The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

FEDERAL ATROCITiES.

(From a Correspondent.)
I send you a statement of occurrences now going on in the
United States, which for barbarity exceed anything within
my knowledge. The extracts enclosed are from Louisville
(Kentucky) papers of July 20. And for what are these
defenceless women and children deported from their homes
and placed either in a wilderness at the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi River (where nothing lives but alligators or snakes),
orsentoaf sustenance
mongaho
and n
hostile people
possibility in the North, without the
means
of getting any em-
ployment? Their attachment to the Southern cause, their
refusal to take the oath of allegiance to the infamous des-
potism of the North, has caused this treatment. Think of
refined ladies and tenderly nurtured children being exposed
to such horrors. The stories of Russian and Austrian
atrocities in bygone days pale beneath the merciless inge-
nuity of Yankee tortures. Our people wage this war of in-
dependence upon civilised ideas of war, presuming that the
non-combatants should be left in their homes without the
infliction of punishment upon them for mere opinion. The
Yankee has violated every rule of warfare, and daily prac-
tises most horrible atrocities which you do not hear of. I
give you an extract from a private letter from Kentucky :--
"Johnston has retired step by step before Sherman until
his advance is now near Atlanta, but his course is marked by
devastation and death, and his army, daily weakened by
assaults of the rebels, is only kept up by constant reinforce-
ments, and we are all calmly waiting to hear that he is
overwhelmed. The acknowledged loss of the army is
40,000 since it first marched againt Dalton. The real loss
is far greater. Some of Sherman's officers now say he dares
not retreat, as it would be worse than a 'Moscow.' The
war is daily assuming a more savage character. If men are
killed or robbed by roving bands, perhaps of mere robbers
of either army, at once orders are sent here to forward so
many prisoners to that place, and they are then hung on
the same spot without trial. This has been done twice in
four days. Sherman forwarded 249 women and children
from their homes to be sent north of the Ohio, utterly desti-
tute, to go among those who hate them. 29 women and
children, refined ladies, came on the 19th, were put in the
military prison that night, and forwarded the next day down
the Mississippi to the extreme limits of the Gulf of Mexico,
to dwell with alligators or to die in the swamps. And the
crime of the Southern women was in aiding the rebellion in
which their fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers are meet-
ing this brute in deadly hostility. I send you this slip with
their names. My blood boils, and my cry was, oh, that I
were a man to meet such dastardly villains, who thus war
upon delencel ais women and children! And Christian Eng-
land, once so ready to rush like a knight errant in aid of the
downtrodden, stands quietly looking at these atrocities per-
petrated against a gallant race for maintaining their inalien-
able rights against the fanatical descendants of those who
murdered Charles I."

If this lady had been discovered in writing this letter she
00 would have been sent among the alligators in the wilder•
ness. One of the extracts I enclose you is from the regular
Administration organ. Tho editor must be a demon. Ho
coolly speaks of ladies punished with ouch cruelty as "on a
journey for their rights." The facts are horrible, and re-
quire no comment :

"ON A JOURNEY FOR TnEnt R mwrs.'—ln compliance
with tho recent oraer promulgated by General Sherman,
requiring all disloyal citizens within the limits of his
division who were not willing to live under and abide by
the laws of the Federal Government, to be sent to a
country where they could enjoy free thought, free speech,
and free actions, in accordance with their principles and
love for the rebellion, the following named persons arrived
in this city yesterday evening, under guard, from the front
—Mrs Susan Birchfield, Peter G. Birchfield, James T.
Birchfield, Nancy E. Birchfield, Mary J. Birchfield, Mrs
Eliza Jolly, and Mrs Jane Call, Murphy, Georgia; Mrs
Sarah M'Guff, Miss Susan M'Guff, Miss Priscilla M'Guff,
and Mrs Mary Braketield, Bradley, Tennessee; Mrs Shoe-
maker, and Mrs Core and three children, Calhoun, Georgia ;
Mrs Sarah Correlle and six children, Hamilton, Tennessee.
They wero assigned quarters in the military prison last
night, and to •day will be placed on board of transports and
sent down the Mississippi river. We are not fully advised
as to the point of their destination, but presume that they
will be landed on the south-eastern shore of the Gulf.—
Administrative paper.

ARRIVAL OF WOMEN AND CitiLDREN FROM THE SOUTH.
—The train which arrived from Nashville last evening
brought up from the South 249 women and children, who
are sent hero by order of Gen. Sherman, to be transferred
north of the Ohio river, there to remain during the war.
Wo understand that there are now atNashville 1,500 women
are to be sent to this place to be sent North. A number of
destitute condition, and who
edm childrenw ere enwg
ahgoead.r
Ili. n
thea very
capturedpaladceestwitaustecondition, having no means to pro-
vide manufactories at Sweet Water at
by our forces. These people
I'L;eorimbsaellnse'ent down the Missis.
Why they should be sent
themselves a support.
under-
stand. Tuesdayla more than we can
and children were received
hvat the time
eemt
for
omoo
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transferred
night
24 North
women
point
at the barracks from the front. They were arrested and
districtvi no
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of
,Generalaj
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Theye rnse rNa
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charged with having
d from headquarters,
Mexico, and to ba transferred from
country.BthiPePithey are to be sent we have
not yet learned.—Louisville Journal
_Democratic.
Kentucky is under martial law and ruled by military des-
potism. No one dares to speak out against these barbarities.
river t o theTo Gulfwha to f
Such a course would bring down upon the offender the
same punishment. Sherman seems determined to carry out
his infamous proclamation of last April, when he said that
so far the United States Government had kindly allowed
the rebel women and children to occupy their houses, but,
if there was not a speedy change in the sentiment of the
country, he irould not only take "way their
property
and
give it to loyal inhabitants who might come in to settle the
country, but he would also deport the disloyal inhabitants.
The only remedy for such disloyalty waa to exterminate
the population and import bettor inhabitants from other
countries.
August 13.

The Sleswig-Solstein Complications,
,____

T Austria is for esta-
blishing heFre
Holstein a provisional govern.
went composed of an Austrian commissioner, a
Prussian commissioner, and a Federal commissioner.
in smideeenwb igla.tt says that
Sleswig would continue to be exclusively occupied
,
mb by
nAt su chargedtcs Pru
s 8
withia the o o
nps ,execution,
Hanover, and Saxony, would each furnish part of
the corps occupying Holstein. During the settle-
ment of this matter the discussions between the
journals of Vienna and those of Berlin are proceeds
tr
while
the four Govern.
Prussia Austria
ing with great vivacity, the first insisting on the
preservation of the rights of the Germanic Confede.
ration, the second delighting to note the faults by
which the secondary States of Germany have
rendered themselves unworthy, in their opinion, of
participating at the present time in the triumph
obtained by the military successes and diplomacy of
the two Great Powers. The Northern Gazette of
Germany makes itself especially remarkable by the
extreme violence of its language. In speaking of
the occupation of Lauenburg by the Hanoverian
troops, it asks what result it can hope to attain
by this offence directed against Prussia. ,4 we
cannot see any," it says, " unless it be desired to
induce the German Powers to oppose themselves
more seriously than hitherto to this arrogance a,
the individualism which borders on frivolity." 1