The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1864, Page 2

PiNANCciAL AND 6 Taunapat, May 5—6 P.M. ‘The stock market was quiet to-day, and a decline of to three per cent all round followed the anneunce- of the probable immediate moving of the Untos Jes. The comparafive inactivity whick prevails can- be attributed to the high prices of shares or to the ey HE i of aa inuate desire on the part of operators to specu- 001 106) and of the pablic to take advantage of low prices: 200 Mich there.is a disposition to bold of until the result of | 1048 0 ie impending struggle between the Nortbera troops and | #40 she Cony ° 19 Southern rebels ic known. sany suppose tpat | $y) 2" os & Goueral Grant succeeds in scattering the rebel | 10) iii 2" we ‘another panic will seize the stock market, aud } 150 N ¥ Geel His ig bbe the means of reducing the prices of railroad, | Jp) rie ioe i ing amd the miscellaneous shares below their sc- | 200 eS: Ng 8 edged intrinsic value. But we are inclined to iy do, i” so Be opinion that such will not be the case. The majority bs Fried 2 (Bf the people, repesing the utmost confidence ta the mili- 194 100. bead of our forces in Virginia, have made up their 1a 109 Nudie that the victory on our side is hardly within the 134s 109 Of uncertainties, and, therefore, the announcement the fact would enly be confirmatory of their precon- ved opinions, Hence we argue that no panic can be uugurated when the success of our arms becomes fully Detadiiahed, On the contrary, we caunot see why the ‘market should not soon thereafter take a firm and settled Postion, because many who are now held back by their Tears would thea be anxious to invest, and the number of k would be greatly augmented, Compared with highest cash rates at the first meeting br the Board of Brokers yesterday, New York Central fen declined 134, Erie 13¢, Erte preferred 3¢, Hudson. 38: 8 4 7 Orly COMMERCIAL REPORT. Tuvaspay, May 6—6 P.M. Asie —Receipts, 17 bbis. Market quiet and unchanged. Breapsrvres—Receipts, 11,665 bbis. flour, 1,072 do. and 1,264 bags corn meal, 445 bushels wheat, 6,657 do. cora, 40T do, oats, and 675 do, barley malt. The four market was more active, the demand running cbiefly oa shipping grades, prices of which wore io favor of the seller. Tae receipts were below the wants of tbe trade, and the mar- kot closed firm for all grades, but for latter part of next weok extra State was offered a wifle below the ovrrent figures. Sales 12,000 bbis. State aud Western, 2,500 de, Southern and 700 do. Canadian, Rye four ruled quiet, but firm, with small sales at our quotations. Corn meal ‘was in fair demand, with sales of 800 bbis. at full prices. ver 2, Reade {, Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien 2, jichigan Central 1, Michigan Southern 2}, Hitnois Cen: ‘ral 2, Cleveland and Pittsburg 1, Galena and Chicago 2, Ploveiand and Toledo 1, Chicago and Rock Island 2, Pitts- burg and Fort Wayne 2}<, Alton and Terre Haute 2, Pa fe Mail 3, Cumberland Coal 9, Canton Company 2, and cksilver Mining 4. Hiarlem sold at 228—an advance $5 a 725 1 per cent. The following were the closing quota- - Tae 140 —New York Central 131%, Erie Railroad 11034, Frie teers ferred 106%, Hudson River 134, Reading 129, Michi. L Tia 875 Central 185, Michigan Southern 893;, Illinois Central + 8 On10 75 Ni» Ghioago and Northwestern 52}, Cleveland end Dien o tisburg 107, Galena and Chicago 118%, Cleveland aud L158 750 147, Chicago and Rock Island 108, Chicago, Bur- + 7608 875 Ungton and Quincy 138, Milwaukee and Prairie da Chien | {3°, now, {upertine. on le 234, Toledo and Wabash 693¢, Pittsburg and Fort Wayne 07%, Alton and Terre Haute 58, Pacific Mail 225, Quick- ror Mining 663¢, and Cumberland Coal 6334. Gold was inactive to-day, the transactions at the Ex fer ‘being confined to very small parcels. The open Corn meal’, puncheous. —The depression of the market for wheat for some days past was again apparent today, and with large quanti- ties in transit, sales to. auy couatderable extent could not have been effected except at a decline. The day's sales were limited to a few sma! parcels, which aflorded no re- liable test of the market, comprising in all some 12,000 bushels, at $1 70 for Chicago spring, $! 80 lor winter red Western, $1 84 for amber do., and $1 90 for white do. Rye was quiet, but held’ for extreme figures. The market for corn was scarcely 80 Strong, though prices show no decided change. The sales com: s Ps & g aaies in the morning were made at 177% a 17734, m which it rose to 17834, and fluctuated during the Gay between those figures. ‘The report of the Assistant Treasurer to-day is as fol- ws —— mount on hand. coipts {rom customs. ‘om other sources Toial.. Payments ... 5. $84,711,580 *302,000 524,449 steady im price: sajes 2,500 bushels at $1 45 for Cana- ast, and $1 47 for Western. ats continued in active Taquest OD goverument account, and the market was firmer: sales 100,000 bushels, closing at 86 zc a 90c, the latter in certificates. Beans were in moderate request on government ac- count, with sales of medium at $2 66 a $275, aud marrows $2 90485. CorFme continued quiet without sales to note. Corton was in moderate demand, with sales of 2,000 Dales at 85c. a 86c. for middlings. EReicuts were dull and depressed by sailing vessel @rd active by steamers vo Great Britai ‘To Liverpool, per American flag, 150 boxes bacon at $35,633,029 4,981,474 + # Sabseriptions to ten-forty loan. saci * The Nassau Baok of this city has declared a dividend of jour per cent, payable oa the 10th inet. The State Treasurer of Maine will receive proposals til the 24th tustunt for two million six per cent bonds, Gp'mbureable ia twenty-four years. Governor Buckingbam, in his last message to the Legis- ire of Connecticut, says that the expenses of the State ring the past year uiounted to $4,897,819, and that tiabilities have increased in four years from a few M doliars to $7,249,660. In view of the present ae condition of the currency, which affords a time ir peutre 150 tons lard at 12s 6d., and 60 bhds. tatlo ae 108 ‘steamer, 800 boxes bacon and 1,000 tierces lard at ‘and 300 bales cotton at ‘,d. To Loudon, per Amer: 15 large tierces beef at 38. 