New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-02
REBELS PROPERTY CONFISCATED.
SlI'eVes Of Rebels Declared Free,

81. LOUW, Saturday Aug 81 1851
The following Proclamation was issued this morn.
ing:
| "HEAD.UARTzRs or rsE WEsTERs DEPARrnnsr,l
ST Louis. Ang. 81, 1861 )
"Circumstan ces, in my judgment of sufficient
urgency, render Il necessary that the Command.
ing General of this Department should assume tho
administrative powe.S of the State. Its disor.
| Qaniaed condition the helplessness of the civil
authority, the total insecurity of life, and the dc.
7estatisn Of property BY Lends of murderers gud
maraudels who infest nearly every county in
the Stats and avail Themselves of the public
misfortune, and the vicinity of q hostile
force to crafty private and neighborhood
vengeance, and who find an enemy wherever
they fad p4Inder, finally demand the seyersst
measures to repres, the daily increasing crimes
and outraqes which ore driving OF the inhsbi-
tauts and runiug the State. In this condition
the public Oafety and the success Of our arms
require unity Of purpose, without let or hin.
dranse, to the prompt administration Of affairs.
{" In order, therefore, to suppress disorders,
TO maintain as far rs now practicable the public
peace, and to give se,urity and protection to
the peracns and prop'rb' Of loyal citizens, DO
hereby extend, and declare established, martial
law throughout tbs State of Missouri. The lines
of the army of occuyat ION in this State ere fos
the present declared to sextend from Leaven-
worth by way of tie posts OF Jefferson CITY
Rolla, and IeontOn, 70 Csss Girardeau On the
Mississippi River.
"All persons who shan be ) AIKEN with arms In
their hands within thes, lDes' shall be tried BY
eourt.martial, and, if found gza ty, will be shot.
The property, real and pxsorss OF oil persons
in the State of Missouri whe shsa take up arms
against the United Stats, and who shall 30
directly proven 70 have taken sd i've part with
their enemies in he field, 70 declsrA to be con-
fscated to the pablic use; and ~ 'ir slaves II
sny they have, arc hereby declaredi a ee.
"Al persons who shall bopreyeu ito have de-
stgoyed after the Publication Of thiss rider rail-
road tracks bridges or telegraphrs "A all suffer
the extreme penalty of the law.
CAN persons engaged in treasoasb4 core.
spondence, in giving or procuring aid to the end.
mics Of the United States, in dissurh ing tho
public tranquility, BY creating and cirs ulating
false reports or incendiary ooeumeStV, ARE in
their own interest wsrued that they ere exposing
themselves.
GAN persons wbo-haye boen LED away from
their allegiance are required 90 return. to their
hemes forthwith; arg such absence without suffi.
Gent cause will be held to 10 presumptive evil
dence against them.
1.-THE object of this declar alton is 70 place in
the hands of the military auhorities tie power
to give instantaneous effect to existing laws, and
to supply such deficiencies Is the conditions OF
war demand. Blu. it is not intended to suspend
the ordinary tribunals Of tie country where tho
law will be administered By the civil officers
in the usual manner, and With their, customary
authority while he same can be peaeeably eI'
e1cised.
1.-THE Commanding General will labor vigilantly
for the public welfare, and in hiS efforts for
thoir safety hlTss to obtain not Only the acqri-
sscence, but he active support of the people Of
The country. -. C. FREIsoNT,
HMslorGen1ral Commsndissp