ern farmer feeds his hogs on better food, and
perceive her than they indulged in coarse jests.: with equal courtesy. A Southern planter
vulgar expressions, and the vilest slang of the : would haye scorned so to feed his negroes.—
brothel, made still more coarse. Vulgar and
indecent by the throwing off of the little re
straints which civilized society; places upon
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however, in a recent number of bis paper,
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such miscreants armies are too largely made
up—of such men as sacked Bauajoz and San
Sebastian, and ravaged the valley of the Sheu-
andoah and the Georgian homesteads, and
glutted their appetite for plunder in South
Carolina. Even the grave was not proof
against their rapacity.
The Northern Government gave its.troops
ap excuse to plunder, burn and kill, at the
yery beginning of the strife, by refusing to
jrecognize the South as a belligerent, and to
exchange prisoners, and treating ns as rebels,
entitled to none of the courtesies and charities
cr even rights of civilized enemies. Our pri
vateersmen were confined in dungeons as
pirates, and tried, and sentenced to be hung.
Citizens in no wise responsible for acts done
by partizans who carried on an irregular war
fare, were exiled and otherwise punished when
sentinels were shot or steamboats fired upon.
Prisoners of war captured by us were left to
lapguish long in prison, to force us to acknowl
edge our slaves, taken in arms, as entitled fo
he exchanged as prisoners of war, when no \
thing that was infamous, low and degraded,”
“the last Ditch, ’ “the most fearful realization
of a prison,” situated in Georgetown, near the
City of Washington, was a model Y’ankee
prison for Confederates an(j Suspects. “ In a
space of little more than seventy-five feet
square were crowded together over five hun
dred dirty, ragged and filthy wretches, of all
conditions and colors, who have been immured
there for many months, with the consolipg re
mark, “ Y r our case will be attended to.” A
lettre de cq,chet x likf tliat of the age of Lqqis
XV., consigned them to the filtfc'apd misery,
and the process of the Inquisition served hy
the Secretary of State, for precedents. Thg
place literally swarmed with vermin, the air
was corrupt, and yile with odors disgusting
and nauseating in the extreme.”
At Fort Delaware, in the beginning of Jaq-
uary, 1865, in the Virginia division of the
“Private Barracks,” where thirteen hundred
privates were confined, “a place in which a
decent farmer iu Euglandj'would not have
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one CQiilt} deny that if frped by the laws of
war on pntpring the Federal service, or reached
by the presidential proclamation, their origi
nal status returned upon their capture, and
they were ag^jn Slaves, and in no sense pris
oners of war.
The North had an unlimited supply of men,
which ft was impossible tp exhaust. It was a
matter of little moment to it, to have return
to its standards those who were prisoners in
our hands, to feed and clothe whom was a
terrible drain upon our small and rapidly di
minishing resources, if for each emaciated
soldier of theirs in our liaxids there was to he
restored to us an able-bodied man. The Nor
thern Government even refused to receive their
prisoners from us without equivalent, because
it would relieve us from an intolerable and
exhausting burthen; and knowing that they
could exhaust us by losing, if necessary, ten
men to our one, they adopted the identical
policy as to exchanges which Qnrnt afterwards
practiced upon, governed by the same cold
apd cruel calculation. I have,” he in effect
said, (‘five hundred thousand men at my com
mand. The enemy have but a hundred and
fifty thousand. If I lose only man for man,
or even two men for one, I shall in the end
wear them out.” Upon tbgt he based his
“ strategy,” aptly described by Lincoln’s ele
gant expression, “pegging away.” He never
defeated Lee; he never defeated anybody; he
won no battles; but he “pegged away” until,
at an immense sacrifice of life, he wore out
Lee’s army, and reduced his force to about ten
thousand men, leaving him no alternative but
to surrender.
The policy of the Government, in declining
to exchange prisoner for prisoner, was perhaps
as justifiable as the “strategy” of Grant. It
is often necessarj' to sacrifice detachments and
even crops, for the safety of the main army,
or the success of the cause; but it is neither
usual or justifiable to pursue that policy in
respect to prisoners, and then endeavor by
falsehood tp cast the blame of it upon the
enemy. The Government that acts upon that
Gold and cruel calculation should assume the
responsibility of it. The Northern Govern?
ment knew they had no right to demand slaves
retaken by us, as prisoners of war.
