The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
OUTRAGES PERFORATED ON PERSONS
and PROPERTY.
BURNING OF THE VILLAGE OF
HAYMARKET.
Order by Gen. Schurz for the Prevention
of Depredati0nS.
Cor N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, tRepl.
New BALTIMORE, Va, Nov. Z.

of its horrors, vivid and graphic beyond
his usual power, fails as far to be the real
ity, as it is witnessed by every considerate
person in the 18th (Sigels) corps of the
Army of the Potomac, as does an account
of banquet to the dinner table itself. 1t
is not of the battlefield, or of the horror
and wretchedness which follow it that
write but of the.desolation and misery and
poverty and woe that fall upon the inhab-
itants of every town and village, and ham
let and homestead wherever this army
moves. From the Potomac to Fairfax
Court House, whether you follow the Al
exandria or Long Bridge road, distance
in either case of about eighteen miles,
there is not single cultivated farm, or
solitary inhabited house-not one rood of
fence, not a barn-yard or garden, or a rick
of straw-not single evidence, not of
thrift, but of life, over what was once one
of the fairest and richest portions of the
Old Dominion. This certainly is not the
work of Sigel's army corps-ffty army
corps, during sixteen months, have trav-
ersed the ground-but what follows is.
COUNTRY IN RUINS.
Between Fairfax Court House and Thor
oughfare Gap, or rather between Centre
vile and the last named place, there is a
tract of country where up to few days
ago armies had not encamped. Everything
exhibited signs of thrift-well fenced and
stocked farms, comfortable houses, barns,
factories, ricks of grain in the field, and
one pleasant little village (Haymarket),
containing some twenty houses, on the
road. A fortnight ago not soldier was to
be found along the six miles of road, and
the same is probably true to-day. And
yet the little village lies in ashes, not
building being left standing, and the in
habitants are wanderers without home;
more than thirty farm-houses and as many
barns, one factory, thousands of rods of
fences, and innumerable hay and grain
ricks, with all the COWS and other cattle,
pigs, poultry and sheep, have been de-
stroyed; dwellings have been rifled, and
the inhabitants, generally women, sub
jected to every species of outrage; horses
have been taken wherever found; and the
whole country, for all purposes of afford
ing sustenance to man or beast for the
next ten years to come, is desert as hope
less as Sahara.
HOW UNIONISTS ARE TREATED.
We often wonder what has become of
the Union feeling in the South, but any
man, who expects to find it after what is
daily taking place in this army corps,
knows little of human nature. Even in
the more distant neighborhoods, too far
for the soldiers to struggle, there are an
noyances and troubles put upon the most
respectable inhabitants to which the genu
of Austrian Italy were never subjected.
A Brigadier General who hopes the Senate
will confirm his nomination next winter,
or an aspiring Colonel with leisure day
at hand, mounts his horse, and in company
with few friends to compose his staff,
rides into the country. He makes a call
at every good looking house, enters with
out knock or ceremony, walks into the
parlor, asks for, if he does not find sitting
there, the ladies, inquiries whether they
have cider or spirits, and expresses a wish
for one or the other, invites all his staff to
sit, and cOnverses with them mainly and
in German, walks out and looks into The
stables and outhOuses, comes back to the
house and lights his cigar, and without
word of thanks or parting expression of
civility, goes out, mounts his horse, and
rides away with all the satisfaction of
man who has done a brave deed. Do you
wonder that they call us ''Hessians?" l
myself have seen Colonel commanding
brigade,-have seen it within the last
week, go repeatedly to female boarding
school, with no assignable reason, and
without invitation, = nay, against the
wishes OF the ladies-and there were none
but ladies-expressed with an intensity of
scOrn, in looks which would have tinged
the cheek of any gentleman, and re-enact
what have described above.
TAE wANTON BURNING OF HAYMARKET.
GAINESVILLE, Nov. 1O.-The court mar
tial, now sitting, brings out the facts of
the atrocious conduct of the staff and 9th
er officers in the burning of Haymarket in
such a manner, that to unit Sigel" town
will hereafter be a word of terror to all.
The work was done under the direction of
Lieutenant and Count, both connected
with the staff. They claim to have had
authority, which, however, does not APP
pear. The former, with an orderly and
some soldiers, went into shed and split
and prepared the kindlings for burning the
houses. All protestations on the part of
the women and children-for such only,
with few old men, were left in the VII
lage-were unheeded. The fires were set
in various places amid terror and shrieks.
One poor woman, whose child was very i'll,
begged that the house might be spared.
Her plea, if unintelligible in words-for
German was the only language in which
the soldiers spoke must have been under
stood in actions, for she held the poor suf-
ferer up before them, but it was in vain,
and the next morning the body of the
dead baby laid by the side of the smoking
ruins of the house. One old man, who
pleaded earnestly that one house, at least,
might be left to shelter the houseless in
habitants from the cold, was struck three
times by Count - with his sword, and
badly wounded. He has, however, been
able to attend and give bis testimony be-
fore the court. I understand that every
house, barn, shed, and every description
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