Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1876, Page 7

ANDERSONVILLE, {Was Jef Davis Rosponsiblo tor Its HHorrors? Yo, Garflold's 'Unm.tsw;omble Appaa} to the Reoord, Che Faots In Regard to Delays, in Exchangea. How the Qonfodorate Prisonera Were Treated ot Oamp Douglas, 4 Statement by Col. Daniet Cameron, Formerly Commandant of ‘That Camp,| he Righteous Indignation of an Old - Unlon Soldier, Now in the South. QARFIELD'S SPEECH, Gen, Gargeld, of Obio, followed Nen H. ITill, rof Georgis, on tho Amneaty debata in Congross, “anil repiled to all his asaertions, completoly cruthing them. Tho slatoments of Lis apeech wero not aoawered duiing tho Amnesty dobate, aud they are not muswerable. They rest upon thie rocord, and thair force cannot bo broken, At tho opening of his addrasy tg tho Houee ho epoko of himself truthfully, os follam:: Let me aay in tho outact tlialy wo for o T am par. sonally concerned, T have nover voled ogainst any roposition to grant smorsty tg any luman being who Fasisked for IE at the bar of th’ House, Furhors more, T appeal to gentlemen on thelother sldo who Bave boen withs me {n bis Lall many years, whetior at sny time they Liave found me truoulent in spirit, un- kind o tone or feeling toward thoso who fought sgalnst us fn the Jate War. Twolve years ago this very month, atauding i this place, T anid thin: *1 Ueliavo a trice conid he atruck to-day between tho #ank and fiie of the hostile semies now tn the field, I Dellove they could meet and shake Landa togetlier, Joyful over returning peace, each respecting tho courage and mmatiood of the other, afd esch belter abla to hyo in amity than before the War."' 1 am glad 10 repeat word far word what L salit that day, We roptoduce from the Congressfonal. Record tho material parta of Garflold’s speech upou tho proposition to gonfer amneety npon Jeff Davis, glving nunnaworabla demonsirations of tho Iat- tor's moral responsibility for the Andérsonvilte erime ;. 1 da not cbllcct to Jeflerson Davis because ba was o conspleuona feader, Whatevor we may bellevo Lico- Togically, I do not bolleve in_the doctrine of vicarjoun alonement in politics, Jeferson Davis wad' no more gullty for taking up arma than any othor man who weat Inta the Rebellion with oqual intolligence, But thia is tho questiont In iha high court of wardid he practico scoording to te_well-known lawa—tto laws of Dations 7 Did L, in appealing to war, obey tho lsws of war, or did ho #0 violato those laws that justice to ' thiose who suffered at his hands demands ihat ho be not permitted to come back 1o bia old privileges in thy Union? ‘That 18 {bo whola question snd it {a an plain and fair a question for dellberstion %a was evor de- Bated in this House, LEE © Now, T wish we could discuss jt without any pas- slon,~without passlonata thoughts, such a8 wo hoard Jesterdiy, 'Tho words wero eloquent, for tho geutio: 0an from Georgla well knaws how to utter passionate thoughta with 8.1 tho grace and eloquenice of speech. What answer has been mado to tho allegations of the genlleman from Maine to the reasons b offcrod why & full smncaty should 1ot bo offcred to Julferaon Davla? ‘The gentloman from Georgin denies, and o w0 apparently did tis gontlemu from Now York (Cox), tho authenticity of tho charges of altrocitivs at Andarsonville, The gentieman from New York (Gox) spoke of tho Conmittes from whous report tho acutleman from Maino (Blatno) read as & “bumbug conmitteo.” ‘Tho gentleman from Goorgla (Hill) syoke of 1t nsan ox parte ond partlean commiltee,—s cowmittes that wioto and reported out of its fury and rage, Now, r. Hpeaker, Lam unwilling that this cuso aholl tur ujwu tho mers autharity of & comumiiteo, Dowsver Light but I want {o ssy now, without arguing the merils, that whotiier the chargo ' wan just or uujust, it w1 a oliarge made by tlic Govervment of the United Btates, I mesn to place tho responsivility of the chargen on tho high ground of tha sutborily of the Qovecoment, which to eelt-reapecting man can call trivial and unworthy of serious attention, +On tho 4th day of May, 184, thio Secreiary of War, epcaking by authority of 'the Exucutive Doparim:nt of the Natlonal Government, addressod & communication {0 & comnittce of Congrods, whch L will read, It lu found {n & voluma of roporta of committees of tuo frat memalon of the Thirty-elghth Congress, volume i, 1875, anc 1 in ollows L AR DEFARTRYNT, WAsHINGTON CrTY, May 4, 168).—8m : 1 invo the lionor tomubmit to you a report mada to this departnent by Ool, ol man, Commissary Geueral of prisonors, {n Tegard o the conditlon of Uning noldiars who have until a few days been prison- s of war at Richmoud, and would respectully ro. queat thet your Committeo fmmediatoly procead ta napolls Lo take testimony thera aud oxamine with Ahoir own eyea the couditlon of thuse who have beon rotuzned from liebol captivity, Tho cnormity of the crlnio committed by tho Nebels toward our privoners {or tho Inat sovers) monthais not known ot realized by gur peaple, aud cabut but 01l witl boreor (ho civilizad world whon tho facts are filly revealed, Ttoroup- [eara to nye boen a duliUerato syatem of ‘eavige sud rbarous treatment and starvation, iwo: result of walch wilt ba that faw, it any, of tia prigoners that Bave been in thelr hauda during'the past wiuter, wiil #var again bo iu n condition to render any servite or even tu enjoy lite, * Your obodient servaut, ** Enwin 31, 87antod, Becretary of War,” On rorelpt of tula letter s Jolng commitics of the Lixo Tousce, known na the Gommitteo ou the Conduct of tha War,' war sent to Annapalis, 1o ho'a thelr ses- slons in tho presenceof the thousands of recurned prisoners who had fust Leen landed, and as tho ro- ault of their deliberations, nnd after tuking testimony outhe apot from officers and men who hud Just ro- turaad, they refiorted not only thofr opiuions but the Lesttmony i full in the volumio which I hold fu my band, That Commiltee was composcd of Hevuolwans ant Yemcerats, and ife report 18 unanimons, Tho Demnocrata on the Commities wore nmong foremost m:mbers of the Senate and Louse, One of them waa ir, Odell, of Now York, & genttemsn not now living, Wup was ons of the best men that pasty Lus bad on ihe floor of thia Houes since I hove been » membar, Anothor waa Benator 1{arding, of Oreqon, - Thut Coras mittee made an_elalorate suport, from whick T wiil read s fow paragrapls. ¢ *"Lha evidenia pravos beyond all mannorof doubt & determiuation on tho part of the Ttebel authurjties, do- Mbarstely sud persistently yracticad for-# lobyg fime past, to aubjoct those of our soldiers wha have