Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-09
Dr.. LRsrEs LLOYD, a Northern nan by


and was captured by MOsby's guerrillas at
his home, about three months ago, called
at the Office of the Washington Chronicle,
Tuesday evening, and gave an account of
his experiences and observations, from |
which we CLEAN the annexed:
HIS PERSONAL ExPERIBNoE AS A PRISONER. |
DR.. Lloyd and William Waters, also of !
Fairfax county, were taken by portion of
MOsby's men. dressed chiefly in Federal
uniform, Geo. Gunnell, John Thomas, and
James Trammell, former neighbOrs of the
captured, being the guides), on the I'd of
June last. A short time after the capture,
DR.. l.. met with an accident, by which |
several of his ribs were broken. Notwith- |
standing this accident, and despite the fact
that he was in bad health, his captors kept
him on the road travelling upon very scan
ty fare, sometimes for two days with
naught but biscuit and glass of milk.
| by circuitous route among the mountains
much of the distance, for three weeks, and
finally delivered him up to the tender mer-
cies of one Wiley, jailor at the Libby
prison, in Richmond. Et t.
On his arrival he was placed in a cell,
eight by ten, with FIVE others, filled with
vernin, and 30 dark that these disgusting
companions, though swarmiug upon the
persons of the inmates, could only be de-
tected by feeling. Having nothing but a
gum blanket, lying upon the floor, and be-
ing so reduced and i'll that he could not
sleep, physician gave him dose of NOR
phine 80 large that it destroyed his con-
sciousness for two days. His condition
was thus rendered so much worse that the
physician ordered his removal to a hospi-
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expiration of that time he was remanded
to the Libby, and placed in another room
of the same length and breadth with that
in which he had been before confined, but
only four and half feet in height, also
dark, and infested with vermin.
Il On the 18th of August, through the aid
of sentinel, he secured the services of
lawyer, and obtained the Issue of writ of
ha6eaS corpus, On Monday, the 22d, he
was taken, with his attorney, before Judge
Halliburton. During the examination of
the case, the Judge stated that letter had
been received from Mosby, recommending
the Doctors early release, inasmuch as
four persons we're held by the Federal au
thorities as hostages for him. A further
hearing of the case was appointed for the
next day. AT that hearing DR.. L. was adj
mitted to bail in the sum of $4,000 for
his appearance for trial. and was allowed
to go at large.
Having travelled about the city for three
days, his necessary expenses being over
forty dollars per day, and being short of
funds, he determined to go to Castle Thun-
der to obtain rations. There he remained
freedom of that deIectable establishment,
which gave him opportunity to converse
with many of the prisoners both rebels and
Union men, civil and military.
HOW DEsBRTERs FAIRS.
A week ago last Monday night, a number
of deserters from the Union army arrived
in Richmond, and, despite the order of Gen.
Lee, that all deserters should be sent to the
interior unharmed, and set to work, they
were stripped of their clothing, mostly
new, and but little worn, robbed of all their
mouey-$l, 300 in Confederate money, and
$500 in greenbacks having been taken
from one of them-and then they were
marched off to place of safe keeping.
DRESS AND THE TONE OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT
IN RICHMOND.
Though moving at will throughout the
rebel capital for several days, DR.. L. saw
but very few females, and not large
number of males In citizens dress. Some
of both sexes were we'll dressed; almost
all the females, however, without hoops.
But the most of both sexes were poorly
clothed.
THE same opinionss concerning Lincoln
and Mcclellan which he heard expressed
among Mosby's men, seemed to be prev
alent among the people Of Pichmond; and
the almost universal conclusion was that
if the Danville railroad should be seized
by our forces, they would be cut off from
supplies so effcctually that Richmond
would have to be surrendered. But they
chung to the hope that the said railroad
could not be taken by the Federal troops.
They were enedavoriDg to build new
railroad, and meantime were as saving as
possible of every class of the necessaries
of life, believing that if cut off, their pres
est stock would not last more than two
months Most of the horses in Richmond
were much reduced in flesh.
CONFEDERATE MONEY.
All the Confederate notes of the old is
sue of one hundred dollars, and denOmi>
nations above that figure, were of no
value, being repudiated. Notes Of des
nominations under that amount were val>
ued at sixty and two>third cents. The
Confederate debt was acknowledged to be
between twelve and fourteen hundred
millions of dollars. .......
PRICES CURRENT IN RICHMOND.
Flour was selling at 1915 per Dbl; po-
tatoes, 50 so to So so per quart; wqterr
melons, $40 to $25 each. Before the for
ces of Grant had attained their firm posi-
ton upon the Weldon railroad, the price
of -four was but 5000 per Dbl. Wheat
bread, two to threesounce loaves, sold at
81 so each, and bitter, raised with peach
| leaf Yeast, at that.