Another fruitful cause of inhumanities was
the employment of negroes as organized bod
ies of troops. It was not necessary, and could
only tend to exasperate passions already suffi
ciently aroused. Add xo this a general sys
tem of pillaging private houses, churches,
masonic lodges and institutions of learning,
the cruel destruction of implements of agri
culture, the burning of granaries, and the
thousand atrocities of plundering raiders, and
what could be expected hut revenge and retal
iation? It has been denied that the orders
published as Col. Dahlgren’s, for the sacking
of Richmond and the murder qf the Confede
rate President and Cabinet, were genuine.—
However that may have been, they were be
lieved to be so, and that belief is not removed
by the denial, To thjs and like caqses, and
to the indiscriminate plundering permitted by
the officers, and the wanton destruction of the
means of living of the people, and of even the
furniture and bedding and clothing of the
permitted his pigs to
EqglaniUw
to live,” ra
e reproduction,
When or where did the Federal jailors respect
a Confederate prisoner male or female?
Lnxnries forwarded by friends were proibi-
ted the prisoners at Fort Delaware, not by
way of punishment and moral discipline and
chastisement, but fo? the profit of the sutlers
and officials. Even in their inhurbanities they
had an eye to pecuniary profit.
Campbell's slave-pen, at Baltimore, admin
istered by the infamous Colonel Fish, who was
afterwads sentenced to the Albany Peniten
tiary for various crimes, was another abode of
Y T ankee humanity. It was a relief to leave it
for a solitary cell at Fort McHenry, where the
Confederate soldier, loaded* with balls and
chain§j passed the weary time, no windows
admitting the light of day, no lamp allowed
by night. The den of each was cold and
r,oisome; the walls thick with mildew, the
floor covered with filth of every kind and
swarming with vermin. Here, with a 42-pound
ball and chain on the left ankle, ope ponfede
Letter from General Joseph £- Johnston.
THE TOUT BATTLE OT XANASSAS—lMORTAXT HIS- I
TOKICAL ERRORS CORRECTED—WHAT THE COX'- ,
FEDERATE VICTORY ACCOMPLISHED—WHY WASH
INGTON errr was not cafttkrd, etc.
Selma, March 21, 1867.
Editors of the Setma Da\ly Messeiujer:
Gentlemen :—The life of LienteDant General
Stonewall Jackson, by a member of his Staff,
will, evidently, be generally read in the $outh.
It is. therefore, important to me to endeavor
to correct the errors ^elating to myself, which
I observed in glancing over that 'part of 'the
work preceding and referring to the battle of
Manassiis. On that account, I respectfully
ask the publication of what follows, in your
paper:
Pages 196-7 : “When General Johnston,
however arrived at Harper's Ferry, and claim
ed to relieve Col. Jackson of his command,
the latter had received no directions fro^i the
State government to surrender hlg frust. And
here arose a temporary collision between the
two authorities, which displayed the inflexibil
ity of Jackson's character. " lie replied that he
had been intrusted by Major General Lee, at
£&tes of Advertising.
Advertisements inserted at f 1.50 per square
(often lines or space equivalent,) for first inser
tion, and to cepts for each subsequent in
sertion.
Monthly or semj r mpnlhlj advertisements
inserted atthe sapi© rates as for new advertise
ments, each insertion.
Liberal arrangements will be made with
those advertising by the qnaiter or year.
All transient advertisments must be pai<^
for when hande^ in.
The money for advertiseing due affcep tbq
first insertion.
... . , •- • - ■. j e naa oecn mirusieu uy major cteuerui axtj,
rate soldier a pr.sqnqr of war, reamed for command of the Sutcof Virginia with this
tLroo manthc nml a hn f Horp in thu “ HP . . ... . ! ••• ° . s •. i
three months and a half. Here, in this “hell
upon earth,” he was thirteen times tossed ip a
blanket, in the presence of the Federal guards,
each time falling heavily on his head or sides.
