Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-06-05
LOCAL NEWS.
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

GROWERS TBEATkR-"Cn cle Toms CABIN" "
Characters by Miss Susan Denim, Little Katie
Bazer, Martha Wren, and other fayorites in
prominent characters.
WASHINGTON THRATRR Miss Pauline
Cushman and J. NJ. Ward in the Military
Drama OF "The Union Spy: or, Pauline OF the
Cum berland."
EIyoS's CIRCUS, Sixth street, below the
ayenne-Oper afternoon and evening. The
tsc and equestrian performances together with
npge bull OF ballet, songs, burlesques and
other attractions.
CxFoED.-The drama of (" The Murdered
waterman" tsJOckO, or the Brazilian Ape"
ballet buriesque, negro delineations, Roman
and Grecian statuary.
CASTERRURY.-Man Doneti, the one
legged dancer. and an immense BILL OF ballet,
songs, negro delineatons, SC concluding with
side splitting afterpiece.
MECHANICS HALL, Maryland avenue.-BaIl,
and Eaftie for PAIR of Colts reyolvers.
RKFRRnRssIrLR CoNpuor eF SOME Militia.
BY CFF1CERs.-Statements were made TO
yesterday. by some OF the most respectable
citizens @: Capitol Hill, concerning recent do.
ipgs OF the military officers at capitol Hill Bar
racks. mic b, II correct are sufficient to excite
tGe disgust and Indignation Of every man,
woman, AID child possessing grain of COM
mon sense anda sill lie spark OF humanity The
most prominent and disgusting of these acts
are SAID TO have been witnessed by large
uay evening. We give the stories as they are
told 10 us: A soldier of company II, 18th V. Il.
Co ttLe regiment stationed III that barracks
named Christopher Elderbrand. visited the
Goth corps FOR the purpose of seeing a friend,
became intoxicated, and did not return to the
barracks IN season 10 answer to roll call. Con-
sequenuy, at six o'clock, on Saturday eve
mig, Elderband was suspended by the thumbs
70 a round OF a ladder placed with one end on
the ground. and the other Against the caves of
one OF the buildings. He was kept suspended
until fifteen minutes to nine O'Clock. After
two hours of suffering, the cries of ElderbTand
(wno is about seventy years of age) were so
lOuG And hPArt-rpnOiUH. that q nlaNnd
In ms mouth to suppress the noise.
The soldiers of the regiment became so In
digLant that they assembled in squads and
groaned at the officers This grooming of the
men drew 20 the scene large number of men,
women, and children, when one OF those pres
emit remarked that ii was 4 barbarous mode of
punishment and should be made known TO
GeneT al Augur. Another said it should be re.
TERED 70 the Secretary OF War-a man whom
act he ornmitted. On hearing these remarks
Captain Duatop, of company III, demanded
their names, at the same time threatening them
Tor interfering.
; Second Lieutenant MARYLAND, an artillery
officer. who was on the ground, appeared
about this tine, having put on sash, and
ordered the guard 70 charge the citizens, which
ment
At about eight O'clock, lady residing near
BY the wife OF major now - the army, pro-
posed to go and cut the sufferer down, if sew
eral otter ladies would accompany her. They
agreed 10 do so, and started, but, before they
passed OH Of the pavsment opposite the bar
racks, the guard again charged, and drove the
ladies, tst the points of their bsyonets,) into
The Major afterward ordered Lieutenant
Hawiey to make charge on the ladies and
children who were standing on the pavement,
which the Lieutenant refused to do, at the
same time rendering the Major his sword
This TIE Major would not receive, but ordered
the Lieutenant under guard.
The cries of the sufferer excited the wife Of a
Eenre nant IN the barracks tosuch a gree that
she threatened 20 cut the man down nergeh, if
40 ether person would
Those who were present and saw Elder
brard taken down say that blood issued from
bath his nose and mouth.
