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HERALD. ,e '.HCnr, Dakoia. _.___ l, nl%i»AY, FE15. 3, 1*8*. Il()|,|s befi^ ,xIE, Editor and Publisher. Hstens eeu ttearlj or ing tin 'Veral vont it a euro n Hill" hotira! fsillal.:." if tho v 1 ati in-tti i llio del s in. from u ief of i to bo ging In id the introduced in Con- xhorts, wtor Sabin for an appro $20,0o0 for dredging Uig and placing a d:k vet Cap"jake. s withe's Voice. It i U)tut:il at tlit* i shavifl r~— ^metij.w passed by oertai he u(. mgular ()f IfS nit in Dakota, i uliilg •i state,. ):stitu i Iowa, c^mne to ano U!L Hchr 1 ur pronounced 1 °foer ,,, )n,S( ne having power to one jx co between the. States. Wit obey, formerly a ature from this {Tirl« leasii)» nct*d 'e Mviir- cr member uu 4t lluliJ '"^strict, tlie publication of revision ol 1 li:ivc ,ent ownersiii ^'rr~ lines. th.ii 1 hoi •iff niul Wnu".. n, Stock and Hume. e says the iuesti mi n il. MIV cret»anr|j an,an s Co\ it i the prices of labor, ,o-,hiva,Pi):irent does iiis seem l" ider tliat we must go to roteeted countries of ""'rmany to find the really IAEVAL Europe, they are not in —'land. «tor* Hadlq ximes (Denioeiatie) t!"' the Springer bill Mdiich pon^ and the delegates convention has tiii1 -es allio niedii' i I'd i i a chip i en- erdeen act to keei It says: v* now, aceortling to her overner appointed by er tHk),()')•) inhabitants, .lave three or four repie .sougress, by the side of to voice i.er opinions 'airs and national legjs -jpringer's lull provides ly tlie people of Dakota J)akota out This kee]s lier out of Lial election. It tle-n ier constit uiion, if adop th be submitted to cou •akota may be kept out, make it desirable, other presidential "ba sis party work, utterly tesmanship, and Mr, as well know that tho 1 and dret Dakota, like the crime i. it is beginning ti attract imt w:e of this nation, it will future i' ep Ct)0,0l! Americans, Inni" .ration and all the burdens waiting like vassals nf licy slowly ext cites its is a remarkable fact retained in our country 3 pati' co on i a ilu i system which it ami has abandoned. The Til-Anklin complained of as' •ally 1 nd are the evils Dakota ills' wlii'.-. It is a mere satraj-y ferferoiict population of a great b.d maiiviVe no rule in governing j.in'.but we should have one, i 0 ',ahould provide for rep- 11 kep v j, en know taxation is en- |lt' l-itory •ustoiii to with population e o present ati ve. •r. rub i! ne. 10 wait- lie met 111 Aberdeen in the |»ivof a movement looking 'j'h, had before them the t|,j. 11 to bepresented to con pringer bill was not then n, If it had bten it would lounced. This bill con- facton ng w i the P!i ket. is ami ti 11 votf'"' hich. U1 good citi- beef i idjate. The one denying -|l the next presi(leii_tial i ]Pngt}j blooii c:i^i possibly a good deal in wa- enough, but the one y. theW counties containing less to th pulation in a new conn- worse than patty states lis would abolish fifty— Many of these coun houses built, conniy ided, and the whole poor 1,1 government in running niniigi:"'7e years not one of these who*' contain less than 3.0(H) •ian of''- Springer bill -will have s«sverity I before it will meet the of the people it moat rke.v n'' noti"i(l11' e whole fr- Vi i DARING AND SUFrZB!NG. A History of the Andrews Railroad Ft..icl Into Georgia in 18C2, The Lloot Heroic and Tragic Episode of the Civil War. T!m!r u'intr a lull and Accurate Arrnunt of the S«MTct Journey to the Heart of the Confederacy, the Cupturo of a r.nilwsiy Trats* in a Confederate Camp, tin- Terrible Chu.se That Followed, and tlie Siit)M'«|m'iit Fortuuts of the leader soul His I'uriy. T'-i" M'-ilition, in t!.«- .Inrinp of i'- incept: ln«! v. ild-tess a romance while in ij(„ f.-i^iiuue an'! overwhelming results it sought ami Vas li.'a-lv io obtain it u absolutely suMime.