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Richmond, says the civilians detained in prison there who together with about thirty Kentuckians, principally from the of Letcher, Breathe. Floyd, and Johnson, numbering in all about one hundred, are confined together in one room. Their condition is wretched beyond description. They believe themselves fore asked by their Government, and are, wasted, haggard, and almost idiotic, from suffering, having accused all the tortures of the notorious. Libby prison, worse than the Black Hole of Calcutta, for from five to nine months.--Some of them are from sixty to seventy years old. They are without money or friends, and their garments dropping from their bodies in rottener. The spectacle is humiliating to all. Forty or more of these poor fellows sitting or lying stars naked, killing vermilion on their disease-infected clothes.--Many are destitute of clothing, excepting pantaloons, and they are better off than others from being less tortured with insects. After days before the departure