heen n unfartunate as o fall tu their Lauds to & syslemn of troalinent which Bas resulted in reducing many of tloda who bava suzvivod gid boou permitied to retura to us 0 o conditiun, both physlcally snd mientally, which no hnuunfio Wp can Uve can mdequately describe, ‘Thaugh nearly all the patiouts tow in tho Naval Acad” Hospltal ut Anmapolisand fu the Weat Hospital in Baftmora have boon uuder the kindost aud moet fatal- Ligent treatment for atout thres weeka past, and many of thyms for o grester 1l thioy prexcat Mterally the appearan ons, sukuy of tbem tofug nothing but akin aud bones; soma of thom are malmed for life, having been frozen whilo $xpated (o thie 'tnclcmsnoy of tue wiiter seasou on Balle Tuto, being compelled ta lie on the bate grouud witliout {cnts o blankets, soms of them without over- coata or evun coats, with' bul littls fire to miligatethe saverily of the storms and winds to which tley wero exporel Wk Lserved fram the festimony that sll the wityezens who teatify upon that polnt siate_that the breatoent thioy recalved while conBiucd at Columbls, B. 0,. Daltay, {fa., sud other places, was far moro hu- miang thon that they recofved st ichmond, wheso the sutlioritioa of {lig so-called Confederacy wero congres Bneml, aud wiicro the yawer ealfsted, bad the fuclina. “Hon pot been, wantlug, 1o refurm thoso abusca and tocury t tho prisonors ey held somu treatment hat ®uld boar & public cataparivn to that accorded by UF aythorities {o the prisoncra in our custody, Your miniltee, therefore, aro coustralued to say ihat thoy £3n bardly avold thie concluajon expressod Dy 50 many f our reieascd woldlars, that tno fnbuman’ practicon borein refarzed 1o ara tho result of a determination on 0 part of tho Robel authorities ta roduca onr moldfers ir power, by privatlon of food and elothing and ovurs, (0 such & condition that thoso who msy ovCE Focover lf 28 1o Lo nbls ta rendir Tvice oid. e meriia of the chargs st h {9, aud (or twelvo years fontinuad Lo te, (bs authanitative oficlal clisrge b8 Executive Depariment of the Goveraoment aud of a Joint Commities of tho two Howes, tha responalbio character of the chargs, To this 1 Bhould add that this charge i vellvved o be trua by o hl‘v:;on;]cruyol the people Whom We Fepressnl on 1 now fnqulre {s ihls charge trust cuthe gentlomun from Geargia o ATKe 1hat atr es wary practiced upau vur prison. ere at Andursonville, 1o thubcn b genaral donist, and maerts that Alr, Davis did observo the humaue Fulus of modern warfare, Asn prooft he quoles tho general ordor insued Ly the Presidens of {he Confederato oy erumeut, buder which the prisoa Wes 1o be astablisy. ed,—an ordor providing sk it abould ba Jocated on hasithy {:OUDJ'M" ibere was sn stundance of water, and treea for hesithful and grateful a hat {8 8 Derfeck snawer au far as 1t o 9. Dut 1 bow lat order was executed ¥ ‘To whose haude wun camrilted the work of bLulldiog toe Audereons il pri ‘o the banda of Geu, Winder, sn intimate 2ud favorite friend of Mr. Davis, Aud Whowas Qen. Winder 7 1o wad & man of whom She Richmond £a- umawmmflm'mqh:f«r e it 2o that Rlobmond 4 o By v at Richmond {5 at laat 1id of of E’.‘A“.‘f{ufi““ bayo meroy upop thogs to vhvgdhn‘hfl . gl was, gy the testimany jn the Wi ha ‘Wpecid) 'sud Lutimete {7lend: of Jegemin Toms: aad Ly th uj;nlldull of the Confederscy he waa de. Ated on thls busiuces, and detaliod wity Uk § send- g5 o generally the de. | DY TURazks, pOb fur. the sake of THE CHICAGO TRIBUN THURSDAY, JA NUARY 20, 1876. tinde eed you froud & paner of his own cily Armiy in the intereat af tho Rebel caune, What noxt? How dll Grn, winder exscute tho order sfter fin wont thera? 1 tnrn to the Wirz trix), At read from (L nuly such suthorities as ths geatle- min trom Oeorgld racognirem—oMcers of tio Rebol army, The gentleman ataled yeslatday thal there wie nothing In this book connscting the head of tha Can- foierato Government with the Andstaonviile strocl. ttes, Unfore I awa through we will tes, On tha Gtk day’ of Jamiiary, 1804, a feport Wi made by D, T, ndler, 8 Liautenant Calanel of ko Coufedersts Thinraport wss offetsd in cvidouce in tha ial, and Col, Chandler was himseif & witness at ‘and aweara (bl tho report 18 genuine, I from page 124 ¢ ANDRRIOYVILLF, Jan, 6, 1661,--CoLaNkL: Having, in puedienca to instrnotidna of tha 25th ultimo, care- fully inapecied the prison for Federal privaners of wac sud poat st this pisce, 1 respectfaily subimit tho follow- Ing re 8 Federal prixanora of warare confined within A utockads 13 feet high, of roughly hewn pine logs stiout 8 inches in diameter, hiseriad 8 fest “futa tho ground. inclosing, including the recont extension, an arca of GI0 by 200 yards. A railing sronnd tha fneide of tho atockads, and staut 10 feet from it, constitutes (he * dead Jio, liayond which the Lirisoners are not al- lawedl to pane, and sbout 31 actes near thio cenirs of the tneloatire’ are %o maraby an to bo st present untit for ocentntion, redueing the avalisbls nirowont ares to AbOWL 33)4 ncren, which gives sotmewhat tesn (han 0 square foct Lo each prisoner, Evon fuis s belug cou. stantly roduced by the additions lo thelr number, A #mall alreas: paaning from woat Lo eart through tho frie cloanre, st about 100 yards from ita soutbern ity furninbiex the only water for wasiiing accesiblo 10 tha prinoncrs, Botne fegiments of the guard, thie bakery, and the cook-houns, bring piaced on the rislug gronnda Inrdering tus stream befota it onters the privon, ren- dorn the water ncarly unfit for eo befora it reachos tho prisoners, o o D. T, CuAXDLY) # Assistant Adjutant and Iuspector-Guneral,” Hare {u an ofticlal oxbibit of {he manner in which tha ofticer detajled by Joff Davis chosa the plsce for bealth, and running water, ana sgroeabls shade, He choro & pioco of forcat ground that Lad w mlasmatic maral n tho heart of 1tand a small stream runuing througli it; but the troopn stationod outaide of Ihe stockade wera allawod to defilo jts pure water beforo it could reachs the atacksde, and then, as if the very refinemont of crualty, as If to makn 8 mockery of thio order quoted by tho Fentlemau from Georgls, he de- talled nen to ‘cut down every trec and shirub in the Inclosure, leaving tint 3 groen leaf to show whers the foreat kiad been, ~ And subsoquently, whon the hurn. iny nun of July was potring uown s feey Leat upun the hieads of ihere men, with but 6 square fect of groiind {04 tnan, a pieonn petltion wan mads by the pritouors to Windor to sliow thess poar men to bo detalled to go outaide under guard and cut plae from the foraat to mako arbora tunder which they cauld shelter themnelves, and thoy wera answered with all tho Joathsome brutality of malignant bate, that they #hould have no hush to tioltes them and thun, nn- dor tho fezco raya of thio Southorn sun, Lliey mirerabily rished, > P Thote ast statements aro made on flie authority of Ambroso Spencer, o planter of Georgla, who resided wilhin 6 “milos of Andorsonville, I quote from his tostimony (Wirz's Trial, p. 859 “ Between tho Tat and i5thot Decomber, 1853, T wont np to Andersouville with . 