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The prisoners taken at Fort Donelson.--how they are Treated. --Lieutenant Wilson, of Graves's battery, captured at Fort Donelson, reached Corinth on the 29th ultima, having effected his escape from Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. He made his way uninterruptedly through Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Evansville, and Henderson, to the Tennessee line Lieut Wilson made his exit from the military prison by a novel mode, which it would be impolitic to state, but through which many more of our men may yet be enabled to escape. He makes the following report of the prisoners confined at Columbus, Ohio: Reaching Columbus, the prisoners were divided into two parties, and placed within a half-acre enclosure, surrounded by a fence twenty feet high, with a platform on top, for the use of the sentinels. Thirty or forty were placed in rooms heated by barrel staves, where they remained twenty four hours without anything to eat. Owing to the filthy condition of the prison quarters, a great deal of