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The prisoners from Point Lookout.

The prisoners who arrived from Point Lookout Sunday left there on Wednesday.--They had no intimation of any intention to send them off until Wednesday morning.--When they left a regiment of negroes had been added to the guard, which already consisted of the 2d, 5th and 12th New Hampshire regiments. They represent the treatment at Point Lookout to have been good, and when compared with Fort Delaware, excellent. Among the officers who arrived there recently from Johnson's Island was Col. J. Lucius Davis, of Henrico. The following deaths had occurred there among the Virginia troops from the 1st of December to the 29th of February:

H L Brown, Sergt J E Fuller, 88th; T Cox, J E Epperson, 50th; E C Edwards, 40th; J A Downy, 4th cavalry; E Gray, 9th; A Hollinger, 12th cav; A K Haynes, 55th; P Leach, 8th; Jas S Mitchell, 47th; D N. Myers, 62d; J P Monroe, 4th cav; Jacob Pulse, 1st cav; Andrew Pinker, 88d; Geo K Palmer, 55th; C Rule, 2d cav; F H Secton, 4th; H C Wilkinson, 14th, W H Watson, 53d; O Woodsor., 41st; J H Atkins, 22d; J W Burch, 52d; J Brown, 4th; H Broadfield, 15th cav; C T Carter, Mosby's bat; Corp't W D Hawkins, 38th; Jas Hillyard, Carter's battery; J L Lunsford, 9th cav; W H Moss, 4th cav; J A Morris, 49th; J W Robinson, 2d cav; A M Wright, 23d; M Yeatman, 49th; S D Butler, 14th; S Bywater, cav; Corporal Blackburn, 55th; J L Bartlett, 36th; R R Carr, 55th; J D Dowdy, 21st; Serg't J E Futler, 88th; J W Grant, 9th; D B Harold, 24th; S S Hawthorne, 37th; L A Jones, J Kester, and W J Martin, 53d; C A Ratcliffe, Sergeant T G Walker, 28th; E L Adams, 3d cavalry; J L Collier, 12th; W F Gaines, 18th; L B Hughes, 19th; T J Sounders, 56th; C W Tucker, 1st

cav; W A. Ashwater, 24th; J H Bell, 8th; T Bolinger, 62d; W H Covington, 40th; S Courtney, 11th; T Dickens, 40th; J W Berly, 24th; S M Halley, 18th; R A Jordan, 27th; J G Laffoon, 18th; J T McLaughlin, 8th; J P Philpots, 42d; J T Rogers, 28th, and James Childress, 21st.

The names of those from the other States who have died at Point Lookout may be found at the Army Intelligence office.

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