8, Winder antt four or fiva other genticmen, out of cutioeity, to reo kow tha pris- on wan tobe Iaid unt, . ked him i he was Rolng to erect barracks or sheil plied that be waa not ; that tho damncd Yankees who wWould be puat in there would hsvo 0o need of them, I all tle trees, and lielter (0 the pris. 1o madn ¢ to do; L nin goiny (o bulld moro_damnnod Yankces than c b thiat will kil stroyod o tho front.' ‘Those aro very ncacly bls words, or equivalent to them.!! 80 uch for the execution of the President’s order to Jocate the prinon, But T am ot yet done with tho testimony of Col. Chandler, A subscquent report was mada by him in (o month of August, He wont back and re uxamined the hiorrors of that pou, and an the resuit of his axsm- ination ho made & ropart, from which I quoto tho Jast few seatences (Wirz's Trlal, p, 2252 ** ANDENSONVILLE, Aug. 5, 14t OOLONELS . . o My ‘duty roquires mo rospectruily to recommond a clisuge in tho offcer in command of tho post, Lifg.- Gen. J, 11, Winder, snd tis suttitution in bis faco of Bomo ono who nifes bath energy and good Judmment with some feeling of humanity and_con.ideratlon for tho welfsro and comfort (20 far oa Ia consiatent with their safe-keeping) of the vast number of nnforiunsics pliced under hin coatrol ; somo ous whi, at laxst, will notadvocato deliberately and fn_cold bload the’ pro- riety of leaving them o their present candition uotll Tieir nvimber bis been suficlenlty Fedubed by desta to maka (hio present arrangement for {lielr accommods tion ; who will mot consider Jt n_matter of self-lads. tion and bossting that he has nsver boea fasids of tas #tockado, o ulace the hoirors of whlch it is dificult to deacelbe, and which faa dingrase to_civilization, tho condition f which hio might, by the exerclae of tittls euergy nud judgment, even with tho lmitod meany at Lis command, Lave consfderably improved. D, T, CuANDLED # Assistant Adjutant and Inspéetor-General.” Noww, what do honorablo gentlemon muppots would matually bodona with such a report as that? lie- member that Ol, Obandler was a witness bofora the court that tried Wirz,and reafirmad overy word of {bin report, 1f b ls l'lvm? 1woult miako 2’ pligrimaga to seo Linand tiauk Wi for the ‘humauily aud ten- dernost with which ho treated my unfortinate com. zades. Boauzious was o that (s great erjma of Winder elould be rebk.d that his wont (o Iichmond, and fn person dellverad his report tothe Secrotary of War, a momber, of courss, of tho Cahinet of Joffor- aon Davis, 11 I am not correct In thia I bolievo there 48 a member of that Cabinet now on this floor who cau correol'me. OF coura, belug & soldizr, Col, Caandlor Brat deliverod bls zapors fo tho Adjutant-G.moral, aud that ofilcer, Gen, Cooper, on the 140 of August 1801, wroto upoh the back of tha raport these word: o ftcapectfully aubmitted ta tho So.rstary of W: Tho condition of the prisoa st Andersouilla 14 a re. proach fousssn nation, The Lngincer and Ord. nanco Dopartmenta woro appiled (o, and_ authorized their fasuo, and I g0 telegraphed Gen, Winder, Ool. Chandlor's recommendatious aro coinided in, Not content with that tndorseniont, ol Clandler went to the ofiice of thy Socratary of War himaalf; but, the Seeretary being absent at tla moment, tha ro. pork wan deliverad to Lo Arsistant Secretary of War, 1, A. Camybell, who wrale below Gen. Cooper's indoras: mant thiose word “Thieo reports show a condition of things at Ane dersouvilio which calls vory loud.y for the fuberposi. uuna n'l' the Department, in order that o changs bo made. "Il roport wan thus lodgod with the Dapartment of War, whiose chfof wis ono of tho conBdential adyisers of Mr. Davis—a memocr of hiw olliclal fymlly, What wras dotio with It 2 Tua reoord shows, Alr, Bpeiker, that & few daya {hereafier uu ordir waw mado i rofee. ance to Gon, Winder, Towhat eect?. Promoling blm! AQdugto his power 1 tho fad of jufamy | s ws made Coutulsssry-Oenaral of all the prisons and prizoners throughoul tha Confodsracy, ‘That wis Lo anuwar LAt cana a8 the Tesult of Lh(w humano ra- yort of Col. Chandler ; and that new aprofutnunt of Windor st from 7, Ssddons, tha Coufedorte Beo- rolary of War, A Slvmuor—Dy order of the Prealdont 7 Alr, Garflold—Of coureo, all uwppointients wors by the President, for the_ geutlomau from Georgly sayh that they carried our Cuustitutloa wit ttom sud Linggted 1t to their Losoms. But that is notall, Tuo teatlmauy of tho Wira trial suows that the Hecrefary of War biwsell o shocked ab tho Lrutulity of Windor, and i & tnoment of Indlgustion bs relioved bim from command, Yor suthority upon this auly Ject T eofer to tho testiwiony of Casiuiyer, # detoctivo of Winder, wbo waa callud bofure tiis Wirz court, ofticer teaiified that when Ar, Boddons, Secretary of War, wroty tho order_ relieving Winder, the laiter walked'over with {4 1o Jefferson Davis, whio jmmedi- ately wrate ou the back of 1, * Thi (s cutirely un- eceanary und uncaliod for.'" Wind atn (0 bave retained the contldeuca’ aud approvel of Davia to the end, snd confiuued on_ duty uutil the merclful provie dunce of God struck Lim doad in his teut fu the peos. eacs of tho wituess who yavo bis terhzony, Naw, who will deny Lbat in tue forim of law wo do trace the respousibilfty for thos atrusities to tas min ‘whodo naio ks Lofure us 10 bs reliovad of ull his politi- cal disabiiiiea 2 I uoty let isatoca vow it Wine oul 10 chiarge, an: W b tho 1t way hure to vole 5 cdilavo hituf 118 disabiptloas Winder was allowal (o g0 0n," ' What dld hedo? I weill ouly give rsults, nat dotatla. T wiil not barrow own soul by the revival of 1hodo liocribie dotallu, Tuere £ & group of fucts fu mililary Listory well worth know. {og which wil fllustrate the polut 1 am discussing. Tuo great Nupoleon did womo tighting $u his time, a1 Al bis great autaguniat the Iron Duke, 1n 140) wan fought the battle' of Talavero, in 1811 the batile af Altiers, i 1613 tho Lattla of Hanmanca, in 181 Vit- torfs, {n'1418 the battlou of Ligny, Quatre iras, Watere loo, Wavre, and New Orleans, sud i 1834 the Uittles of Lhio Orimea, ‘The humber uf Dien in thio Euglinh srmy wh fell tn'battlo ur who wore killod or iod uf wouuis Fusolved Lu tho len battied amounted in tho sggregats 10 12,03, DUt this Stal.