characteristic element of despotism, and renders it 
as formidable to its enemies as it is destructive to 
its subjects, must fail. 
Third, An immense army has been organised for 
our destruction, which is being disciplined to the 
unthinking stolidity of regulars. With the exclu¬ 
sive possession of the seas, our enemy is enabled to 
throw upon the shores of every State*the nucleus of 
an army. And the threat is'made, and doubtless 
the attempt will follow in early spring, to crush us 
with a giant's grasp by a simultaneous movement 
along our entire border. 
Fourth, With whatever alacrity our people may 
rush to arms, and with whatever energy our gov¬ 
ernment may use its resources, we cannot expect to 
cope with our enemy either in numbers, equipments, 
or munitions of war. To provide against these 
odds we must look to desperate courage, unflinching 
daring, and universal self-sacrifice. 
Fifth, The prospect of foreign interference is at 
least a remote one, and should not be relied on. If 
it comes, let it Ite only auxiliary to our own prepa¬ 
rations for freedom. * To our 'God and ourselves 
upon conditions compatible, as was thought, with 
the public safety. 
In the meantime a favorable change of public 
opinion has occurred. The line between loyalty 
and disloyalty is plainly defined. The whole struc¬ 
ture of the Government is firm and stable. Appre¬ 
hension of public danger, and 1'uciliticB for treason¬ 
able practices, have diminished with the passions 
Nashville at Southampton. The hull is in length 
on gun-deck 200 feet 9 inches; extreme beam 33 feet; 
. depth of hold 15 feet 10 inches; displacement 1475 
tuns at load draft of 13 feet; tunnage 997. She is 
barque rigged, spreads 9800 square feet of canvas, 
is armed with 11-inch pivot guns, rilled., and a 
battery of 32-poundera. Her machinery is of 1000 
horse power, consisting of two horizontal direct 
acting engines; cylinders 50 inches diameter, 30 
inches stroke; four bladed propeller, 12 feet 9 inches 
diameter, of brass. Three boilers, having in all 50 
feet of frontage, 14 furnaces, and eight thousand 
square feet of .surface. The engines have surface 
condensers, returning fresh water to the boilers. 
The whole machinery is of the most substantial 
character, and highly finisher!. 
Battles in Janfart.— In the various battles 
and skirmishes that took place during the month of 
January this year between the Union and rebel 
forces, the following is the aggregate of the killed, 
wounded and missing: 
Union, Relw>1. 
Killed.. ... 48 286 
Wounded._....___......._ 186 384 
Missing_____...._ — 344 
Total. 233 1,014 
Armt Letters.— Owing to the careless manner 
in which thousands of letters are addressed to sol¬ 
diers in the army, many of them never reach their 
anxious expectants, and wo therefore publish the 
following suggestions which, if properly followed, 
cannot fail of being effective: 
1st. Address every soldier by his rank. The 
* Esq.s” and “ Mr.s ” are left at home. 
2d. If the soldier addressed be a member of a 
company, direct to the care of the Captain, by name, 
designating the company by its letter. 
3d. Put on the number of the regiment in plain 
figures. 
4th. It is better to give the State written in full. 
5th. Kever put on the name of a camp. This is 
the most fruitful cause of the miscarriage of army 
letters. 
A Nkat Letter,—A letter has been addressed 
to Commodore Foote by John A, M'Clernand, Brig¬ 
adier-General commanding First Division near Fort 
Henry. It was written the day after the capture of 
the fort, and reads as follows: 
"Dear Sir: As an acknowledgment of the con¬ 
summate skill with which yon brought your gun¬ 
boats into action yesterday, and of the address and 
bravery displayed by yourself and your command, 
I have taken the liberty of giving the late Fort 
Henry the new and more appropriate name of ‘ Fort 
Foote.’ Please pardon the liberty I have taken 
without first securing your concurrence, as I am 
hardly disposed to do, considering the liberty which 
you took in capturing the fort yesterday without my 
co-operation.” 
Com. Foote preached in the Presbyterian Cliureh 
on Sunday week, at Cairo, Illinois, in the absence 
of the Pastor, from the text “ Lot not your heart be 
troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me.” 
The audience were much affected in hearing the 
same voice which so lately rang out in command, at 
the capture of Fort Henry, expounding the word 
of God. 
