Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-08
War Items, Gossip, Rumors, &C.,
FROM NoRTHERN SOURCES.
From Missouri.

| has issued a proclamation to the people of
Missouri, the principal features of which are
as follows:
81 do hereby strictly charge and enjoin
| upon all persons of suitable age to enroll
| themselves in military organizations that
| they may take part in the defense of the
State.
"All citizens who are embodied under the
| act of the last session of the General Assem-
| bly,, popularity called the Military Law, are
notified that the law has been abrog ated, the
troops disbanded, the commissions issued IN
| der it, as well ss the commissions under the
| act of the same session for the appointment
| of. Major-General, have been annulled, and
| all soldiers and officers are enjoined to cease
action In military capacity.
"If those citizens, at the call of the late
Governor have taken up arms, choose to re-
| turn voluntarily to their homes, In the peace
| full pursuit of their occupations, they will
| find in the present Executive, determine
| ton to afford them all the security In his pow
1 er, and there Is no doubt entertained that
| they will be unmolested. The officers and
| troops belonging to the Confederate States,
who have invaded Missouri, are notified that
it is against the will of the people of Missouri,
| that they should continue upon the soil of the
| State and that their continuance in Missouri
| will be considered an act OF war upon our
| State, the horrors of war which Missouri de-
| sires to avoid. They are. therefore, notified
to depart at once from the State.
| (Signed)
| HAMILTON R. GAMBLE"
Since the Governors proclamation was
| written the following dispatch has been re-
ceived
| WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. 1861.
| To His E1ceilency Il. r. Gamble, Governor Of
Missouri:
| Ia reply to your message addressed to the
| President am directed to say that if, by
| proclamation, you promise security to per-
sons in arms who voluntarily return to their
| allegiance and become peaoeable and loyal,
/ this Government will cause the promise to be
| respected.
| Secretary of War.
MEXICO, No., August 3-By tomorrow
night or next morning the county seats of
| Warren, Montgomery, Lincoln, Galloway,
| Andraine, Pike, Rails, Monroe, Randolph,
| Howard, Macon, Shelly, Marion, Lewis,
Knox, Lynn. Scotland, Clarke, Livingston
counties, by Simultaneous movement, will
| be occupied by strong bodies Of q. S. forces,
| the commanding officers of whom will ap-
point committee of public safety from
among the most responsible citizens of he
county, whose duty it shall be to preserve
the peace in their respective sections.
Each committee shall consist of not more
| than five persons, and whenever II can con-
sistently be done, the proper county officers
shall be selected as members. No one thus
appointed shall be permitted to decline, nor
shall fail to perform his duties. under such
penalties as the commanding General shall
afix.
These committees are cha rged according
to general orders issued by General Pope,
with the duty of maintaining peace and order
in their respective counties, and shall have
power to call out ell citizens of the county
to assemble at such time and places and in
such numbers as may be necessary to secure
these objects. Any one who shall refuse to
obey such call will be turned over to the
military authorities. If the people of the
counties respectively are not able or willing
to enforce the peace among themselves and
to prevent the organization OF companies to
make war upon the United States, the militia
~ force will perform the service, but the ex
penses must be paid by the county in which
such service is necessary.
To secure their prompt payment levy of
a sufficient amount of property or on money
will be at once made and collected by the
officers in command. Upon the call of ma
jority of the committee of public safety in
each county, troops will be sent to keep the
peace, but as such expeditions are for the
benefit of the people concerned, who have,
in nearly every case the power to discharge
the service themselves, the troops thus
sent will be quartered upon them and SUBJ
sisted and transported by the county in the
manner above specified during the whole pc
riod it may be necessary for them to remain
If, in consequence of disturbances not re-
ported by the committee, the General COM
handing finds it necessary to send force in
to county to restore order, they will be in
like manner billeted upon the county, unless
the combinations against the peace are too
powerful to be resisted, or the parties en-
gagged in it were organized in other counties
and brought on the disturbance by actual in
vasion.
1t is not believed that the first case can oc-
cur in any county in Northern Missouri, and
In the second, the forces will be marched into
the county or counties where the marauding
parties were organized OF whence they made
the invasion, and will, in like manner, be
quartered upon them. Where the peace and
good order are preserved, the troops will not
be required. Where they are disturbed, they
will be restored at the expense of the county.
To preserve the peace is the duty of all good
citizens, and as all will alike suffer from the
breach of it, men Of every shade of political
opinion can act cordially together in the dis
charge of duty as full of interest to one as
to another. All persons who have hereto
fore been led away to take up arms against
the United States are notified that by return
ing and laying down their arms at the near
ty hereafter as peaceable and law abiding
citizens, they will not be molested by the
military forces, nor, so far as the General
commanding can influence the matter, will
they be subjected to punishment. unless they
have committed murder or some other ag-
gravated offense.
Correspondence n. American and Q. 5. Gazette
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The Bull Run affair
still occupies public attention here. The dis
cussion has been renewed by the authorized
publication of some of the brigade reports
1t seems to be pretty well established that
Col Miles was, to use plain Saxon, drunk,
and that to his utter inability and confused
state of mind is mainly attributed the re-
treat of our army. Col. Richardson makes
the charge against him, and in letter Col
Miles denies Richardson's statement. 1t is
certain, however, that Col. Miles was report
ed drunk to Gen. Scott, and his command has
been taken from him. He will be court-Inar-
tailed, and, if found guilty, shot.
New YORK, Aug. 5.-The Tribune prints a
letter from Gen. Butler to the Secretary of
War in which he states that, at the time OF
receiving orders to forward troops to WASH
ington, he was preparing for an advance
movement on Yorktown, hoping to cripple
the resources of the enemy there, especially
by Selling a large number OF negroes who
are being impressed into their service, max
ing entertainments, &c. Gen. Butler says be
has now this side OF Hampton 900 negroes,
800 being able-bodied men, and desires in
structions from the War Department regard
ing them.
After discussing the status upon which the
slave women and children thus freed from
their masters are to be considered. he was
compelled by his own reasoning to look upon
them as men and women not free born, yet
free, manumitted and set forth from the land
that held them, never to be reclaimed.
He would have no doubts how to proceed
had he not seen an order from Gen. Mellow
ell forbidding all fugitive slaves 10 be harbor-
G within the lines. II the enforcing that
order is the policy of the Government, as
soldier he il bound to enforce it steadfastly