The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-06-29
The l,: Latest News.
BYTELEGRAPH.
South Carolina after sher-
mans March.
SECESSION STILL ALIVE THERE
A ColOFei Celebration Of the Fourth
Committee on. the Conduct of the
STILL ALIVE THERE
LATE WASHINGTON DISPATCHES

! 1lATE WASHINGTON DISPATCHES
: DesOlatIOn along the track OF Sher
mans Late March+!FOurth OF July
neutrality-suspicious. for. Far,
III h0n...The Presidents Health...Testi
m0ny Concerning the Treatment O
Union PrisOners.--COndSca and
4 Abandoned Lands--.Demand for Ne
gro Labor.
a NEW YORK, June 2s.-one of tn,
Il derald's correspondents has recently
made a trip across South Carolina il
2 the track of Sherman's march, and he
describes the horror and desolntion as
most complete. The route of tho
tavenging army is marked by standing
ch1mneysl obliterated railroads, and 9
country pretty well cleaned of animals
forage and surplus provisions. The
white people in the interior while ad.
Uniting that they are conquered for the
lpreBent, still maintain and give expires
i sion to their secession theories, and en-
terrain an intense hatred for Yankees
land negroes. notwithstanding this the
/ planters say that they will be better of
T! without slavery. There is considerable
cotton still scattered throughout the
State, but the greatest part of the crop
has been destroyed.
The colored people of Columbia have
held meeting and raised money for
tile purpose of celebrating the Fourth
of July, by giving a dinner to the ma
tional soldiers stationed there.
/ The Times special says among the
applications for pardon fled to-day,
was one from Genl Ewell. There we're
beside 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
| indispOsition, no business was trans
acted. By tomorrow the President
will doubtless be we'll enough to
resume his official labors.
Senator Wade, as Chairman of the
Committee on the Conduct of tho War,
Is now here, revising the sheets of the
report of that committee comprising the
recent testimony as to the treatment Of
our prisoners received at the hands of
tho rebels. The committee saw the evil
dence clearly shows that tens of thous-
ands of our brave soldiers have fallen
victims to that savage and internal
spirit which actuated those who spared
not the prisoners at their mercy, who
sought by midnight arson to destroy
hundreds of defenceless women and
children, and who hesitated not to re-
sort TO means to commit acts SO horri-
bic that the nations of the earth stand
aghost us they are told what has been
done. The Prison Surgeons report of
tho Richmond prisons for one quarter.
shows that fraction over one half of
all the cases inferred resulted in death,
and lnost,of these deaths were more the
result of inhuman treatment and neg.
lect than disease.
But little more than half the neces-
sary number of beds were provided,
and the nurses often occupied them to
the exclusion of the sick. After our
the carcasses of so many dead animals.
they were piled in the dead house and
their eyes and cheeks eaten out by rats
before they were put in collins. The
Keepers generally manifested total in
difference to the lives and condition of
the prisoners, and us one of the many
Illustrations OF this, a witness testified
to the fonowing: I was standing ono
day by the hospital. One of our negro
soldiers, captured ut the explosion of
the mine near Petersburg, was standing
near by engaged in diminishing, as we
prisoners call it-examining his clothes
for vermin. A rebel sentinel, at whom
happened to be looking at tho time,
drew up his Inusket, took deliberate
aim, and fred, killing the negro on the
spot: On being asked what he did 1t
for, no answered, / wanted to see the
damned black son of b-h drop"
The rebels said they got thirty DAYS.
l
The committee say it is a matter of
CongratulatiOn that Notwithstanding
the great provocations of the course
they pursued, our authorities have ever
treated their prisoners humanely and
generously, and conducted this contest
according to the rules of the mode of
civilized warfare!
a Washington special says the Freed
mans Bureau has set apart a quantity
of contiscNted and abandoned land in
the South, in tracts of various sizes in
various localities, for the especial bene-
fit of negroes. Not less than one hun
dred thousand are now subsisting on
| government rations in the State of Vir-
| ginia alone. Great demand for negro
labor exists in Maryland. Farmers there
arc paying Sl5 per month to males and
| from $40 to Sl2 to females for field labor,
the supply is still short and agents have
again been sent In different directions
to make contracts aud induce immigra-
ton, notwithstanding their recent eX-
pulsion from Richmond.
General Meade returned from Phila-
delphia this morning and is superin-
tending the mastering out of portions
of his army. Within week the world
renowned army of the Potomac will
most likely cease to exist as an organi-
cation.
General Grant is advertised to APP
pear ut half u dozen different places on
me coming tOurGn OF July. He has
been steadily declining invitations for
weeks past and contemplates spending
! the day at home.
The Irish brigade, consisting of the
sd, Goth and S8th New York Veteran
Volunteers, and the 28th Massachusetts
! Veteran Volunteers, commanded by
Brigadier General Nugent, late Colonel
of the 10Th, will leave here on Saturday
orSundny, ns a brigade, only 1900 strong
/ for muster out.
Money Matters.
New York, June 2s.-In the struggle
/ between the bulls and bears in gold
shares, there is no yielding on either