Escaped from a Yankee Prison.
--
Captain Samuel Davis, aid to
Gen. Trimble, and
Captain Elijah Stay, of the 16th Miss., recently confined in a Yankee prison in
Chester, Pa., arrived in this city on Saturday night last.--They were fortunate enough to escape from bondage a few days since.
These gentlemen braved many dangers and much hardship on their route to this city, and fairly wept for joy on again treading the soil of their native land.
They represent the
South as having many warm friends at the
North, and say that the supporters of the
Federal Administration are very despondent over the slow progress of the draft, and begin to think it impossible to conquer the
Confederacy.
Prison Record.--The following commitments have been made at Castle Thunder since our last report:
H. Curt, company C. Ringgold Battery, captured near
Winchester on Thursday last;
Capt. Bishop and three others, captured on the schooner
Golden Rod;
Capt. Wible and two others, from the schooner
Coquette;
Capt. Wm. Boothby and three men, from the schooner Two Brothers;
Lewis A. Miller, attempting to cross our lines on the
Black water.
The arrivals at the
Libby Prison were three Yankees brought down from
Staunton; one recently captured at Bottom's Bridge; two from
Gordonsville; five from Hartwell's Church, and one from
Guyandotte, Va.--all captured within the last two or three days.
At the Cage we found recorded the names of Mary, slave of
Madison Macon, and
Armistead, slave of
John R. Jones, both arrested as runaways;
Joshua Maya, a free negro, feloniously stealing one
feather bed; and
Wm. Bethel, a white man, for assaulting and beating
Michal Shea. B. was bailed to appear before the
Mayor this morning.