64.. and 100 tons weigh 1s.; per steamer, 1,500 bois flour at I, 6d., 500 tierces lard and 50 bhds. tobacco at 25s., 50 2a. and 365 boxes tobacco at 3s, gow, per steamer, 7,500 bushels wheat at 3d, and 50 tons lard and tallow at 20s. To |sristol, per veutrai, 100 tierces lard at 20s. Yo Rotterdam, per ventral, 200 bbis. flour at 2s. 24. A British bark was chartered to Antwerp with 4,000 bbis. petroleum at 5s. A foreign vessel, with about 2,000 do. to Cork, for orders, at 5s. 6d. Two. barks (299 and 360 tons, in the coal trade between the Briti: Provinces ant New York, with privilege of Philadelphi ‘@t $1,200 and $1,600 per month; and a bark from Phil delpbia to Southwest Pass, coal, $9 50 per ton. UIT.—At auction 3,340 boxes Messina oranges Drought $4 90 a $6 85, and 1,200 do. jomons $; 70 cash. avid quiet, with sales Of 75 bales at 26c. ac. ag to quality. Mot.asszs was steady, with saics of 450 hhds. ciayed at ‘7se, and 65 bhds. Cuba muscovado at 88c. Proveions.—Reoeipts, 410 bbis. pork, 250 packages beef, 606 de. cut ments, and 2,740 do. lard. /rovis.ions were in rather less favor than they were at the close of the market yesterday, when the rise in gold stimulated & more active inquiry for speculation, which enabied the hoiders to obtain very full prices. The {all of 3 a4 per uliarly favorable for meeting peouniary obligations, he meuds largely incresged taxation, and authority to ‘Banke loans required to supply any deficiency for appro- ‘jations, The railroad interest of the State, the Gov- or says, has boen rendered prosperous by a large in- @ iu the number of passengers and in the quantity of ight transported. Wile the operating expenses have eon much larger than formeriy, yet the net income 4 paid capital of $19,042,379 has been $1,694,730, ‘hich is @ galo of more than half a million of dollars over o amount received last year. The condition of the banics of tue three principal com. f= cities of the Union is exhibited in the following ble, giving the aggregates of their last weekly state- eats — Loan: Specie. Circulation, Depasite, | Cent jo gold rendered the markets rather duil and heavy. Nong: April 0.8104, 107 495 24.047.343 5,626.978 104.578.919 | Pork was tm active speculative faquiry, however, and, aly we oe ss HS a Guise BT 88.8: witb large sales—moatly for {uture delivery—prices were w ‘ Entertains’ ae ere higher au jini per, was in moderate request at Totat............$001°7, 733 MBSLAO IROOROSS IB) 709 esterday’s pric eof hams were quiet but firm. Rete... TRH Ee Sei Oe Laat ian 3: 13-388 | Eaton wes dull, end bat little was dome The supply is sn entry and holders % fall prices for all 4 scene Cat meats dull and heavy, bat Lard was also dull peciease iu circuiation. cheose were steady. Butter and Report of the Congressional Lnveatt- Gating Committee, ween Three Hundred Human Belags Mur- dered in Cold Blood, Women and Children and the Sick and Wounded Brutally Shot, &., &e., The followingfreport was made ia both houses of Coa- gross to-day:— ‘The Joint Committees on the Conduct ‘and Expenditures of tho War, to whom was referred the resolution of Con- itracting them to investigate the late massacre at Pillow, designated two members of the commit- tee (Messrs. Wade and Goooh) to proceed ¢o such places as they might deem neceszary ead take testimony. sub-committees baving discharged that duty, returned to this city and submitted to the committee a report with grows &e. Wasgincron, May 6, 1864. the accompanying papers and testimony. ‘The report was read and adopted by the committee, whose chairman was instructed to submit the same, with the testimony, to the Sovate,and ask the same to bo Printed, REPORT OF THB SUB-COMMITTER, Messrs, Wade and Gooch, the sub-committee appotated by the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, with instractions to proceed to such points as they tight deem necessary Cor the purpose of taking testimony in rogard to the massacre at Fort Pillow, submitted the fol- lowing report to the Joiat Committee, together with the ‘Accompanying testimony and papers:— In obedience to the instructions of the Joint Commit tee, adopted the 18tn uit., your committee left Wasbing- ton on the morning of the 19th, taking with them the Atenographer of this committee, and proceeded to Cairo and Mound City, Illinois: Columbus, Kentucky, and Fort Pillow and Memphis, Tennessee, at each of which places they proceeded to"take testimony. Although your inquire only in committee were refereuce ture and massacre at Fort Pillow, they ba it proper to take some testimony in roference to the to the instructed = to attack, cap- deemed Operations of Forrest and his command immodiately Preceding and subsequent to that horrible transaction. It will appear from testimony thus taken that the atroci- ties committed at Fort Pillow are not the result of pas- sions excited by the heat of conflict; but were results of & policy deliberately decided upon, and unbesitatingty announced. Even if the uncertainty of the fate of those officers and men belonging to colored regiments, who have heretofore been taken prisoners by the rebols, has failed to convince the authorities of our government of this fact, the testimony herewith submitted must convince even the most skeptical that it is the intention of the Tebel authorities not to recogni the officers and men of our colored regiments as cutilled to the treatment ac, The post wa: Union cavalry. posed by pearly, Hawkins’ command stances connected wil demand the most sear authorities, Tue sales were, on the spot—pork, 2,000 bbis. at $27 a $27 1245 for old mess, $23 871; 'a $29 for ew do., $26 8752 a $25 for now primo, $27 623, for prime Wost ern mess, and $28 50 for thin’ mess; for future deliver} 600 bbis. old mess, buyer's option, for May, at $27 7 600 bbis new do., buyer's option, for May, at $29 2,000 bbis. new meas for Juve. buyer's option, at 20; 560 do, tor July, reported at $40 25: 500 bbls. prime me, seller’s option, for June, ui $23, and 2,000 bbis. prince mess for June, buyer's op At $28. Boot Dbis. at $15 $18 for §piain mors, aod $19 a $20 ‘The annua! meeting of the stockhélders of the Michi- Jad Southern Railroad was held at the office of the com- ferr Toledo, Ohio, on the 27th ult., when the old ard of directors was re-elected. Ju relation to the re- building of the Three Rivers branch, it was decided not to build the road, but the directors were authorized to equip and run the same, provided that it should be re- 85,116,022 13,371,009 231,: 2 ; 553 orease in “eposits. i 21) 2,697,724 Tee ss extra do, Cut meais—350 packaces at 1c. for shoulders je and Pittsburg road is now completed to | and 15<c. (or hams. Bacop—400 boxes short crear on Polaski, von miles Sharon, The work progresses | private terms. iard—2,000 bbis. and tieroes at 1c. 144yc. for No.1, l4ye. 8 and kettle rendered, and . for extra. Perrouxum.