New Pleases of Butles's Brutality.
Some time ago
Miss Ellen Roan, of
Norfolk, who is step daughter of
Captain McCarrick, of the Confederate Navy, hearing that her step father was in
Wilmington, on his way to
Europe, succeeded including the vigilance of the
Yankee sentinels, and made her way to
Wilmington to take leave of him. After his departure she made three attempts before she succeeded in getting back to
Norfolk.
Finally, however, she succeeded, and a few days after her arrival she was summoned before Beast Batter, and obeyed the summons, accompanied by
Father O'Keefe, of whose church she was a member.
Butler questioned her closely as to where she had been, and what she witnessed in the
Confederate States.
She respectfully declined answering his questions, upon which he angrily threatened that he "would soon conquer her stubbornness." --
Father O'Keefe here interfered, and informed Butley that it "was not stubbornness, but a regard for her promise to observe secrecy on such matters, without giving which she could not pass through the
Confederate lines." He was insultingly told to mind his own business, and the drunken tyrant swore that, "before she passed from his hands, she should be transparent enough to see through her and enable him to learn all she knew."She was sent a prisoner to the
Custom-House, and ordered to be fed on bread and water.
Two or three days afterwards her mother, on applying to see her, was informed she was transferred to
Fortress Monroe.--Thither the distracted mother went, and on her arrival there all the information the brutal officials would give was that her daughter had left the Fortress.
A private soldier, with more humanity, moved by the mother's grief, privately informed her that Miss Ellen had been sent to Fort Mellenry, at
Baltimore.
Mrs. McCarrick, after her fruitless journey to
Fortress Monroe, with much difficulty obtained permission from the "beast" to send a change of clothing, but he would not allow any communication, verbal or written.
