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use or be destroyed; by moving on Augusta they will be left for the use of Hood's forces.
I do not write this for the purpose of influencing your adoption of a particular plan of campaign, or of changing your decision, if you have adopted any plan, but simply to urge on you an early decision, if you have not already made one.
It is proper, however, to remark that I have taken every possible means to obtain correct information on the subject, and present these conclusions only after thorough examination and the most mature consideration.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Rebel efforts in loyal States.
General Townsend to General Fry.—(telegram.)
I am just informed that an effort is to be made to-day to capture the steamer Michigan, and release the prisoners on Johnson's Island, by a party that is to rendezvous at Port Keeler, said to be 2,000 strong. I have sent the persons bringing me the information directly to Major-General Dix, and also telegraphed him.F. Townsend, Assistant Provost-Marshal-General.
General order of General Dix.
General orders.
Headquarters, Department of the East, New York City, October 26, 1864.
Satisfactory information has been received by the major-general commanding that rebel agents in Canada design to send into the United States and colonize at different points large numbers of refugees, deserters, and enemies of the government, with a view to vote at the approaching presidential election, and it is not unlikely, when this service to the rebel cause has been performed, that they may be organized for the purpose of shooting down peaceable citizens and plundering private property, as in recent predatory incursions on the Detroit river and at St. Albans.
Against these meditated outrages on the purity of the elective franchise and these nefarious acts of robbery, incendiarism, and murder, 