l’ UBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BY RWALK A. H. BYINGTON &. CO., GAZETTE. ’ AT TWO DOLLARS PER ANN UM, IN ADVAl" E. g gumilg autonomic, gotta! to floral More and gamma, (fractal graham». gamma goblin, gallium”, alumnus, cs.---om1aiuaiumun. 3:: NUMBER 751--NEW SERIES, NORWALK, CONN., TUESDAY, MAY 27,- 1862. VOLUME XLV--N UMBER 2i: NORWALK GAZETTE. OFFICE IN GAZETTE BUILDING. A. H. BYINGTON & CO., A. H. BYINGTON, J. B. ELLS, G. N. ELLS‘ Subscription Rates . All Subscribers by Carrier, Mail, Post Riders and Wagoners, per year ’ Those living out of any Carrier’s District, if paid one year in advance, (‘luhs ofsix or more sent to one address, to be paid in advance, 1 50 Single copies 4 cents. Advertising Rates. One' Square, one insertion, $1 00 “ two insertions, 1 25 f‘ three insertions, 1 50 “ one m‘onth, 1 75 “ two months, 3 00 “ three months, 4 00 “ six months, ’2 00 “ one year—with paper 15 00 Two S uares, one year—with paper, 25 00 Each a ditional Square, per year, 8. 00 One half column, one year, 40 00 One Column, one year, 75 00 Fifteen lines, or 100 words,make a square. Fraction- al arts of a square char ed for as a whole. Year iy advertisers have t e privilege of changing the radvertisemcuts once per month. Advertise- ments changed Oftener charged as transient. Yearly advertisements payable 1st of January 85 July. Yearly advertisers restricted to the business contem- plated at the time of contract. Cards, Resolutions, Funeral and all other Special No- tices .25 per cent. additional on the above. ‘3‘ These terms will be inflexibly adhered to. g BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Nor-walk Post Office. ’ MAILS CLosa West 7.80 A._ M.—2.30 P. M. East 8.30 A. M.—5.00 P. M. . Danbury & Norwalk Railroad 8.50 A. M. Weston, Bedding and Bedding Ridge, 1 ues- days,*Thursdays and Saturdays, at 12 M. MAILS DUE. w’e'n '9.10 a. M.—.—-6.00 P. M. East 8.20 a. M.-—3.30 P. M. Danbnry & Norwalk Railroad 8.00 A. M. ~ POST OFFICE HOURS. / From 7.00 A. M. to 8.00 P. M. _ CHARLES OLMSTEAD, P. M. N. A. MOSMAN, M. 1)., Homoeopathic ' Physician and Surgeon, Office over 0. J. Gruman’s Store, NORWALK, CONN. Office hours from 1 to 3 P. M. New HARDWARE '8l. PAINT STORE, M a i n S t r e e t, Opposite I. H. Compell’s Confectionery, MARVIN . & PROWITT, Wholesale and retail Dealers in Hardware, Cutlery, Paints, Oils, Glass, Paper Hang- ings, Window Shades, &c. ROOFING SLATE, Prom Vermont, VERY CHEAP, At South Norwalk by H. E. WING. THE ALLIS HOUSE, (formerly Union Honse,) Opposite N. Y. & N. H. Depot. in Union.st., New Haven, Conn. ' L. P. ALLIS, Paommon. E. W. & H. H. SMITH.& 00., Dealers in China, Glass & Earthen Ware, Kerosene Oil and Lamps, Wooden Ware, Mats, &c., I V No. 4 PuosNIx BLOCK, ' Opposite the Post Oflice. 3m12 JAMES G. BARBOUR, SURGICAL AND MECHANICAL D. E N '1' I S T, Office at Residence, East Avenue, Norwalk, ' ‘ ~ Connecticut. ,- Architecture. SIDNB if M. STONE, . ARCHITECT, Will furnish Plans, Specifications, Detail Drawings; and superintend the erection of public and private buildings. Office in Mar- ble Block, Chapel-st, New Haven, Ct. tf52 E0. F. BELDEN, Norwalk, Conn.,Man- ufacturer of Tin, Copper, and Sheet Iron Ware; and dealer in Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces, Cutlery, Brittanuia, Wooden and Willow Ware, Crockery; and a full assort- “ment of House Keeping articles generally. E. BISSELL, Auctioneer, will give 0 particular attention to sales by Auc- tion, of Real Estate, Personal Property and Household Furniture : terms low. WM. 0. STREET & 00., Importers ; wholesale and retail dealers in nannwann, more, Steel Cutlery, Guns, Agricultural Imple- ments, Oils, Paints, Window Glass, &c. c. .s. Locnwoon, fashionable Draper & Tailor, and GEN TLEMEN’S FURNISHING EMF OBI UM ! No. 3_Skiddy’s Block, Main-st, Norwalk, Gt. 8. E. QI-MSTEAD &GO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in GrOceries, Flour, Peed, &c., 14 and lb Main-st, Norwalk, Conn. Ile'rlvs‘ INSURANCE COMPANY, 0f Hartford. .' Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual. Cash Capital $1,000,000 Insure against loss and damage by Fire, on 'l‘erms adapted to the hazard,and consistent With the laws of ' compensation. GEORGE R. COWLES, Sole Agent 1y3 For Norwalk and vicinity. ROOFING. " ‘HE subscriber is prepared to furnish par- ties, building, with Warren’s superior FELT AND. CEMENT ROOFING. This article of Roofing is in use upon the - Norwalk Lock Cotnpan ’3 Building, and at Lounsbury, Bissel1& Co s, where it gives en- tire satisfaction, and is believcd to be the cheapest as well as the best rq. ring ill use.— Alll orders will receive prompt ttention. . C. l‘ LOOMIS. Delightful New Books. UTHERLANDS—by the author of “Rut- ledge.” At SELLECK’S. I ~J.N.LDCKWO0D&00, “’est Side of the Bridge, LYNES’ NE‘V BLOCK, KEEP constantly on hand, a large and varied assortment of Ladies’, Gents’,and Children’s GAITERS, BOOTS, SHOES, .