Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-03-11


the Western District of Missouri; VIM
1. ElgOod as Marshal of the Eastern Dis
f trict Of Missouri; Joseph N. Root Attor
ney for the Northern District of Ohio
COMPARATIVE CONDITION OF REBEL AM
UNION PRISONERS.
WASHINGTON, March 10.
Nine steamers arrived at AnnsnoIis to-
day, bringing about 5000 Union prisoners
most of them in a bad state of emseiation
and nearly destitute of clothing. Several
died on the passage, and three were taken
from one boat. Fifteen hundred of them
had to go to the hospital.
a large number of rebel prisoners pass
ed through Baltimore to-day, to be ex-
changed, all in good health, and well.
clothed. Many of them had a csrpet.bso
full of additional clothing.
sKIRMIsH AT MUDDY CREEr
WASHINGTON, March 10.
Cn Thursday night party of rebel cav.
airy under a nephew of Ex-Governor
Letcher, attempted to make crossing at
Muddy Branch, on the Upper Potomac
Lhey were met by the pickets of the 1st
New Hampshire cavalry, who drove
Guerrillss, under one Kincheloes, are in
force in the neighbOrhOod of Leesburg.
PROCLAMATION By THE PRESIDENT.
BY the President Of the United States Of |
Observation-Disclosures:
WHEREAS: The 2lst section of an sct of
Congress, approved on the Sd inst, enti-
tied /" An act to amend several acts here
sofore passed, to provide for enrolling and
calling out the national forces and Tor
'ther purposes" requires that, in addition
o other lawful penalties of crime of deser-
ion from military or naval service,
III persons who have deserted from the
military or naval service Of the United
states, who shall nat return to said servi ce
II report themselves to the Provost Mar
hal within sixty days after the proclams.-
ion hereinafter mentioned, shall be deemed
nd taken to have voluntarily relinquished
nd forfeited their right of citizenship and
heir right to become citizens,a land they shall
e forever incapable of holding anv
flee of trust or profit under the United /
tstes, or of exercising any rights of citi-
ems thereof and all persons who shall
GREATER desert the military or naval SER
ice, and all persons who, being duly en-
olled, shall depart from the Jurisdiction of
ne district in which he is enrolled,
r go beyond the limits of the United
tsteS, with the intention to avoid any
raft into the military or the naval service
uly ordered, shall be liable to the penal I
es of this section, and the President is
ereby authorized and required forthwith
d the passage of this act, to issue his proc.
.mation setting forth the provisions of this
ction; in which proclamation the Presi.
ent is requested to notify all desertes ?
'turning within sixty days as aforesaid,
lat they shall be psrdoned on condition P
returning to their regiments and COM =
anies, or to such other organizations as
ley may be assigned to, until they shall
rye for period of time equal to their G
'iginsl term of enlistment. 4
Now, therefore, be it known that I a
.braham Lincoln, President ofthe United
'ates, do issue this my proclamation as :
quired, and by said account ordering '
Id requiring all deserters to return to g
ieir posts. And 1 do hereby notify them 3
at all deserters who shall, within sixty N
sys from the date of this proclamation, =
amely, on or before the tenth day of May 4
'65, retusn to service or report themselves
the Provost Marshal, and shall be par 1
med on condition that they return to A
cir regiments and companies, or such
her organizations as they may be assign II
to, and serve the remainder of their orig A
81 term of enlistment, and in addition v
ereto, period equal to the time lost by p
lsertion. A
| testimony whereof I have hereunte set
. 8. my hand, and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. 81
Done at the city of Washington this 4th
y of March, and in the year of our Lord
Ie thousand eight hundred and sixty-AYe, .
ID of the Independence of the United 2
ates the eighty-ninth. Z
A. LINCOLN. =,
By the President: 81
WIN. h. SEWARD, Secretary of States. At
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