The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 73.

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.t Head-quarters, Army of Northere:Virginia,
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, June 27.
" The Commanding General has observed with marked
satisfaction the conduct of the troops on the march, and
confidently anticipates results commensurate with the high
spirit they have manifested.
"No troops could have displayed greater fortitude, or
better performed the arduous marches of the past ten days.
" Their conduct in other respects has, with few excep-
tions, been in keeping with their character as soldiers, and
entitles them to approbation and praise.
"There have, however, been instances of forgetfulness on
the part of some that they have in keeping the yet unsullied
reputation of this army, and that the duties exacted of us
by civilisation and Christianity are not less obligatory in the
country of the enemy than in our own.
" The Commanding General considers that no greater dis-
grace could befal the army, and, through it, our whole
people, than the perpetration of the barbarous outrages upon
the unarmed and the defenceless, and the wanton destruc-
tion of private property, that have marked the course of the
enemy in our country.
" Such proceedings not only degrade the perpetrators and
our present movement.
all connected with them, but are subversive of the disci-
polfine and efficiency of the army and destructive of the ends
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volunteer troops, provoked by nearly 27 months of
unparal:elcd ruthlessness and wantonness of which
their country has been the scene, should be under
such control and willing to act in harmony with
the long-suffering forbearance of President Davis

and General Lee. Individual cases of atrocity of
course there have been, likely, if got hold of by
the Northern press, to point many an argument
from singular to universal, and to be represented us
the invariable rule of action for the rebel army.
One solitary case of rape has been reported, certain,
as the perpetrator has been caught. to be visited
with condign punishment, or, in other words,
with death ; two murderers of private indivi-
duals, an offset to many dozens of murders inflicted
with impunity by the Federals on Southerners.
Among them I may mention the case of Mr. Robert
E. Scott, of Fanquier County, in Virginia—is man
regarded on this continent very much as Mr.
Henley is in England, who, apparently to the de-
light of the Washington Cabinet, was ruthlessly
robbed and murdered by some Yankee stragglers,
and likely to be signally avenged by General Lee.
But, with these exceptions, the damage done to
Pennsylvania consists in the seizure of many horses,
cattle, stores, waggons, and much forage, in ex-
change for which Confederate money has been paid,
or, if preferred, receipts have been given in the
name of the Confederate Government. Not a barn
has been burnt, not a shed destroyed. Upon each
side of the execrable road which leads from Hagers-
town to Chambersburg, a broad track as wide as
Regent-street has been trodden down by the on-
ward line of horse and foot; beyond this, damage
there has been none, save such as is comprised in
the plucking of a few cherries from the abundant
cherry trees which grow wild in this latitude, and
the occasional larceny of a few chickens. To-day a
spectacle was witnessed, the like of which, in my
belief, has never been exhibited by any great cap-
tain during the last 100 years. General Lee wan-
dered a few yards away from his quarters, and ob-
served a rail fence girding a field, of which a few
' rails had been pulled down and a gap into the field
opened. With his own hands, and unassisted, he
commenced repairing the fence, until at last Dr.
Cullen, of General Longstreet's staff, came to his
assistance, and together they made good the damage.
I am told that whenever he has observed them he
has, either personally or through his staff, ordered
the rebel blackbirds to desist from pilfering the
cherry trees.
In the meantime, General Ewell, in command of
the 2d corps of the Confederate army, has swept on
to Carlisle, and thence has proceeded eastward to-
wards York, where he cut the railroad, which con-
nects Harrisburg and Washington, and I believe
encountered a few Pennsylvania militiamen, who
are represented as having emerged from rifle-pits
as deep as a well, to discharge one round apiece at
their enemy, previous to surrendering, and being,
as is reported, contemptuously dismissed, minus
shoes and hats, by General Ewell. From York
General Ewell has shaped his course southward and
westward towards Gettysburg to join the army of
General Lee in its advance over the South Moun-
tain, and to constitute the left wing of that army.
It is understood that General Stewart is about to
join General Ewell, having made his way out of
Virginia, in the immediate neighbourhood of
Georgetown, a suburb of Washington, where he is
said to have captured 130 waggons, with six horses
or mules apiece, and 100 spare horses attached as
supernumeraries. The full details of his pas-
sage through Maryland, which is said to have been
extremely successful, have not reached me as yet,
but it appears that he cut the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. which now only runs to the neighbour•
hood of Harper's Ferry, and has joined or is labour
to join General Ewell on the extreme Confederate
left, and is likely to be heard of again in the event-
ful campaign on the threshold of which we are now
standing.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, July 25,
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)

Sarah Ellis Reece was indicted for the manslaughter of
her stepson, W. Ellis Reece, an infant of the age of three
years, whose death, it was said, was caused by starvation
and violence.

Mr. Hill appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Motteram de
fended the prisoner.

