The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-12-25
From the Richmond Enquirer, Nov rs.
Burn side Worse than Pope.

orders. But Burnside having published no
orders, has permitted outrages more larlng
and Infamous than even the Published or
ors of Pope countenanced. What will be
the course of tn @ Confederate Government?
We call attention to day to the outrages in
Fauquier, and demand in behalf of that poe
pie the speedy protection of the Confederate
government. Retaliation, prompt, swift and
effective, should be Immediately ordered
Unless this is done, the people of the por-
ton of Virginia now overrun by the enemy
will have been abandoned by Government
for whose existence they have periled all
that man holds dear.
To persons who have been exempted
from the ravages of this war, it is impossible
to convey an adequate idea Of the devasta-
ton inflicted upon the counties Of Fauquier,
Prince William, Loudon, Fairfax, &c.
Farms stripped of fences, mills burned,
cattle destroy ed. grain consumed, vegetables
and poultry stolen, groceries of every kind
seized, ladies suited, beaten to the ground
by ruf1ians, and their lives threatened with
pistols, all psrpetrated in the vicinity of
Burnside, Wilcox and other General officers,
who permitted the outrages.
L. will be useless for the Government to
demand any cessation Of these outrages.-
The reply will be that no orders have been
published on the subject since the revoca-
ton of those of Pope. The retaliation to be
effective. must be swift, sudden aud brought
home to the wretches in the prompt eXecu-
ton of the captured prisoners.
The enemy have publicly proclaimed that
they came not to protect, but TO destroy, as
the best m cans of insuring subugaton To
this end they have burned all the mills of
the country, reducing the non combatant
,iof, q, 20 CT, hay a
killed the work oxen, the only draught
beast left in the country, dc privipg the peo-
pie of the means of procuring fire-wood for
the approaching winter; they have forced
houses, and stolen the little stores laid by
for the winter, Of groceries, flour, bacon, Nc.
In fact, almost reduced that whole tier OF
counties to absolute starvation.
all this has been done without orders, but
with the avowa. that General Stuart set the
example in Pennsylvania. The only mode
to stop this pillage is to hang prisoners, and
the people would be glad to hear that the
authorities had promptly issued orders to
that effect. If called upon, Burnside will
disavow the outrages and promise to punish
the thieves when detected; but he will
never permit any to be detected. He has
permitted the outrages now complained of,
aud knew at tho time of their commission,
tn at his troops were robbing the houses i'm =
mediately around him. To facilitate the
robbery, ne withdrew his guards from the
houses aDd throw down all restraint to his
red reeched robbers called Zouaves.
We sincerely hope that our soldiers who
may happen to capture any OF the ZouaveS
with red brooches and red caps, will execute
upon them sum mary justice, and not trouble
the Government with their transportation to
Washington. via Richmond, to be let loose
again to the pillage and robbery OF the
country.
We now submit an account of the conduct
of the enemy toward most estimable and
venerable lady in Fauquier County as an
example of their conduct. We have heard
of many others, but this is attested and
vouched for by gentleman Of unimpeach-
ed veracity. great GOODNESS and jai gment:
Mrs. Marshall, relic of DIR. Jaqualin Mar
shall, a son of the eminent Chief-Justice
Marshall, resides where her husband died
near Orlean, few miles from Waterloo
Tho enemy camped in her vicinity. Her
farm was stripped of every thing that could
afford sustenance. Among the articles seized
and appropriated, without any compensation
We're the following: $50 barrels of corn
sixty-6 FIVE hogs, the oats raised on field oil
forty acres, the rye of seventy acres. the hay
of fifteen acres. The meat house wa.
broken open, and every pound taken.
AT first a guard was placed around the
house. This was withdrawn, as if to allow
what followed. About two hundred of the
vile outlaws who call themselves Zouaves
entered the house. and did the work Of tn il
masters in their own approved style. They
seized all the blankets and other bed cloth =
ing and tore to pieces what they could not
carry off They broke open thu store rooms
and seized and carried off or destroyed all
the groceries. pickles and preserves. They
gave themselves the trouble to break all the
crockery and glassware. They broke up
the furniture. They entered the ladies'
chambers and seized and carried off their
articles of apparel. They robbed them Of
their jewelry. They took the supplies of
candles and oil and attributed them over
the floors, and then walked upon them -
! When they had done every thing that a
ruthless rapine and an ingenious and pains
taking malice could devise in the wav Of
robbery, destruction and injury, they push
ed the venerable lady of the house down,
and drawing pistol, said they would shoot
the id old Secessionist.'
We have given no fancy sketch in the
above. We think that harm is done by the
exaggerations which are undoubtedly in
dulsed in sometimes by persons in their &C
cusatlons against the enemy. But Justice
and right require that the truth should be
known without abatement. Mrs Marsh all
occupied spacious mansion, supplied and
provided with all the stores, the com forts
and the convcniehces of a family, in that
abundance which wealth and providence
dictated. The farm is a waste, the house a
wreck.
At the time these outrages were transpir-
ing at Mrs. Marshall's dwelling, Generals
Hawkins, Burnside aud Wilcox were near by
and m no opposition or reparation. 1t is
lair to presume that the Zouaves were but
executing their will.
We have heard of similar depredations
upon other farmers, in which the robbers