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'l'H K HOUSTON TRIWEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
A VOL. XXX—-NO 148
HOUSTON, MONDAY, MARCH G, lfeC5
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f U«op::AN intkbtkwion.
To the Editor of the Houston Telegraph :
Although greatly, and perhaps justly, ex-
tolled by the Telegraph, I very much fear,
Air Editor,that the glowingand seemingly
coulidt-nt anticipations «> pleasingly put
forth in the letter of CoL Aulibei Smith,
are •' but the bagidess fabric ol a vision,"
unsubstantial, and that while they "Keep
the woid of promise to the ear, break it t •
the hope." Is it not sad, sir, to realize,
that so pleasing and encouraging a pictuie
of our probable rescue from doubt, and,
with many I fear, dismay, is all an illu
t-ion ? Had the able and learned author of
the letter furnished us with some modern
fact, pregnant with meaning and demon-
strably true, brought to light since the war
commenced—that England and France
would interpose in onr quarrel, and, as our
allies, the eloquent letter of the gallant Col-
onel would have been most consoling and
gratifying. Permanent and not ephemeral,
hopes would have been inspired in the
hearts of a now suffering people. This,
alas ! it fails to do. Bis facts, by which bis
conclusions are supported, are unfortunate-
ly chronic; of a different and distant pe-
riod and connected with a condition of af-
fairs not in the least analagous to the state
of things as they exist at present. That
England and France, as m 1844, when
Texas was contending with Mexico for her
independence, ardently and sincere'y desire
to see the Confederate States achieve suc-
cess in the present fearful struggle, I think
and believe, admits of but little, if any
doubt, but, that their sympathies are sub-
ordinate to the stern policies of SUite, and
hence not to be gratified, is, I think, quite
as plain. Whenever the two—sympathy
and interest—can be seen to nijve pari
passu, then and not till then, may the Cit-
izens of the Confederate States expect ac-
tual, material and energetic intervention.
It is but too apparent from the whole cur-
rent of popular feeling, that the citizens of
the Confederacy, like every people strug-
gling for liberty, knowing they were right,
have constantly expect.d sympathy from
abroad ; and, besides, have anticipated that
1'nat sympathy would be d redly anil prac-
tically exerted Their own hopes, and their
d siro to see the contest ended, have led
them ir.to this mistake. I ft el safe in af-
firming that of the merits of the American
war, foreigu stati-s have known nothing,
nor have they cared to know.-" It is in the
bearings of the war upon their material in-
fcrests they have contemplated it; and, if
these were not seriouMy menaced, tl ey were
not disposed to meddle. As a qu'-stion of
a " balance of power," it was without the
pale of European politics.
I have already slated that there exists a
v ant of analogy in the case of Texas in
1844, and the Confederate States at the
present time When England and France
intervened in '44. Texas possessed a national
status, conceded to her by all the leading
pn'vers of th.' earth, and, although nominal-
ly war ex sted wit h Mexico, the. attempts of
Mexicotor-.coversnpremacyorer Texas were
both feeble an 1 spasmodicaud wholly ineffec-
tive in the promotion of such a purpose.
Now if Texas, in her feebleness, with a
population in groat disproportion to that of
Mexico, had nothing to dread, in what de-
gree could the apprehended hostility of
?.!e.xico be expected to weigh tnon the
poliov of two such leviathans as England
and France? Why the very absurdity of
Mexico electing o regard any act of these
powers, however wrongful and violative of
her rights as in a cosus'Jtelli, is so absurd and
preposterous, as to excite a smile at its bare
jneniion. The United States was the only
power whose resentment FVance and Eng-
land had any reason to fear, for really her
interests were alone jeopardied by their in-
terference to prevent annexation; and that,
however unfriendly, she could not accept as
good ground of war with these power*, in-
asmuch as the policy of annexation was a
question for ihe determination of Texas
alone. In short, England nnd France, had
they defeated annexation, would have effect
cd tin important measure of policy, at least
the time pq considered by them, and yet
have given to the United States no just
gro md of umbrage. So they had nothing
to fear.
Hut wouid intervention, even to t^e ex-
tent of recognition, have been, or would ir
be, equally as fruitless of results now? 1
presume no one will undertake so to insist.
Indirectly the United States bus given Eng-
luinl, particularly, to understand, that she
w< tild consider any interference good
WHOLE NUMBER—3S79
and England.
