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Yankee orders for Mississippi and Tennessee.

--An order from the Federal Department directs that within the States of Tennessee and Mississippi, wherever the Federal have the rule, all citizens shall be registered in three classes: 1st avowed enemies; 2d, neutral foreigners; 34, loyal citizens. The first class are all to leave their lines by or before the 16th of June and their property confiscated; the second are to take an oath of neutrality; the third are to bear certificates of loyalty. No goods of any kind are allowed to be sold except by special permit, except to those showing evidence of loyalty.

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