A Model proclamation.--The Wheeling
Intelligencer has the following:
We are indebted to Senator Cather for an original copy of the subjoined rare contribution to the world's literature; the production of a captain of a gang of robbers and horse-thieves in the Alleghany mountains.
It was found in the possession of one James R. Parsons, (familiarly known as “Tanner Jim,” ) who was wounded and captured somewhere near the Pendleton County line, by a company under Lieutenant F. A. Cather, of the Second Virginia, who have been scouting in that region with a view of breaking up the gang:
this 10th day of Oct. 1861
I hear By Notify all men that dont Be long to the dry fork Company such as Robes lyres theaves and falce dispatch Barrowes that has usurped the power of the officers this dry fork Company and I all sow Notify such men Never to set foot of the soil of said
Dry fork Such as Read White Blue and many other that I could name if necessary at other ways sholder thear weapon and defend this Country in which they ar leading Enmey in on us at the time Wee Need them they fley to south to Reffuge and leav us to stand Befor the miserable miscreants and herelings of the
North to purputrate thear dark deed on A portion of our country wee will oppose them with all the means that the god of Batle can place in our power But not to defende those Robes to purpitrate thear dark deeds and us stand the
Blunt Now man come in this Company and Control them on less sent By proper Athority from them in A Command if they do the wadgeous of sin is deth And the wadeious of such is death.
“Wadgeous” for wages is stupendous, so is the variation, “wadeious.”
The “god of Batle can place in our power” is very fine.
Much depends on his ability to furnish “means,” it appears.
If he should chance to be hard up, it wouldn't be near so well with the “dry forkers” as if he should have plenty.
Sampson is very jealous of his authority, and makes death the penalty of impertinent interference with it.
