The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1864-186?, 1864-03-22

n ToRrURE-PEN IN New York Cry

a ToRrURE-PEN IN New YoRK C1ry.-Thc
Sew York WorlL gives the following des
cription of a torture-pen in that city:
1t may surprise some of our staid and gen
erous- hearted citizens to know that for some
weeks past torsure-pen, worse than the Black
dole OF Calcutta, and elualed only by the
most abhorrent cells and dungeons Of the an
j tcclentequisitions Of Spain, has been in full
operation in the very EYE of the city" oi
New York, Immediately in front. Of the City
Hall, and within a few rods of the statue o1
W ashington. In this place fifty-eght sol
dlers were confined and suffering last night,
and the absolute misery OF their condition can
hardly be imagined, even by the few who
Lave seen them. That part of the Park Bar
racks built on Park Row, has been used bv
the Provost Marshal for some time past to,
the confinement of deserters and DISCHARGES,
prisoners under military rule.
! Near the Broadway end OF it a portion has
;'oen boarded and partitioned up SO as to
make perfect cage, twenty feet and two
inches long and fifteen feet wide. Three
sides are boarded up tight, ar-tight, anu Iii
tlnnelmost side rs fitted with Stats about :
lAchcs vide, with intervals of2 inches be
tween them. In this pen, more like tic
cage of scnle wild animal, and not half 50
iclean, are thrown the prisoners that arr
(
! force, and there they are compelled t. STAY
gasping with t!le horrible stencil shat arise.
from the unclean prison, and actually lying
upon each other In heaps, Sol want Of sutii
cient room upon the floor. There are n(
beds Of any kind except that the unlerinos
Of the crowd are obliged to sustain tn,
weight Of those who lie upon them in th
pile of humanity. Some have blankets, bu
they are almost unnecessary, as the vaper
Gus heat arises, sitting and sutfocating t.
any one who comes in from tie fresh cute
air
b The pen is also reeking in flth and verlnin
ana the intolerable stencil mast. in a YER
short time, destroy the physical constitution
. as The situation must all selfrespect and mo
,ftte of every one who enters as a prisonc
that accursed hole. just inside the Stats is
stove that heats the confined atmosphere to
double temperature. Our reportcr visited thi
. place last night to see whether the rumor
that had been circulated about it were true
and found that the half had uot loen told -
Cap: Sieber, who is in command of the pri-
o''cIs, was not present, bat the officers whc
were in charge united in denouncns TIL
! method OF treatment as a shame to hunanity
Pheir attention was called to Az article IN tn
Post which read thus:
! "a part Of the old Park Barracks is nov
used as prison for the detention Of soldier
+ who are under arrest for various nfracions 0
military discthine, and thousands pass by tha
r. whitened sepulchre, l"..r dreaming Of til
+. suffering within.
'in a cage 20 feet inches long, and
.eet wide, boarded up on three sides, wit
+ the other arranged with Stats, like the Gag
t OF the hyena in the 1neuagrrie, fifty-fise me
are now confined without bunks or beds {
any accommodation whatever bat the floor
e. At night, as the officer in charge foFoioly c>
\ pressed it, they have to lie spoon fashion 0
y the floor. with heads on each others breasts
;, This, with the most economical spoon a
=, ran cement. accommodates forty five TT
rest are brought out and chained around
Z Tree
''These men have been in this pest-hol'
i some as long as :wo months, for the red tai
-, to be spun by the inertness, incap4clty al
a fraud which is somewhere.
j 1T IS q disgrace to humanity and to ii
=, age"