Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — Rebel Prisoners. [ARTICLE]

Rebel Prisoners.

Cleveland Penny Press. A gentleman who came from Toledo, yesterday, described one peculiarly striking meeting of two old veterans. One was Hon. Elihu B. Washburne, of Illinois, owner of one of Hie largest flour mills in the world, and the other was a man named Jensen, a poor machanic who runs a stationary engine in Toledo. Jensen and Washburne were Chained together in Libby Prison, among a lot of others, one time, to be bung In retaliation for some fancied abuse which had been inflicted by the Federals on the Rebels. They hung all the men to the right of Jensen and Washburne, whose turn would have come next had not a contradiction of the report inhumanity of the “Yanks” come to hand and caused the hanging bee to be postponed. Jensen, fresh from the engine room, hesitated to speak to Washburne, who has become so big a gun since the war, but when Washburne recognized his former comKnion in misery he grasped his greasyF nd while his eyes were not above shedding a genuine tear or two. At* recent wedding the bridegroom being an officer, wore his side-arms at the nuptials. A little wide-awake brother of the bride was attacted by the display of weapons, and as he had another sister, whose true love was a carpenter, he boldly inquired. “May, when Jinkingß comes to marry Milly, will he wear his saw by his side?”