Yesterday morning, the two citizens whom
we have mentioned above as having made re
marks concerning the punishment, were before
Coi. Johnson, the commander of the regiment
one CT them having been taken there under ar
rest. Colonel Johnson charged them with in
citir 2 he crowd TO riot, and ordered one to re-
port a. 4 fAed time, and the other when Goti-
The enc, however, who was taken before the
Colonel under guard, yesterday called on Sec
rotary stanton, and laid the facts before him.
The Secretary called in General Fry, and re-
Quested him TO in yestig ate the case.
The Secretary then dispatched courier with
an order TO Colonel Johnson, requiring the re-
lease OF the gentleman who called On him from
arrest, with which order the Colonel is said to
have complied
war, this gentleman also informed him that
soloier had been confined in the guard house
OF the barracks for three months, lacking few
days, and had been lying very Ill Tor the most
OF the last month of his confinement, having
been deprived OF the services OF physician,
AND, until within the past few days, sill re-
melIips in the guard house. This. the Secre-
taIy SAID, should be also investigated.
The folks il the neighborhood testify that II
Ia q general practice of these officers to place
men for tbs slightest otfenses on the street, with
q ladder around their necks, and TO compel
them 10 carry 1t for two hours at a time
The privates of this regiment bear the best
49, ~ 10 Ynhb hai nR tho
quietest aud most orderly ever stationed there.
ON tie other hand, some OF the officers bear the
reputation of being insulting toward the IA
dies IN that vicinity, and with being exceed
ingly profane In and out of the barracks.
TRCoFs LEAVING THE CITY.-On Saturday
and yesterday the following troops left The
CIty:-I4th Pa. cavalry, I3i-for PIttsburg 81
cony alescents from Alexandria-for Columbus,
Ohio; 18th New York, iS mentor Elmira: Bat
terry {, ist Ohio Light Artillery, 100 mentor
II. cavalry, Is mentor Concord; 12lst Pa +,
2sl-for Philadelphia; ith Maine battery, l47
men-t6r Augusta; 22d New York cavalry,
mot n ustered opt,) II9 mentor Harper's Fer.
~; I2th New York battery, 12l men-albany;
10th Mass. battery, 19O-Boston LIST n. Il. ar
tiilery, 40 men-to Man chester: LIST New Jersey
artillery, 2G9-to Trenton; 9th NJ aine artillery,
1910 Portland; LIST Rhode Island artillery
1i9-to Providence; 105th Ohio, 356-to CIeve-
land, itth do, 7s-do'; las Pa, 272-:o Harris.
burg 5th New York veteran vols, 75jr to Hart
Island. N Y: 91st Pa, 20 men-to Philadel-
phia: leith Pa, 2l7 men-to Harrisburg; lst N.
\. s. 5, 20 men-to New York; attachments of
LIST, I'd, aud Sth Michigan, 109-to Detroit 4th
division. 18th army corps, 4,520 mentor Lou
isrille, kentucky 1S6th New York, 622 men-to
Sackstt's Harbor; 12itn New York, $50 men-to
Hart Islsnc; Gath Illinois, Al men-to Chicago;
10th Pennsylvania, 126 men-to Philadelphia;
12Jth New York, i35 men-to Hart Island; lst
Ohio Light Artillery, battery H, 122 men; LIST
Pennsylvania battery y, l46 men-to Hsrris
burg; l26th New York, TO Elmirs; Goth New
Ycrk, go men.
FALSE PkETRScEs Some days ago man
applied 10 Gen. Slocum for q loan of twenty
cohaTs, representing himself As the Lieut..
Colonel OF the 14eth Pennsylvania regiment.
The General knowing the regiment and the
Coienel, leaned the person the money on his
promise 10 return il when he was paid of.
SuoseO uently the same man made another ap
pGcation 70 the General, an officer of the regi.
raebt being present, when il was FOUND that
the preteLces OF the applicant were false. The