The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-29
Yesterday Evenings Edition,
SOUTHERN NEWS.


The Heralds Charleston correspondent
says the private effects and papers of JEFF.
Davis and Beauregsrd, recently captured
in Florida, had arrived in Charleston and
had been transmitted thence for Washing
ton. Among them is dispatch from
General Beaurega'd to a member of the
rebel Congress, dated at Charleston on the
18th of October 1862, inquiring whether the
bill for the execution of abolition prisoners,
meaning national soldiers, had We. become
a law, and urging its speedy passage fit
had not.
Union mselings were being held in va
rious parts of South Carolina
The captured rebel EK-StcrstsTy of the
Treasury, Trenholm, had been committed
to Fort Pulaski.
A difficulty recently occurred in Charles
ton between the white and colored troops,
but it was soon suppressed. A few on both
sides were wounded.
One of the Herald's correspondents has
recently made trip rcross South Carolina
in the track of Shermsn's march, and he
describes the havoc and desolation as most
complete. The route of the sYengiDg ar
my is marked by chimneys and obliterated
railroads, and the country pretty well
cleaned of animals, forage and surplus
property. The white people in the interi-
or, while admitting that they are con-
quered for the present, still maintain aud
give expression 10 their secession horesies
and entertain an intense hatred for the
Yankee and the negroes. Notwithstanding
-thia -thn nlanLaEs say thAt thA.- IN u
s.ss "a ---@+---L-4-v~Hy IH0re Is cOn5iQer-
able cotton still scattered throughout the
State, but the greater part of the crop has
been destroyed.
The eolored people of Columbia have held
meetings and raised money for the purpose
of celebration on the 4th of July, by Civ
ing dinner to the national soldiers sta
toned there.
The Times special says that among theap-
plicaLiOns for pardon filed to-day was one
from General EWell. There we're besides
sixteen petitions from persons unknown to
the public.
The members of the Cabinet convened
at the usual hour to-day, but as the Presi-
dent had not recovered from his indisposi-
tion no business was transacted. BY to-
morrow the President will doubtless be
we'll enough TO resume his official labors.
Senator Wade, as chairman of the Com
mittee on the Conduct of the WRr, is now
here revising the sheets of the report of
that committee, comprising the recent
testimony as to the treatment of our pris-
Oners, received at the hands of the rebels.
The committee state that tens of thousands
of our brave soldiers have fallen victims
to that savage and internal spirit which
actuated those who spared not the prison.
at THAR rnrhr aNrto.hE
night arson to destroy hundaeds ofdefence-
less women and children and who hesitated
not to resort to any means to commit acts
so horrible that the nation stands sghast as
they are told what has been done.
The Prison Surgeons report of the Rich
mond prisons for one quarter shows that
fraction over one half Of all the cases that
entered resulted in dest1 l, and most of these
deaths were more the result Of inhu-
man treatment and neglect than from di-
sease. But little moro than half the ne
cessary number Of beds were provided and
the nurses very frequently occupied them
TO the exclusion Of the sick. After
our men died their bodies were treated as
the carcases of 80 many dead animals, they
were piled in the dead house and their eyes
and cheeks eaten out by rats before they
were put in cOfins. The keepers general
ly manifested almost total Indifference to
the lives and condition of the prisoners,
and as one of the many illustrationsof this,
Q witness testified to the following: 81
was standing one day by the hospital, and
one of our negro soldiers, captured ct the
explosion Of the mine near Petersburg was
standing near by engaged in skirmishing,
as we prisoners call it, examining his
clothes fol. .Vermin, a rebel sentinel st whom
uHppBH5u 70 U5 IOOKIHg aT tie ti..as, 4-Aa
up his musket, teok deliberate aim and fired,
killing the negro on the spot. On being
asked what he did If for, he answered, "tO
see the d-d black son Of b-h drop"
The rebel said they got thirty days fur
Tough for shooting Yankee.
The Committee ssy it is matter Of con-
graduation that notwithstanding the great
provication to pursue different course, our
authorities have ever treated their prison.
ers humsnely generally, and have in all re-
spects conducted this contract according TO
the rules of the most civilized warfare.
The Herald's Washington special says:
The Freedmen's Bureau has set apart
large quantity Of confseated and abandon
ed land in the South, In tracts of various
sizes and in various localities, for the espec-
ial benefit Of negroes. Not less than one
hundred thousand are now subsisting on
government rations In Virginia alone. A
great demand for negro labor exists in
Maryland. Ihe farmers and paying If
teen dollars per month for males, and from
ten to twelve to females for field labor.
The supply is still short and agents have
again been sent in different directions to
make contracts and induce immigration,
notwithstanding their recent expulsion
General Meade has returned from Phila-
delphia this morning, and is superintend-
ing the mastering out of portions Of his
army.
Within q week the world renowned
Army Of the Potomac will cease 10 exist &c
an oris2nizaticn "a a-
GehSfsl . advertised to appear at
half dozen different places on the coming
Fourth of July. he has been steadily de-
clining inEitstions for weeks past and con-
templates spending the day at home.
The Irish Brigade, consisting of the SD,
18th and ssh New York Veteran Volnn-
teers, and the 28th Massachusetts Veteran
Volunteers, commanded By Brigadier Cen