When he had crawled away and fallen asleep,
he was awakened by fire applied to his feet,
supplied by the sentries, causing burns, the
spars of which he wili carry to his grave. Of
ten he tvas knocked down, beaten and kicked
At Forresf flail, i'c Georgetown, under the
very nose of Lincoln and Seward, “suspects’ -
were tortured by a stream of water, with a
force of thirty pounds to the square inch play
ing on the small of their backs; and were
afterwards led out to execution, or to a life
long confinement in the Penitentiary.
No on ^ knows what has become of these
prisoners. There v[ ere m 1865, some five hun
dred and fifty “.political prisoners” qn the
Dry Tortugas, where no writ of habeas corpus
could reach them. "Who they are, or what
their offense, no one knows. When will the
‘secrets of that Bastile be disclosed? Will
map ever punish Seward, op will it he left to
God to do it? When Charlotte Cordgy killed
charge ; and he could only relinquish ii by his
orders In this position he was, while respect-
fiil, and as the Confederate Com
mander was equally firm, a mischievous strife
wa? anxiously feared. But very soon, the
mails brought an application from some per
son pertaining to CoL Jackson's command, up
on which was endorsed in the handwriting of
Major General Lee, a reference t) the authori
ty <M Gen.' Johnston, aq commanding at Har
per’s Ferry. This furnished Col'. Jackson all
the evidence which he desired, to justify the
surrender of his trust.’’
I think that this statement magnifies the
circumstances in question, and does injustice
to General Jackson's character. The State of
Virginia had joined the Con ederaev and trans
ferred the control of its military affairs to the
President, several weeks before my arrival at
Harper’s Ferry on tl;e 23d of'May, 1861. Mlth-
in an hour affor Uiy'arrival, l.jeq. (then Col.’)
Jackson came to me, and live order assigning
me to the command he had been exercising,
was shown to him. On the following morning
iay order assuptiug the command was sent to
’ * —~ ix he WOllld
" uen Luanoiie uoruay a rc , iuest in writing,
Marat, she was executed for it, and “rami du haye the necessary number of copies made and
on a large scale, of the hog-boles in which,
thirty years ago, ne have known men to con
fine their insane fathers, without fire, in mid
winter—in Fort Delaware, we say, in Decem
ber, 1864, and January, 18$5, the prisoners
slept upon the naked floor, with-tfo ppvering
whatever to shield them from thp marrow-
chilling cold. They slept as. the dag 3 sleep,
half-waking, half-sleeping. The places where
the prisoners were kept thprp were called
“pens,” and they deserved thp name; for they
were nothing mure. The North could not
plead that sjie had been so ravaged and deso
lated thpt shp could npt keep confortahle the
prisoners she liatj taken. She was not con
strained tp husband every morsel of food, that
her own soldiers might not starve, aud her
cause and all be lost for want of men. Any
one who ever was present at a Northern caRle-
sfcow can readily portray to himself the places
inhabited at Fort Delaware hy those incarce
rated under litres de chattel qr as prisoners of
war. ‘.‘Thp3e habitations, hoarded and rough
ly put together, very forcibly reminded one of
the old-fashioned farm-house barns, where, in
the ohjen moan
ed during the cold nights -«f the inclement
winter. Officially, and by courtesy, they were
denominated “barracks,” as Seward and Stan
ton are U officially and hy pourtesy” denqrqi-
ted Statesmen.”
In the privates’ barracks were crowded to
gether in their misery, some nine or ten thous
and soldiers from almost every regiment and
command in the Southern Confederacy. No
Miss Clara Barton has gone to look up their
graves; aud if she had, no register was kept,
as at Andersonville, where they were buried.
