Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-02-26

Prom She New York World, Feb. 1Ith.l
STATEMENT or sTR c C FULTON, PROPRIETOR
BALTIMORE AMERICAN.

Al ~ O'CLOCK on MDEQay hOIuil&s 0tmAtc
5ioeer Oul5, accompanied BY Capt. Hatch, Wis
lied Major Mnlford en- bosTd the steamer New
York, Tor the purpose Of receiving Dr' kitehie
aud tho two overseeTB, taken during the raid on
Rrsrdon last week. There were also several
gentlemen on board who had come down 10 have
q peYsonsl interview with Judge .Oaid among
whom was DIR M0ntf0rt, The commissioner Of
tbs Stale Of Lndiana; and your correspondents,
&C G. FL Oa hearing that I was on board,
Judge Ould Immediately expressed q desire to
see me. Tbs lime Of both being limited. /
proceeded direct to the business on which / hsd
sought the inservisw-the devising Of some fes-
sible means Of relieving the saferings Of cur
prisoners at Richmond. Iremarked 20 BIN that
ths purpose Of my visit to City Point was to
obtain a personal interview with ]. G. Coward
IN. Esq proprietor Of The Richmond Dispatch
with the hops that we might ia our capacity as
private citizens, having no official connection with
either Government, eject some arrangement
hat would be satisfactory % the friends OF me
prisoners on Doth sides. de replied thhi N ths
nresent condition Of affairs, il wOuld be fmprae-
ticable to have such sn interview
Finding that al interview with MIR. Cowstdin
vas NOS practicable, I then stated TO J0ege Oald
soat the proposition I had to make to Mr. Cow
srdin I would make 70 him, which wss that l
~ouId agrse 70 give my tins and services to tie
ameliorstion Of tbe condition Of the Cont derAte
pfisunsrs in our hands, and promptly and faith
fully attend to any commission that might he
entrusted to ms by Mr. CoWardin, reporting o.
res 10 him. provided that be would act IN the
hands. That I would undertake &C deliver to
hem whatever our Government permitted to
come through the lines, provided be would AXE
charge OF deliver such articles as his Govern
maRt would consent TO receive from US by nag
Of truce.
Judge Guild replied that lie vas now and al,
wsvs lad bsen ready and snxious 20 do all in
his power 10 amelioTste the condition Of tho pEs-
oneFs on both sides, and to make concessions to
the canse Of humanity thai might not be advts-
able uncer ether circumstances. With this view
he hsd, somn two weeks siace, made q PROPOSE
lion 20 cur Government which be thought If
accented, would accomplish the same purpose
as thas I proposed, In = more ex.ended and sat
i~sfaclory maauer. This proposition, he Ehia,
WAS to ALLOW o numoer Of our surgeons, selected
by our Government for tbs purpose. 10 pass
through their lines and 10 visit end remain with
cur prisoners wherever they might be-, having
full liberty Of the city, and to psss from point TO
poins as they might deem necessary in The psTr
fafmanee Of thcir duties. They would even be
allowed 20 aet as commissariss loT cur prisoners,
aud TO order through lie Iiaes such stores AZ
thev may deem necessary, and 70 receive sud
distribute them Hs presumed that not less
than f tY would be required, aud be had egn-
tsmDiaied receiving st least thpt number. All
that be had asked IN return WSJ tkgt they
should also be permitted to send such number
of their surgeons within our lines As might be
deemed necessary, with similar powers.
To this proposition he expressed great sur
prise that he had not yet received any reply
from our Government. So long as this pr0po-
sision was under consideration he could not con.
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tbs proposition Of Commissioner 0uld has not
been entertained 10 presumed to DO that he peg.
siSts in refusing to acknowledge Gsn. Batter as
the commissioners Of exchange, and directs his
communications TO the authorities st Washing
ton, although officially informed that the whole
subject is ia the hands of Gen. Bntlsr. I
urged upon him that the csuse Of humanity and
iuHtice to the ueople of his section required that
something should be d0ne Immediately to prove
that Inc charges against him WeIo, as he alleged,
lElss-that technicslilies End etiquette might
defeat or delay the contamination Of such an
agTeement-ahilst an arrangement that would
accomplish the same purpose, such as l pro-
posed, between two private citizens, could be
perfected in twenty minutes.
I also urged upon aim that ihs romp. and
thorough manner ia which Dir. Cowardin mad
performed the commissions that I had imposed
upon him, had Blsced him high in the estimation
of our people as 6 man Of honor and integrity f;
aud that if he WoHid undertake tbs gensral SUI
of our prisoners a Richmond, shat /
folL authorised to become responsible to him for
all the expenses hs might be under in 50 doing.
That wagons and mules to provide Inn with
transportation could be forRsIded-3hat as an
agent in the esuse Of humanity, he might. be
enabled to accomplish his mission without the
dslsya incident to Government transportation.
Such az arrangement would at once smelioraie
the condition Of their prisoners in ouE hands,
and that all Deficiencies in supplies for them
from Richmond would be made up by our own
people and associations. Ia the e3uTse Of orr
conversation I was assured that the most un-
statements had been msde agsinsG the
people and authorities Of Richmond in the
Northern papers, especially by the returned
who, hs asserted, had eseh endesY-
cred 70 excel the other ia malignant faisehood.
OF al mon, he thougbt that tho tTu h might have
been looked for hOn them. On the contrary,
they had misTePIsgented everything, and never
told 3 ruth whom \ falsehood could be substitu-
NJ true soldier who had gone North, he
asserted, had corrobOrstod or substsntisted their
aiauderous statements.
To put 8 stop 70 the misrepresentation, he
had made tho proposition 20 our government for
no reception Of surgeons, whom we now mutu-
4 y .rested as noB-eombatents, and he. still had
10 pes thai SO reGsonEbe and feasible q PROPOSE
lon would be accepted Warfare has enough
horrors insepsFkbly connected with il without
nselessly multiplying Ibtm by provoking the
u.Csi embIstered snimosity between the people
OF the two countries - a. 10 tia conditisn of
heir prisoners Of war. be admitted that there
also been great misrepresentation on this
score by some Of their returned prisoners. I
was assured that nothing could be more erro-
nCoEs than the statements that these men were
70 the Wsathsgaad bYatnlly treated de
would far refer to lake their places thsa be
eeniued in any Of tie tobacco warehouses
They were al, he SAID, prov.d 4 with isnis,
and IS veil sheltered As the soldiers who guarded
them.
IN addition to which they enjoyed the free
were less troubled by vsrmin, had room for
and we're not subjected to the con6Ged
atmosphere inseptTable from hospital OF prison
ilfs do did not ailude 60 the ensrgcssr or ex
tent OF their rstOns, or to the character Of the
shelter provided them. With regard to fuel 10
me that an abundance u X WIS supDIiad
20 the men on Belle isle, and they were not
crowded there without regard to shelter that
when any humber OF them had bsen taken sWay
a slinilar number was sdded, AID tlat the Island
wss covered to its tnIl ospseity With tents, aud
no more than could be accommodated IN those
tents ware at any time placed here. Tae health
OF those on tbs island was better than tbat Of
those IN The prisons, and they Jared Is well as
their III soldiers 10 tbs field.
The C-arrenes.
From the Mobile Regisserl
Are people who handle money ell gone mad :