Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1864-05-19

Wilkes.--M. T. JONES, NJ. A. Parks, N.
a. Foster, E. 6. Gray, F. G. Miller, J. F.
Forester.
Ashe. B. Y Martin.
A SUBJuaATED PEoPLE.-We copied
some weeks ago from the Richmond Ex-
aminer some very able articles exhibiting
the intolel able condition Of the people Of
Poland and Ireland after their subiuga-
ton. 1t was an appropriate warning to
the people of the Confederacy of their
own fate if they should ever be 80 foolish
and base as to permit their own subjuga-
ton. The warning may be repeated from
experience nearer home. A late number
of the "Norfolk Regime" the official pa
per of Beast Butler and Wild, is said to
contain about sixty orders on various sub
jects, some of which show the condition of
Norfolk as subjugated place. One of
these orders recites that W. II. a. Hodges,
Cashier of the Merchants and Mechanics
Savings Bank, had sent away into the
Confederacy the funds belonging to the
bank, and refused to disclose the men and
means by which he had sent them, where
fore, says the order, cit is ordered that he
be confined at hard labor at Fort Hatteras,
on Hatteras Island, upon the coast IF
North Carolina, upon bread and water,
with a twenty-four pound ball attached to
his leg by q chain not more than six feet
long, until he answers the questions, and
that he stand committed to the guard
house until he is removed on board the
transport to be conveyed to Fort Hatteras
IN execution of this order"
! A horrible punishment for honestly en-
deavoring to save the money entrusted to
him from the clutches of one who, like
Butler, had made himself notorious for his
immense stealings while commanding at
New Orleans.
The Rev. George M. Baine, Sen cash
Ter Of another Savings Bank, for the same
offence Of ''refnsing to disclose his accom-
plices" IN removing $43,O00 of its funds
to Richmond, was sentenced to hard labor
at Fort Hatteras until he does answer the
questions, and it is added, "No further
punishment is put upon him in considera-
ton of his age" A minister of the Cos
pei and an old man, sentenced to hard la
Dor on desert island, sand bank, tor
doing his duty by those who had trusted
him with their money, to preserve it from
being stolen - s4 s's~e .sa@. s.<. -
Next we see that the Rev. c. L. Wood
worth, Chaplain Of 9th Massachusetts
regiment, is by formal order assigned to
the palpit of the Presbyterian church in
Norfolk, made vacant by Wild's having
deposed the former pastor, the Rev. JAS.
D. Armstrong, D. D., on account of his
sympathy with the Confederacy. So the
people Of subjugated town are pot at
liberty to select their own Ministers to
preach the gospel to them, but have, one
appointed for them, appointed by military
authority, coming from region noted for
its ungodliness, and for Its hostility to ev-
cry thing thatkthe people Of Norfolk res
|spect and venerate! They would doubt
less rather have no Minister at all than
such a one !; but if they chow their feeling
by staying away from Church, they will
doubtless pay for it by expressions and
insults. ~ f se6se
Next, we find an order banishing sfChas.,
W. .Bnttz, Attorney at Law, 90 called, ;" :
for shaving applied abusive and contenp-
tuous language to me and to an officer Of
my staff,D says Gen. Wild. Noble re-
venge for abuse and contempt &c 10 q
lpity that Battz did not kick them both
and pull their noses while he was about
it, for they would have resented these In