The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1865, Page 1

‘ther Postpone the Trial. WIRZ’S LETTER TO GENERAL WILSON, We States that He was a Too) in the Handa of His Superiors, His Wish to Leave the Country Under a Sate Conduct from General Wilson. Testimony of the Former Rebel Commander au’ Physician of \ The Barbarous Treatment of Our Soldiers Ex- posed by the Coniederates of Wira. Seventy-five Por Cont of Those Who Lied Con'd Rave Seen Saved. & Re. ke. Wesnmoror, Augnnt 24, 186) The Wirz Commission met al mon. Jndge Advocate Carman asked the prisoner if ne bad dounsel. Loms Seuane, Beq.. ) sonal explanation, He + counsel with Messrs. Hugt gentlemen bad bad the ease in hand three or four weeks; but he was not so fortunate, having been called im ala Jat hour, They had withurawn and left him all ston Why they bad abandoned the case wae well known to e gentlemen of the Vourt. Major General Wattace replied that the Court did not know, nor was it necessary that they should know, the Feasons. Mr. Scnapr, resuming, said he would have followed them if it hud not been he bad » regard for his honor, being av adopted citizen, ike the prisoner, be would forsuke one 30 helpless, especialiy rms he believed from the testimony in his possession that the defendant wae innecent. He was atthe same ame fully convinged of his inability alone to compete ‘with the array of talent on the other si He fuliy Previated the momentousness of the issue at stake and the high responsibility which rested upon him. Por the Feasons jusi tiated he asked the Court for a postpone ment of the trial for eight days, so thet the prison might procure additional counsel, ond that the laiter might bave opportunity and time enough to inquire into the facts of the ae be did, that justice and right were the chief iugvedionts of American liberty, and that under the government and under ihe present enlightened statesman who now controlled the des:inies the nation, no citizen, however humbie, shoud be de prived of whe right of atair and impartial Wil. The resent excitement will soon pass away, and if we do# hareh thing now history, the great and impariiat judge, ‘will soon punish us for the wrong. Judge Advocate Cuirman said the Court were well ‘aware that the gentleman who had just addressed them was associated with the retiring counsel for some time. It could not, therefore, be properly or saiely presumed that he was vnivformed of the proceedings and facts in tue case, es toast Cia pam 4 notes - be was pre, arcd on with this trial. He thonght the Court Bhould ond te an issuc og ay that the prisoner Primm dont wget ‘ mye aye Mat the prisoner wey a ial; but the eoun | eel Was af the whacky oF the Prosecation ead anto What would be brought out In proo! mer, He would nt argue the motio ented itself to the die retion of the Court, Mr. Scrape appealed to the generosity of the Court for &® postponement, and hoped they would appreciate his ed permission to make a per 1d he had been engaved ax , Denver and Peek, Thove , position and the responsibility resting on hin. The Court, by a vote, ¢ ed acuinst the motion, and that the prisoner should plead. volun. nee. ©. S. Buker, Keq., who was in the court roo tecred bis services a3 axsiatynt counsel for the THE PLEAS OF PRISONER'S COUNSEL. Mr. Scape then prevented several pleas:—F rat- That the prisouer is cutitled to his discharge in conseque juyes, of the aad ai Mac of Brevet that it the of tre promise of Captain Major Genera! Wilson, in he (Wirz) would accom Purpose of givin: certain Mformation, he should not be Arrested of beld as prison r. The accused accepted the offer and claims to have been since held in vivlatiun of the pledge of his personal liberty. Second —The p denies the jurisdiction of the Court to ty bim of parges and Bpe:itications. Third—The war is d, and jaw restored, aud there is no miliary law under h he can be tried, Fourch—He moves tu quash th on the grovud of the vague ning the time, place aud yeu, Fifth—That on the ygned aud put on trial on his OF LOL yes beture « military com murrion that the commixsion was broken up Without hws agency or consent, and adjourned without « record. Having been once put in there lurges, the prooner elvizos that he whi 5 barges and specifications ness and indetinitwoess tanner of the offences ¢ August, 1865, he was or raigued again'as before, but is entitied vw the benefit of apucquitial, Sixth—He claims that he shonid be dis ebarged, because he was ui officer of the so-called Southern conledcracy, and cptitied to the terms agreed 0 Between Generals Sherman and Joln-ton, which were compiled with Pott ond in accordance with which he fs ready to give his obligation in writing not to take up arins &yainst the goverum Mr. Schade ead they ‘Werw nol disposed W dincuss shese pleas now; but wished them \o go over to the bnal argument, Judge Advocate Currman desired the gentiemen, ii whey had anything to say, to do so now, There was but ene plea—the question’ of jurisdiction—which could properly go over. The others coustituted a plea in bai and should be decided before the Court could hear t ease. It wae proper that they should argue all ai thir ime, except the plea of jurisdiction, Mr, “ovap® said that if the Commission insisted on the argument before proceeding further, he must ask for an adjournment untii to-morrow, 40 ax to afford (he eounsel, Mr. Baker, who had just come in, an oppo: a, to examine the case, ir, Baker eaid that as it was bate moment sino be had anything to do with the case, the Court would readily woe that he could bave no information as io the pleas patin or the charges against the pri He bad not ‘even read the charges. He woe alm 1 te won went 10 KO On, ih view of dhe char und delay Abat had already takeu place, but be comld not think be would be doin bis duty too the prisoner $f he should attempt * to “arg pleas that he had not read. ‘This was a grave offeue charged; it aight cont the prisoner bis fife, and afier the termination of the caso yesterday, wud he might say somorsault, they oughf aot w go on Without aiording ume to the counsel.” If, however, the Court decided it hos w + Wee proper to adjourn over one day. be would prow argue the case to the best of hie ability 6 JupGr