To expect these powers to encounter con-
sequences so disastrous to their most vital
interests, would be to attribute to them an
abnegation ot self, of which their whole
carter affords not oue solitary example.
America was aided by France in her revo-
lutionary struggle from no mero views of
what philanthr phy demanded, but solely
to equalize in Europo the so called "bal-
ance ol power," se lously imperilled by
the spread throughout the woifd of British
Colouoal possessions. In going to the aid
of Turkey, it was not to protect the Otto-
man merely, but to check and arrest the
pro ress of Russia in hor strides to almost
universal dominion; and in a quarter dan-
gerous to the supremacy of England in
Asia, and of France in Africa. Besides,
what compensation for these risks had or
has the Confederate States to offer t She
could offer none in territorial agrandize-
ment, for she is without publio domain—
nor could she expect at any early period to
re-lmburse the cost incurred by them. So
thoroughly have the exhausting effects of
the war borne upon Coufederatewealtb and
prosperity, that years—long years, ot peace
would have to supervene before payment
could with reason be exactnd.
But leaving the field of speculative ar-
gument, and entering that of fact, I confi-
dently submit that the conduct of the Eu-
ropean Powers in its bearing upon the Con-
federate States, repels the inference that in-
tervention is at all probable. Taking up
England, her conduct has been any thing
but friendly—nay, on the contrary, it has
been that of settled and marked dislike. Of
course I speak of England as seen through
her political relations. Was not her conduct
in the seizure of the Alexandre, and her,
refusal to allow us to obtain the naval ves-
sels built for us by Messrs. Laird & Cj.,
while at the sane time the agents of our
enemy was shipping through her custom
houses tens of thousands of rifles, and oth-
er warlike munitions, a policy characteri-
zed by offensive discriminations, subversive
of the Queen's j roclamation of neutrality,
and most malignantly hostile to us ? Was a
friendly spirit disclosed in the curt and
persistent rudeness with which Earl Rus-
sell, England's Foreign Secretary, treated
the Confederate States, commissioner, the
honorable James M. Mascn, a gentleman
izen could he sty, "The Confederacy iron
it* liberties with its own good ^wordl'
But then oonjeotu'e nead nut be invoked
to supply the required resources. They
are at hand and fuliy organised. Al-
ready the Traas-MUslsslppi Department
has in it an army numerous and gallant,
and largely in excess of i's own require-
ments. At once throw to our sorely
pressed compatriots now battling under
the leadership of our glorious Lee and
Beauregard, one moiety of that army, in-
cluding the tried veterms of the gallant
2d Texas Infantry which Col. Sm<th so
proully e'aims ai his own, and my word
for.it, the tide of war, n w at the ebb,
would soon be at the flood, and under the
stalwart blows of our Walker, Magruder,
Polignao, and our native son, the ohlval-
rous VVharto'i, the world would soon be
told that the Confederate States needed
neither for iga aid nor negro help.
From the B"* -ivtlto R neh#ro, ?«b. 18
What'* the Matter f
A devil of an exoitement was kioked up
last Sunday night in Matamoros, with, we
ptesume, very little foundation. It was
ourrently reported that an attempt was
made that night to as~ass>aate General
Mejia, but this failing, another revolution
was to be inangu ated. Saoond, we were
assured that Ex-G >v. Cort(ina had issued a
pronunciamen'o against the Imperial Gov-
ernment; and that he had with him all ot
Mtjia's forces. The knowing ones shook
their heads and said they knew Cortina
would ptonouuee just as soon as he got his
trigger's fixed, and if he had all of Mejia's
troops, why, that time had arrive!. The
Yankee sympathisers said a force had gone
trom Brazis Santiago down the coast to
act in concert with Cortina against Maxi-
milian, and that the Empire was up the
8p0U'.
In the third plaoe, as the excitement
began t> sim ner down, it became known
that Cortina, who had been sent out to
whip a r imnant. of the Jmr z faction un-
der Meudez, Caravaj il & Co., sai l t«> be
sloshing ab'mi in ibe neighborhood of Vie
had been circumvented by the Wily
tori a,
whose private virtues, if not his public IC irav«j«l; and further thath« had sen
character as the representative of a great
people, at least entitled him to the most
considerate courtesy ? Diu it show anxiety
w hen when we hear that same Earl Russell,
one of England's most trusted ministers, in
his public addresses, express the hope that
the war would destroy the institution which
constitutes the very substratum on which
the prosperity of uie Confederate States
rests? Is the meek and craven spirit dis-
played by England whenever the United
States has captured her ships or snubbed
her government, the .manifestation of a
friendly sympathy for the Confederate States
and of her disposition to engage in war as
our friend and ally? ; And, as a final inter-
rogatory, dries it show that England, and I
may add, France, are Coming to our rescue
when we see them quietly acquiesce in the
capture ff all ot our marnime harbors, the
entrances In which are at once mounted
with cannon of the most formidable calibre,
and by which a complete closure of all
points of entrance to both naval and mili-
tary armaments is effected. Before I
could bolieve in the soundness of Col.