—Receipts, 4,336 bbis. The demand for both crade and reflued was jess active to-day, but there was no essential difference in quotations of either, though crade was beld Girmer. The demand for oil for export was fair, but scarcely go active as yesterday, vet a fair busi- ness was done. The bulk of the trangactions were for future delivery, consisting of -‘contracts,’’ There are already three times as many ‘“ooatracts”’ as there will be ot to dill them. They are put out at a venture, under the belief that prices will be lower at their maturity; but the buyers look for higber prices, and consequently take them freely. —** @ulls’? are in great favor with gome, as the logs can in no case exceed the amount paid for the privilege, . while the gain ig without limit. There were reported sales of about bis. crude, including 10.000 for May at 404c., Slowly ou account of the scarcity of Inborers ‘The statistics of the United States Branch Mint at San Francisco for the frst three months of the present year are riyou below. Te aeporits were as follows :— a Value. 144.0. for fair to prime stea 4 Gord Bilver ‘Total value.... eoeee : —the gold came {rom the fol se eenenaaEeE 000 and 10,000 for June mark 00 the above subject. If the teachers in our day schools would speak a word of caution to the the danger which they cause to —Since the ist of January the increase bas been 1,096,814. the total of traffic, $1,591,571. the sales of 4, $1,076,428, and the cash paid on land account, 490, ‘The earnings of the Chicago aad Kock Isiand Raijtroad and Sunday passon,s| path by thoughtlessly shrowi: Orange pee! Oa it, I think it would de good, oak is chedly | the young aed thoughtiess who are guilty of this bad Value, at $1ic., but they were ali bosh. Gold $2,495,000 } The actual sales were about 5,000 bbis. at 40c. a d1c. for Biiver 71,000 | May and June, buyer's option ; 3,000 do, refined at 60c. a 1c. om the spot, ean 18 60. free, at abe. a 900. There were no future Sales, except ‘calis,”? which were report- bergen $2,566,000 | oa'as sales. Boning waa quiet at 87 icc for refined. ‘The {Mlinois Central Company publish the following | *"Rt2" G9 pags Ara-au and Rangran fold at 1096. ® Biatement for the month of April: — 114c., and 700 bags Rangoon, in bond. at sc. 1868. 1863. Inerease, | SUGAR was firm, with sales of 703 bbds Crba musco Brame... ... -$421,000 289,228 151,776 | "ado at 16!,c, a 184,c, aud 436 boxes Havama at 17 'e. Cad collected 142,236 182.383 19,851 os Py 204,274 168,869 46,404 Orange Peel on m ——— TO TH DITOR OF TAK MANCHKSTER GUARDIA Totat $707,510 670,478 197,082 | Will you be kind enough to aliow habit PRO BONO PUELICO, fluriag the month of April compare as follows with the | pines Arrivals and Departares. Joceipts for the same period last year:— 1864, pasge poch: 1eee . The following Ggures show the receipts ef the Galena | nd Chicago Railroad during the month of Apri! i ings 40 April, 1864 prot From sau Francisco. iJ Undernilt, wife lid; J Oa, wife, two id wil C Pal Earnings in April, 1868. sarees Mrs. os cbildrem; W 8 Hussey, wite and ti iren ; servan', Mire 6 W Leonard, child and servant; “mn Horace Davis, kiren aud servant, Rev ey (ras casior of access im that city than it nad veen fora | M frock pat, and that there were more jeoders than bor- fowors on cofateral security at the regular bauk rate oi | Os ren And servat Kustel and fon, Mre G W staples ser J Lipman, Mrs HJ Tild it .. Mi Anvereat FGarpeater and chi, Mea WF Witems end child, C h : Moa. G of id, J Oreck. Stes © 2 Brown, WU Law YJ . WC Lawes tay $710.90 AM: | Adamaand three children, ‘Mes MA Wella a Pi ‘4 ciiees Hong | Manne and davughter, Mre ik Martio and th 90 Brte RR pret. two children ead servaat: Mrw'N B Fh hapabetipec Bclionson, F Winter EW sje ab Mrs BD Bidredge and two oh armen, i jor Modary, S cornet, Che Adame Bev BD Barker, Ma. cA } ama, Taylor, Miss AP Duty, D Crowiey, J J Howland, Rev D T Lucas, J EB Cohen, wil child; Aand BL Day, WH Freamore: Ligal 6 D korg, Mes XJ Wlson, vu children and servant; len. Pierson and (wo children, Nehewiah Palmer, L Mitchell, LL Ferris, ‘m Bell, H Mel. rose, W H Sanders—and 10) in the steerage. Banning. DEPARTURRS, City of Baitimore—Mre K Coad ; Elizabeth Bhackleton, Mrs Leter, Mre Hevare Arioin, Levi Cofin, I Andimat, Thomas Rivet, Of Boston; 7 Revers, dy, child apd ourso; Kleazer ‘ones: wits, four childgen aud nurse, Mire Sone and three daugh ters, RR de! \ alle, P det Vetic, alse D, Marie and Fanny and arevi Mrs Lock and three dm “i ‘ 8 full stock /¢ ‘en KR scrip AM family, 1K Fiekin BO dO ee Nie 10) Obie, Burd Qiiuitit 1m", rs wife, of’ Baltimore: ™ D Wal Mr Meccormac, Mr Rornila, ® Armstrong, J _@ A: e Fsttoberteon, Me Greeny aod. Kaword Higon, C Route, 100 do wit 129, " nu Wi ae Miter, Conra ‘i bas 9 Gos vesseeeesere xs Alfred Bares, ir 1400 Cleveland & Tolktt 166 iets Ohiminent Mee Huteuinwn, ann Boos, By Chicago & Rieke lop va, Mr Saiiabure. ne, Wm J M Carien i Lid 108% | Barn: Sonroy, Mra A A Waddell, Miss A Welles, Obas Holland aud hn Hh; iJ AWE Wi wan ven Rodd, Jose Co. bas mt Le . Ue, of Bettina. Mer a) La te “f 1 a-3 of Cube; Me, ao 2 mich inna Gon Brig James T Abbot—T Murray Krouse, W rg} Michigan Cet re J Van Wagner and danehter, Rosa Campugna, 300 Mick, # 4 Nin Jainyagos, Catharine Lachlan, Sarai: Docotty, Loates | ‘4 Col. on our side wae injured. my, voder the rebel Generals Forrest, But: Thompson, estimated at o an attack on Vaducah, Ky., which post was G. Hicks, of th six hundred and ‘fifty-five men. Fort Anderson, ana there made their stand, assisted by some gunboats belonging to the command of Captain successfaliy Your commitiee think the cir corded by all civilized nations to prisoners of war. ~ The declaration of Forrest and his officers, both before and after the capture of Fort Pillow, as testified to by such of our men as bave escaped after being taken by him; the threats