We have received copies of New York papers of Saturday, the 12th instant.
Movements in the Valley — Sheridan Evacuating the country.
The Yankee letters give the particulars of
Sheridan's march out of the
Valley. One dated at
Newtown, on the 9th, says:
‘
The army of
General Sheridan broke camp on
Cedar creek early this morning, fell into line between sunrise and 11 o'clock A. M., and by noonday was fairly on the march northward towards the
Opequan.
This change of base is said to be in accordance with the programme previously determined upon as soon as the national election was over, and the Copperheads, with their Southern allies, could not take advantage of the change to influence the election.
’
The army has, therefore, stood its ground in order to give its moral support to the loyal voters of the country, when it had not more active business engagements with
Early's army.
Meantime, the forage question has become a serious one with the army.
All the hay and fodder for many miles around has been consumed, and oats.
All that the
Government furnishes for quadrupeds' demands must be transported nearly forty miles from
Martinsburg.
To get nearer our base of supplies is, therefore, an object of prime importance to the subsistence of horses as well as men.
The column was straightened out and fairly under way by 12 o'clock. The Nineteenth army corps having the right of the line, took the right of the pike, marching in two lines, company front.
The Sixth corps marched in the same manner along the west of the line.
The wagon trains occupied the centre of the column, also marching in two lines; one along the pike, the other in the field.
The artillery brought up the rear of the column, and the Eighth corps, or rather the command of
General Crook, covered the whole, marching in the rear.
When fairly straightened out along the pike and in the fields, the troops presented a most interesting sight, to say nothing of the strange accompaniment of black servants mounted on skinny horses, other on foot, packing cooking utensils and odds and ends of every kind.
There are cows driven or led along, some of them with soldier's knapsacks-lashed upon their horns in default of better transportation.
At 1 P. M. only the cavalry, whose duty it was to cover the flanks, or watch against the following of the enemy, were left behind.
Let it be understood, then, that it is not from any attack upon us by the enemy that the army is withdrawn.
The
Valley, undoubtedly, is to be held; but inasmuch as this can be done thirty miles nearer our base of supplies as well as at
Cedar creek, every consideration is in favor of the change.
Besides, since it is possible to prevent mounted troops from passing down the
Valley on either flank under cover of the Little North mountain on the west, or the
Blue Ridge on the east, who can powerfully threaten our communications, and which only cavalry can pursue, catch and cope with.
Good generalship would dictate that the army should be where it can throw out its cavalry on either flank, and co-operate with it as occasion requires.
A large body of rebel cavalry, under
Fitzhugh Lee and
Rosser, have passed down the
Valley between Little and Great North mountains, and emerged opposite
Winchester yesterday.
They are estimated at one thousand five hundred to two thousand strong — they may be larger.
The object is said to be to attack
Winchester and
Martinsburg simultaneously and capture what supplies we may have accumulated, particularly at the latter place.
If
Winchester cannot be taken, then they are to concentrate on
Martinsburg.
Afterwards they are to operate on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, of course.
It is supposed this cavalry crossed west from
New Market through the gap from which emerges a branch of the north fork of the
Shenandoah, and following the valley along the head waters of
Cedar creek to
Pughtown, coming out at
Blue gap, through which passes the road from
Winchester to
Romney and
Mechanicsburg.
A glance at the map will show that this route is wholly protected from observation by Little North mountain.
The valley is full of sympathizers with rebellion, and food and forage around there for man and beast.
The same valley, followed down the bed of
Back creek, leads to
Martinsburg and
Falling Waters, where the Baltimore and Ohio railroad is struck.
The army for the present is in camp near
Bartonsville, two miles north of
Middletown; but the pause here is probably only a temporary one.
This large demonstration by the cavalry suggests that the enemy have not the means at hand for moving the army down the
Valley; they cannot subsist except by bringing a large train.