&o., all made under our own personal supervis- ion, of the best material and in the most workmanlike-manuer. Our assortment of Ladies’ Gaiters undoubtedly comprises—both in extent and quality—a finer assortment than can be found at any similar establishment in the County. In Gent’s Boots, Gaiters, Shoes, etc, we have a larger and better assortment, we are confident, than was ever before offer- ed in Norwalk. We are prepared to manu- facture, to measure any article in our line, and at the shortest notice. Misses’ and Children’s Shoes, Rubbers, etc., in endless variety. A fine article of Slippers for Gents’ wear. REPAIRING—in all its branches—done neatly, quickly, and cheaply. Whitney’s Photographic and Fine Art GALLERY, Nomvanx, CONN. ATE E. B. TnonPson’s. E T. -Whitney would inform the citizens of Nor-walk that he has established himself in the Gazette Building, and will furnish them with Photo- graps, Ambrotypes, and all kinds of Pictures taken by the sun, fi'om JMiniatures, to life size; colored or plain;.in the highest st le Of the art. ' E. T. WHITNE . ‘ Important to owners of Horses. , WILLIAM B. SWAN, Saddler ,CL Harness Maker, Adjoining Danbury & Norwalk R. R. Depot N ORWALK, CON N., KEEPS constantly on hand and will make to order every description of Harness, Horse F ur'rliture, Troppings or Clot/ling. Also Saddler’s Hardware . and outfits. Trunks, Valises, Carpet Bags, 41:. Allin want of anything in his iine,will do well to give him a call. Orders for any kind of work promptly executed. Repairing done neatly and cheaply, and at short notice. A. JACKSON 6!. 330. No. 1 Gazette Building. ‘Nl OULD respectfully announce to the public and their old customers, that they have recently made extensive additions to their stock of goods. We are now prepar- ed to offer an assortment not to be surpassed in Fairfield County, in quality or price. We would call particular attention to our stock of Watches, which islarger than ever before.— We have a fine lot of Ladies’ Swiss Watches, in gold cases, at prices varying from $20 to $75, which we can recommend as bein r cor- rect time keepers. Also, Gentlemen’s atch- es, in silver and gold cases, at any price fi‘om $5 to $100. We buy 'of the best importers in New York, and altogether for cash, so that our facilities for selling cheap could not be eater. ,Our stock of Jewelry, Silver and later. Wares was never better than at pres- ent, and comprises all or the latest styles that are manufactured. A. JACKSON 85 BRO. NORWAlsK Steam Sawing and Plaining M I I. I. . HE subscriber has fitted up and is now prepared to execute all orders for Pla- ning); Scroll and other Sawing; manufacture of oors, Sash, Blinds, &c., &c., in the best and most expeditious manner, and at satis- factory prices. Orders by mail prompt] at- tended to. 1y17 TIMOTHY B. FITC . INSURANCE. THE subscriber having taken the agency of the New England 're and Marine I11- sm‘ance 00. of Hartford, is prepared to insure all kinds of propertyagainst oss or damage by fire, on as accommodating terms as any other Company. The New England Fire and Marine Insu- rance Company has been recently established with a paid in capital Of $200,000 and has a surplus of $6,295.00. . JOSEPH W. HUBBELL, Agent for Norwalk and vicinity. N orwalk, Feb. lst, 1861. tf5 DAVID 1:. PIECE, Dealer in ' Grain, Flour, Feed, Meal, Hay, &c., No. 2 Watcr-st,, third door south of ill Bridge, has in store Flour and Meal, (fresh ground) direct from the mills. : Grocers, Bakers 6L I'amilies supplied as cheap as can be procured in New York or elsewhere. Feed of every variety constantly on hand. 51 SOUTH NORWALK Ladies and Gents’ Boot or: 81106 Store. "l‘HE subscriber, having taken the business and stand of Stevens & Tristram, is pre- pared tO supply everyarticle to be found in a first class Boot and Shoe Establishment, for la- dies, gentlemen, or children’s wear. Our goods are manufactured expressly for our own sales, and warrant all work sold by us. Always on hand, or made to order at short notice, Gents’ Patent Leather Boots, Sims, iii-c. ,- Ladl'es’ Gaiters, 636., (be. ; Ohihire'n’s Gaiters, and Shoes, (to, d’:c., die. Rubber goods ; a large stock kept constantly on hand. Repairing done neatly and aperit- ently. ' South Norwalk (No. 3, Ely‘s Block), April 7, 1860. Hardware and Cutlery. Mechanic’s Tools, Farming Utensils, Guns, Pistols, Iron and Steel, Window Glass, Paints and Oils. “7M. C. STREET 8: CO. have in store and are constantly receiving direct from the manufacturers, a large supply of Foreign and Domestic Goods, under the above denominations,which makes their assortment of articles suited to this market, equal to any in the State, and which will be sold either wholesale or retail on as favorable terms as can be purchased in New York. WILLIAM C. STREET, A. H. WILCOXSON. TIMBER! LUMBER! lath, Lime, Brick, Cement, Paints, Oils, Glass, BUILDERS’ HARDWARE, &C.. &C. ATTHE‘ , New Lumber ‘Yurd, NEAR THE RAIL ROAD BRIDGE, SOUTH NORWALK. Our Stock is new, bou ht for Cash, and will be sold low. T LLES &. ELY. South Norwalk, Oct. 15, 1800. tf42 House as Sign Painting, GILDING, GLAZING, &c., do, SOUTH NORWALK. HE subscriber will execute all orders in Plain or Ornamental Painting in the most satisfactory manner, and at reasonable prices. . -' Also, For Solo, his present residence (wuh his‘hu'siness if desired), comprising ahouse &c., and ashop thereon. Terms easy. Ap- ply on the premises, opposite Quintard & Smith’s Carriage Factorg, to GE RGE HODGES. Mav 7th.,1§,60;_ .. HARVEY STEVENS. . nearly new, with garden, trees, shrubbery, The Soldier’s Widow. BY N. P. WILLIS. We! for my vine-clad home! That it should ever be so dark to me, With its bright threshold, and its whispering wee, That I should ever come, Fearing the lonely echo of a tread, Beneath the roof-tree of my glorious dead l Lead on ! my orphan boy! Thy home is not so desolate to thee, And the low shiver in the linden-tree May bring to thee a joy :, But, oh! how dark is the bright home before thee, To her who with a joyous spy-it bore thee! Lead on! for thou art now My sole remaining helper. God hath spoken, And the strong heart I leaned upon is broken : And I have seen his brow, The forehead of my upright one, and just, Trod by the hoof of battle to the dust. He will not meet thee there Who bless‘d thee at the eventidc, my son l And when the shadows of the night steal on, He will not call to prayer. The lips that melted, giving thee to God, Are in the icy keeping of the sod ! Aye, my own boy! thy sire Is with the sleepers of the valley cast, And the proud glory of my life hath pass‘d, With his high glance of fire. We! that the linden and the vine should bloom, And a just man be gathered to the tomb! ———-.