The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-12-29

rnanhonR O1A o1ne The IKE nuWeor 81 FED
ernl peleeeaA, Bot q tAs same tine informe,
Oennlnnloa9 Hitchcock that IL Confedt
~ aaaAeslf1n cosld hold no communica
uaa watA Batter, and that 40 other iaforma
ansAanes woaA - allowed AZ the ssua'
! t,os - cid that e the enemy desired y
ssosW The exohAagc. they must d0tt on Ii.
tsrna and b the manner speci1ed b. III
ossek Oomoissioasr 0sld w. pssfectl!
n6At b doing what be did BeAst Butler I
- oatlAw, end liAble 20 ~ hung b. the frs
Coo1s1ssats oGlcsr that nay lAy hands o,
Alm- No honssable nan can .volantaril.
neaA my inteecoarss With him. At the cam,
1us, the Yankess must not DO allowed t,
~ I'd Of the esvses BY such 20 evssion al
thAt a&tenpted By Butles.
The Yankee Secretary Of War makes tn
following statement With regard to the pris
oasss captored Il Wsksburg ana Port Hud
sen,
IA v1eksSsrr oves shinv thousaoA rebel prison
,ess On isso ess hanls, And over eve shoasAnd
mere O p0N Hu1soN. These psasouers were pa
solel ~ seaesed 70 return 70 their homes unt
ss s::s = q III s.s
esatsA Ne vIcksba4 pdsone.s exchanged With
oue Ssing eschaneed. Tia Pom Hudson pris
ossss ~, without isst cause and IN open violation
~ he caseel. declared released ftnm their paroe
Thsoe pstsoness were returned 70 their ranks, and
persioR Of then VEN found lighting at Chstfa
ssnga, aud again captured. For this breach 81
(a1t6-unc Hampled In eivflised wsrfarr-thc on!y
spososy o. excoss wss that sn equal number oi
psfssnefs had been captured BY the enemy bur.
% calling fos specifications In regard 70 these II
leecd psisoasss Il Wa fonsd that eonsiderah'e .
nanbes repsesentrd - prisoners were not soldiers,
IN weee non-combatants, eitisens Of towns and
N1aeas faFmess, srxveier and Others In civil life,
MOI espssred In battle. but taken at their homes,
aa6 other ra6si rsiders, who pa, them under shan,
Parole 10 baianee these men against rebel sol
diem taken on the Geld wcuId be relieving the On
smv nom The pressure Of wat and enabling hin u
peofyact the eousest ~ indefinite darati0n.s
II Il I'D been true tha. NO had released
from exchange all the prisoners captured at
vioksbury al Port Hudson, We should
have bsen perfectly Justified In 50 doing
In the 6rst dsy's battle at Gettysburg Gen.
Leo captured six thousand Yankees, who,
hsvin9 been par oled, were sent through the
snsmy.s lines. Instead Of respecting tht,
parole these n 81 were Immediately ordered
tnto the ranks BY Gen. Meade, and fought
doRiAg the remaining two days. The ex
c1se tof this unhesrd OF breach OF filth WIS
that . new Interpretation had been put on
The eartea ae Washington; that the Yankee
pfisoneFs not having been paroied BY The
Oommanderin-Ohief In person the parole
was worth Bothils Like all cunning men,
the Yankees overreached themselves; for st
the very time they committed this breach Of
faath Tho garrison At Vicksburg was about
% surrender. It DID surrender the next day,
ed wss paroled, % the Yankees were a.
Gsttysbafg. not BY the Commander 10 Chief
n pesson, bat By subordinate officers. o.
eo1..s osk.a avn o1lesr had . ~ s:.,ct nigh.
30 put upon tho cartel the ssrne interpreta-
tton yost put upon It By the Yankees. They
AZ %, and worstsd the cunning Yankees In
the bargain. H'se Ee laeAs1me.
Bat We did not declare all exchanged A
lsrgs number, probably NJ least half, was es-
pec1ally eaccptod, % may be seen by the
exchange notices already published. Nor Is
u tsus that - Considerable number, repre-
ssnted - prisoner, were not soldiers, but
non-combatants, citizens OF towns and I'll
hgss, hrmers, &c" Judge Ould, In q letter
70 Commissioner Hitchcock. published In
tho Asqss,~r, OF yesterday. along with
Ritshcock's answer acknowledging the re
esipt At tho same, proposed to exclude from
the list OF exchanges Ill the classes Of per.
sons designated - above, and 81 Stanton
must have had this correspondence before
. him when be made the statement, the con.
yson n, that he deliberately iied. The
: -oas embodiment 10 peculiarly characters.
ele u ihs Iankses. At Gettysburg, they
bynd Il vssy convenient to release their
psaesnsrs from parole, and they cid not suf:
~ say scruplss witl regard to the good
. nith a the trsas4ctiQn, 70 interfere with a
project % advantageous to themselves. In
Ais ease, ~ In svery other. tn first cons!d.
aration With them was. twill II pay?' They
1cund thst It would, Of thought they bad
thus 5ounl, aud they hesitated no longer
Bot raseals are almost always sure to over.
reecA tAsmsssyes, and they did 30 in this In
stance most egregiously. We are deeply
en130us to SEQ the cartel resumed on fair
terms, and provided there can be any guar.
antss SoF IT. proper observance Bat We do
not Wish 70 see system OF irregular ex.
changes introduced, for most assuredly such
eystem can have no object bat to obtain
- sdvantsgs q oar axpense Above all,
" wish 70 have no correspondence with
batlss, that wretch who Is an object Of Oh.
horrsHce TO both hSmispheres, and whose
name y mover mentioned anywhere, except
Id Ya0saedom, bat With }eers aud execss..
fiona
IsfTsa saD9 4 Ovfss Epl>iEa.--The Alabama
papsss publish sbe following letter from private
AoAa 4assaeS,s y0oth who gave up his life At
0sseysbueni