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n forthwith to the Military Governor the that District. This is with a view to their exchange for Union prisoners at Richmond. The New York Herald has the following characteristic paragraph in connection with this subject: One of the volunteer nurses who were taken prisoner on the Bull Run battle-field, who has recently returned from 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 th