MURDER OF DOCTOR WILLIAM MCGLASSEN. IN the early part of November, 1862, a party of rebels under that notorious scoundrel, John Morgan, attacked a small body of United States soldiers near Burksville, Cumberland county, Kentucky. During the engagement three Union citizens were captured, among them Dr. Wm. McGlassen. After securing the doctor, they rode off five or six miles, when they met Champ Furguson and his gang, who proposed to kill the doctor. Morgan's men assented, and offered their assistance. As soon as they had concluded in what manner the prisoner should die, a large number of the marauders dismounted and commenced walking about until they had left him by himself. This done, one of them rushed upon him, levelling his gun at the doctor, and bursting a cap, ordering him at the same time to run for his life. He started to run, but had hardly proceeded a dozen yards when the whole band fired about one hundred shots at him. The doctor kept running until he reached a deep gulley, into which, through weakness by loss of blood, he fell, when they rushed upon him, drawing their pistols, and discharged their contents at him, several of the shots taking effect in the body, and one or two hitting him in the head, killing him almost instantly. The fiends then commenced robbing the body. They took his watch, and what money he had. Not satisfied with this, lifting up his body, they took off his coat, pantaloons, and vest, and would have stripped his body of the last piece of clothing, had not some one of the murderers, who had a little humanity left, threatened to shoot them. Throwing the body down, they left it, to commit other depredations upon the Unionists in the surrounding country. This Champ Furguson, in a speech delivered to his admirers at Sparta, Tennessee, in August, 1863, said: "I have killed sixteen Lincolnites, and intend to kill enough more to make it number twenty-five; then I shall be ready to die." What became of the other two prisoners we are un able to say, but hope they escaped. If not, they were, no doubt, treated in the same manner as Dr. McGlassen. None but the Almighty Ruler can number the many Unionists of the South who have fallen in this way; and their bones are now left bleaching beneath a Southern sun, without a mark to tell to whom they belong.* FIRING ON UNITED STATES BOATS AFTER THE SURRENDER OF NATCHEZ. United States Flag Ship Hartford, Off Natchez, Mississippi, March 17th, 1863. SIR: I trust that it is unnecessary to remind you of my desire to avoid the necessity of punishing the innocent for the guilty, and to express to you the hope that the scene of firing on the United States boats will not be repeated by either the lawless people of Natchez, or by the guerrilla forces; otherwise I shall be compelled to do the act most repugnant to my feelings, by firing on your town in defence of my people, and the honor of my flag. I should be most happy to see his honor the Mayor on board. Very respectfully, D. G. FARRAGUT, Rear Admiral. His Honor, the Mayor of Natchez, Mississippi. * Dr. J. D. Hale, of Tennessee. WILLIAMSBURG BARBARITIES. SHORTLY after the Eighth New York Regiment went into the battle of Williamsburg, Virginia, May 5th, 1862, Colonel Johnson, then commanding, was severely wounded, and taken off the field. The command then devolved on Major Reyson, who fell shortly after, pierced by three balls. The regiment was unable to carry him off the field. The next morning his body was found, stripped of all his clothing, and his head mutilated in a shocking manner, having been smashed with the butt of a musket, after death. Captain H. B. Riley, Company G, First Regiment Excelsior Brigade, who wore a bullet-proof breastplate during the engagement, fell, badly wounded in the face, and before he could be removed, the regiment to which he belonged was forced back. When it regained its former position, the captain was found dead, with three bayonet thrusts through his breast, and the bullet-proof plate stolen. He had evidently been bayoneted while lying a wounded and helpless prisoner. Orderly Sergeant Pease, Company E, First Regiment Excelsior Brigade, was slightly wounded, and taken prisoner. At the evacuation of the place the rebels tied his hands together, then fastened him to the rear of an army wagon, and started for Richmond. In the retreat he came up with Lieutenant Wilson, Company F, First Regiment Excelsior Brigade, who was a prisoner and badly wounded, and, through loss of blood and pain, unable to walk farther. The unfeeling wretches who' had him in charge bayoneted him, and brutally left him by the road-side, hoping that it would either kill him or cripple him for life. The Union scouts found him shortly afterwards in a deplorable condition, and unable to speak. FIRING ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN FOR CHEERING FOR THE OLD FLAG. UNITED STATES FLAG SHIP HARTFORD, At anchor off the City of New Orleans, April 26th, 1862. Sir: Upon my arrival before your city, I had the honor to send to your honor Captain Bailey, United States Navy, second in command of the expedition, to demand of you the surrender of New Orleans to me, as the representative of the Government of the United States. Captain Bailey reported to me the result of an interview with yourself and the military authorities. It must occur to your honor that it is not within the province of a naval officer to assume the duties of a military commandant. I came here to reduce New Orleans to obedience to the laws of, and to vindicate the offended majesty of the Government of the United States. The rights of persons and property shall be secure. I therefore demand of you, as its representative, the unqualified surrender of the city, and that the emblem of sovereignty of the United States be hoisted over the City Hall, Mint, and Custom-House by meridian this day, and that all flags and other emblems of sovereignty, other than those of the United States, shall be removed from all the public buildings by that hour. I particularly request that you shall exercise your authority to quell disturbances, restore order, and call upon all the good people of New Orleans to return at once to their vocations; and I particularly demand that no person shall be molested in person or property for professing sentiments of loyalty to their Government. I shall speedily and severely punish any person or persons who shall commit such outrages as were witnessed yesterday-armed men firing upon helpless women and children for giving expression to their pleasure at witnessing the old flag. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, His Excellency, Flag Officer, Western Gulf Squadron. The Mayor of the City of New Orleans. MURDER OF A GERMAN. IN the month of August, 1860, whilst the steamship McRay was in port at New Orleans, a most inhuman. murder was perpetrated by a mob, on a German pedlar. The German was on the street, with a small lot of pictures, neckties, trinkets, &c. A small boy, who was looking at them, noticed a picture of Mr. Lincoln, then a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Seizing it, he threw it on the pavement, and abused the German for having it in his possession. A mob collected around the unfortunate man, and asked him what he was doing with the picture of Lincoln, the Black Republican. The German did not understand the English language well enough to know what the crowd meant by their inquiries; all he knew was that he had purchased the whole lot, with a little money he had with him, to sell again on a small profit. The mob could easily have inquired as to the truth of the matter, when the innocence of the German would have appeared. But this was too much trouble, or rather perhaps the truth was what they did not wish to know. It would have been an encumbrance on their consciences. They became so incensed at the unfortunate German, |