The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-08-15
Northern News.

Baltimore and Philadelphia papers OF
the 2sth and Goth July, contains the fol
lowing:
The correspondent of the New York
tribune furnishes that journal with an in
teresting account of the engagement be-
tween the Confederate ram Arkansas and
the whole of the Federal hotilla before
| Vicksburg. The writer acknowledges
that the boastings of the enemy in re-
gard TO the strength and efficiency of the
Arkansas have been for once not without
reason. Their promises about her have
been verified. She is indeed formida-
Bile, and so far as we actually know, in
Vulnerable. She has achieved great
triumph"
ANOTHER PROCLAMATION FROM
KING "ABE"-SIXTY DAYS, NO
q TICE GIVEN TO sDlSLOYAL CITY-
| .ZENG.
President Lincoln has issued the fol-
lowing important proclamation
Blythe President Of the United States of diner.
lea.
A PRocLAMArroN.-In pursuance of the
sixth section Of the act of Congress, en-
titled |" An act to suppress instruction,
to punish treason and rebellion, to seize
and confiscate the property of rebels, and
for other purposes" approved July 18th,
1862, and which act, and the joint reso-
luton explanatory thereof. are herewith
published, l, Abraham Lincoln, Presi-
dent of the United States, do hereby pro.
claim to and warn all persons within the
contemplation of said sixth section to
cease participating in, aiding, counte-
nancing or abetting the existing rebel
lion, or any rebellion against the govern
ment of the United States on pain of the
forfeitures and seizures as within, and by
said sixth section provided.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this
twenty-ffth day of July, in the
l.. S. year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundree and sixty-two, and
of the Independence Of the United States,
the eighty-seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM SEWARD, Secretary of State.
We have already published the act oil
Congress referred to, but as the sixth sec.
ton is particularly mentioned in the
proclamation, we re-insert as follows:
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted,
That If any person within any State OF
Territory of the United States, other than
those named as aforesaid, after the pas
sage of this act, being engaged in armed
rebellion against the Government of the
United States, or aiding or abetting sucf
rebellion. shall not, within sixty days at
ter public warning and proclamation du
ly given and made by the President Z
r the United States cease to aid, count,
! nance, and abet such rebellion, and r,
turn to his allegiance to the United State
; all the estate and property, money
stocks, and credits of such person sha
be liable to seizure as aforesaid, and
shall be the duty of the President to seil
. and use them as aforesaid or the pr
: ceeds thereof. And all sales, transfer
or conveyances of such property after til
expiration of the said sixty days fro
/. . the date of such warning and proclaim
:. ton. shall be null and VOID and it shs
be- sufficient bar to any suit brought
:, such person for the possession or the u
!, of such property, or any of it, to ale
and prove that he is one of the perso
!, descrsbed in this section.