Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-09

penkniyes and razors are prohibited. The
prisoners are denied the privilege OF taking
needful exercise in the open air In the yard,
even though surrounded by a high picket
4 fence and armed guards. The prison is in
tested with billions OF vermin OF every
kind, and 1t was only after repeated solici-
tations that permission to scrub the floor
was granted. The treatment of the inmates
is characterized by greater harshness and
cruelty than is manifested to any convicted
felon in penitentiary, and they are denied
privileges which are freely accorded men
under sentence of death for the commission
/ of the highest crime known to the laws
And all this tor what? Simply for con-
| demning in mild terms an act OF atrocious
! vandalism ON the part of Gen. Hunter, OF
for speaking of the sufferings his troops
were compelled by his imbecility to under
go. In addition to the penalties and out
RACES inflicted upon their persons, their
business is completely ruined, and financial
disaster follows their personal sufferings.
Their property is in possession of an armed
guard, and its condition may be imagined
by those familiar with the printing business,
and who know what incalculable injury an
| ignorantman may infict, even unconscious
lY, upon presses and material. The Register
subscription books, with large number of
unsettled accounts, were in the office, and
the business agent of the establishment is
denied access to them, Notwithstanding APP
plication has been made to Headquarters
for that purpose. rft.. ~.
This statement is simple detail of facts
pertaining to the case of Messrs. Baker
and Long, to the truth of which twenty
men in Wheeling are prepared to testify
under oath. 1t presents an instance OF tyr
amy and outrage hitherto unknown in
this country and rare in any other A petty
military officer, assigned by the insane
Federal Administration to the rank of Ma
ior General on account of his negro-loving
proclivities, distinguished only by his blum
ders in the field and his cruelty to his own
troops, has assumed a prerogative which no
King dare exercise. To crafty his own
personal and pitiful spite, he has outraged
every right that is dear to the citizen, and
every honorable sentiment of the soldier
In Captain Ewald Over, Hessian, as base
and cowardly as any that ever lived off of
the gains of prostitutes, Hunter has found a
fitting tool, and the execution OF the infa-
nous behests of the one gives pleasure to
the brutal instincts of the other. He, too,
pimp and paltroon as he is, affects to play
the tyrant, and a few days subsequent to
the arrest of Messrs. Baker and Long. upon
| isown order, and to crafty his own person
al revenge, arrested Mr.. VIM. I'll. Oxtoby, the
Local Editor of The Register and committed
him also to prison. With a refinement of
cruelty worthy of his master, Hunter, he
placed him in different dungeon from that
in which his employers were confined,
and forbade all intercourse between them
He admits that he has no charge
against OXtoby, but avows his de-
termination to keep him in solitary con-
tinement as long as Hunter sees fit to i'm
prison Baker and Long. In short, the
prison in this city seems to belong to Hun
ter and Over, and is used by them almost
solely for the punishment OF the victims Of
their personal displeasure. An old man,
Col. Mcdonald, a regular prisoner of war,
entitled equally with others to the priv
ilege of exchange, is detained in the
Atheneum, in irons, to crafty the demoniac
revenge of Gen. Hunter or Col. Strother,
Hunters aide and relative, one or the other
of whom fancied himselfinsulted by the old
man. There are fifty cases equally aggra-
waited and outrageous that might be men,
toned, where persons have been held for
months without trial and without knowing
why they were arrested or held. All
these unhappy people are subjected to the
brutality and rapacity OF Over. If this
scoundrel was not as contemplate and dis
gusting as the vermin of his prison, would
TccOru SOME INSTANCES unaj KNOW Ol III HIS
infamous career, which would be sufficient
to damn him forever, and make his own
mother disown him; but in view of the
greater, because more responsible infamy
and wickedness of Hunter, the crimes of
Over may be left unnoticed. -
have already made this communication
too long probably for your columns, but l
cannot dismiss the subject without beseech-
ing you to use your influence to rid this OPP
pressed community Of the tyrant Hunter,
Murat, a sans culotte, disgrace to the army
and to humanity, of whom it may be said
with truth, as the Queen said of the hunch
back Richard:
Bloody thou art and bloody will be thine end,
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.
HALIFAX.