The Washington papers publish the following proclamation from Lincoln:

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – A PROCLAMATION.

In pursuance of the sixth section of the act of Congress, entitled “An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, so [sic] seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes,” approved July 17, 1862, and which act and joint resolution explanatory thereof are herewith published, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion, or any rebellion, against the Government of the United States, and to return to their proper allegiance to the States, on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.

In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this the twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, and of the independence of the United States and [sic] eighty-seventh.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

By the President:

WM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 2

SEE ALSO: Proclamation of the Act to Suppress Insurrection

Where are the Young Tennesseans?

Mr. EDITOR: – I desire to enquire of you whether you can tell the public where all the young and ardent Tennesseans are who are reported to be on the line of railroad from this place to Atlanta – what are they doing? – are they waiting for other men to fight the battles and open the way to their homes and families, while they are pleasure taking at the different towns and watering-places of the country!  If this be true, it is a shame, and their cheeks should be mantled with a deep blush of disgrace to be thus idle while the country needs their services so much.  The Governor calls for a Tennessee State force, and each of these young bloods should report themselves for duty without delay.  Keep them stirred up until they act their proper part in this great struggle.  S.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Guntersville, Ala., Shelled by Yankees

Special Correspondence of the Selma Reporter.

GUNTERSVILLE, July 30,’62.

Mr. Williams:  Dear Sir – We had quite an exciting time here on Monday, 29^th inst.  The Yankees arriving in force of some 1,000, consisting of cavalry, infantry and artillery, on the evening of the 27^th commenced early Monday morning shelling the town, which they continued all day.  I regret to say the wife of Gen. S. K. Rayburn was killed by a shell.  Mrs. R. was a most estimable lady.  Mr. McNairy, a gentleman from Nashville, who was accompanying his mother, an aged and decrepid lady, was also killed.  Mr. B. Mathews was slightly wounded.  Several buildings were burnt on the bank of the river and the shells were passed through several buildings in town about three miles from the river.  The commenced shelling the town without any notice.  They left the river during Monday night, but are still on the north side of the river not far off.  Your obedient servant.  N.

The Mr. McNairy mentioned above is Henry Clay McNairy, son of the late Dr. Boyd McNairy, of Nashville, and brother of Major Frank McNairy, aid to Maj. Gen. Cheatham.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 2

The Rev. Dr. Quintard . . .

. . . Chaplain of the First Tennessee regiment, will preach in the Episcopal church on Sunday morning next.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Gen. Boyle has issued an order . . .

. . . declaring that no person hostile in opinion to the United States Government, and desiring its overthrow, will be allowed to stand for office in Kentucky.  The attempt of such a person to stand for office “will be regarded as in itself sufficient evidence of its treasonable intent to warrant his arrest.”

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

After news of the victory at Richmond . . .

. . . was received in Memphis, Confederate money, which was always passed, despite Grant’s ukase to the contrary, rapidly brought from fifty to sixty cents in specie, and over seventy in Tennessee currency – more than it brings anywhere in the Mississippi valley.  It has since been in great demand, and so tenacious are holders of it that it is gradually becoming quite scarce.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Realizing The Fact

The New York Tribune says: “It is impossible to read the accounts of the recent daring and successful raids in the very heart of both Tennessee and Kentucky, directly in the rear of the main body of Gen. Halleck’s army, and under the full operation of Order No. 3, without realizing that the mass of the whites in the regions thus overrun are either adverse to the Union cause, or paralyzed by indifference or cowardice.”

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

More Deserters

A gentleman from Cumberland Mountain yesterday brought in three Yankee prisoners who had delivered themselves up to him, and requested themselves to be delivered to the military authorities.  They are from a Kentucky regiment, and represent that there are hundreds of their comrades who will desert on the first opportunity, and say that the whole Yankee army is at present in a very demoralized condition sick and tired of the war.  Two of them had on citizens’ clothes, the other was in uniform, but they all told the gentleman who and what they were.  On being asked where they got citizens’ clothes, they replied from two discharged soldiers, which goes to show that the discharged Yankee soldiers are not only goad to get out of the service, but are disposed to assist anyone else who desire to leave, no matter if it is as deserters.  They also state that bitter feeling exists between the troops of Kentucky and those of the abolition States, growing out of the emancipation and abolition policy of the Yankee government.  So strong is this feeling growing that it is with difficulty the Kentuckians and the abolition troops are kept from engaging in fights daily.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Rev. Dr. Quintard

We had the pleasure of meeting this estimable gentleman in our city yesterday.  We understand that he has resigned his position on the staff of Gen. Loring, now in Virginia, and returned to Tennessee for the purpose of resuming his former relation to the 1^st regiment of Tennessee volunteers.  His return will be the occasion of general rejoicing among our gallant Tennessee troops.  No man has been more self-sacrificing in his efforts to be useful, and no one is more universally beloved in this portion of the army with which he has been connected.  The services of such an man are invaluable to the country.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Malvern Hill Re-occupied By The Federals

