New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-17
The Proposed Colonization of Africans
THE DISMISSAL OF MAJOR KEY
THE PRESIDENTS RECORD OF THE CASE.
How the Rebels Treat Union Prisoners
INTERNAL REvENUE DECISIONS.

| WARRINGTON, Thursday, Oct 10, loos'
INTERVIEW BETWEEN RELEASED UNION PRIs'
ONERs AND TIE PRESIDENT.
A number Of the officers taken at Shiloh and just
released from Rebel prisons, had an interview TO-
day with the President, who shook each warmly by
the hand listened to the recital of their Southern
suIerings, aud gave them word Of goon cheer.
Gen. Prentiss Gays that he Jared even worse than
Gen. CoIcoran at the hands Of the Rebels.
THE PROPOSED COLONIZATION OF AFRICANS.
Senator Pomeroy, who has just arrived here fr N
Kansas, declares thst nothg has occurred since he
was hero with reference to his proposed expedition
with colony of Africans 10 Cbinqu which leads
bin to tie opinion that he will be Obliged to relin-
quish the plan. Others think differently.
TIE DISMISSAL OF MAJOR KEY.
The record upon which Major John j. Key was
dismissed from the military service Of the United
States ia as follows:
! EXECUTIVE Mss~oS. w.sHxGToN, Sept &c. 1862.
Mai. JoHy j. KsY--So.; AN informed that 10
answer TO the question "Why was not the Rebel
army baeged immediately after the battle near
Shargsburg 7" propounded 10 You BY Major Levi G.
Turner, Judge-Adyocate, etc, You answered,
4" That Is not the game. Tie OF jeet IL that neither
army shall get mnch advantage OF the other that
both shall be kept in the field TIL they are eX-
haustcd. when we will make compromiso and save
twenty -four hours from the receipt OF THE, prove to
me by Major Turner that you Did not. either liter
ally or IN substance, make the answer stated.
Ycurs A. LINCOLN.
Copy dsyesedto MAJOR hey at io:25 Sept. ~ 1874
n" JOHN HAY"
At about II o'clock n. NJ, Sept. a, 1862, Major
Key ard Major Turner appeared before me. Major
Turner says: AZ 1 remember. &c the conversation
was, ssked the question why we did not bag them
after the battle OF SHARP sburg. Major Keys reply
was That was not the game, that should tire
the Rebels On' and onrselyes.' That that was the
only wav the Union could be preserved. We mnst
cone together iraiernally, and SloVCFy De sayed.
On cross exam nation Major Turner sys be has fro
auenily heard Maiog Key converse In regard 70 the
present. troubles and never beard him utter sen'i
meut uniayorable TO the mantonanee Of tho Union.
lie has rev,r uttered anything which he Major T y
would call dsioyalty. The particular conversation
detailed was private one. A. LINCOLN.
Indorsed on Tie nboves: In my view Il is wholly
insdrnis.abie for any gentleman holding military
commission from the United States 10 utter such
sentiments as Major Key Is within proved 10 have
done. Therefore let Major John J. Key be forth
with dismissed from the military service Of the
United States y. LINCOLN.
Tie foregoing sthe who'll. recorlexcept the simple
order OF tie dismissal at tie War Department. AT
the interview Of MAJOR Key ind Major Turner with
tue President Major Key did not attempt 10 contro-
vert the statement Of lIajor Turner but simply In
sisted and sou h to prove that he was true 10 tie
Union. The substance OF the President reply was
tharif there WAC game even among Union men
to have our army not TO take an advantage Of the
enemy when ID conld, ii was his object TO break up
that game.
WAR DEPARTMENT ORDERS
Adiutapt Gen. Thomas has issued General 0.deIs
including the Territories Of Nebraska and Colorado,
in the Military Department Of Missouri, dismissing
Cart Charles II. Weber, lst United States Artil.
ery, from the eeryice and reirsiating Major j. c.
Aastu, 10th Pennsylvania Volunteers, dismissed
from the service. "
POINT LOOKOUT HOSPITAL.
But ore death has occurred in the Point Lookout
Hospital since our last publication, although there
are over q thousand patients there. On the 18th
instant. Private John A. Roberts Co. G, 9th New
Yoh; Regiment, died. James Gately, Co. L, l9th
Massachusetts,, and Edward Smell, tn Maine, dsap-
peale1 and me supposed 10 have been captured
while on o iishin, excursion down the bay fev
days ago.
GIN. sIGEL = COMMAND
Gen. sigel has continued the duties OF his per ona
iuspeotiou oil his command and yeste rday the hospl
tails were the object OF attention. Many change
and Improvements have already been made and
otheIs are ordered.
REBEL UI-TRTA1MEN OF UNION PRISONERS.
The statement u, this mornings inieR,gsacer upon
the authority Of Capt. Mccormick of the '',h Ohio,
that he aud the other officers who have just been
released nom the Rebel prison houses wers treated
H. well as could reasonably be expected, evoked Tue
great wrath of his associates, who fell ulon Capt
Mccormick and gave him a sound dru5ting. They
eay tlat o far from being treated ike soldiers Or
Iacn, they were tod Ike beasts with loa.hsome food
and not enough OF ,hat.
They had nothing 10 eat bat live meat aud dodgers
made Of cobs ground with the corn. They were
sometimes for a week without water to wash THEN
lscco. Ceu Prentis WAS kept in solitary coniine-
ment .or siN weeks a.,er the cmte OF exchange was
tipned. Five were shot for looking ont Of the
window--two Of whom died Of their wounds.
A Rebel newspaper containing the Presidents
proclmation Of freedom having found its way into
their dungeon, tho good news was received with the
hcarticst cheers, rot ono disapproyirg, although
there were Breckmnlge Democrats in tie company
HELP IN ~ ITZERLAND.
A letter from switzerland SAWS that 100, 100 men
couM be enlisted th'gc for the military service Of
our Government, II lis representatives weIe en-
powered to make liberal oGers 10 recruits.
INTERNAL REVENUE DECISIONS.
The Commits ioner Of Internal Revenue has made
tho following decisions:
7'ar 0a Traps Cured by RaiirOai.--The
percentage is to be paid by railroads on receipts from
transportation of troops as well as from any other
elass of passengers. The returns OF railroads their
receipts for tic transportation OF passengers should
10 made NJ their principal cse OF place 0i pGslles'