Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-08-12
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Woshio0ton AUG 81


WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, Aug. B.
ORDERED, First,-That ell United States
Marshals, and Superintendent or Chiefs IF
Police Of ANY town, city ur district, be, and
they are hereby, authorized aud directed 10
srrest and imprison any person or persons
who may be engaged, by act, or speech, or
writing, in discouraging volunteer enlist
ments. or in any way giving AID or comfort
70 the enemy, or 10 any other disloyal pract
tice against the United States.
SecoId-That immediate report be made
10 Gen. L. G. Turner. Judge Advocate, in
order that such persons may be tried be-
fore military commission.
ThTd-The expenses Of such arrest and
imprisonment will be certified 10 the Chief
Clerk Of the War Department for settle
meut and payment.
(Signed) EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
Sec'y of War.
The department has also issued the COL
lowing order, to rcvent the evssinn of mil
itary duty, and fer the suppression Of dis
loyal practices.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, Aug. g.
First-By direction of the President of
the United States, it is hereby ordered that,
until further orders, no citizen liable to be
drafted into the military shall be all wed
20 90 into foreign country; and all Mar
sbals and military officers of the United
States are directed, AMI all police authori
tiss, especially at ports of the United States
on the seaboard and on the frontier, are re
quested, to see that this order is faithfully
carried into effect; and they are hereby
authorized and directed to arrest and de-
tain any person or persons about to depart
from the United States 10 violation of this
order, and report to Major Turner, Judge
Advocate at Washington city, for further
instructions respecting the person or per-
sons so arrested and detained.
Secondary person liable 70 draft who
shall absent himself from his country or
State before such draft is made will be ar
rested by envy Provost Marshal or other
United States or State officer, wherever be
nav be found within the jurisdiction of
the United States, and conveyed to the
nearest military post or depot, and placed
on military duty for the term of the draft
and the expense of his cwn arrest and
conveyance to such post or depot, and also
the sum Of five d. liars as a reward to the
deducted from his pay.
Third-The writ Of hdJeds corpus is
hereby suspended in respect to all PERSONS
40 arrested and detained. and in respect to
all persons arrested for disloval practices
(Signed) Edwin NJ. STANTON,
Sec'y of War.
From intelligence received at the War
Department, it has been ascertained that
10000 Western troops Of the new levy will
be ready TO go into the field this week =
This report delights the President as mucl
as il will loyal people who are anxiously
waiting his efforts to hurry up the end o
the rebellion.
New Y TX, Aug 8.
A special to the Tribune from Washing
ton says:
Orchard Busted, of New York is APP
pointed Brigadier General Of Volunteers, Il
report to Gov. Morgan.
1.-The arrival Of Cassius NJ Clay is now
hourly expected by the government. Iii,
friends claim that he and Gen Fremont
are to have full military control of the ter
ritory west Of the Mississippi"
A special to the World from Washington
Gays:
some time since, and formerly emTlyel il
the House Of Representative here, reaches
Washington to-day ria Frederick bury
having left Richmond on Friday last, whert
be has been about the city n parole for
one or two weeks. He is not able to Gem,
muuicate much, en- account of his parole
but declares that Richmond has not heeT
evacuated, and that there has been no sign
of pestileuce, though there is vas
amount Of sickness. The rebel army lie,
east of the city, and be is confident, from
what be has learned, that its effectiveness
has beer greatly exaggerated.
A special to the Times, from Washingtlr
says:
"Csssius NJ. Clay is talked of as likely
to be sent to Cincinnati to assume comm; nd
Of the new Department OF Ohio, Iadiana
and Kentucky. Prominent Kentuckisn:
have asked that troops shall lie crowded
iuto Kentucky as fast as raised in Ohio
and Indiana. They ask, also. that til;
property Of rebels shall be seized at once
and that ell refusing to tnke the oath of al
legiane shall be driven South"
A special to the Post, Washington, 9Th
says:
MANY war rumors are flying about the
ThUoto tO~uu1, Jul NUNS u lhGn Cdu w
traced t. any reliable source.
prominent men from Ohio, who have
just arrived here, report that the irs'
quota of volunteers from that State is filled
and they add that. if the government viii
wait until the lst Of October the second
quota will also be filled, without resort t
drafting"
Senator DIXON says that Connection
will fill her quota by the end of mex
week"