The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1865-01-14

HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF NEGROES ON
SEERMAN's cH.-Brevet-Mal. Ger.
Corps in Shermsns Army, is before the
United States Senate for confirmation
TIE following recital of his .reatmen. of
negroes On the recent march through the
cotton States is taken from . letter in this
city. written by y soldier, an eyewitness
of the facts he narrates.
s'There is ono incident, the blackest Of
the war, want to tell you. The negroes
along the entire route were our friends and
informants IN all matters, both as to move
ments Of the enemy and the places where
he had secreted his stores. Amer nsinG
them IN this way, they naturally wanted
TO follow rs to avoid the vengeance Of their
masters, and they came. The able-bodied
men were employed, be-. the women and
children followed also, under shadow of
our protection. They were no incum-
movements. They were simply an eye
sore, and camein spitc Of advice to the con-
trary. Alter following rs some time, on
cominS - bridge over Buck Head Creek,
Brig. Gen. JET. e. Davis, who communds
our Corps, turned them back and destroy
ed the bridge behind Us, leaving them to
the mercy Of our pursuers, j. Q. the Rebel
WIZ lOiiOWeO lN OUI WAkAc. Al
this point most OF them swan over, but
two were drowned in crossing. Later, du-
ring the night Of the Sth OF December, this
atrocity was repeated under more revolt
ing circumstances. Our Corps (ihe l4th)
haa 30 cross Ebenezer Creek, o deep, broad
stream. The approach to the bridge was
py long narrow causeway cut through a
swamp. This passage was mile ir
length, and the swamp not passable. Near
hpf vNNp sc MI "a tvrya Nf 80 <r<T
officers, who, as tho column passed, stop
ped them and put the poor wretches ashore
on a sort Of Island. The Rebel cavalry
followed closely behind, and when it had
entered the causeway there was no escape
for any Que to the rear. As soon as our
troops had crossed the stream, Davis had
the bridge taken up. The negroes were
Rebels, not simply driven ont 10 shift for
themselves, as they might have been in the
open coantry. |: is said the Rebel force,
being banked IN their pussuit Of US, .srea
lpOn these helpless women and children.
The nnnnher thus driven back aud lett to
Rebel hatchery was about 300. Every man
In tho Corps was shocked and indignan:
a: the outrage, and many officers were
heard 70 express their deepest condemna-
ton at this brutal conduc. OF our Corps
commander, and our disgust and abhor-
renee was no. lessened on lear ming that in
every other general division of Shernan's s
army the women ard children were per-
mitted TO follow their husbands and fa-
sbers.'
SEERMAN's GEORGIA MARcE.-A letter
from Sherman army says: No pen has
yet adequately described the scenes OF the
great march through Georgia. ! can only
give you q few suggestive instances told
me by eye-witnesses. Hundreds of ne
groes followed the army, tired and foot
sore. little children, as well as grav- ha red
old men, from Atlanta down to Savannah.
On the march they were joined by thous-
ands, some of whom came into camp sing
ing. Prayer meetings we're held al the
stopping places, and there tho soldiers
gathered round 20 hear them praying. with
souls in tears and voices in frenzy, for the
great Yankee army. The poor conirab abapds
were told that the Yankees would burn,
boil, roast and slaughter them, and were
instructed . hide when our forces should
coule-but all to no avail. These simple
and shrewd people knew their friends afar
of, and came pouring in from all quarters,
bringing information with them. Atnight
mirth and festivity reigned in the camp.
The contra bands assembled round the fire,
and made minstrelsy such as we have
who had q violin brought it out for the
contrabands to dance by, and, while q few
patted their knees, the rest went tearing
away like mad in the plantation jig and
walk around. Every man. woman and
child, poor, down.trodden things as they
were, regularly made their sixteen miles q
day, living upon the charity of the good
hearted soldiers, and sometimes upon the
refuse Of the camp.
How TIE News OF LIN COINS ELEc-
rIoE WAS RECEIVED IN Reinstatement
King got the dispatch early in the day OF
its arrival in Europe, and started in a
picked cab, TO circulate il, stopping every
American he met in the way TO communi-
cate, and each as he go. it ran Oft like one
OF the pigeons they mix up in pyroteohnirs,
10 carry IL in every direction. You should
have seen Rogers streaming OIL up the
Via Condo.., his face all abiaZc with pa.ri-
Otic delight, bound 10 find somebody 70
partake his salts faction with. Ny first
push WAS TO the quarters OF good New
York Democrat, sound on general princi-
pies, though no Republican, and the news
made his family dinner more acceptable,
! know; then into the cafe Greco, where
sat at their break fast a small knot OF
American and English artists, friends and
enemies-E mixed company whose faces
took most artistic changes and varieties oil
expression as the great fact OF the year
was le, IL on them. The most delighted, ]
ain UJihu lO coDic~Ss WdS ~, - Sooti
sound radical Englishinan. P tinitials
no. correc) being from the south side,
looked awfully blank, but after first
breath asked for details; mistook Della
ware for Maryland, his State, and ejacala-
ted, as q return blow at fate: well, my
State is all right, thank God :" but didn't
see il when the mistake was corrected and
the dispatch read. In that crowd there
was, must say, more sorrow than rejoic-
ing, and 1 Went out again; met Mozier at
the door-oEe could see he had got the
news and was going into the Greco to crow
over some body. -and rushed Off in sum
dry and divers directions to catch any body
and every body who had ever heard of the
great Republic or manifested any inter
est in its fate, until finally l remembered
my early dinner growing cold, and my
own household, where at least one ultra
radical body would eat her dinner with
unhoped for sauce.-N. y. EUc. Post.
MRS. LUFKIN's SPIRIT EXPERIENCE =
As far as their legs went, could see that
they were pretty fast but their hands be-
ing tied behind them, out OF sight, had to
take tho word of the honorable, high.
shouldered gent, and t'other gent, that all
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