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Spetial Wotites.
The Last Chauce.

The undersigned are authorized by Maj. Gen.
John P. McCown to raise Regiment of Infantry
for the Confederate service, for three years or
during the war. This will be the last chance to
avoid CONSUMPTION, and enter the service volunta-
uily. Enrolling officers have already been ap-
pointed, and those in authority have determined
to bring the entire available force of the Govorn-
ment into the field soon as possible. The
sooner we all shoulder our muskets and enter the
contest the sooner we will be permitted to return
to our homes in peace. The officers of the Regi-
mont will all be elected by the men, and each
volunteer will receive bounty Of Fifty Dollars
when mustered in and organized. We are assur.
ed that the Regiment will receive good arms and
equipments
Persons engaged in raising Companies, and de-
string to join this Regiment, will address either
of the undersigned, as indicated below.
WILLIE LOWRY, Charleston, Tenn.
A. CALDWELL, Athens, Tenn.
MATT. ATKINSON, Charleston, Tenn.
Sept. 10, 1S62-5t
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Another Proclamation From Lin
coin.

Lincoln has issued the following procla-
nation suspending the writ Of ha6eas cor
pus in the case of all State prisoners, and
warning all persons from interfering with
enlistments and resisting the draft:
Whereas, II has become necessary to
call into service not only volunteers but
also portions of the militia of the State,
by draft, in order to suppress the insur-
rection existing in the United States:
and disloyal. persons are not inadequate
ly restrained by the ordinary processes of
the law from hindering this measure
and from giving aid and comfort in vari-
GUS ways to the Instruction.
Now therefore be it ordered
First-That during the existing insur-
rection, and as necessary measure for
suppressing the same, all rebels and in
surgents, their aiders and abettors within
the United States, and all persons dis
couraging volunteer enlistment, resisting
militia drafts, or guilty Of any disloyal
practice, affording aid and comfort to the
rebels against the authority of the Uni
ted States, shall be subject to martial law,
and liable to trial and punishment by
court martials or military commission.
iSecond-That the writ of habeas corpus is
suspended in respect to all persons arres-
ted, or who are now or hereafter, during
the rebellion, shall be imprisoned In any
fort, camp, arsenal, military prison or
other place of confinement, by any mill
tary authority or by the sentence of any
court martial or military commission.
In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the Uni
ted States to be affirmed
Done at the city of Washington, this
twentyfourth day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun.
dred and sixty-two, and of the indepen-
dence of the United States the eighty.sev-
enth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM Ii. SEWARD. Sec'y ofState.
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New York Democratic State Con-
ventfon, I'm

The ticket which this body nominated
last week is thus classified: For Cover.
nor, Horatio Seymour-Soft Shell and
Conservative; Lieutenant Governor, Da-
vid r. Floyd Jones-Soft Shell; for Ca
nal Commissioner, William J. skinner
Soft Shell and a war Democrat; for In
spector of State Prison, Gaylord j. Clark
Hard Shell; for Clerk of the Court
of Appeals, Frederick A. Talma6ge-Old
Wing Mozart, Conservative and anti.war
The Convention adopted the following
resolutions:
RESOLVED, That the Democracy of New
York, waving the expression of their
views upon questions not rendered i'm
perative by the imperiled condition Of
their country, hereby declare:
Frst-That they will continue to rem
der the Government their sincere and
united support in the use of alIlegitimate
means to suppress the rebellion and to
restore the Union as it was and maintain
the Constitution as it is, believing that
sacred instrument founded in wisdom by
our fathers, clothes the constituted au-
thorities with full power to accomplish
such purpose.
Second-That by the following resolu-
tions unanimously passed by Congress in
July, 1861; the Government was pledged
to the policy inculcated therein, which
cannot be departed from without viola
ton of public faith, viz:
"Resolved, That the present deplorable
civil war has been forced upon the coun
try by the disunionists Of the Southern,
States, now in arms against the Constitu
tional Government, and in arms around
the capital; that in this national emer-
gency, Congress, banishing all feeling of
mere passion or resentment, will recollect
only its duty to the whole country; that
this war, is not waged on their part, in
any spirit of oppression or for any pur-
pose OF overthrowing or interfering with
pose of conquest Of subjugation, or pur-
the rights or established Institutions of
those States, but to defend end maintain
the supremacy of the Constitution and to
preserve the Union, with all the dignity,
equality, and rights of the several States
unimpaired, and that as soon as these OBJ.
jects are accomplished the war ought to
cease"
Ihird-That we, having confidence in
the loyalty of the citizens of New York,
reiterate the sentiments heretofore ex-
pressed by the Democratic party-that
the illegal and unconstitutioE al arrests and
imprisonments of citizens of this State
are without the justification of necessity,
ahd we denounce such as usurpation and
crime, and that the freedom of the
press, equally protected by the Constitu-
ton, ought to be maintained,
Fomth-That we are willing to act in
the coming election with any class of
loyal citizens who agree with us in the
principles herein expressed; that we
hereby invite the cooperation Of all citi-
zens in giving the most emphatic ex
preston to those principles by support
ing the ticket nominated by the Conven-
| tlon.
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Reward For Counterfeiters.

