The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-05-13
The following is the list of prices we
lad to pay for most articles:

irish fUlatoeS, Slo 10 go per ousne
, Sweet Potatoes about the same, Cabbage
8 to 81 per head, Onions or Beets,
or 10 for 81, Green corn, 81 per dozer
ears, Sugar, $3.50 to $500 per fb, Ry
Coffee, 8 per tb, Tea, sl2 to Sl5, Rc
so cts, Flour 800 per bril- Apples (green
$50 per brl. Dried Apples, 79cts per Ii
Moasses sic per GAL, Water Melons, $
apiece Butter "a to $5 per ID, Lead
pencils s apiece, Paper 4 sheets for 3 !
&c, &C.
The manufacture of Bone Memehtos
occupied the attention of great many o
the occupants and it Was often amusing
to see the pertinacity with which they
would attend to their self assumed atoca
ton, setting day after day, whiting or
filing on piece Of bone, until finally il
would assume in appearance of. a Book
ling or something of that kind.
1t was also surprising to see what va.
riety of articles could be manufactured
out Of this material, rings, books, paper
knives, crosses, stars, studs and sleave
buttons, pipes, knives and forks, &c, all
done with no other tools save pocket
knives, files, and saws made out of table
knives. A Bone fair was in contempla-
ton at one time. There is quite a yari-
ETY. of ways of patsing away the time in
prison as we all discovered, some employ
most of their time in reading, but owing
to the scarcity of reading MATERIAL you
were not certain Of steady employment,
although at one time Captain Porter, 18th
N. Y, Cavalry. organized sort Of a
circulating Library consisting at the most
Of but | s or 90 volumns, which he loan
ed at tile small price of 25 cents Coufed.
for one reading and in this way he man.
aged to add to his library.
Others you would see seated around
the tables engaged in playing chess, for
which purpose several set oil chessmen
had bsen Whitfield out by ingenious work
men. Others engaged in the various
pa,tes of cards such as eHchre, whist
"old Sledge" appearing to be the favor
ite among the players. Others more
morally inclihed could be seen deep in
the mysteries of gatfte of "checkers."
Others organized the Libby Lyceum'"
devoted to debating, speeches on various
subjects. holding its meetings every Fri
day morning, at which time, the Libby
Chronicle was read which was the paper
of the prison, and devoted to "facts and
fun" as its needing announced.
After the arrital of the Chickamaugua
prisoners, a fiddle was procured, and ev-
cry evening in the dining room, several
sets could be seen dancing to very poor
music dawn from very poor fiddle.
Then in October, two or three gun5oat
officers and some others organized an
Ethiopian Troupe, and who favored US
with an occasional exhibition of the p W.
ers, which consisted of several songs, a
barbarous shaving performance, an imta
ton of our "Roll call" which was excel
lent and decidedly latghablaj burlesqe
on the arrival of "ftesh fish, " and sever
al other coloted performances, all of
Which We're as d t1latter of course vocil.
etously appladed BY an overcrowded and
easily pleased Audience.
fhe last but most general amusement
was Unlike all the others practised at all
hours Of the day, but never, or at least
very seldom INDUCED in after dark, is in
polits military parlance termed "skir
mishing," and at early dawn of each day
a Reconnaissance in force" is generally
made, the line is formed the men are di-
vested of all unnecessary articles Of cloth
ing which generally comprise all they
have on-and Dat will' the movement
commences, the open country is soon
secured over and the enemy driven to-
their hiding places in the seams of the
''shirts and drawers ;" then the affair
begins in earnest. and woe to the linlucky
"grey back" who is found lurking in some
remote hiding place, as his unfortunate
head is exposed to view, he receives his
death warrant accompanied by the excla
nation of "there I've got you," or "d-n
you now III fix you" and thus the ad-
vance goes on, until the whole field has
been thoroughly searched, when the
troops are called off and the pursuit aban-
ioned for that dav, unless the enemy