The special correspondent of the Atlanta Intelligencer, telegraphs that paper from Richmond that the Federals had succeeded in wresting Malvern Hill from the Confederates owing to the weakness of our pickets at that point.  This gives the enemy command of the James river for ten miles[s] above their late position.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Exchanged Confederate Prisoners in Richmond

A special dispatch from Richmond to the Atlanta Intellegencer states that Gens. Buckner, Tilgman, Mackall and Pettygrew have arrived in Richmond, together with several other officers of lower grade.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Aldehoff's Institute

The third scholastic year of this admirably conceived and well conducted school commences on the second Monday in next moth.  The principal, Mr. H. W. Von Aldehoff, is widely known as one of the first teachers in the South, his success heretofore being the best test of his merit.  The fact that the school has successfully maintained itself in the general wreck of similar institutions caused by the war, is additional evidence of it[s] excellence.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

We see in the Cleveland Banner of the 7th . . .

. . . that a battle was reported as going on between Gen. Stephenson’s brigade and about 4,000 Federals on Clinch river, since which we have learned, from a reliable source, a confirmation of the rumor, and that it was quite an important affair, and, so far as heard from, decidedly in our favor.  We will await further particulars of this flank movement of Gen. Stephenson before giving all that is current on the street.  The Mobile papers have telegrams in relation to it, but we cannot understand how they are permitted to receive war intelligence from this section of Tennessee before either the Knoxville or Chattanooga papers.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

In A Nice Fix

In the breaking out of the present difficulties a good many East Tennesseans, with treason in their hearts, left and went over to the bosom of King Abraham, thinking, no doubt that they would return to their houses in a very short time with a sufficient army to protect them in their treason.  Sixteen months have gone by, and these poor deluded fools are no nearer that object they set out to accomplish than they were the day they started.  They cannot get back to their homes, and never will.  If the war was ended, and arrangements made for their return they could not live here.  They would be looked upon and treated as tories – loathed and despised – forsaken even by the cowardly wretches who persuaded them to leave their homes and dear ones for a situation in the Federal army.  Those of them that have left property behind have forfeited it to their government, and their families will be bereft of it.  Who is responsible for this state of things?  Such men as Andy Johnson, Horace Maynard, Bill Brownlow, and the smaller lights of toryism, who were suffered to run over the country and preach treason to the people.  In this county such pettifoggers as Mitch Edwards and Dr. Brown were applauded for their treachery, while men who were older and wiser were scoffed and hooted at for their loyalty.  These vile miscreants are no receiving their just reward at the hands of an indignant people.  There never was a more just retribution visited upon a corrupt set of men.  They sowed the storm – let them receive the fury of the whirlwind.  They deserve it.  They have no home, and are entitled to none in the Southern Confederacy.  They deserted her in infancy.  When she needed help the cowardly scoundrels shrank from the task and went over to the enemy – in her manhood she will never receive to her bosom these arch traitors.  East Tennessee is and will be a part of her dominion, the opinion of the Lincolnites to the contrary notwithstanding. – {Cleveland Banner.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 1

From the London Times

By this time the battle before Richmond has been as fully discussed as the meagerness of the news received by telegraph will allow.  The impression which this great military event has made on English society is not to be mistaken.  If there were any before who thought that the resistance of the South was likely to be overcome by the exploits of General McClellan’s army before Richmond, they are now undeceived.  It cannot be doubted that a battle of the highest importance has been fought, and that the Federal army has been thrown back a considerable distance – several miles indeed – from its former position.

But if the Virginia campaign has ended in a manner which shows that the Confederates are able to carry out a long war, the fighting at Charleston shows that even at isolated points, they are prepared to receive an enemy.  The ambiguity of the telegraph prepared as to believe that the battle before Charleston ended in a victory for the South.  The thing is now made clear.  A Federal general plainly ignorant of the enemy he was to attack, and the defenses he was likely to meet, advanced with some 1,200 men to the attack of a battery, and he seems to have been as completely defeated as the British were at New Orleans, and perhaps much in the same manner.

The moral to be deduced from these events is clear.  There is probably at the present moment, in Europe, but a single society where the defenders of this hateful and atrocious war could make themselves [heard].  The impartial opinion of every civilized nation is being more and [illegible due to fold in the paper] enterprise in which the Federals are embarked.  The orators of the Northern States may inveigh as much as they please against the interference of England, and the mob may shout scorn of England advice and defiance of English arms, but English opinion is after all, the opinion of the world, and we may hope that, in spite of affected indignation and high flown eloquence, the good sense which has uniformly marked our counsels in the affair may at length prevail.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 1

Sensible

Col. Revere, of the Seventh New Jersey regiment, has recently addressed a letter to Governor Ogden [sic], in which he points out the folly of forming new regiments when the old so greatly need filling up.  He says:

“With all due respect to the opinions of others, I am in favor of immediate drafting from the militia, en masse, and the filling up of our shattered regiments now in the field, so much reduced by the reverses of war, in preference to raising new regiments, which cannot be prepared for the field in less period than six months.

“It would be most unwise to send these raw regiments, without drill or discipline, even if they can be recruited in time to enable the armies now in the field to assume the offensive, to meet the rebel regiments of trained and valiant troops, who may be ranked among the best soldiers in the world, as all our army can testify who have met them in the recent great battles of the Peninsula.