Guns Captured.—T he victorious Union forces 
have captured the following cannon in the recent 
brilliant achievements: At Mil] Spring, 15; atRoan- 
oke, 54, including two 100-pounders, andfa number 
of rifled 92’s; at Fort Henry, 27, including several 
large rifled; at Fort Donelson, Go, many largest and 
best,— making in all 1G1 cannon. The number of 
6 inall arms captured ie immense —12,000 at Fort 
Donelson alone. We are rapidly recovering the 
property stolen by Floyd, and there is a fair pros¬ 
pect of catching the thief ere long, notwithstand¬ 
ing his cowardly running, and slippery qualities 
generally. • _ 
An Amnesty to Prisoners of State. 
The following Executive Order in relation to 
State Prisoners was issued from the War Depart¬ 
ment on the 14th ult: 
2io. 1.— The breaking out of a formidable insur- 1 
reetion, based ou a conflict of political ideas, being ; 
an event without precedent iu tbo United States, ! 
was necessarily attended with great confusion and ‘ 
perplexity of the puhlic mind. Disloyalty, before , ! 
unsuspected, suddenly became bold, and treason 
astonished the world by bringing at once into the 1 
field forces superior in numbers to the standing 1 
array of the United States. Every department of ! 
the Government was paralyzed by’treason. Defec- 1 
tion appeared in the Senate, in the House of Repre 1 
sentatives, iu the Cabinet, in the Federal Courts; J 
Ministers and Consuls from foreign countries entered 
the insurrectionary councils; it appeared in the laud 1 
and naval forces; commanding and other officers in ] 
the army and in the navy betrayed the councils or 1 
deserted their posts for commands in the insurgent 
forces: treason was flagrant in the revenue and the ! 
Post Office service, as well as in the territorial gov- J 
eminent* and in the ludian reserves. 
Not only governors, judges, legislators and muni- 1 
cipal officers in the States, but even States rushed £ 
one after another, with apparent unanimity, into ; 
rf Ijd lion Tlin f ' .-I «T t In I won L r. mi /v A .1 J S»,. _ I 
The indignation of onr soldiers is very great, but 
they have been restrained from retaliating on pris¬ 
oners of war. H, W. Halleck. 
Gen. Ilalleck, in a general order issued on the 
1st inst, states that where any considerable number 
of prisoners are captured, officers should be sepa¬ 
rated from privates as quick as possible. Complete 
lists should be formed as soon as possible, stating 
the name, rank and regiment of each person. One 
copy of the list should be sent to headquarters, and 
another furnished to the officer in charge of the 
prisoners; as a general rule, officers will not be 
given paroles until reaching the depot, and then 
only by authority of the General commanding the 
division. Medical officers will not be separated 
from privates, but be required to attend to their own 
sick and wounded. For this purpose they will be 
given special paroles. In the case of the sick and 
wounded, no distinction will be made between 
friend and foe. Presents from friends of the sick 
and wounded will be distributed to all alike. Pris¬ 
oners will be rationed the same as our own troops. 
Commanding officers of the departments will 
receive articles of clothing and comfort which may 
be sent to prisoners by friends, and permit prisoners 
to receive from and transmit to friends open letters, 
which must be inspected by the proper officer. 
Money sent by friends should not be delivered to 
prisoners except in small quantities. An account 
should be kept of sent funds, and they should be 
disbursed upon orders from the prisoners to whom 
they belong. When a prisoner is exchanged or 
released, he will be paid the balance due him. 
Chaplains will be allowed free intercourse with 
prisoners, to give them religions instructiou. Their 
friends will be permitted to visit them only wdien 
the commanding officer may deem it safe and pro¬ 
per, and then under such regulations as he may 
adopt 
Gen. Ilalleck, in a general order, states that suffi¬ 
cient information has been received, that the rebels, 
in evacuating Mudtown, Ark., poisoned the provi¬ 
sions they were obliged to abandon, and that forty- 
two officers and men were poisoned by eating the 
Rame. He says:—We cannot retaliate by adopt¬ 
ing the same barbarous mode of warfare, nor can 
we retaliate by punishing the innocent for the 
guilty. The laws of war forbid this. But the same 
codo authorizes us to retaliate upon the guilty par¬ 
ties. Persons guilty of such acts, when captured, 
will not be treated as ordinary prisoners of war, 
nor will they be shot, but suffer the ignominious 
punishment of being hung us felons. Officers of 
troops guilty of such acts, although Dot themselves 
the advisers or abettors of the crime, will, when 
captured, be put in irons and conveyed as criminals 
to these headquarters. The laws of war make it 
their duty to prevent such barbarities. If they neg¬ 
lect that duty they must suffer the consequences.” 