Some witnesses described the child as greedy and dirty,
and as exhibiting signs of starvation and neglected, and
further that they heard the prisoner use threatening lan-
guage to the child, and had seen her strike it. One woman
spoke to having suckled the child at a time when it was
not under the charge of the prisoner, and to its then being
strong and healthy. A little boy, own brother to the de-
ceased, said that he had seen the prisoner strike the deceased
the day before he died, but he remembered also his brother
falling downstairs a short time before his death, but he
thought he was not then hurt on his head. The surgeon's
evidence was to the effect that when he was called in to sea
the child on the 16th March he found many bruises on the
body, particularly on the head. The blows on the head
had been recently inflicted ; those on the body were of some
standing. Both arms were broken, but death did not result
from this injury. When, on the 17th March, he made a
post-mortem examination he observed under the forehead
extravasated blood from eight bruises; he also found 3oz,
of serum in the ventricles of the brain. The stomach was
contracted by reason of want of food. Death was accele-
rated by violence and ill-treatment, but the child was a
diseased child, and had been scrofulous and syphilitic from
its birth. The witness said, on cross-examination, that he
thought a fall would not account for the injuries he saw,
but he would not say it did not cause them. The bruises
on the body did not occasion death, and the bruises on the
head might not have occasioned it but for the want of food
and neglect.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and
The learned Judge sentenced her to penal servitude for
life.

JULY 27.

John Birkin Potter was indicted for wilful and corrupt
perjury, committed at the County Court of Staffordshire, at
Longten, on the 12th of May last, before Mr. W. Spooner,
judge of the court.

Mr. Davis and Mr. Motteram were for the prosecution;
and Mr. A. S. Hill was for the defendant.

It appeared that a widow named Rowson, a beerhouso-
keeper, sued the defendant for an ale score, and her
daughter-in-law appeared at the County Court to prove the
claim. She stated in the course of her evidence that she
supplied 14 quarts of ale to the defendant on Christmas-eve,
and that three men—Bailey, Hawkins, and Tunis—were
with him and shared the ale. The defendant appeared at
the Court with his attorney, and was called as a witness in
his own behalf, and he denied that he owed any part of the
debt, and further swore that he never drunk in the plain-
tiff's house with Bailey, Hawkins, and Tunis. The learned
judge of the court thereupon directed Bailey to be sent for
he and other witnesses were examined, and the result was
that the defendant was committed for trial on the present
charge. The three men in question were now called as wit -
nesses for the prosecution, and stated that they were in
partnership as potters with the defendant, and they all
swot() positively to the fact of being present with him at the
beerhouse on Christmas-eve, that he ordered 14 quarts of
ale, and that they drank it together.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, but strongly recom-
mended him to mercy, a recommendation in which the pro-
secutor joined.

The learned judge passed a sentence upon him of one
year's imprisonment, with hard labour.
George Clarke was indicted for wilful and corrupt per-
jury at a County Court held at Wolverhampton, before Mr.
Allan M`Lean Skinner, the judge of the court.
Mr. Motteram and Mr. Seeker were for the prosecution ;
and Mr. A. S. Hill was for the defendant.
It appeared that ono George Dennis had' been the keeper
of a publichouse called the George, in St. James's-square,
Wolverhampton, and, wishing to dispose of the business, he
consulted with a valuer and auctioneer named Altree, and
the result was that Mr. Altree became the purchaser of the
household furniture, plant, and effects at the price of £llO,
and of the ale and spirit stock at £lO, on the 29th of No.
vember. Aline subsequently sold, on the 2d of December,
what he had purchased for the £llO to one Paisley for £135,
subject to a deduction of a few pounds. Possession of the
George had been taken by Altree on the 29th of November,
and was given up by him to Paisley on the 2d of December,
but, inasmuch as the ale stock was reserved, Altree had it
moved between 7 and 10 o'clock on the night of the 2d of
December. Disputes had, however, arisen between Dennis
and Altree, and in the end Dennis put Altree in the County
Court on a plaint for £5O damages in trover, for, among
other articles, certain ale, and it then became a question
whether Altree had removed any ale from the George before
the 2d of December. Upon the hearing f this plaint the
Dennis,
defendant was called as a witness for and swore that
he saw ale being rolled away from the George to Altrpe's
premises at an early hour on the Sunday morning, the 30th
November; that Altree's man and another man we removing
it, that he had made the remark that there was something
wrong at the George to be rolling away ale at that time of
night; that Altree's man then said, 4 e arc robbing the
George of ale," and that Altree was standing by; he shouted
for something,and the man said no more. The learned judge
of the County Court ultimately gave judgment for the plaintiff
for £6. This prosecution has since been instituted. Altree
negatived all the assignments of injury, and stated that
he
and his daughter and Dennis's daughter all left the
he °'ga about twelve o'clock on the night in question ;
before he left he locked up the George; that the
three went house
and to bed, and that he did not get up
till 8 or 9 o'clock the next morning ; and that he neither lett
his house during the night, nor did he part with his keys.