— JiDfi Advocate (JF.NI:H.U, HOLT'S (.iffh IAJ. UE Pchit. '."cpoKt Inid scheme, ate! on t!, ''wit ever emanated lY..ai I'm number of Yankees a-iit'»:i ••!. (JO.N'FKDKRAeY (AILA.M'a, i.A.I, It. wiiK at! in Chicago entitled grandest S' bruins of ii Tiir. SorTi .s April n. is. 1 )(-:•*)lit0' its limit i will advo thf tariff of railroad 1 Of otherai question of w. s on [CMo. iU. )y tlii.ig tiial )orers above tiio "paujier" with 'o, Europe, yet when that niarr,'as secretary of Slate tin attim-.-nt Garlield he sent, to iiioir ,!port of the cott'M trade arrat Si '.tiature js d. In that report he gave wa «f of iusetis mills as: Men male child i n cf. Thf^ $3.08 |er week. In ier hea: England, Jan. 1. i.^J: to fiev-nen from •"."...ji) to i-'-l.Tii) uiatti'r the sani^ tine- the, work Even on Kngland we o in a •e head. in the United states, it is remembered that read is cheaper than in VStates, cloihiug of all !i! 'uts much ehe:iper, and ir i little or no difference vet- ia tn- j, e 1 the e number uf hours is Howcve'iaideration, it does seem ml Levit -nee given by Mr. HI,line tr are boiigh position of Seere* \ae11 y wtliiit other causes than u.„ 5es termination. It sho I'm I of brave men eonld undertake iu Amer Ca. t'o.MTK UK i'AliJS" UwoUY uf THIS ClVIL. WiR i IN America, vol. p. 18?'. By WILLIAM PITTENGEB, a MEMiiiiii op Tin fxpi dition. tod. tssr, bv War Publi.sliiiiR c,i.. N". Y., I..1! -.. iirr.ui?euK-ia w.tli tinm.j '1 LAL'TER XV. i) .JAIL AT I HATTAVdOGA. 'Uli"ei'ini.'s of northern prisoners in THM Th the south constitutes probably the most terrible chapter in the history of the war. Attempts to soften the fearful st„ry have met. with slio-lit success. The lot of the prisoner of war is always deplorable,-as accommodations arc scanty and the hard ships of camp life greatly aggravated, lint the I'ni'jn prisoners in the south suffered more than is usual in military prisons. The southern states were slenderly supplied with means for the care of bodies of troops numbered by thousands the northern armies were pressing severely and tightening tke blockade by sea and land with the express design of depriving them of necessaries for prosecuting the war, and in case of scarcity it was natural that northern prisoners would first suffer. Put to this was added a terribly bitter feeling, which I sometimes found delight in gratuitously embittering the prisoner's lot. The hor rors of Andersonville cannot soon be palliated or forgotten. Hut the sufferings of ordinary prisoners was far exceeded in the case of the An drews raiders. Our leader had been trusted by the enemy and had betrayed them. Wc had indicted an amount of fright altogether disproportionate to our numbers, and we were now believed to be beyond the protection of the laws of war, and almost beyond the pale of humanity. It was thought that we were selected for our desperate character and therefore would require an extraordinary amount of guarding to prevent us from escaping or doing further injury. Such considera tions no doubt had weight in the minds of our cayitors. lint, these alone are not sufficient to ex plain the MorV that follows. 1 have hesi tated in regard to telling it at all: but there is at lea*t one good reason for re cording all that the proprieties of Lan guage will permit—a reason which also goes far to account for the full horrors experienced. Nothing better shows the spirit of the institution of slavery, and the deb."sing effect it product's on the master class. Those in whn now fell had been used to seeing men, women ".ud children public ly sold, whip ped. hunted with dogs, or shut up like wild beasts in dens. With such experi ences they would not be likely to care lunch for th" suffering* of enemies, whom tlu y P'id come to reg as the friends of the m-l'ivcd race. .Accordingly it is in the ia ,ro prisons that our band found their most fearful experiences. The story of the little, old. Chattanooga prison cannot be fully told. Terrible hard-hips wlveh had to be lived through i in agonies of shuddering disgust, and