-<.>. From the Hartford Courant. The Home Legion. ' In a farm-house, snug and cheery, When the sun was west declining, ' ' Sat a housewife with her knitting— Knitting prayers with heart spun, home spun Yarn. into the soldiers’ stockings— When a light step on the door-stone And a rap upon the panel, Told a neighbor kind was coming, Told that hearts with hers were beating Warmly, for the soldiers weary, \ Who had left their homes and kindred, And were then our battles fighting. Others came, and with them bringing Bandages, and lint. and linen, Sat them down to making garments, For the lov'd ones who were weary, With the marching and the drilling, And the digging and the ditching. And the picket guard and duties, 0f the faithful volunteers. While they satand worked and wonder’d While they read and talked of battles, Some were thinking, sadly thinking. How their means so scant and homely, Could with little more econ‘my, Make a bed-gown, shirt, or slippers, For a sick or wounded soldier. Some had look’d their stores of bedding Over, for the warmest blanket. And had thought with tears of girlhood’s Hand that spun it—when a mother. Long since gone to rest from labor, Sat beside her, helped to plan the Stripe, or check, and dyed the colors Others, too, had sent their parcels, Some of dried fruits, some of jellies, And such dainties as the housewife, ' With her skillful hand prepares Hoping that the soldiers absent From their homes, in tents and barracks. Will ’with better hearts and courage, Do their duties, faithful, willing, With such tokens of remembrance. Some there were who could not join them, But with hearts and hands as willing, Sat at home beside their sick ones, Doing there a double duty, By the sick bed, with their working On the garments that would shelter From the cold winds and .e rain storms, Those to whom we owe a nation's Independence, such as ours. In a cottage by the roadside, Not in sight of neighbor’s dwelling. By her little ones surrounded As the twilight shades of evening, Sat 0. mother with her grandsire, Listening to the tales he’s telling (As she’s working for the soldiers) “0f the hardships and the labors He in boyhood had encountered, When our nation was recovering From the losses and the suffering, And its sacrifice for freedom— When a furlough let his father Home to do a little ploughing For himself, and for a neighbor : Woman‘s hand helped get the grain in. Shear'd the sheep, and did the reaping. Carding, spinning, dyeing, weaving—- Made the garments for their husbands, Brothers, who were Continental soldiers, And against the British struggling, To secure an independence, Which should light benighted nations With the gospel's glorious freedom." Soon a friendly neighbor “drops in.” On his homeward way returning From the village with the “paper,” And the news be there had gathered. What was known, and what was guess'd at, Talked of taxes and of tariffs, And of treasury notes and duties, And of loans, and rise Of cotton—— But with hopeful, cheerful courage, Bade the war speed on to victory, And with patriotic ardor, Pledged himself and his last dollar. ’5‘ Ne——-—— ——-——-oo--. W The Hartford correspondent of the Sunday School Times says: “One of the best country Sabbath schools in Connecticut is connected with the Con- gregational Church in Plainville, in this county. It has been often mentioned in these letters. Its annual report, made by the Superintendent, last Sabbath, told of 20 hopeful conversions in connection with it during a few months past. 405 scholars have been on the roll during the year. Of these, 237 were adults, and 168 under eight- een years of age. Of course a large propor: tion of the fathers and mothers must- be in the school. 198 were professed Christians, “not too old to go to Sabbath School.” Of the forty teachers, ten were at their post ev- ery Sabbath during the year. The oldest of these, seventy six years of age, has been with his class at every session of the school for more than four years. What a pleasant rec- ord is this! Yet who will say that too much has been done even in the prosperous Sah- bath School at Plainville ‘3” «Q». , W It has often been noticed, doubtless, that there are in the two opposin armies two generals oi the same name. a have a Gen. Davis, so have they. There is likewise a Price, a Crittenden, a Cooke, in each, and we do not know how many Others; but there is a still more remarkable instance, the reb. els have a Gen. Floyd and We have at Goa. Steele—0011mm. .~ M... W The indications are that Ms land will before long avail itself of the p an of compensated emancipation recommended by the President. Hundreds of their a a cs huvé already escaped from bandage, u are mas- ters are forced. by their own set interest to look faVOrable upon the scheme. The result of the primary elections in Baltimore for del- egates to the new city convention is strongly in favor of emancipation, and when the con- vention meets in June the issue is to be reg- ularly made on the question of emancipation on the President’s plan as the test of loyalty, or the continuance of .slavery as evidence of complicity with the rebellion. .