The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-20

me Otd capitol and Its Inmates. By q
Lady who enjoyed the hospitalities OF
the Government for season." New
York: E. j. HALE Son.
We are obliged to the publishers for a
copy. The Old Capitolis one of the prisons
whose history the world is anxious to see.
The victims of the little bell" were
especially assigned to that bastile. The
book before us gives what its author saw
and experienced Of the rigors and cruel
ties practiced there. It contains some
painfully interesting descriptions. We
observe that Mrs. SURRATT was visitor of
the Old Capitol, and her kind ministra-
tions soothed the anguish of some of the
poor prisoners there given up to death.
The prisons have not been fairly opened.
The Government has turned those of the
poor Confederacy inside out, and Radi-
calism has made great deal of capital
out of the short rations Of the prisoners,
who lived as well as the Confederate SOL
diers. 1t would be no more than Just that
the northern prisons should be ventilated
in the same thorough manner. We should
then have iHorror's head" It would be
seen whether southern soldiers Jared much
better in northern prisons than northern
soldiers Jared in southern prisons. The
North had plenty-the South was starv-
ing; and yet we conjecture there was not
d great deal more Of comfort in those of
the North than those Of the South. But
the Old Capitol was distinct from all other
prisons. 1t was the receptacle chiefly of
alleged spies and disloyalists, who were
arrested without accusation, and detained
and treated as felons for weary months
without trial. The bird's-eye view of it
given in this book will be read with inte-
rest.
Ella; or, Spain Fifty Years Ago. Trans
lated from the Spanish Of Fcrnan Cabal-
lero. New York: D. APPLETON & Go.
A very brilliant romance of the sunny
land of Spain.
For sale by A. II. CHRISTIAN & Co.
The Adventures of Oliver T,rist. BY
CHARLES DICKENS. New York: D.
APPLETON s. Co.
A very neat and cheap edition.
For sale by D. APPLETON g. Go.
Southern Poems of the War. Collected
and arranged by Miss EMILY MASON, OF
Virginia. Second revised and enlarged
edition. Baltimore: JOHN MURPHY s.
Co.
We are obliged to the publisher for q
copy Of this very handsome book, which
should be treasured up in every southern
household. Indeed, every library, North
or South, Of any pretension whatever,
should be possessed Of this song-book,
which brcathes the spirit Of the South in
the war. The productions are of very
unequal merit, but the poorest express
the feeling and in some sort the grand
motive Of the day.
Dear Miss MASON, the beloved author,
whose presence carried sunshine into the
southern hospitals during the war, has per-
formed her task in the preparation Of this
work most happily. She has devoted the
proceeds to the education Of southern
children, and she announces in her preface
to the second edition that with the means
acquired by the sale of the songs she has
been enabled to educate and maintain
twenty-five southern girls, and with the
proceeds Of the second she hopes to be
able to accomplish as much more; in
which hope thousands Of friends most
heartily unite.
For sale at all the bookstores.