AptocaTe remarked thal the lexding coun gol Was present at the previous arraiynment= ond must be familiar with the case. Mr, BakeR, resuming, nid the prince to be dis gummed was the motion to quash the proceedings in cor sequence Of Vvaguourss aid indelniteness of the change and speciteations. The Court, howev to divobarge the prisoner on a techi ft convict bim on «och; and with the Courts consent he Would let the arguraent of the case go over wueil tne clave of the care The Junax Avvoorre insisted that the defence should @loe vp ihe plea no Mr. Senne seid he Would Waive argument «nd joiw is see at cuce on the simpl Mr. Baxwn said lie wae also ready to. put i Mat gulity alone, Af the Court would tet th 1 tae pleas go over, and thus not waste time ‘The Jupaw At ve stated be would enter a denaurr with the exception of the plew ples of not guilty the ples af argaNENt oY he Prexident, General Waiter, asked the Judge Ad Younis if he cok oo. reach the plows by # motien as well a8 & derourrer. Jevaw Avvooarr.— Vex. ‘The Presioene—A demurrer is HOt known it # court of Miia character. It is net intended for the formalities of vilvil courte, . The Jonan Avvocate ace; the suggestion, and moved - the pleag, with the exception of thas of juris. —, overruled, } Ramen hoped that if the Court at ail on the % wonld do 40 argusaent, writen or Judge Advocate, as the counsel permission for the Judge Advomte to proceed in his ‘ument on the motion fo overrule. Zetge Anvooare said that wide from the question of) n, there remained realy but fou _ First A motion to quash the charges and spoci- fications for vagueness and indefviteness Ax the Question had already been decided by the urtfon a previous occasiom he would not make any remarks upon the subject, Second. That the court constituted ‘of the same members baving taken cognizance of the case, and the prisoner having been nce arraigned and bis life put in jeopardy, therefore the Court could not now proceed toFtry the prisoner In re- ply to this Colone] Carman said fe would only read an baictal opinion from Judge Holt, the Chief of the Bureau of Military Justice, who is the law-expounder + far as the army is concerned, This opinion is, in substance, that a party who bas been arraigaed should not be re gerdec. ws baving been tried until the government has pursued the cage to a conclusion, aid he Gas been acta ally acquitied or convicted, and the judgment of the Court hax been thereon announced. There most bea formal acqnittal or conviction, The next quertion reised by the counsel for the defendant was that the prieoner shenld not be held to trial, but onght to be dissharged, —beeavse Captain "Noy oflieer of the staff of Genera) Wilken, had promised Capiain Wire that if be should give ¢ wihech be did, to Geaeral Wilson, b mnduct going and returning to | ion wae that thc ermout between Ge | Jobneon and Sherman absolved jie prisoner from the consequences of the violation « laws of in vere mneufficient supp ol it, which be had re ot before this: as brovht 1 { great his superior had Bo power to & promise of ealegnard the ottence, The plea Nive ofierr, who si to Pan RE injured ie dscover- willy of a erme takes mvans for the prisoner. It was wot od that Captain rictions even of General Wilson. Jar; (herefore the plen should be Court must bear im mind that the plea sume that there has in this cage been vietion, ‘There now remains ed on pardon, According to Archibald’s Criminal Law, the plea must set out in granted. In the abscuce of this the mune! ix, therefore, bad, It was very cer- ‘tion of the government and the opinion of General, that neither the amnesty procla- cident nor the terms of surrender be- nt and Lee, and Sherman and mm were int ‘d to pardon thoge who had been of great crimes, The laer proclamation of the lenm@shawed that these capitulstions did not work ing within their terms; else why did rm the pica of th tain ho had been engaged in the rebellion every day besieging the Pres and wsking par- dov! It would be. recollected that a judge of the United states Court had charged the ‘jury to in- quire into. offences under the rebellion, and in the criminal court of this district, the Attorney General pronounced the rebellion still existing, Suppose the xs- sassin of the Inte President had been a rebel soldier, and aiter committing the act, had escaped and returned to Johnston's army, was it supposed the terms of the capit- ulation would prevent the aesisagin trom being brought to trial Mr. Baxsr, of the counsel, supposed that, according go the vniversal custom of law proceedings, they were re- quired to say something in answer to their adversaries, } the fivst place the prisoner was an humble servant in the employment and under the orders of an officer of the soeslted Southern confederacy. —_Distasteful as it might be, we must look upon it a fact that there was a ch war for four long and distressful yeas The prisoner, he repeated, was a servant and in strument in the hands of the Sonthern authorities; as i, he bad charge of our prisoners, because it was his In defending the prisoner be’ mast do bis duty. Hefend is criminally charged with atrocious crimes which may never be proved to be facts, It weotd be a most inhuman thing to take it for granted at the threshold that be is guilty. | ‘fhe charges are merely ) paper, and it was the duty of the court to investigate and see whether they are trae. dt was alleged that he, a an individual, ‘starved the T prisoners. His vonnsel deny that’ he did it at alt; but he was there, The Hi visoners were starved; some came away and som: returned, Would avy member of the eourt Vientenant or major gen- eral army should be held y inbunal for every ontrage and ine erhap: xx he bad their very eves, In-ome instances (hey might, but not for all the atrocities, ‘The charge against the privoner iy that he committed these acts, Ht cue ball of what ix alleged against the prisoner ‘honid he proved true he shoold sufler 10 the Fillextent of Gwe law. The prisoner was invited to com jon dines and was mnived he should bi io depart. What iticwtion cond ther jon of the neages ‘ized warfare! Where would they find the pledge ‘of of os commanding otteer womid? The Judge Advocate Wad raid a congnanting, gemeral ¢an vieiwie or wt wide hie urduct dub oie any com. minting deservny are, xhould iwvite an humble servant to within his janes aad Should violate his promise of sa and hold him as 4 prisoner, and try him for murder, would .t not be one of the mot atrociony violations of the rales of War and of good (aithY Where did the Judge Advocate get his arity? Certainty not hooks or under the authority of the United State was one of [he ports of the defence, Thi held wrong y. The counsel would with respect, The prisoner way enticed vilhin Our Hines amd the pledge xven him broken, ‘There might vtbeer breaking his pledue, but this inure to the benefit. o: the accused, The | arned ad exte compared the briny ing of the prisoner, under pro ed, inio our line, te & con- who holds fore & inagistrate him for d certainly the | gentle wo Muy eas wos tow and gre! € ition; bie the ditfeully in the first ease is hal the magisirate tas ahi to make thie mise, and wo right break | it; in the second, a commanding general has the right to { make the promise, and then according the law of God snd man he'is required to respect it, As to plea of the - uconstitutionality of Lying # nian aiter being put on his tia , he would not argue ihe point. He Ki not be twice pat in jeopardy of bis tile, If the Court should comenr in bis pleas he would be gratified, if not he would be couteut to go ow with the case. THE PLRAS OVEERELED, ‘The court was cleared for deliberation, and when the duors were reopened it was announced by the President thal Use Court overruled Lhe pleas, except as to jurisdic argued, 1 ibe yeneral issue, ams. ee Advorale Cuarmax—The Court ig now ready to go on with the case, ‘The mlex adopied by the among other things, that the Lour of meeting shall be ten ALM, aud at one oelock «javes vill two; that the ex- amination of witnesses stall be by one of the Judge Ad- Vorates and one of the counsel for the prisoner: the argu iments vo ovclipy five minules on each side. The Jovew Av said he wonld offer in evidence a fetier daied Anderson vil , October 9, 1864, and signed by the ae: BXAMINATION OF MR. MARTIN B. ROBINSON, Hartin E, Robinson having been sworn, testified that he ie a clerk w the miliary commossion: the letter wax shown to the witness; this he said was the letter he ex hibited to the prisoner at the Old Capitol last Sanday, the first time Le ever saw him; he asked the prisower ou that occasion whether Liat was the letter which he wrore to | General Wilson; the priconer replied that it was a copy, | a irne copy, of the one which sas gent The Court overruled ag objection when the letter was read, #« follows: Aswearsoneriin Ga, May 7, 18865 Hever atenit le with grea. reluctance that 1 address you thew lines, belug lilly awase Gow ifttle time is left you to sitend vo such matters ast pow have the honor to ley before and if i ny ob Not guilty of art were read, providing, ie by Mr. Maker, mala see an not intrude other way le sevomp! ae Physiclan, Like hun OlLeES, J Was carried away by the 4 joined the Southern army, 4 tie battle ot the Seveu Pines, nave nearly Wont the ver of int ny fata " 8 eweral tobi bi Winn areot war, whoordered me to To Ain My health ining me, L applied fer je wens to Hurope. from whence | te } tern a a) then ordered (ore 1 pore dant of wiitlary prisom at An fu assigned ae io the command of 1 nad te per * 1 nin satisfied thar ne nn 0 auie me Cor things that Inapyveriod here, and MY Power G. comirol 1a ki wie for daa short Begs i rations; fe of the prisow, which wns in itsel rfl martality For the unideqiate anppl ent of abeller, Ae. my superiors, 1 ain 9 mann with a fauaily. Toot all ny federal army besieged Vicksburg. T bave to go lo any wd even if TL bad \ place. ‘were 1 could My life is tn det a atulty sak of You hep at rolief, Af vor a wo ec mt sortof a eafe von. and family * me whe isu) nem with any faril to Major ageers! ". , Unies army. .-" maoding; Macon, Ow Ai Wan crom-onamined by Mr. Baker Ae iss prinstins Wrncre ne Blue) Sk pI wi 3 the letiet to Captain Wies to ascertain 7 th WAS copy or ; Colonel Chipman it to bim for hat ‘net read al) of 10; only « ow overt; be did en he the prisoner iu ewear peaively oF Gar: w. 8. Koves. swote:1 am Gayton phd Adie. an ~he Court was that wh NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1865. tant to General Wilson, have seon the lotver before at General Wilson’s headquarters; an officer was sent to Andersonville and brought this paper to Geueral Wilson ; the endorsement bear the signature ef that officer. Croes-examined by Mr. Baker—-Was at the Lanier House, in Macon, when Teaw the letter; it was handed to me to read by Genera! Wilson’s Adjutant General; I returned it; this was about th tof May; L won't be ceriain; T again saw the letter within a week er two; it neral Wilson's Adjutant rand bre wnsend, th of the army; TE never saw 14 : day; I do not know whethor wis iy Capitan Wire's handwricing or uot EXAMINATION OF G. C. aunes. G_C. Gibbs, having been sworn. He had b in the army of w the Confedersl States government; Anaereony was op daty there ‘ ‘ainp Simter, (An reco mime as As ¥ 5 ib 8 ade dd by H. Win ng o com had no con. ire, Who wee the Jorsonville.) The witnes Mire had control, exelusive of him; (of Git prison when he went there; ot the witness rometioes Wore com he did uot learn whether the prisoner Whe witness visited the prison eo he was w out the middle of et last; he saw that the prisoners were very much crowded; did not ge in, but could see the interior of the rkado from the batt never saw so many in bis fe; ed furlou; men together in the 8) was more like an ant bil! than anything else; the surgeons of the prison hospital received their orders from Captain Wirz, and he had seen those issu dio them: the only instance of punishment that he witnessed was thut of a man who failed to report the 2 of a prisoner; the man was putin the stocks a little while untii the’ surgeon interfered; a “dead line’? was establisbed; he did not know .whether Wira had anything to do with its construction; the object of the dead line was to keep prisoners from approaching the ade; the stockade was built of hewed timber pro- Jjecting from the ground ten or eleven feet, and enclosed sixteen or seventeen acres of