-Gen, Wiisder, srithin uis hor riblo’ arens of death, from Apell, 1834 to Apeil, 1609, tumbled witoths trefiches of Andersouvilla tha dead bodiea of 13,044 Uiisoucs—ouly 11 less iliun a1l s whio fell 10 oF dleil of woi el s tou great baitlon 1 havo named, oot Foelved 1n Naw, Hir. Bpeaker, T liava sluiyly given thesa roults, Teicoutages palo and fado away i the presenco of vy okl fuot, THE EXCHANON OF TalgoNEns, Ono of the chlef poluts of Leu Hill'a speech was his charge that much of the Andersonvilo suffering was duo to the causeloss ratussl o f the Uolon authonties to contiune tho excliangs of prisoners, Gen, Gartleld utteely destroyed tho forco of this statemont in his reply, s follows : TLv geutloman frum Gcorgls makes aotier anvwer, that whatever was sufiered by tho prisonars.for at Taaat & conulderable partion of tho tua was i comme: quenca of our refussl L0 Liako &1 ex:hanga of prisot ers, becauss we would not glve thew their (rash mop 1n our pr tako our thadows aud skelorons ‘Fliis 18 & part, aud an lmportsnt part, of & grost b {ory, which 1must uut e oualited 1b. 1bis dedates snd T vailvery bredy rater o e teadiog ol “Hicrs was miich troublo about the yxchango of prisoners be tween tLs two belbigercats; Arsf, becauso for a loy, time we did not ackuowledge the Coufederstes as ber- Ugere: Wa Lioped under the uinatysdaye’ theory of Alr, Boward (o get tbrougy withoul their recuguitlon, bub that bop failed. Our vusiilea ware an gallaut ’Mphu gver drew tho swurd, aud tue fultilweut of 82t Lopo wad delayed for moutbn sud for yours, But Aually sn lrnu(.}‘amtm was wmsde under whica It was possitlo to make a cartel for the excuanye of «r4, sudonthodid of duly, 18ud, & oartel we upon balwesn ho belligerduts, walch provided buat Within ton days after s prisoner was tuken ho sbuuld Lo pwroied aud sent Lo, s0d whbenever it was si- bouuced by elther sldy that & certaio Lumber was ra- Heved {row the pazole nununuuumg auwbyr should be relossed from ths other side, snd in thet way the exchange was efected. There were two pointa of delvery of prisoners, Ons wax at Vicksburg, Auotber was si a palus uear Dutca Gap, in Vigglus, And the excbange weat ou for soway time uniil a serios of events occurrad whish ju- ferrypted it Ta tbose oveyts L aesire 3o call attens tion & momenl, e dret I arder of time wi proposition which wai read befare the ilouse yesterdsy, and which ¥ jusarporate here fs - AkiNg puY. peR, :nml poink, but to preserve the continuity of the hig- orv, Ti Qctotier, 1862, 8 resolution wan fotraluted fnto the Confederats Eenata by Senator Den If. ilhl, of Qeargla: i+ Thoy avety pernon prelending 10 1 & woldier of an offirer of the United Hitalas who ahall ba captured on 1ha soll of tho Uanfederats Hiates aftar the 1nt of Jan. unry, 1603, ohall bn preaumed to have suiriod the lerritory of dhe (3nlederats Siatew with intent to fucits {nmirroction s to alet marder, méllrn»'l lnteke aal- afactury ptoof Is xdduced Lo the cantrary heiol n militar, ’c?m!l tsefors whicts hin trisl shall be had, shall the first step In the complioation in regird anko of prisoners of war, That feaolution sppears to hava botne estly feuits, O tha 224 day of Daoembset, 1802, Jeffaraon Darls, the ma fos whiom amnerty (s fow belng uaket, justed ton, opy of which X bold in my banud. d {wo paragrapha: “ Firat—That a1l dommissloned officera ‘in the com. mand of ssia Benjamin F, Butlar Le aeolated not en- titled to_be considered an doldiers engsgnd in honot- able warfars, bul an robliers agd ceitulnals deserying death; and that tley, and each of them, be, whexu- evnr ugum ) resctved for exerution,’ Mr. Hill—A'reason ia ststed for that, Arfield—Ths rexsou fa lo the preambla, Tam naot Uiscubaing the reatons for thie axtraordiuary pl;;!clllllllldn, but its effects upon the exchauge uf prisouers, “ Ihtrd—That all negro slaves cantured in arma bn atonce dellvered over to lhe oxecullye authoritiss of thio respeciiva States to which they belong, Lo be dealt with aceording totho tawn of il Rtates, », Fourth—Thad tha like orders be sxecuted in all caras with raspsct Lo sll commizsioned oMcers of the United Htates when found serving fn company with #3ld slaves in [oaurrection agalnst the suthoritles of itin diTerent Blates of this Confederacy. ‘Two grest quentions wers this £ First, that & certsin clirs of oMcate, merely because they parved under Gen, Dutler, should be declared not entitled 10 the righta of prisouere of war, but should Le putio diath when ‘taken, Thess men Were sorving, not Benjamin F, Butler, but the Unian. They did not chuore bim an their Geueral, They were assigned (o hin, and by this proclamation that Ignmout cone #igned them to ‘deib at the hauds of thair captora. But the recond question was still more important, 1t wan an_order What all nien who had been slave and had euliuted undor the flag of the Unfou mhould be dealt with an runnway slaven under the Inwa of the Htates whero they formorly belonged, and that com- tnisstoned oflicers who commanded (hem werain Lo deufed the tights aud privileges of prisonsrs of war, ‘Tha declaion of tho Union peopla every whers was that, Rreat as was the suffering of our poor soldiers st An- dersouville and elsawhere, we would uaver make an exchisuge of prironers untli the maubood aud rights of our colored foldiers were acknowledged by the bellig- erent power, And for long weary months we atood upon thst lssue, and moat of the sniferiug occurred whilo wo waited for tht act of Juatice to Lo done on tha other alde, by To enforce this proslamation of Mr, Davias law pamacd ontho 1st of May, 1803, by the Coufederals Congress, reported, doubtless, from tho Judiciary Cotawitice by the gentleman ‘who spoke yesterdsy, and o that law the principles of the proclsmation 1 liave just read were embodind and expanded, Sec, 4 of the law re # follows 3 4450, 4, That every white peraon, belng s com- missloned ofMicer or acting as such, wna,du?mx?c n preseot war, shall command arma ayalnst Lue Confederato Siates, or who shall arm, train, orgaulze, or prepara negroes or mulsttoes for military wervice Moint the oafyderae Hlates, or wio shall yoluntarily aid negroes or intilattoes in any military enterprivo, atlack, or condlct i sucl service, anatl ba deemed an dnclting serviin fnenrrectlon, and shall, if captured, be pnt {0 death or othermiss pun- ished, at tho diecration of the court, ‘* Hrc, 6, Evely person, bofng a commissloned ofil- cer ar acting ns much in ths scrvice