New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-04

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
ARRANGEMENTS having been completed for the
,,orv Of some fen thousand of our by exchange
., a nont ten miles above Wilmington the steamer
James Christopher this morning received ON board at
the bridge and brought down some four hundred.
Daring the day others TO the number of two thousand
have come in, marching ffom the Rebel line, where
thew passed from captivity under the protec
,ion Of the old flag. They sent up faint cheer-the
best which their wasted energies could give out when
ihey came In sight OF The Stars and Stripes The boat
carried q white flag forward. and handsome Ameri'
can ensign aft These men represent almost every por
ton Of great Mon army and from nearly every
State. They wept with joy wien they found them
selves free from the clutches of the enemy and under
Uncle Sans protection. TIE long nereal professions
q. they into the city, caused shudder OF horror
among all classes and particularly among the Union
officers and men, who found, lere and there some Old
.omrade or acquaintance reduced from robust men to
mere skeletons and almost beyond recognition.
THEIR CONDITION.
An attempts TO describe the condition OF these re-
leased prisoners would utterly fail. No pen can do it
Justice, and if 1t could the effort would be pronounced
an exaggeration. Imagine procession of thousand
human beings walking in slow funeral the
streets of NewYork; their bodies wasted to skin and
rags, which swarm with vermin; half of them without
hats OF Shoes their faces hands and whole persons so
blackened by smoke and begrimed by dirt that they
could scarcely be distinguished from tlack men, totter
ING in almost infantile weakness or supporting one
another as they move mechanically along scarcely
seeming 10 realize or 10 where they are going
md YOU have faint idea Of the released mon prison
,rs received here to-day And these the best cases
cent forward first probably TO make good impression
saw to-day out.hearted weep; heard earnest
men curse the doubly died yilany the studied hendish
,nalignity, that could 50 treat humanity
SYSTEMATIC CRUELTY TOWARD UNION PRISONERS.
Some assert that the Rebels are not able 10 do any
better. If this is the best they can do for mankind
then surely the bastard Conederacy is upon its last
legs But it is false All the Rebel prisoners that we
have taken are robust we.ied, and comfortably clad.
Their own citizens bod asserted to-day in my hear
ing that they could do better by their prisoners If they
vOuld-that there is systematic design 20 sarye and
murder men. One oftLem-a Mr. Bent an intelligent
and conscientious sodie-nformed the Surgeons to-day
that he knew that of in Rebel hospitals
where be had been innoculated with hospital gan
yTene and their arms and legs taken off The state
ment is almost incredible and would be quite bat
for those hundreds of wasel and dying men who are
thrust into our lines after long months of Imprisonment
al this we return good fer evil Witness the treatment
Of Rebel prisoners in our hands. Not only their
physical but their entail powers have given under
she terrible and prolonged sufeyngs. Some with whom
Dr. Buzzen conversed had dim recollection only Of
the time they had been prisoners but they could not tell
their own Names the regiment they belonged to, or the
place Of their BIRTH And ye there was no disease ~
account for this terrible road upon the mental powers
They had become demented by protraced suffering and
exposure by lack of nourishment.
VILE DEN.
No words can describe tire horrors Of the den where
shIee OF four bur bred Of sick men were found IN
this place. 1t nearly resembed pigsty than any
place intended for the of the sick. All attention
10 the ordinary sanitary regulations seems TO have
been abandoned; the sick were left In their helpless
meas and filth the floors covered with fecai mat
Ger end the whole shment SO revolving as 10
cause the visitor away with loathing and
Some Of these things have witnessed with my own
syes and therefore speak from personal knowledge
RELIEF.
The Medical Director the Medical Inspector the AS
sociate Surgeon the Commissaries QuartermasteTs OF
1he Army and members OF the Sta-al have been inde
ftigable in making preparations Tor the rehei OF these
xoor unfortunate Food is being cooked az Fapio
"a nossibe cotton cleth procured 10 make shirts and
Nclothlng obtained Wherever pidetcaoi0 w '"PP'' y"
many as possible with garments. OF the two thousand
.re adv received about twelve hundred will be able 10
Dear transporteon and most Of them Will be sent Norh
YIN The morning.
THK WORST TO CONE
The worst cases are get come These VIII have 10
20 into houses and churches here until they can De
sufHeiently recruited to go home.
The g. Il. Spaulding leaves for the North tomorrow.
She will carry three hundred sick and wounded
and part of the exchanged prisoners. The latter will
he landed at Annapols-the former be carried to New
York.
THE GOVERNMENT OF wIMIEGToS.
Gen Schofeld has issued orders Tor the guidance OF
officers In the administration Of their several depart
meuts The delicate, and in cases difficult
auties relating TO tie government Of the large and
mixed population which has suddenly fallen into Union
hands and what is more-the question as TO how they
are 10 be sustained, may well tax the wisest head.
THE CITY QUIET.
Thus far the city has been perfectly orderly and
opiet in fact the citizens most agreeaby surprised
A the improved condition Of affairs. Lieut'Col.
HAYES is military Provost rshal, or Commander OF
che most and Col Jordan looks after the police ana
good order Of the city. The 10Th ONO oand to-day
,ertnaded the newly Union prisoners and the
Los pitals.
UNION FEELING.
There are some Enthusiastically Union men ard women
An Wilmington They have suffered Imprisonment and
,ersecution In all forms for maintaining their allegiance
20 the old TAG All honor 10 thea. l shah refer to
them hereafter.
TIE WEATHER.