The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-10-29


Hid. Qrs. Dept. of East N. Y.
New York, Oct. 20.
Gen. Order No. 81.
Information has been received by the
Maj. Gen. commanding that rebel agents
in Canada design sending into the. U nited
States at different points large numbers
OF refugees, deserters and enemy's of the
Government, with view to vote at the
approaching Presidential election, and i,
1t Is not unlikely that when this service
to the rebel cause has been performed
that they may be organized for the pur.
pose of shooting down peaceable citizens
and plundering private property, as in the
recent predatory incursion on the Detroit
river and at s.. Albuns.
Against these meditated outrages on
the purity of the elective franchise and
these nefarious acts of robbery, iucendia.
rlsm and murder. it is the determination
OF the Maj Gen. commanding to guard
by every possible precaution, and to visit
on the perpetrators, if they shall be de.
lected, the most signal summary punish
ment.
All the classes Of persons enumerated,
whether citizens Of insurgent States who
have been in the rebel service, or been
enrolled and deserted from the military
service Of the United States, aud men
drafted or subject to draft, who have
fed to evsde their duty TO the country.
are liable to punishment for the crimes
they have already committed and no ef.
forts will be spared 70 arrest them
For this purpose all Provost Marshals
and their Deputies in this department are
commanded to exercise all possible vigi
lance and to adopt sleh measures as may
be necessary to detect persons coming in
to the L. S. for the purpose of voting or
Of committing depredalions on private
property, and to prevent their escape. and
it is earnestly recommended 10 the elec.
tors OF the State in the department to
take within their respective districts SUCH
measures as may be required for their
own security. aud to aid the military su.
thorlties in preventing the design Of rebel
Generals and missaries, or in bring.
ing the perpetrators to punishment should
aoy of their male(sctors succeed in perpe-
trating their crimes.
Effective measures will be taken to pre-
vent their return to Canada, and for the
purpose special directions will be given
and suitable guards for he frontier will
be provided before the day Of election.
As further precantion, all persons from
the insurgent States now within this de-
partment, or who NAV come within it on
or before the Sd of Nov. proximo, are
hereby requested to report themselves for
registry on or before that time, and all
such persons coming in the department
after that will report Immediately on their
arrival
Those who fail to comply with this re-
qnest will be regarded as spies or emissa-
ries of the insurgent authorities at Rich
mond, and will be treated accordingly.
The registry in this city will be at the
headquarters of Maj. Gen. Jno. j. Peck,
second in command in this department, at
No. 81 Blocker street, and in all places
out of this city at the Office of the neares,
Provost Marshal. The registry will con-
tain complete description of persons re
porting, and also their places of residence
which must not be changed without notice
at the place of registry
By command of Maj. Gen. Dix.
(Signed.) d ToMBuRSE,
Col. A. A. G.