Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-14

I#. f~TTf-E 1T n
A Sentence that should he AIeEted.
We trust that the dispatch yesterday
morning, stating that our government had
warned the rebels agafnst'the executionsot
the two officers sentenced at Richmond to
be shot in retaliation for the death of Cor
bin and McGraw at Shndnsky, Ohio, on the
18th ofMay last, is strictly true. If itcosts
the whole concentrated effort Of the gov
eminent for the next six. months those exc
cutions ought to be prevented. General
Burnside arrested, tried and shot the two
rebel officers named under the rules of war,
they having been found recruiting within
our lines. They were dealt with as spies
according to- the nsagesi and regulations
established between belligerents the world
over. Ifthey were not liable to the DEATH
punishment the'rules of war will show it,
and in that case our government should at
once disavow Gen. Burnside's act aud thus
save the lives of the two men who have
been doomed to death in the way of retalia-
ton: 20 @ ~ ~ IS a.. g..
Nothing, in urjudgmeut, can SO strongly
appeal to the heart Of a great Government
than such sight as that witnessed at the
ibby.prisyn. in Richm oud, thssother day.
Seventy -four captains were brought out to
draw lots to see which of them should die
mot for any act Of their own-but for re.
taliatiOn's sake. Such a sight is too ter
rible for contemplation; and We do not
wonder that those brave men who had
taken all the risks of death for the sake Of
their country on the battle field felt them
selves sickened md depressed at the
thought of the barbarous gauntlet which
they we're called upon to rum Meeting
death IN cold blood, by drawing lots, is a
different thing from meeting 1t amidst the
excitement aud dash and rivalry and heat
of conflict Besides, It is not the death q
soldier wishes 20 die. Taken in any view,
il is revolving spectacle, aud one that no
Government worthy of the name should
& for. moment tslerate.s We have now an,
over proportion of prisoners, taken from
the rebels, and the War Department should
at once notify JEFF Davist that the death Of
the doomed officers will be avenged, four
fold. At the same tine that this assurance
Is given him in away which he cannot doubt
or misunderstood, all the evidence upon
I, which Corbin and McGraw were triedsandi
convicted as spies should be handed over
4 to him for e4amtnation, The rebels at
Rich@oHd profess to be governed by the
j., standard rules of war, and if they are there
tBsiderwas right the rebels should be made
+ TO respect the fact, and If he was not right
our governments should disown any endorse.
ment of it.boaWe have been forced to accord
tothe rebels belligerent rights, such'as ex-
change, parole, 30, Andlthe same rules lof.
:. war are now recognised as governing both
ofusyitlet the rules he applied and the
lives of the two patriotic men sho have
been. sentenced saved from. ignomiufous
'aai death - iioiL - iskt.tdl' 5.s'7 Lss
IA Ears Ixv1DiXo Aa&F is said to have
been thus made up: ssi ga
'virefnik SO 'Rsgim' Mississippi g Regis.
N. Carolina, 80 Texas, 4 q
acAlsbepsp al 5a.tf Tennessee 2r2i
dLo6isia1a, II s'iE.t SiT6taiis6. tE4 y
s. Carolina 9 I" 4s55
In MI ls6regimsnts, 70 which the cay
airy is itol be added. The border slave
States, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, Ar.
kansas and Missouri, are said 10 have no.
longer any regiments nithe Vireipia army.
Tennessee has but three. Il 1t is to be pre-
spmed that in the Western rebel armies
there, are few fsgTmsnts tom Arkansas,
n Kentucky and possibly Missouri.
= : These 1856 regiments probably do not av-
I. ersge over 400 men each. ). ssiss5