Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-04-06
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scenes in BaItin6re, A. D., 1865.
ExtTaet el'd ptitate letter, Dated

B4LTlNoRE, March ], 1865
-. ~ = '+fhe reason / have not spnken
more about them IN my letters is because no
amount Of written statements would ever do
Justice to them, and, indeed, the truth is too
monstrous to be believed. You at the North
little know, as yet, the nature or extent of the
despotism which cnrses our Inflated city.
Why, it was only last Weduesday-the ami
Versary Of the birth Of George Washington
that sceiies occurred which would put to blush
the Dey OF Agiers There were twenty or
thirty ambulance loads of weak and suffering
men on their way from Northern prisons to be
exchanged and sent back to the Coniederacy.
And in the crowd of men and women that
lined Cathedral street as the sad procession
passed, guarded by its flea of soldets, were
many friends perhaps relatives, OF the atarv-
ed aud hslllrozen fellows who for 40 many
weary months had suffered in confinement
Women went forward and offered bread and
cakes aud coffee, to the sick and famished
mentor which they were galantly set upon
by the soldiers, with fixed bayonets, and driven
back into their houses. Many we're bayoneted
in the streets. IL is the truth. One of the
ladies' having aseertained that dying mau
in one Of the ambuancss desired cup of
coffee, presented the grateful boon to his dy
ing lips, and he eagerly quafIed the proffered
cup, lie died before the ambulance had
gone forty rods further. Yet for doing this
act of mercy, that lady wns stabbed with a
bayQnet through the ankle, and Is now con.
fined Ia her bed from the wound.
in the charge OF the soldiery upon the wo.
men, one women Was shockngly cut 10 the side
by q bayonel thrust Another lady was stab.
bed through the thigh, and was carried home
weltering in Der, blood, One woman head
was cut open to the skull by q sabre blow,
which laid open the Scalp in frightfnl man
ner In all this, there was no demonstration
Of opposition to the military on the part of
the detenceless crowd twas simplya charge
Of bdyOnets on lCOmea-and women, too,
who true to the inspiration of their own no
bier sex, were present in the street from no
impulse of idle curiosity, but to mercifully
minister to sickness and suffering
SO shameful, indeed was the scene-so
crimnally outrageous in its character, thLt
the draymen and Wechauics in the streets
shouted on all sides, "Another glorious Union
rici0tyF - until the soldiers were compelled
from shame to, desist, and slink back from
their bloody and atrocious work
But it is useless will not attempt to tell
ofthe things that are daily occurring in our
once proud, and prosperous, and free city
II. would not be believed of Vienna or Con.
A mechanic named Wilson went forward
as one train of prisoners for exchange was
going by his house, and presented to bis own
destitute son, who was among them a hOenty.
fue cent shin-piaster--all he, poor man,
could afford to give his own son For so do,
ing be was promptly seized by Provost Mar
shal 5 orders and imprisoned, on a charge off
giving aid and comfort to the enemy +"
Jere, Morton's three daughters Gone ofI
whom is Mrs, - we're arrested and i'm.
prisoned for standing on the curbstons, near
the house of their own highly loyal and IRE.
publican father. Bat such things are of
constant occurrence, aud when, on the day OF
the Presidential election, the sight was seen
of the majority OF the legal voters of Balti.
more shut off from the privilege of voting at
all because they refused to vote for Lincoln,
then the conviction came home TO us all that
the last chance of securing our liberties was
gone.-Hdrttord Times.