of the enemy, wno whall during the present war excits, attempt to oxcite, or cauro to be excited, » wervile Inaurrection, or who shall incite or causs to Le incited s slavo to robel, shiall, i capluzei, b put ta death or o oluerwiso punishied, st the dtscrolinn of the court, **8rc. 7. All negroes and mulattoes who ahall be en- gaged in war or be faken fn arms sgalust tha Confed. erate Bates, or shall give ald and comfort to the euo- smies of tho Confederate Batos, shall, when captural 1n fhe Confolerato Gtaten, bo delivored Lo the authori~ tica of tho Ftatsor States in which thay shall hs cap- turad, 1o be denlt with accardlug to the preavnt or fu- ture lawa of auch Stato or Htatol, “ Approved May 1, 1864, Now, Ar, 8peaker, I anybere ta s1y that thia poaition taken by the head of the Coufoderscy, indorscd Ly his Congreas and carriod luto ezocuticn Lis oficers, waa the great primal trouble in atl this Dusluess of the tlc:n auc! e of prisoners, 'Tnere were migor tranbles, clsima by Doth des that paroles had beant folated, 1 think be, Hallock reported that o whote division, four brigades of Btapliensan's Diviniou, which had not besn properly azchanged, fought us at Tookont Mountain, but that tnay Lave esn & mistsks, It was one of the polnts I _controversy. Dut the con- tral queation was that of the Uovurnment of the Unl- tod Giates haviug commitied ftaelf t tho dctziua that thie negro was & man sad not a chatlel, and that pelng & m3u ho bad o 1ight {0 holp us in fightiog for tho Oulon, and being s soldier we would persh rather than that he should not b trested an a noldier. Lo show that 1 am not spoaking at random T will read {row s repost wiich I Lold io my hand, o repart of tho Seerotary of War on the dificnity of the ex- change of yrisoners, ‘Thin paper {3 dafed Aug, 20, 1#4, I thiuk it fa misprint for 1363, from what eur- “founds t; but no matteras to that, It was {n Auguat @:n, Mersaith roported : * T iy downud * tist sl uficers cnnuading Hos gro troops, aud uegro troopu themselves, whould be troatod na olhier prisoners ol war, and be excliniged as such,’ Mr, Ould “Joctined acceding, remarkiug that they (the Hebels) would *dic {n the lsst ditch * before alving up the right to send alaves back o alavery as Ppraperty recapturcd,’” “Thivs 0 appears Uint1s the negoliation, as Iato as tho month of August, 183, the refuss] of tha Retel au- thorities to treat the neyro as a man and a soldlor pre- ventad tho exchanye of prinuners, Oue other pownt in that conuoction and T will leave this subjock I Lave heren lutter datod March 17, 1843, wrilton by Roboct Oudd and sdirosaod to that 1nan of * bad eaiinence,” Gen, Windar, in which Mr, Ould, speaking of hia asrangement for the ex:lange uf prisoners, ) 8138 ¢ "R ARRANGENMENTS THAT T HAVE NADE K LARGELY IN OUR FAVOR, WE GE, 01 A SE7OF MISERADLE WRI. L‘b'lnl_.i,f SOME OF THE BESTMATERIAL [ EVER Now in that ninglelins, in & communuication between two mou, 1oL par navils fralrum biat iir turce didos- {Lorunt, 18 proof that the object of thia outragrous treat. meut at Anderavnvilla was to make onr inen so that thalr exchange would be vafuolces to ue, and it thrown light upon the charge wbout our trestwent of prisoners held In tho North, CAMP DOUGLAS VS, ANDERSONVILLE. To the Edeter of The Chicaao Lriouns @ Cmwoaco, Jau, 18,~The writer of this com- - munication lias no sympathe with suy one who, far peisonal or party conslderations, may seok to rokindlo tho aulmositics engondored by the lato War ; nor does he desiroe to stumulate a con- troversy which nover should Lave taken place. Opou, bowever, ta censuro as Mr. Blaine may be connidered in his recont action ontho Am. nesty bill, some atatoments advanced by Mr. HIl, of Georgia, ra so gross » porversion of the facts of history, that noither the provocation given by Me, Blaing, nor the excitameut of do- bate,’ean bo accopted 88 an excusa for thoir utteranco. Mr. Il {a roportod to bavo eaid, * that (he atrocities of Anderwooville do not begin to com. pare with the atrocitiea of Ximira, Camp Donglas. or Fort Dalasware.” " 1t is surprising that o geutloman of M, Iill's respeotability sud chbaractor whould have sd- vauced a cherge 4o infamous nnd kroundless ; and it is sl more surprismng that the reprosout- atives of Chicaro should have lietencd {n atlence to this hornd imputation on the Govelnuecut, {uo officers of the Oamp, and the citizens of Chi- cago gonorally, Alr. Caultleld espevially owed it to his constituents, uod Lo bis own munbood, to bavo et the chiargs with prowpt end emphatie du‘:m. and not wikh roluctant, equivocal oxpla uation. - To rofreah tha xpcollection of soma gentlemen, and toonhgliton the minds of othieis, it ey not beout of pluce to preseut a fow facis be Upon the question ot frsuv,—facts which can b ve: fed by the public recards, snd the tatimony uf many witnesscs, Without dolog injusticdto Mr. T, or forcing an undue construotiou upow his Tanguaye, bis axeertion sy bo conmidercd au advanclig (WO €0parate cuarges, 2.3 1, That atroalties wers commlited on Confederats prisonsry coufned i Catup Douglas. 2 That thees alroclles wors so much greater In uumber sud character than thoas commitied upon Union prisourreat Andersonyille, as to put comparisou out of the queation, Qrauudless as oiust apposr the last and most serions chazge, 18 la uot more 20 than thu prst, Whatever trrais wero comnitted by jie, Linfbin, or his then Bycretary af War, Blr, Htauton, cruelty to Coufaderate prisoners was nob oue of them. Never Ja tLe aunsls of warfars was s uuch kinduess shown to prisoncrs A8 Waw ezhibited to the Confederats eoldiers wha were brought within thie Unlon lines, 80 muck so waa this 1B case, thas a distingulshed member of thp Canalian rliaent, oo vidung Oanp Dougles, remarked, * Did I not know 4o 1ue contrary, I would luxlsuw the Inwateaof the Cawp tobe your friends xod silios, Tathor than your ¢nemies and prisoncrs,’ 1t atrocity’lo the prisoners at Camp Douglas were porpetruted, whero are wo Lo louk for the proofs? Lo " i L catimorthe Cumpp i . It the lecation of the Cuntn f Bituste upon the shors Of Jako Michigan, ot grouud Low cavered with mauy Of 1o moat oleyaut Tealdonces 10 b found 1u Clivayo, & mora healtbful wituatiun could not haye been closcr, Yoileo-regulations wera rigidly euforcea. Water In fiy. exbaustible .uilml, was piovided, The squares ip front of the diterent quarters—originally latd out for 1l purposss—atfurdud sxplo scojis for vxaruise and Fecreation, 'Thurv was curtaiuly uo ** alrogity " thora, 2. {1 Lhe exceitensa uf the Quarterg ! The Confedyrate prisaners watw, on