A later letter says, under date
Winchester, November 9 P. M.:
Colonel Edwards, commanding this post, has information through scouts, and by other sources, that an advance body of cavalry, belonging to a large body of the same under
Rosser, estimated at five thousand, reached
Wardensville, Virginia, on the night of the 7th.
They stated that the whole command was under orders to advance on that place, with the design, as was supposed, of attacking
Winchester and
Martinsburg, and also operating on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
They ascertained that
General Sheridan was closely watching their movements, and was prepared for them at all points, and accordingly deemed it prudent to retire.
The order was countermanded and the whole body marched, as is supposed, in the direction of
Moorefield, sixty miles west.
They were said to be
Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry, under
General Rosser,
Lee not being with them.--Everything is quiet here.
The railroad is complete to
Charlestown, and construction trains run to
Summit Hill.
From Missouri — the Yankees Swear that Price is whipped.
Dispatches from
St. Louis confirm the report that
Price was whipped at
Newtonia on the 28th and lost two hundred and fifty in killed and wounded, and fifty wagons.
The Confederate
Major Wolf, ordered to be shot in retaliation for the killing of
Major Wilson, was respited for fourteen days by
General Rosecrans.
Subsequently a dispatch was received from
Lincoln directing the suspension of the execution of
Major Wolf until further orders.
A letter to the New York
Tribune, dated at
St. Louis the 7th, says:
‘
Another fight with
Price is reported.
It took place in and around
Newtonia, in Newton county, between our forces, commanded by
Major-General Blunt and
Brigadier-General Sanborn, and the bulk of the rebel army.
The rebels evidently supposed the pursuit had been given up, and they went into camp with a feeling of security such as they have not felt since their departure from
Booneville.
’
General Blunt overtook them on the 29th ultimo.
His advance consisted of two brigades, commanded by
Colonel Ford, of the Second Colorado, and
Colonel Jannison, of the Fifteenth Kansas.
General Curtis, with a reserve, and
General Sanborn, with two more brigades, were some distance to the rear.--
Blunt was with the advance, and was probably deceived as to the strength of the rebels; but notwithstanding the regular army tactics which would have declared his attack imprudent, he assaulted the rebels on the edge of the town with his usual vigor.
The rebels fell back, and our forces pressed forward to find the main portion of the rebel army, under
Price, occupying a strong position.
The fight commenced about two o'clock, with desultory skirmishing, and lasted till dark.
The rebels were too strong to be driven from their position, and our men were too short of ammunition to justify further pursuit.
General Rosecrans had previously issued orders to
General Sanborn to return after passing a certain point, and the next morning all the troops turned their faces northward,
Sanborn going to
Springfield and
Blunt to
Fort Scott.
General Cartis had halted at
Carthage, and is now back at
Fort Leavenworth.
This ends the pursuit of the rebels.
It was ascertained that
Shelby had the chief command in this engagement.
Doubtless.
Price is far south in Arkansans this, with many wagon loads of plunder, for, in spits of previous reports of his burning all his wagon trains, it is proved by many witnesses that
Price did get off with at least one hundred wagons; though they were far in the advance of his main column when the fighting took place near
Fort Scott.
There is no end to the quarreling which has taken place between the partisans of
Blunt and
Pleasanton concerning the pursuit of
Price, and it will be hard to make up history, when referring to
Price's invasion, correctly, in the light of the present conflicting accounts.
The arrival of the rebel
Generals Marmaduke and
Cabell, with five colonels, sixty other commissioned officers, and about eight hundred privates of
Price's army, who were captured, as heretofore stated, created quite a sensation among the secessionists, who could not and would not believe that any such disaster as the one referred to had happened.
The disgraceful part of the business was the treatment accorded to
Marmaduke and
Cabell and the five colonels.
They were taken to Barnum's Hotel without a guard, and allowed the liberty of the hotel on parole not to escape.
Here, at a first-class hotel, they lived like princes, receiving their friends and putting on innumerable airs.
The event created such indignation among Union men that they were hustled off the day after their arrival to
Johnson's island.
