More Federal Life.
--We present belows batch of some of the infamous lies which abound in the Federal papers. We can hardly think the most gullible Yankee can swallow any of the following:Rebel Barbarities--An officer of the Potomac army, whose regiment was one of the first that reached Manassas, asserts us that he was witness to a fact which we have had stated to us before — namely, that the Rebels had burned their dead in their hospitals. The charred rem of a number of poor fellows were found, and as it was though they might have been those of some of the captured Union soldiers, a close examination was made, when it was uncertained that the remains of the uniforms, the buttons, &c., were those of Rebel regiments. This discovery excited much bitterness among our soldiers; especially in the South has been made to ring with charges of barbarity against our army. Dead bodies were also found lying in heaps, some with the hands and feet tied, and one poor fellow excited the commiseration of all who beheld him. His ankles and wrist a were fled, and his hands were clasped, as if in prayer when he died. Colonel Pinckney, of the Sixty-Sixth, humanely directed that the remains of these shamefully used and neglected soldiers should be carefully buried, a duty which our soldiers performed with circumspection. The charred remains were found in the Rebel Camp More.
The rebels in their evacuation left a large amount of property behind, much of which consisted of provisions. The residents in the vicinity were prompt in endeavoring to secure as much of the latter as possible, by our soldiers interdicted them from taking any. They begged piteously, saying that they had been robbed by the rebels, and had long been living on short allowance; that, in fact, they were upon the verge of starvation Our soldiers were invulnerable to these pleadings-first, because they could not commit a breach of duty; and second, these people were clearly deep dyed Secessionists, and it was a risk to believe them. They were however, directed to apply to the General in command. At Centreville they found an Irishman who had some service on the railroad. Our men inquired of him how it was that so many Irishmen were deserting from the rebel service. At first he hesitated in replying but fluslly said that the Irishmen had been badly treated, and that a few days before the evacuation two poor fellows, Irishmen, had been taken out and shot, and their bodies were afterwards mutilated.
