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Banks's Amnesty.

--We find in our exchanges a list of the political prisoners to be released by General Banks copied from the official Delta. It embraces prisoners confined at Ship Island. Fort St. Philip, Fort Jackson, Fort Pike, Fort Pickens, and the Parish prison of New Orleans. Among them we find the name of John T. Monroe, late Mayor, who is to be released upon taking the oath of allegiance; also, Rev. Theodore Clapp, H. Bonapa to, and the following persons, whom we take to be slaves and free persons of color, released upon giving parole not to commit any act of hostility to the United States &c.; Girl of Mrs. Cornas, Andrew of Reed, Didul f. m. c., George of Williamson, Jim. Nelson Davis)

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