contained in the various demands for surceuder mado at Paducah, Columbus and other places; the renewal! of the massacre the morning after the cap- ture of Fort Pillow; the statements made by ths rebel officers to tbe officers of our gunboats who received tho few survivors at Fort Pillow—all this proves most con slusively the policy they bave determined to adopt, The first operation of any importance wag the attack upon UnionsCity, Tenn., by a portion of Forrest's com mand. The attack was made on the 24th of March. occupied by a force of about five hundred men, under Colove| Hawkins, of the Eleventh Tennessee The attacking force was superior im numbers, but was repulsed by our own forces. particulars of the attack ad the circumstances attendin g the surrender. your Committee would refor to the teati- mony submitted. They would state, however, that it would appeer from the testimony the surrender was op- if not quite, ail the officers of Colonel For the the surrender are such that they Shirk, of the navy, attack of the enemy. pression on our forces, 80. For rest ‘Thi cupied rtieth Tilinols regiment. with Our forces retired into repelling Failing to make any demanded ap unconditional surreoder, closing bis commuavication to Col. Hicks in these words, “If you surrender you shail be treated as prisoners of war, but i 1 have,to storm your works You May expect no quarter.” and threat wus met by a rofusal on the part of Col. Hicks to surrender, he stating that he bad been placed there by his governmont to defend that post. and he should do ‘The rebels made three other assaults that same day, but were repulsed with heavy loss each time. the rebel General thompson being killed in the Inst aveauit. ing investigation by the military At the time of the surrender but one man On the 25th of 7 six thousand men, made by the im s demand Tho enemy retired next day, having aulfered a lows estimated at one theusand to one thousand two hundred wounded, The loss on our side was fourteen killed and forty-six wounded ‘The operations of tho enemy at Taducab wore cuarac terized by the same bad faitli and treachery th warn to bave become the settled policy of Forrest and hia com they hi made the fire without mean ip front of men to withhold their } manner. was not he dred and sixty-tw battalion of of our officers aod men. women and children. on the fort, or were proc the flag of trace was at the fort, in erder to com the women who were ma For more full detafis of the attack an erous and cowardly practices of the rebels the committee refer to the testimony On the 13th of April, the day after the capture of Fort Pillow, the rebel General Buford appeared before Colum- . Ky., and demanded its unconditional surrender. He coupled with that demaod a threat that if the place bould be compelled to at- tack it, 20 quarter whatever should be shown to the ne- gro troops. To this Colonel Lawrence, in command of the fort, replied, that thepeurrender was ovt of the question, ax he bad been placed there by his government to hold and defend the piace, avd should do so. No attack was made, but the enemy retired, baving taken advantage of ‘the flag of truce to take some horses of \/nion c.tizens, which bad beea bronght in there for security. 16 was at Fort Pillow, however, the brutylty and cruel- ty of the rebols were most fearfully exhibited. The gar- rinon there, neoording to the arters, amounted to nineteen officers andiive 4 and thirty-eight enlisted men, of whom two hundred men were colored troops, com| the Sixth United States heavy art surrendered, and b mand The flag of truce was Laken advantage of there as eleewhere to secure desirable positions which the rebels were nnable to obtain by fair and honorable means: and also to affurd opportunities for plundering private stores As weil as government property. At Pagncah the rebels were guilty of acts more cowardly, if poss‘ble, thay any © practised eisewhera. When the attack was Ofticers of the fort aud gunboats advised the women and childron te go downto the river for the pur- pose of beng taken across out of danger. leaving the town for that purpose, the rebel sharpshoot- ers mingied witb them, and, shieldea by their presence, ‘anced and (red upon the genboats, wounding some Our forces could not return As thoy were endangering the lives o the The rebe's also .placed wo. their lines aa they moved ing to take positions, while pel our Out of regard for the lives of ase of in this most cowardly treach your erewith submitted. last returns received at rising One forge for morly the First Alabama artillery of colored troops, under the command of Second United States light battalion of the Thirteen! commanded by Major A. the ranking ; ON@ section Of the ‘and one (white), Mi Booth wae and was in command ‘Othe fort. On Monday, the 12th of Apri, the anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter, in April, 1861, the pic! oft the garrison were driven just before sunrise, that being: the first intimation our forces there bad of any nine on the part of enemy attack the place, goon beoaime general, and about i ‘Clook - | ford succeoded to ‘the command and withirew all the forces withio the fort. previously ovony some iutrencuments at some distance from the fort and farther from the river. The fort was situated on a high bluf, which } bushes + river on either side of | ascended precipitately to the r the bluff oo the river side be id falion timber wi iver's edge, the ridge of ug cove) ith trees, Extending back from the ' rt was aravine or hollow, | the one below the fort containing several private stores , aad some dwellings, and some gover Nai { containing comunigsary stores, She varie: above. the The ravine above fort, however, was kuowo as Cold Bauk Rayine, the ridge being covered with treos and bushes, To the right | or below ana little to the trout of the fort was a level piece of ground not quite #0 elevated ag the fort iiself, on which haa been erected some log huts or shanties which wore occupied by the white troops, and also used for Within the fort temis had hospital and otber purposes been No troops. wi conatet ‘The rebels continted three o'clock im the Gix-poundera, Shenpere, and tern ten ounear Partie. lor Parrou orected, with board floors, for the use of the colored ‘There MX pieces of artiliery im the