Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07

charge of a trusty soldier, who shall
be armed, and not allowed to COM
municate with any person"
Certain non-descripts" of Rich
mond, Va, through their counsel, re-
spectfully presented to the Confed-
crate congress remonstrance
against the CONSUMPTION law of the
Confederate government.
Lord Palmerston, referring to the
war in America in a speech at BAN
quet given by the mayor of Shelf
field, said that the government had
thought it their duty to advise their
sovereign to preserve strict and
rigid neutrality. He was con-
WINGED that the course which the
British government had pursued was
the only course which became that
country, and that it had received, and
would continue to receive, the APP
prevail and sanction of the British
people.
August 9, 1862.
An order issued from the war de-
partment of the United States to pre-
vent the evasion of military duty and
suppress disloyal practices, and auth
orizing the arrest of persons discour-
aging enlistments.
At Macon City, Mo-, twenty-six Con-
federate prisoners were shot for vio-
lating their paroles.
Hundreds of citizens of the west
and other portions Of the loyal states
were reported to have fed into
Canada to escape the draft. Several
persons were arrested at Baltimore
while attempting to escape.
Colonel Mcneil with Union force
overlook Porter's irregulars at Stock
ton, in the western part of Macon
county, Missouri, and defeated them,
capturing a number of prisoners,
among whom were many who had
taken the oath of allegiance and given
bonds.
The National forces under General
Banks engaged the Confederates uR-
der General Jackson at Cedar noun
tain, eight miles from CuIpepper Court
House, Virginia The battle lasted two
hours. The Confederates withdrew
from the field at the end of that time.
The Nationals lost $500 men in killed,
wounded and missing.
The secretary of war issued an or
der directing the governors of the
loyal states to proceed forthwith to
furnish their quota of the 100000 men
asked by President Lincoln. He also
ordered an enrolment of all able
bodied citizens between the ages of
eighteen and forty~fve.
At New Fairfield, Conn, five per-
sons mutilated themselves to escape
the draft, some by having their right
fore-finger cut off, and others by hay
ing all their teeth extracted.
August 10, 1862.
Edwin NJ Stanton, secretary of wa.
of the United States, issued the fol-
lowing order: ''The temporary re-
strictions upon travel, deemed neces-
sary to prevent evasions Of liability
to be drafted into the militia, were
not intended to apply to couriers with
dispatches to and from the legations
of friendly powers in the United
States. All authorities, civil and mill
tary, are consequently required to al
low such couriers to pass freely, with
out let or investigation"
The national steamer Freedom ar
rived at Washington, D. c., bringing
| twenty-five prisoners, five sailboats,
number of canoes, and a lot Of mer-
chandise which was captured on Fri
day and Saturday nights previous
near Blackinston Islands. The pris-
oners had been engaged in regular
commerce between Maryland and Vir-
GINA, taking over salt, ETC.. and bring
ing back wheat
Commander Richard Wainwright U.
S. n, died at New Orleans.
A Confederate steamer was cap
tured at the mouth of the Savannah
river, Georgia, by a Union tugboat,
and towed under the guns of Fort
Pulaski.
The town of Donaldsville, Louisiana,
was partially destroyed by party OF
men from the United States sloop OF
war Brooklyn.
August II, 1907.
A number of citizens of Baton
Rouge who had been permitted to re-
| tain their arms, having been found
| dead on the battlefield near that place,
General Butler, commanding the
| Union occupation of louisiana, issued
an order depriving all citizens of their
arms
Bayou Sara was occupied by the ma
tional forces, who seized all the sugar
and molasses in the place.
A body of irregulars under Colonel
Hughes defeated the Seventh Missouri
Union cavalry and captured the town
of independence, Mo.
A party of JEFF. Thompson's irregu-
lar Confederate cavalry surprised a
body of Union troops near Helena,
Arkansas, but were driven Off
detachment of the 18th Illinois
| IL !