MI. II. b. Plant, President of the Ex-
press Company, has issued circular to
the agents and employees of the compa.
ny, giving description of the counter.
felt Confederate Treasury Notes, and of.
fer;ng areward of 81 900 to any agent or
employee of the company wlso shall
detect any one passing the said counter
feits. The following are the concluding
paragraphs:
1t is believed that there are persons
travelling through our country putting
these counterfeits into circulation and
you are instructed to exercise great vigil
lance, and if possible, to have those that
are knowingly attempting to pass this
base issue upon the public brought to
justice, and you will immediatly report
all suspicious parties to proper officers.
This company will pay any of its en-
ployees reward of One Thousand Dol
lars for the first person that shall be de-
tected and convicted on, evidence fur
nished by him of knowingly and wilfully
passing upon any Of its agents either of
the counterfeits described above.
H. B. PLANT, Prest.
Augusta, Sept. l. 1862.
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Good.

"Hermes," the correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury" communicates the
following:
Not long ago, an original character OF
the name of Dixon was arrested and car
ried before Mcclellan. "You are from
Virginia." said McC. "Yes l am from
Fauquier: and your fellows have been be-
haved id badly down there" What
is the news from Jackson?" inquired
McC., evading Dixon's allusion to his sol.
diers. when last heard from him."
replied Dixon, "he had just received a
dispatch from the devil, asking him to
send no more Yankees down there. The
place was full of them; they had been
robbing hen-roosts and pig pens right
and lefs until there wasen't a,pullet or a
shoat in hill" Mcclellan laughed ard
sent him back home.
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CITE 2ust.
Athens, Friday, October 10, 1892.
News.


CHATTANOOGA, Oct. "A company of
partisans yesterday drove the Yankee
pickets at Flat Rock back to Nashville.
The Nashville Dispatch of the Both
ult. says the steamer "Forlorn Hope" was
captured few miles below there on Sum
day by the rebels.
The impression in Nashville Is, that
Bragg has taken Louisville. Specula-
tors have cleared out all the goods and
stores between here and Nashville, and
no more need come.
There is no doubt about the starving
condition of Nashville. ...
MOBILE, Oct Especial TO the Adver.
tiser-From Tupelo the 2d.-Sixty Yam
kee cavalry scouts yesterday penetrated
to the railroad two miles South of Bald
win, and cut the telegraph wire. They
were attacked by 25 men-all of the
Tennessee cavalry--routed and driven off
with o loss of seven killed and two pris-
oners. Our loss two killed and none
wounded.
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General Orders No. 8.
EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS,


Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept 8, 1862.
I. Major John L. Hopkins is appointed special
aid to the Governor and is instructed to see that
the enrolling officers Of the Reserved Military
Corps in the Eastern Division of tho State pro-
coed to enroll NIL those subject to the provisions
of an act of Congress approved April 10, 1882,
entitled "An act to further provide for the public
defence" The enrolment of conscr,pts under
said act of Congress will be made in conformity
to the General Orders. of the War Department,
under the superintendence of Col. E. D. Blake
G. s. A., who has been detailed for that service in
Tennessee.
III. The Judges or Chairmen of County Courts
in the Eastern Division of the State will immedi-
ately appoint competent persons IN each Civil
District, Ward and Town of their respective coun-
ties, to take and make an enrolment of all who
are subject to the provisions of.said act of Con-
gress, the report of whom will! be Immediately
made upon completion to Col. e. u. Blake, at
Knoxville, Tennessee.
III. Said enrolling officers will also enroll nil
persons who are over thirty five and under forty
five years of age, and all those who are over
forty five and under ffty-fve Jears of age, and
forward report of them, with duplicate list Of
the conscripts, to the Adjutant General of the
State. By command of
ISHAM G. HARRIS, Gov'r, &c.
W. G. WHITrHoRNE, Adj't Gen'.
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DESPERATE AFFAIR IN GREENvILLE.-
John Mason was shot in Greenville,
Tenn, on Friday morning, by Charles
Gwin, both citizens of that town. 1t will
be remembered by our readers that the
father OF Charles Gwin about year ago,
was found brutally murdered near Green
vile. The current opinion is that young
twin suspected Mason of being in some
way concerned in his fathers death.
lie shot Mason with double-barrel shot
gun, loaded with balls. One ball took
effect in the upper part of the bowels, one
IN the leg and arm. The wound in the
bowels, 1t is thought will prove fatal.
dwin, Immediately after shooting Mason,
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Yankee Opinion of Jackson.

Returned prisonssaz say tho Yankees
hold Jackson in greater terror than any
other of our Generals. Our informant
says he heard two Yankees in Alexan-
dria disputing over Jackson's merits: at
last the jackson man, as if to clinch the
matter, exclaimed: II tell you, Jackson
is the greatest man in this or any other
country. As for our fighting against
him, it's useless. He made all the noun
tains around here, knows everything
about everything in this country, and he
is bound to whip u.s."
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Recruits Wanted,

am authorized to raise and muster into the
Confederate service recruits for Col. Jas. W. Gill
1espie's (43d) Regiment Tennessee Volunteers
The Conscript Law is now in force, and county
enrolling officers have been appointed All per-
sons wishing to recruit In this Regiment will have
the right 10 choose the Company they attach
themselves to, Volunteers will receive Fifty
Dollars Bounty. Conscripts will not receive any
Bounty Come forward at onoe--be mustered
nto service - volunteers and avoid the conscrip
to change your condition,
W. L. LAFFERTY, Cant.
Company H, IS Rost Tom. Vois.
Sept 10, 1852.
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R6. We learn that in Middle Tennes.
see there is a great misrepresentation as
to the law in regard to the formation of
partizan ranger companies and of new reg
iments. We will state what the law is so
that there may hereafter beno misunder-
standing, and in order that persons may
not involve themselves in any difficulties.
The Secretary of War has decided that no
more new companies or regiments can be
received at present, and further an order
has been issued from the Wai Depart
ment that Partizan rangers are not allow
ed to recruit from persons subject to the
conscript law. The President may, in
his discretion, suspend the operation Of
the conscript law in Tennessee for lin
tied time and receive regiments and COM
panies under former laws, but until he
does so no more new companies can be
received. We have expressed the opip-
ion that it would be the best policy to
suspend the operation of the conscript
law for thirty days in Tennessee, and al
low volunteering during that time in
either old or new regiments, and If that
were done we believe that the old regi-
ments would be filed and many new ones
We are satisfied from reliable
sources that Tennessee could now furnish
more men than the government wants,
and on that account we would be glad to
see an opportunity given them to volun-
teer. 1t could do no harm to make tho
northumberland.
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Gen. j. G. Vaughn.