The idea that these robbers and murderers, who have desolated the
State wherever they have been, should be thus treated, is bitter as wormwood to Union men.
The rebel army has been driven from the
State, but there are many hundred bushwhackers and guerrillas who yet remain.
Bill
Anderson's gang is still at large, and is said to be commanded by a fellow named
Jackson, who is a worthy successor in the sleeping of prisoners and other cruelties committed by the bushwhackers.
An energetic movement has been made in
North Missouri to clean out the guerrillas from that section as early as possible.
General Craig left
St. Joseph several days ago with about two thousand mounted militia for a raid on the rebels in
Platte and
Clay counties.
Colonel Shanklin, from
Chillicothe, and other officers from the line of Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, are after the rebels also; and the fur has begun to fly before this.
Every one of these expeditions contains a majority of the local loyal militia, who have in many cases been driven from their homes by the rebels.
There is no concealment of the fact that they mean to be revenged on their secession neighbors, who have pointed them out to the rebels as Union men; and many of these sympathizers, who welcomed
Price with their whole heart, will have to bite the dust.
This retaliation has commenced already in many counties, and the Copperhead journals have set up a dismal howl in consequence.
Of course when rebels are hit the
McClellan party suffers, but it makes no difference.
Missouri belongs to the loyal men, and the rebels, whether they call themselves such or are simply.
Copperheads, have got to leave it. Their time has come, and they will save much blood by leaving quietly without waiting for further warning.
The Presidential election.
The New York
Tribune of the 12th gives the following summary of the results of the Presidential election:
‘
We are entirely out of the woods in New York.--The State gives
Abraham Lincoln about 8,500 majority.
Governor Fenton has probably over 9,500; the whole Union State ticket is chosen, of course.
The Senate (holding over) is twenty-one Union to eleven Democrats; the Assembly probably seventy-eight Union to thirty-eight Democrats.
Union majority on joint ballot, fifty, or thereabout.
’
New Jersey gives
McClellan about 7,000 majority; in the Senate the Democrats have five majority; the
House is about even.
New England presents a solid front for the
Union; the six States will give (including the soldiers' votes) about 150,000 majority, as follows:
Maine, 20,000 at least;
Massachusetts, nearly 75,000;
Vermont, 30,000;
New Hampshire, 3,500;
Rhode Island, 5,000, (home); and
Connecticut, 2,400, (home).
Pennsylvania shows handsome Union gain on the home vote, and bids fair to roll up — soldiers included — from 20,000 to 30,000.
Delaware follows
New Jersey.
The
Unionists do not seem to have made anything like a canvass here.
They might have saved the
State, and are doubtless heartily ashamed that they did not.
Maryland marches riobly on in her new career as a Free State.
The Union majority ought to reach 10,000.
West Virginia (the
Vermont of
the Alleghanies) votes right — almost unanimously — the secessionists having declined to enter the field.
Ohio does not think it worth while to count her majority, as it is anywhere from 40,000 to 80,000, as the soldiers may determine.
Michigan stands by the old flag more steadfastly than ever. "We are routed, horse, foot and dragoons." is the report of the leading Democratic paper.
The Union majority will doubtless be larger than ever before.
Indiana is good for first reports, increasing largely on
Governor Morton's splendid majority.
Illinois sends greeting, and promises from 20,000 to 30,000 majority for her "Uncle Abe, " in spite of the desperate efforts of the opposition to carry the
State for moral effect.
Wisconsin is not much heard from at this writing, but enough is known to set down a large majority for the right side — say 10,000.
Minnesota promises at least 2,500 Union majority.
Iowa never falters.
She will rival
Vermont in unanimity for the good cause, her majority being reported at the magnificent figure of 50,000.
Missouri is just heard from.
Large Union majorities are reported, and everybody concedes that the Unionists carry the
State by a handsome figure.
The entire Radical State ticket is thought to be elected.
