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

lowing persons liable to military service
TO furnish substitutes for the same. or
authorizing the acceptance. enlistment or
enrolment of any such substitute in the
military service, be, and the same are
hereby, repealed"
A FINANCIAL EXpEDIEST.
bill is pending in Congress requiring
Memminger to tissue FIVE hundred millions
of coupon bonds of the Confederate States,
in sums not less than Eve hundred dol
lars, payable in twenty years. and bearing
interest of six per cent. per anuum, pay
able semi.annually for the establishment
of repositories for the sale of said bonds
at all the principal cities and towns in the
several States the bonds to be sold at the
highest price, not less than par value, for
the Treasury notes, under rules and regu-
latious to be prescribed by the Secretary of
the Treasuryi that the coupons attached to
said bonds. when due, shall be o legal
tender in payment. in whole or in part, of
all debts payable in dollars or in other de-
soriptions of money! and refusal to take
said coupons shall amount to the discharge
of the Indebtedness. sa ~
ANOTHER sPgEoH BY MR.. Foor-NEGRo SOL
DIERs.
On the 10th an interesting little debate
occurred in the rebel Senate concerning
negro soldiers:
"Mr. Foote introduced resolution that
tho Jalie'erJ oommIttee oe instructed to
inquire into the expediency of the govern
ment Distinguishing in its prisoners of war
Of African descent between those who en-
listed in the North as freemen, and those
who, as slaves in the South, had taken up
arms, and who, on falling iuto our hands,
by the principles of international law be-
come again the property OF their owners.
."Mr. Foote said that the Commissioner
of Exchange of Prisoners, Colonel Ould,
was in favor of the law being amended
1t was true that il was most revolving
and barbarous thing for the North to en-
list negroes in its armies, but he believed
we were bound to recognize them as uris-
oners of war--tut not SO with the slaves
who took up arms. Unless this were done
the commissioner thought it would place
great impeachment in the way of effecting
IN exchange of prisoners, aud postponipr
it indefinitely. The matter was referred
to the Judiciary Committee for considera-
tion." 80 91o' lti35 ~ IT. y.
The following items are Interestingly, ~,
The. smallpox, which had appered among
the Yankee prisoners, has abated very
much and only one or two cases per day
are reported. .ids 49, u,t.asuy ...l al EII4'
"Wednesday might tho bodies of six
deceased Yankee prisoners were deposited
10 the dead house of the hospital to await
the coming of the undertaken with coffins.
Yesterday morning one of the bodies was
gone, and the plank knocked from the
house showed the way the ghost WENT
He had been ''playing possum,'t and was
laid out among the dead only to get up
and run away when nobody was looking.
Very few prisoners were, registered at
the libby on Wednesday. December o.
Seven hundred of the Yankee prisoners
held in Richmond were sent to DanyilIe
on Wednesday. Fourteen hundred more
will be sent forward this week. OF the
thirty thousand prisoners of war held in
Richmond since the first of January, 1869,
SIX hundred aud seventy zone have died.
Ihis is about. two and half or three pei
cent on the whole number-a very small
proportion when the Yankee accounts of
deaths from starvation and exposures are
taken into consideration as