Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-02
= GOV. BRoWH,s PROCLAMATION.

eusta. NOV. 40. :.
- GOV. BRoWH,s PROCLAMATION.
STAFF or eEoRolA, BxSOUIIV1 DEPARTMHHF,l I
MIILIDaEy1LE, Nov. 10, 1864. !
The whole people understand how i'm
minent is the danger that threatens the
State. Our cities are being burned, our
fields laid waste, and our wives and chill
dren mercilessly driven from their homes
by a powerful enemy. We must strike
like men for freedom, or We must submit
to osubjugation.. .- ...
Death is to be preferred to loss of liber-
ty. An must rally to the field for the pres
ent emergencYpr the State Is oVerrun.
1, therefore, by virtue Of the authority
vested in me by the statute of this State,
hardly order a Levy en- RIGSSe of the whole free
s0hite male population residing or domiciled
in this State, between sixteen and fifty five
years of age. except snoh as areiphysically
unable to bear'arms, which physical defect
must be plain and Indispensable, or they
must be sent TO the, camp for examination,
and exceptthese engaged in the legislative
OF judicial apartments of the Government,
which are by the recent act of the Legisla-
ture declared to be exempt from compul-
sorry service, E : h
7 All others are absolutely required, and
members of the Legislature and Judges
are invited, to report Immediately TO Major
Gen. G. w. Smith, at Macon, or wherever
else in Georgia kts camp may be, for forty
days service under arms, unless the emer-
gency is sooner passed.
The statute declares that all persons
hereby called out shall be subject after
this call to all the.fnles hnd articles of war
of the Confederate States, and on the fail
ure, to report shall be subject to the pains
af kb nf
Volunteer organizations formed into
companies, battaIions, regiments, brigades
OF divisions, will be accepted for forty
days, if they even approximate to the num-
bers in each Organization (which is required
bY the militia laws of this State which
were In force prior to the late act,
All police companies formed in counties
for home defence will report, leaving at
home for the time only Sthose over fifty
years OF, age; and all persons having Con-
federate details or exemptions, who, by
the late decision of the Supreme Court of
the State, are held to be liable to State mi
litis service; aud bound. to obey the call Of
the Governor. .,.-,.....-.,...
All such refusing to report will be ar
rested by the police force, or by any aid
de, camp or other officer OF this State, and
carried Immediately to the front. The ne.
" engaged, and the necessary agents OF the
express company and the telegraph opera
tors are, from -theAheeetsityifo for their setvi-
ees in their present position, excused.
p All ordsiued ministers of religion, IN
charge Sefa church OF synag6gue, are HlsU
excused.
ALL railroad companies in this State will
transport all persons spplyiug for ,tran5-
portation to. the front and, in case any
one refuses, its President, Superintendent,
agents and employees will be immediately
sent to the front. ........ ,,,,r.-,..,. gut.
All Aids. de. Camp and other State Off
GERS are required to be active and vigilant
in the execution of the orders contained in
this proclamation /; and all Confederate OF
fieers are respectfully invited TO aid State
officers in their vicinity in sending forward
all persons hereby orderedt to the front.
The enemy has penetrated elmost 70 the
centre Of y6dS State.E If every Georgian
able to bear arms would rally around him,
he could never escape.
JOSEPH E. BRoWE, Governor.
sLocuM's coRPs.-MADIsoN STATION BURNED.
From the Augusta oOussitutiOnaliSt Nov so.
From q gentleman up the Georgia road,
whdSIstti Greensboro' yesterday, Wefeerh
that Madison has shared the fate Of other
places visited by the enemy in his present
movement. The fire was set to the depot
by the linG1fsion nft about one Thousand
cavalry, who reported the strength Of their
column 81 two corps, at out sixteen tho q.
| sand hdieK THEY FethFdedS % thelf thfsn-
Try camp after setting Gre TO the town.
| Madison is q station on the Georgia
State rail road, one hundred and three
miles west from Augusta. .'s. .a- 'ir'
I AT BucKHEAp STATION on TIE 10th INST.
From. 1.-The Augusta oOustitutiOnAIist, Nov. 20.
An engine sent up the Georgia road this
Lmorning found the advance of the enemy
I about Buckhead;, In what force was pqt
| asoertained.d - Considerable excitendeht e1
listed up the road, and many weFeremOvint
their effects.
/ TBuokhead is q station on the Georgif
Estate rail road, ninety -four miles west from
Augusta. 49,
1 From the Augasta oonssitt ttiOnAlist, EOy. 20. l
| The up train on this road yesterday die
not 90 further than CrawtordsViHe, sixty
Eve miles from Augusta, from which poin
an.lengine-was sent hPito Union Point, tei
1miles further. The engineer reports tha
the enemy were .thrsesmile above the tat
ter place; in what force WAS not known
kbut believed to be but aIsmAll body OF cav
I Lalry,, L isrumored that the enemy cross
ed the eeenee- below the rail ROAD bridge
The enemy wPigI EesnsheEo' on sunds'
afIs5R aRosa.boFo Is station tai iS on lie Gsorsi
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