Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-29

Dix I'm n Panic-.-HIe is A Afrald Abe
LincoIn's Rebel Friends In Cana
da will Come 10 Re.eIect IIim--.
H.incOln's Virtu0us Administers.
1iOn take the Ballot BOX under
their Projection. e,
New York, Oct. 2S.-The following or
der was issued to-day by General Dix:
HEADQ'Rs DEPARTMENT OF THE EAsT,l
New YORK Cry, Oct. %, 1864. !
General Orders No. SOL u3
Satisfactory information has been re-
ceived by the Major General commanding,
that rebel agents In Canada design to send
into the United States and concentrate at
different points large numbers of refugees,
deserters and enemies of the Government,
with view to vote at the approaching
Presidential election; and it is not unlike
ly, when this service to the rebel cause has
been performed, that they may be organ
| lied for The purpose of shooting down
peaceable citizens and plundering private
property, as in the recent predatory incur
| sions OH the Detroit river and at st. Albans.
Against the so meditated outrages on the
purity of the elective franchise, and these
acts ofrobbery, incendiarism and murder,
1t is the determination of the Major Gener-
al commanding to guard by every possible
precaution, and to visit on theperpetrators,
if they shall be detected, the most signal
and summary punishment.
All that class of persons enumerated,
whether citizens of the insurgent States,
who have been in the rebel service, or en-
gagged in acts of hostility to the Govern
ment, deserters from the military service
OF the United States, or men drafted or SUBJ
ject to draft, who have fled to evade their
duty to their country, are liable to punish
ment for the crimes they have committed,
and no effort will be spared to arrest them.
For this purpose all Provost Marshals and
their deputies within this department, are
commanded to exercise all possible vigil
ance and to adopt such measures as may be
necessary to detect persons coming into the
United States for the purpose of voting or
of committing depredations Oh private
property, and to prevent their escape; and
1t is earnestly recommended to the electors
of the States in this Department to take,
within their respective election districts,
such measures as may be required for their
own security, and to aid the military au-
thorites in frustrating the designs of rebel
agents and emissaries or in bringing the
perpetrators to punishment.
Should any of these malefactors succeed
in perpetrating their crimes, effective meas
ureS VIII De taken TO prevent their return
to Canada; and for this purpose special di-
rections will be given and suitable guards
for the frontier will be provided, before the
day of election. AS further precaution,
all persons from the insurgent States now
within the department, or who may come
within it Oh or before the third of No
yember, are hereby required to report
themselves for registry on or before that
day; and all such persons coming within
the department after that day, will report
Immediately on their arrival. Those who
fail to comply with this requirement will
be regarded as spies or emissaries of the
insurgent authorities at Richmond, and will
be treated accordingly. The registry in
this city will be at the headquarters of Ma
jOr General John j. Peck, second in COM
mand in the department. at No. 81 Bleeker
street, and in all other places out of this
city, at the Office of the nearest Provost
Marshal. The registry will contain COM
pete description of the persons reporting,
and also their places of residence, which
must not be changed without notice at the
place of registry.
By command of Major General Dix.
(Signedl ID. L. VAN buren,,
n Colonel and A. A. G.