The Placer herald., 1861-08-24
Those Acts of Barbarity.

erners are set of sayages, who commit all
kinds of inhuman atrocities whenever they
have ,he power. One fellow says he saw
the .rebcls stand dead men up against trees
and shoot AT them, and stralghiway the "ir-
tuous sheets all over the country herald II as
an evidence of Southern barharity. But
the reader naturally stops and inquiries when
this happened Was it during the batllef
One would suppose they they won'd then
find sufficient employment in shooting AT
live men, Was it afterwards? Who stop
ped to see! Some wouldlbe hero, perhaps.
Some other fellow SAYS a member ot Con-
nec,icu, regiment SAW y poor, wounded rebel
lying in the sun, aud he gently and kindly !
removed him to n shade and gave him
drink OF water from bis canleen, when the
wicket rebel revived and shot his heneiaror. |
Well, every sensihy reader immediately en-
Quires when The soldier found time I" act
The GOOD Samaritan. Did he leave the ranks |
anl av down his gun to take care OF the
wounded rebel. One would suppose tom
tie reports of the battle that he would
have bad quite enough t" i" to take care "t
the wounded on his own side. bu' now
rdicnlous The ideal A soldier, wounded and
exhausted from loss of blood, without gun
snd!enlv revives and shoots vel! man, VINO
stands over him with his gun.
Riicuous as these stories are, there are
! some simpleous who believe them, and
really think all the Southerners are just as
| i,arl,arous We cannot see h wv any man
can think so meauly Of any part of the
American people There are hrules every
where, but AN entire people should not be
| | f,I Intt
meets our views:
am Glad to believe that the stories OF
! nhuul,niy towards our wonndel, on the
part If the rebels. are much eXagera ed
Mr.. Williams assules me that although he
WAS among ,he last to leave the field, he saw
nothing like geneyaL course of harl"rltv
toward tie wounded. There were Instances,
however. in which rebels seemed to have
some Individual spite to g'aiitv. wherein
lIIey killed men alreadv wounded, but there
we're exceptions to the general rule. Many
of our wounded also like the Z,naves whose
persistence | have already recorded, would
avail themselves Of the opportunity to fire
their Iis,oS at passing rebels; aud these
were always bayoneted when observed, as
might he cXpe,ted. lint with these exrep'
ti"ns, Dr. Williams is cotent that our
! wounded were cared for by the rebels. quite
;is well as we would care for them it in our
own hands.
We do not doubt but that there were i-o-
lated acts of ha'bariiy pra' tise'l on both
sides hut to hold the en'ire army responsl
bic for individual acts, is nonsense.
We append the following from tie Wash
ington Star Of July 29Ih:.-
Edward +. poherly of Company A, Sew
enty.il>l New }olk Regiment, with Capt.
Allen, of the Eleventh Regiment of Ma>sa
chuSe,ts, arrived here This morning. having
made ,i.-jg escape from Bulls Run. where
they ha! been held as prisoners. 1h Y
walked all the way, getting by the enemv>
sentrys lv II clever rnse and then, guided by
the moon at night and the sun by day, nude
their WAY to lhs city 10y cirruiouS route,
striking the Potomac us high up as Lees
! burg.
They were examined before the Sanitary
Commission to-day. as to the condition of
our wounded a. the hospitals Of the enemy.
hey state that the report of hospital
| being bnrne,! with our wounded in IT. 10y the
Contedcrales, is erroneous. and say that the
suffering are wei! cared for hy the enemy.
There were two hundred and fifty w"unded
sol,iiers at the S,udey Church hospital.
A pcaccable settlement of our existing Difficult
ties is as odious to the Black Republicans, pety
is to the evil one Nothing hut blood will satisfy
The deplaved desire, OF The conductors of those
shee's who have done all they could to bring
civil war and luin upon country
female friend While you Of The North and
South have gone to killing each other of. we Of
Salt Lake are populaIng the country with rx-
traordinary rap,lity-accorling TO the doctrine
Of the Latter Day Saints. On" OF our elders re
Gently had no less than nine children BON to him
in one week.
"AN Ant-Tohacco organic lton is now form
ing throughout France, and the men that give
tone to society there belong to it. such phys-
clans LAWYERS atademicans state councillors
all resolved to wagc unccasng warfare on that
enemy to the health an p0cke' OF mln-the
stink ng weed. If these formers curt'i' its con
sumpljon the suit will be speedily fen in the
public revenue Tor the annual income from that
source alone comes very near o4o,OoO,0o0."
THE LOYAL AND Seeded STATES. The eleven
seeded States contain an area Of 1871 0tS square
miles and total population Of 9.V96.S05. OF
which 55766S9 are free and 1920. Ii are slaves.
The tnyal States and Territories have an area of
1882 952 square miles, and Il total population ct
22:322 9S6 OF viii h only 532.6Sj are slaves In
! the ovai States there about 4.000000 of persons
capalle OF bearing arms. and about l.O0O,00O
in the seeded States. According the
census of 1860. the value of the real and person
al property of The loyal States is $40 800, .OOI
of the seeded States, So l02 l65,993
Mrs Gurney has dismissed her false true love
of a coachman and is to marry fast young man
| of Paris but Of English birth paying him $50.
coo year. II a prudent fellow. (and fast aen
are sometimes prl,en:) he could lay up enough
from the fruits of his industry TO retire in Il few
wears OH competency, and become II respectable
man.