Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-12-01

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| No. 53-to challenge every roter-to examine
all tickets offered, to administer the oath con-
tanned in the Order No. 53-aud to decline to
allow any tickets but the yeilow-or Cress~eil
tickets-to be polled-that after the rr"cia,
nation was received at camp, he WAS ordcreu
to enforce Order No. SO rs it had been lnnui-
lied hv the President, 10 administer the oa'A-
TO challenge every man who offered TO vote
and TO nreyent all from voting who presented
unv bpt the yellow, or .CIe-well tirket-thas
he would examine every ticket. asked nm
;ftbere were any other troops in the county.
liz rcplied, although we are few, II thcre
should be disturbance VIC can ea-'lV get
enough to wipe you MI out.
The Potato Neckers were, in fact. suhstan>
tally wiped out for Suiler's narrative c'n-
cludes thus:
.rTbere we're few voters at the pills The
mass of the people were deferred from coming
out by fear of the soldiers, who were reported
| TO have received orders to arrest all who voted
for Mr.. Crisfeld. THIS SupLEk'
Cyrus L Junes, one of the Judges Of Elec-
ton at Deul's Island polls, in Taneier dis
.rict, has very much the same story to tell;
there was the squad Of troops; there was an
other inar1ible Sergeant with his 0 der So
I'm response to question asked him, the
Sergeant pulled out OF his packet yellow, "r
Cr.swelt ticket, and said 'th is the only tick
ct that shall be voted TO day then. men,
toned that had received the Proclamation "i
Gov. Bradford, which: Had thlr very m 'rnins
reached me by express, tand called his atten:
ton to it. The Sergeant said he had nothing
e, do with the Governors PrOuumntl''n'- tilat
h,s orders were ah.,ve thar and added thas
| the or lers of the Provost Marshal had 10 he
,beyed that day. said it the oath is t. be
administered to all who come you Will have u
| dor; our orders are to allow every one q years
old 10 vote
81 called tue attention of my brother judges
saving there will I've hereafter to this. TIC
sergeant then guarded the window thr n!h
| winch the ballots were handed in to be pat IN
N ballot bux, with sold'erS--took his place
ut he window and rejected all who would not
vote the yellow Or Creswe!l ticke'. lie dld
no permit Il single ticket of any other de7-
.r,ttion T., be pulled, although saw tw" men
| make -everal attempts, at different ZINES dur
mr. the dav, to vnte q: ticket with MIR. Crls-
ti.la's name on it, and many other men we're
i.,tinidatpd from Offering t'vote
"pr. Rider at:emp ell t" vote q white tlrket,
but he was not all wed II then w"'ir III. ms
no said, to DANES Qnarter, and coming back,
said, l can get IL guard and come here and
v,,c nv ticket in spite IF these mem MAN
mr., thereby, the sn1diers.) I said. Doctor
| ln it, lie then said, M, d"n'a vast 10
make any disturbance and he did not VOTE
So there was no disturbance. Tranquility
reigns in Warsaw; also at Potato Neck and
Deals Island, and in other districts Of S 'm"r-.
set county, AID other counties OF. that en>laved
rrovince, which, three years ago, was Nafe'
Won Schen"k is surely too hard upon those
i unhappy creatures: surely they are snhmIs-
iyc enough; they DOME want t"gve ''im""y
| trouble, and comfort themselves with the
! lhoucht that there will be o hereafter" Yes,
indeed, there is another and better world;
but we doubt if those who are willing slaves
ia this world will ever be admitted to that.
Now, let Virginians Carolinians Ge"rglans,
ask themselves how they would relish this sort
IF election in their court houses.
INDIsCRETIoNS OF THE PRES.
The disaster which has befalen our arms
at Chattanooga is severe, but by no meanssr-
reparable. Grant has hard campaign yet
t, fight through before he even penet''tes
Georgia, not to speak of overrunning the Gull
States. Meanwhile it is not improper to draw
one practical moral from late events.
1t is but very lately that Gen. Leo had &C.
cusion to cause an earnest caution to be ad-
dressed to the newspapers of Richmond by
reason of an inconsilerate publication madc
by one Of them concerning army movements
in Northern Virginia, through which his iaIe
a,ivarc co into Culpeper county was made
known to Meade in time to enable HIM to
make the. Confederate movement compare
tive failure Gen Lee very reasonably repre-
scntes that he had difficulties enough to cons
tend against on the part of oar enemies, with
Gu. having additional obstacles interrosed by
oa- friends.
N,x, General Bragg has certainly had to
encounter still more IF this Inconvenience;
and it is f,r this reason he has sometimes
been forced to impose restrictions upon cor
rnsn rIents of the Press in his army. His
position has been truly hard enough; with
wsrfu! cnem greatly outnumbering him in
front, aud Press in his rear, doing the w'lk.
hpwerer Internationally. almost OF fp'es Tor
that enemy. General Ro-ecrans not long ago
is stated to have remarked to one OF our oih-
Gers, then !, prisoner in his hands, that he had
,itte occasion for the cmpl 7ment Of scouts.
az he generally found out all he wished to
know from tho Atlanta papers. The At
lanta Intelligence" just before the late
movements on Lockout Mountain, had these
remarks:
"Iu consequence of the great indiscre.i"n of
the correspondent Of the Knoxville Ata"tal
Register" publishing the details of the Or
ganizat,on If Wnecler's rps Of cavalry, Gen
Bragg has issued special order prninbt NJ
all general officers from giving information Of
this character to correspondents. and holding
them personally responsible for the same. l.
is rather surprising that our very discree
friend, Col Sperrv. should not have disc"v-
..r d that such information was contraband,
and omitted it. 1t is BY such acts that the
press generally is made to suffer for the
thoughtlesaness and- indiscretion of CORES.
p1ndents."
Another Journal, published in Gen. Br"gs's
rear, the sRebel," of Marietta, had this para
graph:
"Here in our own front the situation does
not appear most encouraging. Scanty sup
plies and bad roads for transportation, and an
awkward position for either offensive or aggres-
sive movements, and foe to combat, materl-
ally strengthened since the battle OF Cdicka-
manga, are truths, by no means calculated 10
stimulate mans confidence"
This is hardly less than an intimation to
General Grant that if he could hold his ground
FOR a while longer in Chattanooga, our forces