‘gp..______. ————The Norwich Bulletin thinks it a sign of good morals, that, with a handsome jail and goon jailor, finely located, onl fifteen individuals—nine males and six 1 mglggfi 'ean,be persuaded to resillc‘thbfe,‘ c are at a loss to, determine Whether the fault rests with the people or the magistrates. ———The Richmond Dispatch publishes the names of forty-two deserters from the 4th Alabama regiment, and a day or two ago ninety released rebel prisoners at Fortress Monroe positively refused to go back to Richmond notwithstanding the threats and 1y19 ocrsuasions of their officers. The Barbarians of Slavery. Speech of Parson Brownlow. The public reception of Rev. W. G. Brownlow, at the Academy of Music, was an ovation. The house was packed with an enthusiastic audience, who gave the heroic Tennesseeau their undivided attention. William M. Evarts presided. After a brief review of the origin and progress of the rebellion, Mr. Brownlow proceeded to describe its effects upon Ten- nessee, and gave a detailed and highly in- teresting account of his personal experi- ences, concluding with an earnest appeal in behalf of the sufl'ering loyalists of Ten- nessee. We give the leading points of his speech : an. BROWNLOW’s EXPERIENCE. When the rebellion fairly Opened they saw the course my. paper was taking, and they approached me, as they did every other editor of a Union paper in the country, with money. They knew I was poor, and they supposed it Would have the some influence over me that it had over almost all the Union editors of the South, for they bought up the last devil of them all throughout the South.— [Laughter and cheers] I told them, as one did of old : Thy memory perish with thee. I pursued the even tenor of my way until the stream rose higher and higher with secession fire, as red and hot as hell itself, and commenced pouring along that great artery of travel, that great railroad to Mauassas,.Yorktowu, Richmond and Petersburg. Then it was that, wanting in transportation, wanting in. rolling stock, wanting in locomotives, they had to lie over by regiments in our town, and then they commenced to ride Union men upon rails. I have seen that done in the streets, and have seen them break into the stores and empty their con- tents ; and coming before my house with ropes in their hands they would groan out, " Let us give old Brownlow a turn ; the damned old scoundrel ; come out, and we will hang you to the first limb.” I would appear, sometimes, on 'the front portieo of my house, and would address them in this way : "Men, what do you want with me ?” for I was very select in my words. I toos particular pains to _ never say gentlemen. [Laughten] "Men what do you want with me ?” “We want a Speech from you ; we want you to come out for the Southern Confederacy.” To which I replied: “ I have no speech to make to you. You know me as well as I know you ; I am utterly and irreconcila- bly Opposed to this infernal rebellion in which you are engaged, and I shall fight it to the bitter end. I hOpe that if you are a‘going in to kill the Yankees in search of your rights, that you will get your rights before you get back.” These threats towards me Were repeat- ed every day and every week, until finally they crushed my paper, destroyed my of- fice, appropriated the building to all old smitn’s shop to repair the locks and bar- rels of old muskets that Floyd had stolen from the federal government. They fi- nally enacted a law in the legislature of Tennessee authorizing an armed force to take all the arms, pistols. guns, dirks, swords and everything of the sort from all the Union men, and they paid a‘visit to every Uniou house in the state. They visited mine three times in succession up- on that business, and they got there a couple of guns and one pistol: Being an editor and preacher myself I was not largely supplied, and had ' the balance concealed under my clothes. [Great laughter] Finally, after depriving us of all our arms throughout the state, and after taking all the fine horses of the Union men everywhere, without fee or re- ward, for cdvslry horses, and seizing upon the fat hogs, corn, fodder and sheep, go- ing into houses and pulling the beds of the bedsteads in daytime, seizing upon all the blankets they could find for- the or- my ; after breaking Open chests, bureaus, dacwers and everything of that sort—in which they were countenanced and toler- ated by the authorities, civil and military -‘—our people rose up in rebellion, an- armed as they were, and by accident. ms lnraisouusur. lknow it was from Chattanooga to the Virginia line—a distance of three hundred miles—one Saturday night in November, at eleven o’clock, all the rail- road bridges took fire at one time.