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Additional from the North.
In addition to the Northern news published by telegraph yesterday, we make up a summary from New York files, of Wednesday and Thursday last:
Butler's views on the refusal of the Confederates to continue the Exchange of prisoners.
A correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from Fortress Monroe, December 29th, is very indignant at the action of the Confederate Government in refusing to continue the exchange of prisoners in accordance with the wishes of the Yankee Government.
The correspondent says:
I have conversed with Gen. Butler on these matters.
He tells me that the rebel Commissioner of Exchange, Mr. Ould, insists that unless the United States give up all claims which they have made in behalf of their own soldiers who are prisoners of war, consent to sacrifice the colored soldiers, pass over their officers for punishment under a special law made for their punishment by the rebel Congress, and employ another Commissioner of Excha