The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-05-10
THE cHIvALRoUs SOUTH.
4 CIVILIZED WARFARE.

a CIVILIZED WARFARE.
sour Government and people have thus
far striven to conduct this war on the prin-
ciples of civilized warfare. Their treatment
of prisoners has been humane and consider
ate. Even civilians, charged with infdeli-
ty and 'disIoyalty, have been merely sent
out of the State; or permitted to remain un-
der pledges of good behavior. ''-NesO Or
leans Delta.
ITS PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION.
We baveread great deal in the South
ern journals about ''Lincon's Blood
hounds" By which elegant phrase the de-
Tenders of the Union are commonly refer
red to in Sscessia. But while our blood
hounds are merely metaphorical, it would
seem, from the following advertisement ex-
tracted from the Memphis appeal, that JEFF.
Davis deals in the real Simon pure article ::
"BLooDHouNDswANTED the under
signed. will pay FIVE dollars per pair for if
ty pairs of we'll bred hounds. and fifty dol
lars for one pair of thorough bred blood
hounds that will take the track of man.
The purposes for which these dogs are
wanted is to chase the Internal, cowardly
and Kentucky (who have taken the advan-
tage of the bush to kill and cripple many
good soldiers) to their tents and capture
them. The said hounds must be delivered
at Capt. Hammers livery stable by the 10th
of December next, where a mastering Off
Ger will be present to muster and inspect
them. F. n. McNAIRY,
H. H. HARRIS.
Camp Crinfort. Campbell Co., Tenn.
Nov. Is.
P. S.-Twenty dollars per month will
also be paid for man who is competent to
train and take charge of the above dogs"
If this war results in nothing else. it will
serve to most thoroughly dispel the soft il
lusions heretofore SO popular about the
South. Instead of the highbre gentle
men, which fond fancy painted them to be,
we begin to understand what many had
long ago suspected, that, under the brutal
izing influences OF slavery, they were fast
lapsing into positive MISUNDERSTANDING.
Mrs Butler, whose husband owns the
farm house shelled by Ayres's guns, near
Centervile, took me into the attic rooms
where our 12-pounder went>through, and
talked with me long while about the events
subsequent to the battle of the 18th. Her
syInpathies are on the rebel side, and so
ing narrative of the ATROCITIES of the vic
tors. Nineteen of our men were buried near
her house. But in a few weeks every
corpse had been dug up, the flesh boiled or
hacked from the bones, and the latter dis
tributed as mementoes of Southern conquest
and barbarism. The stencil engendered by
this monstrous process was So horrible that
the family had to leave the place, and much
sickness ensued among the troops. Mr.
Butler confirmed the statement of his wife.
There is no doubt of its truth Among
the stuff left behind at the camps, joints of
human vertebra and human skulls, scraped
and polished, have been found to-day. Mrs.
Butler told me that on the night of the Goth
a mounted Federal courier came within their
lines and asked for Gen. McDowelPs head
quarters. AS he put the question he saw
the Palmetto in the hat of the South Caro-
lima guard, and put spurs to his horse, but
was shot and killed. Dispatches in cipher
were found on his person. He was buried,
but dug up within week, the flesh boiled
from his bones, and the latter exhibited as
emblems of 'an invaders fate. Cor. ".
y. World.
Mrs. Dorothea L. Dix, writing to Mrs.
Harrison Gray Otis, of Boston, says: ''The
indignities and sufferings to which our pris
oners of war have been subjected at the
hands of the enemy would disgrace the
coarsest and most brutal savage tribes. May
God forgive the perpetrators of those mon
strous atrocities, for il is hard for man to
pray sincerely for such enemies as these
have proved"
/. Some of the residents at Centeryille say
that members of the Sanitary Commission
and other soldier-visitors to Manassas, as
sert positively that there is evidence so
strong as to force the belief that the Missis-
sippi soldiers have been in the habit of dig
ging up the bodies of National soldiers bur-
led at Bull Run, boiling off the flesh and
making the bones into trophies. The skulls
we're frequent tent ornaments. and were also
used for soap dishes. Knives and forks,
rings, and even spurs, were constructed
from the bones. Soldiers of the Brooklyn
1 4th recognized on the field of Bull Run. by
their red trowsers, comrades who had fallen
there, lying unburied and headless. Resi-
dents IN the vicinity asserted that after the
battle the rebel soldiers passed their houses
with what they called. with unseemly mer-
riment, Yankee skulls, on their bayonets. |
to the Y. 7. Iii6uxe.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune.
in report of the pursuit Of Price BY Gen.
Curtis, says: To-day the Benton Hussars
went out on scout in the neighborhood of
One of their number strayed |
from this company and was afterwards found
in prlvy. his head mashed with stones and
his body disfgured. Some whisky was
found in the place. and the boys proceeded
to imbibe. Before morning one captain and
several priuates died of poisoning. wlsile ono
mgjor. ta0o captains and about forty men mar