Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-06
sa A gene .al order from the Wa,

department OF Ohlo, forblddlng the
further unauthorized enlistment of vol
unteers, will be seen in another column
While thespatriotism of those engaged
/ in forming companies cannot be doubted
yet moments reflection will show tn.
necessity of the order. Every man tina
can be had is needed in the shortest pos
sible time. And the motive which
prompts men to the effort of enlisting ;
company, may be the purest imaginable
and yet his we'll meant effort may be
doing untold injury to the cause he has
at heart. -.
A county like this might raise two OF
three companies, for instance, in as many
days. But suppose half dozen gen
tlemen start out in the business. Each
has his friends, and each may get 80, OF
50, or Is men on his list. There may
be enough ready and anxious to serve
their country to fill up two or three
companies. But they are so divided
among the half dozen that there is NO
possibility of filing either. The con-
sequence is that the service suffers
The men become discouraged and with
draw, and the whole scheme fails.
While, therefore, the order may seem
to operate hard in some cases, it will
be seen to be eminently proper and ne
eessary to the filling up Of the ranks.
THE CONDITION OF, AFFNIRs IN
DICK ROBINSON.
Mr.. w. B. Carter, of East Tennessee,
is now in the city. He is a gentleman
of high standing, who has been life
long resident of East Tennessee. His
father also was a Tennesseean He is Il
STAKEHOLDER, and identified with the
South by every social and material tie
that binds a man to his home; and yet
for no crime but that of loving his
country, an unalterable attachment to
the Union of these States, he is an exile
He has refused to be wheeled or driven
into the South Carolina conspiracy, and
is therefore driven from his native State
by the desperadoes who own the chief
conspirators now at Richmond as their
masters. The account which he gives
of the condition of the people of East
ern Tennessee is heart rending. The
exiles from that portion of the State
number thousands; and there are hun
dreds now being hunted by the Seces-
sionists like wild beasts in the noun
tains. History records no persecution
of a people, more remorseless and ap-
palling. There is literally a reign of
terror among those who are unwilling
to give up their country and submit to
the destruction of the Union and the
loss of their liberties. They have felt,
and with reason, that when the Union
was destroyed their liberty would be
sacrificed to a despotism as intolerant
cruel and desolating, as any that has
ever been formed when bloody treason
fieurished over the ruins Of nation
Mr.. Carter knows personally h lndreds
of cases in which citizens have been
compelled to fly from the hordes Of min
ions of the Secession cons spirators.-
Many of his neighbors haze been re-
duced from af1uence to beggary by this
persecution. They have been compelled
to leave their families, and all they had
in the world, and fly in the night to the
mountains, to save their lives. The al
ternative-that Of uoiunteeriag to fight
against their country--they were too
patriotic to regard as possible. Camp
Dick Robinson" in Garrard county,
KY, has been and is a camp of refuge
for the exiles. Mr., Carter is personally
we'll acquainted with men lately Of
property, and distinguished social po-
sition, in Tennessee, who are now in
that camp, having left their families and
farms to the mercy of their enemies, and
escaped by mountain paths. Some of
them walked Fifty miles day over She
mountains and through laurel thiekets,
thus evading the Secessionists stationed
at the passes. There were six hundred
Tennesseeans at Camp Dick Robinson.
and nine hundred at Barboursville--all
mustered into the service Of the United
States. The nine hundred collected at
Barboursville, are under the command
of Liet. S. B. Carter, of the U. s. Navy,
Tennesseean, and a brother Of the
gentleman who gives US the informa-
ton. They are expected at the camp
In Garrard county to-day. They will
swell the number in camp to four thou
sand, and if the Kentucky Secessionists
will have war, the number would soon
be near twenty thousand. 1t may be
thought that Mr.. Carter's report Of the
condition of affairs in his State is highly
colored. We have reason to believe
that the celering is tame in comparison
with the facts. Certainly, the Govern
ment is bound by every consideration of
honor and interest, to sustain the loyal
people of Tennessee, with all its power
and to the last extremity.-Cin. Conn.,
Fight in Virginia---Thirty Rebels
Killed and the Town Burned.
GALLIPoLIs, O., September 3
A fight took place, yesterday, at
Boone Court House, Va, between the
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