It wa3 not considered worth the trouble to
designate the graves of rebels with numbers,
though Miss Clara Bartpn could identify thir
teen thousand graves at Andersonville,
Years ago, when Gov. Scott, of Kentucky,
was in Washington, he told a wondering audi
ence of the beech forests in his State, where
the trees stood so close together that a roan
cojild b ar dly squeeze between them; and of
the huge elk, which, with antlers five feet in
width, dashed through the woods. “But,
Governor,” saicj a listener, f‘how do the elk jret
through those beech woods?” “ Oh," said the
Governor, “that is their look out.” The pris
oners at Ander^pvtUe w<sra *4hiC-AHtrted :n
graves, it is alleged, but in trerlches, a hundred
in a trench; and yet thirteen thousand graves
have hpen identified! IJqw dfo the dead
manage to keep themselves apart one from the
other? Oh, that was their lookoqt. Great is
humbug, and great are lies.
In the prison pen at Fort Delaware, where
the “humane North” kept Southern soldiers
imprisoned, as well as at Johnson’s Island, at
Alton, at Columbus and elsewhere, thp prison
ers were but half clad, and suffered terribly
from cold. Not one in a thousand of them
peuple" was lamented and canonized.
But prisoners were shot for crossing the
“dead line” at Andersonville. Thirty-five
thousand turbulent prisoners are difficult to
control. It is no wonder VYirz wished he was
dead. Among them was the ordinary-propor
tion of villains aqd blackguards, murderers,
ravisberg and tbieyes, for whom hanging was
too good.
At Forrest Hall, in Georgetown, almost with
in sight of the YYhite House, “ four immense
windows, reaching from the tor, almost to the
bottom, hound vrith icon, looked forth upon
the street; but none of us ever presumed to
gaze from them, for orders were given to shoot
dead the audacious wretch who should thus
defy the laws. ° ° ° A spot— large enough
for the promenade of the guards—was reserved
for them; and whatever poor wretch dared to
Invade the neutral ground—for such it was
called by the residents—he was §hot like a dog,
for his daring, murdered, copjly and delibe
rately. Right over the entrance to this room
was a place called “ the Lqdge.” Here a por-
S oral and three or four sentries were placed,
ith the same humane orders fo execute rela
tive to the shedding of human blood.” So
testifies Lieutenant Hardinge. The same rule
was enforced in other Northern slave pens.
“That renlinds me,” said Col. Wood, “of a
good story. There was a fellow, an officer jn
the Confederate States army, who received
some money from a lady who was held in my
residence for stubborn people. With tfos he
bribed the sentinel, who was in tj)e yarj be
neath, to let him attempt an escape. The
sentinel agreed ; but I got wiqd of the affair
an hour before it took place, and walking up
to the sentinel I said, ‘ Now, yop God damned
ragea), l ye gof you in nry pojver; and if you
don’t shoot that damned rebel, I'll have you
hung.’ So, when Mr. Rebel gets out of the
window, Mr. Sentinel blazes away at him. and
down he drops, kerflummexed. Damn him,
he died jn the hospital some days afterwards.”
A very gqpd §toyy ! \yhen will Cob tyilliam
P. Wood, superinfopdeni of (he Qjd Canitoj
and Carroll prisons, be tried by Military Coip-
mission for murder ?
When, indeed, has any Northern official been
duly punished for any atrocity ? Mrs. M
was tied to her chair and flogged by some of
Sherman’s thieves, when he robbed and burned
his way through Georgia. Her clothes were
^tripped np to her wajst, and she was whipped
with leather straps, because a negro had tol4
the Captain who superintended the whipping,
that her husband had buried twenty thousand
dollars in gold. When sffie appealed to the
Captain, the apt embodiment of “humanity,”
for mercy, hi^answer was, “Damn you, tell
us where the money is hid, and I’ll let yon
up.” They beat her until she fainted, and
then left her.
The feet of mopp than a dozen women were
burned in Arkansas, in the early part of fhe
year 1865, by men in the Federal service, to
make them disclose where they had hidden
tjrejr va'uables. One of them, whorp we know,
a lady over sixty years of age, was so severely
and cruelly burned that both feet had to be
POWELL Sc STAMLIUfKS*
_ Attorneys at Xjaw,
NEWNAN,
W ILL pr,actic§ in the several,-Coprts of Law
and $qui$y in the Tallapoosa and Cow
eta Circuits* and in the'minted States District;
Court for the State o( Georgia.
