The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-27


present we have no means of aseertaning.-
With regard to the closing pro posai. we reply.
news" is ct all tunes acceptable.
ass~ The letter fcom "1UNUs" Yorktown
j. declined. for the reason that the officer in
the Howitzer Battalion spoken of for promo
ton, would object to its publication in full
An extract Is given elsewhere.
lEe- The Surgeon OF the Third Regiment
Georgia Volunteers, near Portsmouth, who
writes from Camp GwynD, inquiring the
fate of his brothers ia the fight at Stone
Bgidge, will fad in our columns this
morning a correc; lis; of the killed, wound
cd and missing Of the ogiethrope Light
Iufantry. One of his brothers is slightly
wounded the other is safe and unhurt.
Humanity in War-N no are Its Proper ob-
iccn
The LIN,o.s Administration began this war
upon the South with the declaration that 1t
would listen to no terms bu, its unconditional
surrender Rebellion and treason were the
crimes of whieh every man in the South had
been guilty, and confscation and the gallows
would be the roper punishmonts.
The people OF the North went beyond their
Government in the ferocity of their spirit
TIE declaration was openly made that Beauty
ard Booty" should be the rewards of their sol
diers. Their papers declared that Nirginians
should be tranpled under her foot, that her farms
should be divided among the invaders. that her
-, y-i, ID
ouiy return 10 see want and suffering in the
eyes Of their wives, and their children in rags.
lac unparalleled atrociiy Of those menaces
startled and appalled, all civilized Europe, and
the public press of the continent rebuked, with
indignant emphasis, these brutal Examinations.
An immense army of the rif-raf Of Now
! ork the scum of ChTistendom, was organized
for the purpose Of carrying on his war in the
spirit and manner set forth in the bloody pro-
grammc. The peniteptiaries were opened, and
the Jail birds and murderers marshalled into a
legion Tor the work of pillage, rapine and
massacre. The very women. when their hus-
bands and lovers departed for the Southern
war, invoked them each to brig back the
teman travelling on he eaIs with body of
these rufians, heard them openly declare that
they intended to reduce every woman in Nir-
GINA TO fate worse than death before their
return.
Their conduct, as far as possible, has been
in conformity with their threats. Atrocities
upon women, at which tho blood runs cold,
have been committed by these wretches in
Alexandra. in Hampton, in Northwestern Nir-
ginia. Faithful Southern citizens Of the latter
section have been torn from their homes, tied
hand and foot and transported to the interior
of Ohio. Private property has been destroyed
IN the most wantor manner; houses have been
burned and slaves captured by the hundred
prisoners have been thrust into dungeons and
fed on the coarsest food sometimes beaten
with cruel blows, and placed on trial for
their lives, to be hung unless the fears Of LIN
COLIN for his own people in our hands prevents
the execution of his threats Even some OF
their men now in cur hands can scarcely sup
press the ferocty of their purpose, and de-
clare their eagerness to try conclusions with Us
again if they could regain their liberty and
there are still wretches at large in this town
who, doubtless are devising means to accomp-
lish that object and are lowering in the neigh
borh0od Of the prisons to render all the aid and
comfort in their power
If it be said that the inhumau pregnauce of
the war is only the Lrat"D, .Jaln.en of the lower
classes, We reply that AL the facts Of the case
prove that with few exceptions it i. the uni
versal voice of the North. 1t has come from
the press, from the bar, from the pulpit, and
roars as furiously from the Merchants Ex-
change az from the Five Points. With the excep-
ton of the glorious EALLAhDIGHAM, PIERCE,
and some men of lesser note, not one voice
has been raised against it; with the exception
Of one or two papers in New York, and few
in New Hampshire, no newspaper has resisted
IL; The vilest Of the whole rufiian crew, BILLY
Wilson's murderers and pickpock cts, have been
enlogized by one Of the most eminent minis
tiers OF New York, Rev. DR.. TYING the clergy
have been the btterest and bloodiest dcnounc-
ers Of US; the Christian Associations have
them selves led the way in fer"city and fury.
For weeks We bad in our possession II letter en-
vel0pe Of one of those sanity bodies, in which
our President is represented AS hanging from
"A gallows, guarded by body of Zouaves un-
der their officer, ELLSWORTH those ''pet lambs,
who have been sent, with their leader, TO
place where they receive the only kind Of ''hu-
rnanity" that such unparalleled misereantS de-
serve.
Notwithstanding all this, the Southern Gov
srnuent has acted with the most extraordinary
humanity. Without parole, RoGERs and
WRIGHT, who endeavored to burn up our
Navy Yard at the hazard of multitudes of in
necent lives, were released ; SO was HARVEY.
the Missouri butcher; others have BEEN liberia
ted on parole probably to be violated on the
first opportunity. The prisoners We have
made have not been placed in dun geons, like
our own unfortunate men, but in large airy
apartments, where they have probably Jared
better than they ever did before. We do not
object 10 this humane treatment of prisoners !;
on the contrary, we would denounce any de-
parture from it; but we sub nit that beyond
compliance with the ordinary customs of ciyi.
liked warfare, it is high time that we make the
enemy feel that he is dealing with people who
are capable Of reSenting and retalating every
cruel ac, and purpose of his ferocious nature
with tenfold fereeness and vengeance.
Humanity is an admirable virtue, but our
own people are its proper objects, and a spu-
rious sensibility, which sometimes passes for
humanity, and would treat with superfluous
kindness the wretches who have come to d. =
vastate aud delle every Southern household,
is the nost cruel inhumanity to our own DO