land; a stream ran near the centre of it; the stockade was surrounded vy several balteries; there were guns on on! two of the four sides; it was built as well for the security of the prisoners as to defend the place; there were twelve-pounder howitzers and aix-pounder guns, and perhaps some rifle pieces; there was an outer stockade, and ways leading from battery to battery; the witness walked into the prison very often; the prisoners at the time were comparative- ly few—six thousand or seven thousand; they were badly off for clothing and shelter; the accused told him that twelve or thirteen thousand prisoners had died there some time in the spring; Wirz was in command of the prison about one year; thirty-three thousand pris- oners were subsequently confined there; witness knew General J. H. Winder, who was at An- dersonville several months, probably in October, 1864; he commanded the military prisons east of the Missis- sippl river; Winder and Wirz were both at Anderson. ville together shortly after the witness went thith Winder left; witness knew Richard B. Winder, who was a quartermaster at one time on duty at Andersonville; he found on duty there in October, 1864, Captain Law- gon, who Was quartermaster; witnesa knew Josoph White; he was a surgeon at Andersonville; W. S. Winder was a captain and b's father’s assistant adjutant, and was alo on duty at Andersonville, but left there; R. R. ste- venson, after White left, was surgeon at that placo; he was there till the senior surgeon came in; the two Captains Winder located the Andersonville prison, pro- bably about the commencement of November or Decem- ber, 1863; dogs were kept at the prison intended for the tracking of escaped prisoners; they were subelsted on food furnished by the commissary; they were mustered in the same as horses; a man named Dunn had them in charge; the witness did not know what has become of him; he saw the instrument called the stocks; the pri- soner never told him the use of them; Wirz told him, however, of the ball and chain, and he had heard the prisoner at the bar speak of the chain-gang, and that there had been such # one. Crovs-examined by Mr. Bakke—The witness said that he thought he went to Andersonville the 10th or 12th of October last, and remained there until the 19th of th ensuing April; Wirz was there all that time, exceptin one or two days; the wituess was Wirz's saperior in ran in many respect Wirz was under his command, bui 80 far as the prisoner was concerned he v he ‘ there was food enougt to feed all; the rations server to the troops and the prisoners wore qual; be could not tell exuctly what the ration was: be did a ember even his own rat ration, however, (wel corn meal, teas (you call them beans), mola the ration’ ought not to bave varied; the requisition was made daily; witness dd pot know of any charge in the ration; ofthe quality of (he rative was mnsound, a bourd of survey could have been sumninned to condemi at. General Warnace said ik vas understood that Use wit- ness now op the stand was for the defence. Mr, BsKsa—If #0, we disiniss im Judge Advorate Cairwax— by the defendant. Mr. Bakrn—But was not put fendant, When we come to cron: We are Hot to de told that lie 1s to be considered our wit nese. [tis arbitrary and contrary to books = We are not to be switebed off and told the wirness ix our. Do you not know (to the witness) that Captain Wirz con plained to the Board on account of bad food * Jodge Advocate Orit aa< objected fy ation With closed doors, sus tained the objects Major General Watn vcr! ov the stand by the de nine the witn Court, after a delit a. on was de endant a that under winse! for the but for would not have permitted the interrogatory to be made Mr. Bakwr—Then we sirike out all qnestions asked Major General Wottacr—You cannot strike ont any. thing ma Mr Baker allow ourselves to hee trapped. veral WaLLAck—¥ it th nie hngeaee is not of the rete ams entrapping i i Vajor most respectful kind nol d tof the Conri. Taw 0° opinion itis a mis take for the defence, Mr, my mind 1 caw conecive how the Sug ate would make use of it Tho crosexamination was resumed by Mr. Baker. ‘The with «x vaid th 4 1 Anderso hooting a dead tine blished previo» ville, He did not know of Cay v at the deat line, nor did ate the prison were th , HOt Dinodhounds: p seven of them wary farm there were were kept about the eighth a nile trom prison, He Believed they part aud cel of the pr son He did know by whose y were kept ner bad charge of thom, and was acting under orders of Wirz; b ing ther self; Turner was a detailed soldier; the dogs wer: little middie sized and big; he did not know whether they were ferocious, The witness wae farther evoss-esamined. TESTIMONY OF Di, JOHN ©, baTES. Dr, Jolin ©. Hates i uby as follows: = Have resided four or tive vears in Georgin! have beep a practitioner of medicine since 1860; was an ating us sistant surgeon, called a = “eontract sureeou,”’ at the Andersonville prison; reported for duty there September 22, 1864. and Ift thore March 25, [The witness here was shown and iden titled a pass given by Captain Wirz, O-tober 17, 1864, to Assistant Surgeon Bates}. | was ordered to re port tod. H. White, ihe surgeon in charge, but hearing he was injured by a railroad accident { reported to R. R. Stevenson; on going into ward Filte n of that ho saw a number of and was rather shocked ; them were lying partially naked, nt sund, others were crowded together the ‘latter unserviceable at amined all who were placed ina investigavion of matters to make merself acquainted \ the mode of doing business, the disagrecable ia presni: at tiretn on me wore of or lese as L war he coming mv familiar with th if misery, Tin quired I felt dispose id they teaspoontiul of orders for a little sifting that e ont of , as they wanted to mal we bread: if T found something better than siftings | ved it, 1 spent considerable of my time in wrting re, the meat ration was cooked in a diferent part of the hospital; the men wonld gather round me and ask for a bone, of clothing we had none; the living were J with the clothing of those who died; there was op of vermin and lice; T understood the term rom privon experiewce, oa retiring from the hos arge: on further re fects (o