The following dispatch was received from Com. 
Foote, dated Cairo, March 1st: 
Lieutenant-Commanding Phelps, sent with a flag 
of truce to-day to Columbus, has this moment 
returned, and reports that Columbus is being evacu¬ 
ated. lie saw the rebels burning their quarters, and 
removing their heavy gunson the bluff, but the guns 
in the water-batteries remain infacL He also saw a 
large force of cavalry drawn up ostentatiously on 
the bluffs; but no infantry was to be seen, as hereto¬ 
fore. The encampment seen in an armed recon- 
noisance a few days since, has been removed. 
Large fires were visible in the town of Columbus 
and upon the river below, indicating the destruction 
of the town, military stores and equipments, &c. 
Com. a. H. Foote. 
The Memphis papers say that. Gen. Polk has 
issued orders that the track of the Memphis and 
Ohio Railroad should be torn up, preparatory to the 
evacuation of Columbus and tho demolition of the 
fortifications. The Columbus forces are to fall back 
to Island No. 10, about 45 miles below Columbus, 
which it is said completely commands the river, and 
can be fortified with heavy guns and made impreg¬ 
nable against any river attack. 
Dispatches were received at the Navy Depart¬ 
ment on the 1st, from Com. Foote, enclosing a report 
from Lieut. Gwin, in which he says he returned to 
Cairo ou the 23d ult.. after having gone up the Ten¬ 
nessee river in the gunboat Taylor, as high as East- 
port, Miss. lie is happy to state that he met with an 
increased Union sentiment in South Tennessee and 
North Alabama, He saw few Mississippians in 
McNary, Wayne, Decatur, and a portion of Hard¬ 
man, all of which border upon the river. The 
Union sentiment is strong, and those who do not 
express ihemselves openly, are only prevented by 
their fears of the military tyranny and coercioa 
which is practiced by the marauding bands of guer¬ 
rilla companies of cavalry. 
Learning that a large quantity of wheat and flour 
was stored in Clifton, Tenn., intended, of course, to 
be shipped South, a large portion of it having been 
bought for a firm in Memphis, on his down trip he 
landed there and took on board about 1,000 sacks 
and 100 barrels of flour, and some 6,000 bushels of 
wheat. He also considered it his duty to take pos¬ 
session of the above, to prevent its being seized by 
the rebels or disposed of in the rebel country. 
The glorious success of our armies at Forts nenry 
and Donelson, he says, has been most beneficial to 
the Union cause throughout South and West Ten¬ 
nessee and Alabama. The Union men can now 
begin to express their loyal sentiments without fear 
of being mobbed, lie has warned the inhabitants 
of the different towns along the banks of the river, 
that he will hold the secessionists and their property 
responsible for any outrages in their communities 
on Unionists, and had enlisted 17 men and brought 
down a number of refugees. 
The following table exhibits the losses of the 
division under Gen. McClemand engaged at the bat¬ 
tle of Fort Donelson: 
Killed. Wounded. 
Eighth Illinois..._...66 196 
the burning wrecks. Somp had been landed and 
stored. These I seized, ynuting such as we could 
bring away on board onr vessels, and destroying tin* 
remainder. No flats or other cratt could be found, 
f found also n/ore of the iron and plating intended 
for the Laslport. 
A deputation of citizens of Florence waited upon 
me, first desiring that they might be made able to 
quiet the fears of their wives and daughters with 
assurances from me that they would not be molested; 
and secondly, praying that I would not destroy 
their railroad bridge. As for the first, I told them 
we wove neither ruffians nor savages, and that we 
were there to protect from violence and to enforce 
the law; and. with reference to the second, that if 
the bridge were away, we eonld ascend no higher, 
and that it could possess no military importance, 
so far as I saw, as it simply connected Florence itself 
with tho rail road on the south bank of the river. 
We had seized three ot their steamers, one half 
finished gunboat, and had forced the rebels to burn 
six others loaded wiib supplies, and their loss, with 
that of the freight, is a Heavy blow to the enemy. 