Special attqntfoh giyen to the compromising
and collecting of tlld Claims, and Adtninistra-
tion, Convyrapying,
All bpgipess entrusted to them xfilj reqeivo
prompt and faithful attention.
J^JIN W- DOWELL, j. H. STALLINGS,
Newnan, Ga. ^enpia, Ga.
March 9-12m.
SCHEDULE OF THE A. & W. P. R. R,
L. P. GRANT, Superintendent.
DAT PASSENGER.
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12 25 a. m.
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6 10 “
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GEORGIA RAIL ROAD.
E. W. COLE, Sltpeyintendent.■ ,
1 ii\\TlT10.\ WAGOXS l
r TWO, FOUR and SIX HORSES, can be fur-
> d Ijy special order^ . _
vddrees all orders to
Nos. 64. 65,66,67,68,69,70,72A74 Washington st.,
June 17-12ni. New York.
, cnPER-CENT'SAVED
Q(J - By USING
TOMLINSON, DEMAREST CO.,
me 16-12m, 620 Broadway, New York.
5. M. GLASS, ROBY. W.SOR.TH. T. T. BOHAXAN.
iLASS, NORTH & CCU
Greenville Street* Newnan* Ga~,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Are now receiving atd wiH keep constantly
,'u hand a complete assortment of Family
" ipplies, Corn, Meal, Flour, Rice,Bacon, Lard,
ats. Iron, ¥ailg. Salt, Sugar, Coffee and all
her gooes usually kept in their line, to which
•hey solicit the attention of their friends and
-he public generally, and promise to use their
-.most exertion to satisfy all who may show a
-.•ipcsition to faver them with their patronage.
Newman, Ga., January 26-tf.
B T. BABBITT'S BEST MEDICINAL SAL.
FTtYTUS ‘‘made from common salt. -
Bread made with this Saleratus contains when
baked, nothing but coronmnsaH^water and flour.
Nos.64, 65, .66,67,68,69,70,7^47*«s^onst.,
Junk 16-I2m,
50
Make Your Own Soap
Per-Cent Saved By
bad friends in the North, to whom they could ; ^pu^p-d. No one was ever punished for
apply, “ and were therefore indebted to the [ thege otltrages .
Yankees for the very little clothing that was j ^ eD Qjson fobbed, burned and ipurderwl
at times given to them, but which was neier . j n Arkansas, was tried for it, and simply dis-
given unless every vestige of the original gar- j the service. And yet the charges against
ment had entirely disappeared, and common j t,j m were suc h that, if guilty, as was proven
distributed to the tfoops. After acknowledg
ing my note and order he wrote : “Until I re
ceive further instructions from Governor Let
cher or Geu. I.ee, I do not feel at liberty to
transfer my command to another—and must,
therefore, decline publishing the order. Meau-
y/hjie, I beg you to he poured that it will give
me pleasure to afford to yourself and the other
officers named, every facility in my power for
obtaining appropriate information relating to
the post, and depai tipents of the service con
nected with it. Major Whiting, foil it)
defence of Fort Fisher as Major General, a
West Point associate of General Jackson, at
my request represented to him that the author
ity of the Confederate Government was para
mount in the case, and the manner of trans
ferring the command in accordance with mili
tary rule. He soon reported Gen. Juckson con
vinced- The whole affair occupied little rnofe
time than was spent in going twjcc and tjach
from my quarjpr$ to Gen. Jackson’s. Therq
was qo display of inflexibility oil his part, poi;
exhibition of firmness on mine. There was
nothing in the affair to call forth those quali
ties. If there was any “collision between the
two authorities,” I was unconscious of it as
\yell as qf the danger of “ipitjciiievous strife.”
page 201; “Qn this expedition Cojonel Jack-
gqn wag ordered hy Geqeral Johnston to destroy
the locomotives and cars of the Baltimore Rail
road at Martinsburg. At this viliage there were
vast workshop for the construction and repair
of tb,ese cars ; and more than fofty of thq ’finest
locomotives, with three hundred burden cars
were now destroyed. Concerning this he writes:
‘It was sad work ; but I foul my orders, my
duty was to obey. If the cost qf the property
could only haye been expended jn cjisseminat-
pig the Gospel of the Prince of Peace, how-
much might have been expected.’
