Salisbury

—A town in North Carolina, which had another depot for prisoners. There were also prisons established for the retention of Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Camp Chase, Ohio, Elmira, N. Y., Point Lookout, Md., and Rock Island, Ill. At Fort Leaven worth , Kansas, a permanent military prison was established in accordance with an act of Congre pa ed March 3, 1873, in which soldiers of the U. S. army are confined for serious offenses against military law. At Dartmoor , a desolate region in England, a prison was constructed in 1809 for the confinement of French prisoners of war which deserves a pa ing notice, inasmuch as Americans were confined there during the war of 1812. It comprised 30 acres, inclosed with double walls, with seven distinct prison-houses with inclosures. In 1812 there were 6000 American prisoners of war within its walls who were treated with much cruelty, and, in consequence of the appearance of mutinous intentions of some of the prisoners on account of the tardine of the English officials in releasing them after the treaty of peace was ratified, they were fired upon by the English soldiers, which resulted in the killing of 5 and wounding of 33 prisoners. This act was regarded in America as a wanton ma acre.