Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-08-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

LETTER PROM Ex-PREslDENT PIERCE.
Nashville Aug. l2.-The Press and Times
publishes letter from Ex-President Pierce
to JEFF. Davis, dated July 9th, 1860, in which
he says: Without discussing the right or
abstract power to secede, have never believed
that actual disruption of the Union can occur
without blood; and ifthrough the madness Of
Northern Abolitionism this dire calamity
must come, the fighting will not be along
Mason and Dixon's line merely; it will be
within our own borders, in our streets, between
the two classes of citizens to whom have re-
ferred. Those who defy law and scout con-
stitutional obligations, will, if we ever reach
arbitrament of arms, find occupation enough
at home
| THE CHANGES AGAINST wERTZ.
Washington, Aug. 1.-THE following are
the charges and specifications for which
Wertz, the Andersonville jailor, is tomorrow
to be put upon his trial: Charge-violation Of
the laws of war. Specification first, in this,
that Henry Werk, at Andersonvile, in the
State of Georgia, continuously, from the lst
day of March, 1864, to the 10th day of April,
1865, then and there being an officer in the
military service of the so-called Confederate
States Of America, of the rank of Captain,
and as such officer then and there command
ant of the prison, there located by heauthor
| ity of the so-called Confederate States, for the
confinement of prisoners of war taken and
held by the so-called Confederate States from
the armies of the United States of America
was, as such commandant, there and then
| fully clothed with competent authority, and
in duty bound to treat, care and provide for
such persons belonging to the United States
as were or might be placed in his custody as
prisoners of war, according to the laws and
usages of war, which he then and there well
knew but he, the said Henry Wertz, wilfuly
and maliciousy designing and contrivng to
impair and injure the health and destroy the
lives Of such persons in his custody as pris
oners of war, did, during the time aforesaid
in violation of his duty in that regard, and in
furtherance of his said evil design, confne @
large number of such prisoners of war be
longing to the United States, to the number
of 10000 men, in unhealthy and unwholesome
quarters, in close and small area Of GROUND
wholly inadequate to their wants and destruc
tive to their health, which he well knew anc
intended, and while there confined during tht
time aforesaid did, in furthcrance of his evi
design, wilfully and maliciously neglect tt
furnish tents, barracks or other shelter sufh
cient for their protection from the inclemcncy
of winter and the dews and burning sun o
summer, and with such evil intent did tax,
and cause to be taken from them their cloth
ling, blankets and camp equippage, of whicl
they were possessed at the time Of beint
!, placed in custody, and with like malice ant
evil intent did refuse to furnish, or cause t,
be furnished, food either of a quality or guam
tity sufficient to preserve health and sustain
life, and refuse and neglect to furnish woo'
sufficient for cooking in summer and to keel
said prisoners warm in winter, and did com
: pei the said prisoners to subsist upon unwhole
{ some food, and that in limited quantities, en-
tirely inadequate to sustain health, which i
well known, and did compel said prisoners +
use unwholesome water, with filth and garb
age of the prison and prison yard, whereof
the said prisoners became greatly reduced il
their bodily strength, and emaciated, and ir
iured in bodily health, their minds impaired
> and their intellect broken, and many Of then
whose names are unknown, sickened and die
: by reason thereof, which he, said Henr
! Wertz, then and there well knew and intent
ed, and so knowing and evilly intending, di
refuse and neglect to provide proper lodgings
!, food or nutriment for the sick, and necessar
{ medicines and medical attendance for the re-
D toration of their health, and did knowingl,
J, wilfully and malciously, in furtherance of hi
evil designs, permit them to languish and di
for want of care and proper treatment, an
0 when dead, the said Henry Wertz, still pu
: Ibn;p, his owl nury,oens did peruoit tn RENAL