The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-23

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arrests al Of non comba atants, without regard
to. their Age, SEX or situation. -Afterward,
they have been thrown into prison and
there indefinitely retained, in most cases,
without charges. Lbs.
The retention of exchsuged and un-
exchanged officers and men-There are
officers and men now in Federal prisons
who have been there ever since the adop-
ton of the cartel. Commissioner Guild has
brought to the attention Of the United
States authorities again and again the
names Of some Of the parties who were con
fined in violation of the exchange agree
ments. In some cases, after long delay,
the parties were released. Others, how
ever are still languishing in confinement
3. The general orders of the enemy, and
their connection with declarations of ex-
change. So anxious has the Confederate
Government been to remove all obstacles
to general exchange of prisoners, that
when the computation and adjustment OF
paroles was made subject of difficulty by
the enemy wepromptly agreed to determine
the whole matter in accordance with the
general orders issued at Washington This
very liberal proposition has not been &C
cepted by the Federal authorities. asog
4. The confinement of General Morgan
and his officers in the penitentiary at Colum-
bus, Ohio. ,,5
s.. The detention Of surgeons. Before the
date of the cartel, surgeons were uncondl.
tionally released after capture. That rule
was first adopted by the Confederate com
mauders and was subsequently, followed by
the Fsderals. Some time ago, one, Rucker
wasindicted by grand jury in Virginia for
several felonies. Although Rucker was never
a surgeon in the Federal service, the enemy
held Surgeon Green Of the Confederate navy
in retaliation. This caused retaliation on
our part, in return, and surgeons were after
ward held in captivity on both sides. In
Ibis instance the Federal authorities proved
that they were ready to sacrifice their own
medical oficars in an nendeavor to secure the
release of telon in no way connected with
their medical service.
6. The capture of persons upon our rivers
and the high seas. By agreement with the
Federal agent of exchange, all snch who
were captured before Dec. 10. 1852, were
declared exchanged. In spite of that agree
ment, some of our pi.ots and sea captains
werek kept in confinement. TIE corrsspon
dence fully shows the refusal of the Federal
authorities to adopt any fair and reciprocal
rule as to the further exchange of such per-
sons. e.
This record sh ;ulI b, preserved and H.
lustrated TO- history. 1t is the incontesta-
BILE evidence Of the brutality and faithless-
ness Of the Yankees, contained in the records
of an official correspondence, and is, so far,
superior to those mere rumors and assertions
of Yankee villainly which the world has
been disposed to doubt and to attribute to
the exaserations of our own prejudice and
passion.
The Rs.snforeing OF the Confederate
Armies.
From the Mobile Register
Ia addition to the 100000 stragglers, it
is demanded that nine tenths of the pro
ducers be put in the field, and women, chill
dren and dotards be left alone to clothe and
teed an army. In other words, We want
everybody to go into an army, already
naked, hungry and i'll equipped, and nobody
to support them. ...
Again, as to the size of the armies. Is it
the number of men or the handling of them
that wins battles2 Were Pemberton's men
well fought at Bakers Creek? Tue same
number, or nearly the same, won the battle
of Chickamaugs, that were driven from one
of the strongest positions on the continent,
of Lookout and Missionary Ridge. Minus
Longstreet's corps, Lee whipped Hooker at
Charlottesville; plus that corps, with Jenk
ins, Jones and Others added, he wa rePulsed
at Gettysburg. Fifteen thousand fighting
men won the first battle of Manassas, and
less than forty thousand achieved the VIC
tories of Shiloh and Murfreesboro'.
More than forty thousand men have nsv-
er, since the war began, been brought into
action to advantage by either side. And
now we arc called upon to believe that big
nohs OF raw recruits, half starved and
poorly equipped, are to do next Spring what
veterans have not been able to do after three
years of hard and repeated trials. What
we want is the genius to conceive and tho
courage to dare-not unwielding -hordes OF
awkwark squads, with nobody at home ~
support them. 7-3
The Skirmish at MO0rfleld.- Ne.
gro Cavalry in the Southern
Army.
WASHINGTON. Jan. l9. 1864