Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-29

Nrw DIRK, Dec 27-The following are Da.
Wis allegations against Gen Butler
Peaceful and aged citizens, unresisting cap
tiyes AMI non combatautS. have been confined at
hard labor with chains attached TO their limbs,
and are still 50 held in dungeons and iortiesses
Others have been submitted To like degrading
punishment for selling medicine TO sick soldiers
OF the Coniederacy Soldiers Of the United
States have been invited and encouraged in gen.
eral orders to insult aud outrage the wives mo-
Tiers and sisters of our citizens Helpless wo-
men have been torn from their homes and sub
jected to solitary confinement, some in fortresses
and prisons, and one especially on an island of
barren sand under tropical sum- h we been fed
with loathsome ratons that had been condemned
as unfit for soldiers, and have been exposed to
violent insults.
Prisoners of war, who surrendered To the naval
forces of the United States, on agreement that
they should be released on parol. have been
seized and kept in close confinement Repeated
pretexts have been sought or invented for plum
de.ing the Inhabitants Of the captured city, by
fines levied and collected under threats of i'm
prisOning the accusants at hard labor with ball
and chain. The entire population of New Or
leans have been forced - elect between starva
ton by contscation of all their property and
taking an oath against conscience To bear alleg-
ance To the invaders of their country Egress
from the city has been refused TO those whose
foritude wthstood the test, and even TO lone and
aged women and helpless children; aud after be-
Ing elected from their homes and rubbed of their
property, they have been left to starve in the
streets or subsist on charity
Slaves have been driven from plantations in
the neighborhOod of New Orleans until their
owners would consent TO share their crops with
the commanding General. his brother, Andrew
j. Butler, and other officers, and when such con-
sent had been extortsd, slaves have been restored
to the plantations, and then compelled to work
under the bayonets of the guard of United States
soldiers When that partnership was refused,
armed expeditions have been sent TO plantations
to rob them Of everything that was susceptible
of removal. and even slaves, too aged aud irhrm
TO work. have, in spite of their owners, been
forced from the homes provided by their owners,
and driven to wander helpless in the highway
By a recent order, No. 81, the entire property
of that part of Louisiana west of the Mississippi
river, has been registered for confscation, aud
officers have been assigned to duty with orders to
gather up and collect together all the personal
property and bring the same TO New Orleans,
and cause il TO be sold At public auction 10 the
highest bidder An order which, if executed.
condemns to punishment, bs starvation, Of at
least a quarter of million of all ages and sexes,
and conditions and of which the execution, al
though forbidden by military officers, BY the
order of President Lincoln is in accordance with
the confscation law OF our enemies, which he has
enforced through the agency OF cruel officials.
African slaves have not only been melted to
instruction by every license and encouragement,
but numbers Of them have actually been armed
for servile war-a in its nature far exceeding
the horrors and most merciless atrocities of saw
ages-and the officers under command OF said
Butler have been in many instances active and
jealous agents in the commission of these crimes.
VIScrSxEs, Dec 27.-Last night about &c, en-
O'Clock four men broke into the house of Isaac
Purcell, six miles east Of Nincennes, and de.
manded his money. Upon bis refusing they
knocked him down and. taking his knife, which
he was using at the time splitting kindling. they
ran t through his head. They then frightened
the other members of the family into submission,
and forced Mrs. Purcell. with a loaded pistol a,
her head, 10 give them what money there was in
the house. In this way thes cot 81 200 in gold
and $500 In bank notes, and made their escape.
Mr.. Purcell died from his wounds this morning.
No clue has been obtained TO the muruerers.
CARo. Dec 27.-Nothing has been received
today IN regard 70 the movements OF the rebel
force operating in Northwest Tennessee. The
greatest damage is done the Albion river.
who're Two long bridges and two miles OF trestle-
work we're destroyed