“That this invaluable property should have
been withdrawn to Winchester by the way of
Harper’s Ferry, before this point was evacuat
ed, is too plain to be argued. Whose was the
blunder cannot now he ascertained ; that it
jyag not Colonel Jacksqn’s appears from the ex
tract of his letter just inserted.”
The letter quoted does not refer to the re
moval of the property, and therefore furnishes
no evidence on the subject. It only expresses
the natural regret of a good man at a great
destruction of property rendered necessary by
a state of war. If Colonel Jackson had thought
the suggested reipqyal fight he would have at
tempted it while in command at Harper’s Fer-
rv between the 29thof April and 2^ of May,
ns I should Ijaye dope between the last date
and fifteenth of June. Col Jackson’s course
was prompted by the consideration that direc
ted mine, and gives the authority of his great
character to my course. It would not have
been right on our part to seize the property of
that road before the evacuation of Harper’s
Ferry, nor politic to commit such an act of war
against citizens of Maryland, when we were re
ceiving so much aid ffqm tfjat State, aud hop
ing for much more. The seizure or destruc
tion of that property by us, could have h>cn
justified only by the probability of its military
use by the enemy. That probability did not
appear until about the tjnap when Col. Jacfp
s6n received the order in question; then
riled to
Leave Augusta
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Arrive ai Atlanta...
6.30 A. M.
8.30 A. M.
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NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta 9.30 P. M.
Leave Atlanta P. M.
Arrive at Augusta 6.15 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta 7.g0 A. M.
URGE FRESH MILS!
A.. K. SEAGO,
.yn,AXTA, «a
IS. NOW RECEIVING
to be, he richly deserved deatty.
It gives us no pleasure to refer to these
decency demanded it.”
- The “pens” were from eighty to a hundred
poor, may fairly be attributed the ill-treafment j Peet ] on g } an( j about thirty fe.ef wide, separated thfogg. Jhere were other and more infamous
of prisoners, many of whom, were captured : jj- r&£a one another by thin partitions of boards. I atrocities, which regard for the innocent who
with their pockets filled with jewelry and j eac j 1 „- ere two-story platforms, where the j suffered the la*t indignities, during the two
money, and their hands reeking with the blood pr j soner3 s i ep t and cooked. In each was a 1 hours’ iicense given hy a Federal Colonel to a
‘ st0 y e and “ at night, calcium lights, placed at! brutal soldiery, covers with the veil of silence.
one end of the barracks, threw their lurid i If reconciliation among the people of the States
B T -58®
tahSlor salt water. It willremote
vvaint crease, tar and stains of all lands. One
SVrranted equal to two pounds ordinary
Famdv soap Directions, sent lOfh each bar for
<raflons handsome soft soap from
tiffs Soap. Each bar is wrapped m
for “ E- tTWu* ° -
T \YO months after date application wRl be
made to the Ordinary of Carroll comity
;■ leave to sell the real estate of R. S. Turner,
‘e of taid ccuqtv, de^vased.
,Ma»ch 16-2m.;sg. J. 34. GBiiTIS, Amt-
June —
FORCE’S SHOE HOUSE.
Whitehall. St., Atlanta, Oa.
usm vQF Fig foot.
TT AYE inlLd'toe largest and best stock
H of Boots and Shower broogM » ,5,,
eastern Manuraciu..« ------ . _ fre i5ht
try Merchants at Netv l<Mrk p
ad B 6 W Force, formerly of Charleston, S.€„
will be pleased to see his former customers.
Oct 2 0-7-12m,,
of those who were powerless to resist, and
whom it is not usual for the troops of civilized
nations to molest.