Kansas,
Nevada,
California and
Oregon have thus far failed to report; but there can be no doubt as to the result in any of them.
Some persons are uncertain about
California, but she cannot escape the
Union whirlwind.
Kentucky holds fast to her idols.
We had some hopeful Union majorities along the
Ohio border; but farther back the secession sympathizers came out strong for
McClellan, and the
State will give him about four-fifths of all his "majorities."
Congress.--We cannot yet make up an accurate table of members, many districts not having been reported, and a few being very close.
We lose one in
Delaware and one in
Maryland.
The Copperheads in
Pennsylvania are trying hard to keep out soldiers' votes that will defeat
Coffroth and
Dawson, but all will come out right at
Washington.
Brooks, of this city, will probably get the certificate, but his seat will be contested.
Humphrey,
Raymond,
Darling,
Ketcham,
Griswold (War Democrat) and
Conkling are clear gains.
We also gain
Newell in
New Jersey.
In
Ohio, the soldiers' vote elects
Delano, giving us seventeen of the nineteen members.
So far, we have in
Illinois ten members sure, and one district is still in doubt.
This is a gain of five.
In
Michigan, we defeat
Baldwin in the Fifth district--a gain of one for us. In
Wisconsin, we have a reported gain of two members.
Missouri will probably give a Union gain of two members.
So there is no doubt of a two-thirds vote for the
Union and Emancipation in the next House of Representatives, and something over to spare — saying nothing of
Tennessee and
Louisiana, which may send up about a dozen Union members.
The News from Sherman's campaign.
A telegram from
Nashville, Tennessee, gives the following about the campaign of
Sherman and how he is to devour
Hood.
It is dated the 6th, and says:
‘
I will try to telegraph you the news and rumors subjoined:
Sharp fighting at
Johnsonville, Tennessee. Twelve transports and four gunboats destroyed.
Johnsonville may possibly be evacuated.
Its loss will not endanger the
State, but be annoying only.
Sherman has made a startling and bold movement, which will change the course of the campaign and render
Atlanta of no strategic importance.
Rumors prevail that
Atlanta was to be evacuated yesterday by our troops, who would first totally destroy it by fire, and return to
Chattanooga, tearing up the railroad and destroying the bridges as they go. The rails will be carried to
Chattanooga.
The telegraph here is under military censorship, and the theory is held that no startling news should be permitted to go North that may have a tendency, unexplained and perverted as they would be, to increase the excitement of the Presidential canvass.
So this dispatch may not be permitted to go through.
As to
Johnsonville, there is no doubt.
The damaging of three gunboats is admitted, and the loss of one.
Heavy fighting is expected at
Johnsonville today.
There were large supplies collected at that point.
It is said by some that they have been removed to a considerable extent, but, on the other hand, it is reported this morning that the town is surrounded, badly damaged by shells, and the supplies destroyed.
Rumors have come from the
South so often, and by so many different months, of the possible evacuation of
Atlanta and of
Sherman's new change of base that it seems to be a probable fact.
It is said that
Sherman found in his foot-race after
Hood that he could almost support an army south of
Rome by foraging alone, and accordingly has made a bold dash on
Montgomery and
Mobile.
Alabama is disaffected; and it is believed that it needs only the presence of an army in her central counties to demonstrate the fact in a tangible method.
Chattanooga is to be the base.
By this movement
Atlanta becomes of no strategic importance.
But its destruction may be necessary in order to prevent its resuming somewhat of its former power by the reconstruction of lines of railroad now torn up, of which it was the starting point and the point of departure.
Between leveling a town and losing thousands of loyal lives in a second attempt to capture it, there is no likelihood that
Sherman will hesitate a single moment.
He wears gauntlets, not
kid gloves.
He knows that war is cruelty, and implies not conservatism, but annihilation.
The tearing up of the track from
Atlanta to
Chattanooga will be a sad blow to the rebels, who cannot, probably, supply material to reconstruct it, and thereby transport their troops westward rapidly.