the rations and talked about theru odo my duty aud aid all the sutferers t ¢ frequently asked ome for # salt, or fi bospit RUTgCOD We leave there without briny as to modival ateudsuce, | found the men destitute, aud ping vnd bering; of fel there was ouly a partial supply; ae the officer of the day, shortly after I arriv there [wae in supreme command, and it was iny business to rectify ansthing wrong; I found the men, as « general thing, destitute, partly naked, sick and diseaved. their disposition was only Ket something (0 eat; they asked moe for ordere for potatoes, biscults, siflings of meal and otber things. The followmg morning L sat down and made a report on the condition of things I found a the hospital. The report was sentup. Being a novies, for some of the things I said I revived @ written reprimand, signed by Dr. Dillard, for Dr, R, R, Stevensov. Medicines being scares, I gathered up large quantity of what were bution, as well ax to soothe she best attainable anti the alunentary canal 4 to cure compiaints of gangrene, 1 think the reports were not hooded. My attention wat called to a patieat in my ward, who was only fifteen or wixteen yeara of I took much in- terest in bim owing to hie youth; be would ank me to bring bim @ potato, bread, of biscuit, which I did; I jt thet in my pockes ; he had the scurvy and ne ; advined him not to cnok the potato, but to eat il raw; he became more and more emaciated; his sorea — nd for want of food and frow lice be died jersivod that it wae inst the orders to take avything in to the prisonern, hence J was aby in alii foot into pockets; others in aly ward cate to their deaths Gum the same caunc; when | went there thors were two thoveand or two thougand five hundred sick; I judge Petes A am he ive thounand prisoners were be ac some bad made ti fur. wot in earth; thove under r wore oon eeeeeerey wel; 1 raw but little eheter waffering 1 any, had davived, J found . taaen, when they were laid im Wagome, joad furemowt, ander | his withess wae subpoenaed | eh | 1 examined myself; it wae impossible for a | ng wome with him; | pe aod tw be carried off; T don't know how they were buried ; the efficvia from the hospital was very offensive; if by accident my hand were abraded f would not go into the hospital without putting plaster over the affected part; if persons whose atoms: were d by — inavition should — perchance stump a toe or seratch the hand the next report to me was gangrene. so potent was the regular hospital gan- grene, the privoners we fe. thickly contined in the stockads, like ante and boew, the dogs referred lo were | W Lunt’ the prigonors who éseaped: tifty per ceut of those who died inigut have beou saved; J feel safe seventy five wieht have been saved ha ‘pati been prop riy cared for; the ef- | fect of the treatment of the prisoners’ way mor- ally as well as puysieally injurious; — tbere was mueh stealing av hem, all lived, each’ for bim- | seit; Ts ppose this wa ectnduced by th vr starving condition; song the ‘condition of some of them, £ remarked tomy tudent, “L cant resaseitate them, th weather is chili an impossibility; 1 found pe sons lying dead the living; thinking | they mere them up, but found | they bad ung, this was in Ue judge it was about the ; there being no dead house | 4 tout for that purpose, but 1 soon ta Liauket oF quilt had be ud 1 clipped of the iw) could nov be readily sup- dshouse had to be abandon ouses were erected; the | ‘as Jost in Sepiomber, October, Novernber and December than it wag from the Lst of January to the | 26th of March, the men bac not over tweuty ounces of fous for twenty four hour. | Without concluding the examination the cour! at five o'clock adjourned until emorrow morning at ten 9'elock. as the mat uns, Uhe di T don’t th dail-reHion WASHINGTON. Wasninatoy, Angust 24, 1865 THE SEVEN-THIRTIES. ‘The Treasury Department had to-day forwarded to subscribers to the seven-thirty joan the last of the notes. ‘The delay was occasioned by the fact that orders for the motes came in faster than they could be printed. If any subscribers to the loan should fail to receive the re mainder of their subscriptions they should at once notify the sub-agent. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF GENERAL CROCKER. Major General M. M. Crocker stili lies dangerously ill at Willard’s, His physicians give Jittle hope of his re- covery. His wife was summoned from Iowa, by tele- grapb, two days ago. OUR DEAD AT ANDERSONVILLE. Captain James Moore returned from his Andersonville mission yesterday, The expedition, undertaken by di- rection of the Secretary of War for the purpose of iden. tifying and marking the graves of Union soldiers who died in the vile pen at Andersonville, has been a gratify- ing success. Twelve thousand five hundred graves were located and marked by neat head boards, inacribed with the name, regiment and date of death of our heroes, five hundred only being marked “ Union Soldier, unknown.” Fifty acres were enviosed by a neat fence, and several steps taken in the adornment of the forest come enclosed. The work was completed on the 16th instant, and the resting place of the brave dead informally dedicated by the raising of the Stars and Stripes neighborhood, has been ap nd Superintendent, and Andersonville Cemetery prison pen and the accessories pt intact for the ipspection of those who desi ke a pilgrimage there in xearch of the remains oi Capinin Moore reached Audersouviile on the 26th of July, after « tedious trip from Savannah, by way of Au fusca, Atlanta and Macon, with his two men (J iromediaiely commenced hie tek, The } dead were found buried in several irenches, distant about three hundred yards from the stockade, aud laid with Jo regularity, Nooe were found buried with inthe stockade, ae reports have stated, ‘The men worked with zeal, although the weather was insuflerably het, Cousideradie sickness ensued, resniting in the death of of tbe party, among them Mr &, Watts, a clerk of the expedition. Nenighted denizens of the sparsely settled forest occasionally visited te working party and expreyod surprise at sesing #0 many federals in ther veivhborhood, Improbable as it may seein, any of them could not be convinced that the confederacy was vut of