Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-12-01
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Sherman'S Advance Through
Georgia,
FROM REBEL PAPERS.
Great Panic in Georgia.
GOV. BROWNS PROCLAMATION.
The Last News from Howard and
flOeum,


The New York Herald of Tuesday prints
lime four columns of extracts from Geor-
,ia papers, with the latest details from
advance, from which we extract
and condense the following:
sherman's March.
The Savannah NetDs of the 22d inst, in
an editorial, mentions that Milledgeyile
wss evacuated, and the archives and all
valuable government and personal proper
tv had been removed. The columns are |
filed with anathemas against the Invading |
force under Sherman, and with proclama- |
tions from generals of high rank, and emi. |
nent men, calling upon the citizens OF
Georgia to levy en- nlasse, and to sacrlnee
all interests in one desperate attempt 10
crush and anlIihilate Sherman in his so lar
unresisted advance.
The Panic in Georgia
The following proclamation of Governor
Brown, of Georgia, calling for levy 81
nasss of the citizens of Georgia for forty
days. is so expressive of the terror of the
enemy that we give it in full.
GOV. BR0WN 5 PRGCLAhAT1Oh'
STATE or GEoRsIs D, EXECUTIVE DEPAgThEET,
MILEDGEvILLE, Nov. 10 1854
The whole people understand how i'm
minent is the danger that threatens the
State. Our cities are being burned, our
feles laid waste, and our wives and chill
dren mercilessly driven from their homes
by powerful enemy. We must strike
ike men for freedom or we must submit
to subjugstion.
Death is to be preferred to loss Of li6ef-
ty. All must rally to the field, for the
present emergency, or the Stste is over
run.
Z therefore, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the statute of this State,
hsre6y order levy to be made Of the 11hote
free 10Iite male population residing or do
miciled in this State, between sixteen and
aftv five years of age, except such as are
physically unable TO bear arms, which
physical defect must b. plain and indis-
putable, or they must be sent TO the camp
for examination except those engsg-
ed IN the legislative or judicial departments
Of the Government, which are by the re-
cent act of Legislature declared exempt
from compulsory service.
All others are absolutely required, and
members of the Legislature and judges are
invited, to report Immediately to Major
General G. W. Smith, at Macon, or wher-
ever else in Georgia his camp may be, for
forty days service under arms, unless the
emergency is sooner passed.
The statute declares that all persons
hereby called out shall be subject after this
call TO all the rules and articles Of war OF
the Confederate States, and on failure to
report shall be subject to the pains and
penalties of the crime of desertion.
Volunteer organizations formed into
companies, battalions regiments, brigades
or divisions, will be accepted for forty days,
if they approximate to the numbers IN
each organization which Is required by the
miitia laws of the State which were In
force prior to the late act.
All police companies formed in counties
for home defence will report, leaving a.
home for the time only those over ffty-fVe
years Of age; and ali persons having Con-
federate details or exemptions, who, by the
late decision OF the Supreme Court of this
State, are held to be liable to State militia
service, and bound to obey the call Of the
Governor
All such refusing to report viii 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
necessary employees of railroads, now &C
lively engaged, and the necessary agents
of the express company, and the telegraph
operators are, from the necessity for thei1
services in their present position, excused
All ordained ministers of religion in
charge of church or q synagogue are
also excused.
All railroad companies in this State
will transport all persons applying fol
transportation to the front; and, IN cG8t
any one refuses, its president, saLperi7lte1
dent, agents and employees '0iH be inIn1edi'
ately sent to the front.
All aids-de-camp and other State ot1ceri
are required to be vigilant in the execu
tion Of the orders contained in this procls
nation, and all Confederate officers are re
gpectfully invited 10 aid State officer
in their vicinity in sending forward al
persons hereby ordered to the front.
The enemy has penetrated almost to tn
centre of your State. If every Georgian
able to bear arms would rally around him
he could never escape.
JOSEPH R. BROWN. Governor.