T»vo boats nre still known to be on the Tennessee, 
and are doubtless bidden in some of the creeks! 
where we shall be able to find them when there is 
time for the search. We returned on the night of 
the 8th, to w here the Eastport lay. The crew of the 
Taylor had already got on board the prize an 
immense amount of’lumber, Ac. The crews of the 
three boats set to work to finish ihe undertaking, 
and we have brought away probably 260,0d0 feet of 
the best quality of ship and building lumber, all 
the iron, machinery, spikes, plating, nails, <fcc,, 
belonging to the rebel gunboat, and I caused the 
mill to be destroyed, w here the lumber had been 
sawed. 
Lieutenant Commanding Gwin had, in our absence, 
enlisted some twenty-five Tennesseeans, who gave 
information of the encampment of Colonel Drew's 
rebel regiment, at Savana. Tennessee. A portion of 
the six hundred or seven hundred men were known 
The President, in view of these facts, and anxious 
to favor a return to the normal course of the Admin¬ 
istration, so far as a regard tor the pnblio welfare 
will allow, directs that all political prisoners now 
held in military custody be released on their sub¬ 
scribing to a parole, enjoining them to render no 
aid or comfort to the enemies in hostility to the 
United States. 
The Secretary of War will, however, in bis dis¬ 
cretion, except from the effect of this order all 
persons detained as spies in the service of the insur¬ 
gent*, or others whose release at the present moment 
may be deemed incompatible with toe public safety. 
To all persons who are released, and shall keep 
their parole, the President grants an amnesty for 
past offences of treason or disloyalty which they 
may have committed. 
Extraordinary arrests will hereafter be made 
under the direction of the military authorities alone. 
By order of the President, 
Eowtx M. Stanton, 
Secretary of War. 
comes with Inst in his eye, poverty in his purse, and 
hell in his heart. lie comes a robber and a mur¬ 
derer. How shall you meet him? With the sword 
at the threshold! With death for him or for your¬ 
self! Hut more than this. Lot everv worn an have 
a torch, every child a firebrand. Let the loved 
homes of your youth be made ashes, and the fields 
of our heritage be made desolate. Let blackness 
and ruin mark your departing steps, if depart you 
must; and let a desert more terrible than Sahara 
welcome the Vandals. Let every city be'leveled by 
the flame, and every village be lost'in ashes. Let 
your faithful slaves share your fortune and your 
crust Trust wife and children to the sure refuge 
and protection of God, preferring even for these 
loved ones the charnel house as a home than loath¬ 
some vassalage te a nation already sunk below the 
contempt of the civilized world. This may be your 
terrible choice; and determine at once and without 
dissent, as honor and patriotism and duty to God 
require. 
Fellow Citizens:— Lull not yourselves into a 
fatal security. Be prepared for every contingency. 
This is our only hope for a sure and honorable 
peace. If our enemy was to-day convinced that the 
feast herein indicated would welcome him in every 
quarter of this Conlederacy, we know his base char¬ 
acter well enough to feel assured he would never 
ootne. Let, then, the smoke of your homes, fired by 
woman’s hands, tell the approaching foe that over 
sword and bayonet they will rush only to fire and 
ruin. 
We have faith in God, and faith in you. He is 
blind to every indication of Providence who has not 
seen an Almighty hand controlling the events of the 
past year. Thu wind, the wave, the cloud, the mist, 
the sunshine, and the storm, have all ministered to 
our necessities, end frequently succored us in our 
distresses. We deem it unnecessary to recount the 
numerous instances which have called forth our 
gratitude. We would join you in thanksgiving and 
praise. "If God be for us, who can be against us?” 
Nor would we condemn your confident look to 
your armies, when they can meet with a foe not too 
greatly their superior in numbers. The year past 
tells a story of heiuism and success, of which our 
nation will never be ashamed. These considera¬ 
tions, however, should only stimulate us to greater 
deeds and nobler efforts. An occasional reverse we 
must expect—such as has depressed us within the 
last few clays. This is only temporary. We have 
no fears of the result—the final issue. * You and we 
may have to sacrifice our lives and fortunes in the 
holy cause; but our honor will be saved untar¬ 
nished, and our children's children will rise up to 
call us “blessed.” 
WOUNDED. 
Commissioned 
Officers. 
Non-Commissioned 
Officers and Privates. 
