Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-30

TO the entrance, when aentlneli pacing %
and frofin the middle of the apartment,
leYeled his musket so % 70 bar my way,
saying, as he did 80: 80 Il +
aye eafn't pass yere, Sir. Ye must gwO
round by the Wsll." .a. 500
This. drew my attention to the spot, and
noticed that a space, about fifteen feet
square, In the center otthe room, and d.
rectlyin front. of the sentinel, had been
recently dug iupsWith q spade. While In
all other places the ground was trodden 10
the hardness and color Of granite, this spot
seemed to be soft and had the yellow
reddish hue of the i'sacted soil. = Another
sentry was pacing 70 and fro on its, other
side, so that the place was completely
surrounded Why were they guarding It
SO closely7e The reason flashed upsn me,
and LaRid 70 Turner; fyph rU 9
B"I say, how many bari hes yein thar2'
"EnOugh to blow thls ahanty to -"
he answered, eurtly. slss
10 ~ Essk9al Rgt, EN- haFs when that
'em-the YankeesI" 'H9 Ia.
"I,reckon."
He said no more, but that was enough
to reveal the black, seethiug hell the Re-
bellion has brewed. Can there be any
peace with miscreants who thus deliber.
ately plan the murder, at onN sweep, Of
hundreds Of uuRrmed and Innocent men
In this room, seated on tht ground, or
leaning idly against the walls, were about
q dozen poor fellows who. the Judge told
me, were hostages, held for similar num-
Der under sentence of death ~ eur Gov
ernmsnt. Their detected, houesick look,
and weary, lIstless manner disclosed some
of the horrors of imprisonment a,,
"Let us CO." l said to the Colonel: 81
have had enough Of this" e..
"No,--you mnstBee the up. .ltairs," said
Turner. alt amt go gloomy up there"
f lives not 60 gloomy, for some little sun
light did come in through the aingy win
doWs; but the few prisoners jn the upper
rooms wore the same sad, diseonsolate
look as those ia the lower stoY.
q SIT Ia mol. hard fare, or clole quarters
that kills men," said Judge 0ul1 70 me, ait
is homesicknessi and the strongest and the
bravest succumb to 1t first"
In the sill OF an attic window found
and holding it up to Tnrner, Iissid-
HSe We keeps this room for shootin'-
gallery does YET" az
ayes, he erepiied, laughing. "The boys
practice once in while on the Yankees.
You see, the rules forbid their coming
within thres feet of the windows. Some
times they do. and then the boys take q
pop at them" ....... $50
'em2" -..-.-..-..-
ayes, q heap" 4
We passed q long hour in the Libby, and
then visited Castle Thunder and the hos.
pitals for our wounded. / should be glad
TO describe what saw in those t'institu-
tions," but the limits Of my paper forbid 1t.
Il was Eve O'Clock when We bade the
Judge friendly goodbye, and took our
seats in the ambulance. Aswe did so, he
said to us : -
al have not taken you parole, Geutle-
men. shall trust to your honor not 70
disclose anything you have seen or heard
that might operate against us In military
way" -. ...............,..-
some day give US q chance to return the
courtesy aud kindness you have shown to
us. We shall not forget it"
We arrived near the Union lines just as
the sun was going down. Captain Hatch,
who had accompanied us, waved his dag
as we halted near grove of trees, and q
young officer rode over to us from the
nearest picket station. We dispatched him
to Gen Foster for pair of horses, and in
half an hour entered the Generaps tent.
He pressed ms to remain TO dinner, pro
posing to kill the fatted calf-"tor these
my sons were dead and are alive again,
were lost and are found"
We let him kill It lit tasted wonderfully
like salt pork), and in half an hour were
ON our way TO Gen. ,Butler's headquarters.
Here. ended our last lay in Dixie, and
here, perhaps, should end this article but
the time has come when l can disclose my
real purpose in seeking an audience OF the
rebel leader and as such disclosure may
relieve me, in the minds of candid men,
from some of the aspersions cast upon my
motives by rebel sympathisers, willingly
make it. Iu making 1t, however, wish to
be understood as speaking only for myself
NV companion, Col, Jaquess, while he fully
shared in my motives and rightly estimated
the objects 1 sought 70 accomplish, had
other, and, Il may be, higher aims. Aud
wish also TO say that to his attaches what.
ever credit is due to any one for the con-
ception and execution of this ''misston."-
While / love my country as well as any
man, and In this enterprise cheertully
DetiiSd my life TO serve 1t, ] was only his
CO. worker; Ishould not have undertaken
It alone,
No reader Of this magazine ia so young
as not 70 remember, that between the Hrsi
of August last, q Peace simoom swept oyel
the country, throwing dust into the peo'
ple,s ewes. and threa tening to bury the ma
lion in disunion.r All OF once the North
grew tired of the war. 1t began TO counl
Ihe money and the blood 1t had cost, and
TO overlook the great principles for which
IL was waeed. Men of all shades of politt,
cal, opinion-radical Republicans, as well
az honest Demoorats-cried out for eonees'
sion. comptomtse, armistice-for anything
to end the war-Gnything bat disunion.--
To that the North would not consent, and
peace l knew could not be had without 1t
| knew that, because on the sixteenth o.
June, JEFF Davis bad said 70 Prom'nen
Southerner that he would neg0nate oniJ
on the basis Of Southern Independence, ene
mat declaration had come to me only FIVE
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