Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-07-17
North Carolina Witnesses


Sally Dard's case and here is one report
ed in the Ashevle Spectator, cot far behind
it. The writer gives it under the head Of
legal proceedings
Action Tor work and labor done IN cutting
ditch on defendant s land. Flea; payment
and set off in bacon and corn meal
Plaintiff son on the stand; recollects the
dtchbg perfectly, but seems TO forget all about
The bacon.
You say your daddy did all this ditching :?
Do you know what he got in pay Tor itT in
qured Col G., for defendant
He never got nothing, "a ever heard on,
ttat's what he meyer got, answered the Wit
ness.
Didn't your daddy get corn and bacon from
defendant, in pay for that ditchiny p
Never heard OF his gettn' corn or
- bacon.
What did your daddy aud hia fanny hVe
on last summer !
'vlttles, mostly:
What sort OF vlctualS
wen, meat and bread, and some whisky.
Where " dld ne get the meat ana bread
wen, f"st from one, and lust from the
othnr.
'Dldn he get some OF 1t from defendant
4 know he mought, but did hep that's the
question.
Well he mousht, but then again you know
lie mouehtnt.'
With considerable excitement and tones of
thunder Answer the question, and no more
of This tnf1ipg with your oath. Did YOUR dad
Nv. or did he not, Get corn and bacon from the
defendant for ditching? Q
well now he mought: if didn't amour ad
v..,lv Won know
Hero HE honor ;nta,ferec and with stern
1890
Witness Won mnst answer the nucstion.
oonrt w;Il h. comnalIa5 70 dca) with vou -
Gan't nn,, COW reS pr mop
r reckon
.WelI tbon answer ves or M Did or did
mt vonr daddy oet corn and bacon from the
defendant at the time referred to? incurred
The cou1t2
Witness fullv aroused and conscious Of his
dancer .Woll indoe T can't adzatcv re-
memhar vom Lnow sem as how ;t's all DIM.
hin oonr aud oar nm. bnt nlantine himself as
6rmlv as one determined to ont with it. sto
the best Of NV recLerlecsbuo # NV memory
serves me r;ybt be mouoht and then again
he mouebtn't
The nlain,iff saved his bacon Verdict &C
cor|nrlv
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EXCHANGE or PRISONERS. The House of
Representatives the other day appointed a
committee to inquire into the treatment Of
Union prisoners by the so-called Confederate
authorities. On Saturday Mr. Mungen moved |
to instruct the same committee to extend their |
inquiries so as to include similar investiga- |
tion on the other side. In the discussion of
this proposition (which, by the way, was re-
jected) Mr.. Eldridge made the surprising
statement, that IN conversation which he had
with General Oud, VINO had charge OF the
federate Government, he had been informed
that an offer was made by General Ould to the
Union officers having the matter in charge,
that he would give them 10000 Union prison
ers, sick and wounded (making up the number
of deficient with able bodied men, without
any equivalent, as the Confederate Government
was unable to feed and take care of them prop
", and that the offer was refused. It is prob |
able that the important fact thus set forth |
would have been disnuted bv the partisau press
# it had not been verified on the spot by Gen.
Butler himself, who was in charge of the ex-
fhanu. ri prisoners on the mart of the limited
States At the time He said
can the corresnondence m tho snbiect had
been laid before Congress in January. 1865, -
In the fall of 1854, after the exchange of pris-
oners had been stonned. . proposition was
made by the rebels to give up the sick prison
ers hc]d bu tbem at Savannah and Millen, |
Georgia. A soon AZ Transformation could be
got the nronosition was accented and six
Steamboats, We're sent to Savannah and took |
off over seven Thousand men, There had been
some uuaroi9oMe .de7ov in II. consequent on
operations Of he .,ry army And the offer had
bsen made to the rahels toilet them send cotton
to New York. sell Il thronoh their own agents
and with The nrocseds nrocura what was nor.
essarv far M the;r nr;sonere pM W, I,t
o.