fort, pounder pound ts, thoir attack, but up to two or Afternoon they had not gained aay ve success. Our troops, both white and fought moat bravel Beat No. 1, Now wa Captela baardbedh tock pace te conflict, sbolling the enomy as nity offered. Sekinyare rose e moet savive thee boing Tat cae quabens inece, mo That LMA, toleration of the captere ine, make Qppearance in the otber ‘Your committee casest olese ‘Tepers without the thus and retire an the gunboat moved pressing their obligations ts the ofleors'et the avy and trom one point to the other. yah te About one o’oleck the Gre om both sides slackoned | the assistance they rendered. It is your commitice gpmpwhet, and he cuabens mazed, eat in the civer te were furnished of, Heo ooslarty of Wee with the fullest } to their e the te ‘would’ lend. (0 prope lf i | OS a would not surrender. | of stalf, - k, Un v ing the rebels wore Flest Captate of the Missiaippl ordnaron, Onptain Sauce plundering the gov: ce Ocers in comamtad of the tia Marsball te convey iy Chad roto oY Hetirhie Ganarl cre Wesbbiirne, and the offoors, of ¢ be commit: sre jpgebted for and attoation. which te Med. a titre; be Adopted by the comaittcs as their sport ¢ He determined to BF. WADE, Ubairmaa, in sbelling out tho ve range POINT LOOKOUT. running down the themselves behind trees under the brush, some leaving only their heads above down under the bauk. Thon followed a scene and urder without parallel tn civilized warfare, whiok needed but the tomabawk and scalping knife to How the Prisoners Employ and oxcoed the worst atrocities ever committed by savages. The rebels commenced sa indiscriminate Amuse Themselves, slaughter, sparing neither age nor sex, white or a foldier or‘civiliam, The officers and me soomed (0 vis am ae, ae with each other in the devilish work. Men, women and even ohildren, wherever found, were deliberately shot down, beaten and hacked with sabres, Some of the children, not more tou yoars old, were forced atand up and face their murderera while bei sick and wounded were butchered without mercy, rebels evou Regie | the hospital buildings and dragging them out to be shot, or killing them as they lay there, unable to offer the least resistance, All over tho hillaid the work of murder was going on. Numbers of our men were collected together in lines raph api and deliberate- ly shot. Some were shot while in the river, while others, on the bavk, were shot and their bodies kicked into the water, many of them still living, but unable to make oxertions to save themselves from drowning. Some of the rebels stood upon the top of the hill, or a short distance from ita side, and calied to our soldiers to come up to them, and a: ¥ approached shot them down in cold blood, and if their gunsor pistols miased tire, forcing them to stand thore uuttl they were again prepared to fire. ‘a All around were beard ories of ‘No qaarter,”’ “No quarter,” “Kill the damned uigge:s,” “Shoot them down.’’ All who asked for mercy were answered by the most oruel taunts and sneers. Some were spared for a time, only to be murdered under circumstances of greater cruelty, No cruelty which the moat flendish maliguisy could devise was omitted by these murderers. Ove white soldier, who was wounded io the leg so a8 to be unable to walk, was made tostaud up while his tormentors shot him.’ Others who were woucded and unable to stand up were beld up aud again sbot. Que negro, who had been ordered by a rebel officer to hold his horse, was kilicd by him when he remonstrated. Another, @ more child, whom an officer tad taken up behind him on hix horse, was seen by (Chalmers, who at once ordered him to put bim down and shoot him, which was done. ‘The buts and teats in which many of the wounded bad sought shelter were set on fire, both that night and tbe next moroiug, while the wounded were still in them, those ouly escaping who were able to got themselves out, or who could prevail on others leas injured to help them out, aud even some of these shus see cing to escape the flames were mot by these rui und vrutaily shot down, or bad tueir brains beaten out. One mao was deliberaiely fastened down to the tlor of a tent, face upwards, by means of nails driven through ile clotbing und iuto the boards under him, so that he not possibly escape, aud then the tent wes set on fire. Another was natled to the side of a building outside of the fort, and then the buildmg set oa tire and burned. The charred remaiws of five or six bodies wore after- wards found, ail but one so much disfigured aud con- sumed by the flames that they could vot be identified; aud the identification of that one is not absolutely cer taic, aithongh there can hardly be a doubt it was che body of Liontecant Albertson, Quartermaster of the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry, and @ native of Tenoessee Sevoral witnesses who saw the remains, and who were personaily acquainted with him while living here, testified that it was tueir firm belief that it was his body that was thus treated. These deeas of murder and cruelty closed wheu night came ou. only to be reuewed the next morning, when the demons carefully sovght smong the dead lying «bout in all directions for any other wonnded yet alive: and those they found wore deliberately shot. Scores of the dead and wounded were found there the day of the massacre by the men from some of our cunbo.ts, who were per-, mitted to go on shore and collect the wounded and bury the dead. The rebels themselves had made a pretence of Darying @ great many of their victims; but they bad merely thrown them, without the least regard t> care or decency, into the trenches avd ditches about the fort or the little hollows and ravines on the Rillside, covering them but partially with earth. Portions of beads and faces, hands and feet were found protrading through tne earth in every direction; and even when your commiitee visited the spot, two matter wards, although purties of men had been sent on shore from time to time to bury the bodies unburied and rebury the others, aud were even then engazed in tbe same work, ‘we fo the evidences of this murder aud cruelty still most pa: fully. We saw bodies still unburied, at some distance from. the fort, of some sick men who had beea met Seeing from the hospital, aud beaten down and cruelly murdered, and