New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-13

House included roast turkey. LMr. Gilmore,
who was there, told US. Mr.. Seldom, the Score
tary of War, ordered chickens, says Mr.. Lawley,
for the Union prisoners. We invite the produc.
ton of credible witnesses who shall testify they
ever saw either Gen. Lee dining on corn cobs,
or Union prisoners feeding on chickens.
Two circumstances will suffice to show the
straits in which Mr.. Lawley finds himself for
facts. In order to prove that there were no
vermn in Libby prison, he cites letter from
the keeper of it, Thomas p. Turner-a man
whose name is not less infamous than that of
Wirz or Winder. In order to reanimate little
of the English belief in cruelties on the side Of
the North, he reiterates the exploded calumny
that Col. Uric Dahlgren designed to murder
the whole Confederate Cabinet in cold blood.
Mr.. Lawley undoubtedly knows that the in.
structions to that effect which were said to have
been found on Col. Dahlgren's body, have been
proved to be q forgery. That be should bring
forward lie 30 dead and so long buried as that,
is enough to discredit his whole letter.
| When he comes to write about Andersonvlle
Mr.. Lawey confines himself to the food ques-
ton. He passes without notice the conilne-
ment of thirty.five thousand prisoners III an
open stockade of seventeen acres, which they SO
crowded "that it was difficult to move in any
direction without jostling and being jostled.
He fails to apologize for the swamp which flled
that prison with malaria. He omits to remark
| SC no N
low the prisoners to build themselves shelter
from the abundant woods near by. He finds nc
opportunity for comment on the crueltes that
Wrz and Wiuder practced on sick and well
] alike on the murders by the bullets OF the
guards, and the murders by starvation and
other fortunes worse than any bullets. All thai
Mr.. Lawley has to offer for Andersonvllle Ii
HE lame pretense that Union raids mao
made it difficult to get food. We commend tc
him the testimony of D. T. Chandler in the
Wirz trial, q Rebel Inspector General, that
large part of the prison was marsh totally unh'
for occupation, and in o condition 50 horrible
that it could not fail to breed pestilence; thai
1 there was no medical attendance within thu
stockade; that many dead were carted out daily
\ whom the medical officers had never seen; tina
rap rations were issued without any possible
means of cooking them; that although scurvy
and many kindred diseases were prevalent
green corn and other anti-sc0rbutlcs wheel
} could have been readily obtained
were withheld; that Chandler himsel
recommended the removal OF Winder and thu
substitution of some one who had some feelings
of humanity, and who at least should not lad
vocate deliberately and in cold blood the pro-
pretty of leaving tho prisoners in their present
condition until their number has been sutii-
GENTLY reduced by death to make the present
arrangements suffice for their accommodation y
those present arrangements" being such as
to compel Rebel Inspector-General Chandler
to denounee the prison rs ga place the hor'
rors of which it is difficult to de-
scribe, and which is disgrace tC
civilization" Will Mr.. Lawley's "Unior
raid which made food scarce, account for al
this Will he account for the fact that tbes'
horrors were officially reported at Richmond
to Davis, to Lee, to the Rebel Congress--ye
never noticed nor in the least modified o
ameliorated, If he will attempt that task il
some future letter, we may think it worth while
to give some account of his success.