The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-08-16

Arrical of released federal prisoners-Ne,cs
from Gen. Pope's commdnd-Iryernal bar
barity Of the rebels.
NEW YORK, August Is
The correspondent of the Herald, writing
from Harrison's Landing under date of the
18th, says: This morning the Ariel arrived
here with 147 Union prisoners from Richmond.
Among them are Gems. Mccall and Reynolds,
Col. Simpson and Mai Binney of the 4th Nj;
Col. Stockton of the 18th Mich, and other Off
GERS captured in the battles on the Peninsula.
Our officers of high rank state that they have
been treated with marked indignity by the re-
bel authorities.
Gen. Pope's forces hold the approaches to
the Rapdan, and occupy both of its banks and
are advancing.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 18th gives a
list of officers arrived there from Pope's army,
among which we find the name of Lieut.. j. ID.
Beardsley, Co. D., 10th Me. The officers who
arrived yesterday from Gordonsville, and who
were captured by Gen. jackson, will not be
considered prisoners of war so long as the re-
cent offensive and uncivilized orders of Gen.
Pope remain unrepealed.
The following dispatch was received to-day
WASHINGTON, August IA.
To Mai. Gen. Pope Your telegram of last
evening is most satisfactory, and congratu-
late you and your army, and particularly Gen.
Banks and his corps, on your hard earned but
brilliant success against vastly superior num-
bers. Your troops have covered themselves
with glory: and Cedar Mountain will be known
in history as one of the great battle fields of
the war. Ii. w. HALLEcK, Gen. in Chief.
NEW YORK, August Is.
DIR. Moore states that at the fair ground Of
Lynchburg where $500 prisoners were not
long since confined, five or six die every day
from sheer exhaustion, in consequence of poor
and insufficient food; but all they endure was
nothing compared with torments which those
fiends, the rebel leaders, are inficting upon
the officers of Gen. Pope, who have fallen into
their hands.
These poor fellows are confined in close and
dark rooms, like common felons; they are not
allowed to buy anything to mitigate their suf-
ferings, even at the usual exhorbitant rates.
They are allowed to have no meat and moth
ing but an insufficient supply of bread-sour at
that-and water poisoned with the filthy sew
erage which flows into the James River-wa-
ter that dog or a hog would refuse.
In addition to these horrors our brave men
are liable at any moment to be hung by these
monsters in human shape.
A correspondent of the Herald on board the
Essex gives a graphic account of the attempt
to capture the ram Arkansas on the I'D Of
July.
The Essex advanced to where the ram was
moored under tremendous fire from the bat
teries. When within few rods ola ram the
latter's bowline was let loose and she swung
round with the tide, that partially evading the
blow from the Essex, which glazed her side,
causing the latter 10 30 ashore for several min
utes The water batteries, field artillery,
musketry and heavy land batteries play
ed on the Essex which delivered at six yards
distance a raking fire from her three inch
guns into the ram, the projectiles going
through her plating killing 16 and wounding
80 of the rebel crew The remainder of the
crew fled to the shore, aud if the fleet had
properly supported the Essex as agreed upon
the Arkansas would have been captured.
The Essex escaped with only three shots
that took effect, killing one and wounding
three of her men. M
The Essex is covered with indentations all
over from the shots of hundreds Of cannon
Her smoke stacks are riddled, her wheel house
shot through.
During the affair the Essex was hidden from
view by the splashing water thrown up by the
iron shower about her.