— [Cheers and applause] It Was purely ac- cidental. I happened to be out from home at the time. [Laughton] I had really gone out on horseback—as they had suppressed my paper—to collect the fees which the clerks of the different counties were ovius me. which they were willing and ready to pay me, knowing thatI needed them to live upon ; and as these bridges took fire while I was out of town, they swore that I was the bell- wether and ringleader of all the devil- ment that was going on, and hence that I must have had a. hand in it. They wanted a pretext to seize upon me, and upon the sixth day of December they marched me off to jail—a. miserable, an. comfortable, damphod deSpcrate jail—— where I found, when I was ushered into it, some one hundred and fifty Union men; and, as God is my judge, I say here to-night, there was not in the whole jail a chair, bench, stool or table, or any piece of furniture, except a dirty old wooden bucket and a pair of tin dippers to drink with. TENNESSEE UNIONISTS IN JAIL. I found some of the first and best men of the whole country there. I knew them all, and they knew me, as I had been among them for thirty years. They ral- lied around me, some smiling and glad to see me, as I could give them the news that had been kept from them. Others took me by the hand, and were utterly Speechless, and with bitter, burning tears ranting down their cheeks, they said they never thought that they would come to that at last, looking through the bars of a grate. Speaking first to one and then another, I bade them be of good cheer and take good courage. Addressing them, I said, “ Is it for stealing you are here I NO. Is it for counterfeiting? No. Is it for manslaughter ? N 0. You are here, boys, because you adhere to the flag and the constitution of our country.— [Cheera] I am here with you for no other ofence but that ; and, as God is my judge, boys, I look upon this 6th day of December as the proudest day of my life. [Great applause] And here I intend to stay until I die of old age or until they choose to hang me. I will never renounce my principles.” [Cheers] Before I was confined in the jail their officers were ac- customed to visit the jail every day and Offer them their liberty, if they would take the oath of allegiance to the South- ern Confederacy, and volunteer to go into the service, and they would guaranty them safety and protection. They were accustomed to volunteer a dozen at a time, so great was their horror of impris- onment and. the bad treatment they re« ceived in that miserable jail. After I got into the jail—and they "had me in close confinement for three dreadful winter mouths—all this volunteering and taking the oath ceased, and the leaders swore I did it. [Great cheering] I shall never forget while my head is above ground, the scenes I passed through in that jail. 1 recollect there were two venerable Baptist clergymeu there—Mr. Pope and Mr. Cate. Mr. Cate was very low, indeed, prostrated by the fever, and unable to eat the miserable food sent there by the corrupt jailer and deputy marshal—a man whom I had de- nounced in my paper as guilty of forgery time and time again—a suitable represen- tative of the thieves and scoundrels that head this rebellion in the South. [Ap- plause] The only favor they extended to me was to allow my family to send me three meals a day by my son, who brought the provisions in a basket. I requested my wife to send also enough for the two old clergymen. One of them was put in jail for ofi'eriug prayers for the President of the United States, and the other was confined for throwing up his hat and cheering the Stars and Stripes as they passed his house, borne by a company of Union volunteers.— When the basket of provisions came in in the morning they examined it at the door, would look between the pie and the bread to see if there was any billet or pa- per concealed there commuuicatiog trees on from any outside Unionist to the old scoundrel they had in jail ; and when the basket went out again the same ceremo. ny was repeated, to discover whether I had slipped any paper in in any way. The Old man Cate had three sons in jail. One of them James Madison Cate, a most exemplary and worthy member of the Baptist church, who was there for having committed no other crime than that of refusing to volunteer, lay stretched at length upon the floor, with one thick- ness of a piece of [carpet under him and an old overcoat doubled up for a pillow, the very agouies of death, unable to turn over, only from one side to the other. His wife came to visit him, bringing her youngest child with her, which was but a babe, but they refused her admittance. I put my head out of the jailwindow, and eutreated them, for God’s sake, to let the poor woman come in, as her husband was dying. They at last consented that she might see him for the limited time of fifteen minutes. As she came in, and looked upon her husband’s wan and ema- ciated‘faco and saw how rapidly he was sinking, she gave evident signs of faint- ing, and would have fallen to the floor with the babe in her arms had ,1 not rushed up to her and cried, “Let me have the babe,” and then she sank down upon the breast of her dying husband, unable at first to speak a single word. I sat by and held the babe until the fifteen minutes had expired, when the officer came in, and in an insulting and peromp~ tory manner notified her that the inter- view was to close. 