Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-01
From Washington.

| WAsHlSGTON, April 29.-The Secretary
OF the Treasury is now prepared to pay all
Indebtedness on date prior to the lst OF
February, in cash. After the LIST of Feb.
ruary, four per centum in cash of subse.
qnent date, thirty per Centum in cash.
WASHINGTON, April 3O.-The Joint Com
mite on the conduct of the war have made
report in regard to the barbarous treat
ment by the rebels at Manassas, of the re-
mains of officers aud soldiers of the United
States army killed III battle there. Thev
examined a number of witnesses whose
testimOnyis submitted.
The facts described are of a repulsiye.
shocking and painful character. The Com
mite say in conclusion, that the members
might content themselves by leaving this
testimony to the Senate and the people
without word of comment, but when the
enemies of just and generous government
are attempting to excite the sympathy of
disloyal men in our own country, and So
licit aid of foreign governments, by the
grossest misrepresentation of the objects
OF the war and of the conduct of the off,
GERS and soldiers of the Republic. This is
the most startling evidence of their insin-
certify and inhumanity, deserves some no.
tice at our hands. History will be exam
iued in vain for a parallel to this rebellion
against good government long prepared
for by ambitious men, who were made doub-
" confident of success, by the aid and
counsel OF former administrations, and by
the belief that their plans were unobserved
by magnanimous people. They precip-
itated the war at moment when the gem
eral administration had just been changed
under circumstances of astounding perfidy,
without single reasonable ground of COM
plant, and in the face of repeated manifes-
tattons of moderation, and hence on the
part OF the President and his friends, they
took up arms and declared that they would
never surrender until their rebellion had
been recognized or the institution estab-
lished by our fathers had been DESTROYED.
The people of the loyal states at last con-
ceiyed that they could preserve their lib.
critics only by an appeal to the God Of bat
ties, rushed to the standard of tho Repub-
lie in response to the call of the Chief Mag
istrate.
Every step of this monstrous treason has
been marked by violence and crime No
transgressiou has been two great, and no
wrong too startling for its. leaders. They
disregarded the sanctity of the oaths they
had taken to support the Constitution.
They rePudiAted all their obligations to the
people of the free States. They deceived
crowded their armies with forced levies.
They drove from their midst all who would
not yield to their despotism, or filed their
prisons with men who would not enlist un-
der their flag. They have now crowned
the rebellion by the preparation of deeds
scarcely known even to savage warfare.
The investigations of your committee
have established this fact beyond contro-
versy. The witnesses called before us
were men of undOnbted veracity and char.
acter. Some of the men occupy high po.
sitious in the army, and others high posi-
tons in civil life. Differing in political
sentiments, their evidence preseGts re-
markable concurrence of opinion and of
Judgment.
Our fellow countrymen, heretofore suf.
ticieutly impressed by the generosity aud
fOrbearance of the Government of the
United States and by the barbarous char
acter of the crusade against it, will be
shocked by the statements of these unim-
peached and unimpeachable witnesses (;
and foreign nations must with one accord,
however they have hesitated heretofore,
consign to lasting odium, the authors of
crimes which, in all their details, exceed
the worst excuses of the Sepoys of India.