Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-08
The hcbcl Prisoners at Boston.

The Boston papers Of yesterday report the
safe arrival Of the rebel prisoners from New
York at Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor
Including the Fort Lafayette and Governors
Island prisoners, eight hundred persons are
consigned to the care Of Colonel Dimick,
who had expected but one hundred. The
Boston Journal says;
The orders from the War Department to
Assistant Quartermaster Kensil, at this port,
instructed that officer to provide quarters
and rations for one hundred political prison.
ers and guard of four hundred men, which
be accordingly did. His own and the sur.
prise of Colonel Dimick and the other off,
GERS of the fort may be imagined when, at
four o'clock yesterday afternoon, the steamer
State of Maine, of the Fall River line, hove
in sight, her decks swsrming with prisoners
and soldiers, the prisoners numbering at least
eight times the original number advised.
The steamer arrived at the fort at half past
five o'clock, having on board one hundred
and nine political prisoners from Fort La
fayette, six hundred and thirty three of the
prisoners taken at Hatteras Inlet, and eighty
three men, invalids and others, from Bedloe' s
Island, the whole under guard OF one hun
dred and twenty. six men aud eight officers.
Captain Updergraff, of the Fifth Infantry,
United States Army, had charge of the
prisoners, assisted by Captain Wm. Clinton,
of the Tenth Lieutenant Benefck, of the
Fourth; Lieutenant Hodge, of the Sixth
Lieutenant Pollock, of the Ninth, and Lieu.
tenant Buell., Of the Fourth Infantry, United
STATES Army.
The sick, of whom there were between
sixty and seventy cases of typhus fever,
were in charge of Assistant Surgeon De Witt
@ Peters, who is accompanied by an old and
experienced hospital steward named Carl E
Bourguist. Among the prisoners are ex-
Governor Norehead of Kentucky, who, on
his last visit to Boston, was received with a
national salute; Chas. ] Faulkner, Ex-Min-
lister to France; Mayor BrowD, of Baltimore
the members of the Mary land Legislature !;
Marshal Kane, of Baltimore Colonel Pc
gram, taken prisoner in Western Virginia by
Genera Mcclellan; Commodore Barron;
Colonel Morton and forty. two officers from
Hatteres; Colonel Tyler, of the rebel army,
and host of equally notorious individuals.
The North Carolina prisoners, taken at
HatteIas, were divided into ten companies,
styled the Washington Grays, Leono E
Guards, Tar River Boys, North Carolina
Defenders, Roanoke Guards, Jonesboro'
Guards, Hertford Light IDfAutry, Inde-
pendent Grays, Hamilton Guards and -
Guards.
The condition of the prisoners, especially
the rank and file, has excited the warmest
sympathy of the Federal officers placed over
them, and while in the discharge of their
duty it will be necessary to exercise strict
watch, that no articles of comfort will be
denied the prisoners, especially the sick. 1t
is hardly necessary to mention the fact that
the State prisoners, the majority of whom
are wealthy, are sbundantly able to supply
themselves witb-all the luxuries which they
may desire, while the sick among the prison
ers of war are in want of much that is
actually necessary for their comfort, and the
surgeons at the fort speak of many of them
as fit objects OF the charity of the public.