1 bone I may never see such a scene again; and yet such cases were common all over East Ten- nessee. NoarnaaN svnrsrnlzaas wrru BEBELLION. Such actions as these show the spirit of secession in the South. It is the spirit of murder and assassination—it is the spirit of hell. And yet yep have men at the North uh, ,syatpathiae with these in- feruul murderers. [Applause] If I owed the devil a debt to be discharged, and it was to be discharged by the rendering up to him of a dozen of the meanest, most revolting and God-forsaken wretches that ever could be called from the ranks Of de- praved human society, and I wanted to pay that debt and get a premium upon the payment, I would make a tender to his satanic majesty of twelve northern men who sympathized with this infernal rebellion. [Great cheering] If I am se- vere and bitter in my remarks—[Cries of “No, no; not a bit of it,~"]-—if I am, gentlemen, you must consider that we in the South make a personal matter of this thing. [Laughton] We have no respect or confidence in any northern man who sympathizes with this infernal rebellion— [Cries of “Good, good”]-—nor should any time. Such men ought to be ridden upon a rail and ridden out of the North. [Good, good.”] They should either be for or against the "mill dam ;” and I would make'them show their hands. [Laughter and applause] Why, gentlemen, after the battle at Manassas and Bull Run the officers and privates of the Confederate army passed through our town On their way to Dixie, exultiug over the victory they had achieved, and some of them had what they called Yankee heads, or the entire heads of federal soldiers, some of them with long beards and goatees, by which they would take them up and say, “See l here is the head of a damned soldier cap— tured at Bull Run.” That is the spirit of secession at the South. It is the spirit of murder of the vile untutored savage ; it is the spirit Of hell, and he who apologizes for them is no better than those who per petrate the deed. [Cheers] THE FEELING IN TENNESSEE. In Andy J ohnsou’s towu—[ three cheers for Johnson were here given]— and while Johnson’s name is on my lips I will make another remark or two here: If Mr. Lincoln had consulted the Union men of Tennessee as to whom they wanted for Military Governor of the state, to a man they would have responded Andy Johnson. I have fought that man for twenty-five long and terrible years ; I fought him systematically and untiringly; but it was upon the old issues of Whig- gery and Democracy ; and now we will fight for one another. [Great cheering] We have merged in Tennessee all other parties and predilections in this great question of the Union. [Cheers] We are the Union men of Tennessee, uncondi- tional Union meuw[cheers]—and the miserable wretch who will attempt here or elsewhere to resurrect old exploded parties and party issues, and try to make capital out of this war, deserves the gel- lows, aud deserves death. [G’reat ap- plause] In Andy Johnson’s town they had the jail full Of prisoners, drove his family out of his house, and his wife being in the last stage of consumption, appro- priated his house, carpets and bedding ior a hospital, and his wife had to take shel- ter with one of her daughters in an ad- joining county, and Johnson has in him to-night a devil as big—and there is in every Union man in Tennessee—as my hat ; and whenever the federal army shall find its way there we will shoot them down like dogs and hang them on every limb we come to. [Applause] They have had their time of hanging and shooting, and our time comes next ; and I hepe to God that it will not be long. I am watching in the papers the movements of the army, and whenever I hear that my county is captured I intend to return post haste and point out the rebels.— [Cheers] I have no other ambition on earth but to resurrect the Knoxville Whig and get it in full blast, with one hundred thousand subscribers. [Cheers] And then, as the negroes say down South, “I’ll ’spress my opinion among some of them.” [Great laughter.] If I have any talent in God’s earth it is the talent to pile up epithet, one upon another.— [Laughter and cheers] REBEL BARBARITIES. In the county of Knox, where I re side, and only seven miles west of the town of Knoxville, they caught up Union men, tied them upon logs, elevated the log upon blocks six or ten inches from the ground, put the men upon their breasts, tieing their hands and feet under the log, stripped their backs entirely bare, and then, with switches, cut their backs literally to pieces, the blood running down at every stroke. They came into court when it was in session, and when the case was stated, the judge replied : “These are revolutionary limes, and there is no remedy for anything of the kind.” Hence, you see, our remedy is in our own hands; and, with the help of guns and swords and sabres we intend, God will- log, to slay them when we get back there wherever we find them. [Cheers.) In the jail where I lay they were ac- customed to drive up with a horse and cart, with an ugly, rough, fiat- ped cof- fin upon it, surrounded by fifteen to forty men, with bristling bayonets, as a guard to march in through the gate-into the jail yard, with steady, military tread. We trembled in our boots, for they never no- tilled us who was to be hanged, and you may imagine how your humble servant felt; for if any man in that jail, under their law, deserved the gallows, I claim to have been the man. I knew it and they knew it. ' They came sometimes with two cof- fins, one On each cart, and they took two men at a time and marched them out. A poor old man of sixty-five and his son of twenty-five were marched out at one time and banged on the same gallows.— They made that poor old man, who was a Methodist class leader, sit by and see his son hang till he was dead, and then any be tolerated in walking Broadway at_ they called him a damned Lincoloite Union shrieker, and said, “Come on, it is your turn next.” 