The National tribune., 1882-08-05

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sr,ros who havc bp.g a r..v-r,.f.i " ri,.r-rlv
h, +ba.r masters ars yar- tria-arv fo lie
,,.;sor..rs lint t,a -or,.- I.,s- ON. t-.,e,.ar-
n7rs esnce-alI7 if tIov are Ao.,.a servants
l-now two New Workers who .a.r.j the
e4ocl,ade lazt sDrfr, drrfr., q refrufr,,t
storm and oo+ as far rorlr, 81. o~,rra rrr,-.-
bonse VIRGINIA. Within . dav.. .,.arc5 of
the Union lines at which r.I,ce q re~ro na-
traved them to the r,,a1s ar., tr.,. y-.r.. sent
back here again. Thev eufaved their long
iorrnev exceodina1v hovaror consiI,.;r.-
the secrecy and caution thew were caplin1-
aIIy coropelIed to exercise When on HE
move escaped prisoners travel chiefly Inv
night and sIecp in the DAYTIME. More men
are deferred from egcanirr through fear of
the bloodhounds than from any other cause
A New York sergeant, who was employed
outside OF the stoc-ade On his parole Of
honor, ran arvay q ccunIe of months ago. ac-
companied bv two OF his comrades They
Travelled westward to the Chattah0ochae
river, and stealing a sllif' vovagaa down that
stream and down the ADDaIacltcola till thev
reached the Gulf Of Mexico. where thevwcre
recantured. within sioht Of tha Union cum
hoats, Rebel scouts are aTvavs fa be en-
countered close to the Union lines. Such
prisoners are always returned to the stock
ade from which they escaoed, in order to
rive their companions an Illustration Of the
difficulties of getting away. An escaped
prisoner who is CAUGHT after biz trim is less
likely TO be abused than one picked up in the
enyiroDs of Andersonyillc. The rebels want
rs to know how far awav aman may get and
still be brought back to the "bulI-nen."
IYguqf 29N.-We have been drawing raw
r7tions for several davs. without being al
lowed above q third Of the facI necessary to
cook them with. and we Use our fuel in the
most Denurious manner. WespIit our wood
into fine nieces and keen q blaze under q can
or tin cun hv adfiro . small niece Of wood
et . time and the smallest remainiro frar-
,nents Of fneI are reliciouslv added 10 the
fire. Yesterday we drew no wood at all,
because. it is reported. the euartermaster
refused To hreal, the Sabbath in order to send
Ms 4 supply. We had to either eat our corn
meal raw or do without eating entirely. 4
mans stomach is an inexorabIe machine.
went over to the south cate this morning.
Three or four hundred emaciated. haICdyiug
men were being roughly iostIed through the
crowd to he presented to q SURGEON in order to
see if they should be sent outside. and about
a hundred filthy, CHASTITY, naked corpses
we're 1vino around under foot. waiting to be
carried off to nameless graves. Men who
have been in Libby Prison. Richmond, state
that the rations issued there were better and
1arcer than those issued here, although no
man could hold his own on Libby Prison
rations, II begins to look Us though it is
only question of time when every man of
ps will be dead. The story of the rebels
about paroline US was evidently a Iie They
keep up our hopes on that subject for the
I purpose of rendering us quiet and tractable
The greatest battle of the war is being fought
in this prison hell
Iwg,,st 3Glb.-Every dav 7 meet former
acouaintaDces of whose incarceration here I
have been IGNORANT. John FraGericks. of our
COMPANY, received a letter yesterday from q
fair DAUGHTER of Macon whom he knew be-
fore the war. She urged him to "talle the
oath of allegiance 10 the southern conted-
eracv and leave the hated Yankee army
He has written, declining with thanks. The
number Of sick taken out of this stockade
every day is pretty fair index of the mum.
Der of deaths that occur daily in the hospital
AS the inmates of that institution die then
places are filed from the stockade. 4 large
proportion of those taken out are so far gone
that they have to be carried out in oil
blankets. If no blankets can be had for Il,
purpose, they sit On q sticl, of wood or
scantling. which is borne by two men viii
their arms around the necks of the men, AND
thus hang on. Many of them die belor,
they get to the hospital. If q man is very
sicI, il is better to let him Law and die a
The grounds Of his detachment. lie vii
die anyhow, and il only adds to his miser,
bv bnstIinn him about. | learn Of man,
eases of the dropsv, which here assumes ter
rihle pbases. Limbs actually burst omen
and the assures become filled with worms
In other eases the face swelIs ND, and amorg
The disasters that ensue is total blindness
Of course such men must die. The grave