, 1864-01-19

The Situation Highly Important
Orders,
Summary Justice fer Guerilla lIar,
GerS--Whatt to DO with DeSerterS.

cAtU1Adl% JUSlaCc tef WutIIlld lHAFs
GerS--What to DO with DeSerterS.
NASHVILLE. Jan. 1a, 1861.
For scyeral days rumors have been current
and, as usual, various theories are advanced,
such as the reinforcement of Longstreet. and
q new campaign against knoxrilic The cav
airy has been concentrated under tile CON-
mand Of General Sturgis. General Farkc, of
the 9th Corps, commands in the field Gen
cral Foster Commands tue district, with lis
headquarters at Knoxville. BE has publish
cd TN order that, in Consequence Of fhe cxi.
gtnc1e6 ofthe service, no more furlOughs Will
be issued until further orders.
The left wing Of the 10th army corps, COM
manded ,: ny Gsn; @ Dodge. has, ! nnderstand,
1ucnt, which has not been in service suffi-
cIent length Of time to entit1e it to the pro-
yiEions Of the Inv in reference to veterans.
The eGth Illinois infautrr, Col John Ii.
Ioomfs, has 1r-enlisted, end IL here The 5tl
Iowa cavalry, known as the <tCurtis Uorsc,"
has fc-enlsted, orer 500 strbng. It's splcn-
The railroad from Stevenson to Chattanooga
is completed. A tram WIS run over 1t TO-
day. On Tuesday trains will commence reg
ular trips The road from Stevenson to Nash
vile las been yery much repaired and i'm
proved Supplies will therefore now be
abundant 1t Chattanooga The Charleston
and Memphis Railroad IS repaired and trains
running as fir west as Brownsboro.
DISPOSITION OF REBEL DEsERTEas.
HEADQUARTERS N11lTAn1 D1s1sloa oF}
THE A1ssIssirri n TIE FIELD,
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, Dec. u, 166s-
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 10.-To obtain uni
lhc Confederate armies coming within this
military division. the following order is pub
lfshed:
I. all dcserters from the enemy coming
within our lines will be conducted to the
commander Of division or detached brigade
who shall be nearest the place Of surrender.
H. If such commander is satisfied that the
deserters desire to quit the Confederate scr
vice, be may permit them to 60 to their
homes, If within our lines, on taking the fol-
lowing oath:
THE OATH.
~ do eolemnly ewear in the presence OF Al
poft, protect and defend Tie Constitution of lie
United States and the Union OF States thereunder,
and that viii In like manner abide By and
aa snx Il .'s ssseS e Gonssss Ts pset
sci repealed. @edaed, Of hed void By coneess r. o.
II Ike manner abide BY md fait6faily support @ al
proclamattons OF the President made during the
existing rebEllton having reference to slaves, SO
dee{eion Of tic Supreme Court, 80 help nc Cod.
"6woEn and subscribed to before me At - this
day Of - 166 -
III Dese1ters from the en< my will ut once
be disarmed, and their arms turned over to
II c nearest Ordnance Officer, who will ac-
count for them.
". Passes and rations may be given to de-
eerters to carry them to their homes, mud free
passes over military railroads and on steam
boats In Government employ.
Y. Employment at fair wages will, when
practicable, be given to desertcrs By officers
of the Quartermaster and Engineer Depart
nents.
" To avoid the danger of re-capture Of
such descrters By the enemy, they will be cx-
empt from the military service in the armies
Of the United States.
Major General Q. s. GRANT.
7. S. Bowers, A 4. G.:
MURDERS BT GUERILLAs N LINCOLN
CoUNTY-PENaLTY THEREFOR.
HEADQUARTERS DEPT. or TIE CuxaER1Asp,
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. s, 1854. !
General Orders No. 6.
ters tlnt, between seven and eight o'clock
on the evening Of the sd ultimo, within one
aud a half miles Of the village Of Mulberry,
Lincoln county, Tenn. a wagon which Ind
become detached from a foraging train be-
longing to the United States was attacked by
guerillas, and the officer IN command Of the.
1oraeing purity, 1st Lieut. Porter, company
4, eth Indiuna volunteers, the tea1nster, wa
Eo1-master, and tWo other soldiers who
Fad been sent to load the train,
{tEc Inter four una.med,) captured. They
u ere Immediately mounted and hurried of,
the guerillas avoiding the roads until their
part, was halted about o1e o'clock in the
morning, on the bank Of Elk river, where
the rebels stated they were going into camp
for the night The hands Of the prisoners
were then tied behind them, aud they were
robbed Of everything Of value about their
persons. They Wen 9next drawn up In line,
about ise paeea IN front Of their cspgtors, and
maEded, "ready," and the whole party i'm
mediately fred upon them. One Of the
prisoners was shot through the head and
killed instantly. and three were wounded.
Lieut. Porter was not hit He Immediately
run, was followed and fired upon three times
by one Of tic party, and finding that be was
about to be overtakeu, threw himself over
p1ccipice into the river, and succeeding in
getting his hands loose, swain to the opposite
side, and although pursued to that side and
several times fred upon, be, after twenty
e1tions and g1eat exposure, reach
ed a house,. whence he was taken to
TulIahous, where he now lies in a critical
situation. The others, after being shot, were
Immediately thrown into the river; thus the
murder Of three nen, Newell +. orcutt. 9Th
Jpdepeudent Battery Ohio volunteer artillery,
join n, Drought, company Il, I'D Niscon-
ain volunteers, and Geoage ". Jacobs, com
pany D, ed Wisconsin volunteers, Was ac-
conplIehed by shooting and drowning. The
fourth, james ". FOLEY, 9Th Independent
Battery Ohio volunteer artillery, is now "
Ing In hospital, having escaped by getting
his hands free while In the water;
For these atrocious and cold-blooded mur-
ders, eoua1fng in savage ferocity any cTer
committed By the most barbarons tribes on
the continent committed By rebel citizens
Of Tennessee, It is ordered that the property
OF all other rebel citizens living within cir
cult OF ten miles OF the place where these
men were captnred, be assessed. each % n ms Us
make up the sum Of thirty Thousand dollars,
to be divided among the families who we're
dependent upon the murdered men Tor sup
fort, as follows: ~ =,
Ten thousand dollars to be paid to the
widow Of John Y. Drought, Of North Cape,
Racine county, Wisconsin, for the support OF
herself and TWO children.
Ten thousand dollars to be paid the widow
of George ". jacobs, Of Delcyan, WalWorth
county, Wis, for the support Of herself and
one child.
Ten thousand dollars to be divided BE-
E. Orcutt, of Burton, Geangn county, Ohio.
Should the persons assessed fail within one
week after notice shall have been served upon
them, to pay In the amount of their tax In
money, sufficient Of their personal property
shall be seized and sold at public auction to
make mp the amount:
Major Gen. H. ". Slocum, q. 8. Vo1un-
teere, commanding 18th Army Corps, is
charged with the execution Of this order.
Tue men who committed these murders, It
caught, will be summari1y executed, and any
person executing them will be held guiitlcss,