Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-12-25
VOL, ..XV1----NOe23. !


! The last survivor of the massacre OF Wy,
oming, Jeremiah Spencer, died on the 2za l1
4 ult, at New Hartford, Conn.
i An effort will be made at the present ses-
sion of the Kentucky Legislature to remove
4 the State Capital to Louisville. g S1-og aJaes
I sRerort says John Morgan has reached
Richmond via the Big Sandy River JEFF.
Davis has given him command in the army
OF Georgia. 70: f.3ils scsca Sa4 s-asecYlg sae
Steamboats, are now running up the Ten
nessee river to Loudon, within sixteen miles
army is supplied. ''e '-.' D.. 81,
The rebel Secretary of the Treasury esti-
mates theidebt of the Gonfederacy at : l,OO0,-
100000 The amountrequired for the year
1864 is about 81 500,Oo0,000. g1iTo,.oi edl
They have a great excitement at Galesburg,
ILL.,, over the failure of j.. f. Dunn banker
and mayor of the city. The depositors are
sacrificed to very large amount. 5,.--
They have a first class breach Of promise
case in Chicago, in which MISS Callista Math-
er, the daughter of prominent merchant,
sues DR.. Aaron Pitney, to recover $25, 900
damages. .:.'.24 oil. af
| The total amount of the claims presented
! by citizens of Minnesota for losses sustained
in the Sioux war is 81, GOO, 900. The govern
ment commissioners have allowed them at
1885, 900. f.- ~ s-s Gir1 Z e-s =. 4.- .s.i
Messrs. Marcy of New Hampshire, Sweat
Of Maine, and English Of Connecticut, sew
orally voted for Mr.. Cox of Ohio for Speaker
in Congress They constitute all the Demo-
cratic members from New England. - - u. T.
| A boiler in the distilery ofW. S. GurneeS
Co., Chicago, exploded on the 18th inst,
| killing two men and horribly scalding seven
men and two little boys. The engiae house
was utterly demolished, and fragments thrown
several hundred yards. "a .,- r- zs
| from the battle field Of Gettysburg to the
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania Historical
| Societies. One of them has $50 bullet holes
in the. space Of twenty -one feet, and the other
| 10 holes in the same space.
| Released Surgeons, Just arrived at Fortress
Monroe from the South, report that they
| were allowed to examine the condition of our
! prisoners at Atlanta, and found them in quite
good condition. A portion OF their food,
however, was that sent from the North.
One of the ways in the Potomac army of
Furnishing man fonnd intoxicated is to bury
him all out his head, and label him thus,
course "Here lies the BODY Of George Mars,
who fell dead (drunk) Nov. II, 1868"
Whisky spectators are congregating in
Washington 10 delay legislation in regard to
! the duty on whisky, and to urge an increase
| in the tax to one dollar per gallon. A large
proportion of these are Copperbeads, who are
deeply interested in filing their own pockets.
| A rascal named Collins is going about the
country begging money for the Illinois Sani-
tary Commission He is an impostor. The
| best way is to give all strangers who are beg
sing for pretended charitable purposes a wide
| berth. They are generally cheats.
The Immigration Bureau statistics show
| that the total Immigration in forty years, to
1860. has been 5,062,5 ,5l4 Previous to 1860
| it was $4,000, aud since 1860, 603,000
making 5,646, ,415, SINCE 1890. AT $50 each,
| the capital brought into the country by these
emigrants has been s424,0O0.00o. -I-er
Morgan crossed the Tennessee river above
| Chattanooga. He came near being captured.
| Two Of his officers and thirteen of his escort
were taken. Morgan was mounted on a fast
horse, presented to him by Kentucky SYM
pathiZer. Our cavalry were securing the
country south of the Tennessee, in search of
Morgan. ..-...r.-., g.. ........ .-... .-
The Senate of the loyal Virginia Legisla-
ture, now in session at Alexandria, have
passed bill calling convention to meet in
that city en- the 25th of January, to effect
| the abolition of Slavery in the five counties of
the State exempted from the operations Of
the Presidents proclamation. These counties
are Accomac, Northampton, Princess Anne,
| York and Elizabeth, and include the cities of
| Norfolk and Portsmouth. s....... &c..
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| The Exchange of Prisoners.
! Gen. Hitchcock has written another letter
on the exchange of prisoners, somewhat more
| fully exhibiting the negotiations that actually
| went on between Col Ludlow and Mr. Ouid
in reference to the Vicksburg prisoners and
| the colored troops. 1t now appears that so
long ago as July 22d, Col. Ludlow wrote to
the rebel agent that his proposed declaration
of exchange of the Vicksburg prisoners was
in violation of the cartel. The statement is
explicit and unanswerable; and in no letters
that have seen the light does Mr.. Ould at
tempt to answer it The cartel provided for
| exchanges of equal rank until such were ex-
hausted and n until they were exhausted
could the system Of equivalents be resorted
| to. In other words, SO long as we held a
greater number Of officers as p, isoeers than
the rebels held, they could not free theirs
from parole except by first liberating ours
Yet Mr.. Ould committed precisely this out
rage declaring the rebel officers on parole
exchanged against them a Ger
tain number OF privates and retaining in prls-
on large number of our officers who were
entitled to their release. lt-.5 II ae -
| Again, Col. Ludlow reminds Mr.. Ould that
l both the proclamation of Jefferson Davis con-
cerning our captured officers. and the acts of
the Rebel Congress, touching the same sub
ii ,ct, were in direct violation of the cartel and
that since the proclamation and acts referred
to, exchanges of officers under the cartel had
ceased, and that exchanges had oeen made, if
at all, only by special agreementin each case.
1t was, therefore, clearly impossible for Mr..
IOuld, in any case, to make valid er parte
declaration of exchange. Valid exchanges
were possible only by special agreement, ani
the rebel paroles released by Mr. Ould re-
manned not less binding than before.
I Col. Ludlow writes further to Mr.. Ould
that he has again and again urged him to re- 4
turn to the cartel, but in vain He chsrges
him with retaining in close confinement large
I numbers Of our officers for whom demand
had been made and equivalents rendered.
He notifies the rebel agent that he declines to
unite in his proposed declaration of exchange
! of the Vicksburg officers, and that if recap
tured they win be dealt with as vielators Of
their parole. And finally, he declares to
Mr.. Ould that if he is authorized to deliver
our officers now held in close confinement