their bodies leit where they had fallen. We could’ stil see the faces and hands and feet of men, white and black, Protruding out of Ube ground, whose graves had not been reached by those engaxed in’ reinterring the visting of the massvore; and, although a great deal of rain had fallen within the preceding two weeks, the grouad—more especially ou the side and at the foot of the blu, where che most of the murders bad been committed—was atill discolored by the blood of onr brave put unfortunate men, and the logs aud trees showed but too plainly the | evidences of the atrocities perpetrated there. Many other iustapces of equally atrocious craelty might be onumerated; bat your committee feel coni- pelled to refrain from giving here more of the heart- sickening detatin, aud refer to the statements contained im the voluminous testimony herewith submitted. Those statements were obtaiied by them from eye witnesses and sufferers, many of them as they wore examined by your committee were lying upon beds of pain and sui- fering, some so feeble that their lips could with diificulty frame the words by which they endeavored to convey some idea of the crueities which bad veen inflicted on Point Lookout ts a neck of land im St. Mary’s county, Maryland, at the confluence of the Potomac river with the Chesapeake bay. Before tho war it was a summer resort of gome note, but is now, and for the last twelve months has boen, a depot for rebel prisoners. The fol- Jowing is a brief description of their camp aud matiers of interest connected therewith:— ‘THE PRISONERS’ CAMP, whioh is located about haif s mite from the landing place, ts a rectangular shaped lot of about thirty acres, eucloaed by a high fence, having a causeway along its outer (a0, {rom which the guards overlook the prisoners. On euter- ing one sees only a confused mass of tents and houses, and men hurrying to and fro, and hears a medley of sounds not unlike the hum of a city business street; for the eutrance gate opens upoa a piaza or main street, running the Jongth of the lot, on which are situated the cookhouses, commissary building, sutler’s store and post office. Around these crowds linger from reveille to retreat. Into this street empty, at regular intervals, cross atreets, leading the width of the lot, and along them on either side, arranged witn military exactness, the dwellings of the prisonera—tents or crackerbox houses. At the foot of these strects is s narrow walkway, parallel with the main street, (rom which three patha lead to the beach Of the Obesapeake through uarrow gateways in the feuce. The gates remain open during the day, but are closed at nightfall, The camp is kept dry and oloan by moans of numerous ditches and sewers, ali emptying lato the bay. THE HOSPITAL, in the south end of the tot, consists of a double row of large wall tents, each provided with stoves, plank floor- ing, beds and bedstords, &o. The arrangements for the comfort of patiouts are ample. CAMP GOVERNMENT. The camp !s laid off in divisions, of which at present there are seven; and each division comprises teu com panies of a hundred meu each, thus making a tnousend mon toa division. Each company is governed by a sor geant, who attends to cleansing his part of camp, calling the roll, reosiving and deliveriug letters, aad conducting his company to meals at proper hours. Besides, he is the medium of communi! - cation between officials outside and prisoners within the enclosure, There areno Union officers of aay rank who have offices inside the prison gate excepting tho commis- sary, who simply issues rations to the several cook houses. Daily visite are made to the hoapital by the Union surgeon in charge, aud the camp is inspected datly by the officer of the day; but besides these and occasional visits of the Provost Marshal or his assistants, to distri bute boxes or money letters, all else is managed by rebei sergeants aud dotails, without) interference from suy quarter. REREL RESIDENCES. Moat of the prisoners occupy the tents furnished them, whion are regularly arranged along each side of the Streets. Tho aristocratic and wealthy, however, occupy comfortable looking houses, made of cracker boxes. These for acamp are commodious and geutes!, some costing as higt as twonty dollars, Some are marked with high sounding names, such as “Virginia Hall,’ ‘Louisiana Hall,’ “Kidon Hail; others are unique, ax ©The Rebet Retreat,” “Rebel Den,” or the like; and again an attempt at fon, as @rough drawing of a dilapidated quadruped, with the inscription “Here's your mule,” and uext to it Sambo’s white eyed, open mouthed caricatare, inscribed “Here's your Rider.’ HOW AND WHAT THE PRISONERS Kar. There are half a dozen cookbouges, piatn board build fogs, cach with tts long eating room, with four or dive tables down its length, and » smaller back room or kitchen. Each house can feed about five bundrod at a time The menial work in them is performed by voiua- seer detatis from camp, and x “position,” as it i® called is esteomed 80 bich!y that nomination for a vacagcy easily commands (rom five (o ten dollars. A rebel sor Reant superintends each house. The table furnitures is extremely primitive—tin cups acd plates, Tbore are two meals per day. Nor broukfast each prisoner bas @ tin them, and which they bad seen inflicted on others, cup of coffee, with the addition of @ spoonfur of In refereuce to the fate of Major Brad(ord, wuo was in | Molasses once, or sometimes twice, @ week, and command of the fort when it was captured, aod who bed | for dinner a ploce of mest, either pork. pickled eet or up to that time received no injury, there seems to be | {resi beef, the size of the piece varying [rom a quartar a pound weight, and either cotteo— no doubt, The general understanding everywhere for breakiasi—-potate svup, carrot seemed to be that be bad been brutally murdered | same in quantity the day he was taken isoner. How | soup or bean soup; eather of the latter a ptat to the many of our troops thus fell victims to the maliguity | man. When meat and cofive are provided afew Irish and barbarity 0° Forrest and his followers cannot be deff. | powatoos are added. Of course bread part of the ra tions; but it is tasued (o the company <ergeanta, who dea: It out, a loaf to each man. The loaves weigh vine or ton ounces, Sgmetimes crackers