The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-19

THE EXCHANGE OF PRIsoNERs.-Gen
Hitchcock has written another letter on the
exchange Of prisoners, somewhat more
fully exhibiting the negotiations that &C
tually went Oh between Col. Ludlow and
Mr.. Guild in reference to the Vicksbure
prisoners and the colored troops. 1t now
appears that so long ago as July ed, Col.
Ludlow wrote to the rebel agent that his
proposed declaration of exchange Of the
! Nicksburg prisoners was in violation of the
cartel. The statement is explicit and un-
answerable; and in no letters that have
seen the light does Mr.. Ould attempt to
answer it. The cartel provided for ex-
changes of equal rank until such were ex-
hausted; and not until they were exhaust
ed could the system Of equivalents be re-
sorted to. In other words, so long as we
| held greater number of officers as priso-
ners than the rebels held, they could not
free theirs from parole except by first liber-
ating ours. Yet Mr.. Guild committed pre-
cisely this outrage; declaring the rebel Off
GERS on parole exchanged. Off.setting
against them certain number Of privates
| and retaining in prison large number CT
our officers who were entitled to their re-
lease.
Again: Col. Ludlow reminds Mr.. Ould
that both the proclamation of Jefferson
Davis concerning our captured officers,
and the acts Of the Rebel Congress, touch
| ing the same subject, were in direct viola
| ton of the cartel, and that since the pro-
| clamation and acts referred to, exchanges
of officers under the cartel had ceased, and
that exchanges had been made, if at all,
only by special agreement in each case, 1t
was, therefore, clearly impossible for Mr.
pdrte declaration of exchange. Valid ex-
changes were possible only by special
agreement, and the rebel paroles released
by Mr.. Guild remained not less binding
than before.
Col. Ludlow writes further to Mr.. Guild
that he has again and agaiu urged him to
return to the cartel, but in vain. He char
ges him with retaining in close confine-
ment large numbers of our officers for
whom demand had been made and equiv
alents rendered. He notifies the Rebel
agent that he declines to unite in his propo-
sed declaration of exchange of the Vicks-
burg officers. and that if recaptured thew
will be dealtwith as vioiators of their parole
And finally, he declares to Mr.. Ould that
if he is authorized to deliver onr officers
now held in close confinement and to re-
turn to the cartel in exchanges OF all Off
GERS and men, the whole business can be
arranged without trouble.
But to these charges and offers Mr.. Ould
makes no reply. He cannot refute the one
ana VIII not accept the other. In order to
justify himself before the world he publish
es part only of the correspondence, and
SURPRISES the foregoing letter. In spite
OF Col. Ludlow'S warning, he releases the
tlcksburg prisoners and puts them into
the field. He refuses to release our officers,
ana they remain in prison, part of them
still under the threat OF the Rebel leader
ana his mock Legislature, that they shall
be hanged by State authorities. In that
conditlon OF affairs the Government is in
vlted by the Rebel prisoners to be put i'm
mediately into the field in exchange for
l5,0Oo OF ours, and to leave our colored
troops and their officers to be butchered at
the will of their inhuman captors. The
invitation has been declined.-N. Y. Tri.
6u7te.
A TRIUMPHANT CoNvERsIoN.-Ag gentle !
man in the Southern part of the State mar
rates to the Corydon Monitor the manner of
his conversion to Republicanism. He says
that Democrat, charged with illegal vo-
ting, was brought for trial before Judge
Trimble {Copperhead) in the District
Court. Harris, Copperhead Prosecuting
Attorney, very ingeniously induced the
Judge to extend the benefits of counsel to
the accused at the expense of the county. |
The case went to trial. The illegal voter
was duly convicted, and was fined by the
Judge in the heavy sum of five dolldrs!-l
One of the Copperhead judges of the cleo
ton who presided at the place where the
crime was committed, announced himself
responsible for the fine as security! The
of the Monitor was Shocked
at the idea that leading men of a party
which is always prating about the purity
of the ballot-box, should be guilty Of such |
rascality; and, as result, he |
cut loose from his party associations, and
his determination to train here
after with the Republicans.-lState Register. |
The editor Of the Jefferson City mo-
Times has been informed by the Provost
MARSHA! OF that District, that during Pc
rlod OF three days over one hundred ne |
groes made application to be admitted into |
the service. They were coming in from
BOOne, CallaWaY and Randolnh counfias