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close confinement so long as the orders aforesaid
shall continue in force, and unrepealed by the com-
petent military authority of the United States ;
and that in the event of the murder of any unarmed
citizen or inhabitant of this Confederacy, by virtue
or under pretext of one of the orders hereinbefere
recited, whether with or without trial, whether
under pretence of such a citizen being a spy, or
hostage, or any other pretence, it shall the duty of
the commanding general of the forces of this Con-
federacy to cause immediately to be hung, out of the
commissioned officers, prisoners as aforesaid, a num-
ber equal to the number of our own citizens thus
murdered by the enemy.—By order.
(Signed) ca S. COO-PET, A. A
The following is the letter of Jeff. Davis to Gen.
Lee, instructing him to communicate the facts in
the above order to the Commander-in-Chief of the
United States armies :

"Sir,--.On the 23d of this month a cartel for a
"Richmond, Va., July 31, 1862.
general exchange of prisoners o'f war was signed
between Major-General D. 11. Hill, in behalf of the
Confederate States, and Major-General J. A. Dix
in behalf of the United States. By the terms of
that cartel it is stipulated that all prisoners of war
hereafter taken shall be discharged on parole till
exchanged. Scarcely had that cartel been signed
when the military authorities of the United States
commenced a practice of changing the character of
the war from such as becomes civilised nations into
a campaign of indiscriminate robbery and murder.
The general order issued by the Secretary of War
of the United States in the city of Washington,
on the very day that the cartel was signed in Vir-
ginia, directs military commanders of the United
States to take the private property of our people
for the convenience and use of their armies, with.

out compensation.
" The general order issued by Major-General
Pope on July 23, the day after the signing of the
cartel, directs the murder of our peaceful inhabi-
tants as spies if found quietly tilling the farms in
his rear, even outside of his lines ; and one of his
brigadier-generals, Steinwehr, has seized upon

innocent and peaceful inhabitants to be held as
hostages, to the end that they may be murdered in
cold blood if any of his soldiers are killed by some
unknown persons whom he designates as " Bush-
whackers." Under this state of facts this govern-
ment has issued the inclosed general order, recog-
nising General Pope and his commanding officers
to be in the position which they have chosen for
themselves—that of robbers and murderers, and
not that of public enemies, entitled if captured to
be considered as prisoners of war. %V 0 find our-
selves driven by our enemies by steady progress to-
ward a practice which we abhor, and which we are
vainly struggling to avoid. Some of the military
authorities of the United States seem to suppose
that better success will attend a savage war, in
which no quarter is to be given, and no age or sex
to be spared, than has hitherto been secured by such
hostilities as are alone recognised to be lawful by
civilised men in modern times.

" For the present we renounce our right of re-
taliation on the innocent, and shall continue to
treat the private enlisted soldiers of General Pope's
army as prisoners of war ; but if after notice to the
Government at Washington of our continuing re-
pressive measures to the punishment only of com-
missioned officers, who are willing participants in
these crimes, the savage practices are continued, we
shall reluctantly be forced to the last resort of ac-
cepting the war on the terms chosen byour foes, until
the outraged voice of a common humanity forces
a respect for the recognised rules of war. While
these facts would justify our refusal to exercise the
generous cartel by which we have consented to
liberate an excess of thousands of prisoners held by
as beyond the number held by the enemy, a sacred
regard to plighted faith, shrinking from the mere
semblance of breaking a promise, prevents our re-
sort to this extremity.

"Nor do we desire to extend to any other forces
of the enemy the punishment meted above by Gene-
ral Pope and such commissioned officers as chose to
participate in his infamous orders.

" You are therefore instructed to ommunicate
to the commander-in-chief of the armies of the
United States the contents of this letter and a copy
xanduacu gruunii oraer, mat lie
may be notified of our intention not to consider any
officers hereafter captured from General Pope's
army as prisoners of war.

" Very respectfully yours, &c.,
"JEFF. DAVIS.
" General R. E. Lee, commanding, &c.
Tae Dispatch says :—" A. gentleman direct from
the neighbourhood informs the Petersburgh Express,
that the Yankee Vandals are roaming over the
counties of Nasemond and Isle of Wight stealing
negroet„ bacon, and horses, and arresting every
citizen vhose loyalty to the Confederate States is
known. The loss to the Confederate States in bacon
and lard it that section will be immense.

Several 7ankee officers have escaped, one of them
named Marlton, a lieutenant in a New York regi-
ment. Others have escaped, namely Lieut.-Colonel
W. B. Hatch, Captain S. M. Oakly, Lieutenant
W. B. Masters,Lieutenant Wm. Biddle, and T. A.
Murphy.

THE MURDER OF GENERAL McCOOK.
NASHVIL,E, THURSDAY, August 7, 1862.
The city is in a p3rfect uproar of excitement over
the details of the death of the brave General
M'Cook, of Ohio. His remains arrived in town
to-night, and are new lying at the Commercial
Hotel.
On Tuesday last General Robert M'Cook, who
was at the time very 3ick, was in an ambulance
hiuin t.eowkTa s guerillas.'
The
e conditionrebe
near Salem, Alabama. on his way to his brigade.
The ambulance was travelling over the usual mili-
tary road, and, about ten o'clock in the morning, it
arrived at a plantation where there was abundance
of water. After refrealing themselves they passed
on with the sick general. Intelligence of his where-
abouts and condition WES quickly spread, it is sup-
posed,
the
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driverbefore thedis ambulanceenv
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pursuedt h three
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prohibitedoi think
ordered
aefdnflight, and
General
stop, the assassins at the time aurytrho
idea of rescuing
ambulanceenndingit.
Thtoe
vehicle was then upset and the siek officer turned
into the road. While on his knees, helpless, sick,
and pleading for quarter, he was fired at by a
ruffian and shot through the side. The wound was
fatal—General *Cook surviving it but a few hours.
He bore his sufferings heroically, and to the last
manifested an undaunted spirit. His last words
were:—Tell Aleck (alluding to his brother, Gene-
ral Alexander M'Dowel M'Cook) and the rest that
I have tried to live like a man and do my duty..
When the news of the murder became known among
the camps, the excitement was intense. The 9th
Ohio, M'Cook's own regiment, on learning of the
assassination, marched back to the scene of the
occurrence, burned every house in the neighbour-
hood, and laid waste the lands. Several men who
were implicated in the murder, were taken out and
hung to trees by the infuriated soldiery.
The guerilla feeling throughout the state is in-
creasing rapidly, and bands of these robbers are
forming in every hamlet. The train I came down
in from Battle Creek was fired into at different
points. Fortunately, no damage was done to the
persons of any of the passengers. The train for
Columbia to-day was fired into by guerilla parties
at various points on the road, and one man was
killed and 13 wounded. Immediately, prompt and
decisive action should be taken in the matter.
0f the Companiesgn ev
guerillas
for
Amazement and revenge are pic-
inintspat g here to assist in the capture
eccihty.
As I write this near
despatch the
excitement is in-
creasing in the city, and the streets are alive with
the populace'
tured on every countenance. The death of General
M.O
andbarbarous assassins
a
this brave and gallant leader. retribution k
willwillbe
fall rememberedun the
Governor Johnson
and other prominent Union
men have called to
view the remains. The governor was visibly
affected by the sight of
the corpse of his late friend.
It is rumoured that a number of prominent seces-
sionists in the city have been shot to-night by
ezuperated Unionans.

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Orchestral Band at One.
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