are issued instead of soft bread—ume aday per mao, The cooks and ali cook howne servants are allowed three meais a day, aad are Not restricted asto quantity, This accounts for the fact that ‘positions’ have a money value. “PLANKING From the above it will be readily believed that dishoa- est efforts are constantly being made by some prisovers to get more to eat than is provided. When suoh succeed Mt ja called “flanking,” and may be effected ia u variety ways. One may at mealtime report himseif sick, aud Ddespeak an allowance to be brought to him, bit in the meantime glip to the cookhouxe and seaure bis share, or he may got bis share at bis proper piace at table, pocket Wand move aloug with the incoming crowd to another Pace, and thus secure another share: or, again, through connivance of compsny sérgeanta, one may muster on {wo company rolls and draw two men’s rationa. DETAILS. But an honorable way (or one to increase hia rativaa is open in the shape of details for work tm or oe camp, if latter, for repairs of roads, constructing wharves, woloading yessols, cutting wood and the like. ‘Those details work almost daily; but to get on them Ia 90 easy matter, being so much in demand that mavy a poor fellow 2 has often to exercise hie wits and le petieuoe to get the privilege ing a day for @ plug of tobacco, & piece of meat and an armfulof wood. The wood, how , in quite valuable. One day last winter a hearty, detail man brought in enough on tis shoulders at nitely ascertained. Twe olficers belonging to the garri- son wore absent at the time of the capture and inassacre of the remaining officers; but two are kuown to be living, and they are wounded aad now in the hospital at Mound City. Oue of tnem, Capi. Porter, may even now be dead, as the surgeons, when your committee there, expressed no bope of his recov from three hundred to four bund: been killed at Port Pillow, of whom at least three han. dred were murdered io cold bieod, alter the fort was ia possession of the rebels and our men bad throwo down and ceased to offer resistance. Of the hospitals at the ded examined aman, Mr. McLagav, who had been . onscripted by some of Forrest's forces, but who, with other con- ecripts, bad succeeded in making bis po. He teatiies that white two companies of rebel troops, with Mayor Bradford and many other prisoners were on their march from Browosvilie to Jackson, Teanessec, Major Bradford was taken by five revels, one ao officer, ied about fifty ards (rom the line of march and deliberately murdered i view of all those assembled. He fell instantly, killed | by three masket bails, even while asking that his life might be spared,as be had fought them manfelly was deserving Of @ better fare. The motive for the mur- der of Major ford seems to bave boen the simple fact that, although a native of the South, be remained loyal to his government. ‘The testimony herewith submitter contaios many | one turn to sell for sixty dollars (rebel currency). sites ayo orl ot hat ad Taipan Asp waxorucrvie, Southerners, any better tha vegre trope. There is sue | iq ie,ingeulous contrivances made by the prisousrs are im consideration of the scant moans for making are another illustration of the time honored interestin, them, adage, “Necessity is the mother of invention.’ They con- circumstance connected with the events herein narrated, which your committee cannot permit to pass unnoticed, Tho testimony herewith submitted discloses this mosi | sist ot wasting bubs: worden halle ound awe tevin atounding and shameful fact. On the mormug Of tbe } Deas, kor Ate Doue footnpickn, bone "and gutta percha day cay - she gual some quite handsome, and held at prices, and ture ings Sitver Cloud, No. 28, the trausport Platte Valley and the | 6 verlrable steen engine, made by & Georgia soldier, and ‘the Era, No. 7, landed at Fort Pillow, under which works ite arnall rn of truce, for the’ purpose of. receiving the foe Tre well rolpiteated. there belog © member of wounded thers and burying (be dead. While they were | ahosrran ry’ eyyc one men ee eee ee Tying there the rebel (ovetal Chalmers and other rebet { uoemakers’ tailors’ and barbers bea aficers came. down 0 the landing, 0d nome of thom : ae voneaner. Notwithstanding the evidences of rebel sicocity and | 09 Not imagine, becauso it is a rebel camp, that redei barbarisy with which the ground was covered, tore were | Shinplasters are more valustje than greeubacks. On the some of our army oficers on board tue Platte Valley ao | Soatrary. the latier are vary Linsly Tet or some, lost to every feeling of decency, honor and self respect, ud wi to make themselves disgencefully couspicuone in Indeoa, will not take the rebel currency at sny price, most receive it at the rate meationed. There ina however, which is just as much 4 (backs; Viz:—'*Hard tack’? (erackors) and tobacco. Of the former is oquivaient to a chew of the latter, and of iment or other merchantable art! oles are valued at so many “hard taoks’ or as many chews of tobacco, EATING MOUSRS AND ACPRESHMENT STANDS. Scattered through camp Xt intervals are tents and houses labelled “hot bread,"’ ‘pies and broad” or ‘cakon ‘aud apples.’ These supply the camp demand for the artr- bl bat occasionally ove otumbles on a sign, mitted. Your committee were uaabledo ascertain the names of the officers who have thus inflicted so fuula stala upon the honor of ow » They are assured, however, by the mililary authorities, that every offurt will be made to Ascortain their Games aud briag them to the puatshmont they so richly merit, In relation 0 the reinforcement or evacuation of Fors greenbacks, and the common lags, (be andtstingushed Mase, must needs oouteut Lhemselves with gov Spiraea 2 4 gout with «bot a: m Dine, u i f t wal itsiel H il 2 Ta i i tel af 3 i i Be ht i 4 te tu 3 i iti z E i i Hl H ill g & i ag 4 e iF li i il | A E | i E i [ [ i rf i t H HF f 3 if i A i E i & i i : i i i , a ul which resemblea in many respects the old Street Comanie- sioner dispute betweea Deviia and Coaover, end which promises to give rise to quite as muoh excitement as tess famous controversy occasioned. There may a0t be the aame amount af the vis physica developed; for tho folly of auch proceedings was too clearly demonstrated at thas time to reader it at.all probable that the aame game wil be attempted in this