in utterly helpless disregard of the decencies of life—a daily and unceasing conibina tion of pain and loathing—can hardly be told ''V one friend to ano'her. much less spread on the cold printed page. The reader will remember that for every pain ful thing related, a dozen more are be I hind, which dare not be named. Let it i be understood that there is no exaggera tion Photographic accuracy, within the limits already indicated, is aimed at. This wor-t of all the prisons has long since been swept away but its memory will never grow faint while one of its hapless victims survives. The story rests not alone on my evidence, but is estab lished by sworn testimony published in the war records. The captain, who was appointed my conductor, called a guard of eight men and led me for some distance through the street* of Chattanooga. Two of the Con federate soldiers linked .arms with me, one on each side, two walked in front and four followed behind. I could not help telling the captain that they took better care of our men than we did of theirs that I had once guarded a (ieorgian a long distance without any help, and with no handcuffs on him. He did not resent the implied reproach, only saying that they meant to make sure of me! At Wl.civme to a little brick building, surrounded by a high board fence. It stood, as I learned long afterward, on Lookout street between Fourth and Fifth. The ground sloped rapidly upward, so that the back of the jail was built into the hill while the front was level with the sur face of the ground. The jail had two stories with two rooms in each story. It W/is quite high for its length and breadth. The jailer and family lived in the upper and lower rooms at the north end, and the r«Dms at the south were the prisons, the lower being entered only from tho upper, and that in turn only from the jailer's room. This prison when built was intended for the accommodation of negroes by their humane owners. An other and r.r. :L larger prison. 1 were confined the great majority of whito offenders and afterward of war prisoners, was situated on Fourth arid Market streets. Swims, the jailer, was a peculiar char acter. H« was old, perhaps 00, with abundant white hair, and a dry and with ered face. His vo ce was always keyed on a whining tone, except when some great cause, such as the requests of pris oners for an extra bucket of water, aroused his ire, when it rose to a hoarse scream. Avarice was a strong trait. 1I« seemed to think hi.s accommodations vastly too good for negroes and "Yan kees," and that when admitted to his hospitality they should bo thankful and give as little trouble as possible. With such notions it is easily seen how much he could add to the sufferings of prison ers. One thing favorable was that he Was fond of a drain, and when indulging became very talkative, revealing many things that we could not otherwise have ivarned. We halted for a moment at the camp lire of the guard outside the gate then Swims came out., grumbling about their being disturbed so much, and, unlocking the gate, admitted us. We crossed the yard, ascended the long outside stairway, and from an outside landing entered the bedroom. From this a door opened into the prison. The room was qr. io small, square, and entirely destitute of furniture of any kind except a long ladder, which lay on the tloor. There were live or six old, miserable looking men in the room, whose clothes hung in tatters, and who presented a terribly starved, dirty and wretched appearance. It was a dreadful place, and I shuddeYed ing up my abode in sr. i soon found I was not favored, and a little mor sufficent to make me I envy upon these old me1 Said the jailer to the shall put him:''" "liel-.w, of course," reply. I be id"a of tak a d.'ii. But I to be „v» highly i \perieuce was almost with captain: "Wher.» was the prompt y v yv u T1IE SWIMS .TAIL AT IIATTAXO»i,. The jailer advanced to the middle of the room, and kneeling down, took a large key from his pocket, and applying it to a hole in the floor gave it a turn and then with a great effort raised a ponderous trap door right at my feet. A ru*h of he' air, and a stilling stench as from tho mouth of the pit. smote me in the lace and I in voluntarily recoiled backward but the bayonets of the guard were behind and there was no escape. The ladder was then thrust down, anil, long as it was, it no more than penetrated the great, depth. 