'He sank, but they propped him up and led him to the hal- ter, and put both ofi' on the same gallows. They came, after that, for another man, and they took J. C. Haum out of jail—a young man of fine sense, good address, and of excellent character—a tall, spare- made man, leaving a wife at home with four or five helpless children. My wife passed the form of Haum’s the other day. when they drove her out of Tennessee and sent her on to New Jersey—I thank them kindly for doing so—and saw his wife ploughing, endeavorng to raise corn for her suffering and starving children.— This is the spirit of secession, gentlemen. And yet you have a set of God-forsaken, unprincipled men at the North who are apologizing for them and sympathiziug with them. [Applause] . Hanging is going on all over East Tennessee. They shoot them down in the fields, they whip them, and. strange as it may seem to you, in the counties of Campbell and Anderson they actually lacerate with switches the bodies of fe- males, wives and daughters Of Union men, clever, respectable women. They show no quarter to male or female ; they rob their houses and then throw them in- to prison. When they took Haum and placed him on the scaffold they had a drunken chaplain. They were kind enough to notify him an hour before the hanging that he was to hang. Haum at once made an application for a Methodist preacher, a Union man, to come and pray for him. They denied him the privilege, and said that God didn’t hear any prayers in behalf of any damned Union shrieker, and he had literally to do without the benefit Of clergy. But they had near the gallows an unprincipled drunken chaplain of their Own army, who got up and undertook to apologize for Haum. _He said, “This poor, unfortunate man, who is abOut to pay the debt of na- ture, regrets the course he took. He said he was misled by the Union paper.” Haum’rose up, and with a clear, stento- rian voice, said: “Fellow citizens, There is not a word Of truth in that statement. I have authorized nobody to make such a statement. What I have said and done I have done and said with. my eyes open, and, if it were to be done over, I would do it again. I am ready to hang, and you can execute your purposes.”— He died like a man, like a Union man, like an East Tennessean ought to die.— As God is my judge, I would sooner be Haum in the grave today than any one of the scoundrels concerned in his murder. APPEAL son HELP. Our jails are full now, and we have complained and thought hard that our government has not come to our relief, for a more loyal, a more devoted people to the Stars and Stripes never lived on the face of God’s earth than the Union people of Tennessee. [Loud cheers]— With tears in their eyes they begged me, upon leaving East Tennessee, for God Almighty’s sake to see the President, to see the army officers, so as to have relief sent to them, and bring them out of jail. I hope, gentlemen, you will use your in- fluence with the army and navy and all concerned to relieved those people. They are the most abused, downbtrodden, per- secuted and proscribed people that ever lived on the face of the earth. I am happy to announce to you that the rebel- lion will soon be played Out. Thank God for his mercies, it will soon have been played out. [Cheers] Mr. Brownlow, on taking his seat was loudly applauded. REBEL BABBARITIES. In the official report of a reconuois- sauce of the Mattapony, above West Point, Lieutenant-Commanding T. S. Phelps states that he found at West Point "fifty prisoners of the rebels (most- ly women and cbildren), living in a horrid couditionfin sheds, and without the com- mon necessaries of life. These people were residents of Elizabeth City county, and sent here by General Magruder on account of their Union sentiments.”— These were non-combatants, women and children. A letter from a Mr. John McLean Collins, recently published in the Cincin- nati Gazette, gives the following account of other amenities of Southern life : “On the 27th of April, 1861, I was arrested upon the allegation that I was a correspondent of the Tribune and thrown into a dark and loathsome dungeon, where the accumulated filth of years ren- dered existence for any length of time im- possible. This arrest the Avalanche was exceedingly jubilant over, and had their counsels for summary execution been act- ed upon I would uot now be writing this letter. While confined in that city, I was compelledlo witness the enormities perpetrated in obedience to the behests of those who ruled the mob. One hour in the morning, from six to seven, was allowed me to stand at the window grate, and at such times their whippings and head shavings were indulged. Here I saw, from the 27th of April to the 6th of J one, eighty-five men whipped and their heads shaved, and forty-three hung, be- cause they refused to take an oath of al- legiance to the Southern Confederacy.