theis arrival, placed 1n barracks Which wery Luit for, aud biad boen occupied by, I+ nols troops. The prisoncrs from Fort Donclson wers {n u'llrd D the quarters from which ke Forty-fifch, Hitiy-tirel, aud Pisty-sovent, and otier Tlinois regl. nigats, bad but s faw da; aviously marched to 1] Beld, Upou an a3 ‘bange imouers takipg place, the barracks ware 2ol ocoupied by Union tzovys, aud wery 80 altarastely lenanted dyring the Kroater pariod of thu War. There could ba no ¢ atroclty ' {u 1als] 4, In the quulity of tha ratiun, 'bo rations sup- Plicd to ticas prisousrs wero, 1a quantity snd nuaiity, tho same s tho rations furmisbed to Do od ftatas troops. Thoy wera purchascd from tho sams are, and peid for by e Goveromans ay the sauio prices. They were lasusd dioctly to the prisonars, "K}“‘ morulug-reparts msdo out by non-cymmissianed ohicers in the Confederats scrvice, appolnted for tuat urpode, 1 caq by patsly asaostvd Wb e Relwoncre coutracts ., AW R ‘CHE AND RE- fod than they hed benn raviatrsly, ar wern subsaquently, In their own pery- {c4, | Noonu vaz clstgn Lhat Uors way ™ atrocliy * fu ily 4. I the atores furnished? The ame smount of fresh straw for bedding: of fuel for cooking, and liaaling the quarters: of woap and other essontiai artl. elen supplied Lo the tronps in garrisot, —was furnfsdl {0 tne nrirouern. All who wera destitnte of elothing and Llsnkote wers providad therawith at Governmen: expenre. On one occasion, & taousand uniform, which fallad ta coma up to tegulation sandard, wers diaiributed lmonr tie prisouers, ha ordpt af 18 Gove croment,—in ect which caunot Ua claasified as an Hatrociy 8 In " Ar horoital-accommedatyme and mettenl ase octded ! The hospatale f the E\‘Ilcltn wern e od by our owd troops. They were in- Iy by & Bledical 1loard, and Ly the Mer or Gsnersl of the Departmest, d not be abtsined ju the South, wer furnished: and a corpa of ekilled phys~fany wern specially emploged ahd pald by the Oovernment to wait upon iba Confademie wick. The dyin lawed thaconsolations of religion, ansd wery by clorgymen of thelr own faith, Nuses pritons were detallad for horpital-dut, of telitives ana eympathiziog friou certain reatrictions, allowed, In whatever the * atroos hfv ! vonsisted, It was assuredly not inthe treatment of the sick, slly aet apart 1n Wil raege:tn 6. In (he peneral care and kindnosn shorn? The prisoners wers permilted to interchauge correapond. ence with their friends, Korth and Houth, lettern of & treasuunable clarncter only belug excluded from the maile, Remtilances of moncy were placed to ther eradil at headquarters, and tuey were sathorized to draw thercon Il proper amouut anl for necessurypar. poscs, Vieltors, under the aurveilluice of an nilicer, ‘ero permittod (0 call upon them st stated intrrvals, converss with thewn, and minister Lo their comfor Hurely 1o one will 3y tlat theie waa suy “atrocity 1o all'this, Nor [8 1t tena that any * cruelty ™ was practicad, nn- Teas, by sympsthizing friends, it was & 1udged % cruel 7 1o disarm these men upon the battle fisld, bring them witbin the Unfon linas, aud hold (bem as prisoucra until & restoration of peace or an exchango shonid $gain ret them free, Iy disproving the first of (hese charges, tha aecond necessarily falls to the ground, ‘Tho charge ia, how- ever, of Loo rorfous 8 character, and has been put forth by too high Yonthern suthority to ba digpossd of in so Rummary and general & manuer, /n o s-1s 1) which Mr. 1l neana t 1ot it 44 becoming to abow that 1om. arison (in tho treatmeut of prisoners) Letween Camnp ouglas and Andersonville cannut fndecd bs i stltutad, 1. Thers can ha no *compariaon ™ between these Qamps in the mumber of tnetr mlitary executions Mr. LI, before delivering bus hext apcech, can, 1 Teferoute to the alimony taken in the Wir: tri and byan exumnination of the rocords of Auder ville, inform Limself a8 o the numbar of Union prison. ers who, suntmarlly or after mock trisl, met their death at Audersonville, In Camp Dongias no wilitery exe u- tion aver 100k piace; althuugi mauy offepses wers commited, some of thein grievous ‘onee, tho deathe penalty wad never, in » single lnstince, pasied or exo. cuted pon & Confederate prisoner., 2, In Camp Dotglas, but three Confoderite prison- era were reported shnt by the guards, Whon Mr, Hill Bas fnformed Lhself a8 to tlie humber of Uniou sol diers shot down almost daily iz cold biood ut Ander- souitie, Lo oo will exclalm * Thorela o comjurison ~ 3. Anoiher subject worthy of investigation and ¥ corupurison * {8 tho denthe-rat: of prioucrs at thess ‘respuctiva Campa, Duriuy the years 1873, 1864, 1264, #0d 1463, between 90,000 aud 40,001 Confederatd pris- oners, fu all, wore confined at Gimp Dougias. At tuo closn of tho'War, it was ofiicially stated tiat the lotal nuinber of deatlis was clightly fn excens of 3,000, Auderaonsille, in one year, the deatl ralo wan e Ava timea that amount. 10 one mouth,—August, 1 —ths number of deaths at Andersouvilio heariy onualed the total number during four years at Camp Douglus, Tho desth-rate of prisoucra held at ko lat- tor Camp did Dot _excecd sn averaze of 1,0 o year, Within ofte year, s thonsand from /(f now afone $auud draves st Andersonville, Uns regiment of Iliuola troops which bad the misfortune to ave s dutachwent, cat off—the Sixlcouth Cavalry—bnrind, within u fos ww2ekn of thelr capture, elgaty of their numter ju Au- dersonvilla graves, and thirty moro at Richwond. 1a Jfour nontna,—July, August, Beptember, and Ostoher, 180},—4,0 Unton pritoners wero buried ut the formar cump,—ilree times tho number of Ooufedsrats pris oners hurted ‘in four years at Cawp Dougiss, Tho numboring of thegraves at Andersouville bugan the Initer end of March, L8811 and, befars toe closo of 1t tiwcen 13,100 a0d 14,0.0'groves wero numbercd, - o Dantedorate prisctiers resched Camp Douglas from he duwtsnt butile-fiehls aud horpitals of tua Sauth, 10 eacounfer the soverity of a Nortuern climate, Thiey taing, in most instancee, ju sn_exnausted con- ditivn, sudering from esposurs, want of modiciue, and fuadxquato aupplicn. Many of tuem wero ik, and moyt of them enfeabled, They left the Camp Lale, Learry, hoslthy mou, Tho Union prisoners taken to Antorvonvills woit tho most vigoroas sud active men in tho nervice, wio had ponetrated farthcr than otliers upon Bouthern soll, They lett {t—alan | they did not, in tmost tuatances, leave 1t at all. “Tuoy weus thers to Toturn no wore forever, mparison” ccrtainly falls bere, Usber hinesof “ comparison betwoon tho respectivo Camps could be drawn, but enough Lin bosn stated withi Tefereuce W