'I'he wretches whose voices I could hear confiiM-dly murmuring b.-Jow were ordered to :'tand from nnder. and was compelled to descend into what, seemed more like the infernal regions than any place on earih. It was hard to find the step.i of the ladder —for the candle of .the jailer gave almost no light, and 1 had on handc-ult's but I went down, feeling for each step, to a depth of some thirteen feet. I stepped off the ladder, treading on hut:m beings I could not. discern, and wedged in as best I might. Then the ladder was slowly drawn power we up. ami in a .moment more he 1 rap fell with a dull and heavy sound that deemed crushing down on my heart, and every ray of light vanished. I was slrat into a living tomb—buried alive' I could feel men around me and hear their breathing in the eark'-e...^. o tliat I knew the den was crowded lull. Though it was night and cool out.-.ide, the heat here was more than that of a tropic noon, and the perspiration soon oozed from every pore. The feted air and the stench made me for a time deadly sick. and. worst of all. there was an alnn a u)o ear. le se: e o suffoealion. 1 v ,o: .\ As I had bc-en brought to this place in I the dark, I knew nothing of its character, and after the first momentof stupefaction, resolved to explore its size and nature, i No one of my companions had yet spokeu to two or I to them. Whether they were I black or white, soldiers or citizens, chained i like myself, or with the free use of their 'hands, 1 could not tell, and I fcareely liked to ask, lest the answer should add new misery. I jam bed my way through i the living throng to the wall and felt along it to learn if there was door or wiu i dow. There was no door, the only en trance to the fearful place being by tho I trap door down wloch I eame. Neither were there any windows, but I found two holes in the wall, opposite each other, each little more than a foot square, and i filled with three rows of iron bars. The 1 walls, as could be told at the holes, were I very thick, being made of an inner case of oak logs and a brick wall outside. Even in day time, these holes gave little light, for one was close under the outside stair I way already described, and the other be low the level of the ground. Vet a little air could come through the thick sot bars, and served to revive me—making it pos sible to endure life here for a short time. When tho first shock had passed and I became partially inured to the terriWc oppression of the atmosphere, I tried to ascertain sometlrmg of the condition of my companions. The most fearful de scription of this place of torment that can be given is cont."' c'1 in the plain cold ngures—tne numoer or tno prisoners and the size and manner of their lodging. He fore I entered there were fourtc. a r.. rree of crowding. There v iten persons each. .• thirteen lee!, an i t. -1 between the fe liu: w:.*- i turned, all i'l I. oi)l. .• .i.: likewise, ehaiuvd ju mnne m« the exclamations, and tl. chains in the black darkne peon presented—especial! good a representation of li lost as has ever been knov •r,:S I .Fst SfJ! 11 -Vi v. hire men and one negro. This even" the number was increased to niwiet a and soon after to twenty-two, w nich point it remained for many da The room wa5 just thirteen feet- square, and about the same in height. These numbers are not approximations, but are meant, to b.i accepted exactly and lit era. ... The entire furniture of the room co: 1 of four buckets for water and slcp-• And per1 twt vro men lia-l to re day and nig'.', with no respite, at :.