Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-12-17
REBEL NEWS.

Condition ofthc Prisoners in Richmond
4 Comprehensive A,litary and Financial
Sedeme-No More Substitutes on
Negro Soldiers ! a'...i- I 30
The following items of rebel news are
one day later than the extracts published
on our first page this morning: ~ ais .qa
THE PRISONERS IN RIoHMoND. O 9ili 8
In the rebel Senate, on the 10th, Mr..
Wigfall, of Texas, offered the following
resolution concerning the subsistence and
treatment of the Federal prisoners in Rich
mond: = Tsg t-a..-- . GFs
:. "Resolred, That the committee on mill
tary affairs be instructed to INQUIRE intd
the subject of the treatment and subsis-
tence of prisoners of war in the hands of
the military authorities, and report the re-.
suit of their Investigations to the Senate"
The Examiner reports the remarks of Wig
fall upon this resolution: NO.. -
q Mr.. Wigfall said he had offered the
resolution because of a statement made in
quarter which should eutitle it TO our
respect, and calculated to secure for it Gre
deuce among foreign nations, that the pris-
ouers of war had been improperly and bad.
ly treated. For himself, he believed that
the prisoners were really better treated
than they should be; but, because of the
source whence the announcement had
come, he thought it proper the Senate
should take some authoritative action and
dill ect an Investigation, that the real facts
might be made known. The resolution
was agreed to-" sssss-.r-
In the editorial columns of the same pa.
per the following paragraph appears:
1T will be seen by reference to the re-
port OF the proceedings of the Confederate
Senate that a resolution of Mr.. Wigfall has
been agreed to, instructing the Military
Committee to make official inquiry into
the treatment, by our military authorities,
of the prisoners in our hands. We under.
stand that among the facts that will be
| disclosed by this investigation, not the
| least surprising will be that these Yankee
prisoners have been furnished with three
quarters of a pound of bacon each per
diem, at time when our troops in the
field were only receiving a quarter of a
pound and that beef was purchased for
them at eighty cents pound when the
butchers of this city had agreed to furnish
II TO citizens in the market at sixty cents"
HOW TO MAKE AN ARMY AND TO PAY BILLS
In the rebel Senate, on the same day,
Brown, of Mississippi, offered the follow
ing comprehensive schedule for consider
stion % F''tzs' d.. % a. iRlFA
"Resolved, That in the present condition
of the country, Congress ought, with the
least practicable delay, to enact the fol.
lowing laws: = 90 ~ 9 .'N- -,
"First---To declare every white male
person residing in the Confederate States.
and capable OF bearing arms, to be IN The
military service of the country.
i "Second-To repeal all laws author
izing substitutes or granting exemptions,
"ihird-To authorize the President to
issue his approximation, requiring alt male
persons claiming and receiving foreign
protection to- make their election, within
SIXTY days. to take up arms or quit the
country.tf.a Eeffst 40 ~ "a - -,
1 nFourth-ToI detail from those, in The
military service such only as are absolutely
needed IN civil pursuits, having reference.
IN making such details, ito competency
4 alone Il, ~. -, : = 'N-e'
"Fifth-To levy direct tax of - part
on every ktud of property according to its
value in Confederate notes, including the
notes themselves. tolE 5'-53il 45IlII9siI 10
T. "Si1th-To make Confederate notes IA
legal tender in payment of debts after the
expiration of six months. .1rlsZIg2fJ
| pEOulUlt tue 0uytQp and
selling ofgoid and silver coin, or the no,ss
of banks in the United States, or the ITni.y
ted States Treasury notes during the war.
under heavy penalties-or in lieu thereof
to prohibit running the blockade, by In
dividuals, under pain of forfeiture Of the
4 goods brought in and Imprisonment inr.g
ing the war t'z 's'E4.is''s3 80 - 80 N"''
"Eight-Deelare these laws war mea.
sures, and make those who violate them
am enable to the military courts alone. NJ y
The resolution was laid on the table and
ordered to Reprinted 81 iTis - -
NO MORE SUBSTITUTES.
The, Senate has passed the following hill.
Ia bill to prevent the. enlistment. or ems
| toiiment of substitutes in 1.-The military
service OF the Confederate States. and ~
repeal all laws permitting or anthorizinp
"1he Congress of The Confederate .stat,.
40 enact, That Go person, liable to military
service, shall hereafter be permitted or al,
lowed to furnish substitute for such SER
vice. nor shall any substitute be received
enlisted or enrolled in the military serviss,
OF the Confederate States; and that all |
laws heretofore passed, permitting or al.