’
The voting in the army.
A letter from the Army of the Potomac, dated the 10th, says:
‘
The returns of the voting in this army have nearly all been ascertained.
’
The
Pennsylvania soldiers give a majority of 3,930 for
Lincoln.
The Western regiments also give small majorities for
Lincoln.
The total vote in the combined armies before
Richmond and
Petersburg is put down at 18,000, the majority for
Lincoln being 3,000.
Several Pennsylvania State agents were yesterday placed under arrest on account of their having blanks with names spelled wrong.
They are held to wait the decision of the
Secretary of War, the matter having been referred to him. Quiet still prevails along the lines.
There was some little artillery firing on Wednesday evening near the
Appomattox.
The career of a Federal monster — accounts from a Federal Source.
The
Yankees cannot be altogether silent about the brutalities of their commanders in what are known as "subjugated" departments.
They have a fiend in
Tennessee, named
General E. A. Paine, whose deeds there and in
Kentucky have been of the most horrible cruelty.
The
Nashville (Tennessee) Dispatch, a "loyal" Union paper, publishes some facts with which it is furnished, which show the horrible situation of "subjugated" land.
It says:
‘
From December, 1862, to March or April, 1864, during the bloody reign of
Brigadier-General E. A. Paine at
Gallatin, Tennessee, those who did not witness the barbarous deeds committed, and the whole sale robbery of private property, will scarcely believe human nature so corrupt when the stubborn facts are revealed and made known to the world.
The writer does not know how or where to begin to make known the many base and vile acts of this little despot, as he has been recently styled by
the Hon. Balie Peyton, at
Nashville, From the beginning of this man's reign at
Gallatin, his cruelty and barbarity to men, women and children has no precedent or parallel in history.
His coarse and vulgar abuse of them was revolting to any person claiming to be a gentleman.
His habit was to have ladies of the highest respectability arrested and brought into his presence, and such profanity and language as were uttered by him to them would not do to be published in a respectable newspaper.
The writer will proceed to detail some of the deeds (and only a few of the many) perpetrated by this monster in human shape:
’
There was a lady of respectability, who lived in
Gallatin, who had a little daughter to die. Her house had been taken from her and occupied, and she was staying with a friend at the time she made an application to
General Paine, through friends, to be permitted to carry the remains of her child to
Hartsville for interment, a place held sacred by her as the family burial- ground.
This was most positively denied and refused her; and
General Paine sent a message to her to send for her "damned rebel husband," then in the rebel army, to come and take it and bury it. She was forced to have it buried at
Gallatin, and was refused the privilege of attending her little daughter's burial, not half a mile distant.
A gentleman who lost his wife in
Gallatin was refused the privilege of attending her burial, not a quarter of a mile from his residence; and the graveyard is within the lines-of the post.
There are many persons in
Gallatin who can testify to these facts.
The property of the people was taken — horses, mules, cows, sheep, hogs, provender of all kinds, household and
kitchen furniture.
During
General Paine's stay at
Gallatin it was not unfrequently the case that a squad of soldiers was seen to take a prisoner out of jail and go off with him, but return without him. This was continued for some months.
Perhaps the prisoner or prisoners carried off were strangers to the citizens of
Gallatin; but should an investigation be had, the fate of those men might be ascertained.
The longer
General Paine continued at the post the more bloody he became, and finally he publicity boasted of having rebel soldiers and private citizens, who were prisoners, shot.
The people became terrified, and were afraid to oppose him in anything he thought proper to do. Such a reign of terror as prevailed among the people of
Sumner county has never been witnessed in this or any other age.--Some few persons proposed to go to
Nashville to see
General Rousseau upon the subject of their grievances; but whenever this was found out by
General Paine they were sought out as victims of his vengeance, and were threatened with severe punishment.
This course was kept up until the people were afraid to murmur or complain at any act he thought proper to commit, or any order he issued.