•• power b"\c ihu room for any purpose, for more .. ui two week"! It wa-i po.-siblo, as will 1 seen by reference to the accompanying 'teh, for all to lie down at on. it it, juired the nicc-t litLiTvr and 1 IwTft'rdThus -A^A QMI A -0 V U He wr.s arrested and imprisoned on sus picion of being a fugitive slave. The law in ,-irli eases did not put the burden of pro-. o i the person arreting, but o» the ne.. o. Aleck had been treated as hiwand custom provided. He was lirst carefully examined, and whipped till he made some kind of confession jail, and advertised that confession. If a proved property, In. jail and whipping I ing and a re.- ... ne.".' tin: I ex e::-o property. i advert ,4 i. that th-.' i out and afier wlia i again ad if no ma tNin f. w -id a C'T.K I t!le: I i allow hiii- he it' it c.':!d posible that I! c_\ v,o .!l k:iv, human ings in such a place till d"ath eame in thir horrible form—death, which could not b? long delayed. I thought of the Black Ibde of Calcutta, where many English men were suffocated in one terrible nigh' by a savage Kast Indian I had heard of negroes being burned alive or whipped to I death in our own south: but tiiese horror were always, I supposed, meant as ven I gen nee for some fiendish outrage. Yet of all the forms of death, that by sio\v snffo cation had always appeared iimM dreadful. I and this now seemed imminent. a i im eg: in mad. i he was put in accordance with •:er aj.pearcd and obliged to pay all •osts of adverlis- iberMl rev. ...i io the person ar then, u.sua!! .- fagging the ici.-ifully for the trou!)le and il e.ni ed. )n» could take his but if [jU.JiU I iill'J null two pying i per th" ro-. •wise a i.inne:'. all w I'liUM! nkiu this viO U, My J-o:i re. e \v.! n,e wr. nnd answered questions lreety. 1 hesitation in telling them who I u a-. this at once won their eonlldenc. were Cnion men from various part !•.\-t Tennessee. Many of them had i in prison for six or eight months, and offi i, charged varied from thai of plv preferring the old government to new, .-uivi! built Confederacy, to :i.a: of bridge burning, or of being helpers of the Union army. Tin* latter were called spa One of them was blind, the :i federal us accusing him of only fcigs :e. blindness but from all I could obscve. I think it was real. i was greatly interested in I no and hey 1 lie !r.* to the •ranted a-r man hi! and colli tnued, i arid ad\a.T -or fellow :t• 1 tlie pro jietses of all V trial wa m: -ht !-.' to u Ol our U e Ilia:, if la iion arir.io1 i i'osition. 'i'l '..ined on ii- s .1 if bent wei" a piety n i ha: 1 might v of a :ht i-nh-d. re ol aoiid rele of guaro v outside and :-is of a ladder tho jailer and pre f.r f. and ILstened coming to i," dv talking in the da: '::s.- .. w.• :p of many feet on out witli the' clauk of s. t-» leara what neat v.a 'id r' noise cime ov. head, and then the't aap door e.p.-n 1 a stream comparatively co i ir p'-ataa ilown from the room above, an. i tlireingh our narrow wuido.'. •. V'e l.-reat'-ied with i\ sens of ind .. '. re lief—drinking in the air a., t, d• t', traveler drinks i'roiu the mouni .ri lao. .! —oh: wh.it a lu.\:iry it would if ia trap d'Jta- could oniy lie kep* o-).- i! it might have been if our life or comfort had been valued by tko.- e in authority. A number of men weia. seen ahove by t'je fe-jble g.limmcr o£ the jailcra candle, and tiie long ladder wa thrust down a::d sri :-d by a m.a.n below to prevent i' fr.-m atrii::ng romj head, and it was e!•• •. otdiers were being sent down, 'i'iaa T'-n ne.iaeaa.na cried, oait: "i)on' pat any more d:)\v:i here. We're full! '..'e ll me if any more are put down. |Continued next Wefk.] FOli THE HfiTEST OFFER EVER MADE. THE WEEKLY ST. PAUL, No oash commission allowed on this offer. 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