existence. Captain Moore ie conv iwed that the atorics of ernelties prectisd upon Uxien prisoners at Andersonville wer: » at exaggerations, The bivodbound pen is still 4 from the stockade to the cemetery, and the green. ant, foul smetling water of the prison brook, the eran ped and wretched burrows, the dead line, the slang hter bo, refuge and miseries of the stockade, achment of forty- some Te tour ‘ standing on ihe may be inepeeted even now, Mise Clara Barton returned with thi pedition. | POOGKESS OF RECONSTRUCTION IX CRORGIA— NRGKO SUFERAGE ara nd recoastrivetion in Ww he progressing rapidly and satiefactorily to has nade speeches in different Slate since the appointment of Mr. Johnson provisions 1 hes everywhere taken ong grounds in favor of reeogaizing the abolition of tho tact that the negro is a free man, Instead of | tonight that sta present the work « all Unon a chran parts of th Governor, negro, the necessity and rightfulness of his | being adinited a competent witness in civil and im proceedings, the impossibility of colon | izing tine where against tig will, and in favor of abroguting distinetions on account of color, He ts confident the people of Georgia will accede to all ondivions and settle the principle of the negroes’ lu vole subject to sueh restrictions ay are imapera- ‘i men at present in Washington evine these right tively « ‘The Southert revcari antagonisms of race. It ix urged that if tmmediate oaf- frage were given the blacks that several of the States Would have negro majorities anc and thereby preveut white | ite emigration, and thus mi then eecntiaily uegro state government to 4 | vent this it i argued that thesnegro Southern Statee should be put on proba encouraged, and the preponderance K opuinton of the m ani inte white | gration ot | foters Insured before establiely Many far seoing Southern men recogu av on!y a question of time, and desire to | five years of flerce and needless agitation throughout the wuntry by conceding the principle now, THR AUBIECT OF PAKDONS The report first published in a New York dai'y, and subsequently copied into the Washington papers, that | Hon. John Wiison wax appointed chief of a new pardon bureau, to onganive on his return, and act under the Prest dout's iinmediate supervision, i* wholly without founda tion, Indeed it could not well be true. The Attorney | General in the legal adviser to the President, and all the Papers relating to pardone properly goto bis office before being sent to the President for approval. When signed by the President they must goto the State Department for the weal, of which the Seoretary tate inthe wole official custodian, The oontempl pardon bereaw could be gothing more than an additional desk of the At torney General's office. If the Presiden's intentions con- ceruing the future granting of pardons bave been truth. fully represented, very little necessity existe for creating new “bureaus” to expedite the business, The ques. tion not how many seta of papers can be put through in « given length of time, but rather how many of them admit of postponement, If it be urged that delay will entail suffering aud lous of pro- porty in many cases, it-may be anawered (bat the Prest- dout probably desires to punish many who deserve it in thie way, but wire would escape entirely if immediately pardoned, vert sulfrage. negro flea nviate (wenty PRRAON AL. General F. K. Spinner, of the Treasury Deparim: hes applied for four weeks’ absence, from September 4, which wil! doubtless be granted, He bas been nearly five years absent from bie and in the inet four eure avd a half hax jost wut one day from duty at this pout, lene i, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, a grandson of President Jofiernon, war among the visitors at the White House Wey, Preaident Joheses vereived hii cordialie ana g.| obtain the de thus | and oiler Georgians are in the eity | urged him to remain till the crowd departed, for & more | extended conversation, Mr, Randolpi is bale and hearty, | and apparently about sixty years of age. He resides near Charlottesville, Va., and had but a moderate com potence before the war, THE OLD GOVERNMENT PENSIONERS IN THE SOUTH. Since the close of the rebellion the old government | pensioners living in the South, whose annoities baye beon interrupted from (he inauguration of the war, are Devinuing UW make frequent and earnest application, | both in person and by agent, fora resumption of their | pensions. Upwards of fifty have already thus applied, | all anxious and confident of showing w record of clear and unquestioned loyalty As yet but two or three have deem readiniited to the stipendary the rebellion deprived | them of, and these ouly ded by indubitable proof | of their thorough fealty to the Union, It is intended to appoint new fives throughout the South a #OON ae possible, so that it will be wary for the former pensioners ot tha pore to e-vstad lish their d merely statis une section to do pendent relations upon the their ¢: agi on of the Commissioner, prorpmene {lian cies, who will PARDONS, | President Jobuvon today granted an aucondilonal | pardon to GW. Love, who, in April. 1865, was convicted by the Criminal Court of che District of Columbia, and and Sentenced te He al, nout ited pardony, under the provisions of bh late ainnesty proctaniation, to. BL Slocombe. of Lovist | goa, and Henry Taylor, of Virginta. Pi FOR INDIANS. Ex-Congresstiin ROB Van Valkenburg, acting Commis | sioner in the absence of dndge Cooley, of the Hodiv Burew?, accompauied by General Curtis, 0 Jegates appointed to visit the Northwestern Inv | left for Now York last even the pur 1 | ot Indian delegates at the approaching’ ing @ suitable assortment with ther morrow. to return to Both gentlemen are expect APPOINTMENTS, Captaly Thornton A. Jenkins has beew appointed Chier of the Bureau of Commerce and Navi qttion in the Navy Department, and will enter on its duties lo-morrow. Francis M. Gibson has been appointed Kxamining Sur geon for the Pension Bureau at New ipswich, N. H. TRE CHO) A IN SPAIN. ‘The Consul at Pert Mahon, writing under August 6, vey that the authorit es there now enfor the most rigid quarantine regulations, and that informa tion had been rece.ved that the cholera ix certainly