Show prisoners of war when us as children we read in our school books of the sufferings ot of tile the p patriots of captured by the british and in the old sugar house in new yet boik it city or of the hardships and indignities endured by our gallant soldiers and solmen who being N ing taken p ri in the war of 1812 were immured at dartmoor the very namo name of which has become as a stench in the nostrils of the word how did not our youthful hearts curdle with horror or thrill with the desire of vengeance I 1 little indeed did we then ling imagine gine that we should ever be forced to a parallel ir if not a greater degree of cruelty occurring in our midst perpetrated by men who call themselves by the proud name of aier americans acan and exercised on citizens of f the same bame land which gave them birth wo ivo publish in another column extracts from a letter lately received here which bich N mention some facts worth anon knowing in in regard to the chivalric chit alric way nay in which these so aoi distant cavaliere cavaliers cava liers of the south treat poor unarmed abild be helpless pless pi prisoners isomers of war and this taken in connection with many other and equally accounts that hive hile lately latel y appeared appear edin in the 13 fist make it itself self evident that a gross and In inhuman hilman outrage is being dally daily committed uron upon ohr our men who are prisoners in tho the various I 1 dungeons of tile tho south we set out with this plain principle of law that prisoners of war are not felons nor oven even in incarcerated on suspicion ot of felony they are V prison cis but only so far to be le ie strained or of air th tir liberty and enjoyments enjoy ments as may be necessary to prevent them aiom arms ag against ainest the belligerent who holds them captive in case oeun of an insurrection the legitimate tho the country in which such insurrection takes place may dota detain 1 in prisoners caught with arms in their hands and try them for ill high ai trea treason cin but in such case they are not considered prisoners of war seo vattel law of nations passim pass m now although ohp th latter fatter clause in battels Matt els definition might furnish farnish us its with wilh a partial apology for forill of caught with tho the red hand lilagi ante delicato delicto ato to yet it furnishes not the shadow of ground why our men taken prison pilson ers lit in legitimate and honorable warf warfare arZi for the integrity of their country and supremacy of 1 thin its limits should receive any other alier treatment than that accorded to most bonor honorable atlo foes 4 when captured As to our own government gove rement we nee need d no quibbles to palliate our colso with respect to prisoners prison eis rebels unless indeed it be bb that in wo e deserve desen e rebuke for the all too lind kind m inner in m which wo we tre tacit it them rendering it difficult to luli gine from our 0 over er gont gentleness leness in their begird that tu the rebel prisoners in our various camps and forts aro are tho the and parricides alcy fiey really e are certa certainly 1 if wo we cir at all it is not on tho the ground of undue severity but rather in tile matter of over leniency a fault hn in which aich wo we sit surely rely im imioto 1 bitite no other nation for no other government his has ever under similar or abial analogous L circumstances g given f im ua ir an ecamp example le of such lenity it being then admitted that prisoners of war are to bo be ic lesl rained strained of their liberty only for the purpose and to the extent above indic cited ive we aan can realize tile the comblo and flagrant wron wrong F dono done by the rebels to our prisoners in the libby that somo some portion of this may proceed from the malignity of the jailer at R tho the beffie the rebellion notorious and since infamous marshal winder is very ery possible blo but yet it is highly im probable pio bablo that such a course could bo be persist antl antly y carried out in the midst of one of ille taoist n ot populous cities of the south toward auch a number of men as there at aie e in conr confinement ine 1 ti ent without being familiar to the anth e pop fi lation and in fact we know incident incidentally ally fr from lil the admissions of garrulous Eng english enggill lill louris tourists ts in tho the south that the whole iriqui 1119 tous I 1 system stem of treatment pursued toward our prisoners is a all authorized zed jn in great g nic measure asure b by y tho ll 11 ada of the so po called government and well understood in ill it ih practical 9 by tin the enere people a fast fact 0 significant certainly when we take into lic a count the claim of r the superior superior breeding gentility and culli cultivated bated feelings so often set up lip by the people of th the c south in their own behalf we ve do not here to analyze thoe arrogant claims any further thin than as they are incident to the matter lit in hand and taking I 1 the accounts so oft repeated and so fully au as to be perfectly reliable as to the manner in which the libby prisoners certainly and all the other union men in southern gails gach as wo have good reason to believe are treated we cannot but make the fol following lowin g deductions viz tho the cowardice of the south is 13 shown in the inhuman manner in which prisoners unarmed and helpless are arc ingul insulted ted by vi visitors and beaten and shot on the smallest provocation by sentries 2nd and the consciousness of a bad cause is is displayed in tho the refusal to allow prisoners to ii arite rite fi eely to their friends 3rd ard tho the confiscation of the clothes provisions etc sent from the coith to alleviate the condition of our men incarcerated in the south is the meanest of all possible larcenies larce nies viz that committed under the general trust in human nature which the sending of such articles through our lines implies fth fiendish malignity is displayed in the incontestable fact that thai of all the officers and soldiers of colored regiments known to have been captured during the last year not one is is accounted for up to this date by the erate crate government as a prisoner and ath the denial of all knowledge that any such have been taken prisoners iterated arld and reiterated by the agents of the rebel government smacks strongly of an ignoble fear of the result or of the knowledge of the facts on the part of the IT S and is subject besides to the imputation of kinship to that meanest of all vices lying all this too ow while bile these generous sons of the genial south would really have the world believe that they aro are par excellence the gentlemen of the continent oil oh shame where is thy blush I 1 we happen to bo be well posted both as to the claims set up lip by south rons for them themselves elves find and as to the foundations upon which those claims rest and may at some future time devoto devote a column or two to an expose of their social condition previous to this war which was we candidly believe the most arrogant and at the same time imbecile the most aristocratic and at the same tuno time the most basely servile the most vaunted and still the most rotten that ever disgraced any part of the civilized globe it is not to bo be doubted but that our government has be beeland enand been and is doing and will continue to use tho the most strenuous efforts to alleviate the condition of our unfortunate follow fellow eold aurs aers at richmond but tho the sui buiest est diplomacy in this case ll 11 will ill bo be to cut the gordan gorda n knot of diplomacy by the taking of richmond and r razing to 0 o the ground the infamous libby tobacco warehouse all of which will NN we c doubt but little take place soon and that the day may come E speedily Pe edily is our most ar ardent d L u t prayer other prisoners in in the libby were nearly starving tar ving since tile the rebels refuse to let ill them em have the provisions sent them by their friends the surn sum of his letter is that there is not nota a man in the arhon aon at richmond who is not half starved and that they are all so weak as hardly to be able to get around he states that he became himself so thoroughly spent as to offer one of the guards 10 for a loaf of bread without being able to get it at that price he says in addition that while they the pi prisoners isomers iso ners were allowed to get the provisions clothing etc sent to them they got along well enough but that they now nov never see anything sent them aiom the north now is not this enouf enough h to drive one read mad yours affectionately to camp douglas U T NEW discoveries wo are informed hat bat assays essays of rock brought from beaver county in this territory have fielded from ten to twenty per cent of silver and aiom twelve to twenty alve per cent of copper this result has been obtained florn droppings crop pings and establishes the tact fact that gold silver and copper can be found nn all the mountains of utah the hardy and enterprising miner of the pacific slope will ere twelve months pass away place this territory beside nevada as a regards mineral wealth iveal tb |