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sey and James C. Hufty. Corporal Will. H. Cox, of Company A, is here, and we spend about one-third of our time in walking the floor, and talking over the chances of being exchanged or getting off on "parole of honor." Alva L. Morris, Co. C, 1st California Regiment. Proclamation of General Phelps to the people of the Southwest. One Gen. Phelps, of the old army, and a Vermonter by birth, has been assigned by Lincoln to the command of the Yankee troops at Ship Island, Gulf of Mexico. On arriving there, he issued a proclamation, the first paragraph of which is as follows: Headquarters Middlesex Brigade,Ship Island, Miss., Dec. 14, 1861. To the Loyal Citizens of the Southwest: Without any desire of my own, but contrary to my private inclination, I again find myself among you as a military officer of the Government. A proper respect for my fellow-countrymen renders it not out of place that I should make known to you the motives and principles by which my