Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-08-29
False Runors.

and encouraged the hopes Of some and
alarmed the fears of others. But time
has proved them as without foundation.
1t was reported by telegraph, and as
serted by correspondents from Wash
ington, that the President had actually
issued proclamation, offering freedom
to all the slaves of rebels who would
join the Union Armies, and by their
labor and fidelity aid in suppresslng the
rebellion. We did not believe the ru-
NOR, although many did. The rumor
has proved untrue. Such is the singu-
larity of human nature that while some
will regret that it was not true, others
will rejoice over its contradiction as
they would over the accession of new
member to the ''Knights Of the Golden
Circle"
1T was rumored also that Gen.
Mcclellan had resigned his commission
and retired from the army. This, like
the last, caused various sensations ac-
cording to the varying views and feel
ings of the people. Some, who looked
only at the condition of the finest army
in the world, with which he promised
to take Richmond year ago, and who
had watched it through summer, a
fall, winter, spring, and another
summer, guessing at the number of un-
marked graves which hid from their
friends, fifty thousand "done up" vol
unteers, until the remnant that was
left were rescued from impending ami
hilation, rejoiced at the report. Those,
on the other hand, who were able to see
in the years campaign splendid ''stra-
tegic movements" and desired another
year of like results, grieved as the
"Whangdoodle grieveth' and refused to
be comforted until the report was au-
thoritatively contradicted.
----I It was rumored likewise, that
Cassius NJ. Clay was appointed to the
command of department in the West,
which was to include his native State
of Kentucky. The same diversity of
emotions followed upon this report, as
upon the others Some thought they
saw through it, the expulsion Of the
guerrilIas from the border and the pro-
lection and safety of all loyal men, and
even fancied they could see the cause of
the rebellion itself, weakened through
his. known antecedents, and the energy
with which it was believed he would
conduct the war. These people rejoiced
in the report, as the promise of better
day. Others saw visions of Fremont's
proclamation repeated-thought they
saw slavery in danger, and such con-
duct of the war as would hurt the feel
ings, and, probably, ''exasperate" such
Union men as Wickliffe, Carlisle and
Vallandigham, and they not only
grieved, but were indignant at the re-
port. All such may be comforted.-,
The rumor is untrue.
- It was rumored that Gen. Buell.
had called in, or determined to call in,
his army from guarding rebel property
and catching rebel slaves, so as to con-
centrate them in sufficient force to pre-
vent the Confeds surrounding him and
cutting of his supplies, as they were
doing. And the rumor went SO far as
even to say, that he had actually de-
termined to treat rebels as if their effort
to destroy the Government was dis
pleasure to that Government and was
becoming distasteful even to him. This
rumor, however absurd, was eagerly
caught up by innocent sous who com
forted themselves with the pleasing de-
lusion. We don't know that the other
sort were much disconnected at the ru-
NOR, for by instinct they scented to
know it could not be true.
s---.I It was ,rumored that the rebels
were marching against Pope with such
an overwhelming force, that they would
be able to crush him utterly, and march
unimpeded to the capture of Washing
ton. This rumor, while it stirred the
very souls of one class of people, and
fixed their resolve to give their all to
retrieve the disaster, should it occur,
sent thrill of exultant joy to the
hearts Of those whose souls. are exer-
cised at the awful violations of the Con-
stitution by the Lincoln Administration.
The rumor proved untrue. And moth
ing is left for the disappointed ones, but
to lament the failure Of the Constitu-
tion-loving Jeff. Davis, to punish the
usurping tyrant, Lincoln, for his disre-
gard of the Constitution in general and
the habeds corpus in particular.
----I 1t was rumored that the leaders
of the 'Butternuts" in Ohio, were
patriotic at heart, notwithstanding their
seeming afiliation with their Southern
associates. But this rumor having its
origin in Medary's Crisis, was seen at
once to be false, and created no sensa-
tion whatever.
1t has been rumored upon our
streets that the late orders of Secretary
Stanton have had the almost magical ef-