Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-29

NEW 4OhA1 Ocb- 20.
The following order was issued to-day
by General Dix
HEADQUARTERS Dept OF THE EAST,
New York, Oct. %, 1864.
IGEEEKAL ORDERS NO. 80.
= Satisfactory information having been re-
ceived by the Major General Commanding
that rebel agents in Canada design to come
to the United States and colonize at differ
ent points, large numbers of refugees, de-
serters and enemies of the Government,
with a view to vote at the approaching
Presidential election, and it is not unlikely
when this Eservice has been performed
that they may be organized for the pur-
pose of shooting down reaceable citizens
and plundering private property, as in the
recent incursiOns on the Detroit River and
at St. Albans. Against these meditated out
RACES on the purity of the elective fran
chise and these acts of robbery, incendIaI-
ism and murder, it is the discrimination of
the Major General commanding, TO guard,
by every possible precaution, and to visit
on the perpetrators, if they. shall be detect
ed, the most signal summary punishment.
All the classes of persons enumerated,
whether citizens of the insurgent states,
who have been in the rebel service or en-
gagged in acts of hostility towards the Gov
ernment, deserters from the military SER
vice of the United States, or men drafted
or subject to draft who have fed to evade
their duty to their country, are liable to be
punished for the crimes they have COM
mitted and no effort will be spared te arrest
them
For this purpose, all Provost Marshals
and their Deputies within this department
are commanded to exercise all possible
vigilance 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 on private
property, and to prevent their escape; and
it 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 military authOri
ties in frustrating the designs of rebel
agents and emissaries or in bringing the per-
petrators to punishment, should any of these
malefactOrs succeed in penetrating their
crime, effective measures will be taken TO
prevent their return to Canada, and for
this purpose special directions will be
given, and suitable guards for the frontier
will be provided before the day of election.
AS a further precautiOn, all persons
from the insurgent States now within the
Department or who may come within it
on or before the third ofNovember, prox-
imo, are hereby required to report them
selves 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 Regis
try in this city will be at tho headquarters
of Major General J.. B. Peck, second in
command of the Department, at No. "a
Blocker ST., and at all other places out of
the city at the offices of the nearest Provost
Marshal The registry will contain a
complete description of the person report
ing, and also their place of residence,
which must not be changed without notice
at the place of registry.
By command of Major General Dix.
[Signedl D. G.. VAN buren,,
Col. and A. A. G.