Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-08-21
FROM FORTRESS MONROE
Arrival of Released Unien PrissnertEx
tracts from Late Richmond Papers.


FoRTREss MONROE, August I9-Lest evening
one bundled and sixty Union officers, who have
been long incarcerated In Southern prisons,
arrived at Fortress Monroe. They are from Sails
and came here via Richmond. They make bitter
complaints Of their usage and hard fare. Arrange
menn could not be made for an extra boat to take
these released prisoners to Washington, az was
Intended, and they 60 by the Baltimore boat to.
night.
The following 10 taken from the Richmond
Examiner Of August l6:
''FROM THE SOUTH SIDE.
on the south side.
"The Petersburg Express, whose columns for
time teemed with the very latest from City
Point, and innumerable other points now comes
to US with the sad admission that I'VE could learn
nothing OF the enemy's movements on James
river yesterday
"Where 10 The reliable free negro,n What
has become of the man with the 1strong eye-
glass; who used to watch the Yankees 80 closely
from the highest points OF st. Georgel Have
both these Invaluable reporters gone the way Of
'our cavalry who, since the taste they obtained
OF the enemy's quality, have been content to snuff
1.-TWO hundred wounded Yankees who fell into
our hands at Cedar creek, have been conveyed
TO Charlottesville. The majority Of them are said
to be too seriously wounded to warrant much ex-
Pectation OF recovery. There are among them q
dozen or more commissioned officers. A colonel
has had leg and an arm amputatedn -
The same paper In speaking Of the latest foreign
news claims the strongest sympathies Of France
and England; and In speaking OF the proclamst on
OF Presldent Lincoln, and the action Of Cong resI
In authorizing him TO draft says: "There 10 an
election this fell an they want to carry It, They
want to draft democrats, and they will draft
them td prevent their voting. They have the
power aud thsy can arrange it''
Ihe same paper says: "Buel 10 announced to
have hung five respectable citizens Of the South
In retaliation for the death Of Gen. McCook -
This 10 declared a brutal and bloody murder
Fiendish acts are declared 10 have been commit
ted on people and property happening to be In
the locality Of the attack on McCook, and Sen
Buel being known one Of the most lenient of
the Yankee generals, the fact proves that these
acts OF arson and hanging emanate from head
quarters They allege outrages upon widows an
orphans, and upon the privacy and feelings Of
women, and wholesale plunder and destruction
Something must be done to put an end to his
lnsolenee-these grievances and insulting out
RACES We have the subjects upon which to In
fict the terrible resribution. The public mind
10 convinced that unless full and fierce retaliation
10 inflicted this system Of murder and outrage
Will continue to go on. How we hold demons
In awe, unless we treat them as demons"
The same paper, speaking Of the election in
North Carolina, claims that In the election of
Vance over Johnson by 30 600 TO 40 900 msjority,
no important principles respecting the settlement
OF the present war have been deci ided-that the
platform OF principles Of both par ties are iden-
tical.
Old Point Comfort presents lively scene be-
Ing crowded with ofhcers Of every rank, private
soldiers and several hundred suffers. The har.
Dor Is also filed with steamers and schooners,
many Of the latter belonging to the suffers.