The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-06-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Barbarities to Prisoners,
A Great Demand for Labor
Gen. EweIl Applies for Pardon--The
Cabinet-Invesiignti Of the Com
mittee on the Conduct of the War
Ouirages on Soldiers Confined in
Rebel Prisons NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
ed dLands-Demand for Labor in Ma
ryIand-The Irish Brigade.
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Press Dispatch.l
New YORK, June 2S.-The Times spe-
cial says Among the applications for
pardon filed to-day, was one from Gen.
Ewel. There were besides 16 petitions
from persons unknown to the public.
The members of the Cabinet convened
at the usual hour to-day, but as the
President had not recovered from his IN
disposition, no tnsiness was transacted
Bv tomorrow the President will doubt
less be well enough 10 resume his Official
labOrs
Senator Wade, - chairman OF the com
mittee on the Conduct of the War, is
now here revising the sheets OF the re-
port of that committee, comprising the
recent testimony as to the treatment OF
our prisoners received at the hands 0tthe
rebels. The committee say the evidence
clearly shows that tens of thousands OF
our brave soldiers have fallen victims to
the savage and internal spirit which ac-
tnated those who spared not the prison
g, , at their mercy, who sought by mid
nIuht arson to destroy hundreds OF de-
f.nseless women and children, and who
hesitated not to resort to means to COM
NIT acts 80 horrible that the nations OF
the earth stand aghast as they are told
what has been done.
The prison surgeons report OF the
Richmond prisons for one quarter SHOWS
that a fraction over one-half OF all the
cases entered resulted in death, and most
of these deaths were more the result OF
inhuman treatment and neglect than dis
ease. But little more than half the
,rt ta1. nlpVIHa1
and the nurses often occupied them to
the exclusion OF the sick. After our men
died their bodies were treated as the
corpses of so many dead animals. they
were piled in the dead house and their
ewes and checks eaten out by the rats be-
fore they were put i'll cottins. The keep
er generally manifested almost total IN
difference to the lives and condition OF
the prisoners, and as one of the many IL
lustrations of this a witness testified to
the follOwing
| was standing one day by the hospital
One of our negro soldiers, captured ct
the explosion of the mine near Peters
burg, was standing near by, engaged IN
skirmishing Gas we prisoners call lt)' eA,
amininp his clothes for vermin. \ rebel
sentinel at whom happened to he look
ing at the time. drew up his musket, took
deliberate aim aud fired, killing the ne
GRO OH the spot On being asked what
he did il for. he answered: i wanted to
see the id black son of a drop. -
The rebels said they got thirty days far
Iough for shooting a Yankee.
The committee say it is matter of
concentration that Notwithstanding
great provocations they pursue differ
ent course. Our authorities have ever
treated THEN prisoners humanely and gen
eyously, and conducted this contest ac-
cording to the rules of the mode OF clvl-
lized warfare.
4 Washington special says the Freed
mems Bureau has set apart quantity OF
confiscated and abandoned lands III the
South. i'm tracts of various sizes, III Varl-
ous localities. tor the especial beneht OF
NEGROES. Not less than one hundred
thousand are now subsisting on Govern
ment rations in the State OF Virginia
| alone.
Great demand tor negro labor exists i'll
MARYLAND. Farmers there are paying
fifteen dollars per month to males and
ten to twelve dollars to females for field
labor. The supply Is still short and
agents have again been sent III different
directions to make contracts and induce
immigration, notwithstanding their re-
cent expulsion from Richmond.
Gen. Meade returned from Philadel-
phia this morning, and is experimenting
! the mastering out of portions OF his ar.
my. Within week the world-renowned
Army of the Potomac will most likely
cease to exist as an organization.
Gen Grant is advertised to appear at
dozen different places on the coming 4th
of July He has been steadily declining
invitations for weeks past. and contem'
plates spending the day at home.
The Irish Brigade, consisting OF the
63d. 69th and soth New York Veteran
Volunteers, and the 2Sth Massachusetts
Veteran Volunteers, commanded by Brig
Gen. Nugent, late Colonel OF the 69th
will leave here on Saturday or Sunday
! as a brigade. only 800 strong. TO he mus
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