Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-16

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- John Morgan is in close quarters in Ohio.
Re is reported last night in Highland
county and moving East. He may be
coming this way. Who knows? ,sass7.s
The riots in New York seemsto be on
the wane. They have however communi-
Gated some of their .demonism 70 Boston.
--S - $50
Talk With Prisoner Late From
Richmond. 7l r...-.ar-ss- 4
We had conversation yesterday with
Mr. D. I. Griffith, of Cannonsburg, Pa, the
sutler of the 18th Virginia regiment. He
was captured at Winchester and taken to
Richmond, which place he left for City
Point, along with great number of other
prisoners, on the End of this month. HIS
stay in Richmond was very short, being
only about two days and nights, during
which time he was confined in" the Libby
prison. He gives us such statements Of
the battle at Winchester as endorse the
accounts favorable to General Milroy, and
especially the elaborate account published
in the Baltimore AmsrieGn a few days ago.
He also gives us history of his trip from
Winchester to Stanton as a prisoner, and
from there to Richmond by railroad. He
says that there will be a very slim harvest
all along up the Valley. Not great deal
of ground has been planted. The wheat
is light, the oats very poor and the corn
backward. We lost about three thousand
prisoners at Winchester, all of whom " ith
very few exceptions, were marched on
foot, 80 miles. to Stanton. They suffered
a great deal with sore feet, aud with ia
tigue and heat, aud also for want of suf.
ficient good food AT Gordonsyille the
train on which they were conveyed was
sent via Lynchburg instead of over the
regular route which crosses the Fredricks
burg road. This was done in consequence
Sof an apprehension on the part of the
rebels that cavalry raid was about to b
made in the vicinity of Gordonsyille,
sol Mr.. Griffith says that the accommoda,
lions at Libby prison are somewhat i'm,
proved from what they used to be in the
earlier stages of the war. The walls art
not whitewashed and the prison is KEEP
more clearly. The food, however, is still
miserable aud very scant. A piece of boil
ed beef, not large and very Indifferent, an'
one quarter of FIVE cent loaf of bread i
served out to each man every morning, an'
the same sized, piece of bread and SOM
bean or pea soup every eveniug-there be
ing only two meals per day. The soul
MAJ h.orok1 nm - a oou,unnN alOn hncE q
and set down before row of prisoners jus
like so much swill for hogs. As most o
them had no cups or tins OF any sort they
were obliged to put their bread in t hi
bucket and soak it full of soup and Their
eat it. Our soldiers complained TO 1heil
guards that they were being. starved, but
the, guards told them it was no use to com.
plain as they themselves got no better, but
just the same rations precisely ! Our. mer
wondered how they could live onsuch diet
There was great joy aud rejoicing among
the prisoners when they heard that flag
d OF, truce boat had arrived at City r oint
aud that they were TO be sent down SO un-
expeetedly soon. The first good meal they
got after their capture was that on board
theboat . There bouutif full rations had beer
prepared for them. thCldding good coffee
q, and each and every one of them pitched il
with an appetite and . will that they hat
not shown for many q day, There is nc
comparison between the food that our sol.
oilers and the rebels get. Our meats and
bread and soups and coffee are all good
and Clearly served, while theirs, including
their miserable rye coffee, are just the OP'
posite. -s...,..
zC Mr., Griffith heard the usual apounts o
braggadocia about the unconquersbility o
the Southern oonfederaoy, and especially
that Yicksburg could no more be taken thar
Gibralter itself. They told him fabulous
tales of how Grants army had melted apt
. lecimated away under repeated assaults
and the malaria of the climate, until ther,
was nothing scarcely left OF il, aud the liz.
tie that was left johnson Was just prepare.
ing to sobbis up, At thai time they hA5
not heard any news from 'Pennsylyania
Sana of course not from 8icksbufgs1 Hs
) says one of the most pleasing sights Of
5 his pilgrimage, ! both TO- Rishaoad and
while there, aud also when coming
away, was the frmness with which
!, eur men, without an exception, asserted
G,sTS,;.Jl ,n.inninlas and their 1--we for Tho