Stonemen, the captured raider.
--This scoundrel, who, when he was captured sat down and blue bored and begged to be taken to a hospital, for fear of the vengeance of the citizens, had good cause for his apprehensions. The Atlanta Intelligencer says:‘ "When at the head of a portion of his command in Jones county, but a few miles distant from this city, he entered the house of a highly respectable citizen, who was absent to avoid capture, and ordered his wife, an accomplished lady, to cook breakfast for him and his attendants. This she did, providing for them the best she could, and which we doubt not was far superior in quantity and quality the brute and his men had ever been accustomed to. Having gorged himself with the good thing set before him this Federal General proceeded next to take a survey of the house in which he had been so hospitably, forced though it was, entertained. His first amusement was to draw his sword and cut to pieces several of the lady's dresses that were hanging against the wall of one of the chambers, and having thus vented his diabolical malice, he next exhibited his licentious and beastly nature by making dishonorable propositions to the lady of the house herself. Lucky it was for the instruct beast that the husband was not near to hear the insult offered to his wife, for if he had been, nothing would have saved him from a deadly revenge. And this is the General who must be tendered civilities ! This the distinguished raider who must have indulgences extended to him !--Would that we had the power to deal with men of his sort when they fall into our hands. A cell and a shaved head would be the tenderest mercy extended to them."
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