Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-27

we're brought before the cpurt. The first case
heard was that of Mr. Turner, the editor Of
the Raleigh Sentinel. The return to the writ
was, 10 substance, THAT Kirk had arrested
him, by order of somebody, Tor conspiring,
with others not named, 10 overthrow the Gov
erument" When tne Judge asked if the
prosecution could show sufficient cause for de-
tanning the prisoner any longer in custody, MIR.
Boydep, klrk's attorney, was forced to say,
I'VE have 20 legal evidence of any kind of the
prisoner's guilt and therefore do not oppose
his discharge" In the case of Felix Roam,
accused OF being accessory to the murder of j.
". Stephens, the answer of KIRK 8 counsel
was, They were not in possession OF particle
OF evidence Of the prisoner s guilt
Similar answers were made in respect to
several other prisoners, and the Judge ordered
the whole of them TO be liberated. On the
same day Iucian Fl. Murray made affidavit
,ha; on the 9th day OF July he was arrested
ty Lieut., nant Burqen-- one OF Kinks infa-
nous toois-and on the succeeding night taken
out OF the camp by Burgeo and three men
armed with stols-; that Bureen sought
70 extort from Murray the nam's of
Athouah repeatedly threatened, Murray do
clarci lie knew nothing about the murder.
Burgen then put rope round Murray's neck,
took him to tree, and alter tying bis arm,
caused him 10 be swung up. lu short tune
he was let down agsiE and asked to confess.
He protested his ignorance. when Burgen
"thrcatened to bow hiS heart out If 'if ne did
not confess" Sill refusing, he was again
swung up ty the neck and Kept suspended SO
long that when be was let down he was unable
to speak Tor son time. They waired until be
had recovered his voise. Tho affidavit thus
prucce S THE said Burgcn then said, Now
confess that you saw Moore Afiaot replied,
be could not do it. Burgen replied, You
musr acknowledge il or die, and said to one
OF his men, Sergeant, hang him 10 to that
tree and let him hang till clock 10 the
m,rring then cut him down and bury him
under The tree After other con seTsatinn AID
threat of killing this afiant the said Burgen
said to this athant, 4 viii now give you until
to-morrow night, and it you don't conte<s
then, will kill you dead Affiant replied, i
will never confess, for [ have nothing to con-
less This afiant Was then taken back to his
tent, aforesaid. alter being charged to say
nothing about what had occurred. and threat
cnrd with death if be divuIged it.
D. w. Weldon, another of Kinks prisoners,
lcposed that he was arrested by Burgen on the
231 of July last carried to camp shot at by
oae of the soldiers. the ball passing near his
head carried from camp to the county jail,
where he was manacled and chained to the
floor that in that condition he was insulted
and matreated had his food thrown 10 him
on the floor, and was forbidden to use knife, or
FORK, or spoon.
Another prisoner George s. Rogers, de.
posed that he was arrested by order Of Kirk on
the charge of knowing something about the
murder OF Outlaw; that when he denied It
Burger said he was telling damned lie"
that to force him to confess what he did not
know, he was taken from the camp to an ad-
jacent woods, and there hung up by the neck.
After suffering great torture, and persistlng
in his denial, he was finally brought back to
the camp and kept a close prisoner until re
leased by Judge Brooks on Tuesday last
We give these afidayi,s as specimens of
many Others showing the atrocous outrsges of
which the rufiap Kirk and his subordioate,
acting under the orders and at the insligation
OF Governor Holden, have been guilty. Bur
gen has since teen arrested and committed to
pri>on 10 default OF BAIL Kirk is still al large,
although proceedings have already been taken
looking to his arrest and punishment. Hold.
en-. also, is yet to be dealt with, but it is pro-
bable that he cau only be reached by lmpeach-
ment. La the meantime there is great rejoicing
in RaIei h. When the prisoners released by
order ot Judge Brooks reached that city
yesterday. thy received quite an oVaton.-
They were met by a large crowd of persons on
foot, on horseback aud 10 carriages garlanded
with fl werS, aud -peeches and cnDgratu ations
were the order of the day.-Balt. Gazette.
TIE OLD GAME.-Th. following delectable
niece OF lnurmatlon comes to US through the
4 Putt-viIl. (Pa Miners JuurOal:-
IS f ON a private letter received here from
New York we learn that the pr ces OF the Penn
syIraa Coal company for September have
j b. en- advarced thirty cents per ton over the
4 plic.s tuI AUGUST
Il When 1t i, understood that this intelligence
Il comes hom an organ OF the Pennsylvania coal
y mun"ro lists proper weight Will be placed upon
+ it, But taken In connrction with the follow"
Z Iug ruragraeh, which appears in the same co =
uun oi the same paper, II is pslu that the
I whule scheme Is simply an excuse to raise the
rice Ut coal
The next auction sale ofeishty thousand tons
OF Scranton al Will take plac'. iu N,w York
un " rdn.sday uf next week. Aupusl 81.
II i> IN tLls way the bulls in the coal market
prepare the way tor RE 10 the price OF the
aTtice, and compel consumers TO submit 10
the advance. Now, it is we'll known that there
Is TO zeal necessity or excuse tor this advance,
except 70 rratliy the avarice OF The coal opera
4 tors and monuloiistS the TACT that there Was
already large stock ou hand at pac, oil ship
i inert prior 10 the resumption OF work by the
>trkug miners Is sufficient 10 d>prove that
the enhauced price is warranted ty lack OF
supply. On the contrary. the various whnle-
coal uarts have been overStock-d ali suul-
MFR, 50 much so that it has been difficult to OBJ.
tain transportation to Eastern markets, ard
now that all the mines .are again doing full
work, with several months TO srare before
navisation closes, it is apparent that the whole
pot Tor bulIing up prices is but. narrow and
sordid one The advancement in the price of
coal at the mines is always taken advantage Of
i by the local retailers to pinch the poor consum
erS. For Instance if the price is advanced by
the crmpanies thirty cts. per ton the retai'e in
New York improves on this at the rate of tiits
Or hundred per CT. and thus the poor become
eventually the greatest sufferers,-N Y Her.
old.