ad vancing eastward, The accounts received a’ Port Mahon of the prevalence of (he disease at Aucoua were such as to creat Much alarm was fe@t in the Bal date ne apprehensions, ane Isha HEALTH OF BARCELONA. Information has been received at the State Depart ment from the United States Consul at Rarcetoma, thn upto the ist of August Inte of the de pateh, the health of Barcelona and that sutar district wa el upon a flagstaff erected within the enclosure. a | lent, there being no signs of the ebolera, which was pr guard bas been stationed at the cemetery. Mr. | YlMe |e nit, Aleaands sa and ebie Griffin, ap unmistakable Un man of the | “here SALES oF praise M LANDS IN MICHIGAN, ‘Yow ty bigan, land district exhibits re 1 turns fort July showing the net cash sales we been Os and that (6) aores were entered etal xottioment under the Homestead aw. MANUFACTURE OF TEMY BAGGING, anutactive of hemp bagging material in the Cen by the Jast census to be of the follow. Nuinber of establishments, 34; capiial tons of bemp consumed, 6,247; costing $80,800: namber of ev ployes, 661 mates, and 126 labor, $141,096; annual product, | 9,540,000 yards of bagging, worth $1,109,628. GOVERAMBNT BAKERIES. Capuin & © Greene, of the Pitteenth United States invested, $00! forsee RAILROAD ANU STEAMCOAT OISASTERS. Collision on the Oil Creek Bail- road, in Pennsylvania. Nine Persons Killed and Many lujured, Accident to an Excursion Train Wear Boston. Three Passenger Cars Capsized- town an Em- panhuient-sNo bi STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION ON THE Ofc RAVER Twelve Setdiers Kittle i val Ottiers Indured. ke Ae. Ate Collision on the Oit Creech Rattroad. Enum, Pa, \ucuet 26 1665 Minton beLiveen & yp aud freigh oe curved on the Oil Creck Railroad, near Tier this moruing Nine persone were killed and from ten to Afteen wounded. ADDITIONAL PARTIOUL ARS. Ku, eo) The aeldept wear Titusville w I by ihe engi- of the freight train raw upon the main trek get onthe switeh about the time the mail vain wie ‘Yhe latter, coming round aeurve, « Looe the engine unt within «a few yards of Phe two trains came together with such terrify tore ohrow passeagers from their seats and stave ap every carn ihe (rain, It is astonishing that so few were injured The following is a list of the killed and inj red. ax near as can be ascertained : . Gideon Lightall, of Betport, killed Wm. Baldwin, Jr., of Past Cleveland, kitied Filgar J. Clough, of Prod wilted instantly ¢ Greone, of Bydetown, hoth lege broken. Ove man, name unknown, killed Kiva Pratter, of Groveland, N.Y, both Jere broken; rites Raudolpiy Phit ot Hastings, Oswego conniy, NY, } tg broken af Corry, Pa, eg broken arry, brnived Marvin Dyer, Corry, br ty | One other is badly bre injured internal ys, whe refuges to give his came. } Aveident (oan Excursion Beste. | Borros, Aug (24. 180b, An excursion train filled with passengers, returnin w 1o city fast evening from 4 piomle party as 2,0 (ue Old Colony Hieload, cane ia collision wih « band car on the irack, tu which wore (wo men. ‘The euxine, tender, b moking and four pascen ger care Were thrown from the track, three of ihe le ter | be ng capsized down au embankment. They contained nearly one bundred and fly paren gere, including many ladies, who were taken oulof the windows. It was found thet less than hal: a dozen bad airy, for over four yeare asvietant commissary of sub nee, in charge of the government hukeres in Wash ington, bas iaade an official report, from whieh it ap- | pears that forty ovens were employed and a large f Kept consian(ly employed to fli requisitions from suet: bakeries as Marper’s Ferry, Frederick, Point Lookout, Aquia croek, Fortress Monroe, Ciky Point, Alexandria, Chan Unidge, Fort Runyon, Gesboro Point avd Aunapuli-, From July 18. INL to Joly Bi, 1865, the number of ratone issied irom the bekery were 49,575,798. The savings were $664,796 27. The expendiiures were #400,7 The net savinge were $257,784.22. Cap tan ne will probably be ordered to rejoin his regi- Ment at present in Georgia VHK REGISTRATION The reterne from county, Ma., stow th voters, one bundred y the regieiral LAW one pre IN MARYLAND, wt in Prince Georges YH ontof one hundred and eighty nd cbirty have been disentra Taw of that State. reom some time Chie! Quartermaster yesterday brevett ohis wION. Volonel Batchelder of the Army of ty was major, eatenant colone! and colonel ithe regalarariny, and brigadier general of volunteers NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE, John Mitehel Allowed Wath In the Oyen Atvmtiis Healt by Clone ent—The Sear Steam- rt, de. FORTRESS MONKOF CORKESE HENOF, Forrarss Moxnoe, Angus: 28, 1865 ' JOMN MITOMRE walk out of 4s ADowad toda hiv caremate for the } fit than vince bie imprisonment, Norwithxtanding ti in the belie’ that the transition from slave to free tabor seat “ee rons eonetiut bie cont nued close continement | in their respective Stetes will produce little trouble | There wite nuread repugnanee to couferring apom | NM DECNNID te affect his several heatth, He relished whi: : fiw walk ) which, tike that of Je Davie and negroes the right of sufrage: but this Mr, Clay, wae on the parapet of the fut, In all the while giving Way to one of broader statemansinp. [1 is be ’ rs nhere he has pot been balf us aluble in his bear Veved (@ be to the interest of the South to retain the | ‘ 3 dpeatiihael et pie | ing and polite and ec in speeel as during this Begroes and to guarantee them such rights and pro. | pe was 06 @nd.eo bie talk lection as will secure their friendsbiyy prevent | acantry, Byron was never more enthusiastic on oveay than be in bi NH today sarging waves—tor cH wind we deen high os took in mare ¢ Hieious respirations of the He is to be ullowed to walk every day. The ones will be such the r Jem Davie, Clay ue ke their walk at t me hour. The | ing in heal 410 1 DRO i yoy bows well as ever, His blood } Is and be i= troubled with bei | He prevent reading © “Macwuley s*History of Eng Innd.” AN ave yremily gratified at (he increased reading fac dities now aflore m eNRT SOOO eH cchooner Collaton arrived Her sails pave wher op wecwunt dis the | nel Khe had to be towed ito port, Her dat } pon be repaired, 1K SHOMRN SrPAMKY MPPORT No tidings have ye. reached here front the Bhiek | sent from here in” seareh teomer ff nothing is heard from her su dispatched to make inqiir es a lad about ten yea id, fell from (he steamer and was drowned, A government sate of two bandred horses and one hundred mules will Norfolk. The sieamer Maitano hae arrived from the Eastern shore, with passer We learn of no damage being done by the severe storm lust night, except to the schooner Kate Kallahan, The latter bad ber sale carried away, and is loaking badly. ke place on the Sst of Amgust at Jersey City News. Fine A Texewent Hooge.