Smith's views, and hence assent to his con-
clusion, all these stubborn facts must be
satisfactorily explaiued. To my mind, as I
have tried to show, the signs appear con-
clusive that England will not budge an inch
in aid of our can e, so long as she can de-
cently avoid it: and it is no violation of
truth to say, that the incidents of the war
have proved that no amount of Yankee in-
sult and aggression will sufiice to drive her
into the slightest display of national spirit,
an attribute once Iter pride, but now lost in
tt M enervating pursuit, of commercial thrift.
Ot Fiance I still have hopes, but they spring
not from any trust in the conclusions of
Col. Smith. Wiicn she shall see that the
throne of Maximilian must fall, because the
Uoniederaey is about to fall, France will no
longer stand aloof, for both honor and in-
terest commit her to its stability But then
may not that hope fail us? Will not the
Vunkee Government avert French inter-
vention by yielding the Monroe doctrine in
a prompt recognition of the Etnp re'! The
United States is not so stultilied as not to
see that the Confederate Slates once free,
the Monroe doctrine becomes a mere polit-
ical abstraction, lieuce, the recognition of
ground of war; and hence, so circumspec
and careful has England been to avoid giv-jthe Empire becomes a necessity,
in;!; otTence, and so- fearfully has she ap-'
peurtd to dread the, ai.ger of that modern
colussus, that she h.is more than once de-
clined to a t with Franco to the proffer of
friendly mediation The fact is now his-
t irlcal, that when Laird & Co's steam rams
were nearly ready to leave the Mersey, and
which were built for the Confederate States.
the Yankee Premier, VV, H. Seward, caused
a dispatch to be written, in which England
was menaced with certain consequences if
the rams were suffered to depart; which
dispatch, though not delivered to the gov-
ernment, Seward took good care Earl Kus-
sell should hear of, by giving it publicity
in American journals. Candor forces the
admission 'hat England «nd France were
bound (and so continue to be) to the policy
of neutrality, by considerations and Irom
motives which, as wise and prudent States,
thov could not disregard. They readily saw
that the United States had develop d pow-
ers, of which the world had had but imper-
fect conceptions, and that though seriously
crippled and impaired, by her< efforts to
conquer the South, she was still not to l e
contemned ; that her resources were still
immense, and that to succeed in their aims,
vast expenditures of treasure would b<
called for; and besides, they would be
taking upon their hands a war, the duration
of which it would bo difficult to limit. The
fact too was patent that the United States
would ask but a brief space within wbich
it lollnws a*- a legitimate aorollary ftvm
il e truin oi remaik j ur.-ued in tins cini-
c.iuuicaiien, ttiat tluoriis, such a: that ih
writ, r ou anemnte t locowba', no wane;
now p! lU-ible may appear the rettso s
urged lu ilu-ir support, do not merit uini
stiouId uot receive ihe a!ien:iiu of a pen
so el- quent auo masterly as that wield* d
by Cot. Snaiiii, inasmuch as such theories
in l ie builds o! su4i a vvrner teud rather
to relax than to invigorate the resistance
of i he people. From th.e very start the
c.tizeus in the (.'onl.derate States have
puibu d wuii too mucn eagerness aud oon-
iitieuce the i tea ihv England and France,
one < r bot'i, c uid not if they would, avoid
a participation in the w*r and as ouf al-
beo. Far better would i:. have been, as
every oue will now admit, that such an
ixnictation had not fi&ed itse fin the pop-
utur tniuu, but, ihat in lieu ot' it, our pen-
pie Tom ttie tirst moment biidaoceptei the
mexoiable fact ilia the uchievemer.t ot
success depended whol'y ai d ub-olutelv
up n ibeir own unaideu efforts. In that
ua-e thousands who have tanked to co
uj eraiion fiom Europe wuuld have entered
he army, and to tuose in the ranks a
m r«i deiei miiied epirit of resistance Would
have been imparted. If a tithe of what
we hear of Confederate resourced be true,
to Mejia for ad 'iiional help. This gained
the more cr« de-ice from ihe fact t'.iat Cara-
v jal had uev^r won a victory out of a
<bousand fights, and that it jwa# time he
had.' Upo'i tfennint: the position of mfaits
it was stated that C ira^njal bad allowed
Cortina to cross t he S*n Fernando one way,
whilst he h id-orossed to this side and om
pletely cu- Conina's communication with
his base. U was affirmed that Gen. Mejia
had sent a force of two or three hundred
to h<-lp Cortina out.