— And on the 19th of May last one of the ‘33: most beautiful and accomplished young ' ladies this county can boast of was stripped to the waist, thirteen lashes laid upon her back, and the right half of her head shaved, simply because she pur- chased a ticket for Cairo, and was con- gratulating herself that she would soon be in a land of freedom.” -'l‘he following extract of a letter in the Newark Mercury, from the Eigth New Jersey Regiment, gives another instance of similar conduct : “Major Ryerson fell bravely. No words can do more than justice to his coolness and courage. Unfortunately we were not able to get his body 03' the field in the pressure of the engagement. Some of the enemy came across him, and with their usual brutality and worse“- than heathen barbarism, stripped him of all he had about him, save his shirt and pants. They did the same with Lflut. Col. Van Leur’s body (of the Sixth-Lists Jersey Volunteers). In fact, they so: ved all in the same way, turning out the pockets of every stricken soldier alley met. Nor did they stop at this robbery of the dead. They perpetrated savage outrages upon them, bayoneting the wounded and breaking in the skulls of the dead with the butts of muskets, until the brain laid entirely bare upon the earth beside the .body I This is fearful to recount—almost too shocking. But it is true. And I give it to show those who laud Southern honor; chivalry, and nobleness, what southern honor, chivalry and nobleness consist in. I dare not longer dwell on this. My feelings of in- dignation might lead to language unbe- coming a Christian. Though, in truth no language to express disgust and con- tempt of such deeds as I have recounted could well be too strong.” The horrible brutalities committed by the rebels upon the body of Major Ryan son of New Jersey are thus described by a correspondent of the Times, writing from our camp near Williamsburg under date of May 12 . “Major Ryerson, of the New Jersey brigade, fell wounded in the action of Monday, and two officers who undertook to carry him from the field were shot In the attempt. A couple of privates then sprang to his assistande, but he adfised them to leave him for their own Safety, telling them that he was not dangerously injured, and had nothing to fear from the enemy ; but when the field was searched the next day for the dead he was found lying among them, with six bayonet wounds in his breast, his ears slit, and. his body nearly stripped of clothing.” A correspondent of the Tribune gives this version : “Now again to the disgusting duty of proving .he barbarism, treachery and radical cowardice of these rebels. Major Ryerson, of a New Jersey regiment, flung to the ground by a wound, fell into their hands during the ebb and flow of the fight. When his body was recovered on Tuesday, it was found to be bayonet- ed, and the savages had cut the gentle- man’s ears close off to his head i” In addition to the testimony of Person Brownlow, and other witnesses, We find the following records of revolting barbar- ities practiced by the rebels. Camila- tive evidences of these atrocities comes to us from every quarter, and in every in- stance upou trustworthy authority : A DRUMMER BOY MURDERED. ”It is hardly necessary to say that Of- ficers and men are very much exaspera- ted by the barbarous couduct of some of the rebels—bayoneting the dead, cutting the throats of the wounded, and in one instance heating with the butt of a mus- ket the skull of a drummer boy who had received a wound which might well be presumed to b? mortal. ‘This war ought to have been one of extermination from the first,’ was read recently, either in a rebel newspaper, or in some of the choice specimens of literature left in the camps. The army of the Potomac is quite ready to accept that rule ; possibly to press it. Certainly I should pity any rebel who should ask a favor of the men of the Six- teenth New York.”——[ West Point (Va) Letter to the Boston Journal] A TEAMSTER TERRIBLY MUTILATED. : The two notorious bushwhackers Koehl and Welmer, were hung at Sutton on last Friday, having been convicted of murder. These barbarous wretches, du- ring the latter part of last summer,caugbt a poor boy who had been driving a gov- ernment team alone on the road. They iuhumanly cut‘ofi' his head with a scythe and disembowelled him; and, in their fiendish joy, boasted that they had killed one Yankee. They Were captured, con- victed of the murder and executed.”— [Clarksburgg ( Va.) letter to the Pittsburg Chronicle] JACKsON’s CRUEL’Z‘IES. The crueltics of Jackson to the loyal people of Winchester were such as sava- ges only are used to practice. He marched ofi' old men who could not fight and made then walk many miles through the deep mud of winter. A venerable Quaker, Job Throckmortou by name,was so forced off and broke down under the hardship and exposure. He was taken sick and sent to the rebel hospital. His relatives were refused all access to him, and punishment threatened to any one who might tell Where he was, and he died of neglect and ill-treatment. This is but one of many instances of the ferocity of these barbarians. THE SKELETON OF JOHN BROWN’S SON. When the Massachusetts Second cam. to Winchester the negroes told them that the “mummy,” as they called it, of John Brown's son, who was killed in the eu- ginc house, was preserved in the office of Dr. Maguire, who is medical director in the rebel army. The soldiers immedi- ately took possession of it, and placed it under charge of the Post Surgeon, who desires to keep it as a medical prepara- tion. The arteries are injected and the muscles displayed in the usual manner.— My first impression was that it should be given over to the family for decent inter- ment, but a medical friend suggests to me that, so long as it can be visited, as doubtless it will be when the surgeon takes it to the North, by thousands, it will tell the tale of the horrid brutality with which it was treated by the Virginia savages. The skin was stripped OE and tanned. It was then prepared as an anatomical specimen. The physician who achieved the job became mad and died, the blacks say and believe, as a judgment of Heaven. H l
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