—Shortly alter Ave o'clock yesterday afternoon @ fire broke out in ® three story frame building occupied by sixteen families, black and white, The structure being nothing but a shell, the flames spread between the lath and clapboarding over nearly the cotire front, bat the Gremen being promptly on hand the Saw cet os ingiehed. Had the fire oocurred in the it must have been rable lose of life. The ding, which is owned by Wa. Williams, was damaged aboat two hundred detlare ‘Tas Caneve ov Hy peom Citt.—The copme of the popu- lation of Budeon Gity, which har jnat been completed, shows a total of ten thousand five Lundred aud nine, Deing ap increase of about two thourand Aine 1860, Soppms Dears.—A German, who resided with his brother-in-law, Wm. Massing, at Washington village, was found dead in hie bed 9: moruing. He re tired the Hous evening iD appareni good healih Tle reuse of bie deel) War Ro, aaseriainer aud | reeoived injunes, but none of @ serious natare Several of the cure were badly shattered, and the track torn up. Stenmbost Exp!ucion on the Ohio Hiver. Loviavinue, August 28, 1866 The steamer Argosy No. 3, Captain Vaudegeitt, trem Carro for Cincinnati, with the Seventieth Ot.o «mantry, abont three bandied stro. g, was blown ashere in «rain storm on Monday evening, near Hatfield s Landing, eighty miles below Louisville, The concussion expioded the mud-dfume, and the steam coming aft renided twelve, two of whom died, and two more are-erpected to die, Between thirty and forty jamped overboard, eight of whom were drowned. ‘The steamer Argosy Se. t—formerly « government gunbout-—Capt, Shanks, brought the regiment to tne city and transferred them io the steamer Goneral Lyttle, for Cincinnati The names of the untoriunates are:— SCALDED TO DEATH. rtin Long, Company K, and a dischorged soldier naa regiment ty DOWNED, Herman Bobians, Hugh Taylor, Aaron Fixcun Rodrick, Atmore Rose, Alfred Kater, J. WeDancet SRVERLLY CALS Wm. Egelebhot, Michael Murray, Bu: vee, Isaur Taylor. THE BRiTISH PROVINCES. Our Quehec Correspondence. Quinne, August 21, 1865, | The Camatian Substiiuie for Rerignocity— Smuggling Ba ition of Affaire Generally 9 Depreciation in Heal Estate—Insiyf cient Prew tection tw Naturalizer Cilie- You will recollect Convention binted te what ovent of the Unived St ng to re city treaty, This amounted to nothing less startling than | the throwing open of their ports and the UPA | ofemuegling Ihave it from the best authority that this io policy has already been Inaugurated, 11 i wel) wn (o the Canadian Ministry Chat smoggting i carried in almost unlimited oxtent on the frontier, and lungh at It, The other day « customs collector wsted (hat the Yankees now paid all the expense of keeping up the Canadian militia, Wonder ix not thiv measure referred to by Mr. Brown th he boasied that If the treaty was not -erument would adopt a policy more beneficial to Can- than a renewal of the reerprncity. the country bave asmumed such an the thinking. corefal rerident begina Join ». Norton Shelby, M. tthe Detroit rewalt in the ow lve Reripro rel desyi Ik | onto the: to tia his sai forthe approaching storm that be sees } not far in the distance, With heavy taxes and a pros pect of thew inerease with confederation, with a partial fclure of crops, and the genoral feeling 0. Mmaecurity that hag taken hold wpou conmercial circles, many per ons fear that n fourtul crach is at hand, Alrewdy thou wands ot f have sold out their little homesteads ett for the Far Weat Moons ww | "Real extate hae fallen soventy-fve per cent in the past Newrly ali the detachments alc Kastern Shore | eichteen months in Couadn, ae « rosuit of Lie gow counties have b brought here on the Wyoming, sent | preesion of business and the utter want ef con after them, They are to be mu tered ont the servige | the people have in their government. Take Torente and sant tome | asan example, In thatecity It is estimated there are - 1 empty Many residences of & siail The Prese Doapateh, | an be by At advance upon ta Fonrnns om, Aupiet 28, 1985, | houses brig 4 yearly renent it Posterdny Me. Join &. Wilkins, a teacher, of Norfolk, | f $000 an be bad ip Torente took tis scholars on» picnic excursion to Mandy Point, | ar oF two ago wm Amerigan Elizabeth river. As they y returning home bis son 006 in house property Toronty | year hi total income fram renu only netted tim $000 The Canadian Eragration Bureau har deserved well of the governmont for ite efforte to induce Karopean en gronts to enttle in Canada, insted of proceeding to whe Wostern States Every argument has been ued jon tho emigrants to prevail upon them to settle bere. But a decision g ister at Wa lington © few mouths ago, y te the question of emt amiion, During the passport system Sir F. Uruce de cided that the naturalization of @ foreign subject in Can win only gave bim British protection while in Cuade The coneequeuce was that naturalized foregners could not obtain passporte to vieit the United Stoter Ow Bowext.—The management of the Old Rewery theatre hae secured an excellent actor in My Whalley, who, for several nights past, has been wltracting large andionces in Characters admirably suited to hie taleats, in the Fool's Revenge and in (he King of the Commong, The summer seaveg, which usually effycts so reriouely Our metropolitan theatres, bas ag diminixhed the pa agg of (Qe old standard cetadliebgpent of the Ken Rouse is crowded every § to witnens the Adrolrebin drotleries of For, end the melodramatic edurla of Whalley, for which the auaienétappesr to enteriaim the most entire apprecietion. ‘The King of the Commons Js on the bill for the lant three mights, and will wrobebly be coptinued several more