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Genl. Fisk forwards the papers to Maj. Genl. Howard, in charge of Freedman's Bureau, with an endorsement, in which the opinion is expressed, that this fiendish outrage was perpetrated in order to terrify the colored people, and prevent their escape to the Union forces; and that the villains who committed these crimes should be punished.

Gammon, it is stated, is now in Withville, Va. The whereabouts of Williams is not known. Dr. Clark is in Washington Co. Tenn., under bail to answer to an indictment for barn burning. 

The details of these brutal and barbarous acts of inhumanity seem almost incredible, yet the statements of the different witness to the outrage, although unsupported by affidavits, so completely coincide, that there is believed to be abundant evidence presented to warrant an immediate and thorough investigation of the facts connected with this shocking affair.

The question as to the proper remedy applicable to the case, elicits the following as the opinion of this Bureau.