New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-08

to the dead.honse, hnu Ilieu ny a' 10
hacking establishments ofthe Wess
Then the dead.cart creaked and rumoieo WIN i''
horrid freight, going and coming IRON morning
unt;, n,nht. And the living gazed with shuoder
=. .h ,ifa,css forms thrown promiscuously together
,biIe ,e skeleton limbs were jolted, and the cadav-
erors heads. with staring eyes and gaping mouths,
uaro skaken over the rough road as If the festef'
ip1 eorpses were making horrid moTimentoTer their
own fearful funeral.
The hospitais would not contain one-eghth OF the
sick They were in the tents, in caves under build
lings, and often bodies were dragged therefrom ana
no names nor commands could bc ascertaned. Inc
Door fellows despaired, and some of them prayed to
| die: and their prayers were answered.
Little, if anything, could be done for them medi-
eGlly Hunger and exposure could not be reincdled
BY the matera medical and TO seek to heal them by
ordinary means was like endeavoring to animate
the grave. What advantage had quinine and opium
when they could get neither bread nor raiment
The sending Of physicians into the Prison limits
was CHASTITY farce, for the Rebel officers premedi-
taedly starved and frozo our brave men, hoping u
compel the Government to exchange, or TO force the
soldiers into the Southern service.
Hundreds of the prvates, anxious 70 save the'I
livcs Joined the enemy, trusting 10 the future 10
escape. cannot blame thom. Who can demand
that they shall await certain destruction in the form
Of disease aud cold and hunger, when relief is
offered them even by cruel and barbarous foe
| No. cannot censuro those who forgot in theil
fearful hours oil but their own savationi yet can
find no language too strong 10 praise the heroestha'
4. -. 81 NOD Oh
friends, their country, ana their God
orR pTLrvERAXCE PROM BONDAGE.
How much suffered from the daily and hourly
spectacle Of horrors in Salisbury will not under
take to say. found every day Chat things grew
worse and worse; that though tie deaths and enlist
ments had reduced tho number Of prisoners to les;
than 900 the mortality diminished very little.
No voice had gone forth from Salisbury IT was
like the tomb In more senses than one. Tho Gov
eminent, VIC believed, could not know the condi'
ton of affairs there; that a thousand or more OF
our soldiers were pershing every month, and as
many more enlistng in the Rebel army. Ii some
intelligent prisoner could get North, might not
something be done for The suffering captives in that
aocursci placol
| Ny Bohemian friends and myself discussed tho
matter, and we resolved to redcuble the efforts We
had been making all along 20 escape from that ter
resirial Tophet. We appointed the day and hour,
and eluded The guard, and passed the prison Unite
under cover OF the coming night.
With what welcome the fresh breeze Of the even
ing seemed to greet us We stepped into tho road
skiting the prison, ind walked as if with winged
feet away from tho scenes IN which Torquemado
would have reTe,ed, and which Caracalla would have
left his lascyous luyurics 70 behold Alas, that wC
find in our own day and country such other mon
stcrs Of their kind
| Let US never be taken back 10 that Iladcan hole
was our common resolution, and We were not.
! Tor four weeks We marched by night over val
| ley and mountain, through stream and forest, b!
rough and unknown and deviouswsys suffered
from hunger and cold and exhaustion; but founC
loyal hearts and helping hands in blacks and white
along oar entire route until after many an adyen
ture and narrow escape, which l will leave my col
laborateur 70 relate, reached lines at Straw
berry Plains, Tenn, having travelled, as We went
nearly four hundred miles. There We bathed ou
burning forehcads with new baptism Of freedom
and saluted with reverence, almost religious, the
national hammer that Hoafnh out IN ~" morning
breeze, rs fto welcome the worn and weary van
derers who had been lost and were found; who had
been buried, ard were alive again.
JUSIUs HENRI browse.
Me-. York Tncsday FeJ.7 1895.