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SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST AN OFFICER.
A number Of the Ohio volunteers who have
returned home from tae Rio Grande, have pre-
ferred, through the Cincinnati Commercial,
some very serious charges against Col. Nit.
chell, of "Catfsh battle" notoriety. The
charges, if true, show him to be totally unf
for the station he occupies, We make the fol
lowing extract from the card Of the volun
teers:


"We have seen men-sick men too-most
shamefully and profanely abused, for daring tc
speak to him-loaded with the most vulgar ant
degrading epithets of which our language is ca
pable Of expressing, and which must and dc
strip him of the character of "gentleman,
if such character belonged 10 him. We have
seen men, for petty misdemeanors, hanged up b,
The ioristS until their criesSof suffering wei
nigh excited the whole regiment to mutlny!-
We have seen, by his orders, better men r
every respect than himself, tied up, as calve:
and sheep are tied in our markets, rolled out
into the burning sand, beneath scorchng sun
gagged, and there compelled to lie in agony fol
whole day at time This, we presume, il
the "rigd discipline" so highly spoken of by
the Atlas. As another evidence of the rigidity
of his discipline, might be mentioned the
fact OF his encamping in a position for no othel
apparent purpose than that the men should be
compelled to carry their water the distance o
half mile and mile through swamps ant
pools.