Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-10-10
GOOD D.NEWS!
Battle at Corinth!
PRICE DEFEATED J!
HE is IN FULL RETREAT!
LOSS HEAVY!
Thirteen Iowa Regiments
Engaged!
REBELS 10000 STRONG
AGREEMENT FOR AN EXCHANGE
l. OF PRISONERS.
-O--
Important from Kentucky!
A BATTLE PROBABLE AT BARDS
TOWN.
NEWS FROM CHINA.
Thirteen Iowa Regiments
Engaged!
REBELS 10000 STRONG
AGREEMENT FOR AN EXCHANGE
OF PRISONERS.
A BATTLE PROBABLE AT BARDS
TOWN.
NEWS FROM CHINA.

i NEWS FROM CHINA.
LIBERATING SLAVES OF REBELS ON
| EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA.
The following is the substance of speeia
dispatch from Cairo to the Davenport papers
and extraed in that city Saturday afternoon
and forwarded to us through the politeness o
the Davenport operator.
| CAIRO, Oct. s.
Good news from Corinth Price attacked
with 10000 men, on Friday morning, anc
was repulsed, after two days fighting, with
great slaughter. He is in full retreat.
Our loss is heavy, particularly in officers
but nothing like the enemy's.
Thirteen Iowa regiments were in the fight
| will send particulars as soon as received
| j. NJ. FUTILE, Brig Gen.
| WASHINGTON, Oct 4.
1t is believed that the nearest point at
which there are any rebels in arms is the
Rappahannock Station, on the Orange and
| Alexandria Railroad, fifty-one miles from AL
exandria.
This morning one of Gen. Halec!1's scouts
brought in a man named McKenney, who as
arrested near Leesburg on the charge of being
a spy, in the service of the rebels. He was
| taken before the Provost Marshal, who sent
him to Old Capitol prison.
The following is the cartel under which
prisoners are exchanged, in the existing war
with the Southern States
HAxELL's LANDING, JAMES RIvER7
Sept. %, 1862.
The undersigned having been commissioned
by the authorities they respectively represent
to make arrangements for general exchange
of prisoners of war, have agreed to the follow
ing articles
Article 1st.-It is hereby agreed and stipu-
lated that all persons held by either party,
including those taken on private or armed
vessels, shall be discharged upon conditions
and terms following:
Prisoners 70 be exchanged man for man and
officer; privatcs to be placed upnn footing
of officers and men of the Navy men and Of
fcers of the lower grades Of the Navy to be
exchanged for officers of higher grades, and
men and officers of different services may be
exchanged according to the following scale of
equivalents: A General Commanding-in-
Chief or Admiral shall be exchanged for Off
GERS of equal rank, or for sixty privates or
common seamen; Flag Officer or Major
General for officers of equal rank
or for forty privates or common
seaman; Commodore, carrying broad PEN
nant, or Brigadier General, for twenty pri-
Yates; a Captain in Navy, or Colonel, for fif-
teen privates or common seamen; Lieuten-
ant Colonel, or Major, for eight privates; a
Lieutenant or Master in Navy, or Captain, for
six privates Masters, Mates or Ensigns in the
Army, for four privates or common seamen !;
Midshipmen or Warrant Officers, Masters of
merchant vessels and Commanders of priva-
teers, for three privates or common seamen f.;
End Captains, Lieutenants, or Mates of mer-
chant vessels or privateers, and all petty off
GERS in Army and Navy or Marines, shall be
severally, and all commissioned officers
in Army or Marines, shall be exchanged for
persons of equal rauk, or for two private SOL
dlers or common seamen, and soldiers shall
be exchanged for each hssother, man for man.
Art 2.-Local, State, civil and militia rank,
held by persons not in service, will not be re-
cognized till the basis of exchange being
agreed upon by the respective parties.
Art 3-If citizens, held by either party on
charge of disloyalty or any civil offense are
exchanged, it shall only be for citizens, cap
tured suffers and teamsters; and all civilians
in actual service of either party, are to be ex-
changed for persons in similar positions.
Art. All prisoners of war are to be dis
charged on parole in ten days after their cap
| ho1I how
after taken, to be transported to points mutrl-
ally upon, at expense Of the capturing party.
Surplus of prisoners not exchanged shall not
be permitted to take up arms against, nor to
serve as military police or constabulary force,
in any fort, garrison, or any field work, held
by either respective party, nor as guards of
prisoners or stores, nor to discharge any duty
! performed by soldiers, until exchanged under
the provisions of this carte, exchange not
to be considered complete until officers or men
exchanged shall be restored to the lines in
which they belong. f'a a."i-9J ucL
fos Art. 5.-Each party upon discharge of pris-
oners of other party is authorized to discharge
an equal number of their own officers or men
from parole, furnishing at the same to the
other party list Of their prisoners discharged
land of their men released from parole, thus
enabling each party to release from porole
tsuch of their own officers and men as each
party may choose. A list thus mutually fur
nished will serve to represent both pr sfs, and
be advised of the true condition of exchanged
prisoners, exchanging prisoners. aa7 u j..
Art. 6.-The stipulations and provisions
above mentioned are to be of binding obiga-
tons during the continuance of the war. 1t
matters not which party may have surplus
of prisoners. The great principles involved
being, first, to an equitable exchange of pris-
, |oners man for man, and officer for officer, oi
higher grade, according to the scale of re.
quirements. ..-a >
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