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The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Puritan Consistency. (search)
ia August 26; Peter Riley, of Charleston, S. C., arrested September 23. Arrival of Lieut. Kurtz in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Nov. 6. --Lieut. Kurtz. of the United States navy, whose arrival at Washington from Richmond, on his parole of honor, has been previously noticed, is now stopping in this city. His parole, which is for fifty days, was obtained chiefly through the intercession of ex-Senator Mallory, after enduring for several weeks, in company with a fellow prisoner, Lieut. Selden, also of the navy, the horrors of a Richmond cell. The chief object of the rebel authorities for granting his parole was to obtain Lieutenant Kurtz's influence with the Washington Cabinet to arrange for an exchange of prisoners, including himself; and it is understood that he has so far enlisted the sympathies of the Government by his description of the ill treatment of the Union prisoners, as to have received from Secretary Seward and Secretary Welles, as well as the President, the