He said on one occasion to a substantial and respectable citizen of
Sumner county (a Union man), who complained of his taking of his property, that if
General Rousseau dared to undo what he had done he would have him removed.
The writer is familiar with the cases of several rebel soldiers who were captured as prisoners of war, some of them held for weeks and others only for a short time, and then shot in the most brutal manner by order of
General Paine, without even the farce of a trial, and their bodies left to rot, the citizens fearing to bury them lest a similar fare should overtake them.
These rebels, thus summarily executed, may have been bad men, but having been taken and held as prisoners, they were certainly entitled to the formality of a trial.
The case of a boy, named
Lafayette Hughes, fifteen years of age, charged with being with some guerrillas who burnt a bridge across
Goose creek, at Madden's mill, between
Hartsville and
Carthage, deserves special mention.
The bridge was burned in the daytime.
Mr. Madden, the owner of the mill, was present, and used every means he could to prevent then from burning it. If this little boy had the benefit of the trial, he could have proved by
Mr. Madden that he was not present on the occasion.
But, perhaps, some negro reported that he was present, and this was sufficient with
General Paine.
The boy was taken prisoner, carried some ten miles, and near
Mr. B. S. Martin's, on the
Gallatin and Hartsville pike, taken off a short distance from the road, and five or six Minnie balls shot through his trial body (for he was but a feeble boy); and it was left unburied.
A youth, named
Fleming Sanders, aged seventeen years, who lived near
Hartsville, and whose father and mother were both dead, was arrested, taken to
Gallatin and confined in jail for some weeks.
He was then taken out some four or five miles from town, near to
Mr. Thomas Barry's house, shot by the soldiers, and left unburied.--The persons above mentioned were all killed without any trial or investigation whatever.
The case of
Alfred Dalton, who was murdered near
Hartsville in February, 1864, was heart-rending indeed.
He had belonged to the Second Tennessee (rebel) regiment, originally commanded by
Colonel Bate.
He came home in the fall of 1863; and but a short time before he was shot, went to
Nashville and took the amnesty oath, and had the same in his hand at the time
General Paine ordered him out of the road to be shot.
He believed that, under the proclamation of the
President, he had forgiveness for past offences as a soldier, and was conducting himself as a quiet citizen.
The particulars of his case are these:
Mrs. Vance had been killed the night before in an attack upon her husband,
Joseph Vance, a worthy man. The perpetrators of this foul deed were unknown, and are to this day.--Young
Dalton stayed at his father's house the night on which
Mrs. Vance was murdered, and slept in the same bed with
Captain Martin, who, a few weeks previous, had been a pilot for
General Paine on a trip to
Jackson county.
Captain Martin was a man in whom
General Paine had the utmost confidence, as the writer is informed.
If
Dalton could have had a trial,
Martin would have testified to the fact that young
Dalton slept with him that night, thus establishing his innocence of any participation in the death of
Mrs. Vance.
General Paine arrived in
Hartsville on Sunday evening, the day after the killing of
Mrs. Vance.
He ordered his orderly sergeant to accompany
Mr. G. D. Read, the brother-in-law of
Dalton, to the house of
Dalton's father, and request young
Dalton to meet him near
Mr. Vance's house.
The message was delivered to young
Dalton, and he promptly obeyed, accompanied by his father, and met
General Paine at the head of his command.
So soon as
General Paine saw him, he ordered a file of soldiers to take him off and shoot him. Young
Dalton was taken by surprise at this announcement and asked for the charge against him; but none was given.
General Paine raved and aware that he should die.
The father, an aged man of more than sixty winters, with tears and lamentations indescribable, besought them not to kill his son; to spare his life and give him a trial; that he knew that he was an innocent boy.
General Pame replied: "You O — d — d son of a b--, if you say another word I'll have you shot here with your G-- d — d son." The father is as respectable a citizen as lives in the county, and was for many years an acting justice of the peace.