Putting he wh >le affair together we
make but little out of it, ibotish there-may
be much, qui'e too much in it to suit, all
bauds. That Co -iini l as p on >unaed
against the Empire is sheer fabrication ;
for the time li Ic arrived f >r such nn
undertaking Bu' that lie will pronounce
ngninst. tli'j Empire isj'ist a* certain as
the balance of powen-evrr falls into his
ha ids—just, r* ce"• .iw is «hnt he shall, b
continued in tne position that he now oc-
cupies
We reluctnn'ly confess humiliation a!
^ee'ng Juin .C rtira in position under
Vlejia. Ha bro'«e up the whoie agricultu-
ral intere'" of ihe tower Ilio Grande Val-
ley in '59 ; slaughtered and robbed who-
ever h<* w nt Ho has been the fermonter
of di-cord be'ween us and our Mexican
ne'g'ibors ever s;n -e. lie has produced
two or three revolutions in Tamaulipas.
and by his ru'e di-graced the very name of
Mexicn. lie ac'ed in the capacity of de-
tective for the V nkees ; bunted, cap'ured
and deliv r.-d unoif-ml ng Confederates 10
ine Yankees. Ho wa- the executioner ol
It j n.' Secr tvy ot' S'ate on ler Vi 'aur
ri, b 'dU'e of U jon's French sympa hies
He entered int ) coali'iou with tne Yankee*
to r >b Matamo'oB ot her valuables nnd
run thorn nor*os ttto river and out through
the Uraai" S?n ta .o ; an t to this eod in-
vaded our soil to drive the Confederates
< Ut of B owo-vil> Hew uld have be
headed .bulge M >n'er >, now on th3 Mat-
moros h vn.e b cause of his Empire pro-
clivities, hut fo ■ th ' timely escape of that
talented 'awyer onl abl" jurist. And yet
he is in eimmft'iii under Gon. Mejia! llis
r c >rd is ene of riotous robb ry, of force'l
Io ns nnd nupa'ailed bruiality. To sav
the l-a^t, nl ihe foreigners in Matamoros,
Ya'ik-e« excepted, are thoiounh'y imbueu
with ibj impott U'Ce of maintaining the
Empire, nd tie list one would cbey ..
r quest ta turn out and defend that city
agiinst any revolutionary force ; bu' there
is not, tne t f tliem but tie.nbles at the
thought of Coitin i being pos-essed of men
fund n,u ittons. N y, more, they shuddii
at the mere m i.tioa ol hid n ime.
1 !i Hnrbecne.
The gr n I I sti'al and barbecue given
in honor ot Maj. Gt-n. Forney's Division,
by the citi* us of Caido and B s i r par
isnea, t ok placi ooSiturday, February
18.h, 18.5, in accordance with previous
ly publ'fh d notices. The day was clear,
beatiiitul und pleasant. Thousands ol
spccta'ors of al ages and bo'h sexes
u ronged to the grounds early in the day.
The troops ol the division were drawn uj
in line of battle in the old field west of
Col. Watson's residence and were review
td by Gen. F- K<rny Smith, accompanied
hy Gen. Baukhead Magruder and Forney,
attended by their respective staff officers
After the review tka troops commenced to
maneuver, advanced in columns of attack
and, after deploying, broke to the tear
toiming two ltues o' battle. After chang-
tne Cuntideiae States du i.ot require ing lrout to (l)C re(ir 0I1 the first line, ill y
to eweep from the occbo the last vestige of-European aid, and rrich prouder hereafter^g<i unj|;d to the attack. First w-is he-irJ
the widely extended commerce of France wouid bs the boast w. the Confederate ci'. .u- eoaitoring fire of
the skirmishers lol
lowed by volleys of musketry mingled with
the roar of artillery.
