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We call attention to the horrible account given by our

special correspondent in New York of the massacre at Fort Pillow by the troops of the Confederate General Forrest. Six hundred men defended the fort, of whom only 200, it is said, now survive. The massacre of the negro troops and of their white officers was, it seems, intentional; of 350 negro soldiers only fifty-six escaped. Of the whole 6u0 in the fort only 200 survived. The particulars are sickening, and this is not a case like that in Kansas of plunderers calling themselves troops, but of Confederates com- manded by one of the greater Confederate generals, who, if this be true, has covered himself with infamy for ever.

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