The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-06-29

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Southern Prisons
New York, Juas %.
One of the Herald correspondents haa
recently made tlip ACROSS South Carol,.
n in the track Of Shefman's march. and
be describes the havoc aud desolation q
most complete.
The route Of tho avenriug army ID
marked BY chimnsys, oblitsratsd railroad.
and starving country. 1t i pretty vel
cleaned Of animals, forage and sssplns
property. The white people in the int.
rior. while admitting they are conqusred
for the present. still mainsaia and give
expression 70 their secession proclivisiss
aud entertain an intense hatred for the
Ysnksss and the negroes. Nosvithstan-
ding this the planters say that they will
b better OF without the negroes.
There 10 considerable cotton still seat
tered hroughoot the State, BAT the great
oct part Of the Drop has bsea destroyed.
The oolorsd people Of Columbia have held
meetings and raised money for tho par
pose Of celebrating the Fourth Of July, by
giving . dinner to the national troops
stationed there.
The Times special says:
Among the applications for pardon
Sled to-day was one from Gen. Ewen.
There e.were besides 16 petitions from per-
sons unknown to the pubic.
The members Of the cabinet convened
At the usual honr to-day, bat o. the Pres
idens bad not recovered from bis indispo-
sition no business was transacted. By
tomorrow the President will doubtless be
able to resume his of1icial labors.
Senstor Wade, chairman Of the Com.
mittee on the Conduct Of the War, is nov
here revising the sheets Of that commit
tee, comprising the recent testimony q to
the treatment our prisoners received u
the hands of the rebels.
The committee say this evidence clear.
~ shows that tens of Thousands of our
brave soldiers have fallen victims 70 that
savage:snd internal spirit which spared nos
the prisoner at their mercy, Who sosght
BY midnight arson to destroy husdreds
of women and children and Who hesitated
not to commit acts so horrible that the
nations of the earth stand aghast - they
are told what has been done.
The prison surgeons report Of the
Richmoad prisons for one quarter shows
that fraction of over one half of oil the
cases entered resulted in death, and most
of thes caseses were more the results OF
inhumsn treatment and neglect than dis.
case. Bat . little more than half the
necessary number of beds were procured
and the nurses often occupied then to
the exclusion Of the sick. After cor men
died their bodies we're treated q he ar
oasses of 30 many dead animals. Tier
were piled in the dead house asd th1ls
eyes and cheeks eaten ont By the rats Be-.
fore they were pu. into ccfiips The keep-
ers generally manifested almost total in-
difference to the lives and condition Of
the prisoners. aud ~ one Of tho many
illustratious Of this, witness testified to
the following;
II was standing one day BY the hospi-
tai. One of our negro soldiers captured
at the explosion Of the mine at Petersburg
was standing near BY, engaged 10 skir-
mishing, IS We prisoners call it, examin-
ing for vermir. A rebel sentinel, ct
whom | happened to be looking at the
time. drew up his musket, took deliberate
aim and fred. killing the negro. On be.
ing asked what he did it for he snswered,
TO zee the dspped blsek cor Of ! bitch
Drop. The rebels said hey got thirty
days farloagh for shooting : Yankee"
The conmittss ny il u ussser Of
soagfstulatioa that sosvithstasdisg the
great provoeslions 70 Dursus : di6erest
soarse, our authorities have ever treated
thdt prisoasrs huusssly ssd eeserously,
and hAvs in al respects eoaductsd this
contest according 70 the fales of the
most civilized warfare.