1t affords us infinite pleasure to state
that we have telegraphic information
from Richmond, that that gallant East
Tennesseean, John G. Vaughn, now Col
onel ofthe Bloody Third" regiment. has
been unanimously confirmed by the Sem
ate, as Brigadier-General. This is de-
served promotion of as good a man and
brave an officer as is to be found in the
ranks of Southern patriots; and reflects
credit upon the judgment both of the
President who nominated and the Senate
who confirmed him.-Rnorv;Ne REGISTER,
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sS- Among the returned prisoners
here are some Misourians, who have an
adventurous history to recount. They
were taken prisoners while in Prices ar
my, but the Yankees would not reoog-
nize them as prisoners of war, and gave
them trial by court martial. They were
condemned and sentenced to be executed;
their collins were prepared, the graves
dug, and the prisoners taken out to DO
shot, when, At the last moment the
Yankees fearing retaliation. concludedtc
recognize them as prisoners Of war, ana
allowed them TO be regularly exchAn9ed;;
II will not be long until these men WI
Be again In front Of The battle, And thsc
voc to The Ysnkses.- VessSu'y cxssr,
Sent. Is.
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From The Potomac.

The quid nuncs must be content with nj
hills until our army has rested, and the
rank re filled by the arrival at camp of
the last stragglers, the convalescents, and,
new recruits. This will occupy but few
days, and then the army thus strength.
ened will again receive marching orders"
We can't have victory every day.
McClellan's army was knocked into a
disorganized mass at Sharpsburg, and will
not essay an aggressive movement for
some time. Passengers by the Central
train last evening, brought no news from
the Potomac. Today we will probably
have some late Northern news by flag of
truce, via Varma.-R Richmond Examiner.
GENERAL BEAUREaARD.-The discovery OF
Gen. Beauregard's whereabouts, which
has so long puzzled the military editors
of Yankeedoodledom, seems to have
awakened their apprehension. The New
York Times, in an article on our Generals,
says:
The appointment just announced in
the Richmond papers of so conspicuous
an officer as Gen. Beauregard to the com.
mand of the Department of South Carroll.
ma and Georgia, indicates, we may re-
mark, the presence in that department
of no inconsiderable force, and may eithe,
prognosticate serious attempt to eject
us from our positions at Hiltons Head
Beaufort, or show that the rebels antici
pate vigorous effort at the reduction oil
Charleston and Savannah. Itsets at rest
all the foolish stories which have been
current of Gen. Beauregard's Withdrawal
from the Southern service. The truth In
regard to him we blieve to be that he has
simply been at the Springs in Alabams
recruiting his strength, impaired by tina,
memorable Western campaign in which
Gen. Halleck did not capture him mol
destroy his army.
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16- From a report presented in tho

b0 From report presented in the
Confederate Senate, Monday. it appears
that the whole number of patients (sol.
diers) admitted into the various hospit-
ais, in and around Richmond, from tho
date of their organization to the present
time, is 99,505, of whom 9.774 have been
furloughed, and 1908 have died. The
rest. it is presumed, have recovered and
been discharged, except those remaining
in the hospitals.
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From Murfreesboro'.

We make the following extract from a
letter dated October LIST, received by us
from Murfreesboro':
II was within five miles of the "City of
Rocks" last evening, and saw gentle
man from the city. He thinks the i'm
preston in Nashville is that Louisville
has fallen into the hands of the rebels
Our piokets sleep at night within hear.
ing of the town bells. The Yankees are
evidently much Strengthened for supplies.
Starvation and want is staring them in
the face"
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Light Wanted-Llght Wasted.

There is great cry for light-no oil
no fluid-no candles. Now there was a
great Light made six thousand years ago,
which is still bright and brilliant, but il
seems not to be appreciated by multitudes
of the human family-in fact, they shut
their eyes against it two or three hours
every morning. Why turn day into night
and night into day? "Night is the time
for sleep" Take poor Richards advice,
early to bed, &C." Then few candles
will suffice. BOB SHORT.
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1~The Cincinnati Enquirer publishes
a,letter from Washington upon the sub
jeot OF military dictatorship, and says,
"If,t is truthful picture Of Affairs, the
friends of liberty have everything to
dread from the future"
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Mich Davis,

