Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-06-10
HEADQUARrERs, DEPT OF ALEXANDRIA,
Damn pi.Lnna lima hth lSEl
A PROCLAMATION.

GOOD PEOPLE or THS COUNTIES or LoUDoUS FAIR-
FAX AND PEfsCR WILLIAM.
reckless and unprincpled tyrant has invaded your
soil Abraham Lincoln, regardless of all moral, legal
and constitutional restraints, has thrown his Abolition
hosts among YOU, who numbering and mprisonng
your citizens confcllDg and destroying your property,
and committing other acts OF violence and outrage too
shocking and revolving to humanity to be enumerated.
All rules OF civilized warfare are abandoned, and they
proclaim by their acts if not on their banners that their
warcry il "BRAUrY and BooTY." All that is dear to
msu-your honor and that of your wives aud daughters
your fortunes aud your lives involved in this mo-
mentous contest.
In the name therefore, Of the constituted authorities
of the Confederate Stetes-n the sacred Of
stituonal liberty and self government, for which we
are contendng-in behalf of civilization aud humanity
itself, G. T. BEAUREGARD, Brigadier General of the
Confederate States commanding at Camp Pckens, Ma
nassas Junction. do make this nv Proclamation and in
yte and enon you by every consideration dear to the
hearts offreemen and patriots by the and memory Of
your Revolutionary fathers by the purify and sanctity
of your domestic resde rally the standard of your
State and country AID by every means in your power
compatible with honorable warfare, to drive back and
expc the invaders from your land corure you to be
true and loyal to your country aud her legal and cons
tutionsl authorities and especially to be vgiant of the
movements and acts of the enemy so as to enable you
10 give the earliest authentic information at these Head
Quarters, or to the officers under my command.
desire to you that the utmost protection in
my power will be extended TO you all.
(Signed G. T. BEAUREGARD
Brig Gen' Comd'g.
Official, THOMAS JORDAN, Act'g Asst AdJt Gen'
WHAT TIE ESsNY ADyIr.-We have it upon author
ity which have light to question that the Pawnee
was lying not far from Matthias Point Wednesday,
when IS men (solders) led by An officer who proiessed
to have been born in Fredericksburg landed aud pro.
ceeded to the farm of Mr.. Grymes where they attempt
ed TO buy provisions which Mr.. q. declined selling
Toe officer said he would take nothing by force and did
not.
Inquiries made by the party to the number Of
our force at Aqua Creek but Mr. g. had not been from
home and could give them no information They said
they had impressed negro mau who told them we had
10000 soldiers there, but Mr. Grymes unable to tell
them whether this number exaggerated or otherwise
They reported further saying that they lost 76
men, in killed and wounded-but whether in Fridays or
Saturdays action or both, cannot determine from
our own informaton-snd that they did not know how
many killed and wounded on the Pet, they des-
gnat,d the cutter Harriet Lane Referring to
what know was Walkers battery, they Said-"that
battery gave us h-ll."
The statement Of these men, taken in conneXion with
those that reach from other quarters indicates heavy
loss the encmey in the actions of both Friday and
Saturday NedericksJ,rg Herald
AQUA CREEK.-A Washington correspon dent OF Q
New York paper says: Gen James, proprietor Of the
celebrated red CANON proposed several weeks since to
take one or Of his hundred pound shot and shell in
stuments down the Potomac and silence all the batteries
that could be discovered the Potomac Chesapeake
but the proposition refused. The popasal made
again to-day The Secretary of the Navy accepted and
the General has left for New York to execute his pledges
1t 10 ascertaned by careful inspection Of the prcec
tiles used by the rebels Aqua Creek that they
like any in common ue aud it is believed that their can
non and proectes are from Europe. but how or when
they GOT there is the question.