All armies contain a large per centage
scoundrels, and it is astonishing how
Yelops the vicious and villainous principles of
men. Those, for example, will pillage apd
steal, even trom their own side, who had al
ways before imagined themselves to be honest
men. To burn houses, plunder libraries, rob
women of their jewelry, kill in cold blood, and
commit other peccadilloes, become the daily
amusement of heroes fighting for the holy
° f freed °" vie.; Jbj^he
world ever saw, , _
fiftv thousand men of the Lmon armies, in
the* late war, were as guilty of larceny as any
thiei’ in the prisons and penitentiaries oi New
York, thousands of arson, and hundreds of
murder and rape. It is left to God alone to
punish these miscreants, enrolled among the
heroes. YYho that endured the fonr horrid
rears of war in the South will ever be freed
from its hideous and loathsome recoUeaUons?
Neither do Governments and their officials
CeX alwavs scorn to resort to ignominious practi
ces. to employ spies and brayos, and open pri
vate letters. * A correspondent of the >-York
World, in 186-5. stated that tfifi agents of Mrs,
Hardinge, better known as Beile Boyq, in the
Ua ?t “d States, while her hqsband was expe
riencing at Fort Delaware, the “bnmamties
of the Government, Seward had - se ->- ^er
bills of exchange on Northern bankas to tne
amount of eight hundred pounds steeling, v.
nearly ten thousand dollars in greenbacks, o.
which she never received a single son.- “ Her
letters have been opened here.” he said. “ anu
the drafts extracted before going on to her,
and thU is the reason »be is in distress. One
would like to know into whose pocket the
money went.
rainy weather, a beautiful expf^fp)
kee humanity, with its ditches filled with
muddy, yellow water! It was a delicious
a horrid dream,
tinue to be rufi;
Bat when the charges con-
on Southern inhumanity, to
; Northern heart.
bleeding from ten thousand thousand gaping
wounds, ought not to remain silent. And be
fore the end of hpotber year we hope that
authentic accounts of tf^e sufferings of Confed-
^ _ craves in Northern prisons will have been pre-
glory, like CoL W- P. Wood, Superintendent ' an d published; the authentic evidence of
at Fort npitiwArA. At 9 a. cn.. sets Lieut, i tho mitnicrpc ami inhnmuRities of the Northern
God's throne against his murderers, Seward
and Stanton.
Wirz should haf£ he«i iu the Federal ser-
at Fort Delaware. “ At 9 a. m., says i^ietit.: (jj e outrages and inhumanities of the Northern
Hardings, “I ate my initiatory meal at Fort i soldiery, ctdlected for the use of the future
Delaware, .consisting of a piece of flinty bread, historian. If this is done, the North will have
- - - ’ L —" cause to regret that it had not kept a discreet
silence when jt was possible to have secured
our science hy ibeir own—a bargain which it
wonld have been very wise to make, since it
being unable to remove, we were compelle
destroy it.
Bat the most valuable parf of this property,
the engines could not have been removed in
the matter pointed out. Up to the time of
evacuating Harper's Ferry, we) were removing
the wiachinery for manufacturing small arms,
as fast as it could be transported or r ttye rail
road, to Winchester. To expedite this work-
I proposed to borrow engines from the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad, hut was assured by
the engineers of both roads that the iron on
the road to Winchester, especially near Har
per's Ferry, where it was supported on trestles,
was not strong enough to bear those engines,
which were much heavier than those for which
it wag constructed, and that if brought upon
that road ihey wonfo roevitatyy crush it: - —
This youi<} 1taye stopped the removal of the
machinery from Harper's Ferry, which was far
more valuable to the Confederacy than all the
rolling stock of the Baltimore & .Ohio Rail
road:
34 casks Bacon Sides, Shoulders and Hams—
qll nev^, well cured;
6 tforces canvassed sugar-cured llnmp ;