Andsreouville, ‘Thera aro bot fox men whe, wilh Mr, Iilaine, would find pleasuce o Iifs- g tho vell from whul munt bo regarded by po tority a tho dirkest ataty which blickous the records of tho Sautliorn Confederacy: and ‘the writer b not oue of them, Iteck ear uuserilins and fmpolitic wilorances on $ho part of Southern Roproentatives will do far more 10 promaie sectional disirast than sll the speechies Alr. Diziue could deilver u o Iifctinie. Mr. Blalua and Mr. Lill aro_ovidently both extreme mea, ‘Fap formor was permitted 10 sreik, by his party, that bo tnight doetroy Liuweif. uo laitor, un: c8 Vory careful, will dostroy liw parly, Neiber of 1016 g.ntlomen’ was i ho fleld, and caunnt upesk fram the atandpolnt of perronal expericnce, Tuey urn both gitutors, and, should their loadersbip bo fol- Towed, fbe duy of recouciliabion muet b iudefnlery postponod, 1t 1o ora of gaod feefing aud mutuat rospect is onco more to bie brought in,—a convummation de- voutly to bu wishisd,~its advent will not ba lLantened Ly the reitoration of sush unfoundud sud mischiorous slatewentu as Lhoso with which Mr, 114 {8 charge d, Camp Dougtas wan rst commanded, Camy, by Col, James A, Mulligan.—3 g who gavo up hils life upon the Beld for his_countrs's cauno, Itwas subsaquentiy commanded by G 0. acub Awmmou,—a Virgifau by blrth,~who, oftar a lung lifo honorably mpeut fn thie natiou's service, ot _te ose of thia War, sank cxhausted to the grave. G.u, Hweet, Who aftorwards commandod, Las also gone to hils ret) and the horrible sud unfounded fmputation of Alr, Hill {8 300t beimg 8 oel alike upon the liviug and tuedead, Respecifally yours, DANIEL CAMERDY. farmerly Commandaut of Caiup Dougiss, * WHAT AN OLD SOLDIER SAYS, o the Bddtor of $ha hicagy Trbline ; Cixcixxaty, Jan, 18.~1 have Just recoived a lettor from Col. F—, au old army chum of mine, who has, aince tho close of the War, reslded fn the Soutly, mostly in Kentueky and Teunosseo, ond boan engaged in conmarcial business, Ths Culonel wasone of the lirst, & well ay ono of the Lravest and best, men whom Obio sent to ibo fiont; but, when the contlict was over, he, liko thonsands of his comrades, waid, ** Lot by- gones be Lygones,” ettled down, and hasra- wided South, Tucrefore, when o man lku the Colonel, ~ who hald po ofize siuce the closed,—a man who was, llke hundred of thousands of our patriotic youug men, In war, tbobrave; in peace, (s trug,— expresses candid ideas, afier'ful) espericucn, 1 frol that thoso {dean should be mude known, that other loval hearts may echo s response, nud auck a gue a1 on y comos {rom brava aud foyal heartn, He says LoussvitLy, Ky, Jan, 10, 1870.—)¢ D4ar CAPTAIN: o .. o But (s't'tha Lower Hanee of Congress Just Tunniug thinge admirably 7 They are muking tnace patitical documents for ua than we will need in haif-a- dazen campaigus, Woll, L hoye, lu cass III\'( get con- trol of the Governwioni, snd make us walk up aud apalogize for having served {n the Cnion army, they will not ba toa severe, 1 hope they witl not maks us Ket dawn 0n yur kneos sud wips thulr boots, and *a )l that aort of thin But, serjourly, to thiuk thst m man like Speaker Rlatuo ehould ba compelled to defeond tho Bepuulivan [ary agyinat the porjused traltars thit waw pegrea at Lo Detnacracy, 14 onoughi to make voc's cheeks tingls aud oue's hands itch to aqain artap ateel and earre hu- fory south (he sabre, And,if en Hill wauts tha al- teriatlve, I, for aue, am 12 favor of giving it 1o kim, | They may talk of bis not representug the Southern sentinvent : b dnes roprescut 4, and ws wha have Déen Houth since the War well know it, 1rend you a €0, 9f thu Louisvills Cvuricr~Journa which telly that & CiicAqn TamusE Lelng the acknowledged lesder tu Ropublican Journalis in the Weet, Le tao rra: %ou I g1ve for askiiy you (o giva thlx a piace, {hereby Hoplug Lo resch the grailest number of ekwoldiory audloyalmen, Yours very truly, Avbuew, i ‘fhe Work of Two Colorod Artists, Ea'ttuiore Amencan, Dr. Joha F, Urown and Prof, E. B, Tomkins, two inteligent and well-educated colored men, have paintod su exceedingly novel and in- tereatiuyg panorams, which has fv:m boon cow- pleted at their stndio, No, 43 Raborg street. The work is cnrmnlidolunug high commendstion, Inasinnch as 1t hag required & great amounc of Lintorical research, the subjozts boing cnifroly mythological, and treating of wcldents ang fea- ture of GOrecian mythology, Tue pictures are each abont 6 by 8 feet in sizo, and aro wound up~ ou rollers in” tho usual ranner. Thero are twenty-sovon in all, and 1n that number fa pro- vonted almost evory promiveat jneident in Gro- ciau mythology. Among the eubjects are the Graclan bell, Pluto catrying Proserpina (a holl, Yulean'a workshop, Venus and Adonis, Ceres, Jupiter on Mount Olympus, Venus nsiug out of the se3, Yenus, Cupid and tho three (iraces, cte, ‘The gtuturu are welt painted and fanly c ceived (n many respects, alihough one of tho arfists atated toa reporter that ba purposely gave tho goddesses more raiment than they aru wout to wesr {n other represeniations, becausu tle panorama 4 intonded as o wtrlctly wmoral ehow. The Hgures are the work of Lrof. Tomkina, of Virginis, and aro peinted fu a styls thiat evinaes no emall amount of aruistio taleiy. Dr, Urgwn is s physician, having been graduated at the L‘h‘\naalrhu Medleal Benool, 1lu states tlat bis object In bafmmng the pauorama s year ago way tu provido tha moaus of raising funas 10 eatabtish a colored collego o this gity, Bome {unn eince Lo endoavorod to obtain BUPROrE 0 his project but failed, and as § Lapoy resort bo bigupou this plan. 'The ownors futend oxhibig- iug the pavotama here snd elsenheis as gooy as ;n ::nog;]' x:ug lnjlure. "fhl(l:k‘l“ hehn':c me y the Ray, ' Junes, 0 oit; ' Bhished. ¥y iag bew PAUPER BURIALS, Coflin Contractors Forming Ring to Inter the Home- " less Poor ut T'wo Dol- Iary Apicee. a It Is Strongly Hintod that the Suocess- ful Under-akor Will Nogotiate with Medieal Collegos to Got Even, Something for the County Commissloners fo Thuroughly Invesiigate. The County Doard of Commiseionors {1 ean. vateed. ft is afifteted with s moral grive, snd it constituent elements look anziouny into ench othor's cyes aud find noscomfort. Tue Honorable Board 1s in n peculiarly constructea quandary, By some lcgislative mismansgemont or oreanle defect, it is compelled to sce that tho paupore’ bones are properly rattled over the right stones, aud how to sccure that happy con- summatiou la & conundram it cau't solve and daro not give up. Of course the ratting, to e legal, muss be dono by contract, Contracts arv