The new Times' correspondent in New York,—the sane one who
has replaced Dr. Mackay, and been so horribly abused by the Saturday Review, and even editorially snubbed by the Times itself, for telling the truth concerning the Confederate treatment of the Northern prisoners, sent a letter yesterday which will probably lay the question to rest altogether, even among those who have hitherto reversed the bearing of all the evidence. Ile quotes the tes- timony of the Confederate Colonel Chandler writing to his own— the Confederate—Government, nearly a year before the fall of Richmond, concerning the prison at Andersonville, in Georgia. This officer implores his superiors to remove Colonel Winder, and appoint "some one who will not advocate deliberately and in cold blood the propriety of leaving them [the prisoners] in their pre- sent condition, until their number has been sufficiently reduced by death to make the present arrangements sufficient for their accom- modation, and who will not consider it a matter of self-laudation and boasting that he has never been inside the stockade, a place the horrors of which are difficult to describe, which is a disgrace to civilization, and the condition of which he might by a little energy and judgment have considerably improved." No doubt the writers in the Saturday Review will prefer the hypothesis that Confederate Colonel Chandler, anticipating the ultimate failure of the Confederacy, fabricated all these horrors to his own. Government, at the risk of his life, in order to win for himself a future pardon.
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