Mr. MAYNARD. The other morning, in the remarks which I made in connection with the resolution introduced by the Gentfrom Massachusetts, [Mr. DAWEs, I am reported as having said that a young man by the name of Nelson, a captain in the f.service, had been demanded, as I understood, by the governor of NCarolina from the Governor of Tennessee as a felon, by reason of a homicide committed by him in the discharge of his duty while on a raid in NCarolina. I have since seen Governor Worth, of NCarolina, who assures me that he has never made any such demand of the Governor of Tennessee. It is possible that in respect to the demand by the Governor Imay have misunderstood the parties from whom I received the information touching the matter; I refer to the Governor of Tennessee and Captain Nelson, at whose house I passed a night a few days before I came here. Captain Nelson explained to me very fully the circumstances of the homicide, for which, as he told me, he had been indicted for murder in the State of NCarolina. He had been set upon and bushwhacked if I may be pardoned the solecism from a private house while on duty. He pursued the offender and put him to death on the spot. This had been the subject of in dictment in one of the NCarolina courts as for murder. It was that fact, and not the mere matter of his having been demanded by the Governor, that I wished to bring to the notice of the House.. I wished to show how, under the forms of the local laws, our soldiers and officers are annoyed and persecuted. And in this connection I will add what I did not say at that time, that as I am informed his case is not the only instance but is one of a great many. I learn that Colonel Kirk, known very well to my colleague before me, [Mr. TAYLoR, ] and many of his regiment have been indicted as murderers or robbers or horse thieves or on some other charge of violating the criminal laws of NCarolina by reason of their hostile operations while in our military, service. It was, I suppose, for these and similar proceedings that the Legislature of that State have condescended to grant a general amnesty to the Federal Army, from GenlSherman down to the humblest soldier. CAPTAIN ANDREW SMITH.