the fundameutal principles upon which political bodiee roly for s foundation. Tha law of con- tracts, as applicd to municipal and couaty bodies, sety forth that ouch contracta )l e given i the lowest bidder, 95 far the dls tinguisLed chatirfons of our county libarties had no trouble. Hut the lowest hidder hapgpencd tobid oo luw, whereupon the chamylona atruck » enag, Heuce tlie quanuary, the convalaivns, the gripe, CHANLES SCHEFFLER #3y4 that e can plant any pauper of kuown cone atruction end erdivary dimensions for the price or sum of §1.47 per kead, and offera to proveit, The Board styphiecan't. Duthefn the loweat bidder, Whatln the Uoard to do? Take it under conaderation, of courne, And §t In taken accordingls, The takiug of a matler fato couslderation by a bedy sicensud b0 exint by tle principles of Demucracy means “influences” As compared with the known rules of moraity sud fair dealing, “influence " weard the Lelf, Teie ot an smpecunioun cuvs, this @ tnfluense,” Tut, on the contrary, stalks abroad well Aived, cd. witk ita dual charmon of Wealth and emincnt reapectability, it naturslly chalicages the sdmration of thia honors: hio Boird, Bonfield un feratsuds this, Bonfteld inon undertaker. Bonfleld goen evan (urther; o ls a Dem. ozrat, When tlin bids first demaniled Bonfie d offered b weicoue + ach pauper with Liospitabla Lands to &D economical grave, wulch whould nat cost more than 2 por cip'ta for each and every paniper ko welcomed, Upon this bxein he axked the ccntrast, faithfully pled. iug imaelf to do tho husiuess iy triie peruchind £ fna, the proceraion to bo headed by the parochial Beadls in cocked hut aul atick. As s00n v Schettler was + laken [nto copaideration Bonfield bestirzed bimeelf, e firat waw Schiefifer and sirorbell him, extraciing from Ll s promivc to an- stgn hid (H=ho@ler's) contract ta him (Bondeld), | ro- vided the fioard wera aatiaficd with the * conkidera. {lon ‘Then Lio botakes Litself 1o the Cauty Build- g, ou LOG-ROLLY AXD PIPE-LAYd with the Board o beat S:hefiler sud get the business at 53 fur cach awland tearful foneral, e Lo dis- creotly mum on the Bchodler Lusiness, raying tothing of lila agreemcut with tht geatleman, but teying 1) get hils §1 contract through, knowing f he fais and ' Helieler succeeds, Lie (Lonlela) only Jones 0 cents por head, for hie will sicp into ichettler'a sbioes, During ts wholo of yesterdsy Bontleld wan flying 84 Dear the sun as ko could with'safety t+ Lis feathers, Ue spent the day in the County Lullding, Luttnd bollng this man, and {alkiug mysteriausly to another, aud in tLe afternoon he devoted his valusble tirmy to {lie membera of the Hoard, probably with o yiew fo learn if any exaltation of the * cousidsration ' were Becessary. Iirovet cantractor H-Liefller, In the mesntime, with & viow ta lending ol senistanco'fu his power. erly conveyed himaelf {o kin virtuon cotie! he was dragged by & TRIBURE reporter. r, Hohe Ter mauifested no distnciination to futerview, aud frankly sdwiited that bie had PROMIAED RONFIELD to wivo up his contract, If it were awardod him, o Bonfield will get 4t,” ssid he; ** Le is sure of it, for, if he fails, § get it, and turn it 'over fo bim, Bl Doutehl wanta §2, 17 it s to ba kad; but he will take wy 41,40 If Lie cau't do butter,™ + Ju thicre any motioy fu the business at that rate " asked fbe roporter, No, 1 don't think thcre fn.! “Then you propese tn realiza on the bodles In (he adsancement of aclentifle investigation throuch the Bumble Instrmentality of the dissechiug room 7" “ Well, T don't know, The law cilows it," * Wil ho coftraotor award i} 2 “Tcantesy. If they will give us & would o thal every onr is decently bork And If only §1,40. what theu 7" ‘nu lant contractor did §t," respondod 3ir, Scheff~ ler, runbing it chin, 4 WiII the et do 17" queried the reporter, “Cintiil vet. e dan'tappoiuted, Ue would have right todo 1. o much does & box cost 7" 1 commenced makfng them when T theugbt 1 wutild get the coutract, and they cost mo 76 ccuts aich, “ jommon bozes 7"’ 0, They ure cofin-rhared snd stslyed, Ohl] they look uice,” and Lo suiacked his lips ss4( be e vied tho nian who shiould ever suhalfi ono of tho ci- tructive packages, *“Did you want this coulract for yourself or for Boutleldt " ** For myself originzily, bat I finally promised Bon- feld, Iwauted it,” by coutiutied afters pause, * 1 wanted it, I am going into the meat busness with iy Lrother-in-law,” This peculiar uniGeation of the somewhat divers: fuuctions of gatlering dead paupers und scllivg meat startied tho reportes, S Whit's that 7 " he asked, “Iatu going futo tho meat husiness with my Lroth- eru law, now that I Lave given up the cuntracy,” re. pied Behettier, - Iu fusther convarsation Mr. Scheffer admitted that, if the Board would nat pay enough foallow the ron- tractar a falr profit, he would be comyelled to maks it fn & way with which medical colloges are uol entire. 1y dieconnected, Now. partaps the Honorable Toard of Oammission- ers will take tho-¢ fucts futa cousiduration slio, Iu the weantimo the paupers sre mautfesting a Mtvely Interest 1o the proceediugs, The tnzulmoualy apree that & §3burial s preferable lo one procurable f03 $1.40, and they wili inelat 143t the (i) CENTA DE TACKED ON somewhere, Norare they unreasonible fu the prem- sk, Taking into coumderattou the Ligh price of Liviug. 1ba cosb uf deatis ought b0 Lear a propurtiouate relativn, —e The Mieelseippi papers sucgest to the Demo- cratic Legielaturs of ‘that State the proprioty of expunging from the records the resolutions com- plimentary to Gen. Sheridan which wero passod at tho timo of the Now Orleany riots, in 1874, _OCEAN NAVIGATION Eb’l: LINE T0 FRANCE, » head we ONLY DIR ‘I bu Goeral Tianuailauue Aa Steamyis between Fismawu. Tag apindid ruuta for the Cantineus {beiDg, Wory evutanily tuan a4y Ulter), will aall truay Bior 0. o, Aurtal tiver, a3 tofiow, LABRALUI, 6D AGaTg L abiu i odavio ) aird, 81U, Return tioksts at radurad , W1t BUREEIOF AvCTInuGALiCDY, ey withuul eItra cDafso. b eamuers o ot eares ot W DLBEDL marked 1ne * a Lulis Agent, £ Hrs ~ STAR BALL LINE CNITED STATLS & BRAZIL MAIL STEAMSIITS, Salling Teguiarly every wOLG from Walson's Whatf, Rrovkisn, N o . Fepnatatuco, Dahfa, and Ro Janerlo, ealliog hink, Votta B, 1ALIN, 3,000 tons, Jan, 92, 543 p, m. MALLy 3,300 tubs, Foby 33,341 p. 1, ‘ Lit, 3,700 1ous, March 45 61 1 p. Tl i sicutiers kre perfectly new, with all the latest 1] FovEniEltd, DaVIng Arateclass paesenger accommo. s, deilouie or £relght and pasesge, at reduced rates, apyly to . 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