The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-07-22
THE AvEEIcE oF STARVING SIN.

. most OF them you can sep
/ street ard Broadway. among
/ vel worth walking through.
IS about three PAGES in width
/ sides by suffer a.a-fs. where
disgust for filth can fs-
/ providing he has the none
/ with. IIeI cannot searrsss
T Of ava7i-e. To1 can receive
lsom the filthy hand of sEe
/ oolaF; for ten cents you can
/ lows Of q watermelon and w
the rind at your feet, two or
/ gars wiz snatch for it. Hot1
with waJery sirup, are Offer
/ prices Salt is worth ten g.
spoonful. These prices
money; in rebel money the
times higher. None but tn
the prison ever think Of
/ Pepper can be afforded on
the sutlar business. 4 90
can be had for about SIS, g.zzungezs. and 2.
fair drink Of whisky for s.. Fr~7 o. -----l
S per dozen, and -four
pound. Potatoes range a
per busaeI, greenhacks.
AndeaonviIle, q rebel, eve
clardestinely for tina UniC
sum Of 100000 in greenI
session. He was afraid that Wiuder and
Wirz would rob him. lie took with him an
armed escort, consisting Of half dozen
Union prisoners, who had been outside the
stoclade on parole. They probably killed
him and took his money.
\ BABEL OF HORROR
Listen to the cries: who'll have the
next warm biscuit with honey on ?n
Here's your nice sour beer.o "Here's
where you find your extra pies. Only
dollar apiece, Lincoln money! "Whnu
have the next plate Of baked Lsans?"
Here's your good rice soup" "IIeres your
sailed soup foz sick men. Dent wait til
it's all gomez Heres your nice warm
corn bread" Who'll bet on dice? This
way-win or lose" What congIomera-
ton OF oaths, threats, invitations, jeers, in
suits and groans fill the air! *Out of the
way for this dead man." You crowd back
wards, step on somebody's feet, get a sound
cursing or blow, and see>a black, dirty
corpse borne by. Some laugh. and others
crack coarse jokes at the poor boys appear
ance, yet he was once the light and 10y Of
some happy Northern home Perhaps at
this moment some desOlate mother is build
ing bright dreams Of happiness over his
hoped-for return. Alas, this. cruel war!
Since the establishment OF this st0ckade
hundred tunnels have been dug by the pris-
ODeTs in the effort to escape. and yet such
treachery exists that the rebels have been
informed of almost every such attempt in
time to Illustrate it. There are men here
such matters fer q dimes worth Of
meat or for q plug Of tobacco, though in
doing so they placed their lives in deadly
peril. In one instance tUnneu was carried
through TO the outside Of tne stoekade, but
the fugidyes were recapsuTed as fast as they
crowled out Of the ground Nearly all Of
these tunnels are excavated with tin cups,
spoons, pieces of canteens, Gnd other such i'm
pfovised tools. NIyabodei is "a the northeast
corner Of the prison abod5 four PAGES from
the dead-line on the east and about twenty
PAGES from the dead-line on the north.
TERRIBLE MORTALITY IN THE sTOCKADE.
August 2d.-Great mortality prevails. One
hundred and fifty men are said to have died
in the last twenty-f0ur hours. While we
were falling in for roII-call this morning
quite a tumul5 occurred near us. The
Regulators" now a regularly organized
police force, with o despotic magistrate ruling
over them and u.s. had seized a wood thief
and were lashing him ata terrible rate. His
cries were piteOus, but only severe discipline
can hold this camp in order. The guard still
massacre their quota Of Yankees per day,
and rumors of our being paroled or ex-
changed still keep up the necessary amount
of excitement How do we pass the time?
We rise at roll-call, form and march to our
stations, and answer to our names. After
that we cook our miserable breakfasts 1--WE
are drawing raw rations just now with the
few splinters of pine allowed each man, and
with whatever utensils each man can steal,
buy, or borrow; then we smoke little black,
strong tobacco, if possessed of any and of a
pipe, and waste the rest of the day in think
ing and talking about good things to eat.
Truly, distance lends enchantment to the
view" I wonder if people in comfortable
homes ever think of the multitudinOus
luxuries that surround them. An acquaint-
ance has just told me the particulars of the
last murder. 4 man afflicted with an ex-
treme case of dysentery, whose howell was
near the dead-Iine, was ordered by the guard
to go farther away. He Hepleaded his inability
to do so, upon which the guard fred. killing
him instantly. This is a fair specimen Of the
murders daily committed in AndersOnyille.
II the history of this prison could be ade-
quately written, mankind would sicken at
the horrible details, or incredulOusly refuse
to believe them.
TEntered according to act of Congress in the year
ISS2 bv THE NATIONAL TRTEUSE in the Office ofthe
Librarian of Congress st Washington.
a HUSBANDS RESPONSIBILITY