Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-06-29
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Mfseenaneous Items.
NEW YoRK, June 28.-Oue of the
HerGlds correspondents has recently
made atrip seross South Car0lina IN the
track Of Sherman's march, aud be de-
scribes the havoc and desolation as
complete. The route Of the avenging
army is marked BY ehimneys, obliter-
ated railroads, and the country is pretty
we'll cleared Of animals, forage and sur
plus provisions The white people in
the interior, while admitting that they
are conquered for the present, still
maintain ard give expression 20 their
secession heTesies, and evince an intense
hatred for the Yankees and negroes.
Nolwiihsianding this, the planters say
they will be better OF without slavery.
There 10 still considerable cotton
scattered throughout the State, bat the
greater part OF the crop has been de-
stroyed.
The colored people Of Columbia have
held meetings and raised money to cele-
brate the 4th Of July BY giving a dinner
to the national troops stationed there.
A great demand for negro labor exists
ia Maryland. The formers there are
paying SIS per month to males and from
$40 to $l2 for females for field labor.
The supply 10 still short, and agents
have again been sent ia different direc-
tons TO make contracts and induce emf
grafton, Notwithstanding their recent
expulsion from Richmond
Gen. Meade returned from Philadel-
phia this morning, and is experimenting
the mastering out Of = portion of his
army Within q week the world re-
nowned Army of the Potomac viii most
likely cease to exist as an organization.
Gen. Grant is advertised to appear 1t
half dozen diferant places on the 4th
of July. BE has been steadily deciin.
ing iuvititions for weeks past He con
templates spending the day at home.
The Irish Brigade, consisting of the
SD, 69Gh and 8Sth New York veteran
volunteers and the 2sth Massachusetts
veteran volunteers, commanded BY Gen
eral Nugent, late Colonel OF the 69th,
will leave here on Saturday or Sunday,
as brigade ], 800 strong only, for mus
ter out
The Times special says:
Among the applications for pardon
to-day was one from General Ewell.
There were, besides, sixteen petitions
from persons unknown to the public.
The members of the Cabinet conven-
ed at the usual hour to-day, but, as the
| President had not recovered from his
indispoaition, no business was transact
ed By tomorrow the President will
doubtless, be well enough to resume his
official lah0Ts feav
Senator Wade, Chairman Of the Com
mittee on the Conduct Of the War, is
now here revising the sheets Of the ReS
port Of that Committee, comprising re-
| cent testimony as 20 the treatment
| our prisoners received at the hands of
the rebels The Committee say the
evidence clearly shows that tens of thou
sands of our brave soldiers have fallen
| victims to that savage and internal
spirit which actuated those who spared
sought by midnight arson to destroy
hundreds of defenseless women and
children, and Who hesitated not 70 resort
TO means to commit acts possible that
the nations of the earth stood aghast,
IS they are told what had been done
The Surgeons Report of the Rich
| mond prisons show that for one quar-.
4 ter q fraction over one-haf Of ali the
! cases entered, resulted in death, and
most OF these deaths were more the re-
suit Of i'll treatment and neglect than dis
ease. But q little more than half the
necessary number of beds were provid-
| ed, and the nurses often occupied them
/ to the exclusion of the sick. After our
men died their bodies were treated aa
the carcases of so many dead animals,
They were piled IN the dead house, and
their eyes and cheeks we're eaten out by
rats before they we're put in cofinF.
Thee keepers generally manifested al
most total indifference to the lives aud
condition Of the prisoners, and as one of
the many illustrations of this, q witness
testified 10 the following:
~ was standing one day by the hos
pital, and one of our negro soldiers,
captured at the explosion OF the mine
near Petersburg, was standing near by,
engaged in skirmishing, as we soldiers
call it-examining bis clothing for YER
nina rebel soldier, at whom | hap
pened to De looking, picked up his gun,
took deliberate aim At the negro, bred
and killed him on the spot
On being asked what be did il for
answered: "To see the d-u black son
of = b-h drop"
The rebels said lhsy got thirty days
/ furlnBgh for shooting Yankee.
The committee say that IL is . matter
for eongratuIation that, notwithstanding
the great provoeatiou to pursue differ.
cut course, our authorities have treated
their prisoners hnmsns and generous,
aud in ell things conducted this contest
in accordance With the rules Of the most
civilized warfare.
! The Heraids Washington special
Gays:
The Freedmens Bureau has set apart
q large quantity Of abandoned and con.
6scated lands in the South, In tracts Of
various sizes aud in various localities,
| for the especial benefit Of the negroes.
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