The maneuvering was well executed, and
but for the gala appearance of the scene a
spectator would have imagined that oue of
those bloody dramas, so frequent in these
ifarlike days, w as being enacted. As it was,
some fair ladies screamed and down the
cheeks of others coursed tear drops, either
of sympathy for a soldier's dangers or from
some memory brought up by this warlike
scene. After the sham battle the Division
was drawn up in columns of regiments to
be presented to that gallant band, the
" veterans of the 3d Louisiana Iufantrj."
This command, numbering E10 men, were
marched up to the Division and introduced
by Gen. Forney to his troops in a few point-
ed remarks, and responded to by three
hearty cheers. The Division then presented
arms to the Regiment, which comp iment
was returned. Anns were then stacked
and all repaired to the speaker's stand to
enjoy a " least of reason and flow of soul."
A letter was first read from Gov. H. W. Al-
len regretting his unavoidable absence on
this occasion. Short and stirring addresses
were then delivered by Col. L. Bush, Col.
G. Flournoy, and Col. Hubbard, after which
the throng repaired to the tables, where a
bountiful and substantial repast was spread.
The whole affair passed off pleasantly and
wity long be remembered by all who par-
ticipated therein. We feel gratified at this
complimentary tribute to the gallantry and
valor of Texians by the citizens and flair
women of Louisiana.—Shreveport News.
Special to the D*ttv
Galveston, March 3d, 1865
I take the following from Flake's Bulle-
tin:
A Military Execution.
The second military execution on this
Island during the war ooourred to-day at
2 P. M., at the parade ground near the
grave yard, in tha shooting to death by
>• usketry of Antone llicker, of Fayette
county, a priva e in Dege's Battery, for at*
tempted deserti' n to the enemy.
The prisoner wai convioted sono time
since by a court-martini and the sentence
approved by the commanding Generil.
On his way to the place of execution, the
prisoner showed signs of emotion. lie
was accompanied by Uev. Mr. BaldwiL,
Po^t Chaplain, w'fco acted as hie spiritual
adviser. After arrival at tho plaoe "f
execution, Ricker remained fiim. He
stood in front of his coffin—«tood iu the
temple porch of eternity calmly, nnd ap-
paieutly as self possessed as any one in
the whole or-iwd that looked upon him.
He refused to be tied or blind-folded and
looked tho firing party full in the face,
holding his left baud to his breast and re-
questing tliem to aim there. The sharp
rattle of musketry, and the prisoner fell
dead, several ba'ls having passed through
his breast.
Deta'chmonfs of trotps from all the re -
imen's composing the garrison, acd many
citizens witnessed the execution. While
the preparati ms for execution were pro-
gressing a section of Dege's light ba'tery,
two guns, manned by 14 men, comrades ol
the condemned, arrived on the ground nnd
aijtemp'ed to prevent the execution. This
?iily afteu.pt W\s easily put down ; the
guns were taken without resistance, and
the men were sent to the guard house.
The saddes' part of ihe aff iir remains
to be told. The friends of llicker had
sent Rev. Father An-uaed tyes'erday morn
iug to Houston on a hand car, as bearer of
documents aldr ssed to Gtn. Walker,
showing ili it Kicker was not. of sonnd
mind und ee'ting forth other reasons why
he ought to be re.-pite I.
Toe telegraph line between this plac
and Housion broke down last ni^ht, nnd
remained down until 12 miuutes after ihe
x foution. No intelligence Irom General
Walker ciuld therefore r.nch here. 1>U'-
as noon as ihe telegraph operated a dis
,r*tcU was recriveil 1'roiOGeu'l Wa k>r, <lo
ed yesterday evening, con aining an order
for the res"ite of Auuine Ricker. it was
too late, the man was dead. ***.
Fxperl^nco «>f nn Alabama Officer.
Toronto, Canada, Jan. S), 1865.
To the Editor of the N. Y. News
I see front your issue of Friday last that
Mr. Greeley disputes tho statement of a
lady who exposes the sufferings of the
Itock Island prison- rs. I a*k a brief space
iu your columns for a i-tatcment of facts in
toy own experience confirmatory of your
opinion that prisoners of war are treated
with barbarous cruelty.
