[First indorsement.]

I certify on honor that I commanded one of the companies of the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, a part of Major Jordan's command on his expedition to Sparta, and that the above statement is true in every particular.

AMOS. B. RHOADS,

Lieutenant, Commanding Company B, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry.

[Second indorsement.]

We certify that we are all well acquainted with Major Thomas J. Jordan, Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and that he is a gentleman and a man of honor and that any statement emanating from him may be relied upon in every particular. We would therefore respectfully ask that he be included in the present list of paroled prisoners.

B. M. PRENTISS,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army.

T. L. CRITTENDEN,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF EAST TENNESSEE,
Knoxville, October 12, 1862.

Brigadier-General FORREST, Commanding at Murfreesborough:

General Cooper telegraphs the following as the value of officers in privates as established by the cartel:

General commanding, 60; major-general, 40; brigadier-general, 20;

By command of Major General S. Jones:

CHAS. S. STRINGFELLOW,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CHARLESTON, S. C., October 13, 1862.

Honorable W. PORCHER MILES, Member of Congress, Richmond, Va.:

Has bill for execution of abolition prisoners after 1st of January next passed? Do it an England will be stirred into action. It high time to proclaim the black flag for that period. Let the execution be with the garrote.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

LIBBY PRISON, [October 13, 1862.]

Brigadier General J. H. WINDER, Richmond.

GENERAL: I am informed that the flag-of-truce boat will not leave Aiken's Landing before 1 p. m. to-morrow (Tuesday), and as I did not come to Richmond voluntarily to be detained in prison, but for the purposes I have heretofore stated to you, I respectfully request that you will permit me to return to the North by this present boat, and allow me to visit Governor Brown, Senator, and Mr. Boyce, Member of Congress, before I leave.

It will be necessary for me to leave Richmond by 11 a. m. to-morrow in order to reach the boat. I desire to see Judge Baxter also.

Your obedient servant,

WM. CHASE BARNEY.