The Huntsville Advocate denies that
this gentleman is, or ever has been, I'M
sound or untrue to the South, or that he
ever tried to make fair weather with the
abolition army under Mitchell, while it
was in North Alabama.
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D@AThe Brooklyn, New York four
teenth regiment is reported by the
Washington Republican as numbering
only fifty now, tout of about one thou
sand fine fellows" as the Republican calls
them ION first entering the SERVICE"
They were fused up" mostly in the late
fights on Manassas plains.
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PUT HIS FOOT IN 1.-THE Anomosa
(Iowa) Eureka tells of man named
Joseph Apt, who enlisted, and went
home and told his wife. While he was
asleep, the loving spouse took an axe and
cut his foot nearly off. Mr. Apt will be
apt to stay at home. Il
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RWLowell, of the Atlantic Monthly,
Boston, is of the opinion that new par
ty is raising at the North, the object of
which is to tbwart Lincoln and the rebel
lion. Men like Wood and Seymour are
said to DO the leaders Of this party,
against which Lowell is very savage in the
Atlantic.
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PowELL's RIVER, TENNESSEE,

beP0' To- IoV-'
Editor Post: Strive, the undersigned, desire
you to give notice through your columns that we
will receive some twenty-five or thirty recruits
into our Company, each recruit furnishing him.
self with good horse and reporting at these
headquarters Immediately.
II. s. VAN DYKE, Captain.
j. A. TURLY, LIST Lieut..
A. j. THOMPSON, I'd Lieut..
w. T. MILLER, Sd Lieut..
Gen. Stevenson's Escort Company.
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Sept Is, is.
Notice.

am authorized to recruit and raise Company
of Infantry for the Confederate service for three
years or during the war. All persons between
the ages of eighteen and forty Ave now have the
opportunity Of volunteering and be mustered into
to service, and receive the usual bounty.
i. G. BARKSDALE.
Sept 10, 1852
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e~ When is a sweet potatoe vino like
a hog? When it begins to root When
is it like Confederate soldier? When
it begins to shoot. When like Fedsralf
When it begins to run. = u,
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W. G. WHIrrHoRNE,
Conscript.

In compliance with Order No. 8, have pro-
ceeded to appoint the following named persons
enrolling officers for the county of Polk, viz:
LIST District, John g. Mayfeld.
I'd M. H. Hancock.
Sd J. B. Coxey.
4th b. F. Grecnloe.
5th A. McKissock.
9Th Isaac Smith.
9TH J. B. Kimsey.
9Th E. NJ. Fitzpatrick, Jr
9th B. F. Cloud.
10th Ira Gasanay.
h. MCDONNELL,
Chairman of the County Court.
Sept l6, 1852.
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Aug %, 1s62-4t

Mr.. Hale will visit Monroe, Meigs, and Rhea
counties in few days, and will make arrage-
ments as to places at which Goods can be deliver
cd and paid for--of which due notice will be CIV
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Amendments.

will address the people of McMinn county,
at the following times and places. All persons
over IS and under As years of age are invited to
attend:
Mt. Harmony, Monday, Sept. 20
John jacks, Tuesday, 20
Allon Haleys, Wednesday," "a
ROCKVILLE, Thursday, rs
Voting Ground 9Th Dist, Friday, +" 20
Thomas Prigmores, Saturday, " ~
Athens, Monday, 20
1. G. BARKSDALE.
Athens, Sept II, 1852.
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To the People of McMinn, Monroe
Rhea and Meigs:

]. H. HALE. of Athens, has been appointed
Government Agent to purchase Jeans, Linseys
and Socks TOR the use of the army, and the peo-
pie of the above named counties are hereby noti-
fled not to sell to other parties than an authorized
agent. The soldiers must be furnished with COM
Portable Clothing, and the people are urged to
manufacture as fast as possible.
By order of Maj JAMES GLOVER, Q. NJ.
d. ]. DISMUKES, Agent.
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BS- Under recent instructions to the

commanding officers Of all arsenals and
armories in the United States. TO admin
lister tho oath of allegiance to the employ
ees under their command. nineteen re.
fused to take the oath at Springfield Ar
mory Massachusetts,, on the ground that
they are foreigners. The Secretary Of
War gave orders for their immediate dis
missal. =