9tb Ohio __ 4 
2d Minnesota ....2 
4th Kentucky.4 
10th Indiana.3 
1st Ky. Cavalry . 0 
One commissioned officer and thirty-eight men 
were killed, and fourteen officers, including Lieut. 
Bart. 18th United States Infantry, A. D. C., and one 
hundred and ninety-four non-commissioned officers 
and privates wounded. 
A complete list of our killed and wounded, and 
of the prisoners, iB herewith attached. 
Georoe II. Thomas, 
Brigadier-General U. S. A. Commanding. 
tact that it emnraceH a history or labors and move¬ 
ments, day and night, from ‘the Gth to the 10th of 
tho month, all of which details 1 deem it proper 
to give you. We have met with the most gratify¬ 
ing proofs of loyalty everywhere across Tennessee, 
and in the portions of Mississippi and Alabama 
we visited. Most affecting instances greeted us 
almost hourly. Men, women, and children, several 
times gathered in crowds of hundreds, shouted 
their welcome, and hailed their national flag with 
an enthusiasm there was no mistaking; it was 
genuine and beartlelt, TLe people braved every¬ 
thing to go to the river bank, where a sight of 
their flag might once more be enjoyed, and they 
have experienced, os they related, every possible 
form of persecution. 
Tears flowed freely down the cheeks of men as 
well as women, and there were those who had 
fought under the stars and stripes at Moultrie, who 
in this manner testified to their joy. This display 
of feeling, and sense of gladness at our success, and 
the hopes it created in the breasts of so many peo¬ 
ple in the heart of the confederacy, astonished us 
not a little, and I assure you, sir, I would not have 
failed to witness it for any consideration. I trust it 
has given us all a higher sense of the sacred char¬ 
acter of our present duties. I was assured at Sa¬ 
vana that, of the several hundred troops there, 
more than one-half, had we gone to attack in time, 
would have hailed us as deliverers, and gladly enlist¬ 
ed with the national force. 
In Tennessee, the people generally, in their enthu¬ 
siasm. braved Secessioniste. and spoke their views 
freely; but in Mississippi and Alabama what was 
said was guarded. “ If we dared express our¬ 
selves freely, you would hear such a shout greeting 
your comin*g as you never heard." “ We know that 
there are many Unionists among us, but a reign of 
terror makes us afraid of our shadows.” We were 
told, too. “Bring ns a small organized force, with 
arms ami ammunition for us, anil we can maintain 
our position, and put down rebellion in our midst” 
There were, it is true, whole communities, who, 
on our approach, fled to the woods, but these were 
where ihero was less of the loyal element, and where 
the fleeing steamers in advance had spread tales of 
our coming with fire-brands burning, destroying, 
ravishing and plundering. 
The crews of these vessels have had a very labo¬ 
rious time, but have eviuced a spirit in their work 
highly creditable, to them. Lieutenants Command¬ 
ing Gwin and Shirk have been untiring, and I owe 
to them and to their officers many obligations for 
our entire success. I am, respectfully. 
Your obedient servant, S. L. Vuelps, 
Lieutenant Commanding, U. S. N. 
The Capital was beseiged and its con¬ 
nection with all the States cutoff. Even in the por¬ 
tions of the country which were most loyal, political 
combinations and secret societies were formed fur¬ 
thering the cause of disunion, while from motives of 
disloyalty or curiosity, or trotn excited passions or 
reverted sympathies, individuals were found fur¬ 
nishing men, money, materials of war and supplies 
to the insurgent military and naval forces. 
Armies, ships, fortifications, navy yards, arsenals, 
military posts and garrisons, one after another, wore 
betrayed or abandoned to the insurgents. Congress 
had not anticipated and so had not provided for the 
emergency; the municipal authorities were power¬ 
less and inactive. The judicial machinery seemed 
as if it had been designed not to sustain the Govern¬ 
ment, but to embarrass and betray it. 
Foreign intervention, openly invited and indus¬ 
triously instigated by the abettors of the insurrec¬ 
tion. became imminent, and has only been prevented 
by the practice of strict and impartial justice with 
the most perfect moderation in our intercourse with 
other nations. The public mind was alarmed ancl 
S rehensive, though fortunately not distracted or 
learte.ued. It seemed to be doubtful whether the 
Federal Government, which one year before had 
been thought a model worthy of universal accept¬ 
ance, had indeed the ability to defend and maintain 
itesli. 
