The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-01-24
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LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
UsIoS WAN PRrsoSEns' AssocIArIoS.-Pur
suAnt to notice, public meeting under the aus.
pieces of the Union war Prisoners' Association
was held last night at Metrerott Hall.
stated that the object OF the association was to
preserve friendship among those who had been
prisoners OF war, and also recolleetions Of their
grand national organization, and local branches
Throughout the country.
Mr.. Lloyd was then Introduced to the audience
who read q chapter from poem written by a
young lady, cmbodying history Of the rebellion
General J. P. c. Shanks, OF Indiana, addressed
the meeting. He said he had been chairman OF
the House committee to investigate the treat
had heard. he could say that ssyases would not
be guilty Of such conduct as had been practised
by the JEFF. Davis government towards helpless
men.
These facts should be recorded In history, SO
that future generations might read OF the fnhp.
man conduct OF those who had endeavored to
Union.
Gen. Lassalie next introduced Colonel J. r
Hawkins, of Tennessee, as one Of the fifty who
had been selected from amongst Union prisoners
70 be placed under the nre OF our own guns at
Col Hawkins spoke of the trials o. the Union
men Of East Tennessee, their fidelity to the
snees sna the sssrins. Sey hsS n endsreS AZ
the hands Of the rebels. He 1.-THE speaker) had
been sent to Macon, Georgia, and cast into a
to be placed under the fre OF the Unions guns,
but for what purpose he never had been able to
After he had been lying In prison a few days,
without anything to eat, lady came and un'
locked the door, and led him out iuto q hall,
Union people Of Macon. This lady had been
steadfast in her efforts to alleviate the suffer.
heard that she was upon the verge Of stsrya.
tion, pursued with malignity BY the rebel cle-
ment for her devotion to the dictates OF hu-
The speaker paid an eloquent tribute to the
glorious minority OF white Union men 10 the
tion, stood steadlastly by the ernme trough
all Its trials, and these were the men who would
ahf Sen
seeeiyed with applause. He alluded to the fact
that the rebels and their friends had stcsdfastly
tried to conceal from the Northern public the
inhuman treatment practiced upon our prison:
ers, until the living skeletons returned to tell
their tale of sorrow and suffering. Where rested
1he responsibility for such inhumsn conduct !
Certainly with those who had been in authority
at Richmond. The rebel authorities at Rich.
mond knew that our prisoners were starving day
by day at Belle Isle, and 1t gave them no concern.
II had been so from the very commencement.
battle were treated like dogs instead Of like pris.
oners OF war according to the laws OF war. He
upon the devoted vile Of Gen. Pickets, who had
gone to Richmond to nurse her wounded husband.
When he arrived at New Orleans he found men
had been imprisoned for furnishing the necessa.
ries Of life to Union prisoners, who otherwise
would have starved.
The speaker then alluded briefly to his Fetalia-
tory measues adopted on the James river to
bring the rebels to their senses. They had cap.
tured hundred or more colored soldiers and put
them to work on their entertainments under the
fire OF the Union batteries. He had placed a
like number Of rebel prisoners under fire Of the
word that they were satisfied with the expert.
ment they had endeayored to inaugurate.
The general was frequently greeted with ap-
plause.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL.--A plot was
the jail, to escape from jail, BY number Of col
ored prisoners confined In the three cells
and at once secured the leaders in irons. The
wooden bulk-head against the east wall, which Is
made Of the old wooden doors formerly used
in the prison, had been raised, and brick by brick
removed from the wall until hole had been
made through II with the exception Of thick.
iaehes and the reiase Ead been thrown
down the hue Of the furnace. In order to divert
attention from this place quite number o. bricks
cells. The principals engaged In this affair are
Bill Stokes, convicted and under sentence Of six
months for larceny, and Foster Bailey and w.
Il. seiby, each awaiting trial for larceny OF
Il l. believed that II they did not intend to
Intended to cut from one cell to the other, and
thence to the corridor, from whence the fifteen
whom are notorious characters, would leave at
once. The officers were fortunate In making
the discovery, and are now engaged In inveSti'
STEALING PROM HIS soS.-Lsst evening, as
Oficers Barklay and Mullins, OF the sixth pre-.
cinct, were passing along the Avenue, they OBJ
served an old eoloIed man In the act OF crawling
shop. Their suspicious were aroused, and Mr.,
Barclay inquired Of him where he got the coat
The old an S%
the station-house, where he said the coat be-
longed to his step,son.
man, who gave his name as Andrew Bailey, had
Just stated to him that he was working for Mr.,
Mr.. Prince was sent for and he testified that
dld not take a and that the old man did not lys
with him. The son was then sent for, who said
the coat was his own but he did not know that
his father had taken 1t away. II was also aseer,
tanned that Bailey's name was James instead oil
Andrew. He was sent to jail In default OF $500
bail for court.
SENT Ur.-Anthony semmes, a desperately
bad colored man. who has not been long out OF
Jail, was arrested yesterday morning by anothcel
by Jane Reed, a eolored woman, who testified
that accused committed an assault and battery
knock her brains out with wafer pitcher; TIL
other eharge was preferred 6y John ! Bei CO.. col
Killed on an excursion down the river last sum
mer. Bell charges that Semmes attempted t.
shoot him with revolver In Murder Bay few
dangerous character, committed hiHi to jail, hi
old quarters, for court.
Hamilton Smith took from the rooms OF Mrs
Thomas Dorsey, on Pennsylyania avenue, be
Of clothing, and was arrested by Detective
Coomes and Miller, who held him at headquar
tiers for hearing
PRoFAslrY.-wm.H IL. Lewis and John Wake