“The best composition of a regiment, in the view of military men, is probably one-fourth of old soldiers, both by example and precept.  Thus constituted, the regiments of the army of the Potomac would be irresistible, and its force and power in war be far superior to any force the rebels can bring into the field.

“The officers of that army have now been educated in the best school – the field of war – and any lack of them can be easily supplied from the ranks of the volunteers, which contain a plentiful supply of active, intelligent and ambitious young soldiers, inured to the hardships of campaigning, and imbued, in a great measure, with the spirit of military institutions.  Besides, we have the traditions of the regiments already to excite the ambition and pride of the new recruits, who would much rather belong to a regiment which inscribes “Williamsburg,” “Fair Oaks,” “Malvern,” etc., to its [colors, than to a new one, entirely un]known to fame.

The superior advantages already acquired by drill and discipline are to apparent to be recommended, while the saving to the government in every way is something enormous, as one regiment of veterans filled up with recruits in the proportion of one in three [or] four of old soldiers, represents a military power of as one to two, as the least, when compared with a force composed entirely, as our new regiments cannot fail to be, of raw officers and soldiers, entirely uninured to war, and who have not received the baptism of fire.

“The saving of the number of officers is also to be taken into the account, unless the country is more plethoric of wealth than would seem to be the case at present.

The last is a point that does not seem to get proper consideration.  The regiments now in the field have in general a fair, if not full complement of officers, who draw pay whether they have men to command or not.  To fill up their commands would be to make use of these experienced and valuable officers; but instead of that, it seems to be preferred to create a new army list of inexperienced men, costing the government double what it ought, for half service.  The nation has a right to demand that no such waste of means shall be permitted.

Col. Revere says that to prepare a new army for the field will require six months. – Have we much time to throw away.  To recruit the armies now in the field is a work which could be done in one month, with proper efforts.  The 30,000 men already said to be enlisted, and most of whom are, we fear, waiting for new regiments to be completed, would be of great and lasting value if they could at once be sent down to Pope not as fresh and distrained regiments, but in the shape of recruits to join his veterans and be mixed with them.  Thirty thousand men, healthy and vigorous, in the hands of an enterprising general, might serve to turn the tide of victory again in our favor.  But if they are kept at home, if they enter the field a mass of undisciplined recruits, with officers as ignorant as themselves; if they must be painfully and tediously drilled for months before they can be taken into action – then the generals who want to push on the war must do so without counting on the new levies, and the brave fellows who have already born the brunt of the contest must bear it yet longer dissatisfied.

Every consideration of justice to those in the field, the encouragement of those about to enter, speedy reinforcements of our armies, economy in means as well as time – everything points to the necessity of using the new levies to fill up the regiments now in the field – and yet, though time is precious and the enemy presses, our State authorities do not seem to realize the necessity of the hour, but continue a mode of enlistment which wastes both time and money.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 1

General Orders No. 7

EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS

Chattanooga, Tenn., July 17, 1862

1. An encampment for the rendezvous of State Troops is established, to be selected by the Quarter Master in the vicinity of Chattanooga.

Volunteers for Twelve Months will be received in companies with the strict understanding that the Governor may, at any time muster, direct the organizations of squads into Companies – Companies into Battalions or Regiments. The conditions and terms of service are those prescribed in the Acts of the General Assembly, passed at their session of 1861-62 and 1862, authorizing the acceptance of a Volunteer force for the defenses of the state.

2. Col. Leon Trousdale, of the Governor’s Military Staff, will take command of said Encampment, and is directed to discharge the duties of Commandant thereof. He will report from time to time to the Adjutant General of the State; inspect and muster into the services of the State, all troops not mustered by other officers, report and return muster rolls and recruiting lists to said officer. He will enforce strict discipline, according to the regulations adopted by the state to the government of its armies.

3. Major G. S. Rolling, Quarter Master, will make such arrangements necessary for the supply of said State force. He will take charge of all the ordinance stores of the State, and see to the preservation and repair of State arms, issue them on the order of the Adjutant General to whom he will report as to number and condition, now on hand, and which he may fro time to time receive.

4. Major Daniel F. Cocke, Commissary, will make such arrangements and provisions as may become necessary for the subsistence of State force.

5. Said encampment may, upon order of the Adjutant of the State or the commandant thereof, be removed to such point as the public service may require.

6. The Adjutant General of the State will assign and designate temporarily for duty such officers as may become necessary for such funds as may be required in the organization, supply and subsistence of such forces. He will draw upon the Bank of Tennessee, and make such orders as may be necessary to the organization and employment of said troops, ordering them into active service, etc.

ISHAM G. HARRIS.

By the Governor:

W. C. WHITTHORNE, Att’y Gen.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 1

We learn that some of the Lincolnites . . .

. . . hereabouts have put off the coming of the Federal army into East Tennessee until frost.  They say from the signs of the times it would not be healthy at present for them to come.  Tennessee will always be too warm for their perfect good health.  But they can come if they have a mind to – if we can’t entertain them in a hospitable manner we will try to do it in a hostile way.  They shall be attended to. – Cleveland Banner.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 1