Some reverses, which perhaps were unavoidable, 
suffered by newly levied and inefficient forces, dis¬ 
couraged the loyal and gave new hopes to the insur¬ 
gents. Voluntary enlistments seemed about to 
cease, and desertions commenced. Parties specu¬ 
lated upon the question whether conscription had 
not become necessary to fill up the armies of the 
United States. 
In this emergency the President felt it bis duty to 
employ with energy the extraordinary powers which 
the Constitution confides to him in*eases of insur¬ 
rection. He called into the field such military and 
naval forces, authorized by existing laws, as seemed 
necessary. He directed measures to prevent the 
use of the Post Office for treasonable correspond¬ 
ence. He subjected passengers to and from foreign 
countries to new passport regulations, and he insti¬ 
tuted a blockade, suspended the habeas carpus in 
various places; and caused persons who were repre¬ 
sented to hint as being engaged or about to engage 
in disloyal and treasonable practices to be arrested 
by special civil as well as military agencies, ami 
detained in military custody when necessary, to 
prevent them, and deter others from such practices. 
Examinations of such cases were instituted, and 
some of the persons so arrested have been dis¬ 
charged from time to time under circumstances, or 
Address to the People of Georgia. 
The following extraordinary paper, bearing 
the signatures of Howell Cobb, R. Toombs, M. J. 
Crawford, and Thomas R. R. Cobb, has been 
extensively circulated throughout the State of 
Georgia. We lay it before our readers without 
further comment than the mere query:—Does it 
read like an emanation from men whose rights 
have been withheld, and who are now battling for 
redress, or the expiring wail of an unholy rebellion: 
Fellow Citizens:— In a few days the Provis¬ 
ional Government of the Confederate States will 
live only in history. With it we shall deliver up 
Ihe trust we have endeavored to use for your 
benefit, to those more directly selected by your¬ 
selves. The public record of our acts is familiar to 
.you, and requires no farther explanation at our 
hands. Of those matters which policy has required 
to be secret, it would be improper how to speak. 
This address, therefore, will have no personal refer¬ 
ence. We are well assured that there exists no 
necessity for ns to arouse your patriotism, nor to 
inspire your confidence. We rejoice with you in 
the unanimity of our State in its* resolution and its 
hopes. And*we are proud with you that Georgia 
lias been •■illustrated,” and we doubt not will be 
illustrated again by her sons in our holy struggle. 
The first campaign is over; each party rests in 
place, while the winter's snow declares ah armistice 
from on high, The results in the field arelamiliar 
to you, and we will not recount them. To some 
important facts we call your attention: 
First, The moderation of our own government 
and the fanatical madness of our enemies have dis¬ 
persed all differences of opinion among our people 
and united them forever in the war of independence. 
In a few Border States a waning opposition is giving 
way before the stern logic of daily developing facts. 
The world’s history does not give a parallel instance 
of a revolution based upon such unanimity among 
the people. 
Second. Onr enemy has exhibited an energy, a 
E ersevercnce, and an amount of resources which we 
ad hardly expected, and a disregard of Constitu¬ 
tion and Laws which we can hardly credit. The 
result of both, however, is, that power which iB the 
Niuth Illinois..- 
Eleventh Illinois... 
Twelfth Illinois,.... 
Seventeenth Illinois 
Eighteenth Illinois. 
Twentieth Illinois.. 
Thirtieth Illinois... 
Thirty-first Illinois. 40 200 
Korty-lirst Illinois. 17 130 
Forty ninth Illinois___10 30 
Twelfth low*.. 3 24 
Second Iowa. 38 160 
Fourteenth Iowa...... 6 60 
Fifty-eighth Ohio ....._ — 3 
Taylor’s Battery. 1 4 
Total. 401 1,615 
Prisoners taken and sent off by the river before 
the surrender of the fort.. 250 
The rebel loss, as stated by the rebels themselves, 
was 300 to 400 killed, and 1,200 to 1,500 wounded. 
The number of rebel prisoners captured with the 
fort was 13,300. Within a day or two, 1,000 more 
prisoners were taken, who came down the river, 
not knowing that the fort was surrendered. 
Commodore Foote issued the following proclama¬ 
tion to the inhabitants of Clarksville: 
At the suggestion of Hon. Cave Johnson, Judge 
Wisdom, aua the Mayor of the city, I hereby 
announce to all peaceably disposed persons, that 
neither in their persons or "property shall they suffer 
