The Sun. — 1864-08-16 (London, England)

FEDERAL ATROCI T=3.  (From a Correoponeeno I send you a statement of occurrences now going on in the United States, which for barbarity exceed anything within my knowledge. The extracts enclosed are from Louisville (Kentucky) papers of July 20. And for what are these defenceless women and children deported from their homes and placed either in a wilderness at the mouth of the Mississippi River (where nothing lives but alligators or snakes), or sent among a hostile people in the North, without the means of sustenance and no possibility of getting any employment ? Their attachment to the Southern cause, their refusal to take the oath of allegiance to the infamous despotism of the North, has caused this treatment. Think of refined ladies and tenderly nurtured children being exposed to such horrors. The stories of Russian and Austrian atrocities in bygone days pale beneath the merciless ingenuityf Yanukpeoentocrivtuzesd. ideas of war, presuming that the non-combatants should be left in their homes without ther people wage this war of independence infliction of punishment upon them for mere opinion. The Yankee has violated every rule of warfare, and daily practises most horrible atrocities which you do not hear of. I give you an extract from a private leiter from Kentucky :-"Johnston has retired step by step before Sherman until his advance is now near Atlanta, but his course is marked by devastation and death, and his army, daily weakened by assaults of the rebels, is only kept up by constant reinforcements, and we are all calmly waiting to hear that he is overwhelmed. The acknowledged loss of the army is 40,000 since it first marched againt Dalton. The real loss is far greater. Some of Sherman's omcers now say he dares not retreat, as it would be worse than a 'Moscow' The war is daily assuming a more savage character. If men are killed or robbed by roving bands, perhaps of mere robbers of either army, at once orders are sent here to forward so many prisoners to that place, and they are then hung on the same spot without trial. This has been done twice in four days. Sherman forwarded 249 women and children from their homes to be sent north of the Ohio, utterly destitute, to go among those who hate them. 29 women and children, refined ladies, came on the 19th, were put in the military prison that night, and forwarded the next day down the Mieeissippi to the extreme limits of the Gulf of Mexico, to dwell with alligators or to die in the swamps. And the crime of the Southern women was in aiding the rebellion in which their fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers are meeting this brute in deadly hostility. I eend you this slip with their names. My blood boils, and my cry was, oh, that I were a man to meet such dastardly villains, who thus war upon defenceless women and children 1 And Christian England, once so ready to rush like a knight errant in aid of the downtrodden, stands quietly looking at these atrocities perpetrated against a gallant race for maintaining their inalienable rights against the fanatical descendants of those who murdered Charles I."  If this lady had been discovered in writing this letter she too would have been sent among the alligators in the wilder• ness. One of the extracts I enclose you is from the regular Administration organ. The editor must be a demon. Ile coolly speaks of ladies puuished «ith ouch cruelty as "on a journey for their rights." The facts are horrible, and require no comment :  ON A JOURNEY FOR THEIR compliance with the recent order promulgated by General Sherman, requiring all disloyal citizens within the limits of his division who were not willing to live under and abide by the laws of the Federal Government, to be sent to a country where they could enjoy free thought, free speech, and free actions, in accordance with their principles and love for the rebellion, the following named persons arrived in this city yesterday evening, under guard, from the front —Mrs Susan Birchfield, Peter G. Birchfield, James T. Birchfield, E. Birchfield, Mary J. Birchfield, Mrs E Sarah M'Guff, Miss Susan M'Guff, Miss Priscilla M'Guff, and Mrs Mary Brakefield, Bradley, Tennessee; Mrs ShoeBilrizea Jolly,and Nancymrs Jane Call, Murphy, Georgia; Mrs maker, and Mrs Core and three children, Calhoun, Georgia ; Mrs Sarah Correlle and six children, Hamilton, Tennessee. They were assigned quarters in the military prison last night, and to-day will be placed on board of transports and sent down the Mississippi river. We are not fully advised as to the point of their destination, but presume that they will be landed on the south-eastern shore of the Gulf.— Administrative paper.  AnitIVAL Or