From the Richmond Dispatch, 1/5/1863, p. 1

Increased Accommodations Wanted. - Gen. Winder gave orders a few days ago to hire another factory in the vicinity of the Libby prison in order to prepare for the reception of Yankee prisoners, that description of cattle accumulating so rapidly that the Libby prison has been found wanting in capacity to answer the demand made on it. There were yesterday in the neighborhood of sixteen hundred Yankee soldiers there, and the Lincoln Government has made no demonstration looking to their removal in the way prescribed by the cartel agreed on between our Government and the United States.

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