Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-11-10
An Important order BY Gen Dix.
Schemes of the Rebels to Aid Mcclellan.
The following important order has been is

Inc IoIo~ing important order has been Is
sued by Gen DIX:
HEADoUARTARs DEPT OF THE EASE,
New York, Friday, Oct 2S.
| GENERAL ORDERS No. So.-Informatioa has
been received by the Major General Com
handing, that rebel agents in Canada design
10 send into the United States and COLOMBO
! at different points large numbers of refugees.
! deserters and enemies of the Government
with view to vote at the approaching Presi,
Dental election, and it is not unlikely when
TINS service to the rebel cause has been per.
formed that they may be organized for the
purpose OF shooting down peaeeable citizens
anu p!uNueflls private property, as in the
1 river and at St. Adams T -
Against these meditated outra1aS ~, ~.
| purity of the elective franchise, and these
| infamous acts of robbery, ineendiarisims and
murders, it is the determination of the Ma
Jor General commanding to guard with every
| possible precaution, and to visit on the per
petrators, if they shall be detected, the most
signal summary punishment.
All the classes of persons enumerated,
whether citizens of insurgent States who have
been in the rebel service, or engaged in acts
of hostility to the Government, deserters from
the military service of the United States, or
men drafted or subject to draft, who have fed
to evade their duty to their country, are liable
| to punishment for the crimes they have al
ready 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 vigilance.
and to adopt such measures as may be neces-
sary to detect persons coming into the United
IF nf
hitting depredations on private property,
and to prevent their escape; and it is ear
nestly 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 authorities in frustrating the
designs of rebel agents and emissaries, and in
bringing the perpetrators to justice.
Should any of these malefactors succeed in
perpetrating their crimes, effective measures
will be taken to prevent their return to Can
ada, and for this purpose special directions
will be given and suitable guards for the
frontier will be provided before the day of
election. As further precaution, all per-
sons from the lnsurgent States now within
this department., or who may come within
it on or before the Sd day ofNovember, prox-
imo, are hereby required to report themselves
| for registry on or before that time, and all
such persons coming within the department
after that day will report Immediately after
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 Major General John J. Peck,
second in command in this department. at
No. 81 Blocker street, and in all other places
out of this city at the offices of the nearest
Provost Marshal, ..-.
The registry will contain a complete de-
scription OF persons reporting, and also their
places of residence, which must not be chang
ed without notice at the place of registry.
By command of Major General Dix.
(Signed) d. T. VANBUREN,
Colonel and A. A. G.