I have been a prisoner of war for eigh-
teen months at tho prison lor officers on
Johnson's Island. I am the captain of an
Alabama company, and was taken prisoner
at Oliainpin Ilia's, in front of Viektburg,
on the loth May, 18M. On our arrival at
Johnson's Island, and for some mouth* af-
ter, we were allowed to purchase Irom a
sutler such things as we needed in the way
ot food. Subsequently this sutler was re-
moved, anil s tice Hut time prisoners have
not beeu allowed thus to purchase, but
have beeu compelled to subsist upon such
rations as were luruished by the authori-
ties.
These rations consisted of a small slice ol
a baker's loaf of sour bread, twice a day,
uniform y short in weight of the appointed
allowance; a small piece of very poor beet
about three inches square, once a day; a bit
of salt fish, about one sixth of a lake white
tiili; one pint of rice or hominy to every six
men once a week, and no vegetables what-
ever, nor any bevertigc buf water,
Many of the men, in consequence, are
hungry for weeks together, and in mauy
cases are driven to catching rats lor lood.
I have seen them myself watching eagerly
till twelve o'clock at night lor HI* rats 1
have seen the hungry men eugerly cook
aud devour them. 1 have mysclt part .ken
of such food. I have seen otlicors, high in
position, gathering up the naked bones
thrown out of the cook house, and break-
ing and ro-boiling them to make a misera-
ble soup.
I did not myself suffer as modi at most
of my comrades, because of my position in
the hospital, wbich secmrcd for me some-
Jhinjj "ver and above the ordiuary rations.
To show that my opinion of the insufficient
oy of the food is confirmed by those best
qualified to judge, I may state the faet that
on one occasion, in the absence ot Colonel
Iiill. the medical mou amoqg the prisoners
made a careful examination, on report from
the head men of all the ui sses, and drew
up a momorial to the authorities, giving it
as their deliberate opinion that the food
furnished the prisoners was iusnffioient to
sustain health and life in the high latitude.
The worst of the matter is, that the prist
•oners are not allowed to reoeive provisions
from friends and other benevolent persons
outside, except It be occasionally a tick-
man in the hospital, under permit irom the
hospital surgeon.
Siuce coming to Canada recently, I have
most reliable accounts of numerous ship*
meuts of provisions to partlenlar prisoners,
many of them under special atsuranoet
from officials that they might be received.
But I know that most, if not all suoh ship-
ments never reach those to whom they are
sent; and I am led to conclude that tueh
assurances are mere traps to catch and ap-
propriate to purposes of speculation snok
presents of l'ooa on their way to hungfy
men.
I do not mean to apply any suoh tog*
gestion to Col. Hill, oommandant of the
Pot', or to Lieut. Col. Bcovell, who is ia
immediate charge of the prison. It is due
to eaudor to say, on the oontrary, that
both of these offioers, so far at 1 have
seen, discharge their disagreeable offioe fck
a manner to deserve the respect and es-
teem of all fair-minded and thoughtful
men among the prisoners. With the ex-
ception of occasional acts of outrage end
petty tyranny by subordinates of the style
.of one Lieut. Col. P lmer, acts which su-
perior officers cannot always prevent.
I have uothiag to oomplaiu of ia the
general conduot of the offioers. toward the
pri-ouers; nur will i say anything of the
suffering tor waul of clothing, in this cold
climate, which prob.ibly cannot well be
helped. I wish simply, without auy col-
oring or exaggeration of faots, to affirm
your gi'iierul statement that the prisouers
are t-uff ring from hunger; and to expose
the enormous lie of M'. Seward, in his
letter to Lord Wharucliffe, affirming, in
effeot, that tho prisoners are uountuully
provided lor. 1 desire a'so to expose the
wanton cruelly of the order whion pro-
hibits the prisoners to receive, witheWt
expense to the Government, the provis-
ious with which friendship and benevo-
lence would supplement the Government's
seamy allowanoe.
As to the 11 ,ck Island prisoners, no one
with the testiuonv which comes to us trom
escaped prisoners and others, can doubt
for a moment ihat all, aud more than all,
which your lady correspondent states is
true, A triend here whose negro man
was stolen from him and put into the
army, and placed on duty at Llooit Island,
had a letter from liim—poor i tg,o—re-
cently, uffi mingthat tha prisoners whom
he i* guarding are "both naked aud starv-
ing." But. I have already tresspassed too
largely on your space. Bu assured, sir,
ehat teus of thousands of suffering men
will bun ir you for your manly utteranoes
•mains', barbarity aud cruelty, even to
your enemies when prisoners ot war.
ROBlilir McKlBlHN,
Capt. Co. F, Fifty-first Ala. Vols.
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