Sioux City Register

The horrors of Libby Prison, against which the civilized world has so loudly but fruitlessly protested, it appears have even shocked the sensibilities of a Richmond journalist. The editor of the Enquirer, with usual boldness, has ventured to express in print his opinion of that charnel house, and to describe what he saw within its walls, while on a visit of curiosity to see the incarcerated 'Yankees.' He says:

"The Libby takes in the captured Federals by scores, but lets none out; they are huddled up and jammed into every nook and corner; and at night the floor of every room they occupy is covered, every square inch of it, by uneasy slumberers, lying side by side, and heel to head, as tightly packed as if the prison was a huge improbable box of nocturnal sardines. It is truly surprising that some pestilence has not been the result of this herding together of human beings who are constantly breathing the same impure air, and who are allowed no out door exercise. If it should become necessary to reduce their diet to cold corn bread, they will not have strength enough in them even to masticate it."