The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-11


fight Our battles, and many of whom will
in all probability shed their blood on the
field of contest to reestablish and save from
ruin that Government that for eighty odd
years has been going on prospering and
prospered, and under which we have all
enjoyed so many blessings, we therefore
give notice that there will not be at the
September Term any Jury Trials, and
that the jurors will not be wanted.
F. w KNOX,
A. g. OLMSTED,
ISAAC BENSON,
H. L. MAYNARD.
Coudersport, Sept. 9, 1861.
Gen. Fremont's Proclamation.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 81, 1861.-The fol-
lowing proclamation was issued this
morning
circumstances, in my judgment of
sufficient urgency, render ii necessary
that the Commanding General of this
Department should assume the admins
srative powers of the State It's disor-
ganized condition, the helplessness of the
civil authority, the total insecurity of life,
and the devastation of property by bands
of murderers and marauders who infest
nearly every county in the State and avail
themselves of the public misfort1nes and
the vicinity Of a hostile force to crafty
private and neighborhood vengeance, and
who find an enemy wherever they find
plQnder, finally demand the severest meas
ures to repress the daily increasing crimes
and outrages which are driving off the
inhabitants and running the State In
this condition the public safety and the
success Of our arms require unity OF pur-
pose, without let or hindrance, to the
prompt administration of affairs
"[n order, therefore, to suppsess dis
orders. to maintain as far as now practi-
cable the public peace, and to give secu-
rity and protection to the persons and
property of loyal citizens, l do hereby
extend, and declare established, martial
law throughout the State of Missouri
Tie lines of the army occupation in this
State are for the present declared to ex-
tend from Leavenworth by way of the
posts of Jefferson City, Rolla, and Iron
ton, to Cape Glrardeau on the Mississip-
pi River.
call persons who shall be taken with
arms in their hands within these lines
shall be tried by court-martial, and if
found guilty, will be shot. The property,
real and personal, of all persons in the
State of Missouri who shall take up arms
against the United States, and who shall
be directly proven to have taken active
part with their enemies in the field, is /
declared to be coufscated to the public
use; and their slaves, if any they have,
are hereby declared free.
"All persons who shall be proven to
have destroyed, after the publication of
this order, railroad tracks, bridges or tel
egraphs, shall suffer the extreme penalty
Of the law.
"All persons engaged in reasonable
correspondence, in giving or procuring
aid to the enemies of the United States,
in disturbing the public tranquility, by
creating and circulating false reports or
incendiary documents, are in their own
interest warned that they are exposing
themselves.
"All persons who have been led away
from their allegiance are requested to re-
tuln to their homes forthwith any such
absence without sufficient cause will be
held to be presumptive evidence against
them.
"The object Of this declaration is to
place in the hands of the military author
tiles the power to give instantaneous ef-
feet to existing laws, and to supply such
deficiencies as the conditions of war de-
mand.. But it is not intended to suspend
the Ordinary tribunals of the country
where the law will be administered by
the civil officers in the usual manner, aud
with their customary authority while the
same can be peaceably exercised.
"The Commanding General will labor
for the public welfare, and in
his efforts for their safety, hopes to OBJ
tain not only the acquiescence, but the
active support of the people of the coun-
try. 81 G. FREMONT,
'Major- General Commanding"
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