Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-02

Our Government will rely on the existence
and efficiency Of its blockade fov a sufficient
answer to any reclamation which may be
made by foreign governments in regard to
their maratime rights.
The Intelligencer of to-day contains an ar
ticle to the above effect and this telegraphic
agency has such authentic information as
warrants the expression Of the correctness
OF the statement.
ST. LOUIS, August 3l.-The following
proclamation was issued this morning:
"HEAD. QUARTERS WESTERN DEPART-
"NENT, ST. LOUIS, August 30.
circumstances, in my Judgment, render
it necessary that the Commanding General
Of this Department should assume the ad.
minstrative power of the State.
ats disorganized condition, the helpless
ness Of the civil authority; the total inse-
curity of life, and the devastation of prop
erty by bands of murderers and marauders
who infest nearly every county in the State,
and avail themselves of the public mistor-
tunes and the vicinity of hostile force, to
crafty private and neighborhood vengeance,
and who find an enemy wherever they find
plunder, finally demand the severest meas
ures to repress the daily increasing crimes
and outrages which are driving off the in
habitants and running the State.
I'm this condition the public safety and
pose, without let or hinderance to the prompt
administration of affairs.
"ln order, therefore, to suppress disorder,
to maintain, as far as is now practicable the
public peace, and to give security and pro-
lection to the persons and property of loyal
citizens do hereby extend and declare es-
tablshed martial law throughout the State
Of Missouri.
"The lines of the army of occupation in
this State are, for the present, declared TO
extend from Leavenworth, by way of the
posts of Jefferson City, Rolla, aud Iron
ton, to Cape Girardeau, on the Mississippi
River.
GAIL persons who shall be taken with arms
in their hands within these lines shall be,
tried by a Court. Martial, and, if found
guilty, will be shot.
The property, real aud personal, of all
persons in the State of Missouri, who shall
take up arms against the United States, or
who shall be directly proven to have taken
an active part with their enemies in the field.
| is declared to be confscated to the public
use, and their slaves if any they have, are
hereby declared free men.
"All persons who shall be proven to have
destroyed (after the publication of this order)
| railroad tracks, bridges or telegraphs, shall
| suffer the extreme penalty of this law. All
| persons engaged in reasonable correspond. i.
ence in giving or procuring aid to the enc.
mics of the United States, in fomentating
| tumults, in disturbing the public tranquility
| by creating and circulating false reports or
incendiary documents are, for their own in
terest warned that they are exposing them
selves to severe and sudden punishment.
"All persons who have been led away from
their allegiance, are required to return forth
with to their homes, and 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 authorities the
power to give instantaneous effect to existing
laws and to supply such deficiencies as the
conditions of war demand, but it is not in
tended to suspend the ordinary tribunals of
the country where the law will be adminis-
tered by the civil officers in the usual man
ner and with their customary authority,
while the same can be peaceably exercised.
"The Commanding General will labor Wig
ilantly for the public welfare, and, in his ef-
forts for their safety, hopes to obtain not only
the acquiescence, but the active support Of
the people of the country.
"Major- General Commanding"
ST. LOUIS, August 3l.-Provost- Marsha
forbidding any person passing beyond t1e
nit from his Office, and all railroad, steam
boat, ferry and other agents, are prohibited
from selling tickets to any one not holding
pass from the Provost Marshal.
This order is aimed especially to reacI
parties leaving the city, for the purpose O
communicating information to the enemy.
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