34 casks bulk or salt Po^k, ready for tho
smoke, cheaper than Bacon, including
clear sides, clear ribbed, sides, shoulders
and hams;
60 barrels and tierces new Leaf Lard ;
40. kegg new Leaf I«irrl;
50 cans Lard ;
1500 bushels Oats.;
300 bags Liverpool and Virginia Salt;
500 barrels of Flour, all grades.;
5000 bags Corn,;
5Qfl balqs Hay;
1000 bushels of Meal—fresh ground — bolted
and unbolted;
100 bushels Barley ;
70 Tons of Baugh’s Raw Bone
Super Phosphate;
Page 211- “Accordingly, on the forenoon of
Thursday, the 18th. the army of the Valley,
numbering about 11,000 men, was ordered un
der arm*”
Pages 212-Id. “The forced march of thirty
miles brought the army to Piedmont station,
, at the eastern base of the Blue Ridge, whence
they hoped to reach their destination more
hari a thousand-foid more reason to desire that j easily by railroad. General Jackson s infan.-
the horrors of the past should ho buried out of try was nlacM upon trains there on the fore
sight apd remembrance than we k a Y«n
rp .*.*
and jjje smallest morsel of pork, yellow with
age. Two meals are served out to ns daily,
consisting of one piece of peculiarly construct
ed bread, and one of indescribable salt, yel
lowish-colored pork, or meat that has bad its
nutriment entirely boiled out of it in the ma
king of soup for th® garrison, previous to its
being apportioned out to the prisoners, Occa
sionally a mixture, designated by our persecu
tors as “soup,” and containing an ample suffi
ciency of maggots, y£3 doled oat to us in tin
pots; an indescribable oily ptidrida of soups of^
every kind, in its Appearance irresistibly re- „ ,. ...
minding one of the sty and the troagh. OoC- : water, as warm « I could bear it, and at toe j collision which was, with great appearance
fee and tea were Jaxaries never seen in the! same time to apply a cloth, wrung oat cf a j q{ reason, attributed to treachery, the track
«bed where we received our rations.” ! howl of hot water, to the abdomen, over which was obstructed, and all the remaining troops
.uni #uhc U ^ one wa- nlaced The relief was 1 detaiue<, without any proyipoa for their sub-
Xh. pieces of bieid meet were pieced oe | el» _w >pp . Jr ., ^ece.’ for two preefou,, ^ id lfce>
Cr^E fo* Got^c. — Being lately attacked
(say3 a correspondent) with a violent cob ^
noon of Friday, toe 19th of July, while the
artillery and cavalry continual their inarch by
the country roads.
The President of the Railroad Company
a table. Some subordinate at the cook-honse, ‘^hichwas indues-1 been provide! with’food, and ordered to cop-
i%*;™tr 3 ?o”^nL“ KetmSof u?le food, ood the wet bandage prodoeSd .! tiooe their forted match, their teal woold
40 barels New Orleans Hyrup ; .
2p hogsheads Cuba Molasses:
10 barrels “
40 bags Rio Coffee;
40 bags Sugar—various grades ;
100 boxes Chemical Olive Soap.
ALSO—
FACTORY YARNS, 8, JO aiid 12.
A* K. SEAGO,
Fire-Proof Building,
Corner Mitchell aiid Forsyth Strs.
Atlanta, Ga., March IQ-tf-
JNO, C, WHJTNER’S
general Insurance Agency.
Eire, Inland, Life & Accident,
Insurance Effected $.nd Losses Promptly Paid.
Office at McCamy ,& Co’s. Drug Store, Franklin
I)aildiags, Alabama Strit., Atlanta, Ga.
Refers to Rev. James SyACY. and J. J. Pin
son Esq., Newnan, Georgia.
Aug. 11-59-1 y.
JOHN DUNBAR,
T . tv C3 It h M XT*
10
WOULD respectfully in-.
form his old patrons and tbef
remaining public that he has'
returned to Newnan, and ha3 commenced bu
siness at Byrry’s Brick $hop, and would bp
pleased to receive a renewal of former pat*
ronage.
time ioou, . . “ K .. , 1 tave foought the whole to the held forg he-, jj^,Work done in a good and satisfactory
the division yelled for “fall in/' by twos and i remedies tended rapid? to ! ^ toe .commence# .of batUe.” style. Tbos. Cochram wHf he on band and at-
• l |mvn,rftq> o«t focBiH PAfiE- j - tend promptly to --boeing Horses fJan.19-3m.
threes, marched to the cook-house., filed along
the table, seizing their rrrifons, reaphea the 1 rt^eve **e .atient.