Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-08-27

I'm, add giving the deceased decent burial
De replied that the man was an enemy, and
should never have a funeral. The corpse
was taken out by a negro, who was sent
| for it, and buried in the yard. Capt. A. ].
Belts of the 9th Connecticut, captured al
Winchester, caughta stolen interview with
Gen. Prince, Col. Chapman and others OF
the prisoners tHken at Cedar Mountain, on
the morning of his departure from Rich
mond. They were confined with negroes
and fellons of all degrees in room go feet
long and 80 feet broad, with fonr windows
only at one end. The floor was covered
with filth, and the air laden with STENCIL
They we're all in as good spirits as men could
be in their condition, and Col. Chapman
Was appIauded by his comrades when he
said, "Tell the government to make no
concessions for rs; We are ready for what
comes" u
Col. Louis Benedict, OF a New York
regiment, returned from Salisbury, con-
firms the statements of the other officers.
He says that even at salisbury, where
they fare the. best, the bad food and close
confinement in filthy rooms were intolera-
BILE. Four deaths occurred in the prison
day for considerable periods. At one time
twenty we're driven crazy by their suffer-
ings, but at Richmond the condition of
things was much worse Our sick and
wounded soldiers, in no condition to be ex-
changed with their fellows, were living
with no mattress between them and the
bare floor, with not blanket nor a sheet,
and in some cases not even a shirt to cover
them, with no food bnt the wretehed army
rations. Our exchanged officers; on learn
ing their condition, took up u subscription
on their behalf, and gave them their blank
a n M al ~ =,
eager, and in this he SAYS he expresses the
desire of all who came with him from
rebeldom, to get to work again. He will
command a regiment if he can get one, If
not, he will resume bis old position. He
Gays, and in this, too, says that the others
are with him, that the harshest measures
toward the rebels are the best. He spurns
conciliRtion, and cries war to the knife.
Tue cou6scation and emancipation act is,
in Col. Benedtcfs Judgment, the most ter
rible sword the North has yet drawn. Tho
rebels vince at itas it stands on the statute
book, only executed in part as it 49,
AThe Richmond BLdmiHeF said, some time
since, that the Yankee prisoners would re-
turn home to be silent missionaries in the
cause of the South, won over by the kind
ness aud maguanimity shown them. Moth
ing could be further from the truth While
a large number of rebel prisoners we hold
object to being exchanged, aud ask to take
the oath Of allegiance and remain at tho
North, our men return from the South fired
with burning indignation on account of the
outrages they have endured and the worst
cruelties they have seen inflicted on south
ern Union men. Slavery and treason have
developed the worst passions of the South,
aud large portion of the southern people
are proving themselves bRrbariaus. Il is
impossible that such facts as the returned
prisoners are relating should not stir the
people to the deepest feeling, aud infuse
more bitterness into the war. Let this Just
indignation be manifested in relentless en-
ergy and vigor, but never by retaliation
iu kind. We must not become barbarians
because the rebels are. But the terrible
fruit borne by southern passion euforees
upon Us the necessity of making the most
summary and decisive work in the war
This barbsrism must be crushed, If exter-
mination alone will do it