Nothing availed; the young man was led off from the presence of
General Paine and his father a short distance.
The old man was engaged in earnest entreaty with
General Paine when the first gun was heard.
The shot took effect in his leg, and the young man screamed, which was distinctly heard by his father.
The second shot took effect in the breast, and the third in the head, when the screaming ceased in death.
Nothing could be heard but the involuntary lamentations of the father, he himself, perhaps, unconscious of such lamentations, for his life had already been threatened for them.
General Paine, during the bloody process, was raving and cursing that aged and lacerated parent.--It does seem that any man with a heart less hard than adamant would have been moved; but not so that of
Brigadier-General E. A. Paine, of
Illinois.
Oh! my God, who can adequately describe such a scene!
What pen can portray this awful tragedy, witnessed by that aged and broken-hearted man, and then, kneeling beside the mangled corpse of a child, just a few moments before in full vigor and health, to hear the groans and the sobs, to see the wretched countenance of the venerable six over the favorite child, a corpse, under such circumstances?
Mine cannot, and shall cease to attempt it.
It a commission should come to Callatin to investigate the acts and doings of
E. A. Paine, other cases and other facts would be developed that would startle a stoic and chill the blood that bournes through the veins of a man possessing a heart with a particle of feeling.
[Cairo correspondence of the Chicago Times.]
Let me relate a case that is notorious in
Paducah, and the facts can be learned by all who so wish from almost any citizen of the place, Republican or Democrat.
During
General Paine's reign, a man went to him and informed him that a certain man, living some seven or eight miles from the town, was a rebel sympathizer, and that at one time he had killed a Union man, etc., etc. He did not, nor was he asked to, make oath to his statement; and it should be further remembered that the informant had a personal difficulty with the man he informed upon.
General Paine ordered a squad of negroes to go to the house of this man, arrest and shoot him, and bring his body to
Paducah, that he might, with his own eyes, see that he was dead.
The negroes went and arrested him. The gentleman's family were in the greatest grief at his arrest, but he assured his wife and children that the
General would certainly release him as soon as he could see him; that he had never been guilty of anything, and, therefore, it must be some mistake by which he was arrested.
The family were comforted with the belief that the husband and father would certainly return that evening to his home; but night came and he did not return.
Morning came, and their anxiety compelled them to send to
Paducah to hear what tidings they could of him. When they went to
General Paine, he answered that he could not tell them.
Thus matters continued for four days, when the friends of the family found the body in the pest- house, riddled with bullets and partially devoured by rats; and then
General Paine thought he was taxing his humanity to allow them to take the mutilated and decaying remains and have them decently buried.--This murdered man was not even guilty of the high crime of being a Democrat.
Miscellaneous.
A committee has been appointed by the
Boston Board of Trade to adopt some suitable measures to testify to
Captain Winslow the "grateful recognition of the merchants of
Boston" for his conduct in sweeping from the ocean a destructive enemy to the commerce of the
United States.
The
Advertiser states that Joseph Story
Fay, who lowered the Union flag at half-mast on the fourth of July, was nominated one of the committee, but subsequently had his name erased by a vote of twenty-six to six.
Lord Lyons is lying very ill with typhoid fever at his residence in
Washington city.
Serious apprehensions are entertained that he will not recover.
In the New York
Tribune we find the following paragraph about
Maryland: "In
Maryland, in some of the strong 'nigger-breeding' Democratic localities, little annoyances and outrages upon the freedmen are the highly honorable occupation of the white-skinned, fat, black-hearted and cowardly chivalry.
These scoundrels have become so annoying that
General Wallace has been induced to make an order for their especial regulation.
He re-states the fact that all men are free in
Maryland, and until the Legislature can provide for the protection of the freed slaves he establishes a bureau for their affairs, ordering that, if sufficient funds are not voluntarily forthcoming to sustain the bureau, contributions shall be collected from rebel sympathizers to make up the deficiency. "
Gold was quoted in New York on the 11th at 243½