now instance. But the tenacity of tho present belligerent parties, At is beHeved, will not be a whit the leas marked, nor will the interest ameng ebetr subordinates be the lees intense, ‘The partics to this fresh metropolitan sensation are two of the present Tax Commissioners, Josiah W. Brown and Amor J, Williamson, ou the ove hand, aad Comp troller Brennan, Senator Cheis. Woodruff and George &. Purser on the other hand. It appears that the term for which the Tax Commissioners were appointed, in 1659, expired at noon on Wednesday, and Comptroiler Breanaa, et yxorciae of what he conceives to be a power com. ferred upon him by iaw, bas sppointed a new Board ef Commissioners, retaining one of the old incumbents, Me, J. W. Allen, and substituting Senator Christian B. Weed- ruff and George H. Purser in the place of Messrs. Amog J. Williamsoo and Josiah W. Brown. The new sppoiat- ments were made by Comptrelier Breonaa at noon yester. day, and Messrs. Allen, Woodruff and Purser were tm- modiately sworn into office. Shorty after receiving their certificates the three new appointees procesded to the office of the Tax Commission- ors, aod informed Messrs. Williamson and Brown of their ‘appoiatment, demanding at the same time possession of the office, books and other symbols of authority. Mose, Browe and Williamson refused to accede to this demand, and declined to recognize the new claimants ja any maa- ner whatever, basing their action upon what they assert to be a fair construction of the act under which they wore appointed in the year 1959, the first section of which provides as follows:-— Immediately upon the passage of this act there shall be appointed by the Comptroller of the ojty of New .¥¢ three commissioners, who shall form a board, and .be designated Commisstoners of Taxes and Assessments (or tho city and county of New York, who shall hold ther offices fur the term of five years. and until others are ap. pointed iu their places. Any vacancy in said Board of Commissioners, from death or resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by said Coraptrolier for the balance of the term for whic such Commissioners are appointed. Under this section Commissioners Williamson aa@ Brown hold that until the passage of a new legislative act appointing a new board they are entitled to hold over, and (nat a0 power of appointment is vested in the Comp: troller. ‘be act of 1859, they consider, only conferred the power of appointing the old Board, or of ftvng vacea- cies theretu, which power was erhausted by Comptroiier Haws when be appointed Messrs. Williamsoa, Allee and Brown w be the three Commiesioners. The expiration of their term of office does not create what the law regards aud under the clause that « shall oid thetr offices for the term of five years, uote others aco appotuted in their places,” they maintain thas they are still, de facto and de jure, the only persons who cao exorcise the duties of Tax Commissioners. So muo& for thes one sided view of the difficaity. ‘The sew Commissioners, as a tnatter of course, take @ vory diferent view of the law and justice of the case. Thew chief arguments may be summed up into two pre positions — Fer Comptroller, py implication. bes tae according to the langumge of the statute of 1869; and, we ut—That, admitting that tho Comptroller ts sot clothod with full powers by that statute, he has still the right co make the appoiutments under the general rule ob- served in the construction of sack statutes, to wit: that wher officers are appoint astated term, and no pre- ‘ision {x raade for the appointment ot het’ success the power of appointing the successors shall be ml iu the person under whom they hold as eub- ordinates In the latter view of the case the Comptroller woul@ btedly bave the power ———- the new Com- jwuers, iasmuch as they ate coming under bis supe: vision, and hold, in a measure, ag subordieates of tho Finance Department. The meeting between the contestants yesterday wes oveble and friendly. Messrs. Williamson aod Rrowa were co.rieous, but Orm. Messrs. Purser, Allen and were equally polite and determined ia their . Both sides al from Teaort to domineering. The only sembiing iv any mapoer @ beilicose proceeding was oe vesioned by a very pointed question put by Mr. tone! y gentlemen? We claim to be the truy aod rightful Commissioners, avd intend to be recog- uited a2 such and to act as such. ham gry a aa yee 4 oe and assume full authority and charge et ottive””” “Why, have you removed, of course,’ answered one of tue old Commissiouers, very emphatically. “Wail, | claim to be one of the Tax Commissioners, and assume to act as. now,’ Mr. Purser. He did not add -+Will you bave me removed?” but the mean- tog of bis language was unmistakable, (he oid Commissioners made no answer. The question was ssockdologer. They did not care to moet it atthe moment, ani so the interview ended, as it (oe courteous maoner. The new Commissionors wi lwaving Movare. Williamson and Brown ia possession ad Mr Afen roturned shortly after and bad a conversation with bis old associates, who stated that they were about to lave « meeting, and asked him to participate init. Te this proposition Mr, Allen objected, believing that it was only a device to entrap hit into a legal recognition ef their statue. Mr, Allen is the only one of the Commis- Stoners who stands in a safe position. Whichever way the contest may be decided he is sure to come out um- acatbed — {f the ofa Commissioners suoceed in the he is to an one of them. If the new itoos even ty ‘wilt hold office with them, under the: troller. Allen is the oldest member of the formerly Comamissioner, previous to his appointment ss Oorpore- toe Attoroey under Mr. Busteed. Ua AT pd PI vowed 6 Sa iv cy Ll Nati [a4 or ha tonpueaiie, who was ‘one bert T. Haws—who reappointed ‘them for another full term. At the last session of the ro Messrs. Ll id ee re bad for the agria amended, this time w; tha provision pits ephond fn office antil 1869, and aled ing for giving®ack erecting power, to the a of terwards. Thus we gee the same fas two difforent times of bestowing the power ment upon very diferent officials, fhe thie erent contradictory condact is ‘rho would appoint a nate Board et Commissioners.” 10 ay \ ‘om tho. ide of vhe old Board there ia. aald tore hie . FS a: «