New-York daily tribune., 1865-12-02
FROM RICHMOND TO CHARLES.
TGs.
ire. oer -scci.I Correspondent.
LfEBY PRISON.
Cu.rLr,ioS. Eor. .. 1905.

LIBBY PRISON.
We paid u visit to Libby Prison. II has been
20 ofcn described ihat IL Is not necessary TO give
another account oft. IL f. tobacco warehouse of
three stories oar soldiers the lower story now ns
quarters. The upper stories are empty. The property
ha. been restored s original owner and rented by
tho Iniicd States Government ON the upper story =
sni palt of tic oor has been lett unoleaned to show
he condition OF the prison found 1t. The th IL
an inch thick.
On the walls gre many names Of prisoners, with here
aud there IN appropriate sentiment, or rude skech
For example:
p The Libby and d. rediappery, sud d. them
that won't d ihcm.'
"sirsglers Home
Below This some indignant pairo, had written.
Hoover roie that up thare l. - liagi tLis is -
site worse
let me ont"
''-- you. let me ont.
Never suIrcndci.'
Beneath II:
Il have been Ia tLis prison two years. aud chum Of
mine. am near dead. have been Sent to AndeiS'h'
VILE. =. L."
II was in this prison from Nay. 1863 untIl May
i,Gl then went 10 Macon. then Savannah then Charles
ton. then Columbia then back here. Here am
.'Wn. Morren. nth Conn. Vols. here prisoner May
lsGi. Here aggin ApI!i. lsii. Victor, moi Nieiim
"George ". Zeusondeicr. 90. D.. "a fcnn 'os.
Carimed et Gettysburg. Jui, L. lso' hci' oEain ~
Victor
Not out ye'."
Under some names was written;
"Of sucl is the Kingdom Of Heaven
The various tunnels which our soldiers made are
p,nied out and especially the famous diggngs Of the
Yankee Devil" Col Straight Of Indiana.
black woman. who il VOW a servant IN tie Prison.
stated that the negro gDs nsed 10 Come down near the
ea nj on sunday afienoors aud when the senir' had
turned bis back they wonld throw up poaoes and other
food 20 the Yankees in the second story one day sho
had Just thrown up few potatoes when ne ,.hSis. M
urned quickly around h"fre De- sot 10 'le enu Yi ~,
beat, srw prisoners bead, hf'd eh"1 hii" "'""t '
yOunfrl three men inside. - =.
How wonderful are tines changes Ihat Nte'ch. y,
alive viii yoc for our nc.i president ana hep ~ s.n
,neubegs 10 Cnnoress while the husband of III" loyal
reais.s who fed the murdered unn viii he turned over
10 the tender mcrccs Of such AZ be- Bui' peri. P.
nnci all tine May ai0nish us again ana a'e9' 'NH
M. .ibIit, which .o.Irg 50 Ir0mincnt now.
SUNDAY IN mcH"oND.
nttefdcd service cn Sunday ihioe times, ~ me
African Baptist Church in which Nj. Davis and others
made their lst aliemli to IRE tue o'n,tn n.'i, yu'
lund il too wet with blood and team 20 kiade again
Tie audience waE large NJ cach service. pf' ia'.oh
of Syracuse y. y, spoke IA thc iof' moor, @ n.y."
preacher in the afternoon, ana ile Di' anu nm ~
r,r. CORES poudcn aud one Of tie Engsh "a itait'
IN the evening Dr. Pnti0ns sermon was an hDle aia
,cbol,ry production but II struck me as JUST n,'r
too much 20 for the audience. lHe ncgf"s Seroh hs
mo such merit and no such fault IL ~ohd require
long description and lead TO comments out oI place I'd
secular journal 10 do It justice II was marl'i
Amer The sermon there Wn' sort ol dance r'e''oi
~ several heathenis now aud two or lLfee cases oi
sesrnodic f.s ia when man shouted ioF taprie 10
bou LIS horn then aud there, AS he wshou 10 near ue
ref Llow and was only presopted nom tearing ana
.kng al his clothes oil ~ the peres.n' rcaetiohary
or,s of bystandor. IL il sheer blasphcny TO reco.
ME those essentially Leathen exhibitions ~ the resuit
Of Christan emotions, and j: VIII Keep The negroes
nm wpy In tho rear OF civilization or century To
come il missionaries and other friends OF the freedmen
do no, dscounienGnce tnen IL h not liberation Du'
twsddlc 10 say as one eminent said that u IS Nt
vay of worshipins. not ours; for the same thng IA
,rue OF every Mind Of pagnD rites including human sac
rilces 80 much the worse for them that 1t Is h,u
way
Tie same audience or mostly tie same per .ons-cer
teiuly not a more educated audlencc-gaye mo th'
closest attention In the evening whom for hall an honr
earnestly urged them 10 devote their whole energie
10 education. | neither degraded my audience nor NV
sell by uttcring n sentiment which cOn.d not have pu
/ into q TRIBUNE letter. noI word which ! would no
have used Ia any editorial nitice. urged them 10 y
IN the night schools and leN evening th0re were owe