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Exchange of prisoners. We find in the Baltimore Sun, of the 5th of the present month, a statement that Lincoln's Secretary of War has authorized an exchange of Austin E. Smith, late navy agent at San Francisco, and now prisoner at Fort Warren, for William Ayres, of Philadelphia. The order for the release of Mr. Smith was given on Wednesday. He is a son of ex Gov. Smith of Virginia. Col. Lee, of Massachusetts, Captured at Ball's Bluff; has been exchanged for Colonel Baldwin, of the 31st Virginia regiment, taken in Western Virginia; Major Revere, of Massachusetts, for Maj. McAlexander, of the 27th Alabama, taken at Fort Donelson, and Dr. Revere, also of Massachusetts, for Major Brown, of the 14th Mississippi, also of Fort Donelson.
Burnside's operations. --The Raleigh Journal learns that the Yankees have garrisoned the town of Washington. N. C., and that Burnside is impressing the citizens into his service, seizing and appropriating all the horses, mules, and negroes that he can lay his hands upon, and performing sundry other villainous operations. A son of Mr Re pa ex- Mayor of Washington, who had gone over to the Yankees previous to the arrest of his father, has been made a Lieutenant Colonel in Lincoln's service.